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County tops state for lowest unemployment, highest home cost

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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Standing up for animals Two groups protested the Fourth of July rodeo this year: one specifically targeting the pig scramble, the other decrying the treatment of animals by rodeo participants in general. For photos of this year’s rodeo, held on the Mounted Patrol grounds in Woodside, and a story about the protests, see Page 11.

Surf Air flights down by 85 percent, but noisy legal fight continues

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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he skies over the Midpeninsula may have become quieter in the weeks since Surf Air, a commuter airline that uses the county-owned San Carlos Airport, announced it had changed the company operating its planes. But there’s a noisy fight going on behind the scenes.

County officials say the number of Surf Air flights going in or out of the San Carlos Airport fell by 85 percent after Surf Air replaced Encompass Aviation LLC with Advanced Aviation LLC as its flight operator in mid-June.

County spokeswoman Michelle Durand said that between June 17, when Advanced took over the flights, and July 5, Surf Air had only 51 arrivals or departures. In comparison, between May 17 and June 5, Surf Air had 338 arrivals and departures, Durand said.

An attorney representing the airline, Louis R. “Skip” Miller of the Los Angeles firm Miller Barondess LLP, said the airline

Surf Air filed a response to the Encompass lawsuit, claiming Encompass has not returned its planes and owes Surf Air over $10 million. will be back to its full schedule at San Carlos as soon as it gets its PC-12 turboprop planes back from Encompass, which has sued Surf Air claiming $3.1 million in unpaid bills. In the meantime, Miller said, Surf Air used the Moffett Federal Airfield for a short time but is now using the San Jose and Oakland airports for Bay Area flights that can’t land at San Carlos.

The San Carlos runway is too short for most of the planes Advanced uses.

On July 5, Surf Air filed a response to the Encompass lawsuit, claiming Encompass has not returned its planes and owes Surf Air over $10 million.

Encompass isn’t the only one dunning Surf Air over allegedly

unpaid bills. The federal government says Surf Air owes $2.33 million in taxes, and San Mateo County says Surf Air owes it $131,371 for 2017 taxes and may owe more for 2015 and 2016.

Miller said that “the taxes are being paid.”

The Encompass lawsuit, filed on June 19 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, says in the last six months of 2017 Surf “continued to demand full performance from Encompass in exchange for little to no payments.” The lawsuit says, “Surf made and broke promises over and over again, and imposed on Encompass to be patient and allow, among other things, Surf to grow its cash balances to make its business seem more profitable.”

The July 5 Surf Air response to the lawsuit states that Surf Air ended the agreement with Encompass because it “proved to be a subpar operator. Encompass demanded payments far in excess of the proposed contract rates, failed to provide full transparency for financial and See SURF AIR, page 19

an Mateo County earned two statewide superlatives: the lowest unemployment rate and the highest median cost for a home, according to statistics recently released by county assessor Mark Church.

The county had the lowest unemployment rate in the state for the fourth year running, at 1.9 percent, the California Employment Development Department reports.

Meanwhile, the median price of an existing single-family home in San Mateo County was the highest in the state for the second year in a row; as of April of this year, the median price was $1.77 million. That puts the county ahead of San Francisco County for the second year in a row and represents an increase of 18 percent over the previous year. The 18 percent increase ranks fourth among counties across the state, after Yolo County (up 28 percent), Mariposa County (up 26.3 percent) and Santa Clara County (up 22.8 percent).

Assessed value trends

Church told The Almanac that the two statistics are connected. The unemployment rate is so low, he said, partly because the county produces many tech-sector jobs that require a high level of education and pay well. Nearby higher education institutions, like Stanford, USF, Santa Clara University, UCSF, UC Berkeley, San Jose State, San Francisco State and Hayward State, help produce a highly educated labor market, all making this area a high-demand location to be.

Meanwhile, he said, geography and land use policy limit the places where housing can be built and increase commute times, since people have to live far from job centers.

“High demand from highincome wage earners, coupled with low housing supply, have resulted in the very high housing price levels,” he said.

Countywide, Church reported, the property assessment roll has increased by more than 8 percent, or $16.5 billion, over last year. Now, the county’s assessed value totals $222.5 billion — a new milestone.

The “property assessment roll” is essentially a directory of all the assessed property within the county. It is broken into a “secured” roll, which typically includes real estate values, and the “unsecured” roll, which includes personal property, and then a combined one. The combined roll, Church said in a statement, reflects “changes in ownership, new construction, value declines and value restorations from the previous January 1.”

In the last eight years, Church said, the county’s combined assessment roll has increased nearly 60 percent.

“As has been the case for several years now, the high demand and the inventory shortage in every sector of real estate are the driving forces behind escalating real estate values and rents throughout the county, resulting in another record-breaking assessment roll for the county,” he said.

He noted that about 45 percent of the growth came from property sales and ownership change reassessments, which typically happen on residential properties. But he noted that commercial development is also escalating, boosting commercial property values too.

While the assessed property roll has increased substantially, Church said, the increases have been proportionally far more stable than before the passage of Proposition 13 40 years ago this year. Still, the increase over the past year was greater than the county’s entire assessed property roll in 1978, which was $14.3 billion, he said.

Menlo Park

Menlo Park rose to the top tier of two lists ranking jurisdictions in the county: The city ranked second in commercial growth and fourth in the percent-increase in assessed property value.

Menlo Park currently has See COUNTY, page 19

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Candidate filing period opens Monday for fall elections The candidate filing period for the Nov. 6 general election in San Mateo County opens Monday, July 16, and closes at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10.

Local elective offices in the November races include seats on city and town councils and on governing boards of school districts and special districts.

The candidate filing period for a race is extended by five days — to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15 — if an incumbent does not file for re-election.

Candidates for school districts and special districts file at the Registration & Elections Division at 40 Tower Road in San Mateo; candidates for council elections file with the respective city or town.

City or town councils

Seats are open on the city or town councils of each of the following communities: Q Menlo Park: Three seats, currently occupied by Richard A. Cline, Kirsten Keith and

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Peter I. Ohtaki.

Q Atherton: Three seats, currently occupied by Rick DeGolia, Michael Lempres and Bill Widmer.

Q Portola Valley: Three seats, currently occupied by Maryann Derwin, Craig Hughes and John Richards.

Q Woodside: One vacant seat (District 7) and three seats currently occupied by Deborah C. Gordon (District 2), Anne Kasten (District 6) and David Tanner (District 4).

