Wooden planks and orange and yellow flowers covered the floor at Mission College’s Vargas Gallery on Tuesday, Oct. 25. About 30 students at the community college’s university preparatory Puente program gathered to learn how to use the wood and flowers to assemble a star (representing the north, south, east, west and in the middle, the … Read more
Inside Amber Rojas’s second grade class on Oct. 19, students were fixated on their Chromebooks. Interactive web activities included Word Wall, involving sounding out letters to spell words, and Whack-A-Word, encouraging the learning of new words. Visitors witnessed firsthand the enthusiasm among the students interacting with the Footsteps2Brilliance Early Learning Literacy App. The Early Learning … Read more
On Oct. 18, second grade Brownies from Don Callejon School’s Girl Scout Troop 61413 gathered at Northside Library and made posters to decorate a donation bin for One Warm Coat. Until Saturday, Nov. 5, coats can be dropped off at bins located at Northside Library (695 Moreland Way) and the Don Callejon School office (4176 … Read more
In “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” cabbage soup was the regular meal staple for the poor and struggling Bucket family. By chance, young Charlie Bucket found one of five golden tickets that promised a visit to Willy Wonka’s secretive chocolate factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Perhaps this opportunity might lead to something bigger for … Read more
“In ancient China, we believe that we all have a role to play,” says one of the ancestors in Disney’s Mulan Jr., performed by Buchser Middle School students from Oct. 21 to 23. In the musical, Mulan, a girl from ancient China, chooses several roles to ultimately become her own person: pretending to be a … Read more
On Saturday, Oct. 22, Northside Library celebrated its second annual Diwali Dhamaka to recognize Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights at the end of October. “Dhamaka,” a Hindi word for” bang” hints at the thrills of a big celebration. Events at the library during the Diwali Dhamaka included Bollywood dancing and music, a magic show … Read more
Lunch at Mission College’s Mission Bistro on Thursday, Oct. 13 came with a variety of items, including fragrant and tender garlic thyme chicken, peanut butter cookies with gooey melted chocolate and soothing and warm ginger chicken mushroom soup. The campus restaurant was packed for lunch, which was prepared by only nine students in Quantity Foods, … Read more
The music of the three-man band Charged Particles is silky, jazzy, lively and tempts one to get up and dance as if no one’s watching. People of all ages came to see this band perform and learn about the science behind the sounds that instruments make at Northside Library’s Oct. 15 program Charged Particles: Science … Read more
On Oct. 15, about 40 bicyclists riding in the Library 2 Library Bicycle Loop Tour stopped by Santa Clara’s Central Park Library for a break and serviced their bikes at the library’s brand new Bike Fixit Station, sponsored by the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends. The station was unveiled at the front of … Read more
The web site for Santa Clara University’s de Saisset Museum defines “coriolis” as the “effects of the earth’s rotation on the movement of the air in the atmosphere and water in the oceans” whereas “torqueri” alludes to the movement of “twisting, bending, or distorting.” The sculptures in Bruce Beasley’s Coriolis and Torqueri series offer visual … Read more