MAY 2018 • VOLUME 4 • NUMBER 4
02 Publisher’s Corner EVENTS CALENDAR 04 Events-Past, Upcoming & Ongoing COMMUNITY 10 Lottie Kirk Celebrates Her Centennial Birthday 12 Hotel Nia Now Open In Menlo Park 13 Select Community Benefit Sections Of The City Of Menlo Park And Bohannon Development Company Development Agreement 14 Did You Know?......Should You Care? 15 Sponsored Employment Program (SEP) A Summer Youth Employment Program Enters Its 13Th Year 16 Local Heroes 2018 Awards Screening And Reception 17 The Midpeninsula Community Media Center
OBITUARY 18 Sergeant, Lieutenant, Commander And Interim Chief Rahn Sibley Dies 20 Daniel Thompson - September 1962 - 2018 COMMUNITY 21 Aft{War}Ds Support Group Holds Its Second Annual Grief Awareness Picnic 22 Mi-Pueblo Loses Identity In Merger With Cardenas Markets MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD 1
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From the Publisher
P
alo Alto Park Mutual Water Company needs to change some of its practices. Water from its taps was undrinkable from as far back as 1985 when I lived within the water company boundaries. Over 30 years later I still encounter residents from some of the 650 homes it serves who complain about the drinkability of the company’s water. Some are even doubtful as to whether the water is appropriate for cooking. As a renter, during the time I lived within the company’s boundaries, I was not considered a shareholder and therefore did not qualify to vote in the company’s annual elections nor did I merit receiving any information from the water company regarding any water-related-matters. The company holds annual meetings and at some of those meetings shareholders elect, from amongst them, members to the board of directors. Shareholders unable to attend such meetings for whatever reasons are allowed to vote by proxy. A proxy is a recognized written authorization allowing a shareholder to delegate another shareholder to vote on his or her behalf. In the last two recent elections it became clear that the proxy voting system was not working as well as shareholders may have liked. Prior to the the annual election in September parties interested in replacing the current board as well as those seeking status quo spent inordinate number of days and weeks literally walking door to door to get people to sign off their proxy votes to them. Proxy voting has unfortunately been systematically used by parties interested in controlling the affairs of the company to seize or attempt to seize control of the board and the management of the company. I think the company should amend its by-laws and discontinue proxy voting or amend the requirement as to who should be granted the proxy vote. Renters should be allowed to be proxies or to vote as interested parties at the company’s annual meetings. After all they have the most interest in the services the water company provides. While such practices such as hiring of relatives and friends and or appointing relatives to the board of directors may not constitute any violation of the law, ultimately the perception the public as to the inappropriateness of such practices is what should count. But in the final analysis, proxy voting or not, renter voting or not, change has to occur at the water company as long as people cannot drink or cook with the water that comes into their homes. Arguing that it meets state regulatory standards in terms of quality does not hold any water….so to speak.
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EVENTS CALENDAR | EVENTS-PAST, UPCOMING & ONGOING
Wonder of Trees Gala, Canopy, 5:00 -8:00 P.M.-Hotel Nia 200 Independence Drive, Menlo Park
Tuesday, April 3
The Bay Area Premier of “I am MLK Jr” Documentary, 2:00-9:30 p.m., CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford.
Thursday, April 19
EPACENTER ARTS Open House, the Girls Club of the Mid-Peninsula 2400 Ralmar Avenue, Menlo Park 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 21
Homebuyer Resources “Tips, recommendation and strategies to become a happy homeowner,” Keller Williams Realty, 505 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, RSVP by April 17 Voice: 650-429-8088, Text:(650-271-2845), E-mail: jtjones@Kw.com.
Wednesday, April 25 Saturday, April 7
MLK50th Music Commemoration Outdoor Festival 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. University Circle, 1900 University Avenue, East Palo Alto.
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West Bay Sanitary District Regular Meeting and Public Hearing on Proposed Increase in Sewer Service Charges fees for District Customers for
EVENTS-PAST, UPCOMING & ONGOING | EVENTS CALENDAR fiscal year 2018/19, 7:00 p.m., West Bay Sanitary District Administration Building, 500 Laurel Street, Menlo Park.
Thursday, May 3
10th Anniversary Celebration Honoring Joan Platt and Caretha and Ken Coleman, Lewis and Joan Platt East Palo Alto Family YMCA, 550 Bell Street, East Palo Alto, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Friday, May 4
Bike to Work Day. East Palo Alto locations will be at: Woodland and University; Post office at Bay and University; Bike Trail at Illinois and Bay; Friendship Bridge Bay Trail at end of O’Connor Street (near the pump station).
Saturday, April 28
Community Fair, Belle Haven Child Development Center Plaza. 11:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m., Free tables, chairs and canopy for vendors. Call 650-330-2245 or e-mail rdhoward@menlopark.org.
Saturday, May 5
A grief support group picnic, Aft(WAR)ds Karl Clark Park in Menlo Park, 12:00-4:00 p.m.
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EVENTS CALENDAR | EVENTS-PAST, UPCOMING & ONGOING Sunday, May 6
Ravenswood High School Alumni Association, Inc 26th Annual Scholarship Fundraiser, Bay Café Restaurant & Banquets, 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Call 650-796-5224.
Saturday, May 12
“How to Maximize your profit when you sell!,” Keller Williams Realty, 505 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, 1:00 -3:00 p.m. Call: 650-429-8088, Text: 650-271-2845.
Thursday, May 17
11th Annual Family Awareness Night, East Palo Alto Behavioral Health Advisory Group, 1195 Hamilton Court, Facebook Willow Campus/MPK 45 5:30- 8.00 P.M.
Sunday, May 6
33rd East Palo Alto’s Cinco de Mayo Festival, Bell Street Park, East Palo Alto, Comite Latino
Friday, May 18
34th Annual OICW/JobTrain Breakfast of Champions Honoring Mayor Ruben Abrica and Project WeHOPE, Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, 7.30-9.30 A.M.
