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More owl trouble — this time for Shoreline ball field plan

By Daniel DeBolt

After years of outcry from resi-dents for more playing fields, the city is apparently moving

full steam ahead on a 12-acre baseball and soccer field along Garcia Avenue. “The assumption at this point is that we will move forward unless some-thing goes really massively wrong,” said City Council member Ronit Bry-ant at a study session Tuesday. But there are a few problems. For one, the site is a former landfill that is still settling. For another, burrow-ing owls, a local “species of concern,”

use the area to hunt mice, voles and insects. According to city staff, the playing surface for a baseball field with 90-foot base paths, and a 70-by-110-yard soc-cer field, could settle three to 10 inches over the next 50 years, possibly causing an uneven surface. A “squish study” is underway, and the city believes it will be able to handle the settling with “spot repairs” and some preventative measures. “We don’t think the settlement will be a deal breaker,” said city manager

By Alexa Tondreau

The county school board’s decision last month to give priority enroll-ment at Bullis Charter School to

residents in the Bullis-Purissima atten-dance area continues to draw fire from board members of the Los Altos School District, who say they are moving ahead with litigation and recently filed a legal complaint against the county. According to LASD board member David Pefley, he and fellow board mem-bers were united during their meeting Monday night in their stance against the county board decision. “We think it’s unfair for families in one part of the district to have priority access,” he said, adding that “Everyone shoulders the financial burden for Bullis Charter

School equally.” A hearing on the matter is scheduled in Superior Court for late February, Pefley said. While he and other board members still question the legality of BCS’s enrollment policy, which sets aside a certain number of seats for children living in the former Bullis-Purissima attendance area, others say the charter school is fully within its rights. Gary Larson, spokesperson for the California Charter Schools Association, said that an enrollment policy which favors a certain group of constituents is “absolutely” within the law, so long as the school can prove it is oversubscribed. “Charter law is pretty clear. If the school is oversubscribed, they can have a policy where students of the founders and their siblings are given a little bit more prior-ity,” he said. He also said there are other examples

See COUNCIL, page 11

See BULLIS, page 10

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Space reasons

By Don Frances

OCCASIONALLY I’m asked why this or that calendar, sports or other item didn’t

make it into our paper, and the answer is almost always the same: not enough room. As in days of old, print newspa-pers have limited space, and things need to be cut. The Internet, on the other hand, offers infinite space. So whatever you couldn’t find here, you’ll most likely find at www.mountainviewonline.com. Here, for example, are a couple calendar items which didn’t fit in this week’s “Goings On” section: ■ Local sci-fi writer Robert Bal-manno discusses his debut novel “September Snow,” futuristic sci-ence fiction set in a world ravaged by global warming. Wed., Jan. 23, 7-9 p.m. at the Mountain View Public Library. Free. ■ St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church presents the 38th National Theo-logical Conference, “Religion and Violence: Untangling the Roots of Conflict.” Community members of all faiths welcome. Tues., Jan. 22, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Wed., Jan. 23, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at St. Timothy’s, 2094 Grant Rd. Cost is $60, registra-tion available at www.sttims.org/events/dialogue.shtml or by calling (650) 967-4724.

ALONG THESE lines, here’s a report filed recently by Theresa Condon, herself a former Saint Francis High School athlete: “The 31st annual St. Francis Holi-day Basketball Tournament ended late last month with a 65-64 Lancer victory over the Oak Grove Eagles. “Teams from around the state competed in the three-day tourna-ment at St. Francis High School off Miramonte Avenue. The final game marked the 13th holiday tournament title for the varsity boys’ team and their 300th con-secutive victory.” V

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Tragedy on Bonny

StreetDESPONDENT WIFE NEARLY DIES AFTER HUSBAND PASSES

AWAY IN THEIR HOME

By Daniel DeBolt

Authorities made a terrible discovery Saturday after being

alerted to the sudden dis-appearance of a married couple on Bonny Street. Police were called to Bonny Street — a one-block-long residential street between Shoreline and Rengstorff — on Jan. 5, and knocked on the couple’s door at about 11 a.m. Receiving no answer, they looked through the windows and saw a woman lying on a bed, unrespon-sive. Firefighters were then called to the scene to enter the house with gas masks in case of a gas leak. Upon entering the home, authorities found the cou-ple, one dead and the other barely alive. Police determined that the husband, 59, had died of natural causes several days before, while the wife, 57, had become so despon-dent over his death she stopped taking care of herself. When authorities found her, she was barely alive. Police said the woman was hospitalized and needs psychiatric care. Her cur-rent status was not imme-diately available. Neighbors were alarmed that morning to see fire-fighters enter the home with masks on, before wheeling out two people on stretchers. So far, a coroner’s inves-tigation has led police to believe the man died of natural causes. V

