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Crime is down, but thefts are still high MOUNTAIN VIEW POLICE SAY NEW STATE LAWS MAY BE FUELING PROPERTY CRIME RATES By Kevin Forestieri

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Teresa Maldonado Marchok, right, leads dancers including Madison Ruweler, left, in the El Camino YMCA’s Dance for All class.

Dance for every body EL CAMINO YMCA HOSTS INCLUSIVE DANCE CLASS By Elizabeth Schwyzer

he room is packed, and the bass is pumping. More than 30 people are on their feet, dancing to the rhythm of the music. Facing the two instructors at the front of the room, they follow along: stomping their feet, clapping their hands, bending their

knees to the beat. Most of the dancers are teenagers, though some are much older and a few are younger. And though their movements aren’t all precisely synchronized, the group is clearly united in spirit. You can tell, because every single person in the room is grinning. Welcome to Dance for All,

held every Saturday afternoon at the El Camino YMCA in Mountain View. Dance for All is just what the name implies: a class that’s open to everyone. Many of the participants have disabilities, but not all; there are no rules about who can and can’t take part. See YMCA, page 13

rime is on a downward trend in Mountain View, but that isn’t stopping thieves from burglarizing homes and businesses, according to a police department report on 2014 crime statistics. And while it's a tricky business finding the root cause of crime trends, police say it might be state laws fueling the fire. The city’s property crime has been on the rise in the last five years, spiking in 2013 when the number of residential burglaries jumped by over 70 percent from 106 cases in 2012 to 183 cases in 2013. Reported cases have since declined in 2014 to 118, but it still remains relatively high, according to the Mountain View Police Department. Commercia l burglaries increased by about 90 percent from 61 in 2012 to 114 in 2013. But unlike the home burglaries, theft from businesses continued to increase to 145 cases reported in 2014. Mountain View Police Chief Max Bosel said there’s a num-

ber of different burglars active around town, some focusing specifically on the tech industry, breaking into businesses and stealing computers. Others tend to break into retail stores downtown and along El Camino Real, stealing cash from the register, he said. Repeat offenders may be responsible for the big increase. One man was arrested late last year, Bosel said, who was responsible for a large number of burglaries, and police have since seen a decrease. While Bosel admits recidivism is a tricky subject better suited for criminologists, he said there are a lot of active repeat offenders in the city. “Sometimes you arrest the right person in your jurisdiction and it has an impact on the numbers,” he said. Statewide policy changes in the criminal justice system might also play a big role in the number of burglaries going on the city, Bosel said. Since California has adopted the Public Safety Realignment Act, See CRIME STATS, page 6

LinkedIn sets sights on local watering hole SPORTS PAGE BAR ADDED TO FIRM’S NORTH BAYSHORE DEVELOPMENT PLANS By Mark Noack

ne of Mountain View’s well-established bars is the latest property in the cross-hairs of a rapid spree of development proposed for North Bayshore. A subsidiary of LinkedIn signed a tentative deal to buy the site of the Sports Page Bar & Grill, a popular watering

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hole on Plymouth Street. The professional-networking company informed Mountain View officials they wanted to incorporate property into its larger plans to build a “gateway signature headquarters” along Shoreline Boulevard. In a letter sent to the city last week, LinkedIn officials explained they envision a future hotel being built on the bar’s

0.87-acre site. But those plans may be years off — the Sports Page currently has a lease that runs through 2023. Developing the site sooner would depend on whether LinkedIn officials can entice the bar owners to terminate the lease early. Even by dive bar standards, the Sports Page stands out. Along See SPORTS, page 8

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Anne Kusian, a volunteer with El Camino Hospital’s auxiliary, brings a cart stocked with useful items like magazines, pencils and hair brushes to patients on the surgical and oncology floor.

El Camino volunteers have a lot to give By Kevin Forestieri

hether it’s serving up cups of coffee or escorting patients around the hospital, volunteers wearing bright red shirts are at work all around El Camino Hospital. From decking the halls in December to tearing the decorations down a month later, volunteers provide a variety of services to El Camino Hospital, thanks to its auxiliary orga-

nization, that coordinates the efforts of 800 volunteers. Starting April 12, the hospital will take part in National Volunteer Week and offering subtle reminders that all the work is appreciated. Between its Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses, El Camino Hospital has benefited from about 5 million hours of volunteer work since its inception in 1959, most of them from long-time volunteers, according to Robert “RJ” Salus, the direc-

tor of patient experience at El Camino Hospital. One couple in particular, he said, has been around since the hospital opened. “We’ve been blessed with some long-term help,” Salus said. “They provide a tremendous amount of support.” Volunteers do anything from working in the emergency department and nursing units to driving patients around in See VOLUNTEERS, page 7

n the wake of recent suicides on the Caltrain tracks, teen depression and school-related stress are under new scrutiny, as parents and students alike are taking a hard look at what can be done to turn things around. The Mental Health Association of San Francisco hosted a roundtable discussion in downtown Mountain View on youth suicide prevention on April 1. The panel included three students from the Palo Alto Unified School District, where three high school students and one alum died on the tracks since October. A Mountain View teen’s suicide in September caused the accidental death of the boy’s father from exposure to a toxic blend of chemicals. “It’s really a tragic amount of death by suicide,” said Eduardo Vega, executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Vega, who admitted to struggling with depression in his teens, told the packed room of more than 40 parents and teens that there are ways to help students who are dealing with depression and thoughts of suicide. There’s no reason students

should be taking their own lives, he said. “Nobody needs to die in isolation and despair,” said Vega. Vega advocated bringing a program called “Fire Within” to Palo Alto schools, which uses peersupport and entrepreneurship as tools to take on teen suicide. The goal of the program is to get high-school students talking more openly about mental health and pinpoint the root causes of depression and teen suicide. Fire Within was started by the Carson J. Spencer Foundation, and is currently running as a pilot program at Mission High School in San Francisco. Sally Spencer-Thomas said she started the foundation after her brother took his life 10 years ago while struggling with bipolar disorder, and that she resolved to find a solution and get “upstream from the crisis of suicide.” Mental health programs, like Fire Within, are important for students struggling through depression, according to Nicole Plata, the youth initiative coordinator for the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, particularly for students who have been in and out of foster See TEEN DEPRESSION, page 10

Council offers extension for Symantec development plan NO BIKE TRAIL COULD MEAN NO NEW OFFICE BUILDING IN EXPIRING AGREEMENT WITH CITY By Mark Noack

ountain View council members last week signaled they wouldn’t scrap a development deal with Symantec for a new 100,000-square foot office building off East Middlefield Road even though the company failed to meet a deadline to build a bike trail. A split City Council voted at the March 31 meeting to require upfront payment of funds to build the trail in exchange for keeping the development agreement alive. The original deal harkens back to a 2010 development

agreement between Mountain View and the network infrastructure company Verisign, which city officials say was later acquired by Symantec. Under the deal, the company agreed to build a 620-foot-long trail along the eastern side of the property by early April 2015. In exchange, the city agreed to give the company an extension through 2018 to finish the office complex. Symantec representatives went to the City Council last week to request an extension of the agreement, saying they couldn’t meet the deadline for the bike trail. Symantec project director Karminder

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Singh explained that his company had gone through three CEOs in the last few years, which waylaid plans for the new offices. But he assured the council that his company was still interested in the site, saying it could provide space

for up to 500 new employees. “We have a little bit of stability now and we’re starting to look at our future,” he said. “We’re trying to be good citizens as part of this application. We just had a little bit of delay with making decisions on our end.” With no shortage of hightech firms looking to expand, Mountain View officials made it clear they had limited sympathy for a company that reneged on its obligations. In their report, city planning staff members suggested giving the company a pass, but City Manager Dan Rich said that the City Council had every right to

renegotiate or scuttle the deal. Since the deal was inked five years ago, the fast-paced market for commercial office space in Mountain View has gone into overdrive. In that time, city leaders opted to more than double the housing-impact fees on new office projects as well as making it mandatory to participate in a local commuter shuttle system. By getting a development agreement approved before those costs came into effect, city Community Development Director Randy Tsuda estimated the company had saved about $2 See SYMANTEC, page 7

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also known as prison realignment, he said there’s been a clear upward trend in property crime in the county. The lowest rate of property crime in the last five years was in 2011, when the law was introduced. Under realignment, tens of thousands of convicted criminals previously bound for state prison were instead routed to county jails to serve their sentences, and left it up to the counties to carry out parole. An estimated 18,000 people who normally would have had to serve time behind bars were not given any jail time, according to a 2013 report by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). There is “robust” evidence that realignment is connected to the higher rates of property crime, according to the report, which found that for every offender not incarcerated as a result of realignment is responsible for, on average, between one and two property crimes each year. The effects are statewide, but Santa Clara County in particular saw the

largest increase in property crime when compared to other large counties, the report showed. There are also concerns among people in law enforcement that Proposition 47 is going to ratchet up burglaries and thefts even more, Bosel said. The proposition, which passed in November, reduced certain drug and property crime offenses from a felonies to misdemeanors.

