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Students must upload a YouTube or Vimeo video explaining the app and what they learned through the competition process during the submission period between July 18 and midnight on Nov. 2. During the completion period, students will be provided opportunities to engage with various STEM educational partners located within the community to mentor and assist them with their app development, according to an announcement for the challenge.

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Council backs competing rent control measure PREVIOUSLY REJECTED BINDING ARBITRATION PROGRAM LIKELY TO APPEAR ON FALL BALLOT, ALONG WITH CITIZEN INITIATIVE Chambers to the second stage of the Performing Arts Center, majority of the Mountain giving the council deliberations View City Council backed the appearance of a community plans for an alternate rent- theater production.

The packed meeting, which control ordinance as a challenge to a citizen-backed measure they stretched past midnight, included described as vague and inflexible. dozens of children from a local In a 4-2 vote at a special meeting computer camp who were typheld July 14, with Councilman ing away at Java code during the John Inks absent, the council deliberations.

It was also odd in other ways. directed staff to draw up a ballot measure based largely on a That very day enough signabinding-arbitration program it tures were validated by the city clerk to place on the ballot the had rejected earlier this year.

The City Council will review citizen-backed rent-control measure, dubbed the measure at the “Commua special meetStabilizaing on Aug. 9 ‘This is going to nity tion and Fair for a final vote that will deter- confuse voters. I can Rent initiative.”

That measure, mine whether almost guarantee authored by the it’s put on the Mountain View Nov. 8 ballot. you that both Tenants CoaliIf the measure tion, had been is approved, November’s elec- (measures) will go circulating for but tion could get down in defeat.’ months, at the eleventh complicated for hour, the mayor voters, with two COUNCILMAN LENNY SIEGEL called the specomplex proposcial meeting to als promising to regulate Mountain View’s run- draft a hasty alternative measure.

In the end, three of the four supaway apartment rents.

Last week’s meeting was a porters of the alternative measure strange scene in many ways. It — except Mayor Pat Showalter was a rare special meeting called — essentially voted to support a in the middle of the council’s ballot measure that looked a lot summer recess. Due to City like a binding arbitration proviHall renovations, the meeting See RENT CONTROL, page 6 was relocated from the Council

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Meggie Marron leads children in the Stretch to Kindergarten program to the hot lunch line at Theuerkauf Elementary School on July 18. Theuerkauf and Stevenson schools’ shared campus is one of the few locations for hungry children in the Mountain View Whisman district to receive free lunches while school is out for the summer.

A not-so-seamless summer for hungry kids LOW-INCOME CHILDREN MISSING OUT ON FREE MEALS DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS

By Kevin Forestieri

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heuerkauf Elementary has been a busy, bustling hub for kids and families in Mountain View over the last month. The school is one of only a few sites in the city where children can get a free bite to eat, an essential resource for families who struggle to afford food.

But this week, the campus

will be closing the door on its summer food program, leaving a three-week gap until school starts, with its free and reduced hot lunches. And it raises questions about whether the city’s neediest kids will have to go hungry.

Every summer, the Mountain View Whisman School District hosts its “Seamless Summer” lunch program, giv-

ing anyone under the age of 18 access to a free meal, paid for by federal funds. This year the district served up its regular school food menu along with a full salad bar at Theuerkauf and Stevenson Elementary, distributing lunches to more than 1,000 kids each day.

But inevitably, school districts in Mountain View and throughout California are running into the same problem — many of the students who rely most on the free meals during the school year are not showing up during the summer.

A recent report by the research group California Food See HUNGER, page 10

Downtown cherry trees not very cheery DRY AND DYING FROM DROUGHT, TREES TO BE CHOPPED DOWN AND REPLACED

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t least 40 cherry trees planted along Mountain View’s downtown medians are dying and will likely need to be removed in the coming months, another casualty of California’s ongoing drought, according to city parks officials.

After years of state-mandated water restrictions, city officials say they have been prohibited from irrigating the trees, which have become stressed and are starting to die.

“It’s one of the those unfortunate byproducts of following the rules and regulations we got stuck with,” said Bruce Hurlburt, city open-space and parks manager. “I’m as frustrated as anyone else. It’s one of those things where you’re caught in the middle no matter what you do.”

California’s drought officially started in 2012, but for many the emergency truly hit home three years later when Gov. Jerry Brown declared an emergency and imposed severe mandatory water-conservation measures.

Mountain View staff was prohibited from turning on the sprinkler system in the medians.

In a sense, many elements of downtown Mountain View are conspicuous remnants from a pre-drought mindset. There’s the city’s downtown water fountain at the Civic Center Plaza that has been shut off and empty for years. Another example is the Castro Street medians, which were planted with cherry trees and ornamental grass turf that See TREES, page 9

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Trees planted in the median strip along downtown Castro Street are dying off due to drought-related stress and are slated to be cut down and replaced.

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sion they’d voted down just a few months earlier.

Using a line of argument echoed by his fellow supporters, Councilman Mike Kasperzak said he opposed rent control but nevertheless felt that a council-backed proposal deserved a public vote.

He admitted that he thought the citizen-backed rent control measure was going to fall short in collecting signatures.

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” he said when asked why he was now backing a rentcontrol plan. Kasperzak referred to polls that he later explained indicated that Mountain View voters wanted to pass something to address the housing crisis.

“I want to see if there’s a way to provide some rental protection, and I think it’s incumbent on us to give (voters) an alternative,” he said. “If you trust the voters to do the right thing, you have to trust them to do it in all situations, and you can’t say they’re easily confused.”

But the premise of the lastminute meeting and the council’s new-found interest in bringing rent control to a public vote was called into question by numerous public speakers, many of whom waved placards and signs reading “political dirty trick.”

“When two similar measures appear on the ballot, it dooms both of them,” said Michael Kahan, a signature-gatherer with the tenants’ coalition. “I’m concerned this might be a simple ploy to undermine our efforts.”

The citizen-backed ballot measure calls for a rent-cap system that would essentially limit annual increases to the rate of inflation, as determined by the Bay Area Consumer Price Index. Overseeing this process would be a new rental-housing committee, a fivemember panel appointed by the council that would be in charge of setting allowable rents or making new regulations. Landlords and tenants could petition the committee to make exceptions for special circumstances.

The measure also includes “just-cause eviction” protections that would set criteria for when landlords can evict tenants, such as failure to pay, causing a nuisance or criminal activity.

Amending city’s charter For the council, the most controversial aspect of the tenants’ coalition measure is that it is written as a city charter amendment. That means, if passed, its provisions would be enshrined in the city charter, making them irrevocable unless amended at the ballot box.

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Members of the Mountain View Tenants Coalition held a demonstration before heading into a special City Council meeting to discuss a competing rent control ballot measure on July 14.

were added to the Constitution,” as Kasperzak put it.

“Any council should take a charter amendment very seriously,” said Councilman Chris Clark.

“This is the city’s constitution and it should be amended sparingly.”

But members of the tenants coalition pointed out they had been urging the city for nearly a year to take stronger action to prevent Mountain View renters from being displaced. The citizenbacked initiative was drafted as a charter amendment because other cities saw rental restrictions immediately overturned once the political winds had changed, said Juliet Brodie, director of the Stanford Law Clinic and an adviser to the Tenants Coalition.

Compared with other rentcontrol proposals, she said, her group’s proposal was “moderate” for having a higher cap on rent increases and language to deactivate its policies if too many apartments became vacant.

“Through hook or crook, action or inaction, the people of Mountain View are going to be asked to vote on this charter amendment,” Brodie said. “It’s our position that a competing measure on the ballot passed in haste will only divide the vote.”

Members of the California Apartment Association were present at the July 14 meeting, but they did not speak at it.

Contacted after the meeting, CAA Vice President Josh Howard told the Voice that his organization is strongly opposed to any effort to embed rent-control provisions in a city charter. Yet his group would also likely come out against any binding-arbitration program put forward by the city, he said.

“It’s difficult to comment on a

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ballot measure that’s still being drafted,” Howard said. “We do consider binding arbitration a form of rent control, and we’re very concerned about any rentcontrol measure, whether it’s before the council or on the ballot.”

Duplicate language At the outset of the meeting, Mayor Showalter proposed taking the ballot language of the tenant coalition’s measure and inserting it into a separate measure written as a city ordinance. That change would allow future councils to tweak the language based on changing circumstances or unintended consequences, she said.

But it quickly became apparent that other council members had irreconcilable differences with the citizen-backed measure. In a straw vote, only Showalter supported the idea of borrowing its language.

Meanwhile, other members criticized the tenant group’s measure for vague language that could leave the city on the hook for costs and liabilities. Kasperzak pointed out the measure’s proposed rental committee could hire its own staff and make its own expenditures, but the city would be required to defend its actions from any legal challenges.

A tenuous consensus instead backed the idea of dusting off a previous staff proposal of creating a multi-tiered binding-arbitration system. In March, the council approved a version of this program, but they gutted its centerpiece: an independent mediator who could determine binding outcomes to landlord-tenant disputes. Facing heavy opposition from landlord groups, the council

weakened the language so that mediators could only make suggestions to resolve disputes.

Showalter, along with council members Chris Clark, John McAlister, and Kasperzak, voted in support of drafting a binding-arbitration measure. They specified that the measure should have a 5 percent cap on rent increases to trigger mediation and that landlords could “bank” rent increases to allow higher rent hikes to account for prior years with no increases. The council’s measure would also include “just cause” eviction protections identical to those in the tenant coalition’s measure.

Amendments to the ordinance, they stipulated, could be made only by a five-vote council supermajority.

“Voters deserve an alternative,” Clark said, adding that he would campaign for the city’s measure.

While he opposed its provisions, he said, he would tell voters that if they were going to vote for a rentcontrol initiative, then the city’s measure was the one to support.

The council opponents, Lenny Siegel and Ken Rosenberg, became increasingly frustrated with their colleagues as the meeting wore on. Voters already had a choice in this election, Siegel reminded them: They could simply vote down the citizen-backed measure if they thought it was too flawed. He pointed out that a recent survey found that many people living out of their cars in Mountain View cited recent rent increases as the top reason for how they became homeless.

“This is going to confuse voters.

I can almost guarantee you that both (measures) will go down in defeat,” Siegel said. “I don’t know how you’d tell someone, ‘vote for this one, but not this one.’”

Rosenberg, an opponent of rent control, complained that his colleagues were being insincere and inconsistent by backing a measure they didn’t actually support.

“If the council is going to put something on the ballot, we have to support it, and then we’re going against the will of our residents,” he said. “Democracy trumps policy, and the (tenants’ coalition) has done the hard work.”

After a series of 4-2 straw votes, the council gave direction to the city attorney to draft an ordinance that will be reviewed on Aug. 9 for a final decision.

In the event that both measures receive enough votes to pass, the citizen-backed charter amendment would supersede the council-backed measure, according to the city attorney.

Citizen rent control initiative qualifies for ballot The Mountain View Tenants Coalition announced last Thursday that its rent control ballot initiative has qualified to appear on the November ballot.

