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Published on 09/23/1996 All articles from this issue

Letters to the Editor

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Measures A and B not gridlock remedies

The remedy to traffic gridlock is the reduction of commuting, not the efforts of Measures A and B to make commuting tolerable.

The price of highway improvements is greater than the $32 per Santa Clara County resident per year quoted in your recent article. The price is the destruction of our atmosphere and health from the combustion of gasoline. The price is the lives of our people defending the supply of cheap oil.

Consider instead how we can reduce highway usage. Can you find a new job near your home? Can you move closer to your current job? It is a false improvement to your quality of life to live in a larger house on a larger lot when the price is contributing to traffic gridlock.

Measures A and B promote commuting and the consequent pollution.

Measures A and B contribute to a bizarre foreign policy based on preserving the supply of cheap oil. If the true price of a gallon of gasoline to humans and nature could be charged at the pump, that would cure more traffic gridlock than a dozen ballot measures.

Meanwhile, reject Measures A and B and reject the culture of consumption without regard to consequence.

David C. Kehlet

Los Altos

Pursuing weaving dream in Mountain View

The Weaving Studio was established in 1929 during the California Arts and Crafts Movement, on premises in Menlo Park dedicated as an Art Center by the local philanthropist, Mrs. Merner. Mrs. Merner's dream was to provide a quiet haven for the practice and teaching of heritage arts.

As the Weaving Studio outgrew its premises it was clear that the Allied Arts Guild, which was founded for the promotion of the Arts, was changing. The Arts are now commodified as decor for another shopping mall.

Custom Handweavers has now expanded to premises in Mountain View taking with it the spirit and the dream of Mrs. Merner, and will continue to practice and to teach the heritage arts of spinning and weaving.

I like to thank all of my friends, patrons and neighbors in the community for their support before and during this move and I look forward to welcoming you in my new home, where I am already actively weave and teach.

Hannelore H Cole

Mountain View

Teachers thank businesses for support

On behalf of the Los Altos Teacher's Association (LATA), I thank some of the businesses of Los Altos for their support of public school educators.

To help the new school year start on a positive note, Skip's Pizza, Bandera and i Fratelli donated gift certificates to the LATA.

Skip's provided a discount on pizza that was delivered to all the teaching staffs on the first day of school.

Bandera and i Fratelli gave the association discount coupons to be given to selected teachers who perform extra-curricular activities.

As the public is probably aware, many school administrators and teachers spent a great deal of the summer preparing for smaller classes that are being funded by the state.

LATA is excited about this new challenge, and teachers are looking forward to a productive and rewarding year.

Rachel Zierdt

LATA member

Los Altos School District