For a good cause

@copy:Book Fair 1997 Thousands of books, videos, cassettes and more for sale Sept. 20, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sept. 21, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Menlo Park Library Grounds and Council Chambers at Ravenswood and Laurel streets, Menlo Park. Collectibles will be auctioned through written bids Saturday and Sunday and an oral auction Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Friends of the Menlo Park Library to benefit many special library programs and projects. @copy:"On The Road: Stories of Lupus" John Bentley's Restaurant of Woodside at 2991 Woodside Road will host a community fundraising dinner for the production of a documentary film in lupus Sept. 22, 6:30-9 p.m. The evening includes hors d'oeuvres, dinner, entertainment, and the film preview. The film's producers are two local women who live with lupus. Tickets are $250 per person. Call 462-9293 for reservations or donations. @copy:Twilight Raptor Release Wildlife Rescue will release a Great Horned Owl Sept. 26, 5:30-8 p.m. at Thomas Fogarty Winery in Portola Valley. The evening will feature food, wine, harpist, and other raptors. $60 donation. Call 494-7417 for reservations. @copy:Steppin' Out with Touchstone Second annual event with square, contra and country western line dancing, barbecue dinner by Armadillo Willy's and more Sept. 27, 7-11:30 p.m. at Rollnick Auditorium, Jewish Community Center, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $25 per person and benefit Touchstone Support Network, a local non-profit organization providing support services free of charge for children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and their families. Call 328-4495. @copy:Annual Quaker Fall Bazaar A benefit for the Friends Committee on Legislation of California will be held Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Palo Alto Friends Meeting House and grounds, 957 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. Activities include a flea market and used book sale, live music, food, home-made bakery, jams, jellies, chutneys, honey, lemonade, plants, produce, and children's activities. Free admission. Open to everyone. Call Isabel or Gene Peterson at 326-9072. @copy:Final Foursomes Invitational Sponsored by Cornish & Carey Residential Real Estate Sept. 29 at 11:45 a.m. at the Stanford Golf Course. $195 for lunch, golf, cocktails and award's buffet. Deadline is Sept. 23. Proceeds benefit the Stanford Women's Basketball program. Call Mike Murphy at 723-0284. @copy:Help the animals Help distressed animals and ecological environments by donating children's and adult books for book sales with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to nonprofit groups. Drop off books at Wildlife Rescue, 4000 Middlefield Road, Building V, Palo Alto or at the Palo Alto Humane Society, 415 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto. Call 961-7658. @copy:Peninsula World Travel/American Express Encourages Travelers to Bring Home Hotel Shampoos and Soap Peninsula World Travel of Menlo Park is beginning its campaign to donate travel-size shampoos and soaps to the Haven Family House in Menlo Park. Travelers are urged to bring home these items and drop them off at the Menlo Park office. The items collected will be delivered to the Haven Family House, a homeless shelter in Menlo Park. Peninsula World Travel is located at 830 Menlo Avenue, No. 110 (located between Trader Joe's and Draeger's) in Menlo Park. Call Jennifer Coelho at 328-2030, ext. 230.

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