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Mary Tillman<br />
to speak at<br />
Women in<br />
Leadership<br />
By Carol Rosen<br />
Editor<br />
ary Tillman will be<br />
the guest speaker at Mthe<br />
San Jose/Silicon<br />
Valley Chamber of Commerce’s<br />
sixth annual Women<br />
in Leadership evening Wednesday,<br />
May 21 at the San Jose<br />
Marriott.<br />
The <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley school<br />
teacher and now author follows<br />
a distinguished lineup of<br />
local women speakers who<br />
have made a difference for<br />
other women including Olym-<br />
Mary Tillman’s newly published<br />
book, “Boots on the Ground by<br />
Dusk, My Tribute to Pat Tillman”<br />
was released early this month.<br />
pic ice skating gold medal<br />
winner Peggy Fleming, who is<br />
also a breast cancer survivor,<br />
and Santa Clara County<br />
District Attorney, and also an<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> resident, Delores<br />
Carr, who is the county’s first<br />
woman DA and only the second<br />
woman tin California to<br />
hold that office.<br />
“We chose Mary Tillman to<br />
speak because she was thrust<br />
into the spotlight and rose to<br />
the occasion,” said Pat Dando,<br />
Chamber president and CEO.<br />
Tillman’s newly published<br />
book, “Boots on the Ground by<br />
Dusk, My Tribute to Pat<br />
Tillman” was released early<br />
this month.<br />
Tillman spoke to the <strong>Time</strong>s<br />
last week about her current<br />
See TILLMAN, page 23<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
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Find us online at www.almadentimes.com May 16 – May 22, 2008 � Volume 22, Number 21<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley's Weekly Community Newspaper - Since 1986<br />
Saturday, May 10 was the official opening day for the Leland Sports Complex. Who needs a ribbon and large scissors when you can perform a grand kick off. All those attending grabbed balls and<br />
officially “kicked off” the opening. Photo courtesy of Nancy Pyle’s office. Below: Spike (posing with District 10 Councilmember Nancy Pyle), the official mascot for Play Flag Football, which currently<br />
offers recreation leagues for children but plans to develop adult coed teams, nods to a question asked by local reporters. Like most mascots Spike was mute, but he apparently likes to play<br />
football and attends Leland High School. Photo by Carol Rosen<br />
City, SJUSD kick off<br />
Leland Sports Complex<br />
By Carol Rosen<br />
L<br />
Editor<br />
ast Saturday, a group of about 50 adults and<br />
children literally helped kick off the new<br />
sports complex at Leland High School.<br />
After about 30 minutes of speeches from San<br />
Jose Unified School District officials like<br />
Superintendent Don Iglesias and Board Trustee<br />
and Vice President Leslie Reynolds, along with<br />
District 10 Councilmember Nancy Pyle, everyone<br />
in the group grabbed balls and kicked them down<br />
field.<br />
The celebration marked the grand opening of<br />
two new artificial turf fields and a renovated stadium<br />
for <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley use, with nearby bathrooms<br />
and parking available. It also marked the<br />
first joint effort between the city and the school district<br />
to fund the new athletic fields.<br />
AVAC’s Zumba<br />
class benefits<br />
Turning Wheel<br />
for Kids<br />
See page 9<br />
<strong>Kick</strong> <strong>Off</strong> <strong>Time</strong><br />
Leland High<br />
Car Show<br />
brings out<br />
the classics<br />
See page 10<br />
The joint effort between the city and SJUSD<br />
funded and built the $5.8-million dollar complex<br />
with the district offering about $3.4 million from<br />
Measure F funds passed in 2002 and the city providing<br />
the remainder. The two also are working out<br />
maintenance arrangements, which likely will be<br />
split evenly between the two entities.<br />
“This is the original intention of school property,”<br />
said Cliff Mitchell, an assistant principal at the<br />
high school. “Schools are intended for community<br />
use, as well as for education.”<br />
The need for <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley fields have been<br />
discussed for years, dating back to former<br />
Councilmember Pat Dando’s two terms. More<br />
recently, Pyle’s office and community members<br />
surveyed more than 40 properties, some weren’t big<br />
enough, others had too many neighbors or too<br />
much traffic or just weren’t good enough.<br />
The need is palpable. <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Youth<br />
Soccer continues to grow. Currently there are 1,000<br />
kids playing spring soccer and that figure will more<br />
than double when fall leagues take over, so the<br />
See SPORTS COMPLEX, page 6<br />
Ghostbusters<br />
win national<br />
basketball<br />
championship<br />
See page 22
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<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 5
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Sports Complex<br />
Continued from page 1<br />
need for fields continues to grow. Up to<br />
now, youth soccer teams have played at TJ<br />
Martin Park, with various restrictions, or at<br />
fields in neighboring areas due to the lack<br />
of fields in <strong>Almaden</strong>.<br />
“Schools have land that wasn’t being<br />
used and it turned out to be a really ideal<br />
situation,” said Pyle. “This joint-use partnership<br />
with the San Jose Unified School<br />
District is the first of its type in the city and<br />
I know it won’t be the last. I am 100 percent<br />
committed to pursuing more collaborations,<br />
which allow us to keep our young people<br />
playing outside on these fields,” she said.<br />
“It’s all about the kids,” said Iglesias. “<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Valley is a good place to grow. We have created a<br />
template with the city combining trust, collaboration<br />
and commitment to resources. We’re making<br />
sure the kids have all the help they need, and<br />
working together the district and the city offer<br />
double the horsepower.”<br />
<strong>Time</strong>s Local News<br />
After the kickoff, there were clinics for the kids. Above, 5-year-old Isaiah Ruiz plays catch with San Jose<br />
Giants pitcher Craig Whitaker and catcher Tyler LaTorre . Photo by Carol Rosen<br />
He added that the district has “26 miles of<br />
schools” and he hopes together the city and<br />
district can provide more such facilities.<br />
The district will continue to use the fields<br />
during school hours, with PRNS taking over<br />
after school, during vacations and on weekends.<br />
Besides Pyle and the district officials, a<br />
number of staff members from Parks,<br />
Recreation and Neighborhood Services were<br />
on hand for the kickoff. They were joined by<br />
a large number of youth soccer players, parents,<br />
neighbors and players from the San<br />
Jose Earthquakes, San Jose SaberCats, San<br />
Jose Giants, Play Flag Football and others<br />
holding clinics or just working out with the<br />
kids.<br />
“We’re here for the community, we’re here<br />
for the kids,” said an Earthquakes player<br />
who asked not to be named. “This is a<br />
tremendous facility and its great to see collaboration<br />
between the school district and<br />
the city and what people can accomplish<br />
when they work together,” he said.<br />
Large turnout for campaign kickoff<br />
More than 200 people crowded the patio at the Sonoma Chicken Coop on<br />
Saturday, May 10 for the kick off to Councilmember Nancy Pyle’s campaign<br />
for a second term. Pyle is running for a second term “to finish the<br />
job,” she told the <strong>Time</strong>s. She noted she sees a number of projects, both large and<br />
small, that need to be taken care of, including street problems, traffic calming,<br />
more fields, and probably most important, “bringing the city to the point where its<br />
income is bigger than its outgo.”
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<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 7<br />
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Page 8 � May 16–May 22, 2008 � <strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly<br />
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<strong>Time</strong>s Local News<br />
Fifty-three enthusiastic participants signed up for <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club’s Turning Wheel for Kids Zumba fundraiser on<br />
Saturday. Photos by Jeanne C. Carbone<br />
AVAC’s Zumba<br />
class benefits<br />
Turning Wheel<br />
for Kids<br />
By Jeanne C. Carbone<br />
A<br />
Staff Writer<br />
lmaden Valley Athletic<br />
Club members joined a pul-<br />
sating Zumba class this<br />
past Saturday. Not only were the<br />
participants becoming more physically<br />
fit, they were benefiting<br />
Turning Wheels for Kids.<br />
“This is amazing,” said TWK<br />
founder Susan Runsvold, who participated<br />
in the Zumba class.<br />
“Each one of you has bought a bike<br />
for a child. I want to thank you<br />
and AVAC for hosting spinning<br />
classes and now the Zumba class<br />
two years in a row.”<br />
Runsvold is the brainchild<br />
behind TWK, a nonprofit organization<br />
that encourages physical fitness<br />
by providing underprivileged<br />
youth throughout Santa Clara<br />
County bicycles and helmets.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club<br />
[AVAC] hosted a spinning class<br />
last year raising enough donations<br />
for 2,200 bikes that were distributed<br />
during the 2007 holiday season.<br />
“AVAC chose to work with TWK<br />
again this year because of the simple<br />
message: Your donation buys a<br />
bike for a child, a child who would<br />
not have a bike any other way,”<br />
said Becky Smothermon AVAC<br />
activities director and Benefit<br />
Class chair. “As a club dedicated to<br />
helping its members with their fitness<br />
goals it is only fitting that we<br />
give back to the community by<br />
supporting an organization that<br />
values fitness.<br />
“Childhood obesity is the fastest<br />
growing disease in America today.<br />
By providing children with bikes<br />
Shimmy anyone? <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club features the exotic Zumba class for their<br />
first fundraiser of the year for Turning Wheels for Kids.<br />
A winning patnership: AVAC Zumba instructor Lauren Kaufman, TWK founder Sue<br />
Runsvold, AVAC activies director Becky Smothermon and AVAC trainer and instructor<br />
Stacy Farmer with a bicycle that will be purchased from donations with last Saturday’s<br />
Super Zumba class and this week’s spinning classes.<br />
we are giving them the means to<br />
stay active, hopefully, keeping<br />
them from becoming part of the<br />
obesity statistic,” added<br />
Somthermon.<br />
AVAC added Zumba (Spanish<br />
slang for “to move fast and have<br />
fun”), a one-hour class incorporating<br />
traditional cumbia, salsa,<br />
samba and meringue dance 11<br />
months ago. The class is so popular;<br />
a few participants would like<br />
to be certified Zumba trainers. For<br />
the TWK class, it became Super<br />
Zumba, a one-and-a-half hour fitness<br />
extravaganza led by AVAC<br />
trainers Stacy Farmer and daughter<br />
Lauren Kaufman.<br />
“I’ve attended AVAC for 11 years<br />
and when I heard about the<br />
Zumba class last year, I signed<br />
up,” said <strong>Almaden</strong> resident Helene<br />
Eichler. “I like to dance. This is a<br />
very good workout and it’s fun.<br />
And it’s great that the class benefits<br />
TWK.”<br />
AVAC will host two spinning<br />
classes, one at 7:15 a.m. and<br />
another at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday,<br />
May 17 to benefit TWK for a $50<br />
donation per person. A brunch<br />
will be served after each session.<br />
For more information, stop by<br />
AVAC’s front desk at 5400 Camden<br />
Ave., call (408) 445-4919 or visit<br />
www.avac.us. Non members are<br />
welcome.<br />
For more information on TWK,<br />
visit www.turningwheelsforkids.<br />
com.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 9<br />
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Cooling centers to<br />
open for heat wave<br />
With temperatures late this week and weekend<br />
expected to heat up to the 100s, the city of San Jose<br />
is opening specific community centers for extended<br />
hours to provide relief. High temperatures can be<br />
dangerous for the very young and elderly in the community.<br />
If you need a place to cool down, the following<br />
centers will be open to the public.<br />
All cooling centers will be open until 9 p.m.<br />
Wednesday through Friday May 14-16.<br />
For more information see the city of San Jose Web<br />
site at chttp://www.sanjoseca.gov/ or contact the San<br />
Jose Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services<br />
Department at (408) 277-2741.<br />
� <strong>Almaden</strong> Community Center, 6445 Camden<br />
Ave., (408) 268-1133<br />
� Southside Community Center, 5585 Cottle<br />
Road, (408) 629-3336<br />
� Camden Community Center, 3369 Union Ave.,<br />
(408) 559-8553<br />
� George Shirakawa Center, 2072 Lucretia Ave.,<br />
(408) 277-3317<br />
� Gardner Community Center, 520 W. Virginia<br />
Street, (408) 277-4761<br />
� Willows Senior Center, 2175 Lincoln Ave.,<br />
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Some county assessment<br />
notification cards may<br />
contain errors<br />
The Santa Clara County Assessor’s <strong>Off</strong>ice mailed<br />
more than 470,000 assessment notification cards last<br />
Friday. The card provides the property owner the<br />
opportunity to review the taxable value before it is<br />
formally enrolled on July 1 and sent to the Controller<br />
and Tax Collector to generate the 2008-09 tax bill,<br />
mailed in September.<br />
“Regrettably, approximately 15 percent of the<br />
cards were printed with errors,” said County<br />
Assessor Larry Stone. Those printing errors appear<br />
to include incorrect property address, parcel number<br />
and/or assessed values; the mailing address was not<br />
affected.<br />
The Assessor’s office has isolated those zip codes<br />
most likely to have received notification cards containing<br />
errors. There are no more than 12 zip codes,<br />
out of approximately 230 zip codes in the county,<br />
and it is unlikely that all property owners within<br />
these zip codes are, in fact, affected: 95112, 95113,<br />
95115, 95116, 95117, 95118, 95119, 95120, 95121,<br />
95122, 95123, and 95124.<br />
The Assessor’s <strong>Off</strong>ice discovered has been working<br />
