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Teen well-being collaborative seeks new model Project Safety Net leaders contemplate new wellness center by Elena Kadvany alo Alto’s broad-reaching mental health coalition formed five years ago in response to teen suicides, Project Safety Net, today finds itself at a crossroads after losing its second director in two years. Largely exhausted and very eager to use $2 million in city funding to make progress on is-
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sues that still plague Palo Alto youth, city staff is recommending to the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee next week not to refill the director position. Project Safety Net last month suddenly lost Joe Herrity, who filled the position in June after it had been vacant for close to nine months. Herrity came to Palo Alto
with six years of experience at a Milpitas nonprofit, Fresh Lifelines for Youth, that works with incarcerated and at-risk youth. Herrity resigned effective Sept. 23 to care for a family member who had been diagnosed with a serious illness. Herrity had replaced Christina Llerena, a veteran social worker hired in the spring of 2012 to lead the community collaborative. She resigned after 16 months on the job, accepting a position with West Valley Community College,
which offered benefits the Project Safety Net job did not carry, she said at the time. Llerena declined to comment for this story. Herrity told the Weekly that as a single, 32-yearold with no children who was used to working in the nonprofit sector, the lack of benefits and low salary were not a problem for him. The nature of the program director position — it is hourly and offers no benefits or job security, yet expects a high level of work and leadership that reaches across
more than 40 organizations, from the schools to faith groups to nonprofits — has made it difficult to attract and retain a director, city staff has said. “In our review of where we are today as a collaborative, we think that trying to hire again with the resources that we have — in other words essentially an hourly person with no benefits — we’re not going to be able to get the kind of professional we would hope to (continued on page 15)
PARKING
Developers offer to build downtown garage City to consider private-sector proposals to boost parking supply by Gennady Sheyner ith Palo Alto in the market for a new downtown garage, developers are stepping forward with offers to build the city a parking structure, provided they get permission to build something else in return. Eight different developers have responded to the city’s recent request for public-private-partnership proposals. One bid is from the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, which proposed to build housing on the lot at Emerson and High streets. The project would replace a 78-space lot with a 148-spot structure, adding 70 spots. It would also, however, add a housing project that requires 173 parking spaces under the zoning code, resulting in a net loss of 103 spaces. The two finalists chosen by the city’s planning staff for further exploration are offering dramatically different proposals. David Kleiman has offered to build a 237-space, three-level underground garage on Lytton Avenue at Emerson, a corner that currently includes a 68-space lot. The new structure would feature an automated lift system that allows vehicles to park in an “elevator-like docking station,” according to a staff report. The vehicle would then be moved “through the use of a mechanical system and stored underground.” The catch? Kleiman would also be allowed to build a mixed-use development with retail and 18 apartments at the site. The new development would require 94 spaces, bringing the total increase in parking to 75 spaces. Kleiman, who recently devel-
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A star returns Actor and Palo Alto High School alumnus James Franco, while surrounded by adoring teen girls, paints a mural on the side of the school’s Student Activities Center Monday in anticipation of the grand opening of the Media Arts Center. Franco created two murals for the student center, which were inspired by photographs in the 1993 yearbook from when Franco was a student there. See story on the new Media Arts Center on page 26.
HEALTH
Local medical facilities amp up Ebola preparedness Palo Alto Medical Foundation increases staff training, upgrades infection-control supplies and equipment by My Nguyen tanford Medical Center and Palo Alto Medical Foundation are among medical facilities nationwide increasing Ebola preparedness as federal health officials urge the nation’s hospitals to “think Ebola.” The amped-up efforts to train health care workers on how to
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treat patients infected with Ebola comes days after Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, became the first person to contract the disease in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pham provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan, who was the first person to
die from Ebola in the nation after traveling to the U.S. from West Africa. A second nurse who treated Duncan was diagnosed with the deadly disease on Wednesday. There have been no documented cases of Ebola in Palo Alto or in other U.S. cities outside the Dallas (continued on page 12)
oped mixed-use projects at 636 Waverley St. and 240 Hamilton Ave., is proposing a parking component that he argues will “not only increase the City of Palo Alto’s supply of off-street parking; it will maximize the use of this presently underutilized site.” The two developments were designed by architect Ken Hayes, who is also a member of Kleiman’s team for the parking structure. Each withstood an appeal from residents who argued that the proposed building’s modernist design conflicts with the traditional architecture around it. Kleiman, however, maintains that the new buildings will be a good fit with the surrounding area. “The project will be realized in a manner that complements the surrounding neighborhood while simultaneously promoting the City’s goal of promoting walking, bicycling and the use of public transit, due to the project’s design and its proximity to the Downtown Caltrain Station,” Kleiman’s proposal states. The ground floor retail, he wrote, “will serve to liven the streetscape at this location, and the housing will introduce new residents to the downtown zone while also minimizing the number of parking spaces required for the development when compared with a similarly sized office building alternative.” The other proposal that staff is recommending for consideration comes from Ark Studio West and includes a 283-space parking (continued on page 8)
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“Holman has detailed knowledge of the issues and persistently advocates for tougher treatment of development proposals, more transparency, and more proactive planning and support for those in need in our community. … Many City Council members claim the "residentialist" label these days. Karen Holman pretty much owns it.” - Palo Alto Weekly, 10/9/14
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We’re going to need bold steps. — Kim Bomar, co-chair of Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS), on new efforts to fix the school district’s achievement gap. See story on page 10.
Around Town
MYSTERIOUS MAILER ... There was a little dust-up in town this week about an anonymous campaign mailer sent out that carried a negative tone and appeared to be targeting one candidate. Some Palo Altans, though apparently not very many, received the mailer, which urged voters to support only the female school board candidates: Catherine Crystal Foster, Terry Godfrey and Gina Dalma. The single-page mailers, seemingly homemade and sealed with small star-shaped stickers, contained no return address or signature. They were mailed from San Francisco on Oct. 11 with first-class stamps. “We Can Do Better ... Vote For the Women,” it proclaimed. On the inside were bullet points about the three candidates and their accomplishments, listed under the headline, “What Palo Alto Weekly Won’t Tell You.” Each bullet point listed a perceived negative quality about candidate Ken Dauber and then followed with positive qualities about the female candidates. Was the mailer created by a supporter of Foster, Godfrey and/or Dalma — or could it have been a “stunt from a rogue supporter” of Dauber’s campaign, as Foster suggested to the Weekly, designed to generate bad publicity? All three women deny having any part in the mailer; two of them didn’t even receive it and said none of their supporters did either. Dalma and Dauber got them, as did the Weekly. If more than 200 voters received the mailer, it would be considered an illegal mass mailing under election law governed by the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) because of its anonymity. Dauber said if it indeed went out to more than 200 people, he would support an investigation. Foster said she wouldn’t at this point. “This is trivial and stupid, and I don’t want to waste public dollars pursuing it. If this grows into something more significant, I will reassess then.” Godfrey said, “At this point it seems like a prank, and I don’t want to call attention to it with a response to something only a handful of people have seen.” Dalma said she was sad and disappointed by the negative mailer and “publicly repudiate(s) support deriving from any individual or group that resorts, on behalf of my candidacy or in opposition to that of my opponents, to the methods
and tactics which I condemn, as this mailer does.”
STILL STANDING ... Twenty-five years after the destructive 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a team of Stanford University engineers have built and tested what they believe to be an earthquake-resistant house. During tests, the house stayed staunchly upright even as it shook at three times the intensity of the Loma Prieta temblor, researchers said. Inexpensive design modifications were incorporated into the house to reduce damage. One change was to rest the house on a dozen steel-and-plastic sliders — each about 4 1/2 inches in diameter — instead of affixing the house into a foundation. Under the sliders were either plates or bowlshaped dishes made of galvanized steel called “seismic isolators,” which allows the house to skate along the shaking ground instead of collapsing. The second change was using glue to affix extra-thick drywall instead of screwing drywall to the wood framing, as in typical home construction. On the outside of the house, engineers used strong mesh and additional screws to attach the white stucco tightly. These modifications made the house stiffer and stronger, which led to a significantly better seismic performance, researchers said. Tests were conducted on an earthquake simulator called a “shake table,” which enabled researchers using computer-controlled hydraulic pistons to move it back and forth in different patterns. ACTOR AND ARTIST ... Palo Alto High School alum and movie star James Franco is using his alma mater as a canvas by handpainting two black-and-white murals on the outside walls of Paly’s student center and hanging his art in the library and new Media Arts Center. The 10-foot murals are based on photos from Franco’s freshman yearbook in 1993. The first mural depicts a group of students reading the Campanile, Paly’s school newspaper and a publication Franco worked on. The second is a shot from a Paly football game. Paly is hosting a public open house of its Media Arts Center on Friday, Oct. 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. and an event for students from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, featuring an art show and film premiere by Franco. Q
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Buena Vista residents appeal decision to close park Council to decide whether hearing officer was correct in approving compensation offer by Gennady Sheyner esidents of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto are appealing a recent decision by a hearing officer that paved the way for the El Camino Real park’s closure. Hoping to save their homes, the Buena Vista Residents Association on Tuesday filed an appeal that challenges last month’s finding by hearing officer Craig Labadie that the mobile-home park owner’s proposal to compensate the residents is adequate. Residents were facing a Tuesday deadline to appeal the ruling to the City Council, a move that was widely expected. The appeal argues that the financial package offered by the Toufic Jisser family isn’t adequate to compensate the roughly 400 residents who would be evicted should the city’s sole mobilehome park shut down. The offer made as part of the Relocation Impact Report — a document put together by the
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Jissers that lays out its plan to assist the displaced residents of Buena Vista — consists of the appraised value of each mobile home; a rent subsidy equaling the difference between the average rent space at Buena Vista and the average market rate for a replacement housing; “start-up costs” equal to three months of moving expenses; and special assistance for disabled residents. Hearing officer Labadie reached his decision in favor of the Jissers after an emotional three-day hearing in May, featuring testimony from residents and a last-minute agreement by the Jissers to raise their rent-subsidy level from 40 percent to 100 percent. In their comments, Buena Vista residents argued that the park’s closure will force them to pull their children out of Palo Alto schools and leave the city, where affordable housing is in short supply.
Labadie noted in his Sept. 30 decision that “the law does not provide any empirical formula for calculating the appropriate amount of relocation assistance in the context of a private mobile home park closure application.” The appeal argues to the contrary. The appellants contest that Labadie should have referred to the California Relocation Assistance Act, which focuses on individuals displaced as a result of actions made by a public entity. This could mean an acquisition of real property by a public entity or the “rehabilitation, demolition or other displacing activity pursuant to a program or project of a public entity as to real property on which the person is a residential tenant.” The state act also sets guidelines and formulas for calculating relocation assistance, including a cap on payments made by tenants for replacement housing. Labadie noted that it’s difficult to determine whether these guide-
lines would have raised or lowered the level subsidies (neither side had made the calculations). More significantly, he concluded that the state act doesn’t apply to the Buena Vista residents because the park’s closure is an action by a private entity. “It is undisputed that the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is not being acquired by the City of Palo Alto, either directly or by a private party having an agreement with the city or acting on the city’s behalf,” he said. Though the city has a regulatory role in the closure process, this role is “insufficient to convert the park owner’s proposal for closure of a privately owned mobile home park into a public project undertaken by the city,” he added. The appeal disputes this interpretation. The state act, the appeal states, applies “not only when a local government undertakes a project that leads to displacement but also when it participates in such a project.” In 2001, the city crafted an ordinance that stabilized rents at the mobile-home park and created a process for shutting the park down. The city also served as an “intermediary” for the owner and residents and approved the Relocation Impact Report submitted by the Jissers, the appeal notes. Therefore residents should be entitled to the provisions of the state law.
The appeal also makes a case that the mitigation package is far from sufficient. The Jissers, the appeal notes, have “failed to identify a single mobile home park that would accept any homes or trailers within 35 miles of the park,” a stipulation that is in the city’s mobile-home park conversion ordinance. Furthermore, the residents argue, the appraised values of the mobile homes — ranging between $5,500 and $45,000 — are far too low because the appraisal didn’t consider the homes’ “inplace value.” Though Labadie specified that his approval hinges on an updated appraisal, the residents note that the new estimate would be conducted by the same appraiser who they say undervalued the homes the first time around. The appeal also challenges the hearing process and asserts that the residents were deprived of a fair hearing. That’s because neither the Jissers nor some of their expert witnesses testified at the three-day hearing, depriving the Buena Vista Residents Association of a chance to cross-examine them. The decision by the Jisser family to change the offer at the very end of the hearing also kept the residents from commenting on it, the appeal states. Closing Buena Vista, the appeal (continued on page 16)
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Historic Resources Board rejects application to add Little League site to historical inventory
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structure on the corner of Hamilton and Waverley, which currently includes an 86-space lot. The proposal also includes retail on the ground floor, which would require 29 spaces. It also comes with a major stipulation: The entire downtown would have to switch to paid parking, with daily rates assumed to be around $17.50 per day. According to the firm’s proposal, retail is included to “increase pedestrian liveliness and invite additional users to the location.” The proposal also includes design alternatives that feature office space and a rooftop terrace. The proposed development could be used for “food vendors and office space, or other uses to be deter-
by Gennady Sheyner interested party can seek a historical designation over the owner’s objections, said Cara Silver, assistant city attorney. In this case, however, city staff argued that the field has already undergone so many design changes and renovations since its founding that its historical integrity is compromised. Members of the Little League board of directors made a similar argument and provided the board with then-andnow photos of the baseball field, underscoring the differences.
‘We can’t be stagnant. We can’t be a museum. We need to be able to evolve, which is what we’ve done.’ —Mark Priestly, secretary, Little League board Yotopoulos maintained in his application that the site’s “cultural landscape is often overlooked when one just looks at the buildings.” The ballpark, he told the board, is one of the first and represents the spreading of Little League baseball to the West Coast and the ability of a visionary community to finance a ballpark that, 62 years later, remains as successful as ever. It was intentionally placed in a residential area, and it ended up being “an anchor” to the community as the local development pushed southeast in the 1950s, he said. “The field is truly exceptional and still treasured to this day,”
mined in the future,” the proposal notes. The structure would also include a bike storage and changing room, an electric-vehicle charger and solar panels. The firm lists as its goals for the project to improve downtown’s urban streetscape, promote environmental sustainability and provide high-quality architecture. Strikingly for a parking development, it also includes as one of its goals getting people out of cars. One goal includes to “encourage new development around transit stations, locations with bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, and city services to allow residents and employes to meet daily needs without the use of cars.” Another goal is unlikely to please critics of new development: “Encourage such development to maximize allowed densities and intensities to take advantage of
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Yotopoulos wrote in his letter to the board. “It is difficult to overestimate what Little League was to the community in the ‘50s; it was the focus sport locally for youth. This meant that the community rallied around this property, with merchants sponsoring teams, dinners being planned around evening game schedules and a full roster of majors, minors, weekend games, even full local radio and newspaper daily coverage of the games.” Also speaking in support of the site’s historical significance was Herschel Cobb, grandson of the legendary slugger Ty Cobb. He made the case for giving the field a historical designation, calling it an “important part of a community.” Once these types of community resources are gone, he noted, they are gone forever. “The basic idea that you have a site here that’s been of historic significance to members of the community is kind of undoubtable,” Cobb said. Yotopoulos also cited a 1998 study by consulting firm Dames & Moore listing the ball field as one of the sites that can be “potentially eligible” for historic designation. But the board generally agreed that while the ballpark may one day get a historical designation, now is not that time. Board member Martin Bernstein said Little League’s opposition alone should be enough to halt the designation process. The photos provided by Little League further underscored the idea that the ballpark’s historical integrity has been greatly compromised over the past 60 years. Mark Priestly, secretary of Little
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ince it opened its diamond to the community more than six decades ago, the Palo Alto Little League field on Middlefield Road has become a hub of big dreams and cherished memories for generations of local sluggers. That, however, was not enough for the south Palo Alto field to win a designation to the city’s Historic Inventory. Instead, the city’s Historic Resources Board rejected on Wednesday a proposal from a nearby resident, Jason Yotopoulos, to officially recognize the field in the city’s Historical Inventory. In voting 5-1 against the designation (with Beth Bunnenberg dissenting and Patricia Di Cicco absent), board members acknowledged the beloved status of the Little League field, which opened in 1952 in a ceremony featuring Ty Cobb and Glenn “Pop” Warner. Board members David Bower and Roger Kohler each recalled playing at the field, with Kohler calling it “quite a landmark.” Nevertheless, the board members questioned both the merits of the proposal and Yotopoulus’ motivation for making it. The fact that Palo Alto Little League, which owns the property, opposes the historical designation was a major factor in the board’s decision. Amy French, Palo Alto’s chief planning official, said this is the first time that she’s aware of that a proposal for historical designation is coming forward against the property owner’s wishes. Though state and federal laws prohibit the designation of properties on their respective historical registries without the owner’s approval, Palo Alto has no such prohibitions. Under local law, an
A rendering of Ark Studio West’s proposal for a 283-space parking structure on the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street. these locations.” The city’s solicitation of private proposals is part of a package of actions that the council approved on Feb. 10 to address downtown’s
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Board swats plan to give ball field ‘historic’ status
Boys on the Fogarty Winery team of Palo Alto Little League practice during “Fall Ball” season at the Little League Field on Middlefield Road, where a cellular antenna installation is being proposed. League’s board of directors, was day that his purpose in seeking the one of several board members to historical designation has more argue against the designation. Al- to do with a “due process.” The most everything at the ballpark has board, not Verizon’s consultants, been replaced or modified, he said. should be the arbiters of whether And the field needs to continue its the site is historical, he said. This wasn’t enough to assuage evolution, he said, something that might become more burdensome if the board’s concerns. “I am deeply troubled by the the site is deemed historical. “We can’t be stagnant. We can’t fact that Mr. Yotopoulos has a be a museum,” Priestly said. “We strong problem with the cell towneed to be able to evolve, which is er and that it’s very clear in our documents that it probably drives what we’ve done.” Others, including Little League a large majority of his energy to board president Kristin Foss, ques- getting this property designated tioned Yotopoulos’ motivation for as a historical site,” said board seeking the historical designation. member Bower. Bunnenberg urged the board to They noted that he is one of the major opponents of a proposal by continue its discussion in the fuVerizon to install a cellular an- ture, after it considers other options tenna on a 65-foot light pole in the for historically recognizing the site. ballpark. That proposal has split Simply saying that the ballpark is the adjacent neighborhood, pitting not historic would “close the door” those who want better cell service on the discussion, she argued. “It would be a rush to decision against those who see the new cell to make a judgment that this propequipment as a visual blight. Yotopoulos, an SAP executive erty is not historic,” she said. The rest of the board, however, who lives across the street from the field, has spoken out at recent had no problem recommending public hearings against Verizon’s against the designation, with Marplan for the ball field — the latest garet Wimmer joining Bernstein in iteration in the telecom giant’s two- voicing concerns about infringing year quest to upgrade its wireless on the property owner’s rights. Not equipment. His and his neighbors’ having the property owner’s conopposition to the plan prompted sent, she said, makes it “very difthe Architectural Review Board to ficult to support the application.” “I think it is a potential future defer its expected approval of the candidate” for historical designaVerizon plan until Oct. 16. Yotopoulos readily admits that tion, Wimmer said. “But at the he opposes the Verizon plan, moment, it’s clouded with some though he maintained on Wednes- other issues.” Q
severe parking shortages. The package included the exploration of a satellite parking lot on Embarcadero Road, technology upgrades to existing garages and an increase in permit sales to downtown employers. The direction to solicit proposals from private parties was taken by a 7-2 vote, with Karen Holman and Greg Schmid dissenting. The council will hear presentations about the Kleiman and Ark Studio West proposals on Monday and consider the city’s next steps in the quest for a new garage. Council members and residents have long preached the need to increase downtown parking supply. In June, the council included a downtown garage as a priority item on its $126-million infrastructure plan. With an estimated cost of $13 million, a downtown garage is one of the projects that
the council plans to fund by leveraging proceeds from the hotel-tax increase, which will appear on the November ballot. During the Feb. 10 meeting, the council majority supported soliciting proposals from the private sector, a decision that Larry Klein called “innocuous.” Holman was more cautious about soliciting proposals from developers and urged her colleagues to slow down in pursuing a new garage. It remains to be seen, she said, what the parking demand will be once the city introduces a new residential parking permit program and unveils a transportation-demand management program aimed at getting people to switch from cars to other modes of transportation. “I think it’s premature to go forward with garages at this time,” Holman said. Q
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Children in YMCA adult locker rooms questioned Palo Alto Family YMCA policy is upsetting some members by Sue Dremann he YMCA of Silicon Valley has been allowing children 7 years old and younger to join their opposite-sex parents in the locker rooms. But some users of the Palo Alto Family YMCA on Ross Road say the policy opens the door for inappropriate exposure and is disturbing to adult members. YMCA officials decided this week to lower the age of oppositegender use of locker rooms to kids age 6 and younger and to better delineate the spaces between adult and family changing areas, which are contiguous. Some members said the problem is really about dedicating a separate space for family use where kids won’t have to risk viewing naked men and women. YMCA of Silicon Valley has nine locations. Only two of the newer facilities, in East Palo Alto and Mountain View at the El Camino YMCA, have dedicated family changing-room space, according to officials and members. Elizabeth Jordan, chief operating officer of YMCA of Silicon Valley, said the opposite-sex policy
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accommodates parents who don’t want to leave their kids alone in the same-sex locker room. “We can’t allow a 4-year-old to wander into a locker room unattended,” she said. Parents also don’t want to change their children on the pool deck or transport them home in wet bathing suits, she added. At the Palo Alto YMCA, the roughly horseshoe-shaped women’s and men’s locker rooms have family spaces, but the small changing areas are at the back of the locker rooms and are not partitioned, officials concede. Jordan said it isn’t possible to add partitions or curtains because parents need a direct line of sight of their children for safety reasons. But retired Palo Alto police officer and YMCA member Joe Sparaco said the presence of children of the opposite sex in the locker rooms has made for some disturbing and uncomfortable encounters. The issue came to his attention a year ago, when a 10-yearold girl came through the locker room and realized there were
men in the shower. “She was shocked. ... She had a towel and was trying to cover up, and she was crying for her dad,” Sparaco recalled. “I was beside myself, and I asked to speak to the manager. This was a humiliating moment for her and for other people in the locker room.” The Y did not appear to have signs up then to let people know there was an age limit, but shortly thereafter, signage was added, he recalled. Still, some people choose to ignore it. About five weeks ago, Sparaco emerged from the shower with a towel around his waist to find a father on a bench braiding his two daughters’ hair in the adult men’s section. A couple of men stood around befuddled, not knowing whether to dress or undress in front of the girls, he said. Sparaco asked the man to take the girls out into the hallway. “You can just shove it,” the father reportedly told Sparaco, insisting that the area was the family dressing space. Sparaco isn’t alone in his concern.
