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VOLUME XXIV NO. 6 | MARCH 2006 IN THIS ISSUE: Lunar New Year Unity Parade e Cupertino’s Multi-Cultural Heritage Gets Spotlight At Lunar New Year Unity Parade, International Fair March 11 Cupertino’s Fourth Annual Lunar New Year Unity Parade kicks off a day-long multi-cultural celebration Saturday, March 11, honoring the area’s broad spectrum of cultures. Free parking will be available all day at DeAnza College. ...continued on p. 2 e Roots: Old Timers and Signs of Spring Hope you all are enjoying the gradual greening of our wonderful Santa Clara Valley in the spring. Went out to weed between rains and found five different kinds of mushrooms growing here and there in the yard. Fascinating things, mushrooms. In the last century, a relative met an unpleasant, ...continued on p. 4 NEWS ITEMS Lunar New Year Unity Parade ........................2 California Youth Symphony Audition ...........11 Creativity and Community ............................3 Silicon Valley Symphony Openings ..............11 Roots: Old Timers and Signs of Spring ...........4 Cupertino’s Free Shredding Day ..................11 March 2006 Simply Safe ...............................5 Peninsula Symphony Presents .....................12 Cupertino Library Hours ................................6 The Better Part ...........................................12 Children’s Programs .....................................6 Senior Center News ....................................13 Library Programs and Classes .......................7 Council Actions ..........................................14 Community Calendar ....................................8 Access Cupertino........................................15 Environmental News ..................................10 City Meetings .............................................16 Lunar New Year Unity Parade! ...continued from p. 1 The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. and will follow Stelling Road in Cupertino from Jollyman Park to Memorial Park, where an International Fair will continue through 4 p.m. The parade launches the day’s free events with music and participation from a wide variety of community groups. The International Fair further emphasizes cultural diversity with stage performances, ethnic cuisine and informational exhibits from several countries around the world. “Our Lunar New Year Unity Parade and the International Fair offers a wonderful opportunity for a family-friendly celebration of our multi-cultural diversity,” said Kris Wang, parade committee co-chair. “We invite all community members and area residents to join in this fun day of festivities and learning.” “Our Lunar New Year Unity Celebration seeks to further a better understanding of the rich diver- sity that Cupertino is fortunate to enjoy,” said Steve Andrews, parade committee co-chair. “With the parade and international festival, we’re happy to bring together our community’s broad spectrum of cultures while celebrating the Lunar New Year.” Those interested in additional information about the events can contact parade committee co- chair Steve Andrews at 973-1348 or [email protected]. Please go to www.unityparade.org for complete details. For More Information LUNAR NEW YEAR UNITY PARADE PUBLICITY CONTACT: Nivi Padhy, 777-0727; [email protected] Ann Stevenson, 446-3384 [email protected] p. 2 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 p. 3 ANNOUNCEMENT EUPHRAT MUSEUM OF ART AND DE ANZA STUDENT BODY PRESENT TWO EXHIBITION PRESENTATIONS: 1. CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY A presentation by Tony May and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and conversation with students Tony May, as professor at San Jose State University, taught an Art in the Community class for many years and has been involved in the community for decades. Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, a professor at San Jose State University in fiber arts and a consum- mate weaver, creates challenging art that deals with social issues and pushes the boundaries of tradi- tional craft materials. Tony May and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood will address the idea of barriers to creativity as well as the metaphor/actuality of boundaries to equity and social change. Wednesday, March 1, 2006 11:30 – 12:30 pm Conference Room A De Anza Campus Center 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014 2. EXCHANGE/CHANGE Initiating creative exchange on the international level Panel: Flo Oy Wong, mixed media artist featured on KQED’s SPARK program Lenore Chinn, painter who counters “magical-truth rituals” of racial and gender construction Nina Koepcke, artist and arts facilitator, co-founder of the Lifelines Project Connie Young Yu, author, involved with numerous historical projects Stand-by: Joyce Iwasaki, Arts Council Silicon Valley This San Francisco Bay Area panel will speak about the creative presentation of cultural and intellectual ideas abroad. In October of 2005, they presented