Taxpayer Group Threatens to Sue Water District

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AUGUST 31, 2012 VOLUME 20, NO. 33 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 20 Taxpayer group threatens to sue water district By Nick Veronin the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ restriction of 75 words he Silicon Valley Taxpayers for ballot descriptions by two Association is threatening words. Tto sue the Santa Clara Val- The board found out about the ley Water District for violating problem on Aug. 7, three days the Brown Act — a charge that before the Aug. 10 filing dead- a representative from the public line for the Nov. 6 election, and utility said was politically moti- was acting as quickly as possible vated and twists the facts. to address it, Grimes said. The In a letter to the public utility, district missed notifying the the taxpayers association told Mercury News by 59 minutes the water district that it would and posted the notification of the consider litigation if the “Safe, meeting on its website 45 min- Clean Water and utes late, Grimes Natural Flood Pro- said. tection” measure “Our read of it — an extension ‘I can’t imagine is, we made good MICHELLE LE and increase of the faith efforts to EASING THE TRANSITION Measure B parcel why they would meet the Brown Transitional kindergarten students learn to color within the lines during Ann Hanneman’s class at tax from 2000 — make this mistake Act,” he said. Theuerkauf Elementary School. See story and additional photos on Page 7. is not withdrawn “There wasn’t from the Novem- on purpose.’ really a substan- ber ballot. JOHN ROEDER, tive breach of The SVTA claims PRESIDENT OF THE SVTA the Brown Act that the water dis- in any way.” More residents say trict violated the “I agree that it Brown Act when was an honest officials there failed to notify the mistake. I can’t imagine why PG&E will strip their yards public and local press, as they are they would make this mistake required by law to do, a full 24 on purpose,” said John Roeder, ONE GAS LINE WILL BE MOVED NEXT YEAR, hours before convening a meet- president of the SVTA. But, he BUT TREES STILL HAVE TO COME OUT, PG&E SAYS ing pertaining to a parcel tax continued, “the law says that extension proposal. these are the notification periods. By Daniel DeBolt the trees that shade his yard and What bothers Hauck even A representative from the dis- There was a violation of that.” seven other households because more is that PG&E insists on trict said that “good faith” efforts Grimes maintained that the group of residents who they are over major gas lines 132 removing the trees even though were made, and claimed his only reason Roeder and the asso- live in a Rock Street con- and 109, and could damage the next year it may relocate the organization missed the deadline ciation care about the violation Ado complex are joining line and cause an explosion. section of gas line 109 that runs by only about an hour, at most. is that they are opposed to the a chorus of complaints from The trees include two large pines under the them. Marty Grimes, spokesman for measure and always have been. Mountain View residents about and a redwood with a 3-foot- “I want them to move the the SCVWD, admits that district “They are going to do anything PG&E’s plans to strip backyards diameter trunk, all apparently whole thing out to Middlefield officials were late in notifying the they can to try to kill it any way where major gas lines exist. ignored by PG&E since the 1970s. and not destroy my backyard,” Mercury News and in posting a they can,” he said. “It’s never going to be as nice,” “That one they are very anx- Hauck said. “The trees are just notice on the SCVWD website Roeder does not entirely dis- said Kenneth Hauck, a resident ious to get rid of,” Hauck said gorgeous right now. They pro- that a special meeting was to be pute this statement. of the condos at 1963 Rock St., of the 80-foot-tall redwood in vide a sense of privacy, a sense of held Aug. 8. However, Grimes “I would like to see Measure as he looked at the view of eight the parking lot next to his unit. beauty.” said, the meeting was held for B simply taken off the ballot, trees that shade his second-story “It’s right on the pipeline. PG&E Residents of 15 other house- one reason only: to remove two and I would like to see them put balcony, a hummingbird hover- clearly didn’t pay any attention to holds on San Lucas Avenue find words from the parcel tax ballot together a better, well thought- ing nearby. this the whole time” the tree has description because officials at PG&E wants to remove all been there. See PG&E, page 6 the water district had exceeded See TAXPAYER GROUP, page 9

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By Daniel DeBolt On Tuesday afternoon, pedes- he death of William Ware trians at Escuela and California — hit by a speeding car didn’t hesitate to express concern Twhile waiting at a Califor- about car speeds and show sup- nia Street bus stop on June 21 — port for slowing cars down. caused shock in a neighborhood “People around here feel really where some are now calling for bad about this guy,” said Ger, a major traffic calming measures. man waiting for the bus, refer- “Neighbors were pretty shaken ring to the accident that killed up over the William Ware thing,” Ware. He looked at California said Jarrett Mullen, a resident of Street and said, “people drive the neighborhood where Ware really fast because they got room was hit at the stop near Escuela to do that.” Avenue. “We all saw ourselves Yolanda Reyes, a yard supervi- there too. We could have been sor at Landels School, was sitting the victims. We could have been at the bus stop where Ware was run over. We could have been killed. “I always see these little killed.” crashes right here, all the time,” Mullen is now pushing to she said of the Escuela and Cali- reduce California Street from fornia intersection, where new four lanes to two in a larger effort traffic lights that now include MICHELLE LE to improve the streets in the left-turn signals, installed after The bus stop where William Ware was hit and killed two months ago is decorated with gifts, flowers and neighborhood known for rows of the accident, have yet to be acti- candles. Yolanda Reyes, in photo, says she has seen many vehicle collisions at the nearby intersection. apartment buildings and work- vated. “It’s kind of scary because ing class residents. He and some the school is right there.” California Street to look like an nia Street are at a level where you beneficial.” of his neighbors have launched Another woman offered her expressway, encouraging drivers don’t need four lanes of traffic Two lanes would slow traffic, the Rengstorff Park Great Streets comments about the traffic as to speed in what he calls a “fail- there,” Mullen said. “If it’s below while adding a turn lane in the Initiative “to inspire action to she jumped on the bus: “They ure of design.” The street, along a certain threshold, then there’s center would allow a car to pull transform the streets in the just need to slow down! We have with Shoreline Boulevard, needs this kind of accepted principle out of traffic to turn, rather than neighborhood to more livable kids here!” to go on a “road diet,” he says. you don’t need four lanes and places.” Mullen says it’s unnecessary for “The traffic counts on Califor- two lanes may actually be more See CALIFORNIA STREET, page 6 Real estate investor gets Row homes slated for five-year federal sentence vacant lot on Ada Avenue By Daniel DeBolt By Sue Dremann defendants Richard F. Tipton, Last December, Ward pleaded cerns about how the project 62, of Palo Alto, Edward George guilty to one count of conspiracy would impact the existing lack longtime Palo Alto and Locker, 36, of Highland Heights, to commit mail and wire fraud. 59-unit row-home of parking in the neighbor- Mountain View real estate Ohio, and David Lin of Los Altos Prosecutors had asked the project proposed for a hood, to which city staff said Ainvestor has received a — told investors their money court to impose an eight-year, Avacant lot at Ada and the project includes 137 park- five-year federal prison term on would be used to make loans one-month sentence, but the Minaret avenues has been ing spaces, more than two per Aug. 20 for bilking private lend- secured by residential real estate. court took the middle road. given the thumbs-up by zon- home, and more than the city ers of millions of dollars, accord- In reality, the men used most of Ward will serve five years in ing administrator Peter Gilli requires. ing to a federal prosecutor. the money to make unsecured prison and will be on supervised and is now headed for City Speed bumps on Minaret James Stanley Ward, 65, faced and undocumented loans to probation for three years, includ- Council approval. Avenue would be installed 18 counts including conspiracy, entities that the defendants con- ing one year of home detention. If the council votes yes on along with the project, address- mail fraud and wire fraud after trolled. The investments they A restitution hearing will take Oct. 9, developer Tripointe ing one neighbor’s concern he deceived investors through his made in Silicon Valley real estate place within 90 days, according Homes LLC could begin con- about people coming to and Mountain View-based company development projects were suf- to Jack Gillund, a U.S. Depart- struction on the 4.51-acre site from Whisman Road who Jim Ward & Associates, Inc., fering mounting losses and pro- ment of Justice public affairs in April 2013 and finish the “speed by at 40 miles per and its successor, JSW Financial, tracted delays. spokesman. following November. hour.” Inc. As the enterprise collapsed, In his guilty plea Ward admit- Gilli called the three-story Gilli also made it a condi- According to separate civil investors continued receiving ted that from September 2005 row-home proposal “a very tion of his approval to provide charges brought by the U.S. monthly statements showing through October 2008, the men good project” during an Aug. pedestrian and bike access on Securities and Exchange Com- steady growth in the value of gave investors documents that 22 hearing. He cited the City the main private street through mission, Ward and his three their portfolios, according to the purported the funds were invest- Council’s desire for ownership the project, addressing another co-defendants propped up their SEC. ed in loans that were secured by housing as more than 1,000 neighbor’s request; he plans failing real estate development The SEC also alleged that deeds of trust on California real apartment units make their to present to the council the projects while concealing $17 Ward and co-defendant Edward estate, but the men knew that way through the city’s plan- possibility of providing similar million losses of investor mon- George Locker took $900,000 those representations were false, ning pipeline. ey. of investor money to purchase A few neighbors raised con- See ROW HOMES, page 10 The men — Ward and co- homes for themselves. See FEDERAL SENTENCE, page 8