Saturday, May 19
12 Annual Local Heroes 2018 Awards Screening & Reception, Midpen Media Center, The Midpen Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Wednesday, May 8, 9 & 10
Palo Alto Park Mutual Water Company court-ordered shareholder meeting, 2190 Addison Avenue, Est Palo Alto 11:00 A.M.
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Thursday, May 24
San Mateo County 66th Annual Meeting SMCU Corporate Office 350
EVENTS-PAST, UPCOMING & ONGOING | EVENTS CALENDAR Convention Way, Redwood City, 5.30 P.M.
Saturday, June 2
upcomingEvents
“Second Home or investments?!,” Keller Williams Realty, 505 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, 1:00 -3:00 p.m. Call: 650-4298088 Text: 650-271-2845.
Saturday June 9-17
Celebrate African American History Past & Present. 12:00-6:00 P.M. Domini Hoskins Black History Museum & Learning Center, Fiesta Hall 3146 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. For more information visit www.sanmateountyfair. com or call Carolyn Hoskins (650)921-4191
Fresh Approach Farmers Market, (Sponsored by Facebook) Sundays, o 10:30 -11:45 a.m., St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto. o 12:30-1:30 p.m. East Palo Alto Senior Center, 560 Bell Street, East Palo Alto. o 9:00-10:00 a.m. Belle Haven Public Library, 413 Ivy Drive, Menlo Park.
Kiwanis Club of East Palo Alto/ Ecumenical Hunger Program/St. Francis of Assisi Free Weekly Dinner, every Wednesday from 5-7 p.m., St. Francis of Assisi, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto.
East Palo Alto Community Farmer’s Market, Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m.2:00 p.m. Ravenswood Family Health Center, 1885 Bay Road, East Palo Alto.
Saturday, July 14
Jazz in July-Live Music and hors d’oeuvres, Palo Alto Masonic Lodge, 461 Florence Street, Palo Alto, Sponsored by Keller Williams Realty, 6:00 -9:00 p.m., Call: 650-429-8088 Text: 650-2712845.
Project Read English Conversation Club, every Wednesday from 5-6 p.m., Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma Street, Menlo Park, (650) 330-2525.
ONGOING MEETINGS
A Healing from Loss support group for anyone suffering from trauma, violence, homicide or other tragic incidents, every Wednesday, 7-8.30 p.m., St. Francis of Assisi Parish, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, call (650)921-0032.
Kiwanis Club of the Bayshore Community-East Palo Alto, every 1st and 3rd Mondays, 12 -1:30 p.m., Bay Café, 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, (650) 366-1818.
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A worker breaks up the concrete at the former bus stop in front of the McDonalds on Bay Road.
The bus stop in front of McDonalds on Bay Road is eliminated. The bus stop which occupied a portion of the restaurants property and was the hanging out location for individuals probably engaged in illicit activities has been removed. The temporary replacement bus stop is currently located midway between Mcdonalds and Gloria Way. A worker is seen here tearing out the concrete flooring of the stop.
Gloria Hernandez-Goff who has been superintendent of the Ravenswood City School District since September 1, 2013 has a new two-year contract. In a 3-1 vote on April 26 with Trustee Gaona-Mendoza dissenting and Trustee Marcelino Lopez absent the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education voted to renew the contract. Her contract was scheduled to end in June. The vote came after weeks of certain segments of the community including the teacher’s union being upset over Hernandez-Goff’s leadership.
Anthony Johnson leads the 2018 Ravenswood Little League teams.
The Ravenswood Little League had its opening season parade on Saturday March 12. A shadow of its former self, the local little league has shrunk dramatically in players in the last few years. Not long ago its parades had many floats and participants and it fielded quite a large number of teams. Its parades were usually in April but in the last few years it has struggled. 8 MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD
Who’s Who In The City Of East Palo Alto’s History Of Change And Betterment? Many have been involved over the years to create East Palo Alto and to influence policies targeting the betterment of its residents. Many of those people may be known, but quite a few remain unknown. In the July Issue of El Ravenswood, we intend to print the names and possibly pictures of those people who we would agree/or disagree were instrumental in making the City of East Palo Alto what it is today. To be able to compile such a list, we need your help. Please submit names of persons with a brief description what you think they did for East Palo Alto. You can submit by e-mail, voice-mail or the US postal service. email: info@eastpaloaltoinformation.com | Phone: 650-323-4477 | US Postal Service: El Ravenswood P.O. Box 50849 Palo Alto, CA 94303
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Lottie Kirk Celebrates Her Centennial Birthday By El Ravenswood Staff
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hey came from St. Louis, Missouri, from San Antonio, Texas, from cities and communities throughout California. They gathered in a restaurant in Palo Alto April 21 to honor Ms. Lottie Kirk. People of all ethnic backgrounds, of all ages, all brought together by a sense of gratitude for the manner in which Ms. Lottie Kirk and her late husband, Solomon Kirk, had touched and changed their lives. Kenneth A. Johnson Jr. came with his wife and son from St. Louis, Missouri, confessing that he could not miss his and his son’s godmother’s birthday for anything in this world. She was born in Marks, Mississippi on April 25, 1918 to an angry 15 year-old mother and an itinerant bigamist father. She was raised by her grandmother in Popular Bluff and St. Louis in Missouri and attended school only up to eighth grade. Her grandmother unfortunately passed away when Lottie was 13 years old. As a child she learnt how to sew from her grandmother and developed a passion for the craft that led her to trade school to become a seamstress.
