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A crowd gathers at Mountain View’s Civic Center Plaza on May 1, for the annual rally and march for immigration reform. Kira Od, a political artist from Sunnyvale, raises her poster with an image of Donald Trump.
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ay Day rally pushes back against federal immigration policies. Hundreds of people took to the streets of Mountain View on
Monday evening to denounce a federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The annual May Day march this year held a particular urgency and drew one of its largest crowds based on fears that President Donald
Trump’s administration represents a grave threat to local families and the community. Speaker after speaker at the event pledged that Mountain See MAY DAY, page 18
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s Google finalizes plans to transform much of North Bayshore into a signature campus, its longtime rival is moving forward briskly to create its own new headquarters on Mountain View’s east side. This week, LinkedIn representatives presented new plans for a new East Whisman office campus totaling almost 1.1 million square feet, right on Mountain View’s border with Sunnyvale. The proposed campus would merge several existing office buildings and parcels just east of Highway 237 into a new showcase for the tech company. “This is a transformational design of this site; we want a place where we can have the majority of our staff, so they aren’t spread throughout the neighborhood,” said LinkedIn Vice President Jim Mortgensen. “We consider this a hub for our employees.” The plans call for a trio of new six-story office buildings that would be constructed around a cluster of older two-story offices already at the site. The company plans to move its employees into the older buildings starting this summer, but the full construction project is expected to take four years to complete. In a study session on Tuesday, May 3, the Mountain View City Council took its first look at the project and the package of community benefits it would bring. The project comes at an awkward time — the city is currently trying to decide on its East Whisman precise plan to guide future development in the area. City planners indicated that shouldn’t be a big hurdle. The LinkedIn project seems to comply with the city’s main precise
plan goals, such as consolidating dense office space along local highways and including plenty of open space. The biggest complaint about the new design came from the Costa Mesa Terrace neighborhood, a Sunnyvale condominium park just east of the project site. Like other speakers, resident Nicole Pasini pointed out that the LinkedIn project would plant a six-story parking garage just across the street from her front door. “I’m disappointed that a huge parking garage is going to right on the other side of our wall,” she said. “Obviously having nothing here would be better, but I don’t want to be excessively NIMBY.” Many neighbors urged the council to compel LinkedIn to add underground parking, but the company’s team said it would be too expensive. Representatives said they were planning to put one level of parking underground, but digging further would cost about $100,000 per parking spot, Mortgensen said. Siding with LinkedIn, city planners pointed out the project has a 100-foot setback, which complied with Sunnyvale’s planning guidelines. City Council members signaled they didn’t want to rejigger the whole project to move the garages, but they urged planners to keep as many trees as possible as a buffer. LinkedIn had planned to build a bicycle track along that side of the property, but City Council members preferred keeping the trees. Plans for the new LinkedIn headquarters came about after the company announced a massive land swap with Google last year. LinkedIn gave Google rights See LINKEDIN, page 8
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or over five years, a church in downtown Mountain View has been dishing out free meals to hundreds of residents who would have otherwise gone hungry. Whether they are the homeless, the elderly, the disabled or the unemployed, volunteers at Hope’s Corner say the doors are open to everyone who lines up each Saturday. Hope’s Corner, aptly named for its location on the corner
of Hope and Mercy streets, has turned into a one-stop shop for homeless and lowincome residents who need a meal, a shower, clean clothes or all of the above. It’s one of the only soup kitchens in northern Santa Clara County, and the number of families it serves each Saturday morning has more than tripled since 2013, despite the booming local economy and record-low unemployment. “Just because the tech economy is booming doesn’t
means there are jobs for people without the right education and skills,” said Leslie Carmichael, board president of Hope’s Corner. “And even if you are housed, it’s not an easy time if you’ve got a low-wage job.” Leaders of the nonprofit are seeking donations for its capital campaign, which would bring much-needed upgrades to the kitchen at Hope’s Corner and enable volunteers to serve meals See HOPE’S CORNER, page 6
or Mountain View school resource officer Bobby Taylor, being hip is part of the job. Whether it’s following which social media apps are current and which are passe, or consulting Urban Dictionary on new lingo, Taylor has spent the last six years with his finger on the pulse of student life at Mountain View high schools. “Vine is out. Snapchat and Instagram are still around but Kik and Yik Yak are old school now,” Taylor said in an interview last Friday morning. Later that day, Yik Yak announced it was shutting down. Taylor is part of a team of officers that represent the face of the Mountain View Police Department in local schools, Officer and his job is to Bobby Taylor act as the liaison between law enforcement and teens at Mountain View, St. Francis, Alta Vista and occasionally Los Altos high schools. Rather than take a hard-line approach and spend his time scanning for criminal behavior while swinging around a pair of handcuffs, Taylor said he has made it a priority to build a strong relationship with the students, play an active role in school events and make frequent appearances in the classroom. His goal, he said, is to create a climate where students are willing to open up on tough issues like gang activity, drug abuse and
mental health — even with a cop. “Now when students see a cop on campus, they know it’s not a big deal,” he said. On Wednesday morning, the Mountain View-Los Altos Challenge Team recognized Taylor as this year’s “Champion for Youth” for his work in local high schools, and said in a statement that Taylor — better known as Bobby T — has become an “ideal mentor and confidante” for students. The statement rings true each year when Taylor gets swamped with requests for letters of recommendation for jobs and scholarships from Mountain View teens. Even when a student has a run-in with the law, Taylor said, his goal is to maintain a strong relationship and keep open lines of communication. “During a citation and possible arrest, we’re good with each other,” he said. “And I tell them, ‘The next time we see each other I expect a high-five in the hallway.’” School resource officers in charge of overseeing middleand high school-aged students have had their work cut out for them in recent years. The explosive growth of social media has pushed criminal activity from on-campus to online, and cultural and legal changes related to marijuana and other drug use have muddied the message from law enforcement that drug use is both illegal and unhealthy for young teens. Last year, three teens attending Mountain View High School See COP, page 10
Chez TJ, Tied House team up for mixed-use project DOWNTOWN’S FINE-DINING RESTAURANT MERGING WITH NEXT-DOOR BREW PUB, BUILDING OFFICES By Elena Kadvany
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ichelin-starred Chez TJ, as the Mountain View community now knows it, will cease to exist in several years. The owner of Chez TJ, the city’s high-end restaurant serving tasting dinners from inside a historic Victorian house on Villa Street, along with neighboring restaurant and brewery Tied House, are
moving forward with a joint plan to build a four-story office building at their sites, Chez TJ executive chef Jarad Gallagher said Wednesday. The bottom floor of the new building will house a new iteration of Chez TJ, on top of several levels of underground parking. George Aviet opened Chez TJ in 1982 with then-partner and chef Thomas J. McCombie in a Victorian home built in 1894. Gallagher has served as executive chef since
2012, after a series of head chefs cycled through the kitchen, leaving to open their own high-end restaurants in the Bay Area. Aviet did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gallagher said Aviet eventually plans to retire and turn over the new Chez TJ to Gallagher. Aviet and Tied House will essentially be Gallagher’s landlords, he said. Tied House also has deep roots in Mountain View. The
microbrewery opened at 954 Villa St. in 1988. If the new restaurant serves beer, it will likely be Tied House brews, though that remains to be worked out, Gallagher said. Details about the new Chez TJ remain hazy since the restaurants’ permits have not yet been approved by the city, he said. But it will serve lunch and dinner and be open seven days a week, shifting away from its longtime
fine-dining concept. Despite this, Gallagher said, “it’s still going to be Chez TJ.” The restaurant has been approaching its limit on the amount of physical space available to continue to “develop and grow,” he said. A large-scale development will allow the restaurant to continue to evolve and for Aviet to benefit from tenants who See CHEZ TJ, page 7
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more than once a week, plugging gaps in the region’s schedule of free meals. The capital campaign, which runs through May 15, seeks to raise the final third of the roughly $1 million required to upgrade the facility. Feeding all those hungry mouths hasn’t been easy. The small kitchen at Hope’s Corner, which lacks a commercial-grade oven and has no stove, is hardly able to handle the kind of meal prep required to serve upwards of 200 people on the busiest mornings. All the food has to be prepared, chilled, cooked and transported to Hope’s Corner from a satellite location at the Los Altos United Methodist Church, Carmichael said. The menu has to be adjusted accordingly. People can choose from potatoes, hard boiled eggs, yogurt, fruit, cereal and hot drinks, as well as salads and a variety of donated food from local caterers. But food that would need to be cooked on-site is out of the question, and something like soup can be tough to transport when it’s sloshing around in the car on the way from one location to another, Carmichael said. An upgraded kitchen would result in far less time spent on logistical planning and a lot more time focusing on extending the frequency of the nonprofit’s services. A similar venue in Sunnyvale called Our Daily Bread operates Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, meaning that Tuesday and Thursdays are “holes” that Hope’s Corner
