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Education disparity focus of local meeting

By Kate Bradshaw

Gloria Hernandez-Goff has pointed out. Prior to the meetdiscussion on the dispar- ing, she sent a strongly worded ity in funding and educa- letter to Menlo Park’s mayor tional outcomes among opposing any move to change Menlo Park kids drew what district boundaries.

Mayor Keith said multiple appeared to be more than 100 people to a community meet- times that the meeting was for ing Sept. 18 convened by Mayor informational purposes and did Kirsten Keith at the Menlo Park not represent an endorsement of any policy.

Senior Center in Belle Haven.

Suzanne Carrig, a Santa Clara Some in the audience, mainly County education a number of people official, gave a prewho live in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven ‘There is a wildly sentation about existing options for area in the Ravendepressing changing district swood City School District, said they achievement gap boundaries, and Ross, a member no longer want their in this county.’ Joe of the San Mateo neighborhood to be County Board of part of that district.

JOE ROSS , MEMBER , “We’re here today COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD Education, talked about what’s hapbecause a lot of people recognize that a lot of pening countywide in the area students are not getting a high- of education.

Attendees had the chance quality public education,” said Sheryl Bims, a Belle Haven to talk for up to two minutes about their concerns or to make resident.

Two schools in Menlo Park comments. are part of the Ravenswood district: Belle Haven Elementary Change boundaries? and Willow Oaks Elementary.

Ms. Carrig, director of policy Statewide test results have long development and administrative shown that a majority of Raven- programs in the Santa Clara swood students do not meet County Office of Education, state learning standards. outlined the steps for changing By contrast, test results of stu- the boundaries of the school dents in the two districts serving district, whether by transferring most of Menlo Park and Ather- territory from one district to ton, the Menlo Park City and the another, consolidating a district, Las Lomitas districts, are among or creating a new one. the highest in the state.

The process is intricate, she In the Ravenswood district, said, but noted that in San about half of the students are Mateo County, the decision considered homeless — defined would first go to an 11-member as lacking fixed, regular and county committee on school adequate nighttime residence, district organization.

Ravenswood Superintendent There are nine criteria that Almanac Staff Writer

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Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith at the podium during a discussion on education in Menlo Park. Seated are Joe Ross, a member of the San Mateo County Board of Education, and Suzanne Carrig, Santa Clara County education policy director.

are considered in evaluating the potential impacts of district boundary changes. They include ascertaining whether the proposed changes would yield an equitable division of property and facilities, promote racial or ethnic segregation, affect educational programs or increase state costs. The change also can’t be made for the sole purpose of increasing property values.

The matter would also go to the governing boards of the school districts involved and might go to voters.

At least two Menlo Park neighborhoods have seceded from the

Ravenswood district. In 1976, the unincorporated Menlo Oaks neighborhood broke away from that district on a 3,490-to-3,290 vote. Parents wanted to leave the district and join the Menlo Park City district for “political, social and educational reasons,” according to a news clipping from the San Mateo Times.

The transfer included about 250 homes and an estimated 64 elementary school students, only eight of whom reportedly attended Ravenswood schools.

In 1983, the Willows neighborhood seceded from the district on a 4,440-to-2,436 vote.

Belle Haven resident Michael

Hoff asked how the process might be streamlined in a territory transfer and how to avoid the topic’s politicization. Ms. Carrig said the process will most likely involve the state Board of Education, which has an expected timeline of about two to two-and-a-half years to decide such matters.

Other fixes

Others at the meeting, including local educators and parents, defended the Ravenswood district. The problem isn’t the district; it’s the lack of funding See EDUCATION, page 6

Parents seek safer ways for children to bike or walk to school

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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hat can be done to keep kids safe who ride their bikes or walk to school?

A recently formed Menlo Park-based group of parents got advice on doing just that from a longtime leader of Palo Alto’s Safe Routes program, Penny Ellson, at a parent education night hosted by the Menlo Park City School District on Sept. 19.

Palo Alto has reported major successes in diverting kids out of their parents’ cars to get to school, according to Ms. Ellson, a longtime leader for safe routes

in that city. The number of kids who rode their bikes to school doubled between 2006 and 2016, she said.

Currently, about 44 percent of students at Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School ride their bikes to school, she said. Numbers are lower for younger students, but still up from a decade ago, she noted.

Ms. Ellson advised the Menlo Park group to start an educational program for young elementary school kids, teaching them how to ride bikes safely, be a “polite bicyclist” and wear a helmet.

Holding a no-drive school day,

Palo Alto has doubled the number of kids who bike to school. where families practice what it might be like to get to school in a different mode, also can help families figure out how to get to school a different way and experience a positive change of pace.

“People really overestimate the distances they’re traveling (by car),” she said.

Menlo Park’s Jen Wolosin, who this year founded a group called “Parents for Safe

Routes,” is focused on pushing local leaders to make the roads safer for kids trying to get to school on foot or bike within the city. She said there’s a lot of potential to get more people out on bikes.

About 55 percent of kids in the Menlo Park City School District live within a mile of their school, she said, indicating most kids could comfortably make the journey on foot or bike.

Ms. Wolosin said she has also gathered some data from a San Mateo County survey about which transportation modes kids from local schools use, but the survey doesn’t record the

frequency with which students walk, bike, take the bus, ride in a family vehicle or carpool to get to school. She said she plans to ask that the survey be changed to make the data more helpful.

She noted that a county survey showed that about 60 percent of respondents were open to biking if it were perceived to be safer.

Ms. Wolosin said she got involved with the problem after repeated observations of nearaccidents on Coleman Avenue.

Toddlers headed to preschool and teens headed to high school See SAFETY, page 6

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Council picks transportation advisers The Menlo Park City Council recently chose members of an advisory committee to work on the citywide transportation master plan.

Members selected to represent city commissions are: Adina Levin of the Complete Streets Commission, Chris DeCardy of the Environmental Quality Commission, Sara Staley Shenk of the Parks and Recreation Commission, and Katherine Strehl of the Planning Commission.

Three applicants from local organizations were selected:

Congratulations to the Award Recipients Juanita Croft Arlinda Heineck, City of Menlo Park Rebuilding Together Peninsula Rotary Club of Menlo Park Rex Ianson Shay Patel

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needed to retain good teachers and improve facilities, they said.

Caroline Lucas, an educator who is on the board of the Menlo Park City School District, said she’s coached a number of teachers who have started their careers in the Ravenswood district and a few years later wind up working in neighboring districts, where the pay is much better and the students’ needs are less demanding.

Cecilia Taylor, a 2016 Menlo Park City Council candidate, grew up in Belle Haven attending schools in the Ravenswood district. She said that the school facilities don’t appear to have changed much since she was there in the 1970s.

“That doesn’t mean the education is poor, but it does mean that the facility is old,” she said.

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Menlo Park’s Mayor Kirsten

Keith has signed, and the council approved, a “Mayors for 100% Clean Energy” initiative, which declares a citywide commitment to pursue 100 renewable energy by 2030.

According to a staff report, Peninsula Clean Energy, a nonprofit energy provider governed by participating cities in San Mateo County, currently provides, by default, 50 percent renewable energy and 75 percent carbon-free energy and aims to boost the default energy to 100 percent renewable by 2025.

at Belle Haven Elementary, encouraged parents in the district to come and look at the schools instead of homeschooling their kids, applying to another district or sending their kids to parochial or private schools, as some attendees said they’d chosen to do rather than send their kids to the Ravenswood schools.

Belle Haven resident and teacher Bronwyn Alexander noted that Belle Haven Elementary has a maker space; access to an on-site public library; a yoga program; science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education; a music program; and a workshop-based reading and math program.

Marco Duarte, father of four children in the Ravenswood district, said he is pleased with the learning outcomes he’s seen for his kids so far. “We’re proud to be in Ravenswood schools,” he said.

Mr. Ross, the San Mateo County school board member, said that changing district

boundaries is possible, but takes a lot of time. Faster changes might be made by looking at initiatives succeeding at charter or public schools that work with students similar to those in the Ravenswood district, or by pursuing a proposal made months ago by Menlo Park Councilman Ray Mueller to start a Joint Powers Authority.

