Week in Review, April 10-16: From Stolen Medicine and Computer Chips to a Fundraiser for an Injured Fan

Did you miss the news in Mountain View this week? Here's a quick recap of local issues, personalities, events and photos.

Sunday, April 10

• More than 6,000 students from 79 Bay Area schools gathered at NASA Ames in Moffett Field to honor the man who made the dream of space exploration possible: Yuri Gagarin.
  

Monday, April 11

• The Mountain View police seek a Hispanic man and woman who are suspected of walking into the CVS in Old Mountain View and and taking $1,800 worth of laxatives, allergy pills and acid reflux remedies.

Tuesday, April 12

• Mountain View's City Hall had a town hall with Caltrain commuters and supporters to get their opinions on the railways financial crisis. Missed the meeting? Read about it here.

• Do you walk around naked in your home, and do you let your children see you do it? That's the topic of Mom Talk columnist Autumn Vandiver this week. Why don't you weigh in with your opinion?

• Mountain View resident and TED conference talk giver Salman Khan, has recently turned his online lessons into a pilot program in Los Altos School with Khan Academy, a free educational Web site with videos, virtual lessons and other resources for learning various subjects.

Wednesday, April 13

• In the largest recovery of stolen property in the Bay Area, five men have been arrested and charged in a $37 million computer-chip heist, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office reported today.

• In an effort to help injured Giants fan, and for Brian Stow's family. The Mountain View event raised more than $2,000 and brought together both San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers fans to view that evening's game.

Thursday, April 14

• With a dramatic and magnificent stage design and a cast of 160 actors, the Abundant Life Christian Fellowship church —the life, death and resurrection of Jesus at its worship center in Mountain View.

• A Sunnyvale man was at the parking lot near the Rite Aidon Grant Road, thanks to the evidence from the victim's cellphone, according to police spokeswoman Liz Wylie.

• Do you Kindle? started by Columnist Joni Ratt's column this week about the pros of eBook readers. 

Friday, April 15

• A Mountain View man has been after he threw rocks into a parked car with passengers and a 11-month-old baby in the Castro City neighborhood, the police department reported.

• A northbound Caltrain struck and killed a woman in her 60s, whose car was stopped on the tracks as a result of backed-up traffic at Charleston Road off Alma Street. She and her male partner, also in his mid-60s, had travelled from Indiana to visit family in Palo Alto. The man managed to get out of the car.

• Junior starter and Pitcher Alli Quinn yielded only five hits the rest of the way and helped  on a sunny Friday afternoon at St. Francis High in Mountain View.

Saturday, April 16

• Do you find beauty in the things you see around town? Here's this week's Viewfinder, where we photographed different shades of red.