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City told: Move to district elections or face a lawsuit

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A spectacle of cosmic proportion

Hundreds of sun-protected gazes rose in front of the Menlo Park Library to stare at the sun as the moon aligned to cross it on Aug. 21. The library, which offered free protective glasses, hosted a watch party for the eclipse, which peaked at around 10:15 a.m. Library staff estimates that between 500 and 800 locals showed up for the party. In the photo are the Griffith and the Mills families of Atherton.

Tech company red-tagged for public health code violations Septic tank at Pony Tracks Ranch has been overflowing for three months, county official says.

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bright orange/red placard emblazoned with the words “UNSAFE” and “DO NOT ENTER OR OCCUPY” has been greeting visitors to the property known as Pony Tracks Ranch at 495 Old Spanish Trail since Aug. 11 in the unincorporated hills above Portola Valley.

A San Mateo County code enforcement official red-tagged the premises of Luminar Technologies Inc. over a “defective” plumbing system that has allowed sewage to flow from the septic tank into nearby leach trenches for about three months, according to the county’s environmental health department.

The red tag “allows for a certain amount of time (approximately 10 days) for the violators to exit the property,” Code Compliance Officer Tim Sullivan said in an Aug. 16 email to neighbors. “They have been ordered to continue

pumping the septic system as long and as many times as necessary to prevent further contamination.”

The property owner, Agape Community LLC of San Francisco, wrote to the neighbors on Aug. 18, saying that Luminar would move its business operations within the week.

These messages were welcome news to nearby residents, who have complained of the excessive traffic and noise resulting from the Luminar operation.

And for Stan Gage, whose home is on property adjacent to Pony Tracks Ranch, there’s been the added lament of foul odors, water contamination, septic tank pumping trucks — at first once a week, then three times a week and recently at least once a day — “green slime” in nearby drainage ditches, and new outdoor showers with no evidence of drains.

Luminar, through its attorney Mark Hudak, confirmed in a statement that the company’s

computers “and other business belongings” would be removed beginning Aug. 21 to a “new facility in Menlo Park.”

As for continued use of the property by residents, including Luminar CEO Austin Russell, the company believes “that the structures continue to be safe for residential use,” the statement says. “Because there is no current health issue with the septic system,” the residents “should be allowed to return to their home immediately. ... To date, there has been no evidence that effluent has escaped the leach field. There is no evidence that any other property has been affected by this condition.”

The site was once the estate of San Francisco mayor and California governor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph Jr., and more recently home to Jacques Littlefield and his invitation-only museum of military tanks and other restored mechanized implements of war. Mr. Littlefield died in 2009.

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he city of Menlo Park on Aug. 21 received a letter indicating the city should prepare to face legal action unless it voluntarily switches from at-large to district City Council elections, confirmed City Manager Alex McIntyre.

At-large elections give every voter the chance to vote for every candidate across the city, whereas district elections parcel the city into smaller districts and voters choose a candidate only from within their own district.

The letter was mailed Aug. 14 and comes from attorney Kevin Shenkman of the Malibu-based law firm Shenkman and Hughes, Mr. Shenkman confirmed in a phone call. Mr. Shenkman said he has been working with Belle Haven residents but would not

say specifically whom he was working with.

Mr. Shenkman has filed a number of such lawsuits, including in Fremont, where he alleged that the city’s at-large voting process results in “racially polarized” voting, a term he says refers to when majority residents have preferred candidates who differ from racial minorities’ preferred candidates.

“As a result of the at-large election system,” he said, “minoritypreferred candidates usually lose.”

He said the letter is similar to the one he sent to Fremont in February, noting that in Menlo Park, “we found that the most recent election in November of 2016 was particularly telling.”

During that election, Belle Haven resident Cecilia Taylor, who is African American, ran See DISTRICT, page 6

Donor’s library offer may shuffle city plans

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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n offer by local philanthropist and billionaire developer John Arrillaga to help rebuild Menlo Park’s main library would upend current staff and council priorities and could strain the city financially as it attempts to come up with at least $20 million as quickly as possible, according to city staff.

Mr. Arrillaga has offered to foot the rest of the bill after the first $20 million plus ancillary costs the city would bear; he would help oversee the development and construction of the building.

Current estimates for the project have grown as high as $55 million for a 48,000-square-foot library with underground parking, according to the staff report.

The City Council was scheduled to discuss the matter on Tuesday, Aug. 22, after the Almanac went to press. Go to almanacnews.com for the latest updates.

The council is expected to discuss and possibly act on six

staff recommendations, which include changing the council’s current work plan to accommodate the library rebuilding project, authorizing the hiring of a full-time manager to “provide for the ability to augment existing management personnel to oversee construction” of the library, and expanding the city manager’s authority to award contracts.

Staff has also asked for $1 million from the city’s general fund’s unassigned balance to jumpstart work on the project.

The council, on a 4-0 vote last month, endorsed the acceptance of Mr. Arrillaga’s funding offer, moving a project to the front burner that the council in March indicated was not a high priority.

The next step for the project will be to pick the new library’s site. The area now under consideration includes the current library, the council chambers and the children’s center.

If the council accepts staff See LIBRARY, page 7

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number of Menlo Park’s planning commissioners think the City Council should reopen for discussion the topic of how large a homeowner’s property must be to allow a secondary unit to be built.

The current minimum lotsize standard is set at 6,000 square feet, which prevents some households in the city from being able to add second units on their properties, said Principal Planner Thomas Rogers at an Aug. 14 Planning Commission meeting.

Across the city, and in Belle Haven especially, there are many properties that fall just short of that standard, said Ernesto Reyes, an architectural consultant who works with clients in Belle Haven and spoke publicly in favor of the change.

A recent state law has changed the requirements so that owners seeking to add a second unit to their property no longer need to provide additional covered parking.

People who plan to build second units by converting their garages will be reminded that overnight street parking is not allowed in most areas of the city, though, and they’ll still be expected to keep their vehicles off the road, staff say.

Planning Commissioner Henry Riggs said he supports the idea because he believes that secondary units are now being created out of necessity, and if households don’t have a legal venue to do so, the units created will not receive the same code

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for City Council but lost to two incumbent council members, Catherine Carlton and Ray Mueller, who live west of El Camino Real and are Caucasian.

Ms. Taylor did well in Belle Haven, where there is a higher percentage of residents who identify as black or Latino, but lost by a “considerable margin” citywide, he said. Other past elections are discussed in the letter as well, he added.

Because of the California Voting Rights Act of 2001, he says, there are lower requirements for voters to prove in a lawsuit that a city’s at-large voting process creates racially polarized voting.

Mr. Shenkman says of his firm’s track record in getting cities to move to district elections: “We’re batting one thousand.”

Ms. Taylor said that she knows about the letter, but declined to comment further on her role in its creation. She said a group of Menlo Park residents from across the city were involved.

Other cities

Mr. Shenkman has sent such letters to other California cities, mainly in Southern California but also a growing number in Northern California, he says.

His Fremont letter says that at-large elections “allow a bare majority of voters to control every seat,” and that minority groups are less able to elect their preferred candidates or influence election results.

Having council members of different races and socioeconomic statuses brings different interests to the dais, he said. A representative from a wealthier side of town may be more

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After the City Council receives the letter, Mr. Shenkman said, the council will have 45 days to decide whether to pass a resolution declaring its intent to switch to district elections, or else prepare for a lawsuit.

If the council does pass a resolution, then it gets 90 days to develop a district map, host public meetings and decide how elections will move forward in the future.

If district elections are ahead for Menlo Park, the current council might be shaken up — Councilwoman Catherine Carlton lives in Sharon Heights; council members Rich Cline, Peter Ohtaki and Ray Mueller live between Sharon Heights and El Camino Real; and current Mayor Kirsten Keith lives in the Willows neighborhood.

None of the current council members lives east of U.S. 101, where Belle Haven, which has a less-affluent population and more minority residents than the city west of the freeway, and several new large apartment complexes are located.

When asked how gerrymandering might be prevented, he said, “The law says how districts are supposed to be drawn. From what I’ve seen in northern California — and Menlo Park is a pretty good example — you have a pretty engaged electorate.

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Mark Rich of Menlo Park killed in Oregon plane crash Pilot of small plane was heading to watch the total eclipse

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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enlo Park resident Mark Rich, 58, the husband of former Menlo Park City School District board member Laura Rich, was killed in a plane crash on Saturday, Aug. 19, friends of the family have confirmed.

Mr. Rich’s single-engine, homebuilt Wheeler Express crashed under unknown circumstances near the Madras, Oregon, airport around 1:50 p.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor.

Mr. Rich, a vice president of LIBRARY continued from page 5

recommendations, public meetings and surveys would be conducted, with a goal of having the council pick the site and start the environmental review process next January. The draft environmental documents would be released in October 2018, and be cleared by various commissions and the council in January 2019.

From there, the goal would be to get the building permit by May 2019 and start construction the next month.

Meanwhile, the city has just released a request for proposals to conduct a needs assessment of the Belle Haven branch library, currently housed on the Belle Haven Elementary School campus. Many on the council and in the community had considered improving, possibly rebuilding, the Belle Haven library a more urgent priority than a main library rebuilding project before Mr. Arrillaga’s offer.

After the council’s July decision, the city’s Finance and Audit Committee was asked to study how to best come up with $20 million to launch the main library project. Lingering questions conditioned the committee’s recommended options.

Among them: Which party will be expected to bear the “soft costs� of the project, which include things such as consultants and furniture, and could mean greater costs for the city?

Will the project require a full environmental impact review (EIR) or a simpler environmental review process? The simpler process could streamline a one-year process to four to six months and ease staff and consultant costs, but can be done only if no major negative environmental effects

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Menlo Park City School District board member Terry Thygesen, who had served on the board with Laura Rich, said Mr. Rich had built the plane himself decades ago. “He was a very experienced pilot and he had flown that plane a lot over are expected to result from the project, according to staff.

Among the committee’s suggested options are for the city to sell some of its assets, such as its water utility; to use its unassigned fund balance; to borrow the $20 million using a 30-year fixed-interest rate bond, which would likely end up with a $24.34 million debt-service cost; and to look into a line of credit.

