Redwood City Parks and Recreation | Fall 2014 Activity Guide. Fall 2014 Redwood City Activity Guide by Redwood City Parks, Recreation & Community Services. Redwood City Adults | Fitness Center. Rwcportfest. PortFest Shuttle Schedule.pdf. Redwood City | Community Builders. You can be a Redwood City Community Builder! Jump to the list of great community building links and materials!
Redwood City wants to help you create neighborhood projects, find opportunities to volunteer, and get inspired to join with others and build community together. When you're a Community Builder, you recognize that to do this, we can turn first of all to our neighbors and to local associations and institutions that lie at the heart of our communities.
Envision the community you’d like Redwood City to be - what's your passion, your interest, what inspires you? There are nearly countless opportunities to help others - here are just a few links to websites where you can find your interest, your passion, something that might be “tapping you on the shoulder” – take that step, and join together to help improve our community. Here are some great materials from the Community Builders 2010 workshop: Redwood City Event Calendar | Coastal Cleanup Day at the Annual Fall Cleanup. Redwood City Event Calendar | 7th Annual Redwood City Salsa Festival. 7th Annual Redwood City Salsa Festival Redwood City is going to be sizzling during its 7th annual Salsa Festival, on Saturday September 27th, 2014.
Multiple stages featuring a variety of Latin Music, including Salsa and Jazz, will fire up Redwood City with music and dancing all day long. Plus, this year we’ve expanded our cultural offering with an additional Reggae Stage. Amateur and professional Salsa Chefs will compete for fun, prizes and Salsa Glory, at the mouth watering and exciting Salsa Tasting & Competition, where the public takes part in the judging. Public tasting is from 12-5pm, but come early to be sure to sample the most popular!
Along with tasty salsa, local restaurants will also offer their delicious fares throughout the day. The festival features public Tequila Tasting, FREE hands-on art projects, a Children's Play Area complete with bounce houses, and much more. Music spread throughout downtown! Courthouse Square Salsa Stage Latin Rock Stage Reggae Stage Tequila Tasting When. Arts & Olive Festival. The Arts & Olive Festival at Cañada College began in 1998 as part of Cañada’s 30 year anniversary celebration to benefit student scholarships. The festival has since grown to be one of the largest scholarship fundraisers of the year providing much needed financial assistance to students.
The celebration brings together more than 80 vendors consisting of some of the olive industry’s top experts to provide the community with olive education, olive and olive oil tasting, olive related products, and an abundance of quality art works and gifts. Cañada College has had a special relationship with olives since its inception. Many of the historic olive trees were naturalized from early California plantings and a group of trees were transplanted to the site following the Panama Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco in the early 1900’s.
Founded in 1968, Cañada College overlooks Silicon Valley at the southern end of San Mateo County. Woodside Community Theatre. Redwood City | Stanford-Redwood City Speaker Series. For Immediate Release September 8, 2014 Second Stanford in Redwood City Speaker Event Featuring Carol Dweck, Author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success The second in a series of speaker events provided as one of the educational benefits contained in Stanford’s development agreement with Redwood City Redwood City, CA - The City of Redwood City and the Stanford Graduate School of Business partner for the second of the Stanford in Redwood City Speaker Series events, scheduled for: Thursday October 16, 2014 5:30 – 7 pm (doors open 5 pm – general seating) Carrington Hall, Sequoia High School 1201 Brewster Avenue, Redwood City FREE and open to the community More information and RSVP at www.StanfordRedwoodCity.com The speaker for this event is renowned researcher on motivation and achievement, Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.
“We’re fortunate to have Professor Dweck here to share her knowledge around motivation and achievement. Where's the most perfect climate? Want to spend ? Fine, but take an umbrella -- and a warm jacket. August in ? "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco," is rumored to have said of that city's notoriously chilly summertime weather. is big news these days, but what about the climate that never changes, that is always delicious year-round? That question, recently posed by the Post-Gazette to travel and weather experts, met with some serious head-scratching. "Personally, climate is a very subjective thing," said Mr. Joe Brancatelli, who runs JoeSentMe.com, a Web site for business travelers, would choose or , although "you can't do better than for year-round comfort.
" "My response to that question is immediately personal," he added. Nonetheless, an Internet search using the words "best climate in the world" yielded five places vying for that title -- for marketing purposes, if nothing else. The Canary Islands "The Healthiest in the World According to Research. " Faulconbridge, , Calif. Enough. 30 Things You Need to Know About Redwood City Before You Move There.
1. A Throwback To The Good Old Days Of Theater Source: Flickr user BW Chicago The Fox Theatre in downtown Redwood City opened in 1929 during the motion picture craze and is still going strong today with a range of live shows, from Broadway to Joan Rivers. Step inside and be transported back to the days when simply going to the movies was an adventure in and of itself. 2. Its Climate Can’t Be Beat Source: Flickr user Rachel Titiriga The sign above downtown Redwood City proclaiming the city is “Climate Best by Government Test” isn’t just a gimmick: Before World War I the U.S. and German governments conducted tests to determine the world’s best climates, and Redwood City nabbed one of the top spots along with the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean. 3.
Source: Redwood City Kiwanis Farmers Market Facebook page On Saturday mornings between April and November our local farmers and vendors gather in Redwood City to show off all the goodies they’ve grown and made by hand. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. Climate Best By Government Test. Library Home ~ Local History ~ Search This Site ~ City of Redwood City Top of Page Library Home | Local History | Search | Exhibits Index | About the Collection | City of Redwood City Photos provided by the Local History Collection at the Redwood City Public Library.
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