The One Bear Project held its annual stuffed annimal drive on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at Faultline Harley-Davidson/Buell in Fremont. Event organizer Karen Kadaja collected over 1,500 teddy bears for CALICO children and highlighted the important work CALICO does in the county. The day featured, music, country dancing, no-money (teddy-bear bids only) silent auctions, a BBQ and fun activities for kids. Thank you Karen for selecting CALICO as this year's beneficiary!

CALICO is pleased to announce that Brian L. Colbert, President of Broadband Mechanics, Inc., has joined our Board of Directors in June 2008. With a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, he served as a Corporate/Securities Attorney in New York before becoming Vice President of a privately held confectionary company, CEO of a Voice over Internet Protocol firm, and Assistant Professor of Ecomomics in Turkey and finally settling in San Francisco. His travel history is as diverse as his resume -- Brian visited 16 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa in the last 6 years. His extensive entrepreneurial and communications skills have already proved invaluable. He has helped set up internal communications systems at CALICO and has raised our on-line profile through social networking sites. You can meet Brian and welcome him to CALICO at our annual gala on October 18, 2008.