A statement released by the grassroots group on July 14 said that it was notified by the Santa Clara County Registrar’s Office that it had gathered enough valid signatures of Mountain View voters. The Mountain View Tenants Coalition submitted 7,311 signatures, and at least 4,671 were found valid, enough to qualify the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent initiative for this fall’s ballot.

“While we were very confident we had submitted sufficient signatures, it is still a big

step forward for the campaign to receive certification from the county,” said Joan MacDonald, a founding member of the group.

The initiative would impose a cap on rent hikes in the city, forcing most landlords to keep annual increases in the range of 2 to 5 percent. It comes in response to what many have described as a crisis in Mountain View’s rental housing market. In the past year, dozens of renters have spoken before the council, pleading for relief from large rent increases that they say are forcing people out of the city and sometimes into homelessness.

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November election: who will run?

ELECTION FILING PERIOD OPENS FOR LOCAL CANDIDATES

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he local election season is officially kicking off this week. The filing period for candidates to run in the Nov. 8 election opened on Monday, July 18.

While incumbents and prospective candidates have until Friday, Aug. 12, to file their papers, several people have already declared their intention to run and launched their campaigns. Here’s an early look at who’s running and who isn’t.

City Council So far, the Mountain View City Council has six candidates competing for four seats up for election this November. The candidates are Parks and Recreation Commissioner Thida Cornes, former councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga, Human Relations Commissioner Lucas Ramirez, Planning Commissioner Lisa Matichak and incumbent councilmen John McAlister and Chris Clark. Due to the

city’s term-limit rules, current councilmen John Inks and Mike Kasperzak are ineligible to run for re-election to the sevenmember council.

School boards Two members of the fivemember Mountain View Whisman School District board of trusteees, Steve Nelson and Bill Lambert, announced that they will not be running for reelection this November, leaving both seats open. The third seat that will be up for election is held by Jose Gutierrez, who was appointed in August of last year to replace former board member Chris Chiang, who resigned.

Gutierrez confirmed with the Voice Monday that he does plan to run for re-election.

The terms of Mountain ViewLos Altos High School District board members Phil Faillace and Susan Sweeley are ending this year. Faillace said he plans to run for re-election. Sweeley has not announced whether she will seek a fourth term.

Sanjay Dave, a Mountain View resident and district parent, announced in May his plans to run for a seat on the board.

Dave ran unsuccessfully for the high school board in 2014, and vied for the appointed seat on the Mountain View Whisman School Board last year that went to Jose Gutierrez.

The terms of Los Altos School District board members Steve Taglio and Pablo Luther end this year. Both declined to state whether they intend to run for another term, although Taglio said he intends to pull papers from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters during the filing period. A third seat will also be on the November ballot for the remaining term of board member Tamara Logan, who announced her plans to resign next month instead of waiting until her terms ends in December of 2018. Jessica Speiser, PTA president of Covington Elementary, recently announced a bid for the school board.

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The lifeless brown cherry trees are a blight on Mountain View’s downtown strip, said Roy Mize, a local resident who brought his concerns to city officials. He suggested the city could have taken out the grass along the medians and replaced it with wood chips or some other material.

“If this is going to be the facade of City Hall, it’s not a very good picture,” he said.

“There’s things we could do if our hands were just untied a little.”

But even if city officials had taken a tanker truck and went around to individually water the cherry trees, it’s still likely that they would have died, Hurlburt said. After years of plentiful irrigation, the trees had developed a shallow root system that limited their ability to tap water that soaked deep into the ground, he said.

The city similarly stopped irrigating dozens of redwoods and other trees planted along the medians of Middlefield Road, but those seem healthy, Hurlburt said. Mountain View

parks officials were able to water other road medians throughout the city while following a citywide goal to reduce water-use by 20 percent over the last three years, he said.

Despite 2016 being a much wetter year, California’s trees are continuing to suffer from the drought years, and experts say that California’s once-verdant forests remain desiccated and stressed. Last month, the U.S. Forest Service announced it had tallied at least 66 million trees that had died throughout the Sierra Nevada range from the drought conditions and insect infestations, which now present a looming fire danger.

Hurlburt said the city officials had no immediate plans to remove the downtown cherry trees, but they would discuss it later this year. Sometime in the fall, city parks officials plan to hire a landscape architect to work on redesigning the Castro Street medians.

Any future design for the medians would emphasize low-water use and droughttolerant vegetation, Hurlburt said.

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‘I’m trying to get meals to as many places as possible, because you never know who is hungry in our city.’

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Policy Advocates found that a vast majority of students from low-income families are missing out on the free meals they rely on during the school year.

The report found that about 2 million students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals in California participate in the school lunch program during March and April, but that number plunges to less than 300,000 during July — meaning 85 percent are no longer accessing the meals they relied on during the school year.

The causes for the drop in participation are manifold: the number of places where kids can get a free meal drops significantly during the summer, making transportation a challenge, and programs typically only last for a portion of the summer months, leaving families with gaps at the start and end of the summer break.

Participation in summer food programs hardly improves when looking solely at Santa Clara County, where 84 percent of the kids who benefit from subsidized lunches don’t have access to school meals during the summer — an estimated 44,501 children, according to the report.

Of the 5,084 students enrolled in the Mountain View Whisman School District last year, 1,855 qualified for free and reduced lunch.

It’s hard to avoid the sudden loss of accessibility during the summer, according to Kathy Jackson, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. School districts go from operating food services at every campus during the school year to just a small handful of locations. Just getting to the sites can be a big hurdle, Jackson said, and working parents may not be around to drive their kids to a campus across town. This could be particularly tough for Mountain View families this year because both summer food sites — Theuerkauf and Stevenson — share the same campus, effectively focusing all of the food services at a single location.

“All of the arrangements that you have during the school year, whether it’s child care or food, it all changes during the summer,” she said. “Summer is kind of the season of childhood hunger.”

School districts are responsible for operating most of the roughly 115 summer food sites in Santa Clara County. Similar to the Mountain View Whisman School District, these programs typically last anywhere from four to six weeks, which Jackson said 10

DEBORAH AUSTIN, DIRECTOR OF CHILD NUTRITION, MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Melissa Martinez, an intern with the Stretch to Kindergarten program, eats lunch with students at Theuerkauf School on July 18. Free lunches were served to anyone under 18 for six weeks this summer, but the program ends this week.

leaves a gap that can be difficult to fill before school starts in August.

District staff did not respond to an inquiry by the Voice on why the summer lunch program last just six weeks when summer vacation lasts 10 weeks.

Although Second Harvest serves primarily as a food bank, Jackson said the organization plays the role of a “megaphone” during the summer months, alerting residents to any food programs in the area. The hope, she said, is that families will be able to seek out nonprofits, pantry services and soup kitchens once school districts shut the door on short-lived summer lunch programs.

District officials at Mountain View Whisman say they have done their part to feed as many kids as possible during the summer. Deborah Austin, the director of child nutrition, said the district has been serving up more than 1,000 meals per day, and has extended its reach by allowing staff from Trinity Methodist Church and the city of Mountain View’s Recreation Department to pick up and deliver meals across town. It’s unclear how many of these meals reach children from low-income families because kids in those programs are served the lunches regardless of need.

“I’m trying to get meals to as many places as possible, because you never know who is hungry in our city,” Austin said. “Food is so important for our children.”

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an incentive to serve as many children as possible. Whether the reimbursements cover all the costs depends on how much it costs to cook, and how many kids show up. At a board meeting in May, Chief Business Officer Robert Clark argued that the district should soak up any deficit spending on the program if it means feeding more families.

“Even if (the budget) didn’t quite fit, it’s the right thing to do,” Clark said.

While the data collected by the California Food Policy Advocates paints a bleak picture about summer hunger, there are signs that it’s getting better. Anna

Colby, a nutrition policy advocate for the nonprofit, there’s been a “modest” bump in the number of children getting a free meal in recent years, meaning availability and access could be improving.

“We have seen an increase in the number of meals served across the state, which is definitely a change of direction,” Colby said.

The report on summer hunger, co-authored by Colby, does not make major policy recommendations to food providers like school districts, and instead seeks to pressure state lawmakers to support a Summer Elec-

tronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) for Children program (formerly referred to as food stamps). The federally-funded program has been test-driven in other states, and is designed to help families purchase food during the summer while school is out. Colby said it’s important for state lawmakers to have the systems in place to implement a summer EBT program and take advantage of federal funding if the opportunity comes along.

Colby said it’s hard to point fingers at any one agency for the low level of participation in summer lunch programs, and that school districts are likely doing whatever they can to improve outreach and serve as many children as possible. More school sites could be opened during the summer, she said, but it’s going to take a multi-faceted approach to help everyone.

“Even if summer meal programs were operated everywhere they could, some kids would still fall through the cracks,” Colby said.

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Meggie Marron chats with kids during lunch at Theuerkauf School.

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153 S. Clark Ave, Los Altos

737 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto

12380 Gigli Court, Los Altos

4084 Wilkie Way, Palo Alto

26875 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

420 Cambridge Ave #2, Palo Alto

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25617 W. Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills

473 Ferne Ave, Palo Alto

26991 Taaffe Road, Los Altos Hills

3623 Glenwood Ave, Redwood City

27811 Saddle Court, Los Altos Hills

1052 Doheny Terrace, Sunnyvale

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3396 Park Blvd, Palo Alto

1737 University Ave, Palo Alto

3797 Louis Road, Palo Alto

285 Wooded View Dr, Los Gatos

831 Chimalus Dr, Palo Alto

202 Camino Al Lago, Atherton

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LASD may share parcel tax with Bullis Charter School NEW POLLING DATA SHOWS THAT INCLUDING BCS WON’T SINK PROPOSED NOVEMBER BALLOT MEASURE

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os Altos School District board members signaled last week that they would be willing to include Bullis Charter School as a beneficiary of a parcel tax measure they plan to put on the November ballot.

The board had earlier talked about renewing its current $193 Measure E parcel tax, which expires next June and generates about $2.5 million in annual funding for schools.

Until recently, the plan was to try for a straight renewal of the tax — with no increase — to gain the necessary two-thirds support to pass.

But board members shifted gears last month, suggesting that the tax could be increased by a small amount to allow the district to share the revenue with Bullis Charter School. The charter school has traditionally been excluded from the language of parcel tax measures, and does not receive any of the roughly $10 million in annual revenue generated by the district’s two existing parcel taxes.

Board member Tamara Logan, who brought up the idea of sharing the tax revenue at the June 6 board meeting, said there was “considerable pressure” by members of the Los Altos Hills City Council to include Bullis as a recipient of tax revenue when writing the ballot measure. She said

she would be willing to give the charter school a cut of the revenue, but only if it comes exclusively from a tax hike.

“I’m not personally in favor of handing over dollars without an increase, because that means a proportional cut to our student programs,” Logan said.

