Dress up your home and yard with lights, Santa, reindeers, snowmen and win prizes! Winning homes will be featured in The Pilot and on the web.
If you want to be sure our judges see your lighted home, just email us at when your lights are up and give us your street address and name.
Judging ends on Friday, December 17th (7PM), so if your house is lighting up your neighborhood, be sure to email RSCA and let us know!
Spring flowers are ready to leave their hidey-holes after this wet winter and finally usher in springtime! That means that it’s time for the RSCA’s annual Eggstravaganza, held every year at Marlin Park in the center of Redwood Shores. Bring all your children and a basket for goodies to the park for the big Egg Hunt, where toddlers and young kids can seek out goodies hidden in the grass and playground. Also, the Easter Bunny will be there to lead off the Egg Hunt and later to pose for pictures with the boys and girls, so be sure to take along a camera as well!
The festivities begin at 1:00 PM on Saturday, March 27th at Marlin Park here in Redwood Shores.
The Grand Prize for the annual holiday decoration contest goes to 532 Cringle for the the best lit Single Family Home. The Best Lit Condo/Townhome Prize goes to 23 Admiralty. Congratulations to the winners as well as all of the runner-ups, and thanks to all for helping to light up Redwood Shores!
Don’t forget to turn on those Christmas lights Thursday night, December 17th. because the “Light up the Shores” judges will be out in their sleighs looking for the best decorated houses in our neighborhood of Redwood Shores. This year there will be nine awards ranging from the “Grand Prize” through “best house facing the street,” “best condo facing the street,” etc., including some honorable mentions. Each winner gets abeautiful engraved plaque suitable for hanging in the finest living room. The grand prize winner gets a Nob Hill Market gift certificate (donated by the good folks at Nob Hill). All the others get a gift certificate from Starbucks in addition to a plaque.
Don’t forget, Santa Comes To The Shores at the Redwood Shores Library this year. Mark your calendar for December 20th at 1pm.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 27 will come by your houses on November 21st, 2009 to pick up canned/dry foods that will be donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank. Last year with the support of Redwood Shores we doanted 1400 pounds, this year we hope to do better. Thanks for your support
Check out the T27 web site at: http://t27.org/
Submitted by Saleel Awsare
Decorated with more than 40,000 lights, the Caltrain Holiday Train will visit nine stations along the Peninsula between San Francisco and Santa Clara on Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th.
This free, family-oriented event draws thousands of visitors to train stations every year for a chance to sing along with live holiday music and meet Santa and Mrs. Claus and other holiday favorites, including Rudolph and Frosty.
More importantly, visitors can get into the spirit of giving by bringing new, unwrapped toys and books to drop into toy barrels at stations. Thousands of toys and books have been donated to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots Program and the Salvation Army, beneficiaries and partners in putting on the Caltrain Holiday Train.
The Holiday Train entertainers will give a brief performance at 4:30 p.m. before departing from the San Francisco station at Fourth and King streets at 5 p.m. The train will stop at four Peninsula stations each night. Entertainment at those stations will begin 30 minutes before the train arrives.
The Caltrain Holiday Train is not a passenger train. Visitors are invited to visit the stations and view the Holiday Train show but are not permitted to board or ride on the train.