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Scaled-back bus lanes get lukewarm response COUNCIL GIVES WARY SUPPORT TO VTA’S REVISED BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROJECT ON EL CAMINO REAL By Mark Noack
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t could be a bumpy ride ahead for transit officials’ goal to bring dedicated bus lanes to El Camino Real, based on the reaction from the Mountain View City Council. In a Tuesday review, some of the Mountain View council members who previously supported full implementation of the Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) plan became skeptics after considering a scaled-back pilot version of the original project. The pilot project was recommended earlier this year by a Valley Transportation Authority policy-advisory committee as a way to appease the six South Bay cities along El Camino Real’s corridor. At a cost of $223 million, the original version of the BRT project called for using two of El Camino’s six lanes for busonly traffic, as well as building a series of new bus stops and infrastructure. The scale of the project and concern over its traffic impacts spooked many nearby residents and businesses,
leading VTA officials to return with a much milder proposal. The VTA’s latest pitch calls for a pilot project that would reserve the right lanes of El Camino for buses, shuttles and highoccupancy vehicles only during peak hours. Under the plan, the trial would be enforced for the full 17-mile stretch running from Palo Alto to San Jose during peak traffic hours: 7-9 a.m. and 3-7 p.m., Monday through Friday. The pilot project would cost a fraction of the original BRT plan’s price — up to $9 million — which would go toward repainting portions of the road and installing signs to alert drivers of the new rules. The pilot is expected last around three years, but it would likely require the drafting of new environmentalimpact studies, which could take up to two years to prepare. The hope is that it would provide useful information showing how a permanent project would function, said Los Altos Mayor
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Alondra Rivas, 4, gets a check-up from Dr. Swarnapali Seneviratna at MayView Community Health Care Center on April 5.
MV RotaCare closing down next month PATIENTS HEAD TO MAYVIEW COMMUNITY CLINIC AS FREE CLINIC’S SERVICE WINDS DOWN By Kevin Forestieri
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undreds of uninsured, mostly Latino families who relied on Mountain View’s RotaCare clinic have been transferred, medical records in hand, to a new primary care doctor in recent months. The migration of patients
to a new clinic a mile and a half away, the MayView Community Health Center, marks the final transition as the El Camino Healthcare District winds down operations at the RotaCare clinic at the end of May. It will be the end of 19 years of free, quality service, but hospital officials maintain that the transfer will be an
VOTER INITIATIVE WOULD LIMIT RENT INCREASES TO 5 PERCENT ANNUALLY
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isappointed by the City Council’s unwillingness to take stronger action, advocates for Mountain View’s large tenant population are bringing a rent control
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Tenant advocates submit rent-control measure By Mark Noack
upgrade for patients looking for consistent care. In January, the news came down that RotaCare was in a sticky situation. The clinic, which is located on the El Camino Hospital campus and has served thousands of mostly lowincome and uninsured patients
measure to voters. A new ballot measure submitted for the November election would impose a cap on rent hikes in the city, forcing most landlords to keep annual increases in the range of 2 to 5 percent. The new measure — dubbed
the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Charter Amendment — comes in response to what many have described as a crisis in Mountain View’s rental housing market. In recent months, scores of renters have spoken before the council,
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pleading for relief from large rent increases that they say are forcing many from their homes. From 2011 to 2015, average rents in Mountain View increased 52.7 percent, according to a RealFacts market
report cited by the Mountain View Tenants’ Coalition. After nearly half a year of debating the issue, a thin majority of the council last month agreed on a package of mediation programs and lease requirements intended to address the problem. While the city’s ordinance, if given final approval, would place various See RENT CONTROL, page 8
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‘RENT’ AT STANFORD Viva la vie boheme! Jonathan Larson’s seminal 1990s musical, “Rent,” a hip and wildly popular update on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” will be staged by Stanford University’s Ram’s Head Theatrical Society on April 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 at Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall. The show follows a year in the lives of young Manhattan bohemians struggling with AIDS, poverty and drugs while celebrating art, friendship and love. Performances are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $9.99 – $19.99. Go to musical.stanford.edu.
THE CHORAL PROJECT’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY The Choral Project, a Silicon Valley-based choir, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a performance of “The Art of Sound: Inspiration,” including the premieres of specially commissioned works by Eric William Barnum and Joshua Shank. The performance takes place Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto. Favorite selections from throughout the choir’s 20-year history will also be included. Tickets are $10 – 23. Go to choralproject. org/tickets.
April 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Mountain View Center, 701 E. El Camino Real. Special events include chocolate tasting and wardrobe consultations. Tickets are $10 (two for the price of one on Sunday), and proceeds support the PAMF Cancer Survivorship Program. Go to lucentestudio.com/ pages/style-2016.
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“Cyrano,” that classic tale (based on Rostand’s 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”) of the love triangle between the titular bignosed swashbuckling romantic, the dashing Christian and the heiress Roxanne, returns in a new TheatreWorks adaptation running April 9–May 6 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Tickets are $19–$80; show times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays; and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays. Go to theatreworks.org.
‘WILD CAT ADVENTURE’ Five species of wild cats (possibilities include cheetahs, cougars, black leopards, ocelots, fishing cats and Geoffroy’s cats) will make a live appearance on Sunday, April 10, 2-3 p.m., at Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. The big cats will be be presented by the Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund, which aims to educate the public about the plight of wild cats around the world, to raise funds for conservation projects and to offer refuge for wild cats in captivity. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids under 12. Go to wildcatfund.org.
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‘SCIENCE NIGHT’ Get up close and personal with live sea creatures and insects, program a robot and check out a mini solar-powered house with working appliances. All these activities and more will be happening at the Menlo Park Library’s “Science Night” on Thursday, April 14, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Regional organizations including Aquarium of the Bay, Computer History Museum, Science Made Fun, TechyKids and Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County will be on-site for this free, all-ages event. Go to menlopark.org/library. —Karla Kane
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CAR CRASH HOSPITALIZES FOUR Four people were taken to the hospital Wednesday morning after a collision involving four vehicles in Mountain View, police said. Police responded at 7:22 a.m. to a collision at Grant Road and Martens Avenue. Prior to the crash, one of the vehicles also hit several other cars along westbound state Highway 237, Mountain View police spokeswoman Katie Nelson said. Highway 237 becomes Grant Road west of El Camino Real. None of the people involved in the crash suffered serious injuries, Nelson said. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the crash, Nelson said, and no one was arrested or cited following the accident. The collision closed the Grant/Martens intersection and traffic was diverted until 8:30 a.m., when the roadway reopened. —Bay City News Service
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Fiscal Year 2016/2017 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges Topic:
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Public hearings on proposed fiscal year 2016/2017 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges
Police are seeking the public’s help in finding two suspects who allegedly stole two cellphones from a Sprint store last week, then attempted to hit a witness with their vehicle while driving away. The two suspects, identified by police as 60-year-old Scott Gilman and 55-year-old Rebecca Fowler, were inside the Sprint store at 1040 North Rengstorff Ave. around 6:49 p.m. on March 30, when Fowler allegedly grabbed the two cellphones from the counter. During the incident, Gilman also allegedly pushed one of the customers, police said. Both Gilman and Fowler then ran to their car, a white 2004 Volvo S60, police said. As Fowler was backing out of the parking space, the suspects saw that someone was trying to take a picture of their license plate. Fowler allegedly accelerated and tried to hit the person, but instead struck a parked car. Anyone with information can contact the Mountain View Police Department at 650-903-6395.
ERRATIC BEHAVIOR LEADS TO ARREST A 22-year-old Los Banos man was arrested near the Mountain View Shopping Center on Sunday after he was allegedly behaving strangely, and was suspected to be under the influence of a controlled substance. Officers patrolling the area say they discovered the man, Manuel Galaviz-Cienfuegos, standing in front of a business on
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City Council OKs 33 new row houses PROJECT WOULD DEMOLISH 17 APARTMENTS TO MAKE WAY FOR $1M HOMES
The project will displace 16 households in the existing apartountain View City ments on the property, according Council members to a city staff report; 11 of the agreed Tuesday night households qualify for assistance to allow a new 33-unit row under the city’s Tenant Relohouse development, increasing cation Assistance Ordinance. the housing density in the area Households making less than 80 and adding more permanent percent of the median income housing to a city dominated by in the area qualify for the assistance, which includes a full rental units. The project won the council’s refund of the tenant’s security deposit and three favor in a 6-1 vote, months’ worth but not before of market-rate some reservations ‘To make an rent for a similar were expressed by housing advocates omelet, you gotta apartment in the area. on the council. Justin Mozart, The project calls crack some eggs.’ who spoke at the for demolishing told 17 existing apart- COUNCILMAN JOHN MCALISTER meeting, council members ments in favor of that they have the houses, and some council members found been in constant contact with it hard to support a project that the apartment tenants and have ditches affordable rental units in waived the rent for months in favor of homes that are expected preparation for the new develto cost between $825,000 and opment. He said tenants have been given close to 180 days’ $1.1 million. The Mozart Development notice, which he said should ease Company acquired the proper- the transition for the existing ties at both 2025 and 2065 San residents. “We’ve done everything we Luis Ave. over the last two years with the intent to build new could to go above and beyond the homes on the 1.8 acres of land, mandated notice time,” Mozart between North Rengstorff Ave- said. Council member Lenny Siegel, nue and Sierra Vista Avenue. The project’s total of 33 houses butts who voted against the developup against the zoning limits for ment, said he appreciated the the multiple-family residential See ROW HOUSES, page 10 area. By Kevin Forestieri
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Juan Carbajal, right, and Daniel Riel, both seniors at Alta Vista High School, work on projects at a construction skills class on April 5.
Hammering out a brighter future HIGH SCHOOLS’ JOB TRAINING CLASSES FOCUS ON COLLEGE AND CAREER PREP By Kevin Forestieri
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tudents at Alta Vista High School gathered around two thick, wooden frames during lunch last week to watch a craftsmanship competition. Foregoing their mid-day meal, students in the school’s construction class tried their hand at a competition to see who could hammer eight nails into the frame the fastest. It certainly isn’t easy — some of the nails had to be hammered in upside-down — but the students have been busy building, measuring and hammering for months in the school’s con-
‘The class is really great, it’s probably my favorite class at Alta Vista.’ DANIEL REIL, STUDENT
struction class. The reasons for taking the construction class varies from student to student, but the course serves as a rare opportunity for students to test the waters with hands-on career training while at school.
And these kinds of classes are precisely the kind that are taking on a important role as the state pours money into new job training programs. Career Technical Education (CTE) programs prepare students for a jobs in broad range of industries, ranging from building and construction trades to engineering and communication technologies. These programs have traditionally served as an alternative to college and postsecondary education, as students could take these technical classes and See CLASSES, page 7
Cornes joins race for City Council PARKS & REC COMMISSIONER HIGHLIGHTS SAFETY, QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES By Mark Noack
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hida Cornes’ introduction to Mountain View politics came eight years ago, as a mother looking out for her child. Her son, then 3 years old, had fallen through a gap at a playground at Eagle Park, luckily causing only minor scratches and bruises. It became the first — but hardly the last — time that
Cornes urged Mountain View staff to make improvements to a piece of infrastructure. At the park, city workers eventually made Thida Cornes a simple fix, mounting a steel plate over the playground hole so no one else’s child would take a tumble.
