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Council votes to allow pot shops in Mountain View DOWNTOWN, SAN ANTONIO AND NORTH BAYSHORE AMONG AREAS WHERE STOREFRONTS CAN OPEN By Kevin Forestieri
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Parents in the San Antonio neighborhood listen to Councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga speak at a meeting in Del Medio Park on Saturday about plans for a new public school campus and playing fields proposed by the Los Altos School District.
San Antonio residents say they want a neighborhood school COMMUNITY MEETING, SURVEY SHOW SUPPORT FOR NEW CAMPUS TO SERVE LOCAL STUDENTS By Kevin Forestieri
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ozens of parents and children packed into Del Medio Park over the weekend to talk about a future vision for Mountain View’s San Antonio neighborhood, with its
own school and expansive open space in a part of the city that currently lacks both. The small, 0.38-acre park — the location of the Sept. 29 community meeting — gets plenty of use by residents in the area who have to make do with the
postage stamp of green space. The San Antonio area, which falls within the Los Altos School District, has one of Mountain View’s worst residents-to-openspace ratios in the city and no See SAN ANTONIO, page 7
Oakland man arrested for alleged rape, strangulation By Kevin Forestieri
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ountain View police arrested an Oakland man on Sept. 27 after identifying him as the suspect in a rape and strangulation Sept. 23, according to a statement by the Mountain View Police Department. On Sunday, Sept. 23, the victim was admitted to a local hospital with visible signs of
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sexual assault, according to the statement. The woman told officers that s he had picked up a friend — Lavel Powell identified as 29 -ye a r- old Lavel Powell — and that he had strangled her until she lost
consciousness and then sexually assaulted her, police said. According to the victim, Powell had called her in the early morning hours Sept. 23 and told her that he needed to be picked up from a business near the intersection of Dale Avenue and El Camino Real in Mountain View, police said. She drove Powell a short distance, See ARREST, page 16
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majority of Mountain View City Council members agreed Tuesday night to allow marijuana retailers to open up shop in Mountain View, parting company with other cities in the county that have sought a ban on the businesses. The 5-2 vote to allow up to four marijuana stores — two storefront shops and two delivery businesses — came after hours of public comments, mostly from people who were opposed and warned that pot shops would ruin the family-friendly feel of the city and bring a wave of crime and drug use. Several speakers carried signs that said “No pot store in MTV” depicting a crossed-out marijuana leaf. Mayor Lenny Siegel and council members Chris Clark, John McAlister, Ken Rosenberg and Pat Showalter voted in favor of the proposal, with Margaret Abe-Koga and Lisa Matichak opposed. The council’s action would allow marijuana retailers, through a conditional use permit, to open up a storefront business in downtown Mountain View, the San Antonio Shopping Center, in North Bayshore and along El Camino Real, as well as in various major shopping centers throughout the city. City Council members agreed not to allow the shops in the Grant Park Plaza, both as a way of appeasing concerns from residents and an acknowledgment of how hard it is to access and park in the plaza. Rosenberg said allowing marijuana stores follows through on a clear mandate by voters in 2016. Nearly two-thirds of Mountain View residents supported Proposition 64, which cleared the way for recreational marijuana in the
state. Detailed election results showed every single precinct in the city at least held a majority in favor of the law. Although many of the 68 public speakers vehemently opposed the idea of pot retailers, he said the city can’t ignore the people who didn’t come to the meeting. “I see an opportunity for the city of Mountain View that extends beyond Mountain View, given that the progressiveness of this city is not shared by some of our neighbors. And yet people who live in those cities are going to enjoy shopping here, as they already do,” Rosenberg said. “As much as I enjoy Cupertino, the city itself has no soul. They try to make a downtown and it’s basically a mall. Mountain View doesn’t have that issue.” Some of the public speakers, however, worried that turning the city into a magnet for recreational marijuana would cause a whole host of problems. Resident Tootoo Thomson told council members that the city isn’t ready for the “new can of worms” that the marijuana retailers will bring, and that the vote on Proposition 64 shouldn’t be conflated with residents wanting the businesses in their backyard. In a statement submitted to the council prior to the meeting, Thompson said the city should follow the example set by neighboring cities and continue the moratorium on marijuana retailers. “Palo Alto, Los Altos and Sunnyvale have not approved to (sic) open any marijuana outlet. Please learn from them. Otherwise the drug addicts, criminals and homeless people will flock to our city,” she said in the statement. See POT SHOPS, page 11
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For the month of October, Gallery 9 will feature exhibitions by two artists. Daniel Meehan’s “Mandalas and Arch Circles” consists of works on paper inspired by arches and similar shapes found in nature, composed in a circular format. Judi Keyani’s “Return to the Garden” reflects Judi’s recurring interest in the garden as a subject: places of natural beauty, pleasure, and renewal. Gallery 9 is located at 143 Main St., Los Altos and is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon4 p.m. An opening reception will be held Friday. Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. Go to gallery9losaltos.com.
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FIVE ARRESTED IN LOS ALTOS Five juveniles were arrested in connection with a residential burglary on Friday afternoon in Los Altos, police said. The burglary was reported at 12:17 p.m. in the 200 block of Galli Drive. Police said a resident saw multiple suspects attempting to forcibly enter a neighbor’s house. Police arrived to see the suspects’ vehicle fleeing the scene and one suspect running away. An officer chased the suspect into a yard but the suspect scaled a fence, according to police. A chase began with the suspects’ vehicle, which police said was stolen. The chase ended when the car crashed into a tree near the intersection of North San Antonio Road and West Edith Avenue. One juvenile in the car was taken into custody without incident and police said no one was injured in the crash. A few minutes later, three suspects were found in a backyard on Angela Drive and also were arrested. The final suspect was located in the 100 block of East Edith Avenue. Police said they are not releasing any information about the suspects because they are minors. —Bay City News Service
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BUILDING OFFICIAL TO LEAD PALO ALTO HOUSING Randy Tsuda, who has served as director of Mountain View’s Community Development Department for the past decade, will be the next president and CEO of Palo Alto Housing, the nonprofit announced Wednesday afternoon. Tsuda will begin his new position on Nov. 14 and will take over a position that has been open since Candice Gonzalez departed in July to join Sand Hill Property Company. The nonprofit has developed several below-market-rate housing complexes in recent years, including a 67-unit complex for veterans and low-income residents in Mountain View and another 67-unit complex Redwood City. It is also currently moving ahead with a proposal to develop 61 units of affordable housing in Palo Alto, on El Camino Real, near Wilton Avenue, with 16 of these units targeting adults with disabilities. In announcing Tsusa’s appointment, Palo Alto Housing board See COMMUNITY BRIEFS, page 11
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A new movie theater is set to open next week in the San Antonio shopping center.
