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Two men, two divergent lives, one fatal conflict Decades-old yearbook comment by south Palo Alto shooter Marc Miller eerily prophetic

Courtesy Richard Salter Storrs Library Courtesy Collins family

e was a father and grandfather of six, an apartment manager whom residents characterized as both strict and caring, an inventor, businessman and writer who believed in living spiritually and called his aged mother every day. His killer, by contrast, was a quiet man who seemed lonely and about whom little is known. But a quote beneath his high school yearbook picture would become chillingly prophetic: “I never like being hit without striking back,” Marc Alvin Miller wrote in 1962, quoting a 1903 speech by British politician and imperialist Joseph Chamberlain. On March 19, Marc Alvin Miller, 69, apparentMiller ly killed Alta Torre Apartments manager Vincent DePaul Collins, 70, in their south Palo Alto complex, shooting him four times in the head and torso, according to the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office. Miller then Vincent DePaul entered the elevator Collins and turned the semiautomatic handgun on himself. Palo Alto police have yet to release a motive for the homicide. But one resident told the Weekly the shooting was retaliation: Collins made Miller park his oil-leaking car on the street instead of allowing it in the parking garage. This week, profiles of the two men — who in some ways could not have been more different — emerged. Collins’ daughter, Mechelle Collins, said her father led a “very colorful and amazing life.” He was born in Texas but moved to the Bay Area at age 1. He attended San Jose High School, where he was a basketball star. He attended college at Texas A&M University but soon returned to the Bay Area to work for IBM in sales. An entrepreneur and inventor, he started and owned an aquarium company and later a computer service business, which was successful for many years, she said. As an inventor, “He was always coming up with ideas,” his daughter said, adding that he held patents for a fireplace ashtray and a large-scale water

filtration system. Collins wrote every day, arising at 5 a.m. A spiritual man, he published a book, “New Logic — Living a Life of Harmony,” she said. But the family remembers his compassion and selflessness most. “When my brother and sister and I and our parents would travel somewhere, like on Thanksgiving, when we would drive through a toll (booth), Dad would pay for the 10 people behind him — and that is who he was. He was always paying it forward, and he taught his kids to do that too. He did it in such beautiful ways,” his daughter recalled. “If you had a problem, he would help you, and you would always leave feeling better. He had a smile and a laugh that would light up a room.” At Christmastime, Collins and his wife would always adopt a needy family. They would bring over presents and food and quietly decorate the person’s home and a tree. But he did it without letting the adopted family’s children know he had anything to do with it, she said. “He never wanted the kids to know that he did this for them. It was so important for him to do that for a family and to go in there silently.” Mechelle Collins and her father were together for the last time a month ago at her wedding. “I’m so grateful I was able to be his daughter,” she said. When the family arrived at the housing complex at 3895 Fabian Way earlier this week, residents hugged the family, she said. “They cried and told us how wonderful my dad is. They were openly sobbing and holding our family.” Collins had managed the 56-unit housing complex for low-income seniors since it opened five years ago. “Everybody is very upset,” Judy Jagerman, an Alta Torre resident, said earlier this week. “It’s such a tragedy.” Jagerman recalled what Collins had meant to her. When she faced a crisis and lost her job, Collins told her to “trust in the process.” She posted those words in her apartment for encouragement, and she did find a job, she said. A woman who asked to be identified only as the daughter of tenant Vladmir Divnich said Collins had the tenants and the housing complex at heart. “He was here before they opened the apartments in 2010, and he interviewed everyone who lived there,” she said. “Five years later, it looks like a brand-

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Officer David Tchang of the Palo Alto Police Department stands outside an entrance of the Alta Torre Apartments as police investigate two suspicious deaths at the south Palo Alto senior housing complex on March 19. new place. He was strict, but he didn’t come up with the rules.” Collins “was trying to enforce the rules that everyone was supposed to follow. He wanted everyone to live in the best environment. You don’t scratch the walls, or you are responsible to fix it. Otherwise, it isn’t fair to other people,” she said.

‘I never like being hit without striking back.’ —Marc Alvin Miller, from his high school yearbook

But resident Adassa Walker said she’d had a few run-ins with Collins. When her daughter gave her a plant for her birthday, Walker put it on the patio outside her apartment. The pot leaked a little water, leaving a small stain, which made Collins angry, she said. Collins also made Walker move her car out of the garage and onto the street after it started leaking oil. Her daughter had the car fixed, but recently Collins said it was leaking again. Walker’s daughter asked to leave the car in the garage with a pan underneath it until she

could afford to get it fixed, but Collins had refused, she said. That policy might have led to a conflict with Miller, Walker said. Parking on the street is a hardship for older persons. Often, it’s difficult to find a parking space and then walk back to the complex, she said. On-street cars also have to be moved every 72 hours. Miller had spoken with Walker’s daughter on a number of occasions. “He was really upset about his car, and it was going on for a while,” Walker said of the disagreement with Collins. In addition to Collins’ role as enforcer of the rules, the 70-year-old might have appeared intimidating to some because he was large, Divnich’s daughter said. “He was a passionate guy with a big presence and a loud voice,” she said, adding that both his size and demeanor were tempered by his age. Miller, on the other hand, was known to be quiet and kept to himself, residents said. He often exchanged pleasantries with others, but few people this week said they really knew him. Miller left little in terms of a trail, on the Internet or otherwise. He was raised in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and graduated from Longmeadow High (continued on page 12)

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My heart goes out to his family. Mechelle Collins, daughter of Vincent DePaul Collins, about Marc Alvin Miller, who allegedly fatally shot Collins in south Palo Alto last week. See story on page 5.

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A BUMPY RIDE ... If Oregon Expressway or Page Mill Road are feeling increasingly bumpy these days, your car’s suspension is not to blame. Santa Clara County, which oversees the expressways, has not done any preventive maintenance on them since 2010, according to Palo Alto Councilman Greg Scharff, the city’s delegate to the Expressway Policy Advisory Board. Because of that lack of repaving, the “pavement condition index” — a standard measurement of street conditions — of county expressways has slipped from 80 (considered pretty good) in 2010 to 74 (considered slightly less good) today, and is predicted to dip into the 60s (considered not so good) within the next five years. One way to get the expressways fixed, Scharff said, is to support funding for the repairs as part of the transportation bond that Santa Clara County officials and business leaders are planning to spearhead. So far, expressways have largely taken a back seat to grade-separating the train tracks from the roadways on the council’s transportation wish list. Scharff suggested that it might be time to elevate expressways as a priority. “We talked a lot about Caltrain and how important it is to us,” Scharff said. “I think an expressway system is important to us as well.”

CALLING ALL ALUMNI ... A Palo Alto High School graduate has launched a project to collect video, audio and written testimonies from other alumni to share a message with current students: Life gets better. Jessica Feinberg, now in her first year at Smith College in Massachusetts, said she felt helpless after hearing about the recent student deaths by suicide. She was hearing the same from fellow Palo Alto graduates, now scattered across the country, and that they all wanted to do something to help. So earlier this month, she posted her idea for an alumni testimonial project on Facebook, inviting anyone interested in sharing their experiences with mental health — “whether it’s their own story or how they were affected by friends, and testify that your life is truly not defined by your academic or social success in Palo Alto schools and that things actually do improve,” she wrote — to email her. Within five days, she had 70 alumni on board. “We’re hoping that alumni can provide a perspec-

tive that is not accessible to current students yet — testimony that it does get better,” Feinberg said. “While we all still deal with mental health issues, we know how to deal with them in a healthy and constructive way.” Feinberg, working with other graduates and community members, plans to collect and review submissions and then post them on a website that will be continually updated. Submissions can be anonymous if people would like, Feinberg said, but she’s also collecting emails of any alumni willing to be contacted by current students who might want support or to talk. “As Teddy Roosevelt once said, ‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing,’” Feinberg’s initial Facebook post reads. Any Paly or Gunn High School graduates who are interested in participating can email lifegetsbetterpaloalto@gmail.com. CIVIL DISCOURSE ... As the City Council’s chief proponent of civility, Cory Wolbach doesn’t take kindly to threats. He made that clear in his opening remarks on Monday, when the council was discussing a proposal to restrict new office development. Wolbach noted that there have been allegations “from some sectors of the business community that they’ll up and leave Palo Alto” should a cap be adopted. On a more personal note, Wolbach said he has been “threatened by colleagues” over his position on this topic. At past meetings, Wolbach has been reluctant to go forward with the cap, arguing that the city should focus its energies directly on preventing parking and traffic problems resulting from new developments. This has put him at odds with the council’s slow-growth wing (Mayor Karen Holman, Vice Mayor Greg Schmid, Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Pat Burt), which has been more adamant about limiting office space. During the March 23 meeting, Wolbach said he received “some implicit and maybe some explicit threats that they’ll make sure I’m not elected if we don’t agree on one issue or another. ... I’m just going to say that if you think threats are an effective way to lobby us, or your colleagues, it’s just not it. Sorry to sound preachy here, but if you want to convince me with your proposals, make a strong argument, please.” Q

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Students ask: What’s it like to be me? Youth explore, express themselves in annual art exhibit by Elena Kadvany

he hallways, courtyard and rooms of the Palo Alto Art Center were given over last Friday evening to poignant, uninhibited expression and exploration of youth identity: a ceramic bust with empty eyes titled “Look Deeper,” an oil painting of a girl with three dark stitches over her mouth, a photograph of a boy sleeping, using an SAT prep book as a pillow. These works of art and many more are on display at this year’s exhibit mounted by Youth Speaks Out, a Palo Alto nonprofit born in 2010 with the goal of giving voice to students’ experiences through art. Each year since, Youth Speaks Out has worked with an increasing number of students and teachers in drawing and painting, photography, studio art, ceramics, graphic art and other classes at Palo Alto and Gunn high schools to create pieces of art throughout the year. The program has steadily grown from 84 students and one high school in 2011 to more than 200 students, three schools (Paly, Gunn and Jordan Middle School) and six arts instructors in 2014. This year’s program

reached more than 800 students. This year, students were asked to create something to answer the question: “What’s it like to be me?” The resulting pieces of art, all anonymous, are uninhibited and raw, touching on subjects from depression and self-worth to the love of a favorite pastime or the power of the experience of creating art. One Paly photography student took a close-up photo of the upper half of her face with one eye covered in a “veil,” a white piece of patterned paper. “I find it very uncomfortable to take self-portraits or be the subject of a picture because of my low self-esteem and lack of confidence,” a description next to her photograph states. “For Youth Speaks Out I decided to face my fear and use a photo that has me looking straight at the camera but that also contains a veil.” Nearby hangs an acrylic painting with chaotic swaths of angry red and black and the outline of a face with a black crown. “My experimental self-portrait, entitled King of Nothing, is an attempt to capture the whirlwind

of feelings and emotions such as disappointment, as well as success, and a feeling of personal uniqueness that is so prevalent in the teenage experience,” the student’s description states. “Red is clearly the dominant color in the background, and this symbolically represents the anger that I often experience while trying to survive in an educational system that treats students as a statistic or a product to be packaged and shipped off to elite colleges. “In this picture, I am literally fighting to break through the fury and the clutter to make my voice heard.” Many pieces mention school culture and academic stress, from a ceramic zombie face titled “Don’t Let School Turn You into a Zombie” to the photograph of the student sleeping on his SAT book, “Sleeping on a SATurday.” Several Paly students with disabilities participated this year, writing poems about identity, having autism and more. Gunn arts teacher Deanna Messinger, who co-founded Youth Speaks Out with executive director Carolyn Digovich, told

EDUCATION

District eyes support, outreach to Asian-American families When it comes to mental health, cultural differences require new ways of serving Asian families, nonprofit chief says

he Palo Alto school district is looking at increasing its mental health support and outreach to Asian-American families, with the possibility of a more formal relationship with well-established nonprofit Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) on the horizon. “What we’re hearing and seeing from the community is that the demographics of Palo Alto have changed and the mental health services might not have kept pace,” AACI President Michele Lew told the school board Tuesday night. Students of Asian heritage made up 33.9 percent of the student population in the district in 2013-14, according to Palo Alto High School’s Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) report. Gunn High School’s Asian student population has steadily grown over the last several years to 41.6 percent of the student body in 2014, according to the school’s WASC report. The report also notes that Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese and “any one of several other Asian languages” are spoken in Gunn students’ homes

by Elena Kadvany and that the guidance department recently identified the need to sponsor a parent information night in Mandarin “to increase the connection of Asian families to GHS and respond to administrative questions Mandarin Chinesespeaking parents may have.” In approximately 22 percent of Gunn students’ homes, the primary language spoken is an Asian language, with the most (15.6 percent) speaking Mandarin, according to the WASC report. Paly’s percentage of Asian students is lower than Gunn’s, at 26.7 percent, though “Asian students represent the fastest-growing linguistic and cultural population on our campus,” Paly’s WASC report reads. The report doesn’t include a breakdown of languages spoken at students’ homes. AACI, Santa Clara County’s largest nonprofit focused on serving the Asian community, has worked with the school district informally for several years and more so this academic year following several student deaths by suicide, providing pro-bono counseling support at school sites

and at various forums, Lew said. AACI is based in San Jose but was founded in Palo Alto in 1973 and has employees who speak more than 40 languages and dialects. Lew told the board that her organization will be submitting a proposal soon for a “more formal” relationship with the district. “While mental health and mental illness are topics of interest to the entire community, there are some cultural differences that make us eager to do more work in Palo Alto,” she told the Weekly Wednesday. She said the proposal will include parent education in both English and Mandarin and a more formal counseling relationship. Lew said that some Asian families may take longer to open up and talk about their issues with a counselor due to their cultural backgrounds. She hopes to discuss with district staff the district’s free outside-referral program, which allows families to receive at least three free counseling sessions with an outside service provider. Three sessions might not be sufficient for some families, Lew said. She added that

“Determination” is a photograph produced by a sophomore at Palo Alto High School. The artist states: “I chose not to use myself in my self-portrait because I am able to connect with other athletes by seeing myself in them. ... The pain I feel in my body each day when I come home, the anger I feel when I don’t achieve my goals, and the determination to continue.” the Weekly the program serves a dual purpose: allowing students a safe and unhindered space for creation and expression and giving parents and adults in the community a direct line to see, hear and feel what students are “up to and what they’re up against.” “So they’ve spoken. So now what? Now, we need to listen,” Messinger said at the March 20 opening event. “Now it’s important that we take time when we walk through here to ask ourselves, ‘What are they saying?

What is it that they’re trying to tell us about what they’re up to and what they’re up against?’” Youth Speaks Out has worked to expand the ways in which the program supports students. This includes having an art therapist on hand during classes, providing teacher training and bringing in a nationally acclaimed spoken-word poet, Marshall Davis Jones, to work with students on their work. On Jones’ website

she is not sure how many parents are aware of this service. However, Student Services Coordinator Brenda Carrillo said Tuesday that “there are opportunities to be seen for a longer period of time,” up to nine sessions, through the program. She later told the Weekly that the three-session referral program was created to provide short-term intervention in crisis, and any extension in care is decided on an individual basis. Students are referred to the program by a school counselor or school psychologist. “The 3 Session Referral Program was developed to meet a specific need at our sites, which is to provide students with free mental health services during a time of crisis or when the family lacks access to other supports,” Carrillo wrote in an email. “It is not meant to be a long term intervention, but rather a bridge between the immediate need for mental health support and a referral to longer term mental health services.” Carrillo also said the district is working to expand its list of outside providers to make sure that they can accommodate the demand and that they can receive families who feel more comfortable speaking in another language. Palo Alto Unified is also now part of a collaborative, led by Stanford University psychiatrist Steven Adelsheim, working to provide greater outreach to the Asian community. The district has also worked closely with Palo Alto University and The Gronowski Center, a psychology training center in Los Altos, “ to

explore ways in which to broaden services to our diverse community,” Carrillo wrote in an email. The district this year has helped coordinate Asian-American parent-information nights and provide Mandarin translation at other forums. Carrillo said Tuesday that the district is looking at organizing events in parents’ native languages rather than having them translated from English. Such events are seen as critical to reducing the stigma about mental illness and opening up conversations about health and well-being with parents, many of whom are immigrants. At an Asian-American parents event Monday night, a panel of local psychiatrists, psychologists and community members working in mental health — many of them themselves born to Asian immigrants — emphasized that mental illness and suicide are universal but recognized that this particular community does face a different set of issues when it comes to mental health. “We wanted to particularly offer support to the Asian-American community because ... we do face some special challenges above and beyond what the community as a whole is facing,” Rona Hu, a Stanford University professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, told a full crowd of parents at Paly’s Haymarket Theater, many listening to a translator via headphones. “One is that there is more stigma (around mental health) in the Asian-Ameri-

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the hiring of a new city clerk. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 30, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The Board of Education’s review policy committee will meet to discuss unfinished policies from its March 10 meeting, including special-education identification, financial reports and accountability, and sale or lease of district property. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 31, at school district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the hiring of a new city clerk. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the Fiber to the Premise master plan; consider a resolution identifying projects to be funded by the Electric Special Project Reserve; and consider adoptions of the Gas Financial Plan and the Electric Financial Plan for fiscal year 2016. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to review recent school board and council meetings and hear updates on youth health and wellness and on the closure process for the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 2, in Conference Room A at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 180 El Camino Real, a proposal by Eric Allen of SPG Center on behalf of Stanford University for a master tenant sign program for the Stanford Shopping Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss resource allocations for 2015-16 and a revision of the district’s website in a special meeting. The meeting will begin with a closed session at 5:30 p.m., to be followed by open session on Tuesday, March 31, in Conference Room A at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave.

The pharmacy waiting area of the Ravenswood Family Health Center is colorful and includes seating for children.

HEALTH

New East Palo Alto health care center to debut Saturday Multi-million-dollar facility ups care for low-income East Palo Alto, Menlo Park residents by Sue Dremann

TH ANNUAL TALL TREE DINNER Honoring Outstanding Citizen Volunteer Fran Codispoti Outstanding Business Person Sharon Keplinger Outstanding Business Stanford Federal Credit Union Outstanding Nonprofit Acterra Master of Ceremonies Hal M. Mickelson

April 21, 2015 Reception: 5:30-7pm Dinner and Program: 7-9pm Crowne Plaza Cabaña Event Tickets and Raffle Tickets can be purchased at Paloaltochamber.com You do not need to be present to win the raffle! Chamber Leaders Circle City of Palo Alto • The Daily News • Garden Court Hotel • Microsoft • Palo Alto Medical Foundation Palo Alto Weekly • Stanford Children’s Hospital Stanford Hospital and Clinics • Stanford University Thoits Bros., Inc

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Early Reservation Deadline: Wednesday, April 1 Reservation Deadline: Monday, April 13 Register Online at www.PaloAltoChamber.com Information: (650) 324-3121 Page 8 • March 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and Palo Alto Weekly present the

fter 15 years of operating out of modular buildings, Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto will host a grand opening celebration for its brand-new, 38,000-square-foot facility on March 28 from noon to 4 p.m. The $39 million health center, which currently serves 12,900 very-low-income patients in family practice, pediatrics and reproductive health care, will double the number of clients it can handle by 2018. New services in the state-of-the-art facility include an optometry clinic, specialty geriatric services, mammography, X-rays and ultrasound. The Health Center serves patients in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, from infants to seniors. Many have chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and cardiac disease. The center offers comprehensive health services that include classes to help patients manage chronic diseases, mental health counseling, health education and preventive care, pregnancy planning, wellbaby care, immunizations and counseling for domestic violence and crisis intervention. “All the things that people need to support their health at a primary-care level should be available in the community, should be accessible, should be affordable and should be offered in a setting that people are drawn to,” Executive Director Luisa Buada said.

This exam room, like all of the ones in the new Ravenswood Family Health Center, is painted in a vivid color corresponding to the type of health care provided. The center, located at 1885 Bay Road, is a far cry from the old beige buildings next to automotive shops along Bay Road — and from its early years when the center was called the South County Community Health Center and nearly folded before Buada came on board. Now the colorful two-story building with white raven sculptures (representing the “spirit” of the raven in Ravenswood, Buada said) is the fruit of a vision for equal access to health care crafted by Buada, her staff, local health care leaders, nonprofit foundations, corporations and private citizens. Buada said she was inspired to help immigrant and low-income patients after observing the poor health conditions of migrant workers in California. Women who could not afford maternity care gave birth in a

hospital parking lot outside the emergency room, she told the Weekly. Now women will receive all levels of gynecological and obstetrical care in 10 exam rooms, as well as counseling for sensitive topics such as domestic violence and depression. The spacious, sky-lit center is funded with multimillion-dollar donations, including from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan, John and Sue Sobrato, Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Sutter Health, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Cisco Systems, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Peery Foundation, Dick and Sue Levy, John and Jill Freidenrich, and Gordon Russell and Tina McAdoo. The center is now just (continued on page 15)

Upfront the citywide growth limit that the council had previously discussed, its impact would be more imminent. Rather than explore an annual cap in the context of revising the city’s Comprehensive Plan, as had been previously discussed, the council on Monday signaled its intent to adopt the cap on an interim basis before that protracted planning effort is completed. Burt, who crafted the proposal, acknowledged that the cap would not solve all of downtown’s problems but argued that it would work well with the various measures that the city is already pursuing, including a new Residential Parking Permit Program and a new nonprofit that manages downtown’s traffic congestion. He argued that saving the exploration of a cap for later would simply encourage developers to submit their plans now. “If we don’t do it on an interim basis, ... we’ll create a land rush,” Burt said. “We’ll have development projects rush forward now, not to mention the very large number already in the pipeline.” The new proposal, which was adopted after much debate but with no dissent, specifically excludes Stanford Research Park, where opposition to a new cap has been particularly intense from tech companies. The council pledged, however, to explore new Comprehensive Plan policies that would bind all developments in this bustling hub of corporate campuses to strong traffic-reduction measures. The council’s ambivalence mirrored a similar divergence in the community, with neighborhood leaders and slow-growth “residentialists” clashing with local businesses and large employers. Proponents of the growth limit have consistently argued that the

