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Volume 52, Number 44, Published on 10/20/1999

News

Increase service or status quo?

Special to the Town Crier

Los Altos City Council: 5 candidates face off

Age: 65

School changes in store after November election

Foothill-De Anza

Seniors can request exemption from utility-user tax

Special to the Town Crier

Commissioner's status before LAH council again

Planning commissioner Charles Wong is back on the Los Altos Hills City Council agenda for the 6 p.m. meeting this Thursday.

Cyclists, drivers veer through Page Mill changes

Los Altos Hills resident and Santa Clara County Bicycle Advisory Committee spokesman, Les Earnest, believes new lane changes on Page Mill Road create a safety hazard. "Cal-Trans clearly does not consider bicyclists' safety as a significant issue," Earnest said.

Los Altos residents decry a lack of input over Mtn. View's planned reservoir project

Mountain View's quest for an emergency water source has many residents in a Los Altos neighborhood outraged.

News Briefs

The city of Los Altos is scheduled to begin its repaving of portions of El Monte Avenue on Oct. 27-28. While the work is under way, traffic detours will route cars along Cuesta Drive and South Clark Avenue, said Jim Porter, assistant director of public works for the city of Los Altos.

How 'H' and 'I' would work to increase taxes

Special to the Town Crier

Pulling weeds becomes a thorny issue

Special to the Town Crier

Search still on for Los Altos bank robbers

Town Crier Staff Writer

Comment

The dying art of the obituary

Media Watch

So, you think you're rich

A Side of Clyde

To everything there is a season

Reflections

Letters to the Editor

Rome wasn't built in a day, but it was taken apart in a few. Some of the reconstruction was interesting.

Becker, Casto, La Poll for Los Altos Council

We've enjoyed a good, insightful Los Altos City Council race thus far. The five candidates (three incumbents) vying for three seats on the council have addressed a variety of pressing, important city issues. We congratulate them all on their campaigns and wish them the best in the Nov. 2 election.

Community

Flying high proves a dream come true for aviator who grew up in Los Altos

Special to the Town Crier

Opera lecture slated for Oct. 27 at Los Altos Main Library

Local opera fans can enjoy a lecture highlighting the extended San Francisco Opera Season (September 1999 through June 2000) at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 27, in the Los Altos Main Library.

Voice of the Past

During the early days of Los Altos, the beginning of the school year was also the time of the prune harvest. The sons and daughters of orchard farmers would postpone school if the prune crop was late. Studying came second. As the daughter of an orchard owner, Ruth Erichsen remembers the prune harvests of the 1930s and the importance of that crop to the community. She was interviewed in 1997 at her home in Los Altos.

'Best of Class' dedicated to residents' life histories

Special to the Town Crier

Library News

Two-time world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan is this year's Teen Read Week national spokeswoman.

Calendar

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

Community Briefs

The Community Volunteer Awards Committee is seeking nominations for recipients for the 17th annual event, scheduled for Dec. 3 at the Los Altos Youth Center.

Time capsule part of Millennium Celebration

In conjunction with the upcoming Los Altos Millennium Celebration, a separate committee has been working on preparing a 100-year time capsule. The capsule will be unveiled at the Dec. 31 event at Hillview Community Center.

Police Report

Oct. 12, 12:03 a.m., a south Los Altos home: A caller reported that a man, under the influence of drugs, was running in and out of the house, fighting with a family member. Police arrested a 26-year-old man.

Election Briefs

The Los Altos-Mountain View chapters of the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women are co-sponsoring a candidates' forum 7 p.m., Oct. 27, at the Los Altos City Hall Council Chambers, 1 N. San Antonio Road.

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Schools

Two seats, three candidates in CUSD race

Three candidates are running for the two available four-year terms on the Cupertino School District Board of Trustees, which is a five-member board:

Filmmaker takes top award

Student Profile

Longtime LASD trustee resigns

School Roundup

Sports

Sports On The Side

The Los Altos High School Athletic Boosters are selling pumpkins in the school's parking lot, 201 Almond Ave. Proceeds will be used to help support the Los Altos High athletic program. The pumpkin patch is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Oct. 31.

