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Twin Pines Holiday Craft Faire – Nov 22 & 23 10 am – 4 pm – Twin Pines Park Belmont's City Parks and Recreation department would like to remind you about some fun, free and low cost events coming up. The Holiday Craft Faire in Twin Pines Park, Belmont, is on Sat. and Sun., November 22nd and 23rd – FREE for visitors! Many vendors with all handmade items, all price and interest ranges. When: Saturday & Sunday, November 22nd & 23rd, 2008 Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: 20 twin pines lane, Belmont, ca 94002 Info: the faire will be held in 3 buildings at the beautiful twin pines park – twin pines senior & community center, lodge building and cottage. |
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All Hallows’ Eve
Halloween might mean a night of relentless doorbell rings and handing out candy, or if you are lucky enough to still have trick-or-treaters of your own to take around, a night of scaring your nieghbors with your little goblins, but this Holly day is steeped in tradition.
All Hallows’ Eve gets its contraction "Halloween" from the “eve†or “evenâ€, both abbreviations of evening. It’s the eve before All Hallows’ Day, perhaps better known as All Saints Day.
Rooted in Celtic origin, All Hallows’ Eve was the one day a year that the dead could come back and mingle with the living. Jack-o-lanterns and bonfires were lit to safeguard the living from the spirits.
For an interesting history of how the Catholics commandeered this day to prevent the Pagan holiday celebration, here’s a great link.
Be safe, and have fun.
Happy All Hallows Eve!
Belmont’s Beautiful Weather
It was really neat to meet our Belmont neighbors at our open house on Hallmark Drive yesterday–thanks to all who stopped by. We had an amazing turn-out and the weather couldn’t have been more cooperative. Incidentally we did a survey at the open house where we asked our guests if they thought the home was a good value. Overwhelming, but not the least bit surprisingly, potential buyers gave lower scores for value than homeowners in the area–propagating the theory that sellers always view their home as worth more than a potential buyer.
The many nice compliments on our blog and web page were also appreciated. I had no idea so many of you read our blog and it inspires me to keep it up. Feel free to comment on anything you read too because it gives me a sense that there’s a real-time audience out there.
So the story of the day is about the last of the nice weather for awhile. We had an unusually warm October with 70+ degree evenings ‘til midnight. For those of you new to Belmont, September and October are getting to be our best months of the year. I say getting to be because my anecdotal evidence is my memory going back 40 years when I distinctly remember September being rather cool and October downright cold.
This graph looks at what is referred to as “Cooling Degree Daysâ€. Cooling degree-days are used to estimate the amount of heat that must be removed (through air-conditioning) to keep a structure comfortable. Heating and cooling degree-days are based on departures from a base temperature, typically 65ºF (18ºC).
One cooling degree–day is the amount of cooling required to keep a structure at 65ºF when the outside temperature remains one degree above the 65ºF threshold for 24 hours. One cooling degree–day is also the amount of cooling required to keep that structure at 65ºF when the temperature remains 24ºF above that 65º threshold for 1 hour.
So the bottom line is the more cooling degree days the warmer the month. Don’t forget when we have extreme weather storms this winter you can go to our live weather station located in Hallmark for current rain rate, or frost conditions.
Belmont’s SAVE THE MUSIC
This is a great opportunity to get out and support the Save the Music foundation while enjoying a great day with your neighbors and friends. The whole town becomes one giant street faire with food vendors, music and dancing—all outdoors at the Twin Pines Park.
“Twin Pines Park is the perfect backdrop to grab some delicious food, sip sangria or an Oktoberfest brew, and listen to classical, jazz, rock, and salsa performances. Feeling the need to move your hips? Grab a partner and hit the Club Mistral dance floor, or just groove out in the meadow. 3 Stages brimming with music and fun!
Parents will love the variety the event offers for the whole family. The Children’s Area offers all the games young children love, as well as jump houses, train rides, and the wonderful children’s performers. Of course, Music is the main event so take the family over to the “Musical Instrument Petting Zoo†and have fun trying out all the different instruments.â€
We hope to see you Sunday, October 5th – bring a friend!
About The Foundation
Whether it’s Bach or the Beatles, The Rolling Stones or The Wiggles, each of us is moved by music.
In 2003 School-Force, the Belmont Redwood Shores School District foundation, created Save the Music with the Little School District that Could to help save disappearing music enrichment programs in our schools. Since its inception, the Save the Music Festival has raised more than $250,000 through corporate sponsorships and community participation, funds which have been used to retain music teachers, develop music curriculums, and purchase music instruments.
Twin Pine Park Picnic–September 21st 2008
Belmont’s best weather is upon us in the month of September and this event should be a fun day for the whole family.
