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Home kitchen operations presentation set for Saratoga Library

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Home kitchen presentationAnyone thinking of creating a small business or side hustle selling home-cooked food can join local sustainable food advocate Peter Ruddock for a May 9 presentation on the Santa Clara County Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO) ordinance at the Saratoga Library.The MEHKO program will authorize community members to prepare, cook and sell food from their private home kitchen.The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session. The event runs 7-8:30 p.m. at the library, 13650 Saratoga Ave. Register at https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/events/642de50f1c16ec3600d279cd.City Fix It FormsSaratoga residents can used the city’s online Fix It Form to report non-emergency issues, such as potholes or broken street lights, to the city for repair. Visit www.saratoga.ca.us/fixit to submit a form.Montalvo theater campMontalvo Arts Center is adding a one-week camp session of its previously sold-out Musical Theatre: Broadway Tunes camp for the week of June 20–26.I...

Milpitas honors commissioners who serve city

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Milpitas Mayor Carmen Montano, Vice Mayor Evelyn Chua and Councilmember Garry Barbadillo on April 27 honored the 116 commissioners who served the city in 2022.At a Commissioners’ Recognition Celebration at the Milpitas Community Center, Montano expressed her appreciation for the commissioners’ dedication to residents and their advisory role to council. Members of each commission were received a certificate of appreciation for their service, including:Arts Commissioners Robin Hays, Joyita Ghose, John Agg, Giuliana Brahim, Jamie Hekkelman, Cheryl Oldham, Sandeep Umarani, Christine Lee, Mona Sampath Khan and Helen Qui;Community Advisory Commissioners Vishal Gandhi, Jinky Peralta, Thelma Batilo, Oscar Leon, Jose Rosario, Van Lan Truong, Monica Rodriguez, Kavita Sreedhar and Jose Geronimo;Economic Development and Trade Commissioners Casey McNeil, Chris Norwood, Lynne Rice, Parkash Daryani, Cheri Romero, Paul Medawar, Conrad Schapira, Michael L. Nguyen and Stephen Huang;Energy and Environ...

Nominations open for 2023 Sunnyvale Community Awards

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Community Award nominationsNominations are open through June 1 for Sunnyvale’s 2023 Community Awards, honoring those who have made an impact on the Sunnyvale community.Award categories are Distinguished Resident of the Year, Educator of the Year, High School Student of the Year, Business/Businessperson of the Year, Contribution to the Arts, Environmental Achievement and Volunteer of the Year.A minimum of three nominations per category will be required. If fewer than three nominations are received, the category will not be awarded. Residents can submit multiple nominations, using a separate form for each one.Make a Community Award nomination at https://www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/your-government/about/about-sunnyvale/community-awards.For more information, contact Jessica Truong at 408-730-7350 or [email protected] the filmmakerOscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman will be at the Sunnyvale Community Theatre May 5 to discuss her documentary “Moment by Moment: ...

Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose seeks artists in residence

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Artist residency applicationsChildren’s Discovery Museum of San Jose is accepting applications for the second year of its artist-in-residence program through May 22. Artists in the 12-week program will help young visitors draw, paint, sculpt and create in the museum’s LeRoy Neiman Art Studio. The fall residency begins Oct. 7; three more residencies are available in the winter, spring and summer. Each artist will receive a $1,500 monthly stipend.Artists will be tasked with creating and facilitating monthly hands-on art programs for children of all ages on the weekends. The artists will have the opportunity to display their own artwork and share their style and creative process with Bay Area families. Each artist will receive a portfolio of their museum work in photos and video to take with them after their residency is complete.For details and to apply, visit https://www.cdm.org/visit/exhibits/art-studio/artist-in-residence.Neighborhood NotesALMADEN/CAMBRIAN>>Art Vistas, a nonp...

Cupertino Post Office renamed in honor of fallen local vet

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Post office dedicationThe Cupertino Post Office is set to be dedicated May 5 to Cupertino native and Navy SEAL petty officer second class Matthew Axelson. In 2005 Axelson, 29, was deployed to Afghanistan. That summer his SEAL Team 10 was assigned to capture or kill a high-ranking Taliban leader in the Hindu Kush mountains, a mission known as “Operation Red Wings” and later memorialized in the book and film, “Lone Survivor.”During the mission, Axelson was shot in the chest and head but continued to fight alongside his team until a rocket-propelled grenade struck and he died of his wounds. Axelson was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.The dedication is set for noon at the Cupertino Post Office, 21701 Stevens Creek Blvd.Community budget surveyIn anticipation of a reduction in service levels due to financial hardship, the City of Cupertino is asking residents, business owners and community members about their budget priorities for fiscal year 2023-2024 and beyo...

