📬 The Summer Activity Guides arrived last week and registration for Summer Classes begins April 29th at 9am for Campbell Residents! 🌞🗓️Registration for opens Wednesday, April 30th at 9AM for everyone!✨

Registration for summer camps, swim lessons, and pre-school opened March 11–12, and spots are filling fast! If a camp or swim lesson is full, be sure to add your child to the waiting list!

www.campbellca.gov/activityguide
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Venture Gallery presents Lilly Campos, our featured local artist for May. Her latest exhibit, A Summer's Day in a California Bay, captures, in glass, the essence of a beautiful day along California’s coastline.

About Lilly Campos

Lilly Campos has been a dichroic glass and fused glass artist for 13 years. Her exhibit captures a sunny day in which sailboats, kites, and hot air balloons fill the sky, creating a dynamic and colorful scene along our beautiful coastal inlets.

About Venture Gallery

Venture Gallery is open 10am-6pm daily. Lilly Campos's artwork will be featured through May 2025. Venture Gallery is located at 260 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Visit our website to shop online for work by our local artists.

The Perfect Crumb Bakery serves our popular breakfast sandwiches Wed-Sun, 7:30am-12:30pm. Made with freshly baked biscuits, two eggs, hash browns, and cheese, they're a great way to get your morning started. (Add bacon or ham by request.)

Is your mouth watering? Find them at The Perfect Crumb, located at 301 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey, a small, independently owned bakery.

Play Full Ground's new micro high school is now accepting student applications for the 2025-2026 school year!

Founder Mai Ryuno invites students and their families seeking a high school education rooted in creativity and community to join her in building this vision. The goal? To make high school education a valuable experience of learning and growth and to nurture the creativity and happiness of young people.

About Play Full Ground's Micro School

The new Play Full Ground micro school, led by artist and educator Mai Ryuno, will be dedicated to offering students in grades 9-12 the education to cultivate independence, prepare for the future after high school, and become active participants in their community and society. Learn more here.

About Mai Ryuno

Mai Ryuno brings more than 15 years of experience as a community-based artist and creative educator to this micro high school initiative. Her expertise in interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, and project-based learning will contribute to developing an engaging, personalized, and collaborative educational model with the school's founding families.

MY Museum's 2025 Online Auction is now live and ready for your bids! We can't wait for you to see the incredible items. Whether you are looking for trips, spa services, gift cards to local restaurants, wine, new experiences, or family fun adventures, we've got you covered.

The online auction closes on Wednesday, April 30, at 9pm. Every penny raised from the auction goes directly to making this non-profit children's museum in Downtown Old Monterey a better, safer place for the kids of Monterey County and beyond.

Thank you so much to all of our auction donors - this would not be possible without you!

Meet River, a furry, four-legged design consultant at Carpets and Floors, Inc. in Monterey. River wants to tell you about carpet runners.

Why are they a MUST for pets?

* Traction. No more slipping and sliding like Bambi on hardwood.

* Comfy paws = happy pups. It’s like a runway for naps and zoomies.

* Cleaner floors. Runners catch all the fur, dirt, and drool before it spreads.

* Style points. Look at these sample options - River looks fabulous on all of them!

Pro tip: Choose a carpet runner that’s durable and easy to clean, because accidents do happen.

10/10 dogs recommend them.

Visit River's team at Carpets and Floors at 471 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey to view all the options. Carpets and Floors, Inc. is a small, locally-owned business.

Stokes Adobe restaurant and bar is now offering caviar service daily. 28g of Osetra caviar is served with creme fraiche, chives, blinis, and potato chips.

Available for dinner (5pm-9pm) and happy hour (4pm-5:30pm) at 500 Hartnell Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Indoor and outdoor patio seating is available.

Easter chocolates are now available at Parker-Lusseau Pastries and Cafe in Downtown Old Monterey. We make everything in-house and have a variety of designs including eggs, rabbits, chickens, fish, and ladybugs.

We hope to carry our delicious chocolates right up until Easter (April 20), but we can't make any promises, so don't wait! Stop by the shop at 539 Hartnell Street in Downtown Old Monterey and pick up yours soon.

Manasiri's Crepes and Sandwiches now proudly serves Zum Zum Tea at 321 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. If you're a tea enthusiast, these are for you!

We're offering a wide range of unique and delicious Zum Zum Teas including Lavender Earl Gray black tea, Citrus De-Stress green tea, Carrot Ginger Curcuma herbal tea, Fruit Medley herbal tea, Risky 'Biscus herbal tea, and Sunset Sangria herbal tea.

Zum Zum Tea is a local, family-run tea company offering a wide array of farm-to-cup teas from around the world. Owners Anthony and Kimberly Chavez are die-hard tea lovers with a love and deep respect for farming, Fair Trade practices, and the work that goes into creating the food and drink we consume.

It's the season for hot cross buns! Those at Ad Astra are made with dried fruit soaked in Earl Grey tea with cardamom, ginger, black pepper, and clove. Containing spelt flour, they're finished with an orange-honey glaze.

Baked fresh daily at 479 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey.

The Yardstick is honored to announce that we have been named the Best Window Coverings Provider in Silicon Valley for 2025 in Mercury News’ annual Best in Silicon Valley competition! The award is voted on by readers in a wide variety of categories. This prestigious recognition reflects our dedication to providing high-quality custom window treatments, including shutters, shades, draperies, and blinds to homeowners and businesses across the greater San Jose area from our Campbell store.

We owe this achievement to our loyal customers and the community that has supported us throughout our journey. Your trust and enthusiasm drive us to continually deliver exceptional service and products tailored to your needs. Thank you for making this possible!

Founded in the 1960s as a fabric store, The Yardstick has evolved into a trusted leader in window coverings, adapting to the latest trends and innovations to meet our customers’ preferences. Our showroom offers a wide range of customizable solutions to enhance any space with both style and functionality.

We invite you to visit our showroom and experience firsthand the quality and craftsmanship that earned us this recognition. Our expert team is ready to help you find the perfect window treatments for your home or business. For more information or to schedule a consultation, please contact us today!

Welcome to Lighthouse District in the News, an occasional post featuring recent news articles on Monterey's Lighthouse District. Please click the link below to read the articles.

Shucking Great News [Oystertown]
by Jacqueline Weixel
Monterey County NOW, 03/20/25

Area restaurants, breweries and winemakers prepare to bear the tariff burden [Mission 19 Taqueria]
by Dave Faries
Monterey County NOW, 03/27/25

A two-alarm fire destroys Carl's Jr. near Cannery Row; nine trucks and 39 firefighters fight the blaze
by Dave Faries
Monterey County NOW, 04/03/25

Fire destroys 44-year-old Carl's Jr. in Monterey; investigation ongoing
by Brooke Kinebrew
KSBW, 04/03/25