Ideas to generate funds also included increasing the hotel tax, drawing from city reserves, and setting up a “community amenity fund� that would earmark new revenues for community improvements, according to the report.

To ensure that there’s sufficient staff time to devote to the project, staff has recommended that a long list of projects be delayed or downgraded on the priority list. Those projects include: making changes to the city’s zoning ordinance that are part of the city’s plan to deal with its housing shortage, finishing its Water System Master Plan, continuing to develop a number of emergency water supply wells, working on developing a transportation management association downtown or in Menlo Park east of U.S. 101, and conducting a study on ways to deal with cut-through traffic and keep kids traveling to school through the Willows neighborhood safe.

Early reactions

Councilman Peter Ohtaki expressed support for the project in an interview. “If you look at the needs assessment, there is certainly a need for a 21st century library,� he said, referring to a study released in March that was funded by the Menlo Park Library Foundation

the years,� she said. “Mark Rich was a truly amazing person and the world has lost someone very special in this tragic accident,� Ms. Thygesen said. “Mark possessed a singularly brilliant mind,� she said.

Mark and Laura Rich met when she was an undergraduate at Stanford University and he was a graduate student. They married soon after her graduation, 33 years ago. “He was a truly loving husband to his wife, Laura Linkletter Rich ... and he was a devoted father to their two children,�

Ms. Thygesen said. Son Tyler Rich lives in Austin, Texas, and daughter Michelle Rich lives in New York City. Both are graduates of Menlo Park schools and Menlo-Atherton High School.

Mr. Rich “was a truly amazing person,� Ms. Thygesen said. “He was an engineers’ engineer,� she said. “Not only was he a super-smart technical person and a very creative and inventive technical person, but he was a Renaissance man and he knew a lot about a lot of things,� she said. “He was a very smart, very interesting guy. He was very quiet ... but once you got to know him you realize he was really smart about a lot of things and had a really great sense of humor.�

A statement posted by Jefferson County officials in Oregon says the plane was fully engulfed in flames when first responders arrived on the scene, near the top of Willow Creek canyon about a mile from the Madras Airport. A small fire was started by the crash but

quickly extinguished. The plane was completely destroyed, the statement says.

County officials had initially stated there were two people aboard the plane, but their investigation determined Mr. Rich was alone.

Family friends say Mr. Rich’s daughter had initially planned to go on the trip, but had not been able to go.

The Oregon State Police, Jefferson County Fire Department, BNSF Railroad and EMS personnel, as well as local volunteers, assisted at the crash site.

An investigation into the cause of the crash by federal aviation officials is ongoing.

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and focused on the Menlo Park Library’s main branch. “I do think that the community does want us to find a way to be able to not only do a new library, but to be able to address the library needs in Belle Haven Ăą and other potential needs.â€?

He said the city should have a long-term strategic plan for its capital projects and expects that conversation to happen alongside ones about how to make Mr. Arrillaga’s proposed contribution work for the city.

Councilman Ray Mueller, who was absent from the meeting when Mr. Arrillaga’s offer was endorsed, said he was leaning “strongly� against the staff recommendations. He said he had concerns about the amount of staff time that would be taken away from other projects and the amount of money it would cost the city. The city already has a functioning library, he noted, while other priority projects for the city, such as upgraded Belle Haven facilities and a downtown parking garage, would remain unfunded. “If we pull together resources to upgrade an already functioning library, where are we going to find the money to make facility improvements in Belle Haven?� he asked. “While I think it would be a wonderful idea to have a new library, I don’t know, prioritywise, (that) it makes sense to go ahead with that project,� he said. “I think we have a course we’re on that we need to stay on.�

Councilwoman Catherine Carlton said she was on the Parks and Recreation Commission when Mr. Arrillaga’s previous Civic Center projects (the Arrillaga Family Gymnastics Center, Recreation Center and Gymnasium) were approved,

and asserted that, although Mr. Arrillaga has strong opinions on aspects of the buildings he takes on, the public process would not be affected by his influence. “We will absolutely want input from users,� she said. “We will always go through the public process.�

Were it up to her, she said, a Belle Haven library would come first. But when someone offers to give $40 million (a rough estimate of the anticipated cost of the library beyond the initial $20 million-plus), she said, “Of course we will sit down and discuss it.� “We are going to do both libraries,� she said. “Potentially this helps us free up funds to

do the Belle Haven library more quickly as well.�

Councilman Rich Cline said he wants the decision to be weighed against the city’s pipeline for capital improvement projects. “I think there are ways for everyone to win, but we’ll see. Just because we have a gracious offer for one library redevelopment, it does not mean the Belle Haven library is at conflict. It may help both — but we need staff and data to determine that in a meeting.

I am tiring of (a) trained reflex by some to constantly pit (Belle Haven) against other parts of (Menlo Park).�

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Collision’s aftermath: Road closed, no power, no water and flooding Drowsy driver hits fence, utility pole; PG&E hits water line replacing pole

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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aturday was not a good day for some residents of Atherton and Menlo Park as a collision on El Camino Real resulted in a power outage, closure of El Camino, and for some, flooding followed by no water for hours.

Some residents did not get their power restored until nearly 24 hours later.

Power to about 200 residents, including the Atherton Police Department, went out at 5:45 a.m. after a pickup truck driven

by Pedro Bonilla of Redwood City collided with a fence and

a utility pole near northbound El Camino Real, between Maple Avenue and Ashfield Road, according to Atherton Sgt. Jeff Rickel.

Sgt. Rickel said the pole was sheared off at its base, dropping live wires onto the truck and roadway. El Camino was closed in both directions for about an hour, when the southbound lanes were reopened. At 9 a.m. northbound El Camino reopened.

Later in the day, at about 3 p.m., as Pacific Gas & Electric was replacing the utility pole, workers ruptured a California Water Service water pipeline, causing some flooding in a

home on the 500 block of El Camino, Sgt. Rickel said.

Water service was restored about five hours later, Sgt. Rickel said. When power was restored to the last of the affected residents at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, he said, the police department registered a slew of false alarms.

Mr. Bonilla is a security guard who had worked all night and fell asleep at the wheel, Sgt. Rickel said, noting that alcohol or drugs were not a factor in the collision.

He said Mr. Bonilla was transported to Stanford Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and released. He was not cited, he said, and there were no other injuries.

PG&E spokesperson Karly

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Zoning restrictions

Luminar is developing technology for autonomous vehicles, according to the company’s website. Mr. Sullivan, the code compliance officer, visited the site in June and July and reported seeing some 50 employees there on one occasion. Fourteen of the company’s 40 listed job openings are at its Silicon Valley site, with its 40,000-square-foot “engineering and vehicle integration facility.” Company headquarters are in Orlando, Florida.

“Luminar is fueled by a group of relentless optimists and fearless problem solvers who tirelessly design, build and deliver the future of LiDar,” a type of vehicle radar, the company says on its website.

The property is zoned “resource management,” a category related to conservation and open-space, according to the county zoning code. In its statement, Luminar cites a subsection of that designation — “scientific/technical research and test facilities” — as accommodating its activities.

Resource-management zoning includes restrictions on matters such as intensity of use, industrial activities, and the potential for health or safety hazards. In an Aug. 11 letter authorizing the red tag and rescinding a May 2 tag that had given the tenants “reasonable time to make appropriate repairs,” Gregory Smith, the water protection and land use supervisor for the county’s Environmental Health Department, informed the property owner that the residents had not met the following objectives related to the 1,500-gallon septic system.

Q The septic system was to be used for residential purposes

Photo by Stan Gage

This placard forbids occupancy at 495 Old Spanish Trail in Los Trancos Woods, the former home of Jacques Littlefield and his military tank collection. The corporate tenant, Luminar Technologies Inc., was warned in May to address septic tank overflow problems.

only.

Q Water going into the septic system was to be kept to “a bare minimum to alleviate current stress.”

Q The septic tank was to be pumped as needed and at least once a week to keep effluent from flowing into leach field trenches.

Q Any connection to a sewer as an alternative would have to be completed by Aug. 11.

“To date, these directives have not been followed,” the letter says. Use of the septic system “far exceeds typical residential use,” Mr. Smith wrote. Water use “has not been limited to a bare minimum,” and pumping the septic tank has been “ineffective” in keeping effluent from flowing out. “For 3 months, effluent has continued to flow to the flooded trenches,” the letter says.

“Allowing the effluent level in the tank to flow to the leach trenches for more than 90 days alone could warrant a fine of more than $45,000,” he wrote.

He also noted that county’s Planning Department

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confirmed that the current use of the property requires a use permit, and that such a permit had not been obtained or applied for.

In its statement, Luminar says it has applied for a permit.

“However, with the move scheduled for the upcoming week and the lease term ending on December 31, 2017, the permit application may not be pursued for timing reasons.”

Asked whether the county has levied a fine or is planning to do so, Mr. Smith referred the Almanac to a county press officer, who did not respond by press time.

Neighbors comment

Mr. Gage, Luminar’s next-door neighbor, compiled months of complaints and forwarded them to the Almanac. In addition to the smells, water contamination and other concerns mentioned earlier in the story, there’s been excessive noise, he said.

The entry gate is controlled by a speaker phone, which results in audible broadcasts of gate entry

Hernandez said PG&E followed its own procedure by calling 811 and marking utility lines before digging.

“We followed standard procedure to make sure that all underground utility lines were marked prior to digging, including the water line. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers cause by the incident and our team is further investigating the cause,” she said.

Ms. Hernandez said 240 customers initially lost power after the collision, but that about 830 had an approximately six-minute power outage when power was restored to most at 8:20 a.m. on Aug. 19.

Only a few customers had their power out until Sunday morning, she said.

Dawn Smithson, Cal Water’s Bear Gulch district manager, said the water district had marked its main for PG&E workers. About 25 residences on El Camino and Maple were without water from approximately 4 p.m. to midnight, she said. Bottled water was offered to the residents during the outage and residents were helped to unclog drainage, to minimize water damage, she said.

Ms. Smithson said the area where the damage occurred is heavily congested with underground utilities, with only about 10 feet between the asphalt and the fence.

