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TOWN WANTS FEEDBACK ON SENIOR PROGRAMS

EV adoption rate strong in Los Gatos

As deadline nears, committee encourages older residents to take online survey

Staff Report

California’s average price for a gallon of gasoline is the highest in the United States, with Santa Clara County among the most expensive in the state, according to the Automobile Association of America.

As of March 8, the average price for regular gas in California was $5.44 per gallon, the highest ever recorded, according to AAA, with Santa Clara County exceeding that at $5.47.

Prices in Los Gatos have kept pace with the rest of the county, with prices ranging from $5.19$5.90 for regular and well over $6 for premium, according to GasBuddy.com, which tracks prices in real-time. ➝ Gas Prices, 6

Judy Peterson, Reporter

The town is looking to revitalize senior programs, which is why the Los Gatos Senior Services Committee is conducting a survey that asks residents who are over 60 what types of programs should be offered in town.

“We lost a lot of senior services when Covid hit and we discovered we weren’t investing in our seniors,” Mayor Rob Rennie said. “Basically, our senior program was decimated

by Covid.”

Many senior services are offered through LGS Recreation’s 55 Plus Program but the rec department lost much of its income stream during the pandemic, Rennie said.

Another program, the Live Oak Senior Nutrition Center’s lunch program, proved vital to low income seniors during the pandemic, with the center serving roughly 100 meals per day to seniors.

Question is: what else is needed? And what do people want? ➝ Feedback, 6

GAS PRICES HIT RECORD HIGHS AS OIL DEMAND GROWS

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March 10 marks the founding of the Los Gatos Weekly, 40 years ago The needle on my dashboard’s voltmeter gauge dropped suddenly like tossed rock, and the VW shook to a halt on the upper deck of old Cypress freeway, the one that would collapse eight years later in the 1989 earthquake.

With cars and trucks flying by and no shoulder, the first of several serendipitous events, miracles perhaps, occurred. A CHP car appeared behind us and pushed the Rabbit to safety. An Oakland gas station charged the battery enough to make it to Los Gatos with a fried alternator.

The passenger, a carpenter we’d picked up at a Berkeley freeway entrance holding a “Santa Cruz” sign, knew a lot more about automobiles than me. He explained that the battery was powering the spark plugs and that I’d have to turn on my lights going over the hill as the sky lost light. That would cause the car to die somewhere in the mountains on Highway 17. Why don’t we stop in Los Gatos, where he knew a lawyer who he’d been helping restore a Victorian? We could use his phone to call my housemate and wait until he arrived.

Pat O’Laughlin appeared at the door of his Tait Avenue home, invited us in and chatted with us while we waited for Roger Sanford to make it from Aptos to collect us. Roger had been encouraging me to start a weekly newspaper in Los Gatos, a town as familiar to me after four years on the coast as the dark side of the moon.

Nonetheless, I conducted some impromptu market research. “What’s the newspaper like here,” I asked the young lawyer as he stood on a ladder and stuck his head up some hole in the ceiling.

“Oh, it’s terrible,” he said, without missing a beat. “An out-of-town corporation bought it and there’s no coverage of the town anymore.”

“If a new newspaper started, would it get support?” I probed. He assured me it would.

We made it back to Santa Cruz, and I mentioned the idea to my boss, Lee May, who revealed that he’d grown up in Los Gatos. This proved useful because his brother, a dentist, became our first investor, but warned us not to tell anyone “because I wouldn’t invest in anything a dentist invested in.”

Lee’s father, who owned an appliance company in Alum Rock, gave us some old desks and telephones and broken office equipment, which we used to stage a movie setstyle office at 114 Royce Street. We held an open house and poured white wine. No one noticed that the phone cords were tucked under the desks instead of plugged into the walls.

When I needed an attorney to incorporate the business, I called Pat, who referred me to a local attorney, Jim Emerson, who connected us with a CPA that helped bring in a few more investors. O’Laughlin also introduced us to Peter Carter, who helped us raise a few more dollars. It would be a newspaper owned by members of the community challenging one owned by a big media corporation based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Graphic designer Rick Tharp designed a logo, and the first issue was published on March 10, 1982, exactly

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40 years ago this week. In it, Lee wrote, “I had nightmares of the Los Gatos I once knew becoming a suburb of San Jose and spit out like a silicon chip on an assembly line.”

