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Panorama | NOV 2009 |
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Panorama | NOV 2009 |
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President's View by Marisa Hanson
On
Friday, September 25 I sat around for three hours at the district office,
along with fellow ESTA members, CSEA members, district employees, a San
Jose Mercury writer, and few community members until almost 9:00 PM
waiting for the board to come out and announce the findings of the report
by Hanson & Bridgett of Superintendent Nunez. When the board did finally emerge,
they said the decision would be made at a future board meeting, but did
not specify which one and the meeting ended. At
the October 8th regularly scheduled board meeting, the item was removed
again from the agenda. Then,
on October 29th there was another special board meeting that began at 6:00
PM, with only one item on the agenda, the Hanson & Bridgett
report. The board was to end
closed-session at 8:00 PM, but most of us arrived by 7:00 PM, just in case
they came out early. As the
night grew on, the crowd thinned and by 11:00 PM many of us felt tired,
hungry, sleepy, etc., but we (ESTA and CSEA) anxiously awaited to hear the
board’s comments and ruling.
Incidentally, at midnight several people had to go and turn off the
alarm system because we were still there after it was set to arm. There were employees that were now
receiving double-time for sitting around waiting for the board to
emerge. One CSEA member
peaked through the windows hoping to hint that we were ready for them to
come out and tired of waiting.
One district employee even poked their head in and asked if they
were coming out soon. She was
told it was going to take a while longer. When the board finally came out at
12:45 AM, they said that the board was moving the agenda item to another
Special Board meeting on Saturday Oct. 31, at 9:00 AM. The emotions of most of us were
beginning to feel ranged from anger to crankiness to frustration, because
the School Board had gone into closed session for six and half hours with
no end result to report out, wasting countless hours of our valuable
time. The only good thing I
can say that came out of this meeting was that ESTA and CSEA were using
this time to talk to about where things were going to go this school year
with less members. Finally,
on Saturday October 31, when most people were enjoying their weekend off,
ESTA, CSEA, a handful of other employees, and a few community members sat
around again - but this time for only 3.5 hours. As lunch approached, we were all jealous that the board was enjoying a good meal while the rest of us sat around hungry. A little before 1:00 PM the board finally came out, joined by Superintendent Nunez, and Board President Martinez-Roach read a prepared statement (the one you received in your district email). They then quickly adjourned the meeting and left, leaving most of us in shock and disbelief. That the board had not commented on the report’s findings, nor had they said what the immediate plans were for replacing Superintendent Nunez, seemed very odd to all of us and more than a little disconcerting. It was strange that they did not publicly show their vote on this very important decision. Why would the board not show the votes and then read the statement before adjourning? Why did the School board not let us know what the final vote was and who voted for whom? It was obvious that the results were at least 3-2, but was it 4-1 or 5-0 to buyout Superintendent Nunez? So
here are a few questions ESTA would like answered: How much did all of
these Special Board meetings cost?
How much did the three Hanson & Bridgett reports cost? How much
were the attorney fees for all this?
What are the plans for finding another Superintendent and how much
will that cost? Why did the
San Jose Mercury get the report before ESTA, CSEA, and the public at
large, organizations who had already requested copies in writing four days
prior to the release of the report. The
best place to ask these questions is at the board meetings, so I hope you
all will join me on November 19.
In order to get the answers we want, we would like to see a very
large turn out of ESTA members so we can hold them accountable. In addition to the above
questions, the ESTA PAC will be asking the board to consider changing the
way we elect board members.
Currently, four out of five board members live in the same area and
this trend does
not
represent the district equally.
Breaking our district into five regions and electing five different
people who live in those various areas makes more sense. This type of election does happen
in many other districts. So,
please come to the next board meeting and show your support. ESTA needs your
help right now. I
did finally obtain a copy of the Hanson & Bridgett report and would be
happy to share it with anyone who drops by my office. It is over 2000 pages, so ESTA
won’t be copying it for members, but it is available for viewing. In summary, Superintendent Nunez
spent money monthly, a small part of the $260 million the district brings
in each year. He in no way
spent as much as previous Superintendents and his expenses were found to
be within his contract parameters.
He had not abused his vacation time and the district even owed him
more days of pay for the days he did not use. In 2008, he had a lot of unused
vacation days and did not cash in any of it. It was determined that he did
indeed work during all of the days in question, writing numerous emails
(50-100) to district employees and making phone calls to district
numbers. The
report also stated that he took board members to dinner often, but for
some reason the board never mentioned his questionable spending that
involved them specifically.
