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Transitions 18 Spectrum 20 Arts 26 Eating Out 28 Shop Talk 29 Movies 30 Title Pages 35 Q News City takes aim at food scraps

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Q Home Downtown North: the ultimate walkable spot

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Q Sports Palo Alto High a mecca for CCS soccer

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Atherton Historical Property Values - Year 2014 MIDDLEFIELD TO EL CAMINO

WEST OF ALAMEDA Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 15 13 13 10 10 5 6 7 15 10 18 13

Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 41 44 42 28 32 34 28 32 42 47 50 34

Median $ 6,250,000 4,650,000 3,595,000 4,658,000 2,397,500 3,350,000 7,350,000 3,850,000 3,030,000 3,170,000 2,900,000 2,600,000

Min $ 3,000,000 2,800,000 1,115,000 1,950,000 1,425,000 2,300,000 4,100,000 2,525,000 1,210,000 2,250,000 899,000 1,430,000

Max $ 14,800,000 7,650,000 17,500,000 7,750,000 9,400,000 5,500,000 11,250,000 7,325,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 10,400,000 12,900,000

Avg $ / SF 1,101 922 969 797 773 762 1,129 800 903 911 814 684

Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 27 24 16 20 16 17 14 13 22 22 24 23

Median $ 2,350,000 2,375,000 2,412,500 1,963,000 1,670,000 1,720,000 2,387,500 2,000,000 2,644,000 1,962,500 1,953,000 1,325,000

Avg $ / SF 1,240 1,143 1,273 972 919 875 1,099 1,139 1,100 950 871 808

Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 19 24 12 15 23 13 14 22 23 24 17 26

Median $ 4,450,000 4,075,000 3,075,000 3,450,000 3,200,000 3,060,000 3,355,000 3,510,000 2,800,000 3,375,000 3,150,000 2,231,750

EL CAMINO TO ALAMEDA Median $ 5,375,000 4,225,000 4,255,000 4,080,000 3,675,000 3,650,000 3,925,000 4,460,000 4,525,000 3,495,000 3,597,500 2,626,000

Min $ 1,780,000 1,040,000 900,000 1,250,000 800,000 1,100,000 1,325,000 1,265,000 1,135,000 910,000 950,000 870,000

Max $ 25,000,000 30,300,000 21,750,000 15,500,000 11,300,000 12,900,000 11,000,000 26,000,000 19,700,000 11,500,000 17,800,000 7,200,000

Min $ 1,585,000 1,200,000 1,050,000 1,140,000 765,000 798,000 1,400,000 1,380,000 1,380,000 880,000 650,000 750,000

Max $ 7,000,000 4,995,000 4,695,000 7,200,000 5,100,000 4,350,000 6,450,000 3,450,000 7,600,000 3,450,000 4,600,000 3,700,000

Avg $ / SF 954 846 792 761 748 718 895 866 871 855 705 1,032

LINDENWOOD Min $ Max $ 2,980,000 8,380,000 2,638,000 8,650,000 1,825,000 4,500,000 2,850,000 6,100,000 1,520,000 8,800,000 1,705,000 8,389,000 2,450,000 7,250,000 2,500,000 8,400,000 2,328,000 5,500,000 2,350,000 10,200,000 1,925,000 8,200,000 1,250,000 4,767,000

Avg $ / SF 1,855 976 940 919 812 814 1,004 1,020 991 952 843 764

Palo Alto Hills / Stanford Historical Property Values - 2014 PALO ALTO HILLS Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 12 8 10 5 8 7 7 8 10 5 6 8

Median $ 3,375,000 2,500,000 2,430,000 2,650,000 2,287,500 2,000,000 2,673,000 2,587,500 1,997,500 1,550,000 2,307,500 1,912,500

Min $ Max $ 2,150,000 7,500,000 1,550,000 6,294,000 1,250,000 4,200,000 1,925,000 3,575,000 1,385,000 2,625,000 1,600,000 2,650,000 990,000 5,529,000 1,470,000 19,500,000 939,000 5,500,000 1,399,000 2,105,000 1,318,000 4,000,000 1,045,000 2,250,000

STANFORD Avg $ / SF 954 959 792 784 779 751 874 988 668 709 731 705

Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

# Sold 6 10 10 11 8 7 6 9 18 19 16 10

Median $ 2,275,000 2,335,000 1,635,500 1,610,000 1,514,000 1,570,000 1,812,500 1,650,000 1,657,500 1,550,000 1,215,000 1,129,750

Min $ 1,900,000 1,150,000 1,325,000 1,125,000 955,000 1,175,000 1,350,000 1,285,000 1,114,000 1,000,000 850,000 960,000

Max $ 2,500,000 2,600,000 3,700,000 2,000,000 2,250,000 1,900,000 2,500,000 1,958,000 2,800,000 2,850,000 2,195,000 1,890,000

Avg $ / SF 902 779 652 657 639 614 734 687 647 606 563 487

Call Jackie and Richard to Sell Your Home Sold Over $220,000,000 of Homes

MLS data based on single family home values

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

In its war on waste, city takes aim at residents’ food scraps Palo Alto’s new efforts to boost composting and recycling will increase rates by Gennady Sheyner

proposal by Palo Alto officials to reduce the amount of trash heading to the landfill could soon bring a new service to city residents and a new composting requirement for local businesses. In the latest offensive in its war on waste, the city is preparing to launch a program that officials

have been mulling for years: the collection of food scraps from residents. Under the proposal that the City Council’s Finance Committee is scheduled to consider on Tuesday night, the food scraps would be commingled with yard trimmings in green bins and picked up by the city’s hauler,

GreenWaste of Palo Alto. The organic waste would then travel to the Sunnyvale Material and Recovery Transfer (SMaRT) Station for sorting before making its way to a regional composting facility. The city expects the new foodscraps collection program to divert about 3,000 tons from landfills annually, helping the city achieve its goal of having “zero waste” going to landfills by 2021. (More than half of the material placed in residential garbage — 5,000 tons — is com-

postable, according to a city report.) If the council approves the program, every single-family home in Palo Alto will receive a kitchen pail that would be used to keep food scraps indoors until they are dumped into the green yard-waste collection bin. Acceptable items include spoiled food and scraps such as banana peels, apple cores, meat, bones, egg shells and soiled paper. In a parallel effort aimed at achieving the same goal, the city is preparing an ordinance that would

direct commercial customers to recycle and compost. Modeled after similar regulations in San Francisco, Oakland, Vancouver, Portland, New York and Seattle, the ordinance would require every customer to subscribe to both the recycling and the composting services offered by the trash hauler, along with the garbage pick-up. Currently, most commercial customers have the recycling service, (continued on page 9)

YOUTH

Panelists tell community: Listen more, listen deeply Palo Alto event provides forum for stories, advice on mental health by Elena mother, a sister and a friend who have lost loved ones to suicide, along with a psychiatrist, a pediatrician, the Palo Alto schools superintendent, a high school principal and a city representative, all spoke candidly and personally at a community event Wednesday night about the state of Palo Alto youth. The event was organized by the school district, City of Palo Alto and youth-wellness coalition Project Safety Net in response to several recent student suicides and as part of Palo Alto’s ongoing struggle to find meaningful ways — large and small — to create a healthier, more empathetic and open culture for teenagers both within and outside of school. Many of the panelists urged the almost entirely adult crowd at Cubberley Community Theatre to simply be aware and listen to their children in more subtle, supportive ways. “Be observant and pay attention,” implored parent Kathleen Blanchard, whose son died by suicide his junior year at Gunn High School in 2009, “and what that looks like is talk less. Listen more. Listen deeply. (My son) didn’t always say a lot, at least he didn’t say a lot to me, and I realize in hindsight when he did speak up and say something to me, I should have been more curious. I should have stopped folding the laundry and looked at him and listened.” Gunn senior Nathan Chandra said one of the supports that was most valuable to a friend of his who recently died by suicide was when people listened without judgment or offering immediate solutions. “I ask that everyone listen a lot more,” Chandra said. “I’m not saying that people aren’t already and

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Palo Alto High School students File Vea, left, Tiaira Witherspoon and Britney McGraw wait at the downtown bus depot for SamTrans bus #281 to take them home to East Palo Alto on Feb. 25. Witherspoon says her commute often involves a 15-minute walk from school to the depot (or a ride on the Marguerite shuttle if she can catch it) plus a 40-minute bus ride.

EDUCATION

District eyes bus for VTP students Transportation identified as critical issue for East Palo Alto students attending Palo Alto schools by Elena Kadvany

alo Alto High School graduate David Chatman wishes there had been a dedicated bus to ease the often grueling, undependable and limiting commute that Paly students who live in East Palo Alto take. He, like many of the Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP) students who currently attend Paly, depended on public transportation to get to and from school every day. Chatman called the public bus “an inconvenient convenience.” It got him to school but not always on time. The infrequency of buses in the evenings affected whether he would play on the

football and basketball teams (he did, though it was difficult). And when it wasn’t convenient to catch the bus, he would sometimes walk home from school or have a friend drop him off at the U.S. Highway 101 overpass that connects the two cities. “I know kids in East Palo Alto still go through that today, just jumping on the bus, trying to get between cities,” he said. “I know it’s hard.” The district is proposing to ease the 40-to-60-minute commute by purchasing a dedicated bus, the possibility of which the school board discussed at its meeting Tuesday night. If approved, the

$175,000 purchase could take up to six months to complete. Transportation has a significant impact on the lives of the 585 VTP students — and their families — currently enrolled in the district through a longtime program that allows a select number of Ravenswood City School District students to attend Palo Alto Unified schools, but it’s particularly challenging for high schoolers. VTP students can take school buses until ninth grade, at which point they can apply for free passes to take public transporta(continued on page 10)

Kadvany I’m not trying to tell you how to parent or how to teach or anything, but I just ask that you listen and take into consideration everything that a teenager is saying regarding their problems. Sometimes it may sound petty but it may be a sign of something much more grave.” Palo Alto Medical Foundation pediatrician Dr. Amy Heneghan admitted that she herself has had to shift her own habits as a parent to do more listening. “There are some parents who I think with the best of intentions are very fearful of having their children fail. I’m one of them,” Heneghan said. “I must say that then I have to temper my reactions because if I don’t want my child to fail, I’m going to end up being very directive. ... That’s not as helpful as maybe finding what is going well, letting the mistakes happen and being there as a support and, as we’ve heard from Kathleen, listening more than talking.” Several panelists spoke about the stigma surrounding mental health and the critical need of reducing that. “We all have families that have mental health issues, and we very rarely talk about it,” said Dr. Steve Adelsheim, a Stanford University School of Medicine child/adolescent and adult psychiatrist. “I’m allowed to ask you, ‘How many people here have high blood pressure? How many people here have diabetes?’ but I’m not really allowed to ask, ‘How many people here have a mental illness?’ — and it’s a huge problem.” Adelsheim, however, proceeded to ask the audience: “How many people here have some family (continued on page 14)

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No way I’m going in there. Steve Stivala, owner of the House of Bagels, recalling his opinion of the formerly decrepit Edgewood Plaza before its renovation. See story on page 11.

Around Town TWITTER NIRVANA ... The Palo Alto school board waded into the world of social media at its meeting Tuesday night, discussing the possibility of creating official district pages and profiles on various platforms. Many school sites, departments, principals and teachers — and board members — already have strong Twitter and Facebook presences, but the district and superintendent do not. Board member Terry Godfrey, who does have personal (and public) Twitter and Facebook accounts, hailed social media as, potentially, a “holy grail” to a “nirvana” of better communication with the community. “For me, the holy grail would be process by which we get input ... that doesn’t require people waiting all night long to come and talk to us,” she said. “Some way to get those little bits of opinions, just little flash opinion on things, would be, for me, kind of nirvana.” She added that social media trumps email, which is “so last century.” Others were more wary. Board member Camille Townsend said she’s “very nervous” about studentprivacy issues and not having the staff or resources to monitor a Facebook page constantly. Board President Melissa Baten Caswell suggested that Superintendent Max McGee have his own social-media presence but agreed with Townsend that social-media monitoring will be more of a headache than nirvana. “I think the ability of any one person here to try to control everything that’s going on is going to be impossible,” she said. Staff offered as a shining example the Palo Alto Police Department’s very active Twitter page with more than 10,000 followers. (For the record, the district does have a Twitter page. @ PaloAlto_USD has a grand total of 185 followers and a single tweet from January 2013.) GOING, GOING, GONE ... Palo Alto’s home values have risen higher and faster since 2009 than any small city’s in the country, according to NerdWallet, a personal finance website. Using data from real estate site Zillow.com, NerdWallet con-

cluded that Palo Alto, with a median home price of $2.17 million (up 75 percent since 2009), was among seven Silicon Valley cities to make the top-10 list. Mountain View ranked fourth (up 53 percent) and Menlo Park eighth (up 47 percent). DRIVING ALONE ... Sometime this spring, Palo Alto’s small bus shuttle system will undergo a big transformation. The Crosstown route, which ferries riders from Charleston Road to the downtown Caltrain station, will see the number of its shuttles double, with service increasing from every 60 minutes to every 30 minutes. A new West Shuttle route will also be introduced, offering riders a new way to get from the Shoreline Business District in Mountain View to the University Avenue transit hub. That, however, is just the beginning of the city’s effort to reduce the number of commuters driving alone to and from Palo Alto. In recent months, city planners have been striking deals with mapping websites, exploring ride-share services and studying best practices from San Francisco to Finland. One idea on the table is to partner with Lyft, the San Francisco company best known for its distinctive pink mustaches that adorn all of its cars. A service called Lyft Line groups riders with similar pick-up and dropoff locations, calculates costs per ride based on distance and time and give cities the option of making discounted rides available to patrons or residents, according to a new report from the planning department. A more experimental approach, which Palo Alto is exploring in partnership with Finnish agencies and Joint Venture Silicon Valley is known as “Mobility as a Service” — an app that seeks to seamlessly integrate elements of transit, bike-share, ride-share and taxis and allows customers to pay once for the entire package. The council will consider these proposals as part of the city’s launch of a Transportation Management Association, which will be charged with marketing and implementing the new transportation programs. Q

Upfront NEIGHBORHOODS

City Council OKs two-story home on currently vacant lot by Gennady Sheyner

oo much growth may be a citywide issue in Palo Alto, but for Jeanie Stephens it hits particularly close to home. Ten feet from her property line, to be exact. On Monday night, Stephens was one of more than a dozen residents who took part in an emerging trend in Palo Alto — an appeal of a single-family residence that had been approved by the Planning Department. For the third time in less than a year, residents have formally challenged a proposed home that they claimed is too massive and too intrusive for their quiet, Eichlerstyle blocks. But while prior challenges to proposed homes on Richardson Court and Metro Circle ultimately fizzled before they got to a formal City Council hearing (in both cases, the developer avoided an appeal by agreeing to make revisions before the hearing), Stephen’s appeal of an approved home at 3864 Corina Way received its day in the Council Chambers. The two-hour discussion ultimately ended with the council voting 6-1 against the appeal, thus affirming the home’s approval by city planners. With Vice Mayor Greg Schmid dissenting and Councilmen Tom DuBois and Greg Scharff absent, the council

gave the green light to a two-story house on a block where one-story homes are the norm. Proposed by Helen Koo, the new home would be 23 feet and 7 inches tall at its highest point, though the second floor would be set back farther from the Stephens’ property to minimize intrusion on privacy. The 3,015-square-foot home would have five bedrooms and four bathrooms. But though both its height and its distance from the Stephens’ property line are well within local zoning laws, neighbors argued that the new building would be incompatible with the character of the block and should thus be rejected. In her appeal presentation, Stephens argued that the building would loom over her backyard, forcing her to stare at a giant wall. “There will be no place on our property to escape this massive building,” Stephens said. Frank Ingle, who appealed the project on Richardson Court (the appeal was dropped after the builder agreed not to have windows facing Ingle’s yard), was part of a group of residents who supported Stephens’ appeal. He called for the council to take a fresh look at its guidelines for individual reviews (a process for approving single-family homes) and argued that the existing appeals

process is broken. Ingle said that it gives too much power to city planners, whose interpretation of what is compatible with the neighborhood often clashes with that of residents. Other residents, including Cheryl Lilienstein and Ken Allen, also urged the council to overturn staff’s approval of the Corina Way house. Lilienstein, president of the slow-growth group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, said of the home, “It’s too massive and it overwhelms the home behind it, which is in violation of individual-review guidelines.” Koo, for her part, argued that her family has already made numerous compromises, including reducing the height and revising the design for the proposed home, which would occupy a currently vacant site. The new home would be set back from the Stephens’ property line by 10 feet, even though the city’s guidelines require only an 8-foot setback. Furthermore, the second story would have a setback of 24 feet, three times the requirement. She also stressed that there would be trees planted all around the house, further screening it from neighboring properties. She also told the council that she addressed Stephens’ privacy

NONPROFITS

Palo Alto Library Foundation heads toward final chapter After raising $4.5 million for local libraries, fundraising group plans to dissolve by Gennady Sheyner

hen a small group of entrepreneurial bibliophiles met in 2001 to discuss ways to fix up Palo Alto’s library system, the list of needed improvements was long and daunting. Most of the libraries were 30 or 40 years old and didn’t have study rooms, program areas or even air conditioning. Susie Thom, current president of the Palo Alto Library Foundation, recalled that libraries had to be closed when the temperature reached the mid90s because officials didn’t think they were safe. To some extent, the sad conditions of the city’s five libraries at the time made the Foundation’s sales pitch to the community relatively straightforward. As Thom put it, “We had a good story to tell.” The story involved

bringing the library system into the 21st century, and the group’s mission was to “spearhead fundraising campaigns to support a modern, dynamic library system that meets the needs of everyone in our city.” Fourteen years, 1,973 donors and $4.5 million later, that mission is accomplished and the story of the Palo Alto Library Foundation is heading toward its final chapter. All five of the city’s library branches have undergone extensive renovations since the Foundation launched. All now feature study rooms, proper mechanical equipment and the latest technology and furnishings. The Downtown Library was the first to go through a bond-funded makeover, reopening to the public in July 2011 (the Foundation contributed $275,000 to furnishing

the branch). The city’s flagship branch, the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, opened last fall with a big community celebration after two years of frustrating construction delays. And on this past Valentine’s Day, the branch formerly known as the Main Library opened up with a new wing, renovated rooms and a new name: the Rinconada Library. For the Foundation, which had a hand in each branch renovation except for the College Terrace Library’s, this was a milestone to celebrate. The celebration, however, also marks the last hurrah for the citizens group. With its goals now met, the Palo Alto Library Foundation is preparing to dissolve. Its last meeting will be on June 30, Foundation officials told the Weekly.

