Youth of the Yr consultant Xitlali Curincita, middle, poses with Boys & Women Golf equipment of the Peninsula co-CEOs Peter Fortenbaugh and Jenny Obiaya at a ceremony at EPACENTER in East Palo Alto on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (Photograph by Jacob Crowell/Boys & Women Golf equipment of the Peninsula)
It was fairly a celebration for Boys & Women Golf equipment of the Peninsula, which introduced its Youth of the Yr consultant at a ceremony crammed with tech all-stars — and a Golden State Warrior — livestreamed from the brand new EPACENTER in East Palo Alto.
Xitlali Curincita, a scholar at Cañada Faculty, acquired the glory over three different finalists — Ian Motuliki, Kaeja Byrd and Maria Chapa Maldonado — who all shared their tales throughout this system. The committee that chosen Curincita was a really high-powered panel that included Nike CEO John Donahoe, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Western Digital Govt Vice President Christine Bastian, GingerBread Capital CEO Linnea Roberts and Golden State Warrior Andre Iguodala. Curincita will characterize the Peninsula group on the regional and nationwide degree this yr.
And that wasn’t all. A trio of “superhero companions,” sisters Anne Wojcicki and Susan Wojcicki and Susan’s husband, Dennis Troper, introduced a $25,000 fundraising match for the night that may go towards the group’s youth programming. “All of you're wonderful function fashions,” Anne Wojcicki mentioned. “Your imaginative and prescient for the longer term, your tenacity, your potential to stay with the challenges and
make issues occur … you’re all function fashions to us.”
LET’S HEAR IT FOR TRUMPET DAY: Do you know that Wednesday, Feb. 2, is Trumpet Day? What, you thought it was Groundhog Day? Effectively, it’s that, too, however this yr it’s additionally Trumpet Day. So says Ron Gordon, the retired Redwood Metropolis trainer who's behind different enjoyable “math holidays” like Sq. Root Day (9/9/81), Odd Day (11/13/15, with three consecutive odd numbers) and As soon as Upon a Day (1/11/11).
So why Trumpet Day? Say it out loud and it’s “to to to too,” which can work higher with out an precise trumpet, Gordon concedes.
He got here up with the thought following As soon as Upon a Day, and Gordon plans to present away $2,222, cut up amongst 52 folks (that’s 2+2+22 occasions 2) who let him know the way they’re marking the momentous day. He’s arrange an internet site along with his contact info and extra particulars about Trumpet Day at trumpetday.web.
Now, some would possibly say that there’s one other Trumpet Day developing in a couple of weeks when the calendar hits 2/22/22, however that date hits a bitter be aware for Gordon.
“For me, that is one of the best one. It’s actually cute,” he mentioned. “That different one is a bit of too(t) lengthy.” In different phrases, he says, one two too many.
VISIONARY VISIT: Right here’s a uncommon occasion of a number of the COVID chaos we’ve all been coping with truly having a optimistic outcome for audiences in San Jose. Main African-American dancer and choreographer Camille A. Brown will probably be current when San Jose State’s College of Music and Dance presents performances by her acclaimed New York-based firm on the Hammer Theatre Heart on Feb. 4-5.
Brown initially was not anticipated to attend due to rehearsal conflicts with “for coloured women who've thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” the Broadway revival she is choregraphing this spring. However as exhibits have paused for COVID, her schedule opened up.
“To my data, we’ve by no means had a efficiency artist of her stature at SJSU,” mentioned Fred Cohen, director of SJSU’s College of Music and Dance. “Seventeen of our dance majors within the College Dance Theatre troupe labored over the winter break with a veteran member of Ms. Brown’s dance firm, and will probably be dancing one among her signature works, ‘New Second Line,’ to shut this system.”
Tickets to see the present in-person or livestreamed can be found at www.hammertheatre.com.
TRIBUTE TO A COMMUNITY CHAMPION: Family and friends will say farewell to Connie LoBue Scarpelli, who died Jan. 18 at age 90, at a funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 3 at St. Christopher Church in San Jose. I first met Connie when she was honored by the Italian American Heritage Basis in 2006 for her work as a trainer, beginning at Roosevelt Junior Excessive and shifting on to what was then Peter Burnett Junior Excessive and ultimately San Jose Excessive. She additionally was an energetic member of the the Santa Clara County/Florence, Italy Fee, which might placed on the biennial Medici Masked Ball.
She established the Bulldog Basis whereas she was at San Jose Excessive and it continues to supply assist for the varsity (and you may nonetheless try this in her reminiscence at www.sanjosehighfoundation.org). Little doubt there will probably be many glasses of Campari or purple wine deservedly raised in her honor.