diligently with their printing services vendor to<br />
identify exactly how many property owners were<br />
affected. The Assessor’s <strong>Off</strong>ice has confirmed that<br />
the problem is confined to the physical printing of<br />
the cards; the Assessor’s internal database does not<br />
contain these errors.<br />
“It is simply awful. We mail these cards to reduce<br />
confusion, improve customer service and increase<br />
the accuracy of the assessed values—and are one of<br />
only 10 counties that mail them. This error is likely<br />
to have the opposite effect,” said Stone.<br />
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Leland High<br />
Car Show<br />
brings out<br />
classics<br />
A<br />
uto enthusiasts found a<br />
real treat at Leland High<br />
School on May 3 when<br />
the first annual Leland High<br />
School Car Show took place.<br />
The crowd was able to view<br />
more than 40 classic automobiles.<br />
Eric Hicks came up with<br />
the idea for the show because<br />
his advanced photography students<br />
were completing an automotive<br />
photo assignment. He<br />
decided to create the car show<br />
as a photo opportunity and<br />
fundraiser for the class. Those attending paid a $5 donation and voted for their favorite cars, listened<br />
to music and ate BBQ. The winning car was a 427 Shelby Cobra, which includes an on board<br />
camera for racing and to improve racing techniques while on the track. It is owned by Richard<br />
Ravel. Photo courtesy of Eric Hicks<br />
Once the Assessor’s <strong>Off</strong>ice has identified which<br />
property owners received the wrong information the<br />
office plans to mail those taxpayers a corrected notification<br />
as quickly as possible.<br />
“I am truly sorry for the confusion this has created.<br />
I am committed to making sure every property<br />
owner is notified with sufficient amount of time, so<br />
that taxpayers and our staff can focus on issues of<br />
valuation rather than printing errors.” said Stone.<br />
Taxpayers are encouraged to wait to receive, by<br />
mail, a corrected notification rather than deluge the<br />
Assessor’s <strong>Off</strong>ice with phone calls. The Assessor’s<br />
<strong>Off</strong>ice will contact the media and update their Web<br />
site (www.sccassessor.org) once it is known which<br />
properties were impacted and the anticipated date<br />
for mailing the corrected notification card.<br />
AVCA hears candidates for<br />
neighborhood commission<br />
Three of the four candidates vying for the District<br />
10 neighborhood commission spent the evening of<br />
Monday, May 12 speaking to the <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley<br />
Community Association.<br />
Bob Boydston, Bruce Paynter and Russ Petruzzelli<br />
spoke to the AVCA prior to the June 8 caucus to be<br />
held at the Vineland Library on Blossom Hill Road at<br />
10 a.m.<br />
“The neighborhood commission is a boon for the<br />
city. There are times when neighborhoods are up in<br />
arms and don’t know where to go to be heard. These<br />
commissioners will alleviate that problem by identifying<br />
all the locations where problems might occur,”<br />
said Art Boudreault, president of AVCA.<br />
“I think the three candidates that appeared all had<br />
remarkable qualifications that would service them<br />
well on the neighborhood commission,” Boudreault<br />
added.<br />
A fourth candidate, Ronald Layman, did not<br />
attend the session.<br />
Larger group attends<br />
District 10 budget session<br />
A group of somewhere between 40 and 60 people<br />
attended last week’s District 10 community budget<br />
session at the <strong>Almaden</strong> Community Center, larger<br />
than in previous years, but not as large as the District<br />
10 office had hoped.<br />
“I thought it was a good session, but I was disappointed<br />
it was not attended by thousands,” said<br />
Dave Fadness, VEP president, who also noted that “if<br />
we’re not there and things don’t go the way we want<br />
them to, we complain.”<br />
Pyle agreed with Fadness and she and her staff had<br />
hoped to have 100 people in attendance, but she<br />
noted that it was larger than previous sessions,<br />
which had been held on Saturday mornings.<br />
While Fadness thought Pyle’s survey was a good<br />
idea and instructive in what zip codes responded, he<br />
said he thought a more scientifically conducted survey<br />
would benefit the area more. “Pyle’s survey is<br />
the way to go, but I wish it had sampled a larger<br />
number of people more scientifically,” he said.<br />
Pyle’s office e-mailed 5,000 copies of the 13-question<br />
survey and advertised it through news items in<br />
local papers. There were 307 responses with a<br />
majority calling for the city to close the gap between<br />
revenue and expenses through increased hotel room<br />
taxes, business license taxes and increases in the<br />
existing real estate transfer tax.<br />
Most of those responding agreed that police and<br />
fire safety are the highest priority to consider and<br />
that the city would be wise to increase civilian<br />
police and fire positions, contract out services, sell<br />
under-used city property and lower entry level<br />
salaries.<br />
Mayor Chuck Reed and City Manager Debra<br />
Figone were there to explain the budget process and<br />
ask those attending for more community input for<br />
the upcoming budget.<br />
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19 Single Family Homes<br />
4 Bedrooms<br />
2.5 Baths<br />
Approx. 2,322 to 2,391 sq. ft.<br />
Priced from the high $800s<br />
603 Falcon Place<br />
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3 Bedroom Townhomes<br />
2.5 to 3 Baths<br />
Approx. 1,311 to 1,977 sq. ft.<br />
Priced from the high $400s<br />
1385 McKinley Court<br />
San Jose, CA 95126<br />
(408) 283-9681<br />
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Program<br />
offers unique<br />
insight to<br />
police work<br />
By Gene Marshack<br />
Special to the <strong>Time</strong>s<br />
f you think that a police officer’s<br />
job is a lot like the cops on televi- Ision<br />
shows, you are wrong. First of<br />
all it typically takes a bit longer than<br />
an hour to solve most problems.<br />
But if you would like to find out<br />
what it’s like, the San Jose Police<br />
Department has a program for those<br />
who want to ride with officers.<br />
Recently, I participated in the program,<br />
which allowed me to ride up<br />
front with an officer during his entire<br />
10-hour shift<br />
The experience gave me a different<br />
perspective of police work than I<br />
imagined. Although official policy is<br />
that I must stay in the car unless permitted<br />
by the officer, the officer I was<br />
with told me I can get out of the car at<br />
anytime unless he told me not to. So, I<br />
got to participate in all the events of<br />
his 10-hour shift.<br />
I always assumed that the police are<br />
out to get anyone doing anything<br />
wrong. While officers will pull over a<br />
vehicle for a serious driving infraction,<br />
they are not looking for soccer moms<br />
that may be going three miles over the<br />
limit. They are, however, on the lookout<br />
for people threatening the peace of<br />
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the community. I was impressed with<br />
the their ability to distinguish suspicious<br />
behavior from normal. More<br />
often, the officer saw a suspicious<br />
event that I missed.<br />
For example, we came across a man<br />
who was yelling at a pedestrian about<br />
to cross the street. I was thinking, so<br />
what? We stopped to talk to him and<br />
realized that he was very drunk. In<br />
addition, he had a cup of beer and an<br />
unopened can in a bag he was carrying.<br />
The officer told him he was under<br />
arrest for public drunkenness. He was<br />
cuffed and his pockets emptied. We<br />
found a booking sheet showing that he<br />
was arrested for the same thing two<br />
days ago.<br />
He also had a VTA citation for riding<br />
the light rail without a ticket. He<br />
yelled at the officer for ruining his<br />
weekend. But how can someone who<br />
is unaware of what he is doing claim<br />
his weekend was ruined? He was<br />
taken downtown and processed. I<br />
waited in the car for about 20 minutes.<br />
During that time there was an arrest<br />
coming in every two minutes.<br />
I was impressed by the officers’<br />
bravery. We came across three toughlooking<br />
men in a car that was being<br />
driven erratically. Most of us wouldn’t<br />
want to confront such men. However,<br />
without batting an eye, the officer<br />
pulled them over. He had each one<br />
come out in turn and searched them.<br />
I’ve seen this many times on TV but<br />
this was different. If something went<br />
wrong, it was going to happen here<br />
and not in the safety of my living<br />
room. I asked why he didn’t call for<br />
backup. He said department resources<br />
are too limited to get a backup for<br />
every pullover. Again, it is his ability<br />
to assess a situation in advance that<br />
gives him the ability to react correctly.<br />
When dealing with the public, the<br />
officers are polite and respectful.<br />
However, if they suspect someone is<br />
lying, for example, “I didn’t do what<br />
you saw me doing” everything<br />
changes, and they are no longer as<br />
respectful. I realize officers face serious<br />
danger in addition injury or death.<br />
They may have power on the streets,<br />
but they can’t abuse that power<br />
because careers have been terminated<br />
by violating someone’s rights, or perhaps<br />
using excessive force. It would<br />
have to be serious, but everything an<br />
officer does is under scrutiny.<br />
I asked my officer what was the funniest<br />
incident he has seen while on<br />
the force. He told me they caught a<br />
woman, completely naked, taking a<br />
shower in the fountain in front of city<br />
hall. He later answered a question<br />
about what he does to relax by telling<br />
me that he doesn’t go home and watch<br />
“Cops” on television.<br />
I want to move to the territory we<br />
covered in San Jose. It had the best<br />
drivers I have ever seen. Everyone<br />
driving was very polite, non aggressive<br />
and courteous. I wish I lived on<br />
that side of town, but then again, I<br />
think they might drive differently<br />
when not accompanied by a police<br />
car.<br />
The Ride Along Program really gave<br />
me an inside perspective of patrolling<br />
the streets.<br />
Anyone interested in participating<br />
in the San Jose Police Ride Along<br />
program can call their Community<br />
Services department at (408) 277-<br />
4133. You must be 18 years of age<br />
with a clean record. Minimum time<br />
commitment is four hours.
AUTOMOTIVE / COLLISION REPAIR<br />
Akins Collision Center Inc. . . .(408) 268-3814<br />
A “Direct Repair Shop” for most Insurance Companies,<br />
Auto Body Repair & Painting.<br />
BANKING<br />
Citibank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 997-2443<br />
APPAREL<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Alterations . . . . . . . .(408) 268-0801<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Dry Cleaners . .(408) 268-6288<br />
DANCE<br />
Sterling Dance Theatre . . . . .(408) 927-9333<br />
www.SterlingDanceTheatre.com Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Hip<br />
Hop, Drama and Latin Ballroom.<br />
FITNESS / HEALTH / BEAUTY<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Hair Illusion . . . . . . .(408) 268-2700<br />
Specializing in Color & Highlighting<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Pure Water . . . . . . . .(408) 268-5166<br />
Steamed Distilled Water<br />
Broberg Physical Therapy . . .(408) 927-0871<br />
UTA Tae Kwon Do . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 997-2229<br />
Izzy’s Barber Shop . . . . . . . . . .(408) 323-8104<br />
Pure Bliss Day Spa . . . . . . . . .(408) 268-5300<br />
GROCERIES / DRUGS<br />
Lucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 997-3100<br />
RiteAid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 927-7000<br />
HOME IMPROVEMENT<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Window & Door . . .(408) 997-8234<br />
Case Handyman and<br />
Remodeling Services . . . . . .(408) 323-5300<br />
Licensed & Insured<br />
Home Improvement Center . . .(408) 510-2500<br />
INSURANCE<br />
C. Stan Petrich . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 927-0800<br />
Farmers Agent<br />
Bill Wunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 268-8600<br />
State Farm Agent<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 15<br />
The merchants of <strong>Almaden</strong> Oaks proudly support<br />
Relay for Life of <strong>Almaden</strong>. <strong>Almaden</strong> Oaks was happy<br />
to participate in the kickoff event.<br />
Stop by <strong>Almaden</strong> Oaks Center and find out more information about the American Cancer Society and Relay For Life.<br />
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a 24-hour community gathering where everyone can join in the<br />
fight against cancer by walking overnight to raise much-needed funds for research, education, advocacy, and<br />
patient services. Form your team today for this unforgettable event.<br />
Relay For Life of <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
June 28-29, 2008 at Leland High School<br />
� Form your own Relay For Life team!<br />
� Register and be honored as a cancer survivor!<br />
� Become an Event Sponsor!<br />
For more information, to register as a survivor, to make a donation, to join an existing team or form a new team<br />
visit www.events.cancer.org/rfl<strong>Almaden</strong>ca or email <strong>Almaden</strong>RelayForLife@yahoo.com<br />
LEARNING<br />
KnowledgeQuest . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 323-1544<br />
After School Learning, K-12.<br />
PACKING / SHIPPING / FREIGHT<br />
UPS Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 927-7117<br />
“Low cost shipping, packaging, notary, 24-hour mailbox<br />
and copy services<br />
RESTAURANTS<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Roasting Co. . . . . . .(408) 323-9294<br />
Specialty coffees, smoothies, pastries and sandwiches<br />
Amato Pizza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 997-7727<br />
A Place of Quality, Not Quantity<br />
Kabob.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 997-8522<br />
Tasty Mediterranean Food<br />
Swirls Yogurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(408) 927-7969<br />
Delicious healthy frozen yogurt with fresh fruit toppings<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Oaks Plaza—Eat, Drink, Shop!