At is.gd/pge_claims information on PG&E’s claims policy for spoiled food or other damage is available online. A

exchanges. There are loud conversations, idling engines, doors slamming, horns honking, parties, people meeting their rides, noise “at all hours of the day and night,” Mr. Gage said.

There’s also been trespassing, he said. “An endless stream of strangers” entering and leaving the private properties of neighbors, telling them they’re lost or going for a hike, climbing over fences and sometimes forcing open gates, Mr. Gage said.

And there’s traffic. It’s been typical to see 12 to 15 vehicles entering Luminar per hour, he said, with drivers shouting into the gate phone at 2 or 3 in the morning. Sometimes there are traffic jams at the gate between entering and exiting vehicles, he said.

The traffic “is certainly not like a rural area,” Luminar neighbor Tom Garsh said. “It’s more like a business street. The traffic is horrendous and it’s noisy and it’s not what we bargained for when we moved here.

... Some of the speeds they travel at are scary.”

Bill and Josephine Tagg, also neighbors, echoed Mr. Garsh’s comments. “A couple of hundred cars a day, a catering truck, sump pump trucks, a great big Coca Cola truck. The barn is lit up every night,” Mr. Tagg said.

“They’ve done nothing to get permits,” Ms. Tagg said. “We just feel like we’re being walked on, really. ... If this could happen here, it could happen anywhere.

Apparently you can get away with it as long as you don’t let the county know that you’re doing it.”

“It’s been extremely unpleasant,” said neighbor Sharon Ward. “The traffic is unbelievable. We thought we were living a resource management zone.”

With the phone entry system, they hear every dial, every answer, “hollering their names, hollering the password,” Mike Ward said. “You get the feeling of an industrial park. They’re trying to be nice, but they’re completely misusing the land.” A

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gym at Oak Knoll Elementary School, 1895 Oak Knoll Lane in Menlo Park.

A study is being done by San Mateo County’s Public Works department with consultant Kimley-Horn and the city of Menlo Park, and options to improve the corridor will be presented to the public for comment. After the comments are received, a plan will be developed with recommended actions.

The $78,000 study was funded by the Board of Supervisors in April, and data was collected in May. Another community meeting is planned at the end of the year.

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Mr. Rogers said that the council set the 6,000-squarefoot minimum in 2013, when the city’s Housing Element was updated.

West Menlo traffic meeting Monday A meeting to talk about solutions to safety and traffic problems along the Santa Cruz Avenue and Alameda de las Pulgas corridor in West Menlo Park will be held Monday, Aug. 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the large

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Deputy DA agrees to 18 months’ probation to settle ethics case

better than a private reproval ... so the bar association website can cite the disciplinary actions. For the public, that’s good.”

(The state bar had issued Ms. McKowan a private reproval in March 2013 in response to an earlier instance of dishonesty by Ms. Q State bar issues public reproval to prosecutor McKowan concerning the Ayres case.)

Melissa McKowan’s bar association record.

Ms. McKowan referred a request for

By Dave Boyce in the 1980s and 1990s. The result of the comment to her lawyer, Paul F. DeMeester.

Almanac Staff Writer “Obviously, she’s relieved that the case trial was a hung jury and mistrial.

In 2013, Dr. Ayres, who was 81 and facing is over. I wish that she had never been elissa McKowan, a deputy dis- a retrial, pleaded no contest to the charges charged,” Mr. DeMeester said. Ms. McKtrict attorney for San Mateo against him. He died of natural causes in owan’s statement to the victim’s father “was a bit of hyperbole,” he said. “With 20-20 County, has been issued a “public prison in April 2016 at the age of 84.

Ms. McKowan’s email at the center of hindsight, she wouldn’t have phrased it reproval” by the state bar association. The admonition, issued Aug. 11 by the State Bar the complaint before the State Bar Court that way.”

Asked to respond to that statement, Court in San Francisco, includes disciplin- was sent in May 2013, when she wrote to ary actions in settling a case connected to an a father of one of Dr. Ayres’ victims com- Ms. Balfour disagreed with the use of the act of dishonesty in a May 2013 email from menting on complaints about her conduct term “hyperbole,” noting that just two Ms. McKowan to the father of a victim of by victim’s advocate Victoria Balfour: agencies, the state bar and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s psychiatrist and convicted child molester Dr. “Every agency that has Office, investigated the been forced into investiWilliam Ayres. factual basis of Ms. McKIn the settlement, Ms. McKowan agreed gating this case by Balfour Ms. McKowan may owan’s email and “found to an 18-month period of probation during has found that her accusanot blog or use social the opposite” of what she which she must make quarterly reports tions are entirely false and media to comment on wrote. acknowledging her compliance with the have no bases whatsoever.”

“You have to produce a Attorney Robert K. Sall, state bar’s rules of professional conduct, the Ayres case, the according to a copy of the reproval docu- representing the state bar, complaining witness, or letter or document that says (what you’re allegsaid in a March 2017 comment provided by the bar association.

The reproval includes other conditions, plaint to the State Bar any subject matter from ing),” Ms. Balfour said. cases past or pending.

“You have to have docuincluding restrictions on Ms. McKowan’s Court that neither the disments ... some proof of blogging and use of social media, keeping trict attorney nor the state the state bar updated as to any changes of bar association found Ms. Balfour’s accusa- evidence ... showing that these agencies contact information, and obligations for tions to be “entirely false” or to have “no concluded that.”

It was not the first time that Ms. McKtimely responses to questions from the state bases whatsoever,” and that Ms. McKowan “willfully violated Business and Professions owan and Ms. Balfour had been at odds. bar’s Office of Probation.

Ms. McKowan was the county’s prosecu- Code ... by engaging in dishonesty and After the 2009 mistrial, Ms. Balfour accused the prosecutor of unethical and tor in 2009 in the criminal case against Dr. moral turpitude.”

Asked to comment on the settlement, inappropriate behavior, including lying to Ayres, a San Mateo child psychiatrist alleged to have molested boys during examinations Ms. Balfour said: “Let”s just say that it’s a victim’s mother about having contacted

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Ms. McKowan later admitted to San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti that she had not contacted that potential witness. The DA’s Office subsequently took disciplinary action against Ms. McKowan, including a suspension in September 2012 “for an act or acts of dishonesty,” according to Mr. Sall’s 2017 complaint.

It was over this offense that the state bar association issued Ms. McKowan a private reproval.

Restrictions

The disciplinary actions in the public reproval, which go into effect on Aug. 31, include a requirement that Ms. McKowan submit quarterly reports to the state bar’s Office of Probation, under penalty of perjury, attesting to her having complied with professional rules of conduct and the other conditions of the reproval. She must also respond “fully, promptly and truthfully” to inquiries from the Probation Office or a probation officer.

Ms. McKowan may not blog or use social media to comment on the Ayres case, the complaining witness, or any subject matter from cases past or pending that are connected to her as deputy district attorney.

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A writer’s journey Janelle Brown went from local schools to the best-seller lists

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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t’s late on a muggy August Monday afternoon and Janelle Brown is at her parents’ home in Woodside for a visit, but it will be a quick one.

The author of three novels has just flown in from Los Angeles, and has a 4 p.m. appointment with a reporter and photographer to get through before prepping to be onstage at 7 p.m. at Kepler’s, the Menlo Park bookstore where she says she hung out when cutting classes at MenloAtherton High School.

That morning the Atherton native had announced on her website that her latest novel, “Watch Me Disappear,” had been optioned for a movie by the Gotham Group, a Hollywood production company that has produced hit movies from novels including the “Maze Runner” series, “Kodachrome” and “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”

The next day, Ms. Brown would be back home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silverlake — where she lives with her husband, 5-year-old son, and almost-8-year-old daughter — and back to work on the new novel she’s promised her publisher.

A few weeks earlier, “Watch Me Disappear” had hit the New York Times’ best-seller list for hardcover books, a coveted position her first book had also reached.

Between Laurel and best-seller Ms. Brown is living the life

she says she decided to live when she was in first grade at Laurel School in Atherton.

“I used to draw little books,” Ms. Brown says, adding that she spent as much time as possible in the school library.

One day, her teacher said to her: “You should be an author when you grow up,” Ms. Brown recalls. “Forty years later — here I am!”

Californian, and worked as an editorial assistant at several San Francisco-based magazines during summers.

After graduating in 1995, she went to work for Wired magazine, then just a start-up, helping to launch Hotwired — which Wikipedia says was the first commercial web magazine — and a news site before going on to work at Salon.

The dot-com boom was in full swing, and Ms. Brown was in the center of it, living and working in San Francisco, and soon she found herself yearning to write a novel that chronicled some of the era’s insanity.

Fiction called

Photo courtesy Spiegel & Grau

“Watch Me Disappear” has been optioned for the big screen

by Gotham Group.

There were a few steps between arriving at that determination and the best-seller list, including a high school summer as an intern at her hometown newspaper, the Almanac. “That was my first journalism job,” Ms. Brown says. “I knew I wanted to write professionally.”

In pursuit of that goal, after Ms. Brown graduated from M-A in 1991 she was off to the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in English, wrote for the Daily

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Fiction was calling to her. “I was really tired of having to tell the truth,” she says of journalism. When writing nonfiction articles, she says, she had often thought: “This would be so much better of a story” if only some of the facts could be changed.

Plus, she says, she enjoyed the writing much more than the reporting. “I would dread picking up the phone and calling a stranger,” she says.

Ms. Brown took a writing workshop from Tom Parker in Palo Alto and began putting the book she had in her head down on paper.

“When I first started off as a novelist, I had very modest expectations,” she says. “I just wanted to publish a book, I just wanted to say I had done it. It’s hard to publish a book and get it out in the world.”

Around that time Ms. Brown met her husband-to-be, Greg

Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac

Janelle Brown grew up in Atherton, attended Laurel and Encinal schools and Menlo-Atherton High School. Her parents have since moved to Woodside, where this photo was taken.

Harrison, when she wrote an article about him for Salon.

Mr. Harrison’s career as an independent filmmaker was just taking off, and within a few years he decided he had to move to Los Angeles to pursue his own dreams.

After trying to make a longdistance relationship work, Ms. Brown quit her job and joined Mr. Harrison, and spent more time writing her novel while freelancing.

