Sunnyvale hosting Earth Day Festival on April 5

Sustainable festival

Sunnyvale residents are invited to show their love for the planet by attending the city’s Earth Day Festival on April 5 at the Sunnyvale Civic Center.

The festival features family-friendly and sustainability-focused activities. Local nonprofits will be tabling along West Olive Avenue to share their expertise on environmental protection. Visit the community booths to learn about sustainable actions such as electrifying your home and starting a compost, and enjoy live entertainment at the amphitheater in the redwood grove.

Other event highlights include sustainable arts and crafts for kids, guided tours of the trees on campus, local food trucks and a free bike valet.

The event is set for 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information, email Environmental Services at green@sunnyvale.ca.gov or call 408-730-7717.

Old school entertainment

A new exhibit at Sunnyvale’s Heritage Park Museum looks at what home entertainment was like decades before the advent of social media and smartphones.

“Home Entertainment of the Past Century: 1860s-1960s” also outlines the divide between how the upper and middle classes kept themselves entertained. While wealthy families could afford books to read and elaborate games to play, ordinary folks would make do with what they had at hand, fashioning dolls from corn husks and fabric scraps, making toy animals from old socks or using a milk bottle and clothes pegs for a concentration skill game.

The exhibit, which will be open until late May, displays musical instruments, cameras, games, early radios and television sets, scrapbooks, comic books and toys, among other items.

The museum is located at 570 E Remington Drive. Hours are Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-4 p.m. For more information, visit https://heritageparkmuseum.org.