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Library Campaign
Cupertino Library Foundation Announces 'Cupertino Silicon Valley Reads 2010'
Cupertino Adults and Students in Grades 9 - 12 were invited to participate
in an Essay
Contest that leads into the Cupertino Silicon Valley Reads 2010 March
20 event.
Essay Topic on the 2010 Silicon Valley Reads Book Selection was "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan
"According to author Michael Pollan, the rise of 'nutritionism' has vastly complicated the lives of American eaters without doing anything for our health, except possibly to make it worse...Pollan outlines the challenge and offers a straightforward manifesto - 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'"
Congratulations to Our Essay Contest Winners (Click on the winner's name to read their entry)
Adult Winners: First Prize ($500 ): Geneva Ebisu
Second Prize($300): Chitra Sriram
Teen Winners: First Prize ($500): Chandrika Kumar
Second Prize($300): Hyunmin Kim
A special thanks to our community judges:
First-pass judging was done by Bob Adams (Cupertino Library Foundation), Gayathri Kanth (Cupertino Library Adult and Teen Services Supervising Librarian) , Judy Dana (Cupertino Library Adult Services Librarian) and Pooja Kundargi, high school senior and past member of the Cupertino Teen Commission.
Final Judging was done by Dolly Sandoval (High-school teacher and former Cupertino Mayor), Liz Gallegos (President, Cupertino Rotary and Associate Director of Planned Giving at Santa Clara University) and Dorothy Terrill (Registered Dietitian, RN, consultant, columnist and radio personality)
Event Sponsors
Platinum
Armstrong Retirement Planning, LLC - Bob Adams, CFP®
Gold
Hewlett-Packard
Eno Schmidt, President of Cupertino Library Foundation Board
Steve Ting
Silver
Cecelia Babkirk
Rich Gamboa, CRPS Senior VP UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Northwest YMCA
Recology Cupertino
Hung Wei, FUHSD Board member
Cupertino Vice-Mayor Gilbert Wong
Chi Yeh, Member of Cupertino Library Foundation Board
Bronze
Elaine Glissmeyer
County Supervisor Liz Kniss, 5th District
Cupertino Councilman Orrin Mahoney
Beverly Lenihan, Member Cupertino Library Foundation Board
Barbara Nunes, Vice-President of FUHSD Board
Janet Riddell, Past member of Cupertino Library Commission
The Cupertino Library Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization. Its stated purpose is To raise money to enhance the Library. It seeks major donations from corporations and the business community and from other foundations as well as individual donations and planned gifts and bequests. Most recently, and again at Council's request, the Foundation has successfully concluded a 4-year effort to raise from the community the $1.2 million to help furnish the new Library so that Council could construct the best building possible with City funding.
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