COMMUNITY She met Robert S. Kirk in 1949 and they got married in 1955. She was later to describe him as “a kind, loving and generous man from whom I learnt to be the person that I am.” With his encouragement, she started La Modiste, French for ‘a maker of fashionable dresses.’ Sewing, which she still does today, remains, for her, a source of great enjoyment and comfort. She still sews many of her own dresses. Lottie and Solomon moved to California in 1959 and were well-known for their generosity to both family and strangers. Nevida Butler, who became the first Executive Director of the Ecumenical Hunger Program, remembers landing in East Palo Alto with three children and not a cent in her pocket and how Lottie and Solomon took care of them until they could get on their feet. “They even lent me money to put in my bank account so that I could purchase my first home in East Palo Alto” she said. Solomon Kirk worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital and it was not uncommon for him to bring veterans, with no close relatives in the area, to their home during holidays for some of what became well-sought-after home cooked meals prepared by Lottie. Michael Mackie of Jones Mortuary fame met the Kirk’s when he was 16 at the behest of one of Mr. Kirk’s nieces who believed that he shared such likeness with Mr. Kirk that he could have passed as his son. From that initial meeting, Mr. Mackie was accepted as a son and he remembers that as a young teenager he borrowed their cars as if they were his own. “They loved and trusted me as if I was their biological son, and, throughout our relationship, Ms. Kirk became everything I may have wanted her to be. A mother, an aunt, a friend… a true example of what everyone should
Ms Kirk with Friends
strive to become to others,” he said in a moving tribute. Lottie and her late husband never bore any children, but Solomon and Lottie adopted many nieces and nephews and a myriad neighborhood youth as their own children. Carla Bedford, one of those unrelated children that the duo adopted, currently lives with Ms. Kirk at her home on the same street that the Kirks showered her with love and kindness. She was the host of the birthday party. Ms. Kirk retired from Stanford University in 1983 after almost a quarter century of doing custodial work and, after sojourns in San Diego and St. Louis, she moved back to East Palo Alto. Ms. Kirk is a long-term member of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palo Alto and a long-term volunteer at the Little House Senior Center in Menlo Park and the Ecumenical Hunger Program in East Palo Alto where she has made and donated many quilts. In 1993, at age 85, she was inducted into the San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame because, according to her, she opened her “doors to the
Michael Mackie
Carla Bedford
many that needed a more stable home environment.” “The fact that God blesses me to wake up every morning,” she said in 1993, “and that I am able to get out of bed each day makes everything and everyone interesting to me.”
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By El Ravenswood Staff
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otel Nia, located at 200 Independence Drive in Menlo Park, opened its doors on March 29. Hotel Nia is part of the Menlo Gateway development, which was approved by Menlo Park voters in 2010 through the passage of Measure T. Nia is a word with meanings in Swahili, Irish and Welsh respectively translating into “Purpose” “Resolve” and “Bright.” The hotel is an 11-story building dominated by glass designed by the Cunningham Group. It features 250 guestrooms and nine suites, including the luxurious Nia Suite, and numerous indoor and outdoor nooks and crannies. Each room features 9-foot-high floorto-ceiling windows bringing into each room the brightness that the name means in Welsh. The hotel has 12,000 square feet of meeting space, with 12 meeting and event venues—including a ballroom, terrace, courtyard and executive boardroom. The hotel is managed by Denverbased Sage Hospitality with rooms starting around $400 a night, 43 larger suites going for between $50 and $150 higher and an even pricier presidential suite on the top floor that can hold up to 30 people. The hotel, which was financed by Ensemble Real Estate Investments and AECOM Capital, is valued at roughly $100 million. AECOM Capital is an international investor and developer of real estate, infrastructure and public-private partnerships across the world. Since its 12 MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD
formation in 2013, AECOM Capital has invested in 17 projects, according to its website, with a total development value in excess of $4.5 billion. In addition to the hotel, the original development project, approved by the Menlo Park City Council in June 2010 and subsequently by voters in November 2010, included a 4,235 square foot café-restaurant, a 68,519 square foot health club, a 10,420 square foot neighborhood-serving retail and community facilities, 694,669 square feet of office space and research and development buildings, and three parking structures. A development agreement between the City of Menlo Park and Bohannon Development Company was entered into in December, 2010. Construction is nearing completion for the garage/health club, and the office building fronting Independence Drive and visible from Highway101. According to city documents, Facebook will occupy the office building as well as manage the health club, which will be open to both employees and local
residents. The entire development is on 15.9 acres located on two sites at 100-190 Independence Drive and 155 Constitution Drive. The Bohannon Development Company is a family-owned business that has been in land use and real estate development on the Peninsula since 1928. Belle Haven was developed by the Bohannon Development Company in the 1930s as Belle Haven City, then part of unincorporated San Mateo County. At one point, the Bohannon Development Company owned almost 300 acres in Menlo Park. But its founder sold some of that land and now the organization has about 85 acres citywide. The group also owns 1.2 million square feet of retail space in the Hillsdale Shopping Center.
Development agreements
“Development agreements are contracts negotiated between project proponents and public agencies that govern the land uses that may be allowed in a particular project. Neither the applicant nor the public agency is required to enter into a development agreement. When they do, the allowable land uses and other terms and conditions of approval are negotiated between the parties.”