Roger became the ad director and later went on to co-found the KCAT public television station and an advertising agency. Emerson went on to become a well respected judge.

The Weekly fought hard and acquired the Times-Observer eight years later. The combination proved to be a good move for the two small, struggling publications in a town that had been hobbled by a powerful earthquake.

The Weekly-Times won the state press association’s top award for newspapers of its size twice, and the merger marked the beginning of a group that purchased other nearby community newspapers and thrived until the dotcom implosion and financial necessity forced its sale.

Editors Dale Bryant and Dick Sparrer maintained journalistic quality through subsequent ownership changes, but Dick retired in 2016 and eventually forces from afar stripped the remaining local voices.

Some odd cosmic cycle conspired to allow Lee, Roger and I to craft the Los Gatan, a local newspaper for Los Gatos once again.

The new Telefèric sits where we threw our opening bash when the Weekly first appeared. Anyone up for a toast on Thursday?

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SURVEY DEADLINES ON MARCH 15 The 12-member senior services committee hopes the survey will answer those and other questions.

The survey starts by asking senior residents’ views on the town in general, then narrows to specific issues and questions that relate to seniors in particular. For example, seniors are asked to give their views on the ease of using public transportation in Los Gatos and the availability of affordable quality housing and long-term care.

The survey results will establish a framework for the development of a ‘long-term strategic plan for senior services.’

It also explores senior challenges, including having enough money to meet daily expenses, pay property taxes, not being able to drive anymore and becoming lonely or depressed.

The survey results will establish a framework for the development of a “long-term strategic plan for senior services,” a promotional flier says.

“We’re trying to get the word out to as many older adults in Los Gatos as possible to complete the survey,” Senior Services Committee Vice Chair Maureen Heath said in an email. “I’m 67 and I’m hoping that by the time I’m 75 or 80 there’s a place for older adults to go and socialize. I have lived in Los Gatos for over 20 years and am excited about the possibility of a robust program of services for older adults. I live downtown and I think it would be really cool if someday I could walk to a modern center for older adults and engage in a robust discussion on current events and stay for lunch.”

The Adult Recreation Center’s multipurpose room often serves as a social venue for seniors, with Wednesday game days and other activities being offered there. But most Los Gatos Civic Center buildings date to the 1960s, so some committee members have floated the idea of building a new facility.

Rennie says it’s more likely the current center would be remodeled.

“As soon as the ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds are gone we’re going to have a really tight budget,” the mayor said. “We did commit $500,000 to re-energizing senior programs this year, with $200,000 going to KCAT for a senior film-making program.”

Courtesy of Tom Picraux

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FEEDBACK NEEDED Members of the Los Gatos Senior Services Committee were out Sunday promoting an online survey that asks senior residents what types of services and programs they need and want. Rick Potter ( from left), Janet Potter and Senior Services Committee member Lisa Lenoci are shown here discussing the survey at the Farmers Market.

KCAT TV is Los Gatos’ community access channel. Longtime resident Joni Russell was recently hired to launch “The Producers,” which is a volunteer program for older adults.

Participants will create content geared to seniors, including local news and event programs, and be trained to run cameras.

So, it’s hoped KCAT will help fill some of the need for improved senior services.

The 2020 U.S. Census shows there are approximately 6,974 seniors 65 and older living in town. That represents 20.8 percent of the population.

Previously, the survey was randomly distributed to 2,700 older residents “but now we want everyone over 60 to take it,” Heath said.

The deadline to complete the survey is March 15. It takes about 15 minutes to complete and is online at polco.us/ casoalosgatos2022open.

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Following California is Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

AAA said an increase in gas demand, along with a reduction in total supply, is contributing to price increases, but increasing oil prices continue to play a leading role in pushing prices higher.

Prices at the pump will likely continue to rise as crude prices continue to climb.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major factor in the skyrocketing prices, analysts say.

“This is a milestone that was hard to imagine happening so quickly, but with bipartisan support of severe sanctions

on Russia, is not exactly surprising—it is the cost of choking off Russia from energy revenue,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to evolve and we head into a season where gas prices typically increase, Americans should prepare to pay more for gas than they ever have before. Shopping and paying smart at the pump will be critical well into summer.”

On March 8, President Joe Biden announced the United States is banning imports of Russian oil, natural gas and coal.

