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Low rents a bad bargain for cancer-stricken landlord OWNER IS FIRST TO PETITION TO RAISE RATES BEYOND WHAT’S ALLOWED BY RENT CONTROL LAW By Mark Noack
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Amelia Orso drinks water after eating her carefully measured doses of nuts at nurse practitioner Whitney Block’s new food allergy clinic.
Patients go nuts over new allergy therapy NURSE OPENS NEW CLINIC TO HANDLE DEMAND FOR FOOD ALLERGY DESENSITIZATION By Kevin Forestieri
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ast week marked a major milestone for 8-year-old Amelia, who flew across the country to eat a handful of nuts that, just months ago, would have sent her into
life-threatening anaphylactic shock. She knocks back small medicine cups containing a mix of cashews, peanuts, sesame seeds and hazelnuts, washes it down with water, and waits. As the moments pass in the small Redwood City clinic, so
does the anxiety. The intense food allergies that complicated Amelia’s life for years — forcing her to sit alone during lunch and bring her own food and cupcakes to parties — were See ALLERGY CLINIC, page 10
Worries swirl over future San Antonio school site PARENTS FRUSTRATED BY RUMORS THAT BULLIS WILL MOVE TO MOUNTAIN VIEW By Kevin Forestieri
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he Los Altos School District is planning to move forward on a complicated plan to buy land next to the San Antonio Shopping Center,
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has yet to make a firm commitment on whether the site would be home to a neighborhood school, or the long-awaited permanent campus for Bullis See BULLIS, page 12
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n some ways, Jeanne Walker is a lucky woman. About a decade ago, she inherited an apartment complex on Plymouth Street, just across the highway from Google’s headquarters. Renting out the property’s apartments provides her with a steady income, and the site even had a small cottage out front for her to live in. In other ways, Walker is unlucky. For most of her adult life, the lifelong Mountain View resident has suffered from recurring bouts of cancer. The disease has inflicted a hefty toll on her well-being, and her doctors have warned her it will come back. Now bound to a wheelchair and requiring assistance, the 78-yearold said she has learned to appreciate each day she has left. Since inheriting the apartments, she has kept the rents astonishingly low, by Mountain View standards. Each of her one-bedroom units is now being rented out for about $900 a month even though they could easily go for three times that price. After seeing so many seniors priced out of town, she said she wants to keep her rents low as an act of defiance against the greed of the area. But being sympathetic to her renters also makes Walker feel foolish. Her cancer treatments aren’t cheap, and she now struggles to balance her medical bills with the cost of maintaining her apartments. If an expensive appliance, say a refrigerator, suddenly breaks, she has to buy a replacement on credit. She said she now wishes she had raised her rents a little more because now she is explicitly barred from doing so. Mountain View’s rent control law that took effect last year means that she can only
raise rents by the cost of inflation each year. In her case, that’s about $30 extra annually. All these conflicted feelings come spilling out as Walker describes her unique predicament as owner of a 10-unit apartment complex that is one of the best bargains a renter could find in Silicon Valley. Ever since she inherited the property from her father, she has tried to abide by his principles — keep the rents low, and don’t sell the property. She is now near the point where she must cave on at least one of those rules. “My dad felt people were being gouged by landlords. This place was all paid off, so we didn’t feel like we needed to raise the rent much,” Walker said. “But right now, I’ve got myself in a tight spot. I’m reaching the point how where if something bad happened, then I’d have to consider selling and getting out.” Just released from a three-week hospital stay, Walker told the Voice it is getting more difficult to resist the temptation to sell. Every single week, she said she receives a few calls from realestate agents with offers to put her property on the market, promising her up to $6 million. It’s a decision that would be lifechanging, not just for her but also her tenants, some of whom have lived there for decades. Before it comes to that, she is seeking another option. Walker’s Plymouth Street apartments are being reviewed by city officials as the first case for a special adjustment under the city’s rent control program. In November, Walker and her brother filed an exhaustive 66-page form to request an extra rent increase because her units were so far below the market See APARTMENTS, page 6
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A Mountain View High School teacher who was arrested in November for sending lewd texts to a minor made his first court appearance Monday, and is facing one count of sending a harmful matter to a minor. Evan Smith, 48, was arrested on Nov. 7 after a female student reported she had received inappropriate text messages from him starting over the summer, according to police. School staff immediately reported it to the police, who arrested Smith the next day. The case was continued to Feb. 26 for a plea proceeding, according to a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office. The prosecutor for the case could not be reached prior to the Voice’s press deadline on Wednesday.
THREE ARRESTED FOR ID THEFT Three Bay Area residents were arrested last week after police found they had checked into Hotel Avante on El Camino Real using a credit card that was reported stolen out of another city. A neighboring law enforcement agency told Mountain View police that a woman’s purse had been stolen, and that her credit card had been used by the three suspects to check in to a room at the hotel around 12:50 p.m. on Jan. 5, according to police See CRIME BRIEFS, page 14
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Board agrees on middle school schedule shake-up CHANGES INCLUDE EIGHT PERIODS, LONGER CLASSES AND MORE TIME FOR ELECTIVES By Kevin Forestieri
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Lenny Siegel, who has long been politically active in Mountain View, was tapped to serve as the city’s mayor in 2018.
Longtime activist named mayor LENNY SIEGEL UNANIMOUSLY SELECTED; LISA MATICHAK IS VICE MAYOR By Mark Noack
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enny Siegel first arrived in the Bay Area to study physics as a Stanford undergrad. He never graduated — instead the young activist found his true calling in the raucous politics of the time. The student protest movement was gaining steam, and every aspect of society seemed to be crying out for change: civil rights, the environment, and
especially the war in Vietnam. It was a time of shattering windows with rocks, student walk-outs and occupying campus buildings. For Siegel, as a leader in the university’s chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, it was when he learned the art of political compromise: tempering, negotiating and partnering with myriad factions toward a common goal. For Siegel, the tumultuous days of the student protest
movement were the crucible that forged his political beliefs and strategy, which he says have remained mostly unchanged for the last 50 years. Now the dyed-in-the-wool community activist will be jumping into the big seat of Mountain View government. On Tuesday night, Siegel was unanimously voted in as the city’s mayor for 2018 by his City Council colleagues, See MAYOR, page 14
espite misgivings about students losing instructional time for math and other core subjects, Mountain View Whisman school board members agreed to make sweeping changes to middle school class schedules in order to give all students — even those with special needs — an elective period. Under the new proposal, which a majority of trustees favored at the Jan. 4 board meeting, students at Crittenden and Graham middle schools would have eight classes with a six-period schedule each day. That means students would attend each class four days a week, according to a staff report. The driving force behind the decision is that students who need remedial help, including English language development and instructional support for students with disabilities, often had to cede their elective period in middle school, missing out on everything from music and art to robotics and foreign languages. Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph said a litmus test for any new schedule should be the opportunity for students who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and language development classes to take electives. The change does away with the current seven-period
daily schedule that has two periods devoted for math, which district officials originally saw as a necessary step to prepare students for the new Common Core state standards in the 201415 school year. The standards shifted the ground beneath the feet of older students who weren’t familiar with Common Core, and so-called “double block math” served as a stop-gap measure to bring them up to speed, Rudolph said. The extra math period stuck around during the adoption of the Teach to One digital math program in fall 2016 before it was abruptly dropped last year, and the schedule remains in place even today. Some parents raised concerns that the sweeping changes to the schedule sacrificed too much in order to give students more time for electives, arguing that reduced time for math and other core academic subjects could lower test scores, ramp up homework and exacerbate the achievement gap at the middle schools. The changes would also reduce time for morning and lunch breaks as well as passing periods. On Mondays, students would start later in the morning and attend all eight classes for 32-minute periods. The rest of See SCHOOL SCHEDULE, page 9
Residents call for equity in high school upgrades LAHS PARENTS QUESTION FAIRNESS OF NEW MASTER PLAN FOR $294M CAMPUS OVERHAUL By Kevin Forestieri
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s Mountain View-Los Altos School District officials iron out the final details of a massive plan to upgrade school facilities, some parents are calling for a pause to make sure both both high schools are getting facilities of equal quality. The district’s Facilities Master Plan, which board members are expected to approve in the coming months, lays out a grand vision of new classrooms for growing enrollment, improved cafeterias, gyms and libraries as
well as more space for administrative services and counseling that — up until this point — have been scattered across the Mountain View and Los Altos high school campuses. School board members are expected to approve language for a bond measure to pay for the projects, which would cost about $294 million, and go before voters in June. But during a study session on the master plan Monday, some residents voiced concerns about equity, pointing out that Mountain View High School may be getting a better deal under the
‘It’s not a lavish plan, but it’s a responsible plan.’ SUPERINTENDENT JEFF HARDING
scope of the master plan, including more classroom space and improvements to music facilities that are already superior to what’s available at Los Altos high. The plans call for roughly $124 million in construction at Mountain View and $106
million at Los Altos. Neighbors abutting Los Altos High School also came out in full force at the Jan. 8 meeting, demanding that the district reconsider constructing a twostory classroom building on the northeast corner of the campus, calling it a “monstrosity” that would blot out the sun in their backyards. The proposed project list, which is conceptual in nature and is bound to change during the design phase, is similar for both of the high schools — each one includes a new student services building, two-story
classroom buildings and a new auxiliary gym. And while the dollar amounts may be lopsided in favor of Mountain View, that’s the result of additional work that needs to be done in order to achieve parity, said Mark Quattrocchi, the architect behind the master plan. Among the major budget items pushing up costs at Mountain View are repairs and improvements to existing buildings, which are slated to cost just over $12 million, compared to $6 million at Los Altos. The roofing at See HIGH SCHOOL, page 6
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average. If approved, the petition would allow her to raise rents to about $1,100 per month — which leaves them still far below even federally subsidized Section 8 housing, the Walker siblings point out. Later this month, a city hearing officer will review her case. Across the city, landlords ranging from small-time family owners to large corporations have faced challenges as they comply with the Measure V rent control law. In the buildup to the 2016 election, these regulations were promoted as an appropriate response to the Bay Area’s housing crisis and the landlords suspected of profiting from it. On average, Mountain View’s apartment rental prices have increased by about 90 percent since 2011. Walker’s apartments defy this trend. For several years, she simply didn’t raise rents. In 2005, she was charging just under $800 for most of her one-bedroom units. By the time the rent-control law took effect, those rents had been increased to just $990 per unit. Measure V is admittedly a onesize-fits-all solution, and landlord advocates have warned that the new rules would fall hardest on small-time owners. For Walker, this means her low-priced apartments are restricted under the same price controls as marketrate units costing four times
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Mountain View, for example, is in a far worse state of repair and is going to cost significantly more to fix. The master plan also sets aside about $7.8 million to enlarge classrooms along several wings at Mountain View High, which are woefully undersized. State standards recommend a classroom size of 960 square feet, but about half of the classrooms at the school are under 710 square feet. The California Department of Education doesn’t even recognize a room as a classroom until it’s at least at 800 square feet, Quattrocchi said. “It’s unusual to see high school classrooms as small as yours, particularly at Mountain View High School,” he said. Despite the assurances that both schools would be closeto-equal recipients of the bond program, some parents had their reservations. Los Altos resident Scott Graeser said he worries the performing arts space won’t be comparable between the two schools under the master plan, and that more money should be committed at Los Altos High School to ensure that the total number of classrooms stay the 6
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The Plymouth Street apartments owned by Jeanne and Wayne Walker are priced far below the going rate in Mountain View. The siblings are petitioning for permission to raise the rents by $185 to $1,100 a month, exceeding what’s allowed under the city’s new rent control law.
