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Volume 52, Number 42, Published on 10/06/1999

News

Proud of our parks

Special to the Town Crier

Where you can 'park' in Los Altos

Covington mini-park: 2.5 acres, 201 Covington Road and also accessible from the end of Rosita Avenue. Features two tennis courts, tennis backboard, sand volleyball court, tot lot, picnic area with 11 picnic tables and 10 barbecues.

City begins day-worker enforcement on El Camino

Special to the Town Crier

Mark Miller takes to the Hills as new city manager

Mark Miller is looking for a long tenure as the new city manager for Los Altos Hills.

News Briefs

The Los Altos Police Department will be holding a sobriety checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., this Friday on San Antonio Road, southbound at Hawthorne Avenue.

Local support shown to Los Altos' sister city after quake

Special to the Town Crier

Capital improvements up for LAH council discussion

New capital improvements may dominate Los Altos Hills City Council discussions at the council's next meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m., Thursday.

Los Altos to consider potential $2.1 million in unfunded liability for firefighters

Special to the Town Crier

LA Council dives into community pool issue

Special to the Town Crier

Comment

The many worlds in which we live

A View from the Hills

LAH council bowed to political pressure

Just when we thought the Los Altos Hills City Council seemed ready to turn the corner, along comes new planning commissioner Charles Wong and a new controversy that has left egg on the faces of councilmembers.

How to make a nice park even better

When the prominent downtown corner at Edith Avenue and San Antonio Road remained a weed patch for several years, observers grew anxious. Wasn't the city of Los Altos going to do something?

Letters to the Editor

McKenzie Park is not a suitable site for a community swimming pool. With only a few acres of available parks and open space, the city needs more open space and parks, not less. Removing the two lighted tennis courts that are free to the public, and replacing them with a pool that is fee-imposed and use-restricted, is not in the community's best interest.

Community

Tom Chapin to perform adult concert for Music For Minors

Music for Minors kicks off its 25th anniversary Oct. 16 with a concert by Grammy-nominated folk singer Tom Chapin.

Community Briefs

Former Secretary of Defense (1994-1997) William J. Perry will be the special guest speaker at the October lunch meeting of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition.

Police Report

Sept. 27, 1:18 p.m.: Police reported a woman called who was hysterical on the phone. The caller reported a fight with her brother. Police arrested a 20-year-old man.

Pilgrim Haven celebrates 50th anniversary with look back

Special to the Town Crier

Partners symposium attracts adult mentors, offers options for helping troubled local youth

Special to the Town Crier

LAHS students learn about leadership at Boys State

Special to the Town Crier

Hours of hard work, sacrifice pay off for ballet dancer McNulty

Special to the Town Crier

How to use native plants

O'Doherty is a landscape contractor and owner of Native Revival Nursery.

Pages of the Past

1949 Top Radio, TV shows: Original Amateur Hour, Texaco Star Theater, Howdy Doody Show, The Goldbergs, Toast of the Town.

Celebrate Los Altos Fall Festival draws estimated 12,000 'laid-back' visitors

Special to the Town Crier

Pathways walk in honor of Stutz

Members of the Los Altos Hills Pathways Committee invite the public to participate in a pathway walk for the dedication of the Mary Stutz Pathway.

Los Altos resident walks for AIDS battle

As an AIDS patient, Steve Woodfin of Los Altos is trying to make a difference. He'll be among an estimated 3,500 expected to participate in this year's Santa Clara County Walk For AIDS. The event is scheduled for Oct. 17, starting in downtown San Jose.

NOVA volunteers reach out with array of local projects

Approximately 100 staff members of NOVA Private Industry Council spent the morning of Sept. 24 working on 12 volunteer projects in the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.

Library News

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood will be the second title in the Los Altos Library's book discussion series on family life in contemporary fiction. Everyone is welcome to the 7:30 p.m. discussion, Oct. 13 in the Los Altos Library conference room. No registration is necessary.

Calendar

Los Altos Architectural and Site Control Committee, 4 p.m., city council chambers, 1 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.

Local lectures accompany SF Opera season

As an added attraction, Ramona Rockway, Bay Area opera lecturer and voice coach, will include film clips of interviews with such opera stars as Placido Domingo, Fredericka Van Staade, and Dimitri Hzorastovsky, sharing their personal and professional anecdotes.

Schools

Loyola neighbors petition city for raised crosswalk

More than 100 residents in the Loyola School community had signed a petition as of last week urging the city of Los Altos to install a raised rubber crosswalk in front of the school in order to slow down traffic.

Egan Intermediate School unveils renovation plans

Los Altos could see its first two story junior high school as early as next year. The Los Altos School District unveiled preliminary renovation plans for Egan Intermediate School in a special meeting Sept. 23. The plans call for a two-story structure with 10 classrooms, a library and media center and administrative offices, and a new science wing with four classrooms.

