Meals on Wheels is a life giver and a life saver!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Picture Yourself as Doing Good in Your World

Meals on Wheels
Volunteer Drivers Needed!

Check in on a homebound senior and bring a hot meal along with your smile!

Delivery routes consist of 10-15 clients in the mid-Peninsula area. Pick up meals from our Menlo Park facility at Little House.  Volunteers provide their own cars, gas, proof of insurance and release for background check.  We are currently looking for a once a week driver M-F; 9:30am-Noon; 6 month commitment




Sizzling September at Little House

1:30 to 2:30 PM (NOTE: new time)
Location:                    Little House, The Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center
Cost:                           $2 members/$3 non-members
Info:                            Julie Scales, (650) 326-2025 ext. 229


The Original 3 Tenors Concert DVD
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
To whet your appetite for Opera San Jose’s presentation on September 13th, we are showing the fabulous DVD of The Original Three Tenors Concert. In this performance touted by some as the greatest classical concert in modern times, tenors Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, along with conductor Zubin Mehta, join forces in celebration of the World Cup Soccer. 

Photo courtesy of 
Opera San Jose and Chris Ayers.
Opera San Jose
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Principal artists from Opera San Jose showcase selections from the company’s 2010-11 season. They include Mozart’s Idomeno, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Poulend’s La Voix Humaine, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Gounod’s Faust. At the end of the program, there will be an opportunity for audience questions to the artists.







Larry Hayes - Publisher 
Active Over 50 Magazine


Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Join us to learn about the creation of the magazine, Active Over 50. Larry Hayes, publisher/editor, started the quarterly magazine six years ago, which has since grown to over 200,000 readers. “Older adults are not done; they’re doing incredible things and they inspire me,” he said. People in his magazine give him the drive to keep going at 71.





Guide Dogs for the Blind
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Have you ever wondered about the training and gifting of a dog for a blind person? Lynette Kersey, will tell  how she came to receive her very best friend and guide dog, Logan, a three year old Golden Labrador. Logan will here so you can meet in person this trusted, loved companion of Lynette’s. 



  Discoveryscapes After Insecta 
Prints by Foster Beigler
In the on going series, Discoveryscapes After Insecta, I am working with traditional linoleum and woodcut materials. I have a sense of connection with what went before, and also a connection with the digital age. I derive a sense of pleasure and exclusion from the world around me as my hands guide me while carving out thousands of little pieces of material from the flat surface of wood or linoleum. 

Foster Beigler is a multi-media artist. She spent twenty-five years in international television as a photojournalist, an occupation that allowed her to travel the world extensively. She documented and published worldwide on twelve sets of Olympic Games covering the advances in television technology.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Luau was a Lu-WOW! at Little House

Over 100 guests turned out in their best Hawaiian shirts and skirts to sip mai-tais, dine on high island cuisine by Chef Larry Wong, be entertained by the Pacific Islander Performers, a Ukulele concert during dinner, and dance to the Jerry Jay Quartet.
  
Needless to say, "A great time was had by all!"

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Volunteering at PV Unites the Generations

Friends, there's nothing like giving of your time and caring as a volunteer. At Peninsula Volunteers the word "volunteers" is not just for show - it's the heart of what we are!


There's an old joke regarding grandparents and grandchildren about why they get along so well: they have a "common enemy", the parents generation in between. All kidding aside, the feelings of being hustled aside when their brains and hearts and creativity are flowering are common to both the generations. Given the chance, they relate exceptionally well.


The story in the Menlo Park Patch is a very good illustration of that.  Menlo Park Patch story about volunteering at PV.


Here's another one for you: Jacob and Chrissy Andriola of YMSL (Young Men’s Service League) prepare food for Peninsula Volunteers Meals on Wheels. The newly formed chapter of the national service organization pairs teenage boys with their moms to help others in the community.

If you would like to volunteer yourself (we need hundreds every year) or know someone who would like to do so, please call our Director of Community Volunteering, Mary Rached: (650) 322-0129 or email her at: mrached@peninsulavolunteers.org