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Volume 48, Number 38, Published on 09/18/1995

News

Living happily ever after

Love lessons from the very-married

Palo Alto Elks Lodge No. 1471 says 'no' to accept women

If the vote stands, women would be allowed to attend Elks functions, dine in the restaurant and swim in the pool but not allowed to be full voting members.

Los Altos City Council will hold community meeting Tuesday

Interested Los Altos residents, business owners, and other members of the community are encouraged to attend and address the city council and staff on any matters concerning Los Altos city government.

CEO Sarnat to replace Pettingill at El Camino Hospital

The date coincides with the last day president and embattled CEO Richard Pettingill will be in office after resigning in July. Pettingill bore most of the criticism from disgruntled physicians and other hospital staff following the creation of Camino Healthcare.

District affirms decision not to employ coach, looks at policy

After seven years of coaching varsity baseball at Los Altos High School, Bob Bowers won't be there in the dugout next spring.

Families to lose affordable housing in Los Altos

Despite state recognition of a city plan to provide affordable housing, Los Altos has struggled to offer options in a community where $500,000 homes are typical.

Parc Regent groundbreaking

Byrne preserve in LAH to be closed at night

The Los Altos Hills City Council has approved an urgency order to close the Byrne open space preserve at night.

Investigation into alleged police beating nears completion

The internal investigation by Los Altos police into a complaint that a Los Altos police officer used excessive force during a routine traffic stop is nearing completion.

Police offer tips for avoiding the serial rapist

So far, the serial rapist, who has assaulted women in Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale since Aug. 21, has hopscotched over Los Altos.

Comment

Comment

Los Altos Police Chief Lucy Carlton has ordered an internal investigation of a July 22 altercation between a city police officer and a Mountain View man. Furthermore, she's asked the FBI to conduct its own independent investigation.

Letters to the Editor

Every new school year is an exciting one. The families in our community are most generous with their gifts of time and materials to our schools. This year Todd and Lisa McLean who own the Gilbert Spray Coat volunteered to paint some of my furniture.

People

Sonya Loebner

Trained in early childhood development, Mrs. Loebner was also a multi-linguist and an accomplished impressionist-abstract painter. Except for a two-year tour with her husband at the American Embassy in Moscow, in the mid-1970s, she was a Palo Alto resident for 34 years. A long-time community volunteer, for the last six years she has been a dedicated tutor of both young and senior Russian emigres.

E. W. Clarey

A native of Nebraska, Mr. Clarey was a dispatcher with United Airlines. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mission Santa Clara Post, V.F.W. Post No. 3982 of Los Altos, the American Legion Post No. 0558 of Los Altos. He served as an elder at the Union Presbyterian Church of Los Altos and received numerous medals for his service during W.W.II.

Gertrude Pauline Wessel

She is survived by daughter Susan Besser of Los Altos, and her late sons Michael Wessel in Vietnam and Edward Jr. of Good Shepherd of Visalia.

Stewart W. Harro

A minister with the Presbyterian Church, he was pastor of Union Presbyterian Church of Los Altos for 25 years and a member of the Los Altos Rotary Club.

Eugene Blum

An electrician for Kellogg USA Inc. he is survived by companion Esther Valdez of San Jose and sons Wolfgang Blum of Mountain View and Peter Blum of Pine Grove and a sister Helen Hohne of Germany.

Community

Downtown fall cleanup scheduled for Saturday

Volunteers are needed to show up at 7:45 a.m. in the Community Plaza for instructions. Cleanup will take place from 8-9 a.m. Coffee will be provided by Peet's Coffee and Tea.

Harvest Festival leaves crowded Hidden Villa for Palo Alto site

This year's event is being held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 30 at Palo Alto Friends Meeting house and grounds, 957 Colorado Ave., in Palo Alto.

Chamber plans fall arts and wine festival, hoedown

This year, more than 185 artists will sell paintings, crafts, jewelry clothing and holiday decorative items.

Playwright visits LAYT cast of 'Footloose'

Pitchford, a member of the sold-out audience who enjoyed the production, saw his new play performed for the first time. He had nothing but praise for the actors and director Tom Carter. Carter called Pitchford up on stage at the end of the performance to be introduced.

How couple turned Silicon Valley blues into 'Darby, My Dalmatian'

Irv couldn't go back to work because every company he applied only offered him half his old salary and they decided she would stay home to care for the baby. So Irv decided to contract his computer programming services out of his house.

Fall projects scheduled for regional MROSD volunteers

The District depends on volunteers to provide assistance in many ways. The Preserve Partners program needs volunteers on the third Saturday of the month for trail maintenance, removing exotic plants, and other projects to restore areas to their natural condition.

Los Altos residents do their part for the cause of abused children

Special to the Town Crier

Federated Woman's Club holds annual benefit

The festival will include a buffet luncheon, wine, cards, a country kitchen, silent auction, white elephant sale, door prizes and a raffle.

Mining and Rock exhibit on display at Rancho Shopping Center

The Peninsula Gem & Geology Society, in cooperation with the Santa Clara Miners Association, will bring the annual event to Rancho to educate and entertain the public.

25 years ago in the Town Crier

A petition signed by women employees of the city requested permission to wear pants in the interest of warmth, comfort and fashion, according to Sanregret's secretary Annie Bruce.

