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June 2008
Last Sunday afternoon, Jewish Family Services (based out of the Jewish Community Center on Oka Road in Los Gatos) hosted the first Silicon Valley Duck Race to benefit the many charities it supports countywide. Ten thousand ducks were available for adoption in the race - and it was a sellout! They raised fifty thousand dollars through this race. Congratulations and good job!!!
I was unable to attend as I was hosting an open house, but you can read about it online and see who won what, and which charities benefit, at www.SiliconValleyDuckRace.com.
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Tonight we will have the opportunity to enjoy the Solstice Moon Illusion as the moon rises at 9:02pm or so (sunset at 8:31pm) in the San Jose - Saratoga - Los Gatos area. Apparently because of the solstice, the moon will appear to be unnaturally large at moonrise, according to NASA.
Read all about it on the NASA website.
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Tonight another fire, this one smaller but more local, darkened the skies over the western part of the Santa Clara Valley with smoke. At about 3pm, a grass fire broke out close to the onramp from San Tomas Expressway in Campbell onto Highway 17 southbound toward Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. By 4:30 or so, when I drove through, the plume of smoke rising was quite substantial. And by evening, the air was positively eerie in Los Gatos with strange tints coloring the sky and the landscape.
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The late afternoon and early evening sky was a taupe color in places. Light coming in through the windows of our home was tinted a tungsten type of hue. This photo taken by Clair Handy from Bacigalupi Drive in Los Gatos (in Belwood of Los Gatos).
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Another neighborhood view in Belwood.
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View from the Handy Family backyard in Los Gatos - the wind made the smoke-filled areas very distinct from the cleaner sections of sky.
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A (non-enhanced) view of nearby palm trees. The whole sky was just creepy looking.All of these pictures are unedited except for cropping, of course.
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My sister, Barb, is visiting for a few days and she commented that the sky reminded of of when Mt St. Helen's blew in 1980. I was not around for that, but heard plenty about it from my many friends in Washington and Oregon. I don't think it was quite so dark, but it was certainly odd looking tonight.
Mary Pope-Handy
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This is a photo of the hills over Los Gatos at about 5:45pm this evening. The smoke is from the "Martin Fire" (so named for Martin Road, close to the fire), which began a little before 3pm near Bonny Doon.
Currently, it's burned through about 300 acres and caused 1400 people to evacuate, but because of the hot, dry weather and winds, it could easy grow to 1000 or 2000 acres.
Firefighters do not yet know what caused this fire.
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One of the benchmarks realty professionals use in determining the answer to the ever-present question of "how's the market?" is the absorption rate, or months (or days or weeks) of inventory. The question is this: if no new inventory were to come on the market, how long would it take for the current number of listings to be absorbed by buyers?
A look at the single family home situation in the town of Los Gatos reveals an improvement over recent months. Is it possible that we're near the bottom of the market? Maybe.
This graph presents broad strokes in a market comprised of many micro-markets. What is happening in Blossom Manor may not be the same thing happening in the Edelen District or what's going up in the Aztec or Maya areas, in the Sierra Azule section of town or Belwood or Bicknell Road areas. The home offered at $950,000 in the Union School District is not really "the same market" as one worth $2 million with Los Gatos schools - there are nuances that can totally change the picture!
For more information on the overall Los Gatos real estate or the market in other Silicon Valley areas such as Saratoga, Campbell, San Jose, or the many districts within San Jose such as Cambrian Park, Almaden Valley and Willow Glen, please visit my Real Estate Report online. From there you can get market statistics and trends as well as an analysis of your own home or another in the area.
To learn about your own home or area, please contact me. Or if you'd like a complimentary market analysis, request one from me at www.SiliconValleyHomeValue.com or simply call or email me with the details of your home. Please allow 24-48 hours for me to run the numbers for you.
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The good folks at the Los Gatos United Soccer League are asking for the help of the townsfolk to help them find their older golf cart, which is used by president of the league, Ed San Juan, for picking up trash cans after soccer games at Fisher. Families and friends of the many players who've enjoyed the field at Fisher (including my family) have appreciated having the cans brought out to the field and the 1991 Yamaha was a good way to transport them on and off the field for the game times.
Last seen Thursday evening, the golf cart was discovered missing on Saturday morning in an area littered with about 20 used, empty beer cans. Police were called to the scene and state that bolt cutters were used to get the golf cart loose.
Description of cart: "It’s a weathered white 1991 Yamaha gas golf cart (nothing fancy), it has a top with a front windshield, and a black flat-bed used for picking up garbage."
To contact the LGUSL about the cart, you may email them via the contacts page of the group's website: http://www.lgusl.org/contacts.htm or contact the Los Gatos Monte Sereno Police Department at 408 354-8600.
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Update: The Los Gatos Observer reports that golf carts were also stolen from La Rinconada Country Club.
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