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Cupertino Courier 10-05-2005, Cultural Crossroads, Volume 58, Number 37 Lions meet Navajos Klokow remembered It's a big success CommunityClassi ieds S years since the accident; and Friends, family and all will From horses to history, residents The West Valley ix s Hometown they keep going back to help celebrate young Marines life turn out for Cupertino jubilee Classified Advertising Section — page 5 page 5 .— page 23 or page 36 Be ready, , city says; OURIER disasters inevitable Number • Oc tober 2o0 • Cupertino, CA • Est. i • www.cupertinocourier.com 58. 37 5� 5 l� � 947 l� City's three -hour class helps Cupertino residents prepare , repare C( 1\ A.1 A 1v1.∎,\ I - IV1 - SERIES • ISSUI: N t 1\ iu .i �( UIZ o FOt 11. ,."` RTES ©F By HUGH BIGGAR , ` ' ,41,i,,,,,,,: ` ,� i ,„ „,. fi , , 5T .441. 4:41? z T he recent hurricanes along the ,» z16,41.-',... ' ,41ri , � ... , . ' ' S __. n i ; 3 � t fi � � r o T Gulf Coast area reminder that %,, v � , , : F ,, 683 --� Ccttiticatc .'t if eeibcnc+� g natural disasters also sit close "w ;7 «�'' ` to home. According to scientists, there's a 60���a percent chance of a major earthquake striking the Bay Area in the next 30 years. Last December, scientists also •' :'. ' s ' i ,,,-- k , „; discovered active fault zones beneath f .. Cupertino. And in another scenario, ', the Stevens Creek Reservoir could w ,.. tilN also give way — either from an earth- g , �, +fib ,, u , C ..,,,, ,_,,,. quake or due to age or a leak. k With these possibilities in mind, - Cupertino's emergency preparedness i coordinator Martha Hovey urges res- i , ` '�. y idents to prepare. 1 l ; -- f . <> _ % 4,._ Everyone, no matter their age, k \ ..,. should take our three -hour class on .. : t' what to do in an emergency," she y ---. ` „f said. "The city's [immediate] respon- . - , .{ sibility is getting the city back to life; . ""`'` "" ° individuals should be prepared to be ',2'� �:° �� „ z ry . . on their own for three days." rrt °" "°*,, "" : ,x , ` " � To help with that preparation, the '"" **« , ` „: ”" "` '" , city has posted extensive emergency r .: A ,4 ,. + " , -q , , ! . preparedness tips on its website. The tips include emergency supplies to � "' r keep on hand, including a flashlight, orx+ E. ' ` � r extra batteries, canned food and a • , can opener, water and a first aid kit, * i ..-- ' ` '. I ways to turn off gas and water and .,. fi tips for children and the elderly. r The city also trains volunteers for its Community Emergency Response " .= m , i,g « Team, which serves as first respon- „ ders during emergency. ° � •, '' x a ° fig "We always need more volunteers 47,y, ' ^. _.'` ' ..- "�" Hovey said. � s ,; According to Hovey, the city's first t , a .? '. 4:,' „ ., priority is establishing community safe �`' ` ty. Unlike the confusion in Louisiana y B HUGH BIGGAR after Hurricane Katrina, in California This last story in the COURIER S commemora— there is a clear chain of command in tive series explores the stream of cultural and eth— ultural change has been an essential part of life in the event of a natural disaster. In Cupertino's more than 200 years of recorded history. nit groups that have settled in Cupertino over the The community has been a Native American settle - California, cities are the first respon- ders in disasters, followed by the state last 200 years. Over time, the reasons for coming ment, a remote Spanish colony, a part of Mexico, an h changed and s o h the ethnic mix, now more American frontier crossroads, an agricultural village and an and then the federal government. innovative center of high technology. While at times In the case of a natural disaster in diverse than ever. — Editor painful, each change has brought with it newcomers with the Bay Area, Cupertino will initially o' page 10 I+ Disaster, Page 7 1 955 -CUPERTINO -2005 _ ...................................... ............................... . Sh • F camped; it was renamed for him and . _ today remains Stevens Creek. x T _ µ ep Other adventurous individuals joined " w. "°" ° Stephens following the discovery of ''„ , * . - gold in California in 1849. Although x immigrants flooded into the new state, - _ their numbers remained small in Cupertino. Those who did make their way to Cupertino worked primarily in - agriculture as orchards began to bloom throughout the Santa Clara Valley. ' Even then, the effects of change were ,. felt in Cupertino. Stephens left the area , . _ in 1864, relocating to what is now Bakersfield. "It's getting jilt too crowd - a . _. ., �' ed, too durn civilize," he said of s . r Cupertino when he moved. The Gold Rush also documents record attracted atten- tion in the Far East. Chinese in par t icu " lar poured into California in search of 1 . n max.: new opportunities. Again, those who II :n made their way to Cupertino worked , , ., g ' " mostl Historical a riculture. 