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could fill for residents who need a meal, Carmichael said. Hope’s Corner has played an increasingly important role in the community since its founding in September 2011. County estimates show that Mountain View’s homeless population has grown from 37 people in 2011 to 276 in 2015, statistics that are borne out in Hope’s Corner’s weekly head count. In two years, the nonprofit went from serving 77 people on a Saturday to serving as many as 249 people. At the same time, socalled “food insecurity,” or the inability to pay for groceries on
top of rent and other expenses, has become an acute challenge for residents in northern Santa Clara County, according to a report by the Community Services Agency of Mountain View and Los Altos. The number of people served by the kitchen dropped over the course of the recent winter months, likely due to the opening of the Sunnyvale Cold Weather Shelter, which houses 125 homeless people each night and offers both breakfast and dinner. The facility closed last Friday, meaning there will be more hungry people needing a meal from
now until November when it reopens, Carmichael said. On top of serving breakfast, Hope’s Corner recently completed a bathroom and shower facility adjacent to the kitchen, allowing people to sign up for a chance to bathe on Thursdays and Saturdays. People sign up for 15-minute time slots, and some of the guests show up extra early so they can shower before heading off to their jobs. Having single-person bathrooms is considered a rare and valuable commodity, Carmichael said. “Some of the women tell me
that they come to our showers because they don’t feel safe,” she said. “Normally there’s other stalls, you don’t know who else is there, and your stuff isn’t locked up.” The operating cost for Hope’s Corner is only about $67,000 each year, thanks to donated food as well as donated time and labor from a crew of about 80 people who make breakfast happen each week. Volunteers include a mix of older, steady members and a rotating cast of teenagers completing community service hours for school. Bringing hundreds of lowincome and homeless people into the neighborhood each week, some of whom are suffering from mental health problems, really hasn’t been a problem for the Old Mountain View neighborhood, Carmichael said. Not only has the neighborhood been a welcoming community for Hope’s Corner, but there haven’t been a lot of incidents or problems to speak of. In the five-and-a-half years that the organization has been operating, she recalled, there have only been two occasions where police needed to be called because someone was acting “off.” “The neighborhood has been open to having a use like ours, and include parts of the community besides homeowners,” she said. “We feel very lucky that the neighbors have been able to embrace that.” More information about Hope’s Corner and its fundraising drive is at hopes-corner.org/ donate or by emailing info@ hopes-corner.org. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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ountain View City Council members agreed Tuesday night on a plan to spend over $700,000 in federal money to support lowincome families in Mountain View, aimed at bringing more affordable housing to the city and making upgrades to existing subsidized homes. But it remains an open question whether cuts proposed by the White House earlier this year could gut the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), leaving the city with the tough choice of paying for the programs out of pocket or throwing them overboard. At the May 2 council meeting, council members unanimously agreed to set aside federal funds to build and rehabilitate affordable housing in Mountain View for the 2017-18 fiscal year, the bulk of which would go to MidPen Housing. Over $210,000 in funds from the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, referred to as HOME funding, will go towards building 62 new units at Shorebreeze Apartments
on Shoreline Boulevard. Another $490,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money will also pay for repairing and improving low-income housing already on the market in the city. Over 90 percent of the CDBG funds will go directly to upgrading units at The Fountains senior housing project on San Ramon Avenue, including a new elevator and energy-efficient appliances. Although deciding what to do with HUD money is fairly routine and received approval with little discussion, there’s a cloud of uncertainty over what will happen to the federal funds in the upcoming year and beyond. In March, President Donald Trump’s administration called for major cuts to several dozen federal agencies, and HUD was no exception. The report by the Office of Management and Budget, titled “America First: a budget blueprint to make America great again,” calls for slashing $6.2 billion from the HUD budget, eliminating the CDBG program as well as a number of “lower priority programs” including
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will pay a higher rent in the new building. “We’ve kind of maximized for what the square footage allows for us to do,” Gallagher said. “The hope is for us to develop the building and put the new retooled, modernized Chez TJ with enough room for us to keep the trend (going).” Gallagher and Aviet are currently looking for a local space, in either downtown Mountain View or Los Altos, to relocate Chez TJ while construction is underway on Villa Street. There, the restaurant’s fine-dining “legacy” will continue as its owner and chef figure out what will “be best for the new spot,” Gallagher said. They’re also looking into donating the existing Victorian home to a local park where it would be preserved as a historical site, he said. They plan to keep two heritage magnolia trees outside the current restaurant. The Minkoff Group, which was behind the 23andMe headquarters in Mountain View and a new Visa building in Palo Alto, will develop the project. Max Hauser, an Old Mountain View resident, said Aviet, the Minkoff Group project manager and others presented
preliminary details about the project at a neighborhood meeting on Monday, May 1. The ground-floor restaurant will have about 3,000 square feet, compared to about 39,000 square feet of office space, according to Hauser. There will also be underground parking, outdoor seating and, potentially, a “green roof” that could include an herb garden for the restaurant. Chez TJ has long grown its own herbs and other produce in a garden next to the restaurant. They described the restaurant as “not a replacement for Chez TJ, but informed by the TJ history and at a lower price level — in Aviet’s words, an intermediate point between a typical downtown-MV restaurant experience and ‘fine dining,’” Hauser wrote in an email Wednesday. Chez TJ’s closure is years out, Gallagher noted, with plenty of steps to take and approvals to secure before moving forward with construction. Daniel Minkoff of the Minkoff Group said Wednesday that his company has not yet decided on an operator for the new restaurant, but has discussed a vision for the space, a gastropub serving modern cuisine, with Chez TJ and Tied House. The desire, Minkoff said, is to have the existing operators involved. V
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adding bike lanes to an existing Middlefield Road underpass Continued from page 1 crossing 237. Any extra fundto develop several sites in North ing, they said, could go toward Bayshore in exchange for seven affordable housing or the city’s properties near the Sunnyvale library. The only amenity they nixed border. Under the swap, both companies effectively agreed to was LinkedIn’s offer to create consolidate in different areas of a new public open space. The company proposed making Mountain View. Elected leaders spent consid- about 5 acres on the west side erable time discussing the right of its property into a public recmix of community benefits reation area, but city officials LinkedIn should provide with frowned on the idea, saying it the project. LinkedIn would be was an awkward spot for a new obligated to provide about $15.5 park. “I just don’t see this park pubmillion in housing impact fees, which the company offered to lic space as a community benefit; I think it’s hand over even more of a benefit before there was your employa shovel in the The only amenity to ees,” Rosenberg ground. City planthe council nixed told the LinkedIn delegation. ners estimated the company was LinkedIn’s offer “You can try to activate that wou ld a lso to create a new space with a need to provide market, about $9 milpublic open space. farmer’s but I don’t see it lion as a result (happening).” of the bonus Staff expects a final version of office space they were building. Council members had the the plan to be brought back to problem of too many good ideas the City Council sometime in for how to use that money. They 2018. If approved, LinkedIn expressed support for study- plans to build the project in ing a planned bike-pedestrian three phases. underpass to cross Highway Email Mark Noack at 237 at Maude Avenue as well as mnoack@mv-voice.com V
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were arrested after they allegedly made threats on social media to harm students and staff. Two months later, it was revealed that students at the school were the subject of a months-long investigation into teens sharing nude photos of female students using the file-sharing service Dropbox. In light of what the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District called “poor decisions using social media,” the police department conducted a special
event for parents and students late last year to learn about internet safety and what role parents ought to play in overseeing their child’s social media usage. “When I started, I didn’t handle nearly as many cyber-related issues as we do now,” Taylor said. “It’s something that the schools are asking us to handle.” When it comes to drug education, it’s all about working as a team, Taylor said. Officers are frequently invited to talk in the classroom about drug and alcohol abuse, with a goal of giving students a “practical application”
of what they’ve already learned in the classroom. Teachers tell them about the research and the effects of chemicals like Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on the brain, he said, and it’s his job to detail personal stories and first-hand accounts of what dangers drug abuse poses to young adults. Officers overseeing the city’s high schools are also taking a more active role in dealing with mental health issues on campus, and are handling an increasing number of involuntary psychiatric holds commonly referred to as a “5150,” where police confine someone suspected of being a danger to themselves or others. Although it’s a worrying sign that teen stress and anxiety is on the rise on the Peninsula, Taylor said school districts are more “dialed in” than ever, and are committing more resources for counselors and therapists on campus. Mountain View High School Principal Dave Grissom said the school is lucky to have Taylor as its school resource officer, and that he cares deeply about the teens on campus. He’s frequently
on campus during lunch and breaks, and knows students by their first names. “He’s great with kids, he’s great with staff, he’s just super approachable,” Grissom said. “If you’re around him, you’re better off.”
