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Strong leads for council candidates Taylor, Combs, Nash By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

he latest results from the San Mateo County Elections Office, released on Thursday, Nov. 8, show Menlo Park City Council candidates Cecilia Taylor, Drew Combs and Betsy Nash maintaining their significant leads in the race for council districts 1, 2 and 4, respectively. The first tally was released shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night and has not changed much in subsequent counts.

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Many ballots remain to be counted. The election night results included only mail-in ballots that had been received by Election Day and ballots of those who voted early. Votes from people who submitted their ballots on Election Day, or whose mail-in ballots hadn’t yet been delivered, are still being counted, according to a spokeswoman at the San Mateo County Elections Office. According to the Nov. 8 results, Taylor was leading in District 1 with 305 votes (75.3 percent); George Yang had 66 votes (16.3 percent) and Mike Dunn had 34 votes (8.4 percent), numbers unchanged since

Election Day. In District 2, Combs had 393 votes (59.6 percent); incumbent Kirsten Keith had 267 votes (40.4 percent), an increase of several for each candidate since Election Day. Nash had 653 votes (54.1 percent) in the District 4 race. Incumbent Peter Ohtaki had 341 votes (28.3 percent) and Ron Shepherd had 213 votes (17.6 percent), with one more vote for Nash and Shepherd each since Election Day. The next round of election results was scheduled to be released Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 4:30 p.m., after The Almanac went to press. Go to almanacnews.com

for the latest updates. With a total vote count of 405 in District 1, 660 in District 2 and 1,207 votes in District 4, there are likely still many votes to count — though exactly how many remains unknown. According to city statistics, in 2016, 1,697 residents of what is now District 1 voted; there were 3,355 voters from District 2 and 3,3767 from District 4. According to the county’s election office, there are 2,659 registered voters in District 1, 3,952 registered voters in District 2 and 4,392 registered voters in District 4. For more comparable turnout numbers, at the last midterm

election in 2014, 618 voters cast ballots in what is now District 1; 2,326 voters in District 2; and 2,566 voters in District 4. Eight candidates vied for three seats in Menlo Park’s inaugural district-based election. District 1

District 1 covers the city east of U.S. 101; the winner in this race will take the council seat that the district system was intended to create. In August 2017, the city was threatened with a lawsuit unless it switched to district elections — in which each candidate must come from See MENLO PARK COUNCIL, page 8

New voting system triggers election results delays for San Mateo County races By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

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After more than 100 years in the Fleishhacker family, Woodside’s 75-acre Green Gables estate is on the market.

Woodside’s bucolic Fleishhacker estate could set a sales record in California By Barbara Wood Special to The Almanac

ne of Woodside’s oldest estates, the 75-acre Fleishhacker property known as Green Gables, is for sale. The property has been quietly on the market since 2015 (with agents and potential buyers all asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to view the property) at a listing price said to be $160 million. Realtor Michael Dreyfus of the Sotheby’s International Realty franchise in Palo

Alto recently went public with the fact that the historic estate is on the market, but without a listing price. The property comes encumbered with a conservation easement held by the Garden Conservancy barring it in perpetuity from subdivision, any commercial use except rental of the homes on the property or educational uses, and restricting the expansion or replacement of the existing structures. The property, located in central Woodside near the

intersection of Albion and Manuella avenues, includes seven houses, three swimming pools, and an 18,000-squarefoot reflecting pool surrounded by a faux Roman stone arcade. The main home, designed by Charles Greene of the architectural firm Greene and Greene, has been listed on the National Registry of Historic Places since 1986. The property has been used by the descendants of banker and businessman See FLEISHHACKER, page 10

hen the first, much anticipated vote counts were released by the San Mateo County Elections Office at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, the numbers, while telling in some instances, were in many cases so low that key races were undetermined. Candidates and voters frantically refreshed the county’s online vote-count report throughout the night in 30-minute increments; the initial numbers inched up little by little, but the count was clearly incomplete at the close of election night well after midnight. When the next vote count report was published Nov. 8, numbers in many small races barely budged. The next round of election results was scheduled for release at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, after The Almanac’s press time. The sluggish turnaround time for the vote count doesn’t reflect the round-the-clock work of about 135 people in three shifts at the county Elections Office. Up to 200 workers planned to step in until the vote count is complete and certified — which must happen within 30 days, according to law. During a Friday afternoon (Nov. 9) visit to the Elections Office at 40 Tower Road in San Mateo, The Almanac witnessed a hive of workers diligently working to count the reams of

purple envelopes surrounding them, a labor-intensive process that requires multiple levels of review by human eyes. The delays are also partly the consequence of a statewide effort to make it easier for people to vote. San Mateo County is one of five counties in the state to conduct an all-mail election as part of the Voter’s Choice Act, a 2016 state law that allows counties to use a different election model that gives voters more options over how, when and where they cast their ballots. Key aspects of the election model are that every registered voter is mailed a ballot; people can do in-person voting at designated voting centers before Election Day; and voters can submit their ballots at any voting center within the county. This is San Mateo County’s first state general election using this model, and if last June’s primary was any example, it appears that people tend to wait until the last minute to submit their ballots, according to Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer for the county. In the three-day period after the June primary, “our office received tens of thousands of Vote by Mail ballots each day,” he said. As of 5 p.m. Nov 7, the Elections Office reported it had received 231,805 ballots, and more were still arriving. By comparison, in the last statewide See ELECTIONS OFFICE, next page

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general election in 2014, county voters cast a total of 164,453 ballots. “You’ll see ballots coming out of our ears here,” Irizarry said. The delays have meant that, especially in small local races, comprehensive election results won’t be known for some time, with more substantial counts anticipated by the end of next week, Irizarry said. In elections covered by The Almanac, only the Menlo Park City Council race for District 1 has a wide enough margin of lead to determine the winner: Cecilia Taylor garnered 75 percent of the vote among early voters and others whose ballots were tallied on election night. The race for the Woodside Town Council District 7 seat, on the other hand, is not so safe to call, with Ned Fluet leading Frank Rosenblum by only 25 votes in the preliminary count. Other races whose results are are in the air because of the slower process include District 2 and District 4 in the Menlo Park council race, although Drew Combs and Betsy Nash have significant leads; the race for three seats on the Menlo Park Fire Protection District board; and the Measure Z bond measure

put on the ballot by the Portola Valley School District. An extensive process

Ballots that are received by mail or dropped off at vote centers have to go through a 15-step counting and verification process, Irizarry explained. Ballots are run through what’s called an Olympus scanner for an initial count. Then people remove by hand a privacy tab on the outside of the envelope to expose the voter’s signature before the ballot is scanned again. People then have to verify the signature by comparing it with the voter registration signature. If there is no question about the signature, the ballot is scanned again to sort for possible damage, and then again to sort the ballot by precinct. After that it is extracted from the envelope and counted. Ballots that aren’t 100 percent clear about the voter’s intent — whether the voter filled out something wrong, smudged something or even spilled coffee on the ballot — are then reviewed by a separate group of people to figure out what was intended. “It’s a process that’s designed to be precise, accurate — and time-consuming,” Irizarry said. “With this complex process, and the increasing number of mailed

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An election worker loads mail-in ballots into the county’s 12-year-old “Olympus” mail sorter.

ballots received, it may take some time to call a very close race.” It doesn’t help, he noted, that the elections technology used in San Mateo County — both the Olympus ballot sorter and the “E-Slate” electronic voting machines — are about 12 years old, and bordering on obsolete. The county plans to get new elections technology in place before the 2020 elections, but the elections this year raised the question: Should the county

wait to deploy the new elections model for another two or three years, or adopt it now with the existing technology, acknowledging the vote counting will take more time? The county opted for the latter, Irizarry explained. In addition, the elections office this year has received an “unprecedented” number of provisional ballots and those cast under conditional voter registration. Both of those types of ballots must be processed by

hand, he said. Provisional ballots are those cast by voters who think they are registered to vote even though their names are not on the registration list, or people who vote by mail but instead want to vote at their polling place or a vote center and don’t have their ballot with them. Conditional ballots are for people who missed the Oct. 22 deadline to register to vote or Continued on next page

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update their registration information. They can vote at their county elections office or a satellite location, and their ballots are processed once the elections office verifies their information. Those voters who reported having to wait in long lines, he said, were probably conditional voters who in previous elections before the 2016 Voter’s Choice Act may have been excluded from the voting process. While he didn’t yet have an exact count of the number of conditional voters, he said, he expects numbers of several thousand more than in the June primary, which had about 900 conditional voters. A new normal?

San Mateo County was one of five California counties this year to conduct all-mail elections, along with Sacramento, Napa, Madera and Nevada counties. The Almanac contacted the other counties implementing this voting system, and while all agreed that the new system has increased voter turnout, San Mateo County appears to not be alone in struggling with the new system to release substantial vote counts on election night. According to Janna Haynes, communications officer for the Sacramento County elections office, some races in that county also had too few votes counted on election night to call — particularly council races in small cities, and races whose outcomes rely strictly on county votes.

