Carolyn Schuk

In a demonstration of Sunnyvale community spirit, a semitruck rolled up to Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) campus and unloaded the equivalent of 10 million meals — 40,000 pounds of food — for needy Santa Clara County residents. The delivery was part of the national Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’(LDS) America250 food delivery program, which is dispatching 250 semitrucks nationally, each carrying 40,000 pounds of non-perishable food to local community service groups.

A surfing accident could have ended Dr. Hoa Le’s medical career. Instead, it became the cornerstone of a medical practice built on compassion. It only took a few seconds for a surfing accident to change the entire trajectory of Dr. Hoa Le’s life. One moment he was 28 years old, in the middle of his residency at Loma Linda University — a newlywed enjoying his honeymoon with his wife Jennifer, also an MD. The next, he was a paraplegic with an uncertain future.

Santa Clara’s 13-member charter review committee has completed its work on the city’s first major charter overhaul since 1951, with results headed to a City Council study session on June 9. The goal of the overhaul was principally housekeeping and modernizing: making the charter more logical and easier to understand, bringing it into conformance with current law, and reflecting current procedures and modern business practices.