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Mountain View heads back to school NEW FACES, NEW FACILITIES AND NEW ATTENDANCE BOUNDARIES AHEAD By Kevin Forestieri
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s if on cue at 7:45 a.m., Huff Elementary School went from a ghost town to a bustling center of activity
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up and headed into their new classrooms, while the parents broke off for a much-needed cup of coffee. See SCHOOL, page 11
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ast year, Mountain View saw a spike in traffic fatalities with six people — bicyclists, pedestrians, motorists and motorcyclists — losing their lives in crosswalks, major intersections and even parking lots. But despite the rising number of incidents, the Mountain View Police Department has a policy that severely restricts access to traffic accident information, frustrating concerned residents, the media and even members of
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Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson said that the restrictive policy is due to California Vehicle Code section 16005, which states that the accident reports are confidential and not available to the public. While accident reports are exempt from Public Records Act requests, California’s Government Code 6254 (f) clearly states that the public has a right to know not just the date, time and location of the accident, but See ACCIDENT DATa, page 1
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ith favorable polling and two separate rent stabilization measures going before voters this November, the possibility that Mountain View will enact some form of rent control is causing angst among some apartment owners. For landlords, the specter of future price caps and new regulation has thrown a curveball into the local market for apartment properties, leaving owners searching for ways to protect their investments. Some owners say they have been investigating selling their properties and making an exit, but they say buyers who previously would have jumped at the opportunity are now wary of how Mountain View’s rent-control campaign will take shape. One apartment owner trying to pull out of Mountain View is Grant Huberty, a resident of Woodside where he serves as a town planning commissioner. Huberty owns the 56-unit Moffett Manor Apartments on Walker Drive. Like many older apartments in Mountain View, his complex was built with the help of the Federal Housing Administration during a construction boom in the 1960s. When it was complete, furnished units could be rented out for $95 a month, although residents had to contend with a downwind stench from the neighboring cow pasture, he said. Huberty and his sibling inherited the property from their parents, and they watched as the local tech economy carried real estate values into the stratosphere. Today, rent for a two-bedroom apartment at Moffett Manor ranges from $1,850 to
$2,400 a month, among the most affordable in the area, Huberty said. As talk of rent control began circulating in city meetings last year, Huberty says he began looking to sell Moffett Manor. He had a deal on the table with a New York investment firm, but their analysts wavered once they learned about Mountain View’s political climate. The sale fell through because the threat of rent control presented too much uncertainty, he said. The Moffett Manor apartments are today valued at $26 million, and thanks to Proposition 13, the site is locked into a relatively low property tax of about $20,000 a year. But Huberty says it seems unlikely any buyer would pay the full listed price for his apartments given the risk of future rent control. Now, he says he isn’t sure what his property is worth anymore. He thinks buyer interest to rebound after the November election results, and said he expects that rent control will “very likely” pass. If that happens, then he expects his apartment property value to drop by $3 million to $5 million, a number he admits is based on speculation. “Maybe the day after the election, we’ll have plenty of offers because we’ll know the (voter) outcome at that point,” he said. “But who knows at this point?” Like other apartments owners interviewed by the Voice, Huberty said he was searching for options. He expressed frustration that only older rental properties would be restricted under any rent-control measure. Under California’s CostaHawkins Rental Housing Act, See RENT CONTROL, page 10
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s one would probably expect, the Mountain View Technology Showcase featured Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and the pack of other Internet power players that call the city home. But last week’s expo also hosted a different group of vaunted companies with less familiar ties to Mountain View: Honda, BMW and Volvo, among others. Several established auto-makers used to event to showcase how they are using Mountain View’s renowned technological edge. In fact, eight auto companies now have satellite offices in Mountain View, mostly for
research and development, aiming to stay abreast of the latest technology trends, said Alex Andrade, Mountain View’s economic development manager. There are plenty of reasons why automakers want outposts in Mountain View. Andrade described it as part of the “Internet of Things” push to get buildings, household items and even autos all wired up with computer sensors and network connectivity. More recently, car manufacturers have also wanted Silicon Valley offices to ensure they are on top of developments in autonomous driving technology. “I feel like these companies See TECH SHOWCASE, page 6
Two newcomers join Mountain View City Council race KACEY CARPENTER MOTIVATED TO RUN FOR COUNCIL BY BERNIE SANDERS By Mark Noack
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ver the last months, Ken “Kacey” Carpenter describes himself as experiencing a political awakening of sorts. On one hand, the 53-year-old Mountain View resident was dealing with an empty-nest household. His children had left home for college, and for the first time in years, he had ample time to devote to civics. His outlet for that energy was the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Carpenter had barely heard of Sanders a year ago, but he quickly became a fan after hearing the candidate’s liberal platform at an event. Everything Sanders was saying made sense, Carpenter said. Carpenter volunteered and became a Bernie booster, traveling to Iowa as a volunteer to help in the state’s primary. He later won a local party election to serve as a Sanders delegate at the Democratic party convention. While his candidate did not emerge victorious, Carpen-
ter came away inspired to take a progressive political agenda to the local level. “Bernie was talking about the future, and I realized this was my children’s future,” he said. “I thought to myself: If my children came back to Mountain View, would they be able to live here?” And that’s how Carpenter decided he would run for Mountain View’s City Council. The same income inequality problems that Sanders camKacey paigned to fix Carpenter are prevalent at the local level in Mountain View, he said. “We’re hoping to bring that progressive energy here to Mountain View,” he said. “Mountain View should be a showcase community, and we should be able to lead because of the resources here.” On what has become the litmus test in Mountain View
politics this season, Carpenter says he “absolutely” supports rent control, specifically the citizen-backed charter amendment Measure V. The controversial policy should be just one part of a larger strategy to prevent the displacement of low-income residents, he said. “This is the critical challenge for this community, and we need to help (tenants) now,” he said. “I do think it’s important that we get it right, and we have to look at the greater systematic set of issues.” One part of that strategy, he said, should be to help expand local job retraining programs and promote sustainable development that would help avert Silicon Valley’s “boom and bust” economic cycles. Young tech employees coming to reside in Mountain View should be confident they can afford to raise a family here, he said. Carpenter first came to live in Mountain View in 1991 to take a job at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he received an MBA See CARPENTER, page 11
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trict is going in the right direction now, rather than two years ago,” he said. “The issues facing the city are in more dire straits than the issues facing the school district.” Chief among the these woes is the Mountain View’s housing shortage, he said Coladonato says he is shocked that tenants have experienced rent increases of 50 percent or more in recent years. Clearly, something needs to be done to help Mountain View’s large renter population, he said. However, Coladonato is not a fan of rent control, the solution being offered by tenants’ advocates in this November’s election. Such a measure could ultimately reduce the quantity of Mountain View’s affordable housing, perhaps by pushing owners of older apartments to redevelop as a way to sidestep the regulations, he said. “The good intentions of many people in favor of rent control See COUNCIL SEAT, page 8
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want to tap the level of talent here,” Andrade said. “We have people here who can work on complex problems and get products to market.” Honda and BMW have both operated research branches out of Mountain View for more than a decade, but lately a lot more companies have been racing to follow suit. Toyota opened an office to improve their products’ wireless communication in 2008. Andrade said he recently helped Volvo secure a Middlefield Road office site that the company plans to open later this year with 35 employees. Meanwhile, a newer firm called Future Mobility will be moving into a National Avenue space later this year to develop software for autonomous vehicles. About a year ago, Volvo was trying to operate a research office out of Southern California, said senior manager Mats Gustafsson. But the team was heading up to the Bay Area so frequently to
