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Ongoing – Farmers Market Every Saturday morning The Downtown Santa Clara Farmers Market continues its popular year-round engagement every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jackson Street between Benton and Homestead. Each season brings in new crops of fruits and vegetables (look for greens, winter squash, and late berries in the autumn). Check … Read more
Teens gather at the Teen Center from all over, and come by bus if they can’t drive, for events like the Cyber Cup on February 26. A huge circle of on-lookers surrounds contestants who are performing amazing dance moves, spinning on the floor and standing on their heads. The break dance competition begins. “I signed … Read more
“Why camellias?” I asked at the 70th Camellia Show and Plant Sale sponsored by the Camellia Society of Santa Clara County, February 26 and 27, at the Santa Clara Community Recreation Center. Why not roses? Why not orchids? One unexpected answer was serendipity—a chance encounter that led to a life-long love affair with camellias. “Family … Read more
An intimate jewelry and gift show was offered by PrimeXpo, LLC on February 25 through 27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. From upscale “Jacob’s” (www.jacobsestatejewelry.com), buyers and sellers of antique, estate and modern jewelry, to many exhibitors from around the world it was a global marketplace. Debbie McIntosh-Williams, the member/founder of PrimeXpo, states that … Read more
Vandals painted graffiti on picnic tables and did donuts in their car, damaging the grass, Presidents’ Day weekend at the six-acre Homeridge Park, 2985 Stevenson Street, near Homestead and Woodhams. Two other parks were also tagged with graffiti. The vandalism was reported by a park worker February 21, and the next day, Evan Rosa, a … Read more
Stitches West, America’s largest knitting consumer show, attracted over 14,000 fiber enthusiasts to the Santa Clara Convention Center on February 17-20 for the seventh year. “It is the place to be” for fiber friends with over 230 booths featuring mountains of stunningly colorful yarns, classes on site, workshops, patterns, buttons, a runway fashion show, supplies … Read more
Like a magnet, Santa Clara’s 52-acre Central Park draws joggers, dog walkers, families with kids, teens hanging out, sweethearts smooching on benches, and assorted feathered friends that make the walkway that circles the park’s centerpiece lake so messy. “We work pretty hard to keep the walkways as clean as possible, but we’re at the mercy … Read more
The upcoming Santa Clara County Camellia show at the Santa Clara Community Recreation Center (CRC) is the Camellia Society’s 70th. But could it be only the 69th? While officially 2011 is billed as the event’s 70th anniversary, a report in the March 15, 1947 San Jose Evening News implies otherwise: “Some 150 varieties of camellias … Read more
Lively laughter filled the packed Cedar Room at Santa Clara’s Central Park Library on Feb. 15. The audience was not responding to the one-liners of a stand-up comedian, but to mystery writer Laurie R. King’s enlightening musings about her life as a writer and the ideas behind her work. “The God of the Hive,” King’s … Read more
It was a hard-won, proud moment for the young men in the Santa Clara County Council of the Boy Scouts of America who in 2010 had earned the top rank of Eagle Scout. Of the 258 ethnically diverse young men in Santa Clara County to reach this personal goal, 54 were present, along with families, … Read more