“Some people are upset about it,” said a man who is a member of the Palo Alto Family Y. “Some of the kids are not that small. When I go to the bathroom, at times I feel uncomfortable about that. I don’t walk around without any clothes on, but some people do.” Two women said the presence of boys in the women’s locker room is problematic. Parents don’t always control their kids, and they run into the adult areas rather than staying in the family-changing section, they said. Jordan said there are intercoms in the locker rooms, and members are encouraged to use them if someone is not complying with policy. When someone violates the rules, staff is trained to ask the person to move to the family side of the locker room, added Lee Pfab, executive director for the Palo Alto Family Y. Sparaco said the opposite-sex problem is compounded by girls having to pass the men’s showers to get to the pool. There is only one doorway. Pfab acknowledged that there is a chance a child may see an
adult unclothed due to the single entrance. Sparaco would like to see a starkly different policy: no opposite-sex children in the adult locker rooms. There are already two small, private dressing rooms outside of the locker room that parents and children can use, he said. Other YMCAs have different policies. The Marin YMCA in San Rafael has four separate locker rooms: for women, girls, boys and men, said Ron Reher of member services. The sexes are strictly separated. Parents can go into the children’s locker rooms, but they must be accompanied by a child. The Sonoma County YMCA allows children of the opposite sex under 6 years old in the men’s and women’s locker rooms into a curtained area reserved for families, but there is a separate, private entrance. There is also a unisex dressing area with a hallway that leads to the pool so that children don’t need to pass through the opposite-sex locker room. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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‘Broad action’ encouraged to fix district’s achievement gap Palo Alto school board, public laud group charged with making set of strategic recommendations by Elena Kadvany he Palo Alto school board and members of the public Tuesday night looked back at the district’s history of attempts to improve minority achievement and lauded Superintendent Max McGee’s creation of an advisory committee as a promising, fresh step forward in a more actionable direction. “In the entire time that I’ve been here, this issue of minority achievement has been woeful and sad and horrible, especially to parents of color,” said Kim Bomar, parent and co-chair of Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS). “The need for this task force has been woefully obvious.” The superintendent’s committee, for which he will start taking applications this week, will be made up of students, parents, teachers, staff and community members. The 18-member group will be given the task of diving deep into district data; gathering input by talking directly to current students and recent graduates, their families, faculty and staff; and looking to other districts and experts in the field
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for best practices on closing the achievement gap. McGee released this week an ambitious package with internal and external achievement data, a draft application, a meeting schedule and the goal of getting the committee’s final report to the board in April or May. “We have been talking about and working on the achievement gap for a long time,” said board member Camille Townsend. “Is this anything new? The visibility is. And that in and of itself is worth something.” All board members expressed excitement and support for the advisory committee, with a few suggestions for how its work could be enhanced. Heidi Emberling advised McGee to contract with an outside expert to lead the work. She said there are “tough and sensitive issues” surrounding the achievement gap — unconscious biases, institutional racism, gender equity, stereotypes and cultural competence — and an experienced facilitator with expertise around such issues would help. Emberling pointed out that a
professional facilitator has been hired before to help with committee work, in 2012 for the Gunn High School Guidance Advisory Committee. President Barb Mitchell said she would support hiring a facilitator if McGee and staff decided they needed one. “It’s an ambitious undertaking given the timeline,” she said. “It looks reasonable right now, but we know how these things go, and there are so many ways this could go deeper.” McGee said he hadn’t yet considered the option of bringing on a facilitator but would look at it before finalizing details about the committee. Others urged McGee to include in the committee’s charter an internal analysis of existing district and community work around the achievement gap. Vice President Melissa Baten Caswell said that, as someone once told her, “‘It’s hard to find that one silver bullet.’ It’s a combination of things. We have to make sure all of our programs work together.” Townsend echoed that senti-
ment, suggesting the committee look not only at past data but at work individual teachers are already doing in their classrooms that yield results on minority achievement. “What do we have already? It may not be some new program,” she said. “It may be going back to some basics.” Baten Caswell also asked McGee how he plans to recruit people for the committee, suggesting he take advantage of Palo Alto’s robust neighborhood association groups to advertise. He said he is planning to send the application out with the next edition of “Max mail” — his email update that is sent to all district parents and anyone else who signs up for it. Townsend also suggested that McGee look to the many community members who have worked on these issues for years and take advantage of their historical knowledge. Mitchell urged the superintendent to look at alternative sources for recruitment, such as recent graduates and Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP) participants. Candidates running for school board also weighed in on the committee. Gina Dalma said that simply looking at data and creating metrics won’t be enough to solve the problem; the work needs to address deeper contributing factors. “For us to close the achievement gap, we have to have those courageous conversations around the unconscious biases that happen in each and every one of our classrooms,” she said. Sarah Sands, speaking on behalf of candidate Catherine Crystal Foster, applauded the proposed use of research, timelines and metrics. “I hope that you will also assess our existing programs and practices to evaluate their effectiveness in addressing the achievement gap and causes for that gap,” Sands said. Candidate Ken Dauber recommended the committee tap into expertise at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He said Stanford sends student-teachers into some surrounding districts but doesn’t send them to Palo Alto’s high school math and science classes. Dauber presented the 2013 California Standards Test scores Tuesday night to illustrate the district’s achievement gap. The scores for Hispanic students in Algebra II showed that
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33 percent left the class at a proficient or higher level, compared to 38 percent in 2011. For socioeconomically disadvantaged students in the same class, the proficiency rate in 2013 was 29 percent, compared to 33 percent in 2011. For African-American students in biology, 32 percent were proficient. In 2011, the rate was 37 percent. “That is a lot of districts statewide who are doing better than we are in educating similar students, and that represents a real opportunity for us to learn from them and do better,” Dauber said. One recent Palo Alto High School graduate and a frequent speaker at board meetings, Al Brooks, returned Tuesday night to reiterate his and others’ interest in participating in the committee work. Brooks graduated in 2012 and also co-founded nonprofit Student Equity Action Network (SEAN) after years of experiencing and working on the disparity in achievement between minority students and their peers in Palo Alto. “We will be involved in this process as much as we can be,” he said. “This is something we can’t let continue to occur in our schools.” Brooks also stressed the importance of gathering community input. McGee has said part of the committee’s work will include hosting public forums or hearings with the community. Baten Caswell also asked McGee about the potential costs for programs to close the achievement gap. McGee replied that he’s not sure yet but included in the committee’s charge is estimating the cost for implementation of each recommendation it issues. Many of the members of the public implored the board to give McGee and the committee a long leash when it comes to this work. “I believe and hope that you agree that in order to fix what’s broken, we’re going to need broad action. We’re going to need bold steps. We’re going to need to do things differently,” Bomar, PASS co-chair, said. “My encouragement and advice to the board is that you’ve done great work recruiting and getting Dr. McGee out here. ... I would encourage you, as a parent, to give him broad latitude so that he can be as successful as possible with this task force.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
A calendar of events for seniors printed on page 36 of the Oct. 3 edition listed the wrong time for the Oct. 23 presentation “Shifting Gears: When to Stop Driving and How to Move Forward” at Avenidas. It will run from 3 to 5 p.m. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
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“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. He has been a voice for reason, transparency, data-driven decision -making, and for respectful treatment of all parents, teachers, and students. Dauber has practically been a sixth board member in the room at board meetings.� Endorsed by:
A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a joint session with the Planning and Transportation Commission; appoint new members to the Architectural Review Board and Historic Resources Board; review proposals for new parking garages downtown; and discuss the City Hall remodel project. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the “health and safety� funds from the Stanford University Medical Center development agreement and consider the council’s procedures for closed sessions. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Planning and Transportation Commission. The interviews will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the construction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center and the Rinconada Library; and discuss the financial report summary from the Administrative Services Department. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
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area, according to the CDC. Stanford Medicine, which includes Stanford Health Care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health, “continually prepares to manage cases of infectious disease, including Ebola Virus Disease,� wrote spokesman James Larkin in an email. “Stanford Medicine follows protocols established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and conducts regular training and preparedness drills to assure our readiness to respond,� Larkin said. CDC guidelines for safe and appropriate Ebola screening and patient care include placing an infected patient in a single-patient room with a private bathroom with the door closed; ensuring people who come into contact with the patient wear gloves, fluid resistant or impermeable gowns, goggles and face masks; dedicating medical equipment for patient care; and cleaning and disinfecting non-dedicated, non-disposable equipment used for patient care, according to its website. Larkin added that the hospital has several isolation rooms designed to contain biohazards like Ebola. Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) has increased staff training to identify potential infection cases and teach health care workers how to properly use protective equipment, said Dr. Charles Weiss, head of the infectious diseases committee at PAMF, which has a location in Palo Alto. Weiss said when a patient comes in seeking treatment for a sudden illness, staff members should ask two “golden questions�: “Do you have chills and fever?� and “Have you traveled to West Africa in the past 21 days?� “Half of the battle is identifying possible cases of Ebola,� he said. PAMF has also started performing drills in which employees pose as patients to test whether the new protocols are effective. The health care organization has also upgraded infectioncontrol supplies and protective equipment to “reflect the highly infectious nature of the deadly
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acebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr. Priscilla Chan announced Tuesday that they have committed $25 million to help address the Ebola epidemic. “We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like
Staff of Stanford Medicine — including Stanford Health Care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health — are amping up to prepare for Ebola patients, should the hospitals ever need to treat one. disease,� Weiss said. Weiss emphasized that although Ebola is a serious health concern and people should be vigilant, “it is low risk for the average American.� The California Department of Public Health continues to work with the federal government and medical facilities statewide on
funding to improve community and hospital preparedness for public health emergencies, has provided funds to the state for local hospitals’ staff training and for protective gear for health care workers. Important components of being prepared are early identification, testing of suspect cases and
‘Half of the battle is identifying possible cases of Ebola.’ —Dr. Charles Weiss, head of the infectious diseases committee, Palo Alto Medical Foundation staff preparedness, Director Dr. Ron Chapman said during a teleconference with media Wednesday on the current status of Ebola preparedness in the state. Chapman added that the federal Hospital Preparedness Program, which provides leadership and
treating infected patients, said Dr. James Watt, chief of the Division of Communicable Disease Control of the California Department of Public Health. Q Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.
