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Volume 52, Number 48, Published on 11/17/1999

News

Schools' safety tested

Special to the Town Crier

An emotional outpouring during LA salute to Vietnam veterans

Special to the Town Crier

News Briefs

The Los Altos City Council removed a member from the Citizens' Financial Advisory Committee for conduct unbecoming an official city body.

After years, Tree Farm construction under way

Special to the Town Crier

El Camino Hospital IRB is watchdog for medical research

If you have a medical condition such as asthma, cancer or a heart problem, chances are that ongoing community clinical studies have helped provide the medication or medical devices you use. The job of the institutional review board (IRB) at El Camino Hospital is to approve, deny or adjust protocol, with a view to human rights, for the studies brought to them by drug companies or community physicians.

Los Altos residents share flood of concerns about Mtn. View reservoir expansion plans

Special to the Town Crier

Comment

MV should negotiate over reservoir

Los Altos residents find themselves in an unfortunate situation. Their neighborhood surrounds a reservoir owned by the city of Mountain View. For years, Los Altans endured the presence of this 1940s-era reservoir, as well as trash and other debris in its environs.

Is it really Thanksgiving again?

Reflections

Letters to the Editor

I want to praise the children and teens of Los Altos and Mountain View. At our house on Halloween night, they were the souls of politeness and good manners.

Media messengers

Media Watch

Community

Discovery Shop holds fashionable fund-raiser

Special to the Town Crier

Going beyond beauty and the eye of the beholder

All About Art

Jewel Ball raises funds for children's hospitals

Many Los Altos and Los Altos Hills residents joined 550 other guests Oct. 23 in the rotunda at San Francisco City Hall for the 47th Jewel Ball.

Secrets of Supreme Court revealed at Morning Forum

The Supreme Court of the United States is the envy of jurists around the globe, said Kathleen Sullivan, newly-appointed dean of Stanford Law School and co-author of two textbooks on constitutional law.

Tree lighting, Festival of Lights lead list of local holiday events

Festival of Lights Parade, 7 p.m., Nov. 28: The Festival of Lights Parade, always scheduled the for Sunday following Thanksgiving, is one of the biggest crowd-pleasers of the year in Los Altos. The wonderland of floats, marching units and musical groups makes its way down Main and State streets. In the event of rain, the parade will be held Sunday, Dec. 5.

Save the Date

Los Altos Tree Lighting Ceremony, 6 p.m., Community Plaza, downtown Los Altos, State and Main streets.

Sher to lead hearing on solutions to traffic congestion

State Senator Byron Sher, who represents the 11th district that includes Los Altos, plans to lead a local hearing of the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Transportation to field suggestions about how to relieve Bay Area traffic congestion.

Foothill Disposal collecting donated food and gifts along with the trash

This holiday season Foothill Disposal will hold its annual "Spirit of Sharing" food and toy drive Nov. 22 to Dec. 17 in Mountain View to benefit needy families served by the Community Services Agency (CSA).

Mac's called a 'Tea Room,' a joke for firefigher hangout

Georgina Blach was very concerned about the education of her 12 children, and became an active member of the Los Altos School Board, serving from 1941 for nearly 18 years. Meanwhile, her son, Jim learned to supplement his good education with some "field trips" to town.

Calendar

Los Altos Architectural and Site Control Committee, 4 p.m., City Hall, 1 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.

Community Briefs

To celebrate national Children's Book Week, last Monday to next Sunday, parents may bring their children or grandchildren to the Los Altos or Woodland libraries. The libraries have many new book lists for all ages, as well as a variety of fiction and nonfiction.

Police Report

Nov. 5, 10:47 a.m., El Camino Real: Police reported that a man beat up an employee. The victim did not need medical attention, police said.

Santa's helpers need warehouse for 60,000 Christmas presents

For most of the year Mountain View resident Kendall Willis, 30, is a design engineer. But in December, Willis is one of more than 1,500 volunteers who bestow The Family Giving Tree presents to Bay Area children who might otherwise not have any Christmas gifts at all.

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Schools

DNA meets high school biology in cutting-edge lab partnership

Town Crier Staff Writer

New Web site profiles colleges

High School seniors searching for that "perfect" college may get the inside scoop on campuses nationwide through the new Web site InsideGuide.com.

Schools Roundup

Mtn. View band earns

Noteworthies

Los Altos residents Elizabeth Rippetoe and Andre Umansky recently enrolled at Syracuse University in New York.

Schools Briefs

De Anza College in Cupertino is accepting applications for the winter quarter, which begins Jan. 3.

Former district trustee returns to Los Altos School Board

...At a glance

Sports

Sports On The Side

Hank Greenwald, former radio and television announcer for the San Francisco Giants, is scheduled to speak at 4 p.m., Sunday at the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Greenwald will discuss his broadcasting career and recent autobiography, "This Copyrighted Broadcast." Admission is $3 for JCC members and $5 for the general public. For more information, call 493-9400.

