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September 10, 2004
| Sikh temple’s grand opening: A joyous celebration |
By Bea Baechle
Editor
A typically tranquil stretch of Quimby Road burst to life as thousands of Sikh Americans from Northern California joined a procession on Aug. 29 that transported their Guru Granth Sahib—the Sikh holy scripture—to a magnificent new temple in the Evergreen foothills.
The new Sikh temple or gurdwara is the reward of 10 years of tireless fundraising and some excellent real estate deals. The five acres previously owned by the Sikhs west of their elegant new surroundings sold for a cool $6.75 million in two separate transactions in 2003 and 2004. Situated on 40 acres of land, the new $10 million structure is Read
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Evergreen native leads poverty conference at Stanford University
Engineers for
a Sustainable World host
second national gathering
By Sheila Sanchez
Editor
In many of the world’s developing countries, extremely poor families live on less than $1 a day in dusty shantytowns with makeshift bathrooms, without water and electricity, suffering from malnutrition, disease and high child mortality rates. Ten percent of the world’s population uses Read
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