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Select Community Benefit Sections Of The City Of Menlo Park And Bohannon Development Company Development Agreement 5.4 TOT Amount. As of the date of this Agreement, the City imposes the TOT on applicable hotel room rents and other receipts at the rate of ten percent (10%). Owner hereby agrees that, during the term of this Agreement and for so long as the Hotel is operating, the TOT applicable to the Hotel shall be assessed at one percent (1.0%) above the Citywide TOT rate in effect from time to time (e.g. if the Citywide TOT rate is 10%, the rate applicable to the Hotel shall be 11%; if the Citywide TOT rate is 11%, the applicable TOT rate for the Hotel shall be 12%; and if the Citywide TOT rate is 12%, the applicable TOT rate for the Hotel shall be 13%; etc.). The City shall use the additional one percent (1%) in TOT revenue each year for vehicle trip reduction, TDM and/or greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emission reductions in the vicinity of the Project and/ or elsewhere in the City; provided, however, the City Council by a 4/5 vote of the Council may allocate such revenue for other purposes for any fiscal year if it makes findings that such revenue is required for such other
purposes. In the event the City adopts a City Wide increase in the rate of the TOT, Owner’s obligation to collect and pay the 1% increase in TOT provided for in this Section 5.4 shall continue in effect following the City’s adoption of a City Wide increase in the rate of the TOT. Owner’s obligation to collect and pay the additional 1% TOT pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall terminate in the event of a Guarantee Payment Termination and effective as of the effective date of such Guarantee Payment Termination. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, the obligations set forth herein to pay the additional 1% TOT shall survive the expiration of this Agreement and shall continue so long as the Hotel is operating on the Property and shall be binding on any and all owners and operators of the Hotel. The provisions of this Section 5.4 shall beincluded in the Conditional Development Permit. 5.5 Priority Hiring Program. Owner shall create a priority-hiring program that will use
JobTrain, or a comparable program selected by Owner if JobTrain is not able to operate such program, as the first source for referral of qualified applicants for entry-level job openings related to the Hotel and office uses, as well as construction positions. This program shall offer first priority job postings to Menlo Park residents and graduates of applicable JobTrain training programs. Owner and JobTrain shall coordinate and provide periodic reports to the City as to the program’s progress. 5.11 School District Boundaries. In the event the City, one or more property owners, or The Ravenswood School District initiates an effort to reorganize school district boundaries so that the Project site is transferred from the Redwood City Elementary School District to the Ravenswood School District, Owner agrees to cooperate with any such future effort by City or others, but Owner shall not be required to initiate or fund such an effort.
About the Bohannon Development Company (Adapted from information from http://www.ddbo.com/about/team)
The Bohannon family has owned property on the San Francisco Peninsula for over 80 years. David Dewey Bohannon, the founder, began his real estate legacy in the 1920s, creating his own real estate and land development organization in 1928. Throughout the 1930s, he sold residential lots in what was then unincorporated “Belle Haven City,” now Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood. From the 1930s through the 1970s, Bohannon established 25,000 residential units in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Napa, Sacramento, and El Dorado counties including: Hillsdale, El Cerrito Manor, and San Mateo Park in San Mateo; Westwood, Napa; Rollingwood, Contra Costa County; Embarcadero Oaks, Palo Alto; Mayfair Heights, Westwood, Westwood Oaks, and Park Westwood in San Jose; Hillsdale, Sacramento; Woodside Hills in Woodside; and Homeplace in Hillsborough. The company built housing for war workers during World War II, and San Lorenzo Village in Alameda County was the largest privately financed residential complex at the time. The company also built the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo
which opened in 1954—one of the first shopping centers of its kind in the U.S. and still the largest enclosed shopping center in San Mateo County. Other projects built by Bohannon include: Hillsdale Plaza Shopping Center in Sacramento; San Lorenzo Village Shopping Center in San Lorenzo; Almaden Oaks Shopping Center, Park Almaden Shopping Center, Park Westwood Shopping Center in San Jose and Bohannon Industrial Park in Menlo Park; as well as other freestanding commercial developments throughout Santa Clara County.
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Did You Know?......Should You Care? According to Rethinkdisposable.org and others: • There is 100 times more plastic in the oceans today than 10 years ago. • 80 percent of ocean plastic pollution originates on land as street litter, garbage blown out of landfills, or illegally dumped trash. • 67 percent of all street litter in the Bay Area comes from singleuse disposable food and beverage packaging, excluding cigarette butts, which are usually too numerous to count. • 1.3 million pounds of trash enter the Bay every year. • Almost everyone participates in our fast-paced takeout food and beverage culture. • Single use disposable food and beverage packaging items are synonymous with a “throw-AWAY” lifestyle, but in truth, there really is no “AWAY.” • We generate so much of this stuff that recycling can’t keep up and our oceans are filling with plastic. • Packaging waste (mainly plastics) accounts for 30 percent and rising of American household trash. • The estimated 6 trillion pieces of plastic choking our ocean injures and kills fish and wildlife through ingestion and entanglement and bio-accumulate up the food chain, threatening our health. • Trash we casually discard onto streets are blown by wind, or carried by water into our waterways, potentially poisoning our drinking water.
• For retailers, encourage and incentivize your customers to bring their own bags. • Take your own reusable coffee cup to cafes. • Minimize use of plastic bags for produce and bulk items. • If you must use a plastic bag, reuse previously used bags. • Bring your own food containers and utensils.
Images Of Trash On East Palo Alto Streets And Parking Areas
1. At the Home Depot parking lot 2. On East Bayshore Road 3. On East Bayshore Road
What you can do to help: • Take your own shopping bag to the stores you shop in.
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• Stop using disposable straws. • Always carry a reusable water bottle. • Stop discarding your trash on streets. • Remember that ‘away’ in ‘throw away’ is a destination that does not exist. • Stop smoking and discarding your cigarette butts onto streets and sidewalks.
4. At the Home Depot parking lot 5. On East Bayshore Road 6. On East Bayshore Road
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Sponsored Employment Program (SEP) A Summer Youth Employment Program Enters Its 13th Year By El Ravenswood Staff
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ponsored Employment Program (SEP) participants this year, have jobs from June 27, 2018 through August 7, 2018 according James Childs of One East Palo Alto (OEPA) As in previous years, their maiden employment experience will end with a grand graduation ceremony on Friday, August 10, 2018. The Sponsored Employment Program (SEP) is a youth crime prevention initiative that provides summer employment, mentoring and community connectedness opportunities for youth ages 14-24 in East Palo Alto (EPA) and Menlo Park. It began in 2005 as a summer employment program serving thirty hard to employ youth by offering two trained mentors per student. An employer-mentor and a community mentor. The two were expected to work together to inculcate a good work ethic amongst youth participants while ensuring that they had a good first job experience. In recent years, the program has added a third element, a peer mentor, usually college students with a passion to wanting to make a difference in the lives of those only a few years younger than them. The program has also expanded to serve one hundred youth.
