Week in review
Eileen Larsen, the first woman elected to the Foster City Council in 1974, died Dec. 18 in Reno with her family close by. She was 76. Larsen was a fixture in Foster City politics for decades, being re-elected to the council in 1996. She served as mayor in 1998.
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Car as a Chalkboard Lets San Franciscans Reveal Themselves
A man from Daly City, Calif., has turned his car into a mobile, erasable canvas that passers-by are encouraged to write upon whenever he parks.
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