Below are some of those “questionable” meals he had with board
members and I also included the meals he had with me. He had many more meals with board
members than recorded below, but these are the meals for which he did not
originally turn in receipts and were the dates in
question. Superintendent
Nunez meals with Craig Mann: 05/29/2007
- Evergreen Pub 08/16/2007
- Evergreen Pub 09/29/2008
- Denny’s Superintendent
Nunez meals with Lan Nguyen: 05/31/2007
- Picasso’s Grill 08/06/2007
- Caper’s Loft 08/15/2007
- Paragon 10/10/2007
- Seven Lounge 12/11/2007
- PF Chang’s 02/12/2008
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill 07/08/2008
- Caper’s Loft 07/28/2008
- Marriott Restaurant 07/29/2008
- Caper’s Loft 09/24/2008
- Macaroni Grill 10/20/2008
- Fountain Restaurant Superintendent
Nunez meals with George Shirakawa: 06/06/2007
- Chili’s 06/28/2007
- with Roger Ruiz, Picasso’s 07/23/2007
- with others, Caper’s Loft 08/05/2007
- PF Chang’s China Bistro 09/17/2007
-Paragon 10/06/2007
- Old Town Mexican Restaurant 10/09/2007
- with R. Ruiz, Capers Loft 11/09/2007
- Caper’s Loft 10/13/2008
- with Eddie Garcia, Baker’s Square Superintendent
Nunez meals with Eddie Garcia: 06/14/2007
- Caper’s Loft 08/09/2007
- Evergreen Inn Pub 09/13/2007
- Pasta Pomodoro 07/16/2008
- Andiamo’s Italian Risto 09/02/2008
- with John Moore, John Sellare - Picasso’s Grill 09/09/2008
- with Lan Nguyen, R. Ruiz - Consuelo Mexican Bistro Superintendent
Nunez meals with Manuel Herrera: 09/06/2007
- Drying Shed 09/11/2007
- Kazoo Japanese 05/30/2008
- Fairmount Fountain Restaurant 07/29/2008
- Scott’s Seafood 09/10/2008
- Fairmount Fountain Restaurant 08/14/2008
- Kazoo Japanese 10/06/2008
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill 11/04/2008
- Kazoo Japanese Superintendent
Nunez meals with Patricia Martinez-Roach: 11/12/2008
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill Superintendent
Nunez meals with Frank Biehl: 10/09/2007
- Antipasto’s 10/13/2008
- Evergreen Pub meeting
with board member, no name given: 04/01/2008
- Caper’s Loft 04/03/2008
- Caper’s Loft 04/22/2008
- Baker’s Square 04/29/2008
- Caper’s Loft 05/06/2008
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill 05/09/2008
- Denny’s 06/05/2008
- Evergreen Inn & Pub 06/24/2008
- PF Chang’s My
meals and Starbucks with Superintendent Nunez: 04/23/2007
- with Don McKell - Romano’s Macaroni Grill 05/21/2007
- with Don McKell - Rosy’s Fish City 05/29/2007
- with Cathy Giammona, Larry Scharsch 08/30/2007
- Starbucks 10/01/2007
- Coffee Lovers 01/28/2008
- with MST Coordinators 09/24/2008
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill So
as you can see, the board did eat many meals with Superintendent Nunez
that were part of the investigation and the majority of the days in
question. According to the
report, some of the board members, when asked about these meals, denied
attending. Also, some of the
receipts that were not turned in were charges board members made on the
district credit card. ESTA
did not, however, have weekly breakfasts with the Superintendent - which
was stated in the San Jose Mercury on November 1. I did, however, have tea with him
on many occasions but usually by the time I arrived, he was already
sitting and working on his laptop or on the phone, so I purchased my own
drink. Anyone who knows me
knows I don’t eat breakfast regularly and I have NEVER had a cup of
coffee. Don’t believe
everything you read in the San Jose Mercury News. No
one knows the future plans for a new Superintendent of our district. Even Acting Superintendent Dan
Moser told me he is waiting to find out what is going to happen next. I told him I didn’t expect him to
do his regular job (Assistant Superintendent of Instruction) and continue
to be Acting Superintendent.
