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January 12, 2009
| 2008—Year in Review |
By Jeanne C. Carbone
Editor
The New Year arrived with a hurricane strength storm mirroring the days ahead—challenging budget deficits and compelling community events. But as the country whirled around economic earthquakes, the city moved forward, voting in Measure O while new businesses opened in the continued renaissance of downtown.
January
Donald Burr starts another term as mayor. Campbell Union Elementary School District Superintendent Johanna VanderMolen named an exemplary female executive by the Silicon Valley YMCA. Rusty Hammer, youngest mayor and councilmember in U.S. history dies from leukemia. He was elected Campbell’s mayor at age Read more...
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A Woman of Substance: Margaret Hagopian
1918—2008
Margaret Hagopian, 90, died peacefully in her sleep on Nov. 13, 2008. She was surrounded by her five children and caregiver in San Francisco where she lived with her daughter, Tina, son-in-law, Thomas, and grandson, Garrett the past few years. She was born on July 24, 1918, the eldest daughter of Olga and Kazar Arakelian who came to the United States from Kharput, Armenia to escape Turkish persecution and the Armenian Genocide during WWI.
She grew up in Whitinsville, Ma. where she was known for her vivacious personality, wry sense Read more...
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