August 7, 2008

Almaden teen’s photo part of city campaign

By Carol Rosen
Editor

Fourteen-year-old Cole Brady took a picture this summer that has become part of the city’s campaign to live, work and play in downtown.

Almaden student Cole Brady took this picture, which is part of a slide show the city’s Redevelopment Agency is using to show people living, working and playing downtown. The full show, along with other information about the program, can be viewed at sjdowntownliving.com.

Brady, who spends half his time in Almaden with his dad and the other half downtown with his mom, former Almaden Times reporter Kymberli Brady, has become quite a photographer. He recently took a photo of he and his mom leaning against a pole downtown and it is now being used as part of the campaign that was launched in late June by the city’s Redevelopment Association, Downtown Association and the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.

“My mom and I were just walking around downtown and taking pictures when we saw these old doors that had an old black and white painting of the Old California Theater. So we both leaned against a painted pole in front of the doors and I [put my camera on timed release] and took the photo. The RDA liked it so well, they put it on their Web site (sjdowntownliving.com) and it’s in the WAVE Magazine,” Brady told the Times.

“All my friends think it’s cool,” said Brady, who will start his freshman year this fall at Pioneer High School. He has attended Almaden schools throughout his previous education graduating from Los Alamitos Elementary School and Castillero Middle School, where he won the eighth grade Directors’ Choice Award.