About Ebola Symptoms of Ebola may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is eight to 10 days. Symptoms include fever (greater than 38.6 degrees Celsius or 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit), severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal (stomach) pain and unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising). Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids or through broken skin or mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose or mouth, or by handling soiled clothing or unsterilized medical equipment used by an infected person. It’s not possible to catch it through social contact or by simply being in the same room or space. It is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, by food. Q Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website
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News Digest East Palo Alto man killed in suspected DUI crash Louis Williams, 67, of East Palo Alto was killed Monday morning when he was hit by a suspected DUI driver on East Bayshore Road in Palo Alto, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office. At about 6:15 a.m. Monday, police responded to a major injury crash in the 2000 block of East Bayshore Road and found Williams dead in the roadway. The driver of a silver 2007 Nissan Maxima, Miguel Zaragoza Torres of Sunnyvale, was uninjured and remained at the scene. Police booked Torres, 19, at the Santa Clara County Main Jail on charges of vehicular manslaughter, felony driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, and misdemeanor unlicensed driving, according to police. Investigations revealed that Torres was driving south on East Bayshore when his car left the roadway and struck a power pole. The car rolled over and came to rest in the road. Williams was walking when he was killed. It is unclear where he was at the time of the collision, according to police. Police are asking that anyone with information about the case call the 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff
Mitchell Park Library project nears finish line Palo Alto’s tortuous path toward rebuilding its largest library hit a significant milestone last week when the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center received its official certificate of occupancy, the last step in the permitting process for the beleaguered project. More than two years behind schedule, the south Palo Alto library project has been a source of much disagreement and acrimony between city officials and the main contractor, Flintco Pacific. The city fired Flintco in January and hired Big D Pacific Builders to finish the job. Now, it looks like the job is almost complete. Staff has already begun moving into the new facility, and the city last month hosted public tours of the new two-building complex on Middlefield Road. The official grand opening celebration is scheduled for Dec. 6. The re-opening of the Mitchell Park library is to be followed a month later by the re-opening of the city’s second largest branch: the Rinconada Library. Long known as the Main Library, the renovated Newell Road building is to open in January after being closed since summer 2013. It will include a new program room, study rooms and a teen center, along with upgraded electrical and mechanical systems, according to the city’s announcement. The new Mitchell Park library, meanwhile, includes a large children’s room, teen room, computer training room, 100-person program room and quiet reading areas. The adjoining community center includes an event room with a kitchen that can accommodate 300 guests, as well as classrooms, a game room, basketball half-court and a public cafe. More information about the Mitchell Park Library’s grand opening is available at www.cityofpaloalto.org. Q — Gennady Sheyner
IT worker poser burglarizes offices Courtesy Burlingame Police Department
Police are searching for a man suspected in a series of office burglaries in Palo Alto, Burlingame and San Mateo and who has been posing as an IT or construction worker. The man has carried a laminated badge or ID card that he wore on a lanyard or clipped to his clothes in order to gain access to the offices, police said. When confronted, he has told Security camera captures people he was there to check Inter- photo of the man suspected net lines, according to Burlingame in a series of office police Sgt. Don Shepley. Detectives burglaries, who has have nicknamed the man the “IT been posing as an IT or Poser.” construction worker. The burglar has stolen computers and wallets from office buildings in Palo Alto, San Mateo and on the east side of Burlingame, Shepley said. The man wears his hair in a ponytail and has tattoos on his arms and torso, Shepley said. He may drive a white Ford Taurus. Police have released a photo of the man taken by a security camera. They are asking that anyone with information about the man’s identity call the Burlingame Police Department at 650777-4100. Q — Bay City News Page 14 • October 17, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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have in this leadership role,” said Rob de Geus, assistant director for the city’s Community Services Department, the lead city department for Project Safety Net. “It’s really a time to step back a little back and reflect on what alternative approaches we might use to hold the collaborative together.” Office of Human Services head Minka van der Zwaag said staff went looking twice for a director before hiring Herrity, not finding anyone suitable the first time. Before Llerena, the collaborative was mostly volunteer-led, with much of the work coordinating with member agencies falling on the shoulders of the city and school district. “It’s been a real challenge for the leadership committee and a challenge for Rob and I as the city staff that are related to Project Safety Net,” van der Zwaag told more than 20 representatives from many of the collaborative’s participating agencies — Palo Alto Medical Foundation, the YMCA, Adolescent Counseling Services, Palo Alto Library, the Palo Alto Council of PTAs, among others — at an Oct. 9 meeting, the first broad meeting of the group in months. “To attract and retain a highly qualified professional to lead the PSN collaborative in its current structure, experience has demonstrated we would require a fully benefited position,” the Policy and Services staff report reads. “Approximately seven years ago the City had a full-time At Risk Youth benefited manager position that might have been an appropriate position to serve as the PSN Director, but that position was removed from the budget. Hiring an hourly administrative support staff remains feasible, but the lead facilitator role, albeit in a more limited capacity with respect to time, is recommended to be overseen by existing City and PAUSD staff.” In the wake of Herrity’s sudden resignation, the Project Safety Net leadership team discussed what kind of structure could work best for the coalition moving forward. Despite the staff report’s explicit recommendation not to rehire a director, Project Safety Net leadership team members insist this is just one of many ideas percolating now. The group is in the early stage of a larger conversation, they said. At the Oct. 9 meeting, staff said that one model could direct dollars previously spent on the director to programs, agencies or individuals working on issues around suicide prevention and mental health. In 2013, the City Council allocated $2 million in health and safety funds to Project Safety Net from the Stanford University Medical Center (SUMC) Development Agreement, a deal struck between city and hospital so the university could massively expand its medical facilities. Of that, ap-
proximately $320,000 has been spent, primarily on salaries for the directors; support of TrackWatch, which provides security guards at two Caltrain crossings; and miscellaneous program expenses such as suicide prevention and youth well-being events, according to the staff report. Project Safety Net has also received significant funding from the County of Santa Clara, parent volunteers, the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, a Stanford University Community Partnership Award and the Palo Alto Firefighters’ Pancake Breakfast fundraising event. “This is something that ultimately we want to recommend,” de Geus said of allocating funding directly to partners. “Project Safety Net is only as good and as strong as the partners sitting around the table that are actually out there doing the work. To the extent that we can leverage the collaborative and get funding out to our partners so they can do even more than they already do, we think that’s a big part of what we ought to be recommending with the funding that’s available. How we get that funding out to partners — that’s going to be a question that we need to discuss with our City Council.” Councilmember Gail Price, who has long worked with Project Safety Net and also serves on the county’s Behavioral Health Board, stressed at the Oct. 9 meeting that such a model — and working with such a significant amount of money — requires systemic, thoughtful structure and accountability. “I think, again, with this amount of money or the potential of using up to $2 million, it seems to me you need a focus and you need a structure and you need someone who helps lead that work,” she lat-
er told the Weekly. “But I am reserving my full opinion until I see what the staff says; maybe they’ll come up with two or three different models that make sense.” Becky Beacom, health educator with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation who has served on the Project Safety Net leadership team, said at the meeting that she’s seen other collaboratives, sans a head or director, successfully rotate the leadership and coordinating role among agencies. “The one thing that hasn’t changed is people’s interest in working on this,” Beacom said. “It’s just, how do we do it in a way that focuses our attention on the work rather than on administrative stuff?” Beacom said much of the collaborative’s work in recent years has been focused on process rather than action. A steering committee with 20 member organizations worked for six months to develop a “theory of change” document, whose adoption coincided with Llerena’s departure. The new structure sliced the number of committees from seven to three and the number of anti-suicide “strategies” from 22 to nine. Much of the next year was dedicated to the hiring process. “I think that’s part of the issue of momentum,” Beacom said. “My feeling is, just bring us together and let this community do what this community does really well. ... The risk is if you don’t bring people together, then everybody starts doing disparate things rather than having a strategic approach.” Price said Beacom’s idea of a shared leadership model “can be very, very effective, but shared leadership where there’s a potential of managing up to $2 million, that’s a whole different story. Who owns the fiscal responsibility for
managing the fiscal resources? That’s the key difference.” De Geus also pitched at last week’s meeting the idea of making a “bold investment,” such as building a wellness center that would serve as home base for all Project Safety Net members and affiliated programs. PTA President Susan Usman lauded the idea of having a physical space that would be both a “one-stop shop” for youth and an anchor for the coalition. “Project Safety Net needs an anchor,” she said on Oct. 9. Former program director Herrity called a wellness center “an appropriate and logical next step” for the collaborative. “The entire effort is very beautiful. It’s a true community response to a tragedy ... but what I might say is that that effort had a natural timeline to it because the further away you get from the point of crisis, I think the urgency wanes,” he said. “I think the wellness center is really, really the right direction to go because that is the pinnacle of collaboration between the city and the school district, in my opinion, and it creates an actual place, a physical place that is that expression of community support, unity and commitment to young people,” he added. Brenda Carrillo, Project Safety Net co-chair and student services coordinator for the school district, said other communities have seen
successful outcomes from wellness centers that incorporate both mental and physical health for students. “The wellness center we think has some merit in terms of enhancing the work that’s already happening at the schools and it’s something our schools are interested in. ... It’s one of the options we’re looking at, but we haven’t landed anywhere as far as next steps on that.” Gunn High School is currently in the preliminary stages of designing its own wellness center, which could consolidate counselors, psychologists, Adolescent Counseling Services and perhaps college and career counseling in one space, said Assistant Principal Tom Jacoubowsky. Staff will present their report to Policy and Services on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Council Conference Room at City Hall. Policy and Services will then make recommendations to the City Council for next steps. “The three key conversations that are the starting point of this are (with the) leadership team, our strategic collaborative partners and then our council, and we really feel like those triad of conversations are going to give the lead team and key city staff and school district staff the next steps to go on,” van der Zwaag said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Oct. 13)
The council did not have a regular meeting this week.
Council Policy and Services Committee (Oct. 14)
Legislation: The committee discussed the city’s lobbying efforts in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and asked to make revisions to the addendum in the legislative policy manual. Action: None
Board of Education (Oct. 14)
Achievement gap advisory committee: The board discussed the superintendent’s proposal for a minority achievement and talent development advisory committee. Action: None Conflict of interest code: The board decided to postpone its biennial review and adoption of a revised conflict of interest code to a future meeting. Action: None Board Policy Review Committee: The board waived its two-meeting rule for approving changes to the charge statement and flow chart for the Board Policy Review Committee. Action: None Bids: The board voted to bring back an authorization to solicit bids for two corporation yard projects to the next meeting’s consent calendar. Action: None
Historic Resources Board (Oct. 15)
475 Homer Ave.: The board recommended that the City Council support the nomination of the Woman’s Club of Palo Alto at 475 Homer Ave. to the National Register of Historic Places and the California Register of Historical Resources. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Bunnenberg, Kohler, Makinen, Wimmer Absent: Di Cicco 3672 Middlefield Road: The board recommended that the council not place the Middlefield ball field on the city’s Historic Inventory. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Kohler, Makinen, Wimmer No: Bunnenberg Absent: Di Cicco
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Caltrain reports fatality near Charleston Caltrain confirmed on Wednesday evening at about 5:40 p.m. that a fatality had occurred on the southbound tracks near Charleston Road on the Caltrain right of way. (Posted Oct. 15, 6:20 p.m.)
East Palo Alto housing complex gets facelift After months of repairs and a temporary relocation, East Palo Alto residents will celebrate the recently completed renovation of their housing complexes on Woodland Avenue. (Posted Oct. 14, 11:41 a.m.)
Palo Alto to ponder its lobbying priorities Faced with pressure to build more housing, improve flood protection and plan for high-speed rail, Palo Alto officials will consider their strategy for lobbying state and federal officials for help. (Posted Oct. 14, 9:52 a.m.)
Adobe Creek undercrossing to stay open As California’s drought persists, Palo Alto is preparing to leave open an undercrossing at Adobe Creek that normally gets shut down this time of the year because of flooding. (Posted Oct. 13, 8:18 a.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.
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states, would also conflict with the city’s Housing Element and with the Fair Housing Act, which Labadie deemed to be beyond the scope of the hearing. The appeal points to federal and state laws that recognize that actions having a disparate impact on protected groups of people may constitute “illegal discrimination� even if these groups aren’t overtly targeted. The city has an obligation, the appeal maintains, “to affirmatively further fair housing.� “The closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park would certainly have a discriminatory effect on Latinos in Palo Alto and would likely also have a discriminatory effect on people with disabilities and families with children,� the appeal letter states. “Accordingly, any relocation assistance must ensure that the residents can access housing in communities that have opportunities similar to those in Palo Alto. Moreover, failing to preserve the park and allowing the displacement of its current residents in the park would be a violation of the city’s obligation to affirmatively further fair housing.� The appeal was filed by the Public Interest Law Firm and Fair Housing Law Project at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. The legal team also includes the Western Center on Law and Poverty and Sidley Austin LLP. According to an appraisal conducted during the closure process, the property is currently valued at about $14.5 million. If the property is rezoned for a multi-family housing development, the value would jump up to $28.8 million. In April 2013, residents made an offer to the Jissers to buy the park for $14.5 million, but the offer was rejected in September. It’s far from clear what type of development the five-acre site at 3980 El Camino Real could accommodate, should Buena Vista close. The developer Prometheus Real Estate Group had entered into an agreement with the Jissers in 2012 to develop 180 units of highend housing on the site. In June, the real estate giant filed a quitclaim deed, nullifying this agreement. Speculation about Buena Vista’s future has become a hot topic in the City Council race, with candidates generally agreeing that the city should take some role in assisting Buena Vista residents, should the park close. At an Oct. 2 forum, candidate Eric Filseth called Buena Vista’s pending closure a “huge tragedy� while candidate Lydia Kou said the city should consider extending a loan to a nonprofit to develop affordable housing at the Buena Vista site, a deal comparable to one that the city made last year with the Palo Alto Housing Corporation for a housing development on Maybell Avenue that voters ultimately shot down. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 18 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Narcotics registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Gang info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Sombat Lucha Sombat Lucha, former Crossing Guard at Walter Hays Elementary, 29 year member of AA, quilter and gardener, died at home on Monday, October 6th, 2014 after a lengthy hospitalization. She was 73. Sombat was born in 1941 in Bangkok, Thailand. She was trained in the family business of Thai classical dancing at age 5. She met her husband, Jerry, while he worked there. They were married in 1969. She became an American citizen in 1981. Despite her lack of formal education, Sombat succeeded in everything she wanted to. She learned to sew and had a dressmaking business, worked for a puppet-maker, as an electronic circuit board inspector (15 years), and as a wellliked crossing guard (24 years). As an avid member of AA, she attended meetings regularly, being a speaker and sponsor. After retirement, she became a gifted quilter and gardener. She is survived by her husband, Gerald; her sons, Somchai Yensuwan and Steve Lucha of Palo Alto; Frederick Lucha of Stockton; James Lucha of Moreno Valley; daughter, Amporn Yamoto of Watsonville. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Pathways Hospice Foundation. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 1st at 12 PM at Los Altos Lutheran Church (460 El Monte Ave, Los Altos, CA 94022). PA I D
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Marjorie Larsen
Marjorie Roberson Browning Larsen, a resident of Palo Alto for 64 years, died on Sept. 5 at her home with family by her side. She was 98. She was born on July 25, 1916, in Washington, D.C. She grew up there and in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, before attending Secretarial College in the nation’s capital and taking a job at DuPont Company. There she met Arthur Larsen, whom she married in 1942. When Arthur took a new job with Dow Chemical, the family moved to California in 1947. They lived in San Francisco for three years, before settling in the Barron Park neighborhood of
Palo Alto in 1950. She lived in the neighborhood for the rest of her life, raising her three children with her husband there. For 25 years she worked as an assistant manager at the Emporium department store at the Stanford Shopping Center. She was also very involved at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, attending services, teaching Sunday school and helping with fundraisers. She also volunteered with the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Guild and the Palo Alto Garden Club, through which she volunteered at Gamble Garden. She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur. She is survived by her daughter, Susan (Burton) Ward of Carmel, California; son, Wade (Diane) Larsen of Mariposa, California; and son, Landon Larsen of Seattle. She is also survived by five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Oct. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. Interment will be at Saint Mark’s in the All Souls Garden. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Marjorie Larsen Memorial Fund (P.O. Box 2805, Carmel, CA 93921) for improvements at Bol Park in Palo Alto.
Memorial Service Lena Levinson, a resident of Sunrise Senior Living in
Palo Alto since 2011, died Oct. 14. She was 102. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 3:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills.
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Cassius L. Kirk, Jr. Born in Bozeman, Montana, on June 8, 1929, he died of cancer in Stanford Hospital on September 22, 2014. He attended lower schools in Bozeman and in December 1943 moved with his parents and siblings to San Jose where he graduated from Lincoln High School. He enrolled in Stanford University in 1947 and received his bachelor’s degree in 1951. He enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1951, graduating with honors in 1954. From 1955 to 1956 he served with the United States Army of Occupation in Germany. Following discharge from the Army, he was associated with the San Francisco law firm now known as Cooley, Godward from 1956 to 1960. In 1960 he was appointed staff counsel for business affairs at Stanford University and served in that position until 1978, when he resigned to accept the position of chief business officer for Menlo School and College. He resigned from Menlo School and College in 1981 and since that time was a principal or investor in a variety of Bay Area business endeavors, including office buildings on Sand Hill Road; Just Closets, a seven-store retail storage accessory and custom closet company; and commercial office buildings in Redwood City. He was one of the original investors with the late Thomas Ford, the initial developer of low-density garden offices on Sand Hill Road. He endowed two professorships at Stanford University and was active in fund raising for Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He served as a vice president for community affairs of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and a regional national vice chairman of Stanford’s Annual Fund, and was on the advisory board of Allied Arts, and the board of directors of Pocket Opera of San Francisco. He also served a number of terms as president of Menlo Towers Association. He traveled extensively throughout the world, making more than twenty-five trips abroad, including seven around-the-world trips. He is survived by his sister Patricia Dowd of Seattle and eleven nephews and nieces and was predeceased by his twin brother Lawrence and sister Jo-Ann. At the decedent’s request, no services are planned. PAID
Wiley Thomas Birkhofer July 7, 1987 – September 30, 2014 Resident of Brooklyn, NY Wiley Thomas Birkhofer passed away on September 30, 2014. Wiley was born in California on July 7, 1987 at Stanford Hospital, the first child of Wendell Wiley Birkhofer and Celeste Phaneuf Birkhofer. He grew up in Menlo Park, CA, where he attended Oak Knoll and Menlo Schools. Wiley flourished in academics and sports, especially basketball, soccer and lacrosse. He also became an avid skier, surfer and seeker of adventure. After graduating from Stanford University with his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 2009, Wiley continued to pursue his love of writing. He completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing - Poetry at New York University in 2014. Wiley recently achieved his goal of becoming an English professor, and was teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He was planning to teach creative arts to underserved kids through Community-Word Project in the NYC School System. His work career also included teaching at Sacred Hearts School on Maui, Boys and Girls Club, and undergrad writing and poetry courses at NYU during his Master’s program. He also had a stint at local tech start-up Thuuz. While living in New York, his passion for creating art and music grew exponentially. Wiley made a lasting impression on many people. He deeply loved his family and countless friends. They will forever remember his uninhibited spirit, creativity, intellectual curiosity, sense of humor, sensitivity and compassion for others. Wiley is survived by his parents, sister Elise Marie Birkhofer, grandfather G. Wendell Birkhofer and ten aunts and uncles. A memorial service will be held at Stanford Memorial Church on Tuesday, October 21 at 2:30 p.m. Parking and shuttles will be available at Galvez Lot, at the corner of Campus Drive East and Galvez St. The reception to follow will be a private gathering. The family suggests that donations can be made in Wiley’s memory to the National Alliance on Mental Health (namicalifornia.org) or Community-Word Project (communitywordproject.org) in New York.
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Christine Coolidge & Christopher Martini
Christine “Chrissy” Elizabeth Coolidge and Christopher Walsh Martini will marry on Oct. 25 at Gardener Ranch in Carmel Valley, California. The couple first met in second grade at Las Lomitas Elementary School in Menlo Park and were friends through eighth grade. Circumstances separated them in high school and college, but when Chrissy returned from the East Coast to work in San Francisco, the two eventually went on a first date. The bride is currently a director at Thoits Brothers Inc., a commercial real estate group and family enterprise that originated in the 1880s with the Palo Alto Savings and Loan. She is a graduate of University of Arizona and a member of the Palo Alto Rotary Club. She is the daughter of Capt. Oliver Bradford Coolidge and Jil MacDonald Coolidge of Portola Valley. The groom is an independent photographer and technologist, who formerly worked at Lytro, a camera manufacturing startup, and Apple as a software engineer. He is a graduate of California State University, Monterey Bay, and Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton. He is the son of Susan Bowen Martini of Menlo Park. The couple currently resides in Professorville in Palo Alto.
Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Editorials Measure D: No on reducing council size alk of reducing the size of the Palo Alto City Council from nine to seven has come and gone for decades, but has never generated enough traction to get on the ballot. This year, with great ambivalence and on a slim 5-4 vote, the City Council put Measure D on the ballot to let voters decide. It has stirred almost no voter interest and very little campaigning. Even Mayor Nancy Shepherd, who pushed last year for putting both the council size reduction and increasing council term limits on the ballot, now says she has no position on the proposal even though she voted to place it on the ballot. And Councilmember Marc Berman, who also voted to put Measure D on the ballot, said at the time he wasn’t sure it was a good idea. If enacted, the size of the council would be reduced in 2018, when the candidates we elect next month will be up for reelection. Instead of five council slots in that election, there would only be three, so theoretically there could be four incumbents running for three slots, a situation sure to discourage additional candidates. Proponents of the measure, who are mostly former office holders, argue that other cities do just fine with five- or seven-member councils and that Palo Alto’s unusually large council drags out meetings late into the night, is costly and inefficient. The real issue, which proponents acknowledge privately, is that they don’t believe there are enough qualified candidates interested in serving to sustain this size governing body, and that unless the size is reduced less capable people will wind up getting elected. Although reducing the size of the city council to seven is unlikely to cause real harm, or alter the direction of city policy, there is very little evidence to support any of the arguments in favor of the measure. The length of city council meetings is far more dependent on agenda planning and the skills of the mayor. Meetings should never go past 11 p.m. and uncompleted agenda items should be postponed, just as they are in meetings of any other organization. We would much prefer that solution to the problem of late meetings than reducing
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the size of the council. Opponents argue that reducing council size not only decreases the diversity of voices, but could present problems when one or more council members must recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest. If, for example, two council members had Stanford conflicts, it could reduce the effective size of the council to five for any matter involving the university. Proponents of council size reduction couldn’t have picked a worse time to push this proposal forward. The division in the community over current and future development has inspired a large pool of candidates in this year’s council race, aided by two incumbents stepping down. The fact that support for the measure comes almost entirely from those who have held office or already have political influence in the community and not from neighborhood leaders or others who have an equal interest in good, transparent government leads us to believe Palo Alto is not ready for fewer voices representing them on the city council. We don’t rule out the possibility that in the future a reduction in size might become non-controversial and beneficial. But in the heat of today’s political environment, it’s bad timing.
