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8. A..\/t STARS from page 7 ................................................ local services is strong. petition table outside meetings throughout his city, and reports an overwhelmingly positive response. Local Events Pay Dividends "Most people just say 'Yeah, that's a great idea, lets do keep our money close!.' The LOCA. Hillsborough Council members Tom initiative has proved it is not a "hard sell," but ~I¡e Kasten and Kitty Muiiooly took petitions to t: le importance of having more volunteers cannot t e Concours Dinner Dance this week, Hillsborough's understated. primary fundraising event to support their public schools. These "best dressed" signature gather- Signature Saturday" - Saturday March 27 ers - the event was black tie - were assisted by Tom's wife, Kendra, in running a petition booth The LOCAL coalition will hold its second both before and after dinner. Staying close to Signature Saturday statewide event on Saturday, midnight, the team was able to gamer 300 signa- March 27. The Initiative still needs your help! Here tures, covering eight counties. Kasten said of his are three easy places you can gather signatures: wife, "Kendra was tenacious in her zeal to gain signatures for the ballot initiative. She studied the . Signature Saturday Location materials and then convinced people of the impor- . Among your Friends, Family and Neighbors tance of the initiative and signed them up." . Rotary or Other Social Club Arriving at 6:30 a.m. on a foggy Sunday mom- Every signature counts! Please devote some ing, East Palo Alto Councilmember Duane Bay, of your personal time to help your city by joining in Los Altos City Clerk Susan Kitchens and San the effort to qualify this initiative for the November Mateo's Economic Development Manager ballot. Diana Whitecar joined the Peninsula Division's Regional Representative to gather signatures at Please contact your League regional rep to find the San Jose Mercury News' 27th Annual WalkJ out how you can help, or visit the campaign Run. The event benefits schools and was at- webiste for a list of locations and times, tended by thousands of participants and specta- (www.protectiocalservices.com). With your help, tors. 175 signatures were collected before the we CAN DO IT! group departed at noon. Thanks to Burlingame City Manager Jim Nantell for negotiating the Remember: Be sure the check the "Legal donated booth space and the eye-catching "Save Do's and Don'ts' of signature gathering and other Local Tax Dollars" sign. ballot measure advocacy activities, posted on thB Initiative page of the League's website at Signature Gathering Success Begins with www.cacities.ora/initiative. The two basic rules: You! Don't use public resources (including city phones, faxes, emails, equipment, facilities); and you must With just three weeks left to go in the signature be on personal time when you engage in campaign gathering effort, many thousands of signatures are activities. still needed to qualify the LOCAL initiative. Our Signature Stars will continue to shine until the deadline, but new volunteers are needed every day if the initiative is to qualify. Laguna Woods For more information on this and Mayor Bob Ring, who has turned in over 700 signatures, offers this advice: "The first thing you other league issuesr visit should do is talk to your friends - I've gotten over 100 signatures just from people I'd normally see www,cacities.org, anyway." On his personal time, Ring has set up his PAGE a/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site--www,cacities.org