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Crittenden, it can be moved from ing together to try to keep PG&E PG&E from stripping their yards, and Continued from page 1 my backyard.” Dimitri said, noting concern for his own child. to have the gas lines moved out themselves in a similar situation, PG&E says the section of line to Middlefield Way, which isn’t and Hauck and his neighbors say 109 is actually on a list of lines to planned for the section of line they had no idea the lines existed be relocated in 2013. Until then, 132 that runs through backyards under their backyards. PG&E spokesperson Monica Tell on San Lucas. PG&E says the tree roots could said, PG&E needs to do some- Beto and Eileen Telleria say they disturb the line and cause a leak, thing to ensure the safety of have been working with Public like the one that caused a deadly those nearby as part of its new Works Director Mike Fuller to explosion along line 132 in San “commitment to safety” follow- arrange a neighborhood meeting Bruno in 2010. Trees also block ing the San Bruno disaster. with PG&E instead of the individ- detection of leaks by aircraft fit- While the section of line 109 ual meetings that have occurred ted with special laser technology, is being looked at for relocation, so far, in which “it seems like PG&E says. Tell said it’s not urgent. The lines some people are hearing different Alex Dimitri, a Kaiser physi- have passed a hydrostatic pres- things.” One neighbor said he was cian who lives with his wife and sure test, she said. told he could plant new fruit trees infant child next door to Hauck, “There are no issues with the after some work was done on the said he will lose three trees in line that currently runs under line, Beto Telleria said. )&',++" his backyard, and is now going that specific area,” Tell said. Fuller confirmed in an email to think twice about barbecuing “When a pipeline is strong and that a meeting was in the works, $+ *+ +*& there. He said the greenery was a functioning there is no reason to but no date has been set. big reason he recently moved in. relocate that line.” “The city is arranging a meeting +) +% &+* ') “I feel like at this stage of the Tell said line 109, built in 1973, with PG&E with those affected ()'*++ & ) game they should be making needs to be replaced and relocated by this, and until that meeting, more concessions,” Dimitri said only because it doesn’t have a con- all paperwork signings and work "!'&+*#$&'$" "%&%!$&"! of PG&E following the San sistent diameter and would not (have) been put on hold,” said Bruno disaster. allow the use of a new leak detec- Eileen Telleria in an email. “The "!" "%&%"'$$ &'$%"' '%& Another section of line 109 is in tion device called a “smartpig.” meeting will be announced.” $&"$+"' the process of being moved from Hauck, Dimitri, and the Tell- under nearby Crittenden Middle eria household on San Lucas Ave- Email Daniel DeBolt '$" #$!%( !% &#$"$ School. “If it can be moved from nue expressed interest in work- at [email protected] & !""%#& "%&"%"$% said of the area where Ware was people out, leads to injury, and *#$&%!#$"%&&!'$" "%%'% CALIFORNIA STREET hit. “It should be easy to bicycle occasionally death,” says the Continued from page 5 " $$" "'$*#$&%"'&& &%& and walk to nearby destinations. group’s site. “Moreover, streets These streets don’t reflect that. are the neighborhoodís greatest (! !&%! ! +!(%( stop others behind it, Mullen said. You kind of feel terrorized when accumulation of publicly owned #$"'$%$""&%!'$" "&$& !&% And it would mean more room you are walking down the street space, and present a tremendous for wider bike lanes, so bicyclists because of high car speeds and opportunity to invest in an asset won’t have to ride in the “door volumes. And the general aes- that touches every person who zone” — that area where bicyclists thetics are not very welcoming.” lives in the area.” are sometimes hit by the opening Installing bike lanes on narrow Director of Public Works Mike door of a parked car. streets like Escuela and Ortega Fuller said that the council’s & *. (+ % )+(% California Street isn’t the only Avenue is impossible without recent approval of the city’s 2030 roadway in the area that could removing parking on one side of general plan spurred early work %#&''"% %" " %#&"#"& use improvements, according the road, so Mullen proposes that to begin on a “California Street $$! $" "%& ""& '$"! to the Rengstorff Great Streets cars be encouraged to slow down Corridor Improvements Study,” Initiative website. The site makes and share the road with bicyclists. which could lead to traffic calm- ",)*. (+ % )+(% suggestions to improve Escuela “The vision for these streets is to ing on California Street. Avenue, Rengstorff Avenue, Villa transform the pavement into an Fuller was hesitant to embrace a %#&''"% %'!"'& Street, Latham Avenue, Ortega attractive space with rain gardens “road diet” for California Street. Avenue, and Shoreline Boule- and new landscaping, permeable “With the current volumes we $ $ &"! !" "%& vard, which could be reduced paving, pedestrian-scale light- have we might be able to go from , *. (+ % )+(% from six lanes to four, it says. ing, and traffic-calming devices four to two lanes on California The website also calls for a to keep cars below 20 mph,” the Street,” he said. “But with the %' *&("' #""#"' "" paved trail along the Caltrain website says. “On Ortega where projected future (traffic) vol- $)$ $# !$" "%& corridor, like one Palo Alto has traffic counts are lower, it may be umes, we may not be able to.” built near its University Avenue possible to fundamentally trans- For more, visit the Initiative’s station. “If Caltrain is expanded form the street from asphalt plain website at greatstreetsrp.word- '(%&) ' to four tracks in Mountain View, to public space.” press.com. ! "##&$ ' #&'#& there is still plenty of space for Mullen also imagines more Look for more coverage of the this trail,” it says. tree shade so pedestrians don’t city’s efforts to become bicycle # % # #&'#& “The idea is that this neigh- feel “baked” by the sun. friendly in next week’s issue. #"%" ##!&" borhood is one of the densest “Our streets are overwhelm- neighborhoods in Mountain ingly dedicated to moving cars Email Daniel DeBolt View, if not the densest,” Mullen at high speeds, which stresses at [email protected]

( #*$#%#+ ') !#*+ ) ') ')%') #& ')%+#'&$$ Matthew Pumar to be arraigned Aug. 31 +'. Matthew Pumar, the Moun- was arrested on one count of intersection, lost control of his tain View driver accused of vehicular manslaughter with car, then ran over Ware, who accidentally hitting and killing gross negligence on July 10. was waiting at a bus stop in William Ware, is scheduled to Pumar immediately posted the 1800 block of California be arraigned Aug. 31, according $100,000 bail. Street. to Duffy Magilligan, the deputy Police said that on June 21 Ware was dismembered by district attorney on the case. the 21-year-old Pumar sped the violent impact of the col- --- $%#&'"'*(#+$')!% &*" $+" It will be the first time Pumar through a red light, swerved lision, according to his niece, has appeared in court since he to dodge a truck entering the Dolores Marquez.

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MICHELLE LE Transitional kindergarten teacher Ann Hanneman teaches kids the sing-along game “Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?” during a recent class session. Transitional kindergarten eases youngest children into the classroom By Nick Veronin This is the first year of state-mandated transitional kindergarten in California, lot can happen in a year. Ann and Hanneman’s class is one of two in the Hanneman knows this from both district (the other is a 16-student class at Apersonal experience and the short Castro). The program is intended to make time she has spent teaching transitional the move from early childhood into school kindergarten in Mountain View. smoother, and comes paired with a shift in According to Hanneman, the mother of the cutoff date for regular kindergarten an elementary school-aged boy, children eligibility. make huge strides between ages 4 and 5. Previously, children who turned 5 before During that period in her son’s develop- Dec. 2 could enroll in kindergarten. ment, Hanneman said, “a huge light turned Under the Kindergarten Readiness Act, on.” And in the one week she has been that deadline will eventually be moved teaching the newly introduced transitional up to Sept. 1. The cutoff date will move kindergarten class at Theuerkauf Elemen- up incrementally over the course of three tary, she has seen many of her students years, and the Mountain View Whisman making vast improvements in their ability School District plans to unroll its transi- to color inside the lines, recognize their tional kindergarten program incremen- MICHELLE LE Students have reading time during Hanneman’s class. names in print and follow directions. tally as well. This year, the program is All 13 of the students in Hanneman’s available only to children with November class are 4 years old, and won’t turn 5 birthdays; next year, transitional kinder- Superintendent Craig Goldman. The At the beginning of Hanneman’s second until November. Over the course of the garten classes will accept children who curriculum is more basic than a normal week of class, she was reminding her stu- school year they will experience “a lot of turn 5 between Oct. 2 and Dec. 2; and kindergarten curriculum, but the day is dents to push in their chairs when they got social and emotional growth,” which, she finally, in 2014-15, transitional kindergar- longer than an average preschool day. up from their desks to play, and had them said, will prepare them to hit the ground ten will accept kids who turn 5 between “A lot of people call me a kindergarten using crayons to color a cartoon mouse, running when they enter normal kinder- Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. teacher,” Hanneman said. “Others call encouraging them to stay within the lines garten in August 2013. Transitional kindergarten falls some- me a preschool teacher. I tell them, ‘I’m — skills some have never been asked to “I think it’s what these kids need,” she where between preschool and regular neither. I’m a transitional kindergarten said. kindergarten, according to MVWSD teacher.’” See TRANSITIONAL, page 9

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Shoreline Investment Fund, LLC, ness in the same building as JSW, An Ohio businessman who according to the indictment. according to court papers. has known Ward and who spoke In November 2008, Ward and Although he was semi-retired on the condition of anonymity the others informed investors and spent most of his time living said Ward was an extremely suc- through the company’s bank- in Ohio, he knew of the fraud that cessful businessman, and many ruptcy attorney that the com- was mainly perpetrated by the locals invested with him over the pany was broke, the funds were other defendants. And although years without problems. unsecured and investors would Ward’s real estate license was “We are baffled by these events not likely recover any money. revoked, he continued to tout the as he was a local icon and regard- Many of the investors were retir- business to investors and did not ed highly by most. Our thoughts ees, according to court docu- disclose the frauds, prosecutors are with him and his family and ments. said. we hope they make it through One 74-year-old victim report- But prosecutors said the gov- this in one piece,” he said in an ed that she lost all of her life sav- ernment believes Ward and the email to the Weekly. ings and was in jeopardy of losing other co-defendants did not set Ward is a native of Columbi- her home. Her daughter had to out to defraud investors or to ana, Ohio, who was a track star return home to help out with enrich themselves with fraud and went to Stanford University expenses, according to prosecu- proceeds. on track scholarship, according A CULTURAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION tors. “Ward, who has a long track to the associate. 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TRANSITIONAL program the way it was intended The program, he said, should TAXPAYER GROUP the tax each year would fall to the Continued from page 7 to be implemented. Based on offer children “equitable oppor- Continued from page 1 water board. the transitional kindergarten tunities, regardless of what If raised by the maximum perform before. funding the district gets from month they are born.” through project,” he said. With amount each year, it is estimated Transitional kindergarten, the state versus how much it will One solution to this second the ballot measure, he added, the that that tax will raise $548 mil- Goldman said, looks a lot like cost to run, the superintendent issue, Goldman said, would be water district is simply seeking an lion over its 13 year life span. what regular kindergarten used estimates “conservatively” that for the state to recognize the extension and increase of a parcel Different types of parcels would to look like. Now, however, the the program will run an $80,000 need for and fully fund public tax without justifying the request pay different rates. kindergarten curriculum has deficit this year. preschool. by offering specifics on what the A district press release said the advanced so much that children MVWSD could have run its Currently, however, with the money will be used to do. money will be used to “ensure a who are younger — even by just transitional kindergarten prostate still struggling through the The water district taxes all par- safe, reliable water supply for the half a year — are often at a dis- gram as some other districts are recession and the uncertainty of cels in the district, including in future, reduce toxins, hazards advantage, he said. For example, running theirs — in a combi- Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiatives Mountain View, under Measure and contaminants, ... protect many can’t sit still and have nation class format, where the on the November ballot, Gold- B, which passed in 2000. The cur- our water supply and local dams trouble following directions. younger children share class man said the district is simply rent parcel tax, which the district from the impact of earthquakes Hanneman’s smaller class size with the older kindergartners doing its best to implement the calls the “Clean, Safe Creeks” and natural disasters,” and sup- gives her more one-on-one time but are technically afforded extra new program, and figure out best plan, is set to expire in 2016. port other projects related to with each child and allows for attention from the teacher. “We practices along the way. The proposed ballot measure, water and wildlife preservation. more individualized guidance. wanted to do it right.” “We’re pioneers in this area,” also called Measure B, or “Safe, That list is far too vague, But as much as Hanneman Additionally, Goldman said, the he said, adding that many dis- Clean Water,” would extend that according to Roeder. Further- is a supporter of the program, current transitional kindergarten tricts throughout the state are in tax through 2029 and increase more, he said, it would require Goldman said there are some arrangement — in which the pro- the same boat, working to sort the amount collected by a maxi- certain people to pay for projects unresolved political issues that gram will be offered only to chil- out and develop curriculum as mum of 3 percent each year. The that would not benefit or posi- still hang over the program. dren born in September, October they go. Considering the reality decision on how much to raise tively impact them. V For starters, MVWSD runs and November — could ultimately of the situation, he concluded, the program at a loss, which result in children with fall birth- “Things are going well. The Goldman said is unavoidable if days being given “a leg up” when teachers are doing a great job Sign up today at MountainViewOnline.com his district is to implement the they reach normal kindergarten. with the children.” V

COUNCIL NEIGHBORHOODS COMMITTEE Monta Loma/ Farley/ Rock Street Neighborhood Area Meeting Location: Monta Loma Elementary School 460 Thompson Avenue September 12, 2012 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The City of Mountain View Council Neighborhoods Committee will be meeting with residents in the Monta Loma/Farley/Rock Street Neighborhood area on September 12, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. (area designated on the map below).

