AROUND TOWN
Richard Placone: Voyage of a Lifetime
On Sept. 10, 2001, my wife, Jeanne, and I, my mother and a good friend left for what was to be a wonderful cruise to Alaska aboard the Norwegian "Wind."
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:10 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Mark Meyers: There for Our Country
We deployed to Ground Zero WTC NYC on Sept. 18. We left from Travis Air Force Base on a C-5 Constellation and a C-141.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:09 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Bill Barranco: Whose News?
I was attending the press conference at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany. Suddenly the large projector screens at all the car manufacturers' stands were broadcasting CNN as ... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:09 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Kathleen Hughes: Almost Losing the Love of Her Life
On Sept. 11, 2001, I received a wake up call from my mom, Joanne, in Pennsylvania. It was a little after 6 a.m. here in Palo Alto. She asked me where (my husband) Tony was.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:08 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Mohinder Pelia: A Visitor Stands in Solidarity
On 11 Sep 01, at 0800 hours, I received a call from Mr. Larry, the father-in-law of my eldest daughter, telling me, "America is attacked. See on TV."
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:08 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Joy Robinson: Sympathy in Tibet
I was at lunch in Tsedang, Tibet, having just arrived from the airport at the start of a tour. We were approached by a French woman whose group had just arrived from Lhasa and... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:08 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Carina Rossner: Birth amid Chaos
On Sept. 11 we were 10 months pregnant (official due date had been the 10th) with our second child and trying to convince each other of our choices for his name. Our neighbor ... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
M. A. Fruth: Gap Teeth
The harbor gapes in unnatural haze, its two front teeth knocked out--
it cannot chew the ash that shades a mourning moonscape.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Megan Hulce: Who Could Believe ... ?
I had hurt my back the day before and had had a sleepless night. In the morning I decided I needed to go to the emergency room, so I had called a taxi as it was too painful to... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:06 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Carolyn Dole: Silent Skies
September eleventh airports closed
heavy rumblings of loaded aircraft
stopped passing overhead
a few from foreign ports
interrupted the welcome silence
of preflight quiet... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:06 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Tina McMinn: Far from Home
My day started at 4 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. My roommate had saved for a couple of years for a three-week vacation to see her family in Hungary and needed to be at SFO by 6:15 ... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:05 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Samina Sundas: A Voice for Peace
My journey to becoming a full-time community activist was unfortunately motivated by pain. I was at Costco when I first learned about the tragedy.
Read the full story here... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:04 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Tracy Douglas: The Mattress Dilemma
That morning, my air mattress sprung a leak. I woke up with my side of the bed a lot lower than my husband's. He had already left for work. I was furious about the mattress.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Theresa Carey: Saved by Volleyball
My favorite sport, volleyball, has literally saved my life three times. The third time was on Sept. 11, 2001.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Vanessa Roach: Two Haunting Words
When I turned on the TV to catch the local morning news and the TODAY Show was already on, I knew something was terribly wrong.
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:01 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
AROUND TOWN
Kimberley Stewart: A Miracle amid Tragedy
I lived in Manhattan on the Upper West Side between 1990 and 2006, so I was there at the time of the 9/11 tragedy and knew the city well. The events of 9/11 are still as vivid... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Stanford Hospital Suffers 20,000 Patient Data Leak
The leak of 20,000 emergency room patient records from a six month period in 2009 at Stanford Hospital, The records were available on the web for almost a year beginning in Se... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 4:23 pm by Bob, a resident of Menlo Park |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Here is an opportunity to do good. Fistula Foundation
This organization helps girls and women after they have been raped, brutalized or impregnated at 10 or older and suffer horrific damage to their organs. Organized by a loc... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm by Alice Smith, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Volunteer Reading Tutors Needed
I have been a volunteer reading tutor with a great nonprofit called Reading Partners for the past three years (www.readingpartners.org). This message is to ask you to consider... |
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on Sep 5, 2011 at 8:37 pm by Michelle Cale, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Lost Lexus Car Keys!-Reward
Lost my keys somewhere near Johnson Park in downtown Palo Alto!!! Did you find them? Maybe at Waverley and Hawthorne? Maybe on Kipling and Everett? Maybe in Johnson Park??
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on Sep 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm by Alexandra, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Call for memories: Where were you Sept. 11?
Palo Alto Online is collecting local residents' memories of Sept. 11, 2001, to be published online in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. We're looking for y... |
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on Aug 29, 2011 at 8:18 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Can we improve our Farmer's Markets?
Los Angeles Times food writer Russ Parsons observes that the incredible growth in farmers markets has come ...
... despite what has to be one of the most inefficient busin... |
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on Aug 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm by Resident 1.0, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Palo Alto airport plane crash today
CBS radio is reporting that a small plane crashed near the Palo Alto airport this morning. No injuries. |
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on Aug 23, 2011 at 10:22 am by Steve, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Preview into school enrollment for 2011-2012
What does school enrollment for 2011-2012 look like? I know the official count on 11th day of school, but do we have some preview now? Are numbers for K students up from last ... |
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on Aug 22, 2011 at 12:11 pm by Ada, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Read the fine print, consumer watchdogs say
The offer business owner Kit Reitman received seemed too good to be true: a half-page of advertising in a magazine to be distributed at her neighborhood Safeway store for only... |
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on Aug 20, 2011 at 1:47 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
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