JCC and residents of Chai House. “We are happy that we can help members of our community walk the New Year with healthful, comfortable and fashionable footwear”, says Nirit Straus, Director of Operations at Footwear etc.
]]> KICKS Cookies and Ice Cream! We'll bring the cookie and ice cream store to your door and create delicious ice cream sandwiches or an ice cream sundae bar at your party or event. KICKS wants to work within your budget to provide a fun cool treat for everyone.

KICKS' bakehouse in Downtown Willow Glen prides itself on making a wide arry of all-natural, hand-tended American style cookies, shortbreads, ice cream cookie sandwiches, and sorbetto sandwiches. We bake our cookies fresh daily; all of them are hand tended an make from local, natural ingredients. There is nothing artificial in our cookies and no trans fats.

KICKS' mobile catering service happily serves businesses, organizations, fairs, festivals, and individuals throughout the Bay Area. For more information please visit our website or give us a call at 408-275-6919: we want to hear from you!]]>
There's a push from locals and some veterans who used to live and work up there to open it up as a park. Well, it'll probably be a while before we see that in today's economy, but maybe someday... In the meantime, it's another ghost town to be fascinated with.

Article from the Mercury News:http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10639993

Photos from the Mercury News:http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2008/10/mtumunhum/

More Pics from SummitPost.orghttp://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/15...nt-umunhum.html
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DATE: Saturday, 10/25/08
TIME: 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
1:00 pm-1:15 pm - Registration
1:15 pm-2:00 pm - Acting auditions
2:00 pm2:45 pm - Dance auditions
2:45 pm-3:30 pm - Singing auditions
LOCATION: Ariel studio, 2385 Winchester Blvd, Campbell, CA 95008
CALL: 408-621-2790 or email info@arieldanceproductions.com
VISIT: www.arieldanceproductions.com/aladdin.html

Auditions will include the following dance forms: Ballet, Jazz, and Contemporary. Singers are invited to select a Broadway-type song for the auditions and be sure to bring a karaoke CD to the audition. Production directed by Oanh Tretter, with choreography by Jee Ahn and Oanh Tretter featuring an original script by Elijah Guo. All teens and adults will be accepted. Production packages will be handed out at the auditions. Rehearsals will run on Saturday starting November 1 until the performances in late February 2009.



Auditions for "Aladdin", Saturday, 10/25, 1 pm-3:30 pm
Details: Sat, Oct 25th (1:00pm - 3:30pm)
City: campbell, ca 95008
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Hazim is fighting back by asking supporters to "write to Santana Row's management company and asking them to rethink their
position and honor the renewal of our lease." You can get more details by stopping by the Santana Row location.

Is Santana Row freezing out Ben & Jerry's?http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9224072]]> Free burritos mark the grand opening of Chipotle grill along The Alameda

Today (Thursday, April 10) is the grand opening of Chipotle on The Alameda in SJ. If you have the time and inclination to stand in line for hours, you can get a free burrito. I've never eaten there, and for a whopping savings of $3, I'd rather wait til the crowd dies down and pay full price.

Chipotle never appealed to me until I read an article about them, Ode To A Burrito by Arianne Cohen, in Fast Company a couple of weeks ago. I knew they were owned by McDonald's, which equates to fast food to me, which means "blech". Plus we have SO many good taquerias in the Bay Area, why would I want to eat at an El Pollo Loco wannabe?

Turns out Chipotle sounds like my kind of place. According to the Fast Company article, "Chipotle Mexican Grill is the Bono of the fast-food business.... Chipotle's focus [is] on hormone- and antibiotic-free meat that is humanely raised." The article also says the food is really good. So some day I may actually test out this claim.

100% of the pork is "hormone- and antibiotic-free, humanely raised meat, as [is] 80% of its chicken and 50% of its beef. That makes Chipotle the largest restaurant buyer of humanely raised meat," says Cohen.

Sounds like a great business opportunity too since the "average annual revenue of a Chipotle that has been open for more than a year is $1.7 million."