Such an authority would create a cross-jurisdictional board with district and city leaders who could work together to leverage funding for capital improvements in Ravenswood schools.

Identified projects needed to bring the district’s schools up to the same quality level as neighboring districts are estimated to cost about $350 million, but district can raise only about $50 million through bond measures, Mr. Ross said.

“There is a wildly depressing achievement gap in this county,” he said. “We’ve got the richest and the poorest schools in terms of disparity here.” A

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ciation, Diane Bailey of Menlo Spark, and Jen Wolosin of Parents for Safe Routes.

The two at-large applicants selected by the council were Henry Riggs and Andrew Barnes, who both also serve on the city’s Planning Commission.

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on foot and bike have to share the road with many vehicles without sidewalks or bike lanes, she said. Because of the dangers she perceived there, she began driving her kids to school via minivan.

One difficulty with developing safe routes is that a lot of routes cross jurisdictional lines. Depending on where you live and where you’re heading, responsibility for road safety can belong to the city of Menlo Park, the town of Atherton, San Mateo County or Caltrans.

The question of jurisdiction is linked to who pays to make routes safer for kids, whether that’s adding bike lanes or hiring crossing guards. Superintendent Eric Burmeister of the Menlo Park City School District said that the district

Other countries

Ms. Wolosin gave examples of other countries where most kids do get to school on bike or foot. In the Netherlands, about 85 percent of school kids cycle to get to school, and in Japan, a majority of kids walk to and from school, with the youngest wearing bright yellow hats.

Theresa Vallez-Kelly, a panelist who works as the Safe Routes to School coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education, mentioned a nonprofit in Toronto called 8 80 Cities. The concept behind the nonprofit’s name, she said, is that if you can make a city safe for an 8-year-old and an 80-year-old, then it’ll be safe for everyone. Doing so requires a “pedestrians first” ethic, she noted. A

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Fire board candidates address board infighting, Atherton probe

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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t was an evening of interviews and infighting, but for Peter Carpenter, president of the board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, it was also some kind of wonderful. “This evening has been one of the high points,� he said in concluding the five-hour session and referring to his 13 years on the board. “I would be perfectly comfortable giving up my seat ... for any one of the seven of you,� he said.

He was talking to seven district residents interviewed on Sept. 19 for possible appointment to the seat of Rex Ianson, who resigned in August with 14 months left in his term. The interviews touched sensitive matters, including the board’s relationship with the town of Atherton and board members’ relationships with each other — and candidates were forthcoming in their analyses.

In a district that serves Menlo Park, Atherton and East Palo Alto, plus nearby unincorporated areas, five of the seven candidates reside in Menlo Park: Sean

Ballard, Scott Barnum, Cynthia Bosworth, Michael Hoff and Jeff Pallin.

Candidate Robert Jones resides in East Palo Alto and Stephen Nachtsheim, in Atherton.

Mr. Carpenter had planned for an appointment that evening, but board members Chuck Bernstein and Virginia Chang Kiraly insisted on having more time to meet with candidates individually.

The two-page candidate application includes space for “a brief statement� on why the applicant wanted the appointment, but two candidates attached extensive resumes which led to an imbalance, Ms. Chang Kiraly and Mr. Bernstein said.

Mr. Carpenter and colleague Rob Silano were just as adamant in insisting on acting that evening, with Mr. Silano noting repeatedly that he’d prepared with outside sources, including LinkedIn pages. Both Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Silano suggested their colleagues hadn’t done their homework.

Since a majority of three is needed to make an appointment, after the board completed its other business and after conclusion

of the candidate interviews, Mr. Carpenter continued the matter to the October meeting.

If three board members cannot agree on an appointee, the board can set an election, or let the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors appoint someone.

A better relationship?

It was a tight fit in the classroom at Fire Station 1 at 300 Middlefield Road. With three rows of foldup chairs for the public, and the board and district staff positioned around the periphery, there’s barely enough space to walk.

The seven candidates stood one by one, made opening statements and took questions in a roundrobin style. Following are some highlights of their remarks.

With the Atherton City Council investigating the return on its investment of property tax payments to the fire district, and the district responding with a less than collaborative attitude, Mr. Bernstein asked candidate Scott Barnum, a former Atherton resident, about possible ameliorative steps.

The issues are complex and have an emotional component

that’s probably getting in the way, Mr. Barnum said. “What you need to do is start fresh,� he said. “It’s not unsolvable, it’s not irreconcilable, but I think it’s enough of a problem that it’s got a lot of people kind of concerned.�

The fire district has nothing to hide and should give town officials what they want, he said. “It’s a good organization and the economics seem to point to staying with the structure that is currently in place,� he said. “But if you get defensive, it makes it very difficult for the town to do its job and answer to its constituents on this issue.�

Candidate Stephen Nachtsheim, a former fire board member, called the situation “a series of unfortunate events,� adding that the two agencies got off on the wrong foot. What’s needed is “a lot more communication and a bit more empathy,� he said. “As a citizen of Atherton, I’d be happy to take on that task.�

A better fire board?

Ms. Chang Kiraly asked every candidate for insights on what would contribute to a more efficient and successful fire board.

Mr. Barnum described the board members as good people, interested in transparency and having the district’s welfare at See FIRE BOARD, page 8

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Youth mental health nonprofit expands services

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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afeSpace, a new Menlo Parkbased nonprofit, plans to expand its efforts beyond providing teens with acute mental health care and will begin to offer broader youth mental health advocacy and education in the community.

Local educator Lesley Martin, recently named managing director of SafeSpace, said the nonprofit will expand its services on multiple fronts, working with people from ages 12 to 26 who may be anywhere on a spectrum of need for mental health support.

For those with urgent needs, help is given in a clinical setting.

Therapy and other mental health services are provided by the Bay Area Children’s Association and PrairieCare, led by Dr. Tom Tarshis and Dr. Joel Oberstar.

Currently, therapy is paid for via fees or insurance. The group is working on getting MediCal coverage by the end of the year, Ms. Martin said.

For those with less urgent needs but who may be at risk of mental health challenges, she said, she plans to develop an “emotional first aid” educational program to help them learn how to relax and help their peers relax.

For others who have been through a mental health crisis and want to share their story or give back to the community, the organization has started a youth advisory board made up of teens from Menlo-Atherton High School, Nueva School, Sacred Heart, Woodside High School, Menlo School and Menlo College.

Local factors

There are number of factors that make youth mental health a particular challenge in Silicon Valley, FIRE BOARD continued from page 7

heart — the makings of a “very good board.”

“It comes down to some extent to the more personal side of things and getting the board to collaborate and be kind of in fifth gear as opposed to third gear and down shifting from time to time,” he said. “Being open to receive (this) feedback is a great sign.”

Candidate Jeff Pallin, a community college dean and marketing professor, noted the benefits of groups embracing their disagreements. “I think conflict is actually very healthy,” he said. One element he noted as not present that evening: no one acknowledged that a conflict was underway and no one questioned whether they

according to Ms. Martin, a Menlo Park resident who taught at Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park and has been a principal at Tierra Linda Middle School in San Carlos, Taylor Middle School in Millbrae and Summit Public Charter School in east San Jose.

Primary among those factors, she said, are the cumulative stresses of high expectations from family, school and peers. In addition, she noted, teens naturally go through a lot of challenging changes that can be made more emotionally difficult with social media.

Menlo Park operations

SafeSpace, which opened in April, has expanded to occupy the second floor above Feldman’s Books (1170 El Camino Real) and the former Gentry building next door (1162 El Camino Real) in Menlo Park. The organization plans to dedicate both of those buildings to individual, family and group therapy and psychiatric care.

In coming weeks, SafeSpace plans to launch an outpatient program.

The organization is seeking a third location in Menlo Park for its non-clinical work. Ideas being considered for nonclinical programs include a speaker series and working with schools to boost student mental health and destigmatize seeking help.

Teen advisers

Each of the teens on the advisory board has gone through, or knows someone who has gone through, mental health challenges, Ms. Martin said. They’re there to guide the organization and keep it focused on what will help youth most.

