Palo Alto Weekly November 14, 2014 by Palo Alto Weekly

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Vol. XXXVI, Number 6

November 14, 2014

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Transitions 18 Eating Out 32 Shop Talk 34 Movies 35 Home 40 Q News Customers ask, ‘What’s wrong with USPS?’

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Customers are asking, ‘What’s wrong with USPS?’ Undelivered mail, lack of responsibility by management alleged by customers and employees by Sue Dremann he Palo Alto division of misdirected mail, long lines for the United States Postal passports and unresponsive manService is not delivering agement, according to customers. on services, and some custom- Employees, who spoke with the ers and employees are placing Weekly on condition of anonymthe blame on management and a ity, allege the issues are systemic lack of accountability, not just on and rooted in a lack of internal coordination and supervisors who budget cuts. The downward trend began are unwilling to take responsibila year ago, with lost packages, ity.

Service got worse in early fall when Palo Alto’s postmaster, Dean Maeda, was sent to Los Angeles for a few months. In early October, 20 people stood in line at the main post office on Bayshore Road until 9:20 a.m. — nearly an hour after the office was set to open — because the clerk who usually opens the window was stuck in traffic. A manager did not want other workers to open the windows, employees said. Workers in Palo Alto’s down-

town branch said business customers got irate while Maeda was away when the clerks ran out of business-appropriate coils and sheets of stamps. Clerks had only Batman stamps available because the person in charge neglected to order the stamps. Business customers were walking out, one employee said. Some customers said they have noticed the deterioration, but worse, they couldn’t reach anyone for answers.

“There is no accountability,” Dan Rubinstein said. “If you want to complain, there is no receptionist. The only person who can summon the manager is the person I want to complain about.” Rubinstein said he waited for 45 minutes with seven other families to get passports for his children. The person in charge of passports was out to lunch, and staff did not know when the person would re(continued on page 15)

COMMUNITY CENTER

City, school district reach breakthrough on Cubberley Palo Alto council, school board set to sign off on a new deal next week by Gennady Sheyner

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J-u-s-t right Beau Revenaugh, 8, gets his hair trimmed at Campus Barber Shop on California Avenue. Beau pleaded with his mom to keep the length long: “I want it to stay puffy,” he said. Beside shorter bangs, he got his wish.

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Connecting communities through art Cultural Kaleidoscope pairs students from Palo Alto and East Palo Alto by Elizabeth Schwyzer

hat if, with a single school art program, you could provide creative opportunities for kids, offer professional development for teachers, meet state standards and foster friendship between disparate communities? That’s exactly what Cultural Kaleidoscope was created to do. Now in its 16th year, the program of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation began with a simple vision: using visual art to foster unity. Today, the art program operates in 20 K-5 classrooms: half of them in largely upper-middle-class Palo Alto Unified schools, and half in the Ravenswood City School Dis-

trict, where 80 percent of families are considered low-income and nearly 70 percent of students are English-language learners. In the current school year, Cultural Kaleidoscope will serve 468 students. Through in-school workshops, field trips, collaboration days and a culminating public art exhibition, students learn to see themselves as creators and to share that experience with children from neighborhoods and families different from their own. It’s the latter factor that dis-

tinguishes the program from so many others. “Cultural Kaleidoscope came out of a deep desire to connect the dramatically different communities of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto,” explained Palo Alto Art Center Director Karen Kienzle, who credited Palo Alto arts education advocate Carolyn Tucher with the initial vision that launched the project. This year, Cultural Kaleidoscope is operating at Escondido, Fairmeadow, Herbert Hoover, Lucille Nixon, Ohlone and Palo Verde schools in Palo Alto Uni(continued on page 16)

fter two years of uncertainty, the City of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Unified School District have reached a breakthrough on new lease terms for the Cubberley Community Center, the sprawling campus whose future has been in limbo while the deal was being hashed out. The terms of the new agreement, which school district Superintendent Max McGee announced at a special meeting Wednesday morning, are scheduled to be ratified by the City Council on Nov. 17 and by the district’s Board of Education on Nov. 18. The current lease was set to expire at the end of December. At Wednesday’s meeting, school trustees indicated that they will support the terms, which include the scrapping of the controversial “covenant not to develop” in the existing agreement. The long-standing covenant has been the main sticking point in negotiations. Adopted in 1989, a time of falling student enrollment, the covenant obligates the city to pay the school district about $1.86 million annually not to develop several school properties throughout the city. With enrollment now rising, the properties occupied by schools, and the district not nearly as financially needy as it was in 1989, the City Council and City Manager James Keene have persistently argued that the basis for the covenant’s adoption no longer exists. The council formally declared its intent in February to remove the provision from any new lease and followed that up in June by

stripping the payment for the covenant from the city’s 2015 budget. While school officials had long maintained that a $1.86 million annual loss would be a bitter pill to swallow, on Wednesday morning they indicated that they are willing to do so in the spirit of compromise. Under the terms McGee outlined, the covenant will be dropped and the $1.86 million in city funds will instead be used to “repair, renovate and/or improve” the dilapidated center in south Palo Alto. The school district and the city will also move jointly to come up with a master plan for the entire Middlefield Road campus, in keeping with a recommendation from a community stakeholder group known as the Cubberley Advisory Committee. The master plan is to be completed within five years. Both sides in the negotiations praised the deal as a victory, despite the compromises each will have to make. School board member Dana Tom called the agreement a “significant step for both the city and the school district” and said it “reflects the changing landscape we experience as a school district and as a community in the many years since the first agreement.” Board member Melissa Baten Caswell said the terms “show good work to find a common interest between ourselves and the city.” Yet both she and board member Camille Townsend also raised concerns about the loss of operating revenue because of the (continued on page 14)

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Around Town

ONLINE TOOL ... Palo Alto has launched a new interactive online tool that allows residents and business owners to see what new planning applications are proposed for their neighborhoods, along with a description and map of the project. The city partnered with Buildingeye on the tool, which takes current and recently approved planning-application records— including the city’s architectural and individual reviews — and puts them into a user-friendly map. “Over the past several years, the city has been working to increase transparency and make more information of all sorts available online,” said Palo Alto Director of Planning and Community Environment Hillary Gitelman in a statement. “This new interactive tool lets the community know exactly where and what is proposed for their neighborhood.” The Buildingeye tool can be accessed at paloalto. buildingeye.com.

FASHION ON THE FARM ... Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, and Harold Koda, curator-in-charge of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are the next speakers in the ongoing Fashion at Stanford lecture series. Sozzani will speak on Friday, Nov. 14, at 5 p.m. in the Cemex Auditorium, at 641 Knight Way, Stanford. Sozzani will talk about Vogue Italia’s 50th anniversary and share some of its iconic covers for the past five decades. Koda will discuss The Costume Institute’s history and its mission to collect masterworks of high fashion on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. in Cubberley Auditorium, at 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford. Both events are free and open to the public. POWERS TO DEPART ... Stanford Management Company President and Chief Executive Officer John F. Powers announced Tuesday that he will leave his post in 2015. Powers, who was appointed to lead Stanford Management Company in June 2006, oversaw the investment of Stanford’s $25 billion in endowment and trust assets as well as its expendable funds. He will remain CEO until his replacement can be appointed. Stanford President John Hennessy will head a national search for his successor. “It is a privilege and honor to support this great

university and its missions of teaching, research and service,” Powers said in a statement. “I have decided that it is time to take my enthusiasm for business-building and find a new challenge, but I am mindful of the responsibility that comes with service to Stanford.” Since Power’s appointment in 2006, the endowment has grown from $12 billion to $21.4 billion as of Aug. 31, the last day of Stanford’s fiscal year. CHRYSANTHEMUMS OF KINDNESS ... Tennessee-based nonprofit organization Random Acts of Flowers (RAF), which recycles flowers and delivers bouquets to individuals in health care facilities, is expanding into the Silicon Valley. “In just a few years, we’ve re-purposed tens of thousands of donated flowers ... and have delivered almost 55,000 smiles to people in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices. We’re now excited to extend the organization’s positive impact to the Silicon Valley area,” Random Acts of Flowers Founder and CEO Larsen Jay said in a statement. All the flowers from a fundraising gala on Thursday, Nov. 13, at the Menlo Circus Club, at 190 Park Lane, Atherton, will be recycled into bouquets and delivered by RAF volunteers to residents of Lytton Gardens Senior Communities in Palo Alto on Friday, Nov. 14. The organization will launch its newest branch in Palo Alto in early 2015. VOLUNTEER WORK ... Caltrain is looking for four volunteers for its bicycle advisory committee. The committee, which will be made up of nine members and Caltrain staff, will serve San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. While the committee serves in an advisory capacity only, the group offers new ideas for discussion and helps guide the agency’s investments, according to commuter-rail organization. Caltrain is seeking a bike advocacy group member and a public agency representative from Santa Clara County. The agency is looking for general public members for San Mateo and San Francisco counties. The committee meets every other month for one evening in San Carlos. Each member serves for two years. Applications are due Dec. 1. Applications are available at caltrain.com/bac or by calling 650-508-6279. Q

Upfront munity feels. We have a lot of momentum on really getting us to be a student-centered, innovative place where our kids are socially emotional healthy and want to learn.” Dauber and Godfrey will join Camille Townsend, Heidi Emberling and Melissa Baten Caswell at the dais, serving four-year terms starting Dec. 9. The registrar’s office stated that roughly 7,000 provisional ballots countywide remained to be counted as of Wednesday evening. Official results are scheduled to be certified on Dec. 2. In the Palo Alto City Council race, the competition for the fifth and final open seat remained close as of Thursday morning. Cory Wolbach had 8,078 votes to Lydia Kou’s 7,923. Each candidate has held the lead at one point since Election Day. Q

ELECTION 2014

Foster concedes Palo Alto school board race to Godfrey Dauber, Godfrey are the Board of Education’s newest members Kadvany require extra attention, including a verification of the voter’s status). According to the count as of Thursday morning, Godfrey is ahead by 199 votes — 9,638 to Foster’s 9,439. Ken Dauber secured his seat by a comfortable margin last week. The latest update shows him with 29.47 percent of the vote. “I am grateful for the opportunity to have spent these past six months discussing the future of Palo Alto’s schools with so many in our community,” Foster wrote in her message. “I continue to be

energized by you, by the opportunities before us, and by the ambition of our new superintendent. To those of you who walked, called, endorsed, created, gave, wrote, informed, and inspired over this campaign — many, many thanks. We created a network of positive thinkers who care about education that will continue long after the final ballots are counted.” “I’m looking forward to getting to the job,” Godfrey told the Weekly Thursday. “I certainly feel like I have a good feeling for what people are interested in and how our com-

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She noted that another member of the IT division who has worked for many years alongside Le picked up the responsibilities, and the office was “able to proceed as normal.” But Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian said this week that the process could stand some improvements. He has asked other supervisors to consider directing the county administration to report to the board’s Finance and Government Operations Committee about the Registrar of Voters’ processes, procedures and technologies that might have impeded the timely delivery of a secure and accurate vote tally. At 4:01 a.m. Nov. 5, the morning following the election, Santa Clara County provided a complete count of precinct ballots — the last in the Bay Area to do so, he said. And a website glitch prevented viewing updated results at 9:30 p.m. on election night. “The most important thing is that we have a secure and accurate count,” Simitian said on Thursday. “There’s no denying that the Santa Clara County system is unacceptably slow.” The problems stem mainly from two areas: After the 2000 presidential election and the punch card “hanging chad” controversy, the county in 2003 acquired electronic-voting equipment. But the machines were decertified by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen in 2007. The county returned to a more antiquated centralized voting count rather than the precinctcount system, with the exception of keeping the electronic system for voters with disabilities, as it was deemed more user-friendly. In a centralized system, all ballots are brought to the Registrar

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by Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner anta Clara County’s election will not be reviewed by the Secretary of State after all, despite public speculation about a county IT manager who quit the day before voters went to the polls and a request from the county for an independent evaluation. The concerns prompted the county to request last week an independent review from the state of its Election Day procedures. But on Tuesday, county Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey told the Weekly that state officials have informed her office that they will not go ahead with the review. Bushey said she discussed the potential review with the Secretary of State officials on Monday and expects a letter from the state stating that “they have full confidence in our vote counts and procedures.” Bushey said she is also fully confident in Election Day results, which are still being tabulated. The delay in getting out the final count is nothing new, Bushey said, and this year’s vote followed the same procedures as those in prior years. The county “did not have any problems whatsoever with our ballot tabulations,” she said. The resignation of IT manager Joseph Le fueled speculations about the county’s election process, but Bushey said it had no impact on the tabulations.

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by Elena wrote in an email to her supporters. “Both Terry and Ken will be staunch advocates for our students, and I wish them both the best.” Foster, a parent of two whose 20-year career has focused on education and social justice, has trailed Godfrey since Election Day, with the spread between the two as little as 12 votes at one point. The results have trickled in through daily updates as the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters has processed several thousand hand-delivered absentee ballots and provisional ballots (those that

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fter more than a week of being locked in a tight battle for the second open Palo Alto school board seat, Catherine Crystal Foster has conceded to Terry Godfrey. “At this point, the county has recorded all remaining vote-bymail ballots, and there are only a few thousand uncounted provisional ballots remaining countywide. The uncounted ballots are unlikely to change the outcome, so I offer my sincere congratulations to Ken and Terry as the new members of our school board,” Foster

* Figures reflect Registrar of Voters’ unofficial results as of Nov. 12. This map has been revised since last week’s edition of the Weekly, which relied on the Nov. 5 tally, since an additional 8,010 votes (hand-delivered absentee ballots plus some provisional ballots) were counted in the interim. Countywide participation was 49 percent.

of Voters office to be tallied after the polls close. Ballots are fed into optical scan machines to be read and tallied, which is timeconsuming, Simitian said. But most other Bay Area counties use a precinct-count system, which has an optical scan machine in every polling place. Voters feed their ballots into the machine, which reads and tallies votes throughout the day. The results are stored on a removable memory card that is taken to the registrar’s office. The votes are uploaded into the central data system, according to a Nov. 12 report by the Office of the County Executive and Registrar of Voters to the board of supervisors. Simitian said the previous registrar also aggressively pushed voting by mail, which has become problematic because people have changed the way they vote. Voters used to return the ballots by mail

soon after receiving them, which allowed the registrar’s office time to open, check signatures and enter the ballots into the system. But many people are now holding onto their ballots until Election Day. These “hybrid voters,” as Simitian called them, wait until more information comes in about the candidates and issues, then drop their ballots off at polling stations. In 2008, 30 percent of vote-by-mail ballots were received on Election Day. That number has grown to 50 percent, according to the Nov. 12 report. Another change to the voting system — same-day voter registration, which is expected to begin in 2017 — could also add to the processing time. Even with a new optical-scan system, sameday registration could increase the number of provisional ballots, according to the report. The board will consider the re-

port during its Nov. 18 meeting. The report also recommends the county prepare for purchasing and installing a new voting system in 2017, which would utilize the precinct-count optical-scan readers with voting capabilities at polling places along with new central-count ballot readers at the Registrar of Voters for vote-bymail ballots. The system requires state certification. The registrar has devised a preliminary plan for developing the new system. The estimated $15 million to $20 million system would not be in place for the 2016 presidential election, but the time frame the registrar recommends would allow for public input into the system development, particularly related to security and access for persons with disabilities and language assistance, according to the registrar’s report. Q

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Upfront TRANSPORTATION HOUSING

Palo Alto looks to scrap ban on car camping

Palo Alto’s parking-permit program gets green light

Expecting legal challenge, City Council prepares to repeal controversial law

Planning commission votes to approve proposal to require parking permits in residential areas

by Gennady Sheyner fter lingering in legal heavy resistance from many limbo for nearly a year, residents, homeless vehicle Palo Alto’s controver- dwellers and advocates for the sial ban on car camping is now homeless. In addition to banning car camping, the council heading toward repeal. The law, which the council allocated $250,000 for housing adopted in August 2013 after a subsidies for the homeless. The city has also recently heated community debate, has been on shaky legal footing awarded a contract to Peninsince June, when the U.S. Court sula Healthcare Connections of Appeals struck down a simi- for an intensive case managlar law in Los Angeles. While er, who has been conducting enforcement of the Palo Alto outreach to the homeless and ordinance was initially slated working toward finding them to begin in February 2014, the housing, according to a report council agreed in December to from Stump. Stump recommends repealsuspend it for a year while the city waits for the Los Angeles ing the car-camping ban and “continuing to monitor condicase to be resolved. Now, with the Los Angeles tions and impacts to residents.” law deemed illegal, Palo Alto In light of the Los Angeles City Attorney Molly Stump is decision, Stump wrote in the recommending repealing the report, “Many cities’ vehicle law. The City Council is set to habitation ordinances are now vote on this recommendation subject to legal challenges on similar grounds to that of Los Monday night. Under the recommenda- Angeles. “While Palo Alto’s ordinance tion, the city will continue to monitor the problems that is different from the Los Angehave prompted the adoption les ordinance and is consistent, in the first place. The ban was in our view, with constitutional adopted after years of com- requirements, a decision to replaints from residents about tain and enforce the ordinance disturbance from people living will likely result in litigation in cars outside the residents’ that will be both resource-inhomes. In addition to banning tensive and expensive,” Stump car camping, the council also wrote. “Accordingly, staff recagreed last year to keep Cub- ommends that the city direct its berley Community Center resources toward proactive soclosed at night after the cen- lutions such as social services ter transformed into what City and outreach rather than litigaManager James Keene called tion costs.” Q an “ad hoc homeless shelter.” Staff Writer Gennady Both restrictions, particularly Sheyner can be emailed at the car-camping ban, met with gsheyner@paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Nov. 10)

Commissions: The council appointed Kate Downing and Adrien Fine to the Planning and Transportation Commission for seats formerly occupied by Arthur Keller and Carl King. Each was appointed by a 5-3 vote, with Berman, Klein, Price, Scharff and Shepherd supporting the appointments. Absent: Kniss Housing Element: The council approved the 2015-2023 Housing Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Yes: Unanimous Zoo: The council approved a letter of intent to partner with the Friends of the Junior Museum & Zoo on a reconstruction of the Rinconada Park facility. Yes: Berman, Holman, Klein, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Shepherd Absent: Kniss Recusd: Burt

Board of Education (Nov. 12)

Cubberley: The school board discussed the proposed terms of the lease amendment between the city and the school district for Cubberley Community Center. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (Nov. 12)

Parking: The commission recommended adopting an ordinance establishing a framework for neighborhoods to adopt “residential parking permit programs” and supported a resolution to establish a permit program in downtown. Yes: Alcheck, Downing, Fine, Gardias, Michael, Tanaka, Recused: Rosenblum

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by Gennady Sheyner

esponding to years of complaints about downtown’s residential streets being transformed into parking lots for employees, Palo Alto’s planning commissioners unanimously backed a parking-permit program that they hope will ease the congestion. In two separate unanimous votes, the Planning and Transportation Commission gave the green light to a downtown Residential Parking Permit Program (RPPP) and approved an ordinance that creates a framework for other neighborhoods that want to set up similar programs. The downtown program is a response to a parking situation that has been getting progressively worse in recent years. Occupancy data gathered by staff showed most blocks in Downtown North filled to capacity during business hours. A September survey of downtown by planning staff showed that much of the area was at least 86 percent occupied between noon and 2 p.m., with many blocks “exceeding their capacity for parking.” The resolution to create a downtown program was drafted after nine months of work by a specially appointed stakeholders group featuring representatives from businesses and neighborhoods. It would take effect early next year and play out in two phases, with the first phase lasting six months and focused primarily on gathering data. During the first phase, residents would be given free permits while employees would be able to buy sixmonth permits for $233, which is equal to the cost of buying a permit to park in downtown garages. Low-wage workers would be able to buy permits for $50 each. In the second phase, residents would get one free permit and be required to pay $50 per year for additional ones, with a limit of four. Permits for businesses would be limited to a number based on the data gathered in the first phase, and parking for employees would be assigned to specific one- or two-block segments. The permit would allow cars to park all day on the streets, though there would be a two-hour restriction for cars that don’t have permits. The program is far broader than the one that the council considered and rejected two years ago, which targeted a portion of Professorville. At the time, the council argued that the program would merely push parking to other downtown blocks. The new program encompasses a huge swath of downtown, from Palo Alto Avenue in the north to

Lincoln Avenue in the south and from Alma Street in the west to Guinda Street to the east. Staff had originally intended to extend the border further south, to Embarcadero Road, but agreed to omit that section after results from a survey showed only 65 residents saying they would support a parking-permit program and 138 saying they would oppose it. That section is furthest away from the commercial core and, as the city’s parking-occupancy data shows, has far more available parking spots, indicating it is less affected by employee parking. In the rest of downtown, residents who responded to the informal survey were split 643 in favor of the program (53 percent) and 47 percent (against). The survey did not, however, include many of the details that were later added to the program and was intended largely to gather feedback. The permit program is a major component in Palo Alto’s multipronged approach to bringing downtown some parking relief. The strategy also includes building a new garage, expanding the shuttle program, and launching a host of transportation-demandmanagement initiatives aimed at getting drivers to shift from cars to other modes of transportation. “Non-residential vehicle parking disrupts neighborhood quality of life,” Jessica Sullivan, the city’s parking manager, said in describing the need for the ordinance. “Which is another way of saying that shortage of parking spaces can result in noise, traffic and those types of things.” Dozens of residents attended the meeting to support this assertion, though only three remained in the audience by the time the planning commission adopted the program at about 11:30 p.m. All speakers at the meeting advocated in favor of the program, though some suggested modifications. Malcolm Beasley noted that the parking situation is deteriorating fast and urged staff to consider future development projects in tallying parking deficits. “The reality is that parking will surely get worse, and we must openly face up to this reality if we are to deal with it in a firm way,” Beasley said. “I urge staff to make dynamic projections to the degree it’s possible to do so.” The planning commission largely followed staff’s proposals and approved the ordinance that allows any neighborhood to opt in. The ordinance establishes a process that requires a neighborhood to complete an application and submit a petition indicating major-

ity support from the residents. The planning commission would review the petition, and staff would proceed with outreach and occupancy studies. The resolution and the data gathered by staff would come back to the planning commission, which would then make a recommendation to the council. Commissioner Kate Downing agreed with the public that a parking-permit program should be implemented and suggested that the city come up with a threshold for parking congestion that would inform its priorities for parking programs. Creating a system in which fewer people are circling the block and looking for parking would not only provide relief to the neighborhoods but also be good for both the environment and safety. She also suggested that permit parking be more expensive for streets than for garages, which are chronically underused despite the congestion on the streets. “To get people off the streets, it needs to be a less palatable option than the garage,” Downing said. Commissioners added a few amendments to the staff proposal for a downtown program. They agreed to add the 300 and 400 blocks of Lincoln Avenue to the program (they were on the periphery of the omitted area) and specified that it should be the planning commission rather than the planning director who determines the priorities for parking programs. Commissioners also supported making the permits transferable among employees, though Sullivan warned that this could increase instances of permit fraud. Commissioner Michael Alcheck recommended expanding the downtown permit area to the original wider boundaries, despite resident opposition in the southern section. Once the permit restrictions start, Alcheck argued, this section of downtown will be overrun with cars and the “nos will become yesses the minute the program is implemented.” Commissioner Przemek Gardias argued that the permit fees for employees should be “nominal” in the first phase, though this suggestion did not win the support of the rest of the commission. The majority agreed that the program is worth pursuing and adjusting later as needed. “A lot of work has been put into this, and it’s well thought out,” Commissioner Greg Tanaka said. “While not perfect, it’s a trial. If it’s not perfect, we’ll make it better.” The City Council is scheduled to consider the parking program on Dec. 1. Q

