Palo Alto Weekly January 23, 2015

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVI, Number 16

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POLICE CHIEF new attitude Veteran SF cop Albert Pardini aims to build trust in East Palo Alto PAGE 20

Pulse 16

Transitions 17

Spectrum 18

Eating Out 28

Movies 30

Puzzles 47

Q Arts Embracing a little chaos in ‘Story/Time’

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Q Home Rainwater catchment: an easy way to conserve

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Q Sports Paly soccer teams end futility streaks

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

$8 million rescue for Buena Vista residents?

Proposal from Supervisors Joe Simitian, Dave Cortese aims to keep affordable housing at El Camino site

by Gennady Sheyner and My Nguyen ew hope emerged this week for residents of Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, who since 2012 have been fighting their landlord’s attempt to sell the El Camino Real property and close their community. On Tuesday, Santa Clara County Supervisor and former

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Palo Alto Mayor Joe Simitian proposed to the Board of Supervisors that the county use $8 million from an affordable-housing fund to help prevent the mobilehome residents from being forced out of the city.

Supervisor Dave Cortese, president of the Board of Supervisors

and chair of the board’s Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation Committee, joined Simitian in making the referral to the board, which will hear the proposal on Tuesday, Jan. 27.

“If the park closes, that’s 400 low-income folks who are out on the street,” Simitian said in a press release. “And God only knows if and when, and at what cost, we’ll ever be able to replace that supply of affordable housing.”

If the board approves Simitian’s

proposal, it would direct county staff to enter into talks with the City of Palo Alto, local housing organizations, the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents Association and other interested parties, for the purpose of securing the long-term viability of the mobile-home park as deed-restricted, affordable housing.

Up to $8 million would come from a housing fund tied to Stanford’s general-use permit, established to create and preserve af-

fordable housing within six miles of the university.

Winter Dellenbach, founder of the group Friends of Buena Vista, said Simitian’s proposal is “logical, and (it’s) frankly rather touching that he is making this effort.”

“We’ve been at this for two and a half years, working on this issue. This is the first concrete action that’s been taken,” said Dellenbach, who lives in Barron Park, (continued on page 10)

CITY HALL

New rule calls for open votes before closed sessions Palo Alto City Council agrees to hold a public vote before every closed-door meeting

by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto City Council the topic. members will have to take Council members also found a public vote before every themselves on the defensive after closed-door meeting under a new residents learned that the council policy that the council adopted on had met behind closed doors in Tuesday night.

2012 to discuss a proposal from The policy, which the council billionaire developer John Arriladopted unanimously, requires laga to buy a 7.7-acre parcel of members to vote immediately land near Foothills Park. Though before convening behind closed the sale did not go through (the doors to talk about things like land was ultimately dedicated as labor negotiations, litigation, real parkland), residents and the Santa estate negotiations and personnel Clara County Grand Jury pointed matters. It came at the urging of to the closed-session discussion as Councilman Greg Scharff and an example of the council acting Vice Mayor Greg Schmid, both in a less-than-transparent manner. of whom also lobbied for the polSchmid said that of the dozens icy last October in the council’s of closed sessions that the council Policy and Services Committee. has held since he was elected in Last year, the proposal faltered 2007, only four were controversial in the committee by a 2-2 vote, (Cubberley, the Foothills parcel, with Larry Klein and Gail Price interviews for a new city manager voting against it. With Klein and and labor negotiations involving Price no longer on the council, the non-unionized group of manthe change advanced with little agers and professionals). debate and no dissent.

“Ninety-eight percent of the “I think this is an easy change,” closed sessions we go into would Scharff said. “What this simply be pro forma,” Schmid said. “It’s does is allow us to have this con- clear to me and clear to the pubtemplative moment where we all lic.” sit together and decide, ‘Do we But if there is a question about really want to go into a closed whether a closed session is necessession?’” sary, council members will now The decision to change the have a chance to vote on it. policy was prompted by several Councilman Pat Burt agreed instances over the last two years that the change is worthwhile. in which the council faced heavy “I think it’s a good proposal,” community criticism for opting Burt said. “It’s going to cause us to go behind closed doors to dis- to be thoughtful and affirmative cuss subjects that many felt should every time we go into a closed have been publicly vetted first. In session. I expect it will mean fewApril, residents protested the de- er closed sessions. I expect it will cision by the council to schedule have an impact, not a radical one, a closed session to discuss the (but) one that will be helpful and future of Cubberley Community constructive.”

Center, prompting the council to With the change, Palo Alto reschedule the closed session until after the May public hearing on (continued on page 15)

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Imelda Paulo, center, leads her Costaño School classmates, from left, Deshaun Jordan, Maya Jones and Angie Alvarado, and Oakland Raiders defensive back Justin Tuck with his son Jayce Tuck in a yoga demonstration in the school’s gym in January.

EDUCATION

Ravenswood students to get mindfulness, yoga classes Stanford University to study benefits of new health and wellness program

by Elena Kadvany ll 3,400 students in the Ravenswood City School District will soon have yoga and mindfulness as a regular part of their curriculum as the result of a new partnership between the district and the Sonima Foundation, a southern California-based nonprofit that brings health and wellness education to K-12 schools throughout the country.

A subset of these 3,400 East Palo Alto and Menlo Park students, about 700 third- and fifthgraders, will also participate in a four-year Stanford University

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study that will investigate the impact of the Sonima Foundation’s curriculum on stress, coping skills, physical health and social-emotional development.

The school district and foundation officially launched their partnership Wednesday afternoon at Costaño Elementary School in East Palo Alto with a group of students — and Oakland Raiders defensive end Justin Tuck, who serves on the Sonima Foundation board — leading each other through a series of yoga poses in front of a crowd that included Ravenswood Superintendent Gloria

Hernandez-Goff, Sonima Executive Director Eugene Ruffin and California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

“As an educator, I see firsthand the impact that health and wellness have on our students’ ability to learn and thrive,” Gina Sudaria, principal of Costaño and the 49ers Academy, told the crowd gathered in Costaño’s gym. “Whether you are a student who exceeds performance standards, a student with severe disabilities, a student coping with (continued on page 13)

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Upfront NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Historic Resources Board [HRB] HRB Retreat will be held at 8:30 A.M., Wednesday, February 4, 2015, in the Community Room, Civic Center – 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto California. Filed documents may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144 or Diana.Tamale@ CityofPaloAlto.org. No planning entitlement projects are scheduled to be reviewed.

The items for discussion include (1) Establishment of )` SH^Z :\IJVTTP[[LLZ .\PKLSPULZ MVY :[HŃœ Approval of Applications (not requiring Board review), (4) Design Guidelines, (5) Inventory Update, (6) Historic Categories and (7) City Informational Tools.

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The City of Palo Alto Human Relations Commission (HRC) will hold a Public Hearing on February 12, 2015 to review the proposed CDBG funding allocations recommended by the Selection Committee. The HRC will make recommendations to the City of Palo Alto Finance Committee. The Public Hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, in the Community Room, 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California.

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Affordable housing is like a spotted owl. —Winter Dellenbach, founder of Friends of Buena Vista, on why it is important to save the mobile-home park. See story on page 5.

Around Town

FORGET BOULDER ... Palo Alto may have 99 problems (too much traffic and frozen yogurt, not enough parking and dog-exercise areas, etc.), but low self-esteem isn’t one of them. At this week’s discussion of the city’s new bike projects, the city’s civic hubris was on full display when Councilman Cory Wolbach observed that Boulder, Colorado, is a bit ahead of Palo Alto when it comes to commuters who rely on bikes (11.1 percent versus 8.4 percent) and asked what Boulder is doing to encourage biking that we aren’t.

Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez responded by posing his own question: “Who cares what Boulder is doing? What matters is what is right for Palo Alto, and that is the perspective that we try to take. We don’t want to be Boulder. Boulder wants to be Palo Alto.� Wolbach, the council’s chief proponent of civility, told Rodriguez that he does, in fact, care what Boulder is doing, particularly if its efforts can help Palo Alto. “We don’t need to be like we know everything in Palo Alto,� Wolbach said. “If something works great in Amsterdam or Boulder, let’s at least discuss if anything can be translatable to Palo Alto.�

A+, PALO ALTO ... The Palo Alto Unified School District has been ranked the third-best public K-12 district in California — and 33rd in the nation —

by Niche, a school-rankings website that incorporates student and parent opinions (solicited through surveys) along with data.

(Niche was founded in 2002

by Carnegie Mellon University students and was originally called CollegeProwler.com.) Niche not only ranks but also “grades� schools in various categories (Palo Alto Unified’s grades are in parentheses): academics (A+), administration and policies (B), health and safety (A-), student culture and diversity (A-), teachers (A+), resources and facilities (B), extracurriculars (B), sports and fitness (B) and food (B+).

Palo Alto Unified was topped by San Marino and Palos Verdes Peninsula school districts in Southern California and followed closely by Los Gatos-Saratoga at No. 4. Palo Alto Unified’s profile on Niche also includes about 300 frank reviews, mostly from students and recent alumni, on the graded categories. There is also a wealth of data ranging from average SAT score (2060)

to student demographics and average expenses per student ($16,009). Castilleja School topped Niche’s 2015 best private schools list, laying claim to the No. 5 spot in the nation and No. 2 in the state.

SIDEWALK SAFETY ...

Responding to complaints about the sharpness of the polished glass used in California Avenue’s new sidewalks, Palo Alto officials have directed the contractor behind the $7 million streetscape project, Redgwick Construction, to remove and re-embed the glass in some areas. The shards in question are part of “glass aggregate,� a glittering surface made of glass and concrete. In recent weeks, resident Ronna Devincenzi notified the council several times about shards that were coming loose, creating a hazard for people wearing sandals or walking barefoot through the eclectic business district. In a recent email, she wrote about a glass shard that “became airborne� and “landed about one foot from where my shoe made contact with it.� She also wrote that some shards catch onto people’s shoes and “get further tracked into stores and perhaps homes too, scratching hardwood floors� and possibly picked up in pets’ paws, wheelchairs and baby strollers. “The time to address these sidewalks is now, with the contractors still there,� Devincenzi wrote to the council. City officials said that the tumbled and polished glass used on California Avenue is designed specifically for sidewalks. When installed properly, it has no sharp edges or fragmentation, the city’s Tuesday update on California Avenue’s construction explains. Yet in reviewing the new sidewalks, officials said that they found areas where the glass was not embedded correctly. “We are still in the process of quantifying this amount and will report out with a replacement/repair plan once we have discussed this with the contractor,� the city’s update states. In addition to wider sidewalks, the dramatic renovation of California Avenue includes two new plazas, a reduction of traffic lanes from four to two, a new fountain near the Caltrain station, new bike and pedestrian amenities, and street furniture. The renovation project is set to conclude this spring. Q

Upfront TRANSPORTATION

Churchill Avenue Project Area

Council OKs new bike routes on Churchill and Maybell Sharrows, speed tables and more planned for pathways to schools

Stanford University

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The Maybell project expands the existing bike route beyond Maybell to Georgia Avenue and Donald Drive to the west and El Camino Way to the east. The project includes extension of an existing bike lane on Maybell, addition of “sharrows” (a stenciled image of a bike and a few arrows, meant to encourage motorists to share the road with bicyclists), and installation of three new speed tables.

One of the major goals of the project is to make the bicycle commute safer for students at Terman Middle and Gunn High schools.

Later improvements proposed for this corridor include raised intersections on Maybell and improved crosswalk markings near the Bol Park path and at the intersections of Donald with Maybell and Georgia avenues.

Also as part of the plan, daytime parking is to be restricted on the north side of Maybell and across from Juana Briones Park, between Amaranta Avenue and Juana Briones Elementary School.

On the south side of the street, along Juana Briones Park, parking spaces would be formally marked.

Proposed intersection improvements

Palo Alto High School Proposed pathway extension

Proposed bike-ramp connection

Churchill Ave Southgate neighborhood Castilleja Ave Bike Boulevard (to California Ave)

Stanford Perimeter Trail

Planned Bicycle Boulevard Improvements Map by Lili Cao

tudents biking to Palo Alto’s two public high schools and southernmost middle school will be getting help with their commutes, as the City Council on Tuesday approved concept plans for two of more than 20 proposed bike projects aimed at making local streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

By approving the staff proposals for new bike amenities on Maybell and Churchill avenues, the new council made it clear that last year’s election did nothing to stymie the city’s dream of becoming one of the nation’s top biking destinations.

El Camino Real

Existing Caltrain shared pathway

Planned Enchanced Bikeway (New) Existing Enchanced Bikeway

The Churchill bike plan includes a new bike ramp, so cyclists can avoid the busy intersection at Churchill and Castilleja avenues.

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CITY HALL

Salary hikes approved for Palo Alto council members City Council agrees to give members first raise in more than 15 years, effective 2017 n the latest sign of the city’s growing economic fortunes, the Palo Alto City Council agreed on Tuesday night to raise the salaries of council members for the first time in more than 15 years.

By a 6-3 vote, with Greg Scharff, Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth dissenting, the council agreed to raise the monthly stipend of its members from $600 to $1,000. The vote in favor of the salary raise came after several council members stressed the need to increase the pool of candidates seeking council seats.

Increasing the stipends, the thinking goes, would help candidates who may not be affluent and who may need to pay for child care so that they can devote themselves to their council duties.

“I’m worried that now the public believes that in order to serve on the council you need to be retired, wealthy, self-employed or single,” said Councilwoman Liz Kniss, the council’s most fervent champion of the increase (“Or stupid,” Councilman Marc Berman added as an aside).

Kniss, who raised the issue in a 2013 memo she co-authored with former council members Nancy Shepherd and Gail Price, framed council salaries as a gender issue. Kniss said that before the last council election, she had tried to find a woman who was willing to run for office and each said that she cannot spend the amount of time it would take to serve. Getting a babysitter in Palo Alto costs $20 to $25 an hour, she said, and many mothers said joining the council would be too costly a proposition.

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Kniss also said she is troubled by the fact that a gender that makes up half the world’s population has only two representatives on the current council (she and Mayor Karen Holman). The council had four female members last year, though that number dropped to two after Nancy Shepherd lost her bid for a second term and Gail Price opted not to run again. Lydia Kou, the only other female candidate in last year’s 12-candidate race, was barely edged out for the fifth open seat by Cory Wolbach.

“The number of women shrinking in public office on the Peninsula is of such alarm that there are two or three organizations that are now addressing it,” Kniss said. “I know it’s very difficult for one to give oneself a raise. It’s the kind of thing we stay away from like a hot flame, and yet I’d urge you to think about this carefully tonight before you vote.”

Some of her colleagues strongly disputed the idea that the 66 percent raise has anything to do with gender equality. They agreed, however, that it would make it easier for some of the less affluent members of the community to seek council seats.

Councilman Pat Burt, who voted to support the raise, called the move “a modest step to democratize further City Council participation.”

“It’s not a big step but it moves in that direction,” Burt said.

He also predicted that the move will have “virtually no impact on gender, particularly on the council.”

“It’s not about promoting gender participation or greater gender equality, which I think is some-

by Gennady Sheyner thing we should do,” Burt said. “I just don’t think this has diddly to do with it.”

The best thing to do for those who want to see a greater female presence on the council is to “support female candidates when they run.”

Berman, like Burt, said he didn’t have particularly strong feelings about the salary hikes but went along with the majority. While Councilman Greg Scharff warned that this would send the wrong message to the

‘I’m worried that now the public believes that in order to serve on the council you need to be retired, wealthy, selfemployed or single.’

—Liz Kniss, coucilwoman, Palo Alto City Council labor unions who are also seeking salary increases, Berman said that raising council salary “to minimum wage” makes sense. He characterized the move as a small step in the right direction.

“If any labor group says they want to get a minimum wage like the City Council, I’ll say, ‘Done.

Sign on the dotted line,’” Berman said.

The council vote came three months after Mountain View adopted a similar increase for its council members. But while Mountain View left the decision to the voters, Palo Alto achieved

the change through a council ordinance. Council members are allowed by law to increase their salaries by 5 percent for every year since their last salary increase. Because the council’s last salary bump came in May 2001, members could have approved an increase of up to 75 percent. The salary increase will take effect in January 2017.

Even with the change, Palo Alto remains in the middle of the regional pack when it comes to council salaries. At the higher end of the scale are cities like Sunnyvale, where a council member earns $2,194 a month, and Daly City, where the monthly stipend is $1,414. At the lower end are Saratoga ($250 a month), Los Gatos ($150 a month) and Monte Sereno (no salaries at all).

Scharff maintained that the council’s salary is symbolic and that raising it so significantly just because the economy is improving will make it hard for the council to have the “moral high ground” when employees likewise request raises.

“Now that we’re in the up years, we get a lot of pressure to raise wages for employees,” Scharff said. “Everyone comes in and wants 5 to 10 percent raises.”

He also rejected Kniss’ assertion that the move has anything to do with gender or that it will result in more women running for council, prompting Kniss to respond, “That’s because you’re a guy, Greg.” “(I) think it’s somewhat demeaning to men,” Scharff countered.

Filseth sided with Scharff about the “cosmetics” and “symbolism”

of the council increase, though he agreed with Kniss that the current council compensation limits the pool size for candidates and that this is a “significant problem.”

“However, I think going from $600 to $1,000 a month is not likely to make a significant difference in that pool size,” Filseth said. “I think a discussion of a much larger change that would increase the pool size is a legitimate discussion, but that’s not what’s on the table tonight.”

Several council members said they were ambivalent about the issue before casting their votes.

Councilman Cory Wolbach said his support for the salary increase had always been contingent on last November’s passage of Measure D, which reduced the council’s size from nine to seven members, effective 2019. With the measure passing, Wolbach backed the salary hike.

“I see with the reduction of the council size, it does mean more work for all council members,” Wolbach said. “I think it increases the demand and I think it’s appropriate to have an increase in salary to coincide with that.”

DuBois also said he wasn’t sure which way he would go but was ultimately swayed by the arguments of Scharff and Filseth.

“I think the symbolism is bad,” DuBois said. “The reason we all do this is community service.”

Holman took the opposite stance and voted in favor of the salary increase. You never know, she said, what it takes to sway someone to run.