Youth advisory board members have met with administrators should stop and talk about it. “I don’t think you should run away from conflict,” he said.

Candidate Cynthia Bosworth noted the importance of interpersonal dynamics and trust. The board should appoint someone who can facilitate bridge building, she said.

Candidate Michael Hoff recommended rotating seats and allowing time after tense interactions for “the internal chemistry to settle down.”

A bit more autonomy

Several candidates spoke about the fire district and its support of residents involved with emergency response teams, including Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT).

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Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith, left, and Alina Kalmeyer, a Menlo-Atherton High School junior and the artist who created several canvas murals that will go on display in one of the SafeSpace locations.

at their schools to review what the schools could be doing better to support students’ mental health and develop action plans to address those shortcomings.

One student has been working with Menlo School to develop a dedicated “de-stress” space. A student from Menlo-Atherton will be representing the high school on a wellness advisory panel for the school district.

At Sacred Heart, students are working on putting together a panel of students who can answer parents’ questions about what it’s like to be a student.

The approach at every school, Ms. Martin said, will be different, focusing on where the school is and the district should encourage residents toward that end, said candidate Sean Ballard, chief executive of an investment firm.

Collaboration between the district and the response teams is important, but the response teams deserve “a little bit more autonomy,” Mr. Barnum said.

East Palo Alto tenants and property owners lack understanding, said candidate Robert Jones, director of a nonprofit and of East Palo Alto CERT. “Sometimes there’s cords coming out from a socket that runs everything in the house,” he said in a reference to hazardous conditions in the community. “It’s working for them, but the safety aspect of that. ... That’s why I’m really big on the ‘Get ready’ class, cause we need to educate everybody in East Palo

succeeding and falling short.

Training teens to talk about their experiences and encourage openness among their peers to talk about mental health is a key part of the advisory board’s mission.

The organization is “giving space for people ... so they don’t have to start that conversation (about mental health),” said Julia Wang, a senior at Menlo School and youth advisory board member.

Grand opening

SafeSpace held a two-day grand opening on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15 and 16, when organization co-founder Susan Bird Alto, and that’s our mission, that’s our goal.”

CERT teams, Mr. Nachtsheim said, need to market themselves to the public on the importance of preparedness, and they might look around the country for best practices used by other such teams.

Other business

The board commended Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman on the purchase of a 28,000-squarefoot warehouse in East Palo Alto as the new home of the Urban Search and Rescue Task Force.

The board also discussed what to do with a house next to a small fire station on Almendrahl Avenue in Atherton for which the district paid $4.6 million, an investment intended to allow construction of a larger fire

named Ms. Martin as the new managing director.

State Sen. Jerry Hill made an appearance at the Saturday event, as did Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith.

“For students to know that they’re not alone, and have a resource for them ... is really important,” Ms. Keith said, noting that the program is the first of its kind in the county.

For teens seeking mental health guidance, SafeSpace recommends contacting a crisis text line by texting BAY to 741741 for free, confidential, 24/7 support or going to the Bay Area Children’s Association website, or go to baca.org to schedule an appointment. A station when the current station is replaced, possibly decades away.

Should the district budget $500,000 to bring the house up to code to make it suitable for renting to the general public? Taking that path would essentially put the fire district in a property management role and incur an annual property tax bill of $50,000, with a return on the district’s investment in about 15 years, according to Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman and Mr. Carpenter.

Should the district scrape the property and use it for parking?

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Almanac Staff Writer Even so, Ms. Rodgers said, this earthquake was “far, far enlo Park nonprofit less destructive” than the one in executive Janise Rodg- 1985. That quake killed an estiers was in Mexico City mated 10,000 people, the Times when the ground began to shake reported.

“It’s a testament to hard work the morning of Sept. 19. Only two hours before, she had participated by people in Mexico to improve in an earthquake drill in recogni- the building codes, make buildtion of the 32nd anniversary of a ings stronger and be prepared,” devastating earthquake in Mexico she said.

That work, she said, involves when the real thing happened.

She was there representing, the exact efforts her organization of all things, the Menlo Park- encourages in other places in the based GeoHazards Interna- world.

“We do work to prevent exacttional, which seeks to prevent death and suffering from natural ly these types of tragedies,” disasters by working with vul- Ms. Rodgers said, referring to nerable communities in develop- her organization. GeoHazards ing countries. As chief operating International works primarofficer of the nonprofit, she ily in Nepal, India, Bhutan and was there to give presentations Haiti, and focuses on preparing at an international forum on key locations, especially schools earthquake preparedness at the and hospitals, for natural disasNational Autonomous Univer- ters such as earthquakes. The sity of Mexico (Universidad organization helps such areas Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) improve their ability to keep people safe by working with in Mexico City.

In an interview, Ms. Rodgers local leaders, preparing schools said that the temblor she felt was and hospitals, teaching peoless severe where she was dur- ple how to protect themselves, and training local ing the earthquake professionals to — the forum was held on a hillier The earthquake make buildings and infrastructure part of Mexico City, not the soft-soiled occurred just two safer.”

One impact of lake bed area that hours after an the earthquake was incurred the worst earthquake drill the collapse of a damage — but she said the experts in Mexico City. school that resulted in the deaths of an who evacuated the building with her were immedi- estimated 19 children and six ately concerned about the poten- adults.

“It’s tragedies like this that tial damage that would result in bring home the importance of other parts of the city.

The evacuation went very (earthquake safety),” Ms. Rodsmoothly, as the entire group had gers said. “We all need to be practiced what to do only hours prepared.” before, she said.

She said that conference How to help attendees were discouraged from After consulting with her colimmediately diving in to do the leagues on the ground, Ms. things they are trained to do, Rodgers gave several recomsuch as assessing structures. mendations on how locals can In the aftermath of a disaster, support people and earthquake she said, first responders and preparedness, depending on emergency professionals need to their interests. focus on saving lives and helping Q To give direct local help to people. Assessments and engi- people affected by the earthneering studies can wait. quake, consider a donation So the forum continued. She to the Carlos Slim Foundanoted that, from what she’d tion at fundacioncarlosslim.org. heard on the ground, there was a Donations are currently being “tremendous outpouring of pub- matched 5 to 1. lic support for people affected.”

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Comment sought on flood-control, creek restoration project

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orkshops and site tours will be held in October to gather public comments on a project to boost flood protection, restore ecosystems and improve recreation along San Francisquito Creek, upstream of U.S. 101.

The comments will be added to an environmental impact report that is expected to be released at the end of 2017.

These events are scheduled: Q On Wednesday, Oct. 4, an open house will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at Laurel School Upper Campus, 275 Elliott Drive in Menlo Park. People can get an update on the project’s status, talk to project officials, and do a hands-on exercise. Attendees are asked to RSVP by Sept. 29 to this email. address: jpa@sfcjpa.org.

Q On Saturday, Oct. 14, a site tour will be held from

9 to 10:30 a.m. at the creek between the Pope-Chaucer Bridge and U.S. 101. Attendees are required to RSVP by Sept. 29 to jpa@sfcjpa.org.

Meet at the parking lot on the Woodland Avenue side of the University Circle/Four Seasons Hotel at 1900 University Ave. in East Palo Alto. A bus will drive attendees.

Q On Wednesday, Oct. 25, a workshop will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto.

The event will include presentations, an explanation of the project and a discussion.

People who attend the Oct. 4 or 14 events can present their alternatives or ideas at the Oct. 25 event. Email jpa@sfcjpa.org

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When first-responders are busy elsewhere You may need to rely on emergency-response volunteers in a disaster.

By Atherton Councilman Bill Widmer, Area 4 coordinator of the Atherton Disaster and Preparedness Team.

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n the past few weeks we have been reminded of the possibility of natural disasters hitting home. National attention has been on hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean islands, as well as earthquakes in Mexico.

Recent data collected by U.S. Geological Survey demonstrates just how vulnerable our area is to earthquakes.

So what if a big disaster strikes?

Will the fire district, local law enforcement, or the National Guard be able to immediately come to your rescue?