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5 BR, 3 BA, 2525 Sq Ft.<br />
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Bret Harte to<br />
hold cultural fair<br />
B<br />
ret Harte Middle School will hold its<br />
annual cultural fair, themed<br />
“Celebrating Our World Together,” on<br />
May 21. The fair precedes the school’s open<br />
house. Both events will run from 4:30 p.m. to<br />
8:30 p.m.<br />
About 20 world countries will be showcased,<br />
featuring articles or art, music and customs.<br />
Food tasting will be available at selected<br />
booths, and those interested can pre-order the<br />
food. Questions and requests for food ticket<br />
pre-order forms may be directed to<br />
bh_foodandtickets@yahoo.com.<br />
The goal of the cultural fair is to provide a<br />
better understanding of the different cultures<br />
that make up the community. “We are very<br />
excited to participate in the cultural fair at<br />
Bret Harte,” said Manjula Diwakar, program<br />
director. “It gives us an opportunity to partici-<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Valley<br />
Women’s Club<br />
recognizes<br />
local<br />
students<br />
I<br />
t was a big night at the<br />
general meeting of the<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley<br />
Women's Club on May 6,<br />
where several local students<br />
were acknowledged<br />
for their achievements. The<br />
AVWC Scholarship committee presented 13<br />
high school students with this awards<br />
based upon academic achievements, school<br />
participation, and community service.<br />
Along with a certificate, each winner<br />
received a check ranging from $500 -<br />
$1,000 to use toward their higher education.<br />
Among those awarded are, (top photo)<br />
back row, from the left: Pardis Khosravi,<br />
Pioneer High School, Nate Jones, Leland<br />
High School, Kellie Marie Henika, Leigh<br />
High School, Jordan Chin, Bellarmine<br />
College Prep, Liz Marino, AVWC<br />
Scholarship Co-Chair, Lindsey Friessnig,<br />
Leland High School, Whitney Reyes,<br />
Leland High School, Betty Newkirk, AVWC<br />
Scholarship co-chair, Morgan Wall,<br />
Branham High School, Amna Qamar,<br />
Presentation High School, and Erin<br />
McKinley, Valley Christian High School.<br />
Front row, from the left: Alex Quach,<br />
pate as a family and with the community. We<br />
come together and realize that culture is a<br />
fickle thing, and that the word culture has<br />
many different definitions.”<br />
“At the end, with cultures and sub-cultures,<br />
we are all the same. We have the need to be<br />
loved, respected, appreciated, wanted, useful<br />
and happy,” said Unal Majid, fair chair.<br />
“Culture is learned from generation to another<br />
through socialization and by providing the<br />
contexts in which people experience each<br />
other and the world around them.”<br />
“Bret Harte Middle School has an incredible<br />
and valuable community, student and staff<br />
representation of our multicultural city San<br />
Jose. It is amazing how we can learn from one<br />
another, and the richness and influences a<br />
multicultural environment has in the growth<br />
of student’s academic success. We want to<br />
take the advantage of this treasure and on this<br />
particular cultural fair day, we would like to<br />
share it with the community as whole,”<br />
Dominic Bejarano, school principal, said.<br />
Bellarmine College Prep, James Sonu,<br />
Bellarmine College Prep, Scott Wootan,<br />
Leland High School, and Jeffrey Doong,<br />
Leland High School. The club also recognized<br />
Lishan Zhu from Castillero Middle<br />
School, who won this year’s annual<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Art & Wine Festival logo<br />
design contest. Runners up are Lauren<br />
Kuechie, Bret Harte Middle School, Alison<br />
Wu Lord of the Light Art Studio, Devon<br />
Ducker, Leland High School and Abigal<br />
Wallace, Alamden Country School. The<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Art and Wine Festival will<br />
be held on Sunday, Sept.21, from 10 a.m. to<br />
6 p.m. This is the fifth year the festival will<br />
be held at <strong>Almaden</strong> Lake Park, near the<br />
intersection of <strong>Almaden</strong> Expressway and<br />
Coleman Avenue in San Jose's <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Community. For general club or information<br />
on the <strong>Almaden</strong> Art & Wine Festival,<br />
visit www.almadenwine.com.<br />
<strong>Time</strong>s School Scene<br />
Bret Harte students<br />
recognized for<br />
academic excellence<br />
T<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 19<br />
welve students from Bret Harte Middle<br />
School were recently honored at an<br />
awards ceremony for gifted children held<br />
by The Johns Hopkins University Center for<br />
Talented Youth (CTY) at Santa Clara University.<br />
The students were invited to this awards<br />
ceremony sponsored by CTY (www.cty.jhu.<br />
edu) based on an exceptional performance on<br />
a rigorous, above-grade-level test given to second<br />
through eighth grade participants. Seventh<br />
and eighth graders took the SAT or ACT—the<br />
same tests used for college admissions.<br />
Since 1979, CTY has sought the most academically<br />
able elementary and middle school<br />
students and encouraged their enrollment in<br />
the annual fall CTY Talent Search, from<br />
September through November. Students then<br />
test in December or January.<br />
The results of these tests give families a better<br />
idea of a child's academic talents, particularly<br />
in comparison to the thousands of other<br />
academically talented students in the talent<br />
search. Students can also earn recognition at<br />
CTY's awards ceremonies, and their test<br />
scores may qualify them for CTY's summer<br />
programs and distance education courses.<br />
In 2006-07 alone, over 73,000 students from<br />
19 states and the District of Columbia participated<br />
in the talent searches offered through<br />
CTY. About 25 percent of the seventh and<br />
eighth grade testers earned an invitation to a<br />
state awards ceremony.<br />
The Bret Harte Middle School students are<br />
Nisha Agarwal, Colin Aitken, Arno Gau,<br />
Jeffrey Huang, Donghun Kim, Yuhkai Lin,<br />
Kunal Mehta, Arindam Sarma, Lochan Shah,<br />
Alvin Tseng, Oomung Varma and Kelly Wu.<br />
They joined other award recipients at the<br />
recent ceremony, and were individually honored<br />
by Johns Hopkins for their academic performance<br />
and promise.<br />
Aitken, a seventh grader, also is invited to<br />
the Grand Awards Ceremony at Johns<br />
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. on June<br />
15 which honors the top seventh and eighth<br />
grade students in the country. CTY’s founder,<br />
the late Dr. Julian Stanley, once estimated that<br />
only about one in 10,000 seventh graders can<br />
achieve scores as high as the students honored<br />
at the Hopkins Grand Awards ceremony.<br />
"With our annual award ceremonies, we're<br />
committed to giving these exceptional young<br />
people a stage on which to recognize their academic<br />
achievements, just as we celebrate<br />
achievements in athletics or the performing<br />
arts," said CTY executive director, Lea Ybarra.<br />
"Their performance places them in the top tier<br />
of students taking these tests, and they certainly<br />
deserve acclaim. They possess an academic<br />
fearlessness and intellectual ability that<br />
will benefit their entire generation."<br />
The Johns Hopkins University Center for<br />
Talented Youth conducts the nation's oldest<br />
and most extensive academic talent search<br />
and offers educational programming for students<br />
with exceptionally high academic ability.<br />
CTY parallels and complements, a gifted<br />
child's regular school experience.
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ALMADEN HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH<br />
1200 Blossom Hill Road (two blocks west of <strong>Almaden</strong> Expressway) 269-<br />
2345, www.almadenhillsumc.org. Sunday worship services: 9:00 and 10:30<br />
am (childcare available at both times) Fellowship coffee time: 10:00 - 10:30<br />
am. Adult classes and Sun. School for children and youth: 10:30 am.<br />
Serving, worshiping, and growing together with open minds, open hearts,<br />
and open hands are hallmarks of our Christian congregation. The power of<br />
faith is celebrated through pastoral ministries, local mission, and social justice<br />
in, to, and with our local and global community. There is a variety of joyous<br />
music for children and adults, many special events/activities, and programs<br />
for all ages, including exciting youth ministries. People of all backgrounds,<br />
traditions, cultures, and lifestyles are welcome. Please join us at<br />
any time and for any event, no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.<br />
ALMADEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH<br />
Welcome to the neighborhood! We are a church family made up of diverse<br />
people who are united by the hope and joy that we have experienced in<br />
Jesus Christ. We invite you and your family to come and explore faith and<br />
life with us.<br />
Our worship service begins every Sunday at 11:00am. During worship, we<br />
have engaging children's programs for preschoolers and elementary aged<br />
kids.<br />
Visit us at 19550 McKean Rd San Jose CA 95120 (Located off of <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Expressway between Old <strong>Almaden</strong> Rd and Harry Rd.) Pastor Jordan Wong:<br />
(408) 268-5200 www.almadenchurch.org<br />
CAMPBELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH<br />
1675 Winchester Boulevard (near Hamilton), Campbell, 95008. <strong>Off</strong>ice:<br />
378-3472. www.campbell-umc.org.<br />
E-mail: campbell_umc@earthlink.net SUNDAY WORSHIP: 9:00 and<br />
10:30 a.m. Handicapped, hearing-impaired friendly facility. (Nursery Care<br />
available). SUNDAY SCHOOL for every age at 9:00 a.m. WHAT YOU WILL<br />
FIND: Youth/Young Adult programs, Choirs for all ages, Active Senior<br />
Fellowship, A dynamic and diverse congregation of seekers motivated to<br />
explore the questions of faith and life; opportunities for fellowship, study,<br />
spiritual growth and outreach. Campbell UMC is a Reconciling<br />
Congregation ~ ALL ARE WELCOME! Campbell UMC sponsors Bright<br />
Days preschool, offering a play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum.<br />
Call 378-8422 for information.<br />
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY<br />
All are welcome to join us for Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. at the Los<br />
Gatos Senior Center, 550 Hubbell Way, Los Gatos, CA. Rev. Alice<br />
Carpenter, Pastor. <strong>Off</strong>ice/Namaste' Bookstore: 2125 Curtner Ave., San<br />
Jose, CA, 95124. 408-371-1300. Healing Prayer Line: 408-371-1367.<br />
<strong>Off</strong>ering spiritual counseling, weddings, classes, memorials, workshops.<br />
www.scvcrs.org.<br />
CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN SAN JOSE<br />
1170 Foxworthy Avenue San Jose, 95118, located one block northwest<br />
of <strong>Almaden</strong> Expressway and Capitol Expressway. We are an undemoninational,<br />
Bible-based, culturally diverse, friendly family of believers that<br />
strive to follow simple New Testament Christianity. Our goal is to grow in<br />
love, spiritual maturity and the knowledge of God's Word. Our purpose is<br />
to share that love and knowledge with others so that all can come to<br />
know Christ and be transformed into His likeness. Bible Classes for<br />
members and visitors of all ages are offered on Sundays at 9:30am and<br />
Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm. Worship services are on Sundays at<br />
10:45am and 6:00pm. A staffed nursery for children under 2 years old<br />
and Children's Bible Hour, a time of teaching with crafts and snacks for<br />
children Kindergarten age and younger, are offered on Sunday mornings<br />
during worship. Individual Bible Studies and "Let's Start Talking" English<br />
lessons are available as requested throughout the week. For more information<br />
please visit us at www.sjchurchofchrist.org or call 408.265.1570.<br />
GATEWAY CITY CHURCH<br />
Rekindle a Sense of Hope! If you’ve been wondering what’s missing in<br />
your life, the solution may be spiritual. Having a relation-ship with God<br />
makes all the difference. He’s much more loving and powerful than we<br />
really know. Life should be more than work, bills and stress. You can<br />
strengthen the spiritual side of your life, connect with great friends, and<br />
have a lot of fun at GateWay City Church. Enjoy great music and relevant<br />
messages. Help your loves ones take a more positive and inspiring direction<br />
in their lives. At GateWay City Church, you will feel welcomed and<br />
supported, not judged or left behind. Its church the way you’d hoped it<br />
could be, life more fulfilling than you’ve dreamed. Dr. David Cannistraci,<br />
Senior Pastor. GateWay City Church is located in South San Jose at 5883<br />
Eden Park Place, behind the Holiday Inn, near the intersection of Hwys<br />
