Pay attention up, sports activities followers. The Bay Space’s soccer and baseball seasons are of their winter slumbers now — and our NHL and NBA groups solely appear to be sleeping at instances — however sports activities are nonetheless massive enterprise round right here. And will likely be for some time, with the Tremendous Bowl and World Cup video games coming to Levi’s Stadium subsequent yr.
It’s no shock then that the San Jose Chamber of Commerce will likely be getting out its foam fingers and jerseys for “Leaders and Legacy” — its annual member gathering on Jan. 30.
“Professional sports teams are vital economic engines for the South Bay,” stated Robert Lindo, the brand new chair of the Chamber’s board of administrators and vice chairman at On line casino M8trix in San Jose. “Of course, games bring direct revenue, but these teams create a ripple effect throughout our business community — attracting businesses, boosting visitation, and benefiting every sector of our local economy.”
The night’s massive present will likely be a panel dialogue among the many valley’s high sports activities execs — San Jose Sharks President Jonathan Becher, Earthquakes President Jared Shawlee, Bay FC CEO Brady Stewart and Stephanie Dittmer Rogers, the chief vice chairman of selling for the 49ers. (Solely a kind of groups made the playoffs of their most up-to-date seasons, by the best way, and I tip my hat to all of you who knew it was Bay FC).
The dialog will likely be moderated by San Jose State President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, who can also be the chief of a reasonably large Bay Space sports activities operation within the Spartans. Tickets can be found at www.sjchamber.com.
OPEN SPACE CHAMPION: Garnetta Annable closed the ebook on practically three many years of service to the Santa Clara County Open House Authority final month at her closing board assembly.
One of many company’s founding board members, Annable served on its board for a cumulative 20 years, beginning again in 1994, and likewise spent 9 years on its Residents’ Advisory Committee. A number of of her fellow founders confirmed as much as give her some well-deserved applause at her “graduation” assembly Dec. 12 together with Eric Carruthers, Don Weden, Rod Diridon Sr., Virginia Holtz and Larry Ames.
“In so many ways, I think Garnetta is the mother of open space here in Santa Clara Valley,” Open House Authority Common Supervisor Andrea Mackenzie stated. I don’t assume anybody’s going to place up a combat over that.
Kathy Sutherland, who had served on the Residents’ Advisory Committee since 2013, was sworn in on the identical assembly to take Annable’s place on the board. Coincidentally, it was Annable who recruited Sutherland to use for a place on the residents’ group greater than a decade in the past.
READING LIST: There’s hope for the way forward for studying, and that’s actually true when you like “Dog Man” books. I used to be shopping the San Jose Public Library’s listing of the highest borrowed books for 2024, and was tickled to see that creator Dav Pilkey’s 2023 ebook, “Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea” was not solely the highest kids’s ebook checked out, it was essentially the most borrowed title interval.
What had been grown-ups studying? Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” topped the grownup studying listing, with Nita Prose’s novel “The Mystery Guest” coming in second. Teenagers had been taken by “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” Suzanne Collins’ 2020 follow-up to her “Hunger Games” collection that was actually boosted by the discharge of the film in November 2023. As I discussed, Pilkey’s “Dog Man” ebook topped the child lit chart, however right here’s a bizarre stat: He was one in all simply two authors, together with “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” creator Jeff Kinney, on the youngsters’s high 10 listing.
ON POINTE: San Jose Dance Theatre is bringing a brand new pair of ft into the combination with the addition of Nicole Haskins as the corporate’s new creative director. She’s been dancing across the West Coast throughout a two-decade profession with stops on the Sacramento Ballet, Washington Ballet and Smuin Up to date Ballet.
Haskins, who can also be an completed choreographer, says she is honored to affix an organization with such a wealthy legacy and appears ahead to creating transformative experiences for the dancers and the audiences. She’ll be working with Govt Director Elizabeth Sweeney and can oversee all of San Jose Dance Theatre’s creative endeavors, from its annual manufacturing of “The Nutcracker,” its participation within the Ballet Alliance Pageant and its premiere of a “Wizard of Oz” ballet in March.
BEST-SELLER: It seems being Invoice Gates nonetheless means so much in Silicon Valley. A Feb. 11 look at Mountain View’s Pc Historical past Museum by the Microsoft co-founder turned polio fighter and philanthropic gajillionaire shortly offered out of in-person tickets. And that’s even with it beginning at 1 p.m. on a Tuesday.
However in case you are nonetheless actually involved in listening to Gates discuss his new memoir, “Source Code,” with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, you may be a part of a waitlist www.computerhistory.org or watch it on the museum’s YouTube channel. By the best way, if this has given you a hankering to go to the museum’s new Chatbots Defined AI exhibit or any of its different choices, you’ll have to carry that thought for a few extra weeks. It’s closed for services upgrades till Jan. 28.
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