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Vol. XXXV, Number 52 Q October 3, 2014

City proposes new housing incentives Page 5

Meet the candidates for Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Education PAGE 28

Pulse 17 Transitions 18 Spectrum 19 Eating Out 24 Shop Talk 25 Movies 26 Home 40 Puzzles 64 Q Arts Repurposing VHS tapes into knit wonders Q Seniors When to give up the car keys Q Sports Priory football team ranked No. 1 in state

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

City proposes new incentives for affordable housing Planning commission backs new housing vision by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto marked a major milestone Wednesday when its planning commissioners unanimously approved a new vision for housing, one that includes incentives for affordable housing and encourages higher density near transit. The Planning and Transportation Commission swiftly gave its stamp of approval to the city’s new Housing Element, the only chapter of the Comprehensive Plan that is

required by state law. The chapter identifies property around the city that can potentially accommodate new housing. It also lays out a menu of programs and policies that the city plans to use to encourage housing development. If implemented, it would allow for 1,988 more housing units — a number that was assigned to Palo Alto by the Association of Bay Area Governments through a controversial process known as the Regional Housing Need Allocation. State law requires the city to demonstrate that its zoning policies could accommodate these units, though it doesn’t actually

require the city to construct them. Cities that don’t submit a Housing Element risk getting sued, losing out on grant funds and getting switched to a stricter schedule for updating the document — a four-year cycle rather than an eight-year one. Once adopted by the City Council, the Housing Element will theoretically guide the city’s decisions on housing between 2015 and 2023. Its passage comes at a time when the community is deeply divided on the topic of growth, a debate that was at the heart of last year’s Measure D campaign and that features prominently in the current election season.

This iteration of the housing document includes a new policy that gives incentives to property owners to consolidate small lots, said Tim Wong, the senior planner who is leading the Housing Element effort. Consolidation could lead to more opportunities to build affordable housing. Wong called the incentive one of the “significant” new programs in the revised Housing Element. Otherwise, the new document is relatively conservative in that it proposes no specific zone changes. It does, however, (continued on page 11)

NATURAL DISASTER

Quake-warning system nearly ready to roll But an estimated $54 million is needed to bring it to the public by Sue Dremann long-desired system for warning of imminent earthquakes on the West Coast is working and can accurately predict temblors, but a public roll-out won’t happen without more funding, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist said last week. The USGS has tested the ShakeAlert system with public agencies and private businesses since 2012, including Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Metrolink, Google and California Office of Emergency Services. The system has predicted quakes within four to five seconds of the initial seismic waves. The warning system estimated the Aug. 24 Napa quake would be a 5.7 magnitude, David Oppenheimer, a USGS geophysicist, said at a Sept. 24 earthquake workshop. Seismologists later pegged the temblor a 6.0. The system works via sensors and distribution stations that blanket much of metropolitan California, but a full system will need updated equipment installed in the ground and distribution stations placed in rural areas and in the Pacific Northwest, Oppenheimer said. As many as 440 sensors will need to be replaced or added in California and about 280 in Washington and Oregon. The system requires an estimated $38 million for capital expenses and another $16.1 million annually to run. “It’s a question for society and our elected officials: Is it worth it to fund this system?” Oppenheimer said. Even with full funding, it could take three years to develop the system so that it provides public notifications, scientists wrote in the system’s implementation plan.

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Great globs of glass Palo Alto High School junior Ivan Lenkov uses a long pair of tweezers to carefully mold a glass bowl at the school’s Fiery Arts glassblowing studio on Oct. 1. Students and staff from the studio will be selling hand-crafted pumpkins at the city’s Great Glass Pumpkin Patch taking place Oct. 7-12.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Surf Air gets some noise from local residents Atherton, Palo Alto and other residents upset about planes flying over their homes espite the fact that neighbors and local elected officials have been working for a year with representatives of the commuter airline Surf Air and the San Carlos Airport on ways to reduce the noise impact on local residents, the turnout of more than 150 people at a public meeting in Atherton on Sept. 30 showed that many still perceive a problem. Residents from numerous cities, includ-

by Barbara Wood ing Palo Alto, attended. “This isn’t an Atherton problem,” said Atherton resident David Fleck, who has been active in the meetings with Surf Air for the past year. “This is a problem that spans multiple cities” and even multiple counties, he said. “You should be asking your elected officials where they stand on this situation.” Richard Brand, who came to the meeting

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Startups take over your entire life. — Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, warning students they’d have to choose between starting a startup or being a student. See story on page 8.

Around Town

TALKING ABOUT WAR ... As part of a Palo Alto Library program, New York best-selling author Karl Marlantes, author of “What It Is Like to Go to War,” will lead a presentation on the military/ civilian divide and how to talk to veterans on Oct. 11 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System auditorium, 3801 Miranda Ave. Marlantes, who served as a marine in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, Bronze Star, two Navy commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts and 10 air medals, will be interviewed by Mary Menzel, director of the California Center for the Book. Marlantes, a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar, will sign books afterward. The event is part of California Reads, a program of Cal Humanities through which people across the state read and talk about the same book. The library is collaborating on the project and is organizing additional events this fall as part of the theme, “War Comes Home.”

HIGH-FLYING ADRENALINE ... Baat Enosh, of Palo Alto, won a gold medal last week at the 2014 United States Parachute Association National Skydiving Championships at Skydive Chicago, according to a U.S. Parachute Association press release. Enosh, 40, was part of team Perris Moxie — one of only two all-female 8-way teams competing at the competition — which won in the advanced 8-way formation skydiving event, in which skydivers leap from an aircraft more than 2 miles above the ground and then race against the clock to form prescribed geometric formations in freefall before opening their parachutes. Enosh works in the innovation department at Intuit and has completed 2,500 skydives. The National Skydiving Championships draw more than 500 competitors from across the country for a 10-day competition featuring multiple skydiving events, including formation skydiving, artistic freestyle and landing accuracy. The association is a nonprofit that promotes safe skydiving by establishing safety standards, training policies and programs at more than 240 USPA-affiliated skydiving schools and centers in the U.S.

ELECTION ENIGMA ... It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery: Who commissioned a phone survey last Sunday in which 400 registered Palo Alto voters were queried about this fall’s City Council candidates? The poll created a bit of a kerfuffle due to its wording and mysterious sponsor. Residents who received the call said oddities abounded: mention of one candidate’s naval service, a question about the importance of Santa Clara County Supervisor (and former Palo Alto mayor) Joe Simitian’s endorsement, and a concluding question asking the person’s race. Residents were also asked to rate their likeliness to vote for each one of the 12 candidates, who were apparently described by the caller. The survey’s most controversial question had to do with the perceived divide between current council members and their election challengers, residents told the Weekly. Candidates were lumped into two groups, which surveyors described: “Slate A supported Measure D (Maybell) and wants to keep the city going as it has been going and maintaining the current level of city services. Slate B believes the current council is unethical and makes backroom deals with developers and wants pro-residentialists in office.” The caller then again queried the voter on each candidate to see if the voter had had a change of opinion. But who was behind the poll? Plenty of groups disavowed it this week. Claudia Keith, the city’s chief communications officer, denied the city was behind it. For one thing, it would be illegal. “That’s not something we would be doing,” she said. “We wouldn’t ask questions like that.” Speculations that a residentialist group mounted the survey have only met with denials from Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, Palo Alto Neighborhoods and Palo Alto Forward. One voter, however, was able to eke out a clue about who might have consulted on the poll: When asked about the sponsor, the surveyor said, “EMC.” For the record, the Palo Alto Weekly is owned by Embarcadero Media Company — “EMC” — but the Weekly didn’t sponsor the poll. There is, however, a firm in Oakland, EMC Research, that provides strategic consulting services and is known for its electoral polling. Q

Upfront ELECTION 2014

Palo Alto council candidates split on growth Wide candidate pool finds rare consensus on raising minimum wage alo Alto’s City Council candidates have plenty of quibbles when it comes to growth and development, but on Tuesday they found themselves almost in complete agreement on an issue that had not surfaced until now: raising the city’s minimum wage. Ten out of 12 candidates for the council who answered (and asked) questions at a forum Sept. 30 said they would support raising the local minimum wage to $15 per hour or whatever amount is deemed a “livable wage.” A few said they’d go further than the $15 proposed in a question from the audience. “Fifteen is not enough. How about $25?” asked Mark Weiss, a concert producer who is now in his third consecutive council campaign. Incumbent Greg Scharff noted that other cities in the area, including San Jose, have recently passed a wage increase. “I think Palo Alto should definitely be doing this,” Scharff said. His two fellow incumbents, Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Councilwoman Karen Holman,

shared his view. “This is a very progressive community, and sometimes it’s a little surprising some of the things we haven’t yet addressed,” Holman said. “I think this is one of them.” Challengers Tom DuBois, Lydia Kou and Eric Filseth — all opponents of last year’s Measure D and all members of the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning — reached the same conclusion. Filseth, a retired executive in the semiconductor industry, qualified his answer by saying the city should first carefully study the issue to determine what a livable wage is in Palo Alto, a position that was also shared by candidate A.C. Johnston, a partner at the law firm Morrison & Foerster. Cory Wolbach, a legislative aide to state Sen. Jerry Hill, was more concrete and said he would support $20 an hour, while Wayne Douglass, an advocate for the homeless, said “at least $15.” The only two candidates who didn’t support raising the local minimum wage were retired Gunn High School teacher John Fredrich and retired aerospace engineer Seelam Reddy. Fredrich ac-

by Gennady Sheyner knowledged that the wage should be $15 or more but said he favors “federal action first, state action second and finally local action.” Reddy was much more fixed in his opposition. “It’s un-American for someone to tell you how much the wage should be,” said Reddy, who then added that companies should voluntarily increase salaries to the needed level.

Next week: The Palo Alto Weekly’s City Council endorsements A complete voters’ guide to the City Council election, detailing candidates’ stances on key issues and providing endorsements by the Palo Alto Weekly editorial board, will be published in next week’s edition of the Weekly.

The 12 candidates, running for five seats on the nine-member council, spoke in front of more than 120 people at Congregation Etz Chayim in south Palo Alto in

a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Things got particularly heated during a portion of the forum in which candidates could ask other candidates questions. Scharff and Shepherd each fielded tough questions from challengers. Scharff was asked by Johnston about his votes in favor of commercial developments. Scharff responded that he had voted for only one “planned community” zoning project — the four-story building at 101 Lytton Ave. — and noted that in addition to providing sufficient parking space for its tenants, the development offered $2 million to help the city to build a new garage. Later in the forum, when asked about his top issues, Scharff said he’d like to abolish planned-community zoning entirely. The community, he said, no longer trusts the zoning designation, which allows developers to construct larger or taller buildings in exchange for public benefits. “I do not see how the (planned community) process can continue as a viable alternative when there is no trust in it,” Scharff said.

“Therefore, I think we need to eliminate it.” When asked about her top issues, Shepherd talked about the need to update the city’s Comprehensive Plan, its guiding land-use document. She called the effort (which kicked off in 2006 and which the city hopes to complete by late 2015) the “most challenging and most important because there’s a lot of angst about what’s going on now. “Most of the projects in play and getting developed now are under conforming zoning as the Comprehensive Plan articulated it in 1998,” Shepherd said. Both Filseth and DuBois argued that the existing Comprehensive Plan doesn’t need the extent of revamping that the city is seeking. The problem, they argue, is that the city hasn’t been following the vision in the existing document and has instead granted developers too many exemptions. Q A longer version of this article is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

We Support Greg Scharff for City Council! “

I’m proud to support Greg Scharff. As Mayor and Councilmember, Greg has proven his ability to listen, lead and make thoughtful decisions for all Palo Altans.”

Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo Endorsed by:

SANTA CLARA COUNTY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS

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On the city council and as Mayor, Greg has demonstrated his strong commitment to protecting our environment, providing clean energy, and advocating for open space and climate protection.”

Walt Hays, Palo Alto Environmental Activist

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I support Greg Scharff because he has worked hard to oppose the excess ABAG housing mandates for Palo Alto and tried to get other government agencies to take a more realistic view of our capacity for adding traffic and jobs.”

Bob Moss, Barron Park Resident

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As Mayor and on the City Council, Greg has led the effort to prioritize a new Public Safety Building, 911 Communications Center, and replace seismically unsafe fire stations to keep all Palo Alto residents safe.”

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Protect our environment and encourage water conservation

Invest tax dollars responsibly and keep utility rates low

Implement council policies to increase transparency

Stop out-of-scale development

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How to start a startup Stanford dropout, successful founder returns to teach open-source class by Elena Kadvany

The class is 100 percent open source: All lectures, presenters’ slides, readings and assignments are posted online at startupclass. samaltman.com. Video recordings of the lectures are posted the same day they take place on the class’ YouTube channel, along with annotated transcripts of the talks. Volunteers are helping to add subtitles to videos in whatever language they choose (though that doesn’t happen until two or three days after class). Anyone can subscribe to a mailing list to get regular emails recapping class, links to discussion threads and a form for submitting questions for the upcoming lectures. “I felt like we had all this information that was locked up inside of YC that would be helpful to tens or

Veronica Weber

Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, has created the class “How to Start a Startup” at Stanford University, featuring founders and leaders of various tech companies such as Peter Thiel and Marissa Mayer, who will provide insight into getting a company off the ground.

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Veronica Weber

ine years ago, Sam Altman was a Stanford University computer science student. And then he dropped out to start a startup. This year, he’s returned to campus — not to finish his degree, but to teach a class called “How to Start a Startup.” Altman, whose mobile location startup Loopt eventually sold for a cool $43.4 million, is now 29 years old and the president of Y Combinator, an accelerator that provides seed funding and guidance to fledgling startups. He launched the class to make the wealth of knowledge Y Combinator gives to a select group of startups more publicly available — not only by giving it to a class of 300 Stanford students but to everyone.

Students at Stanford University fill the NVIDIA auditorium to hear Y Combinator founder Paul Graham speak about creating successful startups in the “How to Start a Startup” class on Sept. 30. hundreds of thousands of people,” Altman said. “You can’t have all of them go through the program, so we thought just by putting this information online, we’d be able to reach a lot of people.” It goes without saying that this is not your typical college course. Altman is slated to lead three out of 20 classes, and the rest have been handed over to Silicon Valley movers and shakers like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, PayPal and Palantir founder Peter Thiel, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer — to name a few. They will give talks on business strategy, growth, fundraising, company culture and management. At the Sept. 30 class, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham took the podium inside a packed basement auditorium inside Stanford’s Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center, with many students finding seats on the floor in the back. When asked how many students are enrolled in the course, Altman casually responded, “Whatever

the cap is, which I think is 300.” Graham spent about 30 minutes of the 50-minute class leading the crowd through four counterintuitive pieces of advice for those who want to start a startup — appropriate, he said, for a world that itself is very counterintuitive.

‘Startups are very counterintuitive, and I’m not exactly sure why.’ —Paul Graham, founder, Y Combinator

“Startups are very counterintuitive, and I’m not exactly sure why,” he said. “It could be simply because knowledge about them has not permeated our culture yet. But whatever the reason, this is an area where you cannot trust your intuition all the time.”

The most counterintuitive piece of advice in this lecture might have been: Do not start a startup in college. “Starting a successful startup is similar to having kids, and it’s like a button you press and it changes your life irrevocably,” Graham said. “Startups take over your entire life,” he continued, meaning that startup-hungry college students must make the choice between being a real student and not starting a startup, or starting a real startup and not being a student. He urged the crowd to enjoy their 20s, an optimal time to travel, plunge into projects on a whim and embrace serendipity. “Mark Zuckerberg will never get to bum around a foreign country,” Graham said. “He can do things you can’t do, like charter jets to fly him to foreign countries ... but success has taken a lot of the serendipity out of his life. Facebook is running (continued on next page)

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him as much as he’s running Facebook.” This dovetailed with Graham’s other main message, which is to work on things that genuinely interest you. And the best way to find out what interests you? Take advantage of your time as a student. “Strangely enough, the optimal thing to do in college if you want to be a successful startup founder is not some sort of new vocational version of college focused on entrepreneurship. It’s the classic version of college as education for its

own sake,” he said. “If you want to start your own startup, what you should do in college is learn powerful things.” “Everyone thinks that YC is going to colleges and playing this pied-piper tune and trying to get students to start startups, so it’s nice when we can go on the record and say that actually, we discourage that,” Altman told the Weekly. “It’s a little hypocritical — I dropped out of college to start a company, but I felt compelled by a particular idea. And I certainly would have been a better founder had I waited until I was 22 or 23.”

After Graham finished his somewhat unconventional talk — which was peppered with plenty of tech jokes and some profanity, eliciting regular laughter from the audience — he took questions. One student asked if Graham saw any value in business school for people interested in entrepreneurship (he doesn’t). Another asked what advice he has for female founders as they pursue funding. “It probably is true that women have a harder time raising money,” he said. The way to get around that problem is to simply make your

startup do well, he said. A year or so ago, he tweeted the “stupendous” growth graph for a femalefounded startup that was having trouble raising money. “So I tweeted it, knowing all these VCs would start asking me, ‘Who is that?’ Growth graphs have no gender so if they see the growth graph first, let them fall in love with that.” At the first class of the quarter, Altman discussed the four areas people need to excel at to start a successful startup: ideas, products, teams and execution. His message, too, was that startups

must be developed with passion, rather than dreams of Google-like glory or wealth. “You should only start a startup if you feel compelled by a particular problem and ... starting the company is the best way to solve it,” he said. “This specific passion should come first and the startup second. “I myself used to believe that ideas didn’t matter that much, but I’m very sure that I was wrong now,” he said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Right for the Job My City Hall Priorities are:

Anna Eshoo Member of Congress

INSIST developers follow the rules

14th Congressional District I’m supporting A.C. because Palo Alto needs an independent perspective at City Hall.

RESTORE the community’s voice in the approval process

Rich Gordon Assemblyman

DEMAND accountability and increased transparency at City Hall

A.C. Johnston has the training and the skills to analyze difficult issues, find common ground and bring people together. He would be a valued addition to the Palo Alto City Council.

ENSURE wide support for an updated comprehensive plan

MAKE it easier for residents to find parking ACCELERATE improvement of our streets, sidewalks and other infrastructure PARTNER closely with the school district to mitigate traffic around local schools ensuring our kids get to school safely

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8:00 A.M., Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http:// www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144. 4PKKSLÄLSK 9VHK! Proposal by Jason Yotopoulos to nominate the Palo Alto Little League site for listing on the Palo Alto Historic Inventory. Zone District: R-1. This ZP[L ^HZ PKLU[PÄLK PU [OL :[\K` 7YPVYP[` 7YLSPTPUHY` Assessment of sites as Potentially Eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources (CRHR) under Criterion 3. 475 Homer Avenue: Review and comment on application by Marilyn McDonald and Margaret R. Feuer to designate Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, constructed in 1916, on the National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historical Resources. Currently, the property is listed as Category 2 on the City of Palo Alto’s Historic Inventory. (T` -YLUJO *OPLM 7SHUUPUN 6ɉJPHS The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@ cityofpaloalto.org.

