Author: Diane Andrews
Community
Ron Kleinman, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
December 4, 2024
It was Sunday in Santa Clara on a sunny weekend sandwiched between storms. “This is midway between a kid’s lemonade...
Community
Santa Clara Teen’s Children’s Business Fair Turns Kids into Entrepreneurs
November 15, 2024
Sixteen-year-old Mikhil Kiran, a senior at the Harker School in San Jose, started out in the business world in the...
Community
Rose Academies Introduces “Omwana Thrive” on International Day of the Girl Child
November 7, 2024
“Why Africa?” is a question Rose Academies CEO Susan Stasi is sometimes asked about the nonprofit she founded a decade...
Community
Bye Bye Kids’ Cancer: Silicon Valley Teen’s Nonprofit Turns Ten
October 16, 2024
Teenager Aeshaan Singhal is proof that one is never too young to improve life for others. Singhal’s nonprofit Bye Bye...
Community
Green Bus Lady Embraces Nomadic Life on Four Wheels
October 14, 2024
“I’m not homeless. I’m houseless by choice,” said Valerie Nielsen, known as the bus lady around Santa Clara, where her...
Arts & EntertainmentCommunity
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” is on the Prowl in Santa Clara
October 8, 2024
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” prowls the Santa Clara Players (SCP) stage October 11 – 26, just ahead of Halloween...
Community
Northside Library Throws 10th Birthday Party
September 16, 2024
Santa Clara’s Northside Branch Library—the library that was decades in the works as it awaited political will and financing—celebrated its...
Community
Community Embraces Family of Slain Teen
August 18, 2024
“I miss my son. The pain is hard,” said Esmeralda Perez, mother of 19-year-old Emmanuel Perez Becerra, shot twice and...
Community
Apartment Complex ADU Creates New Model for Affordable Housing
August 2, 2024
Not visible from the street and snuggled in behind a modest four-plex rental unit on Helen Avenue is a 633-square-foot...
Community
KP Seeds of Hope Uplifts and Empowers Cancer Survivors and Families
July 29, 2024
It was party time at Seeds of Hope, Kaiser Permanente’s 12th annual free Cancer Survivors Day Conference and Celebration at...