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garage at 490 Cambridge Ave. All took place between Thursday, Nov. 6, and Sunday, Nov. 9. They either occurred in the early afternoon or early evening. In each incident, the burglars smashed the car windows. The burglars made off with electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones, Philip said. In three cases, the burglars rummaged through the cars but did not take anything. It does not appear that the burglars targeted any particular make or model of car, though it does appear that they targeted rental vehicles with the thought that business people travel with electronic devices, Philip said. “It is a continued problem plaguing Palo Alto and the Peninsula,” but police are working with other agencies on possible leads and looking at similarities in other cases, he said. Police advise residents and visitors to lock their unattended vehicles and close all windows, as well as to take valuables with them or keep things out of sight. Police also encourage people to call 911 to report suspicious behavior. Anyone with information pertaining to these incidents can also call the 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413, send an anonymous tip by text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984, or email paloalto@tipnow.org. To see an interactive map of the auto burglaries, visit umapper. com/maps/view/id/251133/. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

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Palo Alto’s Mothers Against Murder helps ISIS victims Local nonprofit extends aid to Iraqi Christian refugees facing genocide

he letter from ISIS crisply enumerated the choices “Shoshan,” 26, and her family had if they wanted to stay in their hometown of Mosul in Iraq: • Convert to Islam • Or pay a hefty “protection” tax • Or be beheaded. As Assyrian Christians, they were marked both for their ethnicity and religion. Overnight, they chose a final alternative offered by ISIS: to leave with literally only the shirts on their backs, said Shoshan, who agreed to talk to the Weekly under an assumed name. Arriving on a still-valid visa, Shoshan is seeking asylum in the U.S. with the help of Margaret Petros and Mothers Against Murder, a Palo Alto-based group dedicated to helping families of murder victims. Petros, the organization’s executive director, has offered support and translation services and helped gather documentation and navigate paperwork for victims. On Monday, Nov. 10, Shoshan

faced her first interview with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Now seven-months pregnant, she was sent to California during the first trimester to escape being traumatized by ISIS and the ongoing displacement of hundreds of thousands of Christians in her homeland. In Mosul alone, more than 60,000 Assyrian Christians out of 80,000 have fled to the mountains and live in makeshift tents, said Ladimer Alkhaseh, senior pastor of Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose and the Bay Area. Shivering in the cold and soaked by flood waters, the victims, who are the indigenous people of Iraq and come from a 6,800-year-old culture, rely on whatever aid can be dropped by aircraft into the region or funneled in through church organizations in bordering countries. It is unknown how much of the goods, including sleeping bags and clothing, has been sold on the black market before reaching the refugees, Alkhaseh said.

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People who stay behind face kidnapping, slavery, rape and death, he added. “The weapon of choice now is automobiles. They are running people over in the streets,” he said. What is happening in Iraq is nothing short of genocide, members of local humanitarian and church groups said. When ISIS comes, Christian homes are marked with the Arabic letter “N” for Nazareth (“follower of Christ”), and the terrorist group seizes the home as its property. “The situation is dire. Fivehundred thousand are displaced,” Petros said. The group is working to help a few Iraqi Christian refugees, including Shoshan, gain asylum in the U.S. Petros said that aiding these families is in line with the organization’s mission of helping families of murder victims. “It’s 100 percent related to my work. It’s murder. When this was happening, I got glued to every bit of news,” said Petros, an Assyrian Christian and Iraqi. “I want to get the message out. There is so much disconnection.” To those people who don’t want the refugees coming to America, Petros said: “We are only talking about five families; we’re not talking about a flood of people. Very few families have a visitor visa. The embassy in Iraq does not give them easily.” Shoshan’s family has already experienced the murder of one of its own. Her uncle was killed by terrorists while he was with an American contractor, Petros said. Ten years of upheaval had preceded the ISIS invasion, starting with the U.S.-led Iraq War. Then ISIS, known as Daash, invaded on June 6, and by June 10, the terror group announced it had overthrown the local government, Shoshan said. “There was fear (before), but it was unlike the fear after Daash came. When I slept, I did not have nightmares and wake up with all of my body trembling,” she said. Shoshan had been married for a year and eight months and was pregnant when the edict came to leave or be beheaded. “We thought in the beginning that maybe it would change for the better for the city. We realized quickly it was for the worst,” she said. “They terrorized Christians. They stole all their valuables ... even all the cars and telephones (were) confiscated. They burned and destroyed all the churches. They took out the crosses and burned the statue of the Virgin Mary. They did not leave anything Christian alone.” Mor Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf,

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Margaret Petros, left, executive director of Mothers Against Murder, listens to Shoshan (name has been changed to protect her identity), during an interview with the Weekly in November. Shoshan, who is an Assyrian Christian, fled Iraq to escape the violence and persecution of ISIS when the group took control. the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul, described the situation further during a recent interview posted on YouTube: “Although Mongols, Tatar and Hulagu have crossed the region ... although a lot of wars happened on the land of Iraq, we did not stop praying in our churches, neither in Mosul nor in surrounding villages. Since 1,500 years, this is the first year we are praying outside of our churches.” ISIS also confiscated some Christians’ official identification, Shoshan said. “Once that is taken, how could you prove who you are? It is extremely difficult to travel without identification. How do you prove who you are to claim asylum or that you are a refugee?” Shoshan said. Shoshan’s family left Mosul on July 19. The family took two cars: Shoshan traveled with her mother- and father-in-law, youngest brother-in-law and sister-in-law while her husband and his brothers drove in a car behind them. They planned to go to Shoshan’s parents’ home in Erbil, which is in Kurdistan and receives support from Western countries and is not under ISIS’s control. The one-hour trip took more than nine because of the number of people fleeing the town at the same time, she said. At a checkpoint, armed ISIS men ordered them out of their car, and Shoshan was forced to surrender all of the gold she received for her marriage — a woman’s security in her country — and her wedding ring. ISIS took all of her mother-in-law’s gold and the family’s money. “We just left with whatever we were wearing,” Shoshan said. She watched in terror as the armed men pulled her husband’s car aside. “We tried to see what was happening, but we were told, ‘You better leave or we are going to kill you,’” she recalled, adding that she still gets traumatized reliving the moment. Her car tried to stop and wait for her husband, but others along the route told the family not to linger or they would be killed. “In my mind, I thought they were going to kill them,” she said of her husband and his

brothers. The men did not arrive at her parents’ home. With Shoshan pregnant, the family thought it best to send her to stay with relatives in California. Since arriving in the U.S., she has been shuttling between relatives at opposite ends of the state. For awhile, her husband’s fate was unknown. “One month and three days,” she said of the period of her husband’s disappearance before she heard from him again. ISIS had confiscated his car at the checkpoint and forced him and his brothers to walk away. They hid in homes in controlled territory until air strikes forced ISIS to pull out, then they walked nine hours to Shoshan’s parents’ home, she said. Shoshan is torn. “I really want my family to be with me, especially my husband,” she said. But if she can’t get asylum here, he won’t receive a visa. And if she returns to Iraq, she fears that she could be kidnapped, raped and murdered. With her light complexion and hair, she “looks like a British girl,” people in Mosul used to say. Anyone thought to be a foreigner or who is known to have relatives in the West is particularly vulnerable, said Father Ninos Oshaana of Ascension Cathedral in Oakland. His church has been helping people from the region and has heard many stories. “They become a target and are kidnapped, and money is demanded from the family as ransom. Even after it is paid, people are still not returned. There are horrific cases. People are returned in bits and pieces,” he said. And families who pay a ransom to the terrorists are automatically barred from immigrating to the U.S., since paying the ransom is considered aiding and abetting the terrorists, he added. Asked what Shoshan would do if she had to return to Iraq, a determined look crossed her face. “Would anyone want to go back to their death with his own legs?” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Makeover eyed for Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo City plans to strike deal with group to rebuild aged Rinconada Park facility by Gennady Sheyner

alo Alto’s Junior Museum & Zoo, a popular Rinconada Park destination for children to check out bobcats, turtles and ferrets, may soon be on its way to a dramatic makeover. The City Council on Monday enthusiastically endorsed a letter of intent with the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo, pledging the city’s cooperation on a project that the group has been eying for years: the reconstruction of the 1941 facility. The letter of intent paves the way for the two sides to establish development agreements for the building of a new and enhanced facility and lay out conditions for the operations of the facility for up to 40 years. If the project — which is still in the very early phases — takes off, it would be the latest in a string of capital projects to take place in Rinconada Park. The Palo Alto Art Center recently underwent a renovation, and the expanded Rinconada Library (formerly known as Main Library) is scheduled to re-open to the public at the end of this year. The city is also now putting the finishing touches on the Rinconada Park Master Plan, a vision document that will explore potential improvements for the sprawling park along Middlefield and Embarcadero roads. The letter of intent with the Friends group doesn’t include any

information about the design of the new facility or the city’s financial obligations when it comes to the project. These details would be finalized in the next year, as the two sides move ahead with forging development agreements. The city’s contributions are expected to be limited. A staff report to the council notes that the Friends group will be “responsible for raising the required funds for the project” and for advocating for the facility in the community. City Manager James Keene’s letter of intent also points out that the city “does not have sufficient funds to rebuild the existing JMZ (Junior Museum and Zoo) facility and the Parties anticipate that the cost of the operation of the newly designed JMZ facility will exceed the current city’s budget appropriations for the JMZ.” But while fundraising by the Friends group is expected to play a big role, the letter of intent also suggests that the city will be expected to kick in some money for the project. “The city desires to stabilize and reduce on a long-term basis its financial support for the JMZ operation, and the Friends seek financial support from the City in the initial years of the operation of the rebuilt facility,” states the letter of intent from Keene to Aretha Coleman, president of Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo. The group has been talking

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about renovating the 73-year-old facility for nearly two decades. In 1997, a report by the consulting firm Adamson Associates deemed the facility overdue for renovation and recommended a seismic upgrade. Five years later, a different consultant commissioned by the Friends group determined that demands for space at the facility exceed its capacity. The most recent study to raise flags about the facility’s condition was the 2011 report by the Infrastructure Blue Ribbon Commission, a citizens group that surveyed all of the city’s maintenance and facility needs. In its final report, the group pegged the cost of bringing the museum up to shape at $221,000. For the Friends group, the outreach has already begun. The group has launched what it has called the JMZ Initiative to spread awareness and raise funds. “The need for rebuilding is urgent because of the aging conditions and limitations of the facilities,” a document from the Friends group describing the initiative states. “The timing is right with the development of a Master Plan for Rinconada Park. The community’s capacity to fund this project obligates us to act now.” The Friends group also makes a point in the document that increased attendance at the museum and zoo and the rising demand for its educational programs “have outgrown the size of the current facilities.” The new facility would include a dedicated area for bus drop-off and a new Science Education Center, according to the document. There would also be a “more organized and secured” lobby area and a replacement of the ventilation system with a “variety of environmentally friendly solutions to climate controls.” The council unanimously agreed to support the letter of intent, with nearly every member praising the zoo’s contributions to the community. Councilman Greg Schmid reminisced about bringing his children and grandchildren to the zoo and Mayor Nancy Shepherd called it “one of our real organs of the city.” Councilman Pat Burt recalled the time Rufus, one of the zoo’s two bobcats, nibbled on his ear. “There’s nothing quite like a Junior Museum & Zoo event when there are 200 kids running around just ecstatic about what they’re seeing and doing,” said Burt, who later recused himself from the vote and any further discussion because his house is located close to the zoo. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

News Digest Police officer returned fire, attorney says The attorney representing one of the police officers involved in Tuesday’s fatal shooting in Menlo Park said the officer returned fire after suspect Jerry Lee Matheny allegedly drew a gun. Matheny, 52, has been identified by the San Mateo County coroner’s office as the man who was shot and killed by Menlo Park police during a pursuit on Tuesday, Nov. 11 on Willow Road, near Willow Place, at about 12:50 p.m. Attorney Alison Berry Wilkinson, who is representing the police sergeant involved in the shooting, told the Almanac on Thursday, Nov. 13, that the officer had joined others in the foot pursuit along Willow Road and initially reached for his baton. “As the sergeant was reaching for his baton, he saw the subject reach for his waistband, pull a gun and point it at the sergeant with a menacing look on his face,” Wilkinson said. “As he saw the suspect’s gun and heard a shot fired, the sergeant transitioned from reaching for his baton to pulling out his duty weapon and returned fire.” Matheny, a resident of Nuevo in Riverside County, was reportedly wanted by the state for violating parole, according to law enforcement sources; there was also a warrant issued relating to possession of a controlled substance. He was also a suspect in other burglaries along the Peninsula, including several in Palo Alto, according to police. A police investigation is ongoing. Police are asking that any witnesses to the incident call the Menlo Park Police Department at 650-330-6300. Q — Almanac staff

Google backing Moffett collaboratory An ambitious plan for a museum and collaborative educational space at Moffett Field is taking shape, thanks to Google’s lease deal with NASA for Hangar One and the Moffett Federal Airfields property. On Tuesday, the nonprofit Earth, Air & Space Educational Foundation announced that it is receiving financial support from Google to create an Earth, Air & Space Collaboratory at Moffett Field. NASA’s lease with Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures was signed Monday, months after the announcement that Google would be awarded the lease and would take over roughly 1,000 acres of Moffett Field, including Hangars One, Two and Three, an airfield flight operations building, two runways and a private golf course. Along with a requirement to restore and rehabilitate the historic hangars, the lease called for the creation of “an educational facility where the public can explore the site’s legacy and the role of technology in the history of Silicon Valley.” The Earth, Air & Space Educational Foundation, largely made up of members of the Save Hangar One Committee and the Moffett Field Restoration Advisory Board, has been working since 2010 to muster support for the creation of a kind of “Smithsonian West” at Moffett. Google’s contribution, combined with private donations, make up $500,000 in seed money for the foundation to flesh out its plans for what foundation spokesman Matthew Schmidt described as a worldclass educational, conference, exhibition and museum space. The foundation expects to launch some educational or speaking programs by the end of 2015, he said. More details of plans for the Earth, Air & Space Collaboratory are at the foundation’s website, earthairspace.org. Q — Andrea Gemmet

Man arrested after allegedly brandishing knife Palo Alto police arrested a Redwood City man who allegedly brandished a knife inside a downtown bar, according to a police department press release. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, at about 7:17 p.m. police received a call from an employee at The Old Pro, at 541 Ramona St., reporting that an intoxicated patron was inside causing a disturbance. The caller also said the man, later identified as 35-year-old Kristopher Joe Rivera, was armed with a knife and brandished it at someone inside the bar. After a chase by officers through a nearby restaurant, Vero Ristorante Italiano, police deployed a Taser to take Rivera into custody. Investigators said Rivera was apparently a customer inside the bar when the disturbance started, and employees called for police after he refused three requests to leave. After they called police, he allegedly pulled a knife out of his backpack, showed it to a nearby patron and threatened to cut the man. Officers located an 8-inch kitchen knife in a backpack he was carrying when he was arrested. Rivera was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for felony criminal threats, misdemeanor brandishing and misdemeanor resisting arrest. Anyone with information pertaining to this incident is asked to 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

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dropped covenant. Caswell said she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;disappointedâ&#x20AC;? by the need to reduce the budget. But she also said that some concessions were expected and thanked staff from both sides and the large community group for bridging the gap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have two organizations working together, you can each say what you want and then get louder and louder and see who can win,â&#x20AC;? Caswell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the big gorilla thing doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work great for ongoing work together.â&#x20AC;? Keene told the Weekly that the breakthrough was reached after several productive meetings in recent weeks with McGee, who took over as the district superintendent in August after the resignation of Kevin Skelly. Keene called the agreement â&#x20AC;&#x153;a reflection of how anyone can get things done when you realize that we all have a shared interest in this town.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we got to talking, it was actually pretty easy for us to get to where we are,â&#x20AC;? Keene said of his meetings with McGee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearly, they have some perspectives that are still different from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but the lease I think represents our shared interest in the site.â&#x20AC;? In a joint press release, McGee lauded the agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cubberley is an important community resource. We are indebted to the strong foundation the Cubberley Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) laid for us in their final report and presentation in both substance and tone,â&#x20AC;? McGee stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is clear that when the PAUSD Board of Education and the City Council can resolve apparent differences through compromise and collaboration, the entire commu-

nity benefits,â&#x20AC;? he said. One issue that was less than ideal from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective is the length of the new lease â&#x20AC;&#x201D; five years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is far shorter than the city had hoped for. For the school district, the relatively short term affords flexibility to re-examine its options for Cubberley if district enrollment trends change or new priorities are identified. Even with the short lease, the deal offers some relief to existing users of Cubberley Community Center, a diverse group that includes artist studios, physicians, playing-field users, dance studios and Foothill College, which is preparing to depart Cubberley. The lease also includes a provision that allows the two parties to reconfigure or relocate, by mutual consent, the 8-acre parcel of Cubberley currently used by Foothill. It obligates the city to increase lease payments by 3 percent per year and specifies that the two sides will evenly split either the revenues or the losses stemming from Foothillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s replacement by a new tenant. While the terms have yet to be approved, Keene said he is confident that the council will do so when it meets next week. The council has already discussed the proposed terms in two recent closed sessions. Councilman Larry Klein said Wednesday that he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;delighted about where we are.â&#x20AC;? Though Klein told the Weekly he would have preferred a 10-year plan, he said he is not troubled by the shorter term. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the five-year term will put more pressure on the city and the school district to come up with a long-term plan if at all possible,â&#x20AC;? Klein said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to review the Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Facilities Master Plan survey. The meeting will begin at noon on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Adobe Room at Mitchell Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. COUNCIL APPOINTED OFFICERS COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to interview firms that would help the city recruit a new city clerk. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Council Conference Room, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear an update on the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s El Camino Real Bus Transit project; consider approving an amendment to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease of a portion of Cubberley Community Center from the school district; consider repealing a prohibition on human habitation of vehicles; approve a proposed grocery store tenant at College Terrace Centre; review the City Hall remodel project; and discuss whether to conduct a closed session prior to an open session on the 2014-15 management and professional compensation plan. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 17, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will review the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years for the 12 elementary schools and Greendell. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. The board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. to discuss updated terms for its Cubberley lease agreement with the city, the first interim budget report, a report on high school measures such as APs and SATs and hear from the Community Advisory Committee for the Strong Schools Bond. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to consider 251 Lincoln Ave., a request by Margaret Wimmer for alterations and additions to a 1903 build-

ing in Professorville; and 2555 Park Blvd., a request by FGY Architects to demolish an existing mid-century modern two-story building and build a three-story office building with one level of underground parking in its place. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 429 University Ave., a proposal by Ken Hayes Architects on behalf of Kipling Post LP to demolish two existing one-story commercial retail buildings and construct a 31,407-square-foot, four-story, mixed-use building with two levels of underground parking; consider 2515-2585 El Camino Real, a request by Hayes Group Architects for a new 39,858-square-foot three-story building to replace the Olive Garden; consider the environmental impact report for 1050 Page Mill Road, a request by Allison Koo on behalf of Stanford University to demolish existing structures and construct 287,000 square feet of office in four buildings; and review 1450 Page Mill Road, a request by Jim Inglis to demolish two buildings totaling 59,539 square feet and construct a new two-story 77,814-square-foot office building. The meeting will begin 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to review recent council and school board meetings and see a presentation about sustainability programs and services undertaken by the city and the district. The meeting will begin 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Downtown Library, 270 Forest Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The board plans to initiate review for public art at 411/437 Lytton Ave.; hear an update on the Aurora sculpture at King Plaza; and discuss art selection for 1050 Page Mill Road. The meeting will begin 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Online This Week

rection and appointed two high-tech professionals with a passion for urban revitalization to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influential Planning and Transportation Commission. (Posted Nov. 11, 12:35 a.m.)

These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news.

Apparent road rage sparks gun threat, cussing

Palo Alto approves new housing vision Without a peep of public protest or a single dissenting vote, Palo Alto adopted on Monday night a new vision document aimed at guiding housing development for the next eight years. (Posted Nov. 12, 9:42 a.m.)

Residentialists lose out in commission shuffle Days after Palo Alto voters elected three slowgrowth proponents to the new City Council, the existing council took a step in the opposite di-

A man in his 20s driving a Nissan Maxima brandished a handgun at another car in Palo Alto Sunday, Nov. 9, and then continued his road rage by following the car into the Stanford Shopping Center parking lot and cussing at the driver and passenger, Palo Alto police are reporting. (Posted Nov. 10, 5:20 p.m.)

First Person video: A conversation with Lucy Blake Lucy Blake, president of the Northern Sierra Partnership, conservation leader, sustainability advocate, and rancher, talks with Lisa Van Dusen about her work as a wrangler. (Posted Nov. 9, 8:13 a.m.)