They may, but odds are that it will take more time than you are prepared to wait. Current estimates show response times at several days to a week or more before first responders are able to fully cover an area.

In light of this information, do you feel prepared? We hear such warnings frequently, but what can we do today to adequately prepare ourselves and our neighbors?

Fortunately, there are both residents and professionals in Atherton and the surrounding region who have dedicated their time to organizing and preparing for such emergencies.

On Sept. 9, an annual preparation drill by the Atherton Disaster and Preparedness Team

Facebook opts for 100% green energy Facebook has switched all of its electric accounts to the 100 percent renewable energy option offered by Peninsula Clean Energy, a public energy provider governed by a San Mateo County joint power authority.

The move will reduce Facebook’s carbon footprint and help Menlo Park reach local climate action goals, Lauren Swezey, Facebook sustainability and community outreach manager, said.

Customers that have chosen the 100 percent renewable option — about 4,200 in San Mateo County by now — have helped avoid greenhouse gas emissions that equal the amount of carbon taken up by 34,000 acres of U.S. forests in a year, according to Peninsula Green Energy.

Diane Bailey, executive director of Menlo Spark, a Menlo Parkbased environmental nonprofit, said Facebook’s decision sets “an important example that clean energy makes good business sense.”

(ADAPT) was held to both educate the community and allow its members an opportunity to practically apply their knowledge.

The event, sponsored by the Atherton Police Department and Trader Joe’s, brought more than 70 volunteers to Atherton City Hall in the early hours of the morning.

Volunteers ran through more than two hours of simulated drills in response to a major earthquake.

They navigated toppled trees and downed power lines, collected the injured and deceased residents, and located lost children.

With the assistance of Atherton police and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, about 13 simulated incidents were called in, to which search and medical teams responded.

Communication channels and methods were tested and emergency equipment deployed to address a variety of problems.

Despite their impressive training and efforts, the current ADAPT and CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) members in this area are not sufficient in number to address severe incidents that may befall us.

Many more residents need to get involved.

In addition, residents must gain awareness of where emergency “rally points” (EAPs) are located around town. The purpose of these EAPs is to provide

Members of the Atherton Disaster and Preparedness Team treat a simulated victim during a recent emergency-response drill in Atherton.

safe locations for neighbors to gather, provide initial area status information, and begin forming local response teams following a disaster.

Because first-responders may be needed elsewhere, these team members may be the only people to help you immediately following a disaster. In a region where many residents stay behind gates and have little interactions with their neighbors, knowledge of where to go and get help is important.

Each community has disaster preparation plans and training accessible to residents. It is the responsibility of all adults in the community to get informed, not only for yourselves, but for your family members and neighbors.

Consider attending an ADAPT meeting, CERT class, or participating in one of the regional drills. You will learn new skills, meet your neighbors, and feel a sense of empowerment knowing that you are better able to help

your family and neighbors in a time of great need.

The ADAPT meetings are held at 9 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month in the Atherton Town Council chambers. The meeting is open to any member of the public who wishes to learn and get involved.

Drills are held annually in all Menlo Park Fire Protection District jurisdictions.

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Stanford projects Two major Stanford projects came before the Menlo Park City Council on Sept. 26, after the Almanac went to press: Q The university’s proposed 429,000-square-foot, mixed-use complex at 500 El Camino Real.

Stanford wants to build 215 apartments, 142,840 square feet of offices and 10,000 square feet

of retail space on 8.4 acres along El Camino Real.

Q Stanford’s proposed new office building at 2131 Sand Hill Road, which involves the city annexing 16 acres of unincorporated Stanford land.

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Coffeebar comes to Menlo Greg Buchheister is bringing to Menlo Park his Coffeebar cafe, which opened in Truckee in 2010 and since expanded to Squaw Valley and Reno.

The space at 1149 Chestnut

Dale Flint Dickinson October 11, 1933 – July 23, 2017 Dale Flint Dickinson of Menlo Park, California passed away on July 23, 2017 after a long battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Dale was born October 11, 1933 in Galveston, Texas, the only child of Andrew Flint Dickinson and Leona Minnie Warner Dickinson.

Dale graduated from Ball High School in 1950, and then spent one year at Schreiner University before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated in 1955 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. While at Texas, Dale decided that Mathematics and Physics were his true loves.

He entered the Physics graduate program at the University of California Berkeley but was quickly drafted. Dale spent 2 years in the US Navy as an electronics technician, and then re-enrolled at Berkeley in 1957. Dale completed his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in December 1964 and spent the next 10 months traveling around the world with his first wife, Leslie Bryan, with whom he later had 2 daughters.

Dale’s early interest in Astronomy was re-kindled after he returned to Berkeley, and in 1967 he accepted a position with the Radio Astronomy group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dale’s research at SAO was primarily in the areas of molecular line observations of gas clouds and stellar masers.

He authored 66 articles in professional journals, and 11 in popular astronomy magazines. Dale also taught several courses for the Harvard Astronomy Department.

Dale met Ann Dinger, his second wife, in 1973, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. They were married November 26, 1977, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Dale and Ann spent a year as visiting professors at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and then moved to Pasadena, California, where Dale held a National Research Council Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Dale and Ann moved to Menlo Park in 1982 with their 2 sons. Dale worked at the Applied Technology division of Litton Industries for 16 months before moving to Lockheed’s Palo Alto Research Lab in 1984. Dale obtained various grants to continue his astronomical research while working for Lockheed. Dale retired from Lockheed in 2000, and then worked part-time for Polar Magnetics Corporation until 2004.

Dale loved to travel the world and pepper his friends with postcards from exotic locations. He was happiest in the mountains, either hiking or skiing. He and Ann visited places as diverse as Iceland, Tibet, Turkey, and Tierra del Fuego. Dale also trekked in Nepal and India, as well as on Baffin Island.

Dale is survived by his wife Ann, 4 children, Kelly, Tracy, Geoffrey, and Derek, and 4 grandchildren, Ava, Alex, Harlan, and Marlow. The family fondly remembers his off-beat sense of humor, his penchant for taking the scenic route (aka doodling around), and his love of skiing. Skiing magazine published his column, “A Ski Child’s Mother Goose”, in 1988. Everyone in the family skis or snowboards, except for Marlow, who is just learning to walk.

In accord with Dale’s wishes, no services were held. The family will be scattering his ashes at mountain locations he loved.

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St. in downtown Menlo Park, which formerly housed Nak’s Oriental Market and Absolutely Nails, is being remodeled for the new Coffeebar. Mr. Buchheister said he hopes it will open by December.

Why Menlo Park? His business partner, who attended Stanford and worked in the area many years, convinced him to bring a Coffeebar to this area.

Mr. Buchheister describes Coffeebar as an all-day “Italian cafe concept,” with items like espresso and pastries available in the mornings, healthy dishes for lunch, and snacks, wine and beer for late afternoons and evenings.

Go to is.gd/Elena22 to see more on Elena Kadvany’s Peninsula Foodist blog.

‘Nazi scum’ graffiti on Town Hall wall By the time Atherton City Manager George Rodericks returned to work in mid-August from a summer break, Public Works Department staff had power-washed the brick wall under his office window to erase the words “Nazi scum” that had been scrawled there in black spray paint. The wall is now clean again, but the impact lingered.

Go to is.gd/spray22 for more.

Frances Beedy King dies at age 101 Frances Beedy King, mother of four, lifelong friend to many, and a longtime resident of Atherton and The Sequoias in Portola Valley, died Aug. 18 at the Sequoias. She was 101.

Ms. King, who went by Beedy, was a native of San Francisco, a student at Burke’s (Katherine Delmar Frances King Burke School) in the city, and a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in psychology. She married John (Jack) Bennett King, a law school graduate at Stanford.

The couple moved to Atherton in 1950 and when the children were grown, Ms. King took up real estate, which she pursued for many years. When she moved to The Sequoias after her husband died in 1985, she traveled and enjoyed her friendships, of which she had many, including from childhood. It was not uncommon for her to stay up late to personalize some 400 Christmas cards, her son Jim said.

