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How Stanford complex will change city

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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take up 58 percent of the housing and 47 percent of the commercial space the city allows in its El Camino Real/downtown specific plan.

or better or worse, Menlo Park’s slice of El Camino Real will never be the same.

With the approval of nearly The project 430,000 square feet of new develStanford University, which opment on Stanford-owned land first submitted its plans for along El Camino Real in Menlo the 8.4-acre site in November Park, there’ll be a lot more hap- 2012, proposes to build 142,800 pening there once the former car square feet of office space, 215 lots — which many drivers have apartments and 10,000 square come to know intimately while feet of retail space. About half — grinding through gridlock — 52 percent — of the apartments are replaced with offices, hous- will be two-bedroom units, and ing and retail in buildings up to the rest, one-bedroom.

60 feet high.

A publicly accessible plaza feaAfter nearly five years of tures prominently in the projMenlo Park scrutiny, Stan- ect’s design. According to projford Univerect architect sity received Tom Gilman of u n a n i m o u s Stanford’s development DES Architects prelimina r y + Engineers, is expected to add approval Sept. there will be a 26 from the fountain in the 512 residents, 500 Menlo Park plaza. employees and 2,658 The threeCity Council to build an vehicle trips a day to the to five-story office, housbuildings will center of Menlo Park. range in height ing and retail complex at 500 from 38 to 60 El Camino Real. (Final approval feet, with the tallest ones closest of the complex, which the uni- to the Caltrain tracks. versity is calling “Middle Plaza,” John Arrillaga has offered is expected to be given at the to build the office buildings, council’s Oct. 10 meeting.) according to Jean McCown, The council approved a pack- Stanford associate vice president age of resolutions and ordi- of government relations. nances to allow the university Studies estimated that the to move forward with its project, development would generate an the second major development additional 2,658 vehicle trips near the city’s downtown heart per day, lower than the number that the council has approved approved in the city’s El Camino this year. The first, a roughly Real/downtown specific plan.

420,000-square-foot mixed-use Construction will take about development by Greenheart three years, with the office Land Co. at 1300 El Camino buildings expected to be comReal in the city’s northern pleted before the residential stretch, formally broke ground buildings, according to Ms. Sept. 12.

McCown.

Combined, the two complexes will add about 850,000 square Community response feet of development, and an With both projects, there estimated 950 residents, 1,200 have been similar expressions employees and 6,400 daily vehi- of excitement and concern from cle trips. These two projects also the community. Some people await the developments with anticipation, seeing the addiAbout the cover: Stanford’s tion of residents and workers “Middle Plaza” development near the Caltrain station as a along El Camino Real comes way to boost both public tranwith a large public-access plaza sit and downtown vitality, and — about double the size of remove an embarrassing stretch the Cafe Borrone plaza — and of blight. a fountain, the development’s Others express worry that the representatives say. The “village character” of Menlo building is intended for office Park is destined to become a space and ground-floor retail. thing of the past, although Stan(Photo courtesy Stanford ford officials point out they’ve University)

Courtesy Stanford University

In response to years of public comment on Stanford’s proposed complex, university officials decreased the size of the apartments (to reduce the number of families with kids likely to live there), increased the number of apartments while reducing the amount of office space (to cut likely car trips), and changed the architecture of its proposed development. The apartments are intended to evoke the city’s “village character,” say Stanford officials.

redrawn the plans a number of times to better accommodate local aesthetic.

A big question: What will be the impact of an additional 6,400 vehicle trips a day coming from these two developments?”

There’s still not a clear answer, but the university will have to pay about $958,000 to cover the development’s impacts on city roadways.

In the days before the council gave preliminary approval, the council’s inbox received more than 150 emails from locals opposing the terms of a development agreement and urging the city to take a tougher negotiation stance.

Since Stanford’s project meets requirements in the city’s specific plan, however, the university wasn’t required to negotiate with the city. Instead, the negotiations were an effort to nail down

what Stanford meant by making a “significant contribution” to a bicycle and pedestrian grade separation — a tunnel under or a bridge over the Caltrain tracks — at Middle Avenue.

The agreement

The result of the negotiations was that Stanford agreed to pay half the cost, up to $5 million, of the bicycle and pedestrian grade separation, and to donate $1.5 million in a lump sum to the Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation, which supports the Menlo Park City School District.

(This payment is to compensate the district since children who reside in the Stanford apartments may go to district schools, but those apartments are exempt from property taxes the district depends on. The exemption is due to the fact that the apartments will be occupied by

Stanford faculty and staff.)

If Stanford’s share of the grade-separation cost is less than $5 million, the difference would be paid to the foundation up to an additional $1 million.

Council members agreed to decide later whether that contribution should be further cemented so that Stanford would commit $4 million toward the grade separation and give $2.5 million to the education foundation.

That the grade separation will come in below $10 million seems unlikely. Some estimates have ranged as high as $17 million.

Council members agreed that the city could seek grant funding, and Ms. McCown said the university could add its name to city grant applications.

Some observers have expressed Continued on next page

Square feet

Apartments

Office area

Retail area

Residents

Employees

Daily Trips

Stanford

429,740

215

142,840

10,186

512

500

2,658

Greenheart

418,120

183

204,000

29,000

436

702

3,740

Total

847,860

398

346,840

39,186

948

1202

6,398

Data: city of Menlo Park.

This table shows a few points of comparison between Menlo Park’s two major El Camino Real complexes: Stanford’s “Middle Plaza” project at 500 El Camino Real, and Greenheart Land Co.’s “Station 1300” project at 1300 El Camino Real. Office area and retail area are in square feet. The numbers for residents, employees and daily vehicle trips are from city staff and consultant projections.

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start or end at the development, Stanford officials say the doubt that Stanford’s commit- development will offer: a bikement was sufficient. Former share program for employees planning commissioner John and residents, showers and Kadvany pointed out that with- lockers to encourage people out the bicycle and pedestrian to commute by bike or foot, crossing, the office and residen- car-share vehicles, a web portial tenants will be stuck on the tal to encourage carpooling, west side of the tracks and will and a guaranteed ride home have to go around the develop- program for employees, among ment all the way to Ravenswood other actions.

Diane Bailey and Janelle Avenue to access the Civic Center. The grade separation is an London from Menlo Spark, a added value to those tenants and Menlo Park-based environmental nonprofit, said the Stanford, he noted. university should also require paid parking (to discourage School district The tax-exempt status of the driving) and require employapartments, which is more ers at the development’s offices than half of the complex, is a to enroll in Caltrain’s Go Pass major concern of the Menlo program, which gives employPark City School District. ees free Caltrain passes.