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Rejecting appeal, Palo Alto approves Corina Way home

Plans for a new two-story home in the 3800 block of Corina Way in Palo Alto’s Adobe Meadow neighborhood got the City Council’s OK Monday night, affirming city planners’ approval. Neighbors had objected to its mass, but council members concluded that it was well within zoning limits. concerns by placing windows on codes, we have no way for the city the second floor well above eye to manage its land use.” Schmid questioned whether the level and making them opaque. “On our second floor, we can- review guidelines are in fact supnot look at our own yard,” Koo porting the city’s overarching aim to protect the quality of life in losaid. Council members agreed with cal neighborhoods. “Increasingly, you’re findStephens and her supporters that the individual-review guidelines ing appeals from neighborhood are flawed and that it’s time to re- groups against a single property visit them. Yet the majority also holder,” Schmid said. In approving the house, the agreed that the Koo proposal meets the existing guidelines and council added a condition upon the urging of Mayor Karen Holshould be approved. Councilman Eric Filseth argued man requiring that the trees that the proposed home followed screening the house from neighthe rules, however imperfect they boring properties be maintained may be. Though the home is larger for the life of the house. Councilman Cory Wolbach than most neighboring residences, he said, there are other two-story called the decision “not an easy buildings on the block, including choice. “I think the applicant has done a large Mediterranean-style house an admirable job of trying to proin close proximity. “It seems to me that the house vide a project that tries to fulfill meets code,” Filseth said of Koo’s their dream home design while proposal. “And things should respecting the privacy of neighmeet code. And if we don’t like bors,” he said. “The appellant can the projects that our codes pro- continue to enjoy her backyard in duce, then we should change perpetuity without being watched the code. If we don’t follow our from the neighbor’s house.” Q “As we looked at the library system as it is today, and as we looked at our mission statement, we concluded that we have met our mission,” said Thom, who joined the foundation in 2008. The group’s role in getting the new libraries up and running is hard to overstate. While the bond paid for design and construction costs, a library isn’t very useful without books, computers or places to sit. The Foundation decided to fund these improvements and over the years has succeeded in raising millions of dollars to stock the new shelves and computer labs. Thom said the pitch was made the old-fashioned way, through many one-on-one meetings with potential donors. Contributions ranged from $5 to $1.5 million, with the latter coming from the Morgan Family Foundation for the establishment of Kids Place, a children’s area on the first floor of the Mitchell Park branch. The group also received more than $500,000 from a group of more than 30 Google employees who live in Palo Alto and who helped the city create the Ventura Technology Learning Center, a computer lab on the second floor of Mitchell Park. Another big gift came from the David and Lucile

Packard Foundation, which contributed $250,000 in the economically funky days of 2010. Much of the balance, however, came from residents and fellow book lovers — the same people who defied the Great Recession and passed Measure N in 2008 (the measure received 69 percent support), spurring the recent library renaissance. “I look at the libraries as a gift from the community to the community,” said Thom, who led the fundraising effort with a group that also included as its leaders Alison Cormack and former Mayor Bern Beecham. “I think it’s really important that the community stepped up and was willing to provide the funds, both through passage of Measure N and through their donations to the Library Foundation.” The foundation’s success did not go unrecognized. In 2011, when Beecham presented to the City Council a $1.9 million check for the new Mitchell Park Library, then-Mayor Sid Espinosa called it a “historic moment in Palo Alto.” The check was a result of contributions from more than 800 people in the Palo Alto (continued on page 15)

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Catherine Ballantyne, a member of the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board, resigned on Feb. 20, after surveillance-video footage revealed she had walked off with a neighbor’s clay pot. Ballantyne said she thought she was salvaging the pot from an abandoned Palo Alto house, but the homeowner accused her of theft — and posted the video on social media. Ballantyne, a landscape architect who was appointed by the City Council to the architecture board in November, told the Weekly she was convinced that the house on Louis Road was abandoned, so one morning in early February, after dropping off her children at school, she biked by the house and took the pot. The assumption was erroneous, given that home belongs to Sarah Patanroi, a computer-lab teacher at Nixon Elementary School who said she has lived at the house for six years. Upon discovering her pot missing, Patanroi took the surveillance video and posted it on YouTube on Feb. 5, then warned neighbors via the social-media website Nextdoor with a note titled “Pot thief.” And as soon as Ballantyne learned about her mistake from Patanroi’s post, she returned the pot to Patanroi’s house with an anonymous note of apology, she said. Later she made a visit to Patanroi at Nixon, asking her to remove the increasingly “snarky” online postings about her. Patanroi told the Weekly that Ballantyne “was not welcome in the first place when she stole the pot,” and if Ballantyne approaches her again, she plans to file for a restraining order. Ballantyne offered her resignation from the architectural board on Feb. 18, and Mayor Karen Holman told the Weekly on Feb. 20 that the council would accept her resignation. Q — Gennady Sheyner and Elena Kadvany

City seeks to clarify rules on public-land offers When Palo Alto received an offer from developer John Arrillaga in 2012 to purchase a 7.7-acre site of publicly owned land next to Foothills Park, most officials were surprised that the undeveloped site even existed in a city they often refer to as “built out.” The City Council’s subsequent effort to learn about the site elicited a stinging backlash from the public and a scathing Santa Clara County Grand Jury report, which criticized the city for not following its own rules about selling of surplus public land — a process that includes notifying other city departments and public agencies. On Feb. 23, the council amended its rules by adopting a section dealing specifically with unsolicited offers, specifying that unsolicited offers that the city manager deems worthy of further discussion will be referred to the full council. If the council chooses to declare the site a surplus property, there will be an open council hearing and public council vote. Furthermore, the amended policy includes a new statement calling for city properties to be “broadly marketed using appropriate modes of advertising, including electronic media.” Q — Gennady Sheyner LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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but only 477 of 1,615 commercial accounts have been using the composting service. Under the proposed ordinance, commercial customers would be required to properly sort their trash into the garbage, recycling and composting carts, according to a staff report. If any cart has more than 10 percent of contamination (material that belongs in a different cart), a notification tag will be placed on the cart. A second violation would lead to a letter and a phone call from GreenWaste staff, inquiring whether training is needed. A third violation, as well as all subsequent ones, would require a “solid waste processing fee,” with the amount yet to be determined. Under the current proposal, the mandatory service would launch for all food-service establishments and for the city’s large commercial customers (those that generate 8 cubic yards or more of garbage weekly) in April 2016. In January 2017, the program would expand to include commercial customers generating at least 2 cubic yards of garbage per week. It would then

by My Nguyen cated and skilled, (Fran) seizes opportunities to make her community a better place by doing the hard word that so many avoid,” a letter nominating her for the award stated. Codispoti’s work with Avenidas started in 1998, when she joined the board of directors. She also held many other titles at Avenidas and continues to be involved with the organization as a member of the advisory council and four-person search committee tasked with selecting the organization’s next president. Keplinger will receive the award for “Outstanding Professional/ Business Person” for the depth and breadth of her work with Palo Alto children and their families, through which she has advocated for the importance of early learning. Nominating letters praised Keplinger for being an educator committed to creating a strong community for families, as well as dedicated to the professional development of early childhood educators. Keplinger’s 20-plus-year career includes working as PreK principal with the Palo Alto Unified School District. Her responsibilites include overseeing PAUSD’s early education programs, including Springboard to Kindergarten, Young Fives, PreSchool Family and Transitional Kindergarten, as well as the special-education programs offered by the district to preschool children. She also served on the Palo Alto Advisory Committee on Early Care and Education (PAAC-ECE) and on the

board of The Mothers Symposium. “She is an expert in child development, and this expertise has benefited thousands of children and families in our community. She is also a fabulous mentor to her teachers and works tirelessly to provide the highest quality early education environments for all children in Palo Alto,” a nominating letter stated. The Tall Tree Award for “Outstanding Business” will be given to Stanford Federal Credit Union (SFCU), which has demonstrated a continued commitment to Palo Alto and to improving the lives of those in the city. The credit union has been a part of the community for more than 50 years, and its employees serve Palo Alto through its sponsorships and volunteerism. In 2014, the credit union started a free school backpack program, providing 500 backpacks filled with school supplies to children of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto families. The credit union has also provided support to Stanford University, Stanford Hospital, Lucile Packard Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, the Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run, the city’s annual Summer Festival & Chili Cook Off, Cogswell Concerts, the annual National Day of Civic Hacking & the Palo Alto Apps challenge, the annual Holiday Tree Lighting, the Senior New Year’s Eve Champagne Brunch, the United Nations Association Film Festival and more.

expand to the rest of the commercial customers in January 2018. Both the new service for residents and the new requirement for businesses seek to address one problem that Palo Alto officials have encountered in their energetic quest for greener trash practices: After significantly increasing landfill diversion between 1995 and 2010, progress has largely stalled in the last few years. According to a report from the Public Works department, the diversion rate went from about 40 percent in 1995, to 60 percent in 2005, to around 80 percent in 2010. Since 2010, however, the diversion rate has remained mostly constant, even dipping to 78 percent in 2013. Meanwhile, the city’s decision to collect commercial compostables has resulted in more than 11,000 tons of waste being diverted from landfills and composted annually since 2011. Now, staff is proposing to renegotiate the city’s contract with its hauler, GreenWaste, and add programs that would restore momentum to the council’s plan to achieve the “zero waste” goal that it adopted in 2005. “If the city is to reach its 2021 zero waste (to landfills) goals, then more aggressive program activities will be needed to ‘jump-

start’ the city’s diversion rate,” the Public Works report states. “Staff has identified that the largest diversion opportunity in the garbage is compostable organics — food scraps and food soiled paper, which constitutes over 40 percent of the current garbage stream.” A study that the city performed in 2012 suggested that both the commercial and the residential sectors have tons of room for improvement. The Waste Characterization Report indicated that more than half of the material placed in residential garbage (5,000 tons) is compostable and about a quarter is recyclable. In the commercial sector, about 40 percent of the material found in trash was compostable and 25 percent was recyclable. By adding the new regulations, the city aims to “divert and recover” between 7,000 and 8,000 tons more compostable refuse. This would raise the diversion rate from 78 percent to 82 percent, according to staff, giving the city a rate higher than most other cities’ in the United States. These changes would, however, come at a cost. The new composting programs, according to staff, would add about $1.3 million annually to the city’s agreement with its trash hauler. The higher cost would mean higher rates for

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olunteer Fran Codispoti, early childhood education leader Sharon Keplinger, the Stanford Federal Credit Union and nonprofit organization Acterra will be recognized with 2015 Tall Tree Awards for their outstanding civic service to the Palo Alto community. The awards, which are sponsored by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly, acknowledge the civic accomplishments of a citizen volunteer, professional/business person, business and nonprofit organization. All of the Tall Tree Award recipients will be honored at a dinner on April 21 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The winners were chosen by a committee of past Tall Tree recipients. Codispoti was selected as “Outstanding Citizen Volunteer” for her commitment to improving the lives of people — young and old. Codispoti was instrumental in raising funds for facilities at Gunn High School, which her children attended. The list of organizations she has participated in is long: Foundation for a College Education (where she currently serves as an advisory board member), Bay Area Cancer Connections (she served as board president and chair of the organization’s signature galas and is currently on the development committee), Stanford Cancer Council, Avenidas Senior Center and more. “Energetic, compassionate, dedi-

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“The SFCU shares our passion for strengthening community through community events, recognizing that community events bring people together to create a wonderful ‘sense of place’ in Palo Alto, helping people make meaningful connections with the city that they live in, work in and visit,” a nominating letter stated. Acterra will receive the Tall Tree award as “Outstanding Nonprofit.” The Palo Alto-based environmental nonprofit has been promoting a healthy natural environmental in Silicon Valley since 1970. For decades, Acterra has implemented successful programs aimed at helping communities, businesses and individuals to embrace energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as enabling residents to participate in hands-on projects. The organization has engaged the service of more than 8,500 volunteers — half of them youth — who work on land stewardship projects at 18 natural sites across seven watersheds, including the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve stewardship project. Acterra also works at Foothills Park and on San

Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto. In 2008, Acterra launched the Green@Home program in Palo Alto to staff and train volunteers to help residents in 11 surrounding cities take action to combat global warming and reduce energy use by making their homes more energy efficient. The organization also sponsors the Business Environmental Awards program, which has honored more than 170 Bay Area companies and organizations for their leadership in sustainability. “What is also noteworthy about Acterra is their ability to quickly adapt their programs and services to quickly respond to the emerging needs of the community and to the social problems and challenges of Palo Alto. Their very dynamic service philosophy is truly unique and praiseworthy,” a nominating letter stated. Tickets to the Tall Tree Awards are available at paloaltochamber. com. The Tall Tree Awards dinner is the chamber’s major fundraiser for the year. Q Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

residents: up by 9 percent on July 1 and then by 8 percent in each of the next two years, under a preliminary proposal from Public Works. This means that residents who currently rely on 20-gallon “minicans” will see their rates go up from the current level of $22.29 to $28.49 over the three-year period, a 28 percent increase. Those who use the standard 32-gallon cans would see their rates go up from $40.14 to $51.29 over the threeyear period (also a 28 percent hike). Commercial rates would remain steady for the time being. The new residential composting program would be significantly different from the experimental two-cart pilot program that the city launched in the Greenmeadow neighborhood last year. That program eliminated the black garbage cart entirely and had all residents sort their disposables into blue and green carts. The new citywide program, by contrast, would use all three carts. In reviewing the results from the pilot program, city officials gave it mixed grades. Though the program succeeded in diverting compost from landfills, it led to confusion among residents and some resentment about having to pay for plastic bags in which to place

their compostable scraps. Under the new program, residents could either bag their organic waste or place it loose in the green bin. At a June 3, 2014, meeting, Matt Krupp, the city’s solid-waste administrator, told the council’s Finance Committee that Public Works is “committed to bringing residential food-scrap collection to the City of Palo Alto by July 1, 2015.” The proposed program, according to the report, would be consistent with those in cities such as Menlo Park, San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City, Atherton, Berkeley and Oakland. “We believe we need to get the standard up to other Bay Area cities,” Krupp said. “There will be impact to ratepayers, but we believe it’s an important way for us to reach our ‘zero waste’ and our diversion goals.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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tion to school (though for the first time this year, a few Paly freshmen were able to take a Jordan Middle School bus to school as part of a pilot program). The City of Palo Alto does now run a free shuttle from East Palo Alto, but it starts in a neighborhood west of 101 and only stops at the downtown Caltrain station and at City Hall. Some students get rides from parents, friends or carpools, but those who depend on public transportation find themselves affected in several areas of life: their sleep; decisions about whether or not to participate in sports, extracurriculars or external support programs; and the ability to hang out with friends after school or seek help from teachers. “There were times my sophomore year I was contemplating not playing football, just because I was in transition, trying to be really good at school, trying to get homework done,” Chatman recalled. “By the time I get home (from football) I’m tired because I’ve been on the bus for the last hour and a half going through traffic in downtown Palo Alto. ... To focus on homework was almost close to impossible.” Chatman said the commute put a strain on his mother, too. She would pick him up on the days when he was exhausted and didn’t want to take the bus. “Those are the days my mom would come get me,” he said. “She would take off work or try to fight traffic to come pick me up. It was just a tough battle all the way around — taking the bus or getting a ride from my parents.” “It’s just really frustrating,” said Paly senior Tiffany Fields, whose

mother, a school bus driver, has for four years driven her to a bus stop farther from their East Palo Alto home in the morning so she can catch a 7:15 a.m. bus that gets her to school in time for first period at 8:15 a.m. (There is a bus that stops closer to her house but only at 6:50 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. She knows some students who opt for the earlier time.) “It’s just annoying, having to get to school so early, having to rush to school. Sometimes when you do all-nighters to study, it really sucks not being able to get that extra 30 minutes of sleep,” Fields said. After school, Fields often chooses to catch a bus that comes five minutes after seventh period gets out, at 3:25 p.m., rather than stay to talk to teachers or hang out with friends. She missed the bus one morning last week and decided to stay home for the day. Fields said taking the bus also is often an unpleasant experience. Recently, a guy on the bus who she thought was “crazy” instigated a fight with two students; another day, a man was taking photos of her, so she got off and called a friend to pick her up. “I think a new bus would help a lot. I feel like a lot more kids that don’t even catch the city bus would feel a lot more comfortable catching (a school bus),” Fields said. “Some peoples’ parents just don’t want them catching a city bus. They don’t think it’s safe so they make them wait or they find someone else to take them.” The story is slightly different for Gunn High School VTP students, who don’t have a school bus but often take one that runs to and from Terman Middle School, just down the street from Gunn. The timing also works for them — the Gunn school day starts 10 minutes later than Paly’s, unless students are

