Triangle Chamber Expo showcases businesses
The Golden Triangle Chamber of Commerce will hold a Spring Business Expo from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at the Braille Institute, 4555 Executive Drive.
A business fair that is held twice annually, the expo gives local small businesses the chance to network with others in the Golden Triangle area and throughout the city of San Diego, according to Sarah Saccone, special events chairwoman for the Golden Triangle Chamber of Commerce.
“The overall goal of the expo is to provide a service to the community and a chance for community businesses to get themselves out there and known,” Saccone said.
Several University City restaurants are providing food and drinks at the event, according to Saccone, who said the Chamber expects about 50 businesses and 400 guests to attend.
Display booths are still available to businesses. A 6-foot-long booth with two chairs is $50 for chamber members and $100 for non members.
For more information, visit www.goldentrianglechamber.com or call Saccone, (858) 350-1253.

Egg hunts for kids pop up
Special spring activities for children will take place around spring break.
First is an Easter Egg Hunt on March 31 at the First Baptist Church of San Diego, 5055 Governor Drive. The hunt will be divided into two age groups, toddlers through first grade and second- through fourth-graders. There will also be Easter crafts and tattoos, the Easter story and an appearance by the Easter Bunny. The fun runs from 1 to 2 p.m. For information, call (858) 457-2064.
The following Saturday, April 7, Standley Park will hold a Spring Egg Hunt from 10 a.m. to noon. Children should bring their baskets and arrive early to be divided into age brackets. There will also be a jumpy, crafts and face painting. Standley Park and Recreation Center is located at 3585 Governor Drive. For information, call (858) 552-1652.

Preuss School has will to showcase Shakespeare
It’s only two years in the making, a drop in the bucket compared with the 391 that William Shakespeare’s been dead and gone “” but at UCSD’s Preuss School, nobody seems to be counting.
The school’s second annual Student Shakespeare Festival is set for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the school amphitheater. Students will perform selected scenes from plays including “Romeo and Juliet,” “Henry IV,” “Julius Caesar” and “Hamlet.” The performances will include monologues, musical numbers and romantic and fight scenes. Vendors in Elizabethan garb will distribute snacks, and minstrels will provide the tunes.
“We are so pleased to be continuing this tradition at Preuss,” Preuss drama instructor Natasha Ippolito said in a prepared statement. “This year, the entire drama department will be participating, and of course the students from the English classes will also demonstrate their love for Shakespeare.”
Performers are also hoping to represent Preuss at this year’s second San Diego Student Shakespeare Festival set for Saturday, April 28, at Balboa Park.
The 760-student Preuss School, at 9500 Gilman Drive, was founded in 1999 as a charter middle and high school dedicated to college preparatory educations for low-income pupils.
For information on the festival, call (858) 658-7236 or visit preuss.ucsd.edu.

Old Town celebrates first Jewish settler
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park will host a 200th birthday celebration for San Diego’s first Jewish settler, Louis Rose, on Friday, March 23.
The bicentennial event will feature a concert at 10 a.m. in the plaza by ethnomusicologist Yale Strom and Hot Pastromi showcasing 19th century music from Germany, New Orleans and San Diego. The celebration will also feature tours of Presidio Hill and Old Town on the “Louis Rose” Old Town Trolley from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Donald H. Harrison, president of the Louis Rose Society, will sign copies of his book at 12:30 p.m. at Schiller’s bookstore in Old Town.
Rose came to San Diego in 1850, and in 1866, he bought the land in the Loma Portal area and named it “Roseville.” He was also a postmaster at Old Town from 1873 to 1883, and at one time owned the land that later became Rose Canyon in University City.