Ms. King is survived by her

Frank Foti July 19, 1931 – September 12, 2017 Frank Foti passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at the age of 86 at his home in Woodside, surrounded by family. Born in San Francisco, on July 19, 1931 to immigrant parents Dominick and Antoinetta Foti, from Reggio Calabria, Italy.

He graduated from Balboa High and afterwards began working for Southern Pacific Railroad before opening his San Francisco liquor store, Ross Drive-In Liquors, with his brother.

Upon retirement, he enjoyed his time going on Mounted Patrol Fall Rides and riding his many horses on the Woodside trails. aa He was very proud of his Italian heritage.

Additionally, Frank was a member of the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County, Shack Riders, and the Knights of Columbus. He was an avid horseman who participated in numerous horse shows and won many titles in professional cutting horse competitions held throughout California up to the age of 84.

He is survived by his daughter, Erna Jenkins of Belmont; son, Dominic Foti (Denise) of San Carlos; Mark Foti (Dot) of Woodside; Julie Poole (Robert) of Redwood City; Sister Mary Cordis of Santa Barbara; nine grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, Rose (Knudsen), in 1998, and son, Wayne Foti in 1991.

Per his request and respecting his wishes, private services for the immediate family have been held. You may donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, or Boys Town, in his memory.

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daughter Katharine of Marina del Rey; sons John of Walkerton, Indiana, Jim of Palo Alto, and Kevin of Palo Alto; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Go to is.gd/obit17 see the family’s Lasting Memories posting.

Dr. Elliot Polinger, 98 Dr. Elliot Charles Polinger, a longtime resident of Atherton, died at his home in Atherton on June 11. He was 98.

Dr. Polinger was born in New York City on May 16, 1919. He started studying at Columbia University soon after his 16th birthday and earned the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Award for science there. He graduated from the New York Medical College with honors in 1943.

Dr. Polinger then joined the Army, which sent him to Spokane, Washington, where he met and married his wife, Mildred, in 1944 after a four-month courtship. They were married for more than 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 more than 40 years, most of it as an anesthesiologist.

His family says he was a man of tremendous intellect, compassion, hard work and, especially, humor.

Dr. Polinger lived in Atherton for 63 years.

He is survived by daughters Barbara (James) De Grand and Jean (Jerry) Meyer, grandsons Alec (Jade) De Grand and Matthew (Laurie) De Grand, and great-grandchildren Nate and Maura De Grand.

He was buried next to his wife at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma.

At is.gd/Polinger see more and leave a remembrance on the Almanac’s Lasting Memories webpage.

Dale Dickinson, 83 Dale Flint Dickinson of Menlo Park died July 23 at age 83 after a long battle with Lewy Body dementia.

Mr. Dickinson was born Oct. 11, 1933, in Galveston, Texas, to Andrew and Leona Dickinson.

In 1950, he graduated from Ball High School.

He attended Schreiner University for a year and graduated

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Calendar Fun and exploration at local Science Night Adults, teens and kids are invited to attend the Menlo Park Library’s fifth “Science Night,” described as an evening of fun and exploration, on Thursday, Sept. 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Menlo Park main library at 800 Alma St. in the Civic Center.

Organizations scheduled to give demonstrations and host exhibits are the San Francisco Zoo, SETI Institute, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, MVCode, M-A Robotics, Tech Rocks, the Children’s Discovery Museum, the Aquarium of the Bay and Science Made Fun. The free event is funded in part

by Friends of the Menlo Park Library.

Pancake breakfast The 17th annual pancake breakfast, with volunteers flipping pancakes and serving breakfast to benefit the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, will be held Saturday, Oct. 7, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at Station 1 of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, 300 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park.

The breakfast is co-sponsored by the Junior League of Palo Alto-MidPeninsula, the Menlo Park Firefighters Association and Stanford Park Hotel.

Advance purchase of tickets is not required, but a suggested donation of $10 per adult and $5 per child will be requested at the door.

While firefighters are cooking breakfast, Junior Leaguers will provide activities for kids including face painting, coloring and games.

Sheriff’s league benefit The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Activities League is planning a benefit for the league’s juvenile delinquency prevention program.

Entitled “Food, Wine & Heroes: A Taste of San Mateo County,” the dinner fundraiser will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Fox Theatre at 2215 Broadway in Redwood City.

Local restaurants will provide food, including wines and desserts.

Visit sheriffsactivitiesleague. com or contact Gigi Carter at (650) 257-3408 or gcarter@smcgov.org for more information.

Holidays on High Note Noted floral designer Ron Morgan will celebrate his 20th

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anniversary with “Holidays on a High Note,” the annual holiday event benefiting the Foothill Auxiliary to Peninsula Family Services.

The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at the Menlo Circus Club at 190 Park Lane in Atherton.

Tickets at $130 each include Mr. Morgan’s demonstration, lunch and table scapes by local designers.

Go to fapfs.org to purchase tickets online.

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or more than 50 years, Woodside Community Theatre has put on Broadway musicals, yet somehow on Friday, Oct. 6, the group is going to condense all that history into an hour-long presentation at Woodside’s Independence Hall.

The Woodside Arts & Culture Committee is featuring the amateur theatrical group at the First Friday event, entitled “It takes a village to produce a musical.”

Timothy Bruce Luntzel November 1, 1972 – August 27, 2017 Timothy Bruce Luntzel, a deeply beloved and admired young man who was a gifted musician and a friend to many, died peacefully from complications of ALS at the age of 44 on August 27, 2017, surrounded by his mother Elizabeth Neumann (nee Juvet, and then Luntzel), her husband Peter G. Neumann, and Tim’s brother Mark Luntzel, in Palo Alto CA. Tim was born on November 1, 1972, in Redwood City CA. He had numerous musical colleagues beginning with his Peninsula School band Shock, the Menlo-Atherton High School Jazz Band, and his colleagues at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, all of whom remained close to him.

After playing electric and double bass in Boston for several years, he and his band moved to New York City and became the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout. Tim toured the U.S., Europe, India, the Far East, and South America, and played with Bright Eyes, Jim Campilongo, Rosanne Cash, Rachelle Garniez, Jessie Harris, Norah Jones, Lee Ranaldo, Jenny Scheinman, Leah Siegel, Loudon Wainwright III, and many others. Tim played on two Grammy award-winning albums and one gold record.

A celebration of the release of his latest recording (The Boog at Sunny’s, recorded at Sunny’s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on January 28, 2016) had long been planned for September 8, 2017 at Sunny’s. That evening also became an outpouring of love for Tim -- an homage to him, his life, and his music. A second gathering followed five days later, with his band and others recreating his music.

His friends expressed many thoughts on Facebook about his life and his music, including such terms as fearless, imaginative, awesome, dynamic, open-hearted, intelligent, creative, empathetic, and funny, also citing his kindness, vivacity, integrity, commitment, loyalty, and laughter.

Similar accolades also referred to his love for cooking.

Tim greatly enriched the lives of many people with his music and his humanity, and elevated their spirits. He will always be remembered by his family and friends.

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Refreshments will be served starting at 6:45 p.m. with the program to follow at 7 p.m. at 2995 Woodside Road.

Several speakers will share

their experiences in acting, producing, designing sets and creating props.

In addition, members of the cast of this fall’s musical, “Annie,” will perform three numbers from the upcoming show, which is taking place at Woodside Performing Arts Center at Woodside High from Oct. 20 through 29. A

Philip Jerome McDonnell March 4, 1949 – September 14, 2017 Philip J. McDonnell passed away unexpectedly on September 14 in Menlo Park, where he resided with his wife of 35 years, Patricia (Whelan) McDonnell.

He was born in Newark, NJ in 1949 to Philip Adrian and Catherine Theresa McDonnell.

Philip Jerome was the eldest of eight children, raised on both the east and west coast. Along with his parents and seven siblings, he moved to Atherton in 1966.

Philip graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory as a National Merit Scholar. Then in 1971, he graduated with honors from UC Berkeley, completing majors in both Mathematics and Computer Science. That year saw the University’s first graduating class in Computer Science.

