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.
