The number of Wi-Fi users for the City of Santa Clara’s free outdoor Internet access is exceeding projections, with over 6,000 active users now logging in at peak periods of the week. Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the city’s municipal electric utility, introduced the Wi-Fi service in March. “The system is getting over a thousand more … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (November 18, 1913) *$50,000 Bond Issue, Paving Estimate: Town Trustees Preparing to Call Special Election to Raise Funds for Paving of Highway in Santa Clara Limits: Post Card Vote Favors Bond Issue: Commercial League Endorses Plan to Improve Highway *Two Mad Dogs, Suffering Rabies, Shot by Town Marshall Fallon … Read more
If you’re thinking you’re pretty darn lucky to have a job, you’re right. Considering your abilities, it is definitely a miracle that anyone hired you. Your employment proves that you are one lucky cat. Or it proves that the only person in the universe who is worse at their job than you is the person … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (November 11, 1913) * Sewer Refund Money Ready * Effort Made to Discredit Trustees: Flagrant Attempt Made to Bleed Public: Cheap Politics May Lead to Trouble for Attorney M.J. Rankin * Merchant’s Fair Made Big Success by Efforts of Business Men * City Clerk Gus Cronin and Bride Back … Read more
Don’t get me wrong. I respect The New York Times. Every time they write a major story about me, whether it’s in the style section, the business section or the pet-care section, they always get the facts right, mostly. (Despite what you read, or see, I really am 6-foot, 4-inches, with mane of long blonde … Read more
On November 7, the San Francisco 49ers and Levi Strauss & Co joined together at 49ers Headquarters to provide outfits to 214 Bay Area foster youth from six local non-profit organizations. The focus of the project was in line with the 49ers Foundation’s mission of “Keeping Kids Safe, On Track and In School.” Spearheaded by … Read more
A Halloween Haunted House that began approximately 10 years ago, continued as a Santa Clara tradition again this past Halloween at 2343 Warburton Ave. This year, the line of people waiting to go through the winding hallways full of spooks, scares and fights stretched down the street. This year included a flash mob performing Michael … Read more
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (November 4, 1913) *Santa Clara’s First Merchant Fair is Success: Auspicious Opening Marks Success of Exposition: Lively Week of Entertainment and Long Lane of Carnival Concessions Add Ginger to Fair Exhibits *Santa Clara, Mission City of Schools and Churches: New Grammar School has 525 Pupils *Santa Clara is a … Read more
Stanford University’s a cappella group The Harmonics performed at the 2013 JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes on October 20 at California’s Great America. Many local youth groups turned out to support the walk. Other youth groups who participated: Menlo Atherton High School Cheerleaders, and Monta Vista High School Cheerleaders and Dance Team. Monta Vista Octagon … Read more
Please help! I’ve lost my brain. It was here 12 seconds ago, and now it’s gone. Is this the work of Martians, or could this be the dreaded Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? (ADHD to its friends.) Anyone who has seen me at work knows that I certainly don’t suffer from hyperactivity. I don’t mind that … Read more