“We have bags and bags of drop-off and mail-in ballots that are being processed now,” she said. “I do think that election night results — those are over,” she said. “It’s kind of the tradeoff for opening up accessibility and convenience to include more voters.” According to Napa County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur, there are two factors that impact how fast election results are released: having to verify signatures on the vote-by-mail envelopes, and when voters decide to cast their ballots. At 8 p.m. on Election Day, Napa County released the results of about 21,732 ballots, which he said he estimates to be about 45 percent of the total number of ballots. That county has been about 90 percent vote-by-mail for about 10 years, Tuteur said in an email. In the past, about half of the ballots had been collected in time for the results to be released in the first round of election night numbers; more recently, the trend has been for voters to wait longer to return their ballots, he said. “We had thousands of ballots returned at our vote centers, our drive-through voting locations and our official ballot drop boxes on Monday, November 5, and Tuesday, November 6. The later we receive ballots the more time it takes to process those ballots and get them into the results stream.” He added that he believes some of Napa County’s consistently high voter turnout — about 12

to 14 percent above the statewide average — comes partly from the flexibility provided by mail-in ballots, and partly from community engagement. “I was pleased in this election that we had throngs of younger and first-time voters participating, which is a good sign that Americans are concerned about protecting our precious, democratic ideals,” he said. Madera County Clerk-Recorder Rebecca Martinez pointed out in an email that “regardless of the voting method, certifying election results is never done on election night.” “In Madera County election results are usually certified 2-3 weeks after the election but the law allows up to month or so,” she wrote. “The process of certifying election results is not any harder because of the Voterís Choice Act.” She added that she believes the change is increasing voter participation. Nevada County Registrar Gregory J. Diaz said that the allmail system has boosted voter turnout in his county, which had the highest turnout in the state in the June primary election. For the November elections, he said, the county is “closing on 80 percent, which again may be the highest in the state.” When the results are finally counted, Irizarry said, he expects to see a historically high turnout for a statewide election. “It really is cutting-edge,” he said. “It will impact how elections are conducted in the state of California.” A

CCS football playoffs rescheduled again due to unhealthy air quality By Glenn Reeves Palo Alto Weekly Assistant Sports Editor

he Palo Alto, MenloAtherton and Sacred Heart Prep Central Coast Section Open Division football games have been postponed and rescheduled for this weekend due to unhealthy air quality caused by the Camp Fire in Butte County. Those games had originally been scheduled for Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Nov. 10, but were pushed back to Monday, Nov. 12, in the hope that the air would clear by then.

Air quality index readings in the 160 range Monday morning caused administrators to reschedule the games again. Menlo-Atherton’s game with Milpitas has been rescheduled for Friday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m., and Sacred Heart Prep’s game with St. Ignatius is now scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m. Palo Alto’s home game with Los Gatos has been rescheduled for Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. “Our biggest concern is the health of the kids at Paly,’’ Palo Alto athletic director Therren Wilburn said.

The North Coast Section has also canceled the majority of its playoff games that were scheduled for Nov. 12. With section playoffs being pushed back a week, it stands to reason that the state playoffs will also be moved back. As it stands now, Central Coast Section championship games would take place the same weekend as the scheduled opening round of the state playoffs. “I don’t think they have a choice,’’ M-A coach Adhir Ravipati said. “So much of the state is being affected by the fires.’’ A

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a designated area and be elected only by residents of that area. The city had previously held at-large elections, in which all residents can vote for any candidate to represent the whole city. The city’s at-large voting system was criticized in the lawsuit threat because such systems typically make it harder for minority voters to elect people they prefer — and, in fact, the Belle Haven neighborhood, which is the city’s only majorityminority district, made up of mostly Latino and black residents, hadn’t had a City Council representative for 30 years. No matter who is elected, the Belle Haven neighborhood will have representation on the City Council moving forward. Counting down to the first round of council election results on election night, Taylor and her supporters waited in the home of Belle Haven resident Pushpinder Lubana for the numbers to be announced. One of Taylor’s biggest supporters, Menlo Park activist Pam Jones — who is also Taylor’s mother — waited with anticipation for the results. “This must be what it’s like to be the mother of the bride,” she said. “You work as hard as you can, and then it happens.” When the preliminary results came in and indicated Taylor was in the lead, she celebrated with a shout of joy and a giddy dance around the living room as supporters clapped and raised glasses. If the pattern of preliminary results hold, Taylor will be the first African American woman to serve on Menlo Park’s City Council, and the first Belle Haven resident on the council since former councilman Billy Ray White ended a term in 1986. The most recent mandatory campaign finance reports for the District 1 race show that Taylor reported raising $3,859, George Yang reported raising $900, and Mike Dunn did not report raising any campaign funds. Taylor told The Almanac her campaign plan was different this time around compared with two years ago, when she didn’t win a seat. One notable strategy: using traffic to her advantage. She and supporters today spent time holding posters and talking to drivers stuck at the intersection of Willow Road and Newbridge Street — a captive audience, of sorts. She said one driver told her, “I voted for you. You need to do something about traffic.” Her mindset, she said, was different in this campaign: She found a sense of “glory” in the

work she was doing in getting to know the community and listening to residents’ concerns. Julie Shanson, who volunteered with Taylor’s previous campaign and has worked with her at Belle Haven Action, said, “She’s going to be a terrific leader.” District 2

District 2 includes the Willows, Flood Triangle and Suburban Park neighborhoods. This race has resulted in the most money raised for its candidates, compared with the other district races, with Keith raising $27,740, and Combs raising $15,447, as of Oct. 20. The District 2 race has raised questions of ethics and political conflicts, and made for a hotly contested seat. On one hand, Keith, a twoterm incumbent in Menlo Park who generally favors housing, the environment and bicyclerelated projects, is currently the subject of an ethics violation complaint alleging that she accepted free travel to China in excess of what the state permits at the same time the council held a major study session on Facebook’s proposed Willow Village project. The allegation hinges on the specifics of whether the organization that funded the trip had the proper certification as a formal 501(c) (3) nonprofit. No ruling has yet been made by the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission. She voted recently to approve a City Council policy that would provide clearer guidelines for council members about what steps must be taken in order to accept free travel. On the other hand, Combs, a planning commissioner, works for Facebook, so he will have recuse to himself from key discussions about the proposed Willow Village and potentially other projects tied to Facebook. “I’m not completely recused from everything happening in the Bayfront area, but certainly the stuff of which there is a direct impact on Facebook and maybe a sort of clear indirect impact,” he said. Combs’ election night gathering, held in his home, had a cautiously celebratory air — although he was leading in the vote count by a wide margin in the preliminary results provided by the county, the current Planning Commissioner was hesitant to provide definitive comments on a likely win. “If these trends continue,” he consistently prefaced each statement, and if he and District 4 candidate Betsy Nash win council seats, the voters of Menlo Park would be giving the city a “clear indication” that

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they value new energy, faces and ideas — something that’s been an “informal tradition” in the city, he said. Combs ran unsuccessfully in 2014, but said the 2018 campaign was different because there wasn’t a key issue shaping the political landscape — like 2014’s Measure M, which would have altered the city’s newly adopted downtown plan. Instead, he was able to address the policies he wanted to focus on, such as changing the requirements for house projects on substandard lots, implementing a “sunshine” or transparent calendar policy, and disavowing what he described as the current council’s slowness to address traffic in the Willows neighborhood as well as its eagerness to get behind a new main library. If elected, he said, a top priority will be to home in on what the city should look for in a new city manager. Fellow Planning Commissioner Henry Riggs told The Almanac that while he didn’t always see eye to eye with Combs on the commission, he believes Combs has a “good thinking process.” Combs, he said, has earned his respect. Former City Council member Mickie Winkler explained that her support for Combs came from both positive feelings toward his campaign and “honest reservations” about Keith’s, arguing that she doesn’t support the council’s decisions to support the new Willow Road/U.S. 101 interchange or its plan to separate Caltrain from roads.

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Cecilia Taylor, left, one of three District 1 City Council candidates, and Belle Haven Action colleague and supporter Julie Shanson smile at early election results the night of Tuesday, Nov. 6.

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Drew Combs, one of two District 2 City Council candidates, views early election results with supporters and his young daughter Dailey.