New movie theater promises big-ticket experience VINTAGE WINES, AHI TUNA, HEATED SEATS — OH, AND MOVIES By Mark Noack
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ith leather recliner chairs, digital menus and a full bar and lounge, it might be easy to forget that Mountain View’s newest theater also shows movies. Opening next week, the new ShowPlace Icon theater at the San Antonio shopping center is planning to carve out a niche as a luxury version of the standard multiplex. The new theater will include 10 auditoriums,
including three high-end screens showcasing the latest in viewing technology. The new theater is one of the final pieces of Merlone Geier’s second phase of plans to transform the San Antonio Shopping Center into a livework-play complex. Next door to the new cinema is a towering 400,000-square-foot office that soon will house hundreds of Facebook employees, which the theater’s owners say should provide a reliable
source of business. The luxury movie theater is not a new concept for Mountain View. In a recent remodel, the Century Cinema 16 on Shoreline Boulevard added plush lounge chairs to its theaters. Many other Bay Area cinemas have also updated their concessions stands to serve fancier fare than candy, hot dogs and popcorn. Adding sumptuous amenities See THEATER, page 10
os Altos School District board members agreed last month to set aside $600,000 for a joint effort to create teacher housing in the North County, making it the latest partner in a county-led affordable housing effort aimed at school employees. Trustees unanimously agreed at the Sept. 24 board meeting to set aside the funding to help pay for construction of apartments at 231 Grant Ave. in Palo Alto. The idea is that the apartments would be reserved for teachers in nearby school districts rent at at below-market rates. Potentially, school staff members also could be eligible. Five school districts have been asked to join in and pay for a “share” of the apartments, and two of them — Los Altos School District and Foothill-De Anza Community College District — have agreed to join the partnership so far. The Mountain View Whisman School District, Mountain View-Los Altos High School District and Palo Alto Unified School District have yet to officially weigh in. The rationale behind school employee housing is that teachers and school staff members often find themselves making too much money to qualify for affordable housing in the area, but not nearly enough to pay for market-rate housing. Public support for filling the so-called “missing middle” housing has risen in recent years, particularly
in light of high attrition rates among teachers in Santa Clara County schools. Discussion was limited among Los Altos school board members at the meeting, in part because so many details are still to come. Questions like how many units would be in the complex, how long teachers or other faculty could live there and whether they would get evicted if they quit their teaching job all have yet to be answered. But Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who is spearheading the teacher housing idea, urged trustees not to get hung up on the missing details. While there is no formal proposal yet, he said his goal is for all the partnering school districts to have some kind of investment — in this case $600,000 — and a seat at the table in crafting the framework for how to use the apartments. “It is precisely because I want you to have skin in the game and I want you to be a partner that I want you to accept the superintendent’s recommendation,” Simitian said, referring to Superintendent Jeff Baier. Board member Sangeeth Peruri said joining in on the partnership makes “perfect sense,” while board member Jessica Speiser called supporting the teacher housing idea a “nobrainer.” While it’s unclear where $600,000 will be drawn from the district’s budget, it could come See TEACHER HOUSING, page 11
Achievement gap dominates Mountain View Whisman candidate forum By Kevin Forestieri
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n the four-way race for two seats on the Mountain View Whisman school board, each candidate laid out a vision on Sept. 26 for how to close one of the biggest achievement gaps in the state. The forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters, gave candidates on the November ballot a chance to weigh in on more than 15 questions, ranging from school start times and middle-school scheduling
to underpaid teachers and housing growth. But the critical question dominating the discussion was how to make sure all students — particularly low-income and minority students — are getting a top quality education. The latest round of data by the state shows fewer than half of the district’s Latino kids are meeting state standards in English and even fewer, 39 percent, are meeting standards for math. The figures get worse for kids from low-income families,
and sink like a rock for kids still learning English. A massive database created by Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis found that the district had among the top 20 largest white-Hispanic achievement gaps in the country, though the data does not reflect test scores after 2013. So what should the district do about it? Longtime board member Ellen Wheeler, a staunch advocate for early childhood education, said that the achievement gap starts on
the first day of kindergarten, and that the district needs to invest in “high-quality” preschool for district families. Ideally these services would be available for both 3- and 4-year-old children, she said, and “the best bang for your buck” would be education initiatives aimed at children even younger than 3. “If we have excellent, high quality preschool — that achievement gap is abated, and if we continue to have that excellent instruction, we will
have excellent education results for our children,” Wheeler said. The other incumbent in the race, Greg Coladonato, set his sights on creating stronger science, technology and engineering programs at district schools, along with what he described as an accelerated track to get students fluent in English as quickly as possible. He said education staff have told him, during his tenure on the board, that federal guidelines say it See CANDIDATE FORUM, page 10
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nearby public school, meaning children have to travel across El Camino Real into Los Altos to get to school. Los Altos district officials say they’re seeking to add park space and a school to the area, but it’s an open question whether a new campus in the neighborhood would actually serve local children or would instead be the new home of the Bullis Charter School. Several of the families attending the Sept. 29 meeting made clear at the two-hour community meeting that a neighborhood school would be their top preference, running contrary to a recent district task force recommendation. The weekend meeting took place at a critical time in a yearslong strategy to build a school in the area, with a land purchase on the horizon and only weeks to go before Mountain View City Council members are expected to fork over $23 million in park fees to help offset the costs of buying land for a public school. The Los Altos district has been kicking around the idea of building a new school since 2012, but the concrete proposal for a school at the edge of the San Antonio shopping center, at Showers Drive and California Street, only goes back a few months. School board member Bryan Johnson said the campus, as it’s imagined today, would have park and field space along the western side — near the intersection of California Street and Pacchetti Way — with classrooms and school buildings closer to Showers Drive. The Saturday meeting was also a big chance to solicit feedback from families living in the area who typically don’t show up en masse at school board and City Council meetings to lobby for public policies, said Alice Lee, a district parent who helped organize the event. Language and cultural barriers make it difficult for parents to participate, she said, and many them have difficulty showing up at marathon meetings on weeknights. The vast majority of attendees have children attending Santa Rita Elementary, whereas prior correspondence on the topic has disproportionately come from residents in the nearby Crossings neighborhood. Although the meeting was designed to be tightly regimented, with school board members, Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel and Councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga getting a time slot to address the residents, a handful of parents got a chance to weigh in. Multiple parents said they favored an elementary school and one parent suggested that relocating Egan Junior High from Los Altos
to Mountain View would create a ‘holistic’ feel to the neighborhood. Another resident said he didn’t care what school ends up in Mountain View, just so long as a school gets built. When asked whether moving Egan to the Mountain View site was still a possibility, Johnson said the school board has yet to decide on the future school’s use and is still weighing the pros and cons. “If there was an obvious, best answer, we would have already made it,” he said. The Los Altos School District’s land purchase is complex, and is contingent on whether the district can offset the costs using what’s called the transfer of development rights (TDRs), allowing the district to under-build on the property and sell to developers the remaining “density” that they could have built on the property. Mountain View City Council members have agreed, in concept, to allow the sale of development rights, but remain split on whether the financial support should be conditioned on the new school serving local residents. Abe-Koga is one of the council members who wants to condition the funding. She told the Voice after the meeting that she was surprised by the strong turnout, and that it reaffirmed to her that most of the residents are seeking a school that serves
families in the area. “I’ve heard an overwhelming interest for it to be a neighborhood school, and there hasn’t been a change,” she said. The reason for the expensive land purchase and the new campus, as school board president Vladimir Ivanovic framed it at the meeting, is that the district’s existing nine campuses are ill-suited to serve current and future enrollment growth in the Mountain View portion of the school district. Abe-Koga said she thought that meant the district wanted to build a school that would serve residents in this growing region. “They keep saying we’re causing all the enrollment growth so we need to help build a school there, and my understanding was always that it would be a neighborhood school,” she said. “The idea of it being Bullis was kind of a shift. If I heard of this change (earlier), I’d have reconsidered how much of an investment the city should give.” Last month, members of the Greater San Antonio Community Association — a group that, ironically, does not include areas west of San Antonio Road — sent a survey to Mountain View’s Environmental Planning Commission gauging the interest in each school option. Of the 66 respondents, 41 percent favored
a new neighborhood school, 32 percent preferred relocating Egan to the new site and 17 percent preferred Bullis Charter School. Lee said she had a different perspective, and that many of the parents she spoke to along Del Medio Avenue were worried about how a new neighborhood school would affect the diversity of the district. It would run the risk of concentrating a majority of the district’s lower-income families all on one campus and creating a school with fewer donations and parent volunteers, she said. Lee said she believes placing Bullis at the new San Antonio site would be the best option. Residents living along the southwest edge of the city have to cross a major thoroughfare no matter which school is placed on the corner of the shopping center, Lee said. San Antonio Road, like El Camino Real, is a big six-lane street with tons of traffic, challenging the idea that a Mountain
View campus would create safe routes to school. “To our families living on Del Medio, there’s not much of a difference, she said. “They are mostly likely going to drive.” Abe-Koga argued the streets aren’t exactly a one-to-one comparison. El Camino Real is a state route, making it difficult to modify, whereas Mountain View city officials have more flexibility to adopt bike and pedestrian safety upgrades along San Antonio Road — some of which are already in the works. Los Altos School District board members have been meeting in closed session with the owners of the San Antonio property, Federal Realty, to close out the details of the land purchase over the last two weeks. The board met on Sept. 24, 26, 28 and 30 and met on Oct. 2 to discuss price and terms of payment. The board was expected to continue discussions at a meeting scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 4. V
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Bullis board skeptical of San Antonio school plans By Kevin Forestieri
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ullis Charter School board members weighed in with a hearty dose of skepticism Monday night on whether the Los Altos School District’s plan to buy land for a new campus in Mountain View is the right path forward. The charter school’s Oct. 1 board meeting marked the first official opportunity for the Bullis board of directors to ask questions and give input on the school district’s plans for a 10th school site. Bullis resides within the Los Altos district and relies on it for its facilities. What school is housed at the relatively small new school campus could have huge ramifications for Bullis’ future — particularly if the charter school grows from 900 to 1,200 students. Despite the high stakes, communication between district officials and the charter school has been fairly limited. And Los Altos School District and Bullis board members have both said that they don’t have enough information from the other side to make an informed decision on the 10th site. Los Altos school board president Vladimir Ivanovic, joined by board member Bryan Johnson, laid out the unusually complex strategy envisioned by the district: Los Altos School District would use eminent domain to buy about 9.6 acres of land at the corner of Showers Drive and California Street and replace the existing businesses with a new school, selling the “unused” density allowed on the property to developers to defray the costs. The Mountain View City Council has agreed to pitch in $23 million in city park fees to further offset the costs — in return for public access to