The International Energy Agency recently announced a coordinated release of crude oil from 31 countries’ reserves, including the U.S., Germany, Canada, South Korea and Mexico, to help counter the impact of rising crude prices. However, it admitted that the release is small in comparison to what flows daily from Russia, which exports about five million barrels a day of crude oil globally.

According to U.S. Census data, Los Gatos workers average a nearly 31-minute commute one way, meaning a large amount of time spent burning gas.

However, the town has one of the highest electric vehicle adoption rates in California. According to a 2017 study by the International Council on Clean Transportation, electric vehicles accounted for 16% of all new vehicle sales in Los Gatos. That number is expected to be higher based on the number of new EV models released in the years after the study, such as the Tesla Model 3 and Y, which are commonplace on Los Gatos roads.

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GUEST VIEW

Protecting the newts of Alma Bridge Road Merav Vonshak

By Giulianna Pendleton

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A week before the 2022 New Year, I received a text from a friend expressing his dismay at the great number of dead newts he saw on Alma Bridge Road while he was biking. This was right after one of the December winter storms. Newt mortality on this road is all too common. For weeks after it rains, newts migrate across Alma Bridge Road. They move slowly, and only too often, they are killed by moving vehicles. As of March 7, 6,562 newts have already died on Alma Bridge Road this season.

Alma Bridge Road leads to popular trailheads, a County park, the Los Gatos Rowing Club Boat House, and connections to Highway 17—meaning there is a good amount of car traffic, especially on the weekends. The road traverses the habitat of two endemic Pacific newt species: the California newt and the rough-skinned newt.

More than 5,000 newts die each year on a four-mile stretch of this road.

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More than 5,000 newts die each year on a fourmile stretch of this road. This is the deadliest recorded mortality rate of any wildlife species in the entire world.

DANGEROUS CROSSING Newts commonly migrate across Alma Bridge Road for weeks after it rains, but thousands are killed by passing vehicles every year.

ity rate of any wildlife species in the entire world. This is happening right in our town’s backyard.

Why should we care about these small amphibians? Perhaps because they are so amazingly wondrous!

Newts lay their eggs in water (as in Lexington Reservoir). Tadpoles hatch and as they mature, they crawl, walk, or hop to higher ground, and start feeding on insects, worms and other crawly creatures. Newts can live to the age of 20, and every year they return to water to breed. Amphibians are also an important indicator of ecosystem health. Because of their permeable skin, newts are vulnerable to drought and toxic substances, so monitoring the health of newt populations helps scientists detect drought-risks and toxicity levels. Because they are so vulnerable to toxicity, climate change, and habitat fragmentation by roads, many amphibian species, all over the planet, are threatened with extinction.

Growing up in Los Gatos, I have enjoyed our proximity to open space and trails. Running through Vasona, walking the Creek Trail, and hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains all inspired me to pursue environmental conservation as a career. But I only recently learned about the plight of the newts right in our town, and I believe that we must act more responsibly toward our natural environment, or we will lose much of what makes our region and our town so unique and special.

Taking care of our newts is important.

A recent report found that if nothing is done, the newt population near Lexington Reservoir will be extirpated. In response, in December 2021, more than 100 community members asked the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) Board of Directors to save the newts of Alma Bridge Road. Midpen responded by prioritizing newt conservation.

Already, Midpen has published a Re-

quest for Proposals and Qualifications for Alma Bridge Road Wildlife Connectivity Improvements. Midpen and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors are working collaboratively to help the newts of Alma Bridge Road. These are critical steps forward for newt conservation.

Los Gatos residents, if you are interested in helping monitor the newts, please visit the Newt Patrol (bioblitz. club/newts), a volunteer-based group led by Dr. Merav Vonshak that has been studying newt mortality on Alma Bridge Road since 2017. You can also contact the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society to learn about opportunities to speak up for the newts and other local conservation efforts.

Giulianna Pendleton is a resident of Los Gatos and the Environmental Advocacy Assistant for Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.

POLICE BLOTTER

FEB. 27

• A man was arrested for being in possession of a controlled substance on the 1500 block of Pollard Road at 4:43am. Another man was arrested for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia.

• Someone broke into a mailbox on Riviera Drive.

• A man was arrested for driving with a suspended license on Los Gatos Almaden Road and Union Avenue at 3:50pm.

• An unknown suspect threw a basketball at a home’s window on Mill Road at 7pm.

FEB. 28

• A man was arrested for battery on the 200 block of E. Main Street at 5:57am.

