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Facebook alarms blast neighborhood

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A tale of disaster, and of hope Almanac reporter Barbara Wood, a trained Red Cross volunteer, responded to a call for help as the ongoing lava flows on Kilauea, Hawaii, continue to keep hundreds of residents out of their homes and in shelters, vehicles and tents. Barbara writes of her Red Cross experiences over the last week, including a moment of relief she found as she cuddled kittens in a shelter staffed by Red Cross volunteers. The abandoned kitten in this photo was rescued from the evacuation area and bottle-fed by humane society volunteers. See Barbara’s story on Page 18.

t least three times in June, residents in eastern Menlo Park have been awakened in the middle of the night by alarms blasting from rooftop stadium speakers at Facebook’s new building under construction.

Residents have been roused by an amplified man’s voice issuing instructions, punctuated by a series of grating beeps: “Attention. Attention. An emergency has been reported in this building.

Please cease operations and leave the building, utilizing the nearest exit or fire exit. Do not use elevators. Repeat: do not use elevators.”

The first of the early-morning alarms, says Hamilton Avenue resident Susan Erhart, occurred at 2 a.m. on June 17 and lasted for about 20 minutes.

The alarm happened again at 5:45 a.m. on Monday, June 25, and lasted for roughly 15 minutes, she said.

And again, the alarm was

triggered Friday morning, June 29, around 3:40 a.m.

“Living with this chaotic disruption is awful,” she told The Almanac in an email. “We should be able to sleep peacefully and enjoy our homes without being bombarded with these alarms.”

Erhart and a flood of other locals have posted on The Almanac’s Town Square online forum expressing their frustration with the noise.

In addition, some have been taking their frustration to the City Council’s email inbox.

Belle Haven resident Sigurd Schelstraete asked in an email why the alarm keeps sounding and questioned if the sound level is appropriate for an area with residents nearby.

Neighborhood resident Elizabeth Newell wrote to the council: “The alarms are so loud they can be clearly heard indoors in the center of Belle Haven, many blocks away and are at hearingdamaging volume on campus and See ALARMS, page 8

City’s costs increase with new pool contract Private operator says running Menlo Park’s two pools a costly enterprise

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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ver wonder why there are so many activities and kids at the Burgess Park pool, especially in the summer?

Turns out that for many years, Menlo Park’s private pool operator, Team Sheeper Inc., has been fighting a battle to turn a profit in the notoriously non-lucrative business of aquatics.

A new contract signed in March between the city of Menlo Park and Team Sheeper, a private company headed by local aquatics coach and athlete Tim Sheeper that has operated Menlo Park’s pools since 2006, shifts responsibility for maintaining the pool to the city, while allowing Sheeper to continue to run programs out of the city’s two pools at Burgess Park and in Belle Haven.

Outsourcing public pool

operations to a private operator has in the past come with some controversy.

In 2006, Menlo Park signed a five-year lease with Team Sheeper, in which the business would operate and maintain the pool while running programs at the then brand-new aquatics center at Burgess Park. At the time, it was believed that no other Bay Area city had privatized its pools.

“From a business standpoint, it doesn’t make sense to keep (pools) open,” said Menlo Park Community Services Director Derek Schweigart. “It’s an expensive operation. This is why you don’t see private operations building pools.”

But from a community standpoint, he noted, pools do provide a valuable offering to the community.

In 2011, the city renewed its contract with Team Sheeper on a

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Burgess aquatics center pool users swim laps on a recent morning.

five-year extension. But then, as the contract was winding down, negotiations for a new contract hit a wall.

Negotiations

As early as May 2015, the city agreed to negotiate with Sheeper to extend the lease agreement.

But negotiations continued in a stalemate for much of the next two years.

The City Council approved extensions to the lease agreement a number of times between the five-year contract’s original expiration date of May 2016; the first extension was to December 2016, the second, to March 2017.

The agreement was repeatedly extended: to February 2017, April 2017, September 2017, and January 2018.

The city wanted Team Sheeper

to step up its contributions for pool operations and maintenance, including potentially covering some capital costs, according to Schweigart.

“It was the city’s intention to require more from the Sheeper operation,” he said. Team Sheeper, Schweigart said, did not agree.

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Community weighs in on Stanford’s housing options

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n an unusual second round of public scrutiny, Stanford’s expansion plans are getting another look.

The plans and the draft environmental review of two alternative housing options were discussed Wednesday night in the Menlo Park City Council Chambers The university’s plans are being evaluated for what the environmental impacts might be if it were to build all of the housing needed to accommodate the new workers, students and faculty its expansion would generate.

Santa Clara County recently released what’s called a “recirculated draft Environmental Impact Report,� which shows the potential environmental impacts of two alternatives to a big-picture development plan Stanford University is working to win approval for from Santa Clara County. That plan lays out how the university should grow between now and 2035.

This second round of environmental analysis evaluates, in theory, what would happen under two development scenarios. “Alternative A� lays out what would happen if the university were to build all the units needed to house the additional workforce created by its development, calculated to be 2,549 new units on top of the 3,150 units it already planned, for a total of 5,699 units. “Alternative B� halves those new additional units to 1,275 added to the 3,150 already planned, for a total of 4,425 units.

These would be in addition to the 2.275 million square feet of academic and academic support space the university has asked permission to build over the coming years, alongside parking and child care space.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian told attendees that the first round of environmental impact analysis made clear that the amount of housing Stanford initially proposed to build would be inadequate to meet the housing demand that its planned expansion would bring.

It indicated that the university’s proposal would draw in about 7,500 new students, postdoctoral students, faculty staff, and about 1,074 new temporary and contract workers — far more than could be housed in the 3,150 new residential units initially proposed.

David Rader, senior planner for Santa Clara County, said that it is unusual to demand that employers house all of the workers their businesses generate, but that with

the state of the regional shortage of housing that people can afford, people are asking new questions.

And some big companies, like Google and Facebook, are planning housing too, along with office space expansion. “The old way of doing things doesn’t seem to be working anymore,� he said.

While some attendees favored more housing, particularly affordable housing, to reduce the burden on, among other parties, the university’s lower-income “supercommuters� who travel from the Central Valley to get to work, others raised concerns about the study’s finding that traffic would worsen if even more people were housed on campus.

Menlo Park Housing Commissioner Karen Grove said she favored Alternative A. Stanford, she said, has played a role in the region’s skewed jobs-housing balance. Those impacts, she said, will go somewhere if they are not addressed on-campus.

Other commenters, one a graduate student and one an alumna of Stanford, said that if adding new residents to the university’s campus will create demand for outbound car trips, perhaps alternatives can be developed to give people improved public transit options, or resources such as schools in walking distance.

Another local resident said he believes the university is the best judge of what density should be permitted on its property, pointing to its history of land management.

A Los Altos Hills resident urged the county to take Stanford’s cumulative traffic impacts more fully into account, and weigh the impacts of the university’s hospital expansion on traffic. “We need more roads to deal with traffic,� he said, and requested that the roads go through Stanford land.

Jennifer Wolosin, founder of Parents for Safe Routes in Menlo Park, said: “I know Stanford would probably prefer to live in a bubble. I think it’s incumbent on Stanford to do their part to be responsible community members.�

There will be another public meeting held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, July 10, at the Palo Alto Arts Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto.

People can also submit written comments in writing to: David Rader, Santa Clara County Planning Office, County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding Street, 7th Floor, East Wing, San Jose, CA 95110, or by email to: david. rader@pln.sccgov.org.

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Support builds for new Willows stop signs

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n May 7, a young girl riding her bike was hit by a car in Menlo Park’s Willows neighborhood at the intersection of Central Avenue and Walnut Street. And only weeks later, on June 15, a woman riding her bike was hit by a car on the same street, just a block away, at Central Avenue and Elm Street.

In the aftermath of those two accidents, a small group of neighborhood residents has circulated a petition that as of June 29 had gathered 75 signatures; the petition requests that the city install stop signs on Central Avenue to make both of those intersections four-way stops.

“We urge the city to take action now and install stop signs along Central Ave. at one or both of these intersections, along

with potentially traffic calming measures immediately — before another accident results in tragedy,” the petition says.

The petition says that cars often speed along Central Avenue because there are no stop signs.

Former environmental quality commissioner Chris DeCardy said in an interview that those intersections have caused concern among neighbors for some time now. In his process of canvassing the neighborhood for signatures, he said, many residents shared anecdotes of near-misses they’d seen or experienced.

