Author: Diane Andrews
Community
Bye Bye Kids’ Cancer: Silicon Valley Teen’s Nonprofit Turns Ten
October 16, 2024
Teenager Aeshaan Singhal is proof that one is never too young to improve life for others. Singhal’s nonprofit Bye Bye...
Community
Green Bus Lady Embraces Nomadic Life on Four Wheels
October 14, 2024
“I’m not homeless. I’m houseless by choice,” said Valerie Nielsen, known as the bus lady around Santa Clara, where her...
Arts & EntertainmentCommunity
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” is on the Prowl in Santa Clara
October 8, 2024
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” prowls the Santa Clara Players (SCP) stage October 11 – 26, just ahead of Halloween...
Community
Northside Library Throws 10th Birthday Party
September 16, 2024
Santa Clara’s Northside Branch Library—the library that was decades in the works as it awaited political will and financing—celebrated its...
Community
Community Embraces Family of Slain Teen
August 18, 2024
“I miss my son. The pain is hard,” said Esmeralda Perez, mother of 19-year-old Emmanuel Perez Becerra, shot twice and...
Community
Apartment Complex ADU Creates New Model for Affordable Housing
August 2, 2024
Not visible from the street and snuggled in behind a modest four-plex rental unit on Helen Avenue is a 633-square-foot...
Community
KP Seeds of Hope Uplifts and Empowers Cancer Survivors and Families
July 29, 2024
It was party time at Seeds of Hope, Kaiser Permanente’s 12th annual free Cancer Survivors Day Conference and Celebration at...
CommunitySchools
Sunnyvale Rotarians Hook 1st Graders on Reading
July 27, 2024
“There was an old lady who swallowed some books!” read Sunnyvale Rotarian Mary Green-Vickrey to first graders at Sunnyvale’s Lakewood...
Community
Ben Levinson, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
July 13, 2024
Ben Levinson just raised the bar on neighborliness in Santa Clara. Dusk was falling, and he was walking around the...
Community
Beachcombers and Sunnyvale Community Services, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
June 28, 2024
The Beachcombers —friends from Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church—assembled in the Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) warehouse at 1160 Kern Ave. on April...