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Main Street
Festival produced many winners-especially EMQ
By Mary Ann Cook
STRAWBERRY WRAP-UP: The Strawberry Festival was a winner for Eastfield Ming Quong, the agency that lends counseling and other support to troubled teens. Estimated net proceeds were $75,000. Besides EMQ, there were other winners from the weekend fundraiser.
In the Babies and Berries competition, first prize went to Cheyenne Genberg, 2, of Campbell; second to Keirstin Bloom, 3, of Los Gatos; and third, a tie, to Keenan Cobbs, 7 months, of San Jose and Shazia Gupta, 8 months, of Saratoga.
The voters doing the electing this year were all kids and the agency called Kid Vote helped out. Children entered the Kid Vote tent and voted for their favorites. The cuteness quotient went off the scale.
Meanwhile, at another venue, strawberry recipe contest winners were Isaac Buchanan, who won first for Isaac's Berry Bliss. He's the chef of a new Saratoga restaurant called The Basin, located on that similarly named main drag.
Second place went to Sharon Campbell, chef at Monterey Plaza Hotel, for lemon poppy-seed strawberry shortcake, and third place was taken by Kerry Alan, a student at the California Culinary Academy, for marinated flank steak kebabs in strawberry coulis.
MOUNTAIN BIKING: The Los Gatos Mountain Biking Club, now in its third year, was founded by neighbors Ron Lykins, Mark Senigo and Ryan Cronin, all of University Avenue. The group takes off every Thursday from the 200 or 300 block of University for a one-hour-plus ride up into the Los Gatos Hills to Hill Top and Priest Rock.
Membership is up to 30 bicyclists, but usually about 15 gather for the ride. Some standouts: Kim Rothermel and Cronin ride a tandem. This must work out well, since the duo are now engaged. Terry McCambridge, 69, is the oldest member of the club and one of the fastest.
McCambridge hadn't been on a bike for 40 years when he decided to join in. Four members of the club are also part of the Los Gatos Police Disaster Aid Relief Team--Cronin, David Hokeness, Christina Perry and Tim Finch.
And three members are county firefighters--Cronin, Kevin Bebee and Scott Dyer. Some 18 of the group went to Moab, Utah, in May to ride the famous Slick Rock trail. On some Saturdays the club heads to other locales, such as Wilder Ranch.
OFF TO AUSTRALIA: Los Gatans Barbara and Jim Smith, both teachers, are spending 16 days in Australia as part of the Student Ambassador Program of People to People. The Smiths and Marie Tomlinson are chaperoning 30 sixth-graders from Simonds School for the trip.
They'll take in Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton and the Great Barrier Reef and stay at a farm in the Australian outback. There they'll get a first-hand look at sheep shearing. Barbara Smith and Tomlinson teach at Simonds School in Almaden and were selected through an intense application process, as were the students.
Also on the Australia agenda are tours to the Sydney Opera House and a chance to swim with dolphins, as well as horseback riding, snorkeling and hiking. The Student Ambassador program originated under President Eisenhower.
X GAMES: The X Games, as in eXtreme, are all the rage at the moment, what with the daredevil action in San Francisco these past few weeks on Piers 30 and 32. One of those involved is local product Ryan Nyquist, who performs incredible biking stunts--so incredible you can't believe your eyes.
He was able to put so many feet between the bike and the ground that all she could do was gasp and hold her breath, reports Betty McClendon, who spotted him on TV and recognized the name. "He must have been five or 10 feet up in the air!"
The amazing skills displayed by these Xers--balance, coordination, strength and timing--to say nothing of the fearlessness demanded, boggles the mind.
FAMILIAR FACE: A familiar face at Adrienne's dress shop on Santa Cruz Avenue will be missing from now on. That is Betty Dahlgren, longtime Adrienne salesperson. She's helped Los Gatos women look smart for so many years that she's now advising the next generation.
Dahlgren worked at Adrienne's for the past seven years; and before that she was at Chrislow's for 10. "She knows everyone, and remembers all their names. She's the tops," says Adrienne Kerwin, shop owner. Dahlgren is moving to Murphys in the gold country.
She fell in love with that little town because it has a sense of community like Los Gatos, she says. She has her eye on a piece of land to build on eventually, and will be working at Apples and Roses, a kitchen shop on Main Street, which she describes as much like Domus.
Another case of not being able to keep up with rising housing costs in the Bay Area. Our loss is Murphys' gain. Adrienne's held a day-long open house at the shop to honor Dahlgren on her last day of work.
ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Susan Burnett and Len Pacheco of the town's Historic Preservation Committee are taking a 10-week course at Stanford called Bay Area Architecture. The course covers the evolution of structures from Native American through post-war urbanism.
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