All council terms are for four years except for the vacant seat for District 7 on the Woodside council; that term expires in 2020.

School districts

Seats are open for four-year terms on the governing boards of each of the following local school districts: Q Menlo Park City School District: Three seats, currently occupied by Stacey Jones, Joan Lambert and Terry Thygesen.

Q Woodside School District:

Three seats, currently occupied by Claire Pollioni, Marc Tarpenning and Jennifer Zweig.

Q Las Lomitas Elementary School District: Three seats, currently occupied by John Earnhardt, Rich Ginn and Christy Heaton.

Q Sequoia Union High School District: Two seats, currently occupied by Alan Sarver and Chris Thomsen Q San Mateo County Community College District: Two seats, currently occupied by Richard Holober and Thomas Mohr.

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Menlo Park: Yang announces run for Belle Haven’s City Council seat

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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eorge Yang, 42, and a 10-year resident of Menlo Park, has announced his candidacy for Menlo Park’s City Council. He lives in the Belle Haven neighborhood and plans to run for the District 1 seat.

Yang works as a system architect at Garm8 Inc., a Santa Clara software company that works on garment George Yang manufacturing.

In 2012, Yang ran as a Republican for the state Assembly District 24 seat against incumbent Rich Gordon. He lost, earning 29.6 percent of the vote.

On an old Twitter account, which Yang said he no longer has access to, he identified as a Bay Area conservative, rifle owner and born-again Christian. Those labels are mostly still true, he said — minus the rifles part. He said he got rid of them after his

second child was born.

For his campaign, however, he said he “would like to focus (on) solutions that transcend party and ideology.�

He said that as an engineer, his mindset is to identify problems and solutions. “I think I want to advocate for those solutions,� he said. “Those are things I think I can bring to the table in terms of this election.�

Yang previously served as chair of the San Bruno bicycle and pedestrian committee, and is currently a member of the Menlo Park Sister City Committee.

Traffic

In an interview with The Almanac, Yang said that one of the biggest problems in the Belle Haven neighborhood, where he is a homeowner, is traffic. “At certain hours, it’s very difficult to get in and get out,â€? he said. “It’s very difficult to get groceries ‌ I can see other families suffering.â€?

Six years ago, he said, his state Assembly race platform included trying to alleviate the region’s

transportation woes. He said he supports better connections between regional transit agencies; specifically, he says, rail should be expanded northward along U.S. 101 past Moffett Field and across the Dumbarton corridor to create a “comprehensive South Bay loop.� He suggested the Valley Transportation Authority could be the transit agency to bridge the gap between other agencies’ stations, because it is not “reaching (its) full potential� and could benefit from increased ridership.

But he said he would want to convene other cities — Palo Alto, Mountain View and Fremont — to develop a clearer plan first.

He noted that in China, where he is originally from, one strategy to reduce costs is to permit private developers to build offices above the public transit right-of-way.

He emphasized the importance of getting rail service across the Bay that connects to other rail lines and expressed concern that early plans to revitalize the Dumbarton rail corridor could be

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Portola Valley school board OKs $49.5 million bond measure

By Barbara Wood Almanac Staff Writer

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$49.5 million bond to pay for repairs, renovations and new buildings on the Portola Valley School District’s two campuses will go before voters in November.

The district’s governing board unanimously approved putting the bond measure on the ballot at a June 27 meeting. It will require 55 percent of the vote for approval. An approved bond would add a maximum of $300 per $1 million of assessed valuation to property tax bills.

The money would go toward projects in a facilities master plan that was also approved by the school board. The plan prioritizes projects into three areas: immediate, to be built if funding is available, and long-term.

The facilities master plan shows immediate projects at Corte Madera School, including a new two-story classroom building, costing between $38.4 and $42.5 million. At Ormondale School, projects costing $10.9 to $12 million are included as immediate first-phase priorities.

Adding in the projects that will done if funding is available and long-term projects,

Corte Madera has a total of $56.8 million to $62.8 million in master plan projects, while Ormondale School has $21 million to $23.3 million in projects.

The phase-one total for both schools is $49.3 million to $54.5 million.

Planned phase-one projects at Corte Madera, which has grades four through eight, include: Q A new two-story classroom building at $32.3 million to $35.7 million.

Q Classroom modernization and repairs, including heating and air conditioning, lighting, flooring, windows, paint, door hardware, and ceilings at $919,000 to $1 million.

Q Campus repairs and renovations, including roofing, siding, paint, restrooms and storm drains at $2 million to $2.3 million.

Q Fields, courtyard and PE storage at $3.1 to $3.5 million (courtyard renovations are projected at $2.5 million to $2.7 million).

Planned phase-one projects at Ormondale School, which has transitional kindergarten through grade three, are: Q New innovation center at $6.6 million to $7.2 million.

Q Classroom modernization and repairs including heating and air conditioning, lighting, flooring, windows, paint, door hardware, and ceilings at $1.6 million to $1.8 million.

Q Campus repairs and renovations, including roofing, siding, paint and storm drains at $1.2 million to $1.4 million.

Q Repairing fields and renovating the grass courtyard at $1.5 to $1.6 million.

See the full facilities master plan online at is.gd/PVSD_Plan. A

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Special districts

Seats are open for four-year terms on the following special districts: Q Menlo Park Fire Protection District: Three seats, currently occupied by Chuck Bernstein, Peter Carpenter and Robert Jones.

Q West Bay Sanitary District: Three seats, currently occupied

by Edward P. Moritz, Roy ThieleSardina and George Otte.

Q Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: Four seats, currently occupied by Nonette Hanko, Larry Hassett, Yoriko Kishimoto and Pete Siemens. A July 11, 2018 Q AlmanacNews.com Q The Almanac Q 7

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City bans landlords from discriminating against prospective tenants

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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eople who favor tenant rights recently won a small victory in Menlo Park when the City Council on June 19 unanimously and without discussion approved a policy that prohibits landlords of properties with three or more housing units from discriminating against renters based on their source of income, including whether they receive rent subsidies.

According to Clay Curtin, interim housing and economic development manager, the matter was largely a housekeeping item intended to modernize the city’s housing laws YANG continued from page 7

part of a stand-alone project, separate from other transit agencies.

Just connecting the East Bay to Menlo Park won’t solve the traffic problem, he said. Plenty of people commute in from the East Bay and travel to other places on the Peninsula or in the South Bay, like Mountain View or Palo Alto.

