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Menlo fire chief gets threats, complaints about PG&E ads By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

arold Schapelhouman, the chief of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, said that when he agreed to appear in advertisements for Pacific Gas & Electric Company this past summer, he never imagined it would lead to threats of physical violence and a spate of nasty phones and emails. Nor, says the chief, did he imagine that his face would show up — much bigger than life-size — in full-page newspaper ads around the Bay Area, including some areas devastated by the North Bay fires. He began working with PG&E on the print and television ads in August, he says, well before fires broke out in several North Bay counties early in October. While the cause of the fires has not yet been determined, some have blamed faulty PG&E equipment. On Feb. 3, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that more than 100 lawsuits have been filed against PG&E by individuals blaming it for the fires. Sonoma County has also announced plans to sue the utility, the newspaper reported. “It’s been an interesting couple of months,” said Chief Schapelhouman on Feb. 8. He started receiving calls and emails in December, he said, and was still receiving them. On Feb. 8, he received an anonymous phone message from a man who threatened a beating because of his appearance in the ads. “He said you’d better be looking over

your shoulder, because I’m coming for you,” the chief said. Chief Schapelhouman said he was asked last year by Frank Fraone, a retired fire district division chief and now a PG&E senior public safety specialist, if he’d be willing to participate in an ad campaign for the agency. The chief said he’d seen ads for PG&E done by fire departments in Auburn and Salinas. The chief said he agreed “only if we could highlight the training facility” the district has operated on PG&E land near the Dumbarton Bridge for 28 years. The appearance of ads in the counties that had not yet recovered from the fires was not something Chief Schapelhouman said he anticipated. “You don’t always control something when it’s out there,” Mr. Schapelhouman said of the ad campaign, which also included television spots. “I didn’t realize how big this ... would be,” he said, adding it was “much more grandiose than I had ever anticipated.” In a separate written statement, Mr. Schapelhouman said: “As far as (PG&E’s) corporate practices and liability related to the recent fires, those are areas of concern and something I am closely watching. We would ask that they immediately stop using our agency and relationship for promotion if these claims were substantiated.” If he ever did this again, he said, he would put boundaries around the placement and scale of the advertising. “For those who would accuse me of not being empathetic to

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Full-page ads bearing the face of Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman and praising PG&E were printed in newspapers throughout the Bay Area, including the counties devastated by the North Bay fires in October.

those who lost their lives, were injured or lost their homes and property, sadly I’m extremely familiar with many major tragedies and horrific events with major loss of life and injuries. It never gets easier,” Mr. Schapelhouman said. Chief Schapelhouman said the ads are “factual.” In the print ad he said, in part, “We rely on PG&E every day when we have an incident to be there as quickly as possible to help us de-energize power lines or to secure gas and utilities ... PG&E is a partner with the fire service. We rely on them and they rely on us.” The ad also talks about the training facility. “It’s inherent

to this job that there is risk. So, we try and meet those risks with training. With knowledge. With capability. PG&E is our partner in that training,” the chief said. The television ad shows Menlo Park firefighters getting ready to respond to a call and then cuts to the chief talking about how important PG&E is as a partner to the fire district. Later it shows firefighters and PG&E crews working together. A link to the ad on YouTube no longer functions. Chief Schapelhouman says he was not paid by PG&E, and that he has no immediate plans to retire, so he hasn’t thought about going to work for the utility. “My bill at home didn’t go

down,” he said. In fact, Mr. Schapelhouman said, his status as a star in a PG&E ad also hasn’t done any good in trying to get PG&E out to turn on the utilities at the new Oak Grove fire station in Menlo Park. On-duty fire district personnel participated in the filming, and would have left if they received a call, he said. The chief was on his lunch break, and a battalion chief participated on his day off. “Nobody had to do it,” Mr. Schapelhouman said. When asked why PG&E was running the advertising campaign, spokesman Ari Vanrenen said the ads “help See FIRE CHIEF, page 18

Guild Theatre events venue proposal moves forward City Council gives unanimous support. Q

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proposal by a local nonprofit to transform the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park into a live music and community event venue has garnered unanimous support from the City Council, which discussed the project Feb. 13. The council agreed to allow the structure to be built at a higher density than might otherwise be allowed downtown, and to not require parking. The proposal by the Peninsula Arts Guild, a nonprofit made up of president Drew Dunlevie and board members Pete Briger and Thomas Layton, is a

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philanthropic offer to buy the Guild Theatre, renovate it into an events venue at an expected cost of $10 million to $20 million, and operate and program it as a venue for live music, comedy, author talks and other community-focused events. Since the proposal was announced publicly at the City Council’s annual goalsetting meeting at the end of January, the idea has become wildly popular — after the item appeared on the council’s Feb. 13 agenda, roughly 60 people sent emails to the council expressing support for the project, and five appeared at the meeting to advocate for the project. Criticism generally had to do with concerns about

risk-taking that defines our community.” parking and traffic. Skip Hilton, a frequent concertgoer Among the supporters was Judy Adams, and former member of who has led a campaign the advisory commitcalled “Save the Guild” with the goal of renovat- ‘We are going to bend tee for the downtown specific plan, said the ing the movie theater to continue to show mov- over backwards to do project aligns with the ies. Now, she is rallying well by the community.’ goal of the specific plan to enliven the downvolunteers to discuss the DREW DUNLEVIE, CO -FOUNDER , town even if it doesn’t new venue’s potential PENINSULA ARTS GUILD yet align with the spefilm programs, and has cific ordinances in the asked for those interested to contact her at saveguildtheater@ plan. The proposed building would be yahoo.com. She told the council, “I’ve more dense than the currently allowed basically moved from ‘Save the Guild’ to floor-area ratio dictated by the specific plan, and would not come with its own ‘support the new Guild.’” Patrick Corman, chairman of the parking. Mr. Dunlevie said the venue would Kepler’s Literary Foundation, called the project “audacious and transformative” and “in keeping with the culture of See GUILD THEATRE, page 23 February 21, 2018 Q AlmanacNews.com Q The Almanac Q 5

