Newark Symphonic Mariners Winds Free capture Spring Section Southern Concert Championship Exposures Page 7 Page 40 Page 27 Scan for our FREE App or Search App Store for TCVnews 510-494-1999 [email protected] www.tricityvoice.com March 7, 2017 Vol. 15 No. 10 BY DAVID R. NEWMAN length films from around the world. Workshops and Q&A on offer through a partnership with Common Sense PHOTOS COURTESY OF BAICFF sessions will round out the program, designed to educate Media will be a special workshop called How to Be a Kid and inspire the kid in all of us. Critic. Says co-founder Shelley Trott, “In this climate The Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival 2017 festival highlights will include a special Opening where we are bombarded by media, we felt the need to (BAICFF) returns to the Chabot Space & Science Center in Night panel discussion entitled BRAVE: Women Breaking provide some guidance for kids, and adults, on viewing Oakland on March 10 – 12. Now in its 9th year, the festival the Mold, where four prominent female artists will discuss media content with a critical eye, discerning between will feature over 40 animated, live action, shorts and feature- their journey in a historically male-dominated field. Also reality and fantasy.” continued on page 19 PHOTOS COURTESY OF SHAHRZAD DANCE ACADEMY As the days grow lighter and the weather warms, the Persian festival of Nowruz arrives, celebrating the first day of spring BY TOSHALI GOEL and the renewal of nature. Falling PHOTOS COURTESY OF RANA on the vernal equinox, Nowruz, or the Persian New Year, begins As winter fades away, people around the world rejoice and on March 21 and is observed celebrate the emergence of spring. One event that takes place in with special foods, haftseen tables this season is the Hindu festival of Holi. Holi is celebrated in set with seven items symbolizing remembrance of the ancient legend of Holika and Prahlad. As spring and renewal, spring the story goes, there was once an egotistical king named cleaning, and visiting friends and Hiranyakashyap who desired to rule all of Earth. He was so relatives. Nowruz means “new narcissistic that he demanded his subjects worship only him, and day” in Persian and is celebrated no deity. His son Prahlad, much to the dismay of Hiranyakashyap, in Iran, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, became a dedicated devotee to the Hindu deity Lord Vishnu. Tajikestan, Uzbekistan, Hiranyakashyap attempted several times to coax his son Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and into worshipping him, but no attempt was successful in influencing Kyrgyzstan, as well as Persian the mind of the young Prahlad. Infuriated by his insolence, communities across the U.S. Hiranyakashyap ordered his servants to kill the boy. But each and beyond. Several observations effort left Prahlad unscathed, due to Lord Vishnu’s protection of his are taking place in our local worshippers. Finally, Hiranyakashyap turned to his sister Holika. community: Holika had been given a boon that would allow her to enter fire Celebrate Nowruz at the unharmed. She cunningly convinced Prahlad to sit on her lap and Fremont Main Library on entered the fire. Miraculously, she burned to ashes, and Prahlad Saturday March 11 with a dance was saved: punishment for her bad deeds. Today, Holi is generally performance by the Shahrzad celebrated by coloring one another with multicolored powders, continued on page 17 celebrating this victory of good over evil, continued on page 32 INDEX Classified. 25 It’s a date . 21 Public Notices. 34 Arts & Entertainment . 21 Community Bulletin Board . 36 Kid Scoop . 18 Real Estate. 13 Contact Us . 29 Mind Twisters . 10 Sports . 26 Bookmobile Schedule . 23 Editorial/Opinion . 29 Obituary . 30 Subscribe . 37 Business . 8 Home & Garden . 13 Protective Services . 33 Page 2 WHAT’S HAPPENING’S TRI-CITY VOICE March 7, 2017 family practice physician respiratory infection to diabetes 13-year-old daughter and a at Washington Township complications to heart disease. 10-year-old son. I worked for a A Medical Foundation’s That variety of experiences means while in a private practice in Warms Springs Clinic in Fremont I never get bored. I never know Mountain View, but I moved to since 2000, Shelli Bodnar, MD, exactly what I’m going to handle the Warm Springs Clinic when I says she has patients who range in throughout the day. Of course, it got the chance because it is closer age from “infancy all the way up is also part of my job to know to home. Plus, I like the fact that to about 90,” and that suits her when to refer a patient to a par- our clinic is a small office where just fine. ticular specialist – to know what people can feel comfortable and “I like the variety of ages,” she I don’t know.” see the same faces every time, explains. “I need a good dose of Born in Pennsylvania, rather than a large impersonal younger, healthy people, as well Dr. Bodnar earned a Bachelor of clinic with a lot of hustle and as the challenges entailed in Science in nutritional sciences at bustle.” dealing with older people’s health Cornell University in Ithaca, Dr. Bodnar describes her problems. I went into family New York. 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