Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez begins her new job in New Mexico on Wednesday, however final Friday she bought to say goodbye to lots of her colleagues and buddies at an occasion hosted by the Valley Well being Basis at Notre Dame Excessive College in downtown San Jose.
Chavez has been having a little bit of a farewell tour these days as she’s been making ready for a brand new job because the county supervisor of Bernalillo County in New Mexico. She delivered the Don Edwards Lecture at San Jose State two weeks in the past, acquired the Carmen Castellano Legacy Chief Award from the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley at its brunch Sunday and was honored as Lady of the Decade by Assemblymember Ash Kalra. Alongside the way in which, she had her final conferences on the Board of Supervisors and Valley Transportation Authority.
However Friday’s occasion, emceed by Valley Well being Basis CEO Michael Elliott, had the texture of a household reunion — the disco ball within the fitness center helped — if your loved ones was crammed with a who’s who of Santa Clara County figures like San Jose State President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, Santa Clara County Government James Williams, Santa Clara County Sheriff Bob Jonsen and U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The speaker checklist was simply as high-powered with U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and state Sen. Dave Cortese all sharing their recollections of working alongside Chavez, who served on the San Jose Metropolis Council earlier than she was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.
Have we seen the final of Cindy Chavez in San Jose? My intuition says she’ll be again at some point, so let’s simply make this “hasta pronto.”
POLITICS ON PARADE: OK, as famous by Maj. Gen. Stephen Hager, the grand marshal of San Jose’s 106th annual Veterans Day celebration, it did actually rain on his parade. Bands wore ponchos, army colour guards and scouts marched within the rain and politicians rode inside hard-top automobiles as an alternative of convertibles. In fact, as soon as the ultimate items have been going by, the solar peeked out and inside half-hour of the parade’s finish there was barely a cloud within the sky. Go determine.
And whereas the Veterans Day parade is a superb alternative to indicate respect for our army veterans, state Sen. Dave Cortese used his time on stage Monday to do a bit greater than that. You may keep in mind that again in 2015, Cortese — then a Santa Clara County supervisor — and then-San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo launched “All the Way Home,” an initiative to deal with homeless veterans that ended up being very profitable.
The necessity has not subsided, nonetheless, and through his quick speech, Cortese proposed that he and Mayor Matt Mahan companion to revive the initiative. Mahan spoke a short time later and accepted Cortese’s supply — and I don’t suppose both the supply or the acceptance was pre-planned.
Talking of Liccardo, he missed the parade as a result of he was headed to Washington, D.C., for orientation as a newly elected member of the Home of Representatives. He posted on Fb about taking a run Monday morning via the nation’s capital to the Lincoln Memorial — which he says has been his favourite operating vacation spot in DC since he was a Georgetown scholar interning for then-Rep. Norm Mineta. How do we all know he hasn’t forgotten San Jose? He ran sporting a Silicon Valley Turkey Trot shirt.
‘TIS THE SEASON: Whether you’ve been eagerly awaiting the vacations or attempting to maintain them at bay, there’s no denying that they’re right here.
The ending touches are being placed on Downtown Ice on the Circle of Palms in San Jose, with the out of doors skating rink opening Nov. 15 upfront of its huge grand opening ceremony Nov. 20. You don’t must seize your skates — you get them included once you buy a normal admission session for $21 at www.sjdowntownice.com.
The Los Altos Historical past Museum can also be inviting the general public to its “Catch the Spirit” occasion on Nov. 20 beginning at midday. The festive afternoon consists of performances by the choral group Schola Cantorum and the Volare Choir from Los Altos Excessive. And the historic J. Gilbert Smith Home will probably be decked out for a Thirties Christmas. Should you’re planning to choose up some early items on the museum’s boutiques, you’ll be paying 2024 costs I’m afraid — however a minimum of you’ll be supporting the preservation of native historical past. Take a look at the small print at losaltoshistory.org/CTS2024.
