The Prowler was on the receiving end of a random act of kindness last week and would like to make the following public assurances to the unknown benefactor on N. Santa
Cruz Avenue:
* The flowers you proffered upon this cat are alive and well (Where were you going with the rest of them? A banquet? A wedding reception?);
* The Prowler is meeting the not-so-difficult condition you gave with the flowers and "being nice to my honey." One must, after all, reciprocate kindness in order to spread it around.
With that in mind, let the Prowler put in a kind word for Fisher Middle School student Emily Krolak, who's appearing in Under Milk Wood with Palo Alto's TheatreWorks. Dylan Thomas's play is sort of a Welsh Our Town, and Krolak is playing one of the schoolchildren who live in fictional Llareggub. She and the other kids in the cast do an excellent job in their scenes together, whether their characters are called upon to jump rope or play a kissing game--all while singing, of course.
In other extracurricular achievement news, LG High student Luc Morris holds both the first- and second-best times in the "chair luge," an event that whoever posted the race results to the high school's conference on Virtual Valley describes as
"a chair race for journalism freaks ... held late at night while we're laying out the [El Gato student] newspaper."
According to the "Chair Luge Hall of Fame," young Mr. Morris was the only luger to make it down the ramps that lead to the English wing, where the journalism classroom is located, in under 8 seconds--7.76, to be precise.
The Prowler is impressed not only by the speed and ingenuity required to compete in this sport, but by the fact that participants haven't been busted for the activity. Maybe high-school administrators haven't learned how to log on yet.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, January 24, 1996.
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