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City Council (Feb. 23)

Corina Way: The council rejected a resident’s appeal and affirmed staff’s approval of a new two-story home at 3864 Corina Way. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Wolbach No: Schmid Absent: DuBois, Scharff Offers: The council amended its procedures for receiving unsolicited offers for public land. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: DuBois, Scharff

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Parks and Recreation Commission (Feb. 24) Updates: The commission heard an update about the Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Facilities Master Plan; considered a proposal for temporary batting cages at the former PASCO site near the Baylands; and discussed the Organics Facilities Plan. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (Feb. 25)

Priorities: The commission discussed the City Council’s 2015 priorities, the Department of Planning and Community Environment’s work plan and topics for future consideration. Action: None

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taking a zero-period class at 7:20 a.m. There is also a late bus that leaves from Terman at 4:30 p.m. There are also far fewer VTP students at Gunn: about 24 this year compared to Paly’s 126, according to District Education Services Coordinator Judy Argumedo, who oversees the VTP program and has been pushing for a dedicated East Palo Alto school bus for more than a year. VTP parents have also recommended for the last two years that the district purchase such a bus, Argumedo said. “I really feel strongly that these are some of the obstacles that can really hurt students,” she said. Board member Camille Townsend said at Tuesday’s meeting that she herself rode a bus for more than an hour to get to and from high school and, as a result, was limited in her after-school options. “I know that kids and families — this bus is going to be a bang for their buck,” Townsend said. Argumedo hopes that she can offer the new bus, which would serve approximately 60 students each day — mostly freshmen and sophomores who can’t or don’t drive to school, Argumedo told the board Tuesday — as an option to every incoming Paly VTP student next year. The route and timing of the bus has yet to be determined, but Argumedo said she envisions it would pick students up in the morning at one central location, such as the Boys & Girls Club on Pulgas Avenue, and be at Paly several times in the late afternoon and evening to accommodate students’ after-school activities. Transportation has been repeatedly brought up at meetings of the district’s minority achievement and talent development committee by members who view differences in access to transportation as an obstacle to academic achievement. “Transportation is one big resonating problem because, as one principal was telling me, if that hour doesn’t go well on the way there, the rest of the learning, the rest of the day does not go well either,” committee member and parent Carmen Muñoz said at the group’s Feb. 3 meeting. “These are things that affect the kids’ learning.” Chatman, who took five years to graduate, said he might have been a different student if he had had more flexible, dependable transportation options. Maria Arias, the mother of a current Paly freshman and El Carmelo Elementary School firstgrader, favors having a school bus for high school students. Currently, she has to shift her morning routine if her son and daughter can’t take the school or city bus and she has to drop each off before going to work. “I think it would be better if there were a bus,” she told the Weekly in Spanish. The board will take official action on the bus purchase when it approves the district’s 2015-16 budget in June. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

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IN MEMORIAM ... Two prominent members of Palo Alto’s neighborhoods who have been featured in the Palo Alto Weekly’s Neighborhoods section have died. Frank E. (Ned) Gallagher Jr., an Old Palo Alto resident, died on Feb. 9 just shy of his 100th birthday. A story about Gallagher, “At 99, Palo Altan recalls WWII ship’s sinking,” appeared in the Weekly on July 6, 2014. Duveneck/St. Francis resident Norm Stein, 88, died Feb. 12. A story about his Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering classes for his neighborhood’s middle schoolers, “Teaching kids to take flight,” ran on Nov. 23, 2012. Both stories can be read on PaloAltoOnline.com. BARRON PARK ANNUAL MEETING ... The ever-active Barron Park Association will host its annual meeting on March 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Barron Park Elementary School Multipurpose Room, 800 Barron Ave. Speakers include Hillary Gitelman, city director of planning and community environment; Denise Herrmann, Gunn High School principal; and Sylvia Star-Lack, city Safe Routes to School assistant coordinator. Free babysitting is available. Q

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MENDING FENCES ... A new fence that has opaque slats instead of open chain links at Duveneck Elementary School has concerned some neighbors. The new fencing along Channing Avenue is part of a campus renovation. Principal Chris Grierson has asked members of the Duveneck community to fill out a survey regarding their take on the new fence. Grierson said he will meet with Palo Alto Unified School District administrators and the landscaping department to decide on any changes after reviewing the survey results.

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FETING THE RAM ... A neighborhood celebration of the Year of the Ram will take place at the Barron Park Elementary School Multipurpose Room, 800 Barron Ave., on March 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Barron Park Association and will feature lion dancers, a Chinese folk-dance performance and a potluck of traditional Chinese foods with significance for the new year. The event encourages neighborhood cultural diversity, organizers said.

Left: The newly revitalized Edgewood Plaza shopping center now features the Fresh Market grocery store and a variety of retail businesses including a gym, Starbucks, House of Bagels, Supercuts and a massage center. Right: Lunch patrons dine outside at the House of Bagels in the newly revitalized Edgewood Plaza in February.

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A gathering place, again Formerly derelict Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center finds new life by Sue Dremann

ucking the trend of many other mom-and-pop businesses owners who’ve left town due to rising rents, Steve Stivala, owner of the House of Bagels, has found a neighborhood niche where his small business is thriving. Stivala, who has owned his bagelry for 27 years, moved it from University Avenue to Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center on Embarcadero Road in late January. Now his eatery is a hub where neighbors gather. “When I started looking at it a year ago, I thought, ‘No way I’m going in there. This is not going to work,’” he said, noting the then-halffinished buildings and tucked-back feel of the shopping center. But when Starbucks announced it would move into the center, he had a change of heart. If the chain was willing to give it a go, perhaps he would have a chance there too, he said. With a sign newly stenciled on the windows and tables filled with happily munching, chatting customers, House of Bagels and the once-decrepit shopping center have started a new life together. “I think it’s working,” Stivala said, smiling. The community has been “overwhelmingly supportive,” he added, with the place filling up on weekends.

Once a no-man’s land of crumbling buildings that eventually closed completely after the anchor Albertsons supermarket shut down in 2006, Edgewood’s parking lot is now filled. Located between Embarcadero and Channing Avenue, on the city’s eastern edge, the center sports a Fresh Market grocery store, Starbucks, a dry cleaner, Supercuts hair salon, Elements massage center, Chase Bank and Orangetheory fitness center in addition to House of Bagels, and there are more stores to come as the renovation is completed. The historically significant structures built by developer Joseph Eichler now have been replaced or rebuilt with an updated-yet-retro look. Patrons said they are pleased with the results. “For more than 10 years, I was watching the rat-infested buildings fall apart,” Wendy Sinton said on Wednesday morning while enjoying an egg-and-cheese bagel. “It’s got everything now,” her friend Lee Zulman added. “It’s a great place for neighborhood gathering.” Stivala wants the center to become even more vibrant. He’s hoping to start weekly barbecues in the adjacent plaza during the

spring and summer to encourage locals to walk to the center, he said. “It’s such a beautiful place,” he said of the outdoor plaza outside his door. “The parents can feel comfortable coming in and know that their children have a place to go to. It’s relatively safe, and people can bring their dogs.” Neighborhood resident Linda Henigin is also enthusiastic. The revitalized center “has made the biggest difference” in the neighborhood, she said, noting that she sees people walking and biking there all the time now. A mother of two young children, Henigin often runs into people she knows and plans to meet other families there, she said. The bagelry is a destination for young families after school, she added. Henigin said she would welcome the barbecues. “It would be like when we had the food trucks,” she said, referring to the popular Edgewood Eats events started by Crescent Park resident Susie Hwang that brought crowds to the center as a way to keep the center alive before the renovations began. Zulman said Edgewood is attractive because it captures a part of Palo Alto that people yearn for but that seems to be rapidly slipping away. “There’s very little of Palo Alto left in Palo Alto — where everybody knows your name. It’s a place where people truly can connect without pretension,” she said. Randy and Judy Cook have made Edgewood their destination, traveling from their Midtown home to the Edgewood Starbucks for morning coffee and newspaper reading. “It’s our Starbucks,” Judy said,

as their dog, who gets the steamedmilk foam from their beverages, enjoyed lazing in a sunbeam beneath their outdoor table. “They’ve done a wonderful job with the shopping center. It was dead, now it’s vital,” Randy said. Some critics said early on that Edgewood’s distance from Embarcadero would doom it. But Stivala said the setback is an asset. The center has accessible and visible parking, unlike at Alma Village, which is home to a Grocery Outlet store. There, the buildings jut out against the sidewalk and create an unwelcoming wall, he said. “When you drive down Alma Street, you blink your eye and you’re past that center,” he added. If Henigin has any quibble, it’s with the concrete plaza. It is popular with kids on scooters and skateboarders, but she was expecting a patch of grass, she said. “It’s not clear what the publicprivate split is,” she added. Henigin would like to understand what community uses might be allowed there. Thinking of her children, she envisioned at least one activity that would add to the neighborhood ambiance: “If we could have lemonade stands, people would come in the summer,” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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eeking to better understand what Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighborhoods need, four members of the City Council hope to appoint a staff member to work with liaisons from each of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighborhoods. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to realize that Palo Alto is not homogenous,â&#x20AC;? said Councilman Cory Wolbach, who has proposed the idea in a colleagues memo along with Mayor Karen Holman, Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and Councilman Pat Burt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it would be useful for staff and council members to talk about issues that are unique to neighborhoods. We need to make sure that neighborhoods are strong and recognized and prioritized by the city.â&#x20AC;? The memo, which is scheduled to come before the full council on March 16, also proposes that city staff and council members hold neighborhood town-hall meetings, the co-authors said this week. Schmid noted that the city already runs some neighborhood programs, such as offering neighborhood grants and emergencypreparedness training. The city also introduced rBlock.com, an information-sharing site, in 2011. And many neighborhoods use the social-networking website Nextdoor to communicate, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is an attempt to bring those things together so there is a flow of information. I see it as building on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there,â&#x20AC;? Schmid said. The city would sponsor four town hall events annually, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would help alert the neighborhoods and alert the city to the issues so that there would be a responsiveness to the unique issues in the neighborhoods,â&#x20AC;? he said. Some neighborhood leaders said they approve of the idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever the city can do to more fully and regularly engage with the neighborhoods will be to the good,â&#x20AC;? said Brent Barker, president of the College Terrace Residents Association. Town hall meetings can be a way for residents to have questions answered, he said. The association already brings in guest speakers from the city to its annual meetings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mayor Holman will be speaking and fielding questions at the CTRA annual meeting in March, the closest thing we have to a town hall meeting,â&#x20AC;? he added. Burt said the program would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;a real effort to more deliberately engage with the neighborhoodsâ&#x20AC;? and would empower residents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are neighborhoods in the city that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an active association. We want to help facilitate that and to support creating neighborhood groups where they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist. We want to have a more

routine exchange where peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voices are readily heard and not for people to have to come to an open mic at council meetings to voice their concerns,â&#x20AC;? he said. Sally-Ann Rudd, a Downtown North neighborhood leader, lives in a neighborhood without an active association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to have a neighborhood association, but since the advent of using Nextdoor, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been using that platform to discuss neighborhood issues with great success. However, closing the loop would be to have faceto-face with city staff. I think it would be helpful. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not at all sure what issues would really come to the fore, but it would be interesting. We had â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alaee (from the city managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office) helping us two years ago when we did the food trucks in the park. It was very handy to have a City Hall insider help with the bureaucracy for that effort,â&#x20AC;? she said. Sheri Furman, Midtown Residents Association chair, said the program is in line with discussions she has had with council members over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the council truly wants more people to participate in civic affairs, such a program would provide an excellent method for them to listen to and speak with residents who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time or ability to attend city meetings,â&#x20AC;? she said. The program would give the council a better understanding of what non-activist residents care about, she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would also show council members that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only the socalled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;usual suspectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; who have issues with some of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction and decisions. And it would allow the council to better explain what they can and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do and why,â&#x20AC;? she said. Ken Allen, Adobe Meadow Neighborhood Association president, likened the liaison program to having mediators. But the program will only be as good as its outcomes, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can be useful if it is done right,â&#x20AC;? he said. Holman said the city must understand the diverse problems within its borders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Different neighborhoods have different issues. We have global issues such as traffic in town and parking,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a way of establishing a line of communication and a better relationship or (defining) a pattern or an issue in a neighborhood.â&#x20AC;? If the council accepts the memo, the proposal would move on to the Policy and Services Committee for consideration. It would then return to the full council for a vote, she said. Q

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member within at least one generation that has a mental health issue?” Hands throughout the 317-seat theater shot up. Those hands, Blanchard said, are a sign to her that while there is much to be done to improve mental health awareness, progress has been made. “Here we are in 2015, but in 2009 there was a lot of fear. There was such fear that people were unable to even speak about this,” Blanchard said. “And here we are five years later with a full auditorium full of in-

terested people willing to raise their hands and indicate that they, too, know somebody who suffers (from) mental illness. That’s progress.” The panelists took questions from the audience throughout the evening via note cards and email; the first, read by Superintendent Max McGee, asked that the district make more immediate changes at Palo Alto’s two public high schools, such as a dead week before finals, a homeroom advisory period and a moratorium on homework and projects over the holidays and some weekends. “I know that change takes time and that it’s important to get

teacher and staff buy-in, but with the stakes being so high — we have seen the children’s lives are at stake. Why not implement real change starting right away?” the audience member asked. McGee noted that he and principals asked that Gunn and Paly teachers make the recent Presidents Day weekend homeworkfree. McGee has also required that all district teachers follow the district’s homework policy, which was adopted in 2012 but has reportedly been implemented unevenly and, at some schools, without focus. The homework policy provides time limits per grade level, with the

exception of Advanced Placement (AP) and honors classes, as well as recommendations on outside-ofclass projects, weekend homework and winter break, which is supposed to be homework-free. In response to student, parent and teacher concern about inconsistency across classes in homework load, grading practices and curriculum, the district has contracted with a research firm to study consistency at both high schools, with a report due this spring. Gunn is also in the process of looking at alternative bell schedules, including a more forgiving block schedule under which classes meet less frequently but for longer periods of time. Gunn students currently have six or seven classes every day in roughly hour-long periods. In response to an audience question about staging a symbolic “rebirth” of Gunn, McGee said that a similar proposal to re-paint and re-landscape the school campus is “very much in play.” Palo Alto High School Principal Kim Diorio said that she would like to see both high schools have more comprehensive health education and could do so by offering Living Skills, a course that covers topics like physical and emotional health, identity, drugs, alcohol and sex education, as a year-long class during the regular school year rather than over the summer. “I think if we really value health of our students ... we need to be really careful about the mixed messaging we’re sending when we tell our kids, ‘This class isn’t that important; this class is the easy class; you can do it over the summer.’” Diorio also stressed the importance of supporting teachers during a demanding time of change. “Our teachers are really critical in this conversation, and, for some of them, they’re really hurting right now. We need to embrace them; we need to love them; and we need to encourage them to keep going and (tell them) that they’re doing good things,” she said to a round of applause. Other panelists hailed the many mental and physical benefits of mindfulness, which Stanford adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Shashank Joshi called a “low-cost, very high-yield kind of intervention.” “I have to say,” Heneghan

agreed, “the studies that show increased brain function, deceased stress, increased cognitive abilities, decreased pain. ... The truth is that it’s available to everyone — everyone who has a brain, everyone who has intention and everyone who is willing to put very small amount of time and effort to train their brain to quiet that mindwandering and future-living that a lot of our teenagers just exist in.” At the prompting of the studentwellness committee formed last fall, Gunn is in the midst of looking at bringing a mindfulness program to the school, which could be incorporated into physical education classes. One audience member asked how the information shared at Wednesday’s event could be more broadly shared — particularly for people who weren’t there and who might need to hear it. “I don’t really have a good answer for that other than to say you can’t make other people do things, but you can control yourself and you can change your behavior, so you can be an advocate,” answered Community Services Department Director Rob de Geus, who has co-led much of the city’s work on suicide prevention through Project Safety Net. “You think about the bell curve of technology and how there are early adopters. ... You can be early adopters and be the voice for some of these changes that we’re talking about,” he said. The event organizers invited people to submit further feedback through an online survey that will be open until Friday, March 6. To take the survey, go to research. net/r/Lets_Talk_forum_2_25_15. Though Wednesday’s event was sparsely attended by students themselves, there will be another forum on youth well-being this Sunday, March 1, dedicated to hearing from them directly. “Listening to Youth Voices” will feature a youth panel, time for students to speak on open mic and remarks by school board member Ken Dauber and City Councilman Pat Burt. The event will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, at 1985 Louis Road, with doors opening at 4:30 p.m. There will be Mandarin and Spanish translation available. For more information, email payouthforum2015@gmail.com. Q

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community. The Mitchell Park project didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go as smoothly as residents had hoped, due to a protracted feud between the city and its primary contractor, Flintco Pacific. In January 2014, the city fired Flintco and hired another firm, Big D Pacific Builders, to finish the job. Thom said the delays were â&#x20AC;&#x153;a little painful for everyone in the community, but it was worth the wait.â&#x20AC;? She noted that in the 11 weeks since the branch opened, the library system has issued 2,566 new library cards. And the three renovated libraries now include, collectively, 10 study rooms, three community rooms and a technology lab. Though all the libraries are now up and running, the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely finished. Thom noted that the new libraries will require further funding for staffing and operational expenses. To that effect, the group is making sure that its postscript is a happy one. Sometime in the late spring or early summer, Thom said, the Foundation will present to the city its parting gift: a $300,000 check for â&#x20AC;&#x153;any needs that come up.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Palo Alto Forward opposes office-space limits A citizens group that promotes more housing and transportation options in Palo Alto has joined some of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest high-tech companies in taking a stand against a proposal by the City Council to limit new office space. (Posted Feb 26, 7:23 a.m.)