Belmont Picnic in The Park
Sunday, September 21st 2008
11AM – 3PM
Twin Pines Park Meadow
Celebrate National Neighborhood Day! Bring a blanket and a picnic lunch for this day
of bringing families and neighbors together promoting a stronger community.
Come for great fun with children’s games & activities including
• Tug Of War • Disaster Preparedness by Belmont/San Carlos Fire Dept.
• Public Safety by the Belmont Police Dept. • Music and much more!
Sponsored by: Belmont Youth Action Committee,
VOICES (Volunteer Outreach Involvement in Community Events &
Services) & the Belmont Parks & Recreation Department.
For more info: 595-7441
Contest Winner-$50.00 Gas Card August 2008
The winner of this month’s drawing for a $50.00 gas card is Kathy Schwarzbeck!
Congratulations Kathy, we’ll be sending you your $50.00 Chevron® gas card right away.
And just for fun, we drew two other names for a $5.00 Starbucks® card.
Natasha Flaherty & Jeanette Weisinger your Starbuck’s card is in the mail.
Thanks for joining us for this contest and responding to The Morgan Report Newsletter. Remember you can always register for our on-line version of the Newsletter here and help save a tree!
Belmont’s Greek Festival!
What’s going on in Belmont over the Labor Day weekend?
Be sure and stop by the Greek Festival held every year on the grounds of the Greek Orthodox Church at the corner of Ralston Ave. and Alameda de las Pulgas. Over 15,000 people are expected to attend over the three days of festivities.
There is great food and fun for everyone with music, dancing arts & crafts. Admission is only $5.00 for adults and children under 12 are free. This year they’ll have a special “fun zone†for the kids too.
If you are a foodie like us you’ll enjoy BBQ lamb, Dolmades, Spanakopita and of course desserts like Baklava layered with honey and nuts. 
Here’s their schedule of activities if you can’t decide when to go.This is one of Belmont’s best get-togethers for the community and if you see us be sure and say hi!
We complimentary tickets since we contribute to the festival's directory so if you’re planning on going let us know and we’ll send some out to you.
FREE Gas Giveaway!
We’re just two days away from our drawing for a FREE $50.00 gas giveaway card. If you receive our print newsletter you’ve probably already sent in your form, but if you’re a blog reader you can still enter by sending in this on-line version of the form.
And don’t forget you can help us go green by subscribing to the on-line version and you’ll be emailed once a month with market updates and our quarterly newsletter. Don’t worry, your email address will remain annonymous and we’ll never share it with anyone for any reason.
With gas prices recently dropping, this $50.00 gas card will go a lot farther than it did just a few weeks ago.
Good Luck! The winner will be announced on this blog August 20th so hurry and register!
James Outman Leads San Carlos to All Star Victory
Even if you don’t have a horse in the race, watching the All Star little league teams is a real hoot! These kids can play. 
At nine and ten years old they are throwing unhittable curve balls. Monday’s game between the San Mateo Nationals and San Carlos was a real nail biter with James Outman standing off two runners on base with only a 1 run lead, he struck out the last batter for a 2 to 1 victory and a chance to move on to the race for the finals. Don’t miss tonight’s (Wednesday, July 9, 2008) game at Marina Field in Belmont See the whole story here…
James Outman closing out the game in style.
Crosswalk etiquette, a lesson for Belmont
Is crosswalk etiquette dead or did it ever exist?
This is our city, Belmont California; and this is our office, Carlmont Associates. Here we are smack dab in the middle of Belmont on the corner of Ralston Ave. and Villa–obviously a big enough intersection to get Google’s attention.
The cross walk you see here is the topic of today’s rant. You see the city installed an illuminated cross walk—you know the ones with the flashing yellow lights imbedded into the street—to assist pedestrians in crossing the road. Well not really to help them get across, but to help them get there more safely by making it easier for them to be noticed.
Clearly in order to get to my office I play the role of both a driver and pedestrian. First, in defense of the drivers, it’s really hard to see people when you are staring into the sunset. Spin this interactive camera around and you’ll see what we mean. It’s much easier to see the lights flashing in the road than to see a pedestrian standing off to one side—especially when they are often obscured by opposing traffic.
Don’t get me wrong–I think these lights are a great idea. Especially since my night vision isn’t what it used to be. But pedestrians take advantage of the "It’s the Law" rule that one must stop for them in a crosswalk. When I’m the pedestrian (which I often am getting to and from our office), before I leap out into the crosswalk and stop traffic like Moses parting the Red Sea, as a common courtesy, I stop to see if the light at the corner of Ralston and Alameda is red or green. If it’s green, I’ll wait patiently and let the cars make the green light and only when it turns yellow will I press the power button to halt all traffic in deference to my presence. Do I have to do this? Of course not. The law is on the side of the pedestrian. Is it the courteous thing to do—of course.
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