John Donohoe, Stanford direcAny building the university claims is being used for its tor of planning and entitlements, responded to the academic purformer request poses, including ex pla i nhousing its facSchool district’s by ing that “people ulty and staff, business officer are cheap” and is exempt from property taxes. estimates Stanford’s would most likely just park in School district offer may cover nearby neighboroff icia ls estihoods rather than mated that the only 60% of the pay. To the latdevelopment added costs. ter request, Ms. could add up to McCown said, the 39 students to its schools at an annual cost of employers should be able to decide how best to cut car trips more than $600,000 a year.

Ahmad Sheikholeslami, the for their employees.

The Go Passes aren’t predistrict’s chief business officer, said that if Stanford contrib- cluded from being purchased utes $2.5 million to the foun- by future office tenants latdation and there are strong er on, though. The Stanford property tax revenues from development will be equidisStanford’s new office build- tant between the Menlo Park ings, about 60 percent of that and Palo Alto Caltrain stops. cost could be recovered.

Steve Elliott, Stanford’s man- Environment aging director of development, The university made several said the university expects far last-minute concessions during fewer children to live there. council negotiations, agreeIn many emails sent to the ing to purchase 100 percent council, people called for more renewable energy, to design compensation by Stanford. the development to meet They argued that other uni- LEED Gold requirements — a versities like Harvard and Yale, more stringent sustainability pay in-lieu fees to their host standard than the university cities to cover the costs they had previously committed to generate. providing — and, following In response, Stanford officials a request by Mayor Kirsten noted that the university has a Keith, to use natural, rather number of for-profit proper- than fake turf at the onties that generate substantial site dog park planned at the property taxes for Menlo Park development. that other universities may not have. According to Mr. Elliott, Housing between the Rosewood Sand The university will provide 10 Hill and Stanford Park hotels one-bedroom “below market and its other properties in Men- rate” apartments to the city to be lo Park, Stanford pays upwards rented out to low-income tenof $9 million in property taxes ants. The city administers the annually. below market rate housing program and is expected to dedicate five of the apartments to qualiTransportation To reduce the number of fying teachers in the Menlo Park potential car trips that will City School District. A

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A rendering of a proposed two-story office building at 2131 Sand Hill Road by Stanford. There would be a total of 159 parking spaces underground and on the surface.

Council approves office building, annexation of Stanford land

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he Menlo Park City Coun- For every $1 million increase in cil voted 4-1 on Sept. assessed value, the city expects 26, with Councilman Ray to receive an additional $1,050 a Mueller opposed, to approve a year.

Mr. Mueller said he opposed the plan that involves the city annexing about 16 acres of unincorpo- annexation and building approvrated county land that Stanford al because he thinks the costs University owns and allowing would outweigh the benefits.

Stanford to build a two-story He said he wanted to wait until office building of roughly 40,000 Stanford’s new hospital opens square feet at 2131 Sand Hill to see what the traffic impacts of that will be, noting that there Road.

The 16 acres, located across are safety problems in the area near the Sand Sand Hill Road Hill Road and from the Sharon Heights The new office building Alpine Road intersection.

Shopping Center, will keep is expected to add 302 The new office its current vehicle trips a day to building is expected to occupants: the the roads. add 302 vehicle former Buck trips a day to Estate (where the Stanford provost lives) and the roads, with 47 trips added the Hewlett Foundation offices. during the peak morning hour In annexing the property, the and 36 added during the peak city will enter an agreement with evening hour, according to a staff San Mateo County to receive 10.5 report.

The university agreed to propercent of the property taxes generated on the site each year, vide $200,000 toward programs which would likely yield about to reduce car trips and to start $6,500 a year without additional a transportation management improvements, and potentially association on Sand Hill Road more, according to a staff report. involving land owners along

Police look for hit-and-run driver A 28-year-old male bicyclist from unincorporated Redwood City was injured in a hit-and-run collision in Atherton on Monday morning, and police are looking for a vehicle described as possibly a blue 1999-2002 Saturn SL, last seen traveling westbound on Atherton Avenue.

The collision took place at 6:40 a.m. on Atherton Avenue at Elena Avenue, police report.

Both the driver and the bicyclist were westbound, and police believe the cyclist was hit from behind. The cyclist suffered moderate leg injuries and was

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The vehicle is missing the passenger side mirror and other body molding, according to police.

The vehicle parts were found at the scene and used to identify the possible car color and make, Commander Wade said.

The Atherton Police Department asks that any witnesses to the collision or anyone who sees the vehicle contact the department at (650) 688-6500, but warns that they should not attempt to make contact with the driver.

the road. The contribution is not technically a condition of approval, according to city attorney Bill McClure.

“Taking a leadership role, we’ve concluded, probably isn’t appropriate,” said Steve Elliott, managing director of development, but added, “We’ll be very involved.”

The university also did not agree to a property tax guarantee, which would preclude it from ever occupying the site. The intended tenants of the building are for-profit businesses, according to city staff. A

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Goodbye to mini park in downtown Menlo

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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fter hearing from a chorus of critics about the temporary pop-up park or “paseo” installed on Curtis Street in downtown Menlo Park, the City Council voted unanimously Sept. 26 to shut it down.

The park will likely be removed within the next two to three weeks, according to Assistant City Manager Chip Taylor.

At least 20 people at the council meeting raised their hands when asked from the council dais if they opposed the mini park. Only one or two raised a hand in favor of the park.

In a previous council meeting, several people who work in the

area had several complaints: the mini park generates noise, eliminates car access and six street parking spaces, and attracts transient people.

The council did not rule out considering whether a mini park might work on a seasonal or permanent basis, or in another location, but agreed to postpone the discussion until a later date.

Councilwoman Catherine Carlton endorsed the movie nights held at the park, saying she saw upward of 100 people at a recent showing, but supported removing the park. “I would like to see the program, where successful, remain,” she said, adding, “I think the paseo’s time has come to an end.” A

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The mini park at Curtis Street in downtown Menlo Park will be shut down.

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Town Hall to undergo structural analysis

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he town of Woodside will be engaging a structural engineer to analyze Town Hall and Independence Hall for resistance to damage by earthquakes.

The Town Council asked Town Manager Kevin Bryant for the analysis at its Sept.

26 meeting after discussing a recent story in the Almanac describing a commercially prepared map of the Woodside Fire Protection District showing the district after a simulated magnitude 7 earthquake along the Hayward fault in the East Bay. The map showed two areas where buildings might lean, partially or totally collapse, or slide off their foundations: Canada College and the area near the corner of Woodside and Whiskey Hill roads — the location of the town’s governmental complex.

The rest of the fire district — which includes Woodside, Portola Valley and nearby unincorporated areas such as Ladera and Emerald Hills — is

shown as experiencing “moderate to extensive damage” such as fallen chimneys, plaster and false ceilings.

The map was the work of a Palo Alto software company, One Concern, that uses an algorithm and big data, including seismic and building construction data, to create maps showing potential damage to structures from earthquakes — in real time and before a quake happens, based on simulations that include a given quake’s magnitude and epicenter.

