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Volume 51, Number 48, Published on 11/30/1998

News

The gift of hope

Special to the Town Crier

Gas station at Fremont demolished

After 32 years at the corner of Fremont Avenue and Grant Road, the gas station is no more.

LAH council debates planning issues

Special to the Town Crier

Council considers Sherwood plan for improving north end of town

Town Crier Staff Writer

Honduras help

World Vision, P.O. Box 78481, Tacoma, Wash. 98481-8481. Phone: (888) 511-6565. Organizers said 100 percent of the money donated goes directly to aid the devastated - none is used for overhead.

Domestic violence doesn't take a holiday

Support Network for Battered Women offers tips for staying safe during the holidays

News Briefs

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office wants folks in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills to know there is a rash of break-ins of vehicles parked near Highway 280. And it's coming this way.

Manslaughter charge filed in death of Los Altos bicyclist

The San Mateo County District Attorney's office filed charges last week of vehicular manslaughter following the death of a Los Altos bicyclist last August in Woodside Hills.

Comment

Letters to the Editor

In downtown Los Altos (in or near which we have lived for 40-plus years) we generally expect little interaction with other pedestrians, which I guess is the way most of us would prefer it.

Marshmallow and rock

The Living Experiment

Other Voices

City has accomplished a lot, but much more to do

Community

Los Altos High grad on the cutting edge with animation work

Town Crier Staff Report

Holiday Happenings

The third annual celebration of Hanukkah will be a part of this year's downtown Los Altos seasonal celebration activities starting at sundown (approximately 5:30 p.m.) on Tuesday in the Community Plaza.

Los Altos Senior Center

Friday: 1 p.m., birthday bingo, featuring cake, ice cream, music and bingo for those with birthdays during the month of December.

Community volunteer service awards given to 12 residents

Special to the Town Crier

Library News

Call the Children's Reference Desk at 948-2751 or come in to pre-register.

Packard Foundation awards millennium event $25,000

With the countdown to A.D. 2000 at 387 days, the Los Altos Millennium executive committee this week announced that the Packard Foundation has awarded the millennium celebration $25,000 as seed money to organize the event.

Community Briefs

The Los Altos/Los Altos Hills Newcomers Club will have a luncheon at 11:30 a.m., today, at Prima Strada restaurant in Los Altos. For reservations call 494-7056.

Los Altos Hills honors Sid Hubbard with special meeting

Special to the Town Crier

Police Report

Dec. 1, 9:26 p.m.: A caller reported that her 12-year-old son received a phone call from a man who asked the boy questions and talked about homosexuality.

Readin' writin' and fishin': Adobe Creek trout lure this school boy in the '20s

Dutton attended Los Altos Grammar School. He told the following story about his escapades when he was 8 from his Portola home in 1998.

Almanac

Los Altos mayor's meeting with commission and committee chairpeople, 8 a.m., Room A, Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.

Schools

Foothill-De Anza District commended for its environmental work

Schools Roundup

Tom Baer fund begins second year of scholarships

The Tom Baer Teachers of the Future Fund was created last year to honor the legacy of Tom Baer, an outstanding teacher and administrator who died from cancer in August 1997.

Noteworthies

Los Altos resident Sylvia Bronson, daughter of Richard Bronson and Andrea Solari and Los Altos Hills resident Marissa Yanez, daughter of Luis and Gina Yanez, recently joined the sisters of Alpha Phi sorority at the University of California, Berkeley.

Poster winners announced from Red Ribbon Week

Parents packed the Los Altos City Council chambers, camcorders in hand, to see their children honored for their efforts in the Red Ribbon Week essay and poster contest.

Playground creates opportunities for kids to learn about caring

Special to the Town Crier

Schools Briefs

The Los Altos High School Class of 1993 will hold its five-year reunion 8 p.m., Dec. 22, at the Tied-House Cafe & Brewery of Mountain View, 954 Villa St. For more information, call 941-2682.

Teacher gives students that extra support to succeed

Town Crier Staff Writer

Sports

Sports On The Side

The girls volleyball team at Pinewood School has earned a 1998 Fall Season Scholastic Championship Team Award for posting the highest collective grade point average among Central Coast Section volleyball squads. The Panthers had a GPA of 3.7380, beating out Mount Madonna (3.5670) for the award. Pinewood team members included Sweetheart Ador-Dionisio, Katie Collins, Sarah Feely, Cheryl Ham, Sebnum Kimyacioglu, Elizabeth Marangell, Angie Riches, Lauren Smith-Hams and Erin Wilson.

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

Boys Basketball

Owls bowl over Vikes in football, improve to 10-1

Special to the Town Crier

Marques chooses Los Altos over Brazil

Prep Sports Summary

Locals shine at gymnastics competition

A new breed of gymnasts is one step closer to national level competition in the Olympic sport of modern rhythmic gymnastics.