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City Council to consider whether, and how, to change the contentious land-use designation by Gennady Sheyner he Palo Alto City Council will get its first, longawaited crack Monday at reforming the city’s contentious planned-community zoning, which the council last year put on hold following a citizen referendum that pushed back on development. The zoning, which has been in existence since the early 1950s, allows developers to seek exceptions to land-use rules in exchange for public benefits that are negotiated on an ad hoc basis. Over the years, the public benefits have included everything from public plazas and grocery stores to sculptures and affordable-housing units. Residents have criticized the process, which they say has increasingly allowed dense commercial buildings and meager public benefits. Both the planned College Terrace Centre at 2180 El Camino Real and the new four-story building at 101 Lytton Ave. relied on planned-community (PC) zoning to create projects with large amounts of office space. The Planning and Transportation Commission has already held two public hearings on the topic and offered a list of recommendations, including better definitions of public benefits; routine use of an independent economic analysis to review the value on PC requests; and clarification of the

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roles and responsibilities of local commissions. A new report from the planning department includes a list of the changes for the council to consider in its reform effort. One is to set specific criteria for where PC projects would be allowed, either by designating geographic locations or by creating a minimum land requirement. Another idea is to create a menu of public benefits that would be allowed — a reform that would add predictability at the expense of flexibility. The planning commission has extensively discussed a possible menu, which would include benefits such as affordable and senior housing, and most commissioners have expressed support for the idea. Also on the list of reforms is the creation of a schedule to monitor the benefits gained through planned-community projects, though staff warns that some benefits may not be enforceable in the long run. Staff lists as one such public benefit a requirement that a specific business remain open. The city can also rely more on development agreements — a process that Palo Alto used in approving the massive expansion of the Stanford University Medical Center. One alternative would create a two-tier system in which some types of projects would use development agreements and others would choose public benefits from a menu. Though the council unanimously agreed that reforms are needed, there is currently no clear consensus on what those reforms would look like. Mayor Nancy Shepherd, who is seeking re-election, said at Tuesday’s candidate forum that she would favor forming a citizens committee to vet all of the city’s previous PC projects and make a recommendation on how to move ahead. During the forum, she asked another candidate, attorney A.C. Johnston, how he would change the planned-community process. He said he would “use it very rarely.” “We have to be very clear that whenever we will grant variances from zoning, we will ensure there are real public benefits that are delivered to the community in return for getting that variance and we will make sure that we get the benefits that have been promised to us,” Johnston said. He also argued later in the forum that the city should update its Comprehensive Plan (the city’s land-use bible, which is in the midst of an update) before it considers changing planned-community zoning.

Though Shepherd said she didn’t believe Johnston’s proposal to use PC zones rarely would give “enough security to the PC process as we know it today,” the two agreed that the zoning should remain in place in some form or other. Not everyone shares this view. Councilman Greg Scharff, who is also running for a second term, said at Tuesday’s candidates forum that he believes it’s time to eliminate the zoning. In a recent interview with the Weekly, he argued that the community no longer has any confidence in the process. No matter what benefits are offered, residents will be unhappy about the city allowing developers to exceed height and density regulations. “I don’t really see how we can reform it,” Scharff said. “And if we can’t reform it, we need to eliminate it. I’d completely support eliminating the PC process.” Right now, there is only one PC project in the city’s pipeline: a proposed commercial development at 2755 El Camino Real, near the busy corner of El Camino and Page Mill Road. That project has been in limbo since the end of 2013, when the council put a moratorium on planned-community projects. The developer, Pollock Realty Corporation, argued in a recent letter to the city that the development should be approved even despite the ongoing timeout on planned-community zoning. The project, the letter argued, is a “modest proposal,” far smaller than the office projects recently proposed by Jay Paul Co. for 395 Page Mill Road and by John Arrillaga for 27 University Ave. (the former application was later withdrawn; the latter was never formally submitted). The project has also already undergone hearings before the council, the Architectural Review Board and the planning commission. The reviewing boards, Pollock argues, “should have indicated their unwillingness to proceed with a PC zone for 2755 ECR if anybody held such a strong discouraging view of our PC zone application.” “This feels like being told in the ninth inning of a ball game you’re winning that games are now changed to 14 innings, and some of the rules of the game are going to change,” Pollock’s letter states. The council’s Monday discussion is scheduled as a study session, which means no formal votes will be taken and no changes made. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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commit the city to consider amending the zoning code to allow “high-density residential” in mixed-use projects in commercial areas within half a mile of the two Caltrain stations. It also allows the city to consider “limited exceptions” to its 50-foot height limit on buildings within one-quarter mile of the train stations, to encourage development of housing near transit. Another new policy would enable more affordable housing by changing the city’s existing rule that developments with five or more residential units include affordable housing. The new rule would make the below-market-rate program applicable to developments with three or more units. Also in the new Housing Element is a policy that would amend the zoning code to provide additional incentives to developers who provide “extremely low income” housing units, including reduced requirements for parking spaces, landscaping and fees. Another policy allows for a new form of commerical-and-residential development on land that is too small to accommodate the multi-story dense development typically associated with mixed-use construction. This policy would allow a property owner with two adjacent sites to devote one site exclusively to housing and the other strictly to non-residential use. The commission had already reviewed and commented extensively on the new document over a series of meetings earlier this year. On Wednesday, commissioners kept their comments brief, quickly approving the motion by Chair Mark Michael. Michael lauded the document as one that — thanks to the hard work of the commission, the staff, the specially appointed Community Housing Panel and the City Council — has “passed scrutiny with the state.” (In early September, Palo Alto was notified by the state Department of Housing and Community Development that its draft version “with revisions, meets the statutory requirements of state housing element law.”) Vice Chair Arthur Keller also supported the new document, though he lamented the fact that the city didn’t take advantage of the opportunity to evaluate the impact of new housing on local schools. “This is one time we can consider (school impacts), and failing to do so is, I think, a problem,” Keller said. “I wish we had spent more time thinking about school impacts, thinking about how much more crowding there would be in schools and how this would affect the quality of life for Palo Alto residents.” Others were generally pleased with the document, which the council is scheduled to consider in November. Commissioner Przemek Gardias recommended having the commission revisit the document every six months or so to see which policies have been effective and which housing sites actually ended up with housing. Commissioner Eric Rosenblum noted that even with the vote, the city’s conversation about housing policies is far from over. “I know this is not the end, but the beginning of a lot of the real work,” Rosenblum said. Q

News Digest Palo Alto police arrest man after manhunt Following a search in downtown Palo Alto that lasted more than four hours Monday evening, Palo Alto police apprehended a man suspected of fraud. Dominique Arnett Tabb, 35, of San Francisco, also had a separate warrant out for his arrest. At about 5:09 p.m. police received a call from Bank of America at 530 Lytton Ave., reporting a possible fraudulent transaction in progress, according to a police press release. Bank personnel gave dispatchers a description of Tabb, who walked out of the bank as officers were arriving on the scene. He immediately fled, and officers chased him on foot before he hopped over a fence in the 300 block of Cowper Street. Police set up a perimeter between Middlefield Road, Cowper, and Lytton and Everett avenues, called in reinforcements and started a yard-to-yard search. Three K-9 units picked up Tabb’s scent from a yellow hard hat and lime-green shirt or vest he had discarded. Police used AlertSCC, a telephone notification system, to alert the neighborhood 280 residents and businesses, according to the police. While the search was ongoing, initial investigations into the fraud at the bank revealed that Tabb may have had a warrant out of Oklahoma for a sex crime against a minor, Palo Alto Police spokesman Lt. Zach Perron said early Monday evening. There was no indication that Tabb was armed, Perron added. After a chase, Tabb was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for his arrest warrant, felony check fraud and misdemeanor resisting arrest. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

Caltrain launches suicide-prevention web page “Suicide prevention is everyone’s responsibility” was the message at the unveiling of Caltrain’s new webpage for suicide prevention at the San Mateo Caltrain Station on Wednesday, Oct. 1. As part of Railroad Safety Month, Caltrain launched a special page on its website dedicated to suicide-prevention information and outreach. The page includes a crisis hotline number and links to local, regional and national resources. “I would venture to say that everyone here has some personal experience with suicide or mental illness,” said Caltrain spokeswoman Jayme Ackemann. “I, myself, lost my husband and high school sweetheart when my daughter was just 1 (year old) to suicide, so it’s a very personal issue for me. We are experts at running a railroad; we are not experts at preventing suicide, and that is why we work with our community partners to look for answers.” Four experts who have been affected by suicide spoke at the event, including Victor Ojakian, Suicide Prevention Oversight Committee co-chair. Former Palo Alto councilman and mayor Ojakian lost his son Adam to suicide in 2004 at the age of 21. Ojakian and his wife, Mary, have since lobbied to ensure California’s public colleges have student-mental health advisory committees so that students on campus are as safe as they can be and individuals who are considered at-risk can receive help. Other suicide-prevention efforts Caltrain has been involved in include spending $110,000 to erect 250 new “There is Help” signs along a 10-mile stretch that includes Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View in 2010 and in 2012. Q — My Nguyen

Yelp to move into new College Terrace Centre Palo Alto’s College Terrace Centre development has secured at least one tenant in the Internet company Yelp, according to a Yelp spokeswoman. The San Francisco-based firm has reportedly agreed to lease approximately 38,000 square feet of office space at the mixed-use development at 2180 El Camino Real — a major upgrade from the company’s existing Palo Alto offices at 490 S. California Ave. The company plans to tap into the local labor pool for both sales hires and engineering talent, Rachel Walker, Yelp spokeswoman, said in an email. No building permits will be issued for the project until the Palo Alto City Council signs off on a new tenant for the center’s planned 8,000-square-foot grocery store, which is being developed by Twenty-One Hundred Ventures LLC. The council agreed in August that it didn’t have enough information to determine whether the proposed grocer, J&A Family Market, would be comparable in quality to JJ&F Market, the grocer that operated on the corner of College Avenue and El Camino Real for more than six decades before it was sold to a new operator in 2010 and closed for good in 2013. The council is expected to take up the issue again in the coming weeks. In addition to the office space and grocery store, the College Terrace development will include 5,580 square feet of other retail space and eight below-market-rate apartments. Q — My Nguyen www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 3, 2014 • Page 11

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Police report spike in residential burglaries Fifteen residential burglaries in Palo Alto were reported to the police in September, an increase in crimes that appears to be occurring in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southern neighborhoods, according to a police department press release. (Posted Sept. 30, 2:44 p.m.)

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to push,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go and get regional pressure on this.â&#x20AC;? Fleck noted that of the more than 500 people who had signed an online petition asking Surf Air and the San Carlos Airport to address the noise by Sept. 30 there were 285 from Menlo Park, 112 from Atherton, 57 from Palo Alto and 31 from Redwood City. San Mateo County Supervisor Warren Slocum told the crowd that he had attended a meeting earlier in the day of a working group that includes airport and airline officials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I left that meeting ... somewhat encouraged over what has happened in the past,â&#x20AC;? he said. He promised to call the mayors of Menlo Park and Redwood City and the rest of the Board of Supervisors, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and try to get them involved,â&#x20AC;? as well as to get in touch with management of the San Carlos Airport. The meeting was the second large public gathering held on the issue of Surf Airâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effect on local residents. In December, a similar gathering attracted approximately 100 people, many of whom brought up similar issues. Both were sponsored by the town of Atherton. Surf Air is a startup airline whose passengers pay one monthly price for unlimited flights on small passenger planes. In early August the airline announced that it has new funding and has ordered 15 more eight-passenger planes to add to the three it has been flying. The airline said it plans to expand its destinations and might order as many as 50 more planes in addition to the 15. Residents said the airlineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noise is not the same as that of other

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My grandchildren started to run for the house and ended up screaming when it went over the backyard. I call it the blue-bellied beast. I love startups and I love charter flights, but this is really awful.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sheri Shenk, resident, Atherton planes flying over their homes. Britt von Thaden, who lives on Berkeley Avenue in Menlo Park, said he lives under the flight paths of several airlines, but the Surf Air flights have more impact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the frequency that caught my attention,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of traffic anyway.â&#x20AC;? Sheri Shenk lives on Virginia Lane in Atherton directly under the Surf Air flight path, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first time one flew over my house I thought I was being invaded,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding that the flights shake her home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed our quality of life significantly.â&#x20AC;? Recently, Shenk said, she and her family were eating dinner outdoors when a Surf Air flight passed over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My grandchildren started to run for the house and ended up screaming when it went over the backyard,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I call it the blue-bellied beast. I love startups and I love charter flights, but this is really awful.â&#x20AC;? Many of those who spoke work from their homes. Nick Peters of North Fair Oaks said he runs a recording studio from his home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has damaged my business immensely,â&#x20AC;? he said. Carolyn Clebsch, who has lived in North Fair Oaks for 15 years, said she also works at home and the noise has also impacted her work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My business is teaching meditation and working with people

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a joint meeting with state Sen. Jerry Hill; consider reforms to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;planned communityâ&#x20AC;? process; review the risk assessment of CPIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operation at 607-811 Hansen Way and consider zoning changes relating to storage of hazardous materials; consider whether there should be a closed session to discuss compensation for managers and professionals; and hear an update on Cubberley Community Center lease negotiations. The council will then go to closed session to discuss the Cubberley negotiations. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 6, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s follow-up to the Inventory Management Office. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL REGIONAL HOUSING MANDATE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to review and consider a recommendation to adopt the 2015-23 Housing Element; and discuss the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future role. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to screen the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living in Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;?; discuss a recent report on low-income housing; plan for its study session with the City Council; and select a commissioner to serve on an ad hoc committee for the Human Services Resource Allocation Process. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

who are dying,â&#x20AC;? she said. Debjani Sen from San Francisco offered another perspective. Her husband works in Santa Barbara, and Surf Air has allowed him to come home every night instead of only on weekends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a huge improvement in our lives,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope you can work out a solution with Surf Air. Just place yourself in my shoes.â&#x20AC;? Jeff Potter, a former Frontier Airlines CEO who became Surf Air CEO in late February, said the airline is committed to working collaboratively with the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a situation here thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s negatively affecting your lives,â&#x20AC;?

he acknowledged. He said the airline is going to test using a new propeller that may be quieter. They also are hoping that pressure from local officials might open up Moffett Field to commercial flights such as Surf Airâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would love to be there,â&#x20AC;? he said. The group of residents who have been working with Surf Air, who call themselves CalmTheSkies, will next meet on Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. in Athertonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council Chambers, 94 Ashfield Road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need not just ideas,â&#x20AC;? Fleck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need people willing to execute those ideas.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Barbara Wood can be emailed at bwood@almanacnews.com.

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) 8:30 A.M., Thursday, October 16, 2014, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto. org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144. 180 El Camino Real [14PLN-00247]: Request by Simon Property Group, Inc. on behalf of the Board of Trustees to the Leland Stanford Junior University for Architectural Review of Phase III of the Stanford Shopping Center redevelopment, including four new retail buildings in the location of the former Bloomingdales. The four new retail buildings have NYVZZ Ă&#x2026;VVY HYLH VM ZX\HYL MLL[ HUK UL[ Ă&#x2026;VVY HYLH of 119,799 square feet. The project includes associated site improvements and a redesign of the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entrance drive from El Camino Real. Zone: Community Commercial (CC). Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Sections 15302 and 15304. 2555 Park Boulevard [13PLN-00381]: Request by FGY Architects on behalf of Campbell Avenue Portfolio, LLC for Architectural Review of the construction of a new three Z[VY` ZX\HYL MVV[ VÉ&#x2030;JL I\PSKPUN YLWSHJPUN H ZX M[ TPK JLU[\Y` TVKLYU VÉ&#x2030;JL I\PSKPUN PU [OL *VTT\UP[` Commercial (CC(2)) zone district. Environmental Assessment: A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been prepared and circulated for public review and the comment period runs from September 5, 2014 through October 20, 2014. Amy French *OPLM 7SHUUPUN 6É&#x2030;JPHS The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.org.

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The council did not meet this week.

Planning and Transportation Commission (Oct. 1) October 2014

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Expressways: The commission heard a presentation from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority about the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed expressway improvements. Action: None Housing: The commission recommended approving the draft Housing Element for the years 2015-23. Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (Oct. 1)

Sustainability: The commission heard a presentation about the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sustainability Action Plan. Action: None Water: The commission discussed the impacts of the statewide drought on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water and hydroelectric supplies. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Oct. 2) East Palo Alto Library 2415 University Avenue East Palo Alto No registration required.

Intimacy and Healthy Sexuality Oct. 1, 6:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:30 p.m. Nancy Brown, Ph.D. PAMF Health Education

441 Page Mill Road: The board discussed a proposed mixed-use project at 441 Page Mill Road and agreed to continue its discussion to Oct. 30. Yes: Unanimous Build-to line: The board discussed revising the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s build-to-line requirement and agreed to consider various case studies and conclude its discussion on Oct. 30. Yes: Unanimous

Join Dr. Nancy Brown for a conversation about sexuality, intimacy, new partners, and HIV risks for the older adult.

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Medicare Updates and Changes Oct. 7, 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:30 p.m. Connie Corrales Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) Director Learn about the basics of Medicare for beneďŹ ciaries, as well as any aspects that have changed this year.

Mountain View Center 701 E. El Camino Real Mountain View (650) 934-7380

Unacceptable Levels Film Screening Oct. 24, 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:30 p.m. Cindy Russell, M.D. PAMF Health Education Join us for a screening of the documentary, Unacceptable Levels, a ďŹ lm examining the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s. Opening the door to conversations about the chemical burden our bodies carry, this ďŹ lm poses challenges to our companies, our government, and our society to do something about a nearly-unseen threat with the inspired knowledge that small changes can generate a massive impact. A Q&A session will follow the ďŹ lm along with a drawing for healthy habits edible and non-edible prizes.

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Palo Alto Historical Association NOTORIOUSÂ MURDERS IN PALO ALTO Speaker:Â Jon Parsons Palo Alto Attorney SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2-4 PM Lucie Stern Community Center 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Free public meetingÂ Â Â

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A USGS ShakeAlert earthquake early-warning system map shows the epicenter location and the predicted earthquake intensity and time until seismic waves are expected to hit a particular location.

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But the money could be well worth it. In California, the Napa quake caused homes and businesses an estimated $400 million in losses, including an estimated $80.3 million to the wine industry, the Napa County Executive Office noted on Sept. 8. Worldwide, countries with early-warning systems have saved millions of dollars and hundreds of lives, Oppenheimer said. Japan saved $15 million after the Tokachi-oki earthquakes near Hokkaido (magnitude 8.3 and 7.0) on Sept. 26, 2003. A few secondsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; head start could also prevent the loss of life and enable utilities, transit and emergency responders to prepare for the most damaging earthquake shocks to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;BART is worried about a derailment. If one train goes off the tracks, the economic impact would be huge. And there are on average 100 people per train,â&#x20AC;? Oppenheimer said. The early-warning system would allow the rail line to immediately slow or shut down trains before damaging shock waves hit, he said. In schools and businesses, alerted students and employees could drop and cover; at medical facilities, surgeons and dentists could stop performing delicate procedures; emergency responders could open firehouse doors and prioritize their response based on ShakeAlert maps indicating areas that might be the hardest hit; and electrical utilities staff could control systems to prevent damage to power stations caused by shaking. Earthquakes trigger two main kinds of seismic waves: primary or â&#x20AC;&#x153;P-waves,â&#x20AC;? the early

ripples one feels prior to serious shaking; and cross-directional, up-and-down motion secondary â&#x20AC;&#x153;S-waves,â&#x20AC;? which cause the damage, Oppenheimer said. ShakeAlert operates by capturing the P-waves, which travel faster than the more-destructive S-waves. And the shaking waves travel through the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shallow layers at 0.5 to 3 miles per second â&#x20AC;&#x201D; slower speeds than the warning system transmission, allowing for as much as 10 seconds of warning, according to the USGS. Using the California Integrated Seismic Network, an existing series of 400 highquality ground-motion sensors positioned six to 12 miles apart, ShakeAlert sends the sensor information to distribution centers, which transmit a warning to people within four to five seconds of detection of the initial waves. Alerts appear through a computer program with audio and visual features. When ShakeAlert detects a quake, a map pops up on the computer screen to show the quakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epicenter, and a computer-generated voice warns that the temblor is occurring. A series of concentric rings representing the seismic waves radiate from the epicenter on the screen. A countdown indicates the remaining time until the waves reach. The program also warns of the expected level of the shakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intensity, which is different from the quakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnitude at the epicenter. People testing the system in Berkeley received a five-second warning before shaking from the Napa quake began, and Pasadena users had a six-second warning before a March 28 magnitude 5 earthquake, according to USGS. That length of time may not

seem like much, but depending on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distance from the quake, the system could provide minutes of warning. If a magnitude 9 earthquake occurs with its epicenter off the coast near Cape Mendocino â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a likely scenario, Oppenheimer said â&#x20AC;&#x201D; residents in Seattle, Washington, would have five minutes to prepare. San Francisco residents might have a little more than a oneminute warning from a magnitude 8 on the San Andreas fault near Ft. Bragg, USGS hazardlevels maps show. When fully operational, ShakeAlert will be able to distribute alerts through distribution channels such as the Federal Emergency Management Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (FEMA) wireless emergency system, smartphone applications, social media providers and other electronic-alert technologies, Oppenheimer said. But there is a caveat or two. False or missed alerts are possible, and the area nearest to an epicenter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; within 10 to 20 miles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may receive little or no warning, according to the implementation report. For Palo Altans and other Midpeninsula residents, that could be sobering news. Black Mountain, in Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, is within the highest-risk section of any fault segment in the Bay Area, USGS scientists determined in 1988. California Avenue in Palo Alto is just 10.4 miles away from Monte Bello. And the San Andreas fault traverses the western edge of Foothills Park. California Avenue is just 5.8 miles away, and downtown Palo Alto is 7.7 miles. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Why I am running for City Council:

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To fight for the soul of the city I love. My wife and I chose to live here 19 years ago for the parks, the diversity, the small town feel, the proximity to Stanford and the great schools.

