In honor of Levi’s Stadium’s first Super Bowl, the Central Park Library’s first floor information booth has a goalpost inviting readers to score a touchdown in Santa Clara City Library’s debut winter reading program. Participants receive a raffle ticket and a paper football. The footballs will be posted near the goal post. The intention is … Read more
The Miss Silicon Valley 2016 scholarship competition took place on Jan. 9 at the Mission City Center for Performing Arts, shortly after the Miss Santa Clara and Miss Santa Clara’s Outstanding Teen competition ended. Sharing the stage with other Silicon Valley women, some contestants from the Miss Santa Clara competition bravely took the stage in … Read more
Before revealing the winners of the Jan. 9 Miss Santa Clara and Miss Santa Clara’s Outstanding Teen scholarship competition, master of ceremonies Tony Moises jokingly addressed the recent Miss Universe gaffe by reassuring the afternoon audience at the Mission City Center for Performing Arts that he carefully reads the names of winners. With confidence, Moises … Read more
A glowing Nativity scene, an interactive Santa Claus, a giant nutcracker wielding a sword and a bear on a big rocking horse are among the decorative features of Don Bunce’s Santa Clara home at 1451 Lincoln Street. The decorations at the Bunce home will stay up until the New Year weekend. Although Bunce and his … Read more
Dec. 17, Christmas came early at JW House, when about 25 students from Sutter Elementary School arrived bearing wrapped gifts, food to stock the pantry, toys for visiting children and kitchenware. April Bignell, family services director of the JW House, was visibly moved when the students placed their gifts in front of the JW House’s … Read more
The fragrance of sugar filled one of the classrooms at the Community Recreation Center on Dec. 16 as young children and their parents constructed edible “gingerbread” houses from supermarket sweets during the first of two classes. Frosted wheat cereal functioned as roof tiles, red licorice lined the front doorw and small marshmallows hung as lights. … Read more
The click-clack sounds of fingers tapping on the keys of laptops filled Amber Wacht’s fifth-grade classroom at Laurelwood Elementary School on the morning of Dec. 8. In recognition of Computer Science Education Week, students were building their computer programming chops during a worldwide event called the Hour of Code. The lesson kicked off with the … Read more
“The inspiration is life energy and transformation,” says artist Beth Shields. “Even though they’re all epiphanies, which is a word that means something that comes to you from nowhere, each piece is about transformation.” For Shields, bursts of epiphany can be contained within a trio of small square paintings depicting splashes of bright and contrasting … Read more
The turban on the Giants fan was a deep cherry red; on the school dance attendee, it was a cool topaz blue; on the young couple, they were matching daffodil yellow. Featuring models strutting down the red carpet runway to Punjabi and London fashion show music, the Sikh turban fashion show was one of the … Read more
Encountering crowds of star struck parents and children, Frozen’s Elsa and Anna, Tangled’s Rapunzel, and Santa Claus had to be personally escorted back to their cars after making appearances at Northside Library’s December to Remember last Saturday. In the mid-afternoon, superstar puppeteer Randal J. Metz of The Puppet Company and Children’s Fairyland presented “The Nutcracker.” … Read more