PRODUCER: He was a volunteer for the Cinequest Film Festival when he worked for TV Channel 11 a few years back. Now Josh R. Jaggars has produced a full-length movie that had its world premiere at Cinequest last weekend at San Jose Rep.
The movie is 30 Miles, a suspenseful road film laced with humor. In a featured role is Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs of Welcome Back Kotter.
Jaggars, LGHS '88, is the producer half of Your Half Pictures in Hollywood. His partner, Ryan Harper, is the director half of the company, and 30 Miles is their first feature film. They met when both were students at SJSU.
Your Half has also produced a dramatic short film, Descent, which preceded the showing of 30 Miles. Next up for the company is Eddie Would Go, about Eddie Aikau, the '70s Hawaiian surfing champ.
A technical sidenote: 30 Miles was shown in the new DXD (digital by digital) format. Josh is the son of Angie Jaggars of Los Gatos.
JAILED: Barry Cinnamon, owner/president of Akeena Solar, served three hours of jail time recently and, in so doing, raised $2,500 for defeating muscular dystrophy, perhaps the most of the 36 locals "jailed" this year. The mock jail was erected at the Los Gatos Brewing Company.
Cinnamon's Akeena Solar staff was farsighted enough to bring him a pie—apple, with a file embedded therein. The pie bearer, Suzanne Barnes, has since been promoted to manager of special projects.
"Although I'm sure they were worried about me, part of their concern was probably due to the fact that I hadn't signed the paychecks for the next day yet," said the erstwhile jailbird. He was handcuffed to the bars briefly, then allowed to make phone calls to post bail.
Neighbors, friends, vendors and landlords Toni and Carol Blackstock all pitched in with pledges. His vendors undoubtedly realized he wouldn't be able to pay for supplies while incarcerated, either.
In no way does Cinnamon's jail time have any bearing on his contretemps with town planners over his solar panels, he points out. "If Martha Stewart has as good a time as I did in jail, it would be a good thing."
SILENT NO MORE: Drawing the top bid in the silent auction at the Touch My heART fundraiser for the LG museums was the Craftsman clock of Douglas Dodd. It brought in $600. Second highest was $400 for Linda Fillhardt's Love Match and third was $320 for Moises Roizen's Once in a Blue Moon.
Dodd's wife is Patti Linder-Dodd, whose work was part of the live auction. Her faux-finishes package was the second highest price grabber in the live auction. The name of her company is Muse Artistry, but those who assembled the packages named her services Go Faux for the night.
They wanted to make sure bidders knew what they were bidding on. Linder-Dodd does faux wood grains on walls and furniture and trompe d'oeil mural work, too. Appreciative clients include Sandy Decker, Diana Hill and Allison Parsons.
An art major from SJSU, Patti worked in computer sales for 10 years, but the lure of art was always tugging. So she quit high tech to follow her first love. Clients most often turn into friends as she tailors the finishes in their homes to match their tastes. Repeat business is her stock in trade, she says.
THE BIG AWFUL: Library Director Peggy Conaway is digging deep into historical archives of our town as part of the library's History Project, digitizing old photos and other memorabilia. The results will go on the Internet for all to access.
One such treasure is a letter from John C. and Marcia M. Worth, written to their "Dear Niece Ada" on May 13, 1906, describing the town after the April 18 earthquake. The letter tells of 24 smaller earthquakes in the past 24 days since "the big awful earthquake."
"People in this town don't dare to sleep in their houses, they have tents out in the backyard where they sleep—we sleep in the house—our house is small, made of wood and built strong so we risk it."
Commenting on the niece's proposed visit from Akron, Ohio, the letter says, "as for me if I was in the east I wouldn't come to this state until it got so that it would hold still ... "
A 1906 phone directory lists John C. Worth at 11 Broadway. Longtime-resident families have been bringing in their family archives for digitizing. Highpoints of all this research will appear in a book this fall, part of Arcadia's Images of America series.
IRISH SIZZLE: Bev Myers' Sizzling Seniors will strut their Irish spirit at a St. Paddy's Day lunch at 11:30 a.m. March 17 at the Los Gatos Neighborhood Center. For lunch reservations, call 408.354.0707.
PARODY PLAYERS: Taylor Karl of Los Gatos and Jillian Lawson of Saratoga are two of the cast members of Peninsula Youth Theatre's Once Upon a Mattress playing March 1321 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Box office is 650.903.6000. Once Upon is a parody of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea.
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By Mary Ann Cook