Thanks to good Samaritan Matthew Bartlett, Pomeroy Elementary School in Santa Clara has become a popular hangout for local birds that visit the eight birdhouses he custom-made for the campus. Audrey Hinton, Garden Coordinator/Teacher at Pomeroy Elementary School, is always on the lookout for ways to enhance the ongoing greening of the campus, where asphalt … Read more
Wearing powder blue sweatshirts and silly matching blue ears atop their heads and shiny, royal blue capes, the AstroBruins, a community-based robotics team working out of a family garage in Sunnyvale, looked more like they were ready for Halloween than the 2025 FTC World Championship for robotics in Houston, Texas, April 16-19. Kooky team wear … Read more
The American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Santa Clara staged its annual fund and awareness raiser in a new venue—downtown Santa Clara’s Franklin Square Shopping Mall on May 10 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. “We wanted to come out into a more public space than Buchser Middle School’s Townsend Field,” explained event leadership … Read more
Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) supporters put their money where their mouth is to feed food- and housing-insecure families in Sunnyvale and the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose at the nonprofit’s annual fundraiser “Our Kids, Our Community” on May 15. More than $362,420 was raised, exceeding the goal of $350,000. Generosity begat generosity as more than … Read more
Family, friends, foodies and favorite politicians all turned out to wish brothers Eddie Truong and Edwin Truong success at the grand opening of their first restaurant—Teriyaki Madness, 134 E. El Camino Real, on May 10. The two brothers, American-born sons of Vietnamese immigrant parents and long-time Bay Area residents, took the big leap (and risk) … Read more
Five hundred and seventeen kids whose families are clients of Sunnyvale Community Services will get a bonus at the annual Ready-To-Learn Backpack Distribution from August 7-12—STEM kits assembled by a multi-generational team of volunteers with the nonprofit Stemmable, Inc., on April 26, Global Youth Service Day. Each STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) kit holds … Read more
Life-long Santa Claran Susie Hartline got tired of paying $460 a month to rent a storage unit to store all the stuff she no longer wants or needs. So, she signed up for Santa Clara’s city-wide garage sale on April 19 and emptied her storage unit. It was also an opportunity for her mom, Geri … Read more
Santa Clara artist and resident Margaret Luo not only left her heart in San Francisco. She sold it at auction in February to the highest bidder at a gala that raised $1.4 million to benefit Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. “Harmony”— Luo’s table-top heart sculpture—was one of 22 fiberglass hearts of three … Read more
Miss California 2024 Kimberly Vernon, a Santa Clara native, experienced firsthand the evolving truth about competing in the Miss America Pageant. “The Miss America Pageant of the 21st century looks a lot different than it did 100 years ago,” said Vernon, who competed for the 2025 title in January in Orlando, FL. “Yet people still … Read more
Proving its versatility, the Santa Clara Players (SCP) switches from comedy to drama for the close of its 2024 – 2025 season, staging two provocative one-act dramas by British playwrights. The world premiere (yes, in Santa Clara!) of “The Seventh Suitcase” by Phil Mansell and “Heaven’s Paradise” by Derek Webb run for eight performances, May … Read more