“All We Ever Wanted was Everything” is a smart and funny book chronicling many of the excesses of Silicon Valley in the dot-com era. It focuses on a woman whose pharmaceutical executive husband runs off with her best friend just as his company goes public, and her two daughters. One daughter is nearing 30, and has just had her dreams of starting her own magazine crushed by an investor, and the other is a middle-schooler struggling with issues — such as weight and belonging and boys — that come with puberty. When the book was purchased by Spiegel and Grau, the company also

contracted with Ms. Brown for a second book.

“All We Ever Wanted” hit the best-seller lists soon after it was published in 2008.

While it is unusual for a

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first-time author to experience such immediate success, Ms. Brown says working for a decade as a journalist gave her skills she brought to fiction-writing, including the importance of narrative, “the economy of story” and how to keep readers reading.

“I had some really good editors” as a journalist, she says, “and they taught me a lot about writing.”

Two books, two babies Her second book, “This is Where We Live,” came out in 2010. It is set in Los Angeles after the real estate crash and concerns a young couple — a filmmaker and a musician — teetering on the verge of success, and the verge of divorce, after their adjustablerate mortgage threatens to bankrupt them.

Ms. Brown was pregnant with her first child while writing the book. “I turned it in the day before she was born,” she says. “My water broke 24 hours later.”

The seven-year lag between her second and third novel can be explained quite simply, Ms. Brown says: “Two kids.”

She started, and abandoned, three different books before settling on the book that was just released.

“Watch Me Disappear,” set

Photo by Barbara Wood/The Almanac

Janelle Brown and Shannon Griscomb, her junior year Menlo-Atherton High School English teacher, reminisced after Ms. Brown’s reading at Kepler’s Books.

in Berkeley and Santa Cruz, family,” but after writing 150 is the story of a father and pages she realized she had been a high school-age daughter setting out clues to the story’s resolution. “Oh who are left my gosh, I’m behind when ‘I had some really writing a mystheir wife and tery,” she says mother disapgood editors (as she realized. pears while on a journalist), and She started a hike in the they taught me a over, doing Sierra Nevada.

A ma z on . lot about writing.’ even more rewriting com lists the JANELLE BROWN when her edibook as both tor asked her a “thriller/suspense” and “literature/fiction.” to rework the ending not once, Ms. Brown told her Kepler’s but twice. “I wanted to tear my audience that she had meant hair out and take up, I don’t the book to be a “meditation know what, barista work,” she on grief and a story about a told the Kepler’s crowd.

While her three books have very different settings and plots and even fall into different genres, all center on families and relationships. “I like to take people who are relatable and throw them into really, really difficult situations and see how they dig their way out,” Ms. Brown says. “I am really interested in people’s bad decisions,” she says, finding good decisions “boring.”

Writing is a job Writing is Ms. Brown’s job.

After dropping her children

off at their Los Angeles Unified School District public schools in the morning she goes to her desk at Suite 8, an office shared by 25 writers who rent (or share) desks. Ms. Brown says the set-up gives the writers a chance to get out of their homes and away from their children, but to be surrounded by fellow writers. “It’s amazing — I love it. I’m kind of a social person anyway,” she says, and notes she spent eight years working in newsrooms.

“LA’s not known as a big writing town,” she says, “but it’s funny, there’s actually a lot of writers.” Silverlake, Ms. Brown says, is more like Berkeley than Atherton, with many residents who work in the creative industries. “It’s a little bit bohemian,” she says. “I love it there.”

Ms. Brown says she considers herself lucky to have been able to support herself as a novelist without taking another job, although she does still write freelance pieces, mostly essays.

She loves “just having readers” out there reading what she writes.

She also appreciates the fact that as a writer, she has reason to read lots of novels. “I read a ton. I read one or two books a week,” she says. “I will pick up books for two reasons: one, because I’ve heard they’re really good; and two, they might be relevant to what I’m working on.”

Reconnecting While the first-grade teacher who initially inspired Ms. Brown didn’t make it to the Kepler’s reading, 74-yearold Shannon Griscomb, who taught her in her junior year at Menlo-Atherton was there.

“It’s so satisfying to connect with kids you hoped would bloom and blossom,” but whose fates you usually don’t know, Ms. Griscomb said, before getting her former student to sign her novel for her.

“It’s wonderful to connect with them later and know what they did,” she said. A

Photo by Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang/The Almanac

author Jan Ellison discussed Ms. Brown’s new book, “Watch Me Disappear,” in front of a crowd at Kepler’s Books on Aug. 7.

About the cover:Best-selling author Janelle Brown in her parents’ home in Woodside. Photo

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Elliot Charles Polinger

Peter Halsted

May 16, 1919 – June 11, 2017

Sports fan and friend

On the morning of June 11, 2017, Elliot Charles Polinger, M.D., 98, peacefully passed away. He is survived by daughters Barbara (James) De Grand and Jean (Jerry) Meyer, grandsons Alec (Jade) De Grand and Matthew (Laurie) De Grand and greatgrandchildren Nate and Maura De Grand and one on the way.

Dr. Polinger was born in New York City on May 16, 1919 and went to Columbia University, barely 16 years old, where he earned the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Award for science.

He continued on to New York Medical College, graduating in 1943 with honors. He then joined the Army and was sent to Spokane, WA., where he met and married the love of his life, Mildred, in 1944 after a 4 month courtship. They were happily married for over 69 years until her death in 2014.

He was stationed at Fort Baker, just under the Golden Gate Bridge, for the duration of the war. Dr. Polinger practiced medicine for over 40 years, most of it in the specialization of Anesthesiology. He was a man of tremendous intellect, compassion, hard work and especially humor. He was able to stay in the family home of 63 years in Atherton until the end with the great help of his family, especially Jeannie and Jerry and his ladies, Hina, Pou, Cece and Vanessa. He was dearly loved and will be sorely missed and is now buried next to his love, Mildred, at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, CA. Please make donations to the Atherton Police Officers Association Support Fund.

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James E. Gibson August 18, 1922 – July 4, 2017 James E. “Jim” Gibson, age 94, died peacefully at his Woodside home on July 4th, 2017 in the company of his long term companion and cherished pets.

James was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on August 18th, 1922 to Lafayette Gibson and Kate Neff. After graduating Ardmore High School in 1940, he joined the United States Army Intelligence in the South Pacific Theatre. Following his military service, where he had learned to speak fluent Japanese, James continued his education at the University of Michigan, achieving a master’s degree in Literature.

His degree brought him to New York where he worked in the publishing industry. After moving to California he shifted careers and worked in real estate.

James loved to travel the world. At various times he lived in Hawaii, Mexico, New York, and San Francisco. Finally he settled in Woodside, California where he built his home and gardens and continued with real estate.

In his retirement James turned to philanthropy. He supported schools in rural Mexico. Locally he supported the Woodside Library, the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and the Peninsula Open Space Trust, Saint Francis Center, among others.

He is survived by his longtime companion Bengamin Arreguin of 31 years, niece Sue Anne Middleton , nephew Bill Hatch, and two grand-nephews Matthew Hatch & Brent James Hatch, and one grandniece Geri Lynn Walsh.

James enjoyed his time spent with close friends, his pets, gardening, and playing bridge. He will be forever missed by all his family and friends.

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A memorial service for Peter Halsted of Portola Valley is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Church at 930 Portola Road in Portola Valley. A reception follows at the Town Center nearby.

Mr. Halsted, a passionate sports fan, friend to many, and graduate of Portola Valley schools, Menlo-Atherton High School and California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, died July 28 at home in Portola Valley. He was 48.

In his career, Mr. Halsted was a manager at several Silicon Valley-based and global companies. He was active in the Allied Arts Men’s Guild in Menlo Park, including as guild president, working for the benefit of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

When it came to sports, his favorites were the San Francisco 49ers, Stanford Cardinal football and the San Francisco Giants. His oldest friends were his dearest, relatives said, and his children “were the loves of his life.”

A man also referred to by his family as “salt of the earth,” Mr. Halsted was also a friend to found dogs, who returned the affection.

Mr. Halsted is survived by his parents, Sam and Mercedes Halsted; brothers Matt of Los Angeles, Ben of Cupertino, Tim of Palo Alto, Erik of West Sacramento and Sam of Portola Valley; his children, James and Charlotte; and nieces and nephews.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Go to ben@envirest.com for more information.

Nellie Brookshire

Longtime Menlo Park resident

Services were held July 20 at Menlo Church for Nellie Virginia Lackey Brookshire, who died peacefully July 11 at home at the age of 96. She had been a resident of Menlo Park since the 1950s and was an early member of the Peninsula Volunteers.

Born in Torrington, Wyoming, one of six children, she graduated from Torrington High School. The summer before graduation, the family drove to San Francisco to visit her sister, Helen and Helen’s husband, Clarence Brookshire.

It was here that Ms. Brookshire met her future husband, Edgar, Clarence’s brother. After graduation, they were married and set up housekeeping in a canvas platform tent in Redding.

When World War II began,

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the couple moved to Oakland, and in the 1950s, they moved to Menlo Park. They toured the American West and made several trips to Hawaii in their 62 years of marriage.

After Mr. Brookshire died in 2004, niece Shirlee Martin, friend Stephanie Kirtland and other neighbors known as F.O.N. (Friends of Nellie) stepped in to help the widow, who was coping with short-term memory loss. They were profiled in a San Jose Mercury News article.

Surviving Ms. Brookshire are many members of the Lackey and Brookshire families, including nieces Patsy Brookshire of Newport, Oregon, and Shirlee Martin of Richmond. The family prefers memorials be made to hospice or by surprising a friend with a bouquet of flowers.

Valerie Marie Knapp

Sixty-year resident of Menlo Park

Valerie Marie Knapp, who lived in Menlo Park for 60 years, died May 30 at her daughter’s home in Hawaii, surrounded by her family. She was 82.

Born and raised in Glen Falls, New York, she attended St. Mary’s College in Albany, New York, where she majored in English.

She married her next-door neighbor from her childhood, Matteo Sassone, in 1956. Two years later, they drove across the U.S. with 1-year-old twins to settle in Menlo Park.

They had two other children.

In 1966, Mr. Sassone died of stomach cancer. She continued to raise her children with help from her parents, who lived next door.

