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\n\t\t\t\t\tThe 82nd Santa Clara County Fair is set for Aug. 19-23 at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose. Last year’s fair is seen here.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A new leaf<\/p>\n
Our City Forest<\/a>\u00a0founder Rhonda Berry is stepping down as president and CEO after 34 years and will transition to board advisor. The nonprofit\u2019s board of directors has appointed Tara Sreekrishnan as executive director. Sreekrishnan is the co-founder of local nonprofit Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action and serves on the Santa Clara County School Board.<\/p>\n Our City Forest (OCF) was\u00a0founded in 1994<\/a>, but\u00a0Berry began creating it in 1992<\/a> with the vision \u201cOne Million People, One Million Trees.\u201d Most of OCF\u2019s efforts toward this goal were funded with $35 million in grants and donations.<\/p>\n \u201cMost people think that the city pays for our projects and trees because \u2018City\u2019 is in our name, yet over all the years, OCF has raised its own funding to finance its planting projects\u2014about 95% of them,\u201d Berry said in a release.<\/p>\n This funding has financed the trees, materials, coordination, planting and three-year stewardship of some 85,000 large canopy trees and 25,000 shrubs along streets and at nearly every San Jose school and park. Other OCF efforts include a year of full-time, paid on-the-job training to nearly 700 AmeriCorps service members; mobilization and training of some 175,000 community members; and the building and operation of the OCF community nursery and training center and its outdoor education center.<\/p>\n Our City Forest will host a fundraising gala,\u00a0Growing Our Future<\/a>, on Friday, Sept. 25, to celebrate Berry\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n Fair game<\/p>\n