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$20M GRANT FOR CALTRAIN ELECTRIFICATION The California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) announced Tuesday that it will give Caltrain one of 14 cap-andtrade grants focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the state’s publictransportation infrastructure. Caltrain will receive $20 million in state Cap and Trade funds for its electrification project, which will replace the transportation agency’s diesel equipment with high-performance electric trains, allowing Caltrain to provide faster, more frequent service along its 51-mile corridor between San Francisco and San Jose while reducing emissions, according to a news release. The project, according to CalSTA, will reduce emissions by 97 percent by 2040, and reduce greenhouse gases by 176,000 metic tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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visit universities and events that it just made sense to relocate to Mountain View, he said. There’s a unique culture of collaboration in Silicon Valley that’s unlike most other parts of the globe, he said. If his Volvo team tried to visit BMW’s headquarters in Munich, they’d be
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promptly shown the door, he said. But in the Bay Area, Gustafsson said, his engineers would often troubleshoot problems with their counterparts from other companies. “There’s just a willingness to share information over here,” he said. “It wasn’t that difficult of a decision that we had to have an
office in Mountain View.” Andrade has a strategic vision to energize the growing base of auto firms in the city. In the coming years, he would like Mountain View to develop as a “smart city,” meaning that more city infrastructure would be networked to function with autos and other products. For example, traffic signals could be upgraded to inform drivers when a red light is about to change, or infrastructure could be designed to collect data that could be of use to future city planning. Perhaps most useful, city parking could be upgrade to immediately direct drivers to the nearest open space. Andrade says he would like to propose some kind of regional pilot program in partnership with the local auto companies in the coming years. The auto showcase was just one of the draws at the Aug. 11 Technology Showcase. Among other features, the events included the local high-school robotics team, food truck vendors and dozens of new start-ups. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V
“This is a transformative moment for transportation in the Bay Area,” Silicon Valley Leadership Group President and CEO Carl Guardino said in a statement. “This project means more commute options and faster travel times for thousands of current Caltrain riders and it allows the system’s ridership capacity to grow, preparing the corridor to connect to new BART stations in San Jose and Santa Clara.” The California High-Speed Rail Authority has committed $713 million to the $1.98 billion electrification project, according to the news release. The project will also be funded through a combination of federal, regional and member-agency contributions. Caltrain’s congressional delegation announced Monday, Aug. 15, that the electrification project was one of two projects accepted into the engineering phase of the Federal Transit Administration Core Capacity Program, which is expected to provide $643 million toward the project. —Palo Alto Weekly staff
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fied as 61-year-old Lawrence Bruestle, on misdemeanor battery charges and transported him to Santa Clara County Main Jail. During the arrest, police also issued a citation for misdemeanor battery to 55-year-old Dionne Calabray, a Mountain View resident, for her involvement in the fight, Nelson said. —Kevin Forestieri
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also the “factual circumstances” surrounding the incident and a general description of the injuries and the property involved, according to Nikki Moore, an attorney with the California Newspaper Publishers Association. The Mountain View Police Department has wrongly asserted that the vehicle code governing access to confidential information reported to the DMV puts blanket confidentiality on the entire accident report, Moore told the Voice. “They are being heavy-handed with their assertion of confidentiality,” Moore said. “To the extent that they have details about the facts and circumstances of the incident, they should produce those to you.” On Wednesday, City Attorney Jannie Quinn said she had a different interpretation of the section of government code cited by Moore, which she said governs written records. She also pointed out that HIPAA restrictions regarding patient privacy are a factor when someone is injured. Quinn said she needed more time to research the type of information the Voice is requesting and would follow up in one to two weeks. In her experience, the police department is very forthcoming, she said. “I think they do their best to provide what information (they) can,” she said. While agencies such as the California Highway Patrol regularly release far more expansive information, police departments across the state have been moving in the opposite direction, Moore said. It’s not uncommon
for law enforcement agencies to use the vehicle code to restrict access to information in police reports, Moore said, and the practice is part of a larger movement by police agencies to keep confidential as much information as possible. “There is a complete lack of a regard for the public’s ability to access police records,” she said. In an interview with the Voice, Mountain View Police Chief Max Bosel defended the department’s policy, calling it a necessary measure to make sure Mountain View police are adhering to the vehicle code and not releasing confidential information to the public. He said the Mountain View Police Department has been as transparent as it can be, and cited the department’s website and social media accounts that are used to let people know about traffic incidents. “I would disagree that (the policy) is taking away transparency,” he said. “I think we’ve always been transparent to the degree that we can be transparent.” The police department hasn’t always been tight-lipped with information about traffic accidents. In the past, public information officers would provide more detailed information in response to queries and used Twitter and the department’s blog with updates and photos taken by officers and first responders at major collisions. Advisory committee While it may be frustrating when a call to police about a seriouslooking accident is rebuffed, it presents a bigger set of challenges to the city’s Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, whose At Red Rock Coffee 201 Castro Street Mountain View
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may not be met by their desired effects,” he said. In part, Coladonato believes the City Council should have made a stronger effort to broker a common-ground solution between landlords and tenants. Instead, he describes a “nasty fight” shaping up this November in which both sides distrust one another. Coladonato said Mountain View could be doing more to address the housing crisis. He firmly believes that the city needs to make it easier for homeowners to build second-
In February, Mountain View’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee unanimously agreed that the City Council ought to consider adopting what’s called a Vision Zero policy in its next goal-setting session. Under the policy, the city would set aside funding to improve traffic safety, and bring down to zero the num-
ber of traffic-related deaths and serious injuries. One of the major components of Vision Zero is for the local law enforcement agency, in this case the police department, to be forthcoming with accurate, timely accident data, and use the information to systematically determine which intersections and roadways need improvements to reduce the likelihood of a fatality or serious injury. The policy calls on police to promote a traffic-safety culture and involve the community in the city’s traffic safety decisions, according to a report from the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition. Vision Zero also calls for careful tracking of the number of bicyclists, pedestrians and vehicles traveling on the city’s busy thoroughfares, which Unangst said is badly needed for city officials to improve traffic safety. Stevens Creek Trail gets heavily congested during peak hours, he said, and it’s tough for bicyclists and pedestrians to share the narrow road. By giving city staff an accurate picture of how crowded the trail gets, the city will be better positioned to start making improvements. At the same time, Mountain View is planning to do more traffic analysis on a citywide level. Since 2014, the city has been advertising for a “mobility coordinator,” a position that has been reclassified as a transportation planner; the planner would take the lead on bicycle and pedestrian improvements in the city. Unangst said the city has struggled to fill the position, but once the planner is hired it will be helpful to have someone in charge of bike and pedestrian changes with all the new developments being constructed in Mountain View. “The whole issue of gathering the data, analyzing it and trying to develop trends — there’s really nobody in the city that does that,” he said.
