{"id":103870,"date":"2025-12-21T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:47:06","slug":"campbell-toy-store-helps-brownie-troop-with-giving-tree-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103870\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell toy store helps Brownie troop with giving tree \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elves in training<\/p>\n<p>Members of Brownie Troop 60125 volunteered at the Family Giving Tree warehouse in Sunnyvale on Dec. 7, sorting, wrapping and organizing gifts and getting them ready for bagging for the nonprofit\u2019s Holiday Wish Drive. The troop also hosted a Virtual Giving Tree along with Junior Troop 60174, adopting 25 wish cards, and used cookie sale proceeds to shop for gifts at Pennyland Toys\u00a0in Campbell, which offered the troops a discount. Donations to the Virtual Giving Trees can be made until 9 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2026, at\u00a0https:\/\/wishdrive.org\/girlscouttroop60125<\/p>\n<p>Founded in Milpitas and now located in Santa Clara, Family Giving Tree has already collected more than 24,000 gifts this season and is working toward helping 50,000 children and families across the Bay Area, according to Evelyn Huynh, director of community resource development.<\/p>\n<p>Peninsula Symphony concert<\/p>\n<p>Grammy-nominated pianist\u00a0Joyce Yang will perform with the Peninsula Symphony Jan. 17, 2026, in a program balancing the First Concerto of Beethoven\u00a0with three orchestral visions of the story of\u00a0\u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d\u00a0Works by Strauss, Prokofiev\u00a0and\u00a0Diamond\u00a0complete this program, to be performed at Campbell\u2019s Heritage Theatre, located at 1 W Campbell Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35-$50 at <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsulasymphony.my.salesforce-sites.com\/ticket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/peninsulasymphony.my.salesforce-sites.com\/ticket<\/a>. Children and students are admitted for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elves in training Members of Brownie Troop 60125 volunteered at the Family Giving Tree warehouse in Sunnyvale on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,185,2644,13729,5466,88,90,89,198,200,77],"class_list":["post-103870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-campbell","tag-concerts","tag-holiday-events","tag-nonprofits","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}