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Vigil protests Amazon, Facebook policies million over five years to enable the Menlo Park Police Department to expand its services in hants of “Jobs for EPA!” eastern Menlo Park. The money and “Hey hey, ho ho, would go toward establishing racial profiling has got to a new police unit in the city’s go!” rang out Thursday night in “Bayfront” or M-2 area, roughly front of 2100 University Ave. in bordered by the San Francisco East Palo Alto, where Amazon. Bay, University Avenue, U.S. 101 com plans to occupy 200,000 and Marsh Road. Facebook’s contribution would square feet of offices and add 1,300 employees. Some drivers honked cover the costs of salaries, benefits their approval, while others, some and equipment for about five looking down from double-deck- new officers. Population growth of workers and er bus seats, residents in that remained silent. area of the city A group of Protestors claim expected to more than 50 Amazon and Facebook isrequire adding people assempolicies will lead to up to 17 new bled on the corfor the ner of Donohoe the gentrification and officers new unit to Street and University Avenue criminalization of their maintain the current ratio of for a vigil to communities. people to offiprotest policies of Amazon and Facebook, which cers in the city, according to the they said would lead to gentrifica- Menlo Park Police Department. The Menlo Park City Council tion and criminalization of their had a discussion about the offer communities. The protest focused on the East on Feb. 28, and asked the police Palo Alto City Council’s decision department to gather more inforto waive its locals-first hiring pol- mation before they vote on it. Event organizer JT Faraji of East icy for Amazon, and the Menlo Park City Council’s current con- Palo Alto said that Facebook’s sideration to allow Facebook to offer will “(aid) in the crimipay for increased police services nalization” of his community because he thinks increased policin eastern Menlo Park. Facebook has offered to pay $9.1 ing will lead to racial profiling. By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer
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Moses Maka holds up a “We want jobs” sign outside of a new Amazon office complex in East Palo Alto during a March 30 protest against policies the protestors say will harm their communities.
The protest was organized by a group called the “Real Community Coalition,” which, according to Mr. Faraji, is made up of residents and is unaffiliated with other nonprofits or politicians, which may, he said, have their own interests or conflicts. Amazon
The East Palo Alto City Council on March 22 voted to allow Amazon to waive the city’s hiring policy, which mandates that businesses in the city hire 30 percent of their employees from among city residents, or demonstrate a good-faith effort to do so. Instead,
Amazon agreed to create a job center staffed by an employment specialist for 10 years. According to East Palo Alto city staff, Amazon’s leasing the space was contingent on removing the hiring requirement. Amazon already occupies 80,000 square feet of office space at East Palo Alto’s University Circle offices. A number of East Palo Alto residents at the protest said the City Council caved too easily at Amazon’s behest, and that it was unfair — and possibly discriminatory — for Amazon to simply assume that East Palo Alto residents wouldn’t be eligible for the
Is Menlo Park ignoring Belle Haven’s library needs? By Kate Bradshaw
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proposal to increase by one-third the size of Menlo Park’s main library in the Civic Center is facing scrutiny by Menlo Park council members and residents who say the price tag (at least $32 million) is high, particularly at a time when the Belle Haven area may require more attention. “The sticker shock ground all my enthusiasm to a halt,” said Councilman Peter Ohtaki at a March 28 study session. Mr. Ohtaki addressed criticism heard earlier in the meeting that some Belle Haven residents think the city is ignoring their neighborhood’s needs. “I can understand that perception when we look at a major expenditure and we’re not thinking about the status of the Senior Center or the Onetta Harris Center or if there’s a way of getting a new
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The proposal to increase by one-third the library’s size — either by renovation or complete reconstruction — arose from a “space needs study” conducted by Berkeley-based Noll & Tam Architects, and funded by the Menlo Park Library Foundation. The current library is 33,000 square feet, according to Library Director Susan Holmer, and the proposal is to increase the library’s size to 44,000 square feet. (The Almanac previously made an error in reporting that the library’s size would more than double. That was due to a misleading figure in a presentation that appeared to indicate the current square footage of the library is 20,600 square feet.) Foundation President Monica Corman told the council that many libraries in other local communities have been renovated or
The question arose during a study session on expanding or rebuilding the main library. rebuilt to meet the needs of 21st century users. “We don’t measure up to any of those,” she said. According to the architects, the library should be expanded to add rooms for studying, tutoring and meetings, to expand the children’s and teen areas, and perhaps add a “maker space.” During the study session, several council members balked at the price tag. “It pains me how expensive it is to build things,” said architectural consultant Chris Noll. In his experience, he said, libraries are costing upwards of $1,000 per square foot to build, and costs tend to escalate rapidly the longer
a project is delayed — up to 5 or 6 percent a year. Councilwoman Kirsten Keith suggested that the library look at unconventional ways to fund the project, perhaps combining it with housing construction that might generate revenue for the library. Belle Haven
Lynne Bramlett, a library commissioner and high school English teacher, said the main library is in need of an overhaul, but urged the council to also prioritize improving library services in Belle Haven. The commission, she said, is doing a preliminary study that indicates that Belle Haven residents are more active library users than residents in other areas of Menlo Park. The Belle Haven library is on the property of the Ravenswood City School District’s Belle Haven Elementary School, and is not open to the public during school hours.
high-skilled tech jobs they sought to fill. Others said that Amazon’s alternative approach, to start a job center and hire a job search specialist, was insufficient. Duane Goff, a retiree who is an East Palo Alto resident, called the measure “a little pat on the back,” and named several other programs that already exist in the community to help people search for and become eligible for jobs. It’s the jobs, he said, that are lacking. Pemberton Gordon, a longtime East Palo Alto resident, said he See VIGIL, page 6
Belle Haven residents Rose Bickerstaff and Sheryl Bims (in a poem called “You were absent and you were silent”) had earlier in the meeting admonished the council for not attending a recent Menlo Park Fire Protection District meeting, when the Board of Directors was considering taking by eminent domain two homes on Chilco Street to build a driveway for its fire engines. The board backed down and apologized. Belle Haven resident Pam Jones referred to education inequity, cutthrough traffic and public safety concerns that she said the council is not adequately addressing. In a remark at the meeting’s conclusion, Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman suggested to the council the two agencies could perhaps finagle a bargain: “Maybe if we buy the station land (from the city), we can help with some money for the Belle Haven library,” he said. The council voted last October to not sell that land to the fire district. A
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MP district names assistant superintendent By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer
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veteran San Mateo County educator with a history of helping school districts improve their student outcomes has been chosen as the new Menlo Park City School District assistant superintendent. Jammie Behrendt, currently director of educational services in the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District, will start on July 1, when Erik Burmeister moves
from that job to become district superintendent. The district’s governing board is scheduled to vote on Ms. Behrendt’s hiring at its April 18 meeting. Her title will be assistant superintendent in charge of educational services. Mr. Burmeister said Ms. Behrendt “is an experienced and trusted leader in San Mateo County.” She, for example, once took over a school that had been classified as failing, and led it out of that status in only one
year, he said. “She understands the complicated management and reporting requirements of state and federal programs, the management of which often sidelines other leaders from being able to concentrate on what is most important — effective instruction in the classroom,” he said. “She is collaborative leader who accomplished a great deal” at her current job, he said. Ms. Behrendt, a resident of San Carlos, has been an administrator
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for 10 years and a teacher since 1995. She led the design and implementation of the BelmontRedwood Shores district’s Local Control Accountability Plan, and helped that district increase the achievement of students from low-income families by an average of 10 percent and the achievement of their English learner students by an average of 5 percent, Mr. Burmeister said. She has worked in elementary and middle schools in Redwood City, South San Francisco and San Carlos. Ms. Behrendt also started a countywide professional learning community for middle school principals, Mr. Burmeister said. Ms. Behrendt speaks Mandarin and English. She has an undergraduate degree from Arizona State University and completed graduate work at the University of San Francisco and San Jose State University. Mr. Burmeister said the school district has had an assistant superintendent since at least 2000, when it had far fewer students. In 2013, when the district’s assistant superintendent left
just before the school year began, superintendent Maurice Ghysels tried a different administrative model with two Jammie director posiBehrendt tions instead of one assistant superintendent, he said. “As the incoming superintendent, I am returning to a one assistant superintendent model,” he said. He said he has made it clear since beginning the current budget balancing process that the district will retain an assistant superintendent and instead cut other administrative and clerical positions. By June 30, Mr. Burmeister said, the district will have reduced costs by more than the equivalent of the assistant superintendent’s salary by eliminating, with a layoff, the last of the two director positions that were created by the current superintendent, and cutting a clerical position that had supported educational services. A
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works in tech recruiting and his wife works as an electrical engineer. He said that even if there may not be enough East Palo Alto residents who are software engineers to meet that 30 percent requirement, tech companies usually have a number of jobs that don’t require special technical skills, such as sales, marketing and administrative positions. East Palo Alto also has a coding academy, StreetCode, which several attendees said could be a potential hiring pool for Amazon, were the company to make an effort to hire locals. David Chatman, an East Palo Alto resident and Facebook employee, said that if Amazon had followed the city’s hiring policy, it would have expanded residents’ access to higher-paying jobs than are currently offered in the city, many of which he said are in retail. As a Facebook employee, he said he has seen both the abundance of what tech jobs can offer their employees, and what the introduction of such abundance to a community can do to people who are left out. On one hand, he said, he sees himself as a fortunate member of his community for having the tech skills to work at one of these companies. On the other, he’s watched family members be pushed to the cusp of displacement by rising housing costs. He said he’d like to see such
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“I think there’s a movement picking up,” said East Palo Alto resident Ofelia Bello. Amazon’s decision to come to East Palo Alto marks a turning point for the city, she said. For so long, she said, East Palo Alto has been seen as separate from Silicon Valley. While it has experienced the pressures and stresses of added regional growth, she said, it has not necessarily reaped the benefits. “We have a long history of being screwed over,” she said. Even though Amazon is expanding in East Palo Alto, its recent action shows that it still sees East Palo Alto as separate from Silicon Valley, she said. The coalition has not given up hope for a reversal of the East Palo Alto City Council’s decision, despite a March 25 statement by East Palo Alto Mayor Larry Moody that he would “not offer a vote to rescind the decision nor recommend the Council do so.” In regard to Amazon, Ms. Bello said, “They can work with us, or we’re going to clash.” Members of the Real Community Coalition said they plan to attend the East Palo Alto City Council’s next meeting on April 4, at 7:30 p.m. A
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Rendering courtesy of Stanford
A view of the rental apartments Stanford plans to build as part of a mixed-use complex that will stretch along El Camino Real between Stanford Park Hotel and Big 5 Sporting Goods. Earlier designs for the apartments were more modern, but the design was changed in response to community feedback favoring a more “traditional” architectural style, according to Stanford officials.
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wo Menlo Park City Council members — Peter Ohtaki and Ray Mueller — will serve on a subcommittee to hammer out a development agreement with Stanford University over its proposal to build a 459,000-square-foot housing, office and retail complex at 500 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Stanford plans to build 215 rental apartments, 144,000 square feet of office space, and 10,000 square feet of retail space. The subcommittee will also review Stanford’s proposed 2018 general use permit for its campus expansion. A development agreement is not necessary for the proposed complex because it complies with the “base” development threshold requirements in the city’s El Camino Real/downtown specific plan. However, an agreement is likely needed to lay out Stanford’s responsibilities should the city move ahead with plans to build a pedestrian-and-bike gradeseparated crossing of the Caltrain tracks (a tunnel under the tracks or a bridge over them) at Middle Avenue, said John Donohoe, Stanford associate director of planning, at a March 27 Menlo Park Planning Commission meeting. The university has committed to fund a “significant” portion of the costs of the crossing project, but since the contract to study and
partially design the project was only awarded March 14, it will likely be some time before the full costs are known. Stanford also is in the process of updating its general use permit, and is seeking permission from Santa Clara County to expand its campus facilities by up to 2.28 million square feet of academic space and 3,150 housing units between 2018 and 2035. Menlo Park won’t decide whether Stanford gets its permit (that’s up to Santa Clara County), but the subcommittee will represent Menlo Park in the review process and in communications with Stanford and Santa Clara County.
