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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley is famous for its student protests during the Vietnam War era, but students protested all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford students rioted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2011/01/19/stanford-ponders-the-return-of-rotc-after-nearly-four-decades/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kick the ROTC program\u003c/a> off-campus. San Francisco State University students gained notoriety for going\u003ca href=\"http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=STRIKE!..._Concerning_the_1968-69_Strike_at_San_Francisco_State_College\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on strike\u003c/a> in 1968 to demand ethnic studies classes, but the campus was also a hotbed for \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/209216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anti-war protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Jose State University students garnered national headlines with a couple dynamic protests, like the one over campus recruiting by Dow Chemical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow Chemical was a major manufacturer of napalm, a reviled weapon used extensively by the U.S. military in Vietnam, and on Nov. 20, 1967, roughly 3,000 people filled the plaza outside the administration building at San Jose State to protest the company’s presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s archives contain footage of that protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfs8iJNTeE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State journalism professor Gordon Greb reported on the chaotic scene, injecting some commentary that today belies what you can observe in the video footage. Many people who marched against the Vietnam War will tell you the media at that time tended to downplay the size of crowds and focus their reports on violence. (This demonstration had been peaceful for hours before the scene on this video.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/vietnamwar/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11616324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TheVietnamWar_web-banners-1180x177-e1505162432907.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the perspective of one shy physics major who was part of the crowd that day, Gil Villagran. Today, Villagran’s hair is short and white. He walks with a cane. But on that day in 1967, Villagran was an obvious target for police photographers looking to identify troublemakers. He wore his hair long, and on top, a Che Guevera-style red beret, with a yellow felt star he’d sewn on himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People around Villagran spotted the photographers on the roof of the engineering building overlooking the plaza. “Somebody said, ‘Look, it’s the cops taking pictures of us. Wave to the cops.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-800x777.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Villagran's long hair and beard caught the eye of police photographers in 1967. He's trimmed since then, but his fervor for political protest remains strong.\" width=\"800\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-800x777.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-1180x1145.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-960x932.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-240x233.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-375x364.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-520x505.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Villagran’s long hair and beard caught the eye of police photographers in 1967. He’s trimmed since then, but his fervor for political protest remains strong. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Gil Villagran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those photos would lead to his expulsion, making Villagran one of a handful of demonstrators who paid a price for putting San Jose State in the national headlines. Later that week, a letter arrived, special delivery, at his parents’ home in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reads: “The Governor of the state of California, Ronald Reagan, the trustees of the California State University system, the president of the university, have determined that your presence on this campus is a danger to faculty, students and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen my mother so distraught,” Villagran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>The Bay Area Reacts to the Vietnam War\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/5N_CZoYSc7M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>His parents were not happy about his penchant for political protest. Villagran’s father was a bracero, a farmworker from Mexico. Villagran was the first in his family to go to college. They wanted him to focus on his studies. They also worried for his physical safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1967 Villlagran felt there was nothing more important than the war: a war he felt was unjust, unconstitutional and a horrific waste of human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two of my friends were dead. And I was a very bitter young man about that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran was already annoying less politically charged students by turning every class he attended into a seminar on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And many students would get very upset,” he says. “‘Hey, I came here to learn psychology. Why are we talking about this fucking war?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11615194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Dow Chemical protest of 1967 was covered by the Spartan Daily.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dow Chemical protest of 1967 was covered by the Spartan Daily. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of San José State University Special Collections & Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when Villagran was still going to class. He admits he attended fewer and fewer classes, as the immediacy of the war gnawed on him. Almost every day, he says, there was a teach-in on the plaza by the administration building, or planning meetings for protests and marches at San Jose State. Underground newsletters like Sedition and The Red Eye kept student activists apprised of the latest news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran traveled with friends to other campuses to see famous people, including Angela Davis, Tom Hayden, Harry Edwards, Bobby Kennedy and Ralph Nader. But the 23,000 student campus at San Jose also pulled in top-line anti-war speakers and performers, including Joan Baez, who offered to sing a song for the first student who promised to burn his draft card should one come in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran volunteered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State students made national headlines again in 1970, when they marched to the San Jose Civic Auditorium, where President Richard Nixon’s \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1970/10/30/page/1/article/mob-attacks-nixon-cars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">motorcade left through a crowd\u003c/a> of angry demonstrators. GOP advertisements then used images of the scene to drum up political support for Republican candidates that election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State sociology Professor Emeritus Bob Gliner was also protesting the war back then. He says anti-war demonstrators were always a vocal minority on campus. In the decades since the Vietnam War, student activism has generally been episodic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say, ‘Oh, they grew out of it, or they grew up.’ But I think, if we want to have a vibrant democracy, it’s not something you grow out of,” Gliner says. “It’s something you integrate into your day to day life, to be conscious of world events and to do something about problems that really bother you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran, now 69, speaks proudly of a lifetime of political activism. After he was expelled in 1967, he returned to San Jose State to earn a masters degree. He became a social worker and returned to San Jose State to teach in the School of Social Work, where he’s still an emeritus lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, he’s written articles and opinion pieces for local papers and blogs. His interests range from current politics, like the presidency of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/28/18801101.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>, to the historical, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/08/18787319.php#18786938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this essay\u003c/a> on four San Jose women who attempted to block the loading of napalm bombs headed for Vietnam in 1966. Currently, Villagran is focused on highlighting the Latino history of the South Bay with a group called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LaRazaHistoricalSocietySCV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran says he would like the university to mark the area where students angrily protested Dow Chemical with a monument outside the administration building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be something here like that. Right here. Because that’s where it all happened,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To read more of KQED’s series of articles regarding the impact of the Vietnam War on the Bay Area, visit \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/vietnamwar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kqed.org/vietnamwar\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>UC Berkeley is famous for its student protests during the Vietnam War era, but students protested all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford students rioted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2011/01/19/stanford-ponders-the-return-of-rotc-after-nearly-four-decades/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kick the ROTC program\u003c/a> off-campus. San Francisco State University students gained notoriety for going\u003ca href=\"http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=STRIKE!..._Concerning_the_1968-69_Strike_at_San_Francisco_State_College\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on strike\u003c/a> in 1968 to demand ethnic studies classes, but the campus was also a hotbed for \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/209216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anti-war protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Jose State University students garnered national headlines with a couple dynamic protests, like the one over campus recruiting by Dow Chemical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow Chemical was a major manufacturer of napalm, a reviled weapon used extensively by the U.S. military in Vietnam, and on Nov. 20, 1967, roughly 3,000 people filled the plaza outside the administration building at San Jose State to protest the company’s presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s archives contain footage of that protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MOfs8iJNTeE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MOfs8iJNTeE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>San Jose State journalism professor Gordon Greb reported on the chaotic scene, injecting some commentary that today belies what you can observe in the video footage. Many people who marched against the Vietnam War will tell you the media at that time tended to downplay the size of crowds and focus their reports on violence. (This demonstration had been peaceful for hours before the scene on this video.