He acknowledged, however, that such a proposal isn’t really in

to align with other cities. “It just clarifies things so that our ordinance is updated and aligned with what other cities have done,� Curtin said.

According to staff reports, people most likely to be affected by this policy are those who hold rental assistance vouchers and are looking for housing in Menlo Park.

The designated rental assistance program in San Mateo County is called “Moving to Work,� which operates as a fiveyear “self-sufficiency� program, said Inga Godin, housing program specialist with the county Housing Authority. Under the program, a tenant with a voucher pays 30 percent of his or her

income to the landlord, and the Housing Authority subsidizes the rest of the rent.

According to Menlo Park city staff, there are about 4,300 lowincome families in the county who have Section 8 vouchers, or federally funded subsidies to cover the cost of qualifying households’ rent beyond the first 30 percent.

The county’s waitlist is thousands deep, so the housing authority selects participants for the program by lottery, according to Godin.

People winning vouchers must then find a landlord willing to participate in the program, and have 180 days to do so. While that period sounds like a lot given the

conditions, Godin said, voucher holders are “quite often� unable to find willing landlords.

In a region teeming with sixfigure-earning prospective tenants champing at the bit for a place to live, it has been a major challenge to find landlords willing to house lower-income people, she said.

Even so, she said, “Roughly half (of the voucher holders) are not going to find anything. It is pretty sad.�

Landlords who participate in the voucher program retain their rights based on whatever city they’re in, she added. Which means, in most places in the county, they can evict a tenant at any time with 90 days’ notice and

increase rent as much or as often as they want, she said.

While Menlo Park’s ordinance will not expressly force qualifying landlords to participate in the voucher program, it could lay the groundwork for a voucher holder to bring a legal case forward if he or she feels discriminated against because he or she is a voucher holder.

In other words, the policy could enable legal services organizations to sue a landlord on behalf of a tenant, Housing Commissioner Karen Grove pointed out in May when the Housing Commission deliberated on the matter. The commission recommended the council approve it on a 6-0-1 vote on May 9. A

the bailiwick of the City Council.

One matter that is, though, is the city’s midday shuttle. He said he’s taken it and thinks it’s underutilized and takes too long.

He suggested that the city work with the private sector to set up a ride-sharing program through town for seniors to run needed errands at off-peak hours. If users schedule their rides in advance, it could also be possible to improve efficiency.

In District 1, Yang said, Facebook is “the elephant in the

room.� He said he doesn’t have any personal or business ties to the company and that he would be in an “open and neutral� position in negotiating with it.

One concern with Facebook, he said, is the company’s proposed “Willow Village.� The scale of the company’s growth across Willow Road from the Belle Haven neighborhood, he said, will make Willow Road a moat, protecting the new development with an impassable river of traffic. The village, he said, could become a

“shining castle on the other side of the river we can’t get to.�

He said Facebook should develop other mitigations, and suggested a landscaped pedestrian bridge over Willow Road for Belle Haven residents to bypass stoplights on the congested corridor.

Another problem across the city, he said, is a shortage of housing that teachers can afford. He’s the parent of two kids — ages 7 and 11 — and believes education is important, he said.

He wants to encourage the construction of teacher housing by rezoning parts of residential areas in Menlo Park to allow up to four units on residential properties — but only if they are used to provide teacher housing.

He envisions rezoning that would allow up to two two-bedroom apartments and two onebedroom apartments on properties that now permit only one home, on properties with lot sizes ranging from 6,000 to 7,200 square feet. A

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County approves legal aid fund for undocumented immigrants

By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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ith a unanimous vote just days before the beginning of a new fiscal year, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on June 26 approved revisions to the county’s two-year budget to solidify a spending plan of $2.749 billion and a staff of 5,528.

In response to vocal comments by members of the public expressing outrage in recent weeks over President Trump’s policy of separating undocumented immigrant families who cross the U.S. border, supervisors also voted unanimously to dedicate $764,000 to the creation of a deportation defense fund to help undocumented immigrants in the county get legal aid.

He said he supports providing legal representation to undocumented people who are applying for asylum and could qualify for residency in the country.

During the 2017-18 fiscal year there were 182 unaccompanied minors reported to have entered the county, he said.

All but two have been reunited with a guardian, custodian, or other family member. In the two cases in which the children have not been reunited, he said, it was because the county had questions about the guardians.

A county subcommittee is fleshing out the details of the fund; the working concept is that it would be mainly dedicated to legal aid, and relevant organizations would have to apply for the funds.

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Deportation defense fund

Supervisor Don Horsley said he plans to talk to the community to better grasp the extent that undocumented people are immigrating to the county and what those immigrants’ needs are.

“It could be that there’s some activity that is going undetected by at least me,” he added.

County Manager John Maltbie, who formally proposed the budget, wrote in the document that the county’s fiscal situation is generally rosy.

The county received $17.1 million in unspent ERAF money, or dollars from what’s called the “Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund” — a pool of tax revenue that’s

automatically deducted by the state from jurisdictions’ property tax revenues to help it pay for local schools, unless there’s enough property tax funding to cover a base amount. In such circumstances, the state gives the money back to the jurisdiction. And property tax revenues have continued to rise for an

Exorbitant housing costs continue to make it challenging for the county to hire and retain a quality workforce.

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“unprecedented” nearly nine years straight, Maltbie said.

However, he emphasized, it behooves the county to exercise prudence since it has a big five-year capital improvement plan and increasing labor costs.

And like all times of booming economic growth, there is the cautionary “looming specter of a future recession.”

Even a small reduction in the county’s property tax revenue growth rate could spell

fiscal trouble for the county, he said. For example, a 2 percent decrease would likely mean an annual revenue decline of $8 million, Maltbie said. By contrast, giving county workers a 2 percent increase in their salaries would cost the county an estimated $14 million a year, he noted.

Maltbie said he asked each county department to trim its budget by 2.5 percent, and expenditures that were deemed unnecessary were trimmed from the budget. That yielded a reduction in net costs of $13.4 million, he reported.

Another wild card: The county is, demographically speaking, one of the oldest if not the oldest county in the state, Maltbie said.

Horsley said that the county provides health care to the indigent — people who do not have or are not eligible for health insurance or other health coverage — and that changes to the federal Affordable Care Act could increase county costs.

Medicare coverage for people in skilled nursing facilities also can fall short of the full costs, he said.

“Those are costs we have to anticipate,” he said.

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Maltbie also questioned whether county residents will continue to stomach tax increases. One big unknown is what will happen if the state’s new gas tax, Senate Bill 1, gets repealed. A repeal would leave the county short on funds for fixing roads.

