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On April 19th we are organizing the first Annual Garage Sale. Please click here to read all about it
Our neighborhood has experienced some home burglaries recently. Please make sure your doors and windows are secured, and call the police if you see anything suspicious. Let's look out for each other.
The City of San Jose is organizing free two hour training sessions for Home and Family Disaster Preparedness.
Bill Aaron has written up the minutes for the Annual Neighborhood Meeting.
Weather permitting, Bill Aaron is holding a Telescope Night on Saturday, February 16th, starting around 8:00 pm. at his house. He'll be looking at the Moon, Mars, Saturn and a few other things. You can call Bill at 978-9678, if you are interested in coming.
Aaron Quigley from Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio's office attended the meeting today, and he brought information about the following:
Emergency Preparedness Forum
Please bring your friends and family to an emergency preparedness forum to learn more about what to do and how to prepare for an emergency. The San Jose Police and Fire Departments, Office of Emergency Services, Sana Clara county's public health department and PG&E will be attending
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
9:30 - 10:00AM Coffee and pastries
10:00 - 12:00PM
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Willows Senior Center in the multipurpose room
2175 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
Willow Glen Spur Trail Meeting
(also known as the "3 Creeks Trail" Meeting)
Please bring your neighbors to the Willow Glen Spur meeting to hear updates from the San Jose Planning and Parks Department.
Monday, February 4th, 2008
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Gardner Community Center
520 W. Virginia St, San JOse, CA 95125
For more information, you may contact the Council Office at (408) 535-4906.
Here it is January already, and have the yearly Neighborhood Meeting. Here is the newsletter, and if you click here, you can see the agenda for the meeting.
The next weekend we had a lot more luck. Even though Friday night it threatened to rain again, Saturday was a beautiful day. We estimate that around 80 people showed up, who all seemed to have enjoyed themselves.
The annual neighborhood picnic is rained out. The picnic is tentatively rescheduled for next weekend.
The August news letter is out. Please click here to read it.
Do you have some old appliances taking up space in your garage? Ancient computers, VCRs and other equipment stashed in a closet?
Next weekend you have a chance to get rid of it - The Volunteer Center of the Silicon Valley together with Earth Care Recycling is organizing a free Electronic Waste Recycle day. See here for the flyer!
The first block party was this weekend - a lot of fun with BBQ, games and a movie. Thanks to the Social Committee for organizing this event! Have a look at the pictures.
Today is the first day of the website with the new look. Let me know what you think of it!
We are always looking for suggestions for information that we can put on the website, or for people that want to get involved in the CGNA. Please send us an email!
You are probably visiting this website because you just read the first CGNA newsletter.
Welcome to the new and improved Canoas Garden Neighborhood Association website. You will find information here about the CGNA, the activities schedule, and the active members.
As you can see, the website is currently being built up - we are working on adding information to the website every day. Please send us an email if you want to be kept up to date on website news. Also let us know if you have information that you want to share.
The History Committee provided some historic pictures of the neighborhood. This is the oldest one. More to come soon.
A picture of the sign that advertised the first new houses in our neighborhood. This sign was across the Old Almaden Road from the end of Redbird Drive. Meadowbrook was the name of the development on Kingfisher, Hummingbird and Redbird Drives, circa 1956. |
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