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turn, he said. The problems recently prompted a long-running discussion on Palo Alto Onlineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Town Square. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day a few weeks ago, I called the main post office 24 times (yes, 24 times!) throughout the day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and no one ever picked up the phone!â&#x20AC;? a Midtown resident wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, I waited for a package from Amazon that would be delivered through USPS. ... The mail never came, but I received a text message stating that the package had been delivered,â&#x20AC;? she reported. A person identifying himself as a Crescent Park resident said that substitute carriers have misdelivered mail, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave a notice when packages were being held, or staff couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find the package because the information wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t filled out correctly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The final straw was getting an email notice that the package was delivered, going down to the mailbox (at the post office) and finding it unlocked and open. ... I waited for a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;floor supervisorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to become available after 10 a.m. (more like 11 a.m.) to complain, but it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improved service. If I buy anything from Amazon this Christmas, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably use anything but USPS delivery,â&#x20AC;? he said. But others said they have had good service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very happy with the USPS. Our mailman is always cheerful and super nice. I send many packages via USPS Priority Mail and they have all been delivered on time,â&#x20AC;? another Crescent Park resident wrote. Postal workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unions have blamed some of the serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woes on Congress, which they say created a financial crisis for the organization. In 2006, Congress mandated that USPS â&#x20AC;&#x153;prefundâ&#x20AC;? retiree health benefits, resulting in a $5 billion annual allotment that union leaders say has caused harmed funding of services and staffing. The Palo Alto main office used to have five clerks; now there are two. There have been no clerk or carrier cuts in the past six months, said Maeda, who returned last week. He did not specify how many positions have been eliminated in the past year, when customers said service quality began to dive. Systemic problems that are causing delays in incoming mail are also a problem on the Peninsula, an employee said. Mail that is sorted separately, such as flats, letters and packages, sometimes does not come in on time, forcing carriers to have to wait for one batch or another and delaying delivery, the employee said. USPS has also shifted its hiring to more City Carrier Assistants (CCAs). Many of these workers have little training and no job security, according to a Sept. 23, 2013, story in Postal-

Mag.com, an online magazine for postal workers. A Palo Alto employee said the assistants work late because the mail comes in late. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel sorry for them. They are working late at night, often until 8 or 9 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock. In the dark, it takes two to three times longer to finish one street,â&#x20AC;? the employee said. Augustine Ruiz Jr., a regional spokesman for USPS, said in an email that he has brought the customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns to the attention of the postmaster, his manager and the district manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Service breakdowns are of serious concern to us because that is what we provide â&#x20AC;&#x201D; service. We are looking into the customer services issues you have brought to our attention, and they will be addressed by the appropriate and respective managers,â&#x20AC;? he said. On Wednesday, Maeda acknowledged some of the problems that occurred while he was away. The supervisor assigned to run clerk operations had failed to get clerks up to the

window to service the customers, he said through the USPS spokesperson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I apologize for our lack of service and will review with the supervisor responsible,â&#x20AC;? Maeda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will work to get service restored to levels prior to my departure.â&#x20AC;? The branch has now instituted an appointments-only policy for passports. A new passport center in San Francisco just opened to accommodate people when a large group of customers needs passports, he said. Customers with complaints can call 1-800-ASK-USPS. Issues will be resolved within 24 hours, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If customers are not getting appropriate responses, they can call our office at 650-321-1423. If they are still not getting any response they can email me at dean.y.maeda@usps.gov,â&#x20AC;? he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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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 NOVEMBER 17, 2014 - 5:00 PM STUDY SESSION 1. Update on VTA's El Camino Real Bus Rapid Transit Project CONSENT CALENDAR 2. Adoption of a Resolution Approving and Authorizing the Execution of the State of California Department of Community Services and Development October 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; April 2017 Direct Payment Program Agreement No. 14Y1419 Governing the City of Palo Alto Utilities Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Administration Home Energy Assistance Program Funds 3. Approval of a Contract with XXX Contractors in the Amount of $xxx, for the Mitchell Park Parking Lot Project (CIP PE-09003) (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 Project Including a BAO *(6 *VTTP[[LL 9LJVTTLUKH[PVU MVY ZLSLJ[PUN ??? Ă&#x201E;YT to facilitate the recruitment for the City Clerk position 6. Approval of Utilities Enterprise Fund Contract with Jana Laboratories Inc. In the amount of $107,768 for Risk Assessment Study of PVC and PE gas piping material in the City of Palo Alto Natural Gas Distribution System Capital Improvement Program GS-11002 System Improvement 7. Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the Art Center 8. State Homeland Security Grant for FY 2013 9. Comprehensive Plan Update: Discussion of the Scope and Schedule of the Planning Process, Including Concurrent Zoning Changes (An initial discussion on this item took place on November 3, 2014 and was expected [V JVU[PU\L VU 5V]LTILY :[HŃ&#x153; YLX\LZ[Z [OH[ the item be continued to December 15, 2014.) ACTION ITEMS (TLUKTLU[ [V 3LHZL )L[^LLU 7HSV (S[V <UPĂ&#x201E;LK :JOVVS District and City of Palo Alto at Cubberley Community Center 11. Review and Direction Regarding Vehicle Habitation Ordinance Approval of the Proposed Grocery Store Tenant (College Terrace Market) Within PC 5069 (College Terrace Centre) Based on the Finding that the Proposed Grocery Tenant Would Likely be Comparable in Quality of Products and Services as JJ&F as it Existed and Operated on December 7, 2009 at 2180 El Camino Real 12. Approval of the Proposed Grocery Store Tenant (College Terrace Market) Within PC 5069 (College Terrace Centre) Based on the Finding that the Proposed Grocery Tenant Would Likely be Comparable in Quality of Products and Services as JJ&F as it Existed and Operated on December 7, 2009 at 2180 El Camino Real 13. City Hall Remodel (continued from November 10, 2014) 14. Determination of Open/Closed Session for Management Compensation Plan STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS The City/School Committee Meeting will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2014 @ 8:30 am at the Downtown Library Regarding: 1) District/City Sustainability Programs: 7YLZLU[H[PVU I` *P[` HUK +PZ[YPJ[ Z[HŃ&#x153; YLNHYKPUN :\Z[HPUHIPSP[` programs and services.

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fied, and at Belle Haven, Cesar Chavez/Green Oaks, Los Robles and Willow Oaks in Ravenswood City. Two of the in-class programs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at Escondido and Los Robles schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be led in Spanish. In preparation for the 10-session program, teaching artists meet with classroom instructors to develop workshops that complement the core curriculum and incorporate the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; areas of expertise. Artists then bring these projects into the classroom and take students out into the community to engage with art in new ways. Students participate in three collaboration days where they meet with their â&#x20AC;&#x153;buddiesâ&#x20AC;? from the other school district. The final collaboration day this year will be in May, when works by all participating students will be displayed at the Palo Alto Art Center in a month-long public exhibition, and students will come with their buddies for a docent-led tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the kids see their artwork professionally installed in a museum context, they leave saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re real artists,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Kienzle said. The teaching artists selected for Cultural Kaleidoscope specialize in a variety of media, including photography, printmaking, illustration and installation art. Some are new to the program this year, while others have participated for more than a decade. Among the longtime Cultural Kaleidoscope teaching artists is Claude Ferguson, a multidisciplinary artist who has been involved in arts education with youth and teens since the mid1980s. One of Fergusonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature projects involves working with students to create masks inspired by art from the Dogon tribe of Mali. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone raves about his work in the classrooms,â&#x20AC;? Kienzle said.

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A second-grade student from Brentwood Academy in East Palo Alto tries her hand at weaving with tree branches during a Cultural Kaleidoscope field trip. Cultural Kaleidoscopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main mission is to use visual art to foster unity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He teaches kids about symmetry, and then he talks about the masksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceremonial use â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he brings in drums, and the kids get to use masks in a performative context.â&#x20AC;? Other teaching artists this year will focus on color and pattern in South American art and Mexican art traditions including Oaxacan animal sculptures and amate bark painting. Classroom teachers, as well as teaching artists, are paid for their participation in Cultural Kaleidoscope. The program has an annual operating budget of about $104,000. Part of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget was provided through a $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It costs us about ($5,000) to $6,000 to do Cultural Kaleidoscope in one classroom,â&#x20AC;? explained Kienzle, adding that the program emphasizes not just student learning but the training of classroom instructors by teaching artists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to instill in classroom teachers an appreciation of what art can do, so that they can continue to implement art in the classroom.â&#x20AC;?

Last year, the art center conducted an extensive evaluation of the program, focusing on skills known as the four â&#x20AC;&#x153;Csâ&#x20AC;?: critical thinking, co-communication, collaboration and creativity. As outlined by the U.S. Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Partnership for 21st Century Skills, these qualities are thought to be determining factors in a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preparation for citizenship and professional leadership. According to the art centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study, Cultural Kaleidoscope had a demonstrable impact on participants, particularly those in the Ravenswood City schools, where students averaged an increase of 17 percent in communication and creativity skills, Kienzle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our dream is to do a longitudinal study to see how the program has impacted students long term,â&#x20AC;? she said. Q For more about the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, and information on how to contribute, see page 31. Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

PUBLIC NOTICE FORMER NAVAL AIR STATION MOFFETT FIELD Restoration Advisory Board Meeting November 2014 The next regular meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for former Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field will be held on:

Thursday, November 20, 2014, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at: Mountain View Senior Center Social Hall 266 Escuela Avenue Mountain View, CA 94040-1813 The RAB reviews and comments on plans and activities about the ongoing environmental studies and restoration activities underway at Moffett Field. Regular RAB meetings are open to the public and the Navy encourages your involvement. To review documents on Moffett Field environmental restoration projects, please visit the information repository located at the Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View, CA 94041, (650) 903-6337. For more information, contact Mr. Scott Anderson, Navy Base Realignment and Closure Environmental Coordinator at (619) 532-0938 or scott.d.anderson@navy.mil. Visit the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website: http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/former_nas_moffett_field.html

Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Nov. 5-11

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Attempted auto burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 3 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 4 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Brandishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soil or turf removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 Violence.related Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Eleanor Fielding (Crigler) Aldinger Eleanor Fielding (Crigler) Aldinger, 100, died on November 5, 2014 at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, California Born in Lutherville, Maryland on October 5, 1914, to Edith Norris (Wolf) Crigler and Rev. John Fielding Crigler, she was the third of six children. Â Eleanor was baptized on November 26, 1914 by Rev. Luther Benaiah Wolf (her maternal grandfather). In 1936, Eleanor graduated from Goucher College in Maryland majoring in Physiology and in 1938 received her Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Madison.Â Her Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thesis is titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evaluation of Postural Sway as Measured by Shifts in the Center of Gravity and Its Relation to the Intramuscular Pressure of the Antigravity Musclesâ&#x20AC;? and it was subsequently published by the University of Wisconsin - Madison.Â After graduation, Eleanor taught both high school and college level physical education in Washington, DC until her marriage. Eleanor was married to Albert Robert Aldinger July 17, 1945 at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charlotte, North Carolina by her father, Rev. John Fielding Crigler.Â They were married 56 years until Albertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death on January 20, 2002.Â They lived for many years in Palo Alto, California where Eleanor volunteered at First Lutheran Church in various capacities and also served at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park.Â She raised 3 children, Gary William, Edith Caroline, and Karl Frederick.Â In 1988, they moved to The Sequoias in Portola Valley where she continued to be active in community life. Sewing, swimming, playing bridge, gardening and flower arranging were hobbies that Eleanor particularly enjoyed.Â In addition, she and Albert traveled extensively throughout the world, both in conjunction with his job and in retirement.Â They particularly enjoyed cruising.Â Although she enjoyed sightseeing, she also enjoyed sitting on the deck of a cruise ship while crossing the vast expanse of an ocean just looking at the water.Â In her later years, she has enjoyed her family, playing bridge with friends, and watching many video travelogues. Eleanor is survived by son Gary W. Aldinger of Kirkland, Washington, daughter Edith C. (Aldinger) Brockmeyer of Aurora, Colorado, and son Karl F. Aldinger of Boise, Idaho; four grandchildren, Suzanne (Aldinger) Herold, Robert Aldinger, Lindsey (Pihl) Astroth, and Kimberly Aldinger; six great grandsons; two brothers Dr. John Fielding Crigler, Jr. and Benner Bittinger Crigler. Â She was preceded in death by her husband Albert R. Aldinger, her parents, her sisters Elizabeth Aylor Crigler, Catherine Wolf (Crigler) Gebhart, and her brother Norris Wolf Crigler. Â Eleanor Aldinger was a loving wife, mother and neighbor.Â She is greatly missed. PAID

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James A. Hildebrand January 8, 1930-October 20, 2014 Jim died peacefully at home while his beloved wife, June, held his hand. He had bravely faced brain cancer. Jim loved his family, traveling, serving the public through his legal work, golf and nature. He was a caring and supportive step-father and grandfather to Juneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children and grandchildren, and a loving uncle, brother and friend. He loved birds and was proud to help save the butterflies on San Bruno Mountain, to support the California Sea Otters and to assist the Monterey Bay Aquarium. He had a playful spirit, pulling pranks even as an upstanding lawyer and IRS agent. Jim and June enjoyed a cruise to Normandy and the English Isles this past summer to celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary. Jim led an interesting life. He grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1954 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and was inducted as a junior into the Order of the Barristers, a Senior Honorary Society. He served in the U.S. Army at the end of the Korean War. Even though he had just graduated from law school, he served as a personnel specialist in a medical laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. He enjoyed giving tours of Tokyo to fellow soldiers and to visitors, showing details about the city that others may not have noticed. He also worked for a brief time in Tokyo for an American attorney. Jim then moved permanently to California. Soon after arriving in San Francisco, he helped Sterling Hayden refurbish the Gracie S sailboat, later known as The Wanderer. Jim lived the remainder of his busy life on the San Francisco Peninsula where he served as city attorney for Palo Alto during the Vietnam riots and for Sunnyvale during the development of Silicon Valley. He received numerous commendations by various attorney groups during those times and was highly respected for the entire body of his legal work. He was predeceased by his brothers, Max and Tom, his sister, Salle, and his former wife, Jackie. He is survived by his wife, June, her family, his nieces and nephews and by Jackieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Francine Bearden. A memorial service will be held in The First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. with a reception following. Friends are welcome. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his honor to the First Congregational Church Capital Fund and to the American Cancer Society. PAID

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Henry S. Breitrose, professor emeritus in film at Stanford University, died on Oct. 2 at his Stanford home. He was 78. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 2:30 p.m. at Stanford Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford.

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Louise Marie (Govan) Wilson Loving wife, nurturing Mother and devoted friend, passed away in her Monterey home, surrounded by her family on Wednesday, October 29 at the age of 65 after a courageous battle with cancer for 8 years. A resident of both Monterey and Palo Alto, she was born in Montreal, Canada and raised by her loving parents William and Marie (Vandette) Govan. She was the youngest of three children, alongside: William & John Govan. She is survived by her beloved husband Carlyle “Lad” Landis Wilson and three children: Lindsay Paulette Mahacek, Laura Marie Smith and Landis Trent Wilson. After attending Sacred Heart high school in Rochester, New York Louise went on to work for Dr. James Gills an Ophthalmologist in Port Richie, Florida. Louise loved living in Florida, everything from the “sugar” sand of Clearwater Beach to the barefoot skiing in the canals with the alligators. He inspired her to continue her career and further her education by graduating from Georgetown University as a Certified Ophthalmic Technician. On her graduation trip traveling throughout Europe, she met her husband Lad in Madrid, Spain and together continued to travel the world. Above all the work she had ever done, she loved being the best Mom in the world.

She considered her children her legacy. From all the family photos (every family photo was a potential Christmas picture), to family ski trips across North America and Europe. We all cherished the family vacations, but nothing beats sleeping under the stars in our boat docked in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. In addition to her family, her friends meant the world to her. Her friends knew her as enthusiastic, compassionate and always having a warm smile that would light up the room. She was the essence of a true lady who loved her proper high tea time, luncheons with the ladies, afternoon tennis, lemon drops, milk, egg sandwiches, dancing the night away, and always trying to get her girls to be more “girly.” She once told her daughter, “it’s nighttime, you can wear more makeup.” She loved her TV shows, don’t get in the middle of her and Downton Abbey, trust me! Music was spiritual to her, from The Beatles to Lionel Richie. Some of her favorite quotes: “we’re all L’s,” “actions speak louder than words,” “it’s all about give and take” and “treat others the way you would want to be treated.” Louise will be remembered as being a giving, genuine, benevolent yet tenacious person and always a fighter from beginning till the end.

For our Mother: May you always walk in sunshine and God’s love around you flow, for the happiness you gave us, no one will ever know. It broke our hearts to lose you, but you did not go alone. A part of us went with you, the day God called you home. A million times we’ve needed you. A million times we’ve cried. If only love could have saved you, you never would have died. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 22nd at San Carlos Cathedral, 500 Church Street, Monterey, California at 11:00am. A visitation at the Cathedral will precede the mass beginning at 9:30am. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to Ignatius Jesuit Centre, Guelph,

Ontario, Canada (ignatiusguelph.ca). Louise was an ardent supporter of the ongoing work of her brother, Father John Govan, S.J., through the Ignatian spirituality retreats offered at this centre. To make any comments and share memories please go to www.louisemariegovanwilson.com. PAID

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Dan Dykwel

Dan Dykwel, a Realtor and community leader in Palo Alto for many years, died on Nov. 6 at Stanford Hospital, surrounded by his family. He was 62. He was born on March 31, 1952, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up there and went on to graduate with honors from Michigan State University. His career included more than 25 years in marketing communications, as well as years running a Realtor business out of Palo Alto with his wife. He also had a technology consulting business called Brokers By Design. He met his future wife Sunny in the mid-1980s in Silicon Valley. A few years later they married in Scotland. They lived in Palo Alto for about 25 years, where their son Devon attended Palo Alto schools. He became involved in the city’s public schools, serving as president of the Palo Alto Council of PTAs, president of Palo Alto High School’s PTSA, member of the PAUSD Program Review Committee for the 20-year Facilities Master Plan and fundraising co-chair for Youth Community Service. He was also a founding member of Project Safety Net, and in 2009 he received the PTA’s

June Strong June Conrow Strong, a resident of Palo Alto for 33 years, died on Sept. 29 in San Jose. She was 95. She was born on June 19, 1919, in Hale, Wisconsin, to Arthur Conrow and Mabel Stensby Conrow. Her family, which included three siblings, later moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Eau Claire High School in 1937. Unable to attend college because of the Depression, she worked for several years as a secretary at the Eau Claire YMCA. While visiting her sister in Miami in March 1943, she met a U.S. Navy aviation instructor named John Strong; the two married on Jan. 16, 1944. They started raising a family in Miami, but when the war ended, they moved to Illinois so John could take a position as a pilot for United Airlines flying out of Chicago. When John was transferred to San Francisco, the family moved to Palo Alto in 1959, where both June and John became involved in various community activities. In the 1960s and ‘70s, June served with PTAs for Lytton and Crescent Park elementary schools, Jordan Middle School and Palo Alto High School. She also vol-

Golden Oak award for his efforts in supporting local youth. His community involvement extended into other areas. He was on the board of the Midpeninsula Community Media Center, president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force for the Palo Alto Public Safety Building. Among his pastimes were sailing, enjoying good food and wine, walking the Stanford Dish, and attending concerts of the San Francisco Symphony. He particularly loved supporting his sons as a father and “best friend.” Recently, he lived with his wife for about a year and a half in San Francisco, where they enjoyed watching the America’s Cup races. He is survived by his lifelong love and wife, Sunny Dykwel of Palo Alto; his son, Devon Dykwel of Hollywood, California; his stepson, Louie (Maria) Matta of Redwood City; and his granddaughters, Aubrey and Chloe. He is also survived by his mother, Lois Dykwel; his sister, Linda Dykwel; and his brother, Gary Dykwel — all of Bend, Oregon. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 23. Friends should email celebrationofdan@gmail. com for more information. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in his memory to the Midpeninsula Community Media Center or Palo Alto Partners in Education. unteered with the Girl Scouts, the Allied Arts Guild, the Palo Alto Auxiliary and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. She and her husband loved entertaining, hosting birthday parties, team gatherings and bridge games. Together they also followed the San Francisco Giants and played golf avidly, often at the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course. June enjoyed perfecting her talents of gardening, cooking and singing. In 1992, with an empty house and new interests, she and her husband sold their 1902 Palo Alto home (which was later entered into the city’s Historic Inventory) and moved to The Villages golf community in San Jose. She was predeceased by her husband, John Strong, in 2000. She is survived by her seven children, Jean Hurrle of Kankakee, Illinois, Martha Strong of Spokane, Washington, Frances Strong (and husband Tom Williams) of Tijeras, New Mexico, John Strong Jr. of San Jose, Barbara (Fred) Mitchell of Palo Alto, Mary Strong of Bend, Oregon, and Jim Strong of Santa Clara; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. A private memorial service has been held. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health or to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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Editorial The Cubberley renewal Short lease will keep pressure on, appropriately

ith just six weeks left before the expiration of a lease agreement that has transferred approximately $140 million from the city to the school district over the last 25 years, the city council and school board have finally reached agreement on a new five-year lease that begins to wean the district from what has become an outdated and lopsided arrangement. The two public agencies have been at an impasse for almost two years because the school district, which today receives more than $7 million a year under the expiring lease, has insisted that there be no changes from a deal worked out in 1989 when the district needed financial rescue from the effects of declining enrollment. Back then city leaders rallied to help the district by entering into an agreement that was essentially a funding scheme designed to transfer city funds to the financially strapped school district. To raise money to pay for it and various city infrastructure projects, voters passed a 5 percent utility tax. The deal had three components: The school district agreed not to sell off or redevelop its then-surplus school sites, the district provided space (not funding) for after-school child care at each elementary school and the city agreed to lease the closed Cubberley High School, which at the time was entirely owned by the school district. (Today the city owns 8 acres in the northeast corner of the site, including classrooms and the tennis courts, while the school district owns the rest of the 35 total acres.) The city has subleased space at Cubberley to a variety of users, including Foothill College, and uses some itself, but generates barely enough income to simply pay for the operating expenses, with nothing offsetting the lease payments to the school district. The city has been taking a bath on this deal and with the school district’s current strong financial condition the city council correctly decided to seek to rein in the lease terms. The city wanted to eliminate the $1.86 million a year currently being paid for the covenant not to develop (or sell) school sites that were considered surplus back in 1989 but which have since been re-opened as schools or are lucratively leased by the district to private schools. It also wanted to end the cost-of-living increases that have steadily driven up the lease costs. The deal reached this week, which is expected to be formally ratified by both the school board and the council, successfully eliminates the $1.86 million annual payments, sets an annual 3 percent rent escalator and partially protects the city from the loss of more than $1 million in rental income when Foothill College vacates its space at Cubberley by sharing the impact with the school district, subject to a complicated formula. The city also agrees to allocate the $1.86 million per year it has been paying the district for the covenant to a fund for repairing, renovating or improving the Cubberley property, and both agencies are committing to develop a long overdue master plan for the site before the five-year lease extension runs out at the end of 2019. We are especially pleased to see this provision, which will keep pressure on both agencies to finally plan for the long-term future of this valuable publicly owned property. City Manager Jim Keene and Superintendent Max McGee deserve credit for getting this deal done after a lot of foot dragging by the school district, which tried to argue that voter passage of the utility tax 27 years ago obligated the city to provide funding to the district under the original formula in perpetuity. It is unfortunate that the positive outcome of these negotiations was marred by the comments of school trustee Melissa Baten Caswell, who misleads the community by suggesting that the school budget will need to be cut as a result of the deal and that the schools will have to “figure out how to work with less operating funds in order to be successful for the students going forward.” In fact, the school district’s finances are in the best shape they’ve been in for decades due to large increases in both property-tax revenues and reserves, and the effects of the lease renewal will only be to modestly slow the rate of increased spending by the district. The renewal of the Cubberley lease is a win for the community. An even bigger win will come when the school board finally commits to redeveloping the site for one or more schools, thereby enabling a definitive plan to emerge. Until that occurs, this immensely valuable piece of property will continue to be an underused, outdated and deteriorating symbol of government ineffectiveness. Page 20 • November 14, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at www. PaloAltoOnline.com Makeover eyed for Junior Museum and Zoo

money into it. I just hate seeing them get a bad rap.”