ary units, which some cities are considering as one of the simplest ways to quickly create new low-cost housing. He suggest the city’s zoning should also get a second look to ensure that residential growth isn’t being needlessly restricted. “I feel like there’s more creative ways to add housing to the mix at all different levels,” he said. Coladonato moved to Mountain View in 2009 and worked at Google as a product manager. He has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and applied physics. Soon after coming to Mountain View, he became immersed in local gov-
ernment, serving on the city’s Human Relations Commission for about three years and helping start the Slater neighborhood association. Borrowing an idea he liked from Palo Alto, Coladonato and his wife in 2013 started a “Repair Cafe,” a free event for people to bring malfunctioning gadgets to allow local tinkers to try to fix them. He helps organize about four Repair Cafes a year. He describes his current profession as an entrepreneur, engineer and investment-portfolio manager. He is married with three children in local schools. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com
refused to disclose if there were any injuries, whether the road was closed, whether anyone was arrested or cited, and whether drugs or alcohol appeared to be a factor. When asked about it last week, Bosel said the Voice’s request did not sound unreasonable, but “other factors” could have affected the decision to withhold the information on the accident. It’s become a familiar scenario. On June 6, the Voice requested information on an accident in which a driver parked on the side of Rengstorff Avenue and opened a car door into the bike lane, causing an oncoming cyclist to crash into the door. The police declined to release any information on the case, saying it was under investigation. A witness shared details with the Voice along with a photo of the injured bicyclist being helped by emergency crews, but the police department rebuffed the newspaper’s request to confirm the information. The department used a similar rationale when it refused to release information on a pedestrian collision in May at the intersection of San Ramon and Rengstorff avenues. One witness told the Voice that a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed while crossing Rengstorff Avenue. The Voice requested information on the accident for six days, with police responding each time that the case was still under investigation and no information could be released. A better way to use the data
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cities are restricted to establishing rent control on apartments completed before February 1995. That means a swath of Mountain View’s newer apartments — about 10 percent of the city’s total — effectively would be immune from rent control. He said he is mulling a possible lawsuit against the city or state of California based on an unfair application of the law. “As the owners of older apartments, why are we being singled out?� he said. “It seems like we’re a group that’s being discriminated against.� Last week the Mountain View City Council approved two competing rent-control measures to go on the November ballot. After collecting thousands of signatures, the Mountain View Tenants Coalition put forward a city charter amendment, Measure V, that would basically limit apartment rent hikes to the increases in the regional Consumer Price Index. At last week’s meeting, the council put forward a competing ordinance, Measure W, that would create a binding-arbitration program for rent increases over 5 percent but would not amend the city’s charter. The Mountain View Tenants Coalition points out that the city’s average rents have risen by 80 percent since 2009, an increase that hasn’t been matched by a rise in income for most residents. In basic terms, the Tenants Coalition’s ballot measure was designed to restrict only the landlords who are recklessly charging whatever the market will bear, said the group’s spokesman, Daniel DeBolt. If enacted, he said expected rent control to quickly become “uncontroversial� without any significant impact on property values. DeBolt formerly worked as a reporter for the Voice. “(Our rent control measure) is basically a protection against price-gouging on a basic necessity like housing,� he said. “People’s lives are being impacted in a profound way by extreme rent increases. That’s more important than maintaining massive profits for landlords.� Sell now? It appears that some local realestate agents have been banking on landlords’ trepidation about rent control to drum up business. In recent days, agents from ARA Newmark sent out letters to apartment owners warning rent control will “likely pass� and encouraging them to quickly sell while the market remains at historic high prices.
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ARA Newmark employees declined to comment for this story. With the election imminent, Mountain View landlords looking to sell an apartment would be legally required to disclose to any interested buyers that the city could be enacting rent control, explained Deniece Smith, a local Coldwell Banker Realtor. She said the local market could be experiencing a lull due to the final weeks of the summer vacation season and that she expects sales to increase soon after Labor Day. When landlords ask her for advice, she suggests they should hold off on sales until after the vote and devote their energy toward a rent-control opposition campaign.
