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Vol. XXXVI, Number 23 Q March 13, 2015
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Local news, information and analysis
Commission stops short on zoning changes Modest reforms recommended for contentious planned-community zoning by Gennady Sheyner
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hen in 2013 Palo Alto voters struck down a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue, they also inadvertently put a halt to the highly contentious zoning process that made the development possible.
Now, the “planned-community” (PC) zone — which has helped to spur some of the city’s most valued and most controversial developments over the past half a century — is preparing to make a comeback. The big question the Planning and Transportation
Commission wrestled with on Wednesday: What will it look like in its new incarnation? In its second exhaustive discussion in a month, the commission debated, crafted legal language, challenged planning staff and reached a near-consensus on how to alter the polarizing and emotionally charged zoning designation. The commission voted 6-1, with Przemek Gardias dissenting, to make a host of minor changes to
the ordinance, including a new definition of “public benefits,” a prescreening requirement for developers, a mechanism for enforcing the public benefits and a clarification that benefits such as affordable and senior housing would be given preference over other types. Yet even with these changes, the commission stopped well short of recommending the types of broad and sweeping changes that landuse critics, slow-growth “residen-
tialists” and some council members have been calling for in the aftermath of the 2013 referendum. By choosing mild revisions over a broad revamp, the commission supported continuing to allow developers to pay for zoning exemptions and to propose projects that aren’t intrinsically beneficial to the community, provided that they offer an “extrinsic” benefit instead. (continued on page 11)
UTILITIES
City blasts ‘outrageous’ tax Palo Alto objects to paying property taxes to water district by Gennady Sheyner
F Veronica Weber
We are all in this together Alex Daw, center, a student at Jordan Middle School, snuggles up with Morrissey and Spring, two therapy dogs from the Furry Friends and Guide Dogs for the Blind organizations, while the dogs’ handlers, Elisabeth Doxsee, left, and Connie Gowen, visited the Mitchell Park Teen Center on March 11. They stopped by as part of “We Are All in This Together” week, which offered teens snacks, games counseling, art activities and counseling to help students decompress. The women are working with Palo Alto High School to bring the therapy dogs once a week to help alleviate student stress and anxiety.
BUSINESS
Neighbors jump in to find Fresh Market replacement Residents worry grocer’s closure could harm Edgewood Plaza by Sue Dremann
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ith the clock ticking down to the March 31 closure of Edgewood Plaza’s Fresh Market grocery store, residents who live near the Embarcadero Road shopping center are actively recruiting markets they think would be a good fit — and not even at the behest of the property owner. Ideas about who could replace the grocer were flying this week on the Duveneck/St. Francis
neighborhood email list as quickly as shelves at the market were emptying of discounted items. “I’d love a Piazza’s! They have fresh & organic & great deli & cheeses!! Hope they move in,” wrote one resident. “How about Sprouts?” asked another. “Or what Palo Alto really lacks: an Asian Market like Ranch 99,” a third chimed in. Lunardi’s of San Jose, Zanotto’s
of San Jose, Berkeley Bowl, San Francisco’s Bi-Rite and others all got nods. Neighbors said they want a market with local ties, not an East Coast-based chain like Fresh Market. Not only have residents been sharing ideas, they’ve been lobbying the markets themselves. “I have received over 300 emails,” Piazza’s co-owner Rick Piazza said in an email on Tuesday. “I have tried to reply to all of them. I think Edgewood Plaza would be a great location for a grocery store like Piazza’s. Unfortunately we are not in a position to expand at this time.” Piazza recently enlarged its store in the Charleston Shopping Center in south Palo Alto. Jessie Rogers, Bi-Rite’s marketing director, said this week that the company is not considering a (continued on page 12)
or the past four decades, Palo Alto residents have been paying taxes to a water district without getting a drop of water in return. The property tax, known as the “State Water Project” tax, is one of three that Palo Alto residents pay to the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the county’s primary water agency. The other two taxes pertain to the “Clean Safe Creeks” program that county voters approved in 2000 and for flood control. Because the water district is the county’s chief steward of creeks and main flood-protection agency, the city doesn’t dispute either of these taxes. The state-water-project tax is another matter. Palo Alto gets its water from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, rather than the water district. This has made the tax for the water infrastructure difficult to swallow for city Utilities Department officials, who have long been urging the water district to revise its funding structure. The City Council is set to dive into the issue later this month, when it holds a public discussion on the topic and then follows up with a closed session to consider potential litigation against the water district. According to a recent Utilities Department report, Palo Alto residents pay about $1.6 million in property taxes to the district every year for the water project. At the same time, Palo Alto’s water rates are going up because of the rising cost of getting water from San Francisco, which relies on the Hetch Hetchy system. That system is currently undergoing its own expensive upgrade, with the city paying its share of the cost. With the price of wholesale water
on the rise, the city’s rates are expected to increase by 12 percent again this year, according to the most recent projections. Given these costs, Palo Alto officials have argued for the past five years that the local residents should not also be paying the Santa Clara Valley Water District tax to offset the costs that should be borne by other cities. Gary Kremen, a Palo Alto resident and the founder of Match.com who last year won a seat on the water district’s board of directors, is leading the charge to eliminate what he considers an unfair arrangement. On Feb. 4, Kremen took his argument to a meeting of the city’s Utilities Advisory Commission, where he found many sympathetic ears. “Imagine you were living in Palo Alto and you paid your property taxes, but no one allowed your kids to go to JLS or Nixon or Terman (middle schools),” Kremen said. “That’s kind of the case here. No one is allowing us to get water from the Santa Clara Valley Water District.” He noted that the northern part of the county has “only 14 percent of the population and we’re paying over 25 percent for the state water tax for water we’re not given and for these de minimis benefits,” which mostly relate to conservation programs. The utilities commission didn’t take any formal actions, but several members were more than a little surprised to learn about the long-standing arrangement. “I don’t know how I was living in Palo Alto for all of these years and didn’t know that I was paying a tax for which I wasn’t getting any tangible benefits,” Commis(continued on page 13)
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NO MORE MEDIA TALLY ... The Palo Alto school district has made a “strategic decision” to discontinue a communication strategy that involved a weekly gathering and categorizing of all media coverage related to the district as positive, negative or neutral, Superintendent Max McGee said at Tuesday’s board meeting. The practice began last fall as a metric for one of the board’s five overarching goals for the year “to anticipate, respond, and promptly resolve distracting and disruptive issues in order to maintain focus on the District’s vision.” District Communications Coordinator Tabitha Kappeler-Hurley spent her time collecting all news stories about the district and then marking them as “win,” “lose” or “tie.” (Many posters on PaloAltoOnline forum Town Square had some fun wondering how this newspaper’s story reporting on the practice would be categorized.) The board last discussed the mediamonitoring strategy in December. “I think this moves us into territory that we don’t really want to be,” board member Ken Dauber said at a Dec. 9 board meeting. “I suggest that we discontinue this particular instrument.” Three months later, they have. “It was recommended we not continue using this metric,” McGee wrote in a staff report. “My personal perception is that media coverage has been generally fair, balanced and accurate.” DREAMING WITH TECH ... A young East Palo Alto undocumented immigrant is one of six people who will split $500,000 to make their immigration-related tech dreams come true. Sarahi Salamanca was named a winner in Voto Latino’s national Innovators Challenge, which was “created to get millennials, especially Latino millennials, thinking about technology both as an innovative change agent and as a potential career,” the competition’s website reads. Salamanca won with her idea for Dreamers Roadmap, an app to help undocumented students find and keep track of college scholarships. The app is a mobile extension of her website, sarahi.tv, a fount of information for undocumented students with links to scholarships they can apply for, local networking events and conferences, news articles on immigration reform, video interviews with undocumented
youth and personal essays. The app would focus on scholarships information and send users push notifications when their applications are due, Salamanca said. “It’s something very simple, but I think that it’s highly needed,” she told the Weekly. She felt that need herself, having had to turn down an acceptance letter from the University of California, Los Angeles, because she couldn’t get the financial aid necessary and didn’t see many resources to help her navigate the process. She’ll be at Google March 30 and 31 for a boot camp to work on developing her app. Salamanca was also honored at the White House last June as one of 10 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients that President Barack Obama’s administration dubbed “Champions of Change,” illegal immigrants who “serve as success stories and role models in their academic and professional spheres,” according to a White House statement. OPRAH RETURNS ... Global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will deliver Stanford University’s annual “Harry’s Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life” at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20, at Stanford Memorial Church. The lecture honors the late Stanford Law School Professor Harry Rathbun, who delivered his acclaimed “Last Lecture” annually from the 1930s through the 1950s, according to the university. Its purpose was to reassure students that the meaning of life was of their own making, not something they should be expected to have acquired by the time they graduated from university. The series ended with Rathbun’s death but was revived in 2008 with a lecture by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Dean for Religious Life Jane Shaw wrote in a statement about Winfrey, “Oprah encourages so many to find the path to a meaningful life: She fits the remit for this speaker series perfectly, and we look forward to hearing her wisdom and experience.” Students, faculty and staff members interested in attending the event will be entered into a lottery for free tickets. Oprah delivered the Commencement at Stanford in 2008 and spoke at the “View From the Top” speaker series last year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Q
Upfront RELIGION
New Palo Alto mosque opens, with high priest’s blessing After seven years of design and construction, religious space officially opens
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white Rolls Royce pulled into a driveway on a service road off San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. The door opened, a man emerged and a crowd of 2,000 people erupted into thunderous cheers, their excitement tangible. The man was Syedna Aali Qadr Mufaddal Saifuddin, the 53rd leader of the Dawoodi Bohra, a sub-sect of Shia Islam, and he traveled from India to Palo Alto last Saturday evening, March 7, to officially bless the city’s firstever freestanding mosque. Construction on the mosque, which sits just west of U.S. Highway 101 on an offshoot of San Antonio Road across from the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, was completed last summer, but the building could not operate as a religious space until the high priest visited. T he 12,0 0 0 -squa re-foot mosque, an elegant yet simple building that melds traditional and modern architecture, began as an idea seven years ago when Durriya Tyabji, an artist originally from India who now lives in Los Altos Hills, wanted to build a more convenient, centralized place of worship and community gathering for about 100 Bay Area families who, along with her, belong to the Dawoodi Bohra sect. With a committed team of local architects, a contractor and Tyabji’s husband, this idea became a reality over the last seven years, culminating with Saturday night’s momentous visit. “For me, the evening has been a dream,” Tyabji said. “The reality hasn’t sunk in. Today is the day that what we have been trying to do has come to fruition.” The high priest arrived at the south Palo Alto mosque to a band playing tin drums (and one trumpeter) and throngs of men, women and children dressed in their sect’s traditional garb, the men and boys wearing all white three-piece outfits, called saya kurta, and white and gold hats. The women and girls were in stark contrast, dressed in bright colors and patterns, with the women all wearing ridas, a type of burqa, and their heads covered with scarves. People came from all over the Bay Area, United States and even abroad for the high priest’s first visit to the United States in this capacity. He stopped in Palo Alto as part of a blessing tour, with three other visits to Dawoodi Bohra mosques in Bakersfield, Los Angeles and Orange County. Saturday’s opening, called an iftetah, featured a symbolic opening of the mosque. Syedna
Aali Qadr Mufaddal Saifuddin walked up the steps of the mosque, surrounded by a sea of white (and a drone hovering in the air to capture the moment) and unlocked a large, ornate lock hanging on the mosque’s front doors, signaling the first formal opening of the masjid, or mosque. He then led the evening prayer inside a downstairs prayer hall, which is for men, with women watching from an upstairs room, which centers around a balcony that looks down into the first level. (Depending on space, women traditionally pray either behind men or in a separate room to maintain modesty and ritual purity, but Tyajbi designed the upstairs prayer hall to be airy and comfortable with high ceilings, the same height as the men’s room, and windows that look out onto the Palo Alto Foothills.) Others in attendance watched the evening prayer via live stream on TVs in a separate community room or listened in a large white tent set up in an outside parking lot for overflow seating and a celebration held later in the evening. At each stop on his California tour, the high priest has invited local officials to attend the celebratory events. Palo Alto City Manager James Keene, Councilman Marc Berman, Rabbi Darren Kleinberg, head of school at Kehillah Jewish High School, along with representatives from the offices of state Assemblyman Evan Low and Senator Jerry Hill, all attended. Following the evening prayer, each addressed the high priest, who sat in a thronelike armchair draped in blue and white embroidered cloth and placed on top of a raised stage. One man’s eyes filled with tears as he watched the priest enter and sit down. “We want to welcome you with an open heart to our city,” said Keene, presenting the high priest with a tiny heart-shaped pin that represents “For the love of Palo Alto,” a recent community discussion the city hosted to talk about why people love the city. In Berman’s comments, he honored the legacy and work of the sect’s leader. “As a global ambassador for peace, your dedication and devotion to humanity and work in health, medicine, education and the uplifting of the underprivileged is an inspiration to our diverse and welcoming community,” Berman said. “Your leadership, focus on equality, respect for the environment and belief in citizenry is embedded in the Dawoodi Bohra community, and
Palo Alto is privileged that individuals and families of your religious community have made our city their home.” Kleinberg offered his own blessing, speaking the words in Hebrew and then translating into English. Others noted the timely significance of the event during what one woman called a “climate of Islamophobia.” “In a climate where all you’re hearing is about the violence and the conflict in terms of Muslim communities, so much in terms of the fact that the debate is centered on — is there anything inherently violent within Islamic ideology?” said Durriya Badani, who traveled from Tampa, Florida, for the high priest’s visit. “In contrast, his holiness only talks about remaining true to your Islamic identity but always be contributing, active, engaged citizens in whichever country you live in.” She described the Dawoodi Bohra sect as entrepreneurial, active and engaged, rooted in tradition but also embracing of American freedoms and culture. The south Palo Alto mosque is a manifestation of that dual identity, she said. And it was designed as such, with both traditional Islamic elements modeled after a seminal mosque built in Cairo, Egypt, in 1125 A.D., and contemporary touches throughout. The mosque
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by Elena Kadvany
Men gather outside Palo Alto’s first freestanding mosque, awaiting the arrival of Syedna Aali Qadr Mufaddal Saifuddin, the 53rd leader of their sect, who traveled from India to bless and open the mosque on March 7. also pays homage to the sect’s 53rd leader, with exactly 53 light bulbs on several modern, silver chandeliers that hang in both prayer halls. The mosque will serve what is known as the “San Jose” congregation. A mosque in Fremont, which was blessed by the high priest’s father in 2005, serves the “San Francisco” congregation. And though construction finished last summer, there was one final decorative piece awaiting the high priest’s arrival: a rectangle of white marble outlined in gold, with Arabic text written across: “bismillah ayahman arraheem,” a prayer often recited before doing anything significant, Tyabji said. The text is studded with tiny rubies, and the entire piece could not be attached to its place over the mihrab, a hollowed
out archway in the first-floor prayer hall that Tyabji defined as “the heart of the mosque” (it indicates the mosque’s qibla, or the direction to Mecca, which Muslims must face while praying), until the priest puts in place one final ruby. After he left, with the Orange County mosque to bless the next day, and after most people had gathered in the community room and outdoor tent to eat dinner served on top of large metal circles on the ground, Tyabji and members of her team — Palo Alto contractor John Lerch and Abha Nehru of Palo Alto architecture firm Carrasco & Associates — and others stood in the prayer hall and watched as two men attached the marble piece to the wall, putting the final touch on the mosque. Q
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Gunn High School explores scheduling possibilities Principal Denise Herrmann: Absolute earliest a new schedule could be put in place is January 2016 by Elena Kadvany
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hanges for Gunn High School’s bell schedule seem likely in the next school year, but it was made clear at a block-schedule meeting Monday evening that the process to decide these changes will take time, and the success of any new schedule will rely upon strong teacher buy-in and preparation. Organized by the Gunn Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA), Monday’s panel featured six administrators, two teachers and one student from Bay Area high schools, including from Palo Alto High, who spoke to the pros and cons of switching to some form of a block schedule. A group of Gunn staff, parents and students, dubbed the alternative bell schedule committee, was reconvened this spring after much community concern about student stress and the frantic pace of Gunn’s schedule, under which students have six or seven classes
every day of the week, with each meeting for just under an hour. The committee is expected to present a recommendation on potential bell-schedule changes to the school board this May. All of the examples of block schedules offered Monday night — by Paly, Piedmont, Woodside Priory and Monta Vista high schools — include longer class periods (typically 90 to 95 minutes) that meet less frequently, longer built-in blocks of time for students to seek help from teachers or do school work independently (what Gunn and Paly refer to as tutorial and have once a week) and more regular professional-development time for teachers (typically in the mornings, which means a late start and more sleep that day of the week for students). They reported positive outcomes like decreased student stress, calmer school environments, better connection between
teachers and students, the ability to do more project-based learning, blended learning and other classroom innovations, and more consistency — and creativity — across courses when teachers have more time to meet and collaborate. All of the schools’ processes to put these changes in place took between one and two years, they said. Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann, who oversaw a change in schedule at the Wisconsin high school she led before arriving at Gunn in August, said the absolute earliest that Gunn could implement a new schedule would be January 2016. Herrmann’s Wisconsin school switched to a four-day block rotation, in which two days out of the week students had four 90to 95-minute classes, broken up by lunch. Every other day began with a 45-minute block for either
teacher professional development (meaning students arrived for class at 9:40 a.m.) or student support. The school also built in 10-minute passing periods to give students a “mental break� between classes. “When we did a midpoint survey before winter break of the first year, 100 percent of teachers said they would not go back� to the old schedule, Herrmann said. “They all felt like first-year teachers; they admitted it was very, very hard, but based on what they were seeing in their own practice, having (professional learning) time and the work they were seeing from the students, they felt really good about going there.� Paly Assistant Principal Kathy Lawrence, a former teacher, stressed the importance of giving teachers the time to fully prepare and adjust their instruction. Paly switched to a modified block schedule in 2010, with all seven periods of classes on Mondays, three on Tuesdays and Thursdays (plus 65 minutes of tutorial for students) and four on Wednesdays and Fridays. “You cannot just squish two class periods together in a 90-minute block and expect to have good teaching,� Lawrence said. “You just have to think about that time in a different way. I think it’s important to have that time to reflect on your practice, to have some professional learning done to implement the block
schedule.� Andrew Sturgill, a social studies teacher at Monta Vista, gave an example of his block-period lesson plan for the next day: 15 to 20 minutes dedicated to talking about the context of a film the class would later watch, 15 to 20 minutes to talk about what to look for in terms of analyzing the film (at which point the class would be over if it wasn’t a block period) and then 60 minutes to watch the film, stopping from time to time to engage students and ask questions. Paly sophomore Jordan Schilling said he and other students appreciated having more time in longer block periods to absorb the material, to complete homework and to connect with their teachers. “I’m a very strong believer in the block schedule,� Schilling said. “It really makes school much more enjoyable.� Matt Lai, dean of students at Woodside Priory, a small private high school in Portola Valley, said some students did complain in the first year after switching to a block schedule that some classes felt less engaging, efficient and effective. “You can’t lecture straight for an hour and a half where you might be able to for 45 (minutes),� Lai said. He said Woodside Priory got pushback, in particular, from foreign language and mathematics (continued on page 14)
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Homeless shelter seeks neighbors’ input Church on Middlefield Road could provide temporary housing next winter
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eart and Home Collaborative, a nonprofit organization offering emergency shelter to homeless women, is exploring various locations for its shelter next winter, and on Wednesday, group members took their pitch to neighbors of Peninsula Bible Church on Middlefield Road. The outreach effort was the first the group hopes to conduct in Palo Alto neighborhoods as it seeks to find churches to each temporarily shelter 15 homeless women during winter’s harshest months. The shelter was started by Stanford University students, and in 2012 and 2013, it was able to offer food, bedding and warmth to women who otherwise lived outside. The women were screened for tuberculosis and through a sex-offenders registry prior to being accepted in the program, coordinator Aparna Ananthasubramaniam said. Heart and Home previously hosted women at Peninsula Bible Church and at University Lutheran Church in College Terrace for five weeks in 2013-14 and at other churches in 2012 under the umbrella of the nonprofit organization InnVision (now InnVision Shelter Network). But fear, a misunderstanding of the women and a lack of communication on the part of the churches led to anger among some residents, particularly in College Terrace, in past years, according to board members and
church officials. This past winter, the shelter was unable to open due to a change in the city’s permit process, Ananthasubramaniam said. As a result of the tension in prior winters, Heart and Home is engaging in neighborhood outreach for each of this year’s potential shelters. Rev. Andy Burnham of Peninsula Bible Church said church leaders sent 325 postcards to residents living within 600 feet of the south Palo Alto church inviting them to Wednesday’s meeting. It offered the opportunity to provide information and take the pulse of the community, he said. “Palo Alto has a long history of helping the homeless that dates back to the 1930s,” Burnham said, noting that the city’s police chief started a shelter to house people who came to town during the Great Depression. Twelve religious organizations currently take part in the nonprofit Hotel de Zink shelter, which moves to another site each month. But Hotel de Zink can only help a fraction of Palo Alto’s estimated 150 homeless persons, Ananthasubramaniam said. Hotel de Zink is also a co-ed shelter, and women often don’t feel safe there, some Heart and Home guests told the Weekly last year. The organization hires a professional staff person to be on site nightly from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and volunteers bring dinners and help with setup. By 6:30 a.m., staff has
everything packed up and stored in a trailer kept on site. One Peninsula Bible Church neighbor asked where the women go after the shelter closes, expressing concern that the women might hang around for 12 hours in nearby parks and libraries. “I hear the concerns. I can’t promise anything about what people do every day. But from my experience we didn’t have a situation where people were hanging around here all day,” Ananthasubramaniam said. Most of the women have other things to do, such as going to jobs, attending medical appointments or visiting case workers. Many of the women in the past spent the hours at the Opportunity Center on Encina Way, where drop-in services give them access to showers, clothing and computers, Ananthasubramaniam said. About 60 percent of the women have jobs. As for safety, “a typical night was calm. If something came up, we had paid professional staff to address it,” she said. Alan Hebert, a University Lutheran Church member who assisted with Heart and Home when the church hosted the shelter, said the church realized it made a mistake by not doing adequate outreach to residents. Fear played a strong factor to the opposition, he said. Burnham and Hebert said they assumed the shelter would be accepted as a natural outgrowth of the churches’ role as a sanctuary. “We thought it was a no-brain-
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From left, Vickie Boone and Jeaneen Foreman move mattresses onto the floor while setting up a women’s shelter in a Palo Alto church with volunteer Ricardo Pinho on March 21, 2012. er. Palo Alto has a long history of being a very helping community,” Burnham said, admitting his erroneous assumption. Added Hebert: “We got a great big slap to the face. If you are getting involved in bringing the shelter to your church, you’d better be involved with your neighbors.” After the dust settled, Hebert said the church had “a shocking number” of people who came to volunteer. Neighbors brought food and their children to meet the women, and a Girl Scout troop wanted to help, he said. In addition to neighborhood outreach, Heart and Home organizers are working with the city to ensure the shelters are legally permitted. The group used to operate under a 45-day temporaryuse permit from the City of Palo Alto at each site, but for longer stays, Heart and Home now is required to have a conditional-use permit, which would cost more than $4,400 per site, city spokeswoman Claudia Keith confirmed in early January.
