November 10, 2008

News Briefs

Matt Walker withdraws as City Council Candidate

On Sept. 23, candidate Matt Walker informed Campbell City Clerk Anne Bybee, that he was withdrawing his candidacy for City Council. Walker stated personal reasons were the cause for not continuing his campaign efforts for the Nov. 4 election.

Walker encouraged his supporters to vote for candidate Jason Baker stating “Jason is a qualified and caring candidate who will serve the community well as a member of the City Council.”

Downtown Campbell First Friday: Turkey Trot

Join in on the fun at Downtown Campbell’s First Friday in November: Turkey Trot! Visit participating merchants Downtown 11a.m. – 9 p.m. to gobble up clues that will enable you to collect raffle tickets for a special gift basket! The more shops you visit, the more raffle tickets you’ll be given. It’s a turkey treasure hunt!

The grand prize in the raffle is a one night stay in a deluxe king room at The Pruneyard Plaza Hotel, a $45 gift certificate from Outback Steakhouse, and a bottle of champagne.

New name for gallery

Lorraine Lawson, owner of galerie Boheme in The Courtyard, announced that her gallery will now be known as Lorraine Lawson Fine Arts. The gallery will still be located at 295 E. Campbell Ave. in the heart of Downtown Campbell.

Lawson, born in Liege, Belgium and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, is strongly influenced by the art of her great-grandfather, painter Gustave Flasschoen. She specializes in site-specific original art, pastel landscapes, mixed media abstract art, and representational painting, including acrylic florals. More information about Lorraine and her work can be found on her website, www.onefineartist.com.

Researchers map America’s deadliest roads

You can now find the deadliest road in any city or neighborhood through an online interactive map website. The goal of the new site is to help drive public awareness of the need to drive safely.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Excellence in Rural Safety [CERS] developed www.saferoadmaps.org, so you can simply enter your address to see a map or satellite image of all of the road fatalities that have occurred in the area. Users can narrow their search to see the age of the driver, whether speeding or drinking was a factor, and if the driver was wearing a seat belt.

“By mapping out these fatalities, we can visually see what a large problem we have in our country,” Lee Munnich, director of CERS in the university’s Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs. “It is time to start working toward prevention, and each one of these dots on the map represents that.”