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Westhope Senior Activities Center: Come for family-style lunch, Mondays, noon, small donation. Other activities include line dancing, Mondays, 9:30 a.m. All seniors are welcome. Westhope Presbyterian Church, 12850 Saratoga Ave., cross street Cox Avenue. Older Adult Transitions Services: El Camino Hospital Los Gatos presents OATS, a group-based program for folks 55 and older experiencing life changes, losses, depression or anxiety. In a classroom environment, participants learn skills for coping and recovery. Emphasis is on helping elders rediscover their strengths and move forward with living. Program staff includes doctors, nurses and therapists and is covered by Medicare and most insurance. For more information or to schedule an assessment, call 408-866-4028.

• Provides an introduction to solar, energy efficiency, and green building skills and industries, • Offers hands-on instruction in our Solar and Building Science Learning Center, • Features multiple Skyline College faculties from the solar, home performance, and marketing industries, • Results in 2 units of college credit, transferable to any California State University and Calif., community college, pink ballarina, ballet shoes, ribbon paper clips, bookmarks Watch a video overview of the camp and the social media projects students did last year at https://www.youtube.com/user/SkylineEC2013/videos ..

San Jose Dance Theatre: The company presents its 50th anniversary production, with live accompaniment by the Cambrian Symphony; Dec. 4-6; Center for Performing Arts, San Jose; $28-$60; 408-286-9905, www.sjdt.org. Silicon Valley Ballet: Presents Karen Gabay’s adaptation of the classic; Dec. 12-27; Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose; $25-$110; 408-288-2800; siliconvalleyballet.org. Valley Dance Theatre: The company brings its full-length production back to Livermore with the Valley Dance Theatre Pit Orchestra; Dec. 12-13, 15, 18-20; Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $28-$38; 925-373-6800, www.livermoreperformingarts.org.

To register, volunteer, and pink ballarina, ballet shoes, ribbon paper clips, bookmarks learn more, go to www.stridesforlife.org or mail registration and check to Strides of Life Colon Cancer Foundation, 1600 Trousdale Dr., Burlingame, Calif., 94010, Larry Cappel, president/CEO of Pacific Health Alliance in Burlingame, founded Strides for Life, a nonprofit organization, in 2004 after he and his wife, Barbara, lost their 23-year-old son, Dylan, to colon cancer, A 1992 graduate of St, Dunstan School in Millbrae and a 1996 graduate of Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, he died in January 2002 while training at the University of Wisconsin for a berth on the 2004 U.S, Olympic Rowing Team..

Oshman Family JCC. Author Alfie Kohn, “Performance vs. Learning: The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement.” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8. Oshman Family JCC- Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. $25 advance, $30 at the door. www.paloaltojcc.org/kohn or 650-223-8664. San Mateo County History Museum. Tom Chapman, “From Professional Jockey to Full Time Artist,” 1 p.m. Jan. 24. California State Park Interpreter Mike Merritt, on the history of Año Nuevo Island and its lighthouse, 1 p.m. Feb. 7. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. www.historysmc.org or 650-299-0104.