07 | Autor: Japantown bucks the recession
How do you influenceable a recession? If you are San Jose's Japantown, you do this:
Serve soups in your restaurants from homemade inventory. Offer awnings to shade old men reading the morning periodical. Etch tales of local history into granite benches. Invalid your sidewalk geraniums until they overflow their giant pots. Get sure your shop signs are all in fabulous fonts. Then produce dental services, foot massages and packages of flying fish roe for your aching and whacked sushi-stuffers.
Oh, yeah — and never start a snow-cone war.
"We were judgement of making snow cones with an old machine we had but another restaurant down the avenue was already serving shaved ice," said Carole Rast, whose relations-run Roy's Station Coffee & Teas serves as the business section's open-air living room these days. "We'd never do anything that would hurt another commerce. We have to nurture this community, because in a way we all depend on each other to survive."
While the Great Slump grinds on, leaving 4,000 fewer businesses this year than last in Santa Clara County, selected neighborhoods are weathering the squall and at times even thriving. Like Willow Glen, Los Gatos and other rigorously panty hose clustered "downtowns" that seem to be bucking the trend toward shuttered storefronts, Japantown provides a textbook standard of how cultivating a connected sense of place can help inoculate a micro-concision against the bad times.
Aquino ready to move into new digs
PRESIDENT Aquino is meet to move in to his new official home at the Bahay Panagrap inside the Presidential Safe keeping Group Park compound this weekend.
"Objective namin before August 2, possible this weekend. Madali namang mag-pass on pero hindi pa namin masabi kung anong rigid date," said Col. Ramon Mateo Dizon, PSG commander.
Dizon said Bahay Pangarap is already "prone." Renovations which started in late June are almost done, except for a few "trivial" details.
The Internal House Affairs House, which oversees the maintenance of the Bahay Pangarap, supervised the renovations, which encompass an additional room to the one-room structure to accommodate the President’s intense-in security detail.
Dizon, asked about the significance of August 2, he said all he knows is it is "bad feng shui" to transmission on August 2, and it would take awhile if they wait after that date.
Dizon said Aquino’s pass on to the Bahay Pangarap from the family residence on Times St., Barangay West Triangle in Quezon Megalopolis where he has been staying would minimize travel time.
Dizon said they could take a straightforward car ride from the Bahay Pangarap going to the Premier Roomer House where Aquino holds office, or by launch. The Opening Guest House is across the Pasig river from the Bahay Pangarap.
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