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Coach leads by inspirationBy Alexa Tondreau

For proving that the defi-nition of winning can take on many forms,

Saint Francis girls field hock-ey coach Kathy Lincoln was recently granted the Model Coach Award for the 2007-08 school year. “It’s very flattering. But I think the award is a reflection of our program, school and especially the kids. Without great kids, I couldn’t do what I do,” said Lincoln. The award, bestowed by the California Interscholastic

Federation, is given to coaches who have served as positive role models and who pur-sue victory with honor, said Marie M. Ishida, CIF execu-tive director. Lincoln, who has worked at Saint Francis for 21 years as both a coach and teacher, started the girls field hockey program 10 years ago. She has also coached tennis, softball and boys and girls volleyball, and as a teacher she initiated the school’s exercise science class. This year’s season was one of the best for field hockey, she

said, with 19 wins, zero losses and two tied games. “I always try to tell them, you have to do things right and for the right reason. What’s important is that we create good citizens,” she said. Saint Francis Athletic Direc-tor Michael Pilawski said Lin-coln’s strength is keeping the emphasis on the experience, rather than the score. “She doesn’t define a success-ful season by what the score-board says. She never loses sight of what’s truly important. ... She’s a great teacher of life skills,” he said. V

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Escuela stabbing was gang-related, cops sayBy Theresa Condon

Mountain View police say they have arrested two Norteno gang members

for the attempted homicide of a stranger on Escuela Avenue. An alleged accomplice was also arrest-ed in the case. The attack took place Sunday, Jan. 6 at 3:30 p.m. outside the vic-tim’s apartment complex on the 600 block of Escuela Avenue. The unidentified victim was reportedly stabbed repeatedly in the torso and punched multiple times in the head and face by two attackers he didn’t know. When the suspects left, he went to a neighbor who called

police. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where is currently undergoing treatment for his inju-ries and is expected to survive. According to police, an inves-tigation revealed that the attack was gang motivated. Police say that in a photo line-up, the victim positively identified Jacob DeWitt, 19, of Mountain View and George Oseida, 21, of San Jose as the attack-ers. Police arrested DeWitt and Osei-da last Monday during a car stop on the Highway 85 off-ramp to Moffett Boulevard. Although Oseida fled the scene, a Sunnyvale K-9 unit located him on the Steven’s Creek Trail near Whisman Park, police

said, and he was arrested and taken to a hospital for injuries received while resisting arrest. Police said Oseida also had an outstanding warrant stemming from a robbery on Dec. 11, 2007 at the Safeway store at 1750 Miramonte Ave. Officers also arrested Miguel Ortega, 18, for his alleged role in attempting to help Oseida elude the police. All three were booked at the county jail. Gang enhancement charges were added for Oseida’s and DeWitt’s charges. Oseida received additional charges of resisting arrest and violating probation terms, as well as his robbery warrant charges. V

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An elderly woman died in a house fire on Dana Street Mon-day night, and investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blaze. Firefighters were called to the fire at 1390 W. Dana St. on Monday evening. Heavy debris in the house created an obstacle to firefighting efforts, but the fire was brought under control at 6:43 p.m., firefighters said. During search operations, firefighters discovered the woman’s body. Her name was not released as of press time.

HELP SOUGHT IN HEAD INJURY CASE Mountain View police are seeking the public’s help in determining whether a head injury sustained by a local man on New Year’s Eve was an acci-dent or a crime. The man is believed to have suffered the injury on Jan. 1 sometime between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. The injury was not deemed dangerous until later that week, when he was over-come by symptoms due to blunt force trauma to the head. He is currently unable to communi-cate with detectives “due to the severity of his injuries,” police said. According to police, the man and his girlfriend were out for New Year’s Eve. After some trouble with the hired limo they had been riding in, police drove him home and dropped him off at his house around 1:30 a.m. He had been drinking but was not legally drunk, and had no injuries, police said. The man did not enter the home until 2:30 a.m., according to his girlfriend, at which point he had a black eye but no other

visible injuries. He is believed to have sustained the injury dur-ing that hour. He is described as a 32-year-old black male, 6 feet 3 inches tall and 200 pounds. At the time of the incident he was wearing a black leather jacket, a red long-sleeved shirt and blue jeans, and was possibly in the area of Whisman and Middlefield roads. Anyone with informa-tion is asked to call Detective Kevin Solomon at (650) 903-6356.