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Checking off another step in its long march toward approval, Stanford’s proposed development faced about four hours of public scrutiny at the city’s Planning Commission meeting on March 27. To answer some questions: The developer does not plan to charge for office parking, though residential parking may be “unbundled” (sold separately) from the rent prices. The Stanford Marguerite shuttle will continue to operate as it does now, in that it does not require people to show Stanford IDs to ride it. In other words, anyone can ride it for free. The university doesn’t yet know what retail will be at the site, Mr. Donahoe said. See STANFORD, page 8
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The work includes, but is not limited to design and construction of new metal storage building and foundation, installation of skylight panels, roof ventilators, overhead doors, personnel entry doors, and other appurtenances; and excavation, grading, and construction of new improvements. The contract documents may be inspected at the office of the West Bay Sanitary District; San Francisco Builders Exchange, Attn: Deanna Johnson, 850 So. 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A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at the West Bay Sanitary District Flow Equalization Facilities located at 1700 Marsh Road in Menlo Park, California. Each bid proposal shall be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check or a proposal guaranty bond payable to the order of the West Bay Sanitary District in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guaranty that the bidder will execute the contract if it be awarded to him in conformity with the proposal. The successful bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond in an amount not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price and a labor and material bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price. 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sually the filing of arguments for and against a ballot measure and the posting of the impartial analysis of the measure are routine activities. In Atherton, however, as the town prepares to put an advisory measure on the ballot asking voters to approve using more public money to fund a new civic center, the routine has become controversial. Kathy McKeithen, one of the opponents of the measure, asked to have Atherton City Attorney Bill Conners’ impartial analysis left off the ballot materials because it was turned in 10 days after it was due, on March 27, the same day that rebuttals to the arguments for and against the measure were due. Ms. McKeithen, a former Atherton council member, said the tardy submission handicapped the measure’s opponents. “We didn’t have a chance to review it — we didn’t have a chance to respond to it in our rebuttal,” she said. “They’ve violated their own rules. This is a major con job that’s going on. This is a joke.” Town Clerk and Assistant City Manager Theresa Della Santa said Mr. Conners did submit the analysis after the due date “mainly due to health issues that delayed completion.” She said that because there is no penalty for submitting
the impartial analysis after the deadline and because state elections law doesn’t require a deadline for the impartial analysis or prohibit it from being submitted after primary arguments are submitted, “I have accepted the impartial analysis on the same day as the deadline for the rebuttal arguments.” Atherton officials pointed out that the state election code does not require a deadline, but it does require that an impartial analysis be included with the measure when it goes before the voters if a city council had requested it. Jim Irizarry, the county’s assistant elections officer, said that the elections code gives the town clerk the final authority on a municipal election. Ms. McKeithen said the opponents of the measure are “speaking with an attorney” now and considering asking a court to block the impartial analysis from being accepted. At tinyurl.com/TOA-A, on the town’s website, the arguments for and against the measure, the rebuttals to the argument for and against the measure, the city attorney’s impartial analysis of the measure and the ballot language and the full text of the measure are all posted. Ballots for the June 6 mail-in only election will be mailed around May 8. A
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on apartments rented to Stanford faculty. He also noted that the added traffic might cut through what the city has designated as “safe routes to school,” creating safety hazards. He suggested crossing guards could be hired to to mitigate the impacts. Barring some architectural criticism, planning commissioners were largely supportive of the proposed Stanford complex. Commissioner Andrew Barnes said he wished there were more green space. The real problem, said Planning Commissioner Henry Riggs, “isn’t the project. It’s El Camino Real.” Mr. Riggs said that in years past, there had been a stronger commitment to fix the bottleneck that is Menlo Park’s stretch of El Camino. But, he said, that commitment by the city of Menlo Park went “down the toilet.” A
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Offering the residential units to Stanford faculty is, in Mr. Donohoe’s words, “a little bit of an experiment from Stanford,” because the university doesn’t know how many faculty are interested in living in attached housing. By building one- and two-bedroom units, which are in high demand, he said, the university can hedge its bets if it decides to rent the units on the market. If that were to happen, the units would switch from being tax-exempt to being subject to property taxes. Ahmad Sheikholeslami, the chief business officer of the Menlo Park City School District, expressed concern that Stanford’s development could add to the district’s student population without paying property taxes
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Atherton ballot measure: Opponents make their case complex came up short, even as the current strong economy left the town government with nearpposition to an Ather- ly enough money to cover the ton City Council ballot remaining shortfall. The signers of the argument measure allowing spending more public money on new against the June 6 measure town offices has appeared, in the include former council member form of an argument against the Kathy McKeithen, one of the signmeasure filed by five Atherton ers of the argument for the 2012 ballot measure. The other signresidents. The June advisory measure ers are John Ruggeiro, Charles asks if voters want the town to Ramorino, Jim Massey and Howâ&#x20AC;&#x153;supplement private donations ard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sandyâ&#x20AC;? Crittenden. Their arguwith available ment says â&#x20AC;&#x153;the non-dedicated general fundsâ&#x20AC;? Opponents say civic current council now wishes for a new town center plans are too to divert more center. It would reverse a 2012 expensive and the town than $14 (million) of unallomeasure, which received 74 per- has other pressing needs. cated taxpayer dollars. Is this cent of the vote, restricting town center funding the most desirable course?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Has this proposed complex to primarily private donations, become too grandiose for our grants, and building fees. The argument against the June actual operational requiremeasure says the approved civic ments?â&#x20AC;? it says, recommending center plans are too expensive, looking at a â&#x20AC;&#x153;much smaller, and the town has other pressing combination remodeled and new needs, including drainage, bike structure.â&#x20AC;? The council membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; arguand pedestrian routes, and future employee retirement obligations. ment for the measure says â&#x20AC;&#x153;it is The council decided to ask vot- imperativeâ&#x20AC;? to replace the existers to overturn the 2012 measure ing town and police offices so after donations for a new civic the town can â&#x20AC;&#x153;deliver essential By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer
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services to our residents and to hire and retain top quality staff.â&#x20AC;? The council â&#x20AC;&#x153;has developed a realistic funding plan without creating any new tax burden on
its residents,â&#x20AC;? it says. The argument for the measure was signed by all five City Council members. Councilman Bill Widmer had also signed the argument
for the 2012 measure. At tinyurl.com/TOA-A the town has posted all the arguments and rebuttals, plus other information on the measure. A
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Menlo Park bike route plan hits speed bump By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer
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lans to move forward with a one-year pilot program of a bike route on Oak Grove Avenue in downtown Menlo Park will likely be delayed from a predicted installation date of summer to the early fall after council members asked staff to do further community outreach. The Menlo Park City Council approved in December a $236,000, one-year pilot program to install a downtown bike route that would start at Menlo-Atherton High School, run along Oak Grove Avenue past El Camino Real to Crane Street, and then continue left with a mild jog across Santa Cruz Avenue, go right up Live Oak Avenue, and continue left again on University Drive to Middle Avenue. The Crane Street bike lane would
extend in the other direction to School, said in a letter to the counconnect with Valparaiso Avenue. cil: “My understanding after The Menlo Park City Council attending a meeting with the City had been slated to approve with- engineers held at Nativity School out discussion a set of metrics is that there is no solution or proposal regarding that would be where Nativused to assess ity parents and the efficacy of Some parents and r i sh ioner s the trial, but a parishioners objected pa and M-A stunumber of parto plans to eliminate dents are supents at Nativity School and parking along stretches posed to park during the Trial p a r i s h ioner s at Church of of Oak Grove Avenue. Period.” Parents who the Nativity expressed objections to the plan’s must drop off their children at proposal to eliminate parking the school, she said, “will now along some stretches of Oak have to search longer, walk farGrove Avenue. The church and ther with young children and school routinely host events that be even more delayed getting to draw hundreds of people, many work.” Tod Spieker, who is a parishioof whom are young, elderly or ner at the church and owner of disabled, they said. Christine Goudey, a parish- apartments located at the corioner at Church of the Nativity ner of Oak Grove Avenue and whose children attend Nativity Laurel Street, expressed similar
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concerns in a letter to the council and added that elderly or infirm guests at the apartments will have to walk farther to access them. Councilwoman Catherine Carlton critiqued the proposed metrics for the pilot study, and requested further community outreach beyond an online survey and on-the-street surveys that might be administered during community events such as farmer markets. In response to a suggestion to limit the hours during which the bike lane or proposed parking restriction is in effect, Assistant Public Works Director Nikki Nagaya said that such changes could make the road less predictable, and therefore less safe, for young cyclists. Jennifer Wolosin, leader of the Menlo Park “Parents for Safe Routes” group, said in an email
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Menlo Park still not joining Atherton in fire district study By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer
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espite frustration with suggested Menlo Park could failed attempts to tease still join Atherton in the study. out wanted financial Atherton is currently seeking information from the Menlo bids from consultants, and is Park Fire Protection District, the tentatively scheduled to choose Menlo Park City Council decided one on April 19. “There are questions around on March 28, for the second time, not to join Atherton in a fiscal the (fire district’s) need for additional funds,” Mr. McIntyre said. study of the fire district. Menlo Park and the fire district “If you look at their finances, have been unable to agree about they are a very well-off fire what the financial impact of district,” he said, “a district rezoning the city’s industrial M-2 that seems to have an adequate area will be on the fire district. amount of money.” Council members say they The issue is important because the fire district wants to charge want to make sure any impact an impact fee on new construc- fees from new development tion, but the fee legally must be wouldn’t be better used in other imposed and administered by areas. “I’d love to see more of the the city and passed back to the money go to the schools,” Ms. Carlton said. fire district. Mayor Kirsten Keith agreed. Menlo Park has questioned “I think it’s fair the conclusions to get the data,” of a fire disshe said. “I want trict study that ‘If you look at their to see where else backed up the finances, they are we can spend proposed fees, this money.” and asked for a very well-off fire A t h e r t o n’s more informadistrict.’ issue with the tion to try to fire district is reconcile the CITY MANAGER ALEX MCINTYRE not the same district’s conclusions with those of the city’s as Menlo Park’s. Atherton says it wants to know how much own consultants. In the meantime, the fire Atherton-generated property tax district has investigated anoth- revenues go to the district, and er way to raise money from how much the fire district spends developers that it thinks it can providing fire, emergency mediimpose without cooperation cal and other services to the town. from other jurisdictions, a com- The study is to also look at what munity facilities district. While it might cost Atherton to provide the concept hasn’t yet been put the services it gets from the fire into operation, the district has district on its own. The Menlo Park council did been advised that it can form such districts to unilaterally tax not vote on joining Atherton’s developers of new commercial study, despite appearing to have enough votes to approve that and multifamily projects. All of the other jurisdictions action. Instead, council members that have also been asked to agreed to spend April trying adopt the impact fees — Ather- to get the information the city ton, East Palo Alto and San wants on their own. Ms. Carlton asked if Atherton Mateo County — have also might postpone its decision on declined to act on the issue. City Manager Alex McIntyre the contract for the study for a had asked the council to recon- month, allowing Menlo Park to sider an earlier decision about still join in later. Mr. Ohtaki said the city should joining the town of Atherton in a fiscal study of the fire station. In draw up a list of written quesOctober, the Menlo Park council tions for the fire district to had tabled the issue, asking Mr. answer, get responses, and then McIntyre and a council subcom- set up a council study session on mittee of Catherine Carlton and the impact fees. City Manager McIntyre Peter Ohtaki (a former fire board member) to try to get the infor- warned that city staff is very mation the city wanted directly busy working on next year’s budget and wouldn’t be able to from the fire district. With Menlo Park still not help much. “We don’t have the satisfied that it had the fire capacity to do that work,” he said. district financial information it wants, Mr. McIntyre had See STUDY, page 15 14 Q The Almanac Q AlmanacNews.com Q April 5, 2017
Woodside Town Council won’t ban July Fourth pig scramble By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer
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he rhetoric was plentiful but mostly one-sided at the Woodside Town Council meeting on March 28 as the public weighed in on the future of the pig scramble, a controversial element of the annual junior rodeo held July Fourth and hosted by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County at their Kings Mountain Road grounds. Members of the Committee for a Humane Woodside and other opponents of the event held sway during an hour of discourse as speaker after speaker got up to urge the council to end the spectacle of 30 to 50 children seeking blue ribbons or their equivalent as they chase about a dozen small pigs around the Mounted Patrol’s dusty arena. The event is cruel to the pigs and a disservice to the morals of impressionable children, they said. “Our cultural values are in question,” resident Donna Calia said. “An inference can be made that Woodside condones the pig scramble. ... What we allow to happen in Woodside is a reflection of our cultural values.” The notion that banning the pig scramble would be an attack on the cultural values of the Old West — as alleged by the Mounted Patrol many times in its statements — is absurd, Ms. Calia said. Different species should be treated with the kindness they deserve, said resident Julian French. Kim Hunter of Los Altos, putting herself in the frame of mind of an 8-year-old, said that pig scrambles would be cool, but that she doesn’t now think that way. “What’s happened, folks, is I grew up,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense anymore. What we condone for our children, we condone for our society.” The council listened, but only Councilman Daniel Yost showed an interest in having staff look at options that would place limits on the event. There wasn’t a formal vote, but the other three members present — Mayor Tom Livermore, Councilman Chris Shaw and Councilwoman Anne Kasten — indicated a preference for taking no action, arguing that attempting to ban a legal activity was outside of their portfolio. Opponents of pig scrambles
should take up their complaints with the state Legislature, the council members said. Councilman Peter Mason and Councilwoman Deborah Gordon recused themselves from the discussion before it began, Mr. Mason because the bookkeeper for his architectural firm is a member of the Humane Woodside committee, and Ms. Gordon because she lives near the Mounted Patrol grounds. Councilman Dave Tanner was absent.