‘Technology and how it's being used to commit crimes is something we're very attuned to.’ CHIEF MAX BOSEL

Bosel said the law will dramatically change the way police deal with drug offenses and burglaries, and will have a marked effect on crime in Mountain View. If someone walks into a store without any money and lots of bags in-

hand and steals merchandise with an obvious intent to steal, police can only hit them with a misdemeanor under the new law, he said. “It is concerning to a lot of us in law enforcement,” Bosel said. “The way the proposition was marketed (was) not the way we would’ve interpreted or analyzed the initiative itself.” Fewer car collisions, more parking tickets Last year ended on a positive note for traffic collisions: nobody died from an accident with a vehicle for the first time in five years. Injury accidents also dropped to a five-year low. The current year’s statistics won’t be as good, as a Los Altos man was hit and killed by a vehicle while walking across the intersection of Charleston Road and Independence Avenue in February. Police have shifted their focus away from ticketing drivers using cellphones or other wireless devices, as the number of reported cases plummeted from 5,251 violations in 2013 to just 1,012 in 2014. Bosel said 2013 was somewhat of an anomaly because the department received

a grant through the California Department of Office Safety to crack down on distracted driving, and employed an officer whose job was to enforce wireless device laws. But drivers in Mountain View can expect to get ticketed more often for parking too long in the downtown area. Last year police reported 4,900 cases where drivers violated the parking limit, up from 1,958 the year before. The focus on ticketing was a conscious one, Bosel said, at the request of downtown groups to make sure there’s enough parking space for retail customers. Since then, Bosel said, the number of parking enforcement officers has been bumped up. The changing face of crime As a long-time Mountain View resident, Bosel said the city is safer than it was 20 years ago, and violent crime is “remarkably” lower than when he first started at the police department. But as time goes on, he said, there’s a handful of new challenges police need to watch out for, as crooks and

other perpetrators employ new technology to commit crimes. In auto burglaries, for example, Bosel said, there are crews of people that come off of freeway corridors and into retail parking lots to steal anything valuable inside cars. But instead of just looking through car windows, he said they’re now using tracking apps that can pick up on the signals of devices hidden inside vehicles. “Crooks can use those to determine which cars have a laptop or a device inside,” Bosel said. Prostitutes used to openly solicit along El Camino Real, Bosel said, but those services are now no longer out in the open. And where it was once commonplace for criminals to write up a fraudulent check, he said people are instead taking to the Internet and stealing passwords. “Technology and how it's being used to commit crimes is something we’re very attuned to, and making sure we keep up with technology and understand how they’re using it,” Bosel said. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V

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golf carts to knitting hats, Salus said. There’s a group of women who head to the locker room of the old operating room and adjoining conference room every Wednesday, where they make pillows for patients to use while they’re in the hospital. Participation has been steadily increasing over the years, probably thanks in part to local tech companies that give employees time to volunteer, Salus said. He said the increased popularity allows for expanded roles at the hospital. The auxiliary is currently piloting an outreach program to ask hospital patients about their “general experience” — whether they’re comfortable and if they have good communication with hospital staff. “The auxiliary has been a partner with us every step of the way. They’re the very first impression (for visitors) sometimes.” The auxiliary has gone through a lot of changes since its inception, according to Donna Henderson, a 30-year volunteer at the hospital with nearly 9,000

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million in total expenses. Hearing those figures, council members felt they should seek some concessions from the company in return for keeping the deal alive. Councilman Michael Kasperzak made a motion calling for Symantec to provide the $400,000 estimated construction cost and grant an easement of the property for the trail construction. He said it made sense to ask for those stipulations upfront as a pre-condition before the city agreed to renegotiate their agreement. He also wanted the company to commit to joining the Mountain View Transit Management Association, a newly formed shuttle system created to reduce commuter traffic. Other council members wanted to put further conditions to keep the deal afloat. Councilwoman Pat Showalter proposed forcing Symantec to pay somewhere between $500,000 to $2 million to fund public amenities. “A deadline’s a deadline, and you missed your deadline,” she said, chiding the Symantec liaison. “As the holders of the city’s purse-strings, we have to ask, just like in a private

hours of volunteer work under her belt. Henderson said she used to work as a nurse at El Camino, and in 1984 came back to the hospital to help out. At the time, she said there weren’t a lot of volunteer jobs where she had direct contact with patients, so she took up the task of helping people pick out meals from their hospital beds. “I really wanted to be around patients,” Henderson said. Since then, Henderson said, the auxiliary has seen a boom in membership and an expansion of its role at the hospital, and volunteer staff has gone from an all-female crew to a more genderbalanced group. Unlike other hospitals, she said, volunteers now work closely with the nurses and staff to find out what they need help with, and collaborate on what roles the auxiliary can take on. “Communication is key to this thing, it’s become an issue of letting them know we’re here,” Henderson said. Anne Kusian, a seven-year volunteer for the hospital, helps escort people around the hospital, conducts tours and runs an amenities cart for patients and families. Kusian

contract, if there’s a need for something more if a deadline is missed.” Asked by city planners to name a specific amount, Showalter zeroed in on the $500,000 amount. The prospect of going too far and sinking the deal entirely made Kasperzak and others uncomfortable. Saying he was concerned about appearing “greedy,” Kasperzak refused to add a demand for money as a friendly amendment to his motion. If the city asked for too much, Symantec could dump the project along with the trail extension and lease office space instead, warned Councilman Chris Clark. Councilman Lenny Siegel and Mayor John McAlister pushed for the additional $500,000 as well as the other stipulations of Kasperzak’s motion. But the decision fell short in a 3-4 vote with councilmen Ken Rosenberg and John Inks joining Clark and Kasperzak in opposition. A second round of voting on Kasperzak’s original motion passed on a 4-3 vote with Siegel, McAlister and Showalter opposed. City staff said they will return to the council in May following discussions with Symantec representatives. E-mail Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V

is a former president of the auxiliary, and while she used to spend 30 to 35 hours a week volunteering at the hospital, she has since scaled back her time at the hospital. “It was a little bit like herding cats,” Kusian said of leading the hundreds of auxiliary members daily. She has since

‘I love being here, I love being with patients.’ ANNE KUSIAN, VOLUNTEER

taken on a role as “chairperson of the day,” which means if any volunteers aren’t able to answer a visitor’s question, it’s

up to her to save the day. Kusian used to volunteer for an auxiliary of a hospital in Arizona, working at a gift shop, but moved to the Bay Area just a block and a half away from El Camino. Since then she has poured just shy of 6,000 hours of volunteer time working around the hospital. “My goal was to help out and do something that was meaningful,” Kusian said. “I love being here, I love being with patients.” While the volunteer base is mostly made up of older adults, she said they have a thriving junior volunteer force, where hundreds of kids vie for a limited number of spots on the auxiliary and online registration fills up in just 60 seconds. She said it could be the proximity to schools nearby that makes working for the hospital appealing, but that they also do their part to make

sure students are given jobs that are interesting and meaningful to them. Like Henderson, Kusian said that the auxiliary is taking on a more substantial role at the hospital, with volunteers now helping patients sign important forms prior to discharge, and checking the hospital beds and rooms to see if they comply with safety precautions. She said the hospital’s current CEO Tomi Ryba has been a big advocate for the auxiliary. And while there is something for everyone to do around the hospital, Kusian said it’s really talking to and helping patients that keeps volunteers coming back for more. “It’s those experiences with the patients that keep them here,” Kusian said. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V

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Mountain View's fire chief stepping down WARDLE CREDITED FOR STRENGTHENING TIES AMONG FIREFIGHTERS By Mark Noack

ountain View’s top fire official, who ushered in greater cooperation among the hodgepodge of South Bay emergency agencies, announced last week he would retire after five years on the job. Fire Chief Brad Wardle informed the city’s administration last week that he needed to end his 29-year firefighting career in order to move to Utah and take care of his infirm mother. The 51-year-old Wardle joined the city’s fire department in 2010, at a time when cities across the South Bay were reeling from recessionary budget cuts. But the belttightening also presented a “perfect storm” for changing long-held practices among the

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with typical bar trappings like ping-pong, billiards and darts, the pub also features a regulation-size sand volleyball court in its backyard. The customers are no less eclectic. Depending on the time of day it can be a mix of nearby tech workers, concert-goers heading to Shoreline Amphitheatre or longtime regulars. Perhaps most remarkable is the old bar’s location —

fire departments, Wardle said. Up until recently, firefighters would respond to incidents outside their jurisdiction only in major cases, such as a large fire or accident. City fire crews each had marching orders to take care of lesser incidents only within their own boundaries. W a r d l e gained a posiBrad Wardle tion to elicit some change in 2012 when he was selected as president of the Santa Clara County Fire Chiefs’ Association. He helped broker an agreement among the cities to have their individual fire departments respond to smaller incidents outside

their boundaries if units were nearby. Before he joined the Mountain View Fire Department, Wardle served as fire chief in West Jordan, Utah, where such partnerships were more commonplace. Its wasn’t a hard sell; many other Santa Clara fire chiefs were receptive to working together more, Wardle said. “Throughout Santa Clara County all the fire chiefs embraced this to a certain level,” he said. “We’ve essentially dissolved the borders between our cities, and we’re working seamlessly together and sharing resources.” Additionally, fire departments made an agreement to phase out incompatible radio equipment operating on different frequencies. Many depart-

ments are in the process of purchasing newer models that can use a wider radio spectrum. Wardle described leaving Mountain View as a “bittersweet pill to swallow” because he came to appreciate the community as well as the professionalism of the city’s workforce. “I really enjoyed my time in Mountain View, but family is what’s important and that’s what’s taking me back to Utah,” Wardle said. In the coming weeks, Mountain View will begin scouting for a new fire chief to fill Wardle’s position. The city will hire a public-sector search firm to find suitable candidates, said City Manager Dan Rich in an email. The process will likely take six months.

In the meantime, Deputy Chief Juan Diaz will take the helm. Diaz, 49, was hired by Mountain View last year after a 25-year c a re e r in f i re f i g ht i n g , mostly at the San Jose Fire Department. Speaking to Juan Diaz the Voice on Tuesday, Diaz said he hoped to continue the effort to bring “inter-operability” to South Bay fire departments. “We’re not 100-percent finished, but we’re heading in the right direction,” he said. “My vision is to continue the initiatives that were started by Chief Wardle.” E-mail Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com

the 80-year-old building is situated just across the street from the edge of the Google campus. Fans describe the bar one of the few things in North Bayshore that has remained consistent as tech giants have expanded in the neighborhood, and many describe it as a melting pot bring the disparate groups together. Days after news spread about LinkedIn plans for the site, fans started an online petition over the weekend urging city officials to find some way to

preserve the bar. Within three days, about 250 people had signed it. Sunshine Reyes, a 34-year-old who lived at the nearby Santiago Villa Mobile Home Park, said she started the petition to save the bar that had become like a “second family” for her. “It’s like your own neighborhood Cheers,” she explained. “We really want to show the city that we do care about this place.” Exactly what happens from here is unclear. Rob Graham, who has owned the Sports Page since the mid-1990s, intends to continue running the bar through the remain-

ing eight years of his lease, according to his attorney, Camas Steinmetz. But what if LinkedIn offers a tidy sum or a newer space? “He is willing to listen to and consider any proposals from LinkedIn to accommodate him in a new space or buy him out of the lease,” Steinmetz wrote. “As of yet, there are no such proposals on the table.” LinkedIn representatives did not respond to the Voice’s requests for comment. The Sports Page is hardly the only business in limbo amid LinkedIn’s plans for the Shoreline Boulevard property. In partnership with the land-

owner, LinkedIn is proposing a 10-building campus on a 6.79-acre site that is currently occupied by a row of businesses including Togo’s, Laser Quest and Gold’s Gym. The development would raze Century Cinemas 16, but the plans call for a new movie theater to be built on the south end of the property. As part of the project, the company envisions adding 50,000 square feet of new retail space for unspecified stores and restaurants. In a letter to the city, LinkedIn representatives singled out the Sports Page as a business that they would offer to relocate to a new site in their future project. But for fans of the bar, this could be a dealbreaker. “One of the great things about the bar is it the feeling you get from it, and the location is part of that,” Reyes said. “It’s not cliche; it’s not some off-the-production-line bar. It’s got a homey feel to it.” That sentiment rang true for Steve Beck, a local plumber who counted himself among the bar’s regulars. On Monday afternoon, he was enjoying a Coors Light as he chatted up a Lockheed Martin engineer sitting next to him at the bar. Asked about the future prospects of moving the bar, Beck became grim. “If they move this place, it kills it,” he said. “It wouldn’t be the same bar if they moved to a different building.” E-mail Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com

