Sal Pizarro

San Jose

Around Town columnist @mercnews, curating the cool bits of #SanJose, #SiliconValley. @UCSB alum. #cocktails, #JamesBond and #comics.

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Celebration to honor KEEN, San Jose's legendary country music station

4 days ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

It’s going to be a trip back to the radio days of the 1970s and ’80s at History Park next month when KEEN, San Jose’s legendary country music station is celebrated for its selection as the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame’s Legendary Station for 2025. The festivities on June 8 will include displays of KEEN memorabilia, reminisces by former station personnel, an appearance by country music star Lacy J. Dalton and country music by the Patty Kistner Band.
San Jose concert will honor legendary SJSU choral director Archibeque

5 days ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

It’s not hard to sing the praises of Charlene Archibeque, the longtime professor emeritus and director of choral activities for San Jose State University. But you can imagine the SJSU Choirs and Orchestra — along with a special alumni choir — will do a top-notch job when they honor her during a concert Saturday, May 10, at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose.
San Jose's Our City Forest loses huge chunk of federal funding

6 days ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

For more than 30 years, Our City Forest has been working to increase the number of trees in San Jose and Santa Clara County, providing free street trees to homeowners and staging planting events in parks, schools and other community spaces throughout the region. But that work is threatened now thanks to — you guessed it — budget cuts at the federal level.
Tech Challenge continues to inspire students -- and this grown-up

1 week ago | siliconvalley.com | Sal Pizarro

More than 600 teams of Santa Clara County students gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center’s South Hall this weekend, eager to find out how the devices they built performed in this year’s Tech Challenge — an engineering showcase that has been a signature event of the Tech Interactive since 1988. Someone’s who’s been there for all 38 iterations is Greg Brown, a San Jose engineer who helped found the event a decade before the Tech even had its familiar mango-and-azure building downtown.
Tech Challenge continues to inspire students - and this grown-up

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Sal Pizarro

More than 600 teams of Santa Clara County students gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center’s South Hall this weekend, eager to find out how the devices they built performed in this year’s Tech Challenge — an engineering showcase that has been a signature event of the Tech Interactive since 1988. Someone’s who’s been there for all 38 iterations is Greg Brown, a San Jose engineer who helped found the event a decade before the Tech even had its familiar mango-and-azure building downtown.
Tech Challenge continues to inspire students -- and this grown-up

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

More than 600 teams of Santa Clara County students gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center’s South Hall this weekend, eager to find out how the devices they built performed in this year’s Tech Challenge — an engineering showcase that has been a signature event of the Tech Interactive since 1988. Someone’s who’s been there for all 38 iterations is Greg Brown, a San Jose engineer who helped found the event a decade before the Tech even had its familiar mango-and-azure building downtown.
Tech Challenge continues to inspire students

1 week ago | eastbaytimes.com | Sal Pizarro

More than 600 teams of Santa Clara County students gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center's South Hall this weekend, eager to find out how the devices they built performed in this year's Tech Challenge - an engineering showcase that has been a signature event of the Tech Interactive since 1988. Someone's who's been there for all 38 iterations is Greg Brown, a San Jose engineer who helped found the event a decade before the Tech even had its familiar mango-and-azure building downtown.
Newly released Latino Health Assessment highlights devastating health disparities in Santa Clara County

1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Sal Pizarro

Alum Rock Union School District students wave flags and signs during a Cesar Chavez Day celebration at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose on Thursday, March 30, 2023. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group) Sal Pizarro TNS Santa Clara County’s Latino population has faced devastating health disparities in recent years, with Latino residents experiencing higher rates of gun violence, obesity and deaths from diabetes and heart disease than the county averages, according to a new report.
Goodwill of Silicon Valley opening its first outlet store in San Jose

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

Goodwill of Silicon Valley CEO Christopher Baker is quite excited about the new Goodwill Outlet store opening May 2 in San Jose. “It’s a double benefit,” said Baker, who has been with Goodwill of Silicon Valley for 15 years and took over the top spot last August. Shoppers, he said, will get an even better price than they would at regular Goodwill retail stores. Not to mention, it’s also keeping more stuff out of landfills.
It's going to be a festive Cinco de Mayo weekend in San Jose

2 weeks ago | mercurynews.com | Sal Pizarro

Cinco de Mayo shouldn’t be one of those holidays that can sneak up on you. Much like the Fourth of July, the date is actually in the name of the holiday. But this is one of those years where it just might because May 5 falls on Monday. That means nearly all the hoopla in San Jose will take place the weekend before, May 3 and 4, with some folks no doubt turning it into a three-day celebration. Maybe we can consider them Cinco de Mayo observado and Cinco de Mayo tradicional.