Insist on openness and transparency in city government. Require balanced staff reports that evaluate cumulative adverse effects, such as traffic, parking and pollution.

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Sept. 24-30 Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 8 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Window smash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found animal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tree fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Violence related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Stolen firearm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Narcotics investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . 4 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case for assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

102 University Ave., 9/26, 3:51 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Bryant Court, 9/28, 2:35 a.m..; domestic violence/battery. Highway 101 and Embarcadero Road, 9/29, 1:33 p.m.; domestic violence/violation of court order.

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Michael Renon Davis, dedicated member and supervisor with the Downtown Streets Team, died on Sept. 18 after a short illness. He was 65. He was born on Feb. 26, 1949, in San Francisco. Though his parents sent him for a while to Catholic school, he never graduated from high school. As a young man he got caught up in the culture surrounding the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. He was a selfproclaimed Black Panther and eventually became involved in drug activity and crime. Later in life he said from time to time that he did a stint in “almost every penitentiary in the state of California.” He also lived for many years homeless on the streets. During those years he met his future wife, Bernadette, or “Detta,” in Harbor City, California, and they married in 1973. In 1978, the couple moved to Palo Alto, where Michael picked up the nickname of “38.50,” which referred to the amount of money he panhandled each day to pay for a room for his wife at the Palo Alto Hotel, now closed. In the mid-2000s, a few women from the Downtown Streets Team (DST) started talking about the organization to Davis, who was still homeless. Only intending to participate that rainy winter, he joined the team in November 2007, helping to clean the streets

Judy Grass December 23 1951 to September 2, 2014 Judy Grass was born in Palo Alto to parents John and Bette Grass both predeceased. She grew up in Portola Valley with surviving brothers Bill, Jim, Sister Bonnie and Barbara predeceased. In her late 30’s she adopted her infant son George Grass. Judy Graduated from Chico State University with a degree in Early Child Hood Development. Right after graduation she worked at Escondido Nursery School on Stanford Campus for 10 years. After Escondido she followed her lift long dream to have her own Day Care which she successfully ran from her home in Menlo Park. For more than 20 years she lovingly cared for pre school children who adored her until 2007 after slow developing dementia forced her to close her business. The next seven years she remained in her home until her death at the age of 62. Memorial services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1105 Valparaiso Ave. Menlo Park on Saturday Oct. 11, 2014 at 11:00 am. Memorial donations may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 1060 La Avenida Street, Mt. View, CA 94043-1422 PAID

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in downtown Palo Alto. Resonating with the culture, he quickly climbed the team’s “ladder of success,” exchanging a yellow shirt for green, blue and then black, which he wore as the team’s only supervisor. As he became more involved, he worked on outreach, speaking to other homeless community members and troubled teens about his experiences and the work of DST. During his time there, membership grew from the teens to the hundreds across the whole organization. “The work he has done in these last seven years has changed the trajectory of hundreds of lives,” said Eileen Richardson, executive director of DST. A few years after joining, he and Detta moved to an apartment in Santa Clara. Each day before heading out to work he would touch a plaque on the wall that read, “Dream not of the past but of the miracles that lie ahead.” He was predeceased by his son, Franceil Davis; his mother, Oretha Davis; his father, Christopher Davis; and his grandmother, Maudie Mae Miller. He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Detta of Santa Clara; two brothers, Christopher Davis Jr. and Demetrius Bernard Davis; sister, Anita Hortence Rowe; many nieces and nephews; and in-laws, friends and coworkers. A memorial service attended by around 150 people was held on Sept. 29 at All Saints Episcopal Church in Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Downtown Streets Team (streetsteam.org), 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto, CA 94301.

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George Knoles George Harmon Knoles, a longtime history professor at Stanford University and Palo Alto resident, died on Aug. 27. He was 107. He was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 1907, to Tully and Em ily Knoles. When his father became president of University of the Pacific, he moved to San Jose, where the school was then based, living there for three years. Later he attended the university after it had been relocated to Stockton, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history with honors there in 1928 and 1930. While at University of the Pacific, he met his future wife Amandalee Barker. They married in 1930. His academic studies continued at Stanford with a Ph.D. program he completed in 1939, after which he stayed on to teach there. That was interrupted for a few years in the 1940s by WWII, during which he served in the Pacific Theater with the U.S. Navy. His specialization as a professor focused on American history, particularly the late 19th century onwards. He was at Stanford until his retirement in 1972, acting as chairman of the history department for the last 10 years. During his tenure he also served as a visiting professor at six other institutions, including the University of Tokyo in the 1950s. He also loved teaching at Stanford’s overseas campuses. After coming to Stanford, he and his family lived on the campus and in Palo Alto. He and his wife built a home near what is now Foothill Expressway around 1949, where they lived until about 1965. Beginning in around 1987, he resided at Channing House and did so up until his death. Later in life he took up woodworking, making wooden bowls with a lathe and teaming up with his grandchildren on various other projects. He was predeceased by his wife, Amandalee, in 1994. He is survived by two daughters, Ann Knoles Nitzan of Portola Valley and Alice Laurane “Laurie” Knoles Simmons of Monterey; five grandchildren, Daniel Nitzan, Rebecca Nitzan, Benjamin Nitzan, Jeannette Hankins and Eric Simmons; and eight greatgrandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Oct. 25 at 10:30 a.m. at First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Barker-Knoles Endowed Scholarship at the University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211.

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Godfrey, Dauber for school board alo Alto has long been known for the quality of its public schools and the teachers and aides who create a dynamic and rich learning environment for our children. It’s also known for parents with very high expectations who not only ask a lot of their kids but also of teachers and administrators. These high-powered and high-achieving parents provide immense financial and volunteer support to the schools. But they also too often develop a sense of entitlement, which can lead to a perception that some parents have more influence over their child’s educational experience than others. When the school board or superintendent allow these parents, whether big donors, active school volunteers or friends of school board members, to have the ear of those in charge, distrust and resentment builds, conflicts arise and the entire system is compromised. And when secrecy sets in, trust in the fairness of the system is jeopardized. It therefore takes both a strong superintendent and a strong school board to successfully and equitably lead a district like Palo Alto and ensure that all students get the education, attention and discipline they need, and that teachers are respected, supported and held properly accountable. For too many years we have had neither an effective school board nor superintendent, resulting in a lot of messes that now need to be cleaned up. That is what this election is all about: repair and healing. Thankfully, there is reason for optimism. Early indications are that our brand-new superintendent, Max McGee, is intent on addressing problems that have been festering for way too long. For example, he has made clear he intends to strongly support educational innovation but will also rigorously evaluate programs and then implement best practices throughout the district rather than allow the inefficiencies of many similar but different programs (or policies). He has vowed to deal with difficult or controversial issues head-on and see them through to resolution quickly and openly, not let them drag on and become mired in a transparency-killing district bureaucracy, committees and closed-door meetings. He has pronounced the need to get a long-overdue new elementary school open after years of irrational starts and stops. And, in his first significant personnel move, he has made the director of special education one of his direct reports, acknowledging that this program is in need of better leadership, a change in culture and greater oversight. But to succeed in fixing problems and moving our district forward, McGee and our community also need a well-functioning school board. With both incumbents whose seats are up for election, Barb Mitchell and Dana Tom, wisely choosing not to seek third terms, the community is assured of badly needed new voices and skills, and hopefully a change in the operation of the board. This election is less about differences on specific school issues and more about who can best restore the trust and confidence of a school community tired of conflict, defensiveness and a lack of strong leadership and logical decision-making. Four of the five candidates bring stellar qualifications, but since only two slots are open, choices must be made. And while we value the backgrounds of all the candidates, in our opinion Terry Godfrey and Ken Dauber are clearly in the best position to work with McGee to chart a fresh path forward and begin a healthy rebuilding process. Dauber narrowly missed being elected two years ago after an ugly and unfair whisper campaign made him persona

non grata among school insiders who felt he would rock the boat too much with his probing questions, his data-analysis expertise and his advocacy for addressing student stress. This time Dauber’s base of support has extended to all corners of the district, as many parents have come to realize that the last two years of the district’s mishandling of school bullying policies, fighting with the Office for Civil Rights, running up ridiculous legal bills and tolerating one administrative misstep after another have proven him largely right. No one, and certainly none of the other candidates, has committed anything close to the time, energy and patience Dauber has in following, studying and advocating on district issues during these difficult two years. He has been a voice for reason, transparency, data-driven decision-making and for respectful treatment of all parents, teachers and students. A sociologist with a Ph.D. and college professor turned Google engineer with educational data-crunching and analysis in his background, Dauber has practically been a sixth board member in the room at board meetings, often weighing in on issues with more clarity and insight than board members. We are squandering this resource to our detriment if we do not elect him to the board this time around. His early campaign positions on opening a 13th elementary school, on bringing back foreign-language instruction to elementary schools, on collecting and using data to evaluate programs, on cutting back on legal services and other expenditures that do not help kids and on rejecting the board’s resolution criticizing the federal Office for Civil Rights have mostly been embraced by the other candidates. Our other choice is Terry Godfrey, who is also ready and able to make an immediate positive impact on the board and the district. A former Intel senior financial and HR manager; PTA Council president and immediate past president of PiE, the district-wide fundraising organization; and part of the Project Safety Net leadership team, she knows the district backwards and forwards and has wide support and deep connections in the community. Freed from the constraints of having to represent and speak on behalf of organizations like the PTA and PiE, Godfrey has surprised us during the campaign with her candor and her clear, thoughtful and firm positions, including several that are critical of the board and administration and that show strong independence. For example, after listening carefully to the board’s June discussion on adopting a resolution critical of the Office for Civil Rights, she decided the resolution was a bad idea and has made clear in the campaign that she does not support spending any money on the lobbying efforts it authorized. She is critical of the way the current board avoids documenting their actions by not making formal motions or taking votes on important issues, which she correctly observes leads to confusion, muddled decisionmaking and a lack of accountability. As a former HR manager, she said she would have voted to fire former Paly principal Phil Winston in the wake of the district’s findings of sexual harassment. And she believes the hiring of a district communications coordinator was a mistake given other district priorities. She has also helped advocate for special-education families and has seen first hand the need for improvements in this program. And she has been a leading proponent of foreign-language instruction in the elementary schools. Like Dauber, Godfrey will help to elevate the functioning of the board, bring an independent voice and move us away from the “group think” that has entrapped the current board.

Gina Dalma and Catherine Crystal Foster each offer strong backgrounds as education professionals that make them well-qualified to serve, but neither has the depth of experience within the district that makes them competitive with Godfrey or Dauber. Dalma is the senior education program officer for the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and is immersed in all the education issues facing our diverse region, especially relating to the transition to Common Core and the achievement gap. She was born in Mexico and offers an unusual opportunity to diversify the board. She is strongly policy-oriented and believes our district should be collaborating much more closely with cutting-edge districts and Stanford’s School of Education to implement proven educational reforms and innovations. Foster is a non-practicing lawyer who has done extensive consulting in educational policy, programming and evaluation. She recently completed a brief stint as executive director of the Peninsula College Fund, a small nonprofit that provides low-income, first-generation college students with scholarship and academic assistance. She has emphasized her commitment to addressing the achievement gap and evaluating the many district programs that are aimed at helping at-risk students, as well as improving and shortening board meetings and creating more transparency in district decision-making. The fifth candidate, Jay Cabrera, is a 1998 Gunn and UC Santa Cruz graduate who admits being unfamiliar with local school issues but emphasizes the value of having a younger and more recent graduate on the board. He is a strong advocate for using technology to enable greater community participation in district decision-making. As often happens, all five candidates have begun sounding very similar on most issues facing the district. The biggest divide has been over the school board’s handling of parent bullying complaints and the various civil-rights cases brought by the Office for Civil Rights. Godfrey, Dauber, Dalma and Cabrera have been unequivocal in their opposition to the actions of the board in deciding to spend district resources to lobby nationally for changes in OCR procedures and fight for the re-opening of a two-year-old settled case, while Foster has taken a very troubling nuanced position. She has said it is “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” for anyone to speculate or take a position on the board’s actions on OCR without examining all the confidential materials that the board has seen but has not released to the public. Her statement that if she could determine that OCR made all the mistakes that the resolution enumerated she would have voted for it shows the same lack of vision as the board for how the district should move beyond this controversy and stop diverting precious resources to it. Her position criticizing those who have expressed their opinions publicly on a matter under consideration by the school board is especially disheartening, as is her own complete public silence during the last two years on any matters that came before the board on any subject, including the OCR controversies. This is not leadership. If they take a more active role in district issues going forward, we think both Foster and Dalma will be excellent candidates in two years when three board seats will be open. The community would be lucky to have a board made up of these four people, and we hope these two will keep their passion for kids and improving our district alive and be back in 2016. For now, however, we urge the election of Terry Godfrey and Ken Dauber as the best way to restore public confidence in the governance of our school district.

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp (TENTATIVE) AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COUNCIL CHAMBERS October 6, 2014 - 6:00 PM STUDY SESSION 1. City Council Joint Study Session with Senator Jerry Hill 2. Review and Discussion on the Planned Community (PC) Zone SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY 3. Selection of Applicants to Interview on October 15, 2014 for the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board and the Planning and Transportation Commission 4. Gamble Garden Partnership Presentation CONSENT CALENDAR 5. Energy Risk Management Policy Updates 6. Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2015 to Provide Appropriation in the Amount of $100,000.00 for Two Professional Service Contracts to conduct scope of service required for the two pilot programs and Adoption of Two Resolutions Authorizing the City Manager or his Designee to Accept and Execute Two Grant Agreements Totaling $75,000 as reimbursement from the Santa Clara Valley Water District 2014 Safe Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Priority A â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Water Conservation Research Grant Program, to be Used By the Utilities Department to: 1) Initiate a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Business Water Report Pilot Programâ&#x20AC;?, and 2) Expand the Current â&#x20AC;&#x153;Real-Time Water Use Monitoring Pilot Programâ&#x20AC;?, Both Targeting Local Businesses 7. Water Master Study Contract Award 8. Amendment to Lease with R&T Restaurant 9. Approval of a Contract with the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority in the Amount of $500,000 for the Baylands Levee Improvements Feasibility Study, Capital Improvement Program Project PE-15028 10. Approval of a Purchase Order with Owen Equipment in a Not to Exceed Amount of $785,469 for the Purchase of Two Vacuum/Flush Trucks (Scheduled Vehicle and Equipment Replacement Capital Improvement Program VR-13000) ( \[OVYPaL :[HŃ&#x153; [V *VU[PU\L 0TWSLTLU[H[PVU VM [OL *YLZJLU[ 7HYR 5V 6]LYUPNO[ 7HYRPUN 7YVNYHT HUK Approve Additional Streets for Inclusion in the Program 12. Request for City Council Authorization for City Manager to Submit Comments For Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the City of East Palo Alto General Plan Update 13. Request for Approval of a Blanket Purchase Order with Granite Rock Company in the Amount of $1,200,000 to be the Primary Supplier of Asphalt Concrete Products for both the Public Works and Utilities Departments over a three year period 14. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Section 2.28.090 (Lapse of Appropriation) of Chapter 2.28 (Fiscal Procedures), Repealing Section 2.08.145 (Consultation with City Auditor) and Amending Section 2.08.150 (Department of Administrative Services) of Section 2.08 (OfĂ&#x201E;JLYZ HUK +LWHY[TLU[Z -PYZ[ 9LHKPUN! :LW[LTILY 7(::,+! 15. Approval of Annual Williamson Act Contracts and Acceptance of Nonrenewal Notice from Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District for 5061, 5065, 22601 Skyline Boulevard ACTION ITEMS 16. PUBLIC HEARING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Underground Utility District 46 Arastradero Road/El Camino Real/W. Charleston Road) by amending Section 12.16.020 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (tentative language) * V\UJPS +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃ&#x153; VU [OL 9PZR (ZZLZZTLU[ MVY :[VYPUN HUK /HUKSPUN /HaHYKV\Z 4H[LYPHSZ H[ 607-811 Hanson Way (CPI) 18. Adoption of an Ordinance Creating a Business Registry in the City of Palo Alto, Amendment to the Municipal Fee Schedule and Administrative Penalty Schedule, and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2015 for start-up costs related to Implement a Business Registration Program for all Businesses Occupying Commercial Space Within the City 19. Policy Discussion on whether to conduct a Closed Session prior to an Open Session to discuss the Management & Professional Compensation Plan 20. Cubberley Community Center Lease Status and Update CLOSED SESSION 21. Cubberley Community Center Lease Agreement Terms STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS The Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. to discuss; 1) Inventory Audit The Regional Housing Mandate Committee will meet on Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. to discuss: 1) Review and Recommendation for Adoption of the 2015-2023 Housing Element, Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program; and 2) Study Session on the future role of the Regional Housing Mandate Committee.

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Recycle, repurpose, rethink

Cristina Velázquez deconstructs detritus, knits something new by Elizabeth Schwyzer photos by Veronica Weber

ristina Velázquez likes to stay busy. The Mexicanborn artist and educator talks fast and moves even faster, gesticulating with her hands, her arched brows dancing as she describes her creative process. “I’m really impatient,” she declares, widening her eyes and flashing a broad smile as she fiddles with her fingers. “I need results faster — now.” On Tuesday, Oct. 7, the Palo Alto Art Center will open “Repurposed Black-Endless,” an installation of Velázquez’s recent work. Over the past month, the artist has held a creative residency at the Art Center, where she has taken up an unlikely hobby for such an energetic person: knitting. The product of her efforts isn’t what you might expect; there’s not a spool of yarn in sight. Instead, Velázquez has found a way to turn unrecyclable material into art. Her medium: the tape from inside old VHS video cassettes. “We think we’re great environmentalists, but we’re not doing enough,” Velázquez claimed during a recent gallery visit, busily working a pair of jumbo knitting needles as she slid loop after loop of tape into place. From her hands tumbled a black plastic scarf, 15 feet long and growing by the minute. “We are responsible for the

Top: Artist Cristina Velázquez has spent the past month in residence at the Palo Alto Art Center. Above: Her project has relied on community donations of unwanted VHS video cassettes.

