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CRASH LEADS TO DUI ARREST A 22-year-old Newark resident was arrested near Shoreline Amphitheatre early Sunday morning after police said he allegedly was driving under the influence when he got into a collision with another vehicle.

The crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 15, on Amphitheatre Parkway near North Shoreline Boulevard. Officers found the two vehicles involved, a red Toyota and a silver Nissan, had collided and were blocking the road, according to police spokeswoman Katie Nelson.

Neither driver was seriously injured, but officers said the suspect driving the Nissan showed signs of being under the influence of a controlled substance, Nelson said.

The man was arrested and booked into Santa Clara County jail.

CONCERT EJECTION ARREST Police arrested a Santa Cruz man attending the Audiotistic festival at Shoreline Boulevard over the weekend after he was ejected from the concert but reportedly argued with officers and refused to leave.

The 22-year-old man was kicked out of the venue around 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, for reportedly being intoxicated, but refused to leave, according to police spokeswoman Katie Nelson. He allegedly argued with officers and tried to get back into the concert, she said.

When officers physically stopped the man from re-entering, he attempted to push past them, Nelson said. He was arrested on public intoxication charges as well as resisting arrest.

FIGHT OVER SNATCHED CIGARETTE A 43-year-old transient man was arrested in downtown Mountain View Sunday afternoon after he allegedly sparked a scuffle by stealing a cigarette, according to police.

The man reportedly sat next to the victim, a 53-year-old Palo Alto resident, on the 200 block of Castro Street and grabbed a cigarette from his pack around 4:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 15, according to police spokeswoman Katie Nelson. The victim became upset over the theft, and both men began fighting each other, she said. Neither person was injured.

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LACK OF HOUSING TAKES HEAVY TOLL ON HEALTH, ESPECIALLY IN YOUNG PEOPLE with the staff, asking to stay there overnight. But the answer was race Kim counts it as a always no; those teens were sent small miracle that she out the door, back onto the street. is still alive today. Her It’s a memory Kim can’t shake: late teenage years were a blur Why did she get a second chance, of drugs, alcohol and mental while so many others did not?

Now 30 years old, Kim is a trauma — the byproducts of an abusive family life, she said. therapist for Rebekah Children’s Couchsurfing was preferable Services in Campbell, and she to going home, and she would regularly works with foster kids crash at friends’ homes whenever and at-risk youth. Their struggles she could. She was depressed, are intimately familiar, but Kim suicidal and constantly suffered said that things have become from sharp pains in her stomach even rougher than they were that she later learned were ulcers. when she was living on the edge.

Drugs are more Her saving grace easily available, came at age 17, social media when a high school ‘If you only care and makes it easier for counselor helped to target secure her a room about money, predators teenagers in desin a transitional perate situations. living program. it’s actually The transitionalAlthough her new living situation was quite expensive housing program that rescued her no far from ideal — to have longer exists, she lodging with about 10 other teens with homelessness said.“My expetheir own emorience has really tional baggage — persist.’ changed the level of the shelter was a empathy that I have lifesaver for Kim, COLETTE AUERSWALD, for youth dealing and she credits it U.C. BERKELEY with these issues,” with allowing her she said. “These to slowly move forward. Picking up the pieces aren’t bad kids. It’s a matter of of her life felt like a constant them just not having the support, struggle, but she said she eventu- or their main necessities met.”

Santa Clara County officials ally landed a restaurant job and enrolled in community college. have tallied more than 2,500 Kim’s hard work led to a full- homeless adolescents and young ride scholarship to college, and adults — an unprecedented she continued her education at number that many experts consider to be a drastic undercount. graduate school.

“I know that I’m the fortunate Newer U.S. surveys indicate one. If not for this program, I as many as one in 10 young would probably be dead or have people under the age of 25 have committed suicide,” she said. “It recently experienced some form was such a sad place to be in, and of homelessness.

This growing body of young I never want to be back in that people struggling with housing position.”

Sometimes her caretaker at the presents a serious social problem transitional home would bring with long-term ramifications. If her and her housemates over to a left unaddressed, it could spur a teen drop-in center in downtown health care crisis, creating a vast San Jose. There were snacks, a unhoused population prone to a room with a TV and games and wide range of afflictions.

Homelessness is inextricably a small yard. On any given day, there would be 20 to 50 street linked to public health. People kids hanging out at the center living on the street are far more susceptible to chronic diseases, with nowhere else to go.

When closing time rolled mental illness, substance abuse around, everyone had to leave.

See HOMELESS, page 12 Some of the teens would plead

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MOVIES AL FRESCO Trade the sticky floors and overpriced popcorn for the grassy expanse of a city park and a picnic dinner.

A youthful crowd gathered for the kickoff to Mountain View’s outdoor summer movie nights on July 13 to watch the family-friendly animated flick “Ferdinand.” Next up on Friday, July 20, is “Despicable Me 3” at Sylvan Park, located at 600 Sylvan Ave. Movies start at 8:30 p.m. and seating is strictly BYOB: Bring Your Own Blanket. The series runs through Aug. 17. For the the full schedule, go to mountainview.gov.

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proposed ballot initiative to curtail Mountain View’s rent control law won’t be going on the 2018 ballot — but it’s far from dead.

Organizers for the Measure V Too Costly campaign confirmed they are abandoning plans for a November ballot initiative. However, campaign spokeswoman Laura Teutschel said her group intends to continue collecting signatures to

put the measure before voters for the 2020 election.

In recent weeks, supporters of Measure V Too Costly and a team of paid signaturegatherers have been canvassing Mountain View to get people to sign a petition for the measure, “The Mountain View Homeowner, Renter, and Taxpayer Protection Initiative.” They needed to collect at least 5,150 valid signatures of local voters, which city staff urged them to submit by June 5.

That date passed, and then weeks went by with no word on whether the measure would go forward. After two weeks of waiting, City Clerk Lisa Natusch expressed doubt last month that the measure could still be processed in time for the deadline to get it on the November ballot.

Teutschel declined to say how many signatures her campaign had accumulated. Other news See RENT CONTROL, page 7

Banner year for El Camino Hospital HOSPITAL’S $187M IN PROFITS IS $100M MORE THAN EXPECTED

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hether it’s a case of careful planning or a multi-year run of good fortune, El Camino Hospital’s financial picture remains stronger than ever, more than $100 million stronger than expected over the last year.

The hospital’s finance team expected that the nonprofit

would pull in just shy of $82 million in net income — profit — for the 2017-18 year. But the latest estimates suggest that the hospital will post a net income more than double that amount and may end up closer to $187 million in profits, according to budget documents.

If the numbers hold — and early projections show they aren’t likely to change — it would be the

best year El Camino Hospital has had to date, beating an already high bar set by the prior year.

With strong increases in patient visits and a windfall from investments, there’s no question that the hospital is in great financial shape, said Iftikhar Hussain, the hospital’s chief financial officer.

The hospital’s profit, listed as See HOSPITAL, page 8

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Foothill-De Anza strikes deal with teachers union ONE-TIME PAY RAISES DUE TO COLLEGE DISTRICT’S BUDGET UNCERTAINTY

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fter a brief but tense standoff over employee salaries in the spring, Foothill-De Anza Community College District officials announced that they have reached a tentative agreement with its largest union over pay raises for the 2018-19 year.

The brokered agreement between Foothill-De Anza and the Faculty Association, which represents hundreds of full- and part-time staff members including teachers, gives the union’s members a temporary 5 percent raise that expires at the end of June next year. The agreement still needs to be ratified by the union’s membership and approved by the board of trustees, but is expected to receive support from both.

Assuming the rest of the district’s unions receive the same 5 percent raise, the extra pay will cost the district an estimated $8 million, according to Kevin McElroy, the district’s vice chancellor of business services.

The agreement ended a

month-long protest by Faculty Association members over the district’s unwillingness to raise salaries in May by 1.56 percent, citing uncertainty over state funding. The stalled negotiations led to a so-called “work to contract” protest, which encouraged the association’s members to cease any unpaid work not explicitly required in the contract, abstain from attending events like graduation and drop advisory roles for student clubs.

Representatives of the Faculty Association did not respond to requests for comment.

McElroy told the Voice that the delay in negotiations was strictly related to touch-and-go changes to the way California plans to fund community colleges starting this year. He said the state introduced a complicated new funding formula that takes into account things like low-income students who qualify for financial aid and the number of degrees and certificates earned each year. Preliminary estimates show that many of the state’s community colleges benefit from the new formula, while

Foothill-De Anza stands to lose millions of dollars in annual funding.

“In my 34 years in the profession, this is probably the most ambiguous and unusual budget language that I’ve ever seen,” McElroy said. “And it’s understandable — they’re trying to implement a brand new performance-based funding formula.”

The breakthrough, and ultimately the reason for the negotiated pay raise, came in midJune when the state Legislature passed the budget with trailer bill language granting relief for districts like Foothill-De Anza.

Districts that stand to hemorrhage state funding under the new system will instead receive funding equal to the 2017-18 year along with a 2.71 percent increase as a cost-of-living adjustment, McElroy said.

“That was the linchpin for us,” he said. “We needed to get clarity on what our funding was going to look like.”

But the reprieve from budget cuts isn’t expected to last forever.

The trailer bill guarantees stable community college funding

through the 2020-21 year, McElroy said, but it’s essentially borrowed time before the new funding formula takes full effect, without the exceptions. What’s more, there’s nothing to prevent the Legislature and the newly elected governor from rejecting the trailer bill language as soon as next year, putting the district back in a financial bind.

The state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) recommended against the three-year transition to the new funding formula, called the “hold harmless” provision, which it said could dampen the effect of Jerry Brown’s move toward performance-based funding. The LAO softened its stance and recommended a one-year delay on the new funding strategy after it was abundantly clear the Legislature would have little time to review major changes prior to the budget adoption.

Early estimates showed between 18 and 20 of the state’s 72 community college districts were expected to lose funding under Brown’s new plan, McElroy said.

Regardless of the state’s plans to rejigger community college funding, Foothill-De Anza has faced deep deficit spending in recent years despite California’s budget surplus and the extraordinary growth in property values in the region. Declining enrollment is the primary culprit, and the district’s 2017-18 budget was $10.3 million in the red before the state rolled out the new funding formula.

