On Monday, Sept. 12, students at Washington Open Elementary School came to school dressed in red, white and blue. It was the day after Sept. 11 and 15 years after America was attacked by al-Qaeda, a terrorist group. Early in the morning, teachers brought their students outside to the school’s flag pole. Fifth grade student … Read more
On Wednesday, Aug. 24, the newly opened Central Park Elementary School received the donation of a used piano from Play It Again Santa Clara, as part of an ongoing used instrument drive. The piano, a shiny black Baldwin, will now add musical enrichment to students’ education at the school. “The music teacher and principal at … Read more
Veronica Cashman has coached players from ages 4 to 18 at the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League (SCYSL) for about eight years. Her four year-old son, a member of a league’s recreation team, Little Leos, just played his first game. Her nine year-old daughter was also part of the recreation program and has since transitioned … Read more
Most people don’t think about what happens to wastewater flushed down a toilet. To satisfy inquiring minds who do, Santa Clara wastewater ends up in the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, at 700 Los Esteros Rd. in San Jose. The plant, owned by the City of San Jose and the City of Santa Clara, … Read more
At Ruth Lemmon’s Santa Clara home on the evening of Sept. 1, Irish high school students and members of the Santa Clara Sister Cities Youth Commission dined on Tex-Mex fare. As Lemmon and her helpers moved around in the kitchen, the teens helped themselves to chicken and beef fajitas, rice, beans and tortilla chips with … Read more
As a child, Santa Clara resident Jennifer Lee imagined being a scientist with a white lab coat and goggles. By the time she finished high school, Lee wanted to be a doctor. At Stanford University, she doubled majored in Biology and Psychology. During her senior year, she had an epiphany. Lee realized that all the … Read more
Inside Santa Clara Convention Center’s ballroom at the seventh annual Bricks by the Bay, a Lego fan convention, were about a thousand exhibits of handmade wonders made from everyday Lego bricks. Against a wall was Erik Mattson’s majestic eight-and-a-half-feet construction of Oregon’s Multnomah Falls, made with 50,000 to 100,000 Lego bricks. Set on a table … Read more
Soccer players at the 2016 Deaf World Cup weren’t allowed to wear hearing aids during games to prevent players from having unfair advantages over others. From June 19 to July 2 in Salerno, Italy, local women Danielle Wheeler, 17, and Meghan Maiwald, 26, represented deaf American women soccer players and played at the 2016 Deaf … Read more
Ever since Santa Clara native Jessa Carmack was crowned Miss California 2016 back in July, she has been busy preparing for Miss America. On Sept. 11, Carmack will compete for Miss America, to be shown live on ABC. Carmack was back in Santa Clara on Aug. 13 for the Miss America 2017 Send-Off Celebration held … Read more
On August 6, Northside Library transformed into Hogwarts, the wizarding school in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, for its second anniversary party, a Harry Potter Day. Children washed down cake with butter beer, a sweet carbonated drink made with cream soda, heavy cream, caramel and butterscotch syrups. Carrying on another tradition in the book series, … Read more