Philip’s passion for technology drove him to found new companies, including Spectrum Computing in 1974 and Advanced Information Design in 1980. As a stock trading veteran for over thirty years, he was very involved in his trading group, the Spec-List, out of New York. Philip also had a strong passion for programming and statistics. He applied this as the author of the published book, Optimal Portfolio Modeling. For many years, he also wrote a daily article on options trading as a contributor to TheStreet.com.

In 1982, Philip married his wife, Patricia, of Menlo Park.

They raised two children in Sammamish, WA, where they resided for 25 years. Philip had a strong love for his family.

He devoted years to coaching his children’s baseball and soccer teams, and was instrumental in the early development of Soaring Eagle Park in Sammamish. He also contributed countless hours to Lake Washington Soccer Association and Eastlake Little League.

Philip will be remembered for his gentle good-nature, immense patience, kindness, and willingness to enrich those around him with a wealth of knowledge. He will be missed dearly.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia; his two children, Philip A. McDonnell Jr. (Katherine) of Belmont; Erin Foxcurran (James) of San Mateo; and his four beautiful grandchildren, Fiona and Philip A. McDonnell III; Elizabeth and Audrey Foxcurran.

Additional surviving relatives include 6 siblings, Dennis McDonnell (Celeste) of Atherton; Adrienne McDonnell (Barry); Corinne Chavez of Danville; Kevin McDonnell of Pleasanton; David McDonnell (Ardis) of San Ramon; and Carolyn Beckwith (David) of Menlo Park; and 22 nieces and nephews. His brother, Douglas McDonnell, preceded his death in 2015.

A Memorial Celebration will be held Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 3:00pm at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, CA. To R.S.V.P. and get further details, friends should go to www.philmemorial.com with inquiries. A private family interment is also planned at Holy Cross in Menlo Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Philip J. McDonnell’s name to the Tess Research Foundation (www. tessfoundation.org – P.O. Box 53, Menlo Park, CA 94026).

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Too many men Menlo Park author pens dystopian tale set in aftermath of China’s one-child policy

By Michael Berry

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hat happens to a society when its citizens are allowed only a single child?

In Menlo Park writer Maggie Shen King’s vision of nearfuture China, the nation’s one-child policy results in a dangerous imbalance, with men greatly outnumbering women.

Her debut novel, “An Excess Male,” — released this month — imagines the unintended consequences of encouraging women to marry two — or even three — men at a time.

Set in 2030, “An Excess Male” follows four main characters as they attempt to build a family under intrusive government rules. Wei-guo is physically healthy, runs a successful small business and has two fathers willing to pay a modest dowry.

But even he can’t generate any interest from eligible women, beyond a single offer to be a low-ranking third husband in an already troubled marriage.

May-ling has already produced one son, BeiBei, with her husband Hann, but the toddler is a strong-willed handful and Hann is secretly gay, despite strict government prohibitions. Complicating things further is the presence of Hann’s brother, known as XX, who is interested more in video games and stray dogs than in the needs of his brother, son or wife.

Although “An Excess Male” paints a grim portrait of futuristic courtship, its first chapters allow for some comedic moments as the four main characters size each other up as potential mates.

Gradually, however, the story darkens, and the actions of Wei-guo, Hann, XX and Mayling invite potentially deadly consequences.

Reached by phone, Ms. Shen King spoke about her childhood in Taiwan under martial law, her early years as a writer and the inspiration for her debut novel.

Of Taiwan, she said: “Growing up as an average, everyday kid, I didn’t notice anything that was terribly different from the life I (eventually) had here

in the United States. Later on, I realized that my parents were quite circumspect. There were a lot of whispered conversations about political leaders and policy.”

She said she remembered one particular conversation, about a distant relative “who was arrested for spouting off in public about his political views.”

The debut novel of Maggie Shen King, “An Excess Male,” imagines the unintended consequences of encouraging women to marry two — or even three — men at a time.

“There was that undercurrent of unease,” she said, “but for the most part it was a very peaceful society. We weren’t restricted in very many things, except politics.”

Her father worked in a travel agency that arranged trips around the globe. In her teens, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Seattle to attend high school.

“It was a big sacrifice for my parents to be apart for the six or seven years it took for my brother and me to get through high school and graduate.”

She attended Harvard University as an English major.

After graduation, she moved to the Bay Area, working first for Bank of America in its credit training department.

She is married to David King, CEO of Mountain View-based FogHorn Systems.

She said she didn’t start writing in earnest until her two sons, now 27 and 23, were in middle school. She

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attended creative writing classes through Stanford Continuing Studies. That was where she met the participants in the writing group she has been a part of for nearly a decade. Her stories have since appeared in such publications as ZYZZYVA (a San Francisco journal of arts and letters), Ecotone (a literary magazine) and Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine.

A newspaper article about China’s one-child policy piqued her interest and caused her to embark on writing “An Excess Male.”

Before China abandoned the policy in 2015, the ratio of newborn boys to girls was the highest in the world, at 120 boys for every 100 girls. The Guardian (UK) noted, “If the current trend continues, there will not be enough brides for as many as one-fifth of today’s baby boys when they get to marrying age.”

“I thought this was such an interesting situation, to have such a huge imbalance,” Ms. Shen King said. “What are the ramifications for society when they have all these testosterone-fueled males at the peak of their lives?”

“There’s a Chinese preference for male heirs, a cultural thing that goes back centuries,” she said of the imbalance.

“When you have that preference and the introduction of ultrasound technology, you have a lot of abortions.”

“The one-child policy was originally introduced to make sure there was no starvation,” she explained. “After the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, the resources were limited but the (Chinese) population was growing like crazy.

They wanted to do something to cap the population at 700 million. This gender imbalance ended up being one of the unintended consequences.”

“If you think of it as a mathematical equation, you have three ways to make it balance,” she continued. “You bring in more women or you export some men. Or you ask women to take on more than one husband.

“I thought the last possibility raised the most provocative

Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac

Maggie Shen King said she didn’t start writing in earnest until her two sons, now 27 and 23, were in middle school.

questions.”

Although the one-child policy was scrapped in October 2015, she said she used the current Chinese political climate as a backdrop for “An Excess Male.”

“I thought about creating a society where the government appealed to its citizenry to demonstrate patriotism by taking on additional husbands,” she said. Since the book is set in the future, she was forced to think about what new technologies might be prevalent, manifested in heightened surveillance and immersive strategic games.

As she explored this fictional world, the dystopian aspects of it became apparent.

“I figured out this stuff along the way, and started reading (Margaret Atwood’s) ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ again to refresh myself,” she said.

She has already started work on a follow-up to “An Excess

Male.” It, too, will deal with the fallout from the one-child policy, focusing on the “heihaizi,” the “shadow children.”

“A lot of girls were born during the one-child policy but never registered officially for a residency card,” she said. This meant they grew up without some crucial legal rights.

“They couldn’t go to school or take public transportation, get married or own property,” she said.

Although she could not have predicted the current divisive mood of the United States when she first started writing “An Excess Male,” Ms. Shen King said she has “lucked into this sudden love of dystopian science fiction.”

“Maybe something bad makes you want to read something worse,” she said. “It’s an interesting time.” A You can reach Michael Berry at mikeberry@mindspring.com.

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RESOLUTION NO. 2042 (2017)

Gas-powered leaf blowers: not just a noise problem

By Dave Boyce

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A community conversation blowers are in a family of machines under is critical, he said. The Susincreasing scrutiny by public tainability and Environmental agencies concerned about pro- Resources Committee will tecting the environment. The consider ideas and the council Portola Valley Town Council will revisit the matter “soon,� recently held a study session he said. to discuss ways to encourage use of electric blowers.

