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Volume 50, Number 1, Published on 01/06/1997

News

Down to business with Dennis Young

The Town Crier managed to catch up with Young recently for a quick, personal Q and A:

Inside a Los Altos merger

Town Crier Staff Writer

Egan teacher faces child porn charges

No evidence found at school, police say

Receipts link suspect to door-kicking burglaries

On New Year's Eve, Los Altos Police announced that they had found evidence linking a man already in custody with the door-kicking burglaries in the Los Altos area.

Council begins goal setting for 1997-99

After gathering ideas from city committees and commissions, from the public, the staff and the vision process, city council members will sit down together next Tuesday and set goals.

News Briefs

Los Altos Police said last Thursday that residents had reported three home burglaries in two days and that there had been 11 car break-ins in the early morning of Dec. 31.

Los Altos avoids major thrust of last week's storms

Town Crier Staff Writer

Next challenge for El Camino Hospital: A settlement for nurses' union dispute

After a 14-month legal battle with Camino Healthcare management, El Camino Hospital was restructured and returned to the governance of the El Camino Hospital District board Jan. 1.

Avoid the 13 DUI arrests nearly double

Los Altos police officers snapped the handcuffs onto almost twice as many drinking drivers during the 1996 Avoid the 13 holiday crackdown as they did a year ago.

District schedules expulsion hearing in kidnap-torture case

The expulsion hearing for two Los Altos High School freshmen who allegedly took part with three other boys in the torture-kidnapping of a Mountain View eighth grader, will be held next Monday.

Comment

Arizona - a great trip, BUT ...

I didn't quite kiss the California soil when we crossed back after 10 days in neighboring Arizona. Driving home during a California wind storm, torrential rain, and golf-ball size hail didn't have the calming welcome I wanted from my home state. However, in compensation, there were miles of verdant forests, gently rolling hills, and large bodies of glistening water, none of which we found in Arizona.

Letters to the Editor

I would like to express my gratitude to the wonderful town of ours, Los Altos. Where else is there so much to do? It surprises me that a community as affluent as Los Altos does not have a place for teens to congregate. You cannot tell me there is no funding for such a proposition. Where does our tax money go?

New Year's resolutions just aren't fun

It's quarter to midnight on New Year's Eve and you're feeling wonderful. The vintage champagne is fizzing through your veins and beautiful strangers are lining up to kiss you at the stroke of midnight. The New Year is full of promise. A fine time is had by everyone.

Community

Free lectures on remodeling and home additions

Los Altos homeowners and potential home buyers are invited to attend two free lectures in Palo Alto this month, both sponsored by the Building Education Center, a non-profit educational organization based in Berkeley:

Los Altos Hills publisher releases new, young adult book, 'The Newman Assignment'

Book review

January Chefs Who Care at La Fiesta Mexican restaurant

"La Fiesta" Mexican restaurant at 240 Villa St., in Mountain View will host its fourth annual Chefs Who Care benefit dinner from 5:30-8 p.m. Jan. 13 and 14.

Los Altos Weather

Adopt-a-Home looking for sponsors in Los Altos

Project Match, the recipient of the City of Mountain View 1996 Mayor's Award in human services, provides affordable housing options for seniors.

Two earn Eagle Scout awards for school facilities improvements

Two Los Altos teen-agers were awarded their Eagle Scout badge on Dec. 15 in a ceremony and reception at the Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos.

How to properly brace your water heater

By the Los Altos Emergency Preparedness Committee

Residents learn lesson from auto repair solicitor

Consumer watch

Organization seeks computers for non-profits

The Community Computing Project combines the availability of donated, used business computers, the need of a non-profit organization to computerize its operation, and the assignment of a volunteer computer advisor to continually guide and implement the organizations total computing needs.