playing field space — and the San Antonio area of the city would finally have a school campus to call its own. As district officials rapidly approach closing on the land deal, Johnson told the board of directors that now is the time for the Bullis community to lay out the charter school’s enrollment growth plans and to gauge whether charter school families would be willing to relocate to the San Antonio campus. None of those questions were definitively answered Monday night, with a majority of the charter school board members instead questioning whether a land purchase was really the right choice. Some board members also raised concerns that moving the charter school to the northernmost tip of the district would cause more problems than it would solve, potentially adding traffic congestion, safety problems and packing a high number of kids on a fairly small site. “BCS is already well over 900 students now, so looking at a 9-acre site has me very concerned,” said Bullis board member Andrea Eyring, a Mountain View resident. Perhaps the greatest subject of scrutiny was the district’s rationale that buying land is necessary to deal with projected enrollment growth in the Mountain View portion of the district, where thousands of apartments in the San Antonio neighborhood are either under construction or in the pipeline. Los Altos School District’s enrollment has declined by close to 300 students since 2014 — and dropped again this year, though it’s unclear by how much — and the relatively small, highcost apartments being built in
Mountain View may not generate a huge number of new students, said Ann Waterman Roy, a Bullis board member and longtime school administrator. She said taxpayers should feel confident that district officials didn’t rush ahead on a land purchase, and vetted the idea of building and using facilities at existing school sites before spending all of the $150 million in Measure N bond money on a new school. Bullis board member Clara Roa, one of the few trustees who directly tackled the question of whether she supports moving Bullis to Mountain View, said she felt she couldn’t make a decision with so much uncertainty. The transaction between the district, the property owner and the city of Mountain View isn’t a done deal and, if it does go through, she said the district still has to contend with an environmental review that could unearth all sorts of problems. Even if everything works out, how many kids could even fit on the site? “It is a very difficult question to answer with so little information,” she said. Roa also asked how, if Bullis moves to the Mountain View site, the district would house the large number of new students projected to live north of El Camino Real in the coming years. The neighborhood is currently split between Covington, Almond and Santa Rita elementary schools, and all three campuses are close to capacity. “That’s something we would have to work out together,” Johnson said. Parents and residents who spoke at the meeting had mixed perspectives, but generally encouraged board members from both
the district and the charter school to work together. Covington Parent Jing Wu said she doesn’t see how Bullis Charter School’s goal of growing to 1,200 students was going to work in the context of a Mountain View school, given the sheer amount of traffic that would be forced into the San Antonio area. But the alternative — siting the charter school in the small family town of Los Altos with its single-lane streets — would be even less tenable, she said. Former Los Altos school board member Tamara Logan said she was surprised to see so much skepticism, if not opposition, to a facilities plan that could finally solve long-standing disputes between the school district and the charter school dating back more than a decade. She said the plan to acquire land, buy park space and fix overcrowding has been the consistent message since she was on the board pushing for Measure N in 2014. “I’m amazed that there’s been so much effort in the community trying to stop a possible solution,” she said. Los Altos Hills Mayor John Radford said there’s been an expectation from the start that Measure N was supposed to solve the division and create some type of permanent facilities solution for the charter school, which has been housed in portables at Egan and Blach junior high schools. Instead, four years have gone by with “absolutely no progress,” he said, and both parties need to take responsibility for the sluggishness. Radford said he worried that both sides are moving away from a consensus on how to spend the money, rather than coming together, which doesn’t bode well
for future planning. “You’re hardening your sides,” he said. “More and more you’re going apart, not together.” The latest estimates from district officials is that the 10th school site could potentially open in 2022. A child in preschool when Measure N passed would be too old to attend the new elementary school by the time it opens. Trenna Sutcliffe, Bullis board member and Los Altos resident, said the school district should make absolutely clear to the San Antonio community how the future school site will be used, and that putting Bullis at the 10th site could be perceived as a betrayal. “I’m actually very concerned that the community north of El Camino may be misled and may be very upset, and rightly so, if they expected a neighborhood school after this site is purchased,” Sutcliffe said. “Because if BCS is housed on this site, that’s not a neighborhood school. I have a big concern about misleading the community.” After the meeting, Johnson told the Voice that the district appreciates the chance to address the Bullis board, and that it should be a first step in a more collaborative relationship. Bullis board members have been invited to the next school district board meeting, scheduled for Oct. 8, which is the first opportunity the district will have to make concrete decisions on the use of the Mountain View school site. Though the Bullis board did not take action or give an official direction on the charter school’s preferred use of the 10th site, Johnson said the meeting showed signs of progress. “The meeting last night was a good first step,” he said. “As simple as it was, it’s something that hadn’t happened in recent years.” V
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andidates vying for a seat on the Mountain View City Council cranked up campaign fundraising efforts, with hopefuls Lucas Ramirez and Ellen Kamei leading the pack with more than $25,000 in contributions, according to campaign finance documents released last week. The documents, which detail fundraising and spending activity through Sept. 22, show that Ramirez received contributions totaling $26,053, followed closely behind by Kamei at $25,334. Former council member John Inks reported receiving $18,287, and incumbent Pat Showalter collected $15,015 in the same time period. Trailing at the back of the
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pack are Mayor Lenny Siegel, with $9,764 and Alison Hicks, with $8,150. Although some of the candidates, notably Ramirez, began campaign fundraising early in the year, Inks raised the most of any candidate in the field since July 1, pulling in big donations from local residents, developers and apartment owners. His biggest contributions include $2,500 from Delmonico Apartments, a San Jose-based company; $1,400 from Washington Square; $1,000 from Calvano Development Inc., a San Francisco-based developer currently building Google offices and housing on Shoreline Boulevard; and $999 from the owners of 248 Pamela Drive, LLC. Other major contributions include the local landlord group
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Mountain View Housing Council ($500), local landlord Jeff Zell ($500), property manager Peter Wang ($500) and retired Milpitas resident David Hufton ($500), according to campaign documents. Kamei received significant nonmonetary contributions of signs worth through $2,338 from the Mountain View Firefighters PAC, along with major donations from the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers (IBEW) union ($1,000), the Young Asian Pacific Islanders (API) Democrats of California ($500) and state Assemblyman Kansen Chu’s campaign fund ($500). The latest filing period shows Showalter received several significant contributions, including
$1,000 from Merle Showalter, a retired resident of Mechanicsville, Virginia; $750 from IBEW; $250 from local developer Greystar; $250 from Mountain View Councilman Ken Rosenberg; and $250 from Cupertino City Council member Rod Sinks. Siegel’s top contributors also include IBEW, which gave $750, along with $500 from Mountain View resident and Google manager Deb Henigson, $500 from workers compensation attorney Donna Rivers, $500 from physician Mary Cooke and $500 from Michael and Bonnie Laster, Mountain View residents. Hicks received large contributions from Stanford Associate Vice Provost Johanna Metzgar, who gave $1,000, and Los Altos resident Lori Robbins, who
gave $900. She also received $600 from Mountain View resident Karen Steach and $500 each from Berkeley residents Sara Hicks-Kilday and Russell Kilday-Hicks. Kamei leads the way on campaign spending so far, reporting expenditures of $11,647 as of Sept. 22, followed by Showalter at $10,404. Ramirez spent a total of $6,477 over the same period, followed by Hicks at $5,308, Siegel at $3,998 and Inks at $2,603. The vast majority of the funding was spent on flyers, campaign mailers, print ads and lawn signs, with Kamei paying $2,750 to a consultant firm for “campaign communication and messaging,” according to the documents. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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takes six years to reach English fluency, but he said a district in the heart of Silicon Valley should seek to do better. “I think we can aim for a higher goal than that, a much more ambitious goal,” he said. Performance measures across the board show that children who have recently learned English, known as “Reclassified Fluent English Proficient” students, tend to do significantly better on standardized tests — including math — than English learners. Coladonato said it’s clear that English fluency is the ‘best lever’ the district has to help kids, and a major milestone that will determine future high school performance. State test scores from last year show not one English learner at Los Altos High School met state standards for math. Candidate Tamara Patterson did not cite a specific academic program to solve the problem, instead saying that she would use her oversight role as a trustee to give clear direction to district staff that the public school system should not ‘fail’ any students, regardless of their background or which school
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they attend. Parents and families need to feel valued by the district if the district seeks to foster an inclusive environment for all children, she said. Candidate Devon Conley, citing her education background, said work to close the achievement gap happens at the classroom level, and that’s where she would start. High-level data from the state is helpful as a starting point, she said, but a strong support network for teachers and differentiated instruction are the kinds of policies that are going to move the needle on student performance. Conley recalled one student she taught early in her career who was from Guatemala, and was living with his family — and two other families — in a crammed three-bedroom apartment. She said he came to class everyday “filled with hope,” his parents banking on the public schools to give their
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child a bright future. “I believe that all of the children in our community deserve a high-quality education,” she said. “They are the hopes and dreams of their families.” Outside of the achievement gap, school board candidates were asked how they felt about the new school boundaries and the ongoing effort to rebalance district schools with disparate performance and stark differences in ethnicity and family income. Conley described it as somewhat of a fool’s errand to aim for walkable neighborhood schools and balanced demographics — given the differences between single-family neighborhoods and high-density apartments — but said it should be a district priority to make sure all schools offer a high-quality education. “We need to be very focused to make sure every school, regardless of whether you live
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has been a vital new market for the struggling theater industry. Ticket sales last year at U.S. theaters were reportedly the lowest in 27 years, according to Box Office Mojo, an industry research firm. That slump is largely attributed to the rise of Netflix and other streaming platforms. But reports of the death of theaters are greatly exaggerated, says Tony Kerasotes, ShowPlace Icon CEO. His family’s business has operated U.S. theaters for three generations, starting in 1909. Through every period of doldrums, there’s been an upswing around the corner, he said, pointing out that 2018 is already showing signs of a turnaround. “The industry is always going through changes,” he said. “It’s survived radio, TV, HBO, madefor-TV movies. It survived the videotape, the DVD, the Blu-ray. People shouldn’t be so quick to bury us because we’ve been here for a long time.” The latest shift for theater companies has been to create a premier experience with sound systems and screens that no home theater could replicate. If theater-goers will only splurge on the latest big-ticket film — say, the new “Star Wars” or
in an apartment, or a singlefamily home, or you don’t have a home, that you are getting a world-class education,” she said. Coladonato, focused on his own Slater neighborhood, said the district should avoid trying to carve out small portions of neighborhoods and sending families to different schools as a means to balance out enrollment, pointing out that the area north of Central Expressway and east of Highway 85 has been split into three different attendance boundaries for more than a decade. The district should avoid “moving kids around like chess pieces,” he said. Patterson said schools should all strive to have the same toptier performance, and wondered if school boundaries would even be a touchy subject if every school was achieving high test scores. Wheeler has long argued that all of the district’s schools have strong performance, and that the district spent three years working on, finalizing and approving new boundaries that are set to take effect next year. The hope, she said, is that all children will be able to walk and bike to school and live near fellow classmates.
