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Around The Glen
Memorial services for crash victim held
Memorial services were Oct. 19, at the Lima Family Erickson Memorial Chapel on Willow Street for Evette Michelle Cadena Bryand, 29, a former Willow Glen resident.
Bryand was a member of the Los Medicos Voladores team whose plane crashed near the Ensenada, Mexico airport on Oct. 14. She died with five other volunteers on their way back to Ensenada after four days of providing medical treatment to impoverished people in the village of San Ignacio, said her mother Yvonne Cadena Hurtado.
Bryand, who lived in Willow Glen from 1990 to 1994, was a dental assistant for another crash victim, Dr. Michael Cala. Hurtado said that her daughter replaced Cala's wife, Robyn, on the trip, who was not feeling well from her pregnancy.
"She saved these two lives," Hurtado said.
This was Bryand's first trip with Los Medicos Voladores, or the Flying Doctors.
Bryand was a graduate of San Jose High School and she played on many sports teams there, Hurtado said. She moved with her family to Willow Glen after high school. She was living in downtown San Jose before she died.
She and her high school sweetheart, Reyes Acevedo, were planning to marry next year, Hurtado said.
She is survived by Hurtado of San Jose, her father Ernesto Bryand of San Jose and her brother Robert Paul Hurtado of Hayward.
Groundbreaking at New Central Library
Mayor Ron Gonzales and San Jose State University president Robert Caret already have books to return to the new joint central library.
But they have until 2003 before they have to pay any fine.
Gonzales and Caret were joined by other civic and university leaders on Oct. 20, for the official groundbreaking of the new central library at Fourth and San Fernando streets, a joint effort between the city and the university, which is scheduled to be completed in 2003, said San Jose Public Library spokeswoman Lorraine Oback.
The library, which will retain the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library name, will be co-managed by staff from both the San Jose Public Library system and San Jose State, Oback said. To reflect this, the leaders of the two libraries checked books out to the city and university leader.
San Jose head librarian Jane Light checked out Evolution of a New Species, Robosapiens, by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, to Caret, and the dean of the university library Patricia Breivik checked out Local Heroes Changing America, edited by Tom Rankin, to Gonzales. The books are due back at the library's grand opening, she said.
The collection and services at the new library will be available to state university students, as well as the general public, Oback said.
"It will be a much closer association, and probably much more inviting," she said.
Oback also said that they hope that youth who use the joint library will be encouraged to consider college as a part of their futures.
Halloween Trick-or-Treating on Lincoln
The annual Halloween trick-or-treating at Willow Glen Business and Professional Association businesses along Lincoln Avenue will take place on Oct. 31.
Preschool-aged children are invited to show off their costumes and pick up some candy from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Elementary school children are invited from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The business association hopes to enforce these hours out of concern for the safety of the children, as traffic and congestion increase along the avenue around lunchtime and in the evening.
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