Much of that pressure came from council member John Radford, who warned school district officials at an April council meeting that the district needs the support of the charter school community, and support from Los Altos Hills residents, to get a two-thirds majority of votes. That support, Radford said, is contingent on whether the charter school gets a share of the money. A higher proportion of students from Los Altos Hills attend Bullis Charter School, due in part to an old policy that used to give enrollment priority to residents from the town.

Although polling data suggests that a parcel tax renewal would succeed by a comfortable margin, Measure E originally passed in 2011 by a razor-thin margin. The tax’s revenue helps to pay for some of the core district costs, including teacher compensation and classroom materials, and was originally intended to fill budgetary holes caused by the 2008 recession, according to district budget reports.

New polling data presented at the district’s July 14 special

board meeting indicated that a ballot measure for a new $223 annual parcel tax — an increase of $30 over the current tax — would manage to clinch the needed two-thirds majority of votes. Of the 400 people surveyed, 68 percent said they would agree or “somewhat agree” to support the higher tax. The $30 bump could generate upwards of $375,000 in added revenue annually.

About 25 percent of students in the Los Altos School District live in Mountain View. The district boundaries encompass Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and a portion of Mountain View.

Logan said she was happy with the results of the survey, and that she would be willing to lend her support for a higher parcel tax to support Bullis.

But, she added, the charter school must be far more forthcoming with enrollment data and budget reports so that the school district can ensure the tax revenue is appropriately spent. Getting public documents from the charter school thus far has been “like pulling teeth,” she said.

“It’s important to me that we have a parcel tax that has teeth, that says the board and the district have total legal authority to look at (the data) and review it.”

Board member Sangeeth Peruri said sharing the parcel tax could go a long way toward healing the strained relations between the school district and

Bullis, and agreed that concerns related to fiscal oversight need to be addressed before the board can approve the parcel tax measure for the November ballot. Peruri suggested that the charter school leadership may not want the added oversight, and would rather not be a recipient of parcel tax money with strings attached.

“If BCS doesn’t want the parcel tax, I would be fine with BCS not getting a portion of the parcel tax,” he said. “I think staff should talk to Bullis ... we actually don’t know for sure.”

Charter school parents told board members that it’s important to support a parcel tax that treats all public school students equally, and that families who choose Bullis have been paying parcel taxes without reaping the benefits. Jill Jene, a parent of two children attending Bullis, said students ought to receive an equal share of public resources regardless of which school they attend, “I urge the distribution of any funds collected to be shared equally among all public school students,” Jene said. “It’s only fair, and there shouldn’t be any discrimination against any child ever.”

Following the meeting, Bullis Charter School board president John Phelps told the Voice in an email that the school district trustees should be applauded for showing support for the charter school in the upcoming

DRUMMING UP SOME EXCITEMENT Elise Fujimoto leads a percussive performance of taiko drumming at the Obon Festival and Bazaar hosted by the Mountain View Buddhist Temple on July 16-17. The annual event, which includes copious amounts of food, Japanese cultural activities and displays, and plenty of live performances, culminates in the bon odori dance, a community ceremony remembering the spirits of departed family members and ancestors.

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parcel tax election, which could go towards closing a major “funding disparity” between Bullis and district-run schools.

Phelps said the charter school will welcome the opportunity to work with the district to ensure “rigorous fiscal oversight” of the parcel tax expenditures, and that he looks forward to crafting the language of the tax measure in the coming weeks.

“We have every expectation that this process of sharing parcel tax with the Los Altos School District will be cooperative and transparent,” he said.

Most school districts across California do not share parcel tax and bond revenue with local charter schools, though the trend is shifting. School districts including San Francisco Unified, Oakland Unified and Alameda Unified are among a handful of large Bay Area districts that have started to share the revenue with charter schools. Earlier this year, West Contra Costa Unified School District began sharing revenue from its 2012 Measure G parcel tax, but only after a lengthy legal battle with the California Charter School Association.

Under a tentative schedule, the board is expected to approve a resolution calling for the November parcel tax election on Aug. 8, just days ahead of the Aug. 12 deadline to file with the county.

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Three seats on the Foothill-De Anza Community College District are also up for election this year. The terms of board members Joan Barram, Betsy Bechtel and Laura Casas expire this year. Patrick Ahrens, a former De Anza College student; Peter Landsberger, an active board member of the Foothill-De Anza Foundation; and Cupertino City Council member Gilbert Wong have announced their intent to run for a seat on the college board.

Hospital district All three incumbents whose terms on El Camino Healthcare District board of directors end this year — Julia Miller, John Zoglin and Dennis Chiu — have announced their intent to run for re-election. No challengers have yet come forward to make it a contested election.

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or anyone with a food craving, it’s hard to go wrong in Mountain View.

Our bustling little city is home to a galaxy of options for everything from burritos to baba ghanoush, pearl tea to Hawaiian poke.

If you can tear yourself away from the many eateries representing cuisines from around the world, Voice readers can tell you where to find the coolest shops, the most happening happy hours and great services for everything from

personal trainers to manicurists, auto body shops to shoe repair.

But don’t fear straying into uncharted territory. Every year, we ask our readers to vote for their favorite places and offer this annual guide to the very best that Mountain View has to offer. Whether you’re new in town or just wondering if you’re missing out on something that’s out of this world, we invite you to boldly explore our list of 2016’s top vote-getters.

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photographers Michelle Le, Veronica Weber, Magali Gauthier and Natalia Nazarova designer Paul Llewellyn

restaurants BREAKFAST

Crepevine 300 Castro St.; 650-969-6878. crepevine.com

CHINESE Chef Chu’s 1067 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos; 650-948-2696. chefchu.com

COFFEE HOUSE (INDEPENDENT)

SUSHI/JAPANESE

PRODUCE

PERSONAL TRAINER

Sushi Tomi 635 W Dana St.; 650-968-3227. sushitomi.com/new_english.html

Mountain View Farmers Market Mountain View Caltrain Station parking lot, 600 W Evelyn Ave.; 800-806-3276. cafarmersmkts. com/mountain-view-farmersmarket

INTENTIO Fitness Coaching See Fitness Coaching

THAI Amarin Thai 174-176 Castro St.; 650-988-9323. amarinthaicuisine.com

VEGETARIAN Garden Fresh 1245 West El Camino Real; 650-254-1688. gardenfresh.us

Red Rock Coffee 201 Castro St.; 650-967-4473. redrockcoffee.org

VIETNAMESE

FINE DINING

food and drink

La Fontaine 186 Castro St.; 650-968-2300. lafontainerestaurant.com

FUSION Xanh 110 Castro St.; 650-964-1888. xanhrestaurant.com

INDIAN Park Balluchi 288 Castro St.; 650-960-1000. parkballuchiusa.com

ITALIAN Ristorante Don Giovanni 235 Castro St.; 650-961-9741. dongiovannis.com

MEDITERRANEAN Mediterranean Grill House 650 Castro St.; 650-625-9992. mediterraneangrillhouse.com

MEXICAN Fiesta Del Mar Too 935 Villa St.; 650-967-3525. fiestadelmar.com

MIDDLE EASTERN Mediterranean Grill House See Mediterranean Restaurant

NEW RESTAURANT Poke Bar 340 Castro St.; 650-967-9728. ilovepokebar.com

PATIO/OUTDOOR DINING La Fontaine See Fine Dining

PLACE FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH La Fontaine See Fine Dining

SEAFOOD Pacific Catch 545 San Antonio Road; 650-941-1810. pacificcatch.com/ locations/mountain-view/

Xanh See Fusion

BAGELS

House of Bagels 1712 Miramonte Ave.; 650-694-4888. houseofbagelsonline.com

BAKERY Alexander’s Patisserie 209 Castro St.; 650-864-9999. alexanderspatisserie.com

BAR Molly MaGees 241 Castro St.; 650-961-0108. mollysmtview.com

BBQ

SMALL GROCERY STORE Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli 340 Castro St.; 650-961-5652. avasdowntownmarket.com

TAKE OUT Poke Bar See New Restaurant

services

AUTO BODY REPAIR Bedford Auto Repair 2145 Old Middlefield Way; 650-961-4100. bedfordautobody.com

AUTO REPAIR Larry’s Autoworks 2526 Leghorn St.; 650-968-5202. autoworks.com

CHIROPRACTOR Movement Chiropractic and Wellness 694 W. Dana St., Mountain View; 650-429-8132. mvmtchiropractic.com

DENTIST

Armadillo Willy’s 1031 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos; 650-941-2922. armadillowillys.com

Dental Fabulous 756 California St.; 650-969-6077. dentalfabulous.com

BURGERS

FITNESS CLASSES

Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler 651 West El Camino Real; 650-967-0851. clarkes.com

24 Hour Fitness 550 Showers Dr.; 650-941-2268.

24hourfitness.com

BURRITO

GYM

La Costeña 235 E Middlefield Road; 650-967-0507. costena.com

24 Hour Fitness Super Sport 550 Showers Dr.; 650-941-2268.

24hourfitness.com

DELI

HAIR SALON

OIL CHANGE Jiffy Lube 1141 W. El Camino Real; 650-965-2582. jiffylube.com

PET CARE Adobe Animal Hospital 4470 El Camino Real, Los Altos, 650-948-9661; adobe-animal.com

SHOE REPAIR Model Shoe Repair 621 W. Dana St.; 650-961-8389.

YOGA Yoga Belly 455 Castro St.; 650-862-3976. yogabellystudio.com

retail BIKE SHOP Cognition Cyclery 903 Castro St.; 650-386-1955. cognitioncyclery.com

BOOKSTORE Books Inc 301 Castro St.; 650-428-1234. booksinc.net

BOUTIQUE Therapy 250 Castro St.; 650-691-1196. shopattherapy.com

FLORIST Fleur De Lis 811 Castro St.; 650-968-0220. fdlflowers.com/#cid=glbc

HARDWARE STORE Blossom True Value Hardware 1297 W. El Camino Real; 650-9647871. ww3.truevalue.com/blossom/

UNUSUAL GIFTS Therapy See Boutique

Dittmer’s Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus 4540 El Camino Real, Los Altos; 650-941-3800. dittmers.com

Essence Salon 826 W. Dana St.; 650-988-8822. essencesalon.com

ICE CREAM/ FROZEN YOGURT

Hilton Garden Inn 840 E. El Camino Real; 650-964-1700. hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com

Cascal 400 Castro St.; 650-940-9500. cascalrestaurant.com

MANICURE

Shoreline Lake 3160 N Shoreline Blvd.; 650-965-7373. shorelinelake.com

Gelato Classico 241B Castro St.; 650-969-2900. gelatoclassico.com

NOODLES

HOTEL

fun stuff HAPPY HOUR

PLACE FOR A DATE

Maru Ichi 368 Castro St.; 650-564-9931.