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Police said the victims in both cases described the suspect as a white man who is about 18 to 20 years old with long wavy blonde and red hair pulled back in a ponytail. Police said the suspect was wearing a black beanie and dark clothing. On the day Itule was arrested, the victim also described the suspect as a white man wearing a black beanie. The victim said the suspect was driving a tan sedan. Itule was booked into the county jail. The victims are all between 11 and 16 years old. Detectives continue to investigate the cases and are asking anyone who was contacted by
‘When I started, I didn’t handle nearly as many cyberrelated issues as we do now.’ OFFICER BOBBY TAYLOR
Whether it is drugs, mental health or gang-related, Taylor said it’s essential to invest in building rapport with students in any way he can, including police-sponsored youth activities, camping and going on field trips to amusement parks. The department’s Explorers program gives teens an opportunity to walk a mile in an officer’s
BABY ABDUCTION SUSPECT SURRENDERS A father who allegedly abducted his 4-month-old daughter from a Mountain View hotel last month turned himself in to police Sunday night and was arrested, police said today. Michael Wallin, 45, of Patterson, allegedly left the hotel with his daughter Madilyn Wallin at about 8:30 p.m. on April 4 following a visit with her and her mother at the Residence Inn at 1854 W. El Camino Real.
shoes by volunteering to help the department manage events like A la Cart & Art and other downtown festivals. “When you have that relationship, kids are willing to talk to you,” Taylor said. “They’ll be willing to talk in the right frame of mind.” Police Sgt. Armando Espitia said Taylor has been a jack-ofall-trades in the department for years, working as a field training officer, a school resource officer and a driver’s training instructor. He also serves on the department’s Crisis Negotiation Team, which handles difficult and potentially dangerous stand-offs. Taylor’s relationship with youth in city acts as a deterrent for crime, Espitia said. Kids are less likely to commit a crime if they know it’s going to disappoint someone. “If a kid knows you and does something (illegal), they almost feel like they let you down because of that personal relationship,” he said. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
Wallin allegedly drove off with Madilyn in his truck with her in his lap. Madilyn’s mother was allegedly dragged briefly by the truck but escaped serious injury, police said. The mother’s adult son tried to stop Wallin but he allegedly “brake-checked” the son and a collision occurred before Wallin drove off with Madilyn. Police alleged that Wallin had no child car seat in the truck. The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for Madilyn and she was found the next morning. Wallin was arrested Sunday on suspicion of maliciously withholding a child from her guardian, child endangerment and assault with a deadly weapon. —Bay City News Service
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fter toiling away on new school attendance boundaries for close to three years, the Mountain View Whisman School District could finally be on a path towards fixing crowded schools and laying the groundwork for a new school to open next year. Over the weekend, the district’s Student Attendance Area Task Force agreed on two final scenarios that redraw boundaries and alter which neighborhoods are zoned for which elementary school within the district. Among other things, the boundaries are designed to reduce overcrowding at Huff, Bubb and Landels elementary schools, which don’t have enough room for all the incoming kindergarteners in the neighborhood. The two options will go through a month-long public review process before the board makes a final decision on the new boundaries. Both scenarios are nearly identical, but with a few key differences that will ultimately decide which neighborhoods send children to Slater, Monta Loma and Theuerkauf elementary schools starting in the 2018-19 school year. Proposal “A” would zone residents in the North Whisman area for the new Slater school, and would annex part of the Monta Loma boundary — the area north of West Middlefield Road between Shoreline Boulevard and Highway 85 — into the Theuerkauf attendance boundary. Proposal “B,” on the other hand, would essentially keep the status quo. North Whisman families would remain within the Theuerkauf boundary, and Monta Loma would continue to include students north of Middlefield and east of Highway 85. The options represent two ways to tackle the same problem. During the boundary-drawing process, Central Expressway was deemed a dangerous thoroughfare that acts as a sort of firewall, meaning all three of the northern schools — Slater, Theuerkauf and Monta Loma — have to divvy up a limited number of students north of Central in a way that balances out enrollment. Task force members struggled with the question of whether to extend Theuerkauf’s boundary east of Highway 85 in order to boost lower projected enrollment at Theuerkauf while simultaneously preventing Slater from overcrowding when it opens. The downside to extending the
boundary is that students living in North Whisman would be forced to cross multiple major roads in order to get to school, and would be separated from the rest of the Whisman neighborhood. The task force was evenly split between the two options at the end of the Saturday meeting, task force members told the Voice. At a school board meeting last month, board members weighed in on the tough decision, and unanimously agreed that North Whisman ought to be zoned for Slater, which threw into question why the task force was even debating the two options, said former board member and task force member Bill Lambert. The board ultimately decides which proposal to approve, and it was disingenuous to leave in an option that left North Whisman within the Theuerkauf attendance boundary. “The option (to include North Whisman) was recommended as the primary option because, based on the previous board meeting, those were the marching orders — the decision that was given to us,” Lambert said. Attendance boundaries play an important role in determining where families will be able to send their children to school for kindergarten, giving them higher priority than outside families seeking an intra-district transfer. It can also have a strong effect on property values in neighborhoods that are zoned for a school that is considered high- or low-performing. Both proposals also have plenty in common. Monta Loma’s attendance boundaries currently extend south of Central Expressway into the Castro City neighborhood, but both options suggest zoning those students for Castro Elementary. The Shoreline West neighborhood, which for boundary-drawing purposes refers to people living within the area encompassed by Shoreline Boulevard, El Camino Real, Chiquita Avenue and Central Expressway, is also zoned for Landels. On top of keeping North Whisman zoned for Slater, district trustees also urged the task force to send all families in Shoreline West to the same school, but didn’t go so far as to say which school. The decision to zone the neighborhood for Landels came down to a careful enrollment balancing act, said Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph. With the addition of Shoreline West, Castro’s attendance area would swell to an estimated 590 students, which
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is well above what the school could support. At the same time, Landels would shrink to an estimated 260 students, Rudolph said. Much of the debate at the task force meeting over the weekend focused on making sure that new attendance boundaries wouldn’t slim down enrollment at some of the less popular Mountain View Whisman schools. The concern, Rudolph said, is that enrollment could dwindle to the point where a school would no longer be considered viable, which is largely cited as the reason for the original closure of Slater Elementary in 2006. Even with so many new housing developments in the pipeline, he said, enrollment numbers at schools like Theuerkauf for the 2018-19 school year are going to be pretty low. Lambert said adding Slater, the new ninth elementary school, is inevitably going to pull students away from Theuerkauf, Castro and Monta Loma, and the worry is that parents will hesitate to send children to a school that
they believe the district is not committed to keeping open. There needs to be a critical mass of students in order to have a thriving PTA and money to fuel successful school programs, he said, and that may not be possible at a school with 250 kids. He recalled one task force member who said that, at the end of day, a few schools are going to have to pay the price for opening Slater. Public input sought During the first two weeks of May, the Mountain View Whisman School District will be seeking feedback from school community members as well as district residents on the boundary-making process and the two proposals up for consideration and approval by the board next month. The so-called “Thoughtexchange” process is an online platform where people can register and weigh in on the attendance boundaries between May 2-22. The next phase, between
May 19 and May 28, will allow participants to rank, or “star” the importance of feedback and ideas presented in the first phase. The results of the process will be shared at the June 15 board meeting, where board members are scheduled to make a final decision. “It’s open to everyone,” Rudolph said. “The whole process is geared towards engaging a larger community than what we’ve ever had before.” There will also an offline community meeting on Monday, May 22, at Crittenden Middle School, which will give people a chance to familiarize themselves with the online forum. The meeting will also give the district a chance to explain how the two proposals were developed, and the lengthy process the task force went through to come up with the final two options. Anyone interested in giving feedback can sign up at tinyurl. com/mvwsdfeedback. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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Supervisors ban sugary drinks in fast-food kids meals Sugar-sweetened beverages will no longer be included in kids’ meals at Santa Clara County restaurants following an ordinance passed 4-0-1 Tuesday morning by the Board of Supervisors. All four supervisors who were present voted for the measures. Supervisor Mike Wasserman was not at the meeting to vote. The new rule updates a 2008 ordinance to include prohibiting the sale of drinks other than unsweetened milk and unsweetened water with kids’ meals. The board also voted to support the adoption of a new policy in the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System to end the sale of sugary beverages in the cafeteria, cafe and gift shop of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. In 2013 and 2014, a survey of parents in Santa Clara County found that about 1 in 7 kids between the ages of 2 and 12 had drunk a sugar-sweetened beverage the previous day, with higher rates among Hispanic children, said Sara Cody, health officer and Public Health Director for the county. One in 10 adults in the county, including higher rates among
adults with lower incomes and less education along with Hispanic adults, have reported drinking soda every day, lower than the national average. “It’s well established that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages does contribute to the risk for diabetes and overweight and obesity,” said Cody said.
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The measure received strong support from several southern Mountain View communities, including the Gemello and Cuesta Park neighborhoods, which gave close to a three-toone vote in favor of the measure, according to precinct data from the county. Voters in the Old Mountain View neighborhood also showed overwhelming support for the measure, with 77 percent of the residents voting “Yes” on the measure. More tepid support for Measure B came from the Rex Manor, Willowgate and Sylvan Park neighborhoods, which teetered right on the twothirds margin. Another update to the vote tally was scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, after the Voic e’s pre s s de ad l i ne . Updated election results can
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Cleave Frink, who co-chaired the Measure B campaign, said he and the campaign organizers are “elated” that the community chose to continue supporting public schools, and that parents, teachers and administrators fought tirelessly to get the word out and pass the parcel tax. He said local businesses and organizations also pitched in generous donations to help fuel the campaign. Measure B imposes a $191 per-parcel tax on property owners in the district and effectively replaces the 2008 Measure C parcel tax, which expires at the end of June. The new measure will generate about $2.8 million each year, and takes effect on July 1, 2017.