—Theresa Condon

RIDERS GROUP SLAMS VTA LINE CHANGES The Santa Clara VTA Riders Union has delivered a scathing critique of the Valley Trans-portation Authority’s bus line changes, which went into effect Jan. 14. The Riders Union describes the recent “restructuring” as “a cleverly disguised 9 percent service reduction” that rescinds promises made by the VTA in 2000 to increase service when it passed Measure A. Instead, the group says, the bus fleet has decreased since 1999 by more than 16 percent. The group also blasts VTA for promoting its “community bus” lines — such as Line 34 in Mountain View — as “new” when actually they run on old lines which have been short-ened. The group added that Line 34 no longer goes all the way to El Camino Hospital, forcing riders to take trans-fers. The group blames, in part, VTA’s emphasis on the expen-sive BART extension proposal. For more, visit www.vtarider-sunion.org and www.vta.org.

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Last week’s Moffett Field Res-toration Advisory Board meeting saw the largest

turnout in months, with Hangar One the focus of the two-hour discussion. Though a decision on the han-gar’s fate had originally been promised for last month, the Navy once more made it clear that “No decisions have been made” about whether the historic structure will be demolished. The latest delay occurred after the Navy was asked by the State Historic Preservation Office to do a structural analysis of the hangar, said Preservation Office director Wayne Donaldson at the meeting.

Some local residents gave their input, saying they wanted the Navy to leave the siding in place, put a coating over it and “Leave it alone. It will be there long after all of us are gone,” as one participant put it. Others, like architect Linda Ellis, want to strip away the siding and put a fiberglass fabric over the bare frame, similar to that used at Shoreline Amphitheatre. It’s a popular solution which the Navy said it is not studying — possibly due to the cost. Lenny Siegel, director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, said there’s a good chance the Navy may remove the siding and leave the frame for someone else to re-cover and reuse. That concerns Siegel, because no one has stepped up for the massive project, including NASA Ames. A new solution was revealed just hours before the meeting — a unique chemical process that could treat the hangar’s eroding, PCB-contaminated panels with-out removing them. Stephen Mitchell, president of Amstar Envirochem, said at the meeting that his method has been used successfully on several Navy Ships, and was “successfully dem-onstrated” on Hangar One’s twin in Akron, Ohio, known as the “Good-year Airdock.” (See story, page 9.) Even if the process cannot be used to remediate the siding, it may be the best way to clean the PCB dust in the Hangar, leaving only salt as a byproduct. Scott Gromko, the Navy’s proj-ect manager for remediation of Hangar One, who gave his first-ever presentation at last week’s RAB meeting, said the Navy will be meeting with Amstar soon. Carl Honaker, the last chief operating officer at Moffett for the Navy, said the Navy should mention the simple clean-up of the PCBs in its list of “removal action alternatives.” Many observers worry that the Navy is no longer planning to clean the PCBs before applying an interior coating. The Navy announced last month that it has narrowed the list of alternatives for Hangar One to five: cover with rubberized mate-rial, coat with acrylic coating, cover with visually similar siding, remove siding and coat exposed surfaces, and demolish and remove the hangar. For the frame and interior the Navy is evaluating the merits of acrylic, epoxy, asphalt emulsion and polyurethane. V

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Stephen Mitchell believes he may be able to save Hangar One with his company’s chemical treatment process, and preser-

vationists are anxious to know if it will. Mitchell’s Pittsburgh-based firm, Amstar Envirochem Inc., is the only company in the U.S. that is permitted by the EPA to chemically neutralize the PCBs, which are embedded in the siding of the historic hangar. Bob Moss, co-chair of the Moffett Restora-tion Advisory Board, said he began correspond-ing with Mitchell last week after receiving his e-mail address from the Voice. Moss and other RAB members are intrigued by the process, but it’s not yet clear whether this is a permanent solution. The PCBs on the steel siding of Hangar One are embedded in an asbestos felt under several layers of coatings. Members of the RAB ques-tion whether the process can reach the PCBs. But Mitchell says the process has been used to successfully remove PCBs from several Navy ships, including one that was sunk off the coast in a training maneuver. It also helped turn the first steel factory in the country into a museum in Johnstown, Pa., he said.

