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February 17, 2005
One World Montessori School honors cultural diversity
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By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer
Students at One World Montessori preschool Almaden celebrated the Chinese New Year in style last week.
Fifty pairs of small hands shaped dumplings, folded paper and cut out and created lion masks and dragons and learned about the centuries-old traditions. It happens every year at Montessori and not just for the Chinese New Year. Many ethnic holidays are studied and observed. But for this traditional holiday celebrated by Chinese, Koreans and Japanese around the world, it welcomes the year 4703 on the Asian calendar. And the preschoolers are eager to honor the holiday, dressed in brightly colored brocade authentic clothing.
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State of the City address
Mayor Gonzales vows to bring major league baseball to San Jose and help city become stem-cell research center
By Sheila Sanchez
Staff Writer
San Jose’s top civil servant gave his seventh annual state of the city report Feb. 9 Gonzales announced his desire to bring major league baseball to San Jose and to help the city become the home of the new stem-cell research center program created by the passage of Proposition 71 last November.
A healthier looking Ron Gonzales was under the spotlight last Wednesday evening at the newly restored California Theater, where Read more...
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