Week Ahead: Rancho San Antonio Plans, Open Space Two-Step

Written by L.A. Chung

Get a jump on your week with our Week Ahead look events and activities you need to know. 

Tuesday - If you love Rancho San Antonio, this 6:30 meeting at the Quinlan Center in Cupertino, is a must-go. It's intended for residents to give feedback about a flood basin being planned at the park. The plan is 60 percent designed, and this is the last meeting for input before the Santa Clara Valley Water District engineers present it to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for  review and consideration for approval. The meeting is 6:30 to 8:30  p.m in the Quinlan Center social room, 10185 N. Stelling Road, Cupertino

The Sunnyvale City Council also meets on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to discuss and take possible action in an effort to resolve a simmering matter concerning the Cupertino Union School District's plans for Cupertino Middle School. The district has an open space agreement with the city but May 28 approved a termination notice of its agreement with the city after the city did not approve of school district plans to build  21,750-square-foot multipurpose building on the Helena Drive side of campus, a 27-lot parking ;pt and a 24,000-square-foot, two-story classroom wing near the small gym on S. Bernardo Avenue. The council meets at 7 p.m., in council chambers at 456 W. Olive Drive

Wednesday: We probably don't have to tell you that school's out for Los Altos School District and the Cupertino Union School District students. But if the refrain "I'm bored," threatens to send you scrambling in a panic, we have a few ideas: 

1. Santa Clara County Library District’s 2013 Summer Reading Program. Research shows that students can lose up to three months of reading skills during summer break, the county librarian says. And research also shows the best ways to prevent loss of reading skills during summer break is to read. Library summer reading programs may help children and teens retain and enhance their reading skills during the summer and provide an opportunity to help adults model and promote early reading habits for youth. There are two programs for ages 0-12 and 13 to adult. 

Oh, here's one more incentive: By signing up for the Summer Reading Program, and reading or listening to 5 books, teens and adults can enter a drawing to win a Nexus Google Tablet or an iPad mini.

All are invited to join by registering for Summer Reading online at www.sccl.org or in person at any one of the district libraries.  

Friday: Vallco Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It's summer, almost, and certainly it feels like it when you hit the farmers market at the Vallco Shopping Center, located at Stevens Creek Boulevard and Wolfe Road, Cupertino

Sunday: Oaks Shopping Center Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For those who love a Sunday morning ritual of a market day. It's located on the west side of the Oaks Shopping Center between the Blue Light Cinemas and Highway 85.