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December 25, 2008
| Almaden Valley lights up for the holidays |
Almaden area homes decorate for
the season
At holiday time my son and I have a tradition that started a long time ago when his father was off on a business trip and not due home until just before Christmas.
The two of us would go out and drive through different neighborhoods to see the lights and decide which homes we liked best and which we didn’t like so much. Our favorites were always the umgapotchkied ones (that’s a Yiddish word meaning a “bit” overdone). We’d laugh, except for the ones that made us dizzy, and then we’d go home and drink hot chocolate and eat as many cookies as our tummies could hold (I was much thinner then)!
Today gas prices are higher, and there don’t seem to be as Read more...
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Golf tourney fundraiser for autism
By Dena Noble
Special to the Times
Through their annual golf tournament, held this year at Cinnabar Hills Golf Course, Almaden’s Customer Service Realty partnered with the Autism Tree Project Foundation and San Jose State University to help provide brighter futures for children with autism.
“This is our fifth anniversary for the golf tournament,” said CSR co-founder Dina Bonafede. “And for the fifth straight year, we’ve had non-stop rave reviews from the players. I would say at least 95 percent of the players are returning from previous years. Almost everybody I talked to Read more...
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