Granting safe access
The Santa Clara County Firesafe Council received a grant to improve fire safety in the Aldercroft Heights community in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The grant from San Jose Water will help the council with its efforts to improve roadway signage and vegetation clearance to improve access for emergency vehicles in Aldercroft Heights, a community just south of the Lexington Reservoir in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
“Mitigating the risk of wildfire in communities adjacent to San Jose Water land is a key component of our overall wildfire mitigation and system resilience strategy,” said Jared Lewis, San Jose Water’s manager of environmental planning.
Midpen to decide stables’ fate
Los Gatos’s Bear Creek Stables have remained in limbo for months while the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District worked to find alternate solutions to the stables’ dissolution, but those efforts are soon to come to a head.
On Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. at Midpen’s Los Altos headquarters, the open space district’s board of directors is set to vote on the future of the stables. Visit openspace.org/what-we-do/projects/bear-creek-stables to learn more.
Golden recognition
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently recognized West Valley Community Services as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The recognition also comes after the local nonprofit received a grant from Santa Clara County to bolster the offerings of its Park-It Market program, a mobile food pantry for people in the West Valley, according to a release from County Supervisor Joe Simitian.
“Fifty years is a long time to be doing good work,” Simitian said in a release. “While the need continues to be great, we should take the time to honor and celebrate significant milestones like this.”
