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Volume 52, Number 31, Published on 07/28/1999

News

Swinging with success

Town Crier Staff Writer

City OKs ballot language to increase tax

The Los Altos City Council approved the ballot language for a proposed increase in the local utility-user tax, which will go to voters in the November election.

Not on the same path

Special to the Town Crier

Modified code enables hotel project

Housing advocates cry foul over change

City economic position still vacant

The economic development coordinator position for the city of Los Altos has been vacant since October 1997, and people hope that will change. Soon.

Design issues with Marriott plan

The night before, at the July 13 city council meeting, developers heard neighbor concerns about the hotel's design. The developers will be responding to them, Kornfield said.

News Briefs

Mountain View Police are informing the public that a 38-year-old high-risk sex offender was released on parole to Mountain View on July 5.

Parks and Rec narrows park-name choices to 3

The final list is short.

Comment

Other Voices

Senate Bill 335 is a good reminder

Letters to the Editor

I was 6 months old when John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas. I was 5 years old the June night in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed in Los Angeles. My sister, 16, was the only one still awake in our house, waiting for the primary results. She woke my parents, telling them another Kennedy was gone.

A good laugh, revisited

Blue Jeans & Jelly Beans

Community

Voice of the Past

Nothing remains of the old Los Altos Twelve Acres estate except its idyllic wooded setting just west of Los Altos Avenue along Adobe Creek on what is now Twelve Acres Drive, Leaf Court and Meadow Lane. The following historical memories of early Twelve Acres have been compiled from interviews with Joe Marvin Jr. and a number of current and former Twelve Acres residents, including Robert Golden, Sue Gallagher and Nancy Herbert.

Library News

Today Wildlife Associates will present "Spirit of the Rain Forest," featuring live rain forest animals.

Calendar

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

Community Briefs

The History House of Los Altos will be offering a 50-minute program of 1930s home movies featuring the Twelve Acres estate area of Los Altos. The event will be from 7:30-8:30 p.m., Aug. 8, at the Los Altos Main Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, in Los Altos.

Festival organizers cite successes, despite hot days, smaller crowd

Special to the Town Crier

Police Report

July 19, 12:23 p.m.: A care giver reported possible elder abuse involving an 85-year-old woman. Police made a welfare check.

Hollywood meets Los Altos in longtime residents' back yard

Special to the Town Crier

weather

Schools

Demolition makes way for new buildings, quad

Schools Roundup

SWAT team trains at Mountain View high school

Town Crier Staff Writer

Noteworthies

Sarah Bentley Wilson, daughter of Stuart and Laurie Wilson of Los Altos Hills, recently received a bachelor's degree in biology, cum laude, from Pomona College. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Senior Service Award. Wilson is a graduate of Pinewood High School.

Athletic director bids farewell to Erin Maruyama

Shoup Park represents a sunny, happy and fun place to take children, family and friends. It is a place to have family picnics, watch our children play on the swings and wade in the creek. It is a fitting place to say a final good-bye to Erin Maruyama. Erin was my daughter Erika's soccer buddy and friend for the last 11 years - a friend of mine and the rest of my family's as well. Erika tells me this final good-bye is for kids only. But I am here as a friend, athletic director, former coach and a person whose conscience will not let her stay away. I fear losing the chance to speak one last time to a person I had seen grow up.

Sports

Sports On The Side

The 28th annual Palo Alto Junior Golf Classic is set for Aug. 4 at the newly renovated Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course. Boys and girls who have not reached their 17th birthday before the tournament are eligible. Cost is $18 and space is limited. For more information, call 329-2686.

This week's local sports lineup

Stan Musial League

Bank of the West Classic continues today through Sunday at Stanford

The 29th annual Bank of the West Classic enters its third day of competition today at Stanford University's Taube Family Tennis Stadium.

Cannon saves Clash in shootout win over Chicago

Soccer Report

Bronco All-Stars capture title

Baseball Update

South rushes past North in all-star football game

While winning last Friday's Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game would have been nice, local players on the North team aren't losing any sleep over what transpired.

Post 375 makes quick exit from Area 3

Special to the Town Crier

St. Francis High senior wins regional decathlon championship

Matt Chisam's first-place finish in his first-ever decathlon had nothing to do with beginner's luck.

Business & Real Estate

Ay Ay Ay opens with a hint of margaritaville

Special to the Town Crier

How to have a life and a career at the same time

Jean on the Job

Business Briefs

The Bank of Los Altos, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Holdings Bancorp, reported second quarter 1999 earnings of $312,000, an increase of 17.7 percent over last year's second quarter. Fully-diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.11 compared to $0.09 for the second quarter of 1998.

Tips for getting framed

Special to the Town Crier

Investors not happy with corporate earnings; stock market drops big time

Stock Report

7 Town Crier stocks split this year and gain value

Special to the Town Crier

Transactions

Los Altos

Los Altos HS grad finds netElement of success

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Obituaries

Frances E. Winstead died July 6 in Mountain View. A native of Mountain View, she was 88.

Noteworthies

Kale Kundert, of local Cub Scout Pack 33, a student at Loyola School in Los Altos, has earned the top seller award for the Pacific Skyline Council. It is the second straight year Kundert has received the award, that includes Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Births

A daughter was born May 31 to May Chen-Topper and James Newman Topper of Los Altos.

Engagements, Anniversaries

Julie Lynn Sanborn and Edward Leon-Guerrero announce their engagement and plan to be married this Saturday.

TheatreWorks to attract crowds with 'Honey'

TheatreWorks is giving the West Coast its first look at "As Bees in Honey Drown," the off-Broadway hit by Douglas Carter Beane.

Excess foreshadowing leads to 'General' idea of ending

Special to the Town Crier

FH drama director offers theater tour

As a new Broadway fall season emerges, Foothill College drama director Jay Manley presents a "Thanksgiving on Broadway" tour.

Bus Barn's latest demands audiences' full attention

Special to the Town Crier

Sunset Idea House: A 'rancher' for the millennium

Special to the Town Crier

Don't let the sun leave you steaming- fight back

Roominations

Wild and wonderful

Special to the Town Crier

Heritage Textiles offers online linens, fabrics

Business Profile

Home Briefs

Volunteers are needed Aug. 7 and 8 at the Sunset Idea House in the Cupertino foothills. Duties will include selling tickets and/or chaperoning individual rooms. This is a done-in-a-day volunteer project with Community Impact and Sunset Magazine. Net proceeds from the tours of the Idea House go to Community Impact. People interested in volunteering for the above shift or other weekends through Oct. 10 may call (650)965-0242 for more details.