DEVELOPMENT

Palo Alto moves ahead with cap on new office space Council looks to apply growth limit to University Avenue, California Avenue and El Camino Real

acing a climate of steady office growth and rising community angst, Palo Alto officials on Monday agreed to trudge ahead with a solution that has galvanized the local business community: an annual cap on new office space in the city’s prime commercial areas. After three long and exhausting meetings, the City Council on Monday directed staff to draft a new ordinance that would limit growth to 50,000 square feet for office and research-and-development space around University Avenue, California Avenue and El Camino Real. The elements of the new law would be brought back to the council in early May for review. In deciding to go ahead with the annual office restriction, the council was at once unanimous and deeply ambivalent. Several council members had opposed an office cap in the past and continued to argue on Monday night that this solution would not make a dent in the city’s pressing issues of parking and traffic. Councilmen Marc Berman and Cory Wolbach both argued at prior meetings that the cap would distract staff from transportation and parking initiatives. But on Monday, both grudgingly went

by Gennady Sheyner along with the proposal cobbled together by Councilman Pat Burt — a proposal that has less breadth but more urgency than the one that was on the table earlier this month. Council members Greg Scharff and Liz Kniss both said they would not support a moratorium on office development, a more stringent step that some in the community have called for, but acquiesced to the cap, with Scharff lending his second to Burt’s motion. The ordinance that staff will be drafting would run until the updated Comprehensive Plan is adopted. The update has been dragging on since 2006 and is now set to conclude late next year. The office limit of 50,000 square feet would apply to the three commercial areas around University Avenue, California Avenue and El Camino Real. To determine which developments would be approved, the council would rely on a scoring system that assesses proposals based on resulting traffic and parking problems, intensity of use and design criteria. For the council’s proponents of slow growth, the cap was an easy sell. Mayor Karen Holman — who in her “State of the City” speech

last month focused on slowing the pace of office development so as to protect retail space — backed the new cap. So did Councilmen Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois and Vice Mayor Greg Schmid, who also make up the council’s “residentialist” wing. DuBois lamented the booming office construction, which he argued comes at the expense of housing and other types of developments. “We have to strike a balance and have a diversity of land use,” DuBois said. While Berman and Filseth were on opposite sides of the debate earlier this month, each concluded that the proposal is heading in a reasonable direction. Even so, Berman wondered if the development of the new ordinance places too much burden on city staff. “I just don’t see how we’re going to do this and do the Comprehensive Plan and do the efforts that we all agree will probably have a bigger impact on the issues that are frustrating our residents the most — traffic and parking,” Berman said. “Frankly, that’s what at the end of the day I’m trying to accomplish.” While the geographical reach of the proposed cap isn’t as broad as

cap is needed to curb the city’s parking and traffic problems, to get a better grip on the impacts of recent developments and bring some balance to a development climate that has become increasingly office-heavy. Opponents, which include Stanford University, HP, Google, Palantir and the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, have characterized the cap as a blunt tool that doesn’t really address the real problems of traffic and parking. Neither side disputes the fact that the city is going through a heavy office boom, which is bringing in traffic and sucking up parking spots in residential neighborhoods. While office space in Palo Alto had actually declined by about 2,800 square feet annually between 2001 and 2007, when office and industrial buildings were increasingly replaced with housing, the trend has turned around in a big way since then. According to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment, the city has been adding about 67,000 square feet of office and researchand-development space annually since 2008. Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS, a trade association representing real estate professionals in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, argued in a letter to the council that constraining office development would come with a financial cost. Office developments, the letter states, pay impact fees that fund parks, libraries, community centers, affordable housing and traffic-relief programs. “Prior to capping office development, it is important that the (continued on page 11)

HOUSING

State, federal funds sought to save Buena Vista

he effort to prevent the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto has spread well beyond the city’s borders in recent weeks, with state Sen. Jerry Hill, state Assemblyman Rich Gordon and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo all joining the drive to raise money for the park’s preservation. Hill and Gordon co-signed a letter earlier this month to the California Department of Housing and Community Development asking the agency for assistance in identifying potential sources of funding for preserving what they call “vital affordable housing.” This came weeks after Eshoo submitted a similar request to Julian Castro, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bids for support come at a crucial time for Buena Vista, which is set for a hearing by the

by Gennady Sheyner City Council next month. Palo Alto’s lone mobile-home park has been going through closure proceedings since late 2012, when owners first announced their plan to convert the Barron Park site to a market-rate apartment complex. The effort by the Jisser family to close Buena Vista received a boost last fall, when a hearing officer signed off on the Jissers’ plan to compensate the hundreds of residents who would be displaced. Residents are appealing that decision, with the council set to hear the appeal on April 13. Meanwhile a parallel effort is underway to raise money for preserving Buena Vista should the residents prevail in their appeal. Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, a former Palo Alto mayor, kickstarted the fundraising drive in January, when the board approved

his proposal to set aside $8 million in county funds for the park’s preservation. The following month, Palo Alto City Manager James Keene followed suit by pledging $8 million in local funds, pending the council’s approval. Both the county and the city allocations come from funds specifically designated for affordable housing. “As you know, we represent the Silicon Valley, the driver of California’s economic engine but a region in danger of losing its prized socio-economic diversity as a result of the astonishing growth in housing costs,” the March 9 Hill and Gordon letter to department Director Claudia Cappio states. “Efforts to explore potential funding sources to preserve homes at Buena Vista are underway, and we ask for your help. As the City of Palo Alto studies solutions, it would

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Anna Eshoo, Jerry Hill and Rich Gordon join effort to obtain funds for mobile-home park’s preservation

Supervisor Joe Simitian of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors addresses supporters of Buena Vista residents during a rally in front of City Hall on March 9, encouraging the City of Palo Alto to allot $8 million toward the mobile-home park, after the county approved $8 million for its preservation. be of great benefit for their leaders to know what opportunities HCD may uncover,” the letter states. Eshoo’s letter to Castro makes a similar case. The park “at the heart of my Silicon Valley Congressional district ... is being sold and the residents are at risk of becoming homeless or having to relocate out of this high-priced community,” Eshoo’s Feb. 18 letter states. Eshoo also cited the recent $8 million county allocation and noted that the Board of Supervisors “hopes to collaborate with

the City of Palo Alto and other agencies in this effort.” “Innovative, collaborative efforts are necessary to avoid displacement for families with few or no options to remain in our community,” Eshoo wrote. “With your assistance and the efforts of local government and nonprofits, I’m confident we can create a solution that will benefit the families of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and allow them to remain in the community that is their home.” Q

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News Digest

Downtown parking program now set for fall rollout

City to roll out pickup for food scraps Palo Alto wasted no time Monday in approving a new trash-hauling program aimed at diverting local food scraps from landfills. After the briefest of discussions, the City Council voted unanimously to introduce a curbside pickup service for food waste to all residential customers. Once the program launches in July, residents will be able to discard their meat bones, banana peels and other food scraps in their green bins. The food could either be mixed in with yard trimmings or placed into the bin in compostable bags. The organic waste would then be shipped for commercial composting. To help residents isolate their food waste for the new program, the city will provide kitchen pails for residents. The goal is to re-energize the city’s ongoing effort to divert more waste from landfills and to get closer to the idealistic “zero waste” goal. After climbing from a diversion rate of 62 percent in 2008 to about 78 percent in 2013, the effort has largely stalled. With food scraps making up about half of residential garbage, Public Works officials see this as the most promising route toward raising the diversion rate further. The effort will also raise the city’s trash rates. Staff estimates the curbside pickup of food scraps will cost about $532,000 annually in additional spending, which will translate to a 6.1 percent increase in the refuse rate. For a 32-gallon garbage service, this means an extra $2.63 on a monthly bill, according to staff. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Burglary suspect arrested after standoff Palo Alto police arrested a 26-year-old man who barricaded himself in a home on the 900 block of Elsinore Drive, following a police pursuit Monday afternoon that blocked streets and access to homes in the central part of the city, police said. After police responded to a call reporting a suspicious person in a rear yard, the suspect, later identified as Julian Baldes Alvarado of San Jose, fled, jumping over fences and onto rooftops to avoid capture. At around 2:35 p.m. Alvarado entered an open sliding glass door of a home on Elsinore. Inside the house, Alvarado encountered a woman in her 40s, who was working as a caretaker for a woman in her 90s, who was asleep in a bedroom. The caretaker was able to escape, and when the elderly woman was awakened by officers yelling into the house, she was able to get out of the house. The police department’s SWAT team and crisis response team were then called to negotiate with Alvarado. He was ultimately apprehended in the home’s garage after the police K-9 dog bit him on the leg. Alvarado was found in possession of a bicycle and a backpack containing miscellaneous personal property that allegedly had been stolen earlier in the day from outside an apartment complex on the 400 block of West Charleston Road, police said. Police also recovered property allegedly stolen from homes on the 900 block of Oregon Avenue. Alvarado was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for one count of misdemeanor aggravated trespass, one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest, one count of misdemeanor prowling, and one count of misdemeanor possession of stolen property and petty theft. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

As workers pan plan to outsource enforcement, Palo Alto moves ahead with long-awaited program

nitially slated to launch this spring, Palo Alto’s long-awaited residential-parking-permit program now is unlikely to get underway until September, according to a schedule released by the city Wednesday. The Residential Parking Permit Program (RPP), which aims to provide parking relief for downtown’s neighborhoods, was unanimously approved by the City Council in December. Yet a dispute with the city’s labor union and the complexity of completing the four different contracts required to get the program up and running have extended the time line. The new schedule indicates that the city now plans to start selling parking permits for residential blocks in late July, with enforcement beginning Sept. 8. The council has repeatedly pointed to the new parking program, as well as to the city’s fledgling nonprofit Transportation Management Association, as critical tools for addressing the parking and traffic problems that have been growing in recent years. This week, during a council discussion on limiting office development, Councilwoman Liz Kniss pointed to the parking-program delays in making her argument for an office cap. “I have no idea why RPP has gone so far south, but it’s absolutely regrettable,” Kniss said. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 521, which represents about half of the city’s workforce, has taken issue

by Gennady Sheyner with the city’s plan to outsource enforcement of the program to a contractor. During Monday’s council meeting, union representative Margaret Adkins said two community-service officers, who are members of the Police Department, undertook a trial and were able to cover the parking-permit area within an hour. Under the program, cars without a permit will be subject to a twohour limit in an area of downtown that currently has no limits. Permits would only be sold to downtown residents, employers and employees. Adkins said the union “was not treated fairly by the city” and was “not heard” by management. “These pilot RPP program discussions could have, and should have, been held between two collaborative teams,” Adkins said. Community Service Officer Gabriel Mora said Monday the employees all believe they can do the work in-house. They have been enforcing the parking-permit program in College Terrace for the past three years, he said, and the time it takes an officer to cover that permit area has dropped from about an hour to about 30 minutes. “We were all surprised that the city was thinking of contracting out because we never heard that before from our managers,” Mora told the council. Yet the plan to contract out enforcement has been part of the program since well before the council’s vote late last year and was discussed throughout meetings of a stakeholders group be-

fore the program’s adoption. Jessica Sullivan, the city’s transportation planning manager, said the city held six meet-and-confer sessions with the SEIU about the program, a process that ended in an impasse. The union, she told the stakeholders group, which met Wednesday, “did not provide proposals which were responsive to the city’s main concerns.” The city plans to contract out enforcement to Serco, which has been providing parking services to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities. “They are working in a lot of contentious environments, and they’re very professional,” Sullivan said. Q

Correction

The March 20 story, “Stanford under pressure,” stated that there was one adjudicated sexual-assault case in 2013. University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said this week there were two adjudications that began in the 2013 calendar year, one of which was concluded in early 2014. Lapin said that comparing adjudications by year is complicated because some students withdraw their concerns as they reach the adjudication process and some do not reach the hearing process or conclude in the same year they were reported. Four adjudications began in 2012 and three in 2014, according to Lapin. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

Months after Palo Alto ended its feud with the contractor responsible for the delayed reconstruction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, the city has reached a separate settlement with the management firm that was tasked with overseeing that contractor. City officials announced on March 19 that they have reached a settlement with Turner Construction, which was hired in 2009. Under the settlement, the city will retain about $425,000 of the $850,000 that was set aside to pay Turner for overseeing the completion of the roughly $45 million project. The Mitchell Park Library and Community Center opened late last year after more than two years of delays and dozens of construction defects. The main contractor hired for the project, Flintco Pacific, was fired by the city in January 2014. Last December, Flintco Pacific and the city reached a settlement, which called for the city to released the roughly $4 million in the contract balance that had been withheld from Flintco. Flintco committed to pay the more than $2 million owed to Big D, the replacement contractor that the city hired to complete the project. The city also recovered about $700,000 from Flintco, including a waiver of about $150,000 in change orders. Turner had managed both Flintco and Big D. Q — Gennady Sheyner Page 10 • March 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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City settles over delayed library project

Warm up for Wrestlemania Lucas Merritt, 8, reacts as his player gets KO’d while playing WWE 2K14 on the PS3 player with WWE wrestlers Kalisto, center, and Sin Cara, right, and Marco Alvarez, 6, wearing a halo brace, at the Ronald McDonald House on March 25. The WWE wrestlers played with kids and greeted families while in town for Wrestlemania at Levi’s Stadium this Sunday.

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City knows it can financially afford to do so,” Jessica Epstein, the association’s government affairs director, wrote. “Cutting off these funds without carefully studying the ramifications could lead the City into the unfortunate position of needing to raise taxes on residents and businesses.” The group also voiced a concern that imposing a cap “would do nothing to alleviate the already crowded roads. “If the goal of the Council is to reduce traffic and improve parking, then it should have an analysis done as to whether a cap would accomplish that goal,” Epstein wrote. Lockheed Martin redeveloped a 55,375-square-foot office and research-and-development building on its campus at Stanford Research Park. In its place, the company built a new two-story 85,959-square-foot facility that “much better serves our current and growing needs,” the company’s letter states. “We have other buildings on our Palo Alto campus that we hope to repurpose should the need arise in the future,” R. Marshall Case, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for infrastructure services, wrote. “The contemplated office/R&D cap may make these plans impractical and serve as a

disincentive to our investment in Palo Alto for the long-term.” Architects and developers also came out against the cap. Ken Hayes, a prominent architect whose modernist mixed-use developments have been sparking consternation among residents with traditionalist leanings, argued in a letter that a cap “is not the best solution and certainly one not befitting the innovative community of Palo Alto.” David Kleiman, the developer of 636 Waverley St. and 240 Hamilton Ave. (both designed by Hayes), wrote his own letter opposing office-space restrictions. “If a cap is imposed, property owners affected by the cap will sue the City to have it overturned, as a violation of their property rights,” Kleiman wrote. “This would be a monumentally poor decision.” John McNellis, the developer of Alma Village, offered a different proposal: linking new office developments to residential construction, thereby ensuring that the city’s jobs-housing imbalance doesn’t get any worse. “While I would not impose an arbitrary cap on office space, but rather one based on addressing this critical problem affecting us, I would also not let myself be bullied by companies who threaten to move out of town,” said McNellis, whose projects have included offices and apartments. Yet the majority of the speak-

ers at the hearing were residents who supported a cap. Cheryl Lilienstein, president of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, couched her argument in a fable, with advocates of high-density growth playing the role of insatiable lions reproducing without hindrance and feeding themselves to the detriment of their terrain. The group asked the council to restore balance to the ecosystem. The College Terrace Residents Association also voiced support for a cap, which it argued will allow the city to “take stock of where we are going, and to consider carefully how we can preserve the quality of life for residents.” Its board president, Brent Barker, submitted a letter that argued that a cap would allow the city to “pause and take a look at the problems facing retail.” “Even if the cap proves temporary, it would provide some breathing room to explore solutions to the compounding problems created by the current boom in office development,” Barker wrote. “Office space is growing fast, and high-density occupancy is growing even faster. The cumulative impact has been to outstrip the city’s ability to cope with traffic, parking, and city services, and to further aggravate the jobs/ housing imbalance.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (March 23)

Comprehensive Plan: The council directed staff to draft the elements of an interim ordinance that would create an annual cap of 50,000 square feet for new office and research-and-development space at University Avenue, California Avenue and El Camino Real. Yes: Unanimous Trash: The council approved a residential curbside pickup program for food scraps. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (March 24)

International field trip: The board approved a field trip to Singapore for a group of Gunn and Palo Alto high school students working on a research project. Yes: Unanimous Summer maintenance: The board authorized staff to put out bids for summer maintenance projects at several school sites. Yes: Unanimous Furniture donation: The board accepted an anonymous donation of $300,000 for furniture for Palo Alto High School. Yes: Unanimous Bus purchase: The board approved the $175,125 purchase of a school bus for Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP) high school students. Yes: Unanimous

Parks and Recreation Commission (March 24)

Master plan: The commission heard an update on the city’s Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (March 25)

Bike path: The commission recommended approval of a conditional-use permit for the construction of a bike-and-pedestrian pathway on a public-access easement to provide access from Wilke Way to the SummerHill Homes development. Yes: Unanimous

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School in 1962, according to his yearbook. His high school portrait shows a slight young man who looked younger than his peers. He smiled in a photograph with the photography club, and he was also a member of the audio-visual aides club and the chess club, and he took part in intramurals. On the â&#x20AC;&#x153;class caricaturesâ&#x20AC;? page, Miller is described: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Always: Democrat; Will be: plumber; Remembered by or for: individualism.â&#x20AC;? He appears to have lived in several Bay Area cities before landing in Palo Alto, according to online address records, and he may have lived downtown before moving into Alta Torre. A senior who lives a floor below Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth-floor apartment and who frequently saw him around the complex described him as â&#x20AC;&#x153;lonely.â&#x20AC;? But though she said Miller lived alone, she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think there was anything out of the ordinary about him. She said she had seen Miller at about 2 p.m. March 19, roughly an hour before police received the 911 call, and nothing seemed amiss. She said she had just walked into the building when she saw Miller walking out of the elevator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hi. How are you?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; like neighbors typically do,â&#x20AC;? the woman, who did not want to be

identified by name, told the Weekly. But in a little more than an hour, Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life would be over, and Palo Alto police would be investigating their first homicide of the year. Palo Alto firefighters responded to a 911 call from the complex shortly after 3 p.m. A resident reported that a man in the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elevator needed medical assistance. They found Miller with a handgun in his lap and an apparent gunshot wound to the head. About 10 minutes later, police officers who were summoned to the scene found a second body â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Collinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office on the first floor. The woman who dialed 911 told the Weekly that she had been waiting for the elevator with her husband. The woman lives in the building and asked not to be identified by name. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The elevator opened and I saw someone had collapsed inside,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was lying on his left side. I saw there was blood near his head.â&#x20AC;? The shootings triggered a heavy police response to the bustling block, which also includes Loral Space Systems and the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. For hours after the shootings, the main entrances to Alta Torre and the Jewish Community Center were cordoned off while officers collected evidence. Yet despite the flurry of activity, police almost immediately determined that there was no danger to the public. At about 4:45 p.m.,

police said they had recovered the weapon and that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe a gunman remained at large. The next day, officials from BRIDGE Housing, which built and manages the property, sent a letter to residents expressing their condolences and concern. They planned to hold a meeting about the tragedy, Jagerman said. Divnichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter said BRIDGE has brought in a temporary manager while looking for a permanent one. Among residents, the first shock has passed, and they are now concerned with the broader issues of their safety, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They do have concerns that here in Palo Alto something like this could happen. There could have been other people walking around at the time, and who knows what would have happened?â&#x20AC;? Alta Torre is a quiet place, she said. The doors are always locked, and tenants have an electronic pass key or must call to get in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not possible for someone to get into the building otherwise,â&#x20AC;? she said. Though Collinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives intersected in tragic ways, Mechelle Collins said she hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t encountered Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family since arriving at Alta Torre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My heart goes out to his family because that is a hard burden to hold,â&#x20AC;? she said of the knowledge that oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family member has killed someone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why this hap-

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pened. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing that justifies something like this,â&#x20AC;? she said. Collins is survived by his mother, Margaret Collins, brother Patrick, sister Andrea, son Vincent Collins III (daughter-in-law Connie), daughters Mechelle Maria Collins (son-in-law Brad Bode) and Jackie Collins, and six grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 28, at 11 a.m. at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose.

As of Thursday morning, the case was still under investigation, Lt. Zach Perron said. Detectives are not expected to complete the investigation until next week. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com; Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly. com; Online Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

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is a poem that describes how he found poetry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and how it saved his life. One Gunn junior channeled Jones in her spoken-word performance last Friday, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sanity.â&#x20AC;? Her voice ebbed and flowed, increasing rapidly in pace to mirror the intensity of her experience of surviving leukemia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I had was time. One oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, who did this to me? Two oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, what did this to me? Three oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, where did this happen to me? Four oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, when did this happen to me? And five oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, why did this happen to me? Six oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock,â&#x20AC;? she takes a long pause, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost all sanity.â&#x20AC;? Jones also inspired Paly photography teacher Margo Wixsom to perform her own very personal, revealing spoken-word piece in front of her students about what her life was like at 16 years old. Paly graduate Savannah Moss worked with Jones last year on a spoken-word piece called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inadequate,â&#x20AC;? which draws parallels between the high-pressure cultures

of her hometown of Boston and Palo Alto. She said Jones pushed her to â&#x20AC;&#x153;find her truthâ&#x20AC;? in the piece (and with no expectations or rubric involved) and make every word she wrote and spoke authentic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a process she said was frustrating and challenging but which produced a product she felt spoke to what she and her peers were feeling at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really facilitated a freedom of expression,â&#x20AC;? Moss said of Youth Speaks Out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really defined by students. I could have come in and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want to do interpretative dance,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and they would have let me perform. That, I think, is something that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always get and especially not only are you allowed to show it and express yourself, but then adults that have prominent positions in the community are going to come watch and look at it and support you in that. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty unique space, especially for a high school student.â&#x20AC;? The youth exhibit will be on display at the Art Center at 1313 Newell Road through April 15. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Recall on raw milk distributed in Palo Alto The state Department of Public Health is warning the public of the dangers of consuming raw milk after six Bay Area residents fell seriously ill, state public health officials announced Tuesday. (Posted March 26, 7:48 a.m.)

Palo Alto woman convicted of diamond theft A 46-year-old Palo Alto woman was convicted on Tuesday of stealing diamonds from under a clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nose at a San Mateo jewelry store last year, according to the San Mateo County District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. (Posted March 25, 9:36 p.m.)

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Stanford students open conversation There are 129 pages of raw, intimate and powerful expressions of the experience of both mental and physical illness in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Release. Restart.Review,â&#x20AC;? a literary arts anthology created by and for Stanford University students that focuses on emotional well-being. (Posted March 24, 10:31 a.m.)

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Topping Offâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; held for new Stanford Hospital Patients, construction workers, employees, physicians, community members, elected officials and donors gathered at the new Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto Monday, March 23, for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Topping Offâ&#x20AC;? ceremony to celebrate a milestone in the construction of the new facility. (Posted March 23, 5:51 p.m.)

Little League gets gift, plans campaign Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually not a good thing in baseball to be on the bench, but at the Palo Alto Little League (PALL) ballpark on Middlefield Road, the installation of three new benches for spectators has turned that around. (Posted March 20, 3:20 p.m.)

Woman interrupts home burglary in Palo Alto A Palo Alto resident thwarted an attempted burglary of her home, according to Palo Alto police. (Posted March 19, 1:36 p.m.)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Untitledâ&#x20AC;? is an oil painting created by a senior at Gunn High School. The artist states: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When words cannot be said, art instead takes its place. There are times when I feel as though I am not allowed to express myself or speak my mind. This is not only caused by societal pressures, but also by pressures that I have put on myself.â&#x20AC;?

