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News Briefs
Driver arrested for DUI after crash injures girls
Two girls were taken to the hospital following a two-car accident just after 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 on Stevens Creek Boulevard. A Cupertino woman who was driving their car was arrested for felony drunk driving.
According to Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Luther Pugh, several witnesses said the woman, Domanae Villa-Hentschel, 36, was heading east on Stevens Creek Boulevard in a Ford Escort when she ran a red light and broadsided a car that was turning onto southbound Highway 85. The San Jose woman driving the other car, a Toyota Cressida, was not hurt.
Villa-Hentschel's passengers, her daughter and a friend, both 13, were transported by ambulance to Valley Medical Center, where they were treated and released for head and neck pain, Pugh said.
Villa-Hentschel was arrested after a deputy smelled alcohol on her breath and gave her a field sobriety test, which she failed, Pugh said.
The case has been handed over to the district attorney's office. If convicted, Villa-Hentschel could be sentenced to jail or state prison. She is out on $20,000 bail and will be arraigned on Dec. 6.
5Cs takes a look at town hall comments
Members of Citizens of Cupertino Cross-Cultural Consortium are set to sit down this week and figure out where to go next after their annual town hall meeting on Nov. 10.
At the meeting, Dec. 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. in City Hall conference rooms C and D, the public is
invited to help members go through the hundreds of suggestions compiled from group discussions at the town hall meeting and look at a draft of the summary report of the town hall meeting.
"Since this is going to be an ongoing program, we want to see what we can do to improve forums in the future," said 5Cs coordinator Laura Domondon Lee.
Because of the holidays, the January 5Cs meeting will be pushed back one week to Jan. 13. The 5Cs usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month.
For more information about 5Cs, call Domondon Lee at 408.777.3331.
You better watch out ...
'Cause Santa Claus will be down from the North Pole to take photos with children (and pets) in Cupertino at the YMCA at 20803 Alves Dr. this Thursday and Friday, Dec. 2 and 3, from 5 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 5, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Cupertino Rotary club is putting on the photo shoot (with help from Solar Color Lab), and is hoping to raise somewhere between $5,000 and $20,000, with all of the proceeds going to the YMCA, Rotary charities and the Cupertino Union School District.
No appointment is necessary. Photos will be delivered by Dec. 16.
Disaster preparedness workshop set for Dec. 1
Disaster Education Consultants are putting on a free 30-minute disaster preparation program focusing on earthquakes and other disasters this Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at Regnart Elementary School, 1170 Yorkshire Drive.
For more information, call 800.655.2903.
Fund accepts donations to honor Saleem Shaikh
Family members of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commissioner Saleem Shaikh, who died Oct. 21 at age 51, have announced that a fund has been set up and is accepting donations in his memory.
The money will be sent to a cause Shaikh, a devout Muslim, supported: The Zaytuna Institute, an organization that builds drinking-water wells for rural residents in Morocco who don't have any and must bring water home the old-fashioned way: by carrying it.
In the sunnah tradition of Islam, donations made to a cause that has continual uses benefit the person (in whose name they were given) in the afterlife every time someone benefits from what was given and says a prayer of thanks for it--which is the idea behind the fund.
Checks may be sent to the Zaytuna Institute, c/o Imam Hamza Yusef, P.O. Box 423, San Ramon, CA 94583.
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