Schrager attended Los Gatos High School and UCLA and is now a pilot for American Airlines, flying the San Francisco Bay to Hawaii route. Schrager, 36, lives in Fresno and is the son of Carol Schrager of Los Gatos. He hopes to raise $5 million for MDA, long a Harley-Davidson corporate charity.

Meanwhile, Carol, along with a granddaughter of the Harley name founder, is compiling a cookbook, also to commemorate the anniversary. The motorcycle Jeff will ride will be auctioned off on eBay at the end of the August ride and the money raised added to the totals for MDA.

The bike was specially purchased, two-toned with a classic sidecar. His ride is called the Legacy Ride and donations can be made through the website: www.legacyride.org.

SIGHTING BEACH SITES: Brian Jake Molinaro, 7, and Keats Iwanaga, 6, are two of the youngsters featured in an article called "Go to the Beach" in the most recent issue of Travel and Leisure Magazine. Their dads, Jeff Molinaro and Ryan Iwanaga, are Saratoga High grads of 1984.

Jeff Molinaro runs MMM Carpets with his family and lives in Santa Cruz with wife Josephine Molinara. Ryan Iwanaga is manager of Coldwell Banker of Los Gatos and lives in Los Gatos. Keat's mother is Anne Heffron. Both grandparents still live in Saratoga.

The magazine article pictures seven beach sites from coast to coast. The local youngsters were photographed in Capitola by a New York photographer, who had been alerted to the Brian/Keats photogenic possibilities by a photographer who knows the Molinaro/Iwanaga clan.

The facing page of the spread shows children modeling beach wear, but neither of the locals are models.

NEW OPERA: Composer/conductor Henry Mollicone of Saratoga has a new opera to add to his notch, Gabriel's Daughter, which will premiere in Central City, Colo., July 12. Composed in collaboration with playwright William Luce (Belle of Amherst author), it's about a freed slave's search for her daughter.

Mollicone and Luce have combined forces before, creating A Rat's Tale: The Pied Piper Revisited, a work commissioned by El Camino Youth Symphony. That one set the Pied Piper legend on its tail by telling the folk story through the viewpoint of the rat.

Mollicone has four one-act operas to his name and one, The Face on the Barroom Floor, received the American Composers' Recording Award and is one of the most oft-performed of contemporary operas in the country. It has been presented in various European countries as well.

Mollicone teaches at Notre Dame University in Belmont and was a professor at Santa Clara University for 14 years. He has been conductor and music director for the Santa Clara University Orchestra since '85. He was termed one of the most distinctive American opera composers by the Washington Post.

AMERICAN DANCES TO IRISH BEAT IN SPAIN: Los Gatan Joe O'Donnell-Bitter, 9, placed first in his age division at the European National Irish Dance competition held in Salou, Spain, last month. Dancers from all parts of the globe competed.

This is the second international title Joe has won in six months, having also captured the Great Britain championship in October, held near Bristol. He attends the French-American School in Sunnyvale, will be in the fourth grade, and studies with Irish Dance instructor Patricia Kennelly.

His sister Caroline, 14, is also an Irish dancing student with the Kennelly school and she got him interested. They are the children of Patrick and Nicole Bitter.

MAD HATTERS: Wherever the Red Hat Society members gather, they usually turn heads with their costuming—red hats and purple dresses—if for nothing else. Now a Los Gatos chapter has been formed by Donna DeLong of Los Gatos. Called Queen Mum, she's a Realtor with Intero Real Estate Services.

The group had its first outing recently and will meet monthly, strictly for fun for women of une certain age, as the French so delicately put it.

Members are Carol Zimring, Juanita Weibel, Mimi Abalateo, Sue Hamilton (vice mother), Linda Flomenhoft, Karen Winter, Sue Proost, Edie Johnson, Evelyn Lane, Mignon Pierce, Marge Stake, Bev Rettus, Phoebe Walls (club hysterian) and Carol Higgins.

The chapter is open to new members, but is filling up fast. Contact is donnadelong@earthlink.net.

SHOW DATE: The work of Los Gatos Weekly-Times photographer George Sakkestad and graphic artist Rick Tharp, who created this newspaper's logo, will be on the boards at LG Art Museum through July 27.

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