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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 VOLUME 19, NO. 34 INSIDE: MOVIES | PAGE 22 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Police still hope to charge killer in drug deal AT LEAST FOR NOW, KEY WITNESSES WON’T TESTIFY IN MURDER OF JEFFREY JOHNSON By Daniel DeBolt hopefully one day they will.” Everyone present during the t’s been almost four years shooting was a teenager at the since the case against three time. Recent arrests in another Isuspects fell apart in the local murder case, the 2005 shooting death of 20-year-old killing of Alex Fernandez, are a Mountain View resident Jeffrey reminder that when teenagers Johnson, but authorities remain become adults they are more hopeful that someone will even- likely to speak up about a mur- tually step forward to name the der. killer. “In the Fernandez case, we MICHELLE LE Johnson was shot Feb. 7, 2008 did find people who were more Members of all military branches, local police and fire officials, and civic dignitaries memorialize those in the midst of a drug deal with willing to give us informa- who died on September 11th in front of City Hall, during last year’s Mountain View Art & Wine Festival. three suspects in tion because time the Happi House went by, they grew parking lot at El up or were no City will remember 9/11 attacks at ceremony Camino Real and ‘You hope people longer involved Ehrhorn Avenue, come forward and in gang activ- PROCESSIONS TO CONVERGE ON CIVIC CENTER DURING ART AND WINE FESTIVAL police say. Several ity,” said police of his friends were do the right thing.’ spokeswoman Liz By Daniel DeBolt At 11 a.m. Sunday, two proces- lives. It was the largest single there, including Wylie. “Some- sions will converge on the Civic loss of firefighters in United one who was sit- RAY MENDOZA, one’s guilty con- n a ceremony set for Sunday Center plaza on Castro Street, States history. ting next to him DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY scious can weigh morning during the Art where city officials, police, fire- At 10 a.m. police will observe when he was shot on them. For a Iand Wine festival, the city fighters and local service clubs a national moment of silence while attempting decent person it is set to acknowledge the 10th will honor the 3,000 people who on their radios, following a to drive away in tends to sit on anniversary of the thousands died the day the twin towers fell, Congressional resolution that his Ford Explorer. In a different your shoulders. It doesn’t go of deaths that resulted from and the 343 firefighters and 60 “calls upon all of the people and car, another person was shot away as time goes on. In fact it the attacks on the World Trade police officers who responded in the leg during a car chase can get worse.” Center on Sept. 11, 2001. to the disaster and lost their See 9/11, page 15 through Old Mountain View. Eventually people also become Police believe there may be sev- less afraid to talk. “With the pas- eral witnesses who could poten- sage of time goes the passage of tially put the killer behind bars, fear,” Mendoza said. People who but perhaps out of fear, none are involved may tell someone Caltrain switches to new rail operator have talked, even when offered else about their involvement, and Over the next five months, Mo., firm. was scored in three major areas immunity. testimony from such people “is Caltrain operations will transi- The approval comes after a of criteria: the management, “I think we had a decent idea always helpful,” Mendoza said. tion from Amtrak to TransitA- 15-month bidding process that operations and maintenance who did it, we just can’t prove The police arrested two sus- merica Services Inc., following led to the comparison of five rail plan; the cost proposal; and the it beyond a reasonable doubt,” pects in the case in 2008, but the unanimous approval Thurs- operators, Caltrain officials said qualifications and experience said Santa Clara County Deputy both were released due to lack day, Sept. 1, by the Peninsula in a statement. of the firm and key personnel District Attorney Ray Mendoza. of evidence. Sunnyvale resident Corridor Joint Powers Board TransitAmerica submitted the proposed by the firm as the “We know who was there and Nathan Talarico, who appar- to contract with the St. Joseph, highest ranking proposal, which management team for the Cal- who was involved and we just ently fled after the shooting, was train service. need those people to come for- arrested in Mobile, Ala. Moun- The first full year of the five- ward. That’s what’s frustrating. tain View resident Jose Alfredo You hope people come forward See CALTRAIN, page 11 and do the right thing. And See JOHNSON, page 11
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N CRIMEBRIEFS Proud of your ? Sustainable Landscape ARREST IN U-HAUL FIRES convicted of drug-related charg- Police have arrested a Palo Alto es, she said. man they believe is responsible Just before midnight on July Join Mountain View’s Green Garden Showcase for setting fire to a number of 20, a fire burned eight trucks rental trucks in a local U-Haul on the same U-Haul lot, Wylie lot in July, said a spokeswoman said. Prior to the fire, the owners and with the Mountain View Police of the Mountain View U-Haul Inspire Others Department. told police that someone had The man, 48-year-old Jesse been sneaking into the lot on Jakubik, was seen shortly after a regular basis and siphoning The showcase highlights gardens which midnight on Sept.1 sneaking gasoline out of their trucks. The through a hole in the fence out blaze prompted the evacuation conserve water, reduce waste, nurture of the U-Haul lot, located at 62 of several nearby residences, due the soil, and provide wildlife habitat. W. El Camino Real, said Liz to fire’s proximity to a large pro- Wylie, public information offi- pane tank on the lot. Spread the word about sustainable cer for Mountain View police. After reviewing security foot- Sgt. Tony Vieyra spotted Jaku- age from the U-Haul lot, inves- landscapes - nominate yours today! bik leaving the U-Haul prop- tigators said that Jakubik resem- erty, followed him and arrested bled a man captured by cameras him near his truck, which was on the night of the fire, Wylie parked on Highway 237. said, and his jacket resembled Officers discovered four five- that of the man seen in that gallon containers filled with gaso- security footage. He was charged www.gardenshowcase.mountainview.gov 650-903-6216 line and 13 empty five-gallon with burglary and unlawfully containers in the bed of Jakubik’s starting the fire, a charge that truck, Wylie said. A siphon was differs from arson. In order to found still inserted in one of be considered arson, it must be the rental trucks parked on the proven that the guilty party set U-Haul lot. the fire intentionally and with Jakubik was arrested for prowl- malicious intent. Unlawfully The Palo Alto and San Jose ing on private property, pos- starting a fire means that the fire session of stolen property and was started due to recklessness. 2IÀFHVDUHSOHDVHGWRZHOFRPH violating his probation, Wylie Jakubik was booked into coun- said. Jakubik had been recently ty jail, Wylie said.