The fire district and the towns of Woodside and Portola Valley are in the first year of a threeyear $50,000 license agreement with One Concern for mapping and analysis services.

Woodside Town Hall was dedicated in 1990, and Independence Hall dates from 1884.

It was moved to its current site in 1991.

The structural analysis for Town Hall will compare building codes from 1990 with those of today and advise if additional work is needed, Mr. Bryant said. A

Firefighters stop apartment fire Firefighters extinguished a “smoldering deep-seated” fire Friday after tearing open a wall in a first-floor garage of a three-story, 14-unit apartment complex in West Menlo Park.

The fire, reported at 6:54 p.m. at 3618 Alameda de las Pulgas, was out by 7:10 p.m., according to Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District.

No one was injured. Firefighters had to open up a wall of stucco and sheet rock to get at the smoldering wood framing. An initial investigation put the estimated damage to the structure at $5,000, the chief said.

The cause is under investigation, but the fire appears to have begun in “some type of nest next to a drain pipe that ran the height of the building,” the chief said.

Battalion Chief Dan Coyle said he’s glad the tenants reported the fire when they did. The fire generated smoke in a vertical pipe channel that escaped on the roof.

“Essentially, it was like a chimney that would have allowed the fire to climb and

Photo by Peter Mootz/Menlo Park Fire Protection District

Fire Marshal Jon Johnston and Fire Investigator David Perrone, both of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, investigate the origin and cause of a Sept. 29 fire at an apartment complex on Alameda de las Pulgas in West Menlo Park.

grow up into the occupied areas of the complex,” Mr. Coyle said.

Dispatchers received several calls about smoke coming from the complex, and firefighters arrived five minutes later, the chief said. The incident drew four fire engines and a ladder truck, and a battalion chief ñ

17 firefighters in all, and all from the Menlo Park district, he said.

Firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to checks for hot spots in the walls of the apartments above. Firefighters were on the scene for about two hours and 15 minutes, the chief said. A

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The Progressive Trail Ride is one of the only events that is multi generational and brings together riders of varied interests and disciplines. Riders come from as far away as Southern California to tour the town trails of Woodside, stopping at barns and local landmarks along the way.

Each year, rides have a unique theme with riders and horses dressed in costume. Come and enjoy the spectacle!

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Little Free Libraries bring neighbors together

By Kate Daly

contractor, ran with the idea, building and installing a 4-foot ho knew circulating tall schoolhouse box with a free books could turn cedar roof and bell tower in into such a rewarding March.

Ever since then there has been social phenomenon in this area?

Those cute little lending a steady flow of customers taklibraries housed in decorated ing, returning, and signing the boxes popping up in front of guest book.

“I love it when little children homes around the world are achieving just what the Wiscon- ride their bikes and have a book sin founder first imagined eight in hand and take one ... even years ago: more reading and teenagers are riding by on their skateboards,” Ms. Kaz says. “ more community spirit.

The nonprofit Little Free Grandmas and grandpas stop Library has registered over to read a story on the nearby 50,000 book boxes in more than bench, and sometimes we say, 70 countries. A search of the ‘hello.’”

Mr. Kaz also built a donation Almanac readership area on the company’s website littlefreeli- box to help handle the overflow brary.org shows 11 Little Free of incoming books. If books Library boxes located in Menlo don’t move off the shelves in a Park and two in Emerald Hills. timely fashion, his wife donates The company requires people them to the Redwood City to pay $45 to sign up to be a Library or another Little Free “steward,” and the rest is up Library in Menlo Park.

Sukumar Ramanthan read to them to turn the simple motto — “Take a book, return an article about book boxes a book” — into a neighborhood three years ago and thought “it seemed like such a delightful, attraction.

Several local stewards shared useful, economical idea.”

He bought a kit, put together a their success stories.

Janet Simonson set up her base and a pole for support, and box at 931 Menlo Oaks Drive in has been overseeing his family’s Menlo Park about six months library at 1141 Orange Ave. in ago after seeing a Little Free Menlo Park ever since.

“We are so busy with our Library on Bay Road, and being inspired by her daughter’s screens, it’s a great idea to involvement with Dolly Par- spur neighborliness and get away from our ton’s Imaginadevices,” he tion Library, which provides ‘The first day we met says.

People walk free books to two sets of neighbors by with their preschoolers. dogs, or run or Ms. Simonwe’d never met bike over from son did before, and we’ve three or four research on Pinterest lookbeen here 28 years.’ streets away.

He notices the ing for boxJANET SIMONSON 20 or so titles decorating turn over about ideas, and then bought an unfinished kit from every three to four weeks. With Little Free Library for $325 on some donations, it’s obvious someone just purged the pansale.

Her brother-in-law painted try and dropped off a bunch of it and added a picket fence to cookbooks.

Instructional and religious make it match her 100-year-old house, and then mounted the books don’t move well, so he has made some Goodwill runs with box on a post.

She gathered up a pile of books those.

Mr. Ramanthan is in a book her husband had bought and read, and some children’s books club and works for Amazon she had collected over the years in sales. His wife is a professor as a parent and grandparent. She of medicine at Stanford. He placed a notice in her neighbor- describes their three kids as hood association’s electronic “big time users” of their Little newsletter about their new box Free Library, but says it has not cut into their family tradition of containing 20-plus free titles.

“The first day we met two sets going downtown to the library of neighbors we’d never met every week.

Becky Bullard used to be a before, and we’ve been here 28 teacher and is now a stay-atyears,” she says.

Joe and Kathleen Kaz have home mom with three kids at lived in Emerald Hills at 546 1140 Cotton St. in Menlo Park.

They had spotted book boxes Lakeview Way for over 45 years. They heard about the in other neighborhoods. Then little libraries from a steward Christmas of 2016, her father in San Carlos and Mr. Kaz, a surprised her by creating a book

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Janet Simonson keeps her Little Free Library in Menlo Park stocked with new books.

box that looks like their chicken coop. It has eggs for knobs and a sign saying, “Reading is EGGciting!”

She sent around photos of the Bullard Book Coop to solicit book donations from friends and the box filled up in two days. Over the months she has seen the collection naturally divide into about half children’s books and half novels and paperbacks that appeal to older patrons.

“It has been a great joy,” she says to see so many repeat customers and to meet and talk with people who live a few doors down. Her kids, she says, “love to see what other people have dropped off.”

Joanie Crombie asked for a box this past Christmas.

Her daughter and son-in-law ordered it, painted it the same color as her house at 271 Sylvan Way in Emerald Hills, and bought the Little Free Library option: a starter set of 50 children’s books.

“We have a really friendly neighborhood and lots of kids, and I like to keep it that way,” she says. “It’s about contributing to our community.”

She has since added some mysteries and “good summer reading” for adults, and finds that, except for the classics, the books “go.”

