A touching reunion came about at San Jose's Glad Hole Park & Zoo a couple of days in the past whilst a lady got here searching for a different any individual she shared a kiss with in 1994.

The item of Kendra Patterson's affection was a miniature horse named Luna. And again then, Kendra was simply 3.

On Tuesday, Patterson approached zookeeper Kelley Walsh to determine if Luna was nonetheless round and was glad to find that the 18-year-old horse was nonetheless delighting youngsters on the barn at Satisfied Hollow's Double-H Ranch.

"I'm the woman within the picture," Patterson advised Walsh, who right away knew what she was taking about.

Luna was only a two-week-old foal while Kendra visited Satisfied Hole in April 1994 together with her Sunnyvale

family. She planted a kiss on Luna's nose, a picture that was captured by Mercury Information photographer Rick E. Martin.

It ran at the entrance web page the following day, indubitably inflicting the valley to specific a collective "Awwwwwww."

On her go back seek advice from Tuesday, Patterson and her mom, Karen Sinclair, who additionally gave the impression within the 1994 picture, reprised the picture as Kendra gave Luna every other peck. On the grounds that their closing meeting, Luna's gotten somewhat larger and Kendra's now a 21-year-old girl with dual newborn girls.

Vanessa Rogier, Glad Hollow's communications manager, published the story and movie on Fb and have been surprised by the comments from greater than SEVEN HUNDRED other people so far.

"We've by no means gotten

so many responses, stocks or likes," she stated. "It in point of fact hit a chord."

YE OLDE STRUGGLE MEMBERSHIP: The Pageant Theatre Ensemble, which have been acting Shakespeare and different works at Complete Circle Farm in Sunnyvale this month, is placing on a fundraiser referred to as "BATTLE for the Farm" on Wednesday.

The corporate will supply "behind-the-curtain" demonstrations of stage-fight theatrics from probably the most Bard's plays, together with "Romeo and Juliet" and "12TH Night time". That implies pistols firing black powder, chair breaking, hand-to-hand-combat and plenty of knives and swords. There is a few target market participation, which might are available handy, must any individual to find themselves combating knaves in a tavern.

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. event, a fundraiser for Complete Circle Farm, are $10 for adults and $3 for youngsters 12-and-under and can be to be had on the door. Visit www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org for instructions and extra data on Complete Circle.

VALLEY PRIMER: Contributors of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Trade was hobnobbing on the Winchester Thriller Area in San Jose on Thursday. The chamber wasn't there to scare up ghosts however to rejoice the newsletter of its new trade directory, the A good option Book.

In addition to an inventory of native companies and recommendations on networking, the listing features a group information on nonprofit companies. Chamber CEO Matt Mahood stated the ideas in that phase was drawn from the a hit Box Information to Group Service, printed by the San Jose Management Council.

Copies of the A good idea Guide can be found for $25 at www.sjchamber.com or 408-291-5250.

MUSIC FEST: Ray Furuta, a flutist from East San Jose who simply graduated from New York's Stony Brook University, has persuaded an array of world-class musicians to come back to his homeland for the inaugural Silicon Valley Tune Festival, which starts Sunday and runs via Friday.

These musicians, who've performed at one of the vital greatest live performance halls and gala's across the world, will supply every week of intimate chamber track concert events and grasp categories which might be both unfastened or a fragment in their common price. Take a look at the lineup at www.svmusicfestival.org.

SWITCHEROO: There will be not more werewolves sipping piña coladas at Dealer Vic's in Palo Elevado come this autumn. Jeffrey Stout, government chef of Alexander's Steakhouse, has introduced that Dealer Vic's at 4269 El Camino Actual turns into The ocean by Alexander's Steakhouse in a couple of months. There is no company date for the last of Dealer Vic's yet, however fanatics is not going to dawdle.

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Contact Sal Pizarro at spizarro@mercurynews.com or 408-627-0940.