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Volume 51, Number 42, Published on 10/19/1998

News

Cemetery living a real treat

Town Crier Staff Writer

A Main Street ghost and some local witches

Some say a ghost haunts the upstairs of Mac's American Grill in downtown Los Altos. And witches have been sighted in Los Altos Hills.

Election Briefs

Financial reports filed Oct. 22 by candidates for two seats on the Los Altos Hills Town Council show former planning commission member Stephen Finn with the most income and the most expense.

News Briefs

At the invitation of the city of Mountain View, the Los Altos City Council appointed two Los Altos council members to a joint city ad hoc committee to study the current status of day workers.

Subdivision request raises questions for LAH council

Special to the Town Crier

Los Altos council approves a third traffic officer

Just weeks after accepting a grant that will fund its first ever traffic enforcement officers, the city dipped into its own coffers for $95,000 to fund a third motorcycle traffic cop.

One killed, four injured in early-morning chase with police

One driver was killed and four passengers were injured when a car fleeing from Los Altos police and county Sheriff's deputies crashed into a tree early last Friday morning on Magdalena Avenue near Dawson Drive in Los Altos Hills.

Local schools oppose Prop. 8's reforms

The Los Altos School District and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District board of trustees passed resolutions opposing Proposition 8, saying it would negatively affect school funding and programs by shifting control of curriculum and budgeting from districts to new councils of parents and teachers at individual school sites.

Los Altos School District will likely see little of Prop. 1A funds

Proposition 1A, the $9.2 billion school construction bond that will be on the Nov. 3 ballot, promises to provide $6.7 billion for California's public K-12 classrooms and $2.5 billion for its higher education facilities.

Comment

Recommendations on state propositions

Proposition 1A: Another school bond measure, this time at the state level to the tune of $9.2 billion! This is three times larger than any preceding bond measure and is spread over so many schools, it's doubtful we'll see much local impact. Stick with Measure H, our local school bond initiative. It guarantees results. No on 1A.

Letters to the Editor

At long last, the Los Altos City Council took steps and adopted a new weed abatement ordinance.

A recap of Los Altos Town Crier endorsements

Jim Steiner and Steve Finn

Confessions of a soccer mom

Blue Jeans & Jelly Beans

Community

Pages of the Past

As reported in the Oct. 31, 1973, issue of the Town Crier, trick or treaters were afoot in Los Altos on Halloween 1973. They sought victims who would treat them with goodies, or were collecting funds in small black and orange UNICEF boxes for needy children throughout the world.

Halloween 'Spooktacular' starts Saturday at noon

Special to the Town Crier

1948 Hit Parade concert scheduled for Nov. 14

If you remember "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover," then you'll enjoy the songs of the 1948 Hit Parade, featuring the Los Altos Town Choir and sounds of the Big Bands from that era.

Libraries receive $200,000 from founder of Infoseek founder

Special to the Town Crier

Event celebrates Dick Henning, Celebrity Forum

More than 400 guests attended the "Celebrating Dick Henning and 30 Years of the Celebrity Forum" dinner on Oct. 17 at Hyatt Rickeys in Palo Alto and raised more than $400,000 for the Foothill College Center for Innovation in Education.

Library News

The exhibits will be still life from Jan. 9 through March 5; "Accent on sports," March 6 - April 30; and local history, May 1-July 9.

Community Briefs

The Golden Wok of Mountain View will host the next Chefs Who Care dinner buffet on Nov. 2. Seatings are offered at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.

Police Report

Oct. 19, 4:23 p.m., Los Altos/Traverso avenues: Police reported that a man in his 30s tried to grab money from a 10-year-old. The suspect then ran toward El Camino Real.

Almanac

Los Altos Hills Planning Commission, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills.

Clean coats drive is on

Schools

Santa Rita to hold Witches' Delight

The event attracts hundreds of families each year as a kick-off to the town's Halloween festivities.

Four candidates for three seats on MVSD board

Four candidates are running for three seats on the five-member Mountain View School District Board of Trustees. Each of the elected candidates will serve four-year terms. Carol Fischer is unopposed for a two-year seat on the board.

Schools Briefs

Mountain View High School will hold its annual homecoming parade at 9 a.m. Saturday on Castro Street in Mountain View. The homecoming football game against Fremont High will follow at 1 p.m. at Mountain View High.

Sixth graders hope to scare up a crowd

Town Crier Staff Writer

Four join school board race for three seats in the Fremont District

Four candidates are vying for three seats on the five-member Fremont Union High School District Board of Trustees. Elected candidates will each serve a four-year term.

