Get your head on straight
Don Steiger reports the head of the Xian warrior that stood guard at his Sharon Heights home is back in place, thanks to the Almanac and Menlo Park code-enforcement officer Elizabeth Fambrini.
The statue is a replica of one of the 8,000 terra-cotta warriors assembled by Emperor Qin in Xian China, more than 2,000 years ago.
Ms. Fambrini saw the photo of the headless warrior when it appeared in the Aug. 30 issue of the Almanac. Last week she spied the head on a resident’s lawn across town. Seems the resident had retrieved it from the street in front of her house and put it on the lawn hoping somebody would recognize it.
Officer Fambrini returned the head to a delighted Mr. Steiger whose “Please return my head” sign on the statue first caught the Almanac’s attention. “I’d given up. I had that sign up for a month,” he said.
Remembering Coach Conners
Soon, exhausted soccer players at Woodside Elementary School can take a load off on a memorial bench celebrating the contributions of Dick Conners, a longtime Woodside resident who was deeply involved in the community, and coached soccer and baseball at the school in the 1970s. He died unexpectedly in March.
Donna Levin (Mr. Conners coached her sons) is tracking down other former players to raise money to install a bench by a small grove of redwoods at the end of the soccer field behind the school.
Ms. Levin is seeking $15 donations to raise $400 for the bench and a small plaque; call her at 851-1078. A short dedication ceremony is set for 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 19.
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