But city officials are considering alternatives to the hefty fees, Ananthasubramaniam said. Keith confirmed that staff was discussing ways to lessen the financial impact, but she could not confirm by press time if a final decision had been reached. From University Lutheran Church’s standpoint, hosting the shelter did bring something unexpected. Residents who hadn’t noticed the church before became interested in what it offered. “Now all of a sudden the neighborhood knows we’re there,” Hebert said, adding that University Lutheran gained a couple of members. The shelter has also improved the women’s chances. Some of the women worked on the next step in their lives when they didn’t have to struggle to find shelter, Ananthasubramaniam said. “We wanted a woman who was at the shelter to come and talk tonight,” Ananthasubramaniam told the group Wednesday, “but now she has a job at Costco, and she couldn’t get off work.” Q
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Buena Vista rally brings out hundreds Residents, supporters urge Palo Alto officials to help preserve mobile-home park by Gennady Sheyner preservation of Buena Vista, Palo Alto’s only mobile-home park. Last month, City Manager James Keene followed suit and set aside $8 million of the city’s money, pending the council’s approval after an appeal hearing in April on the closure of the park. The county supervisors also directed county staff to engage nonprofit developers and other interested parties to discuss the prospect of preserving Buena Vista. Supervisor Joe Simitian, a former Palo Alto mayor who led the push to set aside the county funds, told the Weekly that the board has already heard from two nonprofits — Caritas Corporation and Millennium Housing Corporation — that specialize in mobile-home parks and have expressed interest in preserving Buena Vista. Other nonprofits, including the Housing Trust of Silicon Valley, have also been
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engaged in the conversation. For Buena Vista residents, anxiety now has a tinge of hope. Melodie Cheney, who lives at Buena Vista, saw the strong showing at the Monday rally as a good sign. “It’s nice to know the community is really behind us,” Cheney said. After the rally, several speakers addressed the council to emphasize their support for Buena Vista and encourage the council to approve the $8 million allocation as soon as possible. Nancy Krop, representing the Palo Alto Council of PTAs, told the council that Buena Vista includes about 100 children.
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ith a cloud of uncertainty looming over their homes, residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park on El Camino Real and hundreds of their supporters rallied at Palo Alto City Hall on Monday to express support for the park’s preservation and to thank city and county officials for recent contributions to that cause. Holding signs and wearing yellow stickers of support, more than 400 people attended the rally at King Plaza. After about 30 minutes of pizza, photos and camaraderie, the tidal wave of Buena Vista supporters then spilled into the Council Chambers, filling every seat and spreading out against the chamber walls and vestibules for the first few minutes of the meeting. In late January, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors agreed to allocate $8 million out of its affordable-housing fund for the
Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents Maria Santillano, left, Heriberto Avalos and Rene Escalante stand in front of City Hall during a rally in support of Buena Vista residents and the proposal to set aside $8 million of the city’s money toward the park. “We’re talking about one of eight students at Barron Park Elementary School losing their homes,” Krop said. “What’s behind those numbers is a child. A child who dreams. A child who believes that adults can fix things.” Members of the council have remained tight-lipped about their next move on Buena Vista, not wishing to express leanings in either direction before the April
appeals hearing. “The council has an obligation to remain neutral, fair and open-minded during that appeal,” Vice Mayor Greg Schmid said on Monday. But he acknowledged the crowd, which included children, seniors and every age group in between. “Each one of you deserves our grateful thanks for coming,” he said. Q
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News Digest Palo Alto opts not to regulate Airbnb rentals
Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 December 20–March 16 Discover an iconic artist’s depiction of the Apollo 11 Mission, the launch that put the first man on the moon. Rarely seen art is accompanied by photographic documentation and artist’s notes never before on view.
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A proposal in Palo Alto to start regulating and taxing rooms rented out through sites such as Airbnb quietly fizzled on Monday night after the City Council agreed that it has other, more pressing, priorities. The idea to better regulate short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods came from a December colleagues memo that called for exploring ways to collect hotel taxes from these rentals and considering new zoning rules that could apply to short-term rentals in residential areas. The memo also characterized the issue as one of “safety.” “Without some form of registration, as a hotel would have, or some means of notification, residents have no way of knowing who is taking up residence, albeit on a short-term basis, next door to them,” the memo stated. But several council members remained unconvinced that this is indeed a problem. Greg Scharff pointed to the fact that the city received only seven complaints in the past year about this issue and that two of them were deemed invalid. He also said he supports “home stays” of the sort enabled by Airbnb. The “shared-economy” model provides an attractive alternative to the traditional hotel, he said. Council members also didn’t feel too strongly about the need to collect hotel taxes from short-term rentals. Though local law technically requires these businesses to pay transient-occupancy taxes, the city does not have a mechanism in place for identifying the shortterm rentals, much less taxing them. After a broad-ranging discussion, the council ultimately agreed to a suggestion from City Manager James Keene to monitor the situation and revisit the subject in a year. In the meantime, Keene said the city will consider improvements to code-enforcement practices to address the rare situations in which Airbnb rentals cause a problem. Q — Gennady Sheyner
Caltrain fatality identified as Palo Alto teen A 15-year-old Palo Alto student was killed by a train on the railroad tracks south of Churchill Avenue in Palo Alto on Monday, school district officials confirmed. The male student was a Palo Alto High School sophomore, Superintendent Max McGee said. Principal Kim Diorio sent an email message to parents Monday morning to let them know of the incident. McGee also sent a message to all parents Monday afternoon, encouraging them to “be willing to have hard conversations with our children about their feelings even though they may not want to talk.” “Many of our students feel pressure to be successful and may even think that mental illness is a sign of weakness,” McGee continued. “It is not, and it is a sign of strength to seek help for oneself or others.” The school’s crisis-response team was immediately activated Monday morning, with support services to be provided by the district’s mental-health partners: Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), grief nonprofit Kara, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly Cleo Eulau Center), Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), Family & Children Services and Counseling Support Services for Youth (CASSY). The preliminary investigation indicates that the death was an intentional act, Caltrain officials said. The city is hosting a teen forum on Friday, March 27, at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, at 6 p.m. Q — Elena Kadvany
Burglar steals while Palo Alto residents sleep Palo Alto police are looking for a burglar who broke into a home on Sunday night, March 8, while the residents were asleep and made off with several electronic devices. The thief escaped undetected and remains at large. At about 8:24 a.m. on Monday, March 9, the police department received a call from a resident of a home on the 4200 block of Wilkie Way, reporting the burglary. Officers who responded to the home were unable to locate the burglar. Investigators said someone entered the home through an unlocked side door after 11 p.m. Sunday and rummaged through the first-floor rooms while the residents slept on the second floor. The residents were unaware of the intrusion, police said, until they went downstairs later in the morning. There was no evidence to suggest the burglar was on the second floor, police added. Detectives are actively investigating this case. A similar case occurred in July 2014, and officers are looking for possible links between the two incidents. In response to Sunday’s burglary, police are increasing overnight patrols in neighborhoods. Police recommend that residents lock and secure all doors and windows at night. Anyone with information relating to this incident is asked to call the police department’s 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff Page 10 • March 13, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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growing workforce and rising salaries spurred a 6.8 percent jump in Palo Alto’s employee costs last year, according to data released by the city Tuesday afternoon. The data shows that the city spent $9.5 million more in employee compensation in 2014 than it did in 2013. The main drivers behind the trend are a growing number of workers on the city’s payroll and the city’s recent contracts with its labor unions, which included salary increases. The city added 52 new employees in the calendar year, raising the number of workers on the payroll by 3.4 percent. David Ramberg, assistant director of the Administrative Services Department, said the city created 23 new positions in 2013 and 2014 and filled numerous positions that had been vacant for several years.
At the same time, the number of employees making more than $200,000 annually in total compensation has more than doubled between 2013, when the group included eight employees, and 2014, when the number stood at 19. Meanwhile, the number of employees making more than $100,000 rose sharply for the second straight year. While this category included 372 employees in 2012, the number went up to 408 in 2013 and to 440 in 2014. On the city’s list of top earners, City Manager James Keene led the way in 2014 with $289,344 in total wages. He is followed by City Attorney Molly Stump ($264,166), Fire Inspector John Parks ($247,470, which includes $114,365 in overtime), Utilities Director Valerie Fong ($242,720) and Chief Operating Officer Lalo Perez ($240,937).
The growing number of workers now earning more than $100,000 reflects the City Council’s approval last year of new contracts with the city’s labor unions and its non-unionized group of managers and professionals. In March 2014, the council granted the city’s largest union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), its first salary increase since 2008. Every worker received a pay hike of at least 4.5 percent, spread out over two years. The council followed that up by approving a two-year contract with similar raises for the management group. In addition to the 4.5 percent raises, the city adjusted salaries of both SEIU workers and managers to better align with similar positions in neighboring cities. On the SEIU side, this resulted in 320 workers getting additional raises,
ranging from 2 to 10 percent. For the management group, which last year included 211 employees, this led to 19 positions being reclassified so that they are within 5 percent of the median market. The new contracts also made significant changes to the health care benefits of employees. Under last year’s agreement, the city’s contributions toward health care
became a flat rate, rather than a percentage of the overall cost. Even with the adjustment, the city’s overall obligations for salaries, health care and pensions went up by about $9.5 million between 2013 and 2014, rising from $139.7 million to $149.2 million in a year as the overall employee headcount jumped from 1,532 to 1,584. Q
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ect shouldn’t have to be beneficial in itself, as long as the developer pays the right price, either in terms of cash or other amenities. Alcheck favored an approach that allows developers to effectively propose anything they want in exchange for zoning exceptions, with the understanding that the council can always reject the package it receives if it doesn’t like it. The city, he said, should welcome “out-ofthe-box thinking” from developers. “We’re not just the epicenter of disruption in technology,” Alcheck said. “We want to welcome, maybe, disruptive concepts in land use.” His colleagues generally bought this argument, with Downing ultimately saying she was swayed by Alcheck’s call for flexibility (Commissioner Eric Rosenblum was the only member who didn’t go along with the majority). They also largely agreed with Alcheck’s subsequent argument that these extrinsic benefits can include cash. Rosenblum strongly objected to the latter proposal and called it “the definition of zoning for sale.” Downing was the only commissioner who joined him in dissent. “This item, handing out cash in exchange for zoning exceptions, is not out of the box. It’s an old practice. This is one that makes me uncomfortable,” Rosenblum said. Others didn’t share his view and went along with the idea that a significant cash payment can constitute a benefit, particularly if it’s used to finance infrastructure improvements or pay for other city priorities. Even though the “public benefits” section remains largely openended, it would now be defined in the zoning code as improvements or amenities that would be “unattainable in general zoning districts or combining districts.”
This would include things like affordable housing and “significant monetary or ‘in kind’ contributions” toward infrastructure. The commission also favored a new “pre-screening” phase in which a developer makes an early public pitch for the concept being proposed. The pre-screening would, in theory, gauge the council’s and the community’s interest in the project before the details are worked out. Commissioner Mark Michael stressed that the pre-screening hearings should be fully transparent and include economic analyses and discussions of the development’s compatibility with the Comprehensive Plan. Otherwise, a highly unpopular idea can advance to a public hearing and lead to community distrust, much like what happened with John Arrillaga’s proposal for 27 University Ave. in 2012 and with Jay Paul Co.’s proposal for 395 Page Mill Road in 2013. Both developers proposed projects that the council and many in the public felt were too massive. Each project was ultimately withdrawn after much criticism and tension in the community. Michael said he’d like to make sure the council is not “embarrassed” like it was with those two projects and with the Maybell development, noting that the council “didn’t have a rigorous process” in considering the developments during preliminary screenings. During a discussion lasting nearly four hours, the commission also questioned staff’s thoroughness in presenting feedback to the council, which is set to make a decision on planned-community reforms next month. Commissioners insisted that all of their input be included in the report to the council, including a
draft ordinance that contains all of its added verbiage. Downing was one of several commissioners who argued that their input isn’t being sufficiently captured in staff reports, telling staff that the commission “created something and you’ll give the council half of it.” Chair Greg Tanaka agreed, saying that simply summarizing the commission’s feedback would be a “disservice to the City Council.” He tried at one point to make a formal motion calling for staff to craft an ordinance including all of the commission edits but ultimately withdrew the proposal. Members were particularly insistent that staff accurately transmit the commission’s feedback on the main issue of disagreement: height limits. The commission felt plannedcommunity projects should be able to exceed the 50-foot height limit. Planning staff disagreed. In a report, city planners argued that exceeding the height limit does not “reflect the direction of the City Council or the concerns raised by the community.” “The 50-foot height limit has been a time-honored community value,” the report states. “Departure from this policy should be made at the City Council level.” Alcheck, in a highly unusual move, lobbied planning staff to change its stance toward the 50-foot height limit, which he has criticized in the past. He requested that city planners “consider rephrasing their position” and at the very least support having buildings with five stories (the 50-foot limit typically restricts developments to four stories). “You have an opportunity here to engage the City Council in a discussion that the ARB (Architectural Review Board) has sug-
gested for so long now,” Alcheck told staff, referencing a common refrain from ARB Chair Randy Popp, a vehement critic of the height limit. Gardias was the only commissioner who supported staff’s position on this matter, calling the city’s height limit a “sensitive aspect.” “Removing this will remove unreasonable expectation that pretty much now anyone can build whatever he or she pleases to,” Gardias said. Rosenblum sided with Alcheck on this issue and said he struggled to understand why the city would be willing to compromise on things like density or setbacks but not on height. “It does seem odd to me in this exceptional process that this is one area where there will be no exceptions,” Rosenblum said. One idea proposed in past discussions of the PC zone was the creation of a menu of public benefits from which developers can choose. The mechanism was seen as a way to take the wildcard aspect out of planned-community projects, making them more predictable. In the past, the term “public benefits” has encompassed everything from sculptures to grocery stores. The commission opted not to go forward with the menu. By allowing extrinsic benefits such as cash, the adopted definition of “public benefit” remains openended enough to allow developers to propose almost any benefit in exchange for zoning exemptions. The commission’s recommendations will now be forwarded to the council, which is scheduled to consider the topic on April 20. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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First adopted in the 1950s, the PC process was initially used primarily for affordable housing, senior housing and other valuable amenities that would be difficult to build under other zoning. It allows a developer to exceed zoning regulations in exchange for “public benefits.” More recently, it has enabled the construction of mixed-use developments with large commercial components, including the College Terrace Centre at 2180 El Camino Real and the new office building at 101 Lytton Ave., now home of SurveyMonkey. The City Council suspended PC zoning in February 2014 in response to increased community concern over the way the process has been used. While its supporters call PC zoning a valuable tool for giving developers flexibility and permitting projects that provide important community amenities, detractors denounce it as a scam and refer to it as “zoning for sale,” citing promised public benefits that never materialized. One point of debate on the commission is whether the public benefit in a planned-community project should be intrinsic to the development, as is the case with senior-housing communities such as Lytton Gardens and low-income developments like the Treehouse project on West Charleston Road built by the Palo Alto Housing Corporation. While Commissioner Kate Downing initially favored requiring these developments to contain amenities like low-income and senior housing, the majority sided with Commissioner Michael Alcheck, who argued that the proj-
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Palo Alto store. “Our name comes up all of the time. We have no expansion plans,” she said. If it does expand, Bi-Rite remains committed to staying in San Francisco, she added. A real estate representative of 99 Ranch Market, which sells Chinese products predominantly, said the company would need more information regarding the Edgewood space before considering it. 99 Ranch locations in the South Bay occupy sites larger than Edgewood’s 21,600 square feet. The Palo Alto Fresh Market was reportedly profitable, but the overall strategy and failure to recoup costs at the company’s three California stores drove the grocer to pull out of the state altogether, the company said in an announcement to investors on March 5. “Despite the improving results of these stores in California, the company concluded that the pace of organic store growth was going to be slower than anticipated and believes it can achieve more consistent financial results and a better return on its investments by continuing to grow in markets within or closer to its existing markets at this time,” the company stated. For fiscal year 2014, operating losses and pre-opening related rent and other expenses attributable in California totaled approximately $4.8 million. The Edgewood store, which
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Fresh Market, the anchor store in the newly revitalized Edgewood Plaza shopping center, will close at the end of this month. opened to fanfare in June 2013, survived a previous round of cuts in March 2014 after Fresh Market closed its Sacramento stores to concentrate on growth in the eastern half of the United States over the next three years. Fresh Market officials would not comment this week on the length of the store’s lease or if it plans to sublet the site. Edgewood developer John Tze did not return requests for comment on the closure. But he is reportedly seeking another operator, according to residents. Finding a replacement anchor grocer has taken on a sense of urgency for residents and patrons as the renovated Edgewood Plaza
CityView A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (March 9)
Airbnb: The council discussed short-term rentals at residential neighborhoods and agreed not to move ahead at this time with new regulations or zoning restrictions for Airbnb rentals. The council agreed to revisit the issue in a year. Action: None Finance: The council approved the 2016-25 Long Range Financial Forecast and directed its Finance Committee to further discuss the city’s pension and health care obligations. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Holman, Kniss
Board of Education (March 10)
SPSA/WASC: The board approved the Single Plans for Student Achievement (SPSA) budgets and accepted the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) plans for Palo Alto and Gunn high schools. Yes: Unanimous Financial report: The board approved the 2014-15 second interim financial report, giving positive certification to the county superintendent. Yes: Unanimous Computers purchase: The board authorized staff to purchase up to $1,121,000 of Apple computers and up to $510,000 of Chromebook devices. Yes: Unanimous
Council Policy and Services Committee (March 10)
Audit: The committee discussed a recent audit of the city’s utility meters and approved the audit’s recommendations, which include new policies about creating a meter inventory and retiring meters. Yes: Unanimous Green building: The committee supported a variety of revisions to the city’s Green Building code, including more stringent requirements for energy consumption. Yes: Unanimous
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Transportation: The commission heard an update about the city’s new Transportation Management Association. Action: None Planned community: The commission approved various revisions to the city’s planned-community zoning process, including a new definition of “public benefits” and a pre-screening requirement for development proposals. Yes: Alcheck, Downing, Fine, Michael, Rosenblum, Tanaka No: Gardias
Shopping Center is just starting to become vibrant. Some neighbors and store owners are concerned about how a gap in operations of the anchor store could affect the center. “It’s a somber day here in my neighborhood. It’s a bummer for sure — and a surprise. From our standpoint, this is a huge asset. It’s a great place to meet people and to build a sense of community,” resident Carla Carvalho said the day Fresh Market announced the closure. Edgewood retailers had mixed concerns about the anchor store’s closing. “I don’t think it will have that great of an impact,” said Steve Stivala, owner of House of Bagels. “Maybe it’s a good thing; maybe we could get someone a little more local. People here in the surrounding neighborhood are overwhelmingly supportive of a market. It’s not that hard. If you give these people what they want, it’s a winner.” Fresh Market moved to Edgewood at a time when the shopping center redevelopment was still underway. That made it hard for the developer to find a grocer willing to establish there, Stivala said. But things are different now. “Now it’s a vibrant center. Any retailer who knows the business will see this is a good place. It’s picking up steam; it’s got a lot of good things happening here,” he said. Jared Story, general manager at Orangetheory Fitness, was more concerned. “When we first started here, we relied on the Fresh Market heavily for foot traffic. Customers found us through that store,” he said. Fresh Market also draws a lunch crowd from surrounding businesses along East Bayshore Road, and he fears the vacancy will reduce the number of customers coming to the center, he said. Stivala, for one, remains committed to Edgewood. “I’m gonna do what it takes to make it,” he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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sioner James Cook said during the Feb. 4 discussion. “If it’s true, it’s totally outrageous to me.” Palo Alto isn’t the only city grappling with this dilemma. Steve Jordan, a board member at the Purissima Hills Water District (which like Palo Alto gets its water from San Francisco), expressed a similar frustration. The Purissima district, Jordan told the utilities commission, also shares “the joy of paying the state water budget tax and not getting any water.” He also noted that several years ago, when the district’s needs exceeded its allocation from the SFPUC, it requested water from the county water district and was denied. Jordan said that his water district would be happy to work with Palo Alto’s attorneys on the issue. State law gives the county water district the right to levy property taxes to pay for its obligations for the water infrastructure. But the district’s decision to use this mechanism to pay for 100 percent of these obligations has continuously rankled officials who believe that at least some portion of the costs should be collected through the water rates. That way, it’s the communities that rely on the water district’s water that foot the supply costs. So far, the city has little to show for its years of complaints. In 2011, Utilities Director Valerie Fong brought up the issue in a letter to the district. She noted that much like the local water district, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will also be upgrading its infrastructure and expecting its customers to pay their proportionate shares. “It is troubling to imagine a situation where the citizens and businesses of Palo Alto might bear a disproportionate share of the burden by paying both via property taxes and SFPUC rates,” Fong said. City Manager James Keene made a similar point last month in a letter he submitted to the water district. The Feb. 10 letter urges the district to revise its rates to “address the inequities in assessing North County taxpayers the full cost of a system that they cannot and do not use, while similarly situated South County taxpayers are exempted and the remainder of water customers disproportionately benefit through subsidized rates.” James Fiedler, chief operation officer for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, defended the practice and told the commission that Palo Alto benefits from the district’s programs, even if it’s not a water customer. One project that the district is looking at is the creation of an intertie linking the Hetch Hetchy system with the water district’s system on the west side of the county. This way, each supplier would be able to serve as backup for the other. “There may be some potential benefit for Palo Alto and to Purissima Hills if such a system were put in place,” Fiedler said. He stressed that the tax can only be used to pay for the district’s obligations for water received from
efit that Palo Alto citizens receive from that tax,” Fiedler told the commission. “But nonetheless, our board is committed to having an ongoing dialogue to help costshare the expansion of recycled water in Palo Alto as a way to really provide some equalizer that helps address some of your concerns and stability of water usage.” Keene told the Weekly that the city has a great relationship with the water district, particularly on things like flood control, clean creeks and water recycling. On Feb. 25, Keene, Mayor Karen Holman and utilities staff met with water-district officials, and there was a clear interest, Keene said, in moving ahead with water-recycling efforts and other projects that would be “of benefit to Palo Alto.” But while Keene said the meeting ended “positively,” there wasn’t a “substantive shift” in the district’s stance on the tax. “It’s still problematic for us that the tax levied on our citizens is for something that we don’t receive,” Keene told the Weekly. Q
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Housing group responds to conflicts concerns Responding to recent community concerns and questions from Palo Alto officials, the nonprofit developer that led the 2013 push to build a housing development on Maybell Avenue has submitted a letter clarifying its policies and explaining its decision to rent out a house on the Maybell Avenue site to its executive director. (Posted March 12, 9:47 a.m.)
