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Published on 10/12/1998 All articles from this issue

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Mayor initiates TV interviews

Los Altos Mayor Kris Casto has taken her concern for keeping folks up to date and started a TV show. On this new show, that can be seen 20 minutes before the city council meetings are televised, Casto interviews members of Los Altos commissions and committees "as a way to communicate what they're doing and to keep residents up to date," Casto said.

She has taped five 10-minutes segments, so far, at Foothill College.

To see the interviews, viewers may tune in to Channel 18 at 6:50 p.m. next Tuesday, and every Tuesday that there is a council meeting.

Vet center coming to former Sanwa site

Pet Net, a veterinary medical practice, will be coming to Rancho Shopping Center in the site formerly occupied by Sanwa Bank.

At its Oct. 13 meeting, the Los Altos City Council approved a use permit and variance for Pet Net to be within 50 feet of a residential district.

Animals will not be boarded at the site and no outdoor areas will be used for any pet care or services, according to the city's conditions of approval.

The Campbell-based Pet Net, Inc., owns many veterinary hospitals, six of which are in the Bay Area.

Contract awarded for Edith Avenue park

The Los Altos City Council gave the nod to Lone Star Landscape, Inc., for park construction on the city-owned corner at Edith Avenue and San Antonio Road.

The $225,000 project will begin this fall.

The current project is being funded with $184,000 from city funds, $45,000 of which comes from Parc Regent money paid for park in lieu fees. The council agreed to use an additional $41,000 from the city's capital improvements program fund, said Bruce Bane, Los Altos director of public works, in a staff report.

Maintenance of the park, including water, will cost about $8,500 annually, Bane said.

Mayor Kris Casto said she hopes to involve the community in fund raising by possibly creating a way in which people can donate to a specific tree or shrub for the park.

- Joanne Griffith Domingue