Viewfinder: Festivals, Music and Dancing

Two festivals attracted our Viewfinder this week. celebrated the change of seasons with a May Festival, and our Viewfinder captured the young students decorated in flowers strolling through downtown Mill Valley on the way to their festival. 

Later in the week, a group of English dancers performed on the streets of downtown. Members of the Berkeley Morris and the Apple Tree Morris gathered in front of City Hall and performed dances to a number different of morris styles. The morris is a festive seasonal dance that dates back hundreds of years to the agricultural communities of the Cotswold Hills in Southern England.

Around the corner at the , students from held a , complete with entertainment, food, and educational displays promoting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The goals are ending poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equality, child health, maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnership.

Meanwhile, in front of , Tam high students from the Class of 2014 held a bake sale to raise funds for their prom and other senior activities. You cannot start planning for graduation too soon.

Finally, our Viewfinder discovered that thieves looking for valuable metals have stolen several brass caps from fire hydrants around town.