Public comment Town Manager Jeremy DenDanna Breen, a resident and nis prepared a staff report for landscape architect, noted the the Sept. 13 session that cites effect of leaf blowers on irria recent statement by the Cali- gation by hardening the soil fornia Air Resources Board: by surface. the early 2020s, small-engine People are also too accusemissions will exceed car tomed to leaf blowers as backemissions in Orange County ground noise, she added. “I and the non-desert regions think it’s insane and I think of Los Angeles, Riverside and it really needs to stop and I’m San Bernardino counties. surprised at us not being at The studies cited in Mr. the forefront of this thing,�

Den n is’ repor t she said. “Leaves include claims that on the ground are emissions from 30 Portola Valley OK. Where did we minutes of operaget into this anal weighs how retentive thing?� tion of a typical two-stroke engine Resident Karto encourage leaf blower are en Vahtra said she equivalent to driv- use of electric uses a rake, has an ing a Ford F-150 electric blower for blowers. pickup to Alaska impervious surfacfrom Texas, or a car 7,700 es, and suggested that a ban miles at an average speed of on gas-blowers would be an 30 mph. easy step toward addressing The council considered climate change. those statistics and more.

Craig Taylor sounded a note Along with noise and emis- of concern for the gardeners. sions, leaf blowers can dis- “Taking all their tools away tribute dust, including tiny from them is kind of crazy, particles that can easily enter so finding some reasonable deep into human lungs, at (solution) I think is where we speeds of up to 185 mph — should go,� he said. like a Category 5 hurricane.

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TOWN OF WOODSIDE 2955 WOODSIDE ROAD WOODSIDE, CA 94062 PLANNING COMMISSION October 4, 2017 6:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING 2. Patrick Green 2150 Greenways Drive

LDIV2017-0002; ZOAM2017-0002; CEQA2017-0001 Planner: Corinne Jones, Assistant Planner

Presentation and recommendation of approval, conditional approval, or denial, to the Town Council of a proposal for a Land Division and Rezoning, to divide a single SR zoned parcel, which is approximately 1-acre in size (45,666 sf), into two R-1 zoned parcels, which would each be approximately 0.5-acres in size (22,833 sf). The Planning Commission will also make a recommendation to the Town Council regarding the adoption of the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. 3. Cal Water Stadler Drive

CUSE2016-0009; VARI2016-0008; VARI2016-0009 Planner: Corinne Jones, Assistant Planner

Continued presentation and approval, conditional approval, or denial of a proposal to remove two (2) 60,000 gallon water tanks and construct a 250,000 gallon steel water tank, pumps, piping, and associated equipment. The proposal also includes improvements to the existing driveway, which provides access from Stadler Drive.

A Conditional Use Permit (CUSE2016-0009) is required for public utility structures in an SCP zoning district; a Variance to height (VARI2016-0008) is required to permit the structure to exceed the 30-foot height limit; and, a Variance to setbacks (VARI2016-0009) is required to permit the structure within the 50-foot required setbacks.

This item was continued from September 6, 2017, to allow the applicant additional time to gather the information requested from the Planning Commission on July 19, 2017, and to further explore the option of leasing an adjacent property from Caltrans.

4. Magalli Yoho 215 Lindenbrook Road

NCOU2016-0002 Planner: Sage Schaan, Principal Planner

Continued presentation and approval, conditional approval, or denial of a proposal to permit an addition onto an existing nonconforming shed (partially located within required side setback) and convert the use from a storage building to a habitable home office, including a full bathroom. The addition and interior conversion was completed without permits. Pursuant to Municipal Code Section 153.300(C), the Planning Commission shall review the change of use of the nonconforming structure to determine if the proposed use change would result in any significant adverse impacts. This item was continued from July 19, 2017, to allow for additional Commissioners to review the project; and was continued from September 6, 2017, at the request of the applicant.

5. Woodside Developers, LLC Lawler Ranch Road Right-of-Way (Sand Hill Estates)

ASRB2016-0016; CUSE2016-0003 Planner: Sage Schaan, Principal Planner

Presentation and approval, conditional approval, or denial of a proposal requiring Design Review to install a new private road vehicular gate, pylons, and adjacent fencing. The private road gate is required by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under a Habitat Management Plan for the private road and 5 vacant parcels known as “Sand Hill Estates”. The Planning Commission will consider the recommendation from the ASRB, and a proposed Conditional Use Permit required for vehicle gates on private roads (CUSE2016-0003). This item was continued from the September 20, 2017, meeting at the request of the applicant.

6. Minor Code Amendments Town-wide

ZOAM2017-0005 Planner: Alex Byrd, Assistant Planner

Review and Approval/Denial of a Resolution of Intention and Recommendation to the Town Council to Amend Chapter 153 (Zoning) of the Woodside Municipal Code to allow proposals that are 300 square feet or less and within Scenic Corridors and Western hills to be reviewed by Planning staff; allow signs in open space zoning districts a permitted use; and adjust the fee schedule for gates, pylons, and appurtenances located in a Private Right-of-Way. 7. Accessory Dwelling Units Town-wide

Planner: Jackie Young, Planning Director

Review and Approval/Denial of a Resolution of Intention and Recommendation to the Town Council to Amend Chapter 153 (Zoning) of the Woodside Municipal Code to include provisions for adequate ingress/egress for Accessory Dwelling Units above garages.

All application materials are available for public review at the Woodside Planning and Building Counter, Woodside Town Hall, weekdays from 8:00 – 10:00 AM and 1:00 – 3:00 PM, or by appointment. For more information, contact the Woodside Planning and Building Department at (650) 851-6790.

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N E W S Q P O LI C E C A LL S These reports are from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and Menlo Park Police Department. Under the law, people charged with offenses are considered innocent unless convicted.

Police received the reports on the dates shown.

PORTOLA VALLEY Commercial burglary: Someone broke into The Alpine Inn (also known as Rossotti’s) at 3915 Alpine Road and stole an ATM machine. Estimated loss: $6,000. Sept. 14.

Real, someone stole two laptop computers, two laptop chargers, a tablet computer, and a backpack containing a U.S. visa, a passport, personal files and a wallet. Estimated loss: $4,350.

Sept. 19.

Q Two vehicles were found in the 200

block of El Camino Real with windows smashed. Stolen items included a laptop computer, keys and a wallet, and an empty luggage bag and a tennis bag containing tennis-related equipment.

Estimated losses: $2,635 and $1,290.

Sept. 17.

LADERA

Thefts:

Commercial burglary: A thief broke into Alpine Optometry at 3130 Alpine Road and stolen merchandise. Details on losses were not available. Sept. 13.

Q A flute left unattended on a table was

WEST MENLO PARK Auto burglary: Someone broke a window on a vehicle parked on Oakley Avenue and stole a wallet. Estimated loss: $140. Sept. 11.

MENLO PARK Residential burglaries: Q Someone kicked open the rear door of a home on McKendry Drive and stole jewelry and a laptop and a tablet computer. Estimated loss: $5,700. Sept. 18.

Q A neighbor spotted two people in the act of removing a screen from a rear window of a home on Menalto Avenue and shouted that she was going to call police, at which point the would-be burglars fled. No losses.

Sept. 21.

Auto burglaries: Q After smashing a window of a vehicle parked in the 200 block of El Camino

stolen from Alto International School on Pope Street. Estimated loss: $870.

Sept. 20.

Q Thieves stole a pair of men’s shoes

and a pair of children’s shoes from front porches of homes on Coleman Place and Coleman Avenue. Estimated loss: $200 and $40. Sept. 20.

Q A thief stole a package of food from

the front porch of a home on Coleman Avenue. Estimated loss: $75. Sept. 15.

Fraud: A resident of San Antonio Street was hired as a personal assistant “via the internet” with duties that included depositing possibly fraudulent checks into her bank account and “paying bills” with Apple gift cards from her account. She suspected a scam after sending out $300 in gifts cards.

Sept. 16.

Collision: Two bicyclists collided at the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and Chester Street, sending both to the ground.

Both suffered minor injuries and one was taken to the hospital. Sept. 21.

FAA meet on Surf Air route over Bay The Federal Aviation Administration will hold a meeting in San Jose from 6 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 27, about an alternative air route that has allowed Surf Air’s planes to avoid the Midpeninsula on their way to the San Carlos Airport.

The informational meeting

will be held in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium (70 W. Hedding St.) at the Santa Clara County Government Center.

There will be presentations by the FAA, Encompass/Surf Air and the San Carlos Airport, plus a question-and-answer session.

Go to is.gd/FAA27 for more information.