In an email to the City Council urging the installation of stop signs, Solomon Moshkevich, a new resident of Walnut Street, pointed out that many neighborhood children ride their bikes to get to nearby schools, while cars often speed down Central Avenue. “Our children would be

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Emergency responders deal with the aftermath of a bicycle and vehicle accident the night of June 15 at Central Avenue and Elm Street.

much safer with extra stop signs on Central,” he wrote.

In response to the rise in public concern about the safety at these intersections, Assistant Public Works Director Nikki Nagaya on June 27 told a group of residents via email that the city is already planning to install “cross traffic does not stop” signs at Elm and Walnut streets; to replace the stop sign on southbound Walnut

Street at Central Avenue; to paint four new crosswalks at each intersection; and to add two new “yield to pedestrians” warning signs.

Nagaya explained in the email that an intersection has to meet certain state and federal criteria before stop signs can be installed.

Those criteria are traffic volume, collision history, and other factors, such as how well people can see at the intersection.

‘No through traffic’ signs coming to Belle Haven

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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n response to resident complaints about vehicles cutting through the Belle Haven neighborhood, the Menlo Park City Council agreed on June 19 to install temporary “no through traffic” signs, with more potential changes in the works.

The neighborhood is dealing with multiple adjacent massive development projects, including the Menlo Gateway project on Independence and Constitution drives, the Facebook campus expansion on Constitution Drive, and the new TIDE Academy high school on Jefferson Drive, among

others, according to staff.

A study to look at bigger-picture steps to ease congestion and cutthrough traffic in the neighborhood is underway, but in previous public meetings, some residents said they were tired of waiting for more studies to be completed before changes were made.

“We’ve had enough of these meetings,” Belle Haven resident Rose Bickerstaff told the City Council on June 19. “We’ve been talking about it for a long time. ...

Nothing happens. You know, it’s getting to be very dangerous.”

The first step will be to install “no through traffic” signs on Independence Drive at Marsh Road, on Constitution Drive, at

Chrysler Drive and Chilco Street, on Chilco Street at Terminal Avenue, and at Bayfront Expressway at Chrysler Drive and Chilco Street. City staff expected to have the signs purchased and installed within about a month of the step being approved.

“No through traffic” signs are technically unenforceable, because public roads can’t be restricted for private use. Menlo Park’s new permanent police chief, Dave Bertini, previously told the council that, under state law, public roadways can’t be restricted to only a portion of drivers who happen to live or have business there.

The matter previously came up when the Willows neighborhood

Is sale of iconic Alpine Inn imminent?

Local group drops out of bidding contest, but leader hopeful for inn’s future

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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ne of three final bidders vying to buy the Alpine Inn burger joint and beer garden at 3915 Alpine Road in Portola Valley has been given the green light to begin a 30-day investigation of the property prior to sale, according to Lucy Neely, who represented one of the final three hopefuls.

The investigatory process, referred to as due diligence, is a key first step and will be followed by the closing if the buyer and seller are satisfied, Neely said.

Although a contract is involved,

either party can still walk away from the deal, she said.

Neely said she learned of the news that one bidder had begun due diligence in a voice mail left for her on June 27.

Neely’s group of town residents, formed in April to make a bid for the inn and known as Portola Valley Community Roadhouse, LLC, stepped aside from the bidding on June 26, Neely said. She did not have the figure for the winning bid, she said, but final offers had to be at least $3.8 million.

Neely would not identify the group that won the bid, but she noted that she met with those

involved during the bidding and that the group is headed by a couple who are local to Portola Valley.

“I know them and like them,” she said. “We (in the Roadhouse group) just all felt confident that they have a similar vision for the place and that they will do a good job stewarding its future.”

“We have a similar vision for the place in terms of preserving its character and making improvements in alignment with that character,” she said.

“Personally, I just feel really, really excited for these people and grateful to them,” she said.

The third bidder, also a group,

She said that the traffic volume at those two intersections does not meet the requirements, and that because of the collision history — the two bicyclists who were struck allegedly did not stop at the stop signs at Walnut and Elm streets — the stop signs are unlikely to “correct” the problem that led to the collision in the first place.

As for visibility, she added, staff plans to remove vegetation impeding people’s vision of the intersection at Elm Street and Central Avenue. In the next few weeks, she said, more follow-up work will be done to see if parking restrictions, or perhaps a stop sign, would be called for. Ultimately, the decision belongs to the City Council, she said.

City Council members Kirsten Keith and Ray Mueller told The Almanac they have requested that Mayor Peter Ohtaki add the matter to the agenda for the next City Council meeting in July. Mueller said he participated in canvassing the neighborhood with residents and Keith said she sent out an email to residents giving an update on the city’s plans. A

Recommendations from the more comprehensive study are expected to be presented to the city’s Complete Streets Commission in July, according to staff.

The study is funded by Facebook, a requirement the city imposed when it approved the company’s expansion project.

There are a number of weak

points in Belle Haven’s road layouts and infrastructure, said Cecilia Taylor, founder of neighborhood advocacy group Belle Haven Action, during a recent walk-through of the neighborhood. She pointed out the lack of crosswalks at most intersections, while the few that do exist are faded or poorly painted.

A newly installed bike “box” where cyclists should wait at Willow Road and Hamilton Avenue is dangerously close to a bus stop, and the placement of some traffic signs only feet away from each other makes it difficult to read them, she pointed out.

She’s hoping to focus the city’s attention particularly on helping children get to and from school and day care facilities in the neighborhood safely, she said. A

was made up of people also local to Portola Valley, she said. “It’s been a really fascinating story (as to) just how much the community cares about this place,” she said.

The Roadhouse group “decided to not make a bid in the final round because the money was feeling more and more stretched,” Neely said, “and because we were aware that this other party was one of the groups still in the game and we found them to be very agreeable.”

Asked about the high failure rate of restaurants, Neely acknowledged that the business is “very risky.” But, she added, “if any place has a good chance of being a success, it’s a restaurant that hasn’t closed in 165 years.”

The owners would probably

partner with an experienced restaurant operator, of whom there is no shortage, Neely said.

The Alpine Inn is registered as both a state and a federal landmark. In Portola Valley’s general plan, in the chapter on historic resources, the inn is labeled as a structure to be preserved.

A bronze tablet embedded in a boulder outside the inn notes that the building dates from the 1850s, that it was built by one Felix Buelna, and that it served “as a gambling retreat and meeting place for Mexican-Californios.”

Any proposals for altering or remodeling the building would have to take into consideration its history, and might involve the Town Council, Portola Valley Town Historian Nancy Lund told The Almanac. A

was seeking relief for major cutthrough traffic. The signs were installed last November, followed by turn restrictions onto Willow Road — which are legally enforceable. Some have told the City Council the steps reduced neighborhood congestion.

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“Because everything around the business has changed, and the environment has changed, that was not sustainable moving forward,” Sheeper said.

Around September of last year, Sheeper approached the city saying his business could no longer operate under its contract setup.

He gave several reasons for this: First, as the Burgess Park pool gets older, it degrades and needs more, costlier maintenance.

Second, staffing was becoming harder and costlier for the business. Sheeper said he’s had to put a lot more effort into recruiting staff. Very few, if any, year-round staff members can afford to live in Menlo Park, he said.

Schweigart said summer hires, like high school and college students who typically formed the backbone of the staff, are spending their summers doing other things and often have limited availability to work.

“I can’t say we’ve found the secret sauce,” Sheeper said, referring to his recruiting strategy.

Things took on a new urgency last summer, Schweigart said, when Team Sheeper saw a decline of 16 to 20 percent in swim school enrollment — a significant hit for a business

with already narrow margins.

Schweigart theorized that the enrollment could have shrunk because of fewer kids, because of lowered enrollment in local schools, and because increased traffic makes taking kids to activities more time-consuming.

Staff costs begin to add up too when one considers the hours at which the pools are open. Schweigart said it’s rare for a public pool to remain open for as many hours as Menlo Park’s pools are — typically 6 a.m. to 6:45 or 8 p.m. on weekdays, and 8 or 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends for the Burgess Park pool; and noon to 7 p.m. at the Belle Haven pool, on weekdays.

“That’s a model that does not exist anywhere,” Schweigart said.