101, 85 and Bernal / Silicon Valley Road. Catch our radio broadcast<br />
Sunday 10:30 a.m., “Life in the Spirit” on 1100 AM KFAX. Get the latest<br />
information online: www.GateWayCityChurch.org<br />
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH<br />
Looking for an active Christian faith community...we invite you to experience<br />
Holy Spirit Parish Community. We are located at 1200 Redmond<br />
Avenue, San Jose, CA 95120. Mass is celebrated at 8:30 a.m. Monday -<br />
Thursday, with Communion Services on Friday. Our weekend Mass<br />
schedule is Saturday 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and<br />
6 p.m. Rite of Reconciliation is every Saturday at 4 p.m. or by appointment.<br />
Our Parish <strong>Off</strong>ice is open Monday-Thursday 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.,<br />
phone<br />
997-5101. Recorded Mass times 997-5100. Religious Education for<br />
Early Childhood through Adults can be obtained by calling our<br />
Catechetical <strong>Off</strong>ice Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. at 997-5115.<br />
3Sixty Youth Ministry serving High School Youth in the <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley<br />
(grades 9-12) can be reached at 997-5106. Holy Spirit School serving<br />
grades Pre-K - 8 at 1198 Redmond Avenue. Phone 268-0794.<br />
THE JOURNEY www.talkinchurch.com; Jeff<br />
Wenke, Pastor. Call 499-9790 or email info@talkinchurch.com for<br />
church information. The Journey meets Sundays at 9:00 and 10:45 a.m.<br />
at Pioneer High School, 1290 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose, 95118.<br />
Come be a part of this exciting new group of people on the journey of<br />
life! The atmosphere is laid-back and non "churchy." We have a full band<br />
and large projection screen on the stage for multi-media. No church<br />
experience is required! We offer a comprehensive children's program<br />
called "Journeyland" as well. Visit our Website for more information.<br />
VENTURE CHRISTIAN CHURCH www.venturechristian.org<br />
16845 Hicks Road, Los Gatos. Just 1 block west of Camden Avenue<br />
near Coleman Road. 408-997-4600. Weekend services: Saturday—5:00<br />
Tips for pet health<br />
this spring, summer<br />
W<br />
ith forecasts of temperatures soaring to<br />
three digits this weekend, the Humane<br />
Society is providing a number of tips<br />
about helping pets stay healthy throughout the<br />
spring and summer.<br />
First and foremost, pets left outdoors need<br />
plenty of shade. Either provide a covered porch<br />
or patio, a nice shady tree or let your pet remain<br />
indoors during the hot hours. Pets need plenty of<br />
fresh cool water available at all times. Rabbits are<br />
extremely sensitive to heat and should not be left<br />
in cages outdoors.<br />
Leaving your pet in the car is hazardous to its<br />
health! When it is just 80 degrees outside, a car<br />
can heat up to over 120 degrees in just minutes!<br />
In a temperature that high, your pet could easily<br />
die. Leave your pet at home even when making<br />
short errands in your car.<br />
Pets can’t sweat like people do when they get<br />
hot. To cool themselves off they must seek shade,<br />
pant and drink extra water. If they cannot cool<br />
themselves, they may develop heatstroke, a lifethreatening<br />
situation. Warning signs are heavy<br />
panting, glazed eyes, rapid pulse, dizziness,<br />
vomiting, a deep red or purple tongue and general<br />
confusion.<br />
Contact your vet immediately if you suspect<br />
that your pet is suffering from heatstroke. To<br />
avoid situations that could bring on heatstroke,<br />
never leave your pet in a car alone, don’t give<br />
pets short haircuts (they could get sunburn) and<br />
make sure that your pet always has access to<br />
shade and cool fresh water.<br />
Both dogs and cats can greatly benefit from a<br />
good daily or weekly brushing along with a<br />
weekly to monthly bath for dogs. Bathing and<br />
brushing helps get rid of the dead hair, helps rid<br />
the skin of bacteria, helps with flea control,<br />
makes your pet smell better and also allows you<br />
P.M. Sunday—9:00 and 10:45 A.M. A growing, caring diverse congregation<br />
on a spiritual journey to know Christ and make Him known throughout<br />
Silicon Valley. Serving this community for over one hundred years.<br />
Home of Los Gatos Christian School (pre-K – 8th grade). Ministries for<br />
children, teens, and adults of all ages.<br />
SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE Center for<br />
Spiritual Discovery<br />
(Formerly Valley West Church)<br />
2500 Masonic Drive, San Jose, CA. 95125. 408-978-6800. <strong>Time</strong>s: 10:30<br />
Sunday Service, Youth Church 10:45, Quiet Meditation 9:30-10:15, Classes<br />
Monday evening. Pastor: Rev. Alice Carpenter. Discover your best self in our<br />
welcoming Spiritual community. Wherever you are on your Spiritual Path, we<br />
welcome you to our service. Our teaching is based on New Thought teachings<br />
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Holmes, Wayne Dyer as expressed on<br />
the TV shows of Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil. Ours is a loving organization.<br />
You owe it to yourself to check us out. We have a traditional service, preceded<br />
by private meditation if you wish, and followed by hospitality hour. We<br />
have a New Thought Bookstore on Sunday mornings. We welcome you to<br />
our classes, and encourage you attend our Essence classes, on the first<br />
Sunday of the month. This is not your regular church! You are in control of<br />
your life experience... you have choices. We help you explore those choices.<br />
SANTA TERESA HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH<br />
5370 Snell Avenue, San Jose, CA 95123, two blocks north of Blossom<br />
Hill. Rev. Tom Coop, Pastor. 629-5906. Sunday worship service 10:00<br />
a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Full range of church activities including<br />
special classes for children, adult Bible studies, choir, and social activities.<br />
Families welcome. Visit online at: www.sthpc.org.<br />
SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN<br />
1281 Redmond Avenue, San Jose, CA 95120. (408) 997-4848.<br />
Sunday mornings: 8:30 a.m.:<br />
Traditional Worship Service 9:45 -10:45 a.m.: Adult<br />
Bible Study and Sunday School<br />
11:00 a.m.: Contemporary Worship Service<br />
SOUTH HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH<br />
A caring community of believers who enjoy living and growing in Christ’s<br />
love and sharing that love with others. Our goal is to become fully devoted<br />
followers of Jesus and our programs are designed to meet the needs<br />
of people wherever they are in their spiritual journey, from the curious to<br />
the committed. We offer ministries for all ages and stages of life - from<br />
Cornerstone Pre-school to seniors, plus thriving children’s and student<br />
programs that your family will love; and through counseling, support and<br />
recovery groups we try to meet the needs of hurting people. Starting in<br />
February: ESL classes, Celebrate Recovery, and the Alpha Course - an<br />
opportunity to explore the Christian faith. Join us at 10:00 am for our<br />
Sunday services, with life-related Biblical teaching, contemporary worship<br />
and creative arts. (Nursery, children’s and youth programs available)<br />
6601 Camden Avenue, San Jose, CA 95120. Phone: 268-1676. To find<br />
out more, visit www.southhills.cc.<br />
ST. ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH<br />
We invite you to become a part of our growing, active Parish. We are a<br />
<strong>Time</strong>s Local News<br />
to inspect your pet’s skin and coat for any problems.<br />
If you are going to bath your pet use a shampoo<br />
that is designed just for your pet. Human<br />
shampoo is too harsh for pets and will cause skin<br />
irritation. And don’t go crazy with the sheers<br />
thinking you’re helping your pet stay cool. Your<br />
pet’s coat actually helps to insulate him from hot<br />
and cold temperatures.<br />
Spring and summer are the worse time of year<br />
for fleas and ticks. Severe flea infestations can<br />
result in physical discomfort and even death in<br />
young animals. Several new topical treatments<br />
that you apply monthly, can completely free<br />
your pet of these pests. Consult your vet about<br />
ADVANTAGE (kills and repels just fleas for up to<br />
one month with just one application) and<br />
FRONTLINE (kills fleas and ticks for one month<br />
per application). It is important to clean your<br />
pet’s bedding on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to<br />
help keep these pests under control.<br />
This is a life-threatening parasite transmitted<br />
in dogs and cats by mosquito bites. Heartworms<br />
damage the heart, lungs and other organs.<br />
Symptoms include weight loss, coughing, listlessness<br />
and rapid tiring. Giving a once a month<br />
oral medication easily prevents this disease medication<br />
to your pet. Before starting any heartworm<br />
prevention program with your pet, they<br />
first must receive a heartworm test.<br />
Foxtails, or barbed seeds of dried grasses and<br />
weeds, can be dangerous to your pet. They enter<br />
into your pet’s nose, eyes, ears and can travel<br />
deeper throughout the body.<br />
Before beginning an exercise program with<br />
your pet, check with your vet to make sure that<br />
your pet is physically capable of what you have<br />
planned for them. Especially if your pet is older,<br />
overweight, arthritic or short-faced (makes it difficult<br />
to breath during heavy exercise).<br />
Young dogs (12 months and under) should not<br />
be allowed to jog with you as they are still growing<br />
and can do damage to their muscular and<br />
skeletal structure.<br />
caring and welcoming community that promotes spiritual growth and<br />
reaches out to those in need. St. Anthony’s is located in the <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Valley at 20101 McKean Rd. Sunday Masses are at 8:30, 10 and 11:45<br />
AM. Saturday Mass is at 4 PM at our small, historic church, 21800<br />
Bertram Rd. in New <strong>Almaden</strong>, CA 95042. For information call the church<br />
office 997-4800. Fr. Larry Hendel, pastor.<br />
ST. BASIL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH<br />
"Come and See" unaltered Christianity. The Orthodox Church is the one<br />
holy, catholic and apostolic church, founded by Jesus Christ and His<br />
Apostles. It is the same Church that came fully into being at Pentecost<br />
(Acts 2), the Church of the New Testament. It's mission goes to all<br />
nations and all people as it has been always (Mat.28:19).<br />
Today it has unity and continuity with this original Church in all aspects<br />
of church life. There are about 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout<br />
the world, including more than 6 million in the United States. Come<br />
to know that Church. Find the truth and its treasures. I might be the<br />
best thing you have found in your life. May God give joy to you who<br />
seek the truth!<br />
On Sundays: Matins begin at 8:15 am and Divine Liturgy at 9:30 am.<br />
<strong>Off</strong>ice hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. For<br />
more information call 408-268-3214 or e-mail us at<br />
stbasilschurhc@sbcglobal.net. You can also visit us at: 6430 Bose Lane<br />
Bose Lane, San José, CA 95120 or visit us our website:<br />
www.stbasil.com<br />
ST. TIMOTHY'S LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL<br />
Come join us for worship at one of our four weekly services. Saturday:<br />
6:00 pm (contemporary). Sunday: 8:15 (traditional) 9:45 (blended) and<br />
11:15 am (contemporary). Sunday school for all ages: 9:45 am. Our day<br />
school offers a high quality educational experience from preschool to<br />
grade 5. We are located at 5100 Camden Ave. San Jose CA 95124 with<br />
easy access from highway 85. Church: 264-3858, School: 265-0275.<br />
Pastors Dan Selbo, Jim & Judy Bangsund. Website: www.st-tims-lutheran.org.<br />
TWIN OAKS CHURCH<br />
20 Great Oaks Blvd, San Jose 95119. Church <strong>Off</strong>ice (Mon-Thur): 227-<br />
9500. www.twinoakschurch.com. eMail Address:<br />
info@twinoakschurch.com Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. (Nursery and<br />
Children's Sunday School - all ages) High School "Satellite" Service: 6<br />
pm Sunday. Junior High School "Powerhouse": 7-9 pm Friday. Who Are<br />
We? We are a group of people who face everyday issues hoping to find<br />
real answers to real problems by looking closely at our world and being<br />
honest about the things that make life difficult. We then apply time proven<br />
principles from the Bible in ways that are relevant to our culture. Twin<br />
Oaks Church has dynamic children's programs and clean, well-staffed<br />
nurseries. Women's Bible studies and Men's events are great ways to<br />
connect with other people during the week. In just one visit, you'll see<br />
our music rocks and our people are friendly!<br />
To advertise your place of worship in this section please contact<br />
the <strong>Time</strong>s at 494-7000, ext 221. All phone numbers are in the<br />
408 area code.