“It’s a public service, it’s a community service, but it shouldn’t be a hardship,” Holman said. Q

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Upfront LAND USE

Page Mill development to test Palo Alto’s new affordable-housing law City Council set to vote on mixed-use project at 441 Page Mill Road

by Gennady Sheyner new Palo Alto law that This includes submitting a finanallows developers who cial analysis for the project that provide affordable hous- justifies the concessions as necesing to build more densely will sary for making the development get its first test on Monday night, economically feasible. when the City Council considers The proposal by property approving the demolition of four owner Norm Schwab is part of a homes and construction of a new sizable crop of recently approved three-story building on a busy developments around the transitand rapidly changing stretch of rich and increasingly busy area Page Mill Road. near El Camino Real and CaliDesigned by the local firm fornia Avenue. Others include Stoecker and Northway Archi- the block-long proposals at 2180 tects, the mixed-use development El Camino Real, which includes at 441 Page Mill the former JJ&F Road would include Market, and 3159 retail on the ground ‘There are El Camino Real, by floor, offices on Equinox Gym. the second floor aspects of Stanford Uniand 10 apartments this proposal versity is preparon the third floor. ing to move ahead Because three of that should be with construction these apartments examples to all of a recently apwill be offered at proposals.’ proved housing debelow market rate, velopment at 2500 —Michael Alcheck, El Camino Real, the development commissioner, which will entail 70 is eligible to take Planning and affordable-housing advantage of both Transportation units just north of state and city laws Commission the Page Mill interthat provide density bonuses for affordsection. At the same able-housing projects. In the case time, the city is evaluating a plan of 441 Page Mill, the developer to rezone the former parking lot is in part asking to build nearly at 2755 El Camino Real to enable 11,000 square feet more of office the construction of a four-story, space than the zoning would al- mostly commercial building low. near the chronically congested Palo Alto’s ordinance, which intersection of Page Mill and El the council adopted last year, Camino Real. specifies the types of concessions So far, the proposal at 441 Page and zoning exceptions a developer Mill Road has encountered little can request and lays out a pro- resistance from local commiscess for developers who wish to sioners, the public and council request “off-menu” concessions. members. In recent public hear-

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The proposed three-story building at 441 Page Mill Road would replace four homes with a mixed-use development with retail, offices and housing, including below-market-rate units. ings, just about everyone agreed that its location, on a largely commercial block that also includes the Kelly Moore Paint Store, an animal hospital and the AT&T Store, is more suitable for a mixed-use development than for the four single-family homes that currently occupy it. Its inclusion of affordable housing is another bonus, even if it comes with strings attached.

During the Planning and Transportation Commission’s review of the project last June, then-Chair Mark Michael lauded the proposed development as much more appropriate.

“I think the project is very thoughtful, it’s attractive, it meets

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the need and in many ways surpasses my expectation for what can be done with the site,” Michael said.

Commissioner Michael Alcheck agreed and stressed the need for affordable housing in Palo Alto.

“There are aspects of this proposal that should be examples to all proposals,” Alcheck said.

Others weren’t so sure. Though former commissioners Arthur Keller and Carl King lauded certain aspects of the proposal, they had major reservations about the concessions sought by the applicants in exchange for the three units of affordable housing. The three concessions are all “off-

menu” items, which means that the developer had to commission a pro forma analysis justifying the requests. The requested concessions are a 19 percent increase in lot coverage (current code permits lot coverage of 50 percent, or 13,463 square feet; pushing it up to 69 percent would allow 18,520 square feet); an increase in commercial density to allow an extra 10,770 square feet of office space; and an increase in the overall floor-area-ratio to permit an extra 8,595 square feet of building space.

The three concessions were proposed by the applicant well before (continued on page 15)

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Stanford students gain access to admissions records

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Publication offers steps on how to request documents under federal law

by Elena Kadvany bout 1,000 students are due to get a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Stanford University’s admissions office after requesting that the university release their admission records under the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which among other rights, grants students access to their education records.

The Fountain Hopper, a sometimes satirical student-run email newsletter that one of its creators describes as “an irreverent take on campus news,” sent a message to its subscribers on Jan. 15, urging them to submit such requests with step-by-step instructions on how to do so.

“Below is The Fountain Hopper’s tried and tested Five Step Plan for getting hold of your admissions records, including qualitative and quantitative reviews by your admissions readers,” the message read.

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‘Everyone should have an equal right to the information that happens inside that black box.’

—anonymous student, Stanford University Under FERPA, the university must provide these documents within 45 days of receiving a written request.

The student, one of about 20 involved with The Fountain Hopper and who wishes to remain anonymous, estimated that about 1,000 students have since submitted requests. He said about 80 percent of Stanford’s undergraduate population subscribes to the Fountain Hopper, which is also referred to as “FoHo.” University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said on Jan. 17 that she did not know the number of requests that had been submitted since the Fountain Hopper’s message but that there was an increase on Friday.

“I could not speak about The Fountain Hopper in conjunction with this effort,” she wrote in an email. “They have simply shared a 40-year-old federal policy.”

The student said he and others who are involved with the publication started looking into FERPA in the fall and did a test run in October. One contributor submitted a “catch-all” request to the university, which “sat on it for 43 days” but within the required time limit provided about 800 pages, including admissions

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Stanford students, shown here moving into the Lucie Stern dorm in 2011, have been encouraged by The Fountain Hopper, a student-run email newsletter, to ask for their admissions records. records, submitted assignments, adviser documents and housing information, the student said.

“The philosophy we approach this with is that if you go to a good private (high) school or your parents are rich enough to have college counselors or college consultants, these are people that work inside admission offices,” he said.

“When they review applications for all the students before they apply, they know exactly what to look for.”

But students who come from a more disadvantaged background or attend a school with less resources, he said, don’t have that

same leg-up.

“College admission is really important ... to be able to succeed in the world that we are in,” he said.

“We believe in the admission process, but everyone should have an equal right to the information that happens inside that black box.”

FoHo is asking that all students who submit FERPA requests report back to them on how the university responds and what documents they eventually receive.

“When people start getting stuff back, we’ll push a full demystification of the numbers and jargon in the documents,” the Jan. 15 email reads. Q

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the neighborhood that includes the mobile-home park.

Affordable housing isn’t an issue that is solely affecting Buena Vista; it’s of concern to the city and county, she said.

“Affordable housing is like a spotted owl or any endangered species: If you don’t take action to protect it, you won’t have it anymore and you won’t get it back,” she said.

Dellenbach said the proposal is a tangible catalyst for local municipal and community organizations to work together. Nonprofit housing groups, including Palo Alto Housing Corporation, Eden Housing and MidPen Housing, have the funds and resources to preserve and steward affordable housing, she said.

Melodie Cheney, secretary of the Buena Vista Residents Association, also praised Simitian’s proposal, calling it “a step in the right direction.”

For Cheney, who has lived at Buena Vista for 14 years, the battle is not only to keep their homes but also to preserve the community.

“This is my first home. No matter where I go, it’s not going to have the same feeling,” she said.

“This is where I, my friends, my neighbors — my second family, as I call them — can live and pay our bills. This is where the kids

Residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park stand on El Camino Real at Los Robles in May 2014 during a protest against the land owner’s proposal to sell the land. can have a great education. ... We want to stay together, we want to be active members of the society.”

Buena Vista’s future has been in jeopardy since the park’s owners, Joe Jisser and his family, announced their plan to sell the property to a developer. Though the developer who initially intended to redevelop the site, Prometheus Real Estate Group, has pulled out of the deal, the Jissers are moving along with the park’s shuttering. Residents have been battling the closure every step of the way, mounting street-side protests and testifying at hearings and before the Palo Alto City Council.

Last May, the Jissers received a boost when Administrative Judge Craig Labadie approved the Relocation Impact Report, a document that details the compensation that the park owner will provide to residents as part of the closure.

The relocation package includes three months of rent, moving expenses, the appraised values of the mobile homes and a one-year rent subsidy equal to the difference between Buena Vista rents and those charged at residents’ new homes.

The residents’ group has appealed Labadie’s ruling, and the Palo Alto City Council last week scheduled the appeal hearing for April.

In the supervisors’ announcement this week, Cortese called mobile-home parks “an important part of our affordable-housing stock in this county.

“We need to take a stand for those dependent on these homes by pulling existing resources together,” Cortese said.

Though it’s far from clear whether the supervisors’ proposal will do anything to prevent the Jissers from selling the park, it could offer Palo Alto some new resources to develop affordable housing.

Located at 3980 El Camino Real, Buena Vista is Palo Alto’s sole mobile-home park. Approximately 100 low-income families, mostly Latino, live there.

Kyra Kazantzis, directing attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, which represents the park’s residents, said in a statement that a pledge from the county “could make a huge difference in preserving the Buena Vista residents’ affordable housing.”

“We hope this pledge will leverage other funding sources to help get us closer to a viable solution,” Kazantzis said.

Despite their proposal, Simitian and Cortese in their memo to colleagues on the Board of Supervisors stated that they are not envisioning the county’s longterm involvement in Buena Vista.

“To be clear, we are not proposing that the county either own or operate the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park,” the memo states.

“Rather, we believe that the appropriate use of these existing funds might provide the impetus necessary to turn the current conversation away from enabling the conversion ... to determining if and how the property can be preserved as a long-term supply of deed-restricted affordable housing.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner and Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com and mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

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Correction The Jan. 14 story “Palo Alto school board backs increased parcel tax” incorrectly stated the amount of a proposed parcel tax that voters could see in May. The current tax amount is $638 (after 2 percent annual automatic increases since it was approved in 2010), and the proposed tax would increase that by $120 to $758. The Weekly regrets the error.

To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

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The two men who were involved in the fatal altercation outside The Patio bar in downtown Palo Alto on Dec. 21, 2014, made their first court appearance on Tuesday morning since the death of the 24-year-old man who died several weeks after the fight.

Neil Brian Rotroff, who police said punched Oleg Talamai outside the Emerson Street bar, and Akshay Vijay Mastakar, who drove the group away from the scene, both appeared in the Palo Alto courthouse Tuesday.

This was their first appearance since Jan. 9, when Talamai succumbed to the injuries that police said he sustained after he was punched in the head by Rotroff. Talamai, who was part of a group that engaged in an argument with Rotroff’s group, never woke up from the punch and was pronounced dead almost three weeks after the confrontation.

Neither Rotroff, 28, nor Mastakar, 21, said anything during Tuesday’s hearing. Through their attorneys, they waived their rights to a preliminary investigation within 60 days of their arrest. Both are now set to appear in court for a plea hearing on March 24.

Rotroff, who initially faced a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, now faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Mastakar faces charges of assault on a peace officer with a deadly weapon for allegedly driving his car past two police officers and nearly hitting them.

He was also charged with a felony count of accessory to involuntary manslaughter for his role as a getaway driver. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Foothill selected to launch four-year program Foothill College is officially one of 15 community colleges in the state that, for the first time in California’s history, will offer a four-year baccalaureate program, the chancellor of the California Community Colleges announced Tuesday.

A total of 34 colleges up and down the state were in the running to launch four-year degrees under a new bill that allows up to 15 community colleges to offer one baccalaureate degree in select vocational fields, as long as they meet a local workforce demand and don’t compete with or duplicate any programs already offered at University of California (UC) or California State University (CSU) campuses.

Foothill’s new four-year degree will be in dental hygiene and will launch next fall with a tuition of approximately $10,500 for all four years.

The current two-year dental-hygiene degree is a popular, oversubscribed program at Foothill, with an average of 100 students applying each year for about 24 available spots. Currently, only three private universities in California offer a four-year baccalaureate in the field: the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Loma Linda University and the University of Southern California. All come with a significantly higher price tag.

Foothill dental-hygiene students also often graduate with an excess of units, beyond the amount an associate’s degree requires, according to Dental Hygiene Program Director Phyllis Spragge. A baccalaureate also paves the way for more breadth and depth in students’ professional paths, from research to marketing to teaching.

Other community colleges’ degree selected for the four-year degree include respiratory therapy (Skyline College), biomanufacturing (MiraCosta College), respiratory care (Modesto Junior College) and health information management (San Diego Mesa College) among others.

The legislation authorizing the baccalaureate degrees sunsets after the 2022-23 school year, after which the legislature and governor may renew it pending two reviews of the pilot program, one in 2018 and another in 2022.

“This is very historic for California,” Foothill Chancellor Linda Thor told the Weekly minutes after the board’s vote. “I’m optimistic this is just the beginning of what will rapidly expand across the state to more colleges and more programs.” Q — Elena Kadvany

Man fatally shot in East Palo Alto A San Jose man, Steven Porter Jr., 36, was shot in East Palo Alto Wednesday night, Jan. 21, and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police responded at 6:05 p.m. to the 1300 block of Camellia Drive in response to reports of gunfire and found Porter sitting in a white Lexus sedan and suffering from gunshot wounds.

The shooting suspect was described as an unidentified man wearing dark clothing, police said.

The shooter was seen fleeing on foot and headed toward Jasmine Way. Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call police at 650-321-1112. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can send an email to epa@tipnow.org, send a text to 650-409-6792 or leave a voice mail at 650-409-6792. Q — Bay City News

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Bike routes

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by Veronica Weber ter a lot of the chaos that’s going on,” said one woman who took time off of work to ride the Freedom Train.

Parents also brought their children for the educational trip.

In school, all that’s taught is King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, said LaToya Gray Rogers of Salinas.

“But you never know the real struggles and the fights and the battles they had to go through in order to have the rights,” she said. “I want them to understand

that is a long battle that we are still fighting, and we will continue to fight, but as long as we come together as a community it doesn’t matter what race you are. The whole point is coming together and standing as one unit.”

To watch the video, go to the Palo Alto Weekly’s YouTube channel at youtu.be/ EMiRv6JDiz8. Q Staff Photographer Veronica Weber can be emailed at vweber@paweekly.com.

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Staff plans to reach out to neighbors on the south side of Churchill, between Castilleja and Miramonte avenues, about restricting parking between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. as well as creating a wider area for bicyclists and for vehicles turning right onto southbound Alma Street.

The council approved both projects Tuesday with no dissent and with only minor modifications, including a direction to staff to consider additional improvements to facilitate access to the bike trail near Paly as cyclists cross Alma.

During Tuesday’s meeting, Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez presented the council with an overview of the city’s 24 projects and its myriad efforts to improve safety and better measure pedestrian, bicycling and vehicle activity at major corridors.

This includes new camera technology that the city plans to install to count bike riders and pedestrians (and, ultimately, cars) at major thoroughfares; green bike lanes coated with colored glass beads; “bike boxes” that carve out space for bikers at intersections while they’re waiting for the traffic light to change; bike-corral parking; and road markings such as sharrows.

The current list of bike projects includes new amenities for Greer Road, Fabian Way, Charleston Road, Stanford Avenue, Homer Avenue and San Antonio Road.

The city is also preparing to build a new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek, a project with an estimated price tag of about $10 million.

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housands of people came out to San Jose’s Diridon Station on Monday, Jan. 19, to ride the final Freedom Train up to San Francisco.

For more than 30 years, the train ride commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has featured singing and speeches and a chance for the community to honor his work.

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The Maybell bike project extends an existing bike lane on Maybell and adds sharrows and three speed tables, with the goal of making the bike commute safer for Terman Middle and Gunn High school students. ects Tuesday. Rodriguez said the plan is to bring the concept ideas for all 24 bike boulevards to the council sometime this year. Councilman Pat Burt predicted that the roll-out of the plan will be a “real milestone in our community.

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City Council (Jan. 20)

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Parents and kids packed the final Freedom Train, which made its way from San Jose to San Francisco on Jan. 19. Parents expressed how the event provided an opportunity for children to learn about the Civil Rights era and the significance of the march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear a presentation about the city’s three-year information-technology strategy; consider approving a three-story, mixed-use development at 441 Page Mill Road; and discuss establishing an annual cap for office and research-and-development projects. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to select its chair and vice chair; discuss the 7.7-acre parcel near Foothills Park that the city recently dedicated as parkland; and hear updates about the proposed Highway 101 overpass and the Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board plans to vote on a parcel-tax resolution, the charge for a new enrollment committee and a Chromebooks purchase; and hear an update on the district’s efforts to reduce bullying incidents. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the city’s Our Palo Alto initiative and consider a report about existing conditions. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold its annual retreat to set its priorities for 2015. The retreat will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, in the El Palo Alto Room at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road.

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Upfront Maya Jones, center, and classmate Jhasitti Gardley, left, Oakland Raiders defensive end Justin Tuck, far left, and Tuck’s son Jayce, back center, lay on yoga mats in the cobra pose while demonstrating Costaño School’s new yoga and wellness program.

Yoga post-traumatic stress disorder or a student whose first day to enroll in a U.S. school is today, across the district we pride ourselves on the fact that we educate and nurture any student who crosses the threshold of our classroom doors to meet their full potential.”

Health and wellness, she said, is essential to helping students perform well academically and also helps to create a supportive, trusting school climate.

Costaño, along with Belle Haven School, Brentwood Academy, Cesar Chavez & Green Oaks Academy, Los Robles Dual Immersion Magnet Academy, Ronald McNair Middle School and Willow Oaks School will all implement the foundation’s curriculum; some have already started.

Stanford University Professor Victor Carrion, who works in the Stanford Child Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic and for more than 15 years studied the impact of early-life stress on children, particularly in East Palo Alto schools, said the Sonima Foundation approach is geared toward sustainability and long-term impact rather than short-term intervention. Carrion will be spearheading the Stanford study.

“There’s always some interest in East Palo Alto,” Carrion said in an interview with the Weekly.

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“People go and do something ... and the community lingers again until somebody else wants to come and do some other project.

I didn’t want it to be that way, and the Sonima Foundation didn’t want it to be that way either.”

The foundation’s K-12 curriculum, which is currently in place in 54 schools in California, Florida, New York and Texas, is a combination of physical education, body flexibility and movement, nutrition and coping skills. As early as kindergarten, students are taught skills like breathing and stretching as well as acting with kindness and positive thinking.

“Imagine this: If you start taking this (class) when you’re in kindergarten, by the time you’re a fourth-grader, you don’t even think about it,” Carrion said. “It’s a part of your life. You brush your teeth, and you think positively.”

This is exactly what Carrion will examine in his study, which will be completed under the auspices of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Researchers will recruit the group of third- and fifth-graders from throughout the district to

participate in a series of assessments over the next four years.

The study will measure students’ academic and cognitive strengths and weaknesses, emotional and behavioral functioning, stressrelated hormone levels, sleep patterns and brain activity and structure, according to a Stanford press release. (Researchers chose third-graders so as to follow them over the course of essential developmental years and fifth-graders to create and compare their data with that collected at two Sonima Foundation partner-schools, one in Encinitas and one in Harlem.)