School Briefs

A Los Altos High School Athletics Facilities Fund has been established to raise approximately $150,000 for improvements to the new school pool, including a new scoreboard, touch pads and lighting. Supporters said the funding would give the high school a quality facility for regulation competition in swimming, diving and water polo.

LAHS music dept. gets new director

Schools Roundup

Sports

On Deck: the local sports lineup for Oct. 6-12

Football

Sports On The Side

Brett Degner of Los Altos and Eric Leneham of Los Altos Hills were part of a UC-Berkeley team that won the adult speed division of the Sand Hill Challenge soap box derby Sept. 26 in Menlo Park. Degner and Leneham are both engineering students at Cal. Mountain View High graduate Degner drove the car, which hit a top speed of 45.6 miles per hour. On the final run, the Cal car covered the 1/2-mile course in 39.51 seconds to defeat Comdisco - a team boasting three bobsledders.

Gunn runs by Lynbrook; Paly up next

Special to the Town Crier

Lancers fall to De La Salle; Spartans edge Cupertino

Prep Football Digest

Aguiar to be honored by St. Francis this Saturday

Angelo Aguiar, in his 40th year with St. Francis High, Saturday will be honored for his diverse roles at the school through four decades.

Pinewood soccer team looks to improve

Michael Tetzlaff isn't asking his Pinewood School boys soccer team to make the playoffs or even contend for a league title this season.

St. Francis volleyball team thrives in underdog role at Mitty Invitational

Prep Sports Summary

The Eagles' top priority: beat league rival Palo Alto

Town Crier Staff Writer

Foothill College football players make history in team's 41-31 victory over West Hills

Foothill Roundup

Business & Real Estate

Jean on the Job

Traditional languages turn to tech-speak, Poke'mon-speak

Local salons help battered women shelter

Recently, three Los Altos-area beauty salons joined hands for a good cause. Karie Bennett, owner of Atelier salon, organized the charity drive, benefiting Casa de la Madres, a shelter for battered women.

Los Altos Nursery property sold - 7 single-family houses to be built

Special to the Town Crier

Is the stock market tricking investors into an early Halloween?

Stock Report

Five easy steps to setting up your home office

In every corner of the country, upwards of 25 million Americans are setting up home offices in spare bedrooms, renovated basements, or screened-off areas of their living room.

Transactions

Los Altos

Real estate a big plus for homeowners' assets

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A bachelor's guide to cleaning, courtesy of MAIDS

You and your sweetheart have gone on a few dates, and she's itching to see your bachelor pad. Be careful, though - she may end up literally itching when she gets there because you, along with 10.5 million other bachelors in America, are oblivious to the thousands of dust bunnies and dust mites roaming your home.

Mortgage interest rates fall again - a new 2-month low

Special to the Town Crier

State Street restaurant reopens with new name

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Barging in France

Special to the Town Crier

New law to help MV auto shops

Mountain View last week passed an emergency law ensuring auto repair shops, electricians and plumbers won't be driven from the city by emerging high-tech companies seeking more space.

Why Californians turn their bumpers into billboards

Special to the Town Crier

New Chevy Tracker is easier to get a handle on

Special to the Town Crier

With an occasional 'oops,' teens pursue their licenses

Special to the Town Crier

Weddings

Suzanne Spring and Trevor Wells were married May 15 at Bernardo Winery in San Diego.

Obituaries

Edith Pontarelli died Sept. 10 in Mountain View. A native of Italy, she was 78.

Noteworthies

Two members of Boy Scout Troop 35 of Los Altos were among those who earned earned the title of Eagle Scout.

Christ Episcopal rector looks back on satisfying career

Special to the Town Crier

Local church sponsors Muslim refugee family from Kosovo

The latest outreach venture at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Los Altos is to sponsor a refugee family. Catholic Charities was the intermediary so that U.S. State Department requirements for sponsorship were met. The family's size and country of origin were learned only one week before their arrival. It was to be a middle-class Muslim family of six from Kosovo.

Norwich Cathedral Choir will perform at Christ Episcopal Church

The men and boys choir from England's Norwich Cathedral will perform a concert and evensong at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 27, at Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos. The choir will take the audience back in time as they perform a variety of choral music.

'Don Giovanni' coming to Stanford

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Two of a Kind set to perform at Linden Tree

Two of a Kind, a nationally touring husband-and-wife duo specializing in interactive music for children, will perform with Bob Reid at The Linden Tree Children's Recordings & Books at 11 a.m., Saturday. Admission is free.

Schola Cantorum chorus to sing 'Sacred Favorites'

Mountain View-based chorus Schola Cantorum presents a concert titled "Sacred Favorites" this weekend at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

Spacey and Bening impress in 'American Beauty'

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