It all depends on the laminate siding on Hangar One. “If it’s very porous, our stuff gets through it,” Mitchell said. “If we can get to the PCBs, we’ll destroy them.” Navy project manager Scott Gromko said Navy representatives plan to meet with Amstar soon. Before it was certified by the EPA, Amstar’s treatment was tested on Hangar One’s twin, the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio. The Airdock is of similar shape and size, and uses the same “Robertson’s Protected Metal” siding, Mitchell said. “These panels are apparently eroding and there was rafter dust,” he said. “We were 100 percent successful in reducing the PCBs to non-detectable levels.” For unknown reasons, Airdock owner Lock-heed Martin decided not to go with the treat-ment.

Amstar, whose product can be wiped or sprayed on, charges $6 to $10 per square foot. Moss said he did a “back of the envelope” esti-mate that put the price for treating Hangar One at $12 million — an “attractive price,” he said, considering that demolishing the Hangar could cost upwards of $30 million. “We need proof that it will work on the major surface area, specifically the panels,” Moss said. “Let’s see if they are willing to perform such a test, and if the Navy wants to pursue it too.” The only other alternative would be to dispose of the siding in a landfill, which Mitchell believes is below the mark. “When you think of California, it’s the pride of the 50 states as far as being environmentally conscious,” Mitchell said. “Rather than ship it [the contaminated siding] off to a Utah land-fill,” this process is better, he said. V

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Local residents wondered what an enormous jum-bo jet was doing flying

so low over Mountain View on Monday, trailed by an FA-18 fighter jet. It was the new pride of NASA: a Boeing 747 fitted with a 20-ton, 100-inch infrared telescope in the fuselage that can see from high altitudes — as high as 45,000 feet — what telescopes cannot see from the ground. Scientists hope the Strato-spheric Observatory for Infra-red Astronomy, or SOFIA, will help answer “many fundamen-tal questions about the creation and evolution of the universe, including how stars and planets are formed, how organic mate-rials necessary for life form and evolve, and the nature of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy,” according to NASA’s Web site. NASA plans to have the plane in regular service by 2010 and based out of NASA Ames.

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of charter schools in the state with similar enrollment policies. Recently, BCS board president Ken Moore said the school was “enormously oversubscribed,” with only one applicant in six allowed in. Bullis Charter School has only 288 students. Its new enrollment policy gives first priority to return-ing students and the siblings of current students, and then allocates

50 percent of the remaining spots to students in the former Bullis-Purissima attendance area, which mainly covers parts of Los Altos Hills. Larson — who said he has “no vested interest” in the controversy either way — said BCS’s popular-ity is due to the fact that it is widely acknowledged as one of the best charter schools in the state. “It is a highly reputable pub-lic school, very innovative and accountable. The staff it has attract-ed is unprecedented,” he said. “Par-ents are clamoring to get their kids in.”

Larson said it was one of the only charter schools in the state with a Mandarin language immersion program. Currently there are 687 charter schools in California serving over a quarter million students. One hun-dred new charter schools opened up in the state this year alone, Lar-son said. Larson said the incentive behind opening a charter school is the chance to create more innovative programs in the public school setting, and to address students’ educational needs in more varied and creative ways. “We understand that different students learn in different ways,” he said. Larson thinks that instead of spending considerable time and resources suing the county board, the district would do better to “learn from what Bullis Charter School is doing right.” V

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Castro Elementary School is celebrating its new sta-tus under No Child Left Behind through a special award: The Title I Aca-demic Achievement Award, to be granted in a ceremony this spring. After years of low test scores, Castro was taken off probation, or “Program Improvement Status,” last year for improving its scores among low-income and minority students. To accomplish this, Castro Principal Carmen Mizzel and other educators and parents held after-school and lunchtime tutoring ses-sions to help small groups of students with language arts and math skills essen-tial for the tests. Although Castro has improved its Academic Per-formance Index scores, the school is still just short of reaching the state’s target API score of 800. Mary Lairon, assistant superin-tendent at the school dis-trict, said Castro teachers will continue to work with individual students to meet this goal.

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DISTRICT SEEKS NEW TRUSTEE The Mountain View-Whisman School District started its search for an interim trustee this week after board member Rose-Mary Sias Roquero stepped down 10 months before her term ended. The remaining board members will choose a can-didate to fill the vacancy until elections are held this November. Trustees are holding an orientation for interested applicants on Jan. 28, and applications are due Feb. 4. Applica-tions will be available Jan. 18 at the district office, 750-A San Pierre Way, and at elementary schools the following Tuesday. In an open letter printed in the Voice, Sias Roquero said she was resigning to take care of her ill husband, but did not plan to perma-nently end her career in education.

