There’s still no sign of the beloved Orchard Supply Hardware sign that vanished from the site of the shuttered San Jose store off San Carlos street sometime last weekend. But it’s looking more and more that the sign was not removed on purpose.

Google, which owns the property the store and sign were on, told the Preservation Action Council this week it was unaware it had been removed and was looking into it. Lowe’s, the parent company of Orchard Supply, has not indicated that it ordered the sign to be taken down, either.

If anything, there are clues that this was just an outright theft. San Jose couple Dan and Kathy Hendrix emailed photos of the sign they took after 9 p.m. Friday, hoping it was still lit up (it wasn’t). The sign was noticed missing by Monday morning, and it’s hard to believe that it would have been officially removed over the weekend instead of Friday or Monday.

The mystery gets even deeper when you consider an email I received from Kim Garfinkel, who said she was driving with her son on California Street in San Francisco on Saturday when they saw the sign in the back of a “dark, junky” pickup truck.

“I pointed it out to him because it was such a cool old neon sign,” she wrote. “It was way too big for the truck and was strapped down haphazardly.” That, friends, is what they call a bad sign.

If the sign doesn’t turn up soon, it may become an urban legend like Bigfoot or D.B. Cooper. Maybe it’ll pop up with an Instagram account like a traveling gnome. And a decade from now, people will sit around the bar at Original Joe’s about how somebody saw the sign in somebody’s back yard in San Martin. Or was it San Mateo?

One place you can still see the arrow sign — at least in picture form — is the San Jose Signs Project guidebook, a pamphlet of the city’s vintage neon signs that is being sold by the Preservation Action Council. Get one from Patt Curia by emailing donations@preservation.org. The proceeds, by the way, go to restoring the Stephen’s Meat Products “Dancing Pig” sign, which was still there the last time I checked.

VMC CHAMPION SUSIE WILSON HONORED: If you ask VMC Foundation CEO Chris Wilder what his favorite vote was on Election Day, he’ll tell you it was a 5-0 vote taken Tuesday morning by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. They unanimously decided to name Valley Medical Center’s Women’s and Children’s Center after Susanne B. Wilson, the trailblazer who served four years on the San Jose City Council in the 1970s, followed by three terms on the Board of Supervisors.

A longstanding advocate for women’s and children’s rights, Wilson led the charge to restore VMC to financial stability during her time on the board. After her tenure, Wilson was a co-founder of the VMC Foundation, which raises money to enhance the county’s primary public hospital. “Susie truly was the protector of Valley Medical Center,” Supervisor Ken Yeager said. “She laid the foundation for the health and hospital system as we know it today.”

Wilson, now 90, was back in the supervisors’ chambers for the vote Tuesday, surrounded by family, friends and former colleagues. “There isn’t a person who doesn’t love Susie,” said Kathleen King, executive director of the Healthier Kids Foundation. “I don’t think she has an enemy in the world.”

MARISSA MAYER’S BACK: The Silicon Valley Education Foundation landed an interesting guest of honor for its Fund the Future dinner Thursday: CEO Marissa Mayer. At the STEM-oriented event being held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Mayer will no doubt shed some light on her recent activities, including diving into artificial intelligence at Palo Alto-based startup Lumi Labs.

This is the first big fundraiser for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation since it merged with ALearn and brought on new CEO Lisa Andrew. For more information on the event, go to www.svefoundation.org.

HONOR ROLL: Gay Crawford, the founding director of Cancer CAREpoint, will be honored Wednesday in Washington D.C. with the Ellen Stovall Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. For more than four decades, Crawford has been a leading voice in cancer patient advocacy throughout Silicon Valley with a reputation for being one of those individuals who actually gets things done.

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Tickets on sale for this year’s drive-thru Christmas in the Park In addition to counseling thousands of patients and families over the years, Crawford founded both Hospice of the Valley, which at the time was only the second non-profit hospice agency in California, and Courageous Kids, an American Cancer Society Program that brings cancer patients and their families to California’s Great America every Mother’s Day.

TALKING POINTS: You can expect a thoughtful discussion Tuesday evening at Scotts Valley conference center 1440 Multiversity with a panel scheduled to feature Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi; Jim Wallis of Sojourners; and Ellen Grace O’Brian, the founder of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose. The conversation, “Agents of Change: Leadership for Uncertain Times,” starts at 7 p.m. and will be moderated by American Leadership Forum CEO Suzanne St. John-Crane. Tickets are $55 each, and more details are available at 1440.org/events.