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Volume 50, Number 30, Published on 07/28/1997

News

By Joanne Griffith Domingue

Los Altos residents share observations of historic hand-over earlier this month

Moffett study session draws concerned crowd

Town Crier Staff Writer

Community eulogizes founder of Kahn's Corner Pharmacy

Town Crier Staff Writer

County Fire: 13 percent budget shortfall won't affect Los Altos or Los Altos Hills

The Santa Clara County Fire Department received a budgetary kick in the shins July 1: a 13 percent revenue reduction.

News Briefs

Two more potential candidates have taken out papers for Los Altos City Council as of last Friday evening, said Carol Scharz, Los Altos City Clerk.

New 650 area code starting in Los Altos area beginning Saturday

Get ready to order new stationery and new business cards because the phone company is changing your 415 area code to 650 beginning this Saturday.

Members' actions prompt LAH council move to reduce planning commission

The Los Altos Hills City Council followed up on the intentions of a June 4 ordinance and reduced the town planning commission from seven to five members at its June 16 meeting.

Police say database for sex offenders now available locally

Beginning Thursday, residents may view the CD-ROM database of registered California sex offenders at the Los Altos Police Department.

Comment

Wanted: More council candidates

With all the important issues swirling around the City of Los Altos these days, we are happy to see that five residents thus far have tossed their hats into the ring for two open seats on the Los Altos City Council in this coming November's election.

Color for the middle of the road

Kudos to the Los Altos public works department for its thoroughfare landscaping renovations. Clearing out the weeds, repairing sprinklers and replanting the median strips in the center of San Antonio Road, particularly between Almond Avenue and Foothill Expressway, are long overdue.

Letters to the Editor

It was really nice to read about our area of Los Altos. We love it here.

No more double banana splits to go

A Side of Clyde

Of slings and arrows

A View from the Hills

Community

Service News

Januario successfully completed 12 weeks of training that began each day at 5 a.m. with a three-mile run. Januario and fellow recruits ended the training phase with The Crucible, a 54-hour team effort.

Los Altos Hills official points county fair in an updated, more high-tech direction

Town Crier Staff Writer

Library News

The magic continues with magician Phil Ackerly, who will be performing at 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Los Altos Main Library. Ackerly's magic show is a 45-minute presentation full of color and comedy for ages 3 and up.

Gallery Briefs

Artist/writer Louise Freund will be exhibiting her paintings and poems in the lobby of the Palo Alto Unitarian Church through Aug. 18. For more information, call the church office or 967-3045.

Community Briefs

The Los Altos Post Office will be having a sale on miscellaneous postal items, furniture, chairs, lobby desks, scales, lumber, etc. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday at the Loyola Corners Annex, 1525 Miramonte Ave., Los Altos. The public is invited.

Los Altos Anniversary Follies to focus on fun

Mark your calendars for Oct. 4 when the Anniversary Follies pokes fun at our foibles. This year's performance celebrates the 40th anniversary of Foothill College, the 50th anniversary of the Town Crier and the third open season of the Bus Barn Theater.

Almanac

Los Altos Senior Center, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, 97 Hillview Ave.

Local residents join Hidden Villa board

Los Altos residents Julian Andona and Eleanor Watanabe, and Tony Tam and Eleanor Cameron of Los Altos Hills are new members of Hidden Villa's board of trustees.

LAH Historical Society making annual trip

The trip starts from the Los Altos Town Hall parking lot 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, and arrive at the Best Western Gold Country Inn in Grass Valley in time for rest and dinner at a local restaurant.

August 'Chefs Who Care' at Michaels at Shoreline

Michaels at Shoreline will serve an Italian country barbecue buffet for the August "Chefs Who Care" dinner to benefit the Community Kitchen of Community Services Agency. The buffet dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View.

Noteworthies

Mary Jo Feeney, MS, RD, FADA, was selected the first recipient of the Sister Miriam Clare Heskamp Outstanding Alumni Award from the Marian College Food and Nutrition Sciences program.

Adopt-a-Home looking for sponsors in Los Altos

Project Match, the recipient of the City of Mountain View 1996 Mayor's Award in human services, provides affordable housing options for seniors.

Pages of the Past

As reported in the Aug. 2, 1972, edition of the Town Crier, Dominican Priest Jerome S. Becker, in residence at St. Nicholas Church in Los Altos, was named alcoholism coordinator for Santa Clara County. He was one of just three people in the United States in 1972 who obtained a master's degree in the study of alcoholism.

Drive the ball into the cup and drive home in a BMW at Chamber of Commerce tourney

The new car, donated by Allison BMW, is just one of many prizes available at the eighth annual event. Prizes will be awarded in the four-person scramble and one-best ball twosome format, as well as to winners of the longest drive, closest to the pin, and for the putting and chipping contests.

Fire extinguishers - do's and don't of use

By the Los Altos Emergency Preparedness Committee

Mr. 'Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo' to play Los Altos Bar & Grill

What venue would a 1970s chart-topping rock guitarist like Rick Derringer choose to play to celebrate his 50th birthday?

Digital art show to show at Los Altos library

A digital art exhibit will be featured at Los Altos Main Library Sept. 8 through Nov. 7. This computer art will be presented in two parts.

Retail postal service could be coming to Loyola Corners

Residents on the south end of Los Altos could have a full-service retail postal facility at Loyola Corners by the year 2000. However, that is contingent on the U.S. Postal Service finding a temporary location for the carrier annex currently occupying the former Safeway building at 1525 Miramonte Ave.

