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Healthy living New Sutter Health facility opens in Milpitas. 10
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Homegrown peppers heat up home dishes. 6
Kiana Honarmand’s work focuses on the complexities of her cultural identity, the violation of women’s rights in Iran.
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa
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Spice of life
● Dogs and humans can pause to shop, paint or try agility
Fremont’s Downtown Event Center Plaza will go to the dogs on Saturday, Aug. 30, from 5 to 9pm, as the City of Fremont teams up with NBC Bay Area and the Tri-City Animal Shelter for a free, family-friendly evening celebrating pets and community. The event will feature handson crafts, local vendors, live music and food trucks. Participating vendors include The Knotti Corgi with stationery, apparel and toys for the iconic stumpy dogs; Adventure Paws which sells outdoor gear for four-footed hikers and Paw Box LLC with smallbatch dog supplements. Attendees can meet adoptable dogs from Tri-City Animal Shelter and Joybound, take advantage of a low-cost pet vaccination clinic, and watch their pups enjoy a special treat. A hundred dogs will receive free Ben & Jerry’s Dog Ice Cream while supplies last. Fremont Dog Training Club
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AUGUST 19-25, 2025
Large photo: Alexandra Mathias. Interior from top: Kiana Honarmand, Stuart Rhodes
Downtown Dog Days coming to Fremont Aug. 30
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OPINION
Yuting Wang worked as a project manager in construction before embracing art full time.
Birthright citizenship Long-standing right faces challenges in summer 2025. 13
Centerville sports Fremont middle school’s intramural program thrives. 14
MAKER SPACE Bushra Gill has worked as a museum and gallery educator. She is a member of the California Society of Printmakers.
Art flows through time ● Olive Hyde Gallery shows work from three women artists By staff
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think it’s precisely the mystery of life that is fascinating,” says artist Yuting Wang. “It’s also humbling: a reminder to accept our limits, to let go, and to flow with life
rather than trying to be in control all the time.” Olive Hyde Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibit will explore these themes across contemporary works from three women artists. Yuting Wang, Bushra Gill and Kiana Honarmand hail
from diverse backgrounds and work in diverse media, but all their works for “The River Flows” show the tension and harmony of opposing concepts. In a shared statement, the artists wrote, “In a world often marked by division, this exhibition is a call to connect and understand one another through art.” — More on page 8
Beat the Bots How to lean into humanity when writing. 26