This work is familiar to Carri-

on, who first studied mindfulness in East Palo Alto schools in 2004 as part of an effort to evaluate the impact of a treatment protocol he and others at Stanford developed for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma.

This treatment, dubbed the CueCentered Treatment (CCT) Protocol, is about educating children so that they can come to an understanding of their own reactions to stress, and control those reactions, rather than receiving external treatment.

“You don’t want a kid to be in treatment for life. CCT is about empowering children to understand the normal human reaction to stress and how to counteract that,” Carrion said. “It basically makes them their own agent of change through education. It’s empowerment through knowledge.”

Part and parcel of that knowledge is a toolbox of coping skills, many of which draw from mindfulness, such as meditation, relaxation and deep breathing.

“We said, ‘OK, so we have this treatment here that works for those kids that are already showing some signs (of trauma) — but could we even work before that?’” he said.

Carrion, school officials and others hope the Sonima Foundation program will show the answer to that question to be a resounding “yes.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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A two-vehicle crash has traffic blocked off from eastbound Lytton Avenue and Alma Street in downtown Palo Alto as of late Tuesday afternoon. (Posted Jan. 20, 4:44 p.m.)

Students arrested after shutting down bridge Dozens of protestors, including Stanford students, were arrested Monday night after they shut down traffic for more than an hour on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, according to the California Highway Patrol. (Posted Jan. 19, 4:59 p.m.)

Palo Alto seeks feedback on traffic nonprofit Palo Alto’s bid to create a nonprofit that would manage downtown’s traffic-reduction programs will be the focus of a community meeting at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave., next week. (Posted Jan. 19, 3:20 p.m.)

Staffing shuffle aims to boost medical response With medical response calls on the rise, the Palo Alto Fire Department last week adjusted its staffing so that every fire truck and station has at least one paramedic trained to handle some of the department’s most serious emergency calls. (Posted Jan. 18, 9:13 a.m.)

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If you’ve noticed a change in Palo Alto’s tap water lately, you’re not alone. Since last Sunday, residents have been complaining of a funny taste and smell to the water flowing out of their faucets, alternately describing it as stale or chlorinated. (Posted Jan. 17, 8:23 a.m.)

Officials warn flu season could get worse There have been at least four flu-related deaths in the Bay Area so far, and public health officials warn that while flu-season has been mild so far, it could still become severe. (Posted Jan. 17, 7:38 a.m.)

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the city adopted its density bonus ordinance. The city’s menu of concessions includes such things as parking exemptions, a relaxing of the height limit and the ability to build closer to the front or back property line.

King suggested that three units of affordable housing in exchange for more than 10,000 square feet of additional office space “doesn’t seem like a great trade-off to me.”

Keller argued that the city should analyze exactly how much extra zoning it should allow so as to match the project’s economic return.

The city’s consultants, meanwhile, concluded that the cost of building the affordable-housing units actually exceeds the value of the three concessions being requested. Consulting firm Keyser Marston Associates estimated that the net cost of the additional housing units would be about $1.85 million. The net value increment from the concessions is projected to be $1.28 million.

“Since the cost of the BMR (below-market-rate) housing exceeds the value increment, and since each of the three concessions independently contributes to the value increment, it is concluded that all three of the requested concessions are needed to address the BMR housing costs in the proposed projects,” the Keyser Marston analysis concludes.

Thus, the project satisfies the city’s requirement that the concessions result in “identifiable, financially sufficient and actual cost reductions” that allow the applicant to provide “affordable rents or affordable sale prices,” the report states.

The planning commission ultimately voted 4-2 in favor of the proposal, with King and Keller dissenting. The Architectural Review Board followed suit in October by voting 4-0 (with Lee Lippert absent) to approve the building’s design, which had undergone numerous revisions.

Now, it’s the City Council’s turn. In addition to allowing the city to test drive its new density-

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becomes only the second city in the region to require a public vote before closed sessions. Currently, only San Francisco requires its elected leaders to do that, City Manager James Keene said. He called the policy change “another advance in our city’s focus on open government.”

“This would be an improvement in the current practice, in our view,” Keene said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

bonus ordinance, the Jan. 26 hearing will also offer newly elected council members their first chance to weigh in on a major development. During last year’s election, candidates running as slow-growth “residentialists” consistently criticized the council for approving too much development downtown and for allowing too many exemptions to existing zoning laws and design guidelines. The proposal at 441 Page Mill Road requests plenty of both, which means the council’s new residentialist majority (which includes Mayor Karen Holman, newcomers Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois and council veterans Pat Burt and Greg Schmid) should have much to discuss.

In addition to the three zoning concessions, the applicant is also asking for various exemptions, including one for parking.

Though the building’s underground garage will include 91 spaces, that’s 19 fewer than what the city would normally require.

The state law that offers density

bonuses for affordable-housing projects provides for a reduction of three spots. The reduction of 16 more parking spaces is based on the planning staff’s determination that the peak demand for parking by residents and by workers will happen at different times of the day.

The project is also requesting two “design enhancement exemptions.” One would increase the building’s setback from the curb to 17 feet (the code currently requires a 14-foot setback), making the design more responsive to the council’s often-stated concerns about massive new buildings going up too close to the street. A report from planning staff notes that this would “permit a wide sidewalk, street trees and the County’s planned improvements to Page Mill Road at this location.”

Another exemption would allow a driveway ramp into the underground garage to encroach into a landscape buffer at the rear of the property. Q

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Dr. Charles A. (Chuck) Faltz Dr. Charles A. (Chuck) Faltz, clinical psychologist, native Midwesterner, longtime Palo Alto resident and loyal 49ers fan passed away on January 19, 2015.

Born in 1938 to Angela Como Faltz and Raymond C. Faltz, Chuck was molded for life by his idyllic boyhood in the small town of Somonauk, IL. His mother, a Sicilian immigrant, and his father, editor and publisher of the town weekly The Somonauk Reveille, instilled in him the values of hard work, frugality, and integrity, and the importance of education.

From a paper route in the fourth grade to a job mowing lawns that would help pay for his education to a 46-year career in clinical psychology, Chuck undertook every task with a combination of persistence and quiet deliberation. Among his proudest moments: the day he was able to pay his parents back the money he had borrowed to earn his undergraduate degree.

In 1957, a good life took a turn for the better when Chuck eyed Judy Diamond across the punch and cookie table at a sorority-fraternity mixer at Northern Illinois University. He was a chemistry major with a talent for drawing others out of their shells. She was an English major with a penchant for literature and socializing. The courtship that followed was filled with long talks over 20-cent beers in smoky bars, fraternity/ sorority campus events and a shared love of crossword puzzles.

Chuck married Judy in 1961, then completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Purdue University in 1968. The couple set off in a Sunbeam Tiger for the San Francisco Bay Area in pursuit of new adventures and fresh ways of living. From hippies in Golden Gate Park to antiwar protests to new models of the American Dream, nothing was familiar and everything was exhilarating. However, Chuck’s Midwestern values survived the cultural revolution. When the first of their four children was born that same year, those values found new opportunity for expression. Chuck found himself joyfully immersed in fatherhood and ready to pass down those values to a new generation of Faltzes.

A passionate advocate for the profession of psychology, Chuck served as Chief of Forensic Mental Health Services with the San Mateo County Courts and Corrections, and later as Director of Professional Affairs for the California Psychological Association, a position that would allow him to make his most meaningful professional contributions. He was one of the leaders in the effort to allow psychologists in California to gain access to hospital privileges, worked to gain prescription privileges for psychologists and enhanced the credibility of psychologists in the eyes of public policy makers.

He received numerous accolades during his twenty years with the CPA, including the California Psychological Association’s Silver Psi award for service, a Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Psychological Association’s prestigious Heiser Award for Advocacy and the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for his “Herculean efforts” on behalf of psychologists across the country. Countless patients and colleagues over the years ultimately have benefited from his advocacy. It will take a panel of experts to replace him, his font of knowledge, his generosity of time and the singular role he played in the history of the CPA. Chuck leaves behind his wife of 53 years; daughters Dina Kilgo (Scott), Jennifer Garcia (Chris) and Chrissy Ulrey (Bob); son Daniel (Mike Padilla); and grandchildren Kate and Brian Kilgo and Rachel and Karinne Ulrey. He was greatly respected both professionally and personally, and consequently consulted frequently for advice, also both professionally and personally.

Chuck was the anchor of his family, and remembered fondly by all who knew him as a man of integrity, compassion, careful reflection, inventive solutions to all kinds of problems, and flashes of rakish innuendo at the holiday dinner table. He will be missed.

Visitation Friday Jan 23, 5-8pm, Spangler Mortuaries, 399 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos, CA; funeral Mass Saturday, Jan 24, 10am, Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 3233 Cowper St, Palo Alto, CA. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

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Barbara Bateman May 18, 1922 – December 28, 2014 Barbara Lucille Bateman, 92, of Palo Alto died Dec 28, 2014. She taught Music and English in the Palo Alto Unified School district for 30+ years and privately taught bassoon. Barbara is predeceased by her husband Guy Bateman.

Memorial services will be held at the Lucie Stern Community Center Ball Room at 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto on Saturday, February 7th from 3 PM to 4:30 PM followed by a reception. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Peninsula Youth Symphony.

You are invited to read her history, share your memories, photos and condolences online at The Chapel of the Angels Guest Book http://www.bergepappassmith.com/obituary/ Barbara-Lucille-Bateman/Palo-Alto-CA/1470199 PAID

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William “Bill” Noren June 5, 1960 – January 5, 2015 William “Bill” Noren died peacefully at Stanford Hospital on January 5, 2015 due to complications of a ruptured aorta and subsequent stroke. Bill lived in the Niles Community of Fremont with his wife Lola and son Skyler.

The phrases “Gentle kindness,” “Kind and gentle soul,” “Sweet, unassuming, gentle, caring, wonderful father and husband” were some of the quotes received from friends and acquaintances upon hearing of his passing.

Bill was born to Don and Merillyn Noren in Concord, CA on June 5, 1960. He attended Lincoln Elementary, McKinley Junior High School and Sequoia High School in Redwood City. He attended Cañada College and San Jose State University to pursue his love of geology. He was an avid gold miner, taking his gold pan with him on camping trips and gold-mining excursions in the Sierra Foothills.

In the late 1990s he moved to Garberville, near Humboldt, where he received a certification in permaculture at the Heartwood Institute. To satisfy his love of adventure, in 1997 he journeyed to Australia where he lived in a tent, in the Australian bush, for a year. He came back with hundreds of stories and pictures of his travels.

He re-met his wife Lola at their twenty-year Sequoia High School reunion. They had gone to junior high school and high school together. Not having attended any previous reunions, he came to that reunion because something inside him urged him to go. It was the same feeling for Lola, who did not want to attend, but something urged her to go. Having just returned from Australia that day and reading the invitation, he did not have time to clean up and put on a fancy outfit as he rushed out the door for the 5-hour drive from Garberville to the Bay Area.

He arrived at the reunion with a long beard, a Hawaiian shirt, shorts and hiking boots. But he and Lola felt a connection they had never felt before, and soon fell in love.

They married in April 2002 and in September 2003 their beautiful son, Skyler was born. Bill was a baseball dad, helping coach his son’s little league team. He was excited to help the kids and always encouraged them. For his son’s 4th grade class, he shared his love and knowledge of gold mining. He taught his son the importance of cherishing and appreciating nature, protecting the environment, and being kind to others. Bill was always there for him and was an exceptional role model. His dream of retirement was to have acreage in a wooded area in Oregon and live off the land.

Bill is survived by his wife Lola, son Skyler, his mother Merillyn, sisters Kimberley Dawn Findley and Cheryl Webster, nephews Christopher Warren Haskins and Andrew James Haskins, and brother-in-law Roger Findley. A memorial service will be held on January 30 at 2 p.m. at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, 950 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Greenpeace. An educational trust has been set up for Bill’s son Skyler and checks can be written to Skyler Z. Noren and sent to Lola Noren.

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Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Jan. 14-20

Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Check fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Financial abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Scam An . . . . .online . . . . . . . directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 of obituaries and Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 remembrances.

Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . .obituaries, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Search Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drivingsubmit with suspended license . . . . . . 4 a memorial, Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and runshare . . . . . .a. .photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Go to: Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of inhalants . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Education code/misc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse/self-neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found firearm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 5 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Menlo Park Jan. 14-20

Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Check fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Narcotics registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Concealed firearm in vehicle. . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Louis Road, 1/15, 4:04 p.m.; domestic violence/misc.

Altaire Walk, 1/16, 7:05 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park Pulgas Avenue and East Bayshore Road, East Palo Alto, 1/14, 4:14 p.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.

1300 block Crane St., 1/15, 10:46 a.m.; battery.

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Births, marriages and deaths

Joan Leaver Joan Agnes O’Grady Leaver, a lifelong resident of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, died on Jan. 11, 2015, at her home in Menlo Park. She was 89.

She was born on Feb. 8, 1925, in Mayfield (which became part of Palo Alto later that year) to Thomas and Delia O’Grady, two Irish immigrants. She grew up in a home off Stanford Avenue, and she attended Sacred Heart School in Atherton and later Mercy High School in Burlingame on scholarship. While a senior there, she met her future husband Robert Leaver while swimming in Lake Lagunita on Stanford University campus, where Robert was a student. They married in 1943.

The couple lived in Palo Alto up through around 1960 — while Robert served during WWII and started work at Standard Oil of California in San Francisco — before moving to a home near Menlo-Atherton High School. She was kept busy raising their seven children, helping out with Girl and Cub scout troops and other local activities. She also did some

volunteer work at the Allied Arts Guild.

She enjoyed playing bridge and was a member of the Palo Alto Bridge Center for many years.

She also hosted many events at her home, including parties, receptions, bridge games and weddings.

She loved gardening and growing flowers — particularly roses — which she made into bouquets to decorate her house. She was also a longtime parishioner at the Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Robert Leaver; brother, Thomas O’Grady Jr.; and sister, Nellie O’Grady Negri. She is survived by her children, R. Grady (Rosemary Reed) Leaver of Pacifica; Michael Ann (Peter Engelhart) Leaver of Berkeley; Janet Winter of Mountain View; Cindy (Jeffrey) Backstrom of Fairfield, Iowa; Patton (Elizabeth) Leaver of Moorpark, California; Scott (Mary) Leaver of Los Altos; and Mark C. Leaver of Menlo Park. She is also survived by her sister, Rita O’Connor of Palo Alto; her grandchildren, Mark F. Leaver, Soren Leaver, Simon Leaver-Appelman, Dan Jacobson, Heather Rodriguez-Miller, Thomas Miller, Collin Miller, Stacey M. Forbear, Thomas Leaver, Cathleen Leaver Cantwell, Elizabeth Leaver

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John Roderick Hogan John Roderick Hogan passed away Dec. 22nd, 2014 at his home in Palo Alto. He was 83 years old. John was born in Sioux City, Iowa and moved to San Francisco as a child. He attended St. Ignatius Preparatory then served in the US Army. After his tour in Europe, John studied at UC Berkeley, graduating with a degree in Political Science. He later returned to school and earned a BA in Mathematics from San Jose State. John will be remembered as a gifted musician, avid outdoorsman and enthusiastic joke teller. He is survived by his sister, Sally Hogan Gray, his children, Michael Hogan and Suzanne Hogan Buerchner, and their families. He leaves behind longtime friends Wayne, Hildegardo, Carlos, Cesar and Karen all of whom were like family to him. A celebration of John’s life will be held at a future date; those interested may contact suzbuerch@gmail.com.

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Condron, Margaret Leaver, Claire Leaver and Brett Leaver; and many great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

A memorial Mass was held on Jan. 19 at the Church of the Nativity. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Monsignor O’Halloran Scholarship Fund at Mercy High School, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to Conduct a Public Hearing on the Adoption of a Resolution Establishing the Development Impact Fee Levels for the Public Safety Facility and Government Facility Fees.

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George Koestner June 29, 1934 – December 24, 2014 George Koestner, a man whose heart was full of love for his family, friends, business associates, neighbors, pets, and the larger community, both at home and abroad has moved to a higher realm.

George, also known as “Red” or “Bud”, died on December 24, 2014 at age 80, while living in Cupertino, California. He is survived by Julie, his wife of 57 years, son, Paul, daughter-in-law Amy, daughter, Sarah Cording, son-in-law Richard Cording, three granddaughters--Emily Koestner, Alexa and Elise Cording, Karen Gerdel, niece, of Montpelier, Vermont, and cousin Gloria Gottschalk of St. Louis, Missouri.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer and Hazel Koestner and his sister, Peggy Koestner Freund.

George was born on June 29, 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was brought up a Christian Scientist, and later became a lifelong member of the Mother Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts and of the Frist Church of Christ, Scientist in Palo Alto, California.

George began his baseball odyssey at about age 11. He became such a strong pitcher that when he entered Cleveland High School, his coach of both baseball and basketball told him to prepare for a college athletic scholarship. He gladly did this. By the end of his senior year in high school he had become the second most winning pitcher in the state of Missouri. After tryouts with the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers, a group of professional baseball scouts came to his door with contracts. He also received scholarship offers. His very wise parents helped him consider these offers and they all concluded that he should go to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In the fall of 1953 he went to class and pitched baseball very well against strong competitors at the U of I, while working toward a degree. During the summer after his sophomore year he played semi-pro baseball for a community team in Pierre, South Dakota. That fall he transferred to Washington University in St. Louis. While there he continued to play baseball and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

In the summer after his junior year George met Julie. Cupid’s arrows flew between them. Immediately after graduation George joined the United States Army for a program of six months Basic Training followed by five years of Reserve Duty. He was offered Officers Training. Although he enjoyed military duty, he had Julie, his fiancée, and a very good job with Reynolds Metals Company waiting in St. Louis.

George and Julie married in 1958. Their happily awaited first child, Paul, was born in 1964. This was joyfully followed by the birth of the daughter, Sarah in 1966. A more loving husband and father could never be found!

After working at Reynolds as a management trainee, George returned to Washington University.

In 1964 he received his MBA degree, which spearheaded his highly successful business career.

That year Corning Glass Works hired George as the financial manager of a small branch in Newton, New Jersey. During the following ten years Corning offered him three promotions. The last of these was a job as the financial manager of a small pioneering subsidiary in Silicon Valley.

Ultimately George, with other officers and employees founded Scientific Micro Systems Inc. in Mountain View, California. He became the CFO. SMS was one of the first companies to develop new kinds of storage systems for computers.