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4 ■ MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE ■ SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 MOUNTAINVIEWVOICE ■ CITY COUNCIL UPDATES ■ COMMUNITY -PDBM/FXT ■ FEATURES New Mayor’s Award may be here to stay By Daniel DeBolt fter two years of not having a mayor’s award, Mayor Jac Siegel Ahas resurrected it and is seeking nominations for outstanding people, groups and businesses in the city that deserve recognition. In order to make it more practical, Siegel said he spent considerable time figuring out how to cut the time and expense of conducting the event, which the previous two mayors passed on dur- ing the recession. “I went through with help of staff (and) streamlined the heck out of it,” Siegel said. Sigel said that what used to cost $5,000 to $6,000 and require several meetings will now cost only $1,000 and one meet- ing. “We are down to one meeting now with five people on a committee,” Siegel said. “In two or three hours we’re going to decide right there.” MICHELLE LE The award categories are not set in stone, and the committee may create SAVING HANGAR ONE categories as needed in order to recog- On Tuesday the southern doors of Hangar One at Moffett Field were completely stripped of siding layered in asbestos, lead and nize five to 10 award winners. Potential PCBs, providing a view of the structure that hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Efforts to save the historic building will be discussed categories include “Leadership, Vol- at the Moffett Field Restoration Advisory Board meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8, at the Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave. unteerism, Community Involvement, and Commitment to the betterment of Mountain View.” Mountain View ation supervisor. employees are not eligible for awards Advocate for senior citizens dies at 108 Born in 1903, she met her unless they are residents as well, but they future husband, Nagel may make nominations. Miner, in 1921 during A nomination form with instruc- By Andrea Gemmet Ave., Mountain View. their senior year at San- tions is available on the city website at Miner was actively involved at First Pres- ta Cruz High School. mountainview.gov under announce- ouise Miner, an 80-year Mountain byterian, and her creation of the church’s The couple married in ments or at the library, City Hall, View resident who helped launch Fifty/Fifty Club for seniors in 1957 was a 1926. Miner worked as Community Center, Chamber of Com- Lmany of the city’s senior programs, springboard for the city’s senior programs, Louise Miner a teacher at Highway merce and the Senior Center. The died Aug. 30, one month after celebrating said her son, John Miner. She was a member Elementary School and deadline for submissions to the city her 108th birthday. and director of the volunteer-led Mountain the Dana Street School in Mountain View manager’s office is Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. A memorial service for Miner is set for View Senior Citizens Club that organized through the years of the Great Depression 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the First trips and events to complement the city’s Email Daniel DeBolt at Presbyterian Church, 1667 Miramonte senior programming, said the city’s recre- See MINER, page 17 [email protected]
her California home. Quiet renaissance in OMV In the new great room — cre- ated by removing most of a wall HOME TOUR OFFERS PEEK AT RECENT REMODELS AND LANDSCAPES between the kitchen and living room — the furniture is posi- By Carol Blitzer tour on Sept. 17, a fundraiser that a 5,500-square-foot lot. tioned to face outdoors. Shoji funnels money into K-8 programs First they added a master suite, screens cover NanaWall accor- ld Mountain View has in art, music, science and after- with a deep Japanese soaking tub, dion doors leading to the garden. been undergoing a school sports in the Mountain with slate surround and flooring “Having a garden viewable Oquiet, subtle evolution View Whisman School District. and shoji screen doors. from inside is a very Japanese since many of the homes were Included on the tour is the Parramore, a landscape approach to residential design,” built in the late 1940s. Slowly home of Lisa Parramore and designer and co-author of “Liv- she said, adding “I think it makes the little bungalows in the heart her husband Svein Olslund, who ing With Japanese Gardens,” the most of a small lot.” of town are becoming modern- bought their Old Mountain View lived in Japan 20 years ago, just Out the door one steps onto ized and updated. bungalow in 2000. In two stag- after college. Originally from an engawa, a narrow wooden Five homes that were recently es, in 2003 and 2009, they’ve North Carolina, she was excited walkway that connects the remodeled will be on tour during expanded their 1,200-square-foot by Japan’s architecture — and indoors and outdoors, Par- the first Mountain View Educa- home to about 2,300 square feet, ultimately incorporated many tional Foundation (MVEF) home maximizing their use of space on Japanese details while updating See HOUSE TOUR, page 8
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