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January 22, 2009
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False spring turns cold, wet
By Carol Rosen
Editor
Martin Luther King Day typically is bleak, cold and more often than not wet. Not this year.
Throughout San Jose, and in many Almaden parks, children were dressed in T-shirts and shorts, scampering and playing in the dry grass. There were golfers and tennis players in clothes normally reserved for late spring and summer, and many were out enjoying their day off at Almaden Lake Park.
Even those under the age of 5 were out in spring and summer outfits enjoying the sun and the balmy weather.
Their moms knew that since school was out and the weather was great, it was a good day to get outside Read more...
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Almaden Times Inauguration reporter
in D.C.
The Almaden Times had its own reporter in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration on Jan. 20.
Spencer Nitkey, a seventh grader at Bret Harte Middle School, went to the nation’s capital to see Barack Obama’s inauguration and the sights. The 11-year-old was invited by the Junior Pres-idential Youth Inaugural Conference last summer and jumped at the chance to attend.
“It’s going to be great, there will be 1,700 kids,” he said. While he wasn’t sure if any of his friends from the Junior National Young Scholars Program were going to Read more...
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