more. Additionally, she must pay the same $155 per-unit annual fee to fund the city’s rent program. In fact, when the rent-control program took effect she was forced to rewind her rents back down to $915 and give her tenants a refund for the difference. “We had tenants who tried to give back the money, but I had to tell them we can’t accept it because it’s against the law,” said Jeanne’s brother Wayne Walker, who helps manage the property. “With the benefit of hindsight, we probably should have stayed closer to the market rate, but at least my sister is comfortable.” Walker isn’t the only considerate landlord who is now struggling under the rent control measure, said Joshua Howard, spokesman for the California
Apartment Association. She and other property owners are effectively being punished for trying to keep their rents low, he said. “Measure V clearly hurts those housing providers who were most generous with their residents,” he said. “It’s not fair that this owner is now forced to choose between providing housing or paying her medical bills.” Folks living at the Plymouth Street apartments would have to be blind not to know what a great bargain they’re getting, said Debbie Zimmerman, who’s lived there for 15 years. Among her neighbors are teachers, bluecollar workers and some retirees like herself. Tenants have tried to show their appreciation for Walker’s generosity by handling the upkeep, doing chores like
same at both schools. Tina Klaassen, the co-president of the instrumental music boosters at Los Altos High School, said she was “disheartened” to see that the master plan sets aside money to enhance the Packard Hall at Mountain View, which she said is much better than what students have at Los Altos. Packard Hall has superior storage for larger instruments, as well as sound and recording equipment. Los Altos, on the other hand, is forced to store instruments in classrooms, and adjacent music and choral space makes it difficult for students to practice without disturbing one another. “When I was going through and looking at the master plan, I was surprised to see further improvements to Packard Hall when their facility is far superior to ours,” Klaassen said. “We urge you to please bring both of the instrumental facilities to the same level.” Parent Chris Mesel said it remains unclear to the public what the end result of the master plan will actually look like in terms of total square feet committed to classrooms, arts, cafeterias and other services, and that having the architect provide those figures would cut through the concerns about whether the
schools are getting comparable facilities. “It doesn’t appear as though there is (comparability), and if you can’t see the numbers it’s hard to tell,” she said. Board member Phil Faillace agreed, and said he wants a breakdown of square footage for both classrooms and ancillary facilities under the full build-out of the plan to prove to district residents that both schools are getting close to the same deal from the bond program. “Let’s put this issue of parity to bed and make it clear to everyone,” he said.
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Neighbors worried Also packing the study session meeting were several residents of Alicia Way in Los Altos, which runs along the northeast end of Los Altos High School, who slammed the idea of putting a two-story classroom building near their homes. About eight residents along the road would be stuck with a “nice front-row view of the building,” said Andrew Zaeske, who said he and his neighbors would be stuck with a Safeway-sized building looming over their homes under the proposed master plan. Despite assurances that architect would
gardening, yard work and cleaning, she said. For many of them, it would extremely difficult to stay in Mountain View if they were forced to leave. “We know we’re getting a great deal here,” she said. “If we couldn’t live here anymore, we’d probably have to move out to Oregon.” Walker’s thoughts are conflicted regarding her tenants. She is glad to provide a cheap place to live, and she knows her tenants are grateful for it. Some of them even scrawl a “thank you” on each monthly rent check. She has heard stories of seniors her age in Mountain View living out of their cars, so it seems right for her to help where she can. But she doesn’t hide her frustrations with her current situation. Before her generosity was optional; now it’s mandatory. It has led her to ponder whether her tenants are making the same sacrifices she has had to make. Some of them take vacations and drive such nice cars, so maybe they have more money than they say, she said. “I’m not complaining, but I wish I had a little more freedom to increase the rent more than 3 percent a year,” she said. “This is really financially hurting us.” In 2016, the Plymouth apartments suffered a minor crisis when the Walkers had to pay $90,000 for sewer and roof repairs. Combined with the rent rollback,
that year ended up as a loss for the family that will take years to recover, Wayne Walker said. The Mountain View city staff were very helpful and they explained a variety of options under the city’s complex rent regulations, he said. Learning those rules, he saw that their apartment rents would likely be eligible to be raised as high as $1,400. After talking to his sister, they decided to keep their request modest, asking only to raise their rates to $1,100. “We just thought that a $400 increase is a hell of a raise to put down on our tenants,” he said. “I was a renter for eight years. If my landlord jacked up my rent, it would have concerned me.” Members of the Mountain View Tenants Coalition said the Walkers’ predicament is exactly the kind of unique situation that deserves to be reviewed under the city’s petition process. “Measure V has built-in mechanisms for cases like this where someone has kept their rents so low,” said Steven Chandler, a Tenants Coalition spokesman. “I would think this will be approved by the Rental Housing Committee. If it’s not, then something’s wrong.” Not knowing how much longer she will be around, Walker has already laid out plans to pass on the apartment to her nephew, who said he would try to avoid selling the complex.
find ways to orient the building to reduce the effect on the nearby homes, he said the placement itself is still a major problem. “We’re really concerned that the position of the building will still be a major affront to us,” he said. Alicia Way resident Saeed Foudeh said they’ve been good neighbors with the school for over 25 years and want to continue to support the high school, but that the proposed building would “literally knock the daylight” out of their backyards. He encouraged board members to walk through the neighborhood and look at how the “monster” of a building would cramp the adjacent homes. Quattrocchi said he explored multiple alternatives to see if the new classrooms could be moved away from the edge of the campus, including a threestory classroom structure in the center of the campus. But the drawbacks were significant: Costs would balloon from $43.1 million to as much as $80 million, and construction crews would be much more disruptive during the school year. Although specific details of the classroom building haven’t been hammered out, Quattrocchi said the building will have a flat roof
and be no taller than 30 feet — a similar height to the top of a twostory home. Board members have until the first week of March to square away the master plan and approve a measure for the June ballot, according to Superintendent Jeff Harding. Although trustees haven’t committed to a specific dollar amount, the master plan’s total list of projects are expected to cost anywhere from $280.7 million to $307 million. Beyond the construction projects at Mountain View and Los Altos High Schools, the master plan sets aside close to $64 million for a new campus for Freestyle Academy and a contingency fund as well as funds for additional classrooms to accommodate future enrollment growth beyond what the new two-story classroom facilities can handle. Harding described the master plan as striking the middle ground between outstanding facilities and fiscal prudence. “It’s not a lavish plan, but it’s a responsible plan to take,” Harding told board members. “It’s right down the middle, it’s practical and its consistent with the expectations of this community.” Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com
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prospect of teachers struggling to cram all of the course content Continued from page 5 into the new schedule. “I do think our staff has been the week, they would attend six working hard with teachers on of their eight classes per day on a professional development,” she “cascading” schedule. On those said. “Staff will be able to use days, classes would be 58 minutes those minutes effectively to teach each, with slim three-minute the appropriate content.” The only hold-out was board passing periods in between. Alex Klaiber, a Crittenden par- member Greg Coladonato, who ent, encouraged board members said the district should seriously to reject the proposal, which he consider other alternatives before said lops off 10 percent of the adopting the cascading schedule. valuable time devoted to core Simply turning the second period subjects each week on top of of math into an optional period, losing the double math period. where students could opt out He said it feels like the district and use the time for an elective, is heading in the wrong direc- might be a better way to address tion, and could end up hurting the parent concerns while also achievement among the lower- satisfying the goal of providing performing students the new electives for all students. Rudolph cautioned that he schedule is intended to support. Klaiber also questioned the would need to consult with parent outreach that the district the math departments at both conducted, which he argued schools as well as special educafailed to show the pros and cons tion staff on whether stripping of losing time committed to aca- away the second period of math in the current demic subjects. schedule would “I fear if you away too do this without ‘We cannot make a take much instrucmore forthright c on su lt at ion perfectly equitable tional time for high-needs stuwith the public, you do face system ... I think this dents, particuEnglish serious backcurrent schedule gets larly learners with lash,” he said. But other par- as close as we’re going IEPs. Although the ents threw their support behind to get to it at this time.’ goal of the cascading schedthe new schedBOARD MEMBER TAMARA WILSON ule was to reach ule. Graham a greater level of parent Agnes equity among Berthillier called the proposal an important all students, Graham teacher and step to ensuring all students have task force member Edgar Gomez the option to explore extracur- said the recommendation doesn’t ricular activities. She said her necessarily solve the entire probchildren fall under the umbrella lem. The new schedule means of English learner and special students who need remedial education, and that they seemed support and extra instructional happy with the idea of drop- time are stuck with one elective, ping double math and having while higher-achieving students more latitude in choosing their under the new schedule will have access to two or even three elecschedule. “I’m really glad to see this mov- tive classes throughout the day. “If we’re trying to eliminate the ing forward,” Berthillier said. Board members backed the haves and the have-nots, the caseight-period plan, dubbed the cading schedule just perpetuates cascading schedule because two that,” Gomez said. “We’re giving classes are rotated out each day, more to certain students.” Board member Tamara Wilfollowing the recommendations of the Middle School Schedule son said she believes middle Task Force, middle school admin- school electives are important istrators and district office staff. for all students at a critical point Board member Ellen Wheeler in social-emotional developsaid she largely supported strong ment, and while not everyone math instruction at the middle will have access to two electives, schools and wants to lay the she said it’s a strong compromise groundwork for students to reach and the best option on the table Algebra I by seventh grade, but right now. “We cannot make a perfectly favors flexibility for students and families to make that call rather equitable system,” she said. “It’s a than enforce a double block math good goal, it’s a lofty goal, I’ve rarely seen it accomplished. We period for all. Board president Laura Blakely are doing our best, and I think said the school district already this current schedule gets as close exceeds mandatory state- as we’re going to get to it at this required minutes for core aca- time.” demic subjects, and that she Email Kevin Forestieri at wasn’t too worried about the kforestieri@mv-voice.com