Candidates were also asked how they felt about recent news that Bullis Charter School is seeking to open a new school in Mountain View focused on students from lower-income families. Patterson said the achievement gap is her top priority and that she would be open to any idea — a public charter or traditional districtrun school — that will achieve results. Coladonato, similarly, said he cares about results first and foremost. “If a school gets results, I don’t care what kind of program it runs. I want students to be succeeding,” he said. Conley said she would prefer approving Bullis’ charter petition — rather than deny it and leave oversight of the school to the county or the state — in order to hold the charter school accountable with regards to finances and academic performance, while Wheeler said the district needs to foster a cooperative relationship with the charter school as plans to create a new school take shape. “Charter schools are legal, and the best thing we can do is try to figure out how to work with them,” she said. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com.
Marvel sequel — then cinemas are inclined to make the experience as sensational as possible. Showplace Icon representatives made a point of emphasizing their three top-of-the-line auditoriums equipped with RealD 3D projection, “Icon-X premium large format” screens and Dolby Atmos speakers. Those auditoriums include a second floor “VIP” area connected to a 21-and-over bar and lounge. Hungry patrons can go to a digital kiosk to order a selection of meals including ahi tuna salad bowls, salmon fillets and burgers. Beer, wine and cocktails will be readily available. The seating, all of which is reservation-only, consists of leather recliners with optional heating and the promise of at least 6 feet of legroom, and side tables for food or drinks. Kerasotes says those extra features means they can fit only about half the number of seats as a conventional movie theater. If that’s the case, then how much will tickets cost? Icon company representatives couldn’t immediately answer that question, except to say that it will depend on the auditorium and time of day. It certainly won’t be the cheapest theater in the area, but it also won’t be the most expensive, Kerasotes said. Mountain View was a natural location for this kind of upscale theater, Kerasotes said, since it
has the right mix of neighborhoods with high levels of density, income and education. Showplace Icon has opened only one similar high-end theater, located in Boston, but up to three more are planned in the near future, including a 10-screen cinema at the Westfield Valley Fair Mall in San Jose that’s expected to open by the year’s end. Opening a new theater in a market like Silicon Valley also presents some challenges. In Mountain View, Showplace Icon faced difficulty recruiting qualified workers, and has been holding weekend hiring fairs for the last month. Company representatives say they hope to eventually have 140 workers and 15 managers, but for now they have enough to open up. Another hurdle is the city’s review and inspection process, which Kerasotes described as moving at a slower and more deliberate pace than other parts of the country. As of last week, the theater was still waiting for final approvals from various Mountain View city departments, pushing back its Oct. 5 opening date by a week. On Monday, the new Showplace Icon theater announced it would hold a grand opening event on Thursday, Oct. 11. Email Mark Noack at mnoack@mv-voice.com.
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Dozens of comments focused specifically on the effect on children, claiming that exposure to marijuana smoke and the normalization of pot would have a harmful effect on kids and teens. One woman claimed her friends in Colorado, where recreational marijuana is also legal, feel like their kids are not safe, and that they can no longer go to the park because of public use of marijuana and the “inappropriate” behaviors associated with it. One Sunnyvale resident said the council’s decision was fueled by greed and a desire for tax revenue from the businesses at the expense of public health, while others described the acceptance of marijuana in California as a dangerous path for the country. Vincent Zhang, the owner of the Sylvan Learning Center in Mountain View, described the smell of marijuana as “poisonous gas,” and that he was strongly opposed to recreational use. “Legalizing marijuana is evil to me,” he said. “I am very sorry I didn’t have a chance to vote against Proposition 64, but from now on I’m going to vote against these evil propositions.” Clark said he was surprised about how much disinformation
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Chair Sheryl Klein praised him for leading the way in bringing more affordable housing to Mountain View. “We have worked closely with Randy on our four Mountain View projects and saw firsthand his level of integrity, professionalism and commitment to affordable housing,” Klein said in a statement. “We are thrilled that Randy will be Palo Alto Housing’s new CEO and are confident he will be a great asset to our organization and the communities we serve.” In Tsuda, the nonprofit is bringing on a leader with extensive experience in real estate and urban planning.
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from the general fund, a bond measure, the district’s foundation or some kind of charitable organization, Simitian said. In a statement after the meeting, Baier said that the teacher housing idea would be a useful strategy for hiring and keeping teachers who struggle to afford housing in northern Santa Clara County. “Attracting and retaining
children and families from being exposed to something that’s legal and available in society, he said. “No matter how hard you try to buffer your child, it’s out there and they’re going to be exposed to certain things,” he said. “And that’s part of growing up in life — protecting your kids and explaining to them what is important and what’s not important.” After a failed effort by Matichak to water down the staff’s proposal, bringing down the total number of businesses to two, severely limiting where they could be located and adding a sizable buffer around all medical facilities, council members voted 5-2 to support a total of four businesses at any given time. The majority did, however, agree to remove the so-called “Grant-Phyllis” precise plan area from the list of potential storefront locations. Under the new law, applications to open marijuana businesses will have to go through a screening process to weed out businesses that don’t pass background checks and certification requirements, followed by a lottery system to select which four businesses would be allowed to proceed. Each one needs to have a businesses location set in stone before proceeding through the application process, and will
need to mitigate any impacts on the community through a conditional use permit. Businesses will have to pay more than $100,000 in fees, which would offset the costs incurred by the city for allowing the budding industry. This includes the cost of city staff time as well as an additional police officer position for “administration and enforcement of cannabis business regulations.” This does not include the marijuana tax on the ballot this November, which would put a 9 percent tax on the businesses, the revenues from which could go toward a myriad of city services. Siegel said many of the people protesting the decision would leave the council meeting disappointed, but said the city will be conscious of the needs of residents during the rollout of the marijuana businesses. “Come back in a year and see how hard we’ve worked to make a protective system of legal, regulated marijuana work in Mountain View,” he said. “Not only will I think you’ll be convinced that it’s not turning our kids into reefer madness, but neighboring cities will look at us and say ‘Wow, they made it work in Mountain View, we’re going to do it too.’” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com.
Home” award from SV@Home, a nonprofit that advocates for increasing the supply of affordable housing. “Palo Alto Housing’s history of providing high-quality affordable housing is well known and I have had the pleasure of working with PAH on behalf of the city of Mountain View,” Tsuda said in a statement. “I want to help them continue this legacy in Mountain View and in other communities in the Bay Area. “Today, more than ever, it is critical that we come together to create stronger, more diverse communities by providing and maintaining high-quality affordable housing where individuals and families can thrive.” —Gennady Sheyner
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Roundtable, is intended to coordinate about two dozen cities in the area to advocate together on regional airplane noise issues with the Federal Aviation Administration. The roundtable lacks participation from some cities in the area, including San Jose, Los Gatos and Milpitas. The new roundtable group intends to hire a part-time manager and consultant team to draft proposals for federal officials. Participating cities are expected to split the costs according to the size of their populations, putting Mountain View in line to pay up to $39,000. The City Council approved joining the roundtable in a 6-0 vote with Councilman John McAlister absent. —Mark Noack
no-interest loans. He told Los Altos school board members that the project would typically cost $48 million, but the county already owns the land, knocking off an estimated $12 million. The remaining $36 million would then be offset by affordable housing funds provided by the county ($6 million) and the city of Palo Alto ($3 million), and $600,000 from each of the five school districts ($3 million). That would leave only half the cost — $24 million — in loans that could be
paid off with rental income from school employees. Simitian admitted that 60 units may seem like a drop in the bucket, but he said it has to start somewhere. If the project goes well, he said it could likely be replicated and make a big difference. “If we can do this project, well then, we could do five of them and that’s 300 units,” he said. “And that actually is a pretty big dent in the North County.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com.
