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Volume 52, Number 52, Published on 12/15/1999

News

News Briefs

The Los Altos City Council Tuesday night was scheduled to repeal and replace the local urgency ordinance it passed Nov. 22 allowing the city's community service officer to cite people for making illegal U-turns.

Inside a stock success

Town Crier Staff Writer

The Town Crier Stock Index - a look at the past, present and future

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City nears deadline for Y2K compliancy

With roughly two weeks remaining before the new year and the alleged Y2K bug, the city of Los Altos is racing to finish making the police department's emergency systems Y2K compliant.

Reservoir plan on hold as MV officials do testing

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Corrections

Last week's story about the protest of The Gap, Inc., by Los Altos High School students, inaccurately noted that students tried to stop shoppers from entering the Stanford Shopping Center store during a Nov. 26 demonstration. According to one student participating in the demonstration, that did not occur. "The last thing that we tried to do was to stop shoppers from entering the building," said student Olya Milenkava. "We were very careful to ensure that we were not blocking any enterances ... Our goal is to educate through peaceful and informative action."

Los Altos Hills planning director resigns as town officials fret

Curtis Williams has resigned as planning director for Los Altos Hills, raising questions among some town officials about the treatment of employees.

Los Altos business officials fuming over vacant economic city position

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Moffett's virtual tower could address flight delays

Town Crier Staff Writer

Comment

High-tech generated info should be better scrutinized

Media Watch

December - month of smiles

Reflections

Letters to the Editor

I recently joined approximately 75 neighbors by signing a petition that asked the Los Altos School District to reconsider locating a child-care center at Egan School.

Community

weather chart

Los Altos RAD support group sheds light on destructive, manipulative disorder of RAD

Two years after they adopted him, John's parents made an anguished decision to place him in a special-needs foster home because they didn't have the knowledge to cope with his disorder. His parents think that if they had found the Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) support group in Los Altos sooner, John might still be living with them.

Holiday Briefs

The Los Altos Village Association will host the annual Breakfast with Santa 9 a.m. Saturday at Joccos Restaurant at 236 Central Plaza in Downtown Los Altos.

Police Report

Dec. 11, 9:35 a.m., 100 block of Merritt Road: A caller reported that the house was egged overnight, according to police. A report was taken.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author spreads 'Ashes'

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Los Altos Rehabilitation ranked No. 1

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Los Altos Hills resident Terry J. DeHart places in top 10 in national short-story writing contest

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Hanukkah celebration offers warmth on a cold night

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Save the Date

Breakfast With Santa, Jocco's Restaurant, 236 Central Plaza, Los Altos. Event starts at 9 a.m.

NASA speaker gets to the root of life in space

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Millennium Celebration tickets 90 percent sold out

Tickets for the Dec. 31 Los Altos-Los Altos Hills Millennium Celebration are 90 percent sold out, according to organizers.

Fund-raisers making progress to buy sculpture for city park

Fund-raisers are more than halfway there in their efforts to purchase "Olympic Wannabes," a bronze sculpture by Glenna Goodacre. When installed, the larger-than-life piece will stand in Conner Park, at the corner of Edith Avenue and San Antonio Road in Los Altos.

City offers holiday parking guide for downtown Christmas shoppers downtown

The holiday season is the busiest time of the year for downtown businesses. City of Los Altos staff has prepared guidelines to assist shoppers and employees in finding a parking place.

Adobe Creek

It's possible that the wilder stretches of Adobe Creek (its 20th - century name) would be the only part of Los Altos recognizable to the Ohlone Indians. Like other creeks flowing into San Francisco Bay, it was important for their fishing, hunting, and acorn-gathering.

Community Calendar

Los Altos Parks and Recreation Commission, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1 N. San Antonio Road

Community Briefs

The Mountain View Center for Performing Arts is displaying an exhibit of 45 AIDS Memorial Quilt panels through Jan. 4.

Schools

Libraries get a facelift at local schools

Los Altos public school libraries are on their way to getting a facelift. Assistant Superintendent Richard Liewer and District Librarian Barbara Waight presented the school board with a development plan for the year 2000, setting goals and guidelines that were unanimously approved at last Monday's board meeting.