In 1970, she married George P. Knapp. For several years, she and Mr. Knapp traveled the world on cruises with their square dancing club.

She was close to her neighbors on Mills Avenue, where she lived for 60 years, and was an active volunteer with St. Denis Catholic Church, participating in the Catholic Women’s Guild. She served as president of the Las Lomitas School District’s Parent Teacher Association.

She is survived by her husband of 47 years, George P. Knapp; her brother and sister-in-law; her children Paul (Yvonne) Sassone, Steve (Lea) Sassone, Mark (Yukiko) Sassone, and Maria (Robert “Joe”) LaMadrid; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

A celebration of her life will be held in Menlo Park at a later

date. Condolences may be sent to the family C/O Maria LaMadrid, 5918 Uilani Place, Kapaa, HI 96746.

Go to is.gd/knapp340 for the family’s posting on the Almanac’s Lasting Memories site.

Steve Sommer Software executive

Steve Sommer, who lived in Menlo Park for 21 years and worked as an executive at enterprise software companies, died July 13 following complications from metastatic thyroid cancer.

He was 62.

Born in New York City, he grew up in the greater New York area and went on to study chemical engineering and business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After a few years in the workforce, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

A strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company early in his career, he worked for such software companies as ArcSight, Portal Software and Informix.

Most recently, he was chief marketing officer at the San Francisco-based Splunk.

He moved to Menlo Park in 1996 and loved the area, according to his family. He enjoyed biking to breakfast spots in town, such as Mademoiselle Colette, Cafe Borrone and Stacks. He was also a fan of Koma Sushi on El Camino Real.

His three adult daughters, who all graduated from MenloAtherton High School, recall fondly the time they spent with their father baking brownies, skydiving, playing with dogs and becoming candy connoisseurs.

“Steve’s zest for adventure and challenge made him a delightful father, friend and companion,” his family says.

He is survived by his three daughters, Rachel, Allison and Julia Sommer, granddaughter Charlotte, mother Sandra, brother Mark, sister Roberta Salese, and their families.

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N E W S Q P O LI C E C A LL S This information is from the Menlo Park Police Department. Under the law, people charged with offenses are considered innocent unless convicted.

Police received the reports on the dates shown.

MENLO PARK Extortion: A resident of University Drive told police that an ex-boyfriend demanded $300 from her in exchange for his not using the internet to distribute nude photos of her. The ex-boyfriend is living somewhere in Oregon and had not yet sent out any photos, police said, adding that the case is under investigation. Aug. 12.

Robbery: A would-be buyer of a computer via a Facebook ad came to the agreed-upon meeting spot in the 1100 block of Willow Road, whereupon the would-be seller took the buyer’s money and left. Estimated loss: $550. Aug. 9.

Defrauding an innkeeper: Police arrested and

booked into jail a man from Woodland Hills on charges that he stole a room key to the Stanford Inn on El Camino Real and stayed there for one night without having paid for the room. Police found him in the room. Aug. 9.

Dog bite: Two dogs allegedly approached a man and a woman out for a walk near Helen Place and San Mateo Drive and one of the dogs, a brownand-white boxer, bit the man on the knee. The man fell down, and his injuries included abrasions and puncture of the skin on his knee. The Peninsula Humane Society took up the case, police said, adding that the dog was up to date on its shots.

Aug. 4.

Brandishing: Police arrested an East Palo Alto man on charges of brandishing a weapon — in this case semi-automatic pistol that, police said, he threw down a storm drain as they arrived on the scene. The pistol was recovered. Aug. 4.

Tasso John Conomos

porch of a home on Laurel Street. Estimated loss: $580. Aug. 7.

Q Someone stole an unlocked bike from an open garage. Estimated loss: $500. Aug. 6.

Q A thief stole an unattended cellphone from the exterior of Cafe Borrone on El Camino Real> Estimated loss: $100. Aug. 13.

Q A transient woman was arrested after leaving Draeger’s Market on University Drive with a box of cereal she hadn’t paid for. She was intercepted and the cereal recovered and returned to the store. Aug. 15.

Stolen vehicles: Q A red and white 2007 Honda motorcycle from the 1100 block of Hollyburne Avenue. Aug. 8.

QA white 2003 Ford F250 pickup truck from a parking lot in the 100 block of Constitution Avenue. Aug. 16.

Q A white 2016 Ford F250 pickup truck from the 300 block of Constitution Avenue. Aug, 16.

Todhunter “Tod” Weir Bensen

September 11, 1938 – August 9, 2017 Tasso John Conomos, beloved husband, cherished father, loving grandfather, and devoted son passed away peacefully with loved ones by his side on August 9, 2017. Ever gracious, he showed the courage to bow out gracefully after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. As Dad reflected in recent weeks ~ his cup was full.

Tasso was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1938, to proud Greek immigrant parents, John and Penelope Conomos. Raised as a first generation American with a great appreciation for higher education, Tasso was among the first in his family to attend college. Passionate about science and the great outdoors at a tender age, the one time Sea Scout received a Bachelor of Science in Geology and earned a Masters in Marine Geology from San Jose State University, then accepted a Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and received a Doctorate in Oceanography at the University of Washington (UW). He was later appointed to the UW Department of Oceanography research faculty before an exciting endeavor brought him and his new wife to the California Bay Area in 1969.

Tasso joined the US Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct groundbreaking research on the San Francisco Bay estuarine systems and other west coast estuaries. It was his team’s body of work that ultimately shaped San Francisco Bay environmental policy for the next 40 years. Tasso was later assigned to the role of Regional Research Hydrologist and then Administrator for Hydrologic Research for the Western Region of the USGS ~ a senior leadership position in which he thrived until his retirement in 2001. Cited for his outstanding contributions to and advocating for water-resource research, program monitoring, and identifying, recruiting, and mentoring hundreds of scientists ~ Tasso was granted the highest honor of the US Department of the Interior, the Distinguished Service Award, and honored as a world leader in the definition of estuarine processes.

And yet despite his professional success, nothing was more important to Tasso than his wife of 48 years and their three children.

He enjoyed spending part of every year in the Sierras, where he indulged his seafaring soul on Lake Tahoe. And he often journeyed to his ancestral homeland of Greece to trace and to honor his family lineage on the island of Kythera. A jack of all trades, Tasso was a master woodworker, a gourmet cook, an incredible mentor, and an esteemed friend to.. everyone. Dad never knew a stranger.

He is survived by his loving wife, Janice, son John W. Conomos (Amanda), daughters Penelope Benis (Christopher), and Alexa Anderson (Bradley), grandchildren Christopher, Alexander, and Nicholas Benis, Tasso and Basel Conomos, and Luka, Britton, and Annick Anderson. He also leaves behind his devoted mother Penelope Conomos and his loving sister Chrysanthy Conomos.

Tasso is now united in eternal rest with his revered father, John A. Conomos, and his beloved sisters Damiani Conomos and Anastasia Condas.

Remembrances may be made in Tasso’s name to Church of the Holy Cross (www.goholycross.org) or the Kytherian Society of California (www.ksoca.com).

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Auto burglary: Someone broke into a vehicle parked in the 700 block of El Camino Real and stole an insulated backpack. Inside were avocados, nuts and safety glasses. Estimated loss: $70.

Aug. 11.

Thefts: Q A thief made off with an unlocked unattended bicycle from the 1300 block of Willow Road.

Estimated loss: $1,300. Aug. 19.

Q Someone stole a cellphone charger and flashlight from an unlocked vehicle parked on Van Buren Road.

Estimated loss: $950. Aug. 11.

Q A thief cut a lock and stole a bike from a patio behind an office building in the first block of Willow Road. Estimated loss: $820. Aug. 7.

Q Someone stole an unlocked bike belonging to an employee of Jeffrey’s Hamburgers at 888 El Camino Real. The bike was sitting behind the restaurant. Estimated loss: $800. Aug. 10.

Q Two outdoor lanterns were stolen from the front

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December 24, 1962 – August 10, 2017 Todhunter (“Tod”) Weir Bensen passed away on August 10, 2017 in California.

Born on December 24,1962 in New York City, Tod and his mother were surrounded by hospital staff singing Christmas carols, a portent of the outstanding life he was to lead.

After attending Greenwich High School in CT, Tod graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1984.

While at college, he played lacrosse and ultimate frisbee, rowed crew, and made lifelong friendships as a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

After graduating from Dartmouth he worked on Wall Street for two years at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin as a Corporate Finance Analyst before moving to London, where he worked at Cazenove & Co., the UK’s leading investment bank, for 20 years.

After building the company’s Equity Capital Markets practice, where he led hundreds of IPOs for companies around the world, he set up Cazenove Private Equity (CPE). As founder and CEO of this $450 million fund, he built one of Europe’s leading venture capital businesses.

Within the first year that Tod was living in London he met the love of his life, Fiona Aitchison, originally from New Zealand.

They married in 1994 in the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, with their reception at the House of Lords. With a passion for travel and adventure, the couple visited 52 countries and eventually decided to relocate to California, seeking new professional pursuits. In 2005, Tod handed over the management of CPE. Once in California, he became aware of WildAid, a charity with the mission to end the illegal wildlife trade in endangered animal parts. He was influenced by the similarities between the organization’s management talent, ambition, and achievements and those of the world’s best venture capitalbacked companies. After working with WildAid on various projects, Tod joined the board as Chairman from 2008 until 2013 and remained an active board member until his passing.

While continuing his venture capital investing, Tod also founded his own startup company, StudentVox, in 2014. He

started the company when he realized that he could utilize technology to facilitate communication between college applicants and enrolled college students during the admissions process.

Tod was a lover of all sports, both as a participant and a spectator. As a young boy, he was introduced to fishing by his Gramps in Mystic, CT, and remained a lifelong fisherman, fishing in places from Alaska to Mozambique, Australia to Scotland, Belize to Malaysia.

During his California years, he became an avid Golden State Warriors fan and season ticket holder.

Tod also was a voracious reader, keen poker player, rescue advocate and dog lover, scuba diver, comedy show and concert goer, dynamic story teller, and generous and inclusive friend.