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City charter measure wins council support By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

he Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously Feb. 13 to move forward with a process to put an “enabling” charter measure on the November 2018 ballot. The step will launch a roughly 75-day process to gather public input and give proper notice before the measure is finalized and submitted to San Mateo County by the Aug. 10 deadline to appear on November’s ballot. If it passes, the charter measure could lay groundwork for possible seismic changes in Menlo Park’s governance policies, creating a Pandora’s box of sorts to alter what have traditionally been givens in the way the city runs as a “general law” city. “In a nutshell, the benefit of becoming a charter city is the ability to have more control over local government autonomy,” explained City Attorney Bill McClure in a staff report. “From a local control standpoint, I think it’s a positive move for Menlo Park,” said Mayor Peter Ohtaki.

Things that the city is not allowed to do as a “general law” city could be permitted under a charter. These include allowing public financing of election campaigns, making it easier to outsource certain jobs, and accepting bids that aren’t just the lowest ones offered. Becoming a charter city might make it easier to do design-build projects, Mr. McClure said, because usually the city has to take the lowest bidder, even if that contractor has a record of trouble. Or it could contract with private developers to do public works projects — for instance, someone working on a development could more easily and more cost-effectively replace an adjacent sidewalk than a contractor selected through the public process for that job alone. A charter could also enable the council to explore a documentary transfer tax — though this would require further voter approval, according to Mr. McClure — and allow council members to determine their own salaries. Currently, council members receive compensation

‘From a local control standpoint, I think it’s a positive move for Menlo Park.’ —MAYOR PETER OHTAKI

based on the state’s salary ceiling, which establishes salary based on a city’s population. These possibilities are in addition to the original reason that spurred the council to look into a charter: exploring an alternative voting system to the options the city currently has, which is to use an at-large or

by-district voting system. Currently, an appointed districting advisory committee is developing recommendations for how the city could be divided into five or six voting districts, each with its own elected council member. City Attorney Bill McClure insists, though, that while a charter would grant the council greater authority and flexibility, it’s unlikely the council would “run wild.” As with a general law city, he said, a charter city would still be subject to a voter referendum, repealing or preventing policies from going into effect. Or voters

could amend the charter to restrict the council’s authority. One drawback is that there are some ongoing questions with the courts as to just what cities can legislate for themselves, according to the report. Charter cities aren’t supposed to legislate on matters that are considered of “statewide concern” — and courts’ definitions of what exactly that means has shifted over time, according to Mr. McClure’s report. Housing policy, for instance, was once considered a local affair, but more recent court decisions indicate that it is a statewide concern, according to the staff report. A

Locals question library siting process By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

fter mediators launched Menlo Park’s third meeting on Thursday, Feb. 15, to pick a site for a proposed new main library by insisting attendees abide by a series of discursive ground rules, several attendees stood and asked city

staff politely but assertively to make sure their comments were accurately recorded and their feedback taken into account. The meetings, for attendees, involved being told ground rules for the discussion, hearing a presentation, getting a chance to ask clarifying questions, breaking into small groups, offering feedback and then relying on

note-takers in each group to accurately record and relay their feedback. Several attendees of previous meetings said they didn’t think the opinions they’d previously expressed were accurately represented by staff. The meetings, intended to ascertain public opinion as to See LIBRARY, page 7

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Menlo Park assistant city manager to depart for Sunnyvale By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

ongtime Menlo Park staff official and current Assistant City Manager Chip Taylor has announced that he plans to depart Menlo Park on Feb. 23 to begin work as Sunnyvale’s public works director starting March 19. Mr. Taylor was first hired by the city of Menlo Park as its transportation manager in 2005, and worked for the city a total of about 11 years. He served as Menlo Park’s public works director before taking on the same role in Millbrae. He was later promoted

to assistant city manager in Millbrae before returning to Menlo Park in October 2015 as its assistant city manager. Photo courtesy city Since then, of Menlo Park he’s had a threeChip Taylor word mandate as his job description. That mandate is written on a coaster he received from City Manager Alex McIntyre: Get “stuff” done — but replace “stuff” with an expletive. Mr. McIntyre said he sought to

hire Mr. Taylor after the former assistant city manager left because of Mr. Taylor’s familiarity with the city and his expertise. “I needed somebody who could marry public works to community development,” he said. “I knew Chip could do that.” Mr. Taylor was born in Kentucky and grew up in different parts of the country. He attended high school in Southern California and college at San Jose State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He then received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado

at Denver, and worked in Colorado for about 10 years before beginning work with the city of Menlo Park. Many of the projects Mr. Taylor said he’s proud of working on have to do with improving the city’s bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure: replacing the bike and pedestrian overcrossing on U.S. 101 at Ringwood Avenue and getting sidewalks installed on Santa Cruz Avenue. He also helped oversee the traffic mitigation plans for different neighborhoods, and the development of the city’s El Camino Real/ downtown specific plan and its

general plan update for the the light industrial area near the Bay, called “ConnectMenlo.” Sunnyvale plans to offer Mr. Taylor substantially higher compensation: his starting annual salary will be $245,000; Menlo Park’s salary schedule indicates a maximum salary for assistant city manager of $211,761. “It’s bittersweet for me,” Mr. Taylor said. “I do enjoy the people I work with here.” He added that Sunnyvale is a bigger city but has similar problems to Menlo Park, and that he’s looking forward to working on capital projects there. A

