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January 2012 Volume 56 Number 1 Sunnyvale, California Editor: Phyllis Fowler
Monthly Meeting Wednesday, January 11th
At 7:00 pm in the Lakewood Park Building
This month’s Guest:
My-Dung Tran from the Sunnyvale Community Services
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President’s Column
-Judy Fernandez
Hello Neighbors! Happy New Year Lakewood Village!
Thank you to all the people involved in our neighbor-hood parade this year. It was a huge success, think partly due to the wonderful article written in the Sun (see next column) the Friday before. Also, to Pat Furtado (Aunt Pat) for her beautiful LVNA Holiday signs that were out at Lawrence Expressway.
For those who missed it, we had Mayor Hamilton, Vice Mayor Griffith, Councilmember Spitlari, Councilmember Whittam, and Councilmember Moylan and newly elected Council members Milius and Davis. We also had Chief Grugurina from Public Safety. There were so many people who participated and I don‘t want to forget anyone, so a BIG thanks to all of you.
Also, thanks to the entire neighborhood that stepped up and gave from their hearts. Lakewood‘s KLAS afterschool program collected over $800.00 in toys and games. The toys were do-nated to the Sunnyvale Com-munity Services which keep the items in Sunnyvale
and give to Sunnyvale Families in need. (continued on Page 4 )
Sunnyvale: Lakewood Village Holiday Parade celebrates 20 Years By Alia Wilson Neighbors, families and friends will line the streets Dec. 3 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a treasured Sunnyvale tradition, the Lakewood Village Holiday Parade.
The only parade of its kind in the city, the event will kick off at about 11 a.m. at Lakewood Elementary School, 750 Lakechime Drive, led by the Fremont High Marching Band and Color Guard. Following the band will be Fairwood, Lakewood and Columbia schools, youth groups, local clubs and service organizations, city council members and, of course, Santa Claus.
Children stand, bags at the ready, for candy to be thrown by parade participants, while adults wave to neighbors and officers as they drive by. (Continued on page 5)
January Guest Speaker
As you read from Judy‘s article, we collected over $800.00 in toys for the Sunnyvale Community Services. But do you know what they do? My-Dung Tran is the Director of Operations and Volunteers at SCS and will at our meeting this month to speak to us. Come and bring your questions to the Lakewood Park Building at 7:00pm on January
11th. See you there!
Girl’s Softball Sign-ups 2
Free Parent Workshops 3
Healthy Eater Workshop 3
Lakewood Village Holiday Parade 5
The Houses We Live In 6
Stabbing at the Brass Rail 7
Police Blotter 8
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Sunnyvale Girls Softball is
Holding Registration for
2012
Sunnyvale Girls Softball League is a youth sports
organization established to educate and develop softball skills, sportsmanship and character through the game of softball.
Our regular season begins with team selection in February and ends the end of May. We also have a more competitive travel ball program (Sunnyvale Shockwave) that runs in June/July and September/October
Online registration is now open –
Register before January 14th and save!
There are three ways to register:
On-line registration at www.sunnyvalegirlssoftball.org
Or mail your registration
(forms and address are on website)
Or in-person registration:
January 14th from 2:00—5:00PM
Ortega Park in Sunnyvale
Age Divisions - Age divisions are based on a player‘s age
as of January 1, 2012
Your player‘s birth year determines the
division:
6 & Under (6U): 2005-2006;
8 & Under (8U): 2003-2004;
10 & Under (10U): 2001-2002;
12 & Under (12U): 1999-2000;
14 & Under/16 & Under (14U/16U): 1995-
1998
No player will be denied the opportunity to play for financial
reasons. For need-based scholarship information, please
contact a Board Member at Registration.
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Parent and Child Care Provider Workshops
The City of Sunnyvale is pleased to announce two upcoming workshops that are open to anyone providing care to children, both parents and child care providers.
The workshops will focus on important health, education, discipline, and child development topics that will help improve the quality of care provided to children. They will address common challenges
that arise in the home and help providers and parents support the development of healthy, happy children.
Registration is required and space is limited, so please register early.
For more information or to register, call 408-523-8150 or email [email protected]. To find out more about the City of Sunnyvale‘s Youth and Family Resources Program visit: childcare.insunnyvale.com
Kindergarten Readiness: Activities to Prepare for School (in English) When: Thursday, January 12, 2012 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Where: Sunnyvale Senior Center Laurel Room 550 E. Remington Dr. Kindergarten Readiness: Activities to Prepare for School (in Spanish) When: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Where: Columbia Middle School Staff Room 739 Morse Ave
Description: Experienced Learning Together Initiative Family Resource Center staff will discuss ways to improve a child‘s classroom success, socialization, and adaptation to school. They‘ll also explore what the basic building blocks are for k-readiness and activities you can do at home to prepare children for the kindergarten transition. Participants will receive a copy of the FIRST 5 Santa Clara County Parent/Teacher Handbook that gives straightforward tips for families to get ready for school.
