| Community - Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Around Town: Kids 4 Sports run benefits local youth teams
The Kids 4 Sports Foundation will hold its third annual 5K run at 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at Burgess Park in Menlo Park. Online registration for the Fall Dash is available on active.com at $30 for adults, $20 for kids 18 and under.
The Fall Dash two-loop course will take runners and walkers from Burgess Park and on to streets through local neighborhoods. "We designed a flat fast course in a location that would be easily accessible to kids and adults from all sides of Menlo Park," says Kids 4 Sports co-founder Sally Osterberg.
The event is a fundraiser to benefit youth team sports in local communities, including east Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.
This summer the foundation helped send an East Palo Alto basketball team to a regional tournament. The foundation also donated $7,000 to help pay for new helmets and registration fees for scholarship kids in the Menlo-Atherton Pop Warner football league.
'Victorian Days
at Old Courthouse'
"Gossip Behind the Gates," a skit about an imaginary garden party at the Borel estate in San Mateo in the 1890s, will be presented twice during "Victorian Days in the Old Courthouse" to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, at the San Mateo County History Museum in Redwood City.
The skit, to be offered at 12:30 and again at 3 p.m. in Courtroom A, is a Victorian chat about how high-society neighbors got rich and built their lavish mansions. The Peninsula was once a rural showpiece for California's elite, looking to exhibit their wealth through their great estates, says history museum spokesman Mitch Postel.
Other features during Victorian Days include crafts for children and one-day displays set up by the many historical societies of the Peninsula. Admission on Sept. 23 will be free.
Go to historysmc.org or call 299-0104 for more information. The history museum is located at 2200 Broadway in Redwood City.
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