Three new members join LASD board

Los Altos School District Superintendent Margaret Gratiot swore in three new members to the district board of trustees at the Dec. 6 board meeting.

State approves architectural plans for local high schools

Mountain View and Los Altos high schools recently received some good news from the state. The California state architect finally approved the schools' plans for new libraries, cafeterias, multipurpose rooms and quads at both schools.

Child-care crisis hits city-run Tiny Tots

Los Altos got an abrupt reminder this month that is not immune from the child-care crisis sweeping the state - there are fewer providers and a higher demand.

Homestead High makes record-breaking donation to Sunnyvale services center

For the second year in a row, the students at Homestead High School made a record-breaking donation to Sunnyvale Community Services.

Noteworthies

Justine Ko, Klarissa Lee, Ethan Matthews, Kristina Nakashima, Christopher Russell, Kate Schaffner, Devin Draper, Aaron Rosekind, Reid Koster, Sheila Donovan, Nicole Yeaman-Sanchez, David Ahnger-Pier, Alison Goodsell, Daniel Slate, Lindsay Tice, Tara Wong, Michele Steinmatz, Molly Gringas, Ted Hong, Trevor Rowley, Anthony Chern, Robert Gregg, Aynsley Karps, Meghan McKinsey, Laura Guyon, Andrew Leung, Stephanie Pinyan, Sylvia Sale, Rose Wei, Stephanie Hermann, Melissa Hua, Alison Klesczewski, Stephen Milliken, Lan Uang, Brian Azzopardi, Ryan Ford, Heather Goodman, Kyohei Katsumata, Katherine White, Timothy Woods, Nicole Beges, Patrick Kagawa-Gee, Robyn Sater, Dana Shinn, Sonia Capitant, Blanche Consorti, McKenzie Coonce, Emily King, Tyler Landrith, Colin Mason, Kristine Whelan, Stephanie Benetua, Emily Paine, Steven Boyce, Michelle Maggi, Bryan Oki, Caroline Paulsen, Ajna Vuk, Travis Brabant, Alvin Hilario, Ashley Leazure, Justine Appler, Megan Joy, Brandon Miller, Daphne Owen, Benjamin Abrams, James McDaniel, Arjun Pendharkar, Anu Singh, Natalie Seufferlein, Skyler Reeves, Thomas Cronin, Nikolai Daiss-Fechner, Timothy Egan, Megan Ginelli, Nathan Skelton, Brent Taylor, Hayley Finkelstein, Jamie Contento, Zachary Marks, Jessica Chang, Julia Callan, Jeffrey Hamilton, Justin Bull, Kristen Farley, Urvashi Nagrani, Andrew Roper, Brett Sticker, Taraneh Sarrafzadeh, Alexander Henke, Carl Bitondo, Natasha Lemak, Isaac Smith, Sandra Hsu, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Anderson, Forrest Sansom, David Scher, Jacqulyn Sloane, Riley Anderson, Derek Jones, Elizabeth Lyman, Patrick Thomas, Eric Bitondo and Melissa Mendez.

State board of education supports Proposition 26

Last Thursday, the campaign for Proposition 26, the "Let's Fix Our Schools Initiative," won the formal endorsement of California's State Board of Education.

Schools Briefs

Online music company Liquid Audio joins the Partners in Education program with Foothill College after a demonstration and lecture in Foothill's IDEA Lab.

Sports

Sports On The Side

The women's basketball team at Foothill College went 2-1 in last weekend's Solano Showdown. The Owls (9-3) lost in the third round to Sierra by a 71-60 score. The Owls placed two players on the all-tourney team: Diseph Igoni and Line Kongeskov. Igoni scored 43 points and pulled down 35 rebounds in three games, while Kongeskov had 33 points and 20 rebounds. The Foothill men's basketball team lost 63-54 to City College of San Francisco last Saturday in the third-place game of the San Jose City Classic. The Owls (5-7) got nine points from Tyler McClenahan and eight from Billy Brooks.