4 * 7 ' tal t °� t � 4 . � � I' � ; ,� Cup landowners hiring Chinese ' *. `per .' .. day laborers from San Jose to work on �.. the farms. it would in future decades, tech - sue. nology also shaped early Cupertino. '� ; 400_ � J x �_ * Railroads helped Cupertino's orchards _. f 111111rw*°* .- , •"` thrive by providing easy access to the 4,41,4111r . l' .t i r , ships in San Francisco's harbor. � a The completion of the transcontinen- ' .+! ° tal railroad in 1869 suddenly made Y `'' � °k° '" California (and Cupertino) accessible if „,... - 4 0. 01^0- - -.5 A Cfrit t tea- .a , ' ilk P hotograph c ourt e sy C H Museum ”, Everyone helped laying the fruit out in the drying yards in Cupertino. The people picture here are likely Ch day labor- �' ers brought in from Chinatown in San Jose. About the cover photo: Many Yugoslav immigrants like those pictured here came to Cupertino at the turn of the 20th century. While they were many in numbers, they were considered a minority. the Ohlones' concern proved prescient, Early ethnic groups formed clubs to as the world as they knew it ended in the de cades after De Anza's arrival. help preserve their old worl tradition In those decades, the Spanish operat- �_ ` ed mission communities, set about con- a several are still go strong t bred at le o the ! process, the Ohlone suffered devastat- � ' - Continued from page 1 toward us," wrote Francisco Palau while ing losses due to disease epidemics and traveling in the area in 1775. "[They] are forced conscription at missions. wildly diverse backgrounds — newcom- well formed Indians of tall stature, many The area became a part of newly cg ers who continue to shape and enhance of them fair and well bearded." independent Mexico in 1821. the community. Father Petrus Font, a member of Juan Americans also began settling in Photograph courtesy or rue µ- Almaden Museu The original inhabitants were the Bautista de Anza's expedition that California as early as the 1820s. Cupertino farmers brought in Chinese indigenous Ohlone, who had lived in the '', founded the San Francisco presidio, Initially the American presence was day laborers from Chinatown in San Santa Clara Valley for at least 3,000 wrote of camping along the creek he small and included homesteaders such Jose to help with the work. This por years by the time Europeans arrived. It named after St. Joseph of Cupertino. " as Elisha Stephens. trait of a Chinese miner who worked was the Ohlone who first greeted the ... Many Indians came out to us on see- Stephens moved to Cupertino in the Spanish explorers. The Spanish found ing us ... running and shouting and 1840s and bought property in the area at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine them friendly, but cautious. making gestures as if they wished to of what is now Blackberry Farm. In fact, in the 1870s shows the traditional "As we took our way toward the hills, stop us, and signaling us that we must he's the one who planted the original dress of that time, including the long we described a band of heathens on their not go forward," he wrote in his diary. blackberries. He also lent his name to braid of hair wrapped around the summit, who at once started directly But the Spaniards did go forward, and th c reek where Font and De Anza young man's head. 10 THE CUPERTINO COURIER OCTOBER 5, 2005 1955 • CUPER .2005 to thousands of European immigrants 4 amvin b shi at eastern se orts. For Cupertino, then a a small a seaports. vil - �' °"-` lage, this brought in families from Italy, °` „_ � � , ' Sicily, Yugoslavia, France, Germany and �..., w ",� .. _" -" England. �" `` w Anne Zarko's parents came from Yugoslavia. She says her father bought ---w ,,~ —.`°, _ " 114 10 acres of land at Stelling and "= 1 4 ' ` Homestead roads and planted prunes _ - ° ' and apricots. Once he'd settled in, he ~ , `\,. .- sent a letter home to Yugoslavia, asking ' ,_, if anyone there wanted to marry him Zarko's mother accepted the proposal Nr. - s and made Cupertino her home. , *OW to These new arrivals also created clubs - c " . :.‘,,,,,, maintain their native cultures. ��' < r*: 'IF : *'''' II ' For instance, the Marian family, also � Xu�- Yugoslays, went to other Yugoslav faint 1► lies in the area and sold shares in a new +�i <� club —the Napredak club, one that is : +i ` , ` still going strong today as is the AS.lav �. 