Council members said that banning a legal activity was outside of their portfolio, and pig-scramble opponents should take their case to the state Legislature. Independence Hall could not have held many more people than had gathered there for the 7:30 p.m. meeting, and it was not difficult to tell who was who. Opponents of the pig scramble seated themselves on the right side, until the seats ran out. Many wore white T-shirts that read, “I am not a toy,” above an image of a pink pig, with the one-sentence manifesto “No animal scrambles in Woodside” running along the bottom. Opponents spilled over to the left side of the room as well, where Patrol members gathered in their white uniform shirts, a few complemented with red bandannas. Some brought cowboy hats. Nearly all remained silent. The Patrol captain, Victor Aenlle, and one other Patrol member spoke after most of the opponents had had their say. The pig scramble “is an event the people just enjoy,” Mr. Aenlle said. “We don’t think of it as cruelty.” If the Patrol is not breaking any laws, they should be left alone, he said. The pig handlers, who are not Patrol members, may treat the pigs roughly — “It doesn’t look good to us,” Mr. Aenlle said — but Patrol members themselves do not mishandle the pigs, and the Patrol admonishes the pig handlers every year to handle the animals gently, Mr. Aenlle said. (A video of the 2016 event shows pigs chosen for the third round of being chased
trying to climb back in their trailer and being tossed back out, sometimes with seemingly little regard for how they land. The video also shows handlers holding the pigs in ungentle ways.) Another Patrol member — a farmer, he said — told the council that he fishes and hunts and rides a mule, something the mule probably doesn’t like, he said. “You think the fish likes a hook in its mouth?” he asked. Regulation of the pig scramble would be improper and run counter to “accepted practices,” he said. “If you’re opposed to the rodeo, don’t come,” he said, to scattered applause and whoops of appreciation by pig scramble proponents. Outside Independence Hall, veterinarian, Woodside resident and co-author of a book on animal cruelty Dr. Bonnie Yoffe spoke with the Almanac. “Progress takes time,” she said when asked for her reaction, adding that she was “deeply disappointed” by the council’s decision. The council abandoned its responsibilities, she said. Thinking globally and acting locally failed this time, she said. The next target for protest will likely be this year’s rodeo. Committee members have also talked with the office of state Sen. Jerry Hill, Dr. Yoffe said. “We have to regroup and see what we want to do,” she said. “We’ll definitely try to talk to local people about not going to the rodeo as long as the pig scramble is a part of it.” Were the animals in the scramble dogs or cats, it would be illegal, she said. “Pigs feel terror and pain and fear” and have “rich emotional lives,”she said. “The treatment of these animals in this event is far below pork production standards.” Mr. Aenlle told the council that the Patrol would consider modifications to the event, as urged by the town’s Livestock and Equestrian Heritage Committee. But the modifications would not eliminate the kids chasing pigs, Mr. Aenlle said. One suggestion: have the pigs in a corral before the event, presumably so kids could get to know them. “A kinder gentler pig scramble is an oxymoron,” Dr. Yoffe said. “If it’s wrong, it’s wrong.” “We’re not going away,” she added. “The society’s values have been reflected in the outcry.” A
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Portola Valley: Controlling rodents without poisons By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer
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ortola Valley, not unlike other residential communities, has problems with rodents — at home with rats and mice, and on playing fields with moles, voles, gophers and ground squirrels whose collective hole-digging ways make conditions hazardous for running athletes. Methods of controlling rodents go back a long, long way. Today, the tools for both homeowners and professional pest control agents include mechanical traps and poisons. The most effective poisons are regulated by federal and state governments and available only to the pros, but they also present danger to animals that eat the dead or dying rodents. In the interest of protecting these predators, such as STUDY continued from page 14
“I’m worried about the timing of all this.” But Mr. Ohtaki said he thought the subcommittee could handle the matter. Council members said they think the relationship, and communication, between the city and the fire district has deteriorated recently. “For some reason, the communication has definitely not been effective,” Mr. Ohtaki said. “It is leading into name-calling, basically, it has deteriorated.” Ms. Carlton said she did not see that joining Atherton’s fiscal review would further damage the relationship. “You can have a collaborative relationship and do a fiscal review,” she said. “It’s just reviewing the finances and reviewing the services and making sure everybody’s focused and on the same page.” Council members did express interest in working with the fire board on mutual problems. Councilman Ray Mueller said he and fire board President Peter Carpenter had talked about the district’s healthy reserves and finding a way some of them could be used collaboratively. At the end of the meeting, fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman brought up the district’s interest in purchasing the land its Chilco Street fire station sits on from the city. He said that even if the district ends up not rebuilding that station, it wants to purchase the land. “Maybe if we buy the station land, we can help with some money for the Belle Haven library,” he said. The district is currently leasing the land from the city for $1 a year. A
raptors and wild felines, and scavengers, such as crows and coyotes, the Portola Valley Town Council has approved a set of recommendations. The council on March 22 unanimously agreed to a request by the town’s Conservation Committee that the town ask local businesses to end the sale of rodent poisons, urge residents and local businesses to use integrated pest management techniques, and use those techniques on town property to
set an example. Integrated pest management for rodents, according to the Centers for Disease Control, includes reducing opportunities for their access to food, water and shelter. To enter a structure, a rat needs a hole the diameter of a quarter, the CDC says. A mouse can pass through a hole the size of a dime. Unintended results
A council staff report cites a 2013 analysis by an
environmental scientist working for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation who found high percentages of poison present in predators: Q Poisons were present in an average of 79 percent of a population of 194 birds, including barn owls, great horned owls, Cooper’s hawks, red-tailed, redshouldered hawks and golden eagles. Q Poisons were present in an average of 87 percent in a population of 237 predatory
mammals, including bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions and foxes. In these populations, rodent poisons were likely a cause of death or the cause of death for about 16 percent (or 33) of the animals, the analysis said. A 2016 bill in the state Assembly would have banned rodenticides for all but agricultural uses, but it was opposed by the pest control industry and never made it to the floor, the staff report says. A
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James Wilson Morrell February 13, 1931 – February 28, 2017
July 5, 1938 – March 26, 2017
James Wilson Morrell passed away suddenly on February 28, 2017, at the age of 86. He was the beloved husband of Marylyn Morrell for 64 years, as well as the beloved father of Martha Morrell and David Morrell, grandfather of Emily Trinkaus Carson, Sam and Madeline Trinkaus, and of Teo and Elias Morrell, father-in law of Peter Trinkaus (deceased), Kirsten Silva Gruesz and Jaime Tenedorio, and of his grandsons-in-law Daniel and Ted Tenedorio, and Zachary Carson. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Evelyn and Wilson Morrell, lived in Detroit during World War II, and then returned to Kalamazoo in High School. As a 19 year-old sophomore at Kalamazoo College, Jim met 17 year-old Marylyn at her freshman orientation. They were married 2 years later. Jim completed college as a History major the following year and was immediately inducted into the Army and sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky. The final 9 months of his 2- year military commitment were spent as an administrative clerk for General Creighton W. Abrams, who was heading a task force to develop the future role of American and Allied Armored Forces. Despite the General’s urging, Jim left the military in 1955. His first job was with Saga Administrative Corporation. Jim continued to advance in Saga, serving on all levels of line operations and was relocated to headquarters in Menlo Park, California in 1966. At Saga, he assumed a series of corporate administrative assignments, then as a Division Operating President from 1970 until 1977. In his final positions with Saga, he served as Executive Vice President, President and Chief Operating Officer, Vice Chairman of the Corporation, Chief Operating Officer and as a member of a three-person Office of the President. In 1986, Saga was acquired by Marriott Corporation. Jim subsequently headed his own consulting organization that specialized in Organization and Personal Strategic Planning, and as President and CEO of a company that developed products for the visually impaired and blind (TeleSensory), and as CEO and President of the Saga Foundation, an NGO dealing with the problems of nuclear proliferation and the emergence and needs of undeveloped third world countries. He was a member of several Boards of Directors, including The Charles Schwab Trust Company, Simco Electronics, Symphony Medical Corporation, Foster Farms, Fabri-Kal Corporation, TeleSensory, and Connor Formed Metal Products. He also served as President of Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club. Jim gave back to the community where he served on the Board of Trustees of Kalamazoo College, for 18 years. He did strategic planning and served on the Board of the Resource Center for Women in Palo Alto, which Marylyn co-founded. Jim was a member of the Young Presidents’ and World Presidents’ Organizations. Participation in these organizations brought him a number of deep and lifelong friendships, and provided the opportunity to travel much of the world with Marylyn. During the last years of his life, Jim worked on his memoirs. Using his skills in photojournalism, he left his family a ten-volume remembrance of his life and the people who had touched it. This is a cherished gift, and provides some solace to those he left behind. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes contributions in his name to Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan or Peninsula Open Space Trust. The family will hold a memorial service in near future.
