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EVENTS The Spectrum • Redwood City’s Monthly Magazine Redwood City Women’s Club Luncheon/meeting March 3 at 149 Clinton Street, Redwood City. 11:30 AM social, lunch at noon ($10.00) 12:00 meeting, 1:00 program. Shop for Valentine’s Day and Easter at “Shop Till U Drop” and bring photos for a hands on, do-it-yourself workshop, “All About Photos”. For information call: 363-1266. City Talk Toastmasters Club Join the Redwood City Toastmasters Club to develop your communication and leadership skills. The club meets on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 in City Hall at 1017 Middlefield Road in the Council Chambers. Call Manny Rosas at 650-780-7468 if you would like to check out a meeting or just stop in. Visit www.toastmasters.org for more information about the Toastmasters public speaking program. No-host cocktails start at 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. The HOF inductees are: Patricia “Pat” Ann Giosso, Andrea Jenoff, Barbara Kuehn, Nancy Torres, and Constance “Connie” Zakos. The two Young Women of Excellence are: Marina Alanna Gatto and Marcella Rose Padilla. Reservation deadline: March 10. Make check payable to: Commission on the Status of Women of San Mateo County and mail to same at: 455 County Center, 5th floor, Redwood City, CA 94063. Invitations can be downloaded from the CSW Web site at: www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/eps/csw or phone CSW office at 363-4872. Chamber of Commerce The Redwood City Chamber of Commerce is currently accepting new members during its membership drive. The Chamber is the third largest in Northern California and currently has over 1,200 members. Benefits include: unlimited networking, monthly connections, and the ability to join committees that improve our community. If you have a business and would like to join, call 650.368.2434 for more details. Optimist Club Crab and Shrimp feed The Optimist Club of Redwood City will be hosting their 15 th Annual “All you can eat” Crab and Shrimp Feed on Saturday March 12 at the Community Activities Building, 1400 Roosevelt Avenue, starting at 6:00 p.m. The fundraiser to help community activities will have dinner, raffle and door prizes. Tickets for this event are only $35.00 and can be purchased by calling Ralph Garcia at 650.368.2841. The event sells out every year so call ASAP. Eighth annual Arts and Olive Festival Cañada College’s annual Arts and Olive Festival will be held on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you are interested in participating in this outstanding community event, applications will be available at www.olivefest.org or by contacting Julie Mooney, Vendor Coordinator at olivefest@smccd.net - Ph: 650.306.3428 or Fax: 650.306.3445. Celebrate Women’s History Month The first San Mateo County Women’s Day Conference, “Women Seeing Beyond Today,” is being held March 5 starting at 8:30 a.m. at the South San Francisco Conference Center. The not-for-profit, all-day event will celebrate Women’s History Month and will feature speakers and moderators, workshops, and opportunities for an expected attendance of hundreds of women to meet and learn from each other. Three keynote speakers already lined up are: state Senator Jackie Speier, San Mateo County Supervisor Adrienne Tissier, and Dr. Marla Lowenthal, professor of Mass Communications at Menlo College. There will be 24 workshops, a raffle for prizes, exhibitors, and a reception will follow at 5 p.m. The cost of $99 includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and the reception. To register, visit: www.womenseebeyond.org or e-mail Jane Hillhouse, registration chair, at registration@womenseebeyond.org or call Pat Obuchowski, conference chair, at 245-0321. You can also pay at the door. Conference proceeds will benefit the Women’s Recovery Association (www.womensrecovery.org) in Burlingame. All contributions are tax-deductible. Sponsorship, raffle prizes, and exhibitor opportunities, which create a high-level visibility and serve as an excellent marketing tool, are still available. For more details, call Pat Obuchowski or e-mail: www.womenseebeyond.org. Women’s Hall of Fame dinner The 21st Annual San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame, presented by San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and the Commission on the Status of Women, is March 24 at the South San Francisco Conference Center, 255 So. Airport Blvd. Cheryl Jennings and David Louie, both from ABC-KGO Channel 7 News, are emcees. 18 • February 2005 The Brazilian dance troupe Sambão was be featured at last year’s Cañada College Arts and Olive Festival. This year’s edition of the festival will be onb Sunday, Oct. 2. KAINOS/PENINSULA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB IRISH NIGHT AT THE VETERAN’S MEMORIAL BUILDING - 1455 MADISON AVENUE - REDWOOD CITY SATURDAY, MARCH 19 TICKETS - $25 PER PERSON $30 AT THE DOOR 5:30 - HAPPY HOUR WITH GREEN BEER & WINE SILENT AUCTION 6:30 - LIVE AUCTION 7:30 - DINNER MAJOR EVENT UNDERWRITER SAN MATEO CREDIT UNION EVENT SPONSORS BAY AREA BANK WELLS FARGO COMMERCIAL BANK DES ARCHITECTS - PETE’S HARBOR NORCAL WASTE SYSTEMS HOSTED BY THE PENINSULA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB BENEFITING KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER & OTHER LOCAL CHARITIES FOR TICKETS CALL KAINOS (650) 363-2423