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finally in the rearview mirror. Conversations with Amelia’s mother quickly turned from frightening allergic reactions to the prospects of eating chocolate walnuts and peanut M&Ms. Amelia is the latest patient to complete her treatment at a new allergy clinic on the Peninsula that uses oral immunotherapy to desensitize patients to food allergens, a rare method of treatment that has drawn families from all over the United States and
beyond. The strategy involves ingesting the very same substances that cause a violent reaction, albeit in very small doses, to build up a resistance, and over time patients are able to ramp up how much they can consume each day without an adverse reaction. Oral immunotherapy was considered radical just a few years ago, but a growing body of research from clinical trials shows it can be a safe and effective way of controlling crippling food allergies. Dawn Orso, Amelia’s mother,
Susan (Nerney) Schumann December 25, 1936 – January 1, 2018 Susan Agatha (Nerney) Schumann was born in San Francisco on Christmas Day, 1936, to Jack and Jelsy Nerney. She moved to Menlo Park at age 9 and resided there first with her parents and sister and then went on to raise her own family in the same house. She moved to Mountain View in 1996 and has been a resident there ever since. She passed away on New Year’s Day, 2018. Susan was well known and loved by family and friends for her energetic demeanor, her smile and her “no nonsense” approach to life. She was an avid gardener and a devotee of nature and travel. In her spare time she nurtured an extensive rose garden and has traveled the globe. Susan was a proud graduate of Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton. She went on to be a Co-Founder of the Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton Alumni Association and had been active in that Association for over 50 years. She received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Notre Dame deNamur in Belmont. Family was very important to Susan. She is survived by her 5 loving children from her previous marriage to the late Lloyd Rogers: Paul Rogers of Napa, Marc Rogers of Los Altos, Lori Amato of Watsonville, Andrew Rogers of Portland, Oregon, and Melanie Kunoa of Pacific Grove, and was mother-in-law to Kathi Rogers, Marilyn Rogers, Dr. Zandra Amato, and Janet Kunoa, 8 grandchildren and 6 great-granddaughters. Susan is survived by her sister, Jane Bottorf of Santa Rosa, 2 nieces and 1 nephew and numerous cousins. Susan was also married for 18 years to the late Vernon Schumann. For the last ten years, Susan was the loving companion of Edward Irvin of Los Altos, they enjoyed opera, baseball and gardening together. Susan held many important administrator positions during her work life to include Assistant Director of Admissions for Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton and International Conference Coordinator for SRI International in Menlo Park which provided many opportunities for extensive travel. She retired in 1998 as an administrator at Stanford University after serving for 13 years in the Office of Public Affairs, School of Humanities and Sciences, and Medical Development. Susan generously donated to various causes and spent countless hours volunteering her time. She was past President of numerous organizations including the Music Guild at Stanford, The West Bay Opera Guild,The Garden Club of Los Altos, the Junior Native Daughters of the Golden West and the Henry and Maria Holt Memorial (Opera) Scholarship Committee. She also held numerous Committee Positions on the Friends of Filoli Leadership Committee such as Publicity Chair; Co-Chair, and House and Garden Docent. Susan continued to be very active with the Sacred Heart Alumni Association that she helped to start, as well as being very active with the Mid-Peninsula Widow and Widowers Association, holding the position of Treasurer. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society. A Celebration of Life will be held in the Ballroom at Filoli Gardens in Woodside, California on Monday, January 29th at 11am. PA I D
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told the Voice that she was forced to be ever-vigilant with Amelia’s peanut and tree nut allergies for nearly all of her daughter’s life. Shots of epinephrine, better known as EpiPens, accompanied Amelia wherever she went, and Orso said she has had to use them in the past in order to stop her daughter’s severe allergic reactions. The household became a nut-free zone out of necessity, the list of restaurants they could visit narrowed down to just three and anxiety hung over trips to public places like the pool or the park down the street. “During this time she was sitting alone at lunch, and could maybe have one friend with her,” Orso said. “We would bring our food with us everywhere we went.” When Amelia reached age 4, Orso resolved to get her child into one of the clinical trials conducted by prominent universities throughout the country to desensitize her to the dangerous foods, unsuccessfully entering her into one lottery after another. Not only was she vying against thousands of other parents with children struggling with food allergies, but criteria for joining a clinical trial often restricts who can apply at all. Keeping trials on her radar eventually paid off: Starting last year, Whitney Block launched her own private clinic to start treating allergy patients. She was one of the nurse practitioners who participated in oral immunotherapy trials at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View conducted by Stanford University’s Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research. Orso got her foot in the door right away and jumped on the opportunity to be one of the first patients, even though it meant making several flights to the Bay Area from her home in Maryland. “We signaled we were interested
as soon as she was ready to go,” Orso said. An overwhelming need Block, a lead nurse practitioner at Stanford’s allergy research center, has participated in the university’s groundbreaking trials aimed at desensitizing children to food allergies since 2013. Though numerous doctors and researchers co-author the studies, Block was often the person parents and children saw when it came time to ingest a higher dosage. The results of the trials have had huge ramifications for families dealing with food allergies. Last month the university wrapped up a study showing that children with multiple food allergies can accelerate the desensitizing process by coupling treatment with shots of the asthma medicine omalizumab, better known as Xolair, which brings down the body’s allergic response. During her work with Stanford, Block said she saw an overwhelming need from families seeking the treatment who were stopped at the door, either because of space constraints or because of ineligibility for the specific trial — which could exclude children for a plethora of reasons, such as disallowing siblings. Patients in trials might also be put in the placebo group, which obviously doesn’t see the same benefits of those receiving the treatment. Despite the slim acceptance rate, she recalled getting tons of inquiries from people who were willing to make massive sacrifices in hopes of getting their child’s allergies under control. “I just realized how many people really need and could benefit from the therapy, and that’s what made me want to offer the therapy outside of clinical research,” Block said. “My first patients were from Maryland and Boston, so they’re definitely traveling, and I feel horrible for
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Nurse Practitioner Whitney Block checks Amelia Orso’s breathing at her food allergy clinic on Jan. 3.
people doing that cross-country trip every few weeks and every few months.” So Block took matters into her own hands, and in August opened up her own clinic offering the same service — oral immunotherapy with and without Xolair injections — to patients out of a small office across the street from Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City. The clinic is open one day each week and serves as a medical office for a urologist during its off-days, so it takes a bit of redecorating the walls with allergy-related charts and graphics before it starts to feel like home, Block said. It didn’t take long for the waiting list to build up, with families seeking treatment from as far away as Bulgaria, Block said. Recent estimates found that close to 6 million children under the age of 18 suffer from food allergies in the United States, the majority of whom are allergic to peanuts, eggs, milk, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish, according to the nonprofit Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE). The prevalence of childhood food allergies has also sharply increased over the last two decades, increasing by 50 percent from 1997 to 2011, and the number of children hospitalized for allergic reactions to food each year has likewise tripled over roughly the same period. Block recalled one boy who, before oral immunotherapy, would violently vomit just by coming in contact with milk, and another child who suffered a severe allergic reaction on an airplane after touching one of the small table trays that had a leftover peanut residue. While the jury is still out on what’s causing the sharp increase, one of the prevailing theories is the so-called hygiene hypothesis: The idea that creating a germ-free environment for children at a young age weakens the immune system, making the body more likely to rebel against common food allergens. Despite several studies showing the effectiveness of oral immunotherapy, a clear need for the treatment and patients willing to travel far to get it, it’s still extremely rare and difficult to find. Orso said she resigned from her job a year ago, in part to commit to the treatment and series of flights to the Bay Area in order to treat Amelia’s multiple food allergies. At the clinic last week, she cracked open a log showing how she diligently tracked her child’s dosage of peanuts and tree nuts every day since last summer, ensuring that Amelia was on track to graduate from the clinic this month. “Unfortunately, no one on the East Coast is doing what Stanford is doing, and with all the
LocalNews research that we’ve done, there’s no program that was as safe and as efficient,” she said. “They aren’t using Xolair, and they aren’t doing it in an outpatient setting outside of a clinical trial.” Block said it takes a long time for the medical community to feel comfortable with a new treatment still being explored in clinical trials — particularly the safety concerns that arise when purposefully feeding known allergens to children — and that it may be a while before big companies and medical institutions jump on the opportunity. She said it took years of direct participation in the trials before she felt like she could provide a safe environment for her patients in a private clinical setting. Allergists have started to warm up to the idea of doing oral immunotherapy, but they’ve been largely hesitant up until now, Block said. Very few people have been trained to do the treatment, which is far from mainstream at this point and is not taught in medical schools. Stumbling through the desensitizing process can have dangerous consequences. “It’s life or death if you get a dose wrong, if you get a dosing step wrong,” Block said. Easing the anxiety Alameda resident Kate Rome said she was anxious about the treatment, which ran against years of vigilance to keep her 11-year-old child, Haley, away from peanuts. But with Haley quickly approaching middle school, protecting her from an allergic reaction was likely to get a whole lot more complicated, and she felt it was time to resolve the food allergy once and for all. When it came time for Haley to ingest peanuts at the clinic for the first time, Rome said she came to the appointment armed with an EpiPen, just in case. “It’s pretty crazy, what you’re supposed to do,” Rome said. “The first time (Block) dosed her I was very nervous.” Although Haley’s treatment officially ended late last year, she and other patients who leave the clinic need to preserve the built-up immunity by continuing to ingest the allergy-provoking foods each day. The so-called maintenance dose is extremely important, Block said, and patients who stop taking the prescribed amount can start having reactions in just days. Patients are also advised to avoid exercising right after taking maintenance doses, which can lower the threshold for a reaction. Though the bulk of patients are school-aged children, particularly kids about to enter elementary or middle school, Block said she sees patients as
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Amelia Orso has her vital signs checked by Whitney Block during her desensitization treatment for nut allergies.