District 4

District 4 includes downtown Menlo Park and the Allied Arts neighborhood. The race is Complete Streets Commissioner Nash’s first experience running for public office. She said at an election night gathering in her home with supporters that the experience has been a great one, even if she doesn’t hold her lead as the favored candidate to win the District 4 seat. If elected, her key priorities would be to choose a new city manager and work on staffing, and improve traffic safety. She wants to make it easier and safer for people to ride their bikes downtown, she said. Her key supporters include members of the Parents for Safe Routes coalition, including organization founder Jennifer Wolosin, and Katie Behroozi and Lydia Lee, who are on the Complete Streets Commission with Nash. “Her energy was where her mouth was,” Lee said. Nash said her campaign was “grassroots” and had about

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Betsy Nash with supporters at an election night party in her home. From left: Horace Nash, Patti Fry, Betsy Nash and Dorna Hakimi.

180 people involved, whether through donations or endorsements. Her campaign manager, Dorna Hakimi, said that early on in Nash’s campaign, it became clear that “her biggest asset is her personality. She cares about the people she comes in contact with,” she said. Peter Ohtaki, current Menlo Park mayor and District 4 contender, said that he is disappointed with the preliminary election results. “It’s a clear message that voters want to

slow down growth and resulting traffic congestion,” he said in a written statement. “I encourage the next Council to move quickly on the Transportation Master Plan, Middle/Burgess underpass and Ravenswood grade separation.” As of Oct. 20, Shepherd had raised the most, at $7,600, followed by Ohtaki at $6,905 and Nash at $6,350. None of the District 4 candidates reported nonmonetary donations. See MENLO PARK COUNCIL, page 10

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Pine touts county’s affordable housing, transit efforts By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

an Mateo County has the lowest unemployment rate and highest per-capita income among counties in the state, and manages a budget of nearly $3 billion. It also has more than 100,000 people who receive MediCal, and one in three children in public schools qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, an indicator of poverty. These statistics set the stage for a speech given by Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, at an inaugural “State of the County” event held at the Plumbers & Pipefitters Union Hall in Burlingame on Oct. 24. “You know, for many in the county, it’s not the golden age. It’s more the Gilded Age,” Pine said. He went on to discuss a MENLO PARK COUNCIL continued from page 8

High-impact election

Whoever is elected will have some big decisions to make about the city’s future over the next four years. During that time, Facebook’s proposed Willow Village, the city’s largestever development, is likely to come before the City Council for approval, following environmental review. The council will also likely be involved in deciding the next steps of the Dumbarton

number of initiatives that the county has launched to address four key problems he identified: a shortage of affordable housing, an abundance of traffic, a growing need to reduce environmental impacts, and the swelling threat of sea level rise. Since 2013, the county has spent $115 million on efforts to increase the supply of affordable housing, which, Pine said, has led to the production of 1,880 new affordable housing units and the preservation or renovation of 255 housing units. The funding has also gone toward programs like home-sharing and the production of second units on single-family-home properties to provide people with lower-cost options to live in the area. Much of this funding has come from the county’s half-cent sales tax, Measure K. On the transportation front, Pine said, county leadership is involved with transit because a

supervisor sits on the various transit boards in the county, and because the county has invested directly in certain transportation programs (such as SamTrans to help with paratransit). Senate Bill 1, passed earlier this year, is expected to provide $21 million to fix potholes and improve road safety, $160 million for Caltrain improvements, $250 million for a project to put “managed lanes” on U.S. 101, and $4.5 million to support bike and pedestrian projects. Caltrain is in the process of being electrified, a project that is slated for completion in 2022; SamTrans just bought 10 electric buses and is planning to eventually convert its entire fleet to electric vehicles; and Facebook and the Plenary Group have teamed up with SamTrans on a public-private partnership to look into the possibility of a revitalized Dumbarton rail corridor.

“The future has never been brighter for the Dumbarton corridor,” Pine said. When it comes to the environment, Pine cited the recently released report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which predicts dire environmental consequences unless immediate action is taken to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a county of about 760,000 people, Pine said, “We can’t solve the world’s problem, but we can lead by example.” He pointed to a few environmentally focused projects going on in the county, including Peninsula Clean Energy, which buys cleaner energy at cheaper rates than PG&E that is delivered via the PG&E power grid to customers in all 20 cities in the county and in unincorporated areas. The standard power mix is 85 percent renewable, although customers can opt to

use 100 percent clean energy. In its first year of operation, the PCE program reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 261 million pounds, the equivalent of 13 million gallons of gas, Pine said. The county has also committed to strict environmental standards at its new buildings, he said. One of the biggest environmental threats to the county over the next century is sea level rise, Pine said. According to research, about 3 feet of sea level rise is expected by 2100, which, when combined with a major storm, could result in damages of up to $34 billion to property throughout the county. The county is supporting a range of projects aimed at reducing its vulnerability to sea level rise. “San Mateo County is not shying away from these challenges,” Pine said. “Much more will be achieved in the years ahead.” A

rail corridor project, assuming the environmental review process goes according to an ambitious timeline set forth in a new partnership between Facebook, SamTrans and the Plenary Group, an infrastructure business. (The ultimate approval process will rest in the hands of the SamTrans board of directors). In addition, the council will also review the city’s El Camino Real/Downtown Specific Plan, which could mean reconsidering the limits of what can be built downtown, including

a potential increase in the amount of housing permitted there. The council is also due to discuss the possibility of a downtown parking garage, iron out a definite preference on what to do about separating the city’s roads from the Caltrain tracks, and consider a policy mandating that landlords, in some situations, be required to provide relocation assistance to tenants who are displaced, among a number of other key policy discussions ahead. A

FLEISHHACKER

Dreyfus said the property’s potential buyers include Silicon Valley tech executives, company founders and international clients like Softbank founder Masayoshi Son, who paid $117 million — reportedly the current record for a California residential property — for a home on Woodside’s Mountain Home Road, or Israeli-Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner, who paid $100 million for an estate in Los Altos Hills. “We do vet everybody” who asks to see the property, Dreyfus said. As befits a property that could set a sales record for the state, its marketing materials include a bound book with the property’s history and lush photos, a brochure that upon opening plays a video with musical accompaniment on a built-in screen, and a website that can be accessed only with a password. The 2003 conservation easement says the Garden Conservancy will get 1 percent of the total of any sale, up to $1 million. The easement’s purpose, according to the document, is “to assure that the Property will be retained forever as a natural, scenic, historic and horticultural resource, and to prevent any use of the Property that will significantly impair or interfere with the Conservation Values of the Property.” The easement document says the main home and the Wurster-designed home may not be expanded; but the easement does allow expanding or replacing the estate’s other homes by no more than 33 percent. A

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Mortimer Fleishhacker and artist Bella Gerstle Fleishhacker as a summer retreat for more than a century. While the property is a short walk from Woodside’s small commercial area and elementary school, and a five-minute drive from Sand Hill Road’s venture capital offices, almost no sign of surrounding Silicon Valley is visible from the grounds. The main house sits on a knoll with a view of an expansive lawn and reflecting pool, backed by the Santa Cruz Mountains. Apart from a few visible power lines and glimpses of parts of a couple of homes, the main house could be in the midst of a wilderness area. Greene worked on the main house, its landscaping and some of the accessory structures on the property between 1911 and 1935. He even hand-carved a table and chairs and decorative woodwork for the main home’s card room, which replaced what had previously been a porch in the 1920s. Another of the homes on the property was designed by architect William Wurster in 1931.

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PV school bond measure has strong lead in early vote count By Angela Swartz Almanac Staff Writer

nofficial vote counts updated by the county on Thursday, Nov. 8, show Measure Z, a $49.5 million bond to pay for repairs, renovations and new buildings on the Portola Valley School District’s two campuses, inching toward approval. Measure Z, which requires 55 percent of the vote for approval, had 1,067 votes of support (61.08 percent) and 680 no votes (38.92 percent) as of Nov. 8. The lead grew from election night. But the vote count is far from over. Unlike in past elections in San Mateo County in which most votes were tallied by election night, there are many thousands of votes yet to be accounted for in the county Elections Office’s latest figures. Therefore, the success or failure of many ballot measures cannot be ascertained yet. The next vote count results will be announced at 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, after The Almanac’s press time. The reason for the vote count delay? San Mateo County was one of five California counties this year to conduct all-mail elections, and the new system ensures that a significant number of valid ballots will stream into the county days after Election Day. (See separate story, Page 5 of this issue.) But with Measure Z’s strong lead in the latest count, some supporters are optimistic that the trend will hold. “We are thrilled with early results,” wrote Anne Fazioli-Khiari, chairman of the “Yes on Z campaign, in an email on Friday, Nov. 9. “We know that there are plenty of votes still to be counted, but are encouraged by early numbers and know that our community is supportive of our schools and Measure Z.” The bond would add a maximum of $300 per $1 million of assessed valuation to property tax bills, or $900 a year for the owner of a house

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valued at $3 million. Bond revenue would go toward projects listed in a plan 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 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 firstphase priorities. A majority of the bond money would go to new construction, but only because some of the existing buildings are in such bad shape that it is less expensive to replace than repair them, school district Superintendent Eric Hartwig said. The district, which has recently had slight drops in enrollment, would not end up with more classrooms than it now has under the plan, he said. A