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August 31, 2012 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ 9 -PDBM/FXT COMMUNITY TALK: Rapper E-40 says city PROSTATE CANCER officials kept him out of Shoreline show MV CITY OFFICIALS SAY THEY’VE GOT NO SAY OVER ROCK THE BELLS LINEUP

By Daniel DeBolt Presents accused Too Short of being involved in a scuffle back- hen the Rock the Bells stage at the amphitheatre, caus- hip hop festival hit the ing that year’s KMEL Summer WShoreline Amphithe- Jam to end before E-40 could go ater on Aug. 25, Bay Area hip on stage. hop icons Too Short and E-40 “The City of Mountain View were conspicuously absent after does not dictate or necessarily performing in the first leg of the have control over who performs tour in San Bernardino. at the Shoreline Amphitheatre,” E-40 claims Mountain View said a statement Rich sent to the doesn’t want the duo at Shore- Voice. “Live Nation makes those line, but city officials say they types of business decisions for have nothing to do with the the Shoreline Amphitheatre. In show’s line-up. this particular case regarding “For some reason, the city of Too Short and E-40, no one Mountain View won’t let E-40 from the police department, and Too Short perform,” E-40 city attorney’s office, city man- said in an interview with Fuse ager’s office, or any member of TV last week. our council had any discussions “They can’t even give us an with a Live Nation employee excuse or nothing. The city of over the line-up at Rock the Mountain View don’t want E-40 Bells.” or Too Short to perform. They Event organizer Chang Weis- don’t want us performing on our berg said in a statement issued by own soil.” Live Nation that efforts are under In an interview with another way to have Too Short and E-40 local media outlet, E-40 says it at the 10th anniversary of the is the “third or fourth year in a show next year. row” that he’s been kept from “In an effort to bring clarity to performing at the Shoreline the issue of E-40 and Too Short Amphitheatre, and that he trusts not being on this year’s Bay Area it’s not because the organizers Rock The Bells Festival, we are Stanford Cancer Center invites you to come learn more don’t want him, calling them currently in the process of work- “good people.” ing with Live Nation and the City about prostate cancer, including: City Manager Dan Rich says of Mountain View to allow E-40 the city is not to blame. While and Too Short to be a part of the the city works closely with 10-year anniversary next year,” r Prostate Cancer Screening and Watchful Waiting the Shoreline Amphitheatre’s Weisberg said. operator, Live Nation, to make “E-40 and Too Short have r Update on Surgical Prostate Cancer Treatments sure concerts are safe, Rich said made historic performances at he is unaware of “any conversa- our other festivals. We look r New Treatments for Metastatic Prostate Cancer tion with city officials about forward to working closely with the artist line-up and have no both of these artists and the local Stanford’s prostate cancer experts will provide information idea why that is what is being community to bring them back. said.” Unfortunately, we were unable to and answer your questions. Violence at Shoreline is occa- get it done this year, but we are sionally an issue during and excited that the process is under after concerts, including a fatal way to have these two Bay Area shooting after the 2005 KMEL legends return to Rock The Bells Summer Jam and a multiple very soon.” SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 t 9:30AM – 11:00AM stabbing during a brawl at the 2009 KISS FM Old School Fiesta. Email Daniel DeBolt at Sheraton Palo Alto (Reception Room) In 1995, KMEL and Bill Graham [email protected] 625 El Camino Real r Palo Alto, CA ROW HOMES classified as heritage trees by the RSVP at: stanfordhospital.org/prostatehealth Continued from page 5 city, mostly black walnut trees in poor health, remnants of an HOSPITALS This event is free and open to the public. Breakfast access through an alleyway on orchard on the site, Gilli said. will be served. Please register, seating is limited. the site. Six heritage trees would be relo- NATIONAL Plans show two small private cated. CANCER parks, including one that is “a Minicucci said the heights of meditative kind of park,” said the homes would be 34 to 36 feet, city planner Nancy Minicucci. well under the city’s 45-foot zon- More than 44 percent of the lot ing limit for the site. The mix of is landscaped. attached and detached homes The developer is asking to also meets the city’s row-home remove remove 38 large trees guidelines. V

10 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ August 31, 2012 -PDBM/FXT Avenidas presents the 9th Annual Family Caregiver Conference Saturday, September 15, 9 am - 3 pm Mountain View, CA Topics will include: Forgiving yourself Long-term care costs Safe medication use Dementia care challenges Avoiding burnout Help for hoarding Free tours of Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center at 3 pm! Register at Avenidas.org or call (650) 289-5435.

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Kobad Bugwadia, owner and director of the Mathnasium tutoring center in Mountain View, goes over FREE WAX some problems with a pair of students. FOR FIRST-TIME GUESTS *Women: Bikini line, eyebrow or underarm Local tutoring center holds ‘TriMathlon’ or upgrade to a Brazilian for $21.00 WINNERS OF CONTEST GET XBOX, CHANCE TO BE IN NATIONAL COMPETITION Men: Eyebrow, ear or nose No purchase necessary. Must be state resident. By Nick Veronin proud of their love for the sub- be entered into the national Tri- ject. Mathlon. Visit waxcenter.com or local franchise of a Entrants will compete against Of course, in addition to get- call to reserve your FREE WAX today. national math tutoring grade-level peers on three math- ting kids excited about math, the A organization is looking oriented games: magic squares, competition gives Bugwadia a MOUNTAIN VIEW for sharp young boys and girls a game in which the children chance to show off his Mathna- 1039-L El Monte Ave to go head to head in an arith- are awarded for creating their sium to parents. Mountain View, CA 94040 metic contest for the chance to own math problems; a counting When Bugwadia is not run- 650.965.8480 win an Xbox Kinect and the game, which tests students’ abil- ning a math competition, he is chance to compete on a national ity to count from any number to often working as a tutor at his Franchise Opportunities Available stage. another number by a determined Mountain View Mathnasium, The Mathnasium of Mountain variable (such as counting from as well as the one he owns in View and Los Altos is calling out 50 to 10 by units of 3); and a Campbell. “The first thing we to all third-, fourth-, fifth- and mental math workout, where the do is to connect math to many sixth-graders with strong math kids must solve problems with- of the things the kids are learn- skills to enter a TriMathlon, out pencil and paper. ing,” he said. “Visualization of scheduled for Sept. 29 from 9 Winners from each grade level the concepts is a very important a.m. to 3 p.m. at the 2510 W. El will be awarded a Xbox Kinect technique that we use.” Camino Real. — a Microsoft-designed video The Mathnasium focuses on Kobad Bugwadia, owner and game console featuring games bringing math off the page and director of the tutoring center, controlled by a device that cap- out of the conceptual world and says he’s looking forward to the tures human movement and showing students how it can be event, which he says works to get translates it into directives for applied in their daily lives. The kids excited about math. on-screen avatars. First-, sec- technique is very effective in get- “I think math can be pretty ond- and third-place winners ting children more interested in cool,” Bugwadia says, noting will each be awarded medals. All math, he said, noting that it is that, unfortunately, it is often participants get a certificate. easy to tell when he has gotten a associated with “long division This is one of many TriMath- student’s attention: “I see their and drudgery.” By hosting a lons being held across the coun- eyes light up.” V competition like this, he says he try. If an entrant scores within hopes kids will either develop the top three for his or her grade Email Nick Veronin at an interest in math, or be more level nationwide, he or she will [email protected]

August 31, 2012 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ 11 -PDBM/FXT Facebook’s oldest user keeps the conversation polite MENLO PARK WOMAN MEETS ZUCKERBERG, TOURS SOCIAL NETWORK’S NEW CAMPUS By Nick Veronin school. Ms. Detlor’s timeline indicates t a little over a century in that she joined Facebook on age, Menlo Park resident Aug. 19, 2009. However, she says AFlorence Detlor is the old- she has been using the site for est known Facebook user. The only one year. Her first picture title, which she pays little mind, post is a shared photo, originally has earned her a tour of the social uploaded by her niece on Ms. networking company’s massive Detlor’s 100th birthday. headquarters, and a meet-and- Officials from the social net- greet with the company’s bil- work confirm there are no known lionaire founder, who at 28 years older users than Ms. Detlor. old is 73 years her junior. Ms. Detlor was born in Can- “I was very impressed,” Ms. ada, and moved to Los Ange- Detlor says, referring to Mark les shortly thereafter. “Not a Zuckerberg. “He was very pleas- moment too soon, I believe,” she ant and official. Very nice.” says. Shortly after noon on Aug. 22, From L.A. she moved north to Ms. Detlor toured the Facebook Menlo Park. She remembers the campus along with a group exact date she first moved into of officials from Little House the home she still lives in to this in Menlo Park, the Peninsula day: Dec. 9, 1955. She loves her Volunteers-run senior activity “beautiful Menlo Park,” she says, center, of which she is a member. even if she doesn’t “like the way MICHELLE LE/THE ALMANAC In fact, it was at Little House they run it sometimes.” Florence Detlor, 101, smiles after writing “Flo thanx” on Facebook’s wall during her tour of the Menlo Park where the 101-year-old Ms. Det- That’s about the most political campus. lor learned the ropes of the popu- Ms. Detlor gets, at least on Face- lar social networking site, and it book. She says she likes to limit was through Little House that her social wall feed to polite dis- truth is she is fairly discerning labyrinthine Facebook campus. clicking and get in there, start this trip was organized. course and pleasant small talk. when it comes to “friending.” According to an official with uploading pictures, they’re in.” Every month Little House Scrolling through her feed “I just want (the conversation) Little House, the Facebook class Mr. Wilson pointed to a recent offers interactive Facebook class- there are earnest questions, such to be meaningful,” she says, is a big hit. “The ability to be able USA Today article featuring Ms. es for seniors to learn how to use as, “Is a garage sale a good way “and to give back a message that to connect and reconnect with Detlor that explores the use of the site, post pictures, add friends to shop?” There are also positive is meaningful.” When she sees long-lost friends, engage with social networks by senior citi- and play social games. The les- proclamations that them, keep up with their zens. That article, “Facebook 101: sons are taught by a volunteer also serve as a call family and kids and just Seniors learn to use the social Facebook employee. to discuss posi- be able to link up with network,” cites a recent Pew Ms. Detlor’s interest in signing tive experiences ‘I was very impressed. He was very their families” is what study that indicates all social net- up for Facebook was piqued by had in church: “I makes the course so pop- work users over the age of 50 use her family. She recalls how fam- heard a thought- pleasant and official. Very nice.’ ular, according to Kwesi the technology predominantly to ily members would often talk provoking sermon FLORENCE DETLOR, REFERRING TO FACEBOOK Wilson, marketing and stay in touch with family. about using the site, occasionally this morning. I FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG communications coor- That’s what Mr. Wilson says suggesting that Ms. Detlor give it can work on that dinator for Little House. he uses it for — staying up to a try. all week.” An Aug. Mr. Wilson says that speed with his family living in The idea was not all that far- 5 post from Ms. the class has grown in Ghana. fetched. While Ms. Detlor admits Detlor reads: “Isn’t popularity, largely due to The article also cited another she isn’t highly tech-savvy, she is it good that we don’t have to face posts that are negative, strange or word of mouth, as Little House recent Pew study that found 33 far from computer-illiterate. The politics on Facebook???” overtly partisan, she has found a members tell their peers about percent of senior citizens on the centenarian got her first personal It may be surprising for the simple solution. how much they have enjoyed Web used social media sites in computer in 1999 — around the more experienced Facebook user “Un-friend!” she exclaims, using the site. “They pick it up 2011. That’s up from 13 percent time Mr. Zuckerberg was enter- that Ms. Detlor is able to avoid from her wheelchair, as she sits in quickly,” he says. “It’s really easy just two years prior. ing his freshman year of high politics within Facebook, but the a meeting space deep within the to use. And as soon as they start Loneliness may be a signifi- cant driver behind this uptick in social media use by the elderly, Mr. Wilson speculates. “What they (the seniors) find, is that Mtn. 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12 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ August 31, 2012 -PDBM/FXT Los Altos senior calls con man’s bluff By Nick Veronin mond. “They are scams.” so that it is the beneficiary initi- No one will ever call from the ating the transaction. Los Altos senior wants her administration asking for per- Still, he said, the administra- peers in Mountain View sonal or banking information tion receives reports like this one Aand elsewhere to be wary over the phone, Kepke said. “We from time to time, and unfortu- of phone calls they may receive advise people to be very careful nately, some people have already from anyone purporting to be when they get a phone call. Social been duped. “What we find,” from the Social Security Admin- Security representatives won’t Kepke said, “is that our benefi- istration. call and ask for that kind of per- ciaries, especially elderly benefi- The woman said she was sonal or banking information.” ciaries, tend to be trustful of the recently contacted by an impos- government and social security, ter claiming he was from the and that trust can get them in government agency and asking trouble if they’re not careful.” for her personal information. ‘The moment he The Los Altos woman was The woman, who wished to mentioned that careful, though, according to remain anonymous, said that Kepke. “Your reader did the right she was called around 10 a.m. he was going to thing,” he said. Aug. 28 by a man claiming to The woman said that the call represent the Social Security need my bank came from a 408 number. When Administration. He told her the information, I said, she reported the fraud, a repre- administration would soon be sentative from the Social Security sending out new Medicare cards “Oh, no.” He hung Administration told her they had to seniors, but before she could up immediatly.’ received numerous similar com- get hers she would have to pro- plaints recently. However, Kepke vide him with some information, LOCAL WOMAN WHO RECEIVED CALL could not confirm whether there such as the name of her bank. has been a recent spree of similar “The moment he mentioned incidents. that he was going to need my If a Social Security beneficiary bank information, I said, ‘Oh, The Social Security Admin- is ever concerned or suspicious no,’” the woman said. “He hung istration is much more likely to about a solicitation of any kind, he The MV Senior Advisory Committee up immediately.” reach out via mail or email and said, that person should write invites you to participate in a “These kinds of calls are request that the beneficiary make down the name and contact reported from time to time,” an appointment to come into a information of the person claim- said Lowell Kepke, a spokesman local branch to provide sensitive ing to be from the administration, for the Social Security Adminis- personal information, or to call then call the toll-free Social Secu- Medicare tration’s regional office in Rich- the administration themselves, rity number: 1-800-772-1213. V Roundtable ATTENTION ADVERTISERS Please join us for a lively discussion on the future of Medicare. After an informative session between our expert panelists, we will break into small groups in hopes of sharing solutions and ideas to send on to our local, state and national representatives. FALL Make Your Voice Count! HOME & GARDEN DESIGN ANNOUNCING OUR 2012 FALL

