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Outdoor fitness equipment now available at Cuesta Park
Cuesta Park recently added ten pieces of outdoor fitness equipment, which are available for the public to use to do various bodyweight exercises.
The city of Mountain View held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new “fitness court” on Thursday, Sept. 12, which was attended by local officials.
The fitness court is available for anyone 14 years or older, according to the city, and is part of an initiative to offer outdoor fitness equipment at parks throughout Mountain View.
The project was funded with $201,500 from the park land dedication fund, a $150,000 grant from El Camino Health and a $20,000 grant from the California Parks and Recreation Society’s 75th Anniversary Fitness Grant.
Local National Merit semifinalists announced
Over 60 local high school students were recently named National Merit semifinalists, an award given to less than 1% of high school seniors nationally, according to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
National Merit semifinalists are the highest scoring students from each state on the 2023 PSAT. The number of semifinalists per state is proportional to that state’s share of the nation’s graduating seniors.
Over 16,000 semifinalists were named nationally, roughly 95% of whom are expected to be named finalists. About half of the finalists will win a National Merit scholarship, according to the release.
The semifinalists who attend school in Mountain View, Los Altos or Los Altos Hills are:
Mountain View High School: Yash Chainani, Arthur Cheong, Asher Copeland, Maya Eisenberg, Maxwell Fisch, Kenzo Hofmeister, Arihant Jain, Naisha John, Carolyn Kao, Adam Kirmse, Alison Kumpf, Clara Lawrence, Gisella Lee, Kate Lee, Marisa Lin, Meera Mathew, Helen McCauley, Thomas Nishi, Mia Ravishankar, Hannah Rutherford, Valerie Ta, Ryan Tang, Michelle Walker, Atulya Weise, Ethan Wing, Alexander Xu and Ryan Yin.
Los Altos High School: Devansh Agarwal, Dhruv Aron, Noam Avrahami, Piper Chatwin, Sarah Chung, David Feldman, Kaihon Hui, Audrey Jamieson, Oscar Johnson, Sophie Li, Timothy Lin, Kaden Ma, Theodore Peter, Benjamin Samek, Joshua Tang and Michael Xu.
Saint Francis High School: James Byrer, Simren Garg, Alexander Gklaros-Stavropoulos, Tej Nadkarni, Divya Ponnuvelu, Rhishi Balaa Sakthivel, Kenya Sweatt, Katie Tao, Smriti Vijay, Katherine Winton and Anvitha Yalamanchili.
Pinewood School: Leo Shang and Josephine Tu.
Khan Lab School: Charles Kunz, Varin Sikka, Sita Vemuri and Lauren Wang.
Homeschool/online school: Andrei Genzel.
Ellen Kamei joins Second Harvest’s board
Mountain View City Council member Ellen Kamei has been appointed to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley’s board of directors.
Kamei started her term on the food bank’s board on July 1, according to a press release. Tom Larkins, the former senior vice president and general counsel for Applied Materials, also joined the board at the same time.
Kamei has served on the City Council since 2018 and works in external affairs for AT&T.
Second Harvest provides food to people throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, serving an average of roughly 500,000 people each month, according to the nonprofit’s website.
A facility intended for use by El Camino Health employees and paid in part by Mountain View residents on (valuable) city property. A complete misuse of city funds. Just like the “adult” fitness set-up in Rengstorff Park, this unsupervised equipment will be used by accident-prone young children and is a lawsuit waiting to happen.