Things to Know in Pleasanton This Week: June 10 to 16

Monday, June 10

• Get Free Irrigation Controller Schedule Assistance! If you haven’t already, you will soon be turning on your irrigation controller. Do you know if the schedule you have set is right for your yard? Have you checked for breaks or problem spots? The City’s Controller Assistance Program can assist in answering those questions! Call 925-931-5513 to schedule your Controller Assistance Service. Visit www.PleasantonWaterConservation.com for more water-efficiency programs provided by the City of Pleasanton.

• An Evening with Voices from the Civil War
  7 p.m. Firehouse Arts Center. The June installment of our Ed Kinney Lecture Series features Alyssa Foster as Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew and historical re-enactor Ernie Manzo as a Civil War soldier.  
  Tickets available at Museum on Main: $10 general admission, $5 seniors/Museum members, $3 students or teachers w/ID.
  

• Post 6298 Proudly Presents a “Benefit Dance”  For your listening and Dancing pleasure. Music from the 30s, 40s, and 50s played by "The Mellotones Combo".  Donations of $7.00 includes a light lunch and proceeds used to help Veterans and their Families who are in need. 1 p.m. Veterans Memorial Building, 301 Main St., Pleasanton. 
• Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War Museum on Main is proud to be one of the selected venues for this traveling exhibition, which examines Abraham Lincoln's struggle to meet the constitutional challenges posed by the American Civil War. Exhibit Opening and Reception  5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Garden Club Meeting: The Livermore Amador Valley Garden Club will meet 6:30 p.m. at Alisal School's multipurpose room, 1454 Santa Rita Road, Pleasanton.  Charles Crohare, third generation of the Crohare family in Livermore will speak on all phases of operation in olive growing and selling. Visitors are welcome.  For more info, call Bev (925) 485-7812.

• Concert in the Park
  Featuring The CoolTones Big Band - Big Band & Swing -- Band sponsored by the Alameda County Fair -- Location: Lions Wayside Park, Neal and 1st St.  7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• Agape Villages Foster Care is sponsoring a Flapjack Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday at Applebee's (Dublin - Hacienda Crossings location), from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Enjoy a fun morning of great food (scrambled eggs, pancakes, bacon, orange juice, and coffee) all for only $10.00 per person! Please order tickets by calling 800-566-2225  (purchase in advance only). There will also be a raffle of some terrific baskets. We look forward to seeing you there! This event benefits foster children and families in the Bay Area!  
•  Jordan E. Rosenfeld will be the guest speaker at the meeting of California Writers Club at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. 2 p.m. Details here.
  

• Rookie Quilt Project for Quilts of Valor. Noon to 5 p.m. Masonic Hall, 3370 Hopyard Road. We are offering a free half-day quilt lesson to make a Quilt of Valor item which will be donated to a U.S. Veteran. All equipment and supplies will be provided. Each “Rookie” will have a “Coach” for one-one-one instruction and will complete a project in half a day or less. See information about the rookie quilt project at http://www.amad​orvalleyquilter​s.org/quilts-of​-valor Contact Donna Karbach to attend or coach.