Measure B: Yes on increasing hotel tax alo Alto Measure B would increase the city’s transient occupancy tax, the tax added to hotel bills for visitors, from 12 percent to 14 percent. The increased revenue, estimated to be more than $2 million a year, would go into the city’s general fund, but in placing the proposal on the ballot the City Council has made clear the money will be allocated to addressing infrastructure needs, including seismic upgrades to fire stations and other street and parking improvements. It is an important piece to a broader strategy of funding infrastructure improvements. Opposition has come from the Chamber of Commerce and the hotels whose guests will have to absorb the additional 2 percent tax. They argue the increase will put Palo Alto hotels at a competitive disadvantage to those in other cities where the tax is less, and question the rationale of using these
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Our earlier election recommendations Palo Alto City Council
(See editorial published Oct. 10.) Karen Holman (incumbent) Greg Scharff (incumbent) Tom DuBois Eric Filseth Cory Wolbach
Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education (See editorial published Oct. 3.) Terry Godfrey Ken Dauber
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tax revenues to fund infrastructure projects. The tax increase, which only requires a simple majority vote, is a politically easy way to generate an additional couple of million dollars a year. Two percent of a $200 hotel room amounts to an additional $4, surely not enough to change any visitors’ decision on where to book a hotel room. While not the optimal way to fund needed city services, it has become a convenient strategy for cities as a way to avoid the twothirds approval requirements for raising the property tax under Prop. 13 or passing a bond measure. Vote “yes” on Measure B.
Measure C: Yes on updates to utility tax alo Alto currently generates about 7 percent of its general-fund revenue, or some $11 million, from the 5 percent utility tax that was approved by voters in 1987. Measure C updates the ordinance by broadening the portion of the tax targeting landline telephone bills to reflect all forms of telephone communication services, including cell phones, “voice over internet protocol” and other technologies that enable point-topoint communications. The change is intended to be revenue neutral, and includes a reduction in the telecommunications tax rate from 5 percent to 4.75 percent and the elimination of some discounts for large volume utility users that were part of the original utility-tax measure. The only opposition are taxpayer advocacy groups and the Libertarian Party. Most other cities with a utility tax have already updated its provisions for today’s communication technologies. Vote “yes” on Measure C.
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Brian Schmidt for water board t is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a candidate running for a seat on the nine-member board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District to spend several hundred thousand dollars to get elected. But that is what’s happening in entrepreneur Gary Kremen’s bid to unseat incumbent Brian Schmidt to represent Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Gatos in District 7. Kremen, who is politically connected and himself a major campaign donor to many local elected officials and the Democratic party, has loaned his own campaign $250,000 through the end of September and already spent more than $300,000. This high-powered politics is new territory for incumbent Schmidt, who has raised just $13,000 and has been completely blindsided by Kremen’s high-spending bid.
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Kremen has come out aggressively against Schmidt and says he will take that same approach if elected in dealing with the operation of the water district. Every meeting of the district board will be a “job interview” for the agency’s CEO, Kremen promises, just like the private sector. He has a litany of criticisms of Schmidt and the district, including not focusing enough attention on the drought, not doing enough to pressure the Regional Water Quality Control Board, a state agency, to approve badly needed flood-control measures for San Francisquito Creek, and not undertaking needed seismic upgrades to the county’s reservoirs. He also objects to the fact that revenues from a state water tax aren’t being fairly distributed throughout the district. Kremen, who is the founder of Match. com, is currently board president of the 6,400-customer Purissima Hills Water District in Los Altos Hills and founder and chairman of WaterSmart Software, a company that sells consumption monitoring software to retail water suppliers. The software produces reports that tell consumers how their water use compares with similar households and offers conservation suggestions. He has also started a solar energy financing company. Schmidt, who ran four years ago as a reform candidate critical of district management, is an environmental lawyer who has spent 15 years working on environmental and water issues, in part as the former legislative advocate for the Committee for Green Foothills. He rejects Kremen’s criticisms and says he’s been part of a board majority that hired a new CEO, lowered director pay and established more transparency by moving board meetings to the evenings. He points to the work he has done on flood protection and habitat restoration, and especially to help forge broad support for the San Francisquito Creek flood-control work and fighting for its passage in front of the water board. With Palo Alto’s water supply coming entirely from Hetch Hetchy through the San Francisco Water Department, the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s importance to the city is primarily in the flood control and creek habitat work where Schmidt has been most active. Mild-mannered and earnest, Schmidt provides a sharp contrast to free-wheeling entrepreneur and political activist Kremen. Both have the smarts and technical knowledge and interest to serve the district well, but with drastically different styles. Kremen would shake things up and bring politics much more into play, perhaps for the good. But we object to the excessive amount of money he is spending and don’t believe Schmidt has done anything to warrant kicking him out of office. He’s been a hard-working and committed board member, doing a more than satisfactory job at representing north county’s interests. He just happens to be the one in the way of Kremen’s political ambitions. We recommend re-electing Brian Schmidt to the Santa Clara Valley Water District board of directors.
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Off Deadline Another ‘Fiber to the Premise’ resurrection for Palo Alto? by Jay Thorwaldson he long-discussed dream of getting true high-speed fiber-optic service for Palo Alto is looking like a real possibility. There are two reasons: Google is offering to bring fiber to 34 communities, one of which may be Palo Alto; and Palo Alto has a little-known “fiber fund” built on profits from leases of fibers in the city’s “dark-fiber ring,” created in the late 1990s. The fund now has about $20 million that could — some say should — be used to build a high-speed-fiber network community-wide. Such a system is now termed “Fiber to the Premise,” or FTTP, rather than the earlier “Fiber to the Home” designation. “Premise” means businesses as well as homes and apartments. Either system would also likely be a mix of direct fiber connections and wireless, or Wi-Fi, from nodes, a kind of substation. Google calls those “huts” and has been discussing with city staff the creation of two such huts to serve different areas of Palo Alto. The nodes would enable creation of really fast broadband wireless sub-networks throughout the city. A similar setup would likely be part of a direct-city fiber project, funded by the fiber fund, not taxpayer dollars. Beyond those generalities lie many details and questions yet to be resolved. Behind the current discussions by city staff, citizens committees and a few members of the public lies a new City Council determination to finally get something mov-
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Letters Consider actions Editor, Nancy Shepherd has been a valuable member of the City Council and a highly effective mayor — bringing people together, facing complex issues headon, responding to constituents and never failing to focus on the future. Consider just a few of her first-term accomplishments: • Nancy improved communication by spearheading Our Palo Alto, a series of meetings between citizens and staff. These are intended as a starting point for ongoing conversations. She also has a reputation as the one council member who answers almost every email she receives. • Before her election and even more so as a member of the council’s Rail Committee, Nancy worked with her colleagues and representatives of neighboring cities to stop plans for an elevated high-speed-rail system. She went on to help change the focus to a much-needed upgrade of Caltrain service. • Nancy has been a leader in ef-
ing on the fiber front after more than 15 years of discussions, disappointments and confusion. Discussions of high-speed Internet access actually date back to the early 1990s, when the listserve “Palo Alto Communications Network,” or “PA-ComNet,” was formed in 1993, followed by the spinoff group, “Palo Alto FiberNet.” By the late 1990s and early 2000s, city officials were actively discussing creating a new fiber-communications utility as part of the city-owned utility operations for water, gas, sewer and electricity. That idea crashed headlong into estimates of up to $40 million to install fiber-optic lines, a too-risky gamble in a hostile competitive environment. Emily Harrison, former assistant city manager, even conducted a workshop on fiber networks at a National League of Cities conference in the early 2000s. She warned that in any age the means of transportation of goods and services determines the economic vitality of a region, and noted that in an “information age” high-speed communication is the medium of transport. Since then, mayors and council members have stepped up to the plate, creating citizen committees to explore possibilities and authorizing staff to get engaged. And Google’s new plan emerged last February on the sidelines as an alternative to a local homegrown effort. Today, longtime supporters of FTTP are feeling optimistic that something, Google or home-built, will emerge in the reason-
ably near future. One longtime observer/supporter is Bob Harrington, who has played an advisory role for years and won the trust of city officials and potential private partners, such as a Canadian firm that ultimately backed off from doing a Palo Alto system. The absolute best history of the fiber subject, at least back to about 2000, is on a website Harrington created in 2005, and which he keeps up-to-date: iPaloAlto.com. His optimism starts with the city’s leadership. On the website, he says the City Council “has been proactive in seeking an acceptable path to citywide FTTP. Mayor Nancy Shepherd, Vice Mayor Liz Kniss, and council members Marc Berman, Pat Burt, Karen Holman, Larry Klein, Gail Price, Greg Scharff, and Greg Schmid have all been engaged in a positive and constructive manner.” Besides possible Google involvement, announced last February, Harrington notes the city is in a vastly different position than when it had only taxpayer funds or possible partnership funding to consider for fiber. “The Fiber Utility Reserve currently totals about $20 million and is growing
forts to develop consensus in the community about the long-term use of one of our city’s most valuable assets, the Cubberley site. • Nancy worked with council and staff to bring a grocery store to Edgewood Plaza along with a small revitalized neighborhood shopping area, ending years of decline. We need experience and forward thinking city council members. Please join us in voting for Nancy Shepherd. Lanie Wheeler, former mayor of Palo Alto Megan Swezey Fogarty, Midtown resident Carolyn Tucher, former president, PAUSD Board of Education
since Anderson and Calero Dam are not structurally retrofit. The State Water Project tax we pay on our property tax for water we do not get is unacceptable. Especially galling is that this water is effectively being held hostage during this drought. Our current representative on the district is not getting the job done. I urge you to vote for Gary Kremen, a fellow Barron Park resident, Clean Technology Engineer and water conservation expert. He is committed to bringing us safe, clean water; using innovation to manage the current and future drought; and providing fiscal accountability and transparency. Steve Bennet Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto
Water is critical
Children are her passion
Editor, Between the drought, the unfixed San Francisquito Creek and the unfair State Water Project tax, Palo Alto is not being served well by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. The district bungled preparation for the drought including stranding 25 percent of the district’s water in Southern California. Even if it rains, the district can’t store all the water
Editor, I am writing to express my support for Terry Godfrey for Palo Alto School Board. I volunteered to be Terry’s campaign co-chair based on my professional and personal relationship with her. Terry and I met in graduate school at UCLA and were reunited five years later at Intel where we ultimately ended up job sharing. Terry has strong management
about $2 million a year,” he notes. “This reserve has quietly accumulated over 15 years from the fiber license fees paid by about 100 large companies, including a half-dozen resellers. These Fiber utility reserves must be reinvested in city communications projects, which can include fiber and/or wireless communications.” A longtime watchdog and critic, as well as a fiercely dedicated proponent of fiber, is Jeff Hoel, who regularly critiques in detail staff reports and news articles and columns, including mine. Hoel also is optimistic, but doesn’t think much of the Google idea, especially with a recent change of management for the project. He cited five specific concerns, that Google (1) has no announced plan on serving businesses; (2) won’t commit to citywide FTTP; (3) has been “pretty inflexible” about when people can sign up; (4) hasn’t announced how it would implement a “smart grid” for city utilities; and (5) plans a “point-to-node” (PON) system rather than point-to-point Ethernet. So it’s clear that there is a lot to discuss yet about fiber for Palo Alto homes and businesses (those that don’t already have it). But the topic is once again alive and appears to be, um, reasonably resuscitated and, for the moment, well. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jthorwaldson@ paweekly.com and/or jaythor@well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.
skills, is data-driven, asks good questions and is results oriented. She is an independent thinker who also understands when a decision has been made and it is time to move on. She is honest, smart and fun to work with. I also know Terry and her husband Steve as friends. We have spent many hours together talking about our children’s successes and challenges. It is clear to me that Terry is a person who truly cares about children, both hers and the community’s at large. She has put her time and heart into the work she has done from the PTA to Project Safety Net to PiE because our children are her passion. Please join me in voting for Terry Godfrey for school board. Leslie Dorosin Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto
A tireless advocate Editor, Here’s why you should vote for Ken Dauber: Ken is a tireless advocate for all of our district’s students, which he has proven by studying the issues facing our district, then attending and speaking at most school board meetings over at least the last
two years, promoting a supportive school environment. Ken’s message is consistent, urging equitable outcomes for students at both high schools, while respecting the professionalism of teachers and promoting the well-being of students, access to neighborhood schools, and higher expectations for students of all abilities in progressive programs. Ken and I worked together for months on the district homework committee, and I saw firsthand the collaborative, considered and research-driven approach Ken uses when working through controversial issues. As an active volunteer at all of my children’s schools and a current Gunn parent, I appreciate the perspective Ken brings to the school board because he has children who attended Gunn. Recent leadership changes at the district and high schools have opened a window of opportunity to make our great district even better. Let’s make it great for everyone by electing Ken Dauber to the PAUSD School Board. Keri Wagner, past PTA president of Hoover Elementary and Terman Middle schools Edlee Avenue, Palo Alto
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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 20, 2014 - 6:00 PM STUDY SESSION 1. Joint meeting with the Planning & Transportation Commission 2. Palo Alto Grade Separation and Trenching Study SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY 3. Public/Private Partnership Presentation: Palo Alto/Menlo Park Parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club - Annual Report 4. Appointment of Candidates to the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board CONSENT CALENDAR 5. From Finance Committee Approval of Fiscal Year 2014 Reappropriation Requests to be Carried Forward into Fiscal Year 2015 6. Adoption of Two Resolutions Approving and Accepting a total of $75,000 in Funds from the Santa Clara Valley Water District under the 2014 Safe, Clean Water Priority A Grant Program Agreement and Authorizing the City Manager or his Designee to Execute such an Agreement to be Used By the Utilities Department to support its Business Water Report Pilot Program and Real-Time Water Use Monitoring Pilot Program, and Adoption of a related Budget Amendment Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2015 to Provide Appropriation in the Amount of $100,000 7. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation to Accept the City (\KP[VY Z 6Ń?JL -PZJHS @LHY 7YVWVZLK >VYR 7SHU 8. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation to Approve an Ordinance to Amend Section 2.08.130 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, 6Ń?JL HUK +\[PLZ VM [OL *P[` (\KP[VY [V 9LĂ&#x2026;LJ[ *OHUNLZ PU (\KP[PUN Practices and Clarify the Requirements for Reporting Work Products of [OL 6Ń?JL VM [OL *P[` (\KP[VY ( WWYV]HS VM H *VU[YHJ[ ^P[O ;YHŃ?J^HYL PU [OL (TV\U[ VM MVY [OL 7HSV (S[V ;YHŃ?J :PNUHS <WNYHKL 7YVQLJ[ *VU[YHJ[ ^P[O *65*,95! ,(7 ,TWSV`LL (ZZPZ[HUJL 7YVNYHT 11. Adoption of an Ordinance Approving and Adopting a Plan for Improvements to El Camino Park; Approval of and Authorization for the City Manager or his Designee to Execute Contract Amendment No. 3 to Contract C10131396 in the Amount of $47,850 with CDM :TP[O MVY [OL ,S *HTPUV 7HYR 9LZ[VYH[PVU 7YVQLJ[" HUK (KVW[PVU VM H Budget Amendment Ordinance to Consolidate Existing Funds Totaling $4,395,286 into Capital Improvement Program PE-13016 from the El *HTPUV 7HYR 7SH`PUN -PLSKZ HUK (TLUP[PLZ 7YVQLJ[ 7. HUK MYVT [OL ,S *HTPUV 7HYR ,_WHUKLK 7HYRPUN 3V[ HUK 5L^ 9LZ[YVVT 7YVQLJ[ PE-13016, and to Retitle PE-13016 to â&#x20AC;&#x153;El Camino Park Restoration 7YVQLJ[š 12. Approval of Contract Amendment No. Two to Contract No. C12142825 in the Amount of $585,000 with NV5, Inc. for Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Newell Road/San Francisquito *YLLR )YPKNL 9LWSHJLTLU[ 7YVQLJ[ *HWP[HS 0TWYV]LTLU[ 7YVNYHT 7YVQLJ[ 7, HUK (KVW[PVU VM H )\KNL[ (TLUKTLU[ 6YKPUHUJL PU [OL (TV\U[ VM [V *07 7YVQLJ[ 7, 5L^LSS 9VHK :HU -YHUJPZX\P[V *YLLR )YPKNL 9LWSHJLTLU[ 7YVQLJ[ 7> (WWYV]HS VM *VU[YHJ[ 5V * >P[O (UKLYZVU 7HJPĂ&#x201E;J Engineering Construction, Inc. in the Total Amount Not to Exceed MVY [OL -HJPSP[` 9LWHPY 9L[YVĂ&#x201E;[ 7YVQLJ[ 5V H[ [OL Regional Water Quality Control Plant Capital Improvement Program 7YVQLJ[ >8 ACTION ITEMS *V\UJPS +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃ&#x153; 9LNHYKPUN 7YVWVZLK 7\ISPJ 7YP]H[L Partnerships and Garage Feasibility Studies 15. Friends of Junior Museum and Zoo Letter of Interest 16. Status Report on Previously Approved City Hall Remodel
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hen Esther Wojcicki arrived to lead Palo Alto High School’s journalism program in 1984, she was put in a corner room in the Tower Building with 19 students, one typewriter and a person hired at a dollar an hour to work the Justowriter, a now-ancient machine that automatically justified text. Ten times a year, they put out a single publication: student newspaper The Campanile, founded in 1918. The newspaper was six to eight pages long, more than enough for the laborious process it took to put together — cutting and pasting stories onto a board using hot wax. “It was like horse and buggy,” Wojciki said. Fast forward to the surreal future of 2014, when 224 students and four advisers run The Campanile plus five niche magazines, a news website, daily broadcast segment and yearbook out of a multi-million-dollar Media Arts Center equipped with close to 200 brand new Apple computers (with all the latest editing and production software), soundproof interview booths, a dark room, audio recording studio and a broadcast TV studio that most professional news stations would envy. There are bicycle Fitdesks sprinkled throughout, flexible classroom furniture that can be adjusted to student and teacher preferences, a ticker above the entrance that streams campus news, and LCD television screens on which InFocus, Paly’s broadcast program, plays next to CNN. A second-floor mezzanine looks down onto an atrium that doubles as a work space and an event space, equipped with a massive projector screen.
