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Around The Glen
Gas line breaks in WG
A contracted sewer maintenance crew punctured a Lincoln Avenue gas line Aug. 24 and forced the evacuation of businesses between Brace and Minnesota avenues for more than an hour.
A Champion Plumbing crew's backhoe hit the 1-inch plastic line that supplied the Vin Santo restaurant, 1346 Lincoln Ave., at about 3:35 p.m., Pacific Gas and Electric spokeswoman Claudia Mendoza said. San Jose police and fire department personnel, as well as a PG&E emergency response crew, were called to the scene. Mendoza said businesses were closed and traffic was routed around the accident to lessen the fire risk. The line was repaired by 4 p.m. and businesses reopened at that time, she said.
--Kate Carter
Commissioners needed
San Jose officials are inviting citizens to volunteer for several commission and committee vacancies.
Members are needed on the Advisory Commission on Rents, the Airport Commission, the Appeals Hearing Board, the Child Care Commission, the Community Development Block Grant Steering Committee, the Disability Advisory Commission, the Disadvantaged Business Development Commission, the Housing Advisory Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Mobile Home Advisory Commission and the Senior Citizens Commission.
Terms are two or four years or to complete an unexpired term, said District 6 City Councilman Ken Yeager aide, Denelle Fedor.
Applications are due in the City Clerk's office by Aug. 31. For more information or to receive an application, call Yeager's office at 408.277.5166, or the clerk's office, at 408.277.4424.
--Kate Carter
Labor Day Crackdown
Santa Clara County police departments will be out from 6 p.m., Aug. 31 to midnight, Sept. 3, to keep drunk drivers off the road.
Labor Day weekend is second only to New Year's as the holiday weekend with the most people killed in accidents involving drivers under the influence, and it's first in people hurt, said Avoid the 13 program spokeswoman Jan Ford.
"It's a surprisingly nasty holiday," Ford said. "Drive down the freeway and you'll see nothing but black and whites."
Two sobriety checkpoints are scheduled: one in Campbell at Hamilton Avenue and Third Street at 10 p.m. Aug. 31 and another in Milpitas at Highway 237 and Town Center Drive from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sept. 1. The San Jose and Hollister-Gilroy offices of the California Highway Patrol will have 75 to 90 percent of their officers on the road, and local law enforcement agencies will have extra patrols and emphasize DUI arrests with their regular officers, Ford said.
Avoid the 13 is the county's effort to prevent driving under the influence and works in conjunction with Avoid the 21 in Alameda County, Avoid the 23 in San Mateo County and Avoid the 25 in Contra Costa County.
--Kate Carter
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Willow Glen, California Since 1992