Menlo Park looks into forming nonprofit to cut solo driving Partnerships, customized transit options among suggestions to manage worsening traffic By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

n an effort to lessen traffic and greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the worsening of those conditions as more density is added, the city of Menlo Park is trying to reduce the rate at which people drive cars solo in town. One way the city may do this is to give commuters other options by forming what’s called a transportation management association. Such associations usually are run as nonprofits that operate independently from cities, but may receive funding from them. They typically work with an area of a city or a set of

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whether the city should pursue building a new library at its current Alma Street site — if a library construction project is approved — or relocating it closer to Laurel Street, raised other questions about the reliability of the public process. One attendee pointed out that during the second siting meeting, there seemed to be little public support for the Laurel Street site. At the third meeting, consultants raised a number of arguments as to why the Laurel Street site might be preferable — if the library were relocated there, it would ease interim library costs and could free up the space for other uses, such as an outdoor amphitheater, suggested consultant Chris Noll of architectural firm Noll & Tam. By the end of the meeting, one small group out of three expressed support for the Laurel Street site.

businesses to provide employers and their employees with commute options other than driving solo. The City Council held a study session on Tuesday, Feb. 6, to talk about different approaches it could take to develop such an association, using $100,000 it has received from Facebook as part of a development agreement to fund a study. The study would explore options for a potential association, and determine what might make most sense, according to Menlo Park’s transportation demand management coordinator, Nicholas Yee. For instance, a future association could focus on large

On the other hand, one topic that did appear to have mixed opinion during the previous meetings — whether affordable housing should be built as part of the project — appeared to have already been ruled out by city staff. Assistant Library Director Nick Szegda said that adding housing would cause delays to the project, since it would require a full environmental impact review, so staff wasn’t likely to recommend moving forward with housing to the City Council. Angie Evans of the San Mateo County Housing Leadership Council, who two days prior had presented the City Council a video of people in the community voicing support for housing as part of the library project, said that there’s some misinformation about housing going around. Stand-alone affordable housing buildings tend to have the most access to state and federal funding, and there’s no reason a separate

businesses, or large and small businesses; focus on a particular area or the entire city; or explore forming an alliance with other transportation management associations in the area. Palo Alto and Mountain View already have transportation management associations, and one is being developed in Redwood City, according to Mr. Yee. The city’s next step is to create a request for proposals to hire a consultant to do a study surveying business owners and local employees and gathering information about commute patterns throughout the city, he said. Since a big source of traffic is school pick-up and drop-off, Mayor Peter Ohtaki suggested the study should also look into transit options to help kids get to school without a car. He also

stand-alone affordable housing project couldn’t take place alongside the library, but start construction later because of an extended timeline to accommodate an environmental review, she said. Go to is.gd/housing218 to watch the video. Meeting attendees conducted a rough straw poll of their own as to who supported the library project at all. Several hands, out of about 45 attendees, were raised. (This was done informally and quickly, so may not have accurately captured the sentiment in the room.) When staff insisted that the question wasn’t within the scope of the meeting’s agenda, an attendee asked, “Why not? We’re paying for it,” referring to the roughly $30 million the city will have to come up with to pay its share of funding needed to make good on an offer by developer John Arrillaga to pay for the remaining construction costs.

suggested that the city look into coordinating services with existing SamTrans and Caltrain schedules to improve convenience for riders. Councilwoman Kirsten Keith suggested that the city could coordinate with Peninsula Volunteers to help seniors get around. That organization has a program that offers seniors subsidized Lyft rides to and from Little House, the doctor or the dentist, funded by the Sequoia Healthcare District. Diane Bailey of local environmental nonprofit Menlo Spark and Adina Levin, who sits on the city’s Complete Streets Commission, both spoke favorably of Palo Alto’s transportation management association. Ms. Bailey said it could be one of the most effective ways for the city to cut its greenhouse

gas emissions. “We know larger employers like Stanford and Facebook get people out of cars,” said Ms. Levin. People in smaller companies or service workers, on the other hand, don’t get the same kind of benefits, she added. Transportation Management Associations, she argued, can help “democratize” those benefits. She also suggested that the city offer a range of flexible transit options tailored to certain locations in town. In some places, shuttles might make more sense, while in others, it might be more effective to offer transit passes. The plan, Mr. Yee said, is to conduct the study over the next 18 months and present information to the council along the way. A

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proposal by residents of the unincorporated West Menlo Park triangle bounded by Santa Cruz Avenue, Alameda de las Pulgas and Sharon Road to have their area annexed into the city of Menlo Park made it onto the City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of projects it plans to work on this year. The council on Feb. 13 appointed members Catherine Carlton and Ray Mueller to serve on a subcommittee to negotiate with San Mateo County. Residents of the 52-household territory have for several years asked for consideration to be annexed into the city, and have together raised nearly $11,000 to fund the process, according to Leah Rogers, a resident of the triangle who supports annexation. The council tabled the matter last October, citing more pressing priorities. Among the reasons residents have offered for pursuing annexation are interest in voting in Menlo Park elections and engaging in civic matters; to more easily secure services and infrastructure such as safe

Map courtesy of San Mateo County Local Agency Formation Commission.