old as 33. She said it’s possible adults are simply too busy with careers and other obligations and have lived with their allergy for so long that they don’t bother with treatment. She said adults and teenagers heading to college are also the most likely to skip maintenance doses and lose their resistance. Despite the ongoing maintenance, Rome said the difference has been like night and day. She no longer has to tread carefully with Haley everywhere they go to avoid allergic reactions, they can shop at grocery stores like Trader Joe’s, and trips to restaurants, birthday parties and potlucks are no longer a trust exercise. Haley isn’t a big fan of peanuts now that she can eat them — a fairly common trait among kids with peanut allergies — but she enjoys Kit Kat bars and candies that, until now, were off limits. “When we drop her off at someone’s house I don’t have to look around anymore,” she said. “It’s the benefit of being able to relax just a little bit.” At each appointment, parents say that Block played a key role in making the treatment process a lot less scary, offering a level of calm and confidence for both parents and children. Each child coming in for an appointment is greeted with a warm welcome and a level of chatty familiarity that eases the tension in the room. Rome said she doesn’t plan to discard her EpiPens anytime soon, and still feels like she’s on guard to protect Haley from her peanut allergy. But she predicts that the anxiety will slowly wane, and that she will eventually acclimatize to the new normal of not having to fret constantly about her child’s safety.
“You don’t know how to be a little less vigilant at first, but you try,” she said. A growing field Recent clinical trials have chipped away at the conventional wisdom that the best way to deal with a food allergy is avoidance. Along with oral immunotherapy, studies have explored the usefulness of treating patients with small amounts of allergens through drops under the tongue as well as via small patches worn on the skin. Some companies are rapidly seeking approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to get products like peanut allergy pills and patches approved and be the first to break into the market. For now, Block said she’s skeptical. Treatment through patches could potentially work, but it’s still an unproven technique and is in the research trial phase to see how well it sizes up to oral immunotherapy. Results from sublingual immunotherapy — the under-the-tongue treatment — tends to build immunity much slower and doesn’t bring people up to the same level of tolerance. What’s more, many of the products being tested are intended for just peanut allergies, and don’t do much to help children suffering from multiple allergens. One of the more prominent companies, France-based DBV Technologies, announced plans to submit an application to the FDA for a new peanut patch product this year. But the company fell short of meeting important benchmarks during latestage trials in October, which tested the product on hundreds of children ages 4 to 11 years old, causing its stock to plummet by
more than 60 percent. Other companies are taking a different route, seeking to put food products on the market that can build up a tolerance at an early age in order to prevent a full-blown allergy from developing in the first place. A landmark 2015 study found that introducing peanuts into an infant’s diet can dramatically reduce the chances of developing a peanut allergy by age 5, and the FDA has since released new guidelines allowing foods to claim they can prevent a food allergy. “The new advice about the early introduction to peanuts and reduced risk of developing peanut allergy will soon be found on the labels of some foods containing ground peanuts that are suitable for infant consumption,” according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in a September statement. “Our goal is to make
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NEW VTA APP The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has unveiled a new, free mobile payment app called EZfare. The app, available for both Android and iPhone, allows transit riders to purchase single rides, day passes and express passes. Single ride fares that are purchased on the app are valid for two hours and include free transfers on buses and VTA’s light-rail system. If any part of a rider’s two-hour
sure parents are abreast of the latest science and can make informed decisions about how they choose to approach these challenging issues.” The Menlo Park-based company Before Brands is jumping on the opportunity, securing millions in investor funding to launch products aimed at reducing the risk of developing an allergy to peanuts, milk, tree nuts, eggs, fish and other common allergens. For Block, she has her own ambitions. She said she plans to extend her clinic to two days per week soon, and is seriously considering opening up a clinic in New York, Boston or the Washington, D.C. area to extend her service to families who would otherwise face a long trek to the Bay Area. She said young patients like Amelia have had to give up so much, missing out on school to take flights for appointments. One of those trips unfortunately coincided with Halloween. To make up for it, Orso said Block showed up at the hotel the family was staying at and, dressed up as Snow White, picked Amelia up and took her out trick-or-treating. As an added benefit, Block said, Amelia got to eat some of the treats she would normally have to discard, thanks to the progress she had made building up a tolerance to nuts. Orso said she is thrilled with the treatment, and that she always felt like Block was looking out for her child the whole time. “She monitored Amelia throughout the whole process — it really eased the concerns I had,” she said. “So much so that I fly across the country just for Amelia to eat half a nut.” More information about the new clinic is online at wmboit.com. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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Charter School. And left with a vacuum, rumors are spreading that it’s going to be the latter. At a Jan. 8 school board meeting, school board members were expected to discuss Measure N, the $150 million school bond that will fuel land acquisition and construction of a new school. But with two board members absent and one trustee forced to recuse himself, the school board no longer had a quorum, and had to ditch its planned presentation and discussion. But that didn’t stop more than a dozen of residents and parents — a large number of whom have kids in Bullis Charter School — from blasting the school board over concerns that the district was planning to plant their school in Mountain View. Jim Burnham, a parent of a fourth-grade student at Bullis, said it would be a bad idea to put a school that serves families all over Los Altos and Los Altos Hills right next door to one of the largest shopping centers on the Peninsula. Traffic is “horrendous” along San Antonio Road already, he said. Even though the charter school is housed at two campuses in portable classrooms, he said it would actually be a downgrade to migrate to Mountain View. “It’s worse than what we have now,” he said. Los Altos Hills Mayor John Radford, who was one of the signatories for Measure N, sharply criticized the district for failing to provide clarity to district residents. He said voters were convinced that the bond measure was essential in order to accommodate “severe” enrollment growth in the immediate term, even though there was no solid plan on how to use the money. If the rumors end up being true — that the district wants to put Bullis in Mountain View — he said the looming specter of enrollment growth feels like a bait-and-switch in order to house the charter school instead. “You won’t even commit to building a neighborhood school there, and many think the plan is to put Bullis there,” he said. “You are obligated to tell us what you are really going to do to solve enrollment growth.” Last month, the district revealed plans to buy the former Safeway and Old Mill office building on the corner of San Antonio Road and California Street, a total of 8.6 acres of valuable real estate next door to the shopping center. Using a complicated deal with developers and the city of Mountain View known as the transfer of development rights (TDRs), the district
plans to sell the square-footage of high density development that could have been built on the site to developers to use elsewhere in the city. By doing so, the district expects to recoup over $79 million. District estimates pin the cost of land in the area at about $15 million per acre, though the cost may be much higher. The Kalcic and Marazzo families who own the parcels told the Voice in a statement Tuesday that they have signed a 95-year ground lease with the developer Greystar to build a dense, mixed-use housing development on the site, and have no interest in selling to the school district. At an Oct. 3 Mountain View City Council meeting, one of the lawyers representing the families cautioned that an attempt to take the property through eminent domain would be costly and litigious, saying that there are other more prudent land options out there.
