A family is looking for the Lynbrook school area home, I found this home on our local reil.com. It is a 3 bedrooms and 2 baths on Johnson Ave small 1100 sf (approx) with 6327 sf.(approx).The asking price is $800K. It is on the market also for a while. Th Johnson Ave is a bit busier but the owner’s kids can go to the excellent Fremont Unified School District such as Dilworth Elementary, Miller Middle and Lynbrook High. In year 2005 I helped my buyer to put an offer at Johnson Ave for $825K then it sold for $830K in 2005. One year early 2004 the same kind of the small Johnson home asked for $649K then sold for $743K.

You may wonder:”Why buyers pay more than asking price?” because the family kids can go to the famous Lynbrook High School. Let us find out why Lynbrook High School area is so attractive to buyers? The Lynbrook High school has built the great reputation by different measurement:

1).The Lynbrook High school is one of the National Blue Ribbon School 2008

2). The Lynbrook High School was listed as one of 7 best public high school in South bay (Silicon Valley) to be 100 top high schools in USA by U.S. News & World Report 2007. Those are based on the percentage of students taking advanced-placement or international baccalaureate exams. The U.S. News seeks a way to measure how well those high schools educate their students. The rest bay area high schools made in the list of 100 were Mission San Jose in Fremont, Monta Vista in Cupertino, Gunn and Palo Alto High in Palo Alto, Saratoga in Saratoga and Lynbrook in San Jose.

3). Another way that family search good school us the API score. What is exactly the API scores are? According to the California Department of Education web page that the API score is Academic Performance Index (API) which measures the academic performance and growth of schools on a variety of academic measures. The Lynbrook High School’s API score is amazingly high as 920. The API system is designed to provide a view of test scores through a two-year, before and after cycle. The Base score is for the first year (before) and the Growth score is for the second year (after). The Growth score indicates whether the school improved or met its target. The results below show how much this school’s API grew between 2007 and 2008 (as reported in October 2008). Higher API numbers mean higher test scores. The goal for all schools is 800. The Lynbrook High’s API score is 920 (2008 Growth) 911 (2007 Base)

The buyers like to buy the homes with excellent schools so their children will receive the best education. On the other hands some buyers want them for the home appreciation.
Grace Keng, CRS, RE/MAX RES Silicon Valley, Northern California Real Estate Residential Specialist 408 733-8887

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October 4, 2008 my daughter & her dog “Honey” invited me to join the annual walk-n-wag at the San Jose Kelley Park. We gathered in the morning at the main square near the fire house lawn. I have never seen so many dogs and owners. We walked the prepared walk Route through Kelley Park. I enjoy the beautiful fall colored foliage and peaceful the Japanese friendship garden. It is funny to see the dog ate the dog treat that is the hot dogs soaked in the water. Those puppies loved it! There is one little cute dog with yellow colored rain coat. Pretty soon we finished the 45 minutes walk. We wondered around the park afterwards. I saw a lot the vendor booths like dog spa, dog food, dog manicuredog photographers and dog Agility Demonstrations. The most funny show is the owners and dogs look alike contest. The last photo is from Robinett photos

Sunnyvle downtown is full of its own history and charm. The Plaza del Sol is run by City of Sunnyvale at 200 West Evelyn . It sits on top of Mathilda Place’s underground garage. This park was the home for a few of Sunnyvale outdoors activities before.

The Mathilda Place project was constructed in 2002 but large portions of the project remained vacant for a few years even now which is six years later. The Mathilda Places was old to JP Morgan Asset Management in 2007.

The Plaza del Sol is a typical city downtown park gives you a green place to breeze some fresh air. After year around Saturday morning farmer market at

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you can just walk a block to Plaza Del Sol to relax. You may sit on the bench enjoying the beautiful

California blue sky and have a cup coffee.The park can be rented for public usage also. The Plaza del Sol photos are credit to city Sunnyvale web page and the Mathilda Place photo is credit to one of the tenant of Mathilda Place Impac’s image.

The Whole Food Market Cupertino at the new Stevens Creek location is almost one year! Today Friday, August 22nd through Sunday, 24th 1 year Anniversary Party! Free!

Music starts at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 12:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. This is a free event!

Join the Whole foods market on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday for musical entertainment, grilling stations, lots of vendor demonstrations, kid activities including a watermelon eating contest, tons of back to school specials and a very special cake cutting at 12 noon on Saturday.

Whole Foods Market has been serving Cupertino for over 12 years now but we are just reaching the 1-year Anniversary of our beautiful new location!

