Express: Today's news and events in Mountain View

2 PM Friday, July 13, 2012

TopStories from the Mountain View Voice staff Five plan to run for MVWhisman board The Mountain View Whisman School District is poised to hold its first contested election since 2004,... (Friday, 11:45 AM) Running for office? Anyone interested in running for local office in Santa Clara County this fall will have the opportun... (Friday, 10:35 AM) Chick-Fil-A approved, with drive-through Zoning administrator Peter Gilli on Wednesday evening approved a new Chick-Fil-A with a drive-throug... (Thursday, 4:36 PM) • Mountain View Voice Home Page BestBets This week's events Friday, July 13 Music: Summer Symphony San Francisco Ballet orchestra conductor Martin West comes to the Peninsula to conduct the Summer Stanford Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor and Tchaikovsky's "Rococo Variations." The concert is at 8 p.m. tonight, July 13, in Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Tickets are $10 general and $5 for students. Weekend, July 14 & 15 Community: Shoreline Outrigger community day Ho'oku'i, the Bay Area's newest outrigger canoe club, holds its monthly community day on Saturday, July 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shoreline Lake Aquatic Center & Lakeside Cafe, 3160 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Activities include seminars, beginners' lessons and the chance to paddle an outrigger on the lake. Free. Art: Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival About 175 juried artists will display and sell their work this weekend at the annual Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival at Rinconada Park, Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15, and admission is free. Activities include wheel-throwing demonstrations and pottery-making. Music: Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill The husband-and-wife, vocal-piano team of Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill (she's the singer) comes to the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at 3921 Fabian Way to do a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 15. The program is "From Shtetl to Broadway: The Russian Jewish influence on the Great American Songbook." Tickets are $35 at the door. • Master Community Calendar TownSquare Mountain View's Online Gathering Place Google housing axed in city's general plan Council members were not moved Tuesday night by last-minute efforts by the Chamber of Commerce and t... Historic home may be razed for office building City Council members put the fate of a historic downtown home into the hands of developer Roger Burn... • Town Square Home Page

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