Santa Clara County Fire to host wildfire prep workshop in Saratoga

Wildfire prep workshop Is your go-bag ready for fire season If not the Santa Clara County Fire Department is hosting a wildfire preparedness workshop in Saratoga to educate resident on wildfire liability Related Articles Bay Area events calendar for April weekly editions Saratoga is springing into activity with annual Rotary Art Show Campbell attendee s squad takes second place in viral video contest Sunnyvale theater company seeks production managers for upcoming show Milpitas middle school students set to compete in national Quiz Bowl The workshop is open to people who live and work in areas served by the county fire department including Campbell Cupertino Los Gatos Los Altos Los Altos Hills Monte Seren Saratoga and other unincorporated areas It will be held on May from a m to noon at the Joan Pisani Group Center There will be presentations on reducing wildfire risks locality readiness and urgency notification systems Attendees will also create a wildfire action plan assemble urgency kits and prepare for evacuations Several local agencies will be tabling at the event to share tools including the American Red Cross CalFire pet and animal rescue and Firewise Group leaders For more information about the workshop participants can check the Eventbrite link at https bit ly UM lw The event is free but there is a waitlist Drinking in art Visitors to Montalvo Arts Center will soon be able to sip from a ceramic drinking fountain that invites two people to drink at the same time while making eye contact California College of the Arts professor Nathan Lynch s populace artwork A Place for Meeting Strangers is due to be installed as part of Montalvo s Marcus Exhibition entitled When the World is Beautifully Strange Lynch won this year s Marcus Commissioning Prize awarded by Montalvo s Lucas Artists Project along with to help him complete the work Lynch s work as a sculptor designer and performance artist heavily features collaboration and experimentation Although he was raised in Washington he spent a lot of time in Saratoga with his grandparents and visited Montalvo According to Montalvo s press release The contradictory ecosystem of his youth in Pasco gave Lynch an acute sense of location and deep appreciation for irony The Marcus Exhibition runs June -Nov