The Class Guide is published quarterly by the Mountain View Voice, the VOICE Almanac and the ClassMOUNTAINVIEW Guide Palo Alto Weekly. FALL Mountain View 650-864-9150 of Russian ballet that teaches the [email protected] Vaganova method beginning with - www.cherylburkedance.com For the dancer children at age 3. The academy The professional dance instructors offers a variety of classes to pre at Cheryl Burke Dance provide pare students for the professional s fall approaches, the summer’s heat and excitement is - lessons in dance styles such as replaced by a cool breeze. But don’t succumb to the chill ALBERTO’S SALSA level, as well as adult classes that ballroom, hip hop, salsa, Latin and — there are many local classes and programs that can STUDIO & ULTRA introduce or re-introduce par swing. Group classes are offered,- A ticipants to the art form. Classes in addition to private dance les help maintain the energy.spiration Whether to paint, you fancyor crave yoga the in challengethe early LOUNGE Class begin on Sept. 1. sons. morning, feel the in 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View and artistry of ballet, businesses and organizations just down 650-968-3007 CASSAND BALLET the street can help you keep the wheels turning. Don’t let the [email protected] FOR THE LOVE OF opportunities that pique your interest pass you by. Rise up and www.albertos.com - 1411 W. El Camino Real, DANCE make this fall season an invigorating and memorable one. Mountain View Alberto’s holds lessons through 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Suite B, out the week for salsa (Tuesdays, 415-505-5659 [email protected] Mountain View Thursdays and Fridays), bachata 650-861-0650 ZENITH TUTORING (Wednesdays) and tango (Sunday) www.cassandballet.org Academic achievers This ballet school and company- [email protected] 1674 N. Shoreline Blvd., Suite 136, styles of dancing for beginners - www.fortheloveofdancemv.com Mountain View and those with more experience. follows the classical French tradi tion and teaches boys, girls, atteen age For the Love of Dance provides FLEX COLLEGE 650-823-4703 training in ballet, jazz, tap and [email protected] agers and adults starting Guide BAYER BALLET other styles of dance. The family- PREP www.zenithtutoring.com - 3. The fall semester for children ACADEMY begins in September. owned studio teaches ndchildren serves 4600 El Camino Real, Suite 201, Zenith Tutoring is currently offer and adults at all levels a Los Altos ing classes betweenepare Auguststudents and for 2028 Old Middlefield Way, the communities of Mountain 650-947-7742 October to pr Mountain View CHERYL BURKE View, Palo Alto, Los Altos and [email protected] the SAT and PSAT exams. The 650-988-9971 DANCE Sunnyvale. www.flexcollege company also offers online classes, [email protected] Flex College Prep assists high- private tutoring and coaching www.bayerballetacademy 1400 N. Shoreline Blvd., Suite A-1, school students with college appli through the college application Bayer Ballet Academy is a school cations and essays and preparing process. PAGE 16 for SAT, ACT and AP tests. It also offers previews and tutoring for a variety of high school subjects. AUGUST 14, 2015 VOLUME 23, NO. 29 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 24 Mobile home residents see trouble down the road SANTIAGO VILLA OFFERS MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING — BUT FOR HOW LONG? By Mark Noack residents, many of whom have lived in the park for decades, ust a stroll from Google, rent their home’s space for $800 LinkedIn and the NASA to $900 a month, remarkably low JAmes Research Center, the for the local rental market. mobile-home park tucked at the “You just have to explain to end of Space Park Way might folks that, yes, there is actu- be the true marvel of Mountain ally a housing community tucked View’s North Bayshore neigh- back in North Bayshore,” joked borhood. For years, Santiago Lanlande Stokke, a Safeway Villa has offered a sanctuary of employee living with her family cheaper housing rin the epicenter at Santiago Villa. of the city’s tech hub. But the high-price of living in Over the decades, through the Mountain View appears to be rise and fall of countless Silicon catching up to the factory-built Valley tech firms, life at the San- community and its more than MICHELLE LE tiago Villa Park has remained Marcos Vasquez said he worries that rising rent is keeping him from selling his mobile home at remarkably unchanged. Most See MOBILE HOME PARK, page 8 Santiago Villa. Google restructures under new name: Alphabet DESPITE SHAKE UP, NO IMMEDIATE CHANGES EXPECTED IN COMPANY’S PRESENCE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW By Mark Noack various ventures. the new CEO and president at with an innovative web search than 11,000 employees in town As part of the change, longtime Alphabet. algorithm, is today considered and plans to add many more oogle announced a major Google CEO Larry Page said he Explaining the change in a a leader in dozens of differ- in near future, Google plays a shake up this week as would hand over the reins of company blog post Monday, ent fields, including self-driving significant role in the city. A Gcompany founders the company’s mainstay search Page said the new company was cars, drone package delivery and Google spokesperson said the announced the creation of a new engine division to the company’s created to improve transpar- anti-aging research. company has no plans to leave holding company called Alpha- product chief, Sundar Pichai. ency and control over the com- In Mountain View, the Mountain View, and it would bet Inc. to oversee and manage Meanwhile, Page and co-found- pany’s diverse business ventures. announcement came as big, the Mountain View tech giant’s er Sergey Brin are becoming Google, which started in 1998 albeit cryptic news. With more See ALPHABET, page 6 Your sales tax dollars hard at work ... somewhere else MAJORITY OF COUNTY-WIDE SALES TAX DOLLARS FUNNELED TO EAST BAY BART EXTENSION By Kevin Forestieri traffic woes, one county supervi- Authority (VTA) to find out “For 15 years now, BART to the Peninsula. Reports from sor points out that past county- how revenue from the past two San Jose has been dragging away Caltrans identified the evening t’s no secret that traffic in wide tax measures have done 30-year transportation measures 80 percent of the funds, and I southbound commute along Santa Clara County is bad little to help the residents in — the 2000 Measure A half-cent think we’re seeing the conse- Highway 85 as one of the worst Iand getting worse, as an North County and West Valley sales tax and the 2008 Measure B quences of that as the economy in the area, receiving an “F” rat- influx of new residents and new cities, who don’t benefit much eighth-cent sales tax — has been heats up,” Simitian said. ing this year for traffic density jobs strains roadways through- when sales tax dollars are routed spent throughout the county. Traffic getting worse from Central Expressway to out the Bay Area. to fund BART improvements. Nearly 80 percent of those funds, Fremont Avenue in Sunnyvale. 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