Covington tenants confronting eviction in wake of school reopening

Special to the Town Crier

Sports

Sports On The Side

The Twisters Gymnastics team of Mountain View opened the season Oct. 16 by winning its own competition, Twisters 20th Annual Pumpkin Pursuit. Twisters scored a 128.650 to beat Central Coast (128.575), Sunnyvale (128.10) and Menlo Park (83.725). Megan Purcell, Courtney Sinclair, Jennifer Tran and Shannon McConaghy earned all-around scores of at least 32.00 in the 11- and 12-year-old divisions to advance into the 1999 optional competitive levels.

Los Altos captures Spikefest II

Town Crier Staff Writer

Lancer girls win own invitational

The St. Francis High girls cross country team hosted and won their own invitational last Thursday at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.

This week's lineup of local high school and college sports

Football

St. Francis and Pinewood suffer first league defeats

Town Crier Staff Report

MV boys polo beats Homestead

The Mountain View High boys water polo team edged visiting Homestead 9-7 last Thursday to remain atop the SCVAL El Camino Division.

Locals help Woodside Priory get off on the right foot

Woodside Priory may be out of the immediate area, but the school's boys varsity soccer team is practically local. That's because seven members of the Panthers are from either Los Altos or Los Altos Hills.

Mustangs run over Fremont; Mtn. View, St. Francis win big

Prep Football

FH football team goes to 6-0 after rout of San Jose; women's water polo wins 7th straight

Town Crier Staff Report

Maitozo wins gold medal in vaulting

Devon Maitozo's knees are just fine, thank you.

Eagles take control of division with 42-22 blowout of Titans

Special to the Town Crier

Business & Real Estate

Oh, and about your next promotion

Jean on the Job

Churchill Club explores trends

On Nov. 9, the Churchill Club will sponsor "The First Top 10 Tech Trends Debate," a take on what's hot in technology from a venture capital viewpoint. Speakers and panelists include representatives from ADventure Holdings, Integral Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Red Herring and Sequoia Capital. Both meetings begin at 6 p.m. at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara. For more information call the club office at (408) 371-4460.

Business Briefs

Watkins-Johnson Company, a Town Crier Stock Index firm (NYSE:WJ) reported sales of $26 million and a net loss of $54 million, or $6.93 per share, for the third quarter of 1998, ended Sept. 25. The loss includes charges for restructuring, downsizing and other operating charges.

Is the stock market in the eye of the hurricane?

Special to the Town Crier

The Foresight Institute and nanotechnology

Special to the Town Crier

Space Station Los Altos: Rental, sale info on commercial sites

Special to the Town Crier

Real Estate Transactions

Cupertino

Los Altos real estate active again with plenty of homes at cheaper prices

Special to the Town Crier

Bank of Los Altos reports increase in 3rd Q earnings

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Wedding

Katherine Bennion and Bret Jepsen were married Aug. 25 at the Oakland Temple Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A reception followed at the Foothills Tennis & Swimming Club in Palo Alto.

Obituaries

Dorothy Verona Collins Conroy died Aug. 19. A native of Portland, Maine, she was 72.

Prazák Quartet coming to Stanford

The Prazák Quartet will perform "Passion and Creation: The Quartets of Leos Janácek" in a program set for 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium.

Towers holding CD release party

Songs about "Gypsy Eyes," getting "Moonburnt" and "Good Luck Charms" will be on the program when Marina Towers performs songs from her new album at a Halloween CD release party in Mountain View.

'Hercules' muscles its way on stage

The Peninsula Children's Theatre Association is set to present "Hercules," which will be performed by the Foothill College Players.

Ceilidh Dance set for Friday

The South Bay Scottish Society will present its annual Halloween Ceilidh Dance and Party at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Masonic Temple in Mountain View.

Master Sinfonia opens season this weekend in Los Altos

Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra will present its first local concert of the 1998-99 season this Sunday at Los Altos United Methodist Church. The performance is scheduled for 3 p.m.

What a difference a (very large) stairway makes

Special to the Town Crier

Kids should be kids in their own rooms

Decorating today's children's rooms can cost mega-bucks and command the time and attention of top interior designers. This month's "House Beautiful," for instance, shows several children's rooms featuring valuable antiques, silk window draperies with ruched rosettes and a canopy bed from England.

Home Briefs

Los Altos edible gardening expert, garden designer, garden writer and photographer Rosalind Creasy has written and photographed an article for the October issue of Country Living Gardener.

New fabric store opens in Los Altos

Special to the Town Crier

Community gardens in local urban ministry

John Jacobson is working on developing and expanding the community gardens of the Palo Alto-based Urban Ministry.

Los Altos woman eggs-tatic over eggplant

Special to the Town Crier

Home designed using principles of Frank Lloyd Wright

Special to the Town Crier