Inspirations a guide to the spiritual community LOS ALTOS LUTHERAN Bringing God’s Love and Hope to All

Children’s Nursery 10:00 a.m. Worship 10:10 Sunday School 11:15 a.m. Fellowship Pastor David K. Bonde Outreach Pastor Gary Berkland 460 South El Monte (at Cuesta) 650-948-3012 www.losaltoslutheran.org

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MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m. Saturday Services: Worship 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Study Groups: 10-11 a.m. Pastor Kenny Fraser, B.A.M. DIV 1425 Springer Rd., Mtn. View - Ofﬁce Hrs. M-F 9am-1pm www.mtviewda.adventistfaith.org Phone: 650-967-2189

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CIVILITY ROUNDTABLE TACKLES FERGUSON A Civility Roundtable meeting is scheduled to discuss the question of “How Can We Prevent Ferguson from Happening in Mountain View?”on Wednesday, April 22, from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. at the Mountain View Senior Center. The City of Mountain View Human Relations Commission helped organize this latest in the series of Civility Roundtable discussions, with this one focusing on relations between police officers and community residents. The Civility Roundtable is a series of free and public conversations between members of the community in order to enhance understanding of prevalent issues. The roundtable will be moderated by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian. Scheduled speakers include: Mountain View police Chief Max Bosel; retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, an independent police auditor in San Jose; Ramiro Blancarte, a community member experienced with police relations; Mountain View police officer Marco Garcia; and Margalynne J. Armstrong, a law professor at Santa Clara University. The Mountain View Senior Center is located at 266 Escuela Avenue. More information is at mountainview.gov/HRC. —Rachel Lee

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‘Fire on the Mountain’ From the coal-mining towns of Appalachia comes bluegrass, a distinctly American musical style that has its roots both in the folk tunes of England, Ireland and Scotland and in the blues music of the American south. Now playing at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (500 Castro St.), “Fire on the Mountain” presents bluegrass music in a theatrical context, depicting the way coal mining transformed Appalachia and its people. Featuring traditional bluegrass songs like “Dark as a Dungeon” and “The Hard-Working Miner,” “Fire on the Mountain” moves from West Virginia to Kentucky as it tells the emotional story of miners toiling to earn a living underground, often in appalling conditions. The show’s creators, Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman (who previously collaborated on “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues”), conducted inter-

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care or the criminal justice system. The problem is finding a program that actually works, Plata said, indicating that what Palo Alto schools have been doing is not working. If a student started high school in Palo Alto two years ago, she said, then they’ve already seen 11 students, current and former, from the district take their own lives. “There’s no reason, in the Bay Area, that people should be taking their lives,” Plata said. The key, she said, is to use peer counseling and get students to talk to each other and engage on an emotional level. She said the Fire Within program can get students certified to find fellow classmates at “high risk” and get them to the support services they need. Plata herself said she suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in college and was able to cope through peer counseling offered through her church. The Palo Alto students on the panel said talking to fellow students about depression and seeking emotional support from one another could be a helpful tool in dealing with the high stress environment and staving off thoughts of suicide, but so far peer academic pressure is having the opposite effect. Milla Dzakovic, a Gunn High School student, said there’s constant pressure to compete with classmates and strive for perfec10

8 p.m., with additional 2 p.m. shows April 11, 12, 18, 19, 22 and 26; 7 p.m. shows April 12 and 19; and a 7:30 p.m. show on April 22. Tickets range from $25-$74. Go to theatreworks.org or call 650463-1960. — Elizabeth Schwyzer

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David M. Lutken stars in “Fire on the Mountain” at TheatreWorks through April 26.

views with coal-mining families across Appalachia as part of their research for the show. With dancing and musical performances from accomplished bluegrass fiddlers, banjo and accordion players, “Fire on the Mountain” has been praised for its authenticity. The show runs through Sunday, April 26. Performances are Friday-Saturday tion, and that students are always talking about grades and focusing on academic performance. Dzakovic said the students at Gunn kicked off a campaign called “We’re all in this together,” to show support for each other, but that the movement feels shallow and not truthful to the climate at the school; that students are not “in it together.” “Personally, I don’t feel connected to the school,” she said. Also on the panel was Carolyn Walworth, a Palo Alto High School student who wrote an opinion piece for the Palo Alto Weekly urging school and district administrators to take the issue of excessive stress seriously. Walworth agreed that the pressure is coming from other students, and the workload they are expected to carry each school year eclipses any chance they have to do non-academic activities because there’s just not enough time in the day. “We’re not given that opportunity to do that, it’s impossible,” she said. Turning ideas into action If peer-counseling is an answer to coping with stress and depression, then some local parents are on track. Trudy Palmer, a Palo Alto parent, has been working with schools districts in both Mountain View and Palo Alto to focus attention on mental health services, including a program where students can talk to one another about their problems and have help readily available if they need it. Palmer is in the very early stag-

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‘LandEscapes’ A barn tucked beneath tall trees, a river snaking its way across an alpine landscape, a road hugging a verdant coastline. In Mary Stahl’s pastels and paintings, the natural world appears soft and peaceful, touched here and there by traces of human presence. Now on view at the Portola Art Gallery (75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park), Stahl’s “LandEscapes” welcome viewers to sink into these dreamlike vistas and to imagine themselves transported. A former tech worker and graphic designer, Stahl understands well the contrast between the fast-paced life of the Silicon es of planning a peer-counseling program for teens at Los Altos High School, and is enlisting the help of the Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) in Mountain View. Monique Kane, executive director of CHAC, said the organization is working with Palmer to brainstorm ideas for the program, which she said can be useful for getting help to students who would have otherwise fallen through the cracks. “You pick up on kids that might never have been seen. Students who are sometimes really depressed,” Kane said. The idea is really more of a brainstorm than anything concrete, Kane said, but it could look like an ongoing group program hosted in the school library, with a therapist present to mediate the group and carefully handle serious discussions on depression and suicidal thoughts. For now, students struggling with school-related stress have been turning to the ASPIRE program at El Camino Hospital, an acronym for After-School Program Interventions and Resiliency Education. ASPIRE is an intensive eight-week program where students meet for several hours four days a week after school and go through “dialectical” behavior therapy to how to manage stress and control their emotions throughout the day, according to Michael Fitzgerald, executive director of Behavioral Health Services at El Camino Hospital. The program started in 2010 in response to a spike in local teen suicides, and has since built up a

Valley and the halcyon scenes she paints. Some of her canvases are done en plein air; others are completed in the studio. Having recently returned to the fine-art world, she won a 2011 Emerging Artist award at the prestigious Carmel Art Festival. The opening reception for “LandEscapes” will take place on Saturday, April 11, from 1-3:30 p.m., and the show will be up through April 30. For more information, go to portolaartgallery.com or marystahl.com or call 650-321-0220. ‘Judaism & Science Symposium’ Are science and religion in conflict? How does science shape our understanding of God? And why do so many Jews become scientists? These questions and many more will be tackled on Sunday, April 12, when Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and other esteemed speakers gather at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family Jewish waiting list, Fitzgerald said. “This includes kids from Palo Alto with severe suicide risk, so we feel like this program has made a big difference,” he said. The reasons for coming to ASPIRE vary widely, from a student whose biggest stress is a B grade to teens so overwhelmed with anxiety they can’t even make it to school. Enrollment in ASPIRE dives down in the summer, which makes it difficult to maintain the program at a larger capacity during the school year. But that might change as demand is increasing overall, Fitzgerald said, and recent months have seen a big increase in the number of students trying to get in. Waiting lists are unfortunately par for the course in Santa Clara County, where adolescent mental health services are either minimal or nonexistent at hospitals. Fitzgerald said there are no hospitals in the county with an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit, meaning if a teen at risk of committing suicide and needs to be hospitalized, they are sent out of the county to either Fremont or San Mateo. Palmer said this is done with an ambulance at the family’s expense. El Camino Hospital’s new behavioral health building is still years away from construction, but it could provide muchneeded mental health services to teens in the area, Fitzgerald said. Early designs of the building include walls that can be altered to change how many psychiatric units are in the building, which could fit the fluctuating nature of

Community Center (3921 Fabian Way) for the Judaism & Science Symposium. Subtitled, “An Exploration of the Convergence of Jewish & Scientific Thought,” the event promises to be a provocative and stimulating hour of discussion about how Jewish thinking has influenced scientific inquiry and achievement. Sacks is perhaps best known for serving as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom for 22 years. Among the other panelists are Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of “A God that Could be Real,” and John M. Efron, professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Krasny, host of KQED’s Forum, will moderate the discussion. The symposium will take place at the JCC’s Schultz Cultural Arts Hall from 5-6 p.m., with a book signing following the main event. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. For more information, go to paloaltojcc.org or call 650223-8664. mental health needs among teens throughout the year. A worsening problem Though it’s difficult to pinpoint reasons for the increase in suicides, mental health providers in the Bay Area seem to agree that teen depression is getting worse. Kane said students in the area have gotten “more severely depressed and anxious” in the last few years, and there’s been an overwhelming demand for CHAC’s mental health therapy services, particularly at the schools where CHAC provides one-on-one therapy to students. Fitzgerald said the root cause for depression could change from kid to kid, and that it’s better to concentrate on cofactors — things that contributed and added to stress and anxiety and ultimately pushed students over the edge. He said only getting five or six hours of sleep a night probably doesn’t cause a kid to commit suicide, but things like lack of rest, increased stress, bullying and overuse of technology can all “go into that kids’ decision.” Just as multiple factors go into teen depression, Fitzgerald said the problem is going to need to be addressed by multiple agencies, including schools, hospitals and families. “We’re going to work together with regional partners,” Fitzgerald said. “Nobody is going to go at this alone. We really have to work together as a whole community.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V