The faculty pay increase is not retroactive and applies only to the 2018-19 school year.

The negotiated contract also includes a provision where part-time faculty, who will have fewer classes to teach as a result of the enrollment drop in the upcoming school year, will get paid based on the assigned teaching jobs they had in the 2017-18 year.

The school board is scheduled to approve the contract in the coming months, and the Faculty Association is expected to vote to ratify the contract in September or October.

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tarting next week, NASA Ames and the SETI Institute will be launching a computer hackathon unlike any other.

Dozens of computer scientists and researchers from across the globe will gather in Mountain View for a four-week intensive course designed to find ways to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) toward space exploration.

This program, called the NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL), is a public-private partnership to collaborate by

The research teams will apply machine-learning toward four main research areas: astrobiology, space resources, exoplanets and space weather. On each of these topics, researchers have already heavily relied on computers to crunch through the reams of data. For example, computers were used in the famous Kepler program to sort through data sent back from the space observatory, which led to the discovery of more than 1,000 exoplanets — worlds orbiting stars outside our solar system.

Each of the topics being pursued by the NASA FDL features an overabundance of data. This

using the latest computer technology for solving the most vexing data challenges of space exploration. AI researchers from Google, IBM, Intel, Nvidia and other powerhouse companies will be partnering with scientists from NASA, SETI and academia.

This will be the third year the FDL has brought together these research teams. This year’s workshop will be the most expansive and sophisticated to date, said SETI spokeswoman Rebecca McDonald. She described the last two years as pilots to test out how the collaboration would work.

makes it difficult to interpret, but an excellent project for the developing field of machine learning analysis.

“As we get better at collecting information, human beings just can’t process the amount of data that we’re gathering,” McDonald said. “Space technology is zooming ahead of our ability to realize that data in a meaningful way.”

The results of the 2018 FDL workshop will be revealed on August 16 at Intel’s Santa Clara headquarters.

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State Democrats support repeal of Costa-Hawkins The California Democratic Party on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to endorse Proposition 10, the statewide Affordable Housing Act, which would repeal the anti-rent-control Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and return power to regulate rents to local communities.

Signed into law in 1995, Costa-Hawkins prevents cities and counties from applying rent control to apartments built after 1995, or to single-family rental units and condos. CostaHawkins also allows landlords to raise the rent as much as they want when a unit becomes vacant.

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outlets reported that she said her team was short hundreds of names. Any signatures that have been collected could be applied toward a future election.

The signature-gathering effort spawned numerous complaints about misleading information tricking petitionsigners into thinking they were strengthening or expanding Mountain View’s rent control law. In fact, the proposed initiative included language that, if approved, would almost certainly suspend the existing rent control and eviction protections that were approved by voters in 2016.

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NAACP, we are confident that most Democrats will oppose Michael Weinstein’s Prop 10 because it will worsen California’s affordable housing crisis,” said Steven Maviglio, a political consultant for anti-Prop 10 forces.

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on 10 campaign. “The party’s endorsement helps make clear that it stands with the millions of Californians struggling to pay the rent and supports returning the power to respond to the state’s housing affordability crisis back to the people and back to local communities.”

Prop 10 also has its critics, one of their main assertions being that the spread of local rent control will have a chilling effect on construction of new apartments in California.

“From Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to labor unions such as the State Building and Trades Council of California to the

eclipsed the 60-percent support threshold to secure the party endorsement for the Nov. 6 general election.

This endorsement dovetails with a February addition to the official state Democratic party platform that specifically calls for “allowing local communities to create strong tenant and affordability protections against displacement, speculation, rent increases, and evictions without interference from state law.”

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net income, rose from $106.8 million in the 2015-16 year to $159.7 million in 2016-17.

A little under two-thirds of the $100 million windfall, $64 million, came from revenue fueled primarily by more patients coming to El Camino Hospital. The bad flu season meant more hospital visits to doctors and the emergency department, while substantial investments in oncology and heart and vascular services helped drive up patient visits seeking the specialized care, Hussain said.

“We built up the programs and expanded capacity, (and) added staffing that have attracted patients to our hospital, and that has really worked to our advantage,” he said.

The remaining roughly $37 million of the $100 million came from financial investments in a strong market through the end of 2017, which is one of the hospital’s more volatile sources of funding, Hussain said. In 2016, the hospital’s investment earnings sank to a little over $1 million, falling well below expectations, while this year it’s expected to add a total of $56.4 million to

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El Camino Hospital is riding high on a wave of economic prosperity, with profits heavily exceeding expectations. Hospital officials are looking to reinvest the money in future growth both in and outside of Mountain View.

the hospital’s bottom line.

The hospital’s strong earnings are in contrast to comments by the hospital’s administrators and board of directors, who have said that the hospital faces a difficult financial future, requiring it to grow to stay competitive or risk insolvency. El Camino’s leadership used the concerns over an uncertain financial future as the rationale for buying its Los Gatos campus in 2009, along with more

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recent efforts to build clinics and buy land for future medical facilities in South San Jose.

Hussain told the Voice that the hospital’s tireless effort to grow is part of the reason the hospital is in such strong financial shape, and that failing to manage costs and improve the number of patients coming to El Camino can put the hospital in a tough spot.

“Our financial health is really

tied to whether or not we can grow ... whether you’re a standalone hospital or part of a system,” he said. “The concern is whether you can maintain that in the long term.”

For the coming year, hospital officials are budgeting for more conservative earnings — about $112 million — due to major investments in primary care clinics outside of the hospital itself, including one on Winchester

Boulevard in San Jose. Hussain said the hospital is also pumping $9 million into what he called “strategic investments,” which means tightening up the costs of doing business, and a robust marketing campaign.

The hospital is also planning to increase the “list” price of services by 5 percent for the 2018-19 year, which amounts to about a 3 percent increase in costs paid by insurance companies based on the hospital’s commercial contracts, Hussain said. He called it a moderate increase along the lines of inflation, and said that the hospital has a financial assistance program for low-income and uninsured patients who might otherwise bear the brunt of the increase.

The hospital’s capital spending is shifting into high gear this fiscal year, with plans to wrap up $310 million in construction through June 2019. The vast majority of that spending, $250 million, will go toward finishing the Mountain View hospital campus upgrades, which include a large, seven-story medical office building in the center of the campus and a new behavioral health services building near the shell of the old main hospital.

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and sexual exploitation. In Los Angeles, the city with the nation’s largest unsheltered population, homeless individuals have a life expectancy that’s nearly 30 years shorter than the national average, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless.

Lacking stable housing is detrimental to health in so many ways that it’s difficult to list them all, said Bobby Watts, CEO of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Living on the street makes it difficult to eat a nutritious diet, take medicine or refrigerate items that could spoil.

Keeping a regular sleep schedule is next to impossible, which adds to stress. Homeless people are exposed not just to bad weather, but also higher rates of violent crime and illnesses. Minor health problems like a common cold or a small cut can spiral into serious infections.

“Homeless individuals suffer medical conditions at elevated levels, pretty much across the board, even when you control for poverty, substance abuse and mental health disorders,” Watts said. “Homelessness is dangerous to one’s health, especially when you’re talking about (young) people whose minds and bodies are still forming.”

Basically, being homeless makes the healthy become sick, and the sick become sicker.

Homelessness makes a person three to four times more likely to die than the general population, according to an analysis by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

Sick from being homeless Twenty-three-year-old Francisco Vargas, profiled in the first story in this two-part series, said his family discovered this during the first winter they spent in their 15-foot trailer on the streets of Mountain View. On rainy nights, Vargas remembers waking up to find water leaking inside the trailer, soaking their blankets. It was often so cold his toes would go numb, and his father would reluctantly turn on their generator, burning costly fuel, to provide a little bit of heat.

The grueling hot summer nights are no easier — it’s impossible to sleep in the aluminum trailer because it feels like an oven inside, he said.

The toll on their health goes deeper. Vargas knows his family hasn’t been eating as well as they used to. Without a refrigerator, they can’t keep produce or dairy items for long. Meals are limited to whatever they can make with a propane camping stove — a huge blow for his mother, who cherished cooking for her 12

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Victoria hugs her 12-year-old son as they look at a bicycle given to him by a volunteer at Hope’s Corner in Mountain View.

family. Staying clean is also more complicated. A 24 Hour Fitness membership became a necessary expense because it is one of the few places they can shower, brush their teeth or use the restroom.

It didn’t take long for these factors to affect their well-being.

Earlier this year, Vargas’ father came down with a flu that left him bedridden for two weeks. It was the first time he could ever recall his dad having to take so much time off of work.

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have a city job, but I still can’t afford to live anywhere!”

Living on the street has taken a toll on Victoria and her husband and four children, aged 12, 10, 8 and 2, living in a trailer near Rengstorff Park. The family tried to use the free mobile showers provided by the city and local nonprofits, but her children were often in school at the only times they were available. Instead, Victoria said she would usually grab a bucket and bathe her children in middle of the park.

‘Now for every kid we get off the street, another one is there to replace them. It’s clearly getting worse, not better.’

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been severely depressed since they lost their apartment, he said. Vargas said he gets angry when he begins thinking about his family’s hardship. The residents living in houses around the Jackson Park neighborhood make it abundantly clear how unwelcome they are, he said.

One time, a couple walking by stopped to berate them, saying they weren’t contributing to the economy.

“I’m not funding the economy?

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Lugging the large containers of water to and from the trailer for drinking or bathing was difficult, she said. Last summer, she slipped and broke her foot while carrying water out of the trailer.

The injury left her immobile, and it took three days before she could find a way to get to the hospital.

All of her children have been getting sick more frequently, she said. The family has gone twice to the emergency room at Stanford Medical Center when her children became seriously ill. It was their only option because they couldn’t find a doctor’s

office that would take their insurance, she said.

The high cost of homelessness Health problems are often what sends someone into homelessness in the first place. Of the more than 1 million bankruptcies filed during the last recession, about 62 percent were caused by medical debt, according to the American Journal of Medicine. When individuals have exhausted their own savings and their personal safety net, then the public is left to pick up the hospital bill.