4 . m club, another Yugoslav organization+' Other ethnic clubs began, too, including ♦���< • those for Sicilians and other Italians. pr..'1 "Cupertino was known as primary 4, z�j fanning area," Joe Carmada says. Both = ' ,. 4 his parents moved to the area from Sicily _ in the early 20th century because of the �.'. farming opportunities. The poverty drove them out of Sicily," he says. '" ` "� �" The farmers in Cupertino helped each , other. Zarko remembers when her fain t �� �.: ily finished picking and cutting their tt own apricots, they went to other farms and helped. . "We got paid, of course," she says. -.^`,: And Camardo says if someone's trac- s h. >*� tor or truck broke, they could borrow a neighbor's. "We all helped each other,' + & ° r he " ' * " - ,141 e says. i As European immigrants moved west, racial laws put the brakes on Chinese immigration. Although the Photograph courtesy Cupertino Historical Museum state's Chinese population measured Mayor of Cupertino John Gatto (left) and Yoshio Yamamoto (right), mayor of Toyokama, Japan, Cupertino's sister city, place about nine percent in the 1870s (rough- a plaque in front of a cherry tree in 1978. Toyakama gave Cupertino 200 cherry trees that were planted at Memorial Park. ly the same percent as it is today), the numbers quickly fell. Resentment against the Chinese — particularly those until the passage of the Immigration in the workforce — prompted California Act until. —«• .0 : to revise its constitution in the 1870s to Until then, Cupertino's population , STATES :sibt4.carn restrict employers from hiring remained largely of European origin %, Chinese. The Chinese Exclusion ' f� �� Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese and "My parents worked for farm its economy largely agricultural 4LeCU t+f laborers from entering the ers," Carmada says, "and then 'filmed (0 Chi ese United States and denied ended up fanning cherries, apn - .., >„ , _ them the opportunity to cots, walnuts and prim land ?vs /� — - ' ° fi t �"tal- �+r.i. r,sn�, es on {'8 ',,,,, ,......-re- @ become naturalized citi- a scattered throughout Cupertino." ... - -..,_ .�;,� Caper � :::' � � �"� ' � Even with the work o ortum ��._,.„ v,< 'x . noYr xetidfa r at F �► �3 PP � hex rs,�tit "�, That law made it cap, a '� °_ , < a ° ""` -�r�, rr t+Protee ata S• , a t r ,Yrtp = f R xtct6,1,, - <nctcr the extremely difficult for "Sicilians, Italians, Hispanics tfrte,ati= =hat r r h a a� a zens. ties, there were ethnic tensions =etca..t the tinnc , +trite ?` r ` ‘,06,1,,,,,. �t :m tae w, a Chinese to immi Yugoslays were all looked down Pie �f h ' 5. grate to the upon because they were minion- h °t h a �t that ,,,,,r "'' `t "" �t ��t t. -, x � t �rsst United "aid r is tax at ti tars„ x ars tht ta t Ca rm ada says. t. tte aad th. t he f *,ii ;` a �« States � For ethnic , World ` " "` � ' ' ° � >ti�tr,�, as i, ', War some II added to groups their trou "` �`�` "�� �1.' , 3 € g p �� QcxuaxFr ♦ "' a te+ - � r 1, e __�' `°"!�� x �� ��: ilft. C ^w a .,, NY page 12 Cc+ara Mxx m �?t �� _ ti. er s, *-" fe ti ce! - � '° "h - .i.,:,,. .y £ • .. �,..Jlr Me 'tacJc 3 ' "• - , ... 4 y� - :e a tarthet moons of - : ' ta rcx• -Jar *e �- ' Photograph courtesy a+ f art, L . -, . Cupertino Historical Museum he eeht x.___._ a' 4 - Aas� aJ li hrrot. �< , :�, a�rr�phr - Dr. Michael Chang , s ., - of .�:. �axa "srs " is _ ' ..1 CE was a Boy Scout .. tit .; • 41 , when he was grow- t mg up in Hong ` :. Kong. He was the a r a °ts`w!sep .. first Chinese � - ho,,.../ ;, k� r „ Am.,* American to be -- - - -.._ � elected to the Cupertino City Photograph courtesy Cupertino Historical Museu .�; Council and to serve The Geary Act of 1882 required all Chinese residents to carry their certificate as the city's mayor. cf residence with them. This one was for Santa Clara County. OCTOBER 5, 2005 THE CUPERTINO COURIER 11 1 955 . CUPERTINO .2005 ........ ............................... .........................................................................................:.