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Founding Editor, Kate Wakerly THE INDISPENSABLE That spark of unpredictable IMPORTANCE OF GOOGLE creative genius flashed in his NSTAFF Developer needs to work head and he realized he had dis- How often do those of us who covered something very impor- Editor & Publisher remember life before PCs, lap- tant. He sent out 200 letters to Tom Gibboney tops, and cellphones pose the labs and universities asking for with adjacent businesses now rhetorical “How did we get Editorial access to lab facilities, and he got along without all this totally cool 199 rejections because he is “only Managing Editor Andrea Gemmet technology?” Well, we managed a kid with no college degree.” But Staff Writers Daniel DeBolt, Nick Veronin he David-and-Goliath-battle between the giant developer to get along in ignorant bliss Merlone Geier and a handful of small merchants and a cancer researcher at Johns Hop- Intern Emily Efland of what did not yet exist except kins realized the kid had some- building owners over a fence that blocks their access to Photographer Michelle Le T in sci-fi literature and films thing special so Johns Hopkins Photo Intern Daniella Sanchez the San Antonio shopping center is no closer to resolution than (remember the HAL-9000 in gave the kid lab access. Now the Contributors Dale Bentson, it was a few months ago. “2001: A Space Odyssey” back boy has a patent filed and he will Angela Hey, Sheila Himmel, That is when Merlone Geier threw up a fence in the middle in 1969?). However, to return Jennifer Pence, Ruth Schecter, Alissa Stallings save countless lives. He credits of the night that sealed off businesses along San Antonio Road to those primal days now would his research to Google. Design & Production from the center’s parking lot. The action was unannounced and be traumatic to say the least, As a prolific inventor myself I Design Director Shannon Corey in short order was ruled illegal by the city’s zoning adminis- especially for those of us who are use Google every day. In 2006 I Designers Linda Atilano, Lili Cao, trator, Peter Gilli. But even though the fence is long gone the creative inventors and use these invented the “broad-spectrum Diane Haas, Rosanna Leung, Paul Llewellyn, dispute is far from over, unless the two sides, which include technologies every day. Scott Peterson fractional sequestration com- the owners of Barron Park Supply and the International Halal Mountain View’s very own bustion gas liquefier” that also Advertising Market, can reach the compromise that Gilli seeks. Google is to me the technology employs carbon nano-tubes in Vice President Sales and Marketing The merchants charge that Merlone Geier, which is in the the world can least afford lose the multi-phase system. Like Tom Zahiralis midst of developing more than 16 acres of the center into a because of its eclectic value to that 15-year-old boy, I did all Advertising Representatives mixed-use space of housing, offices and retail, including a new every other technology — simple my physics, chemistry, and engi- Judie Block, Brent Triantos Safeway store, is pressuring them to sell out. The small busi- or complex — in today’s world. A neering research via Google. Real Estate Account Executive recent story on the BBC website Rosemary Lewkowitz nesses are located on San Antonio Road and around the corner Now the Chinese government is highlights this better than just interested in my technology as Real Estate Advertising Coordinator on California Avenue, and owners are eager to remain indepen- about anything. Samantha Mejia it holds promise for clean coal dent from the shopping center. And some say Merlone Geier is A 15-year-old American school simply interested in owning all the property out to the street. energy generation. boy back on the East Coast Long live Google! Published every Friday at It is not yet clear how a compromise can be forged, although has invented and developed a 450 Cambridge Avenue Merlone Geier appears to lack much interest in doing anything Jeffrey Van Middlebrook Palo Alto, CA 94306 new cancer screening test that Easy Street and (650) 964-6300 other than putting up a new 6-foot wrought iron fence. City employs carbon nano-tubes that fax (650) 964-0294 Invention Dynamics, Inc. officials say one property owner may be ready to accept the allow for such insidious cancers Email news and photos to: [email protected] fence, and Barron Park Plumbing Supply has adequate parking as pancreatic, ovarian, and lung Email letters to: in front of its business. But the proposed fence would block the to be detected 168 times faster [email protected] exit for a driveway at the Halal Market, which could do serious and 1,000 times cheaper than GRADING POLICY WOULD News/Editorial Department harm. any other tests used. This intel- FAIL REAL WORLD TEST (650) 964-6300 fax (650) 964-0294 “It killed my business,” said co-owner Mehran Farshad about lectually precocious boy got the As a graduate of Mountain Display Advertising Sales the cyclone fence that lasted only a few days in May. idea while daydreaming in his View High School who read the (650) 964-6300 In our view, the city should have seen this dispute coming and freshman biology class one day, article about the new grading Classified Advertising Sales extracted a compromise from Merlone Geier as a condition of and he did exhaustive Google policy, I was extremely con- s searches into carbon nano-tubes, fax (650) 326-0155 approval, rather than allowing the company to run roughshod cerned about the way this system over these merchants. The impact of opening a small access alley cancers, and cancer screening Email Classified [email protected] tests. Email Circulation [email protected] to Halal Market will not cause substantial harm to the developer. Continued on next page The Voice is published weekly by Embarcadero But if the plan for a fence goes forward, it could do great harm to Media Co. and distributed free to residences and at least one business now, and perhaps even more to the popular businesses in Mountain View. If you are not currently receiving the paper, you may request Milk Pail Market in 2016, if its agreement to share parking at the free delivery by calling 964-6300. Subscriptions Ross store and BevMo parking lot is not renewed in 2016. for $60 per year, $100 per 2 years are welcome. Paul Brunmeier, a partner with Charles Riegler at Barron Copyright ©2012 by Embarcadero Media Park Plumbing Supply, told the Voice last week that he believes Company. All rights reserved. Member, Mountain View the fence issue is “...an example of, in my opinion, a bullying Chamber of Commerce tactic by the developer to put existing successful Mountain View businesses in a poor state if not try to force them out of business altogether so they could obtain this land cheaper for their own NWHAT’S YOUR VIEW? plans.” All views must include a home address and contact Merlone Geier managing director Greg Geertsen in May phone number. Published letters will also appear on the web site, www.MountainViewOnline.com, denied that his company has been putting pressure on the five and occasionally on the Town Square forum. businesses to accept the company’s buyout offers. TOWN SQUARE FORUM “This is not our intent at all,” he said. “The intent is to protect Post your views on the our property rights.” Town Square forum at www.MountainViewOnline.com Rather than falling back on the “property rights” argument, we would like to see Merlone Geier express a commitment to EMAIL your views to [email protected]. Indicate working out a compromise that will enable all five businesses if it is a letter to be published. near the corner of San Antonio and California to maintain their MAIL to: Editor current status. Mountain View Voice, The old adage “Good fences make good neighbors” could apply P.O. Box 405 Mountain View, CA 94042-0405 here if the fence were adjusted so that all parties could live with CALL the Viewpoint desk at 223-6507 it. Otherwise, it will leave a black mark on the shopping center project before it is even completed. August 31, 2012 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ 15 LETTERS fare when he is required to work to further pressure on these Continued from page 15 at his daily job? He certainly will students when looking toward not last very long with these poor college applications. This process Inspirations is formulated. habits. will significantly change who As a current college student Not only is this arrangement is accepted to certain colleges. a guide to the spiritual community who has experienced both the unrealistic in terms of transi- Students accepted will not neces- classroom and work environment tioning to one’s career, but it sarily be the ones who will truly through various internships, this also places more stress on stu- succeed in the real world, but supposedly “progressive” system dents and less control in their rather solely those who test well. seems more rigid and unrealistic hands regarding their grades. This new policy is one that moves MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH than ever. With a down economy Many students rely on the fact grades farther away from any and college students who already that participation and work translation to real world success. Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m. have difficulty translating their ethic are reflected in grading It is a system that rewards IQ Saturday Services: Worship 10:45 a.m. classroom skills to a real world policies. Sometimes, there is points rather than valuable skill. Wednesday Study Groups: 10-11 a.m. setting, this system only perpet- only so much a student can do Alyssa Jacobson Pastor Kenny Fraser, B.A.M. DIV uates a world where unrealistic to illustrate “mastery of mate- Oakhurst Avenue, Los Altos letter grades lead to a disconnect rial.” Outstanding students may 1425 Springer Rd., Mtn. View Ofﬁce Hrs. M-F 9am-1pm with practical knowledge. In the spend almost their entire lives www.mtviewda.adventistfaith.org Phone: 650-967-2189 working world, people are not studying, yet still have difficulty HOSPITAL CEO’S SALARY hired because of their perfect with certain material. Thus, this 4.00 college GPA, but rather system is actually less effective IS UNREASONABLE because of their valuable work in illustrating a student’s success I read that San Francisco has To include your Church in ethic or interesting skill listed on in school because those who are the nationís highest paid police their resume. determined and hard-working chief ($321,577). He is compen- Inspirations Letter grades that reflect the aren’t necessarily the ones who sated better than the police chiefs Please call Blanca Yoc so-called “mastery” of material always receive the highest test of Los Angeles ($307,291) and at 650-223-6596 will only take a student so far in scores or assignment grades. New York Cityís Police Commis- his or her career and life. While While it is useful to assess and sioner ($205,180). or e-mail [email protected] this student may understand provide feedback about these Interesting that no top cop how to solve the algebra equa- non-academic factors, if this makes as much as a third the tions, if he never arrives at class information is not reflected in salary of the CEO of taxpayer- except on test days, how will he a student’s grade, then this leads supported El Camino Hospital. Kary Lynch San Jose

BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER FOR READERS ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA Did you know that Mountain View residents read over 32,000 books this summer? Thatís how See the many books were logged in the Mountain View Libraryís future of Alzheimer’s summer reading database. 513 children, 311 teens, and 116 adults participated in our sum- in-home care. mer reading program this year. 487 families made the commit- You’re invited to a free seminar to walk through ment to read together. Our local the seven most common and challenging behaviors schools also had a competition to see who could read the most you face with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. books. Castro School was the We’ll show you how our techniques capture life’s winner with over 60 percent of their students reading 7,862 journey, keep your loved one safe and engaged, and books. how to take care of yourself. Our highly trained This program could not have and qualified in-home CAREGivers are here for you, been possible without the gen- and here with your loved one. erous support of the Friends of the Mountain View Library. NOTE: Due to the increase and awareness of They funded all the wonderful Alzheimer’s and other dementias, space is programs for children and teens, extremely limited. as well as prize books for those who met their reading goals. We are also grateful to the fol- What lowing businesses who donated Helping Families Cope prizes to our adult participants: Where Home Instead Senior Care 191 Restaurant, Amici’s Piz- 883 N. Shoreline Blvd A100 zeria, Amarin Thai, Casa Lupe, Mountain View, CA 94043 Cascal, Clarke’s Charcoal Broil- When Tuesday, September 18 & 25, 3:00 - 6:00pm er, Dana Street Roasting Co., RSVP by Monday, September 10 Don Giovanni, Fiesta Del Mar 650.691.9671 or [email protected] Too, Gelato Classico, Hangen, Hobee’s, Posh Bagel, Safeway, St. Stephen’s Green, Steak Out, Tied House, and Milk Pail. This was a true community partnership with the library, schools, businesses, and volunteers working together to support lifelong learning, and encouraging our children and residents of Each Home Instead Senior Care Franchise Office is homeinstead.com /168 all ages to read. Independently Owned and Operated. Rosanne Macek

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DANIELLA SANCHEZ Stephanie Lucianovic in her kitchen, where she indulges culinary interests developed after overcoming her picky-eater ways.

She will be featured at an author event at Books Inc. at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto on Sept. 27, and she’s vowed to You are what convert audience members into okra lovers with one of her own recipes. That’s right, okra. Not too long ago, okra was on the list of things the adult Lucianovic still couldn’t you (won’t) eat bear to eat. As she recounts in her book, finding okra on the menu when she had din- LOCAL AUTHOR DELVES INTO THE ROOTS OF PICKY EATING ner at a friend’s house set off a silent wave of panic. While feigning interest in the recipe, “my brain chanted, Slimy okra, bad okra, By Andrea Gemmet evil okra, GAG!” she wrote. “Every picky eater — former or current — obody wants to be a picky eater. has been in this situation. Every adult picky ‘Every adult Though their frustrated parents eater knows that dinner parties are their picky eater knows Nmight think otherwise, picky eaters personal hell.” would love to be able to tuck into a plate of Fortunately for Lucianovic, her friend’s food with enthusiasm instead of facing it okra was a tasty revelation, and using the that dinner with knotted stomachs, tearful protests and same recipe, she cooked it every night for a gagging. month. She knows she’s taking a risk bring- parties are their Stephanie Lucianovic knows what it’s like. ing a dish to an author event, she says. For years, mealtimes were a torment for the “My friend warned me never to bring personal hell.’ Menlo Park resident, who choked down food,” Lucianovic says. “I told Books Inc. STEPHANIE LUCIANOVIC vegetables under duress, detested fish and that’s what I want to do, and they’re fine didn’t dare eat a peach. Now a food writer with it. I make farro salad with okra in it, and culinary school graduate, she delves into and I want to get people to try it.” the evolving science of taste in her new book, Lucianovic’s book — part memoir, part “Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest popular science — explores current research To Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate.” Continued on next page

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18 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ August 31, 2012 8FFLFOE didn’t want to offend. She simply Her interest in food blossomed — not of him, he was sweet and want to read a book about picky (picky eating) gets carried into couldn’t make herself eat food to the point that she enrolled nice,” Lucianovic says. “We’d eaters. “One editor wanted it to adulthood is when it gets really she found abhorrent. in culinary school, started a ask how he wanted (ingredients) be about why we love the foods lonely. It affects social interac- “It’s not like people really food blog, became a food writer prepared, and he’d show us how we love. I said ‘picky’ has to be in tions, makes them stressful. ... understand,” Lucianovic says. and editor. The picky eater had he wanted things done. Every the title.” They’re not doing it to be annoy- “You can’t help (food) prefer- somehow morphed into a foodie, morning was like a mini cooking While she did a lot of research ing or childish or difficult.” ences, any more than you can “annoying diners around me by class with Jacques Pepin.” into the topic, she says parents help what music you like. No one taking dark and blurry photos of But while she grew to love with serious concerns about their INFORMATION gets into a knock-down, drag-out peaches and broccoli, and hap- children’s nutrition need to con- fight over liking Miley Cyrus.” pily eats fish, there are still some sult a pediatrician or dietitian Stephanie Lucianovic is set to ‘You can’t help things she can’t stand to eat, and and not rely on her book. speak about her book, “Suffering Becoming a ‘picky foodie’ has no interest in learning to love “I can’t tell you how many peo- Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest But she wanted to go out to (food) preferences, — like bananas and raisins, or ple have come to me and said, ‘I To Understand Why We Hate restaurants without worrying any more than the titular frozen succotash she didn’t think anyone would write the Foods We Hate,” at 7 p.m. that she couldn’t stomach some endured as a child. about how I felt,’ “ she says. on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Books of the things on her dish, and you can help what She now considers herself a “The most important thing Inc. in the Town & Country Vil- eat at friends’ houses without “picky foodie,” and has written for me is that I want people to lage, 855 El Camino Real in Palo offending them by refusing part music you like.’ a blog entry for the Washington feel that they’re not alone. When Alto. of a meal. Post enumerating the many So Lucianovic set out to over- STEPHANIE LUCIANOVIC reasons that bananas are evil. come her picky ways, inadver- She’s also discovered that KQED tently using a technique neu- Forum host Michael Krasny is a roscientists call “pattern reset.” every single meal I ate out.” fellow picky eater. Stealing a bite or two of food off She even had a stint in the prep “You can bond with someone Since 1945 the plate of her decidedly non- kitchen for a season of Jacques over raisin-hate,” she says. %BJMZ $)"3$0"-#30*-&3 picky husband helped open her Pepin’s public television series, Lucianovic says she was lucky -VODI 2011 up to new foods, she writes. The “Fast Food My Way.” to find an editor who embraced 4QFDJBMT 7PUFE positive associations overwrote “I worked in the back kitchen the topic, as a lot of them didn’t BNUPQN the negative ones. and was terrified the whole time understand why anyone would .PO'SJ ²#FTU#VSHFS³ GPSZFBST JOBSPX NORTHERN Prices Effective: BTSFQPSUFEJO CALIFORNIA STORES UIF.UO7JFX7PJDF www.99ranch.com 08/31- 09/06/2012 #SFBLGBTUPO8FFLFOET 0QFOEBZT GPS-VODI%JOOFS

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Completed applications should be sent or faxed to the Bourne, same as the old Bourne. That’s Superintendent’s Office of the Mountain View-Whisman School Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Century 20: 11:35 a.m. & 4:25 the impression left by “The Bourne District by 4:00 PM on Wednesday, September 12, 2012. p.m.; In 3D at 1:55, 7 & 9:20 p.m. Legacy,” a would-be franchise refresher in which Jeremy Renner grabs the baton from The Intouchables (R) Aquarius Theatre: 3:15, 6 & 8:45 p.m. (( Matt Damon. Everything in this film you’ve Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. seen before, whether it be recycled from Lawless (R) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:35, 4:10, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. the “Bourne” trilogy or even Joe Wright’s Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 12:45, 2, 3:20, 4:35, 5:55, 7:15, 8:40 & 10:10 “Hanna,” fer gosh sakes. What is this p.m. movie about? A chemically enhanced super soldier (Renner) discovers his masters have Marvel’s The Avengers (PG-13) (((( Century 16: 6:40 & turned on him. Cross tracks down Marta 9:50 p.m. Shearing (Rachel Weisz), the only surviv- ing doctor who used to maintain him; now Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 20: 10:30 Math she too has been targeted. Renner and p.m. Weisz are as solid as one might respec- The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Century 16: 11:10 tively expect, but the film doesn’t make Tu t o r i n g a.m.; 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m. Century 20: 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 us care much about them, or say anything & 10:20 p.m. more pointed about the state of Ameri- can covert affairs than “We are morally The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) Century indefensible and absolutely necessary.” Experts. 16: 11 a.m.; 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; Instead, the film expends acres of talk on 1:40, 3:50, 6 & 8:10 p.m. military doublespeak and technobabble. As Scott Glenn’s CIA director confesses ParaNorman (PG) ((1/2 Century 16: 1:50 & 6:50 p.m.; In 3D at early on, “I’ve kind of lost my perspective 11:30 a.m.; 4:15 & 9:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m. & 4 p.m.; In 3D at on what’s possible.” Just remember, kids, 1:35, 6:55 & 9:15 p.m. you’re not paranoid if they’re really out to The Possession (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10 get you ... or your movie dollars. Rated PG-13 for violence and action. Two hours, & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 2:55, 5:40, 8 & 10:40 p.m. 15 minutes. — P.C. Premium Rush (PG-13) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 2:25, 5, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:35, 5:50, 7:05, 8:15, 9:25 & 10:35 p.m. THE CAMPAIGN --1/2 (Century 16, Century 20) Will Ferrell and Summer Session Robot & Frank (PG-13) ((( Century 20: 11:50 a.m.; 2:20, Zach Galifianakis bring their boundary- Enrolling Now! 4:45, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 2, 5 & 7:25 p.m.; Fri.-Sun. pushing comedic sensibilities to the world also at 9:45 p.m. of politics with this uneven chuckler. The The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) Guild Theatre: Sat. at midnight. strong cast and topical plot help make for a hilarious first hour. But “The Campaign” Ruby Sparks (R) (((1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m.; eventually fizzles beneath a spattering of Fri.-Sun. also at 9:50 p.m. raunchy humor that often misses the mark. Ferrell plays North Carolina-based U.S. Sleepwalk With Me Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:30, 7 & 9:15 Rep. Cam Brady as sort of an amalgam of p.m. Mathnasium of Mountain View - Los Altos George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Brady Sparkle (PG-13) Century 20: 10:20 p.m. has long run unopposed in his district 7%L#AMINO2EAL 3TEs-OUNTAIN6IEW #! and again looks destined for re-election To Rome With Love (R) (( Century 16: 9:40 p.m. -!4( despite an episode of infidelity. The greedy Total Recall (PG-13) Century 20: 9:05 p.m. tycoon Motch brothers (Lithgow and Ayk- [email protected] royd) are eager to supplant Brady with a www.mathnasium.com/mountainviewlosaltos -Skip it For show times, plot synopses, candidate who will support their agenda, --Some redeeming qualities trailers and more movie and turn to the oblivious and awkward + TH'2!$%3s(/-%7/2+(%,0s35--%202/'2!-3 ---A good bet info, visit www.mv-voice.com Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), the son of a ----Outstanding and click on movies. wealthy businessman. The filmmakers do