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Caltrain has identified the victim of the fatal accident on Monday, Feb. 23, at the Ravenswood Avenue crossing in Menlo Park. (Posted Feb. 25, 11:59 a.m. )

Train critically injures woman Palo Alto A female pedestrian struck by a northbound train at the Palo Alto Caltrain station on University Avenue Tuesday morning is still alive and has been taken to Stanford Hospital for treatment, according to Caltrain officials. (Posted Feb. 24, 11:58 a.m.)

HP exec to lead InnVision Shelter Network A Hewlett-Packard senior vice president with extensive management experience will be InnVision Shelter Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new CEO as of March 30, the nonprofit organization has announced. (Posted Feb. 24, 9:52 a.m.)

Art board OKs proposal for private development Innovation. Technology. Sustainability. These were the buzzwords at Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Art Commission meeting on Thursday, Feb. 19, where commissioners voted unanimously to approve a public art project for a private development. (Posted Feb. 20, 4:55 p.m.)

City set to fix glass shards in Cal Ave sidewalks Responding to citizen complaints about polished glass shards in the new California Avenue sidewalks, Palo Alto is preparing to apply a concrete-patching solution to problematic areas next week. (Posted Feb. 20, 10:05 a.m.)

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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . 11 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Internet hacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 5 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ellen Kratt Dietrich

Beloved wife, mother, and grandmother Ellen Dietrich passed away in early February after a long illness. Ellen was born in Chicago to Richard and Margaret Spencer and spent her early childhood in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, before moving with her family to Palo Alto. She attended Palo Alto High School and college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. While raising her three boys, Rich, Will, and Ken, she was a graphics coordinator at the Electric Power Research Institute, where she met her second husband, David. After the birth of their daughter Elizabeth, she worked as manager of health and wellness services at Avenidas, providing extraordinary care and counsel to the Palo Alto senior community. Ellen is survived by her husband David Dietrich; sons Richard Kratt, William Kratt, and Kenneth Kratt; daughter Elizabeth Dietrich; grandchildren Spencer Kratt, Noelle Kratt, Joshua Kratt, Jacob Kratt, Michael Kratt, and Jayden Kratt; sister Betty Spencer; niece Victoria Kirschner; and cousin Lynne Dotson. Ellenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s joy in life was the love of her family and her devotion to her many friends and colleagues. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, at the First Lutheran Church, 600 Homer Avenue in Palo Alto. PAID

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VIOLENT CRIMES Webster Street, 2/18, 10 a.m.; family violence/misc. El Camino Real, 2/21, 9:02 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. California Avenue, 2/21, 6 p.m.; domestic violence/misc. 412 Emerson St., 2/21, 12:21 p.m.; battery/simple. 206 California Ave., 2/22, 11:30 a.m.; battery/simple. San Antonio Road, 2/24, 2:39 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Born in San Francisco on November 6, 1939, one of the twin sons of Elizabeth and Frank Erlin of Palo Alto, Peter Erlin passed away January 9, 2015 at his home in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 75. He is survived by Susana Erlin, his wife of 47 years, his three children, (Shawn Meisl of Jackson, WY, Matt Erlin of St. Louis, MO, and Tim Erlin of Minneapolis, MN) and six grandchildren. He also leaves his twin brother Michael Erlin of La Honda, CA, his nephews Michael Erlin Jr of Sydney, Australia and Christopher Erlin of San Rafael, CA, his Aunt Mary Folger Barrett of Techapi, CA, and many beloved cousins. Peter grew up in Palo Alto, where he attended Walter Hayes Elementary School, Jordan Junior High School and Palo Alto High School. He attended Stanford University on an ROTC scholarship and graduated in 1961 with a degree in Political Science. After college he spent six years in the Navy on the USS Providence. Upon completion of his service he moved to Newport Beach, where he met and married Susana. They moved to the East Coast to work and start a family but returned to California after five years. Peter spent much of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, living in Los Altos and Orinda and working for Western Contract Furnishings before starting his own office furnishings business. Upon retirement he and Susana moved to South Portland, ME, where they enjoyed ten years of beach living. In 2014 they moved to St. Louis to be close to family. Peter was a man of principle, a dedicated husband, father, and son, an engaged member of all of the communities in which he lived, a witty conversationalist and talented writer, and a fantastic cook. A memorial service in the San Francisco Bay Area is being planned for the spring.

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Menlo Park Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5 Found bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Mary Louise McKim Sibley Webster, a longtime Palo Alto resident and community member, died peacefully on Jan. 28 at her home. She was 93. Known as “Kim,” she was born on May 3, 1921, to Dorothea Jefferys Sibley and Arthur Sibley in San Francisco. Her early years

Robert S. Lozano

July 4, 1934 – November 27, 2014 Longtime Palo Alto resident Robert S. Lozano passed away peacefully from pleural mesothelioma at his cattle ranch in Butte Falls, Oregon, on Thanksgiving morning, November 27, 2014. Robert (known to family and friends as Bob) was born on July 4, 1934, in Palo Alto to Manuel and Emily Lozano. Bob attended Stanford Elementary School, Jordan Junior High School, and was a member of the Palo Alto High School class of 1953. He received a Bachelor’s of Art degree in Studio Art from San Jose State University in 1958. He served two years in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Ord, from 1958 to 1960. After release from the U.S. Army, he spent a winter as a ski instructor at Dodge Ridge Ski Resort in the Sierra Nevada. He taught studio art and art history at Los Gatos High School from 1961 to 1985. He served as the head of the Art Department for much of his teaching tenure. The rural nature of the Santa Clara Valley had a profound influence on the trajectory of Bob’s life. When he was young, he enjoyed riding his pony in the Stanford foothills. He often worked in the family’s businesses located throughout the Bay Area. Bob, his brother, his father, and several close family friends were avid bird and large game hunters and spent many memorable trips hunting in the Central Valley, Nevada, and Mexico. Bob married fellow artist and high school art teacher Judy Hanshue of Los Gatos on December 19, 1964. From 1964 to 1971 they lived in Los Gatos. In 1968, they spent a year traveling through Europe on a teaching sabbatical. Bob and Judy hosted several shows featuring their artwork around the Bay Area in the 1960s and 70s. In 1971, they built a home in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside of Los Gatos. Their daughters, Sarah and Mandy, were born in 1975 and 1977, respectively. Their rural home served as an inspiration for their art and allowed them to keep several horses. Bob and Judy were also avid skiers and adventurers and enjoyed spending time with their family and friends at their Lake Tahoe cabin. In 1985, Bob retired from Los Gatos High School to fulfill his dream of owning and operating a working cattle ranch.

The Lozanos purchased a ranch outside of Butte Falls, Oregon, and moved their family to begin their second careers operating the JRL Ranch. They operated a cow-calf operation that focused on pasture-raised, grass-fed beef cattle in a holistically managed environment. The JRL Ranch received several awards, of which Bob was extremely proud: Producer of the Year by Western Ranchers Beef, Co-Operator of the Year by the Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District, and Co-Operator of the year by the Oregon Association of Conservation Districts. Starting in 2001, the Lozanos supported an Oregon State University Rangeland Resources Scholarship/Internship program, which allowed a college student the opportunity for hands-on ranching experience at the JRL Ranch each summer. Always an avid horseman, Bob enjoyed riding, working cattle, and roping in the California Vaquero tradition. In recent years, he participated in many team roping competitions. Bob, Judy, Sarah, and Mandy and their families also enjoyed traveling/ trekking throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. Bob is survived by his wife Judy Hanshue Lozano of Butte Falls, Oregon, his daughter Sarah Lozano Larson, son-in-law Ryan Larson, grandson Blake, and granddaughter Scarlett of Encinitas, California, and daughter Mandy Lozano of Seattle, Washington. He is also survived by his sister Shirley Lozano Klynn and her family of Palo Alto and Littleton, Colorado, and brother Manuel Lozano and his family of Portola Valley, Atherton, Encinitas, and Pacific Palisades. This spring his ashes will be spread on “Horse Hill,” where his special animals rest, where his daughter was married, where he’ll have a 360-degree view of his beloved ranch and Mt. McLaughlin, and where he’ll be able to watch over and protect his family. A memorial celebration will be held for Bob at his ranch in 2015. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the Lozano family requests that donations be made in his honor to the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (www.curemeso. com) or Providence Hospice (www.oregon.providence.org). PAID

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were spent in San Francisco and during the summers on her grandfather’s Napa ranch. In 1930, she moved to a house on Bryant Street in Palo Alto and went on to attend Addison School, the Channing School and Palo Alto High School. Before her senior year at Paly, she was offered a scholarship to Simmons College by Elizabeth Gamble (of Gamble Garden fame) in exchange for serving as an aide for a year to an elderly woman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She accepted and instead graduated from Cambridge Latin in 1938. During her time at Simmons, she met Sa n ford H. “Sam” Webster, a West Point cadet, and they married in June 1941. Following the war, she started a family with Sam, moving to posts in Germany and throughout the U.S., including at the Pentagon. Sam retired in 1962, and the family then moved permanently to Palo Alto. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Kim organized trips around the world with Sam. In 1997, they moved to The Hamilton, a retirement community which they had helped to conceive and construct. Back on the Peninsula, Kim was a longtime volunteer at the Stanford Art Museum and studied literature and art at Foothill College and Stanford University. According to her family, she was also known for generosity, sense of humor, knowledge and enjoyment of music, and her devotion to her husband of almost 72 years, Sam. She was predeceased by her husband, Sam Webster, in 2013; by her oldest son, Sanford Webster Jr., in 1969; and by her sisters, Dorrit Sibley Merritt and Amy Sibley Tyler. She is survived by her son, James (Denise Hingle) Webster of Berkeley; her daughter, Sarah Webster (Neil Hannon) Goodwin of Saratoga Springs, New York; and her four grandchildren, Eva, Hannah and Stephan Goodwin and Octavio Hingle-Webster. A private memorial service was held. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be sent in Kim’s

name to the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden (www.gamblegarden.org).

Alice Tallmon Roberts Alice Tallmon Roberts, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died on Feb. 4. She was 100. She was born on Nov. 14, 1914, in Morgan Hill. She went on to attend Morgan Hill Union High School, graduating in 1933. She also studied for a time at San Jose State College, where she played clarinet in the marching band. In 1936, she married John F. Roberts Jr., whom she had met through mutual friends, and soon after settled in Palo Alto. Locally, she volunteered in the 1960s as a Gray Lady with the Red Cross, assisting patients at the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital. For many years she attended services at the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and, prior to that, the Palo Alto First Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the P.E.O. and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Throughout her life, she greatly enjoyed flowers, art, horses and dogs, children, fashionable clothing and caring for her family and friends. In her later years, she also took many art classes at Avenidas, focusing on watercolor. She was predeceased by her husband, John F. Roberts Jr. She is survived by her children, Sondra (James) Erikson of Palo Alto; John (Lila) F. Roberts III of Amity, Oregon; Margery (Donald) Flowers of Ukiah, California; and Carolyn (John) Karhu of Basin, Wyoming. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and her sister, Evelyn Pilgrim of Sequim, Washington. A memorial service will be held on March 23 at 1 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, 475 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. Memorial donations can be made to the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (www. michaeljfox.org) or the Palo Alto Humane Society (www. paloaltohumane.org).

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Editorial When neighbors object Council chamber is the wrong place to resolve home-design controversies

he Palo Alto City Council made the right call Monday night in upholding the staff approval of a single-family home proposed for a vacant lot on a cul-de-sac on Corina Way in the Adobe Meadow neighborhood in south Palo Alto. The council’s 6-1 vote, with Vice Mayor Greg Schmid dissenting and Councilmen Tom DuBois and Greg Scharff absent, showed that even with a new “residentialist” majority on the council, there is not an appetite to jump in and impose further requirements on homeowners who are proposing projects that conform to all zoning requirements and who have made a good-faith effort to respond to neighbors’ concerns. The Corina Way proposal — for a two-story, five-bedroom house on a 7,700-square-foot corner lot — is not the kind of issue one expects the City Council to be spending a good part of an evening discussing. And it was particularly odd to hear individual council members making suggestions to the property owner including moving bedrooms down to the first floor, lowering ceiling heights or reducing the size of windows. The notion that the City Council might try at a council meeting to redesign a home that has already gone through several design iterations in response to staff and neighbor input is as impractical as it is unfair — and a misuse of council and staff resources. So we’re glad that after an initial foray Monday night into designby-committee, the council wisely concluded the smart move was to approve the project. But that’s not to say that neighbors didn’t have valid reasons for objecting to a house that will stand out due to its modern design and height in a neighborhood dominated by single-story Eichlers. Why is there even a path to council consideration of a singlefamily-home proposal that meets the city’s building, lot coverage and zoning requirements? After all, doesn’t a homeowner have the right to build the home of his choice as long as these requirements are met, no matter how ugly or incompatible it may seem to neighbors? The answer is surprisingly complicated. Most residents will not encounter this process unless they want to add a second floor or are building a new home. It stems from a previous community debate in 2000 and 2001 when the city struggled to find the right balance between regulation and individual property rights. At the time, so-called “monster” homes were being built that often raised the hackles of neighbors because of their mass and seeming incompatibility with other homes in the neighborhood. The standard practice, used especially by builders of spec homes, was and still is to build the largest possible house under the zoning rules. In November 2001, after much study and discussion, carefully crafted reductions in the maximum building envelope were approved and a formal review process was created for all proposed new two-story homes and second-floor additions so that there was a way for neighbors and city staff to object. Since then, every party proposing a single two-story home or second-floor addition has had to place a notice sign in front of the property, notify neighbors and explain in an application how the proposal meets five design guidelines relating to site layout; neighborhood compatibility for height, mass and scale; architectural form, massing and rooflines; visual character of street-facing facades and entries; and placement of second-story windows and decks for privacy. A comprehensive guidebook was developed to assist homeowners and their architects in meeting the guidelines, and the review process takes place at the staff level within the planning department. Appeals are heard by the planning director or his designee, but neighbors can then make a final appeal of the director’s decision to the City Council. Thankfully, very few appeals go that far, as most homeowners work things out to the satisfaction of neighbors so they can get on with their project. The “Individual Review” process is not without its problems, and the City Council and staff are right to undertake an analysis of how it can be improved and to address important policy questions such as whether denials of second stories should be an option when surrounding homes are mostly single stories. But this process has served neighbors well and has resulted in improved design and neighborhood compatibility. It has been one of Palo Alto’s planning success stories. While the immediate neighbors on Corina Way have legitimate concerns, the council’s decision puts the focus where it should be: Based on more than 10 years of experience with the Individual Review process, what improvements are needed to the current building and zoning requirements, the design guidelines and the Individual Review process?

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Simple and sensible Editor, I’m not a high school student, nor am I a high school teacher. But I am a parent. And a psychotherapist. And I can think of nothing worse than worrying about my teenager killing him- or herself. The pain that the families are experiencing, that the Gunn teachers, students and administrators are going through has got to be excruciating. Who knows why someone ultimately takes their own life; so many disparate factors are involved. I can only say how sorry I am. That’s why I endorse Save the 2008. This determined little movement proposes do-able, affordable and practical measures to promote a healthier, more balanced high school culture. The visionaries behind this proposal, (Marc) Vincenti and (Martha) Cabot, recommend downsizing class size, so that the teachers can see their students “as people,” not grinders. Professionally, I know how important it is to be seen and mirrored and how inherently damaging it is to feel invisible. Save the 2008 also proposes reducing the perceived need for overloading students with AP courses, creating a confidential website where teachers and students can compare notes on how long any one assignment actually takes, banning cellphone use on campus and cutting the number of progress reports generated per year. Simple. Sensible. Possibly lifesaving. Where do I sign up? Edna Wallace Elm Street, San Carlos

Don’t it always Editor, Upon reading about our new mayor’s goals, I only hope that this isn’t a case of “closing the barn door after the cows have left,” or as Joni Mitchell warned long ago in her song “Big Yellow Taxi” that “they paved paradise” and “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” What I refer to is the story in the Weekly in the Feb. 20 edition capturing Ms. Holman’s philosophy advocating slow growth — and my wish that it isn’t just pleasing words. If so, the wonderful character of downtown will be lost and replaced by shut retail stores and ugly office buildings. I can only hope it’s not too late to save our paradise here in Palo Alto. Lorin Krogh Encina Avenue, Palo Alto

Best interests Editor, Your blue-ribbon editorial on saving Buena Vista reports, “(The Palo Alto Council) may not con-

sider what is in the best interests of Buena Vista residents or the broader community.” But all law, including land-use law, is based on what elected officials deem to be in the best interests of the community. Back in 1926, Santa Clara County determined that towns made up of traditional homes on large lots — with each home framed by a lawn, garden and trees — although discriminatory toward people who could afford only a little bit of land, were in the best interests of the community. Homeowners with little movable houses were directed to rent farm land, providing a quantum leap in income for the landowners, with far less effort than agriculture. They also provided the votes needed to dragoon the orchardists along Arastradero Road into the City of Palo Alto. They hewed wood and drew wa-

ter, paid taxes, bought corn flakes and tennis shoes, and all the while Palo Alto, unbeknownst to them, held their death warrant, the ominous R-15 zoning, in the bottom drawer, waiting until population growth made the time propitious to destroy their homes. However, Palo Alto has one of the best-educated populations in the nation. They do not think money is the measure of all things, nor that human beings are a stop-gap investment to pay expenses until commercial development knocks on the door. Palo Altans are saying “No.” And, you know, vox populi, vox dei. If I were a gambler, I’d bet that somewhere in those dusty law books there’s a law that says the Palo Alto City Council must consider what is in the best interests of Buena Vista residents and the broader community. Stephanie Muñoz Alma Street, Palo Alto

