 |
|
|
|
|
News Stand
Donations needed to keep theater open
Robin Swartz says she needs to raise $30,000 this week if she's going to keep the Gaslighter Theater's doors open.
As was highlighted in a Nov. 21 Campbell Reporter article, Swartz says business has been slow for the past year, and the usual holiday crowd didn't show up this year.
The theater's owner is seeking donations from people who want to see the historic downtown building, located at 400 E. Campbell Ave., continue to operate as a theater.
People who donate $100 or more would receive season tickets to 2002 stage performances, and contributions of $1,000 or more would earn contributors brass plaques on individual theater seats.
If the $30,000 goal is not met, Swartz says the donations will be returned.
For more information email robin@gaslighter.com or call 408. 866.1408.
New bond going before voters in Moreland District
If two-thirds of the voters in the Moreland School District approve Measure J, scheduled to arrive on the ballot this March, the district will be authorized to issue bonds in the "maximum principal amount of $35,000,000 at interest rates within the legal limit," according to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.
The money would go toward completing repairs and renovations and upgrading the remaining unmodernized elementary schools, which Moreland District Superintendent Jim Ritchie said was not able to be completed with money the district got from Measure C, a $44.1 million bond passed by voters in 1995.
Ritchie said three of the district's nine schools still need to undergo renovations. Those are Leroy Anderson Village, Easterbrook and Moreland Discovery schools.
"We thought, when we passed the original measure, it was going to be enough to fix all of our schools," Ritchie said. "We found that the need was greater than we thought. There were unforeseen costs such as asbestos removal and the escalation of the cost of construction.
"After we finish the last three schools we need to do, then we can go back to the schools we've already modernized and put in energy-efficient windows and doors. We'd also like to improve the fields."
Measure J, which was approved to be placed on the ballot by the Moreland School District board of trustees at a Nov. 20 meeting, won't increase the local taxpayers' tax rates, Ritchie said.
"We're just asking to continue that same tax rate," he said, including safety upgrades to reduce the danger resulting from earthquakes and repairing leaky roofs. Electrical, heating and plumbing systems would also be upgraded. All nine of the Moreland District's elementary schools are in San Jose, near the outskirts of Campbell.
|
|
|
|
Campbell, California
