Get out the voters
The League of Girls Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale is inviting residents to assume nationally and assist out regionally on Nationwide Voter Registration Day.
The league wants volunteers to assist at its voter registration and knowledge desk on Sept. 16 on the Cupertino Library.
Bell ringing for peace
Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister Cities, Inc. hosted its sixth annual Bell Ringing for World Peace ceremony on Aug. 6. Audio system included Mayor Liang Chao, Deputy Consul Common Takashi Ishihara, Cupertino Union Faculty District Superintendent Stacy Yao and Vihaan Shah, representing this yr’s pupil delegation.
NorCal Cherry Blossom Pageant Queen Program Princess Nanami Sugimoto, a Cupertino resident, offered a handcrafted senbazuru (a thousand origami cranes), symbolizing hope and renewal as contributors reaffirmed their needs for lasting peace.
CADRE of volunteers
Collaborating Businesses’ Catastrophe Aid Effort, or CADRE, launched its Group Help Networks for Resilience Mission this month, geared toward recruiting 1,000 volunteers over age 55 to assist set up 20 discipline-specific neighborhood assist networks in Santa Clara County.
These networks will likely be designed to construct the capability of organizations that work in or serve key areas of the neighborhood, together with entry and fairness, animal welfare, enterprise and employment, environmental challenges, well being companies, operations and social assist.
Sponsored by AmeriCorps’ Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), the Group Help Networks are designed to determine pre-emergency consciousness and communication processes that will likely be leveraged when the subsequent catastrophe strikes.
Volunteers will likely be tasked, each digital and in particular person, with serving to construct these networks and with native emergency planning efforts.