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Mountain View received $834,000 in CDBG funds and $430,000 in HOME funds, but the amount has steadily declined. This year is also an anomaly because the federal agency typically informs cities
‘The estimated costs of treatment of diabetes is around $35 billion annually in California.’ SARA CODY, PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR
About 1 in 4 adolescents and 54 percent of adults in the county are overweight or obese, with higher rates among Hispanics and African-Americans. Over 70 percent of Hispanic adults in Santa Clara County are overweight or obese, Cody said. In Santa Clara County, over 45 percent of adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes, according to Cody.
how much HUD money they are going to get for the upcoming fiscal year by March or April. The department has faced “significant delays” in releasing information on the allocations, according to the staff report. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
“Not only is it prevalent, but it’s rather expensive,” Cody said of diabetes in her presentation to the board. “The estimated costs of treatment of diabetes, once you have it, is around $35 billion annually in California.” Jessica Lynam, a lobbyist for the California Restaurant Association, said in public comment that parents shouldn’t have to order a separate beverage with a child’s meal. “The cities of Stockton, Davis and Chula Vista have all proceeded with regulations on sugar-sweetened beverages within children’s meals while still allowing a parent, adult or guardian to choose if a consumption of a sugar-sweetened beverage within their children’s meal is acceptable,” Lynam said, calling the rulings “a true middle-ground approach.” “I think we know that parents can separately purchase (sugarsweetened beverages) if they want, but it shouldn’t be part of a kid’s meal,” responded Supervisor Ken Yeager, who introduced the ordinance. “Why in the world would you put something that is so poisonous on their plate?” —Bay City News Service
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Pension debt a thorny issue for city COUNCIL WEIGHS PAYING NOW TO AVERT HIGHER COSTS LATER FOR RETIREES By Mark Noack
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ountain View’s motto for 2017 might as well be “more money, more problems.” Diving into the city’s annual budget last week, Mountain View’s elected leaders took a magnifying glass to a $128 million plan for the coming fiscal year. To sum it up: the city has never before had such a fat wallet, but it faces a growing list of expenses, as well as some hard choices. Much of the time at last week’s initial round of budget talks was spent on one particularly big expense — the city’s mounting CalPERS liability. As of June, the city’s total liability to the state pension fund valued at $194 million, and that cost is only expected to grow in the coming years. CalPERS officials have indicated they will be gradually requiring cities and other public agencies to pay more in the coming years. “It’s very frustrating — it seems like regardless of what we do, the costs continue to go up,” said City Manager Dan Rich. “It’s hard, but it’s our job to figure out what to do with this.” The good news is that Mountain View has already set aside about 72 percent of that liability, roughly $139 million. At the meeting, city staff presented a variety of plans to chip in about $12 million more to raise that funded portion closer to 80 percent. The more money the city pays now, the more it would save in the long run, city staff said. But where could the city find an extra $12 million? That question dominated the meeting as City Council members looked for convenient funding sources that would still leave their favorite projects untouched. Under a plan put forward by
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Mountain View and Los Altos, with a goal of promoting philanthropy and ensuring high quality public education. The Los Altos Education Foundation (LAEF), along with the Mountain View Education Foundation (MVEF), declared May 10 as the “Stand UP For Public Schools” day, where community members and local businesses are encouraged to donate to school districts and learn more about the role of education
the city’s finance team, Mountain View would draw about half that amount ($6 million) from its reserve fund, a pool of money normally set aside for emergencies. But by doing so, they warned, the city would need to tweak its longstanding policy to keep at least 25 percent of its general fund in reserves, which could threaten the city’s AAA bond rating. That isn’t very likely, said Finance Director Patty Kong. She assured the council that bond-rating agencies would probably look favorably on the “positive action” the city took to pay off its pension costs. Still, some council members said they were nervous about touching the city’s $26 million in emergency savings for something that was hardly an emergency. Councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga suggested pulling money from the city’s other funds to keep its reserves intact. “I’m concerned with touching the general fund reserve — it’s always been 25 percent and we haven’t touched it, even though during the Great Recession we were tempted to,” she said. “We’re here now based on that policy and it’s important to keep it moving forward.” Instead, Abe-Koga suggested taking money from other sources, such as funding for a city child-care center and accounts set up for Mountain View to quickly buy land for affordable housing projects and open-space. But most other council members didn’t have any qualms with using the reserve money. Mayor Ken Rosenserg called it “lazy dollars” that could fetch a much higher return if they were invested elsewhere. Meanwhile, Councilman John McAlister balked at the idea of defunding other city projects to pay off the CalPERS cost early.
The city earns a meager 1 percent interest on its savings, but CalPERS funding is estimated to fetch about 7 percent. Based on that difference, Councilman Lenny Siegel proposed trying to go further, perhaps throwing in more reserves to fund CalPERS up to 90 percent. “This is a question of why keep money in my checking account rather than keep it in my savings?” he said. “This is an investment; the money isn’t going away ... It’s just another reserve.” A thin majority of the City Council gave consent to have city staff start making plans to draw the money from the reserve fund. The proposed city budget calls for adding about 24 fulltime positions, mostly for the city’s Community Development and Public Works departments. More than half of those positions are limited-period positions, not intended to be permanent. In addition, city officials said they will likely increase utility fees on local residents. City staffers are proposing a 7 percent increase in water rates, stemming from a significant reduction in water usage brought on by the drought. City officials and other agencies have been encouraging households to reduce their water use in recent drought years, which means the city is losing money from selling less water. A 10 percent increase is also planned for the city’s sewer service, which staff members said is due to infrastructure costs. Garbage service is also expect to rise by 10 percent due to higher maintenance costs. The city is just at the beginning of the multistage budget process, which will be finished up by June. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com
foundations in filling funding gaps left by the state. Anyone interested in donating during the event can go to https:// secure.qgiv.com/for/SU4PS/. The page allows for donations to both education foundations. Funding for California’s public schools is inadequate and falls well behind other states in the country, according to a joint statement by the MVEF and LAEF this week. A report called “Quality Counts 2016,” which is published by Education Week, found that California ranks 41 out of 50 states when it comes to
financing public schools. “For many years, LAEF and MVEF have raised donations to bridge the gap between shrinking state funding and the true cost of providing an outstanding educational experience for all children,” according to the statement. The May 10 event will include a “Twitter Party” hosted by district administrators for both school districts from noon to 1 p.m. Members of the community can join by using the hashtag #SU4PS2017. —Kevin Forestieri
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BRIGHT SPACES CAPTURE DISTINCT BEAUTY 1322 Isabelle Avenue, Mountain View Residing on a generous lot of nearly 12,700 sq. ft. (per county) is this lovely 3 bed, 3 bath French country-style home of approx. 2,500 sq. ft. (per appraisal). Comfort and style are featured in bay windows, French doors, and the newly remodeled kitchen, while seamless indoor-outdoor living invites guests to spill out into the verdant backyard garden and bask in the tranquility provided by fountains, a pergola, and fruit trees. Shopping at Grant Park Plaza and Castro Street is made easily accessible, while local parks and fine schools like Bubb Elementary (API 920) and Graham Middle are within strolling distance, and Mountain View High is also within close proximity (buyer to verify eligibility).
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PEACEFUL ELEGANCE AND CRAFTSMAN CHARM 1195 Portland Avenue, Los Altos Nestled alongside a sought-after street within a peaceful neighborhood, this exquisite 5 bedroom, 4 bath Craftsman-style home of over 3,500 sq. ft. (per county) resides on immaculate grounds of over 14,700 sq. ft. (per county). The stately character emphasizes warmth and comfort throughout, while contemporary luxuries maximize the home’s appeal. Included are a chef ’s dream of a kitchen, a three-car garage, and a stunning backyard retreat. Pristine nearby parks are excellent for outdoor recreation, while Rancho Shopping Center is within a short drive. Exceptional schools like Oak Avenue Elementary (API 987) and Blach Intermediate (API 958) are within strolling distance, and Mountain View High is quickly accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).
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Today we celebrate the vital partnership of our local public schools and educational foundations. LAEF and MVEF bridge the gap between shrinking state funding and the true cost of providing an outstanding educational experience for 9,700 children in 19 schools in grades K-8. These foundations fund essential programs like STEM in the classroom, more electives to ignite new passions, art, music, and much more.
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View would resist federal immigration enforcement, as well as an upwelling of bigotry and xenophobia being ushered in by the new administration. “It’s a sad day when the local government has to proclaim our resistance to our federal government, but here we are,” said Mountain View Mayor Ken Rosenberg. “In Mountain View, we recognize and celebrate the benefits of our diversity.” Now in its sixth year, the Mountain View Peace March and Rally for a Just Immigration Reform and Dignity for All Immigrants (commonly shortened to “May Day march”) has always had a political edge. In past years, the event focused primarily on pushing for immigration reform and legal protections for the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. As in past years, May Day participants on Monday started at Rengstorff Park and marched along El Camino Real to hold a rally near City Hall in downtown Mountain View.
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Protesters peacefully gather at the corner of Rengstorff Avenue and California Street at the Mountain View Peace March and Rally for a immigration reform on May 1.