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can community than in many other groups of people.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can accept when our vision is not perfect that we are not less good of people than people who have perfect vision,â&#x20AC;? Hu continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having glasses, having contact lenses doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inferior. And yet when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mental health issue, that becomes something that can be a source of shame. We want to do something about that.â&#x20AC;? Hu encouraged parents to challenge their â&#x20AC;&#x153;hardwiredâ&#x20AC;? assumptions about parenting, communication, success and failure. Jorge Wong, an AACI clinical psychologist, stressed that this might be best accomplished through providing culturally relevant events and education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sources in their primary languages may help them understand better some of the challenges that the school district has or children face,â&#x20AC;? he said. AACIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitch for a more formal relationship with the district comes at a time when the schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; primary source for on-site counseling support, Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), is reportedly overloaded at the two high schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re completely full within first few months of school starting,â&#x20AC;? Carrillo said. Gunn student school board representative Rose Weinmann similarly told the board that ACS is in high demand on her campus and asked if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to expand the nonprofit groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at, very closely, do we have adequate counseling services?â&#x20AC;? Carrillo responded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking at expanding, whether it be through ACS or other organizations.â&#x20AC;? Q

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$2 million short of its total project cost, said Kathleen Alexander, Ravenswood director of communications. Ravenswood purchased the 3.15acre property with help from the Sobrato Organization. The center, dubbed the John and Susan Sobrato Campus, now has 60 exam rooms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; up from 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including triage, immunization and procedure rooms. With expanded services and a greater capacity, the center can now address illnesses at the earliest stages, Alexander said. And patients who have mental health issues or personal crises will be referred to an on-site medical social worker. Two psychologists will coordinate care for any serious mental health issues through San Mateo Medical Center; pediatric mental health crises are coordinated through Lucile Packard Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Stanford, Alexander said. Having radiology and expanded laboratory and pharmacy services on site could also help save lives. Many patients do not have access to a vehicle, and some patients forgo a mammogram or getting medicine because getting to the county hospital in San Mateo or to a pharmacy is a hardship, Alexander said. Electronic self-registration kiosks with instructions in English, Spanish and Tongan are aimed at improving efficiency. And a pharmacy with three cashiers will now serve all patients â&#x20AC;&#x201D; up to 14,000 annually â&#x20AC;&#x201D; compared to only 1,930 uninsured patients in the old modular building, Alexander said during a tour of the new facilities on Tuesday. Each department is decked out in a different color â&#x20AC;&#x201D; peach for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services, soothing light blue for pediatrics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and signage for each department contains symbols for those who are unable to read, a toothbrush for dental care, a rib cage and lung image for radiology. Every detail, from the tiny chairs and tables for children and playground outside to the art collection on the walls, considers the diversity and cultures of the Ravenswood community, Alexander said. Paintings and bas-relief sculptures were custom created for the building by the Mural, Music and Arts Project, and textiles and cultural symbols were carefully researched to include examples from African, Pacific Islander, Native American and Latin American cultures. An onsite Stanford Health Library is also available to the entire community, Alexander said. The new medical facilities are scheduled to open for patient care in mid-April. Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand opening is free and open to the public. Festivities include live music and cultural dance performances, refreshments, ribbon cutting, a guided tour and remarks by East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier, Congresswoman Jackie Speier and other special guests. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, April 20th, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Adoption of Local Amendments to the California Green Building Code and the California Energy Code as Recommended by the Finance Committee. BETH MINOR Acting City Clerk

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St. Albert the Great 1095 Channing Ave.

Easter Sunday, April 5 8:00am & 10:15am Communion w/organ,trumpet,choir 11:30am Egg hunt, Brunch buffet Nursery available 10-11:30am

EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 5, 2015: ST. ALBERT THE GREAT 1095 Channing Ave. 9:00 AM (English) OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY 3233 Cowper St. 9:00 am (Spanish) 10:30 AM (English) ST. THOMAS AQUINAS 751 Waverley St. 7:30 am (English) 8:45 am (English) 10:30 am (English) 12:00 noon (Gregorian)

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Peninsula Easter Services

Celebrate the Resurrection Sunday April 5 9:15 am Light Brunch and Egg Hunt 10:00 am Family Worship

First Baptist Church • 1100 Middle Ave Menlo Park

Join Us for Easter!

(650) 323 8544 • www.firstbaptist.com

Community Worship Service

ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PALO ALTO Maundy Thursday— April 2 Y 6:15pm

10:30am, Sanctuary

Children’s Easter Egg Hunt 11:30am, Courtyard

Monastic Supper & Liturgy of the Word followed by Holy Eucharist & Stripping of the Altar

www.fprespa.org • 1140 Cowper St. • 650-325-5659

Good Friday — April 3 Y Noon to 2:00pm A service focused on "The Adversaries and Companions of Jesus" Y 2:00 to 3:00pm Devotional Labyrinth Meditation Y 7:30 to 8:30pm Tenebrae: The Office of Shadows

Easter — April 5 Y 5:30am Y 8:00 to 9:30am Y 10:00am

Easter Vigil, Eucharist & Baptism Festive Breakfast & Family Easter Activities Festive Holy Eucharist

600 Colorado Ave, P.A. (650) 326-3800 www.saint-marks.com

ALL SAINTS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH 555 WAVERLEY STREET, PALO ALTO, www.asaints.org

HOLY WEEK & EASTER March 29 PALM SUNDAY 8am Holy Eucharist 10am Palm Procession & Eucharist

April 2 Maundy Thursday 5 pm Light Supper 7pm Eucharist with footwashing 30

April 3 Good Friday Noon Commemoration of the Passion Veneration of the Cross 6pm Solemn Evensong of the Burial of Christ

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Covenant Presbyterian Church March 29th Palm/Passion Sunday 10:30 a.m. Worship Procession of the Palms April 2nd Maundy Thursday 7:30 p.m. Worship A Liturgical Drama and the Sacrament of the Last Supper April 3rd Good Friday 7:30 p.m. Tenebrae Scripture reading, music and the extinguishing of the lights comprise this powerful service of remembrance. April 4th Holy Saturday 10:00 a.m. Children’s Easter Egg Hunt Activities to celebrate Easter April 5th Easter Sunday 6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service On the Patio/Breezeway Sunrise meditation Breakfast follows 10:30 a.m. Worship A Celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ with music, scripture, proclamation of The Word and Communion. Bring fresh flowers for the Easter Cross. Rev. Dr. Margaret Boles Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto 94306 (650) 494-1760 www.CovenantPresbyterian.net

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April 4 Holy Saturday 8pm Great Vigil of Easter with Reception

April 5 Easter Sunday 10am Festival Eucharist Music – The Whole Noyse Brass Followed by Egg Hunt & Easter Brunch

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Lillian Cincone

(1923 – 2015)

Lillian Cincone, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, passed away on March 16, 2015, at the age of 89. Lillian was born in Germany and grew up in Brooklyn; she moved to Palo Alto in the late 1950s. She was an avid traveler who lived abroad for extended periods in France, Italy, Morocco, and Mexico, and toured extensively in many areas of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. She held leadership positions in the National Organization for Women and co-founded the International Women’s Studies Institute, and was a dedicated employee of the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco until her retirement at age 84. Lillian held bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Jose State University, the latter obtained at the age of 62. She was predeceased by her beloved son Nicolas, and is survived by daughters Gia and Suzy and grandchildren Hannah and Isaac. Memorial donations may be made to the Global Fund for Women, www.globalfundforwomen.org. PAID

Bette D. Moorman, 91, of Atherton, passed away peacefully on March 16th at Stanford Hospital. Born in Duluth, MN, Bette graduated from The Masters School (Dobbs Ferry, NY) in 1940, and went on to major in Child Study at Vassar. A lifelong advocate for children, Bette supported Stanford’s Department of Child Psychiatry, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Child Advocacy Council, and many other groups. Bette was preceded in death by her brother Fred and her husband, Albert J. Moorman, who she married in 1949. She is survived by her children Lisa Fremont and Mark Moorman, their spouses Mike and Cameil, and five grandchildren, Daniel, Grace, Yasmeen, Christian, and Andrew. A celebration of Bette’s life will be held on July 17th at 2 pm. at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Reading Partners, 180 Grand Ave - Suite 800, Oakland, CA 94612.

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Showings by Model Suites at Appointment Kensington Place Are Now Open for Tours

Kensington Place will feature best-in-class caregiving and a full spectrum of clinical support for seniors who are facing the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Two unique neighborhoods—both designed, customized and appointed to help

Palo Alto

March 18-24

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Trailer theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. muni. code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sitting on sidewalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Solicitation without permit . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Menlo Park March 18-24

Call 650-363-9200 to schedule your visit and personally guided tour e are pleased to announce the opening of our furnished model suites at Kensington Place, a new memory care community currently under development in Redwood City. We plan to officially open our doors this summer, but we welcome you now for a sneak preview.

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keep residents comfortable and safe—will accommodate their highly specialized needs. Connections is for residents in the early to middle stages of memory loss. Haven is for residents in the middle to late stages. Completion of our model suites means we are closer to bringing our expertise, care and love to you and your family. We are excited to share our progress with you. Please call us to make arrangements for a personalized tour and to tell us how we can help keep life as joyful as possible while coping with the changes that come with memory loss. RCFE License Pending

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Internet scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Bicycle found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 3 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession or paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Starr King Circle, 3/19, 5:10 p.m.; family violence/misc. Ventura Avenue, 3/20, 7 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. 500 block Lytton Ave., 3/24, 1:43 p.m.; battery/simple.

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1100 block Hollyburne Ave., 3/18, 4:09 p.m.; assault. 1300 block Hill Ave., 3/21, 11:12 a.m.; battery. 400 block Ivy Drive, 3/23, 10:21 a.m.; spousal abuse. 00 block Coleman Place, 3/23, 10:37 p.m.; spousal abuse. 500 block El Camino Real, 3/24, 1:17 a.m.; battery.

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Catharine Fruth Catharine Ann Hershey Fruth, a 57-year resident of Palo Alto, died on March 15 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. She was 91. She was born on April 3, 1923, at her grandmother’s house in Indianola, Iowa. She grew up there wit h her four younger brothers, eventually going on to study at Simpson College and Iowa State University, where she graduated in 1944 with a bachelor’s degree in home economics. She met Carroll Fruth while at Iowa State, and they married in 1944. She and Carroll lived in Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Burbank, California, before finally settling in Palo Alto, where they raised their four children. She served as president of the Hays Elementary School PTA and of the local chapter of the American Association of University Women. For a time she worked as a special education teacher’s aide. She later returned to school, receiving a master’s degree in home economics education from San Jose State University and a master’s degree in special education from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont. Then she taught children with learning disabilities for more than 10 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Carroll Fruth; son-inlaw, Ken Uhland; and her four brothers. She is survived by her four children, Patricia (Stan) Severson of El Cerrito, California, Margaret Fruth of Palo Alto, Catharine (Don) Matthews of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Robert (Cynthia Finnell) Fruth of Seattle; and five grandchildren, Mary Matthews of Rochester Hills, Michigan, Elisabeth (Meagan Bemer) Severson of Seattle, Donald Matthews III of Findlay, Ohio, Catharine (Kenneally Harder) Hershey of Santa Clara and Zachary Finnell Fruth of Seattle. She is also survived by her sisters-in-law, Jeanne Hershey of Overland Park, Kansas, and Jane Hershey of Oldfield, Missouri; and many nieces, nephews, greatnieces and great-nephews. A memorial service will be held on April 4 at 11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memo-

Memorial service Vincent DePaul Collins II, a Palo Alto resident, died on March 19. He was 70. A memorial service will be held on March 28 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, 1146 University Ave., San Jose.

rial donations can be made to the First United Methodist Church, the Virginia M. Gladney Professorship in Food Science and Nutrition at Iowa State University, or a charity of the donor’s choice.

Jenny Rudin Jenny Rudin, a longtime Palo Alto resident and violin teacher, died on Feb. 27. She was 86. She was born Eugenia Sadowsky on April 1, 1928, in Baranovicz, Poland. Soon after the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact that partitioned Poland, her father was imprisoned and the family sent to an internment camp in Siberia. Having played violin since age 4, Jenny found a way to study music at the Moscow Conservatory and briefly after the war at the Akademie der Kunst in Munich. Soon after she emigrated with her family to Israel in 1948. There she served in the Israeli Army by entertaining troops and took courses at Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music. Seven years later, she traveled to the U.S. to study

on scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music. By chance she was reunited with Benjamin Rudin, who had studied with her violin teacher in Poland. Marrying in 1956, they moved to California in 1959 and settled in Palo Alto to raise their two daughters. She soon set up a garage studio for teaching private lessons. In the coming years, she instructed at the Nueva Learning Center, the College of Notre Dame and San Jose State University and taught summer workshops for local youth orchestras. In 1985, she started Baroque Sinfonietta, a chamber music group without a conductor composed mostly of her students. She also performed with various Peninsula groups, principally with Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra as its concertmistress for 10 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Benjamin Rudin, in 2000. She is survived by her two daughters, Norah Rudin and Dahna Rudin, both of Mountain View; her older sister, Lilia Lender of Palo Alto; and her nephews. A memorial service will be held on March 28 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Melvin J. Small, Jr. Mel passed away peacefully on November 14, 2014, with his wife Victoria by his side. Mel was born in Sacramento on September 9, 1924. He was an Eagle Scout. After graduating from Barstow High School, Mel enlisted in the Navy. He attended Notre Dame, Harvard, and graduated from USC. Mel served in the South Pacific during WWII as a Naval Officer. After leaving the Navy, Mel was employed with F.W.Woolworth Co. and moved to Palo Alto, where he raised his five children. Mel retired from Woolworths as the Director of Public and Labor Relations. Upon his retirement Mel and Victoria moved to Arnold. Mel began a new career as a realtor for Century 21 in Arnold. After 20 years in Arnold, Mel and Victoria moved to Murphys. Mel and Victoria became accomplished runners and long distance walkers. After running their first marathon, they took up hiking and back packing. Their first walking adventure was walking up the Pacific Coast and down Atlantic Coast of the United States. They also walked Great Britain, New Zealand, and Hawaii. One of their most enjoyable adventures was running 6 miles around each of the 50 state capitols. Mel had an inquisitive spirit, great sense of humor, and a gift for story telling. Additional interests included: writing, art, gardening, mountain climbing, and sailing. Locally, Mel was known for his artistic talent. He enjoyed painting over 250 portraits of beloved family pets for friends and neighbors. Many of Mel’s painting are displayed in various locations around Murphys. Mel was an active member of the Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sonora, Christian Science Churches. He was a devoted husband to his wife of 68 years, Victoria, and a loving father to his children: Mardi Quain (Skip), Susan Breuer (Ed), Barbara Esslingen (Karl) and Janice Brethauer (Jay), and son, Tom Small. Private family services have been held. PAID

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Earl Wendell Chambers, 70, passed away on March 19, 2015, at his home in Hollister, CA. Wendell was born on August 21, 1944, in Marysville, CA to Earl and Shirley Chambers. Wendell is survived by his wife, Danni Chambers; loving parents, Earl and Shirley Chambers; sister Earlene Chambers; children Dorcy Kaplan, Tracy Radwan and Kevin Chambers. A Celebration of Life will be held on March 29th at 2 pm at Gilroy Gaits, 7800 Lake Road, Hollister, CA. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the American Cancer Society or an organ donor network such as Donate Life. PAID

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LaVon Morton December 26, 1930 – March 12, 2015 LaVon Morton died at home in Palo Alto, California, on March 12, at the age of 84, surrounded by her family. She was born in Russell, Kansas, to Ralph and Hazel Palmer. After graduating from Kansas State University with a degree in education, she worked at a children’s radio station and as a teacher before marrying Dean Morton in 1953 and starting her own family. With their growing band of children, she and Dean moved frequently while he served in the Air Force, attended Harvard Business School and pursued a career in the electronics industry. She never hesitated to put her family’s interests ahead of her own. Between 1954 and 1960 she had four children in four different cities. During their years at Harvard, between taking care of all domestic chores and the bulk of the daily parenting, she typed Dean’s papers and gave birth to their fourth child. When Dean was hired by Hewlett-Packard after graduating in 1960, she and Dean drove from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Palo Alto with all four children (ranging in age from four months to five years). LaVon was an integral part of his 32 years with HP. She was the quintessential mother. Whenever a new grandchild was born, she was on the road to be with the newborn and parents as soon as possible after the birth. Love for her family was also evident in the many holiday gatherings and vacations that she planned and organized. No family birthday, anniversary or graduation was ever left uncelebrated without a card, gift, party or all three. She and Dean enjoyed travel, sports, concerts, plays, and the many performances and athletic events in which their children and grandchildren participated. An accomplished and inventive cook, she often brought home culinary ideas from her trips abroad. She could prepare a full course meal of Moroccan or Indian cuisine as easily as she could singlehandedly make a Thanksgiving feast for 30. She was a talented, generous, caring and elegant woman who was loved and admired by all who knew her. The family would like to thank the many friends who visited LaVon in her last days and also express their deepest gratitude to Dr. Mehrdad Ayati and Dr. Ryan Van Wert. They went beyond the call of duty to care for LaVon and provide advice and solace to the entire family. LaVon is survived by Dean Morton, her husband of 62 years; four children: Lynn Magill, Lori Potter, Craig Morton and Cherie Baylis; 14 grandchildren: Erica, Adam, Ilana, and Aaron Magill; Kelci, Robyn and Nathaniel Potter; Kara Potter Pennington; Sarah, Anna, Kelly, and John Morton; Tyler and Cole Baylis; and two great-grandchildren: Taj and Sparrow Potter. A memorial service in her honor is being planned. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity or service organization of the donor’s choice. PAID

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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

For more information about these camps, see our online directory of camps at www.paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/ To advertise in this weekly directory, call: 650-326-8210

Arts, Culture, Other Camps

Athletics Camp Campbell

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)

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.org/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

Stanford Jazz Workshop

Stanford University Campus

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 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

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

Academics

Santa Cruz Mountains

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

Hi Five Sport

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

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

Summer Camp@SportsHouse (Powered by Skyhawks)

Redwood City

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

Academics Alexa Café

Palo Alto High School

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

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

Harker Summer Programs

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

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iD Game Design and Development Academy

Stanford

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

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

Professional Tutoring Services of Silicon Valley

Los Altos

Academic camps offering Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Spanish I, II, III in small groups. Four sessions starting June 15 through July 27. Sign up for all four or just one. Perfect for high school and junior high students taking high school level courses. $295 and up. Register online. www.ptstutor.com/summer-camps.html 650.948.5137

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

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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650.323.1111 | MENLO PARK 1550 El Camino Real

650.462.1111

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Supriya Gavande 650.556.3890 sgavande@apr.com

Grace C. Wu Palo Alto

Julie Tsai Law 650.799.8888 julie@julietsailaw.com

Call for Price

Stunning +/-1 acre PA estate offers endless visual appeal w/ SF Bay views & masterfully designed MH&GH by renowned architect Stephen Pogue. Outstanding close-in location.

Atherton

$11,499,000

Built in 2006. 5 spacious suites over 1.5 acres. Elegant LR & DR, chef’s kitchen, media room and library. 12 car garage, koi pond and sport court.

650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

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Arti Miglani 650.804.6942 amiglani@apr.com

Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

Palo Alto

$9,500,000

Premier Crescent Park home on over ½ acre of award winning magical gardens. The 4725 SF home offers 5+bd and the ultimate indoor-outdoor lifestyle.

Palo Alto

Call for Price

Located in sought-after Crescent Park, this Spanish Colonial Revival home was extensively remodeled in 2011, the original ﬁne craftsmanship and appeal have been preserved.

650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com

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Derk Brill 650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

Umang Sanchorawala

Jenny Teng Palo Alto

$8,150,000

Represented buyer. Historic Professorville home on a park like 20,000sf lot. A complex negotiation resulted in a signiﬁcantly reduced sales price for the buyers.

Los Altos Hills

$6,500,000

Stylish, elegant 6bd, 6ba estate home is located on 3+ acres near Palo Alto Hills Country Club. The grounds offer a sunswept terrace, a sparkling pool and spa. Represented buyer.

650.245.4490 jteng@apr.com

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Monica Corman 650.465.5971 mcorman@apr.com

Sherry Bucolo Menlo Park

$6,500,000

This beautiful, custom 5bd/5ba home with a one bedroom guest house on a nicely landscaped half-acre lot in west Menlo Park sold with multiple offers.

Palo Alto

$5,989,000

This stunning 2-story traditional home located on a coveted street in Old Palo Alto offers 4bd/3ba plus guest quarters. Professional landscaped gardens, patios, separate garage.

650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

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Valerie Lo 650.288.2237 vlo@apr.com

Jenny Teng Palo Alto

$5,998,000

A Jewel in prestigious Old Palo Alto! Exceptional quality throughout three stories of luxurious comfortable living on a private ground. For more details, call Valerie.

Los Altos Hills

$5,600,000

Tranquil estate with spectacular views. Floor plan is exquisitely appointed w/4bd, 5ba, grand outdoor entertaining area w/terrace, & vineyard. Represented buyer.

650.245.4490 Jteng@apr.com

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Judy Citron 650.543.1206 jcitron@apr.com

Carol & Nicole Palo Alto

$ 5,495,000

Magical over-sized lot of 12,363 sf located in the coveted neighborhood of Old Palo Alto. Classic Ranch-style home rarely available with beautiful mature landscaping.

Palo Alto

$5,400,000

Classic architecture and beautiful interior design harmonize to create a warm, welcoming 5bd/5ba home with generous spaces and an ideal ﬂoor plan.

650.543.1195 CarolandNicole@ apr.com

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Liz Rhodes 650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

Nadr Essabohy 650.248.5898 nessabhoy@apr.com

Palo Alto

Call for Price

This stunning Spanish style home balances modern comfort with a touch of old world charm. 5 bed, 4 bath. Approx. 3,900 s.f living; 7,400 s.f lot.

Los Altos

Call for Price

Modern home in North Los Altos offers 8bd/5.5ba, 39-ft. indoor salt water pool, and home theatre.

John Forsyth James 650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com

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Sherry Bucolo 650.207.2017 sbucolo@apr.com

Palo Alto

$4,980,000

Craftsman near Walter Hays Elementary and Rinconada Park. 4,100sf ﬂoor plan is appointed with hardwood ﬂoors, rich mill work and extensive use of natural stone.

Los Altos

$4,795,000

4bd, 4.5ba with attention to detail and exquisite design elements throughout. Fabulous neighborhood on one of Los Altos’ most coveted streets. Quiet cul de sac.

Lynn Wilson Roberts 650.255.6987 lwilsonroberts@ apr.com

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Supriya Gavande 650.556.3890 sgavande@apr.com

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Samia Cullen Palo Alto Unique Leland Manor home with the best elements of California living~ ideal ﬂrpln, chef’s kitchen, views of gardens & sumptuous amenities close by. Represented Buyer.

Palo Alto

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Charming Tudor on a coveted street in Palo Alto. This remodeled home has 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, chef’s kitchen, family room, beautiful backyard with a swimming pool.

650.384.5392 scullen@apr.com

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1350 Miravalle, Los Altos

Delia Fei 650.269.3422 dfei@apr.com

Derk Brill Los Altos

$4,398,000

4 BR, 3.5 BA plus office w/access to backyard. Inviting living room w/ﬁreplace, spacious dining room. Private yard with built in barbecue, spa & swimmer’s pool! Represented buyer.

Los Altos

Call for Price

Newly constructed 5BR/4BA masterpiece with rustic inﬂuences, open ﬂoor plan, walls of glass, soaring ceilings. Outstanding location on oversized lot. Los Altos Schools.