Bob Glockner died peacefully on March 26, surrounded by his family. A vibrant man, Bob will be remembered for his warmth and generosity, commitment to his family and community, and his boundless energy. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1938, he was the third child of Paul and Stephanie Glockner. He moved with his family to Oakland, California, in 1947. In 1956 Bob graduated from St. Elizabeth High School, where he enjoyed drama and sports. He served in the U.S. Army and later in the Army Reserves. He attended San Francisco State, graduating in 1961 with a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies. San Francisco is also where he met his wife of 54 years, Ginger Alfs. Together, they had four daughters. Bob began his career as a salesman for Modernfold of Northern California. In 1970 he became a partner in Partition Specialties Inc., serving as president before striking out on his own to found WestFour Construction and Whitney Investment Company in 1983. He did not retire but more transitioned to the role of “Volunteer Project Manager,” helping his family as well as organizations that were close to his heart. Bob always had a project, and many knew him as the person you would turn to when you needed to get something done. A dedicated and active member of his community, he was a member of the Board of Trustees for Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton as well as a member of Sharon Heights Country Club, the Vineyard Club, and the Peninsula Investors Club. He was quick to offer his time or his counsel to assist a worthy cause. Bob loved travel, art, and music. He was an avid sports fan, skier, golfer, and lover of the outdoors. Later in life, he tried his hand at growing grapes and winemaking, and enjoyed producing wine under his own “Four Sisters Vineyards” label. Above all, Bob loved and was loved by his family. He will be remembered by his wife, Ginger; his daughters and sons-in-law Jennifer and John Whitcomb, Ellen and Fred Eder, Julie Morris, and Whitney and Peter Glockner Black; his 10 grandchildren, Stan, Mackenzie and Brooke Whitcomb, Elizabeth and Fred Eder, Kyle and Hannah Morris, and Axel, Jasper, and Hugo Black; as well as his sisters, Audrey Glockner and Mary Akey; his sister-in-law, Diane Orsellini; and their families. A memorial Mass will be held at The Church of the Nativity (210 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park) on Friday, March 31 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to either Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton (150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, CA) or the Religious of the Sacred Heart, Oakwood (140 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, CA).
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t’s just after Friday morning recess and the students in Cassanndra Wicker’s first-grade classroom at Belle Haven School are lined up to go back to class. Grins emerge as the students see a familiar face appear, that of Carolyn Blatman, who volunteers in their classroom each Friday morning. Ms. Blatman gets hugs and greetings as she helps shepherd the not-very-linear line of boys and girls back to their classroom. Inside, the students find their way back to their seats. Two students, Omar and SeBrina, sit down at a kid-sized curved table with Ms. Blatman between them, to work on a writing assignment. Ms. Blatman’s attention swings back and forth between the two, offering encouragement and answering questions, while Ms. Wicker scurries around the room trying to do the same for the 21 other students in her class. Ms. Blatman, like three other volunteers from All Students Matter, spends an hour each week in Ms. Wicker’s classroom. The volunteers follow Ms. Wicker’s direction, usually spending a half hour with two groups of two students, working on either reading or writing. Their presence means students who Ms. Wicker thinks could benefit the most from a half-hour of adult attention get just that. As a first-year teacher, she can count on the volunteers’ consistent presence. “I’m tremendously impressed with her teaching skills,” Ms. Blatman said. “She’s very dedicated to the kids and puts in a lot of extra hours,” she said. “She’s got a classroom full of tremendously struggling students.”
How it started Nine years ago, Atherton’s Ann Carter made a commitment to volunteer for at least an hour a week, not in her own children’s classroom, but in a classroom in the Ravenswood City School District. Ms. Carter, one of the founders of All Students Matter, has been steadily volunteering in Ravenswood district classrooms ever since, but now she is joined by about 200 other trained volunteers who have all made the same commitment she did. “It’s a small commitment and a big payback,” Ms. Carter said of her work for the nonprofit volunteer group. “You see the joy of kids when you walk in, and they scream and run and want hugs.” All Students Matter began in 2008 with three founders and a couple dozen friends. This fall, the organization plans to serve six Ravenswood schools in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park with at least 230 volunteers in transitional kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms, serving about 2,000 students. The organization trains the volunteers, provides two site directors for each school, and sponsors monthly coffees with speakers and volunteer support. It has one half-time paid employee, also a volunteer. Teachers request volunteers for the activities they want help with, usually working one-on-one or in very small groups with students on reading, writing and math skills. “It’s just great for the teachers to have another adult in there,” Ms. Carter said.
7KH GLVWULFW·V YLHZ Ravenswood Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff said All Students Matter is part of the district’s “family of caring friends and partners.” “They believe in our students and teachers, and are committed to partnering with us to help our students realize their true Photos by Irene Searles
Above: Keri Tully, All Students Matter’s only paid (halftime) employee, also volunteers for the organization, as she’s doing here with Guillermo in his first-grade classroom at Belle Haven Elementary School in Menlo Park. Below: Itzanamy reads to All Students Matter volunteer and board member Jeanette Kennedy in Lauren Majchrowicz’s fourthgrade class at Belle Haven school. About the cover: Firstgrader Aliza works with All Students Matter volunteer May Herr in Cassanndra Wicker’s Belle Haven school classroom. 16 Q The Almanac Q AlmanacNews.com Q April 5, 2017
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potential. We feel deep gratitude” for their support, she said. The group’s volunteers invest “their time and talents in our district for the pure joy of helping children and teachers,” she said. “They are always willing to roll up their sleeves to help us with whatever we need, for nothing in return. In a constantly changing environment, their selfless and flexible support has made them an invaluable part of our community.”
How to volunteer
The founders Back in 2008, Ms. Carter attended the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (now Menlo Church) with Carol Chalmers of Palo Alto and Sharon Purcell of Menlo Park. The three started talking about how their children’s classrooms had more volunteers than they could use. Some schools chose room parents by lottery, and field trips often had more drivers than needed. Partially by looking to the example of their pastor, Charley Scandlyn, who had taken a year off to start the Ravenswood Education Foundation, they realized there was a district right next door that could use some help. The three women are still on the organization’s board of directors and classroom volunteers. Ms. Carter is the board chair, and a member of the Ravenswood Education Foundation board.
Carolyn Bowsher Carolyn Bowsher from Menlo Park is a new All Students Matter volunteer. Her own children, now in middle and high school, “don’t need me as much,” she said. “I feel like the kids” at Belle Haven School where she volunteers “need me more,” she said. A former member of the Menlo Atherton Education Foundation board and Parent Teacher Organization president, she said she feels “like I am making a difference” by volunteering for All Students Matter. “I feel that I’m needed and wanted and loved.” She said she admires the teacher she works with, who has been with the district for two decades. “There really are some very good teachers who are there because they’re passionate about teaching and want to be there,” she said. She’s bonded with her students and thinks she’ll follow them to first grade next year. “I would love to stay with them,” she said. “But then I really love this teacher.” “Maybe next year I could try to do both,” working again with the teacher as well as in a first-grade classroom with her current students, she said. The classroom volunteering “really can be kind of addictive,” she said. “You see a tangible difference you’re making.”
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Jaazanaih reads to All Students Matter volunteer Christina Lee in Cassanndra Wicker’s Belle Haven school classroom. Ms. Lee comes to the classroom at least once a week for an hour, working with students one-onone or in very small groups.
the district, not to “fix” it. We don’t believe the idea of there being a ‘magic bullet’,” she said. “There isn’t. These kids need time and attention.” All Students Matter volunteers believe that providing classroom volunteers is the best way to help the Ravenswood district. “The real need is for boots on the ground,” Ms. Blatman said. “‘Things’ aren’t going to be the solution in the classroom. I think it’s going to be people.” Ms. Blatman used her business background to help organize and grow the organization, which has expanded slowly, adding about 35 or 40 volunteers a year and additional grades and schools each year.
Jeanette Kennedy
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Atherton’s Jeanette Kennedy, a long-time volunteer who serves on the All Students Matter board and helps with planning and marketing for the group, said about half the volunteers are from Palo Alto, with others from Menlo Park, Atherton, Los Altos, Woodside and Portola Valley. “We’re there to help the district, the teachers and the principals,” she said. “I think we as group feel a passion for early literacy.” Most volunteers stay three to five years, she said, and about a third are former teachers. However, she said, because All Students Matter provides training, “if you’ve read books to your own children,” you’re qualified.
Palo Alto’s Carolyn Blatman, the group’s unpaid executive director, joined All Students Matter in 2009 and currently volunteers in classrooms four days a week. Volunteers must commit to be in the same classroom for at least one hour at the same time every week, she said. “We’re one of the rare adults consistently in the classroom, and in their lives, maybe,” Ms. Blatman said. However, she emphasized, the group is there to help
All Students Matter has one paid staff member, Menlo Park’s Keri Tully, who works 20 hours a week as the program director, training and scheduling volunteers and providing support. She’s a former teacher who taught in Los Angeles and New York City districts similar to Ravenswood. This year she’s been working in a fifth-grade
Keri Tully
All Students Matter is now recruiting volunteers for the 201718 school year. At is.gd/ASM_vol prospective volunteers can sign up on the organization’s website. They will be contacted with more information. Training is in September, and volunteers start in classrooms at the end of that month and continue volunteering until mid-May. The group often has a volunteer waitlist, but usually has been able to place all of them. AllStudentsMatter.org has more information.
classroom, to see what training the group will need to expand to that grade level. She’s been with a group of three fifth-grade girls reading books and discussing them in depth. “They could use an adult in their lives who has the time to talk about a book with them,” she said. “It’s just really, really fun.” Ms. Tully’s own children, now in high school and college, went to the Las Lomitas Elementary School District. The students in the Ravenswood district are “just as bright and just as deserving, but don’t have the same student support network,” she said. “There are just some who aren’t going to make it without extra support.” “If we can be that one adult each week that the child can have some special time with, that really makes a big difference,” Ms. Tully said. “Their parents are working really hard. They’re living in really difficult conditions. They’re trying to get food on the table and a roof over their head,” Ms. Tully said. She also emphasized that the volunteers “are here to support students where they are.” “In no way do we feel that we’re coming across town to save these kids,” she said. “We just want to support them and help them grow.” “They’re learning at whatever level they’re at, and we teach them at that level,” she said. “We really try to go into the classroom with humility and much respect.” All Students Matter volunteers use the same materials teachers do and work to “support the teacher in precisely what the teacher is doing,” she said. “We want to make sure we’re meeting a teacher’s needs.” Ms. Tully said there are few requirements for being an All Students Matter volunteer. “You’ve just got to love kids,” she said, “have a passion for helping children learn and love being around them.” A Photo by Irene Searles
Who are the Ravenswood students? The latest statistics from the Ravenswood City School District, where All Students Matter currently provides about 200 classroom volunteers, show a very different study body from that of neighboring districts. This year, district representatives said, 40 percent of Ravenswood students are considered homeless. (The state definition includes those who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or who share other’s housing.) Nearly all the district students, 95 percent, qualify for free meals and 65 percent of the students are still learning English. The latest state test results show that 83 percent of Ravenswood students had not met their grade level standards in English language arts and literacy and 88 percent were below the grade level standards in math.
