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Local landscaper wins state award

Katoscapes, Inc., a Los Gatos-based landscape design, installation and maintenance company founded by David Kato, recently won the Judges Award in the Design Build category at the California Landscape Contractors' Association's 25th annual Landscape Achievement Awards.

The project for which Katoscapes received recognition was the outdoor pool and entertainment areas of the Waitte residence, a 104-year-old Los Gatos Historical Home on Glenridge Avenue. Kato and his crew created a customized brick patio, metal and wood arches with an Old World flavor, a brick-and-stone patio with wood trellises, a children's play area, a dog play area and room for a perennial garden.

Katoscapes has won more than 50 local and state awards for residential gardens in the 14 years that Kato has been competing.

Merger planned by ABHOW

Oakland-based American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW), which owns and operates The Terraces of Los Gatos, signed a letter of intent this June detailing its intent to merge with two other organizations that operate senior care facilities on the East Coast: Baptist Senior Adult Ministries in Washington, D.C. and American Baptist Elder Ministries in Massachusetts.

Following the final agreement, the transaction will create a consolidated nonprofit senior living network that includes 13 continuing-care retirement centers, 10 rental-housing communities and 12 health centers.

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