Posted Nov. 10 at 1:36 p.m. by Richard C. Placone, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood: Outmoded “Its not a money issue for me. Even if the Friends group pays for the entire project including ongoing operations, I would oppose this on grounds that the era of zoos, large and small, is coming to an end. Esp small cramped operations like this one. Last time I was there the Bobcat was pacing aback and forth until a groove was worn in the dirt. The racoons were in a sunken pit nothing like their natural habitat A raptor, either an eagle or a red tail hawk, I can’t remember which, was in a small wire cage where it could fly but a matter of a few feet. If these are injured animals unable to survive in the wild, there are places where such creatures can be placed in more natural and roomy habitats. With all the programs on Nova and Nature on TV, children can learn the proper respect for wild animals and see them in their natural habitat and in action. Moreover, there is a farm in the nearby foothills where children can view farm animals in pastures. The baby goats and sheep are adorable, and in large open pastures - at least that is the way it was last time I visited. Even the SF Zoo would be a better alternative for children to learn about animals, but that zoo too is outmoded.”

Posted Nov. 13 at 9:30 a.m. by Christian Straight, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood: Some compassion “Finally some sense and enlightenment overcomes the City Council ...we’ve been sharing neighborhood space with car campers for over 10 years without a single incident. I was completely baffled as to how this ordinance was even promulgated. Hooray for common sense and compassion.”

College Terrace Centre market operator named Posted Nov. 10 at 11:44 p.m. by Nora Charles, a resident of Stanford: Why the bad rap? “Maybe I didn’t absorb it all, but why was JJ&F not allowed to return to the space? Also, I must say in my experience the owners who took over from JJ&F were polite, nice, and helpful. They always greeted me pleasantly and asked if there was anything I needed. They ordered items for me that were out of stock, and when I saw a suspicious vehicle in the dark parking lot they walked me to my car. The place was in bad shape, but they knew it would be torn down, so obviously couldn’t put

Palo Alto looks to scrap ban on car camping

Who’s embarrassed? Editor, In last week’s editorial the Weekly wrote, “The election results were an embarrassing blow” to me. “Embarrassing”? Nonsense. Nobody should ever feel embarrassed that a candidate or cause that he or she publicly supports is not successful at the polls. Our democracy needs people to take public stands. That way we have robust debate with identifiable participants. The Weekly should be embarrassed by its poor choice of words. Larry Klein Palo Alto City Council member Seale Avenue, Palo Alto

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The nettlesome path to helping our teens by Marc Vincenti

t the opening of a bracing but humane short story by Anton Chekhov — a story I love, set in the boondocks of tsarist Russia, titled “Ward 6” — the author depicts a rundown outbuilding at a rural hospital, points out the overgrown path that leads to its door, and invites us to come with him “unless you are afraid of the nettle stings.” To you, now, I say the same. I wish this were old business, but now it’s sadly new. Four and five years ago, when several of our teenagers took their own lives, our pained, communal cry was, “Why is this happening?” But as things turned out, we undertook one thing only to try to learn what caused those deaths, and that was the psychological autopsies agreed to by this school district, Project Safety Net and the Stanford School of Medicine. That study is now forgotten, unfinished, unavailing. Four years have passed, enough time for an entire high school career, and we’ve learned nothing about how those six teenagers’ frailties met the upheavals of adolescence and the stresses of their world. Four years have passed since a contagion that took more lives in this town than Ebola ever will, and we have no epidemiologi-

cal study. From its inception, the study was underfunded, understaffed and without the resources to fully question classmates, teachers, counselors and coaches. I can only imagine how this reflects on us as a city that likes to think of itself as in the vanguard. I think it reflects a community that has forgotten part of its soul — a community frightened of the nettles. People will say, well, we’ve taken many steps to save kids’ lives. But the measures we’ve taken have been directed at fixing our kids rather than fixing our schools and have mainly added to our teenagers’ burdens. Hoping to make our kids more resilient, we’ve piled onto them more curriculum, lectures, requirements, trainings, surveys — and assemblies where they furtively scribble homework and catch up on texting. We’ve squeezed out more of their time, having them sit still and listen to the Wise Adults — and why should they think us so wise? — when already in their world every second counts and there is no room for error. Whether or not there is something in our Palo Alto culture that makes self-harm more likely — and I think that’s quite possible — we’d be complacent to not even ask ourselves the question. Certainly to write the issue off by blaming our schools or blaming individual illness will take us nowhere. People have both inner and outer worlds, and the two interact. Contagions of suicide have occurred among financiers during crashes, farmers during droughts and military commanders faced with certain defeat. But in each of these instances,

though outside forces play a role, so does intra-personal confusion — and not everyone falls victim. The issue is complex and all we can do is try hard to understand, without fear or mockery. Whether or not, back in those years, my school lacked a certain “immune system” that would have prevented those deaths, I know that our response to them was often wanting. Although teachers too numerous to mention rose magnificently to the challenge of working daily with grieving students, many things at school were unhealthy — from a coach who told the teammates of one of the deceased that suicide is dishonorable, to the showing of a violent war movie to students already grieving, to a girl I saw as she sat in a busy office one day, weeping and ignored, to the failure to substantially decrease homework or adjust grading scales. (Our kids were on an unlevel playing field, obliged to compete nationally under circumstances that applied to no other high school.) The public made things harder by sending scores of accusatory emails to a principal and superintendent who were already losing sleep. But our schools are just a mirror of our local culture; they are us. I think nothing will change for our teenagers until we cease trying to change them and instead change their schools. Nothing will change until we extricate our kids from the academic fraud that is so demoralizing to everyone. Nothing will change until there are fewer kids per class, so they feel individually valued. Nothing will change until our schools stop sign-

ing off on backbreaking course schedules without impressing on parents and kids the degree of possible damage. Nothing will change until our kids no longer come to their classes sleep-deprived or in the emotional thrall of the social media that we give them access to all day. Nothing will change with homework per night until we have a confidential website where teachers and kids can compare notes on minutes assigned and minutes worked. Most importantly, nothing will change until we give up the damaging, soul-destroying hallucination — a myth as crazy as the denial of global warming — that a teenager’s entire future happiness and fate somehow rests on the results of this Friday’s math test or science quiz or English essay. Nothing will change for us until we stop equating our kids with their grades and resumes, their SAT and athletic statistics, and instead see them for their strengths and weaknesses of compassion, pluck, insight, friendship, humor, patience, imagination — all the things that really make a life. I’ve heard proposals, now, to add wellness centers to our campuses. But our teenagers are way too overwhelmed and busy to visit such places, and too proud and self-conscious to be caught dead walking through such doors. So instead, let’s infuse sanity and health into the everyday life of our schools so that Paly and Gunn, in and of themselves, become centers of wellness. Q Marc Vincenti taught English at Gunn from 1995 to 2010.

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In the wake Teens respond with messages of hope, change story by Elena Kadvany | photos by Veronica Weber

ayley Krolik hopes that some years down the line, when she returns to Palo Alto after graduating from high school, she’ll be able to say something changed. And it won’t be that Gunn High School added more counselors or the school board imposed limits on the number of AP classes Palo Alto high schoolers can take. “It’s a mindset shift,” a culture change, the Gunn junior said. The evening after her classmate and friend Cameron Lee, also a junior, died by suicide on the train tracks last week, Krolik decided that more people, especially parents, needed to hear that message — one of hope, of comfort, of support, of learning that it’s OK to feel and to fail. A writer, she sat down and typed a message that was first sent out via the email list for parents of Gunn juniors and then further shared — and even translated into Chinese for some parents, she said. (Read her message on page 24.) “No one is to blame, and there are so many factors, but I encourage you all to take this opportunity for self-reflection. It is not the school but the atmosphere our community has created that makes the stress at Gunn so prevalent,” she wrote. “Everyone across the country has many tests,

but our community still seems to struggle from an overwhelming amount of pressure that is different than most others: the pressure to achieve perfection.” Krolik was one of many students last week who stepped forward in the wake of the second Palo Alto student suicide in the last month to express their hopes, their grief, their love and support for friends and family, and their aspirations for themselves and the Palo Alto community. At times powerful, passionate, raw and heart-breaking, Palo Alto teens have posted essays, videos, photos and musical tributes on social media and blogs for friends — and parents — to see. Student news website the Paly Voice contributed to the outpouring with two opinion pieces this week: One, a push to destigmatize counseling, dovetailed with the other, an editorial suggesting steps the schools and community can take to improve our approach and response to mental health issues. In interviews with the Weekly, students said they wanted to give voice to what they and their classmates are experiencing, with the hope that people will know that they are not alone and also with the aim of helping adults and the community bring about the kind of change that will lead to all Palo Alto chil-

At Gunn High School, students have posted notes as well as part of Unity Day last month.

dren growing up healthy and knowing they are loved and valued. These students are hoping to direct the community conversation away from finger-pointing — whether it’s the school, the homework load, parents’ high expectations, peer competition — toward what they see as the underlying condition that must be addressed collaboratively: the

broader culture in Palo Alto that demands a sometimes detrimental definition of success. “The notion that getting into a good college is the only way to succeed is really not true,” junior Ricky Shin said. “But I think because of the influences of our community, we think that unconsciously. So we try to do things that aren’t really what we want to

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do in order to keep up with that reputation of our community.” Shin, like Krolik, decided last week to speak out. He posted online a raw stream-of-consciousness narrative detailing his own grieving process, in the desire that his opening up will inspire others to do so. “For some very odd reason, seeking help is seen as a negative thing to do,” he told the Weekly. “People are embarrassed to think that they have issues, and it’s not weird at all. We hide different pains. I think that sharing and connecting those pains is really the key. I was hoping that what I wrote could really get people out of that box and try to inspire them to share their feelings (more). “I think what makes the whole thing frightening is that nobody knows what you’re going through if you don’t tell them,” Shin added. He said for the first time in their friendships, he and two friends sat outside a classroom last Wednesday, sharing their feelings and talking about what problems they might be going through. “Things happen behind closed doors and in people’s heads here in Palo Alto,” Krolik echoed. “We don’t create an environment where people feel like they’re comfort-

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How to help those in crisis If the person is cooperative and not in imminent danger (has not harmed him/herself), you can call the person’s primary care physician, school counselor/psychologist or mental health professional for advice about where to seek evaluation promptly. School staff can help expedite an evaluation and ensure that the student remains safe. If you have concerns about a person’s physical safety or ability to cooperate fully with an evaluation, you should get them to the nearest emergency room. Not all hospitals can admit patients for psychiatric issues, which might require transfer to another facility. For obvious emergencies, call 911.

Clinics that will triage and/or see individuals: Q Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Clinics: 650-723-7704 for children and teens; 650-498-9111 for adults Q Palo Alto Medical Foundation psych intake line: 408-730-4370 (leave a message for non-urgent issues, response time within three days; call your primary care physician’s office for same-day response and expedited evaluation) Q El Camino Hospital ASPIRE Intensive Outpatient Programs:

of encouragement and support for one another in the wake of two deaths

able sharing these things because everyone is expected to be perfect and well-achieving here.” In Krolik’s email to parents, she urged them to be role models to show their children that it is OK “to feel and to fail.” Shin wrote about his grief to share one person’s experience, but as he wrote, grief is different for everyone — and that’s OK. “My counselor tells me that it hits people at different times. Some people explode in tears the moment they hear the news, and others feel an impulsive anger, while others don’t feel anything at all,” he wrote. Martha Cabot, a Gunn sophomore, took to YouTube last week to share her perspective. Her Nov. 4 video immediately went viral, with now more than 38,000 views. “Students feel the constant need at our school of having to keep up with all the achievements,” she said in the video, which she recorded sitting at her desk in her bedroom. “I’m trying to raise awareness, mostly for the parents,” Cabot continued. “We love our moms and we love our dads, but calm down. We’ll do just fine even though we got a B- on that chem test, and no, I won’t join the debate team for you, because I want

cause at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to actually make an impact. The more and more people who realize and care about it will come together and do something about it,” she told the Weekly. She said it’s already sparked some action, with other students contacting her with hopes to meet and plan a set of ideas to bring to

650-940-7000 (Mountain View); 408-866-4021 (Los Gatos) Q Mills Peninsula Health Services 650-696-4666. (For non-urgent issues, leave a message; response time within four hours. Staff will assess for appropriateness for various outpatient programs and can refer to local community behavioral health providers.)

Crisis intervention and support: Q The Santa Clara County Suicide and Crisis Services line is available 24/7 to provide support for suicidal persons and those around them: 855-278-4204 Q California Youth Crisis Line: 800-843-5200; youthcrisisline.org Q Trevor Project Lifeline, specializing in crisis help for GLBTQ youth: 866-488-7386 Q EMQ Families First Services, a mobile crisis team who can assess youth at their home or school site throughout Santa Clara County: 877-41-CRISIS (877-412-7474)

General support and resources: Q HEARD Alliance, a local consortium to address

the school board. “They need that student voice,” she said. Though these three students chose to be that voice publicly, they say their friends and classmates feel as they do. They are hungry to have more open conversations and to spark the shift that will help future generations grow

teen behavioral health issues: HEARDAlliance.org Q Project Safety Net: psnpaloalto.com Q Kara: kara-grief.org; 650-321-5272 Q ROCK at Gunn is a studentled, faculty-guided peer support group that runs a website where personal narratives of hope, help and strength are posted: rockatgunn.tumblr.com/ Q “Henry M. Gunn Gives Me Hope” (HMGGMH) was created by a Gunn senior to offer a place for students, parents, teachers and alumni to post and share positive thoughts: hmggmh.wordpress.com Q Caltrain Suicide Prevention page: caltrain.com/riderinfo/safety_security/Suicide_Prevention Q American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: afsp.org Q Reachout.com for online support Q PAUSD Health Services: pausd.org/parents/services/ health/index.shtml Q PAUSD Counseling Services: pausd.org/parents/services/counseling/ Q Community resources list: bit.ly/1tIixMd up with self-value that stretches beyond academic achievement. “I want to be able to come back from college and visit my high school and say, ‘Wow, something really changed here,’” Krolik said. “‘Something was done about this.’” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Ricky Shin, a Gunn High School junior, wrote about grieving for his classmate in the hopes that others would know it’s OK to open up and talk about their feelings and problems with friends. to take theater. “It’s the 21st century. It doesn’t only take a good education to take it far these days,” she said. Cabot ends the three-and-a-half minute video by encouraging anyone watching to share the video with friends, post comments and help her raise awareness. “I think spreading awareness is just really, really important be-

WATCH AND READ THE TEENS’ PIECES Martha Cabot’s video can be found on YouTube.com by searching for “Martha Cabot” or by going to tinyurl.com/mlajzma Ricky Shin’s essay can be found at eastvillagers.org/browse_blogs.php and searching for “Ricky Shin” or by going to tinyurl.com/kehjdjk The Paly Voice opinion piece, “Destigmatize counseling in the Palo Alto community,” can be found at palyvoice.com by searching under the headline or by going to tinyurl.com/mqjmxkd The Paly Voice editorial, “Improving the community’s approach to mental health,” can be found at palyvoice.com by searching under the headline or by going to tinyurl.com/o4re8uf www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • November 14, 2014 • Page 23

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Questions and answers about mental health Local experts offer their advice, guidance by Shashank V. Joshi, MD; Meg Durbin, MD; Sami Hartley on behalf of the HEARD Alliance Executive Committee (www.heardalliance.org) s a community we are The teachers in these classrooms and the degree of stress. Not evgrieving. We have lost have been a very important part of eryone responds the same to a precious youth to treat- the “Wellness” effort that began given stressor, and although evable health conditions. We want after the PAUSD Board of Edu- eryone feels some stress at times, our youth to feel encouraged in cation enacted the Board Policy not everyone develops “distress” all they aspire to do, and will sup- on Suicide Prevention in June of or eventually, depression. You may be more likely to deport them in finding their own 2010. Students have asked many ques- velop depression as a result of a way in the world. In this endeavor, our schools tions regarding mental health in stressor, if you have a sibling or are very aware of the need to these classes. Common topics in- parent who has had depression, prioritize teaching students how clude “When does stress become or you’ve experienced depression to understand and manage their distress?”; “My friend’s been sad: in the past, or you’re dealing with busy lives beginning in the early When do I worry something is re- other challenging stressors at the grades through curricular ele- ally wrong?” Below are a few of same time. Coping strategies and resourcments, healthy activities, electives the most common questions and es (such as supportive friends, in wellness and mindfulness, and answers. trusted adults, relaxing and fun many other ways to address soQ: When a friend is de- activities, etc.) can help you effeccial and emotional health. However, we all know that care and pressed, is it better to try to help tively deal with a stressful event support of our youth is a shared them first or just go straight to or circumstance. True depression is not something that can be dealt responsibility in our community a parent or psychiatrist? A: It depends. If you feel like with effectively on one’s own, and and works best when we all take accountability and work together. you can approach your friend and that good help is available in our In our community forums, talk to them about your concerns, schools and community. there has been much discussion this can be a great first step, just Q: Is anxiety a form of about whether we can attribute as you would want your friends any particular factor to the recent to take if they were worried about depression? A: No, anxiety is a different tragedies. Suicide does not have you. When you talk to your friend, a single “cause.” Many factors encourage them to get help from a mental health issue, but research and life circumstances must be counselor or other trusted adult. If shows that anxious people may be taken into account when trying to you’ve already tried this or aren’t more likely to develop depression. understand why someone would comfortable approaching them, Anxiety can precede depression, talk to a parent, teacher, coun- but the two are commonly experitake their own life. In response to the 2009-10 sui- selor, doctor or other trusted adult enced together. For more informacides among our youth, a detailed and let them know what changes tion, see aacap.org/App_Themes/ AACAP/docs/facts_for_famiinvestigation with interviews of you’ve noticed in your friend. This adult should check in with lies/47_the_anxious_child.pdf dozens of family, friends, and teachers was conducted. Academ- your friend and make sure they Q: Can depression be cured ic stress in itself was not a major get the help they need. Remember factor. For most of these young that by talking to an adult when by positive thinking alone? A: Though positive thinking people (as is true nationally) de- you’re concerned about a friend, pression, anxiety, sleep problems you’re not getting them into trou- can be an important part of havand severe distress about relation- ble — you’re getting them out of ing a healthy and resilient life, positive thinking by itself does ship issues, life transitions, and trouble. not treat clinical depression. other aspects of mental health Q: Why do so few teens get Talk therapy with antidepressant were key factors. We must continue to address help for their depression or medications, if needed, are the only proven treatments for teen the myriad development and anxiety? A: Some teenagers might not depression. health issues in our youth, includSome forms of therapy work on ing mental health and resilience. It recognize that what they’re feelis also important to evaluate other ing is depression. Others might correcting the negative thought possible contributing factors, such not know where to get help for patterns that people who are deas academic and other perfor- depression or realize that depres- pressed might find themselves mance stresses and expectations. sion is a treatable health condi- trapped in. This is a process that These expectations can emanate tion. Others might be afraid to let requires professional help and sufrom the youth themselves but, other people know what they’re pervision. crucially, may be perceived by experiencing because of stigma or Q: What if I get signs of the youth as coming from their because they think that it’s somefamilies and others involved in thing they should be able to “get depression but it’s on and off? A: It’s important to recognize their lives, even when such mes- through” on their own. Clinical depression is common the difference between an ocsages about high performance expectations were well-intended or (11-15 percent of all teens will ex- casional depressed mood, which perience some form of depression everyone feels transiently at some misinterpreted. Solutions must come from all before high school graduation). It time, and true clinical depression. those who interact with youth, in- can be treated successfully with A clinical diagnosis of depression cluding schools, parents and fam- professional help, so it’s important requires that the symptoms be ily, friends, medical and mental for you to reach out for yourself present nearly all the time, every health providers, community and or for a friend once you notice day for at least two weeks. Howfaith leaders and mentors. All of the signs of depression we talked ever, if you’re concerned about our messages of support must be about in class. Depression isn’t how you’re feeling, talk to somesomething you can or must just one who can help. very clear. Signs and symptoms of depresFollowing national guidelines, “deal” with on your own. sion include the following: we have conducted depression Q: About how long can it education and suicide-prevention Q Feelings of sadness training sessions with several take for stress to turn into “disQ Loss of interest or pleasure in thousand students at both Gunn tress,” and then distress into normal activities and Palo Alto High Schools in depression? (continued on page 26) A: It depends on the individual Living Skills classes since 2010.

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Hayley Krolik, a junior at Gunn High School, sits in her bedroom on Nov. 10.