Sheeper said he makes it work by offering a wide variety of programs at the pools and keeping a versatile staff.

“You have to have a lot of people who multitask, and keep the work force, especially at the management level, lean,” he said. Team Sheeper also runs a series of uncommon programs beyond most pool basics, like an adult triathlon team, an underwater hockey team, water safety classes, boot camps, a women’s water polo team, aqua fit programs, and a spectrum of kid-friendly summer camps.

Atherton PAL awards $20,000 in scholarships

By Barbara Wood Alamanac Staff Writer

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our high school seniors from Atherton schools have been awarded $5,000 scholarships by the Atherton Police Activities League: Clairesina Fifita and Mirian Melendez from Sacred Heart Preparatory, and Joseph Lohmann and Jenny Ruiz-Venegas from Menlo-Atherton High School.

Fifita threw the discus and shot put on Sacred Heart’s track team and played junior varsity soccer.

She also sings and plays the trumpet and ukulele, and is trilingual — speaking Tongan, Spanish and English. Fifita said she wants to go into the medical field, but hadn’t yet decided on her college.

Lohmann played lacrosse, ran cross country and played AYSO soccer while at Menlo-Atherton.

He was the founder and president of the Ronald McDonald House Club and won the Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Social Justice award for his strong grades, commitment to difficult social issues and leadership in community action.

Lohmann also received a National Merit Scholar

Commendation and a President’s Volunteer Service Award, was named an AP Scholar with Distinction, and was a member of the California Scholarship Federation and National Honor Society. He plans to study pre-med biological science and either international relations or anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ruiz-Venegas received awards for having a high GPA and tutoring third-graders. She also participates in her neighborhood’s annual canned food drive.

She will attend the University of California, Merced, with the goal of entering the medical field.

Melendez participated in soccer, drama, chorus and the girls a cappella group at Sacred Heart.

She will attend Loyola Marymount University to study sociology with a goal of going into law or public policy.

The PAL program started in 2004 and has awarded more than $170,000 in scholarships. All funding is donated by Atherton residents.

For more information about the program, contact Jennifer Frew at 650-752-0503 or jfrew@ ci.atherton.ca.us. A

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Tim Sheeper heads Team Sheeper, the private operator of the Burgess aquatics center and the Belle Haven community pool.

In the September 2017 extension of the contract, the City Council approved new lease terms that stipulated that Team Sheeper would no longer have to pay rent on the pools, though it would still have to pay pool maintenance costs; the city would pay for the pool chemicals.

“That’s because they were hemorrhaging,” Schweigart said.”Tim has had to be very creative in generating revenue in order to pay the bills.”

Part of that has involved expanding the variety of available pool services. Public pools, it turns out, are nearly always ALARMS continued from page 5

nearby. ... Please remind Facebook of their responsibility to be a considerate neighbor and to not deafen their own employees.”

Response

Initially, Erhart said, residents’ attempts to contact Facebook’s local team appeared to be ignored.

She said she tried to contact Facebook representatives using an email address, phone number and Facebook “community” page that the company had provided to the public during a series of public meetings in recent months held to collect feedback from locals about the company’s expansion plans at its proposed “Willow Village.”

She later took her concerns to Nextdoor and The Almanac’s Town Square forum.

She said she eventually was contacted by a representative from Facebook who explained that the company’s staff that works with the local community had not been receiving the residents’ complaints, and was working with IT staff to fix the problem.

John Tenanes, Facebook vice president of global facilities and real estate, apologized in a written statement for the alarm

money leeches, Schweigart said.

Utilities for the pools alone run about $13,900 a month, according to a staff report. Add on about $8,600 a month for chemicals and pool supplies, $5,000 a month for maintenance and repairs, and $400 a month for internet and telephone services, and the city now faces a monthly bill of $27,900 a month.

Belle Haven

Another challenge associated with the pool operations is that the city’s Belle Haven pool makes no money, Schweigart said.

Sheeper said he and the city being triggered.

“The fire suppression system in our building 21 detected a drop in water pressure, which triggered the alarm,” he wrote, adding that the company’s facilities team, general contractor and fire sprinkler installer are “working to fix this problem immediately.”

“We take responsibility for the disturbance and want to emphasize there was no immediate danger to the community,” he noted.

A safety problem?

According to Menlo Park Vice Mayor Ray Mueller, who said he has talked to City Manager Alex McIntyre about the problem, the alarm has reportedly been triggered by fluctuations in water pressure. Council members Kirsten Keith and Catherine Carlton have also requested that the city look into the matter. Keith told The Almanac she has asked for the matter to be added to the council’s agenda if needed.

Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman told The Almanac that the alarms may be triggered by water pressure fluctuations, but it hasn’t yet been confirmed as the cause. New alarm systems often trigger false alarms and require fine-tuning, he said.

Schapelhouman said he’s

rely on a range of funding sources to keep the pool open year-round. “Our business could not afford to do that,” he said, without extra funding.

Two sources that supplement city funding for the pool are Facebook, which pays about $5,000 a month to keep the pool open year-round, as part of the terms of a development agreement it made with the city, and the Beyond Barriers Athletic Foundation. The foundation helps provide swim lessons, education and activities to disadvantaged children and teens in Belle Haven, East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks, among other nearby parts of San Mateo County and Mountain View.

If the city were to reassume responsibility for pool programs, Schweigart said, “we couldn’t do the same level of programming. ... We could not do what [Sheeper] does.”

The new contract include revenue-sharing terms. The city will claim 30 percent of any revenue Team Sheeper brings in beyond $3.14 million in a calendar year — a step Schweigart hopes will help cover the added costs the city will incur with the new contract.

The new contract will run through Aug. 31, 2020, and will have the option for continuous annual renewals. A already proposed one solution to Facebook: offering to work out a written agreement in which the company would be permitted to turn off the alarm system at night, but only if protocols are established and followed to make sure nobody is there and a log is kept of when the system is turned back on during the day.

“The immediate problem I want to solve is disruption to the community,” he said. “It is a big deal, because I don’t like letting anybody disable a system.”

Part of the problem is that Facebook’s Building 21 is an unusual and large structure. It is one of the “largest open-air office structures in the world,” he said, with a giant garden on top, designed to hold thousands of people.

“Most buildings don’t have thousands of people on top of them,” he said.

Right now the problem appears to be that the alarms are coming through rooftop stadium speakers, and the sound of the alarm carries even farther for being elevated, he said.

For her part, Erhart said she hopes the city can help, and that the fire district can do something to turn the volume down and keep the alarm from waking the neighborhood up at night.

“I don’t know why (it has to be) so loud,” she said. A

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The Rev. Pius (Laszlo) Horvath, a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict, died June 22 in the Benedictine monastery at the Woodside Priory, a day after celebrating his 65 years in the priesthood.

Horvath taught the Latin and German languages at the Priory and was known for his wit and subtle humor, according to a Priory statement. He was 88.

Born in Hungary, Horvath lived through his native

Donald Emanuel Hietter April 10, 1921 – June 3, 2018 Donald (Don) Hietter was born in Bradford IL to John and Lillian Hickey Hietter. He grew up in nearby Peoria. Don is survived by his wife, Judith Hietter, daughter Marilyn Palm, son Randy Hietter (Laurie), daughter Christine Sullivan (Dave), grandson John Hietter, granddaughters Kelsey Bragg (Cameron), Caitlin Sullivan and Carolyn Hietter. He is also survived by his sister Marilyn Moehn, four step children Max Wiley (Ellen), Jean Miller (Howard), John Wiley, Anne Goode (Gordon) and six step grandchildren Samantha Miller, Wiley Miller, Jack Wiley, Sam Wiley, James Goode and Lucy Goode.

Don attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and majored in Accounting. He interrupted his education to enlist in the U.S. Army and served in the Philippines during WWII where he achieved the rank of First Lieutenant. After the war he moved to Los Angeles and met Helene Zilas. They married and eventually moved to Redwood City, CA. Don graduated with honors from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1948. Don became a CPA and joined Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1951 where he became a banking specialist. He became a partner in 1963 and served there until his retirement in 1976. In his retirement Don consulted with a variety of organizations. His civic and professional activities included serving on the board of the American Cancer Society, the Northern California Cancer Center, the San Mateo County Council of the Boy Scouts of America and as vice president of the California Society of the AICPA. During his time in Peoria, Don had happy memories of working at the soda fountain near his house where he developed a life-long love of ice cream. Don was involved in Saint Pius Catholic Church in Redwood City for nearly 60 years and was one of the original parishioners.