Tim Heaton likes to work with wood and built a Little Free

Library out of recycled plywood after his wife, a high school teacher, noticed another box and they realized it would be a perfect place to redistribute books their kids had outgrown.

That was three years ago. The Winnie the Pooh their daughter and a friend painted on the side of the library box at 2031 Camino A Los Cerros in Menlo

Park has faded and now needs a fresh coat.

Mr. Heaton says it’s nice to meet people on their “very busy street.” Most patrons are on foot but sometimes people pull up in a car and “poke their noses in there once in a while,” he says, sort of reminding readers about the time Pooh got stuck in the honey jar. A

Photo by Kate Daly

The Bullard family’s Little Free Library box in Menlo Park was custom-made to match their chicken coop.

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C O M M U N I T Y

Nancy Ruth Hansen

PG&E upgrade is three-year project

(Nee Moran) 1948 – 2017 Nancy Moran Hansen passed away peacefully on September 18th in her home in El Granada, near the coast she loved and among the friends she held so dearly.

She was born in 1948 and proud to be a fifth generation San Franciscan. She grew up in Menlo Park and attended school there graduating from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in 1966. She attended San Jose State and graduated in 1970. She then attended the College of San Mateo and earned her AA as a Registered Nurse. Because of her love for the ocean she moved to the San Mateo Coastside in 1974.

She worked for Mills Memorial Hospital for 15 years before retiring on disability in 1989. In 1997 she received a heart transplant at Stanford Hospital and in 2005 she received a kidney transplant, also at Stanford Hospital. She continued to enjoy life, adjusting her goals and activities according to her increasing limitations. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Patrick and Brenda Moran who live in Menlo Park, many relatives in California and the Midwest, and by her many supportive friends. Following cremation, her ashes will be scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Half Moon Bay. In lieu of flowers, Nancy requested that everyone commit a random act of kindness.

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William Campbell Blair April 13, 1925 – September 21, 2017 William Campbell Blair, 92, of Menlo Park, California, passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at his home after a valiant battle with cancer.

A celebration of life will be held at 2 PM on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at the Menlo Church in Menlo Park, CA. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Spangler Mortuaries.

William was born in Berkeley, CA on Monday, April 13, 1925. He graduated from Berkeley High School and continued on to receive a pre-med degree from University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate of medicine from University of California, San Francisco.

William was married to Sharon Racine on January 30, 1960; they were married 17 years. He was married to Elizabeth Ready on April 2, 1983; they were married for 26 years.

William served in the United States Navy as a medical officer during World War II and in the Korean Conflict. He worked as a pediatrician for Palo Alto Medical Foundation for 50 years. He enjoyed traveling, backpacking and hiking in the Sierras, sailing and taking walks. He was also actively involved in the Menlo Church, Saint Andrews Society of San Francisco, Clan Blair Society, Boy Scouts of America and the Kiwanis Club.

William is survived by his first wife, Sherry Blair, sons Robert (Josh), Scott (Laura), granddaughters Holly Brown (Nathan), Jennifer, and great grandchildren Bradley Brown and Hannah Brown.

William is preceded in death by his wife Elizabeth Blair, his sister Jeanette Doyle, and parents Rochelle and Eleanor Blair.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital or to the charity of your choice. The family of William Blair wishes to thank Mission Hospice for their loving care and the Menlo Church.

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The construction work continues at the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. substation at the corner of Ashton Avenue and Alameda de las Pulgas in West Menlo Park.

The work began in 2015 and is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2018, a PG&E spokeswoman told the Almanac. The project includes replacing a transformer and upgrading underground equipment and

the above-ground banks of switches.

“Since the beginning of the project, PG&E’s outreach teams have been working to keep county officials and customers who live in the area informed about the project,” spokeswoman Andrea Menniti said in an email. “We thank neighbors in the area for their patience as we safely work to complete this project.”

At least one neighbor in

the area has expressed impatience, noting that crews have sometimes worked all night, that bright lights have made black-out curtains necessary, and that vehicle back-up alarms have been heard as early as 5 a.m.

Ms. Menniti has not responded to a request for comment on these complaints, but said that “unforeseen factors such as weather” affect a project’s timeline.

Edward M. Katz, MD June 15, 1934 – September 24, 2017 Dr. Edward M. Katz passed away peacefully as a result of Alzheimer’s Disease at Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, CA surrounded by his family on September 24, 2017 at the age of 83. He was born June 15, 1934 in Queens, New York City to Helen and Harry Katz. He attended Hofstra University and the Chicago Medical School. He interned at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and continued his Orthopaedic Residency at Northwestern University, Cook County Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program. He was acknowledged as Resident of the Year at Evanston Hospital and served as Diplomat of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Katz was drafted into the United States Navy Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Great Lakes Navy Hospital in 1966.

Dr. Katz married the love of his life Ann Elspeth McNicol, July 12, 1960 on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. They moved from Deerfield, Illinois after his Navy duty to Northern California where he continued his Orthopaedic career at the Redwood Medical Clinic and Sequoia Hospital. Together with Ann, they raised five children in Atherton, California.

Dr. Katz was in private practice in Redwood City for over forty years and considered Sequoia Hospital his second home. Dr. Katz was instrumental in bringing Total Hip Replacements to Sequoia Hospital in the early 1970’s. He was appointed to the Sequoia Healthcare Board in June, 2003. He was Chief of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, a member of Sequoia Hospital Foundation and served on the Sequoia Hospital Board of Directors. During the tenure of his professional life, he was a member of many organizations including the American Medical Association, California Medical Association, California Society of Industrial Medicine, International College of Surgeons, and American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Katz was known for his kindness and generosity to all. He would start his day at 5:00 am doing rounds and visiting the Emergency Room and Medical Surgery Orthopaedic patients and staff. Every single Saturday, he picked up donuts to deliver to the Hospital and bought flowers for his wife. Dr. Katz was dedicated to his patients, colleagues and his practice.

Dr. Katz devoted his life to his family and to his work as an Orthopaedic Surgeon. He is survived by: Ann, his devoted wife of fifty-seven years; Four children – Marilyn Caine, Diane Katz, Carol Marsh and Kyle Katz; Spouses – Robert Caine, Doug Marsh and Ericka Katz; His beloved grandchildren – Lindsey Desplat, Nicholas Caine, Andrew Caine, Lauren Christ, Caroline Christ, Zachary Vitto, Stuart Marsh, Ian Marsh, Jeremy Katz, and William Katz; His brother – Norman Katz. He was preceded in death by his son Steven Duncan Katz, mother and father Helen and Harry Katz, brother Clifford Katz and many other loved ones.

We extend our gratitude and heartfelt thanks to all of his caregivers, family and friends who gave him wonderful, loving care and companionship. We are especially grateful to his colleagues, nurses and former patients who were so kind and compassionate over the last few years.