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Big box ban OK’d To prevent Home Depot and oth-er big box stores that carry “lumber and other building materials” from coming to San Antonio Center, the council initiated an amendment Tuesday to the San Antonio precise

plan. “I guess we found ourselves dis-appointed with the council’s view of the Home Depot project,” said Fred Thoits, one of the owners of San Antonio Center. Thoits said Home Depot provid-ed an opportunity to revitalize the center when Sears recently opted not to sign a 50-year lease renewal, though one other “national retailer” had also applied. Addressing past comments, Thoits said the multiple owners and the “staggered leases” at the center prevented a major revamping. Council member Macias dis-agreed, saying that other cities had overcome that obstacle in develop-ments like Santana Row. The precise plan amendment will go to the Environmental Plan-ning Commission for clarification. Mayor Tom Means was the only dissenting vote, while member Matt Pear recused himself.

Support for day workers Self described gadfly Don Letcher did not persuade the council to reject the provisional use permit application filed by the Day Worker Center to the downtown area. The council’s unanimous approval was followed with applause. “Thanks Mr. Letcher for allowing me to thank city staff in public,” said Day Worker Center board President Steve Olsen. Letcher said the center created a liability for the city because it broke federal laws by “harboring illegal

aliens.” City attorney Michael Mar-tello disagreed, saying the council could possibly even break the law by rejecting the permit, since the city would be making the accusation without proof. “We don’t ask for documenta-tion, we’re not a hiring hall,” said worker center board member John Rinaldi. V

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CERT BRINGS TRAINEES TO MOFFETT More than 100 neighborhood volunteers from around the coun-ty — about half of them from Mountain View — assembled in an old Moffett Field barracks over the weekend to train for a major disaster, such as an earthquake, as part of a large Community Emer-gency Response Team (CERT) operation. Fire department spokesman Lynn Brown said that more than 50 volunteers from Mountain View’s CERT signed up. The barracks had 12 rooms with different scenarios. One featured the dangerous “double diamond” scenario, where a trainee could refuse to go in and still get a passing grade. In that scenario, an actor stood outside a crumbled building ask-ing for help in rescuing his wife. The obvious entrance was long and difficult, but once inside CERT volunteers saw that the victim was standing next to a door — an easier route if the volunteers had stopped and sur-veyed the building first, as taught in training exercises. V

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ViewpointTHANKS AND GOOD LUCK TO SIAS ROQUEROEditor: We would like to publicly thank our retired colleague, RoseMary Sias Roquero, for her service during the last three years as a school board member with us in the Mountain View Whis-man School District. We were saddened by her deci-sion to resign from the board. We know it was a hard decision for her to make, especially because we know that RoseMary took her responsibilities as a school board member very seriously. RoseMary was a tremendous asset to the board, and she was a valuable member of our team. We appreciated the community outreach she made, her insights from her background as an edu-cator, and her professionalism. We wish her the best as she moves forward, and hope to see her continue her commu-nity work in support of students, which we know is her passion.Gloria Higgins, Philip Palmer,

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CITY SPRINKLERS RUNNING IN THE RAINEditor: It was 9 p.m. on Jan. 3, and while walking on Castro Street across from City Hall during a break in the first of three storms that we had been warned about long in advance, I noticed

that the sprinklers on the lawn between City Hall and the Kaiser clinic were on. My first thought: “What a waste of precious water, and money. When we are being hit by a storm and another one even big-ger is coming, our city sprinkler systems for public green areas are turned on. This just does not make any sense. Whoever is responsible for maintaining the city’s irrigation systems should take note of this situation and be more respon-sible to all of us taxpayers. Our City Council members should take note as well.

