For nearly 15 years, Santa Clara’s Loopkicks Tricking has been at the forefront of growing the Bay Area tricking community, teaching its students a sport which, according to instructor Mark Rusmantijo, “combines martial arts, flipping and breakdancing into one thing.” Beginning as a martial arts demonstration team in 1999, Loopkicks has progressed to holding classes … Read more
In June, Mission Branch Library began its Lunch at the Library summer initiative, offering free lunches every weekday at noon to children under the age of 18, requiring no sign-ups, applications, income verification or identification. The program, which will continue until Aug. 2, aims to provide supplementary food to local residents throughout the summer months. … Read more
Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD) is planning the launch of its Step Up and Stop Harassment Task Force — a group of adults and students working together to fight the issue of sexual misconduct in the school community. According to its application, “The task force will identify areas of improvement in harassment reporting and … Read more
It’s the last few days before summer break ends and both parents and students alike are scrambling with their back-to-school shopping. Everybody’s been there; going to Target and dumping a pile of notebooks into your shopping cart, or ordering a calculator on Amazon and hoping that it’ll arrive on time. Jamie Saturno is an incoming … Read more