Campbell hosts CERT Academy winter training
CERT training
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Academy winter training session begins Feb. 24. This hands-on program teaches community members essential disaster preparedness skills, including fire safety, first aid, search and rescue and emergency response tactics.
The CERT Academy includes three in-person evening sessions, one online evening session and one final in-person daytime skills exercise. All in-person sessions will be held at the Campbell Community Center, 1 W. Campbell Ave. To register, visit https://bit.ly/4tsjWNX
Lunar New Year
The Campbell Adult Center is hosting a Lunar New Year Celebration at the Campbell Community Center Feb 27, 5-7 p.m., at the Campbell Community Center. The event includes dinner, Chinese performing arts, a lion dance, raffles and prizes.
Tickets are $25 at 408-866-2146 or https://bit.ly/4rJWj1O. They must be purchased by Feb 24; no tickets will be sold at the door. At least one member of each party must be age 50 or older.
Transparently excellent
The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority recently received the District Transparency Certificate of Excellence from the Special District Leadership Foundation in recognition of its efforts to promote transparency and good governance.
The foundation is an independent nonprofit formed to promote good governance and best practices among California’s special districts through certification, accreditation and other recognition programs.
To receive the award, the authority completed governance transparency requirements including ethics training for all board members, properly conducting open and public meetings and filing financial transactions and compensation reports to the state controller in a timely manner.
“The authority staff works to empower the public with information, allowing for deeper engagement with our work,” said Caroline Hernandez, the authority’s clerk of the board. “We are proud of this recognition of our commitment to working diligently, ethically and transparently for the public good.”