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Los Altos Tweets About Inept Parking and Tennis Talent

Here's what was on people's minds this week, in and around Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.

The Twitterstream flowing through Los Altos was a little light this week. We're buying Christmas trees, and drat it, getting them to stand straight! Finals wrapped up at Foothill College, merchants are still enticing you to shop local, and yes, construction continues on First Street, downtown....

Dec. 17:

1. timburks Tim Burks  Just set up the Christmas tree. My wife came in and said "What? It's up already?" As if she missed the swearing.

2. TheTrendyRose Trendy Rose  Still have a few items to pick up for the holidays? Shop Kula Sweet on Main Street in Los Altos for all your Trendy Needs!! =)

3. bgtennisnation Brad Gilbert  On site at Foothill Junior College Los Altos Hills, great group of young, talented players ready for D1 Tennis. say.ly/iky18ZQ

4. KatieS Katie Jacobs Stanton  Hey bay area athletes: new running store in Los Altos - "on your mark" on Main Street. Say hi to Adam! cc @oymperformance

5. TDMlosaltos TDMlosaltos  Well, at least someone is enjoying the construction in Los Altos!fb.me/10pJjrwl4

Dec. 16:

6. AbilitiesUnited Abilities United  Thanks to Kiwanis Club of Los Altos for their $750 donation for books & art supplies for Milestones Preschool!... fb.me/uFdyRee7

7. melancholygirl Lizzie  Foothill Junior College sure has a terrible habit of catering to students when they call their mommies to fight their battles. Idiots.

Dec. 15:

8. green_town GreenTown Los Altos  GreenTown Los Altos Community Meeting Jan 19,7-8:30pm at 359 State Street Bicycles in Los Altos. Refreshments.

Register:bikesmakelifebetter.eventbrite.com

9. losaltosbuzz Los Altos Buzz  Police nab alleged scammer: Los Altos police last week arrested a Mountain View man who befriended a Los Altos... dlvr.it/10Y9rg

10. LosAltosRotary Los Altos Rotary  we have a wonderful christmas program today! 12:15pm Shoup Park #LosAltos

11. ThatAndrewKim Andrew Kim  Yet another parking failure. (at Foothill College Parking Lot 2) [pic] — path.com/p/42IIn

 

Dec. 14:

12. Bumpyknight David J. Baumgartner  Do not forget your old teachers who passed on. 4 me, Dr Wennberg of Westmont College, Lorraine Dieudonne of Foothill College, and many more.

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.