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ............................... *a# ,� Researchers from nearby Stanford diversity has increased since Kwok lJniversity also began to establish inno- moved to Cupertino, with its Asian pop- vative electronics industries, foreshad- ulation almost doubling since 1990. Y1-= owing the rise of Silicon Valley. As a part of that process, the town's In the process, the town's population government and schools have reflected surged, although many longtime resi- the changes. %'°f-' (lents moved. "There are two Asian - Americans, a ti "Many of the old farming families Hispanic and Caucasians on the city 4 moved to the Central Valley," Carmada : council," Kwok notes. Others such as ' s ays just like Elisha Stephens when he ' Nihalani, a housing commissioner, serve I felt things were becoming "too durn on city commissions. m, °-- , --.' .,., - civilized." Cupertino's schools include a At first, the growing population Chinese language immersion program V ,,' ,� xt 1 . -°-- remained mostly white. The 1970 census and the community's youth play cricket shows Cupertino's population of 18,216 . as well as baseball. to be 96 percent Caucasian. However Town landmarks have also changed. . the promise of good schools and jobs in The All- American Market has become 1 : 4 �,M the nascent high -tech industry brought the Tin -Tin Oriental Market. Along % _ ., Today Cupertino is home to 50,000 - people, 50 percent of them white and 44 percent Asian N^ ` � ° ° in workers and their families from all with the usual chain stores, Cupertino ' ' ," 1 over the world — particularly Asia. is also home to halal markets, Russian "Indians have been moving to delis, Korean restaurants, clusters of Cupertino for at least 25 years," Mahesh Chinese stores and restaurants, Indian °' "\ Nihalani says. And there was a large buffet -style restaurants. A Jewish " }" influx in the early 1990s." Chabad center came to Cupertino last �. Nihalani, who grew up in India, year to offer outreach and education " - _ � `, j ' , arrived in 2000 after first living in the for Jews. I° , 9" U.S. S Virgin Is "It was a great opportunity," its rabbi, r Today Cupertino is home to 50,000 Reuven Goldstein, says. "There was an I ,.- ' ,., 1 ` � people, 50 percent of them white and 44 American - Jewish presence, but many a . percent Asian. Israelis as well have been drawn by the - . "It's because the school districts are high -tech opportunities, and it's steadily n 4 ; ' so good, and of course being so close to increasing." .' t' Spilicon "The schools Valley —any of them are IT These are the latest cultural changes, ," Nihalani are m the says. adding another layer to a city that number one rea- includes streets named after De Anza ' : 4 • eople 7 .` r 4 " ''. r son," agrees Patrick Kwok, Cupertino's and Stevens, streets reflecting its agri- ` t --- ' - '-1/4. ; ,,.'' '' mayor. He moved to the area for the cultural past such as Pruneridge z - � ; , , rye # sc ho o ls and the sense of community. He Avenue and streets reflecting its tech l had attended church in Cupertino nological present such as Results Way. ° , . m before moving to town, and liked the What is certain is that more layers are , t f g ` ' "high quality of life and diversity." Such yet to come. Archive photograph by Sean Penello �"' � 'F ,A, lig With the influx of South Asians, including Indians, has come the game of cricket. b Cupertino now has a cricket academy, and youngsters are learning the game their parents played growing up in their homeland. \ k Cultu layers More to come ' \ - r Continued from page II lished the business Uenaka now runs. " a s 4 -4 "During the war we had lost proper- bles. ty," he says. "They decided to buy prop ' Those from countries at war with the erty in Cupertino because it was mostl * ; ` Y P Y ;_ r N United States, including Germans, orchards, not crowded, and the price of ; . ti Italians and Japanese, faced restrictions land was fairly reasonable." 1 - ' during the war. While Carmada 's They joined a few other Japanese- ,e .'' brother Pete served in the U.S. Army, American families in Cupertino. "Most r federal law dictated his Sicilian -born of them were working in farming," he *, .; � , t . i i ' r . . parents —who were not U.S. citizens— says. , , . I -tw couldn't travel more than five miles This soon changed as the 1950s '` `� >' ; �+ 1 ° ,j 1 from their Cupertino home, and their brought enormous transformation to 1 l 4 ; ` �► . r . lights had to be out by 9 p.m. Cupertino. - y. k Y ` , �t ' , ��� "' Germans, Italians and especially the With its flat, largely undeveloped .° �,. "t + 44 u '1"1.:" Japanese were sent away to internment land, the community provided an entic- Archive � �� ph otograph courtesy Chamber of Commerce camps during the war. ing target for housing developers. In the Cupertino florist Itsuo Uenaka's fam 1950s, housing developments sprouted ' Cupertino now has festivals that celebrate traditions from many countries. Here ily was among those sent to a camp. in the place of orchards as the cit Cupertino residents (from left) Padhika Setlur, Archana Ghandi, Asha Bill, Rekha After the war, his parents moved to moved from an agricultural economy to . Ilarathe and He Kundargi design a rangoli for Diwali, the festival of lights Cupertino from San Jose and estab a suburban one. !hat celebrates enlightenment. 