Residents of the area in pink are seeking annexation into the city of Menlo Park. In the yellow area are other unincorporated West Menlo Park parcels. The rest are within incorporated Menlo Park.

routes to school and sidewalks; and to have more regulation of residential development through the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning and heritage tree ordinances. One of the big hold-ups with the project is that Menlo Park would have to bring the roads of

any territory it annexes up to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infrastructure standards, which are higher than those of the county. Doing so would likely be a costly undertaking, given the road conditions in that See WEST MENLO, page 23

Should Atherton look at leaving fire district? thertonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Council wants residents to weigh in on what it should do after receiving a report that shows that the Menlo Park Fire Protection District receives about $7 million more in property tax revenue from Atherton residents than it spends in providing them services. The council meets on Wednesday, Feb. 21, to consider the report from the Matrix Consulting Group, which shows that in the 2015-16 fiscal year, Atherton, with 8 percent of the residents in the fire district, provided 31.7 percent of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total property tax revenue: $11.8 million. The study says if the town had its own fire department it would probably cost $6.8 million a year. Contracting with another fire department would cost an estimated $7.4 million annually. Also on the agenda for the Feb. 21 meeting are:

Q Caltrain pole heights â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The town is still negotiating with Caltrain over the more than 45-foot height of some of the poles Caltrain plans to install as part of its electrification project. Dozens of Lloyden Park neighborhood residents have asked for shorter poles in their neighborhood. Caltrainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest demand is that the town must pay it $200,000 and provide the agency with written approvals from property owners whose trees would be affected by the changes to get the shorter poles. Q Business license tax â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Council members will decide if they want to advertise for consultants who could help prepare an ordinance and give election advice on a possible new business license tax. They also will consider seeking advice about a transient occupancy tax for short-term rentals in the town and a voluntary tax on contractors building homes in the town. At is.gd/A_agenda find the agenda and staff reports on the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. A

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Menlo Park school district looking at its financial future By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

enlo Park City School District officials asked members of the public to share their priorities and options as the district plans for its long-term financial future, and on Feb. 6 the community did just that. The school board and district administrators heard from teachers who said the local high cost of living makes it important to pay teachers well. They heard from parents who said they really don’t like that the district this year increased the maximum class size to save money. They heard from a former school board member who said increasing the achievement of disadvantaged students should be given highest priority. And they heard from a resident who no longer has children in district schools, who said the district should just figure out what is needed to offer the very best possible education and then ask the community to pitch in. The public input session — and an earlier meeting held in October — fulfilled promises made during the campaign for the parcel tax measure approved by 79 percent of voters in March 2017 to involve the public in planning the school district’s long-term financial future. One thing the session made clear is that the board will have some difficult choices to make, just as it did after two parcel tax measures failed in May 2016.

The board decided then to cut spending and ask for a smaller parcel tax. In making the cuts, board members had to decide whether to prioritize employee salaries, breadth of class program offerings, or class size. At that time the board decided to slightly increase class size to preserve most programs and salary levels while decreasing spending. Teacher pay

Vince Lopez, a third-grade district teacher and the president of the teachers’ union, said high local cost of living has driven some teachers out of the district. “The bottom line is that it is damned expensive to live here,” Mr. Lopez said. “Strong teachers cannot teach in an area that they cannot afford to live in,” he said. Julie Williams, a sixth-grade teacher at Hillview, said the district’s compensation “is not currently pacing with” that in other nearby districts. She said she looked at what a teacher with her 22 years of experience would make in the Palo Alto Unified School District. With higher pay and better benefits, she said, “I would be earning over $18,000 more per year one town over.” She also researched the salaries and living costs in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York. There, she said, she’d make $14,000 a year more and could buy a four-bedroom, four-bath home on three acres for $950,000. “I don’t want to do that. I’m in no hurry to leave,” she said.

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“But I have an obligation to pay my bills and shelter my family.” School board member David Ackerman, who is a retired district principal, agreed that teacher pay should be a priority. “Everybody at this table knows that teachers are underpaid,” he said. “Nobody argues with that, but nobody does much about it,” he said. “For the last 100 years we’ve been able to get away with that” because historically most teachers were women, he said. “It’s time to pay teachers what they’re worth.” “The issue of teacher pay is a moral issue with me,” Mr. Ackerman said. “We need to develop a compensation philosophy that says the most important people in this district are teachers.” But board member Caroline Lucas, who is a teacher in the Las Lomitas Elementary School District, had another view. “It’s hard for me to say this, but

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Suzanne Yonkers, who has two preschoolers and a firstgrader at Laurel School Lower Campus, said she was unhappy with one of the budget-saving compromises the district had chosen. “I am here to address the increased class size we saw this year,” she said. Her child’s class increased from 18 students in kindergarten to 24 in first grade this year. “We have the largest class sizes in this area,” she said. Christa West, the parent of three Oak Knoll School students,

Menlo Park school board approves details of new preschool program The Menlo Park City School District school board on Feb. 13 approved the tuition and tuition assistance guidelines for the district’s new preschool program, which will open in fall 2018. Tuition for the full-day (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) program will be $2,200 per month and tuition for the part-day program will be $1,200 per month. Tuition assistance is available on a sliding scale to families, based on income and family size. Families earning less than the following amounts per year — topping off at 80

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we, the board, don’t represent the teachers, we represent the community,” she said. “The sad truth is, we could not give a raise to teachers of 30 years and they would still stay here, probably,” she said. “I sadly believe there are not many places to go that would pay more,” she said.

said teacher pay, class size and programs are all important. Teachers should have competitive salaries and the best benefits possible, she said. “I also think we need to keep class sizes at a reasonable amount,” she said. Options in programs make schools more exciting and alive, Ms. West said. “Those are what make kids excited about going to school,” she said. Dan McMahon, a 25-year resident of the district who no longer has children in school, said the community is willing to pay for good schools. “Your job is to make decisions that make the best school district possible,” he said. “The community is ready to support you,” he said. Board member Stacey Jones reminded everyone that “as a district we have finite resources,” as do some of the district’s residents. “We don’t have limitless funds,” she said. “How do we balance these priorities? I’m still struggling.” Superintendent Erik Burmeister said the board will receive more information about the district’s current budget condition on March 15, and a report on long-term financial planning will be ready before a June 5 meeting. A