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Off Deadline Stanford’s John Hennessy takes a peek at Stanford’s, and the world’s, future by Jay Thorwaldson

n a rare conversational interview Stanford University President John Hennessy disclosed some “modest” expansion plans and pledged the university to continued commitment to the highest standards of education, rooted deeply in the community and world. None of the above is sensational or unexpected news. But his keynote appearance at the 2015 State of the Valley conference in early February was a rare discourse from Hennessy, who has headed Stanford for the past 15 years, an impressive tenure for a university president. He joined Stanford in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and a self-described naive young faculty member. Along the way to the presidency, Hennessy founded two outside companies and served as chair of computer science, dean of the School of Engineering and in the powerful position of university provost. Instead of speaking from a podium, Hennessy opted for a question-answer interview format with Susan Colby, who heads the McKinsey & Company management-consulting firm’s North American education practice. The relaxed format allowed Hennessy to cover a vast range of subjects, notably excluding any personal plans to retire as president. But he did cover innovation, the global economy, higher education and the

years from preschool through K-12 that lead to college. He spoke of how technology has the potential of revolutionizing and improving education worldwide. His core message was that Stanford is deeply rooted in the community, the Silicon Valley region, the nation and the world, and that Stanford and other universities must play a role in the well-being of all of those layers of civilization and the environment. “Whoever thought two kids from Long Island would be sitting here talking about Silicon Valley and Stanford University?” Colby began, quickly leading into how Silicon Valley became the “hub of innovation” and a social and economic powerhouse. “One of the big questions we want to hear from John about is how we stay the hub of innovation and what does the future of innovation look like?” Hennessy replied: “We both came out when this was not the center of the technology world. It certainly had a semiconductor industry here, but if you wanted to go talk to leaders of the computer industry you got on a plane, you flew to Boston or to New York to talk to the leadership. “And now everybody in the world comes to Silicon Valley because it is really the hub.” What built that hub? “Getting great talent, supporting strong people is why there’s been such a strong movement in companies and universities here in the valley,” he said. Talent also “is keeping that innovation going. I think the universities now play that fundamental research role that Bell Labs and Xerox Park and IBM research used to play in earlier times.” Another big factor is attitude, he added. “There’s also an incredible optimism out

here. People are willing to take risks. They are willing to think differently about problems. And we have to preserve that feeling. “There’s a very different sense of opportunity than you see anywhere else in the world. And we’ve got to be sure we keep it. There are really two parallel things we have to do. We have to continue to be attractive to the best talent in the United States and ... the world” — not an easy challenge. “And while we’re not a perfect meritocracy — we’re not, no place is — we’re a lot better than other places in the world. There’s an opportunity for bright young people with great ideas to rise and bring in important accomplishments. We have to keep that track. ... We have to get visa reforms done. We have to get general immigration reform done as well. “And if you think about these young people, the Dreamers now, who are going to college, getting college degrees, who came to this country this high (a small-child height gesture) and they’re now stuck in the dilemma about the future of their ability to live in this country.” There are other core issues: “We’ve got to worry about infrastructure and housing. We have to figure out how we’re going to make it possible for people to live in this area, to afford a house and not to have to drive an hour and a half each way to get to work.” Using mass transit and some type of alternative approaches to housing within the region will be needed as the area moves “from a suburban environment to a semiurban environment,” with a caveat. “And as the density goes up we’re going to have to figure out how to make living and working in the valley as great as when we got here.”

Hennessy cited major challenges, including assuring that women have equal opportunities for careers in all fields. He recalled that it was only in the mid-1990s that Stanford named its first woman dean, and today about half the deans are women — including the dean of engineering, “a big step forward for us.” The 1,000plus audience applauded. Yet the broader importance of those appointments is the example they set for girls and young women. Supporting career and education choices also applies to people of diverse ethnicities and cultures, he said. Stanford must maintain the balance between technology and liberal arts, from English to art and humanities of all types. The use of MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses) will vastly change the face of universities and open opportunities for education worldwide, Hennessy predicted. And the interdisciplinary research Hennessy has championed during his presidency has the potential for changing the world in areas of disease management, education, communications and society. Asked about his “legacy,” Hennessy moved beyond improving education to the future of the region. While it already is “a glorious place ... the best place in the world,” he said there needs to be a commitment “to keeping it the kind of place that the next generation is going to want to come to and live in and commit their lives to, and make a difference.” Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well. com. He also writes periodic blogs at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

What is the main way you’ve met new people locally? Asked outside of Whole Foods Market on Homer Avenue. Interviews and photos by Maev Lowe.

Don Jameison

Pavita Singh

Lola Adle

Geoff Williamson

Carole Rafferty

Mulberry Lane, Los Altos Grocery store employee

Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto Startup worker

Greenmeadow Way, Palo Alto Bartender

Waverley Street, Palo Alto Retired

Ramona Street, Palo Alto Artist

“Working at Whole Foods. I live in Los Altos, which is a bit isolating, so coming down here is my socializing time!”

“On campus ... taking classes at Stanford. (Through) internships.”

“Through community events. ... I live in the Greenmeadow area. ... The association has food truck parties where all the cool food trucks come and feed us.”

“I guess through work ... just through various associations and groups I’m a part of. And the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce.”

“My art classes at the Palo Alto Art Center and Pacific Art League. ... I’ve made friendships that are still going five to seven years later.”

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In a certain

light

Over the course of a day, Baylands is ever-changing photographs by Veronica Weber / text by Sam Sciolla

t the Palo Alto Baylands, the sights and sounds that catch one’s attention are as likely to come from above as from below. Quacking ducks flap deliberately across a light-blue sky before landing to nibble on green vegetation. Gulls float more serenely on the air currents, with wings outspread, but just as soon break the silence with a shriek or yell. A murmuring propeller plane flies low to land at the adjacent Palo Alto Airport; any birds in the way dart quickly aside. The surface, though, isn’t without activity. In one of the waterways that meanders through the marshlands, ducks shove off from a small cove and spread out like sailboats across the water. Their movements are observed and documented by a man with a camera and tripod. Farther off, in the center of the Baylands, hundreds of birds meet, white dots congregating for some mysterious purpose. Other winged creatures are only fleetingly visible through brush, such as a brown bird with a thin, dangling beak that flits along one channel. And somewhere, over the miles of marshland, foxes and rabbits lie hidden. The landscape too has its own character and life, one that changes with the light and wind. The water reflects clouds that are illuminated by the setting sun. The tones of the plant life vary from gray to mud brown to almost burnt (continued on page 24)

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Cover Story

Clockwise, from top: American avocets take off in flight at the Palo Alto Baylands; fennel seed heads, which turn bright yellow in the summer, face the ponds of the Baylands on East Bayshore Road; a great egret walks through the pickleweed in search of food in the Baylands; small waves lap up against the marshy shores.

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At left: A stream of water in a Palo Alto Baylands marsh reflects the waning sunlight during low tide in late February.

Ducks swim in one of the many channels of the Palo Alto Baylands during sunrise on Feb. 23. Photo by Veronica Weber. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 27, 2015 • Page 23

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp BOARD OF DIRECTORS PALO ALTO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION AGENDA-SPECIAL MEETING- COUNCIL CHAMBERS MARCH 2, 2015 6:00 PM ACTION 1. Approval of 2013-14 Public Improvement Corporation Financial Statement AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS March 2, 2015 6:05 PM Study Session 1. Study Session on Shuttle and Rideshare Program for the Future (Continued from February 2, 2015) Consent Calendar 2. Approval of Amendment No. 2 to Contract C12143475 with Alta Planning + Design to Extend the Contract Term to December 31, 2015 for the Safe Routes to School Planning Project 3. Approval and Authorization for the City Manager to Execute an Electric Fund Construction Contract with MP Nexlevel of California, Inc., in the Amount of $1,697,836.50, for Trenching and Installation of Utility Substructures for Underground Utility +PZ[YPJ[ 5V 7YVQLJ[! ,3 PU [OL (YLH VM 4PKKSLĂ&#x201E;LSK Road, Homer Avenue, Webster Street, and Addison Avenue; and Approval and Authorization for the City Manager to Execute Addendum No. 2 to the Agreement for Joint Participation in the Installation of the Underground Facilities System Between the City of Palo Alto, AT&T, and Comcast Corporation of California IX, Inc. 4. Adoption of a Resolution Designating 300 Homer Street Known as the Roth Building as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sender Siteâ&#x20AC;? in the Transfer VM +L]LSVWTLU[ 9PNO[Z ;+9 7YVNYHT HUK +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃ&#x153; to Advertise Request for Proposal to Market the TDRs 5. Utilities Advisory Commission Recommendation that the City Council Adopt a Resolution Approving the City of Palo Alto Utilities Legislative Guidelines 6. Appeal of Director of Planning and Community Environmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Architectural and Historic Review Approval of a Rehabilitation of a Category 3 Historic Resource located at 261 Hamilton â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Request for Continuance to April 6, 2015 7. Approval of Amendment Number 3 to Contract C08125506 with The Planning Center ÂŚ DCE, now Known as Placeworks, to Increase the Contract by $157,525 to an Amount Not to Exceed $1,894,731 and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance (BAO) to Increase the Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriation to the Planning and Community Environment Department for Preparation of a Fiscal Study in Conjunction with the Comprehensive Plan Update Action Items 8. Public Hearing: On Objections to Weed Abatement and Adoption of Resolution #9489 Ordering Weed Nuisance Abated 9. Public Hearing: Adoption of a Resolution Amending Water, Gas and Wastewater Connection and Capacity Fees and Miscellaneous Utility Charges (Utility Rate Schedules S-5, G-5, W-5 and C-1) +PZJ\ZZPVU HUK +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃ&#x153; 9LNHYKPUN ,Z[HISPZOTLU[ VM HU 6Ń?JL 9 + (UU\HS .YV^[O 3PTP[ *VU[PU\LK MYVT -LIY\HY` 9, 2015) Standing Committee Meetings The Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 4, 2015 at 7:00 P.M. to discuss: 1) Discussion of a New Residential Curbside Collection and Composting Program, Commencing FY HUK (JJLW[HUJL VM 6UNVPUN :[HŃ&#x153; ,Ń&#x153;VY[Z [V 3H[LY 7YLZLU[ to Council for its Approval or Adoption; 2) Finance Committee Recommendation Regarding Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance Amending the Budget for Fiscal Year 2015 to Adjust Budgeted Revenues and Expenditures in Accordance with the Recommendations in the FY 2015 Midyear Budget Review Report; and 3) Preliminary Financial Forecasts and Rate Changes for Electric, Gas, Wastewater Collection, and Water Utilities. Page 24 â&#x20AC;˘ February 27, 2015 â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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At top: A pair of ducks fly away from a channel at the Palo Alto Baylands during a rosy hued sunset; above: An American avocet, seen in its winter plumage, searches for food in the Baylands water; below: The many pools of water in the marshes are visible from atop Byxbee Park, facing east.

orange, and the finger-like branches of an occasional tree or bush sway in the moaning wind. Tiny swells punctuate the surfaces of the wider waterways; their soft lapping produces whispers that can only be heard down by the banks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; off of the trails wellused by runners and cyclists. Painted in pastel hues, the bay and the eastern hills beyond are visible through the power lines and towers that gird the marshlands in an unusual embrace. In the distance a feathered flock flies together in tight formation, rising and falling like an undulating sheet, or some serpentine dragon out of ancient lore. Slowly the pinks and purples have changed to periwinkle and then darker blues. The light over Skyline Ridge begins to dim, and a full color spectrum rises from the jagged edge to the sliver moon above. A few more planes glide in over the marshlands and touch down in the gathering darkness. Adults and children file back to their automobiles, heading back to a warm meal and their favorite TV shows. But the birds and the brush and the water remain to await the lightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return. Q

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

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unday in the Park with George,” the musical celebrating painter Georges Seurat in a fictionalized way, debuted on Broadway in 1984, heralding composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s renewed interest in musical theater. It also marked his first collaboration with librettist James Lapine (with whom he would go on to create “Into the Woods”). After racking up a respectable number of Tony nominations and awards, in 1985 it garnered the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of only eight musicals ever to do so. Yet it isn’t produced that often, perhaps because of Sondheim’s demanding score and the challenge of creating an ever-changing backdrop depicting Seurat’s famous pointillist painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” So the current showing by Foothill Music Theatre is a welcome and ambitious undertaking, sure to please Sondheim fans as well as those new to the particular joys of his oeuvre.

In Act One, we meet the painter, called simply George (Tyler Bennett; sharing the role with Sergey Khalikulov), as he is working on a large painting he knows will be his most important work to date. He’s come up with a new technique of placing different colors of dots in close proximity, so that the human eye, viewing the painting from a distance, merges the colors. While his mistress, Dot (Katie Nix), complains about modeling in the hot sun, George labors to capture the stunning light coming off the Seine and the many colorful characters populating the island. Those characters include his mother (Linda Piccone) and her nurse (Vanessa Alvarez), two young women (Katherine Goldman, Megan Coomans) eager to meet a soldier (Adam Cotugno), a successful art critic (Kevin Kirby) and his wife (Caitlin Lawrence Papp) and daughter (Chloe Zeldin or Chloe Allen), a rough boatman (Sam Nachison), servants Franz (Joey McDaniel) and Frieda (Mylissa Malley), a

REVIEW THEATER What: “Sunday in the Park with George,” presented by Foothill Music Theatre Where: Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Ave., Los Altos Hills When: Through March 8: Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Special matinee Saturday, March 7 at 2 p.m. Cost: $20-$32. Info: Go to foothillmusicals.com or call 650-949-7360.

baker (Michael Weiland) and American tourists (John Rinaldi, Holly Smolik). They comprise most of the visible figures in Seurat’s painting, here brought to life and then placed by the artist in his work. Like the artist on whom he is based, George dies young, barely recognized and even shunned, having struggled to earn notice for his life’s work. Act Two brings the action into modern times, again fictionaliz-

ing Seurat’s life and his descendants (he had none) and plunging the audience into the commercial world surrounding art. Each actor takes on a different role, with a few clever contiguities and contrasts. The modern George struggles just as the earlier artist did — success is only as deep as your latest commission — and also seeks affirmation and inspiration. Along the journey there are odes to the call of creativity and the necessity of ignoring critics. Foothill’s production plays out on a bare stage with a colorful backdrop animated by projections, showing the painting in progress and in its finished state. Director Milissa Carey wisely relies on lively staging (including Amanda Folena’s choreography) and her ensemble’s excellent vocal skills to deliver the story and carry the show. Nix and Bennett have the bulk of the heavy lifting, vocally speaking, and they’re both quite up to it. Some dramatic moments seemed to fall a little flat on opening night, as if there wasn’t

enough importance attached to the topic, and Dot and George lacked chemistry — they felt too distant during their big duet, “Move On.” Hopefully the show will gel a bit as it continues, as the ensemble is strong and talented. Costumes by Robert Horek imitate those of the painting, but the use of corsets and bustles was inconsistent. Scenic designer Bruce McLeod, lighting designer Michael Rooney and video designer Erik Scanlon together create a beautifully effective spectacle, combining imagery with light and a deceptively neutral stage. Music director Dolores Duran-Cefalu guides the ensemble well and manages a large, full sound from her small orchestra. Sondheim’s pointillistic music and Lapine’s fanciful book may at times test audience sensibilities, but Foothill’s production makes it theatrically pleasing, bringing out the soaring ballads, the charming duets and the timeless advice to follow one’s passion — wherever it may lead. Q

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Foothill Music Theatre offers a pleasant ‘Sunday’ BY J E AN IE K . SM ITH

Dot (Katie Nix) imagines her dream job as a follies dancer in “Sunday in the Park with George.” David Allen

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ate their work in an inspiring natural setting with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. Between March and November, the Djerassi Program will be offering walking tours of some of the more than 100 site-specific sculptural works located on the grounds. There are three types of tours available. Twelve scheduled two-mile tours led by volunteers are free of charge, take approximately two and a half hours and include 25 sculptures, while six tours led by Djerassi Executive Director Margot H. Knight cost $50-$60 per person, last four and a half hours and visit more than 30 sculptures, including an architectural installation “Estaciones des Luz” (“Stations of Light”) by Seattle artist Mark Reeves. Private tours can be arranged for group groups of 15 to 25 people for a suggested donation. All walks are strenuous and involve climbing and descending on trails. Reservations are required, and sign-ups begin online at midnight on March 4. Call 650-747-1250 or go to djerassi.org/tourinfo.html.

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Palo Alto’s Guru Shradha dance company will perform classical Odissi dances as part of “Dancing Together.”

Dance ‘Sahanartana: Dancing together’

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“Yield To Whim,” by Frank Foreman, is among the sculptures on the grounds of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

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Believed to be among the oldest surviving dance forms of India, Odissi is depicted in bas-relief sculptures in eastern India dating to the 2nd century B.C. Today, it’s one of the less commonly performed styles of Indian dance. But on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m., Palo Alto’s very own Odissi dance institution will present these dances in a rare appearance at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theatre (4000 Middlefield Road). Guru Shradha is a nonprofit dance company whose mission is to preserve and promote Indian classical dance from the state of Odisha. Founded in 2008, the company gives performances, workshops and demonstrations around the Bay Area. Saturday’s performance is titled “Sahanartana: Dancing Together,” and the show will feature Odissi dances alongside other classical Indian dance styles including the popular Bharatanatyam, the storytelling Kathak style and Mohiniattam from the southwestern region of Kerala. Tickets to “Sahanartana” range from $15-$30. To learn more, go to GuruShradha.org or call 650-3946022. For tickets, go to tinyurl.com/mous8mg.

