Hot enough for you?
Nan Chapman, former Atherton mayor now residing in Woodside, stopped by the Almanac last week dressed in shorts and a lightweight white blouse on a day the temperature was soaring toward the century mark.She’d just come out of Draeger’s, she said, where she was approached by an earnest young activist with a clipboard, who asked her if she wanted to know about global warming.
“I know enough about global warming,” she told the young man, she recounted wryly.
Art gallery departs from Portola Valley
A goodbye shin-dig marking the closing of the Portola Valley Art Gallery at 765 Portola Road is planned for 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 29.The gallery, for 35 years located at Town Center, is relocating to the Allied Arts Guild at 75 Arbor Road in Menlo Park, and is set to open in mid-September.
The old gallery and most of the other buildings at Town Center will be demolished this fall to make way for a new complex.
Too darned hot
Ted Bache, a resident of the Stanford Weekend Acres neighborhood, kept a running tally of the rising mercury on his backyard thermometer on Sunday, July 23. The high was a scorching 106.2 degrees at 2:30 p.m., he reports.He apparently was one of the few who didn’t escape to the beach. Woodside resident Heather Keller says on a typical hot summer day, 20 or so cars headed for the coast can be backed up at the intersection of highways 84 and 35. On Sunday, the line was 223 cars long, she says.
Edited by Andrea Gemmet. Send e-mail to agemmet@almanacnews.com.
