Siguen los retenes incautando más autos

El pasado 12 de junio el Departamento Policial de San José hizo un retén en las esquinas de la Tully Rd y la avenida Galveston. Un total de 772 vehículos fueron inspeccionados y 7 conductores fueron procesados por estar bajo la influencia del alcohol. Un total de 32 personas fueron citadas por no portar sus licencias de conducir. Cinco de estas fueron citadas por portar licencias suspendidas. En  total  20 vehículos fueron incautados en este retén. ∆

Student Enrollment Open for Summer Music & Dance & Meals Program

The Mexican Heritage Corporation invites eligible children between the ages of 6 and 17 to join the summer nutrition, music and dance program at one of the three camp locations: San Jose State University School of Music and Dance, Mayfair Community Center and the Latino College Prep Academy on the campus of National Hispanic University.

Participating students will be served breakfast, lunch and two snacks each day.  They will also receive lessons in music and dance from experienced teachers in many styles, attend concerts, meet professional musicians from all over the world, and learn to play instruments, sing and perform in ensembles and choirs. The meals and music camp classes and activities are absolutely free for all eligible participants.

The camps will run Mondays through Fridays, June 21 - August 13, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at each of the three locations.

To be eligible, participant families must be on CalWORKs, Food Stamps or fall under federal low-income guidelines. Qualifications require no experience in music or dance and all levels of experience are welcome.

Enrollment is on a first come first served basis, and there is no fee. For registration and information, call Monica Ramos at the Mexican Heritage Corporation at 408-928-5551.

New Emergency Phone Towers on VTA Platforms
San Jose, Calif. – Wondering what those tall blue towers are on VTA Light Rail platforms?  The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has installed new, highly visible emergency phone towers to provide VTA customers with access to emergency communications and VTA information via the Customer Call Center. 
In addition to providing direct contact to 911 and VTA Customer Service, the towers provide a high profile, easy-to-use, ADA compliant structure that is easily identifiable during an emergency. The towers have a blue light at the top that is always on and goes into high power strobe mode when a call to 911 is placed. The tower and phone are designed to hold up to the elements and are highly vandal resistant.
Customers may see a working payphone on a few platforms but VTA’s transition into the new emergency phone tower will provide the riding public a better means to emergency and customer services.    
For more information, please contact VTA Customer Service at (408) 321-2300, for the hearing impaired only (408) 321-2330. You can also log onto www.vta.org and sign-up to receive VTA email updates. Find us on Facebook at “SCVTA”, Twitter at “SantaclaraVTA”, and YouTube at www.youtube.com/scvta.