Participants in the program must be residents of East Palo Alto or the Belle Haven Community in Menlo Park. The program hires youth and young adults with employment challenges, such as lack of work experience, involvement in the juvenile justice system, limited or no English language skills, foster care residents or graduates, teen parents, and or high school dropouts. One East Palo Alto (OEPA) has partnered with College Track, El Concilio of San Mateo County, JobTrain, Live In Peace and the Belle Haven Community Development Fund to implement the program.
(NII) program spearheaded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in partnership with the former Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF), Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service (Haas Center), and Community Development Institute (CDI) a local non-profit. East Palo Alto was one of three sites chosen for this initiative. The other sights were West Oakland in Oakland and the Mayfair area of San Jose. NII’s implementation plan included: a one-year, resident-driven planning process; six years of implementation supported by grants, technical assistance and training; designation or creation of a neighborhood-based lead organization to oversee implementation and a partnership with community foundations to manage the work. East Palo Alto’s effort began in 1999. The now defunct Community Development Institute was instrumental in facilitating the one year residentdriven planning process. OEPA was the neighborhood-based lead organization that emerged out of the NII in East Palo Alto OEPA’s mission is to improve the social, physical, spiritual, educational and economic well-being of East Palo Alto (EPA) through developing leaders, brokering of resources and services and capacity building for individuals and organizations.
Participants in the program must be residents of East Palo Alto or the Belle Haven Community in Menlo Park. Successful applicants receive three (3) days of intensive job readiness training after which they are placed for six (6) weeks at work sites hosted by Employer-Sponsors. Applicants are matched with Peer Mentors who aid and encourage them in their journey to becoming productive members of both the community and reliable members of the work force. Employer sponsors have typically been non-profit organizations and public agencies. OEPA arose out of a 1996 Neighborhood Improvement Initiative
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Local Heroes 2018 Awards Screening And Reception By El Ravenswood Staff
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he Midpen Media Center held its Twelfth Annual Local Hero Awards May 19. This year’s six winners, as is the tradition, tell the stories which got them nominated and finally selected for the Local Heroes 2018 Awards. Amongst the six selected is Erick Granados who, despite suffering a difficult, abusive childhood in East Palo Alto, chose to remain in the community to help other immigrant children in the same situation. He works at the Boys
& Girls Club, where he is known for consistently investing hours and efforts far “above and beyond,” to elicit trust and respect and to be a role model for his community. The Media Center’s Local Hero Awards series showcases people from the Mid-Peninsula for making outstanding contributions to the community or overcoming significant hardship. Nominations for the Local Heroes Award are solicited from the public. A committee selects the winners based on several criteria. In addition to outstanding achievement or
contribution to the community, the Local Heroes Award looks for people with engaging stories to tell for the televised series. People also get chosen who reflect the diversity of our communities. Winners vary in age, gender, ethnicity, geographical location, profession or field of interest, and type of contribution. The Midpen Media Center encourages you, If you know someone who’s articulate (who can tell their own story) and is deserving of recognition, to nominate them. Send your nomination by email to: heroes@midpenmedia. org.
LOCAL HEROES 2018 AWARDEES
PAUL THIEBAUT III Once a homeless, teenage drug dealer and who at age 23 read his first book and everything changed. He is now the creator of an innovative and highly successful teaching program, “10 Books A Home,” for pre-school children in East Palo Alto.
LUCY JANJIGIAN An award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist who paints to advocate for refuges, the homeless and the uprooted and disenfranchised populations of the world.
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NORMA HESTERMAN is not only a counselor and ardent volunteer at Gunn High School and a mother of four biological children, but she and her husband have also parented, successfully, over 21 foster children.
HANNAH CRANCH An environmental activist and the co-creator of FabMo, which rescues high-end designer materials that would otherwise end up as landfill and makes them available to the public, artists and craftspeople for creative reuse.
JONATHAN MURPHY Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 13. He now works as a successful actor and voice-over actor. In addition, he gives public presentations about autism to parents, educators and professionals in webinars, school assemblies, classes and conferences.
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The Midpeninsula Community Media Center
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he Midpeninsula Community Media Center is a non-profit organization that seeks to Inform, inspire and empower people to speak and act on behalf of their communities. The center uses television and the Internet to create and distribute programs that promote and celebrate individual expression, local achievements, education, cultural exchange, arts appreciation and civic engagement. People Learn Video Production, Make Shows for dissemination on Local Cable TV Access Channels and view those shows and programs on the Center’s Cable Channels as well as its Web Site The Midpeninsula Community Media Center is a 501 (c) (3) public benefit corporation that serves the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford University and unincorporated portions of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. The Media Center was created in 2001 through the merger of the Mid-Peninsula Access Corporation (MPAC) and Silicon Valley Community Communications (SVCC). MPAC began operations in 1990, providing video production training and equipment for community productions. MPAC staff produced programs designed as a platform for community groups and also provided coverage of local government meetings and fee based production services. SVCC on the other hand, was created in 2000 by the members of Cable Co-op
Sue Purdy Pelosi - Communications & Development Consultant-Board President Less Lincoln - Principal Lead SE, Azure Cloud SRE at Microsoft Board Vice President Beth Charlesworth - Vice President, Stanford Consulting Group, Inc. Board Treasurer Mike Stern - Attorney, Cooley Godward Kronish Business Dept.-Board Secretary with a donation of $10 million from the proceeds of the sale of its cable television system to AT&T Broadband. SVCC’s mission was to continue the Cable Co-op tradition of producing community interest shows on a regular schedule. The Media Center is officially designated as the Cable Access Organization to bring community media services to the communities served by the Cable Joint Powers Authority. This designation gives the Media Center the right to use the cable access channels and $0.88 per subscriber per month, as negotiated in the Joint Powers cable franchise with AT&T Broadband. AT&T Broadband currently has about 24,000 subscribers in the communities we serve. The Cable Joint Powers Authority includes representatives from the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford University and unincorporated portions of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. In 2003, the Media Center purchased and refurbished its current offices, a two-story building at 900 San Antonio next to highway 101.
