FROM S.F. TO CHINA’S OLYMPIC MEGASTAR

By Julia Prodis Sulek jsulek@bayareanewsgroup.com

In Beijing, Eileen Gu is called the Snow Princess. Her fresh face and highlighted tresses grace billboards and glossy ads for Louis Vuitton and Ti any. Her gold medal performance in the Winter Olympics women’s big air freestyle ski event crashed the Chinese social media site Weibo, when more than 300 million people swooned over the teenager’s historic achievement.

But her 85-year-old Chi - nese grandmother, waiting and watching from the home they share in San Francisco, doesn’t get all the fuss.

“I’m not used to all this nonsense of making a big deal about success,” Gu’s grandmother, Feng Guozhen, said in an exclusive interview this week with the Bay Area News Group.

Perhaps the attitude of this spry grandmother helps keep the 18-year-old sudden megastar and daredevil grounded as she becomes the unforgettable face of the Beijing Winter

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Valley Fair parking fee sparks backlash

Mall employees deliver petition to West eld protesting new policy

By Grace Hase ghase@bayareanewsgroup.com

Those days of leisurely strolling the mall, window shopping without thinking about what you’ll spend — other than what strikes your fancy — have passed. At least at San Jose’s Westfield Valley Fair.

Shoppers who poured into the mall this week discovered they had to open their wallets after a couple of hours to keep their cars parked in the lots without getting a ticket.

And they weren’t too happy about that, nor are the store employees who have to fork over $40 a month to park next to their work.

“I don’t like it the way it is right now,” said Santa Clara resident Kiran Desai, who was shopping at the mall Wednesday. “We come here because of the ease and con-

MAY 2020 IN OAKLAND

Ex-Air Force sergeant pleads guilty in slaying of federal o cer

By Nate Gartrell ngartrell@bayareanewsgroup.com

SAN FRANCISCO » Steven Carrillo, the ex-Air Force sergeant who joined an anti-government militia and began plotting murderous attacks against law enforcement, has pleaded guilty to killing Federal Protective Services Officer Pat Underwood in a May 2020 driveby shooting. Carrillo, 33, appeared Friday before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who took the unusual step of requiring Carrillo to read his own plea agreement into the record. The order essentially forced him to publicly admit not just to murdering Underwood but to aligning with anti-government groups, plot -

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