Weather permitting, carriers will be back at the new Miramonte postal facility in mid-March, according to officer-in-charge Lana Forney.
The new state-of-the-art facility at 1525 Miramonte Ave. in Los Altos has been under construction since March 1998. Carriers have been operating out of Mountain View since the old facility was demolished to make way for the new 20,245-square foot building.
The new Miramonte facility will include full retail service and post office boxes. Barbara Stryker, Los Altos Post Office station manager, said it will include a customer-friendly retail postal store where customers can pick out products themselves.
The postal services hopes to open the retail portion of the facility in late April or early May, Forney said.
City Eyes relocates
City Eyes Vision Gallery has moved its offices from 164 Main St. to 160 Main St., the location previously occupied by Phileas Fogg's and Journey Junque. The eyewear gallery and optician's office opened six months ago in Los Altos.
Committee looks at UFO evidence
Ryan Wood will speak to the Technology and Society Committee Feb. 2 on evidence supporting the retrieval of crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial biology. Wood, recently interviewed on the Art Bell Show, has been analyzing government documents relating to Operation Majestic Twelve, an alleged top-secret intelligence-gathering agency. He will also address a special operations briefing manual titled "Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal," and documents that include details of UFO crash-landing zone coordinates.
The committee meets at 11:45 a.m. at the Golden Wok, 895 Villa St., in Mountain View. For information, call 969-7215.
Guide to home improvement grants
The Consumer Education Research Center, a national nonprofit consumer group, has published the 192-page "Consumers Guide to Home Repair Grants and Subsidized Loans." The book lists more than 6,000 sources of loan and grant programs offered by federal, state and local governments, utility companies and others. It tells how to qualify, and provides form letters for inquiries to the loan and grant sources.
Cost of the book is $19.95 plus $3 postage and handling. For a copy, write CERC Grants, P.O. Box 336, South Orange, N.J. 07079 or call 800-872-0121.
Send your noteworthy business items to Carol Tiegs at the Town Crier, 138 Main St., Los Altos 94022.