Allure Salon 888 Villa St.; 650-938-8777. mvalluresalon.com

PEARL TEA

MASSAGE

Tea Era 271 Castro St.; 650-969-2899. teaeracafe.com

Massage Envy 1040 Grant Road #110; 650-961-3689. massageenvy.com

Shoreline Amphitheatre 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View; 650-965-7474. shorelineamphitheatre.com

PIZZA

NUTRITION/WEIGHT LOSS

PLACE TO TAKE A VISITOR

Blue Line Pizza 146 Castro St.; 650-938-7888. bluelinepizza.com

INTENTIO Fitness Coaching 260 Moffett Blvd.; 650-963-9888. intentio.com

Shoreline Park 3070 N Shoreline Blvd.; 650-965-7474. mountainview.gov

PLACE FOR LIVE MUSIC

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BEST OF MOUNTAIN VIEW 2016

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La Fontaine line cook Tito Romero (left) and chef/owner Hasan Yildiz prepare food.

Restaurants BREAKFAST

Fiesta Del Mar Too Gourmet Mexican Cuisine VIEW

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2 Great Mountain View Locations Fiesta Del Mar TOO 735 Villa Street, 650-967-3525 fiestadelmar.com SEAFOOD, ROTISSERIE, MEXICAN CUISINE & CANTINA

AGAVE Mexican Bistro 194 Castro Street, 650-969-6767 Beautiful Back Patio Dining Banquets & Large Groups

Reservations Available agaveca.com

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With nine locations outside Mountain View, Crepevine is no stranger to the breakfast scene. Crepevine aims to provide the freshest, healthiest ingredients while keeping prices low and making everything from scratch. The restaurant features a wide range of crepe dishes, from savory to sweet, like the “midnight blues” made with blueberries, banana, rum sauce and topped with whipped cream and ice cream.

300 Castro St.; 650-969-6878. crepevine.com

CHINESE Chef Chu’s has been a favorite of Mountain View residents since it was first established

by Lawrence Chu in the 1970s.

Praised by long-time customers for its hospitality and attention to detail, Chef Chu’s offers both gourmet lunches and traditional Chinese noodles, catering to those just developing their taste buds and the more adventurous.

The tangy lemon chicken, made with Chef Chu’s famous lemon sauce, is a boneless chicken breast dipped in batter, deepfried and glazed with the sauce.

Other signature dishes include the South Sea-style stir-fried barbecue pork and the kung pao calamari, representing a wide variety of regional specialties.

1067 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos; 650-948-2696. chefchu.com

COFFEE HOUSE (INDEPENDENT) Built on the values of caffeine, culture and community, Red Rock Coffee strives to be more than just a coffee shop. On the first floor, customers come in for the coffee, loose-leaf teas and classic cappuccino made from a special house blend.

The second floor features open mic nights, live music, comedians and a story hour every week. The community part of the equation comes in through Red Rock’s continued support of local programs like AVID, MVLA Scholars, and the Mountain View Library.

201 Castro St.; 650-967-4473. redrockcoffee.org

FINE DINING La Fontaine may be a new winner, but this French and Italian fusion restaurant has already proved itself to be a hot spot, with readers naming it the best place for fine dining, as well as having the best outdoor dining and as the best place for a business lunch. La Fontaine offers a menu that strives for high cuisine. Popular dishes include the Burgundy-braised short ribs and the salmon Wellington, which is salmon stuffed with leeks and rock shrimp that’s wrapped in puff pastry and served over saffron risotto.

186 Castro St.; 650-968-2300. lafontainerestaurant.com

FUSION Xanh’s sleek design and focus on sophistication gives an indication as to why our readers have once again voted it the best fusion restaurant and the best Vietnamese restaurant.

Xanh, pronounced “sun,” offers a buffet-style lunch, catering, and a lounge and bar featuring its signature cocktails. Favorite menu items include the shaking beef, the New Zealand rack of lamb, and “pho you pho me”, a beef broth with filet mignon and rice noodles served with bean sprouts, Thai basil and jalapeno peppers.

110 Castro St.; 650-964-1888. xanhrestaurant.com

INDIAN A new winner this year, Park Balluchi labels itself as a fine dining experience with a comfortable and contemporary ambiance offering a full bar, lunch buffet and catering. Using organic and fresh ingredients grown locally, the restaurant offers both vegetarian and nonvegetarian food in the style of North Indian cuisine and Punjabi traditional village cooking.

Specialties include a the Kashmiri roganjosh, a lamb curry from the valley of Jammu and Kashmir, and a garbanzo curry called chana bhatura.

288 Castro St.; 650-960-1000. parkballuchiusa.com

BEST OF MOUNTAIN VIEW 2016 ITALIAN With a warm and inviting atmosphere, Ristorante Don Giovanni has been serving authentic Italian cuisine since founder and owner John Akkaya opened its doors in 1997. It has since become known as a goto establishment for meetings, banquets and parties. Must-try dishes include spaghetti alla Bolognese and tortellini alla Michelangelo — a pasta topped with chicken and veal over a creamy sauce.

235 Castro St.; 650-961-9741. dongiovannis.com

MEDITERRANEAN A family-operated business, Mediterranean Grill House is a new winner of this year’s best Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant categories.

At Mediterranean Grill House, the customers are key and their satisfaction is valued above all else by owner Hasan Ibrahim and his two sons. Their wraps, from falafels to shawarma, and kebob plates are the top draw.

650 Castro St.; 650-625-9992. mediterraneangrillhouse.com

COURTESY OF FIESTA DEL MAR TOO

Fiesta del Mar Too’s staff includes Ricardo Toriz, Pablo Gonzalez, Ricardo Contreras, Gabriel Cervantes, Bertha Fausto, Francisco Cervantes and Luis Toriz.

MEXICAN Long-time winner Fiesta Del Mar Too has been operating for 19 years under the guidance of owners Alexandro and Susan Garcia, with some help from

the whole family. Fiesta Del Mar Too is the sister restaurant to the now-closed Fiesta Del Mar and Agave Mexican Bistro, also located in downtown Mountain View. Customers keep coming

back for the authentic atmosphere, as well as the marinated rotisserie chicken, special recipe margaritas and the friendly staff.

935 Villa St.; 650-967-3525. fiestadelmar.com

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NEW RESTAURANT Located inside Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli, Poke Bar has only been open since November but has caught on quickly with Voice readers. Poke, a traditional Hawaiian appetizer made with raw fish, has already made its mark. With a dedication to providing fresh, high quality and healthy ingredients, Poke Bar offers customers the opportunity to create their own poke bowl by choosing from a variety of bases, flavors, toppings and proteins, from octopus to tofu, to create a unique dish.

340 Castro St.; 650-967-9728. ilovepokebar.com

PATIO/OUTDOOR DINING La Fontaine See Fine Dining

PLACE FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH La Fontaine See Fine Dining

SEAFOOD With a seafood menu that spans the Pacific Ocean, Pacific

Catch combines fine dining with the laid-back Californian vibe. Pacific Catch is dedicated to serving high quality seafood with recipes and ingredients from throughout the Pacific all while making sure its food is held to a responsible environmental standard. Signature dishes include the “Daily Catch,” served during lunch and dinner, as well as its variety of Hawaiian poke plates.

545 San Antonio Road; 650-941-1810. pacificcatch.com/ locations/mountain-view/

SUSHI/JAPANESE Sushi Tomi prioritizes its a menu full of classic Japanese cuisine and our readers have taken notice by once again voting it the best Japanese restaurant in Mountain View.

Customers take advantage of the sushi bar or sample the white tuna don, sliced white tuna on top of sushi rice glazed with a special sauce. For those who don’t like raw seafood, there are also plenty of non-sushi dishes available, including the teriyaki salmon.

635 W Dana St.; 650-968-3227. sushitomi.com/new_english. html

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THAI Started as a small family business in its original San Jose location, Amarin Thai has undergone a transformation into a high-quality restaurant with locations in three other

Bay Area cities. Amarin Thai has been our reader’s pick for best Thai restaurant year after year and it’s no wonder, with its variety of vegetarian and nonvegetarian Thai cuisine. House favorites include jumbo prawns

with spicy herbs and its sauteed chili seafood made with a combination of zucchini, bell pepper and basil.

174-176 Castro St.; 650-9889323. amarinthaicuisine.com

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VEGETARIAN Owners Robert Liang and Paul Hsueh started Garden Fresh with the intention of participating in the centuries old tradition of Chinese vegan cuisine.

Garden Fresh, a Humane Planet certified business, is dedicated

to using only the freshest and most organic ingredients available. Favorite dishes among our readers include the kun pao eggplant, a Japanese eggplant bathed in a spicy Szechuan sauce, and hand-rolled veggie wraps called basil moo shu rolls.

1245 West El Camino Real; 650-254-1688. gardenfresh.us

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food and Drink BAGELS House of Bagels has been a winner since 2012 for its New York-style bagels and traditional baking process. In business for over 20 years, House of Bagels

uses natural, unprocessed ingredients to make the dough every day, before boiling the bagels and topping them off with seeds, cheeses, sugars and more. House of Bagels is open from break-

fast through lunch and offers catering.

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BAKERY Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patisserie bills itself as a European pastry shop in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The business is lead by executive chef Dries Delanghe who incorporates

seasonal ingredients, his traditional European training and contemporary techniques into his pastries. Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patisserie offers a large selection of house-made sweets including cakes, tarts, cookies, French macarons, chocolates and confections.

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BAR Although Molly Magees is a first-time winner, its been serving up drinks since it was first established in 1997. This authentic Irish pub experience

gives customers the kind of laid back, homey atmosphere perfect for knocking back drinks and watching soccer or listening to the in-house DJs on weekends.

Daily specials include the Jager bomb and the Reyka Bloody Mary. On Whiskey Wednesdays, all whiskeys are half-price.

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restaurant was founded by John Berward more than 30 years ago to bring a little bit of that legendary Texan barbecue to the heart of the Silicon Valley.

Signature dishes include the Texas jalapeno-cheese sausage and the “Texas Trinity BBQ Plate,” a selection of brisket, ribs and sausage sure to please any meat lover.

1031 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos; 650-941-2922. armadillowillys.com

BURGERS If you want old-fashioned, charcoal-grilled burgers, then Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler is the way to go. A Mountain View mainstay for local burger lovers, Clarke’s has been serving up burgers and malts since 1945, weathering some management changes over the years. The Clarkesburger is a favorite menu item to enjoy on the dog-friendly patio or inside watching the game. Those in the mood for a splurge opt for the pork baby back ribs and the side orders like chili fries and beerbattered mushrooms. On the weekends, check out the special breakfast menu featuring

pancakes, omelets and a dish named after Mountain View.

651 West El Camino Real; 650-967-0851. clarkes.com

BURRITO As the one-time Guinness Record Holder for the World’s Largest Burrito, La Costeña is known for its super-sized burritos and its bean, rice and salsa fillings. But if burritos aren’t your thing, then try out La Costeña’s carne asada, a grilled sirloin steak, or the pollo en mole, a chicken bathed in mole, the traditional Mexican sauce made with toasted bread, nuts, cinnamon and a host of other spices. The menudo is served on weekends only.