A chart in the Feb. 14 edition of the Almanac with the story “School board scrambles to get informed ahead of bond election deadline” might have misled some readers because it didn’t specify, as the story did, that the figure for perpupil bond revenue spending in the Portola Valley

percent of the median income for San Mateo County — are eligible to enter the lottery for a scholarship: Q Family of 2: $84,300 Q Family of 3: $94,850 Q Family of 4: $105,350 Q Family of 5: $113,800 Q Family of 6: $122,250 Q Family of 7: $130,650 Q Family of 8: $139,100 Fees for families receiving a scholarship will be based on income and will range from $52 to $877 a month for the full-day program and $26 to $439 for the partial-day program.

The preschool is expected to have 88 students its first year, with 44 full-day and 44 partialday students in classrooms of 20 to 24 students. Each classroom will have a teacher, an assistant teacher and an aide. Students must be at least 3 years old by the time school starts and classes will be of mixed ages. Scholarships will be available to 25 percent of the students. Families interested in the new preschool program may now register online at is.gd/ELC_reg. A —By Barbara Wood

School District reflected what that spending would total if district voters approve a $70 million bond measure in November. Although no decision has been made, the school board is considering placing a bond measure of up to $70 million on the ballot. Currently in the Portola Valley district, $23 million in two bonds have been

approved since 1998. With 604 current students, spending is now $38,079 per student. If an additional $70 million bond were passed, the spending would be $153,974 per student. If Portola Valley district voters approve a smaller bond measure of $40 million, the spending would be $104,304 per student.

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Two 14-year-old boys were arrested Tuesday, Feb. 13, after a neighbor observed that one of the teens appeared to be acting as lookout while the other knocked on the front door of a home near Woodland Avenue and Oak Court in Menlo Park’s Willows neighborhood. The neighbor called the police to report the suspicious

behavior around 9:21 a.m. The police responded immediately, and found the house the resident described, according to the Menlo Park Police Department. Hearing noises inside and seeing that the front door had been forced open, an officer set perimeters around the home. Both suspects were apprehended

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he filing period for the June 5 primary election in San Mateo County opened Feb. 12. Among the elective offices included in this primary are races for county sheriff, the county superintendent of schools and supervisor for District 3, which includes the communities in The Almanac’s coverage area. The filing period closes March 9, but is extended to March 14 for races in which an incumbent does not file for re-election. Records from the county Elections Office show two candidates running for sheriff: appointed incumbent Carlos G. Bolanos and challenger Mark D. Melville. Mr. Bolanos was undersheriff and then appointed sheriff on a

3-2 vote by the Board of Supervisors in July 2016 after then-sheriff Greg Munks moved up the date of his announced plans to retire. Voting with the majority were supervisors Don Horsley, Warren Slocum and Adrienne Tissier. Supervisors Dave Pine and Carole Groom dissented. Mr. Melville has been a deputy sheriff in San Mateo County since 2008, his website says. He says he served on police forces in Half Moon Bay, Patterson and Brisbane and was an adjunct professor with the Regional Police Academy at Modesto Junior College. In the race for county superintendent of schools, of the two candidates who filed, both have positions in the county Office of Education: Nancy Magee is the associate superintendent for student services and Gary Waddell is the deputy

superintendent for instructional services. Anne Campbell, currently in her second term as county superintendent of public schools, announced in June that she would not be seeking re-election. Supervisor Don Horsley has filed for re-election for a third term on the board. Challenging him is Pacifica resident Bridget Duffy. Ms. Duffy lists her occupation as “homemaker” in smartvoter.org archives from the November 2016 election, when she ran for Pacifica City Council. Election Office records also list Ms. Duffy as running for governor and superintendent of public instruction, and challenging Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, and Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, who represents the 22nd Assembly District in San Mateo County. A

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Kids ages 12 to 15 who live in Menlo Park are invited to apply for one of 10 spots to participate in a cultural exchange trip to Bizen, Japan, a Friendship City of Menlo Park. The trip is scheduled for late July or early August of this year and would give students the opportunity to tour the city and experience its culture and heritage. In 2016, the trip offered students the chance to see thousand-year-old Bizen-yaki pottery; visit the country’s first public school, from the 17th century; participate in a Japanese tea ceremony; and attend classes in origami and cooking. Food and lodging is provided; airfare must be purchased by the participant. To apply, submit a one-page written essay (single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins) on the city website at is.gd/bizen493. The deadline to apply is March 15.

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Photo by Dawn Harmer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists scrutinize a camera sensor for a telescope designed to photograph repeatedly, over 10 years, the entire night sky of the Southern hemisphere.

AT 55 By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

t’s been five years since the 50th anniversary of Menlo Park’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Sand Hill Road — a straight, two-mile-long buried tube that’s been pumping out high-speed subatomic particles since 1962 for scientists and engineers trying to advance human understanding of the universe. So what’s new? Here’s a bit of news: SLAC’s 2017-18 budget, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is up 1 percent from the previous year. That’s remarkable in that the 2016-17 budget was up 22 percent from 2015-16, and the 2015-16 budget was higher than the previous year by 13.5 percent. The 2017-18 budget for the Office of Science, which supports operations at SLAC and nine other national research laboratories, is down 17 percent from two years ago. “The President’s FY 2018 budget request reflects the administration’s goal to reprioritize

federal discretionary spending while maintaining key investments in DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) core areas,” said Allison Eckhardt of the Office of Science in an email. When asked to comment on the proposed budget, SLAC spokesman Andrew Gordon referred The Almanac to the Department of Energy, which commented (above) through Ms. Eckhardt.