Burger King and Wendy's are now following suit and exploring humane-pork options.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill, 975 The Alameda at N. Morrison Ave., (408) 288-9172. Open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.]]> Chinese New Year
Vietnamese New Yearhttp://www.vsfsanjose.org/http://www.chineseparade.com/

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!]]>
"We offer many education and recreation programs in different locations in the park," said Kathy Muller, executive director. "It would be a big help to transport supplies, for example, up and down the trails. Sometimes event sites are not near city streets or parking."

Muller said electric carts are requested to minimize the environmental impact including air and noise pollution. Both two and four passenger cart models would be useful.

For further information, please phone Kathy Muller at Friends of Guadalupe River Park & Gardens, 408-298-7657.]]> story from the Mercury News today. According to a Men's Health survey, San Jose is the No. 1 place in the country to meet single men, and Fremont, of all places, actually placed 6th. San Francisco came in at No. 5. As anyone who's lived here for awhile knows, we sure have a surplus of single men in Man Jose but whether or not they're quality men is highly debatable. The article admits that many of them are "introverted engineer-types".

This survey was presented on The Oprah Winfrey Show so it's expected to bring lots of gold-digging women to the area. Yeehaw!]]> http://www.caltrain.com/news_2006_11_08_Ho..._Toy_Drive.html

]]> One Warm Coat and a Blanket Too Drive benefiting Sacred Heart Community Service (SHCS) of San Jose. The drive runs from October 31 to November 30.

During the past 3 years, Girl Scout Service Unit 38 has collected more than 4,500 gently used coats, jackets, and sweaters during its annual drive. This year, Girl Scouts has added gently used blankets, sheets, and sleeping bags to its annual drive after reading in a newspaper article that SHCS runs short on blankets during the winter months.

SHCS officials are looking forward to this year's drive and indicated that donated items go to immediate use by those who need them. "Keeping warm is something that many of our neighbors literally cannot afford," Todd Madigan, Community Involvement Coordinator for SHCS, said.

Collection locations include:

Fammatre Elementary School
2800 New Jersey Avenue, San Jose

Bagby School
1840 Harris Avenue, San Jose

Sartorette School
3850 Woodford Drive, San Jose

Galarza/Hammer School
1610 Bird Avenue, San Jose

For additional information, please contact Girl Scout Service Unit 38 One Warm Coat Coordinator Michelle Alaimo at 408-266-6777.]]>
It's fun reading for all you local culture addicts.

LINK: Lack of parking bars theater redo (Mercury News - 8/3/06)]]>
The area that will be fogged on Monday night at 11:00pm is predominantly northern areas of Campbell and in the areas of West San Jose that borders the northern edge of Campbell. There's more info on the County Website at
SCCGOV:West Nile Virus Updates

There's an updated map of the fogging area just published on their website. I've attached an enhanced version with common landmarks in red to help people figure out if they're in the fog zone.

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Saturday, Feb. 25th!
Come to "Fighting For Our Lives: A Community Health Care Hearing"
10am-1pm, at 55 W. Younger Ave. (Sheriff's Auditorium, one block north of First and Hedding in San Jose)

This is a hearing called by the community to raise awareness about the urgent need to deal with the health care crisis. Our congressional representatives and other elected officials have been invited to listen to testimony about health care problems and solutions, such as SB 840 and HR 676, bills for comprehensive universal single payer health care. It is one of over 40 Citizens Congressional Hearings nationwide, coordinated by Health Care Now and Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan), author of HR 676 (www.healthcare-now.org).

Food and childcare will be available at this event! For more information, call (408)977-1275 or (650)322-9609.
http://www.healthcareforall.org]]>
I personally find this to be some very scary news. While Knight-Ridder isn't exactly a home grown Silicon Valley organization, it's headquartered in San Jose and they've given their home territory preferential treatment in their history. For example, the San Jose Mercury News made it online long before it became the industry standard for papers to publish an online version. It was through AOL instead of the web. I bought an AOL subscription in 1994 so I could pick up on news back home while I was going to school in Boston.

Now there's rumors circulating of prospective buyers from far out of state as potential suitors for the Knight-Ridder company or a piece of it.

Pressured, Knight Ridder Ponders Sale of Company]]>