District announces elementary principal shuffle Four of Palo Alto’s 12 elementary school principals will be moving to new positions next school year, with most of them leaving to lead a different elementary school, the school district announced Friday afternoon. (Posted March 6, 6:04 p.m.)
Korean restaurant to take over old Apple Store A Korean restaurant with a rooftop terrace is setting its sights on the former Apple Store in the heart of downtown Palo Alto. (Posted March 6, 10 a.m.)
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the State Water Project, a system approved by voters in 1960. He also highlighted the district’s role in recharging the county’s groundwater basin and in spearheading water-recycling programs. The district’s imported water can be used to recharge groundwater, reducing the probability of surface subsidence and ensuring that there are groundwater supplies available for emergencies. Palo Alto has consistently countered that it doesn’t pump groundwater from its wells and hasn’t done so since the 1960s, when it began its arrangement with San Francisco. A recent report from Jane Ratchye, assistant director at the Utilities Department, also emphasized that the city owns its own emergency-supply wells, including the one recently built at El Camino Park. At the Feb. 4 meeting, Fiedler defended the district’s use of the tax and invited Palo Alto officials for discussions about recycledwater projects for which the city’s funds can be used. “We believe there is a ben-
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teachers, but professional development was critical in helping all teachers with the transition. “The block schedule is not inherent stress reduction unless it’s done well,” he later said in response to an audience question about how short of a timeline is practical when changing schedules. The audience member expressed a feeling surely felt strongly throughout the Palo Alto community: “Two years or even one year seems like a long time for our students to wait who have endured a lot of stress and loss this year.” During a discussion about the two high schools at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, member Ken Dauber urged Herrmann to consider the role that early start times play in student health, even floating a proposal that the board develop a policy that prohibits academic classes during zero period, before the regular school day starts. Herrmann said that Gunn currently offers physical education and 10 academic classes, including advanced English, AB calculus, chemistry, blended AP economics and broadcast news, during zero period, which starts at 7:20 a.m.
Slightly fewer than 300 students (15 percent of the student population) have chosen to take these classes at an earlier hour, many to accommodate athletics, other after-school activities or a desire to fit an extra class into their schedules, Herrmann said. All classes except broadcast, which produces an early-morning school news report, are offered in multiple sections throughout the day, according to Herrmann. Paly only offers PE during zero period, which starts at 7:10 a.m. Most of the approximately 110 students who take PE at that hour are athletes who often have to leave school early for games, said Principal Kim Diorio. Dauber asked Diorio why Paly doesn’t offer academic classes during zero period, and she responded: “Philosophically, because of the research on sleep.” Dauber cited this research — in particular, research that has shown a link between sleep deprivation and teen mental health. A study referenced in a recent American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) report found that getting less than eight hours of sleep per night “seems to be associated with an almost threefold increased risk of suicide attempts after controlling for a number of confounding variables.” Dauber also cited a recent policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics recom-
mending that middle and high school students start school no earlier than 8:30 a.m. In 2011, Gunn shifted its regular-schedule start time from 7:55 to 8:25 a.m. Paly also moved from a 7:50 a.m. start to 8:15 a.m. four years ago. The AAP statement, which calls later school start times “an important public health measure,” cites a National Sleep Foundation poll that found 59 percent of sixth- through eighth-graders and 87 percent of high school students in the U.S. were getting less than the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep on school nights. Dauber described zero-period academic offerings as a “pretty compelling, to my mind, health issue involving several hundred students at Gunn.” “This is, I think, an opportunity for us to do something that has some impact and that’s pretty consistent with not only academic and medical statements but also what we have ourselves been saying as a district,” he said. Though Dauber suggested that the board bring back as an action item at its next meeting a ban on academic classes during zero period, the board later decided to place zero periods as an information item on the April 21 meeting agenda. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss an update of the Comprehensive Plan; consider next steps for building a bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek; and discuss a colleagues memo from council members Burt, Holman, Schmid and Wolbach about strengthening the city’s engagement with neighborhoods. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. It will be followed by a closed session to discuss recruitment for the city clerk position and to hear an update on the city’s bid to purchase the downtown post office at 380 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee will consider the proposed fiscal year 2015-16 Community Development Block Grant funding allocations; discuss the continuation of the Palo Alto Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (CLEAN) program; and review the assessment results of the city’s Enterprise Resource Planning needs. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss the proposed reconstruction of the Junior Museum and Zoo; consider a proposal from AT&T for modifications to the Pottery Barn and Abercrombie & Fitch building at the Stanford Shopping Center to accommodate wireless equipment; and discuss 200 Arboretum Road, a request by Stanford University to replace existing doors and glazing at all four entrances to the Nordstrom building at Stanford Shopping Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to allocate funding for the Municipal Golf Course artwork, the University Avenue tunnels artwork temporary public art and community engagement for the art master plan. The commission will also discuss the digital art planned for the City Hall lobby, consider the art plan for Stanford Shopping Center and review proposed public art for 2515 El Camino Real. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
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G U I D E TO 2015 S U M M E R C A M P S F O R K I D S
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Arts, Culture, Other Camps Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)
Athletics Camp Campbell
Mountain View
50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered. www.arts4all.org 650.917.6800 ext.0
Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp
Palo Alto
Explore nature this summer from your own backyard. Environmental Volunteer summer camps return with a new series of programs. Handson activities, field trips and creative fun make science accessible to kids ages 6-11. www.Evols.com/Explore 650.493.8000
Foothills Summer Camps
Palo Alto
In this historic, popular, traditional day camp your child will play on miles of trails, woodlands, fields, streams, Boronda Lake, and enjoy spectacular views of the bay area. Transportation to and from Foothills Park is provided each day. www.cityofpaloalto.org/foothillscamps
J-Camp Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto
Exciting activities for kindergarteners through teens include swimming, field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special focus camps like Studio TV Production, Jr. Masterchef, Elsa and Anna’s Dance Camp, Beach Bonanza and many others! www.paloaltojcc.org/summercamp 650.223.8622
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! Neighborhood Adventure Fun and Junior Varsity Sports Adventure Camp are for the more active and on-the-go campers! New this year: E.P.I.C. Camp – Energetic, Peers, Independence & Community for the older kids! Returning are FAME - Fine arts, Music and Entertainment and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking fun! Swimming twice per week, periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online. www.paccc.org 650.493.2361
STANFORD EXPLORE
Stanford
A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others. explore.stanford.edu explore-series@stanford.edu
Academics
Santa Cruz Mountains
Hi Five Sport
iD Game Design and Development Academy
Atherton
Hi Five Sports is thrilled to present our fourth multi-sport competitive summer camp to the San Francisco Bay Area! Through experienced, passionate and patient coaching, we believe the timeless lessons that only sports can teach will stay with the kids for the rest of their lives. www.hifivesportsclub.com 650.362.4975
Menlo School Sports Camps
Atherton
Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4-12 to learn from Knights coaches and staff -whether it’s preparation for an upcoming season or simply for fun and to stay in shape in a high energy, positive setting. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports - baseball, basketball, football (skills, lineman, and safe tackling camps) lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo. www.menloschool.org 650.330.2001 ext. 2758
Nike Tennis Camps
Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer! www.USSportsCamps.com 1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)
Stanford Baseball Camps
Stanford Campus
Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs. www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com 650.723.4528
Stanford Water Polo
Stanford
Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games. www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com 650.725.9016
Summer at Saint Francis
Mountain View
Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals. stanfordjazz.org
TechKnowHow® LEGO® Palo Alto and Technology Summer Camp Menlo Park/Sunnyvale
Summer Camp@SportsHouse (Powered by Skyhawks)
Fun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-16. Courses include LEGO® projects with motors, MINDSTORMS® EV3® & NXT® Robotics, Computer Game Design, Arduino™ Electronics, iPad® Movie Making, and a Tech Camp for girls. Classes feature high-interest, ageappropriate projects based on the S.T.E.M. curriculum. Half and Full day options. Early bird and multiple week discounts are available. www.techknowhowkids.com 650.638.0500
June 15-August 14. Weekly indoor sports day camp for kids 6-13 years old. Fun filled sports and games directed by Skyhawks. Full day 9am4pm camp includes lunch and optional after camp care. www.sportshouseonline.com 650.362.4100
Stanford University Campus
TheatreWorks Summer Camps
Palo Alto
In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance and present their own original pieces at the end of each session. www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/summercamps
YMCA Summer Camps
Throughout Silicon Valley
At the Y, youth of all ages make new friends, build character and learn new skills. With hundreds of unique camps and 30+ convenient locations, you’ll find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available. www.ymcasv.org/summer 408.351.6473
San Jose
K-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff. K-6 morning academics – focusing on math, language arts and science – and full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for credit courses and non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs also offered. www.summer.harker.org 408.553.0537
Sports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group instruction in a variety of fields, indoor & outdoor court games and activities. Saint Francis faculty and students staff the camp, and the focus is always on fun. The program is dedicated to teaching teamwork, sportsmanship and positive self-esteem. After camp care is available. www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x650
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Harker Summer Programs
For close to 80 years, Bay Area youth have forged life-long friendships and benefited from character-defining experiences at Camp Campbell through nature hikes, campfires, archery and many other fun outdoor activities. Financial assistance is available. http://www.ymcacampcampbell.org/ 831.338.2128
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Academics Alexa Café
Get immersed in game design at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy! Teens ages 13-18 design video games, develop apps, model 3D characters, mod with Minecraft, and more. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Programming Academy
Stanford
Get immersed in technology at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy. Teens ages 13-18 code apps, program with C++ and Java, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, and program websites. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Mini
Palo Alto High School
Kids ages 6-9 will have a blast at iD Tech Mini, where half day options let aspiring innovators discover a love for tech. Campers make new friends and learn hands-on STEM skills in a kid-friendly environment. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Camps
Palo Alto High School
Palo Alto
Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. www.castilleja.org/summercamp 650.328.3160
Stanford
Code, game, create! At iD Tech Camps, students ages 7-17 code apps, design video games, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, build websites, produce movies, and more. Kids meet new friends and gain a competitive edge. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
Mid-Peninsula High School
Menlo Park
Mid-Pen offers summer courses designed to help students make up high school credits and a diverse range of enriching courses that go beyond traditional curriculum. In addition to courses in math, science, English, Spanish, and SAT/ACT prep, we invite students to enhance their skills in innovative classes that include: College Essay Workshop, Research Writing Workshop, Drama, Music Video Production, and Fine Arts courses in Surface Design and Mixed Media. We also hold basketball and volleyball clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school students are welcome to attend. Summer session runs from June 22 to July 23, 2015. www.mid-pen.com 650.321.1991
One Me
Palo Alto Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will find direction and inspiration through introspection and self-awareness, discovering how they learn and are motivated, addressing and understanding habits, improving communication skills, understanding the brain, understanding personality and ego states, emotional regulation, and welcoming challenge. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965
Purposeful You
Palo Alto Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will learn best practices in organization and goal setting; study techniques; communication with administration and teachers; strengthening memory; answering to the question; outlining, writing, and citing resources; emotional regulation; stress and test anxiety management, attention and motivation. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965
Summer at Saint Francis
At Alexa Café, girls ages 10-15 collaborate around café tables and learn to code apps, produce films, design websites, develop wearable electronics, and more. Discover a passion for technology in this unique environment that emphasizes leadership, philanthropy, and more. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls
Stanford
Mountain View
Summer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and athletic programs for elementary through high school students. It is the goal of every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoyable! www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x446
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
Palo Alto / Pleasanton
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information. www.headsup.org Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750
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Laura J. Rankin April 21, 1919 – February 19, 2015 460 HOMER AVENUE, PALO ALTO ❦ ❦
Fri. March 13 – 12 to 5 p.m. Sat. & Sun., March 14 & 15 – 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Step into this 1910 home, built by the late owner’s greatuncle, offering treasures of a four- generation Palo Alto family. Featuring Victorian and turn-of-the-century furniture in oak and mahogany, 1940s rattan and midcentury modern. Lamps, china, photographic equipment, toys, books, local historic artifacts, many small items. A portion of the proceeds will be donated. Home sale to follow.
INFORMATION: properwood@aol.com or 408-891-5331
Harry Langworthy Browne Born out of love: October 12, 1919 Died into love: February 14, 2015 Harry was born on a symbolic day of adventure, Columbus Day, and he passed peacefully, with his son and his grand-daughter at his side, on a symbolic day of love, Valentine’s Day. Both days are fitting for this adventurous and loving man. Harry was born on Staten Island, New York in his family home as the only child to Harry and Lillian Browne. He graduated from Curtis High School early then studied Civil Engineering at Manhattan College and finishing at NYU in 1941. He then married his Curtis High School sweetheart, the 1937 Class President, and moved to upstate New York where he joined the Army Corps of Engineers and planned to build roads. On the day his beloved daughter was born, Harry received a phone call that not only changed his life but history as well. The call was from Colonel James C. Marshall asking if Harry would be the first technical engineer to work on a top secret project in Tennessee, the Manhattan Project. He accepted and moved his new family to Oak Ridge where in 1946 his son was born. After the war, Harry and family moved many times as he worked for the newly established Atomic Energy Commission. He left government work and accepted a position with Thompson Products (now TRW Inc.) in Cleveland, Ohio as well as taught at Case Western Reserve University. Due to his wife’s poor health, he moved his family to sunny La Jolla, California. A few years later, they moved to Palo Alto where he started a research company, later became a Vice President at Bechtel in San Francisco, took his family on long journeys crisscrossing the US while visiting all of our National Parks, and spent many joyous times traveling the world with his wife. Harry’s wife passed away in 1989. As luck would have it, he found love again and married in 2003, remaining happily married until his death. Harry was always active in his community. He was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic Convention nominating John Kennedy, elected President twice during his 50 years as a loyal member of Rotary, and ,once retired, he was involved in many committees in his church and his senior communities (Touchstone Services, La Comida, The Fellowship Forum), and even played the drum in his wife’s Channing House harmonica band. He was born a dedicated Catholic and died the same, rarely missing Mass at his church St. Albert the Great. Harry was predeceased by his daughter and a grandson. He is survived by his loving wife, son, stepson, daughter-in-law, stepdaughter-in-law, stepson-in-law, three grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Peace to this outstanding son, husband, father, and friend. A memorial service will be held at St. Albert the Great in Palo Alto on March 21, 2015 at 10:00 am. A reception will follow after until 1:30 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202. PAID
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A long and beautiful 95 years. “Lolly” was the eldest of three children born to Harold Freeman and Gratia Jones Freeman. She attended Whitewater College where she graduated with a teaching degree in 1942. She taught school in Muskegon, Michigan, and traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, to teach there. Upon her return she went to Lexington, Kentucky, to help her best friend with her new baby and met Carroll Sears Rankin, a major in the Army Air Corps. After the war they courted from California where Carroll attended USC Architecture school. Laura moved to San Bernardino to teach, and in 1948 they married. She continued teaching until the birth of their daughter, Gratia, in 1951. They returned to Lexington, then York, Pennsylvania. In 1959 they moved back to Palo Alto where Carroll was project architect on Foothill Jr. College. She continued teaching in Newark, California, and later worked for Sempervirens Fund where she retired after 12 years. She continued to garden and read in her wonderful Eichler — a true lady. Survived by daughter, Gratia Rankin, and son-in-law, James Thomas, of San Jose, California; grandson, Andrew Rankin Dolph of Akron, Ohio; and sister, Charys Freeman Wheeler of Geneva, Illinois. Private service to be held. Donations may be made to Sempervirens Fund in her name (sempervirens.org). PAID
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto March 4-10
Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 12 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Violence related Assault and battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 14 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reckless driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Traffic stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto
2550 El Camino Real Redwood City 650-328-3500 Also in Sacramento & San Jose University Art.com
Arastradero Road, 3/4, 6 a.m.; sexual assault/rape. 249 California Ave., 3/4, 11:45 a.m.; battery/simple. 180 El Camino Real, 3/7, 4:45 p.m.; battery/simple. 300 Pasteur Drive, 3/8, 8 a.m.; battery/ simple. Alma Street, 3/9, 10:30 a.m.; elder abuse/physical.
Menlo Park
500 block El Camino Real, 3/5, 9:29 p.m.; assault/battery.
Transitions
Lottie Gutterman May 14, 1924 – March 8, 2015 At rest in Palo Alto. Beloved wife of the late Morris
Births, marriages and deaths
Robert Herman Robert “Rob” Samuel Herman, a longtime resident of the Palo Alto area, died on Feb. 18 at his home in Millbrae, after a long battle with a debilitating illness. He was 62. He was born on April 4, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut. He grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula and attended Capuchino High School, where he did well in both academics and athletics. After graduation, he attended the College of San Mateo and then University of California, Santa Barbara. Drawing on his passion for the outdoors, he pursued a degree in environmental studies. Later that interest inspired him to develop his own business, Paving Design Company, through which he spent many years creating artistic landscaping throughout the Bay Area. He was a devoted fan of Stanford football, and as a season ticket holder, he frequently roamed the tailgate parties at Cardinal home games. He had a love for Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, particularly for his own dog, Roland. He had a good sense of humor and a bold personality, according to his family and friends. For about 30 years, he lived in the Palo Alto area — including for a time in Menlo Park and Atherton — up until a few years ago when he became ill and moved to Millbrae to be with family. He was predeceased by his father, Bernard Herman. He is survived by his daughter, Meridith Herman of Palo Alto; his mother, Jacqueline Herman of Millbrae; his sister, Leesa Richter; and his
niece and nephew, Ashley and Joshua Richter. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial donations can be made to Kara Grief Counseling in Palo Alto (www. kara-grief.org) or Sempervirens Fund for redwood preservation (sempervirens.org).
Kerry Kershner Kerry Gene Kershner, a lifelong resident of Palo Alto, died on Feb. 20, after a two-month hospitalization. She was 52. She was born on Feb. 27, 1962, at Stanford Hospital. She attended Walter Hays Elementa r y School and Jordan Middle School and graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1980. She later completed a one-year program at Sawyer Business College. With a personality her family described as cheery, she worked as a receptionist and secretary for several local businesses, including Hoover Architects, Ratts Construction and Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley. Later, she turned her love of babies and young children into a job as a registered nanny — with a specialty in working with newborns — which she did for many years. She is survived by her mother, Bobbi Taylor of Phoenix; her father, Earl Gene Kershner of Palo Alto; and her sisters, Barbara Kershner of Phoenix, Lorri Kershner
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Gutterman, M.D. Loving mother of Janet, Myra and
of Santa Cruz and Robin Kershner Branch of Belmont. A celebration of life will be held at a future date when family members from Ohio, Montana and Arizona can attend. Memorial contributions can be made in her memory to Vitas Innovative Hospice Care in Milpitas (www. vitas.com/ca/northern-californiahospice).
the late Jonathan Gutterman. A long-time member of Congregation Beth Jacob of Redwood City. Funeral Services were held at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma. Memorial Contributions to Congregation Beth Jacob are preferred. PAID
OBITUARY
Francis Richard Benaderet, Sr February 13, 1938 - March 3, 2015 Frank, lovingly known as “Chief” and “Gunka”, passed peacefully on March 3, 2015, in his San Rafael home of 39 years. He was 77. Born to immigrant parents, Robert Benaderet Sr and Helen Eisenburg, on February 13, 1938, in San Francisco, CA. He was the youngest of five siblings. Frank married Helen Campbell, his high school sweetheart and soulmate on September 28, 1955. Tenacious and industrious, Frank juggled multiple positions at Frito Lay, Kaiser Permanente, and a San Francisco based milk distributor, all while attending college and raising three spirited sons. He discovered his passion and life’s work in public service. He joined the Palo Alto Police Department in 1963, ardently rising to the rank of Sargeant. His career path led him to Stanford Police Department where he served as a Police Captain, before becoming the Chief of Police in Pinole, CA and ultimately Chief of Police in San Rafael, CA. He pioneered an innovative approach to leadership in the rank and file, proposed cutting edge engagement techniques during the anti-war protests, while championing all causes with strength and fairness. He embodied justice for all. As one of the youngest Police Chiefs in California, he was masterful at garnering consensus on significant initiatives and personified the art of collaboration in engaging city agencies outside of his own administration. Frank received a BA in Public Administration from San Jose State University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from USC. He taught criminal justice courses at Golden Gate University and contributed to an authoritative handbook, Criminal justice group training : a facilitator’s handbook, authored by Michael E O’Neill and Kai Martensen.