‘I’m pushing to repurpose, transform, deal with things that are aimed for the landfill.’ —Cristina Velázquez

things we make, and we need to reuse the things we use,” she added. Then, dropping her needles and grabbing the knitted material in both hands, she wrapped her crinkling creation over her head and

peered out from beneath it, batting her lashes. Born and raised in Michoacan, Mexico, Velázquez often examines issues of feminine identity in her work. A self-described “con-

flicted Catholic,” she makes art that addresses female sexuality, challenges gender stereotypes and questions the perception of women in both Mexican and U.S. cultures. More recently, Velázquez has turned her attention to environmental issues, bringing the same probing questions and broad curiosity to the way we use and discard consumer products. At the same time, issues of femininity remain embedded in her approach to “Repurposed Black-Endless,” from the act of knitting itself to the product of her labors: a long, black garment reminiscent of the rebozos often worn by older Mexican women. At the start of Velázquez’s project, the Art Center called for donations of unwanted VHS tapes. Within days, hundreds of cassettes had been dropped off. In keeping with the Art Center’s mission to involve community members in the process as well as the product of art, Velázquez has encouraged public participation in every stage of the project, from donating materials to disassembling cassettes, helping her knit the shimmering black tape into bolts of “fabric,” or simply chatting with her as she works. “I’m pushing to repurpose, transform, deal with things that are aimed for the landfill,” Velázquez said, adding that her hope has been

“to engage the community by having them think through how we dispose of things.” To that end, Velázquez has invited the public to join her for “knitting circles” where they can add their own work to the larger project. Look closely at the final result once it’s installed, and you’ll see evidence of different knitters: Some sections are tighter and more regular, some looser and more chaotic. Velázquez sees these patterns as similar to line drawings. “There’s a graphic quality to the tape,” she noted. “It’s almost like working with a thick charcoal line.” At an Art Center party on Friday, Sept. 26, Velázquez stood knitting in the middle of the small gallery dedicated to her residency. Wearing an orange silk dress and sparkling gold heels, she kept up a steady stream of animated conversation as curious onlookers surrounded her. To see Velázquez in action, one would never guess she taught herself to knit only recently. Nearby sat Nadya Chuprina, who works for the City of Palo Alto’s Public Art Program, and who learned to knit in her native Russia. “My mom is obsessed with knitting,” Chuprina explained as she worked the slippery black (continued on page 22)

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tape with her fingers, coaxing it into rows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the USA and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there, she knits and sends clothes to me. Knitting is our connection.â&#x20AC;? At the opposite side of the room stood a table where a couple used screwdrivers to take apart VHS videos, then sorted the parts into various containers. Art Center members Charles Coates and Megan Mohaupt chatted as they deconstructed the cassettes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is kind of bittersweet for me,â&#x20AC;? joked Coates, explaining that he worked at a Blockbuster video store during high school and sometimes had to deal with tapes that had come unspooled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing good about VHS,â&#x20AC;? Coates concluded with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to miss it.â&#x20AC;? Yet part of the public appeal of the project, acknowledged VelĂĄzquez, is precisely the nostalgia surrounding the technology of VHS, and the mystery of what kind of footage might be woven into her creations. Among the tapes slated for disassembly, a few labels surfaced: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nova: Spy Machines,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harold and Maudeâ&#x20AC;? and, most cryptically: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silicon Valley.â&#x20AC;? None seemed likely to contain precious family footage. The Art Center, however, has been sensitive to that possibility. On Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m., board member of the Palo Alto Historical Association Brian George will give a talk on the importance of preserving family and community documents, such as those that might be recorded on VHS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cristina is taking an obsolete format and using it for another purpose,â&#x20AC;? he noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but it raised the question, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Why are people giving these tapes away?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We wanted to remind them to back things up, so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose their only copies of valuable historical documents.â&#x20AC;? Although recording and archiving stories interests VelĂĄzquez, she says that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been the focus of the current residency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different project,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding that she might incorporate video footage in a future phase of this exhibition.

What: Cristina VelĂĄzquez: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Repurposed Black-Endlessâ&#x20AC;? Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto When: Exhibition runs Oct. 7 - Dec. 23, Tuesday Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to cityofpaloalto.org/ artcenter or call 650-329-2366.

For now, VelĂĄzquez is focused on moving fast, so that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have enough knitted material to fill the small gallery come the opening on Oct. 7. She plans to hang the work from the ceiling and walls, so viewers can interact with its tactile qualities as well as enjoy its visual effect. VelĂĄzquez is one of five artistsin-residence the Art Center will host over the course of a year. The first of these was ceramicist Ehren Tool, who during his summer residency created hundreds of cups inspired by regional war veterans. Following VelĂĄzquez, the center will host textile artists May Wilson and Lauren DiCioccio this winter, and San Francisco-based artist Joel Daniel Phillips next spring. In each case, the artists will hold a residency followed by an exhibition, with opportunities for the public to engage in the creative process as well as with the resulting work. Phillips, who will be working on a series of life-size charcoal portraits of people he meets on the streets of Palo Alto, described his upcoming residency as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an opportunity for social interaction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a space where people can come in and out,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a conversation more than about a finished piece.â&#x20AC;? VelĂĄzquez expressed a similar sentiment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want people to touch this work, interact with it,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want them to remember that the things we use donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just disappear.â&#x20AC;? Q Arts and Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly.com.

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The Palo Alto Art Center, Bay Area Glass Institute, and the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation present: T H E

Worth a Look

GREAT GLASS Pumpkins by Treg Silkwood, Photo by Keay Edwards.

PUMPKIN PATCH® OCTOBER 7 – 12, 2014

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Dark Star Orchestra EXHIBITION ONLY October 7 and 8, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. October 9 and 10, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. no sales during exhibition PUMPKIN SALES Saturday & Sunday, October 11 and 12 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

EVENT LOCATION Palo Alto Art Center 1313 Newell Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 650.329.2366 Free admission Children always welcome

For information call 650.329.2366 or visit www.greatglasspumpkinpatch.com

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In 1965, five young men from Palo Alto formed a band. They called themselves The Warlocks — that is, until they realized the name was already taken. That’s when they renamed themselves The Grateful Dead. Nearly 50 years later, the band from the Midpeninsula that helped define an American generation has long since disbanded, but their spirit lives on in more than 300 tribute acts worldwide. Among the best of these is Dark Star Orchestra: the Grateful Dead cover band whose tally of live performances — 2,300 and counting — recently surpassed the Dead themselves. This Thursday, Oct. 9, Dark Star Orchestra plays Redwood City’s Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway St. Tribute act Dark Star Orchestra carries on the tradition of the Dark Star doesn’t just play covers; Grateful Dead. these seven musicians claim to “conthe man who lent his name to an ice cream flavor, tinue the Grateful Dead concert experience” by recreating set lists. Another claim to fame: but for others, the Dead live on. To learn more about Dark Star Orchestra, visit They’ve played alongside every living member of the darkstarorchestra.net. For tickets to Thursday’s show, original Grateful Dead (or is that The Warlocks?). Today’s youngsters may think of Jerry Garcia as go to foxrwc.com or call 650-FOX-7770.

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Talk Steven Pinker Rebecca Goldstein

He’s one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals. His books on language, the mind and human nature have catalyzed debate and changed the way we think about thinking. This Wednesday, Oct. 8, Steven Pinker makes a rare West Bay appearance in a talk at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto). Best known for his popular science books including “The Language Instinct” (1994) and “How the Mind Works” (1997), Pinker approaches the phenomenon of Steven Pinker will language from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, arguing that language speak on the science is more an instinct than an invention, and that grammatical rules are largely irof language at the relevant to communication. JCC Oct. 8. In his talk at the JCC, the Harvard University psychologist will speak about the science of language and what it takes to produce clear, stylish prose. Pinker’s most recent book is “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century,” which has been hailed as an iconoclastic smackdown of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style.” Pinker’s talk is presented by the Commonwealth Club. Tickets are $12 for JCC members, $20 for the general public and $7 for students with valid ID. For tickets, go to paloaltojcc.org or call 408-280-5530. To learn more about Pinker, go to stevenpinker.com or follow him on Twitter @sapinker.

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The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

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It’s back: California’s largest glass pumpkin patch returns to the Palo Alto Art Center at 1313 Newell Road this week. The exhibition of roughly 10,000 hand-blown squashes opens Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 10 a.m. and runs through Friday at 5 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, the pumpkins go on sale to the public. Like the fruits that inspire them, these objets d’art come in all shapes, colors and sizes. Pumpkin-hunters will find every- The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch will feature thousands of thing from glittering iridescent gourds original hand-blown works by more than 20 glass artists. to earth-toned varieties so life-like, you might almost mistake them for the real thing. Displayed all together, they make for a dazzling sight. Shoppers can feel good knowing that proceeds from the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale benefit the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation as well as the Bay Area Glass Institute, both nonprofit art education groups. To learn more, go to greatglasspumpkinpatch.com or call 650-329-2366. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer

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Eating Out It’s all about

the curry Light on atmosphere, Kobe Curry serves up tasty Japanese-style curry

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Joey Oberhauser, a prep cook at Kobe Curry, takes a customer’s to-go order. By Sheila Himmel hicken cutlet curry is the thing to get at Kobe Curry. They were out of it the night we visited. We had to be satisfied with an appetizer of fried chicken, and we were. The signature appetizer is three big pieces of boneless chicken ($4.50), crunchy breading on the outside, tender and moist meat on the inside. Take or leave the accompanying mayonnaise dip. An appetizer of five dumplings ($4.50) isn’t bad either, particularly if you get started with cold beer (Asahi, Sapporo, Orion or Echigo), available in various sizes of glasses and pitchers. Other beverages — all priced at $1.50 — include the non-carbonated soft drink Calpico, oolong tea and UCC Coffee: Japan’s pioneering canned coffee drink. If you’re a vegetarian, your only option is an appetizer: the daikon salad ($7.50). It’s a good-size pile of mixed baby greens, daikon, cucumber and corn. You’ll have to ask them to leave off the bonito flakes — tiny bits of dried fish that curl up on contact with other food items. The restaurant serves five flavors of curry, but none are meatfree. The sauce — rich, excellent and very filling — is a long-

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• First Friday of the month 3pm – 5pm Limitations • 15 gallons or 125 pounds of HHW per visit. • Must be a Palo Alto Resident (driver’s license or vehicle registration) • Residents in single-family homes can place batteries in a sealed, clear bag on top of their blue recycling cart. Page 24 • October 3, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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The pork gyoza is made with scallions and served with soy sauce vinegar. simmered mix of spices, beef and mushrooms. It’s served in a gravy boat, the better to pour it over a plate of rice and meat — or just rice. Plain curry ($8) does not mean vegetarian; it just means there’s no added sausage, chicken, pork or beef tendon. A dish with any of these costs $9.50. Beef tendon was very good, but our favorite was the pork cutlet. Like the fried chicken appetizer, the cutlet was hot, crunchy outside and juicy inside. All curries come in mild, medium and spicy variations. Medium is lively but not too challenging: just what it should be. All of the curries come with your choice of salad: green or macaroni (cold).

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Kobe Curry is less expensive than Muracci’s, the Los Altos restaurant that introduced Japanese curry to the South Bay. Yet the menu at Kobe Curry is much smaller, the indoor dining non-existent and the ambience highly dependent on the variables of Castro Street traffic. Service can also be variable. One night, the server ran nimbly between kitchen and tables with all the correct orders, only to get chewed out by a would-be customer who arrived 8:30 p.m.: closing time. Trying to get someone to answer the phone is pretty much futile. It seems all the energy is going into the curry. Q

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ShopTalk by Daryl Savage

HOUSE OF BAGELS FINDS A NEW HOME ... After 26 years at 526 University Ave., Palo Alto, House of Bagels has found a new home. The bagel shop plans to move to the revamped Edgewood Plaza. “It’s an exciting time, but it hasn’t been easy,” said owner Steve Stivala, who is looking forward to making the transition. The new space is slightly smaller than the current shop, “but it will seem bigger to our customers because we’ll have lots of outdoor seating,” Stivala said. There will also be an expanded number of items on the menu. “We’ll be serving several fresh salads, and all of them will be made in house. Nothing will be brought in,” Stivala said, adding that he is very happy to be a tenant at Edgewood Plaza. “We’ve submitted all the plans to the city, and if everything goes as expected we hope to be open by Christmastime,” Stivala said, predicting that the current shop will close in late November. The aging building that House of Bagels has been located in since the late 1980s is scheduled for demolition so that a new office building with ground floor retail and underground park-

ing can be built. The plans call for a 16,000 square-foot, three-story, 60-foot-tall structure that will replace a total of five storefronts. FAST PIZZA COMING TO CAL. AVE. ... Palo Alto is the second city in Pizza Studio’s lofty goal to dot the Bay Area with a total of 25 shops in the next seven to eight years. The fast, casual restaurant is scheduled to open later this month at 365 S. California Ave., the former site of Tandoori Oven, which closed in July. “We completely demolished the entire space and started over. This will be a brand new restaurant,” Pizza Studio franchise owner Jeff Burrill said. Burrill opened his first pizza shop in Mountain View’s San Antonio Center earlier this year. A third outlet in Los Gatos is said to be coming soon. “Yes, it’s an ambitious plan, but we believe in the brand,” Burrill said. Possibly the most notable feature of Pizza Studio is the quick cooking time: just two minutes in the oven for a fresh pizza. “Our ovens are set between 600 and 700 degrees,” explained Burrill. “It takes a couple hours to reach that high heat, which is why

SANDWICH SHOP SOLD ... One of Palo Alto’s smallest-ever shops at 250 square feet, Simply Sandwiches has been sold. Congenial owners Rob and Jeannie Wimmel say they’re ready to retire. “We’re both 64 years old. We’ve had this place for 28 years. It’s time,” said Rob Wimmel. Located at 2435 Ash St., the tiny take-out eatery known for its reasonably-priced sandwiches — all between $5 and $7 — will continue on without its original owners. “Nothing will change here,” Wimmel reassured. “We are currently training the new owner; that was part of the agreement. Everything will stay the same: the prices, the menu items, everything.” Simply Sandwiches does not advertise; it relies strictly on word-of-mouth. The decision to retire was a tough one, according to Wimmel. “We have gotten to know hundreds of our customers by their first names. We’ll miss all the people we’ve met and all the friendships we’ve made,” he said. The Wimmels plan to retire to the Sierras. Q

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at the same time coming into his own as an activist. The strong ensemble (including Dominic West and Andrew Scott as a touchingly caring couple) helps “Pride” keep a steady heartbeat, from the local union hall get-togethers through the “Pits and Perverts” benefit concert, and right up to the nodry-eye-in-the-house finale. Rated R for language and brief sexual content. Two hours. — Peter Canavese

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Set during a one-year period beginning in the summer of 1984, “Pride” traces how restless London gays and lesbians expanded their social protest to embrace the struggles of the striking miners against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s austerity measures. As played by Ben Schnetzer in a breakthrough role, Young Mark Ashton overcomes a fair amount of apathy and antipathy amongst his peers to spearhead the collective, which raises money and awareness to support the striking miners and their families. Eventually, the gay group makes a tentative connection with a South Wales mining community, whose representative (Paddy Considine) admirably steps onto the stage of a gay bar to express his thanks with a gently moving speech. Soon, LGSM is making trips to South Wales, where they meet more union organizers (including those played by veteran thesps Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton), work to overcome discrimination and prove that the underdogs have more that binds them than divides them. “Pride” fits into the popular genre of post-industrial “soft” realist films first heralded by a trio of late-’90s British pictures: “Brassed Off” (1996), “The Full Monty” (1997) and “Billy Elliot” (2000). In all three, earnest crisis gives weight to an essentially optimistic and cheery vision of overcoming through spirit, self-expression and community. When “Pride” skews toward the self-consciously goofy (low point: Staunton waving around a red dildo over a gay porn mag), it briefly misses the mark, but at least as often there’s an affecting moment (a gay first-kiss scene, for example) that rings true. Screenwriter Stephen Beresford and Tony-award-winning director Warchus ably tell the true story, despite some awkwardness in the choice to foreground the composite character of Joe (George MacKay): an every(gay)boy who struggles with coming out while

(Century 16, Century 20) Tone can be a delicate matter, and shaking it up can be a bold and admirable enterprise. But “Gone Girl” — David Fincher’s film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s runaway bestseller — goes from intriguingly puzzling to downright alienating. It’s all part of the intent of Fincher’s crazy black comedy of manners, scripted by Flynn herself and built around a twisty mystery: Where has Nick Dunne’s wife gone, and is he responsible for her disappearance? The disruption to suburban normality in a once tony, now depressed Missouri community sets the stage for competing perspectives: that of Nick (a well-cast Ben Affleck), who insists upon his innocence even as he shows signs of misogyny and a violent temper; and that of his wife Amy (cool blonde Rosamund Pike), whose diary — doled out in voice-over narration — seems to implicate her husband. A slew of peripheral characters add their own interpretations of the Dunnes’ marriage and Amy’s disappearance. Among them are the detectives investigating the case (the always terrific Kim Dickens and a wry Patrick Fugit), Amy’s parents (David Clennon and Lisa Banes), Amy’s unhinged ex (Neil Patrick Harris), Nick’s twin sister Margo (a revelatory Carrie Coon), a high-powered defense attorney (Tyler Perry, spot-on) and rapacious TV journalists (Sela Ward and Missi Pyle, equally delicious). No spoilers about where exactly the story takes viewers, but the twists lead into increasingly trashy territory inhabited by characters who become genderpolitics cartoons: self-consciously scary archetypes of the stalking male and the hell-furious woman scorned. As with the once-upona-zeitgeist film “Gone Girl” most closely resembles (“Fatal Attraction”), the story’s potential heroes are awfully unpleasant, and when the plot spins off into the ridiculous, it becomes even more difficult to care about anyone. Rated R for a scene of bloody violence, some strong sexual content/nudity, and language. Two hours, 29 minutes. — Peter Canavese For a longer version of this review, go to paloaltoonline.com/ movies.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. Annabelle (R) Century 16: 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:30 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 12:35, 2, 3:05, 4:30, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m. The Boxtrolls (PG) Century 16: 11:05 a.m., 4:35 & 7:20 p.m. In 3-D at 1:50 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. In 3-D at 12:30, 3:10, 5:40,

Fri and Sat 10/3 – 10/4 Pride –1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 My Old Lady – 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Sun – Thurs 10/5 – 10/9 Pride –1:00, 4:00, 7:00 My Old Lady – 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com

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Boyhood (R) ++++ Aquarius Theatre: 1:20, 4:40 & 8:15 p.m. Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 5:30 & 9:25 p.m. Dodsworth (1936) (PG) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 3:35 & 7:30 p.m. Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) ++ Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m. The Drop (R) Century 20: 6:45 & 9:20 p.m. The Equalizer (R) ++ Century 16: 12:20, 3:50, 7:10 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:15, 2:40, 4:20, 5:45, 7:25, 8:50 & 10:35 p.m. Gone Girl (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:30 & 11:40 a.m., 1:55, 3:10, 4:25, 5:40, 7, 8, 9 & 10:20 p.m. Fri & Sat 12:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:30, 2:30, 4:50, 5:50, 8:20 & 9:15

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Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Hector and the Search for Happiness (R) Century 16: 11:30 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) ++1/2 Century 20: Fri & Sat 12:50 & 3:45 p.m. Jimi: All is by My Side (R) Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 7:15 & 10:10 p.m. Fri & Sat 1:35 & 4:25 p.m. Left Behind (PG-13) Century 16: 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m. Mas Negro Que La Noche (R) Century 20: 11:40 a.m. & 7:45 p.m. In 3-D at 2:20, 5:05 & 10:30 p.m. MASH (1970) (R) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. The Maze Runner (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:25 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:15 & 2:55 p.m.