Alexandra, Emily and Omar, all students in Cassanndra Wicker’s Belle Haven school first-grade classroom, practice their reading. Ms. Wicker has volunteers from All Students Matter in her classroom four times a week, working with the students she thinks could most use individualized attention.
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PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.
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Sacred Heart Schools Atherton
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Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!
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Our Camp offers the ultimate combination of sports, adventure and creativity! Coaches bring lots of positive energy and enthusiasm every day. Each week of day camp features two to three adventures with all other days held at Juana Briones Elementary. Adventure highlights include climbing tower, archery, dodgeball on the beach, kayaking, Great America and more. Overnight Camp includes kayaking, horseback riding, archery, campfires, sports, crafts and more. Ages 6-14. Financial aid available.
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Mountain View
Spartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions for boys and girls in grades 2-7, sport-specific sessions for grades 2-9, color guard camp for grades 3-9, and cheerleading camp for grades pre-K – 8. We also offer a hip hop dance camp for grades 1-7. Camp dates are June 12 through July 28 at Mountain View High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and student-athletes and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and extended care are available.
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Kids who love to act have fun, put on a show, and learn from pros at the acclaimed TheatreWorks Silicon Valley camps for budding theatre enthusiasts. Spring Break camps for K-6. Summer Camps for K-12, plus special teen programs.
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At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps at 30+ locations plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.
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Atherton eases rules for second units By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer
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therton residents who want to create a legal small rental unit or guest house on their property will soon find it easier to do, thanks to new state laws that require easing of such regulations in an attempt to provide more affordable rental housing. Two new state laws regarding accessory dwelling units, often called in-law or granny units, went into effect in January. Both say that unless local jurisdictions incorporate the new regulations into their own laws, the new state laws will take over. The City Council is scheduled to give final approval to the new regulations at its April 19 meeting, with the ordinance going into effect 30 days later. The council gave preliminary approval to the new ordinance at its March 15 meeting. Some of Atherton’s rules won’t change. Each property may have only one accessory dwelling unit of up to 1,200 square feet, and either the accessory unit or the main unit must be occupied by the owner. The town also does not count the square footage of the accessory dwelling unit against the maximum square footage allowed on a property. Atherton’s new regulations say all secondary units may be rented, but only for 30 days or longer. The most substantive changes required by state law say the town can not deny permission for accessory dwelling units inside the main house or accessory buildings, such as garages or pool houses, if those building have their own entrances and have setbacks sufficient for fire safety. Currently, accessory dwelling units can only encroach into the setbacks required for the main house by 20 percent of those setbacks. For example, if a 60-foot setback is required for a main house, a new accessory dwelling unit requires a 48-foot setback.
Caltrain changes Some changes have been made to the Caltrain schedule. Some trains will make more stops, and timing in some cases has been shifted for better connections with the Altamont Corridor Express, Capital Corridor trains, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Some morning southbound Baby Bullet trains have also been renumbered, according to Menlo Park city staff. Go to is.gd/train649 to see the Caltrain schedule.
Those setback requirements will continue to apply to newly constructed accessory dwelling units. The new regulations include the state requirement that applications for an accessory dwelling unit must be approved or denied within 120 days. “We’re trying to draft around the state law,” said City Attorney Bill Conners. “I think we have done our best.” Council members, who unanimously approved the first reading
of the ordinance were most concerned that the rules seem to allow someone to construct a new accessory building such as a pool house, which can be 10 feet from a side or rear property line, and then immediately convert it into a legal accessory dwelling unit, bypassing the setback requirements for a newly constructed accessory dwelling unit. They asked town staff to look at whether changes need to be made in the town’s setback regulations to avoid that problem. A
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National Accelerator Laboratory, Panofsky Auditorium, 2575 Sand Hill Road, SUSB Building, Bldg. 53, Menlo Park. www6.slac. stanford.edu/community/public-lectures.aspx Jacqueline Winspear, author of Maisie Dobbs series, discusses Maisie Dobbsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest mystery as she tracks down a murderer who escaped occupied Belgium 23 years earlier, during World War I. April 5, 7:30 p.m. $10-$40. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. brownpapertickets.com/event/paonline/ /LVHQ 6WURPEHUJ¡V new book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Work Pause Thriveâ&#x20AC;? explores how 1,500 highly successful women navigate work and life. She and Julie Lythcott-Haims will talk about raising adults while managing oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career. Wine reception follows. April 11, 7:30-9 p.m. Free, RSVPs appreciated. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. brownpapertickets.com/ event/paonline/ 0HGLFDUH IRU $OO LQ &DOLIRUQLD is the subject of a current bill being considered in state Legislature. This talk offers a perspective on single-payer healthcare. April 5, 7-9 p.m. Free. Woodside Road United Methodist Church, 2000 Woodside Road, Redwood City. smcdfa.org/calendar $UW )URP 7KH $JH RI 0DULH $QWRLQHWWH to the Age of Napoleon Denise Ericksen, professor of art history at Canada College, leads a lecture series that explores artists patronized by Queen Marie Antoinette and how Napoleon used power and wealth to transform Paris into an artistic emblem of his triumphs. April 5, 12 and 19, 4-6:30 p.m. $75, member; $90, nonmember. Cantor Auditorium, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford. edu/participate/ArtFocusLectures.html Robert Hass: An Education Into Poetry Talk by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author. April 12, 7:30-9 p.m. Free, RSVPs appreciated. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.
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April Free First Friday Preschool craft program at 11 a.m. and an adult tour at 2 p.m. April 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. historysmc.org/ Bubblemania This wonder-inducing bubble show mixes science and bubble fun. It will explore the science of bubbles and someone will even get a chance to be inside a giant bubble. All ages are welcome. April 6, 3:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. Easter Bunny Photos at Stanford Shopping Center Families take snapshots with the Easter Bunny through Saturday, April 15, near Center Pavilion. Go to simon.noerrbunny.com and reserve an appointment. $10. Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. 0\VWHU\ LQ WKH /LEUDU\ This activity is best for ages 7 to 12. Part scavenger hunt and part breakout room, this game asks participants to follow the clues and try to solve the mystery. Those who succeed in unlocking the box will be rewarded. April 12, 1-4 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. Passport to Your Library Adventure For National Library Week, library visitors are encouraged to pick up a passport, try new activities and get it stamped for any completed activity shown on the passportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s map. Each stamp earns visitors a ticket to be entered into a drawing for a prize. April 1-15, MondaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. 3DZV IRU 7DOHV Children practice reading skills by reading to a trained therapy dog. Pet Assisted Therapy teams and their handlers are from the Peninsula Humane Society and the SPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paws for Tales program. Registration required. April 5, 4 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. 6QDFN DQG &KDW ZLWK :RRGVLGH /LEUDULDQV All ages are welcome to meet the Woodside librarians and chat with them about librarianship and all the fun things theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing at Woodside Library. Or visitors can simply drop by to say hi and grab some refreshments. April 12 and 14, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.
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Atherton studies budget, civic center options By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer
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therton expects to continue bringing in more money than it spends, a first look at the town’s 2017-18 fiscal year budget shows, meaning the town is very close to having enough money to pay the projected costs for its new civic center without any borrowing. The City Council will meet Wednesday, April 5, in a study session on the budget and a possible financing option for the new civic center. The meeting starts at 4 p.m. in the council chambers at 94 Ashfield Road. The budget
The first of several meetings to look at the town’s 2017-18 fiscal year budget focuses on the town’s general fund. The town should start the fiscal year on July 1 with $11.7 million in unallocated Q POL I C E C A L LS This information is from the Menlo Park Police Department and the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Under the law, people charged with offenses are considered innocent unless convicted. Police received the reports on the dates shown. WOODSIDE Vandalism: Someone cut a lock on a residential property on Woodside Drive, entered the property and cut cables to a video surveillance system. Estimated loss: $600. March 24. MENLO PARK Residential burglary: Someone stole a bike that had been locked to a concrete pole in an underground parking area on
CALENDAR continued from page 22 Zoo Animals Visit the Library During this time (best for children 18 months to 5 years old), kids will meet live animals from the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, like hedgehogs, snakes, lizards, rabbits, birds, ferrets, rats and insects. April 10, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.
Museums & Exhibits
Portola Art Gallery presents “Open Spaces and Quiet Places,” an exhibit of landscape paintings in pastel and oil by Mary K. Stahl. Inspired by the play of light over the natural landscape, the paintings offer the viewer a respite from the grind. April 1-30, MondaySaturday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free. Portola Art Gallery, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. Art Exhibition Nora Reza, longtime painter based in France and the Bay Area, will show her color-oriented, geometric abstract oil paintings. All are invited to the exhibit, “Geometric Fields of Light and Color.” The opening is April 11, 6-8 p.m. April 11-21, 8 a.m. to closing. Free. Cafe Borrone, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Hope Gangloff Curates Portraiture New York-based artist Hope Gangloff has been invited to mine the museum’s permanent collection and select key works to hang alongside her own contemporary paintings. This exhibition will create a conversation between
The budget forecasts show the town is within $38,000 of having the money it needs to pay the estimated $25.6 million cost of its planned civic center, which is scheduled to go out for bids later this year. If more money is needed, consultant Urban Futures
Incorporated has recommended the town could use a financing mechanism called “certificates of participation” (COPs) to finance part of the cost of constructing the civic center. Unlike bonds, COPs do not require public approval. The town’s previous calculations, which include spending some money it expects to receive over the next two budget years, showed it was $1.2 million short of the estimated cost of the civic center. The consultant’s report shows what it would cost the town to finance $5 million, $10 million and $20 million for terms of 10, 15 or 20 years. Predicted interest rates range from 2.6 to 3.7 percent, depending on the amount borrowed and the term of repayment. If, for example, the town sold $5 million in COPs, to be paid down over 10 years, it would have annual payments of about $600,000 and pay back a total of a little over $5.8 million with a 2.9 percent interest rate, the report shows. A
Roble Avenue. The owner’s storage locker had also been opened, but was not missing anything, police said. Estimated loss: $3,500. March 25. Thefts: Q A thief opened two tool boxes secured in the rear of a carport on Mills Street and stole a wrench set, a drill, a hydraulic jack, two dollies and car wash equipment. Estimated loss: $3,800. March 29. Q Five pieces of jewelry — four rings and a pair of earrings — were stolen from Shady Lane Gifts on Sharon Park Drive. The items had been lying loose for restocking in display cabinets, police said. Estimated loss: $500. March 29. Q Someone stole an unlocked bicycle from the backyard of a home on Live Oak Avenue. Estimated loss: $400. March 25. Q A resident of O’Brien Drive told police that someone had stolen a brake light from
her Dodge Caravan. Estimated loss: $100. March 31. Q An unlocked bike was stolen from in front of a coin-operated laundry in the 1100 block of Willow Road. Estimated loss: $100. March 29. Q Someone cut a cable and stole a cellphone from MetroPCS on Newbridge Street. No estimate on losses. March 24. Q A man left the Safeway supermarket at 525 El Camino Real with merchandise he had not paid for, but the man claimed it was accidental in that he had been distracted. He subsequently paid for the items. No loss. March 29. Reckless driving: Police arrested a Menlo Park man after his vehicle did a 360-degree skid while traveling “at a high rate of speed,” then transited the intersection of O’Brien Drive and Casey Court without coming to a complete stop. March 26.
