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Community Meetings EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY PROJECT The City plans to construct approximately 2 – 3 emergency water wells that will provide firefighting and drinking water supply reliability to the Menlo Park Municipal Water District’s eastern service area after an earthquake or other emergency. We need your feedback! Monday, August 29,2011 n P M Arrillaga Family Recreation Center !LMA 3TREET
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Sacred Heart Prep sophomore Ally Howe of Portola Valley.
Ally Howe swims to gold medal in 100 backstroke By Colin Becht
any less surprising though. “I won’t lie to you, that was a surprise,� Batis said. “She’s year ago, Sacred Heart been kind of up and down over Prep sophomore Ally the last week and a half, but in Howe of Portola Valley spurts she has shown signs that was still working with her devel- she could be awesome.� opmental coach. On Aug. 11, Howe sat in fourth place after she became a Junior National the first 50 meters, but even that champion. represented overcoming a pitfall Howe, who swims with Palo in which she has sometimes Alto Stanford found herself. Aquatics, “Norearned the mally I tend to ‘I looked up at the board go out kind of gold medal in the 100 back- and just was really shocked slow and really stroke at the back-half racthat I got in first.’ Speedo Junior es,� Howe said. National “So I think the ALLY HOWE Championgoal for me was ship. She just just to really edged Lacey Locke by six hun- go out fast and really just try to dredths of a second at the Avery hang on.� Aquatic Center at Stanford, clockHowe was pushed to the finish ing 1:02.77 to qualify for next sum- by three other swimmers who mer’s Olympic Trials. were within .20 seconds of her “I looked up at the board and at the finish line. just was really shocked that I got “Even at the end of the race, in first,� Howe said. I still thought she was in about Since Howe began competitive third or fourth,� Batis said. swimming, she worked with Less than an hour later, Bruce Smith, her developmental Howe was back in the pool, coach at PASA’s Alpine site in achieving even greater success Portola Valley. Less than a year as she, along with PASA teamago she moved up to work with mates Jasmine Tosky, Rachael Tony Batis, and the Aug. 11 final Acker and Alicia Grima, set a was the first individual final in Junior Nationals record in the which she qualified at the Junior 800 freestyle relay. The fourNationals. some’s time of 8:12.40 crushed Batis said Smith “did a great the field by nearly six seconds job in getting her to where she and broke the meet record that was ready to be a senior-level Howe and Tosky helped set a athlete. year ago. “I would be lying to say that, “The depth that we have ‘OK, I waved the magic wand and right now is pretty unparalshe got fast,’� Batis said. “Bruce leled, but I think that’s just a did a great job of developing her result of our program growand getting her to this level. I was ing,� Batis said. “We’ve got a able to piggyback on that.� lot of sites, a lot of talented That didn’t make the victory kids coming up.�
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Reuniones de la Comunidad PROYECTO PARA EL SUMINISTRO DE AGUA EN CASO DE EMERGENCIA La ciudad planea construir aproximadamente 2 – 3 pozos que suministren agua confiable para tomar y para los bomberos en el Distrito de Agua del Municipio de Menlo Park del årea oriental despuÊs de un terremoto u otra emergencia. ¥Necesitamos sus comentarios! Lunes, 29 de agosto 2011 n P M Arrillaga Family Recreation Center !LMA 3TREET
Jueves, 08 de septiembre 2011 n P M -ENLO 0ARK 3ENIOR #ENTER 4ERMINAL !VENUE
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