• A vehicle was burglarized on Creekside Village Drive.

• A caller took a photo of a vehicle that was driving slowly in the area of Belwood Gateway and Harwood Road at 8:49am. The driver reportedly told the photographer that he would harm him if he didn’t delete the photo.

• Someone threw a rock through a window of a residence on Los Gatos Boulevard.

• A man was arrested for driving with a suspended license on Blossom Hill Road and Oak Meadow Drive at 1:11pm.

• A driver was “burning rubber and doing donuts” in a parking lot on W. Parr and Theresa avenues at 5:52pm.

• A stolen vehicle was recovered on Market Street.

• A man, who looked “extremely high, more than just marijuana,” was staring at people on Johnson Avenue and Loma Alta at 6:07pm.

MARCH 2

• A man was arrested for driving with a suspended license on

MARCH 3

• An intoxicated man was spotted falling over on Pollard Road at 4:58pm.

• A woman was arrested for inflicting injury on a cohabitant on the 16100 block of Mays Avenue at 8:13pm.

MARCH 5

• Someone burglarized a vehicle parked on Pine Wood Lane.

• A man was arrested for being in possession of a controlled substance on the 1500 block of Pollard Road at 10:15am.

• A man was arrested for forging a vehicle registration on Winchester Boulevard and Highway 85 at 12:20pm.

• A woman wearing a “hot pink hoodie” was arrested after she reportedly stole an orange skirt from a business on University Avenue at 12:25pm.

• A man was arrested for being in possession of nitrous oxide on the 15900 block of Los Gatos Boulevard at 12:50pm.

• A man followed a woman home while she was on a walk at 5:06pm. He then reportedly sat between her house and a neighbor’s and made a sandwich before urinating on the street.

Information is compiled from public records released by the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department.

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Highway 9 and Blythswood Road at 10:23am.

• A man was arrested for assault, being in possession of a stolen vehicle and evading a peace officer on the 15400 block of Los Gatos Boulevard at 2:03pm.

• A man was lighting candles between buildings on the 200 block of N. Santa Cruz Avenue at 8:12pm.

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SPORTS

LOS GATOS HIGH BASEBALL TEAM RELOADS Ronnie Quijada

Wildcats poised for another strong season

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When a high school baseball team graduates eight senior starters—all of whom are either playing at four-year or two-year programs—the cupboard is usually bare the following season.

At tradition-rich Los Gatos High, however, there’s really no such thing as a rebuilding process—it’s more like a reload. Despite graduating eight senior starters off a team that advanced to the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Division I playoffs last year, the Wildcats—who started the season 3-2—are still a formidable unit.

It’s just going to take time for the team to hit its peak this season since it doesn’t have much in the way of significant varsity experience.

“Kaito Haake, our No. 1 pitcher, is one of the most experienced players coming back and he had one start in league last year and five at-bats,” Wildcats coach Justin Oliver said. “It's a totally different look from what we had last year. But our sophomore class is extremely talented. And we are fortunate at Los Gatos because we have a ton of talent and the pipeline is strong.”

Interestingly enough, Oliver said purely on talent alone, this year’s team might be superior to last year’s group.

However, the experience is lacking and at the high school level being seasoned is paramount.

“We’re extremely young, so we’ll take some growing pains this year,” Oliver said. “But I honestly think there’s a little more talent—maybe—on this year’s team. But to compare this team to what last year’s team did and accomplished is not fair. Will it get there? Oh, 100 percent. But we’re young and it takes time to get to that point.”

Oliver said he’s been proud of seniors like Jaden Mena, Nick Temple and Haake,whohaveemergedaspacesetters.

“They’ve shown tremendous leadership from a position of inexperience,” Oliver said.

DEALING Massimo Richiuso allowed zero earned runs over five innings in the Wildcats’ 8-3 win over Santa Cruz on March 5.

The Los Gatos High junior is the team’s No. 2 starter early in the season.

Temple is a relief pitcher and first baseman who hit fifth in the order in the Wildcats’ 8-3 win over Santa Cruz on March 5. Haake had a quality start in the season-opener against Palma and followed that up with six terrific innings of one-run ball against CCS power Serra of San Mateo.

“When he’s on the mound, Kaito is a leader and continues to impress,” Oliver said.

Mena plays in the outfield and provides a solid bat with strong defense.