The enormously popular Paly journalism program, along with a few English classes, is as of this year housed in this two-story, state-of-the-art Media Arts Center, which is hosting its grand opening this week. “It’s kind of like going from the slums into the palace,” said Wojcicki, whom students affectionately refer to as “The Woj.” “It’s the only one of its type, really, in the nation for a high school. Everybody says this looks like a college, and it does.” Such a facility seems an appropriate home for an award-winning program long known for engendering serious journalism, from breaking news to bold investigative pieces. In 1996, a Campanile writer broke the story of the Palo Alto school board’s closed-session promotion of Associate Superintendent Pat Einfalt. Sports magazine The Viking won the National Scholastic Press Association’s 2008 Student Journalist Impact Award for its coverage of hazing in high school athletics. Last year, feature magazine Verde’s reporting on the school’s alleged “rape culture” received national media attention, bringing local light to a national problem many are unwilling to discuss openly. The first issue of Verde this year features Kariel Young, a 16-year-old Paly junior who was left paralyzed from the chest down after an accident seven years ago. In this year’s inaugural issue of glossy C Magazine, a new arts and entertainment publication, a cover story on ex-political prisoners in Burma (interviewed by the editor-in-chief this past summer) is sandwiched between a spread of the top eight fashion trends on campus and a feature on a
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From left, Alex Zhu, Harrison Dwight and Chris Van Gelder work on producing the daily broadcast of InFocus, Paly’s news show produced entirely by students at the Media Arts Center, on Oct. 14
Palo Alto students learn about — and dive into — the Fourth Estate in state-of-the-art new media center Story by Elena Kadvany | Photographs by Veronica Weber vegan cheese shop in Fairfax. And despite their less-than-ideal facilities in the past, Paly students are no strangers to innovative technology — this is Palo Alto, after all. Last fall, Paly Voice students experimented with drone journalism, using a $300 Phantom drone to capture aerial video footage of the unfurling of the American flag on the school’s football field. (Journalism teacher and adviser Paul Kandell speculates they were the first high school journal-
ism program to do so.) This year, they’re playing around with 20 sets of iOgrapher, an iPad mini dock to which a microphone, 37mm lens, light and other filming accessories can be attached — meaning highquality video reporting can be done from pretty much anywhere. Kandell, whom Wojcicki hired in the late 1990s to run Verde and create a website for the program, said part of what sets Paly’s journalism program apart is that it provides
Palo Alto High School student Ellis O’Brien gives the weather report, as seen on a broadcasting monitor, during the school’s live daily news show, InFocus, on Oct. 14. The students use digital backgrounds much like professional newscasters.
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ith The Campanile printing 10 times a year, Verde five, Viking seven, finearts magazine Proof twice, C Magazine nine, the Paly Voice running online 24/7 and InFocus broadcasting daily, the Media Arts Center is a hub of journalistic activity. On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of about 15 students in the upstairs broadcast studio prepped for InFocus, which students and teachers can livestream online at 10 a.m. every weekday. Executive producers managed the show from a control room while students manned cameras and two reporters practiced the news of the day (parking permit lottery, college visits, senior portraits, the PSATs) before going live. The five-minute broadcast switched from the two main hosts to a sports reporter, a weatherman and then back. Adviser Paul Hoeprich, a filmmaker and reporter who joined the program this year, hovered in the control room, providing support and pointers when necessary. Downstairs, Verde staff gathered in Kandell’s classroom to critique the most recent issue of the magazine. An editor led the class, as they do for all of the student-run publications, as classmates offered candid input on design elements, layout, captions and use of images. Students say that one thing that draws them to the journalism program — and keeps them there — is the student-run model. Editors plan and lead the classes; the advisers take a backseat but provide support and supervision. “It involves a lot of outside work for us because we have to figure out the lesson plans and put together presentations, but it’s really great for both staff and editors because ... you feel more comfortable when you’re being led by students, and it feels more like a real-life company where everyone is on the same page working together,” said Verde editor-in-chief and senior Tira Oskou. “For the editors, I’ve become a lot more confident and sure of myself having to go up in front of the class and lead them through things.” That can be challenging, too. New C Magazine editors Maggie Zheng and Olivia Vort, chosen by the student staff, said it was difficult to strike the right balance between authority and flexibility for the first production cycle this fall. “When it came time for us to become leaders, it was really hard to exercise power without trying to be a tyrant, especially when you are the same age as everyone. We ended up being too lenient,” said Zheng, who joined C Magazine her sophomore year and is
A media center for the next century School-district bond, dreams of students and faculty brought new facility to life
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hat will the newsroom-classroom of the future look like? Backed with about $10 million in voter-approved funding, Paly journalism teachers and students set out five years ago to answer this question, creating a nextcentury Media Arts Center designed to serve the school and community for generations. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. In June 2008 — right before the recession hit — Palo Alto voters overwhelmingly approved a Strong Schools Bond, making a $378 million investment in the school district’s future, which would require much more capacity and upgraded technology. The bond gave schools a chance to make bids for projects or improvements they had long lusted after. Journalism adviser Paul Kandell remembers a 2009 school board meeting during which Paly and Gunn high schools presented proposals for their respective dream facilities. Paly’s was the Media Arts Center. “When we did that presentation, it was unlike anything you’ve ever seen at the board,” Kandell said. “After we were done, they took their vote and then called a recess, and they just jumped up and came down and hugged us. It was a really bizarre thing. They found it an inspiration.” The proposal the board saw that night was the result of multiple iterations crafted after careful research, visits to similar, notable centers, and plenty of input from students. Kandell and former journalism adviser Ellen Austin guided the brainstorming process with the help of five principles that the newsrooms of the future should embody, formulated by Chris O’ Brien, a San Jose Mercury News business reporter who started The Next Newsroom Project, an initiative to redesign the home for the newspaper at Duke University (his alma mater). Kandell discovered that O’Brien’s principles rang true with the vision for what he referred to in 2009 as a “media arts temple.” O’Brien said that newsrooms should promote multi-platform publishing, collaboration, a sense of community, transparency and innovation. Kandell and Austin gave the principles to their students and asked them, “If you could create the newsroom or journalism facility of your dreams, and these are the principles that you have, what would it look like?” Seven classes of journalism students came up with long lists of ideas and must-have features. They sketched building designs, which Kandell said all featured plenty of glass (their literal interpretation of the transparency principle). The ideas were eventually compressed into one presentation, which teachers and students then took to a journalism convention in Arizona, where they were further inspired by Arizona State University’s sixstory, 225,000-square-foot Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. They came home, presented a final proposal to the school’s facilities committee and then brought a conceptual design to the school board for approval. Integral to the center’s concept and design was the fact that it was not going to be space used exclusively by students. Paly at the time needed a central gathering space for faculty; all faculty meetings are now held in the center. Principal Kim Diorio and other staff frequently gather in an airy upstairs conference space dubbed the “board room.” The center was also designed to be a space for all kinds of events that reach beyond the
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Journalism teacher and adviser Paul Kandell, standing, looks over students Anand Srinivasan, center, and Eliza Ackroyd, right, as they critique the latest edition of Verde magazine in a classroom in the Media Arts Center. Paly community: debates, film festivals, art exhibits, conferences, even school board meetings. “This was in 2008, 2009, when people were (asking), ‘Is news going to die completely?’ All these newspapers were dying, literally, and what was the answer? Part of it was to merge yourself with the community and to become more focused on your community,” Kandell said. “I think they should have school board meetings in here and public debates. This should be the place where this stuff happens.” After receiving the board’s blessing in 2009 and moving forward on the design, then-Principal Jacquie McEvoy applied for a $2.7 million Career Technical Education grant from the state to help pay for some additional bells and whistles (including the ticker, LCD screens, a giant projector screen and the unconventional furniture). The final financial layer was the creation of a Paly Media Arts Boosters group, which to date has raised about $200,000, including an $85,000 gift from the Brin-Wojcicki Foundation, the family foundation of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Anne Wojcicki is the daughter of longtime Paly journalism teacher Esther Wojcicki. The Boosters today continue to raise funds to support media-arts initiatives at the high school. These three financing pieces made the center possible — and just in time before the economy totally fell apart, Kandell said. They broke ground in 2011, aiming to finish in two years, which turned into three after delays caused by litigation with the contractor hired for the project, Taisei Construction Company. (Though the center is now open,
that legal dispute continues.) Journalistic and technology details abound in the Media Arts Center. In the bathrooms, white tiled walls are sprinkled with light teal tiles emblazoned with humorous headlines from real publications, along with the date they ran. One in the women’s bathroom reads, “Poll says that 53% believe media offen make mistakes” (from the San Diego Union Tribune on July 12, 1998). Another: “Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25” (Denver Post on May 14, 1995). The father of one student built benches fit for the center: two old Apple computers serve as the legs of the bench, connected by wooden slats to sit on. Windows that form one wall of the main computer lab downstairs provide not just a transparent view in and out but also function as workspace: During production, students have been known to write detailed layout notes on the windows as if on a whiteboard. The first-floor atrium can accommodate 200 people. A 16-by-20-foot projector screen is perfect for videos or presentations. There’s also a full kitchen for event staging or catering. While students have been making full use of the center since the beginning of the school year, it just opened to the public this week, with an invite-only event Thursday featuring Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post; David Kelley of Ideo, who now heads Stanford University’s d. school; and Shelby Coffey, journalist and trustee of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. A public open house with tours and food will take place tonight, Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday evening (continued on page 29)
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The new Media Arts Center features a digital marquee that streams news and school announcements.
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now a senior. “This second production, we’re going to try to be more strict and give them concrete guidelines.” But the chance to lead a classroom and publication — and the challenge in doing so — is a defining hallmark of the program Wojcicki created. “It’s a student-directed, studentdriven program. We really support student rights and First Amendment rights,” said Wojcicki, who demonstrated for free speech during her undergraduate years at U.C. Berkeley and has been honored countless times for her teaching. “Paul and I are both really passionate about that. At many schools, students don’t have those rights.” Paly students, after taking a beginning journalism course with Kandell or Wojcicki, can also choose from what the two advisers speculate is the nation’s largest number of high school publications. To accommodate The Campanile’s rapidly growing popularity, Wojcicki founded InFocus in 1998. Next came Verde in 1999 and the Paly Voice in 2003. Wojcicki continues to advise The Campanile’s 50 students this year as well as arts-and-entertainment C Magazine, which at 20 students (all female) and being in its third year is Paly’s smallest and youngest publication. There’s also Agora, a foreign affairs magazine that now only runs online; Proof, a biannual fine-arts magazine; and a radio club. “I’m an athlete so I really wanted to write about sports, but I thought that (with) Verde, since it’s more of feature-writing magazine, I would have the opportunity to write about many different topics that I hadn’t been exposed to before,” said junior Siddharth Srinivasan, a Verde news editor who joined the magazine as a second-semester sophomore. “I found that particularly appealing.” Junior Griffin Carlson, one of
InFocus’ three executive producers, said it’s the adviser-teachers who make the program what it is. “If you could choose one thing that sets Paly apart from other journalism programs, it’s the amount of resources we have — both physical resources, the equipment and this building, but also resources in terms of the advisers and teachers,” he said.
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he Paly program has yielded a long list of alumni successful in the news world — a rich tradition that Kandell said inspires his students. There’s John Markoff, a science and technology journalist who has written for
‘Journalism is a way to teach kids to write and to think and to gather information and sift through it and figure out what’s most important.’ — Esther Wojcicki, journalism adviser, Palo Alto High School
The New York Times since 1988. Noah Sneider, a 2009 graduate who co-founded The Viking, has spent this year on the front lines covering the crisis in Ukraine for the Times and Al Jazeera. Since 2011, Gady Epstein has served as The Economist’s China correspondent (and before that was Forbes’ Beijing bureau chief). Other graduates have made names for themselves at Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Guardian and Associated Press. “(Students) are excited to be a part of the program, and they are inspired by their predecessors,” Kandell said. “They always want to do as well or better. They seem
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to want to do justice to the tradition that has been developed doing great work, which is pretty exciting.” Kandell also pointed to a Sept. 8 New Republic article, “Women Don’t Stick With the Sciences. Here’s Why,” written by a former Verde editor Rotem Ben-Shachar, who works in biology — not journalism. “I like to say that it’s not really important to me that they go into journalism, but it is important to me that they come out with all the skills that great journalism work can inspire,” he said. This gets to the crux of the Media Arts Center. Behind all the eye-popping bells and whistles is a hope that it fuels a 21st-century educational model that puts journalism at the forefront. “I think that kids need technology education, for one, and journalism is the perfect vehicle,” Wojcicki said. “You’re using technology in a way to actually communicate with the world and improve the world. Journalism is a way to teach kids to write and to think and to gather information and sift through it and figure out what’s most important. If we can train all the kids in the country to do that, we are going to be 100 percent ahead.” Wojcicki said giving students the trust and respect to put together a publication with a real audience and a real impact also engages otherwise academically disconnected students. “The reason the program is so popular is because it’s a step into the real world,” she said. “It’s giving kids a glimpse into what is coming and teaching them skills that you need in the real world, like how to write a memo, how to get to the point right away — and they don’t get that in English (classes).” “Journalism has always and continues to provide an environment,” Kandell said, “to teach students the skills that educators and the public say they want from our schools: great writing, great thinking, building great citizens (who) value education, critical thinking.” “It doesn’t matter what list of
Adeline Zhou sits at a bicycle desk as fellow students Cauanny Calatayud and Lauren Wagner listen to a lecture in their business law class at the Media Arts Center at Palo Alto High School on Oct. 13.
Margo Wixsom, right, photography teacher and yearbook adviser at Palo Alto High School, assists a student in the beginning photography class as other students display their weekend photography assignments on their computers and discuss the elements of art and photography.
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is dedicated to an art show and film premiere by actor James Franco, with limited tickets available. Paly graduate Franco was a student of Wojcicki’s for two-and-a-half years. Wojcicki said the Media Arts Center was a product of “the right people at the right time.” She credited former acting-principal Marilyn Cook with moving the project forward. And because of Kandell, a former Newsweek stringer and San Francisco high school teacher whom Wojcicki hired in the late 1990s to run Verde magazine and build a website, the new center has become what it is today, she said. “Every detail in this building, he dreamt about at night. The building wouldn’t be as great as it is if he hadn’t been involved. It would have been an ordinary, boring building,” she said.
Claire Dennis and Aiva Petriceles, staff writers for Paly’s Campanile newspaper, read the latest edition before class in the school’s new Media Arts Center.
About the cover: The atrium of the Media Arts Center serves as both an event space and a workspace and features a 16- by 20-foot projector screen. Photograph by Veronica Weber.
Some of the benches at the Media Arts Center are made of repurposed old Mac computers. The building also features rotating art exhibits by art and photography students.
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four years ago. This year, she’s helping organize the Book Arts Jam. Rufaro spoke about her first BABA meeting as a kind of spiritual awakening. “I went in not knowing exactly who they were,” she recalled. “One member had taken a trip on Route 66 for her 66th birthday, and had made a book from her photos. It was really a fabulous book. I was so excited that I just busted out with, ‘You are my people!’ It was what I had been looking for all along.” A number of other BABA members attested to the group’s spirit of openness. Among them was Becky Barber, a San Jose librarian and longtime BABAling. “One of the things I really love is that because we are as inclusive as possible, we get the full gamut of members,” she explained, rattling off the backgrounds of her fellow book artists: fine book binders, photographers, watercolorists, teachers and those who who knew nothing about book art before attending a Book Arts Jam and falling in love. Book art may sound like a niche interest, yet there are groups across the nation and the world devoted to the practice. Book production and artistry have long been linked — think of medieval illuminated manuscripts, or William Blake’s detailed 18thcentury illustrated books. Yet the popularity of book art has grown particularly since the mid-20th (continued on next page)
Book art can take many forms and structures, as BABA member Nancy Struck demonstrates.
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century, when schools such as abstract expressionism, assemblage and Pop Art exploded perceptions of fine art by introducing found objects and challenging traditional modes of presentation. Unlike some groups that produce conceptual, post-modern â&#x20AC;&#x153;artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; books,â&#x20AC;? BABA has reclaimed book art as a folk art: a form thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accessible to everyone: adults, children, experienced print-makers and book binders, and even â&#x20AC;&#x201D; maybe especially â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those who think they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t artists at all. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been that way from the start, said Barber, who was involved in the founding years of the group, when a few women with an interest in the form began meeting in artist Jone Manoogianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s living room in Palo Alto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I give all of this back to Jone,â&#x20AC;? Barber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She established a wonderful community spirit for the group, and that spirit really does carry on.â&#x20AC;? Manoogian has since stepped back from her leadership role, but was eager to share her memories of BABA from 1995, when five members of the South Bay Area Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caucus for Art began to meet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all had interest in handmade artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; books and wanted to share our efforts in this new medium,â&#x20AC;? she remembered, recalling the popularity of their first public show at the Cubberley Art Center in 1997 and the steady growth of the group: By 2000, the original group of five had grown to 45. Today, BABA meetings are held at Greendell School, adjacent to the Cubberley Community Center. Every third Thursday evening of the month, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a meeting that includes show-and-tell, troubleshooting projects and an exchange of mini books or artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trading cards. On the first Sunday of the month from noon to 4 p.m., BABA holds a hands-on workshop focusing on a particular aspect of the craft, from creating a pop-up book to cyanotype photos or gelatin printing. These workshops are generally taught by BABAlings, Barber explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our workshops are either free, or we charge only the cost of materials,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all volunteers. We just teach each other.â&#x20AC;? Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com. What: Book Arts Jam 2014 Where: Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Saturday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to bookartsjam.org or email info@bookartsjam.org.
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Inspirations a guide id tto th the spiritual i it l community
Kevin Berne
Mrs. Lovett (Tory Ross) proposes her ingenious business plan to Sweeney Todd (David Studwell).