In Escape at 11 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7 & 9:40 p.m.

My Old Lady (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m. National Theatre Live: Medea (Not Rated) Guild Theatre: Fri & Sat 11 a.m. Pride (R) +++ Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) Guild Theatre: Sat at midnight The Skeleton Twins (R) +++ Century 20: Noon, 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 & 9:55 p.m. Guild Theatre: 4:40, 7:15, & 9:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 2:15 p.m. This is Where I Leave You (R) Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m. Tim Rice’s From Here to Eternity (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 12:55 p.m. Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m. Tracks (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 1:40, 4:15, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Woman in Green (1945) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 6:10 & 9 p.m. + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

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Eating for Health: A Film Screening

& Expert-Panel Discussion of “Fed Up” Sunday, December 14: 2 – 5pm — We are excited to offer a ﬁlm screening of the new movie,

“Fed Up” followed by a panel discussion with leaders in the ﬁeld of obesity and nutrition: Christopher Gardner, PhD (researcher), Bryan Lian, RD, (nutritionist) Thomas Robinson MD (pediatrician/researcher), and Sophia Yen MD (adolescent medicine) from Stanford Medicine and Stanford Children’s Health. This seminar is for parents, students, teachers and anyone else interested in the connection between food and health.

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies ON THE WEB: Up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com

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Five vie for two seats on Palo Alto’s Board of Education by Elena Kadvany

tax to help fund education — in lieu of selling the five school sites for redevelopment — intended it to continue. The two new board members also will be jumping into the middle of the board’s efforts to challenge the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on its investigative practices, as expressed in a resolution adopted this June. The board began this summer to lobby local and federal elected officials to support the resolution and plans to continue to do so. Meanwhile, a brand new bullying policy, required by the federal agency and approved by the board this spring, is being implemented this year. The five candidates in November’s school board election — Jay Cabrera, Gina Dalma, Ken Dauber, Catherine Crystal Foster and Terry Godfrey — are competing for two open seats on the board, to be vacated by outgoing President Barb Mitchell and member Dana Tom. The two new members will be elected to four-year terms, joining Camille Townsend, Heidi Emberling and Melissa Baten Caswell. The five candidates, in the early weeks of the campaign season, have expressed similar positions on issues. They all view evaluation as critical to moving the district forward; they want to focus on students’ social-emotional well-being and reduce student stress; they agree on the need for a 13th elementary school; they want to rebuild the community trust lost in recent years due to the district’s handling of civil-rights cases. They differ in their professions and the experience they would bring to the dais. One has a finance background and years of school volunteering under her belt; another is a Google software engineer with a penchant for data-

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driven advocacy. One was born in Mexico and trained in economics; another was born and raised in Palo Alto, attending Palo Alto schools from elementary to high school. One has had a career in education and social justice, from working as an attorney for battered immigrant women to heading a local nonprofit that helps low-income students complete college. Read on for profiles of all of them, along with their positions on the key issues facing the school district.

IF YOU’RE VOTING Mail-in ballots will be released Monday, Oct. 6. The election is Tuesday, Nov. 4. For more information, visit the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ website at www.sccvote.org or call 1-408-299-VOTE (8683).

IF YOU’RE GOING The board candidates will next appear publicly in two forums hosted by the Palo Alto Council of PTAs. The first is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 5, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Gunn High School’s Little Theater, 780 Arastradero Road, and will focus on secondary education. The second will focus on elementary education and is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the multipurpose room at Fairmeadow Elementary School, 500 East Meadow Drive.

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he arrival of two new school board members this fall comes at a time that, in many ways, is a turning point for the Palo Alto Unified School District. A new superintendent with a long career in education and fresh eyes and ears, has replaced sevenyear Superintendent Kevin Skelly, who resigned in June. Common Core State Standards are rolling out this year; their impact in Palo Alto remains to be seen. A building boom stretching across the district’s 17 campuses continues, with projects like Palo Alto High School’s media arts center and new classrooms at Duveneck Elementary School recently completed. Other major construction projects — historic revamps of Paly’s library and athletic center; a $19.4 million “central” building at Gunn that will house a wellness center, college-and-career center and additional classrooms — remain in the pipeline. Not to mention a potential new 13th elementary school and possibly a fourth middle school, two proposals sure to come before the next iteration of the board. The new school board terms coincide with the expiration date on the district’s lease of Cubberley Community Center, the sprawling 4000 Middlefield Road site that since 1989 has brought about $136 million in city payments to the school district and currently generates $7.1 million each year. The City of Palo Alto and district have been at odds over the renewal lease, particularly over a covenant not to develop five school sites that were vacant at the time the lease was created. The City Council has said it wants to eliminate the covenant, but the school district has dug in its heels, arguing that voters who in 1987 approved a utility user’s

Terry Godfrey stands outside at Escondido Elementary School, which her children attended.

Terry Godfrey Age: 50 Education: Bachelor’s in mathematics from University of California, Irvine; MBA in finance from University of California, Los Angeles Current occupation: Financial director, New Americans Campaign; part-time finance and program consultant for the Grove Foundation Family: Husband Steve, one son, one daughter (both at Palo Alto High) Favorite book: “The Suffragette” by E. Sylvia Pankhurst Campaign website: terrygodfrey.org

hough candidate Terry Godfrey has volunteered hours of her time in schools as president of both the Palo Alto Council of PTAs and Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE), it is her professional background in finance and human resources that she thinks sets her apart from the other candidates. Godfrey, a parent of two current Palo Alto High School students, worked for 16 years at Xerox and

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Catherine Crystal Foster Age: 48 Education: Bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University; law degree from Harvard Law School Current occupation: Founder and principal, Policy & Advocacy Consulting Family: Husband Jon, sons Eric (at Palo Alto High) and David (at Nueva Middle School) Favorite book: “Common Ground” by J. Anthony Lucas Campaign website: catherine4paloalto.com

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Intel doing data analysis and overseeing a global human resources and analytics group. After leaving Intel, she worked as the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ director of finance and strategic planning for three years. “There’s a lot that comes with that that I think will be useful going forward and would have been useful looking backwards,” Godfrey said in an interview with the Weekly. “I think part of our issues around getting decisions made and helping the district staff move ahead are because our board decisions aren’t clear and aren’t coming quickly enough sometimes.” She said from her years at Intel, she is accustomed to working within a transparent environment in which weekly reports provide progress updates as well as identify mistakes that might have been made. “Even if those things were sort of ugly, the fact that you were coming every week or every other week with, ‘This is exactly what’s going on,’ really took the stigma out of if something didn’t go well because it wasn’t such a red-flag moment,” she said. “There’s a way by which it just becomes common practice to ad-

mit your mistakes,” she said. She contrasted this practice with the district’s handling of its Office for Civil Rights investigations, which she characterized as a “defensive stance” that led to a “vicious cycle” of failed communication. Godfrey during the campaign has been fairly critical of the district on various subjects, such as its handling of Office for Civil Rights cases, though in the past few years she did not publicly address the board on these issues. She said that she didn’t feel comfortable taking a public position as PiE or PTA president, at the risk of misrepresenting the organization, but advocated via one-on-one meetings with district staff. “My brand of advocacy is different when I can be mistaken for the head of a big organization than when I just represent me,” she said. “Right now, I don’t represent anybody but me.” Godfrey, has, however, strongly advocated for the expansion of foreign language instruction. In 2007, she was one of four parents selected to serve on a district language committee that brought to the board in 2008 a detailed plan to begin foreign language instruction in third through fifth grades. An estimated $1.1 million-peryear price tag at the height of the financial downturn made for a

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atherine Crystal Foster has said she has developed the kind of thinking, understanding and expertise required of a school board member through her “life’s work,” 20 years of working at both the policy level and on the ground on education and youth issues. The parent of two has emphasized her breadth of experience as setting her apart from the other candidates. Foster most recently served as executive director of nonprofit Peninsula College Fund, which helps low-income, firstgeneration students get to and finish college. She helped expand its service area to include Palo Alto’s two high schools. She began her career as an attorney for battered immigrant women and their children, headed a child advocacy program at a national nonprofit and later founded her own consulting firm, working for organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Locally, she served on the first Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE)

board and the Palo Alto Community Fund board. Through her consulting work, Foster has used data for program evaluation, in areas in which she has said the district has much room for improvement. In the second debate of the campaign season on Sept. 16, she said evaluation is her top budget priority. “We need to have more focus and staffing in the evaluation side of the house so we can do all the other kinds of teaching and learning that we want to do and make sure it’s the best it can be,” she said. She has said that the district’s lack of evaluation on achievement gap issues, in particular, has concerned her. “We have students who are not succeeding in the way that we all want them to succeed and that we have an obligation to help them succeed,” she said at the Sept. 20 debate. She said the district needs to put together a catalog of all the programs addressing the achievement gap and then evaluate them against specific goals it wants to reach. She cited Walter Hays Elementary School’s voluntary transfer program and Dreamcatchers, an after-school tutoring program, as particularly impactful models that could be spread to other schools after further evaluation. Foster, like the other candidates, has said that she would commit to setting more concrete goals and collecting the metrics necessary to set Palo Alto Uni-

Catherine Crystal Foster stands inside the new media arts building at Palo Alto High School. She worked on the bond campaign that funded it. fied on the right path to reduce its achievement gap. Foster has also expressed support for investing in teacher professional development, especially in relation to the achievement gap, writing instruction and advances in innovation. Where Foster has notably diverged from the other four candidates is her position on the board’s resolution in June criticizing the U.S. Department for Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which has investigated the school district. At the first debate of the campaign season, she said she would have, albeit reluctantly, voted to adopt the resolution if the allega-

tions the board has made about the federal agency’s investigative practices are true. These allegations include evidence tampering and refusing to correct alleged errors in its investigation processes, which current board leaders called “purposely confrontational and disruptive.” The resolution also commits board members to seek redress of the alleged errors through meetings with elected officials and other organizations, a lobbying campaign it began this summer. “As someone who has worked for social justice for 20 years, this is terrifically troubling to me,” Foster said. “The OCR is an or-

ganization that needs to function well and needs to protect our kids. We need to cooperate absolutely, fully and completely with the OCR, but to the extent that we see an issue of concern, I think that all of us share the concern that we want that agency to be functioning as well as it can.” Foster said in recent years, she chose to not speak before the board on Office for Civil Rights issues because she did not “believe that some of the tone and tenor of these conversations were particularly productive.” She said she instead talked personally to

quick rejection from the board. Godfrey said that now that the district is more comfortable financially, “it seems like an obvious fit,” but one that would have to be weighed against other potential expenditures such as opening a 13th elementary school. Godfrey said getting foreign languages into elementary schools is more important to her. With her finance background, Godfrey also said she would support a more flexible budget policy that lays out scenarios for different annual property-tax revenues, as opposed to the current conservative estimate of a 2 percent property-tax increase. “We have this method called zero-based budgeting where I spent a lot of time working that really focused in on that scenario band so you knew what were the most important things, what were the things that were right at the edge and what would you add next if you got more money,” she said. “It feels like the current budgeting process for us doesn’t spend a lot of time on this, so we end up putting it in reserves. That doesn’t serve us well because you don’t want to have money you’re not spending.” Godfrey — who has said publicly she has been down the “504 journey” with her two children, referring to the district’s 504 Plan for students with special needs — said

it is more important to fix the root causes of the district’s ballooning spending on legal fees, namely, disputes with special-education families over what services the district should provide their children. “For me, that expectation goes farther back to understanding upfront where we’ve not been clear or fair or had that kind of a relationship with the people that we’re working with,” she said. “It seems like the mistrust is so high that if you have a situation with the district, you go in expecting it not to go well.” She said at the Sept. 20 debate hosted by parents of special-education students and students of color that it would help if the board had a direct liaison to the Palo Alto Community Advisory Committee for special education (CAC), one of the debate hosts. The board, for example, currently assigns a member as a liaison to each school, PiE and the PTA. She has also suggested doing more parent education around the district’s new bullying policy and making it more accessible to the public. On the issue of school-based versus district-wide decision making, Godfrey has repeatedly said that the board should make sure the thousands of decisions made throughout the district every day are made closest to students. In the first debate of the season, she

cited the model of her former employer, Intel, which centralizes decisions relating to health, safety and product quality and provides site autonomy on other decisions, as long as outcomes are defined and agreed to. Godfrey also co-founded youth mental health coalition Project Safety Net and has since worked on related efforts with a particular focus on creating caring neighborhoods and fostering a community that values its youth. She started Caring Neighborhoods, a Project Safety Net initiative to bring residents together so kids feel valued and can talk to their neighbors when in need. She told the Weekly that Project Safety Net’s progress has been impeded by inconsistent leadership, with the most recent director resigning late last month. She said the position is demanding, but offers low pay and no benefits on a year-to-year contract. But she said individual organizations within the coalition, such as HEARD, a health care alliance addressing adolescent depression, are making progress against their individual goals. “In my mind, there’s progress. Social change takes time and our reliance on one person who we don’t pay very well and we don’t guarantee a job is probably illadvised,” she said.

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Ken Dauber Age: 52 Education: Bachelor’s and master’s in sociology from Yale University; doctorate in sociology from University of Arizona Current occupation: Software engineer, Google Family: Wife Michele; sons Jeffrey, 27, and Elliot, 13; daughters Amanda, deceased, and Annie and Celia, both 23 Favorite book: The “Travis McGee” series by John MacDonald Campaign website: kendauber.com

en Dauber has said he’s being specific in his campaign commitments for a reason — so that if elected, he’ll have the weight of the voters behind his main goals for the district. These goals — manifested in work he’s done over the last few years as a parent advocate — focus on special education, the district’s relationship with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, student health and well-being, the need to open a 13th elementary school and foreign-language instruction. “I’m being specific because I want a mandate, and when I come to the board, I’m going to be able to point to the outcome as a support for that,” Dauber said in an interview with the Weekly. Dauber, a Google software engineer and parent of five children, ran in the last school board election in 2012. Dauber lost with 10,266 votes, or 22.07 percent, 916 votes behind Heidi Emberling. Then and now, he has point-

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ed to his commitment as a board watchdog — attending almost every meeting in the last few years, using the California Public Records Act to file multiple requests for information from the district and presenting concrete data to the board on various issues — as evidence of the kind of board member he would be if elected. He first started this work in 2009, following the rash of student suicides that sparked the creation of Project Safety Net (PSN). Dauber participates in the youth mental health coalition’s Community Engagement Committee. He is critical of the progress the district has made in the past few years in addressing student stress. “I’m not satisfied with the progress, in part because I don’t think we should ever be satisfied with the progress and in part because I think we have let go of opportunities that we should have taken up and that were in front of us,” he said. He pointed to the district’s failure to assess the effectiveness of the homework policy it adopted in 2012, which outlines specific amounts of time certain grade levels should be spending on homework, for an example. He served on a committee to develop the policy and has since urged the board to authorize an evaluation. He said he is similarly disappointed by the fact the district is not seeking evaluation of the district’s two high schools’ (See Dauber on next page)

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Gina Dalma Age: 47 Education: Bachelor’s in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City; master’s in economics from University of London; master’s in international policy from Stanford University Current occupation: Senior education program officer, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Family: Husband Gabriel, son Jacques and daughter Tess Favorite books: “The God of All Small Things” by Arundhati Roy, “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel and anything by Alain de Botton Campaign website: ginadalma.com

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counseling programs in order to determine which model better serves students. In 2011, Dauber co-founded the community group We Can Do Better Palo Alto and called for Gunn High School to replace its traditional counseling model with the “advisory” system used at Palo Alto High School. He told the Weekly that he doesn’t think the two schools need to have “exactly identical services,” but they do need to deliver equal quality services and comparable outcomes. The counseling systems serve as one example of the district’s struggle between school autonomy and district authority. Dauber, who in the last board race called for greater top-down direction in order to more quickly spread best practices throughout the district, has said now that the conversation should focus on resources. “If we have 12 different antibullying programs and they’re all equally effective, that’s good, but that shouldn’t end the conversation,” he said. “There’s also a conversation about whether we should be investing our district’s time and energy in developing 12 different anti-bullying programs because those are dollars and at-

tention and staff time that could be devoted to something else.” Dauber has also been a vocal critic both before and during the campaign of the board’s handling of its Office for Civil Rights investigations, setting himself apart as the first candidate who firmly said he would repeal the resolution criticizing the federal agency’s investigative practices that the board passed in June. “We cannot get on the right path on bullying when at the same time we’re engaging in an act of denial on the bullying that’s actually happening,” Dauber said at the Sept. 16 debate. He has also condemned the amount of money the district has spent on legal fees, especially relating to litigation with special-education families. The district spent more than $200,000 in the first seven months of 2014 in legal fees related to its cases and conflicts with the Office for Civil Rights, including just under $50,000 for attorneys to research, develop and follow up on the June resolution. according to legal bills reviewed by the Weekly Dauber said at the Sept. 16 debate that his top budget priority is to eliminate district expenses that “don’t have anything to do with serving student needs,” including legal fees. Dauber consulted for the U.S. Department of Education for

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ina Dalma has repeated throughout the campaign that a culture of complacency is one of the Palo Alto Unified School District’s greatest weaknesses, impeding its progress on the achievement gap, innovation and evaluation — three of her main priorities. “We need to make sure we are pushing the boundaries,” she said at a Sept. 16 candidates debate. “We cannot rest on our laurels as a school district.” She has touted her background as evidence for her being the kind of board member who will be able to push the boundaries. she currently works as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s senior program officer and, prior to that was the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s director of innovation. This work has taken her around the country, looking at other districts that are, perhaps,

innovating more than Palo Alto. “I have not spent hours and hours volunteering in classrooms,” Dalma said in an interview with the Weekly. “What I bring is hours and hours looking at programming, evaluating programming and evaluating systems where programs actually work in terms of increasing student achievement.” Born and raised in Mexico, Dalma holds bachelor’s and master’s economics degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City and the University of London, as well as a master’s in international policy from Stanford University. In Mexico, she held several positions in the federal and state public sectors related to urban economic development and regulatory economics. She and her husband moved to Palo Alto 20 years ago and have two children who have attended Ohlone Elementary School, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School and Palo Alto High School. She said in the second debate of the season that the first thing she would do differently if elected is “reach across El Camino,” referring to the dividing line between district headquarters on Churchill Avenue and Stanford University. “We’ve got some of the best minds in education that are influencing the world of education globally at Stanford,” she told the Weekly. “We should be having lunch with these folks once a month. We should be convening them and inviting them to pilot

Gina Dalma stands outside the Ohlone Elementary School farm, where she volunteered. things in our school district.” She attributes the district’s failure to establish such partnerships to a complacency with being, overall, a high-performing school district. “I really believe that it’s a feeling of, ‘We’ve achieved so much and our kids are succeeding — why shake the boat? Why move it?’” she said. “But what we don’t understand is if we don’t keep innovating, we’re going to lose that level of world-class education.” Dalma has expressed similar criticisms about the district’s progress — or lack thereof — on the achievement gap.