In 2015, Santa Clara County officials reported spending $520 million annually on services for homeless residents. For the most part, that money doesn’t go toward housing or food — the bulk of it goes to health care and jails.

About 2,800 homeless individuals, or about one in 10, are caught in a destructive and expensive cycle of hospital emergency rooms, jails and mental health facilities. On average, each of these chronically homeless individuals costs the county about $83,000 every year.

The real toll of homelessness in the South Bay is likely much higher than $520 million. Colette Auerswald, an associate professor at University of California at Berkeley, points to the lost productivity and squandered human potential that goes with struggling to meet basic needs.

This is especially true for youths entering their prime years. The 16-to-24 age range is a critical formative period for young people to develop job skills and education, she said.

Moving frequently or having an unstable housing situation inflicts a severe psychological toll on adolescents and young adults. Children who experience homelessness score worse on reading and math aptitude and are nearly twice as susceptible to behavioral problems like hyperactivity, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Research show that living in poverty stunts growth and brain development, and it causes intense stress — all of which hinder a student’s ability to learn in school. Missing out on those key years of development — whether from dropping out of school, landing in jail or dealing with family strife or mental illness — can irrevocably set back a young person’s life.

Given these considerations, each homeless young person could be costing taxpayers more than $700,000 over the course of a lifetime, according to a 2012 joint study by Columbia University and the City University of New York. This sum includes a lifetime of lost earnings and tax revenues, as well as statistically higher costs for criminal justice, health care and welfare.

“If you take a kid who is homeless, you can say the cost is just giving her a shelter bed, but

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Youth living on the fringes are notoriously difficult for health care workers to reach, and they often avoid hospitals and other services, said Dr. Seth Ammerman, a pediatrician and professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. His brainchild was to bring health care to them as a short-term, low-cost remedy for Santa Clara County’s spiking rate of homelessness.

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you’re leaving out the fact this is a smart kid who has the opportunity to be a productive citizen,” Auerswald said. “If you only care about money, it’s actually quite expensive to have homelessness persist.”

The factors that go with homelessness also perpetuate it, and it becomes tricky to claw oneself out, said Sparky Harlan of the Bill Wilson Center, a youth center based in Santa Clara. Alcohol and drug use is commonplace, but this addictive behavior often begins as a form of self-medication to cope with the stress. If young adults acquire a criminal record, that can become a huge obstacle to their employment prospects.

“Anyone living on the street is just in survival mode, thinking of safety and food. It’s hard to focus on any long-term plan because you’re just living dayto-day,” Harlan said. “And the longer they’re on the street, the harder it is to get them back on track.”

Homeless deaths have been dramatically increasing in Santa Clara County in recent years.

The most recent full year on record, 2016, saw 130 homeless deaths — the highest number by far in more than a decade. The reported causes were myriad, with one-third considered accidental for reasons including drug overdoses, hypothermia and car crashes. The average age of death has consistently stayed around 50 years old.

Exactly what prompted the sudden spike in homeless death remains a mystery. One theory, posed in a study from Santa Clara University, is that the increase may be tied to the 2014 closure of “the Jungle,” a 300-person homeless encampment along Coyote Creek in San Jose. After those homeless residents were dispersed, it became harder for case workers and service providers to track them down.

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describes the current homeless problem as a “man-made” disaster spurred by the lack of affordable housing construction. Like many other experts, he said the root cause for the current crisis started in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan’s administration gutted federal housing subsidies. Those cuts eliminated about $45 billion spent annually on public housing. Since then, five U.S. presidents have come and gone, but that level of funding has never been restored.

“As a nation, we just retreated from our commitment to affordable housing, and that’s been the main driver for homelessness and why it’s increased for the last 30 years,” Watts said.

Getting healthcare where it’s needed

After more than two decades, Ammerman’s mobile clinic is still making the rounds at schools and service centers across the South Bay, providing many young people with their only access to health care. The preventative care offered at the mobile clinic has likely saved millions of dollars in government health care costs, yet his mobile clinic was never intended to be a permanent solution, he said. By this time, he expected American society would give its most destitute people housing or health insurance, at the very least.

He said he is flabbergasted that homelessness, especially for youth, has persisted and worsened. Twenty years ago, homelessness seemed like a solvable issue; instead it has grown so much it’s at the point of becoming normal, he said.

“Now for every kid we get off the street, another one is there to replace them,” Ammerman said.

“It’s clearly getting worse, not better.”

—Michelle Le and Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang contributed to this report. Spanish translation was provided by Amieva-Wang.

For more than 20 years, a custom RV has arrived each month at Alta Vista High School, in Mountain View, the local district’s alternative school for atrisk students. The vehicle, run by Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, is outfitted to function as a full-service health clinic. Inside, a trio of doctors provide free vaccinations and checkups for the Alta Vista students, many of whom

This investigative report is the second in a two-part series on youth homelessness that was supported by a California Data Journalism fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. An expanded version of this story, with maps and graphs of key data, may be found online at mv-voice.com.

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Public Defender Office, said he is appalled that the rising numbers of homeless deaths barely seems to register as a public concern.

He sits on a countywide working group trying to brainstorm how to prevent future deaths.

Gutierrez says he first encountered the problem 20 years ago, when he served as attorney for a homeless man cited for public intoxication who was cycling through jails and hospitals. The man would tell nurses that he

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Victoria braids her daughter’s hair after showering at Hope’s Corner last August. Getting access to showers has been a challenge for the family of six that has been living in a cramped RV on Mountain View’s streets.

didn’t want to drink anymore, and just wanted to die. The county’s solution was to send the man back to jail.

Little has changed since then, Gutierrez said. To this day, the county lacks a dedicated program to triage chronically homeless individuals and get them sober and stabilized. Instead, many homeless fall into what he calls the “turnstyle,” rotating in and out of emergency rooms and the criminal justice system until they die.

“What’s the saying? ‘If one person dies, it’s a moral outrage. If 1,000 die, it’s a statistic,’” Gutierrez said. “Unless you follow these people and have a system to identify them and target them with dedicated intervention, you’re guaranteed turnstyle justice, at the highest expense.”

Homelessness is so detrimental to health that many experts believe housing should be considered a form of preventative care. The federal Medicaid program, which normally pays hospital and medication costs for the poor, has recently begun allowing states to use its funding for housing costs.

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Ten Years and Four Diagnoses Later, Patient Gets Her Life—Back When Rachel was a kid and telling stories about all the blood draws leaving scars on her arms, she realized this wasn’t the childhood experience most other kids had. They fell out of trees and scrapped their knees but didn’t usually endure years of being sick.

For almost 10 years, Rachel suffered with headaches, nausea, and dehydration. Sometimes she would just experience sensory overload with her family around, and have to tell them—“Okay, everyone has to be quiet now.”

For years, Rachel had been bounced from institution to institution, specialist to specialist, before an outside institution asked one of the specialists here at Stanford Health Care to take an active role in her care. Dr. Linda Nguyen, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist, began assessing her GI issues but had heard enough about spinal fluid leaks that she thought this could be the problem. Interestingly enough, Stanford’s Dr. Ian Carroll, headache specialist and orofacial pain specialist, had just reached out to Dr. Nguyen sharing information about how some spinal leaks were characterized by chronic intractable nausea, in addition to ringing in the ears, vomiting, and headache. Dr. Carroll had collaborated with Stanford’s Neuroradiology and Neurology Headache divisions to create the Stanford spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak program—and immediately took an active interest in Rachel’s case.

At 24, Rachel was on her fourth diagnosis and had been on headache medication for years when she met Dr. Carroll.

Recalls Rachel, “I don’t think I’ll ever forget doing the first diagnostic test where he just had me lie flat.

It was really the first time my headache had ever gone away, and it was a huge a-ha moment for me.”

Rachel believes that had it not been for Stanford Health Care’s mindset and Dr. Carroll’s mindset as a doctor at Stanford, she would not have been diagnosed so quickly.

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When Rachel first got the CSF diagnosis, she was hospitalized since she was having trouble getting out of bed. To treat the spinal fluid leak, Dr. Carroll performed what is called an epidural blood patch where the patient’s own blood is injected around the bag of fluid that surrounds the spinal cord. This creates a seal and a scar over the part where the bag is torn. Th is helps the fluid stop leaking and can restore normal balance and normal pressure of the spinal fluid.

After her first blood patch, Rachel got substantially better, and Dr. Carroll was confident they were on the right path: “We want multiple dimensions across her life to be better so she can return to function, and do the things a young woman wants to do with her life instead of being engaged in the medical system on a semi-continuous basis.”

Dr. Carroll believes that spinal fluid leaks are often misdiagnosed, and more common than previously thought. He speaks from personal experience: his daughter had a spinal fluid leak that had gone undiagnosed for far too long until she got the right treatment. That’s when he really began to think about the interplay of different syndromes and symptoms, and how important it was for a major academic medical center like Stanford to collaborate across departments.

Most at risk are those with Marfan and EhlersDanlos Syndromes, both connective tissue disorders.

Orthostatic headache, or headache that is worse when upright, is a key feature of a spinal CSF leak, but is also a common feature in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

“Patients shouldn’t have to wander from doctor to doctor until they randomly interact with a doctor

who happens to know that people with Marfan are at greater risk of developing a leak. After the personal experience I had with it, I started reaching out to the Stanford Headache Clinic, and the POTS and Marfan Clinics. Now we’re all reading about it and it has created a great dialogue.” explains Dr. Carroll. “There is a place in our society for a group of doctors that want to see the most difficult cases, that want to spend their time reading about those cases and trying to develop new treatments for those cases and that place is Stanford.”

Dr. Carroll admits he gets invested in his client’s wellbeing and says it helps him unlock his own internal resources and the institutional resources at Stanford.

Rachel had to laugh when Dr. Carroll insisted she watch three videos and read a paper about her procedure BEFORE he would even talk to her.

But in the end, his advice was right: “He involved me a lot and kept me updated, which I really, really appreciate!”

Explains Rachel, “Th is blood patching thing, from a nerdy, scientific perspective, I think it is so fascinating. I love it.”

Two procedures later, Rachel’s headaches aren’t as common and the sensory overload feelings are subsiding. Best of all, her music-loving family ‘loves’ it when she says this: “Listening to music as loud as I want has been nice!”