If the gas tax stays, it is expected to bring in about $9.6 million during the 2018-19 fiscal year. According to the budget document, the existing gas tax — not counting Senate Bill 1 — can keep overall pavement conditions at their current levels but won’t cover emergency repairs or discretionary improvement projects.

The regional housing crisis is another ongoing challenge, Maltbie said. Exorbitant housing costs continue to make it challenging for the county to hire and retain a quality workforce, he said.

Costs for retirement and “post-employment” benefits are also expected to continue to rise, he said.

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Fourth of July tradition lives on

Photos by Natalia Nazarova/The Almanac

The annual junior rodeo on July 4 put on in Woodside by the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County included some memorable moments.

Clockwise from the top, Rebekah Witter, a Woodside resident, equestrian and horse trainer, attended the rodeo fittingly dressed. Barrel racing is a high-energy test of a horse’s and rider’s skills in close quarters. The Edgewood Mountain Boys made music at the rodeo and appear to have had a good time doing it. Staying seated for a specific period of time is the test when riding a steer in a rodeo.

Annual rodeo draws two protest groups

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wo protest groups stood along Kings Mountain Road in Woodside at the entrance to the grounds of the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County on July 4. The occasion: the annual Fourth of July junior rodeo.

The events they were protesting — the pig scramble and the rodeo itself — went on without incident, according to one observer, but the presence of a second protest group was new.

For the past three years, a group local to Woodside has been on the scene to hold signs and banners to indicate their opposition to the pig scramble, in which children chase pigs around a dusty arena

in hopes of catching one and walking away with a ribbon.

The activity is harmful, protesters say, in that it terrifies the pigs and teaches the children that it’s OK to frighten animals.

The pigs tend to scream as they’re being chased.

In response, Mounted Patrol members have said that the chase is fun, that children see it as fun and that the pigs, thus far, have not been physically injured, nor have they shown signs of psychological damage.

Over time, the instructions to the participating children and to the pig handlers have evolved to include admonitions to be gentle with the animals, a rodeo official said in a 2016 interview.

In the past, some Mounted Patrol members have explained

Photo by Natalia Nazarova/The Almanac

Pigs ran from the children chasing them at the Fourth of July rodeo during the controversial pig scramble.

their reluctance to consider ending the pig scramble by saying that it would give a foot in the door to people who protest rodeos as a category.

Jennifer Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the pig-scramble protesters, said the second group of people joining the Woodside group was there to oppose

the rodeo itself. “They protest rodeos,” she said, adding that she didn’t know anything more.

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homelessness, improve reading proficiency and ensure that all foster children graduate from high school and complete the equivalent of two years of college or vocational training.

According to Maltbie, the county is seeing a decline in the number of unsheltered adults, but there has been a shift from people living on the street to people living out of vehicles.

On the children’s literacy front, he said, a countywide effort called the “Big Lift” — aimed at helping at-risk kids boost their reading skills — is narrowing the knowledge gap that can develop during the summer if some children don’t practice the skills they’ve learned during the school year while others get access to enriching activities.

The Big Lift started as a federally funded program in which the county was given five years to demonstrate “proof of concept,” but funding decreased under the Trump administration. Now, the county and its partner agencies have to make up for that funding gap to keep the program running, according to county Superintendent

of Schools Anne Campbell.

Maltbie also reported that fewer children are going into foster care, and of those who do, more are graduating from high school or receiving their GED certificates.

Spending priorities

Another key area of county spending is affordable housing. Maltbie reported that the county’s “Home for All” program has resulted in the investment of $103 million, and 1,715 units being built, preserved, under construction or “in the pipeline.”

On the infrastructure front, the county plans to spend its Senate Bill 1 funding on road maintenance and rehabilitation projects. It currently costs about $1 million to repair one mile of road based on current construction costs in the Bay Area, Maltbie reports.

Some of those projects are to reconstruct some streets in West Menlo Park on or near Croner Avenue, and to reconstruct parts of 7th Avenue in North Fair Oaks. According to Horsley, the county is also working on plans to improve safety near the Santa Cruz Avenue/Alpine Road/Alameda de las Pulgas intersection.

With the countywide halfcent sales tax, called Measure K, the county expects to spend a total of $143 million on a range of public safety, housing, and social services. About $49 million of that will go to the county’s new Regional Operations Center under construction in Redwood City, $16 million to specific affordable housing initiatives and $8.9 million toward projects laid out in the North Fair Oaks general plan.

The county also set aside $1.1 million for a restoration project at Tunitas Creek Beach on the Coastside. Funds will go toward the restoration and toward hiring two new park rangers and a capital project manager.

Maltbie, who plans to retire in November, included in his written and oral remarks on the budget a farewell of sorts to the Board of Supervisors. He wrote: “As I think about the future of this County I hope this Board maintains your sense of urgency. Resist the temptation to rest on your laurels.” He later said, “It’s great to shoot high, but the real test of those policies is where the rubber meets the road: Are people better off?” A

Woodside Priory students host free hackathon for cognitive disability aids

By Sarah Lehman Special to The Almanac

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group of high schoolers known as the Ramen Club, from Woodside Priory School, will host a free hackathon/makeathon at the Priory from Friday, July 13, through Sunday, July 15.

The event, called Code for Cognitive Aid, is designed to be a creative experience for participants of all levels to show off their coding skills directed at addressing cognitive disabilities, according to Viansa Schmulbach, the club’s founder and president.

Over a 26-hour period on Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday, participants will use code to create a program or a machine to increase quality of life, accessibility, and support for those living with various cognitive challenges.

Entry is free, and interested coders may register by visiting the Ramen Club website, ramenclub.org, or the event page at

codeforcognitiveaid.wordpress. com.

There will be food for purchase and a limited amount of materials available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own computers and any building materials they might have access to.

The Ramen Club members, who make up Woodside Priory Robotics Team 751, were inspired to host the event after their own interest in robotics led them to create a device to help the visually impaired, according to Viansa, a rising junior.

They visited the Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and designed a glove that functions as a remote, with buttons in the fingertips, in an effort to make the world more accessible for those who can’t see, she said, adding that they decided to host their first hackathon in July to extend their outreach.

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Peninsula Bridge student app showcase set for July 17 Peninsula Bridge, a nonprofit dedicated to helping local kids from disadvantaged families succeed in high school and college, invites the public to a student app showcase on Tuesday, July 17, at Amazon Web Services in East Palo Alto.

