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October 6, 2005
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Almaden Branch Library buzz grows as construction progresses
By Kymberli W. Brady
Staff Writer
As the new Almaden Branch Library enters its final construction phase, the excitement surrounding its pending completion is growing in tandem with its walls. So is the need to fill it.
While the building costs will be absorbed by the $212 million bond issue Branch Library Project, passed in November 2000, funding stops just past the butter cream paint on the interior walls. The new improved facility will also be two-thirds larger than before and that creates a sizeable—and unfunded—dilemma.
While groups such as the Almaden Business Association press ahead with aggressive fund-raising Read more...
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| Creative compassion
Reinventing adoption after Katrina
By Kymberli W. Brady
Staff Writer
The saying “lightning never strikes the same place twice” may be true in most cases, but when it comes to hurricanes and personal tragedies, Denise Johnson was a lightning rod for both.
Today, she takes comfort in knowing that she has a new home and a brighter future—thanks to a flyer she found on her cot while sheltered inside the Houston Astrodome, and thanks to Almaden’s Denise and Patrick Callinan, along with several employees at his Santa Clara-based company, Silicon Valley Microelectronics [SVM]. They are part of a growing list Read more...
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