Barbara Noparstak - Consultant & Community Volunteer JPA Representative from San Mateo County and East Palo Alto resident. Immediate Past Board President Gayathri Kanth - Palo Alto Library Assistant Director, Public Services-JPA Representative from the City of Palo Alto Lawrence Lee - Real Estate Developer Andrew Mellows - Engineer Marie McKenzie - Administrative Services Director, City of East Palo Alto-JPA Representative from the City of East Palo Alto Azieb Nicodimos - Community Volunteer Joanne Reed - Consultant & Community Volunteer-JPA Representative from Santa Clara County Nick Szegda - Menlo Park Library-JPA Representative from the City of Menlo Park Vacant - JPA Representative from the Town of Atherton
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OBITUARY
Sergeant, Lieutenant, Commander And Interim Chief Rahn Sibley Dies By El Ravenswood Staff
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ahn Sibley, who served in the East Palo Alto Police Department for 34 years as Sergeant, Lieutenant, Commander and Interim Police Chief died on April 23, eight years after his retirement from a city that he profoundly loved. Rahn suffered multiple strokes in the last year and he never found his way back, again. And, a few days ago, he left this earth. He was among the first 21 sworn officers, who under the leadership of the City’s first Police Chief, Tecumseh Nelson took over from the County Sheriff in 1984, months after the city’s incorporation in July 1983. The setting up of the police department represented one of the most significant achievements of the new city after its incorporation. It addressed one of the community’s main concerns that led to the incorporation fight-public safety. At the department’s first briefing, then Sgt. Ronald Sibley, the shift commander, cautioned his officers warning them that everybody was going to be watching them because they were brand-new. He advised them to use their minds and resist the temptation to be urban cowboys. “I want a non-confrontational policing approach,” he reportedly cautioned. Those words spoken to a medley of sworn officers drawn from various jurisdictions and readying themselves 18 MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD
to work in a new police department in a new city that was struggling to create new operational policies characterized his work throughout his career in East Palo Alto. Lt. Sibley was known to provide his cellphone number to residents and to respond to their desperate requests any time or day or night regardless of whether he was off work or not. Lt. Sibley grew up in Inglewood, California where he was part of the Morningside High School Class of 1970. He studied at Cerritos College and in his long law enforcement career has worked in several police department both in Southern and Northern California. In East Palo Alto he rose to the level of Commander, but a restructuring of the department engineered by a new police chief brought him back to a Sergeant level. Despite that Lt. Sibley, as he was always known, continued to serve in the community he so loved. While a member of the East Palo Alto Police Department, he served on several local non-profit boards including, the East Palo Alto Teen Home, the East
Rahn Sibley and wife Pam
Palo Alto Police Athletic League; the Rich May Foundation; he helped found the For Youth By Youth non-profit; the East Palo Alto National Night Out Observance amongst others. He will however most be remembered for his kindness of heart, his ability to talk to everyone even in tough dangerous situation, his ability to blend with the general public even when he had a gun on his holster. When you met Rahn, you never really saw a law enforcement officer you just saw a fellow human being even when he had an obvious gun on him.
• From Inglewood/Los Angeles, California • Graduated from Morningside High Class of 1970 • Studied at Cerritos College • Served as Police Officer at Inglewood (1971-73); Montebello (1975-76); Riverbank (1976-78); Piedmont (1978-1982); Compton (1982-1984) • Married Pam Sibley in March 23 1985 • Served as Sergeant/Lieutenant/Commander in the East Palo Alto Police Department (1984-2009) • Vice President at Neher and Associates • Lived in Alameda/Oakland
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April 25 - There are people in this life who make an impact on everyone around them. I will miss you. Along with all the family, friends, and community of people who you have helped along the way. Thanks for the humor, the friendship and support through the harder times in life Charlyn Spitzer
April 24 - I hope heaven is ready for you, Rahn Sibley! Still hard to believe that I’ll never again have a chance to joke with you and share a hug, and catch up on all the good efforts of the communists out there to help make life better in our community. I didn’t know when I signed up for a community policing internship in East Palo Alto as part of my Urban Policy class 20+ years ago that it would the beginning of a lifelong friendship with you and a lifelong commitment to serving the EPA community. Cari Pang Chen
April 24 - We lost a great man and one hell of a Lieutenant recently. As a rookie cop in EPA I loved hearing Rahn Sibley’s stories from Compton and how it was when he took the EPA over from the Sheriff’s Office. Boy I could tell you some stories about this man but they are mine and if you didn’t work our city you just wouldn’t understand. Gods speed Lt. Ed Soares
April 24 - We lost a dear friend last night, my mom’s Best friend. I don’t know anyone who had more friends, made more people laugh, protected and served us, and who was the BEST grill-master; along with a million other things! We will miss him
dearly. Love and prayers to his family. Rest in Peace Rahn Sibley Christine Noe Clark
April 24 I hired Ron at Riverbank PD many years ago. We have remained dear friends all these years. Rahn taught an entire city about equality and diversity. His humor and positive attitude were a key factor in winning over the citizens that he served. Roger Higby
