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The public is invited to participate in an open town hall meeting on July 15, 7 p.m., in the town council chambers at the Los Gatos Civic chambers to discuss the preservation of the town's history.
Los Gatos Library Director Peggy Conaway, along with her staff, is coordinating an effort to collect and catalog photographs, articles, letters and other materials in order to preserve the town's unique history. The program, however, is mostly unfunded.
Barbara Spector hopes to do something about that. Spector, an author and former planning commission member, has planned a fundraising event to benefit the history project. The event, called "Hooked on Los Gatos," will be held Aug. 1315 at Borders Bookstore in Old Town, featuring live music, book signings and presentations by local authors. The hope is to raise enough money to hire a full-time person for the library and also purchase the equipment needed to scan and index historic material.
Borders is doing its part. The local store will donate 15 percent of all gross sales during the three-day period to the history project. But in order to track those sales, customers must provide bookmark-sized vouchers at the time of a purchase.
Vouchers, which cannot be distributed in the store, will be passed out at the public meeting on Thursday night at the council chambers. The event is cosponsored by the Los Gatos Library, the Los Gatos Museum, Borders Bookstore and authors Barbara and Ira Spector.
For more information on the event, contact Ira Spector at 408.354.1060 or ira.spector@comcast.net or Peggy Conaway at 408.354.6895 or pconaway@losgatosca.gov.
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