12 THE CUPERTINO COURIER OCTOBER 5, 2005 1 955 - CUPERTINO .2005 / -- began the Opera in the Park program. In its second year, the program was Old days were , k 4� r called Opera at the Plaza and held just l? t ou tsid e city hall. oh so different a •" b "We had a performance scheduled on Oct. 19, 1989, but t we we couldn't do it . F, ' .,a because of the earthquake," Hollimon By LEE GORDON ''',,,, z %'..b £ ; says. "I had to sit on the front steps of 4. i k ? 4 city hall and tell people it was cancelled." aula Quinterno used to cut apri-� Many private organizations have also cots for money as a child grow- 4 t r " a r ; ti x *# f sprung up to support local artists. Dance ing up near Cupertino. Quintero d 4 .. . companies, pottery guilds and art said the task wasn't fun, and when ','40,-',- . r , ` the orchards gave way to housing, it d . leagues are among then numerous g y g� � ` nizations that include Cupertino resi- esi- seemed like a good thing. ' i) 4 dents or call the city their home. One "As a child, I was happy to see the such group, the Fine Arts League of orchards go, so I didn't have to cut Cupertino, was founded in 1963 by Peter apricots," the lifelong resident said. "I ., Emig, a German immigrant who came miss them now. I miss the ruralness." to the United States in 1912 and once There are still reminders rs of of how t published his pen drawings in an earlier things used to be. Gail Hugger sees it ,`F in the contrast between old and new incarnation of the CUPERTINO COURIER. solower buildings. These days, the league has a member- ship of 62 artists and held a juried art show "There are huge stucco homes Ph otograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer in association with Cupertino's Golden next to little old cottages, small of S d k o e h Jubilee on the weekend churches turned into $1 million `Perspectives' is the title of this sculpture, which is one of the city's public art pieces. J u p t homes," says Hugger, who has lived It stands in Cali Mill Plaza at the corner of De Anza and Stevens Creek boulevards. Member Sue Ashley says that i23. n pri in Cupertino since 1947. tion to a $1,000 best -of -show prize Hugger, Quinterno and Bob Bell donated by the Cupertino Rotary, the grew up together in Monta Vista, a • show featured digital images of nostal- small area that is slowly being incorpo- other kmd of culture gic Cupertino art completed over the rated into Cupertino. Or, as Bell prefers years — offered both as a projection on to call Monta Vista, "The best place in - an exhibit wall and in note card form. the world for a kid to grow up." The paintings or their images were col - They grew up in a time when reflects community art lected two years ago for the league's Cupertino and Monta Vista existed 40th anniversary from former league somewhat separately. Hugger said members and others in the community. the Stevens Creek was "sort of a t he city in earlier, richer days. The Cupertino community supports divider." Both towns relied heavily With city s cuts in funds for For instance, the planned pedestrian on agricultur and Bell said there bridge linking Cupertino with was a slight financial gap between art, business and residents Sunnyvale over Interstate 280 is requir- 4, 4 '"' the two towns. Hugger says in Monta ing some design changes, and Mohr and } I Vista, "Nobody had a lot of money." have stepped in to help colleagues are giving their input. Nto "Monta Vista was a `no- collar' " "They have to make the sides taller," ; ''= kind of town," Bell says, and he says By ALLISON ROST she says, "so we'd like to have artistic fenc - it offered a rural upbringing for ing. It's a very modern- looking bridge." youngsters in the '50s. "Monta Vista hey blow glass and create digital Even if the city doesn't have ,- was too far out. So you were in the photo collages and arrange flow- resources to support much on the pub -g boonies," he says. T ers. They twirl on stage and brush lic art front, others are stepping in for , In the 1960s engineers and scien- watercolor onto paper and dip their them —the statues outside the new tists moved in alongside farmers and . „, 4 . ,... hands into clay. Their work decorates the library were commissioned and paid for factory workers from the Kaiser walls of local coffee shops and lines the by a longtime Cupertino resident, and ._ cement plant. hallways of area schools and has even