Los Altos resident helps Blackhawks capture CYSA crown

The Sunnyvale Blackhawks, an under-12 boys soccer team, won the CYSA District II Cup for Class I teams last month at the Morgan Hill Soccer Complex.

Lady Lancers get by Gators

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St. Francis girls capture PA Winter Classic

Boys

Los Altos High wrestlers going for the take down

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On Deck: the local sports lineup for December 15-21

Boys Basketball

Local rider competes in national show

Matthew Sereni of Los Altos Hills recently returned from competing in the 116th annual National Horseshow at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Business & Real Estate

What's good about being a CEO?

Jean on the Job

Hark, ye Christmas shoppers - here's a retail map for negotiating downtown

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BonusTree.com splits sales commissions with consumers and favorite charities

Town Crier Staff Writer

Town Crier Stock Index and Nasdaq set records

The technology-laden Nasdaq has been rewriting the record books, making highs on an almost-daily basis. When that happens, the Town Crier Stock Index also makes highs because selected technology stocks are in both indexes.

Transactions

Cupertino

Weekly Special

Book Beat

Save these for your grandchildren: You can order the Dec. 31, 1999 and Jan. 1, 2000 editions of The New York Times from Heintzelman's Bookstore on State Street. Call 941-1842 to place your order. Also, for those who want to start off the new millennium with a good book, the store will be open on Jan. 1.

Obituaries

E.B. "Sis" Mileski, a former Los Altos resident, died Nov. 19. A native of Tennessee, she was 78.

Noteworthies

Mickel served more than 30 years, beginning before the outbreak of World War II, as an attorney in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate Corps. In the post-war era, accompanied by his wife Evelyn (deceased) and two children, he served as advisor to Chiang Kai-shek's government until the U.S. evacuation. He then served with U.S. forces in the Korean War.

Engagements

Shana Lynn Fuller and Michael Paul Russnok announce their engagement and will be married the summer of 2000.

Seniors Briefs

Senior Center

The gift of a rule for getting through the holidays

'Tis the season to be jolly, for bustling through stores, singing carols, and making merry.

Briefs

The Los Altos Lutheran Church will display its "living creche" 5:45-7 p.m., after the first service on Christmas Eve. Special gifts for the children plus a visit from St. Nicholas will be included. The church is located at 460 El Monte Ave., Los Altos.

Bus Barn offers inspirational, entertaining 'Greetings'

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LAHS grad looking for success beyond 'Fame'

os Altos High School graduate Keith Pinto is seeking a little bit of "fame" for himself these days. A member of the class of 1994, Pinto has been busy touring the country as part of the cast of "Fame: The Musical." The show plays at the Flint Center in Cupertino through Sunday.

PACO features MVHS violinist this Saturday at Spangenberg

The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra (PACO) presents an evening of Beethoven and Mozart at 8 p.m., Saturday, at Spangenberg Theater on the Gunn High School campus, 780 Arastradaro Road.

TheatreWorks' zany show a cure for holiday blues

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TC columnist publishes memoirs of family

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AMR offers tips on avoiding carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless gas, is aptly called the "silent killer." Every year, it is emited from bad gas furnaces, fireplaces and other sources to kill between 300 and 700 people nationwide. Only last month, a 17-year-old Berkeley girl died as she slept when carbon monoxide from the heating system and a clogged heating vent overcame her.

The greatest gift

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Menopause Web sites offer readers useful information

As with everything else that has been related to them, the Baby Boomers' entrance into the middle years has brought certain topics into the realm of general discussion for the first time. Menopause, long a subject that existed only as a source of material for bad jokes, has become an integral part of the mainstream discussion of women's health.

Patients throng to successful opening of new PAMF campus

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Protect your child from serious sports injuries

Over the past several decades, an increasing number of children and adolescents have become involved in individual and organized team sports. While moderate physical activity is healthy for a child's mind and body, excessive or inappropriate levels of activity can result in serious injuries, some with lasting effects.

Health Briefs

The San Jose-based Lupus Foundation of Northern California begins its first support group program for young people with Lupus this Saturday at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto.

Therapist teaches relaxation techniques

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