His distinguished career culminated in eighteen years of service, publishing numerous articles and serving as a member of the Police Chiefs Association. True to his pledge of public service, Frank was a San Rafael Rotarian, a past president and an advocate for youth. During his tenure, his fund raising efforts for college scholarships were unfaltering and a testament to his covenant. Following retirement, he found fellowship in SIR, an organization for vibrant retirees. Throughout his life, his commitment to his family never wavered. Nary did he miss his son’s baseball or basketball games. For decades, he volunteered as a Little League and Babe Ruth coach and manager. He continued to coach and mentor into his seventies. With a passion for flying, Frank held a private pilot’s license. Frank is survived by his wife of fifty nine years, Helen Benaderet; eldest son, William Benaderet; second son, Francis Benaderet, Jr and youngest son, Rick Benaderet. His revering daughters in- law, Rebecca and Jane Benaderet; and his adoring grandchildren – Jennifer, Debra, Francis III, Nicola and Carissa. Along with the devotion and support of his immediate family, Frank was fortunate to have a loving, extended family in Sacramento. A true gentleman, family man and scholar… Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at the Church of Saint Rafael, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901. In lieu of flowers, please consider supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, the Multiple Myeloma Research Fund, or the Widows and Orphans Fund of the San Rafael Police Association. PAID
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Editorial The ‘zero’ period hypocrisy While preaching the value of sleep, high schools quietly offer early classes
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n the face of a communitywide discussion over how to respond to a suicide contagion that has now taken four teenagers since October, there is one factor on which all experts agree: Sleep and student wellness are inextricably connected. For this reason, later high school start times have become the norm throughout the country and were implemented at Paly in 2010 and at Gunn the following year, in partial response to the earlier 2009-10 suicide contagion during which five teens died. Realizing its importance, Gunn administrators have recently made educating students and parents about the importance of sleep a priority and brought in renowned Stanford sleep experts for a school assembly in January. It was therefore more than distressing to learn this week that for the last three years, and apparently without the knowledge of the school board, Gunn has been offering high-level math classes to students in a special “zero” period before the start of the regular school day at 8:25 a.m. The so-called zero period, which begins at 7:20 a.m., was introduced after Gunn’s starting time was pushed back in 2011. This year about 300 Gunn students, or 15 percent of the student body, are enrolled in 10 different zero-period academic classes, which include some of the school’s most demanding courses: AB Calculus, AP Stats, Algebra 2/Trig, Intro to Analysis Calculus and AP Economics. Physical education classes are also offered. And while Gunn’s website states students may not use zero period to enroll in an extra eighth class, at Tuesday night’s school board meeting Principal Denise Herrmann acknowledged that nonfreshmen are allowed to take eight classes, a practice that was in place when she arrived at the beginning of this school year. Palo Alto High School also has an early zero period, but it is only for PE and is a way for freshman and sophomore athletes to be registered for PE during their sports season and then, under school rules and the state Education Code, skip the class. Principal Kim Diorio told the school board that Paly doesn’t offer academic classes in the zero period because she philosophically opposes it due to the research on the importance of sleep. While the existence of the academic zero period classes at Gunn clearly caught the school board by surprise, more surprising was the board’s lack of conviction or urgency to take any action about it. Trustee Ken Dauber, who drew out the details of the zero-period practice through questions to Herrmann, proposed that the board at its next meeting consider adopting a policy on zero periods, which Herrmann said she would welcome. Citing a recent report of the American Academy of Pediatrics that said the risk of suicide significantly increased among teens who get less than eight hours of sleep a night, he argued that the board should not leave it up to the school sites to decide their own policies. And while board members Terry Godfrey and Heidi Emberling voiced support for addressing the issue, they both retreated in the face of objections by trustee Camille Townsend, who said she wanted families to have choices, and board President Melissa Baten Caswell, who deferred to Superintendent Max McGee’s desire to delay further discussion because “there’s a lot of work to do to develop pros and cons” on zero-period academic classes. Hogwash. In the face of the greatest youth crisis this community has ever faced, this is not the leadership we need. If there are challenges to doing away with zero-period classes, such as pushback from teachers who prefer starting work early and getting home early, then let’s get those issues on the table and deal with them openly and honestly. But to suggest this is a complicated issue needing extensive data collection and analysis is merely a tactic to delay and appease some unidentified stakeholders who are apparently yielding influence behind the scenes. The work ahead of us to formulate actions to address youth wellbeing in our community is enormous and urgent. If we can’t even move quickly to fix a practice that all experts agree is harmful, then those standing in the way are part of the problem. An organization that believes it can’t move forward without “buy-in” and agreement from everyone is one destined for failure. Most Silicon Valley companies wouldn’t exist today if that was the model for decision-making. Strong leaders listen to input and then make decisions; they realize that achieving consensus is an impossibility. McGee has commendably chosen to tackle other issues knowing there will be pushback from some segment of stakeholders, and he needs to muster the same resolve regarding zero period. Page 18 • March 13, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Blinded by vanity Editor, Only in Palo Alto would one find a money-wasting boondoggle of the absurdity and notoriety of The Color of Palo Alto fiasco. Only a city with our smugness and vanity would preen that it has a color of its own. In 2003, an itinerant carpetbagger promised that he would produce our city’s color by photographing every house and parcel of our city, over 20,000. He bamboozled our color-blind city art commission and HewlettPackard to invest $75,000 for 120,000 photos to be analyzed by computer and render our city’s cosmetic hue. He predicted the color would, of course, be green. Anyone with an elementary knowledge of chromatic colors knows that a mix of thousands of colors would produce a mud-colored pigment of something from a digestive tract. A database was to be provided to local historical groups and images were to be uploaded to the city’s geographical information system for use in emergency responses. We could even buy house paint of our color at Ace Hardware. The lunacy escalated when he posted the thousands of 4-inch by 6-inch-size photos on the front windows of City Hall. Supposedly everyone could get a peep of his home with a telescope available for 50 cents. He refused to give the city the promised database, sued and won a legal fight for a final $7,900 payment. The sad outcome is that the city received no identifiable color, database or anything of value. The flim-flam promoter has sold farfetched schemes to other cities, a la Harold Hill, the “76 Trombones” hustler in “The Music Man” musical. The Color of Palo Alto is an embarrassed red! Vic Befera High Street, Palo Alto
The time is now Editor, Thank you City Manager Jim Keene for announcing the setaside of $8 million in Palo Alto affordable-housing funds for Buena Vista. Added to the $8 million in county funds for Buena Vista, there may now be “critical mass” to attract more needed funds, public and private, to avoid displacement of vulnerable residents due to redevelopment. The time is now for organizations and individuals to step up with ideas and financing — just contact Supervisor Simitian’s or City Manager Keene’s office to participate. Do not delay. This is
the moment when the property owner wants to sell his land, the residents want to stay — and the City of Palo Alto wants them to — and to preserve the site for affordable housing. This is an opportunity to meet all these expectations including those of the landowner. With the political will and financial commitment, a good outcome can be had for all, and Palo Alto can again lead by example, this time in how we care for each other as a community. Winter Dellenbach La Para Avenue, Palo Alto
Parking thoughts Editor, Aside from the ongoing debate regarding expensive additional city garage structures, it seems there may well be additional common-sense supportive options to also be evaluated and considered. In commercial areas: 1) Identify and create better incentives for workers to not street park and to use upper levels of existing parking structures, thus
leaving spaces more convenient for shoppers. 2) Require that all new or major construction include adequate parking for present and for possible future use. No more parking concessions for anything. Given all the new construction, it must be profitable for the developers, and this can’t really be a deal breaker. 3) While I’m certainly not advocating it, has Silicon Valley technology for monitoring and tracking parking been seriously evaluated and considered? On residential streets: So many are becoming oneway streets. Most homes have at least two vehicles and with all the youngsters reaching driving age (see PAUSD enrollments), that will only increase. It seems the current code requiring one garage (which usually becomes storage) and one driveway for another vehicle (which often becomes a basketball court) is not sustainable. Why not sensibly mandate that all new homes or major reconstruc-
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Guest Opinion
Now we can just enjoy our libraries tions require two off-street parking spaces that are made available and usable at all times? I have no idea how this could be enforced going forward but perhaps it’s worthy of investigation. As a secondary benefit, this would reduce lawns and encourage less water-needing landscaping. Also, while I’m not advocating it, but perhaps an increase to the allowed property coverage by 250 square feet (garage size) could be considered as a possible trade-off to alleviate parking problems? How are other municipalities dealing with these problems? Even the smallest mitigation is a help citywide! Bob Millavec Rhodes Drive, Palo Alto
A small change Editor, I am choosing to participate in Earth Hour Saturday, March 28, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. to help our planet. If more people made small changes to be more eco-friendly, our environment’s health would not be declining at such a rapid rate. With our climate changing dramatically, it is everyone’s responsibility to do their part to stop further damage. Even the smallest effort can make a huge impact. I encourage everyone else to make a change today. Katherine Mccormack-Gibson Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
by Alison Cormack
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en years ago, all I wanted was to walk into the library, pick out a book, then sit down and read it. But there was a waiting list for popular classics like Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” and there were just a few dilapidated chairs that were never available. Another mom at Palo Verde suggested I join the Palo Alto Library Foundation board, and I readily agreed. Nine years ago, we presented a petition with more than 1,000 paper and electronic signatures to then-Mayor Judy Kleinberg, asking that Mitchell Park Library be rebuilt. She accepted it gracefully but suggested that my elementary school kids might be in college before Palo Alto solved its library problem. Eight years ago, a team of six met every week, and a team of 20 met every month, to execute a campaign that could win. And if we lost, it wasn’t going to be because we hadn’t sent mailers, installed lawn signs, walked precincts and presented at neighborhood events. Today, we have five vibrant libraries filled with books, DVDs, computers, conference rooms and lots of people who have come to read, learn and work together. And I am happy to report that both my kids are high school students at Gunn, so we beat the mayor’s prediction! During this decade, I have been deeply grateful for those who believed in this effort and repeatedly gave their time and money to
Today, I am incredibly happy to see families walking in and out of these libraries, enjoying the great facilities and speaking a wide range of languages. make it happen. Dozens of Palo Altans worked on the team, and thousands of people signed petitions, endorsed the campaign and displayed lawn signs. And 21,894 people voted yes on Measure N in 2008. But the $76 million bond measure paid only for the design and construction of the buildings, not for the $4 million of furniture, books, ebooks and computers we needed to bring the libraries into the 21st century. So, more than a thousand people made private donations to the Palo Alto Library Foundation to fund modern furniture, thousands of books, and dozens of laptops and desktops. Years ago, a friend mentioned to me that the construction of the Mitchell Park Library coincided with the time that my kids were attending JLS Middle School so they wouldn’t get to use it. I replied that I wasn’t doing this for my kids. I was doing it for everyone’s kids. Today, I am incredibly happy to see families walking in and out of these libraries, enjoying the great facilities and speaking a wide range of languages. On weekends, I admit that I walk our dog past the library just so I can see how busy it is! One under-appreciated part of this project is the new community center at Mitchell Park.
It has already hosted city meetings, school district events and private parties; it will be the site of many classes, quinceañeras and bar mitzvah parties, and birthday and graduation celebrations. Recently, one of our first volunteers was at Mitchell Park and ran into an old friend from when their kids were in preschool. After exclaiming over the wonderful building, the friend was eager to remind the volunteer that she had signed the petition in 2007 and felt that she had played a part in making this happen. She is absolutely right! So much of the focus has been on the leaders of this effort, but I believe our success was determined by the breadth of our followers. I would be remiss not to take this moment to mention that there were disappointments along the way, including the occasional issue with the City Council, a few potential donors who declined to give anything and some truly hateful anonymous comments online. What worked well in these situations was to set aside our personal feelings and refocus on the greater good and long-term goal. We are all proud of being relentlessly positive, and it paid off. Last week I dropped by Mitchell Park after work to pick up a book, then walked up the stairs and found a chair by the window. I read the first chapter of the book before heading home. That’s really all I ever wanted — and now it’s available to everyone. Q Alison Cormack has lived in Palo Alto since 1997. She chaired the Better Libraries for Palo Alto bond campaign in 2008, served as the president of the Palo Alto Library Foundation from 2007 to 2010, and received the Tall Tree award in 2012.
Streetwise
What was a recent live performance you saw in the Palo Alto area? Asked at Mitchell Park. Interviews and photos by Maev Lowe.
Maya Eylon
Gulliver Spring
Natalia Schoorl
Steve Buddie
Veronica Schoenen
Louis Road, Palo Alto Student
Layne Court, Palo Alto Music teacher
Chiquita Avenue, Mountain View Nonprofit employee
Nevada Street, Redwood City Camp director
Grove Avenue, Palo Alto Mother
“’The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ ... at Kehillah high school.”
“Well, I think, it was right here, at the Saturday night concerts in the park. ... It’s been going on for 25 or 30 years.”
“Sometimes I go to Red Rock Cafe and see their open mic night.”
“I would have to say Journey at Shoreline Amphitheatre.”
“At the Children’s Theatre, and we are looking forward to the summer Hot Dog series performances.”
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ean Maloney was a high-flying, 54-year-old Intel executive when, five years ago, a devastating stroke left him without the ability to speak. Fit, athletic and in seemingly perfect health, Maloney had returned home from running the Stanford Dish on a Sunday afternoon and asked for a glass of water when his son realized something was terribly wrong and dialed 911. At the hospital, he initially was not able to recognize his wife, Margaret. But while his mental faculties returned quickly, the man who had been considered a potential successor to the helm at Intel — and the company’s most compelling public speaker — could not move his right side and was rendered utterly without speech. “The day after my stroke I could understand perfectly, but I couldn’t say anything,” Maloney recalled in a recent interview at his Palo Alto home, expressing frustration at the memory. “I’m like a child — I didn’t have any speech. “Before my stroke, for 10 or 20 years, I’d go on TV and talk and it was nothing — and
now I had zero. At Intel I had 10,000 people working for me — that was nothing compared to learning to speak again,” he said. “Learning to speak is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. I had to learn how to speak out of the right side of my brain because the left side had been busted.” Maloney still speaks slowly — as if choosing his words carefully — but is able to clearly express his thoughts. Relentless in his discipline and his drive to recover, Maloney learned enough speech to return to Intel, where he’d held a range of senior management posts, in January 2011 — 11 months after his stroke. Later that year Sean and Margaret Maloney and their young daughters moved to Beijing, where Maloney served as chairman of Intel China before leaving the company in 2013. This month Maloney embarks on what he calls “the second-hardest thing” he has ever attempted: a cross-country bicycle ride where — city by city — he aims to let people know that they should address their risk factors because 80 percent of strokes are considered preventable. “A lot of people ask me if there’s some kind of wisdom or lesson I can give them based upon my experience. Well, there’s really only one: Never, ever have a stroke, period. That’s basically my big advice in a nutshell,” he said. “It sounds like a joke but really, I’m serious.”
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he reasons why some patients make a strong recovery after a stroke while others do not are poorly understood, said Stanford University neurologist Maarten Lansberg, who has worked with Maloney since he was first admitted to the hospital with the stroke. “We are very interested at Stanford in this question, and we are conducting research why some people, like Sean, have made such a remarkable recovery while other patients are not as fortunate,” Lansberg said. Without definitive answers, the neurologist pointed to qualities in Maloney that could
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Above left: Sean Maloney rides up the steep incline of Old La Honda Road, a popular ride with cyclists that gains close to 1,300 feet, in Portola Valley. Above: A map in Sean Maloney’s dining room displays his planned route across the country. hold clues to his positive outcome: extreme motivation, tireless work, setting ambitious goals and showing flexibility to adjust the goals periodically based on actual progress. “Sean worked hard with physical, occupational and speech therapy on his recovery, but, in addition to that, he spent many hours each day on his own on his recovery,” Lansberg said. Finally, he noted, Maloney, a longtime competitive rower and fitness enthusiast, had been in good physical health prior to his stroke and resumed intensive physical and aerobic exercise soon after. “It was incredibly clear to me from the getgo that this guy wanted to make as much of a recovery as was possible for him and that he was going to work as hard as he had to in order to do that,” said Lisa Levine Sporer, a Palo Alto speech therapist who joined Maloney’s treatment team about a month poststroke. Maloney insisted they work together seven days a week, a request Levine Sporer had never heard from a patient. After a month she persuaded him to scale back to five days a week. They drilled and repeated sounds, discussing how to make them come out properly. They practiced over and over in front of a video camera, reciting poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson that Maloney’s mother had read to him as a child. “We delved very deep because he was capable of being able to say, ‘I’m not speaking well today and this is why’ or ‘help me figure out why,’” Levine Sporer said. Four months after the stroke Maloney made his first public “appearance” back at Intel by way of a pre-recorded video screened at a corporate conference. The recording session had required dozens of camera takes for his 50-word “I’ll be back” message to come out right. “I must have gone over it a thousand times
because I couldn’t say it,” Maloney recalled. “It was incredibly tough — incredibly tough — but bit by bit I learned to speak again.” Eight months after his stroke, in October 2010, Maloney had physically recovered enough to row in Boston’s Head of the Charles Regatta. “It was good, but it was very, very tiring,” he said. Jean-Pierre van Tiel, who met Maloney through business 15 years ago and bonded with him over their shared passion for rowing, said he “never had a sliver of doubt” his friend would recover. “Sean applied the discipline and hard work ethic that had made him so successful as a rower and at Intel to this recovery,” van Tiel said. Maloney himself likens the persistence required for his recovery to the discipline of rowing. “Learning to speak again after the kind of stroke I had requires making a real investment in yourself,” he said. “It’s frustrating and sometimes you wonder if it’s even worth it, but that’s where the sense of investment comes in. Rowing is the same way — you’re working for some future payoff. “Now I’ve learned to speak, but tomorrow is better than today. Every day I get up and it’s challenging and every day when I go to sleep I know tomorrow will be better than today. ... So many people don’t feel that way; they feel anger with themselves. It’s not their fault that they had a stroke. It’s OK. And tomorrow is better than today.”
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ascended Mt. Diablo. “I rowed constantly — it was very easy for me to switch from rowing to cycling,” he said. Among Maloney’s new cycling companions is Dave Fisch, who logs 12,000 miles a year on his bicycle, much of it between his home in Pleasanton and his engineering job in San Jose. Fisch, who years ago crisscrossed Switzerland many times as a bike-tour guide, will take a sabbatical from his job to accompany Maloney across the United States. “Sean is fearless, he’s stubborn
Sean Maloney uses a GPS device that not only measures his distance but also his calorie count.
The trial is called the Carotid Revascularization and Medical Management for Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Study, or CREST-2. For more information, go to www.crest2trial.org. Q — Chris Kenrick
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is currently funding a trial to determine whether asymptomatic individuals who have taken the ultrasound and been diagnosed with carotid-artery stenosis could benefit from the surgery or carotid stenting over the standard medical treatment, Lansberg said.
Former Intel executive Sean Maloney, third from left, is joined on a Feb. 15 training ride to the top of Mt. Hamilton by (from left) John Becker, who commutes by bike from Pleasanton to San Jose; professional cyclist and Olympian George Mount; David Fisch, who will accompany Maloney across the U.S.; and Ken Shimojima and Bumha Lee, two more Pleasanton-to-San Jose commuters.