Junior catcher Drew Dillehay is one of the vocal leaders and led the team with eight hits through the first five games.

Another junior, Massimo Richiuso, is the team’s No. 2 starter and a threat offensively as well.

“Massimo is a big piece for us and he’ll definitely be a player at the next level,” Oliver said.

Sophomores expected to shine include Carter Johnstone, Anthony Andrews and Spencer Berg.

Johnstone, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound shortstop, entered the week hitting

over .500 with a team-best seven RBI and has been “phenomenal for us,” Oliver said. Andrews, a versatile utility player, has tremendous potential with Division I programs eyeing him.

“Anthony is so athletic and gifted he can play anywhere,” Oliver said. “He’s got a 54-inch vertical (leap), which is really crazy.”

Berg has been the team’s No. 1 relief pitcher, while senior left fielder Alejandro Quijada is off to a hot start this season with a .538 average.

Richiuso was on his game against Santa Cruz. He allowed no earned runs over five superb innings while going 2 for 3 at the plate. Dillehay went 4 for 5 with three doubles and two RBI, and Quijada went 2 for 2 with three runs scored and three walks, reaching base in all five of his plate appearances.

Johnstone, Mena and Dillehay had two RBI each. Oliver and his coaching staff continue to preach plate discipline offensively and for the pitchers to attack the zone. It’s no coincidence Los Gatos tends to have a superior walk

to strikeout ratio in both batting and pitching compared to most teams.

“It’s understanding who you are, your strengths and weaknesses, and really honing in on that and understanding your identity at the plate,” Oliver said.

Oliver has liked how his team has responded in losses to CCS powers St. Francis and Serra. Against the Lancers, the Wildcats fell behind 6-1 after the first inning but continued to battle and outscored St. Francis from the second inning on.

Despite graduating basically its entire starting lineup from a year ago, Los Gatos has reloaded and is poised for another strong season. Oliver continually reaches out and has a strong relationship with the community, which constantly supports the baseball program.

“It’s definitely a unique situation being a coach at Los Gatos,” he said. “It’s not like everywhere else and it’s great to be a part of it.”

LOS GATOS POISED FOR SPECIAL SEASON Courtesy of Randy Frey

Wildcats aim for league, CCS titles Emanuel Lee, Sports Editor

Longtime Los Gatos High softball coach Randy Frey has told his players that they’re the team to beat in the Santa Clara Valley League’s De Anza Division this season.

“Now we need to go out and do it, so we’ll see what happens,” he said.

The Wildcats return eight seniors who saw considerable playing time off last year’s team that advanced to the Central Coast Section Division I playoff semifinals, where they lost a heartbreaker to eventual champion Watsonville on a walkoff grand slam.

However, Los Gatos plans on coming back stronger than ever, aided by the return of its top two pitchers, Anna Bean and Lynsey Chiala.

“They’re similar type pitchers in that they both throw hard and top out probably in the low 60s (mph),” Frey said. “I would call them power pitchers, and both like to attack hitters the same way which makes it easy for me to call pitches.”

MULTI-THREAT Los Gatos High junior Anna Bean is one of the top all-around players in the Central Coast Section. She led the team in strikeouts while also hitting .422 last season.

Los Gatos played its season-opener on March 8—after this edition went to press—against Leigh High. Chiala is a four-year varsity player and has made a verbal commitment to play at Northwest Nazarene, a Division II program in Nampa, Idaho. When Chiala isn’t pitching, she’ll play second base and hit in the middle of the order.

Bean, a junior and one of just two non-senior starters on the team for the beginning of the season, hit .422 last year and is one of the best twoway players in the CCS. Addie Payne, a senior center fielder, smacked seven home runs last year and is a threat to hit for extra bases every time she’s at the plate.

The Wildcats have an outstanding leadoff hitter in Sara Sharma, a fouryear starter. A second baseman and shortstop, Sharma hit a robust .373

last year. Senior third baseman Sree Sareday hit .333 a year ago and bats fifth or sixth in the order and possesses speed and power.

Avery Di Gangi, a senior first baseman who can play all over the field, finished with a .385 average in 2021 and is the team’s only left-handed slap hitter, making her a valuable asset.

Di Gangi is projected to bat second behind Sharma.

“Avery doesn’t rattle the fences, but she manages to put the ball in play and gets on base a lot,” Frey said.

