By Embrace community pools

Menlo Park has two community pools as do Mountain View and Palo Alto. Cupertino has threeand Sunnyvale, six. Los Altos has none.

The good news: The city has found the space for a new community pool and a local group has offered to raise funds to build the pool tax free.

The bad news: a group of residents from the Rosita neighborhood has filed a lawsuit against the city in an effort to keep the project out of their neighborhood.

Los Altos is a community of neighborhoods. All our public facilities are in neighborhoods - schools, parks and playgrounds - and we all benefit from them.

I urge the Rosita neighbors to join our community of neighborhoods, drop their lawsuit and embrace this badly needed facility. Do it for the kids in our town. Do it for future generations of kids.

Howard “Buzz” ThayerLos Altos

No action on armed intrusion

It has been over seven weeks since the attempted burglary at gunpoint on Sunkist Lane, a story which appeared on your front page Aug. 21.

We live diagonally across the street, and the victims are our friends. Our house has not been canvassed, nor have I heard otherwise of progress on the case.

I called the Detective Sergeant in charge of the case. He indicated that the case load is heavy in Los Altos, including a couple of assaults, and that resources are limited. His description made it perfectly clear to me that little or no progress has been made in solving this crime.

I find all of this difficult to believe. A case like this, which terrorized two individuals involved and could easily have resulted in their death, should immediately rise to the top of the case priority list in Los Altos. Resources should not be a problem for a top-priority case. Further, I do not believe it is a difficult case. The victims will surely remember the voice, demeanor and general stature of the perpetrator, the suspect’s car was seen in the neighborhood and so forth. It is quite apparent that no progress is being made on this case, and the perpetrator remains at lrge in our community.

Bill Hockett Los Altos

Help us retain our teachers

As a 15-year kindergarten teacher in the Los Altos School District, I couldn’t agree more with the article “Voting with the head and the heart - again” (Oct. 9).

This is a very special district in which to teach. Parents and community members have high expectations for our students and provide us as teachers wonderful support to help local children learn and achieve. The results speak for themselves: Consistently high student performance has earned our district the top rating in California.

Unfortunately, it’s not easy to maintain such high-performing schools.

Budget cuts threaten to eliminate important teaching positions and cut programs. Without Measure H funds, I would have 30 children in my kindergarten class next year instead of the 20 I have now.

Measure H is necessary to keep our great teachers and protect the high quality of education we have here in our local district. Please help by voting yes on Measure H.

Amanda Terry

Oak School