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One seemingly outdated idea fortransporting commuters throughoutthe Bay Area may see a resurgence.Hovercraft are gaining momentumamong local officials who believe thecommuter alternative will ease trafficcongestion. The plan is to comple-ment ferry service on the Bay withhovercraft, which are faster and canaccess more places than traditional fer-ries, experts say. The WaterEmergencyTransportationAuthority board at aFeb. 7 meeting willconsider a large-scale study of potential hover-craft servicethroughout the BayArea.In San Mateo County, Foster CityMayor Sam Hindi has long been a pro-ponent of hovercraft and hopes hiscity can eventually become a hub for aregional hovercraft network.“I think this will make a significantimpact on traffic congestion in the BayArea and with it, you could commute tothe South Bay from Petaluma, Martinezor Hercules in a very reasonable andreliable time,” Hindi said. “I’m goingto continue to push for this.” Hindi plans to address his vision at aFeb. 4 council priority meeting andhe’s not the only local official into theidea.
Commuter hovercraftreturns
Concept gains momentum for BayArea congestion relief
Longtime RedwoodCity librarian retires
Molly Spore-Alhadef spent 40 yearsconnecting patronswith books, more
By Zachary Clark
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
A “Redwood City icon,” librarian Molly Spore-Alhadef has retired after more than 40 years of connecting patronswith books, videos, historic documents and whatever theysought from the library’s catalog. “With Molly’s retirement, it is the end of an era,” saidLibrary Assistant Gene Suarez. “She really is an icon inRedwood City, helping generations of students and
Wursthall banning ‘MakeAmerica Great Again’ hats
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Patrons won’t be served at a San Mateorestaurant if they wear a “Make AmericaGreat Again” baseball cap. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, a chef-partner of the Wursthall restaurant said in a tweetlast weekend that he views the hats assymbols of intolerance and hate.“It hasn’t happened yet, but if you
By Anna Schuessler
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Holding light over maps and scan-ning dark and rain-soaked streets inThursday’s early morning hours, hun-dreds of volunteers traversed SanMateo County neighborhoods in aneffort to tally the number of homelessresidents in the county. County and city officials, employ-ees of agencies serving the county’shomeless population and members of community organizations and private
County count to bolsterresources for homeless
Volunteers collect data, share resources through one-day count
PETER G TRIMMING ON VISUAL HUNT
The Water Emergency Transportation Authority board at aFeb. 7 meeting will consider a large-scale study of potentialhovercraft service throughout the Bay Area.
Sam Hindi
ZACHARY CLARK/DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Molly Spore-Alhadef has retired after a 50-plus year career,the bulk of which she spent as a librarian in Redwood City. Aretirement party at the library will honor her on Friday.
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County employee Tammie Sweetser hands supplies to Redwood City Councilwoman Diana Reddy, one of hundreds of volunteers who traversed streets across San Mateo County for the One Day Homeless Count Thursday.
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: In the earlymorning hours, Pacifica resident Susan Takalo reads a map of the section of downtown Redwood City she and fellow volunteerNadine Makki were asked to cover.
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Elephant seals take over beach during shutdown
SAN FRANCISCO — A colony of elephant seals took over a beach inNorthern California during the gov-ernment shutdown when there was nostaff to discourage the animals fromcongregating in the popular touristarea, an official said.Now they’re not going anywhere.About 60 adult seals that gave birthto 35 pups took over a beach in PointReyes National Seashore, knockingdown a fence and moving into theparking lot. The park north of San Francisco ishome to a colony of about 1,500 ele-phant seals that tend to frequentanother beach with 100-foot-tallcliffs that keep the animals protectedand mostly hidden from the public,said park spokesman John Dell’Osso.Dell’Osso said it’s likely recentstorms and high tides inundated theanimal’s normal habitat with waterand so they sought a wider swath of dry land around the corner.“Sometimes you go out with tarpsand you shake the tarps and it annoysthem and they move the other direc-tion,” he said.But since nobody was at work toaddress the seal migration, the ani-mals took over. One seal even ven-tured under a picnic table near a cafe,the newspaper reported.The elephant seals were lounging inthe sand after the park reopenedSunday, leading staff to temporarilyclose the road to the beach. Officials have no plans to move theanimals while some of them nursetheir pups.Staff is considering offering guidedtours of the elephant colony,Dell’Osso said.