The board made a decision to remove Bob Nunez without cause, and it
is up to them to figure out who will run our district. If they ask Dan Moser to continue,
the only reasonable thing to do would be to find someone else to be
Assistant Superintendent of Instruction. Running a district our size takes
numerous hours that one person can only do working the amount of hours Bob
Nunez worked and any additional jobs would take away from the needs of the
district. ESTA
would like to thank Bob Nunez for his continued support and give
appreciation for all the things he has done during his three years as
Superintendent. ESTA received
a rollover contract for two years in a row and we know it is due to Bob
Nunez’ continued support and cooperation. He did bring this district back
together after it was broken with our previous Superintendent and we wish
him well and look forward to working with him in some other capacity in
the future. See you at the November 19th Board Meeting at 6:00 PM at the district office. It is time, again, to make our stand and be heard. Wear your ESTA Polo! Unify!
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CTA Getting Reorganized! Jerry Dyer,
Silver Creek High School (State Council
Report)
CTA
is going through a paradigm shift.
You are partly responsible: the criticism from below has registered
with the union leadership, and massive changes are underway. The catch? Without our response, without our
participation, the changes won’t amount to much; true change will be both
bottom-up and
top-down, or there will be no meaningful alteration in our
situation. It began a long time ago, but it has taken
time for the contours of a new reality to become visible. The old realities of our teaching
world have shifted, slowly but inexorably. There are people who have been at
war with public education--at least as far as we understand it—for a long
time. Their efforts have
begun to see results. We are
somewhat in the position of polar bears. In our case, however, we have been
aware and communicating to one another about the shrinking ice. Unfortunately, up to now, we have
been merely reacting
to a climate that has grown increasingly hostile to our
survival. Now, though, we have to become proactive,
no longer merely reacting to specific challenges to our contracts, to our
pay or benefits, to working conditions. Public education as we understand
it is surrounded by opponents, whether they wear the uniforms of the
testing and program improvement regime, or the charter school movement, or
the merit pay brigade. Some
folks seem to believe that teachers are paid too much, have too many
benefits, too sweet a pension plan; many attribute all the failure in
education to the teachers and (especially) the teaching
unions. Enough. We have to be proactive, which
means we have to become active!
We have to regain some control over the conversation and debate
about education in this state and country. Reframing the discussion,
reclaiming some control will take a myriad of tiny steps, and we are all
called on to participate. In
a nutshell: CTA can no longer be a “service organization”; we need to
become an organizing entity in our own right. Your local (ESTA) Organizing Committee
needs you! Maybe a better way
to express the truth of this situation: we need to work together to create
a multitude of organizing committees; we need, each of us, to find the
organizing work that is congenial, and do it. You won’t need, therefore, to
“call on” the organizing committee; you will be
the organizing committee! Some areas of work: Not
all teachers are even aware of the threats that face us, or the historical
background, including the role that teachers unions have made in creating
the modern public educational system in America, one of the noblest
experiments in applied democracy that the world has ever seen. We need to organize as
self-conscious union members. The
public isn’t fully aware of what we actually do! There is so much negative
publicity, whether it be the “failure” of not making one of the targets in
the fantasy league of NCLB, or in the Mercury
News
scandal-mongering. There is
already in the works a publication to succeed the role of the old “Kudos;”
this publication—East
Side Times—will
be an organ of teachers and support staff, however; we will work to make
sure people know our successes, our caring, all those things that can’t be
reduced to a single number, and a “ranking.” Not enough understanding exists
(in the public, on the School Board) about the truth about NCLB: about the
illogical, detrimental, and morale-destroying realities of the punitive
spin educational
“reform” has taken in this country.
We have to demand a voice in determining how our work and success
can in fact be measured! People
don’t fully understand the effects of the charter school legislation as it
actually exists and operates.