If you’re going Victoria Dupuy, director of No More Broken Hearts, invites the public to a free showing of “The Widowmaker,” a 2014 documentary that promotes the coronary calcium scan, a screening that Dupuy believes would have saved her husband’s life. The movie will be screened on Saturday, March 21, at 11 a.m. at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park. For more information, call 650-566-8367.
p.m. You start your laundry, then you take a shower and get cleaned up and then you can go eat and have your beer,” he said. “If you don’t do that, things can start to unravel pretty quickly.” Fisch and Mount are tutoring Maloney on safety techniques for risks like descents, in which a single pebble can throw off even experienced cyclists. “There’s no doubt this can be a dangerous endeavor,” Fisch said.
and he’s strong as an ox,” Fisch said. “But it’s my job to worry about him. “I’m not at all worried about him being physically strong enough to do this, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong — saddle sores, your back going out. I ask him after every ride, ‘Do your knees hurt? Do your hips hurt?’ and he always says ‘No.’ Finally I accused him of not having any pain receptors,” Fisch said. “The number one thing I tell him is we need to arrive at our destination every day by 3:30
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mize their risk factors and act on the warning signs, according to the National Stroke Association. “I’ve been 40 years a rower, but I can’t row across the United States,” Maloney said. “So about four months ago I went down to Palo Alto Bicycles and bought a bike. I said ‘I’m going to ride across the United States,’ and they all laughed. “They didn’t know me — but they do now.” Maloney has recruited a host of friends and high-profile tech executives to ride out of town with him on March 22, the day he departs from Palo Alto City Hall on his “Heart Across America” journey. The public is invited to ride as well. (See sidebar.) In cities along the way, he plans more than a dozen public-awareness events with the American Heart Association and various corporate sponsors, including Intel, Dell, Netronome, Qualcomm and Samsung. Superbly fit from decades of dawn paddling on the bay, Maloney has applied his characteristic tenacity to learning the techniques of bicycling, enlisting experienced cyclists for help. On a recent Sunday he cycled to the top of Mt. Hamilton with five seasoned cyclists, including former U.S. Olympic road racer George Mount. The weekend before he’d
neering manager, collapsed and died of a heart attack in 2013 while playing ice hockey, echoes Maloney’s plea for wider use of scanning technology as a preventive screening measure. Dean Dupuy had gone for his annual checkups, had no known risk factors and, just hours before his collapse, happily completed a “muddy buddy” running and bicycling obstacle course with his teenage daughter. His widow has launched “No More Broken Hearts,” a nonprofit group aimed at creating awareness about why seemingly healthy people have heart attacks and the need for heart screenings even in low-risk, asymptomatic individuals. “Heart attacks occur without warning to even those who have no symptoms of heart disease and appear very healthy,” Victoria Dupuy said. “At No More Broken Hearts, we want to see a world where these screenings are a routine part of one’s physicals, just like mammograms and colonoscopies.” But current medical guidelines do not recommend carotid-artery ultrasound for asymptomatic individuals, neurologist Lansberg said. “If you have already had a stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke) it is important to get your carotid arteries checked because early treatment of blocked carotid arteries (a surgery called carotid endarterectomy, or CEA) can help prevent a second stroke,” he said. “If you have not had a stroke or TIA, current guidelines do not recommend screening for carotid stenosis (narrowing) with carotidartery ultrasound because it is uncertain if patients with so-called ‘asymptomatic’ carotid stenosis benefit from (the surgery) or carotid stenting.” However, the National Institutes of Health
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rior to his stroke, Sean Maloney, a lifelong athlete who maintained a healthy diet and lifestyle and had yearly medical checkups, was not considered at high risk. “Sean was more fit than I was, and I’m pretty fit,” Margaret Maloney said. “But some people are more prone to plaque buildup.” Nearly 800,000 Americans each year experience a stroke, costing 128,000 lives and $73.7 billion in medical and disability costs. And yet 80 percent of strokes and heart attacks are preventable, according to the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association. Key things people can do to minimize their risk of stroke are to control their blood pressure, avoid smoking, get 30 minutes of exercise most days of the week and talk to their primary-care physicians about the need for medications such as aspirin or cholesterol-lowering drugs, Stanford University neurologist Maarten Lansberg said. People also should learn the symptoms of stroke (face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty) and get a victim to the emergency room immediately, he said. Maloney would add an additional recommendation for stroke prevention, one that is currently not standard practice among primary-care physicians: Get a carotid artery ultrasound if you are over 40 to determine whether there is blockage or narrowing in the arteries. Had he been given such a scan in the months prior to the event, Maloney believes his stroke would not have happened. “If you don’t get an ultrasound, you don’t know whether or not you have the problem,” he said. San Jose resident Victoria Dupuy, whose husband Dean, a 46-year-old Apple engi-
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on the most bike-friendly routes, Fisch said. But, if not, they’ll be carrying maps and the navigational devices necessary to go it alone. They’ll also have a sag wagon, hold-
ing support materials including extra water and medical supplies. “Sean’s a Type A personality,” said Fisch, who met him for the first time last fall. “Before I got too involved I asked friends who worked at Intel what Sean was like:
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Was he a nice guy or the guy who rises up the ranks who’s ruthless and all that? “Everybody said Sean was just great, a good listener, super intelligent, made good decisions. That was reassuring to me,” Fisch said “I was curious because I’d only just met him and was going to be spending a lot of time with him.” The Maloneys have hung a map of the United States on their dining-room wall, with pins marking each leg of Sean’s 84-day journey. From Palo Alto, the major cities along the way are Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Nashville, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Trenton and New York City. “Everyone should get a bike,” Maloney said. “It’s wonderful — the wind rustling in the leaves, the sun. You don’t have to do 100 miles. You don’t have to be a competitive cyclist. Even if you only do 10 miles every week, that’s great.”
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aloney’s kick-off event on Sunday, March 22, will run from 10 a.m. to noon and include free blood pressure checks, carotid artery scans by Samsung Ultrasound Systems, heart-healthy food and drink and product giveaways and raffles from corporate sponsors. Local health and wellness organizations, including Stanford Medi-
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Sean Maloney, right, Mauricio Cuervo, left, and Eyran Eylon, center, Maloney’s colleagues from Intel, take a break on Skyline Boulevard following the steep ride up Old La Honda Road in Portola Valley on Feb. 27. The group of Intel workers has been meeting every Friday afternoon to ride with Maloney in support of his upcoming ride across the country. cine and No More Broken Hearts, will be represented. Stroke survivors from the Pacific Stroke Association will explain how to spot a stroke. Other booths will exhibit healthand-wellness wearable technology, including products from corporate sponsors such as Intel, HP, Samsung, Acer and Asus. At noon, the public will be invited to join Maloney and other cyclists on a casual ride for the first 3 miles of their journey — to the HP campus. From HP Maloney, accompanied by local tech executives and members of cycling clubs, will depart on the
first leg of his 84-day journey. “Now all I have to do is pull into New York,” he said. For more information on Maloney’s cross-country ride, including route details, go to heartacrossamerica.org. Q Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@ paweekly.com. About the cover: Sean Maloney bikes on Sand Hill Road toward Woodside during his morning training ride on Feb. 25. Photo by Veronica Weber.
Smuin Ballet brings triple bill to Mountain View Keith Sutter
In Michael Smuin’s narrative ballet, “Frankie & Johnny,” Eduardo Permuy dances the role of Johnny; Jo-Ann Sundermeier is the sultry temptress. by Elizabeth Schwyzer a Mississippi riverboat, “Frankie & Johnny” tells the story of a young woman driven to violence by her lover’s infidelity. Smuin set his ballet in Cuba, bringing mambo music and bright tropical colors to the sinister tale of passion and jealousy. Smuin dedicated the work to Gene Kelly, drawing on the late, great dancer’s favored jazz idiom as well as classical ballet technique. Soloist Susan Roemer dances the part of Frankie, and called the ballet “a compact drama.” “It’s basically an entire love story that buds and unfolds in under 30 minutes,” she explained. “It’s pretty intense.” Because the ballet centers on adult themes, it’s not recommended for young children. Back in 1996 when Smuin created the work for his company, it was Fushille who danced the role of Frankie, so she brings a personal touch to her coaching of the dancers and her vision of the work. “The bulk of the dance takes place in Johnny’s saloon,” she explained, “so even the dancers who are patrons in the bar are helping tell the story. It’s fun to coach them in terms of their individual characters.” For audience members less familiar with contemporary ballet, “Frankie & Johnny” is an engrossing drama with an easy-tofollow storyline. It’s a different story with “Objects of Curiosity,” created by Smuin’s choreographer-in-residence and former company member Amy Seiwert in 2007, shortly after Smuin’s death, and recently restaged for the current company.
San Francisco-based Seiwert remembers the exact moment when the inspiration for the work hit. “I was at the Whitney Museum in New York,” she recalled. “I rode the elevator alone to the third floor, and the doors opened on this room with no one in it. The room was covered with that silver house insulation material that someone had graffitied all over, ... and there was this huge crystal chandelier. I felt like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ like I’d just dropped into a totally new world. I thought, ‘How do I create a work where when the curtains open and the audience feels like this?’”
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odies appear like sculptural works beneath dramatic lights, couples bound through space with refined grace and a tempestuous love affair ends in tragedy. In Smuin Ballet’s latest repertory program, there’s a little something for everyone. Next week, the San Francisco-based contemporary ballet company brings “Untamed” to Mountain View’s Center for the Performing Arts. Twenty-one years in and eight years after the death of its founder, Michael Smuin, Smuin Ballet seems to have found its place in the dance world as a small but mighty repertory company with a flair for high-wattage entertainment, a broad appeal and an increasing ability to attract some of the best performers and choreographers in the business. According to artistic director Celia Fushille, “Untamed” honors Michael Smuin’s legacy of smart, sexy dances that took risks and helped align the tradition of classical ballet with contemporary popular culture. “He was fearless about choosing things that were unexpected,” Fushille said of Smuin in a recent phone interview. “There was always some element of surprise.” In this program, Fushille has combined one of Smuin’s own works — the narrative ballet “Frankie & Johnny” from 1996 — with two very different works: Amy Seiwert’s abstract ballet, “Objects of Curiosity,” and Garrett Ammon’s athletic and lyrical “Serenade for Strings.” Like the 1966 Elvis film set on
Smuin Ballet resident choreographer Amy Seiwert’s “Objects of Curiosity” is among the works on the “Untamed” program.
Seiwert’s answer to her own question was “Objects of Curiosity,” a work she described as “an installation meant to bring the audience in.” Fushille, for her part, referred to “Objects of Curiosity” as “sculpture in motion.” “(Seiwert) has a beautiful ability to capture the human form in these sculptural moments that are just frozen in time, and then the lighting enhances that effect even more,” Fushille said. “The dancers themselves become objects of curiosity.” Set to a lively score by Philip Glass and Gambian composer Foday Musa Suso, the dance features sleek costumes and technically complex choreography that demands strength and precision on the part of the dancers. Though Seiwert acknowledged her choreographic aesthetic is far from Smuin’s own, she credited the late director with supporting her distinct creative vision. “He thought what I did was kind of weird, and he loved it,” she said. “He had faith in my voice, which was pretty different from his, and he encouraged me to follow it.” Today, Seiwert has works in the repertory of companies including American Repertory Ballet, Ballet Austin and Oakland Ballet, and she collaborates with companies and artists across North America. If “Objects of Curiosity” challenges, “Serenade for Strings” enchants. Originally created for Ballet Nouveau Colorado in 2013, the work is set to Tchaikovsky’s fourmovement composition of the same name, and has, said Fush-
ille, an effortless, organic quality. George Balanchine famously used the same score in his iconic 1934 work “Serenade”; Ammon replaces romantic tutus with contemporary shirt dresses, swaps out a female-heavy cast for five men and five women, and returns the movements of Tchaikovsky’s score to their original order. “Some contemporary choreographers try to be different for the sake of being different and the movement can come out as awkward, but (Ammon’s) partnering makes sense for the dancer,” noted Fushille. “This ballet just feels right — the dancers love dancing it, and that’s evident when you see it.” Passages of lightning-fast meticulous footwork alternate with moments of gentle humor in “Serenade for Strings,” which opens the program. Taken together, these three works offer three distinct angles on the Smuin repertory and on the capabilities of the dancers. That’s intentional, said Fushille. “It might be surprising to put these works together, and yet my feeling is if the audience walks out of a theater after a triple bill and liked two of the three works, I’ve done my job.” The company’s artistic director also recommended “Untamed” as a particularly good evening for those less familiar with ballet. “You don’t need any special knowledge to appreciate musicality, athleticism, humor, drama and passion,” she said. “Untamed” also points to Fushille’s larger agenda: to retain Mi(continued on next page)
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AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS March 16, 2015 6:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. Presentation of Proclamation to Exchange Students from Tsuchiura, Japan and Presentation of Matt Schlegel, Marathon Runner Consent Calendar 2. Approval of a Contract with SCS Field Services in an Amount Not to Exceed $139,060 for the First Year to 7YV]PKL 3HUKÄSS .HZ HUK 3LHJOH[L *VU[YVS :`Z[LTZ Maintenance, Monitoring, and Reporting Services and to Exercise the Option of a Second and Third Year of the Contract 3. Approval of a Site and Design Application by Peck Desing on Behalf of Walnut Holding, LLC for a new 13,118 sf Single Family Home, detached garage, and pool; and Associated Site Improvements on a 10.39 Acre Parcel of Land in the Open Space (OS) Zone District located at 820 Los Trancos Road. Environmental Assessment: Mitigated Negative Declaration has Been Prepared 4. Approval and Authorization for the City Manager to Execute Amendment One to Memorandum of Understanding with the Santa Clara Valley Water District to Increase Palo Alto’s Total Cost Obligation by $500,000 Through FY 2016 for a Total Cost Obligation of $1,235,915 to Fund Water Conservation Rebate and Incentive Programs and Adoption of a Related Budget Amendment Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2015 to Provide Appropriation in the Amount of $400,000 Action Items 5. Comprehensive Plan Update Status and Discussion of Existing Comprehensive Plan Themes and Structure. 6. Review of the Adobe Creek Pedestrian & Cyclist Bridge 2014 Design Competition Process and Outcome, and Authorization to Proceed with Contract Negotiations to Develop a Scope of Work and Cost for Basic Design Services Necessary to Complete Joint California Environmental Quality Act/National Environmental Policy Act Review for the Adobe Creek Pedestrian & Cyclist Bridge. 7. Colleagues' Memo From Mayor Holman, Council Members Burt, Schmid, and Wolbach Regarding Strengthening City Engagement with Neighborhoods. Closed Session 8. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT -City Clerk * 65-,9,5*, >0;/ 9,(3 7967,9;@ 5,.6;0(;69: 7VZ[ 6ѝJL STANDING COMMITTEE The Special Finance Committee Meeting will meet on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 6:00 PM to discuss: 1) Proposed Fiscal @LHY *VTT\UP[` +L]LSVWTLU[ )SVJR .YHU[ Funding Allocation; Draft 2015-2020 Consolidated Plan and Draft 2015/2016 Action Plan; 2) Utilities Advisory Commission Recommendation that Council Continue the Palo Alto Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (CLEAN) Program at the Rate of 16.5 Cents per Kilowatt-hour for Solar Resources for a 20-Year Contract and a Program Cap of 3 Megawatts, and (KK H @LHY *VU[YHJ[ ;LYT 6W[PVU" :[Hќ 9LJVTTLUKH[PVU that Council Expand CLEAN Program Eligibility to Non-Solar Renewable Energy Resources with a Rate Equal to their Avoided Cost for 20- and 25-year Contracts and Program Cap of 3 Megawatts; and Approval of Amended CLEAN Program Power Purchase Agreement; and 3) Review of the Assessment Results of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Needs and *VUZPKLYH[PVU VM [OL :[Hќ 9LJVTTLUKH[PVU [V 7SHU MVY [OL (JX\PZP[PVU VM H 5L^ 0U[LNYH[LK .V]LYUTLU[ VYPLU[LK ,97 System and Separate Provisioning of Billing Systems. Page 24 • March 13, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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chael Smuin’s adventurous spirit and his beguiling choreography while bringing in new talent and broadening the company’s repertory. More than two decades after Smuin first invited her to dance with his pick-up company, Fushille is now attracting internationally recognized talent to Smuin Ballet. “I am often talking to Michael, wherever he is, and saying, ‘Michael, I wish you could see these dancers: They’re just incredible,’” she said. “We don’t have Michael here creating new dances, but I retain works I feel have the same spirit and energy of his creations — some of the humor and some of the fun.” Among the works Fushille has added to Smuin’s repertory are WZR E\ &]HFK FKRUHRJUDSKHU -Lʼnt Kylián, widely considered one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers alive today. Upcoming programs this season feature works by U.K. choreographer Adam Hougland, Chinese-born artist Ma Cong — now resident choreographer with Tulsa Ballet — and American ballet choreographer Helen Pickett, who danced for Ballet Frankfurt under contemporary ballet luminary William Forsythe. For Smuin’s dancers, an opportunity to perform works by such high-caliber artists while living on the West Coast and working for a relatively intimate ballet company is a rare gift. “The diversity of the repertory we do at Smuin has really not been paralleled in my career, and the number of performances we have is really outstanding,” said Roemer, explaining that because the company is small, every dancer gets a chance to shine. In order to keep things fresh with so much performing and touring, Smuin dancers often learn more than one role and perform with multiple casts; in this program Roemer will share the role of Frankie with dancer Erin Yarbrough. “Sometimes you have to look down at your costume and think, ‘Who am I tonight?’” Roemer laughed. As one of the original cast members of “Objects of Curiosity” in 2007, Roemer also noted the value of returning to a work after a period of time away: “You pick up the choreography again and you can see how you’ve grown as a dancer and as an individual.” Those qualities of growth and change over time are central to what makes a live dance performance so exciting to watch, said Fushille. “People should make a point of going out to experience live art because it’s not the same as a video on YouTube that’s been edited, or a movie clip someone has been over 20 times to make sure it’s perfect,” she said. “In that instant, the dancers are living it, and (continued on next page)
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The Claire Lynch Band will perform in Palo Alto on Saturday, March 14.
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For most of his adult life, Hobee’s co-owner Peter Taber invested his creative energy in the restaurant known across the Silicon Valley for its streusel-topped blueberry coffee cake. Now, in his retirement, the Los Altos Hills resident is taking on an entirely new art form: watercolAmong the watercolors by or landscapes. Peter Taber on display at On Saturday, the EcoCenter Art Gallery March 14, from is “Permanente Creek.� 1-3 p.m., the En-
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‘Show People’ For lovers of acting, there’s no show like “Show People,â€? on stage now at Redwood City’s Dragon Theatre (2120 Broadway St.). The play takes a peek inside the lives of two out-of-work New York City actors who take on an unusual weekend gig: impersonating the parents of a young software entrepreneur in order to impress his girlfriend. Things only get stranger Casey Robbins, left, Sara from there. RenĂŠe Morris, Bill Davidovich P l a y w r i g h t and Monica Cappuccini Paul Weitz, comprise the cast of “Show who also diPeopleâ€? at the Dragon rected and Theatre. co-wrote the screenplay for “About a Boyâ€? and directed “American Pie,â€? skewers the acting industry in this wildly careening comedy that blurs the lines between truth and fiction. Austin Edgington directs. The show runs through March 22, with performances Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Stay after the show for a discussion with the cast on Sunday, March 15. Tickets are $30, with $10 rush tickets on Thursdays and Fridays. For more information, go to dragonproductions.net or call 650-493-2006. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer
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Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless and Linda Ronstadt: These are a few of the singersongwriters who count Claire Lynch among their esteemed colleagues. The International Bluegrass Music Association Award-winning vocalist will appear with her band this Saturday in Palo Alto. Known for pushing the boundaries of bluegrass and producing songs of great variety, Lynch will be joined by fellow musicians Mark Schatz, Bryan McDowell and Jarrod Walker. Fans refer to Lynch’s voice as “sweet,� “pure� and “angelic,� and rave about her talent for crafting songs both buoyant and poignant. The concert takes place Saturday, March 14, at Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St. Two free bluegrass jams begin at 5 p.m., one for novices and one for experienced players. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door, half-price for teens and students and free for children under 13. For tickets, go to rba.org or call 866-468-3399. To learn more, go to clairelynch.com.
vironmental Volunteers EcoCenter Art Gallery will hold an opening reception for “Birds of the Baylands,� Taber’s first solo show and a celebration of the Peninsula marshlands where he spends hours each week. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served, and watercolors will be available for purchase, with 25 percent of the proceeds going to support Environmental Volunteers. Taber’s paintings capture the soft hues, low light and undulating lines of the Baylands, as well as its avian residents: storks and egrets, gulls and pelicans. As an artist, Taber says, his goal is “to convey ... that moment of appreciation — that profound pause — when we see something magnificent.� “Birds of the Baylands� runs through May 30 at the EcoCenter Gallery, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The gallery is open Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 650-493-8000 or go to tinyurl.com/pqyc55c. For more about the artist, visit petertaberwatercolors.com
SEE MORE ONLINE www.PaloAltoOnline.com Watch YouTube videos of the Claire Lynch Band in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.
What: “Untamed,� presented by Smuin Ballet Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: March 19-22; Thursday-Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. Cost: $52-$71, with discounts available for students and groups Info: For tickets, go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-6000. For more information, go to smuinballet.org or call 415-912-1899.
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Superfruit smoothies THE AÇAÍ-BOWL CRAZE HITS THE PENINSULA
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by Elena Kadvany • photos by Magali Gauthier On the menu at Bare Bowls in Palo Alto is the Sunrise Pitaya.
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n a recent afternoon, a young boy waited in line to order at a new açaí-bowl shop in Mountain View. Full of hope, he asked his mother, “Do they have any milkshakes?,” and moaned in disappointment when she responded, “No, but they have ... ‘fruit shakes.’” Let’s face it: Not everyone has hopped on the açaí-bowl bandwagon. But the increasing popularity of these blended “superfruit” concoctions is hard to deny, with açaí bowls popping up in dedicated shops and on menus throughout the Bay Area. The purple fruit commonly known as an “açaí berry” is in fact a small stone fruit that comes from the Brazilian açaí palm. It’s packed full of vitamins, minerals, protein and antioxidants, making it a popular ingredient in juices and smoothies. The açaí bowl trend has touched down in the Peninsula over the last several months with the opening of Bare Bowls in downtown Palo Alto and Bowl of Heaven and Nekter Juice Bar in Mountain View. Vitality Bowls, a franchised chain based in San Ramon, is on its way to California Avenue in Palo Alto this spring. Even Los Altos’ Voyageur du Temps, an upscale French-Japanese cafe, now has an açaí bowl on the breakfast menu. There seem to be two types of açaí bowl purveyors in the area: independent businesses such as Bare Bowls and larger chain locations like Nekter and Bowl of Heaven. Bare Bowls, Palo Alto’s inaugural açaí-bowl shop, opened at 530 Emerson St. (next door to Mac’s Smoke Shop) in November. It’s the brainchild of two friends — Menlo Park native Sarah Lipps and Bridget Corson, originally from Minnesota — who met at Pepperdine University in Southern California and share a love of health and entrepreneurship. Their health-centric bowls are made from frozen, pure açaí (no added sweeteners or other ingredients). They blend açaí with other fruits (often banana, berries or dates) and nut butters, then top it all off with an artful arrangement of banana, strawberries, blueberries, goji berries, coconut and hemp seed. Their nut butters and nut milks (including cashew and almond) are made in-house and are offered for sale in uber-hip mason jars. Bare Bowls has its own blend of granola, plus some from San Francisco-based Worthy Granola and locally made Ladera Granola. “We’re just really focused on pure ingredients and people knowing what they’re getting,” Lipps explained before the shop opened. “It’s just a handcrafted bowl all together.” This reporter’s standby Bare Bowl is the “Gorilla,” made from açaí blended with strawberries, banana, date, cashew milk and peanut butter and topped with granola, banana, hemp seed and a drizzle of honey. It’s not overly sweet and has the added boost of protein from the peanut butter. The “omni green” sounds somewhat ominous — among its ingredients are kale, spinach, broccoli and avocado as well as apple, banana and dates. The result comes out bright green but happily tastes nothing like the veggies packed inside. It’s sweet, and you taste apple over any of the other ingredients. At Bare Bowls, a regular bowl goes for $12 and a small for $8. The regular is a generous serving; share one or go for the small if you’re not starving. Get caffeinated with drinks from Verve Coffee Roasters in Santa Cruz. There
The açaí bowl at Voyageur du Temps includes a healthy portion of yogurt.