I specialized love the variety of food. It is so fresh and delicious. They have a lot variety deli, food ready to go. I purchased the food by pound. It is pretty good, because you can pick and choose what cooked food you like. The bakery department is JUST beautiful. The cahiers are friendly also. One hot summer day I went there I saw quiet a few people just slept at the lounge of the whole food market. I guess we like the Whole food Market so much so the day time we slept there. The CEO of the whole Foods market blogs also.

I look at its web page and found out the core value of them. The core value of the whole foods market is :

“Selling the Highest Quality Natural and Organic Products Available Passion For Food We appreciate and celebrate the difference natural and organic products can make in the quality of one’s life. Quality Standards We have high standards and our goal is to sell the highest quality products we possibly can.”

If you change the food to real estate it will become like this: Selling the highest Quality real estate services available Passion for real estate. We appreciate and celebrate the difference real estate services can make in the quality of one’s life. Quality Standards we have high standards and our goal is to sell the highest quality real estate service we possibly can.

The photo is credit from the web page of //www.wholefoodsmarket.com/

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Every Summer in downtown Sunnyvale the Chamber of Commerce of Sunnyvale support a series of the Music and Market Every Wednesday, 5-8:30pm. Free.

Sunnyvale Farmers Market, South Murphy Avenue between Washington and Evelyn, Sunnyvale. 510.745.7100.

August 20 th Manicato

(Latin, reggae,rock)

August 27 The Groove Kings

(Classic rock & Soul)

 

There is not only concert in the downtown. You can walk around to enjoy many food vendors like pop corn, crepe, BBQ… and fresh organic fruits.

I enjoy those concerts . We bring our own chairs and sit at the Murphy Street. Looking at the blue sky, eating good food, drinking, talking with friends, listening the music and watching others dancing in street. It is so relaxing you just forget the hot summer any more.

 

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July 26th to July 27 9 AM to 3 PM the Goodwill of Silicon Valley and Electronoic recyclers International are hosting a FREE Electronic E-Waste Event today and tomorrow. The E-waste contain hazardous lead and mercury, and these toxic substances eventually leak and contaminate landfills. It is illegal to dispose of e-waste in the trash.

The location will be the following two locations:

Almaden Goodwill Mountain View Goodwill

3069 Almaden Expressway SJ, CA 408 265-5692 855 E. El Camino Real MountainView, CA 650-969-3382

If you need more information please contact 1866-861-4883

Almost all culinary herb flowers are edible. (Newport News Daily Press/MCT) (MCT)

From time to time when I found flowers on my plates at the trendy restaurant. It looks pretty and yesm the flowers may be edible.

I found the good article named “ Petals on your plate” at today’s SJ Mercury news. It said:

The organically grown plants are the best, and you need to gently rinse the flowers. Avod eating flowers form the florists, nurseries and garden denters also road side flowers. There are some flowers cannot eat: azalea, buttercup, crocus, daffordil, foxglove, hyacinth,iris, oleander, rhododendron, lily of the valley, wisteria and jack in the pulpit.

The edible flowers are

• Calendula also known as pot marigold,  the orange petals were used to color cheddar cheese.
• Daylily  petals ca use in cooking
• Marigold Spicy, herbal or lemon falvor
• Pansy flowers and petals are used in cooking, mild & sweet.
• Rose petals for cooking
• Squash blossoms perfect for stuffing or cut up in a dish.

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         Today I was invited by Catherine Chen from the State Farm Insurance office of Cupertino to the “Hats off to you!” community luncheon from the Quota Cupertino. Ms Trudi Wallace presented the 200 years of hats, caps, bonnets and more.  She collected those hats since age of four and has about a collection of 700 hats. Some of those hats are more than 200 years old. The presentation is informative and fun to see. Sarah Perez, Quota 12th District Governor in the black hat with turkey feathers that tied under the chin.  I also took one of someone modeling a cream-colored hat with flowers. A sheriff deputy modeled the bobby hat. The Islam fez was modeled by Cupertino City Councilman Orrin Mahoney. CUSD Superintendent Phil Quon modeled a sort of civil-war. I also like the large one she wears with feathers makes me feel like we are walking into the life of two hundred years ago. Mary-Ann Wallace was very kind to provide 6 photos of different hat.  Guests are welcome to wear hats. The food is catered by Outback restaurant , one of the

Cupertino’s most popular restaurants, and proceeds from it help fund Quota of Cupertino’s charities including: the deaf and hearing impaired, underprivileged women and children, a women’s shelter, and many others.

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