The event, from 6 to 8 p.m., is the culmination of a threeweek computer science boot camp for 30 Bridge high school students who learned how to program with MIT’s AppInventor and worked in teams to develop new business concepts and build original apps. Bridge student teaching assistants partnered with Amazon Web Services engineers to support the student teams, according to Maureen Garrett of Bridge At the July 17 event, the students will pitch their apps to a team of judges in a “shark tank-style� format. The winning team will be awarded college scholarships by Amazon.

The judges are leaders in venture capital, tech and community service, Garrett said.

They include: Hassan Sawaf, director of AI at Amazon Web Services; David Schmaier,

founder and CEO of Vlocity; Chris Tonas, vice president of development at Oracle; Mike Anderson, senior interaction designer at IDEO; Anjali Pichai; Aarti Chandna, impact investor and strategy consultant; Jeff Schmidt, director of integrated communications at Lockheed Martin; and Steve Herrod, managing director of General Catalyst Partners.

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The pig-scramble protesters went to Town Hall prior to the event to let town officials and the county Sheriff’s Office know of their plans. Planning Director Jackie Young, standing in for Town Manager Kevin Bryant, told The Almanac that she was unaware of any town contact with the second group.

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of whom exchanged words with children who supported the pig scramble, the 2018 protest included just one child, age 3 or 4, Gonzales said.

There were almost no verbal exchanges, she said, adding that only contact between the Mounted Patrol and the pig-scramble protesters came when they arrived around 9 a.m. A Patrol member courteously reminded the protesters where they were permitted to stand, she said.

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people to hold signs and wear message-bearing T-shirts. Their efforts drew plenty of thumbsup gestures and honked horns from passing motorists, Gonzales said.

As for comments from the other side, she recalled that one man said while passing, “Trump was elected,� a comment that drew no response from Gonzales or her fellow protesters.�We just carefully looked away,� she said. “Our goal was not to fight with people.�

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Woodside Bakery & Cafe to rekindle its restaurant in Menlo Park

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egular patrons of the old Woodside Bakery & Cafe — a popular Woodside community spot that was forced to closed its doors in March 2015 — may experience deja vu after scanning the menu of an enterprise of the same name set to open in November or December at the Sharon Heights Shopping Center in Menlo Park.

It will be the old menu, but in a new place, said owners and Woodside residents Mark and Jan Sweyer, who are siblings. “If we open with our original menu, wouldn’t that be wonderful? And everybody can just come back home,� Jan Sweyer said. “That feels good to say that,� she added.

They are about to convert the bakery they bought and renamed in September 2016 into a bakery and cafe that would include indoor restaurant seating for 70, seating outside for 30 and a full-service bar — not something the old place had. “It’s really important to have the bar here,� Jan Sweyer said. “Everyone wants one. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback.� A notable bartender has been lined up, she said, but she wouldn’t divulge his name. “He is a very well-known bartender in this area,� she said.

If things go as planned, they said, they expect to have building permits in hand in September. “I’d love to open in another month (but) it’s going to take SURF AIR continued from page 5

operating data, and demonstrated an inability to handle managerial aspects of the business.� “In June 2018, Surf Air discovered that Encompass had conjured a plan to oust management and take over Surf Air for itself,�

Surf Air’s legal filing says.

The document states that Encompass tried to get two of Surf Air’s partners, key financial backer Partners for Growth and Stonebriar Commercial Finance, which leases Surf Air its planes, to replace Surf Air’s management with Encompass. “Out of concern for the business, (Partners For Growth) reached out to Surf Air and told management what Encompass was scheming. In the process, PFG reiterated its commitment to Surf Air,� the legal filing says. “Given this treachery and intentional interference by

us another five or six months,�

Mark Sweyer said.

The focus on comfort food will continue, including fresh focaccia and pizza. While the focaccia won’t be coming to the table warm from a wood-fired oven as in the past, it will be warm from a pizza oven, Jan Sweyer said.

‘If we open with our original menu, wouldn’t that be wonderful? And everybody can just come back home.’ JAN SWEYER

The restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner on weekdays, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on weekends, she said.

The bakery will be open until 6 p.m. every day except Sundays, when it will close at 3 p.m.

Restaurant prices should be in the same ballpark as before, Mark Sweyer said, “between (the Woodside restaurants) The Village Pub and Buck’s.�

Familiar faces

More feelings of recognition could be in store for former patrons. Many employees from the old place — including the sous chef and the man who made the salads — told her they would come back to work, Jan Sweyer said. “Most of our crew has said, ‘Call me when you’re ready to open. We’re coming back,’� she said. But people always say Encompass with two of Surf Air’s key financial partners, and because of ongoing poor management of services and lack of financial transparency, Surf Air decided to, and did, terminate Encompass,� the filing says.

Soon after Surf Air began using San Carlos for scheduled flights in June 2013, complaints about the noise from its turboprop planes began to flood in.

The airline offers unlimited flights for a monthly fee and has had as many as 45 scheduled flights a day using the airport.

Because Surf Air’s planes carry fewer than nine passengers, under FAA regulations the company may operate out of the San Carlos Airport even though it is a general aviation — not a commercial — airport. The airport is considered a “reliever airport,� keeping small planes out of busy regional airports such as San Jose, San Francisco International and Oakland. A

that, she added. When the time comes for them show up, “then you see,� she said.

If the kitchen staff does come back, their presence may not be readily apparent. The cooking will be done behind closed doors rather than as it had been done: in an open kitchen in full view of anyone sitting at the counter. “Unfortunately, there isn’t any room here� for that kind of set up, Jan Sweyer said. “What are you going to do? You only can fit so much.�

Tablecloths were not a feature of the old place and won’t be in the new place, nor will surfaces have granite tops, Mark Sweyer said. “I’m going to keep it casual,� he said.

Woodside architect A. Stevan Patrick is designing the interior, he said, adding that he did his own drawings and asked his architect to “tweak� them.

Patrick is experienced, having designed the interiors of the restaurants Town in San Carlos, Milagros in Redwood City and Nola in Palo Alto, Mark Sweyer said, adding, “He’s very restaurant savvy.�

The Sweyer siblings had been talking about the cafe/bakery combination since the old place closed three years ago. What changed? Their spirits revived over the last six months, Mark Sweyer said. “It’s taken us a while to get out of the dumps,� Jan Sweyer said. “I’m actually kind of excited.�

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Woodside woman is on a cross-cultural quest to build pride through dance [\

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through a nonprofit she founded three years ago has secured additional funding to cover their transportation, passport, visa, food and lodging costs.

