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Although some things have changed in three decades, one that hasn’t is the critical need for professional nursing skills. Consider this: By 2030, nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population will be over 60, 19 percent will be over 65, and over 2 percent will be over 85.* Nurses will increasingly be relied on handle … Read more
Hundreds of people walked through the doors of Humane Society Silicon Valley February 12 looking for a special Valentine. The shelter was hosting its second annual Valentines Adopt-a-Thon and, to sweeten the deal, it was one of HSSV’s “Name Your Own Adoption Fee” events. The Adopt-a-Thon was held at both the main HSSV Animal Community … Read more
Surrounded by friends and family, Winnie Hook celebrated her 105th birthday at her home on February 14. Born in 1906, just months before the “Big San Francisco Earthquake,” she and her husband moved to Santa Clara in 1927. Hook fondly recalls that Santa Clara was a “small, friendly and pleasant town with five stores who … Read more
Vata. Pitta. Kapha. Each dosha defines who we are as people and everyone falls into one or more of these natures. At Ayoma Life Spa inside Santana Row’s Hotel Valencia, they strive to help their clients balance their dosha through standard spa treatments and Ayurvedic principles. “Ayurveda is a very natural, very simple healing system,” … Read more
It turns out that almost everybody knows of somebody with dementia, the life-altering loss of cognitive ability commonly associated with, but not exclusive to, Alzheimer’s Disease. For Cheryl Dorman of Santa Clara, that somebody is her 85-year-old mother. Dorman was one of 96 caregivers who took a 35-minute dementia reality tour January 27, walking in … Read more
It’s safe to say that not many documentary filmmakers got their start filming in Santa Clara. But Santa Clara resident Joe Goschy did just that. And, in the process, won non-profit CreaTV’s Citizen Journalist award for his film of the 2010 California Firefighter’s Olympics Road Cycling competition. A native of Wisconsin, Goschy got his filmmaking … Read more
Long-time Santa Clara community activist Josephine Rowen died peacefully in her sleep on February 5, 2011 following a long illness. She was 85. Those wishing to pay their respects are invited to do so between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at the Drawing Chapel of Oak Hill Funeral Home, … Read more
When Bo Caldwell’s mother suggested that she write a novel based on her grandparents’ experiences as missionaries in China, Caldwell initially brushed off the topic. “I thought missionaries’ lives would be too dull and simplistic for fiction. Then I read a lot of missionary biographies and found their lives anything but dull and simplistic,” Caldwell … Read more
Though the weather had changed to cool and overcast outdoors, the atmosphere inside the Senior Center dining room was warm and light for the inaugural afternoon of the annual Santa Clara Sister Cities Association Tea. The buzz of happy conversation, the sight of china teapots and a center tray of inviting finger food on each … Read more
It’s not that Donnelle McGee’s poetry is about love per se. Rather, the Mission College writer, counselor (since 1998), and English instructor’s poems are always written from a mindset of love, and the act of writing heals his wounds. Slave Not There had to be one ship that bucked out of the water and reversed … Read more