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For more information about these camps, see our online directory of camps at www.paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/ To advertise in this weekly directory, call: 650-326-8210 Hi Five Sport

Arts, Culture, Other Camps Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)

Mountain View

50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered. www.arts4all.org 650.917.6800 ext.0

Menlo School Sports Camps

Atherton

Explore nature this summer from your own backyard. Environmental Volunteer summer camps return with a new series of programs. Handson activities, field trips and creative fun make science accessible to kids ages 6-11. www.Evols.org/Explore 650.493.8000

Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4-12 to learn from Knights coaches and staff -whether it’s preparation for an upcoming season or simply for fun and to stay in shape in a high energy, positive setting. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports - baseball, basketball, football (skills, lineman, and safe tackling camps) lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo. www.menloschool.org 650.330.2001 ext. 2758

Foothills Summer Camps

Nike Tennis Camps

Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp

Palo Alto

In this historic, popular, traditional day camp your child will play on miles of trails, woodlands, fields, streams, Boronda Lake, and enjoy spectacular views of the bay area. Transportation to and from Foothills Park is provided each day. www.cityofpaloalto.org/foothillscamps

J-Camp Oshman Family JCC

Palo Alto

Exciting activities for kindergarteners through teens include swimming, field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special focus camps like Studio TV Production, Jr. Masterchef, Elsa and Anna’s Dance Camp, Beach Bonanza and many others! www.paloaltojcc.org/summercamp 650.223.8622

Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)

Palo Alto

PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! Neighborhood Adventure Fun and Junior Varsity Sports Adventure Camp are for the more active and on-the-go campers! New this year: E.P.I.C. Camp – Energetic, Peers, Independence & Community for the older kids! Returning are FAME - Fine arts, Music and Entertainment and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking fun! Swimming twice per week, 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. www.paccc.org 650.493.2361

STANFORD EXPLORE

Stanford

A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others. explore.stanford.edu explore-series@stanford.edu

Stanford Jazz Workshop

Stanford University Campus

Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals. stanfordjazz.org

TechKnowHow® LEGO® and Technology Summer Camp

Palo Alto Menlo Park/Sunnyvale

Fun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-16. Courses include LEGO® projects with motors, MINDSTORMS® EV3® & NXT® Robotics, Computer Game Design, Arduino™ Electronics, iPad® Movie Making, and a Tech Camp for girls. Classes feature high-interest, ageappropriate projects based on the S.T.E.M. curriculum. Half and Full day options. Early bird and multiple week discounts are available. www.techknowhowkids.com 650.638.0500

TheatreWorks Summer Camps

Palo Alto

In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance and present their own original pieces at the end of each session. www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/summercamps

YMCA Summer Camps

Throughout Silicon Valley

At the Y, youth of all ages make new friends, build character and learn new skills. With hundreds of unique camps and 30+ convenient locations, you’ll find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available. www.ymcasv.org/summer 408.351.6473

Athletics Camp Campbell

Santa Cruz Mountains

For close to 80 years, Bay Area youth have forged life-long friendships and benefited from character-defining experiences at Camp Campbell through nature hikes, campfires, archery and many other fun outdoor activities. Financial assistance is available. http://www.ymcacampcampbell.org/ 831.338.2128

Atherton

Hi Five Sports is thrilled to present our fourth multi-sport competitive summer camp to the San Francisco Bay Area! Through experienced, passionate and patient coaching, we believe the timeless lessons that only sports can teach will stay with the kids for the rest of their lives. www.hifivesportsclub.com 650.362.4975

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! www.USSportsCamps.com 1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)

Stanford Baseball Camps

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. www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com 650.723.4528

Stanford Water Polo

Stanford

Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games. www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com 650.725.9016

Summer at Saint Francis

Mountain View

Sports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group instruction in a variety of fields, indoor & outdoor court games and activities. Saint Francis faculty and students staff the camp, and the focus is always on fun. The program is dedicated to teaching teamwork, sportsmanship and positive self-esteem. After camp care is available. www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x650

Summer Camp@SportsHouse (Powered by Skyhawks)

Redwood City

June 15-August 14. Weekly indoor sports day camp for kids 6-13 years old. Fun filled sports and games directed by Skyhawks. Full day 9am-4pm camp includes lunch and optional after camp care. www.sportshouseonline.com 650.362.4100

Wheel Kids Bicycle Club

Palo Alto

Wheel Kids is Palo Alto’s premier adventure and exploration summer day camp for boys and girls 5-15 yrs old. Camps run weekly from June 8th – July 31st, offering a range of cultural, recreational and environmental learning opportunities, all based on our daily bicycling adventures. Join us this summer as we teach your kids safe bicycle riding skill & habits, help build their self confidence and esteem, and begin a life-long journey of health and fitness while helping improve our environment. www.wheelkids.com 650.520.6524

Academics Alexa Café

Palo Alto High School

At Alexa Café, girls ages 10-15 collaborate around café tables and learn to code apps, produce films, design websites, develop wearable electronics, and more. Discover a passion for technology in this unique environment that emphasizes leadership, philanthropy, and more. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls

Palo Alto

Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. www.castilleja.org/summercamp 650.328.3160

Harker Summer Programs

San Jose

K-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff. K-6 morning academics – focusing on math, language arts and science – and full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for credit courses and non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs also offered. www.summer.harker.org 408.553.0537

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iD Game Design and Development Academy

Stanford

Get immersed in game design at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy! Teens ages 13-18 design video games, develop apps, model 3D characters, mod with Minecraft, and more. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324

iD Programming Academy

Stanford

Get immersed in technology at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy. Teens ages 13-18 code apps, program with C++ and Java, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, and program websites. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324

iD Tech Mini

Palo Alto High School

Kids ages 6-9 will have a blast at iD Tech Mini, where half day options let aspiring innovators discover a love for tech. Campers make new friends and learn hands-on STEM skills in a kid-friendly environment. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324

iD Tech Camps

Stanford

Code, game, create! At iD Tech Camps, students ages 7-17 code apps, design video games, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, build websites, produce movies, and more. Kids meet new friends and gain a competitive edge. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324

Mid-Peninsula High School

Menlo Park

Mid-Pen offers summer courses designed to help students make up high school credits and a diverse range of enriching courses that go beyond traditional curriculum. In addition to courses in math, science, English, Spanish, and SAT/ACT prep, we invite students to enhance their skills in innovative classes that include: College Essay Workshop, Research Writing Workshop, Drama, Music Video Production, and Fine Arts courses in Surface Design and Mixed Media. We also hold basketball and volleyball clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school students are welcome to attend. Summer session runs from June 22 to July 23, 2015. www.mid-pen.com 650.321.1991

One Me

Palo Alto Westin Hotel

Students aged 12-16 will find direction and inspiration through introspection and self-awareness, discovering how they learn and are motivated, addressing and understanding habits, improving communication skills, understanding the brain, understanding personality and ego states, emotional regulation, and welcoming challenge. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965

Professional Tutoring Services of Silicon Valley

Los Altos

Academic camps offering Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Spanish I, II, III in small groups. Four sessions starting June 15 through July 27. Sign up for all four or just one. Perfect for high school and junior high students taking high school level courses. $295 and up. Register online. www.ptstutor.com/summer-camps.html 650.948.5137

Purposeful You

Palo Alto Westin Hotel

Students aged 12-16 will learn best practices in organization and goal setting; study techniques; communication with administration and teachers; strengthening memory; answering to the question; outlining, writing, and citing resources; emotional regulation; stress and test anxiety management, attention and motivation. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965

Summer at Saint Francis

Mountain View

Summer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and athletic programs for elementary through high school students. It is the goal of every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoyable! www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x446

Write Now! Summer Writing Camps

Palo Alto / Pleasanton

Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information. www.headsup.org Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750

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Launched nine months ago by experienced dance instructors Teresa Maldonado Marchok and Mercy Forde, who are both mothers of teenagers with disabilities, the class has quickly gained a devoted following. Most weeks, there are between 25 and 30 dancers on the floor. The music — primarily pop, R&B and rap arrangements — is catchy and increasingly boisterous as class progresses. In some ways, Dance for All is your average dance fitness class. The routines, a blend of hip hop and aerobics, look a little tricky at first, but most people seem to catch on quickly. Marchok and Forde wear Lycra outfits and athletic shoes; fitted with head mics, they demonstrate and call out the moves enthusiastically, sometimes jogging out into the crowd to give a quick correction or a high five. In addition to high-energy dance routines, they spend part of every class focusing on skills like core strength, flexibility and balance. What’s not so normal are the levels of enthusiasm and camaraderie the class inspires, even in passersby who stop at the door to watch and are often drawn in to dance along. Dance for All is downright irresistible. That’s the conclusion Darin Li has come to, though it took him a while. Li is 13 years old and in the seventh grade. He’s into swimming, karate and movies, and he loves math. He’s also autistic. When his father, Qiang, started bringing him to Dance for All back in July, Darin wasn’t having any of it. He sat outside the studio, watching through the window while Qiang dutifully took part in class each week. For two months, Darin refused to enter the room, until the day Marchok put on what unbeknownst to her was Darin’s favorite track: “Gangnam Style,” by South Korean pop star Psy. In a flash, Darin was up on his feet, dancing. Now, he and Qiang are regulars on the dance floor. Qiang and Darin discovered Dance for All through their involvement with Youth Drama for All, a Mountain View-based nonprofit that since 2007 has offered performing-arts opportunities for teens from both mainstream and special-needs classes. Marchok and Forde both contributed to Youth Drama for All as choreographers. About three years ago, they realized that to take their work with students to the next level, they needed a dedicated space and more instructional time. That’s when the YMCA stepped up, offering a dance studio for free.

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Darin Li, and his father Qiang come to the Dance for All class every week. Darin was hesitant to participate until the day his favorite song was played.