Sophomore Alexa Musser looks to be the team’s top newcomer. Frey raved about Musser “hitting the cover off the ball” in the team’s two scrimmages and practices and could settle in at the No. 3 spot in the lineup.

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Los Gatos plans on coming back stronger than ever, aided by the return of its top two pitchers, Anna Bean and Lynsey Chiala.

Daisy Moore, who looks to wreak havoc on the basepaths.

“Daisy is probably the fastest girl on the team,” Frey said. “She’s a pretty strong defensive player, a good outfielder and she’ll definitely see a lot of action running the bases as a defensive replacement in the later innings.”

Los Gatos also returns senior shortstop Morgan Burt and catcher Sara Martin, key cogs in the team’s defense.

Backup catcher Annika Norquist is the only freshman on the team, though that could change depending on if some freshmen from the junior varsity team show they need to be challenged at the varsity level.

Frey said this year’s freshman class is superb, which will help ease the sting of losing all the seniors off this year’s team.

“We’ve got a deep team of 16 girls on the roster, and 11 of them are seniors,” he said. “The first thing I think about is, ‘Oh my God, what is next year going to be like?’ But we have an incredible freshmen class of girls who would normally be playing varsity, but we don’t have room for them on the varsity this year.”

Despite having some outstanding players come through the program over the years, Los Gatos softball hasn’t experienced sustained success.

Frey is looking to change that, and he’s got the Wildcats off to a good start.

They won a league championship in 2019 and have made the playoffs every year since Frey took over for the 2013 season.

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New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) will host the 11th annual ArtNow juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition from March 25 to May 22.

The exhibition and educational program gives high school students, from Palo Alto to Gilroy, the experience of presenting artwork in a professional museum setting and the opportunity to participate in supporting educational and career development programs.

A total of 79 works will be on exhibit, with more than $12,000 awarded in eight artistic categories. A series of programs including portfolio reviews, art workshops and an awards ceremony will be held during the run of the show.

The 2022 exhibition theme is “Brave New Worlds,” and students were invited to respond to the exhibition theme through an original work of art that visually communicates their ideas in their choice of media and subject. Students are responsible for submitting images of their work online for jury review and delivering their artworks ready to hang or for display. There is no application fee to submit artworks to the program.

After the submission process was completed, the NUMU curatorial team juried the submissions, selected 7580 works to be exhibited and a panel of university-level art instructors chose the winning pieces of art from eight categories, including Drawing, Painting, Digital Media, Photography, Video/Animation, Printmaking and Sculpture.

A total of $12,000 in awards and scholarships are given out annually through the program, including the “Mike and Alyce Parsons Best in Show Award” winner who receives a $5,000 education scholarship. Past award recipients have gone on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO, the Parsons School of Design and UCLA. The ArtNow program has grown in size and scope since its inception in 2012 when it received a little more than 250 entries from 24 county high schools. This year, the program received more than 580 unique artwork submissions from 38 high schools, of which 79 were selected for display in

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NEW WORLD Los Gatos High School junior Mia Bradbury’s “The Beginning of the End” is an acrylic and ink on canvas work to be shown in the ArtNow exhibit at New Museum Los Gatos.

the exhibition, representing 26 high schools, according to NUMU. “We’re so grateful to the youth who submitted their artwork, and the teachers who motivated them,” said Ami Davis, NUMU’s executive director. “Everyone should listen to these young artists, who have vital information to share with the world through their artwork. Listen with your hearts to what they are asking adults to do: acknowledge the inequity still prevalent in our world, and be brave in using our voices for change.”

The ArtNow program is further supported by the California College of the Arts, CASSY, local artists and Mosaic America.

NUMU, 106 E. Main St., is open Thursdays from 3-8pm and Fridays-Sundays from 10am to 4pm. Admission is $10 general, $6 for seniors, students and veterans (with valid ID), and free for essential workers, Los Gatos residents, members, youth under 18 years of age, families of up to 4 (with

a current EBT card and valid ID), active-duty military personnel and their families.

For information, visit numulosgatos.org/artnow

TOWN RECRUITING FOR BOARDS The Town of Los Gatos is now recruiting to fill adult volunteer vacancies on the following boards, commissions and committees: • Building Board of Appeals • Community Health & Senior Services Commission • Historic Preservation Committee • Parks Commission • Personnel Board The deadline to apply is March 25 at 4pm. Interviews are scheduled for April 5 at 5pm.