In addition to his wife, Fiona Bensen, Tod is survived by his parents, Roger & Anne Bensen (Connecticut); sisters, Brooke Glidden (husband, John, and son, Johnny, New Jersey) and Kim Crowell (husband, Brad, and children, Anna, Catie, and Will, Massachusetts); brother, Britt Bensen (California); aunt and uncle, Sandra & Bob Calhoun (children, Andrew, Rob, and Gordon, Virginia); parents-in-law, Dave Aitchison & Shona Reichardt (New Zealand); sister-inlaw, Debs Cassar (Australia); brother-in-law, Ross Aitchison (New Zealand); and many nieces and nephews Down Under. Tod was predeceased by his loving grandparents, George & Florence Bensen and John & Minetta Weir. Tod was also survived by his beloved dogs, Ike & Petey, and predeceased by Otis & Spunky.

He has physically left us much too soon, and his laughter and prolific stories will be greatly missed, but his personality and spirit will be with us forever. As one of his friends has said, “he lived twice a life in half a lifetime.” We will carry wonderful memories of Tod in our minds and hearts forever.

A remembrance and reflection service will be held at the Valley Presbyterian Church in Portola Valley, CA on Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 3:00pm, with a celebration of Tod’s life to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to WildAid at www.wildaid.org.

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Lots of construction ahead for Las Lomitas district schools

By Barbara Wood

driveway and bike parking.

Construction during this school uilding new facilities on year will focus on the one-acre an existing school site is residential lot next door to the bit like trying to open a school that the district purchased wooden puzzle box, requiring in 2014 for $3 million, where the careful sequential moves, and new kindergarten classrooms will precise timing, so classes can soon begin going up. Students are safely continue while new build- expected to move into the new classrooms in fall 2018. ings take shape.

The district plans to build a In the Las Lomitas Elementary School District, completing the new administration building puzzle is even more complicated and new classrooms all around as the district tries to simultane- the Las Lomitas campus, includously complete major projects on ing five new classrooms for first both of its school sites: Las Lomi- through third grade that will tas in Atherton and La Entrada replace existing portables or older buildings. The construcin Menlo Park.

Workers swarmed both cam- tion will take place in phases and puses this summer, trying to get is expected to be completed by as much done as possible during spring 2019.

At La Entrada, with fourth the schools’ summer break before through eighth switching gears grades at 2200 so that the building projects can ‘We’re trying to be Sharon Road in Park, work continue after the proactive. We’re Menlo crews have finstudents return to school on Aug. 23. trying to be really ished the founfor a At Las Lomitas, good neighbors.’ dations new two-story, the district’s kin21- c l a s s r o om dergarten through ERIC HOLM , building and third grade school BONDS PROJECTS DIRECTOR installed underat 299 Alameda de las Pulgas, bond projects direc- ground piers and utilities. Soon tor Eric Holm said the district’s after school begins, workers will contractor has spent the summer begin to erect the building’s steel preparing for construction that frame, Mr. Holm said. Blacktop will begin with a new kinder- paving and a new lunch area garten complex. Workers have should be completed within the installed new underground utili- first month of school. That buildties on the site, moved portables ing is also expected to be ready to make room for construction, for use in fall 2018.

How are students being kept relocated the school’s daycare facility, demolished some exist- safe during construction? “A ing buildings and modified the lot of fencing,” said Mr. Holm,

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Learn more about construction projects A meeting for community members to learn more and ask questions about the construction projects underway at Las Lomitas and La Entrada schools will be held on Tuesday, Sept.

5, at 6 p.m. in Las Lomitas’ Cano Hall, 299 Alameda de las Pulgas in Atherton.

At is.gd/LLESD, the district’s website has links to information about the construction projects, including photos, renderings of the proposed buildings and a list of answers to frequently asked questions.

Call bond project director Eric Holm at 650-854-6311, ext.

42, or email him at eholm@llesd.org with questions or to leave your contact information to be kept up to date.

Courtesy Las Lomitas Elementary School District

Top: Workers scrambled this summer to get as much work as possible done on the construction projects in the Las Lomitas Elementary School District. On Aug. 8, workers were installing rebar for the new two-story building’s grade beams.

Right: This architect’s rendering shows what the new two-story building on the La Entrada School campus should look like.

“fencing that’s really, really tight.” It also helps that the contractors at both sites have lots of previous experience in building schools, he said.

At La Entrada, construction workers will have their own entrance on Monte Rosa Drive, and Mr. Holm has asked Menlo Park to temporarily close the sidewalk there to keep pedestrians safer.

Mr. Holm said the district is doing all it can to minimize the impact of construction on neighbors. “Obviously there are going to be impacts,” he said.

While school districts are governed by state rather than local laws, and therefore are exempt from things such as restrictions on construction hours, Mr. Holm said the district is voluntarily observing Menlo Park’s and

Atherton’s construction hours at the two school sites. “We have had some limited weekend work,” he said, when meeting deadlines made it necessary.

“We’ve been working really closely with the contractors at both sites to be really respectful of the community,” he said.

In fact, Mr. Holm said, when a subcontractor showed up to drop off a piece of equipment at 6 a.m. this summer and then was “rude to the neighbor,” the subcontractor was fired that very day.

At Las Lomitas, where multiple buildings will go up, the district is building only one at a time to minimize the number of workers and activity on the site at any time, he said. All construction parking will be within the construction site, but teachers may find parking a bit more

congested than normal, he said, with about a dozen parking spots temporarily displaced.

The district has been working to encourage the half of its students who aren’t bused to school to find a way to get there other than in their parents’ cars. The district has expanded busing capacity with a new bus. It used a San Mateo County grant to build an off-road bike path on Altschul Avenue near La Entrada. The school will also add crossing guards at the corner of Altschul and Avy Avenue and at Sharon Road and Eastridge Avenue, Mr. Holm said.

“We’re trying to be proactive,” he said. “We’re trying to be really good neighbors.”

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Application period for Menlo Park fire board opens Sept. 1

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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hose interested in a seat on the Menlo Park Fire Protection District board will have a little more than the state-required minimum time of 15 days to apply for a soon-to-be open board seat.

Chief Harold Schapelhouman said the district will start taking

applications on Friday, Sept. 1, and board members have asked to make the appointment at their Tuesday, Sept. 19, meeting.

The chief said departing board member Rex Ianson made his official resignation in writing on Aug. 16, but that Mr. Ianson stated that his departure date is Aug. 31.

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applications starting Sept. 1,” the chief said. By state law the district must advertise the opening for a minimum of 15 days before the board appoints a new member.

Mr. Ianson said at the Aug. 15 board meeting, which was his last meeting, that he and his wife have “already moved” to Oregon. That would mean that legally, he should have already

resigned from the board, because fire district directors must live in the district. Mr. Ianson’s home in Menlo Park’s Willows neighborhood has been listed for rent for several weeks, and one website said it was available starting on Aug. 7.

However, when contacted on Aug. 16, Mr. Ianson said that he has moved only his furniture to

Oregon and he is sleeping in his empty home. “I’ve got a blow up,” he said.

“We’ve moved all of our furniture,” he said, adding that he and his wife returned to Menlo Park from Oregon about 10 days ago.

“I’m still down here working getting the house ready to rent,” he See APPLICATION, page 17

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything illegal,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rented the house out yet.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have Rex Ianson some people who are interested,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had any takers yet.â&#x20AC;?

If someone does rent his house before Aug. 31, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that would be another dilemma,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just turn in my resignation that day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I figure I have another week here to take care of some stuff,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Mr. Ianson said he chose Aug. 31 as his retirement date because ETHICS continued from page 10

forums to publicity generated by Ms. Balfour concerning her.

The reproval does not recommend that Ms. McKowan attend ethics school, as she completed the ethics course in August 2015, but she will have to take and pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam within a year.

he gets medical insurance from the fire district and wanted to make sure he had replacement coverage before leaving the board.

The fire district no longer provides medical insurance to board members, but Mr. Ianson was grandfathered in when the policy was changed, he said.

The board appointee will fill the remainder of Mr. Iansonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s term, which ends in December 2018, and will be able to run as an incumbent in the November 2018 election. The terms of two other board members, Peter Carpenter and Chuck Bernstein, also end in 2018.

The district has five board members, and three of the remaining four members will have to agree on whom to appoint.

Board directors must live in the district, be at least 18 years old

and registered to vote. The district includes Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto and some adjoining unincorporated areas.

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Theater

Âś$LUVZLPPLQJ¡ E\ &KDUORWWH -RQHV This drama by Charlotte Jones takes place in England in the 1920s. It is the somewhat true story of two women who were locked up in a hospital for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;criminally insaneâ&#x20AC;? because they had children out of wedlock. Aug. 4-27, times vary. $35 general admission; $27 seniors and students. Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City. dragonproductions.net Âś%DOOHULQD $ 2QH :RPDQ 3OD\¡ Using dance, music, film and spoken word, Stephanie Herman presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ballerina: A One-Woman Playâ&#x20AC;? about the birth of a career, with stories of dedication, injury and triumph. A post-play reception and Q&A will follow the performance, and guests can enjoy a display of Rudolph Nureyevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballet shoes. Aug. 30, 8-10 p.m.

Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc.org/ballerina Âś1H[W WR 1RUPDO¡ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next to Normalâ&#x20AC;? nabbed three Tonys and a Pulitzer for its heartbreaking, humorous and unflinchingly authentic look at a seemingly normal modern family struggling with the effects of bipolar disorder. Aug. 11-27, times vary. $48-$70. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway St., Redwood City. broadwaybythebay.org 6KDNHVSHDUH LQ WKH 3DUN Âś+DPOHW¡ Celebrating its 35th year, SF Shakespeare Festival brings â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? to the Sequoia High School campus in downtown Redwood City for three weekends in August; free. Shakespeare in the Park provides an opportunity to see high-quality, professional theater in a relaxing outdoor setting. Sequoia High, 1201 Brewster Ave., Redwood City. redwoodcity.org/shakespeare 6WDQIRUG 5HSHUWRU\ 7KHDWHU Âś7KH 0DQ\ )DFHV RI )DUFH¡ Political disaster and the joy of humor collide as Stanford Repertory Theater combines raucous performances of Chekhovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic farces â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bear,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Proposalâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Anniversary,â&#x20AC;? with a cutting-edge piece based on Meyerholdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;33 Swoons.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 10-27, times vary. $20, adults; $15, seniors; $10, students. Nitery Theater, Stanford University, 514 Lasuen Mall, Old Union, Stanford University, Stanford. stanfordreptheater.com 7KHDWHU Âś6LVWHU $FW¡ Based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film, the Tony-nominated Broadway musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Actâ&#x20AC;? tells the tale of a wannabe disco diva whose life is turned upside down when she witnesses a crime and is put into hiding in a convent. Friday-Sunday, Aug. 18-27; Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. Carrington Hall, 1201 Brewster Ave., Redwood City. rwctheatre.org 7KHDWHU:RUNV Âś&RQVWHOODWLRQV¡ A romantic drama spun out of string theory, this Broadway and West End sensation explores the infinite possibilities of â&#x20AC;&#x153;boy meets girlâ&#x20AC;? with intelligence, heart and humor. A charming beekeeper and a Cambridge cosmologist are nerds in love, for better or worse, their relationship an everchanging mystery of â&#x20AC;&#x153;what ifs.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 23-Sept.

17, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks.org :RUNVKRS 3URGXFWLRQ œ%ORRG DQG 6LON¡ Adapted by the author of the book, Jeffrey L. Love has created orchestrations and a story that is lifted up by the lyrics written by Jo Kiech.

The story of Beauty and The Beast is showcased in a new light and asks, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What really is love? Is it as fragile as a rose?â&#x20AC;? Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m. Pay what you will in cash at the door. The Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City. dragonproductions.net

Concerts 7KH &RPSOHWH 3LDQR 6RQDWDV RI %HHWKRYHQ Axel Schmitt (CSMA faculty, piano) takes on the herculean task of performing the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven. This is the first in a series of concerts leading up to the 250th anniversary of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth in 2020. Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m. Free. Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.org/events

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Free. Stanford Shopping Center at The Plaza (near Neiman Marcus), 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. ,QVWUXPHQW 3HWWLQJ =RR For preschoolers

and their parents/caregivers, there will be a variety of kid-friendly instruments available for use, and all are invited to go make some noise.

Aug. 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. /LWWOH %LWV For ages seven and up, kids can create with these magnetic, fun, electronic building blocks and make automatic bubble blowers, remote controlled cars or anything kids can dream up with these magnetic pieces and their ideas. Space is limited. Aug. 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. /LYH 0XVLF %ULDQ 3DWULFN DQG &KULV 6WRQH Bay Area singer and guitarist Brian Patrick plays alternative acoustic rock. Friday heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be accompanied on lead guitar by Chris Stone, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an instructor at Gelb music. Aug. 26, 7-9 p.m. Free. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St., Redwood City. Search facebook.com/events for more info. /LYH 0XVLF .DUOD .DQH )XQ RI WKH 3LHU The Menlo Park Library is hosting a free concert with local musician Karla Kane, who will team up with British duo Fun of the Pier of Nottingham England for a performance of original folk and indie-pop songs. Sept. 2, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Menlo Park City Council Chambers, 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park. Search menlopark.org for more info. /LYH 0XVLF 0LNH 0DJXLUH Local musician Mike Maguire performs the deep blues and original open tunings such as Jimi Page, Clapton and Mitch Hedges. Aug. 25, 8-10 p.m. Free.

Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St., Redwood City. freewheelbrewing.com 0DULHOD +HUUHUD¡V %LOLQJXDO 0XVLF 7LPH This family program consists of a 45-minute musical storytime in both English and Spanish.

Aug. 14, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Aug. 26, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

6) 2SHUD 3UHYLHZ /HFWXUH 5LFKDUG 6WUDXVV¡V Âś(OHNWUD¡ Dr. Derek Katz, this eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speaker, will address the profound questions underlying the opera â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elektraâ&#x20AC;? and illustrate his talk with musical and visual examples.

A Q&A period follows, and the lecture is open to everyone. Sept. 5, 7:30-9 p.m. $10. Fellowship Hall, First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, 1140 Cowper Street (at Lincoln), Palo Alto. facebook.com/sfogpen

Festivals & Fairs

$57 RQ WKH 6TXDUH ART on the Square features original fine arts and crafts in downtown Redwood City. 2017 marks its eleventh year of showcasing painting, photography, jewelry, glass, fiber art, woodwork and more, with prices for every budget. July 21, 5-8:30 p.m.; July 22, noon-8 p.m.; Aug. 25, 5-8:30 p.m.

Free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. Search redwoodcity.org for more info. )DFHERRN &RXQW\ )DLU This Facebook County Fair will feature live music; cooking demos; a farmers market; artisan vendors; craft beer, wine and farm-to-cup cocktails; and food trucks. Aug. 26, noon-7 p.m. Free. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St., Redwood City. Search facebook.com/events for more info. .LQJV 0RXQWDLQ $UW )DLU The 54th Annual Kings Mountain Art Fair will feature over 135 juried artists in a redwood forest with an old fashioned childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craft and game area.

Sept. 2-4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Kings Mountain Community Center, 13889 Skyline Blvd., Woodside. kingsmountainartfair.org /HEDQHVH )HVWLYDO The annual Lebanese Festival will feature traditional Lebanese sweets, a dedicated play area for children, booths for shopping, raffle tickets to win prizes, food, dancing and Lebanese and Arab performers.

Sept. 2, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Free. Downtown Redwood City, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City.

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Family

' 3ULQWLQJ 'URS ,Q During this time, those interested can stop on by and check out the 3D printer in action. People can select and print objects to take home. This time is firstcome, first-served. Space is limited. Aug. 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. %DELHV %RRNV 6WRU\WLPH This storytime features rhymes, songs, lap play and short stories for the very young. Age-appropriate toys will be brought out at the end for playtime.

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11-11:30 a.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. %DFN WR 6FKRRO 3L]]D 3DUW\ All students are invited to stop by for a slice of pizza and giveaways, and to check out the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs for August. Students still have time to participate in Summer Learning, and they can grab a Summer Learning Log and a chance to win some prizes. Aug. 23, 3-5 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. %D\ $UHD 'LVFRYHU\ 0XVHXP )DLU\ 7DOH (QJLQHHULQJ Kids can help their favorite fairy tale characters solve problems by working together to engineer solutions. STEM workshops are designed for adults and children to learn together. All participating children need to have a parent or guardian to supervise and engage with the program. Aug. 24, 4-5 p.m.

Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. &DUHJLYHU :RUNVKRS In this workshop, participants will get ideas for seasonally-themed snacks and activities for children under 5.

Children of any age are welcome to attend with their caregiver. Storytime will immediately follow this workshop. Aug. 23, 11 a.m. Free.

Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. &UDIWHUQRRQ This class is an opportunity to get creative at the library and let oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic self come alive. Materials are supplied, and all are invited to join the fun for this drop-in art and crafts session. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for ages 2 and up. Fridays in August, 3-4 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

-XQJOH -DPHV 5HSWLOH 6KRZ During this event, guests will get to see wild reptiles from all around the world and learn all about them.

This activity is best for ages 3 and up. Aug. 30, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. .LGV 0RYLH 0DWLQHH Âś6LQJ¡ This is a chance to beat the heat and catch a matinee at the library. This month theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re screening â&#x20AC;&#x153;Singâ&#x20AC;? (rated PG, 108 minutes), and snacks will be provided. Aug. 24, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. /(*2 &OXE The library will provide the LEGOs, and guests will provide their imagination. DUPLO building blocks are now available for the youngest builders, and this event is for all ages.

Aug. 26, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. /LYH $FWLRQ )XQ 6WRU\WLPH In this interactive storytime kids will read books, sing songs and play games. The time is for all ages. Thursdays in August, 11:15 a.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

0XVLF DQG 0RYHPHQW 6WRU\WLPH All are invited to join the library for a fun storytime with music, rhythm and movement. Guests will dance, sing, play and read stories together.

This storytime is for all ages. Aug. 29, 11:15 a.m.-noon. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

3DJH WR 3OD\ Each Page to Play event will begin on the reading rug with a specially chosen book. The group will pull themes and ideas off the page and incorporate them into a playbased activity. Page to Play is designed for children ages 1 to 5 years and requires parent or caregiver participation. Tuesdays, ongoing, 11 a.m. Free. Cheeky Monkey Toys, 640 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. business.menloparkchamber.com/events 3DLQW WKH /LEUDU\ All are invited to help paint the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driveway using homemade cornstarch-based paints to turn it into a riot of color. Though paints should wash out of most clothes, attendants are advised to dress for a messy and fun afternoon. Aug. 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

5RFN 6WHDG\ -XJJOLQJ For ages five and up, this family-friendly show involves comedy, magic, juggling and audience participation to engage audiences young and old while learning practical tips on protecting the environment. Aug. 30, 3-4 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

7RGGOHU 6WRU\WLPH This storytime for toddlers 18-36 months will feature songs, stories and movement activities to encourage children to listen and read. Age-appropriate toys will be brought out at the end for playtime. Tuesdays in August, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

Food & Drink

)LOLSLQR &RRNLQJ 9HJDQ 6W\OH In this cooking demo for adults, Chef RG Enriquez will

Go to AlmanacNews.com and see the Community Calendar module at the top right side of the page. Click on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Add your event.â&#x20AC;? If the event is of interest to a large number of people, also e-mail a press release to Editor@AlmanacNews.com. show how to prepare the classic Filipino soup Nilaga. The dish would traditionally incorporate beef and fish sauce, but Enriquez says her veganized version is delicious without losing its traditional Filipino essence. Aug. 26, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Search menlopark.org for more info.

0RUQLQJ 7HD DW WKH /LEUDU\ The library invites readers to drop in for a cup of tea, a tasty treat as they read one of its many magazines and gaze out at the beautiful garden. Fridays, ongoing, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

Museums & Exhibits Âś$ORQJ WKH 1DNDVHQGR¡ E\ <YRQQH 1HZ KRXVH The Portola Art Gallery presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Along the Nakasendo,â&#x20AC;? an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Yvonne Newhouse of San Mateo.