20 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ August 31, 2012 8FFLFOE well in not pandering to one particular side strict formula to a reassuring story about robot isn’t programmed to be law-abiding of the political spectrum. In fact, part of improving one’s life by embracing new or moralistic: Its only concern is Frank’s the movie’s flair comes in avoiding actual people and experiences. It’s a cinematic mental and physical health. And so Frank politics (when an intern brings up a real warm fuzzy if ever there was one, and makes the reasonable case that the best political issue, Brady kicks him out of the the performances by Cluzet and Sy prove way to keep his mind active isn’t the gar- campaign headquarters). Where the film highly appealing. But in America, where dening the robot proposes, but planning falters is in its script. Winning scenes trade we invented this formula, audiences are burglaries.”Robot & Frank” operates on time with squirm-inducing moments. likely to find it discomfitingly retrograde. a humble scale, with small gestures of There is some smart social commentary Rated R for language and some drug use. futurism and an uncluttered visual and tucked in, but it’s tough to take seriously One hour, 52 minutes. — P.C. narrative style. There’s a deftly handled given the picture’s crude undertones. “The subplot involving the local librarian (Susan Campaign” shows a great deal of promise MOONRISE KINGDOM Sarandon), who takes an interest in Frank, and is a worthwhile viewing for Ferrell and ---1/2 her only real patron. And there’s some Galifianakis fans. But, not unlike some (Century 16, Century 20) For more than good humor in the robot/Frank relation- politicians, it proves unable to live up to a decade, writer-director Wes Anderson ship to counterbalance the poignancy its own potential. Rated R for language, has faced criticism of his films being fussily of his fading days.Though the audience sexual content and brief nudity. One hour, repetitive. Though his new film is noth- may be tempted to humanize the robot 25 minutes. — T.H. ing if not fussy, it’s Anderson’s freshest, (Peter Sarsgaard), the film excels most as breeziest work since the high-water mark a showcase for the still-crafty, supremely of 1998’s “Rushmore.” “Moonrise” tells of human Langella. Whether being grumpy CELESTE AND JESSE a pair of troubled and gifted 12-year-olds or sly or existentially fretful, Langella who, in 1965, elope into the wild of New makes a great case for the power of FOREVER --1/2 the screen to be a looking glass. Rated (Century 16) Till now, the premier divorce Penzance Island. Other than Anderson’s PG-13 for some language. One hour, 30 comedies have been to some degree Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones in “Hope Springs.” own oeuvre, the film best recalls “Harold minutes.— P.C. mean-spirited, from “His Girl Friday” to and Maude” as an offbeat romance of “War of the Roses.” But screenwriters two lovers against the world. Anderson of the cast from the previous film. The minutes.— P.C. Rashida Jones and Will McCormack have contrasts the simplicity of young love RUBY SPARKS ---1/2 summer-themed adventure that picks up devised a kinder, gentler divorce comedy with the adults’ insistence of complicat- (Palo Alto Square) “Ruby Sparks” is the where “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick in “Celeste and Jesse Forever.”A “rom ing everything. The script by Anderson brainchild of Zoe Kazan, who wrote the Rules” left off, at the end of Greg’s com” that plays off of or squirms out HOPE SPRINGS --- and Roman Coppola allows none of the screenplay and plays the title role ... of seventh-grade year. As for the tone, of the cliches, the film stars Jones and (Century 16, Century 20) “I want a real plot elements to spin out of control, and a brainchild. Ruby is the perfect woman it’s strictly middle-school slapstick and Andy Samberg as the title characters, marriage again.” With those words in the the director keeps it short and sweet. So for young, frustrated novelist Calvin middle-class worries, like how to dodge high school sweethearts who got married dramedy “Hope Springs,” Meryl Streep’s if Anderson’s careful compositions and Weir-Fields (Paul Dano). He knows this parental expectations and play video but eventually hit a wall. Now six months housewife throws the gauntlet before her dollhouse-styled production design send because he wrote her on his typewriter games instead. Even for an episodic kiddie separated and heading for a divorce, their husband of 31 years, played by Tommy you up the wall, keep your distance. But to break through his writer’s block. Ruby farce, “Dog Days” seems overly familiar in relationship is, ironically, stronger than Lee Jones. Streep’s Kay Soames ropes her this time, the filmmaker isn’t too clever by literally comes to life and once Calvin its comic premises and conflicts. But it’ll ever — as inseparable best friends. But husband Arnold into a weeklong program half: He’s just clever enough. Rated PG-13 takes the magical-realist leap and accepts all be new to its intended audience, who unresolved romantic feelings have lin- run by “You Can Have the Marriage You for sexual content and smoking. One hour, that Ruby isn’t going anywhere, he starts are likely to lap it up as happily as the gered, consciously for Jesse and perhaps Want” author Dr. Bernard Feld (Steve 34 minutes. — P.C. enjoying life with the girl of his dreams. Heffleys’ new mutt, Sweetie, at his water unconsciously for Celeste. Even at a slim Carell). The master class in acting put on “Ruby Sparks” makes an entertaining dish. Like its predecessors, “Dog Days” 91 minutes, the picture feels padded with by Streep and the particularly pitch-perfect admonishment for anyone navigating the offers a mostly shapeless plot, as Greg Jones is the big draw here. While Carell, PARANORMAN --1/2 too much material that’s dead on arrival.. (Century 16, Century 20) Norman sees tricky terrain between initial attraction gets into varieties of trouble, shooting like his character, expertly facilitates, the Samberg decently holds up his end of the dead people, but he doesn’t tremble like and a lasting relationship, a lesson in see- himself in the foot when it comes to his leads put themselves under the micro- hipster duet, and McCormack puts in a Haley Joel Osment of “The Sixth Sense.” ing the real person behind the exterior that friendship, courtship and family life. The scope, finding fascinating rhythms in their nice supporting turn as a friend of Jesse’s, Instead, the 11-year-old greets the attracts us. There’s plenty of quirky humor. main thread involves Greg lying about give-and-takes, and speaking volumes but it’s Jones who easily walks off with deceased like old friends in directors Sam Dayton and Faris also get serious comic having a job at the Plainview Heights with body language. “Hope Springs” turns the movie, flimsy though it may be. Rated Fell and Chris Butler’s stop-motion ani- mileage from Calvin’s life-loving mother Country Club so he can spend time around out to be a different kind of mainstream R for language, sexual content and drug mated comedy. There’s much to applaud (Annette Bening) and stepfather (Antonio Holly; as a result, dedicated gamer Greg movie, wielding star power to turn a giant, use. One hour, 32 minutes.— P.C. in the charming first act that develops Banderas), joyous contrasts to Calvin’s realizes the outdoors aren’t so bad after unsparing mirror on its target audience: the main characters and establishes the fretfulness. But “Ruby Sparks” proves it’s all. And so “Dog Days” gently imparts a in this case, baby boomers in stale mar- small-township setting of Blithe Hollow something special by being unafraid to fol- lesson or two, about taking responsibility riages. There’s a riveting intensity — and a THE DARK KNIGHT RISES with such incredible detail. Norman low its premise to a dark place, the dream for and learning from mistakes. The oddest sense of privilege — to the way the movie ---- Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee of turning into a nightmare. In a time of thing about the movie is that this kid-lit takes us into squirmy private moments (Century 16, Century 20) All the world’s “Let Me In”) is a sensitive soul, branded mind-numbing rom coms, “Ruby Sparks” adaptation hardcore disses reading. Rated and focuses nearly every scene on the Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s ambi- as the local freak and bullied at middle uses fantasy to get real about modern PG for some rude humor. One hour, 34 sometimes funny, more often sad dynamic tious Batman trilogy, which comes to an school. Aardman veteran Fell (“Flushed romance. Rated R for language including minutes.— P.C. between the two lead characters.A hand- emphatic conclusion. The screenplay by Away”) and first-time screenwriter Butler sexual references, and for some drug use. ful of comic flourishes lean toward jokiness Nolan and his brother Jonathan takes (storyboard supervisor of “Coraline”) One hour, 44 minutes.— P.C. at odds with the film’s greater scheme, inspiration from “A Tale of Two Cities” HIT AND RUN -- excel at creating a delightful character of dramatic cultivated awkwardness and Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” in depicting (Century 16, Century 20) Gearheads piece, teeming with wit and atmosphere. TO ROME WITH LOVE -- between two people facing hard truths. the levels of society: the 99 percent versus unite! Others disperse. To paraphrase the But once the plot unleashes the walking (Century 20, Century 16) There are three Also, one might well wish for a chink in the the 1 percent, the skyscrapers down to archetypal patrolman, there’s nothing to dead, the brain of the screenplay seems million stories in the Eternal City; Woody armor of Carell’s too-perfect shrink. But the sewers. The leitmotif of Nolan’s well- see here in “Hit and Run,” a chase comedy half-eaten by zombies. The story spins into Allen tells four of them. To follow the the movie’s countercultural commitment orchestrated Batman saga is how a soci- from Dax Shepard.Nothing, that is, but a protracted and all-too-familiar chase enjoyable but overpraised “Midnight in to character and performance is enough to ety, and an individual, responds to a fall. a lot of yee-haw stunt driving, much of scene. Drawing parallels between the Paris,” Allen goes “To Rome with Love” give “Hope” a try. Rated PG-13 for mature Batman has receded into billionaire Bruce it performed by the movie’s real star: a 18th-century witchhunts and the bullying and promptly loses his way. Allen long ago thematic content involving sexuality. One Wayne (Christian Bale), a limping recluse. black 1967 Lincoln Continental convert- of today’s “freaks,” the message becomes made his reputation as a filmmaker and no hour, 40 minutes. — P.C. He faces two characters plucked from the ible. Wheelman Charlie, a member of the murky. The notion that fear breeds bul- one can take that away from him, not even pages of Batman comics: fearsome ter- federal Witness Protection Program, takes lying, as well as mob violence, seems Woody himself. But that doesn’t stop him rorist Bane (Tom Hardy) and cat burglar his girlfriend of one year, Annie (Kristen simplistic and clouds the real theme of from trying. The most pleasurable aspect Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), who wants Bell) to L.A. for a job interview she has THE INTOUCHABLES -- (Aquarius) In “The Intouchables,” a rich, forgiveness. Wonderful stop-motion and of the film — apart from the location a “clean slate” in an internet age when only hours to get to. Tipped-off ex-con stuffy, white man exposes a poor black immersive 3-D techniques can’t stop a photography of Darius Khondji — is the information is immortal. The film delivers a (Bradley Cooper) seeking revenge on man to the “finer things” in life; in turn, misconceived concept from running amok onscreen appearance of Allen. None of whole lotta movie, with cast-of-thousands Charlie. Yee-haw, and so forth. The film the black man teaches the white man how like Frankenstein’s monster. Rated PG for the storylines is without problems. The spectacle and giant-sized action. The isn’t totally lacking in shaggy charm, and to loosen up and love. No need to check scary action and images, thematic ele- tales tend to be predictable and, in terms Nolans consider the issues of the day it’s clearly a labor of love for Shepard and your watch. It’s still 2012. With its brash ments, rude humor and language. 1 hour, of humor and thematic import, weak tea. (there’s a big Occupy Gotham theme); his real-life life partner (and rumored wife) humor and emotional generosity, “The 36 minutes. — S.T. More distressing is Allen’s regressive treat- explore the role of legendary heroes in Bell. Depending on how much you like Intouchables” has crowd-pleaser written ment of women and an off-putting solip- galvanizing the public; and labor to ensure Shepard you may well like “Hit and Run.” all over it, but there’s no mistaking the sism. Repeatedly, sexy women confess that how their Batman ends dovetails with But don’t expect much more than drifting their attraction to Woody-esque men with and abrupt turns, both with the cars and queasy racial implications. Francois Cluzet ROBOT & FRANK --- 2005’s “Batman Begins.” Rated PG-13 for (Palo Alto Square) In”Robot & Frank,” power, celebrity, neuroses and a tendency the plot. The movie narrowly functions as (“Tell No One”) plays Phillippe, a quadri- violence, sensuality and language. Two a robot helps a fading old man to see for “reminiscing” about the past. Allen’s a relationship comedy “driven” by erup- plegic millionaire who unexpectedly plucks hours, 45 minutes. — P.C. life, and himself, more clearly.The robot privileged-male, American-in-Rome con- tive trust issues and peppered with con- Senegalese immigrant Driss (Omar Sy) out is a gift from son (James Marsden) to descension takes most of the fun out of versations pitched somewhere between of the Parisian ghetto to be a live-in home- DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: father (Frank Langella), a gift intended the film. Rated R for sexual references. Tarantino and Seinfeld. Ultimately, instead care provider. Phillippe — also a closet to troubleshoot the creeping dementia of One hour, 42 minutes. — P.C. DOG DAYS -- of feeling transported, you may feel adventurer — appreciates Driss’ irrever- (Century 20) “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog retired “second-story man” Frank. Frank’s abandoned on the side of the road. ent insistence on prodding his boss out of Days” reunites the core cast of previous initial reaction — “You’re going to leave NMOVIECRITICS Rated R for pervasive language including his discomfort zone and into his need for entries and maintains a tonal consistency. speed and romance. Wildly popular in its me with this death machine?” — turns sexual references, graphic nudity, some S.T.- Susan Tavernetti, P.C. Peter Canavese, Here again is Everyboy Greg and the rest native France, “The Intouchables” applies to opportunism when he realizes that the violence and drug content. One hour, 40 T.H.-Tyler Hanley August 31, 2012 ■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ 21 MOUNTAINVIEWVOICE NHIGHLIGHT LABOR DAY AT SHORELINE LAKE Three days of outdoor activities in a waterfront environment. Attendees can take in brunch with a lovely lakeside view, customized picnic basket/watercraft combos, as well as a plethora of other goings on. Sept. 1-3, 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Shoreline Lake Aquatic Center & Lakeside Cafe, 3160 N. Shoreline Blvd., (PJOHT0O Mountain View. Call 650-965-7474. www.enewsarchive.com/59849 ART GALLERIES ‘Water’ A Group Exhibit Thirty Bay Area artists display water-themed artwork during the “Water” exhibit at Gallery 9. Artists explore the theme through a variety of media. GUARDIANS AT Meet the artists on Sept. 7, 5-8 p.m. Exhibit runs through Sept. 29. Gallery 9 hours: 11-5 CANTOR p.m.; Sun., 12-4 p.m. Gallery 9-Los Altos, 143 A museum guard is Main St., Los Altos. www.gallery9losaltos. flanked by sculptures com in Andy Freeberg’s Hot Days: Cool Art The artists of View- 2008 photo points Gallery celebrate 35 years of art in Los Altos with an all-gallery group show “Michelangelo’s exhibiting individual interpretations of art in Moses and the oils, watercolors, pastels, mixed medium and Dying Slave, Puskin ceramics. Gallery closes at 3 p.m. on Sundays. Museum of Fine Arts.” 