was in the community, particularly the false notion that marijuana stores would look like an Apple store open to all ages, and that pot smoke would be billowing out the front or in an adjacent parking lot. He said the businesses he’s seen elsewhere are nondescript, none of the products can be seen from the windows and no one is allowed in without an ID card proving they are over the age of 21. “Your kids can walk into Nob Hill and walk down the alcohol aisle and pick up a bottle of wine,” he said. “You can’t do that in a cannabis dispensary. A kid can’t just walk in without swiping an ID, being 21 years old, and even seeing the product, let alone interacting with it.” “When we open up a flashy BevMo we don’t have hundreds of people show up and protest BevMo, even though that is a drug that is far more harmful to society and is a lot closer to schools than this is proposed,” he said. Mayor Siegel said he believes residents in Mountain View largely see marijuana use as a socially acceptable recreational activity, but as it stands today it is difficult to legally purchase pot without allowing dispensaries to open businesses. Similar to prohibition, he said, the only way to
stop crime historically associated with marijuana is to have a legal, managed system of providing it to consumers. “There are plenty of people in
Before taking over leadership of Mountain View’s Community Development Department in 2008, he had spent more than 20 years in city planning, including four years in Los Gatos, where he served as assistant community development director. He has also worked in the private sector and had spent seven years as lecturer at San Jose State University’s Urban and Regional Planning program. He was also instrumental in Mountain View’s recent adoption of the North Bayshore Precise Plan, which would add about 9,850 new housing units in the North Bayshore area, with 2,000 designated as affordable homes (in May, he received a “Bringing it quality teachers in this housing market is a challenge, not just for us, but for every school district in our area,” Baier said. “I believe that this project will help us continue to provide the high-quality education that our students deserve.” Simitian’s framework, spelled out in what he describes as a “concept” paper earlier this year, calls for building 60 or more housing units on the Palo Alto property, financed through several public agencies and low- or
‘Marijuana is ubiquitous in Mountain View and that’s why people voted for Proposition 64.’ MAYOR LENNY SIEGEL
Mountain View in every neighborhood, near every school, people who are productive, moral citizens, residents of our community who use marijuana,” he said. “If you don’t believe me, you’ve been living in a dream world. Marijuana is ubiquitous in Mountain View and that’s why people voted for Proposition 64.” McAlister said he took the vote to mean residents want the city of Mountain View to implement the law, which sets up a framework that allows for recreational marijuana stores to open and operate. There’s only so much the city should do to prevent
The Mountain View City Council voted Sept. 25 to join a regional roundtable with about 20 other cities to advocate about airplane noise issues. Starting in 2015, a new system of flight paths coming from the San Francisco and San Jose international airports resulted in more air traffic at lower altitudes over some communities in the Peninsula and South Bay. For Mountain View and surrounding cities, some residents say the changes to the flight routes resulted in jetliners roaring over their homes, ruining their tranquility. The new group, called the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz Community
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Lots of potential for safe parking program
Currently we provide overnight parking for six vehicles at two church sites. We have ots of Love, Mountain View’s new safe served guests associated with nine vehicles, parking program, has been up and each staying three to four weeks on average. running since July 9. Undoubtedly Of the nine served, three are either in or on you have seen multiple news articles tout- their way to permanent housing in the next ing various perspectives and expectations month. Both of the initial two churches have had for clearing the streets of RVs and providing safe places for our vehicle-dwelling neigh- positive and uneventful experiences. One of bors to sleep. There have been high hopes, the churches now knows that vehicles have laments about a slow start, and predictions been parking in their lot at night prior to the program kickoff. The of small and fleeting benhave been vigilant in efits. While no one knows Guest Opinion guests reporting trespassing and the final outcome, we, the suspicious activity as they Lots of Love team, want to share with the community what is happen- protect their temporary homes. Currently the program is operating at ing, how we see progress over the next year, capacity, filling the six available spots in and opportunities to be involved. The Lots of Love (LoL) program is the the two lots. The city of Mountain View first program of Move Mountain View, a allows up to four vehicles to be parked in a faith-based nonprofit established to benefit lot without a special permit. We are in active those struggling in this increasingly chal- discussion for new lots with an additional lenging economy. LoL receives funding five churches in Mountain View and eight from the city of Mountain View and Santa others in surrounding communities. We are Clara County. LoL aims to provide a safe challenged to find lots open to hosting the and dependable place for vehicle dwellers to RVs; the current lots only accept passenger spend the night while engaging in ongoing vehicles. Our goal is to be serving 20 vehicles case management through the Community by June 2019 and 40 by June 2020. So how can you help? If you are a church Services Agency. Case management focuses on helping clients make positive steps or business interested in hosting a few cars toward traditional housing. LoL is modeled or RVs please contact LoL. We’d love to walk after the program run by New Beginnings you through the program and have you conCounseling Center in Santa Barbara. This sider partnering with us. If you are a resident, please contact our program, running since 2004, currently City Council and urge them to consider offering 133 spaces in 24 different lots. By Dave Arnone
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opening up city-owned lots that might be more appropriate for RVs. Also ask the council to streamline the process for permitting larger lots. We have one large lot on the hook but the process to get to a permit is long and complicated. Just a couple larger lots supporting 10 vehicles each will move us a long way to our goal. If you are a neighbor to one of the potential lots, LoL promises to meet with you and inform you ahead of time what will be happening. LoL will work with you to tailor site-specific operations to best suit the neighborhood. We can be flexible about hours of operation, numbers and types of cars, and guest demographics. While we recognize that hosting vehicles in your neighborhood can be scary, I want to challenge and encourage us all to open our hearts and neighborhoods to those struggling to find a place to sleep. After three months, the program seems to be working. We are poised and ready to expand the number of vehicles we host. Please join with us in opening up new lots. At the upcoming Oct. 9 City Council meeting, the council will be considering options for larger lots. Please urge the council to make city-owned lots available and to streamline the process for permitting larger lots. You can reach us at movemvemail@gmail. com or 650-861-0181. Dave Arnone is a Mountain View resident and director of Move Mountain View.
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VARGAS AND OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS Like the parents of Jose Antonio Vargas (“Growing up undocumented in Mountain View,” Sept. 28), my ancestors fled a troubled land under trying circumstances. They did what they must in order to secure freedom and safety for themselves and their families. The grave marker of my greatgrandfather shows in English letters that his name was Simon Horenstein, but in Hebrew letters the stone says that his name was Jacob Beck. Simon came to America from Proskurov, Ukraine, under a false name. Perhaps there was an immigration visa available for a Simon Horenstein, and the intended recipient was unable to use it. Simon always feared that his lie would be discovered, and that he would be deported. Simon’s brother Eli Beck arrived in the United States under equally desperate circumstances, after deserting from the army of the
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Tsar. Simon insisted that Eli change his own last name to Horenstein, because it appeared suspicious for the two brothers to have different last names. Meanwhile in Ukraine, on February 15, 1919, a Communist pogrom swept through Proskurov. That night 1,700 Jews were murdered in the town. Simon’s nephew Israel survived the massacre and was later brought to America, but in the pogrom he sustained a head and neck injury. Simon’s grandson, my uncle, with the same name Simon Horenstein, became a neurologist because he wanted to help people like his injured kinsman Israel. Uncle Simon is just one remarkable member of the remarkable family established in America by great-grandfather Simon. Though the details differ, many readers of the Voice are descended from immigrants who underwent terrible hardships to come to America. Jose Antonio Vargas, who gives voice to the difficult stories of many
other immigrants, deserves to be recognized in Mountain View as a favorite son. Aaron Schuman Magnolia Lane
STATEWIDE BOND MEASURES I have been submitting ballot arguments against statewide propositions for four decades to ensure that voters receive some contrary considerations. And I have often raised related issues in the ballot arguments. In submitting opening (primary) arguments against some of the propositions on the November 2018 ballot, I made some general points for consideration — including that general obligation bonds sold must be repaid with interest, possibly through higher property taxes. Statewide bond measures are not (currently) repaid through higher property taxes. In recent decades, property tax revenue has been used to support local governments — not the state
government. However, as I read it, the approval of general obligation bond measures mandates repayment through any and all taxation authorities. The state government used to receive 70 percent of its revenue from property taxes and could again tap the source to repay bond indebtedness which, for the state, is already some $74 billion. So questions about the fairness of the state’s property tax system as modified by Proposition 13 in 1978 are legitimate. Historically, bond measures have been used to borrow money for “motherhood and apple pie” projects that voters will like. Propositions 1 and 4 present such projects. But they do cost money — and that is then money not available for anything else. In addition and as I have often done, I include in the ballot arguments broader questions and concerns for voter consideration. How anyone votes on Propositions 1 and 4 does not concern me. But I
Viewpoint am hopeful voters will read and consider the issues raised. Gary Wesley Continental Circle
VOTE FOR ELLEN KAMEI Moving to Mountain View from the East Coast nearly five years ago, I did not know anyone or anything about the city of Mountain View, aside from that it was close to where I would be working. One of the first things I did to build a sense of community was to join a local run club, which is where I met the wonderful Ellen Kamei. From the moment I met Ellen, I could tell that she loved Mountain View. It is her home, where she lives, works, and spends her free time participating and supporting the community. As I got to know Ellen, and learned more about my new West Coast home, I became more interested and engaged with the city. I love the vibrancy of Castro Street, the concerts on the plaza, art and wine festivals, wine strolls, and all the community events that take place downtown. I love that the parks are clean and safe. I love the accessibility of Stevens Creek Trail, multiple dog parks and green space throughout the city. Most importantly, the people in the community itself. In the past five years that I have lived here, I have made strong friendships and consider Mountain View my home. Having known Ellen now for almost five years, I know that she is passionate about Mountain View, and wants the best for the city that we both call home. She understands the struggles and challenges of both renters and homeowners alike, and takes time to listen to and understand multiple viewpoints. Ellen is incredibly hard-working, considerate, and solution-focused. She would be a great voice to have on the Mountain View City Council. Rachel Simon Escuela Avenue
Measure P is not a tax on residents or families! Only businesses will pay this tax on a per employee rate. The council was careful to protect small businesses and make Measure P fair; businesses with 25 or fewer employees would pay no more than $195 per year. Instead, large businesses with the greatest impact on our traffic and infrastructure will pay the highest rates. Nonprofits pay nothing. Eighty percent of funds will be used for transportation and traffic solutions that benefit businesses and the community, including a railroad underpass at Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway, an upgraded downtown transit center, expanded bike & pedestrian paths, and safer routes to schools. Please vote yes on Measure P to modernize the business tax and improve our community! Alex Nunez Villa Street
VOTE FOR DR. TING I would like to submit this letter of endorsement of Dr. George Ting’s candidacy for the El Camino Healthcare District Board of Directors. I have been on staff at El Camino Hospital for 27 years, and count the opportunity to work with Dr. Ting as a highlight. He has demonstrated superb clinical judgment, but has also served the hospital, medical staff and community in many ways — notably as chief of the medical staff, as adviser and member of committees, and always as a participant in discussions about how to improve quality of and access to the best health care possible. I value Dr. Ting’s expertise, whether about clinical issues or administrative ones, and look forward to his positive addition to the board. I wholeheartedly support his candidacy, and the benefits we all will glean from his addition to the board. Sari Levine Los Altos
MODERNIZE THE BUSINESS DR. TING FOR HEALTH TAX Did you know Mountain CARE DISTRICT BOARD View’s business license tax hasn’t been increased since 1954? Earlier this year, the City Council voted unanimously to place a tax measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that will modernize the business license tax. You’ll find this proposal as Measure P near the end of your ballot. If a majority of Mountain View voters approve, it’ll provide $6 million for critical funding we need to expand public transit, improve traffic flow, increase affordable housing, and support community services.