April 24 - I have wonderful memories of Rahn Sibley but my favorite was one right after he retired. My friend was going through a nasty divorce and asked me to come over while her ex came to get some items. She knew there was going to be a confrontation, and wanted someone there to make sure it didn’t get physical. I happened to call Rahn the night before about a recipe I’d posted on Facebook and his comment made me laugh. I mentioned what I was doing the next day, and he said he’d come over as well to my friend’s house “for support.” You should have seen the look on this guy’s face when Rahn opened the door. Rahn stepped onto the porch and whispered very quietly “you’ll take just the items that were agreed upon earlier, and you’ll go, understand?” He said something else and the soon-to-be ex nodded in submission. He took his three boxes at the door and never bothered my friend throughout the rest of the divorce proceedings. In fact, his tune completely changed after the meeting with Rahn. Heaven gained an angel. Our hearts are broken but he lives on in all of us. Rest easy LT, we have the watch from here. Heather Gonzalez
Rahn Sibley and former City Manager Jerry Groomes
April 24 Working with him at EPAPD was the best job I ever had. He had such a big heart and a friendly word and a laugh. Missing a piece of my heart when he left. Aloha Nui Loa and A hui hou Lisa J Sims
April 24 - I am sorry to learn of Rahn’s passing. I had the pleasure to work with him while he was with the EPA PD. At the time I was with the SMCO DA’s Office and assigned to environmental enforcement which included EPA. Rahn always took an interest in my efforts and assured that I, along with representatives from SMCO Environmental Health, were safe allowing us to do our job. I recalled several occasions he would assist us in the enforcement / clean up of EPA to make it a better and healthier place for the citizens to live. Thank you Rahn. RIP. Thomas Paulin
April 27 - Heaven has a new beautiful star, and we have lost an amazing friend, an intelligent and creative soul, an outstanding connector in Silicon Valley and its underground of non-profits. I have a
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OBITUARY hard time imagining a better human being. Rahn’s friends and network was second to none. Rahn worked in the toughest places in the Bay Area - in East Palo Alto (EPA) and in Oakland, when things were really bad. He worked in “The Real Police” as he called the Police Force in EPA - with a smile. Alongside his frequently dangerous crimefighting work, he also dedicated his life to helping the people in the communities he worked, in the non-profit world, on boards, and simply helping some of “his kids” in EPA find a better path. If there are angels on this earth, Rahn was just that - to the powerful in need of a friend, decision makers in need for a solution, entrepreneurs fighting for survival, fighters for good, the struggling, the sad, the fearful, the lonely ones, and the ones most have given up on. One should think that was more than enough. But, somehow
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aniel Thompson died March 23, 2018. He was 55 years old. He was born at Stanford, the second to the last of seven children of Henry and Bernice Thompson. He grew up in East Palo Alto attending schools in the Ravenswood City School District. Intellectually inquisitive, he loved politics and political science. Athletically, he loved wrestling. In college, he studied and majored in computer science. He attended the Laurel Avenue Church of Christ where he met Margaret Evans who he wedded on April 19, 1985. Between them, they had three children. Danny was very involved in many community organizations focused on building and developing neighborhoods. One of his proudest achievements was
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there was always space for one more, a laugh, a “I want to show you something,” “you need to meet this guy.” Rahn was an inspiration, a lot of fun, full of ideas and full joy of life. Rahn had a stroke - perhaps a year ago - got over it, but then got another one, and he never found his way back, again. And, a few days ago, he left this earth. We will miss him and I will always carry him in my heart. This man made a real impact in the life of his fellow humans.
Mariianne December 15, 2017 · I dedicate this to my friend Rahn Sibley. I posted this 4 years ago. You are an inspiration to us who’ve served under your command. Patrolling the streets of Compton, to the streets of East Palo Alto, You were a true soldier in & off the field. We all miss
being the co-founder of the first charter school in East Palo Alto, the East Palo Alto Charter School on Runnymede, where he also served briefly as the afterschool activities coordinator. In 1986 he became a Realtor with Century 21. Daniel Thompson had a passionate interest in many things. Once, wearing his real estate hat, he opined that the School District offices were in the wrong location and that the City of East Palo Alto would benefit from having both the School District and City offices relocating to Bay Road between Pulgas and Cooley Landing. Both city and the school district offered services that people would travel to their location anyway. The City’s plans to make Bay Road its downtown was,
Rahn Sibley in the early 1980s
you in your much deserved retirement and Recovery. You are always in our hearts, thoughts & prayers. Darrell Pitchford
he suggested, ill advised. The hundreds of cars traveling daily up and down University Avenue would not turn onto Bay Road… at least until the city’s image dramatically changed. Danny leaves behind his wife Margaret; his three children Jeremy, Maurice and Meryssa; his daughters in-laws Angel and Janet and six grandchildren Paris, Mariah, Jazleen, Jayanna, Maurice Jr., Maurielle and one on the way.