Spanish flamenco guitarist Mario Moraga will direct and perform in “New Generation of Young Flamencos” at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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The art of flamenco is passionate, powerful and impulsive. Passed down through the generations, it can only continue to thrive if young people embrace its traditions. On Sunday, March 1, at 3:30 p.m., the Flamenco Society of San Jose presents some of Spain’s brightest young flamenco artists in “New Generation of Young Flamencos” at Mountain View’s Center for the Performing Arts (500 Castro St.). These guitarists, flautists, percussionists, dancers and singers represent Spain’s rising stars, including guitarist Mario Moraga Perez from from the flamenco capital of Jerez De La Frontera and singer Mari Angeles Martinez from Seville, both of whom are appearing in the U.S. for the first time. One day earlier, on Saturday, Feb. 28, members of the cast will offer flamenco workshops in Mountain View from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information on workshops, email flamencos@earthlink.net or call 510-792-8355. For tickets to Sunday’s show, which range from $32-$53, go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-6000. To learn more about the Flamenco Society, go to theflamencosociety.org. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer

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a guide to the spiritual community LOS ALTOS LUTHERAN Bringing God’s Love and Hope to All

Children’s Nursery 10:00 a.m. Worship 10:10 Sunday School 11:15 a.m. Fellowship Pastor David K. Bonde Outreach Pastor Gary Berkland 460 South El Monte (at Cuesta) 650-948-3012 www.losaltoslutheran.org

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MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m. Saturday Services: Worship 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Study Groups: 10-11 a.m. Pastor Kenny Fraser, B.A.M. DIV 1425 Springer Rd., Mtn. View - Ofﬁce Hrs. M-F 9am-1pm www.mtviewda.adventistfaith.org Phone: 650-967-2189 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 27, 2015 • Page 27

Eating Out MAKING IT

by Sam Sciolla photos by Michele Le

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Vendors at local farmers markets adjust practices to save water

Nicole Healy, center, shops for peppers at the Borba Farms stall at the Palo Alto Farmers Market.

alifornia is years into its latest drought, but a stroll through the Palo Alto Farmers Market doesn’t show it. Chard, broccoli, kale, potatoes and apples fill tables and crates at dozens of vendors’ stalls, which shoppers aplenty peruse, looking for choice ingredients for the week’s meals. An onion is weighed, a bag filled, currency exchanged and then vendor and shopper part ways.

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Arts & Entertainment business here,” he said. Cassara Brothers Clothiers, 981 N. San Antonio Road, opened in 1968, “and we plan on sticking around,” Cassara said.

ShopTalk by Daryl Savage

AW SHUCKS, NO TUX ... Palo Alto’s only tuxedo shop closed its doors earlier this month. Selix Formal Wear, 164 University Ave., became the local victim when the Bay-Area tuxedo company announced bankruptcy and abruptly closed all six of its stores. A peek through the locked doors of the Palo Alto store last week showed a completely stocked showroom, tuxedos and all, with the register

on the front counter still displaying a long roll of paper receipts from its last day of business. The timing of the tuxedo store’s closure is unfortunate. Prom season begins in April for Palo Alto’s two public high schools. “It’s sad that Selix went out of business. They’ve been around for a long time,” said Mario Cassara, who owns a store in Los Altos that rents tuxedos. “We’ve already seen an increase in our

Among the produce at the Avila Farms stall are fresh-cut organic Brussels sprouts. Yet a longer conversation with vendors — many of whom work on the farm or are owners — yields a more complete picture of the state of California agriculture: a story of crossed fingers and adjustments big and small to get the most out of available water and keep customers satisfied. As one might expect, the experience of each farm differs, depending on how big their operation is and how they get their water. Tomatero Organic Farm, a regular produce vendor at the California Avenue farmers market in Palo Alto, has only had to shift its practices slightly, mostly because of access to good soil and water by well on its 60 acres in Watsonville. Adriana Silva, one of the farm’s owners, said water issues certainly aren’t new to California, and her farm always tries to be efficient and avoiding over-watering. She fears the water situation may become more difficult in the near future, but the farm has been able to manage well enough thus far. “Some wells are pumping sand, for sure,” she said. “(But) some people have had it so much worse.” One farm that has felt the drought more acutely is Oya Organics, a Hollister-based produce farm that started offering its crops at the Mountain View Farmers Market at the beginning of last year. Oya founder Marsha Habib said that the farm has had to reduce its producing acreage and to fallow half of its land. Habib said that the shrinking — which didn’t focus on any specific crops, just

PAPA MURPHY’S PIZZA RETURNS TO PA ... Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake Pizza is planning to open in Barron Park next month at 3850 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. It is taking over a former Mexican restaurant, which began as a Taco Bell and later changed over to Chalateco. The site then stood vacant for several years until Papa Murphy’s took over in late 2014. The pizza shop is currently putting on its finishing touches for an expected March opening, pending city inspections.

Houweling’s Tomatoes sells their fruits at the Palo Alto Farmers Market.

cutting back a bit everywhere — came as a result of a low water allocation from San Benito County, upon which Oya Organics relies. “It’s political. ... (County officials) decide how much they are going to sell to the farmers,” Habib said. Silvia Prevedelli, owner of Prevedelli Farms — a producer of organic apples, pears, blackberries and raspberries as well as green beans, squash and other vegetables — said her operation has also felt the squeeze, though the farm gets its water from wells. The Watsonville business, which has been around since 1945, has booths at both the California Avenue and Mountain View markets. Prevedelli said her farm had elected not to grow zucchinis this year to save water for the apple trees and berries, which have been in place longer. Because of the lack of rain, she also said that they’ve had to start watering the trees (especially the young ones) in recent weeks — in the past, watering began in May. A fixture at the Mountain View market for 10 years, Avila Farms of Hollister has likewise had to make some tough decisions, cutting back on tomato production. However, Jeanette Avila explained that they’re mostly focusing on being smarter about crop selection, ensuring that there will be buyers for whatever they produce. “We’re really just trying to focus on what people really like,” Avila said. She also noted that she and her fellow farmers are researching ways they might make the most of

Palo Altans may remember another Papa Murphy’s, which had a long run in Midtown that ended in October 2012, when the restaurant chose not to renew its lease at 2730 Middlefield Road. FLEXITARIAN CAFE ON STANFORD CAMPUS ... Forbes Family Cafe is the newest restaurant to hit the Stanford University campus. Calling its cuisine “flexitarian,” it is located in the former site of Ike’s Place, in the Science and Engineering Quad. Forbes opened in late December and has seen incredible success in its short time on campus. “We concentrate mainly on plant-based foods, but we also have some meat options. That’s why this place is called flexitarian,”

said one of the cashiers during the lunchtime rush. It is also one of the few restaurants anywhere that offers a salad bar priced not by weight, but by the container it fills. “It’s more efficient that way. We can move customers much faster in and out,” said the cashier, who asked that his name not be used. The cafe also has an eye toward buying from local farmers and vendors; the constantly changing menu reflects that commitment. According to a blackboard posted in the restaurant, “Revenues generated go directly to supporting student room and board rates.”

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tices or technologies they’re employing to address the water shortage, including watering during cooler times of day and using drip irrigation: a system of pipes and tubes that dispenses water directly to each plant. Despite the added expense and work, Fifth Crow has been implementing more drip irrigation as a less wasteful alternative to spraying water over everything. But ultimately, farmers can only work with the water that’s available. “It kind of just depends on what’s in the creek,” Leshner said.

Prevedelli said she’s uncertain whether they’ll have to cut out anything else from the lineup, as she doesn’t know how much more water (aka rain) is coming. But that precarious waiting game — however hidden from customers at local farmers markets — is part and parcel of the business of being a California farmer. As Prevedelli pointed out, “We depend all on Mother Nature.” Q Editorial Assistant Sam Sciolla can be emailed at ssciolla@ paweekly.com.

the water they do have. One particular change she’s considering is creating a system to recycle the water the farmers use to wash the produce — something a neighbor of the farm turned them on to. While the drought hasn’t drastically reduced their crops this year, Avila said using less water has changed the crops themselves, specifically the chili peppers. Giving the peppers less water has made them smaller but also spicier and more concentrated. Avila said they might even be selling a little better, though it really comes down to the individual shopper and his or her taste buds. Emily Leshner from Fifth Crow Farm in Pescadero, another California Avenue vendor, described a similar result with the tomatoes grown on her farm. Fifth Crow practices “dry farming,” a common strategy for growing crops like tomatoes, apples, potatoes, grapes and olives in drier climates. A dry-farmed tomato plant is watered only a little and then grows on its own, taking moisture from the soil. Though fewer in number, the tomatoes that emerge from the process are more dense with nutrients, and thus more flavorful and sweet, Leshner said. Silva and Habib said they also rely on dry farming as a way to conserve water. As part of the dryfarming process for its tomatoes, Oya Organics applies a layer of dust mulch, which prevents moisture in the ground from evaporating. Fifth Crow Farm also uses dry farming to grow its potatoes. Vendors mentioned other pracwww.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 27, 2015 • Page 29

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Movies MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. North by Northwest (1959) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:25 p.m.

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 11:30 a.m. Century 20: 9:55 a.m.

The 39 Steps (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:55 & 10:05 p.m.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 1:15, 2:50, 4:20, 5:50, 7:25, 8:55 & 10:30 p.m.

A la Mala (Not Rated) Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

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to centuries of their scrapbook snaps. Ingenious special effects keep the audience off guard when they crop up to remind us that these out-of-touch social misfits also have supernatural power in the extreme. For good measure, we also get a pack of werewolves kept politely in line by their alpha Anton — (“We’re werewolves, not swear-wolves”) — played by Clement’s erstwhile “Flight of the Conchords” co-star Rhys Darby. “Shadows” has all the makings of the next cult comedy, the one you’ll be pleased as punch to pass on to your friends. Like “Shaun of the Dead,” this won’t be to all tastes: The picture dabbles in light gore (mostly spurts of blood), and it’s irreverent in its casual disregard for human life. But as much as “Shadows” takes its power from visceral horror, it also benefits from Romantic depth of feeling: another comic contrast that keeps the film’s blood pumping. Not MPAA rated. One hour, 26 minutes. — Peter Canavese

American Sniper (R) ++ Century 16: 12:20 & 3:45 p.m., Fri & Sun 7 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 1:05, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:35 p.m.

The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:35, 3:40, 4:50, 5:55, 7:15, 8:15, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m.

Birdman (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 4:20 & 7:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:35 & 10:25 p.m.

McFarland, USA (PG) ++ Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 3:45, 7 & 10 p.m.

Black or White (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:40 a.m.

Paddington (PG) Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:30, 3:55, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m.

Charade (1963) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

Selma (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 12:55, 4:10, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m.

The DUFF (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:15 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m.

Song of the Sea (PG) Palo Alto Square: 2:15, 4:45 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:35 p.m. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G) ++ Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m. & 1:40 p.m., Fri & Sun 4:05, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m. In 3-D at noon, 2:25, 5 & 7:35 p.m.

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) ++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 12:15, 3:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:45, 9:15 & 10:45. Sat & Sun 1:50 p.m. Focus (R) Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:15, 2:35, 3:55, 5:15, 6:35, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m. In X-D at 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05 & 10:45 p.m.

Still Alice (PG-13) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:40, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Timbuktu (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:30 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:30 p.m. UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano LIVE (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 7 p.m. Century 20: Sat 7 p.m.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) Century 16: 10:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:35 p.m. Century 20: 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 & 10:40 p.m. The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:35 a.m., Fri & Sat 4:20 & 7:20 p.m., Sun 4:45 & 7:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m.

What We Do in the Shadows (Not Rated) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: 2:30, 4:40, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m. Whiplash (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:45 & 9:40 p.m.

+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

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Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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Book Talk IN CONVERSATION ... at Kepler’s (1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park) will be Ann Hamilton, author of “Expecting,” in conversation with Richard Whitmore at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3. Psychotherapist and author Irvin D. Yalom, author of “Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy,” will be paired with psychologist Barry Hughes at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. Info: keplers.com ANOTHER LOOK ... Stanford University’s Another Look book club will hold a public discussion of James Baldwin’s 1963 classic, “The Fire Next Time,” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Encina Hall on Serra Street. The discussion is free and open to the public, with no reserved seating. Moderator will be Michele Elam, professor of English, with Harry Elam, vice provost for undergraduate education, and author Tobias Wolff, professor of English and founding director of Another Look. Podcasts of previous events are on the website. Info: anotherlook. stanford.edu EAT, TALK, SWAP ... Kepler’s will hold its next Book Swap on Saturday, March 7, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Participants bring a book they love, talk about it, then swap it for another. Author Elizabeth Rosner will talk about her novel, “Electric City.” Book swappers also get refreshments and a free advanced reader’s edition of a book from Kepler’s. Tickets are $25. Info: keplers.com or brownpapertickets.com/event/1126155

A WOMAN’S PERSEPCTIVE ... Palo Alto resident Christine Witzel has penned “She Also Served: Letters from a Navy Wife,” based on a treasure-trove of letters found in her family’s Menlo Park home after her mother’s death in 2004. With an eye for detail, her mother, Virgilia Short Witzel, describes daily life for a Navy officer’s wife in California during World War II, in China amid civil war and in

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Harper Lee.” “A Sudden Light” has ow do you follow up a beloved as novel that has captured the its origins in Stein’s play, y, hearts of fans around the globe, “Brother Jones,” producedd sold four million copies, spawned a pic- in 2005 in Los Angeles. s. ture book series and a special edition for The drama wasn’t an ar-young readers, been translated into 35 tistic success, largely be-languages and is now being adapted as a cause the main characterr wasn’t a sufficiently vimajor motion picture? That was the dilemma Seattle author brant protagonist, accordGarth Stein faced in the wake of “The ing to Stein. “One character calls Art of Racing in the Rain,” his hugely successful 2009 novel. Narrated by Enzo, him ‘a waffle.’ Waffles a dog with a passion for race-car driving, do not make good prothe book won acclaim with readers and tagonists.” Once Stein saw the critics alike. Re-creating that kind of success would be a tall order for any author. possibility of re-imagining ng elements of Six years after the publication of “Rac- the play as a novel, he realized ealized that he ing in the Rain,” Stein answers that chal- needed a more actively engaged main lenge with “A Sudden Light,” a family character. “Audiences want a character with a saga about the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, intergenerational secrets and clear goal who’s going to go out after something,” Stein explained. “He has to spectral presences. overcome obstacles and find Stein will discuss and sign a path through the (emo“A Sudden Light” at Books tional) rubble. That’s why Inc. in Mountain View on I decided to give Brother Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. Jones a son. Trevor is a good “A Sudden Light” opens protagonist.” in 1990, when 14-year-old Stein also selected a speTrevor arrives with his facific time frame for “A Sudther Jones at Riddell House, den Light.” their dilapidated ancestral “1990 was a very innoestate in Washington State. cent time,” he said. “It was The boy only dimly underthe very beginning of the stands the adult conflicts Digital Age. There wasn’t that swirl around him. His all this communication evparents are separated, his erywhere. You couldn’t just Grandfather Samuel is sliptouch email wherever you ping into dementia and his Author Garth Stein will went.” father and aunt need the speak at Books, Inc. Stein wanted Trevor to cash that would come from in Mountain View on feel isolated as he unearths a quick sale of the property. Thursday, March 5. the Riddell family secrets. To make things even more Some of those secrets inconfusing for Trevor, Riddell House seems haunted. Weird noises, volve Ben Riddell, the long-dead gay son missing items, bizarre dreams and secret of timber magnate Elijah Riddell. Stein passages all point to the presence of a lin- researched male friendships in the early gering spirit in the mansion. Gradually, 1900s and used some of the historical dethe boy pieces together his family’s se- tails he discovered to inform “A Sudden cret history, which includes a star-crossed Light.” “I wanted to bring that into the book bemale couple from the turn of the 20th cencause it had an interesting historical aspect tury. After “Racing in the Rain” took off, and because it felt genuine. Ben, who’s Stein didn’t waste much time wondering motivated by humanity’s connection with whether he would be able to top himself. nature, who’s inspired by the writings “It’s always a difficult time writing a of the Transcendentalists, believes that book as a follow-up (to a big success), but love is pure and that any preconceptions it has to be done,” he said. “Unless you’re we have about it are our own problems,

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INTERNATIONAL THRILLER ... Monterey-based author Jack Erickson, who worked for years in Palo Alto as a wealth manager at Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley), will appear at Books Inc. at Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, to discuss his latest book, “Thirteen Days in Milan” (RedBrick Press). Research for the novel, which is about an American single mother who’s taken hostage by Italian terrorists, took Erickson to Milan where he attended high-level meetings with the DIGOS antiterrorism unit. Erickson’s mystery novel “True Crime” has been on Amazon’s best-seller list since its publication in 2011. Info: jackerickson.com or booksinc.net

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not the problem with love.” One of Ben’s pastimes in the novel is climbing giant redwood trees. Deciding he needed first-hand experience with the sport, Stein consulted professional tree climber Tim Kovar and learned to scale the ancient trees, including “Grandfather,” a spectacular specimen in the Santa Cruz mountains. According to Stein, the first 100 feet are the hardest, since sturdy branches don’t grow below that height. “There isn’t anything to hold onto, so you’re kind of dangling by a rope. If you lose touch with the trunk, you start to spin around. And that really freaks me out. But once you get up to the very upper reaches, it’s amazing.” “A Sudden Light” is dedicated to Stein’s father, who died unexpectedly at age 75, and speculation about life after death suffuses the novel. Stein said that he had a series of four especially vivid dreams in which he conversed with his own departed father. “Maybe there was something unresolved, and maybe he did want to complete something with me. So he came back and had his say. We had our conversations, and he went off. I haven’t seen him since.” “A Sudden Light” was published in October 2014, but the ambitious touring schedule continues through the next two months. “I believe you have to follow through on the life of the book. It’s not just about launching it,” Stein said. “It’s my job to get people to read the book, and if I’m go(continued on page 36)

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ing to have to go out on the road to do it, I will. I’m pretty dedicated that way.” Stein is also dedicated to the dog who made him famous. Illustrated by R.W. Alley, the “Enzo Races in the Rain” picture book was published last October, and there are more adventures on the way. “At the end of this year, the Christmas book is coming out, to be followed by the Halloween one, which I just turned in,” Stein said. “It’s been a lot of fun, and I’ve been coming up with ideas for the fourth one.” As for his next novel, Stein is 15,000 words into it. “There’s a technical issue I need to work out, but it’s exciting for me to be getting back to it. It’s good to be going out and meeting people and seeing the world and then saying to myself, ‘OK, you’ve got an hour and 45 minutes to write — go!’” For Garth Stein, the race is on again. Q Freelance writer Mike Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com. What: Novelist Garth Stein signs and discusses “A Sudden Light” Where: Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View When: Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to booksinc.net or call (650) 428-1234.