Fighting your<br />
battles: airport<br />
concessions met<br />
with local success<br />
By Pat Dando<br />
President/CEO San Jose Silicon<br />
Valley Chamber of Commerce<br />
O<br />
Special to the <strong>Time</strong>s<br />
ne of the values the San Jose<br />
Silicon Valley Chamber of<br />
Commerce offers is to repre-<br />
sent businesses in the valley and<br />
help fight their battles.<br />
Last year, we were<br />
approached by several<br />
small businesses<br />
expressing concerns<br />
over the process surrounding<br />
the Request<br />
for Proposals (RFP)<br />
for new concessions<br />
at Norman Y. Mineta<br />
San José<br />
International Airport.<br />
They worried that the<br />
“master concession”<br />
arrangement would<br />
make it impossible<br />
for them to have a<br />
shot at vying for truly<br />
“local” flavor when<br />
the airport opens its<br />
new and refurbished terminals over<br />
the next two years. The Chamber<br />
also believed that a good local business<br />
presence at the airport would<br />
go a long way toward helping brand<br />
our city with an identity all its own.<br />
With nearly a thousand interested<br />
local suitors and only about 40<br />
slots available for all restaurant and<br />
retail concessions, we knew it<br />
would be a challenge. We worked<br />
with the airport to organize meetings<br />
in an effort to educate local<br />
businesses on how to maneuver<br />
through the city's RFP process and<br />
provide a venue in which to ask<br />
questions and voice their concerns<br />
with decision makers.<br />
I must say that although airport<br />
staff and several city council members<br />
assured me that their intention<br />
was to see a healthy local business<br />
participation in airport concessions,<br />
I originally had my doubts<br />
that the end result would actually<br />
produce very many opportunities.<br />
The Chamber realized that the<br />
city and the airport would need to<br />
strike a balance between local flavor<br />
and the standards that airport<br />
travelers come to expect wherever<br />
they go. We also felt it vital to San<br />
Jose and Silicon Valley that this balance<br />
include signature venues that<br />
visitors would not be able to experience<br />
at any other airport.<br />
For example, you know you've<br />
arrived in Austin because of the<br />
barbeque. You know you've landed<br />
in Boston because of the clam<br />
chowder. You know you've<br />
touched down in Nashville when<br />
you hear country music. Yet, when<br />
you land in San Jose right now, you<br />
could be just about anywhere<br />
because there isn't really anything<br />
unique that stands out that says<br />
you're in Silicon Valley. I'm<br />
Chamber<br />
Connection<br />
Pat Dando, CEO<br />
San Jose Silicon Valley<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
pleased to say this is all about to<br />
change.<br />
Because we reached out and<br />
stayed intimately involved with<br />
local businesses and worked with<br />
the airport throughout the process,<br />
a promising mix of local, regional,<br />
national and international concessions<br />
has been proposed and is<br />
scheduled for city council consideration<br />
on June 3. The most<br />
encouraging part of the recommended<br />
mix is it includes local<br />
restaurants and shops that will<br />
announce to travelers stepping off<br />
their planes that they are in San<br />
José.<br />
Earlier concerns<br />
that the Chamber<br />
and the business<br />
community may<br />
have had with regard<br />
to the RFP process<br />
have been replaced<br />
with renewed excitement<br />
and confidence.<br />
I believe the<br />
Silicon Valley community<br />
will be as<br />
pleased as I am when<br />
they visit the new<br />
airport and find local<br />
products, local foods<br />
and familiar faces.<br />
The final list still is<br />
subject to some<br />
minor adjustments to<br />
ensure the right mix that's good for<br />
both passengers and businesses,<br />
but here's a sample of what the<br />
line-up now includes:<br />
C J Olsen Cherries, a Santa Clara<br />
Valley company since 1899;<br />
Hicklebee's Children's Books, a<br />
Willow Glen company for 30 years;<br />
Schurra's Fine Confections, a San<br />
Jose tradition since 1912; Paolo's,<br />
serving Mediterranean fare since<br />
1958; Le Boulanger, baked goods<br />
since 1981; Britannia Arms, San<br />
Jose's British pub and sports bar;<br />
San Jose Rocks, a hamburger bar<br />
and museum celebrating Bay Area<br />
rock-n-roll legends; Gordon<br />
Biersch, a San Jose brewery since<br />
1988; Chiaramonte's Deli, San<br />
Jose's oldest Italian deli since 1915;<br />
Discover San Jose, an eclectic<br />
blend of memorabilia from local<br />
museums; Mojo Burger, known in<br />
San Jose for using natural products;<br />
Sonoma Chicken Coop,<br />
affordable gourmet fast food;<br />
Willow Street Pizza, a local restaurant<br />
since 1991; and The Sharks<br />
Cage restaurant and bar, dedicated<br />
to our hometown NHL team.<br />
This is a great success, a huge<br />
step in recognizing the local character<br />
that San Jose has to offer<br />
when visitors come to our great<br />
city. By providing a “taste” of<br />
Silicon Valley flavor, we will be<br />
enticing them to stay a while--eat<br />
in our restaurants, visit our museums,<br />
experience our nightlife,<br />
relax in our hotels and head home<br />
with plans to return.<br />
The airport and city policy makers<br />
are to be commended for creating<br />
a win-win for everyone--pride<br />
for those of us who live here and<br />
unique experiences for those just<br />
passing through.<br />
Now I'm really looking forward<br />
to the opening of the new airport!<br />
<strong>Time</strong>s Local News<br />
The real meaning<br />
of a “fee” interest<br />
in real estate<br />
This week’s question:<br />
My husband and I just purchased<br />
a nice home here in the <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Valley. Everything went quite<br />
smoothly and escrow closed right on<br />
schedule. However, after escrow<br />
closed and our family moved in, we<br />
received our policy of title insurance<br />
about three weeks after the close. It<br />
all looks quite normal except for one<br />
thing. It states in the first part of the<br />
policy that we own a “fee interest.”<br />
What is that, anyway? Is this good or<br />
bad? If it is bad, do we have any<br />
recourse against our agent for misleading<br />
us? Or do we have any<br />
recourse against the title company<br />
for messing things up? Please help.<br />
We have paid enough fees already!!<br />
Marilyn M.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley<br />
Dear Marilyn,<br />
Congratulations on the purchase<br />
of your new home in <strong>Almaden</strong>. I’m<br />
sure you will find that this is a great<br />
place to live and work.<br />
So often I must bring bad news to<br />
my clients and readers of this column<br />
but in this case, I have some<br />
good news for you. The word “fee” in<br />
your policy of title insurance is a<br />
very good word. You need not be<br />
concerned about a thing. Allow me<br />
to explain.<br />
I would suspect that almost all of<br />
our policies of title insurance pertaining<br />
to our homes provide for the<br />
word “fee.” Just what is “fee” ownership,<br />
anyway?<br />
The first part of most policies of<br />
title insurance state something to the<br />
effect that “The estate or interest in<br />
the land which is covered by this<br />
policy is a fee.” And then the policy<br />
usually states the owner or owners’<br />
names and how title is held, such as<br />
within a living trust, as community<br />
property with or without the right of<br />
survivorship, tenancy in common,<br />
joint tenancy with the right of survivorship,<br />
or otherwise.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 21<br />
Why is the word<br />
“fee” in your policy<br />
of title insurance a<br />
very good word?<br />
Because “fee” ownership<br />
is the closest<br />
thing to absolute<br />
ownership one can<br />
have. My Black’s Law<br />
Dictionary, Seventh<br />
Edition, defines “fee”<br />
in the context of “fee<br />
simple,” as follows:<br />
“Fee simple” is an<br />
interest in land that,<br />
being the broadest<br />
property interest<br />
allowed by law,<br />
endures until the current<br />
holder dies without<br />
heirs, especially<br />
fee simple absolute.<br />
This is often shortened to “fee.”<br />
Black’s goes on to state that “fee<br />
simple is a term not likely to be<br />
found in modern conversation<br />
between laymen, who would in all<br />
probability find it quite unintelligible.<br />
Yet to a layman of the 14th<br />
Century the term would have been<br />
perfectly intelligible, for it refers to<br />
the elementary social relationship of<br />
feudalism with which he was fully<br />
familiar: the words “fee” and “feudal”<br />
are closely related…The estate<br />
in fee simple is the largest estate<br />
known to the law, ownership of the<br />
land itself which is consonant with<br />
the feudal principle of tenure.<br />
Fee simple ownership is the most<br />
comprehensive estate in land, which<br />
the law recognizes; it is the most<br />
extensive in terms of quantity, and<br />
the most absolute in respect to the<br />
rights, which it covers, of all estates<br />
known to the law.<br />
Traditionally, fee simple ownership<br />
has two distinguishing features:<br />
first, the owner has the power to dispose<br />
of the fee simple, either during<br />
his or her lifetime or by will or trust,<br />
and second, if the owner dies without<br />
a will or trust, the fee simple<br />
descends to that person’s heirs.<br />
You can readily see the difference<br />
in other types of ownership, such as<br />
if you had a leasehold interest as a<br />
tenant for a period of years, for example.<br />
Another example of something<br />
Ask The<br />
Lawyer<br />
Donald J. DeVries,<br />
Attorney at Law<br />
For past articles,<br />
visit our web site at<br />
www.almadenvalleylawyers.com<br />
less than “fee” ownership<br />
would be that of a<br />
life estate, where you<br />
had the right to occupy<br />
a certain piece of property<br />
for the rest of your<br />
life, and then it would<br />
automatically pass on<br />
to the next owner(s).<br />
Still another example<br />
of less than “fee”<br />
ownership would be<br />
ownership of “just”<br />
mineral or geothermal<br />
rights in connection<br />
with the land but not<br />
the land itself.<br />
And, of course, “fee<br />
ownership” has nothing<br />
to do as such with<br />
the costs, monetary fees<br />
and other expenses of<br />
an escrow, such as real estate commissions,<br />
notary fees, document<br />
preparation and other items. I know<br />
that those items add up fast, but “fee<br />
ownership” is a separate topic.<br />
So, Marilyn, you can see that “fee<br />
ownership” is very, very good in<br />
your situation. It is basically the<br />
greatest ownership you and your<br />
family can have. I’m pleased that<br />
your escrow closed on schedule and<br />
that there were no complications.<br />
I’m sure you and your family will be<br />
happy in this beautiful valley.<br />
Donald J. DeVries<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley<br />
Donald J. DeVries is an attorney practicing<br />
law in the <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley. Past <strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s<br />
articles since 1986 can be accessed through his<br />
Web site: www.almadenvalleylawers.com. If<br />
you would like him to answer your question in<br />
his next <strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s column, you can reach<br />
him by e-mail at don@almadenvalleylawyers.com,<br />
with “<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s” in the subject<br />
line, fax at (408)268-6502, telephone at<br />
(408)268-9500, or mail at DeVries & Horowtiz,<br />
6475 Camden Ave., Suite 200, San Jose, CA<br />
95120. Your matters are personal and private,<br />
so of course, he will not disclose your identity or<br />
any details about your situation. DeVries writes<br />
this column to provide you with general information<br />
about important legal matters affecting<br />
California residents—not to give you legal<br />
advice about your specific matter. No attorneyclient<br />
relationship is created by these articles.<br />
The law is complex and constantly changing<br />
and varies from state to state. So you should<br />
consult an attorney before taking any action<br />
that would affect your personal or business matters.<br />
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<strong>Time</strong>sSports<br />
Leland baseball<br />
season ends,<br />
seniors say<br />
goodbye<br />
The season that<br />
could have been<br />
I<br />
n an up and down season that saw more<br />
downs than ups, the Charger baseball<br />
squad closed out the regular season<br />
with a convincing win over Piedmont Hills<br />
14-3.<br />
The Pirates had won the first two<br />
games against the Chargers,<br />
but were no match for a<br />
team determined to go<br />
out with a win.<br />
Nearly everyone got<br />
into the act as<br />
Spencer Lanoue<br />
nearly hit for the<br />
cycle with a double,<br />
triple and<br />
homerun. He<br />
missed out by failing<br />
to get a single.<br />
Nate Jones went two<br />
for three with a double,<br />
a single and two<br />
walks. Jones also made a<br />
nice running catch in centerfield<br />
to take away sure extra bases from a<br />
Piedmont hitter. Trevor Marino knocked in<br />
a couple of runs with a solid shot to right<br />
center field. Will Boring and Trevor Dyer<br />
also had doubles for the Chargers.<br />
The 2008 MHAL baseball season started<br />
out with such high hopes for the Charger<br />
baseball team. They started off 6-1 with a<br />
tournament championship at the Michael<br />
De Jesus Memorial tournament, and then<br />
started league play with a tie and win<br />
against Santa Teresa. The season that could<br />
have been, suddenly and slowly turned<br />
into one of the most frustrating seasons in<br />
Leland baseball in quite some time.<br />
After the strong start, the team lost 16<br />
of its next 25 games. They hung around<br />