For information and to apply online, visit LosGatosCA.gov/CommissionApplication.

For questions, contact the Clerk Department at Clerk@LosGatosCA. gov or 408.354.6834.

LOCALS NAMED TO RIT DEAN’S LIST Two Los Gatos residents made the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the Fall 2021 semester.

Jayse Petersen, who is in the physics program, and Brian Baumann, who is in the software engineering program, were named to the list.

Full-time undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete,” “D” or “F;” and they have registerwed for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.

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With plans underway for a massive redevelopment of the sprawling Los Gatos Meadows complex, I thought it might be interesting to share a brief history of this property.

In 1886, workers put the finishing touches on the first structure to occupy the site, a magnificent 11-acre Victorian estate called “Lyndon Heights.”

It was built for one of our earliest and most prominent citizens, John Weldon Lyndon, who many consider to be the “Father of Los Gatos.”

The grand three-story redwood home, with 24 rooms, six fireplaces and an elevator was painted dark red-orange on the bottom and light yellow-green above. It cost $12,000 to build (about $350,000 today).

J.W. Lyndon was born in Canada circa 1836 and his family relocated to Vermont soon thereafter. At age 23, like many ambitious young men of the era, he traveled West to seek his fortune. He arrived in San Francisco by way of Panama in 1859 with only 65 cents in his pocket.

Lyndon was too late for the Gold Rush so he took whatever odd jobs he could find, mostly in the San Jose area, working as a ranch hand, ox team driver and grocery store clerk. The enterprising young Lyndon eventually started a general store of his own in the town of Lexington. After selling his business in 1869, he had amassed enough of a nest egg to purchase 100 acres of land which today would encompass most of the downtown Los Gatos business district.

Although he had little formal education, Lyndon was a shrewd businessman who continued to develop and invest wisely in local real estate. He was also quite involved in his adopted community. He was a school trustee, major stockholder in both the Los Gatos Fruit Packing Company and the Los Gatos Bank, and was a founder of the Los Gatos Gas Company. He was one of the first five members of the Board of Trustees (now the Town

GRAND STATURE Lyndon Heights, an 11-acre Victorian estate, was built for John Weldon Lyndon.

Council) when Los Gatos was incorporated in 1887, and served as its President (now Mayor) from 1888-1892.

We know very little about Lyndon’s first wife who died at a young age.

In 1872 he married Theresa Rector, daughter of W.H. Rector, one of the early settlers of Oregon. Their daughter, Irma, married J.D. Farwell in 1902 and Lyndon Heights remained in their family until shortly after her death in 1964. The current generation of Farwells still owns much of the commercial property in downtown Los Gatos.

J.W. Lyndon died of heart failure at age 75 in 1912, bringing to an end an

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amazing rags-to-riches life story. His magnificent home was bulldozed in 1969 to make way for the Los Gatos Meadows retirement complex at 110 Wood Road. All that remains is the carriage house cupola which was restored and placed atop the bandstand in Oak Meadow Park.

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HISTORICAL ICON John Weldon Lyndon, who many consider to be the “Father of Los Gatos.”

Fallout for local Ukrainian community continues Contributed

Locals share their stories of Russian invasion in home country Drew Penner, Reporter

Members of Los Gatos’ extended community have been sharing their stories with the Los Gatan of how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the lives of their friends and relatives in jeopardy. The tutor of a local schoolboy was considering a daring trip to Mariupol, a city under heavy bombardment, for a rescue mission. And a Vista Park resident told of hopping on a plane towards Ukraine, in order to save his wife and son.

A NEW NORMAL? Ilya Frank, shown at home in Cambrian Park, has been relaying information he finds online about the war to loved ones in Kharkiv.

‘These are normal people who lived lives just like ours a couple weeks ago.’

Ilya Frank

reports said a humanitarian convoy bound for the port city had come under fire, despite a ceasefire.

Los Gatos accounting firm owner Olga Mavrody, who told the Los Gatan last week about her loved ones in danger in Odessa, said she’s been asking people here to call their congressional representatives to demand America police a no-fly zone over Ukrainian skies.

One of Mavrody’s Ukrainian friends, who lives just east of Los Gatos, in San Jose’s Vista Park neighborhood, told of metaphorically swimming against the tide to make sure his family was out of harm’s way.

