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Habitat restoration expert Deanna Giuliano from Grassroots Ecology will share tips on how to choose native plants and what to grow to attract insects, birds and other wildlife. She will
Ways to support the community in the time of the coronavirus
Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity
Volunteers build a home for Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley.
Volunteering is at the heart of many local nonprofit organizations, which often rely on those willing to give their time and resources back to the community. However, the coronavirus pandemic has diminished or at least altered most service opportunities.
Organizations that typically count on a large number of volunteers – such as Grassroots Ecology, the Los Altos History Museum, the Santa Clara County Library District, the Peninsula Humane Society, the Stanford Blood Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – are currently not doing so due to COVID-19. While that makes it more difficult to find volunteer opportunities, they do exist.
Written by Nancy Bremeau - Special to the Town Crier
As a neighbor who lives within a few hundred yards of Redwood Grove and the Halsey House, I have followed the issue of renovating the Halsey House and caring for the beautiful and unique Redwood Grove Nature Preserve for years.
Some folks feel that the old Halsey House structure is inextricably tied to the nature preserve and that the programs there would fail without it. However, others would argue the nature preserve itself is the critical feature.
There’s another way to look at it that would protect Redwood Grove and enhance our overall Los Altos park facilities. One synergistic solution would be to use the adjacent and underutilized space of the beautiful Garden House to support both parks.
Due to family circumstances and hoping for a postponed basketball season, however, Sebastian returned to Palo Alto for his second semester. He s glad to be home but struggled with the transition back to online school a sharp contrast to the noisy hallways in Copenhagen and his memories of socializing with friends on the quad at Palo Alto High School. Ironically, his younger brother is also back to online school temporarily until Denmark lifts a lockdown implemented after the new COVID-19 variant was discovered there. I was smiling the whole day. I couldn t help myself. I was so excited to be able to come into a class environment.