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/vietnamwar/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11616324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TheVietnamWar_web-banners-1180x177-e1505162432907.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the perspective of one shy physics major who was part of the crowd that day, Gil Villagran. Today, Villagran’s hair is short and white. He walks with a cane. But on that day in 1967, Villagran was an obvious target for police photographers looking to identify troublemakers. He wore his hair long, and on top, a Che Guevera-style red beret, with a yellow felt star he’d sewn on himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People around Villagran spotted the photographers on the roof of the engineering building overlooking the plaza. “Somebody said, ‘Look, it’s the cops taking pictures of us. Wave to the cops.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-800x777.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Villagran's long hair and beard caught the eye of police photographers in 1967. He's trimmed since then, but his fervor for political protest remains strong.\" width=\"800\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-800x777.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-1180x1145.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-960x932.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-240x233.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-375x364.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-520x505.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26507_IMG_0409-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Villagran’s long hair and beard caught the eye of police photographers in 1967. He’s trimmed since then, but his fervor for political protest remains strong. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Gil Villagran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those photos would lead to his expulsion, making Villagran one of a handful of demonstrators who paid a price for putting San Jose State in the national headlines. Later that week, a letter arrived, special delivery, at his parents’ home in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reads: “The Governor of the state of California, Ronald Reagan, the trustees of the California State University system, the president of the university, have determined that your presence on this campus is a danger to faculty, students and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen my mother so distraught,” Villagran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>The Bay Area Reacts to the Vietnam War\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/5N_CZoYSc7M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>His parents were not happy about his penchant for political protest. Villagran’s father was a bracero, a farmworker from Mexico. Villagran was the first in his family to go to college. They wanted him to focus on his studies. They also worried for his physical safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1967 Villlagran felt there was nothing more important than the war: a war he felt was unjust, unconstitutional and a horrific waste of human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two of my friends were dead. And I was a very bitter young man about that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran was already annoying less politically charged students by turning every class he attended into a seminar on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And many students would get very upset,” he says. “‘Hey, I came here to learn psychology. Why are we talking about this fucking war?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11615194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Dow Chemical protest of 1967 was covered by the Spartan Daily.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26474_f98ce8793f2c5f868f03355a973b2fd3.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dow Chemical protest of 1967 was covered by the Spartan Daily. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of San José State University Special Collections & Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when Villagran was still going to class. He admits he attended fewer and fewer classes, as the immediacy of the war gnawed on him. Almost every day, he says, there was a teach-in on the plaza by the administration building, or planning meetings for protests and marches at San Jose State. Underground newsletters like Sedition and The Red Eye kept student activists apprised of the latest news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran traveled with friends to other campuses to see famous people, including Angela Davis, Tom Hayden, Harry Edwards, Bobby Kennedy and Ralph Nader. But the 23,000 student campus at San Jose also pulled in top-line anti-war speakers and performers, including Joan Baez, who offered to sing a song for the first student who promised to burn his draft card should one come in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran volunteered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State students made national headlines again in 1970, when they marched to the San Jose Civic Auditorium, where President Richard Nixon’s \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1970/10/30/page/1/article/mob-attacks-nixon-cars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">motorcade left through a crowd\u003c/a> of angry demonstrators. GOP advertisements then used images of the scene to drum up political support for Republican candidates that election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State sociology Professor Emeritus Bob Gliner was also protesting the war back then. He says anti-war demonstrators were always a vocal minority on campus. In the decades since the Vietnam War, student activism has generally been episodic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say, ‘Oh, they grew out of it, or they grew up.’ But I think, if we want to have a vibrant democracy, it’s not something you grow out of,” Gliner says. “It’s something you integrate into your day to day life, to be conscious of world events and to do something about problems that really bother you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran, now 69, speaks proudly of a lifetime of political activism. After he was expelled in 1967, he returned to San Jose State to earn a masters degree. He became a social worker and returned to San Jose State to teach in the School of Social Work, where he’s still an emeritus lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, he’s written articles and opinion pieces for local papers and blogs. His interests range from current politics, like the presidency of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/28/18801101.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>, to the historical, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/08/18787319.php#18786938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this essay\u003c/a> on four San Jose women who attempted to block the loading of napalm bombs headed for Vietnam in 1966. Currently, Villagran is focused on highlighting the Latino history of the South Bay with a group called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LaRazaHistoricalSocietySCV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagran says he would like the university to mark the area where students angrily protested Dow Chemical with a monument outside the administration building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be something here like that. Right here. Because that’s where it all happened,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>During her morning walk, Pairom Sar points in disgust at the dirty green leather chair hanging off the curb. Next to it? A pile of stinky yard waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chair and yard waste weren’t there when Sar went to bed. But most nights trash just seems to appear out of nowhere. She believes the items are dumped by people who don’t live in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people outside of the flood (zone) come here,” Sar says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11612686 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0094-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dumped chair and yard waste at the corner of Needles Drive and Welch Avenue in Rock Springs. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After San Jose’s Coyote Creek flooded on Feb. 21, the neighborhood of Rock Springs was inundated with trash and debris. Residents and construction crews spent months cleaning up and throwing out ruined furniture and belongings, and the city of San Jose provided dumpsters and regular pickups to assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that pickup program ended earlier this summer, and there are still piles of trash. Deputy City Manager Kip Harkness believes the city’s cleanup effort has had an unintended effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people see trash in a neighborhood, they tend to bring their own stuff and dump it,” Harkness says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handwritten “no dumping signs” hang on the trees in the neighborhood. Residents regularly report the illegal dumping to the city. But still people dump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want a clean, safe community just like everyone else,” Harkness says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sad thing is that there’s really no reason to dump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city will pick up up to three large bulk items,” Harkness says. “Just go to our website or app and make an appointment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is encouraging people to continue to report the dumping. If Rock Springs continues to become a hotspot for it, the city will consider installing cameras to catch dumpers and fine them. The fee for a first-time dumper is $2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11612687 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/JulyRockSpringsTrash.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of trash on Welch Avenue in the Rock Springs neighborhood of San Jose in July 2017. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pairom Sar stares at that dirty green leather chair hanging off the curb when I ask how she’s been doing since the flood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a little OK,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sar goes on to say she’s lived in Rock Springs since 1988, and most of her possessions were destroyed in the flood. All of the trash is a reminder of those losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sar and her neighbors want it to go away — so that they can finally move on.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new report could give insight into why San Jose failed to notify more than 14,000 residents that their neighborhoods were under a flood threat in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, commissioned by San Jose and conducted by emergency management consultant Witt O’Brien’s, gave the city an “A” for how it responded after the Feb. 21 flood but an “F” for foresight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also critical of the way the city handled notifying residents, such as Juanita Wilson, who was living in the Rock Springs neighborhood when the flood occurred. That area is near Coyote Creek, which floods whenever Anderson Dam overflows. South of San Jose, the dam was built in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had no warning from the city, none from the county, nothing at all,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11612794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36.jpg 337w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36-240x427.