Right after the Russian invasion began, Val Khomchenko, 47, grabbed a flight to Poland, to make his way to where his wife and 5-year-old son live, in Odessa.

Khomchenko, who works for Apple, Inc. in the Bay Area but is studying medicine in Ukraine, splits his time between the two countries (he can access better medical care in Ukraine for his boy, who is autistic, he explains).

Some friends picked Khomchenko up at the Polish border and brought him to see his wife.

“She didn’t want to leave,” he said, adding it didn’t take long to convince her. “We packed whatever we could really quickly, fueled the tank and— VROOM!—off we go.”

They formed a four-car convoy, with other women and children trying to escape Ukraine, meeting up with a guide who knew a shortcut to the border.

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Meanwhile, Ilya Frank, a Cambrian Park resident of Jewish descent who grew up in Kharkiv—Ukraine’s second biggest city—described how frustrating it’s been getting news from overseas without being able to do much about it.

The software engineer was hoping to enjoy a well-deserved vacation to New York, but instead spent his days glued to his phone, sharing updates about the invasion with friends amid Russian bombardment.

The university where he took programming classes was struck by a missile. And the school he attended as a teenager was hit, too.

“School #17 has a big hole in it now,” he says. “I’m feeling very stressed. I was thankful I didn’t have to work this week.”

It’s strange for him to consider the turn things have taken, since both of his grandfathers fought in the Soviet army in World War II. And some of his friends under fire are ethnically Russian.

“The Russians in Ukraine are suffer-

ing just as much,” he says. “The bombs don’t discriminate.”

One friend sent a photo of their son’s bedroom with a window blown off its hinges and glass littering the floor.

Luckily the boy wasn’t there during the blast.

Another friend said he watched two people close to him die before his eyes.

“These are normal people who lived lives just like ours a couple weeks ago,” he said.

Frank says it’s great Silicon Valley is rallying to support people in Ukraine.

“But I wish they didn’t have to do that,” he said, adding the situation in the whole country is tenuous at the moment. “Most of them want to get out and get somewhere safe.”

Dnipro, Ukraine-based Igor Levchuk, who gives double bass lessons to a Daves Avenue Elementary student over the internet, shared his plight in the March 2 edition of the Los Gatan newspaper. Over the past week, his fiancé was able to get out of the country alive—with his mom and sister—although he wasn’t allowed to leave with them.

Levchuk has since turned his attention to the task of finding a way to help his fiancé’s parents leave Mariupol.

“Maybe I can find people who have a car and travel to Mariupol with humanitarian help,” he said Sunday, describing the desperate situation. “Maybe this is my plan.”

But the next day, the International Committee of the Red Cross told the BBC the evacuation route had been covered with mines. At press time

through fields,” he said, of the approximately 12-mile homestretch, which he describes as “probably the scariest off-roading I’ve ever done in my life.”

He was in a Hyundai Elantra—not exactly designed for the mission—but he says it held up surprisingly well.

The route popped them out right at the Moldovan border around midnight.

The family had acted so quickly that there weren’t really any lines at this crossing, yet. But there was another obstacle.

While the other convoy members were able to leave, the border guard wouldn’t let Khomchenko pass, despite his American citizenship.

“He was very trigger happy, with a machine gun, and a scary face,” he said.

“At that point I felt like…I’m not going to go and fight with this guy, showing my US passport.”

And his wife didn’t want the family to get split up. So they turned around, beginning their hunt for another exit.

At one point they were stopped by military police who told them they were violating a curfew order. So, they got a hotel room and tried to sleep for a few hours.

It was difficult for their son, given his disability, to be stuck in the car for so long, Khomchenko said. Happily, the border crossing they tried only took 10 hours—much longer than their first attempt, but a fraction of current wait times.

After making it to Moldova, getting to Romania was relatively easy, he remembers. They could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Once out of Ukraine, Khomchenko sent Apple CEO Tim Cook an email to let him know they’d escaped. He also asked Cook to take action. It was about 4am Pacific time when he sent the message, but just two-and-a-half hours later he got a very welcome response, he remembers.

In the email, Cook revealed Apple was cutting ties with Russia and would give $2 for every $1 donated to assist eligible humanitarian causes.

“He sent it as a private message to me, but he also sent exactly the same message to the team,” Khomchenko said, reflecting on the support he felt from his employer. “It makes me feel (like) I’m blessed to work under the leadership of the person with such a big heart.”

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