Don’s passions were gardening and landscaping, opera, art, architecture, numismatics and traveling. After moving to Atherton in 1958, he transformed his one acre property into a beautiful park-like setting with Japanese Maples, rock walls, flower beds, garden paths and a pool. Don did much of the work himself and continued to do so into his mid 70’s.

In 1987, Don married Judith Thomas Wiley. They enjoyed traveling, opera and their grandchildren.

One of Don’s greatest passions was his grandchildren. He frequently took them on excursions to parks and places around the Bay Area such as Golden Gate Park, Angel Island and Coyote Point. Often he would make his famous milk shakes for the kids. The whole family will treasure those memories.

Don’s life was rich and long. He had a bright mind, sharp wit and wry sense of humor. Even in his last months and days, his wit and humor was on display to his family and caregivers.

Don will be deeply missed by his loving family. For those wishing to remember Don Hietter, please consider a donation to an Alzheimers or US Veterans charity.

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country’s alliance with Nazi Germany, the deprivations before, during and after World War II, and the subsequent occupation by the Soviet Union.

He was ordained in 1953 despite the difficulties the Communist regime placed in his path to the seminary. It was in 1956 during the revolt against Communist rule that Horvath left the country “in a daring and dangerous journey by night� across the Austrian border, the statement said.

He became fluent in the French and German languages after moving to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he attended the local university.

Horvath immigrated to the United States and arrived at the Priory in 1960, joining fellow Hungarian clergy who had established the school and a

including conducting services at St. Denis Church in Menlo Park and Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Portola Valley.

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monastery in what would later be the town of Portola Valley.

He did graduate work at Stanford University and eventually led the language department at the Priory.

Horvath served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and provided assistance to many other parishes over the years,

Elizabeth Jessen September 10, 1920 – June 10, 2018 It is with great sadness that Elizabeth Jessen’s family announces her passing on June 10, 2018. She died peacefully at her home in San Rafael, where she lived for 68 years, with her family by her side. She was 97 years old.

Elizabeth Todd was born in Ukiah, CA and moved to San Francisco soon after her birth. She was the second of four children born to Anna Kristina Johannesson and Norman Graham Todd. She attended Polytechnic High School in San Francisco and later worked as a dental assistant in San Francisco before her marriage.

In 1950, she moved to San Rafael with her husband and raised their three children. Volunteering in her community was a big part of her legacy. She served on the PTA when her children were young and was a founder of Pixie Park in Ross, CA. She was also involved with the Sunny Hills Auxiliary and worked at the Bargain Box, a charity thrift store, in San Rafael.

She was known for her impeccable style and loved traveling, entertaining, decorating, fashion and flowers.

However, her greatest passion was her family. Her children and grandchildren were the center of her world. Family gatherings and celebrations, which she continued to host well into her 90s, were her most favorite pastime.

Liz will be greatly missed. She is survived by her children: Gary Jessen (Maria Collins) of San Rafael; Celeste McDonnell (Dennis) of Atherton; and Claudia Mostofizadeh (Hoshang) of Novato; as well as seven grandchildren, six great grandchildren; and her younger sister, Edith Baldwin, of Los Gatos.

A Celebration of Life Memorial will be held on Saturday, July 21, at 3pm at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club.

For more information, please visit HonoringLiz.org.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you donate in Liz’s honor to TESS Research Foundation, an organization that was close to her heart. To donate, go to tessresearch.org or mail to 655 Oak Grove #53, Menlo Park, CA 94026.

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Portola Valley resident and physician Dr. Philip Martin Eastman, a veteran of the Peace Corps and the U.S. Army, a teacher and a longtime practitioner at the county’s public hospital, died at home on June 19 after a long illness. He was 82.

Eastman’s family is planning a celebration of his life, but have not yet announced a date.

Eastman was a New Yorker, born in the Bronx in New York City and graduating from Union College in upstate New York and from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn.

He completed a fellowship in hematology from the school of medicine at Stanford University.

He joined the Peace Corps as a physician in 1963 and ran a hospital in Mekele, Ethiopia. In 1967, he joined the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam, where he received a Silver Star — a medal awarded for gallantry in action, according to the Department of Defense.

Eastman returned to Ethiopia with his family after his Army service and taught at the College of Public Health in Gondar, the former capital of Ethiopia.

Back in California, he joined the staff of the San Mateo County public hospital in San Mateo, where he stayed for 25 years, including three as chief of staff.

He liked to run, backpack, listen to live music, travel, build furniture and be with friends and family.

Eastman is survived by his wife Jean; sons David and Peter; and two grandchildren.

The family asks that donations in his memory be made to either Mission Hospice at 1670 South Amphlett Blvd., Suite 300, in San Mateo, 94402; or to Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco, 2150 Post St. in San Francisco, 94115.

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Donations of school supplies, clothing needed for local kids

By Lauren Kelmar Special to The Almanac

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ast Palo Alto nonprofit Ecumencial Hunger Program is seeking donations from the community for back-to-school items for local families in need.

The program provides students in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and the surrounding communities with shoes, clothing, backpacks, school supplies and hygiene items for the new school year.

This year, the EHP has

received a record number of requests from families in financial distress, the nonprofit has announced.

According to the organization’s website, its mission is to provide compassionate, dignified and practical assistance to families and individuals facing economic and personal hardship.

In addition to providing material support such as food and clothing, EHP offers support services and advocacy for its community members.

The nonprofit provides

Applications now open for county’s next poet laureate San Mateo County is seeking a new poet laureate for the 201920 term.

The poet laureate’s job is to elevate poetry and celebrate the literary arts within the county by making poetry more accessible to people, according to a press release.

The next poet laureate will be the county’s third. Lisa

Rosenberg currently holds the title, and will complete her term in December.

Her successor will step into the two-year position in January.

During her tenure, Rosenberg founded Spoken Art, a community-wide project designed to increase appreciation for the county’s poets and artists, according to the website.

families with gently used clothing, shoes, and backpacks, but its goal is to provide students with new outfits and items to start the school year.

Ecumencial Hunger Program is also accepting donations in the form of gift cards to stores like Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Costco so families can shop with their children.

For more information or questions concerning donations, call at 650-323-7781, email donations@ehpcares.org or visit the website at ehpcares. org. A The next poet laureate will be responsible for creating his or her own project. “The community project is a central part of the poet laureate’s charter,�

Roseberg said.

Applications for the 2019-20 term are being accepted now through Aug. 6, and the next poet laureate will be announced in October.

The position includes a $5,000 yearly stipend.

For more information, visit sanmateocountypoet.org. —By Lauren Kelmar

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Judge, attorney, WWII Navy veteran

J. Barton Phelps, a Menlo Park resident who had a notable career in the law, died June 15 at the age of 101.

A native of Topeka, Kansas, Phelps graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in political science and from Harvard University with a law degree.

In 1940, he joined a San Francisco law firm only to leave to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he was an officer in naval intelligence and in combat in the South Pacific.

Back in San Francisco after the war, Phelps resumed his law practice at the firm Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton, and Clark. He later left to serve as a prosecutor at the request of thengovernor Pat Brown. After two years, he joined Bledsoe, Cathcart, Johnson, and Rogers, where he stayed for a decade and specialized in medical-malpractice defense.

His next move, in the early 1960s, was to Redwood City, where he and two close friends established the firm Ropers, Majeski, and Phelps. “Bart was a top trial lawyer and specialized in complex litigation,� his

wife Jeanette said in a statement remembering her husband.

In 1970, then-governor Ronald Reagan appointed Phelps to the bench in Santa Clara County, first to municipal court and then to superior court. “Judge Phelps was highly respected for his courtroom demeanor, his intelligence, his productivity as a judge, and for his wisdom,� his wife said in the statement.

Phelps retired from public service after 16 years and spent the next 20 years as a private judge handling trials and cases in need of arbitration and mediation.

Phelps’ many club memberships included the Palo Alto Club, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the San Francisco Fly Casting Club, the Bohemian Club and the Olympic Club. He served on the boards of Castilleja School in Palo Alto and of Stanford University hospital.

