Mountain View Voice: Tips for staying busy
by - 9.26.08
THERE'S PLENTY to do this weekend, so maybe you should kick things off with a heaping stack of pancakes.
On Saturday morning the Mountain View Fire Department will hold its yearly Pancake Breakfast, a $5-a-plate fundraiser with proceeds going to the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. Hundreds of residents usually attend, making it a great social gathering while you raise cash for a good cause — a win-win.
This Saturday's event will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. at Fire Station 4, located at 229 Whisman Road. Apparently there will be other activities besides eating pancakes, including a demonstration by local soap box derby racers.
AFTER PANCAKES you might go down to San Jose to hear a talk by Al Gore. For some reason that seems appropriate.
Forrest Linebarger, local green builder and Voice columnist, wrote to tell us about West Coast Green, a huge conference and expo on green building coming to Silicon Valley for the first time ever.
"In addition to vendors displaying the latest in green building technology," he wrote, "West Coast Green has a star-studded lineup of speakers that have thought deeply about the environment and green innovation. Al Gore, former vice president and Nobel laureate for his work on 'An Inconvenient Truth,' will be keynoting Saturday morning."