Tuesday Travel Ticker: Help wanted in Yosemite

Yosemite is seeking volunteers to work alongside rangers to help clear litter and remove invasive plants in various areas throughout Yosemite Valley this summer. All ages and abilities are welcome to participate in the program, which lasts from 9 a.m. to noon every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday until Labor Day. Volunteers are invited to meet park staff in front of the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center in Yosemite Village at 9 a.m. on those days. Call (209) 379-1850, or click here . . . . the Queen Elizabeth 2, puchased five years ago by Dubai, will remain in the city state’s downtown Port Rashid facility to serve as a tourist magnet alongside a proposed maritime museum and an expanding cruise ship terminal complex, officials said Monday. Developers shelved plans to overhaul the ship and convert it into a luxury hotel docked alongside one of the sheikdom’s manmade palm-shaped islands . . . . Olympics-related press release of the day: The American Assn. for Nude Recreation reminds us that in Olympia, Greece, the earliest site of the Olympics, the athletes always competed in the nude. “Care to feel as the ancient athletes did? You don’t have to go to Greece, you don’t have to go to London this summer for the XXX Olympiad, you can stay close to home and visit an AANR member resort where sports competition thrives” . . . . .Tree-lined downtown Menlo Park celebrates summer in the Bay Area with Connoisseurs’ Marketplace, an arts, crafts, food and music festival July 21-22. For info, (650) 325-2818 or www.miramarevents.com . . . . More than 40 experts and enthusiasts of origami will gather at Cal State Long Beach, July 15. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, $7 for children ages 4-12. For info visit www.csulb.edu/~jgarden or call (562) 985-8420 . . . . The town of Idyllwild presents “Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines,” Aug. 25-26. For tickets and info: www.idyllwildjazz.com or (951) 500-4090 . . . . The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco’s Presidio presents “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic,” in celebration of Walt Disney’s first feature-length animated film. The exhibit runs Nov. 15 to April 14 . . . . A exhibit on Jackie Kennedy’s life on Cape Cod has opened this summer at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum. To learn more, go to www.jfkhyannismuseum.org . . . . Travel quote of the day: “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” (Walt Disney)