SOL

Carol & Nicole 650.543.1195 CarolandNicole@ apr.com

Sherry Bucolo Palo Alto

$3,980,000

Captivating curb appeal is the ﬁrst hint of the interior beauty of this remodeled and expanded 4bd/3.5ba Crescent Park home.

SOL

Palo Alto

Call for Price

This updated, remodeled home is ideally situated just 5 blocks to Downtown. French doors open to the private patios and gardens. Sold in 6 days.

650.207.2017 sbucolo@apr.com

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Carol & Nicole 650.543.1195 CarolandNicole@ apr.com

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

Derk Brill Palo Alto

$3,900,000

Extraordinary space, excellent location close to town and Community Center. Dramatic high ceilings and expanses of glass with views of beautiful garden.

Palo Alto

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Charming Tudor in an excellent Community Center location. Gracious 4BR/2.5BA ﬂoorplan, spread over 2,550sf of living space

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

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Michael Hall 650.465.1651 mhall@apr.com

Carol & Nicole Menlo Park

Tricia Soliz 650.833.9442 tsoliz@apr.com

$3,395,000

Contemporary Elegance in Central Menlo Park, 5/3.5, updated for family living, beautiful outdoor spaces, 12K lot.

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$3,250,000

Exquisitely and authentically restored and renovated, turnof-the-century beauty! Convenient location near Stanford and California Avenue.

Grace C. Wu 650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

650.543.1195 CarolandNicole@ apr.com

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Greg Celotti Palo Alto

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Brand New Custom built home in Midtown. Architecturally designed w/ 4bd, 3ba, chefs kitchen, AC, alarm system. Close walk to school, library & Mitchell park.

Menlo Park

$3,100,000

Beautiful new construction 4 bed, 3.5 bath Craftsman style home in sought after Willows neighborhood.

650.740.1580 gcelotti@apr.com

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Carol Li

John Forsyth James

650.281.8368 cli@apr.com

650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com

Menlo Park

John Forsyth James 650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com

Call for Price

Updated & spacious 4 bed, 4.5 bath home with 3,310 SF located in West MP. Tall ceilings, hardwood ﬂoors, new carpet & painting, new stainless appliances.

Menlo Park

$2,798,000

This rare opportunity awaits your unique vision to build the area’s premier knoll-top estate on almost two-thirds of an acre.

Eva Voskerician 650.996.1834 evav@apr.com

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Scott Symon 650.543.1125 smsymon@apr.com

Lori Buecheler Portola Valley

Shary Symon 650.543.1029 ssymon@apr.com

$2,750,000

Located in sought-after Ladera, this mid-century modern home offers sweeping views of San Francisco and across the Bay.

Palo Alto

$2,507,000

Light-ﬁiled 3 bed/2 bath Eichler with top-rated Duveneck school across the street! Close to Edgewood Plaza, parks and Community Center. Represented buyer.

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

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Dana Van Hulsen 650.248.3950 dvanhulsen@apr.com

Menlo Park

$2,595,000

Felton Gables Home 4 BD/3.5 BA with Fabulous Family Room/Kitchen 3000+/- sf on 10,500 Lot Private Garden near Atherton Border & Close to prestigious MP schools.

Palo Alto

Call for Price

Michael Johnston 650.533.5102

Expanded and completely remodeled home with 5 mjohnston@apr.com bedrooms, 4 bedrooms + a bonus room and 1/2 bathroom contiguous with the detached garage.

SOL

John Forsyth James

Nick Granoski Los Altos

$2,498,000

650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com Premier North Los Altos location with 3 bed/3 bath, 2410+/- SF, resort-inspired amenities that include a steam shower, sauna, pool, hot tub, and sport court.

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$2,400,000

Light & bright, one-level ranch-style 3 bed, 2 ba home with remodeled chef’s kitchen. Top Los Altos schools.

Shari Ornstein 650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com

Stanford

Call for Price

Available Qualiﬁed Stanford Faculty Only! Sophisticated 4 bd /2.5 ba architect designed, superbly built, unique, split level, modern home.

415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

San Mateo

$2,300,000

This delightful 4 BR /2.5 BA home located in Baywood Park offers great schools, convenient location and comfortable living.

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

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Pamela Rummage Culp

650.269.8556 ngranoski@apr.com

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Carol & Nicole San Jose

$2,300,000

Sprawling ranch style home located on the Almaden Country Club Golf course. This lovely home has 4 BR/4.5 BA. Represented buyer.

PALO ALTO

$2,300,000

Architecturally distinct 2bd/3ba home embraces bold contemporary design and convenient urban living. Just blocks to downtown!

650.543.1195 CarolandNicole@ apr.com

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Greg Celotti 650.740.1580 gcelotti@apr.com

Monica Corman Palo Alto

Wonderful 3 bed, 2 bath single level home on a quiet street in the beautiful Green Gables neighborhood.

Lynn Wilson Roberts 650.255.6987 lwilsonroberts@ apr.com

$2,198,000

PALO ALTO

$2,195,000

Situated on a large lot in the Barron Park neighborhood, this 2bd/2ba includes a studio apartment over garage. Colist with Mandy Safka.

Derk Brill Los Altos

$2,095,000

This lovely 5 bedroom, 3 bath home is located in the sought after Country Club area and has appealing ambiance, great schools and a convenient location.

Mountain View

$1,895,000

Outstanding Waverly Park Location. Spacious & updated 1,900sf 3BR/2BA, on park like 10k+ lot in a quiet cul-da-sac location. Award winning Mountain View schools.

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Karen Young Los Altos

$1,851,000

Tucked away in a private setting of the prestigious LA country club. This 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom two-story home is beautifully ﬁnished. Sold with Multiple offers.

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Palo Alto

$1,850,000

Jean-Luc Laminette 650.833.9336

Beautiful detached end unit in Sterling Park backing to jllaminette@apr.com a walking trail. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, Bamboo ﬂooring, gourmet kitchen, top PA schools.

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Monica Corman 650.465.5971 mcorman@apr.com

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

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650.400.8228 kyoung@apr.com

650.465.5971 mcorman@apr.com

Denise Simons MENLO PARK

$1,850,000

Very charming, classic Tudor-style, three bedroom and two bath home in downtown Menlo Park.

Palo Alto

$1,788,000

Move right into this 3 bed, 2 bath Eichler with lots of natural light and an open ﬂoor plan. Updated kitchen & baths, radiant heated bamboo ﬂoors and bonus room. Gunn High.

650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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Michael Hall 650.465.1651 mhall@apr.com

Terry Rice 650.207.4142 trice@apr.com

Redwood City

Call for Price

4bd, 3ba with granite countered kitchen and easy access to yard with a built outdoor kitchen. Solar system keeps energy costs low! Entertainers delight! Represented Buyer.

Mountain View

Call for Price

Beautifully expanded and updated 3/2 with converted garage/family room. Chef’s kitchen.

SOL

Lori Buecheler 650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

Tricia Soliz 650.833.9442 tsoliz@apr.com

Lynne Mercer San Carlos

$1,750,000

Charming curb appeal and fresh ﬁnishes highlight this fabulous home close to Burton Park and Laurel Street shopping and dining. Fully remodeled with amazing light.

Woodside

$1,699,000

Gorgeous 3BR/2BA contemporary with vaulted ceilings, walls of glass, wraparound balconies for a wonderful indoor/outdoor feel. Represented buyer.

650.906.0162 Lmercer@apr.com

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Charlene Chang 650.814.2913 cchang@apr.com

Denise Simons San Mateo

Sandra Yie 650.533.7943 syie@apr.com

$1,598,000

Beautiful 4 BR single story home w/ panoramic canyon views, great ﬂoor plan, expansive decks and landscaped gardens

Redwood City

$1,435,000

Charming 3 bed, 2 bath home on a 10,000+ sf lot. Features include updated baths, hardwood ﬂoors, 3-car garage and expansive backyard. Sold with 10 offers.

650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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Ali Rad 650.544.5551 arad@apr.com

Ling Lau Mountain View

$1,428,000

Resort style living in Desirable Cuernavaca, ground ﬂoor bedroom and full bath, Living room with two story wall of windows, two heat and A/C units. Close Mtn. View top schools.

Mountain View

$1,400,000

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with a detached cottage with living room, kitchen and bathroom. Close to highly rated schools, close to Downtown Mountain View.

650.269.6809 llau@apr.com

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Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

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Catherine Shen San Francisco

$1,300,000

Gorgeous bay views from the inviting living room in this 2BR/2BA unit located in a boutique building near the Embarcadero. Represented buyer.

Palo Alto

$1,280,000

Beautiful 2 stories Townhome in central location, 2bd, 2.5ba, 1375 sf with open ﬂoor plan, high ceilings and nicely landscaped patio and yard.

650.862.5268 cshen@apr.com

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Liz Rhodes Mountain View

$1,250,000

Delightful 3 bed, 2.5 bath end-unit townhouse with updated kitchen, huge living/dining room, two car garage, and close proximity to Google. Sold with 10 offers.

Redwood City

$899,000

Located near Sequoia Station, this 3bd/2ba offers hardwood ﬂoors, updated master bath and spacious backyard.

650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

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Janie and John Barman 650.759.1182 janie@apr.com

Andrea Schultz Redwood City

$839,000

Bathed in afternoon sun, this inviting west side home features a tastefully remodeled kitchen and baths and charming living room built-ins.

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Menlo Park

$788,000

Charming 2bd, 2ba home. Completely remodeled from top to bottom. Beautiful ﬁnishes throughout, large private yard. Convenient location with easy access to 101.

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650.575.3632 aschultz@apr.com

Shari Ornstein MENLO PARK

$681,000

Ideal starter home with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with remodeled kitchen plus family room opening to sunny garden.

Stanford

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For eligible Stanford Faculty only! Newly painted and carpeted 2 bd /2ba 2nd ﬂoor bright condo overlooking lovely greenbelt & mature trees.

650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com

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Editorial Development limits: a modest start A cautious council finds consensus on an interim ‘cap’

fter a series of three long and exhausting meetings, an ambivalent Palo Alto City Council Monday night mustered an unexpected unanimous vote in support of a modest temporary limit on new office development downtown, in the California Avenue business district and along El Camino Real. When the staff returns with the outline of a formal ordinance in May, unless changed, the cap will limit new commercial development to an aggregate of 50,000 square feet per year. The cap would remain in effect until the adoption of an updated Comprehensive Plan, expected to occur in late 2016 or early 2017, which will then guide future growth. It was a less bold action than many in the community were hoping for, considering that last November’s election shifted the balance of power on the council to those who have advocated strong steps to address the effects of recent commercial development and the problems of under-parked buildings and traffic congestion. In some respects, it was a fool’s errand. While imposing development caps seems like a simple way to rein in the pace of new building, it’s a blunt instrument and primarily a way to buy time. The real answers lie in detailed zoning-policy changes that make the approval of new development contingent on the provision of adequate parking and improvements to our transportation infrastructure, and a vision on the appropriate pace and degree of such development. Short of an outright moratorium on new development approvals, which would have sharply divided the council and community, the council’s action achieves a couple of important purposes. It communicates the intent to proceed with the hard work of crafting the rules and zoning regulations necessary to more directly address development pressures, and it demonstrates that the new council majority has decided it is better to proceed cautiously as it implements its agenda. Hopefully, this will calm some of the unwarranted fears expressed by some in the business and development community, who have attempted to paint any development cap as a dangerous risk to the local economy. The council, led by Pat Burt, managed to find a moderate path, on which all could agree, toward its ultimate objective of curtailing development that creates worsening traffic and parking conditions in the city. It’s a good start. By deciding not to apply the temporary cap to the Stanford Research Park, it avoided (or put off) a possible battle with some of the city’s largest companies that are located away from vulnerable shopping districts, and by setting a cap of 50,000 square feet, it left some room for interim development in the three business districts. (The average annual growth in office or research and development space has been about 67,000 square feet since 2008.) Much will depend on the yet-to-be-worked-out details of how projects in the pipeline will be counted toward the cap and the mechanisms the city will establish for choosing among proposed developments. With many other initiatives underway, including an expanded ground-floor-retail ordinance, the downtown residential-parkingpermit program, a transportation-demand-management program to reduce commute traffic, the use of technology to manage downtown parking spaces, expansion of the shuttle system and data collection from the new business registry, there is much important progress. The greatest danger, in fact, is in trying to accomplish so many different things at once that it exceeds the staff’s capacity to do them well. The city planning staff has been scrambling to respond to the council’s shifting desires ever since the defeat of Measure D sent a strong message that residents wanted tougher development controls. The needs and wants of three new council members and a shift in the political majority have created additional challenges and burdens. In this unsettled environment and to its credit, the planning staff has done an outstanding job at developing much-needed data and analysis for those with the interest and patience to study them, while it pushes forward to implement already-approved initiatives. Frustrating as it may feel to both “residentialists” and those who fear stagnation if development is overly restricted, the council’s unavoidable messy process is moving us closer to where we think the majority of residents want to be.

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Off Deadline Miss Wesson’s special gift to generations by Jay Thorwaldson did a bit of time travel this month: I visited my third-grade teacher, “Miss Wesson,” from Los Gatos Elementary School. I went to her home in Saratoga, which was filled with memories and reminders of her life and late husband, journalist, attorney and historian Willys Peck, who died last year. There was something special about Miss Wesson, my hands-down favorite teacher in elementary school. One special thing was that on pupils’ birthdays she would give a token gift. In my case, perhaps in all cases, it was a nickel in a small cardboard box. For some reason that meant a lot more than five cents, and I saved it — it may still be around somewhere. Now in her mid-90s and moving slowly but with a quick, sharp memory, Miss Wesson, now Betty Peck, and I ventured back nearly seven decades. We talked of her seven years teaching third grade, then of her being recruited to coach and train all lowerelementary teachers throughout San Mateo County for five years, prior to her marriage. I had never been in contact with her before, except for an odd connection when I was at San Jose State University. I worked for a couple of years delivering milk in Los Gatos and Saratoga for a raw-milk dairy called Claravale Farms. She and Willys were on the Saratoga route, and I would reach their home about 5 a.m. when they were still asleep. I would quietly pull into a side driveway, enter by a side door, check inside an antique wooden “ice box” refrigerator and replenish their milk, eggs, butter and cottage cheese. I later got to know Willys when I was working for the erstwhile Palo Alto Times in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a longtime reporter for the San Jose Mercury and the son of a 1920s publisher of the Saratoga Star newspaper, Llewellen Peck. Willys was trained as a lawyer, but his father’s footsteps beckoned him, along with his inquiring mind. Willys and I shared an adventure, of sorts. Our oldest children were enrolled in the historic Los Gatos Parent Co-op nursery school, and every year there were a couple of parent work days to keep the old building spiffed up. He and I were assigned the job of extending electricity to an add-on room. We spent the day bending metal conduit, mounting metal boxes and wiring an overhead light fixture, switches and plugs, in spite of my misgivings about ever asking a journalist to do something in the real world. The next morning I got a pre-dawn call from Willys, who was checking police and fire beats. “Uh, Jay, the nursery school burned down last night.” Long pause. For about three days we believed we did it, until investigators concluded some kids had broken in and put a grocery bag on an electric burner. Whew. Betty shared a charming story. When she and Willys first became friends he soon proposed marriage. She declined, saying she would never marry a man

who didn’t own a house. Time passed, and after several more proposals and turn-downs, she received a telegram: “Have house. Will you marry me?” Yes, she replied in another telegram. They had two children, a daughter who followed her mother into teaching and a son who is an artist and poet. And that comes back to “Miss Wesson’s gift.” Not the nickel but a gift of herself to both her pupils and the many teachers she coached — and to the students they taught over the years. I asked what she thought made her such a special teacher, after she said other students have told her she made a real difference in their lives. “I felt every student was a special gift to me,” she said. That recognition of the individual, the spark of specialness, shined out of her as a young teacher as a brightness, a love of what she was doing and of her students. In San Mateo County, she met with teachers from kindergarten through third grade. She co-conducted classes to demonstrate technique, but most of all she passed along her beliefs as a gift that continued long after she retired. She once wrote a poem, “The Kindergarten Teacher’s Creed,” to encapsulate her gift: I bring the gift of myself To this celebration of life We call the kindergarten. I come each day To be refined, smoothed, tempered, For I hold in my hands, With wonder and gratitude, The future! Seeds of the future are in the oneness Of all nature and all people In tune with the divine to be found in our hearts That I give, through the joy and beauty of love. So I thought I’d pass along Betty Peck’s gift to today’s teachers and parents, worth so much more than a nickel, so much more. Q Former Palo Alto Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.

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The sorrows of young Palo Altans by Carolyn Walworth s I sit in my room staring at the list of colleges I’ve resolved to try to get into, trying to determine my odds of getting into each, I can’t help but feel desolate. As a junior at Palo Alto High School, and a student who has been through the entire PAUSD system, I feel qualified to speak about problems at our schools. My stress began in elementary school, where students were segregated into separate class meetings as “early” and “late” readers. Although we were just elementary schoolers, we perceived this as a differentiation between the less and more advanced students and either felt superior due to our intellect or shamed for a “lack” thereof. Middle school didn’t get any better. At the end of sixth grade, we were placed into either Pre-Algebra or Pre-Algebra Advanced, though nobody referred to the classes as such. Any math class without the word advanced in it was referred to as the “dumb” math lane (a label that has followed into high school math courses as well). I like to think of this as the reason I lost my enthusiasm and confidence for math so early — how could I possibly feel intelligent when the class I was in was considered dumb? That brings us to high school, where the serious stress begins. Upon entering high school, I was genuinely interested in learning. I wanted to use my education to achieve my goals and help solve problems in the world. A month or two into my freshman year, I felt the pressure building. It crushes you on the inside to see what appears to be the majority of your classmates acing tests with flying colors, while you’re just doing all right. A piece of you cringes when

you hear that your friend has been preparing for the SAT with classes since last summer and that they’re already scoring a 2,000. (And what about that freshman who mentioned he was already preparing to take his subject tests at the end of the year? And the girl taking a summer immersion program to skip ahead and get into AP French her sophomore year? And that internship your best friend has with a Stanford professor?) You can’t help but slip into the system of competitive insanity related to college admissions to achieve social normalcy. You learn that it is OK and necessary to have great apprehension regarding your grades. You focus on getting straight As. You go to bed at 1 a.m. every night, only to wake up a few hours later (earlier if you have morning practice for your sport) in an effort to get your excessive amount of homework finished each night. But at least you have the weekends to relax and pursue your own interests, right? No, there’s another surfeit of homework waiting for you on Friday night, plus SAT practice. Of course, we’re expected to maintain a social life and spend adequate time with our families as well. Don’t forget to add the typical pressures of being a teenager into the mix (troubled friendships, relationships, jealousy, identity issues, drugs, alcohol, hormones, general mental health issues, etc.). I could go on in detail about the times I’ve had to go to urgent care because my stress and ensuing physical pain have been so concerning. I could tell you how I’ve missed periods because I’ve had so many tests to study for. I could express what it feels like to have a panic attack in the middle of a 30-person class and be forced to remain still. I am sick and tired of seeing my classmates struggle with the challenges of being teenagers and having to deal with this lunacy on top of it. I feel nothing less than despair and empathy when I hear of another student who is suicidal or depressed. I want students in this district to be content, enjoy their lives and view our schools as places where they can

come and receive legitimate support for any of their problems. And, let me make clear, I understand that not all problems relating to suicide and depression are directly correlated to school. I am not saying that they are nor do I wish to assign blame for either of these issues to the schools. Suicidal thoughts and depression are complex, unique and extremely personal difficulties. However, it must still be acknowledged that when you are already struggling with such issues, being in a stressful, unpleasant and competitive environment for nearly eight hours a day that continues when you arrive home surely cannot help. Telling us to go see a school counselor for stress is insufficient. It is analogous to putting a Band-Aid over a fresh gunshot wound. Students in our district understand how to cope with stress; the real problem is that they simply have too much of it to cope with. Students are gasping for air, lacking the time to draw a measly breath in. We are lifeless bodies in a system that breeds competition and hatred and discourages teamwork and genuine learning. We lack sincere passion. We are sick. We, as a community, have completely lost sight of what it means to learn and receive an education. Why is that not getting through to this community? Why does this insanity that is our school district continue? It is time to rethink the way we teach students. It is time to re-evaluate and enforce our homework policy. It is time to impose harsher punishments upon teachers who do not comply with district standards such as not assigning homework during finals review time. It is time to hold school officials accountable. Right now is the time to act. Effective education does not have to correlate to more stress. Challenging oneself academically and intellectually should be about just that — a mental challenge that involves understanding concepts at a deeper level. The ever-increasing intertwinement between ad-

vanced courses and excessive homework only demonstrates our district’s shortcomings, our teachers’ inabilities to teach complex materials in a way that students are entertained by and can understand. Instead, they rely on excessive homework to do the teaching for them. These are issues that absolutely cannot wait. Please, no more endless discussions about what exactly it is that is wrong with our schools, and, above all, no more empty promises. It is time to get to work. Whether you are a student, parent or concerned citizen, email Palo Alto’s superintendent, board members and high school administrators. Tell them that you will not continue to stand for the excessive stress that they and their colleagues impose upon our town’s teenagers. Tell them you demand that they get to work improving the quality of life for students. Inform them that although it is nice of them to recognize student and staff successes at school board meetings, you would much rather see them devote the time to discussing how to improve student wellbeing at Paly and Gunn. Now that I’m nearing the end of my academic career in Palo Alto, I’d like to nostalgically look back and remember how much fun I had growing up, learning and being a teenager in our city. I’m sorry to say I won’t be able to do that even in the slightest degree. Q Carolyn Walworth is the Palo Alto High School student representative on the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education. The Palo Alto Weekly has created a Storify page to capture the numerous voices, opinions and our news coverage on teen wellbeing. To view it, go to Storify.com. Editor’s note: Since it was published on PaloAltoOnline.com on March 25, the essay has been viewed more than 62,000 times, shattering Palo Alto Online records. It has been viewed by people around the world.