I have known Dr. George Ting, candidate for the El Camino Healthcare District Board of Directors, for more than 25 years from two quite different perspectives. First, Dr. Ting represented the hospital and medical staff in overseeing the medical information system jointly developed with Lockheed — and later Technicon — the first of its kind in the world (and) where I had led the Lockheed/Technicon team. Second, Dr. Ting undertook the care of my wife, Jane, when her kidneys failed and
she began dialysis at age 73, a diagnosis with a mean U.S. oneyear survival (rate) at that age of 15 percent. Jane survived more than 12 years as a consequence of Dr. Ting’s prescription of a form of dialysis still only undertaken by about 1 percent of U.S. dialysis patients. Dr. Ting’s excellence, temperament and judgment as a physician, combined with experience from thousands of hours taken from his private practice to serve the broad interests of the hospital, make him an ideal candidate to serve on the El Camino Healthcare District board. Melville Hodge Saratoga
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jury awarded a former Santa Clara County psychiatrist $1.5 million last week for what the doctor described as a retaliatory firing, according to court documents. Menlo Park resident Dr. Jan Weber, a former chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Hospital and Clinics, sued the county for wrongful termination after his November 2014 firing. The Bohm Law Group represented Weber in the case. Weber, 49, said he lost favor with county administrators when he expressed concerns about patient care and worker safety. “I was advocating for good quality care for a long time,” said Weber, who worked with the county-owned and -operated Valley Medical for nearly six years before he left. “The administration felt like I was putting them on the spot,” he said. Patients and hospital managers complained to Weber about
inadequate patient care, he said. Urgent care workers turned away children because they didn’t have Dr. Jan Weber experience working with that age group, he said. Hospital staff refused to give one patient in crisis an emergency evaluation from a psychiatrist, he said. Valley Medical Center fired Weber because of his purported low productivity and for canceling an appointment for a patient who was 25 minutes late, Weber’s termination letter filed with the lawsuit states. Valley Medical provides a safety net for people who otherwise don’t have access to health care, he said. County residents with no medical coverage or who can’t afford services can be treated at the center, according to the health care system’s website. “These are people who can’t just get a second opinion from
Stanford (Health Care) or the Mayo Clinic,” he said. “I had a special obligation to provide the very best care ... . There were glaring shortcomings in how we were providing care.” Weber brought up about 90 different issues with county management during his tenure there, he said. Staff told Weber about unsafe working conditions, including a lack of security officers in the psychiatry emergency room. There were assaults by patients on a regular basis and staff members left the center because of concerns, he said. In 2017 Valley Medical Center care teams treated more than 275,000 people, according to the center. The same year, Valley Medical staff provided over 800,000 medical treatments in the emergency department and other outpatient settings, according to the center. The county declined to comment on the jury award for this story. Email Angela Swartz at aswartz@almanacnews.com. V
Sunday’s outage caused by Mylar balloons SEVERAL POWER OUTAGES AFFECTED THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS IN RECENT MONTHS By Kevin Forestieri
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to replace damaged power lines and a blown transformer, PG&E spokeswoman Mayra Tostado told the Voice. The repair work took nearly five hours to complete, and power was fully restored around 12:35 p.m. Metallic balloons, also known as Mylar balloons, can cause a surge of electricity that shortcircuits equipment, Tostado said, which can lead to outages, fires and injuries. The balloons were to blame for 456 power outages in California across PG&E’s service area in Northern and Central California in 2017, affecting a total of 371,000 homes and businesses.
“PG&E urges its customers to make sure their balloons are always tied to a weight — as required by California law — and to never release them outdoors,” she said. Other major outages that impacted a similar region of the city included an “equipment failure” on Sept. 3, which affected 4,440 customers and lasted over six and a half hours, Tostado said. Before that, 6,030 customers were affected by an outage on Aug. 26 caused by a squirrel that gnawed on a power line near the intersection of California and Castro streets, causing nearby electric equipment to fail.
Mountain View police detectives tracked down Powell and arrested him around 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Palo Alto, outside of his workplace. He was arrested without incident and booked into Santa Clara County jail without bail on charges of rape by force, police said. “These cases are never easy, and what this young woman suffered is beyond reprehensible,” Sgt. Dan Vicencio said in a statement. “We are investigating this case fully.” The Santa Clara County
District Attorney’s Office is charging Powell with one count of rape by force, which could be subject to enhancements if he is found to have inflicted great bodily injury during the alleged sexual assault. He is due to appear in court on Friday, Oct. 5. Police did not provide information on whether he had any criminal history. Police say the victim and Powell were friends, but declined to elaborate on how well they knew each other. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com.
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ave you ever been to Greece?” our waiter asked after we had situated ourselves at the bar at Taverna in downtown Palo Alto. I responded that I had, many years ago. “Welcome back,” he said, with great sincerity. Such an exchange might have felt hokey at another restaurant. Not at Taverna. True, the Whole Foods looming across the street makes it difficult to buy completely into the up-market, Greek islands fantasy that Taverna is going for. But everything else about this six-month-old, jewel box of a restaurant exudes Hellenic hospitality, from the dreamy blue walls to the world-class service.
The waiters are not just knowledgeable, friendly and efficient, but darn near perfect. From the moment you sit down, you feel completely taken care of by this ultra-professional crew. Squint a little and you can almost believe you’ve stumbled into a little family-run tavern on the Aegean — a really upscale tavern, that is. Taverna is tiny, just a dozen tables inside and another handful outside, so it is almost always bustling and can get quite noisy at peak times. You might end a Saturday night dinner a little hoarse, but that’s a small price to pay for an evening at this cozy corner restaurant, which already has established itself as a formidable rival to the
Nil Blackburn and Kristen O’Neill have a glass of wine at one of Taverna’s sidewalk tables in Palo Alto.
Bay Area’s most storied Greek restaurants. Indeed, owners Thanasis Pashalidis, 35, and Hakan Bala, 42, learned the finer points of upscale Greek cuisine through their many collective years at San Francisco’s Kokkari and Palo Alto’s Evvia. Pashalidis, who grew up in Greece and Queens, also was the head waiter for seven years at Michelinstarred The Village Pub in Woodside. Bala is a native of Turkey who honed his service skills on the Royal Caribbean
Taverna’s fishermen’s meze dish includes an assortment of seasonal seafood. From left: black cod smoked with honey and Aleppo pepper; a boquerones salad with Spanish white anchovies, heirloom baby carrots and fennel; psarosalata (steelhead trout rillette); and smoked paprika potato salad.
cruise line before disembarking in Palo Alto for a decade-long stint at Evvia. These self-assured young restaurateurs appear to have made few, if any, major missteps in their first outing as owners. Their executive chef is their longtime friend William Roberts, formerly head chef at Los Gatos’ Dio Deka and also a Village Pub alum. Roberts is demonstrating his talent for highbrow, innovative cuisine that takes direction from traditional Mediterranean recipes.
