Diane Andrews

Santa Clara Teen’s Children’s Business Fair Turns Kids into Entrepreneurs

Sixteen-year-old Mikhil Kiran, a senior at the Harker School in San Jose, started out in the business world in the…

November 15, 2024

Rose Academies Introduces “Omwana Thrive” on International Day of the Girl Child

“Why Africa?” is a question Rose Academies CEO Susan Stasi is sometimes asked about the nonprofit she founded a decade…

November 7, 2024
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Bye Bye Kids’ Cancer: Silicon Valley Teen’s Nonprofit Turns Ten

Teenager Aeshaan Singhal is proof that one is never too young to improve life for others. Singhal’s nonprofit Bye Bye…

October 16, 2024

Green Bus Lady Embraces Nomadic Life on Four Wheels

“I’m not homeless. I’m houseless by choice,” said Valerie Nielsen, known as the bus lady around Santa Clara, where her…

October 14, 2024

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” is on the Prowl in Santa Clara

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” prowls the Santa Clara Players (SCP) stage October 11 – 26, just ahead of Halloween…

October 8, 2024

Northside Library Throws 10th Birthday Party

Santa Clara’s Northside Branch Library—the library that was decades in the works as it awaited political will and financing—celebrated its…

September 16, 2024

Community Embraces Family of Slain Teen

“I miss my son. The pain is hard,” said Esmeralda Perez, mother of 19-year-old Emmanuel Perez Becerra, shot twice and…

August 18, 2024

Apartment Complex ADU Creates New Model for Affordable Housing

Not visible from the street and snuggled in behind a modest four-plex rental unit on Helen Avenue is a 633-square-foot…

August 2, 2024

KP Seeds of Hope Uplifts and Empowers Cancer Survivors and Families

It was party time at Seeds of Hope, Kaiser Permanente’s 12th annual free Cancer Survivors Day Conference and Celebration at…

July 29, 2024
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Sunnyvale Rotarians Hook 1st Graders on Reading

“There was an old lady who swallowed some books!” read Sunnyvale Rotarian Mary Green-Vickrey to first graders at Sunnyvale’s Lakewood…

July 27, 2024