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vol . 2 , no. 2 : September 14-20, 2022 : losgatan.com
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CANDIDATES BOYCOTT FORUM BY OPPONENTS’ SUPPORTERS
More than 87% of Santa Clara County residents inoculated Eli Walsh, Bay City News
Mayor calls LG Community Alliance meeting ‘bogus’
Workers at Santa Clara County health care and longterm care facilities, homeless shelters and prisons will no longer be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after the county's health officer on Sept. 12 rescinded a health order mandating that they do so. Vaccination or frequent testing has been a requirement for workers in settings with a high risk of viral transmission since last summer, when most counties in the Bay Area responded to the rise of highly contagious variants by mandating vaccination and, once they became available, booster vaccine doses.
Drew Penner, Reporter
Two Council candidates— Mayor Rob Rennie and Rob Moore—decided to boycott a forum hosted Sept. 13 by the Los Gatos Community Alliance, an organization which has been helping others on the ballot. A third, Planning Commissioner Reza Tavana, told organizers he was too busy to attend. “I always hesitate to say something negative, but this is—in my opinion—a bogus forum,” Rennie said. “This is a group that’s already supporting two or three of the candidates— has been sending emails trashing some of the candidates. And then they want to have a forum?” Three Council seats are up for election Nov. 8. The others vying for elected office this round are Councilmember Mary Badame, entrepreneur Rob Stump and Margaret Smith, the past president of the ➝ Candidates Boycott, 6
COUNTY PULLS FINAL COVID HEALTH ORDERS
➝ County Rescinds, 6
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ART DISPLAY Longtime Los Gatos resident Scott Downs is shown with his acrylic piece, “Key Bottle,” which is part of a new exhibit at the Gilroy Center for the Arts that runs through September. A retired educator, Downs, who now resides in Gilroy after living in Los Gatos for more than 50 years, spent most of his career as a high school art teacher in San Diego and Saratoga High School, including 23 years as the art department chair at Los Gatos High School. Downs, who is currently the vice president of the Gilroy Arts Alliance, works primarily in oils, acrylics and watercolor.
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