Book Talk (continued from page 35) London and Europe during the Cold War. Witzel will be doing a reading at the Menlo Park Library (City Council Chambers), on April 4. The book is available at amazon.com. SOCIALISM V. SANTA ... Palo Alto resident, visual artist and teacher Vlasta Diamant’s “Socialism v. Santa,” a memoir ranging from postwar, Socialist Yugoslavia to the present, is available through Applebite Works. A resident of Stevenson House senior community, Diamant is the author of two previous children’s books, “Once Upon Skates” and “This Really Happened.” Info: tinyurl.com/ navtytr RECLAIM POWER ... Palo Alto psychiatrist and Stanford University Adjunct Associate Professor Susan Edelman published her “Be Your Own Brand of Sexy: A New Sexual Revolution for Women” by Options Press of Palo Alto. Her book deals with why women don’t get what they want from men. Info: beyourownbrandofsexy.com

Items for Book Talk may be sent to Associate Editor Carol Blitzer, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 93202 or emailed to cblitzer@paweekly. com.

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Home Front LEARN TO SEW ... Menlo Park Community Services is offering a class in “Beginning Sewing” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays, March 5 to 26, at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, 700 Alma St., Menlo Park. Taught by Christine Hopkins, the class will cover the basics, from selecting a pattern to lay out and cutting. Cost is $85 for nonresidents, $64 for residents, plus $5 materials fee payable to the instructor; sewing machines are available for use during class for $20. Info: 650-330-2200, menlopark.org or csd@menlopark.org PRIVACY PLANTING ... Horticultural consultant, teacher and arborist Kevin Raftery will offer a class called “Planting for Privacy: Successful Hedges, Screens, Espaliers and Vines” from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Focus will be on using plants to create private outdoor living spaces, including using imaginative trellising structures. An optional walking tour showing successful privacy plantings near Gamble Garden will be included. Cost is $35 for nonmembers, $25 for members. Info: 650-329-1356 or gamblegarden.org TACO FEAST ... Zaida Kent will teach a class on “Taco Feast and Salsa Making” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, at Palo Alto High School, Room 103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. She will use a traditional molcajete to make raw and cooked salsas. Taco ingredients include steak, grilled fish, roasted veggies, Mexican rice, black beans, guacamole and various salsas. Cost is $50. Info: 650329-3752 or paadultschool.org PLANT CLINIC AND MORE ... UC Master Gardeners staff a walk-in plant clinic at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto, from 9 to 11 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month. They will also answer gardening questions through the Palo Alto Gardening Hotline (650-3291356, ext. 205) every Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. or through the Master Gardener Hotline Monday through Friday, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (408-2823105). Info: mastergardeners.org HELP WITH HOUSEHOLD TASKS ... Seniors and the homebound may apply to participate in

(continued on page 39) Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

The historic seven-bedroom Queen Anne home in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood is offered at $4.48 million.

Past perfect

A rare Queen Anne home retains grace and charm, with modern updates by Carol Blitzer photos by Veronica Weber

The kitchen was modernized with dazzling white, from the quartz island and porcelain flooring to the countertops and wood cabinets.

The wrap-around porch overlooks the backyard and the three-car garage.

he 1893 Queen Anne home in College Terrace is a historical gem, and it just might have found the right owner. Realtor Ken DeLeon thought he was that owner when he purchased the property in 2012 for his family, which includes four children. The roomy home, with about 3,300 square feet, sits gracefully on nearly 20,000 square feet of land. Although the property is large, it fits comfortably among its neighbors, screened from the street by greenery. No drapes are really required to cover the shimmery, original glass windows. When he decided to fix up the home, DeLeon tapped into his Realty company’s resources, which include company interior designers and contractors. The “goal was to tastefully update, but keep with the period,” he said. Previous owners — who included Walter Miller, a Latin

The upstairs bathroom earned kudos for design from Sunset Magazine when it was redone years ago.

professor at Stanford, followed by the mayor of Mayfield — kept the home in reasonably good repair, DeLeon said. An earlier family had redone the upstairs bathroom about 25 years ago, which “was ahead of its time” and earned kudos from Sunset Magazine. With the room’s marble counter, curved glass-block shower wall and deep tub, one would never know it wasn’t part of the recent remodel. While keeping the crown moldings, many original light fixtures,

carved moldings around the doors, numerous double pocket doors and hardwood floors, DeLeon mainly focused his changes on the kitchen. Today, a white quartz island sits in the middle; white quartz was also used as countertops throughout the kitchen, which sports a farmer’s sink, six-burner Wolf range and sideby-side Sub-Zero refrigerator. The floor is tiled in Porcelanosa Carrara porcelain, and the backsplash is cloudy glass subway tile.

The kitchen segues into a dining room with a crystal chandelier, which in turn easily flows into the “grand” foyer with its “here-comes-the-bride” staircase, parlor and family room. The latter contains a fireplace and is separated from the parlor by pocket doors. “The high ceilings and windows were a big draw for me,” DeLeon said, pointing to the 10-and-a-half-foot ceilings and bay windows. One alcove extends to the second floor, following the shape of the rounded cupola outside. And those pocket doors were very useful back in 1893, DeLeon added, noting that they allowed the family to close off the parlor while staying warm around the fireplace in the adjacent room. A wide porch wraps around the front and side of the home, offer(continued on page 39)

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Sitting rooms are separated by pocket doors that can be closed for privacy or opened wide for entertaining.

A stained-glass window with a design of irises, facing the front entrance, was installed by a previous owner. ing another opportunity to enjoy the landscaping. A stone-paved terrace, complete with koi pond, provides the setting for an entertainment area. There are five bedrooms upstairs, each with high ceilings and windows that allow one to look out on the grassy side- and backyards and the ancient oak near the newly built three-car garage. DeLeon also cleaned up the entry walkway, matching the

stones, and added pavers leading to the garage. New fencing surrounds the property, a nod to keeping the place safer for small children. A full basement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with windows â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been transformed into a finished apartment (with a private entrance), along with wine and other storage areas. The attic offers even more storage opportunities. Just days after going on the market, close to 600 people had already toured the home at 2275 Amherst St. during two open-house weekends; a few indicated enough interest to pick up an information packet. Acknowledging that it was challenging to come up with â&#x20AC;&#x153;comparablesâ&#x20AC;? to price the

home, DeLeon said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s its own marketâ&#x20AC;? and imagined someone from the East Coast or San Francisco would appreciate its â&#x20AC;&#x153;uniqueâ&#x20AC;? qualities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and not expect a home on Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Building Inventory to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;smartâ&#x20AC;? or energy-efficient, given its lack of double-paned windows or insulation. Q Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@paweekly.com.

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The grand staircase retains many original Queen Anne touches, including spindles and carving on the newel post.

Home Front (continued from page 37) the free Realtor Service Volunteer Program (RSVP), where Silicon Valley Association of Realtors (SILVAR) members and affiliates volunteer to do household tasks during the week of May 4 to 8. The tasks range from replacing light bulbs or furnace filters to cleaning windows, turning mattresses or installing new smoke-detector batteries. Deadline for applying is March 20. Info: 408-200-0100 or silvar. org to download an application Q

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SALES AT A GLANCE

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.

Atherton

Los Altos Hills

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

East Palo Alto

2 Serrano Drive Serrano Drive Limited to Lee Trust for $7,000,000 on 1/14/15; previous sale 8/01, $7,150,000

Los Altos

1249 Runnymede St. Martin Trust to C. Fletcher for $650,000 on 1/9/15

Redwood City

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,600,000 Highest sales price: $4,898,000

Total sales reported: 13 Lowest sales price: $450,000 Highest sales price: $1,530,000

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $1,850,000 Highest sales price: $5,775,000

East Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $1,010,000 Highest sales price: $1,588,000

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $650,000 Highest sales price: $650,000

Atherton

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $3,350,000 Highest sales price: $4,650,000

Woodside

Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $300,000 Highest sales price: $1,695,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $17,500,000 Highest sales price: $17,500,000 Source: California REsource

Los Altos

1190 Buckingham Drive I. Choi to L. Abaya-Mede for $2,255,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 12/02, $1,020,000 201 Fremont Ave. D. Saunders to W. & R. Marble for $3,500,000 on 1/30/15 1380 Miramonte Ave. Johnson Trust to R. & C. Gerughty for $1,850,000 on 1/30/15; previous sale 7/87, $250,000 11525 Old Ranch Lane Bell Trust to J. Hirschman for $3,700,000 on 2/3/15; previous sale 10/96, $900,000 72 View St. Wilunowski Trust to Mcdonald Trust for $5,775,000 on 2/3/15 446 West Portola Ave. Pedersen Trust to S. Lin for $3,600,000 on 1/29/15

Los Altos Hills

12360 Priscilla Lane Hollwedel Trust to Chawla Ventures for $3,350,000 on 2/3/15 12051 Stonebrook Drive S. Lee to A. Ionel for $4,650,000 on 2/4/15; previous sale 5/05, $3,200,000

Menlo Park

629 Harvard Ave. Menlo Forbes International to Sunnyslope Avenue Belmont for $2,100,000 on 1/15/15; previous sale 4/13,

$1,900,000 724 Laurel Ave. Kendall Trust to R. & S. Fong for $1,600,000 on 1/9/15; previous sale 11/99, $679,000 222 Morgan Lane M. Wilkerson to G. & A. Patel for $1,750,000 on 1/13/15; previous sale 9/09, $1,200,000 2323 Warner Range Ave. Ku Trust to Y. Zhu for $4,898,000 on 1/9/15; previous sale 2/05, $1,515,000

Mountain View

453 Calderon Ave. #207 Swenson Calderon to Lee Trust for $1,501,000 on 2/2/15 1919 Cambridge Drive T. & C. Sohn to K. Muthiah for $1,100,000 on 2/3/15 1236 Christobal Privada D. & Y. Messimer to G. & A. McGregor for $1,695,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 4/05, $776,000 2365 Craig Court Dixson Trust to C. & S. Hansen for $1,300,000 on 2/5/15; previous sale 11/86, $188,000 137 Easy St. Robson Homes to D. & A. West for $1,598,000 on 1/30/15 424 Mountain Laurel Court K. McGivern to X. Lu for $1,025,000 on 1/30/15; previous sale 8/00,

$668,000 550 Ortega Ave. #B330 M. Dickey to C. & B. Magami for $300,000 on 2/3/15; previous sale 10/13, $758,000 101 Showers Court K. Faulkner to Raya Trust for $1,300,000 on 2/2/15; previous sale 4/01, $690,000

Palo Alto

4005 Villa Vera Lee Trust to S. Pavan for $1,588,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 2/05, $695,000 580 Vista Ave. S. Booth to O. Oyman for $1,010,000 on 2/4/15; previous sale 5/09, $500,000

Redwood City

823 10th Ave. Lewis Trust to K. Lieskovsky for $800,000 on 1/6/15 648 Bair Island Road #1201 One Marina Homes to K. Lock for $1,132,500 on 1/15/15 648 Bair Island Road #1202 One Marina Homes to C. Nie for $951,000 on 1/13/15 648 Bair Island Road #1205 One Marina Homes to C. Adams for $1,098,000 on 1/13/15 650 Bair Island Road #1302 One Marina Homes to R. Vitales for $996,500 on 1/13/15 650 Bair Island Road #1303

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One Marina Homes to J. & J. Dunn for $954,500 on 1/13/15 35 Carmel Lane C. Weden to G. & H. Lindley for $1,530,000 on 1/13/15 2001 Hastings Shore Lane E. Hornbuckle to R. Crasta for $700,000 on 1/13/15; previous sale 7/05, $565,000 616 Hilton St. Bottini Trust to S. Valencia for $450,000 on 1/9/15; previous sale 2/08, $485,000 2025 Nassau Drive T. Cooper to A. & C. Roth for $1,105,000 on 1/6/15; previous sale 3/95, $326,000 116 Stanley St. K. AltmanSteele to J. Menerick for $1,265,000 on 1/14/15; previous sale 6/01, $575,000 933 Taft St. Decosta Trust to R. Aghatehrani for $942,000 on 1/13/15 111 Wellesley Crescent #1n Kendrew Trust to T. & Y. Kim for $680,000 on 1/9/15; previous sale 9/04, $415,000

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Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

Menlo Park 807 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.543.7740

Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700 ®

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• February 27, 2015 • Page 43

764 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto Open Saturday & Sunday 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

OLD WORLD CHARM MEETS MODERN DESIGN IN HISTORIC COMMUNITY CENTER HOME PROPERTY FEATURES • 4 Bedroom, 3 bath home of 2,437 sq.ft. (per architectural plans) • Home Extensively Remodeled in 2013 • Custom Kitchen Cabinetry with Stainless Steel Countertops • Miele Oven, Dishwasher, Trash Compactor • Gaggenau Induction Cooktop • Three remodeled bathrooms (main house) • Master bath features limestone ﬁnishes, heated ﬂoors and towel warmer • Lower level Sauna and large Soaking tub • New roof, and furnace (2013) • Separate Cottage with remodeled kitchen and bath (unwarranted) • Professional Landscaping, many mature fruit trees

Offered at $3,798,000 Please visit virtual tour for more information and photos:

www.764Channing.com

For more information contact:

Linda Fahn, Realtor 650.776.8317 Page 44 • February 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Offered at $2,195,000

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DELEON REALTY’S STATISTICS Our rapid growth and glowing reviews show that our approach works and our clients are thrilled. Additionally, our market-leading volume give us tremendous resources and experience, not to mention great market knowledge. In 2014 the DeLeon Team was ahead of all other Realtors or teams in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, number 2 in Atherton, and number 4 in Los Altos. In the aggregate, we were ahead of all realtors and teams in Silicon Valley.

2014 Market Share2 1/1/14 to 12/31/14

#1 #1 #1 #1 #2 #2 #3 #4 #5

Overall - Silicon Valley Overall - Our Cities1 Palo Alto Menlo Park Atherton Mountain View Los Altos Hills Los Altos Portola Valley

Includes Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, and Portola Valley.

