Palo Alto Weekly April 10, 2015 by Palo Alto Weekly

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Vol. XXXVI, Number 27 Q April 10, 2015

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Task force: Expulsion is expected penalty for sexual assault Long-awaited report includes proposals for policy reform, education at Stanford by Elena Kadvany

Stanford University task force charged with reviewing and issuing recommendations on sexual-assault policies and procedures is recommending a policy change still seen as radical for many colleges — that any student found responsible for sexual assault be expelled. This recommendation is one of

many in a long-awaited report, released Wednesday, by an 18-member group of faculty, staff, students and one alumni whom Provost John Etchemendy asked last summer for recommendations in three areas: education and prevention; support for and response to students in the wake of an incident of sexual violence; and policies and procedures

for investigating and adjudicating cases of sexual violence. But the most-anticipated recommendation for many student activists and survivors of sexual assault, both at Stanford and on college campuses across the country, might be moving to expulsion as the “expected” consequence for sexual assault, as long as a three-member review panel unanimously finds the accused student responsible for such an act. The recommendation comes almost a year after Stanford students rallied at fierce campus pro-

tests around student Leah Francis — who publicly challenged the university after a fellow student found responsible for sexually assaulting her was not expelled — and demanded that the university shift to this tougher sanction. “If a student is found responsible for what can be understood to be an egregious violation of university policy, the expected sanction in such a case should be permanent separation from the university — expulsion,” the new report states. “Sexual assault is an example of

such an egregious violation.” In a Q&A with the co-chairs of the provost’s task force, Stanford Law School Dean Elizabeth Magill points to the definition of sexual assault under university policy: “sex without consent through violence, force, menace or duress, or by causing someone to be incapacitated or taking advantage of someone who is incapacitated — where incapacity is defined narrowly to be, essentially, where (continued on page 11)

TRANSPORTATION

Palo Alto urges safety improvements along Caltrain corridor Means restriction, as a form of suicide prevention, comes into urgent focus by Elena Kadvany

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In solidarity: not just a number

Students at Stanford University on Wednesday leave candles beside a memorial in White Plaza featuring photographs and names of the 147 students killed in the April 2 attack against Christians at Garissa University College in Kenya. Kenyans are using the hashtag #147notjustanumber and posting photos and information about the victims’ lives.

HISTORY

Remembering kindness amid atrocities Holocaust Remembrance Day to highlight experiences relevant to today’s extremism by Sue Dremann

iliane Kuhn was just 1½ years old when a strange woman took her away from her parents. Hitler’s henchmen were tightening their grip on France. “The farmer lady brought a warm brick and a blue blanket. She had heated the brick in the oven and put it on my feet,” she recalled this week. Kuhn’s Holocaust experience will be recounted during Santa Clara County’s Holocaust Re-

membrance Day on Monday, April 13. She and her husband, Alfred, will be among those honored by the county Board of Supervisors from 4 to 5:30 p.m. during a ceremony titled “Some Were Neighbors: Betrayers, Bystanders and Protectors.” High school students who interviewed the Holocaust survivors will give a presentation followed by the survivors’ stories. Palo Altan Luba Keller, mother of former Palo Alto Planning and

Transportation Commissioner Arthur Keller, will also be honored. She was 12 years old when the Nazis invaded her town in Poland. She was forced into slave labor for five years in concentration camps in Poland and Germany; all of her family members died. She was liberated by American soldiers in 1945, according to Eli Taub, cochair of Remembrance Day planning committee. The Kuhns said remembering the Holocaust today is as important as it has ever been, in the face of current religious fanaticism and extremist atrocities. Alfred was 4 years old when Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” occurred in 1938. The Nazi pogrom smashed Jewish businesses, synagogues and buildings throughout Germany and Austria. (continued on page 9)

s the Palo Alto school district continues to work on its campuses to respond to a teen suicide cluster, the city has proposed to Caltrain a series of potential safety improvements for the Palo Alto corridor in the hopes that additional measures will help prevent future suicide attempts. The city is asking Caltrain to upgrade the fencing along the four miles of tracks that run through Palo Alto to minimize access; allow the city to install motion-detection cameras that would alert the city’s Emergency Operations Center if it detects a person loitering in the area or a vehicle on the rail line’s rightof-way; and continue its removal of trees and shrubs to increase visibility along the corridor, according to a letter summarizing a March 6 meeting between city staff, including City Manager James Keene, Police Chief Dennis Burns and Director of Emergency Operations Ken Dueker, and Caltrain officials, including CEO Jim Harnett and Deputy CEO of Safety and Security Gigi

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Resources for helping people who are in an emotional crisis are posted online: Go to PaloAltoOnline.com and search for “How to help those in crisis.” In addition, the Santa Clara County Suicide and Crisis Services line is available 24/7 to provide support for suicidal persons and those around them at 855-278-4204. The California Youth Crisis Line is 800-843-5200.