Taverna also distinguishes itself with classy touches that have gone by the wayside even in many fine-dining restaurants. A complimentary basket of Acme sourdough bread and a terrine of salted Europeanstyle butter arrives pre-dinner. There’s also a small bowl of dried, seasoned chickpeas and golden raisins, followed by an amuse-bouche. In late summer, we were treated to a gazpachoinspired tomato-melon soup See TAVERNA, next page
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served in a ceramic white cup. Taverna’s seasonal, locally sourced menu is divided into “bites,� “small plates� and “entrees,� a structure that inspires sharing. So, while it is easy to spend well over $100 a person for dinner, it also is
possible to craft a substantial, tapas-like meal without even venturing into the entrees. That said, if the nightly special happens to be the 38 North Sonoma duck breast — dry aged for eight days and then pan seared and served with a smoked eggplant and pine nut purÊe, wild porcini mushrooms and black mission figs ($46) — please consider that
Stelios Sotiriadis, a server at Taverna, drizzles lemon juice over a flaming serving of saganaki.
outstanding entree. Enjoy it with the Domaine Mercouri ($59 for a bottle), a velvety, dry red from the Peloponnese in Southern Greece. The grilled lamb chops ($54) also were perfectly executed, but some diners might feel inclined to request a European Union bailout after ordering. Two small chops, served only with a small wedge of rather bland, crispy
eggplant, seemed paltry at the price point, even if the lamb is free range from Dixon-based Superior Farms. Koulouri ($3), a popular Greek street food, is a bread ring covered in sesame seeds — it looks a little like an oversized bagel — that is crunchy on the outside and chewy inside, served here with lamb fat-infused butter.
Taramosalata ($11) is a caviar spread made from cod and salmon roe, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and bread, which serves as the purÊe’s starchy thickener. House-made potato chips are the perfect vehicle for scooping up this decadent dip. I ordered taramosalata on both of my visits and all my dining companions declared it their new obsession.
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The fisherman meze ($24) showcased four excellent offerings on one plate: a chunky potato salad, a terrine of cold salmon, a salad of shaved fennel with anchovies and a hunk of halibut smothered in a sweetsavory relish of raisins, onions and spices. The Shepherd meze ($24), with wedges of Greek cheeses, artisanal charcuterie,
roasted peppers and pickled green beans, was less interesting and less copious. A side of fries ($6) came to the table piping hot and crispy, dusted with herbs and served with a feta aioli. From the “small plates� section, we tried the octopus ($17), served with fava beans and a pepper relish. The tentacles were tender, but too charred for my
taste. You could almost taste the grill. The thalassina ($26) was one of the prettiest dishes we ordered, colorful towers of ripe melon, each edifice topped with a Hokkaido scallop, a piece of calamari or a prawn. Saganaki ($16) is another eye-catcher: a triangle of gently fried kefalograveria (a mild cheese made from sheep’s and goat’s milk) served
with caramelized onions, doused with the brandy-and-wine spirit Metaxa and set afire tableside. Aside from the duck special, the entrees I tried were a little less inspired than the rest of the menu. A small bowl of tagliatelle (“makaronia�) ($28) was prepared with Sweet 100 tomatoes, summer squash and feta bread crumbs, but left my French chef friend shrugging and noting that the pasta was a touch too al dente for his taste. The whole game hen ($34), cut into chunks and served with crispy golden potatoes, was juicy and expertly prepared, but not memorable. The wine list tilts toward highend Greek, French and California vintages. Many of the selections cater to the sophisticated palate and to the expense account, but care has been taken to ensure the more modest offerings stand up to scrutiny. A bottle of Varda Vineyards sauvignon blanc ($36), the least expensive bottle of white on the menu, was light, crisp and paired divinely with the Mt. Lassen trout ($37), just as our server said it would. A liquor license is coming soon. I did not try the $6 glass of Retsina Malamatina from Thessaloniki, but was delighted to see an upscale restaurant offering a glass of white wine at a price point many similarly situated establishments would sneer at. A $6 dollar
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glass of wine might seem like a small detail, but I think it speaks to the vibe of inclusiveness and friendliness they are taking great efforts to cultivate here. “Every day is a gift,� declares Taverna’s website and menu. It is a truism of which we shouldn’t need to be reminded. But where better to be reminded of the joy of life but when you’re enjoying exceptional food and wine brought to you by someone who genuinely seems to want to know if you’ve ever been to Greece. Freelance writer Monica Schreiber can be emailed at monicahayde@yahoo.com. Q DININGNOTES Taverna 800 Emerson St., Palo Alto 650-304-3840 tavernarestaurant.net Hours: Monday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m. Closed Sunday. Credit cards Reservations Catering Outdoor seating Parking Alcohol Wine and beer Bathroom Excellent
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For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more movie info, visit www.mv-voice.com and click on movies. two begin a friendship that soon leads to all of the Yeti seeing Percy with their own eyes — and thus having to reckon with a direct challenge to their beliefs. Arguably the film’s biggest letdown is its CGI animation, which weighs down the picture instead of lifting it with visual lyricism. The film’s low-key but undeniably pro-science, anti-superstition stance sets it apart as something of a thinker, even a subversive one, but it’s dubious that kids will pick up on the provocation between the pratfalls and the pop songs. Rated PG for some action, rude humor, and thematic elements. One hour, 36 minutes. — P.C.
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‘Born’ again LADY GAGA FOLLOWS TOUGH ACT IN ‘A STAR IS BORN’ In the new iteration of “A Star is Born,” a rock star and his protégé fall for each other between two renderings of her song “Shallow,” with its line “We’re far from the shallow now.” They’re definitely “off the deep end” of love, but the movie they’re in isn’t as deep as it wants us to believe. For a movie obsessed with artists having something to say, Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born” turns out to be muddled in its commentaries on (bad?) romance and art versus commerce. Cooper, who makes his directorial debut in the Warner Bros. film, stars as country-fried rock star Jackson Maine — a sort of hybrid of Jack White and Eddie Vedder. For the role, Cooper drops his speaking voice to a Sam Elliott drawl and convincingly performs gravelly tunes for packed arenas. It’s after one such show that the hard-drinking, pill-popping Maine stumbles into a drag bar, where he’s transported by the odd-woman-out non-drag performance of “La Vie en Rose” by a woman named Ally. The gal’s got pipes ... and that indefinable something called star power. Jackson sees it, along with her beauty and her soul. They spend the night together (sans sex) hanging out, getting
001/2 (Century 16 & 20) into trouble and singing one of her original tunes in progress. When Maine finally convinces Ally to come backstage at his next arena show, he invites her center stage to debut her song to the world in harmony with him. That heady rush seals the deal for a love affair, but one darkened by addictions, professional jealousy and career ambitions. Subtlety is not the strong suit of the screenplay by Cooper, Will Fetters and Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”). The film nods to the earlier versions of the story that starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in 1937, and Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954, but mostly follows the version that starred Barbra Streisand-Kris Kristofferson in 1976. Jackson Maine might as well be Kristofferson’s John Norman Howard and, at least initially, Ally resembles Streisand’s Esther. The oft-charming first half of the film establishes Ally as an artistically insecure but socially independent spitfire with real fight in her, which makes it awfully hard to buy that this frog princess would slow-boil in the music-industry pot without a fight. What’s the point of dramatizing how Maine gives her the confidence to be authentic (itself a queasy dynamic in 2018) if she
just as quickly, and inexplicably, relinquishes her truth to become a parody of the glitzy, backupsinger-enhanced pop tart? The result plays like a sour feminist fail, which could make for aching drama if Ally seemed to care a bit more about what’s being done to her. Instead, this “A Star is Born” gives more focus to doomed romance with a side of family drama, with Sam Elliott himself as Maine’s much older brother, and Andrew Dice Clay as Ally’s fame-obsessed dad. Cooper’s debut film is undeniably a big undertaking from a production standpoint, with decent songs and a creditable performance from acting neophyte Gaga. But for all its unabashed melodrama (and, okay, this is “A Star is Born,” after all) and industry showmanship, the film’s strongest moments are acoustic, not plugged-in. When Cooper brings director of photography Matthew Libatique’s impeccable camera work right in close for intimate, truth-telling exchanges between lovers who want the best for each other, the film briefly locates its own authenticity. Rated R for language throughout, some sexuality/nudity and substance abuse. Two hours, 17 minutes. — Peter Canavese
title (also a reference to Moore’s 2004 “Fahrenheit 9/11”). Moore has a keen comic sensibility, and the current situation proves ripe for his satire. But the greater impression of “Fahrenheit 11/9” is its dire accounting of the corruption of the Republican Party, the sellout centrism of
the Democratic Party and the victimization of working-class Americans. Perhaps it’s due to Trump fatigue, but Moore’s material on the 45th U.S. president only has a fraction of the impact that his enraging Flint story had. Moore knows he’s preaching to the choir: In the face of
100 million disenfranchised non-voters, he wants to stoke righteous anger and get like-minded people in the streets, in the voting booths and, better yet, on the ballots. Rated R for language and some disturbing material/images. Two hours, 5 minutes. — P.C.