235 East Middlefield Road; 650967-0507. costena.com

DELI Dittmer’s Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus has been offering an old-fashioned butcher shop and delicatessen experience since it first opened in 1978. Now relocated to Los Altos near the Mountain View border, Dittmer’s still offers sausages, smoked meats, fresh meats and house-made lunch meats. Appreciative customers

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have come to expect the more than 100 house-made and specialty items offered on a daily basis.

4540 El Camino Real, Los Altos; 650-941-3800. dittmers.com

ICE CREAM/ FROZEN YOGURT For a touch of Italian charm in your frozen treats, check out long-time reader favorite Gelato Classico. The ice cream shop

offers a taste of the romantic European getaway in every bite of the Italian ice cream and sorbets. It’s no wonder customers can often be seen forming a long line outside the shop.

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PEARL TEA Tea Era Taiwanese-inspired tea shop, emerged victorious amid a crowded field, with its milk teas, flavored teas and smoothies.

Customers can also try the boba in smoothie form with pearls.

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PIZZA Named after a train that runs from O’Hare Airport to downtown Chicago, Blue Line Pizza serves up — what else? — deepdish, Chicago-style pizza. One of the Bay Area branches of San Francisco’s Little Star Pizza expansion, Blue Line is known for the cornmeal crust on its deep-dish pizza and for its New York-style thin-crust pizza. It also offers gluten-free and vegan pizzas, and appetizers like spicy chicken wings, spicy meatballs and oven-roasted Shishito peppers.

146 Castro St.; 650-938-7888. bluelinepizza.com

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PRODUCE The award-winning Mountain View Farmers Market has long been favorite with locals. Open year-round, it’s the third largest of its kind in all of California.

The market, which first opened 22 years ago, showcases the goods from more than 80 farmers and food purveyors every Sunday near the Caltrain Station in downtown Mountain View. The market isn’t just a great place to find seasonal produce — it has received Congressional recognition for its efforts to provide produce to families in need.

Mountain View Caltrain Station parking lot, 600 W Evelyn Ave.; 800-8063276. cafarmersmkts.com/ mountain-view-farmers-market

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Once again, Maru Ichi has proven it’s a Mountain View favorite for its affordable prices and richly flavored homemade noodles. Our readers love the miso ramen for its spicy heat and the tender tilapia over a special sauce. Opt for a steaming bowl of of the signature ramen or try the soba and udon noodles served in savory broths with a variety of toppings.

368 Castro St.; 650-564-9931.

shaved ice and for a light snack there’s the fried calamari, popcorn chicken and Taiwanese sausage bento.

271 Castro St.; 650-969-2899. teaeracafe.com

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update training a year to stay on top of the latest technology. Larry’s is “the only shop in Mountain View to give a three-year or 36,000-mile written warranty.”

2526 Leghorn St.; 650-968-5202. autoworks.com

Bedford Auto Repair has won the title of Best Auto Body Repair thanks to its state-of-the-art collision repair services, focus on providing customer service, quality and “done right the first time” repairs. “I started the business when I was 24. I’d fallen in love with cars in high schools and restored show cars in the ’60s. To take something old and make it look new is an art. I take pride in every car I work on,” says owner Greg Bedford.

2145 Old Middlefield Way; 650-961-4100. bedfordautobody.com

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SMALL GROCERY STORE Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli strives to carry a selection of organic and gourmet food from around the Bay Area and around the world. The familyrun grocery provides high-qual-

ity, locally grown vegetables, grass-fed meats, organic dairy and fresh bread. In addition to its packaged and frozen food products, Ava’s Market offers house-made soups and hot table items every day for lunch. It also houses the popular Poke Bar inside the store.

340 Castro St.; 650-961-5652. avasdowntownmarket.com

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CHIROPRACTOR Movement Chiropractic and Wellness is a new winner this year, offering chiropractic therapy, adjustment, active release techniques and rehabilitation.

“My clinical approach is strongly focused on patient care with an emphasis on improving the patient’s mobility and function,” says the owner, Dr. Taylor Griffith. Nutritional and ergonomic advice, physiotherapy and consultation are also available, drawing in customers from various places in California. “My goal is to have patients leave with a greater knowledge of their injuries and the tools to help them prevent further injury. My patients vary from the weekend warrior to the elite athlete,” he said.

694 W. Dana St.; 650-429-8132. mvmtchiropractic.com

AUTO REPAIR Readers chose Larry’s Autoworks for Best Auto Repair, reflecting its 41 years of aiming to give customers peace of mind on their vehicle’s reliability.

Owners Laurie and Larry Moore say they pride themselves on being able to assist with “all of your auto service and repair needs.” Using top quality parts and the latest diagnostic equipment, Larry’s Autoworks staff attend an average of 40 hours of

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For the third year in a row, Dental Fabulous and its team, led by owner and principal dentist Dr. Huy Do, has won over the Mountain View community with its long-term commitment to providing cosmetic and preventative treatment. The staff at Dental Fabulous represent a variety of nationalities, creating a friendly environment where customers can speak Spanish or English and feel comfortable. Open Tuesday to Friday, with Saturday appointments also available.

756 California St.; 650-969-6077. dentalfabulous.com

Holiday Cleaners enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular and credible cleaning companies nationally for dry cleaning, providing customers with fast and reliable customer service. It makes cleaning easy, providing pick-up and drop-off services.

1350 Grant Road; 650-965-0281.

ness classes offered. The gym’s philosophy is to recognize that every client is an individual with specific goals and aims. 24 Hour Fitness’ motto, “We believe there is an athlete in all of us,” guides its mission to be affordable and open to people of all abilities.

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26875 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills Privacy, Elegance, and Spectacular Views A gated, tree-lined avenue leads to newly renovated hilltop grounds of 1.62 acres (per county), which include a 6 bedroom home of over 6,300 sq. ft. (per county) with 5 full and 2 half bathrooms and an additional poolhouse with 1 bathroom. Within this elegant estate, you can enjoy astounding bay views, immense privacy, luxurious yet versatile spaces, and a prime location within moments of Fremont Hills Country Club and with access to Palo Alto schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

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24 hours a day to accommodate even the busiest of schedules, the health and fitness center offers members personal training, group exercise classes, cardio and strength training equipment, a sauna and steam room, towel service and an indoor lap pool.

2535 California Ave.; 650-9412268.24. 24hourfitness.com/ Website/Club/814

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Since 2005, Essence Salon has aimed to create happiness through hairstyling, and Voice readers seem to agree. Essence offers a full line of services including hair styling, cutting and coloring. Customers venture from as far as San Francisco to receive personalized hair styles to reflect who they are. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The work is based on modern theories and techniques from around the world,â&#x20AC;? according to Jennifer Lei, the owner. The stylists have trained in different countries and have extensive insalon training, and some have expert Toni & Guy and Aveda training.

826 W. Dana St.; 650-988-8822. essencesalon.com

HOTEL For the second year in a row, Hilton Garden Inn has won acclaim as Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best hotel. The central location and buffet breakfast makes it a favorite choice among visitors.

Offering easy access to all major highways and public transportation, the hotel is conveniently located between downtown Mountain View and Sunnyvale.

With complimentary WiFi and a 24-hour business center, it caters to those traveling for business as well as for pleasure.

840 E. El Camino Real; 650964-1700. hiltongardeninn3. hilton.com

MANICURE For the past decade, Allure Salon has consistently won over our readers, who have named it the best salon in Mountain View. Earning praise from readers for its friendly staff and variety of services available, Allure offers skin, nails, makeup and eyelash services. Located downtown on Castro Street, Allure Salon staffers pride themselves on offering the most cuttingedge products.

888 Villa St.; 650-938-8777. mvalluresalon.com

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BEST OF MOUNTAIN VIEW 2016 MASSAGE Massage Envy offers everything from massage therapy to Murad healthy skin facial sessions.

“What makes us stand out is our pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, professional massage therapists and estheticians, and affordable membership prices,” says spa director Kim Gladden.

Massage Envy operates under the belief that everyone deserves a customized massage or facial, and makes relaxation and comfort a priority.

1040 Grant Road #110; 650-9613689. massageenvy.com

NUTRITION/ WEIGHT LOSS INTENTIO Fitness Coaching is a new winner that came out on top in two categories this year. Anna Hertel, the owner behind this newly formed fitness coaching, is a triathlete herself. Together with five other specialist coaches, INTENTIO aims to make fitness results attainable. “We love to work with busy individuals who care about their health and want to finally see results and learn how to maintain optimal vitality,” the website states.

The INTENTIO team members are experts in personal training, strength, power and functional movement. Nutritional advice, massage services and injury recovery are also available.

260 Moffett Blvd.; 650-963-9888. intentio.com

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OIL CHANGE For the third year in a row, the local Jiffy Lube has won as readers’ favorite oil change and automobile service center.

Its signature oil change is comprehensive, preventative and performed by trained technicians, who help customers select the right motor oil for their vehicles. The staff prides itself on being friendly and committed to meeting customers needs.

1141 W. El Camino Real; 650965-2582. jiffylube.com

PET CARE When Rover or Fluffy appears ill or is behaving strangely, voters — and pet owners — head

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intensive care unit, is equipped with an in-house diagnostic laboratory and endoscope and ultrasound machines, among other essential tools to help your furry friends stay healthy and happy.

to Adobe Animal Hospital. The veterinary clinic in Los Altos is open seven days a week and provides pets of all varieties a wide range of quality services.

The facility, which has a 24-hour

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SHOE REPAIR Customers may thank Model Shoe Repair for its reasonable prices and speedy, high quality service, but owner Sae Kim credits his success to his customers and their loyal support over the years. In addition to footwear repair and care, Model Shoe Repair also repairs purses,

belts, suitcases and luggage.

621 W. Dana St.; 650-961-8389.

YOGA Just like the motto suggests, Yoga Belly is “light on tradition but heavy on workout.”

Owners Aaron Goodnow and William Cristobal started the practice in 2010 with studios in Mountain View and San Jose in 2013. In the local community,

they became known for a host of wild parties, but soon after, they became known for creating their own studio for non-traditional yogis who simply love exercise. The unique approach offers a safe, enjoyable and positive environment to meditate and workout. Yogis can expect “wicked sequencing, funky playlists and a disco ball.”

455 Castro St.; 650-862-3976. yogabellystudio.com

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retail BIKE SHOP Cognition Cyclery is more than just an independently owned bike shop. It boasts top brands, years of experience and bicycle repair and servicing, a level of expertise clearly appreciated by this year’s voters who helped Cognition coast to victory. For a limited time this summer, renowned cycling biomechanics expert Sean Madsen, who has worked with Tour de France winners, will be available by appointment for bike-fitting in Cognition’s fit studio.