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. www.viewpointsgallery.com The photograph is Memorial Church Tour Located in the part of an exhibit at Main Quad, a few minutes’ walk from the Stanford’s Cantor Arts center, the Stanford Memorial Church is the Center, Museum Way physical heart of the campus, replete with and Lomita Drive. stained glass windows, mosaics, and stone carvings. Fridays at 2 p.m., rain or shine. Admission is free. Cantor Arts Center, Lomita Drive at Museum Information: museum. Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/visit/ stanford.edu; public_tours.html 650-723-4177. Papua New Guinea Sculpture Gar- den Tour Created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea, the garden contains wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and magical beings that illustrate clan stories and creation myths. Third Sundays of the Month, 2 p.m., rain or shine. Meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive. Cantor Arts Center, Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/visit/ in personal and spiritual growth. It is easy to includes refreshments. Sept. 7, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Sports Page in Mountain View, hosted by The 408-507-9858. www.lifetreecafe.com public_tours.html think of one’s self as kind & compassionate, $9. Cubberley Community Center Pavilion, Duvets. Any instrument welcome. Sept. 4, 6-9 until there is conflict with others. Tuesdays, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Call 650- p.m. Sports Page Bar & Grill, 1431 Plymouth SENIORS AUDITIONS Sept. 4-Sept. 25, 7:30-9 p.m. $15 per class. 395-8847. www.FridayatthePav.com St., Mountain View. Call 267-507-4867. Aurora Singers no-stress audition Ananda Church, 2171 El Camino Real, Palo duvetsrock.com Introduction to the CPUC Attendees Singers interested in joining Aurora Singers Alto. Call 650-323-3363. www.ananda- EXHIBITS learn about how to save on their utility bills, are invited to attend a “meet the director” paloalto.org ON STAGE how to participate in the California Telephone evening for information and a no-stress audi- Explorations in Colored Pencil District Access Program (CTAP), how to avoid phone tion. No prepared audition piece is needed. COMMUNITY EVENTS Chapter 210 of the Colored Pencil Society of The 25th annual Putnam county scams and more. Sept. 6, 1-2 p.m. Mountain The 60-voice chorale, which sings in a variety America presents “Explorations in Colored spelling bee Winner of the 2005 Tony View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Moun- of genres, particularly seeks men and first Balanced View Open Meeting Educa- Pencil,” an exhibit of northern California Award for Best Book of a Musical, features a tain View. Call 650-903-6330. sopranos. Sept. 4, 7:15 p.m. Unitarian Univer- tion in the Nature of the Mind Every Tuesday, artists working with colored pencil. Original cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is salist Church, 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo 7:30-8:30 p.m. University Church, 1611 Stan- art and prints will be for sale. The public the one place where they can stand out and TALKS/AUTHORS Alto. www.aurorasingers.net ford Avenue at Bowdoin, Palo Alto. www. may vote for first-, second-, and third-place fit in at the same time. Sept. 6, 8-10 p.m. $18 balancedview.org People’s Choice awards, announced Sept. 22. - $38 Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los An evening with John Rothmann This author, consultant and radio talk show host CLASSES/WORKSHOPS The exhibit shows Sept. 2-Sept. 28, Free Main Altos. Call 650-941-0551. www.busbarn.org CONCERTS Street Cafe and Books, 134 Main St., Los TheatreWorks presents ‘Time Stands discusses the current situation in the Middle ‘Esther’s Pledge’ Workshops Adoles- Altos. Call 650-787-9953. www.cpsa210.org Still’ By Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margu- East and the upcoming U.S. presidential elec- cent Counseling Services offers substance Piano Duo Fantatsies A CSMA Faculty Sculpture from the Fisher Collection lies, this Tony Award nominee follows a thrill- tion. Rothmann has spoken at more than 150 abuse-prevention workshops covering warn- concert featuring husband-and-wife musi- This exhibit features pieces by John Chamber- seeking photojournalist and her foreign cor- campuses throughout the United States, Can- ing signs, education, how to talk to kids, cians Klara Frei and Temirzhan Yerzhanov. lain, Sol LeWitt Claes Oldenburg and Martin respondent lover after they return from a har- ada and Israel, and is co-author of the book and steps for getting help. Parents welcome. Sept. 6, Community School of Music and Arts Puryear, together with Carl Andre’s Copper- rowing stint covering the war. “Time Stands ìIcon of Evil.î Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. $13-$25. Osh- Youth (ages 10-14): third Thursday of the at Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Moun- Zinc Plain, a floor piece composed of 36 tiles; Still” is a portrait of a relationship at an man Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. month. Must RSVP to [email protected]. tain View. www.arts4all.org/attend and John Chamberlain’s Bijou, a large early impasse. Aug. 15, $23-$73. Mountain View Call 650-223-8664. paloaltojcc.org/arts Young adults (ages 15-21): first Thursday of work made of crushed automobiles and paint. Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro Humanist community forum “Public the month. Through December, 6-7:30 p.m. DANCE Wed.-Sun.; Feb. 29-Oct. 13, 2013; open 11 St., Mountain View. www.theatreworks.org Education, Its Rise and Fall” (Haram Hirajan). Free. Adolescent Counseling Services, 1717 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thursday until 8 p.m.). Cantor In the information age, public education itself Dancing on the Square - Country Embarcardero Road, suite 4000, Palo Alto. Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. is slow to adapt to the fast-changing rules in Western The 30-minute demonstration of Call 650-424-0852 ext 200. www.acs-teens. museum.stanford.edu RELIGION/ transmission of information from one genera- org/ country western dancing instructed by Arthur SPIRITUALITY tion to another, and this is the principal chal- Foothill College Registration Registra- Murray continues on with public participation. LIVE MUSIC lenge public education faces today. Sept. 2, tion for fall quarter is ongoing through Sept. Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m. Courthouse Square, 2200 Bible Club Leaders Needed Volunteers 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The Student Center at Palo 23 for all students at Foothill College. Fall Broadway St., Redwood City. www.redwood- Live acoustic guitar Live acoustic guitar are needed to help lead or co-lead Bible Clubs Alto High School (in the middle of campus), classes begin the week of Sept. 24 and con- city.org/events/Dancing.html on Thursdays at Morocco’s Restaurant with groups for East of Bayshore youth. Minimal 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Call 650- tinue through Dec. 14, unless otherwise listed Scottish Country Dance Classes Every- Jack Cutter on Sept. 6, Shane on Sept. 13 and time commitment required. Training is pro- 964-7576. www.humanists.org/blog/home/ in the class schedule that’s posted online at one welcome, from complete beginners to 28 and Paul on Sept. 20. 7-9 p.m. Morocco’s vided. Sept. 1-April 31, 2-7:30 p.m. Bayshore www.foothill.edu. California residents pay experienced dancers. Exercise for the mind as Restaurant, 873 Castro St., Mountain View. Christian Ministries, 1001 Beech St., East Palo VOLUNTEERS $31 per unit plus basic fees. 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Court of California, County of SANTA the hearing date noticed above. ested persons unless they have waived CLARA. You may examine the file kept by the notice or consented to the proposed The Petition for Probate requests that: court. If you are a person interested in action.) The independent administration ANNE MARIA VARRO be appointed as the estate, you may file with the court authority will be granted unless an inter- personal representative to administer a Request for Special Notice (form ested person files an objection to the the estate of the decedent. DE-154) of the filing of an inventory petition and shows good cause why the The petition requests the decedent’s and appraisal of estate assets or of court should not grant the authority. will and codicils, if any, be admitted to any petition or account as provided in 1VCMJD/PUJDFT A HEARING on the petition will be probate. The will and any codicils are Probate Code section 1250. A Request held on September 21, 2012 at 9:00 owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara available for examination in the file kept for Special Notice form is available 995 Fictitious Name by the court. from the court clerk. a.m. in Dept.: 3 of the Superior Court KELLEY PAULICK County on July 26, 2012. of California, County of Santa Clara, 589 Burgoyne St. (MVV Aug. 24, 31, Sep. 7, 14, 2012) The petition requests authority to Attorney for Petitioner: Statement located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, Mountain View, CA 94043 administer the estate under the /s/ Lawrence A. Klein WORKOUTINBOX MANY ROADS STUDIOS, USA PRINCESS SARIAH ALCARAZ Independent Administration of Estates 285 Hamilton Ave., Suite 300, CA, 95113. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 685 Leong Dr. Act. (This authority will allow the person- Palo Alto, CA 94301 If you object to the granting of the peti- STATEMENT STATEMENT Mountain View, CA 94043 al representative to take many actions (650)327-4200 tion, you should appear at the hearing File No.: 567821 File No.: 567995 Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to without obtaining court approval. Before (MVV Aug. 17, 24, 31, 2012) and state your objections or file written The following person (persons) is (are) The following person (persons) is (are) transact business under the fictitious taking certain very important actions, objections with the court before the doing business as: doing business as: business name(s) listed herein. however, the personal representative NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER hearing. Your appearance may be in WorkoutInbox, located at 257 Castro Many Roads Studios, USA, located at This statement was filed with the will be required to give notice to inter- ESTATE OF: Street, Ste #104, Mountain View, CA 1600 Villa St., Apt. 253, Mountain View, person or by your attorney. County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara ested persons unless they have waived VERNA E WOMACK 94041, Santa Clara County. CA 94041, Santa Clara County. If you are a creditor or a contingent County on July 27, 2012. notice or consented to the proposed Case No.: 1-12-PR171060 This business is owned by: A This business is owned by: An creditor of the decedent, you must (MVV Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sep. 7, 2012) action.) The independent administration To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, Corporation. Individual. file your claim with the court and mail authority will be granted unless an inter- contingent creditors, and persons who The name and residence address of The name and residence address of the a copy to the personal representative BLOSSOM VALLEY DENTAL ested person files an objection to the may otherwise be interested in the will the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): appointed by the court within four BLOSSOM VALLEY DENTAL CARE petition and shows good cause why the or estate, or both, of VERNA ELAYNE MailFin, Inc. SUSAN SIM months from the date of first issuance BLOSSOM VALLEY DENTISTRY court should not grant the authority. WOMACK. 257 Castro Street, Ste #104 1600 Villa St., Apt, 253 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME A HEARING on the petition will be A Petition for Probate has been filed by: of letters as provided in Probate Code Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94041 STATEMENT held on September 21, 2012 at 9:00 DAVID J. WOMACK in the Superior Court section 9100. The time for filing claims Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to File No.: 567779 a.m. in Dept.: 3 of the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. will not expire before four months from transact business under the fictitious transact business under the fictitious The following person (persons) is (are) of California, County of Santa Clara, The Petition for Probate requests that: the hearing date noticed above. business name(s) listed herein. business name(s) listed herein. doing business as: located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, DAVID J. WOMACK be appointed as You may examine the file kept by the This statement was filed with the This statement was filed with the 1.) Blossom Valley Dental, 2.) Blossom CA, 95113. personal representative to administer court. If you are a person interested in County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Valley Dental Care, 3.) Blossom Valley If you object to the granting of the peti- the estate of the decedent. the estate, you may file with the court County on July 27, 2012. County on August 1, 2012. Dentistry, located at 1704 Miramonte tion, you should appear at the hearing The petition requests the decedent’s (MVV Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012) (MVV Aug. 31, Sep. 7, 14, 21, 2012) a Request for Special Notice (form Avenue, Suite 1, Mountain View, CA and state your objections or file written will and codicils, if any, be admitted to DE-154) of the filing of an inventory POPPIES AND PEONIES EVENTS 94040, Santa Clara County. 997 All Other Legals objections with the court before the probate. The will and any codicils are and appraisal of estate assets or of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME This business is owned by: A hearing. Your appearance may be in available for examination in the file kept any petition or account as provided in STATEMENT Corporation. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER person or by your attorney. by the court. Probate Code section 1250. A Request File No.: 567839 The name and residence address of ESTATE OF: If you are a creditor or a contingent The petition requests authority to for Special Notice form is available The following person (persons) is (are) the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): RUDOLF VARRO creditor of the decedent, you must administer the estate under the doing business as: SHUKHMAN DENTAL CORP. Case No.: 1-12-PR 171049 file your claim with the court and mail Independent Administration of Estates from the court clerk. Poppies and Peonies Events, located at 1704 Miramonte Ave., Suite 1 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, a copy to the personal representative Act. (This authority will allow the person- Petitioner: 589 Burgoyne St., Mountain View, CA Mountain View, CA 94040 contingent creditors, and persons who appointed by the court within four al representative to take many actions /s/ 94043, Santa Clara County. Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to may otherwise be interested in the will months from the date of first issuance without obtaining court approval. Before 802 Farley St. This business is owned by: A General transact business under the fictitious or estate, or both, of RUDOLF VARRO. of letters as provided in Probate Code taking certain very important actions, Mountain View, CA 94043 Partnership. business name(s) listed herein. A Petition for Probate has been filed section 9100. The time for filing claims however, the personal representative (650)964-0200 The name and residence address of the This statement was filed with the by: ANNE MARIA VARRO in the Superior will not expire before four months from will be required to give notice to inter- (MVV Aug. 24, 31, Sep. 7, 2012)

