Benefit fashion show this weekend Benefit fashion show this weekend (March 19, 2004)

The Quota Club of Mountain View and Los Altos, a community service nonprofit dedicated to helping battered woman and children and the hearing-impaired, will hold its annual fundraising fashion show Saturday.

The event, which includes lunch, will be held at Michael's at Shoreline, starting at 11:30 a.m. Organizers hope to raise $5,000 for the Infant Hearing and Screening Program at El Camino Hospital, the Community Health Awareness Council and the Community Services Agency. The club also hopes to award a $500 scholarship to a student at the School for the Deaf in Fremont.

"Last year we had a sellout crowd," said former Mayor Pat Figueroa, who is chairing this Saturday's event.

Models will be showing off clothes from the Yum Yum Tree, a contemporary women's apparel shop in Sunnyvale that has been doing fashion shows for years, according to store manager Chris Kendall, who added that the Yum Yum Tree is donating a $35 gift certificate to be raffled off at the Saturday event. There will also be a silent auction, items of which were donated by various businesses around the Mountain View area, Figueroa said.

The Quota Club, an international organization, has been serving the Mountain View and Los Altos area since 1948. The group has a lunch meeting the first and third Thursdays of every month at Michael's at Shoreline.

The club's community service projects benefit CSA, CHAC, the Infant Screening program and the Support Network for Battered Women.

"We welcome anyone who is interested in helping us focus on these areas," Figueroa said.

The membership has been generally women, but Figueroa said the club is trying to increase its male attendance. Currently there is one man in the group, Figueroa added.

For more information, e-mail Pat Figueroa at patfig@ix.netcom.com.

-- Julie O'Shea

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