<body><div>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...<h2>Menlo Park hosts 9th annual storytelling festival</h2><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3xjy6p_0wAlwrGd00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3xjy6p_0wAlwrGd00" width="1140" height="641" ><figcaption>Storyteller Eleanor Clement Glass puts on a storytelling performance at the Menlo Park library. Courtesy city of Menlo Park.</figcaption></figure>Throughout late October and early November, Menlo Park will be hosting its 9th annual storytelling festival, featuring diverse storytellers, who weave stories without the help of a book, from all over the Bay Area and beyond. The city will host five free, family-friendly storytelling events throughout the month-long festival. No registration is required for the in-person events. The festival kicked off with a performance from Olga Loya, a Latina storyteller, performance artist and teacher, who uses a mix of Spanish and English to share traditional tales from Latin America, as well as stories from her own life. The festival will continue with folktales from around the world as told by Eleanor Clement Glass, a volunteer storyteller with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 6-7 p.m. at the Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St. Glass will focus on telling stories from her own Filipino heritage. On Nov. 8 from 4-5 p.m., The Ohlone Sisters, Carla Marie and Desiree Muñoz, will share storytelling, songs, regalia, language and special relationships from their Ohlone culture. The event will take place at the Belle Haven Library at 100 Terminal Ave. On Nov. 13 from 6-7 p.m., award-winning storyteller Diane Ferlette, accompanied by Erik Pearson on banjo and guitar, will perform “Wickety Whack, Brer Rabbit is Back,” at the Belle Haven Library. Ferlette’s programs emphasize the history, struggles and triumphs of the African American experience. Wickety Wack, Brer Rabbit is Back has received a Grammy nomination, and one the Children’s Music Web Award and the Storytelling World Winner Award. The festival will close with a Zoom event featuring storytellers from around the world on Nov. 22 from 5-7 p.m. Over the two-hour online event, attendees will hear stories from storytellers all around the United States, Singapore, South Korea and Australia. Register for the Zoom event at tinyurl.com/menloparkstoryfest. San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority seeks survey responses for flood risk reduction projectResidents of the San Francisquito Creek Watershed, which includes Atherton, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Woodside Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and parts of Stanford’s campus are invited to fill out a survey to help guide the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority as they embark on flood risk reduction projects throughout the watershed. Learn more about the agency’s Reach 2 flood risk reduction project at sfcjpa.org/reach-2-upstream-project. The survey will close on Oct. 24. The SFCJPA board will discuss the results of the survey at its board meeting on Oct. 24. The results of the survey will be shared in both English and Spanish on the SFCJPA website. Take the survey at tinyurl.com/SFCJPAsurvey. Springline to host annual ‘Bark and Booos’ Halloween pet event, Friday, Oct. 18On Oct. 18, Springline will host its annual Halloween-themed pet event, “Barks and Booos.” The event will take place at the development’s dog park on Garwood Way from 5-8 p.m.Barks and Booos will be a “spooky filled evening” featuring music from a live DJ, food from Chef Gilly’s, beer and wine from Barebottle brewery, a runway show and costume contest and a pet adoption event hosted by Pets in Need. The event is free to the public. Register online on Springline’s Eventbrite page.— Eleanor Raab</div></body>

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Throughout late October and early November, Menlo Park will be hosting its 9th annual storytelling festival, featuring diverse storytellers, who weave stories without the help of a book, from all over the Bay Area and beyond. The city will host five free, family-friendly storytelling...