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Unopposed candidates Dombkowski, Scott and Brown win council seats

By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

ed Fluet improved his election night lead over his opponent, Frank Rosenblum, in the race for Woodside’s District 7 Town Council seat in the latest unofficial count from the county Elections Office, which was released on Thursday, Nov. 8. In the latest tally, Fluet had 627 votes, or 54 percent; Rosenblum had 524 votes, or 46 percent. The election night count gave Fluet a 52 percent lead. The next vote count will be announced by the Elections Office on Tuesday, Nov. 13, after The Almanac’s press time. It is unknown how many votes in this race have yet to be counted, but with a difference in early results of just more than 100 votes, a clear winner isn’t certain. Unlike in past elections in San Mateo County in which most votes were tallied by election

Ned Fluet

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night, there are many thousands of votes yet to be accounted for countywide. The reason for the vote count delay? San Mateo County was one of five California counties this year to conduct all-mail elections, and the new system ensures that a significant number of ballots will stream into the county days after the polls close. (See separate story, Page 5 of this issue.) Meanwhile Woodside council candidates Brian Dombkowski, Sean Scott and Dick Brown, all running unopposed, are on their way to representing districts 2, 4 and 6, respectively. See WOODSIDE COUNCIL, page 14

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Jones, McLaughlin, Bernstein lead in fire board race Outgoing board member Peter Carpenter campaigned against Bernstein’s re-election By Dave Boyce Almanac Staff Writer

he latest vote count in the race for three seats on the Menlo Park Fire Protection District governing board show incumbents Robert Jones and Chuck Bernstein and newcomer Jim McLaughlin maintaining strong leads. Unofficial vote counts updated by the county as of Nov. 8 show Jones with 6,487 votes (33.9 percent), McLaughlin with 5,026 votes (26.3 percent), and Bernstein with 4,752 votes (25 percent). Candidate Sean Ballard has 2,862 votes (15 percent). The fire district provides first-responder services for

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emergencies in Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Atherton and nearby unincorporated areas. The next vote count will be announced by the Elections Office on Tuesday, Nov. 13, after The Almanac’s press time. Unlike in past elections in the county in which most votes were tallied by election night, there are many thousands of votes yet to be accounted for countywide. The delay is due to San Mateo County being one of five counties this year to conduct all-mailed-inballot elections. This new system

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ensures that a significant number of ballots will arrive at the Elections Office days after the polls close. (See story, Page 5 of this

issue.) Jones, whom the board appointed in October 2017 to the seat vacated by Rex Ianson, is the first board member from East Palo Alto since 2003 and the board’s first African-American. McLaughlin, an Atherton resident and a former planning and enforcement executive in the California Highway Patrol, has been critical of the board. He says that the district has been “tone deaf” in dealing with complaints from jurisdictions it serves and that “a level of dysfunction” characterizes

how the board operates. Bernstein, in his five years on the board, has been a regular critic of board practices and district spending, while board colleague Peter Carpenter, whose term ends this year, has been a regular critic of Bernstein. Carpenter did not seek re-election this year, and actively supported the campaigns of McLaughlin, Jones and Ballard. Bernstein, a Menlo Park resident who is often alone in casting dissenting votes, supports “outside, independent voices” on the board. He voted against the recently approved five-year contract with firefighters and has criticized the structure of their proximity bonus. He frequently argues that the district should spend more on public safety and be “less lavish on some other things.” A

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Sixteen residents of the Kings Mountain community in the hills above Woodside keep ready a helmet like this one and other gear typical of a firefighter. As members of the Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire Brigade, they take on the first-responder duties of a career firefighter, but without the high salaries, pensions and paid days off.

small number of men and women residing in San Mateo County live in daily readiness to take on dangerous and often life-saving assignments in the interest of public safety in their community. In return, they receive pay that is right next to nothing when compared with compensation earned by counterparts doing the same job in the same county — many of whom pull down salaries and benefits that far exceed $100,000 a year. That’s not to say that the 16 firefighters who serve in the Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire Brigade are scraping by. They

have day jobs in medicine, surveying, engineering and corporate management. But they are tethered to their community in a way that career firefighters — with homes in distant counties, paid time off and a schedule of two days on and four days off — are not. In the case of a fire or other significant emergency, Kings Mountain volunteers will leave work and head back to their community, brigade Chief Jim Sullivan notes. Volunteer agencies are governed by the same standards that govern the operations of publicly funded firefighting agencies, Sullivan says. A board of directors

Fashion plates they are not, in their baggy pants and suspenders, but a strong sense of community service accompanies putting on this “turnout” gear when you’re a volunteer in the Kings Mountain or La Honda fire brigade.

reviews the brigade chief’s performance and brigade operations, while a firefighting official in San Mateo County supervises the firefighters, he adds. Brigade firefighters have the same training and skills as paid firefighters, Sullivan says. The training regimen includes structure and wildland firefighting, medical aid, rescue, automobile stabilization and extrication, and the handling of hazardous materials — people drive to the area from the valleys below to dump chemicals, he notes. The current staff of firefighters includes a physician, a nurse practitioner and eight or nine people trained as emergency medical technicians, according to Sullivan. Kings Mountain firefighters, when they’re not at home, have the community’s welfare in the back of their minds, Assistant Chief Matt King says. When they are at home after a workday, the question of whether to have something alcoholic to help unwind is an important one. “You make that choice when you’re at home, to have that drink and put yourself out of service,” he says. “Even one sip” is enough to require that you stand down, Sullivan says. You have a beer, you turn your pager off, he says. “It’s not safe to be operating any emergency or public safety equipment if you’re under the influence.” The fire brigade’s area of service covers state Highway 35 (Skyline Boulevard)

‘I liked the idea of learning the skills and being of use to the community. (Firefighting) kind of feels more like a calling than anything else.’ VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SEAN FENDER

between the intersections of state highways 92 in San Mateo and 84 in Woodside, and 3 to 5 miles down the east and west sides of the coastal ridge, according to Sullivan. The Kings Mountain brigade is equipped with a rescue vehicle, a water tender — a truck with a 3,000-gallon water tank on the back — and two fire engines, including one engine with a smaller aspect so as to negotiate tighter spaces when fighting wildfires, Sullivan says. The brigade is anticipating the arrival of a new engine at a cost of $650,000, he said. Seventy-five percent of U.S. firefighting agencies are volunteer, though volunteer agencies are not as common on the West Coast, Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District told The Almanac. Though many of these agencies depend on second-hand equipment, the Kings Mountain brigade does not. It buys new equipment, funded principally with tens

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of thousands of dollars in annual proceeds from the Kings Mountain Art Fair (held on the Labor Day weekend), Sullivan says. New equipment was not as critical as local knowledge in fighting the Skeggs fire in the hills above Woodside in early September 2017. A spotter plane from the California Department of Forestry and Fire saw smoke in a wooded area after a series of lightning strikes. Local firefighters surrounded the area to observe the fire overnight, Chief Dan Ghiorso of the Woodside Fire Protection District said at the time. At dawn, six firefighters from the Kings Mountain brigade began hiking in, equipped with chain saws and a familiarity with the area that enabled them to find and fight the fire, according to Ari Delay, fire chief with the volunteer La Honda Fire Brigade. “Local knowledge is invaluable,” he adds. With participation from the Woodside district, state and Marin County firefighters, and prison inmate crews from Northern California — and with the benefit of extremely light winds — the fire was out in three days. Limited access to the fire extended its duration, Sullivan explains, adding that it would have been out in a hour or so had it occurred along a road. The brigade’s routines have changed somewhat from what they were 10 to 15 years ago, when it was not uncommon on warm sunny weekends for EMTs to respond to motorcycle accidents along Skyline Boulevard, Sullivan says. With its long sweeping curves, sparse traffic and not a single stop sign, Skyline is a race track in all but name. Today, with advances in vehicle traction control and with aggressive patrolling by law enforcement, motorcycle accidents “have decreased precipitously. ... It’s not

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nearly as common,” Sullivan says. Mountain bike accidents are common, he says, with injuries ranging from not serious to fatal. The brigade crew possesses at least one skill that may not be common in publicly funded firefighting agencies in the valleys below: adeptness at transporting water to the scene of a fire in a water tender. Driving a tender is tricky, as it is subject to rollovers as the water sways despite devices inside the tank to stabilize it. Because of its uncommon expertise, the Kings Mountain group trains tender drivers in other fire districts, Assistant Chief Hank Stern says. La Honda Fire Brigade Chief Delay showed this reporter a video taken at the San Bruno gas-main fire in 2010 in which a Kings Mountain crew deployed its water tender to douse a raging house fire after the hydrants had gone dry. “There are not many fire districts in the Bay Area that have the skill set to do that,” Stern says of the tender crew’s actions. Management skills are another challenge for a volunteer fire brigade in that the people being managed are volunteers. Legally, they are employees with the same workplace protections as career firefighters, Sullivan says, but they’re unpaid. “It is much more of an art ... to get people to move in a certain direction,” Delay notes. There are no pay incentives at $8 to $12 a call for a couple of hundred calls a year, he says. Help is not hard to find in an emergency, Sullivan says, but the “true hero volunteers are the ones that commit to take the time to take the training.” “Lots of able-bodied people would volunteer, but would they be useful?” he adds. Recruiting, too, is an art. New residents may not realize that a neighbor is also a