Today, Cornes has moved on from playgrounds and is taking a hard look at Mountain View as a whole. The 47-year-old resident is running for City Council this November, and told the Voice she wants to highlight public safety and quality-of-life improvements throughout the city. “As a parent, I see a lot of things from the perspective of the kids,” See CORNES, page 11
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each year, was seeing dwindling demand for services. Not only were more patients now covered through the expansion of the Affordable Care Act and MediCal, but the high cost of living has pushed many of the patients seeking free services from RotaCare out of the area, according to Barbara Avery, El Camino Hospital’s director of community benefits. Although hospital officials claim that money and staffing were never the core issues facing the clinic, the El Camino Healthcare District’s board of directors — which oversees and funds RotaCare — was faced with two options: either reduce the number of hours RotaCare is open, or transfer the patients to the MayView center and provide extra funding for services at the off-site location. The board ultimately picked the latter, committing $2.4 million to help fund additional staffing at MayView. The transition of patients from RotaCare to MayView has been ongoing for months, and has been a smooth but busy process, according to Karina Marwan, interim clinical manager for RotaCare. As patients come in to RotaCare for services, she said, they are handed a comprehensive packet of information on MayView, the primary care doctors who work at the clinic, and all the medical records they need to hand off for a seamless transition. The $2.4 million has been spent mostly on new staff, including more physicians and nurse practitioners, a licensed clinical social worker and a bilingual liaison dedicated to helping patients transition from RotaCare to MayView. MayView CEO Kelvin Quan said they’ve had no trouble putting the money to good use, as patient volumes continue to significantly increase at the clinic. He said there’s been between 18 and 20 patients each day at the Mountain View clinic, indicating that a high number of RotaCare patients have successfully made the transition to MayView. The clinic has added two new primary care doctors this year, and is still looking to recruit more. One of the differences that has caused some concern is fees for services. While RotaCare offerws free health care to the uninsured, patients coming to MayView are faced with a fee for service ranging from $20 to $90. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Quan said, the MayView clinic has an obligation to serve low-income residents, and has frequently waived the minimum fee of $20 for those who can’t afford it. He said patients will not have to worry about being refused service if they aren’t able to pay for it. “Our entire mission has been to
serve the low-income (patients), the uninsured and the underserved,” Quan said. “Nobody will be turned away.” Other residents have decried the loss of access to specialists who volunteerd at RotaCare, but hospital officials say it really wasn’t a reliable service to begin with. Avery said staffing changes based on the availability of volunteers meant patients had a fleeting relationship with specialists from El Camino Hospital’s volunteer network, and often RotaCare had to refer patients to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for specialist services anyway. While the closure of RotaCare has been an emotional ordeal, Quan said, the new partnership with MayView can be seen as a positive transition for the patients who rely on low-cost services. The clinic has more than one location, giving Sunnyvale residents an easier access point for services, and the Mountain View location is open significantly longer throughout the week than RotaCare. Brenda Taussig, director of government and community relations, said the MayView clinic’s permanent staffing is also better suited for many of the chronically ill patients who visited RotaCare for services. It’s important for these patients to get a level of consistency in their care, Taussig said, and getting a different provider each time they showed up at RotaCare was hardly an ideal situation. “You don’t really get that needed consistency in an episodic, old model of a clinic like RotaCare,” she said. The services provided at MayView have been evolving over the last few months to accommodate the new patient loads. Quan said the clinic is working on ways to provide specialist services on-site, and just recently began providing some mental health services to patients visiting their primary care doctor. With Latino patients making up nearly 70 percent of the patients at the clinic, Quan said it’s important to also make sure MayView hires bilingual staff who can communicate with patients. About 80 percent of the staff speaks Spanish, he said, and just about everyone except himself speaks more than one language. “The clinic is designed to address cultural barriers,” Quan said. “This is really our mission to help patients from different backgrounds.” District board defends its decision The El Camino Healthcare District, which encompasses Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and a large portion of Sunnyvale, has an important role
to play in maintaining free clinics like RotaCare. Among the short list of missions the district is required to carry out, the district must “establish, maintain and operate, or provide assistance in the operation of, free clinics.” With access to free health care baked into the DNA of the district, there was some concern among the district’s board members that they may be diverting from the original mission by funding separate, off-site entity like MayView instead of running RotaCare. At the Jan. 19 board meeting, member David Reeder maintained that the decision to close down RotaCare and shift funding towards MayView was sound. In both cases, he said, the health care district is acting as a funding source for a separate, nonprofit clinic. The only difference is that MayView is not based on the El Camino Hospital campus. Board member John Zoglin later told the Voice that MayView is an “incredible” resource for the district’s uninsured and underinsured residents, and that providing care onsite or offsite isn’t a distinction worth making. If anything, he said, the MayView center’s three clinics will increase access to care. The process of closing down RotaCare in favor of funding MayView got a rocky start, in part because residents were unclear whether RotaCare was shutting down. In December, notices were sent out letting volunteers and patients know that the clinic would be closed due to staffing problems, prompting concerns that a permanent closure was imminent. Taussig said the temporary staffing issues were originally confused with the larger, yearlong discussion on whether to keep RotaCare open amid dwindling patient volumes, and had nothing to do with the closure. Adding to the confusion, El Camino Hospital staff did not disclose to the public until the Jan. 19 health care district board meeting that there were plans on the table to close RotaCare and transfer money — and thousands of patients — to MayView. Zoglin defended the decision to wait until the board meeting to divulge the details, and said the board needed to be able to discuss the issue at a public meeting and give guidance to staff before communicating what was going on to a complex network of patients, employees, volunteers and community members. “We hold ourselves to a high standard of accountability and want our decisions to be thoughtful, and to the benefit to our community,” Zoglin said in an email. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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go straight into the workforce or apply for apprenticeships. In recent years, California’s state education system has shifted gears and focused more on ensuring that students have “both college and career options upon graduating from high school,” according to a report by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office. At the school level, this shift means offering core curriculum classes in math and science alongside job-training courses. The new approach means students aren’t placed on a specific trajectory, allowing them more time to figure out what they want to do after graduation. At the state level, the shift means pumping a lot of extra money toward new vocational classes. Last month, the California Department of Education announced more than $245 million in grants to support new and existing CTE programs across the state, as part of a larger, $900 million investment over the next few years. The money is expected to help cultivate programs where students are able to seamlessly transition into career pathways in higher education, or head straight into employment after high school, according to a department staff report. The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District was awarded a little more than $533,000 in grant money, according to announcement by the California Department of Education last month. The money will be used primarily to fund improvements at Freestyle Academy, an alternative school program where students spend half the day learning about graphic design, photography, art and digital media. Associate Superintendent Brigitte Sarraf told the Voice via email that the district is still in the planning stages for how to spend the money, but that it will
likely include tech upgrades, room for extra students and potentially hiring a new staff member to teach animation classes. Construction classes keep students busy In many ways, Alta Vista High School is already ahead of the curve. The continuation high school, which serves students in Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto, for several years has hosted classes that teach students how to saw, hammer and nail their way through building projects. Alta Vista is currently home to a comprehensive construction class that teaches masonry, construction, plumbing, electrical and solar installation skills to students, who can take the class fulfill their practical and fine arts requirements or use it as a stepping stone to a new career. Alta Vista Principal Bill Pierce said it started strictly as a masonry course, and morphed over the years. Students have built anything from storage sheds and chicken coops to planter boxes, dog houses and furniture. Pierce said the construction class, which is taught out of a shed in a service yard abutting the school, includes more than a dozen work stations equipped with DVD players. This gives students a chance to work on a skill set — like plumbing a sink with PVC pipes — alongside a tutorial video. “Students are able to watch the videos and do the handson plumbing work at the same time,” Pierce said. The classroom itself is filled with student projects that have been running for months. Raymond Schneider, a senior in the class, has been working on a model house since September, complete with wooden studs, coats of paint, and shingles applied with roofing tar. Schneider said it’s been a fun experience for him — and he’s gotten really good at the nailing challenge —
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Ariana Ordaz, 17, talks with teacher Thomas Lopez at Alta Vista High School on April 5.
but it’s not likely to lead to a new career. “It’s just an elective to try something different,” Schneider said. Daniel Reil, also a senior, has been working on stepping stones made of cement for a walkway. Each stone has its own creative design, and some of them include reflective, glass-like materials on the surface that light up in a pattern. Not every walkway stone has been a success — some of the designs were too cluttered and crumbled — but Reil said the construction class could be a step towards a future career. “The class is really great, it’s probably my favorite class at Alta Vista,” he said. “I’m really considering taking more construction classes.” Similar to the state-wide goals for CTE expansion, the construction class at Alta Vista is about keeping options open and aiding students who want to learn a trade. Tomas Ibarra, the school’s construction teacher, said his goal is to teach students as much as he can about construction, including high-demand skills like installing solar panels and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
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“The goal is to teach them the foundation in case they want to go to a trade school,” he said. Ibarra is a former construction worker who joined the school three years ago, and said he’s gotten a lot of support for efforts to improve the construction class. When he joined the school, the class was taught outside under a tarp, and recently upgraded to a new shed furnished with wooden shelves built by past students. Ibarra called the shed a big upgrade. It’s certainly better than his original request, which was for a new tarp. Recognizing the importance of trade skills The construction class at Alta Vista could be seen as a microcosm of what the state plans to do with its $900 million investment into CTE classes. The funding is expected to play an important role in making sure school districts continue to offer trade-skill classes in an environment where college preparation remains the primary focus. Peter Tira, a spokesman for the California Department of Education, said the matching grant program will encourage school
districts to support CTE programs and prevent them from “falling through the cracks” as the state-wide funding formula for school districts continues to morph. Many of these more technical, jobs training programs were also the first to get cut following the 2008 recession, Tira said, and the grant money acts as an incentive to bring those classes back. “These classes tended to get hit pretty hard in the recession, so we’re storing some of that funding and making sure it remains a priority,” he said. Tira stressed that these jobstraining programs are not intended to steer students away from college prospects, calling it an “outdated” view on how CTE classes work. The programs tend to be high-caliber and designed to better position students to get postsecondary education that can help kickstart a career, even if they do decide not to go to a four-year university. “This is not like the auto shop or (wood-working) classes of 1965,” Tira said. “It’s really high quality, rigorous academic courses.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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that rents can be raised at a minimum of 2 percent and at most 5 percent in any year. Overseeing this process would be a new “Rental Housing Committee,” a five-member panel appointed by the City Council that would be in charge of setting allowable rents or making new regulations. Landlords and tenants would be allowed to petition the committee to make exceptions to the rent limits. For example, the committee could sign off on higher rents if landlords can demonstrate they are abiding by all the rules but still not receiving a fair rate of return on their rental property, according to the measure. Similarly, tenants can request lower rents if their landlord is failing to keep the property up to living standards. The initiative would also include “just-cause eviction” protections, stipulating a set of
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new responsibilities on landlords, critics say it won’t be effective because it doesn’t include limits on annual rent increases, prevent retaliatory evictions or include binding arbitration if mediation fails. “I think that was the straw that broke the camel’s back ... it was the appropriate time to act,” said Evan Ortiz, a spokesman for the Mountain View Tenants’ Coalition. “We know there’s a tremendous appetite for this in the community.” The coalition’s rent control measure would mandate that rent increases adhere to the amount of increase in the Consumer Price Index for the Bay Area, in an amount set by June of each year. Even with that guidance, the measure still sets tighter boundaries, stipulating
specific criteria for when landlords can evict tenants, such as failure to pay, causing a nuisance or criminal activity. Landlords would be still allowed to demolish and redevelop their properties so long as they get permits from the city and give tenants first dibs on any newly rebuilt apartment at the location. The new rules under the proposed measure would affect only apartments built before 1995, due to provisions in the state Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Single-family homes, condominiums, duplexes and granny units would also be exempted from the measure. In a response to the new measure, Joshua Howard of the California Apartment Association warned that rent-control policies would do little to solve the South Bay affordability problems. Repeating an argument made by some Mountain
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FRED ALDO AUSANO Fred Aldo Ausano, a Mountain View resident, died peacefully at home on March 29, with daughter Doreen, son-in-law Harry and son John by his side. He was 75. Born on January 10, 1941 in Palo Alto to parents Aldo and Mary Ausano, he graduated from Mountain View Union High School in 1959. He joined the Navy that same year, where he served on the U.S.S. Brownson DD-868. He married Diane Stromberg in 1962, and began working for his father at Ausano and Son Tile Co. for nine years. He then pursued a career in the electronics field, his family said. He is remembered for his “awesome” sense of humor and the ability to make anyone smile. He was passionate about sports, especially the 49ers, the Giants, the Golden State Warriors, the San Jose Sharks and golf, his family members said, calling him a walking encyclopedia of sports, movies and music history. Fred Aldo In addition to daughter Doreen (Harry Ausano Blakeman) and sons John (Pam) and Michael, he is survived by his sister Carol Jean Schell; grandchildren, Jacqueline, Christina, Courtney and Vanessa; and great-grandchildren Madeline, Joe, Isabella, Kaydence and Landon. A vigil and rosary is set for 7 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at Cusimano Family Colonial Mortuary, 96 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View. A funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, April 9, at 11 a.m., at St. Joseph Church, 582 Hope St., Mountain View. A procession will immediately follow to Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, 22555 Cristo Rey Dr, Los Altos. As a heartfelt thank you to the staff at Mission Hospice and Home Care for their assistance and support, the family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to Mission Hospice and Home Care, www.missionhospice.org.
