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San Jose volunteers ready Dec. 5 opening

By Carol Rosen
Editor

For nearly 30 years, San Jose residents have celebrated Christmas in the Park in our fair city. This year is no exception.
But some of us may have wondered what, how long and how many people it takes to put on such an extraordinary, but free, display. Actually, it takes more than 500 volunteers and a whole year to put together each year’s display. And much of that work is dictated and worked on by a group of 20 volunteers and a city employee.
The city employee is Tom Trafton, the exhibit designer. There’s also Cindy Willard from Evergreen and Arlene Runel from Almaden, Read more...

By Shana McLean Moore
Staff Writer

During this, the season to pause, reflect and verbalize gratitude for the things going right in our lives, it’s a given we’ll look first to the big blessings of health, harmony or having a job in a tough economy. But there are smaller things, too, that we need to credit for giving us a reason to smile, dance or, in the case of Almaden’s Tracy Hoefer, belt it out like a rock star.
At the advanced rock-star age of 49, Hoefer is realizing more of a fantasy than a dream by being the latest addition to FreeFahlen, Read more...