‘It never occurred to me that the Tenants Coalition would get this on the ballot.’ LINDA CURTIS, APARTMENT OWNER
“If rent control does not pass, those owners will be in a much better position to sell if they are thinking of doing so,� Smith told the Voice in an email. “It would behoove those owners who want to maintain their property value to advocate with as loud a voice possible (for) not passing a rent control measure.� But like Huberty, other apartment owners report that they’ve been receiving a disappointing response when they try to market their properties. A Mountain View resident for more than 40 years, Linda Curtis owns eight apartment units, one of which she lives in with her husband, located one block off Castro Street. They became full owners of the property in 2009 after buying out their partners for about $2 million, she said. Around 2015, the value of their property peaked at around $5 million according to an appraisal they commissioned. But Curtis decided to wait on a sale in hopes of getting a little more. A second appraisal conducted earlier this year indicated their building’s value had dropped to $3.3 million, which she attributed to the growing possibility of rent-control. Curtis says she is having trouble going forward with her plan to sell the apartments to get a mortgage on a new place to live because her property’s value
has plummeted. “I lost $2 million by just sitting here doing nothing,� she mused. “People have always told me Mountain View won’t ever do (rent control). It never occurred to me that the Tenants Coalition would get this on the ballot.� Curtis said she has kept her rents well below the market rate, charging just $1,100 for a onebedroom apartment. On the other side of the landlord spectrum are John and Stephanie Sorenson, a young married couple in their 20s and both early in their careers as attorneys. Last November, without knowing a political groundswell for rent control in Mountain View was emerging, the Sorensons said they purchased a four-unit apartment building for $2.55 million. Now Sorenson says he has no idea what his property is worth, and he feels like a “nervous wreck� fretting about what will be left of his investment. “In pure speculation, I think it’s worth nothing because no one’s buying,� he said. “We worked our asses off, saved up and put forward all this money, and now we’re looking at a loss.� The setbacks facing Mountain View’s landlords may seem like poetic justice to some renters, who say they’ve been living with market uncertainty and severe price fluctuations for years. Huberty and other landlords are warning that rent-control may backfire and result in exacerbating Mountain View’s housing shortage and rental prices. He warns his tenants could be among those suffering if one of the proposed measures passes in November. In that scenario, if he can’t sell his his 56-unit Moffett Manor, he said he will pursue redeveloping the site, effectively displacing over 100 people. “The highest and best use will become $1.2 million row houses, as is being done elsewhere in the neighborhood,� he said. “I’ll just pull a bunch of equity, get approval for condos and go invest somewhere else. Or I’ll just let this place rot because that’s what rent control does.� For their part, tenants’ advocates say that landlords’ claims of rent control’s impacts should be met with some skepticism, since they will likely wage a fierce campaign against the ballot measures. “When Mountain View considered raising the minimum wage to $15 (an hour), they warned the sky would fall. And now that’s very uncontroversial,� DeBolt of the Tenants Coalition said. “I think it’s going to be the same with rent control.� Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V
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School started this week for all public schools across Mountain View, and at Huff Elementary, there are plenty of fresh new faces to greet the students. Geoff Chang, the school’s new principal, joined Huff Elementary in May as part of a lengthy staffing shuffle. He replaces former principal Heidi Smith, who moved to the district office as the director of English Language Learner programs. It was hard to miss Chang on Monday, as he stood in the front of the school with a bright neon vest, directing foot traffic as families scrambled onto the campus. “It’s going to be a fantastic year,” Chang told the crowd of parents. As parents parted ways with their children, a mix of English, Spanish and Russian rang out across the school yard. Huff Elementary is unique among the schools in the district in that it has a sizable population of Russian families whose children are still learning English. Last school year, 21 percent of the English-language learners at the school spoke Russian at home, compared to 19 percent who spoke Spanish. A sign at the front of the school advertising for Huff’s English Language Advisory Committee (ELAC) sports the same message in Russian, English and Spanish. Huff Elementary is one of the largest and most popular elementary schools in Mountain View, and all four kindergarten classes are packed this year. A total of 96 kindergartners were enrolled on the first day of school, with class sizes between 23 and 25. It was also the first day at Huff for kindergarten teacher Leana Lee, one of a handful of new teachers joining the school this year. Lee said she taught different grades at the private Synapse School in Menlo Park before joining the district. Huff solidified its regional draw after it received nation-
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from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in math and engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. Today, he works as a global lead at Cisco Systems. Carpenter admits he could face a tough proposition in the November election when he faces seven other candidates,
al recognition last September, when the U.S. Department of education awarded it the 2015 Blue Ribbon School award for academic achievement, making it one of only 335 recipients across the country. Smith, during her tenure as principal, was one of seven school administrators to receive the national Terrell H. Bell Award for her emphasis on social justice, equity and a holistic approach to education that includes anything from science and coding to creative writing. The growth of the school, and the growth in popularity, isn’t without some growing pains. Huff Elementary saw a waiting list of nearly two-dozen students this year, of whom 11 lived within the school’s boundary and simply couldn’t be accommodating in the school’s kindergarten classrooms, according to district reports from March. Though details remain sparse, district officials have agreed that it’s going to take a new school in the Whisman area of the city, combined with re-drawn school boundaries, in order to bring Huff’s student population back down to reasonable levels. Huff is right in the center of the Mountain View Whisman School District’s ongoing plan to re-balance enrollment and build new facilities at the same time, designing classroom wings that fit only as many students as the future enrollment blueprint calls for. At Huff, Bubb, and Landels, that translates into 18 new classrooms for 450 students — any additional classes will be housed in portable classrooms parked on the black top. Construction is expected to begin by June 2017. How long will those portables stick around? So far, the district hasn’t put together even a tentative schedule on when to tear down the classrooms, because it is entirely contingent on how well enrollment is redistributed in the coming years. Responding to concerns raised by a Huff parent in June, Superintendent some of whom are veterans in local politics. Carpenter is embracing his role as a darkhorse contender, and he is pledging to eschew large donations. He is setting a fundraising goal of $2,700 that he hopes to raise by getting 100 donations of $27, a number that may have significance for Sanders fans in Mountain View. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V
Ayinde Rudolph explained that the linchpin in the plan is opening a school at Slater Elementary. Not just because Mountain View’s “Wagon Wheel” neighborhood would no longer be zoned for Huff, but because more more space will be freed up at the neighboring schools, causing a cascading effect that could conceivably ease enrollment pressure on Huff. The only guarantee is that kindergartners entering Huff, Bubb and Landels this year are going to see major changes to their schools. New schematic designs for each school campus include plans to build a new multipurpose room, convert the existing multipurpose room into a library and modernize the existing classrooms and administrative building. All the improvements are projected to be done by 2018. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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he Mountain View Police Department’s creation of a wall denying access to traffic-accident information to the public and the press is more than puzzling. It’s also legally misguided, despite department officials’ claim that general secrecy about the incidents is required by law. It is not. It has been only recently that the Voice has encountered resistance from the city’s police department while trying to report news about traffic collisions occurring on local streets. Incidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists are occurring at a troubling rate, and the need for public awareness of this health and safety matter should be obvious. Although in the past, Mountain View police officials provided accident details — such as the number of people involved and extent of injuries of anyone hurt, the direction the vehicles and/or pedestrians were traveling, the specific movements that led up to the collision, and the extent of any property damage — the department now provides only the date, time and location of an incident. The department cites a section of the California Vehicle Code that spells out rules on reporting accidents to the DMV. But police officials, starting at the top with Police Chief Max Bosel, are ignoring California Government Code 6254 (f), which requires a local police agency to report factual circumstances of traffic collisions it responds to, including a general description of injuries and property damage, and information pertaining to its response.