The butcher, the baker TheatreWorks sets a murderous tale in WWII London by Elizabeth Schwyzer eave the young kids at home for this delightfully grisly black comedy. “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” tells the tale of a London barber who turns to using his blades for more than just close shaves. Given that the tale centers on a mass murderer, there’s precious little gore in this production. Still, the story itself is enough to make one’s blood run cold. Steven Sondheim’s 1979 musical with book by Hugh Wheeler tells the popular 19th-century horror story of Benjamin Barker, a naïve young man married to an unusually pretty woman. Her looks attract the attention of a corrupt London judge, who hands down a life sentence to Barker, then handily takes the beauty for himself. As the play opens, Barker has escaped prison after 15 years, and has returned to London in search of his wife and his daughter, who was just an infant when he was sent away. In order to disguise his true identity, Barker goes by the name of Sweeney Todd. Soon, he learns that his wife poisoned herself in desperation, that his daughter Johanna is a ward of the hateful Judge Turpin — and, worst of all — that the judge now has designs on marrying Johanna. It’s at this point that Todd, here played by a steely-eyed David Studwell, begins his descent into madness. You know something’s up when he begins addressing his old razors as “my friends,” but it’s when he does a little jig and cries, “They all deserve to die!” that one realizes Barker is indeed barking mad. Originally a Victorian villain, Sweeney Todd has been updated for this production. TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert Kelley has chosen to set the murderous barber in the middle of the London Blitz of 1940, the better to drown out the screams of Todd’s victims with the wailing of airraid sirens. It’s the eerie whine of the sirens that opens the show, sending characters surging across the
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THEATER REVIEW stage for the underground shelters. Stage left is the yawning mouth of a London Underground tunnel in Andrea Bechert’s evocative and efficient set. A spiraling iron staircase leads up to Todd’s barbershop where customers are dispatched in plain view of the audience, yet hidden from the street below. Also notable is the rather ingenious barber’s chair, which transforms with the pull of a lever into a chute, transporting the unfortunate gentlemen conveniently through a trapdoor. (They thud a bit on the way down, making one wonder whether the actors sustain many bruises). The bodies pop out conveniently in Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop, where business is picking up significantly, despite war rationing. Ah, Mrs. Lovett. Neither the Todd’s taste for revenge nor this production would get very far without her. Tory Ross attacks the role with absolute relish. Straight from her opening number (“The Worst Pies in London”) she’s punching her dough and wielding her rolling pin with gusto, not to mention belting out one of the most complex melodies in the musical. There’s no hiding Mrs. Lovett’s soft spot for the barber — so desperate is she for his affections, even his bad habit of topping off his customers doesn’t faze her — but Ross plays Lovett as more of a cheerful opportunist than a lovelorn biddy. Of course, it’s also her bright idea to dispose of the growing pile of bodies upstairs by — ahem — recycling them. At the other end of the spectrum from Ross’s comic role, Jack Mosbacher gives a strong performance as sweet-voiced straight man Anthony, the sailor who rescues Johanna (Mindy Lym) from the evil judge. Then there’s young Toby (Spencer Kiely), the jumpy street urchin Mrs. Lovett takes under her wing and eventually trains as her pie-making apprentice. Kiely plays Toby as the overlooked wise
fool who sees far more than anyone suspects, though his IQ takes an unexplained nosedive in Act Two. In general, the strong cast makes for a smooth, tight ensemble. But it’s Ross who carries the show, right up until Mrs. Lovett’s ignoble end. Speaking of the end, the final scene comes off as a parody of Hamlet: Bodies are strewn across the stage, though here it’s shaving razors rather than poison-tipped rapiers that are to blame. Johanna and Anthony clutch each other and weep somewhere behind the hulking meat grinder. At moments of dramatic climax or transition, the sirens pick up their wail, and wardens in helmets and trench coats come darting out, casting their flashlight beams across the stage. Theatrically, this device is a fun twist on the traditional blackout scene change. At the same time, the choice to set the story against the backdrop of WWII effectively dilutes the smaller drama; no matter how gruesome it gets on Fleet Street, a little bomb shrapnel raining down is enough to remind one that there are greater threats afoot than vengeful barbers. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com. What: TheatreWorks’ “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street “ Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: Through Nov. 2 with shows Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. Added matinee Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. Cost: Tickets are $19-$74, with savings for educators, seniors and those 30 and under. Info: Go to theatreworks.org or call 650-463-1960
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Worth a Look Theater
High School One-Act Play Festival
Julianna Garber
No, it’s not just a song by Michael Jackson; PYT stands for Peninsula Youth Theatre. Now in its 22nd year, PYT is launching a new endeavor to encourage budding theater directors. The Inaugural High School OneAct Play Festival debuts on Friday, Jordan Rosenberg, Atticus Oct. 24, at the Shaindlin and Jenna Levere Mountain View star in “No Exit.” Center for the Performing Arts (500 Castro St.). The evening features two short plays produced, directed and acted by high school students. And don’t be fooled: These are no theater lightweights. For their first-ever festival, these young thespians have chosen to pair Jean-Paul Sartre’s groundbreaking existential drama “No Exit” of 1944 with a contemporary one-act: Michael Niederman’s “Every Man.” Both scripts call for this young cast to tackle big themes: love, death, sin and abandonment. Tickets are just $10. Don’t be late: The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. For tickets or more information, go to pytnet.org or call 650-903-6000.
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David Packard (left) and Bill Hewlett with their mentor, Stanford professor Fred Terman.
Exhibition It wasn’t so long ago that the Santa Clara Valley was known as the “Valley of Heart’s Delight” — a fertile region where orchards of flowering trees stretched from the rolling hills of the west to the San Francisco Bay in the east. The story of how and why it became the epicenter of a technological revolution is the subject of a new exhibition opening Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Los Altos History Museum (51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos). Through photographs, ephemera, anecdotes and video interviews, “Silicon Valley: The Lure & the Legends” presents the factors that led to the transformation of the region and the key players who made it happen. From the inventor of the microprocessor to the founders of Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe, the exhibit takes a look at the visionaries behind the companies as well as other forces at play: the brainpower of Stanford University, the draw of yearround sunshine, corporate culture, venture capital and “cowboy capitalism” — the attitude that there is always more money to be made. The exhibition runs through April 19. The museum is open Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. To learn more, go to tinyurl.com/ ps74nx3 or call 650-948-9427.
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‘Silicon Valley: The Lure & the Legends’
Israeli musical comedy “Cupcakes” follows a perky group of teens in an international singing contest.
Film Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival From the opening-night festivities featuring Israeli pop star Rita to the closing ceremony with a live appearance by TV host Larry King, the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival lines up a full month of screen and stage entertainment. Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 16, festival-goers can choose from dramas, documentaries and comedies that explore the international Jewish experience through many lenses. On the line-up this year is “The Zigzag Kid,” an adventure story adapted from David Grossman’s popular novel about a misbehaving boy on the brink of his bar mitzvah. Drama lovers will want to check out “Ida,” the story of a novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is stunned to discover her Jewish ancestry and the effect of the Nazi occupation on her family’s life. Those seeking lighter entertainment can catch “Cupcakes,” an Israeli musical comedy about a group of teens vying for a prize in an international singing contest. The full schedule of films is listed on the festival’s website, as are special events. SVJFF screens films in Palo Alto, Campbell and San Jose, with both opening and closing night taking place at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way. Single tickets are $12 in advance ($14 at the door) with discounts for students, seniors and groups. Opening and closing nights are each $65 in advance, $70 at the door. For more on the festival, go to svjff. org or call 408-498-0904. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer
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by Dale F. Bentson ention pinot noir and watch Victor Pugliese’s eyes light up. Then again, his eyes widen at the mention of sangiovese, chardonnay, nebbiolo, syrah, grenache, aligoté and sémillon. Victor knows wine grapes and the varietals that make great wines. His Vin Vino Wine bottle shop and tasting bar has been a fixture on California Avenue for nearly three decades. He didn’t grow up in wine country: quite the opposite, geographically and substantively. “Grew up in south Florida,” the trim and energetic Pugliese said. “No wine growing up.” His wine exposure came when he was a business student at Stanford. “Knowledgeable friends became mentors.” There were learning trips to Napa Valley at the time the California wine industry was about to explode. (According to the Wine Institute, there were about 500 bonded wineries in California in 1980; today there
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are over 3,700.) After graduation, Pugliese became an economics consultant in Cambridge, MA. He loved wine, but it remained an avocation; “I had college debt to pay off,” he explained. Still an avid wine lover, he located a boutique wine shop in Cambridge that sold the legendary — and hard to find — Stags’ Leap vineyard, and learned all he could there. Inspired, Pugliese migrated west again and began a self-directed education in Napa and Sonoma. In 1985, he opened a 500 square-foot shop on Cambridge Avenue in Palo Alto. Four years later, he moved to the current location on California Avenue. “From the beginning, I had a tasting bar to let patrons tell me what they liked,” he said. “Some of those customers are still regulars. It’s not a classic wine bar, more wine geek oriented. We have tastings every day and will taste everything in the shop over time.” The tasting bar is “a commu-
nity of people where friends and small groups meet. It has a social aspect of its own,” he said. “We have never advertised; it’s strictly word of mouth.” The shop has small tables scattered about where patrons can engage in serious wine contemplation, or just enjoy a glass or two with friends. Upstairs, there is space for larger groups and private functions. A wall-mounted chalkboard announces the tasting lineup. The daily wine bar selection highlights six to ten wines from a specific viticultural region. Recently, old Volnays, Pommards (Burgundies), Southern Rhônes, Austrian rieslings, Chablis, California pinot noirs and French dessert wines were featured. The 2.5-ounce pours can be bought individually or as a wine flight. Prices vary accordingly. Buying three or more bottles qualifies for a discount. In addition to aficionado tastings, Friday and Saturday weekend samplers typically feature
Eating Out less rarefied wines, with a wider variety and more earth-bound prices. It’s a great way to learn about wines, wine regions, styles and growers. The staff is there to help, educate and encourage. Besides the wine bar, Pugliese produces a monthly newsletter, available online at vinvinowine. com. The newsletter contains detailed notes on the wines featured at the tasting bar plus specials and discounts. It’s one-stop shopping for oenophiles at every level of experience and sophistication. Vin Vino is French-centric. More specifically, Pugliese stated, “This is a Burgundy shop.” About half the extensive inventory is French (mostly Burgundian); Italy and California get about 15 percent each and the balance comes from other wine regions including Austria, Spain and New Zealand. Burgundy is complicated wine territory, with many small producers. To simplify, it can be broken into five main growing areas: Chablis, Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise and Mâconnais. The principal reds are made from pinot noir grapes and the whites from chardonnay. Terroir is critical in Burgundy. It is the symbiosis of soil, climate and topography plus the human element. There are quality classifications as well; the most important are Grand Cru and Premier Cru, but lesser classifications can be delightful and easier on the pocketbook. Pugliese doesn’t routinely travel the world searching for great wines. Instead, he trusts the professionals: top-notch importers who have developed personal relationships with growers and have the experience to identify and codify vintages, regions and microclimates, and to understand how barrel-tasted wines will mature. “When I travel, it is with the best importers, and we often have lunch with a winemaker where I can get to know him and his winemaking philosophy,” Pugliese said. “Unless you spend a great deal of your life tasting wine from a barrel, it is impossible to understand the nuances and subtleties. I rely on the experts.” Even with extensive travel and (continued on page 38)
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ShopTalk by Daryl Savage
BLOOMIE’S BLOSSOMS IN NEW LOCALE ... A newly-built, $18 million, three-story Bloomingdale’s opened Oct. 10 at the Stanford Shopping Center, replacing the older two-story department store, which was constructed 18 years ago. “It has a new look and a new face,” said Bloomingdale’s spokesperson Anne Keating. “We listened to our customers and we realized we needed a brand new store.” The 125,000 square-foot upscale department store has 39 fitting rooms, each of which is equipped with its own iPad that customers can use to communicate with sales people or get product information and reviews. The fitting rooms’ full-length mirrors are framed with adjustable lighting that can be modified to create an outdoor, office or evening look. Another unusual feature is the store’s children’s department, which has two wooden playhouses and a balloon-like chandelier. “It’s not often you get a second chance to make a first impression,” said veteran store designer Jack Hruska, who has designed 30 Bloomingdale’s stores in 22
years. Referring to the Stanford store, he said, “This is the jewel in the renovation of the mall.” The shopping center is undergoing a major facelift. The aging structure that houses the former Bloomingdale’s is scheduled for demolition in the next 30 days to make way for 20 to 30 new shops and five new restaurants, which will bring the total number of shops in the mall to more than 160. TWO PALO ALTO SURVIVORS ... While many retailers come and go, two Palo Alto businesses have withstood the test of time and are celebrating. Mac’s Smoke Shop announced its 80th year in business last week. Located at 534 Emerson St., the small shop with the bright blue awning marked its octogenarian birthday with cake, coffee and energy drinks. It also gave out $5 gift certificates to the first 100 people who walked through the front door. Owner Gloria Khoury said Mac’s is almost the oldest business in Palo Alto. “I think Bell’s Books has got us beat by one year,” Khoury said.
The reason for Mac’s longevity? “We do our darndest to make sure everyone who comes in here is treated with respect,” she said. The second longtime survivor is Gryphon Stringed Instruments, 211 Lambert Ave, which celebrates its 45th year in Palo Alto on Oct. 25. Planned festivities include cake and a full day of live music. “We started in a garage on Margarita Avenue, about two blocks from here,” said Richard Johnston, who owns Gryphon with his business partner, Frank Ford. “Then we moved into another garage in downtown Palo Alto, and we finally opened here in 1976. Never did we imagine we’d be celebrating 45 years.” TWO PALO ALTO GONERS ... Mandarin Gourmet, which has been serving Chinese food for more than 20 years at 420 Ramona St., is now dark and dusty, with newspapers piled up near the locked front doors. There are two other Mandarin Gourmet restaurants — in Cupertino and San Jose — which will remain open. But they are no longer affiliated with the Palo Alto eatery, according to Fanny King, who owns the restaurants in the South Bay. She said Palo Alto’s Mandarin Gourmet was sold several years ago. Also disappearing is the 43-year-old organic garden supply and education center, Com-
mon Ground, which closed Oct. 11. The much beloved business, located at 559 College Ave., could not survive a string of unfortunate events. Common Ground’s Patricia Becker, who has managed the store for 20 years, saw it coming. “I knew it was just a matter of time before we would be forced to close,” she said. Becker then listed the reasons for the shop’s demise: “First, we have a drought. People don’t like to garden when there’s a drought, but actually, it’s a good thing to do. Then JJ&F Market closed so we lost a lot of foot traffic. And there’s construction going on. It’s noisy and makes it hard for customers to get here. Plus, the road is blocked and you can’t get in the parking lot. And of course, there’s the whole online shopping thing going on. Also, our rent was going to increase and we lost the space for our classroom.” Wow. Talk about a perfect storm. “I’m terribly sad,” Becker continued. “This was my baby.” But Becker, who also teaches yoga classes at Stanford University, is looking ahead. “I’m going to start teaching yoga for gardeners,” she said. Q
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tasting notes, keeping up with over 1,200 mostly tiny wineries spread over 74,000 acres in Burgundy is impossible for any single merchant, importer or wine writer. To keep abreast, Pugliese quotes talented, highly-regarded critics such as Allen Meadows at Burghound, Stephen Tanzer and Josh Raynolds of International Wine Cellar, Robert M. Parker, Antonio Galloni and others with longstanding ties to growers. “Fads come and go — it’s often about what’s fashionable,” Pugliese said, and rattled off several decades of trends: Beaujolais nouveau, white zinfandel, Australian wines, oaky chardonnays, fruit first chardonnays, merlot, pinot gris — and, currently, rosés. Vin Vino adjusts its inventory and satisfies its customers. In the end, it’s always about high quality and small lot production. That is the bedrock of Victor Pugliese’s philosophy. His patrons agree. Q Vin Vino Wine 437 California Ave., Palo Alto 650-324-4903 vinvinowine.com Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
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The Boxtrolls 000 (Century 16, Century 20) The stop-motion animation house LAIKA (“Coraline,” “ParaNorman”) continues to build its reputation as the anti-Disney by handcrafting dark tales for kids. “The Boxtrolls” falls into the category of classical fairy tale, with its shadowy world inhabited by innocents in contention with monstrous adults. Perhaps with Pixar pictures like “Up” and “WALL-E” in mind, the first fifteen minutes of “The Boxtrolls” roll by with a minimum of dialogue to establish the picture’s premise. In the English-accented village of Cheesebridge, the people live in fear of boxtrolls: underground-dwelling creatures that emerge at night to scavenge trash. Pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) pursues his sociopolitical aspiration — to become one of the elite, cheese-eating “White Hats” — by slandering the boxtrolls as baby-snatching murderers. In fact, the gremlin gadgeteers are benign and lovable (and, as such, suspiciously similar to the minions in “Despicable Me”). The boxtrolls are so nice that they have taken in an orphan human boy (Isaac HempsteadWright), who has grown up believing he is one of the boxtrolls, and is named Eggs for the label on the box he wears. The goodhearted Eggs focuses his existence on protecting the boxtrolls
from those who misunderstand and persecute them, particularly Snatcher and his henchmen Mr. Trout (Nick Frost), Mr. Pickle (Richard Ayoade) and Mr. Gristle (Tracy Morgan). Eggs also gains a defender in Winnie Portley-Rind (Elle Fanning), who stumbles onto the truth after going AWOL from her upper-crust White Hat parents (Jared Harris and Toni Collette). Eggs and Winnie’s adventures include dodging Snatcher and his men, crashing a White Hat ball and encountering Eggs’ long-lost father (Simon Pegg), who proudly notes his son’s confident selftransformation as the life lesson that may save the day. Many kids are likely to find “The Boxtrolls” scary, dank and generally off-putting, but those who like paging through Edward Gorey books and who devour Roald Dahl novels will consider it an early Halloween treat. Those amongst their parents who are Anglophiles will appreciate the presence of the likes of Pegg and Frost, as well as “The Boxtrolls Song” penned by Monty Python member Eric Idle and performed by the bad guy in drag (as one Madame Frou Frou). The Gothic material derives from Alan Snow’s novel “Here Be Monsters!,” which directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi have visualized as a per(continued on next page)
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versely grotty Old World Europe. The stop-motion animation, presented in 3-D in some theaters, bursts with rollercoaster-esque action sequences, but one might fairly call â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boxtrollsâ&#x20AC;? actionpacked to a fault, given that the film is already halfway over before its protagonist gets any quality character development. Certainly, the stealth allegory of the insidious nature of gos-
sip as a tool of domination â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the scathing class satire of misbegotten and socially unjust personal goals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; carry a productive sting that should leave kids smarting but a bit wiser. And the witty script (with henchmen pondering â&#x20AC;&#x153;the duality of good and evilâ&#x20AC;?) is part of the intellectual challenge. Just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t subject the weest ones in your family to this dark vision. Rated PG for action, some peril and mild rude humor. One hour, 36 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese
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The Book of Life (PG) Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 4:20 & 7 p.m. In 3-D at 1:40 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:35, 4:20 & 7:55 p.m. In 3-D at 12:10, 2:50, 5:25 & 10:25 p.m. The Boxtrolls (PG) +++ Century 16: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. Dracula Untold (PG-13) Century 16: 10:45 & 11:55 a.m., 1:15, 2:30, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:45, 9:05 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 5:20, 6:50, 8, 9:15 & 10:35 p.m. Fri & Sat 12:35 & 3 p.m. The Equalizer (R) ++ Century 16: 12:20, 3:50, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 1:15, 4:15, 7:25 & 10:35 p.m. Fury (R) Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 12:30, 2:10, 3:55, 5:25, 7:10, 8:50 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:40, 5:50 & 9 p.m. In X-D at 1, 4:10, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. Gone Girl (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:15, 2, 3:45, 5:30, 7:15, 9 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:25, 2:15, 3:40, 5:30, 7, 8:45 & 10:15 p.m. Good Will Hunting (1997) (R) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: 7:45 p.m., Fri & Sun 2 p.m.
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Kill the Messenger (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 5 & 10:40 p.m. Guild Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. The Maze Runner (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Meet the Mormons (PG) Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:45, 3:55, 6, 8:10 & 10:20 p.m. Men, Women & Children (R) Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. MET Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat 9:55 a.m. My Old Lady (PG-13) +++ Palo Alto Square: 4:20 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sun 1:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m. National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun 11 a.m. Pride (R) +++
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To Have and Have Not (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:25 p.m.