Hose-handling skills are basic to learning to fight fires, and practice is as essential for these volunteers as it is for their career counterparts in local fire protection districts.

volunteer firefighter. “Usually we don’t ask,” Assistant Chief King says. “This is a lot to take on. There are people who have a problem saying no.” Firefighters could be on duty for minutes or hours or days. “It’s a big sacrifice,” Assistant Chief Stern says. Delay notes that he has occasionally worked all night as a first-responder, taken a shower and headed off to his day job. Kings Mountain resident and volunteer firefighter Sean Fender, 27, is a fitness instructor at Google and has been a community resident for a year and a half. He is also a Woodside fire district cadet. The one-year cadet program is an introduction to the firefighting life, day-in and day-out, Chief Ghiorso says. Fender said he is working toward a career in firefighting, including becoming a paramedic. He took a break from training at the

brigade station at 13889 Skyline Blvd. to comment on his volunteer service. “I liked the idea of learning the skills and being of use to the community,” he explains. Firefighting “kind of feels more like a calling than anything else.” As first-responders in a small community, volunteer firefighters who are also residents encounter a situation that career firefighters may not see much: familiarity with residents. “Usually when we respond, that’s awkward because they know us,” Sullivan says. “It’s terrible to lose a family member, maybe a small child, and to have one of the responders be your neighbor. You now become, in their mind, affiliated with that tragic event. That’s where it’s difficult.” But such situations do not always end in alienation, Sullivan adds. “In many cases, it’s brought the community members together more.” A

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Local schools struggle with substitute teacher shortage Problem follows trend in San Mateo County schools By Angela Swartz Almanac Staff Writer

idpeninsula schools are having trouble filling substitute teaching positions, making it hard for teachers to take time off when needed. There has been a drastic decline in available substitute teachers in the Menlo Park City School District since the 2014-15 school year, Jammie Behrendt, the district’s assistant superintendent, wrote in an email. There are about 2,900 students in the district, which uses an average of about 15 substitute teachers per day, and sometimes up to 30 when there is a big professional development event,

according to Parke Treadway, the district’s public information officer. The district has a list of about 48 substitutes it frequently calls. It also works with the sub agency Swing Education every day to help fill the need, she said. “(Substitutes) play an important role in making sure that education doesn’t stop for our students when the classroom teacher is away,” Behrendt said. “When we lack guest teachers to cover our classrooms, it can put a strain on the school staff. Menlo Park City School District prides itself as an innovative district where we are able to attract a pool of talented guest teachers. However, even with our faithful guest teachers who return to our

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district year after year, we still experience the shortage.” Schools need substitute teachers when permanent classroom teachers are sick, take a personal day or are out of school for professional development. The number of substitutes the district needs varies from day to day based on what is happening in the district, Behrendt wrote. Even gaining 10 new substitutes would help alleviate the strain, she said. The district is recruiting substitute teachers through its website. One former district sub, Kelly Donohue, said that although her positions with the district were great, and she enjoyed her time with the students and staff, it was always her intention to try to find a permanent position for the following school year. Donohue subbed for the district during the 2012-13 school year. “Subbing does not provide the same kind of salary, steady paychecks, and benefits that a regular teaching position has,” said Donohue, now a high school art teacher in Campbell. “With short-term subbing assignments, you don’t have the time/opportunity to build meaningful relationships with your students ... . You also spend a larger portion of your time on classroom management, which is especially challenging when you don’t know students’ names and haven’t established rapport with them.” Additionally, while staff members are friendly, subs are not at any one school site consistently enough to build relationships with colleagues, she said. “It can feel very lonely and isolating to be a sub,” she said.

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district after they start. The district did an analysis a few years back to be sure it was paying subs enough, she said. The Las Lomitas Elementary School District, which has about 1,260 students, has had trouble securing substitute teachers in previous years, Monica Salas, administrative assistant to the superintendent, said in an email. The district has a list of 33 subs it frequently calls. “We have worked hard and continually advertise and recruit so we have a strong substitute pool to tap from,” she wrote. “So far this academic year we have been able to positively manage our substitute teacher demands.” The Portola Valley School District’s goal is to maintain a list of up to 12 dependable teacher, paraeducator, and/or office staff substitutes at all times, but this is not easy to accomplish, Superintendent Eric Hartwig wrote in an email. There are about 570 students enrolled in the district this school year. The district currently has a list of about 20 subs. “PVSD (Portola Valley School District) runs a continuous posting and interview process for substitutes throughout the year, and continually monitors the local labor market to assure that our pay rates remain competitive,” Hartwig wrote. “The substitute shortage is the same all over San Mateo County— districts compete for those teachers in the area who substitute teach for a living. Good substitutes are in high demand, and will often accept jobs at schools where they may be hoping for regular employment, or are conveniently close to their homes.” A

Sequoia high school district teachers receive 3.5 percent raise By Angela Swartz Almanac Staff Writer

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Donohue is pregnant and eager to find a good substitute to cover her maternity leave. The shortage of substitute teachers is not unique to the Menlo Park City School District— it’s an issue throughout California. “When the economy is doing well, it is often difficult to find substitutes,” Patricia Love, administrator for strategy and communication for the San Mateo County Office of Education, wrote in an email. “When the economy is not doing as well or as more people are between full-time work, we see the number of available substitutes increase. With the state unemployment rate holding at a record low of 4.2 percent for the last few months, this has been a challenge for many counties across the state.” The Woodside Elementary School District, which has about 400 students, began hiring one full-time substitute teacher per year about five or six years ago, said Superintendent Beth Polito. The substitute teacher is a fully benefited staff member. It helps having a sub the district can count on to fill in for other teachers, she said. The district has a list of about 13 subs it uses. It would be helpful to have two or three more substitutes so teachers can attend more training sessions or workshops, she said. “The district is not centrally located, but once we get people in, they stay,” Polito said. She credits pay that is comparable to other districts in the county, along with the students and staff, for keeping substitutes in the

equoia Union High School District teachers are getting a 3.5 percent boost in pay and a new contract after the Board of Trustees signed off on the agreement at its Wednesday, Oct. 24, meeting. Trustees voted 5-0 to approve salary increases negotiated with the Sequoia District Teachers Association, which represents district teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses and others. They also approved a new two-year contract with the association. “We are excited about the agreement,” Superintendent Mary Streshly wrote in an

email. “We absolutely value our teachers and their contributions to the district is one of the main reasons we are known for providing our students with a quality education. I look forward to spending more time in the classrooms and watching our teachers do what they do best.” Union president Edith Salvatore wrote in an email that the association “was pleased by the board’s unanimous approval of the settlement agreement.” “We look forward to continue working together to make Sequoia a district in which both students and employees find conditions that foster success,” Salvatore said. The pay increase is retroactive to July 1, 2018, according to

the agreement summary. The contract runs from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2020. The union’s previous contract ran from July 2016 through June 2018. The new contract maintains benefits from the previous agreement — full coverage for individuals, couples or families up to the cost of the highest HMO premium offered by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). CalPERS manages pension and health benefits for California public employees, retirees and their families. This is the second year in a row union members have received a raise. The board granted the union a 4 percent raise in May 2017 for the 2017-18 school year. A

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Menlo School presents ‘Noises Off’ this weekend By Angela Swartz Almanac Staff Writer

enlo School’s latest theater production, “Noises Off,” is being staged Friday through Sunday, Nov. 16 through 18, at the school. The comedy, by British playwright Michael Frayn, is a three-act play-within-a-play that follows a struggling theater troupe through its dress rehearsal, a near closing-night catastrophe. “There is something to love about every moment in this show,” junior Nils Forstall, who plays Frederick Fellowes in the show, said in a press release. “Whether it’s the drama, building tension, or good old-fashioned slapstick humor, this show is filled with unique hilarity and charm that shouldn’t be missed.” Menlo School’s director of communications Alex Perez, who formerly served as the school’s director of drama and

creative arts, is returning to the director’s chair for this show. Perez chose this show, in part, because of the challenges it presents for the actors. As with all good comedies, this one “relies on precise timing ... and it is very rewarding to see students master the comedic requirements,” Perez said in a press release. Proceeds from the show will go to the Children’s Healing Project, a theater-based therapeutic arts education program for critically ill children hospitalized at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Menlo Drama has raised more than $32,000 over the past five seasons for different nonprofits that align with the theme of the show. Freshmen Tucker Gold and Peter Hanson; sophomore Mack Ford; juniors Ethan Bernheim and Nils Forstall; and seniors Maddie Bernheim, Jordan Gold, Beth Sanford and Braedon Young are in the cast. Showtimes are: Friday, Nov.

