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Cupertino Lions Club hosts free vision clinic

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

Hundreds of patients received free eye exams April 23 at a vision clinic sponsored by the Cupertino De Anza Lions Club. No medical insurance or proof of citizenship was required to receive a free exam.Ten volunteer doctors and 70 non-medical volunteers—most of them Lions Club members—spent nine hours seeing 349 patients at the clinic, held  at St. John Vianney Community Center in San Jose. Most patients received recycled eyeglasses from the Lions’ inventory collected from schools, libraries, hospitals and banks. Unusual prescriptions were ordered from an online glasses supplier that donates them to vision clinics.Lines built up as the doctors worked to keep up with flow of people, but by the end of the day, everyone had been seen. Some patients—both children and adults—put on glasses for the first time at the clinic.The Lions Club is planning a similar clinic for October.

Bay Area Older Adults offers hikes, tours and seminars

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

Bay Area Older Adults (BAOA) is offering a variety of hikes, tours and seminars in May.BAOA leading a moderate-to-strenuous 4-mile hike May 10 to look for spring wildflowers and butterflies on the trails of Cupertino’s Fremont Older Preserve, and learn about butterflies seen along the Stevens Creek Reservoir. Register for Hike 7 at https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-hikesOlder adults can take an expert-led walking tour of the Silicon Valley water purification center on May 12 to see firsthand via interactive exhibits how waste water can cost-effectively be transformed into drinking water Santa Clara County residents. For more information and to register for Event 4, visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/bao-culture.Dr. Merav Vonshak will lead a virtual seminar on ant ecology and social behavior on May 18, when she’ll explain the insects’ complex social interactions and how they developed agriculture and slavery millions of years before humans. Vonshak studied ants during her ...

Saratoga crime report for the week of May 5

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

APRIL 17Grand theft, selling stolen property: Someone stole property from a residence in the 13000 block of Pierce Road and then sold the property for a total loss of about $1,900. The suspect admitted to the theft and was arrested and booked into main jail.Minor in possession of marijuana: At 10:19 a.m., deputies responded to Prospect High School on reports of a student in possession of marijuana on campus. The student was cited and released.DUI arrest: At 5:30 a.m., deputies observed a motorist commit multiple traffic violations on Highway 85 at Saratoga Avenue and stopped the vehicle. An investigation revealed the suspect was driving under the influence of alcohol. The suspect was arrested and booked into main jail.Mail theft: Between March 1 and 10, unknown suspects stole mail from the mailbox of a residence in the 13000 block of Saratoga Avenue. The value of the mail was not provided.APRIL 18Residential burglary: Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m., unknown suspects entered garages of m...

Latest line: A good week for Kamala Harris, a bad week for San Jose Fire chief

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

Kamala HarrisIt hasn’t always been easy for the Oakland-born vice president. But when Joe Biden announced this week he’s running for re-election, she was front and center in ads, ending speculation he might replace her.    Robert SapienSan Jose fire chief leaves big questions unanswered after refusing to make public an investigative report about why a bikini-clad woman from the Pink Poodle strip club was riding in an on-duty city fire truck last fall.   John FisherBillionaire Oakland A’s owner, whose team has the lowest payroll and worst record in baseball, might get richer moving the A’s to Las Vegas. But the deal still could collapse like his other stadium plans have. 

They said it: Nowhere for the water to go

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

“The problem is there’s nowhere else for this water to go in the Tulare Lake Basin. It’s just going to fill up like a bathtub.”— Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA, on the growing anticipation of the Big Melt of California’s record snowpack flooding a region of the San Joaquin Valley that was once-home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.

Monaco’s Champions League hopes hit by loss to Montpellier

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

MONACO (AP) — Arnaud Nordin notched two goals and an assist as Monaco’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League took a hit after a 4-0 loss to Montpellier in the French league on Sunday.Fourth-place Monaco occupies the Europa League spot, five points behind Lens which has a game in hand, while Montpellier earned three precious points in its fight for safety to move 11 points above the relegation zone with five games remaining.Montpellier winger Nordin intercepted a sloppy pass from Youssouf Fofana and cut inside to guide the ball into the bottom corner in the 28th minute. Faitout Maouassa doubled the lead with an angled strike at the near post in the 65th before Nordin curled a shot into the far corner in the 72nd to make it 3-0. English striker Stephy Mavididi took a pass from Nordin to round off the scoring with a low effort in the 79th. Nordin proved a real thorn in the side of the Monaco defense. He tested goalkeeper Alexander Nubel in the 14th and the 48th and led a counte...