Flat isn’t fair

on the value of a parcel. Nevertheless, there are ways to more closely align contributions with wealth. For example, a variable parcel tax based on property size might serve as a reasonable proxy. In any event, school finance and tax-law experts could certainly recommend alternatives that would be both feasible and fair for the community at large. Jaclyn Schrier Alma Street, Palo Alto

plan focuses on creating a healthier high school environment by improving the bond between teachers and students. I have lived in Palo Alto for 45 years. I have two adult children who went through PAUSD from Pre-school Family to graduation from Paly. I am a former PTA president and PTA council member, and I was part of a group that spearheaded the Parent Network Projects in the ‘80s. I’ve observed great changes in our community’s culture since then. I now have two grandchildren in PAUSD on track to attend Paly. I am deeply concerned about the current social and academic environment in Palo Alto, and “Save the 2,008” gives me hope that the high school environment can be a healthier one when my grandchildren get there. And, it’s common sense. Gloria Symon Patricia Lane, Palo Alto

of these tragedies (and how sadly surreal that the modifier “every time” even applies), we as parents receive essentially the same email. “Our condolences.” “Counselors are standing by.” “Make sure your student talks to you.” And the most insulting, the trotting out of “mental health studies” and the various things these studies deem important. Aren’t we past this point? Isn’t it time for the kinds of changes that make people sit up and take notice? Haven’t we engaged in enough ponderous head scratching and panels of experts? Proposals like homework-free weeks, a general reduction of homework by half or test exemptions (not postponements — full exemptions) for students who are feeling overwhelmed may seem like extreme ohno-no-we-can’t-do-that suggestions — but at this point I wish someone would tell me, how extreme does a situation have to be before the proposed solutions entail major, tangible changes? How many students have to be lost? Perhaps it is time to start worrying less about the parents who would feel discomfort at Palo Alto schools imperceptibly dropping in academic prestige and start worrying more about the large percentage of parents who are becoming increasingly frustrated at the district’s continued wan response to these student suicides. Dewi Faulkner, parent of a Gunn junior and Terman eighth-grader

Editor, Until now, I never met a school tax, bond, raffle, car wash or bake sale that I didn’t automatically and enthusiastically support. I believe in public education as fundamental to equalization and opportunity that benefits individual and society alike. I feel proud to live in a town that places such high value on the schools. But lately, I feel uneasy with the flat parcel tax as an on-going mechanism for augmenting the school budget. It is regressive in that it takes a proportionally greater amount from those with lower incomes. While the bill may seem modest to more affluent residents, we should not forget those who struggle to make ends meet. Furthermore, the choice to exempt seniors but not the disabled seems rather arbitrary and suggests political expedience. There is no reason to believe that the disabled are better positioned to pay the tax than the elderly. Of course, seniors are a powerful voting block whereas the disabled lack comparable clout. If the schools require supplemental capital on a long-term, annual basis, it is essential that city and school leaders find a more progressive funding solution. Granted, this might not be easy. State law prohibits some of the obvious options: Cities may neither enact taxes based on personal income nor

Action now Editor, In this community of brilliant people and high achievers and the widespread pursuit of excellence, where is the common sense? The standout voice of reason in the dialogue surrounding the state of affairs in Palo Alto following the horrific deaths of our children is “Save the 2,008.” (savethe2008.com) There are numerous issues that must be addressed: sleep deprivation, unrealistic expectations by parents, excessive pressure and stress, to name just a few. The issues will continue to be discussed for a long time. Action is urgently needed now. There’s an obvious connection between the school environment and our children’s well being. “Save the 2,008” offers concrete uncomplicated solutions that could be implemented relatively quickly and easily. The

Changes needed Editor, There is a sense among much of the parent community that a small demographic of parents espousing a certain educational philosophy is currently driving the policies and culture of PAUSD and Gunn High specifically. Regardless of whether this is factually true, it is important to realize how pervasive and damaging this perception is. Every time our community experiences one

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A fresh new season of arts and entertainment by Elizabeth Schwyzer

Linda Gass’ stitched panting, “Owens River Diversion” (2012), is among the works included in the Silicon Valley Open Studios tour May 2-17.

Art

pring has officially sprung, and with the warmer days and brighter evenings comes a fresh new season of stimulating arts events. From an emerging contemporary dance company based in Mountain View to a visit from an innovative folk-punk band from Ukraine to a rare chance to peek inside working artists’ studios across the Silicon Valley, we’ve sorted through hundreds of events to bring

you some of spring’s hottest arts happenings. Read on for our top picks in each genre, plus a shortlist of other screenings, exhibitions, readings and performances worth catching. And it doesn’t stop here: Our listings at PaloAltoOnline.com/calendar feature many more arts events each week. We wish you a springtime bursting with art, entertainment and creative inspiration.

Silicon Valley Open Studios

Other art events: • “Spring Family Day,” Palo Alto Art Center, March 29: tinyurl.com/lh7vo4x • “Reigning Art,” Gallery House, March 31-April 25: galleryhouse2.com • “Along Highway 1,” Viewpoints Gallery, March 31-April 25: viewpointsgallery.com • “Promised Land: Jacob Lawrence,” Cantor Arts Center, April 1-Aug. 3: museum.stanford.edu • “LandEscapes,” Portola Art Gallery, April 1-30: portolaartgallery.com

Among the featured artists for 2015 is Linda Gass, whose arresting mixed-media works examine issues of land and water use by taking aerial views of Earth. Also participating in this year’s SVOS is Florence de Bretagne, whose vibrantly colorful, exuberant acrylic paintings capture the generative energy of spring. Artists will be available to discuss their creative process, share their materials and demonstrate their techniques. Works will also be on sale; for many collectors, the annual event is an affordable and meaningful way to build a personal art collection. The tour includes both well-established Bay Area artists and firsttime participants, making it a great way for curators, gallerists and art appreciators to discover new talent. The first weekend focuses on northern Silicon Valley, with the second weekend dedicated to the central communities and the third weekend centered on the region’s southern and coastal towns. A complete list of locations and artists is available online, including examples of work; hard copies of the SVOS directory will also be distributed at libraries and businesses throughout the Bay Area. Where: Various Silicon Valley locations When: Saturday, May 2-Sunday, May 17, weekend days 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to svos.org

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Books

‘The Internet Is Not the Answer’ Here in the heart of the Silicon Valley, innovation, technology and connectivity are more than buzzwords; they’re a way of life. But what do our linked-in lives and constant streams of status updates contribute to our lives — and what do they take away? Author, polemicist and public speaker Andrew Keen asks readers to grapple with these questions in his new book, “The Internet Is Not the Answer.” After 20 years working in the tech industry, Keen has established himself as one of today’s most outspoken critics of the Internet, with previous titles like “The Cult of the Amateur:

How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture” illuminating the downsides of the online age. Yet at the same time that he lambasts the Internet, he recognizes it as the catalyst for the greatest social shift since the Industrial Revolution. In his latest provocative, sharp and witty manifesto, Keen argues that the Internet has compounded social and economic inequities and detracted from the larger culture, and that we must carefully consider the ethical implications of life and business in the digital age. For a flavor of Keen’s stance and speaking style, check out his book trailer at ajkeen.com.

Other books events: • Dr. Scott Sampson: “How to Raise a Wild Child,” Books Inc., Palo Alto, March 31: booksinc.net • Barney Frank: “A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage,” Fox Theatre, April 1: keplers.com

Courtesy Andrew Keen

It’s one thing to enjoy a work of art displayed in a gallery or museum, quite another to step inside the artist’s studio to see how the work is made. Between Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 17, Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS) will mark its 29th year with three consecutive weekends of studio tours. From Menlo Park to Mountain View, Palo Alto to Portola Valley and beyond, more than 380 artists will be showing work in genres ranging from landscape painting, sculpture, photography and jewelry to Japanese woodcut, textiles, video and performance. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

Andrew Keen will appear at Kepler’s Books on Wednesday, May 20, to discuss his critique of the Silicon Valley, “The Internet Is Not the Answer.” Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: Wednesday, May 20, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $20 general seating, $40 premiere seating with a book Info: Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321

• Erik Larson: “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania,” Kepler’s Books, April 13: keplers.com • A reading by Thomas McGuane, Stanford’s Bechtel Conference Center, April 27: events.stanford.edu • “Selected Shorts,” Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall, May 15: live.stanford.edu

Cover Story About the cover: Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha Photo by Tetyana Vasylenko

Other film events: • “The Mask You Live In,” • • • •

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Film

‘The Hunting Ground’ It’s the most talked-about exposé of the moment: the film that scrutinizes the epidemic of sexual violence on American university campuses. Now, “The Hunting Ground” is coming to Palo Alto. The film will screen at Stanford on April 28 and will be followed by a panel discussion with the film’s producer, Amy

Ziering, and Stanford’s Title IX coordinator, Catherine Criswell Spear. The statistics are shocking: One in five female college students are sexually assaulted, yet few of these crimes are reported, and even fewer lead to punishment for the perpetrators. Through startling footage including interviews with experts and firstperson testimonies of survivors, “The Hunting Ground” uncovers a widespread system of denial, rationalizations and worse. From Ivy League

campuses to public institutions and small colleges, the culture of coverups has devastating consequences for students, their families and society at large and threatens the future of higher education. The film also follows the stories of rape survivors who are determined to change the culture by speaking out against sexual violence. Emmy-nominated Ziering is also the producer of 2012’s “The Invisible War” about sexual assault in the U.S. military, while Spear is an attorney who oversees

Stanford’s Cubberley Auditorium, March 31: tinyurl.com/ne7dqjg “God Loves Uganda,” Stanford’s History Corner, Bldg. 200, Room 002, April 3: events.stanford.edu “Man Bites Dog,” Stanford’s Pigott Hall, April 8: events.stanford.edu “Ararat,” Stanford’s Encina Hall, April 14: tinyurl.com/nkpyktx “Capturing Grace,” Stanford’s CEMEX Auditorium, April 18: events.stanford.edu

“The Hunting Ground” will screen at Stanford’s CEMEX Auditorium on Tuesday, April 28.

all student-related issues at Stanford University involving sexual harassment and assault. The screening and discussion are free and open to the general public, though advance reservations are recommended. Where: CEMEX Auditorium, 655 Knight Way, Stanford When: Tuesday, April 28, 7 p.m. A panel discussion follows the screening. Cost: Free Info: Go to events.stanford.edu

Dance Think of Hawaiian dance, and you’re likely to picture swaying hips and grass skirts. Think again. On April 17, Maui native and Stanford University graduate Ali McKeon will unveil her newest artistic endeavor: a dance inspired by her home state of Hawaii. “Rooted” is based on McKeon’s ethnographic research on Hawaiian culture and its influence on contemporary dance practitioners. Following the completion of her master’s degree in dance at U.C. Irvine, McKeon has returned to Palo Alto to launch a new dance company and continue to explore the intersections between dance and culture (and she’s also a current member of Menlowe Ballet in Menlo Park). “Rooted” is a work for four dancers that explores beauty and community as well as tension and resentment — all themes McKeon uncovered in the course of her research. With an original score by composer and percussionist Martim Galvão, “Rooted” is an aesthetic offering designed to appeal to all the senses. The performance marks the official launch of the Ali McKeon Dance Project and will be followed by a reception with the artists, including wine, beer and Hawaiian appetizers, or “pupus.” To learn more about McKeon’s work, visit her website at alimckeon.com. Where: Zohar Dance Company, 4000 Middlefield Road, L4, Palo Alto When: Friday, April 17-Saturday, April 18, 8 p.m. Cost: $20-$25 Info: Go to alimckeon.eventbrite.com

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‘Rooted’

Other dance events: • Menlowe Ballet’s “Rapture,” MenloAtherton Performing Arts Center, March 27-29: menloweballet.org • Firebird Dance Theatre’s Annual Benefit Performance, Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, OFJCC, March 29: tinyurl.com/qesytb9

• Compagnie Käfig, Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, April 21: live.stanford.edu • Western Ballet’s “Snow White,” Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, April 24-25: westernballet.org • Smuin Ballet’s “Unlaced,” Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, May 21-24: mvcpa.com

The Ali McKeon Dance Project will premiere “Rooted,” a new dance work exploring Hawaiian culture, April 17-18.

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Music

Other music events: • New Music for Treble Voices Festival, All Saints Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, March 28: pwchorus.org • California Pops Orchestra’s “Swing Time!,” Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, March 29: calpops.org • SFJAZZ Collective, Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall, April 22: live.stanford.edu • “In My Life: A Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles,” Fox Theatre, May 15: tinyurl.com/qgxxnwl • Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love, Shoreline Amphitheatre, May 20: tinyurl.com/ps83j9q

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Theater ‘The Addams Family’

For a ghoulishly satirical evening of entertainment, look no further than Palo Alto Players’ production of the 2010 Broadway musical, “The Addams Family,” which runs April 25 through May 10. With music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (“Big Fish”) and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (“Jersey Boys”), “The Addams Family” is based on Charles Addams’ original cartoons depicting a recurring cast of comically macabre characters. This unconventional romance inspired by 19th-century Gothic horror finds humor in overturning our assumptions about love. All the familiar family members are here: doting (if eccentric) parents Morticia and Gomez, sunken-eyed Uncle Fester and rival siblings Pugsley and Wednesday. In a perfect inversion of

Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford When: Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $30-$60 Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464

Gohar Dashti (Iran, b. 1980), Untitled #5 from the series Today’s Life and War (detail), 2008. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist, Azita Bina, and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. © Gohar Dashtiß

Watch YouTube videos of Andrew Keen, “The Hunting Ground,” Ali McKeon Dance Project and DakhaBrakha in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.

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Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha will perform at Bing Concert Hall on Wednesday, April 15.

Slavic folk meets post-punk in DakhaBrakha, the distinctive and highly theatrical Ukrainian quartet with an international sound. Based in Kiev, the band comes to Stanford April 15 to share its unique blend of Eastern and Western musical influences. This ain’t your babushka’s folk music: DakhaBrakha (the name means “give take” in the old Ukrainian language) blends traditional Ukrainian melodies with Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian instrumentation, resulting in a sound that’s truly not like anything else. In tracks like “Baby” and “Vesna” (“Spring”), chanting and soaring harmonies give way to powerful percussion and driving beats. Whether they’re playing accordion or cello, hand drums or didgeridoo, the band retains the spirit of their avant-garde theater roots and shares a creative vision that transcends national and political borders. To that end, DakhaBrakha performs all over the world; their Stanford visit is just one stop on a tour that includes the East Coast, France, Switzerland and Portugal. For sheer novelty, DakhaBrakha is a not-to-bemissed evening of music theater; where else are you going to see hats like these?

Betsy Kruse Craig as Morticia Addams, Joey McDaniel as Uncle Fester and Doug Santana as Gomez Addams star in Palo Alto players’ production of “The Addams Family.”

the ideal American family, the Addamses wonder why their teenage daughter suddenly refuses to wear black and fret about her boyfriend because he’s “too normal,” while young Pugsley can’t go to sleep until he’s assured there really is a monster under the bed. “The Addams Family” is recommended for audience members age 10 and up. Catch the production on opening night, Saturday, April 25, and stay afterward for a free reception with the cast. On Thursdays, April 30 and May 7, a talk-back with the cast and directors follows the show. Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Saturday, April 25-Sunday, May 10. Performances Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Cost: $16-$45 Info: Go to paplayers.org or call 650-329-0891.

Other theater events: • TheatreWorks’ “Fire on the Mountain,” Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, April 1-26: theatreworks.org • Los Altos Stage Company’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Bus Barn Theater, April 9-May 3: losaltosstage.org • Dragon Productions Theater Company’s “The Star Without a Name,” Dragon Theatre, April 17-May 3: dragonproductions.net • The Pear’s “Birds of a Feather,” The Pear Avenue Theatre, May 1-24: thepear.org • Jewish Women’s Theatre’s “Uncuffed,” Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, OFJCC, March 31: tinyurl.com/l7cztp6

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FROM PALO ALTO TO SAN FRANCISCO’S MOST POPULAR CHEF — AND HIS PALO ALTO ROOTS

tuart Brioza might not work with food at all if it weren’t for two Palo Alto restaurants and one East Palo Alto pepper farm. Brioza — now a James Bearddecorated chef and co-owner (with his pastry-chef wife) of the Michelin-starred State Bird Provisions in San Francisco, actually got his start in two Palo Alto kitchens in the mid-1990s. Today, State Bird Provisions is San Fran-

cisco’s hottest eatery — it was named “Best New Restaurant in America” by Bon Appétit in 2012, and has grown so popular that at one point, hungry techies hacked a reservations website to get in. It wasn’t so long ago that Brioza was an 18-year-old art and photography student at De Anza College in his hometown of Cupertino. At the time, cooking wasn’t his main course, but a side pleasure. After he finished class for the

day, Brioza would ride his bike about 12 miles into Palo Alto, first for his job as a line cook at The Gatehouse, which had a 20year run from 1974 to 1995 at 265 Lytton Ave. (The downtown building has a historic restaurant history — it would next house Stars, led by former Chez Panisse chef Jeremiah Tower, then Wolfgang Puck’s Spago. Now, sadly, (continued on next page)

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it’s occupied by offices.) “The Gatehouse was this oldtime restaurant that was kind of saloon-like, but also (had a) really great outdoor patio that was rustic, let’s just say,” recalled Brioza, sitting at a table at State Bird on a recent afternoon while a flurry of prep cooks got the kitchen ready to serve the long lines of people who wait to dine there every night. “Nothing was coiffed or manicured about the place. It was a very dated dining room. “But the chef, Jeff Stout — he was young, dynamic (and) really interested in food presentation. He just created beautiful food. I loved working with him. He really taught me a tremendous amount.” Stout, Gatehouse’s executive chef, would go on to open the first Alexander’s Steakhouse in Cupertino, now a multi-restaurant chain (though Stout is no longer a part of it). But before that, he went across town to take a sous chef position at California Cafe at the Stanford Barn. Brioza followed him. His two years there would prove pivotal: “It was really at that restaurant that I decided I wanted to pursue the next step, which was not to continue in art school but to go to culinary (school),” Brioza said. Brioza was naturally inclined toward and good at cooking, he said, but he had nowhere near the culinary vocabulary or educational foundation of some of his coworkers. California Cafe chef Mark Stark, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park,

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On the menu at State Bird Provisions: whole-grain pancakes topped with a dollop of broccoli and cheddar and sprinkled with Happy Quail Farms smoked paprika. New York, would bring in interns from his alma mater. “I liked how they would communicate about food, and I didn’t have that,” Brioza remembered. “I cooked very well; I understood just the feel of cooking, but I didn’t have the language skills about cooking.” He remembers someone explaining to him the difference between a pork loin and a pork chop by pointing to the same muscles on his back. “It was just little things like that,” Brioza said. “That was definitely the start. I probably wouldn’t have gone to culinary school if I wasn’t in that restaurant.” California Cafe is a significant place for another reason: It was where he first invited Nicole Krasinski, a fellow De Anza arts

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student, to dine. This wasn’t a first date, he said, but equally important: It was his first opportunity to show off his culinary prowess to the woman who would later become his wife and partner in restaurant-crime. Krasinski, a pastry chef and Los Gatos native, is the genius behind State Bird’s innovative dessert menu. Wanting to “join the discussion” in the food world, Brioza decided to leave Palo Alto and art school behind for the Culinary Institute. He went on to notable jobs in Chicago and at Tapawingo, a long-legendary upscale restaurant in Ellsworth, Michigan, before returning to the Bay Area in the early 2000s. He and Krasinski both worked at Rubicon in San Francisco’s Financial District until it closed in 2008, then spent several years doing private catering before opening State Bird in a former pizzeria on Fillmore Street in 2011. They thought of State Bird as a placeholder restaurant while they worked on their longtime dream: rezoning and renovating the old movie theater next door to open a family-style restaurant. Progress opened in December 2014, but to their surprise, it’s State Bird that has really taken off. The State Bird menu is almost impossible to categorize and it changes frequently, but several items have become lore in the Bay Area foodie world, such as the garlic bread with burrata (circles of bread coated with garlic puree, then deep-fried into a magnificent puff and topped with fresh, cream-filled mozzarella cheese) and the state bird itself (deep-fried quail, breaded to perfection and served with “provisions” including onions and Parmesan cheese). There are also oysters, dumplings, “kung pao” beef sweetbreads and a sourdough, sauerkraut, pecorino and ricotta pancake. Desserts range from innovative ice cream sandwiches to a Blue Bottle coffee granita with whiskey cream, dates and cocoa nibs. For years, Brioza has sourced his padrón peppers, smoked paprika, umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums), myoga (Japanese ginger blossom) and other specialty produce from Happy Quail Farms in East Palo Alto.

Arts & Entertainment The Green Street farm, tucked in an unlikely location behind an Ikea and the Ravenswood Shopping Center, is owned by David Winsberg, who Brioza calls “the pepper king.” Winsberg has grown specialty peppers and other produce at his 2-acre farm since 1980. (He actually got his start raising quail, another tie to the seminal dish and namesake of Brioza’s restaurant.) Winsberg remembers first meeting Brioza at a San Francisco farmers market when he was buying peppers for Rubicon; the two kept in touch during the chef’s meteoric rise of the next several years. For Brioza, Winsberg’s produce was influential. “He was one of the first farmers to really introduce the pimiento de padrón, the Spanish frying pepper that you now see everywhere during the season,” Brioza said. Winsberg’s paprikas — “some of the best things I’ve ever tasted,” Brioza said — soon became a favorite and often appear in State Bird fare, often in uncommon combinations of flavors and ingredients served dim-sum style from carts and trays. At the moment, diners will find a smoked paprika sprinkled over the top of a silverdollar sized whole-grain pancake topped with a dollop of finely chopped broccoli and cheddar. Winsberg said he started drying peppers to make paprika about 10

years ago as a way to expand his offerings during the peppers’ offseason. He now makes about 20 different paprika blends from different varieties — smoked, sweet, hot, mild, cayenne, Serrano and more. Winsberg said his spices are set apart from most commercial paprikas, almost all of which are imported and leave out the peppers’ seeds. (The seed acts as a natural preservative, keeping the paprika fresh longer, he explained.) When Happy Quail’s padrón peppers are in season, Brioza said he’ll fry them with basil and garlic and serve them with a dipping sauce, often an aioli, and sometimes even a smoked-paprika aioli. Winsberg also introduced Brioza to some other vegetable varietals that the chef gets visibly excited describing, among them green rhubarb and myoga ginger. The success of State Bird is nothing short of surreal for Brioza, who emphasized that without the exposure to a different level of cooking at California Cafe, he might not have chosen the professional route he did. “If I wasn’t working at that restaurant, I may not have gone off to culinary school. This wouldn’t exist,” he said, laughing. “I’d be some poor art student or artist or something.” But as anyone who’s ever dined at State Bird will attest, Brioza did become an artist, after all. Q

ShopTalk by Daryl Savage

PALO ALTO WINE MAKES A SPLASH ... Leave it to discount grocery store Grocery Outlet in Palo Alto’s Alma Village to cause a stir by stocking a hard-to-find item. It’s just a bottle of red wine, but its name — “Palo Alto” — is drawing serious attention. The product in fact has nothing to do with the city of Palo Alto, California, and everything to do with the Maule Valley region of Chile, where it is produced. Still, it’s flying off the shelves of Grocery Outlet, according to store owner Tony Tenaglia. “This wasn’t an intentional buy,” he explained. “It was just by chance, but because of the name on the wine, we got preferred status.” Tenaglia ordered a pallet (56 cases) of the wine for his store, “and now people are buying multiple bottles. We’re almost out, so I just ordered another halfpalette. And we’re getting phone calls about it. People are asking if we can set aside a couple cases for them.” Anne Drummond, who lives around the corner from Grocery Outlet, had a case of Palo Alto wine in her shopping cart. “I used to buy this wine at BevMo in Mountain View, but they stopped carrying it several years ago,” she said. “They