OBITUARIES

couple worked for a year as visiting professors at Williams College before moving to Pasadena, where Mr. Dickinson worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a National Research Council fellow.

They moved to Menlo Park in 1982 with their two sons.

Mr. Dickinson worked at Litton Industries and later Lockheed’s Palo Alto research lab. He retired from Lockheed in 2000 and worked part-time at Polar Magnetics Corp. until 2004.

For fun, Mr. Dickinson skied, traveled and trekked. Some of the places he visited with Ann were Iceland, Tibet, Turkey and Tierra del Fuego.

He is survived by his wife Ann; his children Kelly, Tracy, Geoffrey and Derek; and four grandchildren, Ava, Alex, Harlan and Marlow.

As Mr. Dickinson’s wished, no services were held. The family plans to scatter his ashes at mountains he loved.

— Kate Bradshaw

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from the University of Texas at Austin in 1955 in petroleum engineering.

He was drafted shortly after starting his graduate studies at U.C. Berkeley. After two years in the U.S. Navy working as an electronics technician, he returned to Berkeley, and in 1964, earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. He spent 10 months traveling with his first wife, Leslie Bryan, with whom he later had two daughters.

In 1967, Mr. Dickinson started at the Radio Astronomy Group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a prolific author of articles in scientific and popular astronomy publications and taught at Harvard’s astronomy department.

In 1973, Mr. Dickinson met Ann Dinger, his second wife, at an Astronomical Society meeting; they married in 1977. The

Viewpoint IDEAS, THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS

ABOUT LOCAL ISSUES

Menlo Park’s equity issue: Poor kids getting poor education

By Rich Cline

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t is time to take the audacious step and bring the Belle Haven Elementary School and the Willow Oaks Elementary School into the Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD). We need the courage of all of our stakeholders and a deep belief in community to get there because it is not only extremely difficult to do, but it requires great sacrifices before we truly reap the benefits.

First, we must understand the Ravenswood City Elementary School District’s concerns that underlie a recent letter from its superintendent threatening Menlo Park should we take this route.

Ravenswood stands to lose the most from the onset given the school is funded by the state on a per-pupil basis. Truancy is costly enough, but the idea that an estimated 700 students (estimate is Menlo Park residents only) would leave at one time, could put the district at the brink of economic failure. However, if you look at the recent Edbuild.org article “Fractured: The Breakdown of American School Districts,” there is a valid argument in California that smaller school districts can thrive, and do thrive. Ravenswood would have to realign some of its administration and re-scope projections, but the district would still have the amazing volunteers

and leadership it had before. Funding and since the majority of Menlo Park resimodels would need to expand. But this dents are wealthy and white, we are going is a unique situation when looking at the to be challenged in court.

According to Ed-Data.org, Belle Haven broader secession trends.

According to that Edbuild.org article, a School is 95 percent-plus nonwhite and recent Alabama ruling supported a white Willow Oaks is 97 percent-plus nonwhite.

Belle Haven demostudent majority graphics prove out school’s secession Rich Cline is a that the commufrom a larger premember of the nity is of color at dominantly black Menlo Park City a very high range. student majority Council who has We’re proposdistrict, allowing served multiple terms as mayor. ing bringing our the school to gain minority children property tax beneinto a single majorfits while stripping GUEST OPINION ity district that is out diversity of stunow mostly white. dents. Arkansas is Not the other way around. seeing the same trends materialize.

The Menlo Park City School District This is the basis of the Ravenswood is not exactly going to be doing backsuperintendent’s argument.

Ravenswood argues that it is somehow flips over the idea of 700 more students, beneficial for children in Menlo Park to and it stands to lose in the beginning as stay under a school system that performs well. In the MPCSD, schools are funded much lower than another school system via property taxes rather than per-pupil in the same city but on the other side of allotments from the state. Every new stuthe tracks, as all tides will rise. It has been dent takes money from the property tax decades and the tides aren’t rising at the pool, and if it is not replaced, the MPCSD would have to cut programs or staff to pace promised or needed.

The threat from Ravenswood’s per- make up the difference. The district is spective is that if we leave the district, we already challenged by the prospects of improve the conditions of Menlo Park to more housing and more families withthe detriment of the Ravenswood district, out the revenue to support them. If you

A new Civic Center library may help ease traffic congestion with housing

By Karen Grove

countywide jobs-housing imbalance, but we can also be part of the solution. Right now, raffic is terrible and getting worse. The there is an opportunity to build affordable Metropolitan Transportation Commis- housing in a prime location — close to downsion just released a report (find it at town, and the Caltrain station. We should tinyurl.com/BA-congest17) that shows traffic build affordable housing over the new Alma has increased by 80 percent since 2010. And it is Street library. Or at least consider it.

John Arrillaga has generously offered to no wonder. Between 2010 and 2015, a reported 72,800 new jobs were created in San Mateo contribute $25 million to the library renovation. This is a wonCounty, while only 3,844 derful opportunity, but new housing units were let’s not miss out on built, or 19 jobs for every Karen Grove is a Menlo Park resident, the bigger opportunihome. and a member of the ty. Libraries should be According to new Menlo Park Housing more than books. They Census data, over 500 Commission. These should be community new residents moved views are her own. hubs, where families can to Menlo Park between gather and communi2015 and 2016. Rents ties can come together. went up throughout the GUEST OPINION If we build affordable city, and in the same housing above the Alma time period, the median Street library, we can create a truly inclusive income for renters went down.

Housing continues to be hard to find and community.

I respectfully ask the Menlo Park City Couneven harder to afford in Menlo Park. Because we have created a wealth of jobs here in San cil to study the Alma Street library site, a public Mateo County, there will always be people resource, for its housing capacity. Let’s see how driving into our town to get to work. It may many people we can house, using our current seem counterintuitive, but traffic congestion resources.

Menlo Park is a community with innovative will not get better until we build more housing, and smart residents. Let’s work together to especially affordable housing.

Menlo Park has contributed to the make our community stronger.

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assume that salaries of Belle Haven and Willow Oaks teachers and staff would have to meet the MPCSD levels and accept the idea that positions cannot be eliminated for the first two years of the unification, you can see the costs spiraling up.

But if you also consider the impact of property taxes within Menlo Park’s M2 district now rolling into the MPCSD, it could become a sustainable source of revenue to help make the transition become a real benefit.

Since 2006, when I ran for City Council, I had in my literature and stump speeches an argument that the seeds of separation in Menlo Park start at the schools. It’s an obvious point that correlates the value of property to the quality of schools.

So I should thank the Ravenswood superintendent for shining the brightest light on our most embarrassing secret: Most of the children of lower economic means in Menlo Park are forced into a regional school district of fewer resources, which equates to less opportunity than that provided to kids in the same city who have the fortune of a higher economic status.

It’s the same old story. Poor kids get poor schools.

We can do better. You know it. I know it.

L E TTE R S Our readers write

Focus more on new buildings’ design Editor: It is clear from the last few issues of the Almanac that the look and feel of Menlo Park will be substantially changing with the many proposals for new buildings. Though we will be losing businesses that we actually use — such as the Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital— and gaining businesses we mostly will not be using — offices and more offices — is it too much to ask that these developers put some effort and resources into trying to make their new buildings beautiful?

These new buildings will be here for a long time, and with the exception of those proposed

by Stanford, the other published

renderings look altogether like poorly designed industrial complexes from the 1960s.

Honestly, can’t these developers engage top-notch architects who can design classically elegant buildings that will pass the test of time and add to the beauty of Menlo Park?

Sloane Citron Arden Road, Menlo Park

New library not needed Editor: I do not feel that another building with the Arrillaga name on it is necessary in Menlo Park. Why doesn’t he want to pay for a new building in East Palo Alto where it is really needed?

The city cannot afford 20 million dollars for something that is not needed.

Rhoda Kaplan Millie Avenue, Menlo Park

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FRANCA ASCHENBRENNER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): FIORI DI MIELE 16 Loma Road Redwood City, CA 94062 FILED IN SAN MATEO COUNTY ON: 05/13/2013 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): FRANCA ASCHENBRENNER 16 Loma Road Redwood City, CA 94062 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Individual.

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