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A night photo of the pole Jeffrey Hare uses to measure Coyote Creek water levels. This photo was taken on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, two days before the neighborhood was flooded. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeffrey Hare)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the floodwaters were reaching her neighborhood, she was preparing for a trip to the DMV. As she grabbed her keys to head to the door, she heard firefighters yelling over a loudspeaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, what are you talking about,” Wilson said. “So I opened the door and there was water everywhere and I just kept thinking, I can’t go. I can’t get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s neighbor, Jeffrey Hare, had known for days that the flood was coming and he was frantic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to contact the city, we were trying to contact the water district, we were trying to contact anyone we could,” Hare said. “We couldn’t get through to any of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days before the flood, Hare had begun taking water level readings of Coyote Creek using a pole to measure its rise. He installed that pole in 1997, when he saw the creek overflow the first time. It was Super Bowl Sunday and the city had failed to alert residents. Hare said he had to knock on doors to warn his neighbors. Twenty years later, as the creek began to rise again, Hare was back knocking on those doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I called emergency dispatch, they put me in touch with the San Jose Water Co.,” Hare said. “They said they were sending out a technician. I told them I’m not reporting a leak. I’m reporting a flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naglee Park resident Jeffrey Hare points to the flood line of his neighbor’s home off Coyote Creek. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time San Jose issued an evacuation order, Juanita Wilson was already standing waist-deep in floodwaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to do. I felt lost,” she said. “I didn’t know what to get, what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know what to do because there was no universal alert system in place to notify residents, despite the fact that it had been recommended after the flood in 1997. The recent analysis report from Witt O’Brien’s noted that in the case of this latest flood, San Jose failed to learn anything from the 1997 event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings that did go out from the city were posted primarily on social media sites. Few residents in the largely low-income Rock Springs neighborhood got those warnings. Most speak Spanish or Vietnamese, and not everyone is online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/CoyoteCreekFlood2Getty-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floodwaters surround a play structure on Feb. 22, 2017, in San Jose, California. \u003ccite>( Noah Berger AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hare said city officials knew the flood was coming and didn’t act. Public records show that officials had exchanged emails, had conference calls and had met in person to discuss the possibility of a flood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unbeknownst to us at the time, the city and the water district had been meeting for seven days prior to the flood,” Hare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t the city act fast enough to designate the flood an emergency? The Santa Clara Valley Water District, which is in charge of overseeing flood control, said it notified the city days before that a flood was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for days, field workers sent emails and photos to city officials showing the rising waters, but there was no action. There was nobody to coordinate a response. One reason was that the emergency management director position was vacant and had been for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1Lg-x74mAEeDhbedZxDTIWXAtejxMom8J5-PtF1tFTYM&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the water started rushing into the homes of residents like Juanita Wilson that an emergency evacuation was finally issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel, you know, let down and disappointed that they thought so little of us,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several months afterward, she lived in a shelter. She just recently found an apartment two hours away from her job as an instructional assistant at an elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Wilson said she has flashes of what she lost. Like the Christmas ornaments her now-adult children made for her when they were kids. And at 66 it feels weird, she said, to be starting over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just have to go from where you are,” she said. “You kind of work with the hand you’re dealt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita Wilson (right) leaving the Santa Clara County Housing Authority with her daughter, Annalisa. Wilson lost all of her belongings in the Coyote Creek flood. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson wants the city to put in place systems to make certain residents aren’t victimized by flooding again. She is among more than 150 flood victims who are filing claims against the city for failure to provide proper notice. They’re also filing claims against the Santa Clara Valley Water District for failing to prevent Anderson Dam from overflowing, and Santa Clara County for failing to set up an alert system that would have notified everyone in time to save their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the flood, San Jose officials say they’ve implemented key changes to the city’s emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Last March, San Jose hired Ray Riordan as the emergency management director.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city is implementing a new three-tiered warning system. Yellow: issued up to 72 hours in advance of flooding. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new report could give insight into why San Jose failed to notify more than 14,000 residents that their neighborhoods were under a flood threat in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, commissioned by San Jose and conducted by emergency management consultant Witt O’Brien’s, gave the city an “A” for how it responded after the Feb. 21 flood but an “F” for foresight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also critical of the way the city handled notifying residents, such as Juanita Wilson, who was living in the Rock Springs neighborhood when the flood occurred. That area is near Coyote Creek, which floods whenever Anderson Dam overflows. South of San Jose, the dam was built in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had no warning from the city, none from the county, nothing at all,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11612794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36.jpg 337w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/2017-02-20-05.19.36-240x427.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A night photo of the pole Jeffrey Hare uses to measure Coyote Creek water levels. This photo was taken on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, two days before the neighborhood was flooded. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeffrey Hare)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the floodwaters were reaching her neighborhood, she was preparing for a trip to the DMV. As she grabbed her keys to head to the door, she heard firefighters yelling over a loudspeaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, what are you talking about,” Wilson said. “So I opened the door and there was water everywhere and I just kept thinking, I can’t go. I can’t get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson’s neighbor, Jeffrey Hare, had known for days that the flood was coming and he was frantic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to contact the city, we were trying to contact the water district, we were trying to contact anyone we could,” Hare said. “We couldn’t get through to any of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days before the flood, Hare had begun taking water level readings of Coyote Creek using a pole to measure its rise. He installed that pole in 1997, when he saw the creek overflow the first time. It was Super Bowl Sunday and the city had failed to alert residents. Hare said he had to knock on doors to warn his neighbors. Twenty years later, as the creek began to rise again, Hare was back knocking on those doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I called emergency dispatch, they put me in touch with the San Jose Water Co.,” Hare said. “They said they were sending out a technician. I told them I’m not reporting a leak. I’m reporting a flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1272.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naglee Park resident Jeffrey Hare points to the flood line of his neighbor’s home off Coyote Creek. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time San Jose issued an evacuation order, Juanita Wilson was already standing waist-deep in floodwaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to do. I felt lost,” she said. “I didn’t know what to get, what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know what to do because there was no universal alert system in place to notify residents, despite the fact that it had been recommended after the flood in 1997. The recent analysis report from Witt O’Brien’s noted that in the case of this latest flood, San Jose failed to learn anything from the 1997 event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings that did go out from the city were posted primarily on social media sites. Few residents in the largely low-income Rock Springs neighborhood got those warnings. Most speak Spanish or Vietnamese, and not everyone is online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/CoyoteCreekFlood2Getty-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floodwaters surround a play structure on Feb. 22, 2017, in San Jose, California. \u003ccite>( Noah Berger AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hare said city officials knew the flood was coming and didn’t act. Public records show that officials had exchanged emails, had conference calls and had met in person to discuss the possibility of a flood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unbeknownst to us at the time, the city and the water district had been meeting for seven days prior to the flood,” Hare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t the city act fast enough to designate the flood an emergency? The Santa Clara Valley Water District, which is in charge of overseeing flood control, said it notified the city days before that a flood was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for days, field workers sent emails and photos to city officials showing the rising waters, but there was no action. There was nobody to coordinate a response. One reason was that the emergency management director position was vacant and had been for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1Lg-x74mAEeDhbedZxDTIWXAtejxMom8J5-PtF1tFTYM&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the water started rushing into the homes of residents like Juanita Wilson that an emergency evacuation was finally issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel, you know, let down and disappointed that they thought so little of us,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several months afterward, she lived in a shelter. She just recently found an apartment two hours away from her job as an instructional assistant at an elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Wilson said she has flashes of what she lost. Like the Christmas ornaments her now-adult children made for her when they were kids. And at 66 it feels weird, she said, to be starting over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just have to go from where you are,” she said. “You kind of work with the hand you’re dealt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_1749-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanita Wilson (right) leaving the Santa Clara County Housing Authority with her daughter, Annalisa. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>If you attended sixth grade anywhere in or near San Jose, there’s a high likelihood you’ve been to see the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities on public display anywhere west of the Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m talking about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.egyptianmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Tran-Le visited as a teenager, but she still has questions. Sooooo many questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why San Jose? How did they get those mummies? How did those mummies get out of Egypt? And why is it not — I mean, maybe I’m mistaken, but — why is it not better known?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find the answers, I joined her for a visit to the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrance is lined with huge columns, potted papyrus and rows of ram-headed sphinxes — just like the ones lining the processional road to Karnak. Then, you open the giant brass-plated doors, and you see sixth-graders. Lots and lots of sixth-graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552129 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='\"I remember the cat mummy. I remember the recreation of an Egyptian tomb. It scared the heck out of me,\" says Bay Curious question asker Peggy Tran-Le.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I remember the cat mummy. I remember the re-creation of an Egyptian tomb. It scared the heck out of me,” says Bay Curious question asker Peggy Tran-Le. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We host 110,000 guests per year, and about 26,000 of them are sixth-graders,” says Julie Scott, executive director of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happens, Scott is also a practicing Rosicrucian, which is to say she belongs to a philosophical society that believes there’s a spiritual, transformative value to nerding out on ancient Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to Egypt 12 times now,” she says. “There’s always something fascinating to learn and discover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosicrucianism in its modern form bloomed around the turn of the 20th century, along with a host of other metaphysical philosophies seeking to plumb ancient depths for fresh perspectives on the mysteries of life and nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"“We’re the caretakers of these artifacts,” says the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s Executive Director Julie Scott. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We’re the caretakers of these artifacts,” says the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s executive director, Julie Scott. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local Rosicrucians began collecting ancient artifacts in 1929 and just kept going. There’s room after room of more than 4,000 statues and maps and mummies: human and otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as a teenager, the animal mummies were the highlight of my first visit,” Tran-Le says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the museum has modernized to take advantage of advancements in science. Egyptologists have visited and reassessed various items. As an example, Scott tells me the back story behind a baboon mummy that captures my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, this baboon, he looks — he is ancient, but he’s not a baboon,” Scott says. “We found, after doing an X-ray of him, that the body is actually a ceramic jar. The Egyptians would do this. They would put just a small piece of an animal, say, part of a bone or some of their fur, in this votive offering, and that way they could make more votive offerings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-800x1139.jpg\" alt=\"The Rosicrucian Digest, published continuously from 1915, is put out by The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, which also runs the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-800x1139.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-1020x1452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-1180x1680.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-960x1367.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-240x342.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-375x534.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-520x740.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rosicrucian Digest, published continuously from 1915, is put out by The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, which also runs the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To enhance the educational purpose of the collection, the Roscicrucians have also had a few replicas cast of famous items like King Tut’s golden sarcophagus and the Rosetta Stone. There’s also a tomb that is a composite replica of several real tombs in Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1966, a team of Rosicrucian researchers went to Egypt and explored a number of tombs in the Beni Hasan region,” Scott explains, adding this tomb was most like the one of a man who was named Khnumhotep. He was not a pharaoh, but a nomarch — a governor, like Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tomb is located at the end of a series of winding stairs, not unlike the line you travel through to get to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. Ask people what they remember from their childhood visit here, and it comes down to the animal mummies and the tomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy Tran-Le looks at the baboon mummy at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peggy Tran-Le regards the baboon mummy at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of thoughtful, even funny, touches. For example, the sarcophagus in this tomb is missing because it was “robbed,” as so many ancient Egyptian tombs were. Also, the lighting is low enough to encourage young minds to think anxious thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say that this part of the museum always scared me as a kid,” Tran-Le says, laughing. “It’s such a, it’s a dopey reaction, but it scared me. So I’m having just sort of flashbacks to being a scared young person down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>We retreat to another gallery focused on the daily lives of ancient Egyptians. As you wander through the rooms, you’re reminded of just how impressive, how sophisticated they really were. They brewed beer, as we do today. They worshipped cats, as we do today. They kept their kohl, their black eye makeup, in cylinders that look just like mascara containers today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>The museum is the crown jewel in a complex that includes a planetarium and a research library with ancient books from big names like Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, who the Rosicrucians of today claim as their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The local order of Rosicrucians in San Jose is planning a new museum to focus on alchemy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local order of Rosicrucians in San Jose is planning a new museum to focus on alchemy. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Isaac Newton had the largest collection of alchemical books in Europe,” Scott says. “But he had to keep that private, because mystics at that time, they basically had to say, ‘OK, I’m just focusing on science. I’m staying out of religion. You guys do your religious stuff.’ But he was a very avid alchemist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, modern scientists have been able to turn baser metals into gold, but it’s a hugely complicated and expensive effort that involves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particle accelerator\u003c/a>. The kind of alchemy the Rosicrucians believe is possible has not been replicated by modern scientists. The local order of Rosicrucians has posted a number of videos allowing you to explore the ideas for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qOCdFDXe5jQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>“We don’t see (the pyramid) as a tomb,” Scott says. “We see it as an initiation chamber.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>This line of conversation raises another question for Tran-Le: “When I came here with my friend’s mom and my friend, we walked the grounds and she said, ‘Oh, this is where the order held secret ceremonies.’ I don’t know if she was just trying to entertain a bunch of teenagers. Or is that something you can confirm? Or deny?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott explains: “Well, we hold regular meetings for Rosicrucians that include a meditation and a discussion. They’re private to only Rosicrucians. We wouldn’t call them secret, but you have to be a Rosicrucian member to participate. That’s held in our grand temple, which is for Rosicrucians — that’s the spiritual headquarters, here at Rosicrucian Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552139 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-800x999.jpg\" alt=\"For many years, Rosicrucians advertised in popular magazines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-800x999.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-1020x1273.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-1180x1473.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-960x1199.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many years, Rosicrucians advertised in popular magazines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Scott says there about 250,000 Rosicrucians worldwide, and other big centers like this one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rose-croix.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.maxheindel.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil\u003c/a>. The New Yorker who started the U.S. chapter landed in San Jose’s bucolic Rose Garden neighborhood because land was cheap here. Well, it \u003ci>was\u003c/i> back in the early 20th century!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott adds: “People in this part of the world are so open to other ways of thinking and learning — and especially to more than just intellectual learning and understanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, the Golden State has welcomed seekers, people keen to remake the world into something less rational and boring, into something more mystical and spiritually resonant. But if you’re thinking Rosicrucianism is a religion, it’s not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552141 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A postcard of the planetarium at Rosicrucian Park, one of the first in the US.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25932_Rosicrucian-Planetarium-historic-postcard-copy-qut.