Cranston to lead discussions among leaders at World Forum The "State of the World Forum," to be held Sept. 27- Oct. 1, will bring together more than 400 leaders from more than 50 countries to discuss the priorities needed for the next century. The forum will be held in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Former U. S. Senator and Los Altos resident Alan Cranston is co-organizer for the World Forum. As chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation, Cranston said he visits with Gorbachev often to discuss what the foundation is doing. The idea of the forum is to first discuss the state of the world, what might be done about it, what the options are and what practical steps might be taken. Issues include how to get weapons under control, mediating disputes, protecting the environment and creating a climate for rational development.

Presentation at United Methodist

"I recently called a business in Los Altos and was hung up on the first try," she said. "I explained to the operator to try and re-dial and explain the service again.

Community Briefs

at United Methodist

Peninsula Symphony plans high tea benefit

The benefit event features a flower arranging demonstration by Bonnie Chome, instructor at West Valley College, flower arrangement exhibits by auxiliary members, a boutique of tea related items, a raffle, a tea and refreshments.

Schools

Notes

Sharon Kwan of Los Altos, attending Castilleja School in Palo Alto, has been named an AP (Advanced Placement) scholar by the College Baord in recognition of exceptional achievement on AP exams. Kwan is currently attending Yale University.

The 1995-96 Foothill College Celebrity Forum schedule

Sept. 15: Thomas S. Foley

Local marching bands offer previews of field shows

The Spartan Marching Band will be in full regalia, demonstrating results of weeks of practice before and after school, in addition to an all-day March-a-thon on the day of the show. The performance starts at 5 p.m. at the MVHS football field located at the corner of Truman and Oak avenues.

School Briefs

to MV-LA seniors

Higher than expected enrollment reported at LAHS

For those who were opposed to the school bond measure back on June 6 saying enrollment figures were inflated, Los Altos High School Principal David Brazer has good news.

Foothill College Speakers Forum to feature Kuralt, Foley and Thatcher

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board of Trustees has approved a $130,000 allocation for a list of speakers from the Washington Speakers Bureau.

Russian collegians welcomed in Los Altos

Tanya and Natasha are college students from our Sister City of Syktyvkar, Russia. These ambitious and hard working women participated in the summer International Work Education Program administered by Foothill College.

Sports

Sports shorts

Big Fridays - Individual instruction and pick-up-style games for players in grades 6-8. Runs from 6-8:30 p.m. now through Oct. 20.

Prep tennis

Town Crier Sports Editor

Prep volleyball

Town Crier Sports Editor

Lott and friends team up to help high school sports

Town Crier Sports Editor

Business & Real Estate

Take stock, readers: Your table is ready

All stocks selected from the different exchanges had a local flavor. Either the chairman, president, chief executive officer or chief finance officer resided in Los Altos or Los Altos Hills.

Reader notes unusual commands

Re the articles in the Sept. 6 issue: Franssen's article indicates that one may be able to get one's IBM clone to approximate a Mac if one (1) buys Windows 95, (2) tries to install it (good luck!), (3) buys more memory, and (4) buys new versions of one's application programs. How about another approach: Buy a real Mac and give the IBM clone to charity.

Mac Q's and A's

Special to the Town Crier

Business briefs

The Los Altos-Mountain View branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) invites members and their guests to a complimentary brunch and fashion show 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday in the rotunda and atrium area of Mountain View City Hall, 500 Castro St.

Real estate trade show set for Oct. 6

More than 4,000 real estate professionals and consumers from Northern California are expected to attend this free one-day event to learn about advances in the real estate industry.

Weekly Special

MUSIC

TRIO PHOENIX brings its chamber music to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mercy and Castro streets, 7 p.m. Sunday. Performers include Sarah Fiene, cello; Josephine Gandolfi, piano; guest artist Anthony Striplen, clarinet. $15. For more information, call 903-6000.

Gary Silver, heart surgeon

Gary Silver is a man who has heart. He 's also a man who fixes hearts.

Flu Shot May Save Your Life

Camino Healthcare

'No sweat' is not good news for seniors

"Sweating is the way the body cools itself, but the sweat glands of older folks don't work as hard as when they were younger," explained Dr. Emest Thomas, a Los Gatos family practice physician who specializes in health problems of the elderly. "When we stop perspiring we are at risk for heat stroke."

Camino Healthcare's El Camino Hospital Presents World-Renowned Photo Exhibit

"We are pleased to invite our community to see the exhibit and learn more about the history of medicine and caring," said Camino Healthcare Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Gerry Sarnat, M.D. "With health care at the forefront of national interest, Medicine's Great journey offers a much-needed historical perspective about health care. It demonstrates the unparalled time of discovery and caring over the past century."

Stanford Sleep Research

Free Prostrate Examinations TODAY

Cervicogenic Headaches

Special to the Town Crier

A new lease on life at adult day care centers

Health issues take many forms and one of those issues is Adult Day Care. It's the caring concept of providing activities for frail elderly adults. A program that provides a variety of health and social services in a group setting.

In brief

To become certified as a Fellow by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the ADA, a registered dietitian must successfully demonstrate exceptional professional abilities and expertise through a rigorous portfolio assessment. Currently, less than 1 percent of all registered dietitians have achieved this accomplished status.