One week in on their fourweek stay and the South Africans say they already know they want to return to the United States to continue their education in the future. Coming from crime-ridden townships near Cape Town, they sound exhilarated to be able to walk around and shop without feeling the constant fear of gang violence, kidnappers, rapists and corrupt police. And after worrying about the so-called Day Zero water crisis at home, they are relishing the comparative abundance of water here.

Since 2004, Elliott has worked to promote cultural exchanges with South African dancers. “I was at a point in my life to give back,” she said.

The San Mateo native, who also goes by her married name, Schwabacher, started dancing at age 10. At 18 she became a member of the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany, and then went on

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to become a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre in New York under the direction of a Mikhail Baryshnikov.

The Schwabacher family moved to Woodside in 1992, and when Elliott’s twin sons attended Woodside School, she too was in the classroom, attending night school in San Francisco to obtain a bachelor’s degree through St. Mary’s College Liberal Education for Arts Professionals program.

After that, Elliott helped build up the ballet program at Stan-

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hanks to one local woman’s passion, perseverance, and many professional connections, a “ballerina girl,” a “dancer,” and an “artiste” — as the three South African visitors call themselves — are having the experience of a lifetime shuttling between Woodside and San Francisco this summer.

During a recent interview at Kristine Elliott’s Woodside home, they are sprawled on outdoor furniture, relaxing after spending the day at San Francisco Ballet School and Oberlin Dance Collective.

Linathi Louw, 13, Thimna Ndwa, 15, and Olwethu Katase, 26, wear bright smiles when they talk about their dance classes, and their good fortune in meeting Elliott, a former professional ballerina and current dance teacher and coach who handpicked them to come here to expand their horizons.

This is their first trip outside of their own country, and it’s all paid for. Elliott helped the dancers find scholarships, and

Olwethu Katase led dancers in a San Francisco Ballet School session in an African dance lesson.

Kristine Elliott

Since that visit, she has taught and/or organized cross-training opportunities for professional dancers, choreographers and students in partnership with Stanford, St. Mary’s College, foundations, and various dance companies and schools.

The list of partners changes, and now includes support from private donors since she founded the nonprofit Gugulethu Ballet Project three years ago.

Elliott also teaches at Zohar School of Dance in Palo Alto and does project-based work

“Building pride through dance” is her organization’s slogan, and its stated goal is to teach personal discipline, mutual respect, artistic expression, resilience and focus to youth.

ford, where she saw a documentary called “Gugulethu Ballet.”

The film inspired her to travel with Dance For All to teach ballet to underprivileged children in South African townships.

Her first visit to the township of Gugulethu, outside of Cape Town, took place 14 years ago.

with Menlowe Ballet in Menlo Park, and American Ballet Theatre in Irvine and New York.

In the Xhosa language spoken in South Africa, Gugulethu means “my pride,” she explained.

“Ballet is our universal language,” Elliott said. “Building pride through dance” is her

organization’s slogan, and its stated goal is to teach personal discipline, mutual respect, artistic expression, resilience and focus to youth.

Elliott spent the month of March teaching in four different townships, and during that time she chose the dancers for this summer’s immersive experience.

This is Elliott’s first all-female group. She said that in the past she chose male dancers for diversity reasons, because “we don’t have many boys in ballet in America, and black boys are exotic.”

So far she has helped bring to this country some 15 male dancers, who have gone on to work in London and Hamburg, or have returned to their homeland to perform, teach and serve as inspirational role models, just as she hoped.

At times Elliott has brought American choreographers and dancers with her to teach in South Africa.

Her organization also offers financial support to some dance programs in South Africa. One example is the community center where Katase volunteers to teach “any kid who wants to become a dancer.”

Katase is staying at Elliott’s home. Their friendship goes

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Olwethu Katase, Thimna Ndwa and Linathi Louw of South Africa are living in Woodside this summer as they study dance through a program founded by Woodside resident Kristin Elliot.

The African dance session at the San Francisco Ballet School, above and left, featured drummers and quick-moving limbs.

back five years to when they met through Dance For All. Katase is one of the first recipients of the Thea Anderson Scholarship at Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC), where she is happily bouncing between 20 classes to further her professional development. In one class she explored movement using the Gyrotonic method; on other days she is scheduled to teach at ODC and LINES Dance School.

A graduate of the University of Cape Town, she is currently studying post-grad education, and expressed interest in going to an American university and doing research in South Africa to find out how the arts influence children’s academic performances.

Louw is one of Katase’s students and the youngest dancer Elliott has brought to the U.S. This is her winter break and she and Ndwa are enjoying the swimming pool

safe at her school. “A kid wanted to stab a teacher ... and the education is poor.”

As part of the cultural exchange, Elliott arranged for all three dancers to participate in an educational session at San Francisco Ballet School at the end of June.

The two younger girls talked to students about the Gugulethu Ballet Project, and then joined in Katase’s lesson on authentic African dancing, with one in the class and the other on drums.

Go to Gugulethuballetproject. org for more information about the organization. A

and getting to know the kids where they are staying.

Elliott’s neighbor, former ballerina Carrie Gaiser Casey, serves on the board of Gugulethu Ballet Project, and opened up her house to the girls.

At San Francisco Ballet School, Louw takes ballet, pointe, character, contemporary, and conditioning classes. “I know almost everything they’re teaching, but

when they put it together in the center, it’s kind of different from what (I) and my dance crew have been doing.”

She intends to go back to the center and share the new versions with her fellow students. For her, the center is a haven where she can go several times a week and avoid the dangers of the outside world. She said she would eventually like to go to school in the

states, in part to get away from the drug dealers at her present school.

Ndwa said what she’s learning at San Francisco Ballet School is the similar to what she learns back home; however, “there are some kinds of styles that are different.”

She estimated that she dances about 20 hours a week, and said she would welcome the opportunity to attend a dance academy in the U.S. because she doesn’t feel

On the cover: Linathi Louw, from left, Kristine Elliot, Thimna Ndwa and Olwethu Katase pose on the lawn at Elliot’s Woodside home.