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told me it was discontinued. So when I got the email this morning from Grocery Outlet, I ran over here. It’s fun to have a bottle on the table when friends come over.” TWO BOUTIQUES OPEN AT T&C ... A chic, yet somewhat affordable home goods store opened this month at Palo Alto’s Town & Country Village. Located on the Embarcadero Road side of the shopping center and flanked by Calafia Cafe and Mayfield Bakery & Cafe, the new Hudson Grace provides a nice change of pace from the row of restaurants. “There’s really no other store like this in the area,” said Monelle Totah, who owns the shop with business partner Gary McNatton. The Town & Country spot is Hudson Grace’s fourth location. The store carries mostly tableware, candles and an eclectic assortment of hostess and wedding gifts. Totah described the expansion of her business as “fortunate, almost serendipitous. We opened our first store in San Francisco in 2012, we opened our second in Larkspur in 2013, then one in Santa Barbara in 2014 and now we’re here

in Palo Alto in 2015,” she said. A possible reason for the success, she said, “is our very simple, classic designs; we have things that are meant to be used everyday. The platters, for instance, are our best sellers.” The owners travel to Europe a few times a year to stock their stores. “It’s a curated assortment,” Totah explained. The name of the shop was derived from an unlikely source: the names of the owners’ dogs. Hudson is the name of Totah’s labradoodle, and Grace is the name of McNatton’s cockapoo. Town & Country’s other newcomer, located in the interior of the shopping center, is diptyque, a home fragrance store that began in Paris more than 50 years ago. A walk through diptyque’s front door immediately wakes up the olfactory sense. Candles are everywhere. “We wanted to offer accessible products that are easy to try in a natural and welcoming atmosphere,” diptyque spokesperson Donna DiDonato said. Although diptyqye candles and perfumes can be found in some upscale, retail stores, this month’s opening at T&C marks the first diptyque boutique on the Peninsula. Q

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The mouse that roared 1968 tech invention inspires multimedia opera by Janet Silver Ghent n Dec. 9, 1968, seven months before men landed on the moon, the roar of a mouse from Menlo Park reverberated around the world. Seated onstage before a meeting of the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, with a large video screen projecting his face and the images on his computer, Stanford Research Institute engineer-inventor Douglas Engelbart unveiled the mouse that scrolled. During a 100-minute presentation in which he used his wife’s shopping list, he demonstrated word processing and editing, showed the possibilities of hypertext and even held a video conference with his lab at SRI. “Come in, Menlo Park,” Engelbart intoned, and the SRI engineers joined in, their faces and notations filling the screen in San Francisco. The audience of 1,000 techies rose to their feet in a spontaneous standing ovation. Decades before the Internet and Skype transformed the global landscape, SRI had achieved what Engelbart called “a monstrous goal.” Dubbed “the mother of all demos,” the event spurred a technological revolution that transformed the very nature of communication. Bowled over by black-and-white footage of the 1968 event, contemporary composer-performers Ben Neill and Mikel Rouse have constructed a demo of their own: a multimedia electronic opera based on the work of Engelbart, who died in 2013 at age 88. Aptly titled “The Demo,” the opera will have its world premiere next Wednesday, April 1, at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall. “The Demo” is also the first event of a new Stanford Live series called “Live Context: Art and Ideas,” which also includes lectures, classes and panel discussions, two of them on April 2 and 3 at Bing. The 90-minute performance incorporates original film, electronic music, computer-generated art and vocals. Both composers also perform, with Rouse taking the role of Engelbart and Neill playing Bill English, Engelbart’s SRI colleague who actually built the first mouse. Rouse, who also sings, wrote the libretto, using phrases from Engelbart’s demo as opera supertitles, among them 2C ORANGES, 2D APPLES, 3 NEWS, 4 LETTUCE, 5 FRENCH BREAD, 6 BEAN SOUP. “Singers’ entrances happen as the text comes on screen,” explained Rouse in a recent phone interview. “When the text comes up and you hear it sung, it looks like magic. You can’t figure out how they’re doing this live.” Rhythmic chants bring to mind avant-garde rock opera, or, perhaps, Carl Orff’s “Carmina Bura-

Computer engineer William English helped develop the collaborative oN-Line System or NLS in the late 1960s.

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Electronic opera “The Demo” will have its world premiere at Stanford April 1 and 2. na.” But Neill and Rouse take their production to another plane, augmented by computer graphics and voice processing, along with a live chorus and Neill’s “mutantrumpet”: a three-bell electroacoustic instrument he invented. Before creating “The Demo,” the two composers, both 57 and living in the New York City area, had collaborated on a number of programs, but neither was familiar with the 1968 computer technology breakthrough. Neill came upon a video of Engelbart’s demo on the Stanford website while researching the history of the Internet for a class at New Jersey’s Ramapo College, where he is an associate professor of music industry and production. “I was completely blown away,” he said. “I was just so taken not only by the content but also by the quality of the video. I found it remarkable that so much of the technology we use in our daily lives could be traced to this one event, which was essentially a type of performance.” Planning to use Engelbart’s demo as a teaching tool, he also thought about “trying to make some kind of artistic work around this because I didn’t think very many people knew about it. It was such a remarkable document about an event that changed the world.” Plus, “there was something about Engelbart’s personality and the way he seemed to be delivering this thing” that inspired Neill. “He was so calm and relaxed, almost meditative,” the composer explained. “Using technology in live performance in 2015, I know it can be harrowing. He just seemed to be so relaxed, as if he had done it a thousand times.” Neill and Rouse were struck not only by Engelbart’s vision but also by the work of English, who now lives in Novato with his wife Roberta, Engelbart’s former secretary. The Englishes met with

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the composers during the course of the project. “They have been hugely wonderful supporters,” Rouse said. The Englishes explained how the original demo came together, laying the groundwork for cellular communication, albeit the hard way (see sidebar). “I didn’t realize they ran 40 miles of cable to San Francisco’s Civic Center to accomplish this,” said Rouse. “They were emulating Skype and Google chat, but we didn’t have the Internet.” Like many who came of age with computer technology, Rouse said, “We never questioned where it came from.” Although Engelbart had no rehearsals for his demo, “We didn’t have that luxury,” Rouse said. He and Neill began developing their work in 2012. It was commissioned and developed at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in association with the eDREAM Institute at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In early 2013, the composers were in residence at the university, working on the first draft of the score and exploring performance technology with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. They returned to the campus earlier this year for rehearsals and a workshop premiere. But holding the opera’s world premiere at Stanford “couldn’t be more perfect,” Neill said. Rouse agrees. He hopes that the show will get “a lot of young techies really excited,” attracting an audience that might not ordinary attend an operatic performance with supertitles. After all, there’s nothing stodgy about “The Demo,” which utilizes music from late ’60s rock to ’70s jazz fusion to pulsating electronic rhythms, incorporating styles from the period when the original demo was made, as well as those from today. “Ben and I also work in the vernacular,” Rouse said, explaining

that “The Demo”’s music has “a very definitive EDM (electronic dance music) quality. The sound will be familiar to young listeners.” Both Neill and Rouse are classically trained composers and musicians. Rouse, who also has formal training in visual arts and filmmaking, is both a singer and an actor. When he first began working in multimedia, “I cast myself because I couldn’t afford real actors,” he said. “After over 20 years, I got good at it.” In addition to composing and playing the mutantrumpet, Neill is a sound and installation artist. He booked Rouse’s first two operas at The Kitchen, an experimental performance space in New York where he was music curator, and worked with him on a 1994 album. When Neill discovered Engelbart’s demo, he said, “I immediately thought of (Rouse).” “The Demo” will give younger audiences “a glimpse into the world back in 1968,” Rouse said, adding that the combination of technology and live performance should have broad appeal in Silicon Valley. “People long for human connection,” he said. “Bringing this technology into a performance arena” offers an experience “you can’t get from social media.” Drawing people together through opera: That, as Engelbart himself might have said, is “a monstrous goal” indeed. Q Freelance writer Janet Silver Ghent can be emailed at ghentwriter@gmail.com. What: “The Demo” Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford University When: Wednesday, April 1, and Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $40-$65; $15 Stanford students Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.

When the “mother of all demos” began in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, Bill English was at his computer in Menlo Park, awaiting a video conference call from his boss before going onscreen himself. Thirty miles north, it was showtime. Instead of standing up and delivering a dry technical paper, Douglas Engelbart sat onstage before his computer, a large screen behind him magnifying his work. Roberta English (then Carillon) was assisting him. The mouse Bill English had built was in Engelbart’s right hand, pointing to elements on the screen. It was “a box set on a table with a wire on the back: a device with a tail,” Bill English explained. “We called it a ‘mouse.’ We needed a simple name.” It may have been simple, but the mouse launched a computer revolution. At the conclusion of the demo, “all these people stood up like it had been a rock concert,” Roberta remembered. “They just didn’t stop clapping .” “It was not possible to do a rehearsal, clearly,” said Bill. “It unfolded as we talked.” In fact, “It wasn’t until the entire audience applauded that we realized what we had done.” Setting up the demonstration was a herculean task, according to Bill. The team found a line of sight between the Civic Auditorium and SRI on Skyline Boulevard, stationing two large trucks with cameras. With assistance from Pacific Bell, one of the trucks picked up signals from Menlo Park, the other from San Francisco, transmitting signals back and forth. Meanwhile, they borrowed a video projector from NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View and also found an arc light. Some of the funding for the project came from the Air Force and the research arm of the Defense Department. “We didn’t expect (the 1968 demonstration) to get the reputation it did,” said Bill. “(“The Demo”) is going to be a special thing for us, but I’m hoping it captures the audiences — that it connects with the composers’ vision and brings the demo back into focus for people after all these years.”

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Lady Washington, the ship that starred in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” comes to Redwood City March 31.

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Ahoy, all you lovers of maritime culture (and those who treasure the vision of Johnny Depp in eyeshadow): The ship that starred in 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” sails into the Port of Redwood City on March 31. Based in Aberdeen, Washington, Lady Washington played the British Royal

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Cubberley Community Day Community centers are hubs of social and creative activity, yet they often go unsung. This weekend, there’s a chance to rectify that oversight. On Saturday, March 28, the City of Palo Alto’s Cubberley Community Center (4000 Middlefield Road) will hold its first-ever Community Day. With tasty food, live music, children’s activities including face painting and a balloon artist, demonstrations by Cubberley tenants and volunteer opportu-

nities including tree planting, it promises to be a fun, familyfriendly day of community celebration. If you’re already familiar with the Center, this is your chance to connect and give back. If you’re not, it’s a perfect way to get acquainted with all they have to offer, from community meetings, seminars and performances to music rehearsals and athletic events. On Saturday, volunteer activities will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with demonstrations taking place between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Parking is limited; neighbors are encouraged to walk to the event. To learn more, go to cityofpaloalto. org or call 650-329-2418.

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Navy’s HMS Interceptor in the blockbuster film that spawned its own series of swashbucklers (the fifth, “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” is due out in 2017). Between April 1 and 12, the public is invited to come aboard for tours and even take part in three-hour “battle sails” designed to recreate an 18th-century skirmish at sea, complete with cannon fire. Built in 1989, Lady Washington’s mast rises 89 feet from the water, and she measures 112 feet from bow to stern. Her slightly smaller companion ship, Hawaiian Chieftain, will join her for both tours and cannon battles. A $3 donation per person is requested for self-guided walkon tours. Tickets for the battle sails range from $39-$75. Go to historicalseaport.org or call 800200-5239.

Singing Jewish cowboy What’s more unlikely than a Jewish cowboy? A singing Jewish cowboy, of course. This Sunday afternoon, entertainer Scott Gerber will give a free public concert in Los Altos Hills.

Jewish cowboy Scott Gerber sings the Yiddish socialist ballads his bubbe taught him while he was growing up on a Petaluma chicken ranch.

Raised on a Petaluma chicken ranch, Gerber grew up playing the guitar and singing Yiddish socialist ballads taught to him by his mother and his bubbe. Though he has worked as a chicken rancher and also tried his hand at sheep shearing and orchard work, Gerber is a true cowboy who feels most at home in the saddle, herding and branding cattle. On the program are a number of Yiddish favorites including “Zuntig Bulbes” (“Sunday Potatoes”) and “Bin Ich Mir a Shnayder” (“I’m a Little Tailor”), as well as a few of Gerber’s original melodies. He’ll be accompanied on violin by his longtime musical partner, Gus Garelick. Gerber is also the subject of the 2002 documentary short, “Song of a Jewish Cowboy,” which will screen as part of Sunday’s program. The event takes place in the Sanctuary of Congregation Beth Am, 26750 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills, on Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. To learn more, go to betham. org/community/jewishcowboy. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer

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Movies OPENINGS

Nothing to write ‘Home’ about 00 (Century 16, Century 20)

Candied pastels, manic bursts of action and Rihanna songs dominate “Home,” the latest release from struggling DreamWorks Animation. In the over-saturated market for CGI-animated kids’ films, “Home” doesn’t stand out as anything special: It’s another conspicuously packaged product seemingly designed to wear down an audience more than entertain it. While wee ones won’t notice, they probably won’t remember “Home” by the time the car ride gets them back to the real thing. Based on the Adam Rex children’s book, “The True Meaning of Smekday,” “Home” proposes that an alien race called the Boov, distinguished only by their skill of running away, have selected Earth (a.k.a. “Best Planet Ever”) as the latest intergalactic colonial

hideout from their pursuers, the Gorg. And so it is that the entire human population is hoovered up and deposited in cheery-looking but cramped tract housing in Australia, making way for the Boov to move into our dwellings. Almost as soon as this massive undertaking is accomplished — under the goofy leadership of Captain Smek (Steve Martin) — a lowly, lonely outcast Boov named Oh (Jim Parsons of “The Big Bang Theory”) screws it all up by accidentally e-viting the universe (Gorg included) to his “warming of the house” party. You’ll just have to swallow that lazy, ridiculous plot twist to embark on Oh’s adventure of 1) running away from the authorities, 2) encountering and uneasily teaming up with the last free human, Gratuity “Tip” Tucci (Rihanna), and 3)

fixing the latest in his long string of mistakes (he has 62 strikes against him with Captain Smek). Naturally, Tip just wants to reunite with her beloved mother (Jennifer Lopez, who supplies one song to Rihanna’s five). Needing a lift, Oh pimps Tip’s ride by tricking out the car to fly and stocking it with cornermarket amenities like icy-drink fuel and a hot-dog grill (making convenience-store fare cool to kids isn’t “Home”’s finest hour). And off they go into the wild blue yonder, Oh reluctantly delaying his plan to run away to Antarctica to hug penguins. What follows is entirely predictable, with enemies Tip and Oh becoming frenemies, then friends (as Tip’s habitually unimpressed cat, Pig, looks on) on the way to a double-climax: resolution of the maternal separa-

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Earth girl Tip (Rihanna) and alien Oh (Jim Parsons) abscond to Australia. tion and a Gorg showdown, with attendant opportunities for both Tip and Oh to play hero. For an alien-invasion story, “Home” can be pretty cute at times, and director Tim Johnson (“Over the Hedge”) can boast some imaginative design elements around the wildly weird Boov tech. Also, there are nominal themes of overcoming conformity despite ostracization (“I

don’t fit in,” says Oh, “I fit out”), not taking home for granted and, well, caring. But ultimately the movie can’t shake the impression of being disposable cineplex filler. To paraphrase “The Wizard of Oz,” there are many places like “Home.” Rated PG for mild action and some rude humor. One hour, 34 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Movies MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. ‘71 (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:30 & 9:45 p.m. American Sniper (R) ++ Century 20: 10:20 p.m. Chappie (R) Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 4:50 & 10:15 p.m. Cinderella (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:05, 1:25, 2:55, 4:15, 5:45, 7:05, 8:30 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 & 11:35 a.m., 12:30, 1:35, 2:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6, 7, 8, 8:50, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m. The DUFF (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:20 & 7:50 p.m. Focus (R) Century 20: 7:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 2 p.m. Get Hard (R) Century 16: 10:40 a.m., noon, 1:20, 2:40, 4, 5:20, 6:40, 8, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 12:25, 1:55, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7:05, 8:05, 9:40 & 10:40 p.m. Gigi (1958) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. The Gunman (R) Century 20: 10:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:25 & 10:10 p.m. Holiday (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 4:20 p.m. Home (PG) ++ Century 16: 11:45 a.m., 12:55, 2:10, 4:35, 7 & 9:20 p.m. In 3-D at 10:30 a.m., 3:20, 5:45, 8:15 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 & 11:50 a.m., 1:20, 3:55, 4:50, 6:30, 7:20 & 9 p.m. In 3-D at 12:40, 2:20, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 9:50 & 10:35 p.m. Insurgent (PG-13) Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:35, 3:35, 5:30, 6:30, 8:35 & 9:35 p.m. In 3-D at 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:45 & 11:45 a.m., 1:30, 2:45, 4:25, 5:45, 7:10, 8:40 & 10:05 p.m. In 3-D at 12:35, 3:35, 6:25 & 9:30 p.m. In X-D at 11:10 a.m., 2, 5, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m. In D-BOX at 12:35, 3:35, 6:35 & 9:30 p.m. It Follows (R) Century 20: Noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 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, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. Kiss and Make-Up (1934) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 6:05 & 9:15 p.m. Leviathan (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 11:30 a.m., 4:15 & 7:05 p.m. McFarland, USA (PG) ++ Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 4:35 & 7:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:35 p.m. Century 20: 12:15, 3:20, 6:50 & 9:55 p.m. Run All Night (R) Century 16: 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5:10, 8 & 10:45 p.m. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2 Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:55 p.m. Serena (R) +1/2 Guild Theatre: 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. What We Do in the Shadows (Not Rated) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Noon, 2:30, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m. Wild Tales (R) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.

+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)

Ax me why ‘Serena’ lumbers through the motions 0 1/2 (Guild)

Amidst the Smoky Mountains, circa 1929, a power couple conspires to expand its lumber enterprise, even if it means ... muuuurder! It’s a story ripe for dark atmosphere, social satire or self-consciously melodramatic brio, but “Serena” — as adapted by screenwriter Christopher Kyle and director Susanne Bier from Ron Rash’s 2008 novel of the same name — winds up sawing logs. But don’t take my word for it: “Serena”’s ineptitude is the obvious conclusion to take from the film’s three-year delay on its way to a halfhearted release on video on demand and in theaters — despite the re-pairing of co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”). The only other possibility would have been that Bier’s film was simply too artful to be commercial, but, um, no. Other than the stars, “Serena” has fetching period detail and quite gorgeous location photography by Bier’s goto lenser Morten Søborg, enough to liken “Serena” to a beautiful but vacant runway model who struts and frets her hour (and 49 minutes) upon the sound stage. Shakespeare also provides something of a model for Lawrence’s titular character: a Lady Macbeth type, but one contextualized with a Significant Trauma she’s determined to power through by joining forces with Cooper’s lumber magnate George Pemberton. George respects Serena’s knowledge of the lumber industry (acquired under her father) and the fact that she’s been literally burned by it, only to double down on ambition. Together, the two dig in against government encroachment on their wooded acres. Further complicating the couple’s profiteering are shady financial dealings, blackmail that threatens to unearth them and George’s bastard son with a local woman (Ana Ularu). The child’s pull on George — and Serena’s insecurity about providing George with a child of their own — fan flames of jealousy that, mingled with fiery protectiveness of the family business, drive both George and Serena to criminal misconduct and marital discord, to put it lightly.

Lawrence and Cooper avoid embarrassment, but they’re hobbled by a seemingly indifferent script offering little more than psychosexual cliches and obvious one-thing-after-another plotting. Though Lawrence establishes her character as perceptive and no-nonsense (albeit scarred), the manner in which Serena devolves amounts to sexist banality, and Cooper’s George mostly moons under her spell, his one deviation giving him an iota of moral superiority. Most damagingly, no one —

not Kyle, not Bier, not her actors — seems to know what “Serena” is about, beyond vague thematic suggestions that rapacious business doesn’t pay (it doesn’t?) and that ambition met with ambition is a combustible catalyst (thank you, Shakespeare). Instead of engaging with those ideas or locating hard truths of the human condition, “Serena” lumbers through the motions. Rated R for some violence and sexuality. One hour, 49 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri & Sat 3/27/2015 – 3/28/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Wild Tales – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05

Sun – Thur 3/29/2015 – 4/02/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

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NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

WATER-WISE AND EDIBLE ... Sherri Osaka will offer a free, hands-on workshop on “Waterwise Edible Gardening” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 28, at the Lucie Stern Community Room, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The class will cover incorporating organic maintenance techniques in seasonal gardening, including how to use compost and cover crops/green manure. Participants are asked to bring a 6-inch pot so they can take home their own planting. Reservations are required. Info: 650-329-2241.

VEGGIE GARDEN BASICS ... Mimi Clarke, former lead Filoli horticulturist and owner of Fiddle Fern Landscaping, will teach a class on “Veggie Garden Basics” from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. Focus will be on planning and designing for a year-round harvest in containers and throughout the garden. Cost is $50 for nonmembers, $40 for members. Info: 650-364-8300 or filoli.org

YUMMY DESSERTS ... Cindy Roberts will teach a class on “Sensational Summer Desserts” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, at Palo Alto High School, Room 103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Local summer fruits will be featured in an Apricot Souffle, Raspberry Brownie Cake and Lemon Berry Tart. Cost is $50. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org

(continued on page 46) 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.

Above: Lisa Gibson holds her dog Grover in front of her Craftsman-style Ventura neighborhood home. Right: Many of the homes in the Ventura neighborhood, including this one on Maclane Street, have been extensively remodeled.

Ventura

he Ventura neighborhood can be easily missed while driving along El Camino Real or Alma Street. Its narrow streets and close-together houses create a cozy, neighborhood feel. Mature trees shade the sidewalks, and there is little through traffic. “It felt like a hidden neighborhood. ... The blocks felt like places you’d imagine, like, having block parties and having my daughter ... riding her bike up the street and playing in the street

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CAKE DECORATING ... Christine Hopkins will offer a class in “Cake Decorating - Work with Buttercream & Fondant!” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays, March 30 to April 20, at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, 700 Alma St., Menlo Park. The class includes leveling and icing a cake, as well as writing, borders and flowers. Cost is $85 for non-Menlo Park residents, $64 for residents. Info: 650-330-2200, menlopark.org or csd@menlopark.org

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SHARE, SWAP ... Deborah’s Palm will hold a Spring Clean Flea Market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at 555 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto. In addition to browsing housewares, furniture, books, kids’ stuff, kitchen goods and collectibles, visitors can bring crafts and clothing to share and swap. Booths will be set up in the yard and parking area. Info: 650473-0664 or deborahspalm.org

A central neighborhood with a safe and quiet feel by Maev Lowe

with her friends,” said Lisa Gibson, who moved in with her family in 2013, of her first impression of Ventura. Gibson lives in a Craftsmanstyle house with a gray exterior, a little porch and a lush front garden. Ventura architecture varies from small, one-story bungalows with deep backyards to two-story modern designs that occupy the majority of the lot. Gibson spoke to her experience of Ventura as “down to

earth.” Since moving in, she has frequently met new people in the area when out walking with her dog and 2-year-old daughter. She feels that Ventura has a “really nice sense of place.” Neighbors have been eager to share the community’s history with her and her family. Aran Kelly, a retired educator and a Ventura homeowner, is someone who is deeply familiar with the history. Kelly lives in a one-story bungalow, with a tan exterior and white detailing, representative of an older Ventura style. Kelly, who raised her children there, sees a shift in the sense of community. When she first moved in people were on the streets more. “The culture was such that (her

children) could play outside all the time and just go to the park and they were looked after,” Kelly said. Kelly also explained, sitting in her golden yellow living room, that an impactful change for Ventura has been the lessening of class diversity that’s taken place over the last 15 years. In 1972, she bought her house for $24,000; it is now worth $2 million. “It’s made a difference to who moves here and who can move in,” Kelly said. On her first visit to the neighborhood, she remembered seeing a sign from the Black Panther organization of the area advertising a community meeting and a free clinic testing for sickle-cell (continued on page 44)

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anemia. “It was greater, much greater diversity. Now ... I’m sure there are people from all over the world, but they’re more homogeneous in that they belong to professional classes,” she said. Now, she said, the primary platform for neighborhood communication is the community networking site Nextdoor. People will post information from the police or ask around for a babysitter. Kelly described her interactions with other Ventura residents as “just very serendipitous.” Gibson also uses Nextdoor and has attended some of the community events, like a pizza party, posted there. “I wanted to post ... to recruit a little kids-toddler playgroup. So someday I’m going to do that: have all the toddlers meet up in a park in the area, because we meet

by Hadar Guibara ome sales in Palo Alto fell in January to half their December total, and the length of time those homes had been on the market was greater than at any time in more than two years. Until January, the speed at which homes had been selling in Palo Alto was among the fastest in Silicon Valley. The monthly average days on the market (DOM) for sold homes for all of 2014 was 16.3. Compare this with averages for the last 12 months in other local communities: Mountain View: 14.9 Sunnyvale: 17.4 Cupertino: 19.2 Menlo Park: 21.2 Portola Valley: 48.9 Woodside: 64.3 With a 2014 average DOM of 16.3, a jump to 47 in January came as somewhat of a surprise. You have to go back to January 2013 to find a month where homes lasted nearly as long on the market before being bought

— 45 in that case. The good news for home sellers who seek swift purchases is that homes tend to languish on the market over the last few months of a year, cranking up the average DOM of those that are eventually bought in January. In both 2013 and 2014, the numbers quickly returned to a more “normal” pace as each year progressed. The 45 DOM in January 2013 became 20 in February and 17 in March. The 31 in January 2014 dropped to 14 in February and to a twoyear-low in March of eight.