According to Lisa Zuegel, whose 15-year-old son Jeffrey takes part in Dance for All, the YMCA is “a phenomenal place for encouraging people with differences. “The fact that Dance for All is happening here at the Y is not inconsequential or coincidental,” Zuegel said. “When the kids come here, they are in an environment that is by its nature inclusive and connects people in community.” Many families who attend Dance for All also take advantage of the YMCA’s other resources, including the swimming pool and family changing rooms, both of which they say are particularly useful and welcoming to those with special needs. Chief Operations Officer for YMCA of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Jordan, stopped in to Dance for All last week to observe and share her thoughts. “The cool thing is, you can’t always tell who has a disability and who doesn’t,” she noted after watching class for a few minutes. “People really value that in their Y membership: the diversity and inclusivity.” As Jordan sees it, being part of a group like the Dance for All community builds compassion and enriches lives. “I think if people come to the Y and experience this, they’ll develop more empathy,” she said. Jordan noted that in her own childhood, she didn’t have access to such an open and inclusive community. “When I was growing up, if I saw someone who seemed different, my parents would say, ‘Shhh! Don’t look; don’t ask questions.’ We really want the opposite here: We want to develop curiosity. This is how the general population gets to appreciate what it means to be a community.” To that end, Dance for All is open to anyone who wants to try it out. For those who decide to make it a regular thing, a YMCA

membership is encouraged; financial assistance is available for those who can’t afford the fee. As word spreads about the class, interest continues to grow. On a recent Saturday, students knelt on stability balls to practice their core strength and balance. One boy who was new to class sat on the floor with his mother, shifting restlessly. When it was time to dance again, he bolted from the room, eventually settling in a chair just outside the door. Half an hour later, as the class fell into place for a conga line to Pitbull’s rap rendition of “Shake Senora,” he came tearing back in and ran the length of the room, laughing. Allowing students to participate at the level that works for them — and for their families — is exactly what Dance for All is all about. “In here, any behavior is anticipated,” Jordan said. “It’s all good.” “Kids will often do utterances or physical stims that in another environment might be off-putting, and here it’s OK,” added Marchok. “No parent should ever be embarrassed.” For the moment, Dance for All is clearly making a difference to the 30 or so people who participate regularly. But Jordan, Marchok, Forde and others see the potential for a much broader impact. They’re talking about establishing a program where teens and young adults can volunteer in the class as buddies, and are also thinking about how they might train instructors to offer similar programs at other YMCAs in the region and even beyond. Jordan, who oversees the operation of all 11 YMCAs in the Silicon Valley, said she hopes the other centers will eventually adopt the program. “If we can attract this many people to one Y,

I can’t imagine why we wouldn’t scale it,” she said. Jordan and the Dance for All team are actively looking for ways to integrate existing students into the larger community, and to help shift attitudes about ability and disability. For a start, they intend Dance for All to prepare students to take part in other YMCA fitness classes. What Marchok and Forde know well, and what is amply evident after just one class, is that these young people are brimming with capability and with joy. Yet too often, they’re separated from the communities that would benefit from getting to know them better. “It wasn’t until I started speaking with parents of teens with disabilities that I learned the term, ‘fake social,’” Jordan said. “That’s when someone tolerates your child and pretends they’re welcome, but you can tell they’re just being politically correct.” Regardless of where such behavior stems from, Jordan said, “We want to help the community get beyond that.” At the end of class, after the hugs and the high fives, a small group of students stuck around to chat, discussing what they like most about Dance for All (the friends, the exercise, the music) and what their favorite songs are (like Darin, most favor “Gang-

nam Style”). Marchok and Forde stood nearby, brainstorming with Jordan and parents about the future of the class. Their conversation returned again and again to an emphasis on inclusion and integration rather than separation. “This is not a special-needs dance class,” Marchok asserted. “It’s open to everyone. Any time you can include everyone, you’re sending a message that it’s truly inclusive. That’s a great message for society.” Jordan nodded in agreement. “What’s most important,” she said, “is linking people.” Email Elizabeth Schwyzer at eschwyzer@paweekly.com. V

Q I N F O R M AT I O N What: Dance for All Where: El Camino YMCA, 2400 Grant Road, Mountain View When: Every Saturday, 1-2 p.m. Cost: New students welcome to drop in for free. YMCA membership encouraged; no one turned away for lack of funds. Info: Go to ymcasv.org/danceforall.html or call 650-429-1323. Those interested in volunteering for Dance for All should go to tinyurl.com/o4kjxxj or call 650-429-1310.

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ome residents and community activists say they are worried that the City Council’s delay in adopting a firm incremental schedule raising Mountain View’s minimum wage over the next four years may cause the crucial effort to fizzle out. That fear, we believe, is unwarranted. The ball for raising the minimum wage was set in motion last October with council approval of a law requiring employers to pay hourly wage workers a minimum of $15 an hour by 2018. The vote was 6-1, and many details — such as the specific incremental wage hikes to be put in place each year to achieve the 2018 target — were left unresolved, to be hashed out later. At its March 31 meeting, the council continued moving the ball forward, although it followed city staff’s recommendation to wait until the fall to fine-tune details of the minimum wage law. Given that the city staff had been directed last October to do the legwork necessary to come up with solid options, and return to the council with recommendations this month, it’s somewhat disappointing that staff asked for the additional time. But the council, while agreeing to the delay last week, also reaffirmed its commitment to reach the $15 mark in 2018. The delay gives staff more time to seek input from the public and business community, and to work with nearby cities interested in adjusting their own minimum wage so that a uniform plan might be put in place in much of Santa Clara County. Those cities include Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. Meanwhile, the city’s minimum wage is rising to $10.30 an hour in July, an increase of $1.30 over the state’s $9 minimum wage. The council approved a tentative plan raising the wage to $12 an hour in 2016 — when California’s minimum wage goes to $10 an hour — then to $13.50 in 2017, before reaching $15 the following year. The public concern expressed over the council’s delay in approving permanent changes to the new law last month was shared by council member Pat Showalter, who wanted her colleagues to act that night to approve a firm schedule raising the wage; she voted against the motion. Although approving a final schedule last month would have been a welcome move and a message to other Bay Area cities that Mountain View is serious about improving the lives of the working poor, current council members have already demonstrated their commitment in that regard. Only one member, John Inks, is opposed to the wage hike. We believe the others, including the three new members who strongly advocated raising the minimum wage during their campaigns last year, will do the right thing and hold to their commitment to reach the $15 target in 2018. After all, Mountain View is the only Bay Area city to raise the wage through action of its City Council rather than at the ballot box, and that’s a strong indication of resolve. V

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eight- to 10-passenger driverless, any months ago council battery-powered buses that travel member Mike Kasper- a fixed guideway. We could work zak proposed an inno- with such systems to integrate vative concept to help solve part them into into the proposed of the North of Bayshore traf- Google and LinkIn redevelopfic problem — driverless four- ments. No significant barriers exist passenger “pod” cars that would travel on an overhead cable hung to such a transit system except from poles and take workers to possibly for a Shoreline Boulevard crossthe downtown ing. Eightytransit center. Guest Opinion five percent The concept of a potential was a non-starter for several reasons: Studies right-of-way already exists for a have shown pod car systems to be single-lane guideway and is pubeconomically unfeasible, a fairly licly owned. A competent system high entry/exit threshold was a design would not interfere with problem, and building a tran- existing streets. The former parking area just sit corridor through downtown would have been both expensive inside the Ellis Street gate at Moffett Field is more than large probably politically unfeasible. However, Mike’s basic idea enough for a vehicle turn-around. was a good one and, with a little An unused Moffett Field land rethinking, both economically strip bounded by Perimeter Road and politically possible. We don’t and the Highway 101 barrier can need a personal “rapid transit” accommodate a single-lane rightsystem to serve North of Bay- of-way. Perimeter Road could be shore. What is needed is a reli- made one-way if a safety barrier able way to get to the downtown is needed. Street crossing considerations transit center, and that could be achieved by a connection to the are minimal. The Moffett Field Ellis Street gate could once again Moffett Field VTA station. Several European cities are become an emergency entry/ participating in tests of driver- exit and stay closed at all other less, trackless small bus systems times. A crossing near the entry traveling short routes on city to Ames Labs could be controlled streets to help solve passenger with standard railroad protectraffic problems in high-den- tion gates. An over-crossing sity areas. A Chinese company could be planned as a future has recently introduced small Continued on next page

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EVERYONE MUST MAKE CONSERVATION EFFORTS We are in our fourth year of serious drought, and Governor Brown has asked for a 25 percent reduction in water usage. The city of Mountain View is currently at a savings of 13 percent. In order to reach a 25 percent savings, every resident will need to help. Forty percent of water usage is on landscaping. Morgan Hill residents can water yards only once a week and that city has saved lots of water. We encourage the Mountain View City Council to pass the same rule — water only once a week. One important step is for all of us to take shorter showers. Also, use a bucket to save the water

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improvement. The remainder of the right-ofway would require using some of the Microsoft parking area next to Highway 101 plus the east edge of the VTA parking area to reach Inigo Way and city streets in North of Bayshore. Only a small land amount would be needed and a transit stop at Microsoft would be a benefit to them. Standard railroad gates could control a crossing at La Avenida to reach Inigo Way. Inigo Way is wide enough to accommodate a dedicated one-lane transit right-of-way, as is Pear Avenue if parking is eliminated. A turn radius at Inigo Way/ Pear Avenue would have to be considered, as would be the back entrance to

while the water is warming up and recycle it to flush the toilet or water plants. If you have a teenager who drains the hot water tank, get him or her to agree to take short showers. We can also help by doing only full wash loads and washing clothes only when necessary. Do not leave the tap running when you rinse dishes or brush your teeth. Letís bring back the toilet phrase, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.” All residents of our city must do everything they can to save water. Blanca Rocha and Jaime Mendoza Mountain View GED students, Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School

the Computer History Museum off Pear Avenue. The City Council would also have to weigh the value of a Stevens Creek overcrossing as one public benefit versus another, but a well-designed small bridge near Highway 101 would not harm either the wildlife or the trail corridor. All in all, a rethink of Mike Kasperzak’s personal transit idea could provide an affordable, and usable, link to the downtown Transit Center within three years, if the bureaucratic barriers could be overcome. Roy Mize lives on Brookdale Avenue. He is a 50-year resident of Mountain View who has seen North of Bayshore develop from farms and a gate just north of the Sports Bar.