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From left, Braedon Young, Beth Sanford, Maddie Bernheim, Nils Forstall, Peter Hanson, Mack Ford, Tucker Gold, Jordan Gold and Ethan Bernheim rehearse for “Noises Off.”

16, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at store.

menloschool.org and will also be available at the door one hour before each performance. The production is suitable for middle school students and older students and adults.

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A chat with Anna Eshoo: A ‘great role model’ for girls By Fiona Lempres Special to The Almanac

hen I found out Congresswoman Anna Eshoo was coming to Sacred Heart School in Atherton, I really wanted to interview her because she is a great role model for young girls. Congresswoman Eshoo represents us in the U.S. Congress. It was an honor to meet her.

iona: Thank you for your time, Congresswoman Eshoo. So, what was your childhood like?

ep. Eshoo: I was very happy and very well-loved. I was the first-born and I had two siblings, a brother and a sister. We are still very close.

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iona: What inspired you to be a congresswoman?

ep. Eshoo: I think I would trace it back to my parents and their patriotism. They loved our country so much. They never wanted to be elected or appointed to anything, but they were always giving and doing

things in the community — in our parish, in our town, and at charitable events. They were always giving of themselves and they taught us that.

favorite place to go in the Bay Area?

iona Oh, because you travel so much. What obstacles have you faced being in Congress?

iona: So I’m guessing your favorite holiday is Fourth of July?

ep. Eshoo: Oh, I love all of the holidays. Each one has a special meaning and a different meaning. Fourth of July for me was so much fun because we were at the shore in Connecticut — that is where I was born and raised. So there was always a wonderful parade. When I look back at the parade, it was a teeny tiny parade but I thought it was a big deal. There was a fife and drum corps. You really don’t hear of fife and drum corps in California but you do in New England because they are the derivative of what took place when our country was founded. So the Fourth of July was a great deal of fun. There were a lot of contests, ice cream, roasting of hot dogs, marching in the parade — it was terrific.

iona: Oh, my mom’s from Connecticut! Where is your

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ep. Eshoo: Well I don’t think it’s particularly easy being a woman in Congress — it has improved but there are still hangovers from the past.

iona: What inspirational things would you say to young girls who would potentially like to be in Congress?

ep. Eshoo: Well, I would like young girls and young women to know that the sky is the limit for them, and that they should reach for the stars. And not allow anyone or anything to diminish their dreams. A Fiona Lempres is a fourthgrader at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton. She lives in Atherton with her parents, Mike and Stephanie.

Fadiman films screened Nov. 14 Screening part of new film series, ‘Cinema Conversation and Coffee’ By Kate Bradshaw Almanac Staff Writer

ittle House in Menlo Park is starting two documentary film series that will be held the first and third Wednesday of each month. The first Wednesday will be the “UNAFF for Seniors” — short for United Nations Association Film Festival — program, and on the third Wednesday there will be a “Cinema Conversation and Coffee” event. UNAFF events are free and start at 1:30 p.m. Access the screening schedule for the first six months at is.gd/unaff498. The Cinema Conversation and Coffee events will be held

the third Wednesday of each month beginning in December; the first such program is scheduled for Nov. 14. Cinema Conversation and Coffee starts at 1 p.m. and is free for Little House members or $3 for nonmembers. Judy Adams is volunteering to organize the film series and said in a statement that she and Little House Program Coordinator Kamilah Najieb-Wachob are open to community suggestions. “It’s a great location with available parking, wonderful staff, and I already have a possible donation of a large screen and video equipment that we will be checking out in the facility later this fall,” Adams said.

Funding to build affordable housing available through city The city of Menlo Park has released a “notice of funding availability” — a call for agencies to apply for funding — for affordable housing projects. The city currently has about $11.5 million in funds available. Funding comes from the city’s “Below Market Rate” housing

fund, which includes fees collected from housing developments of 10 or more units and per-squarefoot fees collected from commercial and industrial developments. The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31. Go to is.gd/nofa131 for more information.

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m. there will be screenings of two films by Menlo Park filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman, who is scheduled to introduce them in person. Both are about women overcoming disabilities: “The Annie Gill Story: If Just One Person Believes in You” (15 minutes), about a young blind and braininjured woman’s full life with the support of friends and family; and “Moment by Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale” (56 minutes), the story of a determined woman’s physical and psychological recovery from a spinal cord injury. Little House is located at 800 Middle Ave. in Menlo Park. A

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What: “All the Way”

‘All the Way’ dramatizes Johnson’s early days in office by Karla Kane

Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

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n November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas, his life and the nation’s glamorous “Camelot” period cut down in its prime. Left to take up the mantle of his leadership was his Texan vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who became commander in chief in the wake of Kennedy’s death and found himself in a position of huge power at a critical time for America. This is the period in which Robert Schenkkan’s “All the Way,” currently staged by Palo Alto Players, is set. The show is a dense, intense look at Johnson’s first year in office, from JFK’s brutal assassination to LBJ’s landslide victory in the 1964 election. Michael Monagle stars in the lead role of LBJ with a cast portraying a gaggle of politicians, activists and other characters of historical significance, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Senator Strom Thurmond, F.B.I Director J. Edgar Hoover and many others. Palo Alto Players’ production is a smart and welcome addition to election-season entertainment options, if a bit of a slog at times for those not fascinated by the workings of government (Palo Alto City Council members and candidates were special guests in the audience on opening night). Much of the play focuses on Johnson’s determination to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had been proposed by Kennedy but is languishing in

Congress thanks to filibusters. By passing the bill, Johnson aims to “out-Roosevelt Roosevelt and outLincoln Lincoln.” Thwarted by pro-segregationists at every turn, LBJ manages to push the bill forward thanks in part to his mix of compromising and deal-making, bullying and keen understanding of the legislative process. Though it obviously wasn’t a cure for the nation’s systemic racism (and sexism and other prejudices), the passing of the Civil Rights Act was a major advancement. It also led the way for some of Johnson’s other “Great Society” domestic programs: ambitious policies with the goals of eliminating poverty, improving health care, education and the environment and further working toward equality and social justice. So, it’s a plot worth rooting for. “All the Way” dramatizes Johnson’s struggles with the racist, southern leaders of his own Democratic party, who are desperate to hang on to segregation. In one powerful scene, these hissworthy congressman discuss how they’re going to stop civil rights as an African-American (Remi Ferguson, who also portrays Bob Moses) silently shines their shoes. As a proud southerner, LBJ is on friendly terms with these folks and wary of losing their support, but is willing to do so for the sake of advancing the progressive agenda (this lays out very clearly

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Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Tom Gough) and President Lyndon B. Johnson (Michael Monagle) convene in Palo Alto Players’ “All the Way.”

how the South, having voted Democrat for years, switches over to the Republican side). He also has to wheel and deal with Republicans in order to gain their support. On the other side, he must tend his alliance with the more liberal wing of his own party, headed by his future V.P., Senator Hubert Humphrey (Tom Gough), whom he alternately courts and manipulates, and the powerful Civil Rights movement, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Fred Pitts). King is having struggles of his own, trying to reconcile his message of nonviolence with those who yearn for more radical action. The first half of the show is the more compelling, and it could have satisfactorily ended after act one. In fact, some of the audience members on opening night did indeed think the show was over at intermission. The second act, which chronicles the Freedom Summer, the fight over whether to seat Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates at the Democratic convention and Johnson’s presidential campaign, including challenges from segregationist