Phelps is survived by his wife Jeanette; by sons Barton Phelps II and Patrick J. Boyd; and by an extended family that includes four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

The family asks that donations in his name be made to the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the Mid Peninsula at 4000 Middlefield Road, Suite G-8, Palo Alto, 94303; or Church of the Nativity at 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 94025.

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Duo see their enterprise as fundamental to community

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

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esidents of Portola Valley seeking a meaningful sense of accomplishment may find what they’re looking for with a visit to the local hardware store, or so the owners of Portola Valley Hardware say.

Under the ownership since September 2017 of hardwarestore newcomers Richard Crevelt and Stig Nybo, the store has the stuff needed to fix things at home, and the expertise to help customers unfamiliar with the ways of do-it-yourself projects, the two men say.

Crevelt, 58, lives in Portola Valley and came to retail hardware from a career in real estate development. Nybo, 55, is a resident of Los Trancos Woods and comes from a career of crafting retirement-plan strategies.

When something breaks at home — the drain pipe under the sink starts to leak or a light switch fails — you have a choice, Nybo says: “Call somebody or pick up a screwdriver.” Many people are at a loss because they’ve never been exposed to how things work and how to use tools to fix them, he says.

“Fixing something can be hugely satisfying,” he says. “You walk away (from the accomplishment) going, ‘You know what? I didn’t call somebody on that. I actually fixed my sink, my front door. I re-keyed my lock,’” — a repair many think improbable for a do-it-yourselfer, “but the reality is that it’s not that difficult,” he says.

And if you don’t know what you’re doing with tools and home fixtures, you probably should take steps to remedy that, Nybo says. “We should all have some fundamental understanding of all of (the trades) as they relate to our daily lives,” he says.

Nybo says he built significant parts of his house. Since buying the store — “What a cool

idea to actually own a hardware store,” he recalls thinking — he often encounters people who say, essentially, that they wished they’d thought of buying a hardware store.

Crevelt says he’s been interested in the trades since he was 16, and that at the hardware store, he’s been learning something every day, not unlike his experiences as a developer.

A hardware store is a community touchstone to Crevelt, a place that embodies “the roots of all of the things that we all need as a culture to get along.

We need all types of people. We need carpenters and we need electricians. We need plumbers.

We need garbage men. We need house cleaners. We need every type of trades-person that’s out there (in order) to survive as a community.”

Leadership ability is a common focus in local schools, but regarding its significance, Nybo says that knowing your way around hardware “is not leadership, and maybe it’s not valued at the same level, but it’s incredibly important to be self-sufficient and to be capable in some of these areas. ... Being a leader is great ...”

“But we also need everybody else,” Crevelt says, finishing his business partner’s sentence.

“Stig and I are both very creative, innovative, involved people,” he says. “We’ve got a lot of great ideas.” Among the possibilities: a monthly workshop addressing a particular trade and focusing on teaching children. A plumbing workshop would include a plumbing diagram and a presentation on the basics of plumbing, he says.

Likewise for electrical or automotive repair, gardening or arts and crafts.

“We’ll set up a tent (at adjacent Triangle Park) and we’ll have an arts and crafts fair. Bring your kid by,” Crevelt says. “We’ll paint birdhouses, we’ll build a wagon,

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Stig Nybo, left, and Richard Crevelt, the owners of Portola Valley Hardware, are ambassadors of an ethic of do-it-yourself as a way to create a significant sense of accomplishment in oneself.

we’ll build a go cart, we’ll build something. That’s one of the ideas that we have ... to engage the community and bring it together.”

Passing on to children an interest in fixing and building things is a puzzlement, Nybo says. “It’s very hard (from) generation to generation to impart that,” he says. While his children were already inclined that way, given their dad’s interests, their interest is at another level now after exposure to the store’s inventory, Nybo says. “(The store has) an incredible amount of stuff. You get exposed to a light switch, to a plumbing trap, to concrete, to paints. All of that is important for kids to know,” he says. “On its face, (the store) looks simple. You get inside ... and there are thousands of parts.”

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Both men include their cellphone numbers on their business cards.

“If people need something, call us,” Crevelt says. “We’ll come down. ... I really love the interaction with people. It’s fun. ... It’s not even like it’s work. It’s fun.”

“This (store) is a really, really important part of the community,” Nybo says. During a storm or a significant power outage, they’ll keep the store open in the spirit of, “If you need anything, come on down,” he says.

Recently, there’s been “huge interest” in asking for help with barbecues, Crevelt says, whether assembling them, making sure they’re working properly or ensuring that they have a supply of gas.

“I would consider us a very full-service store,” he says.

“We’ll take (the sale) all the way to whatever the customer needs or their requests are.”

An owner will likely be in the

store every day, and both are there on Wednesday mornings at 5 a.m. to prepare to unload the week’s incoming shipment from Ace Hardware. Portola Valley Hardware is an Ace-supplied store as opposed to an Acebranded store, where the brand is more prominent.

If he can’t answer a question about a part — a particular screw, for example — Crevelt says he’ll ask the customer what the goal is. If the store doesn’t stock the part, it’s likely that they have an acceptable substitute, he says.

The screw is just a part of the puzzle, Crevelt says. “If we can put the whole puzzle together and help them solve that puzzle, then they leave even more satisfied. I think we do that very successfully,” he says.

“That’s my crutch too, by the way,” Nybo says. “When I don’t know what the part is, if I can figure out what they’re trying to accomplish, then I can get a helluva lot closer.” A

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WIREd Menlo Park woman heads group committed to expanding women’s representation in government office

By Lauren Kelmar

| Special to The Almanac

Carol Mayer Marshall, above, speaks at a WIRE for Women meeting about special districts in San Mateo County. The photo was taken at the Community Center room of the Hillsdale Shopping Center. (Photo courtesy Carol Mayer Marshall.) At left, Marshall is the only woman at the table in this 1969 photo taken at a Camp David conference. At the time she was serving as director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations in the Nixon administration. Among the others at the meeting were Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. (Photo by Natalia Nazarova.)

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’m not qualified.” That’s the initial response of 99 percent of women when they are approached about the possibility of running for public office, according to Carol Mayer Marshall, a Menlo Park resident who knows that those words are often fiction, not fact.

Marshall, 83, is so convinced that many women are not only qualified to hold public office but are needed in positions of political power that in 2016, she founded an organization to help women get there.

Marshall founded WIRE — Women who Identify, Recruit, and Elect — the summer before the presidential election as a mechanism to help women get appointed or elected to public office in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

According to its website, WIRE for Women is a nonpartisan volunteer-based organization that identifies and recruits qualified female candidates.

Marshall was raised in a politically active family and took an interest in politics from a young age. She volunteered to stuff envelopes for Sen. Robert Taft’s 1947 presidential campaign at the age of 12, and hasn’t stopped being involved in

politics since.

Marshall attended Mount Holyoke College for two years as a political science major, and interned on Capitol Hill during her second summer of college. She completed her political science degree at George Washington University and immediately went to work for the Republican National Committee as a researcher during Nixon’s presidential campaign.

Mint, among others.

“Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975” — a 2006 book by Barbara J. Love that documents key feminists who ignited the “second wave” women’s movement — cited Marshall for being the first woman at numerous high-ranking government jobs.

During the Watergate era that shook the political world, Marshall decided to

‘The depth of experience in this group of women is incredible. It’s why the organization works.’

L AURA PARMER-LOHAN, CANDIDATE FOR SAN CARLOS CITY COUNCIL

She was the first woman to hold a number of key government agency positions: a stint as Congressional Relations director; an appointment by President Nixon, with Senate confirmation, as director of VISTA, considered the domestic Peace Corps; and an appointment by President G.H.W. Bush, with Senate confirmation, as superintendent of the San Francisco

leave Washington, D.C., and attend law school at the University of California, Berkeley. She has remained in the Bay Area since, and early on she practiced law for about a year at Washburn and Kemp.

After former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the White House in 2016, a number of political organizations that try to get more women in

government positions were abandoning their mission, and many people were sad and angry at the system, Marshall said.

“Everyone was protesting and resisting,” she said. “But I wanted to do something positive.”

According to the 2017 statistics from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, women hold 21 percent of governmental positions at the local, state and national levels while making up more than 50 percent of the population.

WIRE is unusual in the field of political organizations supporting women in that it does not have an issue-based litmus test, nor does it endorse candidates or provide funding, according to its website.

Rather, it mentors women in whatever area they need support in, whether it be fundraising or campaign strategy.