Photo by Natalia Nazarova

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Music@Menlo offers ‘Creative Capitals’ tour

By Janet Silver Ghent

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he annual Music@ Menlo summer festivals often shine a light on one well-known composer, perhaps Schubert, Mendelssohn or Mozart. In contrast, this year’s 16th season takes audiences on a musical voyage to seven European cultural hubs, featuring chamber music and song cycles spanning the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Titled “Creative Capitals,” the festival runs July 13 to Aug. 4 at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School and at Menlo School, both in Atherton. Audiences will take armchair trips to London, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, St. Petersburg and Leipzig, the German city where J.S. Bach composed some of his finest works, including the St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor and “The Art of the Fugue.”

As expected, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mendelssohn and Mozart play prominent roles in this chamber festival, particularly in the Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna programs. But the

festival’s co-artistic directors, cellist David Finckel and his wife, partner and pianist Wu Han, introduce works by less-familiar composers as well, including a song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the London concert, and Arnold Schoenberg’s pre-12-tone string sextet, which culminates the Vienna program.

“Aaron Copland famously lamented that educated audiences only know the 10 most famous works,” Finckel said during a phone interview from his home in the New York area. “I only discovered Vaughan Williams about eight years ago,” he said.

In organizing a concert series, “Wu Han and I never believe in programming music for an audience to listen to because we think it’s like medicine they should take,” Finckel said. “We don’t believe in provoking an audience or making them feel as if they don’t understand the music.

We don’t expect everybody to like everything on the program.

What I do promise listeners is that every piece we program is worth taking time to listen to, and they can find something in them to enjoy. ... After awhile,

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audiences have come to trust us.”

In fact, as of press time many of the events are already sold out or offer only limited seating.

Finckel, who has performed in all seven of the festival cities, said this year’s theme was inspired by “personal feelings and connections to the music” as well as the cities themselves. “We thought it would be cool to paint pictures of these cities, not necessarily in the time of any one composer, but to give a sense of the vibrancy of a particular city. Every city has such great flavors all its own.”

While many of the composers have well-known associations with a particular musical mecca — Mozart with Vienna, Bach with Leipzig, Shostakovich with St. Petersburg — all brought their works to myriad cities. The Norwegian Edvard Grieg studied in Leipzig and conducted in

London, so it wasn’t a leap for Music@Menlo to include his Holberg Suite for Strings in the festival’s London program. Felix Mendelssohn, who was raised in Berlin and died in Leipzig, was also a frequent visitor to London, where he enjoyed Buckingham Palace sing-alongs with Victoria and Albert. His pieces are included in all three of the festival’s city programs.

The London program, which opens the seven-city musical tour on July 14, features Vaughan Williams’ “Songs of Travel,” a wistful song cycle inspired by the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, “an inveterate traveler himself,” Finckel said. Vaughan Williams draws on lusty folk motifs, a departure from the more classical traditions, as did Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, featured in the Budapest

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program, and St. Petersburg’s Dmitry Shostakovich.

“Bartok got peasants to sing and recorded the music ... and totally assimilated the folk culture,” he said. “You can feel the spirit of where Bartok got his music.” Kodaly, he added, also incorporated Roma or Gypsy themes in his string quartets.

“They embraced the country’s folk music, and it became their music.”

Meanwhile, Shostakovich, who was not Jewish, created a song cycle, “From Jewish Folk Poetry,” featured in the St. Petersburg concert, with music revealing klezmer influences. Like some of his other work, it was kept under wraps until after Stalin’s death in 1953.

“Shostakovich had big, big problems with Joseph Stalin,” Finckel said. “Stalin was totally unpredictable. You never knew what he was going to do, very much like some other world leaders that we’ve all come across.

You had to be afraid of him.”

In 1948, the year the song cycle was completed, Shostakovich and Prokofiev were hauled before the Communist Party’s Central Committee and charged with writing music that was bourgeois and not praiseworthy of the Soviet regime. Shostakovich had to publicly apologize and change his tunes, so to speak, creating more patriotic pieces. Finckel said the music of Shostakovich and some other Russian composers “is so much about the effects of that country — its climate, oppression, the vastness. It gives you a sense of what life must have been like.”

Journeying to the City of Light, the concert program takes on a brighter tone with witty 20th century pieces by Francis Poulenc and Jean Francaix. “Their whole mission in life was to be as French as they could,” he said. Meanwhile, Continued on next page

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Saint-Saens, better known for “The Carnival of the Animals,” “Danse Macabre” and the opera “Samson and Delilah,” was “one of first French composers to embrace chamber music,” Finckel added, noting that the Paris program will open with Saint-Saens’ Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major and end with Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor. Franck, “the greatest organist of his time ... was the consummate improviser and a master harmonist, moving between key centers in an absolutely magical way, in a way that Saint-Saens did not,” moving toward a more impressionistic style.”

Rest assured, Music@Menlo’s pianists will do no such thing.

But if festival-goers seek a second serving of Saint-Saens, the first of the four Carte Blanche concerts features his Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, played by Paul Huang, which Finckel calls “one of the most stunning performances I’ve ever heard.”

Finally, the seven-city musical tour wraps up in Vienna, opening with Mozart, moving to Brahms and Schubert, and ending with Arnold Schoenberg’s “Verklarte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), based on a poem by Richard

Dehmel. The string sextet, which reflects on the themes of forgiveness and acceptance, travels from D Minor to D Major, echoing the story of a despairing pregnant woman who is deserted by her lover and ultimately embraced by another man. While Schoenberg’s later 12-tone music is not widely understood, Finckel noted that “Verklarte Nacht” is “very easy to listen to,” with a “beautiful human story” that “helps listeners along.”

Both Finckel, who was the first American student of famed Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and Wu Han, a Taiwanborn concert pianist, perform in several of the programs and continue to record, tour and teach. Called “the power couple of chamber music” by the Wall Street Journal, they are also coartistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and of Chamber Music Today, an annual festival held in South Korea. They have also led the Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio in Aspen, Colorado, and have long been involved in nurturing the careers of young musicians, including at Music@ Menlo.

How do they manage careers as both impresario-administrators, who organize the programs and

oversee the logistics of this threeweek event, and well as perform in the festival?

“You have to discipline yourself,” said Finckel. “We have to fight for our time with our instruments, so we can set a good standard for what it means to be a musician.”

Meanwhile, for a small group interested in extending the journey, Finckel and Wu Han are escorting a trip to London and Paris in September, where they will perform in private chamber concerts and provide music lovers with a deeper sense of the cities that inspired the music.

“We try to bring these cities to people through the music, but after awhile, we want to bring the people to the cities.” A Q INFORMATION What: Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute Where: Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton, and Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton When: Friday, July 13, to Saturday, August 4.

