Center offers free composting class
Learn how leaves, yard trimmings and food scraps can improve your garden as well as where to purchase low-cost composting equipment on Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m.- noon at the Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Avenue.The free class, “Learn to Compost,” is offered by the county’s home composting education program. For more information, go to www.reducewaste.org or call (408) 918-4640.
Western Ballet moving to Rengstorff Ave.
Western Ballet, the Mountain View ballet company and school, has moved to 914 Rengstorff Avenue with plans to add more ballet, yoga, pilates, Afro-Brazilian and modern dance classes to the program.To help fund the expansion, the Mountain View Dance Festival will be held in the new facility April 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. If the company can raise $10,000 in donations, the Valley Foundation will contribute $25,000 toward the capital improvements at the new location.
For information, visit www.westernballet.org or call (650) 968-445.
Talk on ‘progressive’ Christianity
This Friday, April 7, the Rev. William McKinney will be at the Foothills Congregational Church – United Church of Christ to discuss the place of “progressive Christianity” in the present American religious environment. Progressive Christianity approaches faith in a non-dogmatic, inclusive, innovative and informed manner.Refreshments will be served at 7 p.m. in the parish hall, 461 Orange Avenue, Los Altos. McKinney will begin at 7:30 p.m., and the senior pastor, the Rev. Matthew Broadbent, will follow with a question-and-answer period. Call (650) 948-8430 for directions. More information is available at www.foothills-church.org.
— Christine Lopez