By not endorsing candidates and being a nonpartisan organization, WIRE can help women regardless of their political leanings.

WIRE has a board of directors whose members include Marshall; Wynee Segal Dubuvoy of Menlo Park, who serves See CAROL MAYER MARSHALL, page 16

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as treasurer; acting president Allene Zanger of Half Moon Bay; secretary IdaRose Sylvester of Mountain View; and Jessica Moore.

The organization, which has about 50 active volunteers, has so far succeeded in helping three local women get appointed to public office positions, according to Marshall. The election in November will reveal the results of WIRE’s work in its first election cycle, so the organization will have a chance to see how the women its volunteers have mentored do.

Taking the plunge One of the three women WIRE has supported is Lauren Segal, who was appointed to the Palo Alto Utilities Advisory Commission in May 2017. Segal was hesitant to apply for the position, but after attending a WIRE meeting, she took the plunge.

“I was unsure if I was going to run, but the WIRE meeting gave me the support and confidence I needed to take a step forward,” she said.

Segal noted that women need to be repeatedly encouraged to seek public office, and WIRE helps in this area as well.

According to Marshall, when a woman is recruited to seek a public office or position, “it takes her on average two to four years years to decide to run — while for a man, it takes him on average two weeks.”

From volunteer to council candidate When a prospective candidate comes to WIRE in search of mentoring, the organization connects her with a volunteer who has a background in the area she needs help in.

Alison Cormack, a founding member of WIRE and now a candidate for Palo Alto City Council, volunteers to help women seeking fundraising skills. “I usually ask her some questions, find out what her fundraising goal is, and then offer different solutions and strategies so that she can raise the amount of money she needs,” she said.

Cormack also serves as one of WIRE’s city captains for the Palo Alto section. WIRE’s vision is to have a captain or cocaptains for every city in the two counties it serves.

The role of a city captain is, among other things, to raise the awareness of her designated community of the reasons it’s important to have more women in local government. To accomplish this, city captains try to identify qualified women, and recruit them to run for office.

They also recruit volunteers.

“The job of a city captain is to be WIRE in their community,” Marshall said.

Marshall said she believes that women govern differently from men. For example, women are less partisan than men, which means that women work across the aisle more than their male counterparts, she said.

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Carol Mayer Marshall works with WIRE board member and acting president Allene Zanger on a WIRE project.

In addition to the personal mentorship the organization offers, women use WIRE for networking purposes. Laura Parmer-Lohan, a candidate for San Carlos City Council, saw WIRE as an opportunity to connect with women who have politically diverse backgrounds and experiences.

“The depth of experience in this group of women is

incredible,” she said. “It’s why the organization works.”

Instead of using WIRE for help in a specific area, Parmer-Lohan used the organization’s emphasis on person-to-person relationships to learn from women who have been involved in political campaigns or who ran for office themselves.

In an interview with The Almanac, Parmer-Lohan said

that the encouragement and support from the WIRE network is one of the reasons she decided to run.

WIRE will continue its work in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties because its leaders and supporters believe that women need to be more represented in public office, and that starts at the local level, according to Marshall.

“I think we are really onto something with WIRE,” Marshall said.

WIRE isn’t the only civic and community-oriented organization Marshall devotes her time and energy to. She has served on a number of local community and political boards. She founded a salon for women in the area who meet once a month to discuss national and international issues.

She also serves on the board of Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, is chair emeritus of the NARAL Leadership Council, was on the national NARAL board, and has served on the local and state boards of Planned Parenthood, according to WIRE’s website.

For more information, visit wireforwomen.com or email team@wireforwomen.com. A On the cover: Carol Mayer Marshall continues her efforts to help women attain government positions through WIRE. Photo by Natalia Nazarova.

Laurel families team up with police to bike to school

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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en Wolosin said she wanted to make sure her son had the chance to ride his bike to school at the Laurel School Lower Campus in Atherton at least once, so she asked other school parents if they’d join in on a ride on Friday, June 8.

It turned out, she said, to be a “huge success.”

Wolosin, the founder and chair of Menlo Park-based Parents for Safe Routes, said 16 families rode their bikes to school, accompanied by Menlo Park police officers.

Wolosin said her advocacy for making safer ways for children to get to and from school without using cars “all began with a desire to get my own kids from my home in Vintage Oaks to Lower Laurel.” She recently realized, she said, that her son was about to leave Laurel’s lower campus as he enters third grade without ever having had a chance to bike there “because I

‘I figured that if we got enough parents and kids out there, and got the support of the police, that we could make it “safe enough” for a day.’

JEN WOLOSIN , PARENT AND ORGANIZER

don’t think it’s safe enough.”

“I figured that if we got enough parents and kids out there, and got the support of the police, that we could make it ‘safe enough’ for a day,” she said.

She hoped her son and other kids, “could experience the joy of biking to school, something I believe that every child should get to do,” she said in an email.

Wolosin said one Menlo Park officer on a bike and another in a police car accompanied the group.

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Children and parents from 16 families rode their bikes to Laurel School Lower Campus on Friday, June 8, accompanied by Menlo Park Police Department escorts. Organizer Jen Wolosin said the event shows how many want safe routes to school.

“While it’s wonderful that the police (were) there to support us today, it’s our greatest hope that we can create true Safe Routes that enable families to get out

and bike daily without such fanfare,” she wrote.

“What today did was show that there definitely is a demand for Safe Routes. The most

common comment I heard this morning, from wistful kids and parents was, ‘I wish we could bike to school every day!’”

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In the shadow of a volcano Red Cross volunteers are helping those displaced by continued volcanic activity

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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ilauea has long been a tourist attraction on the “big island” of Hawaii, a volcano within a national park that has been erupting with generally benign regularity since 2008.

In Hawaiian mythology Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u crater is the home, and the embodiment, of Pele, the goddess of fire and volcanoes. As part of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, tourists regularly hike Pele’s flanks.

On May 3, however, everything changed. Soon after volcanic fissures began opening up under homes and farmland in the Leilani Estates neighborhood of the district of Puna, and earthquakes began coming almost too fast for the U.S. Geological Survey to register them, residents were evacuated, structures destroyed, roads closed and the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) — a geothermal energy plant that supplied a quarter of the island’s power — was shut down, perhaps forever.

Toxic sulfuric gases have been released, and local residents have learned to recognize “vog” (volcanic smog) and “laze” (lava haze, produced when lava hits ocean water and generates steam plumes and fine particles of glass) as well as “Pele’s hair” — fine strands of volcanic glass fiber that fall out of the sky and are abrasive enough to not only irritate the skin but scratch windshields.

Thousands of local residents were, and are, displaced from their homes. Many ended up in evacuation shelters opened by the county of Hawaii (which is the entire island of Hawaii) and staffed by the American Red Cross.

A call for help

And that’s where I came in.

Unlike many other types of disasters that may have a short duration but a long clean-up time, nearly two months after the lava began flowing from Kilauea the flow shows no signs of abating. On June 28, nearly 300 people were still staying in evacuation shelters, or in tents and vehicles outside the shelters on the county-owned sites where the three shelters are located.

The earth continues to quake, the lava to f low, threatening and destroying homes in different neighborhoods. The entire Kapoho Bay has been filled in with lava, and the air

is often unbreathable.

I’ve been a trained American Red Cross disaster responder since 2008, traveling to different parts of the country, or sometimes close to home, to lend a hand after floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes and mudslides devastated communities in states including North Dakota, Mississippi, Texas, Washington, New York and New Jersey.

For six years I combined freelance writing for The Almanac with Red Cross disaster assignments, but becoming a full-time reporter for The Almanac in July 2014 put an end to my

It’s sad, and frightening, to see how the power of nature can devastate a community. But it’s inspiring to see how so many people can come together to help a community get back on its feet and recover from that devastation. ability to take off for what was usually a minimum three-week Red Cross assignment. (Plus, my husband just wasn’t willing to have me spend my nonworking vacation time without him in exotic locations like Fargo, North Dakota, or Hattiesburg, Mississippi.)

So, for those four years, I’ve limited myself to a couple of three-day weekends of helping out — after the Napa earthquake in August 2015 and the North Bay fires last fall.

But in mid-June, six weeks after the lava flow began displacing the residents of the Puna district of Hawaii, I received an email asking for volunteers to fly to Hawaii to spend two weeks doing public affairs for the Red Cross.

