Rush of discovery
Visitors to the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose can explore the power of air with a new permanent STEM exhibit that opened Sept. 4.
Amazing AirMaze is designed for children and adults to play together and test theories by putting a variety of colorful objects in a maze of large, open-ended pneumatic air tubes and controlling airflow and pressure to discover how fast they travel.
The exhibit has MERV 15 filters installed in the system’s blower boxes to meet safety standards. It’s open Wednesday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Admission is $14-$15. For more information, visit https://www.cdm.org/what-to-expect.
Palliative care program
The Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) is holdiing free online “End-of-Life Conversations with Multigenerational Chinese American Families” on Saturday, Sept. 18 and 25. The program features Kaiser Permanente’s palliative care physician, Dr. Esther Luo, who will present “Talking About the Unspeakable: Discussing Serious Illness with Aging Parents.”
To register, visit caccc-usa.org and scan QR code.
Neighborhood Notes
ROSE GARDEN>>Park Station Hashery celebrated its fifth anniversary Sept. 10 by helping out the nearby San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. When the sundial in the Rose Garden was vandalized, Hashery co-owners Louis Silva and Long Nguyen offered to replace it. “Park Station Hashery has been a very big supporter of our volunteer efforts since they opened just one block from the garden on the corner of Naglee and Park avenues,” Terrence Reilly of Friends of the San Jose Rose Garden wrote in a Nextdoor post. The anniversary celebration, Reilly added, was an opportunity “to thank them for their support of the Rose Garden and the neighborhood at large.”