Federal funds for bridge venture
Congressman Ro Khanna tapped $3 million in federal funding for the extension of the Penitencia Creek Bridge. The bridge is certainly one of 9 tasks in Santa Clara and Alameda counties to obtain a complete of $11,905,000 in Group Undertaking Funding.
The vehicular bridge is a part of the Milpitas Metro Space Particular Plan to supply connectivity between metro space developments, the Milpitas BART Station, the Nice Mall and surrounding residential developments.
The brand new bridge will serve roughly 1,500 households within the rising neighborhood south of the creek. The bridge will even function a connector between a number of acres of present and deliberate parks and trails on each side of the creek and can present entry for emergency autos.
Relay for Life fundraiser
Over 100 meals are being donated at Casa Azteca Restaurant, 20 N. Abel St., on April 13 to learn the American Most cancers Society via Relay for Lifetime of Silicon Valley North. The sold-out occasion contains complimentary concert events by San Jose native Manuel Romero.
Casa Azteca proprietor Harihar Dahal has been concerned with Milpitas Relay for Life since 2009 and has since donated lots of of meals for the survivors’ dinner at each the Milpitas and Tri-Metropolis Relay occasions. With revenues down on the peak of the pandemic, Dahal donated $1,000 to Relay for Life restaurant fundraisers in each 2020 and 2021.
Cheri Romero, Manuel’s mom, is sponsoring her son’s April 13 fundraiser concert events. The elder Romero has misplaced two uncles to most cancers. “We've got all the time made Relay for Life a precedence,” she says.
Though the live performance is offered out, Casa Azteca will donate a portion of the proceeds from different orders taken that day to Relay for Life.