The City values the perspectives of its residents-including our young people-in maintaining a range of safe activities for residents of all ages. At the May 1 City Council meeting, members of the Youth Advisory Committee meeting spoke to the Council about all of the great work they've done over the year and invited the community to visit their table at the May 7 Streets Alive Parks Alive celebration at the Sunday Fresh Market.

The Burlingame Public Library is excited to announce its First Friday Art Series beginning tomorrow, Friday, May 5, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  The Burlingame #Library is hosting an after-hours art exhibit opening, featuring Bay Area #artists whose work will also be featured in the library throughout the month.  Meet the artists, enjoy some music and refreshments, and pick up a print to take home.  The Burlingame Art Society will be our featured group of #artists for the month of May!

The Burlingame Police Department is joining law enforcement statewide and across the United States in the National Motorcycle safety awareness month special enforcement operations. In addition, the California Motorcyclist Safety Program is offering special, low cost rider training classes during the month of May.

The Burlingame Police Department will be conducting a specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation in an effort to lower deaths and injuries. Extra officers will be patrolling areas frequented by motorcyclists and where motorcycle crashes occur. Officers will be looking for violations made by drivers and riders alike that can lead to motorcycle crashes.

The California Motorcyclist Safety Program (CMSP) training program is offering a "Total Control Refresher Training" course during the month of May. This four-hour riding class is for experienced riders with a current motorcycle license. Riders will use their own street-legal motorcycle during the class taught by CMSP-certified Instructors at a cost of only $95. Click here to log onto the CMSP website and register at a location near you.

Over the course of the past three years in Burlingame, motorcycle involved collisions have resulted in 7 fatal and injury crashes. New Riders are urged to get basic training through the California Motorcyclist Safety Program. Information and training locations are available at http://www.californiamotorcyclist.com/ or by calling (877) RIDE 411 or (877) 743-3411.

Burlingame Library has a new resource to lend out - a Home Energy and Water Saving Toolkit. The Toolkit is filled with devices and information to save money, energy, and water. Users check out the toolkit (just like a library book) but get to keep the cool devices inside - like an LED lightbulb weather stripping, and low flow showerhead - to save money, energy, and water at home. The toolbox is then returned and restocked by the library. Look for the toolkit in your nearby library. http://www.smcenergywatch.com/node/214

Burlingame School District is pleased to announce that two students have earned Silver Medals, and four students have earned an Honorable Mention after competing in the MathCON Final Round at the University of Illinois in Chicago on April 22, 2017.

 

49,685 students from across the country in grades 5-12 participated in the MathCON on-line preliminary competition earlier this year, and nine students from Burlingame School District placed in the top one percent in the country. These nine students were then invited to compete against the top 576 students in the nation, in the MathCON Final Round in Chicago. Burlingame School District and Swun Math, LLC sponsored the trip. Congratulations to all the participants!

Stop by the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce Thursday Fresh Market sponsored by Sutter Health/Mills Peninsula Health Services!

Saturday, May 6, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Burlingame Library, 480 Primrose Rd.
 

Have you ever considered starting a business? Looking for new opportunities to help your business grow? Come join us, to participate in a business workshop where you can learn about the latest trends in businesses. You will have the opportunity to learn about business resources that can help start and grow your business.

Streets Alive! Parks Alive! is this Sunday in Downtown Burlingame. Come enjoy music and family fun activities - bounce house, spin wheel, recycled bottle toss, and lots of information on City programs and classes.

The Burlingame Hillsborough History Museum is open Sunday May 7, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.   A new exhibit features fun historical tidbits. Can't make it this Sunday? Be one of the 3,600 people who visit us from home each year at www.burlingamehistory.org.

Join the movement next Thursday and bike to work! Try out a new way to commute to work on your bike while enjoying our beautiful weather and community. Don't forget to stop by the Burlingame Caltrain Station Energizer station for free treats.

 

Richard Kamler is a crusader for peace and the universality of humanity with socially-engaged art.  Much of his most powerful work, spanning four decades, consists of sculptural installations in and about prisons.  This exhibition presents remnants of those installations as well as installations advocating for freedom for all people.