We will never forget all our Papa gave us in his life, for his contributions to the medical community, for being our hero, our inspiration and for his unwavering devotion to his family. He was a man filled with honor, generosity and integrity. He will be greatly missed.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sequoia Hospital Foundation in memory of Edward M. Katz, M.D. at 170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, California 94062.

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C O M M U N I T Y

Left: Rex Ianson, center, a veteran, firefighter and longtime board member with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, receives a Golden Acorn Award for community service from Gino Gasparini, board chairman of the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce. Menlo Park Kirsten Keith is at right. Above: Award-winner Juanita Croft talks about her efforts to boost computer literacy for the young and old in Belle Haven.

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achievements Chamber of Commerce recognizes community service, professional excellence

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hemes of basketball, building and community service were woven through Menlo Park’s 41st Golden Acorn Awards ceremony, hosted by the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 28 at the Stanford Park Hotel.

The awards, given to recognize

community service and professional excellence, went to: Shay Patel, 14, who helps kids get involved in sports; Rebuilding Together Peninsula, which mobilizes volunteers to repair and renovate community facilities and homes; Juanita Croft, a volunteer who has helped kids and seniors learn computer

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skills; Rex Ianson, a longtime firefighter and board member of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District; Arlinda Heineck, who oversees the city’s building and planning divisions; and the Menlo Park Rotary Club, which provides college scholarship for local high school students.

Basketball Stanford Women’s Basketball Coach and Menlo Park resident Tara VanDerveer gave the keynote address at the event, sharing stories and lessons she’s learned from the women she’s coached.

Apropos of basketball, award-winner Shay Patel, an eighth-grader at Menlo School in Atherton, was recognized for starting, when he was in the fifth grade, “Alley Oop Kids,” an effort to help kids from lower-income families learn basketball skills.

While not a formal nonprofit, Alley Oop Kids has raised funds to purchase sports supply packages for students in the Ravenswood City School District and tickets to sporting events for children in foster families in San Mateo County.

This past summer, he, his friends and his coaches volunteered to run a summer coaching camp for fifth-graders in the Ravenswood district.

Building The building theme was reflected in two of the awards.

Rebuilding Together Peninsula, a local nonprofit, was recognized for mobilizing more than 1,500 volunteers to repair and renovate community

facilities and the homes of vulnerable people, such as seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.

Arlinda Heineck, Menlo Park’s community development director, was honored for her professional excellence in overseeing Menlo Park’s building and planning divisions at a time when many development projects are on the city’s plate.

“I have a true passion for the work that I do, and it’s important to me,” she said in accepting the award. “I’m proud to have served and built Menlo Park into a great community, but I also firmly believe that I am only a member of a larger community that works together to get things done.”

Community service After Juanita Croft retired in 2003 as a computer lab supervisor at Foothill College, she got involved in volunteering on Menlo Park advisory committees and teaching a soul line dancing class at the Onetta Harris Community Center.

A resident of the Belle Haven area of Menlo Park, she also found a way to combine her computer skills with her passion for the community by starting a program to help kids gain computer literacy. Called the “Mouse Squad,” the program has since shifted focus to helping older adults develop computer skills.

She told the Almanac she’s seen her efforts impact local lives: one young student she taught just graduated from high school with a college scholarship.

Award-winner Rex Ianson, a veteran firefighter, recently resigned from the governing board of the Menlo Park Fire

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Arlinda Heineck, community development director for the city of Menlo Park, gets a hug and a Golden Acron Award from Gino Gasparini, board chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Heineck, who has worked for the city for 30 years, has been an associate planner, chief planner, and for the past 15 years, department director.

Protection District and moved to Sisters, Oregon, with his wife.

He devoted 48 years of service to the district, including 12 years as a board member.

The most challenging local fire he responded to, according

to Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith (the event’s emcee), was a house fire that was ruled an arson on Fordham Street in East Palo Alto in 1997. Nine people died, five of whom were children.

Mr. Ianson, a Navy veteran of

Award-winner Shay Patel, center, a 14-year-old who has worked to promote sports participation by kids from low-income and foster families, poses with Chamber board chairman Gino Gasparini and Mayor Kirsten Keith.

the Vietnam War, was a founding member of the district’s urban search and rescue task force and had responded to disasters across the U.S., including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

“I did my job because I

loved it,” he said. “I accept this humbly on behalf of first responders, especially the ones in this district that serve the community.”

The other winner, the Rotary Club of Menlo Park, gives more than $100,000 a year in college

scholarships to local high school students, conducts the annual Tour de Menlo bike ride that raises money for scholarships and local nonprofits, and makes grants to organizations that support youth education and health. A

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to change its voting system.

It faces an Oct. 5 deadline to respond to a letter it received from Shenkman & Hughes, a law firm in Malibu threatening a lawsuit unless the city switches from at-large to district elections.

The letter alleges that Menlo Park’s voting system is racially polarized and results in a dilution of the “ability of Latinos and African Americans (each a ‘protected class’) to elect candidates of their choice or otherwise influence the outcome of Menlo Park’s council elections.�

So far, no city has successfully legally defended its “at-large� election system from such a lawsuit, according to City Attorney Bill McClure in a staff report.

In 2012, San Mateo County became the last county in the state to switch to “by district� elections for its Board of Supervisors, he said.

Under the California Voting Rights Act, for a lawsuit to succeed, the plaintiff is not required to prove that voters or elected officials are intentionally discriminating against a “protected class� — a term that refers to a group of people with a common characteristic who are legally protected from discrimination on the basis of that characteristic.

A lawsuit must show only that there is “racially polarized� voting within the city, or that racial majority voters’ preferred candidates differ from those of racial minorities, according to the letter’s author, attorney Kevin Shenkman.

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Law firm says Menlo Park’s voting system is racially polarized.

A “from-district� system would allow all registered voters in the city to vote to fill all five council seats, but each seat would represent a different district in the city. The candidates would have to reside in the district they represent. This system is not immune to legal challenge, however, Mr. McClure reported.

There’s also a question of whether the mayor should be elected as a separate position, or whether the title should be rotated among the council members, as it is now.

One option in a by-district system would be to have a separate at-large position for the mayor and elect the other council members from four districts.

Otherwise, the city would likely be divided into five districts and the mayor chosen on a rotating basis. The council could also consider changing the number of its members, expanding the body to seven or

even nine, but that would likely have to be brought before voters, Mr. McClure reported.

Currently, Menlo Park’s mayor is picked by a council vote and generally follows a rotation, with priority given to the council member who hasn’t served as mayor or has gone the longest without serving.

There are other systems such as ranked-choice voting and cumulative voting, Mr. McClure said, but Menlo Park can’t pursue those because it is a “general law� rather than a charter city, meaning the city constitution has some specific policies that don’t allow for alternative voting systems.