5 Keys to Raising a Healthy,
Happy Eater
When: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Time: 6:30 pm– 8:30 pm Where: Sunnyvale Community Center Neighborhood Room 550 E. Remington Dr., Sunnyvale.
Description: Karen Astrachan, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Registered Dietician, will give parents and caregivers strategies to tackle common mealtime challenges that can lead to poor child health and obesity. The workshop will address such concerns as:
How to encourage children to make healthier meal and snack choices
How to handle situations when children aren‘t eating enough
How to successfully get a child to sit and eat at the table
What to do when the pediatrician recommends weight loss and dietary changes.
These 5 Keys will help parents instill in their children good eating habits that can last a lifetime.
Free Yoga Classes!
Have you ever wanted to learn the art of yoga? Are you stressed, need to find focus? Then don‘t wait any longer! Take advantage of the next session of free yoga classes.
When: Tuesday, January 3rd
Time; 6:00 pm
Where: Columbia Neighborhood Center gym.
Come early to fill out a registration form. It‘s not too late to start.
To sign up, call CNC at (408) 523-8150.
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Free Chronic Disease Management Program!
A FREE six-week chronic disease management program, The Road to Healthier Living, is being provided by the Health Trust of Silicon Valley. The program is offered in both English and Spanish. In English: Wednesdays at 6:00 – 8:30 pm January 11 – February 15, 2012 In Spanish: Thursdays at 6:00 – 8:30 pm January 12 – February 16, Where: Columbia Middle School Staff Room 739 Morse Ave.
Description: A peer-taught health education workshop for persons with chronic conditions (asthma, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, etc.) The course is facilitated by 2 trained leaders who have experience with chronic disease.
Goals: Increase skills necessary for individuals to manage their
diseases and work effectively with their health care professionals. Help individuals take day-to-day responsibility for their care. Participants will learn new coping skills, problem-solving and decision-making to enable them to confront the ever-changing challenges of living with a chronic illness. Anyone suffering from a chronic health condition is welcome to attend, along with a
friend or family member. For more information on the program, call (408) 961-9877 or email: [email protected] To register: Pre-registration is required. Contact CNC, 785 Morse Ave., (408) 523-8150
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Located at 897 W. El Camino Real,
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Appointments are available throughout the day,
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President’s Column
(Continued from page 1)
Our lighting contest was on Dec. 17th and the winners were:
668 Lakefair
787 Lakewood,
902 Fairwood
1224 Mananzo A special mention of the 8 or 10 houses at the end of
Mananzo for their Community Spirit, it looked as if you all got
together and planned a beautiful display. Thank You!
I would like to also mention that March is the LVNA’s
Election Month. Some of our officers will not be returning
due to term limits and personal issues. Please start to think
now if you would like to hold an office in this association. We
cannot continue our events if neighbor‘s don‘t step up.
Since 1989, the LVNA has been a strong neighborhood
association in Sunnyvale. Before 1989 we were the LVRA
beginning in the early 50‘ up until the 1970‘s. It would be a
shame if we no longer had a voice, since we are so isolated
from the rest of Sunnyvale.
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Volunteer by Donating to the Lakewood Village Neighbors Association (LVNA)
By a Lakewood Village Resident Hooray, hooray, hooray! Finally we all have a way to volunteer without taking up our time.
Last month, I went to the meeting and saw that our LVNA was short on cash. That got me to thinking; there are approximately 1400 homes in Lakewood Village. If we all were to donate just $1.00 each our LVNA would not have a problem affording many of the things we would like to do, such as paying a team to clean graffiti, take care of litter, helping senior citizens, etc .
When you think about it, we give tips to a lot of service people; why not give a tip to all the volunteers that give their time and energy to serve us.
As you can see this month some of us are fortunate enough to donate more than a dollar, so if one person gives five dollars
they pay for four families that couldn‘t. If someone gives twenty that compensates for nineteen more.
I have lived in Lakewood Village since 1969 and have never volunteered my time or energy, so it really makes me feel great to
help financially. Here‘s looking forward to a lot of others to join me in making a stronger LAKEWOOD VILLAGE
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
This letter was written by a neighbor of yours who care…THANK YOU ALL.
Note from the LVNA Board: Donation information (amount and name only) will NOT be published in The Villager
unless approval from the donator has been received.
$_____________LVNA Donation
From _______________________________________________ (optional)
Address ______________________________________________(optional)
Mail check to:
LVNA
C/o 280 Meadowlake Dr.