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Aft{WAR}ds Support Group Holds its second Annual Grief Awareness Picnic By El Ravenswood Staff
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ft{WAR}ds held its second annual picnic at the Karl Clark Park in the Belle Haven community in early May. Aft{WAR)ds is an organization established in 2011 by Patricia Harris, her sister Betty Gates and Leslie Harding to help individuals and families living through the grief resulting from the loss of a loved one. It brings together individuals and families at a regular monthly meeting to support them as they work out their grief. Patricia Harris’ son was killed in Stockton, California walking across a park to pick up his daughter at school. Jamal Harris was 27 years old when he was murdered on August 20, 2011. Patricia Harris has continued to hound Stockton Police investigators to try to solve her son’s murder which remains one of Stockton’s cold cases. After her son’s memorial and funeral, Ms. Harris found herself overwhelmed by loneliness particularly after all her friends and relatives left. “People are there for you, immediately after such a tragic incident, but at some point, they walk, drive, sail and or fly away and leave you with a profound emptiness,” she said recently. “I searched for support groups to help me deal with the grief and the loneliness of my sadness and the closest one I found was a group in Oakland called the ‘100 mothers for Black lives.’ My sister and I drove to the group’s meetings in Oakland a couple of times before realizing that Oakland was too far and
that there must have been a lot of parents like us that needed a support group closer to home. In the same year my son was killed, my sister Betty Gates, Leslie Harding and I decided to establish a support group in the Belle Haven/East Palo Alto area.” Leslie Harding also lost a son and sought a support group to help her with her grief. She also found an organization in Oakland that was intent in stopping the killing of black youth. Julie Hill joined the group just last month following the death of a close relative. “We called it Aft{WAR}ds because the experience of losing a loved one is like transitioning into a WAR zone emotionally and the support group is the entity that would transition you back to a sense of normalcy afterwards.” The group meets every first Saturday of the month between 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Church of Christ at 1219 Laurel Street in East Palo Alto. “We offer emotional and general support a person or family that may need help getting through an emotional crisis following a loved one’s death regardless of how they might have died,” Ms. Harris added. “Up to as many as 15 people may show up and we share food and talk>”. Aft(WAR)ds has remained an informal group until this year when, through the help of Omowale Satterwhite they acquired a 501(c)(3) designation. Ms. Harris hopes that the group may
be able to raise enough money to help people with funeral expenses. “There are many times that Jones Mortuary has had to keep a body for days at the funeral home while families try to raise enough money for funeral expenses. Aft(WAR)ds as a non-profit will try to raise money to allow it to pay for funeral expenses for families in need.” Patricia Harris was born in Texas but raised in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. She graduated from Ravenswood High School and went on to Canada Community College. She currently lives in Belle Haven, where, as a single parent, she raised Jamal Harris. The picnic is supported by individuals sympathetic to the work the organization does. People volunteer to bring food and drinks, provide tables, chairs and a DJ with a sound system. After a few speeches about individual experiences with grief, services that are available for funeral services and a brief history and purpose of the group, participants partake of a sumptuous meal. MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD 21
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Mi-Pueblo Loses Identity In Merger With Cardenas Markets
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By El Ravenswood Staff
n early July 2017, KKR, a global investment firm, and Victory Park Capital announced the merger of Cardenas Markets and Mi Pueblo, two Hispanic grocery chain stores in which KKR and Victory Park Capital (VPC) had reportedly made significant investments in previous years. The combined business was to operate as Cardenas Markets LLC and 22 MAY 2018 EL RAVENSWOOD
was expected to become one of the largest Hispanic supermarket chains in the country. Until April this year, the local Mi Pueblo store maintained its name with very few knowing about the merger until the store finally installed the new store name - Cardenas. Mi Pueblo was established in 1991. It became a leading Hispanic grocery retailer in Northern California with stores in the Bay Area, Monterey Peninsula and the Central Valley. At
its peak, Mi Pueblo had 19 stores. The store in East Palo Alto was established in 2010. Its coming into East Palo Alto was, however, not without controversy. In an over four-hour special meeting in October 2009, packed beyond capacity with residents for and against the store, the East Palo Alto City Council voted 3-2 vote in favor of upholding the planning commission’s earlier June decision to grant use permits to San Jose-based Mi Pueblo Food Center. Three councilmembers on the Council,
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Mi Pueblo opening in 2010
Ruben Abrica, Carlos Romero and Laura Martinez voted in favor and two, David Woods and Peter Evans, voted against the store. East Palo Alto had been trying to attract a grocery store for years and the three council members in favor saw in Mi Pueblo’s interest a good opportunity to get a store in East Palo Alto. The opposing council members, particularly David Woods, argued that the proposed location, formerly occupied by the Good Guys and Circuit City, was more appropriate for a retail store that would
generate more sales tax revenue for the city. Councilmember Evans questioned why the city had not studied the potential effects on smaller grocers represented by the East Palo Alto Merchants Association, which had filed a lawsuit against the city over alleged Ralph M. Brown Act violations in their discussions around the Mi Pueblo application to open a store in East Palo Alto. Mi Pueblo eventually opened in East Palo Alto in 2010 and as its
owner, Mr. Juvenal Chavez, said at its opening, the store was to offer an authentic environment modelled after markets found in their customer’s former hometowns in Mexico and Latin America. Mr. Chavez reportedly migrated from Mexico in 1984. Speaking no English, he worked many odd jobs while attending night school to learn English. He reportedly worked as a janitor at Stanford University. In 1986, he and his brother opened Chavez Meat Market. In 1991, he branched out on his own, purchasing Country Time Meats, a meat market in San Jose, and eventually starting the Mi Pueblo chain of fullfledged grocery stores. In 2013, Mi Pueblo filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy but emerged from it a year later after reportedly receiving $56 million in financing from a Chicagobased investment firm, VPC. Cardenas Markets, headquartered in Ontario, California, has been in operation since 1981. Cardenas operated 31 store locations throughout the Inland Empire, Imperial County, Pomona and Las Vegas, Nevada. Cardenas was established by Jesus Cardenas who migrated from Mexico in 1957 as part of the “Bracero” work programs. For years he worked in the fields across California. He and his wife Luz established their first store in 1981. KKR, according to its website, is a global investment firm that manages investments across multiple asset classes such as private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit and hedge funds. Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC is an alternative investment firm which focuses on providing privately negotiated debt and equity capital solutions to small and middle market companies across a wide range of industries.
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MENLO PARK Belle Haven Library, 415 Ivy Drive; | Belle Haven School, 415 Ivy Drive; | Esquire Barber Shop, 830 Newbridge street; | Job Train, 1200 O’Brien Drive; | Jonathan’s Fish & Chips, 840 Willow Road; | Markstyle Barber Shop, 828 Willow Road; | Menlo Park City Hall, 701 Laurel Street; | Menlo Park Senior Center, 100 Terminal Avenue; | Mt Olive AOH Church of God, 605 Hamilton Avenue; | Project Read-Menlo Park, 800 Alma Street; | Tony’s Pizza, 820 Willow Road; | Tutti Frutti, 888 Willow Road; Willow Cleaners, 824 Willow Road; | Willow Oaks School, 620 Willow Road