The exhibit highlights scenes from her hiking and sketching trip to Japan last October. A reception for the artist will be held Aug. 12, 1-4 p.m. Aug. 1-31, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free. Portola Art Gallery, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. portolaartgallery.com

Film

&RQFXVVLRQV The program, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Concussions: A Former NFL Player Speaks Out,â&#x20AC;? features a filmed interview with former NFL tight end Ben Utecht, who suffered five confirmed concussions during his career. During the program, participants will have the opportunity to share ideas for reducing the risk of concussions in sports at all levels. Aug. 30, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Bethany, 1095 Cloud Ave., Menlo Park. vimeo.com/158644949 )LOP Âś0LUDJH¡ As part of the SGS Summer Film Festival, there will be a screening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mirageâ&#x20AC;? (directed by Srdan Keca, UK/Serbia, 2011), which offers a visual exploration of displacement and the longings and desires of their inhabitants, set in Dubai. Aug. 23, 7 p.m.

Free. Stanford University, Geology Corner, Building 320, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

0HQOR 0RYLH 6HULHV Âś&DVDEODQFD¡ The 2017 Menlo Movie Series features free outdoor movies in Downtown Menlo Park. This Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Casablancaâ&#x20AC;? (G). Attendants are encouraged to grab a chair, blanket and some snacks to enjoy a free community movie night with friends and family. Aug. 25, 8:15 p.m.

Free. Downtown Menlo Park Paseo, Curtis Street at Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park. menlopark.org )LOP Âś:HOFRPH¡ SGS Summer Film Festival will show the film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome,â&#x20AC;? directed by Philippe Lioret (France, 2009). A Q&A will follow with Nilgun Bayraktar, Assistant Professor of Film History, Theory & Criticism in the Visual Studies Program, California College of the Arts.

Sept. 6, 7 p.m. Free. Stanford University, Geology Corner, Building 320, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

7KH\ +LMDFNHG 0\ /LIH The program titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;They Hijacked My Life! How Vulnerable Are You to Identity Theft?â&#x20AC;? features a filmed interview with identity-theft expert John Sileo.

Sileo is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stolen Lives: Identity Theft Prevention Made Simpleâ&#x20AC;? and regularly appears on the media to provide tips and techniques for protecting confidential personal information from theft online, through the mail and elsewhere in life. Aug. 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Bethany, 1095 Cloud Ave., Menlo Park. vimeo.com/207161398

Lessons & Classes

H0HGLD +HOS :KDW¡V $OO WKH +RRSOD" Chris Atwood, former NASA geek, will tutor participants on how to use oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s table, smartphone or laptop to access free content using apps such as Overdrive, Hoopla, Zinio and more.

Thursdays in August, 4-7 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

7HFKQRORJ\ +HOS IRU 6HQLRUV For seniors who have some technology-related questions, an experienced trainer Curtis Golden will be available weekly to assist people in using their computer, cell phone and other devices such as printers and cameras. He can provide instruction on downloading e-books and using programs such as Skype, Amazon and eBay. Aug. 21 and 28, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

Health & Wellness

$ODWHHQ PHHWLQJ Alateens are young people (ages 12-20 years) whose lives have been

affected by someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drinking. This weekly program shows people how to care for themselves, whether the alcoholic continues to drink or not. Participants share stories of experience, strength and hope. Wednesdays, June 28-Aug. 30, 7-8:15 p.m. Trinity Church, Tierney Room, 330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park. alanonmidpeninsula.org /LIHWLPH )LWQHVV This class is designed to strengthen, stretch and tone specific muscle groups of the body, helping build strong bones and accelerate metabolism with hand weights.

Body mechanics is taught, and participants should bring their mat and hand weights. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $12$15. Little House Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. penvol.org/littlehouse 0DW 3LODWHV Geared toward improving mental and physical wellbeing by increasing flexibility and improving muscles, this class is structured around the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerhouse, and it engages muscles and helps to improve the core.

Mondays, ongoing, 5:30-7 p.m. $20 per class, members; $24 per class, nonmembers. Little House Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. penvol.org/littlehouse 3LODWHV 09H &KDLU For those looking for something new to add to their fitness routine, they are encouraged to consider Pilates MVe. Structured around the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerhouse, it engages muscles and helps improve the core.

Fridays, 9:30-11 a.m. $20 per class, members; $24 per class, nonmembers. Little House Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. penvol.org/littlehouse 7DL &KL &KL .XQJ Tai Chi and Chi Kung instructor Ben Dineen leads a 60-minute class in the Redwood Grove, next to the Town Center Community Hall. These centuries-old Asian exercises help relieve stress and build stronger bodies, better balance and sharper minds. Wednesdays in August, 10-11 a.m.

Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

Outdoor Recreation

%LF\FOH 6XQGD\ Bicycle Sunday will take riders down a stretch of Canada Road closed near the Filoli entrance and state Highway 92. Attendees asked to bring their own water.

Groups travel in a single file. Sundays, July 2-Oct. 15, 9 a.m. Free. Canada Road, between the Filoli entrance and Highway 92, Redwood City. Search redwoodcity.org for more info.

Seniors

)XVLRQ )LWQHVV This outdoor Boot Camp for active Baby Boomers will feature moving and grooving to the music of that generation.

Attendees will sing along while strengthening major muscle groups, improving balance and posture and enjoying the camaraderie of fellow Baby Boomers. Wednesdays, 10-11 a.m. $95$125. Valley Presbyterian Church, 945 Portola Road, Portola Valley. chezfit.com 6HQLRU 6KRZFDVH Over 30 senior-related booths will showcase senior resources and services from all of San Mateo County. There will be goody bags, giveaways and refreshments. Aug. 26, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Little House, Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. smdailyjournal.com/ site/senior-showcase-menlo-park.html.

Teens

*R*R &UDIW ',< :RRG &RDVWHUV In this workshop taught by GoGo Craft, participants will explore a variety of fun techniques for painting on wood. Creations can be turned into a drink coaster perfect for the next summer party. Tips, tricks and materials will be provided. Those interested should call the library at 650-851-0147 or email woodside@ smcl.org to register. Aug. 31, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

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Aug. 30, 2:30-4 p.m. Aug. 31, 2:30-4 p.m.

Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

Community Groups

)UHQFK %RRN *URXS The Portola Valley lecture is a group of French readers who meet on the fourth Monday of each month and discuss, in French, a book chosen by the group. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Au revoir la-hautâ&#x20AC;? by Pierre Lemaitre. Aug. 28, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement TENISI CONSTRUCTION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 274217 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Tenisi Construction, located at 2345 Ralmar Ave., East Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): TENISI VETE 2345 Ralmar Ave. 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 July 5, 2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on July 5, 2017.

(ALM Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017 ) SUPER DISCOUNT LIQUOR & FOOD FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 274516 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Super Discount Liquor & Food, located at 850 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): MJ FOOD & LIQUOR 2476 Amaryl Dr. San Jose, CA 95132 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 August 2, 2017.

(ALM Aug. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017) F.D. WOODS CUSTODIAL SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 274543 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: F.D. Woods Custodial Service, located at 580 El Camino Real, San Carlos, CA 94070, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): FREDERICK D. WOODS 1538 Newcomb St. San Francisco, CA 94124 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 August 8, 2017.

(ALM Aug. 16, 23, 30; Sept. 6, 2017) NUAD BORAN THERAPEUTIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 274644 The following Person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nuad Boran Therapeutic, located at 3536 Alameda De Las Pulgas, Woodside, CA 94025, San Mateo County. Mailing Address: PO Box 620212, Woodside, CA 94062.

Is (Are) hereby registered by the following owner(s): PROUD THAI MASSAGE, LLC PO Box 620212 Woodside, CA 94062 This business is conducted by: 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 August 15, 2017.

(ALM Aug. 23, 30; Sept. 6, 13, 2017) RAISING FLOORS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 274686 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Raising Floors, located at 1215 Norton St., San Mateo CA 94401, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): Luis Rivas Diaz 1215 Norton St. San Mateo, CA 94401 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 August 17, 2017.

(ALM Aug. 23, 30; Sept. 6, 13, 2017)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL D. PRESCOTT Case No.: 17PRO00828 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MICHAEL D. PRESCOTT. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHLEEN PRESCOTT in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN MATEO. The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHLEEN PRESCOTT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on September 13, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 28, of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: H. Steven Burnside 2211 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, CA 94306 (650)328-2214 (ALM Aug. 16, 23, 30, 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 17CIV03507 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: GLADYS JACQUELINE MOLINA- ESPINOZA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: GLADYS JACQUELINE MOLINAESPINOZA to JACQUELINE GLADYS MOLINA-ESPINOZA. 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: September 22, 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 94063-1655.

THE PENINSULAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM 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: August 8, 2017 /s/ John L. Grandsaert JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Aug. 16, 23, 30; Sept. 6, 2017) NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (SECS. 6104, 6105 U.C.C. & B & P 24073 et seq.)

ESCROW NO: 21467-ND DATE: August 11, 2017 Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller that a sale that may constitute a bulk sale has been or will be made.

The individuals, partnership, or corporate names and the business addresses of the seller are: True Fruits LLC 888 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025 The individuals, partnership, or corporate names and the business addresses of the buyer are: Fruity 888 LLC 1110 Boronda Ln, Palo Alto, CA 94303 As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: NONE KNOWN. The assets sold or to be sold are described in general as: ALL FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, TRADENAME, GOODWILL, LEASE, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE & ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THE BUSINESS KNOWN AS: Tutti Frutti AND ARE LOCATED AT: 888 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025. (a) The place, and date on or after which, the Bulk Sale is to be consummated: Business & Escrow Service Center, Inc. 3031 Tisch Way, Suite 310 San Jose, CA 95128 on or before 9/11/2017. (b) The last date to file claims is 9/8/2017, unless there is a liquor license transferring in which case claims may be filed until the date the license transfers.

BUYERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SIGNATURE: Fruity 888 LLC By: Permsuk Lamprasitipon, Member 8/23/17 CNS-3041871# THE ALMANAC

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JANET HETHERINGTON, Spouse Case No.: 17PRO00714 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JANET HETHERINGTON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MICHAEL HETHERINGTON, Spouse in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN MATEO. The Petition for Probate requests that: MICHAEL HETHERINGTON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on September 29, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 28, of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you

of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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