The fact that I’d had two glasses of wine with dinner that night may have led me to decide that it would be quite possible for me to cover a Menlo Park fire board meeting on Tuesday night and an Atherton City Council meeting on Wednesday night before catching a 9 a.m. flight to Honolulu, then on to Hilo, on Thursday morning. I could write my stories on the plane.

So, after making sure no one else had offered to fill the request, I asked editor Renee Batti if The Almanac might be willing to spare me for two weeks.

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“Sounds pretty urgent so you probably should go,” she emailed me, almost immediately.

So I went — packing for the heat and humidity of Hawaii, the possibility of needing to appear live on television news, and also the prospect of spending two weeks in a dorm room on the University of Hawaii Hilo campus. I was warned to bring my own towel.

Since I’ve arrived, I’ve visited the shelters the Red Cross is staffing for the county of Hawaii with shelter, health services and mental health workers. I’ve shared in the meals provided to the shelter residents by the Salvation Army, talked with Red Cross volunteers from Alaska to San Diego who have come to help, and with scores of others from Hawaii who have become Red Cross volunteers so they can help take care of their friends and neighbors once the rest of us have to head back home.

Some of the Red Cross volunteers have lost their own homes to the lava flows, but haven’t been deterred from pitching in to help others.

I’ve been able to spend time with Hawaii Island Humane Society volunteers who come daily to one of the shelters, where many of the residents are staying with their pets, to provide food and supplies for pets as well as veterinary services. One volunteer brought the three kittens she’d been bottlefeeding since they were found in a neighborhood devastated by the volcano, abandoned by their mother, and I got to spend time cuddling them.

I watched magicians bring a smile to the faces of those who had been living in a shelter for more than 50 days. Those same shelter residents decorated a card to present to the military veteran, who is now a Red Cross volunteer and had been managing their shelter, as he headed home.

Here to help

I’ve shared meals in the dorm cafeteria with the National Guard and summer school students, attended community meetings with representatives of all the local churches and other meetings with an alphabet soup of federal agencies here to help — FEMA, USDA, USGS, SBA — as well as state and local agencies and businesses that are trying to keep the roads patched together, the power and phones working and everyone safe while they figure out how to help those who no

Photo by Karl Matzke American Red Cross volunteer

Red Cross volunteer Barbara Wood of Woodside works in Hilo, Hawaii, with Eric Mondero of San Diego in the Red Cross headquarters where the work of other volunteers helping the island respond to ongoing volcanic activity is coordinated.

Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey

The USGS is using drones to photograph the activity of Kilauea, such as this early morning June 28 photo showing lava roiling and pouring out of the spatter cone into the open channel.

longer have homes to go on with their lives.

This weekend, residents of 20 households are scheduled to move from shelters into 20 tiny homes built with contributions and labor from church members, local residents and businesses.

Local officials, and all of those supporting them, are working to figure out how to deal with the problems caused by a disaster with no predictable end point or extent.

It’s sad, and frightening, to see how the power of nature can devastate a community. But it’s inspiring to see how so many people can come together to help a community get back on its feet and recover from that devastation.

I’ll spend one more week here, and then I’ll go back to my comfortable home that’s nowhere near a volcano, but is quite near the San Andreas Fault and in an area that could easily host a wildfire. I’ll try, before I fall back into my regular routine

and get too busy to think about it, to keep that promise I always make to myself when I venture out on a Red Cross assignment — to do what I’ve taught the public in Red Cross preparedness classes: Get a kit, make a plan, be informed.

There are earthquake supplies to be replenished, and a wildfire suitcase to be placed by the door in case we ever need to make a quick escape, and an evacuation route to think about before it’s needed.

And here on Hawaii, as the residents at a community meeting were reminded, it’s now hurricane season. A Q TO H E L P

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Pear Theatre celebrates the genius of Noel Coward

By Karla Kane

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went to a marvellous party,â&#x20AC;? begins the Noel Coward spoken-word song of the same name. The same could be said by audience members after a performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Coward!â&#x20AC;?, the fizzy musical revue capping off the Pear Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current season.

The Pear doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often delve into musical territory, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rare treat to catch some singing and dancing there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Coward!â&#x20AC;? is not a full musical production (in the sense of having a script, plot, etc.) but rather a revue incorporating an array of Coward songs.

It also includes a few snippets of skits and quips (and, for some reason, a bit of Cole Porter). It was first staged in New York in 1972, a year before Cowardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, and is mostly made up of material written between 1925 and 1964.

Accompanied by Brad Arington on piano, the cast is made up of Pear artistic director Elizabeth Kruse Craig (who co-directed, along with Pear founder Diane Tasca), Kristin Brownstone, Dan Kapler and Michael Rhone. The foursome sing together and separately, working their way through Coward classics (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Stately Homes of England,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Room with a View,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad About the Boyâ&#x20AC;?) and lesser-known gems.

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Concerts Summer Concert Series: Vintage Jukebox (Jazz) The Summer Concert Series will feature a variety of musical styles from jazz to country to hits of today. Vintage Jukebox, a six-piece swing era big band of jazz musicians in the Bay Area, will perform an extensive catalog of the works of legendary songwriters like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. July 11, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Fremont Park, Corner of University and Santa Cruz, Menlo Park. menlopark.org Summer Jazz 32nd Anniversary Concert Series Stanford Shopping Center hosts weekly rhythm and blues concerts showcasing a variety of jazz musicians and local favorites in the courtyard between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel. Thursdays between June 21 and Aug. 23, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. simon.com/mall/ stanford-shopping-center Dick Hyman and Ken Peplowski Jazz piano virtuoso Dick Hyman and woodwind master Ken Peplowski will perform at the Campbell Recital Hall. July 6, 8-9:30 p.m. $15-$56. Campbell Recital Hall, 541 Lausen Mall, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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me if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m repeating myself, but I am definitely a fan. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not already familiar, Coward was a master of witty, often caustic wordplay, sparkling melodies and a very British sense of humor, frequently making fun of the English upper classes (as well as of boorish Americans and anything or anyone else that made a good target for his zingers). He has songs of moving beauty, too, such as the tearjerking â&#x20AC;&#x153;London Pride,â&#x20AC;? written to buck up Londoners battered by the Blitz (Brownstone does a sweet, understated, too-short excerpt from it in the Pear production).

The Pearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quartet of stars have an easy rapport with one another, giving the audience the sense that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re witnesses to longtime friends enjoying a cocktail party. All the cast members have worked together at the Pear before, so that may well be how they feel, too. If not, they certainly hide it well.

Their enthusiasm and chemistry is infectious, with Craig commanding the stage and seeming to make eye contact with each and every audience member. Kapler, always delightful, does the most believable British accent of the group (they all go in and out of accents, which could be distracting if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for the Early Bird Jazz for Kids: Jim Nadel and the Zookeepers Stanford Jazz Workshop founder Jim Nadel and some of the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jazz musicians will present an informative introduction to jazz in a kid-friendly environment. After the show, kids will be able to touch and play the instruments heard onstage. July 7, 10-11:30 a.m. Free-$24. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

Merola Opera Program Presents Schwabacher Summer Concert San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merola Opera Program will launch its 61st season. Merolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young artists will perform staged scenes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vanessa,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Il tabarro,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Don Giovanniâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les pecheurs de perlesâ&#x20AC;? in the Schwabacher Summer Concert at the Bing Concert Hall. July 7, 7:30 p.m. $30-$50.

Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. merola.org/publicperformances Wendy Waller House Concert Wendy Waller, longtime Bay Area vocalist, performer and instructor, will perform live at a onenight-only house concert in Menlo Park, singing blues and jazz with a roots vibe. The concert, which also features guitarist Scott Sorkin and bassist Richard Girard, will be hosted by Dalaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest House Concerts. July 7, 7-9 p.m. $20. Dalaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest House Concerts, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Street, Menlo Park. facebook.com/ DalasNestMenloParkCA

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Folk Singing with Adam Miller Folksinger, storyteller and auto harp virtuoso, Adam Miller, will perform at the Portola Valley

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Betsy Kruse Craig, Mike Rhone and Dan Kapler star in the Pear Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Coward!â&#x20AC;?

fact that, thanks to the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s format, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all tackling so many parts and songs anyhow).

Rhone offers smooth vocals worthy of a vintage crooner.