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Regional group exploring housing solutions METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION FORMS CASA TO DEVELOP A REGIONAL POLICY COMPACT

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new regional group exploring ways to build more affordable and lowincome housing throughout the Bay Area was preparing to present its findings at a meeting this Wednesday following a four-city workshop series that ended in East Palo Alto last week.

The group, CASA — the Committee to House the Bay Area — is a blue-ribbon task force convened by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional land use, housing and transportation agency. The task force is seeking consensus from tenant, housing and environmental advocates; market rate and affordable-housing developers; labor groups; transportation officials; representatives from the business and technology communities; and public officials to develop a package of housing strategies and legislation.

They are focusing on three core strategies: to protect vulnerable populations from housing displacement, preserve existing affordable housing and create

additional housing at all levels of affordability.

The MTC created the task force after the agency released its draft Plan Bay Area 2040, the region’s long-range transportation and land use plan. The plan projects the region will see 2.4 million more people, 820,000 new households and 1.3 million additional jobs by the year 2040.

The CASA task force wants to have the region produce 35,000 housing units per year in that time period —14,000 of which are affordable to lower-income households and 7,000 for moderateincome households. They want to preserve 30,000 affordable units — 28,000 market-rate affordable and 4,000 that are at-risk — in the next five years. The group also seeks to protect 300,000 lowerincome units for residents who are extremely rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing.

East Palo Alto, once a bastion of low-income and affordable housing, is now experiencing rapid displacement of its traditional community. Median housing prices in the city went up

21.7 percent in the past year and are expected to rise another 13.4 percent in the next year, according to real estate website Zillow’s estimates. A median single-family home is now $949,000. Newer developments, such as Montage

by Edenbridge Homes, now list homes at $1.4 million. The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in East Palo Alto is $2,973, according to the rental listings website RentCafe.

“It’s clear that gentrification is running rampant,” said Tameeka Bennett, executive director for Youth United for Community Action, which hosted the July 11 event in East Palo Alto.

Vikrant Sood, manager of the CASA program, said that the task force is a compact between often-competing forces to negotiate among themselves and develop policies and solutions to the housing crisis. This approach comes on the heels of a defeat on April 17 of Senate Bill 827, California’s ambitious Transit Zoning Bill, which would have removed local control of some building restrictions for new construction near transit hubs,

including parking, height and density under certain conditions.

Cities were opposed to the bill, which died in its first legislative committee meeting.

Having a wide range of players at the table hammering out a joint approach would hopefully avoid the pitfalls that doomed SB 827.

“CASA is looking at something similar but more palatable. We may not be able to come up with solutions that everyone loves, but if everyone hates it a little, that is what we want to have,” he said.

It’s about the right mix of carrots and sticks and filling the needs of each community in ways that are still equitable, he said. For example, San Francisco is interested in more housing and can raise the money, but the city can’t build fast enough.

“But how about giving some money to Oakland and near transit? We need to find some combination to do your fair bit,” Sood said. San Jose has built housing but it needs more jobs, while other cities might not want to build the housing but can

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REY SEIJAS Longtime Mountain View resident Reynaldo Lardizabal Seijas died in Santa Clara on July 8. He was 79.

Seijas was born on August 17, 1938 in Santa Rita, New Mexico, to Francisco and Adela Seijas. He retired after a nearly 40-year career with Hewlett-Packard and enjoyed spending time outdoors camping and fishing.

He was also an avid softball player with Mountain View teams and a devoted fan of the San Francisco Giants and 49ers, according to his family.

Seijas is survived by siblings Enedina Jones, Frank Seijas and Lucille Nilmeyer, and by many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. He was preceded in death by his brother Armando Seijas.

Services were held on Saturday, July 14, at Cusimano Family Colonial Mortuary in Mountain View.

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‘PAINT THE TOWN II’ The Los Altos History Museum is currently displaying the work of more than 50 local artists who took up the challenge of depicting Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and surrounding locations and landmarks for its exhibition “Paint the Town II” (the original “Paint the Town” took place back in 1999). In addition to paintings, artists used a variety of media, including stitchery, fabric, and a metal engraving. The exhibition will run through Oct. 7 and the museum (51 S. San Antonio Road) is open Thursday through Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Admission is free. Go to losaltoshistory.org.

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Andrew Baer, a filmmaker and Palo Alto High School graduate, will premiere his newest film, “Last Summer,” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25, at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road. “Last Summer” focuses on teen Olivia Summer, who struggles after the death by suicide of her elder brother. An “Aspiring Filmmaker Forum” with Baer will follow the premiere. Baer will share his experience and will answer questions from students

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contribute money, he said.

“Can we rebalance that and get (them) compensation for more housing?” Sood asked.

About 50 residents from East Palo Alto, unincorporated North Fair Oaks, San Jose and Redwood City attended the July 11 meeting. They said cities should have funds exclusively dedicated to relocation and first- to last-month rental assistance. Residents also need new models for building credit. Paying rent on time could count as a way to build credit among many immigrants who don’t have normal credit-building mechanisms, they said.

Other priorities include policies to better balance the jobs-tohousing ratio; finding or creating fees for cities to create more housing; placing a total moratorium on jobs until they build enough housing or requiring companies and cities that bring more jobs to create more housing; repealing the Costa--Hawkins Rental Housing Act, enacted in 1995, which limits municipal rent-control ordinances; replacing homes that are under rent control if they are demolished one by one and allowing the same families the first rights to move in; and having legal and other services related to housing, specifically for non-English Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q July 20, 2018

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Local artists offer their depictions of Los Altos in the “Paint the Town II” exhibition.

interested in filmmaking. The event is free; refreshments will be served. Project Safety Net, a community network dedicated to youth well-being, is sponsoring the screening. Go to tinyurl.com/ y9utyva5.

he has learned how to open a door to a realm darker than she could have ever imagined. In Carol Wolf’s “Dr. Rowan, the Demon, and Love,” a history professor uses a spell book to seek the gift of all human knowledge and ends up raising the embodiment of Dr. John Dee, court magician to Queen Elizabeth I, who in turn raises demons capable of granting human desires. In “Confession”

by Barry Slater, a man has trouble forgiving himself for a harrowing event in his past. “Fresh Produce” will offer one reading on Friday July 20, at 8:30 p.m. and two on Saturday, July 21, at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 per reading or $25 for all three. Go to thepear.org.

CSMA’S FAMILY ARTS DAY

The Pear Theatre (1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View) will offer “Fresh Produce,” a weekend presentation of staged readings of three plays under development from members of the Pear Playwrights Guild. In “Terms of Use”

by Patrick Brennan, a sister wants to save her hacker brother from a dangerous obsession with virtual reality. But she soon discovers that

The Community School of Music and Arts (230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View) will hold its annual Family Arts Day on Sunday, July 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The free event will include an instrument petting zoo, interactive art and music activities (including special projects geared toward preschoolers), digital art demonstrations and live musical performances by CSMA students.

Go to arts4all.org.

—Karla Kane

speakers who need help with affordable-housing applications.

Many programs require applying online but because of the digital divide, some don’t have access to computers or know how to navigate the websites.

The workshop was the last in a series that included similar meetings San Jose, Concord and Santa Rosa. Staff will share information from the brainstorming sessions with the CASA technical committee, which will vet and vote on policy solutions. They will return for additional public meetings in the four cities in the fall for feedback on the strategies the CASA technical and steering committees develop. An additional four “listening sessions” will take place in Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa and San Francisco, Sood said.

A final compact would be negotiated by key stakeholders, adopted by the technical committee and then passed to the steering committee for final adoption. The compact would likely have three components: a package of Bay Area-specific legislation to be introduced in Sacramento; solutions for MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments; and solutions to raise funding for protection, preservation and production of affordable housing, according to MTC staff.

The compact is likely to pursue

provisions to: • Protect renters through rentstabilization and an anti-gouging rent cap; stronger just-cause evictions; tenant services and right to legal counsel; short-term rental and relocation assistance and protection incentives for landlords.

• Preserve housing by developing a regional tracking and notification system for expiring deed-restricted and marketrate affordable units; creating a flexible housing preservation fund, including incentives for code compliance; establishing local preservation protocols that include a one-to-one unit replacement requirement and first right of refusal to nonprofit organizations and tenants; and a tax on vacant and underutilized units and parcels, especially in transitoriented development areas.

• Boosting housing production by building more types of housing in different neighborhoods, including accessory-dwelling units, affordable housing in higher income neighborhoods and higher density housing; lowering net cost for new construction through use of technology and innovation, limiting impact fees and flexible green-building requirements; streamlining permits; and financial incentives and using public and surplus land for affordable housing production.

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ometimes, it feels virtually impossible to get good advice.

You want a burrito, but where can you find the best one? Are those Yelp reviews real or fake? Is it really that color, or is that just an Instagram filter?

And so we offer you the sage advice of your fellow readers, who have taken the time to identify the best that Mountain View has to offer, from restaurants and takeout joints to shoe repair shops and chiropractors. Because sometimes, you just want to get out the house and enjoy a good meal at a restaurant that has a charming patio or indulge in way too many bar snacks at a boisterous beer garden. Unplug and unwind at a yoga class, engage in a little tangible retail therapy in a local boutique or find exactly the right tool for that household project. Your fellow readers are here for you, ready to point you to the perfect place.

The Best of Mountain View winners are determined by tabulating our online ballots, so if you think this year’s list is missing one of our city’s finest, be sure to cast your vote in next year’s contest and make your voice heard.