awhile in league play flirting with getting<br />
into the backdoor of the playoffs but they<br />
could not get the important wins when<br />
they needed them most.<br />
The future of the program looks to be<br />
positive with only losing six seniors. The<br />
team is young and has several players<br />
coming up from the JV squad that had a<br />
successful year placing second in league<br />
play.<br />
“It was a tough year for sure. There were<br />
a lot of breaks that didn’t go our way in<br />
many games. When other teams in a similar<br />
position may have packed it in, our<br />
guys continued to battle. This was evident<br />
the last few games of the season when we<br />
gave both league leaders Leigh and Live<br />
Oak all they could handle, then finishing<br />
up with a big win at Piedmont. I’m proud<br />
of all the guys,” said coach Thompson.<br />
Not to be forgotten are the seniors and<br />
other players who made their mark this<br />
year and represented Leland baseball well.<br />
“Senior Nate Jones hit .344 with a .427<br />
OBP and scored 10 runs. He was a fouryear<br />
varsity starter, first team all league,<br />
and was a well-known commodity, so he<br />
basically had a league season where teams<br />
were not going to let Jones beat them. “I<br />
really was impressed with his ability to recognize<br />
this and start to take what teams<br />
were giving him, said Thompson. “You<br />
really saw a nice adjustment in his<br />
approach. Everyone would like to knock<br />
doubles into the left field gap and most<br />
hitters end up trying to force those issues<br />
and the result is weak ground balls to the<br />
left side, Nate did a great job of really driving<br />
the ball the other way and recognizing<br />
the big picture.<br />
Sophomore Trevor Dyer hit .375 with a<br />
.515 OBP with a .542 Slugging percentage.<br />
Much like Jones, Dyer is a feared hitter in<br />
this league, and teams were just not going<br />
to give in and let him beat them; he had<br />
four intentional walks, which probably led<br />
the league. Also like Jones, he took what<br />
the opponents gave him, which in a<br />
lot of cases was a free pass as he<br />
tied for the team lead in<br />
walks with 16.<br />
Junior Will Boring<br />
had a lot on his plate<br />
with his first full<br />
season at catcher,<br />
the most important<br />
spot on the field,<br />
and yet still managed<br />
to hit .321 in<br />
League play with 10<br />
RBI's. He had two<br />
of the biggest hits of<br />
the season in two wins<br />
over Pioneer. In both wins<br />
against Pioneer, Boring had<br />
two run singles with two outs.<br />
Senior Drew Marino led the team in<br />
homeruns, RBIs and Slugging percentage<br />
in league play. He hit five home runs with<br />
17 RBI in league action with a .578<br />
Slugging percentage, and he probably<br />
was hurt the most by our park, he hit a<br />
lot of balls on the barrel in the air that just<br />
died, that might have been doubles or<br />
home runs in other parks.<br />
Senior Kevin Krail probably led the<br />
league in stolen bases as he had 17 in<br />
league action (he ended up with 25 overall<br />
just short of the school record). He<br />
also led the team in runs scored with 16.<br />
Senior Spencer Lanoue was second on<br />
the team in homeruns and RBIs (3-15)<br />
and tied for the team lead in base on balls<br />
with 16. Senior pitcher/outfielder Cam<br />
O’Halleran played solid at both positions<br />
and made the most of his opportunities<br />
throughout the year. Junior pitcher Gregg<br />
Hipwell really emerged as a No.1 starter<br />
over the last month of the season. He<br />
finished the league season with three<br />
wins and a 1.65 earned run average<br />
(ERA). Despite getting off to a late start<br />
because of a bad back, Hipwell led the<br />
league effort with 27 strikeouts, over<br />
twice as many as the No.2. “ In addition,<br />
over the last month or so you really saw<br />
some growth and confidence coming for<br />
players like sophomores Trevor Marino,<br />
Taylor Ronsvalle, Vinnie Gemette and<br />
junior Wes Deimling,” Thompson said.<br />
As surely as spring will roll around<br />
again, the baseball program will be out to<br />
prove that they are a force to be reckoned<br />
with once again.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Ghostbusters<br />
win national<br />
basketball<br />
championship<br />
T<br />
he <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley NJB chapter’s Sixth<br />
Grade Girls AllNet basketball team,<br />
GhostBusters, won five straight victories<br />
to take the National Junior Basketball title.<br />
The road to first place in the Rawling’s<br />
Division of the NJB tournament<br />
was a straight path for<br />
the GhostBusters from wire<br />
to wire in every game. The<br />
first four games by the<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley sixth grade<br />
girls invoked the ‘mercy’<br />
rule starting the fourth period<br />
(if a team is ahead by 20<br />
points in the fourth quarter,<br />
the game time becomes a<br />
running clock). The final<br />
victory over the Hanford,<br />
Calif. team for the championship<br />
was by a margin of<br />
13 points.<br />
AllNet basketball is a<br />
competitive category of the<br />
NJB program. All-Net sup-<br />
ports players with advanced<br />
skill, higher interest in the<br />
sport and an eye for a high<br />
school future in basketball.<br />
The rules follow the CIF<br />
High School standard with<br />
the addition of a ‘mercy’<br />
rule. Four, eight-minute periods make up the<br />
game and the clock stops on all whistles<br />
(except for an active mercy rule). There were<br />
three referees for the championship game.<br />
The team was led by two point guards,<br />
Nicole Johnston and Kristin Pitzen, who have<br />
been teammates in the NJB basketball program<br />
since third grade. As interchangeable point and<br />
shooting guards, they beat man-to-man and<br />
zone defenses alike on pick and roll and give<br />
and go’s. The pair accounted for 44 percent of<br />
the team’s points.<br />
Gabriella Sanfilippo and Weishan (Sandy)<br />
Liang were point and shooting guards respectively.<br />
Gabby’s speed placed pressure on the<br />
opponents leading point player and she often<br />
took outlet passes coast-to-coast for layup baskets.<br />
Sandy’s defense and anticipation led to<br />
many turnovers and her midrange shooting<br />
was a foundation for the team’s offense.<br />
Unfortunately, Brianna Martin, shooting guard,<br />
did not make the trip.<br />
Christine Dong, Adriana Piazza and Sabrina<br />
Sherrin were the GhostBuster’s power forwards.<br />
Christine anchored the defense on the<br />
outside wing of the full court press and down<br />
low in the 2-3 zone defensive formation. She<br />
also provided valuable offensive rebounds and<br />
put-backs. Her mid-range shot off the dribble<br />
gave hers many scoring opportunities. Adriana<br />
forced opponent turnovers on transition from<br />
her pressure defense. Her offensive range drew<br />
the defense outward. Sabrina played power<br />
defense. Her assignments put the opponent’s<br />
center under tough pressure and out of their<br />
game. She shot from the outside baseline.<br />
Center position was played by Nina<br />
Mandracchia and Caeli Harr. Nina jumped the<br />
start of the game and worked the center of their<br />
zone defense plus bodied the opponent’s big<br />
girl. She excelled at rebounds at both ends of<br />
the court. Her offense was balanced in shots<br />
and assists. Caeli pulled rebounds and looked<br />
for quick transition breaks or dribbled out of<br />
pressure when passing lanes were not open.<br />
She played the center of the 2-3 zone and<br />
denied easy baskets.<br />
The GhostBusters finished league play with<br />
a 10 and 2 record. Following the league games,<br />
the tournament phase begins to determine the<br />
national champion. The Ghostbusters performed<br />
well and qualified to represent<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley’s NJB chapter in Irvine Calif.<br />
for the National Tournament in the second<br />
division, ‘Rawlings.’ Regular season Coach Art<br />
The Ghostbusters relax after winning the championship. In the front row, from<br />
the left are Nina Mandracchia, Adriana Piazza, Sandy Liang, Caeli Harr and<br />
Sabrina Sherrin. The middle row, from the left are Christine Dong, Nicole<br />
Johnston, Gabbie Sanfilippo and Kristin Pitzen. The back row contains<br />
coaches Greg Pitzen, Sal Mandracchia and Greg Johnston.<br />
Fonda could not make the tournament and<br />
passed the reins to veteran Coach Greg Pitzen.<br />
Pitzen chose long-time coaching partner, Greg<br />
Johnston to support the team in Nationals.<br />
Eleven teams competed in three Pools for the<br />
AllNet Girls sixth grade bracket. Each Pool<br />
played games on Saturday to determine their<br />
standings for play and position on Sunday.<br />
GhostBusters remained in the winner’s bracket<br />
throughout the tournament.<br />
The GhostBuster opponent’s in the championship<br />
game were the Hanford Allstars. The<br />
Hanford team made it to the final game with<br />
impressive scoring. Throughout the tournament<br />
the coaches played a three-guard formation<br />
with a power forward and a big. After an<br />
offensive play, the GhostBuster’s go immediately<br />
to defense, full court. The pressure led to<br />
8 points after forced turnovers. The team system<br />
applies full court pressure until the lead<br />
would build to 20 and then fall back to half<br />
court. However, the final game drew the most<br />
work from the players. A team benefit was a<br />
strong bench through all positions that enabled<br />
end-to-end defensive intensity with steady<br />
substitutions.<br />
During the first quarter, the coaches made a<br />
GhostBuster system adjustment to keep the<br />
ball out of Hanford’s best player’s hands. The<br />
assignment was effectively handled by Gabbie,<br />
Sandy or Kristin. With two minutes left in the<br />
game, the Hanford Allstars put their second<br />
team on the floor. At the game ending whistle,<br />
GhostBusters, coaches and parents rushed the<br />
court, proud and victorious. The drive back to<br />
San Jose was easy.
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Go 4 Gold Soccer School<br />
Go 4 Gold Soccer School presents its 2008<br />
Summer Soccer Camps program. We offer week<br />
long, coed soccer camps for players age 5 - 16<br />
in both San Jose and Los Gatos, coached by<br />
our staff of highly trained, certified professionals.<br />
Go 4 Gold also offers year round<br />
GoalKeeping & Field Player Academies every<br />
Sunday from 5 – 7 p.m.<br />
For a camp schedule, locations or additional<br />
information, please call 997-7775 or visit<br />
www.go4goldsoccer.com.<br />
Leland Junior Spirit<br />
Camp sign-ups<br />
The Leland High School Spirit Squad is hosting<br />
its annual Junior Spirit Camp June 16 - 20<br />
from 9 am to noon each day. The early bird<br />
camp registration fee is $120, increasing to<br />
$140 on June 1. The camp will offer instruction<br />
in cheers and dances along with games, arts<br />
and crafts and snacks for children entering K-8<br />
in the fall of 2008. All campers will be invited to<br />
perform at a Leland High School football game<br />
in the fall. For more information or an enrollment<br />
form please contact lelandjsc@gmail.com or<br />
Jeanne Sommer at 472-6112.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Force Boys U16<br />
Soccer tryouts<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Force is a U16 Select Boys Soccer<br />
Team that will be holding tryouts Mondays and<br />
Wednesdays from 5 – 7 p.m. through the end of<br />
May at San Jose State University, behind<br />
Spartan Stadium, off of 10th street. For additional<br />
information, contact Team Manager Angelo<br />
Gallo at 314-2732.<br />
U11 Girls Class 1<br />
Soccer Tryouts<br />
Santa Clara Sporting 97G White, a girls U10<br />
Class 1 soccer team that will be playing U11 in<br />
the Fall, will be holding an open tryout session<br />
on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 2:00–3:30<br />
p.m. at Jenny Strand Park in Santa Clara. For<br />
more information and to register, please contact<br />
coach Dave Ballard at daveballard12@sbcglobal.net<br />
or 408-799-1213.<br />
AVAC hosts twelfth annual<br />
tennis tourney fundraiser<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club invites community<br />
members to watch or participate in the<br />
2008 AVAC NTRP Doubles Classic Tournament<br />
on May 23-26 at their facility, 5400 Camden<br />
Avenue in San Jose. Matches will begin at 5<br />
p.m. on May 23; 8 a.m. May 24 and May 25;<br />
and at 9 a.m. on May 26.<br />
This will be the 12th consecutive year that<br />
AVAC hosts the tournament, with 50 percent of<br />
the proceeds benefiting the National Tennis<br />
Championships (“NTC”). NTC is a non-profit<br />
corporation that organizes both the USTA Girls’<br />
18 National Championships in Berkeley and the<br />
After-School All-Stars offered through the San<br />
Jose Unified School District.<br />
Named a ‘USTA NorCal Tournament of the<br />
Year’ for the tenth time, this event charges no<br />
admission to spectators and is open to the entire<br />
community. For more information about the tournament<br />
or competition eligibility, please visit,<br />
http://tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/tournamenthome/tournament.aspx?T=59583<br />
or visit<br />
the <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club website at<br />
www.avac.us.<br />
AVYSL Registration<br />
is now open<br />
Registration for the <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Youth<br />
Soccer League’s Recreation Program for Fall<br />
2008 is open from April 21 to May 31. Late registration<br />
will be from June 1 – 15, and will only<br />
be accepted if space is available. A non-refundable<br />
fee of $25 will be charged for each player<br />
registered during late registration, so please register<br />
on time.<br />
See our website www.almadensoccer.org for<br />
registration instructions and some exciting<br />
changes to our Fall program. We hope to see<br />
you on the soccer field this Fall.<br />
Evergreen Valley Soccer<br />
summer camps<br />