companies such as Apple have spon- f ' I. .,� 1 came, "A different kind of people came," P P hung in the far corners of the world. Bored art in the city. s ; ) �,� , , Quinterno says. And there were a lot They are the artists of Cupertino and, That charitable instinct has been 4 1 ,,,,` - ? of them. "There were growing pains for the past 50 years, they have found taken a step further, in a way, and may R J ¢ ' -0 at the schools. The roads were their place among a thriving communi- be written into city ordinances. The i ' ' ' h. clogged, and they couldn't build ty of their own kind. Cupertino has city's planning commission recently rec- schools fast enough." r g been and remains home to a wide vari- ommended that the city council require �' � _� ' , , wM ,�„ + .k The hip place to go for ice cream, ety of artists, both in fine and perform- a flat fee of one percent of a developer's fries and shakes in the 1960s was Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer Vivi's creamer And there was ing arts, with the art forms diversifying construction costs for projects in Spivey' Johnny Mac's and the just as the local population has. And Cupertino go toward public art on the Cupertino glass artist Zoe Adorno's Donut Wheel. As they got older, those art forms have been visible all property. sculpture is titled `Cosmos 2001.' Donut youth found rural spots over town, whether it's in the lobby of a Speaking at that planning commission more to their liking. Bell says Stevens building or out in a public square. meeting was Roberta Hollimon, a 41 -year the art world twofold. It provides an Creek Dam was a good place to swim Cupertino artists frequently join Cupertino resident who served on the arts audience that takes in art, whether it's a or "watch the stars," and Montebello forces in town to exhibit together or sim- commission in its early days, in the 1980s. photograph at Quinlan Community Road was a known party spot. ply practice their crafts, but while the city She was at the meeting because she Center or a national tour at the Flint The scenery is different for those has historically been very supportive of serves on the General Plan Task Force, Center or its city's symbol, the morion, growing up in Cupertino in the 21st their efforts, budget cuts in recent years but when she heard that the commis- which has returned to the forefront of century and so are the activities. have curtailed several public art projects sion had made the one percent recom- the city's public art displays at city hall. Teens hang out at the Coffee Society, and funding to support local artists. mendation, she approached the micro - The community also provides artists. Jamba Juice and the city's teen cen- "It's been difficult trying to define phone to thank it for its action. Despite Longtime resident Constance Guidotti ter. And many spend hours at ourselves in these times," Janet Mohr, recent budget cuts, she says she still has been to Pakistan and Vietnam for Cupertino's new library, something chair of the Cupertino Fine Arts thinks that Cupertino supports the arts. her photography, Japanese immigrant Bell said youngsters in Monta Vista Commission, says. "Our interest is mak- "Just by having the commission, they Fusako Hoyrup was named Cupertino's never did. He said there weren't pub- ing sure that we can use art to create an recognize that art is important," Distinguished Artist of the Year for 2005 lic or school libraries in Monta Vista. identity for the people who live here." Hollimon says. for her ikebana and countless other Monta Vista High School student, While many of the commission's previ- In her time on the arts commission, artists in the city create in obscurity. Andrew Tsai, 16, says Cupertino isn't ous activities — sponsoring visiting per- the group started many programs that "I remember one of the council mem- the most exciting city to grow up in, formers in nearby schools, awarding arts continue today, including the Cupertino bers saying something when they were but he says he thinks it's definitely grants to local applicants —have fallen by Distinguished Artist of the Year award. first creating the Fine Arts Commission," more appealing to kids now com- the wayside, it still serves as a consultant It also arranged for Cupertino school- Holliman says. "He said, `We get to think pared to 50 years ago. for various public projects. However, children to visit the Euphrat Museum about the finer things in life, and not just many of those projects were approved by of Art on the De Anza Campus and about the curbs and gutters.' " OCTOBER 5, 2005 THE CUPERTINO COURIER 13