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RESTAURANTS Breakfast/Brunch Crepevine 300 Castro St., Mountain View; 650969-6878. crepevine.com Chinese Restaurant Chef Chu’s 1067 N San Antonio Road, Los Altos; 650-948-2696. chefchu.com

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Vegetarian Cuisine Garden Fresh 1245 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-254-1688. gardenfresh.us

Chiropractor Lisa Devlin 1265 Montecito Ave., Mountain View; 650-428-0950. lisadevlin.com

Vietnamese Restaurant Xanh Restaurant (see Fusion Restaurant)

Dance Studio Western Ballet 914 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View; 650-968-4455. westernballet.org

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Coffee House (Independent) Red Rock Coffee Company 201 Castro St., Mountain View; 650967-4473. redrockcoffee.org

Bakery Alexander’s Patisserie 209 Castro St., Mountain View; 1-650864-9999. alexanderspatisserie.com

Fine Dining La Fontaine 186 Castro St., Mountain View; 650968-2300. lafontainerestaurant.com

Bar Steins Beer Garden 895 Villa St., Mountain View; 650963-9568. steinsbeergarden.com/ mountainview

Fusion Restaurant Xanh Restaurant 110 Castro St., Mountain View; 650964-1888. xanhrestaurant.com

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Burger Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler 615 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-967-0851. clarkes.com

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Burrito La Costeña 235 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View; 650-967-0507. costena.com

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Mediterranean Restaurant Cafe Baklava 341 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-969-3835. cafebaklavamountainview.us

Deli/Sandwich Dittmer’s Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus 4540 El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-941-3800. dittmers.com

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Mexican Restaurant Vive Sol 2020 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-938-2020

Noodle Place Queen House 273 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-960-0580

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Middle Eastern Restaurant Ephesus 185 Castro St., Mountain View; 650625-8155. ephesusrestaurant.net

Pearl Tea Tea Era 271 Castro St., Mountain View; 650969-2899. teaeracafe.com

New Restaurant QBB — Quality Bourbons & Barbecue 216 Castro St., Mountain View; 650969-1112. eatqbb.com

Pizza Amici’s 790 Castro St., Mountain View; 650961-6666. amicis.com/mountain-view

Indian Restaurant Amber India 600 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-968-1751. amber-india. com/mountain-view Italian Restaurant La Fontaine (see Fine Dining)

Patio/Outdoor Dining Bierhaus 383 Castro St., Mountain View; 650395-8209. bierha.us Place for a Business Lunch La Fontaine (see Fine Dining) Seafood Seafood Pacific Catch 545 San Antonio Road, Suite 34, Mountain View; 650-941-1810. pacificcatch.com Sushi/Japanese Restaurant Sushi Tomi 635 W. Dana St., Mountain View; 650-968-3227. sushitomi.com Thai Restaurant Amarin Thai 174-176 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-988-9323. amarinthaicuisine.com

Produce Mountain View Farmers Market 600 W. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View; 800-806-3276. cafarmersmkts.com/ mountain-view-farmers-market Small (Non-chain) Grocery Store Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli 340 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-961-5652

SERVICES Auto Body Repair Bedford Auto Company 2145 Old Middlefield Way, Suite A, Mountain View; 650-961-4100. bedfordautobody.com Auto Repair The Car Doctor 710 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto; 650492-6853. autorepairmountainviewca. com

RETAIL Bike Shop Cognition Cyclery 903 Castro St., Mountain View; 650486-1955. cognitioncyclery.com Bookstore Books Inc. 317 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-428-1234. booksinc.net/ mountainview Boutique Therapy 250 Castro St., Mountain View; 65069 911 1186 86. therapystores.com th herrap a yssto t re res. s.co coom 691-1186.

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Bierhaus was tapped as the top spot for outdoor dining by Best of Mountain View voters.

Breakfast/Brunch With a large menu ranging from pasta dishes to savory crepes, Crepevine has proved popular among Voice readers. Co-owner Majed Fakhouri points to the Tuscany crepe, made with chicken breast, sauteed vegetables and pesto, as a longtime favorite.

This summer, a myriad of smoothies, along with a few vegetable-based drinks, will be added to the menu as a refreshing option.

300 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-969-6878. crepevine.com

“Customers like our community vibe, and the fact that everything we do — coffee, art, music — is centered around relationships and people,” says manager Tyler Toy. 201 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-967-4473. redrockcoffee.org

Fine Dining Restaurant, Italian Restaurant, Place for a Business Lunch La Fontaine is so popular with Voice readers, it’s taken top place in three categories this year. According to staffers, the beef Wellington and seafood pappardelle are popular dishes among its customers. Live music every Saturday night adds to the overall ambiance of this restaurant, which serves a refined menu of Italian and French cuisine.

186 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-968-2300. lafontainerestaurant.com Fusion Restaurant, Vietnamese Restaurant Xanh Restaurant has won two awards this year, and for good reason. Consisting

Lively cartoon sketches drawn by accomplished Indian cartoonist Sudhir Talang greet customers when they enter Amber India. “It has a relaxed and fun atmosphere with a contemporary setting,” according to the website. This longtime local favorite, known for its elevated Indian cuisine in general and its butter chicken specifically, also offers banquet services for weddings, corporate events, fundraisers and other celebrations.

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Try all varieties of this season’s delicately cultivated • peaches • blackberries • plums • blueberries • pluots • corn • nectarines • heirloom • strawberries • tomatoes

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Chinese Restaurant Following a motto of “treat every day like it is grand opening day,” Chef Chu’s has won over readers with its homemade potstickers and annual Chinese New Year festivities.

Serena Williams, Steve Young, Justin Bieber and JFK Jr. are among the customers to have dined at Chef Chu’s since its opening in 1970. The Beijing duck, cooked in a cast-iron Chinese oven, is one of the most popular dishes.

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

of a patio, a bar and lounge, as well as three different dining rooms, this modern Vietnamese restaurant serves a considerable selection of food. The pineapple beef short ribs, banana leaf sea bass and papaya salad are among the signature options.

110 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-964-1888. xanhrestaurant.com

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Mediterranean Restaurant When asked what makes Cafe Baklava stand out, one staff member said, “Why not?” Serving customers since 2005, this Mediterranean restaurant offers a wide array of fresh, homemade dishes, including kuzu kebabs and lamb moussaka.

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Mexican Restaurant Vive Sol has charmed hungry customers with its authentic Mexican cuisine. The mole poblano — consisting of sundried peppers, cocoa beans, herbs, nuts, spices and chicken breast — is the must-order dish, according to Tripadvisor.

The family behind Vive Sol also runs La Fiesta Restaurant in Mountain View, Palo Alto Sol and Quinto Sol in Redwood City.

2020 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-938-2020 Middle Eastern Restaurant Its name inspired by an ancient Greek city off the coast of Ionia, Ephesus brings Middle Eastern food to Mountain View with marinated meats, fresh vegetables, fish and more. This restaurant is family-owned, with father

Mehmet Vural concocting recipes in the kitchen, mother Serife Vural baking homemade bread and brothers Fatih and Galip serving customers.

“Come, sit back, and relax while our family prepares you an authentic Mediterranean meal,” says Galip on their website.

185 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-625-8155. ephesusrestaurant.net New Restaurant

Wafting throughout the streets of downtown Mountain View, the smell of barbecue attracts many customers to QBB — Quality Bourbons & Barbecue, according to co-founder Jon Andino. True to its name, the restaurant holds regular events pairing five-course dinners with five bourbons — the next one features Old Forester and is set for the end of July.

216 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-969-1112. eatqbb.com

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Pacific Catch netted the award for best seafood restaurant.

Patio/Outdoor Dining It is no surprise that Bierhaus won Mountain View’s best patio/outdoor dining.

With Stout — the restaurant’s designated beer cart dog — roaming around outside, there is a lot to love about this local downtown eatery.

Notable dishes include the sausage and pretzel plate, as well as the garlic-Parmesan sweet potato fries.

383 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-395-8209. bierha.us Seafood Open seven days a week,

Pacific Catch has hooked residents who named it Mountain View’s best place for seafood. This restaurant offers a full bar, patio dining, take-out, catering platters, event space and happy hour Monday through Friday. Hawaiian poke, sushi rolls and tacos are among the

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dishes almost seem too good to be true — and customers agree. Though words such as “chicken” and “pork” make an appearance on the menu, every dish at this familyowned restaurant with Chinese roots is completely vegan, made without meat, eggs or dairy.

1245 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-254-1688. gardenfresh.us

many meals that bring customers back for more.

545 San Antonio Road, Suite 34, Mountain View; 650-9411810. pacificcatch.com Sushi/Japanese Restaurant Sushi Tomi’s devotion to classic Japanese sushi makes it a standout for Voice readers.

Now open for weekend lunch, this top vote-getter provides a seemingly limitless menu of meals; however, if too many options overwhelm you, order “Omasake” for a sampling of the chef’s choice of the day’s best offerings.

635 W. Dana St., Mountain View; 650-968-3227. sushitomi.com Thai Restaurant Winning best Thai restaurant every year since 1999, Amarin Thai has continued the tradition by being voted

No. 1 among readers. Allured by the plethora of curry dishes varying from green curry to golden curry with cauliflower, customers have indulged at this Thai restaurant for nearly 30 years since its opening in 1990.

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This year marks the 22nd time Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler has been voted Mountain View’s best burger. Opened in 1945, this family-owned restaurant has captured the hearts of readers with its extensive condiment bar, which includes sauerkraut, pickles, relish, onions, alfalfa sprouts and more. Cooking with charcoal instead of gasoline, manager Mila Perez says that orders such as the baconand-cheese burger have more

of a smoky, outdoor flavor.

Tater tots have also been recently introduced to the already substantial menu.

615 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-9670851. clarkes.com Burrito In a city with a lot of good burrito joints, it takes a lot to stand out in the crowd. La Costeña has done just that, winning over readers with its chico, regular and super burritos. It also holds the Guiness World Record for the largest burrito.

235 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View; 650-9670507. costena.com Deli/Sandwich

Dittmer’s Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus has reeled in customers with its newly revamped sandwich menu and fresh meat selection.

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According to staff members, the hot pastrami with provolone, as well as the smoked turkey breast with avocado and jack cheese sandwich, are among the most popular choices for its hungry patrons.

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This is the 22nd time Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler has been named the best place for a burger.

House has been serving locals since 1988. Though the beef stew clay pot continues to be a best-seller, owner Cindy Lee encourages patrons to try the pork belly bun, which is topped with peanuts, vegetables and cilantro, and was inspired by a recipe found on a Food Network program. A dim sum menu is available on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Pearl Tea Owner Cindy Lee accredits Tea Era’s prosperity to the classic Taiwanese taste of its milk teas as well as the chewy, tender boba that is high in demand. The roasted barley milk tea is a signature drink, although taro milk tea is quickly becoming a fan favorite.