Nor do they know whether charters “work,” let alone whether
apparent successes in charter experiments can be sustained. And what effects do charters have
on the majority of students “left behind?” Finally,
insufficient knowledge or even awareness exists about the effects of
issues that “surround” us in our classrooms and schools: the health care
that our students have or don’t have, their family economic health and
viability, and the effect that has on their ability to learn or be happy;
people don’t fully understand that the seemingly external politics of a
two-thirds requirement for passing parcel taxes and state budgets has
contributed to a multi-billion
dollar reduction in spending on education in California. We live in a state that has turned
its back on public education, K-16; we are participating in an instance of
“generational theft” that is unprecedented. Specifically,
then, just a few suggestions--illustrative, not exhaustive: form a study group, about
charters, about the history of reform; form a “committee of
correspondence” to communicate with legislators and/or the local community
about the achievements and challenges at your site; write articles for the
East
Side Times;
form a “legislator calling club” to make calls once a month to state
legislators. Or, join the
Political Action Committee to elect a new School Board in 2010 (three
seats are up!) Or, find
allies in the fight for health care reform, or changes in the state’s
budgeting process. Be a
contact person to a different teachers’ union, or to another public
service union. There are many
possibilities, and it can be as simple as forming a group that picks the
day and the way that members of ESTA are visible
to the community, or a “board meeting club” that takes turns showing up
and reporting back about what happens on North Capitol
Avenue. You may think—I can certainly
sympathize!-- that your job is simply to teach! Let “CTA” handle the political
stuff, right? But the old
“road club” model of CTA is not working, and if we don’t essentially all
get involved, there will be a sea change in education, and teaching will
be a very different world for those still brave enough to be at it by
2014. There’s an old saying I
like, and it definitely applies: we either demand a place at the table
that determines what we have for dinner, or we will be on the
menu.
There’s no Free Lunch- or is
There?
Mike
Brennan, Editor
Where
did that saying come from? It
obviously doesn’t apply to the East Side Brass. After reading Bob Nunez’s expense
accounts, I’m left wondering if any of these people know how to cook. Really, it’s easy. Just poke a hole in the package
and turn the microwave on for three or four minutes. Of course the rationale is that
they’re all working “overtime” and the least we can do is buy them
dinner. And then there’s the
fact that some of them only make seven or eight times as much as the
lowest paid employee. They
show such magnanimity when condescending to work for us because their
counterparts at B of A and Citicorp are paid 500 times the wages of the
lowest paid employee. How
could we possibly ask them to dig into their own pockets after a meal at
Macaroni Grill? Don’t forget
the sad state of the economy.
All our paychecks could be reduced,
except for the Brass. The
Brass usually finds ways to increase their paychecks during a financial
down turn. But still, there’s
a financial down turn and since the cost of living is so high now, the
taxpayers should be buying them dinner, and lunch, and breakfast, and
brunch, and don’t forget fourth meal. You know, fourth meal, the most
important meal of the day.
It’s that time between 9pm and midnight when you get those slight
pangs of emptiness in a far corner of your stomach and realize you might
be able to squeeze in another burger. Then you do what any normal East
Side official would do. You
make a call. “Hey, partner,
it’s time for fourth meal.
Did we finish talking about that thing we were talking about the
other day?” “No, I think we
need to discuss that thing some more at a really fancy restaurant. Are you going to bring your
District credit card or should I bring mine?”
Ok,
so this is a little bit of an exaggeration… maybe. I personally think that the
further you get up the chain of command in any institution, the people
become more and more like icebergs.
The observed behavior is only a fraction of what really goes
on. These people are running
around with credit cards that they can use to charge a Big Mac because a
couple of them got together for a chat??? This Union needs to rein these
people in. We need to expose
the waste and inefficiency at ESUHSD so tax dollars can be spent on
education instead of free and reduced meals for overpaid officials. I hate to think that my co-pay at
the doctor is going to be doubled or tripled so that Macaroni Grill
doesn’t lose business from the ESUHSD discretionary expense account.
From
what I’ve heard about Bob Nunez, he’s a stand up guy. I don’t mean this to be a diatribe
against Bob personally. This
is a diatribe against free lunch in general both literally and
symbolically. One argument is
that if you take the perks away, the best talent will go elsewhere. Let me paraphrase Jay Leno
here. So you’re saying that
if we cut their salaries, we might lose the geniuses who got us in to this
mess? (Said in regards to
Wall Street salaries and the financial debacle but the sentiment
applies.) I for one, am
willing to take a risk on executives who are willing to brown bag it,
don’t need district supplied mortgages on their houses, and can make their
own coffee. Hundred K plus a
year execs can kick in their own eight bucks for Denny’s.
Normally,
that’s what you do during financial belt tightening. Tighten your belt! Focus on the mission. If it doesn’t help you accomplish
the mission, redirect your resource towards the mission or cut it loose.
This
concept is something our Union must embrace and force the District to
embrace. You know you can’t
wring blood from a stone and if the State of California is not forth
coming with funds, all our protestations will be like shoveling sand
against the tide. We need to
be proactive about identifying waste and places to cut costs. We need to insist on parity where
sacrifices are to be made. If
teachers must take a five, ten, or fifteen percent cut in wages and
benefits. All District
employees must take the same cuts.