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WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND RENT MEASURE? I agree with the guest opinion in last week’s Viewpoint: “Here’s How Rent Stabilization Can Backfire.” But actually that’s only one of many ways. Another is that all landlords have now been taught to never miss any chance for rent increases because they can’t know when it’s their last chance. Or, how about when the rental market declines? Will the rents then drop? Or, will they remain as high as they are allowed to be each year because getting back up is slow and the amount of increase is not guaranteed due to the fluctuations in the Consumers Price Index? But there may be an even worse scenario. Was the Mountain View Tenants Coalition manipulated into seeing rent control as a real solution, only to be used to bring it to the bal-
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lot as part of a hidden scheme to make huge money for investors and to yield a much greater tax base for our city? If one type of housing is pressured sufficiently, it will give way to being rebuilt as “big and new.” Many want this. On the same lot: three times as many rental units at three times the rent! Or more. Remember “new” is not subject to rent control. When that is all we have left, who knows how high the rents will go? The big developers can dominate the housing market with all extremely expensive properties yielding outrageous profits for themselves. Our city of Mountain View also fattens its coffers with a vastly increased tax base and more “added public benefits,” which the City Council requires developers to provide. Lev Edwards Victor Way
These are details provided by many other police agencies, including the California Highway Patrol. Does the Mountain View department really believe that the state CHP would break the law by providing such information? The Voice isn’t alone in its frustration over this new police department policy of withholding information that the public is legally entitled to. The city’s Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee is being hampered in its attempt to make informed recommendations on how the city can increase safety on local streets — roadways that were the sites of six deaths last year of bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists, and have seen a steady hike in the number of pedestrian- and bike-related collisions since 2012. Bruce England of the advisory committee told the Voice that the committee is also denied pertinent information about traffic accidents, despite its city-directed role in trying to improve roadway safety. Such information, he said, “is key to our being able to recommend or request systemic changes for improvements to help reduce the number and severity of incidents.” On an encouraging note, City Attorney Jannie Quinn said on Wednesday that she will research the legal question regarding the police department’s refusal to supply most traffic accident information. We hope that the matter is resolved quickly and in the spirit of serving the public interest. V
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firmed this week. She’ll be opening her second outpost at Town & Country Village on El Camino Real, hopefully in October. Biondivino offers what Smith calls a “living wine list” that reflects “all the wines that you would find at a great restaurant list, without being commercialized,” she said in an interview. She opened Biondivino after working for several years with Italian-wine distributors and retailers and becoming frustrated by the way they valued recognizable brands over quality wines served in top restaurants. So at the shop, you’ll find “food friendly focused wines,” many small producers and an emphasis on organic and
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biodynamic wines. The selection is almost entirely Italian, with few exceptions. (Smith said she’ll dabble in Austria or Spain, and also sells some French rosé and champagnes, but nothing from California.) The Palo Alto shop will be “almost identical” to the San Francisco original, Smith said. Her team is currently looking into licensing and regulations to see if they’ll be able to serve wines by the glass and host food pop-ups, as they do in San Francisco. Smith said they were drawn to Palo Alto as a hub of activity with “great restaurants” — and ideal rose weather. Continued on next page
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Jonah Hill (right) and Miles Teller play two young arms dealers gaming the Pentagon in “War Dogs.”
Cry havoc ‘WAR DOGS’ SPINS GUNRUNNER LEGEND 001/2 (Century 16 and 20, Palo Alto Square) Based on a true story, the Todd a position in Diveroli’s outfit Phillips tragicomedy “War Dogs” AEY. (In real life, Diveroli was frequently improves upon the an 18-year-old hotshot. On film, truth, Hollywood-style. At its he’s corpulent 32-year-old Jonah core, though, this twisted tale of Hill.) Screenwriters Stephen Chin American entrepreneurship — of young arms dealers gaming the and Phillips and Jason Smilovic Pentagon — captures something simplify Guy Lawson’s Rolling of runaway modern greed, played Stone article “Arms and the out as a bro movie from bro stars Dudes” into a sort of “Internaand a bro filmmaker that’s equal tional Arms Trade for Dummies,” but the streamlining parts comical and infuriating. Miles Teller stars as 22-year- mainstreams some interesting old David Packouz (pronounced facts about the Dubya-era war “Packhouse”), who languishes in machine — or, as Diveroli more 2005 as a massage therapist in accurately assesses, “God bless his hometown of Miami Beach, Dick Cheney’s America.” For Florida. Packouz reconnects with instance, scrutiny of Cheney’s his old friend from yeshiva awarding of military supply school, Efraim Diveroli, a power- contracts to insiders forced the mad, coke-snorting international Bush administration to fashion arms dealer who offers Packouz a small-business initiative. This