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Gelato Classico has been awarded Mountain View’s best ice cream/frozen yogurt for 18 consecutive years, thanks to its creamy gelatos and refreshing sorbettos. The bavarian mint and coconutmacadamia nut gelatos are among the options for downtown customers looking to escape the heat this summer.

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Bringing the East Coast to Silicon Valley, Amici’s has once again grabbed readers’ attention with its mouthwatering thin crust pizza that is “inspired by the traditional,

Italian brick oven pizzas of New England,” according to its website. This eatery offers an all-day happy hour every Monday and free delivery.

There is even a robot made

by Bear Robotics that works in the dining room every Tuesday night, according to president Peter Cooperstein.

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The Mountain View farmers market has been going since 1992, and locals cannot get enough of it. With 110 vendors, residents can browse a wide wvariety of produce, including hybrid fruits such as pluots (half apricot and half plum), pecotums (peach, apricot, and plum), and cherums (cherry and plum). “It doesn’t get fresher than the Mountain View farmers market,” says market manager Kayla Hayden of the fruits and vegetables found there. The market is open every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Western Ballet was voted best dance studio.

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Owners of The Car Doctor point to excellent customer service as the reason behind the company’s growing popularity among Voice readers.

Opened in 2009, this business makes educating customers about their car a priority, according to staff. Tune-ups, engine diagnostics and suspension repairs are among the many services that this shop provides.

710 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto; 650492-6853. autorepairmountainviewca .com Chiropractor Having been in private practice since 1993, Lisa Devlin is clearly doing something right as clients voted her

Open 363 days of the year, Western Ballet is a nonprofit organization that for 42 years has offered classes and training to youth aged 3-18 as well as to adults looking to improve their dance technique. “Western Ballet continues to produce and bring the art of ballet to the Mountain View community every year through new and exciting performances, as well as offering classes to all ages and levels,” says marketing and production coordinator Emily Wirtz.

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Founded in 1981 by then 22-yearold Greg Bedford, Bedford Auto Company is still winning the admiration of locals.

Thirty-seven years after its establishment, Bedford still works on each of his customer’s cars himself. “I treat each vehicle as if it were my own,” says Bedford.

Bedford Auto is also home to Bella, a Shih Tzu poodle mix who roams the premises.

2145 Old Middlefield Way, Suite A, Mountain View; 650961-4100. bedfordautobody.com

Mountain View’s best chiropractor this year. As stated on her website, Dr. Devlin is the only chiropractor in the Mountain View area to offer Class IV laser therapy. She also uses the activator method, which according to Dr. Devlin, is “a comfortable and very effective form of chiropractic with no ‘cracking’ or ‘popping.’”

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takes pride in catering to a diverse community, staff says. Having been in business for over six years, this grocery store values customer input and customer service. And with shelves stocked to the brim, this store puts the mighty in “small but mighty.”

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756 California Ave., Suite B, Mountain View; 650-969-6077. dentalfabulous.com

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Dry Cleaners Open for five years, Vogue Cleaners has captured Mountain View’s prize for best dry cleaners by offering an affordable place for customers to get their clothes cleaned and neatly folded, staff members say. Starting at just $1.95, dress

shirts are the most popular item that customers bring in, and Vogue also offers alterations and mending services.

595 Escuela Ave., Mountain View; 650-967-3954 Fitness Classes, Gym, Yoga The combination of youth

sports, swim lessons, summer camps, and health programs contribute to El Camino YMCA’s overwhelming popularity among readers. The Y is the only gym on the West Coast to offer a fully integrated cloud-connected training system known as eGym, and will also provide a free afterschool basketball program to students at Mariano Castro Elementary School this fall.

“Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our mission and as a community organization, we strive to strengthen the mind, body and spirit for all,” says TaLeiza Calloway-Appleton, the marketing and communications coordinator.

2400 Grant Road, Mountain View; 650-969-9622. elcaminoymca.org Hair Salon Upon entering Essence Salon, customers may be greeted by a group of skilled hairstylists, including someone who recently graduated from the Sassoon 44-week cosmetology

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Owners have also developed an extensive wine program that can be enjoyed on an outdoor patio that Azpeitia says is like “transporting Napa” to the Peninsula.

840 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-964-1700. hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com

La Monique’s Nail Salon According to Voice readers, La Monique’s Nail Salon has earned a spot on the Best of Mountain View list as a result of the countless services that it provides. Manicures, pedicures, waxing, mani-pedis and sugaring — a method of hair removal — are all provided to clients, according to information on the MyTime app. Ombre nails, a trend that has become popular in recent years, are also being offered.

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Happy Feet Foot Spa For $25, Happy Feet Foot Spa provides affordable massages that use reflexology techniques to “stimulate specific reflex areas on the feet and hands with the intention of invoking a beneficial response in other parts of the body,” according to their website.

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“All of our artists undergo extensive training in the salon,” says manager Ting Li. Hair treatments using Kerastase and Olaplex are just two of the unique services this beauty shop offers.

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for 1-3 hours a week, trainers develop a plan that ensures that people can accomplish their goals. According to general manager Tara Marple, a Polar Heart Rate Zone system has recently been installed, allowing staff members to track a client’s heart rate during a workout. “This really helps us to keep clients in various zones that are targeted to their needs without pushing them out of fat burning and (avoiding) potential injury or burnout,” Marple says.

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With GX24 studio classes, personal trainers, and a gym full of exercise equipment, 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport pushes clients to follow the message found on its website of “Do more, Mountain View.”

Even children are welcome to participate at this location through a program called “Kids’ Club,” where little ones can play with friends while parents and guardians break a sweat during a workout.

2535 California St., Mountain View; 650-935-9064.

24hourfitness.com Pet Care Pet owners want to ensure that their furry friends receive the best possible care. Adobe Animal Hospital has put people’s minds at ease since opening its doors in 1964. Accepting appointments Monday through Saturday, this animal hospital offers a place for customers to pick up prescriptions or other products for their pets that are handselected by staff members,

Shoe Repair Ruining a beloved pair of shoes can be disheartening. Model Shoe Repair makes sure that your favorite footwear gets more mileage before heading into retirement. Specializing in fixing high heels, this shop has helped customers since 1999, and is Voice readers’ favorite place for repairs.

621 W. Dana St., Mountain View; 650-961-8389

Bike Shop Cognition Cyclery brings one of America’s favorite pastimes to life through the many services that it offers. Whether it be a simple tuneup, a bike fitting or a buying a new bicycle, this shop, open since 2010, works with customers to ensure that their needs are being met. The weekly “Cog Road Ride” invites clients to ride with Cognition Cyclery staff for 30-35 miles each Saturday.

903 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-486-1955. cognitioncyclery.com

Bookstore Dating back to 1851, Books Inc. has developed into a wellknown Bay Area bookstore chain. It’s had a branch on Castro Street in Mountain View since 2001, moving a few doors down from its former space last year. Aside from its large children’s section, this shop partners with Red Rock Coffee to provide a weekly service called “Wednesday Storytime” for kids ages 5 and under.

A “Pages and Podcasts Book Club” was started in May and is held every first Monday of the month for those wanting to participate in a discussion based on a selected podcast’s theme.

317 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-428-1234. booksinc.net/mountainview Boutique, Store for Unusual Gifts There are not many stores that sell clothing and jewelry in the same place as vintage furniture; however Therapy does just that. Offering a diverse assortment of items, this family-owned shop has been a reader favorite for years. “We have been built from the ground up on the understanding that everyone needs a place that makes them feel good about themselves and the world around them,” Therapy’s website says. The store donates of 1 percent of its sales to local food banks and charities such as Second Harvest Food Bank and the Sonoma Relief Fund.

250 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-691-1186. therapystores.com Florist Fleur De Lis, a familyowned and operated

business for 33 years, offers a tasteful and fragrant array of buds, blooms and foliage for all occasions. From prom corsages and romantic bouquets to striking tropical f lower arrangements and tasteful sympathy wreaths, this local florist can handle it all.

811 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-968-0220. fdlflowers.com Hardware Store VERONICA WEBER

Whether for cutting glass, mixing paint or repairing windows, it is no wonder readers voted Blossom True Value Hardware Mountain View’s best hardware store.

Open since 1973, this familyowned shop carries “a little bit of everything,� according to staff. From houseware and small appliances to power tools and automotive supplies, you can probably find it at Blossom True Value Hardware.

1297 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650-9647871. truevalue.com/blossom

Mojitos, margaritas and sangria are among the beverage options at Cascal, voted best happy hour hangout.

Happy Hour Mojitos, margaritas and Cascal mules are only a few of the specialty drinks that are served at Cascal during happy hour, which is held Monday through Friday from 3:30-6 p.m. This pan-Latin restaurant in downtown Mountain View offers spacious bar seating in a casual setting, as well as indoor and outdoor dining with food inspired by the

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For its blend of tranquility and fun, readers picked Shoreline Lake as a great place to take a date. With an array of watercrafts for rent (including paddleboats, kayaks, canoes, and rowboats), as well as a restaurant that offers a seasonallybased menu, this is the perfect NATALIA NAZAROVA place to share a summer adventure. Learn to sail or windsurf Shoreline Park is the best place in town to take a visitor, according on the lake, or wind your way to readers. along its trails on foot or by Place to Take a Visitor bike. And if you’re looking for Amphitheatre this summer. a bite to eat, American Bistro With a 22,500 capacity limit, has a number of breakfast and this open-air venue has a Originally a landfill, Shorelunch offerings (plus brunch sound system fit for blasting line Park has come a long on weekends), and sells picnic music (just ask the neigh- way. Open since 1983, the baskets for sharing with that bors) as well as large screens park offers a beautiful view of special someone. for those sitting in the lawn the San Francisco Bay, houses 3160 N Shoreline Blvd., Moun- area. Throughout its 32-year the historic Rengstorff House tain View; 650-965-7474. existence, the amphitheatre and offers a wildlife area that shorelinelake.com has not only attracted some of home to rare birds like the the entertainment industry’s burrowing owl. The popular Place for Live Music biggest names, but has also 750-acre site attracts joggers, become a favorite spot for kite-flyers, golfers, windsurfers and cyclists.