‘You won’t even commit to building a neighborhood school there, and many think the plan is to put Bullis there.’ LOS ALTOS HILLS MAYOR JOHN RADFORD
Norm Matteoni, a representative for the property owners, revealed at the board meeting that Greystar had a “preliminary discussion” scheduled with district officials on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to find an alternative that would avoid litigation. Mountain View City Council members are scheduled to approve the district’s plan to sell development rights on Tuesday, Jan. 16, along with a long list of commitments from local developers to buy up the rights to build more than 600,000 square feet of mostly office development throughout the city, particularly in the East Whisman area. During the Oct. 3 meeting, council members largely supported a neighborhood school for the San Antonio site rather than a charter school, but stopped short of making it a condition of approval for the TDRs. “I think that was the right choice,” board president Vladimir Ivanovic told the Voice in a meeting last week. He said that despite the rumors, the board has not weighed in on whether Bullis or a new neighborhood school will be put on the Old Mill site. When the time comes to make the decision, he said it
will be done with transparency and plenty of opportunities for the public to weigh in. That hasn’t stopped the public from believing that the new campus would house Bullis. In a letter to the City Council last week, former council member Mike Kasperzak said there is a strong possibility that the Los Altos School District plans to put Bullis Charter School on the property so long as the city doesn’t require that it be a neighborhood school. Mayor Lenny Siegel later told the Voice he believes there is a good chance Bullis will be built at the Old Mill site if given the opportunity. Throughout the Jan. 8 board meeting, parents urged the board to shift gears, move away from the land acquisition plans and take a closer look at whether a new school could be co-located on an existing campus, particularly the large sites at Egan Junior High and Covington Elementary. Bullis parent Stef Lau-Chen said she had serious concerns about the legal battle and high costs that could come with pursuing the Old Mill site, and would much rather see the district consider its existing 116 acres of land. District parent Mike Carlton, who sat on the district’s Facilities Master Plan Committee in 2014, said members looked into options that clearly showed that a permanent site could fit on the Egan and Covington campuses without displacing the existing school, and that it would be much easier than purchasing and tearing down an office park and dealing with tenants leasing the space and years of lawsuits. Board members have maintained for several years that purchasing land is the preferred solution to manage the growing student population, particularly north of El Camino Real in Mountain View where a vast majority of new housing within the district is located. Although using existing land sounds like a good option on paper, trustees argue that reconfiguring existing schools to fit Bullis would end up costing roughly the same amount and has to potential to cause severe traffic problems. Ivanovic said Covington and Egan have been thoroughly explored, and while critics may quibble about the true cost of land acquisition versus using existing sites, the costs aren’t going to be an order of magnitude different. By buying the Old Mill site, he said the district is going to keep true to its longterm strategy of small, neighborhood schools, averaging only about 50 kids per acre. “We’re not in any hurry to change that model,” he said. V
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and Lisa Matichak was selected to serve as vice mayor. Accepting the new role, Siegel promised a similar spirit of cooperation to work with his colleagues for the betterment of Mountain View as well as the greater region. “It should be clear by now that I consider Mountain View a leader. We’re a leader in how our city operates,” he said. “I expect there to be differences among the seven of us on the council, but it’s my hope we’ll approach each issue on its own right.” Stanford genetics professor Leonore Herzenberg was involved in many of the same university campus activist groups as Siegel. As a young student leader, he was “brilliant,” she said. “He was always sensible about what could be accomplished politically, what made sense to work on, and how to form coalitions,” she said. “Intellectually, he was able to grasp and deal with all these groups, and I think he was only 18-and-a-half at the time.” Those qualities will be tested by the city’s upcoming challenges. Siegel pledged cooperation with the city’s stakeholders, ranging from individual homeowners and small businesses to big-time developers and corporations. Asked about his goals, Siegel singled out transportation as his top priority. The city already has a slate of ambitious transportation initiatives, including projects to rebuild the downtown transit center and design an automated transit line using cutting-edge technology. On top of those projects, Siegel said the city needed to go further. He pointed out that Mountain View needs to strengthen its coordination with its neighboring cities. A new automated transit line would be nice for Mountain View, but it would make much more
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spokeswoman Katie Nelson. When officers arrived at the hotel, one of the employees told police that the trio of suspects was attempting to leave the hotel, Nelson said. The officers spotted the suspects in the parking lot, and reportedly found them in possession of the stolen credit card as well as other stolen property from neighboring cities. The suspects, a 30-year-old San Francisco man, a 24-yearold Burlingame man and a 18-year-old transient woman, were all arrested on stolen identification charges, possession of 14
sense to plan ahead for a system that would expand out to Sunnyvale and perhaps Cupertino, he said. The Highway 85 corridor with its unused median would be the obvious place for this transit line to go, he said. The problem is the same for many of the North County cities, Siegel said. Prosperous tech companies are overwhelming the transportation infrastructure, and they need to be part of the solution, he said. He singled out Apple and Google as companies that will need to do more. Both corporations have an incentive, since the area’s problematic transportation and housing are hindering their ability to hire and retain talented employees, he said. “My hope would be to engage Apple and Google since they both have more money than God, and this is problem that they need to solve,” Siegel said. “Our leverage is that this is clearly in their interest.” The other big player that Mountain View would need to approach is the Valley Transportation Authority, which controls billions of dollars in government transit funding. Recently, VTA officials have proposed using the Highway 85 median to add an express traffic lane or possibly an extension of the light-rail system. In any scenario, Mountain View will be in a better position to negotiate with VTA if it partners with other cities first, Siegel said. Today’s hot-button issues such as gentrification, housing affordability and transit planning are nothing new for Siegel. Back during his student activist days, he was part of a group called Grass Roots that published pamphlets and materials on local land-use planning. Some of their materials from nearly 50 years ago seem prophetic, such as early warnings about a growing jobs-housing imbalance in the Palo Alto area. It has been an unsteady transition for Siegel to go from campus protester to political player. After
he left college, Siegel first joined his wife, Jan Rivers, in Mountain View in 1972. About four years later, he made his first bid for a City Council seat — and he came in 13th of out of field of 13 candidates. It was the first of several illfated political campaigns during his younger years. He tried running again for council in 1980 and 1982, but both times he came up short. Around the same time, he also spearheaded two unsuccessful attempts to institute rent control in Mountain View, which made him no friends among the city’s property owners. He has no regrets about thinking big. “Things aren’t worth doing unless you’re pushing the envelope. If you’re just voting yes or no, then you’re not doing your job,” he said. His political ambitions found more success through other avenues. In 1978, he joined the city’s planning commission and became intimately involved in the city’s land-use planning. He continued pursuing some moonshot ideas that might seem quixotic. As planning commissioner, he unsuccessfully called for a moratorium on industrial development in North Bayshore, a proposal that would have vastly altered the city’s tech industry. Later, when Moffett Field was closing down, he proposed using the runways for an expansive swath of new affordable housing. In some ways, Siegel has been vindicated. Google is embarking on aggressive plans to build housing in North Bayshore while NASA is doing the same at Moffett Field. Meanwhile Mountain View voters approved a sweeping rent control program in hopes of curbing the area’s skyrocketing housing costs. Siegel’s concerns about the Silicon Valley’s mismatched growth has found a much wider following. In recent years, he launched the Campaign for a Balanced Mountain View, a grass-roots
stolen property, conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of a controlled substance. —Kevin Forestieri
officers eventually found it near state Highway 237 at El Camino Real, according to police. The vehicle was pulled over on Mountain View Avenue just north of El Camino Real and the suspect, a transient, was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, vehicle theft and parole violation, police said. —Bay City News Service
STOLEN CAR ARREST A 33-year-old man was arrested in Mountain View last week after the owner of a stolen vehicle spotted him driving it, police said. The man was arrested after police received a call at about 1:45 p.m. on Jan. 3 from a resident who said he had spotted his stolen Land Rover Discovery driving past him on El Camino Real near The Americana. The vehicle had been reported stolen in late December and
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SENTENCING IN WINE HEIST Mountain View resident Alfred Georgis was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for his role in a high-end wine heist. Georgis pleaded guilty to transporting expensive wines stolen from a number of
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Lenny Siegel, a longtime Mountain View resident, says transportation issues will be his top priority during his term as mayor.
group with a singular focus on the regional jobs-housing imbalance that has become a force to be reckoned with in Mountain View politics. In 1992, Siegel found his professional calling by launching the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, a watchdog group that monitors polluted sites. The organization, which he leads to this day, has been actively involved in the cleanup efforts at Moffett Field and other shuttered military bases across the country. Through that effort, the former anti-war activist has found himself frequently working hand-inhand with military officials. He said he hopes to take that same open mindset into his time
as Mountain View’s mayor. Like the rest of the City Council, he has been critical of the Trump Administration on issues such as human rights and immigration. But where possible, Siegel says he will remain open-minded about working with the federal government on shared concerns, such as reusing contaminated properties. Siegel expects to have numerous people disagreeing with him, and he’d be disappointed if that wasn’t the case. He points to his Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, which values argument as the highest form of learning. “I like hearing from people who disagree with me,” he said. “As long as they’ll allow me to push back.”
