Silicon Valley Impressions Summer 2015 Happiness is being a Superintendent: Polly Bove Cupertino’s Cop for Life: Sgt. Rick Sung food revolution Cleaning Milpitas: and more... Mayor Jose Esteves ISBN 978-0-692-40495-9 Your Grocery Market in the Bay Area Since 1987 www.marinafoodusa.com ~ Fresh exotic fruits and vegetables ~ Meat cut to order ~ Live Seafood ~ Deli SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM 3 CONTENTS 5 A Cop for life - Rick Sung 8 The Cupertino Food Revolution 2015 ! 13 Society 14 crossing Guards 16 The case for protected bike lanes 19 Clean House: Milpitas Mayor Jose Esteves 22 aim through College instead of aiming at college 24 many castles on the hill Bay Area Hi Tech Architecture 28 APAPA Leadership Profile Submit letters and articles to the following address: Dr. Hsing Kung [email protected] 29 journey to the west Visitors from Hunan Silicon Valley Impressions 20111 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite #280, 30 connected community Cupertino, CA 95014 Cupertino Library Foundation Silicon Valley Impressions Team 33 Book Review Don Sun | Publisher Boys In The Boat Beverly Lenihan | Editorial Advisor Ling Ling Kulla | Editor 35 Polly BOve James Gong | Photographer Happiness is ... Ragini Sangameswara | Graphic Designer 39 FUHSD Teachers of the year Cover photos: San Francisco 100th Year - James Gong Crossing Guards - James Gong Sunset - Adam Bartlett (Age 7) by Osh Bartlett Aspiring Surfers - Ruby Brownlee and Ryder Bartlett (Age 2) by Osh Bartlett SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | July 2015 4 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM message from the publisher SVI MAGAZINE AN OPEN SOCIETY MEDIA PUBLICATION. COPYRIGHT©2015 w hen a local firefighter held the first issue of The Silicon Valley Impressions magazine, and she said “I like the smell of the newly printed magazine. Nice!” “I know her, Hung Wei. She helped my kid in school!” A dad pointed at Hung Wei’s picture on page 22 in our first issue and said. Living in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, I have seen so many people working together to help others in the community. There are many organizations in Silicon Valley that consist of volunteers who want to help others. These individuals and organizations gave me a wonderful experience as an immigrant living here. Since I started my own volunteering journey, I have been enriched constantly by my experiences with these people and organizations. It has been my dream to have a publication devoted to the community’s people, events, and the positive energy we generate. After years of preparation, I am finally able to offer Silicon Valley Impressions Magazine to our community and the people I admire and love. With the talent and passion of a wonderful team, we are proud that we can write and promote the selfless human love and devotion of the people who live in the same place we all call home, Silicon Valley. In each issue, we try our best to write about and portray a variety of people who work to better the community. Whether they are high-profile leaders or silent heroes, we will give each of them an equal amount of attention and care respectfully - our effort is small, but we will continue to do more for those people. Don Sun About this issue S ummer is here! Although temperatures in the Bay Area can reach 90 to 100 degrees, we are proud to keep our temperatures comfortable in this issue mainly because of the people in our magazine: the warm Polly Bove, the cool Sgt. Rick Sung, and the mild Mayor Jose Esteves. Many thanks to architect Jorge Salem, Apple employee Anastasia Novozhilova , and Beverly Lenihan from the Library Foundation for your contribution to this issue on architecture, bike safety, and cool things about our local Library. We are honored to introduce Dr. Hsing Kung, who has done so much as an entrepreneur and as a philanthropist. Finally, a warm welcome to a Hunan Chamber of Commerce group on its tour to the U.S. Best wishes to them and to all the people who travel to other countries this summer. And yes, we have summer reading for you introduced by Joe and Ann Cleaver - The Boys in the Boat. We are grateful to all the community service people whose love and dedication have inspired us. We cannot write about all of them in one issue, but we will continue to write about them one by one, issue after issue. The Silicon Valley Impressions Team Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the writers and interviewees. They do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher. Copyright notice: No part of this publication and/or website may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without prior written permission of the Publisher. Permission is only deemed valid if approval is in writing. Silicon Valley Impressions owns all rights to contributions, text and images, unless previously agreed to in writing. SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | July 2015 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM 5 PEOPLE A cop for life Rick Sung Rick Sung, division commander for The West Valley Patrol division’s questions about his job here. Saratoga, Cupertino, and Los Altos new commander Rick Sung had his Hills talks to SVI about fighting mind set on being a cop since he “I am very honored to be back to crime, traffic safety, and being was 15 years old. Even though he the West Valley Division,” said a police officer in times of great had tried a few successful ventures, Rick, who is responsible for the he was not fulfilled. Then, in patrol operation of 960 square challenges. 2002, he graduated from the police miles of Saratoga, Cupertino, and academy and became a deputy Los Altos Hills. W hen you ask young children sheriff. He was happy and he has what they want to do when they never looked back. “We are very safe here in grow up, you will hear a few say “I Cupertino; there isn’t much violent want to be a cop.” Cops are among Silicon Valley Impressions crime and even property crime the most omnipresent community magazine (SVI) welcomes rates are relatively low compared people easily identified by children. Rick’s return to the West Valley to other cities with a large amount They fight the bad guys and protect Community and asks a few of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. us. SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | July 2015 6 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM Nevertheless, there is crime. number: Our call takers will ask a have permits. If not, they can be Right now, the local communi- series of questions when they get a cited. Don’t deal with them; just ties are facing a rise of burglaries. call. Please be patient; even when tell them (the persistent people) that Fighting crime needs the support the call taker is asking questions, you are going to call the sheriff. of the community. No law enforce- not everything stands still. They This will help to deter them. ment entity can achieve that alone. are dispatching the reports and A place is only safe when the the messages get relayed to our 7. Cell phone speed dial community is involved.” officers, who can take action right Number 1 for Cupertino: 408-299- away. Many times, they will be at 3233. You also can call 911, but He said that the power of the the scene even before the emergen- this is more direct. community is critical to any part cy call is over. of police work: “A couple of 8. Teenagers at home: Carry weeks ago, burglars started to 3. Where do the burglars come your phone all the time; always attack the Southwest region of from? Most of them come from lock the windows and doors, and Cupertino. When a neighbor saw outside of our areas: places such as always know where your exit is. If the suspects in a car parked outside Stockton, San Francisco, Hayward, the window is the only exit, use it of a house, she called the sheriff’s Tracy, Oakland, East Palo Alto, and to save your life. Just because you office and gave the house address, recently some from San Jose. The are home doesn’t always mean that an accurate description of the burglars may start somewhere in you are 100% safe. When driving, suspects, the car’s license plate the Bay Area and sweep through it is illegal to use earphones on both number, and the occupants’ activi- a few neighborhoods to finish in ears because it stops the driver from ties. Officers arrived in 45seconds , another part of the area at the end hearing emergency vehicles. For caught the suspects, and recovered of the day. the same reason, having earphones all the properties that they were or playing loud music may keep trying to steal”. 4. The impatient burglars: you from knowing what’s going on Until a few months ago, burglars in the house. You may not be able would knock on doors to make sure to hear when someone breaks into that people are not home. Because your house. You can put yourself in Tips from Commander Sung they have discovered that houses serious danger when a burglar goes on protecting your neighbor- are empty most of the time, they so deep in the house that you have hood from the attack of have done away with the knocking. a face-to-face encounter. Some burglars: The new behavior has evolved into suspects may act violently toward just going straight into the house by children, so please make sure that 1. Be vigilant and stay kicking the door open or breaking you can hear any movements and focused; most of the residents in a the windows.