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Q MOVIETIMES Cinderella (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:20, 6:55 & 9:40 p.m. Danny Collins (R) Century 16: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Freetown (PG-13) Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 10 p.m. Furious 7 (PG-13) Century 16: 10:40 & 11:30 a.m., 12:20, 1:10, 2, 2:50, 3:40, 4:30, 5:20, 6:10, 7, 7:50, 8:40, 9:30, 10:20 & 11:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 & 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 4:45, 5:15, 5:55, 6:35, 8, 8:30, 9:10 & 9:50 p.m. In X-D at 12:45, 4, 7:15 & 10:30 p.m. In D-BOX at 11:30 a.m., 1:30, 2:40, 4:45, 5:55, 8 & 9:10 p.m. Get Hard (R) Century 16: 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:35 & 10:40 p.m. Home (PG) ++ Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7:05 & 9:35 Century 20: 10:45 & 11:45 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:25, 7:25, 9 & 9:55 p.m. In 3-D at 12:25, 2:55 & 5:25 p.m. Insurgent (PG-13) Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m. & 7:55 p.m. In 3-D at 2, 4:40 & 10:45 p.m. It Follows (R) Century 20: Noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m. Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 12:55, 4:15, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. The Longest Ride (PG-13) + Century 16: 7:30 & 10:30 p.m., Fri 10:25 a.m., 1:25 & 4:25, Sat & Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:30 & 4:30 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4:05, 7:10, 7:50, 10:15 & 10:45 p.m. McFarland, USA (PG) ++ Century 20: 12:15, 3:15, 6:50 & 10 p.m. National Theatre: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Not Rated) Guild Theatre: Sun 11 a.m. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:55 p.m. Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:45 & 9:40 p.m. The Talk of the Town (1942) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:35 p.m. While We’re Young (R) +++ Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:15 p.m. Guild Theatre: 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:15 p.m. Wild Tales (R) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m. Woman in Gold (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 11:45 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 8 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. AQUARIUS: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) 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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lege senior Sophia Danko (Britt Robertson of TVs “Under the Dome”) crosses the Wake Forest quad to check out a rodeo with her friends. The art major will go, she grudgingly obliges, “but I’m not wearing those cowboy boots.” Cut to her feet in those cowboy boots, made for walking right into loooooove with bullriding champion Luke Collins (Scott Eastwood, looking more than ever his father’s son). That’s the kind of fresh material you can expect from this two-hour-plus rehash of “The Notebook” and its ilk. As ever, there’s pretty young things from two different worlds, one challenged by physical ailment. For good measure, “The Longest Ride” adds a contrapuntal oldschool couple to enable gauzy Rockwellian nostalgia and a bit of WWII derring-do. You see, after meeting and going on a picnic date with take-out barbecue (“No one has ever done anything like this for me before,” Sophia swoons), the modern young’uns spot a car wreck and save an old coot (Alan Alda, suddenly cuteas-a-button harmless). Sophia takes an interest in the now-hospitalized old Ira, visiting regularly to read his love letters back to him. Such is the way to parcel out flashbacks, with Alda’s younger self (Jack Huston of “Boardwalk Empire”) romancing Austrian emigre Ruth (an overwrought Oona Chaplin). Meanwhile, the modern-day lovers ponder whether or not they have a chance at love despite a cultural divide and divergent careers: “old school” Luke is bound to risk his life on buckin’ broncos after Continued on next page April 10, 2015 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q

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repeated concussive damage, and contemporary-art appreciator Sophia is about to hit the fast track of the Manhattan artgallery world. The latest style-deficient director to go through Camp Sparks, George Tillman Jr. (“Men of Honor”) makes Hollywood mulch of it all, despite the irony of being an African-American artist constrained by the formulae of Sparks’ lily-white world. Plastic dramatics from Eastwood and Robertson contribute to the textureless Hallmark sheen. Truthful, if cliche, themes (time is precious, “Love requires sacrifice”) might have redeemed the picture if the rodeo climax didn’t so hypocritically undercut them. Instead, we’re left to check off the contrivances and Sparksian trappings: frolics by bodies of water, line dancing and ballroom dancing, hospital beds and feather beds and the beaming highs and weepy lows of romance. Rated PG-13 for some sexuality, partial nudity, and some war and sports action. Two hours, 19 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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In “While We’re Young,” Ben Stiller plays a struggling documentary filmmaker who befriends a younger couple.

Hipsters versus midlifers ‘WHILE WE’RE YOUNG’ CAPTURES A CULTURE CLASH 000 (Guild, Century 20) Noah Baumbach wants your kids off his lawn. Metaphorically speaking, of course. The lifelong New Yorker — and auteur of “The Squid and the Whale” and “Frances Ha” — probably never had a lawn, but he does have a career in independent film, his latest being “While We’re Young.” Baumbach’s meditation on

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the tension between the slowing, sinking middle-aged and the speeding, ascending young finds the two meeting on the battleground of ambition as laureled old age looks on, fruitlessly suggesting there’s plenty of sustenance to go around. Ben Stiller plays documentary filmmaker Josh Srebnick, whose marriage to Cornelia

(Naomi Watts) is due for a little excitement. Enter 20-something couple Jamie (Adam Driver of HBO’s “Girls”) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), whose extension of seemingly unconditional friendship injects energy and more than a little self-consciousness into the older couple’s relationship. Alas, Jamie’s appealingly hip freak flag starts to turn into a red one when the aspiring filmmaker starts moving in on Josh’s territory. Josh’s latest project, eight years in the making, flounders as Jamie’s takes off like a rocket. As if that weren’t enough, the older man has always been deeply overshadowed by his father-inlaw, a legendary documentarian played by the great Charles Grodin. Is Manhattan big enough for the three of them? And can Josh and Cornelia’s marriage survive the roller-coaster thrill — and strain — brought on by Jamie and Darby? “While We’re Young” plays like the Woody Allen comedy he never came up with, clashing his type of New Yorker against those of Lena Dunham. At first, Baumbach keeps the culture-clash social satire light. As their bodies begin betraying them, Josh and Cornelia comi-

cally try to keep up with their younger counterparts, funsters who never pick up the check. The older folks are digital while the young folks are analog, an irony that eventually becomes a sticking point as Josh realizes his references, his nostalgia and perhaps his very life are being appropriated by an upstart generation. For good measure, Baumbach casts Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) as a domesticated dad, but the obvious shots at hipster scenes (nouveau chapeaus and an ayahuasca ceremony featuring a shaman who plays Vangelis on an iPhone) eventually sour into a complex critique of modern ambition in a changing cultural landscape. “Documentaries are over,” Josh concludes, decrying lost ground in the search for truth. “Is that old man talk? Maybe it is.” Though “While We’re Young” can be reductive, lionizing the old as calm, centered and generous to a fault while raking 20-somethings over the coals, Baumbach makes comic hay from the realization that the future belongs to the young. Rated R for language. One hour, 37 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Q HIGHLIGHT ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ The Los Altos Stage Company will perform the classic drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” the story of George and Martha, a dysfunctional couple that draws two house guests into their conflict after a faculty party. April 9-May 3, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. (no show on April 15). 7:30 p.m. $34. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Call 650-941-0551. losaltosstage.org/virginia-woolf/

ART GALLERIES ‘Along Highway 1’ Viewpoints Gallery has on display “Along Highway 1,” a show of watercolor paintings by plein air artist Veronica Gross inspired by vistas along the famed highway from Big Sur to the Oregon coast. March 31-April 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday only until 3 p.m. Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. www. viewpointsgallery.com ‘What Now?’ Gallery 9 in Los Altos offers a show called “What Now?” of oil paintings, as well as a sculpture, by Bay Area artist Steve Curtiss. March 31-April 25, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. www.gallery9losaltos. com

BENEFITS/FUNDRAISERS Foothill College Oral Cancer Awareness Walk Foothill College will host this fourth annual fundraiser walk for oral cancer research and awareness on the school’s rubberized track. Those interested should register on the website. April 11, 9 a.m.-noon. $10-$25 registration; $3 parking. Foothill College Stadium & Track, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-949-7335. donate. oralcancer.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive. event&eventID=626

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS ‘Increase Your Influence—and Your Revenue—with Workshops’ At Women in Consulting’s general meeting, Rita Deo Barber will offer tips on how to develop and present workshops, which can help provide income and business leads. April 16, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $45-$65. Michael’s at Shoreline, 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Call 408-266-9658, ext. 11. www.womeninconsulting.org/site/apps/nlnet/ content2.aspx?c=jhLOK0PELoF&b=8023581& ct=14433321 Grow Your Own Food workshop Farmers from Edible Urban Farm Company will offer a workshop on home gardening, covering what is in season, spacing and placement, and crop rotation. Attendees will get hands-on practice during the workshop. April 18, 10 a.m.-noon. $39. Hillview Community Center, Room 18, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Call 650-946-3366. www.edibleurbanfarm.com/workshops/ Home Farm Workshop: Growing a Cut Flower Garden Lannette Anderson, Hidden Villa’s flower farmer, will teach a workshop on all things flower, covering which locally adapted varieties are the most attractive, strongest and easiest to grow; good flowers for arrangements; and harvesting for continual blooms. April 18, 10 a.m.-noon. $35. Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. www.hiddenvilla.org Personal emergency preparedness workshop Mountain View Fire Department’s Lynn Brown will present on measures and actions community members can take to keep themselves and their families safe during an emergency or natural disaster. April 15, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www.mountainview. gov/library Simple Sewing: Sunglasses case This next Simple Sewing event will teach sewers of various abilities how to create a personalized sunglasses case and a handcrafted card. Space is limited, and registration is required. April 13, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www. mountainview.gov/library Succulents: Growing and Propagating workshop UC Master Gardener Roberta Barnes will offer tips for propagating succulents successfully and share a number of informative examples. April 18, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6877. www. mountainview.gov/library Three Romantic Dances class Taught by Ellen Murray and Gene Esswein, this six-week course offered by Mountain View-Los Altos Adult Education will cover the waltz, rumba and tango.