Low sales in January Just as the January 2015 average DOM figure was higher than in January 2013 and 2014, the number of homes sold last month was lower than the already low totals for the first months of the previous two years. The nine single-family units sold in January — a drop from 18 in December — actually set a record for the fewest sales in

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any month since the end of 2012. Throughout 2014, a total of 362 homes were sold in Palo Alto, for a monthly average of 30.2. In 2013, the total was 406, averaging 33.8 per month. But this figure, too, has rebounded in each of the last two years. Eleven homes were sold in January 2014, jumping to 19, 23 and 46 in the ensuing three months. After 15 homes were sold in January 2013, the numbers rose to 16, 30 and 46 in February, March and April. So the message here is: Buyers don’t need to start panicking in fear of there soon being no homes left on the market, and sellers shouldn’t worry that their homes will linger on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for so long that cobwebs start to form. At the same time, as noted, homes sold in Palo Alto tend to move quicker than in many local communities, and the number of units available is shrinking, albeit not at a rapid pace. Q Hadar Guibara is a Realtor with Sereno Group of Palo Alto. She can be reached athadar@serenogroup.com.

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them here and there, but it would be kind of fun to have all of them together,” Gibson said. Both Kelly and Gibson take advantage of California Avenue’s Caltrain station, farmers market and restaurants’ easy accessibility. “Having (California Avenue) in walking distance, but being out of the bustle of things is really, really nice,” Gibson said. Kelly noted that one of the things that has not changed is the feeling of it being a safe and quiet neighborhood. “In general, I mean, it’s just a great neighborhood, it’s a lovely area,” she said. Q Editorial Intern Maev Lowe can be emailed at mlowe@ paweekly.com. LOCATION: bounded by Oregon Expressway, Alma Street, West Meadow Drive and El Camino Real PARK: Boulware Park, 410 Fernando Ave.; Ventura Community Center, 3990 Ventura Court POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Barron Park Elementary School, Terman Middle School, Gunn or Palo Alto high schools SHOPPPING: California Avenue, Charleston Center, El Camino Real

Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

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

Atherton

52 Linda Vista Ave. H. & D. Whelan to Ruder Trust for $9,500,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 3/98, $1,700,000

East Palo Alto 1982 W. Bayshore Road #317 R. Bergner to C. Toeppen for $300,000 on 2/11/15 1982 W. Bayshore Road #327 R. Bergner to C. Toeppen for $300,000 on 2/11/15 370 Larkspur Drive S. Muhlenburg to A. Mendoza for $595,000 on 2/10/15; previous sale 1/11, $355,000 114 Maple Lane J. & V. Wiggins to J. & V. Valente for $810,000 on 2/4/15; previous sale 9/08, $720,000 2239 Poplar Ave. R. & R. Mendoza to S. Carlisle for $465,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 9/08, $280,000 1217 Westminster Ave. K. Washington to K. & D. Gross for $475,000 on 2/11/15

Los Altos

100 1st St. #104 Los Altos8 Limited to Nash Trust for $952,500 on 2/25/15 100 1st St. #109 Los Altos8 Limited to Hyman Trust for $978,000 on 3/2/15 100 1st St. #207 Los Altos8 Limited to J. & E. Moore for $910,000 on 2/25/15 100 1st St. #209 Los Altos8 Limited to Brown Trust for $1,350,500 on 2/24/15 100 1st St. #211 Los Altos8

25383 La Rena Lane K. Dippel to J. Heng for $2,915,000 on 2/26/15 4244 Manuela Court Parrish Trust to Narayen Trust for $3,600,000 on 2/27/15

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $9,500,000 Highest sales price: $9,500,000

Total sales reported: 14 Lowest sales price: $635,500 Highest sales price: $1,950,000

East Palo Alto

Menlo Park

935 Arbor Road Leving Trust to M. & M. Clements for $1,900,000 on 2/4/15 375 August Circle T. Falaschi to Falaschi Trust for $1,350,000 on 2/3/15; previous sale 1/94, $688,000 1910 Avy Ave. Goitia Trust to H. & P. Sharma for $2,050,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 4/03, $1,180,000 1051 Berkeley Ave. L. & L. Vera to Bose Trust for $1,366,000 on 2/12/15; previous sale 10/91, $229,500 361 Marmona Drive Wildenhus Trust to Stevens Creek Limited for $1,475,000 on 2/10/15 1330 University Drive #57 Obrien Trust to Misha Trust for $1,900,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 10/00, $775,000

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $300,000 Highest sales price: $810,000

Total sales reported: 16 Lowest sales price: $847,000 Highest sales price: $5,600,000

Los Altos

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $910,000 Highest sales price: $6,750,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,750,000 Highest sales price: $2,750,000

Los Altos Hills

Redwood City

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $2,915,000 Highest sales price: $8,000,000

Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $615,000 Highest sales price: $1,780,000

Menlo Park

Woodside

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $1,350,000 Highest sales price: $2,050,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $1,610,000 Highest sales price: $1,610,000 Source: California REsource

Limited to R. & J. Singh for $980,000 on 2/20/15 100 1st St. #307 Los Altos8 Limited to Carroll Trust for $1,055,500 on 2/26/15 100 1st St. #312 Los Altos8 Limited to Arlin Trust for $2,450,000 on 2/27/15 1841 Alford Ave. Hills Trust to Loretz Construction for $1,500,000 on 2/20/15 501 Alicia Way Weiler Trust to T. & S. Gupta for $2,820,000 on 2/26/15 936 Covington Court F. Farnam to A. Spivak for $2,520,000 on 2/26/15; previous sale 7/02, $1,265,000 415 Covington Road Gali-

otto Trust to Milliken Trust for $6,750,000 on 2/27/15; previous sale 12/06, $2,225,000 4388 El Camino Real #128 V. & P. Chandler to R. Arzymbetov for $1,135,000 on 2/26/15; previous sale 12/09, $632,500 978 Highlands Circle Couture Trust to W. & S. Debrouwer for $2,530,000 on 2/20/15 168 Loucks Ave. Morel Trust to Wang Trust for $2,500,000 on 2/26/15 208 Lyell St. K. Eggen to Innovative Homes for $2,500,000 on 2/26/15 1398 Marinovich Way B. & H. Smith to S. & A. Aminpour for $2,950,000 on 2/20/15; previous

sale 1/07, $1,980,000 857 Santa Rita Ave. G. Gunn to Kelly-Gordon Development for $3,300,000 on 3/2/15 1569 Wakefield Terrace Lepler Trust to G. & K. Nelson for $2,610,000 on 2/27/15; previous sale 1/81, $225,000

Los Altos Hills

27400 Altamont Road L. Castro to N. Jiang for $3,600,000 on 3/2/15 13300 Burke Road Kalbach Trust to R. & C. Vasan for $8,000,000 on 2/24/15 27290 Byrne Park Lane M. & V. Kent to Underwood Trust for $3,310,000 on 2/27/15

Mountain View

201 Ada Ave. #10 M. Farhat to K. Annamalai for $800,000 on 3/2/15; previous sale 6/04, $525,000 843 Avery Drive M. Vanni to Y. & W. Wang for $1,280,000 on 2/24/15 1160 Barbara Ave. Papke Trust to J. Chung for $1,950,000 on 2/25/15 278 Bonny St. R. & D. Vij to S. Ieong for $1,375,000 on 2/26/15; previous sale 11/11, $650,000 1147 Creek Way H. Hall to M. Sim for $1,505,000 on 2/25/15; previous sale 3/10, $1,025,000 905 W. Middlefield Road #993 D. Bennett to H. Hsu for $705,000 on 2/26/15; previous sale 3/07, $489,000 403 Mountain Laurel Court D.

Brightman to Gultekin Trust for $1,051,000 on 2/20/15; previous sale 5/11, $665,000 363 N. Rengstorff Ave. #11 F. Farrow to H. & O. Masaracioglu for $940,000 on 2/27/15 1921 Rock St. #13 MedlockKelly Trust to A. Carroll for $732,000 on 2/25/15; previous sale 3/08, $469,000 107 Savannah Loop Robson Homes to A. Lee for $1,692,500 on 2/20/15 49 Showers Drive #L473 Fanucchi Trust to X. Duan for $1,180,000 on 2/24/15 1572 Spring St. E. Bruno to S. Lee for $978,500 on 2/27/15 9 Sutter Creek Lane Sherwood Trust to I. Christopher for $855,000 on 2/20/15 1407 Village Court Prb Trust to Bohley Trust for $635,500 on 2/20/15

Palo Alto

798 Alester Ave. La Trust to Vakili Trust for $2,507,000 on 3/2/15 101 Alma St. #1205 Kramer Trust to M. Trefgarne for $2,100,000 on 3/2/15; previous sale 9/04, $675,000 1535 Castilleja Ave. Kasper Trust to S. Lin for $2,900,000 on 2/24/15 831 Clara Drive Riley Trust to Topos Architects for $1,800,000 on 2/27/15; previous sale 7/87, $225,000 901 College Ave. Collart Trust to L. Or-Teng for $2,130,000 on 2/26/15 10 Crescent Drive Y. & W. Wang to J. Yang for $3,010,000 on 2/24/15; previous sale 4/88, $495,000 731 De Soto Drive H. Bronte-Stewart to Q. Zhao for $3,020,000 on 2/26/15; previous

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sale 6/08, $1,750,000 3725 El Centro St. Alger Drive Limited to W. Shen for $3,095,000 on 3/2/15; previous sale 9/12, $1,000,000 1087 Fife Ave. Mcdonald Trust to T. & P. Gawley for $3,900,000 on 2/25/15 3793 La Donna Ave. I. Chapman to B. & P. Mehta for $1,800,000 on 2/20/15 2146 Louis Road Searle Trust to X. Hu for $3,020,000 on 2/26/15; previous sale 4/88, $308,000 3229 Morris Drive Frenkel Trust to D. Wang for $2,520,000 on 2/27/15; previous sale 4/06, $1,175,000 1463 Pitman Ave. Bates Trust to W. Li for $3,100,000 on 2/27/15 953 Roble Ridge Road Klimp Trust to Roble Ridge Limited for $5,600,000 on 2/24/15 765 San Antonio Road #56 S. Aram to J. Han for $847,000 on 3/2/15 709 Seminole Way T. & S. Martin to A. Mehta for $2,401,000 on 2/25/15; previous sale 6/02, $881,000

Portola Valley

410 Conil Way Poe Trust to Ulea Trust for $2,750,000 on 2/10/15

Redwood City

NICKGRANOSKI

Broker Associate Alain Pinel President’s Club DRE #00994196

www.NickGranoski.com

ngranoski@apr.com 650/269–8556

630 Bair Island Road #106 M. Ho to S. Rao for $900,000 on 2/11/15; previous sale 4/12, $629,000 234 Beresford Ave. P. Duggan to Third Trust for $950,000 on 2/5/15; previous sale 6/14, $880,000 585 Beresford Ave. Mccroskey Trust to K. Purmal for $1,485,000 on 2/5/15; previous sale 9/08, $1,050,000 810 Canyon Road Bennett Trust to K. & K. Walker for $1,780,000 on 2/3/15 1907 Chelsea Way D. & B. Williams to K. Lynch for $615,000 on 2/12/15; previous sale 9/03, $345,000 719 Elm St. Pacific Home Investment to L. Lao for $781,000 on 2/3/15; previous sale 8/14, $425,000 10 Flower St. J. & H. Sammons to M. Edwards for $900,000 on 2/3/15; previous sale 5/12, $541,000 2642 Marlborough Ave. E. & A. Buenrostro to St. Francis Center of Redwood City for $850,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 6/97, $269,000 652 Sea Anchor Drive #2201 One Marina Homes to B. & L. Smith for $1,227,500 on 2/3/15

Woodside

DELEON REALTY

PALO ALTO SPECIALISTS

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

North Palo Alto 650.513.8669 | kevin@deleonrealty.com South Palo Alto 650.581.9899 | alexander@deleonrealty.com www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224

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35 Skywood Way C. Hoang to P. Ghanouni for $1,610,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 6/10, $1,550,000

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

3101 Middlefield Road remodel kitchen, bathroom, $18,000 237 Edlee Ave. dedicated gas line to fireplace, install gas insert, $4,500 151 Seale Ave. demo house $n/a; demo garage; new one-car garage, $11,000; new two-story house with basement, $865,000 341 S. California Ave. Le Boulanger: new restaurant w/144 indoor seats and 17 outdoor seats, $650,000 2575 Webster St. remodel kitchen, interior, $179,934 211 Quarry Road Stanford Hospital: tenant improvement, build out “grab and go” cafe space, $475,574 1947 Alma St. remodel bathroom, replace windows, $9,000 513 Military Drive roof-mounted solar system, $34,056 1981 Middlefield Road demo garage, house, $n/a; one-car detached garage, $11,227; build new two-story house, $450,684

240 Hamilton Ave. demo structure, $n/a 390 Margarita Ave. demo house, $n/a; demo garage, $n/a; new single-family house, $420,000 352 Churchill Ave. re-roof, $3,000 3526 Ramona St. re-roof, $20,000 439 Lambert Ave. eCar Garage: tenant improvement, $n/a 2002 Columbia St. change to beam/headers in master suite, added underpinning at footing at holdowns, $n/a 301 Colderidge Ave. re-roof detached home theater of Historic Category 4 house, $4,200 50 El Camino Real deferred submittal for family kitchen, $n/a 299 California Ave., Suite 110 Calave: restaurant tenant improvement, $90,000 2133 Webster St. demo house, garage, $n/a; new two-story house with basement, attached garage, $1,033,110 1531 University Ave. structural reinforcement of ceiling/floor joist, $n/a 2443 Ash St. Robert Wheatley Properties: remodel, upgrade restrooms to be ADA compliant, $40,000 855 El Camino Real Suite 34: changes due to removal of restroom, $n/a; Suite 135: Hudson Grace: tenant improvement, $24,000; Suite 260: Almond Systems Inc.: tenant improvement, $n/a 2261 Greer Road relocate washer and dryer to garage, add sink, remodel bathroom, infill two windows, $n/a 843 Clara Drive revised stairs and window changes, $n/a 1032 College Ave. new singlecar detached garage, $12,000; addition and remodel, $110,000 875 Mockingbird Lane revised pier design due to settling, $n/a 3825 Fabian Way install two boilers on rooftop, relocate mechanical, plumbing services, new electrical service from panel, $50,000 2302 Columbia St. replace windows, $3,500 233 University Ave. BHuman: restaurant tenant improvement, $n/a 3570 Middlefield Road remodel master bathroom, $n/a 1521 Castilleja Ave. remodel garage, re-roof, $31,400 4160 Mackay Drive demo pool, $n/a 911 Hansen Way, Bldg. 3 Varian: replace rooftop air handler, $100,000 2497 Ross Road install Level 3 car charger, $n/a 1966 Edgewood Drive replace kitchen cabinets, $2,900 2077 Williams St. re-roof, $19,000 810 Garland Drive re-roof, $14,769 2045 Bowdoin St. remodel rear cottage, new deck, $40,911 3785 Starr King Circle re-roof, $13,000 1900 Birch St. re-roof, $22,600 3704 Redwood Circle remodel garage, $5,000 220 Rinconada Ave. install natural gas generator at rear of house, $n/a 1030 University Ave. re-roof, $4,386 1096 McGregor Way reroof,$15,727 1436 Emerson St. remodel kitchen, $24,000 711 El Camino Real install two illuminated signs, $n/a 1053 Maddux Drive install flushmounted PV system, $n/a 352 Middlefield Road addition, remodel kitchen, bathroom, $83,846 2210 High St. re-roof, $22,050 1635 Alma St. replace eight windows and one door, $31,879 3558 Louis Road add window to detached garage, $n/a 1490 Edgewood Drive re-roof, $4,200

325 Barclay Court demo pool spa and equipment, $n/a 443 Waverley St. API.AI: tenant improvement on first story, $n/a 103 El Camino Real El Camino Park: demo bathroom, $n/a; new synthetic soccer field, expand parking lot, new restroom building, $2,600,000; new softball field, trash enclosure, scorekeeper structure, $1,400,000 834 Rorke Way re-roof, $15,600 1011 Colorado Ave. partial kitchen repair, $1,164 830 Ilima Court re-roof house, $15,960; re-roof garage, $2,400 1270 Forest Ave. re-roof main house, $32,255; re-roof detached garage, $4,860 1083 Cardinal Way addition, remodel kitchen, bath, $88,000 725 Christine Drive addition, remodel, $300,000 3316 Saint Michael Drive demo pool, $n/a 4214 El Camino Real two-way communication in elevator lobbies, $n/a 545 E. Meadow Drive remodel kitchen, $15,000 890 Marshall Drive install Level 2 electrical-vehicle charging station in garage, $n/a 1530 Escobita Ave. repair water damage to exterior wall and termite repairs to dining room, $6,900 461 Ferne Ave. remodel garage, $n/a 3500 Deer Creek Road install new rooftop AC unit at shop building, $20,000 1737 University Ave. foundation, structural, new gas insert in fireplace, change window/ door, $n/a 1325 Parkinson Ave. replace tub, toilet, sink, $1,000 850 Webster St. Unit 531: replace tub with shower, $20,000 2587 Emerson St. remodel two bathrooms, $24,000 3075 Hansen Way UPS right sizing, $125,000 2337 Saint Francis Drive structural clarification of ridge beam at addition, $n/a 3621 Bryant St. re-roof, $13,980 3400 Hillview Ave. #B5 added hand sink and change doors to double, $n/a 701 Marion Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 259 Santa Rita Ave. revised roof frame to meet daylight plane and expand garage-door opening, $n/a 4009 Miranda Ave. UPS equipment with associated racks and batteries at server room on ground floor, $n/a 4094 Ben Lomond Drive remodel kitchen, $24,600 3670 Bryant St. re-roof, $12,387 3624 Bryant St. residential split system, $n/a 3146 Middlefield Road repair damage in two bathrooms, kitchen, due to water leak, $24,256

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BE PREPARED ... Tasks for the month of March from the Do 1 Thing emergency-preparedness website include making a go bag for emergency sheltering. The go bag should include items that a Red Cross Shelter would not be expected to provide, including a pillow and blanket, personal medication and medical supplies (and a list of meds, including dosage and doctors’ names), identification, a change of clothes, cards or magazines, and comfort items. Info: do1thing.com Q

132 ISABELLA AVENUE, ATHERTON | $18,350,000

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91 ISABELLA AVENUE, ATHERTON | $14,950,000

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118 SELBY LANE, WEST ATHERTON | $14,980,000

118Selby.com

240 CINNABAR ROAD, WOODSIDE | $13,800,000

240Cinnabar.com MARY GULLIXSON 650.888.0860 mary@apr.com License# 00373961

BRENT GULLIXSON 650.888.4898 brentg@apr.com License# 01329216

gullixson.com

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

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2086 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto

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New Construction | Palo Alto 4 Bedrooms | 3 1/2 Bathrooms Functional ﬂoor plan perfect for today’s lifestyle Attached 2 car garage Proximity to Stanford | 101 tech corridor Acclaimed Palo Alto Schools Offered at $2,995,000 www.2086Channing.com

Nathalie de Saint Andrieu 650.804.9696 www.nathaliesa.com nathaliesa@pacunion.com CalBRE# 01351482 Page 48 • March 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Presenting: 1031 Fife Avenue, Palo Alto

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Situated on a beautiful tree-lined street in highly sought-after Crescent Park, this lovely 3-bedroom and 2-bath home features a welcoming living room & dining room, and family room opening to the peaceful rear yard. Ready to move in as well as an opportunity to expand in a fantastic location near downtown Palo Alto with its restaurants, boutiques, and cafes. Living space: 1,521 sq. ft.; lot size 5,000 sq. ft. Excellent Palo Alto schools: Addison Elementary, Jordan Middle, and Palo Alto High. OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not veriďŹ ed this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school availability.

