SHARON HEIGHTS: Care and Rehab Closes Friday After Providing Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation for Decades
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SHARON HEIGHTS: Care and Rehab closes Friday after providing long-term care and rehabilitation for decades. Page 8 THE HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR MENLO PARK, ATHERTON, PORTOLA VALLEY AND WOODSIDE FAMILY ALMANAC: Section 2 MAY 17, 2006 www.AlmanacNews.com | VOL. 41 NO. 37 apr.com REDEFINING QUALITY SINCE 1990 Reading between the emotional line makes the difference between finding a house and a home. WOODSIDE Located in prime Woodside off a quiet road, this 3500+/-sf ranch style home plus 1500+/-sf 3-year old guest house are on a stunning 4.2+/- acre lot. Stable, ring, pool and trails. $11,850,000 PALO ALTO Traditional two story 4bd/4ba home features exceptional renovation throughout. Large master suite with fireplace. Enchanting gardens, brick terrace. Adjacent parcel, 4bd/3ba home also available. $3,850,000 MENLO PARK Beautiful architectural and fine wood detailing throughout this spacious 2bd/2ba home is packed with lots of extras. Las Lomitas schools. $1,125,000 apr.com | WOODSIDE OFFICE 2930 WOODSIDE ROAD 650.529.1111 APR COUNTIES | Santa Clara | San Mateo | San Francisco | Alameda | Contra Costa | Monterey | Santa Cruz 2 ■ The Almanac ■ May 17, 2006 custom jewelers This week’s news, features and community events. FIRST SHOT The Almanac/Marjan Sadoughi More murals 208 Main Street • Los Altos, CA • 650.917.8697 Hillview middle schoolers paint a school wall facing Santa Cruz Avenue as part of the Menlo Park 208 Main Street • Los Altos, CA • 650.917.8697 school’s mural elective class. The students paint Pacific Island masks with the help of their teacher, Terry www.personalizedgiftstop.com McMahon, third from left. The students are, from left: Courtney Durdle, Christopher Pontilo, Camille Zolopa, J.P. Nash, Vanessa Lane, Alden Mitchell, Keiko Wolff and Allison Felt. Atherton County ■ Mayor Q&A: Charles Marsala wrestles with ■ New outreach program for day workers will start construction boom in town. Page 14 in July. Page 5 ■ Town’s annual meeting focuses on disaster preparation. Page 17 ■ Schools Valparaiso delays, detours due to water main ■ project. Page 12 Distinguished schools: Why is Woodside off the list? Page 11 Menlo Park ■ People New Burgess Aquatics Center opens Saturday. ■ Page 5 Lively voice for medicine: Dr. Margaret Deanesly. ■ Page 26 Sharon Heights Care and Rehab to close Friday. ■ Page 8 Sports legend Dutch Fehring dies at 93. Page 7 ■ Political pandemonium in Menlo Park. Page 10 CHAMPIONSHIPS Also Inside On the cover Calendar . .40 Denise Johnson-Kula of Menlo Park says there May 18-29 Editorial . .34 are more than 200 documented cases that show Taube Tennis Center Family Almanac . .37 serious reactions to chloraminated water. Photo Letters . .34 by Marjan Sadoughi. 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Tyler and his teammate BJ finished in first place in the latest leg of the Amazing Race, a TV show that pits two- person teams against each other in a race around the world. The final battle between the three remaining teams for the $1 million prize will be revealed in the next two episodes. On your marks. The So exactly what kind of 25-meter by travel skills does it take 25-yard lap pool to make the top three? at Menlo Park’s In recent episodes, BJ new Burgess and Tyler have extorted Aquatics Center money from teammates, should be full of panhandled in Australia, swimmers on been left barefoot and half- Saturday, May naked when they lost their 20, when the belongings, and gagged center officially down enormous bowls of opens to the stir-fried grasshoppers. public. The race, of course, The Almanac/ is already over, but the Marjan Sadoughi participants are sworn to secrecy until the final epi- sode airs.