businesses in the Bay Area, including the French Laundry in Yountville and Alexander’s Steakhouse in Cupertino, which he sold to a buyer in North Carolina, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney’s Office on Jan. 9. Georgis, 53, admitted to conspiring with Davis Kiryakoz, 44, of Modesto and others to steal approximately 29 bottles of wines worth approximately $32,000 from Alexander’s Steakhouse in November of 2014, 110 bottles of high-end wines worth approximately $549,500 from the French Laundry in December 2014 and to transporting wines valued at $290,000 stolen in March of 2013 from
Fine Wines International in San Francisco. The two men were charged by a federal grand jury of one count of conspiracy to transport stolen goods and two counts of transportation of stolen goods. Both defendants pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and the remaining charges were dismissed. Kiryakoz was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Beth Freeman to 15 months in prison. Georgis was sentenced to 37 months in prison and both men were ordered to pay restitution of $575,715. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office participated in the multi-agency investigation that led to the men’s convictions. —Andrea Gemmet
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campus on the Safeway site, instead of a neighborhood school. I’m a fan of BCS in its own right, and while I don’t pretend to understand ountain View is served by two elementary school districts: much about charter schools, suffice it to say that BCS does not meet Mountain View-Whisman School District and Los Altos the needs of Mountain View school children. I have heard from several credible sources that there is a strong School District, the latter currently having one campus within Mountain View city limits, Springer School. There is also possibility that LASD is inclined to build something other than a neighborhood school in Mountain View, possibly a a large part of the community in the San Antonio school, which seems to be its highest priority. area that is within the LASD and attends Los Altos Guest Opinion charter And why not? If the Mountain View City Council schools. isn’t going to require a neighborhood school for its LASD voters passed a bond measure several years ago to build more schools. The district would like to add a neigh- residents in exchange for a financial package worth $100 million, borhood school and must find or build a suitable school campus for why not fulfill its legal obligation with these resources? This is, in Bullis Charter School (BCS). The district trustees are focusing their my opinion, an unacceptable outcome. The Mountain View community has made it clear that a new attention on the property surrounding the old Safeway at California and San Antonio, and have looked at the Target and Walgreens neighborhood school in the San Antonio area is a very high priority. It must be a school that serves the needs of Mountain View children properties. Because the price of land is so high, our City Council offered LASD as well as others within the LASD. A charter school does not meet $23 million to help it purchase land for sports facilities that would these essential needs of Mountain View families. So, when the Mountain View City Council takes up these issues double as public open space for Mountain View residents when school is out. Additionally, the council authorized the use of Transfer later this month, its members should not make any agreements with of Development Rights (TDRs) to help the Los Altos district generate LASD regarding TDRs, memorandums of understanding, open space additional funds to assist in the development of a new school in the or anything else until such time as the LASD commits to building a San Antonio area. TDRs allow the district to sell “unused” develop- neighborhood school that will serve Mountain View residents. Mounment rights on its property to other developers which can then be tain View must get this commitment before city officials make any added to another development elsewhere in the city. The TDRs for further decisions regarding the city’s financial support of the LASD project. To do otherwise will signal to the LASD trustees that the City the Safeway site may be worth as much as $80 million. During a recent City Council meeting on whether to permit the Council isn’t serious about the need for a neighborhood school. What can you do? Call, meet with or write to the Mountain View use of TDRs, only two council members insisted that the new school must be a neighborhood school, open to Mountain View residents City Council as well as the LASD trustees and let them know what living in the area. While others expressed a “preference” for a neigh- you think. Your input matters! Mike Kasperzak is a former Mountain View mayor and a borhood school, in doing so they left the option open for LASD to fulfill its legal obligations to build the Bullis Charter School (BCS) public affairs consultant. By Mike Kasperzak
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY As we reflect on 2017, many of us will evaluate what we’ve accomplished in the last year and how we might make changes in 2018 to feel even more fulfilled. We at Child Advocates of Silicon Valley consistently hear from our volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs, that their work with foster youth is by far the most rewardingly, fulfilling experience of their lives. In Santa Clara County, approximately 1500 children and teens live in the foster care system, taken from their homes due to abuse, abandonment or neglect. We at Child Advocates train and support CASA volunteers in Mountain View and throughout the Bay Area, then match them with a foster child to create a oneon-one relationship, advocate for the child’s best interests and ensure his or her needs are met. In a life full of uncertainty and change, a CASA volunteer is often the only consistent, caring adult in a foster child’s life. We encourage you to make a difference this year that could last a lifetime: Become a CASA
volunteer for an abused or neglected child. Average volunteer service is 10-12 hours a month. This year, you can make an impact in our community — and on a child’s life — as a CASA volunteer. Karen Scussel Executive Director, Child Advocates of Silicon Valley
RESOLVE TO BE MORE INVOLVED Will 2018 be a Happy New Year? Maybe not, if we leave local decision-making to Silicon Valley corporate wheeler-dealers and leave national decision-making to a unqualified and brash president who openly threatens to exterminate a foreign dictator before that dictator launches or plants a hydrogen bomb in our midst. The current “leaders” of North Korea and the United States remind me of the report, a few years ago, of a road rage incident in the area. The male drivers pulled over, one whipped out his gun, the other did likewise. Fearing death, they shot each other. It turned out both were cops! Perhaps some readers will make it a New Year’s resolution to
become more involved in the political process at every level before disaster strikes. This year, pick a disaster and work to prevent it. The life (or quality of life) you save may be your own. Gary Wesley Continental Circle
BIKE THEFTS ON CALTRAIN I’m a commuter using Caltrain daily to go to work since 2008. I personally witnessed a bike theft attempt on a packed train which was thwarted only because other bike riders were in the area and were able to shout out. Avoiding theft requires people being close to their bikes. Spreading bicycles
across the train is the best design as it enables fast loading/unloading and reduces the risk of bike thefts. Ideally, each car would also be a bike car. If we can get to at least four (per train) that would be good progress. I am concerned about proposed designs keeping commuters away from bikes. We need all the space we can get on Caltrain. It is the only transportation artery that still has room to grow to carry people up and down the Peninsula as the region continues to add more and more businesses and homes. Every seat matters and every bike space is important — let’s not lose any. Vincent de Martel Palo Alto
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Much-anticipated and unique projects opening in 2018 include Protégé in Palo Alto, from two French Laundry alums; Morsey’s Farmhouse Kitchen in Los Altos, where the menu is fueled by products made from the owners’ herd of water buffalo; and Bevri, a Georgian restaurant in downtown Palo Alto, among others, are set to come online this year. There are also more casual, neighborhood dining concepts coming to the area and a spate of bakeries set to hit Mountain View. Read on for more about some of the eateries coming to the Midpeninsula this year.
Protégé Dennis Kelly and Anthony Secviar, a former sommelier and chef, respectively, from the three-Michelin-star The French Laundry in Yountville, are gearing up to open Protégé Restaurant at 250 S. California Ave. They described Protégé as a neighborhood restaurant with “approachable” food that will reflect their technical skill and background. An “upscale, casual” lounge will serve snacks, appetizers, entrees and pie for dessert (from a custom-built trolley). A separate, reservationsonly dining room will offer a hybrid of a tasting
and a-la-carte customers car arte te menu; men e u; custo ome mers rs can a choose two to four dishes from a prix fixe menu with appetizers, seafood, pasta, meats and dessert. The restaurant’s name is a reference to the owners’ intent to create an incubator-like environment focused on “mentoring the next generation of restaurant professionals,” Kelly said.
Joe & The Juice This spring, look for the downtown Palo Alto outpost of Joe & The Juice, a Danish juice and coffee chain in the midst of a major U.S. expansion effort. The company’s signature Millennialpink signage recently went up in the ground floor of a new building currently under construction at 500 University Ave. Mads Højmark
branding and communication manager for Joe & The Juice, said they’re aiming to open in March. Joe & The Juice serves fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies, sandwiches and coffee.
Verve Coffee In an exciting development for local caffeine junkies, Santa Cruz’s Verve Coffee Roasters plans to open a cafe at 162 University Ave. this year. Verve’s coffee is roasted in Santa Cruz and comes from direct-trade relationships with farmers. The Palo Alto Verve will have the typical coffee offerings and a full food menu, including baked goods from Manresa Bread, the bakery spinoff of the Michelin-starred Manresa Restaurant in Los Gatos.
Hakan Bala, left, and Thanasis Pashalidis have teamed up to open a new restaurant featuring lesser-known dishes of Greece at the site of La Morenita in Palo Alto.
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Weekend Bevri 2018 will likely see a first in the Palo Alto dining scene: the opening of a Georgian restaurant. Pavel Sirotin, a Russian transplant who has always had a passion for restaurants and hospitality, is opening Bevri at 530 Bryant St. with his brother and sister-in-law. Georgian cuisine centers around meat and vegetables, he said, and heavily features ingredients like spinach, walnuts, pomegranate and eggplant.
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Protégé, a new venture by The French Laundry’s former chef and former sommelier, is set to open in February on California Avenue in Palo Alto.
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Two veterans of the local culinary scene who met at Evvia Estiatorio 10 years ago plan to open their own Hellenic restaurant in Palo Alto this spring. Thanasis Pashalidis and Hakan Bala are behind Taverna, a farm-to-table, neighborhood restaurant at 800 Emerson St. There will be a “strong emphasis” on seasonality and vegetables, as well as seafood and wine (both local and international), Pashalidis said. They hope to expose diners to lesserknown Hellenic dishes.
The Chickery, a Washington D.C.based chicken eatery, originally planned to open its first California location in Palo Alto last summer, but is now aiming for end of January. A quick-service restaurant, The Chickery describes itself as a “better chicken” company that serves dishes such as chicken fingers, chicken sandwiches and rotisserie chicken. The Palo Alto location is at 3850 El Camino Real.
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The younger generation of a local restaurant family is opening their own project at 406 S. California Ave. this spring. Sun of Wolf is the brainchild of cousins Viari Lopez and Alexa and Paulina Sol, whose parents own La Fiesta Restaurant and Vive Sol in Mountain View, Palo Alto Sol (next door to Sun of Wolf) and Quinto Sol in Redwood City. Lopez described the cuisine as “modern California comfort meets old-world Mexican flavors and richness,” with traditional dishes like aguachile next to their take on grilled cheese with tomato soup, using oaxaca cheese in the sandwich and a roasted poblano-tomatillo soup. There will also be craft cocktails, like the “Wolf Bite” with mezcal, tamarind and allspice dram, a liqueur. They’re aiming to open March 1.
The Midwife and the Baker The Midwife and the Baker, whose bread and baked goods have attracted a following at Bay Area farmers markets, is coming to 846 Independence Ave. Husband-and-wife team Mac and Jaime McConnell took over a production facility there last year and plan to open as a retail bakery in early 2018, Mac McConnell said. He was head instructor for several years at The San Francisco Baking Institute and Jaime McConnell is a licensed midwife. They use highhydration doughs and favor whole-grain sourdoughs. Their Instagram feed is full of piles of baguettes, hearty whole wheat loaves, croissants and other goods.
Maison Alyzee Maison Alyzee is one of three French bakeries set to open on Mountain View’s Castro Street in 2018. Owner and French native Laurent Pellet is bringing three pastry chefs from Paris to open the 212 Castro St. bakery in late February. Maison Alyzee will serve traditional French pastries, fresh-baked bread, coffee, wine and lunch items such as sandwiches and salads.
