It’s that time of year again! Friends and families have the perfect place to get together for their summer barbeques – Central Park – as the annual Concerts in the Park series kicks off June 20 with the blues music of Legally Blue. One week later, another blues band, Tom Rigney and Flambeau take the … Read more
The annual National River Cleanup Day campaign was held on May 19th and organized locally by the Creek Connections Action Group to help clean up Santa Clara County’s waterways. Santa Clara’s Cub Scout Pack 32 and Daisy Troop 60650 helped by collecting 250 lbs of trash and 10 pounds of recyclables along both sides of … Read more
Ten Mission College students were selected to attend a Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) leadership conference. More than 150 MESA community college students from throughout the state met in Santa Cruz for the MESA Student Leadership Retreat last month. Students were chosen based on their leadership potential. The event included field experiments handling chemistry and … Read more
Kris Stadelman, executive director of NOVA in Sunnyvale, was just ‘doing her job,’ so she was surprised to learn she’d been recently selected for the “Friend of Mission College” award. Stadelman leads NOVA, a federally funded employment and training agency that provides customer-focused workforce development services. Because workers often change jobs in Silicon Valley, Stadelman says that … Read more
To promote wildlife preservation, Boy Scout Pack 43 has been building wood duck (bird) houses along Coyote Creek coming out of Lake Anderson. Fifteen scouts and their families participated in the service project. The boys assembled the 15 boxes on a Wednesday evening and put them up the following Saturday. Each box has an internal … Read more
Dish-washing certainly isn’t a cure for cancer, but it definitely played a role in Mike Levenhagen’s faster-than-normal recovery from cancer treatment at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara. “I was always very active, very fit,” says the 64-year-old Santa Clara University professor. “But getting treated for a cancerous tumor on my neck really laid me low, and … Read more
Battleship was a game predating World War I that was played on paper with pencils. No one is sure who started this game and even less care so I have decided not to reveal the name of the first two people (both men) to play this game. In 1967 Milton Bradley came up with the … Read more
The City of Santa Clara and Santa Clara WEEKLY have partnered in a series of four articles outlining what it means to serve in office, how to file to run for office, the basic elements of a political campaign and other community involvement options. The City will also show a series of video vignettes on … Read more
It appears everything is coming in threes. In the last few months we have had The Three Musketeers, The Three Stooges and, now, Men in Black Three. All available in 3-D. MIB III follows Men in Black (MIB I) in 1997 and Men in Black II (MIB II) in 2002. Although only 10 years have … Read more
**SUSPECT AT-LARGE** CASE NUMBER: 12-6054 INCIDENT: Sexual Assault Investigation DATE/TIME: Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 3:05 A.M. LOCATION: Park Avenue at Poplar Street, Santa Clara SUSPECT: African-American male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt On Thursday, May 31st at 3:05 A.M., the Santa Clara Police Department received a report of an … Read more