These statistics, for the period January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014, come directly from Broker Metrics® an independent third-party that compiles data from the Multiple Listing Service (“MLS”). Please note that our sales volume is from one team of closely collaborating professionals, not an entire brokerage or office that is including the sales of many agents that are merely commission-based independent contractors—everyone that carries a DeLeon Realty business card is actually an employee of DeLeon Realty. Teamwork, integrity and specialization are key elements to our success. Please call us to hear how our unique business model and stellar people deliver exceptional results for our clients. DeLeon Realty…Reinventing Real Estate. 650.543.8500 | www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty CalBRE #01903224

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4 BEDROOMS | 1.5 BATHS | 2,067 SQ. FT. | 7,261 SQ. FT. LOT | BUILT IN 1907

350 Embarcadero Rd. Palo Alto OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30PM

Charming Home in Prime Old Palo Alto Just blocks away from Stanford University, Palo Alto High (Paly), Castilleja School, Town & Country shops, Gamble Gardens and both University Avenue and California Avenue shopping districts, this classic four bedroom home is located in one of Palo Alto’s most prestigious neighborhoods…Old Palo Alto. Exceptional features include a very large living room with dining area and an upstairs bedroom that could also serve as an office, family room or art studio. Sunlight abounds through wall-to-wall windows. 350 Embarcadero has a spacious floor plan, gleaming hardwood floors, new carpets and contemporary light fixtures throughout. Enjoy the outdoors with exceptional paver walkways and drive, new landscaping and a particularly large side yard. This is a one-of-a-kind property right in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Listed at $1,998,000

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ELEGANT NEW ATHERTON HOME BUILT BY THE PININACLE GROUP

New Price $18,350,000

MASTERFULLY REMODELED ESTATE IN MENLO CIRCUS CLUB AREA

Exceptional steel-frame and concrete construction 6 en-suite bedrooms | 3 levels all serviced by elevator 16-seat theatre | Oversized recreation room Wine cellar | Pool/spa | 2 pavilions, one w/BBQ kitchen Private ﬂag lot of approximately 1.22 acres

650.888.0860 mary@apr.com License# 00373961

91Isabella.com

Offered at $14,950,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION IN WEST ATHERTON

MARY GULLIXSON

132Isabella.com

118Selby.com

Offered at $14,980,000

BRENT GULLIXSON 650.888.4898 brentg@apr.com License# 01329216

gullixson.com

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

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OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

89 TALLWOOD COURT, ATHERTON

AMAZING VALUE IN WEST ATHERTON $4,400,000 3 bed/3.5 baths | Eco-friendly design with sustainable materials Lot size per plans is 43,974 sf Elevated terrace with 50’ lap pool Separate deck with spa Las Lomitas schools www.89Tallwood.com

89Tallwood.com OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

740 WHISKEY HILL ROAD, WOODSIDE

740WhiskeyHill.com OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

555 MANZANITA WAY, WOODSIDE

5.1 FLAT ACRES IN CENTRAL WOODSIDE $9,950,000 Remodeled 4 bedroom/5.5 bathroom main home | 1 bd/1.5 ba guest house Pool | Tennis Court | 4-stall barn and corrals | Portola Valley schools

555Manzanita.com

MARY GULLIXSON 650.888.0860 mary@apr.com License# 00373961

Adjoining ~2.93 ac parcel (740 Whiskey Hill Road) may be purchased with this property for a total of $14,950,000 to create an ~8 ac equestrian compound

BRENT GULLIXSON 650.888.4898 brentg@apr.com License# 01329216

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957 Mouton Circle, East Palo Alto

Mary N. Gilles Realtor® 650.814.0858 mgilles@apr.com MaryGillesRealEstate.com Open Saturday and Sunday, 2/28 & 3/1, 1:30 to 4:30 University Square, built in 2000, is one of East Palo Alto's finest neighborhoods and close to the 101 tech corridor. First time on the market, this beautiful 2360+/sf home on a 3711+/-sf corner lot has an open and spacious floor plan for entertaining, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, laundry room upstairs, newer flooring, black granite counters and stainless appliances in kitchen, and a walk in pantry. Situated on a circle, the home is protected from through traffic. A low maintenance yard with a rear patio guarantees a lifestyle of pure enjoyment. Gorgeous neighborhood park and playground nearby. Ravenswood City and Sequoia Union High School Districts. Offered at $899,000 Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

apr.com | MENLO PARK

1550 El Camino Real, Suite 100

New Listing 120 Golden Hills Drive Portola Valley

Spectacular Central Portola Valley Contemporary Helen & Brad Miller

This visually stunning approx. 6,585 sq ft Isolina Mallon-designed contemporary home is situated on a subdivided 4.05-acre double lot on a quiet flat knoll in the Westridge Corridor near Town Center and within walking distance to Ormandale School. While only five years old, the home was extensively upgraded in late 2014 with a must-see showcase of indoor/ outdoor design features which include an eat-in gourmet chef ’s kitchen, StudioBecker cabinetry, programmable Vantage lighting system & Lutron shades, a six-zone central HVAC, high speed fiber, RFID keyless access and a unique hand-carved mahogany master bath soaking tub. Downstairs, a state-of-the-art Meridian digital soundproofed theater will have your friends talking about the experience.

www.120GoldenHillsDrive.com | Price Upon Request 650.400.1317 brad.miller@cbnorcal.com helenhuntermiller@gmail.com Page 52 • February 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

www.helenandbradhomes.com #1 Agents in 2014 Woodside/PV Office CalBRE #00917768/01142061

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ATHERTON

26171 Moody Road | 4bd/4.5ba Judy Bogard-Tanigami | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

PALO ALTO

124 James Avenue | 5bd/5ba Liz Daschbach | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

LOS ALTOS

$2,998,000

999 Matadero Avenue | 2bd/2+ba Kathleen Wilson | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$4,450,000

$2,500,000

1415 Braddale Avenue I 4bd/3.5ba J. Stricker/S. TenBroeck I 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT 1:30-4:30, SUN 12:00-5:00

PALO ALTO

$1,428,000

$899,000

957 Mouton Circle | 4bd/2.5ba Mary Gilles | 650.462.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

1274 Cuernavaca Circulo | 3bd/3ba Ali Rad | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

WOODSIDE

$3,590,000

277 Grandview Drive I 4bd/4ba Stephanie Nash I 650.529.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-4:00

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,688,000

220 Oak Street | 3bd/3ba Tori Atwell | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

SUNNYVALE

$599,000

621 E. El Camino Real #204 | 2bd/2ba Arti Miglani | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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Coldwell Banker

#1 IN CALIFORNIA

Palo Alto By appointment $11,888,000 www.4103OldTraceRoad.com Palo Alto rare Zoned R-E Density Residential. New Price. Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161

Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $10,800,000 120 Golden Hills Dr Contemporary tech/design upgraded home in spectacular Central PV setting on 4+ acres. 5 BR/5 full BA + 3 half Helen & Brad Miller CalBRE #01142061/00917768 650.851.2666

Atherton $4,998,000 36 Melanie Ln Custom “French” Inspired Estate in Prime W. Atherton w/ sought after Los Lomitas Schools! 5 BR/4.5 BA Sam Anagnostou CalBRE #00798217 650.323.7751

San Mateo County By appointment $3,888,000 Listed 2013 for $8,000,000 Now $3,888,000! www.222PortolaStateParkRoad.com Hurry! 38 Acres Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161

Burlingame Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $2,800,000 1148 Bernal Ave Remodeled modern inspired Smart Home near downtown. Many features & upgrades throughout! 5 BR/3.5 BA John Nelson CalBRE #01152878 650.323.7751

Palo Alto $2,200,000 672 Melville 2BD/1.5BA w/eat in kit, freshly painted interior, hardwood floors thru-out living area Alan & Nicki Loveless CalBRE #00444835 & 00924021 650.325.6161

Woodside Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,195,000 95 Roan Pl Beautifully appointed home on 2.5 ac. Pool & gst studio. Cul-de-sac location. SF Bay vws. 4 BR/2.5 BA Erika Demma CalBRE #01230766 650.851.2666

Menlo Park PENDING! $1,988,000 1315 Trinity Exquisite 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome in prime Sharon Heights location in Menlo Park. Fereshteh Khodadad CalBRE #00851932 650.325.6161

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,995,000 947 Embarcadero Rd Charming bright home featuring flowing floor plan, LR/DR combo w/ fireplace & spacious FR. 3 BR/1 BA Hanna Shacham CalBRE #01073658 650.324.4456

Redwood City Sun 1 - 4:30 $1,498,000 725 Holly Hill Ct Great location on quiet cul-de-sac w/ tons of sunlight! Prime area close to Roy Cloud! 3 BR/2.5 BA Sam Anagnostou CalBRE #00798217 650.323.7751

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 12 - 4:30 $1,435,000 659 Marsh Rd This remodeled home has it all! Close to Facebook w/ guest cottage & chef ’s kitchen! 3 BR/2.5 BA Enayat Boroumand CalBRE #1235734 650.324.4456

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,375,000 3089 Goodwin Ave Updated home located across from Stulsaft Park. Great floor plan w/ gourmet kitch. 4 BR/3 BA Katie Hammer CalBRE #01783432 650.324.4456

East Palo Alto Open Sat&Sun $985,000 2881 Drew Ct This unique lot meets the City’s requirements for a detached 2nd dwelling unit. 3 BR/1 BA Jane Jones CalBRE #01847801 650.325.6161

San Jose Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $728,000 4774 Raspberry Pl Cupertino Schools, desirable & spacious TH, gorgeous brand new kitchen appliances & baths. 2 BR/1.5 BA Michelle Chang CalBRE #01412547 650.325.6161

San Carlos Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $639,950 3314 Brittan Ave Brittan Heights Condo w/ park like setting from your private patio! Updates throughout! 2 BR/2 BA Glenn Bartkowiak CalBRE #01934275 650.324.4456

©2015 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker® is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Office is Owned by a Subsidiary of NRT LLC. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage or NRT LLC. CalBRE License #01908304.

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 2 Bedrooms - Condominium

ATHERTON 3 Bedrooms 89 Tallwood Ct Sun Alain Pinal Realtors

$4,400,000 462-1111

EAST PALO ALTO 4 Bedrooms 2881 Drew Ct Sat 10-1/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 957 Mouton Cir Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$985,000 325-6161 $899,000 462-1111

LOS ALTOS

21 Willow Rd #20 Sun Robinson & Co Realtors

$829,000 854-2700

3 Bedrooms 12 Biltmore Ln $1,498,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1241 University Dr $1,850,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 659 Marsh Rd $1,435,000 Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 2157 Avy Ave $1,698,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 380 Blue Oak Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$2,999,999 947-2900

4 Bedrooms 1415 Braddale Ave $2,500,000 Sat 1:30-4:30/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 941-1111 567 Van Buren St Call for price Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

776 Cambridge Ave $2,688,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 955 Siskiyou Dr $2,725,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 823 Paulson Cr $2,195,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

11 Cypress Ct Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 1431 Topar Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,498,000 323-1111 $2,988,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS 4 Bedrooms 12101 Edgecliff Pl $3,385,000 Sun 2-4 Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500

112 Flynn Ave # A Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$599,000 947-2900 $749,000 947-2900

2 Bedrooms 140 Forest Ln $2,300,000 Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms 812 La Mesa Dr $2,690,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961 6 Blue Oaks Ct $4,998,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

5 Bedrooms 120 Golden Hills Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

$10,800,000 851-2666

REDWOOD CITY

4 Bedrooms 3089 Goodwin Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,375,000 324-4456

SAN CARLOS 3314 Brittan Ave 2 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms

MENLO PARK

$2,395,000 323-7751

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

PALO ALTO 947 Embarcadero Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

31 Aliso Way Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,995,000 324-4456

5 Bedrooms 1730 Peregrino Way $4,000,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

SUNNYVALE 2 Bedrooms - Condominium

3 Bedrooms

725 Holly Hill Ct $1,498,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

2 Bedrooms 1983 San Luis Ave #34 Sat/Sun Sereno Group

PORTOLA VALLEY

3 Bedrooms

MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Townhouse

5 Bedrooms

350 Embarcadero Rd $1,998,000 Sat/Sun Remax Prime Properties 776-2828 764 Channing Ave $3,798,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 454-8500

$639,950 324-4456

621 E El Camino Real 204 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$599,000 323-1111

WOODSIDE 3 Bedrooms 636 Southdale Way Sun Kerwin & Associates 680 Kings Mountain Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,399,000 473-1500 $4,200,000 323-1111

4 Bedrooms 95 Roan Pl $2,195,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 136 Otis Ave $1,700,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 555 Manzanita $9,950,000 Sun Alain Pinal Realtors 462-1111 740 Whisky Rd $5,250,000 Sun Alain Pinal Realtors 462-1111

5 Bedrooms 83 Tum Suden Way $2,699,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 203 Miramontes Rd $4,950,000 Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

6 Bedrooms

SAN JOSE

330 Jane Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$5,950,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms

7 Bedrooms

2330 Byron Street $5,495,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

4774 Raspberry $728,000 Sat/Sun 11:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

195 Brookwood Rd $3,995,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

DELEON REALTY

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As home to world-renowned Stanford University and a multitude of high-tech companies, Palo Alto is the epicenter of Silicon Valley in all regards. From its vibrant downtown to its architecturally diverse neighborhoods, let our specialists at DeLeon Realty show you how Palo Alto is truly a choice place to live.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement MAISON ADVISORS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600721 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Maison Advisors, located at 621 High Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): WENDY KANDASAMY 247 Ferne Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 ADAM TOUNI 685 High Street #2B 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 28, 2015. (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 600792 The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): STANFORD TERRACE INN 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 07/31/2013 UNDER FILE NO.: 581230 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): WILD RANGE INC. 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Corporation. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 29, 2015. (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) STANFORD TERRACE INN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600794 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Terrace Inn, located at 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): STANFORD GROUPS LLC 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/19/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 29, 2015. (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) PALO ALTO DESIGN STUDIO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600964 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Design Studio, located at 1128 Oregon Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KYU YOUNG KIM 1128 Oregon Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 HANNA JOO 1128 Oregon Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 3, 2015. (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) GUNN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION GUNN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION GUNN FOUNDATION THE GUNN FOUNDATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600326

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The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Gunn Senior High School Foundation, 2.) Gunn High School Foundation, 3.) Gunn Foundation, 4.) The Gunn Foundation, located at 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Trust. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ANN KELLY (Trustee) 268 Margarita Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 BETH SEARS (Trustee) 888 Robb Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94306 JOSE E. GARCIA (Trustee) 777 San Antonio Rd., #29 Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOAN LIN (Trustee) 931 Curlew Lane Palo Alto, CA 9433 JAMES LUBBE (Trustee) 3430 Notre Dame Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95051 KIMBERLY COWEL (Trustee) 2534 Hayward Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 JEAN HSIA (Trustee) 3126 Floweers Lane Palo Alto, CA 94306 LYNN DRAKE (Trustee) 3415 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 LYNNE RUSSELL (Trustee) 3149 Ramona St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 MARKUS FROMHERZ (Trustee) 4020 Amaranta Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 RENI NARAYEN (Trustee) 4246 Manuela Ct. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/01/1968. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 15, 2015. (PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6 2015) BILINGUAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600922 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bilingual Speech & Language Services, located at 503 Palo Alto Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MARTHA VERONICA GONZALEZ-BEINEKE 503 Palo Alto Ave. Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/10/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 2, 2015. (PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015) AKAMAI REAL ESTATE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601326 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Akamai Real Estate, located at 970 Palo Alto Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SETH SWENSON 970 Palo Alto Ave. 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 February 11, 2015. (PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015) PALO ALTO SMART THERAPY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601185 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Smart Therapy, located at 825 San Antonio Rd., Suite 202, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KRISTA REGEDANZ PH.D. A PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION 825 San Antonio Rd. Suite 202 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 9, 2015. (PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015)

HDS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601629 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: HDS, located at 3260 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HDS MERCURY, INC. 3260 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 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 February 19, 2015. (PAW Feb. 27, Mar. 6, 13, 20, 2015)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DEE CUTHBERT RUST, DEE C. RUST, DEE RUST, D.C. RUST Case No.: 1-15-PR-175973 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DEE CUTHBERT RUST, DEE C. RUST, DEE RUST, and D.C. RUST. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUSAN W. LYON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SUSAN W. LYON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 8, 2015 Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.: 10. Address of Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara: 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Barbara P. Wright Finch Montgomery Wright LLP, 350 Cambridge Ave., Ste. 175 Palo Alto, CA 94306 (650)327-0888 (PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, 2015) APN: 154-41-072 T.S. No. 016920-CA NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 2/17/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 3/18/2015 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP., as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 2/28/2005, as Instrument No. 18248777,

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RUN HONOR . . . Stanford’s Maksim Korolev followed up his Pan American Cup cross-country title by being named Athlete of the Week by USA Track and Field. In his first race for the U.S. national team, Korolev won the 10K (6.2-mile) race in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday in 28:21. Korolev kicked past the field with a late surge to earn a 10-second victory over runner-up Gilberto Silvestre Lopes of Brazil and thereby earn the distinction as the champion of the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. won the team title in a meet organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics. The meet also served as the NACAC — covering North and Central America and the Caribbean — and South American championships. Korolev second active Stanford runner in as many years to win an international cross country competition. Last year, Sean McGorty, now a sophomore, won the NACAC junior championship in Trinidad. A graduate student in management science and engineering, Korolev placed fourth at the NCAA Championships in November and will compete in the outdoor track and field season for Stanford. Korolev had qualified for the U.S. team through his sixth-place performance at the U.S. Championships on Feb. 7 in Boulder, Colorado. Korolev next races for the U.S. at the IAAF World Championships in Guiyang, China, on March 28.

ON THE AIR Friday Men’s tennis: Stanford at USC, 1 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks College baseball: Stanford at Rice, 2:30 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Men’s volleyball: Pepperdine at Stanford, 5 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks

Saturday College baseball: Stanford at Rice, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM)

Sunday College baseball: Stanford at Rice, 11 a.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Women’s tennis: Cal at Stanford, 12:30 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area Women’s basketball: Stanford at Oregon, 1 p.m.; ESPNU Men’s basketball: Oregon at Stanford, 4 p.m.; Fox Sports 1; KNBR (1050 AM)

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Sacred Heart Prep’s Philip Petrakian (right) prepares to fire off the first goal of Wednesday’s CCS Division III soccer match. The Gators posted a 4-1 win over Greenfield to reach Saturday’s quarterfinals.

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STANFORD ROUNDUP

Cardinal tennis teams ready for some more big tests Women host Cal on Sunday; men visit USC and UCLA By Rick Eymer The seventh-ranked Stanford women’s tennis team has played against tough nonconference competition. And, it’s certainly not getting any easier. The Cardinal (7-1), coming off its first loss of the season, 4-3, at No. 2 Florida, continues its tough preseason schedule at home Sunday against No. 8 California (6-2) in a 12:30 p.m. match that will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. The Bears are one of four conference teams ranked among the top 11. USC is ranked fourth and defending national champion UCLA is No. 11 The Cardinal has yet to play an opponent ranked lower than No. 54 and has played four teams among the top 20. There’s always plenty at stake

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when the Bay Area rivals meet in the Big Slam. The first meeting is played as an nonconference dual, with the rematch on April 18 in Berkeley representing the Pac-12 match. Stanford has won 10 of the past 12 meetings overall, including a thrilling 4-3 victory in last season’s NCAA Tournament Round of 16 after the schools won on each other’s home court during the regular season. Stanford opened its season with seven straight victories before losing to the Gators, who extended their home winning streak to 138 consecutive matches. The Cardinal rallied from a 3-1 deficit to tie the match before Brianna Morgan edged Caroline (continued on next page)

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