Harrington. “While we recognize that Caltrain has responsibility for the entire rail corridor, the disproportionate number of teen suicides along the four-mile corridor in Palo Alto and suicides in general indicate a special crisis along the Palo Alto stretch and warrants further analysis, focus and resources,” Keene wrote in the March 16 letter to Mark Simon, Caltrain’s executive director for public affairs. The strategy of means restriction has become an even more urgent focus for the city this year, backed by research that many suicide attempts occur with little advance planning during a sudden emotional crisis and that “intent isn’t all that determines whether an attempter lives or dies; means also matter,” according to Means Matter, a Harvard University School of Public Health suicide-prevention project working to promote activities that reduce people’s access to lethal means of suicide. City staff initiated meetings last month with Caltrain to explore what can be done more “aggressively” on this front, said Director of Community Services Rob de Geus, who is one of the city’s two leads on the youth well-being coalition Project Safety Net. Project Safety Net also recently hired a temporary contractor to conduct research on means restriction in conjunction with the city’s Office of (continued on page 10)

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Around Town CATERING TO VEGETARIANS ... Hold the burger and pile on the quinoa. When it comes to being a vegan-friendly college, Stanford University knows what’s up. Stanford beat out the University of Illinois, Duke University, Kent State University and many others to take first place in peta2’s 2015 Favorite Vegan-Friendly College contest in the large college category (Oberlin College took first in the small college category). Peta2 assessed and graded submissions from students and staff and dining-hall menus at thousands of colleges and universities across the U.S. to see how they stacked up. After four rounds (in which votes are cast on the peta2 website), Stanford Dining came out on top for offering smart food creations designed to improve mental and physical health. In a Vegan Report Card, Stanford was lauded for including a vegan member on its student advisory board, offering nondairy milk, labeling vegan entrees and desserts, promoting vegan options and partnering with students to distribute vegan food. The university, however, didn’t make the grade for participating in Meatless Mondays, offering an all-vegan station or having an all-vegan dining facility. Stanford will receive a personalized certificate and yearlong bragging rights. TEDX AT THE FARM ... Stanford University announced this week that the campus’ fourth TEDx event will take place on May 17, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The lineup includes esteemed professors of law, geophysics, business, anthropology and medicine, as well as a Stanford junior who has worked with special-needs girls in Coimbatore, India, and coordinated the first university-wide bystander intervention training initiative, called “Stanford, It’s On Us: We Will Not Standby.” Other speakers include Carla Shatz, the director of Stanford Bio-X; education-policy guru Linda DarlingHammond; and Hoover Institution Research Fellow and Asia scholar Alice Miller, “who will share her transgender journey at 50, from wearing a full beard and working for the CIA to transitioning to a truer life,” a university press release reads. Past TEDxStanford talks (all available on YouTube in the spirit of the open-source

event) have featured Steve Jobs, Tom Brokaw, Cardinal football coach David Shaw and a student race-car driver. Tickets — ranging from $99 for the general public down to $40 for students — will go on sale online and at the Stanford Ticket Office on April 15 at 10 a.m. For $50, you can watch the talks via livestream in adjacent overflow rooms. (Don’t worry, breakfast, lunch and a reception is still included.) For the lineup, tickets and more information, go to tedx.stanford. edu. All talks will be posted online at some date after the event. ‘IN DEEP’ ... Kepler’s bookstore in Menlo Park has been known since the turbulent 1960s for provoking discussion on the issues and writers of the day. Now the relatively new management team wants to hold those discussions on a national level and is looking to a new live talk radio show to get the message out. Starting this week, well-known radio journalist Angie Coiro is hosting “In Deep,” a two-hour talk show recorded live at Kepler’s. The first hour will be dedicated to current issues and the second spent on arts and culture. “I think it’ll be fabulous. There’s just nothing like the live energy, the wildcard element of a whole bunch of brains sitting down with you,” Coiro said. In its live debut, the show tackled the aftermath of the verdict in the Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit. Jean Forstner, Kepler’s director of community relations, said the bookstore is the first in the country to do a weekly live broadcast. She described it as an evolution of the store’s focus on building engagement by giving people a chance to interact with authors and other deep thinkers. Coiro got started in radio while living in Hawaii during her 20s. Her first Bay Area gig involved a 2 a.m. shift as a traffic reporter. She went on to become an anchor for KQED, and later, created an interview series for Mother Jones, as well as one for the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. “In Deep” will air at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays from Kepler’s, located at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. The next two shows will be free to attend; after that, audience tickets will cost $10 per person and be sold both at the store and online. Recorded shows will be posted at InDeepRadio.com. Q