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Jeannie Bruins, who chairs the VTA’s policy advisory board for the project. “One of the things that became clear was that the (BRT) alternatives that were looked at were controversial,” Bruins said. “The purpose of this (pilot) is to assess the situation; we’d do some before-and-after data collection.” Bruins presented a basic outline of the project at the Tuesday, April 5, study session of the Mountain View City Council, which she noted was the first city to review the new plans. Approximately one year ago, a majority of Mountain View’s council came out in support of the full bus-rapid transit proposal, prompting a fierce backlash among opponents and a threats to recall two council members. Some of the plan’s former supporters gave a lessthan-enthusiastic response on Tuesday. Councilman Mike Kasperzak, previously in support of the BRT plan, said he didn’t understand what the pilot was trying to accomplish. A temporary project wouldn’t galvanize commuters
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good-faith effort on the part of the developers, but struggled to support the project as a whole. He said the property is now home to 17 “naturally affordable” units, which are all going to get torn down in favor of prohibitively expensive homes. At a time when city officials are grappling with the issue of residents forced out of the area because of the high cost of living, he said, it’s important to find ways to preserve the more affordable units available in Mountain View. “We have project after project where we’re seeing existing housing people can afford to live in being torn down, and replaced with housing that is very expensive,” Siegel said. “We can’t subsidize enough affordable units — we’re doing the best we can — but we can’t keep up with the number being torn down.” Council member Ken Rosenberg, who voted in favor of the project, said his decision wasn’t a slam-dunk. He said it’s important to promote more permanent residential properties in a city where 60 percent of the population lives in rental units, but losing a stack of apartments in the process makes it it tough to support the development wholeheartedly. Rosenberg commended the developers for working closely
to change their behavior, he said. “I really don’t favor this moving forward,” Kasperzak said. “I want to realize the dream, but I don’t know if the dream is realizable anymore.” Kasperzak took the opportunity to fire a broadside against VTA for “trying to shove a square peg in a round hole.” VTA should have the traffic expertise, but its officials weren’t providing enough information to cities to guide their decisionmaking, he said. Rising to VTA’s defense was Councilman Lenny Siegel — who last year opposed the BRT project. Now a member of VTA’s advisory board for the project, Siegel said transit officials were trying to find a project that cities would support, lest they be accused of ramrodding it forward. “Obviously this is divisive issue — but we came to a pretty good agreement among all the cities along the corridor,” he said. “There’s obviously a lot of unknowns, but to me this is a good path forward.” The project received a lukewarm response from the rest of the council. Ken Rosenberg and Pat Showalter, both prior supporters, said they would back the
new pilot project even though they had some concerns about the overall results. Councilman John Inks said he opposed the project until specifics on its impacts could be provided. Like past Mountain View meetings on the BRT proposal, councilmen John McAlister and Chris Clark recused themselves due to a potential conflict of interest due to owning property near El Camino Real. At best, VTA officials say they would like the pilot project to be tested along the full 17-mile stretch running from Palo Alto to San Jose, but that depends on the willing participation of each city. At a minimum, the pilot could be tried along a 3-mile route, VTA officials reported. Bruins said each participating city would have to decide on its own how to enforce the dedicated lanes as well as how they would affect bike lanes, street parking and vehicles making right turns. Mountain View was the first of six cities to review VTA’s newest iteration of the bus-rapid transit plan, and Bruins said she would be presenting it to other cities in the coming weeks. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com
with existing tenants, and said it ought to be the council’s charge to make sure it becomes common practice in Mountain View. “I do want to send a signal to other developers ... if there are people living on your land, that this council requires aboveand-beyond-type of gestures,” he said. “We can’t put that into legal words, but you need to step
as a necessary step towards shoring up housing stock in the city. If more dense housing is the goal, McAlister said, then fellow council members ought to be supporting this kind of project. “Here is an example of somebody increasing the density of their property, getting us more units, getting us more diverse housing stock,” McAlister said. “To make an omelet, you gotta crack some eggs. That is what’s required.” Siegel, responding to McAlister’s comments, said the project is indicative of a larger problem in the city. Because of zoning restrictions, he said, the city has made it difficult to build housing on vacant or under-used land, and forces the council into the awkward position of approving housing projects that tear down existing housing in the process. Increasing available housing in the Bay Area is going to take awhile, so it’s important to preserve more affordable housing options until supply and demand evens out, Siegel said. “It’ll take awhile for supply and demand to slow the growth in rents. So when we replace units that are affordable to the average middle-income person with units that most people can’t afford, we are creating a problem,” he said. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com
‘When we replace units that are affordable to the average middleincome person with units that most people can’t afford, we are creating a problem.’ COUNCILMAN LENNY SIEGEL
outside of the comfort zone and realize that housing is impacted in this area and be part of the solution.” Council member John McAlister had some concerns about the project related to traffic and the loss of heritage trees, but looked at the loss of apartments
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Cornes said. “We need an overall policy of putting safety first,” Asked about her priorities for the city, Cornes emphasized that city officials need to rethink the system for building out roads. Right now, she said, the city puts a priority on service levels, or in other words, how many cars can move through a roadway in a given time. From her perspective, a better yardstick to measure road quality would be public safety. The city needs to do more short-term fixes at known danger spots throughout town, she told the Voice. She points out that while numerous streets have bike lanes that doesn’t mean these roads are necessarily safe for cyclists. “My son bikes on the sidewalk of Shoreline Road because it’s not safe to bike in the bike lane,” she said. “A lot of infrastructure is designed for able-bodied adults, not for children, seniors or the disabled.” Cornes believes that all travelers — whether drivers, cyclists or pedestrians — would be willing to sacrifice speed if it meant a safer, less stressful trip. Does that mean she’s a fan of reducing the volume of traffic, better known
as road diets? “It depends on the context,” she said. “I think we can have a winwin where everyone gets through the city less stressfully.” This November, Mountain View will have four City Council seats up for election, which are currently held by John Inks, John McAlister, Chris Clark and Mike Kasperzak. Both Inks and Kasperzak will be termed out of office and prohibited from running for another consecutive term. On Monday, McAlister and Clark both confirmed their intention to run for re-election. A fourth announced candidate, Lucas Ramirez, announced his run last week. Cornes has many nice things to say about the current council members, but said she wishes they were a little more ambitious in some decision-making. She points to recent discussions impacting the downtown area, such as the council’s preference for closing off Castro Street entirely at the Caltrain tracks. This was a missed opportunity, she said. The city could have looked more closely at something transformative, such as staff’s proposal to lower Central Expressway and build a new central pavilion in the heart of town, she said. Similarly, she
said she wishes the city had pressed harder in its recent negotiations for a downtown hotel to demand some affordable housing component. “We’re in a boom time and I think the City Council sometimes forgets that,” Cornes said. “You can hold the line and that’s OK.” Cornes takes a more long-term view on the city’s housing crisis. Mountain View desperately needs more housing, and she acknowledges the current rental market is pricing out the city’s low-income residents. The problem was created over the course of decades from not increasing the number of homes, and a viable solution could take just as long, she said. While Cornes favors more affordable housing, including the construction of micro-units, she said she opposes policies that verge on rent control, which she calls “bad economic policy.” “I really feel for all the people suffering, but I think it would make the problem worse and hasten the displacement of lowincome people,” she said. A resident of Mountain View for about 15 years, Cornes points to a track record of accomplishments. Since 2009, she has served on the city’s
Parks and Recreation Commission, during which she helped design two neighborhood parks, two trail extensions and a new baseball field, according to her campaign materials. She co-founded Great Streets Mountain View, a nonprofit that helped prod the city to study traffic-calming measures throughout town, and served on the District Facilities Committee for the Mountain View
Whisman School District. A political science major in college, Cornes earned a master of business administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Her family includes two children, ages 11 and 13, and her husband, who is doubling as her campaign’s treasurer. Her campaign website is thidacornes.com. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V
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Campaigning for the Capitol EIGHT CANDIDATES VIE FOR CHANCE TO REPRESENT DISTRICT 24 — PART 2 OF 2 By Kate Bradshaw, Mark Noack and Gennady Sheyner
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he eight candidates for California Assembly District 24 come from different cities, professions and philosophical positions, but they share the same ambition: a chance to represent one of the most prosperous parts in the state. Much like the district’s constituency, the field is predominantly Democratic, though it does include a Republican (Menlo Park City Councilman Peter Ohtaki) and a Libertarian (Mountain View City Councilman John Inks). And they come from all over the district, from Ohtaki’s hometown of Menlo Park to Cupertino, where Mayor Barry Chang is hoping to make the leap to Sacramento to replace termed-out incumbent Rich Gordon. And like the district’s voters, some candidates are homegrown, while others came from afar to pursue their Silicon Valley dreams. This year’s candidate crop includes members from Taiwan (Chang), India (Palo Alto retired engineer Seelam Reddy), Michigan (Mountain View City Councilman Mike Kasperzak) and Indiana (Palo Alto patent attorney Vicki Veenker). The 2016 race is the most competitive since at least 2010, when Gordon beat out former Palo Alto Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and technologist Josh Becker to claim his seat (he has been re-elected twice since). In addition to Veenker, Reddy, Ohtaki, Kasperzak, Inks and Chang, the field includes community activist Jay Cabrera and Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman. The eight candidates have different ideas about how to improve California’s education system, fix up crumbling infrastructure and improve traffic and transportation, but they share one thing in common: the belief that they are the best man or woman for the job. While Kasperzak points to his extensive experience in local policymaking (including more than two decades on Mountain View’s local commissions and council), Reddy is an enthusiastic newcomer whose experience in local politics has consisted largely of attending council meetings and offering his views on everything from airplane noise to minimum wage. Veenker believes her background as a patent attorney who helped found Women’s Professional Soccer and who has advocated 14
on behalf of low-income legal clients gives her a unique perspective, while Ohtaki, a veteran banker, touts himself as the “numbers guy” in the race. On June 7, the field of eight will be winnowed to two in a primary election. The two winners will then move on to the November contest to fight it out for the ultimate prize: a seat in the Legislature in Sacramento.
Mike Kasperzak MOUNTAIN VIEW CITY COUNCILMAN hy should Mike Kasperzak be picked to serve in the Assembly? His pitch boils down to the argument that he’s by far the most experienced — and by at least one measure, this is no exaggeration. He can point to four terms on the Mountain View City Council and, prior to that, many more years on various city commissions. He sums it all up as 21 years in public service. “I really do think that experience matters in this world,” Kasperzak said. “It’s easy to talk about Mike Kasperzak what you want to do, but I have a proven track record of accomplishments.” In his mind, the most noteworthy of those accomplishments is helping to craft Mountain View’s rental housing impact fee — the city’s surcharge of around 8 percent on new development that helps fund affordable housing. The policy took about two years to fine-tune, he said, and is an example of how various stakeholders came together to achieve a solution. Last year, he helped spearhead Mountain View’s policy to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018, one of the first of its kind in the Bay Area. “The thing I’ve been passionate about is affordable housing and how we can maintain the socio-economic diversity of the community,” he said. Some might argue that Kasperzak doesn’t go far enough toward that goal. In recent months, crowds have packed Mountain View’s council chambers demanding regulations — namely rent control — to rein in the area’s unfettered housing market. Kasperzak declined to support such a measure, saying rent control would ultimately be a flawed policy. Instead,
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he crafted his own legislation focused on voluntary restrictions for landlords. While the idea didn’t win him any friends among tenants’ advocates, pieces of Kasperzak’s proposal were ultimately adopted as part of the city’s final policy. If elected to state office, he said he would like to join the legislative committees on housing, transportation or water. He hopes to boost opportunities for construction of more affordable housing by streamlining regulations and creating incentives for cities that balance their jobs and housing supply. More state funding for subsidized housing would also help, he added. As to water projects, he would like to boost funding for recycled water and desalination plants. When it comes to transportation, he said he wants to improve road maintenance and alternative transit systems. Now 62 years old, Kasperzak describes himself as someone who was inspired by his parents to be actively involved in local civics. Growing up in northern Michigan, he served in student government in high school and got the chance to attend a national convention for youth interested in politics. Professionally, at the age of 16, he gained his pilot’s license and worked at the local airport as a lineman and gofer. After graduating with a law degree years later, he spent about a decade as a trial attorney specializing in aviation cases. He later left his law firm and opened his own practice specializing in arbitration and mediation, which he continues to run to this day. Around this time, he began to get immersed in local politics. “It’s a way to give back to the community and to participate in solving problems,” he said. “It’s an experience that I really enjoy because it’s intellectually stimulating.” Fun fact about Kasperzak: His newest hobby is beekeeping. He recently started his own backyard hive despite having a close call with the bugs in his younger days. When he was 5 years old, he stepped on a hive and the swarm attacked, stinging him to the point that he fell unconscious for hours. “They pulled 25 stingers out of my foot!” he said. “But now I’ve become fascinated by bees; they’re really interesting.” As of the lastest campaignfinance filing, Kasperzak had raised $169,000 in contributions. —MN
Peter Ohtaki MENLO PARK CITY COUNCILMAN
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eter Ohtaki, the only Republican candidate running for the District 24 state Assembly seat, says that if elected, his approach would emphasize “more limited government focused on solving key issues such as infrastructure” and increase the use of publicprivate partnerships. Ohtaki grew up in Menlo Park, attending La Entrada Middle School and Woodside High School, where he participated in Peter Ohtaki student government. Four cold winters at Harvard University in Boston as an undergraduate and another four in New York prompted him to return to the milder climes of the Peninsula to attend Stanford University for an MBA. Since then, he said, he’s lived, worked or spent time in all of the cities within the district. Ohtaki now works for Wells Fargo as vice president and regional emergency manager in Northern California. He was previously executive director of the California Resiliency Alliance, a nonprofit that develops public-private partnerships to help with community disaster response, recovery and adaptation to climate change. Before that, from 1994 to 2005, he worked as the chief financial officer of a consumer electronics startup in Marin called NetTV. Prior to that, he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and C.E. Unterberg Towbin. In terms of civic involvement, he has served on the board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and is in his second term on the Menlo Park City Council, after being elected in 2010 and 2014. He served as mayor of Menlo Park in 2013. Through his different roles, he said, “I’ve developed a reputation as being a numbers guy.” That reputation, he said, comes from his background in finance and from balancing the annual budgets of the City of Menlo Park. He said he balanced a structural deficit one year by paying down unfunded pension liability, thereby reducing interest the city would pay to CalPERS. Last year, he used a surplus in the budget to pay for forthcoming sidewalks on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, he said. He would like the state to build more partnerships with businesses, rather than automatically seek new taxes or fees. For example, Ohtaki said, the state