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allowed tiny outfits like AEY to get into the game and make millions by underbidding the big guys on the smallest of the contracts up for bid on a publicly visible website that, disturbingly, escaped public scrutiny. “I live on crumbs, like a rat,” high-school dropout Diveroli tells college dropout Packouz, but those “crumbs” are big money. In voice-over, Packouz acknowledges the perception of the duo as “bottom feeders who make money off of war without ever stepping foot on a battlefield,” even as the script interpolates an adventure in which Diveroli and Packouz personally gun-run 5000 Berettas from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad, Iraq, finding themselves under heavy fire before hand-delivering the guns to a U.S. general for use by the Iraqi police force. As in real life, though, the crux of the story is “the Afghan deal,” a $300-million contract AEY wins (by underbidding to the tune of $50 million) to enable the Pentagon to supply the Afghan National Army with a massive amount of firepower. Composite-character slight-ofhand and reworked details aside, “War Dogs” gives the general idea of the web of corruption, including the key role a slick, mobbed-up middle man (Bradley Cooper) plays in AEY moving an Albanian Cold War stockpile to Kabul. In the hands of “Hangover” trilogy director Phillips, “War Dogs” annoys in a variety of ways: its simultaneous critique and embrace of machismo and whatever-it-takes business savvy (the women in the story serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall-to-wall use of overplayed source music and frequently sit-comedic joke constructions. Worst of all, the film pulls its punches against the U.S. government in ways Lawson’s article doesn’t. “War Dogs” spotlights the apolitical domestic greed of militaryindustrial cash grabbing, heartily represented by Hill’s embodiment of same. His raging ball of it builds unstoppable momentum toward an inevitable crash, and it’s the backstabbing gun bros who pay, not the back-shooting government power-players. With a caveat: in need of a hero, Phillips lets Packouz off the hook, since Diveroli’s greed proves more monstrous. In other hands, “War Dogs” might have been a fresh classic of political satire instead of a crime comedy that plays as sub-Scorsesean riff. Rated R for language throughout, drug use and some sexual references. One hour, 54 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Q HIGHLIGHT OPEN HOUSE AT CSMA Attendees to the Annual Open House at the Community School of Music and Arts will see art and music demonstrations; meet staff and faculty; and enjoy student performances. Registration will be available for music lessons and classes. All ages are welcome. Aug. 20, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org/openhouse
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15th Annual New Works Festival TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will gather playwrights and composers from across the nation for its 2016 New Works Festival at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre. Audiences are invited to attend performances, participate in a panel discussion with the artists and share in the journey of developing new works. Aug. 19-21, times vary. $65 and $49, festival passes; $10-$19, single event tickets. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. theatreworks.org ‘The Guys’ by Anne Nelson Pear Theatre opens its 2016-17 season with “The Guys,” by Anne Nelson, which chronicles the real-life relationship between a journalist covering the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and a New York fire chief struggling to write eulogies for eight lost compatriots. Aug. 26-Sept. 18, times vary. $10-$35. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida, Mountain View. thepear.org ‘The Life of the Party’ In this musical revue, Broadway actress Teal Wicks (“Finding Neverland, Wicked”) pays tribute to some of Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa’s works, including songs from “The Addams Family,” Big Fish” and “I Am Harvey Milk.” Aug. 24-Sept. 4, times vary. $20$36. Mountain View Center for the, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. tracking.goldstar.com ‘Veils’ by Tom Coash’Veils’ by Tom Coash features two Muslim women during the Arab Spring — one, an African-American who seeks to be less of an outsider by taking her college studies to Egypt, the other an Egyptian-born woman who craves the freedom and adventure she imagines American women to have. Aug. 27-Sept. 17, times vary. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. thepear.org
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. Aug. 21, 4-6 p.m. Free. The Village at San Antonio Center, 685 San Antonio Road, Mountain View. facebook.com/ TheVillageSAC Singing and Circle Dancing with our Angels Angel Mediator Geneviève Vulser and her singing children and grandchildren from Germany will offer a class to reconnect with the Divine through singing and dancing. Aug. 20-21, 7:30 p.m. Free. East West Book Store, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. eastwest.com Tuesdays live music & no corkage Morocco’s Restaurant hosts live music on Tuesday. Aug. 23, 4-6 p.m., happy hour; 7 p.m., live music. Free. Morocco’s, 873 Castro St., Mountain View. moroccosrestaurant.com
CONCERTS Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cheap Trick Three acts of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Heart, Joan Jett and Cheap Trick hit the stage together for one night of hits. Aug. 24, 6:30 p.m. $20. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. facebook.com/ events/1663124267262058
TALKS & LECTURES Ayurvedic Consultations There will be ayurvedic consultations with Dr. Vignesh Devraj, MD which will include pulse and tongue diagnoses, vedic energy balancing, guided meditation and visualization to heal the body, mind and spirit. Aug. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. $60-$120. East West Book Store, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. eastwest.com Big in Japan: Blue Bottle Coffee’s Japan Journey In this presentation, James Freeman (Founder & CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee) will share the company’s story of its Japan market entry. Freeman will also share what he loves about Tokyo and the inspiration he draws from Japan’s cafe culture. Aug. 31, 6-9 p.m. Cubberly Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. usajapan.org ‘Who Doesn’t Need Cheaper Rent?’ There will be a discussion of the Peninsula’s housing crisis with community activists working for low-income housing, tenants and homeless rights. There will also be a showing of the short documentary by Elizabeth Lo, “Hotel 22,” about the 24/7 bus #22 on El Camino Real and the homeless people who seek its shelter. Aug. 29, 7-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Main Library, Orchard room, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.