The
Union must come to the negotiating table armed with information about
where District money is spent and the Union must not only be prepared to
defend teacher’s pay and benefits but also to justify the proposal with
proof as to how the District will manage to afford our contract. If the teachers of this district
have to walk off the job, the parents of our children and the citizens who
pay taxes, who pay us, deserve to know that we are not asking for the
impossible. Our proposal has
to be fair, it has to be fundable, and we have to prove this to the
community.
We
must also get the word out to our community about District excesses. Along with communications
regarding our fair and balanced contract, we must point out
inefficiencies, waste, and abuse of resources in the District. This is going to be a struggle and
we have to not only defend our contract but also go on the offensive and
force these executives to tighten their own belts as well. With the community behind us we
can’t fail.
Experiments in
Reading Jerry Dyer, Silver Creek High
School --“Books
are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy
Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the
best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty
much every time. Go on, try
it. “The Magic Flute” v.
Middlemarch?
Middlemarch in six.” -- Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree I
don’t know about you, but when I visit a friend’s house for the first
time, I always check out the bookshelves. It’s not just about noticing the
titles
that are there; there’s incalculable data or information about a person
based on the shelving, the condition of the books, the presence or absence
of piles
of books, the periodicals that may or may not be lying about. In short, it’s a chance to bring
together the person with the overall place or meaning of reading in his or
her life. And fairly recently, I discovered a tiny
sub-sub-genre, consisting of three books by Nick Hornby, all dealing with
his own reading. So, to
peruse these books is to read good writing about the reading of creative
or insightful writing. And
that is a far, far different experience than reading “book reviews.” We’ll let Hornby make the
distinction: “It still seemed a fun thing to do, though, writing about
reading, as opposed to writing about individual books. At the beginning of my writing
career I reviewed a lot of fiction, but I had to pretend, as reviewers do,
that I had read the books outside of space, time, and self—in other words,
I had to pretend that I hadn’t read them when I was tired and grumpy, or
drunk, that I wasn’t envious of the author, that I had no agenda…” It’s the merging of texts with a
human personality! It’s the
discovery of a voice, in that person’s explorations of other writer’s
voices. From an English teacher’s perspective,
these books reopened avenues of thought. How--in this era that is
witnessing tectonic shifts in the underlying plates of “literacies,” in
the glare of Facebook and virtual realities and Wii—how can we connect our
students to the deep and enduring human values of “old-fashioned”
reading? Reading the writing about the reading of
good writing: we’re already in a kind of hypertextual dimension. And perhaps the most obvious
strength of Nick Hornby’s three collections of essays (from columns in the
monthly The
Believer
magazine) is its genre-busting post-modernity. The concept of “catholicity”
doesn’t do justice here: these columns are a treasure-trove from various
planes of life, flowing hypertextually from books of all genres (several
are excerpted!) to rock concerts, from his own memories of books (empty
sometimes, he admits) to discussions of World Cup soccer matches, people’s
home library classification systems, the differences between writing
screen plays and fiction, and the challenges of raising an autistic son
and the literature he encounters about autistic parenting. (The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
by Mark Haddon, comes in for particularly acute examination.) In brief, unless you’ve already
read everything,
it is impossible not to learn something from reading Hornby’s collected
columns. So, an obvious starting-point for my
teacher self: use these books!
But, since none of the titles are currently in my school’s book
room, how about using excerpts, and then get students to write their own
reading columns, connecting their lives to their reading? This is not a new idea, but Hornby
has given me a fresh and urgent nudge. Blowing to smithereens the idea of reading
as tied to the syllabus or the sacred “curriculum” is valuable in and of
itself. The writer Sarah
Vowell, in the introduction to Shakespeare
Wrote for Money,
has this explanation of Hornby’s procedure: “ Stuff I’ve Been Reading is a
subset of what Hornby’s been doing—traveling, worrying, parenting, getting
married, and (spoiler alert) being British. After seeing the German film
The
Lives of Others,
he picks up a history of the East German secret police and is intrigued by
the ‘implausibility’ of its true anecdotes, thereby identifying the secret
of all great nonfiction—that it seems unbelievable. He hears a cover of “Ain’t No More
Cane” in a bar and reads Across
the Great Divide,
about the Band.” Returning to the front of the class: what
songs do students know, that could be coupled to their “having to read” a
given story or novel? What
song or movie or poem could be seen as complementary or as an “antidote”
to the thought or theme of an assigned reading? Or what graphic art (or artist)
expresses the same tone as “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan
Poe? Another thing that Hornby does brilliantly
is select passages for quotation.