The class is suited to beginners or those returning to ballroom dance. Singles and couples are welcome. Visit the website to register. Mondays, April 13-May 17, 7:30-9 p.m. $50. Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-940-1333. mvlaae.net Youth Video Production Camp In this weeklong camp, students will use KMVT’s studio and equipment to learn basic skills for screenwriting, camera work, lighting, directing, acting and video editing — while creating a final product to be broadcast on KMVT 15. Participants will receive a copy of the program on DVD. Monday-Friday, 13-17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $369. KMVT 15 Community Television, 1400 Terra Bella Ave., Suite M, Mountain View. Call 650-9681540. www.kmvt15.org/learn/youthactivities. html

CLUBS/MEETINGS ESL Conversation Club in Mountain View This weekly club at the Mountain View Public Library provides a place to practice English conversation skills with friendly company. All levels are welcome; no registration is required. Wednesdays, April 1-July 1, 5-6 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www. mountainview.gov/library Language Swap This weekly Mountain View Public Library event will allow community members to both practice speaking a different language and teach a language to others. All levels and drop-ins are welcome. Thursdays, April 2-July 2, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650526-7020. www.mountainview.gov/library Lunch with the League At its monthly lunch event, League of Women Voters of the Los AltosMountain View Area will host Scott Haywood, policy and community relations manager for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, who will discuss Envision Silicon Valley. The program will assess transportation needs and solutions, including a possible sales tax ballot measure for funding. Those interested must RSVP by April 15. April 17, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $27. Ristorante Bella Vita, 376 First St., Los Altos. Call 650-559-1828. www.lwvlamv.org Peninsula Astronomical Society: ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ At this meeting of the Peninsula Astronomical Society, Brian Day of NASA Ames Research Center will give a talk called “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” in which he will discuss the threat of Near Earth Objects and how these hazards can be prevented. The observatory will be open after the meeting from 9 to 11 p.m., weather permitting. April 10, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; $3 parking. Foothill College, Room 5015, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. www.pastro.org/dnn/

COMMUNITY EVENTS Lego Day During Lego Day at the Mountain View Public Library, adults can enjoy lunch while playing with Legos from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; afterward, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., all ages can participate. No registration is required. Third Thursday of the month, Jan. 15-April 16, 12:30-3 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www.mountainview.gov/library Open Mic Night BookBuyers in Mountain View is looking for authors and poets to read their work at an Open Mic Night. Those interested should email elizabeth@bookbuyers.com for additional info and to sign up. April 16, 8-9:30 p.m. Free. BookBuyers, 317 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-968-7323. bookbuyers.com/ event/open-mic-night-2/ Sew Sew Saturday The Mountain View Public Library invites community members to come by on Saturday mornings to use its four Baby Lock (Grace model) sewing machines and one serger. Appointments are required. Saturdays, April 4-July 4, 10:15 a.m.-noon. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www.mountainview. gov/library

Yom HaShoah V’HaGevurah: Remembrance of the Holocaust and Acts of Courage This year’s South Peninsula Yom HaShoah V’HaGevurah service will focus on the theme of “Liberation: The 70th Anniversary,” exploring the time immediately following liberation and the complex responses of Holocaust survivors. The ceremony will include inter-generational song, music, prayer, readings, artwork and a speech by Consul General of Israel Dr. Andy David. April 15, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-847-1715. paloaltojcc. org/Events/EventId/485/e/yom-hashoahvhagevurah-15-apr-2015

CONCERTS Aiyun Huang concert and discussion For this Stanford Live Informance, award-winning percussionist Aiyun Huang will perform and discuss her work that challenges the boundaries of percussion and theater. April 11, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Tateuchi Hall, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Call 650-917-6800, ext. 0. www.arts4all. org/attend/concerts Mountain View High School Jazz Festival Mountain View High School will hold a jazz festival, where groups from Mountain View and Los Altos high schools as well as local middle schools will perform on the quad. Attendees are encouraged to bring a beach chair. April 18, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $10 adult, $5 student, senior suggested donations. Mountain View High School, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-906-3158.

ENVIRONMENT ‘Climate and California: An Update from Sacramento’ As part of Acterra’s 2015 Public Lecture Series, Wade Crowfoot, deputy cabinet secretary and senior advisor to Governor Brown, will talk about the state’s latest efforts to address climate change. April 15, 7:30-9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Google Headquarters, 1900 Charleston Road, Mountain View. Call 650-9629876, ext. 346. www.acterra.org/lectures

EXHIBITS ‘Into the Wild Woods’ The Community School of Music and Arts will host an exhibition of illustrations and paintings by Bay Area native Liz Amini-Holmes. On Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 6 p.m., there will be a reception with the artist. April 3-May 31, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Call 650-9176800. www.arts4all.org/attend/mohrgallery.htm

‘Holocaust - Is That Wallpaper Glue?’ documentary screening The Oshman Family JCC will hold a screening of the documentary “Holocaust - Is That Wallpaper Glue?” about two Russian twins who journeyed to Auschwitz after they defined “Holocaust” as “wallpaper paste” on a quiz show. There will also be a Q&A with director Mumin Shakirov. April 14, 7:30-9 p.m. $8 teen; $12 adult. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Call 650223-8609. paloaltojcc.org/film ‘Open Sesame’ documentary screening and discussion The Mountain View Public Library will screen the 82-minute documentary “Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds.” There will be free organic popcorn to enjoy and, afterward, a virtual Q&A session with filmmaker Sean Kaminsky. April 11, 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. www. mountainview.gov/library

HEALTH Jacki’s Aerobic Dancing Jacki’s Aerobic Dancing classes guide participants in abdominal work, strength training and aerobic routines. Complimentary childcare is provided by staff. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, March 9-Dec. 18, 9 a.m. $36 month; $6 single class. Mountain View Masonic Lodge, 890 Church St., Mountain View. joanier@pacbell.net

LIVE MUSIC 23rd Hour 23rd Hour will visit Red Rock Coffee to perform a set of its distinct original music that blends acoustic jazz, rock and pop. April 10, 8-10 p.m. Free. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 408-504-0509. facebook. com/23rdHr Charles Robin show Portland-based musician Charles Robin, who has performed throughout the country, will play a set of alternative rock music. April 18, 8 p.m. $5. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-967-4473. redrockcoffee.org Crary, Evans and Spurgin For this Redwood Bluegrass Associates event, the new trio of Dan Crary, Bill Evans and Steve Spurgin will perform inventive Americana music that draws from bluegrass and folk traditions. A jam session will be held prior to the event at 5 p.m. April 11, 7:30 p.m. $20 in advance; $25 at the door; discounts available for students, teens, children. First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto. www.rba.org

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Author Sheila Grau on ‘Dr. Critchlore’s School for Minions’ Local debut author Sheila Grau will read from her new comical series “Dr. Critchlore’s School for Minions,” a story about monsters in training, best suited for fantasy fans ages 8 to 12. Those interested should RSVP by phone. April 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. Call 650-9493390. www.lindentreebooks.com Confident Daughters workshop Sheila Dubin, M.S., of Parents Place will teach an interactive workshop for parents of daughters ages 9 to 14, discussing skills to help manage emotional, social and physical changes leading into adolescence. April 16, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6897. goo.gl/ B6p1Tc

‘Fire on the Mountain’ For a regional premiere, TheatreWorks will stage “Fire on the Mountain,” a bluegrass musical that portrays the lives of Appalachian mining families. See website for specific times and dates. April 1-26. $53 adult; $43 senior, educator; $25 under age 30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.theatreworks.org/shows/1415-season/ fireonthemountain ‘Those Darn Squirrels’ In this Stories on Stage production, Peninsula Youth Theatre will perform “Those Darn Squirrels,” a play based on Adam Rubin’s book about a cranky old man who loves only the birds in his yard. April 17, 9:30 and 11 a.m.; April 18, 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. $8 Friday; $10 Saturday. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Second Stage, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.pytnet.org/ shows/1415%20SOS/Squirrels.htm

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‘50 Children’ documentary screening The Oshman Family JCC will screen the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” which chronicles how a Jewish lawyer and his wife in the U.S. traveled to Nazi-controlled Vienna to rescue 50 children in 1939. April 16, 7:30-9 p.m. $10 member; $13 general; $15 at the door. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Call 650-2238664. paloaltojcc.org/film

‘My View from Heaven’ Sarina Baptista — a speaker, author, psychic medium and spiritual teacher — will discuss with her son J.T. their book “My View from Heaven,” which explores questions of the afterlife and life’s meaning. April 10, 7:30 p.m. Free. East West Bookstore, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-988-9800. www.eastwest.com/events_2015_april#10 Insight Meditation South Bay Shaila Catherine and guest teachers will lead

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weekly Insight Meditation sittings, which are accompanied by talks on Buddhist teachings. Tuesdays, Jan. 6-Dec. 29, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall, 2094 Grant Road, Mountain View. Call 650-857-0904. www.imsb.org Kirtan and meditation sessions BookBuyers in Mountain View will host a session of meditation and Kirtan song each Saturday morning. All are welcome. Saturdays, March 7-May 2, 8:45-9:45 a.m. Free. BookBuyers, 317 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650-968-7323. bookbuyers.com/event/kirtan-meditation-3/

SPORTS Spring Forward 5K/10K The Spring Forward 5K/10K run will help to raise funds for Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, whose programs help impoverished community members. April 18, 8-11 a.m. $40 5K or 10K; $15 children’s run. Microsoft Campus, 1065 La Avenida St., Mountain View. springforward5k10k.com

LECTURES & TALKS ‘Israel’s Struggle Against Terror’ Professor Yuval Shany from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz will participate in a conversation entitled “Israel’s Struggle Against Terror and the United Nations Human Rights Council.” April 15, 8-9:30 p.m. $8 member; $10 general; $12 at the door. Oshman Family JCC, Conference Room F401, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc. org/dialogues ‘Jewish Life in an Era of Extremism’ This symposium led by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan will seek to confront troublesome issues regarding threats to Jewish life, presenting candid and farranging viewpoints on the topic. Pre-registration is encouraged. April 12, 2-6 p.m. Free. Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Call 510-845-6420. paloaltojcc.org/dialogues Allen Hammond on net neutrality For April’s Technology and Society Committee Luncheon Forum, Allen Hammond, a law professor at Santa Clara University and director of the Broadband Institute of California, will provide an overview of the new net neutrality policy and how it will impact Internet service providers and consumers. April 14, 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 Bay Area Funeral Consumers Association Conference The annual conference of the Bay Area Funeral Consumers Association will include talks about the Willed Body programs of Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco. A short business meeting will also be held. Refreshments will be served. April 12, 1-3 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, Community Room, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Call 650-424-4427. www. ba-fca.org Judaism & Science Symposium The Oshman Family JCC will host a panel discussion on how Jewish thinking has influenced scientific inquiry and discoveries. Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and others will participate, and Michael Krasny of KQED will moderate. A book signing will follow the event. April 12, 5-7 p.m. $25 in advance; $30 at the door. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Call 650-2238664. paloaltojcc.org/dialogues Moore’s Law @ 50 This two-part event at the Computer History Museum will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gordon Moore’s observation that the number of transistors on microchips doubles about every two years — an idea which drove the digital revolution. Arnold Thackeray and David Brock, co-authors of “Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary,” will participate in a talk with museum CEO John Hollar, as well as a later panel discussion. Visit the website for info on registration. April 17, 10:30 a.m. Free. Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. www.computerhistory.org/ events/upcoming/#moores-law--50

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Bulletin Board 115 Announcements Did You Know Information is power and content is King? Your doorway to statewide Public Notices, California Newspaper Publishers Association Smart Search Feature. Sign-up, Enter keywords and sit back and let public notices come to you on your mobile, desktop, and tablet. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN) Pregnant? Considering adoption? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 1-877-879-4709 (CalSCAN) Pregnant? Thinking of adoption? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/ New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

152 Research Study Volunteers Hot Flashes? Women 40-65 with frequent hot flashes, may qualify for the REPLENISH Trial - a free medical research study for postmenopausal women. Call 855-781-1851. (Cal-SCAN) Having Sleep Problems? If you are 60 years or older, you may be eligible to participate in a study of Non-Drug Treatments for Insomnia sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and conducted at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Medical Center. Participants will receive extensive sleep evaluation, individual treatment, and reimbursement for participation. For more information, please call Stephanie or Ryan at (650) 849-0584. (For general information about participant rights, contact 866-680-2906.)