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Home Front Positively Green Earth, wind and fire: It takes a village GARDEN TUNE-UP ... Ella Ancheta, Gamble Garden’s garden manager, will offer an interactive “garden tune-up” class from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Ancheta will review garden fundamentals, including soil improvement, drought and frost management, where to site plants and ongoing maintenance. Cost is $30 for nonmembers, $20 for members. Info: 650-329-1356 or gamblegarden.org FALL NATIVE PLANT SALE ... The Fall Native Plant Sale, featuring hard-to-find native plants, seeds and bulbs, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Organized by the California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, the event will include expert advice about lawn alternatives, plus books, posters and note cards for sale. The event is free (cash or check only for sales); bring boxes to carry out purchases. Ten percent of sales benefits Hidden Villa. Info: 650-941-1068 or cnps-scv.org ORCHARD WALKS ... Before Filoli closes for the season on Oct. 26, there are a couple more opportunities to take docent-led walks through The Gentlemen’s Orchard at Filoli. The walks, from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, Oct. 18 and 25, wander through 6.8 acres full of 600 fruittree varieties; fruit can be tasted (when available) from the trees. Cost is $20 for adult nonmembers, $10 for children age 7 and older; free to members. (Note: Due to the terrain, wheelchairs cannot be accommodated in the orchard.) Info: 650-364-8300 or filoli.org SOLD OUT ALREADY? ... Filoli will offer lunch buffets, Saturday, Nov. 29, through Friday, Dec. 5, with two or three seatings, during its annual Holiday Traditions event. The buffet, which includes admission to the Daytime Holiday Shopping Boutique, costs $75 for nonmembers and $70 for members (except Dec. 2 and 5, $70 for nonmembers and $65 for members). Dec. 2 at 11 a.m. is already sold out. To view exact dates, times and the menu, visit filoli.org; call 650-364-8300 to arrange seating with people who are booking separately. Q
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by Iris Harrell n a daily basis, I am still awestruck with the beauty and bounty of the world we live in with its deliciously moderate weather year-round, and gorgeous hills beautifully covered with lovely native landscaping and trees for as far as the eye can see. However, with this beauty and bounty often comes a sense of entitlement and a blasé attitude about the very thing we need to safeguard most and protect into perpetuity. So, my first commitment is to not forget all of the incredible benefits this piece of earth affords me. My second promise is to ask myself, “What am I doing to insure the longevity of this great surrounding of natural beauty and sacred space?” My local neighborhood is currently focusing on fire safety, since we live in a Wildlife
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Urban Interface (WUI) area. I am serving on an ad hoc committee to intelligently assemble a suggested plan of action so we can be safeguarded from an unexpected wildfire. Besides researching what new practices, materials and policies we should consider, we need to involve the neighborhood landscape, design committee and the town, and work in a concerted effort to achieve a more fire-safe community. However, to make only one neighborhood safe does not protect us sufficiently. All contiguous neighborhoods need to become fully conscious to represent all of our stakes. With the severe drought, the first thoughts about July 4th were not “where are we going to watch the fireworks celebration?” but instead our community was thinking “how are we going to keep our homes from inadvertently going up in flames?” The usual joy of this otherwise noteworthy holiday is mitigated with the fear of what one careless unauthorized firecracker might do. Maintaining our beauty and bounty requires a collective effort, and here’s the “rub.” It is hard to get timely agreement of strategy and
then accurate and efficient implementation, even among a few people, much less an entire neighborhood association or town. This sobering thought points to the importance of local government making laws for necessary compliance and mutual safety. One would think we’d understand that “time is of the essence,” as we don’t know when a life-threatening fire or earthquake may erupt. And we don’t know when or if this long drought (which severely raises the chance of a wildfire) will end. But those of us who are leading the charge for fire safety also have multiple other critical activities to keep our lives moving forward in conjunction with our family lives and professional lives. So slowly on we trod. Having been involved recently in the repair of a Palo Alto home that was severely burned and damaged, I have also become aware of the emotional and psychological toll a fire brings to one’s personal life when suddenly your place of solace is uninhabitable. It is a lot to recover from. (continued on page 46)
Real Estate Matters Managing risk: disclosures, offers and disputes by Michael Repka he real estate industry faces many challenges. The industry is made up of agents from all walks of life and educational backgrounds that range from a high school diploma to graduate degrees from the world’s best law and business schools. Past work experience ranges from none to many years as a builder, real estate attorney or interior designer. Similarly, individual experience as a real estate agent spans the gambit from a few months to 30 or 40 years, or more. While the diversity of backgrounds found in a typical office has its advantages, it also creates a lot of challenges for the management of real estate offices. Put simply, some agents are very qualified to advise clients in certain areas, but they would be dangerous advising clients in other areas. As a result, most brokerages train all of their agents not to give any advice regarding legal, tax, construction or disclosure issues. Unfortunately, that leaves many clients guessing at the seriousness of items identified in disclosures, the meaning of contractual terms, or the likelihood of adverse consequences from a course of action. What’s worse, many clients don’t realize they are on their own until things go wrong.
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Reviewing disclosures When given a packet of disclosures, buyers may want to ask their agent to provide a written summary of the key items in the disclosures. While it is very important for the client to review the disclosures themselves, the
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agent’s summary will list what the agent feels are the “deal breakers” and reduce the client’s risk of not understanding the significance of certain items. Although some agents will resist doing this from fear of liability if they miss something, an experienced and thorough agent shouldn’t miss anything. Real estate inspectors, like the entire real estate industry, have become very risk averse. As a result, inspection reports include a lot of disclaimers regarding inaccessible areas, limitations on the scope of the inspection and notations of relatively minor problems. All of this can distract from the major issues. Thus, clients should consider asking for copies of sample reports so that they can become familiar with some of the “boilerplate” language.
Structuring offers Many agents revert to a practiced refrain whenever advising clients about the wisdom of including contingencies — they always seem to offer the same advice irrespective of the particular circumstances. Some believe that all offers have to be non-contingent in this heated sellers’ market. Other agents (or clients) believe that they always need to have contingencies “just in case.” There are too many variables for either absolute to be correct all of the time. When structuring an offer, the agent and client need to carefully consider the real risk and only include the protections that may actually be needed given the facts and circumstances surrounding that particular transaction. Many offers get passed over due to contingencies that seem unnecessary. For example, some agents submit offers with financing contingencies even when the client purportedly has “great credit,” strong income and are only borrowing 50 percent of the purchase price. Like insurance, offer contingen-
cies come at a cost — sellers should, and do, favor offers with fewer or no contingencies over offers with contingencies unless the other offer is significantly higher in price.
Resolving disputes Although the vast majority of real estate transactions close with no major complications, sometimes things do go wrong. Unfortunately, most clients and many agents don’t fully understand the legal rights and responsibilities included in the contract they signed. For example, most buyers submit offers that include the elective Liquidated Damages paragraph, yet many are surprised to learn that they relieved the Seller from their burden of having to prove the amount of actual damages by agreeing to that part of the contract. When there is a breach of contract, the clients should ask the agent to let them speak with an attorney. Each side will have certain rights and responsibilities, which need to be fully understood before the client takes any action. Far too often, people try to break real estate transactions down into easy-to-digest rules. Whether it is applying a formulaic approach to calculating prices based on square footage or deciding if they should include certain terms or contingencies in a contract, they overlook the nuances. Buying or selling a home is a very important transaction for almost everyone. The best advice is to do your homework and find an agent that is willing and able to give you clear, sound advice, in writing, so that you know that they are willing to stand behind it. Q Michael Repka, managing broker and general counsel for DeLeon Realty, Palo Alto, formerly practiced real estate and tax law in Palo Alto. He serves on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Realtors. He can be reached at MichaelR@DeLeonRealty.com.
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Los Altos One of the problems a proactive FireWise committee has is trying to get the neighborhood design and landscape guidelines to become more current with the new weather and land conditions we face in this century, versus when the guidelines and laws were originally written (as in the last century). We are discovering that the aesthetic visual preference for wood â&#x20AC;&#x153;au naturelâ&#x20AC;? on our homes, decks and railings makes residences more like a box of matches waiting for a fire to grab them. Becoming familiar with new products that actually look natural but perform well in a heat or fire situation is one of our missions. Cement-based siding and roof products, metal railings and posts, and privacy and window screens are great alternative choices. Another firesafe product would be glass skylights instead of plastic. Another challenge for fire safety is keeping plants and trees further away from the house (5 feet or more) and trees â&#x20AC;&#x153;limbed upâ&#x20AC;? higher from the ground so the fire
ladder effect does not easily make a whole tree start to easily blaze. Even plants in pots that get tall and are close to a wood-shingled house are in danger of bringing a wildfire inside the home more quickly. Exterior lights with halogen lamps near the ground can emit extreme heat. A few dead leaves caught up in a cobweb around the hot bulb could create an inadvertent spark. I bring these concerns to your attention in the hopes that your neighborhood (which is next to mine!) is also actively pursuing proactive safety measures in case of a community crisis from a wildfire or earthquake, and I urge that you will become actively involved. Let us remember that we are all in this together and that any positive action that blesses one, blesses all of us. Q Iris Harrell is board chairman of Harrell Remodeling, Inc. in Mountain View (harrell-remodeling.com). She can be reached at 650-230-2900 or irish@harrell-remodeling.com.
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Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,150,000 Highest sales price: $5,500,000
Total sales reported: 17 Lowest sales price: $310,000 Highest sales price: $1,775,000
Los Altos Hills
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $2,250,000 Highest sales price: $16,300,000
Total sales reported: 13 Lowest sales price: $638,000 Highest sales price: $7,988,000 Source: California REsource
HOME SALES
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Los Altos
54 Citation Drive B. & S. McKibben to Clifton Trust for $1,320,000 on 9/23/14; previous sale 6/03, $575,000 1536 Country Club Drive Mccarver Trust to Dempsey Trust for $5,500,000 on 9/18/14; previous sale 7/95, $665,000 1 W. Edith Ave. #C121 Clemm Trust to Humphries Trust for $1,150,000 on 9/25/14 400 Old Oak Court Sarpa Trust to R. & S. Harpaz for $2,200,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 8/87, $520,000 1413 Ranchita Drive R. Mulder to K. Bayat for $1,930,000 on 9/18/14; previous sale 2/80, $91,000
Los Altos Hills
25712 Elena Road Lauterbach Trust to B. & A. Nouri for $2,250,000 on 9/24/14; previous sale 8/92, $575,000
13115 Maple Leaf Court Mendez Trust to Even Stride for $16,300,000 on 9/22/14; previous sale 7/99, $4,750,000 14161 Miranda Road Peterson Trust to Croll Trust for $4,500,000 on 9/19/14 24877 Olive Tree Lane J. Heel to W. Wang for $3,720,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 4/06, $2,970,000
Mountain View
122 Avellino Way Tri Pointe Homes to S. Wilson for $1,495,000 on 9/23/14 1552 Begen Ave. Drake Trust to Chan Trust for $1,678,000 on 9/23/14 685 Bush St. Monroe Trust to S. & M. Klesczewski for $1,415,000 on 9/18/14 2025 California St. #23 F. Lambrecht to S. Qiu for $310,000 on 9/22/14 182 Campbell Drive T. & L. Tillman to K. Odell for $905,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 4/06, $616,000 181 Del Medio Ave. #110 M. Deleanu to Deng Trust for $530,000 on 9/23/14 100 W. El Camino Real #47 D. Lioe to C. Clark for $775,000 on 9/23/14; previous sale 2/06, $570,000
399 Hedgerow Court Epperly Trust to J. Candela for $1,775,000 on 9/18/14 106 Hilary Ave. W. Gong to T. Park for $1,130,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 12/97, $350,000 211 Hockney Ave. J. WellsBundtzen to C. Burton for $1,115,000 on 9/19/14 130 Minaret Ave. Tri Pointe Homes to Z. Xiong for $1,328,500 on 9/17/14 134 Minaret Ave. Tri Pointe Homes to S. Abdulrasool for $1,282,500 on 9/19/14 400 Ortega Ave. #114 T. Blair to I. & B. Bishara for $708,000 on 9/25/14; previous sale 11/01, $315,000 274 Pamela Drive #19 C. Clark to Obrien Trust for $440,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 2/07, $300,000 457 Sierra Vista Ave. #4 E. Manrao to V. & R. Jagannathan for $767,500 on 9/25/14; previous sale 4/02, $395,000 808 Sonia Way Frontella Trust to D. & S. Kim for $1,105,000 on 9/19/14 535 Toft St. L. Su to P. Lin for $900,000 on 9/25/14; previous sale 12/06, $630,000
Palo Alto
101 Alma St. #1105 A. Karam
to H. Alfalih for $1,900,000 on 9/19/14; previous sale 7/05, $580,000 857 Altaire Walk S. Casale to A. & D. Thomas for $1,400,000 on 9/24/14; previous sale 2/11, $790,000 328 Byron St. Nexus Investments to ZV Foundation for $1,703,000 on 9/23/14; previous sale 4/13, $1,607,000 1083 Cardinal Way Grebmeier Trust to Foros Fund for $1,650,000 on 9/22/14 536 W. Crescent Drive Brownstein Trust to J. & M. Rudelle for $7,988,000 on 9/23/14; previous sale 2/86, $800,000 215 High St. Traugott Trust to D. Breece for $1,350,000 on 9/19/14 151 Kellogg Ave. Plourde Trust to Kellogg Limited for $3,000,000 on 9/25/14 3069 Middlefield Road #102 V. Singh to Li-Chi Trust for $638,000 on 9/24/14; previous sale 10/08, $510,000 2120 Princeton St. V. Wells to J. Jiang for $2,800,000 on 9/24/14; previous sale 5/94, $407,000 2770 Ross Road Walter Trust to H. Chou for $1,850,000 on 9/19/14 777 San Antonio Road #131 Silverman Trust to C. & D. Taylor for $838,000 on 9/24/14 2575 Webster St. Binasik Trust to P. Subburaj for $2,350,000 on 9/18/14 715 Wildwood Lane G. & G. Olson to S. Ha for $2,100,000 on 9/24/14
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STUNNING, EXQUISITE, NEWER CUSTOM HOME IN PRESTIGIOUS OLD PALO ALTO 220 Tennyson Avenue, Palo Alto
6 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, plus library, entertainment area and wine cellar. Living area: 5217 +/- sq. ft. (per assessor, unverified) Lot size: 7700 +/- sq. ft. (per assessor, unverified)
Open Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30PM For more photos, go to www.220Tennyson.com
Offered at $5,998,000
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International President’s Elite 650.208.2287 jlau@cbnorcal.com www.JulieLau.com CalBRE#01052924 Page 56 • October 17, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Valerie Lo 650. 288.2237 vlo@apr.com
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612 Palo Alto Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $998,000 www.612PaloAltoAve.com • 2 bedrooms, 2 baths • 1,033 sq. ft. (per county) on a 1,990 sq. ft. lot (per county)
3139 David Court, Palo Alto Offered at $2,198,000 www.3139DavidCourt.com • 4 bedrooms, 2 baths • 1,831 sq. ft. (per county) on an 8,487 sq. ft. lot (per county)
731 De Soto Drive, Palo Alto Offered at $2,788,000 www.731DeSotoDrive.com • 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths • 2,569 sq. ft. (per appraisal) on a 6,935 sq. ft. lot (per county)
27400 Altamont Road, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,288,000 www.27400Altamont.com • 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths • 4,267 sq. ft. (per county) on a 1 acre lot (per county)
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2091 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto Offered at $3,988,000 www.2091Park.com • 5 bedrooms, 4 baths • 4,372 sq. ft. (per county) on a 7,500 sq. ft. lot (per county)
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Stanford defender Zach Hoffpauir (right) recorded 15 tackles, nine solo, in Stanford’s 34-17 victory over visiting Washington State last week.
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He’s a big hit Cardinal defensive back Hoffpauir excels on the gridiron and baseball field By Rick Eymer ach Hoffpauir hopes to have a very difficult decision to make on June 8, 2015. That’s the day Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft begxins. Stanford’s latest two-sport star hopes to continue his productive season playing football and attract the attention of the NFL. Hoffpauir also hopes to duplicate last year’s breakout season with the Cardinal baseball team, when he torched opposing pitchers to the tune of a .453 batting average in the month of May to help Stanford qualify for the NCAA tournament. Hoffpauir, who recorded 15 tackles, nine solo, in Stanford’s 34-17 victory over Washington
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State last Friday, looks more and more like the versatile athlete who choose Stanford over Arizona State because of the possibility of playing both sports in college. “I wanted to play two sports,” Hoffpauir said. “That’s one of the biggest reasons I ended up here.” He’ll be returning to his hometown for an important Pac-12 Conference contest on Saturday night in Tempe when No. 23 Stanford (2-1 Pac-12, 4-2 overall) takes on No. 17 Arizona State (21, 4-1) in a rematch of last year’s conference championship game. Hoffpauir, who hails from Glendale, Ariz., lettered in four sports in high school. His original intention was to play at Cali(continued on next page)
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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams from Palo Alto High is one of five nominees for the NFL’s Rookie of the Week award for Week 6 after helping the Packers pull off a big win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. Adams caught six passes for 77 yards in a 27-24 the victory over host Miami, none more important than the 12yard gain on quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ fake spike play in the waning moments. Adams got the ball down to the Miami 4-yard line and got out of bounds to stop the clock with six seconds left. Rodgers hit tight end Andrew Quarless for the winning touchdown on the next play. Adams ranks third on the team with 16 catches for 167 yards and one touchdown. He’s averaging 10.4 yards per catch. He trails only Jordy Nelson (43 catches, 632 yards) and Randall Cobb (29 for 331) . . . Menlo College women’s soccer player Jelissa Blanco , who played a huge part in the Oaks 5-0 win over Simpson last week, was named Cal Pac Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts. A sophomore hailing from Union City, Blanco scored her second goal of the season and also tallied a pair of assists in the big conference win last week. Blanco now has two goals and three assists in her first season with the Oaks after transferring from Foothill College. She has started 10 games and played in 12, helping the team to its current 9-4 overall record and 4-2 mark in Cal Pac play . . . Stanford senior wide receiver/ kick returner Ty Montgomery was named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week following Stanford’s 3417 victory over visiting Washington State last Friday night. Montgomery went over 200 all-purpose yards for the fifth time in his career as he also collected Paul Hornung weekly honor roll status for the fourth time this season. Montgomery totaled 206 yards on seven catches for 72 yards, three punt returns for 63 yards and three kickoff returns for 71 yards. Montgomery has recorded at least 100 all-purpose yards in 10 his past 11 games.
A two-sport standout, Zach Hoffpauir torched opposing pitchers to the tune of a .453 batting average in the month of May.