Here’s B.S. Johnson, a 20th
Century English experimental novelist, on the difference between life and
“stories”: “Life does not
tell stories. Life is
chaotic, fluid, random; it leaves myriads of ends untied, untidily. Writers can extract a story from
life only by strict, close selection, and this must mean
falsification. Telling
stories really is telling lies.”
Telling stories really is telling lies! I imagine that idea could carry a
lot of water when the English 3 class is reading The
Things They Carried. And it could be argued that it is
just as true that the “lies” of stories are the truest truths that we ever
encounter. So there’s another idea for an experiment:
have students select aphorisms from their reading. Aphorisms, though, not just to
meet some standard, or to “express theme,” or “reveal character,” but that
would express their truths, their beliefs. Of course, Hornby’s books about books
includes a discussion of books that are themselves about books or reading,
(so we get a passage in a book about books about books!) He introduces us to Gabriel
Zaid’s So
Many Books,
wherein it is estimated that it would take at least fifteen years “simply
to read a list of all the books ever published.” (Elsewhere Hornby points out the
Sisyphean despair that ardent readers confront continuously: every year
sees more books published than could be read in a lifetime, so readers are
losing ground virtually exponentially.) But Hornby is actually heartened,
even tempted, he says: “I’d be finished some time in my early sixties… A
good chunk of coming across as educated, after all, is just a matter of
knowing who wrote what: someone mentions Patrick Hamilton, and you nod
sagely and say, Hangover
Square,
and that’s usually enough.” So we can see that part of the meaning of
reading, for Hornby, is the not
reading
part. Reading is in part an
idea—an
idea, ultimately, about identity.
He insists that Zaid’s finest moment comes in his second paragraph
(he didn’t have to read far!) “when he says that ‘the truly cultivated are
capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure
or their desire for more.’
That’s me! And you, probably!
That’s us! ‘Thousands
of unread books!’ ‘Truly cultured’!....But as I was finding a home [for
new books]… I suddenly had an epiphany: all the books we own, both read
and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our
disposal….with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our
libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we
read the books or not.” Books (writing) as a definition of
self! Here might be the
easiest and richest vein that Hornby’s series reopens for us: if we all could be (for the sake
of discussion) people of “the Book,” then what book or books would be our
individual Bible? What image
or idea or story would you hold as “holy” or “sacred” to your own
life? You could certainly
“pair-share” that question!
And I believe that if students had even the slightest sense that
one of the purposes of reading, in fact, is that perpetual search for
their authentic selves, then we would have done our
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offer for ESTA members. Local weddings performed for $200. Contact
griffinje@esuhsd.org for info and details. Notary
Service Discount
to ESTA members and family. Contact Chris Tsuji, 408-226-0674,notarychris@cheerful.com. Fancy
a nice cuppa tea? Invite
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for
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And check out her interview with the Today Show editor at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27283097/from/ET/ Evandro
Brandao granitehomedesign@gmail.com
408-858-4605 Granite
Home Design Corporation, specializing
in Granite, Marble, and Tile.
License # 748938 Greg
Boyd PHHS boydg@esuhsd.org
408-406-1470
TRAVEL:
Traveling to New York City. Call the expert. Flat fee for 2 hour consult on all
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Evandro
Brandao granitehomedesign@gmail.com 408-858-4605
Granite
Home Design Corporation, specializing
in Granite, Marble, and Tile.
License # 748938 Greg
Boyd PHHS boydg@esuhsd.org
408-406-1470
FOR
SALE: Vintage 1950’s rectangular dinette table with 4 chairs. Grey Formica
tabletop, grey oilcloth covered chairs. $300 or b/o. CJ Howard 778.3034 or
Mariana Burrell mariana954@aol.com.
Used
red bricks. No
mortar. 10 cents each. Call Leota at 265-3159 (eve) or
email me at LeotaJ@aol.com and note ‘bricks’ in the
subject.
If
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exceptional service and knowledge.I provide prompt service, personal
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years experience and over 225 closed escrows. 90 million in sales.
Ron Locicero (IHS) 408-710-0570 cell, 408201-0117 office, FAX 201-0200,
E-mail rlocicero@interorealestate.com.
Marsha Locicero 408-710-0569 Mlocicero@interorealestate.com |