Bake A Pie For Charity

Here are some of the highlights happening around the Larkspur and Corte Madera Twin Cities area Nov. 16-18:

Here's the chance to do something fun — and tasty — for charity. The Marin Country Mart Farmers Market and trained pastry chef Carmen Sherbondy will give everyone the chance to make an organic apple pie for the St. Vincent De Paul Society of Marin County. Your donated pie will be baked on Thanksgiving Day and served in their free dining room.

When you make a pie for charity, you also have the option to purchase a ticket to make a second pie to take home.

Purchase advance tickets in advance through brown paper tickets. To make your pies, come to the big, heated tent at the Farmers' Market in Larkspur on Saturday, Nov. 17, anytime between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Sherbondy will walk you through the assembly of making your organic apple pie. This process is streamlined with many of the pie making steps being prepared in advance. Expect making one pie to take approximately 20 minutes of your time.

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• Book Party: The Larkspur Library will host its annual Afternoon Book Tea on Saturday at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Enjoy tea, coffee and cookies while Book Passage’s Elaine Petrocelli shares her recommendations for great books this year. A $10 donation reserves your place in this annual fundraiser to support Larkspur Library programming. Since seating will be limited, and will not be sold at the door, come by the library as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

• Charity Tea Party: A special tea-time benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. For a $10 donation to St. Jude, childen will enjoy refreshments, stories and crafting with a favorite doll or teddy bear. RSVP is required.  Reserve your spot today: (415) 927-3558.

• Cycling Spirit: Geoff Drake, the former editor of Bicycling Magazine and VeloNews, chronicles the evolution of professional cycling in America. His book Team 7-Eleven is the extraordinary story of how two Olympic speed skaters, Jim Ochowicz and Eric Heiden, assembled a local band of amateur cyclists and turned them into one of the greatest cycling teams the sport has known. He'll be at Book Passage in Corte Madera on Sunday at 3 p.m.

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