Palo Alto’s most recent state Academic Performance Index (API) scores showed four major subgroups — African-American, Hispanic or Latino, socioeconomically disadvantaged and students with disabilities — still falling short of the state standard for proficiency (a score of 800). In 2013, African American students scored at 761, Hispanic or Latino just below the 800 mark at 795, socioeconomically disadvantaged students at 768 and students with disabilities at 734. Though Palo Alto ranked fifth out of the top 10 unified school districts in the state, its subgroup scores are not

as high as in other districts. “I think there has never been a real push to close the achievement gap,” Dalma told the Weekly. “I can’t see it.” She said she would look to other school districts in the area doing better by their minority and lowincome students and bring best practices back to Palo Alto. Dalma, who is bilingual, also started a group for Spanishspeaking parents at Palo Alto High School last school year. She said when her son, now a sophomore, arrived at Paly, many

three years, from 2009 to 2012. He has said Russlyn Ali, former assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education and longtime friend of his wife, asked him to help with data analysis around the achievement gap and related issues. Between 2009 and 2011, Dauber received a total of $26,246 in compensation for his work with the department with the most (about $14,000) in 2009, he said. He received $5,872 in 2011, the last year he was compensated for his work. His consulting agreement with the federal agency was terminated in 2012 when Ali left office. Dauber said he has not been involved with any of the Office for Civil Rights’ Palo Alto-related work and had no knowledge of the Palo Alto complaints until they were reported in local media. Dauber said if elected, he will have no contact or consulting with the federal agency and will properly disclose all relevant information. Dauber’s wife, Michele, a Stanford University law professor, has also often lobbied the board on various issues. The two co-wrote an opinion piece that ran in the Weekly in 2011, condemning then Superintendent Kevin Skelly for his ineffective response to issues around student stress and wellbeing. Dauber said if he is elected, his wife will no longer play an ad-

vocacy role on district matters. With a background in data analysis, Dauber has often spoken to the board about the importance of using good data in program evaluation and policymaking. “When I saw the need in the district around issues of A-G (requirements, which prepare students for the U.C. system), around

the issues of stress, around the issue of civil rights, I answered the call,” Dauber said at a debate hosted by parents of special-education students and students of color on Sept. 20. “I think that’s really what we need to see the (data) as — not as facts, but (facts that) spur us to be better because we can do better.”

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this is a moment where we can do something really impactful. What I want to do more than anything is to maximize the potential of every single student in our district,” she told the Weekly. How Palo Alto defines student success is critical to Foster, and she posed the question to the other five candidates at the first debate of the campaign season. Her own response was that students must be given the space and independence to define success in their own terms. “Success is not just about their personal best academically, but it’s also about their personal best as independent thinkers, as resilient people, as people who value and are valued by their community,” she said. “Our students can be successful when they fail, when they feel they’ve had the opportunity to fail and the opportunity to pick themselves back up again — when they have gotten that level of support and independence that allows them to do that.”

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board members about it. “The most important thing if you’re trying to decide whether I should be on the board is what I will do as a board member,” she said, “and what I will do as a board member is not behave the way our current board did with allowing the superintendent to hide the ball, having all of those closed sessions. That’s not the kind of way that I would be as a board member.” Foster also said she “does not support expending district funds to engage in a fight with the Office for Civil Rights, period.” Foster has repeatedly expressed her top priority as ensuring that each and every student realizes his or her potential. “I think that this moment right now, where we have all of these changes and this new superintendent, we have Common Core —

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school communications were only provided in English. A group of about 12 or 13 parents now meets once a month to informally talk about “how we believe we need to influence the system to improve the education that a bunch of our Latino kids get,” Dalma said. Dalma, like the other candidates, advocates for putting the right metrics and systems in place to evaluate current programs aiming to address the achievement gap. She has also repeatedly said that the Strategic Plan should be more aligned with the more flexible framework provided by the state’s Local Control Funding Formula in order to invest funding where it is needed. Dalma has also spoken out in support of Palo Alto High School teachers’ proposal to “de-lane” freshman English — and her disappointment in the board’s failure to support it — including in a guest opinion published in the Weekly on March 28. “In our school district as well as others, parents of higherachieving students and school administrators have strongly advocated for differentiated paths that put students into lanes according to their level of proficiency — the assumption being that this provides them with more

of an individualized instruction, but in fact it does the opposite,” she wrote. At the Sept. 20 debate, Dalma said laning “makes absolutely no sense when talking about core subjects, like freshman English at Paly,” but that she supports specialization in other subject areas or at higher grade levels. “I think the single most important thing is belief system,” she told the Weekly. “This is why the laning issue matters so much to me. If you tell a kid, ‘This is your level of achievement,’ that is exactly what the kid is going to do.” Dalma, a member of the National Common Core Funders Steering Committee, identifies Common Core implementation, which she said has been inconsistent, as a high priority for evaluation. She also said she would immediately evaluate the district’s professional development policy, which she said “doesn’t work.” She thinks the district can improve by aligning types of teacher development to the goals they are supposed to achieve — such as increasing instructional consistency from classroom to classroom — and establishing a metrics system to know whether they are effective or not. “All these resources that are being thrown into professional development are wasted if we can’t measure their success,” she said.

Jay Cabrera stands outside Gunn High School, from which he graduated.

Jay Cabrera Age: 34 Education: Bachelor’s in environmental science and biology from University of California, Santa Cruz Current occupation: Executive director of Community LIFE Network Family: Parents, both Stanford University professors, with whom he lives Favorite book: “Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide” by a team of astronomers and science writers Campaign website: jaycan.us

s the only non-parent candidate and product of the Palo Alto Unified School District, Jay Cabrera has billed himself as a board outsider who brings a fresh, alternative perspective to the issues facing the district. And he wants to stay that way. He said he’s made a point of not attending any board meetings and has criticized the limitations of those meetings’ structure, advocating for online voting and other technologies that will allow the public to further interact with the board. “I’m really a supporter in initiating and bringing our governance structures of our community into the 21st century and utilizing technology for decision making,” he said at the debate on Sept. 16. “The key word is ‘interactivity.’ I am dedicated to putting every single decision and every single issue online and allowing the community to interact and vote on issues to make sure there’s a direct conduit (to the community).” Cabrera grew up in Palo Alto, attending Nixon Elementary School, Jane Lathrop Stanford (JLS) Middle School and Gunn High School. After graduating from Gunn in 1998, he attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied environmental science and biology, was elected to student government and

worked on sustainability issues. He currently works as executive director of Community LIFE Foundation, a nonprofit whose main program teaches students poetry and video-production skills. Cabrera’s political career has included numerous runs for public office — including for mayor of San Francisco, mayor of Santa Cruz and California Assembly. He was unsuccessful in those campaigns but said he’s maintained a common thread throughout all of them: a push to use technology to improve community participation, encourage transparent governance and enhance education. Cabrera has criticized the board’s current procedures for interacting with the community — namely, its biweekly meetings at which board members speak and those who are able to attend listen. “I feel that the systems that are currently (used) really centralize power, not only just in the board itself but in the space where the board exists, being two-hour meetings (every other) week,” he said. “The people who show up to that space are, the best way to describe them would be ‘insiders.’ So there’s this inside circle of people who go to all the board meetings and really know every(continued on page 35)

VIDEOS ONLINE Watch the candidates Interviews by the editorial board of the Palo Alto Weekly with each of the five school board candidates have been video-recorded and posted on PaloAltoOnline.com and YouTube.com/ paweekly. Each video is about 45 minutes and covers a range of issues. Page 32 • October 3, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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10 questions: where the candidates stand What should the district do about the Cubberley Community Center site (4000 Middlefield Road)?

language instruction for both its academic and cultural benefits. She would create a five-year plan for how to get foreign language in all elementary schools.

DAUBER has identified foreign languages in elementary schools as a priority during JAY CABRERA suggests “redoing Cubberley from the ground up” based on a mixed-education model, with spaces for elementary, middle and high school students. Since Foothill College already has a presence there, there could also be a collegeprep program for high school students. Investing in revamping Cubberley is one of his top three budget priorities.

GINA DALMA would immediately implement a community needs assessment for Cubberley, make sure the lease is renewed for five years and “use those five years to ensure that we’re building a community vision for that space that includes a high school and co-location of services that the community wants.” She thinks the district should be building a close partnership with the city to develop a forwardthinking, long-term vision for Cubberley. She said the $1.8 million payment to the district from the city as part of the 1989 covenant not to develop — an agreement the city opposes renewing and the district favors — “might be something that’s slowing things down.” KEN DAUBER said he is “committed to producing clarity for the city” on Cubberley. “Whether we can be clear about when we’re going to do school construction at this point, I don’t think so. But ... we can develop a plan with the city that says, ‘Here’s what we are going to reserve for school use; here’s land that we think would make sense as a community center; here’s joint use.’” He said the covenant not to develop — the sticking point in negotiations between the district and city — “clearly reflects realities that are no longer there” and that both the district and city need to be more flexible on the issue.

his campaign. He has advocated cutting spending on legal fees and public relations as well as making more realistic budget projections to free up the money for “something as impactful and important as foreign language.”

FOSTER has said investing in innovation, including foreign language in elementary schools, is one of her top budget priorities. “I’ve heard again and again talking to people in this community that they want (foreign language in elementary schools). ... Our budget should follow our priorities as a community, and it should follow our values,” she said.

GODFREY served on the Foreign Language Elementary School (FLES) advisory committee in 2007 and 2008 to launch a program, which the board failed to approve. She said the financial picture was too grim at the time to move ahead but that it seems like an “obvious fit” for the district and should get done now.

Should the board repeal its June resolution criticizing the Office for Civil Rights? CABRERA has said he would repeal the resolution and that his priorities as a board member would be to increase collaboration and transparency. DALMA thinks the district needs to change course on its relationship with the

ask for a community needs assessment to determine the best use of the property. “We need to act on it and make some decisions,” she said. “The game of chicken needs to end. Just saying, ‘Well, (the terms of the lease are) going to roll forward if we just let it expire,’ — that doesn’t seem to me to be leadership.” She said the district should clearly say that it will need Cubberley within 10 years. It could be repurposed as a school and community facility with a design lab, internships and other programs.

Office for Civil Rights and would vote to repeal the resolution. “We will not be able to build a relationship with the OCR ... with a standing resolution that clearly states that the OCR is ‘purposefully confrontational and disruptive and with no regards to instruction,’ that it acts ‘with the intention to promote confusion and concern,’ that ‘questions the integrity and honesty of the lawyers of the OCR,’” she said at last week’s board meeting. “These words connote confrontation, not collaboration.”

TERRY GODFREY said she’s hopeful with new leadership in the district and on the

DAUBER has been a vocal critic of the resolution since before the campaign and

City Council, these negotiations can move forward.

is committed to repealing it. He thinks getting the district on the right path with its special-education families starts with getting on the right path with civil rights, which means collaborating with rather than fighting the federal agency. He has also criticized the amount of money the district has spent on Office for Civil Rightsrelated legal issues.

CATHERINE CRYSTAL FOSTER calls Cubberley a “jewel” and said she would

Should the district open a 13th elementary school? CABRERA supports opening a 13th elementary school. DALMA has said that the district “obviously” needs a new elementary school. In Palo Alto, “We’ve had a very, very short-term vision, and we haven’t made decisions very forward thinking,” she said, adding that the district needs to create a five-to-10-year facilities plan to better prepare.

DAUBER has repeatedly stated his support and the urgent need for opening a new elementary school. He has said that over the last 20 years, the average size of Palo Alto’s elementary schools has gone up by a third, yet the district has only opened one new elementary (Barron Park in 1998). He said research shows the optimum size for an elementary school is between 300 and 400 students, but only two of the district’s primary schools have populations that small.

FOSTER has said she would repeal the resolution if the allegations made against the Office for Civil Rights are not true. She has said she is “troubled” by the allegations but that there is not enough information publicly available to know whether they are true. She said at the first debate she would have voted for the resolution, albeit reluctantly and only if the allegations in the resolution are true. “We need to cooperate absolutely, fully and completely with the OCR, but to the extent that we see an issue of concern, I think that all of us share the concern (that) we want that agency to be functioning as well as it can.” She has also said she “does not support expending district funds to engage in a fight with OCR, period.”

GODFREY has said if she had been on the board, she would not have supported the resolution. She has not said if she would repeal the resolution but instead has suggested the district propose participating in a post-mortem with the federal agency to evaluate and learn from both of their processes. Her reading of the resolution is that it authorizes the board to lobby elected officials and education coalitions, a process Godfrey said should not have to include lawyers and “can be a collaborative approach to giving the agency feedback.”

FOSTER said the discussion around the need for a 13th elementary school should consider the future of Cubberley and other facility decisions. She said that ideally a new elementary school would open within three years. GODFREY is supportive of opening a new elementary school but said she would rather invest money in foreign-language instruction in elementary schools if she had to choose between the two.

Your opinion of district versus school-site decision-making? CABRERA strongly supports school autonomy and thinks decisions made by the

Should foreign-language instruction be provided in elementary school?

board should be a 50-50 collaboration with schools. If schools need resources to implement their plans, it’s the board’s responsibility to see that resources are provided. If the board wants schools to implement a program, the board has a responsibility to “prove” to the schools why and how they can do it.

DALMA thinks that programs, whether they’re site-specific or district-wide, should that the board “should find a way to make it happen in context of budget restrictions, and I feel there are ways to do that.”

be evaluated to make sure they are working well. Innovation comes at the very local level, but unless the district is documenting it, evaluating it and understanding what it means in terms of student achievement and whether it’s scalable, then innovation

DALMA, who was born in Mexico and is bilingual, supports increased foreign-

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CABRERA said that implementing foreign language at all levels is a “great idea” and

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measure achievement toward those goals through collecting data; and learn from what other districts are doing on inclusion.

DAUBER said the district has “some distance to go” on implementing and managing

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will only serve that specific set of kids, she said. Her bent is to prioritize services that help students reach their full social, emotional and academic potential and then “make sure that policies are applied throughout the system.”

DAUBER has said the district should make sure that its guiding philosophy actually is guiding the work of individual staff members and that it provides every child the best the district has to offer, no matter what school they go to or no matter which teacher they have. The key is evaluation. If there are inconsistent practices across the district, they should be evaluated for success, and the ones that are working should be propagated throughout the district.

FOSTER has said Palo Alto has a culture of autonomy of schools that has both a beauty and a cost. What works well is that it lets creativity and innovation bloom. What works less well is that can create a kind of inconsistency that can lead to concerns, and sometimes resentments, among students and families. If there are inefficiencies related to constantly reinventing the wheel, that points toward a need to change site-based autonomy, she said. On issues regarding student safety, health or legal mandates, it’s imperative that there be consistency across the district. GODFREY has said it is more important to her that programs have the same outcome than the programs themselves are identical. She has also repeatedly said that Palo Alto should make sure the thousands of decisions made every day remain closest to the students.

Your view on the district budget? CABRERA wants the budget to be more transparent and easily accessible online. He has also proposed cutting the district’s Basic Aid Reserve Fund cap from 10 percent to between 5 to 8 percent to free up money to “alleviate some of the strains that are coming up in the community” and classrooms.

DALMA has said she thinks the budget needs to be better aligned with the new state Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which obligates each school district to develop a Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). “The magic of these plans is it forces the school district to align exactly what expenditures are being made to achieve goals. ... The first thing I would make sure to do is to update the next season and take from January to April to evaluate it,” she said. She thinks investment in evaluation is key to figure out which programs aren’t having an impact and then to cut them.

inclusion effectively. He said in the 2014 Strategic Plan survey, 57 percent of teachers said they feel they need more professional development on special education to be effective in the classroom. He said he is encouraged by Superintendent Max McGee’s request that the district director of special education report directly to him. Monitoring and getting direct feedback from students, parents and teachers is also essential.

FOSTER also said inclusion works best when it is well-supported and there are case managers who clearly understand and communicate the goals for students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in general-education classrooms. She said in order to work, inclusion must also be a commitment shared by the whole school.

GODFREY said inclusion is really “meeting every student where they’re at,” and that is both a “beautiful thing and a challenge.” She said the board needs to make sure teachers are provided the time and resources necessary so that inclusion is “mak(ing) their job richer and not making their job harder.”

What would you do about the achievement gap? CABRERA attributes the district’s slow progress on closing the achievement gap to poor leadership. He also thinks “mini Strategic Plans” tailored to individual students would help because he sees the current Strategic Plan as too broad to make an impact.

DALMA said that “there has never been a real push to close the achievement gap” in Palo Alto. She advocates adding a specific Strategic Plan goal that says “in five to 10 years, we will close the achievement gap (and) 100 percent of our kids will be proficient.” She said she would look to other school districts that are doing better by their minority and low-income students and bring best practices back to Palo Alto. DAUBER is a strong advocate for using data to be more precise about where the district’s areas of strength and weakness are with respect to the achievement gap. He said he would provide the direction and resources necessary rather than to “generate pedagogical strategies.” FOSTER sees data and evaluation key to decreasing the achievement gap, which she called “a shame on our district.” She said high expectations for all students, professional development and a shared leadership commitment are all essential.

GODFREY has said a culture of high expectations is important, as well as equity training for teachers and staff and a focused recruitment of minority teachers.

DAUBER said he thinks the district uses an “overly conservative” property-tax

How is the district doing on managing student stress/well-being?

projection (2 percent), which “causes us to underestimate quite substantially our income when we’re formulating the budget. ... And the cost of that to the district is that ... we might well choose not to do things that we actually have the capacity to do and that the taxpayers of the community really have a right to expect us to do with those dollars.”

CABRERA said student mental health is “one of the most important issues we need to deal with as a community.” He thinks a system that rewards all students for all achievement — not just good grades or high test scores — would help.

FOSTER has said this is a time when the district needs to be “extremely prudent,”

DALMA has said there needs to be a community conversation about how Palo Alto

but “you don’t want to be so conservative that it inhibits you from being able to be a little bold and a little innovative when you need to be.” She said her first top priority is evaluation, followed by professional development, writing instruction and advances in innovation (not necessarily in that order).

defines success and that the community’s value system, along with parents and peer groups, contribute to student stress. “Success is that each and every one of our kids achieves their passion and reaches their social-emotional potential,” she said. Evaluation is the best way forward on student stress and mental health, and the homework policy in particular should be looked at and implemented more consistently.

GODFREY said her top budget priority would be looking at the budget itself “to figure out if we have the right resources in the right place doing the right job.” She has also called the current property-tax projections “conservative” and advocates for instead laying out various scenarios for different property-tax percentages so the district “know(s) where the next dollars are going to go and (is) prepared to spend them when the time comes.”

DAUBER has said issues around student stress and well-being are what first got him involved in schools. He worked to get the district’s homework policy adopted and has participated in Project Safety Net. He is not satisfied with the progress the district has made and points to the district’s failure to evaluate the implementation of the homework policy as an example. He would ask for more metrics, an evaluation of the homework policy and more work on coordinating test and project schedules.

Your view of the district’s implementation of inclusion programs?

FOSTER said she’s pleased to see the district making an effort to hire more staff to provide mental health support in schools, such as social workers. She suggested evaluating Adolescent Counseling Services’ impact to determine how well the nonprofit is addressing the needs of students.

CABRERA has said he’s not an expert on specific inclusion programs in Palo Alto

GODFREY, a co-founder of Project Safety Net, said that she thinks the stigma around mental health is starting to fade away — citing a recent increase in referrals reported by Adolescent Counseling Services — but that there is still a long way to go. Things like implementation of the homework policy will help, although it does not cover honors or AP classes and so is not perfect. Inconsistent teaching — for example, two students taking English 10 from different teachers, with one doing a lot of work and the other not doing much work — is also stressful for students, so investing in teacher consistency is important.

but that he brings “an open slate to listen to community needs” on the topic. He supports inclusion as a way of rethinking traditional models of education.

DALMA said that “we know that full inclusion is a best practice, but it assumes that a certain support system is in place. The more I talk to parents and teachers, that’s exactly where our school district has not done the best job.” She said she would invest in professional development to help students do a better job; set specific goals and Page 34 • October 3, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Your opinion of Common Core? CABRERA said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been told by Gunn High students that they feel completely prepared academically. What they need is realworld skills such as how to do taxes and how to get an apartment. Students in Palo Alto would greatly benefit from Common Core, but the board needs to make sure to assess it. DALMA, who is on a national steering committee working on Common Core implementation, has said Common Core is the single most important education reform in several decades for California. She lauds the new standards but has warned Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transition to them is a long-term commitment and requires a push toward more professional development, education technology and formative assessments. FOSTER is excited about Common Core as an opportunity for Palo Alto to dig deeper on critical learning and teaching. She said data from past programs such as Everyday Math should also inform the roll-out of Common Core adoption. DAUBER is an enthusiastic supporter of the new state standards. For Palo Alto the Common Core is consistent with what families want for their kids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to think critically, synthesize information and reach across disciplines. He has cautioned that the district should pay attention to the Common Core-produced gap in student assessment, since a new standardized test was piloted last academic year but results were not released.