St. Francis edges Oak Grove for CCS football title

Town Crier Staff Writer

Lancers win state title in volleyball

Don't bother asking Dave Gambelin to rank his four state champion girls volleyball teams. The diplomatic St. Francis High coach would rather leave that to someone else.

Coach hopes to make believers out of FH

It's apparent coach Todd Petersen believes in his Foothill College men's basketball team. Now he needs the players to do the same.

Business & Real Estate

The Harvard Business Review says so

Jean on the Job

Chamber of Commerce selling City Date Book '99

The Los Altos Chamber of Commerce is now selling City Date Book '99, a coupon book that could save hungry diners hundreds of dollars on local restaurants.

Business Briefs

The Los Altos Chamber of Commerce is still selling tickets for a Thursday drawing that could bring a $12,000 holiday gift to holder of the winning ticket.

Finally, technology issues help boost stock market

Special to the Town Crier

Kaiser Cement cleans up

Special to the Town Crier

Expanding Automated Power Exchange promotes green power

Special to the Town Crier

Transactions

Cupertino

New on, or just off Main Street

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Schola Cantorum set to present 'Judas Maccabeus'

Schola Cantorum will present George Frederick Handel's oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" at 8 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church at 625 Hamilton Ave. in Palo Alto.

Martin Yan cooks, cracks up Pilgrim Haven seniors

Special to the Town Crier

Champagne in cyberspace and the numbers game

Vineline

Christmas turkey served up Cajun style

My family always celebrated Christmas with a traditional oven-baked turkey compliments of Mom, until she invited my boyfriend to cook the holiday meal a few years ago. A Louisiana descendant from the heart of "Cajun Country," he taught us that there's more than one way to cook a turkey.

Eating healthy for the holiday season - believe it

Special to the Town Crier

Los Altos area officials share holiday recipes, memories

Special to the Town Crier

Suggestions for non-alcoholic party drinks

Servings: 1

Chef profile

Restaurant: Chef and part-owner of i Fratelli, located on Main Street in Los Altos, since its opening in December 1996.

Bandera's 'Incredible Cornbread Stuffing'

Bandera Restaurant in downtown Los Altos created the "Incredible Cornbread Stuffing" for the holidays with its iron skillet cornbread recipe.

Holiday message: Alcohol and driving don't mix

December is Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month, yet, this holiday season, hundreds of people will be involved in alcohol-related crashes because they, or someone else, left a holiday party impaired and got behind the wheel of a car.

Fruit takes the cake

Town Crier Staff Writer

If you like Indian food, Satkar may satisfy

A group of Town Crier staff restaurant reviewers, known as "The Lunch Bunch," descends upon unsuspecting lunch-time haunts in Los Altos once a month to critique their offerings in the Food & Wine section. The Bunch recently visited Satkar in downtown Los Altos.

Food Bites

Vegetarian Friends will hold a holiday potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m., Dec. 19, at 655 Arastradero Road, Senior Room 2, in Palo Alto. Both vegetarian and vegan food is welcome and guests do not need to be vegetarian to attend.

Weddings

Meg McGraw and Scott Scherer were married Feb. 28 in Poulsbo, Wash.

Obituaries

Phil Neil, a longtime resident of Mountain View, died Nov. 17 after a long illness. A native of Wolverhampton, England, he was 87.

Noteworthy

"I was overwhelmed with the honor," Hyman said. He did not know he was being considered for the award.

Births

A son was born Nov. 21 to Judy Bergwerk and Doug MacLeod of Los Altos.

History House wants to hear 'old timer' memories

History House is currently looking for people who have memories of Los Altos Grammar School, apricot orchard work, riding the local trains, early Los Altos merchants, and residents on or near Los Altos Avenue. All early memories are welcome, particularly those with names, dates and memories of special community events.

64-year Los Altos resident Janet Lewis, acclaimed poet, novelist, dies at 99

As a young woman, Janet Lewis was confined to a hospital bed for five years, unable to even cut a grapefruit without becoming exhausted. So she filled her days writing.

Chanticleer coming to Stanford

World-renowned, Bay Area-based singing group Chanticleer comes home for the holidays to perform "A Chanticleer Christmas" at 8 p.m. Dec. 15 and 16 in Stanford's Memorial Church. The 12-man orchestra of voices will play a variety of holiday favorites.

'Smokey Joe's Cafe' coming to Flint

Music fans of the 1950s and '60s will get a chance to enjoy the sounds of "Hound Dog," "Love Potion No. 9," "Jailhouse Rock" and other famous hits this weekend when the national tour of "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller" comes to Flint Center in Cupertino.