In a combined celebration of Earth Day and Arbor Day, 800 Santa Clarans—600 of them kindergarten through fourth grade children from Don Callejon, Scott Lane, and Hughes Elementary schools—gathered in a circle of trees in the gardens of the Triton Museum on April 29 to honor their loftiest of friends—trees—with songs and original poetry. The … Read more
At the 39th Santa Clara County Human Relations Awards Ceremony, Santa Clara’s Bill Wilson Center (BWC) for homeless, runaway, and foster youth received the 2011 Human Relations Commission Award, the only award made on behalf of the entire 14-person commission. County Board of Supervisors President Dave Cortese declared 2011 to be the Year of the … Read more
In the Santa Clara Senior Center wood shop on a Thursday morning, four retired men are clustered around a work table examining a small, round, pedestal table with a broken center post. Like a medical team conferring before operating on a broken leg, the men are evaluating the break, engaged by the challenge of making … Read more
“Look, Mom! No hands!” Getting a two-wheel bike and learning how to ride it is a childhood rite of passage growing up in middle-class America. But it’s an experience not all children’s families can afford to provide for them. That’s where Huawei Technologies and Odyssey Teams, Inc., come in. Huawei Technologies marked the opening of … Read more
“I have to get dressed because the Meals on Wheels people are coming,” Steve’s 92-year-old mother tells him on the phone. Monday through Friday a Meals on Wheels volunteer stops by her house to deliver a hot, nutritious meal that she divides between lunch and dinner. Some days, the volunteer is the only person she … Read more
Residents at Belovida Santa Clara Senior Apartments, 1820 Main Street, aired their concerns regarding the apartment building at a resident meeting March 18. The meeting was hosted by Charities Housing (www.charitieshousing.org), which manages the 28-unit, affordable rental housing development for seniors 62 and older. The attractive, three-story building, nestled in a neighborhood of modest, single … Read more
In a disposable, throw-away society, it is comforting to know that Jesus Saves. Somebody has to save. I decide to help Jesus. “The library sells used books,” I say to my neighbor when he pulls into his drive after work and sees me rummaging through boxes of books at the curbside in front of his … Read more
Santa Clara High School class of 2008 graduate Marine Lance Corporal Harry Lew was killed April 3 serving the United States in Afghanistan, bringing the tragic reality of war home to Santa Clara in a very personal way. Lew died supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was the first to be lost … Read more
It was no April Fool’s Day joke. The Santa Clara Sporting Soccer Club presented a check for $18,000 on April 1 to El Camino Hospital for breast cancer screening for low-income women. The ’98 Black Team (pictured in the club bingo hall), all boys under 12 years of age, raised $2,054 of that amount during … Read more
The Santa Clara Library Foundation & Friends threw a Polynesian-themed chocolate party and community grant event at Central Park Library, March 28, to decide how to spend the $25,000 they had raised selling used books. That’s right. Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised by selling the books you donated to the library in the last six … Read more