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Three Sunnyvale residents sworn in as Court Appointed Special Advocates

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

CASA volunteers sworn inThree Sunnyvale residents were sworn in March 7 as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) through Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, a Milpitas-based nonprofit.Jeanne Hardeback, Yeoung (Gloria) Kim and Stuart Norton were among 22 volunteers who completed a training process to learn how to serve as the go-between for children in the foster care system and court officials.More than 60% of foster youth currently waiting for a CASA volunteer live outside of Santa Clara County, although their case is with the Santa Clara County Dependency Court.“Our agency is grateful that so many individuals are committed to making an impact on the lives of foster youth, near or far,” said Frederick J. Ferrer, CEO of Child Advocates.Volunteer training consisted of 30 hours of self-paced courses and presentations, both online and in person, that covered topics like child development, the dependency court system and inclusionary practices.Child Advocates is looking for CASA volun...

South Bay town hall offers crash course in distracted driving

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

Distracted driving town hallDistracted driving kills nine people in the U.S. every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, whose district includes Los Gatos, aims to increase awareness about the dangers of distracted driving with a telephone town hall on Sunday, March 26, 11 a.m.-noon.Leaders will discuss current laws and practices meant to reduce the likelihood of crashes caused by distractions. Simitian will be joined by Santa Clara County Sheriff Robert Jonsen and the county’s Deputy Public Health Officer Sarah Rudman. Register for the town hall at https://district5.sccgov.org/signupTTH.Free opera in the parkThe San Francisco Opera is coming to Los Gatos March 24-26 to stage three free, abridged performances of “La Bohème” on the Civic Center lawn. Audience members should bring their own chairs—or blankets—to enjoy the show.Performances are Friday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.Storm supp...

San Jose battalion chief is fired up about his career

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

Patrick Chung was just beginning his senior year of high school in 2001 when the terrorist attacks of 9/11 shaped his career path.Chung, now a battalion chief with the San Jose Fire Department, said he had always been interested in the fire service but started to think harder about it after witnessing the “incredibly stoic and honorable” actions of firefighters after the attacks.“That was a really impactful event that happened during a time period of my life where you’re a little more impressionable,” he added.Chung has made an impression in his 16 years with the San Jose Fire Department, moving from firefighter/EMT to fire captain to his current role as the EMS battalion chief, with responsibility for anything in the department that relates to emergency medical response.Chung’s accomplishments are also significant in light of a statistical analysis by job search website Zippia that shows only 1.8% of the approximately 138,819 firefighters employed in the United States as of last Se...

Great Mall in Milpitas hosts Bunny Photo Experience

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

Bunny Photo ExperienceThe Easter Bunny is hopping into town March 24-April 8, when Great Mall in Milpitas is hosting photo ops with the floppy-eared hider of colorful eggs.The Bunny Photo Experience will be open Monday-Thursday, 3-7 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, noon-6 p.m.Special events include Caring Bunny, a private event for children with special needs and their families. Special care is taken to ensure a sensory-friendly environment. The event is set for March 26, 9-10:30 a.m.Shoppers can bring the whole family—even the four-legged members—to Great Mall on April 1-2 for Treat Time with the Bunny. Receive a complementary treat and gift bag while supplies last with a purchase of a photo package with your loved ones and the rabbit of the hour.Reservations are required for Caring Bunny and encouraged for Treat Time with the Bunny and Bunny Photo Experience. Visit https://whereisbunny.com and click on “Find Bunny.”Rebuilding Day sign-upsRelated ArticlesLocal New...

Sunnyvale, Cupertino students’ artworks reveal ‘Unarmed Truth’

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

Nine Fremont Union High School District students are among 83 finalists in the annual ArtNow exhibition at New Museum Los Gatos, aka NUMU.NUMU’s Santa Clara County-wide high school art competition drew entries from more than 800 students from Palo Alto to Gilroy.Cupertino High School junior Katie Lee, Fremont High School sophomore Tara Krishna and Homestead High School junior Abigail Song all have artworks in the juried exhibit, as do Monta Vista High School students Rachael Ding, Nishanth Joshi, Tanvi Kanderi, Arianna Tan, Selina Wang and Alicia Xu.The juried exhibition will be on display from March 31 to June 25 at NUMU, located at 106 E. Main St., Los Gatos.This year’s theme, “Unarmed Truth,” was co-created with the ArtNow Teen Council, and students were encouraged to find inspiration from leaders and social movements that helped them understand, embody or uphold a hidden truth as a community.NUMU created the teen council last August to help the ArtNow program to be more widely a...

