On the afternoon of March 20, Washington Open Elementary School’s cafeteria was a busy place to be during the school’s first Community Service Fair. At one table, children designed bookmarks to accompany book donations for Books Between Kids, a Texas-based non-profit organization. At another table, children decorated gift bags for the holiday season to accompany … Read more
“March 22 was the 50th anniversary of the first opening night when we were called the Santa Clara Junior Theatre before we were called the Roberta Jones Junior Theatre (www.rjjt.org),” said Kevin Cornelius, Recreation Supervisor for the Santa Clara City Parks and Recreation Department. “The first show was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Roberta … Read more
At Santa Clara High School’s March 12 Culinary 2 class, the drilling sound of blenders echoed through the six student kitchens. The students were busy at work preparing an Oreo pudding, this month’s Sneaky Snack, which will go to lucky subscribers among the school’s staff. Kitchen tasks included using a KitchenAid stand mixer to prepare … Read more
Amanda Ehly-Mills, eighth-grade science teacher at Buchser Middle School summarized Andy Weir’s “The Martian” as a science-fiction novel about an astronaut named Mark Watney who is stranded on Mars after being left behind by crew members believing he is dead. No crew will come to Mars within the next four years. So Watney has to … Read more
Nishita Belur, 16, is an ambassador for the Technovation Program, an initiative that fosters young female entrepreneurs with the motto “Girls for a change.” Belur, a Santa Clara resident, led an informational meeting at Central Park Library to recruit middle school and high school girls to serve on teams in this year’s program. Technovation participants … Read more
Currently on view at Santa Clara University’s de Saisset Museum is artist Linda Yamane’s “3-Rod Coiled Trinket Basket (‘Watuupen’ in Rumsen Ohlone Language from Monterey Area).” Yamane’s artist statement described the basket, or watuupen, as an item that was traditionally “used during daily life and then burned as a sacrifice when the owner died.” According … Read more
Outside Northside Library on Feb. 23, children worked on a number of projects that were part of Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Try It Truck, such as tinkering around with parts from old electronics. Inside the library, a number of events caught the attention of library goers, including a Math Bee and a series of Family … Read more
During the Feb. 21 closing reception of Vargas Gallery’s Fab Fiber exhibit at Mission College, volunteers from FabMo distributed materials for creative projects. Materials included carpet tufts for stamping, dying or painting; small sample pieces of tile for the possible construction of a table or mosaic; and textiles, wallpaper and grass cloth that can be … Read more
“When Elvis Presley went into the Army — back when he was the biggest star in the world — the news was that he was going into the Army and he wasn’t going to be a performer for awhile,” said Steve Shapiro, co-producer of Sunnyvale Community Players’ (www.sunnyvaleplayers.org) “Bye Bye Birdie,” a musical set in … Read more
Library card holders with the Santa Clara City Library might notice that to perform online library activities nowadays, such as renewing books, they have to enter a four-digit PIN number in addition to their card number. This added procedure is just one of many changes library card holders will see as the Santa Clara City … Read more