A message from Hayley Krolik Krolik’s email was sent the evening of Nov. 5 to an email list for parents of Gunn juniors Hi parents, Hope you all are doing as well as possible and holding your children close; I can’t imagine how horrifying and stressful this must feel as a parent. My mom was showing me all the emails, and I completely understand where you’re coming from. However, I’d like to offer some words of comfort and redirect some of the frustration going around. You have no idea how supportive the faculty was yesterday. I guess I can only speak for myself, but as the Lees were neighbors and close friends of my family, I was affected by Cameron’s death, and I know that there were counselors around every corner to help me. Kids were allowed to go home and skip class and really do whatever they needed. Most teachers did not teach class, and in my English class (Cameron’s class as well), we did an amazing and beautiful activity of writing positive notes to each other that my teacher planned. Everyone was affected by this tragedy, and everyone was as supportive of each other as possible. I told you all of this to remind you that it is understandable, in grief, to find an external scapegoat for the problem. However, I think it is not fair to blame the school and principal, etc., for what has happened. Gunn is stressful, yes. But people like Dr. Hermann, who has been such a kind and promising change agent at our school, are not to blame. No one is to blame, and there are so many factors, but I encourage you all to take this opportunity for self-reflection. It is not the school, but the atmosphere our community has created that makes the stress at Gunn so prevalent. Kids are taking so many advanced classes while trying to balance extracurriculars and even sleep. Everyone across the country has many tests, but our community still seems to struggle from an overwhelming amount of pressure that is different than most others: the pressure to achieve perfection. In a conversation I had yesterday, we tried to decipher this stigma. My thoughts come down to this: Parents want their kids to succeed more than they did themselves as a child, because of course, you love your children. Unfortunately, in a community like ours that is filled with such successful and talented people, this is asking too much. This impossible standard causes a ripple effect, making kids feel as if they cannot talk about the problems that exist behind the closed doors of a home or even their minds because weakness does not fit into perfection. Perfect people are not depressed, we think. Even though we are blessed to be a part of a privileged community, the twisted blessing of a less-fortunate community is that carrying baggage is seen as normal. A sad but true theme in society. Maybe this is a sign that we need to start creating a more positive culture where failure is celebrated. We’ve said this a million times, but it still doesn’t seem to work — not only for the parents but between the kids as well. We must all watch ourselves and ensure that we are embodying what really matters and actually implementing the structures that promote failure as acceptable and reward effort over accuracy. At school, we cannot view Bs as the end of the world, and we must create an environment where all kids feel supported by teachers to grow. At home, you must check in with your kids, and role model for them that it is okay to feel and to fail. We all have to work together to eliminate the largely contributing factors to depression in this area. Everyone has to be involved or the effect of our work will only scratch the surface. I know it’s much harder to change a culture than blame something, but sometimes what’s right isn’t easy. Good luck to you all with your task force! I hope that we can together, as a community, make change.

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Parents gather to talk, seek advice Experts urge conversations that will help kids feel safe, able to open up by Elena Kadvany

n the days after Palo Alto’s most recent student suicide, local mental health experts, school administrators and parents who have lost children to suicide urged other parents to support their children by talking openly with them about suicide and mental health. “The fact that all of you are here today — I ask and plead for everybody to go back and have these discussions so we can normalize our dialogue around mental health issues as well as we do around physical health issues,” parent Kathleen Blanchard told hundreds who gathered in Gunn High School’s Spangenberg Theater the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 5. Blanchard, whose son JP, a Gunn junior, died by suicide on the train tracks in 2009, was not alone in her plea. She spoke as part of a panel that evening along with Dr. Meg Durbin, a pediatric and internal medicine doctor at Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Sami Hartley, a school mental health coordinator for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; and Dr. Shashank Joshi, a Stanford University adolescent psychiatrist who has led much of the suicide-prevention work in Palo Alto since the student suicides in 2009 and 2010. Talking about these issues, the panelists said, is not risky but rather healthy and helpful, particularly when the conversation is empathetic and informative. “Students may ask things like, ‘If I ask my friend about suicide and they’re not really thinking about it, wouldn’t I put that idea in their head?’” Joshi said. “We can field the question, validate the concern and then give them the science, which shows that particularly for someone you’re worried about, asking the question about suicide is one of the most supportive things you can do to help that person feel understood.” Sami Hartley told parents that suicide prevention and education is included in Living Skills, a required course she teaches at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. The class focuses on topics like personal health, social-emotional well-being and interpersonal relationships. Students role-play how to have a conversation with a friend they’re concerned about. “We discuss mental health as a biological issue, as something that rests in the brain just like diabetes rests in the pancreas,” Hartley said. “That’s something that changes their perspective entirely.” This push to normalize the com-

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munity conversation about suicide and mental health comes at a time when all involved — schools, teachers, students, families, community organizations, local media — are striving to walk the fine line between providing the space and time to have such critical conversations and placing unhealthy attention on a sensitive issue. The speakers’ advice was followed by a cacophony of parent pleas for the schools to minimize student stress and intense academic pressure. Parents called for reduced homework load and a limit on the number of Advanced Placement (AP) classes students can take. They urged the district to fully implement its little-known homework policy and school principals to instill a culture geared toward true learning rather than grades. But what Palo Alto needs, the panelists urged, is an understanding that suicide and mental health are complex. Some questions may have no answers, they said. But creating an environment in which people ask those difficult questions will lead to the kind of community that is supportive and caring, where kids feel comfortable and even empowered to open up about their problems.

feel safe enough to be able to talk about these issues and just to normalize that this is really scary?” He, along with speakers at the Gunn meeting, emphasized that parents and others should avoid characterizing suicide as an irresponsible act. “They’re going to remember that you are a very calm, caring, supportive presence as opposed to, ‘This is a bad thing; this is irresponsible.’ They’re going to hear that, maybe, as judgment, so they’re going to feel like they can’t bring this up,” Frecceri said. “We’re not asking anyone here to be a therapist, a psychiatrist, to diagnose anybody. It’s just about having that space and that environment with your child for them to be able to bring it up if it comes up.” Blanchard said that sometimes students — especially those feeling impacted by any degree of anxiety, depression or mental illness, whether moderate or severe — are unable or unwilling to ask for help. It is critical to educate all students to be vigilant, understanding friends who likely will hear or know things that parents will not, she said. “We need to help our kids be more aware and have the courage

‘It’s all of us together that actually changes what’s happening.’ —Vic Ojakian, parent and former mayor, Palo Alto

Palo Alto High School’s monthly PTSA meeting last Thursday was given over to two of the school’s psychologists, a schoolclimate faculty member, a Paly mental health therapist and principal Kim Diorio, who talked to 20 parents about the school’s response to the most recent suicide and ways to support their children. Jonathan Frecceri, a mental health therapist who came to the district this year after working for several years at grief-counseling nonprofit Kara, spoke about the “three-legged stool” that is suicide prevention — a model he said he first heard from Joshi several years ago. “Prevention is about promoting awareness of mental health; it’s about intervening when we have people who are at risk; and it’s about post-vention,” Frecceri said. “We need every leg of the stool in order to do an effective job with suicide prevention. “That involves promoting wellness and health in general; it involves building developmental assets in our kids; but it also, I think, involves days like today where we’ve had these tragedies and we’re coming together. How do we have an environment where we can talk to kids and where kids

to speak up and say something if they see something. We have to be open to the possibility that something we’re seeing is not necessarily a sign of suicide, but it certainly can be a sign that the child is not feeling well, that there is stress ... and something needs to be understood better and therefore can be treated,” Blanchard said. Signs and symptoms of suicide and mental illness should be made generally known, like the warning signs for stroke that are on posters, she said. “I also want to say that sometimes the child is unable to ask for their own help because they are like a drowning person. They’re drowning in their own despair and sorrow,” she said. “What they’re dependent on is the people around them to notice what’s going on and to reach out and to bring help to them.” Places to reach out for help are plenty and have been provided in recent weeks at both campuses. Guidance counselors, the schools’ Crisis Response Teams, Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) and Kara staff have been providing extra support for students and staff, particularly at Gunn. (One Paly parent asked last Thursday if she can tell her child to talk

Gunn students have posted inspirational messages for their classmates around the school campus. to someone at the schools’ oncampus ACS offices — without a referral or appointment — if the child wants to talk to someone confidentially who is outside the family. The answer: Yes, parents can do that.) At both parent meetings, pamphlets and brochures were provided with multiple suicide hotlines, lists of local mental health resources, tips on warning signs or risk factors, ways to support children coping with loss. (See list of resources on page 23.) Durbin, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, urged the parents to think of their children’s primary care doctors as another source for mental health support. “I have heard several (people) say that it didn’t occur to them that when they have a concern about their child or another family member has a concern ... that one of the places they can go is their regular doctor, as if the regular doctor only gives shots or does sports physicals,” Durbin said. “We hope that all of you will recognize that your doctor and your child’s regular doctor cares about emotional health, cares about any mental health issues going on, and the doctor can be the first place for you to come.” Hartley told parents that a particular form of crisis response and suicide prevention training, known as Question, Persuade and Refer (or QPR), is available to anyone interested. QPR is a conversational tool that teaches three steps to take when concerned that someone is thinking about suicide: ask the person if they have had suicidal thoughts or feelings; persuade him or her to get help; and then refer them to the places where they can get that help. (QPR is also taught to students in the Living Skills course, and all Gunn staff received the training last fall.) Santa Clara County offers a free, one-hour training session online. (Visit the county’s Mental Health Department Web page or go to http://bit. ly/1xy7gEf to sign up.) There will also be a mental health education event for Gunn and Paly parents held the evening of Dec. 4 at school district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. Hartley said anyone interested in attending should complete the

online QPR training before so the event can focus on answering questions and developing and practicing skills instead of introducing the topic from the very beginning, Hartley said. A letter will be sent out to Gunn and Paly parents with a finalized time and more information. Hartley and others also stressed that it’s OK for parents to express their own concern or worry to their children. “A lot of parents really feel like they need to be strong, ... they need to be able to weather everything and give a positive example of success to their children. They feel uncomfortable showing emotion that isn’t positive. I will tell you that that gives a false sense of what emotional experiences are like,” Hartley said. “It’s OK to be sad. It’s OK to be upset or stressed or worried about something with your kids. It’s an opportunity for them to see that these are things that normal people experience all the time. It’s an opportunity to teach by doing.” Though it may seem facile, she and others said that simple things, like asking children to take a walk with you, can be effective. Exercise, healthy eating and taking care of yourself are all proven mood boosters, Joshi said, and are “all the things that if Meg Durbin were your doctor, she’d be asking you to do.” Vic Ojakian — a former Palo Alto mayor who has worked on suicide prevention locally and nationally since his son, a Paly graduate, died by suicide in 2004 — reminded the audience last Wednesday that it will not be one person, one school board, one policy or one effort that will bring positive change to a complex, deep-seated issue. “One of the things I’ve learned in all this work is it’s not a single individual. It’s not two individuals,” he said. “It’s all of us together that actually changes what’s happening.” Q About the cover: Students have posted positive messages at Gunn High School to support their classmates. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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(continued from page 24) Q Irritability, frustration, or feelings of anger, even over small things Q Changes in sleep habits (either insomnia or excessive sleeping) Q Changes in appetite (decreased or increased) Q Agitation or restlessness (pacing, hand-wringing, inability to sit still) Q Fatigue, tiredness, slowed thinking, loss of energy — even small tasks seem to require a lot of effort Q Feelings of worthlessness or guilt, fixation on past failures/mistakes or self-blame when things aren’t going right, worrying Q Trouble thinking, concentrating, making decisions, and/or remembering things Q Frequent thoughts of death, dying, or suicide Q Crying spells for no apparent reason Q Unexplained physical problems (especially pain-related), such as back pain, headaches, or stomachaches.

Q: How can we get help in our community? A: There are lots of resources! Talk to your parent or the parent of a friend you’re concerned about to determine the cause for the feelings and if anything can be done to help (answers: yes, it may be depression, and yes, something can be done to help!). You can talk to a guidance counselor or schoolbased mental health counselor through Adolescent Counseling Service (ACS), or another trusted adult at school. Of course, primary care doctors can be a great first contact as well and can evaluate and often treat directly. If needed, they can refer to mental health professionals. There are other resources in the community, such as the ones listed on page 23. Shashank V. Joshi, MD, is Director of the School Mental Health Team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; Meg Durbin, MD, is Regional Vice President for Care Coordination at Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Sami Hartley is the School Mental Health Coordinator for LPCH and the HEARD Alliance in Palo Alto.

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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer

Kepler’s Books hosts Sci Fi/Fantasy Day by Michael Berry

Praveen Madan is the CEO of Kepler’s Books

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you how h ffar into i t their market Amazon can reach.” The purchases accelerated, especially after Amazon selected “The Martian” as a top science-fiction pick. At that point, an agent came calling, and Weir soon found himself contemplating traditional Fantasy author Marie Brennan penned “A publishing and Natural History of Dragons.” movie deals. “Random House made an offer for the print rights of the Fallen series and the newly and then (20th Century) Fox made released science-fiction novel an offer for the movie rights,” he “Willful Child.” Williams’ books recalled. “Those two things hap- include “The Dragonbone Chair” pened the same week.” and “Sleeping Late on Judgement “The Martian” was published Day.” in hardcover by Crown in March. Four writers — Marie Brennan Directed by Ridley Scott, the film (“A Natural History of Dragons”), adaptation stars Matt Damon, Jes- Chaz Brenchley (“Being Small”), sica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ellen Klages (“White Sands, Red Kristen Wiig and Donald Glover. Menace”) and Pat Murphy (“The It’s slated for release on Nov. 25, City, Not Long After”) — will 2015. face off to debate the differences According to Weir, his love of between science fiction and fanscience fiction and his persistence tasy. Spectators will be able to in trying to write it paid off. vote for the genre of their choice. “It’s always been an interest of Although she won’t comment mine, and I’ve always just kept working at it,” he said. “Eventu(continued on next page) ally, if you do something enough, you stop sucking at it.” Following the conversation between Weir and Jobin, David J. Peterson, Steven Erikson and Tad Williams will also discuss their respective work in fantasy. Peterson is the author of the forthcoming “The Art of Language Invention.” Erikson is the author of the David Peterson created the fictional language Malazan Book Dothraki for the HBO series “Game of Thrones.”

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selling books, but using books to change people’s lives.” Madan is a long-time fan of science fiction authors including Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Frank Herbert (“‘Dune’ is one of my alltime favorite books,” he said. “It’s such a masterpiece of storytelling.”). He feels that genre fiction hasn’t yet taken its rightful place as literature. “We want to help (the public) realize that this is a rich, deep sphere of literature and that there’s so much more to it than most people realize,” he said. “We do that best by creating these kinds of experiences, where people get drawn into the conversation.” As part of the effort to deepen the conversation and inspire aspiring writers, Kepler’s is also sponsoring its first Science Fiction/Fantasy Fiction Prize. The contest, which closed Nov. 1, accepted Andy Weir’s “The Martian” debuted on the New excerpts of genre York Times Best Seller list in March.

novels l ffrom authors th who h hhave nott yet published a full-length work of fiction. The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the Nov. 15 event. Madan acknowledged that online booksellers can offer instant transactions, but seemed unconvinced that the Internet offers useful ways to change minds. “Encouraging people to open their minds to other things — I don’t think that happens as well online,” he said. “I think that still requires the human touch, that inperson connection.” A variety of authors will be on hand at Kepler’s on Sci Fi/Fantasy Day to administer that personal touch. Andy Weir, author of the New York Times best-seller “The Martian,” will appear in conversation with Matthew Jobin, author of the children’s fantasy novel, “The Nethergrim.” Weir’s newly minted career as a science-fiction novelist reflects the ever-changing, brave new world of publishing. A lifelong fan of classic sci fi, Weir worked as a computer programmer and serially self-published “The Martian,” a tale of a wise-cracking engineer/botanist stranded alone on the Red Planet, on his personal website. This new wrinkle on “Robinson Crusoe” didn’t take off immediately, Weir explained. “I started to get emails from people saying, ‘Hey, I like “The Martian,” but I hate reading it from web pages. Can’t you just make an e-book version that I can download?’” After preparing a Kindle-compatible version, Weir submitted “The Martian” and set the price at 99 cents. “I told everybody, ‘OK, you can read it for free on this web page, you can download the e-book version for free, or you can pay Amazon a dollar to put it on your Kindle for you.’ More people bought it from Amazon than downloaded it for free, which just goes to show

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f you’re an independent bookseller competing with Amazon, you need to boldly go where no bookstore has gone before. That’s why Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park is looking to the far reaches of space and the realms of magic. On Saturday, Nov. 15, the store will host a special in-store event. Sci Fi/Fantasy Day: An Afternoon of Aliens, Dragons, Magic and Other Worlds will include conversations between bestselling authors, lessons in the fictional language of Dothraki from HBO’s Game of Thrones and a debate between local writers about which genre is “better”: science fiction or fantasy. According to Praveen Madan, Kepler’s CEO, such events benefit both the store and readers from a wide variety of backgrounds. In June, Kepler’s sponsored a day devoted to mysteries and thrillers. A program focusing on science fiction and fantasy seemed a natural follow-up. “How do we differentiate ourselves from online competition? How do we make what we do sustainable?” Madan asked. “Our answer, which perhaps is a little different from the conclusion other people are coming to, is that the first and foremost goal is one of serving our mission. And our mission has always been not about

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Fantasy Day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve long believed that an important survival strategy for any independent bookstore is becoming more than just a place books are sold,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, like my other favorite independent bookstore, Borderlands in San Francisco, functions as the center for a dedicated Chaz Brenchleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bitter Watersâ&#x20AC;? blends community of readers fantasy and queer male desire. and thinkers. Events like this help build community, which is one reason Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m delighted to participate.â&#x20AC;? Q

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yet on her arguments for the debate at Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Klages says she thinks the lines between genre fiction and mainstream literary fiction are blurring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The top-grossing movies each year are science fiction/fantasy and superheroes,â&#x20AC;? she pointed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Game of Thrones is bringing fantasy to millions of HBO viewers. I know there are lots of people who might say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read that sort of thing,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but would be surprised that some of their favorite books are found right in the midst of those very science fiction and fantasy shelves.â&#x20AC;? Murphy says she sees the importance of events like Sci Fi/

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Freelance writer Mike Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com. What: Sci Fi/Fantasy Day: An Afternoon of Aliens, Dragons, Magic and Other Worlds Where: Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: Saturday, Nov. 15, from 1-5:30 p.m. Cost: $10 Info: For tickets, go to brownpapertickets.com. To learn more, go to keplers.com, email events@keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.

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The eccentric but likable Elwood P. Dowd (Evan Michael Schumacher) chats with his invisible friend, Harvey.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Harveyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Palo Alto Players revisit a classic comedy by Elizabeth Schwyzer

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been 70 years since Jimmy Stewart played the delightfully delusional Elwood P. Dowd in the original Broadway production of Mary Chaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pulitzer Prize-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harvey.â&#x20AC;? Many fictional characters have faded from memory in the intervening years, but Elwood and Harvey linger on. That may be in part because Stewart immortalized his role in the 1950 film of the same name. But Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charisma aside, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harveyâ&#x20AC;? that simply endures, much as Elwood politely but firmly insists on the existence of his invisible friend. For those unfamiliar with the play, the titular â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harveyâ&#x20AC;? is a 6-foot-tall rabbit seen only by Elwood â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cheerfully unambitious 30-something fellow with a proclivity for drinking â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and possibly in glimpses by others, including Elwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stern older sister, Veta. In the Palo Alto Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; production, Veta is played by Mary Price Moore; Evan Michael Schumacher plays Elwood. These are not simple characters. On the surface, Elwood is the carefree optimist to Vetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ball of jangling nerves. Yet the brother-sister pair wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite be reduced to the nutty drunk and the tee-totaling prude. As a trip to the local sanatorium proves, Veta packs enough hysteria to get herself accidentally committed, while Elwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relentless good cheer earns him an almost divine untouchability. If screw-loose Elwood seems to have been granted immunity from the scourges of life, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;saneâ&#x20AC;? adults all experience pain in one form or another. Vetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s histrionic daughter Myrtle Mae (Alison Koch) suffers from an acute case of self-involvement while teeter-

THEATER REVIEW ing on the brink of womanhood. Loony bin employees Nurse Ruth (Nicole Martin) and Doctor Sanderson (Scott Solomon) labor under an agonizing level of sexual tension, while the hallowed psychiatrist Doctor Chumley (John Musgrave) undergoes a mental breakdown all his own. As played by Schumacher, Elwood is nothing but sunshine. Even the monologues Stewart skewed darker (notably: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The same people seldom come back, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s envy, my dear. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of envy in the best of us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too bad, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it?â&#x20AC;?) are here nothing more than passing clouds on a summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day. The result is a production that goes down easy and varies little along the comic register. Under Jeanie Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction, the cast tackles the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requisite physical comedy with aplomb. Myrtleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye-rolling, hair-pulling agony and Vetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throat-clutching anxiety are particularly effective, while Schumacher adopts a flatfooted, nose-first waddle, giving Elwood just a twinge of Elmer Fudd. Among the slapstick high points are Vetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhapsodic monologue about the role of art (â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fine oil painting shows us our dreams ...â&#x20AC;?), which she delivers in reference to a prized portrait of her late mother, not realizing it has been replaced by a painting of Elwood with his arm slung around a mansized bunny in a bow tie. Lurking just at the edges of this production are the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tantalizing suggestions of darkness: addiction, insanity, family secrets and the grim business of losing oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood innocence. With few shadows to chase, Palo Alto Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; production settles

on wholeheartedly Hallmarkian notes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Practice random acts of kindness,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best friends never let you downâ&#x20AC;? and, naturally, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing up is overrated.â&#x20AC;? Ron Gasparinettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive modular set allows for quick changes between the family living room (complete with fireplace, built-in bookshelves and gilded busts framing the mantel) and the sanatorium, with its austere admitting room and hospital green hallway. Costume designer Cynthia Preciado beautifully conjures California society of the mid-1940s, from Elwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dapper suit and hat to Nurse Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crisp hospital whites and two-pointed nurseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cap. In the end, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Moore as Veta who has the most crucial role, poised as she is between belief and disbelief in Harvey. Moore achieves a wonderful blend of long-suffering patience and thinly veiled fury at the way this rabbit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; real or not â&#x20AC;&#x201D; disrupts her vision of a sensible life. In the end, the audience is left just a little unsure about Harvey â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might he be real, somehow, after all? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is, of course, precisely the intention. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@ paweekly.com. What: Palo Alto Playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harvey,â&#x20AC;? by Mary Chase Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Through Nov. 23; Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Cost: Tickets range from $17-$42. Info: Go to paplayers.org or call 650-329-0891.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A LONG TERM LEASE TO AVENIDAS FOR CITY OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 450 BRYANT STREET, PALO ALTO Notice is hereby given that the Palo Alto City Council will consider entering into a new lease for a City owned building at 450 Bryant Street with Avenidas, a provider of senior services to the community. Avenidas has been providing senior services at this location for the past thirty seven (37) years. This public notice is required according to Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Policy and Procedure Section 1-11/ASD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Leased Use of City Land/Facilities. A copy of this notice will be mailed to property owners and tenants within 300 feet of the subject property in accordance with Section 18.77.080(d) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC). The City Council will YL]PL^ HUK HWWYV]L [OL Ă&#x201E;UHS SLHZL H[ H YLN\SHY *V\UJPS meeting on December 15, 2014. The terms of the lease will be similar to the current ones HUK ^PSS PUJS\KL H Ă&#x201E;M[` `LHY [LYT H[ [OL YLU[HS YH[L VM one ($1.00) a year. Avenidas will be responsible for the maintenance and operation of the property as well as their allocated utility costs. The City will grant a nonexclusive YPNO[ [V (]LUPKHZ [V \ZL [^LU[`ÂśĂ&#x201E;]L WHYRPUN ZWHJLZ PU 3V[ * MVY [OL HJJVTTVKH[PVU VM WHYRPUN ULLKZ MVY P[Z JSPLU[Z For additional information, please contact Hamid Ghaemmaghami, Manager of Real Property, City of Palo Alto at (650) 329-2264, or email: hamid. ghaemmghami@cityofpaloalto.com

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COMMUNITY MEETING Among the films screening at 3rd iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film festival is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radhe, Radhe: Rites of Holi,â&#x20AC;? featuring a soundtrack by jazz musician Vijay Iyer.

