Fans get Giant reward
It was one heck of a ballgame for Menlo Park resident Alice Kleeman and her 23-year-old daughter Georgia. Georgia entered the “My SF Giants Contest” and won a trip to a game pitched by her “Giant” crush, Noah Lowry. Alice got a chance to sit in the booth during the third inning with her “Giant” crush, announcer Mike Krukow.And there weren’t the only ones to get special goodies at the game, Alice says. Her other daughter Lexy, a teacher a Hillview Middle School, caught a foul ball in the fourth inning and Lexy’s boyfriend Mike caught one in the eighth inning.
“What are the odds?” says Alice.
Having a Wales of a good time
“It sounds just like a novel. You should write a book,” people tell former Atherton resident Sylvia Nichols Jones when she recounts how she fell in love with Wales — and a Welshman.So she did. “No, I Live Here” is an autobiographical account of Ms. Jones’ visits to Conwy, Wales, in 2001 and 2003. Shortly after arriving in North Wales, she met a local man, Peter Jones, who enjoyed showing her around. Apparently, she enjoyed it too, because the couple is now married and living in Wales.
“I decided to tell our story and to share my enthusiasm for Welsh scenery and history,” says Ms. Jones, who lived in Lloyden Park in Atherton from 1992 to 2001. “No, I Live Here” is both a romance and guidebook, says her friend Louise Sherman of Palo Alto.
The book has not been published in the United States, but is available on line from www.ylofa.com.
Edited by Andrea Gemmet, agemmet@almanacnews.com.
How a Palo Alto man’s pandemic project unexpectedly bloomed into a thriving honey businessApril 29, 2026 2:21 pm
Stanford mall security guard charged with possessing child porn, filming young girlsApril 28, 2026 2:16 pm