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40 ALHAMBRA CT, PORTOLA VALLEY 150 ALMA ST #215, MENLO PARK $868,000 CUTE HOME ON LARGE LOT! $849,000 BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED! $519,000 Sat 12 - 2 | 5 BR 4 BA For Lease!5,115 SF main Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 | 3 BR 2 BA Chic single 2 BR 2 BA Charming home on large lot west of 3 BR 3.5 BA Condo w/kitchen upgrades, house w/quality finishes thru out,including exotic level condo. Secure building on Palo Alto border. Alameda de las Pulgas! Large driveway and lush full 2 car garage and allows for flexible living Ipe flrs Updated. Pool. Elevator. yard! possibilities. Melanie Johnson 650.941.7040 Nancy Goldcamp 650.325.6161 DiPali Shah 650.325.6161 Cesar Cervantes 650.328.5211

ATHERTON LOS GATOS Los Altos Schools $470,500 Sat 1:30 - 4:30 Wall of windows! $1,350,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 2 BR 1 BA End unit with living room wall 4497 Cherry Av $619,000 common wall. Bed walls end side. Terri 3 BR 2 BA Single family house.Living area 3 BR 2 BA 10,000+sf Atherton property sur- 14370 Blossom Hill Rd $959,000 Couture, 650.941.7040 about 1500+SF,Lot:6520+SF.Bright,light. rounded by tall trees. Updated kit, new paint 4 BR 2 BA 2048sf,9875sf Lot.Turn-key,many & HW floors. Jackie Copple, 650.325.6161 Spacious bdrms. Donna Liu, 650.941.7040 improvements,incl new roof,floors,windows. PALO ALTO Susanne Bohl, 650.941.7040 LOS ALTOS Prime Location! $1,838,888 SUNNYVALE 4 BR 2.5 BA Open floor plan w/great room. MENLO PARK Sun 1:30 - 4:30 Sat 1:30 - 4:30 Quiet street. Beautiful landscaping. New 231 Hawthorne Ave $3,090,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 jacuzzi. PA schools Maria Chen, 650.325.6161 1104 W Mckinley Ave $700,000 3 BR 1.5 BA Just Remodeled bathroom, 5 BR 5 BA Beautiful Architecture + Floor 143 Oak Ct $995,000 hardwood floors, 900 sq ft garage, low Plan Amenities Abound. Gleaming HW Floors, Downtown PA Townhome! $988,888 3 BR 2 BA Cottage-style home. Rural setting maintenance landscaping Joanne Fraser, Lovely Granite. Jim Galli, 650.941.7040 2 BR 2.5 BA Light & bright unit overlooks near Palo Alto. Cheerful. Upbeat kitchen.Oak 650.941.7040 floors. Nancy Goldcamp, 650.325.6161 courtyard w/enchanting garden & fountains. California Dream $2,898,000 Spacious flrplan. Maha Najjar, 650.325.6161 $678,000 4 BR 2 BA This beautifully home is located on MOUNTAIN VIEW 3 BR 2.5 BA Sale Pending. Located near dwn- one of the most desirable streets in Los Altos. Lovely Palo Alto Condo! $849,000 twn Sunnyvale & Mtn Vw features a LivRm Jo Ann Fishpaw, 650.941.7040 Downtown Mountain View $1,298,000 2 BR 2.5 BA Gorgeous South Palo Alto condo. Built in 2009! Model unit with w/fireplace & DinRm. Jo Buchanan & Stuart 4 BR 3.5 BA Home built in 2008. Downstairs Bowen, 650.941.7040 Opportunity KNOCKS!!!! $1,590,000 guest suite. Bubb Elmentary! Kim Copher, over $40,000 in upgrades! DiPali Shah, 650.941.7040 650.325.6161 3 BR 2 BA Location Location Location. Ron & Attached Single-Family Hm $548,000 Nasrin Delan, 650.941.7040 Bubb Elementary School $1,149,000 Townhouse Style Condo $598,000 2 BR 2 BA Located near dwntwn SV & MV 2 BR 2.5 BA Completely rmdld twnhs style w/liv rm/din rm combination & granite kit Traditional Los Altos Ranch $1,325,000 3 BR 3.5 BA New distinctive sngl w/adjoining fam rm. Jo Buchanan & Stuart FamHm,these meticulously designed Hms condo in The Hamlet complex.The Kit has 4 BR 2.5 BA Wonderful opportunity to own granite counters. Terrie Masuda, 650.941.7040 Bowen, 650.941.7040 offer modern convenience Kim Copher, a warm,family friendly 4BR,2.5BA Hm. Terrie 650.941.7040 Masuda, 650.941.7040 PALO ALTO HILLS Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 Birch Green Charmer $689,000 Organic Contemporary $3,388,000 971 Wisteria Ter $540,000 LOS ALTOS HILLS 2 BR 2.5 BA Located in desirable Birch Green 3 BR 3.5 BA Infusing organic materials into its 2 BR 2.5 BA End unit townhouse.Private bck- Beautiful Custom Home $4,795,000 complex.Abundant natural light & open flr dramatic architecture,extraordinary home. Jo yrd.Open flr plan.13 yrs old.Wood laminate Buchanan & Stuart Bowen, 650.941.7040 flrs. Royce Cablayan, 650.941.7040 4 BR 3 full BA + 2 half Ultimate privacy, plan. Dora Thordarson, 650.941.7040 sunny acreage. Terri Couture, 650.941.7040 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 SAN JOSE WOODSIDE Don’t Miss This One! $4,099,000 2091 San Luis Ave #6 $525,000 Magnificent New Home $1,199,000 Prime Location! $29,000,000 4 BR 4 BA Seller will finance WITHOUT qual 2 BR 2.5 BA End unit w/an attached garage. 7 BR 4.5 BA This home features 7 bdrms & Private prestigious location. 11+ acre prop- w/sizable down payment!A RARE find. Ron & Comfortable LivRm w/wood laminate flrs & 4.5 baths!Great for a large,extended family. erty in central Woodside close to town. Susie Nasrin Delan, 650.941.7040 frplc. Royce Cablayan, 650.941.7040 Dory Marhamat, 650.941.7040 Dews & Shena Hurley, 650.325.6161

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