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From feature films and documentaries to Bollywood musicals and independents, San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3rd i South Asian Film Festival returns to the Midpeninsula this weekend. Now in its 12th year, 3rd i aims to present the full range of South Asian cultures and cinematic expressions. Following its five-day run in San Francisco Nov. 5-9, the festival comes to Palo Alto Saturday, Nov. 15. On the docket are six films, among them â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nirnay,â&#x20AC;? a documentary about love in contemporary middleclass Indian society, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zinda Bhaag,â&#x20AC;? a rousing Pakistani musical. Evening screenings include â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Auction House,â&#x20AC;? a documentary about two brothers struggling to save their family business (which happens to be Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest auction house), and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Liarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dice,â&#x20AC;? a drama set in the rural Himalayas thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official 2014 Oscars contender for Best Foreign Language Film. All films screen at CinĂŠArts at Palo Alto Square, 3000 El Camino Real. Tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. For more information, including a full festival calendar, go to thirdi.org.

a 19-year-old American rifleman played his violin. That young man was Pvt. Stuart Canin, an avid violinist who brought his instrument with him to the front, because â&#x20AC;&#x153;you never know.â&#x20AC;? Now nearly 90 years old, Canin will make a live appearance at Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bing Concert hall this Wednesday in an event that combines musical performance, film and on-stage discussion. Joining Canin will be historian Norman Naimark, political scientist Scott Sagan and 60th Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who will hold a conversation about this pivotal moment in world history. Citizen Film will also screen a documentary short, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Riflemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Violin,â&#x20AC;? which tells Caninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkable story. The former concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony, Canin will give a 30-minute performance: a reprise of the same works by composers Fritz Kreisler, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky and Henryk Wienawski that he played in Potsdam 60 years ago. The event takes place on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St. Tickets are $30 general admission and are free to Stanford students starting one hour before curtain. To learn more, go to potsdamatstanford.com. For tickets, go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.

California Pops Orchestra trombonists Billy Robinson, left, Jon Schermir and Mike Basta will perform music of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;20s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;30s.

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In July 1945, 19-year-old American rifleman Pvt. Stuart Canin played his violin for Truman, Churchill and Stalin.

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For a brief trip even further back in time, travel to Foothill College on Sunday afternoon to hear the California Pops Orchestra perform â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music from the Great Gatsby Era.â&#x20AC;? Known as Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment symphony, the 65-piece orchestra will evoke the era of flappers and bootleggers, Art Deco and ragtime with tunes by Irving Berlin, Benny Goodman, Cole Porter and others. Kim Venaas conducts the ensemble, which features guest artists including jazz pianist Frederick Hodges and big band singer Ann Gibson. Prepare to boogie in the aisles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even at your seat. The concert takes place Sunday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m. at Foothill Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smithwick Theater, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Tickets range from $37-$42; youth tickets are $15. Free parking is available in lots 5 and 6. For tickets, go to calpops. org or call 650-856-8432. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elizabeth Schwyzer

Potsdam Revisited In July 1945, at the close of WWII, Truman, Churchill and Stalin came together in occupied Germany to consider the fate of the modern world. Their meeting would come to be known as the Potsdam Conference. But before they got down to business, the three world leaders paused to listen as Page 30 â&#x20AC;˘ November 14, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ www.PaloAltoOnline.com

SEE MORE ONLINE www.PaloAltoOnline.com/arts Watch YouTube videos of the 3rd i Film Festival and the California Pops Orchestra in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com/arts.

Support our Kids with a gift to the Holiday Fund. Last Year’s Grant Recipients 10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Ada’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,000 Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000

ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo Alto area. Since the Weekly

Bayshore Christian Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation cover all the

Breast Cancer Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

administrative costs, every dollar raised goes directly to

Building Futures Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000

support community programs through grants to non-profit

Children’s Center of the Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,200

organizations ranging up to $25,000.

Collective Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500

And with the generous suppor t of matching grants

Computers for Youth Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

from local foundations, including the Packard, Hewlett,

Deborah’s Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Downtown Streets Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 East Palo Alto Youth Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 EPA Tennis & Tutoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foothill-De Anza Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foundation for a College Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

Arrillaga & Peery foundations, your tax-deductible gift will be doubled in size. A donation of $100 turns into

Give to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund and your donation is doubled. You give to non-profit groups that work right here in our community. It’s a great way to ensure that your charitable donations are working at home.

$200 with the foundation matching gifts. Whether as an individual, a business or in honor of someone else, help us reach our goal of $350,000 by making a generous contribution to the Holiday Fund. With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community helping kids and families.

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InnVision Shelter Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000

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New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Voices for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000

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Project WeHOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Racing Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500

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Rebuilding Together Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Silicon Valley FACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 St. Elizabeth Seton School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

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St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000 Teen Talk Sexuality Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Terman Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500

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TheatreWorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,000 Youth Speaks Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

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Please make checks payable to: Silicon Valley Community Foundation Send coupon and check, if applicable, to: Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund c/o Silicon Valley Community Foundation 2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300 Mountain View, CA 94040 The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund is a donor advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. A contribution to this fund allows your donation to be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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Alexander’s “l’orange” is a flourless chocolate sponge cake with milk chocolate mousse, orange curd and grand marnier ganache, covered in a dark chocolate glaze and topped with a candied orange slice.

Let them eat cake Alexander’s Patisserie opens in Mountain View by Elena Kadvany

Natalia Nazarova

Pistachio, coffee, lavender, pumpkin and jasmine macarons at Alexander’s Patisserie. Page 32 • November 14, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

ne bite of a kouign-amann from Alexander’s Patisserie will dispel any doubts you may have about the quality of a French patisserie run by a restaurant group best known for its high-end steakhouses. It’s flaky, buttery and sugary in all the right ways. Kouign-amann is the croissant’s younger, prettier sister — made from the same layered dough, but dusted with sugar and salt and baked in muffin tins. The result is a caramelized, crunchy top and buttery soft center (the literal translation of kouign-amann is “butter cake”) — a balance, I hear, that is difficult to achieve. But they’ve done it at the nascent Alexander’s Patisserie in downtown Mountain View, which opened in mid-October and promptly sold out of kouignamann, croissants, macarons, tarts and cakes for several days. This was partially due to hype, and

Alexander’s Patisserie 209 Castro St., Mountain View 650-864-9999 alexanderspatisserie.com Hours: Sunday-Wednesday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; ThursdaySaturday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

partially due to the staff not being, able to get into the kitchen to prep as early as they had hoped. Almost one month after opening, they’re still trying to catch up with the demand. (Alexander’s Director of Public Relations Marilyn Skinner said last week they’re now only selling out on weekends.) The Castro Street patisserie is the first venture of its kind for the Alexander’s Steakhouse group, which operates restaurants — all steakhouses save for one — in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Cupertino, with two more on their way in Pasadena and Shanghai.

The man behind the Alexander’s pastry case is Dries Delanghe, a 26-year-old soft-spoken pastry chef from Belgium who has known he wanted to bake for a living since he was 12. Delanghe’s career spans continents and industries, from a hotel in Brussels to a stint with macaron king Pierre Hermé in Paris, and, most recently, four years at three-Michelin-starred Joël Robuchon Restaurant in Las Vegas. “As a kid when I would go to a bakery and buy bread, I would want to slice it myself,” Delanghe said. “I was always interested in how they make it — like, how do they get the filling inside of a cake?” So, at the ripe age of 12, he told his parents he wanted to go to pastry school. They turned him down, telling him he would be sick of it by the time he was 18. Two years later, he had the choice of attending again, and he off he went.

Eating Out Delanghe has big plans for Alexander’s Patisserie. The full, impressive menu lists 14 flavors of macarons, four kinds of brioche, waffles, madeleines, quiches, sandwiches, salads, tarts, focaccia and loaves of fresh bread, both sweet and savory. Delanghe wants to bring suikerbrood (“sugar bread” in Dutch) to Mountain View: a traditional bread from Holland that Delanghe describes as “kind of like a brioche,” but with sugar mixed into the dough. “When it bakes, it has pockets of sugar and butter mixed into it,” he said. Sign me up. Delanghe’s ultimate vision for Alexander’s is that it be a onestop shop for fresh bread, classic French pastries, chocolates and macarons. Everything is made inhouse and on-site. “I like to say it’s four shops in one,” he said. Stroll into Alexander’s currently and you’ll likely find macarons ($2 for one, $13 for six, $25 for 12), chocolate and regular croissants, kouign-amanns, canelé, perhaps two types of entremets (or layered cakes), brioche loafs and a few exquisite tarts (mostly $6). The patisserie partnered with San Rafael-based Equator Coffees & Teas to create their own line of blends; there’s also hot chocolate and loose leaf tea. At the shop in late October, a row of large glass pastry cases remained awkwardly empty. Delanghe said his staff had doubled production, but were still struggling to keep up with the demand. Delanghe sees the spacious patisserie, decorated in a white-andblack theme with marble-topped tables, elegant white chairs and chandeliers, as a cross between a classic French patisserie and a modern American coffee shop. He hopes customers will come in to enjoy a leisurely pastry and coffee, while others will get their desserts to go or come in after eating dinner at one of Castro Street’s many restaurants (Alexander’s is open until 10 p.m.

MORE FOOD NEWS Chris Kostow, famed chef at three Michelin-starred The Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena, will be returning to the restaurant that launched his career for a one-nightonly dinner on Monday, Nov. 17. Kostow will take over the kitchen at Chez TJ, where he was chef from 2006 to 2008, to cook a special multi-course meal to celebrate the release of his first cookbook, “A New Napa Cuisine.” Kostow earned two Michelin stars at Chez TJ before leaving for Meadowood in 2008. He went on to become the third youngest chef ever to win three Michelin stars. In 2009, he was chosen as one of Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs. The dinner is $225 per person, which includes a copy of Kostow’s book and excludes tax and gratuity. Wine pairings are optional ($150). The evening is by reservation only, with two seating times -- 5:30 and 8 p.m. To check availability or reserve a table, email info@cheztj.com or call 650964-7466 with your name, party size, phone number and preferred time. Read more and see the menu in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com/blogs

Thursday through Sunday). “We wanted something different that hasn’t been seen here before in Silicon Valley,” Delanghe said. “There are a lot of bakeries and some pastry shops, but not the whole concept where you can find

everything from bread to chocolates and dine in or to-go and sit in a nice environment.” This reporter, for one, is very excited for when Alexander’s does indeed reach the point of being “the whole concept.” Q

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ShopTalk by Daryl Savage

OLIVE GARDEN’S FUTURE UNCERTAIN IN PALO ALTO? ... The future may be uncertain for the Olive Garden restaurant in Palo Alto. The Italian dining chain, which has more than 800 locations worldwide, has been a mainstay in Palo Alto for at least 10 years. But next week, the city’s Architectural Review Board is tentatively scheduled to review a concept plan that calls for the demolition of the restaurant. In its place is a proposed three-story, mixed-use building that will have both retail and office space, along with 13 residential units on the site that Olive Garden and its large parking lot currently occupies, according to city documents. The new building would replace the singlestory restaurant at 2515 El Camino Real. Also included in the plans is underground parking. “It’s a very preliminary review,” said Margaret Netto, referring to the ARB’s activity. Netto, who is the city’s Planning Department staff person for the El Camino site, said, “The concept plans are only the beginning of what is a long process. It could take at least nine to 12 months before any construction happens.” But Olive Garden corporate spokesperson

Jessica Dinon said, “We have no plans to close the Palo Alto Olive Garden.” Stay tuned. NEW “SECRET” CHOCOLATE SHOP ... A new chocolate shop has opened in downtown Palo Alto, but you have to hunt for it. Why? No sign out front. No way of knowing what’s going on inside. Located at 539 Bryant St., it’s called Timothy Adams Chocolates. “It’s not that we don’t want a sign. We’d love one; but the city rejected it,” said Timothy Woods, who owns the shop with his partner, Adams Holland. “Our sign was pink and it was too big, according to the city, but we’re working on it with them and I’m hoping we’ll get our sign up in another month or so.” The lack of a sign is exactly what attracted Palo Alto resident Terra Flowers. “I walk past here every day,” Flowers said. “I was drawn to what might be inside.” Now she’s a frequent visitor. “I come here all the time. I have three or four chocolates a day. It doesn’t get boring because there’s such a variety.” Pink is a recurring theme in the shop. After customers pass under the pink awning, they’re greeted by a deep pink curtain at the front door. Inside, pink walls engulf the

space. Also pink are the boxes for the chocolates and the cups for the candy. Woods, tall, lean and never seen without his leather flat cap on his head, is affable and effervescent. He is easily recognizable as the proprietor since he’s always wearing a pink shirt. “I match everything in the shop,” he said. “When we first opened, I bought eight pink patterned shirts so I could wear a different one every day.” Woods’ far-reaching knowledge of chocolate is indisputable. Trained in Amsterdam and Vienna, he makes all his chocolates by hand: “We don’t use machines here.” Each hand-shaped candy is served in a tiny pewter dish. “There has to be some whimsy in a chocolate shop,” Woods noted. “I’ve even been referred to as the ‘Willie Wonka of the 21st century.’” Understandable. LOVING HUT OUT, BUBBLE TEA IN ... The popular, loud Loving Hut vegan restaurant has closed, and has been replaced by the popular, loud T4, a Taiwanese cafe that specializes in pearl milk or bubble tea. The 1,100-square-foot, 30-seat eatery at 165 University Ave. opened Oct. 28, just one month after the owners of Loving Hut called it quits. T4 serves a variety of teas with tapioca balls for added texture and flavor.

Heard a rumor about your favorite store or business moving out or in, down the block or across town? Daryl Savage will check it out. Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.

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“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.” — Atul Gawande at TED

to transforming lives in more ways than you could ever imagine. Read some of our success stories we are presenting here and accept our sincerest gratitude. Best Wishes for a Joyful Holiday Season to You and Yours, Luisa Buada, RN, MPH Chief Executive Officer

of the community members we serve. They are the heart of the organization. Because of their efforts, in May 2014, RFHC was recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) for meeting level 2 standards for patientcentered, coordinated care that supports access, communication and patient involvement. On behalf of all of us, we are thankful to you the reader, our neighbors, for paying attention to the needs of families in the communities we serve; and to you the donor whose generosity profoundly contributes Ravenswood Family Health Center

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culturally attuned bilingual staff is an invaluable asset. As a community health center, Ravenswood recruits staff whose language and cultures match its patients. With 40% drawn from the community, it is a major employer in East Palo Alto and with the opening of its new health center in April 2015 it will add 18 more jobs. Recognized as a prime resource for health career development, it promotes advancement from entry-level positions to senior staff. Its staff development team coordinates ongoing trainings, practice and testing to build skills and collaboration. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a spirit of mutual cooperation that runs through the organization, â&#x20AC;&#x153;giving each other a hand upâ&#x20AC;? to make the way easier. Working at Ravenswood you get to hear personal stories of fellow staff members that reveal the resilience and discipline it takes to reach the next level in a career. Rising through the Ranks Kim Wynn started at the front desk in Pediatrics at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and within a year was the lead. She wanted to move up but lacked needed skills until Vice President of Operations, the late Dr. Hooper, saw her drive and ability and on his own time taught her to use Excel and referred her for a position in Quality and Planning under the direction of Tomas Moran. Over the next seven years she was mentored by him and became a whiz at mining reports from databases. She was a System III Analyst when she was recruited to set up a Decision Support department at Ravenswood. Now she trains and manages a team of five who produce a myriad of data reports to meet federal, state and grant requirements. Known for her level-headed management skill, she now oversees four areasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Decision Support and Health Information Management Systems, Front Desk, and Enrollment and Eligibilityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with 7 direct reports and 23 indirect. She laughs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growth here is crazy. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a true believer in promoting within, training within,â&#x20AC;? and then describes the achievements

of the staff she trains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I only have a high school diploma, but even at the age of 16, I was a manager at Togoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;? She missed the opportunity to attend Howard University after high school because she chose another course and had a baby. Today, she has two of her own and four step children as well as a grandson with autism that she is actively involved with. Her kids tell her how amazing she is to have accomplished what she did without a degree. But she reminds them that higher education is important and to prove the point she is pursuing a degree in Business Administration. It takes discipline to spend your nights studying. Once she completes her A.S. degree at Canada next spring, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll transfer to Notre Dame de Namur University in the fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not leaving Ravenswood no matter what, but I want a degree saying, you know what, she accomplished it.â&#x20AC;? Some on our staff have come to the U.S. to escape either poverty or violence and corruption in their home countries. Christy Silva had a university degree and worked in the government in El Salvador. But its corruption made her an outspoken opponent and that put her at risk. As with many immigrants, she started in an entry-level position at the front desk, registering patients. Within a few months she moved into billing, then finance. She liked finance and decided to go for an MBA degree. Working fulltime by day and studying by night, she graduated after two and a half years with a focus on project management. She was immediately recruited to coordinate disaster preparedness and project planning. Within a year she was promoted to Project Planning Manager. Her expertise met a critical need to help manage two major projects â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the implementation of electronic health records for one, and project oversight of a major Health Care Innovation grant awarded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services that has intensive reporting requirements on multiple indicators related to management and health outcomes of chronic disease patients. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adept and fits the part.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a process facilitator. I like working on a team in which everybody has a part rather than one person leading and saying the way it should work. Everybody has different ideas, personalities, experiences, they are experts in their own area and we all complement each other.â&#x20AC;? In Tonga, Ana Tuipulotu was program director in family planning before a family crisis led her to move to the States. Being undocumented, the only employment she could find in the first years was as a nanny in the daytime and a caregiver at night. Then she married and became documented and immediately set out to be certified as a medical assistant. She started as a Family Practice Medical Assistant in 2008 and then became a Health Navigator teaching Pacific Islanders about the risks of diabetes. She knows how drastic the change has been for her people coming from a culture where â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the food is fresh. We pick fresh leaves, eat taro that is pulled this morning, a chicken that is killed and cooked now, and you catch fish now and eat it. For drink we only have the rain water and the fresh coconut milk, and we just grab the papaya and the mango from the tree and eat it.â&#x20AC;? Now they have a cornucopia of choices in the American supermarket that have played havoc with their diet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know lots of Tongans that now have diabetes and require dialysis. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way we eat. Since coming from the islands I have been dreaming that I have to do further studies to get a degree. I am hoping that I will step up to spread the good story about health to my people.â&#x20AC;? To fulfill that desire, she has spent the past 4 years taking courses, first at Canada and then at Notre Dame De Namur and now online at Ashford University to complete a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Health Education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I work 8 hours and when I have my break I read my textbook.â&#x20AC;? She averages 5 hours of study every weekday night and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to finish her degree next year. She laughs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m done, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sleep.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;continued on page 4

Healing the Trauma of Domestic Violence

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avenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s providers know that Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is fairly common. IPV is a repeated pattern in which one partner threatens, intimidates and uses physical or verbal abuse to control the other who, frozen by fear, submits and remains silent. Unfortunately, the number of reported cases of IPV dwarfs in comparison to the unreportedâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;an iceberg below the surface. Behind Closed Doors Many women live in â&#x20AC;&#x153;quiet desperationâ&#x20AC;? because they feel powerless and are overwhelmed by family pressure, guilt, economic

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distress, and the fear of reprisal. One patient who did tell her husband to leave after being intimidated for years was beaten until neighbors called the police and she was brought to the clinic bruised and battered. Dr. Jose Lopez of RFHCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Integrated Behavioral Health program was called by the provider to meet with her. With his counsel and guidance, she moved into a safe house operated by CORA, the support agency in San Mateo County for some 13,600 domestic violence cases each year. Now she supports her four children with house cleaning and lives free of fear.

Bringing IPV into the Light in Primary Care Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Services Physician Assistant Rebecca Pinto has led the effort to address the problem. She recruited Stanford medical student fellows to help develop an IPV screening tool and protocol that is now incorporated into the routine set of questions posed to new patients.* The Medical Assistant will preface the question this way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because difficult relationships can cause health problems, I ask all of my patients the following question: does a partner or anyone else at home hurt, hit, or threaten you?â&#x20AC;? If the response is positive, the Medical Assistant

What we do Provide integrated, coordinated primary health care to lowincome and uninsured residents of San Mateo & Santa Clara counties Isabel Quionez, MPH

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Special Needs Patients in Pediatric Dentistry

n a chance meeting at a County resource fair for special needs, Dr. Yogita Thakur, Dental Director of Ravenswood Family Dentistry (RFD), met Doriel Pearson, MS, PA-C from the Complex Care Clinic at Lucile Packard Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. Pearson learned that Dr. Thakur was trained in pediatric dentistry and had a special interest in treating children with special needs. Finding a dentist for MediCal covered children with special needs had been very difficult. That encounter led to a partnership between Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dental clinic and the Complex Care Clinic and subsequently Cranio-Facial, Cardiology and Oncology clinics at Lucile Packard. Almost every week RDF receives referrals of children with complex medical needs who are scheduled for assessment, treatment and routine ongoing preventive care.