The company grew and flourished until it had nearly 900 employees. George was highly involved in ushering SMS to “go public”. Before and after its incorporation George managed all of the financial and legal affairs of the company, as well as HR. Some years later, after retirement George was asked to become the CFO of Buslogic, Inc., a start-up formed by two young engineers. This company, too, prospered.

Along the way George expressed his love for his family and his interest in youth sports, by coaching Little League teams. Through coaching George instructed and inspired young players to develop their skills and special talents. He encouraged them to fearlessly seize opportunities on the field and to play wholeheartedly. If there were mistakes, he never judged his players; he forgave them.

Besides baseball, George coached, managed, and became a commissioner of both AYSO and later, CYSA teams on which Paul and Sarah played. As a result of these activities George, his family, and a Palo Alto soccer team of 16-year-old boys, were able to go on a spectacular sports-cultural tour to Hamburg, Germany. This people-to-people tour was not only educational but yielded wonderful friendships.

George also loved music of all kinds. While young he played the saxophone. Later he pursued public speaking through Toastmasters. He was able to express humor in speeches at work which delighted all. He also taught Sunday school and became the head usher at his church. He and his family are grateful to have realized so many dreams: beautiful homes, skiing at Northstar, children’s educations, vacations and much more. Such a joyful life!

A celebration of George’s Life will be held at the Forum at Rancho San Antonio in the Sierra Room, 23500 Cristo Rey Drive, Cupertino, California 95014, on Saturday, January 24, 2015 from 2PM4PM. Donations in George’s honor may be made to charities of your choice.

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Editorial

Caution on parcel tax School board should be concerned about timing and over-reaching alo Altans have stepped up time and time again to support the schools, through generous donations, bond measures to upgrade facilities and parcel taxes to supplement regular property-tax revenue and state support.

And we see the results all around us at every school site: new classrooms, gyms, a media arts center, theater and many renovations and upgrades, as well as new programs and more teachers to serve the district’s growing enrollment. We are the envy of many a district.

The district is also in the best financial shape it has been in for years, and we worry that going to the voters this April for a renewal and increase of the current parcel tax, as the school board is expected to decide next Tuesday night, may encounter push-back and even defeat if not perfectly executed.

While the current parcel tax of $638 was approved in 2010 with a 79 percent vote, the financial need then was more clear, and the election pre-dated the series of missteps and controversies that have plagued the board and administration over the last three years.

These have not been good years for district governance or transparency, and although two new school board members and a new superintendent bring promise of a new era, April is far too soon for those voters who are skeptical to have regained trust and confidence in the management of the district.

So in this climate we question the wisdom of going to the voters a full year before the current tax expires in 2016 and before the new board and superintendent demonstrate they can get their house in order.

We also worry about seeking an increase. The proposed new tax is $758 per parcel, an almost 20 percent increase from the current tax of $638, plus an automatic 2 percent per year escalator for the next six years. (The current parcel tax was originally approved in 2010 at $589 and was also subject to a 2 percent annual increase.) With the annual increases, in five years property owners will be paying $836.

A survey conducted for the board in December shows sufficient support to obtain two-thirds voter approval of the new, increased tax rate, but it also shows a significant drop in the perception of the district’s financial need from similar surveys taken over the last decade. Only 14 percent said they felt the district had a “great” need for more money.

Palo Alto voters passed the first school parcel tax of $293 in June 2001 with a 75 percent “yes” vote. That tax was to last five years and was fixed, with no annual escalator.

In November 2004 an early attempt to renew and increase the parcel tax to $521 was narrowly defeated after an opposition campaign emerged and was not taken seriously by supporters of the measure.

Another campaign was mounted in June 2005 and resulted in 73 percent approval of a $493 per parcel, six-year, flat-rate tax.

Then in May 2010, a year early, the 2005 tax was replaced with a new six-year $589 per parcel tax with a 2 percent per year automatic escalator. It was a perfectly executed special-election campaign, conducted entirely by mail (a first in Palo Alto) with a 50 percent voter turnout. The measure passed 16,000 to 4,000.

If a new parcel tax is to win this spring, the district and its supporters will need to go to extraordinary lengths to honestly and clearly explain the district’s finances and avoid scare tactics as a device for gaining support. Key to this will be showing realistic projections of property-tax revenue, which makes up 72 percent of the district’s $185 million budget, and of costly new pension-payment requirements.

Every year the district intentionally underestimates future revenue from property taxes, creating the false impression of a financial squeeze, and as a result almost every year there is a substantial surplus at the end of the year. As the largest driver of the budget, this overly conservative forecasting of property-tax revenue distorts the financial outlook, and instead of fully utilizing our revenues for programs, the surpluses merely add to our already large reserves or get spent on one-time expenditures that often aren’t well-considered priorities.

We think Palo Alto voters will support an extension of the parcel tax, but only if presented with an unassailable, no-spin description of our finances and why, even with our good financial condition, we need money to deliver an even better educational program to our kids. But we are not confident that now is the best time to hold the election to maximize chances for success, or make the case for a significant increase in the tax.

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Correction Last week’s editorial incorrectly stated that Councilman Marc Berman was among those who participated in closed sessions in 2012 to discuss the purchase of property from developer John Arrillaga. Berman was not on the Council at the time. The Weekly regrets the error.

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

A solution Editor, Palo Alto has a new City Council dominated by residentialists. I assume that means that they will side with residents when their interests conflict with those of developers and businesses.

The first test is this week. There are 100 families living in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. They are residents of Palo Alto, some for decades. They are about to be evicted from their homes with a pittance of compensation, so that the new owner can build expensive homes. Most of them will have to leave Palo Alto since they are people of limited means.

In the past when faced with similar issues, councils have wrung their collective hands and said it is a shame but that nothing can be done. Nonsense. Here is what you can do: Buy the property. Then resell it on favorable terms to the residents.

If the owner won’t sell, then eminent domain is appropriate. Can the city afford it? Of course. In recent months the city appropriated five million dollars to remodel City Hall, and two million dollars to support a history museum that nobody wants. It “loaned” six million dollars to Palo Alto Housing Corporation for the Maybell senior housing facility. The city pays tens of millions to build affordable housing, so allowing one of the few existing affordable housing sites to disappear is not only unethical, it is stupid.

David Lieberman Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto

Charleston and San Antonio roads, my route takes me across the 101 overpass to the San Antonio Gate.

During the months that the Adobe Creek Benjamin Lefkowitz underpass is open, I use it on my return.

It seems an unwise use of $10 million dollars to build another overpass at the Adobe Creek site, which is only 0.4 of a mile from the San Antonio overpass.

The one possible dangerous part of my route is crossing the 101 south off-ramp exiting onto San Antonio Road. There are painted crossing stripes at the merge. If blinking yellow caution lights, activated by pedestrians and bicyclists, were installed within these stripes, that danger would be diminished.

Joyce Tavrow East Charleston Road, Palo Alto

More riders, some traffic Editor, Caltrain electrification improves everything about the trains. The energy savings should be a significant fraction of current energy use, and the train service will be better, too. It makes so much sense; the rest of the world has been doing this for 50 to 100 years. Electrification is a “no-brainer.”

Caltrain expansion is what is giving people headaches. Service between Palo Alto and San Francisco is standing room on rush-hour trains, and Caltrain would like to add additional cars and full trains.

I would rather have an additional trainload of passengers zipping in and out of Palo Alto on Caltrain than by any other mode. It is far more efficient than having those hundreds of commuters in cars on 101, Alma or El Camino Real.

I’ve heard that the crossings at Meadow Drive and Charleston Road will be worse, but how much?

Is Caltrain the big problem for traffic on Meadow or Charleston?

What consistently slows traffic on Meadow and Charleston is not Caltrain, but the long green period given to heavy Alma traffic.

Adding two more trains per hour for Caltrain expansion will interrupt the intersections 2 percent more, but full grade separations, eliminating all Caltrain interruptions, will only help a little. The cars will still be filling Alma.

I am glad for the plans to improve Caltrain. Maybe more of those drivers on Alma will choose Caltrain in the future.

Robert Neff Emerson Street, Palo Alto

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Should the City step up to help Buena Vista residents?

Safety first Editor, We all regret the suicides on Caltrain tracks in Palo Alto, but are we paying attention to essentially the equal number of preventable deaths that occur on the tracks? The headline on your Caltrain article points to Alma traffic congestion and mentions safety but does not enumerate the number of people and vehicles that have been hit by trains. Deaths occur on the average once each month, year after year on the Caltrain right of way. So we can eliminate the accidental deaths and discourage suicides, please have Caltrain remove the three grade-level crossings in Palo Alto. They should separate pedestrians and cars from the trains before they spend money to install electric power lines!

Jerry Delson Ashton Avenue, Palo Alto

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Is retirement funding based on ‘rainbows, butterflies and unicorns’?

by Jay Thorwaldson well-known financial analyst, talk-show host and Orange County’s treasurer-tax collector recently described state retirement-funding forecasts as “all rainbows, butterflies and unicorns.”

That beautifully poetic description appeared in an article by Chriss W. Street published in mid-January — a blunt critique of the California Public Employee Retirement System’s (CalPERS) announcement that it was slowly recovering from a catastrophic loss it suffered in 2008 from stock-market investments — losses CalPERS passed through to local agencies.

Street used the phrase last March to describe President Obama’s budget proposals, and the phrase has surfaced for decades, with origins in the late 1800s.

How that applies to Palo Alto and other agencies haunts city and school officials.

Both faced major increases in retirement costs in the past decade — with even bigger budget bites predicted.

This year Palo Alto is tackling the problem again, after three years of careful steps to improve matters. City Manager James Keene recently announced that the city will be negotiating with all its employee groups, principally the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), police and fire unions, and a managers’ group.

Success or failure could make a huge difference in whether Palo Alto can weather

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the rainbows, butterflies and unicorns that seem to be infesting public-employee retirement systems statewide. Wall Street insiders even use the shorthand “RBU” instead of the spelled-out “rainbows, butterflies and unicorns” to describe a proposal or business plan that is hopelessly optimistic, based on lovely fantasy instead of reality.

It’s reality-check time. But reality is hard to come by, it seems. Each time the subject is raised it is drowned by masses of confusing financial data and projections and, often, ill-informed opinions that flood any discussion. It becomes a challenge not unlike, well, counting butterflies.

City officials got a dose of reality one year ago from relatively new Human Resources Director Kathy Shen, who joined the city 2.5 years ago after 35 years in the private sector — where reality seems to have a firmer foothold than in public agencies.

Palo Alto’s retirement plans apply to just under 3,000 current or retired employees.

Retired employees would cost Palo Alto a projected $23.37 million for 2014, nearly 10 times the $2.4 million liability of 2003, Shen reported.

The city’s health care costs also have ballooned — from $10 million in 2002 to last year’s $24 million, projected to reach nearly $30 million by 2016-17.

Statewide the deficit of mostly unfunded promises is climbing into the billions, heading toward trillions.

How did this happen? A simple, even simplistic, answer is that it’s easier in tough economic times and tough negotiations to make promises for the future than to pay hard dollars in the present. And there is no law — yet, at least — requiring agencies to match their promises with real funding

instead of, well, butterflies.

Only action by the state Legislature to loosen CalPERS requirements on local governments will improve the situation, Shen said, eliciting unanimous agreement from the council. But obtaining legislative action is not easy, especially over expected union objections in a Democrat-controlled state.

“That’s a lot of people, and we’re going to be covering them for a long time,” she said of the 2,940 individuals in city retirement plans, predicting (with some delicacy) that it will take up to 30 years for longer-time employees to pass through the system.

A big factor is that the state’s retirement system itself is aging. In the century of its existence, times have changed. Rather than retiring at 65, many employees today retire at 55, or even 50, and most are living substantially longer, Shen noted. Many used to own their homes with paid-up mortgages, and retirement-income expectations were lower while day-to-day living was cheaper.

That’s all been turned upside down, she said.

It’s not that Palo Alto hasn’t been trying or has been unaware of the looming crisis.

In 2007, city management and SEIU agreed to swap lower health care benefits for a significant (but money-saving) boost in retirement pay. In 2008, the city adopted a two-tier retirement system that will provide lower retirement benefits for new employees.

Palo Alto generally is in far better shape than many other cities statewide, three of which have filed for bankruptcy, citing retirement and health care costs.

For all agencies, the retirement bite — unions have real teeth in many jurisdictions — is taking chunks out of general services for the community and schools,

threatening to eat up half or more of agencies’ annual budgets and services. Killer butterflies, like locusts?

There has been growing recognition of the crisis, in part due to the virtual oneman crusade conducted over several years via email by Peter F. Carpenter, a member of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District Board of Directors with a lengthy background in administration at Stanford University, in private industry and the military, where he was once a parachutist. Carpenter mainly forwards articles relating to publicemployee pensions and their impact on agencies. (To get on his list, email peterfcarpenter@me.com.)

Assessing the future, it seems, really is like counting butterflies.

I once asked that question as a reporter for the erstwhile Palo Alto Times, after I noticed thousands of small yellow butterflies flitting through the Stanford campus.

I found an elderly entomologist in an octagonal building behind the Stanford Museum, housed in an office that looked as if it came from a Jules Verne novel, all dark wood, brass and glass.

He asked me to help him find people “to count butterflies.” How? One places a chair some distance from where one sits and counts the butterflies passing between the chairs in a given time period. Then one checks the width and duration of the migration and makes a general estimate of how many millions are migrating.

Much like government budget forecasts, watching dollars flit past. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

He also writes periodic blogs at www.

PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

What was the best new film you saw in the last year?

Asked outside the Stanford Theatre on University Avenue. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.

Ken Brenner

Rosalie Bassham

Dick Maltzman

Janet Baumgartner

Ben Copland

Green Oak Court, San Mateo Banker

2nd Avenue, San Bruno Waitress

Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto Retired

Golden Oak Drive, Portola Valley Retired

Carlson Court, Palo Alto Development operations

“’American Sniper.’ (It) exposed what America is doing in the Middle East ... and reminds me anyway of how violent the world still is.”

“’Boyhood,’ because it properly depicted real people and it had a decent storyline.”

“’Pride.’ ... It was showing that people can change and ... become more open-minded under the right circumstances.”

“’Foxcatcher,’ because of Steve Carrell. ... You knew there was something wrong with (his character), but it was subtle.”

“’Guardians of the Galaxy.’ I think it’s actually the best sci-fi film ever, except ‘Star Wars.’”

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Cover Story

New police chief brings new attitude Veteran SF cop Albert Pardini aims to transform police department, build trust in the community Veronica Weber

Story by Sue Dremann

Albert Pardini, who became East Palo Alto police chief on Nov. 12, sits in his office in January and receives a briefing from officers. hen East Palo Alto’s new police Chief Albert Pardini took over in November, he inherited a department that was struggling with low morale and a lack of direction.

Former Chief Ronald Davis had dramatically reduced the homicide rate during his 8-year tenure, but he left huge holes in the department’s chain of command, according to staff. A succession of four interim chiefs worked to pull the department together, but the revolving door of leadership was taking its toll.

“My biggest worry was that we would lose quality officers to other departments,” said Officer Veronica Barries, who works di-

rectly under the chief. “Luckily, we got Chief Pardini. We love him.”

Pardini, 52, an affable leader with 32 years in the San Francisco Police Department, is doing something that has stunned the department’s weary and overworked officers. He’s talking to them, Barries said.

“He is so approachable. You would never know he is the chief.

Our officers are so shocked. He has this open-door policy. All of our officers are stunned about that,” she said.

Pardini worked in nearly every capacity in the San Francisco department, from beat patrols to heading up homicide and drug in-

vestigations.

“He brings a lot of experience with him to his new role, experience that will benefit the residents and public safety of East Palo Alto,” said San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, under whom Pardini worked when Gascon was San Francisco’s police chief.

Within weeks of getting the East Palo Alto job, Pardini found his department tested. Early on Jan. 1, officers were fired upon

by AK-47-wielding men while investigating one of many incidents of New Year’s Eve “celebratory” gunfire.

Fortunately, Pardini already had the department prepared that

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East Palo Alto police Chief Albert Pardini listens to his staff — clockwise, Detective Tommy Phengesene, Sergeant Jerry Alcaraz and Captain Michael Stasko — during a morning meeting.

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of murders. He worked to dismantle the Taliban gang. But tragedies continued to traumatize the community, including the 2011 homicide of a 3-month-old baby boy, Izack Jesus Jimenez Ramirez, whose parents were also shooting victims in a case of mistaken identity.

Morale was low after Davis left in late 2013 to head the U.S. Department of Justice national community policing effort. He had failed to hire four captains ardini’s office is located in or interim captains; officers felt a trailer on Demeter Street. there was no decisive chain of The department’s head- command. Understaffed and requarters is a cluster of temporary porting to overworked sergeants, buildings that face run-down some officers worked around the industrial wareclock. They gave houses adjacent to up days off to be the San Francisco on beat, then spent Bay marshlands. ‘His personality makes hours testifying At first, the spar- you feel like you’re in court, and then tan digs took him worked another 12aback a little, he talking to a beat hour shift. Barries admitted. But he said the exhaustis at home here, he officer, not the chief ing schedule took said.

— and he has a great a toll.

“I’m loving it.

Mark Raffaelli, I’m really glad I sense of humor.’ retired South San made the decision.

Francisco chief of – Veronica Barries, officer, police, served as It’s been life in East Palo Alto Police one of East Palo the fast lane ever Department Alto’s since,” he said. interim Pardini calls his chiefs. Pardini is a 36 officers and eight support staff good choice for the department, members “a really great group of he said. people.”

“He hit the ground running and Those are words East Palo is asking all the right questions.

Alto’s department hasn’t always There are some big challenges heard. The department was because Chief Davis did not leave wracked by scandals in its ear- the department in good shape,” lier years, including accusations in spite of the positive programs of deep corruption and incom- launched under Davis’ watch, petence. A San Mateo County Raffaelli said. (Davis declined to grand jury concluded in 1997 that comment for this article.) the city should disband its police In the two months he worked force and contract with the San with Pardini, Raffaelli said the Mateo County Sheriff’s Office new chief has already made for five years. strides to overcome the departThen Davis took the helm and ment’s problems. Pardini is dramatically reduced the number “gaining the trust of the departnight. He had doubled staffing on the streets, and officers were able to quickly respond and secure the area, he said.