903 Castro St.; 650-386-1955. cognitioncyclery.com

BOOKSTORE Books Inc traces its origins to the Gold Rush but became Books Inc. as it’s known today in 1946. It is independently owned and is always packed with locals looking for the latest books to read or gifts to buy. Located on a 32

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301 Castro St.; 650-428-1234. booksinc.net

BOUTIQUE Voice readers singled out Therapy as the perfect shop to find everything from home decor and knick knacks to gifts and clothing, voting it in as the best boutique in town as well as the best place to find unusual gifts. Readers have said they could spend all day reading the silly greeting cards and gag gifts.

According to manager Katherine Lix, the boutique tries to incorporate local vendors, and 75 percent of the store’s jewelry brands are local to California.

“We encourage our employees to work with the customers and try to really get to know people.

When we say hi, we really mean it. We want to know how you’re doing,” Lix says.

250 Castro St.; 650-691-1196. shopattherapy.com

FLORIST Fleur De Lis was readers’ first choice for florist in Mountain View, rewarding its commitment to offering the finest floral arrangements and gifts.

The floral services include a huge variety of fresh, everyday arrangements, as well as special event and gift designs. On-time delivery is available even during the busy holiday seasons.

Gourmet fruit baskets, greeting cards and candles are also available.

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Don Durante says he opened his restaurant knowing that Mountain View needed a social place where friends could linger. The small-plates menu is tapas-style,

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he breads and pastries at Manresa Breadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new location in downtown Los Altos are not your average baked goods. The levain bread is made with 50-50 blend of whole wheat and white f lour, salt and wild yeast. A beautiful slab of Einkorn bread, studded with air pockets, is made from one of the oldest known varieties of wheat. The pepper-jam danish is made with freshmilled rye f lour.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ingredient-driven, made with obsessive care several miles away in a Los Gatos commissary kitchen that operates virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week under head baker Avery Ruzicka.

Petite and energetic, Ruzicka, 31, clearly lives and breathes bread. Her attention to detail has transformed the bread program at Manresa Breadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent restaurant, the Michelin-starred Manresa in Los Gatos, and launched two popular spinoff bakeries. The first opened in Los Gatos in 2015 and the second on State Street in Los Altos this June. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re baking bread because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re curious about how we can make it better,â&#x20AC;? she said in an interview at the Los Gatos commissary kitchen, surrounded by cooling loaves of bread.

At Manresa Bread, that means milling their own flour, having the time and space to nurture different kinds of breads to their ideal flavor and having someone at the helm who is equal parts creativity and discipline.

Avery Ruzicka, the head baker at Manresa Bread, stands by racks of rising bread in the Los Gatos bakery facility.

Ruzicka first arrived at Manresa as a food runner several years ago. She said she took the job to get her foot in the door, hoping to eventually end up inside the kitchen and involved with baking.

The North Carolina native had always loved food but thought she wanted to be writer, pursuing a minor in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Wanting to write about food, but not as a critic, she took a job in a restaurant during college to learn more. She said she immediately â&#x20AC;&#x153;fell in loveâ&#x20AC;? with the world of cooking, and moved to New York to attend the French Culinary Institute in New York, where she completed both a culinary and a bread program.

After graduating, Ruzicka staged (working for free to gain experience, like an unpaid internship) at Per Se, a wellknown, high-end New York

City restaurant from Thomas Keller of The French Laundry, baking for the restaurant as well as for Kellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bouchon Bakery and Cafe and wholesale accounts. It was there that she realized that she wanted to bake at a restaurant rather than a standalone bakery.

She had just helped a friend open a restaurant in New York when she got a text that said Manresa was hiring, but only for front-of-house positions.

She f lew to California, interviewed and made a six-month commitment to work as a food runner, bringing dishes from the kitchen to tables.

Manresa at the time was making its own bread in house, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;it was no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion,â&#x20AC;?

Ruzicka said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was something that got done every day but no one was lost in the details, no one was obsessive over it.â&#x20AC;?

Enter Ruzicka, who slowly but surely tweaked and improved the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Avery Ruzicka folds over the dough of a seeded wheat loaf.

bread-ma k ing processes, becoming head baker after about a year. She introduced new varietals of grain, organic flour and fresh-milled flour, though she said she was limited by the baking facilities available at the restaurant.

Soon, she was asked to sell the baked goods at the Campbell Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market in 2013 where it quickly sold out on a regular basis, then the California Avenue Farmers Market in Palo Alto the next year.

An already in-motion plan to open a commissary kitchen that would support brick-andmortar bakeries was interrupted by a two-alarm fire at the Manresa restaurant in the summer of 2014. Despite that, Ruzicka and her team that fall moved into a space that could keep up with their vision for Manresa Bread.

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bread, one for making pastries and one for baking. The bread room in front is temperature-controlled, with a stone mill that yields fresh rye and whole-wheat f lour. These f lours appear in the baking case in Los Altos in many of the breads and pastries.

There’s plenty of refrigerator space to slow down (also called retarding) the dough’s rise.

The levain dough, for example, is prepared on Wednesday

and allowed to ferment for almost two full days before it’s baked on Friday. This slower fermentation “dramatically” improves the f lavor and quality of bread, Ruzicka said.

Fresh-milled f lour, too, makes a difference that can be tasted. Fresh-milled f lour is exposed to more wild yeast spores, which makes for a more active dough, Ruzicka explained. It also has a higher water-absorption rate than commercial, store-bought f lour, she said.

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Manresa Bread uses a baking technique called autolyse, which means mixing f lour and water ahead of time so the dough can rest and start to develop gluten.

“You’ve gone through process of getting this really nice grain, milling it fresh so we can make breads with it, and we want to make sure, as much as possible, (that) we can hold onto the f lavor of the f lour,” Ruzicka said. “The more you mix the f lour, the more you oxidize the f lour. So we want to do anything we can to minimize mixing time.”

At the Los Altos bakery on a recent afternoon, a long baking case was filled with Ruzicka’s creations: a hearty loaf of pumpernickel rye, made entirely with fresh-milled rye flour; levain; a baguette; a traditional sandwich loaf. Pastries ranged from the traditional — croissants, cookies, monkey bread and kouign amann — to the more unusual, like the savory pepper-jam danish with a filling made from bell peppers, Fresno chilis, creme fraiche and cream cheese. Seasonal

items rotate in with staples.

Even here, there are also gluten-free options.

Items like cakes, pies or macarons are rare, though they do make them for holidays or special occasions. The pastries are “much more breadfocused, dough-focused and grain-focused,” Ruzicka said.

“The ingredient is where we want to find our inspiration and then the technique that will allow us to make the most of that, which I feel is what connects us with Manresa. That’s how Manresa approaches things; that’s how we approach things,” she said.

The Los Altos bakery also has a cold case with drinks and a small selection of cheeses and salami (perfect picnic starters to go with the bread), and a full espresso bar serving Verve Coffee Roasters coffee. Manresa Bread also provides pastries for Verve’s four cafes in Santa Cruz, where Ruzicka lives.

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foot bakery, though Ruzicka said they’ll be adding a few stools at a narrow bar that runs down the left side of the space.

Grab a bench outside on State Street or take your goods to go.

While the pastries certainly don’t disappoint, Manresa Bread is true to its name: The bread is the star of the show.

The Einkorn bread is tangy, chewy and full-f lavored in a way that will make you never want to eat store-bought bread again. The rye pumpernickel is dense and hearty; the nuttiness accentuated in all the right ways by jam or even an avocado spread on top.

There’s a rising tide of Bay Area bakers who, like Ruzicka, are getting a lot of attention for doing something she said isn’t revolutionary — she’s simply bringing back bread as it should be.

“I don’t think that i’m inventing anything,” she said. “I think if I traveled to Europe, I could find, not even necessarily a professional baker, but just an individual, a farmer who mills flour and makes bread and that’s just his way of life. I consider myself very lucky to be in an opportunity to get to discover what people once knew and … be someone who gets to introduce it to a customer base that is excited about it.”

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Daddy issues ‘CAPTAIN FANTASTIC’ EXPLORES ALTERNATIVE PARENTING 001/2 (Century 20) American thinker Noam Chomsky once said, “The goal of education is to produce human beings whose values are not accumulation and domination, but instead are free association on equal terms.” That’s the kind of sentiment taken to heart by one Ben Cash in the new film “Captain Fantastic.” In order to raise free-thinking children, Ben and Leslie have chosen to raise their brood of six “off the grid” in Pacific Northwest forest land, where the only holiday they observe, “Noam Chomsky Day,” hasn’t yet been co-opted by Hallmark.

Like Allie Fox from “The Mosquito Coast” — except kinder and gentler — Viggo Mortensen’s Ben fervently believes in his isolationism and parenting approach. He imposes to-the-limit physical conditioning and intense home-school education, and although the kids don’t much seem to mind, a break in routine causes the Cashes to question everything.

When Ben’s wife dies, he reluctantly agrees to bundle his brood into the family vehicle (a school bus dubbed “Steve,” stocked with clothes and books) and venture into civilization for the funeral.

Writer-director Matt Ross (better known as Hooli CEO Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley”) delicately teases out humor in the early-going, both from the family’s “norm” (on Noah Chomsky Day, Dad gifts his underage brood with hunting knives and, for one curious youngster, “The Joy of Sex”) and the inevitable countercultureculture clash with everyday Americans (“Everyone’s so fat!

Fat like hippos!”). The starkest contrast comes when Ben visits his sister and brother-inlaw (Kathryn Hahn and Steve Zahn) in their suburban home.

An argument over parenting devolves into a smug object lesson from Ben, when he demonstrates the ignorance of his video-game-playing nephews by prompting a civics lesson from pint-sized daughter Zaja (Shree Crooks).

The crux of “Captain Fantastic,” though is to question the extremity of Ben’s parenting. Despite the appeal of the physically healthy, intellectually rigorous lifestyle — one in which Ben doesn’t shelter his kids from any truths or cede their education to mind-mulching mass media — the limits

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Ben (Viggo Mortensen) brings his unsophisticated brood of children to the city in “Captain Fantastic.”

and dangers become apparent.

Oldest son Bodovan (George MacKay), who enjoys a primal male rite-of-passage in the film’s first scene, has begun to feel the necessity to be not just of the world but in the world, perhaps especially to be able to interact with young women (“I am a freak because of you!” he blurts to Dad). Middle son Rellian (Nicholas Hamilton) gets a taste of suburban creature com-

forts and yearns to live with his grandparents (Frank Langella and Ann Dowd).

Unfortunately, “Captain Fantastic” develops third-act problems as it devolves into calculated contrivances, didacticism, and sentiment (Ross also consistently defaults to exploring the male characters, which weakens the narrative). The film’s saving graces are the uniformly strong performances, from the terrific

juvenile performers (also including Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, and Charlie Shotwell) to the always-commanding Langella and a centered, soulful Mortensen, as well as its intriguing subject matter. It may not be a “Fantastic” film, but it’s not half bad.

Rated R for language and brief graphic nudity. One hour, 58 minutes.