Sunnyvale, 94089
Sunnyvale: Lakewood Village Holiday Parade
celebrates 20 Years By Alia Wilson
(Continued from page 1) ―It‘s community building,‖ said Judy Fernandez, founder and president of the Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association and organizer of the event. "It's a positive thing for kids to feel good about their neighborhood and to brag about it. They do talk about it afterward, like, 'Did you know we have a parade?' That's what it's all about for me."
The first parade was organized by the Lakewood Village Resident Association in 1959. The resident association folded sometime in the 1970s, but the parade and other neighborhood activities were brought back by the Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association in 1991.
Sunnyvale resident Leah Lane, 52, said she could remember, as a child who grew up in Sunnyvale, how the parade used to go up and down nearly all of the streets in the neighborhood. "It was a big deal, especially having Santa Claus there," Lane said. A horse-drawn wagon with hay on it and a flatbed truck carrying Santa and his sleigh were some of the highlights, she added.
"The parade, for a lot of kids today, is the first time they get to be up close to something like fire engines or cop cars or classic cars," Lane said. "It opens up a lot of worlds. Kids can say, 'Hey, I saw you at the parade,' at school to someone they may not have talked to before. It's a good breeding ground for a good strong community."
This year, Vice Mayor Jim Griffith and council members Tony Spitaleri and David Whittum will be joined by council-elects Jim Davis and Tara Martin-Milius, as well as interim Police Chief Dayton Pang.
Students from the Kids Learning After School program will also pass out candy and collect new, unwrapped toys to donate to Sunnyvale Community Services.
The parade will end at Fairwood Park, where Santa will greet children
and cookies and hot chocolate will be provided.
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Free Professional Development Workshop offered by UC Davis Extension
The City of Sunnyvale, in partnership with UC Davis Center for Excellence in Child Development, is pleased to offer an exciting professional development workshop exclusively for licensed family child care providers. Participants can receive Continuing Education Units (CEU‘s) for attending a two-part workshop:
Learning Through Relationships with Infants & Toddlers
When: Thursday February 2, 2012 Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm and Saturday February 4 Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Sunnyvale Senior Center, Laurel Room 550 E. Remington Dr., Sunnyvale. Providers must complete both days to receive CEU’s.
Description: This workshop addresses the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development of infants and toddlers and the supportive role of the caregiver. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the role of relationships and emotional development in
learning and the temperament of children and adults. Ways to partner with parents and talk with them about developmental processes will also be explored.
Space is limited and registration is required..
For more information or to register:
call 408-523-8150
Or email:
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redirect some plumbing. If you are re-roofing, insulation can be added over the existing deck. The walls can be filled with blown in insulation with minimum changes in the finishes. And we've all seen ads for window replacement! The wall furnaces too, (with 1960 era efficiencies of 65%, that is 35% up the flue) are due for a serious look at replacement with more efficient alternatives. I might also pass on a personal testimonial about insulating the ceilings. It allows the slabs under our floors to act to passively cool our homes. (They tend to be rather hot on some summer evenings.) This is perhaps the best reason to consider this area, both for an aesthetic and especially a functional change. So by all means change out those halogen (read-hot!) bolbs for compact fluorescents. If you are interested, look at the big changes in LED (light emitting diodes), change out your shower heads for water and heat conservation and before you get wrapped up in photovoltaics (to run that meter backwards), take a good look at the house around you.
The Houses We Live In By Keith Armstrong It‘s hard to mistake the Lakewood Village neighborhood for any other. The low pitched roofs, the gable-end glass over the doors, the one car garages, the sideways garages, etc, are prevalent even now. These affordable homes were a distant relative of the now better known ―Eichler Homes.‖ Our homes are also in the milieu of mid-century modernism and presented some unique challenges to their inhabitants. Nearly 50 years after this community was built, we are still challenged to deal with the eccentric design.
These homes most notably lack both a crawl-space (being built on a slab) and an attic, instead having an open-beam and plank ceilings. This aligned the homes with both economy and with a modest, though functional style, which compensated for their small floor plans.
These features also had a very real cost. The under/over spaces in homes are very useful for the providing utilities, heat ducts, plumbing (both water supply and waste lines), even gas supply, electrical and communications lines.
In Lakewood homes, other ways were found. The original heating was generally a wall furnace, sometimes in two locations. The plumbing is in the concrete slab, while the gas supply is outside the eaves, over the cabinets and in the hallway soffit. It varies some, but it does show a lack of thought given the project size of 1,500 homes.
At the November LVNA meeting, a proposal was made to make use of a PG&E program to replace inefficient lights, shower heads, and some older appliances. All of this is great and that it was a free program, gave it credibility. However, the simple truth is, this misses the obvious near total lack of insulation in our homes..