Police evacuated residents of nearby homes and moved them in a van to a safe location. They obtained a search warrant and stormed the house where officers had seen muzzle fire. Eight people were taken into custody. Investigators are working to determine who shot at the police.

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Chief Albert Pardini attends an East Palo Alto City Council meeting at City Hall on Jan. 20. ficult cases; and he reformed how working and invested in the deinspectors were promoted to the partment. I think some officers homicide division, the SF Weekly felt they couldn’t come to him. reported.

He has this ‘command presThe new chief ence’ about him. said he has some It makes it kind of similar plans for hard for some ofhis East Palo Alto ‘I tell my officers, ficers to approach teams. First on his him, and he didn’t list: interviewing “Remember that have a lot of time. every employee contact you have with Some officers felt to find out their a little neglected,” strengths and con- that citizen might be she said. cerns.

But Pardini has their only contact “I ask stock an open-door polquestions like: with police, and you icy. If he’s in his What are the three office, anyone can things as a police have to make a good come in and disdepartment that impression.”’ cuss an issue, idea we are doing well? or concern they – Albert Pardini, chief, East have, she said.

What are the three Palo Alto Police Department things we could be “His personality doing better? Who makes you feel like do they see as the most effective you’re talking to a beat officer, supervisors, and why?” he said. not the chief — and he has a great Those interviews are a first for sense of humor,” she said. the department, said Barries, who Department members feel relief worked directly under former with Pardini’s hire, Barries said. chief Davis.

“We were always worried about “Chief Davis was extremely what kind of chief we were going busy. He was extremely hard- to get. Will he be a politician and

not really take care of the department? Will he really fix the issues?” she said.

At the top of Pardini’s list of fixes is revising the department’s policies and practices manual, which will more clearly guide officer conduct, Barries said. The new chief is using Lexipol, a Webbased provider of state-specific policies and training systems. He is building on work started by interim chiefs Lee Violett and Raffaelli, Barries said.

Pardini is also planning to restructure the department, an approach he took when improving SFPD’s homicide investigations.

He said he is reviewing all positions and revising their responsibilities so that the jobs work better together. He’s taking one issue at a time, asking, “What’s the problem? How can we fix it?

And what’s the next challenge?” he said.

If relationship building in the department is of paramount importance to Pardini’s strategy, so too is strengthening bonds with community members.

Veronica Weber

ardini takes a two-pronged approach to battling crime.

Reducing violent crime is his first priority, he said, but he’s also going after quality-of-life crimes, such as drug dealing, racing cars, loud music and street parties.

One line of attack: revitalizing research on cold cases that have a potential to be solved. It’s an area to which he brings sizable experience. Pardini dramatically improved San Francisco Police Department’s murder-investigations division in 2009.

An SF Weekly headline noted the transformation under Pardini: “Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days.”

Six months after Pardini arrived from the city’s narcotics squad to head the investigations division, his team was closing out a backlog of unsolved homicides.

He added extra staff early in homicide investigations. Two-thirds of the homicides were solved.

That was more than double the rate of the previous two years, the SF Weekly noted.

Pardini doubled the investigation teams and added a nightwatch team who could immediately respond to nighttime murders; he re-arranged desks in an open plan so investigators could easily work together on dif-

Veronica Weber

ment, holding the officers more accountable for solving community issues, providing clear expectations, listening to what the members of the department have to say, addressing the needs of the community and getting the community to help get back their community by coming forward to help the department solve crimes, changing the culture of the organization, repair the morale and provide the officers with the proper tools to be effective in the service they provide,” he said.

“To be clear, it is not a doomand-gloom situation. The members of the department are upbeat, hungry for the change. They now have someone who is approachable and has shown he cares. What I have seen is a group of men and women who are dedicated to providing a safe community,” he said.

Denise Schmitt, deputy chief of SFPD’s Airport Bureau Patrol Division, recalled Pardini’s patient approach to problem-solving back in 1992 when she was a new officer and he was a sergeant in the Mission district.

“He’s a great, calm presence when you’ve got a whole lot of things going on. The one phrase he would always say is, ‘I’ve peeled the layers here. I’m slowly peeling the layers back.’ It made me realize that I don’t have to jump in and chop something in half to get it solved,” she said.

Choosing Pardini for the East Palo Alto job was a good decision, she added.

“When they announced that he was a candidate, I thought, ‘If they have the ability and foresight to get him, you’ll be well served,’” she said.

Chief Albert Pardini wears his police-chief badge and an American flag pin over his heart.

“I tell my officers, ‘Remember that contact you have with that citizen might be their only contact with police, and you have to make a good impression,’” he said. “If you make a mistake, tell a supervisor right away.”

“The way they get themselves in trouble with me is if they do something a 14-year-old Explorer would do or something malicious.

Then they’re going to be in my office, and they’ll be accountable to me,” he said.

Pardini meets with his staff every morning to go over assignments and discuss the latest trouble spots. On a recent morning, he took up an issue residents brought to his attention after a City Council meeting. Speeding vehicles were creating a hazard on Addison Avenue, and people were partying in cars on the street.

At 9 a.m. the next morning, Pardini assigned the complaint to a sergeant. Officers will go out and give the area special attention to disband the activities, he said.

“You’ve got to have a working relationship with the community. Taking care of those issues builds trust and credibility. The community sees that you may not always have the ability to make things perfect, but if you take action to make it better than it was the day before, then I think the community appreciates the effort,” he said.

Better communication could also help alleviate perceptions some residents have of racial profiling, he said. A poll last fall

by Eastside Preparatory School’s newspaper found that 19 percent of Latinos and 35 percent of African Americans surveyed had experienced being stopped by police in Bay Area cities “for no good reason.”

“There can be times when officers misread a situation,” Pardini told the Weekly. If the officer doesn’t explain why he or she stopped someone, that person might think it was because of race, he said.

But explaining that the person was stopped because there was a burglary in the area and the suspect was wearing similar clothing or fit a similar description “can be the difference between a good impression and a bad impression of police,” he said. rust in law enforcement has often been thin in East Palo Alto. But Pardini hopes to expand on the “community policing” model Davis first introduced.

City Councilman Ruben Abrica said that in the last 10 years, and for the past five in particular, the city has developed a certain momentum toward solving crime through community policing.

“My question was, ‘What’s the next thing? What is the next level?’ I’ll be very interested in the evolution of that process and how to make it more meaningful.

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Cover Story nior Center, Pardini made some strong allies. (continued from previous page) “The seniors loved him,” said Grant, who is president of the secommunity policing?” he said. nior center. “He established a rela“More people with more guns tionship with the seniors. Starting are not necessarily going to be all off with the breakfast program: the answers,” he said.

Serving them food, that meant a So far, he thinks Pardini is on lot to them.” the right track, starting with the East Palo Alto has had a history pinning ceremony when the chief of new people who come into the was sworn in. city and don’t listen to the voices “I think I liked what he said, of the residents, she said. acknowledging participants of “We know where the problems the community are. We want our panel, council and city officials to be management. He people that underunderstood how ‘He established a stand they must lisimportant it is to ten and to be there have community relationship with the for us, not just get relationships and seniors. Starting off busy and you never asking the commusee them again. nity to help. This with the breakfast You must always is not a one-person program: Serving be available for job: ‘I’m the chief the people,” Grant and I report to the them food, that said. manager and blah, Castro said she meant a lot to them.’ feels blah, blah.’ It’s imsafer with portant to build a – Millicent Grant, president, Pardini at the certain trust, and East Palo Alto Senior Center helm, knowing it helps to be inthere is a consisclusive with the City Council, al- tent presence. When she went for though we don’t supervise him,” a walk outside of her apartment he said. recently, a group of teens eyed Pardini’s best weapon may her, she said. lie with residents such as Milli“I didn’t like them, so I crossed cent Grant and Herminia Castro. the street,” the senior recalled.

When he showed up with a team A large metal shutoff wrench of officers for the Dec. 18 senior came clanking down at her feet. breakfast at the East Palo Alto Se“They threw it across the street;

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East Palo Alto police Chief Albert Pardini, center, and Officer Paul Norris prepare bags of food at the East Palo Alto Senior Center on Dec. 18. they were trying to hit me in the head,” she said.

But in her apartment building last Friday, police officers came to share snacks and talk with residents about the problems. And at her local church, officers gathered small groups of teens and gave them bicycles, she said.

Grant nodded approvingly.

“We have a new chief with a new attitude, and he’s going to help us. He’s come to bring something new to the table, and that makes a big difference.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

On the cover: Albert Pardini, East Palo Alto’s new police chief, stands in front of a mural beside the police department’s office.

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out of control Bill T. Jones embraces a little chaos in ‘Story/Time’

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hallenging. It’s a word that’s been ascribed to New York choreographer Bill T. Jones throughout his career, a description both of his way of approaching his material and of the resulting work. Jones’ dances have long been known for challenging social norms, expectations, audiences and critics — most famously, the New Yorker’s Arlene Croce who was once so appalled by his subject that she boycotted the performance but reviewed the dance nonetheless.

All the while, Jones has challenged himself as much as anyone: to keep working following the death of his partner, Arnie Zane; to tackle controversial topics and sometimes to avoid them; to take on projects both grand and modest — in essence, to keep moving.

Now 62 years old, Jones continues to seek new sources of stimulation, new ways of working. On Friday, Jan. 30, Bay Area audiences will get a taste of one of his recent projects when Jones brings 2012’s “Story/Time” to Stanford University.

An evening-length work combining spoken text, music and dance, “Story/Time” isn’t exactly a single work; every show is different and is arranged in part by chance. The work was inspired by that of another iconic 20th-century artist: experimental composer

John Cage. A few years ago, Jones re-discovered Cage’s “Indeterminacy” from 1959: a series of recordings of the composer reading one-minute stories, set against the avant-garde music of David Tudor, who had been set up in a different studio, so that neither artist could hear the other as they recorded. At points in the album, Cage’s voice is drowned out by the crashing of dissonant piano chords; at others, a soft shuffle of papers or a hollow rapping seems perfectly timed to reflect Cage’s tone.

“I listened to it on and off for a few years,” Jones explained in a recent telephone interview. “I loved his voice. Like Warhol, you never knew how mischievous he was being. Did he think most of us heard (‘Indeterminacy’) as music, or was it a sly way to do biography?”

To Jones, Cage’s employment of randomness and chance occurrence, his implication of a kind of artistic neutrality and egolessness on the one hand yet use of personal narrative on the other became “an inspiration and a complication, an encouragement and a provocation.”

And so Jones decided to take on a new and challenging experiment: to “inhabit” Cage’s work himself and see what resulted.

“A lot of black artists have taken on major masterpieces from the Western canon and injected themselves into them,” the choreogra-

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No two performances of “Story/Time” are quite the same; the dancing, music and narrative shift with every show.

At 62, modern dance choreographer Bill T. Jones continues to court creative challenges. pher noted. “There’s something about ‘Indeterminacy’ and how it’s so associated with Cage and the mid-20th century that when you get a person like myself inhabiting it, you have to ask who can do it and who can not.”

This preoccupation with identity and the right to make art is among the recurrent themes of Jones’ career, and in “Story/Time,” the artist brings spoken narrative to his ongoing investigation of the self.

“I am always struggling with the question of identity and who

is looking at this world,” he said, lapsing into a lyrical use of the second person as he gave an abbreviated autobiography. “You’re a person who had a liberal-arts education, one of the first in your family who went to university; your mother had a third- or fourth-grade education; your dad had a sixth-grade education. So you’re a child trying to resolve those dichotomies, and now a man trying to understand what it means to be a man with male privilege — and at the same time, a black man — and at the same time, a homosexual man.”

In “Story/Time” Jones acknowledges an autobiographical impulse that feels at once new and familiar.

“I think there’s this self-consciousness that comes with middle age, especially as a retired performer,” he mused, adding that the habit of looking at the self is at once a preoccupation of our contemporary “selfie” culture and a time-honored tradition.

There are now more than 180 one-minute stories that make up the menu for “Story/Time.” Many are personal; memories of Jones’ late mother, Estella, and recollections from childhood sit alongside observations from daily life on the streets and in the dance studio. Some stories were contributed by dancers in the company; others come from articles and

books Jones has read. Similarly, the movement phrases that make up this work have been accumulated from past works by Jones and Zane, as well as new material generated both by Jones and by the company. Jones also collaborated with electronic composer Ted Coffey, and Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong has been responsible for corralling these disparate pieces of text, music and movement into a shifting score that changes with every performance — she uses a computer program to shuffle the deck, so to speak — yet retains its essential character.

At the center of each performance, literally, is the statuesque Jones, who sits at a table on stage while the dancers swoop and dart around him. In his sonorous voice, with the command and gravitas of a classically trained actor, he reads his stories in the designated order of the evening, though he admits to making the occasional pre-show edit.

“There was a time when I was concerned about the last story of the evening,” he said. “I can’t say I’m that concerned now. It’s amazing that almost any story that comes at the end seems appropriate.”

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Robert Rauschenberg at Kennedy Space Center with Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in background, July 15, 1969.

Photograph by James Dean. Courtesy James Dean and NASA Art Collection, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

the idea that the end might be arbitrary, even unnecessary. Recalling a time when Cage came to see the company perform and complimented Jones on a duet that “felt

like it could go on forever,” the choreographer said he never really understood the comment until he began creating on “Story/Time.”

“It was only when I began to work with this material and in this modality that I came to understand

this feeling that if the audience has the stamina, there’s no reason the work has to stop,” he said. “I fantasize about doing a five-hour version. It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things where it starts and where it ends.”

That’s a surprising statement from an artist whose work has traditionally used technique, staging and a great deal of intentionality to create order out of disorder, meaning out of chaos. Yet it turns out the freedom of Cage’s approach constitutes an appealing invitation — or maybe an irresistible challenge.

“I don’t want to live in an anarchic world, but as an artist that comes close to what goes on between my ears and also in my body,” Jones mused. “I have to struggle to establish rules or a hierarchy of values and behavior. I think what Cage was inviting was to let it go.” Q

What: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in “Story/Time” Where: Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford University When: Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m., with a free conversation with the artist on Thursday, Jan. 29, at Bing Concert Hall’s Gunn Atrium, 5:30 p.m.

Cost: $30-$75 Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.

Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

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Striking the right note ‘2 Pianos 4 Hands’ tells a tale of youthful ambition THEATER REVIEW irst, a little heads-up: If you want to see TheatreWorks’ production of “2 Pianos 4 Hands,” you’ll need to get your tickets soon. Seats have been selling briskly — so briskly, in fact, that even before last Saturday’s opening the company had already scheduled three additional performances to help meet demand.

The obvious question, now that the show has opened, is whether this demand is warranted.

Happily, the answer is an unequivocal yes. This is more than just a show for classical music fans, or for former piano students who remember being stuck indoors playing scales and études while their friends were outside playing freeze tag. It’s a show for anyone who loves a good laugh, who appreciates virtuoso acting or who ever watched a childhood dream recede at the cusp of adulthood.

Described as semi-autobiographical, “2 Pianos 4 Hands” tells the story of two young Canadian piano prodigies named Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt.

The show was written and originally performed in Toronto by two former piano prodigies named — you guessed it — Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt.

The real-life Dykstra and Greenblatt met in 1993. By then, both had given up the rigors of the concert pianist’s path and were pursuing careers in theater, but they discovered that they shared many of the same experiences from their years in the competitive piano-recital circuit as children and young adults. Two years later, those experiences had become the foundation of a two-man show that the pair went on to perform across Canada, as well as in the U.S., England and Australia.

The fictionalized Ted and Richard — played, respectively, by

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Darren Dunstan and Christopher Tocco in TheatreWorks’ production — meet earlier, as children, when their piano teachers pair the promising youngsters up for a Kiwanis-hosted duet competition. (When Ted freezes at the keyboard, leaving Richard to play both parts of a four-hand arrangement by Edvard Grieg, that competition turns into the comedic highlight of a very funny first act.)

But we meet Ted and Richard at an even younger age, at some of their earliest lessons. Tocco plays a roughly 6-year-old Richard, while Dunstan becomes Richard’s teacher, the long-suffering Sister Loyola, who ends most of her lessons by announcing that she’s going upstairs for a liedown and that Richard should let himself out when he’s done.

Then, with only a change of positions and a subtle lighting change to mark the shift, Tocco becomes a hapless teacher trying to instill the rudiments of music theory and keyboard technique in an eager but largely clueless Ted. The bulk of the show proceeds in this fashion — a montage of lessons, reluctant practice sessions and increasingly rigorous exams — with each actor playing the opposite character’s parents, instructors and so forth. In addition to portraying Ted and Richard over a span of two decades, Dunstan and Tocco play more than a dozen additional roles between them, changing age, gender and nationality at the drop of a hat. Tocco is particularly good as a faculty member at a prestigious conservatory who savages Ted’s admissions audition, and as a rambling middle-aged woman who comes to Ted for beginning piano lessons. Dunstan, in turn, is memorable as the ancient Mr. Scarlotti, who conducts Richard’s lessons while lying flat on the floor, and as a cocktail bar loudmouth who really, really wants to

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Richard (Christopher Tocco, left) and Ted (Darren Dunstan) are concert pianists with big ambitions in TheatreWorks’ production of “2 Pianos 4 Hands.” hear “Piano Man.” And just in case you’re not impressed by actors who can play a dozen characters in the course of two hours, these actors also play more than a dozen classical piano pieces: sonatas, preludes and rondos by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt and more, as well as contemporary pieces by folks like Elton John, Vince Guaraldi and John Lennon. Neither of these men is a professional concert pianist, but they share enough of Dykstra and Greenblatt’s early experience — years of lessons providing technical facility and a familiarity with the classical repertoire — that they handle this music with the requi-

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Credit also accrues to director Tom Frey and scenic/lighting designer Steve Lucas, whose involvement ensures a continuity with previous productions of the same show. Lucas designed the original Toronto production, and he has brought the same elegant, performer-centered aesthetic to the stage in Mountain View. Frey, in addition to directing the show for numerous companies, has logged nearly 800 performances as Richard and understudied Ted Dykstra in an early-2000s Toronto revival. Neither man is out to fix what ain’t broke, choosing instead to recreate the carefully honed magic that has made this show a

worldwide sensation. Q Arts writer Kevin Kirby can be emailed at penlyon@gmail.com.

What: “2 Pianos 4 Hands,” presented by TheatreWorks Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: Through Feb. 8, TuesdayWednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday-Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., plus additional performances Feb. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.

Cost: $19-$74.

Info: Go to theatreworks.org or call 650-463-1960.