Bowl of Heaven employee Ragan Ludwig makes a North Shore Original Bowl. are also smoothies and a small selection of grab-and-go healthy snacks and drinks (not made by Bare Bowls, but all as local as possible). (Pro tip: When Bare Bowls gets busy, service slows down. If you’re in a rush, order your bowl ahead using the OrderAhead smartphone app.) A very different açaí bowl is on the menu at Voyageur du Temps in Los Altos, where the larger focus is not on açaí at all but on fresh-baked breads and pastries (plus breakfast and lunch items). Voyageur’s açaí bowl ($11) is actually more yogurt than açaí. The unequal proportions were disappointing at first glance but delicious at first bite. Farm-fresh yogurt is a nontraditional but welcome complement to the açaí. There’s toasted granola buried at the bottom and fresh fruit and honey on top, so make sure to dig and mix around to get all the flavors. The bowl is large enough to be satisfying, but small enough that you could order it with another breakfast or lunch item if you wanted to. The 288 1st St. cafe has to be one of the most pleasant places to enjoy an açaí bowl. Voyageur occupies a 3,000-square-foot Craftsman-style building that used to be a train station, complete with a large front porch and outdoor patio. If you opt for a spot indoors, grab a seat by the glass-encased bakery and watch Voyageur bakers knead pastry dough. A few miles south down El Camino Real in Mountain View is Bowl of Heaven, the first Northern California location of a Southern California-based chain. Dan McCormick opened the first Bowl of Heaven in Rancho Santa Margarita
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Bowl of Heaven in Mountain View serves the North Shore Original Bowl, left, the Paradise Bowl and the Popeye. four years ago, inspired by trips to visit three of his daughters attending college in Oahu, Hawaii, where he and his wife would often eat açaí bowls. McCormick teamed up with his son-in-law, Brandon Beazer, to start the company. McCormick, who has long worked in anti-aging and nutrition, brings a love of health to the business. In his words: “Our mission is to delight and nourish and satisfy our customers and bring superfruits from around the world that will allow them to feel fabulous.” Bowl of Heaven Mountain View, tucked away in a corner of the Grant Road Shopping Center at 1040 Grant Road, does not add any sugar to its frozen-fresh açaí (direct from Brazil) but does blend in the company’s own proprietary “Maq7” juice: a blend of seven superfruits, from goji berries and açaí to prickly pear and maqui, a Chilean berry. Their bowls are thus sweeter than others. This reporter found their standard “North Shore Original Bowl” — açaí blended with apple juice, Maq7, banana, blueberries and strawberries, topped with granola, slices of banana and honey — overly sweet, with no distinct flavors coming through. The “Paradise” bowl, however, lived up to its name. Prickly pear, Maq7, mint, papaya, pineapple and banana make up the base; toppings are granola, coconut, sliced strawberries, kiwis and honey. The crowning flavor was the mint. The bowls are served in two sizes: regular (about $9) and large (about $11) except for the most-popular North Shore Original, which you can also get in a small for $3.99. Portions are enormous. Bowl of Heaven also serves smoothies and fresh fruit and veggie juices. With limited seating inside, this might be the choice for someone looking to grab a bowl on the go. On its way to California Avenue in Palo Alto this spring is another franchised chain: Vitality Bowls, which began four years ago with one location in San Ramon and has spread throughout the Bay Area. Three Stanford University graduates are running the Palo Alto franchise, which took over a space previously occupied by Cho’s Mandarin Dim Sum at 233 California Ave. Tara Gilad opened the first Vitality location after coping with the challenges presented by her young daughter’s severe food allergies. “She was so limited in what she could eat; I wanted to get her those berries every day,” Gilad said, declaring, “Açaí is the healthiest food on this planet.” All Vitality Bowl outlets have non-cross-contamination kitchens, meaning “people with nut allergies, berry allergies, dairy allergies, on a paleo diet, on a vegan diet, flax allergy — you name it” can eat there without any concern of getting ill, which happened to Gilad’s daughter frequently when they ate out. Vitality Bowl focuses on açaí, but also separates itself from the pack by serving other food items like panini, soups and salads. They’re aiming to open toward the beginning of May, Gilad said. Q
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the antique shop closes. Also in the mix is the parking lot that is shared with Addison Antique’s neighbor, women’s chain clothing and accessory store Anthropologie.
Inspirations a guide id to t the th spiritual i it l community
by Daryl Savage
DUELING DOUGHNUTS ... In the quiet confines of Palo Alto’s Barron Park neighborhood, a bit of a doughnut drama is taking place. It all began last summer when it was rumored that Happy Donuts, 3916 El Camino Real, was closing. Hundreds of doughnut devotees jammed in for what they thought would be the outlet’s last day of business. But the rumor did not pan out. Happy Donuts in Palo Alto merely changed ownership. Meanwhile, the former owner, Soknea Hort, searched for a new place to sell doughnuts and finally found it just four doors away. In January 2015, Hort became the owner of L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, 3890 El Camino Real. L&L is a national franchise that serves Hawaiian-style cuisine and has more than 175 locations. But now that Hort owns the Palo Alto store, she has added doughnuts — lots of them — to the menu. “We’re the only L&L in the country that sells doughnuts,” said Hort, who lives in Palo Alto and has three young sons. She readily admitted she’s competing with her neighbor, Happy Donuts. “We’re open 24/7,”
she said. “Our doughnuts are fresh every morning, just like Happy, but we sell ours for less: Our doughnuts are 87 cents. A Happy Donut is a dollar.” ANTIQUE SHOP BECOMES HISTORY ... It’s the end of an era for antique stores in Palo Alto. “We’re the last to go,” said Ken Alsman, one of three owners of Addison Antique, 100 Addison Ave. at Alma Street. The store will close June 15. “It was a combination of factors,” said Alsman, who co-owns the store with Deborah Kohler and Mike Kelly. “The rent increased, I’m moving east, and it’s the times. People would rather shop at Pottery Barn these days.” But Alsman looks back at his business with pride. “We did this for 10 years. A decade is a good amount of time,” he said, adding, “We’re also one of the few locally owned businesses left in town.” There are thousands of items in the 4,000-square-foot store, and most will be showing discounted prices as the store nears its final days. Alsman is unsure what will become of the hardto-miss, rusty-red building once
HAPPY FEET GET HAPPIER ... One of the original foot massage spas in Palo Alto has recently expanded into a second location, just five doors down from its original site. Happy Feet Foot Spa, 3731 El Camino Real, which opened seven years ago, is using its new space at 3783 El Camino Real, on the corner of Curtner Avenue, for the overflow of customers during peak periods, said one of the shop’s foot masseurs who did not want his name mentioned. Happy Feet increased its price by $5 last summer after its rent was raised by 40 percent, according to a sign in the reception area. That pushed the cost for a onehour massage to $30. Despite the increase, there is no shortage of customers who want their feet rubbed. “Business is very, very good here. Lots of people,” the foot masseur said.
Heard a rumor about your favorite store or business moving out or in, down the block or across town? Daryl Savage will check it out. Email shoptalk@paweekly.com.
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Boots on the ground 000 (Aquarius) Lean, mean craftsmanship defines the compact (para)military thriller “’71,” set during the titular time of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Over the course of a long dark night, one young British soldier gets an education in the politics of de facto martial law and the terrifying scramble for survival behind enemy lines. In what’s characterized as providing assistance to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (the civilian police), the British Army hits the streets in a show of intimidation. Ostensibly the troops are attempting to stave off direct conflict with contentious locals — particularly the mostly Catholic Irish nationalists who stand in opposition to the mostly Protestant loyalists — but of course the Army’s behinddoors bullying and conspicuous presence on suburban lanes only invites ire.
Jack O’Connell plays a young British soldier trapped behind enemy lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in “’71.” And so it is that a riot quickly greets the unit of rookie recruit Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell of “Unbroken”). In the chaos that ensues, Gary gets left behind, chased by armed civilians and driven into hiding. As the night wears on, he must rely on the kindness of strangers in the hopes of living long enough for rescue. Rival factions, including the IRA, prowl the streets, some actively searching for Gary and few above recruiting teenage boys into service, cemented by homicidal initiation. The region’s loss of innocence during the Troubles finds its expression in the baby faces cru-
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elly twisted by fate and hatred. The film’s bookend scenes, with Gary’s unconditionally loving younger brother, underline the irony, and after all, Gary’s something of a spring chicken himself. Director Yann Demange and screenwriter Gregory Burke (the prominent Scottish playwright of “Black Watch”) twist the knife by serving Gary with constant reminders of boyishness corrupted, from his clueless C.O. (“I’m a bit of a new boy myself”) to the riflearmed boy who leads Gary down the rabbit hole during the riot to teenage Provisional Irish Republican Army recruit Sean (Barry Keoghan), who marks Gary for death but struggles to finish the deed. The film’s earlier scenes, establishing the madness of the Troubles and encouraging reflection on their psychological nuances, prove strongest, but even when “’71” definitively turns into a thriller (and before, in the bravura riot sequence), Demange shows deeply impressive technical skill. O’Connell resonates as a victim of circumstance collecting emotional scars, and the picture handily maintains suspense right up to what the film has in common with the Troubles: an inevitably tragic, though not specifically foregone, conclusion. Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, and language throughout. One hour, 39 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 Sat 3/7/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 MET Opera: La Donna del Lago – 9:55 AM Sun, Mon, Tue & Thur (Not Weds) 3/15, 16, 17 & 19/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30 Weds 3/18/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 7:00 MET Opera: La Donna del Lago – 6:30 PM
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‘71 (R) +++
Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.
A la Mala (PG-13) Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 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, 3:35, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m. Met Opera: La Donna del Lago (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat 9:55 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat 9:55 a.m.
Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 4:05 p.m.
Paddington (PG)
The DUFF (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m. Fifty Shades of Grey (R) ++ Century 16: 4:20, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sun 10:30 a.m. & 1:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.
Red Army (PG) Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 5:25 & 7:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:05 & 3:15 p.m. Run All Night (R) Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:35, 12:55, 2:20, 3:45, 5:05, 6:40, 8, 9:35 & 10:45 p.m. In D-BOX at 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 8 & 10:45 p.m. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:10, 4:40, 6, 7:30, 8:55 & 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sun 12:15 p.m., Sat 12:10 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7 & 8:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G) ++ Century 20: 11 a.m., Fri & Sun 1:40, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:15 p.m., Sat 1:55 & 4:20 p.m.
The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 4:55, 7:35 & 10:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:30 p.m.
This is the Night (1932) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 6 & 9:25 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: 1:15, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m.
UFC 185: Pettis vs. Dos Anjos (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 7 p.m. Century 20: Sat 7 p.m.
The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) Century 20: 11:30 a.m. & 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 5:15 p.m.
Unfinished Business (R) Century 16: Fri & Sun 3:05 & 9:10 p.m., Sat 3 p.m. Century 20: 3:05, 5:30, 8 & 10:20 p.m., Fri & Sun 12:35 p.m.
Leviathan (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 12:30, 3:45, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.
What We Do in the Shadows (Not Rated) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: 2:30, 4:40, 7:15 & 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)
Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)
Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)
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The Seven Year Itch (1955) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.
Focus (R) Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:25 & 7:10 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m.
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Chappie (R) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:05, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sun 6:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:25, 2, 3:20, 4:50, 6:30, 7:40, 9:25 & 10:35 p.m.
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pring is nearly here, and that means warmer weather, vibrant colors and a blossoming of life. You can use that rising activity as motivation for self-improvement and exploration, and local classes are here to assist. Try out a tap class just for kicks, learn a new language, dive deeper into your yoga practice or explore a favorite academic subject. With so many possibilities and chances for growth, wouldn’t you feel silly to just keep doing the same old thing?
BUSINESS, WORK AND TECHNOLOGY CareerGenerations 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 239, Palo Alto 650-320-1639 info@careergenerations.com www.careergenerations.com CareerGenerations offers group workshops and programs to meet specific career needs.
FOR THE DANCER Beaudoin’s School of Dance 464 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto 650-326-2184 Beaudoin’s School of Dance holds tap, ballet, ballroom and jazz dance classes, as well as preparation for wedding dances. Courses are available for adults as well as children ages 3 and up. Brazivedas 53 Shorebreeze Court, East Palo Alto 650-644-7343 www.brazivedas.com Brazivedas offers classes in Brazilian dance, music and martial arts for all ages and experience levels, held at venues in Palo Alto, Stanford and East Palo Alto.
Dance Connection Cubberley Community Center, L-5, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-322-7032, 650-852-0418 info@danceconnectionpaloalto.com www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com Dance Connection offers graded classes for preschoolers to adults. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and combination classes are available for students of various levels of ability. DanceVisions Cubberley Community Center, L-3, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-858-2005 info@dancevisions.com www.dancevisions.org DanceVisions, a nonprofit community dance center, offers classes for young children (beginning at age 3) up to adults. Styles taught include modern, hip-hop/ jazz, lyrical, belly dancing, ballet, East Indian dance and contact improvisation. Zohar School of Dance and Company Cubberley Community Center, L-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8221 zohardance@gmail.com www.zohardancecompany.org Founded in 1979, Zohar School of Dance holds a range of adult dance classes in jazz, modern, ballet, musical theater and tap.
THE GREAT OUTDOORS Advantage Aviation 1903 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-494-7248 info@advantage-aviation.com advantage-aviation.com With many instructors, Advantage Aviation has a wide offering of classes to train new pilots as well as help more experienced ones to acquire needed licenses.
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Brad Lozares Golf Shop 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-856-0881 info@bradlozaresgolfshop.com www.bradlozaresgolfshop.com Group clinics, semi-private and private lessons are available for juniors and adults at any level of experience. Private lessons can be booked per session or in package deals.
HEALTH AND FITNESS Blue Iris Studio 3485 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-858-1440 blueirisstudiopaloalto.com/pages/home Blue Iris studio offers classes in yoga and Pilates, as well as wellness services, for all ages and experience levels. Carol Macpherson Aquatics Center (CMAC) Swim School CMAC Aquatic Center, 3805 Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto 650-493-5355 www.c-mac.us CMAC Swim School offers lessons for babies, youth and adults. Classes are small and a half-hour long. Kim Grant Tennis Academy 3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-752-8061 www.kimgranttennis.com The Kim Grant Tennis Academy organizes tennis classes for adults and children ranging in ability from beginner to advanced. Classes are also available for those with special needs. SoulCycle 600 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto 650-784-7510 soulpaloalto@soul-cycle.com www.soul-cycle.com/studios/palo/28/ Aiming to make fitness not feel like work, SoulCycle combines inspirational coaching and high-energy music in spin classes. Riders as young as age 12 can participate in a variety of classes for all fitness levels. Studio Kicks 796A San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-855-9868 info@studiokickspaloalto.com www.studiokickspaloalto.com Studio Kicks is a family fitness center offering cardio kickboxing classes and martial-arts training for kids and adults. Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto Cubberley Community Center, M-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-327-9350 mjchan@ttopa.com www.ttopa.com At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, established in 1973, students learn the classical Yang Chengfu style of Taijiquan (T’ai chi ch’uan, or tai chi). Beginning classes start monthly.
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Uforia Studios 819 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-329-8794 www.uforiastudios.com Uforia Studios offers classes in dance (Fuego and Hip Hop Club), spin (Revolutions and Ucycle) and conditioning (Grit). All fitness levels and abilities are welcome.
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JUST FOR SENIORS Avenidas 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto 650-289-5400 www.avenidas.org Avenidas organizes classes focusing on general health, physical fitness, languages, humanities, computing, music and writing. Membership costs, fees and class descriptions are listed on the website.
LANGUAGE COURSES Berlitz Learning Center 159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto 650-617-0720 www.berlitz.us/paloalto/ Berlitz provides adult and youth language instruction in Spanish, Italian, French and English as a Second Language in the mornings, afternoons and evenings. German Language Class 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org www.paadultschool.org This Palo Alto Adult School class teaches participants how to speak, read and write German, with an emphasis on conversation. Basic grammar and Germanic culture are also covered. German-American School of Palo Alto GAIS Campus, 275 Elliot Drive, Menlo Park 650-520-3646 contact@gaspa-ca.org www.gaspa-ca.org Since the 1960s, the German-American School of Palo Alto’s (GASPA) Saturday school has offered German language classes that also touch on German culture and traditions. Classes are available for all skill levels and age groups, beginning at preschool (age 3) up to adults. GASPA also offers an after school program. Palo Alto Chinese School 480 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto contact@paloaltochineseschool.org www.paloaltochineseschool.org The Palo Alto Chinese School, founded in 1963, serves children ages 4 to 18 with classes in Mandarin and Cantonese.
MUSIC, ARTS AND CRAFTS Art for Well Beings 2460 Park Blvd., No. 3, Palo Alto 650-776-8297 judy@artforwellbeings.org artforwellbeings.org Art for Well Beings provides art instruction for people of all ages with special needs. Art Works Studio 595 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto 650-796-1614 artworkspaloalto@gmail.com artworkspaloalto.net Art Works Studio holds a variety of fineart classes for kids. Classes are also offered at U-Me in Menlo Park and in cooperation with Palo Alto Menlo Park Parent’s Club (PAMP). Deborah’s Palm 555 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto 650-473-0664
info@deborahspalm.com deborahspalm.com Deborah’s Palm is a nonprofit community organization that aims to provide a warm and supportive environment for all women. The organization provides art classes, professional counseling, access to resources, activities, mentoring and community service projects. Opus1 Music Studio 1350 Grant Road, #5, Mountain View 4131 El Camino Real, Suite 200, Palo Alto 650-625-9955 www.musicopus1.com Opus1 Music Studio holds group music lessons in piano, violin, viola, guitar, voice, flute and music theory. Pacific Art League 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-321-3891 frontdesk@pacificartleague.org www.pacificartleague.org Pacific Art League classes and workshops on a variety of mediums are taught by qualified, experienced instructors for children and adults of all abilities. Sur La Table Cooking School Town & Country Village, Suite 57, Palo Alto 650-289-0438 cooking073@surlatable.com www.surlatable.com/category/ cat2211278/Cooking+Classes Sur La Table offers hands-on — as well as demonstration-only — classes on cooking for all ages.
PARENT EDUCATION Children’s Health Council 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-617-3815 www.chconline.org Children’s Health Council holds a variety of classes monthly on addressing issues like dyslexia, anxiety and depression, and exploring topics like social-emotional learning, being a first-time parent or choosing schools. The Peninsula Parents Place 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto 650-688-3040 karenfb@jfcs.org www.parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula Parents Place on the Peninsula offers parenting workshops on subjects ranging from strategies for managing picky eaters to making the switch from diapers.
SCHOOL DAYS Amigos de Palo Alto 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto 650-493-4300 www.amigosdepaloalto.com Amigos de Palo Alto is a Spanishimmersion preschool for children 2 and a half years and older, where children learn Spanish naturally through play, song, art and academics. There is also an afterschool program for kindergartners. Emerson School 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1267 emersonschool@headsup.org www.headsup.org/emerson-school/ Emerson School provides a full-day, yearround program for grades 1 to 8 teaching a personalized, Montessori curriculum. Emphasis is on building thinking skills and personal values. A HeadsUp! Child Development Center also serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers at the same site. German-American International School 275 Elliott Drive, Menlo Park 650-324-8617
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Spring Class Guide info@gais.org www.gais.org German-American International School (GAIS) is an international school with rigorous academic standards and German language immersion. It serves more than 300 students from preschool through 12th grade. No prior German language knowledge is necessary. Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School 450 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-949-8200 www.hausner.com Instructing children in kindergarten through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School provides strong academics, a welcome environment, enrichment opportunities and after-school programs. Leaping Lizards Nature Awareness Preschool 397 Fernando Ave., Palo Alto 650-858-0355 magdalena@leapinglizardspreschool.com leapinglizardspreschool.com Leaping Lizards Preschool provides children with an education grounded in expanding their curiosity for and knowledge of nature. Classes are held one or two days a week for ages 3 to 5. Milestones Preschool 3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-618-3325 www.milestonespreschool.org Milestones Preschool offers a relationship-based developmental program and enrolls children ages 2 to 5. Enrollment is accepted throughout the year. Sand Hill School 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-688-3605 info@sandhillschool.org www.sandhillschool.org Sand Hill School, located at the Children’s Health Council, works with young children from kindergarten through sixth grade (expanding to eighth) with learning, attention and social challenges. The student/teacher ratio is six to one. Waldorf School of the Peninsula Mountain View Campus (middle and high school), 180 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View 650-417-7600 Los Altos Campus (nursery through fifth grade), 11311 Mora Drive, Los Altos 650-209-9400 waldorfpeninsula.org Waldorf School of the Peninsula serves children from nursery up through the end of high school. Areas of focus include critical thinking, development of ethics, cooperation, creative expressionand fostering a love of learning.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Palo Alto Adult School Palo Alto Adult School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org www.paadultschool.org Computer, language, cooking, writing, art, birding, finance and other classes are available, as well as many online courses. Stanford Continuing Studies Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Stanford 650-725-2650 continuingstudies@stanford.edu continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies offers courses in liberal arts and sciences, creative writing and professional and personal development. Courses are taught
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YEAR-ROUND GARDENING ... Ellen Bartholomew, manager of Golden Rule Garden in Willits, California, will teach a class on “Planning a Year Round Veggie Garden” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, at the Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. The class will address the best times to plant tomatoes, popular spring and summer crops, succession planting and crop rotation. Cost is $39 (plus $1.97 fee). Info: commongroundgarden.org
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FREE FABRIC ... The next FabMo free fabric distribution event is Friday, March 13, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, March 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Appointments are required on Friday, but not on Saturday, to help manage the crowds. (Email gather.fabrix@ me.com with preferred date and time.) The distribution, with a requested donation, takes place at 970 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View. Volunteer greeters and sorters are also needed. Info: fabmo.org
Once again, visitors to the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show can bring their design questions to the booth sponsored by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
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WHAT’S FOR BRUNCH? ... Ursula Gallichotte will offer a class on “Brunch Entertaining” from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. Gallichotte will demonstrate a variety of dishes and discuss creative menu development, preparing for a crowd, adapting recipes for different group sizes and displaying food. Cost is $80 for nonmembers, $65 for members. Info: 650-3648300 or filoli.org
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(continued on page 34) Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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In half-hour sessions, for $30, people can discuss their designs, ask gardening questions or bounce around ideas at the APLD booth.