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C’est Si Bon This San Jose bakery specializing in custom cakes and Persian pastries is opening several doors down from Maison Alyzee at 282 Castro St. C’est Si Bon is a familyowned business that started in San Jose 12 years ago, said owner Shay Zangeneh. Zangeneh, her two sisters, mother and father run the bakery. They’re aiming to open in early March.
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International bakery chain Paris Baguette plans to open a new “showstopper” location at 317 Castro St. this spring. The bakery, which was started in the 1980s by a Korean pastry chef trained in France, serves coffee, tea, pastries, bread, sandwiches and other French-inspired fare. “We want to make a big impression in Mountain View,” Chief Development Officer Larry Sidoti said in a previous interview. “It’s a very important area.”
Morsey’s Farmhouse Kitchen A one-of-a-kind restaurant is set to open this month on Main Street. Owner Kal Morsey claims Morsey’s Farmhouse Kitchen will be the only restaurant in the country cooking from a wide range of water buffalo products — not to mention they’re coming from a herd of nearly 400 water buffalo he owns with his wife Yulia. Morsey’s, at 134 Main St., will serve water buffalo milk, different kinds of cheeses, butter, yogurt and gelato and also incorporate them in the dishes they serve. The couple hopes to educate American diners on the merits of waterbuffalo products, which are more popular and known in South Asian and European countries.
State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria Pizza, beer and arcade games will be front and center at State of
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Mind Public House and Pizzeria, set to soft open in mid-January at 101 Plaza North. Palo Alto native Lars Smith, co-owner of The Tap Room in Palo Alto, is opening the restaurant with his brother, Andrew, also a Tap Room coowner, and Amy Betz, a former Tap Room manager. There will be hand-tossed, thin-crust pizzas as well as pub food and California beers on tap.
The Post Vickie Breslin has been hard at work transforming the former homes of Estatements Luxury Consignment and First & Main Sports Lounge at 395 Main St. into The Post, her first restaurant. Breslin previously ran events for First & Main Sports Lounge and has worked at other local establishments. At The Post, “people can look forward to quality, locally and organically sourced where possible, comfort food and craft cocktails,” she wrote in an email. There will also be happy hour daily and a late-night menu. She’s aiming to open in late February or early March.
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A San Carlos seafood restaurant is opening a second outpost of Rustic House Oyster Bar and Grill at 295 Main St. in downtown Los Altos. Owner Jerry Beltramo took over the space after Turn Bar & Grill abruptly closed in August. He plans to have its soft opening this weekend. Look for a raw bar and dishes like fish tacos, lobster roll, fish and chips and seared ahi tuna. Email Elena Kadvany at ekadvany@paweekly.com V
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Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star in “The Post. “
Ex ‘Post’ facto SPIELBERG, STREEP, AND HANKS REVISIT PENTAGON PAPERS 001/2 (Century 16 & 20) Before WikiLeaks, before Fake News and before Mainstream Media became proper nouns, newspapers doggedly pursued the truth. As the current president prepares to roll out his “Fake News Awards� to belittle the free press, a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep and Tom
Hanks is enjoying residency in theaters (not to mention a prime table at awards shows). Having only gone before the cameras in May of this year, “The Postâ€? vigorously exploits its currentevents resonance, its rushed-tothe-screen raison d’être. With Spielberg, Streep, and Hanks taking their licks at the man in the Oval Office, it’s a fair
bet that few will care that “The Post� comes up short. Hanks plays Ben Bradlee, the famed executive editor of “The Washington Post� (immortalized by Jason Robards in the 1976 classic “All the President’s Men�). In 1971, the Nixon White House didn’t care for the newspaper’s coverage, prompting a capricious denial of access to Tricia Nixon’s wedding. “The Nixon White House is nothing if not vindictive,� muses Streep’s Katherine Graham, the paper’s publisher. Then, The New York Times begins publishing the bombshell Pentagon Papers stolen and leaked by Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) to reveal the truth about America’s Vietnam War policy. Bradlee smells opportunity when an injunction by the Nixon Administration shuts down the Times from reporting. At the same time, Graham finds herself largely occupied with the cause of making the Post a public company. Striding into boardrooms overflowing with men, Graham appears mousy and deferential to her ally and chairman of the board Fritz Beebe (Tracy Letts). Whether this depiction is true or not — and the real-life Graham indeed confessed to a lack of self-confidence fostered by the sexism surrounding her — the screenwriters clearly see it as a dramatic necessity to tee up an eventual heroic climax of
Q NOWSHOWING All the Money in the World (R) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Lady Bird (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun.
Coco (PG) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Molly’s Game (R) +++ Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
The Commuter (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Paddington 2 (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
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Darkest Hour (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. The Disaster Artist (R) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Ferdinand (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Greatest Showman (PG) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Hostiles (R)
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Pitch Perfect 3 (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
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The Post (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Proud Mary (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Shape of Water (R)
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I, Tonya (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Insidious: The Last Key (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1949) (Not Rated) Century 20: Sunday
Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com/Aquariuspa Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 Century 20 Downtown: 825 MiddleďŹ eld Rd, Redwood City tinyurl.com/Century20 CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more movie info, visit www.mv-voice.com and click on movies.
brave conviction on Graham’s part. Perhaps the socialite Graham was more comfortable in a ballroom than a boardroom, but her portrayal as a strong woman waiting to emerge from a dithering doyenne feels reductive. Liz Hannah and Josh Singer’s less-than-fully-formed script struggles to find the drama in “The Post,� which recounts the real-life story of how a cover-up that spanned four U.S. presidents pushed Graham (the country’s first female newspaper publisher) and Bradlee to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. While certain scenes generate fleeting sparks (tense talks between Graham and personal friend Robert McNamara, well played by Bruce Greenwood), the filmmakers’ solution tends to be the characters speechifying, posing and repeatedly declaiming the stakes (“We could all go to prison�). Spielberg lays it on thick with
hero shots of Hanks and Streep as John Williams provides musical undercarriage, but it’s hard not to get bogged down in Janusz Kaminski’s self-consciously grainy, gray photography and period detail (this is the kind of movie that short-hands an unnecessary Vietnam sequence with a Creedence Clearwater Revival cue). The heroic journalism depicted in “The Post� could hardly be more timely, it’s true, but Spielberg’s take doesn’t achieve dramatic traction. Rated PG-13 for language and brief war violence. One hour, 55 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Q HIGHLIGHT THEATREWORKS PRESENTS ‘OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY’ In “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” written and performed by Hershey Felder, composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky springs to life in a tale that explores both current Russian politics and historical context. Jan. 10-Feb. 11. Show times vary. $45-$105, with discounts for educators, seniors, under 35. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks.org/
THEATER The Laramie Project at Palo Alto Players The Palo Alto Players present “The Laramie Project,” the story of a young teen who was brutally murdered in 1998. Jan. 19-Feb. 4, 8 p.m. $22-$46. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Search facebook. com/events/ for more info.
CONCERTS Eric Morrison & The Mysteries Eric Morrison & The Mysteries, a soul group from Santa Cruz, will perform in celebration of their debut record release. Jan. 12, 8-10 p.m. Free. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St., Redwood City. Search facebook.com/ events/ for more info. Radcliffe Choral Society: Bay Area Tour Kickoff Concert The Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard University’s treble ensemble under the direction of Andrew Clark, kicks off its West Coast tour with a joint concert with the
Stanford Chamber Chorale, under the direction of Stephen M. Sano. Jan. 13, 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Stanford Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. chorale.stanford.edu/events/ Valerie V Trio Celebrates Frank Sinatra Valerie V, Chet Chwalik and Mat Marucci of the Valerie V Trio will perform in celebration of Frank Sinatra. Jan. 12, 8:30 p.m. $30. Angelicas, 863 Main St., Redwood City. Search facebook.com/events/ for more info. Voices of Music: An Evening in Paris This concert will feature music by Couperin, Marais and Telemann with Carla Moore, Hanneke van Proosdij, Elisabeth Reed, William Skeen, Derek Tam and David Tayler. Jan. 19, 8 p.m. $5-$45. All Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto. voicesofmusic.org/concerts
MUSIC Fortnightly Music Club Concert Fortnightly Music Club will present a chamber music concert featuring “32 Variations in C
Minor” by Beethoven performed by pianist Jason Chiu; flute works by Kuhlau and Albisi performed by Takashi Hidai, Tomiko Tsai and Ai Goldsmith; and “Concerto for Violin” by Donald Dillard performed by Chag-Hee Lee and Yu-Chi Tai. Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Free. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. Open Mic Open Mic takes place every Monday on the second floor of Red Rock Coffee in downtown Mountain View. It features free live music, comedy, poetry and a supportive atmosphere for experienced and new performers. Mondays, ongoing, 6:30 p.m., sign-ups; starts at 7 p.m. Free. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View. redrockcoffee.org/calendar Sabados Latinoamericanos Alberto’s NightClub presents Sabados Latinoamericanos (Latin American Saturdays) with reggae, hip hop, merengue, salsa, rock, pop music and more. Saturdays, ongoing. Cover charge. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com/calendar St. Louis Symphony at Bing Concert Hall The St. Louis Symphony, the second oldest orchestra in the nation, will perform selections from Thomas AdËs’ Dances from the opera Powder Her Face, Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. $15-$100. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. Search facebook.com/events/ for more info.