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Pianists LaDoris Cordell (left) and Josephine Gandolfi will perform at a musical tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 24-25.

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From “Benched” to “BoJack Horseman,” “Arrested Development” to “Louie,” Maria Bamford has a way of repeatedly landing roles on some of television’s funniest sitcoms and series. The actress, comedian, writer and star of her own web series, “The Maria Bamford Show,” will make an appearance at Stanford University on Monday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. to talk about her life and career.

Though she’s adept Comedian Maria at taking on other comBamford will speak at ic characters and delivStanford on Monday, ering laugh-out-loud Jan. 26. voice-overs, Bamford’s arguably at her best when she’s doing autobiographical stand-up. Among her recurring themes are depression, anxiety and the challenges of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Bamford’s talk is sponsored by the Stanford Storytelling Project and the Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture (ITALIC) program, and will take place at the Cemex Auditorium of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (655 Knight Way). Admission is free; early arrival is recommended. To learn more, go to tinyurl.com/q4v73wv or call 650-736-7298.

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and seniors. For tickets or more information, go to tinyurl.com/pknh5ko or call 650-688-0850.

Kids

Ballet open house Know any little ones who love to dance? Ballet San Jose will hold a free open house for families of young children at the Cubberley Community Center dance studio (4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto) on Friday, Jan. 23, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The event marks the launch of the company’s new Palo Alto program for young dancers, which will run through May 22.

From 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., families with children age 3 to 4 will get an introduction to the creative movement program; the session for 5- to 7-year-olds runs from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. All classes offered at Cubberley will feature the American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum and are designed to foster strong technique, creativity and self-confidence.

The event includes additional activities for kids including face painting, a dance-along class and a photo opportunity from Cinderella, the star of Ballet San Jose’s upcoming spring production.

To learn more about the company’s new Palo Alto children’s program, go to tinyurl.com/nf6t6nw, email school@balletsj.org or call 408-288-2820, ext. 223. Q — Renee Batti and Elizabeth Schwyzer

Music Two concerts featuring music inspired by and dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and performed by a bevy of accomplished Bay Area and New York musicians are scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24 and 25, at Eastside College Preparatory School (1041 Myrtle St.) in East Palo Alto.

The event, which is in its sixth year, is a benefit for the school and is titled “Walk Together — a Musical Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.” The program includes spirituals, freedom songs and instrumental music in traditional and jazz styles.

Among the many performers in the line-up are soprano Yolanda Rhodes, pianists Josephine Gandolfi and LaDoris Cordell and New York jazz artists Dr. Valerie Capers, piano, and John Robinson, bass and cello. The Eastside Preparatory School Choir will also perform.

Alongside jazz classics by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Waller will be several original compositions. Valerie Capers’ multi-movement work, “In Praise of Freedom,” is based on Dr. King’s March on Washington speech. Her arrangement of “Hold On: Keep your Eyes on the Prize” is a new version of a spiritual frequently sung by freedom singers of the 1960s.

Concert tickets are $20 general and $5 for students

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Ballet San Jose is expanding its kids’ classes to Palo Alto with a free open house on Friday, Jan. 23.

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Eating Out Menlo Park’s Refuge pairs pastrami, Belgian beer

$6 to $10; there are also some available by the bottle. he Refuge is a welcome addition to downtown MenEnjoy the brew of your ark, where you can almost hear a pin drop on choice at the bar, which lo Park, Friday ay nights. stretches nearly the length rly on a Friday evening, the Crane Street res- of the space and provides Even early taurant is packed, loud and lively with patrons young and plenty of seating. On Monng the two odd-couple specialties Refuge has to days, enjoy them for only $3 old enjoying offer: beerr and pastrami. each. arted getting this Belgian beer (and) pastrami “We started If you’re beer averse, g, which doesn’t make any sense,” owner Matt there are also six or so type thing, d, reflecting on the evolution of the first Refuge, wines available by the Levin said, ened in San Carlos in 2008. Early menu items glass and bottle (or just which opened uterie, foie gras and about 20 wines by the glass go somewhere else where like charcuterie, cted Levin’s French culinary background were beer isn’t the main event). that reflected voted out by customers who preferred the five or so BelIf you’re eating, stick gian beers and pastrami sandwiches, he said. with the pastrami. Passt Refuge was a marriage of two things: one, trami is made from The first hock upon moving to the Bay Area in the early the “heart of the naLevin’s shock 2000s at the dearth of good pastrami, and two: a long- vel,” the traditional m of opening a casual gastropub reminiscent cut used to make the time dream uge, a charming bistro he often passed by when cured meat. of Le Refuge, Paris Levin met his current executive chef working inn Paris. chef, “(It’s a) perfectly marbled Michael Greuel, in the kitchen at Viognier Restaurant in type of cut,” Levin said. “It’s San Mateo. really hard to come by. It’s Matt Levin, owner of Refuge, says he didn’t aim to open a pastrami and Belgian Refuge expanded to Menlo Park in 2013, bringing 24 pretty costly. It’s not a cheap beer-oriented restaurant; it just turned out that way. taps (six more than San Carlos) and what Levin describes cut of meat like it started out as “East Coast street food” — homemade pastrami sand- back in the day.” (This and the laborious process of makIt’s then carved by hand into thick pieces and piled bewiches, cheesesteaks and burgers — to the sleepy down- ing pastrami comes out to a somewhat pricey sandwich — tween two pieces of toasted rye bread with sauerkraut, town. $17.95 for the basic Reuben at Refuge — but Levin points Russian dressing and Swiss cheese. Two other variations The Belgian beer selection might be Refuge’s best claim out that at pastrami-god Katz’s Delicatessen in New York at Refuge include coleslaw or mustard; add-ons include to fame. An extensive menu boasts sour beers, blonde ales, City, Reubens go for a cool $20.) chopped liver and avocado. stouts, ciders and Trappist beers (brewed in a Trappist The first step to creating pastrami is a wet brine. The I didn’t get that “melt-in-your-mouth” experience on a monastery) as well as some American IPAs (India Pale meat is later dried off, rinsed, rubbed in spices like black recent visit, but the sandwich was enjoyable nonetheless. It Ales) and local brews. Draught beers range in price from pepper and coriander (some add paprika), slightly smoked comes with a generous side-serving of pickled red onions and then steamed, explained and pickles, which might render your order of the houseLevin. pickled vegetables ($7) null. If you’re sharing, opt for the “We steam it well past the veggie plate, which comes with not only pickles but also point until it’s completely melt- pickled jicama, mushrooms, bell peppers, pearl onions in-your-mouth,” he said. and other bounty. They’re a welcome, refreshing respite between bites of heavy pastrami.

The cheesesteak de arbol with avocado, de arbol sauce, sour cream, red onion, lettuce, tomato, cilantro and chedRefuge dar ($14) sounded intriguing but was unremarkable. We 1143 Crane St., Menlo Park opted for chicken instead of beef, which might have been 650-319-8197; refugesc.com a mistake, but I tasted mostly bread (an Amoroso roll from Hours: Monday-Thursday: Philadelphia) and sour cream. The de arbol sauce, a smoky 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. red salsa, was nowhere to be found. (Also, warning: The and 5-9 p.m.

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FROM SOCAL TO PALO ALTO ... A husband-and-wife team who gained local fame for their revamp of a historic restaurant in Santa Barbara wine country are turning their eyes north, with plans to open a restaurant in downtown Palo Alto this summer. Chef Robbie Wilson and his wife, Emily Perry Wilson, of Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos, have partnered with Chamath Palihapitiya and Brigette Lau, a Silicon Valley power couple (they’re behind The Social+Capital Partnership, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto). The new restaurant will open at 420 Ramona St., the longtime home of Mandarin Gourmet, which closed in October. Emily said her husband has been developing the concept for this restaurant for several years, though she’s a bit cagey when it comes to details. “Without disclosing too much at this juncture, I can tell you it will be reflective of Robbie’s culinary history,� she wrote in an email (on his resume: New York hot spots Nobu and Craft). “It’s also a celebration of simple ingredients, and will be a partnership with the finest ranchers, farmers and artisans.� The restaurant will be called B+B (no answer yet on what that stands for).

The team is planning an extensive renovation for the 4,400-square-foot space with a goal of opening this summer, Emily said.

IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S A SUSHIRRITO ... Worlds collide at Sushirrito, the fast and casual San Francisco restaurant that serves sushi in burrito form. A new Palo Alto location is now open on University Avenue. The downtown restaurant (sandwiched between Umami Burger and Chantal Guillon, near Kipling Street) is Sushirrito’s fourth. Owner Peter Yen was a downtown San Francisco worker who craved sushi that wasn’t expensive nor time-consuming to eat, but was still high quality. He came up with the concept (and trademarked it) in 2008. Three years later, Yen teamed up with Ty Mahler, formerly executive chef at Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion in San Francisco, to open the first Sushirrito. They laid claim to the 448 University Ave. space several months after Sabrosa Taqueria shuttered in April 2014. The menu features eight main sushi burritos, wrapped in nori and stuffed with combinations of raw or cooked fish, meat, veggies, rice and often Asian- or

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SIXTH TIME’S THE CHARM ...For more than a decade, 473 University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto has housed Italian restaurants, one after another. There was Francis Ford Coppola’s Cafe Niebaum-Coppola in 2002 and then the more casual Cafe Rosso & Bianco, followed by an Italian-style steakhouse. Next came Cafe Renzo, which opened in 2010 and recently morphed into Cafe Alto after the owners parted ways. Two employees from the Alto-Renzo era have now turned owners. Eduardo D’ignoti and Mario Alessi, who both hail from Sicily, took over in the fall of last year to open Arte Ristorante.

They remodeled the space thoroughly, and the menu has also been cut down; the new ownership is bringing a focus on seasonal, higher quality ingredients (meaning higher prices) for fewer items.

D’ignoti, a painter and decorator who came to the United States eight years ago, has overseen the physical revisions while Alessi focused on the menu. The name of the new restaurant is a marriage of their two worlds and passions — art and food. D’ignoti, clearly passionate about art, said he wants the restaurant to become a venue for exhibits and art-related events.

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Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in “A Most Violent Year,� a drama of business and morals set in 1981 New York City.

Oil and blood do mix A businessman is put to the moral test in ‘A Most Violent Year’ 000 1/2 (Century 16) “We Set the Standard� goes the motto of Standard Heating Oil, the fictional small business at the center of urban drama “A Most Violent Year.� The motto slyly announces the allegory writer-director J.C. Chandor is after, but could just as well describe the rising auteur’s mature filmmaking style.

Oscar Isaac (“Inside Llewyn Davis�) stars as Abel Morales, an immigrant who’s been chasing the American dream with his shipping fleet of heating-oil trucks. The time is 1981, the place New York City. Hindsight tells us this was statistically the “most violent year� in the city’s history, and Abel is feeling it: His trucks have been singled out by armed hijackers who steal hundreds of

thousands of dollars of fuel. The escalating pressures on his business and his sense of self include scared drivers insistent on being allowed to carry firearms, an assistant D.A. (David Oyelowo) bringing charges of corrupt business practices and a handful of withering advisers, including a consigliere (Albert Brooks) and a wife (Jessica Chastain’s Anna) who’s taken a page from Lady Macbeth’s playbook.

Abel keeps telling himself, “I’ve always taken the path that is most right,� but the refrain begins to sound more and more defensive as he’s pushed into compromise, until we begin to wonder how true it was to begin with. As Abel tries fruitlessly to draw moral lines, Chandor intriguingly engages in issues like

Standing still, ‘Alice’ moves Julianne Moore strides toward Oscar as an Alzheimer’s sufferer 00 1/2 (Aquarius) There’s a master class in screen acting coming to a theater near you, which is reason enough (for those who care about such things) to see “Still Alice.� Heavily favored to take home a Best Actress trophy at this year’s Oscars, Julianne Moore plays the titular character afflicted with earlyonset Alzheimer’s.

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the gun debate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are we safer with or without them? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the roots of a corporate culture that has squeezed out employee loyalty. The latter theme gets achingly humanized in the person of Julian (Elyes Gabel), a driver and fellow immigrant who Abel reluctantly disappoints.

That the tale is one of blood and oil certainly is no accident; Chandor allows for a broader reading of the compromises forced on (or ruthlessness embraced by) American politicians, for what is latter-day war but big business? The historical perspective of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s setting also invites cinematic nostalgia. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible not to think of Sidney Lumetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart, atmospheric, dialogue-and-actor-driven urban thrillers, especially in light of the versatility he shares with Chandor, whose previous two films were the rat-a-tat-tat â&#x20AC;&#x153;Margin Callâ&#x20AC;? and near-silent, existential â&#x20AC;&#x153;All is Lost.â&#x20AC;? One can also see shades of William Friedkin in the hold-your-breath action sequences, and Isaacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commanding lead is positively Pacino-esque, circa â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfather.â&#x20AC;?

At times, such touchstones are too obvious: Chastainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gangsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter unmistakeably evokes Michelle Pfeifferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moll from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scarface.â&#x20AC;? More importantly, Anna feels more like a narrative device than a person, despite Chastainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to ground the character. All in all, though, Chandor makes â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Most Violent Yearâ&#x20AC;? an unsettling examination of moral drift, over a year in the life of a man and a generation in the life of a country.

Rated R for language and some violence. Two hours, 5 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese

John Howland (Alec Baldwin) and his wife Alice (Julianne Moore) confront a life-changing illness in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still Alice.â&#x20AC;? precipitate it, Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being one of the cruelest. On the other hand, films about disease run a real risk of earning the â&#x20AC;&#x153;diseaseof-the-weekâ&#x20AC;? label, born of a time when such stories of struggling against illness dotted the networkTV (and, later, Lifetime cable) landscape.

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A Most Violent Year (R) +++1/2

Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.

American Sniper (R) ++ Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 12:30, 2:10, 3:45, 5:25, 7, 8:40 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 12:20, 2:30, 3:25, 5:35, 6:35, 8:40 & 9:40 p.m. In X-D at 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:25, 7:30 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: Fri & Sat 10:45 a.m., 1:40 & 4:35 p.m.

Big Eyes (PG-13) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 1:30 & 7:20 p.m.

Annie (PG)

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Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45 & 4:50 p.m.

Birdman (R) +++ Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 4:45 & 10:20 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.

Blackhat (R) Century 16: 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:20 p.m., Sun 10:55 a.m.

Century 20: 1:35 & 7:45 p.m.

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 12:55 p.m. Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:05 p.m., Fri & Sat 3:30 p.m.

Century 20: 12:35, 3:50, 7:10 & 10:25 p.m.

How the West Was Won (1962) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

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The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 5, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m.

Into the Woods (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m.

Mortdecai (R) Century 16: 11 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Paddington (PG) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m.

Selma (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:30, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m.

Spare Parts (PG-13)

Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:05 & 10 p.m.

Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

Still Alice (PG-13) ++1/2

Strange Magic (PG) Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:50 p.m.

Taken 3 (PG-13)

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 5:20, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++ Century 20: 7:30 & 10:25 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Unbroken (PG-13) ++1/2

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a cognitive-psychology professor (and world-renowned linguistics expert) who’s uniquely qualified to understand what the degenerative disease is doing to her as it proceeds on its death march, as well as to devise coping mechanisms to attempt to delay the inevitable. At the tender age of 50, Alice is also a statistical rarity, which is, of course, no comfort.

The plot, such as it is, concerns how Alice handles her illness, personally and psychologically, as well as troubleshooting its impact on her career, her family members and their relationships.

Husband John (Alec Baldwin), a research scientist, is sympathetic but perhaps insufficiently empathetic, his practical-mindedness threatening his ability to love Alice to the nth degree as her disease demands. Their kids (Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish) don’t much lack for loving concern, but have the additional worry of wondering — or perhaps worse, coming to know by testing — whether they have inherited the genetic markers of Alzheimer’s.

Through it all, we stick closely to Alice’s side as she frets about not being a burden and determines not to live past her mind’s expiration date. It’s all extremely upsetting and deeply sad, but “Still Alice” never distinguishes itself through style and metaphor (as did the 2012 French drama “Amour”) and rarely achieves grace in story, dialogue or character dynamics (as did Sarah Polley’s 2006 “Away From Her,” also about the devastation of Alzheimer’s on a marriage).

Still, the film hums with humanity in the person of Moore, whose towering performance shows a staggering technical proficiency (the low-budget film could not afford to shoot in sequence, compounding Moore’s challenge) and never loses a whit of emotional resonance. Moore invites us inside Alice’s pain and frustration and fear, and it becomes ours (kudos too to Stewart for maximizing her scenes as the family’s black sheep, whose sensitivity suddenly makes her an M.V.P.).

In preparing us for the human dimensions of disease, “Still Alice” ends up something of a class act.

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Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 4:35 & 10:45 p.m.

The Wedding Ringer (R) Century 16: Fri & Sat 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:15 & 9:55 p.m., Sun 10:20 a.m., 5:05, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:55 a.m. & 5:15 p.m., Sun 5:20 p.m.

Whiplash (R) +++1/2

Century 20: 7:25 & 10:10 p.m.

Wild (R) +++ Century 20: 1:50 & 7:35 p.m.

Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m.

Young and Innocent (1937) (Not Rated)

Stanford Theatre: 5:55 & 9:30 p.m.

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Home Front TOOLS FOR SUCCESS ... Harrell Remodeling is offering a workshop to provide insights into making a kitchen or bathroom remodel a success from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 1954 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View. The free workshop includes a light breakfast. Info: 650-230-2900 or visit harrell-remodeling.com INTRO TO SUSHI ... Yannette Fichou-Edwards will teach a class, “Sushi 101,” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Palo Alto High School, Room 103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The hands-on class will cover how to make shitake maki, ahi rolls, California rolls, Philadelphia rolls, and shrimp and cucumber rolls, as well as miso soup and Asian salad with ginger dressing. Cost is $50. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org ROSE CARE ... Master Gardener Kathleen Heckler will talk about “Rose Care and Pruning” from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. The free talk, which is co-sponsored by the Los Altos Library, will deal with pruning, fertilizing, mulching and reducing disease. Info: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org LEARN TO COOK? ... Hands-on cooking classes at Sur La Table, #57 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, include “Tacos with a Twist” (Reiji Ohmine, Jan. 24, 2:30 p.m., $69); “Deliciously Healthy” (Jan. 26, 11 a.m., $69); “MakeAhead Recipes from Ina Garten” (Beatrice Ricart, Jan. 27, 11 a.m., $69); “Desserts Every Cook Should Know” (Melissa Billings, Jan. 29, 11 a.m., $69); “Pasta From Scratch” (Christy Wolf, Jan. 30, 11 a.m., $69); “Fabulous French Macarons” (Melissa Billings, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., $69); “Gluten-free Cooking” (Christy Wolf, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m., $69). Info: 650-289-0438 or Cooking073@ surlatable.com RENTS ROLLING BACK? ...