Mr. McClure recommended that the council consider one or more of four actions at its Oct. 4 meeting: Q Adopt a resolution declaring intent to transition to a bydistrict election system.

Q Authorize City Manager Alex McIntyre and Mr. McClure to negotiate and contract with the National Demographics Corp. to look into a by-district election system. That firm is the “preeminent demographic company� working to switch California cities and school districts to by-district elections, Mr. McClure reports.

Q Direct Mr. McIntyre and Mr. McClure to look into “fromdistrict� elections in 2018.

Q Dedicate up to $75,000 to cover the costs of the above actions.

The special council meeting on Oct. 4 begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Menlo Park Council Chambers at 701 Laurel St. in the Civic Center. A

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options for a future election system. It could switch to a “by-district� or a “from-district� voting system, said Mr. McClure.

A “by-district� system would be the only sure-fire way to avoid a lawsuit, he reports. The city would be divided into geographic districts. The voters in each district would elect one council member from among candidates who reside in that district.

s the Portola Valley School District’s board ponders major decisions with long-term implications in coming months — including a master plan for upgrading the district’s facilities and a possible bond measure — the board will have no more than two veteran members after November.

Four of the five board seats will be filled this year: three by election in November and one by appointment Oct. 25. Only one incumbent, Karen Tate, is running. Incumbent Gulliver La Valle’s term ends in December 2019.

The school board voted Sept. 27 to appoint someone to replace Jennifer Youstra, who resigned Sept. 8 without a public explanation and with more than two years left in her term.

The earliest month to schedule a special election would have been April 2018.

The appointment will be the first item on the Oct. 25 open session board agenda. The candidates will be interviewed in public at the meeting. By law, the appointment vote must also be made public. The appointee will be sworn in immediately after the appointment.

Deadline to apply is Wednesday, Oct. 18.

The district is in the midst

of updating its facilities master plan. A draft plan presented in September has projects ranging from new and renovated facilities to outdoor education and gathering spaces, and items to improve school safety, security and parking. Projects at Ormondale School total $30.2 million with $42.2 million of projects for Corte Madera School.

Polling is underway to gauge interest in a bond measure that could pay for some of the master plan projects. The polling results will be discussed at the board’s Oct. 25 and Nov. 15 meetings.

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Superintendent Eric Hartwig said the school board will tune the draft facilities master plan at meetings between now and February, analyzing what projects are most needed and what the community will support, he said, and taking public comment.

The deadline to put a bond measure on the June 5 ballot is March 9.

The board has already investigated changing the configuration of grades on the district’s two campuses or combining both schools onto one campus and decided to keep the current configuration, the superintendent said.

Ms. Youstra’s resignation leaves the district in an unusual situation. The November election for three board seats has four candidates: incumbent Ms. Tate, plus three district parents active in the schools: Karyn

Bechtel, a community volunteer from Woodside; Jeff Klugman, a retired software executive; and Michael Maffia, an investor and developer.

Superintendent Eric Hartwig said the district has been told that if one of the candidates applies and is appointed, but later wins a seat in the November election, she or he would have to resign from the appointed seat and take the new seat, leaving the district with a board seat still to fill.

State law requires school board members live in the district, which includes most of the town of Portola Valley and a small section of Woodside off Mountain Home and Portola Roads, be a registered voter and not a current school district employee.

The board usually meets on the third Wednesday of the month, with the open session starting at 6 p.m., in Room 201 of Corte Madera School, 4575 Alpine Road in Portola Valley.

The district has previously passed two bond measures: a $17 million measure in 1998 with a

77.3 percent “yes” vote, and a $6 million measure in November 2001 with a 73.4 percent “yes” vote. The second measure was needed to complete construction projects started under the first bond measure after construction costs inflated.

A district report says $15.05 million is still owed on outstanding bonds, due to be paid off by 2029.

At is.gd/appoint, the Almanac’s online story has links to documents including the school board appointment application and two drafts of the facilities master plan. A

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A historical walking tour of Menlo Park attracted a large gathering, including those shown here at the Menlo Park Train Station, which opened in 1867. The tour was sponsored by the Menlo Park Historical Association and led by its secretary, local historian and author Bo Crane.

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bout 65 people got a glimpse into the history of Menlo Park during a recent walking tour that I led as secretary of the sponsoring organization, the Menlo Park Historical Association.

The tour traveled down Oak Grove Avenue and returned on Ravenswood Avenue, two streets that were mapped as of 1863.

Beginning at the Menlo Park Train Station, constructed in 1867 and the oldest still operating train station in California, the tour stopped at Bright Eagle, a mansion built in 1869 on Noel Drive, a street named for Emma Noel, one of its owners.

From there we visited three

90-years ago in 1927.

Returning on Ravenswood Avenue, the tour stopped briefly at SRI International, Bo Crane once part of the Timothy Hopkins Estate before being acquired by Stanford University. The part of the estate not bought by Stanford was the Gatehouse, built in 1864 before the property was acquired by Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of Mary Sherwood Hopkins, the wife of Mark Hopkins.

Timothy and his wife occupied the Gatehouse after the 1906 earthquake rendered the estate’s mansion uninhabitable.

religious institutions, beginning with Corpus Christi Monastery, built in 1927 on Oak Grove Avenue by a monastic order of Dominican nuns on the site of a former flower nursery from the 1880s.

We crossed the street to the Vallombrosa Center, a retreat owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The center includes an 1880s mansion owned

by Edward F. Hopkins, nephew of Mark Hopkins, Nob Hill resident and railroad baron.

Farther down Oak Grove Avenue, we stopped at the Church of the Nativity, originally built off Middlefield Road in 1872 and moved to current site around 1880.

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Tour guide Bo Crane is a local historian and author of “The Life and Times of Dennis Martin,� an early pioneer with a ranch off Sand Hill Road.

Stephen Schwartz. A multi-ethnic cast will bring to life this story of Moses, his Pharaoh, brother and the indomitable people who changed them both. Oct. 6-Nov. 5, times vary. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Theatreworks.org

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Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search brownpapertickets.com for more info.

Raj Patel: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature and the Future of the Planet Nature, money, work, care, food, energy and lives - these are the seven things that have made the world and will continue to shape its future. Patel issues an urgent call for innovative and systematic thinking to help reclaim and save the planet and humans before it’s too late. Oct. 12, 7-8 p.m. $12 - $22. Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. commonwealthclub.org

Fundraisers

17th Annual Pancake Breakfast All are invited to join this family-friendly event cosponsored by the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula, the Menlo Park Firefighters Association and the Stanford Park Hotel.

