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Please act before July 30th! We need your input and advice!

Our survey will help guide the BPA’s efforts in 2014 and beyond.

In the following survey, please indicate how important each of the items is to you. Opinions on issues are not asked but can be expressed in comment boxes.

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If you prefer to mail in your responses, the newsletter version can be downloaded here.

Survey responses should be submitted by July 30.

To all,

You have about five days left to join the BPA for 2014 to receive the upcoming summer edition of our quarterly newsletter, plus the other newsletters for this year. Articles will include:

Barron Park Streets Scarred by Gas Pipe Line Distribution Replacement Work schedule – Art Liberman
Art in the Park – Lorraine Capparell
Graffiti article (removal & artwork restoration, Bob Moss and Erin Castelan)
May Fete – John King
Pets article – Reine Flexer
General BP Survey (+ online) – Lisa Landers (BPA board)
Liberman resigns from the board – Lynnie Melena
BPA e-mail lists – Rich Elder
Business Beat – Bob Moss
Presidents message – Markus Fromherz
History article – (Walk through Barron Park in the 1930’s + map of the area back then) – Doug Graham
Tour de Coup – bicycle tour in September
Hannah May Allison article – Barron Park girl a musical success

We welcome local stories and artists to feature in “Art in the Park.”

Thanks,

Nancy Hamilton
BPA Newsletter Editor

We need photographers for the May Fete tomorrow from 1-4 p.m. in Bol Park.

Please send me your best shots — whenever possible please get children’s names if there’s only one to three in the shot, their ages, and permission from their parents to print them in our BPA Newsletter.

We also need photographers for the BPA Newsletter. Articles would be very welcome as well. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar, we can edit them.

Thanks in advance,

Nancy Hamilton
BPA Newsletter Editor email

We’re looking for stories/articles from our readers.

Have you or one of your neighbors lived here a long time?
Your/their story might be interesting.

Have you recently joined our neighborhood? Your story might be
interesting.

Have a special story about your child? Your pet? Submit them.
Ours is a neighborhood newsletter for our neighborhood and the
people in it. Please contribute and send photos.

Final deadline is June 1st for the summer edition. Articles &
photos received well ahead of time would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nancy Hamilton
BPA Newsletter Editor — email

A bit of sad news. Leland Smith passed away on December 17th. I saw his obituary noticein the January 11th issue of the Daily Post. None of us should be surprised, knowing that he had been in failing health. Nonetheless, it is sad to learn of the death of one of Barron Park’s originals, a talented musician and scholar and a very gentle and kind person.Leland was an emeritus professor of music at Stanford. A memorial gathering will be held at the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18. The center is at 660 Lomita Drive on the Stanford campus.An obituary notice appeared in the Stanford News on January 10th that reviews his impressive academic career. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/january/leland-smith-obit-010914.html

Leland was appropriately very proud of his pioneering work in creating a computer coding system, SCORE, for typesetting music that is still in use today. Not a musician myself, I first heard about his work in this area from Leland himself, about a decade ago, one Sunday morning at Bol Park while he was watching over the donkeys. Many residents of Barron Park know Leland for is his many contributions to the donkeys, and his devotion to them is recognized by noting that his family has asked that memorial gifts can be made to the Palo Alto Donkey Project.

The Smith connection to the Barron Park Donkeys

Both Leland and his late wife, Edith, along with Inge Harding-Barlow and James Bronson, were very instrumental first in creating the “donkey project”, which insured that the Bol family donkeys would have – and continue to have – a home in Barron Park after the Bol property was sold to James Witt, and then in creating the donkey handler group who have cared for and supported the donkeys.Many references to the Smiths and their activities with the donkeys over the years are in the BPA newsletters, including a long article by Zoie Nicholas in the Spring 2003 BPA newsletterand in a number of photos that I have posted below.Art Liberman