should partner with businesses to support underfunded state parks. It should also work with cloud-based technology companies to make it easier for businesses to register, pay taxes and comply with state regulations. Over the past decade, he said he has developed public-private partnerships in his work to promote emergency preparedness across the Bay Area. Those efforts required him to coordinate with city, state and county agencies, and about 70 businesses to develop plans and guidelines in case of disasters such as earthquakes or fires. In the process, he developed protocols for agencies to use to request resources from the private sector. He said he also has worked with Assembly members to pass legislation, citing the experiences as examples of his being a bipartisan problem-solver. In 2008 he worked with Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) to pass a law that extends “Good Samaritan” protections to business and nonprofits who register their willingness to provide services or goods in states of emergency without fear of a lawsuit. In 2014, he worked with current District 24 Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to bring forth AB 1690, a bill to give cities greater flexibility in housing zoning to allow mixeduse construction. The big problems he said he expects the state will need to address in coming years are transportation and water infrastructure, unfunded pension liability, and the state debt. “The state will need to be very innovative about how it uses its existing resources to address those issues,” he said. He said the current budget surplus in California contains one-time funds from capital gains and should be used to fund one-time capital improvements like transportation infrastructure and to pay down unfunded pension liabilities. His enthusiasm for investment in transportation infrastructure, though, doesn’t extend to the state’s planned high-speed rail system. The $64 billion could be better used to address transportation infrastructure needs for Bay Area commuters, such as grade separations of roadways and railroad tracks, the electrification of the Caltrain commuter rail line, increasing Caltrain’s capacity, and maintaining the area’s highways, he said. He also supports building infrastructure to allow recycled water to be used for irrigation, especially in new construction projects. He’d also like to see investments in See CANDIDATES, page 17
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High-Speed Rail
Delta Tunnels
Recreational Marijuana
Top Infrastructure Priorities
How to Spur Affordable Housing
Doesn’t trust the California High-Speed Rail Authority; would prefer to focus on regional improvements
Does not support Gov. Brown’s current plan for Delta tunnels, which he says does not include enough environmental restoration
Supports legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana
Fixing roads and bridges, moving toward low- and zero-emission vehicles, increasing access to highspeed broadband and building a smart energy grid
Supports increasing funding for low-income-housing tax credit
State should fully fund preschool education for all lowincome 4-year-olds
Reduce consumption of petroleum by 50% by 2030, deploy more sustainability technology and behavioral software to enable conservation, replace fossil-fuel consumption with renewable energy, and constantly set and evaluate progress on reducing GHG emissions
Supports high-speed rail, calling it “a normal thing to have in industrialized first-world country”
Supports having separate plans for human and environmental needs
Supports legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use in a way that would “support local communities and small businesses”
Repairing roads, bridges and accommodations for autonomous vehicles
Believes in forcing builders to allocate a certain percentage of their projects to affordable housing
College education should be free and guaranteed; computer science should be taught starting in grade school
Allow individuals to represent nature in court; integrate sustainability in design of all products
Supports the project, but with modifications. Believes construction should begin in SF and LA and that the trains should run underground on the Peninsula
Opposes Gov. Brown’s plan, which he calls “very costly” and “detrimental to the environment”
Against legalization
New public rapid-transit system; water conservation and recycling; Caltrain electrification
Build more housing along major thoroughfares and major employment centers
Allocate more funding for pre-school and kindergarten; encourage parental participation
Encourage people not to drive; build new public rapid-transit systems
Believes the concept of high-speed rail is “feasible” but does not support the project as it’s currently managed
Generally, does not support proposed canals but would seek advice of experts in Delta water matters before forming a more informed assessment
Does not recommend “inhaling combusted plant material of any type” but recommends decriminalization of marijuana “without the bureaucracy and taxation usually associated with legalization”
State roadways, waterways and parks should all be considered. Believes spending priorities should be based on more “market-oriented economics”
Instead of regional mandates for low-income housing, state and local governments should “make the development reviewand-approval process less bureaucratic and more focused on increasing housing supply”
Would consider the direction of U.S. Secretary of Education John King, whose record “points to better results as far as academic achievement”
Reduce fossil-fuel consumption, which “leverages resource conservation, air quality and traffic congestion”
Supports the project, which he believes will “one day be a critical and integral part of California’s transportation system”
No formal position but leaning against the project because of concerns about costs, the transfer of water and “irreparable environmental damage”
Supports legalization, provided it does not endanger children and is compatible with federal laws. Would prefer that the legalization be approved by voters, not Legislature
Road maintenance; rapid mass transit; transportation solutions for “last mile” problem; and more ground-water-storage capacity
Provide financing for local governments for affordable housing; reform building codes; further constructiondefect-litigation reform to spur condominium development
Expand childhood education, treat teaching as a “noble and valuable profession” and be unafraid to “make adjustments to our educational programs and learn from the best practices throughout the state and nation”
Continue to decrease greenhouse-gas production and vehicle emissions; dramatically increase amount of available renewable energy; work with local communities to help them implement clean and renewable-energy programs
Opposes the project. Would prefer to see these funds redirected to help “local commuters”
Prefers other solutions, including small water-recycling plants that could be used for irrigation; encouraging new developments to install “purple pipes;” rely more on recycled water and desalination, when it becomes cost-effective
Not ready to support legalized marijuana for recreational use but is fine with medicinal use
Supports Caltrain electrification and grade separation; creation of Transportation Management Associations; and a mass transit connection, such as shuttle, between Menlo Park’s M2 area train stations
Supports building housing around transportation corridors, targeting young couples, workers and “empty nesters”; below-market-rate programs that leverage other funding sources
Reform Proposition 30 to allow school districts to build capital reserves to fund new classrooms and school renovations
Encourage mass transit use; green-building standards; and renewable-energy sources. Address sea-level rise by restoring wetlands and rebuilding levees
Opposes the project
Supports Brown’s plan
Supports medical marijuana: “If people want do it on their own, at home, I’m fine with it”
Top priorities include Caltrain improvements, a stronger power infrastructure and road improvements to relieve congestion
Wants to encourage homeowners with spare rooms to allow others live in their homes; encourage major employers to build housing developments for their workers
Supports more education funding; more charter schools; and greater parental involvement in education
Supports reducing greenhouse gases through more carpooling, working from home
Does not support current plan because of uncertainty over funding. Opposes use of cap-and-trade funds. The Peninsula segment should be a “seamless transition to Caltrain” or a “blended” system with grade separation at crossings
Does not support Brown’s plan. Supports fixing aging water infrastucture, improving efficiency of agricultural use, disincentivizing landscape water use, and reusing greywater for irrigation
Believes legalization of recreational marijuana in state is “inevitable” and says priority should be to “regulate it properly”
Upgrading neglected school facilities; improve aging water infrastructure; and pursue improved transportation systems, including public transit and improved highways
Would like to see incentives, such as a state housing bond and tax breaks, encourage building housing along transit lines, and involve the public in the early stages of development to address concerns so that new projects can enjoy community support rather than opposition
Believes in more investment in education from early childhod to higher education. Supports extending Proposition 30 and ensuring “high-quality STEM education” in state colleges and universities
Supports legislation that requires reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse-gas emissions (including SB350); and extending California’s capand-trade system
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capital improvements in poorer school districts. In general, he said, he wants Silicon Valley technology to be applied to state services so that they operate more efficiently. There’s a saying in Silicon Valley that innovation comes from doing things “smaller, faster and better,” he said. “That’s something that Sacramento and the state government could learn from.” To start with, he said the state’s Employment Development Department should teach and encourage job searchers to use LinkedIn.com, which it currently does not. Ohtaki lives in Menlo Park and is married with three children ages 10, 8 and 7. “One of things I most love about this area,” he said, is that it “continues to be a great place to raise a family.” Overall, Ohtaki said he’s trying to attract voters “who would like to see Sacramento be more innovative and more supportive of Silicon Valley” and “people who like to see that their tax dollars are used for the right purposes.” Ohtaki has so far gathered $10,900 in campaign funding from three contributors: $4,200 from William Regan, retiree; $4,200 from Charles T. Munger, physicist; and $2,500 from Steven Eggert, real estate developer, according to Cal-Access, a state database that reports campaign fundraising. —KB
Seelam Reddy RETIRED ENGINEER ver since he splashed onto Palo Alto’s political scene two years ago, retired engineer Seelam Reddy has offered the public his opinions on a wide and eclectic range of issues, big and small, local and regional. His interests have ranged from the closure of the YMCA on Page Mill Road to a new grocery store for College Terrace to the state’s high-speed rail project and minimum wage. His comments are often unscripted and, at times, u npred ic table, as when he called on Palo Alto City C ou nc i l m a n Seelam Reddy Marc Berman (his opponent in the Assembly race) last month to resign his council seat and hand it over to Lydia Kou, who finished sixth out of 12 candidates in a race for five seats in 2014. Reddy also took part in the
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2014 council race, finishing eleventh. He picked up 1.7 percent of the votes, or 1,270 in total. But he does not view the result as a failure so much as a learning experience. As he told the Palo Alto Weekly in a recent interview, he is a “glass half full” kind of guy. In addressing the council or answering questions about his positions, Reddy focuses on big “ideas,” with the understanding that details are yet to be worked out. He wants to “create more jobs, jobs, jobs,” as his business card proclaims, while also raising the hourly wage to $15 to $20. He wants to “uplift” East Palo Alto. He also would like Palo Alto residents with large houses with empty bedrooms to share their space with those who cannot otherwise afford to live in the city. His request to Berman (which Berman swiftly rejected) came despite the fact that the council, as a democratically elected body, cannot unilaterally add members that weren’t elected. These are details, and Reddy, as he will reiterate, is interested in “ideas.” Reddy, who goes by “Sea,” was born in India, immigrated to the United States to attend Texas Tech University and has spent the past three decades in California. A retired engineer, he worked at high-tech and aerospace firms such as McDonnell Douglas, Boeing Company and, more recently, VMWare. He began attending council meetings in 2014, just after he announced his campaign for that body, and has remained a regular presence at Palo Alto City Hall ever since. In his run for the Assembly seat, he plans to follow a similar blueprint from 2014. He once again touts the fact that, unlike other candidates, he has no connections among Silicon Valley’s elite classes and talks about his opposition to “shady deals.” Once again, he emphasizes the fact that he isn’t seeking any donations. But in some ways, his thinking has changed. He’s given a lot of thought to issues to broader issues. He calls Palo Alto a “heavenly place to live” and wants to keep it that way — and to do the same for Woodside, Los Altos Hills and other communities in the 24th District. When asked about his top issue of concern, Reddy said airplane noise — a subject that has been generating a loud citizen outcry locally over the past year. When it comes to affordable housing, another hot-button topic, Reddy said he would oppose building large dense developments in single-family neighborhoods. Instead, he would prefer to see people who live alone in
large houses to “open up rooms to allow other people to live in their houses.” He also would like to see Silicon Valley’s big corporations step up and build housing developments for their employees. Yet when it comes to development in general, Reddy describes his philosophy as “no-growth/slow-growth.” “We don’t really need to grow any more than we’ve already grown,” Reddy said. “We just need to sustain the things we already have and just make things better.” On the subject of education, Reddy said he would like to see more innovation, an approach he readily mentions in discussions. He supports increasing funding for education, encouraging the establishment of more charter schools and calls for greater parental participation. And while he opposes California’s high-speed rail system, he believes the state needs to invest more in transportation. “Traffic is killing us. We need to relieve congestion,” Reddy said. Given the crowded field of candidates and his low-budget methods, Reddy knows he has his work cut out for him. His campaign budget is around $2,000, and he said he will not be depending on banners or other forms of advertising. And if he doesn’t prevail in this election, the odds are you’ll see him again in the near future, basking in the civic limelight and offering solutions to problems-of-the-day during the public-comments segment of Palo Alto City Council meetings. “Running is part of my life. I’m not going to stop running,” Reddy said. —GS
Vicki Veenker PATENT ATTORNEY icki Veenker isn’t a typical Assembly candidate. She’s not a City Council member looking for a grander stage. Nor is she a grassroots activist trying to make a statement on a shoe-string budget. But she has helped launch a professional women’s soccer league, served as president of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, represented a Nobel Prize winner, mediated cases for federal court and worked on what became Stanford University’s top revenue-generating patent. “I’m not following a traditional path,” Veenker said during a recent interview. “But for me, my experiences and skills that I’ve developed translate directly to this.” For all of its unorthodoxy, her leap from the private sector to the
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state Assembly race isn’t any bigger, in her view, than that of any of her opponents in the crowded race. That’s because from her youthful days organizing community forums for the Kettering Foundation at her alma mater, Indiana University, to her more recent legislative-advocacy duties for the Law Foundation, public policy has long been a topic of personal and professional interest. And the issues she’s dealt with — whether inequality, the environment or education — are so much bigger and more complex than what City Council members typically deal with, she said. “When we look at the issues we face in Sacramento that we don’t face on the City Council, like broad environmental policies, Vicki Veenker that to me says that California is more like a nation-state than many other states are. It’s so large and has so much leadership potential and has led so well on the environment, but there’s so much left to do.” Veenker considered running a decade ago but forewent the opportunity to pursue two others: helping to establish Women’s Professional Soccer (for which she served as general counsel) and serving on the board at the Law Foundation, which offers free legal services to low-income clients. Both were places where Veenker said she felt she could make a major impact. Now, she believes the time is ripe to bring her ideals and experiences to Sacramento. She raised $200,000 for the campaign in 2015 (trailing only Barry Chang and Marc Berman) and has picked up a host of endorsements in recent months, including from the California Nurses Association, the California Teachers Association, the Sunnyvale Democratic Club, state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson and Palo Alto Mayor Pat Burt. Veekner has been eschewing the “standard path” ever since she was an undergraduate at Indiana University, when she pursued degrees in both political science and biochemistry at a time when interdisciplinary studies was a rare concept. She went on to law school at Georgetown University and enjoyed stints at two major law firms: first Fish & Neave (which ultimately merged with Ropes & Gray) and later Sherman & Sterling before starting her own firm. In discussing the joys of patent law, she said it “hit my love of science and society.” “I really find it both a pleasure and a privilege to talk to the inventor and to have them tutor
