Redwood City Parks and Recreation. Fall 2014 Redwood City Activity Guide by Redwood City Parks, Recreation & Community Services. Redwood City Adults. Rwcportfest. PortFest Shuttle Schedule.pdf. 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: Coastal Cleanup Day at the Annual Fall Cleanup.
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! Music spread throughout downtown! Courthouse Square Salsa Stage Latin Rock Stage Reggae Stage Competitions galore - with new prizes this year!
Public Salsa Tasting from 12-5pm Fun activities for the entire family! Hands-on FREE Art Projects Tequila Tasting Microbrew Tasting Children's Play Area. 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. 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.
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? Is there such a thing as the best climate in the world? 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. 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. 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. Climate Best By Government Test.