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postcard of the planetarium at Rosicrucian Park, one of the first in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know Rosicrucians who are Catholics and Buddhist and Jews — every religion that I’m aware of, I’ve met somebody who is a practitioner of that religion,” Scott says. “There are also Rosicrucians who don’t consider themselves religious at all. They consider themselves spiritual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, you don’t have to \u003ci>believe\u003c/i> to benefit from the Rosicrucians’ enthusiasm for ancient Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/anne-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anne Austin\u003c/a> is an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Stanford who teaches a class called Egyptomania. She takes every class to San Jose. “I think it’s a great teaching collection, especially for people who are new to Egypt,” Austin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25557_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I ask Austin if some Rosicrucian ideas about ancient Egyptian practices diverge from accepted academic gospel today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re open to a variety of interpretations of Egypt in a way that Egyptologists are less open,” Austin says. “So we’re not really open to thinking about past lives in Egypt. We’re not really open to feeling a kind of spiritual, direct connection with Egypt. I do not feel a direct spiritual connection with Egypt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>And the Rosicrucians, it’s fair to say, do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>If you attended sixth grade anywhere in or near San Jose, there’s a high likelihood you’ve been to see the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities on public display anywhere west of the Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m talking about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.egyptianmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Tran-Le visited as a teenager, but she still has questions. Sooooo many questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why San Jose? How did they get those mummies? How did those mummies get out of Egypt? And why is it not — I mean, maybe I’m mistaken, but — why is it not better known?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find the answers, I joined her for a visit to the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrance is lined with huge columns, potted papyrus and rows of ram-headed sphinxes — just like the ones lining the processional road to Karnak. Then, you open the giant brass-plated doors, and you see sixth-graders. Lots and lots of sixth-graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552129 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='\"I remember the cat mummy. I remember the recreation of an Egyptian tomb. It scared the heck out of me,\" says Bay Curious question asker Peggy Tran-Le.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25561_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I remember the cat mummy. I remember the re-creation of an Egyptian tomb. It scared the heck out of me,” says Bay Curious question asker Peggy Tran-Le. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We host 110,000 guests per year, and about 26,000 of them are sixth-graders,” says Julie Scott, executive director of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happens, Scott is also a practicing Rosicrucian, which is to say she belongs to a philosophical society that believes there’s a spiritual, transformative value to nerding out on ancient Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to Egypt 12 times now,” she says. “There’s always something fascinating to learn and discover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosicrucianism in its modern form bloomed around the turn of the 20th century, along with a host of other metaphysical philosophies seeking to plumb ancient depths for fresh perspectives on the mysteries of life and nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"“We’re the caretakers of these artifacts,” says the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s Executive Director Julie Scott. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25564_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We’re the caretakers of these artifacts,” says the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s executive director, Julie Scott. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local Rosicrucians began collecting ancient artifacts in 1929 and just kept going. There’s room after room of more than 4,000 statues and maps and mummies: human and otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as a teenager, the animal mummies were the highlight of my first visit,” Tran-Le says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the museum has modernized to take advantage of advancements in science. Egyptologists have visited and reassessed various items. As an example, Scott tells me the back story behind a baboon mummy that captures my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, this baboon, he looks — he is ancient, but he’s not a baboon,” Scott says. “We found, after doing an X-ray of him, that the body is actually a ceramic jar. The Egyptians would do this. They would put just a small piece of an animal, say, part of a bone or some of their fur, in this votive offering, and that way they could make more votive offerings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-800x1139.jpg\" alt=\"The Rosicrucian Digest, published continuously from 1915, is put out by The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, which also runs the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-800x1139.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-1020x1452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-1180x1680.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-960x1367.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-240x342.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-375x534.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25928_1930-RosicrucianDigest-qut-520x740.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rosicrucian Digest, published continuously from 1915, is put out by The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, which also runs the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To enhance the educational purpose of the collection, the Roscicrucians have also had a few replicas cast of famous items like King Tut’s golden sarcophagus and the Rosetta Stone. There’s also a tomb that is a composite replica of several real tombs in Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1966, a team of Rosicrucian researchers went to Egypt and explored a number of tombs in the Beni Hasan region,” Scott explains, adding this tomb was most like the one of a man who was named Khnumhotep. He was not a pharaoh, but a nomarch — a governor, like Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tomb is located at the end of a series of winding stairs, not unlike the line you travel through to get to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. Ask people what they remember from their childhood visit here, and it comes down to the animal mummies and the tomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy Tran-Le looks at the baboon mummy at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25769_20170615_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peggy Tran-Le regards the baboon mummy at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of thoughtful, even funny, touches. For example, the sarcophagus in this tomb is missing because it was “robbed,” as so many ancient Egyptian tombs were. Also, the lighting is low enough to encourage young minds to think anxious thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say that this part of the museum always scared me as a kid,” Tran-Le says, laughing. “It’s such a, it’s a dopey reaction, but it scared me. So I’m having just sort of flashbacks to being a scared young person down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>We retreat to another gallery focused on the daily lives of ancient Egyptians. As you wander through the rooms, you’re reminded of just how impressive, how sophisticated they really were. They brewed beer, as we do today. They worshipped cats, as we do today. They kept their kohl, their black eye makeup, in cylinders that look just like mascara containers today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>The museum is the crown jewel in a complex that includes a planetarium and a research library with ancient books from big names like Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, who the Rosicrucians of today claim as their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The local order of Rosicrucians in San Jose is planning a new museum to focus on alchemy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25565_20170524_Rosicrucian_credit_BertJohnson-7-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local order of Rosicrucians in San Jose is planning a new museum to focus on alchemy. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Isaac Newton had the largest collection of alchemical books in Europe,” Scott says. “But he had to keep that private, because mystics at that time, they basically had to say, ‘OK, I’m just focusing on science. I’m staying out of religion. You guys do your religious stuff.’ But he was a very avid alchemist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, modern scientists have been able to turn baser metals into gold, but it’s a hugely complicated and expensive effort that involves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particle accelerator\u003c/a>. The kind of alchemy the Rosicrucians believe is possible has not been replicated by modern scientists. The local order of Rosicrucians has posted a number of videos allowing you to explore the ideas for yourself.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qOCdFDXe5jQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qOCdFDXe5jQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>“We don’t see (the pyramid) as a tomb,” Scott says. “We see it as an initiation chamber.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>This line of conversation raises another question for Tran-Le: “When I came here with my friend’s mom and my friend, we walked the grounds and she said, ‘Oh, this is where the order held secret ceremonies.’ I don’t know if she was just trying to entertain a bunch of teenagers. Or is that something you can confirm? Or deny?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott explains: “Well, we hold regular meetings for Rosicrucians that include a meditation and a discussion. They’re private to only Rosicrucians. We wouldn’t call them secret, but you have to be a Rosicrucian member to participate. That’s held in our grand temple, which is for Rosicrucians — that’s the spiritual headquarters, here at Rosicrucian Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11552139 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-800x999.jpg\" alt=\"For many years, Rosicrucians advertised in popular magazines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-800x999.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-1020x1273.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-1180x1473.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-960x1199.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25929_1931-Poster-qut-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many years, Rosicrucians advertised in popular magazines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Scott says there about 250,000 Rosicrucians worldwide, and other big centers like this one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rose-croix.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.maxheindel.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil\u003c/a>. The New Yorker who started the U.S. chapter landed in San Jose’s bucolic Rose Garden neighborhood because land was cheap here. Well, it \u003ci>was\u003c/i> back in the early 20th century!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott adds: “People in this part of the world are so open to other ways of thinking and learning — and especially to more than just intellectual learning and understanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, the Golden State has welcomed seekers, people keen to remake the world into something less rational and boring, into something more mystical and spiritually resonant. 