EVS will be offering two soccer camps this<br />
summer. Sessions begin June 22 -26, with the<br />
All Girls Academy. The Academy is designed to<br />
help players develop all aspect of their game and<br />
topics will include:<br />
Ball mastery<br />
Beginning and intermediate technical skills<br />
Small-sided games<br />
<strong>Off</strong>ensive/defensive team tactics<br />
Training for speed/agility/quickness<br />
Eligible girls are ages 8 – 17 and the fee is<br />
$145 per person (team discounts are available).<br />
Academy hours are 4 – 7 p.m.<br />
The “Little Hawks” Academy is designed for<br />
players age 5 – 8 and focuses on having fun<br />
while learning new soccer skills. Coached by<br />
members of the EVC Men’s and Women’s<br />
Soccer Team, campers will participate in a variety<br />
of soccer games and activities. Session one<br />
is Aug. 4, 6 & 7 and Session two is Aug. 11, 13<br />
&14. The fees are $90 fro one session, $140 for<br />
both. Hours are 9 – 11 a.m.<br />
For additional information or to register, call<br />
Felicia Perez at 274-7900 x6910 or email<br />
Felicia.Perez@evc.edu<br />
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Mary Tillman to<br />
speak at Women<br />
in Leadership<br />
By Carol Rosen<br />
Editor<br />
ary Tillman will be the guest<br />
speaker at the San Jose/Silicon MValley<br />
Chamber of Commerce’s<br />
sixth annual Women in<br />
Leadership evening Wed-nesday, May<br />
21 at the San Jose Marriott.<br />
The <strong>Almaden</strong> Valley school teacher<br />
and now author follows a distinguished<br />
lineup of local women speakers<br />
who have made a difference for<br />
other women including Olym-pic ice<br />
skating gold medal winner Peggy<br />
Fleming, who is also a breast cancer<br />
survivor, and Santa Clara County<br />
District Attorney, and also an <strong>Almaden</strong><br />
resident, Delores Carr, who is the county’s<br />
first woman DA and only the second<br />
woman tin California to hold that<br />
office.<br />
“We chose Mary Tillman to speak because<br />
she was thrust into the spotlight and rose to<br />
the occasion,” said Pat Dando, Chamber<br />
president and CEO. Tillman’s newly published<br />
book, “Boots on the Ground by Dusk,<br />
My Tribute to Pat Tillman” was released<br />
early this month.<br />
Tillman spoke to the <strong>Time</strong>s last week<br />
about her current<br />
See TILLMAN, page 23<br />
Tillman<br />
Continued from page 1<br />
life and her book. The mother of slain Army<br />
Ranger and Arizona Cardinal football player,<br />
Pat Tillman, she said she wrote the book for<br />
two reasons; “I wanted the reading public to<br />
know the Pat I knew because he’s sort of<br />
been turned into a caricature. I also think<br />
the public deserves to know what kind of<br />
lies and deceptions we’ve been living under<br />
for the past four years,” she said.<br />
In addition, and throughout the interview,<br />
Tillman noted that she finds it important to<br />
let people know that “Pat’s not the only one<br />
this has happened to, it’s happened to others<br />
too. Pat allows us to have a voice and we<br />
would be negligent not to use it. In so many<br />
ways, we are fortunate, we have a responsibility<br />
to other families [who don’t have the<br />
celebrity] to discuss what happened.”<br />
When Pat Tillman was killed in April<br />
2004, officials initially told the family he<br />
was killed in action by the enemy during a<br />
shootout in a narrow canyon. That story<br />
however, became one of several different<br />
stories, which all are in the book. The<br />
Tillman family, all of whom value their privacy,<br />
decided to find out the exact truth. It<br />
turns out Pat was killed by friendly fire.<br />
“Most likely the soldiers just lost control,”<br />
Mary Tillman said. “They were close<br />
enough to see what was going on, but they<br />
were definitely scared. They felt they were<br />
being ambushed and that was magnified by<br />
the canyon walls. Their adrenaline was<br />
pumped up and there are indications they<br />
got out of the vehicle and shot the Afghani<br />
soldier,” she said.<br />
The book is a means to get at the truth,<br />
she added. “There’s a lot more deception in<br />
this administration and there’s no accountability.”<br />
But she’s just as upset about the<br />
nation’s population, which she notes has<br />
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Mary Tillman<br />
“no outrage. People go about their business.<br />
It started after 9-11 when the president told<br />
everyone to go shopping.”<br />
And, she notes that it has continued, citing<br />
the case of Valerie Pflame, the outing of<br />
an undercover CIA agent. The American<br />
people didn’t react, she said.<br />
A congressional committee still is questioning<br />
people about what the White House<br />
and the Pentagon knew. “But it’s clear the<br />
administration doesn’t leave paper trails and<br />
people are not talking on the record.<br />
“The book is a way to present what happened<br />
and let the public know. We present<br />
our side and let the reader know. The Army<br />
was deceptive to the nation not just to us. It<br />
was a worldwide deception. They used Pat<br />
as a propaganda tool to deflect what was<br />
happening at Abu Grabbe and because April<br />
2004 was the worst month [at that time] for<br />
casualties, Pat’s death is a disaster and the<br />
Army wasn’t willing to admit that his own<br />
men killed him.”<br />
Tillman also answered questions about<br />
the Army and its treatment of the family. In<br />
the book she describes one particular<br />
colonel, Ralph Kauzlarich, who complained<br />
that the family would not be going through<br />
this if they were Christians. “He was agitated<br />
that we kept asking questions, he gave an<br />
interview to ESPN’s Mike Fish stating that<br />
we can’t get over Pat’s death because we<br />
aren’t Christians,” she said.<br />
But aside from the lies and deceit, the<br />
book tells about Pat Tillman the man and the<br />
boy. It tells stories about Pat and his brothers<br />
Kevin and Richard, growing up and introduces<br />
us to the real man, who could talk a<br />
blue streak—words a family paper cannot<br />
use—but was a very kind, gentle and above<br />
all honest man. Just as important, the book<br />
shows us how Pat grew up in <strong>Almaden</strong>.<br />
Interspersed between the Tillman family’s<br />
struggle to get at the truth are stories about<br />
Pat’s life, including a very sweet one about<br />
him catching a fish with his hands. The<br />
book also talks about his brothers and how<br />
close the three were, as well as Pat’s first<br />
meeting with the woman who would<br />
become his high school sweetheart and<br />
future wife, Marie Ugenti, and their wedding.<br />
And there are lots of scenes of <strong>Almaden</strong> in<br />
the book. “I can’t say enough about the people<br />
in <strong>Almaden</strong> and the remarkable support<br />
they have given all of us. They are careful
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ART<br />
May 3 – June 20<br />
Photography Exhibit “The Person in Front of<br />
You: Photographs from West Africa”<br />
Friends of African Village Libraries, a San<br />
Jose-based nonprofit that builds and supports<br />
sustainable libraries in rural African villages,<br />
is sponsoring this exhibit of photographs<br />
by Los Altos-based photographer<br />
David Pace and Kathy Knowles of Osu<br />
Children's Library Fund in Canada. The<br />
artists capture in moving detail the daily<br />
lives of children and their parents in rural villages<br />
in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Exhibit<br />
location is the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
Library, 2nd Floor, Exhibit Area, 150 E. San<br />
Fernando St., San Jose. Opening Reception<br />
is May 11 from 4 – 6 p.m. fro more information,<br />
call 396-6394 or visit www.favl.org<br />
THEATER<br />
May 13 – 25<br />
American Musical Theatre of San Jose<br />
presents Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”:<br />
Staged at the Center for the Performing Arts<br />
May 13 – 25, this timeless story is filled<br />
with magic, romance, and suspense, making<br />
for a truly remarkable theatrical celebration.<br />
Based on the Academy Award-nominated<br />
animated feature, the stage version includes<br />
all of the wonderful songs from the film,<br />
plus brand new songs especially created for<br />
Broadway. For more information, call 1-<br />
888-455-SHOW or visit www.sjtix.com.<br />
CHILDREN/FAMILY<br />
May 13<br />
Santana Row’s popular Mommy & Me on<br />
the Row series returns for another season<br />
of free entertainment, interactive games, arts<br />
& crafts, and educational activities designed<br />
for parents and their pre-school aged children.<br />
Families can register for the free program<br />
through the Santana Row website,<br />
www.santanarow.com, at the Concierge<br />
Center in Santana Row Park, or the morning<br />
of the event in Park Valencia. Membership<br />
includes a variety of incentives that range<br />
from specially priced lunches to shopping<br />
incentives provided by Santana Row merchants.<br />
Event hours are 10 a.m. to noon on<br />
the second Tuesday of each month. To<br />
resister or for more information, visit<br />
www.santanarow.com or call 551-4611.<br />
May 16<br />
Central County Occupational Center hosts<br />
Fifth Annual Custom & Classic Car Show<br />
benefit: This CCOC show is scheduled for 5<br />
– 9 p.m. at 760 Hillsdale Ave., San Jose,<br />
and will featuresmore than 175 mostly locally-owned<br />
cars including custom, classic, hot<br />
rods, muscle cars, and all types of fully<br />
restored cars. A $10 tax deductible donation/fee<br />
is all it takes to exhibit a custom,<br />
classic or vintage car, truck, motorcycle or<br />
bicycle. This fee also includes a free meal.<br />
All proceeds support students competing in<br />
upcoming SkillsUSA competitions. CCOC<br />
will send five students to compete in the<br />
National SkillsUSA competition in Kansas<br />
City in June. To register, Mike Cortese at<br />
723-4209 or email mcortese@metroed.net .<br />
Refreshments will be available for purchase<br />
by spectators. Spectator admission is free.<br />
May 17<br />
Youth Science Institute Insect Fair. Join<br />
YSI from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sanborn<br />
County Park in Saratoga. Walking sticks,<br />
silkworms and hissing cockroaches will be<br />
there...why not you? At this family-oriented,<br />
hands-on event, children and adults can get<br />
an up-close look at live insects such as spiders,<br />
scorpions, millipedes and more.Adding<br />
to the fun will be children’s crafts, face<br />
painting, and bug-themed treats. This event<br />
is free to the public. Park entrance fee is $6<br />
per car. Contact 356-4945 or see<br />
www.youthscience.org for more information.<br />
May 17 – 18<br />
Campbell Chamber of Commerce<br />
announces the 30th annual Boogie on the<br />
Bayou Festival. This popular free community<br />
street festival features live entertainment,<br />
Strutters’ parades, scrumptious vittles, kiddie<br />
activities, and over 125 arts and crafts<br />
vendors. So grab your Mardi gras beads,<br />
pack up the family and head on over to<br />
downtown Campbell. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6<br />
p.m. on 5/17 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on<br />
5/18.<br />
May 21<br />
Bret Harte Middle School will host its annual<br />
Cultural Fair and Open House from 4:30 -<br />
8:30 p.m. During the Cultural Fair, themed<br />
“Celebrating Our World Together,” an array<br />
of featured events will make it one of the<br />
most enjoyable Cultural Fairs to date. The<br />
Fair highlights about 20 countries, with individual<br />
exhibits showcasing the art, music,<br />
customs and wares typical of each country.<br />
Food tasting will be available at selected<br />
booths, and if attendees wish to eat during<br />
the fair, pre-ordering the food is available.<br />
Questions and request for Food Ticket Pre-<br />
Order forms may be directed to<br />
bh_foodandtickets@yahoo.com.<br />
Ongoing<br />
YSI Summer Science Camp. Youth Science<br />
Institute has week-long, half-day camps for<br />
children ages 3 ½ to 6th grade. Everyone is<br />
welcome and YSI Family Members receive<br />
priority registration. There are 30 camps to<br />
choose from, including Bugology, Radical<br />
Reptiles, Phunky Physics, and Water is<br />
Wonderful. Children enjoy the wonders of<br />
science while connecting with nature<br />
through hands-on projects, experiments,<br />
crafts, hikes and games. Camp fees range<br />
from $140 to $240 per week. Camps start<br />
the week of June 16th and run through Aug.<br />
15th at each of YSI’s Science and Nature<br />
Centers, located at Alum Rock Park in San<br />
Jose, Sanborn Park in Saratoga and Vasona<br />
Park in Los Gatos. Scholarships are available<br />
at YSI Alum Rock and YSI Sanborn.<br />
Camps fill up quickly, so go to www.youthscience.org<br />
or call 356-4945 ext 16 for<br />
more information or to register.<br />
CLASSES<br />
Ongoing<br />
Children's Drawing & Painting Classes -<br />
art classes for children 7-12 years old are<br />
offered in Nelly Rouhani's house in <strong>Almaden</strong>.<br />
Classes are on Tuesdays or Thursdays from<br />
3:15 to 4:15 p.m. with a maximum 4:1 child<br />
to teacher ratio. Children will learn about the<br />
fundamentals of drawing and paint using<br />
various media. Tuition is $100 per month,<br />
and includes all required materials. A snack<br />
will be provided. For more information, call<br />
607-7588 or email niloufarafshin@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Clay classes for adults. New handbuilding<br />
ceramics classes are forming now. These<br />
small, relaxing clay classes are held on<br />
Tuesday & Thursday evenings from 7-8:30<br />
p.m., and Wednesday mornings from 9:30-<br />
11 a.m. The fee includes instructions, clay,<br />
glazes, use of tools, and kiln firings. The<br />
classes are held in the artist's studio in<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong>. For more information or to register,<br />
call 679-0238. Space is limited to only 4<br />
students for each class, so register today!<br />