155 Pets Dog walking Offered

Author Event: “She Also Served” Foothill College Plant Sale

For Sale

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201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts BMW 2009 328i - $18,000 ob

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130 Classes & Instruction Airline Careers begin here – Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) German Language Classes Music Together Classes

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home. Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950 Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

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135 Group Activities Thanks St Jude

145 Non-Profits Needs DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARIES Stanford Museums Volunteer

150 Volunteers Become an EcoCenter Docent! Fosterers Needed for Moffet Cats FRIENDS BOOKSTORE MITCHELL PARK FRIENDS OF THE MTN VIEW LIBRARY FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY

202 Vehicles Wanted Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN) Cash for Vintage Cars Mercedes convertibles, Porsche, Jaguar, Alfa, Lancia, Ferrari, Corvettes, Mustangs. Early Japanese Cars 213-465-3227 rstevensjr@gmail.com Other collector cars of significant value desired. (Cal-SCAN) Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN) I Buy Old Porsches 911, 356. 1948-1973 only. Any condition. Top $$ paid. Finders Fee. Call 707-965-9546 or email porscheclassics@yahoo.com (Cal-SCAN) Old Mercedes 190sl Jaguar XKE or pre-1972 foreign SPORTSCAR/convertible. ANY CONDITION! I come with trailer & funds. FAIR OFFERS! Finders fee! Mike 520-977-1110. (Cal-SCAN) Older Car, Boat or RV? Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the humane thing. Donate it to the Humane Society. Call 1- 800-743-1482 (Cal-SCAN)

210 Garage/Estate Sales Mountain View, Villa Nueva Way, April 11, 8-3; April 12 if necessary MV: Garage Sale, 5/2 and Yard Sale 5/9 At homes: May 2. Rengstorff Park: May 9 Register for either event by April 17, 2015! www.MVrecycle.org.

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PA: City Wide Garage Sale Saturday, June 6, 8-2 Helping the environment and making money has never been so easy. Reusing - whether you donate, buy, or sell - is one of the best ways to reduce waste and keep usable stuff out of the landfill. Join us for the Palo Alto Citywide Yard Sale on Saturday, June 6. Last day to sign up is May 8. Details will be posted on http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/ yardsale/ The map and listings will be uploaded to this page and be printed in the June 5 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly.

Kid’s Stuff 350 Preschools/ Schools/Camps Acorn Chinese Learning Center Children Mandarin & Cantonese Program. www.acornchinese.com Art & Soul Summer Camp Bridge (Card Game) Summer Camp Co-op Preschool-Schedule a tour!

355 Items for Sale 3DVDsLittlePeople,PlanetHeroes,T

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230 Freebies

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240 Furnishings/ Household items

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Mind & Body 425 Health Services

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245 Miscellaneous

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455 Personal Training

Jobs 500 Help Wanted Engineering Clover Network, Inc. has job opp. in Mountain View, CA: Software Engineer. Design and develop systems SW for embedded systems. Mail resumes referencing Req. #SWE15 to: Attn: E. Visco, 800 California St, Ste 200, Mountain View, CA 94041. Experienced Dry Cleaner Experience Spotter/Presser needed. 5 days/week, starts immediately. Call 650 329-0998 Palo Alto

540 Domestic Help Wanted Household Manager needed

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Business Services 624 Financial Help Prevent Foreclosure & Save Your Home! Get FREE Relief! Learn about your legal option to possibly lower your rate and modify your mortgage. 800-469-0167 (Cal-SCAN) Reduce Your Past Tax Bill by as much as 75 Percent. Stop Levies, Liens and Wage Garnishments. Call The Tax DR Now to see if you Qualify 1-800-498-1067. (Cal-SCAN) Sell Your Structured settlement or annuity payments for CASH NOW. You don’t have to wait for your future payments any longer! Call 1-800-673-5926 (Cal-SCAN) Social Secuity Disability benefits. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-966-1904 to start your application today! (Cal-SCAN)

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Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Delmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Cleaning Orkopina Housecleaning Spring Cleaning Sale. Celebrating 30 years. 650/962-1536

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement RONALD G. SEGER, O.D. and JENIFER E.L. WEBB, O.D. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602590 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ronald G. Seger, O.D. and Jenifer E.L. Webb, O.D., located at 1150 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): RONALG G. SEGER 715 Glenborough Drive Mountain View, CA 94041 JENIFER E.L. WEBB 1309 Bronwen Way Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/2008. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2015. (MVV Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) SHORELINE OPTOMETRY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602591 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Shoreline Optometry, located at 1150 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): RONALD G. SEGER 715 Glenborough Drive Mountain View, CA 94041 JENIFER E.L. WEBB 1309 Bronwen Way Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/2008. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2015. (MVV Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) MING JONE CLINICAL RESEARCH CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602908 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ming Jone Clinical Research Consulting, located at 2310 Rock St. #19, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):

DORIENA MING-YEE JONE 2310 Rock St. #19 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 20, 2015. (MVV Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) KING & AVANTI INC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602213 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: King & Avanti Inc., located at 235 E. Middlefield Rd., Ste. 2, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KING & AVANTI INC 235 E. Middlefield Rd., Ste. 2 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant/Owner 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 4, 2015. (MVV Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) NAMI NAMI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602698 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Nami Nami, located at 240 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HANAMARU CORPORATION 240 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/07/2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (MVV Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015) EVERYTHING WEDDINGS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602648 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Everything Weddings, located at 2552 Alderwood Drive, San Jose, CA 95132, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MARSHALL DANTE HARDY 2552 Alderwood Dr.

San Jose, CA 95132 Registrant/Owner 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 16, 2015. (MVV Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015) EVOLUTION TRAINERS INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602942 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Evolution Trainers Inc., located at 2044 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): EVOLUTION TRAINERS 2044 Old Middlefield Way Mtn. View, CA 94043 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed Jan., 2006. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 23, 2015. (MVV Apr. 10, 17, 24, May 1,2015) GINSENG KOREAN B.B.Q & TOFU FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 603364 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ginseng Korean B.B.Q & Tofu, located at 475 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): GINSENG BBQ & TOFU INC. 1774 Clear Lake Ave. Milpitas, CA 95035 Registrant/Owner 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 April 3, 2015. (MVV Apr. 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2015) A & T 24 HRS. CARE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 603503 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: A & T 24 Hrs. Care, located at 996 Lane Ave., #1, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TANGIKINA LAULEA 996 Lane Ave. #1 Mountain View, CA 94040

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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DONALD W. GONSKI Case No.: 1-15-PR176145 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DONALD W. GONSKI. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ANDREW J. GONSKI and AUDREY MACKINNON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ANDREW J. GONSKI and AUDREY MACKINNON 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. A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 4, 2015 at 9:30 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. Attorney for Petitioner: Jason C. Morris 6100 Neil Road, Suite 500 Reno, NV 89511 (775)688-3000 (MVV Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV278721 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JANE LAI & LEO LIAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: DEAN LAI LIAN to DEAN ALEXANDER LIAN. 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 sched-

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uled 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 5, 2015, 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 27, 2015 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (MVV Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)

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The rising price per square foot for MV homes By Hadar Guibara

Depending on the square footage, that difference was as much as 25.2 percent higher in the last 12 months than in the 12 months previous.

hat a difference a year makes. In the Mountain View real estate market, that difference is a substantial increase in the median price paid per square foot for available homes. Depending on the square footage, that difference was as much as 25.2 percent higher in the last 12 months than in the 12 months previous. We’ll look at seven home-size categories and see the median sold price-per-squarefoot trend in each, comparing February 2014 through January 2015 (Period 1) and February 2013 through January 2014 (Period 2). 1,200 to 1,399 square feet: For homes sold during Period 1 in this size category, buyers paid an average of $703.75 per square foot. That was up 12.3 percent from $626.92 in Period 2. 1,499 to 1,599 square feet: The average price per square foot jumped 22.8 percent, from $587.25 in

Period 2 to $721.36 in Period 1. 1,600 to 1,799 square feet: The greatest increase in average square foot price paid was in this size category: $598.25 in Period 2 to $749.10 in Period 1, a jump of 25.2 percent. 1,800 to 1,999 square feet: In Period 1, buyers paid an average of $807.75 per square foot, compared with $680.10 in Period 2, for an increase of 18.8 percent. 2,000 to 2,499 square feet: In this size category, the average square

foot price rose 21.1 percent, moving from $662.75 in Period 2 to $802.83 in Period 1. 2,500 to 2,999 square feet: Buyers in this category of larger homes spent $782.33 per square foot in Period 1, an increase of 12.3 percent over Period 2, when the paid square foot price was $696.67. 3,000 to 3,999 square feet: In this category of the largest homes for which any substantial sales were made in the last two years, buyers paid $785.83 per square foot in Period 1, compared with $661.22 in Period 2, for an increase

of 18.8 percent. We do track two other home-size categories — 4,000 to 4,999 square feet and 5,000-plus square feet — but in the two years reviewed here, only one home was sold between both categories. In October 2013, a home in the 4,000 to 4,999 square foot range sold for $569 per square foot. Median price relaxing Taking into account the total price paid for single-family homes of all sizes, we saw a slight drop in January 2015, when the median figure was $1,394,000, down from $1,414,500 in December and $1,575,500 in November. In January there were 26 homes available in Mountain View on the Multiple Listing Service. In late February there were 14. Hadar Guibara is a Realtor with Sereno Group of Palo Alto. She can be reached at hadar@serenogroup.com.

April Single Family Home Local Activity update City:

Active: Pending: Sold: YTD

Lowest Price

Highest Price

Santa Clara

111

$403,000

$1,999,000

Sunnyvale

120

$562,500

$2,107,500

Mountain View

$729,000

$2,698,000

Los Altos

$1,698,000

$6,750,000

Los Altos Hills

$1,985,000

$25,000,000

Palo Alto

$1,399,000

$11,988,888

Menlo Park

$545,000

$6,650,000

Information obtained on MLS on April 6, 2015

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