Funny Boy TheatreWorks scores in ‘Brooklyn’ ARTS+EVENTS | P.27 AUGUST 4, 2006 VOLUME 14 NO. 32 INSIDE: WEEKEND | PAGE 16 650.964.6300 mv-voice.com Katz sues over bond, again AS EXPECTED, SARATOGA the district filed a “validation action” shortly after the June 6 LAWYER TAKES FOOTHILL- election. This action is basically DE ANZA TO COURT a lawsuit calling out anyone who OVER MEASURE C wants to challenge the district’s $490.8 million bond measure, By Kathy Schrenk Measure C, which was approved by voters in June. aratoga lawyer and frequent By filing last Thursday, Katz litigant Aaron Katz has tak- joins another attorney, Gary Wes- Sen up the Foothill-De Anza ley of Mountain View, in chal- Community College District lenging the measure’s validity. on its sue-now-or-forever-hold- Katz has filed numerous simi- your-peace legal filing. lar lawsuits against local bodies The move by Katz comes after such as the Mountain View- PHOTOS BY MICHAEL MULLADY Whisman School District and Ursula Kinley of Mountain View tosses a toy for Gunner, her border collie and a champion dock jumper, during El Camino Hospital District, a recent practice session in Redwood City. Below: Kinley provides lessons for Renegade, a golden retriever. both districts where he owns Army finishes properties. He believes that he shouldn’t have to pay taxes which new homes he couldn’t vote on, and which Dock-diving doggies were approved by voters who at Moffett live in, but don’t necessarily own CANINE SPORT SWEEPS NATION young collie wouldn’t even wade into the lake land in, those districts. — INCLUDING LOCAL WOMAN at Redwood Shores Lagoon in Redwood City. By Daniel DeBolt So Katz has filed suits chal- Instead he would stand at the water’s edge and lenging the validity of bond AND HER FRIEND, GUNNER bark at the waves lapping against his paws. he Army announced last measures and parcel taxes By Justin Bull Today the 4-year-old Gunner not only will hop in week the completion approved in those districts. for a swim, he’ll fly 24 feet before splashing down, Tof 198 new homes for At least two of his suits have wo years ago, all was relatively normal in making him one of thousands of dogs across the active duty military families at paid off financially: El Camino the home of Ursula Kinley. But one day the country participating in big-air dock jumping. Moffett Field in the Westcoat paid him $200,000 in May to TMountain View resident came across a dog The concept of dock jumping is simple: Dogs housing development. make his suit go away, and the jumping competition on television that featured jump as far as they can into a body of water. The private developer of the West Valley-Mission Commu- ordinary dogs performing spectacular feats of Specifically, the dogs sprint down a 40-foot dock houses, Clark-Pinnacle, calls nity College District paid him skill and grace, and that made an envious Kinley which stands two feet above the water’s edge. Their the Westcoat housing com- $60,000 last December. say to herself, “Oh my God I wish I had a dog that handlers toss a toy into the air for incentive. Then plex the “premier address” for Sean Absher, a lawyer respre- could do that.” they leap out over the water in hopes of reaching military families in the South senting Foothill-De Anza, said Shortly thereafter, Kinley found Gunner at the the toy — and a record distance. Bay. It replaces 96 demolished the district filed its action to Northern California Border Collie Rescue, “And Officials then use a specialized camera to create homes that comprised the old speed up opposition to the bond it was love at first sight,” she said. At first, her a digital image and measurement of the jump, Wescoat development. measure. “The next step for the calculating the distance from the end of the dock “The men and women in district is to move the matter to to the closest point where dog hits water, minus uniform fighting to preserve a speedy resolution,” Absher said. the tail. freedom deserve top-rate That means a trial to validate the Average distances in competition range from homes to live in,” said Col. bond measure and counter Katz’s 6 to 18 feet, while dogs jumping over 21 feet are Scott Wood, commander of and Wesley’s complaints, he said. considered to be at a professional level. The world the combat support training (Wesley filed his complaint on record for “big air” dock jumping is 28 feet, 10 unit, in a press release. behalf of Melvin Emerich, a Los inches — just short of the human record of 29 feet, Even though the former Altos resident.) 4-and-a-half inches set by Mike Powell in 1991. 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