BRIAN CHANCELLOR (650) 303-5511 brianc@serenogroup.com

Enjoy the tour at brianchancellor.com

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50 La Loma

Menlo Park

Open Sunday March 29th from 1:30 to 4:30 pm . . . Stunning Sharon Heights Classic! 6,000sf of sophisticated living plus beautiful gardens with heritage oaks Prime location close to restaurants, schools shopping and in the award winning Las Lomitas School district Private 1/2 Acre Dining Room Family Room

5 Bedroom Suites Family Kitchen Expansive Lanai

Listed at $4,850,000

Please call for for details

CAROL MACCORKLE

650.868.5478 | cmaccorkle@pacunion.com Lic #00548367 Page 50 • March 27, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Formal Living Room Office Playroom

Exquisite English Tudor

1266 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto

Open Sunday 1:30-4:30

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Denis.Morrissey@cbnorcal.com

650-245-2448

For showings please contact Denis Morrissey

CalBRE# 00862018

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

Holmes Ranch, Davenport

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

$35,000,000

$25,000,000

$24,800,000

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208

6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

333 Raymundo Drive, Woodside

Price Upon Request

$11,488,000

$9,000,000

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn, Lic.#0187820, 01804568

25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside

13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee

18630 Withey Road, Monte Sereno

$8,500,000

$6,900,000

$6,500,000

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299

138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley

1730 Peregrino Way, San Jose

195 Brookwood Road, Woodside

$6,488,000

$4,000,000

$3,995,000

Listing Provided by: Irene Reed & Greg Goumas, Lic.# 01879122 & 01878208

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

Listing Provided by: Virginia Supnet, Lic.#01370434

See the complete collection

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The Solution to Selling Your Luxury Home. 1220 Lions Peak Lane, San Martin, CA | $3,599,000 | Listing Provided by: Scott Robinson, Lic.#01025013

Customized to the unique style of each luxury property, Prestigio will expose your home through the most influential mediums reaching the greatest number of qualified buyers wherever they may be in the world. For more information about listing your home with the Intero Prestigio International program, call your local Intero Real Estate Services office. Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

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

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

2015 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo

Alto Weekly • March 27, 2015 • Page 53

3333 Kenneth Drive, Palo Alto Offered at $1,788,000 Incredible Remodel on Quiet Cul-De-Sac A lush, private backyard and a quiet setting enhance this updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,885 sq. ft. (per county) on a lot of 5,559 sq. ft. (per city). Large windows encase the open living, kitchen, and dining areas, which boast radiant-heated slate floors and ten-foot raised ceilings. The stylishly remodeled kitchen presents amenities like a pull-out pantry, a Dacor warming drawer, and granite countertops with a breakfast bar. Stainless-steel appliances include two Thermador convection ovens, a GE Monogram oversized refrigerator, and a GE Monogram wine/ beverage-cooler. All bedrooms offer closets with extensive built-in storage, and the master suite provides outdoor access and an expanded ensuite bath with a glass shower and natural stone tiles. The backyard features a paved patio with an outdoor wood-burning grill/fireplace, a hot tub with a deck, two playhouses, vegetable planters, and fruit trees. Less than a ten-minute walk from Palo Verde Elementary (API 961), the home is also nearby JLS Middle (API 943) and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.3333Kenneth.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka Mi h lR k CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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931 High Road, Woodside Offered at $2,888,000 Natural Beauty, Views, and Privacy Located in beautiful Woodside Hills, this 5 bedroom, 4 bath home of 2,620 sq. ft. (per county) occupies 1.12 acres (per county) and offers sweeping bay views from most rooms. A stone-paved motor court leads to a bright interior with high ceilings, lots of glass, and oak parquet floors. The double-sided fireplace services the large living and dining rooms, and the kitchen includes a wet bar opening to the dining room and double Jenn-Air ovens. The master suite features plantation shutters and a glass-enclosed bath with black marble tiles and a sunken Jacuzzi. Along the rear of the home, a partially covered tiled patio lends breathtaking views across the bay and overlooks the swimming pool. Trailing amidst blue oak, laurel, fir, and fruit trees, vegetable planters, and a greenhouse, private paths interconnect this stunning property. The home is close to Henry Ford Elementary and Kennedy Middle, and is roughly a half-mile from Woodside High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.931HighRoad.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken DeLeon K DL CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka Mi h lR k CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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820 TOLMAN DRIVE, STANFORD Open House Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30PM

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406 Arboleda Drive Los Altos Offered at $2,098,000

4 bedroom | 3 Bath 2060 square feet 10,384 lot size

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Classic Craftsman in Quintessential Barron Park

512 Military Way, Palo Alto (cross streets:

Magnolia & La Selva)

Open Sat & Sun 1:30-4:30 • 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms (2 suites—1 on each level), custom built 15 years ago • House: about 2400 sf; Lot: about 5070 sf (both per Realist.com, buyer to verify) • Living room with adjoining reading room/office, great room open concept of dining/family room/gourmet kitchen, detached workshop in the backyard • Soaring ceilings with recessed lights and 4 skylights (1 is operational) • Hardwood floor throughout the main level, Berber carpeted upper level • Central heating & air conditioning, double-pane windows • Additional information and photos at: www.512MilitaryWay.com

Offered at

Julie Lau

$2,198,000

Coldwell Banker CalBre#01052924

(650) 208-2287(CELL) www.JulieLau.com

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2731 Emerson Street

PALO ALTO

PRESENTING A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF MEDITERRANEAN STYLE

OPEN SUNDAY, MARCH 29 1:00 – 5:00PM THIS JUST-COMPLETED NEW HOME is traditional yet chic, environmentally friendly, and ideally located in soughtafter Midtown. Gorgeous oak flooring unifies every room and expansive windows and glass doors fill the home with natural light. Throughout, topof-the-line fixtures and finishes plus numerous conveniences are featured. With its excellent location close to Stanford University, shopping and dining on California Avenue or in Midtown, this fabulous new home offers the best of Silicon Valley living!

• Just-completed new construction • 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths arranged over 2 levels • Flexible-use, detached building with bath • Approximately 3,170 total square feet (buyer to conﬁrm) • Beautifully landscaped lot of approximately 6,053 square feet • Top-rated Palo Alto schools

Offered at $2,998,000

Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017 kwilson@apr.com License# 00902501

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LIKE NO OTHER!! DERBY HILL LUXURY RESIDENCE ~ Carmel Valley San Diego Everything you could ever imagine or dream of is included in this luxury residence on a Premium View Lot, in highly sought-after Carmel Valley. This property, comprised of 7 bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, offers a lifestyle of fun, recreation, entertainment and division of space when needed. Within walking distance to Sage Canyon Elementary School, nearby shopping, dining, easy freeway access, and minutes to Del Mar Beaches! Exquisite upgrades include imported Italian stone flooring, Gourmet Chef’s Kitchen, Custom Built-in Entertainment Center, Sparkling Light Fixtures, display shelving, and custom bedroom closet organizers. The Outdoor Recreation/Entertainment Area, with Canyon Views, includes canopied Outdoor Kitchen with Slab Granite Countertop, Miniature Putting Green and Pool! SELLER WILL CONSIDER ALL OFFERS BETWEEN $1,999,999 - $2,199,999.

Sandra Reese 858.342.2317

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BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HomeServices California Properties

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101 Waverley Street, Palo Alto Offered at $4,288,000 Splendid Remodel by University Avenue Occupying a lot of over a quarter-acre (per county), this remodeled 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of over 2500 sq. ft. (per seller) boasts an additional walk-out lower level of around 1300 sq. ft. (per seller) yielding a three-car garage. Featuring a luxuriant garden and the original carriagehouse, the home has been updated with engineered hardwood floors and a central vacuum system, yet proudly retains its exquisite character. A carved chestnut mantelpiece enhances the sunken living room, while the immense dining room provides a butler’s pantry. The sun-drenched island kitchen includes butcher-block countertops, a Viking doubleoven range, and a walk-in pantry. His and her closets and Carrara marble dual vanities grace the new master suite. Just moments from El Camino Real and University Avenue, this home is nearby Johnson Park and within minutes of the best dining and shopping in Palo Alto. Terrific nearby schools include Addison Elementary (API 947), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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700 Chiquita Avenue Unit #5, Mountain View Offered at $798,000 Gorgeous Condominium Boasts Posh Amenities Indulge in this lovely 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home of 1,180 sq. ft. (per county) on a lot of 2,614 sq. ft. (per county). Crown molding and natural hardwood floors adorn the interior, while sustainable features include LED lighting throughout the main level, energy-efficient cooling and heating, and dual-pane windows. The combined living and dining area features a corner fireplace, media center, and French doors leading to a large paved patio. The island kitchen touts a travertine backsplash, granite countertops, breakfast bar, and soft-close drawers. Front-load laundry units and two master suites with extensive closets are upstairs, and one suite accesses a private terrace. Other features include abundant storage throughout and an attached one-car garage. Set on a serene cul-de-sac, the home is within walking distance of Castro Park and moments from downtown Mountain View and San Antonio Shopping Center. Nearby schools entail Benjamin Bubb Elementary (API 920), Graham Middle, and Los Altos High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.700ChiquitaUnit5.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

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Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch

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3 5 2 0 M I D D L E F I E L D R O A D , PA L O A LT O Beautifully Remodeled with Abundant Natural Light

Serene and Private Home with Wonderful Courtyard Entry • Three bedrooms – master suite with with large walk-in closet and gorgeous bathroom • Two remodeled bathrooms • Stunning chef’s kitchen • Large, private courtyard entry with mature landscaping • Spacious open living room with walls of windows LISTED BY Timothy Foy

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• Gleaming hardwood floors • Garage upgraded to enormous light-filled “bonus” room • Excellent Palo Alto Schools including Gunn High School • 1,300 sq. feet living space approx. • 6,000 sq. foot lot approx.

Cell: 650.387.5078

OFFERED AT $1,899,000 Tim@midtownpaloalto.com

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28420 Christopher Lane, Los Altos Hills

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650.488.7325| www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty CalBRE #01903224 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 27, 2015 • Page 69

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CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA LIVING Contemporary California Living best describes this impressive estate. An eclectic, modern interpretation of Spanish Colonials inspired by the work of George Washington Smith. The European influences are evident at every turn. Floor-to-ceiling windows with integrated glass doors, courtyards and terraces fill every room with brilliant, natural light and create a seamless connection with the outdoors. The floor plan is thoughtfully arranged with a main-level master suite wing that is a private retreat, four upstairs bedrooms each with en suite bath, plus a lower-level suite. Equally sumptuous are the poolside private guest quarters with stacking doors, which is perfect indoor- outdoor living. This home is almost 10,000 square feet on approximately 1.2 resort like acres with everything needed for outdoor living and entertaining: from the sparkling pool and spa to the fireplace and fire pit lounges – the entire setting is contemporary, quintessential California living.

•6 bedroom •6 baths •2 half baths •2 family rooms •ofﬁce •1 bedroom guest house •gym • 1.2 acres • Las Lomitas schools

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888 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Secluded Home in Alluring Midtown Location Retreat to this quiet 5 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,631 sq. ft. (per county) on a lot of 12,632 sq. ft. (per county). Set back on a flag-shaped lot, the private home affords an expansive driveway and a generous rear lawn. The common areas are grouped towards the left of the home, four bedrooms are arranged in the right wing, and one bedroom with a separate entrance adjoins the two-car garage. One of the other bedrooms features a private front entrance, ideal for an in-law bedroom. Highlights include an indoor brick barbecue, an original Westinghouse oven, original hardwood floors in three bedrooms, and mature fruit trees. A partially covered patio relaxes between the rear of the home and the rambling, grassy backyard. Within steps of Seale Park, the home is also moments from Bayshore Freeway, the Baylands trails, and Midtown Shopping Center. Top schools include Palo Verde Elementary (API 961), JLS Middle (API 943), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.888Colorado.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken DeLeon K DL CalBRE #01342140

Michael Mi h l Repka R k CalBRE #01854880

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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0 FAIRWAY DRIVE, LOS ALTOS Prominently located across the street from the prestigious Los Altos Country Club & Golf Course! This 13,000 sqft+/- lot is nestled on luscious grounds and mature oak trees! Build your dream home (approximately 3300 sqft+/-) on this picturesque creekside setting! 6É&#x2C6;LYLK H[

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OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

101 Alma Street Unit 907, Palo Alto

Offered at $1,498,000 Sky-High Living in Downtown North www.101AlmaUnit907.com

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

1 Portola Green Circle, Portola Valley

Offered at $3,988,000

Enchanting European Storybook Home www.1PortolaGreen.com

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

621 Hillcrest Way, Emerald Hills Offered at $2,398,000 Custom Villa with Astounding Views www.621Hillcrest.com ®

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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Coldwell Banker

#1 IN CALIFORNIA

Saratoga $29,000,000 12.98acres of rolling hills, bordered by 60acres of open space, close to downtown Saratoga 3 BR/2 BA Debbie Nichols CalBRE #00955497 650.325.6161

Atherton $17,888,000 Grand Estate combines the appeal of luxury w/ everything imaginable for the CA lifestyle. 5 BR/5.5 BA Tim Kerns, Hugh Cornish CalBRE #01800770,01484129 650.323.7751

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

Woodside Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $6,888,888 389 Moore Rd Woodside Heights Grand Monterey colonial two story estate. Pool, spa, tennis ct, stables, & gsthse. Views! 7 BR/8.5 BA Scott Dancer CalBRE #00868362 650.851.2666

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $5,980,000 1266 Hamilton Av Built in the 1930’s. Beautifully renovated gardens, walking distance to Downtown. 4 BR/4 full BA + 2 half Denis Morrissey CalBRE #00862018 650.325.6161

Los Altos $4,500,000 Commercial Bldg State of Art building. 3363 SF on 7100 SF lot. Zoned CD/R3. www.121FirstStreet.com Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161

Atherton Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,488,000 66 Jennings Ln Cul-de-sac home features formal LR, formal DR, kitchen w/ FR + bonus room. MP Schools! 4 BR/3 BA Hugh Cornish CalBRE #00912143 650.324.4456

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

Portola Valley Sunday 1:30-4:30 $2,690,000 812 La Mesa Dr Spacious 4 BR/4 BA Ladera home w/ office, media rm and rec rm. Spectacular View and excellent schools. 812LaMesa.com Ginny Kavanaugh, Dean Asborno CalBRE #00884747/01274816 650.851.1961

Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,295,000 31 Aliso Way Unique home w/ open floor plan. Chef ’s kitch. Outdoor entertaining! Las Lomitas schools! 3 BR/2.5 BA Karen Fryling, Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #01326725, 01332193 650.323.7751

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,950,000 3218 Bryant St 3 Bdrm, 1 bath cottage on a tree-lined street known as the nation’s first Bike Boulevard! Gwen Luce CalBRE #00879652 650.324.4456

Menlo Park $1,099,000 Gorgeous cottage on lrg lot. Located near Facebook, Stanford & 101. MP schools. 2 BR/1 BA Veronica Kogler CalBRE #01788047 650.324.4456

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,049,000 959 Johnson St West side charmer in central Redwood City. Close to parks & shopping. 3 BR/2 BA Colleen Cooley CalBRE #01269455 650.325.6161

Burlingame Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $828,000 15 Highland Ave 5 Around the Corner! Private entrance, formal DR, FP in LR, like new kitchen & enclosed sunny patio. 2 BR/2.5 BA Charlotte Van Orden CalBRE #00525483 650.324.4456

Palo Alto Coming Soon Price upon request 2-Level Custom Home Built by Current Owners in 2012. Amazing Grand Chef ’s Kit. Large Lot 4 BR/4 BA Greg Stange CalBRE #01418179 650.325.6161

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Alain Pinel Realtors

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WOODSIDE $7,778,000

PALO ALTO $4,795,000

1499 Edgewood Drive | 5bd/3.5ba Sherry Bucolo | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:00

205 Mountain Wood Lane | Lot K. Bird/S. Hayes/H. Johnson | 650.529.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

1270 Lincoln Avenue | 4bd/4ba Jennifer Buenrostro | 650.323.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

LOS ALTOS $3,798,000

LOS ALTOS $2,495,000

LOS ALTOS $2,198,000

48 Yerba Buena Avenue I 4bd/3.5ba Ryan Gowdy I 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 12:00-5:00

1038 Mundell Court I 2bd/1ba Monica Corman I 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

1335 Bright Oaks Court | 4bd/2.5ba J. Stricker/S. TenBroeck | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,895,000

PALO ALTO $1,198,000

REDWOOD CITY $1,149,000

13091 Lorene Court | 4bd/2.5ba Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30-

440 Cesano Court #210 | 3bd/2ba Patrice Horvath | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

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5 Bedrooms

THIS WEEKEND OPEN HOMES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM

ATHERTON

50 La Loma Dr $4,850,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

MOUNTAIN VIEW 700 Chiquita Ave 5 Sat/Sun 1-5pm Deleon Realty

FEATURED

$798,000 543-8500

3 Bedrooms

66 Jennings Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,488,000 324-4456

HOME OF THE WEEK

5 Bedrooms 10 Sargent Ln $8,450,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

2509 Easton Dr $2,948,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

LOS ALTOS HILLS 4 Bedrooms 28420 Christopher Ln $2,800,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Wise Financial Services 260-5022

LOS GATOS 3 Bedrooms

3218 BRYANT ST. PALO ALTO OPEN SAT/SUN In Midtown light-filled 3 BR, 1BA cottage on tree-lined street known as first Bike Boulevard in the nation. www.3218BryantStreet.com Offered at $1,950,000

Gwen Luce 566-5343

MENLO PARK 1100 Sharon Park Dr #2 $799,999 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

168 Sand Hill Cir $1,695,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

2 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

1031 Henderson Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

$1,099,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms - Condominium

659 Marsh Rd Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$1,435,000 324-4456

1307 Crane St $1,695,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

600 Willow Rd 22 Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

4 Bedrooms

15 Susan Gale Ct $2,995,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

383 Hedge Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,199,000 324-4456 $2,495,000 324-4456

$2,295,000 851-196

812 La Mesa Dr Sun Coldwell Banker 380 Portola Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,690,000 851-1961 $5,200,000 851-2666

REDWOOD CITY 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 4008 Farm Hill Blvd 103 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$539,000 325-6161

2 Bedrooms $535,000 947-2900

3 Bedrooms

2077 Williams St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 3218 Bryant St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 101 Waverley St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 3520 Middlefield Rd Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 1031 Fife Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,798,000 325-6161 $1,950,000 324-4456 $4,288,000 543-8500 $1,899,000 321-1596 $2,095,000 303-5511

4 Bedrooms 1266 Hamilton Ave $5,980,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 512 Military Way $2,198,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 2086 Channing Ave. $2,995,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 3333 Kenneth Dr $1,788,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 3641 Louis Rd $1,850,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 578 Lowell Ave $5,989,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

5 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms - Townhouse

31 Aliso Wy Sun Coldwell Banker

3424 Bay Rd Sat/Sun Sereno Group

3 Bedrooms

11005 Troy Rd $1,495,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

$1,148,000 (408) 295-3111

PALO ALTO

$828,000 324-4456

5 Bedrooms

$1,049,000 947-2900 $1,688,000 323-1900

201 Ada Ave 19 Sat/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 15 Highland Ave 5 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

536 Calderon Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 240 Pine Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

BURLINGAME

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

4 Bedrooms

PORTOLA VALLEY

2731 Emerson St Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 559 Barron Ave Sat/Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 888 Colorado Ave. Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 323-1111 $2,495,000 323-1111 $1,988,000 543-8500

959 Johnson St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,049,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms 75 Belle Roche Ave Sat/Sun 10-5 Coldwell Banker

$3,295,000 323-7751

STANFORD 4 Bedrooms 820 Tolman Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,200,000 323-1111

WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms 515 Moore Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,475,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms 136 Otis Ave $1,498,000 Sat 1-4/Sun 2-5 Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms 83 Tum Suden Way $2,699,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 931 High Rd $2,888,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement AFFIMITY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601771 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Affimity, located at 5581 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County. The principal place of business is in Delaware County and a current fictitious business name statement is on file at the County Clerk-recorder’s office of said County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AFFIMITY 5581 Camden Ave. San Jose, CA 95124 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/20/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 23, 2015. (PAW Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) PLACE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602071 The following person (persons) is (are) 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

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Dr., 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): WEIMIN DONG 112 Monroe Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/18/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 18, 2015. (PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015) MISS VIETNAM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOA HAU AO DAI BAC CALI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602191 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Miss Vietnam of Northern California Hoa Hau Ao Dai Bac Cali, located at 10180 Calvert Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HUYEN TRAN 449 La Herran Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 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 March 3, 2015. (PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015) MISS VIETNAM NORCAL HOA HAU VIETNAM BAC CALI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602281 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Miss Vietnam NorCal Hoa Hau Vietnam Bac Cali, located at 10180 Calvert Dr., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HUYEN TRAN 449 La Herran Drive

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NOON, WEDNESDAY Santa Clara, CA 95051 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 March 5, 2015. (PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 602076 The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): BOXWERKS LLC 1332 Parkinson Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 09/03/13 UNDER FILE NO.: 582377 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): BOXWERKS LLC 1332 Parkinson Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2015. (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) TREPIC, LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602541 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Trepic, LLC, located at 2065 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TREPIC, LLC 2065 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 11, 2015. (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)

SAIL INTERNET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602657 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Sail Internet, located at 728 Alester Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KEVIN DEAN FISHER 728 Alester Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 19 Feb., 2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) TextFormations FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602592 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: TextFormations, located at 342 Lastreto Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AMYROSE MCCUE GILL 342 Lastreto Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 LISA REGAN 1315 Dwight Way, Apt. J Berkeley, CA 94702 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 March 12, 2015. (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 602612 The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): SYMBOLIC IMAGING, LLC 1332 Parkinson Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 09/01/2011 UNDER FILE NO.: 555563 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): SYMBOLIC IMAGING, LLC 1332 Parkinson Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 13, 2015 (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) MayView Community Health Center-MV FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602649 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MayView Community Health CenterMV, located at 900 Miramonte Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MayView Community Health Center, Inc. 270 Grant Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/01/2000. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) MayView Community Health CenterCNC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602647 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MayView Community Health CenterCNC, located at 785 Morse Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MayView Community Health Center, Inc. 270 Grant Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/2005. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) MayView Community Health Center-PA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602673 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MayView Community Health Center-PA, located at 270 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):

MayView Community Health Center, Inc. 270 Grant Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/01/2000. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) ART AND SOUL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602653 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Art and Soul, located at 2326 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ALYSSA LEVITAN 2326 Webster St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 ANJU CHUGH 1183 Amarillio Ave. Apt. 3 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/05/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2015. (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015) ELACRITY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601957 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Elacrity, located at 2225 East Bayshore Rd., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): BRIAN FAEH 1818 Walnut Dr. Mountain View, CA 94040 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 25, 2015. (PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015) M CUTIE BEAUTY & SPA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602086 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: M Cutie Beauty & Spa, located at 1634 E Capitol Expressway, San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): NMDD INC. 2751 Corde Terra Cir. San Jose, CA 95111 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/13/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2015. (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV277522 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DURLE FORREST ROLAND filed a petition with this court for a 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 TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-14-618649-AB Order No.: 8425922 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/5/2003. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the

highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): UMAR AUSAF SIDDIQUI Recorded: 8/12/2003 as Instrument No. 17262767 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 4/10/2015 at 11:00:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 191 North Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $795,586.43 The purported property address is: 800 E CHARLESTON RD 22, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 127-66-022 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714730-2727 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-618649-AB . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 714-730-2727 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line:

(866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-618649-AB IDSPub #0078954 3/20/2015 3/27/2015 4/3/2015 PAW T.S. No.: 9986-1745 TSG Order No.: 00260053 A.P.N.: 003-15-117 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 03/11/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 03/22/2005 as Document No.: 18283923, Book No.: N/A, Page No.: N/A, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, executed by: LEILA P. LYONS, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time: 04/21/2015 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: At the gated North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 621 RHODES DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $850,098.10 (Estimated) as of 03/25/2015. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9986-1745. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee

Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-9390772. NBS Default Services, LLC, Nicole Rodriguez, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only. NPP0244068 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 03/27/2015, 04/03/2015, 04/10/2015 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHIO SHIMIZU Case No.: 1-15-PR-176191 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MICHIO SHIMIZU. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KRISTINA CUNNINGHAM, Interim Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTINA CUNNINGHAM, Interim Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 24, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N.

First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel Office of the County Counsel 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110 (408)758-4200 (PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)

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