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They consider themselves spiritual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, you don’t have to \u003ci>believe\u003c/i> to benefit from the Rosicrucians’ enthusiasm for ancient Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/anne-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anne Austin\u003c/a> is an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Stanford who teaches a class called Egyptomania. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose city officials are being flooded with complaints about the illegal use of fireworks ahead of the July Fourth holiday. City spokeswoman Cheryl Wessling says they have received more than 100 complaints, many of which came in the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members have concerns ranging from fire danger to scared pets, according to Wessling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we really need the community to know is that this is an issue of respect: respecting your neighbor, respecting the fact that people have pets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-11537249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Fireman-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Fireman-ad.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Fireman-ad-160x73.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Fireman-ad-240x109.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Fireman-ad-375x170.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In preparation for the upcoming holiday, Wessling says the city has posted billboards and bus ads publicizing the dangers of fireworks. San Jose is encouraging people to report firework use \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/fireworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">through the city website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a lot of people are using fireworks at the same time, it absolutely creates a safety crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wessling says it’s not only about respecting neighbors and law enforcement, but also military veterans who may experience the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sound of fireworks these days is not that far from the sound of a war zone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department began an investigation into the use and possession of fireworks in April amid community concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the department reports having seized 2,700 pounds of fireworks. All types of fireworks are illegal in San Jose, including Roman candles and sparklers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ask any gardener: Nothing tastes so sweet as something you grew yourself, even in the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Silicon Valley was paved over with concrete, it was the Valley of Heart’s Delight, boasting some of the world’s richest topsoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s poetic irony in the fact that some techies can’t wait to get their hands in that soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just soothing. It’s healing,\" says PayPal cloud manager Anant Kumar. He bought a home in San Jose in 2000. He tore out the grass straight away and planted a garden. \"I started out with what was easy: pumpkins, squashes, zucchinis, tomatoes, chili peppers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anant Kumar originally hails from the big city of New Delhi, in India, but his father grew up on a farm. Bitter melons – a taste of Kumar's home – are coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You saute them with a few onions, maybe add a little bit of mango powder. You got to try it!\" Kumar insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar is keen to spread the good word about gardening. Along with several PayPal colleagues, he volunteered to build a greenhouse for a San Jose non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyverde.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Verde\u003c/a>, which helps low-income families grow their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent sunny day, the group celebrated the greenhouse’s grand opening in San Jose’s first “urban agriculture incentive zone.” What was a used car lot is now covered with raised planting beds and stacks of bagged soil. \"It looks amazing,\" Kumar gushes, \"and I think we need more of this in the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are workshops for beginners, and seedlings to replant back home. Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask any gardener: Nothing tastes so sweet as something you grew yourself, even in the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Silicon Valley was paved over with concrete, it was the Valley of Heart’s Delight, boasting some of the world’s richest topsoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s poetic irony in the fact that some techies can’t wait to get their hands in that soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just soothing. It’s healing,\" says PayPal cloud manager Anant Kumar. He bought a home in San Jose in 2000. He tore out the grass straight away and planted a garden. \"I started out with what was easy: pumpkins, squashes, zucchinis, tomatoes, chili peppers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anant Kumar originally hails from the big city of New Delhi, in India, but his father grew up on a farm. Bitter melons – a taste of Kumar's home – are coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You saute them with a few onions, maybe add a little bit of mango powder. You got to try it!\" Kumar insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. 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Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. Mitch Matlow said Tuesday afternoon. “In the history of San Jose, I don’t know if it’s been bigger, but this is probably in the top 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Seoung was among the residents rescued by fire crews. “At some parts of the street the water is as high as your waist, my waist,” Seoung said. “I’m 6 feet tall and my waist is about 30 inches off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said Tuesday that officials suspect a breach of the creek’s bank caused the rapid flooding in Rock Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, there’s a source in the creek where there’s a significantly large amount of water that’s rushing in,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Kristin Seitz was looking at a map of San Jose when she noticed an awful lot of holes. The city’s territory isn’t one undivided shape, but rather resembles a piece of Swiss cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz wondered: Why are there so many unincorporated “urban islands” in the San Jose area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, first we went to Jane Power’s house. When you stand on her front porch, you’d think you’re in San Jose. Walk 10 minutes south and you can be at San Jose City College. Drive a few miles east and you can be in the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Power and her neighbors cast their ballots, they don’t get to vote for San Jose representatives or ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when they call for police, it’s not the San Jose police that will come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because despite being completely surrounded by San Jose on all sides, Power doesn’t live in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives in the unincorporated island of Burbank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10961044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-800x668.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1920x1603.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-960x802.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like being special and Burbank is special,” says Power, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksj.org/\">Burbank Community Association\u003c/a>, a collection of residents who gather to talk about community issues. “There’s a feeling of neighborhood. That’s something that a lot of places in the Bay Area just don’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All around San Jose you’ll find islands just like Burbank — small communities that are completely surrounded or bordered by San Jose or Campbell, but aren’t actually part of any city at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of these islands are open land, many look just like any other neighborhood. Nearly 5,000 people live in Central Burbank alone, and they fall under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958602 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Council, stand in front of Power's home in Burbank.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Association, stand in front of Power’s home in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what is it that Burbank \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> have that an incorporated city might?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are no city taxes. There’s no city government or business tax, and if there’s an issue that might sound like a job for city government, residents call their county supervisor. When someone in Burbank calls 911, the county sheriff responds — not San Jose police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank’s school district consists of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lbsd.k12.ca.us/Page/1\"> one elementary school \u003c/a>with a different enrollment process than schools just a few miles away. Burbank isn’t connected to San Jose’s sewer system, so in 1940 they established\u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksanitary.org/\"> their own sanitary district.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents say they feel removed from the high-rises and tech industries changing San Jose. The small bungalows and Craftsman-style homes built for cannery workers and blue-collar folks leave them with a desire to preserve a way of life that predates the modern definition of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like the ’50s,” says Henni Kaufman, treasurer of the Burbank Community Association. “I do a lot of yard work and I’m out there and the kids come and talk to me. They ride their bicycles up and down the sidewalk, and neighbors really watch out for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Jose resident had no idea that she was moving into an unincorporated community when she bought her home in 1984. Now, the difference is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community because it’s manageable.’