By Celebrating freedom

The council is scheduled to decide whether to place a permanent plaque of the proclamation at the base of the flagpole in the Community Plaza or to rename Conner Park at the corner of Edith Avenue and San Antonio Road to Liberty or Freedom Park and place a plaque at that site near the bronze statue of children playing in the park.

“This is an event we will never forget. We need to relate it to a positive outcome … something significant in remembrance of what happened to those in New York,” said Councilwoman Kris Casto.

Relief fund

Los Altos police are also making arrangements to visit the families of rescue workers killed at the World Trade Center this month and deliver donations, on behalf of Los Altos residents, from the Los Altos Peace Officer’s Association Disaster Relief Fund. The association is collecting funds for the New York Police Survivors Fund, The International Association of Firefighters-New York Firefighters 9-11 Relief Fund and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Police said last week that they had collected more than $5,000.

Proclamation:

Town Crier Staff Report

A representative from Los Altos was scheduled to hand deliver a proclamation from the Los Altos City Council honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks that occurred Sept. 11 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani this week.

Mike Larkin, a volunteer cameraman for the city council meetings, was scheduled to visit his family in Manhattan and offered to bring the proclamation to the mayor’s office.

We in the city of Los Altos wish to express our deepest sympathy to the families and victims of the terrorist actions in New York City, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001; and

We honor those who have given their lives or been injured while trying to protect the public after these attacks; and

We pay special tribute to the heroism of those on United Airlines Flight 93 who saved untold lives and possibly part of our national heritage; and

We are proud of our national heritage and hold dear the freedoms that Americans have fought to preserve; and within the boundaries of these freedoms;

We support our president’s efforts to bring those responsible to justice for these terrorist attacks; and our freedoms protect us all, independent of our ethnic origin, political beliefs or religious beliefs;

We support the goal of reducing our nation’s enemies, not multiplying them and understand fully that justice will require patience and sacrifices. In witness thereof, I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of the script of Los Altos, California this 25th day of September, 2001.