Three juveniles injured by fireworks on SF's Ocean Beach

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Three juveniles were taken to a hospital, two of them with serious injuries, after fireworks ignited Saturday night at Ocean Beach, according to a tweet by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.  Pregnant woman, 2 children stabbed in Antioch At around 8:15 p.m., San Francisco police and US Park police responded to reports of juveniles injured by fireworks. A group of 20-30 juveniles were around a fire on Ocean Beach when several fireworks ignited, GGNRA said. Three of the juveniles were transported to local hospitals. Two of the juveniles received serious injuries and the third juvenile received minor injuries, officials said. KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }The incident is currently under investigatio...

Does anyone still pan for gold in California?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

(KTXL) — Over 170 years later, the Gold Rush still isn't over for some Northern California residents. Gold was first discovered in 1848, leading to the California Gold Rush and changing the course of the state and igniting the growth of the West Coast, according to the Library of Congress.All these years later, you can still find people panning for gold.“There’s clubs locally in the area,” Laura Fierro told Nexstar's KTXL. “There’s prospector clubs that get together and do some panning and prospecting as well.” Fierro is involved with gold panning groups in the Sacramento area called River City Prospectors and the Lady Explorers, Adventurers and Prospectors, the latter being an all women-club. Fierro has had a long interest in gold panning, but didn’t take it seriously as a hobby until five years ago.  La Niña is officially over, NOAA announces: What does that mean? When Fierro pans for gold, she and a friend spend 12 hours, starting her day early in the morning and...

Two men arrested for attempted carjacking in Walnut Creek

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KRON) – Two men were arrested after attempting to carjack a man on Saturday, according to the Walnut Creek Police Department.At 5:42 p.m., officers responded to a report of a carjacking in-progress at a parking lot in the 2500 block of North Main Street. Two males opened the front passenger and driver’s side doors and dragged the male victim out of the car where he was kicked in the stomach, police said.  Three juveniles injured by fireworks on SF’s Ocean Beach The two men attempted to carjack the man, however a citizen intervened and the suspects fled the area. Officers arrived two minutes after receiving the report and located the two suspects running on Third Avenue, WCPD said.A perimeter was set up and officers located the suspects who were hiding on Cameo Court. The suspects were identified as William Hleza and Emmanuel Hleza, police said.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; over...

Bush's Iraq War Lies Served as a Blueprint for Donald Trump

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

President George W. Bush addresses the nation about U.S. attacks on Iraq from the Oval Office on March 19, 2003.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesPaul Wolfowitz walked among the tombstones of the Iraq war dead.It was April 9, 2009, and Wolfowitz, the former deputy secretary of defense in the Bush administration and one of the chief architects of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, had come to Arlington National Cemetery to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.He came to Section 60, the portion of Arlington where American soldiers who had died in Iraq and Afghanistan lay buried, as the most prominent guest at a small ceremony to mark the day six years earlier when the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square had been pulled down. Wolfowitz and other Iraq war hawks had decided that April 9 should be commemorated as “Iraq Liberation Day.”The 2009 celebration was organized and hosted by Viola Drath, a former journalist, longtime socialite, and, at 89, a tireless networker...

Trump’s Last Defense Secretary Has Regrets — but Not About Jan. 6

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:31 GMT

When bureaucrats get big promotions, they tend to receive congratulations from their friends, but after Christopher Miller landed the biggest job of his life, his wife and some of his colleagues were horrified.It was November 9, 2020, the day President Donald Trump fired his secretary of defense, Mark Esper. It was widely assumed that Trump would install an acolyte who would do whatever was needed to help the defeated president stay in power. Esper, just days before, had confided to a journalist, “Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real yes man. And then God help us.”Trump appointed Miller, an unknown whose rise was so far-fetched that the secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, had to Google his new boss to figure out who he was. Wikipedia was useless because at the time, Miller didn’t merit an entry.After retiring from the Army as a Special Forces colonel in 2014, Miller moved from one mid-level job to another in Washington, D.C., a nobody in a city of somebodies. ...