me on the groundbreaking work they’ve done — to work with expert witnesses to compare and contrast my party’s product with the opposing party’s product and to look at the community impacts of inventions,” said Veenker, who in 2002 was named by California Law Business as one of the state’s top 20 lawyers under 40. Her list of clients included corporations, universities and Brian Kobilka, a Stanford physiologist who in 2012 won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Among her most memorable applications is one she began working on in 1985 and that was finally completed when the patent was issued in 1998. That application, jointly pursued by Stanford and Columbia universities, pertained to recombinant antibodies. Today, it is Stanford’s top royalty-generated patent, Veenker noted. What makes her particularly proud is the fact that those royalty dollars go back to the two universities to support more research, she said. Directing more money to schools is also something she hopes to do if elected to the Assembly. Specifically, she wants to see school districts that currently have fewer resources funded so that they can “level up” to those that are better off. She also would like to bring STEM education to all students in the Bay Area so that, no matter where they live, they would be viable candidates for Silicon Valley jobs. “Education needs to be a more even opportunity so that what public education you have access to doesn’t depend on where you live,” Veenker said. She also believes the state can do better when it comes to transportation planning and believes decisions about major investments should be done on a regional basis. The only way to get highways and roads to be less congested is to “promote mass transit in better ways,” she said. To that effect, she supports current efforts to modernize the Caltrain commuter rail line and to extend BART. But when it comes to highspeed rail, she likes that idea but finds many problems with the way the project is being rolled out. “I don’t support the version of high-speed rail that’s under way today,” Veenker said. “I Continued on next page
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hirsty for new recycledwater projects, Palo Alto, Mountain View and other Peninsula cities are rethinking old partnerships, exploring new technologies and considering new collaborations that would expand the existing “purple pipe” system into new areas. Few area cities are as enthusiastic about the potential of recycled water as Mountain View, which is one of the partner agencies in Palo Alto’s Regional Water Quality Treatment Plant. Mountain View already uses recycled water from Palo Alto to irrigate Shoreline Park and officials plan to extend its purple pipe system to areas near Moffett Field and the Sunnyvale border in the coming years. Palo Alto, which uses recycled water at the municipal golf course and Greer Park, is also eyeing its own expansion of the system, possibly to south Palo Alto and the Stanford Research Park. At the same time, the city and its partners are preparing to fund a study that would evaluate various ways to improve the quality of the recycled water by running it through an additional filtration process such as reverse osmosis or microfiltration. Both processes are already in use at the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, a water-treatment plant that opened in San Jose in 2014. In the northern part of county (and the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, which is also served by the Palo Alto plant), the cities are just beginning their march toward a purification system of Continued from previous page
think most people support the vision of high-speed rail that was originally put forward, but I don’t think the funding has been procured at a sufficient level yet.” At a February forum of the Assembly candidates, Veenker said she is running to fight for “progressive values” — excellent education, affordable housing, improved transportation, gun control, reforms to address campus sexual assault and economic issues like equal pay. She is proud of her efforts to promote equality, both in founding the soccer league (which folded in 2012, several years after she left, and was succeeded by the National Women’s Soccer
this sort, an effort that will be informed by a feasibility study that the city is now embarking on (the contract is scheduled to be awarded this summer). But while they are exploring a joint investment in water-treatment
Mountain View distributes about 4,000 gallons per day of recycled water to the area north of U.S. Highway 101 in the North Bayshore Area. improvements, each city is also pursuing its own specific goals. Mountain View, which is among the leaders in the field, expanded its recycled-water system to Shoreline Park in 2009. Today, the city distributes about 400,000 gallons per day of recycled water to the area north of U.S. Highway 101 in the North Bayshore Area, according to Gregg Hosfeldt, assistant director of public works. Hosfeldt also noted at the March 29 meeting of the Joint Recycled Water Advisory Committee (a new group that includes representatives from Palo Alto, Mountain View, East Palo Alto and the Santa Clara Valley Water District) that Mountain View now requires companies that are located in an area where recycled water is available to use that water for irrigation. Given the existing use and League) and in providing legal services for the underprivileged. “I believe we can work together to close the opportunity gap and solve the income inequality,” Veenker said at the forum. “Because if we want to have a brighter future for any, we have to have a brighter future for all.” —GS Staff Writers Gennady Sheyner of the Palo Alto Weekly, Mark Noack of the Mountain View Voice and Kate Bradshaw of The Almanac can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com, mnoack@mv-voice.com and kbradshaw@almanacnews.com. Published last week: Profiles of candidates Marc Berman, Jay Cabrera, Barry Chang and John Inks. Go to mv-voice.com to read their profiles. V
plans for expansion, Mountain View has requested an extension in the city’s agreement with Palo Alto, which was signed in 2005 and currently runs to 2035. The extension, which the Palo Alto City Council considered on Monday night, would stretch the expiration date until 2060. It will entitle Mountain View to 3 million gallons of recycled water per day, same as in the current agreement. While the two cities agree that recycled (and purified) water are the way of the future, current plans remain somewhat murky. During a long discussion Monday night, Palo Alto officials balked at approving the extension of its agreement with Mountain View and directed staff to take a fresh look at the contract. Specifically, council members wanted to make sure that the contract can accommodate a situation in which the partners pursue different visions for recycled water and disagree on the types of capital investments that need to be made at the plant. During the discussion, Palo Alto Vice Mayor Greg Scharff was the leading critic of the proposed extension as he pushed Public Works staff to provide reassurances that the new contract will not constrain Palo Alto’s options for future water projects. Scharff noted that by 2060, Palo Alto will likely move from recycled to purified water. The existing contract, however, states that Palo Alto and Mountain View shall work cooperaSee RECYCLED WATER, page 26
WATCH IT ONLINE A candidates forum hosted by the Peninsula Democratic Coalition and moderated by state Sen. Jerry Hill on Feb. 21 has been posted on YouTube. To watch it, go to https://youtu.be/jzgiYqGDSLk. At the time of the forum, the candidates included Marc Berman, Barry Chang, Vicki Veenker, Mike Kasperzak and Josh Becker, who has since dropped out of the race. They discuss their positions on a range of topics from high speed rail to early childhood education to legalization of marijuana.
READ MORE ONLINE For an interactive online presentation showing the candidates’ stances on top state issues, go to http://arcg. is/1RCk2fL.
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Palo Alto
Discover nature this summer at Explore! & Girls In Science summer day camps with the Environmental Volunteers in Palo Alto! Field trips, live animals, and hands-on science activities will bring nature alive to kids in grades 1-6. Register and learn more.
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PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to introduce two new camps to our lineup this year: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.) and PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.). Also included are returning favorites F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.
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EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high schoolers the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineProgramering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.
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J-Camp at the Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto
Adventure awaits at J-Camp! With options for grades K-12 that fit every schedule and interest, you can mix and match camps to meet your family’s needs. Are you looking for well-rounded camp sessions that focus on variety and building friendships? We’ve got you covered. Does your child have specific talents you’d like them to explore in depth? Send them our way. We’re looking forward to our best summer ever and want your family to be part of the experience!
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Atherton
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Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!
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Stanford Campus
Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs.
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Stanford
Students ages 7–17 can learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, engineer robots, model 3D characters, build websites, print 3D models, and more. Campers meet new friends, learn awesome STEM skills, and gain self-confidence.
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Palo Alto
At Palo Alto High School. Kids ages 6-9 can discover programming, game design, robotics, or graphic design. And with an emphasis on creativity, friendship, and exploration, every camper becomes a maker of fun. We’ve packed every halfday camp session with tons of tech awesomeness.
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Stanford
At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in programming, app development, electrical engineering, and robotics. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.
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At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in 3D modeling and printing, video game design, programming, and level design. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.
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New high-speed rail plan faces criticism ASSEMBLY MEMBERS, LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT FUNDING PLAN FOR SF TO BAKERSFIELD SEGMENT
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tively to cover the incremental costs to “encourage the use and recycled water,” a clause that may not be applicable decades from now, he said. The contract also doesn’t expressly state how Mountain View would cover the operational costs for the expanded recycled-water system. Scharff suggested that the extension may be premature. “My concern is that I haven’t heard how this agreement limits options in the future,” he said. “If we’re going to have a strategic plan, shouldn’t we sign this after we have the strategic plan? Shouldn’t we understand where the strategic plan is going to go?” The Palo Alto council voted 8-1, with Councilwoman Liz Kniss dissenting, to refer staff to further review the terms of the proposed extension and make sure it does not restrict Palo Alto’s future options. Kniss was in favor of approving the extension, but directed staff to make a few corrections and clarifications. While Kniss lamented the council’s delay in approving the agreement, Mayor Pat Burt argued that careful review is warranted because “the landscape is actually changing.” “The basis for the agreement back in 2005 was based upon recycled water, with really no envisioning of purified water on the horizon and the ramifications of all the things we’re going to be studying,” said Burt, who chairs the joint committee on recycled water. “What we need to make sure is that the agreements do not restrict us.” Despite their questions and caution, council members were generally in favor of continuing the long-standing partnership with Mountain View. Scharff said he would like to see the city attorney take a closer look at the existing agreements, which City Attorney Molly Stump called “more general and cooperative in tone ... and don’t necessarily address at a fine point all these various contingencies.” The council’s motion directed staff to make sure that the extension is consistent with the cities’ “base agreement” for water allocation and cost sharing. Burt said the council’s concern is that the new agreement “doesn’t restrict options in some legal way that we haven’t identified.” Scharff agreed, saying, “We don’t need a sword here. We just need a shield.” Email Gennady Sheyner at gsheyner@paweekly.com V
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Gray, D-Merced, expressed frustration about the rail authority’s recent shift away from Merced (which was the line’s northern bookend under the prior plan and which would be completely bypassed in the first segment of the new plan) and criticized the rail authority for not notifying the project’s proponents in the area about the change before the plan was released. “There was no heads up, no input, no notice of this significant change,” Gray said. Richard apologized for what he acknowledged to be inadequate communication but argued that the only thing that has changed when it comes to the project’s plans is the sequence. No part of the state, he said, will be left behind. “We’re not doing things in a way that would necessarily be optimal or that would be a logical sequence if we didn’t have those constraints,” Richard said. Committee Chair Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, also expressed frustration about the shift away from Merced, even as he touted the project’s potential to give the Central Valley a boost. He characterized the Merced situation as one in which “people were putting skin in the game and then there was a bait-and-switch.” The LAO also raised concerns about the new plan, noting that the southern terminus of the first segment “does not appear to be an effective approach because it would not have the necessary facilities to support train passengers.” On the Peninsula, where the project has been galvanizing significant opposition since 2009, local officials are also finding causes for concern. Last Wednesday, the Palo Alto City Council’s recently reconstituted Rail Committee authorized two of its members to work with city staff on a draft letter to the rail authority, expressing concerns about the project. Mayor Pat Burt, who sits on the committee and who is also a member of policymaker group that meets monthly to discuss the project, said the business plan raises a “bunch of questionable issues” about the project’s cost. He cited the fact that the plan relies on cap-and-trade funds that may never materialize and that it only accounts for the costs of stretching the line from Bakersfield to San Jose and not to San Francisco, the proposed northern terminus of the first segment. Committee Chair Marc Berman concurred and said that there are “a lot of arguments to make about the inadequacies of the plan, and the impacts it would have.” Email Gennady Sheyner at gsheyner@paweekly.com V
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Homework limits are a welcome move for high school district
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eaders in the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District are taking an important step in support of the wellbeing of students with the development of a policy limiting the amount of homework that can be assigned. The new rules, which are still being firmed up, are designed to reduce the stress and anxiety that many students experience in the highly competitive academic environment of the district’s two schools. The district has done its own homework in crafting the draft policy. It has worked with teachers and surveyed students and their parents to put together what the school community hopes will be the most effective strategies to help kids thrive — to free up their time more to develop interests off campus and enrich their relationships with family and friends. It’s a welcome step toward balance. Developing such strategies is no small task, given that students will have varying needs and capacities. And the question of finding the right balance between needed free time and adequate time to study can’t be answered by consulting a text book. But at the end of this months-long process, the district will have taken a major step toward easing a cruel burden on its students — a burden that has become typical in high-achievement school districts. A recent study by Stanford University education scholar Denise Pope called into question the benefits of excessive homework, described as more than two hours a night, for a student’s education. But while the benefits are up for debate, there’s not much room for question about the negative impacts on kids’ health and capacity to thrive during critical developmental years. The study, which surveyed students in 10 high-performing high schools in the state, found that too much homework diminished the teens’ ability to engage with family and friends, and to develop other life-skills through activities that were not school-related. It reported that 56 percent of those students said homework was the No. 1 cause of stress in their lives. And many students surveyed reported that homework was causing them sleepless nights and other health problems such as headaches and stomach ailments. In the local high school district, a 2013-14 California Healthy Kids survey found that 14 percent of Los Altos High School juniors, and 11 percent of kids at that grade level at Mountain View High School, said they had missed class during the prior 30 days because they felt hopeless, stressed, anxious or angry. Elements of the draft policy include restricting the number of homework hours to two to three per class per week (four to five hours for AP classes). Some sticking points needing to be worked out include how to monitor teachers’ adherence to the new policy and whether the district should rely on the ability of students to advocate for themselves when they are feeling unfairly burdened. Any new policy will have glitches to be fixed, but district leaders’ commitment to helping kids find more balance in their lives and reduce their burdensome level of stress is an encouraging development.