\u003ccite>Ken Colson, Director of the Burbank Sanitary District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The community feel translates on a political level, too, says Ken Colson, who sits on the board of directors of the Burbank Sanitary District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community [because] it’s manageable,” says Colson. “We can get on the phone and call our county supervisor and he has a staff that responds. The city? [That] would be tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Historic Artifact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Power’s home was one of the first houses built in her subdivision in 1905. The bedrooms have no closets and the street in front of her home is so narrow that you can park on only one side of it. Perhaps it was the perfect width for a horse-drawn carriage, but not enough for the cars of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas like Burbank developed long before the neighborhoods around them did, says Bill Shoe, the principal planner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Planning Department\u003c/a>. In fact, developers began building the first residential tracts in Burbank as early as 1904. Shoe says these islands are a direct result of the way San Jose expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re like a window into the history of urbanization in the county,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, the suburbanization of San Jose mirrored national trends. Returning veterans, the advent of the car and expanding freeways incentivized the city to expand its borders as a way to grow its tax base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this growth wasn’t always uniform or rational. Because some land was easier to annex than others, the city would skip over pockets of land to continue its outward growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It resulted in an irregular and dysfunctional set of boundaries,” Shoe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pockets of land that got skipped over were often neighborhoods with homes built by those who worked at the canneries or in agriculture before the war — long before anyone thought about suburbanization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961231\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10961231 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg\" alt=\"The Burbank Community Theater\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Burbank Theater on Bascom Avenue opened in 1949. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvna/6074154702/in/photolist-afKCuN-afGWjt-9Q2eb-69rpNv-h2x6F-afKEeS-h2xac-9Q2fB-afGWc2-h2x5e-fmGgu-afGStK-afGSpt-9Q2dN-h2x9o-9Q2dC-h2x6e-afGTXX-afKEGh-afGV8B-9Q2fj-h2x5v-9Q2fN-fmGjX-afGUR6-9Q2gW-afKEvW-afKFFE-h2xb9-h2x7F-9Q2g6-9Q2hs-h2x7f-9Q2ei-h2xc9-9Q2hm-9Q2dw-afKCzd-afKGKE-afGUMg-h2x8p-afGV3g-9Q2gR-afGUfx-fmGhC-h2x8T-afGVZH-h2xaJ-fmGj7-h2xbB\">BVNA\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reflection of the history,” says Shoe. “Of the time when cars were not as predominant, and when people still had horses and carriages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their peak, there were likely hundreds of unincorporated islands in Santa Clara County, but the county did not keep documentation of these islands until they launched an island annexation program in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the county still had 180 unincorporated areas. Eighty-nine percent of them were smaller than 150 acres. That number has been whittled down to 87 islands that remain today. The largest and most well-known include Burbank, Alum Rock and Cambrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans to Annex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While there aren’t as many unincorporated urban islands as there once were, the county plans to eventually dissolve them all into neighboring and surrounding cities, says Neelima Palacherla, executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palacherla says the county simply wasn’t built to provide services to unincorporated islands. Sometimes, she says, this system gets confusing for both the county and unincorporated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There could be a lot of confusion for residents who live in an island regarding who provides services to them in an emergency. Who do they call?” says Palacherla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residents, like Henni Kaufman, sometimes have no idea they moved into an unincorporated area. Some don’t find out until an emergency or an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are things like sidewalks. In San Jose, all major developments must have sidewalks. In unincorporated islands, they’re simply not required — though sometimes residents put them in themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 866px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10954171 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg\" alt=\"The unincorporated island of Burbank. \" width=\"866\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg 866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-800x517.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The unincorporated island of Burbank. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By annexing into a city, they know that they’re receiving or will be receiving services from an agency — which is the city — that was created and geared to provide services to their neighborhood and their area, as opposed to the county, which has to provide these services in a very scattered manner,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t expect mass annexation any time soon. There are plenty of obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of … just how lengthy [annexation] could be, and how expensive and cumbersome, many of the city’s residents and county are not interested in going through this process,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annexation is perceived to be so cumbersome, she says, that the county is working on creating a more streamlined process. The traditional process starts with the proposed annexation, then moves onto zoning designations, community meetings for larger areas, and planning commission and city council hearings. Sometimes, in between all of this, there are protests from residents. In other cases, cities simply don’t see any financial benefit to annexation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious annexation battle in recent history happened in 2011, when San Jose and the neighboring city of Campbell fought to win over the hearts of 1,000 residents in a 103-acre island known as Cambrian 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrian residents had a strong unincorporated neighborhood association that protested annexation at public hearings in San Jose. The city had its eye on the promise of new tax revenue to be generated by the island’s annexation. The deal ended in a $1 million settlement between the two cities. Campbell got the island, and San Jose got the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has stepped up its annexation proceedings over the last 10 years, taking over dozens of islands as part of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1632\">annexation collaboration\u003c/a> between the county and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be a time in the near future when it becomes a focus of the cities, but it’s hard to predict,” says Shoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents who want to hold onto their unincorporated status are nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958604 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"A welcome sign in Burbank. \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We in the Burbank area are challenged,” Colson says. “We’re brainstorming how we can keep some semblance of an identity here and keep this kind of character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Jane Power say it’s about saving the community from the redevelopment that has changed San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep the unique housing,” she says. “We don’t want to have it bulldozed down and have another high-rise take up three or four lots where we have single-family housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Shoe says it’s unclear when full annexation of the remaining pockets will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, Burbank will remain exactly the way Jane Power likes it: special.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Kristin Seitz was looking at a map of San Jose when she noticed an awful lot of holes. The city’s territory isn’t one undivided shape, but rather resembles a piece of Swiss cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz wondered: Why are there so many unincorporated “urban islands” in the San Jose area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, first we went to Jane Power’s house. When you stand on her front porch, you’d think you’re in San Jose. Walk 10 minutes south and you can be at San Jose City College. Drive a few miles east and you can be in the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Power and her neighbors cast their ballots, they don’t get to vote for San Jose representatives or ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when they call for police, it’s not the San Jose police that will come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because despite being completely surrounded by San Jose on all sides, Power doesn’t live in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives in the unincorporated island of Burbank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10961044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-800x668.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1920x1603.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-960x802.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like being special and Burbank is special,” says Power, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksj.org/\">Burbank Community Association\u003c/a>, a collection of residents who gather to talk about community issues. “There’s a feeling of neighborhood. That’s something that a lot of places in the Bay Area just don’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All around San Jose you’ll find islands just like Burbank — small communities that are completely surrounded or bordered by San Jose or Campbell, but aren’t actually part of any city at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of these islands are open land, many look just like any other neighborhood. Nearly 5,000 people live in Central Burbank alone, and they fall under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958602 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Council, stand in front of Power's home in Burbank.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Association, stand in front of Power’s home in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what is it that Burbank \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> have that an incorporated city might?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are no city taxes. There’s no city government or business tax, and if there’s an issue that might sound like a job for city government, residents call their county supervisor. When someone in Burbank calls 911, the county sheriff responds — not San Jose police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank’s school district consists of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lbsd.k12.ca.us/Page/1\"> one elementary school \u003c/a>with a different enrollment process than schools just a few miles away. Burbank isn’t connected to San Jose’s sewer system, so in 1940 they established\u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksanitary.org/\"> their own sanitary district.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents say they feel removed from the high-rises and tech industries changing San Jose. The small bungalows and Craftsman-style homes built for cannery workers and blue-collar folks leave them with a desire to preserve a way of life that predates the modern definition of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like the ’50s,” says Henni Kaufman, treasurer of the Burbank Community Association. “I do a lot of yard work and I’m out there and the kids come and talk to me. They ride their bicycles up and down the sidewalk, and neighbors really watch out for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Jose resident had no idea that she was moving into an unincorporated community when she bought her home in 1984. Now, the difference is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community because it’s manageable.’