This is not 1950, nor the ‗70s, when our state‘s first energy codes were mandated. As originally built, the ceilings in these homes with the 2.5" wood fiber planking, only achieve an R-value (a notation of thermal resistance, higher numbers are desirable) of perhaps R-7. The standard minimum today is R-30! The walls are generally un-insulated and have an R value of perhaps R-4.Code minimums today would call for R-13. The windows are original-single glazed (R f .91) with a putty set aluminum frame. Today we would start at an R factor of 2.0 with limits on metal frames. This is not to say that nothing can be done! The ―beam space‖ at the ceiling can be insulated and enclosed. This can also be an opportunity to add more lighting and
Sunnyvale detectives nab 3 suspects in Brass Rail stabbing; another suspect still at large
By Alia Wilson, Sunnyvale Sun With the aid of an anonymous tip, Sunnyvale detectives have arrested three of four men suspected in an Aug. 14 stabbing at the Brass Rail.
The stabbing at the bikini bar, 160 Persian Drive, sent two San Jose residents to the hospital with severe but non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. Detectives said the suspects, all from San Jose, attacked the victims while leaving the club around midnight. Investigators do not believe the incident was related to gangs or drugs.
The tipster recognized two of the men in photos printed in The Sun on Nov. 4 and provided names to detectives two days later, detective Jim Choi said.
"Due to the names, we were able to conduct our investigation through prior arrests, booking information and pulled up a picture that looked similar to one of our suspects," Choi said. "So we focused on that person, continuing our investigation into prior history, contacts with law enforcement and employment, and we were able to systematically go down the line and identify all the people involved in the stabbing."
Detective Jose Ramirez obtained warrants for three of the men and on Nov. 17th arrested them at their San Jose work places. Police said they did have some ties to Sunnyvale, mostly with the Brass Rail.
Anthoney Ostroskie, 23, Justin Bright, 26, and primary suspect Jesse Chacon, 33, were arrested without incident, police reported. (continued on page 8)
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Important Phone Numbers Public Safety - Emergency 911
Public Safety - Non-emergency 730-7100
Parks and Maintenance 730-7506
Speeding Cars, parking complaints, traffic signal Dispatch
730-7180
Noise complaints Desk Officer
730-7110
Neighborhood Preservation Complaints on decrepit
fences, , weeds, illegal home businesses or rentals 730-7610
Animal Control 730-7178
City Streets, sidewalks, trees, streetlights, Public Works
730-7505
Nuisance Vehicle Hotline 730-7706
Drug Hotline 245-3784
Graffiti Hotline & Shopping Cart Pickup 730-7680
Street Sweeping:
Fairwood Side - route 2a: 11/8 &11/22 & 12/6
Lakewood Side - route 2b: 11/15, 11/29 & 12/13
Neighborhood Crime Corner
Quoted From the:
Vandalism –
Dec 12 - Morse Avenue. Gang-related graffiti was found in the men‘s restroom on the northeast side of Columbia Park.
Theft/Vandalism – Dec 9 – Lakeside Dr. A resident discovered someone had smashed the windows of his car and stolen a 16GB iPod shuffle that was left on the center console. The doors remained locked. Officers found the car had not been ransacked and there was no collectible evidence.
Shoplifting – Dec 8 – Lawrence Station Road. A shoplifter was arrested at Costco for stealing ―The Hangover II‖ and ―Cowboy and Aliens‖ DVDs.
Parole Violation – Dec 2 – Candlewood Ct. During a parole search on the 1100 block of Candlewood Court, police arrested three people for parole violations. One man was found to be in possession of a knife larger than 2 inches, provided a false name and violated his parole gang orders by being with one of the other men who was arrested. The other two were booked into county jail for possession of drug paraphernalia and parole violations.
Sunnyvale Subway Sandwich Worker Shot During Robbery
By Mark Gomez A 26-year old Subway sandwich worker was shot in the abdomen Tuesday night during an armed robbery, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.
The woman suffered a non life-threatening wound after cooperation and handing over an undisclosed amount of cash, according to Public Safety Captain Dave Vebrugge.
The suspect is described as a woman in her mid-20s.
The robbery was reported just before 10PM at the Subway Sandwich shop at 605 E. El Camino Real.
Brass Rail Continued
A fourth suspect, identified as Agustin Dones, 34, has not been found. According to police, his family and girlfriend have been contacted, but with no results. Police believe he moved out of the area shortly after the incident.
Police said all four men were aware of the investigation, so their families actually hid their vehicles and other possible links to their locations. Clothing that matched the description of Chacon's was found in his San Jose home, police said. Police also said a weapon was recovered during the investigation.
Charges have been filed with the district attorney's office for Chacon and Bright. Chacon is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, while Bright is charged with battery.
Capt. David Verbrugge wanted to acknowledge the Brass Rail's new security system for aiding in the case. "We've been working for the past year for a security plan due to numerous calls for service out there," Verbrugge said. "They came in willing to work with us and set up a new security system, video and photos. Staff was completely cooperative throughout the investigation. Building that relationship with them helped solve this crime—and, of course, the excellent detective work."