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May 14, 2007
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Kathy Olson’s Children’s Playhouse of San Jose creates the future stars of tomorrow
By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer
Kathleen Olson loves the stage.
Growing up in Minnesota, Olson and her siblings would perform behind clothes lines, charging a nickel to their parents or anyone else who would attend. From there, she acted in plays in school and in Community
Theater.
Along the way, she married a military man who was overseas much of the time, earned her teaching degree, raised three children and taught learning handicapped students, English and theater at Almaden’s Castillero Middle School. While at the school she started the theater department in 1983. Somehow the Read more...
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Christmas comes early for elderly woman facing hard times
Dozens turn out to help make her home livable again
By Julie Davis Berry
Executive Editor
On an overcast Saturday morning in April dozens of volunteers descended upon Lillian Woodward’s Blossom Valley home to help the 64-year-old woman make it livable again.
Altogether 38 volunteers from Ernst & Young’s San Jose office and a few from the San Francisco office painted the outside of the house, remodeled bathrooms, rebuilt steps to her patio and shored up a Read more...
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