Detsiyah is a five year old. Seeing her shy smile as she plays a kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s app on her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart phone, rapidly tapping random letters to make a bell ring, you momentarily forget that she is a little girl with a rare chromosomal disorder who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

talk, needs hearing aids, wears prescription glasses due to an underdeveloped optic nerve and a cataract in her left eye, and is being taught to sign to express herself. She also has a condition called oral

aversion. Her mother Nyla explains how this affects her oral health. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Detsiyah would gag and choke and she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fed orally. So she is fed through a tube in her stomach. But she throws up sugar and milk that gets on her teeth and has acid reflux too that causes tooth decay.â&#x20AC;? To clean her teeth was next to impossible. At first it had to be done under anesthesia because she wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open her mouth. But now she comes for cleanings and is sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting used to Dr. Thakur and gradually starting to open up her mouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She just had a cleaning last week. Now she knows whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting her teeth cleaned. At home we have an electric toothbrush and she likes that. It helps to get her to open up her mouth.â&#x20AC;? Ravenswood Family Dentistry offers

Primary Medical Care comprehensive dental careâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;preventive, restorative, surgical under sedation or general anesthesia, emergency, periodontal, and prenatal oral health care services. It is now the go-to dental clinic not only for children with medical or special needs, but also children with complex dental needs that County clinics are not prepared to handle. Mauricio is a five-year-old who was referred by the County with such extensive decay that Dr. Thakur scheduled him for the OR at Stanford Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospital, where she has privileges. Under general anesthesia, she completed 3 extractions, 6 stainless steel crowns on teeth with decay too large for a filling, fillings for 5 other teeth, and a root canal on a baby tooth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The costs are exorbitant and anesthesia is not without risks, but there are some conditions that warrant the use of general anesthesia.â&#x20AC;? Poor oral health is common in lowincome communities where people put off dental care without understanding the consequences. In Mauricioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case as with any child, the real issue is to establish a daily routine of care and that means driving home the message to the parent about oral hygiene and diet. You have to educate at every visit! In Mauricioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been a success! Mauricio has returned for recall visits with no new decay.â&#x20AC;? Preventive care will always be the gold standard in dental care. The practice of dental prevention has guaranteed positive results.

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reassures the patient. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you for telling me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry to hear this is happening. I will let your provider know.â&#x20AC;? And so the process of intervention begins. After talking with the patient, the provider will then introduce a behavioral health clinician who comes to the exam room to offer whatever support the patient is willing to receive. This integration of care with a warm hand-off between medical and behavioral health is the critical step in the process of helping patients gain the confidence to overcome fear. Clinical psychologist Dr. Joanna Zygmont estimates she is called on to meet with 2 to 4 women a week. Typically, she says, they are the mother of children under the age of 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Often timesâ&#x20AC;?, says Dr. Zygmont, â&#x20AC;&#x153;when a woman is ready (to receive help)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;usually the motivator is that it is affecting her children. They are stressed and not doing well in school.â&#x20AC;?

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The Effects on Children Unfortunately, violence in the home is witnessed or overheard by children who

may be left to cope on their own. Such chronic stress, especially in very young children, can have very negative long-term effects, including on brain development. Dr. Victor Carrion, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Head of the Early Life Stress Research Program, has been the consulting pediatric psychiatrist to Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IBHS team since 2008 and treats children referred by RFHC pediatric providers. His research has focused on the interplay between brain development and stress vulnerability. He and his colleagues have developed treatments that focus on individual and community-based interventions for children exposed to traumatic stress. In March 2014, Dr. Carrion was interviewed on PBS News Hour by Jeffrey Brown about a project he was overseeing at Cesar Chavez Academy in East Palo Alto in which 7th graders, many of whom are exposed to trauma and stress outside of school, were learning Yoga as a way to cope with stress.

RESILIENCE: A Powerful Antidote Keeping a family together may not work, but restoring the confidence of a mother to do what is needed to heal herself and her children is what Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavioral health team seeks to promote. Dr. Zygmont is inspired by the way people exposed to intimate partner violence summon strength. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the resources; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the person. I am so impressed time and time again by the strength and the commitment that a person has to herself and her children. Many times I say to them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know the programs can help, but ultimately itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your strength, the same strength you used to cross the border, the same one that makes you go to a job that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay you well. That same strength is the one that keeps you moving. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your determination.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? *Special thanks to medical students Elena Brandford, Margaux Gray, Ulyssess Rosas, Blake Zwerling and to Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nurse Practitioner Ashley Younger, Dr. Harise Stein, and Magali Sanchez who worked on creating the RFHC Intimate Partner Violence protocols.

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We have achieved 94% of our total Capital Campaign goal! Just $2.2 million dollars more are needed to complete our Capital Campaign to equip a permanent medical home for our patients in East Palo Alto, Belle Haven (Menlo Park) and Northern Santa Clara County. Hear what some of our key contributors say about the need and the benefits this new facility will provide when we open our doors in April of 2015.

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked on health care issues in the East Palo Alto community for 20 years. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m well aware of the health care needs of East Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low income residents before RFHC existed and what a difference this organization has made. As the CEO of the Health Plan of San Mateo, the organization responsible for operating the MediCal program in San Mateo County,

HPSMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medi-Cal membership has grown by close to 30% just this past year with the implementation of the Affordable Care Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medicaid expansion in California. While broader health insurance coverage is a great achievement, it means little if

enny and I have been long time supporters of Ravenswood Family Health Center (RFHC). Over time it became clear to us that the current facility was too small to serve the

increasing base of patients. We were delighted when we learned that RFHC was planning to build a new clinic facility. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Greg Gallo Partner, DLA Piper

construction of a new state of the art health facility is a major investment that should be shared by each of us. It will be a lasting legacy of the many that had a vision and the tenacity to think big!

've been committed to building a healthy East Palo Alto community for more than 25 years. RFHC has established a culture of wellness and the new facility will only further their ability to make a difference in the lives of individuals and the community. The

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a newly insured individual cannot find a physician. A new and expanded medical center in East Palo is critical and timely to make sure there are medical resources to respond to the local demands for health care resulting from the Affordable Care Act expansion. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Maya Altman, CEO Health Plan of San Mateo

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e have a very engaged Advisory Board that has worked together for the past 5 years to create the new clinic. Luisa Buada, our CEO, is very â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rose Jacobs Gibson talented and has done a wonderful Retired SMC Supervisor job growing the clinic for the past 12 years. She started with a small As a member of the Board o f Pa l o A l t o M e d i c a l modular clinic then expanded into a Foundation-Sutter Health, group of modular buildings and now I know that Ravenswood to a permanent and much larger two is being well ser ved by b ot h PA M F' s f i n a n c i a l story facility you can see today at the support and cooperation corner of Bay Road & Pulgas Avenue in delivering high quality in East Palo Alto. health care. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John Sobrato â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dick Levy Board Member Founder and Principal PAMF-Sutter Health Sobrato Organization

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Building Inspirational Leaders in Community Health - Cont'd prehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP) team. Through her work, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become very interested in the behavioral sciences. When I took a 2-day training on motivational interviewing, I realized I was already doing this with patients. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always thinking about what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re telling me and create questions from what they say. They guide the conversation; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just facilitating it. Where the conversation is going to go is based on where the patient wants it to go.â&#x20AC;? In 2009 Isabel decided to pur-

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sue a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Public Health. It took three years, working full-time and going to school in the evening to complete it, but she was motivated. In 2010 she became manager of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Services, encompassing the Perinatal program, mammography and cervical health screening to promote early detection. Today, she oversees seven full-time womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health staff members. Under her direction, her team is employing health coaching and motivational interviewing to increase mammography

screenings, and in CPSP, to improve prenatal and maternal outcomes. Some months ago Isabel submitted two abstracts to the American Public Health Association which has a very competitive selection process from among thousands of abstracts they get from all over the world. Isabel was selected to present her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work at APHAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual conference in November in New Orleans as was Rebecca Pinto, PA-C who is presenting RFHCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) screening process.

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Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) Century 16: 9:15 & 10:35 a.m., noon, 1:20, 2:45, 4:05, 5:30, 7, 8:15 & 9:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 11 & 11:45 p.m., Sun 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 & 11:55 a.m., 1:40, 2:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 8, 9:40 & 10:45 p.m. Edward Scissorhands (1990) (PG-13) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. Force Majeure (R) Fury (R) +++

Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m.

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Interstellar (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9, 10 & 11 a.m., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6:10, 7, 7:55, 9, 10 & 10:50 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:45 p.m., Sat & Sun at noon Century 20: 10:30 & 11:05 a.m., noon, 2:15, 3:05, 3:50, 5:25, 6, 6:45, 7:40, 9:05, 9:45 & 10:20 p.m., Sat & Sun 1:30 p.m. In X-D at 12:50, 4:35 & 8:20 p.m. John Wick (R) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 p.m., Fri 12:35 p.m., Sun 5:35 p.m. National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun 11 a.m. Nightcrawler (R) Century 16: 11:05 a.m., 7:40 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:55 & 4:45 p.m. Century 20: Fri & Sun 7:50 & 10:40 p.m., Sat 10:50 p.m. Ouija (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri 3:10 p.m., Sat & Sun 8:15 p.m.

Rosewater (R) +++ Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 2:20, 4:45, 7:35 & 10:15 p.m., Fri & Sun 11:40 a.m., Sat 11:30 a.m. St. Vincent (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 & 10 p.m. The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++ Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m. UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt (Not Rated) Century 20: Sat 7 p.m.

Century 16: Sat 7 p.m.

Whiplash (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 9:05 a.m., 5:05, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sun 11:45 a.m. & 2:25 p.m.

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinĂŠArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies ON THE WEB: Up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com

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aware, the cosmologist continues to live and work (and cooperate with a movie about his life) today. A rail-thin Redmayne skillfully adopts a collection of tics (curled lip, toothy grin, klutzy limbs) and allows the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease to corrupt them (gaping rictus, twisted posture), but he achieves a yet more impressive alchemy by convincingly inhabiting Hawkingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous personality: one of genius, fertile wit and general indomitability. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to think Oscar, somewhat cynically, in this â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Left Footâ&#x20AC;?-esque territory. Certainly screenwriter Anthony McCarten does nothing to dissuade the impression that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paving a path to the Academy Awards with the formula of overcoming adversity in tony English settings. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Theory of Everythingâ&#x20AC;? relies on convention and mawkish melodrama, consistently keeping the deeper implications of Hawkingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and his research submerged at the level of never plumbed subtext. Hawkingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work proves recessive in the narrative, and even when his marriage to Jane hits rocky ground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; made bumpy by progressive illness and goodhearted but dangerously attractive caregivers (Charlie Cox, Maxine Peake) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the picture deals with the complications in the most rote ways possible. By way of distraction, director James Marsh (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shadow Dancer,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man on Wireâ&#x20AC;?) puts twinkly photography and over-insistent scoring above nourishing substance, which does neither Redmayne nor Jones any favors. Only Redmayneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance overcomes to elevate â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Theory of Everythingâ&#x20AC;? to something special: an actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showcase. But with characterizations that skew toward saintliness neutering what had to be a more complex and fascinating marital relationship, Marshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film settles for inoffensive feelgoodery, gives anything provocative a wide berth and arrives at merry cliche: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where there is life, there is hope.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice and all, and has the benefit of being true, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardly the theory of everything Hawking had in mind. Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and suggestive material. Two hours, 3 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese

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Clockwise, from left: Carol Malcolm knits a cotton dishcloth for The Garden Club of Palo Alto’s upcoming Holiday Marketplace; the environmentally friendly dishcloths can be washed and composted because they do not contain the harmful chemicals of sponges; Malcolm looks at the pattern of the dishcloths that she knitted during the workshop at Kim Chansler’s Los Altos home.

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hile Santa’s elves have been chipping away at their annual megaassignment, members of The Garden Club of Palo Alto have been knitting, baking, felting silk scarves and potting paper whites — all to prepare for the upcoming Holiday Marketplace. Throughout the year, garden club members have volunteered to create the products that will fill the Fellowship Hall and courtyard at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto on Dec. 6. One group, organized by Kim Chansler, invited more than 50 women to learn to knit so they could make more than 300 dishcloths from eco-friendly cotton yarn — a replacement for kitchen sponges. “These are better than sponges because they don’t harbor bacteria. They’re made of washable cotton, they’re biodegradable. And, you can put them in your compost pile when you’re done,” Chansler said. The group met in late October

to package the brightly colored dishcloths, in colors to match one’s kitchen or red and green for the holidays, as a set of three: perfect as a hostess gift or for oneself, she added. Back in November 2013, Chansler did a presentation to the club about the evils of triclosan, a chemical in most sponges that is both a pesticide and a killer of bacteria. The chemical will soon be banned, she said. “They don’t stink,” garden club member Sue Beebe of

Menlo Park said of the triclosan-treated sponges, “but the chemical is dispersed, and water treatment plants can’t get it out. It kills crustaceans, which the fish feed on.” Creating the eco-friendly alternative to sponges fits right in with The Garden Club of Palo Alto’s mission, which focuses on gardening, horticulture and conservation, Chansler said. “The club attracts people who

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Handmade gifts

What: Holiday Marketplace When: Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto Highlights: Wreaths, planted baskets, garden art, kissing balls, bird feeders, plus knitted dishcloths, homemade food items, gift bags and cards, and more Benefits: The Garden Club of Palo Alto Info: gardenclubofpaloalto.org or Susan Beebe at 650-2699011

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want to do the right thing, horticulturally,” Beebe added. Each dishcloth is a small work of art, with the beginning knitters sticking to a basic garter stitch, but perhaps with a contrasting stripe. The more advanced created diagonal patterns; others picked a different pattern of stitches for each dishcloth. Most made their contributions at home, but many met for a workshop three or four times for the camaraderie and “to share ideas,” Carol Malcolm, from Palo Alto, noted. And the dishcloths last a long time, Chansler said. She recommended rinsing them out and hanging on the faucet to dry overnight. Kathy Schubin of Menlo Park, suggested popping them into the microwave for a quicker dry. Reo Haynes of Palo Alto, who

described herself as more of a beginning knitter, was putting the finishing touches on a more advanced diagonal pattern. “It’s become quite addictive,” she said. Other products created by the garden club include bird cards/ Victoriana, food items (toffee, fudge, honey, caramels and biscotti), potted paper whites (Narcissus papyraceus), stockings/mini dogs,

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Holiday fairs abound Anyone seeking distinctive holiday gifts and decorations may find inspiration in the upcoming boutiques, art exhibits and sales. Whether it’s garden art, functional and decorative ceramics, painted Ukrainian eggs or felted silk scarves, much can be enjoyed in the looking and discovery. Upcoming boutiques and sales of handmade gifts include: What: 14th annual “Art in Clay” exhibit and sale When: Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Where: Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Highlights: More than 700 local ceramic artists will present handmade works, including Ikebana vessels, sculpture, masks, garden art and holiday-themed items. Admission: Free Benefits: Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild (OVCAG), a nonprofit with nearly 200 artists and supporters Info: OVCAG.org What: Champagne Reception/ Holiday show and sale When: Friday, Nov. 21, 6-8 p.m.; extended hours through Dec. 24 Where: Gallery House, 320 S. California Ave., Palo Alto Highlights: Paintings, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, fabric and photography, with a special handmade ornament section Admission: Free; 20 percent discount on art purchased during reception Benefits: 40 artists of Gallery House Info: galleryhouse2.com or 650326-1668 What: La saison d’élégance holiday shopping boutiques When: Daytime, Saturday, Nov. 29, through Saturday, Dec. 6, times vary. Evening, Wednesday, Dec. 3, or Thursday, Dec. 4,

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pine cone bird feeders, felted silk scarves, wreaths, gift bags with holiday scenes, kissing balls, mini cypress trees, birch candles, planted baskets, bell wreaths and garden art (stepping stones, wire pillows and decoupage framed art). A special section will be devoted to donated silver, crystal and porcelain. Proceeds from the Holiday Marketplace boutique go to fund garden-club projects, which include upgrading the native, droughtresistant plantings at First Presbyterian Church (where the club meets); proving plantings and irrigation near the play structure in front of the Children’s Health Council; planting heritage camellias at Gamble Garden; printing a self-guided bilingual interpretive tour app for Environmental Volunteers’ Eco Center; and printing pocket guides in English and Spanish on the care and pruning of trees for Canopy. Q Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@ paweekly.com.

Henriette Cons Ponte of Palo Alto will be participating in Art in Clay 2014. 5-8 p.m. Where: Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside Highlights: Filoli will be decorated for the holidays, with holiday music, shopping boutiques, buffet luncheons, evening bistros and children’s parties. Cost: Daytime boutiques: $30$35 for nonmembers, $25-$30 for members; evening boutiques: $30 for nonmembers, $25 for members Info: filoli.org or 650-364-8300 What: Foothill College Holiday Pottery Sale When: Tuesday through Thursday, Dec. 2-4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Foothill College, César Chávez Plaza, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills Highlights: Ceramic functional ware and sculptures, including bowls, vases, figures and more, all made in Foothill classes. Cash, checks and money orders accepted. Cost: Free; $3 parking Benefits: Foothill College’s ceramics department Info: 650-949-7584 or tinyurl. com/FoothillPottery What: Holiday Fair When: Friday-Sunday, Dec. 5-7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Where: Lou Henry Hoover House (aka Girl Scout House), 1120 Hopkins Ave., Palo Alto Highlights: Handmade hemp

soaps, ceramics, gourd art, handmade paper, weaving, handpainted silk and velvet jackets, calligraphy, handwoven rugs and pillows, jewelry, Ukrainian eggs, wearable art, glass, wooden boxes and more Benefits: The Artifactory Cooperative Info: TheArtifactory@aol.com or 650-625-1736 What: Holiday Marketplace When: Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto Highlights: Wreaths, planted baskets, garden art, kissing balls, bird feeders, plus knitted dishcloths, homemade food items, gift bags and cards, and more Benefits: The Garden Club of Palo Alto Info: gardenclubofpaloalto.org or Susan Beebe at 650-269-9011 What: Christmas Market When: Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park Highlights: Handmade crafts in the Sunset Room; carolers singing in the gardens; small gifts or treats for shoppers Admission: Free Benefits: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Info: alliedartsguild.org or 650-383-9002

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Pleasing stocking stuffers can be found for all

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More terrific sports gear can be found at Athleta. According to the sales associates, lycra running headbands, all $10 and SmartWool running socks are amongg the best-selling small items. Viss ibility strobe lights ib aare perfect for jogggers, bikers and walkers who venture w oout at night. Sur la Table is the go-to shop for anyone who loves to cook, bake, barbecue or entertain. Some of the more fun small merchandise includes a two in one sand timer, the buttercup butter maker and a variety of pizza cutters, all costing less than $15. Specialty holiday items include reindeerthemed rubber spatulas and a collection of $1 holiday cookie cutters. For any child on your list, visit Ambassadorr Toys for a vast range off gifts for kids of all ages. s. Sales associates point to the black-lit backroom m full of spaceship moddels, glow-in-the-dark k stars and neon yo-yos as some of the kids’ favorites. The store owner confirms that “Animal Toobs,” full of various animal figures, kiddie watches and Kid-O birdie whistles are a big hit with the little ones, too. Spot-it and Bamboozlers are bestselling games and fit neatly in stockings due to size and price.

section for children boasts TY plushies and colorful slippers called “Snoozies,” both for under $13. For animal lovers, store favorites include “Lil Clips” animal-shaped paper clips for $5 and delightful sunglass cases featuring cats and dogs. For just under $15 grab a bunny or owl-shaped computer-screen cleaner or a vibrant cell-phone seat for your techie friends. Darling kitchen accessories like San Franciscothemed muffin cups or cupcake cooking timers make great gifts for the bakers on your list. For more toy options, head to Cheeky Monkey where there is a gift for any kid on your list. According to the stock manager, Aaron’s Thinking Putty and Mindcraft m ini-figures are among best sellers and both cost less than $5. A multitude of card games and brain teasers range from around $5 to $10 and can cater to almost any age child. Light-up key chains, goofy ear buds and small model kits are always a big hit during the holidays as well. Buying for athletes isn’t always easy due to steep prices and size issues, but Fleet Feet Sports offers several useful items for the active recipients on your list. For less than $20, running gloves are a perfect stocking stuffer for those who like to workout outdoors in the cold winter months. “Sweaty bands,” also under $20, are cute and functional for long-haired athletes, and rock tape is a favorite among many customers. According to sales associates, wearable LED reflectors, which cost $10, are a big hit every year. Q Editorial Intern Jennah Feeley can be emailed at jfeeley@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park No matter the interests of the people t that made your gift list this year, Village Stationers (also on California Avenue, Palo Alto) has an array of fun little items to fill everyone’s stocking. Charming trinkets, soaps and paper goods are suitable for all sorts of personalities. A

Paper Source has an assortment of appealing items for teens, students and adventurers. Techies and teens alike will be excited to find ban-do ear buddies, sparkling phone decals and ornate iPhone cases in their stockings this year. Students could benefit from fashionable planners ranging from $13 to $20, or a tin Kate Spade pencil set, also under $20. Pick up a digital travel scale or a portable power strip for the travelers on your list, and adorable cat and dog calendars for the pet lovers. Athletes and Cardinal fans alike will adore anything you find at U-Threads Stanford apparel store. Fill a fan’s stocking with a Stanford scarf for the winter season, or throw in a couple of reusable beverage glasses, which cost under $5 and are advertised as “great for tailgating.” Reusable water bottles starting at $13 are great for fans and athletes.

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Home&Real Estate Home Front BACON - A LOVE STORY ... Charcutier Chef Quentin Levy will pair bacon in many forms with wines, demonstrate how to make bacon using organic and locally sourced meats, and teach the difference between massproduced and artisan bacon from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Cost is $65; attendees must be 21 or over. Info: 650-949-8650 or hiddenvilla.org

HOW SWEET IT IS ... Yannette Fichou-Edwards will teach a one-night class on creating “Candy Confections Extraordinaire!” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Palo Alto High School, Room 103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. On the menu is White Chocolate Peppermint Bark with drizzled chocolate, Homemade Best Ever English Toffee, Candied Walnuts and Ginger Chew Cookies. Bring containers for leftovers. Cost is $50. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org HOME SALES HOT ... In September, Palo Alto topped the luxury home sale list (sold for more than $1.5 million) with 27, according to the Silicon Valley Luxury Housing Market Report, compiled by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. Los Altos

(continued on page 42) Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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FLORAL WREATHS ... Lanette Anderson, horticulturist and flower grower, will offer a class in the Home Farm Series, “Holiday Floral Wreath Making,” from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16, at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. The $45 class fee comes with materials — including dried flowers and vines from the Hidden Villa organic farm, enough to make a large wreath. More wreaths will be available to purchase. Info: 650-949-8650 or hiddenvilla.org MEET THE EXPERT ... Tom Nuccio, of Nuccio’s Nurseries in Altadena, California, will share his expertise on camellias and azaleas at the next meeting of the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society and the San Francisco Peninsula Camellia Society at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 17. The group meets at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave., Redwood City. Info: deanza-ars.com, sazanka.org/breeders/nuccio/ or nucciosnurseries.com

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Clockwise, from upper left: Daisy, Sue Purdy Pelosi’s terrier mix, sits in her doggy bed beside the pet door that has been installed in the home’s master bathroom; Chester, Pelosi’s cat, glances out the pet door from inside the master bathroom; Daisy demonstrates how to use the pet door.

