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Issue date: January 10, 2001

Short takes

"Speaking of Menlo Park," a series of interviews with people who live or work in Menlo Park, runs at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Cable Channel 6 in Menlo Park and Atherton.

Louise Pencavel hosts the program. Future guests on tap include:

**January 10: Jim Fadiman, a psychologist and co-founder of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. He has just released a thought-provoking novel about San Francisco in the 1960s.

**January 17 and 24: David Boesch, city manager since August for the city of Menlo Park.

**February 7 and 14: Teresa McCollough, a pianist whose mission is to introduce people to music they have never heard before.

For more information, call Louise Pencavel, producer, at 494-8686.

More math winners

Two Menlo Park students demonstrated their math agility by being among the top winners in the 19th annual Middle School Math Contest, sponsored by Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough.

Chris Rollins won first place in the seventh-grade competition. Nathaniel Shar placed second in the sixth-grade competition. Both boys attend Nueva Day School in Hillsborough, and their grade-level teams came in first.

More than 300 students from 17 schools throughout the Bay Area participated in the competition, known as the "big game," an afternoon of solving challenging math problems individually, and as part of a team.

Time to prune

It's time to prune those roses, and the Peninsula Rose Society has scheduled three free pruning demonstrations this month. They will be: Wednesday, January 10, 7:30 p.m., Veteran's Memorial Building, 1455 Madison, Redwood City; Saturday, January 13, from 1 to 3 p.m., Ladera Garden Center, Ladera County Shopper, 380 Alpine Road, Portola Valley; Saturday, January 20, from 1 to 3 p.m., Roger Reynolds Nursery, 133 Encinal Ave., Menlo Park. Consulting Rosarians will be on hand to answer questions.