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Writing a Mystery Series Local author Russ Atkinson discusses his experience creating a mystery series. Mr. Atkinson will describe how he turned his 25-year FBI career into source material for a post-retirement career as a mystery novelist. Aug. 25, 6-7 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview. gov/librarycalendar
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS Exhibition: ‘Women’s Power to Stop War’ The exhibit “Women’s Power to Stop War: Celebrating 101 Years of Peacemaking” by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will be on display at the Los Altos Library during August. WILPF has been working since 1915 to oppose oppression and exploitation and promote peace through disarmament. Aug. 19-30, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. ‘Water Lines: Mixed Media Prints’ by Michelle Wilson The Community School of Music and Arts exhibition “Water Lines” will feature mixed-media works and prints by Michelle Wilson — a papermaker, printmaker, and book and installation artist. Monday-Saturday, Aug.19Aug. 27, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Mohr Gallery, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org
DANCE Argentine Tango Alberto’s Nightclub hosts a Milonga-style Argentine Tango. Milonga refers to the atmosphere of a traditional Buenos Aires tango bar with bar snacks and a wooden dance floor. Sundays, Aug. 5-Sept. 4., 7 p.m. $10. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com ArtistEDGE Dance Company: ‘Frames’ ArtistEDGE hosts its first full evening performance featuring modern dance works, live music and a silent auction. Choreography is by artistic director Jeannine Charles and company with guest artists Natasha Carlitz of Dance Ensemble and Lauren Baines. Aug. 27, 8-10 p.m. $15 children and seniors; $20 general; $25 at door. Zohar School of Dance & Company, 4000 Middlefield Road. L4, Palo Alto. artistedge.net NYC Style Salsa On2 with Victoria Victoria teaches New York-style Salsa On2 for adults ages 21 and up. No partner is necessary. Mondays, Aug. 15-Sept. 5, 8 p.m., ladies’ styling class; 9 p.m., partnering class; 10 p.m., social dancing. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com Salsa Fridays Alberto’s Salsa Studio hosts salsa lesson and social dancing with Pantea. All levels are welcome, and no partner is necessary. Friday, Aug. 12-Sept. 9, 8:15 p.m., beginner class, 9:15 p.m., intermediate class; 10:00 p.m., social dancing. $10. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com Salsa with Pantea Salsa lessons are offered for all levels at Alberto’s Salsa Studio. Lessons are followed by social dancing with DJ Jamyl. No partner is necessary. Thursdays, Aug. 18-Sept. 8. 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. $6-$10. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com
FILM Film: ‘This Changes Everything’ There will be a screening of “This Changes Everything,” inspired by Naomi Klein’s book subtitled “Capitalism vs the Climate.” It will be followed by a discussion. Aug. 22, 7-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Main Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Movie Night: ‘Making a Killing’ There will be a screening of “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA,” a new film by Robert Greenwald. Afterward, Don Veith, the Santa Clara County chapter leader for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, will lead a discussion. Aug. 25, 7-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. peaceandjustice.org
FOOD & DRINK Master Sushi Class: “Rolls” Peninsula Chef Kaz Matsune will teach a sushi class that will cover knife handling, where to buy sushi ingredients and fish, and how to make cucumber
seaweed salad, sushi rice, a California roll, a rainbow roll, a hand roll, and seaweed-out rolls. The class includes a communal dinner and a digital copy of Chef Matsune’s book. A knife, apron and equipment will be provided. Aug. 20, noon-2:30 p.m. $129. The Neutra House, 183 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. eventbrite.com YIPEE’s 2nd Annual Summer Night Mixer Carmel the Village and Paul Martin’s host the annual YIPEE Mixer, a chance to meet, mingle and network. Registration includes two drink tickets (for wine) and buffet-style appetizers. Aug. 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-$20. Carmel The Village Apartments, 555 San Antonio Road, Mountain View. chambermv.org
LESSONS & CLASSES Adult School Fall Registration Registration for Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School Fall classes is open, and Fall session runs through Dec. 16. Aug 18-Sept. 2, 8 a.m. Free, course fees vary. Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School, 333 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View. mvlaae.net Final Cut Pro X Workshop Taught by an editor with 20 years experience, this 8-hour workshop is for the beginner or the editor who wants a refresher. Software, hardware, workshop booklet and raw footage to create the project is provided. Aug. 20-21, noon-4 p.m. $100. Midpen Media, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. midpenmedia.org HDTV Studio Production Basics Students will learn the different positions that go into making a High-Definition TV show: producing, directing, camera, audio, graphics operation, floor directing, and switching on digital gear. As a class, students will produce, crew or star in their own HD TV show which will air on the Midpen Media Center’s cable channels, stream live on the Web and be uploaded to Youtube. Aug. 26, 29, 31, Sept. 12, 6-10 p.m.; Sept. 10, 1-5 p.m. $180. Midpen Media, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. midpenmedia.org Healthy Happens Here: Fitness with the YMCA This class develops balance, flexibility, strength, posture, coordination and fall prevention. It is appropriate for all levels and backgrounds and is offered in partnership and led by instructors from the YMCA. Registration is required and attendants are required to bring their own Yoga mat or towel and water bottle. Wednesday, Aug. 17 and 24, from noon to 1 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. ca.evanced.info Heartfulness meditation Heartfulness Institute offers relaxation and meditation techniques that will enable and empower participants to lead a stress-free, balanced life. Participants will learn the techniques of how to truly relax, meditate and connect to their inner selves . Aug. 24, 6-7 p.m. $50 Palo Alto resident; $58 nonresident. Lucie Stern Community Center, Community Room, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. apm.activecommunities.com Immigrant Resume Workshop Lex from Upwardly Global will help participants navigate what employers in the United States are looking for in a resume and beyond. Aug. 24, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Joy on Demand Chade-Meng Tan, an avid meditator, dedicates his life to promoting peace, liberty, englightenment and happiness. He will discuss how to tap into innate contentment. Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m. Free. East West Book Store, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. eastwest.com Language Swap There will be a language swap session during which participants will spend some time helping someone speak their native language and spend time practicing a new language as well. All levels and languages are welcome, and no registration is required. Aug. 18 and 25, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. ca.evanced.info Living Classroom Information and Training Meetings Living Classroom is searching for interested people to serve as lead or assistant docents to present lessons. All training and materials are provided, and no prior teaching experience is necessary. Aug. 22, 29, 10-11 a.m.