La espiritualidad mantiene a Beéle con los pies en la tierra: “No me dejo cegar por lujos ni nada de eso”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

(CNN Español) — El nombre de Beéle ha rondado en la escena musical desde hace relativamente pocos años.En 2019, cuando lanzó “Loco”, su primer tema, tuvo la suerte que muchos desean: su internacionalización llegó con tan solo una canción bajo el brazo. Tenía a penas 16 años cuando el tema se hizo viral y su nombre no solo retumbaba por las calles de su natal Barranquilla, en Colombia.“Loco fue la primera y la que a mi me sacó completamente a probar otros países. La que hoy en día también sigo promocionando. Es la canción que a mí me ha abierto las puertas en todo el mundo, cuando salió fue número uno en casi 16-20 países”, cuenta Beéle a Zona Pop CNN desde un estudio de grabación en Miami, poco antes del estreno de su más reciente sencillo, “Guaro”.“Estoy muy emocionado por todo el proceso que he tenido que vivir. Todo hasta el día de hoy ha sido muy lindo, han sido días llenos de aprendizajes, sesiones llenas de mucho amor, de mucha pasión y mucha música”, dice el intérprete....

Frederick historian pens book on local history

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — John Ashbury jokes that his memory isn’t what it once was now that he’s reached his 80s. But you wouldn’t know that if you watched him flip through a copy of his recently published book.Every few pages, he stops. His eyes light up. And he begins to rattle off facts and figures with the dexterity of a man who has spent most of his life immersed in the study of history.Ashbury, a local author and historian, just released his fourth book. It’s called “Reflections,” and it’s billed as a collection of “eclectic selections from the archives of Frederick Magazine.”Since 2006, Ashbury has written a regular column for the magazine called Reflections. In each piece, he profiles a person, place or event that in some way shaped Frederick County’s history. The new book compiles all 86 columns that Ashbury has published over the years, plus one that’s due to run in May.The 87 subjects in the book “run the gamut,” Ashbury said.There’s Morton Mower, who grew up downtown in the...

Latinas form cleaning co-op for safety, fair wages

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — For almost 20 years, a group of women who fled Latin American countries because of violence against them have been supporting each other in the Fredericksburg area, throughout Virginia and into Washington and Maryland.The Latinas call themselves Madre Tierra, or Mother Earth. Since 2004, they’ve connected about 500 immigrants with lawyers who helped secure their legal status or application for political asylum. Group members also have provided emotional support after domestic violence or sexual assault, human trafficking or forced marriages or persecution because of their sexual orientation.“They didn’t migrate for the American dream,” said Dilcia Molina, the group’s founder and president. “They migrated to save their lives.”Once in America, some discovered similar problems as those they’d tried to escape. Younger women, especially those who don’t have driver’s licenses or speak English, sometimes were expected to give sexual favors in return for jobs and ...

Police: one dead after fiery crash in Norton

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:02 GMT

A Randolph man died in a crash in Norton early Saturday morning when his car rear-ended another vehicle, flipped over and caught fire, according to the Massachusetts State Police.Jeffrey Tagger, 52, was found dead at the scene of the crash around 2:30 a.m. Saturday after the Norton Fire Department extinguished the car fire. Tagger was heading northbound on Route 495 when he lost control of his Nissan Maxima after hitting a Toyota RAV 4 which was traveling in front of him. The Toyota swerved left and hit the guardrail, while Tagger’s Nissan rolled over off the road and caught fire. The Toyota’s driver, a 48-year-old Brockton man, and his passenger were transported to the hospital with apparent minor injuries.The crash is still under investigation by the Massachusetts State Police and other officials.