 |
|
|
|
|
News Briefs
City initiates parks use study
Sunnyvale Department of Parks and Recreation initiated its first neighborhood parks study last week, which will examine the extent to which city parks are utilized. Sports fields, picnic areas and playground use will all be studied.
Surveyors from Applied Survey Research, a non-profit research firm, will be in neighborhood parks to poll park users. The surveys will be conducted through the first week in August and will then be used to determine to what extent residents' concerns relate to park use and capacity.
Sun receives statewide award
The California Newspaper Publishers Association honored the Cupertino Courier and The Sun on June 26 with a first-place and three second-place awards in its Better Newspapers Contest. Weekly and daily papers throughout the state participate in the annual contest, which recognizes publications for excellence in journalism.
The Courier and Sun were competing against other weekly newspapers with circulations between 11,001 and 25,000, and won awards in the public service, feature writing, feature photography and spot news categories.
The public service award recognized a three-part series on race relations in Cupertino run by the Courier in
September and October of 1998. The entire Courier staff--Maggie Benson, Justin Berton, Skye Dunlap, Steve Enders, Michelle Ku, Pam Marino and Stephanie Woehrmann--worked together to create the series.
CNPA honored Justin Berton with a second place for his story on a local horseshoer, and Skye Dunlap won first prize for a feature photo she shot of the American flag.
Reporters Justin Berton and Steve Enders also won a second-place award for the Sun's spot news coverage of a tornado that touched down in the Cherry Chase neighborhood in Sunnyvale.
Sunnyvale Middle School studying ancient cultures
Sunnyvale Middle School sixth-graders celebrated the culmination of their ancient cultures unit with the annual sixth-grade Olympics on June 14. Each class designed a banner with a Greek theme for the processional, and the fastest girl and boy runners from each class led a torch run around the school's track and field. More than 300 students competed in a modernized version of ancient sports, including a Frisbee-discus throw, javelin toss with Nerf arrows, tug-of-war, and bucket brigade.
Sunnyvale couple welcomes home new baby girl
Bhuvana and Swami Ramachandran welcomed their new baby daughter, Varsha Swamy, into the world on June 23. She was born at Kaiser Medical Center in Santa Clara.
Email us
Send letters to the editor and story ideas to The Sun at our email address: sun@metronews.com. Contact us by by fax at 481-0175.
|
|
|
|
Sunnyvale, California Since 1994