ITA title provides a good start for Stanford women by Keith Peters arol Zhao prepared for her championship match in the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships on Tuesday at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Stadium by warming up with teammate Taylor Davidson. That probably doesn’t seem too unusual, since the two Stanford sophomores practice against each
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other just about every day. But when Zhao headed to Court 1 to play for the singles title, Davidson followed as her opponent. “We play against each other every day,” Zhao said. “With only six players on the team, we don’t have a lot of variety.” Putting their friendship aside for the moment, the two battled gusty wind conditions before Zhao emerged with a 7-6 (4), 6-1
triumph for her first career title. “Mixed emotions for sure, because I was playing my teammate,” said Zhao. “Obviously, we want each other to do well, and ourselves to do well. I don’t think we played our best match today, because it was really windy. But at the end of the day, I think we finished well.” Davidson led 4-1 in the first set before Zhao rallied to win the
frame in a tiebreaker. “It was really gusty, a lot more windy that it was during the entire tournament,” continued Zhao. “So that was definitely something to get used to, because for the majority of the tournament it was not windy at all. It’s just the process of trying to get used to it, and thankfully, at the end of the first (continued on next page)
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set I got used to it.” While Zhao said she didn’t come into the tournament with too many expectations, she left with plenty of confidence and as fifth straight Stanford champion. She follows Kristie Ahn (2013, 2010), Krista Hardebeck (2012) and Nicole Gibbs (2011). The most recent all-Stanford championship match occurred in 2011, when Gibbs defeated Mallory Burdette, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3). Zhao’s victory clinched a spot in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, scheduled for Nov. 6-9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Davidson could still earn an at-large berth in singles, as the draw will be announced at a later date. Davidson and Zhao, who combined for a 56-15 overall record last year as rookies, advanced to the championship match after prevailing in three-set victories during Monday’s semifinal round. Stanford also had sophomore Caroline Doyle reach the singles semifinals, while the doubles teams of Doyle-Ellen Tsay and Davidson-Zhao also fell in semifinal matches. It was just the second tourney playing doubles for Davidson and Zhao, who registered a runner-up doubles finish at the Riviera ITA All-American Championships two weeks ago. Stanford head coach Lele Forood, now in her 15th season, smiled at the mention of having three sophomores advance to the singles semifinals. “We’re now in a new chapter, after losing our older girls last year,” Forood said. “We got young in a hurry.” Stanford has three sophomores, two juniors and just one senior (Tsay) on its tiny six-player roster this season. While the talent is there, depth is not. Said Forood: “We’re going to do our best to stay healthy and not get sick.” Forood begins this season with a remarkable 350-26 record, averaging 25 wins a season. Stanford is coming off a 20-3 mark in 2013 and semifinal appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Since taking over in 2001, Forood has taken the Cardinal to the NCAA title match nine times — winning seven of those appearances.
fornia, but de-committed because he sensed Jeff Tedford would not be around. “It didn’t feel right,” Hoffpauir said. His final two choices were Stanford and Arizona State. Sun Devils’ quarterback Mike Bercovoci played host when Hoffpauir took his official visit to ASU and the two have remained friendly. “He’s a great guy who works hard,” Hoffpauir said. “I congratulated him on the win over USC.” Bercovoci threw a 46-yard ‘Hail Mary’ pass on the final play of the game two weeks ago, when ASU upset the Trojans. Bercovoci threw for 510 yards and five touchdowns, three in the fourth quarter. “He stepped right in,” Hoffpauir said. “It was pretty crazy. It seemed like it was meant to be.” Hoffpauir also counts Sun Devils tailback D.J. Foster among several friends who went to Arizona State. “If you’re in the Phoenix area you’re an ASU fan unless you went to U of A,” Hoffpauir said. “It was close at the end.” So far, his football success mirrors his baseball success. He was a little-used reserve in his first full year in both sports and then hit a hot streak and never looked back in his second year. Hoffpauir seems to have hit his stride in football. “We saw it in his junior film,” Cardinal coach David Shaw said of Hoffpauir’s versatility. “He returned punts, he played special teams, and he played defense and offense. He’s a firecracker. He brings the same desire to be great to practice every day.” Hoffpauir has 27 tackles on the season, tied for fourth, with Palo Alto High grad Kevin Anderson. He’s recorded three tackles for a loss and is looking for his first sack. He leads the team with four break-ups and four passes defended. After a slow start to his baseball season, Hoffpauir rode his May production, during which he batted .418 with runners in scoring position, to an overall .324 average, second on the Cardinal. He hit seven home runs and drove in 35 runs, among the team’s top three in each category. “Knowing our history and how
Women’s golf Cardinal players have a clear task ahead of them this week at their own Stanford Intercollegiate, which runs Friday through Sunday at the par-71 Stanford Golf Course. That would be to end a drought. Stanford hasn’t won its own tournament, now hosted by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, since 1997. Coincidentally, that was the last time a Cardinal player -- Hilary Homeyer -- won individual honors. Previously, Mhairi McKay tied for first in 1995. Stanford has finished among
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Sophomores Taylor Davidson (left) and Carol Zhao finished second and first, respectively, at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional. the top five a total of 10 times, last sniffing a title in 2012 with a third-place finish. Thus, it appears the Cardinal is long overdue to reach the championship podiums. Nationally No. 4-ranked Stanford will be joined in the 17-team field by four other top-10 programs, including No. 1 Washington, No. 5 Northwestern, No. 6 USC, and No. 10 UCLA. There’s also No. 12 Pepperdine and No. 23 UC Davis among the ranked teams. The 54-hole event begins Friday and Saturday at 8:30 a.m., wrapping up Sunday starting at 7:30 a.m. This season’s field will feature an unprecedented three former individual champions, including 2013 medalist Alison Lee of UCLA. Lee will be joined by 2012 winner Kyung Kim of USC and 2011 medalist SooBin Kim of Washington. Men’s tennis For the first time since 2010, Taube Family Tennis Stadium will serve as the host site for the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships when play gets underway Friday. Representing Stanford in singles will be freshman Tom Fawcett, sophomore Yale Goldberg, freshman David Hsu, senior John Morrissey, junior Nolan Paige, junior Maciek Romanowicz, senior Robert Stineman, junior Trey Strobel, sophomore Brandon Sutter, junior Anthony Tsodikov and David Wilczynski. Cardinal doubles pairings include: Fawcett/Morrissey, Goldberg/Stineman, Hsu/Wilczynski, Paige/Strobel and Sutter/Tsodikov.
In last year’s tournament, Tsodikov reached the quarterfinals while the tandem of Goldberg and Morrissey advanced to the semifinals. Ryan Thacher captured Stanford’s most recent singles title at the event, defeating California’s Ben McLachlan, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, in 2011. Women’s volleyball Top-ranked Stanford will put its 16-0 record on the line this weekend when it visits Colorado (3-3, 11-7) on Friday and Utah (15, 11-6) on Sunday. The Cardinal (6-0) shares the Pac-12 lead with Washington (6-0, 17-0). The Cardinal is off to its best start to a season since 2007, when that squad went 17-0. The school record for consecutive wins to start a season is 27, set by the 1991 team. Colorado enters the week tied for fifth in the Pac-12 with Arizona State, Oregon State, UCLA and USC. The Buffaloes are hitting .261 as a team. Stanford is 12-0 all-time against Colorado. Stanford redshirt freshman middle blocker Merete Lutz continues to lead the nation with a .516 hitting percentage, the only player in the country hitting over .500. Junior middle blocker Inky Ajanaku is No. 3 nationally with a .473 attack percentage. Senior libero Kyle Gilbert (1,682) moved into second place on the Cardinal’s career digs list past Kristin Richards (2003-06) with 16 digs against Oregon on Oct. 3. Gabi Ailes (2007-10) holds the Stanford record and ranks fifth all-time in the Pac-12 with 2,147 career digs.Q
much passion he has for both sports, we have meetings between football and baseball and work off each other and work together,” Shaw said. “He’s a college student, let him be competitive, be versatile.” For Hoffpauir, seeing was believing. “Stanford has a past with guys playing two sports; John Elway, John Lynch and, of course, Tyler (Gaffney),” he said. “Other schools said they would let me do it but I wanted to play two sports. Coach Shaw played two sports, coach (Mark) Marquess played football and baseball.” Gaffney has answered any question Hoffpauir asked. Gaffney originally signed a baseball contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then returned to Stanford for his final year of eligibility in football. Hoffpauir says their circumstances are completely different but that Gaffney has been helpful and supportive. Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquess called him his “most improved player. The beginning of the year he was striking out a lot on breaking balls. He’s been working on it. In baseball, you have to play. He didn’t play in the summer or fall.” Playing two sports is a juggling act in which Hoffpauir has become proficient. “Right after this season I’ll go straight into baseball, after taking a week off, and start in the winter and go for however long the season is, which last year was June,” he said. “Then I’ll take two weeks off, rest physically and more important, mentally. I’ll come back in the summer and start to get in shape for football. When it’s football, I try to focus on football. When it’s time for baseball, I’ll just catch up and get as many swings as I can.” For now, he’s a football player and getting better every day. “He doesn’t know he’s not 6-3, 230 and I’m not going to tell him,” Shaw said. “He plays like it. He brings his whole body into a hit. He’s learned a lot about football.” He also enjoys the action on defense. “I just always wanted to play defensive. You don’t need the ball to make a play. You can make a big play on every play essentially. I’d rather knock someone down or get a pick than catch a touchdown pass.” Q
Cajuste to miss game by Rick Eymer tanford will be without wide receiver Devon Cajuste this weekend when the No. 23 Cardinal visits Tempe for a Pac-12 Conference game against No. 17 Arizona State on Saturday. Cajuste apparently was hurt Friday night against Washington State when a pass to the end zone was broken up and he came down hard, hitting the back of his head on the ground. He seemed to lose his balance as he walked back to the team bench, causing team per-
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sonnel to rush to his aid and guide him to the bench. Stanford coach David Shaw did not reveal anything specific about Cajuste’s injury other than to say, “it’s very likely that he will be out for this game.” The Cardinal loses one of its “big-play guys” with the loss of Cajuste. Shaw said the team will rely on Michael Rector, Francis Owusu and Jordan Pratt. “Jordan has been ready to fill in at every spot,” Shaw said. “We’ll also look to our young tight ends Greg Taboada and Eric Cotton.” Q
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WBAL golf race comes down to final week
State streak is safe
Sacred Heart Prep delays a possible celebration by Castilleja after creating a two-way tie for first by Keith Peters he West Bay Athletic League girls’ golf title is still up for grabs after Sacred Heart Prep threw the race into a logjam by upsetting firstplace Castilleja, 205-209, on Wednesday at Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club. Castilleja (6-2) had taken sole possession of first place with a win over Menlo on Tuesday, but fell back into a tie for the top spot with the Knights following the loss to SHP (5-2-1). Castilleja senior Chloe Sales earned medalist honors with a even-par 36, but SHP’s Maddy Ellison (38) and Jessica Koenig (39) led the Gators, who had all five scorers under 44. “The girls have shown great potential this season, but have been a bit streaky,” said SHP coach Mark Dowdy. “We had a really tight match with Castilleja earlier in the season so the girls knew they could compete. Today, they seemed to really be focused. “Our win today shows how competitive our league has become. If Castilleja and Menlo both win out, they’ll be co-champions and it looks like Castilleja will get the automatic CCS berth because they have a lower combined score from the two MenloCastilleja matches. So, despite getting another L, today’s loss may not hurt Castilleja’s postseason prospects much.” After a tough loss on Tuesday to Castilleja, Menlo School stormed back to defeat Notre Dame-San Jose, 198-270, on Wednesday at Palo Alto Hills Golf &CC. The Knights (6-2) moved back into a tie for first place as Jessie Rong and Sophie Siminoff shared medalist honors with scores of 1-under 35 on the par-36 front nine. “Casti and us both have two more matches next week,” explained Menlo coach Ron Driscoll. “We both have to beat Harker and they are good. So, we will wait and see at the end of next week.” In the Peninsula Athletic League, Menlo-Atherton wrapped up a co-title in the Bay Division with a 209-231 dual-match victory over Burlingame at Poplar Creek Golf Course in San Mateo. The Bears (8-2) were led by sophomore Naomi Lee, who shot a 3-over 38 to earn medalist honors. The Santa Clara Valley Athletic League race was to be decided Thursday when Palo Alto and Gunn squared off at Santa Teresa Golf Course in San Jose. Gunn brought an 11-0 league mark (12-1 overall) into the showdown after defeating Homestead, 219-277, on Tuesday at Palo Alto
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Bye week means Priory ‘s 20-game win streak will be intact by Andrew Preimesberger state-leading 20-game win streak by the Priory football team is safe for at least another week as the Panthers enjoy a bye this weekend. The Panthers will be back in action on Oct. 25 when they travel to Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to face Stuart Hall. Priory is 4-0 in Mission Trail Athletic League eight-man action following a 34-24 victory over Anzar last Friday in Portola Valley. Priory has now outscored its opponents, 152-108, in its first four games. “I knew that team was going to bring it, especially with that streak hanging over our head,” said Panthers head coach Doug Sargent. “It’s such a young team and, for them to step up and play like that defensively, I haven’t seen a performance like that in the six years we’ve been going.” With just under five minutes left in the fourth quarter and Priory leading 28-24, Michael Zhao and the Panthers’ defense came up with a huge stop on their own 18yard line and forced Anzar to turn the ball over. “We just play assignment football,” said Zhao. “Everybody is doing their job and I was just in the right spot.” The Panthers led off their drive in the first quarter with a 51-yard touchdown pass from senior Max Reines to junior Scott Harris giving their team the 8-0 early lead. Reines threw for 198 yards and accounted for four touchdowns. Reines hooked up with Harris again in the first quarter, this time for 70 yards and a touchdown giving Priory a 22-16 lead. Harris finished with a game-high 166 yards and three touchdowns on just four receptions. “We planned on that so it could open up the run,” said Sargent. “We surprised them early with Scott Harris.” The 6-foot-5 Harris, whose main sport is basketball, played both ways and stood out as he towered above his opponents. He came up with a big sack in the first half in addition to hitting the Anzar QB just as he released, causing an interception by Reines that ended an Anzar drive just before halftime. Priory freshman Keyshawn Ashford juked defenders and ran in for a nine-yard touchdown with 3:34 left in the game, sealing the win.
PREP GIRLS’ ROUNDUP
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
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Elisa Merten
Michael Swart
MENLO SCHOOL
SACRED HEART PREP
The senior setter produced 83 assists, 34 digs, eight kills, three aces and six blocks during two key WBAL Foothill Division volleyball victories that kept the Knights undefeated in league and alone in first place.
The senior scored 27 goals during a 4-1 week in water polo, including 18 during a 3-1 finish at the S&R Invitational in Irvine where he scored the winning goal in an 11-10 win over Foothill in the third-place match.
Honorable mention Bianca Batista Gunn water polo
Jackie Cai-Maddie Lee Palo Alto tennis doubles
Kirby Knapp Menlo-Atherton volleyball
Malaika Koshy* Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Abigail Pederson Menlo-Atherton golf
Jessie Rong Menlo golf
Scott Harris Priory football
Calder Hilde-Jones Gunn water polo
Andreas Katsis Menlo water polo
JC Marco Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Nelson Perla-Ward Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Spencer Witte* Menlo water polo * previous winner
Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com
In the only other game last weekend, sophomore running back Stavro Papadakis rushed 28 times for 158 rushing yards and a one-yard scoring run, but it wasn’t enough for Menlo-Atherton as the host Bears opened their PAL Bay Division football season with a 35-14 loss to Burlingame. M-A fell to 1-4 overall. The Bears will be back in action Friday night, hosting Sequoia (0-1, 2-3) at 7 p.m. Menlo School, Gunn, Palo Alto and Sacred Heart Prep all had byes last week but will be back in action Friday night, as well. Cross country The Gunn boys scored 51 points and took second behind Cupertino (45) at a Center Meet on Wednesday over the 2.95-mile layout at Crystal Springs in Belmont. Reid Kovacs led the Titans with a sixth-place finish of 16:57. Gunn’s Ryan Araghi was seventh in 17:04 and Josh Radin finished ninth in 17:05. Water polo Sacred Heart Prep boys grabbed control of the West Catholic Ath-
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letic League race with a big 11-7 victory over visiting St. Francis on Wednesday night in Atherton. Goalie JC Marco came up with 14 saves for the Gators (4-0, 131), who pulled away from a 3-3 halftime tie with four goals in the third and fourth periods. Nelson Perla-Ward led SHP with five goals while fellow senior Michael Swart added three. St. Francis (4-1, 10-8) tied the match at 4 early in the third quarter and later trailed by just 7-6 before Perla-Ward and Swart finished things off. In the PAL Bay Division, Wells Costello and Chris Xi each tossed in four goals to pace Menlo School to a 20-6 dunking of host Mills. The Knights improved to 4-0 in league (14-1 overall) as Andreas Katsis and James Thygesen each added three goals for Menlo. In Belmont, Menlo-Atherton (4-0, 7-7) remained tied for first place following a 22-3 swamping of host Carlmont. Newcomer Michael Fedorchenko, who last season played at St. Edmund Preparatory in Brooklyn, N.Y., led the Bears with six goals. Q
Hills Golf & Country Club. Senior Anna Zhou led the Titans with a 2-under 34 with freshman Lydia Tsai next with a 38. Palo Alto brought a 9-1 league mark (10-1 overall) into Thursday’s match, which will be held on the same course hosting the league tournament on Oct. 28, following a 177-180 win over Lynbrook at the par-30 Deep Cliff Golf Course in Cupertino. Senior Michelle Xie had birdies on the par-3 first and ninth holes and finished with an even-par round of 30. Emily Hwang had one birdie in a round of 33 with Elise Kiya carding a 36, freshman Stephanie Yu a 37 and Celia Willner a 41. Cross country Gunn continued its strong season by scoring 25 points and claiming team honors at a Center Meet on Wednesday over the 2.95-mile layout at Crystal Springs in Belmont. Gunn junior Gillian Meeks took individual honors with a personal best of 17:30, ranking her No. 28 on the all-time course list. With teammate Emily Aiken third in a PR of 18:25, the Titans put five runners among the top 12. Illi Gardner (19:01) was sixth, Emma Chiao (19:42) was ninth, and Maya Miklos (20:52) was 12th. Water polo Back at full strength after having three players sidelined, Sacred Heart Prep grabbed control of the West Catholic Athletic League race with an 8-5 victory on Wednesday night in Atherton. The Gators (4-0, 13-4) blanked the Lancers in the second and third periods to spark the crucial victory, giving SHP the inside track to the regular-season title and the No. 1 seed for the WCAL playoffs. The Lancers fell to 4-1 (14-2). Layla Waters led the way for SHP with three goals while fellow sophomore Maddy Johnston, who had missed a half-dozen games, added two, as did junior Malaika Koshy. Goalie Emily Riley came up with 12 saves in one her best outings of the season. “Great win for us tonight, for sure,” said SHP coach Jon Burke. “Riley played phenomenal and our five-on-six defense was really outstanding.” Castilleja remained in a firstplace tie in the PAL Bay Division with an 18-6 dunking of host Hillsdale. The Gators (5-0, 11-5) grabbed a 9-4 halftime lead and extended that with seven goals in the third period. Celia Aldrete led the way with five goals with Fernanda Kramer adding four. Q
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