Los Altos 'pools' together; wins 17 games

Town Crier Staff Writer

Foothill Roundup

Water polo

St. Francis golf team places fourth at NorCal tourney

A St. Francis High girls golf team claimed the Northern California Championship Nov. 8, but it wasn't the Lancers of Mountain View.

Eagles end football season with a win over Cupertino

For the first time in two months, the Los Altos High football team walked off the field with something to smile about. That's right, the Eagles won.

On Deck: the local sports lineup for Nov. 17-23

Football

Prep Volleyball Playoff Report

Lancers roll

St. Francis, Gunn headed for CCS football playoffs

Special to the Town Crier

St. Francis swings into CCS semifinals

Los Altos High captured the SCVAL De Anza Division title last Saturday with a 5-4 win over Palo Alto in the league tournament championship at West Valley College.

World United knocked out of playoffs

World United fell 1-0 in double overtime to the Diablo Valley SC Renegades last Saturday in the semifinals of the CYSA North State Playing League playoffs in Livermore.

Business & Real Estate

Mayfair Tea and Finery moves to Allied Arts Guild

Co-owner Mary Duffy, a Los Altos Hills resident, plans to add new products to Mayfair's current line of fines teas, tea accessories and china from England, Ireland and Scotland.

Jean on the Job

'It's all yours, buddy!' The tasks only a CEO can do

Los Altan pioneers translucent computer accessories

Los Altos resident Bill Brauner aims to make banal beige an outmoded color in personal computer accessories. His new Palo Alto-based company, SmartStuff, is the first in America to introduce a full line of translucent, colored computer and home office products.

The changing business scene at Rancho Shopping Center

Special to the Town Crier

Stock Report

Special to the Town Crier

Transactions

22252 Bitter Oak Street - C. Cassineri to Petrini Trust for $399,000.00

Realtors' Casino Night turns over $5,000 to CSA

Special to the Town Crier

Weekly Special

Cristy's 'Chicken Tonight' a tasty autobiography

Special to the Town Crier

'Dialogues' by Jerry Brown: a digestible guide to and for unconventional thinkers

Special to the Town Crier

80-year-old celebrates birthday with aerobics

Lorraine Gross celebrated her 80th birthday doing aerobic dancing at Jacki's Aerobic Dancing in the Masonic Hall in Mountain View

Obituaries

Frances R. Abel Schroeder died Oct. 18 at her Los Altos Hills home. She was a native of Montana.

Noteworthies

Silicon Valley.

Agnes Helgesson, a lifelong devotee of music, dies at 95

Special to the Town Crier

Births

A son was born Aug. 11 to Zhen and David D. Li of Mountain View.

Engagements

Katie Hogan and Dave Juran announce their engagement and will be married Nov. 13 at Stanford Memorial Church.

New president sustained for Los Altos stake of LDS church

Special to the Town Crier

Spiritual Life Briefs

In observance of National Family Week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends an invitation to all single and married adults to three free seminars presented by Gary and Joy Lundberg He is a nationally recognized marriage and family therapist and author of "You Don't Have to Make Everything All Better."

First Baptist Church's new pastor of worship ministries is full of music

Special to the Town Crier

'Malkovich' is a film of striking originality

Special to the Town Crier

Nova Vista turns in focused, unaffected performance

Special to the Town Crier

'Cuckoo's Nest' doesn't measure up

Special to the Town Crier

PYT's 'Molly's Pilgrim' lands in Mountain View

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents "Molly's Pilgrim," based on the story by Barbara Cohen, this Friday and Saturday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

Foothill students put on 'Aladdin'

Student actors enrolled in the Foothill College Theatre Conservatory present "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" Thursday through Sunday in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.

Solid musicianship carries Peninsula Symphony

Special to the Town Crier

Book Beat

Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.: Martha Frick Sanger, grand-daughter of B.J. Darrow of Los Altos, will discuss her new biography, "Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait." Sanger is Frick's great-granddaughter, and has drawn on her family's records and reminiscences to write a biography which one reviewer has praised as "beautifully written and visually stunning." Frick, a titan of 19th century business, amassed one of the foremost art collections of his generation. His New York City mansion now houses the Frick Collection of 14th-19th century masterpieces.

More than fitness

Special to the Town Crier

MicroFit: Computer-based fitness testing

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Internet resources on chronic pain

Pain is generally divided into two main types: acute and chronic. Acute pain is often short-lived. It has a specific cause and purpose, and generally produces no persistent psychological reactions. It can be modulated and removed by treating its cause and through combined strategies, using analgesics to treat the pain and antibiotics to treat the infection.

Health tips for managing everyday stress

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Health Briefs

Flu shots, sponsored by the American Lung Association and The Health Trust, formerly the VNA, are still available through Dec. 4 at the following locations:

If the shoe fits: Choosing the right athletic footwear

This past summer, a runner from Colorado came to me for advice about an arch ligament that she had torn while qualifying for the world championships. She had previously suffered from a strained arch ligament, but because she continued to train and race on it, it tore.

Keys to Parenting

Forming attachments when baby goes to day care