Gunn grounds Los Altos with 41-6 drudging at Foothill

Special to the Town Crier

Foothill women's golf team has its sights set on winning that elusive state championship

Foothill Roundup

Eagles field hockey team making strides

Town Crier Staff Writer

Spartans make the right choice in the end

Prep Football Digest

St. Francis gets a scare; LA wins tourney

Prep Volleyball Report

On Deck: the local sports lineup for Oct. 20-26

Football

St. Francis hoping to challenge for crown

Prep Girls Tennis Wrap

Eagles' new basketball coach doesn't lack enthusiasm

Los Altos High has changed girls basketball coaches more often than Dennis Rodman has changed hair colors.

Business & Real Estate

Micro-credit lends a hand to Third World countries

Execs gather locally to discuss possibilities

Vet writer rides on the wave of new publishing

Los Altos Hills resident Mary Cristy, a veteran writer new to computers, is riding the wave of a new method of self-publishing. Her first book, "Chicken Tonight-Feathers Tomorrow," is being published by Xlibris Corporation, a print-on-demand publishing service that prints the book in orders as small as a single copy at a time.

New quarters may have the feds making a mint at the mint

Special to the Town Crier

3 Los Altos entrepreneurs pilot jet project

Special to the Town Crier

Town Crier Index drops 5.79 percent in one week

Special to the Town Crier

Russell Brown sheds light on an eclipse

Solar eclipse chaser Russell Brown, a Los Altos resident, not only captured the Aug. 1 eclipse from the Black Sea himself, but also taught fellow cruise ship passengers how to take digital pictures of it.

Prima Strada sold to San Jose restaurateurs

Special to the Town Crier

Transactions

Los Altos

Should the seller get a house inspection? Local realtors give mixed reactions

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Book Beat

At Linden Tree Children's Records and Books on State Street, owner Dennis Ronberg has a wide selection of Halloween books and puppets for imaginative Halloween play. Also this month, two children's book authors will visit the shop to discuss and sign their new books. Thursday Marcia Vaughan, author of "Abbie Against the Storm," a true story of a young heroine who saves a lighthouse, will be at Linden Tree from 9:30 a.m. -noon. Next Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Caryn Yacowitz of Palo Alto will sign copies of "Pumpkin Fiesta."

Obituaries

James E. McDaniel died Sept. 15 in Los Altos. A native of California, he was 89.

Engagements

Nadia Jamshidi and Nicholas Seewer announced their engagement and will be married June 24, 2000 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.

It's all about faith in God, not in being well-liked

Companion on the Journey

'Violet' ready to bloom in Mountain View

TheatreWorks continues its 30th anniversary season with the Northern California premiere of "Violet," the first off-Broadway musical to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

PACO opens season this Saturday

The Junior Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra joins five soloists from PACO's Senior Orchestra for its season-opening concert at 8 p.m., Saturday at Gunn High School's Spangenberg Theatre in Palo Alto.

West Bay Opera captures 'Butterfly'

Special to the Town Crier

Local fall books for partying or solitude

Special to the Town Crier

Finding the right rewards for motivating a child

Keys to Parenting

Help for moms with postpartum depression

A well-educated woman in her early 30s recently came to me at a loss for how to deal with her new baby girl. Throughout the pregnancy, she had an idealized picture in her mind of how it would be to be a first-time mom - but she found the reality was a far cry from this picture.

Growing popularity of tattoo removal

Special to the Town Crier

Health Briefs

The Palo Alto-based YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula organized YWCA Week Without Violence that began this past Sunday. This is the fifth year of a program to raise awareness about non-violent alternatives. The local program is part of a campaign in all 50 states and more than 30 countries.

A place of peace

Special to the Town Crier

Online help for the disabled

In the past decade, with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, accessibility to mainstream activities has increased for people with disabilities, and our images of what it means to be disabled have been challenged and changed.

Hospice honors Alloo

Special to the Town Crier

Balisimo Salon goes beyond hair and nails

Special to the Town Crier