FESTIVALS & FAIRS Palo Alto Wedding Fair The Palo Alto Wedding Fair is a one-stop-shop for brides and their loved ones. The event will feature a bridal fashion show, samples of flowers, cake and reception tables alongside opportunities to talk with wedding professionals. Jan. 14, 12 p.m. $7.50-$10. Palo Alto Crowne Plaza, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. bayareaweddingfairs.com
DANCE New York Style Salsa On2 with Victoria (Mambo Mondays) New York Style Salsa On2 with Victoria Mambo will be held Mondays, with lessons for all skill levels. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Level 1 at 8 p.m.; level 2 at 9 p.m.; social dancing starts at 10 p.m.- no partner necessary. For people 21 years and older. Ongoing. Cover charge: $10. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com/calendar Salsa Fridays Salsa dance lessons every Friday for all skill levels. Doors open at 8 p.m.; beginner lessons start at 8:30 p.m.; intermediate lessons at 9:30 p.m. and social dance starts at 10:15 p.m. No partner necessary. Ages 21 and older. Ongoing. Cover charge: $10. Alberto’s Salsa Studio, 736 W. Dana St., Mountain View. albertos.com/calendar
COMEDY Comedians at Red Rock Bay Area comedian Kevin Wong will host his monthly comedy showcase at Red Rock Coffee. This comedy event is held on the third Saturday of each month through Nov 2018, 8:3010:30 p.m. Free, donations welcome. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View. kevinwongcomedy.com/shows/
TALKS & LECTURES Book Launch with Michelle Oberman Scholar Michelle Oberman, a law professor at Santa Clara University, will launch her new book “Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, From El Salvador to Oklahoma.” Jan. 17, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event/
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Dorian T. Warren and Mia Songbird: Basic Income and Racial Justice Dorian T. Warren and Mia Birdsong will discuss issues of racial and economic justice. Warren is a scholar, organizer and media personality who has previously taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, while Birdsong advocates for the strengthening of communities and the self-determination of low-income people. Jan. 16, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Cubberley Auditorium, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford. ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/events/ Intensive Literary Seminar Series Toni Morrison’s Beloved This seminar taught by author and former adjunct U.C. Berkeley Professor Kimberly Ford will explore “Beloved” by Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison. Jan. 8, 18 and 31, 7-8:30 p.m. $38, one seminar, no book; $98, three seminars, with book. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. keplers.com Julius Rosenwald: A Philanthropy Legacy in Film the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will screen the new documentary film, “Rosenwald: the Remarkable Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities.” Following the screening, filmmaker Aviva Kempner will discuss the making of the film. Jan. 19, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Free and Open to the Public. Stanford University, Venue TBA, Stanford. pacscenter.stanford.edu/events/ Matthew Zapruder and Louise Glück Two of America’s prominent poets, Matthew Zapruder and Louise Glück, will discuss why poetry matters. Zapruder’s work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to The Paris Review, while Glück has won a Pulitzer Prize. Jan. 17, 7:30-9 p.m. $50, with book; $25, general admission; $15, students. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. NYMBC Presents Laura Hopper at Books Inc. Palo Alto Teen author Laura Hopper, who recently released her debut novel “I Never,” will chat with readers and sign books. Jan. 18, 7-9 p.m. Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. booksinc.net/event/ Russia’s Crown Reprised Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, will host a gallery talk during which he will highlight the gifts to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives that make up part of the institution’s holdings on the Russian revolution and Imperial Russia.This lecture will be held Jan. 13, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. events.stanford.edu/ Sequoia Home Health This workshop will provide educational information about fall prevention, home safety and energy conservation, while discussing the benefits of home health for those that require services now and in the future. Jan. 18, 1-2 p.m. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View. This is Now with Angie Coiro: Gary Ferguson on wildfires Nature writer Gary Ferguson and Angie Coiro will discuss wildfire in light of the recent North Bay fires, from climate change to fuel sources to long-term challenges. Jan. 16, 7:30-9 p.m. Free, RSVPs requested. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info.
LESSONS & CLASSES Storytelling Workshop Participants will work with partners and in small groups to build and hone in their personal stories and present them in creative ways. Jan. 13, 1-4:30 p.m. $35. Midpen Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. midpenmedia.org/event/
FAMILY Narkis, Sigalit, Ulpanon Aleph&Bet Preschool Shabbat Dinner A celebration of Shabbat with preschool staff at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. Includes a Mediterranean-style dinner, arts and crafts activities and kid-friendly musical talent. Jan. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $37.69. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. brownpapertickets.com/event/
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS Annual BayLUG Holiday LEGOÆ Show The Museum of American Heritage will host its annual BayLUG Holiday LEGO show which features holiday scenes in a miniature city. Exhibit is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 8 through Jan. 14, 11 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. $3 per person, free admission to MOAH and BayLUG members. Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. Art Exhibit: ‘About Face: Intimacy and Abstraction in Photographic Portraits’ This exhibition considers the voyeuristic intimacy of the close-up portrait in 13 photographs by celebrated photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Barbara Morgan and Edward Weston. Each photograph captures a likeness and the mood set by the subject’s personality. Nov. 1-March 4, 2018, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Tuesdays; open Thursdays until 8 p.m. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu Essays in Sight and Sound This exhibition showcases student work that explores how to “write with video” rather than text alone about historical and contemporary audiovisual media. Starting Jan. 12-26, times vary. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. arts. stanford.edu/event Happenstance Happenstance, a solo exhibition of fine art photographer Nathalie Strand’s composite series, blends figurative pictures with textures and details. Jan. 10 to Feb. 11. Free. The Main Gllery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City. themaingallery.org
HEALTH & WELLNESS CSA Information and Emergency Assistance Workshop Community Services Agency’s senior case managers will be providing resources on rental and mortgage assistance, Lifeline and other emergency response devices and crisis resources. This session will not include any legal or financial advice. Jan. 16, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View. Eating Disorders and Body Image Support Group This support group is designed for those struggling with eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction. The group is open to all ages, genders and types of eating issues. It is not a structured group; rather it is open for sharing, asking questions, offering and receiving support or just listening. Tuesday, ongoing, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road, Conference Room C, Mountain View. edrcsv. org/getting-help/support-groups
COMMUNITY GROUPS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service The nonprofit Youth Community Service (YCS) and the City of Palo Alto will co-host a celebration of the life and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., featuring music, dance, community speakers and several presentations on social justice. Jan. 15, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. youthcommunityservice.org/
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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Computer Vision Engineer Alcatraz AI, Inc. has job opp. in Palo Alto, CA: Computer Vision Engineer. Dvlp comp. vision tech. for co. products. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. #CVE18 to: Attn: V. Gaydarzhiev, 516 High St., Palo Alto, CA 94301. ENGINEERING Pure Storage, Inc. has following job opps. in Mountain View, CA: Software Engineer [Req. #ESW29]. Dsgn & dvlp SW apps for flash memory storage devices. Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) [Req. #MTS34]. Dsgn & dvlp SW for data storage prdcts. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. # to: G. Vega, 401 Castro St, 3rd Flr, Mountain View, CA 94041. Engineering. Various levels of experience. Informatica LLC has the following position available in Redwood City, CA: Product Manager (VNA-CA): Define, develop and manage activities for key areas of the Informatica cloud IPaaS platform including cloud based elastic agent infrastructure, analytics, high availability, multi-tenancy and cloud organizations, APIs, etc. from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Submit resume by mail to: Informatica LLC, Attn: Global Mobility, 2100 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code: VNA-CA. IT/Software Laserlike, Inc. has an opening in Mountain View, CA for a Software Engineer, Frontend (SWEF01) Developing mobile applications for iOS, Android etc. using Javascript and experience building user interface code interacting with backend APIs. Location: 888 Villa Street, Ste. 200, Mountain View, CA, 94041. Send resume including job code SWEF01 to jobs@laserlike.com to apply. MobileIron/Senior Escalation Manager Senior Escalation Manager (Job Code: SEM-AS): Liaison btwn Supp Engr/ Sustaining Engr/Dev Engr on Escalated Cstmr Supp cases. MS+2orBS+5. Mail resume to MobileIron, Attn: Piper Galt, 401 E. Middlefield Rd, Mt. View, CA 94043. Must ref title & code.
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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.
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995 Fictitious Name Statement ELASTIC HOUSING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN636803 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Elastic Housing Services, located at 100 N Whisman Rd., Apt. 2113, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JIANYUN XU 100 N Whisman Rd., Apt. 2113 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/01/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 14, 2017. (MVV Dec. 22, 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 12, 2018) RUCY’S CLEANING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN636955 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Rucy’s Cleaning Services, located at 625 Lakehaven Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LUCIA PAREDES 625 Lakehaven Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/19/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 19, 2017. (MVV Jan. 12, 19, 26; Feb. 2, 2018) C&J CLEANING SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN637564 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: C&J Cleaning Services, located at 1006 Colusa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JORGE BALLINAS 1006 Colusa Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 MARIA DEL CARMEN CAJERO 1006 Colusa Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/08/2018. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 8, 2018. (MVV Jan. 12, 19, 26; Feb. 2, 2018)
997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LOUISE MELISSA WALSH Case No.: 17PR182249 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LOUISE MELISSA WALSH. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: NEIL DAVID HILLEL in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: NEIL DAVID HILLEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 22, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of
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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Bryan L. Phipps Forethought Law, PC 1101 Investment Boulevard, Suite 150 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 (916) 235-8242 (MVV Dec. 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 12, 2018) CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 17CV310541 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DONG MING PAN, an individual; DOES 1-100, inclusive. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): BMO HARRIS BANK N.A., a national association. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su
caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov) en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte. ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SANTA CLARA SUPERIOR COURT, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, Unlimited Civil. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): ROBERT V. MC KENDRICK / BAR NO. 169138, LAW OFFICES OF HEMAR, ROUSSO & HEALD, LLP, 15910 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 1201, Encino, CA 91436 (818) 501-3800 (818) 501-2985 Date: (Fecha) MAY 18, 2017 Clerk (Secretario) By: A. RAMIREZ, Deputy (Adjunto) CN944329 PAN Jan 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WARREN JAY EGGLY Case No.: 17PR182434 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WARREN JAY EGGLY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: HORACIO BARBA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: HORACIO BARBA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept
by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 1, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey K. Nielsen 84 West Santa Clara Street, Suite 540 San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 294-9700 (MVV Jan. 5, 12, 19, 2018)
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