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DISAPPOINTED WITH CLOSURE OF ROTACARE I strongly agree with the guest opinion of Joan Brodovsky about El Camino Hospital and the RotaCare Free Medical Clinic. The hospital unilaterally decided to withdraw support from the clinic in December while over 200 volunteers were committed to the clinic, adequate staff was on hand, and 15 to 30 patients were getting lab tests each week. RotaCare Bay Area, Inc. actually provides the clinic license, insurance, and policy, but the El Camino Hospital management decided on clinic closure. The MayView Community Health Center is a fine organization that provides an important service to the community. But it is not a free clinic and there is no volunteer program operating there. The support of El Camino Hospital over the past 20 years has been very important to the RotaCare clinic with space, lab tests, and staff, but this sudden stoppage was a surprise and overreaction. It is true that the number of patients has gone down over the past year, but no known effort has been made to make contact with others in our county that could be using this service. The RotaCare Bay Area office indicated to me in December that they did not know of the El Camino Hospital action to close the busiest of the 12 Bay Area clinics. The five Rotary clubs that annually raise funds for the clinic apparently were not consulted. I am disappointed that the hospital management and board have given up on the free
clinic for the area while buying land to provide medical services outside the district. Management and the board should be interested in medical services to the residents of the hospital district at the lowest possible price rather than expanding into San Jose. Jim Cochran, Rotarian 20-year clinic volunteer Thaddeus Drive
NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC A SERIOUS PROBLEM I appreciated the lengthy guest opinion piece by Thida Cornes, who discussed a very serious problem in Mountain View. I finally was able to get some action, after years of pestering the city and the City Council, to slow things down on our street — Oak Street between Church and Mercy, where I would regularly see vehicles going far over the 25 mph speed limit, sometimes 40 to 50 mph. We now have speed-limit signs at both ends of the block with yellow signs attached urging drivers to “Slow Down.” It possible that these will have some effect, but I remain skeptical, considering the mindset of our locals, valuing every second of their time, and such modern innovations as smartphone apps that show the quickest way through a city, including cutting through sleepy residential areas. I would have preferred some other measures as I have advocated for years — for example, traffic speed surveys on all city streets, so the city would know where the problems are; pasContinued on next page
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sive calming measures everywhere, such as speed humps on all residential blocks; and other passive measures such as roundabouts, four-way stops everywhere, etc. We’ll see how serious the City Council really is about dealing with our traffic problems. Development in Mountain View continues at a rapid pace, and our police department certainly can’t keep up with it. David Lewis Oak Street
DON’T CREATE GRIDLOCK WITH BUS LANES I am a Boy Scout who is earning his communications merit badge. One of the requirements is that you express your opinion on a subject. I chose the proposed bus lanes on El Camino Real. I am opposed to removing two lanes of traffic from El Camino Real for dedicated bus lanes. I would like to share my experience of going to school in the mornings. I go to a school which is located in Campbell. I live in the neighborhood behind Huff Elementary School. I leave to go to school at 8 a.m.
In order to get out of my neighborhood to drive to school, my mom must first get onto Grant Road. At this time in the morning, you cannot get out onto Grant Road because the traffic is stopped on Grant Road. You might have to wait several minutes just to be able to turn onto Grant Road. I have been going to this school for years. We used to drive down Grant Road to El Camino to get onto Highway 85. But we have stopped driving this way. Sometimes, it can take more than 10 minutes to go from Cuesta to El Camino Real when on Grant Road. Now we go the opposite direction on Grant Road to get to onto Highway 85. It is not uncommon for traffic going toward El Camino on Grant Road to be backed up from El Camino to Bryant Avenue. If the dedicated bus lanes go through and remove two lanes of traffic from El Camino Real, I will probably see the traffic backed all the way up to the Foothill Expressway. Grant Road is becoming gridlocked in the morning. I would appreciate if this project didn’t go forward and completely gridlock Grant Road. Ryan Bahl Martens-Carmelita neighborhood
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aniel Frishberg may only be 12 years old, but he’s also an opinionated kid foodie, or “koodie,” with a budding palate and active food blog to prove it. The seventh-grader lives in Palo Alto with his parents and chronicles his adventures in gastronomy on a website called “Danny’s Restaurant Review” (dannysreview.com). A friend of his father’s helped him put the website together, but “the reviews are all mine,” Daniel said proudly in an interview. The reviews are short, accompanied by photographs of Daniel at each place, where he often meets the chef or manager to learn more about the behind-the-scenes secrets of running a restaurant. Continued on next page
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Daniel Frishberg, shown at age 4 at a pizzeria in Ukraine, is now a 12-year-old Palo Alto resident with his own restaurant review website.
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The spark to pursue food criticism was lit in fifth grade, Daniel said, when Marco Fossati, head chef of Quattro restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto, came to his elementary school to give a talk. Daniel ended up talking to Fossati and visiting Quattro shortly after to review the contemporary Italian restaurant, where he said he had a five-star pizza with the perfect amount of tomato sauce, light and crispy crust and fresh, sautĂŠed mushrooms. But Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for food started long before he met Fossati. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been interested in food. Ever since I can remember, I was in restaurants making pizza,â&#x20AC;? he said, pointing to a photograph of his 4-year-old self making a pizza at Pizzeria Napule in Kiev, Ukraine, where he lived from the age of 3 to 6. The photos, included in a 2008 online post, show a small boy, head dwarfed by an adultsized chef hat, kneading the dough, then supervising the cooking of his personal pizza. When Daniel reviews a restaurant, he said he scrutinizes four elements, including service to kids. Does the restaurant offer something other than crayons to color with? How does the wait staff treat younger patrons? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids should always be treated like adults,â&#x20AC;? Daniel said. He said he also considers lighting, food quality and quantity, and cleanliness. In a 2012 review of Le Petit Bistro on El Camino Real in Mountain View, Daniel declared the French restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food â&#x20AC;&#x153;excellent.â&#x20AC;? He recommends the escargot and French onion soup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be careful,â&#x20AC;? he warns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the escargot is hot and the French onion soup is hot too. Order for dessert the crème brĂ&#x203A;lĂŠe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is the best!â&#x20AC;? Photos accompanying the review show Daniel in the kitchen with the chef-owner, talking about imported snail shells and looking at cow tongue (which Daniel ate until he was 4, at which point he found out exactly what he was eating and stopped, he writes in a photo caption). A few miles north in Palo Alto, Daniel slurped down some Fanny Bay oysters at The Fish Market remarking in his review that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the oysters taste weird, but good.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oysters are so delicious â&#x20AC;Ś They are soft and slippery, but sometimes they have shells in them. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe
their taste. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. Photos show the Fish Market manager giving Daniel a tour of the back end of the restaurant, from where dishes are cleaned and dried to a food storage room to the dumpster outside â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most important parts of the restaurant cycle,â&#x20AC;? Daniel wrote. Daniel has featured several non-local restaurants on his website: Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Auberge Del Mar in San Diego (five stars); Sardinia Ristorante in Miami, Florida (four stars); Limoncello in Aventura, Florida (four and a half stars), among others. His assessments are quite serious, which is very funny to watch said his father Alex Frishberg, adding that Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x153;is usually right on all points and never disguises the truth with diplomacy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy taking Danny to restaurants not just because we explore new cuisines, but mostly because we spend quality time together and talk about everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important, including the food, the waiters (where they come from) and life in general,â&#x20AC;? Frishberg said. Like most 12-year-olds, Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite food is pizza. But he also has an appetite for dishes not usually considered kid-friendly fare: He dined on escargot prepared with spinach and basil at Le Petit Bistro, sea urchin at Ebisu in San Francisco and foie gras (goose liver) at Loulay Kitchen & Bar in Seattle. The weirdest foods heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tasted include alligator, which he said â&#x20AC;&#x153;tastes like a mixture between
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Daniel Frishberg gets a hands-on lesson in cooking mussels from chef Pietro Mure at Limoncello restaurant in Florida.
pork and beef and a bit of chicken,â&#x20AC;? wild boar and roasted pigeon at a popular Shanghai eatery that was reviewed by The New York Times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a traditional Chinese restaurant. It was almost literally a hole in the wall. It was that small. It was the first time I got to sit at a table with three different families,â&#x20AC;? he said of the experience. Photos of Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food adventures are posted on his website as well as in a published book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WorldFamous Recipes,â&#x20AC;? available on Amazon. The book features Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite recipes, including pistachio-stuffed
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Weekend leg of lamb, Salisbury steak, chocolate lava cake and apple streusel. The culinary journey, Frishberg said, has changed his son in a “very predictable way.” “He wants to eat delicious food only, no matter whether it’s prepared at home or at a restaurant,” Frishberg said. “And then, of course, he writes about the experience with vivid descriptions — and humor — in a way that only a kid can,” Frishberg said. Daniel has only reviewed a handful of restaurants, but there are plenty to explore throughout the Midpeninsula. The next establishment he wants to write about? Vesta, a contemporary Italian restaurant in Redwood City known for its wood-fired pizzas and small plates. “They have very good burrata — grilled pears with fresh burrata cheese. They also have delicious pizza. It’s one of my favorite restaurants,” Daniel said. As for the food scene in Palo Alto, Daniel praises its diversity: “There’s not just one type of food. There’s pizza, hamburgers and foie gras. There’s lots of different types of cultures and cuisines.”
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Q MOVIETIMES It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.
April fool
10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) + Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 4:35 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 5:05 p.m. Sat. 2:20 p.m.
JAKE PLAYS A JERK IN ‘DEMOLITION’ 1/2 (Aquarius, Palo Alto Square, Century 20) The hero of the new dramedy, “Demolition,” at one point muses, “For some reason, everything’s becoming a metaphor.” Boy, you can say that again. The clodhopping symbolism of Bryan Sipe’s laughably by-thetextbook script spells the kind of film that casual moviegoers may love but will make literaryminded cineastes want to claw their eyes out. “Demolition” asks us to expend endless pity on a Rich Straight White Guy, an incredible a-hole who apparently didn’t love his recently deceased wife — didn’t even like her — in fact hates her — and then realizes he loved her at least a little. The End. By laying out his story in this way, Sipe (“The Choice”) squanders any sympathy too early and recovers too little too late. Director Jean-Marc Vallée can’t do much to salvage the material, though “Demolition” at least can claim some smart editing (the category in which he got an Oscar nomination for “Dallas Buyers Club”). The Rich Straight White Guy in question is investment banker Davis C. Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), who works for his fatherin-law, Phil (Chris Cooper), and thus is primed for supreme awkwardness in the wake of his wife Julia’s death. Sipe stocks up his self-consciously script-y narrative with cheap pop psychology and absurd only-in-the-movies
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In “I Saw the Light,” Marc Abraham takes the “Hank Williams: The Biography” turns it into a frustratingly inert, rote musical biopic. Starring Tom Hiddleston as Williams, the film begins by laying out the basics of the singer-songwriter’s life, starting with his marriage at age 21 to Audrey Sheppard (Elizabeth Olsen). The
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: 11:10 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 3:50, 6:10, 7:30, 9:55 & 10:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:45 p.m. In 3-D at 10 a.m., 1:30, 5:10 & 8:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 1:20, 3:35, 4:45, 7, 8:15 & 10:20 p.m. In 3-D at 11 a.m., 2:25, 5:50 & 9:15 p.m. In DBOX at 11 a.m., 2:25, 5:50 & 9:15 p.m. Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote (PG)
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Jake Gyllenhaal plays a widower in crisis in “Demolition.”
behavior. This is the kind of movie in which a leaking refrigerator the protagonist hadn’t taken care of for his wife prompts him to begin literally disassembling everything around him (the fridge, the bathroom stall at work) because — shocker! — he needs to deconstruct his own life to understand how to put it back together again. This is the kind of movie in which the protagonist has a vending-machine fail minutes after his wife dies and so begins a therapeutic customer-service correspondence which in turn leads to romance with the customer-service rep (Naomi Watts’ Karen) and a surrogate fatherhood to this single mom’s son (Judah Lewis’ Chris). This is the kind of movie in which the protagonist has an emotional moment on a train and pulls the emergency brake, later explaining to authorities, “All I can say is it felt like a legitimate emergency.” This is the kind of movie in which the newly widowed promarriage is quickly made testy by Williams’ alcoholism, wandering eye, and insufficient interest in promoting Audrey’s mediocre singing. Aside from depicting Williams as a man-child who wants a toy then loses interest once he gets it, Abraham can’t seem to figure out what’s interesting about his subject. As a result, the film amounts to a string of recreated Williams songs (“Hey, Good Lookin’,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart”) badly spackled to each other with the usual complement of joy and pain. Hiddleston does a commendable job at the mic, but he doesn’t capture the distinctive reediness in Williams’ southern-fried tenor. Rated R for some language and brief sexuality/nudity. Two hours, 3 minutes. — P.C.