past and present. April 4-Sept. 24, WednesdayMonday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. events.stanford.edu/
to sign up or drop-in to a casual one-on-one genealogy instruction. 1st Thursday of the month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane, Atherton. Introduction to Game Development Class This class, taught by Digital Monkey School, is an opportunity for students of all levels (in grades 2-8) to discover how computer games are made. April 11, 4 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.
money in its general fund, according to a report by Atherton Finance Director Robert Barron III. Projected general fund revenues for the year are $15.8 million. With $13.3 million in general fund spending budgeted, the town should end the 2017-18 fiscal year with a $14.2 million surplus. After setting aside about $5 million to meet the council’s reserve requirements, the town would have about $9.2 million in unallocated general fund reserves it could put toward the new civic center. Civic center financing
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Hula Class at Little House covers the basics, from the swaying of hips to the waving of hands. Participants learn about Hawaiian culture and receive a quick work out in the form of dance. All levels welcome; no prior experience needed. Mondays April 10-June 12, 6-7 p.m. $10-$13. Little House Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. penvol.org/littlehouse
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3-D Printing Demo All ages are welcome to drop in and check out the 3D printers in action. April 10, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. Botanical Art for Children Children ages 10 and up are introduced to botanical art, including fundamental principles, drawing skills and color mixing using graphite and colored pencils. Each class begins with a walk through the garden, followed by a talk about botanical art. April 8 and 9, May 20, June 17, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $50, member; $60, non-member. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. Discover Your Roots: Genealogy @ Atherton Library Participants learn about their family history. Those interested are welcome
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Herb Dengler watercolors An exhibition of original watercolors of wildf lowers of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve by Portola Valley artist Herb Dengler will be on display on Saturday, April 8, in a three-hour celebration of the late artist’s life and art. This free event is open to the public, includes light refreshments and begins at 1 p.m. in the Community Hall at 765 Portola Road in Portola Valley. A panel discussion begins at 1:45 p.m. The town’s Cultural Arts Committee is sponsoring the event. Mr. Dengler’s son, Ronald Dengler, donated the paintings to the town.
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A columbine was one of many wildflower subjects for the brushes and watercolors of Herb Dengler.
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Weekday Hike with the Friends This will be a 5-mile loop to Alambique Flat and the Meadow with a stop for lunch. Docent Tom Davids leads the hike and talks about nature and history along the way. Hikers should meet at 10 a.m. at the stables, and bring a sack lunch. The walk will take place rain or shine. April 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Wunderlich County Park, 4040 Woodside Road, Woodside. huddartwunderlichfriends.org/events/75-comehike-with-the-friends Woodside/Purisima Creek Crossover This trail traverses the forested slopes and steep, cool canyons of Huddart Park and Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. Distances of 10K, half marathon, 35K and 50K welcome runners and hikers of all abilities. April 9, 8:30 a.m. $40-$70. Huddart County Park, 1100 Kings Mountain Road, Woodside. trailrunner.com/event/woodsidepurisima-creekcrossover/
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Woodside High students see ‘fatal crash’ aftermath Woodside High Principal Diane Burbank told the Almanac. The public address sysmiles and light conversa- tem came to life with three tion were not in evidence authentic-sounding calls to 911 at Woodside High School about an accident, possibly at on the morning of Wednesday, Woodside High, followed by March 29, despite the presence a dispatcher informing a first of the entire student body in the responder. A red fire engine the football field bleachers. Silence Woodside Fire Protection Disprevailed, broken occasionally trict arrived shortly and drove by audible gasps and sniffles, onto the field. A bloodstained girl lay deathevidence perhaps of the suspenly still on the convertible’s hood sion of disbelief. And that was the point, as it as if her body had plunged is with theatrical productions through the windshield. The everywhere. On the field a few occupants of the other car minutes after 10 a.m., first weren’t moving either and responders had tugged down a “needed extraction,” a medic large tarp that had been cover- said over the air. With the ing a staged scene of a head-on driver’s side door jammed, collision between a convertible medics spent several minutes and a similar sized sedan. The separating the door from the damage to the vehicles was real car, then extracted the driver to enough, but the blood was fake, a stretcher. Medics went about as were the injuries as played by securing him, then loaded him into an ambulance that students chosen for the roles. The event was another epi- sped away with sirens blaring and emergency sode in a prolights blazing. gram known as T hat v ic“Every 15 Min‘It was definitely an tim, not yet utes,” put on by the California eye-opening experience “dead,” would Highway Patrol that (echoed) things like be declared so at the hospital, and intended to reduce this actually happening after which a alcohol-relatin our everyday lives.’ CHP officer, by previous ed incidents ALEX ROQUE, arrangement, among young WOODSIDE HIGH STUDENT was to notify drivers. The the next of kin name refers to a national statistic from the by going in person to the family early 1990s, when an alcohol- home or parent’s workplace. Verisimilitude being the rule related collision killed someone every 15 minutes. The death of the day, a student “fatality” rate, updated for today, is about was placed in a black plastic one death every 30 minutes, a body bag that medics actually zipped up in the heat and program description says. Funding for the program light of the day. Using the bag’s comes from the state Office conveniently placed handles, of Traffic Safety, through the medics loaded the body bag National Highway Traffic Safe- into a dark blue windowless ty Administration, and the van belonging to the County event itself requires about eight Coroner’s Office. The “driver” in this drama months of preliminary work,
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She’s not dead— but is playing dead for the student body on March 28 at Woodside High’s football field, kicking off a two-day drama-as-object-lesson put on by the CHP on the dangers of drinking and driving.
had no apparent injuries, but shuffled around the scene during rescue operations until a CHP officer called her over and administered sobriety tests. She failed, predictably, which led to her being handcuffed and taken in a squad car to the county jail, there to be incarcerated until her parents liberated her, school officials said. There’s more. Secrecy was key to this drama, and before it got underway that morning and perhaps to set the mood, a towering Grim Reaper, clothed in black robes and carrying a scythe, stalked the halls of the school accompanied by a CHP officer and a school counselor. They would enter a classrooms and spirit away a student, a procedure that included the reading of an obituary of the recently departed classmate and a parting gesture: the leaving of a black rose, Ms. Burbank said. Another gesture:
tombstones on campus marked with the students’ names. On the field, these 18 students — the Living Dead, as Ms. Burbank referred to them — gathered as a backdrop to the action, dressed in black and with make-up to give their faces a corpse-like shade of white. Kids from every ZIP code in the school were represented. “We want kids to see themselves in this group,” Ms. Burbank said. The Grim Reaper was never far away, raising questions as to what might be going through his mind as he observed the medics going about their duties. All the students in the performance spent the night and the part of the following day at a retreat in the vicinity of Pescadero. One focus would be the dangers of alcohol when mixed with driving “in the hope that (the students participating) will bring the message back to their
peers,” Ms. Burbank said. The second day’s events included mock funerals, complete with a casket, bagpipes, the presence of parents, images of the rescues, eulogies by the Living Dead, and a guest speaker who had gone through a similar experience in real life, Ms. Burbank said. Counselors were available to help students through their emotions. “Social media will blow up,” Ms. Burbank said. “The point is don’t drink and drive, don’t get in a car in which another person has been drinking and driving,” she said. “It was definitely an eyeopening experience that (echoed) things like this actually happening in our everyday lives,” said Alex Roque, 18, of Redwood City from his seat in the bleachers. The message, he said, is to not risk your own life or that of others when trying to have fun or going to a party. A
Sequoia high school district board names superintendent By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer
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fter a “highly competitive” nationwide candidate search that involved 40 applicants and input from focus groups and surveys of students, staff, parents and representatives of elementary school districts, the governing board of the Sequoia Union High School District has chosen Mary E. Streshly as the new superintendent, the district announced March 31. Ms. Streshly, currently an assistant superintendent at a high school district in Campbell, will take over leadership of the Sequoia district on July 1,
succeeding Jim Lianides, who’s retiring in June from a position he’s held since March 2010. The district will pay Ms. Streshly an Mary Streshly annual salary of $238,000, according to an employment agreement provided to the Almanac. Ms. Streshly has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a master’s degree from San Diego State University and a doctorate from San Francisco State University. Her career includes experience
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as a teacher, department chair, administrator and coach. She has coordinated an English Language Learner program and currently oversees curriculum, instruction, special education, student services and technology at the Campbell Union High School District. The Campbell Union district enrolls about 7,700 students at six high schools. The Sequoia district has about 9,000 students and stretches from the southern border of San Mateo County to Belmont. The district has four comprehensive high schools, including Menlo-Atherton and Woodside high schools, along with East Palo Alto Academy (a
charter school), Redwood High (a “continuation school” (to give students at risk of not completing their coursework another chance at a diploma) and an adult education school. Sequoia board President Carrie DuBois described Ms. Streshly as a “strong educational leader (who) embraces a studentcentered approach to education” and who brings communication and community building skills and the ability to manage a complex organization. Ms. Streshly’s experience, approach and vision “demonstrate that she is someone who possesses all of these traits and is the right person to lead this district through the
many opportunities and challenges in the years ahead,” Ms. DuBois said in a statement. Ms. Streshly said she was honored and thrilled to serve “such an outstanding district,” adding that she looks forward to “being a very visible and active part of this community.” “I believe deeply that the Sequoia Union High School District is uniquely positioned to be the testimonial for the rest of the nation for how to provide a world-class education in a diverse community” so that every youth graduates collegeand career-ready to contribute to American democracy and a global society, she said. A
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n the late 1990s, the city of Menlo Park partnered library-needs studies focused only on the library’s with the Ravenswood City School District to create main branch? According to a staff report by Library Services Direca community library on the Belle Haven Elementary School campus that would be open to the public tor Susan Holmer, three studies have been undertaken when school wasn’t in session. It was a major step since January 2015 “looking at library services and toward acknowledging that significant city services the needs of the Menlo Park community.” The third, were not reaching across the Bayshore freeway into the recently released study lays out three options to either renovate or completely rebuild the main library, with Belle Haven community. each option designed to allow the That library branch opened in city “to respond to the community’s spring 1999, and in spite of its limiEDI TORIA L changing patterns of library use.” tations, a recent preliminary study The opinion of The Almanac But considering that the Belle Haven by the city’s Library Commission library and its many users weren’t indicates that Belle Haven residents are more active library users than residents in other included in these studies, one has to ask which community’s needs are being considered — a question that areas of the city. That fact, coupled with the difficulty for Belle Hav- residents east of the Bayshore are legitimately asking. The Menlo Park City Council at its March 28 study en children, and even some adults, to access a library across the freeway in the city’s Civic Center, raises a session was right to balk at the price tag included in the critical question about the recent effort to identify report on the three main library options — estimated the city’s library needs, and map out options to meet at a minimum of $32 million. But the council needs to those needs into the future: Why have the recent show a firm commitment to including the Belle Haven
community going forward as the city plans its future library services for the entire community. Would it benefit main library patrons if the existing 33,000-square-foot branch were expanded by 11,000 square feet? Of course. But with limited funding, what should be the city’s priorities in providing library services to the entire community? Could reconfiguring poorly used space in the existing main branch in a less expensive project, and redirecting funds to improve library services in Belle Haven be a more equitable option, improving services for everyone? Could some of the needs identified as beneficial for young people, such as collaborative spaces and a “maker space,” be adequately met in existing city facilities, such as the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center? And does the main library really need a cafe? There are many options to explore in reviewing the community’s library needs, but only by including the Belle Haven neighborhood in any review of library services will the council be able to make fair and responsible decisions on the future of those services in Menlo Park. A
Not playing on a level field with Atherton’s Measure A election at the Registration and Elections Division of the Kathy McKeithen County of San Mateo, n June the town of is a former mayor and resulted in a comment that Atherton will be voting council member in local elections a city clerk on the potential use of of the town of pretty much sets his/her public funds to pay for the Atherton, where own rules. He repeatedly construction of a new civic she still resides. stressed that the San Mateo center, something that was County Elections Office deemed inappropriate by GUEST OPINION did not advise the Atherton approximately 74 percent of city clerk to accept the late the voters in a 2012 ballot analysis; she was merely measure. As the town moves forward to attempt to erode that mandate, confu- told that the county would print what the town submitted for the ballot. He said she clearly viosion and intrigue have begun. The most recent debacle involving this upcom- lated her own rules, but the only recourse was a ing election pertains to the filing deadline for the court action. Thus, the question becomes: To what extent, ballot measure analysis and gives the perception that the playing field may not be as level as it once those rules have been established and published, and the public has come to rely on them, should be. Here are the facts: Per council direction by unanimous resolution can they be changed — not at the eleventh hour, in February, California law, and as advertised by but after the game should have been over? For that the town in its half-page notice in the Almanac is essentially what happened. A guide for preparing impartial analyses preon March 8, the deadline for the city attorney’s impartial analysis was noon on Friday, March pared for the California League of Cities’ then-city 17. This deadline provided for a subsequent attorneys’ 2015 spring conference indicates that important 10-day public examination period and such analyses should be filed at the same time as the ballot measure. The author said the clerks he opportunity to respond. This clearly stated and noticed requirement was works with consistently tell him he cannot file not followed. Ten days after the deadline, when the such analyses late. If this is the best and accepted town was asked to produce the impartial analysis, practice, then why in Atherton can one file 10 days late with impunity? it was discovered that it had not yet been filed. Finally, this very much arguably less-thanUpon inquiry, the city clerk said this had never happened before and that she did not know what impartial analysis implies that the results of this to do, but said she would ask the city attorney, the election do not really matter, as the measure is same person who had failed to meet the deadline, “advisory” in nature and, as such, the City Council can do whatever it wants, win or lose. As a for advice. It is noteworthy that no one at the town seemed basis for the action it suggests, it refers to “case to notice that its attorney failed to file the impar- law interpretations” without ever having sought tial analysis, including the city manager who an independent legal opinion on a critical issue. So much for a level playing field and a fair manages the staff. An inquiry with Jim Irizarry, an official election. By Kathy McKeithen
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Looking back Mabel Lloyd Jessup Coryell was known as a master gardener, planting and caring for some 15,000 orchids in greenhouses she and her husband Joseph Coryell built on their Atherton estate in 1906, according to “Under the Oaks,” an Atherton history book by Pamela Gullard and Nancy Lund. The Coryells lived in what was known as the “Hecht place” in Fair Oaks, where their three children, Royal, Gordon and Sibyl, were born, the historians report.