Judy Collins hits the stage at Campbell’s Heritage Theatre

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Singer/songwriter Judy Collins will highlight her 55th release, “Spellbound,” May 10 at Campbell’s Heritage Theatre.For the first time in her six-decade career, Collins wrote all 13 songs on the album, which came out in February 2022.“They say after the plague came the Renaissance,” Collins says with a good-natured laugh, referencing the pandemic. “The truth is, I didn’t do an album like this sooner because I had other projects on my mind. This album was necessary for me to keep creative; it was the next piece of the puzzle.“Now felt like the perfect time to make this record because after all that’s happened in the world, we need something beautiful and inspirational to lift us up.”Collins took up songwriting since 1966 after Leonard Cohen asked her why she hadn’t yet done so. Her response was to sit down at her Steinway that same day and write, “Since You’ve Asked.”“Spellbound” is dedicated to folk legends Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. The track “So Alive” documents the 1960s folk...

‘Big Red Chair’ reconnects Willow Glen artist with loved ones

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Willow Glen artist and retired San Jose City College art professor Eve Page Mathias got her inspiration for a series of portraits from an overstuffed red chair in her living room that her dog Luna enjoyed sitting on while she looked out the window.When Luna passed away and the chair got old, Mathias moved it into her art studio as a reminder of friends she cherished.The red chair eventually became a symbol, she says, of where she was during the pandemic. COVID gave her time to reflect on herself and to look forward to seeing absent friends and colleagues.“Now, when I ask someone to sit in the red chair,” says Mathias, “it connects the dots between those missing moments when I was separated from my friends and loved ones.”The resulting 19 portraits will be exhibited as “The Big Red Chair Project” May 6-Aug. 13 at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. Each acrylic painting is done in bold colors on a 5-foot-by-4-foot canvas.“What (Mathias) offers are vibrant, painterly portraits of...

Los Gatos launches online form for litter, downed trees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

Art VistasLos Gatos’ rising young artists will be in the spotlight on Friday, May 19. As part of the nonprofit Art Vistas’ series of showcases, Alta Vista Elementary students will have their artwork from this year on display. Art Vistas partnered with the Union School District to provide art instruction to students from kindergarten through eighth grade. For more information and showtimes—and to view the 2021 virtual art gallery—visit https://www.artvistas.org/art-show-info.html.Parks and public works concernsNotice something awry on your walk through town or a local park? A new online form allows residents to submit their concerns and observations about parks or public works—things like potholes, litter or blighted trees. To log a concern, residents must log in  to www.LosGatosCA.gov/PPW.Library surveyWhether you’ve never set foot in the Los Gatos Public Library or you spend every weekend lost in the stacks, the town wants your feedback. The library has launched a survey that allow...

Four people stabbed, one in critical condition after fight in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – Three people are left with non-life-threatening injuries and one person is left with life-threatening injuries following a fight that broke out early Sunday morning, according to the San Jose Police Department. CHP officer injured in motorcycle crash with fellow officer in SF Just after 2:30 a.m., officers responded to the scene of stabbing in the area of South Almaden Drive and Post Street. A man was transported to the hospital in critical condition, SJPD said.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }A fight had occurred earlier which led to three additional victims transporting themselves to local hospitals for non-life-threatening stab wounds. This incident is currently under investigation. 

Adam Yates wins Tour de Romandie; Gaviria gets stage victory

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — Adam Yates retained his yellow jersey to complete victory Sunday in the six-day Tour de Romandie for his biggest win in more than two years. Yates’ solo ride in the mountains Saturday to win the queen stage had created a 19-second lead over Matteo Jorgenson of the United States. The English rider maintained that gap by finishing safely in the pack of a sprint that decided the final stage.The stage win Sunday went to Fernando Gaviria who raced several bike lengths clear of the chasing pack on the lakeside finish in Geneva. “We controlled the race perfectly today,” said Yates, who races for the same UAE team as two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar. “It’s been a perfect week for us, we had two stage wins.”The Romandie race through the French-speaking region of Switzerland is a traditional warmup for the Tour de France though it was skipped this year by the expected main contenders in July. The 30-year-old Yates, who has a best Tour de France result of fourth place...