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Around The Glen
Shop the Avenue from the Internet
Holiday shop from home, in the comfort of slippers and a bathrobe--and basking in the warm fuzzy glow of the computer monitor. That's right, e-shopping has hit the Glen.
Just in time for the holidays, BoutiqueVillage.com has launched an e-commerce website, www.boutiquevillage.com, featuring one of Willow Glen's own, Rose Mille on Lincoln Ave. The website offers high-end gifts from a consortium of upscale boutiques throughout California.
"BoutiqueVillage has the supernatural ability to allow you to hit 16 exclusive shops from San Diego to Mill Valley in one day," says BoutiqueVillage CEO and Willow Glen resident David Hurwitz.
During December, BoutiqueVillage.com will donate 1 percent of all gross sales to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
--Jessica Lyons
Before long, Longs will be everywhere
The new Longs Drug Store at 1405 E. Foxworthy Ave. opened Dec. 9 with the usual pomp: a ribbon-cutting ceremony and giveaways of Longs gift certificates and an overnight getaway for two at the Claremont Resort and Spa. A new drive-through pharmacy makes its debut at the 12,000-square-foot facility, which has a full-service pharmacy inside, as well as an on-site photo lab.
Newly designed interior color schemes and graphics round out the Foxworthy store's features. Willow Glen will need to make room for another new Longs, as a second one is in the offing for the vacated Washington Mutual bank on Lincoln and Brace avenues. That store is scheduled for a December 2000 opening, according to Longs spokesperson Nancy Cockerham.
--Michele Leung
Zoo puts beasties up for 'adoption'
Give a gift with a bite this holiday--an animal adoption from Happy Hollow Zoo. The Zoo has furry, feathery and scaly gift ideas for the animal lovers on any shopper's list, including endangered species like pygmy goats.
Adoption packages cost $50. They include a certificate with a picture of the animal(s), a discount admission card and an invitation for a tour and breakfast with the animals before the zoo opens. Special holiday adoption packages are available through Dec. 17 for the jaguar, the parma wallabies and the black and white ruffed lemurs.
Proceeds go towards improving zoo exhibits and enriching animal lives.
For adoption information, call Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, 408.295.8383.
--Jessica Lyons
SJ Museum of Art store goes online
Here's another excuse to avoid the malls during the holidays: www.sjma.com.
The Museum Store at the San Jose Museum of Art recently launched a website featuring gifts for all ages, including décor, fine art books, jewelry, educational children's toys, games and museum memberships.
For kids of all ages, Bumpe! ($42) is a red velveteen bull designed in Switzerland who wears an elaborate hat. The bull is accompanied by The Bumpe Book ($13.95), an illustrated hardcover. New items include the Burchetta Glass Vase ($85), a blown-glass vase available in several translucent colors, and Suburbia ($29.95), a book by photographer Bill Ownes that captures the essence of the 1970s American dream.
All proceeds from the online store benefit the San Jose Museum of Art and its programs. Museum members receive a10 percent discount.
--Jessica Lyons
Be a brick--or buy one as a gift
The chance to go down in history, to be memorialized in a museum exhibit and to have people walk all over you is only a phone call--and $150--away.
The Orchard Heritage Park is building a "Heritage Walkway" of memorial paver bricks leading up to the museum's barn-like Interpretive Exhibit adjacent to a 10-acre working orchard. The exhibit will open in summer 2000 and tell the story of a time when apricots, cherries, pears, plums and walnuts were more important to Santa Clara Valley's well-being than silicon crystals.
Bricks make great holiday gift ideas, too, even for the nice ones on Santa's list. An engraved brick can preserve family posterity or commemorate an organization's presence in the community. The $150 tax-deductible donation includes an inscription of up to three lines (15 characters each line, including spaces). After the June 1 groundbreaking, bricks will cost $200. For more information, call Leslie Lawton, 749.9848.
--Jessica Lyons
CAIR takes legal action against school district
At press time, the Willow Glen Resident learned that CAIR (Community Action in Robertsville) plans to file a lawsuit against San Jose Unified School District, in an attempt to stop the district from moving Broadway High onto the John Muir Middle School campus.
The suit alleges that San Jose Unified selected the middle school campus as Broadway's new home before conducting a state-mandated environmental study, and asks for a temporary stay, preventing the district from moving the continuation high school.
The law suit will not seek any specific dollar amount, Chase says, but it will ask the district to recoup CAIR's legal fees: donations from the community group's 500 plus members.
"We don't think this is the best site choice, we think the decision was made in haste," Chase says. "We're trying to prevent [San Jose Unified School District] from moving forward."
Trustees say Broadway's 300 students must be moved by March to allow other district-wide construction projects to keep on schedule.
--Jessica Lyons
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