Who benefits most: cats, dogs or raccoons? by Jennah Feeley photos by Veronica Weber

t her owner’s request for a demonstration, the energetic pup bounded through the little built-in rectangle escape. She circled the backyard and reappeared at the side door where she barked to get back inside. The pet door works both ways, but Daisy could see people on the couch through the glass door and wanted to join the party. Despite Daisy’s occasional confusion, Sue Purdy Pelosi appreciates the freedom the miniature door allows her pets, who can come and go as they please without needing to ask her for passage outside. Renée Lamborn, a Crescent Park resident, sought the same benefits when installing a pet door for her cats. Both

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and outs residents have few complaints aside from the sporadic visits from other animals. The pint-sized door of Pelosi’s Palo Alto home has served her pets well for more than a decade. The door was originally built into a wall of the master bathroom for the family’s cats: Moses, Chester and Pearl. Moses is 12 years old, and siblings Chester and Pearl are two years his junior. Daisy, the “random American terrier,” joined the brood two years ago and is small enough to make use of the door as well. Home security, weatherproofing and unwanted critters were the main concerns Pelosi contemplated while planning for the custom pet door. A pair of acrylic flaps coupled with a hard plastic partition keeps the cold — and unwanted guests — out of the house. With few down sides, the pet door has proven a step up from the chain-locked back door of her previous home. The pets frequent the portal to the outside

during the day, and the family locks it up at night. Perhaps the only negative is the occasional raccoon visit, which Pelosi describes as more comical than anything else. She said she can always tell if raccoons have stopped by because they wash their claws in the water dish, leaving traces of mud and dirt. “Raccoons came in and stole the food bucket and the bowl, taking it out into the yard,” Pelosi said. “I mean I really think they were serving each other — like pouring cereal. It was really funny.” The size and design of the door guarantees that raccoons are the only bandits that can squeeze into the house. A grown person would have a hard enough time getting his or her head through, let alone anything past the shoulders. Pelosi made sure no door or window handles were close enough to reach (continued on page 42)

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Home & Real Estate For Pelosi and Lamborn both, the pet doors grant their animals free agency to come and go as they please with few drawbacks — so long as they remember to lock it up at night. “It’s really nice that the cats can go in and out without constantly asking to go in and out. The dog uses it, too,” Pelosi said. “That’s probably the easiest thing if I’m not home for awhile.” Q Small pet doors can be ordered online and range from about $25 for a PetSmart locking cat flap with liner to Home Depot’s electronic fully automatic dog and cat door for about $300. One can also buy a pre-fitted door. Editorial Intern Jennah Feeley can be emailed at jfeeley@paweekly.com.

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through when the door was installed. The nocturnal critters are only interested in snagging kitty chow and have never hurt the pets or the family. No other wildlife has gained entrance through the door, and keeping it locked deters raccoons at night. “My husband has had to chase them out, throwing flip flops and stuff,” Pelosi said. “I guess if we had gotten the really small cat-sized one we probably wouldn’t have had the occasional raccoon problems.” Lamborn has experienced her fair share of nighttime raccoon callers via her pet door as well. As a special education advocate, she is in and out of the house throughout the day. Her cats, Casanova and Zorro, are trained to return home each evening by 6 p.m. so she can slide the door closed until morning. Prior to the established system, Lamborn left the door open at night and, much like Pelosi, the house was visited by raccoons on several occasions. A family of the critters live in the gutter at the corner down the street from her home, and they roam the neighborhood on the lookout for food to steal. “I would keep it open all the time and had multiple instances of the raccoons coming into the house looking for cat food, or anything on the counter,” Lamborn said. “They are completely, 100 percent not afraid of me at all. They’ll just look up at me like, ‘What?’” One night Lamborn arrived home to find a raccoon desperately trying to pull a 20-pound bag of cat food outside — to no

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Sue Purdy Pelosi pets her cat Chester after Chester stepped outside via the new pet door added to the master bathroom. avail. The bag remained lodged in the miniscule door as the raccoon tugged away. Keeping the entry closed at night keeps the racoons at bay, and multiple locks on the back door does the same for break-ins. The only other visitor is a neighbor’s cat who regularly stops by to snack on Casanova and Zorro’s food. Thankfully the animals that invite themselves into the house are relatively harmless.

Lamborn has mulled over the idea of a collar-activated door for her house but fears the training it would require of her cats. With these special collars on, pets have to be within a certain vicinity of the door in order for it to open. When she moved in five years ago she opted for a lockable sliding unit built right into the bottom section of her glass panel back door, which works well for her pets and for her schedule.

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followed with 26, and Mountain View with 16. Homes sold slightly faster than a year ago and for slightly more than asking price, the report noted. The most expensive home sold in September was a 2,700-square-foot home in Los Altos that went for more than $8.6 million. AND SO’S THE RENT ... Average asking rent for a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment in Palo Alto rose 5 percent to $2,782 during third quarter 2014, according to RealFacts, a Novato-basesd company that tracks rent trends. During the same period, the average rent for similar units in Menlo Park went for $2,481 (down 13 percent), in Mountain View for $2,399 (up nearly 13 percent) and in East Palo Alto for $1,630 (up 1 percent). Q

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Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

Atherton

East Palo Alto

Menlo Park

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,420,000 Highest sales price: $2,695,000

Total sales reported: 14 Lowest sales price: $980,000 Highest sales price: $4,200,000

Los Altos Hills

Los Altos

3311 Alameda de las Pulgas P. Finn to Galhotra Trust for $2,260,000 on 10/1/14 123 East Creek Drive P. Giurlani to J. & L. Rubin for $1,785,000 on 10/1/14; previous sale 9/06, $1,100,000 1219 Hollyburne Ave. Espinosa Trust to A. Torres for $455,000 on 10/6/14; previous sale 12/12, $460,000

Mountain View Total sales reported: 21 Lowest sales price: $535,000 Highest sales price: $2,900,000

Los Altos

East Palo Alto

1115 Bay Road A. Villatoro to A. Alvarado for $400,000 on 10/2/14; previous sale 5/91, $145,000

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $455,000 Highest sales price: $2,260,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $400,000 Highest sales price: $400,000

142 Britton Ave. J. Todd to Britton Limited for $8,250,000 on 10/1/14

26431 Elena Road R. Hsieh to Yeh Trust for $2,535,000 on 10/16/14; previous sale 9/11, $1,925,000 24065 Ravensbury Ave. Merchant Trust to J. Schwartz for $2,650,000 on 10/23/14

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $8,250,000 Highest sales price: $8,250,000

Atherton

385 Anita Ave. V. & C. Sarkissian to Peruri Trust for $1,950,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 3/97, $470,000 594 Avon Way Nash Trust to Zhu & Xia Trust for $2,602,000 on 10/24/14 242 N. Clark Ave. White Trust to Mcdowell Trust for $2,510,500 on 10/17/14 2085 Crist Drive Loretz Construction to Vu Trust for $2,695,000 on 10/16/14 162 Del Monte Ave. A. Kushnir to G. Davis for $1,965,000 on 10/24/14; previous sale 5/95, $382,000 4388 El Camino Real #89 P. & J. Denkabe to L. Sheflin for $1,420,000 on 10/24/14 924 Odell Way Barber Trust to Y. Roh for $2,212,000 on 10/22/14

3561 Park Blvd. Knox Trust to J. Mahal for $980,000 on 10/21/14 3010 South Court Neverve Trust to X. Li for $2,362,000 on 10/22/14 131 Washington Ave. Green Brick Enterprises to S. Hortikar for $2,850,000 on 10/21/14; previous sale 3/13, $1,470,000 669 Waverley St. Sego & Zhuo Trust to I. Mufti for $1,650,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 4/97, $415,000 2518 Webster St. Robell Trust to Sullivan Trust for $2,972,500 on 10/24/14

SALES AT A GLANCE

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Redwood City

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,535,000 Highest sales price: $2,650,000

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $952,000 Highest sales price: $2,310,000 Source: California REsource

635 Ehrhorn Ave. Furusho Trust to L. Landry for $1,300,000 on 10/22/14 254 Franklin St. Nickerson Trust to Anderson Trust for $1,200,000 on 10/21/14 828 Harpster Drive Pinto Trust to P. & K. Noryko for $1,332,000 on 10/16/14 622 Midrock Cors Turski Trust to W. McCloskey for $801,000 on 10/27/14; previous sale 4/10, $485,000 136 Minaret Ave. Tri Pointe Homes to J. Scher for $1,237,000 on 10/17/14 2047 Montecito Ave. #2 J. Weltz to S. Hwang for $635,000 on 10/21/14; previous sale 6/10, $340,000 2047 Montecito Ave. #26 S. & K. Lee to E. Martirosyan for $602,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 2/10, $295,000 702 Palo Alto Ave. Calhoun Trust to J. Lewis for $1,560,000 on 10/23/14; previous sale 6/91, $395,000 142 Paseo Court G. & S. Hecht to N. Fraser for $1,042,000 on 10/24/14; previous sale 1/03, $529,000

221 Pine Way C. Puttagunta to P. Cheung for $1,553,000 on 10/24/14 255 S. Rengstorff Ave. #23 G. Campos to J. Liu for $535,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 3/11, $366,500 155 Santa Clara Ave. Mena Trust to R. Starling for $1,100,000 on 10/16/14 810 Sevely Drive R. & S. Kamenski to Sunny Lanz Limited for $1,470,000 on 10/27/14; previous sale 4/12, $940,000 436 Sierra Vista Ave. #6 R. Rubin to T. & M. Wu for $831,000 on 10/16/14 793 View St. Shire Green Exchange to View Limited for $2,900,000 on 10/22/14; previous sale 7/13, $1,930,000 1663 Yale Drive Gagliardi Trust to C. Hoover for $1,871,000 on 10/16/14

Palo Alto

869 Altaire Walk Y. Bian to X. Fan for $1,500,000 on 10/22/14; previous sale 2/10, $855,000 3286 Berryessa St. D. & M. Finger to G. Nam for $1,350,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 11/09, $808,000

Mountain View

701 Astor Court Saenz & Huang Trust to J. Zhou for $812,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 12/03, $398,500 1106 Boranda Ave. Olston & Wang Trust to C. Chang for $1,731,000 on 10/23/14; previous sale 9/06, $1,060,000 172 Campbell Drive Torrano Trust to J. Nie for $965,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 4/06, $680,000 522 Chesley Court G. & O. Yefet to Livi Trust for $2,225,000 on 10/17/14; previous sale 4/05, $1,505,000 3436 Churin Drive Rank Trust to S. Benson for $2,400,000 on 10/22/14; previous sale 12/95, $517,000

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1945 Byron St. Liu Trust to Harkecho Limited for $3,250,000 on 10/22/14; previous sale 6/06, $1,620,000 1446 Emerson St. W & J G Trust to Emerson Real for $4,200,000 on 10/22/14 778 Florales Drive Stabilus Investment to Olavson Trust for $2,525,000 on 10/23/14; previous sale 7/93, $300,000 812 Los Robles Ave. M. & M. Robinton to D. & M. Finger for $2,550,000 on 10/22/14 3878 Magnolia Drive Johananber Trust to B. Dai for $3,450,000 on 10/17/14 3886 Magnolia Drive Oeschger Trust to Petersen Trust for $1,900,000 on 10/21/14; previous sale 6/77, $130,000 400 Miramonte Ave. Klinestiver Trust to Gurle Trust for $3,800,000 on 10/21/14; previous sale 2/94, $689,000

7 Bradley Court J. Hoskins to E. Brown for $1,027,000 on 10/1/14; previous sale 5/93, $280,000 937 Castle Hill Road Koon Trust to K. & A. Schrier for $1,270,000 on 10/2/14 1127 Ebener St. E. & O. Proctor to J. Knestrick for $1,100,000 on 10/1/14 1860 Harding Ave. Helvetica Trust to S. Park for $952,000 on 10/2/14; previous sale 9/00, $600,000 1039 Silver Hill Road Houweling Trust to G. & C. Hoff for $2,310,000 on 10/3/14; previous sale 5/75, $99,500

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

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650-245-2448 CalBRE# 00862018

For showings please contact Denis Morrissey By Appointment Only www.PaloAltoOnline.com â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ November 14, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Page 49

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

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1,618+/-sf

$1,798,000

Palo Alto Schools With Gunn High & 8,050+/-sf Lot!

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6 6 3 T O Y O N P L A C E , P A L O A LT O Stunning Atrium Eichler

Classic Eichler Design and Spirit, Magnificently Restored and Upgraded Throughout • Spacious Chef’s kitchen

• Four bedrooms

– large island with gas cook top and breakfast bar – walk-in pantry – top of the line appliances: Gaggenau, Sub Zero, & Miele

– serene master suite with with large walk-in closet • Two bathrooms – completely renovated with top-of-the-line

– open and inviting layout incorporating family room – energy efficient LED lighting

cabinetry, fixtures, and flooring • Outstanding and highly desirable floor plan: – spacious light-filled atrium

• Quality finishes throughout, including… – dual pane windows – radiant heat with copper pipes

– inviting “Family Kitchen” – cathedral ceilings with beautiful redwood

– white oak hardwood floors • Attached two car garage

– “walls of windows” embracing indoor/outdoor integration and yielding abundant natural light • Large, private back and side yards with mature

• Excellent Palo Alto Schools including Gunn High School • 1,978 sq. feet living space approx. • 8,343 sq. foot lot approx.

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LISTED BY Timothy Foy DRE# 00849721

Cell: 650.387.5078

O F F E R E D AT $2,699,000

Tim@midtownpaloalto.com

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

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JUST COMPLETED

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OPEN SUNDAY 51 ADAM WAY ATHERTON JUST COMPLETED BY TAPIA CONSTRUCTION & RESTORATION ~1.04 ACRES | 3 LEVELS 5 EN-SUITE BEDROOMS | 2 HALF BATHS EN-SUITE BATHS HAVE HEATED FLOORS 1 BD, 1 BA GUESTHOUSE WITH KITCHEN BEAUTIFULLY DETAILED CEILINGS OAK FLOORS | CRISP WHITE MILLWORK HONED CALACATTA ORO MARBLE THEATRE | WINE CELLAR FITNESS CENTER | POOL | FIRE PIT BLUESTONE TERRACE ATTACHED 3-CAR GARAGE OFFERED AT $12,500,000

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MARY: BRE 00373961 | BRENT: BRE 01329216 | LANCE: BRE 01046732 Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. However, neither seller nor listing agent has veriﬁed this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or to purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation. Photography by Bernard André

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DESIGNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DREAM

Presenting: 848 Nash Road, Los Altos

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This masterfully-designed contemporary home by Brocchini Architects blends comfort, elegance, and exquisite architecture in captivating ways. Details both large and small add up to a space exceptional in how it joins art, movement, and a sense of resort-like peace. Built for ease in both everyday living and entertaining, the home offers an open floor plan, two master suites, a custom gym & an office (could be used as bedrooms), a state of the art chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, a lush yard with a covered heated terrace and outdoor kitchen, and a detached four-car garage (could fit 6 cars with lift). Completing the appeal of this fun and unique home is its close proximity to all downtown Los Altos has to offer. Living space: 2,845 sq.ft. Garage: 1,018 sq.ft. Lot size: 19,166 sq.ft. Top-rated Los Altos Schools. $SSRLQWPHQW 2QO\ This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not veriďŹ ed this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school availability.

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150 Volunteers

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155 Pets

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230 Freebies

425 Health Services

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240 Furnishings/ Household items Screen Door - $60 Twin Bed Furniture

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330 Child Care Offered

201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts

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135 Group Activities Infidelity Support

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403 Acupuncture

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215 Collectibles & Antiques

415 Classes

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

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995 Fictitious Name Statement BRITE ENERGY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597327 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Brite Energy, located at 6691 Owens Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588, Alameda County. The principal place of business is in

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Alameda County and a current fictitious business name statement is on file at the County clerk-recorder’s office of said County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): BRITE ENERGY SOLAR, INC. 1035 N. 3rd St., Ste. 101 Lawrence, KS 66044 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 10, 2014. (PAW October 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 2014) JJ CPA ACADEMY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597252 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: JJ CPA Academy, located at 535 Arastradero Rd. #201, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): IL YONG AHN 535 Arastradero Rd. 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/04/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 8, 2014. (PAW Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 2014) EVERGREEN PARK RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597273 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Evergreen Park Restaurant, 451 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): EVERGREEN PARK HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC 451 California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 9, 2014. (PAW Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2014) CALIFORNIA SAFARI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597785 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: California Safari, located at 1010 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Joint Venture. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MLF ASSOCIATES INC. 1010 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 DOME CONSULTING LLC P.O. Box 45392 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/23/14. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 24, 2014. (PAW Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2014) QUANTUM AGE WATER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597635 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Quantum Age Water, located at 1239 Cedar Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): DAVID SCHNEIDER 1239 Cedar Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/21/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 21, 2014. (PAW Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2014) MIGHTY STUDIOS MIGHTY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597866 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Mighty Studios, 2.) Mighty Product Development, located at 2509 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TARK ABED 2509 Emerson Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 28, 2014. (PAW Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014) LOS GATOS PICTURE FRAMING CO. DECORATIVE MIRRORS OF LOS GATOS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597855 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Los Gatos Picture Framing Co., 2.) Decorative Mirrors of Los Gatos, located at 15732 Los Gatos Blvd. #418, Los Gatos, CA 95032, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MODA POLICE, LLC 15732 Los Gatos Blvd. #418 Los Gatos, CA 95032 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 27, 2014. (PAW Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2014) PALO ALTO PICTURE FRAMING CO. BAY AREA MOBILE FRAMING PALO ALTO FRAMING CO. DECORATIVE MIRRORS OF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 597856 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Palo Alto Picture Framing Co., 2.) Bay Area Mobile Framing, 3.) Palo Alto Framing Co., 4.) Decorative Mirrors of Palo Alto, located at 1150 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): RBZ GALLERIES, LLC 15732 Los Gatos Blvd. #418 Los Gatos, CA 95032 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 27, 2014. (PAW Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2014) WHITE PEACH STUDIO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598202 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: White Peach Studio, located at 1374 Deroche Court, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): LUNANI YEN 1374 Deroche Ct. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 7, 2014. (PAW Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2014) URBAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH PROJECT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 598230 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Urban Wildlife Research Project, located at 530 Kendall Ave. #1, Palo Alto, California, 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): WILLIAM C. LEIKAM 530 Kendall Ave. #1 Palo Alto, California 94306 GREG KEREKEZ 18400 Montevina Road Los Gatos, CA 95033 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 10, 2014. (PAW Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2014)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 114CV272052 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ALEISTER CAMERON KLINE filed a petition with this court for a

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decree changing names as follows: ALEISTER CAMERON KLINE to ALEISTER CAMERON PAIGE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: March 3, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: October 17, 2014 /s/ Aaron Persky JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 2014) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KATHLEEN M. O’FARRELL Case No.: 1-14-PR 175320 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of KATHLEEN M. O’FARRELL. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BRENDA MARIE STELLE in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA

CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: BRENDA MARIE STELLE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on December 11, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: 12, of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal

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authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: /s/ Tamami K. Hansen Silicon Valley Elder Law, PC 1960 The Alameda, Suite 175 San Jose, CA 95126 (408)248-7878 (PAW Nov. 7, 14, 21, 2014)

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OF LOCAL NOTE , , , Junior defender Mark Raftrey from Palo Alto High returned from missing the 2013 season with an illness to help the Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer team reach the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time since 1980 with a 1-0 win over Redlands in the SCIAC Postseason Tournament finals on Saturday. His work on the defensive back four helped Pomona-Pitzer hold Redlands to just one shot on goal in 90 minutes in the championship game. Pomona-Pitzer opens up the NCAA Tournament with a road game at UT Dallas on Saturday . . . Claremont-MuddScripps (24-6) earned an at-large bid this week to the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Tournament. The Athenas’ roster includes Palo Alto High grad Megan Coleman, MenloAtherton grad Regina Mullen and Menlo School grad Sarah Bruml. In other volleyball news, former Paly teammates Becca Raffel (Middlebury College), Caroline Martin (Connecticut College) and Maddie Kuppe (Tufts College) joined MenloAtherton graduate Katelyn Doherty (Bowdoin College) on the 2014 AllNESCAC team this week. Doherty was the Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Raffel was the Co-Rookie of the Year with Martin and Kuppe earning second-team honors.

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aura Liedle watched the Stanford women’s soccer team win the national title in 2011. She was on the field the following fall when the Cardinal reached the College Cup Final Four. Liedle hopes a return trip is in store for the third-ranked Cardinal (17-1-2), which hosts Cal State Fullerton (10-7-4) in a first-round match of the NCAA tournament on Friday at 7 p.m. Stanford qualified for its 17th consecutive postseason, though the Cardinal has reached the Final Four six times in its history, including five of the past six years. Liedle was a freshman at Torrey Pines High in San Diego, the alma mater of Olympic gold medalist and former Stanford All-American Rachel Buehler, when the Cardinal began its run of five consecutive Final Four trips in 2008. “I knew I wanted to go to a school in a top conference that had a chance to win and go far,” Liedle said. “Ultimately it’s about how you play. Every season is different, though every year our mindset going into the tournament is to win it.” Liedle, who has played in the United States national team program since 2008, enjoyed a spectacular freshman season with the then-reigning national champions and was named a freshman All-American. (continued on page 66)

Stanford’s seniors hope to be celebrating the rest of the season while taking aim at reaching the national championship match again.

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Stanford will face Cal for Pac-12 title

Paly’s Matison: wheelchair to contender

By Rick Eymer

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t has been a while since the Stanford men’s soccer team has been in this situation, 13 years in fact. The third-ranked Cardinal enters its final match, against host California at 1 p.m. Sunday, as the Pac-12 Conference leader. Stanford (5-1-3 Pac-12, 12-2-3 overall), UCLA (5-2-2, 10-4-4) and Washington (5-3-1, 12-4-1) each have a chance to win the title, but only the Cardinal controls its own destiny. A Stanford win delivers the conference crown to the program for the first time since 2001. UCLA, which plays San Diego State, needs a win and for Stanford to either tie or lose. The Huskies, who play Oregon State, needs a win and a Cardinal loss. “It all comes back to execution on the field,” Stanford coach Jeremy Gunn said. “All the games are so tight and the standards so high. This is a good breeding (continued on page 66)

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