Maddy Reader, an alum of Roberta Jones Junior Theatre (RJJT), is making her directorial debut with “Frozen Jr.,” RJJT’s summer musical. During the July 13 dress rehearsal, Reader oversaw a cast of over 50 vibrant kids, from ages 8 to 15, telling a story about sisterly love on stage. In the musical, Elsa (Maleya Dano), … Read more
Back in May, Remi Fusilero, 13, won two national gymnastics titles for the 2022 USA Gymnastics Level 9 Western National Championships All-Around and Balance Beam Events at a competition held in Salt Lake City, Utah. “In early May, at the Western National Championships for USA Gymnastics Level 9, I represented Region 1, which brings together … Read more
On February 8 of this year, Mayan Kitchen opened in Sunnyvale. Inside the restaurant, located at 139 S. Murphy Ave. (cross street: W. Evelyn Ave.), the turquoise chairs, mustard table cloths and images of spices on the wall offer a welcoming atmosphere. Visual Designer Deborah Armstrong plotted the design of the space. A popular order … Read more
According to parent Jeannette Weedermann, Santa Clara High School has not hosted Grad Night on campus for over 20 years before last year. This year, Weedermann and fellow school parent, Nora Reiblein, served as Grad Night co-chairs for Santa Clara High School’s June 3 Grad Night held on the high school campus. According to Weedermann, … Read more
Santa Clara resident Aarna Agrawal is receiving a gold medal in May through the President’s Volunteer Service Award program for her work volunteering 108 hours in 2021 by doing street cleaning, writing letters to elders and working on a food drive and a sock donation drive through VT Seva. VT Seva is an organization that … Read more
Parked in front of Northside Library on April 30 was a shiny DeLorean time machine, a vehicle with gull-wing doors. On this evening, the library was caught in multiple time warps as attendees came dressed in fashions representing 1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015, the years featured in the “Back to the Future” movies, the theme … Read more
Young people who want to enrich their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills, but are unable to participate in costly programs, can check out A Step Ahead, a youth-run nonprofit organization offering free workshops in STEM subjects, such as coding, robotics and web development. The founders of A Step Ahead are students who live … Read more
Nine islands of Portugal are featured on the walls of Portuguese Tasty Desserts at 1085 El Camino Real (cross street: Main Street) in Santa Clara. The items here, made from family recipes, include delicious custard tarts (queijadas de nata) and coconut tarts (queijadas de coconut), soft and fluffy sweet breads and dinner rolls, melt-in-your-mouth meringue … Read more
On selected dates from March 18-27, the Roberta Jones Junior Theatre (RJJT) is running the musical “Seussical” with a live orchestra. Based on a number of Dr. Seuss’s children’s books, “Seussical” tells the story of Horton (Jack Lingscheit), an elephant who guards an egg and connects with a planet, inhabited by Whos, existing inside a … Read more
Imagine lying on a sled, face up, and venturing down a track in the form of a long and smooth icy slide designed like a roller coaster. This is what the experience of luging entails, where a typical run on a track, with multiple curves that require turning, can take less than a minute. Santa … Read more