Job Lopez McCarty Avenue

UNDECLARED VOTERS CAN USE DEM BALLOTEditor: Unlike the Republican Party, the California Democratic Party is allowing our state’s three mil-lion registered voters who decline to state any party affiliation (20 percent of the total) to request and cast a Democratic Party ballot in the Feb. 5 California presidential primary. Since California will almost certainly go to a Democrat in November’s general election, Feb. 5, realistically, will be the only chance for voters in our state to have their say in the race. California Democrats and “decline to state” voters regis-

After some eight years of squabbling, the city finally has broken ground on a first-class child care center with space for more than 100 children, including a

good number from low-income homes. It has been a long haul from the early discussions, when demand among low-income families was not clear, and estab-lished child care providers said more space was not needed. But in June of 2005, approval of the project was sealed when the City Council voted 5-2 to support a grant of $1.8 million to cover cost overruns. Current members Tom Means, Laura Macias and Nick Galiotto helped carry the day, resulting in last week’s groundbreaking at Rengstorff Park. The new center will accommodate 104 children in a spa-cious building adjacent to the new Senior Center at the park. The location has had some detractors over the years, who said it would take away valuable park and parking space. Oth-ers claimed that low income families who live near the park would not be able to afford child care there. But now all those hurdles are history, and money has been set aside to cover the $5.4 million price tag. To think it all began some eight years ago, with the offer of a $2.8 million loan from the Packard Foundation. That longer-than-usual timeframe was acknowledged by a founda-tion official at the groundbreaking, who said he is the third Packard employee to have worked on the project. The Children’s Creative Learning Center will operate the 9,400-square-foot facility, which will serve children from infants to 5-year-olds. The CCLC will provide $50,000 to subsidize some low-income families, and there are other pro-grams available if parents need financial help, which should open a good number of spaces for low income families. The true test of the need for this center will come when parents finally get a chance to sign up — sometime before the doors open this September. Council member Margaret Abe-Koga says the spaces will fill up fast, which would be a nice ending for a project whose long gestation period is several years beyond its oldest clients.

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Italian food has been so embraced by Americans that it has become one of our fast

foods, homogenized by frozen pizza manufacturers and chain restaurants whose mantra is, “Tomatoes are good for you; and what’s not to like about cheese?” Fortunately, this country has seen a resurrection of tradition-al Italian recipes and a renewed interest in authentic ingredi-ents like balsamic vinegar and imported fresh mozzarella — foods that bear a resemblance in color to their supermarket cousins, but that have textures and flavors from another world.

The Old World, as they say. Dining at Sergio’s is a depar-ture from vats of all-purpose tomato sauce into time-tested recipes and old-fashioned ser-vice and presentation — quali-ties that belie the relatively recent appearance of this Los Altos restaurant. The concise menu at Sergio’s reads like a collection of fam-ily favorites, with enough range to be interesting, but a small enough scope that entrees are still competently prepared. For one thing, Sergio’s offers more veal dishes than your typi-cal pizza-pasta parlor. And it

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includes little touches, like egg in the tortellini carbonara, which evoke, for me, past din-ners at the home of a childhood Italian friend. I’m happy to report that dinner and lunch here start with fresh, warm Italian bread. Apparently owner Sergio Camara believes, like me, that just because we live in the Bay Area, not every meal requires sourdough. If you like your bread very garlicky, the pane all’aglio appe-tizer ($4.95) is toasted and slathered in minced garlic and a mild combo of herbs and cheese. I liked it even better with another appetizer piled on top, bruschetta-style: the funghi saltati ($6.95). The fresh mush-rooms sauteed with herbs and white wine are delicious, espe-cially with the garlic bread. I’m still trying to figure out why the dish costs $7, though. The rest of the menu seems reasonable. Other starters include salads like the classic caprese ($6.95 at lunch). Sergio’s layers fresh tomato slices, basil and import-

ed fresh mozzarella di bufala (that’s right — buffalo milk cheese) that’s so soft it makes lesser mozzarellas seem vulca-nized. The mista salad ($5.95) is a simple mixed green salad with tomato, olives and peperon-cini tossed with a sleepy Italian dressing. I preferred the caprese to the mista and the minestrone, the only soup appetizer on the menu. The minestrone ($5.95) had a pleasant broth but there’s only so much cabbage and car-rots I can take in one bowl. Since the menu features veal, I tried two veal dishes: ravioli al parmigiana ($7.95 at lunch), fresh veal ravioli baked with a Bolognese sauce and parmesan cheese; and veal sauteed with dry Marsala wine and mushrooms, vitello alla Marsala ($12.95 at lunch). The latter came with roasted potatoes and seasonal veggies on the side, of which the potatoes were hit and miss: lighter and less greasy at supper-time than at lunch. The ravioli were tender and flavorful even under a tomato sauce, and just the right size for lunch. The veal Marsala was also tender, with a stronger flavor of both veal and