Seniors Briefs

Aug. 8: 1 p.m. movie, "Michael," shown in room 11. Stars John Travolta, Andie MacDowell and William Hurt.

Los Altos Weather

Schools

Community School of Music and Arts may soon be homeless

The metronome is ticking for the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View. Due to increased enrollment, the Mountain View School District plans re-open Huff Elementary School, the site being used by the music and art school. By next April, the not-for-profit organization may be homeless.

Information for senior parcel tax exemptions

Residents who are 65 years or older, own and occupy property in the Los Altos School District and wish to apply for the exemption, may call Mary Jane Bailey at the school district office at 941-4010 for more information.

'Read to Succeed' receives presidential citation

Duane Zampedri of Montclaire School in Los Altos, traveled to the nation's capitol last year as part of Amdahl's "Read to Succeed" program

LASD budget in good shape, despite state delays

While state budget delays have left many school districts hesitant to begin class size reduction programs, the Los Altos School District has already implemented the program in a fourth class level at all eight of its schools.

Noteworthies

The two developed an innovative partnership with Loehman's Plaza involving self regulation and evaluation which has enabled Homestead's campus to remain "open" during the lunch hour. The plaques cited "Outstanding dedication, commitment and service to provide alternative teen programs in the interest of a better Sunnyvale community."

Schools Briefs

The National Education Association wants all 1997 high school graduates to "grade" their school experience.

Talks continue in Fremont district contract dispute

"The good news is that the Board's representatives and the union representatives are continuing to talk," said Mary Panucci, superintendent of schools, Fremont Union High School District, updating the status of negotiations between the district's board of trustees and the Fremont Education Association (FEA). Approximately 100 Los Altos students at Homestead High School are enrolled in the district.

Young Scholar gets fill of proteins in summer research program

Los Altos Hills resident Terri Yu was one of 40 high school students selected from throughout the nation to participate in the Young Scholars Program for the High Ability Secondary School at University of California, Davis, a six-week program where students conduct research in biological, agricultural and environmental sciences.

Sports

This Week in Sports

Soccer

Winners abound at YMCA tourney

Special to the Town Crier

Los Altos seniors take 2nd in tourney

Baseball report

Gosalvez, Sobolik are tops at St. Simon

St. Simon School of Los Altos closed out its 34th year of sports by announcing its athletes of the year.

Sports Shorts

COACHES CORNER: Los Altos High is searching for a frosh-soph boys water polo coach and junior varsity girls field hockey coach for the fall season. If interested, call Athletic Director Monica Lodge at 960-8857.

Rhinos roller hockey players skate into Los Altos Hills

Forty children from the El Camino YMCA Roller Hockey Camp recently mixed it up with professional players from the San Jose Rhinos.

Business & Real Estate

How to recognize a healthy organization

Jean on the Job

Bank of Los Altos reports good 2nd quarter profit

The Bank of Los Altos reported second quarter 1997 earnings of $250,000 ($0.25 per share) compared to $165,000 ($0.17 per share) for the same quarter in prior year 1996.

Noteworthies

Veteran banker and Los Altos resident Steven L. Shepherd has been appointed to the position of vice president and manager of Sanwa Bank California's San Jose branch office.

Changes under way at Foothill Plaza in south Los Altos

Remodeling is under way in Foothill Plaza Shopping Center for two new businesses planning to open in August. Foothill Plaza is located at Homestead Road and Foothill Expressway in Los Altos.

Dave Leary - at the heart of Rancho

Town Crier Staff Writer

Silicon Graphics, Inc. stock of the week

Silicon Graphics designs, manufacturers and supports work-station and server systems. The products are used in applications from complex models for weather stations, digital media and multiprocessing to special effects for Hollywood movies using three-dimensional graphics.

Transactions

Los Altos

Check the property easements before buying

What's an easement? It's the right of a property owner to use another person's property for their benefit, or for someone else to use your property for a legal reason. Check out what the easement is when buying a house. Any easements pass to the new property owner.

Downey Savings celebrates 40th

A Downey Savings branch is located at 1001 Fremont Ave. in Los Altos. The promotion corresponds to the financial institution's 40th anniversary ads which depict the convertible and tout the headline, "Two classics were introduced in 1957... one of us is still driven by almost 200,000 people."

Weekly Special

Obituaries

Lawrence A. Clousing, a 56-year Los Altos resident, died on June 14 in Los Altos. He was 91.

Births

A son was born June 1 to Mountain View residents Jill Nagahara-Evans and James Evans at Stanford University Medical Center.

Weddings & Engagements

Lyn Swyryd and Michael W. Smith were married May 24 at the fountain on the lawn at Ralston Hall at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont.

Laughter rules in 'Once in a Lifetime'

Special to the Town Crier

'Crazy For You' features Los Altan in lead role

Taylor Meschke of Los Altos plays Polly Baker, the lead female role in the rousing musical, "Crazy For You," a Peninsula Youth Theatre production that plays Thursday through Sunday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, located at Castro and Mercy streets.

Way south of the border

Special to the Town Crier

Los Altos scenes to savor

Town Crier Staff Writer

Historic, yet homey: John and Marva Warnock's 'Sun Acres'

Town Crier Staff Writer

Home Briefs

Scott Massey, a renowned San Francisco landscape designer and fuchsia grower, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Fuchsia Society, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday at in Room 15 of Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Massey's demonstration and lecture will cover selection of new fuchsias, their repotting and general care. For more information, call 948-5929.

New owner, new look for venerable AIW-Walther's

Business Profile