This year’s event centered less on the need for reform and more on protecting what exists. Many spoke about how local families are living under constant fear that they could be targeted for deportation if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents target Mountain View. Police Chief Max Bosel gave assurances that local law enforcement would not comply with federal civil immigration policies. Mountain View’s event was
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just one of many May Day rallies held throughout the Bay Area on Monday. Tens of thousands of people reportedly participated in similar rallies in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. In the days ahead of the event, Google company officials announced they would allow employees and subcontracted workers to participate in May Day rallies. Asking everyone to join hands, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell reminded participants that they were not alone. “If you remember nothing else, remember that you are surrounded by a community that will rise up and protect you,” she said. “The Constitution protects each and every one of us.” Many speakers pointed to Trump’s immigration polices as just one reason they were compelled tow protest. They also cited federal attempts to pass a travel ban against six Muslim countries and recent efforts to reverse the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, among their reasons. “We’re here in this city and not going anywhere,” said Marilu Delgado, a May Day march organizer. “We’re part of Mountain View.” Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com V
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Resisting Donald Trump
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IN THE WAKE OF A DISTURBINGLY CHAOTIC PRESIDENCY, TWO LOCAL INITIATIVES SEEK TO BLUNT ITS HARM
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espite frantic efforts last week by President Donald Trump to create the impression of accomplishment and bold action, the traditional first hundred-day “honeymoon” of the new administration came to a close on April 29 with an unprecedented 61 percent of Americans believing that the president is not trustworthy and the lowest public approval rating of a president ever measured. In California and the Bay Area these numbers are likely much worse given Trump’s poor performance here in the election. The Trump administration’s ongoing bluster, manic behavior and gyrating policy positions have inspired resistance at all levels of government, from Congress to state and local governments to the judiciary and from citizens across America. Locally, we should be especially proud of the actions taken by Santa Clara County and the City of San Francisco to block the president’s executive order denying federal funds to sanctuary cities, and of Rep. Anna Eshoo’s push for a law requiring presidents to release their tax returns. These two initiatives reflect the political viewpoints of voters in this region and the widespread belief that President Trump’s executive orders pertaining to immigration are unconstitutional and threatening the health and safety of our immigrant communities. Santa Clara County and San Francisco successfully obtained a preliminary injunction on Tuesday from U.S. District Judge William Orrick that will prevent the Trump administration from carrying out the president’s order cutting off federal funds to any sanctuary city or county. Self-declared sanctuary communities are those that have adopted policies of not assisting federal immigration authorities, for example, by notifying them of undocumented immigrants arrested or in custody for alleged non-violent crimes. The lawsuits are among several filed around the nation challenging the Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order but were the first to receive a judicial ruling. Orrick’s order applies nationwide until he hears full arguments on whether to make the temporary injunction permanent, and Trump officials pledged Wednesday to challenge the ruling all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. In his decision, Orrick said, “The Constitution vests the spending
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powers in Congress, not the president, so the (executive) order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds.” “Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration-enforcement strategy of which the president disapproves,” Orrick ruled. Local officials, including most police departments, believe that policies against cooperating with the Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents are important to prevent widespread fear among undocumented immigrants to report crimes, attend schools and obtain health and other services to which they are legally entitled. Contrary to popular belief, an undocumented person living in the United States is not violating any U.S. criminal laws and cannot be arrested or detained by local law enforcement for being in the country without authorization. Federal immigration policies are enforced by ICE strictly through civil deportation proceedings entirely separate from our normal judicial system and without many of the protections afforded criminal defendants. Meanwhile, Eshoo is leading an effort in the House of Representatives to enact a law requiring President Trump and all future presidents to release their tax returns. Eshoo insists the effort is neither political nor frivolous, as she believes bipartisan pressure to support the proposal will mount as Trump’s tax measure moves forward in Congress. And since the one-page “tax reform” proposal announced Wednesday would appear to significantly benefit Trump and his companies, the demand for the release of Trump’s tax returns will likely become part of the negotiations. Regardless, we’re glad Eshoo is pushing this legislation and attempting to get the 218 signatures needed to bring the bill directly to the floor for a vote, even if the ultimate outcome is a presidential veto. Our local congressional delegation, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the city of San Francisco are doing the right thing to stand up to the president’s bluster in every way possible. “See you in the Supreme Court!” Trump tweeted indignantly. Sad. V
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JUST SAY NO TO PROFITS WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY It is terrifying to see the speed with which the evil forces in our society (and I include the American Chemical Society in that group) are racing to add insult to injury by gutting regulations requiring them to repair previous damage, so they can enjoy profits without accountability. America already has a tragically weak set of regulations on the introduction of new chemicals into the environment, and we are all just guinea pigs as they throw more and more dangerous chemicals into our food and water. They are using the ascension of the Trump kleptocracy to weasel out of paying for the harm they have already inflicted on the rest
of society. This must be fought with every ounce of our strength as a life-or-death battle against evil. Ed Taub Devoto Street
CITY’S JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY This year marks the 75th anniversary of Japanese Internment. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into relocation centers and then into internment camps. Here in Mountain View, this Executive Order affected hundreds of families who were mostly farmers or in the agricultural business. My paternal
grandparents, Kenzo and Ruth, were one such family. My father, Ken, was born in Heart Mountain Internment Camp in Wyoming. They returned to Mountain View after World War II. My grandfather was a gardener, and then ran a flower growing business on Bryant Avenue, next to my great-aunt and great-uncle. My grandparents joined many of the other families who returned after the war and established Mountain View Buddhist Temple on Shoreline Boulevard. This Sunday, in celebration of May as Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, the Mountain View Historical Association (MVHA) will be exploring the city’s rich history of Japanese Americans at their membership meeting on Sunday, May 7, from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Historic Adobe Building. The
bustling flower nurseries run by Japanese Americans in Mountain View are gone, but for one afternoon, we get to revisit them through stories with the Adachi and Satake families. Mountain View, the home of our grandparents and parents, remains our home too. I hope you’ll join us! Ellen Kamei Mountain View Environmental Planning Commissioner
What’s on your mind? Tell us your thoughts on matters of interest to the community by sending your letters to letters@MV-Voice.com. Or snail-mail them to: Mountain View Voice, P.O Box 405, Mountain View, CA 94042.
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ow that I’ve become a part-time commuter, the idea of happy hour has become more enticing — especially after a 40-minute train ride from San Francisco. So imagine my smiling face when I came upon Cru Wine Bar & Merchant, a welcome addition to downtown Redwood City’s dining scene just steps from the Caltrain station. Located in a corner of the massive Box building on Middlefield Road, the restaurant is easy to pass by unless you’re looking for it. But it has identified an ideal niche for its clientele — tech employees, downtown and Sequoia Station shoppers needing a break, and commuters with a wait before the next train arrives. That’s when Cru’s happy hour really comes in handy. Decorated with exposed brick and rustic wood tables, Cru’s high ceilings feature fixtures reminiscent of train tracks, and its walls are lined with wines and imported
comestibles for sale. The space is large and open, with barstools made of lacquered wine crates and a vintage red Berkel meat slicer that looks like a piece of art. Large chalkboards list the daily menus, which change slightly between lunch and dinner. Cru serves up fine charcuterie, cheese samples, slices of Roman-style pizza and small plates designed to whet an appetite rather than satiate it. The menu is oriented toward snacking and sharing, but you’ll have no trouble filling up on the offerings. The focus is on its well-rounded wine list, with a heavy showing of bottles from Italy, France, Spain and California. Cru is the latest addition to Donato Scotti’s sister enterprises, the much-lauded Donato Enoteca just down the street (a 2015 Michelin Bib Gourmand selection) and Desco in downtown Oakland. The concept is simple but brilliant: uncomplicated dishes using pristine ingredients and interesting
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wines that can be savored. The wine list is compiled and edited by partner Eric Lecours, a certified sommelier of the Court of Master Sommeliers, who has an eye for rich, complex bottles at reasonable prices. Vintages are available for sale, as are some select imported olive oils, balsamic vinegars, sea salt and hard-to-find Gianni Frasi coffee beans. That coffee is the draw in the morning, brewed in the
restaurant’s Faema E61, a 1961 espresso machine that was rebuilt by Frasi himself. Scotti and the renowned Italian coffee roaster have been friends for 20 years, according to Lecours. Paired with a house-made croissant, it’s a sophisticated way to start a morning. The lunch menu, focused on salads, sandwiches and pizza by the slice, is designed to be swift and simple. A highlight is the
Michael DeMint stocks wines at Cru Wine Bar & Merchant on April 26.
house-cured pastrami on warm ciabatta ($12), small chunks of dense and tender meat balanced with homemade coleslaw and an afterthought of provolone. That pastrami also is the star of a good-sized salad, mixed with kale, apples and provolone cheese, doused with vinaigrette ($11). Later in the day, Cru evolves into a full-fledged European-style wine bar, with archival beers
and a well-curated wine list. An extended happy hour offers generous discounts on wine and beer ($3 off glasses of wine and $2 off beer), and the bar tends to fill up quickly. Artisan meats and cheeses are the perfect accompaniment to the select vintages offered by the glass or bottle. And that’s where Cru really shines. The ideal pairing is to create a mix-and-match custom charcuterie and cheese
plate. Prosciutto, salami, sausage and hard and soft cheeses pair with pretty much any glass on the menu. Servers are friendly and savvy, and can help wine newbies find a selection in any white or red comfort level. Small entrées include a rillette of duck and pork ($8) served in a small glass Mason jar with slices of toasted baguette. Though not Continued on next page
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as creamy as pâtÊ, the spread was rich and flavored, and a fitting complement to a glass of Sparkman Cellars cabernet from Washington ($11). A dish of polpette ($6) featured four tasty meatballs smothered in a sweet tomato sauce, nicely balanced with a dry and hefty San Lazzaro sangiovese ($8) from eastern Italy. A large square of pizza topped with prosciutto and burrata cheese ($7) lacked cohesion, though the version with spicy salami and mozzarella ($8) had more zip. As a fan of thincrust Neapolitan-style pizza, I found the Roman-style pizza too bready, though the dough is a source of pride, made in-house over a period of 72 hours. Both the food menu and wine listings will change regularly, Lecours said, to appeal to different palates and introduce new vintages, though certain basics will always remain in place. Sidewalk tables in a roomy enclosed patio will be a great option once the weather obliges, and live jazz is in the works for Sunday mornings. Cru straddles a relatively undeveloped line between restaurant and bar, with a sophisticated Euro vibe, flavorful menu offerings made with top ingredients and a refined wine list to expand Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q May 5, 2017
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ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS Art and Soul Summer Camps
Palo Alto
Alexa Café
ATHLETICS
Stanford, Palo Alto High School
Art, cooking, tinkering, Yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children to interpret their world! Summer Unplugged! Ages 5-13 years. Walter Hays School
Girls ages 10-15 discover technology in a unique environment that celebrates creativity, social activism, and entrepreneurship. Girls learn engineering principles, code games, design websites, explore cyber secuirty, and much more.
www.artandsoulpa.com
www.iDTech.com/Connection
Athena Camps
650.269.0423
Los Altos & San Jose
1.844.788.1858
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls
Palo Alto
Community building weekly day camps for girls K 8th grade. A unique combination of sports, art projects and mentorship designed to build confidence. Sports: tennis, volleyball, yoga, fitness, and self-defense and more. Themes: Connect & Communicate, Love & Express Yourself, Unleash Your Happiness.
Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips.
www.AthenaCamps.com
Harker Summer Programs
408.490.4972
Community School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops, more! Two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered.
www.arts4all.org
650.917.6800 ext. 0
J-Camp at the OFJCC
Palo Alto
With options for every age, schedule and interest, J-Camp has you covered. Traditional camps focus on variety and building friendships, while specialty camps include fantastic options like Robotics, Ceramics, Ocean Adventures, Food Truck Challenge, TV Studio Production and more. We’re looking forward to our best summer ever and want your family to be part of the experience.
www.ofjcc-jcamp.com
Pacific Art League
650.223.8622
Palo Alto
Dive into creativity this summer! Sign up now to reserve a seat in our week-long half- and full-day camps for youth and teens ages 9-16. Topics include painting, printmaking, cartooning, anime, digital art, animation, photography, ceramics and more! Scholarships available!
www.pacificartleague.org/classes
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
650.321.3891
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.
www.paccc.org
Summer at Athena Academy
650.493.2361
Palo Alto
Summer at Athena Academy offers specialized week-long camps for children to EXPLORE their passions, CREATE new memories, BUILD friendships and PLAY to their hearts’ content. Camps include coding, sports & fitness, art, music and more.
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www.AthenaAcademy.org/Summer
650.543.4560
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Palo Alto Menlo Park
www.castilleja.org/summercamp
650.470.7833
San Jose
Harker summer programs for preschool - grade 12 children include opportunities for academics, arts, athletics and activities. Taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff, our programs offer something for everyone in a safe and supportive environment.
www.summer.harker.org
408.553.5737
iD Tech Camps
Stanford, Bay Area
Students ages 7–17 can learn to code apps, design video games, mod Minecraft, engineer robots, model 3D characters, design for VR, explore cyber security, and more. Students explore campus, learn foundational STEM skills, and gain selfconfidence.
www.iDTech.com/Connection
1.844.788.1858
Mid-Peninsula High School
Menlo Park
Mid-Pen’s Summer Session offers an innovative series of oneweek courses that give students the opportunity to customize their own summer program. These courses go beyond traditional curriculum, giving students the opportunity to enhance their skills while seeking either enrichment or credit repair.
www.mid-pen.com
650.321.1991
STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research
Stanford
explore.stanford.edu explore-series@stanford.edu
Palo Alto Pleasanton
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information.
www.headsup.org
Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750
We are the Premier youth sports summer camp. We bring the fun to camp and with over 25 years of experience we make sure your child has an experience of a lifetime!!!!
www.hifivesports.com
650.362.4975
Kim Grant Tennis Academy Summer Camps
Palo Alto Monterey*
Fun and specialized junior camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all around game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and sleep away camps at Meadowbrook Swim and Tennis*.
www.KimGrantTennis.com
Nike Tennis Camps
650.752.8061
Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!
www.USSportsCamps.com
1.800.NIKE.CAMP (1.800.645.3226)
Camp High Five Overnight Camp
La Honda, Pinecrest
Our Camp offers the ultimate combination of sports, adventure and creativity! Coaches bring lots of positive energy and enthusiasm every day. Each week of day camp features two to three adventures with all other days held at Juana Briones Elementary. Adventure highlights include climbing tower, archery, dodgeball on the beach, kayaking, Great America and more. Overnight Camp includes kayaking, horseback riding, archery, campfires, sports, crafts and more. Ages 6-14. Financial aid available.
Spartans Sports Camp
650.823.5167
Mountain View
Spartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions for boys and girls in grades 2-7, sport-specific sessions for grades 2-9, color guard camp for grades 3-9, and cheerleading camp for grades pre-K – 8. We also offer a hip hop dance camp for grades 1-7. Camp dates are June 12 through July 28 at Mountain View High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and student-athletes and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and extended care are available.
www.SpartansSportsCamp.com
Stanford Water Polo
650.479.5906
Stanford
Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games.
www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com
ATHLETICS City of Mountain View Recreation
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton
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EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
Hi Five Sports Summer Camp
YMCA Summer Camps
650.725.9016
Silicon Valley
Kids who love to act have fun, put on a show, and learn from pros at the acclaimed TheatreWorks Silicon Valley camps for budding theatre enthusiasts. Spring Break camps for K-6. Summer Camps for K-12, plus special teen programs.
Come have a blast with us this summer! We have something for everyone – Recreation Camps, Specialty Camps, Sports Camps, Swim Lessons and more! Programs begin June 5th – register early!
At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps at 30+ locations plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.
www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth
www.mountainview.gov/register
www.ymcasv.org/summer
650.463.7146
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CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare
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NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE & TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER 000 The fine art of currying favor, preferably by the subtlest of means, is the stuff of the new film from writer-director Joseph Cedar: “Norman: The Moderate Rise & Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.” Israeli filmmaker Cedar (“Footnote”) here imagines an international scandal in the making, stemming from a “chance” encounter between titular Manhattan “fixer” Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) and lowlevel Israeli politician Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi). Taking a roll of the dice, Norman impresses Micha with a big, costly gesture of friendship. It’s a gamble that pays off when Eshel becomes Prime Minister of
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For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more movie info, visit www.mv-voice.com and click on movies. Israel, giving Norman a friend in high places to beat all. The Prime Minister persists in viewing Norman as a genuine friend, but Norman cannot help but see opportunity for himself and those in his circle he’s desperate to impress, most notably his nephew Philip (Michael Sheen) and a rabbi (Steven Buscemi) seeking protection for his fiscally threatened temple. As big as that picture can get (international politics), Norman and Micha ground the picture in a humanity inevitably compromised by politics, and the runaway situations therein. Rated R for some language. One hour, 57 minutes. — P.C.
COLOSSAL 0001/2 Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo’s new film “Colossal” serves as the grownup edition of “A Monster Calls” by using a deliberately juvenile premise to speak to adults who need to grow up already and address the issues holding them back. Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, a callous,
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Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista in Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.”
This “Vol.” goes to 11 MARVEL’S SPACE-ADVENTURE SEQUEL HAS ACTION AND YUKS TO SPARE 001/2 (Century 16 & 20) Don’t think too hard about “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” although there’s probably little danger of that. It’s exactly what you’d expect writer-director James Gunn to deliver as a sequel to the 2014 Marvel space adventure he likewise spearheaded. Everything that made the first film well received is back: the goofy cast of characters, arch jokes, lively interstellar action and a rainbowsherbet color scheme. The only thing missing is the element of surprise. It’s not exactly fair to expect Gunn to sucker-punch audiences again with a sequel that exists to provide another episode of a big-screen franchise. Early on, Gunn reveals an audio cassette labeled “Awesome Mix Vol. 2” an emblem of the better mousetrap Gunn has built for himself: It’s all but against the law to make this movie without spending more money to pack the soundtrack with more ironically applied ‘70s tunes and blow out the energy bill on more spectacle. Given a heckuva lot of moving parts, “Vol. 2” represents a screenwriting challenge not to be underestimated. The design — of
sets and costumes and action sequences — is the giddy part, and the plot is the obligation. The mercenary Guardians (including Zoe Saldana’s dead-serious Gamora, Dave Bautista’s bellylaughing dum-dum Drax, and cute lil’ twig Baby Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel) start out on a job, get themselves in trouble, and wind up rescued by a mystery man who claims to be the father of rogue space orphan Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), a.k.a. Star Lord. Since the mystery man introduces himself as Ego (and he’s played to the hilt — is there any other way?— by Kurt Russell), it’s a fair bet he’s telling the truth. Most of the rest amounts to a frantic, vertiginous roller coaster whizzing through careering spaceships, family-style bickering, blasting guns, psychoanalytic upheaval, curlicuing projectiles, and breakthroughs and reckonings to dazzling, if fatiguing, effect. Gunn never goes long without a joke, even in a long-stretch resolution that yanks at the heartstrings. That Gunn manages to access anything like an emotional payoff at the end of this story qualifies
as something of a miracle, since the characters almost entirely consist of blithe simpletons or proud jerks. Gunn doesn’t so much soften their edges as insist on their humanity, nobly staging a narrow escape from total caricature. That late-breaking insistence holds true not only for Quill (a man whose first impulse with ultimate power is to create a giant-sized tribute to Pac-Man) but for genetically-engineered raccoon-guy Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper and physicalized by Sean Gunn) and the gruff, deadly, bright-blue “Ravager” Yondu (Michael Rooker), Quill’s crooked adoptive father. After a story that occasionally succumbs to bits straight out of Looney Tunes, anything resembling feeling is kind of an impressive pivot. And the pivotal realization — that, in the end, using your heart beats using your head — works as a pithy instruction manual for this diverting but disposable adventure. Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language, and brief suggestive content. Two hours, 16 minutes. — Peter Canavese
selfish blackout drunk Manhattanite who returns to her sleepy hometown and immediately runs into her old schoolmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). It’s immediately clear that Oscar always had a thing for Gloria, which now manifests in his lavishing her with attention and favors. These romantic-comedic goings on share real estate with a world-shaking event: the appearance of a giant, devil-horned creature on the coast of Seoul, South Korea. Rated R for language. One hour, 50 minutes. — P.C.
