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Foothill Elementary School Love Notes Posted at Saratoga Village

Project continues until Feb. 14, Valentine's Day.

Foothill Elementary School second-graders adorned the windows of Hachi Ju Hachi Japanese restaurant in Saratoga Village this week as part of the Saratoga Village Development Council's Love Note project.

The children, along with the public, have been instructed to create an original flat note, no bigger than 8½-by-11 and to drop it off at any of the businesses on Big Basin Way after Jan. 29 to be displayed on their windows until Feb. 15.

"They [love notes] are all over the Village at this point," said Saratoga Mayor Jill Hunter, who's chairwoman of the SVDC. 

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Hunter said she has parent reps at each school in the city—Saratoga, Argonaut and Foothill public elementary schools, and Sacred Heart, Saint Andrews and Village Preschool to help coordinate the project.

"They have been approaching the stores themselves with the love notes and putting them in the windows," Mayor Hunter said.

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Brian Berg, the SVDC listmaster and owner of Berg Software Design, a Village business, explained the idea of the love notes began five years ago when former Saratoga Councilwoman Susie Nagpal became ill.  

Notes expressing appreciation and care for Nagpal were posted throughout the Village and she loved coming into the town and seeing the notes on the windows of the businesses, Berg said.

Mayor Hunter said since that first time, the SVDC has sought to have notes written by Saratogans about someone or something that they love.  

"They bring a wonderful sense of community to the Village in the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day," Hunter said about the love notes last year.


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