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lice’s Smokehouse in Mountain View can’t compete with Austin’s famed Franklin Barbeque or Memphis’ Central BBQ — barbecue is a culinary religion in the South. Aficionados queue up for hours outside their favorite barbecue joints, where locomotive-size smokers are stoked around the clock with a halfdozen different types of wood.

What Alice’s does have, though, is fork-tender smoked meats, some of which are slowcooked overnight, infusing them with just the right amount of hickory smoke.

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, a franchise operator out of Texas, closed at the Shoreline Boulevard space last fall. It

reopened in February as Alice’s Smokehouse, an upgraded version of its predecessor. Owners Alice Kao and husband Robert Edwards are both software engineers who hail from the aerospace industry. Edwards is still engaged in aerospace while Kao runs the restaurant.

Edwards’ family roots are in Kentucky. He tapped into old family recipes for both cooking technique and concocting sauces. Edwards said he created a classic Memphis-style sauce with tomato paste, vinegar and mustard. Memphis-style sauces are thinner than Texas sauces and have a sweet-sour tang.

He said the sauce was a little too thin for local tastes, so he thickened it while retaining the

classic Memphis-style flavor.

He’s working on a new, spicier sauce that incorporates habañero chili peppers — a decidedly West Coast addition.

The owners smoke their meats with hickory, a mediumstrength smoking wood that is great for pork and stands up to beef. Smoking meat is an art.

Home chefs often over-smoke, but barbecue is supposed to be about the meat, not the smoke.

Alice’s has mastered the art.

The meats had an initial tease of smoke on the palate, then the complex meat flavors took center stage.

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Robert Edwards, who co-owns Alice’s with his wife, prepares an Angus beef brisket smoker sandwich on July 11.

links and poultry. Unexpected were the delicious Smoker Bowls — four choices of meat, poultry or fish over a base of rice or mac and cheese, and choice of vegetable ($9.95 to $13.95.) I chose pulled pork with rice and fried cauliflower ($9.95.) It was plenty to eat and I could add as much sauce as I wanted. The pork was tender and moist with that hint of smokiness — and who knew quick-fried cauliflower could be so good?

Speaking of sides, the mac and cheese was just what I had hoped: hot and stringy with a strong taste of real cheese. The barbecue beans were thick with the sweetness of brown sugar or molasses. The coleslaw was crisp and not overburdened with mayonnaise. Other sides include mashed potatoes, green beans, and smoked corn. All sides are available in 5-ounce, pint, quart and party tray sizes ($3 to $36.)

The hot link sandwich ($9.95) used a soft bun piled high with sausage, onions and all the accoutrements. The side of fried onions ($2) made for a tempting, though not particularly healthconscious, meal.

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Weekend pound ($4.50 to $20.) The brisket and pulled pork were juicy, savory, tender and not mushy.

The chicken was fine and the turkey was surprisingly good — moist and delicate with just the right balance of smokiness.

The pork ribs were fall-off-thebone tender, with a salty, smoky bark on the outside and just enough fat to imbue flavor that melded nicely with the smoke.

Ribs are available as a quarter, half or full rack (three, six or 12 ribs, respectively, $7.95 to $28.95).

If possible, leave room for the homemade sweet potato pie ($3.50 slice, $19 whole pie). Think of it as off-season pumpkin pie: same spices, creamier texture.

Alice’s Smokehouse isn’t competing with the great barbecue meccas in Austin, Memphis and Kansas City, but it’s not trying to.

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subplots could well come from a weekly episode of the 1980s CBS TV series on which these films are based, but the best aspects of “The Equalizer 2” are cinematic in scale: a standout stunt sequence involving a truly dangerous backseat driver, a ghost-town climax that evokes a Western showdown, and Washington himself, whose subtleties elevate the dopey material to Threat Level Watchable.

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imperatives of justice, and where lines should be drawn. In practice, “The Equalizer” answers these questions with an Old Testament zeal: evil must be smoted by selfappointed good men. The closest the film gets to a philosophical statement is the negative example of the bad guy, a nihilist who insists, “There are no good or bad people anymore. No enemies.

There is no sin. No virtue.”

There’s one example of positive virtue signaling: McCall remains a voracious reader, and the first book spotted in his hands is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” a reflection on the social and institutional threats to African-Americans throughout our history. More so than the cheap inclusion of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” (a nod to McCall’s haunted memory of his late wife), Coates’ book has thematic relevance here, partly in looking askance at institutions like “The Agency” and more directly by teeing up one of the film’s corny subplots, McCall’s paternal mentoring of an otherwise wayward black youth (Ashton Sanders of “Moonlight”).

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Fuqua directed Washington to a Best Actor Oscar in 2001’s “Training Day,” and while the “Equalizer” films don’t offer that kind of juicy material, it’s clear enough that each man feels in good hands with the other. Washington reprises his role as Robert McCall, an ex-CIA agent who faked his death and went underground but just can’t help himself from being a supreme do-gooder wherever and whenever he sees injustice.

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around Boston, McCall runs into trouble enough to keep him busy locally, but as the film’s opening sequence demonstrates, he’ll go as far as Turkey to recover a kidnapped child if no one else will.

McCall remains a fastidious brute who times his beat downs on his digital watch, an unintentional symbol of how the “Equalizer” films smugly relish violence.

When someone questions one of his acts of goodness, McCall explains, “Anyone could do it, but nobody does.” As McCall’s helpful agency contact (Melissa Leo) tells him, “It’s great helping all these random people and everything, but it’s not gonna fill that hole in your heart,” adding, “I’m the only friend you’ve got.” Soon, McCall must avenge someone not so random, a task that finds him seeking help from old kill-team cohorts like Dave York (Pedro Pascal of “Game of Thrones”).

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com/Aquariuspa

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Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp

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Q HIGHLIGHT FAMILY ARTS DAY The Community School of Music and Arts will hold a Family Arts Day, which will include an instrument “petting zoo,” art projects, digital art demonstrations and live performances from CSMA music students. July 22, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org/events

THEATER Nevertheless They Persisted: Euripides’ Hecuba/Helen Stanford Repertory Theater will perform “Nevertheless They Persisted,” an adaptation of Euripides’ Hecuba and Helen. July 26, 8-9:55 p.m. $15$25; discount for students and unemployed.

Roble Studio Theater, 375 Santa Teresa St., Stanford. arts.stanford.edu/event

CONCERTS New Overture Concerts: Haydn and DvoĖák Plus Post-Concert Wine Reception Music@Menlo will inaugurate the new series of Overture concerts, in which International Program artists will collaborate with established chamber musicians. There will be a free post-concert wine reception. July 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $32. Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. Search meetup.com for more info.

Summer Jazz 32nd Anniversary Concert Series Stanford Shopping Center hosts weekly rhythm and blues concerts showcasing a variety of jazz musicians and local favorites in the courtyard between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel. Thursdays through August 23, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. simon. com/mall/stanford-shopping-center 311 & The Offspring: Never-ending Summer Tour This outdoor concert features the bands 311, The Offspring and Gym Class Heroes. July 25, 7 p.m. $29-$85. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View.

Halsey: hopeless fountain kingdom American alt-pop singer Halsey will perform as part of her “hopeless fountain kingdom” tour. July 27, 8 p.m. $27.50-$750. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/events for more info.

Weezer/Pixies Alt-rock bands Weezer and Pixies will play classic hits and new tracks on their co-headlining summer tour. July 22, 7-10 p.m. $29-$2352. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/events for more info.

Carte Blanche Concert III: Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park Husband-andwife duo Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park will present pieces of Beethoven and Boccherini, Russian cellist and composer Karl Davidoff, John Field and Chopin’s Introduction and Polonaise.

July 22, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $35-$82.

Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. musicatmenlo.org Concert Program IV: Leipzig Music@ Menlo musicians will perform pieces written by composers who lived in Leipzig, Germany.

Performers include contralto Sara Couden, harpsichordist Gil Kalish, violinist Alexi Kenney, violists Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer, cellists David Requiero and Keith Robinson and others. July 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $35-$82; discount for attendees under 30. The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, 555 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. musicatmenlo.org Encounter II: Leipzig and Berlin Led by Ara Guzelimian, Music@Menlo’s second part of its summer “Encounter” series will focus on the musical history of the German cities Leipzig and Berlin. July 20, 7:30 p.m. $25-$52.

Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. musicatmenlo.org Regina Carter & Xavier Davis: Duos and Quartet Accompanied by her longtime keyboardist Xavier Davis, jazz violinist Regina Carter will perform both as a duo and as a quartet with rhythm section. July 21, 8-9:30 p.m. $15-$59. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford. Search events.stanford. edu for more info.

Classic Albums Live Fleetwood Mac: ‘Rumours’ Band Classic Albums Live will play Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” from cover

to cover. July 20, 7-9 p.m. $40. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. Search events. stanford.edu for more info.

Classical Guitarist Yuri Liberzon Yuri Liberzon will perform classical guitar. July 26, 7 p.m.-midnight. $10; Free for members. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto.

Concert Program III: St. Petersburg Music@Menlo will present music from St. Petersburg and explore Russian musical culture.

Performers will include Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova, Met Opera tenor Kang Wang, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra oboist Stephen Taylor, violinists Aaron Boyd and Arnaud Sussmann and others. $20-$72. The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, 555 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. musicatmenlo.org Concert Program IV: Leipzig Music@ Menlo will perform music from composers who resided in Leipzig, Germany, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Performers include contralto Sara Couden, harpsichordist Gil Kalish, violinist Alexi Kenney, violists Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer and cellists David Requiero and Keith Robinson. July 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $35-$82; discount for those under age 30.

Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. musicatmenlo.org Encounter III: Budapest and Vienna Scholar John R. Hale makes his Music@Menlo debut, leading the season’s final Encounter — an exploration of two Central European capitals. July 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25-$52.

Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. musicatmenlo.org Keith Urban & Kelsea Ballerini Country artist Keith Urban will be joined by country-pop singer Kelsea Ballerini. July 20, 7-10 p.m. $60$830. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/ events for more info.

Music at Tateuchi Concerts Community School of Music and Arts will present a series of free concerts featuring the faculty and students of the Music at Tateuchi program. Music at Tateuchi is a summer program offering high level training to intermediate and advanced string players and pianists selected by video audition.