Man found with wife’s dismembered body convicted of felonies
OLATHE, Kan. — A man arrested at aKansas storage unit with two of hischildren and his dismembered wife’sremains has been convicted of threefelony counts of sexual exploitationof a child.Jurors Thursday found 36-year-oldJustin Rey guilty of the felonies, aswell as misdemeanor counts of childendangerment and contributing to achild’s misconduct, prosecutor’sspokeswoman Kristi Bergeron said.Authorities say the porn was foundafter Rey asked them to look at hisphone for evidence he thought wouldhelp him at trial.He hasn’t been charged in the deathof his wife, Jessica Monteiro Rey,who died after giving birth in October2017 in a bathtub at a Kansas City,Missouri, hotel room. Rey told lawenforcement both that she killed her-self and that she died of childbirthcomplications. The coroner who per-formed the autopsy couldn’t determineher cause of death. Rey testified at trial, but his attor-ney only asked questions about thechild pornography, which preventedprosecutors from questioning himabout the children and what happenedto his wife.But in a series of phone interviewswith the Associated Press, Rey said hedidn’t call police because he didn’twant them to “steal more children.” Hesaid he and his wife had six childrentogether and that police had “stolenour children before.” Investigators allege Rey took pho-tographs with his wife’s body and hisnewborn and 2-year-old, then dismem-bered the body two days later in ahotel bathtub and put some of theremains in a large cooler. Police saidthat he flushed some parts that would-n’t fit down the toilet. Surveillancevideo footage showed him pulling ared cooler with a black bag on top of itthrough the hotel, while pushing astroller with a toddler walking besidehim. Asked about her dismemberment,Rey told the AP, “What was I supposedto do? I wasn’t going to leave mamabehind.” He was arrested with the two chil-dren at a storage unit in nearbyLenexa, Kansas, where he said he wasmaking preparations to take his wife’sremains to Arizona for a religious cer-emony on a Native American reserva-tion.
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Actress and MMAfighter RondaRousey is 32.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1960
Four black college students began asit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunchcounter in Greensboro, NorthCarolina, where they’d been refusedservice.
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
— Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish author
Comedian-actorPauly Shore is 51. Singer Harry Stylesis 25.
Birthdays
REUTERS
People photograph a mostly frozen Bryant Park fountain as record low temperatures spread across the Midwest and Easternstates in New York City.
In 1790,
the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the firsttime in New York. (However, since only three of the six jus-tices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)
In 1862,
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem byJulia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
In 1942,
during World War II, the Voice of America broad-cast its first program to Europe, relaying it through thefacilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
In 1943,
during World War II, one of America’s most high-ly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental CombatTeam, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans,was authorized.
In 1946,
Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen tobe the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
In 1959,
men in Switzerland rejected giving women theright to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swisswomen gained the right to vote in 1971.)
In 1968,
during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s policechief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer witha pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news pho-tographers. Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for theRepublican presidential nomination.
In 1979,
Iranian religious leader Ayatollah RuhollahKhomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as heended nearly 15 years of exile.
In 1982,
“Late Night with David Letterman” premiered onNBC.
In 1993
, Gary Bettman took office as the National HockeyLeague’s first commissioner, succeeding the NHL’s finalpresident, Gil Stein.
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Unscramble these Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.
