{"id":404445,"date":"2026-07-19T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:49:18","slug":"italian-family-festa-returns-to-history-park-san-jose-july-25-26-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404445\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Family Festa returns to History Park San Jose July 25-26 \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family Festa<\/p>\n<p>The Italian American Heritage Foundation is hosting the 44th annual Italian Family Festa July 25-26 at History Park San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>The free festa features a wine garden and tastings, a\u00a0cultural and culinary stage, live entertainment,\u00a0a grape stomp,\u00a0Roman encampment and sword demos, a\u00a0children\u2019s zone and an Italian fashion show.<\/p>\n<p>The festa takes place Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, July 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at History Park, 635 Phelan Ave., San Jose. For more information, visit<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/4pfByuF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> bit.ly\/4pfByuF.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small business workshop<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Wang, co-founder and CEO of Pocketflows will be the speaker at a July 29 workshop at Venture Dock in Milpitas on \u201cPractical Strategies to Attract Customers, Build Loyalty and Stand Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200b The free hands-on workshop is designed to show small business owners how artificial intelligence can help with marketing. Participants don\u2019t need a technical background.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop is set for 6-8 p.m. at\u00a0Venture Dock, 691 S. Milpitas Blvd., suite 217. Registration is required to <a href=\"https:\/\/luma.com\/jbhlld0m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/luma.com\/jbhlld0m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Accessing military records<\/p>\n<p>The Milpitas Library is hosting a July 25 seminar on how U.S. military records can enrich genealogy research by revealing an ancestor\u2019s life, service and character. Genealogy author Ron Chan will show participants how to access and interpret these records and create a memorial page. Chan is co-founder of the Chinese American GI Project, which works to ensure that veteran legacies are not lost, forgotten or ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The program, part of the Santa Clara County Library District\u2019s celebration of America 250, is set for 1-3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family Festa The Italian American Heritage Foundation is hosting the 44th annual Italian Family Festa July 25-26 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[117905,184,7,584,839,1703,191,100,88,90,89,198,4823,200],"class_list":["post-404445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-america-250","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-military","tag-milpitas","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-small-business","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404445","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=404445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}