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Tom Hiddleston stars as musician Hank Williams in the biopic “I Saw the Light.”
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The Boss (R) Century 16: 10 & 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 12:10, 1:35, 2:45, 5:20, 7:15, 8, 9:50 & 10:40 p.m. In XD at 10:55 a.m., 7 p.m.
“Marguerite” recasts the infamous American true story of Florence Foster Jenkins as a fictionalized French one, centering on an epically bad opera singer named Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot). The middle-aged Dumont comes across as a comic figure: a woman so insulated by her wealth and privilege that she has lost touch with reality and how others perceive her. Even her husband
tagonist explains his loss thusly: “Massive head trauma. Car accident. Pass the salt.” This is the kind of movie in which the protagonist steps onto a nail, prompting screams that turn into laughs with joy because he can finally feel something again. This is the kind of movie that could be fairly described as both terminally cute and insufferable grief porn. Due to Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto’s wins for “Dallas Buyers Club” and Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern’s nominations for “Wild,” Vallée has gotten a reputation for directing actors to Oscars, or at least a shot at them. But the just-plain-awful “Demolition” doesn’t do poor Jake Gyllenhaal any favors. Sorry, kid, no Oscar for you this year. Better luck next time. Rated R for language, some sexual references, drug use and disturbing behavior. One hour, 40 minutes. — Peter Canavese
Deadpool (R) +++ Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Demolition (R) 1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 5:15, 7:35 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:25 & 10 p.m. The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) Century 16: 1:25 & 7:30 p.m. Century 20: 6:55 & 10:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:50 & 4 p.m. Everybody Wants Some (R) Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:40 p.m. Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m. God’s Not Dead 2 (PG) Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m. Hardcore Henry (R) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8 & 10:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:30, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. In XD at 1:30, 4:05 & 9:30 p.m. In DBOX at 11:35 a.m., 2:30, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 9:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:25, 4:50 & 7:20 p.m. Sun. 2:20 & 7:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:40 p.m. I Saw the Light (R) +1/2 Guild Theatre: 4:15 & 9:30 p.m. Ki and Ka (Not Rated) Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 2:35, 6:30 & 10:10 p.m. The Lady in the Van (PG-13) +++ Guild Theatre: 1:45 & 7 p.m. The Lady Vanishes (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:50 p.m. London Has Fallen (R)
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Marguerite (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Meet the Blacks (R) Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 5:15, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:40 p.m. Midnight Special (PG-13) Century 16: 10:05 & 11:25 a.m., 12:50, 2:15, 3:35, 5:05, 6:20, 7:50, 9:05 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Miracles from Heaven (PG) Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) +1/2 Century 16: 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 2, 4:30, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m. Strangers on a Train (1951) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:35 & 9:15 p.m.
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Catherine Frot stars as an out-of-key opera singer in “Marguerite.”
(Andre Marcon) admits, “She’s sort of a freak,” and carries on an affair behind her back; but he cannot bear to hurt her, preferring to lie in every waking moment. It remains unclear just how clueless Dumont is, but her regal opacity regarding her lack of singing ability proves good for many a laugh. Why is Marguerite so funny to us, and why is her public humiliation allowed to continue for so long? The answers plumb both the best and worst of human nature and give Xavier Giannoli’s film a strong heartbeat. Rated R for brief graphic nudity and sexual content, and a scene of drug use. Two hours, 9 minutes. — P.C.
Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:10 & 11:05 a.m., 1, 2:05, 3:55, 5, 7, 7:50, 9:50 & 10:40 p.m. Sun. 10:40 a.m., 5:55 & 8:55 p.m. In 3-D Fri. & Sat. noon, 2:55, 5:55 & 8:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:25, 1:50, 3:10, 4:35, 6, 7:15, 8:40 & 10 p.m. AQUARIUS: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) CENTURY CINEMA 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) CENTURY 20 DOWNTOWN: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CINEARTS AT PALO ALTO SQUARE: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) STANFORD THEATRE: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) For show times, plot synopses and more information about any films playing at the Aquarius, visit www.LandmarkTheatres.com 0 Skip it 00 Some redeeming qualities 000 A good bet 0000 Outstanding
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Q HIGHLIGHT ‘THE BEARD OF AVON’ Pear Theatre will continue its season with “The Beard of Avon” by Amy Freed, a sharp farcical treatment of the Oxfordian theory regarding the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. The April 8 performance will be the opening gala. April 7-24, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. 8-10:30 p.m. $30 general; $25 student; $35 opening gala; $10 preview. Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. Call 650-254-1148. www.thepear.org
ART GALLERIES ‘Places I Love’ During the month of April, plein air pastelist Teresa Ruzzo brings a show to Viewpoints Gallery called “Places I Love- Real and Imagined,” which includes new landscapes and skyscapes painted around the bay and in the studio. March 29-April 30, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. www. viewpointsgallery.com ‘Rooms and Blooms’ Gallery 9 in Los Altos presents “Rooms and Blooms,” a show of paintings by Jan Meyer in which she — taking inspiration from memories of New England and California — plays with pattern, shape and color while capturing interiors. March 29-May 1, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. Call 650-961-4218. gallery9losaltos.com
BENEFITS/FUNDRAISERS Oral Cancer Awareness Walk Foothill College will host its fifth annual Oral Cancer Awareness Walk on the rubberized track at the campus stadium. Walkers of all ages and abilities are invited to participate. Proceeds will benefit the prevention and education advocacy of the Oral Cancer Foundation. April 9, 9 a.m.-noon. $25 adult; $15 student; $10 child age 6-10. Foothill College, Stadium Track, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-949-7335. foothill.edu Palo Alto AAUW Authors’ Luncheon The Association of American University Women, Palo Alto Branch, will hold its seventh annual authors’ luncheon, this year called “New Beginnings.” Authors NoViolet Bulawayo, M.P. Cooley, Elizabeth Rosner and Azadeh Tabazadeh will share their stories over lunch, and there will be an opportunity to purchase their books, courtesy of Books Inc. Visit the website for registration info. April 9, noon-2 p.m. $40 ($20 goes toward Tech Trek). Michaels at Shoreline, 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Call 650-380-3617. aauwpaloalto.org Style ‘16 An exclusive two-day show, sale and benefit, the discerning independent fashion event Style ‘16 will present jewelry, textile and accessory designs from more than 50 nationally and internationally recognized artists. The event will support the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Cancer Survivorship Programs. April 9 and 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 online, at the door. Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 701 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View. www.style.lucentestudio.com
CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Art therapy workshop At this event designed for those who have experienced trauma in their lives, the Center for Survivors of Torture will present a relaxing afternoon of art therapy that will teach participants about mental health. All adults are welcome. April 14, 1-3 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6882. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar Blossoming Branches: Recycled Paper Art This activity celebrating spring will guide participants in creating blossoming tree branches out of a branch, bendable wire and pages from an old book. April 19, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar Drop-In Bike Clinic Professional bike mechanic Ryan Murphy will be available to assist community members with bike repairs and problems, including changing a tire, adjusting shifting and breaks, identifying mysterious noises and more. Attendees can use the library’s tools. All ages are welcome. Third Saturday of the month, March 19-July 16, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, Dero Fixit station, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6882. mountainview.gov/ librarycalendar Education for Life Workshop Nitai Deranja, co-founder of Education for Life, will share techniques that parents and educators can use to help children and teens cultivate positive,
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life-affirming values, including courage, calmness and integrity. April 10, 2-5 p.m. $35 early registration; $45 day of. East West Bookshop, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-988-9800. edforlife.org linkAges Timebank Orientation linkAges TimeBank will hold an orientation for its neighborhood service-exchange network, through which community members can be matched with the skills, talents and needs of others who live nearby. The network is designed for those who want to become more involved in their communities. April 19, 1-2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6882. timebank. linkages.org Sustainable Landscaping This Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency class taught by Frank Niccoli will instruct participants in how to create a sustainable, low-maintenance and waterconserving garden. It will review the Bay Area’s water cycle, how to reduce lawn water needs through strategic maintenance practices and the use of drought-tolerant plants — which reduce water and garden waste and upkeep effort. April 21, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, Community Room, 585 Franklin Ave., Mountain View. www.bawsca.org/classes
pioneer Alan Lomax. Stone’s concerts honor the role of the banjo in the world’s music. Ticket discounts are available for seniors and students. April 16, 7:30-10 p.m. $22 in advance; $25 at the door; free for ages under 13 and music students. Mountain View Masonic Lodge, 890 Church St., Mountain View. Call 650-691-9982. www.rba. org/index.html Teal Crane Trio Chin-Fei Chan, Jim Kassis and Daniel Wood, faculty members from the Community School of Music and Arts, will be joined by local dancers in this concert highlighting the Latin dance rhythms of salsa, tango, samba, rumba and cha-cha. Seating is limited to 200; attendees should plan to arrive early. The doors will open at 7 p.m. April 9, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Tateuchi Hall, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. www.arts4all.org/attend/concerts.htm
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Sunday Assembly: Andra Kaey on robotics Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley will hold its inaugural event in Mountain View, which will feature a talk entitled “Out of the Lab, and Into Our Lives” by guest speaker Andra Kaey from Silicon Valley Robotics. The event will also offer secular community, a live band and cookies. A potluck picnic will follow, weather permitting. April 10, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Mountain View Masonic Lodge, 890 Church St., Mountain View. Call 408-205-0375. sundayassemblysv.org
‘Artful Shoes’ Corinne Friedman shares her imaginative shoe designs — collage shoes that integrate items including feathers, ribbons, watch parts, glass shards and other found objects — in “Artful Shoes.” On April 10, 2-4 p.m., the artist will talk about her work and book during a reception. March 14-April 14, center hours. Free. Goldman Sports & Wellness Complex, Lobby, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc.org ‘Tokyo Jazz Joints’ The Krause Center for Innovation Gallery is hosting a photography exhibit by Philip Arneill and James Catchpole entitled “Tokyo Jazz Joints,” which attempts to preserve the beauty of these hidden, timeless places. March 29-May 7, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; $3 parking. Foothill College, Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Building 4000, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. krauseinnovationcenter.org/about/gallery/
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Art Worlds: Ala Ebtekar The Community School of Music and Arts will hold one of its events celebrating art and music from around the globe, this time focusing on the work of Bay Area artist Ala Ebtekar. Ebtekar will speak at 6:30 p.m., and there will be a performance by Persian musicians at 7 p.m. Wine and Persian cuisine will then be served. April 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Call 650-9176800. www.arts4all.org/attend/artworlds.htm Plant Exchange The Mountain View Public Library will hold its its fourth annual Plant Exchange, where local residents can trade excess plants for other plants that neighbors bring with them. All plant types are welcome. April 16, noon2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6882. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar
Wild Cat Adventure Wild Cat Adventure will feature five live wild cats from around the world on stage, as well as information about each species. Cat types that may be included in the program are cheetah, cougar, black leopard, ocelot, fishing cat and Geoffroy’s cat. April 10, 2-3 p.m. $10 adult; $5 child under age 12. Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Call 707-874-3176. www.wildcatfund.org
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CONCERTS ‘Nonstop to Brazil!’ Ed Johnson and the Novo Tempo Sextet will give a performance of original contemporary jazz with a Brazilian and Latin feel and a focus on vocal harmony and horn arrangements. Admission includes the concert and lunch. April 19, noon-1:30 p.m. $20 or two punches on Community Tuesdays card. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org Gryphons Wild with “Stories in Song’ Created by music educators Sally Terris and Anita Baldwin, Gryphons Wild will present a program called “Stories in Song: Monsters, Maidens and Madrigals” — an original family program blending stories, instrumental music, costumes and props. Those interested should plan to arrive early; seating is limited to 200. The doors open at 1:30 p.m. April 17, 2-3 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Tateuchi Hall, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. www.arts4all. org/attend/concerts.htm Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project Jayme Stone, two-time Juno winner (Canada’s Grammy), and his Lomax Project will offer a concert focusing on songs collected by folklorist and recording
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FILM ‘Don’t Tell Anyone’ free screening Foothill College will screen “Don’t Tell Anyone” (“No Le Digas a Nadie”), a 75-minute documentary that chronicles the journeys of undocumented students. There will also be a panel discussion featuring the film’s star, Angy Rivera. Admission is free, but RSVP is requested. April 13, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Foothill College, Smithwick Theatre, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-949-7463. foothill.edu