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wine. I think, for that reason, the dish was not enormous. For non-veal eaters, the chicken parmigiana ($13.95 at dinner) is an excellent choice, with juicy chicken in a crunchy breading, baked with mozzarella and a zesty marinara sauce, something many restaurants fail to master. Roasted potatoes (yum) and seasonal veg-gies on the side round out a hearty dinner. Also satisfying is the meat lasagna ($12.95 at dinner), whose pasta and Bolognese sauce both taste lovingly homemade. Meat-ball slices within add heartiness and savoriness. I’ve mentioned before that one of the best tiramisu I’ve tasted in the Bay Area was at Kapp’s, a Mountain View sports bar, but I think Sergio’s has them beat. This light and flavorful dessert even humbled the chocolate torta, which would have been a winner on any other day. But the New York-style cheesecake dusted with cinnamon, which didn’t need berry puree sauce to disguise any faults, could give it a run for its money. Desserts run in the very reasonable $5 range. The drink selection, in keep-ing with the main menu, is com-pact. Sparkling Italian waters and sodas, juices and coffee run in the $2 to $3 range, and even the decaf coffee was decent. Wines are also available. You might think a small, minimally embellished box of a room filled with diners on a Friday night would be noisy, but this was not the case at Sergio’s. You probably want to make a reservation for weekend nights, but midday lunches are more accommodating for those just dropping in. Although the food and appear-ance of the patrons suggest Ser-gio’s is more of a Nice Dinner Out place (I didn’t see any chil-dren, for example), prices are moderate enough that it needn’t be saved for special occasions. V

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27 DRESSES (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 1, 2:25, 3:40, 5:05, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 1:40, 3, 4:20, 5:40, 7, 8:20 & 9:40 p.m.

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 8:15 & 10:30 p.m.

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS (PG) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:45 & 10:10 p.m. Century 12: 12:25, 1:10*, 2:50, 3:50*, 5:15, 7:35 & 9:55 p.m. *Spanish subtitles

ATONEMENT (R) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 12:55, 4, 6:55 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 8:35 & 10:15 p.m.

THE BUCKET LIST (PG-13) ✭ Century 16: 1:35, 4:10, 7 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 1:20, 2:35, 3:45, 5, 6:15, 7:25, 8:40 & 9:50 p.m.

CASSANDRA’S DREAM (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 16: 1:40, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 12: 12:45, 3:40, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m.

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (R) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 1:55, 4:25, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8 & 10:30 p.m.

CLOVERFIELD (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:30, 1:15, 2:45, 3:30, 5, 5:45, 7:15, 8, 9:40 &10:25 p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 12:35*, 1:05, 2:15, 2:45*, 3:15, 4:25, 4:55*, 5:25, 6:35, 7:05*, 7:35, 8:45, 9:15* & 9:45 p.m. *Spanish subtitles

ENCHANTED (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:30, 3:05 & 5:40 p.m.

FIRST SUNDAY (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Century 12: 12:50, 2:15, 3:35, 4:40, 6:15, 7:20, 9 & 10:05 p.m.

THE GOLDEN COMPASS (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 1:05 & 7:25 p.m. Century 20: 1:10 & 7 p.m.

THE GREAT DEBATERS (PG-13) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 3:50 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 1:45 & 7:30 p.m.

I AM LEGEND (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 4:35 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:15, 2:45, 4, 5:20, 7:55, 9:40 & 10:25 p.m.

IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 12:30, 3:25, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

JUNO (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 20: Noon, 12:55, 2:20, 3:20, 4:45, 5;45, 7:10, 8:10, 9:35 & 10:35 p.m. Aquarius: 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:20 & 10:30 p.m. Sun. & Mon. also at 11:30 a.m.

THE KITE RUNNER (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 20: 1, 4:10, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. also at 10:03 p.m.

MAD MONEY (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1:45, 4:30, 7:35 & 10:05 p.m. Century 12: 1, 4, 7 & 9:40 p.m.

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m. Century 12: 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30*, 7:30, 9:30*, 10 & 10:25 p.m. *Spanish subtitles

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 16: 12:45 & 7:10 p.m. Century 20: 4:40 & 10:20 p.m.

ONE MISSED CALL (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55 & 10:10 p.m.

THE ORPHANAGE (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 16: 4:05 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 2, 4:55, 7:30 & 10:05 p.m.

P.S. I LOVE YOU (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 9:45 p.m. Century 12: 12:35 & 7:05 p.m.