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GODFREY said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a supporter of Common Core, describing it as the first federal curriculum standards in decades. Some of its components are not new: Palo Alto has always had a lot of interplay between teachers and students. As far as testing, the district needs to keep on track and know how students are doing so that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepared when Common Core-aligned test debuts. Overall, teachers are enthusiastic about Common Core, and the district has done a good job giving them the time and space to prepare, she said. Q

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thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on there. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve chosen not to attend board meetings at this point in time partly for that reason.â&#x20AC;? Cabrera has also pointed to flawed leadership as the cause for many problems that plague the district, such as the achievement gap and lack of support for special-education students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that the primary thing to acknowledge as someone running for school board is that the current school board and, in many ways, current people running for school board are not the people who need to be in power to fix this,â&#x20AC;? Cabrera said in reference to the achievement gap at the Sept. 20 debate hosted by parents of students of color and students with special needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to empower people who are of the demographics and of the community who need to make the changes. ... That means that, as a school board, our goal needs to be to provide the resources and funding and staff to empower leaders in our community.â&#x20AC;? On the topic of resources, Cabrera has repeatedly advocated that the district lower its budget reserve cap from 10 percent to between 5 to 8 percent of the budget. Unused funds should be going back to the classroom, he says, and could help to reduce class size and pay for innovations such as incorporating coding into curriculum. Cabrera supports the introduc-

tion of coding instruction into schools as a way to better prepare students who will enter a rapidly evolving workforce â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and says that should be a no brainer for a school district located in the heart of Silicon Valley. He said if elected, he would institute a process to analyze the feasibility of adding coding into Palo Alto schools. On the question of school autonomy, Cabrera said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support a top-down approach and that ideas for programs to implement district-wide should come from the community rather than the board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ... feel that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healthy to have different cultures at different schools and for the schools to function slightly differently,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it efficient? Is it the best for budget, tracking, all that stuff? Possibly not. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possibly not the most efficient, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re human beings. I feel like the human touch of wanting a personality and wanting to be different is more important than everything to be machine-like.â&#x20AC;? He said in light of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge range of programs and policies, from dress code and handbooks to counseling systems and cheating policies, spreading best practices should be done on a case-by-case basis. Like the other candidates, he said it is important to have comparable outcomes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for example, that Gunn and Palo Alto High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s differing counseling programs remain individualized but are held to the same standard for producing results. Q

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Living Well tions with people who know you and can judge your abilities, your mental acuity, your reaction times and things like that. It’s not an easy conversation for adult children to have with their parents.” In Palo Alto, police make referrals to the DMV for re-testing about once a month, Perron said. “It’s an officer filling out a form and saying, ‘We have concerns about that person’s ability to safely drive their vehicle.’ It requires them to go back to the DMV and basically pass a driving test in order to retain their license. “It’s not a common occurrence,” Perron said. “The age of the driver is not determinative whatsoever.” At Avenidas, Wolfson said, “People worry about sinking into severe depression if they can no longer drive. Our job is to provide resources so that does not happen.” Speakers and panelists at the (continued on page 38

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“Accidents can happen to any of us, but why not look at what’s preventable?” A decision to stop driving is about an individual’s fitness to drive, regardless of age, said Wolfson, who frequently counsels seniors and their adult children grappling with driving issues. A common piece of advice is the “40/70 rule” — that adult children reaching 40 should raise the topic with parents approaching 70, she said. But Wolfson believes the discussions should begin even earlier. Families should consider agreeing on “advanced driving directives” just as they discuss and formalize plans for health care or finances in the event of incapacitation. “If we do it with health care and finances because we worry about being incompetent at some time and wanting to protect our loved ones, it makes sense for driving, too,” Wolfson said. “We can’t hurt other people with our health care decisions, but driving decision-making is significant and a car is a lethal weapon.” With an increasing population of older drivers locally, “there needs to be a cultural attitude change, and everybody needs to do this,” Wolfson said. “We so easily embraced the ‘Friends don’t let friends drive drunk’ campaign. If we take away the word ‘drunk’ we need to replace it with something else.” Eighty-seven-year-old Menlo Park resident George, who asked that his last name not be disclosed, climbs into his Ford Explorer every morning to drive to a standing 7 a.m. breakfast at the home of his adopted daughter in San Carlos. George also drives regularly to art and physical-education classes in Redwood City and to watch tennis matches at several local venues. “It would be like I’m in jail if I can’t drive,” said George, a retired business owner who is considering moving to an assistedliving facility to be closer to the adopted daughter, Amy Weishaar. “But I’m thinking ... the worst thing that could happen to me is to hit somebody or hurt them.” George recently got a near-perfect score on a written DMV renewal test, extending his license into his 90s. He was not required to take a behind-the-wheel test. “George thinks he drives OK, and he does drive OK, but he’s slower,” Weishaar said. Palo Alto Police Lt. Zach Perron said accidents across the country, including the July 31 incident in Palo Alto, “in which there’ve been serious-injury collisions as a result of people who shouldn’t be driving any more, have created a ripe environment” for conversations about senior driving safety. “You can be the most with-it, sharp person, but sometimes you lose just a little bit,” Perron said. “It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be driving, but it does mean you should be having the conversa-

Bill Freedman, center, walks back to his daughter Francesca’s car after shopping at Crystal Springs Produce in San Mateo. He allowed his driver’s license to lapse two years ago.

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Oct. 23 forum will include Wolfson; Rosemary Robles of the DMV; mediation specialist Jack Hamilton of Learn2Resolve; neuropsychologist Sam Gontkovsky of Cognitive Therapeutics; transportation specialist Phil Endliss of Avenidas; City of Palo Alto police and fire officials; Elizabeth Edgerly, chief program officer of Alzheimer’s Association; and Barbara Kalt, director of Rosener House. The event, which will be from 3 to 5 p.m., is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To reserve, call 650-2895400. Q Contributing writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

Senior Focus COMBATING ISOLATION ... The 140 low-income seniors residing at Stevenson House in Palo Alto face losing their week-night community dinners due to restrictions on the tax credits being used to finance renovations to the 46-year-old apartment complex on Charleston Road. Executive Director Tom Pamilla and residents Mimi Goodrich and May Ong are appealing to the larger Palo Alto community to help make up the program’s $8,334 monthly deficit. “My big concern is that if the meal program goes away, so does the socialization, camaraderie, meeting each other and getting out of isolation,” Pamilla said. “The meals also give me a chance to walk through the dining room and see who’s not there and why, or if somebody looks sad. It’s amazing what you can do with a hug, a smile or a ‘how are you?’ I’m worried about losing one of the few things we have to get people out of their isolation to meet other people.” To help, contact Stevenson House at 650-494-1944 or mail a check to Stevenson House at 455 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306-4231.

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JUST FOR CAREGIVERS ... How and why we become stressed and how to develop resilience are two themes to be addressed at the Eleventh Annual Caregiver Conference, set for Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Mountain View Senior Center. Participants will be able to attend a range of sessions on topics including memory loss, advocacy, legal and financial planning, conservatorship, hospice and palliative care, respite and unacknowledged grief. This day-long event, which includes refreshments and a box lunch, is cosponsored by Avenidas, the City of Mountain View and Home Instead Senior Care. Registration after Oct. 3 is $45. For information, call Monica at 650-289-5445. To register, go to avenidas.org/activities/conferencesevents/caregiver-conference.

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Home&Real Estate Home Front GRASSES AND MORE ... UC Master Gardeners will give a free talk on “Ornamental Grasses, Sedges and Rushes” from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto. Info: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org COMMUNITY DAY ... Gamble Garden will open to the community from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5, with children’s activities (flower arranging, story times at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., magic shows at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.), a plant sale, garden demonstrations, food and entertainment. UC Master Gardeners will be on hand to field questions. The event is free. Info: 650-329-1356 or gamblegarden.org ARTS & OLIVES ... The 17th annual Arts & Olives Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5, at Cañada College, 4200 Farmhill Blvd., Woodside. Events include chef demonstrations by Steve Cortez at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.; a Home Cured Olive Workshop by Don Landis at 1 p.m.; Kids’ Corner with face painting, marionettes and storytelling throughout the day. Admission is free but a $5 donation is suggested; donations benefit the Cañada College scholarship fund. Info: olivefest.com LOOKING AHEAD ... Mimi Clarke, former Filoli lead horticulturist and owner of Fiddle Fern Landscaping, will teach a class called “Fall Planting for Spring Color” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. The hands-on workshop will include tricks for selecting and planting spring pots and beds; each participant will plant a pot of annuals to take home. Cost (including all materials) is $60 for nonmembers, $50 for members. Info: 650-364-8300 or filoli.org FALL ARRANGING ... Gamble Garden will offer “Fall Arranging from the Garden with Joan Sanders” from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, at an Atherton home (address supplied after registration). Sanders, who studied flower arranging with Virginia Farewell for 25 years, was instrumental in starting the floral design program at Filoli. She will talk about which plants work best for arranging and then demonstrate how to use them in fall arrangements. Cost is $35 for nonmembers, $25 for members. Info: 650-329-1356 or gamblegarden.org Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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Garden Tips Enjoy the garden when fall chores are done by Jack McKinnon

hat is better than to sit in your garden eating sun-dried tomatoes (that you dried), marinated artichokes, good bread, some nice cheese, fruit and an Italian soda or fine wine while enjoying the company of friends and family? Here is what is better: doing all of the above after your fall garden work is finally complete. Yes, I know, it is a lot of work and you need to rest from working all week long, but think how good it will be when finished. And you don’t have to do it all at once. A little bit each day with one bigger project on the weekends and before you know it, you’re there. 1. Clean up debris around your property. If you are not using it, let it go. Either recycle it, use it or ditch it. Looking at old brick, pipe and wood, rock, brick unused pots and pplanters saps creativity. Let one’s gardening cr it go and get on with wi new projects. plants that are 2. Pull out pla season. If you finished for the se have plants ha that are dead th oor dying, unlless they are pparticularly valuable sp eci men plants,

HOME SALES

Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

Los Altos

4388 El Camino Real #336 S. & A. Lew to Kao Trust for $988,000 on 9/11/14; previous sale 4/10, $600,000 2081 Huntington Lane Summers Trust to R. & W. Scheiter for $2,350,000 on 9/9/14 1218 Thurston Ave. B. Franco to A. Li for $2,500,000 on 9/11/14; previous sale 7/07, $1,816,000

dig them out and toss them. The nurseries have plenty of selection to replace them with. 3. Clean up leaves, needles, spent flowers and fruit, and replace them all with a fresh layer of mulch. If you are replanting, dig in fresh compost to freshen up your soil. Remember, compost gets dug into the soil and mulch goes on top. 4. Plant for winter and think about spring while you are doing it. After you renovate your beds and refresh your pots with new soil, plant bulbs and then over plant them with primula, cineraria, pansies and violas. When this is done, mulch them and start a regular watering program. 5. Watering is a year-round project. Even if it is raining it is important to monitor your garden soil to make sure your plants are getting enough water. A one-hour rain might only soak in a few inches depending on your soil type. If your plant’s roots are a foot or more down this is not enough. 6. Renovate lawns this month using an aerator and a thatching machine. The aerator takes plugs from your lawns soil and allows air, water and fertilizer down to the root zone. The thatching machine lifts the old thatch out of your lawn allowing the grass plants room to grow while removing fungus habitat. 7. Decorate for the fall by bundling corn

SALES AT A GLANCE Los Altos Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $988,000 Highest sales price: $2,500,000

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,550,000 Highest sales price: $3,550,000

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,010,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000

Menlo Park

1040 Berkeley Ave. M. Lashlee to P. & Y. Chang for $1,010,000 on 8/28/14; previous sale 12/05, $675,000 200 Hanna Way Field Trust to D. Zhao for $3,700,000 on 8/28/14 427 Oak Court I. Salceda to R. Murff for $1,900,000 on 8/28/14; previous sale 5/06, $1,210,000 1054 Ringwood Ave. J. & N. Raff to Sripadham Trust for $1,671,000 on 8/28/14; previous sale 12/93, $248,000

Mountain View

439 Beaume Court L. & G. Otts to K.

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Mountain View Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $549,000 Highest sales price: $2,066,000

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $1,700,000 Highest sales price: $3,600,000

Redwood City Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $280,000 Highest sales price: $1,300,000 Source: California REsource

Los Altos Hills

12200 Winton Way S. Waldbusser to R. & C. Cairns for $3,550,000 on 9/9/14; previous sale 2/00, $1,650,000

stalks for your front porch. Bundles of grain work nicely in dried-flower arrangements. Put dried corn, gourds, mini pumpkins and straw in decorative baskets for a harvest look. 8. Make a haunted yard for Halloween by hanging plastic bats or mini pumpkins from a tree. Some friends have a witch, plastic spiders, webbing, eerie lighting and a spooky soundtrack piping weird voices to unwary trick-or-treaters. 9. Plant winter vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, garlic, onions and peas. Keep your lettuce supply going by reseeding new plants when the old ones go to flower. There is little reason for not having table greens all year round. 10. It is time for harvest parties. In between showers the garden is really the best place to sit and entertain. Now that you have everything cleaned up and replanted, why not share your yard with friends and family? Good gardening. Q Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at 650-455-0687, by email at jack. mckinnon.hmb@gmail.com. Visit his website at jackthegardencoach.com.

Jenkins for $870,000 on 9/10/14; previous sale 11/88, $187,500 3370 Brower Ave. Hau Trust to J. Lim for $2,066,000 on 9/11/14; previous sale 2/12, $1,250,000 900 Camille Lane L. Sun to G. Wittel for $1,280,000 on 9/9/14; previous sale 8/09, $812,000 512 Chesley Ave. M. Steele to B. & V. Mukherjee for $2,000,000 on 9/10/14 526 Chesley Court N. & Y. Ono to M. Bharwani for $1,820,000 on 9/10/14; previous sale 6/90, $505,000 1745 Hackett Ave. R. & G. Gracida to S. & U. Sanagala for $865,000 on 9/9/14 453 N. Rengstorff Ave. #21 R. Gooch to M. Bellamy for $549,000 on 9/9/14;

previous sale 1/05, $375,000

Palo Alto

1473 Dana Ave. Haley Trust to Jade Villa Holdings for $3,600,000 on 9/10/14 2938 Ross Road J. & K. Tang to J. Teng for $1,700,000 on 9/8/14; previous sale 12/93, $304,000

Redwood City

752 Charter St. Noriega Trust to B. Moore for $605,000 on 8/28/14 4028 Farm Hill Blvd. #3 S. Hummer to M. Cassani for $665,000 on 8/28/14; previous sale 6/85, $126,000 2731 Marlborough Ave. Nandha Trust to A. Torres for $280,000 on 8/28/14 350 Quay Lane A. Subba to J. Wan for

$1,300,000 on 8/27/14; previous sale 2/97, $315,000 631 True Wind Way #209 One Marina Homes to C. Morris for $820,000 on 8/28/14

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

731 Charleston Road re-roof, $13,990 3408 Hillview Ave. full compliance on accessible ramps, landings and parking, $n/a 2471 Ramona St. new aluminum louvered patio cover attached to existing deck, $6,000 2295 Williams St. replace 12 windows, $7,086 925 Loma Verde Ave. eliminate bathroom, add master bath, add 26 sf at entry, add 25K BTU gas insert, $n/a 150 Middlefield Road bring to compliance illegally converted garage, $8,500 2171 Byron St. remodel bathroom, $12,000 3316 Kenneth Drive re-roof, $20,000 3943 Grove Ave. install roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 891 Rorke Way re-roof, $10,319 3000 El Camino Real Bldg. 3, Suite 130: tenant improvement, including changes to exterior storefront, $145,000 772 Southampton Drive install Level 2 electrical-vehicle charging station at side of house, $n/a 552 Tennyson Ave. replace stucco on entire house, replace windows, $55,000 2250 Webster St. replace posts at sun room and re-roof sun room, $2,500

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Offered at $2,750,000 Details of the house • 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths with option for a 4th bedroom • Approximately 3,988 square feet (not including 3-car garage or basement) • Six fireplaces and ambient lighting throughout • Living room with impressive window bench seat and fireplace • Grand dining room with buffet hutch, suitable for seating many guests • Kitchen with Thermador double oven, 5-burner cooktop with pot filler and high-capacity ventilation, separate full-sized Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer, 2 dishwashers, warming drawer, multiple pantries, counter seating, and discreet builtin vacuum for quick clean ups • Bonus finished basement used as a home theater with 14-foot projection screen, 5.1 surround sound speakers, and acoustic walls. (Not included in square footage.)

• Quality construction with pier and grade-beam foundation, floating hardwood flooring, deep baseboards, and cedar, marble, and granite finishes • Other features include mudroom, dumb waiter, easy-manage refuse and recycle system, central vacuum, whole-house fan, fire sprinklers, innovative technology, and structured wiring throughout, including fiber-optics ready • Lot size approximately 37,000 square feet • 20’ x 40’ swimming pool with surrounding gate and hydraulic cover plus outdoor dining patio • Walking distance to Los Altos Country Club and Rancho San Antonio Open Space • Top schools: Loyola Elementary, Blach Middle, and Mountain View High www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 3, 2014 • Page 41

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12100 OLD SNAKEY ROAD

R. BRENDAN

LOS ALTOS HILLS

LEARY

LIST PRICE $6,495,000

CalBRE# 00640599

OPEN HOUSE FRI 9:30-1:00PM & SUN 1:30-4:30PM Private and tranquil Mediterranean-style estate with four generously sized bedrooms, a fifth media- guest room, five spacious bathrooms, two-car garage, boasts award-winning landscaping and spectacular views. Floor plan is functional in design and exquisitely appointed with a stunning entry, featuring hand-painted vaulted ceilings, a chef’s kitchen with butler’s pantry that opens onto the family room, and a grand outdoor entertaining area with fireplace and fire pit, granite counters, and travertine terrace. Modern technologies include state-ofthe-art home automation system. Fabulous setting is at close proximity to town, yet remains refreshingly calm and quiet, with fruit and vegetable garden, and a vineyard of 205 cabernet vines capable of producing approximately 400 bottles of wine each year. Approved plans from the town of Los Altos Hills for a pool. Available to view individually by appointment only.

Additional Pictures at www.tourfactory.com/1221832 For more information call your real estate agent or Brendan Leary

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2282 COLUMBIA ST., PALO ALTO Exquisitely Restored and Renovated 1890’s Victorian. A Labor of Love Executed to Perfection

Old world charm, character, and craftsmanship • Four spacious bedrooms – Master suite with private balcony • Three full bathrooms – Newly built with quality and class • Stunning chef’s kitchen with top of the line appliances, marble countertops, and cozy breakfast nook • Light-filled formal living room • Separate dining room with fireplace • Grand formal entry

• Large family room right off the kitchen • High ceilings and large windows yield abundant light • Loads of period details restored to perfection • Large beautiful landscaped backyard • Excellent Palo Alto Schools • 2,860 sq. feet living space approx. • 7,625 sq. foot lot approx.