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erstwhile fiancee Anna (Paula Beer) spots Adrien leaving flowers on Frantz’s sadly empty plot, a not-quite-placeable dread begins to rise in her. Of course, certain truths about Frantz and Adrien will come out, further complicating the burgeoning relationships between Adrien and Anna, and Adrien and Frantz’s parents. “Frantz” unfolds at a stately pace, with a controlled mood fostered by psychologically incisive performances all around. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including brief war violence. One hour, 53 minutes. — P.C.
François Ozon plunges into the depths of the human heart and mind in his post-World War I drama “Frantz.” Based on the 1932 film “Broken Lullaby,” the story takes place mostly in Quedlinburg, Germany as Europe continues to reel from World War I, with nationalism just another word for hatred of the so-called enemy. And so, when a Frenchman named Adrien (Pierre Niney) begins frequenting the grave of a fallen German soldier named Frantz, he unearths freshly buried resentments. When Frantz’s
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Q HIGHLIGHT Mountain View A La Carte & Art This festival features live music, fine art and crafts; fabulous food and drink; a farmers’ market; artisan specialty food purveyors; health and wellness displays; an organic and green products showcase; home and garden exhibits; a classic car show; and kids’ amusements in the Super Duper Funzone. May 6 and 7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Downtown Mountain View, 400 Castro St., Mountain View. alacarte.miramarevents.com
THEATER Brecht’s ‘Saint Joan of the Stockyards’ Boom, bust and blood. Stanford TAPS presents Bertolt Brecht’s “Saint Joan of the Stockyards,” a story of the raw and extreme horror of economic and environmental injustices just as fresh (or rotten) now as they were when the play was written. May 4-6, 8-9:30 p.m. $5-$15. Roble Studio Theater, Stanford University, 375 Santa Teresa St., Stanford. taps.stanford.edu/ saintjoan.html ‘Men’s Rites: An Alt-Comedy’ Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT) presents the story of a Supreme Court justice on a crossdressing mission to save us all from the manosphere, adapted from Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusai. Some material may be inappropriate for children. May 12 and 13, 8-9:30 p.m. Free, student ID, $5, other. Elliot Program Center, 589 Governor’s Ave., Stanford. scit.stanford.edu/ ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ The Los Altos Stage Company presents the drama about a felon who thinks he’s pulled a fast one by feigning insanity to get out of a prison sentence. Instead of resting at the hospital, he finds himself leading an insurrection, landing him in the crosshairs of a nurse. April 13-May 7, times vary. $15-$18. Bus Barn Theatre, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Palo Alto Players: Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ Monty Python’s “Spamalot”, the musical comedy sensation lovingly ripped off from the film classic “Monty Python and The Holy Grail,” arrives this spring to spread laughter and cheer throughout the kingdom. It tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. April 28-May 14, times vary. $25-$55. Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. paplayers.org/on-stage-now Pear Slices 2017 Pear Theatre continues its season with its annual showcase of original short plays by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild. From Anasazi to Aboriginals, private detectives to proposals, this year’s crop of plays promises to engage, delight and inspire. May 5-28, 8 p.m. $10, preview; $35, regular; senior/student discounts. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida, Mountain View. thepear.org ‘Willy Wonka’ Adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Timothy A. McDonald, this musical tells the story of Charlie Bucket who makes his famous visit to Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory in this scrumdidilyumptious musical that is guaranteed to delight everyone’s sweet tooth. May 4-21, times vary. Children’s tickets, $10; Adults, $12. Palo Alto Chidren’s Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.
CONCERTS Concert on the Plaza All are invited to join friends and neighbors and bring a blanket or
lawn chair to the Civic Center Plaza for a variety of musical performances. There will also be food trucks, a “Pop Up Park” area for children and, for adults, beer and wine. First Friday of the month, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Civic Center Plaza, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/plazaevents St. Lawrence String Quartet The St. Lawrence String Quartet continues its robust multiyear Stanford University residency with three Stanford Live concerts and two free events. The work of America’s esteemed composer John Adams, who considers the SLSQ his “favorite chamber group,” is a special focus in celebration of his 70th birthday. May 7, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $15$65. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford.
MUSIC Fortnightly Music Club Concert Fortnightly Music Club will present its last chamber concert of the season. Following the program, refreshments will be served and there will be an opportunity to greet the artists. May 7, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. http// fortnightlymusicclub.org Ice Cream Social Concert A spring tradition in Palo Alto, the El Camino Youth Symphony presents the Ice Cream Social Concert. This family-friendly event features four ECYS Ensembles: Chamber Players, Camerata, Galbraith Honor Strings and El Camino Wind Orchestra with a huge helping of all-you-can-eat ice cream on the side. May 6, 6-8:30 p.m. $15, concert entry and all-you-can-eat ice cream. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. ecys.site-ym.com/events/ Ives Collective Concert Ives Collective presents Ottorino Respighi’s “Il Tramonto,” and Johannes Brahms’ “Songs for Voice,” “Viola and Piano, Op.9” and Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.60. May 5, 7:30 p.m. $20, seniors; $25, general, free for children under 12. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. ivescollective.org Stanford Jazz Orchestra Fredrick Berry directs the Stanford Jazz Orchestra’s program with special guests from the Department of Music’s jazz faculty: John Worley, trumpet/ flugelhorn; Charlie McCarthy, sax; Murray Low, piano; and David Rokeach, drums. May 10, 7:30 p.m. $15-$20. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. events.stanford.edu/events/ Stanford Taiko 25th Anniversary Celebration: Full Circle In celebration of Stanford Taiko’s 25th Anniversary, Stanford Taiko — one of North America’s premiere collegiate taiko ensembles — will welcome back alumni and friends in this thrilling evening of original works for North American Taiko.May 6, 7:30 p.m. $15-$20. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. events.stanford.edu/events/
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CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW SEEKING PARK SITES The City of Mountain View is seeking properties in residential neighborhoods, primarily north of El Camino Real, for possible acquisition and development of neighborhood parks. The ideal site is one or more properties totalling greater than 17,500 s.f. of land area. For more information, please contact Dennis Drennan at (650) 903-6633, or by e-mail at dennis.drennan@mountainview.gov. 26
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Taide Ding: Senior Piano Recital Taide Ding is a senior studying Economics and Computer Science at Stanford. He currently studies piano performance with Frederick Weldy and was a winner of the 2016 Mozart-Haydn Concerto Competition, for which he was honored with an appearance accompanying the Stanford Philharmonia last February for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor. May 6, 7:30 p.m. Free. Campbell Recital Hall, 541 Lausen Mall, Stanford. events.stanford.edu/events/ Tyler Duncan and Erika Switzer Frequent collaborators Tyler Duncan (baritone) and Erika Switzer (piano) come to Tateuchi Hall for an evening of music and conversation. The musicians have performed around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. May 6, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org/events/duncanswitzer-2017 Tyler Duncan and Erika Switzer: Masterclass Frequent collaborators Tyler Duncan, baritone, and Erika Switzer, piano, present a masterclass for Stanford Music students. These musicians have performed around the world in venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall on May 7 as guests of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. May 5, 4 p.m. Free. Campbell Recital Hall, 541 Lausen Mall, Stanford. events.stanford. edu/events/
FESTIVALS & FAIRS Food and Fashion Italian Festival This experience is centered around Italy’s culture and traditions via its food and fashion. The experience will be broken down into a series of events for both adults and children, including cooking classes, a series of conferences. May 7, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. bayareaeventitaliani.com/festival2017/ festival2017.html Free Comic Book Day Visitors are encouraged to drop by during the library’s open hours and pick up a free comic book. One comic is set aside per child/teen, and limited quantities are available, first come first served. May 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park Library, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/lib/ default.asp Vintage Vehicles & Family Festival The Museum of American Heritage invites the community to its 13th Annual Vintage Vehicles & Family Festival. It is a collaboration with Palo Alto’s May Fete Parade and Community Festival and there will be a variety of family-friendly activities, including a day of Science Fun for the kids. May 6, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto.