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Does the pig scramble reflect Woodsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values? By Anna Calia
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he greatness of a nation and its moral progress is judged by the way its animals are treated.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mahatma Gandhi The pig scramble is an annual event at the Fourth of July Woodside Jr. Rodeo; small kids chase even smaller pigs and get a prize for catching one The Committee For a Humane Woodside thinks the pig scramble is a cruel event that injures pigs. They collected nearly 200 signatures from Woodside residents in an effort to stop the event. But the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County, which hosts the event, has a different take on this. Its leaders feel that the pig scramble highlights their Western values, and does not harm small pigs. Is this event in line with the values our town is interested in promoting? The Mounted Patrol is a group of men who focus on promoting horse and equine activities. They are also available to help with local emergency services. The Mounted Patrol has been around for 75 years. According to the Mounted Patrol Foundation website, its goal is to create a community that educates and supports the contribution of horses for work and recreation. Terry Welcome of the Mounted Patrol told the Almanac that the pig scramble is
a part of a Western tradition showcasing pigs. It is clear from a video produced â&#x20AC;&#x153;independence, hard work, responsibil- in 2016 that the Mounted Patrol did not ity, and compassion for animals that make last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pig scramble event gentle help do much of the ranch work, and or humane for the pigs. The Mounted Patrol claimed that there camaraderie.â&#x20AC;? However, a search of the archives in was no dragging of the pigs from their the National Cowboy Museum yielded legs, yet the announcer said in the video, no information relating to pig scrambles â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best way to catch them is to hold as a part of Western heritage. Also, them by their back legs or their front there are no references to pig scrambles legs.â&#x20AC;? The video showed people making or pig wrestling in the 2017 Northloud noises, kids ern California Jr. chasing after small Rodeo Association squealing pigs, (NCJRA) rodeo Anna Calia is and finally superschedules, except 11 years old visors dangling for the Woodside and has lived in Woodside for and dragging the rodeo. almost seven screeching pigs Nevertheless, Mr. years. by their back legs Welcome of the or front legs, then Patrol has said that putting them into â&#x20AC;&#x153;the pig scramble is GUEST OPINION the trailer. wholesome, a part According to of Western tradition thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being lost in this country.â&#x20AC;? DNL Farms Ltd, a low-stress pig hanBut it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to have ever been a dling training company located in White Fox Saskatchewan, Canada, signs documented tradition. According to the Mounted Patrolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of a stressed pig include open-mouthed website, the group is dedicated to pro- breathing, increased body temperature, moting interest in equestrian activities. refusal to move, squealing, squawking/ The pig scramble appears to simply be gasping noises, and collapsing. Furthermore, if there are too many pigs an event that the Mounted Patrol enjoys in a trailer, if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re scrambling to get hosting. The Mounted Patrol told the Almanac away, piling on top of each other, refusing that it made the 2016 pig scramble gentler to move in bunches, or slipping, pigs are in response to complaints from the com- showing stress and fear. Handler actions that cause fear and munity to make it more humane for the
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stress in pigs include too many people, too much movement or activity, and lots of noise. Clearly the pigs in the pig scramble video are demonstrating several signs of fear and stress. Does the community want to take part in the pig scramble? This February, my brother and his friend polled 55 Woodside kids ages 8 to 12, asking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;would you be upset if the pig scramble was no longer a part of the Woodside Jr. Rodeo?â&#x20AC;? Seventy-five percent of the kids said they would not mind if the event was no longer a part of the rodeo. The Committee for a Humane Woodside also created a petition to stop the pig scramble. Nearly 200 Woodside residents signed it. Another online petition initiated by Animal Place has garnered over 26,515 signatures from people around the world to end the pig scramble. Since thousands of people are against it, why does Woodside still allow this event? The pig scramble does not seem to be connected to the Mounted Patrolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Western values. And, it proves to cause stress, fear, and possible injury to the pigs. Many people in the community are passionately against the event. The Mounted Patrol should host an event in place of the pig scramble that truly expresses Western values and heritage, an event that treats animals in a humane way, and an event that the community as a whole will value.
lower overall and Pharma can still fund research. Don Barnby Spruce Avenue, Menlo Park
Congress needs to act to reduce drug costs
Stop teaching kids to terrify pigs
Editor: An open letter to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo: Why do none of the health care discussions (when Obamacare was being designed, or now that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up for repeal/replacement) address the big elephant in the room â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is, reducing costs, particularly drug costs? Both conservatives and progressives should be able to agree that the pharmaceutical companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Congress can and should terminate all subsidies and insist upon an absolutely level playing field for pharmaceutical companies: mandate free and open competition across all jurisdictional lines (state to state, country to country), no restriction on Medicare purchasing, no drug pricing disparities, etc. Establish a truly free market. Pharma argues that high prices (in the U.S.) are needed to fund research. False; significant price declines in the U.S. can be offset by reduced price-breaks elsewhere. With uniform prices and genuine competition drug prices can be
Editor: The annual Woodside pig scramble allows children to chase and catch piglets, all in the name of â&#x20AC;&#x153;funâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;entertainment,â&#x20AC;? while grabbing the baby pigs by their legs, as they squeal and try to run away. Last week, the Woodside Town Council listened to veterinarians, local residents, parents, teachers, and even four children, all attesting to the cruelty and harm inflicted upon the animals, the bad example it sets for children, and the poor reputation it gives Woodside, for cruelty to animals. The Mounted Patrol, on the other hand, had two speakers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of whom said the event was â&#x20AC;&#x153;funâ&#x20AC;? for the animals, the other saying that since the event happens on private property, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business what happens there. And the Town Council? They hemmed and hawed that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not breaking the law, that it should be decided at the county or state level, and then left things the way they were. But who is this event actually for? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be for the children, and there was not one
child there who stood for keeping the event. Nor was there one story about anyone who attended as a child and had some life-affirming experience. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to grow up, folks! Stop teaching children to hurt and scare baby pigs. Or better yet, have a supervised petting area to teach children how to be kind to animals, instead of terrifying them. Kim Hunter Los Altos
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Ford 2000 F-150 4WD SUPER CAB, automatic, 5.4L V8, 88000 miles, gasoline, $2600, Blue ext. with Tan int. Call or text me at 5025096841
145 Non-Profits Needs DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARY
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152 Research Study Volunteers DID YOU KNOW 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN)
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Join us for the Palo Alto Citywide Yard Sale on Saturday, June 3. Last day to sign up to host a yard sale is May 5. Details will be posted on www.PaloAltoOnline.com/yardsale/ The map and listings will be uploaded to this page and be printed in the June 2 Palo Alto Weekly.
215 Collectibles & Antiques LP vynil album collection - $4600.00
DISH TV - BEST DEAL EVER! Only $39.99/mo. Plus $14.99/mo. Internet (where avail.) FREE Streaming. FREE Install (up to 6 rooms.) FREE HD-DVR. Call 1-800-357-0810 (Cal-SCAN)
Christina Conti Piano Private piano lessons for all levels, all ages. In your home or mine. Bachelor of Music, 20+ years exp. 650/493-6950
Paul Price Music Lessons In your home. Piano, violin, viola, theory, history. Customized. BA music, choral accompanist, arranger, early pop and jazz. 800/647-0305
PA: City Wide Garage Sale Saturday, June 3, 8-2 Helping the environment and making money has never been so easy. Reusing - whether you donate, buy, or sell - is one of the best ways to reduce waste and keep usable stuff out of the landfill.
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Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com
EPA: 807C East Bayshore, 4/7-4/8, 4/21-4/22, 10-1 BIG RUMMAGE SALE benefits Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford.(Between University Ave. and Willow Rd.) CASH ONLY. 650/497-8332 or during sale 650/326-1257. Now accepting donations on sale days
Toyota 2002 Tacoma Double Cab SR5 4x4, 144396 miles, 3.4L V6, Automatic Transmission, $2700, titanium/gray, clean title, no accidents. Call at 2252836723
202 Vehicles Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT to Heritage for the Blind. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. Call 1-800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN)
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350 Preschools/ Schools/Camps Associate Teacher Teacher. 50 year old East Palo Alto Montessori school. 12 ECE units and some Montessori training preferred. Fluency in Spanish desirable. Competitive salaries, professional development, health insurance and personal leave.