Benefits the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, which helps burn survivors. Oct. 7, 7:30-11 a.m. Suggested donations: $10 for adults and $5 for kids. Menlo Park Fire Protection District Headquarters Station 1 at 300 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. thejuniorleague.org Holidays on a High Note The Foothill Auxiliary to the Peninsula Family Service celebrates its 20th year of Holidays on a High Note. Floral designer Ron Morgan will display holiday-inspired tablescapes and there will be specialty boutique shopping. Benefit for the Peninsula Family Service. Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $130. Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane, Atherton. fapfs.org/ Bus Barn Theater: Los Altos Follies Bus Barn Theater presents “A Salute to Besieged, Bothered and Bamboozled!� in a satirical musical revue of modern life and politics to benefit Los Altos Stage Company. There will be pre- and post-show receptions with food, wine and a silent auction Friday and Saturday.

Oct 5, preview, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 6 and 7, 7:30 p.m. $70, Thursday; $120, Friday and Saturday. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. losaltosstage.org

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Frozen Sing-Along features lyrics from the film “Frozen.� Attendants are encouraged to dress up as Elsa, Anna, Olaf or one’s favorite Frozen character. This event is highly interactive with in-movie antics and a “Fun Pack�

for advance ticket buyers. Oct. 8, 1-3 p.m. $0-$18, advance purchase discounts. MenloAtherton Performing Arts Center, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton. Search menlopark.org for more info.

Paws for Tales Children practice reading skills by reading to a trained therapy dog.

Signed release required. Register for a reading slot by contacting the library at (650) 851-0147. Oct. 11, 4-5 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

Lessons & Classes

Code-Breaking Workshop 101 All wannabe junior secret agents are invited to this 45-minute interactive with Elizabeth Singer Hunt, who will guide participants through the basics of secret-agent code-breaking. Oct. 8, 2-3:30 p.m. $5-$10. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search brownpapertickets. com for more info.

Master Class: Paul Madonna uses his new book, “Close Enough for the Angels,� to demonstrate the process of turning experience into art. Oct. 5, 7-9 p.m. $55. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search brownpapertickets.com for more info.

STEAM Play This hands-on program explores science, technology, engineering, art and math using the power of play. This month’s focus is gravity. For ages 3-6. Oct. 6, 2-3 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

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Teen Read Week There will be daily drawings for prizes including pens, earbuds and books. Oct. 10-14, 3:30 p.m. Free. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside.

0RYLH 1LJKW œ7KH 0RQVWHU 6TXDG¡, 1987 cult classic about a young group of monster fanatics who must save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters. Rated ÏPG13.Î Oct. 10, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Search menlopark.org for more info.

Science Action Club Designed by the Cal Academy of Sciences, Science Action Club is a nationwide STEM program for middle school youth in out-of-school time. Through games, projects and hands-on activities, youth in SAC use citizen science to explore nature, connect with scientists and design strategies to protect the planet. Wednesdays, Oct. 4-Dec. 27, 3:30 p.m. Free. Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane, Atherton.

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Book Discussion: Nora Webster The Menlo Park Library’s Literature Book Club will discuss Colm Toibin’s novel “Nora Webster.�

First-timers are welcome, and there is no discussion pressure. Oct. 10, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park.

Search menlopark.org for more info.

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Flood control A workshop is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, to update the public on proposed flood-control, restoration and recreation projects along San Francisquito Creek. The public will have an opportunity to comment and ask questions of officials.

The workshop begins with an open house at 6 p.m. at Laurel School Upper Campus at 275 Elliott Drive in the Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park.

A progress report is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., followed by a hands-on table-top exercise and a group discussion.

Go to is.gd/flood55 for more information.

Life in prison Gang member and convicted murderer Jerry Coneal III of Menlo Park expressed his lack of remorse for the 2012 slaying of a rival gang member with a wink at the mother of his victim as he was being led out of the courtroom following his sentencing on Sept. 28 in San Mateo County Superior Court, Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said.

Mr. Coneal was sentenced to life in prison without parole on his 23rd birthday.

A jury on Aug. 31 had found him guilty of first degree murder for the shooting death of Christopher Baker, 21, a rival gang member who was killed while attending a memorial in East Palo Alto for someone

prosecutors believed was associated with gangs.

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Surf Air flight path The Federal Aviation Administration is considering making the route Surf Air has used to avoid homes on the Midpeninsula — by flying over the Bay — an official fair-weather route. But an organized group of residents from Sunnyvale has turned out in force against the route saying it transfers the noise to their neighborhood.

On Sept. 27, the FAA held what it called an informational meeting in San Jose as part of its consideration of whether to make what it calls the Bayside Visual Approach an official charted flight path.

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

Police received the reports on the dates shown.

WOODSIDE Short-term rental offense: Deputies issued a citation associated with a residence in the 300 block of Ridgeway Road for a violation of the town’s ordinance prohibiting rentals of less than 30 days.

The home was listed on Airbnb and Home Away, deputies said. Sept. 22.

Theft: Someone stole a bicycle from the campus of Woodside High School at 100 Churchill Ave. Sept. 17.

WEST MENLO PARK Theft: Someone stole clothing and exercise equipment from a retailer in the 3500 block of Alameda de las Pulgas.

Estimated loss: $523. Sept. 20.

Vandalism: A vehicle parked on Mills Avenue was found with its tires slashed.

Estimated loss: $500. Sept. 23.

MENLO PARK Commercial burglary: Someone entered a room at the Menlo Park Inn at 1315 El Camino Real and stole a backpack belonging to the room’s occupant.

Inside the backpack were two computer hard drives, a passport, a calculator and a cardigan sweater. Estimated loss: $715.

Sept. 22.

Thefts: Q A resident of Sand Hill Circle told police that someone stole two rings from her dresser sometime in May or the first week of June. Estimated loss: $4,000. Sept. 27.

Q An unlocked bike was stolen from a driveway in the 1600 block of Magnolia Avenue. Estimated loss: $4,000. Sept. 24.

Q There were no signs of forced entry in the theft of a laptop computer from a vehicle parked on Arbor Road. Estimated loss: $2,200. Sept. 26.

Q Someone cut cable locks and stole three bicycles placed along a staircase of an apartment building on Mills Street.

Estimated loss: $1,300. Sept. 22.

Q A thief stole a bike locked to a bike rack at an apartment complex on Coleman Avenue. Estimated loss: $800. Sept. 25.

Q A cellphone was stolen from the desk of a business in the 1000 block of Marsh Road. Estimated loss: $600. Sept. 26.

Q A man wearing a red T-shirt and green shorts was seen taking four pairs of sunglasses from Lens Crafters at 700 El Camino Real and leaving without paying for them. The man was described as Middle Eastern and 25 to 27 years old. No estimate on losses. Sept. 26.

Q Someone stole a locked bike from the 1000 block of El Camino Real. Estimated loss: $100. Sept. 22.

Q A surveillance video captured the image of man taking a wallet from an unattended purse in a shopping cart at Draeger’s Market on University Drive.

Police describe the man as white with dark brown hair and wearing a darkcolored jacket, dark-colored button-down shirt, gray capri pants and black shoes.