Clean-up day scheduled for Los Altos Hills

Clean-up day for the Town of Los Altos Hills will be 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Pages of the Past

According to the Jan. 12, 1972, edition of the Town Crier, city crews painted specific bicycle lanes on both sides of San Antonio Road between Lyell and Sherwood avenues. It was part of a year-long effort by the City Bicycle Committee to secure a bike route system in Los Altos offering maximum bicycle safety.

Library News

Topics this year will include:

Community Briefs

Low income Los Altos and Los Altos Hills resident seniors may be eligible to receive a weekly bag of groceries for $10 a year.

Beth Am families help to 'repair' the community

Special to the Town Crier

Almanac

Los Altos Hills Planning Commission, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road.

Schools

Student saves Los Altos money through volunteering

Melissa Koh, a student at Los Altos High School, volunteers her free time for the City of Los Altos as a VEGA volunteer. She recently undertook a project using her natural skills as an interpretive artist and saved the city a lot of money.

Noteworthies

Especially noteworthy are her efforts in student government. She has helped with the selection of the school mascot and school colors, arranged field trips and taken student I.D. pictures. Besides her work in student government, Ayala also earns high marks in all her classes: math institute, multicultural studies, world history and life science.

School Briefs

Parents of preschool children who will be attending kindergarten in the Los Altos School District in the fall of 1997 are invited to attend an informational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 or 28 at Loyola School, 770 Berry Ave. in Los Altos.

Sports

This Week in Sports

Wrestling

St. Francis boys, girls net tournament titles

Town Crier Staff Report

Sports Shorts

HOOPS AT NICKS: With the exception of graduation, St. Nicholas School in Los Altos Hills is about to tip off its longest running event: the 24th annual Invitational Basketball Classic. This Friday through Sunday, eight teams from San Luis Obispo to San Francisco will converge on the local gym to play hoops, eat pancakes and display good sportsmanship and school spirit. Friday's opening game is at 4 p.m., and St. Nicholas takes on Old Mission at 7:45 p.m. Daily admission is $2 for adults and $1.50 for children; weekend passes cost $5 and $3, respectively. St. Nicholas School is located at 12816 El Monte Road.

Eagles are ready to post wins

Town Crier Staff Writer

Panthers lose four starters, to rely on senior Bingham

Pinewood basketball

Business & Real Estate

Merchants ring in merry Christmas sales

Town Crier Staff Writer

Town Crier Stock Index up third year in a row

The last day of 1996 disappointed a lot of investors when the Dow Jones industrial average stumbled 101 points to close at 6448.27. But for the year, investors were pleased as the Dow increased more than 26 percent.

Statistics show best time to buy a house is in January

In the cold gray light of a January day, many home buyers on the Peninsula are tenacious enough to look and find a new home. January is when real estate sales start heating up even though January sales win the label as the year's slowest month.

Transactions

Los Altos

Weekly Special

Hotels now adding the tip to the bill

Service establishments are tired of people leaving their employees empty handed. More places are now adding the tip on the bill.

Jay Manley whistles off to New York

Orchestra seats for the most talked-about musical of the season, "Whistle Down the Wind," highlight a week of New York theater-going with Foothill College drama instructor Jay Manley April 27-May 4.

Obituaries

Margret Brunk died Nov. 24 in Los Altos. She was 80.

Service

He successfully finished 11 weeks of training designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally.

Senior Briefs

Friday: 1 p.m., armchair travel, featuring a video presentation titled, "Symphony to America the Beautiful" - scenery of the United States from New England to the northwest.

MROSD closes preserve trails due to wet weather

The Mindpeninsula Regional Open Space District has closed several trails due to recent rains, citing possible safety hazards.

Marvin Osborne Adams officiated at track events and in the garden

Special to the Town Crier

Artists bring India to life in Mountain View

Husband-and-wife team Craig Kolb and Judith Bang-Kolb will brighten up East West Bookshop in Mountain View with their exhibit of black-and-white still photographs titled, "The Light of India," Friday through March 3.

The new Destiny cruise ship is Caribbean bound

Special to the Town Crier