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vol . 3 , no. 24 : february 21-27, 2024 : losgatan.com
l o c a l s c e n e p 6 : ‘b o b b y’ r e m e m b e r e d p10 : g u e s t v i e w p 12 : ny times crossword puzzle p 13 Drew Penner / Press Banner
LOCAL VETERANS INTERESTED IN EMPTY BUILDING AT 4 TAIT FOR MEETINGS Council votes to terminate lease in closed session
‘Bobby’ was undergoing a remarkable personal transformation
Drew Penner, Reporter
Wayne Heimsoth peered in the window of the terracotta roofed former home of the Los Gatos Art Museum on the corner of Tait Avenue and West Main Street. In the midmorning sun last Thursday, he remarked on what appeared to be new carpet. The 77-year-old member of American Legion Post 99 is a board member of both the Los Gatos Veterans Memorial and Support Foundation and the Campbell Veterans Memorial Foundation. He envisioned what it would be like to hold meetings in the vacant building, which now appears to have surpassed a key contract deadline for breaking the lease. “We’d love to make it a veterans center for each of these three organizations,” he said minutes earlier in a nearby coffee shop. “Other organizations certainly can meet there.” At Council on April 4, Town Manager Laurel Prevetti poured cold water on sugges➝ Veterans, 4
SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS COUPLE MOURNS ROOMMATE KILLED BY FALLING TREES Drew Penner, Reporter
In the months Roy Windom IV spent living in the same Boulder Creek house as Robert Brainard III, the man who was killed when a tree fell on his bedroom Feb. 4, they never really made a big deal about their names including Roman numerals. For one, they focused more on a shared Italian heritage; plus, everyone just called him Bobby. ➝ Mourn, 10
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AFTERMATH On Sunday, Roy Windom IV and fiancé Xenia Jones continued cleaning up their yard after trees crashed down and killed their roommate Feb. 4.
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