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February 4, 2009
| Smelling like Roses |
Oliverio honors Rose Garden volunteers
By Carol Rosen
Editor
Every year for the State of the City breakfast, San Jose’s 10 city council members choose a person or group to honor. Last year’s District 6 honors went to Our City Forest.
This year Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio saluted the Friends of the Rose Garden volunteers who have managed to return the garden to the prominent rose display it had been after more than 4,000 hours of hard work. When Oliverio first took office in March 2007, he noted to the council his campaign promise to help get the Rose Garden back into shape and take the garden off probation by the All-American Rose Selection. Read more...
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Are you enjoying Valentine’s Day?
By Carol Rosen
Editor
Has Valentine’s Day lost its luster? Remember when you were a kid and decorated a shoebox with paper and ribbons and doilies and things and then everyone was required to hand out Valentine’s cards?
I never got anything pretty; they were always those yucky little kid valentines—the same ones my mother got for me to give to my friends. But at least you got to eat pretty cupcakes and read Valentine’s and not do schoolwork all afternoon.
I always wanted something more, like those big, beautiful Read
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