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Nine polo tournaments set for Atherton
Cardboard is magic in the hands of Olivier Redon. In 2004, he invented the CD/DVD package shown above. It won him a juried gold medal at a 2005 international inventors fair and earned him about $30,000, he said.
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nothing to do with money,” he says. He adds that he is untroubled by the prospect of his ideas being stolen. “It’s OK if someone takes my idea. It’s OK.” “I have a dream,” he says. “To create a community of inventors for inventions developed in common. ... My worldview is different,” he adds. “I see it from another angle and that is why I (was an) inventor from an early age.” In 1976, at the age of 17, when he was “too young to sell the idea,” he says he imagined a third brake light center-mounted in the rear of a vehicle. (Such lights became mandatory in the United States in 1986, according to Wikipedia.) His light would have been higher up so it could be seen by more than one trailing vehicle. Olivier may have been a trial as a youth. “At school, I (did) not
agree to anything (they) told me and I asked many questions,” he says. “Education does not leave the place (for) curiosity and (requires students) to learn foolishly what professors teach, and when we ask questions, that often bothers the professors. The teaching is too based on memory and not on reflection.” “We are taught that all questions have an answer,” he adds. “One should teach us that the majority of questions have several answers or no answer.” “I was very curious. I dismantled all my toys to see what (was) inside.” It was when he was “very young” that he thought about life after death. He has yet to hear a satisfactory answer. “Now I ask myself this question: Why (is it that) people who live around me do not ask this basic question. What happens to (us) after death is an important issue,” he says. “I do not understand this lack of curiosity.” A
The Menlo Polo Club is planning nine tournaments for the 2011 season, including three premiere events, according to club spokesperson Christine Vermes. All tournaments will be played at the Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane in Atherton. Admission is open to the public. The club’s opening weekend begins Friday, April 29. The first major tournament, the U.S. Polo Association Ladies Cup, takes place Saturday, May 28. Menlo Polo Club Invitational events will be held June 25 and 26, and Sept. 24 and 25. Founded in 1923, the Menlo Polo Club is one of the oldest polo clubs in California. Lyn Jason Cobb is president and a third-generation polo player. Her grandfather, William Gilmore, founded the club in 1923. Her father, Mack Jason, was the club’s president for 46 years. The club is managed by Erik Wright, who also manages The Horse Park Polo Club. Go to facebook.com/MenloPoloClub for more information.
Energy efficiency class Thinking about ways to make the monthly utility bill go down? On Tuesday, April 19, the city
Models include Janet Ericksen, Carolyn Miller, Hope Johnson, JoAnn Bright, Sue Thomas, Eileen Duvall, Peggy Ogren, and Ramona Gaunt. Jane King of Menlo Park is the Atherlons president. Tickets to “Hats off to Spring” are $60 each. Checks made out to Atherlons may be sent to Virginia Peterson, 3511 La Mata Way, Palo Alto 94306.
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of Menlo Park hosts an energy efficiency class at the main public library at 800 Alma St. The class will provide information on home improvements and the state rebate program, Energy Upgrade California. Up to $4,000 in rebates are available per property. The class starts at 7 p.m. in the library’s community room. Pre-registration is not required. Contact Liz Henton with the Energy Upgrade California Program at 363-1949 or energyupgrade@co.sanmateo.ca.us to find out more.
One big day Spring ushers in Rebuilding Together’s National Rebuilding Day on Saturday, April 30. The nonprofit aims to complete 71 free repair projects for low-income residents and community agencies in 17 cities, including four sites in Menlo Park. Volunteers will paint, landscape, replace windows, fix roofs, and whatever else it takes to rebuild the sites. Email kate@rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org or call Kate Comfort Harr at 366-6597, ext. 225, for more information.
‘Hats off to Spring’ Wednesday, April 13, is the deadline to buy tickets to the Atherlons’ luncheon and fashion show to be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 21, at the University Club, 3277 Miranda Ave. in Palo Alto. Atherlon members will model fashions from the Yum Yum Tree in Los Altos. Dona Dodson of Woodside is chairman of the event, which will benefit CORA, an organization dedicated to overcoming relationship abuse for women and children. She will be assisted by Eunice Fey of Menlo Park.
At Filoli “Expressions in Color,” a watercolor exhibit of original art by local and regional artists, will See AROUND TOWN, page 20
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Find the camps for your kids this summer in our newspapers and peninsula websites. Lu Hugdahl of Mountain View opened up a safe deposit box at a bank in Los Altos in November of 2006. Two years later she went to open her safe deposit box and was horrified to discover four or five rings and three necklaces missing. On a police report she estimated two of the rings were worth approximately $1,500.00, “one being a keepsake from a cherished friend who passed away”, as reported by the Los Altos Town Crier. Hugdahl was stunned.
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