Though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great singer, his spoken performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Went to a Marvellous Partyâ&#x20AC;? is, for me, a highlight. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfect delivery of Cowardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catty rhymes, mocking and celebrating his high-society exploits: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to a marvellous party, with Nounou and Nada and Nell. It was in the fresh air and we went as we were and we stayed as we were, which was Hell.â&#x20AC;? Another sharp-tongued, humorous highlight is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mrs. Worthington,â&#x20AC;? in which the entire ensemble, with increasing vehemence, begs an overeager mother not to put her

unappealing daughter on the stage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Coward!â&#x20AC;? is dear to the hearts of both Craig and Tasca, as each performed in productions of it decades earlier, adding an additional poignancy to their bringing it â&#x20AC;&#x153;homeâ&#x20AC;? to the Pear together.

The stage looks great, with swanky, sparkly Art Deco-ish decor by Craig and gorgeous clothing by Tasca (the gentlemen in tuxedos and smoking jackets; ladies in cocktail frocks and evening gowns).

Arington, as sole accompanist, has a tough job to do. On opening night, he unfortunately seemed to have a bit of trouble getting into the swing of things. Choreography by Michael Saenz keeps the cast

on their toes, with a simple but enjoyable mix of ballroom dancing and music-hall moves.

I suppose there must be people out there who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy Noel Coward and if so, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Coward!â&#x20AC;? would definitely not be their cup of tea. To quote the master himself, though, despite a few quibbles, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have liked it more.â&#x20AC;? A

Library. Miller has performed, bringing history to life and explaining American folklore and traditions in sing-song form, in over 2000 American libraries since 1995. July 10, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

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First Baptist Church, 1100 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. sriorganon.com Author Event: Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson Teen survivor and advocate Chessy Prout will talk about her new memoir, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Have The Right To: A High School Survivorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope,â&#x20AC;? with co-author Jenn Abelson, an investigative reporter for the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. July 7, 4-6 p.m. Free. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. %RRN /DXQFK ZLWK (OOLVRQ &RRSHU DW 3DOR Alto Former murder investigator for the Washington, D.C., Public Defenders Service, Ellison Cooper will celebrate the book launch for her debut thriller, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Caged.â&#x20AC;? July 10, 7-9 p.m. Free.

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Film 657 )LOP )HVWLYDO &DFR\DQQLV¡ Âś(OHFWUD¡ Stanford Repertory Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th anniversary season, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nevertheless They Persisted,â&#x20AC;? will feature a six-week Monday night film festival. Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and Classics and SRT Artistic Director Rush Rehm will respond to the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first film, Michael Cacoyannisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1962 Greek film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Electra.â&#x20AC;? July 9, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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4th of July Celebration Menlo Park will kick off its annual Fourth of July parade at the Wells Fargo parking lot on Santa Cruz Avenue and Chestnut Street. This parade will be pedestrian-only and motor vehicles will not be permitted. The subsequent celebration at Burgess Park will feature a variety of food and family-friendly activities such as crafts, face painting, rock walls, giant slides, bounce houses and carnival games. Admission is free but a $8 wristband is required for some activities. July 4, 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free.

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A artist’s reception is set for Saturday, July 21, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Salter typically uses pastels for portraits and plein-air landscapes; however, in this exhibit, she uses pastels for still life and floral paintings.

“Using pastel for still life paintings demanded an approach very different from my previous work — a much looser, impressionistic style,” Salter said in a written announcement from the gallery. “These new pastels then inspired and influenced a new style in my oil painting.”

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An Old-Fashioned Fourth of July In conjunction with the popular Redwood City parade, the San Mateo County History Museum will present an Old-Fashioned Fourth of July. Children will be invited to hand-crank ice cream and make traditional Independence Day crafts to take home with them. July 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free-$3. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. historysmc.org/old-fashioned-fourth Beauty and the Beast Sing-A-Long at Movies on the Square 2018 A new sing-along version of “Beauty and the Beast” will be shown as part of Redwood City’s Movies on the Square series. July 12, 8:30 p.m. Free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. redwoodcity.org/ moviesonthesquare 6DQ 0DWHR &RXQW\ +LVWRU\ 0XVHXP·V ¶)UHH )LUVW )ULGD\· The San Mateo County History Museum will continue with its “Free First Fridays” in which admission is free for the entire day. Two free programs will also be offered, including a preschool craft program at 11 a.m. and an adult tour at

San Mateo, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and the Museum Studios Gallery in Burlingame.

She also has a background as an executive in higher education. Salter served as president of Skyline College in San Bruno and chancellor of West Valley-Mission Community College District in Santa Clara County.

More recently, Salter has studied with artists who teach at local colleges, as well as Gage Academy in Seattle, Scottsdale Artists’ School, and classical ateliers in the Bay Area.

Salter currently resides in San Mateo and has an art studio at Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica.

The Portola Art Gallery is located at the Allied Arts Guild at 75 Arbor Road inMenlo Park. The work will be on display every Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visit the gallery website at portolaartgallery.com. A 2 p.m. Every Friday starting July 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. historysmc.org/free-first-fridays Science Tellers The Menlo Park Belle Haven Library will host a presentation for grade school students by Science Tellers, who mix storytelling with science experiments. July 11, 4-4:50 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Belle Haven Library, 413 Ivy Drive, Menlo Park. menlopark.org

Museums & Exhibits The Dancing Sowei: Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone This exhibition focuses on one spectacular work in the Cantor’s collection — a sowei mask, used by the women-only Sande Society that is unique to Sierra Leone. Ongoing until December; Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays-Sundays 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thursdays 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between In this exhibition, artist Do Ho Suh uses a chandelier, wallpaper and a decorative screen to focus attention on issues of migration and transnational identity. Through Feb. 25, 2019, times vary. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement FIREKEEPER FORGE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277719 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Firekeeper Forge, located at 764 Live Oak Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): SAMUEL J FARNWORTH 764 Live Oak Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on May 15, 2018.

(ALM June 13, 20, 27; July 4,, 2018) SORIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AUTO MOBILE DETAIL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277981 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Soriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auto Mobile Detail, located at 1837 Clarke Ave., Apt. 21, E. Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 11, 2018.

(ALM June 20, 27; July 4,, 11, 2018) CRAFT AND OAK CRAFTOAK.COM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277862 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Craft and Oak, 2.) craftoak.com, located at 200 Todo El Mundo, Woodside, CA 94062, San Mateo County.

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/30/2018.

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(ALM June 27; July 4,, 11, 18, 2018) ISSIMI INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278047 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Issimi Inc., located at 1830 Industrial Way, Redwood City, CA 94063, San Mateo County.

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 15, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4,, 11, 18, 2018) RAVENSWOOD JUNIOR SOCCER CLUB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 277946 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ravenswood Junior Soccer Club, located at 1166 Saratoga Ave., East Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): RAVENSWOOD JUNIOR SOCCER CLUB 1166 Saratoga Ave. East Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07-20-2015.

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(ALM June 27, July 4,, 11, 18, 2018) PROPER CLEANING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278061 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Proper Cleaning Services, located at 1454 Regent St. #1, Redwood City, CA 94061, San Mateo County.

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 15, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4,, 11, 18, 2018) ZEN-SATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278101 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Zen-Sation, located at 86A 88th St., Daly City, CA 94015, San Mateo County.

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 20, 2018.

(ALM June 27; July 4,, 11, 18, 2018) MEADOW BELLES FARM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278157 The following person(s) is (are) doing

business as: Meadow Belles Farm, located at 175 Meadowood Dr., Portola Valley, CA 94028, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): NANCY KRUBERG 175 Meadowood Dr. Portola Valley, CA 94028 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 27, 2018.

(ALM July 4,, 11, 18, 25, 2018) ITSY BITSY SCHOLARS PRESCHOOL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 278151 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Itsy Bitsy Scholars Preschool, located at 506 Beresford Ave., Redwood City, CA 94061, San Mateo County.

Registered owner(s): STACEY MASETTI 3090 Sterling Wy Redwood City, CA 94061 STEPHANIE HERBST 506 Beresford Ave. Redwood City, CA 94061 This business is conducted by: Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/12/2005.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on June 26, 2018.

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997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Case No.: 18CIV02787 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: LOTTI MARIE LAWLIS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: LOTTI MARIE to LOTTI MARIE LAWLIS. 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: July 19, 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: June 06, 2018 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM June 20, 27; July 4,, 11, 2018)

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