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SPRING SHARE FAIRE ... Participants can bring stuff to share — garden produce, books, clothes, crafts and toys — and plan to pick up a skill at the Spring Share Faire from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, at the Lucie Stern Community Center, Fireside Room and Patio, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Skills to be shared include bike maintenance, massage, shoemaking and eco-gardening. Cecile Andrews, author of “Living Room Revolution,” will lead a conversation circle about conversation and community, and Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) will share information about its programs, including Gardeners-Beekeepers-Coopsters. Info: transitionpaloalto.org
‘30 Minutes for $30’ design booth offers access to landscape professionals
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eople come to garden shows looking for inspiration, ideas and sometimes solutions to a nagging problem. Last year, the local chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) recruited members to staff a design-consultation booth dubbed “Ask a Designer: 30 Minutes for $30” at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. The booth was to “give show-goers an opportunity to get a sample of what it’s like to work with a designer,” said Cynthia Tanyan of Mozaic Landscapes, Sunol, show coordinator. It was so successful they’re
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repeating the experience at this year’s show from March 18 to 22. Debby Ruskin, APLD, of Ruskin Gardens Co., Palo Alto, brought “lots of handouts, mostly with plant lists and ideas — things you might want to include in your garden.” “Some people came very well prepared,” she said, and others were content to bounce ideas off a designer to see if her ideas might work. One person even brought in a plan of her yard drawn to scale. “She was pretty clear about what she wanted. I put a trace over her base and did a little design” on the spot, Ruskin said.
Others were interested in getting cost estimates. “I have an idea of squarefoot costs; a gravel path might cost $3 to $6 per square foot, depending on edging, gravel. Same for brick, flagstone, Connecticut blue stone,” said Ruskin, who started her landscape business in the 1980s. “It was very fun. Some people were very green, just beginning to think about gardening, and some more experienced,” she added. Patricia Larenas, of Urban Artichoke Garden Designs, Mountain View, encountered people with troublesome (continued on page 34)
What: San Francisco Flower and Garden Show When: March 18-22, 10 a.m.7 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday Where: San Mateo Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo Cost: All show pass, $40; Opening Night Gala, $75; daily pass, $22; workshops, $50 each Info: sfgardenshow.com
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spots in their yards, such as a sloping lot with drainage issues; others were concerned about gardening in the drought. “I was a little bit shocked when one woman said there won’t be a drought in a while, we’ll be back to normal. She didn’t get that we live in a Mediterranean climate. “Look at this year: With our very early spring, we haven’t had normally cold weather, hardly any frost. The concern there is fruit trees that need ‘chill’ hours. The home fruit trees are very confused, they’re starting to blossom early. If we get a rain, it will knock off blossoms, and we’ll get no fruit,� she said. Larenas, who started her business in 2013 after working as a garden blogger, hopes to educate people not only about the drought, but about lawn-replacement rebates in Santa Clara County. Ruskin too is hoping to inform the gardening public about the drought, with information on watering, irrigation systems and “all the plants that do well with less water,� she said. For Ruskin, consulting in the booth was often similar to interviewing new clients. She began with a basic questionnaire to get people thinking about how they use their outdoor spaces: How often do they entertain? And for how big a group? What materials do they like? Would they like an arbor, and if yes, which way should it face? “In most cases, everybody walked out with something tangible that they could move to the next step with. Some were clearly going to call us again,� she said. And for those who don’t make an appointment at the design booth, there will be a stack of books to peruse while waiting for an open slot.
“For beginners it provides a starting place,� Ruskin said. “It also opened people’s eyes to the world of professionals. A lot can’t imagine that people actually pay to design a garden.� In addition to the “Ask a Designer� booth, the flower and garden show will present full-sized designer showcase gardens, hundreds of floral designs, tens of thousands of plants and garden-related products for sale, and free seminars, exhibits and demonstrations throughout the five-day show. Q Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@paweekly.com.
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SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton
PERFECT RHODIES ... Tim Walsh, a master gardener, director of District 5 of the American Rhododendron Society and a major role player in establishing the Humboldt Botanical Garden, will talk about Maddenii Series rhododendrons at the next meeting of the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. The group will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, at the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Many of the Maddenii Series, which make good container plants, have been hybridized on the West Coast. Info: deanza-ars.com Q
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $5,330,000 Highest sales price: $5,330,000
East Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $565,000 Highest sales price: $8,550,000
Menlo Park
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $411,000 Highest sales price: $480,000
Portola Valley
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $780,000 Highest sales price: $4,175,000
Los Altos
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,535,000 Highest sales price: $2,620,000
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,425,500 Highest sales price: $4,941,000
Redwood City
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $960,000 Highest sales price: $1,710,000
Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $217,000 Highest sales price: $1,510,000 Source: California REsource
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(continued from page 32) Palo Alto Medical Foundation are partnering to bring people together to swap skills and services through linkAges TimeBank. Trained “ambassadors� will be matched with neighbors interested in reducing waste and becoming more energy- and waterefficient. The first orientation will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road. (Other orientations are March 25, April 16 and April 29.) Info: timebank.linkages.org or 650934-3556
Los Altos Hills
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $6,500,000 Highest sales price: $6,500,000
Atherton
73 Adam Way Swenson Trust to Silver Birch Holdings for $6,500,000 on 1/30/15
East Palo Alto
367 Azalia Drive J. Wallace to V. Situ for $480,000 on 1/30/15 2519 Baylor St. Han Trust to Valleyone Investment for $411,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 8/85, $77,000
Los Altos
100 1st St. #201 Los Altos Limited to Geschke Trust for $4,941,000 on 2/18/15 100 1st St. #309 Los Altos Limited to Zauderer Trust for $1,425,500 on 2/13/15; previous sale 8/12, $12,000,000 100 1st St. #311 Los Altos Limited to Lam Trust for $1,800,000 on 2/19/15 1105 Briarwood Court Jett Trust to L. Tan for $2,250,000 on 2/18/15 521 Shelby Lane Friedberger Trust to Patangay Trust for $3,400,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 4/92, $975,000
Los Altos Hills
27200 Deer Springs Way Patel Trust to Su Trust for $5,330,000 on 2/18/15; previous sale 11/12, $2,715,000
Menlo Park
715 College Ave. College Limited to Brook & Beth Trust for $4,175,000 on 1/27/15; previous sale 4/13, $800,000 1138 Hollyburne Ave. WCAl3 Limited to M. & M. Teixeira for $780,000 on 1/27/15; previous sale 5/14, $510,000 184 Sand Hill Circle R. & L. Moore to Klein Trust for $1,650,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 9/08, $1,125,000 180 Stanford Ave. B. Hawes
to G. Levanon for $1,800,000 on 2/2/15; previous sale 7/12, $1,300,000
506 Redwood Ave. Love Trust to J. Conlon for $217,000 on 1/30/15; previous sale 6/07, $875,000 652 Sea Anchor Drive #2203 One Marina Homes to S. & I. Wang for $950,000 on 1/27/15 652 Sea Anchor Drive #2205 One Marina Homes to A. Nene for $876,500 on 1/29/15 652 Sea Anchor Drive #2206 One Marina Homes to J. Yoon for $871,500 on 1/28/15 1237 Truman St. Masarie Trust to R. Wilson for $1,125,000 on 1/28/15
Mountain View
513 Burgoyne St. R. Humphrey to S. Lee for $960,000 on 2/19/15 1155 Carlos Privada Baker Trust to L. & D. Rasovsky for $1,451,000 on 2/18/15; previous sale 6/03, $825,000 1407 Gretel Lane Andersen Trust to A. Hu for $1,710,000 on 2/18/15; previous sale 7/85, $196,000 103 Savannah Loop Robson Homes to B. Johnson-Maxfield for $1,678,000 on 2/19/15
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3890 Corina Way Gow Trust to Lee Trust for $2,151,000 on 2/18/15 4159 El Camino Way #Q L. Futernick-Westberg to D. Tsang for $565,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 12/87, $114,500 644 Hawthorne Ave. Bennett Trust to C. Chang for $2,300,000 on 2/17/15 1935 Webster St. Dondo Ventures to Webster Limited for $8,550,000 on 2/18/15; previous sale 11/14, $3,000,000
884 Loma Verde install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 1336 Tasso St. replace kitchen cabinets, add outlets, $12,000 776 Barron Ave. demo swimming pool, remove concrete driveway, $11,600 759 Gailen Ave. addition, remodel, $99,400 180 El Camino Real, Suite 660 Stanford Shopping Center: paving, landscaping, renovate trellises, pavilions, fountains, storefronts, $18,775,550; Suite 001: deferred seismic for shoring, $5,000 925 Middlefield Road remodel, upgrade service, tankless water heater, $220,000; new detached garage,$20,000; demo detached garage, $n/a 765 San Antonio Road #4 remodel kitchen, $19,200 220 Tennyson Ave. re-roof detached garage, $3,000 3233 Bryant St. demo pool and associated equipment, $n/a 4005 Miranda Ave. ADA upgrades to accessible path of travel and parking stalls, $n/a 3652 South Court install 20 square torchdown over roof sheathing, $6,500 733 Seminole Way remodel bathroom, $7,000 405 Waverley St. revised accessible upgrades outside, $n/a 1290 Dana Ave. demo pool; equipment and spa to remain, $n/a 479 Ferne Ave. addition and remodel, $107,500 4075 Campana Drive extend
Portola Valley
17 Linaria Way Rice Trust to Connally-Shipman Trust for $2,620,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 2/05, $1,930,000 20 Prado Court Marie Trust to Bates Trust for $2,535,000 on 1/30/15; previous sale 9/08, $1,760,000
Redwood City 648 Bair Island Road #1203 One Marina Homes to V. Sneblic for $1,001,000 on 1/27/15 2618 Brewster Ave. M. & M. Lund to B. Hanks for $1,510,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 4/11, $1,110,000 3738 Farm Hill Blvd. Bare Ventures to N. Masunaga for $1,300,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 9/14, $910,000 213 Moresby Lane P. Snow to C. Laskowski for $800,000 on 1/29/15; previous sale 5/06, $780,000
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Garden Tips
Visit local gardens, nurseries for inspiration by Jack McKinnon
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have to practice what I preach. For years now I have been suggesting that people visit the great gardens here in the Bay Area. A week ago I joined the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society. I was there to see the magnolia show. Several are in bloom now and will continue well into spring. It was a leap for me to spend $60 for a year’s membership knowing that I will probably only visit the arboretum four or five times during the year. But there are several other benefits that go along with the membership, and it truly is a worthy cause. Besides that, the magnolias are spectacular. Spring is just around the corner, some bulbs are finished already and the native iris are opening here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. There is plenty to do in our gardens, plenty to try anew and plenty to learn by visiting other gardens as the spring unfolds. Here are the tips: 1. Think of a garden project you have
been putting off for a few years and get started on that. I have a cold frame I made years ago and never leveled it. Once level, I will start seedlings and cuttings. The feeling of accomplishment is a great start to the season’s work. 2. Do a tour date of nurseries. Invite a friend who likes gardening and plan on a nice lunch. Leave fairly early, visit two nurseries, take notes, talk and enjoy the new inventories. Then go to lunch, talk some more, compare notes and rest up. After lunch, visit two more nurseries and note the differences and variety from the first two. Take more notes and then call it a day. Write up your notes and start planning for the next time out. Did I mention? Leave your check book at home. This is just a tour, not a shopping trip. 3. Visit the great gardens here on the Peninsula and across the bay. Here are a few: Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, Gamble Garden in Palo Alto, Filoli in Woodside, Central Park Japanese Gardens in San
Mateo, San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek and the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Most charge a fee to enter, and joining supports the garden. All have websites that are very informative. Several have guided tours. 4. I noticed Costco has quite an inventory of trees, flowering plants and bulbs for spring. The prices are fair and the quality is good. They also have tools, fertilizers and pots. Note: They sell pretty fast and once gone, that’s it. 5. This is still a perfect time to plant bare-root fruit trees, roses, vines and other deciduous plants. Citrus can be planted now, and there are plenty in the nurseries. 6. The biggest mistake I have seen in recent years is planting too deep. Remember that whenever you dig the soil it will fluff up. When you plant a new plant make sure it is planted at the same depth as it was in its pot — no deeper. Then to make
sure the soil doesn’t build up around the trunk, plant it at least 2 inches above the ground plane (the level of the soil before digging). This will allow the plant to settle in without soil build up around the trunk, which will kill it. 7. Vegetables are in the nurseries now, and the sooner you get them in the ground the better a crop you will have. Prepare the soil with compost, add fertilizer and after planting, mulch. 8. Plant flowers and cultivate them by dead heading, fertilizing and hand watering. 9. Make a unique garden sculpture this spring. It can be as simple or as complex as you want. Personalize it so you are proud every time you look out at it. Even a scarecrow can have character. 10. When you are finished, have a garden party. Make it a potluck; you’ve done enough work. Provide the drinks and music, share good conversation and enjoy the work you have done to make your garden so beautiful. If you have a plot in the community garden, I may see you there for the party. Good gardening. Q Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at 650-455-0687 (cell), by email at jack@jackthegardencoach.com. Visit his website at www.jackthegardencoach. com.
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Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $5,200,000 380 Portola Rd Country charm merges with luxurious English style equestrian estate. Historic windmill! 4 BR/4 BA Judy Byrnes CalBRE #01178998 650.851.2666
Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,498,000 2615 Cowper 4 yrs new, 4 BR + office, within walking distance to all Midtown facilities. 4 BR/3.5 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161
Redwood City Sat/Sun 10 - 5 $3,295,000 75 Belle Roche Ave Mediterranean estate on “private gated” street! World class views. Entertainer’s dream! 4 BR/4 full BA + 2 half Sam Anagnostou CalBRE #00798217 650.323.7751
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Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:00-4:00 $2,195,000 230 Maclane St. This is truly a one-of-a-kind home – Remodeled, Open Floor Plan, 5BR/2BA. Gorgeous Master Bedroom Suite. Isabella Lanza CalBRE #01340822 650.340.9688
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Offered at $1,798,000 Beds 2 | Baths 1 | 1-car Garage Home ±971 sf | Lot ±5,778 sf
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101 Alma Street, Unit 907, Palo Alto Offered at $1,498,000 Sky-High Living in Downtown North With terrific amenities and downtown Palo Alto at your fingertips, you will love this ninth-floor, 2 bedroom, 2 bath condominium of 1,216 sq. ft. (per county). An additional converted enclosed lanai of approximately 320 sq. ft. (per seller) may function as a den, and the living and dining room ensemble opens onto a light-filled family room. Boasting city views, new carpet, and new paint throughout, this home features extensive closet storage, spacious rooms, and excellent proximity to lively University Avenue. Lounge in a cabana by the complex’s heated pool, or challenge neighbors on the shuffleboard court. Johnson Park and Stanford Shopping Center are moments away, and you will be within blocks of the shopping, dining, and entertainment venues of University Avenue. Close to El Camino Real and Sand Hill Road, this home borders Menlo Park and is also nearby Caltrain. Excellent nearby schools are Addison Elementary (API 947), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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Great Midtown Location, Newly Remodeled Townhome This spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath end unit townhouse is a short walk away from a supermarket, several cafes, coffee shops and other small businesses. Beautiful and peaceful end-unit located back away from public streets.
Home Features: Bedrooms: 3 or 2 bedrooms + den Bathrooms: 2.5 Living space: 1,435 sq. ft. Parking: attached 2 car garage Year built: 1985 Schools: Palo Alto High, JLS Middle, Palo Verde Elementary
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et on a large lot in Palo Alto’s Barron Park neighborhood, this bright and airy home features an open living room with floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace, soaring ceilings, and gleaming hardwood floors. The ground floor has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and upstairs is a studio apartment with a separate entrance, kitchen and full bath. Large windows allow for an abundance of natural light. The updated, eat-in kitchen features granite countertops and opens up to a spacious backyard with lovely fruit trees.
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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM
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2 Bedrooms
89 Tallwood Court Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$4,400,000 462-1111 $8,998,000 462-1111
CUPERTINO 7778 Lilac Way $1,760,000 Sat 10:30-4:30/Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams PA 454-8500
EAST PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms 2291 Ralmar Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$400,000 325-6161
3 Bedrooms 1104 Laurel Ave $729,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 MBB Real Estate&Investment (408) 569-0978
4 Bedrooms 2881 Drew Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
$985,000 325-6161
4 Bedrooms 960 Berry Ave $2,689,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group (408) 335-1400 567 Van Buren St Call for price Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111
5 Bedrooms 1415 Country Club Dr $2,099,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111
104 Laurel Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 50 La Loma Sun Pacific Union
4 Bedrooms $6,695,000 947-2900
$3,195,000 462-1111 $4,850,000 394-7271
MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 2111 Latham St #319 Sat & Sun Midtown
$699,000 387-5078
3 Bedrooms 211 Ortega Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,150,000 325-6161
PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms - Condominium
$1,675,000 851-2666
$1,498,000 543-8500
812 La Mesa Dr $2,690,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961 6 Blue Oaks Ct $4,998,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 380 Portola Rd $5,200,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666
6 Bedrooms 20 Ohlone St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
2232 Harding Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 3035 McGarvey Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
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749 Loma Verde Ave C $1,350,000 Sat 10:30-4:30/Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams PA 454-8500
3 Bedrooms $2,195,000 462-1111
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$995,000 851-2666 $1,175,000 323-1111
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$3,498,000 325-6161
320 Elm St 305 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$499,000 325-6161
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$538,000 947-2900
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$3,475,000 851-2666
3 Bedrooms 170 Fox Hollow Rd $8,850,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 593 Patrol Rd $1,950,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200 555 Manzanita Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 740 Whiskey Hill Road Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 95 Roan Pl Sun Coldwell Banker 3 Vineyard Hill Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
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83 Tum Suden Way $2,699,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740
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$1,895,000 325-6161 $3,200,000 323-1900
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4 Bedrooms
6 Bedrooms 86 Michaels Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
140 Forest Ln $2,300,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474
990 Amarillo Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 90 Jordan Pl Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group
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doing business as: Place Architectural Design, located at 3208 Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JIAN SHEN 3208 Bryant St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/27/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2015. (PAW Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) TAN BOYS INSURANCE PARTNERSHIP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602082 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Tan Boys Insurance Partnership, located at 870 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Caleb Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, a General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Joshua Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, a General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Noah Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Joseph Tan Children’s 2012 Irrevocable Trust, General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 TAN BOYS INSURANCE PARTNERSHIP, a General Partnership 870 East Charleston Road 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 27, 2015. (PAW Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) DMW ADVISOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601558 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as:
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997 All Other Legals NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE(SECS. 6104, 6105 U.C.C.) Notice is hereby given to the Creditors of: Gordon Cruikshank and Carol Cruikshank, Seller(s), whose business address(es) is: 439 S California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, that a bulk transfer is about to be made to: Judy A. Ohki, Buyer(s), whose business(es) address is: 439 S California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306. The property to be transferred is located at: 439 S California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 AND 206 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Said property is described in general as: All stock in trade, fixtures, equipment, goodwill and other property of that Boutique business known as LEAF & PETAL located at 439 S California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 AND CASSIS located at 206 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301. The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY, One Daniel Burnham Court, Suite 218-C, San Francisco, CA 94109. The bulk transfer will be consummated on or after the 1st day of April, 2015. This bulk transfer is subject to Section 6106.2 of the California Commercial Code. If Section 6106.2 applies, claims may be filed at FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY, Escrow Division, Escrow No. FSSE-0101500322-LC, One Daniel Burnham Court, Suite 218C, San Francisco, CA 94109. Phone: (415)359-2540, Fax: (415)520-6641. This bulk transfer does NOT include a liquor license transfer. All claims must be received at this address by the 30th day of March, 2015. So far as known to the Buyer(s), all business names and addresses used by the Seller(s) for the three (3) years last past, if different from the above, are: NONE. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this document on the date(s) set forth below. By: Fidelity National Title Company as Escrow Agent for the herein Buyer March 5, 2015 Tiffany Criger, Escrow Assistant 3/13/15 CNS-2725838# PALO ALTO WEEKLY ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV277522 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DURLE FORREST ROLAND filed a petition with this court for a
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Legal (continued from page 57) decree changing names as follows: DURLE FORREST ROLAND to FORREST PENDLETON. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: June 16, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: 107 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: March 3, 2015 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015) Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy The Children’s Center of the Stanford Community admits children of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to children at the center. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its education policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other center administered programs. (PAW Mar. 13, 2015)
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SHP girls overcome slow start to season, end with a title by Keith Peters
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Sacred Heart Prep junior Tierna Davidson (left) and senior Mamie Caruso (5) show off the prize for winning the Central Coast Section Division III soccer title on Saturday with a 6-0 win over Sacred Heart Cathedral.
