|
November 16, 2006
‘Cheers’ star Carla comes to town |
Rhea Perlman visits Graystone Elementary School to promote new book, ‘Otto Undercover’
By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer
Everybody loved Carla, the wisecracking bar maid on the TV sitcom “Cheers.” Now, students and adults alike at Graystone Elementary are enjoying actress Rhea Perlman’s new book, “Otto Undercover.” Perlman recently visited the school to introduce the book.
Perlman wowed the youngsters with magical tales of the kid racecar driver who’s also an inventor and a very bad singer—a character born from tall tales she told her own three children while they were growing up. The adventures of Otto take place on Read more...
|
|
 |
Almaden seniors recognize local World
War II vets
By Carol Rosen
Staff Writer
On Oct. 9, Almaden seniors recognized and thanked the World War II vets in their Senior Lunch group.
Led by Tom McMahon, who emceed the lunchtime program, the group saluted 16 of its fellow members including Nora Curtis, who spent 3 1/2 years of her life serving as a flight nurse in the Pacific during the second war to end all wars. Flight nurses were based throughout the Pacific and would fly one leg of a flight for the wounded changing bandages, hanging IVs and doing other medical Read more...
| |
|
Click here to read the rest of this week's headlines
in the Almaden Times Weekly...
 The Times is famously popular click here to listen
|
|
