Leadership Sunnyvale celebrates 40 years on Aug. 28

Leading the way

Leadership Sunnyvale is celebrating 40 years of training citizens for civic service with an Aug. 28 event honoring the program’s alumni and those who have shaped it. A buffet will feature food from a variety of Sunnyvale restaurants.

Mayor Lynn Briody first proposed a Leadership Sunnyvale program in 1984 patterned on a model designed by the National Association for Community Leadership. The inaugural Leadership Sunnyvale class was held in fall 1985. The program now boasts over 750 graduates.

Among those set to be honored at the celebration are California Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens; Mike Gallagher, retiring superintendent of the Sunnyvale School District; Pilar Lorenzana of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and retiring Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, who also served as a Sunnyvale mayor and councilmember.

The event is set for 4-7 p.m. at the Sunnyvale Community Center, 550 E Remington Drive. Tickets are $40 per person at https://givebutter.com/gMN41S and include one beverage and the buffet.

‘Love and Mercy’

The Sunnyvale Public Library is screening “Love and Mercy,” the 2015 biopic about the late Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson, on Aug. 5 at 1 p.m.

Paul Dano and John Cusack both portray Brian Wilson at two different times in his life: as a young man in the 1960s recording the classic album “Pet Sounds” while struggling with mental illness, and as a middle-aged man getting a second chance at life and love.

This program is for adults, as the movie is rated PG-13. It will be presented with English captions for the hard of hearing. Registration is not required, but seating in the library’s program room is first come, first served.

The library is located at 655 W. Olive Ave.