A STROBE LIGHT SLAC’s accelerator was first used to push electrons to near the speed of light to see what happened when they collided. The federal funding continued after that area of research tapped out and scientists found other uses for the high-velocity electrons. Since 2009, SLAC has used a third of its accelerator’s length for its X-ray laser, a kind of strobe light that generates 120 X-ray pulses per second. To create the X-rays, electrons speed through a pipe about a fifth of an inch in diameter, passing between 224 sets of magnets that excite the electrons and cause them to wiggle and give off X-rays.

Over the past five years, SLAC scientists, and the engineers who design their special-purpose tools, have used X-rays to watch a virus preparing to infect a healthy cell, to test a device that could reduce the environmental costs of producing hydrogen for vehicle fuel, to prepare a form of carbon that improves battery storage capacity, and to develop a protein that disrupts the process by which cancers spread. And more. In 2017 alone, they used the laser to sustainably produce ethanol from carbon dioxide, to decipher the atomic structure of an intact virus, to help uncover the blueprint of a vaccine for a hemorrhagic fever virus, and to create a stretchable plastic electrode from a substance used to thicken soup. And more. The laser operates five days a week and provides experimenters with several thousand hours of research time annually — and accepts just 20 percent of the proposals received. “It’s very tough to get time here,” said Michael Minitti, a staff scientist and group leader leader at the soft X-ray facility. “We expect our users to

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publish,” he added. “If they don’t, we banish them.” If all that sounds interesting, a guided tour of SLAC may be interesting, too. SLAC employees are busy, but usually not too busy to answer questions from guests. Given that they’re engaged in big science and draw on extraordinary abilities to form questions and analyze results — about half of the staff of 1,500 have advanced degrees in science and engineering — are they sober about the challenges they face? Are they solemn about the discoveries with which they’re credited? They are not. An atmosphere of cheerful brilliance seems to prevail. What else could those letters S, L, A and C mean? “Scientists Learning And Celebrating?” That would work. “So, Let’s Analyze the Cosmos!” would not be misplaced. “Sciences, Like, Are Cool,” could work, too, depending on your audience.

TARGETING TUMORS The routine for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy is arduous. A patient at a clinic spends 30 minutes getting

prepared and three to four minutes being irradiated, to be repeated every weekday for a month, according to Mike Fazio, head of the Klystron Department at SLAC. Treatment is complicated by interference from bodily motions, including breathing, heartbeats and the movement of organs, Dr. Fazio said. Treating children usually requires anesthesia, “a big negative,” he said. SLAC is in a partnership with the Stanford medical school to develop “new types of accelerating structures ... that are extremely efficient and extremely compact,” Dr. Fazio said. “If you can get the radiation in very quickly, in between heartbeats, basically, and image it in real time, you have improved that dramatically.” The plan is to encircle the patient with 16 compact accelerators and hit the tumor “where it needs to be hit,” Dr. Fazio said. The system is expected to be ultra fast — it would deliver a month’s worth of radiation treatment in less than a second — and See SLAC, page 18

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Photos by Aaron Roodman (left) and Dawn Harmer (right), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Above left: A flange fabricated from a single block of aluminum that will secure a 3.2 gigapixel camera to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Above right: SLAC scientists use a cryostat to create a low-temperature environment to evaluate sensors for the telescope’s camera. On the cover: This module for a new laser at SLAC will deliver X-rays that are 10,000 times brighter and 8,000 times faster than the current laser. Photo by Dawn Harmer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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highly accurate, with minimal side effects, high throughput and competitive on costs, he said. “If you can minimize the side effect of all that radiation treatment in terms of damage to healthy tissue, you’re way ahead,” Dr. Fazio said.

REALLY BIG SCIENCE Work continues at SLAC on parts for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. In three or four years, this collaboratively built device should be sitting in the Atacama Desert in Chile, a premium spot for viewing the night

sky of the Southern Hemisphere. When it’s up and running, it will photograph the entire southern sky every three or four nights for 10 years, SLAC experimental cosmologist Aaron Roodman said. The result should be 800 to 1,000 sets of nearly identical night sky images for scientists to analyze. Using a camera sensor built at SLAC, the telescope will collect 15 terabytes of data every night, adding up to a collection of images of some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, and between 5 million and 6 million solar system objects, Dr. Roodman said. The collected observations will be the basis for “a multicolored

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movie of the (southern) sky to unprecedented dimness,” everything from killer asteroids to the hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system to galaxies that are billions of light years away, he said. The telescope’s sensor will be about 250 times larger than that in a smart phone, Dr. Roodman said. Despite its size, it will be extraordinarily flat, varying from perfect flatness by no more than 11 microns, he said — a small fraction of the width of a human hair. SLAC scientists’ uses for the telescope data include looking for dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way, and studying dark energy, a mysterious phenomenon thought to be powering the accelerated expansion of the universe. SLAC is also searching for evidence of dark matter, of which there is likely to be more than the everyday matter we can touch and see, said Thomas Shutt, a professor of particle physics, astrophysics and physics at Stanford University. The target of the search is a particle about the size of a neutrino but with the mass of a heavy atom — a weakly interacting massive particle. If so-called WIMPs are out there, quantities of them pass through our bodies every second, Dr. Shutt said. To detect these particles, it’s necessary to shield the detector from background radiation, so a team from SLAC, the United FIRE CHIEF continued from page 5

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Kingdom, Portugal and South Korea will be using a former gold mine in South Dakota, the same mine used to detect neutrinos. Liquified xenon inside a large tank of water is the WIMP detector, Dr. Shutt said. SLAC scientists have assembled a detector prototype that should emit flashes of light if WIMPs bump into xenon atoms.

