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Restaurant Profile: Morocco’s

deb — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:06:26 +0000

by Max Hauser

When the Essadki brothers sought a second location for their popular San Jose restaurant Morocco’s, they chose Old Mountain View. Morocco’s MV (873 Castro Street) opened in July for dinner and weekday lunch, prompting testimonials on OMVNAtalk. Morocco’s features 150-year-old family Moroccan recipes in a white tablecloth setting.

An unusual practice [...]

Locavores Wanted!

deb — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:59:38 +0000

by Carter Coleman Old Mountain View finally has a quality grocery store on Castro Street – Ava’s Downtown Market. This is the store that Old Mountain View has been hoping for.

The former Asian market at 340 Castro Street is now owned and operated by a husband and wife dynamic duo, Juan and Ann [...]

Old Mountain View Development Update

deb — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:55:20 +0000

Classics Chooses Names of New Streets for Station 361 Development, Fortes Redevelopment Plan to be Unvieled at March 6 OMVNA Meeting

by Robert Cox

Classic Communities Vice President Scott Ward has announced the names of the new private streets for the Classics at Station 361 development at the corner of West Evelyn [...]

Letter from the Chair

deb — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:55:07 +0000

by David Lewis, OMVNA Chair

Thanks to everyone who voted in our recent elections. The new OMVNA Steering Committee members are:

David Lewis, Chair Robert Cox, Vice Chair Manny Ramirez, Treasurer Shannon Madison, Secretary Carter Coleman, Community Liaison Aaron Grossman, CERT Sally Porush, Newsletter Editor Ricardo Gonzalez, At-Large Kathleen Sullivan, At-Large

Happy New OMVNA [...]

CERT Radio Check Moving

deb — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:15:12 +0000

by Aaron Grossman

Starting March 4 the Old Mountain View CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) will move its monthly radio check to the first Sunday of each month at 7:00 PM. Our volunteer team has conducted this 5 minute radio check almost every month for the past 6 years. Fifteen to twenty of the [...]

OMVNA Potluck for Ava’s on Saturday, March 10

deb — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:04:57 +0000

We’re having a potluck to help generate awareness of Ava’s Downtown Market at 340 Castro Street.

Bring a dish to share made from ingredients purchased from Ava’s Downtown Market (and/or a bottle is welcome too!)

The party will be held on Saturday, March 10 at 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Thanks to Shannon Madison for [...]

OMVNA General Meeting & Elections

deb — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:26:51 +0000

The OMVNA General Meeting and elections for the new Steering Committee was held at Landels School, 7:30 to 9:00 PM on December 12, 2011.

Congratulations to the 2012 Steering Committee:

Chair: David Lewis Vice-Chair: Robert Cox Secretary: Shannon Madison Treasurer: Manny Ramirez Newsletter Editor: Sally Porush Community Liaison: Carter Coleman CERT Chair: Aaron Grossman [...]

A New Grocery Store in Mountain View

deb — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:25:09 +0000

by Max Hauser

Many residents recall the hopeful “downtown grocery store project” a few years ago. Acknowledging mainstream general retail as a missing element downtown, the city sought a retail tenant, possibly a grocery, for the new parking structure at the California-Bryant corner. The strongest and ultimately successful bid however came from Long’s Drugs, [...]

Notes from the Chair: Year-End Review of Events

deb — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:21:48 +0000

by David Lewis, Chair, OMVNA

January was the month for a new event, the brainchild of Deb Keller and Carter Coleman–OMNVA New Year’s Eve parties. They organized it and got the use of many houses, even one with baby-sitting for our residents with kids. Those who signed up for the event went from house [...]

No Bones About It … Development will Continue in our Neighborhood

deb — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:47 +0000

by Robert Cox, Vice Chair, OMVNA

“They found a skull on the property,” Vice Mayor Mike Kasperzak whispered to me, as he broke the latest news about the re-development of the Abate’s Industrial Square on the southwest corner of West Evelyn and Calderon Avenues. “What will Scott have to deal with next? Re-development [...]

Spidergate!

deb — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:27 +0000

by the Editor & Assistant Editor

Our fall was enlivened by an entertaining OMVNATalk discussion that some of you may have missed. Proximity to Halloween may have had some connection to ‘Spidergate’. We thought we would add our little bit.

First, the authors would note that until they moved here, they had never seen [...]

A New Way to Save Energy in Mountain View

deb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:29:37 +0000

by Elizabeth Sarmiento

Mountain View has city-wide Wi-Fi, OMVNA summer parties, Summer Night Movies, and Thursday Night Live, but that’s not all–starting this summer, a new home energy savings program is available to all Mountain View residents, and it’s free! Energy Upgrade Mountain View (EUMV) is a City-sponsored initiative offering free home energy [...]

Notes from the Chair

deb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:24:50 +0000

by David Lewis, Chair, OMVNA

Our thanks to the local merchants who have supported OMNVA–first, on June 21st, Artisan Wine Depot owner, Christine Tran, offered OMVNA residents a mixer including a wine tasting extravaganza– ten unique regional wines to taste and compare–and a dinner of excellent Spanish paella from Chef Hector Figueroa–using an [...]

Development Update

deb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:23:40 +0000

by Robert Cox, Vice Chair, OMVNA

Classics residential development is back on track The Mountain View City Council, in a 7-0 vote, reaffirmed their support for the residential zoning of the Evelyn Ave. Corridor. Classic Communities, which had won approval for their residential redevelopment plan for the area east of the former Minton [...]

OMNVA CERT – A Decade of Community Service

deb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:15:26 +0000

by Aaron Grossman & Carol Lewis

In 2001 OMNVA residents Twana Karney, Julie Wrobel, Tim Johnson, Donnie Foster and Aaron Grossman established Old Mountain View CERT, our own Community Emergency Response Team. It was part of a citywide effort to enable each neighborhood to prepare in advance for a disaster such as a [...]

Mountain View Reads Together: Eaarth by Bill McKibben

deb — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:35:33 +0000

by Bruce Karney

For 6 years the Mountain View Library has organized a November “MV Reads Together” program–many individuals reading the same book at the same time and participating in related public events building on the book’s themes–a wonderful idea from OMV resident Sharlene Gee.

This year’s book is Eaarth by Bill McKibben. Why [...]

“Reinventing our Cities” Looks to the Future

deb — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:27:42 +0000

by Julie Lovins

Spontaneous friendships at a bike-sharing station, unsubsidized fast bus transit (in addition to convenient car/bike/pedestrian travel), creative ways to recycle and to provide affordable housing, a thriving commercial street jammed with pedestrians (cars on other streets), how-tos for bike/pedestrian safety–these are some of the images from around the world that [...]

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

deb — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:37:27 +0000

This year the Ice Cream Social will be held at Mercy-Bush Park on Sunday, August 28th, from 1 PM to 3 PM. Please bring a picnic lunch if you wish and enjoy free Baskin-Robbins ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, mint chocolate chip, and rainbow sherbet ) and a sprinkles bar again this year. [...]

OMVNAfest rocks!

deb — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:35:59 +0000

Check out the talented dancers we have in the neighborhood!

OMVNAFest: Saturday, June 18

deb — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:47:04 +0000

by Deb Keller, OMVNA At-Large #1

Thanks to a generous donation from the Tied House, we’re having a party! The Tied House is donating Fog City Amber to a summer party set for June 18, 5:00-8:00 PM.

1. how many in [...]