Average asking rent for a twobedroom, one-bath apartment in Palo Alto has dropped by close to 1 percent — to $2,652 at the end of 2014. And in Menlo Park rents dropped by 12.5 percent to $2,766. But, if you’re looking

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Claire Elliot rigged a former wine barrel obtained from Ridge Vineyards into a rainwater storing barrel that holds up to 40 gallons of water, which she uses to water native plants in her yard.

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According to Palo Alto resident and Acterra Senior Ecologist Claire Elliot, an observer from outer space would think we are totally bonkers — and she agrees. Her view of the backwards water system is why she takes advantage of torrential storms by catching rainwater in barrels.

“I was able to collect 400 gallons of water last December and

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this December too,” Elliot said of the 2-year-old system set up at her Ventura neighborhood home. “And I am hoping this winter we get more rain coming.”

Elliot’s main catchment system is comprised of six barrels lined up like bowling pins in a three-twoone formation in the corner of her backyard. She supplements that with a repurposed wine barrel that connects to the downspout in her front yard. Elliot uses the water she collects to hydrate her garden.

Advocates of rain harvesting say rain barrels and cisterns conserve water, reduce flooding and minimize pollution. Reusing water for landscaping reduces the use of the Hetch Hetchy supply and minimizes the amount of road runoff that reaches local water sources during floods, Elliot said.

Collected rainwater is not safe to drink, but it is useful for lawn and garden watering. And, according

to Elliot, as long as containers are properly screened to keep out organic debris, the rainwater can be stored indefinitely.

As of October 2014, Bay Area community members can receive rebates for installing rainwater catchment systems on their properties. Palo Alto residents and businesses are eligible for rebates from the city; rebates are also available through the San Mateo Countywide Water Pollution Prevention Program for San Mateo County residents.

The combined rebates total $100 maximum per storage device. Barrels and cisterns must hold at least 50 gallons and be newly purchased to qualify for the rebates. A full list of requirements and installation guidelines are available on the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency website (bawsca.org).

Just under 100 residents have taken advantage of the rebates since

Claire Elliot’s backyard features six rainwater catching barrels, which hold roughly 50 gallons of water each made from repurposed oliveoil barrels from Aaron’s Barrels and Containers of San Jose.

the program rolled out, according to Michael Hurley, BAWSCA water resources manager. Elliot said a sixbarrel system such as hers cost less than $300, which could be covered entirely by the two rebates.

Rain catchment systems vary in volume and style but are generally simple enough for residents to set up themselves. Typically, barrels are connected to a roof downspout with a small screen-covered opening. A spigot near the bottom releases the collected rainwater, which can then be transferred to other receptacles for watering.

Due to the limited local rainfall, residents should consider building large enough systems to collect a significant amount of water at a time, according to Kit Gordon, GreenTown Los Altos watershed stewardship chair.

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the same time of the year, so you need a pretty big system in order to be sufficient,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said.

Multiple barrels can be connected with hoses to aggregate higher volumes of water. Elliot calls the method she used to fasten her six barrels the â&#x20AC;&#x153;daisy chain,â&#x20AC;? and it allows her to hold onto a larger volume of water during dry weeks.

When installing barrels, residents should be wary of mosquitoes and the setup location. Barrel openings must be fitted with screens to avoid creating a bug haven, and residents should avoid placing barrels on impervious ground surfaces, as significant overflow could topple them. Elliot suggests building systems on permeable ground, such as gravel, which allows excess water to sink in.

Residents who want to take their barrels to the next level can hook up pumps and hoses to create a rainwater sprinkler system, which Elliot plans to do in the near future.

Residents hoping to make a bigger impact on flooding can also plant perennial grasses and install absorbent driveways, which hinder impure water from reaching the local creeks.

For hillside properties like hers, Gordon said planting trees can prevent large quantities of urban runoff pollution from hitting the storm

drains. Local environmentalists also advocate for the use of greywater systems, which allow residents to recycle water from baths, sinks and laundry machines for different uses.

For people interested in creating a rainwater collection system of their own, Hurley suggests looking at information posted on the BAWSCA website, or participating in a free workshop hosted by the agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have landscape education courses,â&#x20AC;? Hurley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As part of those classes thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a segment that discusses the use and operation of rain barrels.â&#x20AC;?

Occasional workshops are also hosted by Greentown Los Altos and Acterra. The City of Palo Alto website also provides more information about rebates, barrels and rainwater uses.

To see a catchment system in action, Elliot suggests visiting the Arastradero Preserve where a row of barrels are on display behind the gateway buildings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to work on changing policy and peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perspectives on the safety of rainwater,â&#x20AC;? Elliot said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a lot of room for us to be increasing the amount of recycled water.â&#x20AC;? Q

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East Palo Alto

in Mountain View, the picture is not quite so rosy: Rent rose by 10.4 percent to $2,556, quickly catching up to its northern neighbors. All figures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; calculated by RealFacts, a Novato-based marketing group â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are based on rents in buildings of 50 or more units. Q

HOME SALES

East Palo Alto

140 Daphne Way J. Wallace to L. Sun for $370,000 on 12/3/14 2462 Fordham St. Han Trust to H. Marshall for $480,000 on 12/10/14 2080 Glen Way A. Nofal to E. Diaz for $681,000 on 12/5/14; previous sale 10/04, $542,000 2536 Hazelwood Way M. Gilliam to J. Garcia for $535,000 on 12/4/14; previous sale 2/09, $295,000 930 Weeks St. Working Dirt to J. Shah for $574,500 on 12/3/14; previous sale 4/96, $190,000 205 E. Edith Ave. F. Parsie to Lee Family Properties for $2,750,000 on 12/18/14 1 W. Edith Ave. #C213 Clack Trust to C. Ashton for $209,500 on 12/22/14 789 Manor Way Kornel Trust to Ashcraft Trust for $4,450,000 on 12/19/14 2215 Vineyard Court Panec Trust to A. & L. Schuetz for $1,950,000 on 12/19/14

Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $555,500 Highest sales price: $3,800,000

Los Altos

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $209,500 Highest sales price: $4,450,000

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $475,000 Highest sales price: $3,250,000

Los Altos Hills

Woodside

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,700,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000

Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

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Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $370,000 Highest sales price: $681,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,100,000 Highest sales price: $2,100,000 Source: California REsource

Los Altos Hills

13800 Barton Court Keigwin Trust to L. Vaidyanathan for $3,700,000 on 12/29/14; previous sale 1/00, $1,600,000

Menlo Park

1321 Carlton Ave. A. Henriquez to Anderson Trust for $680,000 on 12/4/14; previous sale 6/99, $259,000 1301 Hollyburne Ave. J. & M. Ruiz to S. Le for $555,500 on 12/10/14; previous sale 7/95, $197,000 1985 Oak Ave. J. Miller to G. Tewari for $1,876,500 on 12/10/14; previous sale 11/04, $850,000 431 Oak Court I. Salceda to Hayhurst Trust for $2,025,000 on 12/9/14; previous sale 9/00, $1,365,000 541 Palmer Lane Kreuzer Trust to Y. Liu for $1,668,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 6/79, $135,000 2160 Santa Cruz Ave. #3 R. Dhawan to M. Chant for $615,000 on 12/4/14; previous sale 11/11, $357,000 1010 Sharon Park Drive Counter USA to M. Amarnath for $3,800,000 on 12/3/14; previous sale 1/90, $600,000 2130 Sharon Road Kennelly Trust to Y.

Bhat for $2,300,000 on 12/11/14; previous sale 6/84, $237,000 1330 University Drive #62 Jefferis Trust to Keith Trust for $1,195,000 on 12/3/14; previous sale 3/99, $619,000

Palo Alto

271 Carolina Lane Rokita Trust to F. Kidave for $1,705,000 on 12/29/14 185 Cowper St. Onice Capital to T. Hou for $475,000 on 12/19/14 647 Forest Ave. Gross Trust to Domingo Trust for $1,225,000 on 12/24/14 4110 Old Trace Road Oliff Trust to Chawla Ventures for $3,250,000 on 12/23/14

Woodside

2025 Kings Mountain Road Galliano Trust to K. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill for $2,100,000 on 12/4/14

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by Kim Heng and Michael Repka n November, President Obama announced a new plan to further open the American door to the Chinese and predicted that this new visa agreement could inject billions of dollars into the U.S. economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the current arrangement, visas between our two countries last only one year. Under the new arrangement, student and exchange visas will be extended to five years; business and tourist visas will be extended to 10 years,â&#x20AC;?

President Obama said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing. (See cambio.com/videos/virals/ obama-announces-us-china-visa-deal--518506453/.)

Prior to this agreement, Chinese citizens had to renew their American business, tourist and student visas annually.

These visa regulations for travel from China to the U.S. was â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the biggest stumbling blocksâ&#x20AC;? for Chinese buyers of U.S. real estate, said Simon Henry, co-chief executive of juwai.com, Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest international real estate website. According to the White House, 1.8 million Chinese tourists visited the U.S. in 2013, generating $21.1 billion to the U.S. economy, and with this new visa law, up to 7.3 million Chinese visitors are projected to visit the United States in 2021, contributing roughly $85 billion per year to the U.S. economy, predicts U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

As an organization that makes frequent trips to Asia, DeLeon Realty understands the convenience of a multi-year multiple-entry visa. One of the least convenient steps in any of our trips to Asia is procuring the necessary visas. This is especially true when the trip comes up with short notice.

But what impact will this new visa law have on the real estate market here in the Silicon Valley? We predict the local real estate market will receive a further boost as a result of the new U.S./China visa agreement. The new business

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The new visa agreement will encourage those on the fence to consider taking the plunge and investing in U.S. properties. and tourist visas will encourage more Chinese to travel to the U.S. and stay for longer periods of time. Likewise, with the extension of student visas, more Chinese parents will consider sending their children to U.S. schools. For these Chinese, having a permanent place to live while working or studying will be important.

For years, many affluent Chinese looked to U.S. real estate due to its stability and for diversification. The new visa agreement will encourage those on the fence to consider taking the plunge and investing in U.S. properties. Not only will it be easier for them to come to the U.S., it will also be easier for their friends and family to make frequent visits.

Given our local thriving economy, appreciating real estate

market, excellent schools and great weather, Silicon Valley properties will be serious considerations for these folks.

Moreover, Silicon Valley properties are considered reasonable compared to those in Shanghai or Beijing.

While the new visa agreement will likely contribute greater investment into the U.S. market, Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strict currency regulations remain in effect, and we have seen enhanced enforcement by the Chinese central government over the past six months or so. These regulations prevent large amounts of currency from moving out of China. For example, Chinese nationals are allowed to transfer the equivalent of U.S. $50,000 per year into a foreign bank account. Given the hot, all cash, non-contingent real estate market in Silicon Valley, buyers from China looking to purchase properties in this area should plan ahead, and care should be given to ensure compliance with all U.S. and foreign laws. Additionally, these buyers should be prepared to provide proof to sellers that the funds are available. Along the same vein, sellers and agents should request proof of funds with the offer letter to ensure that the buyers have the ability to close on time. Additionally, when verifying funds, listing agents must understand the significant differences between the rules that apply to mainland China and Hong Kong, which is classified as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special Administrative Region.â&#x20AC;?

In conclusion, we are optimistic that the new U.S./China visa agreement will have a positive impact on the housing market in the Silicon Valley in the coming years. Q Michael Repka, managing broker and general counsel for DeLeon Realty, Palo Alto, formerly practiced real estate and tax law in Palo Alto. He serves on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Realtors. He can be reached at MichaelR@DeLeonRealty.com. Kim Heng is Director of Asian Operations for DeLeon Realty.

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Situated on a beautiful tree-lined street in the highly sought-after Crescent Park neighborhood, this lovely six bedroom, two and one-half bath home features an elegant formal entry, a stunning living room with fireplace and beamed ceiling, a formal dining room, and a spacious great room. Multiple glass sliding doors lead from both living room and great room to the expansive rear deck and mature yard with pool. Completing the appeal of this rare opportunity are hardwood floors, high ceilings, an abundance of natural light, an upstairs relaxing seating area, a 2-car attached garage, and close proximity to downtown Palo Alto. 3,086 sq. ft of living space. Lot size: 8,400 sq.ft.

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$2,995,000

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3229 Morris Drive | 4bd/2ba Susan Sims | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

11525 Old Ranch Lane I 4bd/3.5ba Cindi & Brittany Kodweis I 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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$4,988,000

MENLO PARK

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$1,050,000

1045 Pine Street | 3bd/2.5ba Christy Giuliacci | 650.462.1111

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819 Laurel Avenue | 3bd/2ba Monica Corman | 650.462.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

LOS ALTOS

$3,680,000

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PALO ALTO

$750,000

580 Vista Avenue | 3bd/2ba Michael Johnston | 650.323.1111

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Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $2,995,000 1320 American Way Beautifully designed, this home features quality craftsmanship inside & out. MP Schools! 4 BR/4 BA Hossein Jalali CalBRE #01215831 650.740.2233

Los Altos Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,795,000 1398 Marinovich Way Totally remodeled w/ new kitchen & baths on quiet street. Oak Elem & Mountain View High. 6 BR/3 BA Liz Daschbach CalBRE #00969220 650.323.7751

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Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,750,000 377 Wayside Rd. Beautifully remodeled single level home in a sunny woodland setting of approx. 1.5 acres. 2 BR/2 BA Jean & Chris Isaacson CalBRE #00542342/01754233 650.851.2666

Sunnyvale Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,475,000 1519 Samedra Beautiful 3BD/2BA home with hardwood floors in living area. Award winning schools. 3 BR/2 BA Alan & Nicki Loveless CalBRE #00444835 & 00924021 650.325.6161

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BLUE TURTLE DENTAL BLUE TURTLE DENTAL, PRACTICE OF K. SCHEEL, DDS INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599774 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Blue Turtle Dental, 2.) Blue Turtle Dental, Practice of K. Scheel, DDS Inc., located at 2290 Birch Street, Ste. A, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): K. SCHEEL, DDS INC. 2290 Birch Street, Ste. A 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 December 31, 2014.

(PAW Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015) L.S. & CO. LS & CO. LS AND COMPANY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599976 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) L.S. & CO., 2.) LS & CO., 3.) LS and Company, located at 555 Byron St. #105, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015) ADORE HANDCRAFTED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600011 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Adore Handcrafted, located at 702 Garland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015) Assistant.ai FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599861 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Assistant.ai, located at 443 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SPEAKTOIT INC. 443 Waverley 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 January 5, 2015.

(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015) ETCHED IN STONE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600298 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Etched In Stone, located at 644 Azule Ave., San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2015) Api.ai FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600295 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Api.ai, located at 443 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

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525 Adult Care Wanted

215 Collectibles & Antiques Antique Chinese Pictograph/ Sign $1495.00 Bonsai Collection

115 Announcements Pregnant?

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135 Group Activities Scottish Country Dance Palo Alto Thanks St Jude Writing for healing

140 Lost & Found Found Brown CAT Mountain View RING FOUND Thin woman’s ring found in downtown Palo Alto parking lot.

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The success of our Dec. sale has provided us w/ space to display more furnishings, collectibles, artwork, decorative accessories, clothing & lots of utilitarian household goods from the estate of a long-time Japan resident.

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Sports Shorts

PREP BASKETBALL

Logjam starting to loosen

HE’S THE BEST . . . Stanford signee Grant Fisher, a senior at Michigan’s Grand Blanc High School, was named a repeat winner of the Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year award on Thursday. Fisher, who captured his second consecutive Foot Locker national championship in December in San Diego, became the 10th repeat winner in any sport in the history of the Gatorade national award. Dathan Ritzenheim, the last two-time Gatorade Michigan Cross Country Runner of the Year before Fisher, presented him with the award during a ceremony at Grand Blanc High. Fisher is one of five all-time to win back-to-back Foot Locker national titles, clocking 15:00 over 5 kilometers.

ON THE AIR Friday Prep basketball: Menlo-Atherton at Woodside, 6 p.m. (girls, boys at 7:45 p.m.;); KCEA (89.1 FM) Women’s basketball: Stanford at UCLA, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM)

Saturday Men’s basketball: Arizona St. at Stanford, 9 p.m.; ESPNU; KNBR (1050 AM)

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he three-way tie in the West Bay Athletic League boys’ basketball race is down to just a pair of teams, and that tie will change again on Friday night.

Sacred Heart Prep knocked Menlo School out of a share of first place with a 77-56 triumph on Tuesday night. The Gators (50, 13-2) share the top spot with Pinewood (5-0, 11-2), which held off pesky King’s Academy, 43-34.

Sacred Heart Prep will host Pinewood on Friday at 7:30 p.m., with the winner grabbing sole possession of first place.

The Gators set the stage for the showdown by romping past visiting Menlo (4-1, 10-4). a 46-21 halftime lead put the game out of reach for the Knights, who were forced into 27 turnovers by an effective SHP press.

“We pressed until mid-third quarter and the score dictated taking it off,” said SHP coach Tony Martinelli, whose team held a 38-point lead in the third quarter.

Corbin Koch and Mason Randall each tallied 16 points for SHP with James McLean adding 15 and Conner Moses contributing 13. The Gators, who made nine 3-pointers, have won six straight and 13 of their past 14.

“Rivalry games always lend themselves to being tighter on the scoreboard, but I felt like my guys played loose and were comfortable playing at home,” said Martinelli. “It is always a great environment at SHP when we play Menlo, so I was happy that we could reward the fans for coming out and supporting us.”

Charlie Roth led Menlo with 18 points and nine rebounds. Tench Coxe drained four 3-pointers for 12 points and Liam Dunn finished with eight. A five-point first quarter put Menlo into a big hole right from the start.

In Los Altos Hills, Pinewood trailed King’s Academy by 11-6 after one quarter and 22-16 at the half. The Panthers rallied in the third period by holding the Knights to just six points and the teams headed to the final period tied at 28.

Ryan Brice and Nathan Beak led Pinewood with 14 points each with Jordan Riches adding 12 points and nine rebounds.

Pinewood was just 3 of 20 from 3-point range for 15 percent. Brice also had eight boards.