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Beating a dead mammoth ‘ICE AGE’ SEQUEL ON ‘COLLISION COURSE’ WITH NONSENSE 0 (Century 16, Century 20) You’ve heard of the proverbial cash cow, of course, but for Twentieth Century Fox and computer-animation outfit Blue Sky Studios, it’s all about the mammoth. I refer, of course, to “Ice Age,” the only animated franchise to achieve five feature films, four short films, two television specials, nine video games and a touring live ice show. But the Paleolithic-ice-age-set franchise is looking a bit long in the tusk, and never more so than in “Ice Age: Collision Course.”

The Wikipedia page for the “Ice Age” movies notes that they have “received some criticism for making no attempt to be scientifically accurate.”

That understatement gets scarily addressed in “Collision Course,” which opens with a narration

by America’s ambassador of

science, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Tyson later appears as an animated sciencesplaining weasel in the mind of another, mentally disturbed weasel. I point this out only to note the irony that Tyson has blessed with his presence perhaps the most scientifically inaccurate film ever made, as if to say, “Lighten up, America! We all need a payday sometimes.”

In this one, woolly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano) and wife Ellie (Queen Latifah) anticipate with trepidation the wedding of daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer) to the enthusiastic Julian (Adam Devine). This subplot we’ll call “Father of the Bride,” with Manny getting wistful about letting Peaches go and misdirecting his frustration onto Julian. These concerns are trivial in light of the main plot, which finds saber-

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A makeshift herd of Paleolithic animals has outlandish adventures in the latest installment of “Ice Age.”

toothed squirrel Scrat (Chris Wedge) inadvertently releasing a flying saucer from a glacier and knocking asteroids onto a collision course with Earth. We’ll call this part “Deep Impact.”

Naturally, the mammoths and their mammalian buddies— including lisping ground sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) and his Granny (Wanda Sykes), sabertoothed tiger couple Diego and Shira (Denis Leary and Jennifer Lopez), and opossums Crash and Eddie (Seann William Scott

and Josh Peck) — take direction from lunatic weasel Buck (Simon Pegg) to save the world by diverting the path of an asteroid and making lots of comically anachronistic wisecracks (“Hashtag I’m starting to get sick of it.”

Amen). And I haven’t mentioned the Shangri-Llama (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), the unicorns, or the trio of dino-birds (including Nick Offerman). It’s fair to say that “Ice Age: Collision Course” is a movie designed to drive the literal-minded bonkers. But it’s

okay. Because Neil deGrasse Tyson.

But, you say, “Lighten up, film critic! It’s for kids. Will kids like it?” Yes, it’s possible that the least discriminating segment of the moviegoing audience will enjoy this movie. Numerous butt and poop jokes are guaranteed to make the wee ones giggle. For what it’s worth, though, long stretches of the movie at my preview screening prompted restContinued on next page

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less whining. Granted, that was mostly from me, but also from many of the children. Luckily, to memory-wipe the preceding 94 minutes of nonsense, the film ends with that hoariest of

animated-movie clichés: the old pop-rock song-and-dance.

I’ll say this for the movie: it includes two lines, in rapid succession, that evince a smidgen of self-awareness. Manny says, “There’s a bunny living in the asteroid? I did not see that coming,” adding, “Did I hit my head?

What’s happening here?” Yes, “Ice Age: Collision Course” will make you feel like a six-year-old again. Because you will have no idea what is going on.

Rated PG for mild rude humor and some action/peril. One hour, 34 minutes.

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Kristin Wiig plays physics professor Erin Gilbert, whose tenure is threatened when her erstwhile research partner Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) re-publishes their book on the science of ghosts. Both women are laughed out of academia just in time to investigate new ghost sightings in New York City. Joined by a crazed cyberpunkette (Kate McKinnon) and a streetwise subway worker (Leslie Jones), Erin and Abby are soon heading up the only group qualified to prevent a paranormal apocalypse. It’s unfortunate that Feig’s film leans more on mayhem than well-scripted comedy, but the remake musters enough yuks to be worth its while. Rated PG-13 for supernatural action and some crude humor. One hour, 56 minutes. — P.C.

THE INFILTRATOR 001/2 Based on an autobiographical account, “The Infiltrator” kicks off in 1986 Tampa, Florida, to tell the tale of Robert Mazur’s undercover work for U.S. Customs. Mazur, played here by Bryan Cranston, was involved in “Operation C-Chase,” which targeted the drug-trafficking network of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel by way of its money-laundering through the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). “The Infiltrator” falls down by settling for archetypal characterizations and relationships and by being generic when it could be fascinatingly wonky about the ins and outs of the criminal enterprise and the law enforcement effort to take it down. Rated R for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual content and drug material. Two hours, 7 minutes. — P.C.

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Captain Fantastic (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m.

Finding Dory (PG) +++ Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

Ghostbusters (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at noon, 3, 6 & 9 p.m.

The Great McGinty (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30 p.m.

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (PG-13) Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13) +++ Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:30 p.m.

Ice Age: Collision Course (PG) + Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m. In 3-D at 12:05, 2:45, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.

Independence Day: Resurgence (PG-13)

Century 20: 10:40 p.m.

The Infiltrator (R) Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:35 p.m.

Lady for a Day (1933) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 5:45 & 9:50 p.m.

The Legend of Tarzan (PG-13) Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:35 & 10:25 p.m.

Lights Out (PG-13) Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:05, 3:25, 5:40, 8:05 & 10:30 p.m.

The Lobster (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:20, 7 & 9:55 p.m.

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (R) 1/2 Century 20: 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m.

Minecraft Summer Splash with CaptainSparklez (Not Rated) Century 20: Fri. 8:45 a.m.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:35 & 9 p.m.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:25 & 7:30 p.m.

Planet of the Apes (1968) (G)

Century 20: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m.

The Purge: Election Year (R)

Century 20: 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Century 20: 10 & 11:20 a.m., 12:35, 1:55, 3:10, 4:30, 5:45, 7:05, 8:15, 9:40 & 10:45 p.m.

Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) Century 20: 10 a.m., 1, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30 & 10 p.m. In 3-D at 11:30 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m. In X-D at 4:45 & 10:45 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 10:45 a.m., 1:45 & 7:45 p.m. In DBOX 3-D at 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m. In DBOX at 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7 & 10 p.m.

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Q HIGHLIGHT THEATREWORKS: ‘CONFEDERATES’ To begin its 2016-17 season, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the world premiere of the political drama “Confederates,” a timely look at the 24-7 media that focuses on a presidential candidate, his daughter, desperate reporters and the unfurling of a Confederate flag. See the website for specific times and ticket prices.

July 13-Aug. 7. $19-$80. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. www.theatreworks.org/shows/1617-season/confederates2016

MUSIC Concerts on the Plaza Community members are invited to come to the Civic Center Plaza to enjoy a musical performance during each Concerts on the Plaza series event. There will also be food trucks, a “Pop Up Park” area for children, and beer and wine for adults. The Aug. 5 event will feature Rosemarie and the Rhythm Riders. First Friday of the month, May 6-Sept. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Free admission. Mountain View Civic Center Plaza, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/plazaevents Summer Sings: Mozart and Fauré In the third of six community sing-alongs, choral group Schola Cantorum will team up with community vocalists in singing Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, and Fauré’s “Requiem.” The performance will be conducted by Music Director Gregory Wait.

July 25, 7:30 p.m. $13; free for students ages 25 and under. Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos. www. scholacantorum.org Thursday Night Live The Thursday Night Live Series in Downtown Mountain View will close Castro Street between Mercy and Villa streets to traffic so the public can enjoy restaurant dining, shopping, children’s activities, a farmers’ market, live music and a custom/classic car show. Visit the website for more details. June 28, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Downtown Mountain View, Castro Street, Mountain View. mountainview.gov/ thursdaynightlive The Village at San Antonio Center Summer Concert Series The Village at San Antonio Center will hold its second annual Summer Concert Series, every other week offering free public music performances ranging from Top 40 to a cappella. On July 31, singer-songwriter Katie Philips will share pop country tunes. June 12 and 26, July 10 and 31, and Aug. 7 and 21, 4-6 p.m. Free. The Village at San Antonio Center, 685 San Antonio Road, Mountain View. www.facebook.com/ TheVillageSAC/

TALKS & LECTURES ‘Amazon Jungle Treasures’ Joan Sparks will give a talk and share photos of wildlife from her two-week trip to the Amazon jungle with National Geographic photographers. This program is sponsored by the Friends of Los Altos Library. July 25, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www. sccl.org ‘Beyond Sibling Rivalry’ During this adults-only workshop, Lori Longo of Parents Place will share with parents of children ages 0 to 8 techniques for minimizing and resolving conflicts between siblings, as well as strategies for encouraging cooperation and compassion in kids. July 28, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. goo.gl/9BkSFy Downtown Mountain View Walking Tour This guided walking tour will highlight the historic buildings on Castro Street and explore Mountain View’s past as a Mexican land grant, stagecoach stop and agricultural area. The tour will meet in the lobby of the Mountain View Public Library. No RSVP is required. July 30, 2-3 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/ librarycalendar Other Voices: ‘Challenging Corporate Nationhood’ The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center’s next Other Voices Monthly Forum will welcome Jesse Swanhuyser and Sarah Burt to discuss the issue of corporate nationhood — when multinational corporations obtain international legal power comparable to that of sovereign nations. Aug. 2, 7-8 p.m. Free. Midpen Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. www.peaceandjustice.org/nationhood/ ‘Transitioning from Nonimmigrant Visas to Immigrant Visas’ This presentation by Esther Kang and Thi Do will provide information for those who are in the U.S. on a temporary visa and would like to

become a permanent resident. The presenters will help attendees better understand the situation and the options available. July 30, 2-3 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/ librarycalendar

the artist. Monday-Saturday, July 22-Aug. 27, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Mohr Gallery, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. www.arts4all.org

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Gallery 9: Oil paintings by Nicole Jakaby Local artist Nicole Jakaby brings her recent oil paintings to Gallery 9 for an exhibit during the month of July. Her work aims to give life to nature with color, detail and depth. June 28-July 31, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. gallery9losaltos.com Gallery 9: ‘Summer’ During August, Gallery 9 will showcase the work of the gallery’s member artists in a group show called “Summer.” Work including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and more will focus on the warmth and beauty of the season. On Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m., there will be a reception with the artists. Aug. 2-28, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. gallery9losaltos.com Viewpoints Gallery: ‘Hemispheres’ The July show at Viewpoints Gallery, “Hemispheres,” highlights the watercolor paintings of Veronica Gross, who favors plein air painting and draws inspiration from her travels near and far. June 28-July 30, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. www.viewpointsgallery.com

Author Mariam Gates on ‘Good Morning Yoga’ Mariam Gates will give a story-time reading of her pose-by-pose picture books “Good Morning Yoga” and “Good Night Yoga,” which supply exercises, narratives and illustrations that empower children to manage their energies. The event is most appropriate for ages 4 and older. Aug. 4, 1-3 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. www. booksinc.net Ballerina Camp For the Love of Dance in Mountain View will offer a Ballerina Camp for children ages 3 to 5, during which a professional teacher will lead them in a dance class, crafts and games. There will also be stories and a snack. July 26-28, 10 a.m.-noon. $95. For the Love of Dance, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Suite B, Mountain View. www.fortheloveofdancemv.com Beach Themed Storytime Auntie Dori will lead a special Beach Themed Storytime event at Books Inc., offering stories, activities and snacks.