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œ%HOLHYH LW RU 1RW¡ The Menlo Park Library will host a performance by Erica Lann-Clark and Olga Loya, who will tell a series of stories. July 14, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Menlo Park City Council Chambers, 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org 'UDJRQ /DWH 1LJKWV Dragon Late Nights stays open on select Friday nights in Redwood City to showcase upand-coming local talents with unique performances, from song and dance to storytelling. July 13, 9:30 p.m. $20. The Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City.

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The show will feature headliner Christ Storin, Clay Newman, Geneva Rust-Orta, Dauood Naimyra and other comedians. July 14, 6-9 p.m. $20-$30. The Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City. Search brownpapertickets.com for more info. Âś7KH 3XSSHW 0DQ¡ The Menlo Park Belle Haven Library will host a performance by Magical Moonshine Theatre, presenting its show â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Puppet Man,â&#x20AC;? featuring a walking, talking, interactive puppet stage. July 15, 2-2:45 p.m. Free.

Menlo Park Belle Haven Library, 413 Ivy Drive, Menlo Park. menlopark.org

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0LOHV (OHFWULF %DQG DW -D]] 2Q 7KH *UHHQ An ensemble featuring Miles Davis alumni will perform at the Bing Concert Hall Lawn. The band is a rotating ensemble of musicians that represents two generations of players: Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contemporaries and the next generation. The multi-generational band specializes in the funky music Davis created from the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s on his albums. July 13, 6:30 p.m. $15-$40.

Bing Concert Hall Lawn, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. live.stanford.edu/calendar 3RUWROD 9DOOH\ 6XPPHU &RQFHUW 6HULHV The Portola Valley Summer Concert Series will feature a variety of musicians. The second installation of the series will present the Fog City Swampers, a Credence Clearwater Revival tribute band. July 19, 6 p.m. Portola Valley Town Center, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

5XWK 'DYLHV¡ %OXHV 1LJKW ZLWK 6SHFLDO *XHVW (ULF %LEE Ruth Davis, a blues legend and recording artist, will be joined by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Eric Bibb. July 16, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-$49. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info. Âś6RPHWKLQ¡ (OVH¡ $ 7ULEXWH WR &DQQRQEDOO A top-flight band featuring saxophonist Henry Solomon and drummer Roy McCurdy will pay tribute to the late Julian â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cannonballâ&#x20AC;?

Adderley, an influential leader in jazz. The performance will be a celebration of Cannonballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and music. July 15, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-$49. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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Vintage Jukebox, a six-piece swing era big band comprised 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 6XPPHU -D]] QG $QQLYHUVDU\ &RQFHUW 6HULHV 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 through August 23, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. simon.com/mall/stanford-shopping-center &DWH %ODQFKH &RQFHUW , 3DXO +XDQJ DQG :X +DQ Violinist Paul Huang will return to Music@Menlo, joining artistic co-director Wu Han in a program of romantic violin sonatas.

The program will begin with Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sonata in G Major, op. 30, no. 3, followed by the d minor Sonata of Johannes Brahms, Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heir apparent. The program will also offer Bartokâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature Hungarian Folk Tunes and will finish with Saint-Saensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Violin Sonata. July 15, 6-8 p.m. $35$82. Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. musicatmenlo.org/calendar 3DPHOD 5RVH SummerJazz will welcome jazz and blues vocalist Pamela Rose to perform at the Portola Vineyards.

Attendees will be invited to bring a picnic, invite friends and enjoy an evening of jazz beside the vines in the Palo Alto

foothills. July 15, 6-7:30 p.m. $12-$24. Portola Vineyards, 850 Los Trancos Road, Portola Valley. Search eventbrite. com for more info.

7RPP\ ,JRH DQG WKH $UW RI -D]] The Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy, a mighty 15-piece band that unites players from Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, will perform at the Dinkelspiel Auditorium. The band will also be joined by painter Jeremy Sutton, who will paint what the music makes him feel during the show. Tommy will call tunes based on how Jeremyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings make him feel. The resulting art will be available for purchase after the show. July 14, 8 p.m. $15-$49. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

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Talks & Lectures

65, 2UJDQRQ 7RDVWPDVWHUV SRI Organon Toastmasters helps community members become better public speakers and leaders by providing a supportive, positive environment for practicing communication and leadership skills. Guests are welcome to visit and join. Tuesdays, year-round. Free. St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seminary & University, Redon Hall, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. sriorganon.com Âś7KH 1HZ (OHFWULFLW\ ¡ $ &RQYHUVDWLRQ ZLWK $QGUHZ 1J Andrew Ng, former head of Baiduâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AI Lab and the Google Brain project, will join the Computer History Museum to discuss the potential economic and social impact of artificial intelligence, the research and entrepreneurship opportunities AI is creating and the technologies driving rapid growth in the field. July 11, 6 p.m. Free. Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. computerhistory. org/events/upcoming

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July 13, 4-5 p.m. Free. Portola Valley Library, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. %HDXW\ DQG WKH %HDVW 6LQJ $ /RQJ DW 0RYLHV RQ WKH 6TXDUH A new singalong version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beauty and the Beastâ&#x20AC;? will be shown as part of Redwood Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Movies on the Square series. July 12, 8:30 p.m. Free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. redwoodcity.org/ moviesonthesquare 6FLHQFH 7HOOHUV The Menlo Park Belle Haven Library will host a presentation for grade-school students by Science Tellers, who mix storytelling with exciting science experiments. July 11, 4-4:50 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Belle Haven Library, 413 Ivy Drive, Menlo Park. menlopark.org

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Food & Drink

:LQHV RI ,WDO\ 6HPLQDU The Village Pub will host a seminar about the wines of Italy. Attendees will learn about the intricate differences in Italian wine with The Village Pub wine team. Justin Mueller and Randy Nakagawa will guide the workshop. July 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $60. The Village Pub, 2967 Woodside Road, Woodside. Search mapado.com for more info.

Lessons & Classes

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on Feb. 16, 2017.

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.

Registered owner(s): PHYB LLC 200 Todo El Mundo Woodside, CA 94062 California This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company.

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

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on May 30, 2018.

(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.

Registered owner(s): ISSIMI INC. 1830 Industrial Way Redwood City, CA 94063 DE This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

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

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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.

Registered owner(s): LILI RODRIGUEZ VALENCIA 1454 Regent St. #1 Redwood City, CA 94061 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 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.

Registered owner(s): JUANA CORDERO 1655 Sweetwood Dr. Daly City, CA 94015 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 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.

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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.

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