July 21, 2 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org/events Paramore & Foster the People Paramore will perform as a part of their “The After Laughter Summer Tour,” joined by alt-indie band Foster The People. July 21, 7-10 p.m. $39$1200. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/ events for more info.

MUSIC Sing & Play Along Ukulele Participants will learn how to play ukulele; classes take place on the fourth Monday of every month. July 23, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/ librarycalendar Sing Along to Handel’s Messiah Shulamit Hoffmann, Artistic Director of Viva La Musical, will conduct a performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” The concert is part of Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley’s six-week Summer Sings program. July 23, 7:30 p.m. Free-$17; Students under 25 are free. Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos. scholacantorum.org

FESTIVALS & FAIRS 38th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Dozens of films from artists around the world will be shown as part of the 38th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

The world premiere of Roberta Grossman’s “Who Will Write Our History” will kick off the Palo Alto screenings on July 21 at 6:15 p.m.

July 21-26, times vary. $14-$15 per movie.

CineArts Theatre in Palo Alto, 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. jfi.org/sfjff-2018

TALKS & LECTURES Dr. Paul Seward at Books Inc. Palo Alto Emeritus member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians Dr. Paul Seward will discuss his memoir, “Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room.” July 20, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event Artists Talk at Palo Alto Art Center Local artists will give short talks about their work presented in the Palo Alto Art Center’s current exhibition “Paper Cuts: Large-Scale Collage.” Artists, including Efren Alvarez, Laura Deem, Benicia Gantner, John Hundt and Mary Anne Kluth will talk about their artwork and techniques. July 22, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. cityofpaloalto.org

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS Pace Gallery Opening Reception for Tim Hawkinson Pace Gallery will host an opening reception for artist Tim Hawkinson’s first solo exhibition in Palo Alto. July 25, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Pace Gallery, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. pacegallery.com/artists

Language Swap The Mountain View Public Library will host a language swap, an opportunity for interested participants to help others speak their native language and practice a new language themselves. All levels and languages are welcome. Every Thursday, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.gov/librarycalendar

OUTDOOR RECREATION Volunteer at Arastradero Preserve Support ongoing efforts to increase wildlife habitat at Arastradero Preserve by planting native plants, removing invasive plants, creating habitat structures and more. July 28, 9 a.m.-noon. Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, 1530 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Search eventbrite.com for more info.

Drop-In Bike Clinic Professional bike mechanic Ryan Murphy will be available for assistance with any bike-related issues.

July 21, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and every third Saturday of the month through December.

Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View.

SPORTS Tennis MVTC July Team Tennis Tournament For its July competition, the Mountain View Tennis Club will organize a one-day team tennis event, open to all adult levels. Newcomers and non-members are welcome. No partner needed; club will organize teams. Breakfast, lunch and prizes included. Visit www.mvtc.net to register. July 21, 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m. $10-$15. Rengstorff Park Tennis Courts, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View. mvtc.net

HOME & GARDEN Summer Maintenance of your Small Fruit Trees Lay the groundwork for next year’s fruit crop by learning how to water, fertilize, prune and care for your fruit trees this summer. The class is led by instructor Jeff Scroggin and includes a presentation, Q&A time and a tour of the fruit trees at Gamble Garden. July 21, 9:30-11:30 a.m. $25-$35.

Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverly St., Palo Alto. gamblegarden.org/event

DANCE Hustle The Lucie Stern Ballroom will hold beginning and intermediate hustle dance lessons. Lessons for beginners start at 6:45 p.m. and intermediate lessons begin at 7:45 p.m. Lessons are followed by a dance party which will feature a wide variety of dance music.

July 25, 6:45-9:45 p.m. Free-$10. Lucie Stern Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. cubberleyballroom.com Zohar Performance Series Premiere Ten different dance companies and choreographers will collaborate to showcase various dance styles from contemporary ballet to jazz to Afro-Brazilian dance. Featured artists will include: eMotion Arts, Zohar Dance Company, Aguas Dance Company, ArtistEDGE, Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble, Selina Chih, Erwin Columbus, Mario Barron and Dacia Biletnikoff and Jen Costillo. July 21, 8-9:30 p.m. $20-$30.

Zohar Studio Theater, 4000 Middlefield Road, Building L, Room 4, Palo Alto. Search facebook. com/events for more info.

FILM I Will Survive: Profiles in Courage The Stanford Pegasus Physician Writers will honor Rebecca Hall, metastatic breast cancer patient and advocate for funding and research. The group will show the short film Bare and read works by Stanford physician Jessica Les, medical student Paige Qin, and Medicine & the Muse’s Jacqueline Genovese. July 26, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa, Palo Alto.

FOOD & DRINK Shoots & Roots Bitters Workshop at Hidden Villa Shoots & Roots promotes biodiversity through research, teaching and the creation of science-based botanical blends that draw from ecology, cultural practices and flavors around the world. Learn the history and cultural relevance of bitters, explore the aromatic side of Hidden Villa’s native and cultivated flora and aspects of their traditional use. July 28, 2-4 p.m. $50. Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. hiddenvilla.org/calendar

LESSONS & CLASSES ESL Conversation Club The Mountain View Library will hold a conversation club for English as a Second Language speakers.

People from all levels who are seeking to learn or improve their spoken English are welcome to join. Every Tuesday, 5-6 p.m.

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Church Office Manager/Part Time Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Opening: Routes available to deliver the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto and Menlo Park on Fridays. From approx. 750 to 1,750 papers, 8.75 cents per paper.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement TOO MANY TREES LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643278 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Too Many Trees LLC, located at 317 Cypress Point Drive, 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): ERIC NEHRLICH 317 Cypress Point Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/22/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 11, 2018.

(MVV June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 2018) SOLANO AT MOFFETT APARTMENTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643192 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Solano At Moffett Apartments, located at 655 Lynwood Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LYNWOOD MTNVIEW, LLC 84 West Santa Clara St. Suite 680 San Jose, CA 95113 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/07/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 7, 2018.

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LIFESPAN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643851 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as:

CID CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643791 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: CID Consulting, located at 292 Monroe Drive, 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): LAWRENCE REDICAN 292 Monroe Drive Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/27/2009.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 26, 2018.

(MVV July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) ISLAMIC CENTER OF MOUNTAIN VIEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644091 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Islamic Center Of Mountain View, located at 361 Villa St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ABDUS-SALAM BOON 585 Mountain View Rd. Santa Cruz, CA 95065 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/18/2017.

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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MOLLIE ANN JONES Case No.: 18PR183808 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MOLLIE ANN JONES. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RANDY HOWARD JONES in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: RANDY HOWARD JONES 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 September 6, 2018 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: Jan Cummins and Brigitte Binkert 411 Borel Avenue, Suite 600 San Mateo, California 94402 (650) 342-2670 (MVV July 6, 13, 20, 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RACHEL MEGAN TAYLOR Case No.: 18PR183641 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RACHEL MEGAN TAYLOR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MILES R. TAYLOR in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: MILES R. TAYLOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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 August 10, 2018 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: Jessica J. Poyner 16450 Los Gatos Boulevard, Suite 216 Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408) 358-1900 (MVV July 13, 20, 27, 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WEL CHONG SIM Case No.: 18PR183715 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WEL-CHONG SIM, BEN WEL CHONG SIM. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: WEE LIN SIM in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: WEE LIN SIM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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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 August 29, 2018 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: Shirley Tam 95 South Market Street, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 977-7766 (MVV July 13, 20, 27, 2018)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (SEC 6104,6105 U.C.C.) Escrow No. 211112 Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below.

The name and business address of the seller is: MERPI MANAGEMENT, INC., 25590 SEABOARD LANE, HAYWARD, CA 94545 The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: SAME As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: NONE The name and business address of the buyer are: SF TIRE AND SERVICE CENTRAL INC., 415 MILITARY E, BENICIA, CA 94510 The assets to be sold are described in general as: FIXED ASSETS (STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT), GOODWILL, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, LEASEHOLD INTEREST AND OTHER BUSINESS PROPERTY and are located at: 215 WEST EL CAMINO REAL, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 The business name used by the seller at that location is: MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDAS #1415 The anticipated date of the bulk sale is: AUGUST 7, 2018 at: UNITED BUSINESS BANK, ESCROW SERVICES DEPT, 500 YGNACIO VALLEY RD, STE 200, WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596.

The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

If so subject, the name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: UNITED BUSINESS BANK, ESCROW SERVICES DEPT, 500 YGNACIO VALLEY RD, STE 200, WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596.

And the last date for filing claims shall be AUGUST 6, 2018, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

SF TIRE AND SERVICE CENTRAL INC. LA2062644 MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE 7/20/18

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS Susan R. Hansen, M.D., Inc., the California professional corporation of Susan R. Hansen, M.D., will be winding up its affairs preparatory for dissolution by end 2018. Anyone having remaining business with Susan R. Hansen, M.D., Inc. should immediately contact the Corporation at: 4546 El Camino Real #B10-406 Los Altos, California 94022 1. All claims against the assets of the Corporation must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date and copies of the original documentation of the claim.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 60 days from the date of publication of this Notice.

3. Any claims that are not received by the Corporation prior to the date set forth above will be barred and shall not be recognized.

4. The Corporation may make distributions to other claimants and the Corporation’s shareholders without further notice.

5. Debtors are requested to pay all outstanding obligations no later than 30 days from the date of this Notice.

Payments should be made to “Susan R. Hansen, M.D., Inc.” 6. All claims and payments must be sent to the Corporation’s designated agent, Peter M. Pollock, V.P., Susan R. Hansen, M.D., Inc., 4546 El Camino Real #B10406, Los Altos, California 94022.

Once the above Los Altos address is no longer active former patients seeking copies of medical records may obtain Dr. Hansen’s public address from the Medical Board of California.

Dr. Hansen very much misses her former patients and colleagues and extends her greetings and best wishes to them.

Signed by: Peter M. Pollock Vice President Susan R. Hansen, M.D., Inc. (MVV July 20, 2018)

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This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): NADJA BREITENSTEIN 1920 Rock Street, Unit 22 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 21, 2018.

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Lifespan, located at 1901 Old Middlefield Road, Suite 21, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SV21 LLC 1901 Old Middlefield Road Suite 21 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/01/2018.

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