HEALTH Hatha Yoga Thursday Evenings Led by Patricia Joy Becker, these classes focus on proper alignment to balance the body. Each session offers a new sequence of poses that stretch and strengthen different body areas. Breathing practices and short meditations are often included. See website for pricing. Thursdays, ongoing, 7:15-8:30 p.m. $10 new student. Yoga is Youthfulness, 590 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-285-1867. yourhealthandjoy.com
ON STAGE ‘Catch-22’ Los Altos Stage Company will produce “Catch-22,” a play adapted by Joseph Heller, based on his classic novel, that is at once intellectual and comedic, with flashes of awful realism. There will be no show on April 13. April 7-May 1, Wednesday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. $18-$36. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. www.losaltosstage.org ‘Cyrano’ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will bring to the stage a modern and good-humored take on a classic tale, involving unrequited passion
and a love triangle, with “Cyrano.” The April 8 performance will be a preview. There will be no show on April 26. See website for specific times and ticket prices. April 6-May 1. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.theatreworks.org/ shows/1516-season/cyrano/ ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ Kehillah Jewish High School will put on three performances of “Urinetown: The Musical,” a send-up of greed, love and revolution set in a city where a drought has led to a ban on private toilets. April 13 and 14, 7:30 p.m.; April 17, 12:30 p.m. $15. Kehillah Jewish High School, Black Box Theater, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Call 650-213-9600. 3900urinetown.eventbrite.com Comedians @ Red Rock Bay Area comic Kevin Wong will host another edition of Comedians @ Red Rock, featuring performers who have appeared all around the Bay Area at places including the Punch Line, Cobb’s, San Jose Improv and Tommy T’s. April 9, 8-10 p.m. Free. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View. kevinwongcomedy.com/red-rock/
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Community Passover Celebration During this Oshman Family JCC event, community members can learn about Passover and experience history through activities, food and performance. There will be food available for purchase. April 17, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Oshman Family JCC campus, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org
SENIORS ‘Are You Good to Go?’ Jen Harris from the Bay Area Funeral Consumers Association will give an impartial and informative overview of options for funeral planning. She will touch on pre-paying versus pre-planning, federal and state protection for consumers, and more. April 14, 1 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/seniors CSA Referral: Education/Employment Senior case managers from the Community Services Agency will share resources on adult education classes, employment and volunteer opportunities, and employment discrimination. Those interested should call or visit the Mountain View Senior Center front desk to make a 10-minute appointment. April 19, 10-11 a.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330. mountainview.gov/seniors Diabetes Self-management: A Health Trust Workshop The Health Trust will offer a special six-week workshop on diabetes management. The program will be valuable for anyone living with or caring for someone with diabetes. Space is limited, and registration is required. Mondays, March 28-May 2, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330. mountainview.gov/seniors Physical Activity is the Key to Living Well Somayeh from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department will lead a workshop highlighting the benefits of physical activity and looking at how to develop and maintain a successful fitness plan. Prizes and incentives will be offered. April 19, 1-2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330. mountainview.gov/ seniors SVILC Housing Search This two-hour workshop will provide an overview of the services the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center provides to the cross-disability community in Santa Clara County. It will focus on how the center can assist in finding and securing integrated, affordable and accessible housing. April 14, 1:303:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-9036330. mountainview.gov/seniors Yoga for Seniors Certified instructor Lauren Palladino will teach a weekly yoga class specifically for seniors, focusing on gentle movements to improve strength and mobility
through standing or seated yoga poses. All levels of health and fitness are welcome. Tuesdays, April 5-May 31, 1-2 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Call 650-948-7683. www.sccl.org/losaltos
SINGLES Lady in Red Singles Party Bay Area bachelors will have a chance to meet special ladies in red at this dance party featuring favorite hits. Adults of all ages are welcome. Dressy attire is requested. April 16, 8:30 p.m.-midnight. $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Hilton Garden Inn, 840 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View. Call 415-5079962. www.thepartyhotline.com
SPORTS Silicon Valley Basketball Silicon Valley Basketball holds regular weekly pickup games at Castro Park in Mountain View, where there are typically over 20 players and multiple games going at once. Visit the website for more info. Sundays, year-round, 10 a.m. $1.50 monthly dues. Castro Park, Toft Avenue and Latham Street, Mountain View. www.meetup.com/Silicon-ValleyBasketball/
LECTURES & TALKS ‘Eagles of Haines, Alaska’ Joan Sparks, who was invited to photograph bald eagles with a team of National Geographic photographers, will share images of the winter Alaskan landscape and knowledge about the American icon in its natural habitat. April 12, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www.sccl.org Barry Chang on head count tax proposal Barry Chang, mayor of Cupertino, will describe his proposal for a big business head count tax and the response from Apple, comment on its chances of being passed by the council, and lead a discussion on the possibility of similar taxes being levied in other transit-impacted cities. The event is part of the Technology and Society Committee Luncheon Forum series. April 12, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. $12 lunch. Hangen Szechuan Restaurant, 134 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-969-7215. tian.greens.org/TASC.shtml Dr. Denise Pope on ‘Overloaded and Underprepared:’ Dr. Denise Pope, an educator and author of “Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,” will discuss ideas from her book at this event moderated by Zack Bodner, Oshman Family JCC CEO. April 19, 7:30-9 p.m. $20 general; $15 member, J-Pass holder. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. www.paloaltojcc.org Greg Edwards on ‘Space Travel Economic’ During the next monthly meeting of the Peninsula Astronomical Society, Greg Edwards will speak on the topic of “Space Travel Economics.” The Foothill Observatory will be open after the meeting 9-11 p.m., weather permitting. Attendees should park in lot 6. April 8, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; $3 parking. Foothill College, Room 5015, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. www.pastro.org/dnn/ Photographer Carrie Zeidman on ‘Ghosts: Images of War’ Carrie Zeidman, a graphic artist and photographer, will share her book “Ghosts: Images of War,” in which she combines authentic images from the Holocaust with photographs from her own modern-day travels to Poland. April 20, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. www. booksinc.net/event/carrie-zeidman-books-incmountain-view
VOLUNTEERS Peninsula Food Runners volunteering Peninsula Food Runners is seeking volunteers to help its mission of reducing food waste and food insecurities on the Peninsula. The organization offers flexible volunteering opportunities. Visit the website for more info. Ongoing. Free. San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Call 415-826-6903. www.peninsulafoodrunners.org
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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement THE PHOENIX CAFE & JUICE BAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614118 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Phoenix Cafe & Juice Bar, located at 650 Castro Street #130, Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JAWAD ESSADKI 650 Castro St. #130 Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 18, 2016. (MVV Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) BAILEY BEAUTY SALON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614523 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bailey Beauty Salon, located at 570 N. Shoreline Blvd. #C, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MY KHANH LE 2135 Little Orchard St. #55 San Jose, CA 95125 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02-29-16. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 29, 2016. (MVV Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) SHORELINE ORAL FACIAL SURGERY AND DENTAL IMPLANTS SHORELINE ORAL SURGERY CUESTA PARK ORAL SURGERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615403 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Shoreline Oral Facial Surgery and Dental Implants, 2.) Shoreline Oral Surgery, 3.) Cuesta Park Oral Surgery, located at 505 South Drive, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ABHISHEK MOGRE DMD INC. 202 W. Fauna Ave. Mountain House, CA 95391 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/1/16. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 22, 2016. (MVV Apr. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) LEAN AT LAST MD FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615020 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lean at Last MD, located at 515 South Drive, Suite 12, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LEAN AT LAST MD 515 South Drive, Suite 12 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s)
listed above on 02/01/2016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 10, 2016. (MVV Apr. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) AMIGOS TOURS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615700 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amigos Tours, located at 2005 California St., #23, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PATRICIA LAWLER 2005 California St., #23 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 29, 2016. (MVV Apr. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) WELL AT WORK FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615634 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Well at Work, located at 777 W. Middlefield Rd. 159, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SARA M ESTEVEZ CORES 777 W. Middlefield Rd. 159 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 28, 2016. (MVV Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) MTP CONSULTING, LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615628 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MTP Consulting, LLC, located at 38 Devonshire Ave. #5, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MTP CONSULTING, LLC 38 Devonshire Ave. #5 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 28, 2016. (MVV Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016)
997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EDSON G. KERSWILL Case No.: 116-PR 178508 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EDSON G. KERSWILL, EDSON GREGORY KERSWILL. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BETTY JO KERSWILL in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: BETTY JO KERSWILL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court
approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 23, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: 2124 Coon Hollow Ct. Placerville, CA 95667 (530)334-3698 (MVV Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV293312 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DANIELLE BELLUOMINI YORK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: DANIELLE CHRISTINE BELLUOMINI YORK to DANIELLE CHRISTINE BELLUOMINI YORK. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: May 17, 2016, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE Date: March 29, 2016 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (MVV Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) FILING YOUR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT? We Offer Professional Help. THE MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE â&#x20AC;˘ 223-6578.
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MENLO PARK Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $6,550,000 1 Garland Pl 6 BR 6 full + 2 half BA New Construction in prime West MP. Beaut tree lined street. 3 lvl, 5752sqft on 1/4acre lot Shawnna Sullivan CalBRE #00856563 650.325.6161
LOS ALTOS $3,998,000 4 BR 2.5 BA Wonderful home w/an expansive floor plan is on a quiet lane behind the Los Altos library Terri Couture CalBRE #01090940 650.941.7040
PALO ALTO Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,995,000 2020 Webster St 4 BR 3 BA Character and charm. French style home with oak floors, curved staircase, wisteria arbor Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161
ATHERTON Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,498,000 35 Selby Lane 5 BR 3 BA Outstanding opportunity in West Atherton to remodel/expand or build your dream home. Dan Ziony CalBRE #01380339 650.325.6161
LOS ALTOS $3,295,000 4 BR 2.5 BA Ideal paradise southwestern exposure backyd w/views forever. Wonderful flr plan; hdwd flrs Terri Couture CalBRE #01090940 650.941.7040
PALO ALTO Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,750,000 606 Chimalus Dr 4 BR 3 BA Elegant top condition family home, light and bright, Palo Alto Schools Alexandra von der Groeben CalBRE #00857515 650.325.6161
PALO ALTO Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,098,000 4152 Baker Ave 3 BR 1.5 BA Build your dream home 7749 sf lot maximum floor area of 3,075 sf plus possible basement Dorothy Gurwith CalBRE #01248679 650.325.6161
MENLO PARK Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,598,000 2131 Avy Ave 3 BR 2.5 BA Rare stunning Menlo Heights End Unit townhouse w/attached 2car garage! Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161
SAN JOSE (CENTRAL) $1,490,000 4 BR 2 BA Elegant home, approx.2108sf, modern amenities, semifinished basement, 2-car gar, lrg lot. Susanne Bohl CalBRE #01430611 650.941.7040
EAST PALO ALTO Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,487,888 740 Schembri Ln 740A 5 BR 3 BA Large lot 10k sf plus, remodeled units! 2 homes with separate meters, fully permitted! Shawnna Sullivan CalBRE #00856563 650.325.6161
CUPERTINO Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,449,000 22475 Rancho Deep Cliff Dr 2 BR 2 BA Enjoy the privacy and convenience of living in this much sought-after gated community. Helen Kuckens CalBRE #00992533 650.941.7040
LOS ALTOS Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,350,000 1 W. Edith Ave D123 2 BR 2 BA Gorgeous 55+ gated community in the heart of LA; spac kit w/granite counters & brkfast bar Jo Buchanan & Stuart Bowen CalBRE #00468827, 01412745 650.941.7040
SUNNYVALE $998,000 3 BR 2 BA Wonderful home in a Cul de Sac. Has a brand new kitchen with stainless steel appliances Stella Rosh CalBRE #01227992 650.941.7040
MOUNTAIN VIEW Sat/Sun 12:30 - 4:30 $488,000 255 S. Rengstorff Ave 60 1 BR 1 BA Upstairs condo with private & bright corner location Kim Copher CalBRE #01423875 650.941.7040
SUNNYVALE Sat/Sun 1 - 4 Price Upon Requist 788 Grape Ave 5 BR 3 BA Gorgeous Cherry Chase home has been tastefully expanded & remod w/gourmet chef ’s & more! Diyar Essaid CalBRE #01335648 650.941.7040
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