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Santa Cruz Santa Los Gatos Mountains Los Gatos 831 Smith Grade Mark Oliverez 17800 Old Summit Road Nevis & Ardizzone Team $3,350,000 408.891.4663 $2,380,000 408.827.3100 1 Bed | 1 Bath [email protected] 4 Bed | 3 Bath [email protected] DRE 00966533 DRE 01139401 | 00979963 Aptos Los Gatos Mountains Los Gatos 20780 Brush Road Lisa Sgarlato 117 Mar Sereno Court Mark Oliverez $1,947,000 408.396.7231 $1,899,900 408.891.4663 4 Bed | 2.5 Bath [email protected] 4 Bed | 5 Bath [email protected] DRE 01342694 DRE 00966533 Felton Los Gatos Mountains Los Gatos 20700 Hillside Drive Lisa Sgarlato 339 Fall Creek Drive George Montanari Lisa Sgarlato $1,700,000 408.396.7231 $650,000 408.497.2213 408.396.7231 4 Bed | 2.5 Bath [email protected] 3 Bed | 2 Bath DRE 00780027 DRE 01342694 DRE 01342694 compass compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01079009. 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Volume MMXX number 5 Contents 23625 SkyView Terrace services Los Gatos, CA 95033-9212 Personal-shopping program 6 http://www.mnn.net Surfnet helps you work from home 7 email to [email protected] Yoga at the virtual pavilion 8 Telephone 408-353-1901 Summit Whole Body Fitness 8 Pilates at home 8 Publisher Downtown Redwood Estates 9 Neil Wiley COVID-19 and real estate 10 Sports at home with LGS Recreation 10 Associate publisher Summit Veterinary Hospital 10 Art director Mobile Notary Public 11 Kathy McKinney A Tool Shed is open 11 Funding food 11 Editorial staff Deana Arnold, Gina Foster (editor emeritus), community Karole Ishida, Jana McBurney-Lin, Kathy A mountain parade 12 McKinney, Suzanne Overstreet, and Neil Wiley Shaded fuel-break-demonstration project 13 Who maintains your private road? 14 Photography and imaging Bear Creek Road repairs 14 Neil Wiley Pigs on Summit Road 15 John Leopold telephone town halls 16 Articles When will we reopen the economy? 16 We invite individuals and organizations to submit Loma Prieta Club picnic cancelled 16 letters and articles. 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Farmhouse style chef’s kitchen, family room has home theater, lovely dining room, formal living room with vaulted ceiling to 2nd floor library. 2-car garage. Decking, patio dining, and mountain views. Lot has separate area with building pad. Minutes to Los Gatos. Los Gatos schools. 20700 Hillside Drive, Los Gatos Mountains $1,700,000 | 20700hillsidedrive.com | 4 Bed | 2.5 Bath | 3183 Sq Ft | 2.5 Acre Lot Great location blends with impressive executive home for the best of mountain living! Gorgeous and updated home features great floor plan, vaulted ceilings, gourmet kitchen and beautiful master suite. Minutes from town Lexington Elem (IB Programme), Fisher Middle, and Los Gatos High. Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Numbers 01079009 and 01272467. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate. services Summit Store Personal-Shopping Program Sanjay Khandelwal In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, local volunteers and community members created a volunteer-run program to provide volunteers who delivered over 300 orders to recently said, “A crisis shows you a person’s grocery shopping and delivery services to 195 customers. soul. It shows you what they’re made of. The those who are confined to their homes. Feedback has been overwhelmingly weaknesses explode and the strengths are We are here to serve the elderly, the positive. Customers love and appreciate emboldened.” Our volunteers have shown immunocompromised, and others in high- how fast this program was up and running. us what they are made of. This program risk demographics. As one shopper said, “Thank you for what would not be possible without the dozens It all started with a phone call. As the you have done for our community. You of volunteers who have come out to help shelter-in-place orders started, a community are amazing to be capable of organizing people who can’t help themselves safely member contacted Ben Abeln at the this extraordinary program. What a huge during this pandemic. What a great example Summit Store to offer help. A small group contribution at a time when this is so of our community coming together. We met at the store to work out details, with desperately needed.” Another wrote, “Ten have true heroes in our midst. adequate social distancing. The original idea thousand thanks for bringing me groceries The process is simple. People who need was for customers to call in or order online, while I am isolating myself for the safety of to use the service should go to www.95033. using an online payment system (such as the community. It is very much appreciated. org or to the Summit Store website, www. Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle). Summit Store You and your volunteers are amazing.” summitgrocerystore.com. You will need to employees would fill the order and have it New York Governor Andrew Cuomo register with the program and then you can ready for pick-up. place your order. It quickly became clear that a different There is no same-day ordering. Orders solution was needed. Summit Store placed by 3 p.m. are completed the next day. employees would not be able to be personal They can be picked up in the parking lot or shoppers. The store was seeing a huge delivered to your home (in the local area). demand for products—every day is like The program is also looking for volunteers, the day before Thanksgiving. Employees especially to do the shopping. There is a also have to do extra work sanitizing and volunteer sign-up form at www.95033.org. cleaning daily. Got questions? Email [email protected], or Someone proposed having a separate call 408-384-8769. volunteer group run the whole program, without impacting the Summit Store employees. It would be a partnership. It took just a few days for Sanjay Khandelwal, Kevin Arnold, and Kayleigh Khandelwal to put the basic framework, processes, and tools in place.