Estimated loss: $87. Sept. 28.

Q A resident of the 2100 block of Santa Cruz Avenue sent two checks to a biography publication outfit in response to an ad. After the checks were cashed, several unauthorized withdrawals were made from the resident’s account by the same company. No estimate on losses.

Sept. 26.

Fraud: A fraudulent check was used to pay for men’s and women’s merchandise at Yogarok Living at 789 Santa Cruz Ave. Estimated loss: $505. Sept. 27.

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he community is lucky to have seven resi- Menlo Park. Of the seven candidates for the vacant dents at the ready to volunteer their time and seat, five live in Menlo Park, one in Atherton, and efforts to the Menlo Park Fire Protection Dis- one in East Palo Alto.

Robert Jones’ East Palo Alto address would not trict by serving a partial term on the district board.

The four current board members, who on Sept. 19 automatically qualify him for a seat on the fire interviewed the applicants for the vacant seat, will district’s governing board. But his East Palo Alto history combines with an impresbe able to choose from a pool of sive professional and personal notably strong candidates when EDI TORIA L background, intelligence and canthey meet to appoint a fifth board The opinion of The Almanac dor, and an enthusiasm to become member later this month. involved with the district even With all those solid candidates, including a former board member and several appli- more than he now is. The opportunity to appoint a cants who have volunteered in fire district and town person who knows first-hand the unique needs of disaster preparedness programs, what might set one the lower-wealth, high-minority-population East person apart as the best choice to fill the seat? The Palo Alto community shouldn’t be passed up.

The executive director of EPA Can Do, an affordanswer, we think, lies in the opportunity to broaden the board’s understanding of the entire community able housing development program in East Palo Alto, Mr. Jones has been involved in the fire disthe district serves.

Although the fire district’s jurisdiction includes trict’s Community Emergency Response Teams Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto and nearby (CERT) program for many years, and serves on the unincorporated areas, there hasn’t been a represen- CERT board of directors. During his public intertative from East Palo Alto on the board in 14 years. view last month, Mr. Jones noted that there is now The board now has two residents of Menlo Park, a “disconnect” between the CERT program and one from Atherton, and one from unincorporated the fire board, and one of his goals as a fire board

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What can be done about education disparity?

High-value targets; in harm’s Editor:

way; kinetic military resources; and lethality.

Make America Great Again; military advisers; mission accomplished; mission creep, military assets; mushroom cloud; neutralize the enemy; and, nuclear option.

Proportional warfare; preemptive strike; protect our way of life; pulverize; regime change; and, rules of engagement. r Scorched earth policy; Retired Stanford Development shock and awe; smart s Officer Henry Organ has lived in Menlo Park for more bombs; soft targets; stay b than 40 years. He was a the t course; take ‘em out; member of the San targeted killing; theater of t Mateo County 2010 war; and, trust but verify. w Charter Committee.

Vaporize; war of choice; water boarding; when w GUEST OPINION the t going gets tough, the tough get going; wounded t Actionable intelligence; all warrior; and, you’re with us, or options are on the table; asym- you’re with the enemy.

The words and expressions are metrical warfare; axis of evil; boots on the ground; bring ‘em meant to be deceptive, disguison; carpet bombing; clean bombs; ing the atrociousness of war, and collateral damage; and, cut and seeking to minimize opposition to the use of force, if not seeking run.

Daisy cutters; decapitation; the support or acquiescence of embolden the enemy; enhanced the public to the likelihood of interrogation; ethnic cleansing; force. The words and expressions extraordinary rendition; fire and are deliberately seductive, and fury; friendly fire; and, God is on cloak the horrors and barbarism of war. Let the reader beware. our side. he disturbing rhetoric that is being exchanged and escalating between leaders of nations of late reminds me of a glossary of words and expressions I have compiled over the last two decades, long before fake news and alternate facts were coined; the reader will recognize most of them. They are listed in alphabetical order.

LETTERS

An article on a meeting by Kate Bradshaw and a guest opinion by Rich Cline discussed the disparity in student achievement between Ravenswood City Elementary School District and Menlo Park City School District. Neither the article nor the opinion touched on the underlying cause of the disparity.

Children from poor families achieve less in school than children from well-to-do families. The disparity is across the United States. A study by Sean Reardon of Stanford points this out. (See article ID 89698 in Stanford Magazine.)

The disparity problem does not start in the classroom and it will not be solved by moving district lines around. In my opinion, the disparity starts with exposure the students get outside the classroom.

So, what can be done? Maybe educators should look outside the classroom to give kids from poor families exposure to some things rich kids see.

For example, a discussion with a merchant who can describe managing a store. Or, visiting a contractor and seeing what it

member, he said, would be to address that problem.

He also is an East Palo Alto Senior Center board member and has volunteer experience with neighborhood improvement, job training and community economic development programs.

Current members of the fire district board strive to understand the needs and concerns of all district residents, and cannot be accused of representing only the towns they live in. But Mr. Jones knows his community and its needs in a way that’s possible only for someone as deeply involved in it as he is.

His emphasis, he told the board, would be community education to increase residents’ awareness of hazardous conditions they may be living with, such as overloaded electrical cords and other household risks. He also wants to address potential local hazards involving East Palo Alto’s chemical companies and flood risks.

The fire district board should not shun the opportunity to add a member who would expand the board’s knowledge and understanding of a portion of the district that has been underrepresented for too long. We hope to see Mr. Jones’ nameplate at the fire board dais this fall. A

takes to manage construction projects.

There are many more exposures that will need to be made; one or two exposures will not make a difference.

My point: Let’s not buy “poor kids get poor schools.” Let educators think about how to use the area outside of the classroom to motivate kids from poor families.

Jerry Secrest Willowbrook Drive, Portola Valley

Don’t create obstacles to bikes on trains Editor: It is very important to maintain Caltrain’s July 2015 suggested increases in bike capacity as we move towards finalizing the electrified train set design.

More people than ever are bringing their bikes onto Caltrain, and we want to encourage this trend to limit the use

of motor vehicles to and from the Caltrain stations or as an alternative to the train all together. Getting bumped with a bike is very inconvenient and makes commuters consider other options to both bike and train riding.

The electrified trains need 84 bike spaces and 672 seats to meet Caltrain’s own directive.

As well, seats need to be near bikes so passengers can watch their bikes to prevent theft, but the proposed design has only folding seats at the same location as hanging bikes and wheelchair space. This is a recipe for passenger conflict.

A great solution would be to distribute 84 bike spaces among all cars. This would allow space for seats near bikes, dedicated wheelchair space, and also shorten boarding time by enabling all passengers to board at all doors.

Lawrence Garwin Palo Alto

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Tell us what’s on your mind by sending your letters to letters@AlmanacNews. com. Or snail-mail them to: The Almanac, 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306.

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