By Khalida Sarwari
It feels like only yesterday when some of us took to our desks to write a letter to Santa. With another holiday around the corner, it’s time for the stationary to make another appearance.
This time around, the letters can be addressed to just about anybody or anything you love–your mother, the guy that works at your favorite deli or even St. Nick again.
The Saratoga Village Development Council is collecting “Love Notes” from people in the community to display on the windows of businesses in the Village in celebration of Valentine’s Day. The notes can be expressions of love addressed to just about anybody or anything.
The point of “Love Notes,” said Jill Hunter, a Saratoga City Council member and head of the SVDC, is to build a sense of community and also to decorate the downtown area for Valentine’s Day.
“Many of the Village stores are welcoming the opportunity to put the love notes in the windows,” she said. “The whole object is to bring Saratogans down to the Village and see what our children are putting out there.”
Many of the notes will come from schoolchildren in the city, particularly those from Village Preschool, Foothill Elementary, Sacred Heart Parish and St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, which all have been invited to participate this year.
The collection period will run through Feb. 14 and the notes will be posted on the windows of Village businesses through Feb. 15.
Last year, nearly 120 notes were collected. The project, now in its fifth year, initially began as a way to honor Susie Nagpal, a council woman and a friend of Hunter’s who died of lung cancer in May 2010.
“More people know about it now and say, ‘Oh, I loved doing that last year and I’m very excited to do it again,’ ” Hunter said. “There are a lot of good things being said.”
There are no requirements for the notes, Hunter said. “Do whatever you want.”
Beginning Jan. 31, notes can be dropped off at any business on Big Basin Way, the Book-Go-Round on Oak Street and the Saratoga History Museum on Saratoga Los Gatos Road.
For more information about the Saratoga Village Development Council, visit saratogavillage.info.
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