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A M<strong>in</strong>ute With: Mary Albitz<br />
How is the retail bus<strong>in</strong>ess downtown?<br />
Hmmmm. [with laughter]<br />
How can it change?<br />
Attract<strong>in</strong>g more retail bus<strong>in</strong>esses to fill vacancies.<br />
Work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> downtown <strong>Redwood</strong> City is?<br />
Fabulous!<br />
Whom do you most admire?<br />
My father, Joseph.<br />
What talent would you most like to have?<br />
To be able to s<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
Someth<strong>in</strong>g few know about you?<br />
Played rugby <strong>in</strong> college.<br />
What phrase do you most overuse?<br />
Oh, gosh!<br />
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Mary Albitz was born at Sequoia Hospital <strong>in</strong> <strong>Redwood</strong> City. She attended grammar school at Our<br />
Lady of Mount Carmel, then Notre Dame High School <strong>in</strong> Belmont. After graduation, she went<br />
to college at Santa Clara University, where she achieved her bachelor’s degree <strong>in</strong> sociology.<br />
After college, she served one year <strong>in</strong> the Jesuit Volunteer Corps <strong>in</strong> C<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>nati, Ohio. She<br />
then moved to Denver, Colo., for 12 years. Mary moved back to <strong>Redwood</strong> City <strong>in</strong> November<br />
1997. She still lives here with her husband, Gary. She has a 19-year-old son named Dewayne.<br />
She is the owner and operator of downtown bus<strong>in</strong>ess Jigsaw Java, which she opened <strong>in</strong> 2008.<br />
Mary is active <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Redwood</strong> City–San Mateo County Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown<br />
Bus<strong>in</strong>ess Group, Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Sunrise Rotary club and Bus<strong>in</strong>ess Network<strong>in</strong>g International.<br />
Besides puzzles, her hobbies <strong>in</strong>clude show<strong>in</strong>g roses, which her husband grows, and cook<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
Favorite song?<br />
“Ballad of Curtis Loew” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.<br />
Favorite movie?<br />
“Armageddon.”<br />
What is your motto?<br />
It will all work out.<br />
Anyone you got on your m<strong>in</strong>d?<br />
My dad and the SF Giants.<br />
Memorable moment?<br />
Birth of my son.<br />
First word that comes to m<strong>in</strong>d?<br />
Best.<br />
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You still can’t believe?<br />
That I am do<strong>in</strong>g what I am do<strong>in</strong>g with Jigsaw Java.<br />
You currently feel?<br />
Happy.<br />
You are <strong>in</strong>spired by?<br />
People with disabilities.<br />
What or who is the love of your life?<br />
Wooden jigsaw puzzles.<br />
When you die you want to come back as?<br />
Oprah!<br />
If you’re happy and you know it?<br />
Smile!
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