There will be an odd, hollow feeling this coming fall when youth foot ball season rolls around in these parts. Kids will still climb into shoulder pads and put on cleats, but it won’t be the same. The grass will seem a little less green, the air a little less clear, the world a bit less full of possibilities. But we’ll soldier on and give it our best, because Frank Guida would have wanted it that way. Guida, known as “Coach” to four decades’ worth of youth football players on the mid-Peninsula, passed away at the age of 85 on Saturday after a short battle with cancer. It was the only major battle he ever lost. He was a World War II veteran who won the Purple Heart, escaped from a German prison camp and met Gen. George Patton. Yet Guida saved his boasting for the exploits of his youth football teams. He was famous for referring to each of his players as “champ.” “I call them champ so I don’t have to remember all those names,” he once said. “But really it’s to remind me of why I keep coaching year after year. My kids are all champs to me.” His devotion to the community is legendary. In addition to co-founding youth football in Redwood City, he was involved in Little League baseball, Indian Guides, Cub Scouts and the PTA — the latter organization which named him “Mother of the Year” in 1967. He was President of the Board of Realtors, won Redwood City’s Outstanding Citizen Award in 1996, and was named National Pop Warner Coach of the Year in 2004. He coached youth football for 41 years (retiring in 2004), and is a member of the Pop Warner National Hall of Fame. “What makes Frank Guida special?” asked longtime friend and fellow youth coach Larry Howard. “What makes people go to New York and see the Statue of Liberty? He’s a landmark.” Guida raised threes sons and a daughter, all three boys having played football for him in the Pop Warner program, which he helped organize in 1963. Coaching primarily at the junior midget level (11-13 year-olds), his teams collected 30 division titles, 15 conference crowns, eight regional titles and one national championship (the Ray Lockettled 1985 team). Former players include Milo Lewis (University of Alabama) Ronald Nunn (USC), Charles Tharp (Illinois) and Chris Ricardi (University of Hawaii). His coaching secrets were a passion for the game, attention to detail and an insistence on discipline. His players learned to work hard and not back down to anyone — traits that were evident in Guida even as a young man. When World War II broke out and the U.S. seemed to be too slow getting involved, the Cleveland-born Guida enlisted in the army in Canada, which had already entered the fray. Fighting in North Africa, he was wounded and captured by the German army. “The Germans looked at his papers and asked why an Italian-American was in the Canadian army,” recounts Guida’s son, Jim. “As my dad tells it, he looked the officer in the eye and said, ‘So I could go kick Hitler’s ass sooner.’ And knowing him, I believe he said it.” During a prisoner transfer to Milan, Italy, Guida escaped, roaming the Italian coun- The Spectrum • Redwood City’s Monthly Magazine OBITUARY Longtime Redwood City youth football coach dies at 85 “What makes Frank Guida special? What makes people go to New York and see the Statue of Liberty? He’s a landmark.” — Larry Howard Friend and fellow youth coach By Rick Chandler, Special to The Spectrum Frank Guida Frank Guida wearing his trademark coaching hat tryside until he was taken in and hidden by a local family. Eventually he made it to an American base, where, bedraggled and unshaven, he got into a chow line for his first hot meal in days. That’s when Patton entered the mess hall for an inspection. “It didn’t take Patton long to find me,” Guida once recalled. “He looked at me and yelled, ‘Hey! Who let that Arab in here?’” Returning to Redwood City after the war, he opened Guida Realty and was active as a realtor/broker for more than 25 years. Frank Pasquale Guida is survived by his four children, Carol, Edward, Jim and Bob, daughters-in-law Pam, Teri and Wendy Guida, sister and brother-in-law Luisa and Tudor Bogart, sister Maria Ryskiewicz, sisters-in-law Greta and Frances Guida, many nephews and nieces, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mid-County Youth Football, c/o Marianne Pignati, P.O. Box 3541, Redwood City CA 94064, or St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room, 3500 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park CA 94025. A private family service was held last week. An open celebration of Frank’s life will be held Feb. 26 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Red Morton Community Center, 1400 Roosevelt Ave., Redwood City. Encore Performance Catering Celebration Holiday Catering of Life Large and small occasions More than 17 years of full-service catering Dave Hyman (Owner) (650) 365-3731 • www.epcatering.com February 2005 • 19
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