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OMVNA Newsletter
March 2006
Volume 18, Number 2
When: 2:00-4 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2006
Where: TBD/Landels Elementary
When: 7:30 p.m. every Second Monday of the month
Where: Board Room of the Chamber of Commerce 580 Castro St.
Who: All OMV residents
From the Chair
By Ken Rosenberg
Dear Neighbors,
On Sunday, April 30, 2006 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. (location: to be decided, but probably Landels Elementary) OMVNA will host a General Meeting where the theme is "Showcase Old Mountain View." We can’t do it without your help. If you live in the downtown and are a babysitter, a contractor, a music teacher, an accountant, a therapist, a hair stylist, a dog walker, a financial advisor, a plumber, a lawyer, a realtor, a management consultant, and so on, then we want you to present yourself and your business at the meeting! Or perhaps your business sells actual goods. Come set up a table and tell people of your store. Or maybe you write novels or children’s books. Bring them with you and show them to us! It is my bet that we, as a neighborhood, will patronize your business and buy your products.
One of the goals of OMVNA is to bring the neighborhood together. If you are a subscriber of the Yahoo! email group, OMVNATalk, then you know that we are frequently asking for referrals of each other. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some neighborhood gathering where the people who have services to offer had a place to showcase them? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could capture that list and make it available on OMVNATalk and www.OMVNA.org? if you are one of those service providers, here is your chance!
All participants will have an opportunity to introduce themselves and talk about their business/services to the audience. We will organize you into groups and set up tables. Bring plenty of business cards or flyers to pass out. Did I mention this is FREE?! Of course this will not work if neighbors don’t show up. We need you all to come and check out what the residents of the best neighborhood in Mountain View have to offer. If you need further incentive, OMVNA will provide food and drink. For more information, contact Margaret Abe-Koga at margaretabekoga@gmail.com / 650-291-0167.
If you want to subscribe to the OMVNA email list, please email: omvnatalk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com We only have 196 members. There are over 2,000 households in the downtown!
Meet Karyn Sinunu Event
by Kathy Sherman
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I am writing to invite you to meet Karyn Sinunu, Santa Clara County Chief Assistant District Attorney, at an event in my home on Sunday, March 12, 2006 from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will be a chance for you to chat with Karyn informally, and to hear her speak to attendees as a group and entertain questions about the role of District Attorney. This is NOT a fundraising event.
This will give you a chance to meet with her yourself and ask your own tough questions.
Please let me know whether you’ll be attending (and if you’ll be bringing others) so that I may plan accordingly. Light refreshments will be served. Unfortunately, I cannot accommodate children at this event.
I look forward to seeing you on March 12.
Kathy Sherman
561 Bush Street (between Church and Mercy)
Mountain View
Home: (650) 965-7460
Cell: (650) 465-4940
Email: kfsherman@gmail.com
For more information about Karyn Sinunu, visit http://www.sinunu4da.com/
MARCH
Saturday March 18, 2006
Compost and Pest Control Workshop
The City of Mountain View is hosting a free Compost and Pest Control Workshop from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. To register, please call (408) 918-4640.
APRIL
Saturday April 22, 2006
28th Annual Spring Family Parade
The City of Mountain View presents its 28th Annual Spring Family Parade at 12:00 noon on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View. This year's theme is "Disco Days Are Here Again." Post-parade celebrations include food, games and entertainment held at Pioneer Park until 3:00 pm.
For more information on City events visit http://www.mountainview.gov
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Thursday Night Write-ins at Spica Coffee & Tea
Got a novel secretly stashed away in a drawer? Always wanted to write a story about your crazy Aunt Martha? Want to be the next Stephen King? Then come join the Thursday Night Write-ins! We're a group of local writers who have designated Thursday nights as our time to get away from the distractions of our lives and write.
Where: Spica Coffee & Tea, 650 Castro Street (next to the UPS Store)
When: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Questions? Email me at shellyking.com for the answers and to get on the email list.
Looking for Officer Y
Shelly King
www.shellyking.com
About a year ago, there was an incident at my apartment community that caused one of my neighbors to call the Mountain View Police. Though the incident was gossip-worthy, the resulting neighborly chatter was not so much about the incident itself but the officer who responded to the call (let’s call him Officer Y). I should say nearly all the chatter was among the single women. You get the picture.
Encounters with Officer Y have reached levels of female swooning that would make Hugh Jackman envious. It seems no woman is immune. When one of my neighbors mentioned Officer Y at the school where she works, one of the other teachers came running up to her. "Are you talking about Officer Y in Mountain View?" the woman asked before gleefully going into her own story of an encounter with the dreamy cop. While at the bar of a Castro Street restaurant, I was telling several friends about Officer Y’s affect on my neighbors when a female bartender joined us with her own Officer Y tale. Her face wore an expression of adoration usually reserved for members of boy bands. Honestly, she was dangerously close to twittering.
All of this makes me think that the Mountain View Police Department has stumbled on the perfect Neighborhood Watch program. Apparently single women in town are spending their nights memorizing the City code then trolling the streets looking for the smallest infraction that may require a call to Officer Y. It’s really a brilliant plan if you think about it.
But I think the real question is why the women of Mountain View are so enchanted with this man. Well let’s face it, finding a nice boyfriend in Silicon Valley isn’t easy. A friend of mine describes it this way: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd." And we’re not talking "odd" like his hobby is herding yaks. We’re talking "odd" like he takes you to Costco on your first date for the $1.99 hot dog and soda special.
So it’s really no wonder that Officer Y strikes a chord. He does fit much of the requirements for what women want. He comes when you need him, he’s always dressed appropriately for the occasion, and he’s legally required to listen to you. If you think about it, that sounds pretty good. And therein lies the problem. It all sounds good. But in reality, Officer Y is just like any of the other guys we know, throwing his towels on the floor and scratching himself. The Officer Y we women of Mountain View have conjured for ourselves only exists in our minds, or perhaps more accurately, in the brightest corners of our hopes and dreams. I mentioned this to another single friend one day when Officer Y came up in conversation. She, like me, has never actually met Officer Y in person. "Yea," she said. "I just like the idea of Officer Y. But if I met him, I’d probably find him kind of boring." And that, my friends, should give all local yak herders hope.
The other night, some kids were being obnoxiously loud outside of my apartment window around 11:00 p.m. I lay in my pajamas wondering if I’d really become so un-cool in my 30s as to yell at teenagers to keep down the racket. Or perhaps, I thought, this was my opportunity. Perhaps tonight was the night I had a legitimate reason to call the Mountain View Police. Perhaps I would finally meet Officer Y. But as I held my phone in my hand, I knew that somewhere—probably around my most recent bad date—I’d crossed a line. I was dangerously close to Officer Y groupy-hood. So I got dressed and irrevocably degraded my cool factor by yelling at the teenagers myself. It was a close call.
I, like my friend, still appreciate the idea of Officer Y. I like knowing that there’s someone like him and the other officers of the Mountain View Police serving our community. But when it comes to fulfilling my hopes and desires for the next man in my life, I’ll take my chances with the average Joes of Mountain View. They may be a little more rumpled than Officer Y, but there’s bound to be one out there that’s odd in the same way I am.
The OMVNA Newsletter
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