2010 YEAR IN PHOTOS
2010 was a year filled with emotion and events that changed the community.
It was a year when...
...a plane crashed onto an East Palo Alto street, causing panic as people searched for loved ones (right);
...members of the community huddled around their TVs on a Tuesday night in November, anxiously checking the results of the Midterm elections and waiting to hear who would be California’s next governor (below) ;
...the death of anti-drug leader David Lewis in June sent shockwaves throughout the area, bringing people together to honor his life, denounce the violence and work to carry on his vision (opposite page, top)
It was a year when ordinary people, taking ordinary actions, brought life to Palo Alto and surrounding communities:
The women’s group The Rebekahs offered a rare glimpse into the oftenhidden world of service clubs, holding a public meeting dressed in shimmering formal gowns at the Palo Alto Masonic Temple (below right);
Eager students — covered in trash bags, gloves, booties and painter’s hats — expressed their creativity and their school’s core values through colorful murals at Walter Hays Elementary School (opposite page, top right)
Cover Story
On the cover (clockwise from top left): A portrait of East Palo Alto community leader David Lewis (file photo by Norbert von der Groeben); Walter Hays Elementary School students paint a mural (Veronica Weber); Palo Alto High head football coach Earl Hansen accepts the CIF Division I state championship trophy after the Vikings win their first-ever state title (Todd Shurtleff/MaxPreps.com); Stanford University students splash each other with pigment during Holi, the Indian celebration of spring (Veronica Weber); a peacock struts at the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (Veronica Weber); a portrait of Debra LaVergne of The Rebekahs service club (Veronica Weber); Krista Niebaum works with Chops at Scout’s House (Veronica Weber); tech guru Robert Scoble snags the first iPad from the Palo Alto Apple store in April, after camping outside for 22 hours (Vivian Wong). Cover design by Shannon Corey.
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Physical therapists provided care for the area’s pets at Scout’s House in Menlo Park (middle right)
lone jogger, Eunhee Kim, took to the Stanford Dish trail for a run on a drizzly
March afternoon (bottom right)
And members of the Channing House harmonica club in Palo Alto gathered to play their instruments on a Saturday morning and enjoy each others’ company (above)
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Arts & Entertainment
Featured in the revamped gallery are, clockwise from left: the eerily realistic sculpture “Slab Man” (with museum volunteer Barbara Bloom); a breezy area of abstract works; the Janet Fish still life “Goldfish and Autumn Leaves”; and the cartoonish — but actually 3-D — John Cederquist sculpture “Space Age Wave Machine.”
The gallery renovation could not be complete without Dave.
Amid the new acquisitions, freshly painted walls and general reorganization of the contemporary gallery at the Cantor Arts Center, Dave is back, standing just where he did before. He leans against the wall on a vinyl resin-Fiberglas hand. His elbows are dirty. He’s probably the most popular dirty-elbowed guy around.
Though eerily realistic, Dave is a 1970s sculpture by the late artist Duane Hanson, dressed like a cement worker with tools and boots. His real name is “Slab Man,” but because his shirt has a “David” nametag, folks at the Stanford University museum call him Dave. Think working-class Michelangelo.
Dave had been off display for a
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