OFFERED AT $3,599,000

LISTED BY Timothy Foy

DRE# 00849721

Cell: 650.387.5078

Tim@midtownpaloalto.com

Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

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New .REALTOR Top-Level Domain Available to REALTORS The National Association of REALTORSÂŽ (NAR) has announced that the new .REALTOR top-level domain will be available on Oct. 23 to members of NAR and the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). The branded .Realtor domain will make it easier for home buyers, sellers and investors to locate a trusted valued source of real estate information, resources and services online. With the Internet undergoing vast changes, the creation of over 1,900 new top-level domains, and with nine out of 10 recent buyers beginning their home search online, it has become even more critical for REALTORSÂŽ to create a branded space online. Silicon Valley Association of REALTORSÂŽ (SILVAR) President David Tonna said the top-level domain is an opportunity for REALTORSÂŽ to stand apart from other real estate agents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People use the terms REALTORÂŽ and real estate agent interchangeably, but they are not the same. Although both are licensed to sell real estate, a REALTORÂŽ is a member of the National Association of REALTORSÂŽ and must subscribe to the REALTORÂŽ Code of Ethics. As such, a REALTORÂŽ is held to an even higher standard of conduct than other

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Paciﬁc Union salutes and supports our real estate professionals’ chosen charities

Tom LeMieux supports EPATT, the game-changing after-school tennis and tutoring program

Saluting Allied Arts Guild Bay Area Lyme Foundation Bayshore Christian Ministries Bridgemont School Bring Me a Book Foundation Charles Armstrong School Children’s Health Council City Team Ministrieis Collective Roots Costano School Deborah’s Palm Eastside College Preparatory School Ecumenical Hunger

EPATT Filoli Humane Society of the Silicon Valley Las Lomitas Elementary School District Lucille Packard Foundation Maple Street Homeless Shelter Menlo Charity Horse Show Menlo Park Atherton Education Foundation Menlo Park Presbyterian Church Morrissey Compton Educational Center, Inc. Music@Menlo National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy One Million Lights

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Palo Alto Partners in Education Peninsula High School Peninsula Volunteers Inc, Rosener House Pets in Need Phillips Brooks School Ravenswood Education Foundation Ronald McDonald House at Stanford Second Harvest Food Bank Sequoia Hospital Foundation St Anthony’s Padua Dining Room Stanford Buck/Cardinal Club Village Enterprise Fund

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Palo Alto 4173 El Camino Real #46 Located within a park-like complex, this threestory townhome is enhanced by hardwood floors, sparkling windows, high ceilings, and multiple balconies. • Formal entry with inside access to the two-car garage

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 1:30 – 4:30 PM

• Ground-floor bedroom has en suite full bath and access to a private patio • Living room/dining room with hardwood floors, gas-log fireplace, and west-facing balcony • Eat-in kitchen has black granite counters and stainless steel appliances • Second-story laundry room and powder room • Third-story master bedroom features a gas-log fireplace and two closets • En suite master bath offers an oversized tub, stall shower, dual sinks, and enclosed commode • Additional third-story bedroom has a double closet and en suite full bath • The park-like complex surrounds a fenced and gated central swimming pool • Award-winning Palo Alto schools

Offered at $1,250,000 www.4173ElCamino46.com

650.888.0846 bonnie.biorn@cbnorcal.com www.BonnieBiorn.com CalBRE# 01085834

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251 Tennyson, Palo Alto Open Saturday & Sunday 1:30-4:30

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Offered at $5,980,000

TERRIE MASUDA 650.917.7969

terrie@terriemasuda.com www.terriemasuda.com CalBRE #00951976

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2040 TASSO STREET, PALO A LTO

OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 utstanding Old Palo Alto location on quiet 2-block stretch of picturesque Tasso Street provides the setting for this contemporary 5 bedroom/4 bath home with bold architectural design that includes soaring vaulted ceilings and a spacious great room with a wall of windows and doors framing views of the attractively landscaped private garden.

The heart of the home is the great room that includes a recently remodeled kitchen with sleek stone counters complemented by stainless appliances. The family room has a wall of convenient built-in cabinetry to accommodate audio-visual components. French doors open to the sunny garden area and outdoor living space with a built-in barbeque and spa. The separate living room features dramatic vaulted ceilings, fireplace and French doors leading to an entry garden. The large lower-level bedroom with sitting area and an adjoining bath has French doors that open to a private sheltered patio. There are 4-upstairs bedrooms, including the master suite with two walls of windows and peaceful treetop views and a balcony overlooking the garden. The master bath has both a tub and shower and rich stone finishes. A detached studio offers flexible use. The home is just 7 blocks to Walter Hays Elementary and 3 blocks to Jordan Middle School.

Lot Size: 10,230 sq. ft., (Per County records, unveriﬁed) Living Area: 3,260 sq. ft.

(Per appraiser Kimberly Townsend, unveriﬁed)

Detached Studio: 370 sq. ft. (Per appraiser Kimberly Townsend, unveriﬁed)

Co-listing with: Lily Lew Sales Associate CalBRE#: 00968244 San Francisco Lakeside 2633 Ocean Ave San Francisco, CA 94132 Direct: (415) 276-6889 Ofﬁce: (415) 334-1880 lily.lew@cbnorcal.com

Offered at $6,800,000

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October 11, 2014

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2091 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto Offered at $3,988,000 Elegant Home in Evergreen Park 5 bedroom, 4 bath home of 4,372 sq. ft. (per county) on a 7,500 sq. ft. lot (per county). Elegant crown molding, recessed lights, and gleaming hardwood floors. Sunken living room shares a two-sided fireplace with the formal dining room. Office with built-in desks and a full bath can easily be converted into a 6th bedroom. Chef ’s kitchen features an exposed beam ceiling, beautiful cabinetry, granite countertops, large center island, La Cornue 5-burner professional cook top with pot filler, professional Kitchen Aid refrigerator, and dual Thermador ovens. Off the kitchen is the sunroom. Upstairs are three bedrooms, including the master suite. On the lower level are two bedrooms, a recreation room with access to the stunning backyard, library with wainscoting, and laundry center. Nearby are Peers Park, Stanford University, and the shops and restaurants on California Avenue. Escondido Elementary (API 927), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify enrollment). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.2091Park.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

Mi h l Repka R k Michael CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes Served

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$3,580,000

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CHIC DOWNTOWN HOME BY ARCHITECT DAVID SOLNICK 227 WEBSTER STREET, PALO ALTO 227WEBSTER.COM OVERVIEW

STEVE PIERCE

ADAM TOUNI

WENDY KANDASAMY

650 533 7006 spierce@zanemac.com CalBRE# 00871571

650 336 8530 atouni@zanemac.com CalBRE# 01880106

650 380 0220 wendy@zanemac.com CalBRE# 01425837

Great Room 4 Bedrooms 2.5 Bathrooms AMENITIES High Ceilings Abundant Light Peaceful Courtyard NUMBERS House: 2,370 Sq Ft Lot: 5,628 Sq Ft SCHOOLS Addison Elementary Jordan Middle Palo Alto High

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1820 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $1,888,000 Charming Home in Duveneck/St. Francis 4 bedroom, 3 bath home of 1,918 sq. ft. (per county) on a lot of 5,830 sq. ft. (per county), complete with a gated driveway, double-paned windows, crown molding, new oak hardwood floors throughout, and countless designer details. Living room features oversized windows on two sides, and a fireplace with Carrara porcelain tiles, imported from Spain. Chef ’s kitchen offers Carrera quartz stone slab countertops, and all new high quality cabinetry, fixtures, and appliances. First floor bedroom suite includes a bath finished with wainscoting, marble basketweave mosaic tiles, and crystal-white quartz surround in the shower. Beautifully appointed grand master suite is upstairs. Lush lawns, weeping birches, Japanese Maple, and fruitful guava and lime trees. Nearby are Eleanor Pardee Park, Edgewood Shopping Center, and access to Highway 101. Duveneck Elementary (API 956), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify enrollment). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1820Channing.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka Mi h lR k CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes Served

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531 POPE STREET MENLO PARK New construction featuring stunning 21st Century style and amenities Pb]^&ieZgd pabm^ hZd aZk]phh] Ühhkl Walls of glass Huge Great Room Euro-style Kitchen Four Bedrooms Three Full Bathrooms Interior Space: 2,772 sq. ft. Lot size: 8,400 sq. ft.

OFFERED AT $2,595,000

Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

MICHAEL HALL 650.465.1651 ■ mhall@apr.com www.MichaelHallHomes.com CalBRE# 01133676

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TRICIA SOLIZ 650.833.9442 ■ tsoliz@apr.com www.TriciaSolizHomes.com CalBRE# 01836700

612 Palo Alto Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $998,000 Charming Home in Downtown North 2 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,033 sq. ft. (per county) on a 1,990 sq. ft. lot (per county), complete with a white picket fence and greenbelt views. This charming home is ideally located a stone’s throw away from Hopkins Creekside Park, on a quiet and beautiful tree-lined street in the convenient Downtown North neighborhood of Palo Alto. Leading up to the front portico is a natural stone path. Inside, forming the heart of the home, are the living room, office space, kitchen, and dining area. The vibrant landscaping includes flowering rose bushes, hydrangeas, new plantings, and a lush natural arbor. Nearby are the great restaurants and shops of downtown Palo Alto, Johnson Park, and top schools. Addison Elementary School (API 947), Jordan Middle School (API 934), and Palo Alto High School (API 905) (buyer to verify enrollment). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.612PaloAltoAve.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

Mi h l Repka R k Michael CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes Served

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ocated in sought-after Crescent Park, this classic Spanish Colonial Revival home combines the aesthetics of an earlier era with accomplished modern luxury. Extensively remodeled in 2011, the original fine craftsmanship, designed by renowned architects Frederick Confer and Morgan Stedman, and appeal have been respectfully preserved. Lush, manicured, wrap-around yard with stately palm trees and redwoods in a private setting; landscape design by Leslie Kiler. This home offers approx. 5000 sq. ft of living space that sets on a 15,107 sq ft lot.

ARTI MIGLANI 650.804.6942 amiglani@apr.com www.ArtiMiglani.com CalBRE# 01150085

UMANG SANCHORAWALA 650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com www.UmangHomes.com CalBRE# 01471341

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OPEN Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm 6ɈLYLK H[ PALO ALTO 578 Uni ver sity Avenue 650.323.1111

4252 Newberry Court, Palo Alto Offered at $1,488,000 Cul-de-sac Home in Charleston Meadows 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,373 sq. ft. (per county) on a pie-shaped lot of 8,400 sq. ft. (per county) Walls of windows provide the common rooms, including the kitchen and dining area, with natural sunlight and beautiful views of the grounds. The living room and family room each feature a warm and inviting fireplace. Double glass-sliding doors open out onto the rear patio, allowing for easy indoor-outdoor entertaining and recreation. Conveniently grouped together in one wing of the house are the bedrooms, hallway bath, and laundry center. Amenities include new hardwood floors, light fixtures, paint inside and out, and new plantings with irrigation system. Close by are Robles Park, the San Antonio Shopping Center, and top schools. Briones Elementary (API 941), Terman Middle (API 968), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify enrollment). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.4252Newberry.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

Mi h l Repka R k Michael CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes Served

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Coldwell Banker

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Woodside $10,495,000 Gorgeous English Country Estate with a separate 2-bedroom guest house and cabana. 5 BR/4.5 BA Hugh Cornish CalBRE #00912143 650.324.4456

Los Altos Hills $8,995,000 Incredible contemporary haven in a stunning setting. Perfect indoor-outdoor living. 5 BR/6 full BA + 2 half Billy McNair CalBRE #01343603 650.324.4456

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 5 $4,398,000 2620 Marshall Dr Stunning, Brand New, Custom Built Home to fill every need. 5 bedrooms with 2 suites. 5 BR/3.5 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,995,000 1010 Bryant St Lovely Craftsman home in the heart of Professorville. Restored in 2013. Top P.A Schools! 4 BR/2.5 BA Paul Skrabo CalBRE #00665727 650.323.7751

Portola Valley Open Sun 1:30-4:30 $3,495,000 1390 Westridge Dr Over an acre of tree-studded land with views out to Windy Hill. Attached 2-story 1BD apt.4 BR/3.5 BA Dean Asborno CalBRE #01274816 650.851.1961

Redwood City Sun 1 - 4 $2,888,000 63 S Palomar Beautiful 6 yr old View Home. fabulous details thruout. Close to city, hospital, Hwy 280. 3 BR/4 BA Shawnna Sullivan CalBRE #00856563 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,900,000 555 Encina Ave Huge lot. (19,700 sq. ft. per tax assessor). Park like setting for this lovely home. 2 BR/2 BA Lea Nilsson CalBRE #00699379 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Just Listed! $1,895,000 Fabulous ranch-style home on uniquely large corner lot. Expansion possibilities. 3 BR/2.5 BA Lyn Jason Cobb 650.324.4456

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,650,000 399 Sequoia Av. -European influenced design. Expansive mbr suite w/walk-in closet & spa-inspired bath. 5 BR/4 BA Billy McNair CalBRE #01343603 650.324.4456

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,150,000 1044 Colorado Place Spacious,light townhouse w/entry patio, lg rear yard,oak floors, eat-in-kitchen.Chair-lift 2 BR/2.5 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

Palo Alto $1,049,000 Top floor unit in desirable Barron Square surrounded by lushly landscaped setting. 2 BR/2 BA Wendi Selig-Aimonetti CalBRE #01001476 650.323.7751

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $799,000 287 G St This lovely home is light, bright, and spacious. 2 BR/1 BA Drew Doran CalBRE #01887354 650.325.6161

Woodside Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $799,000 2004 Goodwin Av Woodside Plaza hme on lg lot. Updated kit & bath, hdwd flrs & outdoor ent. area w/jacuzzi. 2 BR/1 BA Margot Lockwood CalBRE #00916725 650.851.2666

Redwood City Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $798,000 630 Bair Island Rd #104 2 year old townhome w/ upgrades throughout. Ready to move into! Minutes to downtown RWC. 2 BR/2 BA Loren Dakin CalBRE #01030193 650.323.7751

San Carlos Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $745,000 950 Cherry St Updates: engineered hardwood, granite countertops, A/C, low maintenance yard. 2 BR/1 BA Tammy Patterson CalBRE #01931758 650.325.6161

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789 Plaster/Stucco Stucco Patch and crack repair, texture match, windows, doors. 30 years exp. Refs. avail. Small jobs only. 650/248-4205

790 Roofing Tapia Roofing Family owned. Residential roofing, dry rot repair, gutter and downspouts. Lic # 729271. 650/367-8795 www.Tapiaroofing.net

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820 Home Exchanges looking for a nice place to live

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement BODY REBOOT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 595889 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Body Reboot, located at 665 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MELANIE PEDDLE 620 Central Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/13/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 27, 2014. (PAW Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 2014) THRIVE! Counseling Services: Individuals, Couples, Youth & Families THRIVE! THRIVE! Counseling FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596149 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) THRIVE! Counseling Services: Individuals, Couples, Youth & Families, 2.) THRIVE!, 3.) THRIVE! Counseling, located at 117 S. California Ave., Suite D201, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KATHRYN HEDJASI 4198 Kingspark Dr. San Jose, CA 95136 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/4/14. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 5, 2014. (PAW Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 2014) RJB3 CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 595747 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: RJB3 Consulting, located at 1090 Butte Ct., Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ROBERT J. BEETEL III 1090 Butte Ct. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 25, 2014 . (PAW Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10, 2014) MacAli Data Consulting FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596345 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MacAli Data Consulting, located at 881 Dorthel St., Sebastopol, CA 95472, Sonoma County. The principal place of business is in Sonoma County and a current Fictitious Business Name Statement is on file at the county clerk-recorder’s office of said county. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JEAN M. TILLINGHAST 881 Dorthel St. Sebastopol, CA 95472 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/15/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 11, 2014. (PAW Sept. 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 2014) NUTRITIONAL WELLNESS SOLUTIONS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596690 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Nutritional Wellness Solutions, located at 608 Fulton Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual.

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The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): LARA STEPHENSON 608 Fulton Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/01/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 19, 2014. (PAW Sept. 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 2014) GO FLOAT WELLNESS CENTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596309 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Go Float Wellness Center, located at 242 Sea Biscuit Ln., San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): WOLSIE A. BOGLIN 2109 Hanover St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 FREDERICK EARLE 242 Sea Biscuit Ln. San Jose, CA 95111 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on September 10, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 10, 2014. (PAW Sept. 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 2014) SILICON VALLEY SPEECH FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596799 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Speech, located at 3775 Flora Vista Ave., Apt. 406W, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KATELYN SELLERS 3775 Flora Vista Ave., Apt. #406W Santa Clara, CA 95051 JOSHUA STEINBERG 3775 Flora Vista Ave., Apt. #406W Santa Clara, CA 95051 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 23, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014) MONA DE CASTELLARNAU FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596725 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Mona De Castellarnau, located at 3417 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MONTSERRAT LLAURADO 3417 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/28/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 22, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014)

32SKILLS LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596931 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 32Skills LLC, located at 3798 Nathan Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): 32SKILLS LLC 3798 Nathan Way Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 26, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014) INSPIRE FITNESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596827 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Inspire Fitness located at 1002 Mazzone Dr., San Jose, CA 95120, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): LEANNE DOUGHERTY 1002 Mazzone Dr. San Jose, CA 95120 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/15/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 24, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014) WARNER ENTERPRISES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596407 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Warner Enterprises, located at 311 Poe St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): NICHOLAS M. WARNER 311 Poe St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 12, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014) BIZ LEADS ORGANICALLY GENERATED INBOUND MARKETING UNIVERSITY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 596094 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Biz Leads Organically Generated, 2.) Inbound Marketing University, located at 1669-2 Hollenbeck Ave. #227, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KEVIN CARNEY 370 Schrembri Lane East Palo Alto, CA 94087 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 4, 2014. (PAW Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014)

997 All Other Legals SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) Case Number: 614FL013025 (Numero del Caso) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Aviso al Demandado): JAWED I KHAN You are being sued. Lo estan demandando. PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre del demandante es): SHAHANA RAZI You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. Tiene 30 DIAS CORRIDOS despues de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacion y Peticion, para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120 o FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefonica no basta para protegerlo. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de exencion de cuotas. Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California(www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado. NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. AVISO: Las ordenes de restriccion que figuran en la pagina 2 valen para ambos conyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticion, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California. NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or for the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutencion, la corte puede ordenar que usted pague parte de, o todos las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a peticion de usted o de la otra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportunidadde solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas. 1. The name and address of the court are: (El nombre y direccion de la corte son): Superior Court, County of Santa Clara 605 W. El Camino Real Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Mailing: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): SHAHANA RAZI 5001 Great America Pkwy #310 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Date (Fecha): August 6, 2014 Clerk, by (secretario, por): /s/__________________ Deputy(Asistente) David H. Yamasaki, Chief Executive Officer/Clerk (seal) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: AVISO A LA PERSONA QUE RECIBIO LA ENTREGA: Esta entrega se realiza You are served as an individual. (PAW Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 2014) SUMMONS (Citacion Judicial) Case Number: 114CV262027 (Numero del Caso) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: QING ZHANG AND DOES 1 to 20 (Aviso al Demandado):

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 courts 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): Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara Unlimited Jurisdiction 191 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95113 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): William S. Ginsburg, SBN 99704 Berg Injury Lawyers 2440 Santa Clara Avenue Alameda, CA 94501 (510)523-3200 (510)523-8851 Date: March 12, 2014 (Fecha): David H. Yamasaki, Chief Executive Officer, Clerk Clerk, by D. Wendel, Deputy (secretario) (Adjunto) (PAW Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 2014)

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ON THE AIR Friday Women’s volleyball: Oregon at Stanford, 7 p.m.; ESPNU; KZSU (90.1 FM) Prep football: Soquel vs. Menlo School, 7 p.m.; BAOSN.TV; KCEA (89.1 FM) Women’s soccer: Washington at Stanford at Utah, 8 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area

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