The event is best suited for ages 3 and older. July 23, 3-4 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. www.booksinc.net Cheerleader Camp For the Love of Dance in Mountain View will offer a Cheerleader Camp for children ages 5 to 8, during which a professional teacher will lead them in a dance class, crafts and games. There will also be stories and a snack.

July 26-29, 12:30-2:30 p.m. $130. For the Love of Dance, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Suite B, Mountain View. www.fortheloveofdancemv.com ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Midnight Release Party Celebrating the release of the book version of the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” this event will include themed activities and snacks starting at 11 p.m. led by Auntie Dori. Twenty percent of proceeds from pre-orders of the book will benefit the San Francisco Education Fund. July 30, 11 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. www.booksinc.net/event/harry-pottermidnight-release-parties Linden Tree Summer Concert Series Linden Tree Books will host performers on each Wednesday as part of its summer concert series.

The July 27 event will feature Happy Bright Kids, and the Aug. 3 event Peter Apel. Visit the website for a full schedule. Wednesdays, June 15-Aug. 3, 10:30-11 a.m. Suggested book donation for Reading Partners Book Drive. Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. www.lindentreebooks. com National Night Out This year’s National Night Out at Rengstorff Park — offered in partnership with the Mountain View police and fire departments — will include a community barbecue; police vehicles, K-9 unit and fire trucks for viewing; performances and more.

The San Jose Earthquakes will also bring an inflatable goal and games. Aug. 2, 5-8 p.m. Free. Rengstorff Park, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. www.facebook.com/ events/1047228988703158/ ‘Wolf Camp’ Storytime Books Inc. in Mountain View will offer a story-time event with Auntie Dori celebrating Andrea Zuill’s picture book “Wolf Camp.” The event, which will include activities and snacks, is most appropriate for ages 4 and older. July 27, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. www. booksinc.net

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS ‘Water Lines: Mixed Media Prints by Michelle Wilson’ The Community School of Music and Arts exhibition “Water Lines” features mixed-media works and prints by Michelle Wilson — a papermaker, printmaker, and book and installation artist. On Aug. 12, 6-8 p.m., there will be a public opening reception with

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DANCE Musical Theater Camp This For the Love of Dance summer camp will teach dances and songs from Broadway shows to dancers ages 9 to 17.

Aug. 1-5, 12:30-2:30 p.m. $165. For the Love of Dance, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Suite B, Mountain View. www.fortheloveofdancemv.com

FILM Mountain View Documentary Film Club: ‘Genetic Roulette’ The Mountain View Documentary Film Club, which meets monthly to watch thought-provoking movies, will screen “Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives,” which takes a look at the genetic engineering of food in the U.S. A discussion will follow. July 26, 6-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/seniors Summer Outdoor Movie Night: ‘Inside Out’ Mountain View’s Summer Outdoor Movie Night Series will roll on with a screening of Pixar’s recent animated film about emotions, “Inside Out,” which is rated PG. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. July 22, 8:30 p.m. (or when dark). Free.

Eagle Park, 652 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/summermovies Summer Outdoor Movie Night: ‘The Peanuts Movie’ The next Summer Outdoor Movie Night Series event will feature a free showing of “The Peanuts Movie,” which is rated G. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. July 29, 8:30 p.m. (or when dark). Free. Stevenson Park, 750 San Pierre Way, Mountain View. mountainview.gov/ summermovies

LESSONS & CLASSES An Introduction to iPad Art Presented by Mobile Art Academy, this hands-on workshop will teach how to create art digitally with a live demonstration by artist Caroline Mustard.

Participants can bring their own iPad, download a free app called Paper 53 and follow along with the artist. Registration is required. July 26, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview. gov/librarycalendar Coloring for Grown-ups Adults are invited to participate in these coloring events, a new trend in stress relief. Participants can choose from a selection of coloring sheets designed specifically for adults. Colored pencils and crayons will be provided. July 27 and Aug. 31, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library,

585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview. gov/librarycalendar Digital Art Boot Camp: Intro 3D Modeling: Environment Offered by the Art School of SF Bay, the fourth weeklong Digital Art Boot Camp will acquaint students with 3D art, the use of the powerful 3D software Maya, and how video games and animated films are made today. This session will center on creating environments. July 25-29, 5-8 p.m. $225. Art School of SF Bay, 2105 Old Middlefield Way, #D, Mountain View. www. artschoolsfbay.com Health care programs orientation The Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School will hold a workshop for those interested in health care careers, providing information on the certified nursing assistant and medical assistant paths and the programs offered by the school. Online registration is requested. July 29, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School, 333 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View. www. mvlaae.net

HEALTH & WELLNESS Bellydancing Fitness for All Taught by a native professional, these classes will teach the ancient and beautiful art of Egyptian bellydancing. All ages, genders, skill levels and body types are welcome. Students should wear comfortable exercise clothes and bring a hip wrap or large scarf. June 6, 20 and 27, July 25, Aug. 8, 15, 22 and 29, noon-1 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www.sccl.org Integrative Yoga Certified instructor Lauren Palladino will teach a weekly yoga class for all levels of health and fitness. A focus is placed on gentle movements to improve strength and mobility. Attendees should bring a yoga mat and preferred props. Chairs are available for a safe and supported practice. Tuesdays, May 10-July 26, 1-2 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www.sccl.org ‘Tools to Sharpen Your Memory’ Dr. Ashok Jethanandani, who graduated from Gujarat Ayurved University in India, will share ayurvedic recommendations regarding food, habits and remedies that aim to help preserve and sharpen the memory and intellect. This

program is sponsored by the Friends of Los Altos Library. July 28, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www. sccl.org

SPORTS Mountain View Tennis Club July Tournament For its July competition, the Mountain View Tennis Club will hold a mixed doubles tournament, open to adult players of all levels. Players can sign up with a partner, or the club can try to help match those who sign up alone. Breakfast and lunch will be included. Visit the website to register. July 23, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $15 member; $20 general. Rengstorff Park Tennis Courts, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. www.mvtc.net

SENIORS Heat exposure workshop In this Mountain View Senior Center workshop, local emergency medical technicians will discuss how much sun is too much and review the warning signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. July 26, 1-2 p.m.

Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/seniors iPad Art iPad art instructor and educator Caroline Mustard will lead a one-hour handson workshop at the Mountain View Senior Center, including a demonstration of her work.

Attendees can bring an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and download a free app to try creating art themselves. July 28, 1-2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/seniors

HOME & GARDEN Tenth Annual Edible Garden Tour Common Ground Garden will hold its 10th Edible Garden Tour, showcasing local foodproducing gardens between Redwood City and San Jose. Highlights include mini-orchards, greywater catchment systems, gardening demos and more. The event is Common Ground Garden’s main fundraiser and supports its education and food donation activities. July 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5-$30; discounts for children under age 12 and students. Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. commongroundgarden.org

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THE PHOENIX CAFE & JUICE BAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 618863 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Phoenix Cafe & Juice Bar, located at 650 Castro Street, Suite 130, Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JAWAD ESSADKI C/O THE LIQUID MENU, INC. 650 Castro Street, Suite 130 Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/11/16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 27, 2016.

(MVV July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) GELATT PARTNERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 618686 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Gelatt Partners, located at 738 Leona Lane, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CAROL GELATT 738 Leona Lane Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2001.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 21, 2016.

(MVV July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AUTO SERVICE TIRE ROAD SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 618843 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auto Service Tire Road Service, located at 2330 California St. Apt. 23, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALEJANDRO FIERRO SANTIAGO 2330 California St. Apt. 23 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/27/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 27, 2016.

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HEAL-TRANSITION-TRANSFORM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619076 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Heal-Transition-Transform, located at 454 Franklin St. Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): RHARIAN FIELD LLC 454 Franklin St. Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 5, 2016.

(MVV July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 2016) FOCUS DENTAL LAB, INC. D. SIGN DENTAL LAB BIODENT DENTAL LAB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619256 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Focus Dental Lab, Inc., 2.) D. Sign Dental Lab, 3.) Biodent Dental Lab, located at 570 E. El Camino Real Ste. #C, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FOCUS DENTAL LAB, INC. 570 E. El Camino Real #C Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/9/16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 8, 2016.

(MVV July 22, 29; Aug. 5, 12, 2016) DAJ Managment Consulting FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619385 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: DAJ Managment Consulting, located at 645 Cornelia Ct., Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DAVID ALLEN JONES 645 Cornelia Ct. Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 13, 2016.

(MVV July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 2016)

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737 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Stylish Remodel in South Palo Alto This thoroughly remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,485 sq. ft. (per county) couples large, sunny spaces with an extremely convenient property of 6,500 sq. ft. (per county). Modern updates include new heating and cooling, chic bathrooms, an impressive skylit kitchen, and many, many more amenities. Welcoming outdoor spaces offer fruit trees and lounge areas. This fabulous location allows you to stroll to Charleston Shopping Center, sought-after Palo Alto schools, and Mitchell Park, Library, and Community Center.

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Find love at first sight with this Colonial-style 4BD/3.5BA residence offering curb appeal galore and a five minute stroll to Murphy Street with the farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market, Philz Coffee, and restaurants. The home has been updated throughout offering solid hardwood flooring, vaulted ceilings, stonework in kitchen and baths, many skylights, double-paned windows, air conditioning, and more. Two main level bedrooms create ideal options for a home office, playroom, etc. Two master suites upstairs add to the conveniences. The big backyard is ready for summertime fun! This home is truly a gem!

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RESULTS: Sold the last 25 homes in an average of 9 days, and all for over the asking price!

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Unlike most real estate agents, Michael holds two law degrees and has years of experience as a real estate attorney, giving his clients a unique advantage as most other brokerages do not provide an in-house attorney to help clients. In addition, the expertise and marketing available through the team at DeLeon Realty are the very best in the business.

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Tucked within a secure complex, the peaceful home provides smart amenities like home automation to allow chic, easy living. Enjoy a light-filled interior, private outdoor areas, and two-car garage parking with charger wiring. Stroll to Caltrain and popular California Avenue, and easily access splendid schools like Escondido Elementary (API 927), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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A Berkshire Hathaway Affiliate

4084 Wilkie Way, Palo Alto Offered at $1,488,000 Superb Setting in Ventura A balance of charm and urban convenience, this intriguing 2 bedroom, 2 bath home offers comfortable, accessible living. The property provides hardwood floors, a sky-lit living area, and a private, spacious backyard.

Stroll to Robles Park and popular shops, restaurants, and everyday amenities. Vibrant California Avenue and the Village at San Antonio Center are within a quick drive, and you will also easily access desirable schools like Barron Park Elementary, Terman Middle (API 968), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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