Alabama governor George Wallace and arch-conservative Barry Goldwater, drags in the middle, although spirited performances and deft direction by Peter Allas help. Projections by Randy WongWestbrooke set the scenes and liven up the atmosphere, including a video of LBJ’s infamously ominous “Daisy” commercial (the one with the little girl and the atomic bomb). And the conclusion (it’s not a spoiler if it’s part of history), in which LBJ is left feeling ambivalent about his future, despite his resounding electoral victory, works well. Although there is big cast of interesting characters, “All the Way” is most definitely LBJ’s show. At first Monagle’s performance as Johnson struck me as reminiscent of Dana Carvey imitating George Bush on “Saturday Night Live,” but as time went on, I was able to enjoy and accept him as the larger-than-life president, a man so different, thanks to his folksy and downright crude mannerisms, from his charming and upper-crust predecessor but who, behind the good-old-boy veneer, was fiercely intelligent

and a master politician. Monagle’s Johnson is no saint. However, he’s genuinely concerned with doing his job as president well and making the country better, even at the expense of his political alliances and personal health. He’s also quite funny, with plenty of snappy quips and Southern-fried wisdom. Pitts, as King, has a hard job portraying such an iconic figure and again I struggled at first with him in the role, but he, too, does well at making the revered leader human. Gough is likeable and admirable as whipping-boy Humphrey, and Shannon Turner shines in a brief but powerful appearance as Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Gwendolyne Wagner, as first lady Ladybird Johnson, is mostly a token supportive figure but we do get to see a bit of her own grit and power. All in all, “All the Way” is an impressive production and well worth seeing, especially against the backdrop of our own politically tense time. Johnson’s legacy has been tainted by the disastrous Vietnam War, which is foreshadowed in the play. But this examination of his early days in office is a good look back at his important role in advancing the United States forward. A Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

‘The Ghost Train’ comes to Hillview Hillview Middle School’s drama program will put on a production of the comedy thriller “The Ghost Train” Nov. 15 through 17. The play, by Arnold Ridley, follows a group of travelers who are stranded at a remote haunted railway station in 1920s England. “’The Ghost Train’ is simple stylistically, but has many technical challenges for young actors, like dense dialogue, noir style and character-driven humor,” Bill Hairton, the drama director at Hillview, wrote in an email. “There is a good balance of characters and parts for girls and boys,” he wrote. “And, maybe most importantly, it isn’t heavy on romance — always a plus in middle school! It has great suspense and audiences

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Hillview Middle School students Carolyn Sanie, left, and Emma Holmes rehearse.

love it. This production marks the third time I’ve directed it with kids, and I performed in it myself professionally more

than 20 years ago. It’s definitely close to my heart!” Tickets are $5 for the matinee on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 3:30 p.m. The ticket price includes pizza. Tickets are $12 for children and $15 for adults during the other showings. The other showtimes are as follows: Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at tiny url.com/ ydeqw6ck, at the door one hour before curtain time, or at lunchtime at Hillview from Nov. 13 through 15. The performances will be at the Hillview Middle School Performing Arts Center, 1100 Elder Ave. in Menlo Park. — By Angela Swartz

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Theater 3DOR $OWR 3OD\HUV 3UHVHQWV Âś$OO 7KH :D\Âˇ The Palo Alto Players present â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the Way,â&#x20AC;? a play telling the story of Lyndon B. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first year in office and his efforts for civil rights legislation. The play is recommended for ages 13 and up, as it contains strong language and mature themes. Through Nov. 18, times vary. $25-$52. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. paplayers.org Âś&LUTXH /HYLRVD Âˇ Âś$ :L]DUGLQJ :RUOG RI +DUU\ 3RWWHUÂˇ WKHPHG VKRZ The Dragon Theatre performs â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cirque Leviosa!,â&#x20AC;? a show based on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wizarding World of Harry Potter.â&#x20AC;? The circus will include witches, wizards and characters from the stories of Harry Potter. Nov. 14, 18 and 21; times vary. $20$25. Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City. dragonproductions.net Âś*LUOV .LOO 1D]LVÂˇ In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Girls Kill Nazisâ&#x20AC;? by James Kopp, the American Nazi Party has been elected to the highest office in the United States. Nazi law is now American law. But the women of the Book Club of Bisbee, Arizona, are fighting back, in part by killing Nazis and storing their decapitated heads in jars. Through Dec. 2, times vary. $15 preview, $35 opening, discounts for seniors/ students. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. thepear.org Âś. Âˇ D SOD\ E\ 3DWULFN 0H\HUV Stranded on an icy ledge at 27,000 feet on K2, the second highest mountain in the world, two climbers are in serious trouble. Harold, a nuclear physicist, has broken his leg and Taylor, a district attorney, is trying to retrieve a critical rope to be able to descend the mountain. The play examines survival, friendship and meaningful existence against the backdrop of one of the deadliest places on earth. Through Dec. 1, 8-9:30 p.m. $15$35. Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City. dragonproductions.net/boxoffice/vbo-test.html 0XVLFDO Âś+DLUVSUD\Âˇ Menlo-Atherton High School Drama presents their musical production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hairspray.â&#x20AC;? Appropriate for all ages. Through Nov. 18, times vary. $10-$15. Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton. bit. ly/hairspray-tix

Concerts 0LNH *DOLVDWXV %LJ %DQG )HDWXULQJ 9RFDOLVW 'XDQH /DZUHQFH Original and contemporary compositions will be led by Mike Galisatus, freelance trumpeter and College of San Mateo director of bands. Nov. 18, 7 p.m. $10. Angelicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 863 Main St., Redwood City. 7KH )RXU :RRGV Local, woodwind band the Four Woods will perform their holiday program including Baroque, Classical and Jean Jean, a French composer. The program also includes jazz pieces and a Beatles song. Nov. 16, 1-2 p.m. Woodside Library, 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside. Âś7KH 1XWFUDFNHUÂˇ The Western Ballet Company will perform Tchaikovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nutcrackerâ&#x20AC;? at the Menlo Park library after hours. The showing is a short dress rehearsal preview of the full stage production. Nov. 15, 7-7:30 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org 2VKPDQ )DPLO\ -&& 3UHVHQWV 'DQLHO .DKQ 7KH 3DLQWHG %LUG The Oshman Family JCC presents Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird. The klezmer band mixes Jewish folk music, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk rock. Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. $25 General, $20 JCC Members and J-Pass holders. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc.org/Event 5HGZRRG 6\PSKRQ\ Âł +D\GQ DQG 0DKOHU Redwood Symphony presents a program featuring works by Haydn and Mahler. Kindra Scharich and David Gustafson will be featured as soloists. Nov. 17, 8-10 p.m. Tickets up to $35. Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City. redwoodsymphony.org/concerts

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Friday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Cafe Zoe, 1929 Menalto Ave., Menlo Park. Search facebook.com/events for more info.

Talks & Lectures

$OLVRQ +DUW DW %RRNV ,QF 3DOR $OWR Local poet and writer Alison Hart shares her work of literary fiction, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mostly White,â&#x20AC;? which begins in 1890 when Emma, a mixed-race Native-American and African-American girl, is beaten by nuns and confined in a closet for speaking her language at an Indian residential school in Maine. Nov. 14, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event 6KRUHQVWHLQ -RXUQDOLVP $ZDUG 3DQHO 'LVFXVVLRQ Âś+RZ 1RUWK .RUHD ,V DQG ,VQÂˇW &KDQJLQJ 8QGHU .LP -RQJ 8QÂˇ The talk will feature Anna Fifield, Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post, veteran North Korea watcher and 2018 Shorenstein Journalism Award winner. Nov. 14, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Fisher Conference Center, 326 Galvez St., Stanford. aparc.fsi. stanford.edu/events 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 7UDFL &KHH ZLWK (ULQ 6XPPHULOO Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will celebrate the launch of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Storyteller,â&#x20AC;? Traci Cheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conclusion to the epic that began with the New York Times bestselling fantasy â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Reader.â&#x20AC;? Nov. 16, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. &DIH 6FLHQWLILTXH &UHDWLYLW\ DQG WKH %UDLQ ZLWK 0DQLVK 6DJJDU Dr. Manish Saggar will discuss work he did in collaboration with Stanford to understand how creativity is manifested in the brain and which brain regions could facilitate enhancement in creativity. Nov. 14, 6-7 p.m. Free. Stanford Blood Center, 3373 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto.

Museums & Exhibits

Âś%ODFNERDUGÂˇ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blackboardâ&#x20AC;? brings together works that imitate, resemble or feature a blackboard, to consider the relationship between art and education. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;blackboardsâ&#x20AC;? on view interrogate schooling, authority, literacy, form and color. Through Jan. 27. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum. stanford.edu/exhibitions .DKOLO -RVHSK Âś%/.1:6Âˇ Kahlil Joseph, a visiting artist in the new Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts program, is presenting his work â&#x20AC;&#x153;BLKNWS,â&#x20AC;? a twochannel video projection that is displayed at the Cantor now, at the Cantor Arts Center. The two-channel broadcast blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship and cultural critique. Through June 16, times vary. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum. stanford.edu/exhibitions 3DLQWLQJ 1DWXUH LQ WKH $PHULFDQ *LOGHG $JH The Cantor Arts Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest exhibition will consider how nature was depicted by American artists from the 1880s to 1910, an era of unprecedented industrialization and urban development. Through landscapes, portraits and still lifes, the exhibition will delve into the importance of nature for artists and the public. Through Aug. 25, times vary. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford. edu/exhibitions 3XEOLF 7RXU $XJXVWH 5RGLQ This exhibition celebrates Auguste Rodinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pursuit to convey complex emotions, diverse psychological states and sensuality through the nude. A century after his death, Auguste Rodin continues to be recognized for making figurative sculpture modern by redefining the expressive capacity of the human form. Sundays, 3 p.m.; Wednesdays, 2 p.m.; Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. Search events.stanford.edu for more info.

Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement STAR POOLS SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279339 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Star Pools Service, located at 1490 Kavanaugh Dr., E. Palo Alto, CA 94303, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): MARVIN A. CERRATO HERNANDEZ 1490 Kavanaugh Dr. E. Palo Alto, CA 94303 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 October 30, 2018. (ALM Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018) AGUILAR TRUCKING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279209 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Aguilar Trucking, located at 637 Villa St. Apt. #1, Daly City, CA 94014, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): JUAN CARLOS AGUILAR AGUILAR 637 Villa St. Apt. #1 Daly City, CA 94014 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/19/18. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on October 19, 2018. (ALM Oct. 31; Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2018) MENDOZAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT #2 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279146 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Mendozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant #2, located at 3200 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): MARIA G. BETANCOURT C. 811 Koshare St. Gilroy, CA 95020 ALICIA GALLEGOS 3209 Maple Leaf Ct. San Jose, CA 95121 This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. 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 October 15, 2018. (ALM Oct. 31; Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2018) INSIGHT BOOKS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279246 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Insight Books, located at 152 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Mailing Address: PO Box 2345, Menlo Park, CA 94026, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): CHARLOTTE LOOMIS 152 Willow Road 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 October 23, 2018. (ALM Oct. 31; Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2018) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 258262 The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). MAGGIE FOARD REGISTRANTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NAME(S): MAGGIE FOARD 265 Portola State Park Rd. La Honda, CA 94020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): PORTOLA VALLEY FARMERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MARKET 265 Portola State Park Rd. La Honda, CA 94020 FILED IN SAN MATEO COUNTY ON: 6/13/13. THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of San Mateo County on October 16, 2018. (ALM Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018)

CRYPTO MARKETING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279364 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Crypto Marketing, located at 157 Bellevue Ave., Daly City, CA 94014, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): BRYAN JUDSON HAUPT 157 Bellevue Daly City, CA 94014 This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on October 31, 2018. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on Oct. 31, 2018. (ALM Nov. 14, 21, 28; Dec. 5, 2018) CAMINO VILLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 279396 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Camino Villaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, located at 1280 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA 94030, San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): TINA FATICA 155 Tiptoe Lane Burlingame, CA 94010 MARGARET BENEDETTI 2750 Belmont Cyn. Rd. Belmont, CA 94002 MARY DELUCA 175 Tiptoe Lane Burlingame, CA 94010 This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. 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 November 2, 2018. (ALM Nov. 14, 21, 28; Dec. 5, 2018)

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.: 18CIV05417 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: STUART TODD RADER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: STUART TODD RADER to TODD STUART RADER. 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: November 27, 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: October 12, 2018 /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (ALM Oct. 31; Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2018)

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Continued from previous page Public Tour: Contact Warhol: Photography Without End The exhibition brings to life Warhol’s many interactions with the social and celebrity elite of his time with portraits of stars such as Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli and Dolly Parton; younger sensations in the art world such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat; and political stars, including Nancy Reagan, Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Select days through Jan. 6, 2:30 p.m. Free. 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. events.stanford. edu/events/808/80855 9LQWDJH 7R\V ,W·V &KLOG·V 3OD\ The museum will be showing a variety of antique toys that belonged to children in the past. This exhibition will cover the origins of playtime, toy factories, toy trains, builder toys and more. This exhibit aims to evoke childhood memories over the decades. Through Feb. 17, times vary. Free. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. moah.org

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Saluting Those Who Serve Those who have served in the military will be honored at Lifetree Cafe. A screening of the short film “Memories of the Tuskegee Airmen” includes interviews with surviving airmen and shares the story of their struggle as black Americans to serve their country as pilots during World War I. Nov. 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Bethany Church, 1095 Cloud Ave., Menlo Park. vimeo.com/292326506 Cinema, Conversation and Coffee: Documentary Film Series at Menlo 3DUN·V /LWWOH +RXVH $FWLYLW\ 6HQLRU Center Menlo Park filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman introduces and discusses her films, “The Annie Gill Story” that demonstrates what loving support means for a blind, brain-injured woman. “Moment by Moment” follows Molly Hales’ healing journey after a devastating spinal cord injury. Nov. 14, 1-3:30 p.m. Free, $3 donation for nonmembers. Little House Activity/Senior Center, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park.

Food & Drink /HIW %DQN %UDVVHULH 0HQOR 3DUN WR +RVW %HDXMRODLV 1RXYHDX &HOHEUDWLRQ Left Bank Brasserie Menlo Park will celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau, or the “first wine” of the harvest season. They will feature Beaujolais Nouveau 2018 by the glass, carafe and bottle. A tasting flight of four Beaujolais wines and a seasonally inspired threecourse prix fixe menu will also be available. There will be complimentary wine tastings from 6 to 9 p.m. and live music. Nov. 15, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Left Bank Brasserie Menlo Park, 635 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. leftbank.com 7KDQNVJLYLQJ /XQFKHRQ Little House will hold a Thanksgiving luncheon with a menu that includes turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce, garden salad, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie. Nov. 19, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $10-$12. Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. Little House The Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park. business.menloparkchamber.com

Lessons & Classes Soil, the Soul of your Garden: The +RZV DQG :K\V RI %XLOGLQJ +HDOWK\ Soil Gamble Garden Director Richard Hayden will explain what it takes to create and maintain healthy soils. Topics will include soil testing, soil structure and compaction, the importance of microorganisms, how to deal with clay soils, mulching and composting methods and applications. Nov. 17, 9:30-11:30 a.m. $20-$30. Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. gamblegarden.org/event 2QH RQ 2QH 5HVXPH 5HYLHZ Sign-up for an appointment with our volunteer, who will review your resume, and make recommendations on how to improve your resume to make it stand out. Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Jobtrain, 1200 O’Brien Drive, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info.

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7KDQNVJLYLQJ +LNH The Northern California chapter of Bliss and Wisdom Young Adults will host a hike at Wunderlich County Park in celebration of Thanksgiving. There will be a carpool available from Cupertino, followed by the hike and then a dinner. Nov.17, 1:15-5 p.m. Free. Wunderlich County Park, 4040 Woodside Road, Woodside. Search eventbrite.com for more info.

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Moss Beach | $4,800,000 This spectacular three bedroom, three and one-half bath oceanfront luxury home is perched high atop a bluff overlooking the coastline. Features include three master suites, each with its own marble bathroom, and towering custom cherry cabinets in the kitchen. Located just 23 miles from San Francisco, the home provides an unmatched view of the Paciﬁc Ocean. The Rain Team 650.888.6903 TheRainTeam@Coastal-RealEstate.com CalRE #01169588 | CalRE #01125976

Portola Valley | $3,850,000 This updated three bedroom, two bath hilltop home offers gorgeous views. The lovely open floorplan features a fireplace, kitchen island, dining room and glass-enclosed seating area. The tasteful landscaping includes a waterfall and a Koi pond. In the backyard, a flagstone patio and decks offer peaceful sitting areas to reflect and restore the soul. Barbara Chang 650.947.2286 barbara.chang@cbnorcal.com CalRE #01361912

Los Gatos | $2,499,000 This remodeled and private 4 bedroom, 2.1 bath Los Gatos home is set on a peaceful cul-de-sac next to a beautiful creek. The home includes gleaming hardwood ﬂoors throughout, formal living and dining rooms and a family room ideal for entertaining. The kitchen and baths have been updated and remodeled. It is near Los Gatos schools, Blossom Hill Park and commute routes. Sold in 13 days - Over list! Shannon Susick 408.316.9559 Shannon.Susick@cbnorcal.com CalRE #02024635

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Mountain View | $1,998,000 This remodeled 3br/2ba Mid-Century Modern Monta Loma home boasts high ceilings and laminate ﬂoors. The home was completed with the highest quality design and ﬁnish details that artfully combine indoor and outdoor living, which is preserved in the expansive windows. The kitchen features white quartz counters and stainless steel appliances. The master bedroom has a walk-in closet and a white tile bathroom. Farideh Zamani 650.814.6433 Farideh.Zamani@cbnorcal.com CalRE #1364595

Emerald Hills | $1,998,000 Three bedrooms, two and one-half bath home with formal entry, vaulted ceiling and corner wood-burning ﬁreplace. The living room opens to a private deck. The kitchen has granite counters and a pantry. Other features: dining room, family room, 2 master walk-in closets & tub, a guest room with a Murphy bed, a multi-use room under the home and spectacular bay views. Handley Rock Park is across the street. Michelle Glaubert 650.722.1193 glaubert@pacbell.net CalRE #00646669

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