he season didn’t start out well for the Sacred Heart Prep girls, who lost two of their first three soccer matches while being outscored 7-6. The two setbacks were identical 3-1 losses — to Presentation and Palo Alto. After that, however, the Gators were unbeatable while outscoring the opposition by a remarkable 93-8. “The girls had set the season goal of league and CCS champion,” said SHP head coach Ramiro Arredondo. “They did it.” Fittingly, the Gators did it with an offensive explosion — 6-0 win over No. 7 seed Sacred Heart Cathedral last Saturday at Valley Christian High in San Jose. Top-seeded Sacred Heart Prep won its second outright section title in Division III (the first came in 2009) and its third overall — including a co-crown with Menlo School last year. The 19 victories tied the school record set last season. SHP grabbed a 5-0 halftime lead on the way to outscoring its three CCS opponents by 21-1 — the most goals in three games in girls’ section history. The six goals also was the most ever (continued on next page)
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New postseason path for Pinewood, Eastside Prep girls by Keith Peters
It’s another first for Priory boys in playoffs
he Pinewood and Eastside Prep girls are heading into uncharted territory as they begin play in the CIF NorCal basketball playoffs this weekend. Pinewood is competing in the Open Division for the first time after winning six state titles in Division V, including the past two. Eastside Prep is competing in Division V for the first time as the No. 1 seed. Pinewood will take a No. 7 seed and 24-3 record to the East Bay on Friday to face No. 2 Miramonte at 7 p.m. Miramonte handed the Panthers one of their two losses during the regular season. The winner will face either No. 6 St. Ignatius or No. 3 Salesian in the regional semifinals on Tuesday. Eastside Prep (22-5) will begin its quest for its first state berth when it plays host to No. 9 San Domenico on Saturday at 6 p.m. San Domenico advanced with a 38-16 first-round win over No. 8 Ripon Christian.
by Harold Gutmann riory senior Andy Isokpehi stole the ball at midcourt, flew down the lane and dunked the ball as the capacity crowd cheered wildly. A few minutes later, Isokpehi was surrounded by students who rushed the court to celebrate a scene they’d never witnessed before. Hosting a NorCal basketball playoff game for the first time, No. 5 Priory put on a show for the hometown fans, beating No. 12 Mariposa County, 66-55, in a Division V first-round game Wednesday night. “Our whole Benedictine values is hospitality,” Panthers coach David Moseley said. “So we wanted to welcome them in with some hospitality, but we wanted to make sure we let them out with a loss.” Junior Scott Harris scored 14 of his game-high 19 points in the second half for the Panthers (18-9), who will visit No. 4
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It was all about the finish
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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford senior Chasson Randle has been named the 2015 Pac-12 ScholarAthlete of the Year in men’s basketball, league officials announced Wednesday during the opening round of the Pac-12 Tournament. In order to be eligible for the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, student-athletes must be a senior (in athletics eligibility) on track to receive a degree, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, participate in at least 50 percent of the scheduled contests in the sport and have a minimum of one year in residence at the institution. The athletic accomplishments of the nominees are also factored into the voting for the award. It’s the third Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor for Stanford overall, with Landry Fields (2010) and Dwight Powell (2014) also earning recognition . . . Stanford menís golf team standouts Maverick McNealy and Viraat Badhwar qualified for the inaugural U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Monday at Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz. The sophomores combined for a 5-under-par 65 on the challenging layout to tie for second, two strokes behind pacesetters Satch Hermann and Daniel Ragsdale of USC. The top three teams advanced to the tournament proper, May 2-6 on the Lake Course at the Olympic Club in Daly City. McNealy carded six birdies and Badhwar added another in addition to having a pair of bogeys . . . Stanford’s Kassidy Cook and Lilly Hinrichs qualified for the NCAA Championships during this weekís NCAA Zone E Diving Championships. The pair will travel to Greensboro, N.C., along with 14 Cardinal swimmers March 19-21 . . . The awards continued to roll in for Stanford redshirt sophomore Gabriel Vega as he was named the Sports Imports/AVCA Men’s Division I-II National Player of the week. Vega, who nabbed the MPSF Player of the Week honor on Monday, more than doubled his season averages leading the team with 4.62 kills, 2.25 digs and 4.94 points per set. The opposite hit .375 in the two matches as Stanford captured its first wins over a ranked opponent this season. It also marks the first time BYU has lost a match to an unranked opponent since 2011. The Cardinal moved back in to the top 15 of the AVCA Division I-II Coaches Poll as a results this week . . . Stanford womenís water polo junior Maggie Steffens, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist and two-time ACWPC First Team All-American, was named as a semifinalist for the 85th annual AAU James E. Sullivan Award, the organization announced on Monday.
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Stanford women earn NCAA tourney berth with title Cardinal continue up-and-down season on up note after edging Cal, 61-60, in Pac-12 Tournament finale by Rick Eymer aylor Greenfield showed up to play and dragged her teammates along for the net-cutting ceremony. She scored a career-high 20 points on the heels of a 17-point night in the semifinal to help the 19thranked Stanford women’s basketball team beat California, 61-60, in the championship game of the Pac-12 Conference tournament on Sunday night in Seattle, Wash. “We’ve kind of coined the nickname ‘Tournament Taylor,’ so I guess she’s just living up to that,” said Cardinal freshman Kaylee Johnson, who grabbed 12 rebounds. “Tara is always emphasizing how sometimes different people need to step up in different games, and I think Taylor really showed that this weekend.” Greenfield was named the tournament Most Valuable Player for her efforts as she turned in a clutch performance. “The way our Pac-12 season
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kind of went this year, I don’t think a lot of people had the highest hopes for us, but we definitely didn’t let down on ourselves,” Greenfield said. “Our theme this year has kind of been to crash some parties, and I think that’s exactly what we did here.” Lili Thompson added 13 points and Amber Orrange, also named to the all-tournament team, had 12 as the Cardinal (24-9) earned the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. The selection show will be aired on ESPN on Monday at 4 p.m. Stanford recovered from an early 10-point deficit to deliver proof that championship-caliber teams remain among the elite despite past failures. What matters is the Cardinal can call themselves champions in a season that had all the earmarks of a transition year. Greenfield, the most unlikely of heroines, made eight of her first
nine shots and saved her best for the second half, when the Cardinal finally took its first lead on one of her 3-pointers with 19:05 remaining to play. “I knew what needed to be done, and I knew I was very capable of doing that, and I had the opportunity,” Greenfield said. “All I was thinking about is what we just did out there two games in a row.” She scored six points during a crucial seven-minute stretch of the second half that gave Stanford its biggest lead at 55-47 with just under five minutes to play. Stanford and California met in the championship game for the third time, with the Cardinal winning each of them. Greenfield became the first non-starter to earn the tournament MVP in its 14-year history. She became the sixth Cardinal to win the honor, joining Nicole Powell, Candice Wiggins, Kayla Pedersen, Nnemkadi Ogwumike
and Chiney Ogwumike. Orrange added a career-high six steals, which matched the most for a tournament championship game. Men’s basketball Thanks to a last-second 3-pointer by senior Chasson Randle, the Cardinal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament following a 71-69 win over Washington on Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nev. Sixth-seeded Stanford (19-12) took on No. 3 Utah (23-7) last night. Randle’s game-winning shot came after Marcus Allen grabbed a clutch rebound. Anthony Brown scored 16 points and played all 40 minutes. Randle finished with 10 points with freshman Reid Travis adding 14 points. Men’s swimming Stanford completed the Pac-12 Conference championships on
a strong note and finished nine points behind champion USC on Saturday in Federal Way, Wash. The Trojans clinched the meet on the final event, edging the Cardinal by three seconds in the 400 freestyle relay. Stanford lost dual meets to both USC and California during the regular season, but was good enough to carry the lead into Saturday. USC totaled 818.5 points and the Cardinal finished second for the third straight season with 809.5 points. The Golden Bears placed third with 673. It was the first Pac-12 meet in 36 years won by a school other than Stanford or Cal. The individual highlight of the meet for Stanford was a recordsetting performance by senior David Nolan in the 200 IM. By winning the race in 1:40.07, Nolan established school, conference, NCAA, U.S. Open and American records. Q
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scored for a girls’ title match in section history and the margin of victory was the widest, as well. Freshman Mia Shenk completed a hat trick in just 16 minutes as she scored twice in the first 10 minutes and added a third goal in the 16th minute. She also assisted on a goal by sophomore Olivia Athens in the 10th minute. Junior Tierna Davidson added two goals plus two assists, despite battling illness. Sacred Heart Prep finished the season with 99 goals while allowing just 15. The Gators did it with grit and determination. “Their hard work, commitment and dedication got them to reach both titles,” said Arredondo, whose team ended Menlo’s string of three straight West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) crowns while fashioning its first-ever unbeaten (10-0) league record. Sacred Heart Prep overcame a lot to achieve its goals this season. “We suffered so many injuries this season, so many times that we only had 11 healthy players,” Arredondo said. “But, they never gave up.” The Gators also never had a full-time keeper during the season. “We had every field player play at least one-half in goal,” explained Arredondo. “Not one of them complained about it. They knew it was what the team needed. I believe we gave up only 15 goals the entire season, and that’s largely due to the tremendous heart that our defensive line showed. “Once we lost our captain and centerback, Mamie Caruso, we had McKenna Angotti, Nicola Wheeler, Sophie Amid-Hozour and Lexi Lamb step up and give up three goals in six games. We also had large contributions from our midfielders and forwards.”
After starting the season 1-2, the Sacred Heart Prep girls wound up 19-2-1 and won the CCS Division III soccer championship with a 6-0 win Saturday. Despite all the lineup changes, there was no drop off for the Gators. Senior starter Brigid White missed the championship match while making an official college visit to Northwestern, but senior Emma Markey stepped up and had a great game. White, Markey, Wheeler and Caruso are the team’s only graduating seniors. That means the Gators will return next season in great shape to defend. Shenk, Davidson and sophomore Olivia Athens combined on 72 of the team’s 99 goals and 52 of the 72 assists this season. Division I girls Palo Alto head coach Kurt Devlin probably wishes he had $10 for every shot that his girls sent over the crossbar in the Vikings’ title match on Saturday at Valley Christian. “I’d be having a nice dinner,” he said. Unfortunately for Devlin, there was no payout for him or payoff for his players as Palo Alto fell to rival Mountain View, 3-2. The No. 2-seeded Vikings
came in hoping to win their first outright section title since 1980, avenge an earlier loss to the Spartans that cost them the SCVAL De Anza Division title and, perhaps, become only the third Paly girls team to 18 or more matches in a single season. Instead, the No. 1-seeded Spartans won their first title since 2012 and only the second in program history, beat Paly for the second time this season and finished an impressive 18-2-1. Paly’s downfall was evident to all watching on the warm morning. The Vikings had four shots sail over the crossbar in the first half and another, by junior Heidi Moeser, hit the bar. In the second half, Paly had at least seven good chances to score — one from directly in front of the cage on a 1 v 1. Again, the ball sailed over the crossbar. “It was one of those days when we couldn’t convert,” Devlin said. “We didn’t have a good first half . . . We couldn’t get over the hump . . . we just couldn’t convert our chances.”
Division III boys Sacred Heart Prep went to extra time twice in four days in the section playoffs. The Gators still managed to advance to the title game, but the added minutes appeared to take a toll in the end. No. 8 Sacred Heart Prep allowed a goal in the fifth minute and never could catch up in a 1-0 loss to No. 2 Sacred Heart Cathedral in Saturday’s championship match at Homestead High. “I don’t think we had much left in the tank, and it showed,” Gators coach Armando Del Rio said. SHP (13-3-7) was going for its second CCS Division III title in three years — the Gators tied with Menlo School in the 2013 final, which was the first time the program won or shared a CCS title since D-III moved to the winter from the fall. Del Rio was also attempting to win outright CCS championships as a player and a coach, having won a Division III title as a star senior at SHP in 2000. The Gators beat No. 1 Pajaro Valley, 5-4 ,in penalty kicks
in the quarterfinals and then knocked off No. 4 Santa Cruz, 3-1, in penalty kicks in the semifinals after both matches ended in 1-1 ties. Sacred Heart Prep turned the ball over in the middle of the field too many times and struggled to maintain possession, which kept them from getting in a rhythm and put the back line under pressure. Goalie Zach Haire kept the score 1-0 with two point-blank saves in the final six minutes, first stopping a 1-on-1 chance by Eloy Ortiz and then cutting the angle off on James Allison. But SHP was never able to generate many scoring opportunities. The team had one good chance in the second half, but a header from Connor Johnston from about 10 yards out in the final minutes went wide left. “We only lost three games, one was in the final, so I think it was fantastic,” Del Rio said. “The CCS run I think was unbelievable.”Q (Harold Gutmann contributed on SHP boys)
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Gunn’s Cramer pins down achievements at state wrestling finals by Keith Peters unn senior Ian Cramer didn’t win a title at the CIF State Wrestling Championships that wrapped up Saturday night at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. But, that wasn’t the realistic plan. Instead, Cramer accomplished just about everything else as he made some school and personal
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history and came home with a medal. After winning his first three matches on Friday in the 138-pound division, Cramer went 1-3 on Saturday and finished eighth — achieving one goal of getting on the medal podium. Cramer also became only the second Gunn male wrestler to win a Central Coast Section title and
then follow that up with a medal at the state championships. The last Titan to accomplish this feat was Dwight Miller, who won the 103-pound CCS title in 1973 and then claimed the bronze medal at the inaugural state meet — 42 years ago. Cramer’s 4-3 finish gave him a 36-4 mark this season, moving him ahead of Miller’s 35 wins in
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
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Tierna Davidson, Mia Shenk
Scott Harris
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The junior forward scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half to help upset top-seeded Pinewood in the semifinals before tallying 18 points against R.L. Stevenson to help the Panthers win their first-ever CCS Division V title.
Davidson, a junior and Shenk, a freshman, each scored four goals and provided two assists as the Gators won a pair of CCS Division III soccer matches, including a 6-0 romp in the finals as SHP won its second outright title.
PRIORY SCHOOL
Honorable mention Olivia Athens Sacred Heart Prep soccer
Mackenzie Duffner Menlo basketball
Sam Erisman Menlo basketball
Destiny Graham Eastside Prep basketball
Alison Lu Palo Alto soccer
Grace Zhao Palo Alto swimming
Ian Cramer* Gunn wrestling
Liam Dunn Menlo basketball
Andy Isokpehi Priory basketball
Lane Leschly Menlo tennis
Chris Perez Priory basketball
Victor Pham Menlo tennis * previous winner
Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com
see we’re really conditioned and peaking at the right time.” Also advancing Wednesday night was Sacred Heart Prep, which raced to an 89-71 firstround win in the Division IV playoffs in Atherton. Senior Corbin Koch tossed in a career-high 35 points for the No. 3-seeded Gators (24-4), who will host St. Mary’s of Berkeley (1911) on Saturday in a quarterfinal at 6 p.m. St. Mary’s advanced with a 66-58 upset of No. 6 Santa Cruz, the 2015 CCS Division IV champ. Saturday’s winner will advance to the regional semifinals and likely face No. 2 seed Cardinal Newman on Tuesday in Santa Rosa.
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three SCVAL titles, placed first and second in the CCS Championships plus his state meet finsih. Cramer joins an elite group of Gunn wrestlers who placed at the state meet: Dwight Miller (3rd at 103 lbs in 1973), Floyd Williams (7th at 189 lbs in 1978), Erik Duus (7th at 175 lbs in 1984) and Cadence Lee (1st, 1st, 2nd and 7th at 103/106 lbs in 2011-14). Q
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the court and drained a running 3-pointer from way outside the (continued from page 60) arc at the buzzer to close the gap to four points. In another Division I opener, Should Eastside Prep win, it will host a regional semifinal on host and No. 4 seed Palo Alto ended its season following a 55-45 loss Tuesday at 7 p.m. Meanwhile, the postseason has to No. 13 Oakland. The setback come to an end for the Menlo- was the third straight for the ViAtherton, Palo Alto and Menlo kings (22-5), who went 0-2 in the School girls following losses in CCS Open Division playoffs after the opening round of the NorCal winning the SCVAL De Anza Division title with a 12-0 mark. playoffs on Wednesday night. With Oakland taking away Menlo Atherton saw its season end with a 51-48 loss to host Paly’s inside game, the Vikings James Logan. The Bears (24-7) settled for long-range shots. Sophcame in with the No. 11 seed omore Lauren Koyama did hit a while James Logan (25-5) was trio of 3-pointers to get Paly to No. 6. With 3,900 students, Logan within 33-32 in the third period. is the largest public high school in Koyama finished with 19 points. A pivotal moment in game Northern California. With Sarah Howell and Carly came in the fourth period with McLanahan hitting threes and Paly trailing by just 42-40. Paly’s Ofa Sili and Greer Hoyem scor- Alexis Harris came down with a defensive rebound ing in the paint, and tried to pivot the Bears trailed away with Oakland by only two in the players hanging fourth quarter. all over her. HarWith 12 seconds ris, however, was remaining, the called for a foul. margin was three Oakland took at 51-48. M-A got possession and off a 3-pointer that wound up hitting a missed. The Bears three-pointer for a quickly fouled and 45-40 lead. the Colts missed “That was a big the first of a onegame-changer and-one situation. for us,” said Paly M-A rebounded coach Scott Peters. with three seconds Peters pointed remaining and got M-A’s Greer Hoyem out that Oakland off a clean shot, was tougher than most of the which narrowly missed. In the first quarter, the Bears teams the Vikings played this struggled with the Colts’ quick- season. “They were just most physiness and fell behind 13-4. With five seconds remaining in the cal than us,” he said. “We were first, Sili took an inbound pass, physical enough for the De Anza and made a shot at the buzzer Division, but for CCS Open and from midcourt to end the quarter, NorCals, we weren’t as physical.” Peters promises to change that. 13-7. In the second, senior captain “We’ll play a tougher schedule Brittney Deadwiler scored 11 of her team high 17 points and James next year,” he said. The Vikings will do so with evLogan began to pull away. M-A juniors Annalisa Crowe ery roster member returning. In a Division IV opener, host and Sally Carlson helped stabilize the defense and the Bears’ and No. 5 seed Menlo School post play came to life. Hoyem, a failed to score in the final five freshman, scored nine in the sec- minutes and was upset by No. 12 ond and finished with 22 points. Dixon, 48-42. After winning their third She finished the season scoring 20 or more points in four straight straight CCS title on Saturday, 47games. Nonetheless, the Bears 36 over top-seeded Notre DameBelmont, Menlo had hoped for were down by 14 at the half. The third quarter was a dif- better than an early exit in Norferent matter as the Bears held Cals. The Knights (19-9), howevthe Colts to a basket and a pair er, shot poorly and was held to just of Deadwiler threes. Sili and seven points in the final period. Menlo will return every memHoyem combined for 14 points in the paint in the third. With five ber of its roster, with the excepseconds remaining, McLana- tion of senior co-captain Olivia han pulled down a defensive re- Ferrando.Q bound and passed to Ilana Baer. (Menlo-Atherton Basketball The sophomore sprinted down contributed) Irene Searles
Brookside Christian (24-4) Saturday in Stockton at 6 p.m. The winner will advance to the regional final, most likely against No. 1 seed Stuart Hall, on Tuesday. Priory was coming off its firstever Central Coast Section Division V title last Saturday, which gave it the opportunity to host Mariposa (24-7). The game was close throughout — Isokpehi’s dunk at the end was the only time either team led by double-digits — but Moseley said the crowd made the difference. “It’s an extremely small school, but when you’re winning, the alumni come back, the parents come back, everybody comes out and fills the gym, and it was a great atmosphere,” Moseley said. Priory trailed 23-16 midway through the second quarter when the 6-foot-6 Isokpehi blocked a layup on one end and hit a 3-pointer on the other end to start a Panthers’ run. One possession later, Isokpehi found Nicholas Arslaner for a corner trey to give Priory the lead. Another block by Isokpehi keyed an 8-0 run by the Panthers to end the half. Harris created space with a crossover and hit a 3, and then Chris Perez made a long-range shot in the final seconds as Priory went into the break up 34-27. Mariposa fought back and took its only lead of the second half at 42-41 late in the third quarter, but once again Priory closed a quarter strong, scoring on four straight possessions to go up 49-41. The Grizzlies cut it to four in the fourth quarter, but a 3-pointer with 3:17 remaining by Arslaner — who was sick enough that sophomore Zach Weiss started in his place — was the beginning of a game-ending 9-2 run that sealed the game. While Mariposa went 12-0 in the Southern League, Priory went 6-8 in the West Bay Athletic League. But Moseley said that league games against Division IV schools like Menlo and Sacred Heart Prep are paying dividends for the Panthers now — much to the delight of their boisterous fans. “We were programming ourselves throughout the season to get here,” Moseley said. “We play an extremely tough league schedule. You’re going to get beat up by bigger schools. And then it hits the postseason, that’s when we want to make some noise. Now you can
1973 and ‘74 and Nic Giaccia’s 35 in ‘08 for most in school history. Cramer also took the family record as his 36-4 beat his brother Eric, who compiled a 34-5 record in 2013. Cramer pinned one opponent, bringing his total number of pins to 26 for the season. This marks the end of a great career for Cramer, who claimed
Koch, the Most Valuable Player in the WBAL this season, continued his postseason offensive tear, which included 28 points in a CCS Open Division semifinal loss to St. Francis and 29 points in a loss to Mitty for third place. Juniors Mason Randall (18 points) and Connor Moses (13) added to the offensive output. SHP coach Tony Martinelli, however, wasn’t thrilled with his team’s defensive effort. After pulling away to a 47-32 halftime lead, the Gators outscored the No. 14-seeded Mavericks (16-14) by only three points. Bret Lynch tallied 31 points to lead the visitors. Q
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