A SPEEDIER BULLET The U.S. Department of Energy has authorized a second X-ray laser for SLAC, this one using a superconductor that operates at -456 degrees Fahrenheit. The effect of such intense cold on electron behavior will produce X-rays that are 10,000 times brighter and 8,000 times faster than in the current laser, scientists said. This $1 billion project, scheduled to be completed in the 2020s, is funded through the Office of Science and is a collaboration with four other national labs and Cornell University, according to a SLAC statement. These lasers use X-rays to destroy — they annihilate molecules — but the scientists capture that action in the same manner that images by Massachusetts Institute of Technology photographer Harold E. Edgerton captured the action of a bullet passing through an apple. While the velocity of a

high-intensity X-ray is in a different class entirely than a bullet, the principle is the same, Dr. Minitti said. “You know the apple blows up, but you’re at least capturing (images of) the state that it’s in, a transient state,” he said. “We do the same thing. It’s just a billion times faster.” This reporter asked whether the high-energy bombardment of the molecule would bring on the observer effect — a phenomenon in physics in which actions taken to observe an object have the effect of changing the object before you can look at it, thereby compromising the observation. “These are chemical processes that do obey the laws of physics,” Dr. Minitti said. “When you dump all this X-ray energy into these molecules, they will be destroyed.” But the exposures to the pulses are so brief in time that they capture the images before the object disintegrates, he said. “We can take a picture of its state as the X-rays see it, and about six orders of magnitude later the thing will blow up,” Dr. Minitti said. “We basically pioneered a technique called ‘defract before destroy.’” A Tours of the SLAC laboratory on Sand Hill Road are available twice monthly, by registration only. To find out more or to register, go to tinyurl.com/SLACtour18.

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Theatre The Stanford Shakespeare Company 3UHVHQWV ¶5RPHR DQG -XOLHW· The Stanford Shakespeare Company, the university’s only repertory theater group, will present its contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. Feb. 21, 8-10 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. arts.stanford.edu

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'DZQ +DUPV $GYHQWXUHV LQ 0XVLF Dawn Harms and the Rhythm Sisters present a family music show to delight children who might find themselves playing a violin or composing for the first time. Feb. 27 ,9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. arts.stanford.edu )DPLO\ :HHNHQG &RQFHUW Attendees can view a free concert and experience the acoustics of Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall while learning about the hall and Stanford Live. Feb. 23, 11 a.m. Free. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. Search events.stanford. edu for more info. ,QJHQXH WK $QQLYHUVDU\ 7RXU K.d. lang will perform at Bing Concert Hall for one night only to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her

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A timeless ‘Fidelio’ Brent Turner is Florestan and Meredith Mecum is Leonora/ Fidelio in the West Bay Opera production of “Fidelio,” Beethoven’s only opera. WBO sets the piece in a modernday, for-profit U.S. prison. Remaining performances: Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 25, 2 p.m. Tickets: $35-$85; group discounts available. Tickets: 650-424.9999 or WBOpera.org. To read a review of the opera, which opened Feb. 16, go to the Arts & Entertainment page at AlmanacNews.com. composers like Canadian Colin McPhee and American composers Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, John Cage and Steve Reich. Experience the source of these composers in this performance by the musicians and dancers of Gamelan Cudamani. Feb. 28, 7:30-10 p.m. $15-$60. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. Search facebook.com/events for more info.

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Wildflower watercolors on display in Portola Valley until Feb. 27 By Kate Daly Special to the Almanac

ildflowers are blooming at Woodside Priory in Portola Valley right now, decorating the walls of the performing arts center’s entryway. Two dozen watercolors the late Herb Dengler painted in the 1980s and 1990s of specimens found at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve are on display in the Kriewall-Haehl Gallery at 302 Portola Road. Sponsored by the Portola Valley Cultural Arts Committee, the exhibit is open to the public on weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. until February 27. An artist, environmentalist, art framer and writer, Mr. Dengler lived in Portola Valley until he died in 2002 at the age of 90. Portola Valley Town Historian Nancy Lund says: “He was one of the founders of the town and helped establish the town’s core values. He was

also the founder of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve docent program. And, in the early days of The Almanac, he wrote a regular nature column.” Mr. Dengler also helped found the Portola Valley Conservation Committee, and built many hiking trails in the area. His son, Ronald Dengler of Toronto, donated the portfolio of wildflower watercolors to the town of Portola Valley, which maintains a historic archive in the heritage center next to the library. A limited edition of the paintings is available for purchase in slightly smaller-sized 17-by-8.5-inch prints. The pricing is $90 for one, $75 for four or more, and $1,500 for the complete set of 24. Proceeds go to the buyer’s choice: Portola Valley Open Space Acquisition Committee or Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, “two causes dear to Herb’s heart,” Ms. Lund says. For more information email her at thelunds@ ix.netcom.com. A

