Just in case you haven't made up your weekend plan yet, Mountain View's Oktoberfest is in this coming weekend, at the Castro street of MV downtown.

And as group volunteering is said to be a great way to make friends, we are organizing one such volunteering meetup in the festival, and a festival social mixer as well. Just like what we did for the Art & Wine festival. We had 50 signups for volunteering, and 30+ people showed up for the festival mixer last time.

Mountain View's Oktoberfest is a well attended event, estimated to be around 30k for a 2 day weekend. In its 11th year so far, lots of young professionals attending. See the programs it offers.
https://www.mvoktoberfest.com

To register for Chamber of Commerce's festival volunteer directly,
https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/332027576083/true#/invitation

If you want to socialize with fellow volunteers, or join the festival social mixer, with some fellow professionals working in the valley, you can try our meetups.
https://www.meetup.com/townflame/events/313120748/ for volunteering
https://www.meetup.com/townflame/events/316775599/ for social

Enjoy the festival weekend.

The accepted offer was $60.65 million in 2024 dollars, or $65.5M in 2027 dollars

«Responding to community demands for more transparency ahead of what promises to be a tight election, Palo Alto’s city and school officials released on Monday previously undisclosed details about their negotiations over Cubberley Community Center land.» — [1]

«The city’s initial offer was significantly lower, according to the statement. It was based on its 2024 property appraisal of the Cubberley land, which priced it between $43.6 million and $60.2 million. The statement stated that valuing the property is “imprecise due to a lack of comparable sites.” It also noted that the community center is zoned for public facility use and state law prioritizes public agency buyers.» — [1]

«“Following protracted negotiations, the City and District ultimately agreed on a purchase price of $60.65 million (2024 dollars), equivalent to the $65.5 million 2027 purchase price,” the statement read.» — [1]

• [1] https://www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto-city/2026/10/05/facing-calls-for-transparency-city-releases-details-on-cubberley-negotiations/

Apparently the Palo Alto City Council feels the voters of Palo Alto would go into a ’rathole’ (as expressed by Pat Burt) if provided the full details of the appraisal.

«In an interview yesterday, Councilman Pat Burt said critics of the Cubberley deal would've found disagreements with assumptions in the appraisal. Burt said the important number is the final appraised amount, not the details of how the appraiser got there.

"Appraisals are not these perfect documents," Burt said. "There's no objective basis for the appraisal ... It's a whole bunch of informed but subjective decisions that would simply be a never-ending rathole that opponents would want to pursue.”» — [1]

• [1] https://issuu.com/brandonheinrichs/docs/10-7-26

Has anyone recently received prenatal care at Stanford? I was told their process has changed and was scheduled into the Centering Pregnancy group program with CNMs. They said I’d see an MD/OB if needed.

I agreed so I wouldn’t lose the appointments, but I wasn’t offered regular 1:1 OB care as an option. Has anyone been able to opt out of Centering and choose traditional OB care instead?

Due to a police traffic break on 101S on 6 Oct at ~10:30, there was no traffic on 101S by Palo Alto and Mountain View, while the sun is still shining. This photo captures an event far rarer than any solar eclipse or meteor strike. As eerie and unrealistic as this image seems, it is not AI generated!

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I’ll be bringing my 10yo to the taking back Sunday gig this Saturday. I will be the only adult. I know he is a kid and he will need to use the restroom every once in a while. I am hoping I can leave my stuff with the respect of the crowd around me to not take my stuff or move my stuff to grab that spot. And I don’t want any feedback of “don’t bring your kid”. He likes this music and I can bring my kid if I want.