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Volume 52, Number 54, Published on 12/29/1999

News

Millennium celebration meets target

As the hours tick closer to the year 2000, organizers of the Los Altos-Los Altos Hills Millennium Celebration report the evening is a sell- out.

Town Crier Los Altan of the Century:

Developer, railroad man named Los Altos, subdivided first lots

Police warn residents about another Y2K scare - scam artists

Most people worldwide are aware of the alleged Y2K bug that could disrupt everything from personal computers to banks, phone lines and emergency services at the stroke of midnight when the date changes to 2000.

Not in my back yard

1999 saw residents protecting turf in wake of bigger houses, schools changes

News Briefs

Mountain View Police arrested a man last Thursday for eight assaults on women in Mountain View and Palo Alto over the past 10 months, including two that morning near San Antonio Shopping Center.

Power failure leaves downtown in the dark

Holiday shoppers found themselves in the dark last week when Los Altos merchants along two blocks of Main Street lost their electricity for the evening.

Former Los Altan arrested in murder case

Last week San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies flew to Virginia and arrested Mark Mephem Hensley, a former Los Altos Hills resident, for the murder, 10 years ago, of his roommate Kathleen Noble.

Comment

Why 2K?

Lost in much of the mass media hype about crashing computers, power failures and midnight parties on New Year's Eve is the reason the date exists at all.

Queen's Road ends in Los Altos Hills

Other Voices

Yes, Virginia, you can survive Y2K in Los Altos Hills (even if mom doesn't make it)

From the mean streets of Loyola Corners to the defiant turrets of Altamont Road, Los Altos Hills residents face the cruel uncertainties of Y2K. Will the lights go Out? Will it be Armageddon in the foothills? Judgment Day? Special assessments? What if your neighbor subdivides?

Letters to the Editor

Your Dec. 8 story, "Changing Look of Los Altos," was a masterpiece of one-sided propaganda.

Community

A thank-you to interested readers from Los Altos Historical Museum

This Association Millennium Project was made possible by the volunteer History House Oral History Project directors, Irene Grenier and Donna Shoemaker, with very special thanks to contributing writer Donald McDonald.

Save The Date

Los Altos History House Crab Feed.

Community Briefs

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

Police Report

Dec. 26, 11:45 p.m., Kent Drive: A man in a grey Toyota was chasing someone who just banged on his door. The caller's wife was hysterical, Police said.

Almanac

Los Altos Senior Center reopens, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 97 Hillview Ave.

LAHS student leads Gap protests, cites clearcutting, sweatshop issues

The Bay Area Action Schools Group, led by Los Altos High senior Olya Milenkaya, completed the last of four protests against the Gap Inc. on Dec. 18. Approximately 25 students from Los Altos and Mountain View participated in the protests.

Schools Briefs

The Los Altos School District will conduct information meetings on Jan. 20 and 25 for parents of children who will begin kindergarten in fall 2000. The meetings will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Almond School multipurpose room at 550 Almond Ave, Los Altos.

Los Altos Weather

Schools

Noteworthies

Todd Lance Hoffman of Los Altos earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Prescott College in Arizona.

Sports

Sports On The Side

Mountain View High grad Jodie Antypas, a sophomore on the University of Pennsylvania volleyball team, has moved into fourth place on the school's all-time assist list. She tallied 1,032 assists this season and has 1,828 for her career.

The Town Crier's top 10 stories of '99

The year in sports

On Deck: the local sports lineup for December 29 - January 4

Boys Basketball

Coach not surprised by Spartans' start

Prep Girls Hoop Scoop

FH men nearly upset West Valley

Foothill Roundup

Local teams gearing up for league play

Special to the Town Crier

Business & Real Estate

Celebrating your way - don't compare and despair

Jean on the Job

Christopher Nordlinger makes his own luck at Cisco Systems Inc.

One week John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., made the cover of "BusinessWeek." The same week NetAid, a Web-cast event created by Cisco to aid the world's poor, ran on the Internet.

Will the Santa Claus rally hold?

Stock Report

Transactions

Los Altos

Silicon Valley Association of Realtors awards 88 realtors

Special to the Town Crier

Cisco makes Technology Fast 500 list fifth year in a row

Cisco Systems Inc., headquartered in San Jose, is one of nine companies that have the distinction of being a five-time consecutive winner on accounting firm Deloitte and Touche's Technology Fast 500 list. Cisco placed 460 on the list in 1999, with a five-year growth rate of 581 percent. According to the Fast 500 list, Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.

Weekly Special

Obituaries

Frances W. Casella, a resident of Los Altos for more than 63 years, died Nov. 19.

Harpist Robertson to perform in Los Altos

Narada recording artist and internationally renowned Celtic harpist Kim Robertson is set to perform intimate candlelight acoustic concerts at 8 p.m., Jan. 6 and 7 at the Chapel at Maryknoll, 23000 Cristo Rey Drive, Los Altos.

Robots invade Palo Alto museum

The Museum of American Heritage has been taken over by mechanical humanoids.

Neiman to play with SJ Symphony

San Jose Symphony music director and conductor Leonid Grin this week leads the San Jose Symphony in a special events concert titled "A Masquerade in Vienna and the Big Apple."

Home Briefs

Marcia Donahue, a Berkeley artist, sculptor and gardener will present a program on planting sculpture and sculpting plants at the January meeting of the Western Horticultural Society. The meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Jan. 12 in the multipurpose room at Loyola School, 770 Berry Ave., Los Altos, will also include a plant discussion and raffle. All are welcome. For more information, call Jean Fowkes at 327-9522.

Los Altos farmhouse: ready for another 100 years

Special to the Town Crier

Collect seeds now for the 21st century

This year's mild winter - so far - provides a wonderful opportunity for planting this year's seeds for next year's garden flowers. If you examine your zinnias, cosmos, statice, asters, marigolds, morning glories and anything else still blooming or retaining seed heads, you can harvest seeds now and plant them now for next year's garden.