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play their music selection in front of the art and talk about the choices and meanings behind both the music and the art in the galleries. Bring your device to listen to this curated playlist while touring the collection, exploring all of the pairings for this experience of music, art and pop-up talks. Feb. 22, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. arts.stanford.edu $UW ([KLELW ¶$ERXW )DFH ,QWLPDF\ DQG $EVWUDFWLRQ LQ 3KRWRJUDSKLF 3RUWUDLWV· This exhibition considers the voyeuristic intimacy of the close-up portrait in 13 photographs by celebrated photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Barbara Morgan and Edward Weston. Each photograph captures a likeness and the mood set by the subject’s personality. Nov. 1-March 4, 2018, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Tuesdays; open Thursdays until 8 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/ $UW ([KLELW ¶,Q 'LDORJXH $IULFDQ $UWV· “In Dialogue” represents the vibrant and dynamic arts of the continent and its diasporas. Drawing primarily from the Cantor’s own collection, it considers the arts of Africa to be rooted in a deep and rich history that is locally, as much as globally, connected. Sept. 15-May 5, 2018, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays; open till 8 p.m. Thursdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu 0HHW WKH $UWLVW +RXU Filoli visitors will have the opportunity to talk with exhibiting artists, one-on-one, about their inspirations and techniques. Feb. 23, 4-5 p.m. Free with admission. filoli.org/event ([KLELW 1RDK·V $UN 6DQ 0DWHR·V +LVWRULF 5HVWDXUDQW The San Mateo County History Museum presents the exhibit “Noah’s Ark: San Mateo’s Historic Restaurant,” which features the art displayed by African American restaurateur Noah Williams in the 1920s. Feb. 1-28. Adults $6, students $4, children 5 and under Free. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. historysmc.org/changingexhibits

Health & Wellness 6DIH6SDFH 7HHQ 0LQGIXOQHVV :RUNVKRS 6HULHV SafeSpace is offering a series of free workshops introducing young people, ages 12-26, to the basic skills of a mindfulness practice. These introductory workshops will help teens deal with everyday stress and anxiety. March 1, 6 -7 p.m. Free. SafeSpace Community Engagement Center, 708 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Search eventbrite. com for more info.

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likely be used one to three nights per week, with a goal of having a maximum standing-room capacity of 500. Currently, the theater’s maximum capacity is 266. Because concerts would run in the evening hours when not much else is happening in town, he said, there should be abundant public parking available in city lots. Plus, people may visit restaurants or bars in town before going to the concert, so there would be some shared parking with other businesses. According to preliminary drawings by CAW Architects, the project could expand the square footage of the existing building to about 11,000 square feet, from 4,800 square feet. Much of that would be below ground level. Architect Chris Wasney explained that the venue would have a basement intended for use as a dressing room and gathering area; a main floor with a lobby, a stage, a main viewing area, seating and a bar; and a second floor with a smaller bar WEST MENLO continued from page 8

area of West Menlo Park. Roughly a decade ago, the county offered to improve Sharon Road, but residents rejected the offer, according to Joe LoCoco, the county’s deputy director of road services. Nine times out of 10, people accept an offer for road improvements, but when they don’t it’s usually because they are worried that nicer roads will attract cut-through traffic, he said. If Menlo Park were to annex

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formally submitted. The rush is because the applicant (Peninsula Arts Guild) is under a contract to buy the property from the current owner; the contract expires in July, according to a staff report. According to Mark Muenzer, assistant community development director, the applicant will pay for all staff and consultant costs related to the project. As of Feb. 15, he did not have an estimate on what staff costs would be, but said he had requested a report for the estimated consultant costs. A

and more viewing spots. As to the future of movies in the venue, Mr. Dunlevie said he wants the Guild to continue to show films. “We are going to bend over backwards to do well by the community,” he said. As to whether the visual look of the Guild would remain, the City Council expressed ambivalence. Mayor Peter Ohtaki indicated paying some homage to the art deco, movie house vibe of the facility could be a nice touch, but keeping the marquee or other specific elements of the

current theater is unnecessary. The project is expected to move quickly: Between now and May, the city will develop a work plan, budget and project timeline for the project and retain a consultant to help with the specific plan revisions needed for the project to work. The goal is to bring the project to the Planning Commission by June and by July, to the council for review. Tuesday’s discussion served to introduce the City Council to the specifics of the project and give early guidance on the project before plans are

the West Menlo Park triangle, Mr. LoCoco said, the county has offered to fund improvements on Sharon Road to meet county standards. That would cover the costs for the road and gutters, but no sidewalks or streetlights. For any other improvements to Sharon Road or other areas in the triangle, the city would have to take on the costs and construction projects. “Menlo Park needs to make some decisions as to whether it makes sense for them or not,” Mr. LoCoco said. A

County seeks Grand Jury applicants The application period is open between now and March 29 to apply to serve on the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury. The term runs from July 1 through June 30, 2019. To be eligible, candidates must be 18 or older and a resident of San Mateo County for more than one year, have sufficient English proficiency, and be “of ordinary intelligence, sound judgment and good character,” according to a press statement by the county

superior court. The goal is to get a cross-section of the county population. Candidates will be interviewed by Judge Donald J. Ayoob and then selected through a random draw. Go to is.gd/jury342 to access the online application. People may also request application forms by phone at 650-261-5066 or by mail at Grand Jury Clerk, Court Executive Office, 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063.

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997 All Other Legals AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 17-CIV-01638 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: GLENDA LEÃ&#x201C;N SAAD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: GLENDA LEÃ&#x201C;N SAAD to GLENDA E. LEÃ&#x201C;N. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: March 9, 2018, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: THE ALMANAC Date: January 26, 2018 /s/ John L. Grandsaert JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 18CIV00422 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: BRIAN RODERICK FOLEY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BRIAN RODERICK FOLEY to BRIAN RODERICK SWITZER FOLEY. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: March 16, 2018, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, located at 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: THE ALMANAC Date: January 31, 2018 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Feb. 14, 21, 28; Mar. 7, 2018)

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