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Q HIGHLIGHT MOUNTAIN VIEW OKTOBERFEST Mountain View Oktoberfest The sixth Annual Mountain View Oktoberfest, presented by Steins Beer Garden and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, will feature German beer, cuisine and entertainment. Oct. 6-7, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free (must buy tickets to drink). Bryant Street at Dana Street, Mountain View. mvoktoberfest.com
Hedda Gabler Stuck in a loveless marriage, bored and facing financial constraints — this play tells the story of Hedda, who feels confined by society’s standards. Pear Theatre presents “Hedda Gabler,” with Elizabeth Kruse Craig in the title role. Oct. 11-28, times vary. $15-$35. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. thepear.org
THEATER TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents ‘Fun Home’ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present a production of “Fun Home,” a play about growing up around a funeral home and coming to terms with one’s identity and past. Through Oct. 28, times vary. $40-$100. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks. org Puccini’s ‘La bohème’ Puccini’s timeless story of love, loss and the struggle for survival among young artists, will be set in San Francisco in this production. Oct. 12, 8-11 p.m. $35-$85. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. wbopera.org/boheme Los Altos Follies The Los Altos Stage Company will put on the final production of ‘Follies’ that began in 1992 when Los Altos Stage Company was the Los Altos Conservatory Theatre. Thursday is performance only. Friday and Saturday performances feature a pre- and post-show reception of wine, appetizers and desserts and a silent auction. Oct. 11-13, 7:30 p.m. $70 Thursday, $120 Friday and Saturday. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. losaltosstage.org
CONCERTS Ice Cube Ice Cube will be performing as part of the “How The West Was Won” tour with Snoop Dogg, Warren G and other artists. Oct. 13, 6 p.m. $30-$400. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search bandsintown.com for more info. Sarah Jarosz & I’m With Her & Sara Watkins & The Brother Brothers American singer/songwriter Sarah Jarosz will be performing with her band “I’m With Her,” and other artists. Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m. $40-$65. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Street, Stanford. Search bandsintown.com for more info. Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne & LANCO Country singer Dierks Bentley will perform with Brothers Osborne & LANCO and promote his upcoming album, “The Mountain.” Oct. 5, 7-10 p.m. $30-$1,000+. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/events for more info. Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne will be performing live as a part of his “No More Tours 2” tour, which is a throwback to his intended farewell tour of the ‘80s. Oct. 6, 7-10 p.m. $30-$3,000+. Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Search facebook.com/events for more info. The Röntgen Piano Trio Röntgen Piano Trio, featuring music players in the Bay Area, will play music of Brahms and their
namesake, Julius Röntgen, known as “the Dutch Brahms.” Oct. 13, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $27-$30. Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto. bodhitreeconcertsnorth@gmail.com
MUSIC Open Mic Music Wednesdays Musicians and poets can share material appropriate for all ages. Performers must be 21 or older. Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos Tasting Room, 366 Main St., Los Altos. Tohoku Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert featuring Otonowa The benefit concert will feature musical group Otonowa. There will be a Q&A with the band and special Tohoku guest Takehiro Dai, who will talk about his experiences with the tsunami when he was in high school and how that impacted his life. Oct. 6, 1-5 p.m. $15-$25. Mitchell Park, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Search facebook. com/events for more info.
FESTIVALS & FAIRS Bay Day: Palo Alto Baylands Restoration Festival Participants can remove invasive species, transplant native plants, take a nursery tour, become a citizen scientist or join a guided nature walk. There will be food trucks, arts, crafts, music and more. The event is family friendly. Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Baylands Nature Preserve, 2500 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. bayday.org
TALKS & LECTURES Amy Stewart, Ellison Cooper, John Burley, Nick Taylor Books Inc. and Writeous Writers present the third installment in their “Craft Series for Aspiring Authors” with four authors in conversation discussing tips and tricks on writing suspense. Oct. 11, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event Nancy Boyarsky at Books Inc. Palo Alto Bestselling author Nancy Boyarsky shares the third installment in her “Nicole Graves Mysteries” series, “Liar Liar.” In the story, protagonist Mary Ellen Barnes sues her university’s quarterback for rape when the authorities won’t act. Oct. 10, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger will discuss his book “Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929–1939” and his experience growing up, watching Hitler from inside the windows of his home. Oct. 8, 7:30-9 p.m. $8-$26. Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc.org/memories
Matchbox Cars & Educational Mechanical Models There will be an evening toy panel discussion on the world of childhood toys, such as Matchbox cars and Erector sets. Oct. 10, 7-8:30 p.m. Free-$10. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. Opera Preview for Richard Strauss’s ‘Arabella’ Professor Simon Williams will discuss Richard Strauss’s opera “Arabella” in which two young women overcome obstacles to find their own true loves. There will be musical and visual examples, insight into the work’s history and background and time for questions. Light refreshments served before the talk begins. Oct. 9, 7:30-9 p.m. $10. Chapel, First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto. sfopera.com Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Becky Albertalli, author of “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” and Adam Silvera, author of “They Both Die At the End,” “More Happy Than Not,” and “History Is All You Left Me,” will be discussing their co-written book “What If It’s Us.” $10-$24. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. Micah Perks with Tobias Wolff and Molly Antopol Micah Perks, Tobias Wolff, and Molly Antopol share the stage to celebrate Perks’ new collection, “True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.” Oct. 9, 7:30-9 p.m. Free, RSVPs requested. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. Big History of Humans The Big History of Humans identifies the major events in human history and connects these events using the idea of evolving complexity. Oct. 3, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview.libcal.com Celebrating Stephen Hawking’s Life and Work Astronomer Andrew Fraknoi will give a nontechnical, illustrated talk on Stephen Hawking’s complex life and innovative science, focusing on his discovery that black holes may not be totally black. Oct. 12, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Chess Workshop For All Skill Levels Learn chess strategies and tactics from Bay Area instructor and puzzle creator, Lauren Goodkind. Oct. 8, 7-8 p.m. Free. Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. mountainview. libcal.com John Hennessy Book Event for ‘Leading Matters’ John Hennessy, former president of Stanford University, current chairman of Alphabet and director of KnightHennessy Scholars, will be in conversation with Isaac Stein, the former chairman of Stanford’s Board of Trustees, as they discuss “Leading Matters,” Hennessy’s new book. Oct. 9, 6-8 p.m. Free. CEMEX Auditorium, 655 Knight Way, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info. Pros & Cons: Nov. 6 Ballot Measures A League of Women Voters of Palo Alto forum will present an analysis and discussion of the Nov. 6 California ballot propositions. Oct. 5, 2-3 p.m. Free. Avenidas Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. lwvpaloalto. org/Calendar.html
FAMILY Fun for Families: Nature Hunt and Crafts Gamble Garden’s event will feature an autumn nature hunt with the Gamble staff, floral arrangements with the Palo Alto Garden Club and mini pumpkin art projects with Castilleja Middle School students. Oct. 13, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. gamblegarden.org/ event
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS ‘Blackboard’ “Blackboard” brings together works that imitate, resemble or feature a blackboard, to consider the
relationship between art and education. The “blackboards” on view interrogate schooling, authority, literacy, form and color. Through Jan. 27; times vary. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford. edu/exhibitions ‘Painting Nature in the American Gilded Age’ The Cantor Arts Center’s newest exhibition will consider how nature was depicted by American artists from the 1880s to 1910, an era of unprecedented industrialization and urban development. Through landscapes, portraits and still lifes, the exhibition will delve into the importance of nature for artists and the public. Through Aug. 25, times vary. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford. edu/exhibitions Vintage Toys: It’s Child’s Play! The museum will be showing a variety of antique toys that belonged to children in the past. This exhibition will cover the origins of playtime, toy factories, toy trains, builder toys and more. This exhibit aims to
evoke childhood memories. Through Feb. 17. Free. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. Coves, Cliffs and Beyond Viewpoints Gallery’s October exhibit “Coves, Cliffs and Beyond” by Teresa Ruzzo, will feature depictions of the California coast, from Big Sur to Mendocino, and include scenes of secluded beaches, sheltered coves, jagged cliffs and vistas. Through Oct. 27, times vary. Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. viewpointsgallery.com
OUTDOOR RECREATION Monarch Butterflies: The King of Butterflies Learn how to help survival of the monarch butterfly. The class will go over their life cycle, habitat and migration. There will also be butterfly arts & crafts. This is an educational class for the entire family, children of all ages, taught by local educator, Eleanor Laney. Oct. 6, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10-$30, buy tickets in advance for discount. Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. gamblegarden.org/ event
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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DOLORES A. SILAPAN PANALIGAN Case No.: 18PR184288 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DOLORES A. SILAPAN PANALIGAN. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BENILYN MARTIN SALINAS in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: BENILYN MARTIN SALINAS 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. A HEARING on the petition will be held
on November 19, 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: Paul Lovrich 586 N. First Street, Suite 223 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 823-4554 (MVV Sept. 28; Oct. 5, 12, 2018) NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE (U.C.C. 6101 et seq. and B & P 24073 et seq.) Escrow No. FSBC-0271802016 Notice is hereby given that a bulk sale
of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made. The names and addresses of the Seller/ Licensee are: LO VAN TRINH AND LONG BAO TRINH 992-94 EL MONTE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 The business is known as: EL MONTE LIQUORS The names and addresses of the Buyer/ Transferee are: TUAN TRONG NGUYEN, 992-94 EL MONTE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 As listed by the Seller/Licensee, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller/Licensee within three (3) years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer/Transferee are: NONE The assets to be sold are described in general as: STOCK IN TRADE, INVENTORY, FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL AND TRADE NAME and are located at: 992-94 EL MONTE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 The kind of license to be transferred is: 21-OFF-SALE-GENERAL, now issued for the premises located at: 992-94 EL MONTE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 The anticipated date of the sale/transfer is: OCTOBER 24, 2018 at the office of: FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE CO, 2099 GATEWAY PL, STE 100, SAN JOSE, CA 95110. PHONE (408)437-4313, FAX (408)392-9272. It has been agreed between the Seller/ Licensee and the intended Buyer/ Transferee, as required by Sec. 24073 of the Business and Professions Code, that the consideration for the transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this document on the date(s) set forth below. Dated: SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 TUAN TRONG NGUYEN LA2109113 MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE 10/5/18
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