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Fires, earthquakes and other disasters requiring water services have generated headlines in recent years, prompting the Rotary Club of Los Altos to offer an overview of local water resources, their
Arts Los Altos seeks submissions for new public mural downtown
Courtesy of Maddy McBirney
Artist Martha Sakellariou, right, confers on the installation of a “sneak peek” announcement of her new downtown mural.
A new, large-scale mural, titled “200 Main Street [an inventory of time and place],” will grace downtown Los Altos sometime in the spring. The project, commissioned by the nonprofit Arts Los Altos, is funded by the Rotary Club of Los Altos.
The outdoor mural – located on the large exterior wall on Third Street, on the side of Satura Cakes – will incorporate quintessentially Los Altos themes and iconography to explore what it has been like to live at the crossroads of the area’s transformation from the rural Valley of Heart’s Delight into Silicon Valley.
Rotary speaker advocates for veterans
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Imagine a world where returning military veterans caught up in the justice system are elevated by a collaborative approach, not ground down by the adversarial process.
That nonconfrontational world exists now, according to Judge Stephen Manley of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, who spoke to the Rotary Club of Los Altos via Zoom Feb. 18. Veterans Treatment Courts (VTC) have been established for the purpose of achieving better outcomes incorporating treatment, not just exacting punishment.
In an effort to not merely afford respect, but to avoid recidivism, judges have undertaken the responsibility to develop a special court program whose goal is to successfully return individuals who served their country to their community, Manley said.