Free. Mountain View Whisman School District Office, 750-A San Pierre Way, Mountain View. Planning for Your Best Pregnancy This workshop is the only one of its kind in the Bay Area and includes the most up to date information for how to prepare and plan your body, mind and relationship in order to have a healthy and happy pregnancy. This Preconception Workshop has been developed by Silicon Valley physicians, healthcare experts and clinicians to meet the needs of women in the community. Aug. 29, 7-9 p.m. $25 covers two people. El Camino Hospital, Conference Rooms E & F, 2500 Grant Road, Mountain View. elcaminohospital.org Python for Teens This four-week class will teach you how to code in Python, an objectoriented programmming language. Note that there will be no class on Sept. 3 (Labor Day Weekend). Aug. 20, 3-5 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. ca.evanced.info Say “No” Without Guilt Julie Hawkins, a Women’s Empowerment Coach and Certified Trainer of NLP for over 15 years, leads a workshop on how to draw boundaries to avoid feelings of guilt, shame, resentment, frustration and anger. Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m. Free. East West Book Store, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. eastwest.com Sew Sew Saturday The library has four Baby Lock (Grace model) sewing machines and one serger for those in need of a sewing machine. This is not a class, and instruction will not be provided. Registration is required and time slots are 45 minutes. Saturday, Aug. 13-27, 10:15-11 a.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. ca.evanced.info Social Security Administration services Swallowtail Representatives from Social Security Administration will schedule weekly visits to assist the public with limited transactions at the Library. The limited services available are: requesting a replacement Medicare Card, changing address, changing direct deposit information, appealing a decision, resolving an over-payment and reporting wages. Aug 17 and 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free, by appointment only. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. ca.evanced.info
HEALTH & WELLNESS Bellydancing Fitness for All Taught by a native professional, these classes will teach the ancient 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. Aug.15, 22 and 29, noon-1 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. sccl.org
SPORTS Pickleball for Seniors The Mountain View Senior Center offers weekly lessons for seniors ages 55 and older in pickleball, a growing sport that is social, low impact and easy on the joints. No experience is necessary, and all equipment is provided. Players should wear court shoes. Wednesdays, Aug. 17-Sept. 21, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Rengstorff Park, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. mountainview.gov
BUSINESS Business ConneXions The Mountain View Chamber of Commerce leads groups that meet weekly to exchange leads and referrals and to build a network of business connections. Only one person from a particular type of business is allowed in each group. For more information, call 650-9688378. Thursdays, Aug. 18-Sept. 8, 8:15 a.m. First two meetings, free. El Camino YMCA, 2400 Grant Road, Mountain View. chambermv.org SCORE Small Business Counseling Attendants will have an opportunity to talk to two experienced consultants in one-hour sessions, as many times as needed. Consulting is available at the main office in San Jose and at many Chambers of Commerce. Clients can also choose which consultants best match their needs. Wednesday, Aug. 24-Sept. 21. 9:30 a.m. Free. Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, 355 Alma St., Palo Alto. paloaltochamber.com
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145 Non-Profits Needs DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARY WISH LIST FRIENDS PA LIBRARY
150 Volunteers ASSIST IN FRIENDS’ BOOKSTORE ASST SECTION MGRS FOR FOPAL FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY Hidden Villa Volunteers Needed JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM Stanford Museum Volunteer
152 Research Study Volunteers Balance Study for Healthy, Older Adults Stanford University and the Palo Alto VA are seeking participants for a research study investigating the use of special lights to improve balance while walking at night during two separate overnight stays at the VA Sleep Lab. Participants must be healthy, non-smokers, without sleep problems, between 55 - 85 years old. Compensation up to $225. For more information call Yvonne at (650)-849-1971. For general information about participant rights, contact (866)-680-2906
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345 Tutoring/ Lessons K-12 Math Tutor (Taught 10yrs)
355 Items for Sale
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Barrios Garden Maintenance *Power washing *Irrigation systems *Clean up and hauling *Tree removal *Refs. 650/771-0213
J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., green waste, more. Local, 20 yrs exp. Lic./ ins. Free est. 650/743-8852
771 Painting/ Wallpaper
781 Pest Control
Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325, phone calls ONLY. STYLE PAINTING Full service interior/ext. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577
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995 Fictitious Name Statement LUMM FOODS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619624 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lumm Foods, located at 928 Wright Ave. #504, Mountain View, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LUMM FOODS 928 Wright Ave. #504 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 19, 2016. (MVV July 29; Aug. 5, 12, 19, 2016) BARRY BEAMS BARRY BEAM OCULUS BY BARRY BEAMS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619632 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Barry Beams, 2.) Barry Beam, 3.) Oculus by Barry Beams, located at 114 Granada Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are):
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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE File No. 7023.115459 Title Order No. 8615068 MIN No. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/22/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in §5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Trustor(s): HOMERO OYARCE AND LORNA SOLOMON OYARCE, HUSBAND AND WIFE Recorded: 05/31/2007, as Instrument No. 19450521, of Official Records of SANTA CLARA County, California. Date of Sale: 09/01/2016 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA The purported property address is: 3385 BROWER AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 Assessors Parcel No. 197-07-071 The total amount of the unpaid bal-
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FOGSTER.COM ance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $1,006,182.96. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid, plus interest. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the beneficiary, the Trustor or the trustee. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 877484-9942 or visit this Internet Web site www.USA-Foreclosure.com or www. Auction.com using the file number assigned to this case 7023.115459. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: August 4, 2016 NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC., as Trustee Lizette Jurado Authorized Signatory 2121 Alton Parkway, Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92606 866-387-6987 Sale Info website: www.USA-Foreclosure.com or www.Auction.com Automated Sales Line: 877-484-9942 or 800-280-2832 Reinstatement and Pay-Off Requests: (866) 387-NWTS THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. OYARCE, HOMERO and LORNA SOLOMON ORDER # 7023.115459: 08/12/2016, 08/19/2016, 08/26/2016 MVV
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OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY, August 20 & 21, 1:30 – 4:30 pm 1715 HAWKINS DRIVE, LOS ALTOS Classic, timeless appeal in South Los Altos • 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths • Approximately 2,005 square feet
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OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY, August 20 & 21, 1:30 – 4:30 pm 107 E. PORTOLA AVENUE, LOS ALTOS North Los Altos just minutes to San Antonio Center • 3 bedrooms and 2 baths
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1611 SHIRLEY AVENUE, LOS ALTOS Just completed new construction • Approximately 3,952 square feet • Sweeping views above the 4th fairway of the Los Altos Golf & Country Club
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25617 W. Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills Custom Chateau by Downtown Los Altos Crafted with features imported from Europe, this elegant residence includes 5 bedrooms, 6 full and 3 half bathrooms, and over [ YTT ?= 2@ I<1> -<<>-5?-8J ;: ?<-/5;A? Ĺ&#x152;-@ 3>;A:0? ;2 U Y[ -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ ">;95?5:3 - 8521?@E81 ;2 =A51@ 8ADA>E @45? /A?@;9 home skillfully blends the grandeur of a French country estate with 21st-century comforts. This peaceful, gated mansion includes garage parking for four cars, potential au pair quarters, a poolhouse, and pristine creekside grounds. Charming downtown Los Altos is within strolling distance. For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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