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Volume 50, Number 2, Published on 01/13/1997

News

A hoops league of their own

Town Crier Staff Writer

Witness admits to shaky story in cop's sexual assault trial

A Los Altos Police Department communications officer admitted on the witness stand that he does lie sometimes when he's angry.

City burglary rates way up, police say

For the first week of 1997, burglary rates soared in Los Altos.

Council turns down HeadsUp! school for St. William site

Los Altos City Council members rejected a 26-month lease worth $338,000 for the former St. William school buildings, in favor of moving ahead post-haste with developing a master plan for the site.

3-story condo plan starts over

The three-story condo advocates are marshaling their forces against the two-story condo folks for tomorrow night when the Los Altos Planning Commissioners revisit a controversial housing project.

Experts: Local water OK to drink

Local water officials are reporting no problems for Los Altos and Los Altos Hills water supplies, a contrast to contamination problems facing other communities in the wake of recent flooding.

County sends refunds after overcharging for high school bond measure

Special to the Town Crier

Comment

Council made right HeadsUp! decision

The Los Altos City Council made a tough decision, but a right one, we feel, when council members rejected a proposal last week to lease the St. William School site to a busy private school.

Vets memorial deserves our support

Local veterans have been making noise lately, rallying for a veterans memorial at Shoup Park. Organizers have come across as having thought long and hard about its location, and what it should represent.

Me and the Macintosh

The headlines that Steve Jobs is returning to Apple remind me about my relationship to several generations of computers. I have never had any connection to Apple Computer (or any other computer company), so this is a disinterested account in that respect. I know there are fierce battles over the personal computer market, but this is not a story about market share. It's about history and people, ingenuity and innovation.

Letters to the Editor

Los Altos Hills is losing its soul. The Town was incorporated more than 40 years ago for the expressed purpose of keeping the area "countrified" and protecting it against persistent land speculators and developers seeking the greatest possible profit.

Community

Pages of the Past

In the Jan. 19, 1972 edition of the Town Crier, it concluded that without a doubt, William Arthur Best of Los Altos had established something of a record.

Post-holiday accolades and events to keep in mind

Socially Speaking

Los Altos vets memorial proposal headed for possible city approvals

Los Altos area veterans are seeking final approval Jan. 28 from the Los Altos City Council for a memorial at Shoup Park. The city's Parks and Recreation Commission is scheduled to review the proposal at tonight's meeting.

Seniors

Thursday: 10 a.m., a long-term health care workshop. Protect your assets from the costs of long-term health care by attending this workshop.

Library News

Volunteer Vic Sansum, a retired electronics engineer, will give a talk intended for the low-budget home computer owner who has some awareness of the modules that typically constitute a computer employing an Intel microprocessor and a Microsoft operating system.

Community Briefs

The Los Altos Rotary Club is having a fund-raiser benefiting the Support Network for Battered Women from 3-7 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Los Altos Youth Center.

Almanac

Los Altos Parks and Recreation Commission, 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 1 N. San Antonio Road.

Los Altos Weather

Schools

Foothill College food services faces huge loss

Foothill-De Anza Community College District trustees received news last week that was hard to swallow: Foothill College food services is running a deficit of more than $170,000 in this budget period.

Ebonics not a controversy at Los Altos High School

Special to the Town Crier

Trustees raise parking fees at Foothill

Students and others using the Foothill College parking lot will have to pay twice as much to park, following a Foothill-De Anza board decision last week to double the rates.

James to head Cupertino Union school board

James, who has been the vice-president of the board, is serving her second term. She previously served as president in 1993 and was chair of Measure A, the district's $71 million school facility bond measure passed by 81 percent of the voters in June 1995.

Sports

This Week in Sports

Wrestling

Athlete of the Week

This Los Altos High senior wrestles in the 130-pound weight class and has so far pinned down a 17-3 overall record this season. The team captain and third-year grappler went undefeated in five matches in the recent Ceres dual meet and placed fourth in his weight class at the Winnemucca Tournament. "He is an inspirational wrestler and has set his sights on qualifying for the state meet," said Coach Nick Testa.

Pinewood's girls kickers are on a scoring rampage

Town Crier Staff Report

Sports Shorts

HOT HOOPSTER: St. Simon School's Aaron Rouleau recently netted the Santa Clara County most valuable player award for seventh- and eighth-grade basketball players. Rouleau, a center, averaged 18 points, 14 rebounds, seven assists and five steals per game for the Saints' "B" team, which notched a 8-3 record this season. Rouleau and some of his St. Simon teammates will play in next week's all-star tournament at St. Martin's in San Jose.

St. Francis, Foothill are rolling

Special to the Town Crier

Spartans playing at a higher level

Town Crier Staff Writer

Business & Real Estate

Business Brief

Two new managers have been appointed at Kaiser Cement in Cupertino. Steward B. Smith is named Vice President of Operations, and George Lesnikoff, a 24 year veteran of Kaiser Cement is named plant manager.

Familiar retailers change locations

Downtown

Average home gets new owner every 12 years

The housing turnover rate is calculated by dividing the total number of owned housing units by the total number of home sales in a given year.

Transactions

Los Altos

How to take the stress out of job changing

Changing company cultures is as devastating as moving to a foreign country. Even if you are changing to start your own company, the comfort of the old four walls and eight vice presidents was defining. You knew what was going to happen; you knew who was in charge. When you make a change, the old ball game is over. The teams and uniforms are different.

Weekly Special

Obituaries

Lorena Mylrea Anderson, a longtime resident of Los Altos and Mountain View, died Dec. 8 at Stanford Hospital. She was 76.

Former school superintendent says education is everybody's responsibility

Dr. Ramon Cortines, a familiar, even controversial name in education, spoke on "the community's capacity to improve schools" at last week's Morning Forum lecture in Los Altos. True to form, his appearance left some inspired and others unimpressed.

Weddings & Engagements

Doris Arensberg and Wendell Lehr were married Nov. 30 at the Los Altos United Methodist Church.

Spiritual Life Briefs

The Interfaith Institute presents a three-session program on "The Paving of Eden," spiritual perspectives on the environment. The first program is at 7 p.m. tonight at the Bechtel International Center on the Stanford campus, corner of Mayfield Avenue and Lomita Drive, in Palo Alto. The other two presentations will be Jan. 22 and Jan. 29.

Mariachi music set to shake up Mountain View

The Community School of Music & Arts will "Shake It Up with Mariachi" 2:30 p.m. this Sunday at its campus, 253 Martens Ave. in Mountain View. Featuring La Familia Diaz, the concert begins CSMA's free Family Concert Series.

Rabbi wants to help people discover 'beauty of Judaism'

Ken Carr grew up dreaming of being a professional baseball player. That lasted through high school.

Breaking away from the pack: How to quit smoking

Special to the Town Crier

Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it

Residents see the slim, dapper Conrad Heintzelman striding down Main Street almost every day.

Health Briefs

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation presents a program, "Why Runners get Injured" and "Fitness after 50" at 7:15 tonight at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Local chiropractor touts benefits of Copes system to fight scoliosis

Town Crier Staff Writer