TALKS & LECTURES Bay Area Hummingbirds Joan Sparks, wild life photographer, has traveled the bay area photographing the tiniest bird on the planet, the hummingbird. Numerous tips will be given that people can implement to encourage the hummingbirds to permanently reside on their property. May 9, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar Brian Patrick Eha with Ashlee Vance Brian Patrick Eha, former editor at Entrepreneur and a journalist with articles appearing in New Yorker, The Atlantic and Fortune, among other publications, discusses his book, “How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance.” Brian will be in conversation with Ashlee Vance, bestselling author of the biography “Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.” May 11, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. booksinc.net/event/ Conscious Living: Using Vedic Astrology and Enneagram of Personality Astrology and the Enneagram provide an explanation for the unique combination of personal strengths and weaknesses that play out in one’s behaviors. The workshop will show how both modalities can
work together as awakening tools. Indra Rinzler has been a student of spirituality and astrology for 45 years. May 12, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. East West Book Store, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. eastwest.com/ Fear of a Faith: Sharia, Surveillance, Terrorism and the Muslim Ban This forum will explore the policies, politics and current events that affect the United States and the overall understanding of Muslims and the Islam religion. It is co-presented by the office of Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, along with Ameena Jandali and Jihad Turk. May 9, 7 p.m. Free. Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. commonwealthclub.org/events/ Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking In this program, Nosrat will share her kitchen philosophy of making meals delicious by enhancing, balancing and adding texture and flavor. Nosrat trained under Alice Waters at Chez Panisse and has been called “the next Julia Child” by NPR’s All Things Considered. May 8, 7-8 p.m. $12-$50. Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. commonwealthclub.org/events/ Snakes in the Garden Ken McCloud, herpetologist, will talk about the behavior and benefits of snakes in the ecosystem. Ken is a world expert on reptiles and is now retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He lives in Los Altos and worked internationally as an undercover agent thwarting smugglers of endangered species. May 7, 2 p.m. Free. Los Altos Hills Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills. Spring 2017 MV Historical Event: Japanese in Mtn. View At its Spring 2017 Event and Membership Meeting, the Mountain View Historical Association will focus on the rich history of the local Japanese-American community. The event is timed to celebrate May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and to reflect on the 75th anniversary of Japanese internment. Members of the public are welcome to attend. May 7, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Historic Adobe Building, 157 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View. Technology and Society Committee Luncheon Forum Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, an organization planning to send messages to distant civilizations within twp years, describes the challenges of composing interstellar messages, reviews the controversies and notes targets for the first messages. May 9, noon-1 p.m. $12, cash only, free for non-eaters. Hangen Szechuan Restaurant, 134 Castro St., Mountain View. tian. greens.org/TASC.shtml
FUNDRAISERS YouthLive! Gala Foster and Community Youth will showcase their talent, fashion and art to benefit Bay Area at-risk and foster youth. In addition to inspiring youth entertainment, the evening will feature cocktails, dinner, silent and live auctions, Treasure Chest prizes and dancing. ABC7’s Spencer Christian will emcee. May 6, 6-11:30 p.m. $175, per person. Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. youth-live.com
FAMILY Elephant & Piggie In Celebration of Children’s Book Week, Books Inc. will host Elephant and Piggy. The event will feature readings of books from the bestselling Elephant & Piggie series, themed crafts and photo ops with the two characters. May 6, 3-5 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. booksinc.net/event/ St. Timothy’s Church Rummage Sale This event, held in conjunction with Mountain View’s annual citywide rummage sale, benefits preschool classroom and playground improvements. There will be a wide selection of children’s clothing, games and toys, housewares, recreational equipment, furniture, books and more. May 6, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 2094 Grant Road, Mountain View. sttims.org
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS Eichler Homes: Modernism for the Masses This exhibit will honor Eichler Homes, which thrived locally from 1949-1966, and Joseph Eichler’s dream of affordable contemporary homes. Curated by his grandson Steven Eichler, the exhibition displays photos, mid-modern furniture, stories and will include a series of programs highlighting why these homes remain unique, desirable and celebrated 65 years later. Thursday-Sunday, ongoing, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Los Altos History, 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. losaltoshistory.org/exhibits/eichler-homes/ Silicon Valley Open Studio: Week 1 The annual Silicon Valley Open Studios exhibition will be at Abilities United’s new on-site gallery. Stunning and affordable artworks created by Abilities United artists will be on view, along with creations by mixed media artist Rachel Tirosh and jewelry designer Meredith A. Kunz. May 6 and 7, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Abilities United new on-site gallery, 3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. svos.org
DANCE Smuin: Dance Series 02 Smuin concludes its 23rd season with Dance Series 02, featuring a world premiere by internationally acclaimed choreographer Trey McIntyre. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most important choreographers working today,” McIntyre returns to Smuin to pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in an energetic exploration of dance and the creative process. May 5 and 6, 8 p.m.; May 6 and 7, 2 p.m. $56-$72. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. smuinballet.org/
FILM Zoom In Video Field Production Workshop Zoom In is a 15-hour intensive video workshop that covers everything participants need to shoot a digital video, edit it and upload it to YouTube and produce an electronic file. By the end of this class participants will have produced a short video. May 8, 10, 12, 22 and 24, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $200. Midpen Media, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. midpenmedia.org/event/
FOOD & DRINK Italian cooking classes These Italian cooking classes are for adults and kids who are interested in discovering Italian tradition through food. At the end of each cooking class, participants may enjoy the dishes prepared. May 7, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. $35-$55. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. bayareaeventitaliani.com
LESSONS & CLASSES Attracting Native Bees to the Native Garden In this class, participants will find out how planting even a few select natives can enrich their garden and attract even more native (and honey) bees. John Kehoe, a longtime member of CNPS as well as The Xerces Society, will lead this talk. May 11, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar
HEALTH & WELLNESS Overcoming Acid Reflux: An Ayurvedic Approach Ayurveda practitioner Ashok Jethanandani will discuss acid reflux, foods and lifestyles that aggravate the condition and treatments that address the root causes. This program is sponsored by the Friends of Los Altos Library. May 11, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. sccl. org/losaltos
COMMUNITY GROUPS 20 Years of PACT The 20 Years of PACT celebration celebrates the vibrant community of learning since 1996 with a variety show, kids activities and a slideshow. There will be food trucks and an international dessert potluck. May 11, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Stevenson PACT Elementary School, 750 San Pierre Way B, Mountain View. facebook.com/20yearsofpact/
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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement QBB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN628580 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: QBB, located at 216 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Joint Venture. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): IOWA CITY BUSINESS GROUP, LLC 303 Odyssey Lane Milpitas, CA 95035 PALO ALTO BUSINESS GROUP, LLC 2707 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 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 April 7, 2017. (MVV Apr. 14, 21, 28, May 5, 2017) 619 PARTNERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN628289 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 619 Partners, located at 595 Santa Rosalia Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SKATELOCKER, LLC 595 Santa Rosalia Terrace Sunnyvale, CA 94085 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 March 30, 2017. (MVV Apr. 14, 21, 28; May 5, 2017) HANGEN CHINESE RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN628653 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Hangen Chinese Restaurant, located at 134 Castro St., 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): IDVD, INC. 758 S. Springer Rd. Los Altos, CA 94024 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 April 10, 2017. (MVV Apr. 14, 21, 28; May 5, 2017) ISLAMIC CENTER OF MOUNTAIN VIEW MASJID ATTAWHEED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN628941 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Islamic Center of Mountain View Masjid At-Tawheed, located at 361 Villa St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Trust. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WILLIAM SPERLING 585 Mountain View Rd. Santa Cruz, CA 95065 HISHAM KABBANI 7007 Denton Hill Road Fenton, MI 94022
ABDUS-SALAM BOON 427 California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 PETER SAZONOFF 405 Tyler Vernon Hills, IL 60061 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 April 18, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) ASCOT MEDICAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629125 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ascot Medical, located at 211 Hope St. #735, 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): ASCOT CONSULTANTS 650 Chesley Ave. Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/24/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 24, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) APP IN LIGHTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629019 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: App In Lights, located at 274 Murlagan Ave. #B, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): VICTOR M. GALVEZ 274 Murlagan Ave. #B Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/20/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 20, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No.FBN629073 The following person(s)/registrant(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): 970 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 08/02/2016 UNDER FILE NO.: 620052 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): HAURY PROPERTIES, LLC 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 21, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No.FBN629074 The following person(s)/registrant(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): 1025 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 12/08/2015 UNDER FILE NO.: 611832 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): HAURY PROPERTIES, LLC 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 21, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) 1025 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629075 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1025 Terra Bella Associates, located at 111 South Gordon Way, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are):
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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM TOM HAURY 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/01/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 21, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) 970 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629076 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 970 Terra Bella Associates, located at 111 South Gordon Way, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TOM HAURY 111 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/01/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 21, 2017. (MVV Apr. 28; May 5, 12, 19, 2017) APPLE DENTAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN628819 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Apple Dental, located at 1040 Grant Road, Suite 103, 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): ANGELA NGUYEN 1040 Grant Road, Suite 103 Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/27/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 14, 2017. (MVV Apr. 21, 28; May 5, 12, 2017) HANGAR 1 AEROSPACE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629347 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Hangar 1 Aerospace, located at 763 Roslyn Cir., Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JUAN J. SAUCEDO 5646 Keymar Dr. San Jose, CA 95123 SHARIFF KAREEM ESTREMERA 763 Roslyn Cir. Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/28/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 28, 2017. (MVV May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017) OMEGA.AI CONSULTING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629374 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Omega.Ai Consulting Services, located at 138 Montelena 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): MIN OUYANG 138 Montelena Ct. Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/11/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 1, 2017. (MVV May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017)
997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA C. MOORE aka BARBARA CAROL MOORE Case No.: 17PR180968 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BARBARA C. MOORE aka BARBARA CAROL MOORE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SARAH MOORE in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SARAH MOORE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to
administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 29, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Marian Malovos Konevich 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 180 Mountain View, CA 94040 (650)949-8400 (MVV May 5, 12, 19, 2017) SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) Case No.: MC026882 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Crownland Corporation; and DOES 1 through 11, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Tasso Pattas and Soula Pattas NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and cost on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar
su version. Lea la information a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte. ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil, Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Michael Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse 42011 4th Street West, Lancaster, CA 93534 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Law Office of Bruce R. Durkee (Evan C. Page, Esq.) 77-772 Flora Rd., Suite C, Palm Desert, CA 92211 Phone: (760) 200-4709 DATE: February 3, 2017 (Fecha): Clerk, by D. HEYN, Deputy (Secretario) (Adjunto) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served (MVV MAY 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017)
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