Ballet San Jose School presents “Snow White and the Seven<br />
Dwarfs,” May 24 – 25 at the California Theater in San Jose. This<br />
world premiere ballet by Lise La Cour is based on the fairy tale by<br />
the Grimm Brothers. This fully-staged, one hour production was<br />
created especially for young audiences. Original music was composed<br />
by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre. Perfor4mance times are May 24 at<br />
1:30 p.m. (Presented with the school’s Annual Open Division<br />
Showcase), and at 5 p.m. (Presented with the school’s Annual Pro<br />
Division Showcase). The May 25 performance is at 1:30 p.m.<br />
(Presented with the school’s Annual Pro Division Showcase).<br />
Tickets are $22 children; $42 adults. For more information, call<br />
288-2800 or visit www.balletsanjose.org. Photo Caption: Angela<br />
Ma as the young Snow White. Photo: John Gerbetz<br />
FIFTY PLUS<br />
May 16<br />
The City of San José <strong>Off</strong>ice on Aging is<br />
hosting the free annual Spring Into Health,<br />
50+ Wellness Festival and Fun Walk.<br />
Event hours are 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at<br />
History Park, 1650 Senter Road in San Jose.<br />
Come join the fun and take home important<br />
health and fitness information, take part in<br />
interactive demonstrations, health screenings,<br />
have a chance to win fabulous prizes and participate<br />
in a one-mile fun walk through out<br />
San José History Park. Registration is<br />
required for all attendees. The first 500 registered<br />
participants will receive a free nutritious<br />
lunch and gift. Registration forms are available<br />
at all San José Senior Centers or call the<br />
<strong>Off</strong>ice on Aging. For more information,<br />
please call 979-7915.<br />
May 17<br />
SeniorNet Computer Class Sign-Up: Learn<br />
digital images, Searching the Internet, computer<br />
maintenance, Windows XP, web page<br />
design, introduction to computers and much<br />
more!! The location is the Willows Senior<br />
Center at 2175 Lincoln Ave. (at Curtner)<br />
SeniorNet is for people 50 and above. For<br />
more information, go to our web site at<br />
www.snlcsj.org and click on Willows, or call<br />
Libby at371-3999. Most classes are $20.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS<br />
May 16 – 17<br />
Super-Con 2008 is bringing the biggest and<br />
brightest stars of comics, sci-fi and pop culture<br />
to the San Jose Convention Center’s<br />
South Hall. Building on the success of last<br />
year's show, Super-Con 2008 features even<br />
more panels, discussions, displays and presentations<br />
by icons and industry leaders.<br />
The annual Super-Con Cosplay Contest<br />
allows those daring souls to roam the convention<br />
hall in costume (providing photo<br />
opportunities galore) before the formal costume<br />
contest pits hero v. hero. Bid on oneof-a-kind<br />
pieces of art created especially for<br />
the auction by our super guests. Full convention<br />
programming info is at www.supercon.com.<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly � May 16–May 22, 2008 � Page 25<br />
May 16<br />
Hospice of the Valley hosts its 28th Annual<br />
Western Gala—“Wild Women of the West”<br />
– at 6 p.m., at Villa Ragusa in downtown<br />
Campbell. Celebrating the “Wild West”, the<br />
evening includes premium wine tasting, an<br />
elegant dinner, live music, silent and live auction.<br />
Returning as Master of Ceremonies is<br />
longtime supporter Brian Adams of<br />
KLIV/KRTY radio. Funds raised will provide<br />
quality end-of-life care services and programs<br />
for adults, children and families facing lifelimiting<br />
illnesses. Western Gala Tickets:<br />
$175.00 per person. Sponsorship opportunities<br />
are available. For tickets and sponsorship<br />
information, email: gala@hospicevalley.org or<br />
visit www.hospicevalley.org.<br />
May 17<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong> Valley Athletic Club invites community<br />
members to participate in its second<br />
annual fundraiser to benefit TurningWheels<br />
for Kids, a non-profit organization that<br />
encourages physical fitness among children<br />
by providing bicycles and helmets to underprivileged<br />
youth throughout Santa Clara<br />
County. This event aims to raise enough<br />
funds to surpass the 2,200 bikes that the<br />
organization was able to give to children during<br />
the 2007 holiday season. AVAC will host<br />
two spinning classes at 7:15 a.m. and 9:45<br />
a.m. on its outdoor pool deck each will feature<br />
a high energy cycling class choreographed<br />
to music. A $50 donation will guarantee<br />
one of 40 seats available. Each donation<br />
will purchase a bicycle for<br />
TurningWheels for Kids. Those who cannot<br />
physically participate may also purchase $5<br />
’Spokesperson Wheels’ that will also benefit<br />
the organization. AVAC is located at 5400<br />
Camden Avenue, San Jose, For more information<br />
contact AVAC Activities Director,<br />
Becky Smothermon at 445-4919 or visit,<br />
www.avac.us.<br />
May 17<br />
Village Walk Global Outreach presents “A<br />
Stroll Down Memory Lane", a fundraiser for<br />
the construction of a school in the village of<br />
Bamburi, Kenya. This event will be held at<br />
the IBEW Banquet Hall, 2125 Canoas Garden<br />
Road, from 6 – 10 p.m. The evening’s entertainment<br />
will feature Food Tasting, Live<br />
Music, Live Auction And Raffle, Fashions<br />
May 16—May 22<br />
from the 40’s – 90’s, a Musical Revue and<br />
much more. Tickets are $40. For more information,<br />
contact Brenda Childress at 838-<br />
2246 or Vickie Wilson at 566-3105<br />
May 20<br />
The Marine Corps League Needs You! We<br />
are a family support organization for Marines<br />
and Marine families. We participate in<br />
Veterans Parades and other Vet related<br />
events around Santa Clara County. Meetings<br />
are held locally in Santa Clara County every<br />
third Sat. from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Santa<br />
Clara Elks lodge on Martin Ave. For more<br />
information, contact S/SGT Dick Whitaker @<br />
219-3024 or view our website @<br />
http://www.usmcleague.com/ .<br />
May 21<br />
Key Propositions on June 3rd Ballot - Be<br />
an Informed Voter: The American<br />
Association of University Women San Jose<br />
is hosting a Ballot Initiatives Forum from<br />
6:30 – 8 p.m., at the Campbell Public<br />
Library, 77 Harrison Avenue, Campbell. The<br />
League of Women Voters will present the<br />
pros and cons of the two propositions dealing<br />
with government acquisition and eminent<br />
domain. The Voters Forum is free and open<br />
to the public. Voter registration forms will<br />
be available. Contact Mary Barry at 227-<br />
8429 for further information.<br />
May 24<br />
Greystone School and Girl Scout Troop<br />
61365 host free Electronic Waste<br />
Recycling Event: Drop off times are 9 a.m.<br />
to 5 p.m. at the Greystone Campus, 6982<br />
Shear Drive in San Jose. Accceptable items<br />
include all computer and electronic equipment<br />
including, but not limited to the following:<br />
computers and computer components,<br />
televisions, radios, DVD players, telephones,<br />
cell phones, small appliances, power supplies,<br />
printer cartridges, power tools, VCR<br />
tapes, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, cables, ribbons,<br />
etc.<br />
Ongoing<br />
Santa Teresa High School Class of 1988<br />
20th Reunion will be held on June 28, at 7<br />
p.m. at the San Jose Hilton and Towers.<br />
Tickets are $93 through May 30th and go up<br />
$10 after that date. Tickets can be purchased<br />
from GreatReunions.com – Select<br />
California and find Santa Teresa ’88. For<br />
More information, go to the Alumni page of<br />
Santa Teresa High School: sths.ca.campusgrid.net/home/Alumni<br />
Get ready for a blast from the past!<br />
Leland Chargers Class of 1988 are reuniting<br />
this September. The location will be the<br />
Hotel Valencia in Santana Row at a to-beannounced<br />
date. For more details or to join a<br />
Reunion Committee, contact Paula<br />
Cavagnaro at CavagnaroPaula@yahoo.com<br />
or Laura Delizonna at ldelizonna@gmail.com<br />
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<strong>Time</strong>sFeatures<br />
HUMOR<br />
Math favors<br />
Hillary, says<br />
Huckabee<br />
Former Guv bullish<br />
on Clinton’s chances<br />
stop believing.”<br />
That’s the<br />
“Don’t<br />
message from former<br />
Arkansas governor and Republican<br />
presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to<br />
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) one day after<br />
her disappointing showings in the North<br />
Carolina and Indiana primaries.<br />
Even though her rival, Sen. Barack<br />
Obama (D-Ill), is now less than two hundred<br />
delegates from clinching the nomination,<br />
“the math favors Hillary now<br />
more than ever,” Gov. Huckabee said.<br />
“I didn’t major in math, I majored in<br />
miracles,” he told reporters in Little Rock<br />
today. “And after Tuesday’s<br />
results, my Mircle-o-meter is<br />
tingling off the hook.”<br />
He said that even if Sen.<br />
Obama gets a majority of the<br />
delegates, “the smart money<br />
is still on Hillary.”<br />
“The only difference<br />
between majority and minority<br />
is spelling,” he said. “And<br />
I didn’t major in spelling.”<br />
The<br />
But even as Gov. Huckabee<br />
reminded reporters of what<br />
his major was, one of his<br />
university professors, Darren<br />
Galtheim, said that the former<br />
Arkansas governor’s<br />
field of concentration in college had been<br />
overstated.<br />
“Mike majored in miracles, but he didn’t<br />
get A’s,” Dr. Galtheim said. “We all<br />
encouraged him to switch to an easier<br />
major, like Phys Ed.”<br />
Read more of Andy Borowitz at<br />
www.borowitzreport.com. Andy Borowitz<br />
is a nationally syndicated humor columnist<br />
whose work can be found in<br />
Newsweek and other publications.<br />
Borowitz<br />
Report<br />
Andy Borowitz<br />
StreetTalk by Carol Rosen<br />
There is an election on June 3 for the District 10<br />
City Council seat and several propositions. Do<br />
you plan to vote by mail, at the polls or not at all?<br />
(Asked at the PW at Via Valiente Plaza)<br />
“I already voted<br />
by mail. I work a<br />
12-hour shift and<br />
don’t get home<br />
until 8 p.m. so I’d<br />
rather do it by<br />
mail so my vote<br />
counts.”<br />
Jackie Murray, 56<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Critical care nurse<br />
“By mail, it’s easier<br />
and I know<br />
my vote will<br />
count.”<br />
Barbara<br />
Simmons, 52<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Hair stylist<br />
“I’m permanently<br />
registered as an<br />
absentee voter by<br />
mail, so I won’t<br />
forget [to vote].<br />
It’s also much<br />
more convenient.”<br />
Carol Zafiropoulous, 45<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Student teacher at Hoover Middle School<br />
“At the polls<br />
because it’s right<br />
across the street<br />
from where I<br />
live.”<br />
Massoud Javid,<br />
56<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Artist<br />
“I plan on voting,<br />
but I have to register<br />
first. I will<br />
vote at the polls<br />
with my parents."<br />
Lauren<br />
Claudatos, 19<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Student at SJSU<br />
“By mail. I’m not<br />
enthused with<br />
the new voting<br />
machines. I’m<br />
not sure they are<br />
failsafe. My husband<br />
has always<br />
voted by mail so<br />
I decided last time to do the same.”<br />
Betsy Plette, 58<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Homemaker<br />
“I vote by mail. I<br />
decided to vote<br />
by mail for the<br />
last election. It’s<br />
more convenient.<br />
I was very<br />
upset when I<br />
voted in the primary<br />
and one of the election people<br />
announced what party I was<br />
registered with. I felt that my privacy<br />
was invaded so now I do it by<br />
mail.”<br />
Penny Tenczar, 63<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Realtor<br />
“At the polls. I<br />
just like to go<br />
because it’s an<br />
American experience.”<br />
Rachel Goss<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Homemaker<br />
“I vote at the polls because I normally<br />
don’t make up my mind until<br />
the morning I vote.”<br />
Teena Claudatos, 58<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Homemaker and volunteer<br />
“I vote by mail. It’s more efficient,<br />
easier and time saving for me<br />
because I work.”<br />
Josie Navarrete<br />
<strong>Almaden</strong><br />
Property manager<br />
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OPEN SUN MAY 18, 1:30 - 4:30 pm<br />
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Get Listed! To place an ad in the Open House Directory, call Val Esquivel at (408) 494-7000 x207.<br />
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OPEN SUN MAY 18, 1:30 - 4:30 pm<br />
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5 BR, 3 BA, 2,642 SqFt.<br />
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OPEN SAT MAY 17 & SUN MAY 18, 1:30 - 4:30 pm<br />
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OPEN SAT MAY 17 & SUN MAY 18, 1:30 - 4:30 pm<br />
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BANIANI & BONETTI, ALAIN PINEL REALTORS<br />
(408) 313-6680
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<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly<br />
sponsors 10-day Alaska<br />
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<strong>Almaden</strong> <strong>Time</strong>s Weekly is sponsoring its<br />
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on the Dawn Princess round trip from San<br />
Francisco’s pier 35, sailing August 5, 2008.<br />
The cruise itinerary features a 10-day cruise<br />
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“Picture yourself cruising under<br />
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Bellou said he was able to<br />
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The Dawn Princess cruises under the Golden Gate Bridge. The ship will depart on its 10-day roundtrip sail from<br />
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