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Actor Stuart Whitman is 91. Folk singer Bob Shane (TheKingston Trio) is 85. Singer Don Everly is 82. Actor GarrettMorris is 82. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 80. TV per-sonality-singer Joy Philbin is 78. Comedian-actor-directorTerry Jones is 77. Political commentator Fred Barnes is 76.Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is 75. Rock musician MikeCampbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 69. Bluessinger-musician Sonny Landreth is 68. Actor-writer-producerBill Mumy is 65. Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 63. ActorLinus Roache is 55. Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 54.Country musician Dwayne Dupuy (Ricochet) is 54. ActressSherilyn Fenn is 54. Lisa Marie Presley is 51. Actor BrianKrause is 50. Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 50. Rock musi-cian Patrick Wilson (Weezer) is 50. Actor Michael C. Hall is48. Rock musician Ron Welty is 48.
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City ordinance violation
. Four peoplewere smoking marijuana in a park on OceanView Avenue, it was reported at 5:55 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 26.
Suspicious circumstances.
Someonefound a note from a city inspector in herhome when they were not there. She sus-pects they came in through an unlockedback door on Fathom Drive, it was reportedat 6:16 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25.
Disturbance
. A student tried to hit a prin-cipal on Del Monte Street, it was reported at12:26 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25.
Stolen vehicle
. A vehicle was stolen onCreekside Lane, it was reported at 9 a.m.Friday, Jan. 25.
SAN BRUNO
Arrest
. A man was arrested for stealing var-ious items for a store at The Shop of Tanforan, it was reported at 12:09 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Burglary
. Someone stole bookbags from avehicle parked in a movie theater parkinglot on El Camino Real, it was reported at 5p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Carjacking
. Someone pulled a co-workerout of his vehicle and drove off with thevehicle owners phone, it was reported at6:18 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Arrest
. A man was arrested for stealing a tip jar from a business on El Camino Real, itwas reported at 10:49 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.22.
Police reports
Auld lang syne
Three people stole three cases of Champagne on Bridgepointe Parkwayin San Mateo and left in a silverMitsubishi sedan with new paperplates, it was reported at 6:27 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 24.
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
A San Mateo man accused of taking morethan $625,000 from eight San MateoCounty residents to whom he providedfinancial and insurance advice is facing 10years, four months in state prison Thursdayafter he pleaded no contest to 10 felonycharges, according to the San Mateo CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office. Clement Ng, 62, is believed to have metresidents in their homes as their financialand insurance planner and taken theirmoney under the premise that he was invest-ing it or purchasing insurance plans with it,according to prosecutors previously. Having pleaded no contest to multipleelder abuse and residential burglary chargesThursday, Ng faces a lengthy prison termwhen he returns for receipt of a probationreport and sentencing March 26, accordingto prosecutors. Ng is said to have stolen some $218,000from a Burlingame couple in their 60s bytelling them he could take a portion of theirretirement fund and invest it in aNorthwestern Mutual account in 2006. Heallegedly met regularly with the couple todiscuss their investment strategy and, in2015, told them the fund had reached opti-mal growth and that he would invest it inanother account, according to prosecutors.The couple is said to have received a letterfrom the IRS in 2017 requesting more infor-mation about theirinvestments, promptingthem to learn the moneyhad been transferred to Ngand not into anotheraccount as he had alleged-ly promised them.Having told the couplehis wife was sufferingfrom a heart condition,Ng previously receivedloans from them, according to prosecutors.Another 65-year-old woman was invest-ing some $266,000 with Ng when hestopped returning her calls, and another eld-erly couple gave Ng nearly $2,100 to pur-chase an insurance policy they neverreceived, according to prosecutors.Ng’s defense attorney John Runfola saidhis client was forced to accept the deal sinceprosecutors had the evidence to prove thecase beyond a reasonable doubt. “It’s an unduly harsh sentence for him,”said Runfola. “[He] led a law-abiding life for56 years, but succumbed to an addiction togambling.” Chief Deputy District Attorney Al Serratosaid prosecutors were pleased to see a reso-lution to the case and a sentence reflectingthe seriousness of Ng’s conduct. “It’s always reprehensible to target vul-nerable elderly victims and take what mayamount to their life savings,” he said.
Financial planner who stolefrom elderly takes plea deal
Clement Ng
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