PERSEPOLIS (PG-13) ✭✭✭1/2 Aquarius: 12:15, 2:45, 5, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

PIRATES WHO DON’T DO ANYTHING (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:35, 2:50, 5:10 & 7:30 p.m. Century 12: 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 & 9:20 p.m.

THE SAVAGES (R) ✭✭✭ Palo Alto Square: 1:40, 4:20 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. also at 10:10 p.m. Sat. also at 10:10 a.m.

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (R) ✭✭ Century 16: 12:50 & 7:05 p.m. Century 12: 1:20, 4:20, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 20: Noon, 1:35, 3:20, 5, 6:45, 8:25 & 10:05 p.m. Guild: 1, 5 & 8:30 p.m.

THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 12:35, 3:15 & 5:55 p.m.

Note: Screenings are for Friday through Tuesday only.

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CENTURY PARK 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Redwood City (365-9000)CENTURY 20 DOWNTOWN: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (369-3456)

CINEARTS AT PALO ALTO SQUARE: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456)GUILD: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

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THE BUCKET LIST ✭(Century 16, Century 20) Even the one-two punch of A-list heavyweights Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can’t save this terminal tearjerker from itself. Edward Cole (Nicholson) is a cantankerous health-care mogul who owns the hospital where he’s being treated for inoperable cancer. Cole is forced to share a room with dying auto mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman). Chemo treatments and close quarters offer the pair of grumpy old men plenty of opportunity to share their disap-pointments and their dreams, which flow like lifeblood once both are handed fatal prognoses of a year. What would you do with unlimited resources and 12 months to live? Cole and Chambers buddy up on a kicking-the-bucket wish list that includes skydiving, race-car driving and such won-ders of the world as the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China. Egypt’s lofty pyramids and biker tattoos are thrown in for good measure. Under the leaden direction of Rob Reiner “Bucket” plays like molasses on meds: slow, superficial and sapped of any spark that might be generated by life-styles of the rich and famous or decades of dramatic experience in front of the camera. Rated: PG-13 for language and mature themes. Run time is a mercifully brief 1 hour, 37 minutes. — J.A.

THE ORPHANAGE ✭✭✭✭(Century 16, Century 20) In a neat twist of turnaround, adult orphan Laura (Belen Rueda) has purchased the cavernous mansion where she spent her childhood, planning on turning it into a home for disabled youngsters. It doesn’t take long before her precocious son Simon (Roger Princep) is chattering on about an imagi-nary playmate named Tomas and his clever games, some of which strike Laura as dangerously insidious. Eerie moments mount up: a visit from a deranged social worker who knows too much for her own good; a treasure hunt gone sorely awry; and, after an angry exchange in which Simon discovers he is an adopted child with a terminal illness, his complete disappearance. Laura will not accept the loss of her son and determines to locate him by delving into the realm of the supernatural, much to the consternation of her anxious husband (Fernando Cayo) who’s convinced she’s losing her mind. The living co-exist with the dead with spine-tingling synchronization as Laura straddles both worlds in an effort to save Simon and unravel the decades-old mys-tery buried deep within the walls of her old home. Through the efforts of a police psychologist (Mabel Rivera) and a creepy medium (Geraldine Chaplin), treacherous secrets are revealed. Saturated in anxiety and dripping with dread, this contempo-

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rary chiller is the real deal. Rated: R for violence, some bloodshed and mature themes. 1 hour, 45 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. — J.A.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD ✭✭✭✭(Guild) Paul Thomas Anderson plays true to form in this raw, original work loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s sprawling 1927 novel “Oil!” Daniel Day-Lewis, and only Day-Lewis, possesses the essential gravitas to pull off what is sure to be an award-winning turn as Daniel Plainview, a wily, sociopathic wildcatter in the turn-of-the-century west. As a crude oil hustler, Plainview travels from town to town plundering the land for the rich black pitch that will ultimately make him a millionaire. Plainview pins big hopes on Sunday Ranch, a parcel of parched land that can be had for $6 an acre by virtue of a cunning snow job on the Sundays themselves, not to mention an entire community of skeptics and the Sundays’ sermonizing son, Eli (Paul Dano). The townsfolk ultimately rally round the plan, hoping for a giant strike that will see them rolling in dough. But raping the land reaps its own kind of hell. Visceral, volatile and epic. Rating: R for extreme violence and language. 2 hours, 38 minutes. — J.A.

20 ■ MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE ■ JANUARY 18, 2008