Mind & Body 410 Chiropractor DID YOU KNOW 144 million U.S. Adults read a Newspaper print copy each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN)
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To place a Classified ad in The Almanac, The Palo Alto Weekly or The Mountain View Voice call 326-8216 or at fogster.com
560 Employment Information
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1993 Kubota L2950 4WD 31Hp,Only 1898 Hours,Diesel Tractor With Loader,4-cylinder.$2500 Call:7144895686 Womans jacket - $20 or bes
260 Sports & Exercise Equipment Elliptical bike for sale - $ 190.00
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615 Computers EVERY BUSINESS has a story to tell! Get your message out with California’s PRMedia Release – the only Press Release Service operated by the press to get press! For more info contact Cecelia @ 916-288-6011 or http://prmediarelease.com/california (Cal-SCAN)
624 Financial BORROW $150K to $1 million. Easy Qualify CONSTRUCTION and Owner builder loans www.EasyConstructionLoan.com Since 1980, CA Bro Lic #00426805 NMLS. ID #303135 (Cal-SCAN) Do You Owe Over $10K to the IRS or State in back taxes? Our firm works to reduce the tax bill or zero it out completely FAST. Call now 855-993-5796. (Cal-SCAN) SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY benefits. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon and Associates at 1-800-966-1904 to start your application today! (Cal-SCAN)
636 Insurance Health and Dental Insurance Lowest Prices. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (Cal-SCAN)
640 Legal Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s hostile business climate? Gain the edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the FREE One-Month Trial Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN)
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805 Homes for Rent Morgan Hill: 4BR/2BA Furn. New kit. appl. Near bus, CalTrain. $3300 mo. N/P/S/D. teacherteacher99a@gmail.com Mountain View, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $4350.00 p Palo Alto, 4 BR/2 BA - $7995
715 Cleaning Services
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Isabel and Elbi’s Housecleaning Apartments and homes. Excellent references. Great rates. 650/670-7287 or 650/771-8281
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Orkopina Housecleaning Cleaning homes in your area since 1985. 650/962-1536 Silvia’s Cleaning We don’t cut corners, we clean them! Bonded, insured, 22 yrs. exp., service guaranteed, excel. refs., free est. 415/860-6988
748 Gardening/ Landscaping LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Clean Ups *Irrigation timer programming. 20 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 landaramon@yahoo.com
751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.
759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., green waste, more. Local, 20 yrs exp. Lic./ ins. Free est. 650/743-8852
761 Masonry/Brick MNF Construction Concrete and Masonry Retaining walls, interlock pavers, natural stone, brick. Stamps, concrete design, driveways. Free est. 650/218-4676. Lic. 1014484. www.mnfconstruction.com
771 Painting/ Wallpaper EJ Painting and Decorating Int/exterior painting. Texture and drywall repairs. Stain and varnish. 10 years exp. Excel. refs. Lic. #1011227. 650/679-4953 Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325, phone calls ONLY. STYLE PAINTING Full service interior/ext. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577
775 Asphalt/ Concrete Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572
799 Windows Rain Gutter Cleaning Call Dennis (650) 566-1393 for your window cleaning, gutter and yard clean up needs. Fully lic., ins. 20 yrs exp.
Real Estate 801 Apartments/ Condos/Studios Palo Alto, 1 BR/1 BA - $2795/mo Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $3895/mo Mountain View, 1 BR/1 BA - $3545
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825 Homes/Condos for Sale PA: Off Market Home For Sale Approx. 2,500 sf, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, on 5,400 sf lot. Walk to Gunn High School, limited showings. Broker co-op 2.5%. Price: $2,399,000. Call Agent Ken Johnson 650-793-3838
850 Acreage/Lots/ Storage NORTHERN AZ WILDERNESS RANCH $249 mo. Quiet secluded 37 acre off grid ranch bordering 640 acres of wooded State Trust land at cool clear 6,400’ elevation. Near historic pioneer town and fishing lake. No urban noise and dark sky nights amid pure air and AZ’s best year-round climate. Blend of evergreen woodlands and grassy meadows with sweeping views across uninhabited wilderness mountains and valleys. Abundant clean groundwater, free well access, loam garden soil, maintained road access. Camping and RV use ok. $28,900, $2,890 down, seller financing. Free brochure with additional property descriptions, photos/ terrain map/weather chart/area info: 1st United Realty 800.966.6690. (Cal-SCAN)
855 Real Estate Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s highly competitive market? Gain an edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN)
Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement ARYA STEAKHOUSE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272606 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Arya Steakhouse, located at 885 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): ARYA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. 19930 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 CA This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/12/17. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 2, 2017. (ALM Mar. 15, 22, 29; Apr. 5, 2017) DARIO PETER BERNARD FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272603 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Dario Peter Bernard, located at 1120 Alberni St., E. Palo Alto, Calif. 943031008, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): DARIO PETE BROWN 1120 Alberni St. E. Palo Alto, Calif. 94303-1008 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/03/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 2, 2017. (ALM Mar. 15, 22, 29; Apr. 5, 2017) RODERICK BRUCE TYLER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272605 The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as: Roderick Bruce Tyler, located at 2572 Annapolis St., East Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): TYLER RODERICK BRUCE 2572 Annapolis St. East Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 2, 2017. (ALM Mar. 15, 22, 29; Apr. 5, 2017) MAYFIELD TRANSPORT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272695 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mayfield Transport, located at 139 Crescent Avenue, Portola Valley, CA 94028, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): TURCHET TRANSPORT, INC. 139 Crescent Avenue Portola Valley, CA 94028 California This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on February 3, 2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 10, 2017. (ALM Mar. 15, 22, 29; Apr. 5, 2017) i2eye Media Group FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272643 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: i2eye Media Group, located at 149 Plymouth Avenue, San Carlos, CA 94070, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): Open Transaction Professional Services, Inc. 149 Plymouth Avenue San Carlos, CA 94070 California This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 6, 2017. (ALM Mar. 22, 29; Apr. 5, 12, 2017) LITTLE AGES CHILDCARE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272650 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Little Ages Childcare, located at 1407 Hill Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): LISA BORLO 1407 Hill Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on Jan. 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 7, 2017. (ALM Mar. 22, 29; Apr. 5, 12, 2017) QUO AXIOM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272750 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Quo Axiom, located at 61 Cove Lane, Redwood City, CA 94065, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): VINCENT SMITH 61 Cove Lane Redwood City, CA 94065 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/14/17. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 14, 2017. (ALM Mar. 22, 29; Apr. 5, 12, 2017) SEAPORT REFINING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272774 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Seaport Refining, located at 208 E. Branch Street, Arroyo Grande, California
LEHUA GREENMAN
"It's choice not chance that determines your destiny." 650.245.1845
93420, San Luis Obispo County. Registered owner(s): SEAPORT REFINING & ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC 208 E. Branch Street Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 15, 2017. (ALM Mar. 29; Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2017) yourownmaps.com FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272884 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: yourownmaps.com, located at 200 Todo El Mundo, Woodside, CA 94062, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): PHYB, LLC 200 Todo El Mundo Woodside, CA 94062 LLC This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 23, 2017. (ALM Mar. 29; Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2017) ESTILO BEAUTY SALON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272562 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Estilo Beauty Salon, located at 377 Grand Ave., So. San Francisco, CA 94080, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): OMAR GONZALO LOPEZ RANGEL 1716 Bermuda Way Antioch, CA 94509
CARLOS SAAVEDRA CASTILLO 1270 Yuba Ave. San Pablo, CA 94806 This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on February 27, 2017. (ALM Mar. 29; Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2017) PACMK FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272693 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: pacmk, located at 80 Atherton Court, Redwood City, CA 94061, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): PIERRE MELOTY-KAPELLA 80 Atherton Court Redwood City, CA 94061 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/9/17. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 9, 2017. (ALM Mar. 29; Apr. 5, 12, 19, 2017) RIDE UP LIMO SWIFT CAB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 272911 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Ride Up Limo, 2.) Swift Cab, located at 1362 Kingfisher Way #9, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. Registered owner(s): RAJESH KUMAR 1362 Kingfisher Way #9 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact
business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03-27-2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on March 27, 2017. (ALM Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017)
997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 17CIV00941 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MARIA ELIZABETH URIARTE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MARIA ELIZABETH URIARTE to ELIZABETH CECHETTO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Thr. April 20, 2017, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ, of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: THE ALMANAC Date: March 6, 2017 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Mar. 22, 29; Apr. 5, 12, 2017)
PROTECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS If it has been 5 years since you filed your Fictitious Business Name Statement (your D.B.A.), you must file again to protect your legal rights. Check your records now to see if your D.B.A. expires this year. Then call the Almanac, 223-6578, for assistance in refiling. It’s inexpensive and easy.
222 Camino La Lago, Atherton
Situated on the corner of a flawless Central Atherton neighborhood road is this serene 1.14-acre (approx.) property. Wondrously park-like, with towering redwood groves, heritage oaks and myriad flora enveloping the home and sprawling grounds. A sweeping, shady driveway leads to the original 1952 ranch-style home—one of only a few left in the prestigious Menlo Circus Club locale. At approximately 3610 square feet, the 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath home flows openly from voluminous room to room offering vintage amenities throughout. The home offers a clean canvas for renovation or can be completely replaced with a new custom home to complement the splendor of its land.
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List Price: $11,900,000
Michelle Englert 650-387-4405
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625 Hobart St Contemporary award winning Masterpiece home. 5 bd suites. Gorgeous gardens. 625Hobart.com 5 BR 5.5 BA Lyn Jason Cobb CalBRE #01332535 650.324.4456
12424 Skyline Blvd Stunning ocean views. 5 acres and surrounded by miles of open space. Open floor plan. 4 BR 3.5 BA Valerie Trenter CalBRE #01367578 650.324.4456
1337 Sherman Ave Brand new West Menlo Park home offers comfortable & flexible living! 4 en-suite bedrooms 4 BR 4.5 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161
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1319 Westridge Drive Mid-century home with open floorplan privately set on flat 1+ acre - 1319Westridge.com 3 BR/2.5 BA Ginny Kavanaugh CalBRE #00884747 650.851.1961
1040 Continental Dr Custom-built home in Sharon Heights, family-owned since 1964, first time on market! 5 BR 2.5 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161
355 Lloyden Park Lane Tasteful & private 11,700 sf lot. New kitchen, master bath, & interior doors. MP/ATH high. 4 BR 2 BA Camille Eder CalBRE #01394600 650.324.4456
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$1,988,000
160 N. Balsamina Way Stylishly updated mid-century gem in Portola Valley. 3 BR 3 BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #70000667 650.324.4456
260 Santa Margarita Updated 2BD/2BA w/great room on 1/4+ sq ft lot; MP Schools. 2 BR 2 BA Elaine White CalBRE #01182467 650.324.4456
1209-11 Matisse Ct Desirable duplex in community center area. Minutes to Apple’s new headquarters/campus. 5 BR 4 BA Teresa Lin CalBRE #01027411 650.325.6161
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228 Sand Hill Cir Wonderful & sunny end unit on quiet side of circ. Shows great w/walls of windows in the LR 4 BR 2.5 BA Wendi Selig-aimonetti CalBRE #01001476 650.324.4456
145 Henrik Ibsen Rd Good horse property set on approx 5acs w/potential ocean vu. Home is filled w/charm. 4 BR 2 BA Valerie Trenter CalBRE #01367578 650.324.4456
2262 Sharon Road Location! Sharon Heights single level condo w/private backyard and attached 2 car garage. 3 BR 2 BA Chris Isaacson CalBRE #01754233 650.851.2666
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1917 Oak Ave This remodeled ranch has charm, space and room to grow! Large lot and well for irrigation. 3 BR 1 BA John Marshall CalBRE #01386617 650.324.4456
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2140 Santa Cruz Ave A102 Sought after “stretch” unit at Menlo Commons2BD/2BA totally remodeled-1st floor. 2 BR 2 BA Beth Leathers CalBRE #01131116 650.324.4456
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