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PREP SOCCER

Paly teams end streaks of futility

by Keith Peters he Palo Alto boys and girls soccer teams have been downright unlucky against their Mountain View counterparts in recent years. It seemed as almost a given that the Spartans would find a way to keep the Vikings from winning.

Heading into this season, the Paly boys carried a six-match winless streak against Mountain View while the girls’ streak of frustration was twice as long with nine losses and three ties.

If you keep flipping the same coin, however, it’s bound to land on heads at some point. And, that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday.

The Palo Alto boys took their streak of futility to Mountain View while the Paly girls hosted the Spartans. At the end of the day, the Paly boys emerged with a 1-0 win while the girls were triumphant at 2-0.

The Paly boys beat Mountain View for the first time since Jan. 21, 2010 while the girls won for the first time since their second match with the Spartans in 2007.

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford’s Daniel Tublin had 16 kills and 12 digs but the 12th-ranked men’s volleyball team fell to visiting Long Beach State, 18-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-22, in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match Wednesday night.

Evan Enriques added 12 kills, James Shaw had 44 kills and a hitting percentage of .545 on 11 attempts for the Cardinal. Kyle Dagostino added 14 digs. Stanford (1-2 MPSF, 2-4 overall) looks to get back in the winning column on Friday, when Cal State Northridge visits for a MPSF match at 7 p.m. . . . Playing together for only the second time this season, Stanford’s Tom Fawcett and Maciek Romanowicz captured the Sherwood Cup doubles title on Monday morning in Thousand Oaks. Fawcett and Romanowicz defeated USC’s Max de Vroome and Roberto Quiroz, 6-4, in the championship match . . . The No. 2-ranked Stanford men’s gymnastics team will take on a trio of top-10 teams in the nation this Saturday when it plays host to No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 6 California and No. 10 Nebraska starting in Burnham Pavilion starting at 4 p.m.. Admission is free. All four teams finished in the top 10 at last yearís NCAA Championships with the Sooners placing second and the Cardinal third in the final round.

SHP boys can reduce tie atop WBAL standings even further

Palo Alto junior Michel Siaba celebrates his first-half goal that kept his team tied for first place.

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Girls basketball Menlo-Atherton probably didn’t realize at the time how important its 60-55 victory over host Aragon was on Wednesday night, until learning of a Mills victory over Hillsdale at the same time .

M-A’s win, coupled with the Mills triumph (33-29), threw the PAL South Division race into a three-way tie — with Capuchino joining the top spot, as well.

The Bears (4-1, 12-5) started fast and opened a 19-8 lead midway through the first quarter on seven points from sophomore Megan Sparrow. However, the Dons chipped away at the lead to pull within two points at the half.

Midway through the third,

Sacred Heart Prep junior Mason Randall (23) makes a leaping save of a loose ball while Menlo School’s Jack Hammond (5) defends during SHP’s 77-56 win on Tuesday to remain tied for first place. high 19 points with sophomore Erin Poindexter-McHan adding 12. Senior Marissa Hing and freshman Stella Kailahi each contributed 10 points. The Panthers had 11 three-pointers, with Bade connecting on five. Kailahi led the rebounding with seven with junior Chloe Eackles providing nine points, four rebounds five assists and two steals. Sophomore Akayla Hackson added seven points, six rebounds and four assists.

In Palo Alto, Castilleja senior center Yasmeen Afifi made her season debut and the Gators came away with their first WBAL Foothill Division win, 44-39, over Mercy-San Francisco on Tuesday.

Afifi returned from an injury, after averaging a double-double and earning first team All-WBAL (Skyline Division) honors last year.

The Gators took a 17-11 firsthalf lead on back-to-back treys by Ellie Chen, but the Skippers rallied for a 19-all halftime tie. Afifi and Paige Vermeer led Castilleja to a 34-27 margin going into the final quarter. Mercy pulled to within 40-39 before Chen and Vermeer sank four last-minute free throws to ice the victory for the Gators (1-2, 8-6).

Vermeer scored a game-high 14 points. Chen totaled 13, including three 3-pointers that moved her ahead of Olivia Nicholls (‘13) for third all-time in school history.

Afifi scored eight points.

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Springs. The Panthers (2-3, 104) also got 17 points from junior Scott Harris. A 20-7 lead in the first quarter got Priory rolling to a 36-12 halftime lead.

In Campbell, Eastside Prep dropped a 64-32 decision to host Harker. The Panthers (1-4, 10-4) managed just 13 points in the first half and trailed by 51-21 heading into the final quarter.

In the SCVAL El Camino Division, host Gunn got a season-high 30 points from senior Chris Russell in a 70-48 romp over Monta Vista. Junior Alex Gil-Fernandez added 17 points for the Titans (40, 10-1), who remained atop the division standings. Gunn grabbed a 24-11 first-quarter lead and blew the game open in the third by outscoring the Matadors, 28-87. Jeffrey Lee-Heidenreich added 10 points for Gunn, which has won nine straight.

In the PAL South Division, Menlo-Atherton remained tied for third place following a 4832 victory over visiting Aragon on Wednesday. The Bears (3-2, 9-8) raced to a 17-3 lead after one quarter and remained in front the rest of the game. Ryan Cole led nine players in the scoring column with 10 points.

Aragon opened a seven-point lead with junior Briana Reynolds scoring five of her team-high 13 points. The Bears’ Sarah Howell hit a pair of 3-pointers to close the gap.

Down by two, at the start of the fourth quarter, the Bears’ Ilana Baer and Greer Hoyem each scored a pair of baskets to push the M-A lead to six points.

Aragon closed the gap to three points, but M-A protected the ball and got a final score from Carly McLanahan to put the game away.

Hoyem, a freshman, continued to fill in for the injured Ofa Sili and contributed a team-team 16 points. Howell finished with 12, all on treys.

In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Gunn remained in the thick of the race with a 62-41 win over visiting Wilcox. The Titans (2-2, 5-6) were led by Olivia Tapia’s 14 points while Georgia Hake added 11 points, two rounds and two assists. Archer Olson contributed nine points and five rebounds for Gunn, which pulled away in the second half by outscoring the Chargers, 30-17.

On Tuesday, Menlo School remained tied for first place in the WBAL Foothill Division following a close 46-43 win over host Sacred Heart Prep. The Knights (3-0, 11-3) grabbed a 31-19 halftime lead and had to hold on after being held to just two points in the fourth quarter as the Gators (0-4, 9-7) mounted a comeback.

Mackenzie Duffner tallied 14 points to lead Menlo with Hannah Paye adding 11. Chandi Ingram scored 14 points to lead the Gators, who dropped their sixth straight game.

Menlo will host Pinewood (40, 11-2) on Friday (6 p.m.) in a showdown between the only two remaining unbeaten teams in the division.

Pinewood is coming off a 78-55 win over McClatchy in the MLK Shootout at St. Mary’s High in Stockton on Monday. It was the Panthers’ fifth straight win and ninth in the past 10 games.

Senior Gabi Bade had a season-

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or the first time in six years, the 11th-ranked Stanford womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team has two teams ahead of it in the Pac-12 Conference standings.

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Stanford looks to rebound when it travels to UCLA for a 7 p.m. game on Friday. The Cardinal plays at USC on Sunday at 5 p.m.

Both games will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

Pac-12 co-leader Arizona State (6-0, 17-1) dominated the boards in its 60-57 victory over host Stanford on Monday. It was the Sun Devils first win in Maples Pavilion in 31 years, thanks to a 4422 rebounding advantage, which included 20 offensive boards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our small lineup got exposed,â&#x20AC;?

VanDerveer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We gave up 20 offensive boards; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a statement by them.â&#x20AC;?

The 22 rebounds were the fewest for Stanford since Jan. 21, 2006, when the Cardinal grabbed 20 in an 84-78 win over the Sun Devils.

Amber Orrange and Lili Thompson helped trigger a fierce second-half comeback, erasing all but one point of a 17-point deficit at one point before falling.

Orrange and Thompson have proven to be one of the best guard tandems in the conference, if not the nation. They need help though, with rebounding and making layups at the top of the list.

Stanford is seventh in the conference in field goal percentage at .432 and has no one listed among the Pac-12 leaders in that category. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another reminder of what the Cardinal could do with an inside presence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting layups,â&#x20AC;? VanDerveer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to start making the shots we know we can make.â&#x20AC;?

Thompson made one of two free throws with 4:59 left to bring Stanford within 47-46 but the Sun Devils had an immediate answer and extended their lead to 53-46 three minutes later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had opportunities to win the game,â&#x20AC;? VanDerveer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some shots but we buried ourselves in the first half. Rebounding was the difference.â&#x20AC;?

VanDerveer went with both Erica McCall and Kaylee Johnson to start the second half in hopes of neutralizing Arizona Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inside presence. It worked to a certain extent. The Sun Devils

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started making mistakes, allowing Stanford the chance to rally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You never want to get done but we played the way we wanted in the second half,â&#x20AC;? Orrange said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can take that as we move forward.â&#x20AC;?

Arizona State became the first Pac-12 team to sweep both California and Stanford on the road since USC did it during the 200001 season. The Sun Devils handed

Stanford just its third home conference loss in 14 years.

The Cardinal is nearly unbeatable when its guard-oriented game plan works.

The Cardinal has won its past 18 meetings with the Bruins, including the past six at UCLA. Since 1989, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a pleasant place for Stanford to visit. The Cardinal has lost four times in Westwood, the last in 2008.

The schedule does Stanford no favors the rest of the way. Including this weekend, the Cardinal has three games against teams with a losing record in conference, and one of those teams is Washington State.

The Cardinal still have two games with California and road games at Arizona State and conference co-leader Oregon State (6-0, 16-1). If Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streak of consecutive conference titles, currently at 14, is in danger, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this season. Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Stella Kailahi PINEWOOD SCHOOL The freshman basketball forward scored 32 points, grabbed 20 rebounds, dished five assists and had four steals to pace the Panthers to a pair of wins that kept them unbeaten in the WBAL Foothill Division race.

Corbin Koch SACRED HEART PREP The senior scored a careerhigh 34 points to help beat Justin-Siena to highlight a three-win hoop week that included 57 points, 29 rebounds, eight assists and six steals as the Gators remained tied for first in the WBAL.

Honorable mention Tierna Davidson Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Annie Harrier Menlo-Atherton soccer

Alexis Harris Palo Alto basketball

Sam Erisman* Menlo basketball

Leah Swig Menlo soccer

Alexandra Walker Menlo soccer

Ryan Brice Pinewood basketball

Will Chisholm Menlo soccer

Liam Dunn Menlo basketball

Sean MacPherson Gunn soccer

Kevin Mullin* Palo Alto basketball

Mason Randall* Sacred Heart Prep basketball * previous winner

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

Sports

Soccer (continued from page 48)

Al Chang

Palo Alto sophomore Tess Preising (7) scored both goals in the Vikings’ 2-0 victory over visiting Mountain View on Tuesday. Paly’s first win over the Spartans since 2007 ended a 12-match winless streak.

Academy in Sunnyvale. The Ga- three goals from Olivia Biggs in tors (3-0, 9-2-1) got two goals a 6-1 win over Mercy-San Franfrom Mia Shenk, the first and last cisco. The Panthers (3-0-1, 6-4-2) tallies of the contest. SHP put up also got solo goals from Jordan three goals in the first half with Berke, Caleigh Page and Monica Lauren Von Thaden and Olivia Burgos.

Athens following Shenk’s tally.

In the PAL Bay Division, host In the second half, the Gators got Menlo-Atherton battled for 80 an own goal before senior Emma minutes against a strong Carlmont Markey scored in the 69th min- squad on Tuesday afternoon, but ute, eight minutes before Shenk the game ended knotted at 0-0. wrapped things The Bears up. dominated the stats in the In another first half, outWBAL Foothill shooting the match, host PriScots 6-0 with ory was routed several scoring

by Harker, 8-3. opportunities In the SCVAL that forced the El Camino DiScots goalvision, Gunn keeper to come rolled to a 5-0 up with a few victory over key saves. visiting Wilcox.

M-A junior The Titans (2-2, Kelsey Reed 5-4-1) got the took four coreventual winner kicks in the ning goal in the second half, first half from the best opporInger Smuts, tunity forcing following an asanother save sist from Natafrom the Carllie Hill. mont keeper Smuts and Paly junior Jacey Pederson in the 68th Hill took care (white) kept defenders busy. minute. The of the scoring in the second half with each tally- Scots were kept from getting off ing twice and assisting once. Each a shot until the 60th minute and then managed to fire off a total of also scored on a penalty kick.

In the WBAL Skyline Division, seven in the last 20 minutes of the Rachel Gropper and Amanda game — forcing four saves from McMaster provided second-half M-A’s senior keeper Jacqueline goals to pace Castilleja to a 2-0 Foody.

For the match, the Bears outvictory over visiting Mercy-Burlingame at Cubberley Community shot the Scots, 10-7. With the tie, Center. Natalie Sands and Vic- the Bears move to 3-1-1 (6-2-2 toria Pu provided the assists as overall) and into third place bethe Gators improved to 2-0-1 in hind Woodside (5-0) and Burlingame (3-0-1). Carlmont is now league (5-3-2 overall).

In San Francisco, Pinewood got 3-2-1 and drops to fourth. Q Al Chang

In the 71st minute after breaking up a Mt. View attack, Palo Alto cleared the ball to the feet of Emily Tomz, who then turned and played Preising through on goal.

The Spartans’ keeper came out and dived for the ball. Preising, however, made the keeper miss Girls Palo Alto’s win over Mountain and put the ball into the goal for View moved the Vikings into a tie a 2-0 lead.

In the West Bay Athletic League for first place in the SCVAL De (Foothill Division), Menlo School Anza Division race. remained tied Tess Preisfor first place ing scored following a both goals for 1-0 win over Paly (3-1, 9-1), host Notre which was Dame-San coming off its Jose at Watfirst loss of son Park on the season last Tuesday. week against Sophomore Santa Clara Cleo King and needed a scored the victory Tueswinning goal day to stay in nine minthe race. utes into the T he two second half. teams played a Sophomore very even first Montera Eshalf with very pinosa’s long few opportunicross into the ties for either box created st at e -r a n ke d squad. The Paly senior Katie Foug (13) helped the goal and King connectSpartans (3-1, her team tie for first. ed from seven 8-3) had three corners to none for the Vikings in yards out.

Senior Leah Swig had a strong the first half.

Following intermission, Paly offensive game for the Knights (3worked the ball across the top of 0, 6-2-3) while senior midfielder the box with a series of one touch Lizzie Lacy, senior defender Japasses; Alison Lu found Ansley mie Corley, and sophomore deQueen who, with one touch, slot- fender Claire McFarland led the ted the ball through for Preising to Knights’ defensive effort, which run onto and she buried the ball in limited NDSJ to just two shots on the far corner of the net for a 1-0 goal.

Menlo hosted WBAL co-leader Paly lead in the 62nd minute.

Mountain View immediately Sacred Heart Prep yesterday.

Sacred Heart Prep kept pace began pushing numbers forward, but Paly stayed strong on defense. with a 6-1 romp over host King’s Al Chang

SCVAL De Anza Division heading into their next matches.

“We talked about out the long winless streak on Monday,” said Paly coach Don Briggs. “We have a pretty young team and do not have a lot of numbers.”

Briggs, however, is not surprised that his Vikings are competitive in the division after playing in the lower El Camino Division in 2013.

“Our strength as been our defense and, as long as we keep the other team from scoring, we have a chance to win,” he said.

Palo Alto has given up four regular goals plus a penalty kick in 11 matches this season, and has not allowed a goal in four league matches.

That streak of defensive success was put to the test yesterday as Paly (4-0, 8-1-2) hosted Homestead (4-0, 8-1) in a battle for sole possession of first place.

The Vikings set the stage for the showdown by getting a firsthalf goal from junior Michel Siaba and put up a solid defensive effort throughout to finally defeat the Spartans.

It was a tough, well-played contest against last year’s division champ. After two near-miss goals

by Paly junior Ariya Momoney, the Vikings finally converted on a set piece just outside the right corner of the box after Siaba was fouled.

Paly senior Wesley Woo made a nice cross into the goal mouth and Siaba out-finessed the Spartans’ defender and headed the ball into the upper left corner.

Mountain View started attacking quickly in the second half and put Paly on the defensive. Paly’s offensive attack came mainly from counter-attacks. Paly still created a few opportunities as the Spartans pushed up field attempting to equalize the score. This included a shot by Woo, which deflected off the right post that would have certainly taken the pressure off Paly’s defense in the final 10 minutes.

Paly keepers Alex Bomoni, followed by Eli Friedlander, combined for the shutout. Left back Steve Blatman, along with center backs Preston Kuppe and Rueben Kramer had outstanding defensive games to help drop the Spartans to 1-2-1 in league and 5-4-2 overall.

In the SCVAL El Camino Division, Gunn remained in first place following a 3-2 win over host Wilcox. The Titans (4-0, 7-4-1) got two goals from Sean MacPherson, assisted by Dmitriy Timokhin and Luis Jauregui. Fellow senior Joffy Fryett provided the game-winner off an assist from junior Cristobal Gonzalez.

On Wednesday, a possible undefeated soccer season in the West Bay Athletic League was slipping away for Sacred Heart Prep when the Gators fell behind by two goals against host Crystal Springs.

SHP coach Armando Del Rio

even admitted to being concerned as his team fell behind.

“Honestly, I was frustrated at times but pretty calm and confident because this year’s team has tied and won late a couple of times. (They) compete excellently every day as if it’s a championship day and are composed in managing games.

“I also feel that Seattle’s comeback over the weekend (in the NFC finale) added to our confidence, since we discussed it. With all that said, we need to be better in the first half, moving forward.”

So, despite trailing 2-0 in the second half, the Gators roared back and escaped with a 3-2 triumph. The stirring victory keeps SHP alone in first place at 4-0 (81-2 overall) heading into Friday’s home showdown with King’s Academy, the team that ended the Gators’ perfect WBAL season last year.

“I think Crystal is a tough place to play, with the small field,” Del Rio said. “Two years ago we tied 0-0 there.”

SHP was staring at a defeat this time before battling back with Danny Sanchez scoring off an assist from Riley Tinsley and then Tinsley tying the match with an assist from Cam Chapman. SHP finally put the match away when Oscar Delgado scored off an assist from Josh Lin. In PAL Bay Division action, Menlo-Atherton improved to 3-1 in league (6-2 overall) with a 4-1 win over visiting South San Francisco.

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