\u003ccite>Ken Colson, Director of the Burbank Sanitary District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The community feel translates on a political level, too, says Ken Colson, who sits on the board of directors of the Burbank Sanitary District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community [because] it’s manageable,” says Colson. “We can get on the phone and call our county supervisor and he has a staff that responds. The city? [That] would be tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Historic Artifact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Power’s home was one of the first houses built in her subdivision in 1905. The bedrooms have no closets and the street in front of her home is so narrow that you can park on only one side of it. Perhaps it was the perfect width for a horse-drawn carriage, but not enough for the cars of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas like Burbank developed long before the neighborhoods around them did, says Bill Shoe, the principal planner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Planning Department\u003c/a>. In fact, developers began building the first residential tracts in Burbank as early as 1904. Shoe says these islands are a direct result of the way San Jose expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re like a window into the history of urbanization in the county,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, the suburbanization of San Jose mirrored national trends. Returning veterans, the advent of the car and expanding freeways incentivized the city to expand its borders as a way to grow its tax base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this growth wasn’t always uniform or rational. Because some land was easier to annex than others, the city would skip over pockets of land to continue its outward growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It resulted in an irregular and dysfunctional set of boundaries,” Shoe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pockets of land that got skipped over were often neighborhoods with homes built by those who worked at the canneries or in agriculture before the war — long before anyone thought about suburbanization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961231\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10961231 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg\" alt=\"The Burbank Community Theater\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Burbank Theater on Bascom Avenue opened in 1949. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvna/6074154702/in/photolist-afKCuN-afGWjt-9Q2eb-69rpNv-h2x6F-afKEeS-h2xac-9Q2fB-afGWc2-h2x5e-fmGgu-afGStK-afGSpt-9Q2dN-h2x9o-9Q2dC-h2x6e-afGTXX-afKEGh-afGV8B-9Q2fj-h2x5v-9Q2fN-fmGjX-afGUR6-9Q2gW-afKEvW-afKFFE-h2xb9-h2x7F-9Q2g6-9Q2hs-h2x7f-9Q2ei-h2xc9-9Q2hm-9Q2dw-afKCzd-afKGKE-afGUMg-h2x8p-afGV3g-9Q2gR-afGUfx-fmGhC-h2x8T-afGVZH-h2xaJ-fmGj7-h2xbB\">BVNA\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reflection of the history,” says Shoe. “Of the time when cars were not as predominant, and when people still had horses and carriages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their peak, there were likely hundreds of unincorporated islands in Santa Clara County, but the county did not keep documentation of these islands until they launched an island annexation program in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the county still had 180 unincorporated areas. Eighty-nine percent of them were smaller than 150 acres. That number has been whittled down to 87 islands that remain today. The largest and most well-known include Burbank, Alum Rock and Cambrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans to Annex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While there aren’t as many unincorporated urban islands as there once were, the county plans to eventually dissolve them all into neighboring and surrounding cities, says Neelima Palacherla, executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palacherla says the county simply wasn’t built to provide services to unincorporated islands. Sometimes, she says, this system gets confusing for both the county and unincorporated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There could be a lot of confusion for residents who live in an island regarding who provides services to them in an emergency. Who do they call?” says Palacherla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residents, like Henni Kaufman, sometimes have no idea they moved into an unincorporated area. Some don’t find out until an emergency or an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are things like sidewalks. In San Jose, all major developments must have sidewalks. In unincorporated islands, they’re simply not required — though sometimes residents put them in themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 866px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10954171 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg\" alt=\"The unincorporated island of Burbank. \" width=\"866\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg 866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-800x517.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The unincorporated island of Burbank. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By annexing into a city, they know that they’re receiving or will be receiving services from an agency — which is the city — that was created and geared to provide services to their neighborhood and their area, as opposed to the county, which has to provide these services in a very scattered manner,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t expect mass annexation any time soon. There are plenty of obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of … just how lengthy [annexation] could be, and how expensive and cumbersome, many of the city’s residents and county are not interested in going through this process,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annexation is perceived to be so cumbersome, she says, that the county is working on creating a more streamlined process. The traditional process starts with the proposed annexation, then moves onto zoning designations, community meetings for larger areas, and planning commission and city council hearings. Sometimes, in between all of this, there are protests from residents. In other cases, cities simply don’t see any financial benefit to annexation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious annexation battle in recent history happened in 2011, when San Jose and the neighboring city of Campbell fought to win over the hearts of 1,000 residents in a 103-acre island known as Cambrian 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrian residents had a strong unincorporated neighborhood association that protested annexation at public hearings in San Jose. The city had its eye on the promise of new tax revenue to be generated by the island’s annexation. The deal ended in a $1 million settlement between the two cities. Campbell got the island, and San Jose got the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has stepped up its annexation proceedings over the last 10 years, taking over dozens of islands as part of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1632\">annexation collaboration\u003c/a> between the county and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be a time in the near future when it becomes a focus of the cities, but it’s hard to predict,” says Shoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents who want to hold onto their unincorporated status are nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958604 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"A welcome sign in Burbank. \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We in the Burbank area are challenged,” Colson says. “We’re brainstorming how we can keep some semblance of an identity here and keep this kind of character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Jane Power say it’s about saving the community from the redevelopment that has changed San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep the unique housing,” she says. “We don’t want to have it bulldozed down and have another high-rise take up three or four lots where we have single-family housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Shoe says it’s unclear when full annexation of the remaining pockets will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The assignment seemed simple enough. Reverend Jeff Moore, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjosenaacp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose/Silicon Valley Branch\u003c/a> of the NAACP, approached visual artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.markharrisstudiosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Harris\u003c/a> and asked him to pull together a small collection of his artwork to show in the lobby of the administrative offices of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.esuhsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Side Union High School District\u003c/a> in San Jose for Black History Month in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Harris did, curating together 11 paintings, in consultation with Moore, who works at the district’s Independence High School as a counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it’s agitprop,” says Harris of the selection of works, done in mixed media, collage, acrylic and egg tempera. “It’s definitely something thought-provoking. It’s not something you’re going to walk by and not have a second thought about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours after the artist’s paintings went up on display, they were taken down. Harris heard the news about the removal second-hand from Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some parents who’d come into the administration offices were offended by the work.” Moore also said the district superintendent, Chris Funk said a school district shouldn’t take a political stance, “which I think is ridiculous,” Harris says. “The fact that the superintendent was uncomfortable with the exhibit was disappointing also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12709112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12709112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of "Den of Iniquity" by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. "Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can't tell their own story, that's how things get whitewashed," Harris says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of “Den of Iniquity” by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. “Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can’t tell their own story, that’s how things get whitewashed,” Harris says. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mark Harris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art has gone up on display to celebrate African American History Month at the offices for the past three years. Funk says that to date, there had been no concerns in part because the displays had been made up of historical artifacts like books, quilts, and representations of famous African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no intention to embarrass or harm Mr. Harris,” Funk says. “He seems to be a very talented artist. I’m sorry he got caught up in a situation where Mr. Moore was not upfront about what his motives were and what his expectations were. I didn’t approve the art. I didn’t approve the artist. I didn’t have a chance to review the art beforehand. It was just — smack, hit you in the face — when you walked in. That’s why I took it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funk says there is a time and place for political expression, such as at the recent March on Washington or at last weekend’s airport protests. “But we’re not here to advocate one position or another as a public institution,” Funk says about his decision to remove Harris’ works. “I have Republicans and Democrats on my board, among my teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says he did not intend to surprise Funk and his colleagues. He says he visited the offices to talk to the superintendent at one point before the exhibition went up, but that Funk was in a meeting when he arrived. 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