art, history, and compelling stories to their counterparts, students, and professors at universities, colleges, and art institutions in Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai. Through their exchange, art and culture served as catalysts for change for the presenters and their audience. Tuesday, March 7, 2006 1:30 - 3:00 pm Conference Rooms A & B De Anza Campus Center 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014 All events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public. For more information including arrangement for any disability need, please contact Jan Rindfleisch at 408 864-8836 or visit www.deanza.fhda.edu/euphrat/ p. 2 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 p. 3 Roots: Old Timers and Signs of Spring ...continued from p. 1 untimely death from eating wild mushrooms were blooming and people were occasionally and he had picked and eaten them all his life. parking along the road and picking bouquets of Very often the “good” ones are extremely the lovely flowers to take home. In the spring, difficult to distinguish from the lethal ones. some hardy souls came and dug some of them Another item on the “wild green menu” that up to save them from being buried by bulldoz- pops up around here in the spring was known ers. Perhaps they are still blooming in yards in the old days as “miner’s lettuce” or “Chinese across Cupertino. Chrysanthemums are very lettuce” as those two groups recognized early hardy, long-lived plants.) on in coming to California that this attractive Our last gentleman grower, Robert Downs, leafy green was a good source of vitamin grew mushrooms on their property C, very nutritious and tasted good, too. located on Rainbow Drive and Bubb And happily, it is never lethal like roads. As a boy in the state of mushrooms. Washington, Robert was a 4-H This month, this column sa- club member and his project lutes three gentlemen who was growing mushrooms. lived in Cupertino and During later world liked to grow things. travels he did research on the many species Kay Nose’s parents bought and varieties. In France he and farmed five acres on Miller found the Agaricus Capestris Ave. in 1929. Kay and his wife, or snow-white mushroom to be Lois Oba also lived at the Miller Ave. included in every family’s cuisine location. The Nose family planted straw- and he eventually cultivated thousands berries on their land and eventually added of this species, using a newly developed 10 more acres. In Peter Emig’s little biograph- scientific compost. One of his favorite reci- ical sketch about the Nose family, Kay recalled pes was “Labin Au Vin Rouge” (rabbit in red a treasured valley sight, orchards of Santa Rosa wine) Stew meat can be used as a substitute. In- plums. This fruit was his favorite, perhaps, as he gredients as follows: 1 rabbit (or stewmeat) cut recalled, it was the first to ripen, very juicy and up, brown in oil with 1 onion, 2 pieces of bacon large in size. cut up - add 1 Tbs. flour. Add 1 cup dry red or Mas Onishi received a degree in floriculture white wine, 1 cup water, 1 Tbs. salt, dash pep- from City College of San Francisco in 1950. per, touch of garlic to taste - cook 45 minutes. He said he found the world of flowers to be Add a few potatoes, carrots & mushrooms, cook enchanting and none so fair as the chrysanthe- 20 minutes. Eat and enjoy. ( As an LDS, Mr. mum. He was quoted as saying, “the chrysan- Downs was careful to point out that wine, once themum is my favorite because of its variety of cooked, is then a non-alcoholic sauce) forms and colors. Only this flower can express We here in Santa Clara Valley are blessed with almost any feeling for most occasions. It also one of the most favorable growing climates has one of the longest lasting qualities and is in the world. While the fields of flowers and grown for world wide enjoyment right here in orchards are no more, backyard gardeners and the Cupertino area.” (There used to be large even apartment dwellers with pots of tomatoes tracts of land devoted to flower growing in or flowers on the balcony or in a sunny window the Cupertino area.) A personal memory of can enjoy tasty treats or lovely beauty with just those days was one fall, a large field planted a bit of effort. Happy Spring, everybody! to chrysanthemums had gone unattended for a couple of years. (Perhaps the owner had sold it for development and for a time the plants just came up on their own if they had enough mois- ture and the summer sun had not baked them brown.) I noticed in October, many of the plants p. 4 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 Cupertino Scene | Volume 24, #6 | March 2006 p. 5 MARCH 2006 SIMPLY SAFE Congratulations to the 59 students who just makes a difference! Whether you are organizing graduated from Cupertino’s Community Emer- your neighborhood (FREE 4 hour training) or want gency Response Team training. They know that to join the City’s CERT team (FREE 19 hour train- the only good time to prepare for an emergency ing) our trained volunteer staff is ready to assist.