Upfront EDUCATION

Superintendent: No academic classes during zero period Early morning classes at Gunn, Paly could be limited to PE by Elena Kadvany

alo Alto Superintendent Max McGee plans to recommend that the district’s two high schools limit their earlymorning zero periods to physical education or non-academic classes, according to a memo he wrote to the school board Thursday. Zero period, which begins at 7:10 a.m. at Palo Alto High and 7:20 a.m. at Gunn High, has come under fire in recent weeks as the link between sleep and teen mental health has risen to the top of community concerns, with scores of medical professionals and one board member in particular urging Gunn and Paly to start school no earlier than 8:30 a.m., in alignment with a recent American Academy of Pediatrics policy recommendation on school start times. Gunn’s regular school day begins at 8:25 a.m. and Paly’s at 8:15 a.m. Both schools shifted to these later start times several years ago. Zero period is optional. Numerous students and parents have defended zero period, however, for the freedom it allows students to adjust their schedules to accommodate after-school activities as well as the motivation it pro-

vides students to get to sleep earlier. Other community members have suggested that it is misguided to focus on an optional earlier class that a subset of students opt into instead of the question of a mandatory start time for an entire school. One student, Gunn sophomore class president Chloe Sorensen, conducted an online survey on zero period that indicated 90 percent of students who have been enrolled in zero period (196 students who responded to the survey) do not want the early morning option to be removed. The same percentage of all students who responded (370 total) agreed. In numerous pages of comments, many students wrote enthusiastically in support of zero period and said they appreciate it for the time it allows them in the afternoon to do homework or miss less classtime if they are athletes. School board member Ken Dauber, however, told the Weekly “reducing homework loads and ... implementing a system of hand-scheduling athlete schedules, as they do at Paly,” should be used to achieve those aims instead of retaining zero period. McGee wrote in his memo this

week that he wants to “underscore that this decision represents a compromise that is best for the most students most of the time according to scientific research. I want to assure them that we have listened to them and heard them, but we believe — as I sincerely do — that there are ways to reduce stress through creative scheduling and even the use of blended classes. While I am not one for restricting student choice, especially when several students have told us that taking zero-period classes reduces their stress, the science behind the decision is solid.” About 300 Gunn students are currently enrolled in zero period classes, which include both physical education and academic courses like advanced English, AB calculus, chemistry, blended AP economics and broadcast news. Paly only offers PE during zero period, with 102 students currently enrolled. When asked by Dauber at the March 10 board meeting why her school only offers physical education during zero period, Paly Principal Kim Diorio said, “Philosophically, because of the research on sleep.” At that same meeting, Dauber

CITY HALL

Ex-San Jose city manager to become Palo Alto’s assistant manager Ed Shikada becomes city’s second high-profile hire in recent weeks by Gennady Sheyner

dward Shikada, a former transportation executive who spent more than a decade in San Jose City Hall before resigning abruptly in December, has been tapped to serve as an assistant city manager in Palo Alto. City Manager James Keene has confirmed he has hired Shikada on an interim basis for a position that until a year ago didn’t exist. The appointment makes Shikada the second assistant city manager hired in recent weeks. On Monday night, the City Council approved the contract for Suzanne Mason, a former human resources director for the County of Napa and, before that, the City of Long Beach. Shikada, like Mason, has Long Beach connections, though his expertise revolves around transportation and public works. He served as a transportation planner and, later, as director of public works in Long Beach before arriving in San Jose in 2003. He spent nearly a decade in San Jose, first as deputy city manager and later as an assistant city manager, before being selected for the city

manager role in November 2013. His tenure as the city’s chief administrative official proved abrupt and controversial, despite the San Jose City Council’s unanimous approval of his appointment. Shortly after last November’s election, Shikada faced criticism from several council members for firing Alex Gurza, the city’s deputy city manager, without first Ed Shikada notifying them, according to the website San Jose Inside. The website also cited widespread speculation that the city’s newly elected mayor, Sam Liccardo, wanted a leadership change. Shikada abruptly resigned on Dec. 17 after the council held two closed sessions to discuss his performance. In discussing the new appointment, Keene praised Shikada’s many years of experience in planning and transportation and called

his a “great background for us, given the issues that we’ve got.” Keene said Shikada’s term will stretch until early August, at which time both parties will reassess their options. The reason that his appointment, unlike Mason’s, is on the interim basis is because Shikada has indicated he may pursue a city manager position elsewhere. Suzanne Mason S h i k a d a ’ s hiring has resulted in an unusual game of bureaucratic musical chairs: Shikada will be temporarily assuming the old title of Pam Antil, who in April 2014 resigned from Palo Alto to become Shikada’s assistant city manager in San Jose. Antil left San Jose immediately after Shikada resigned last December. Keene said the city has been interviewing people for two assistant city manager positions since

suggested that the board create an official policy that prohibits academic classes during zero period. McGee wrote in his memo that if the board is interested in doing that, it should direct its policy review committee to draft one for discussion at a future board meeting. On March 19, a group of local and regional health professionals, many of them with children in the district, wrote to the school board and McGee to endorse the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendation. The letter began with 35 signatures and grew to 80 over the next few weeks. Calling it a “necessary public health measure,” these pediatricians, psychiatrists, therapists and professors from private practices, the Stanford School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and elsewhere called on the board to implement later start times, which are described by the AAP as “an effective countermeasure to chronic sleep loss” that “has a wide range of potential benefits to students with regard to physical and mental health, safety, and academic achievement.” “The Academy notes in an accompanying technical report a nearly threefold increase in the risk of suicide attempts among adolescents who sleep less than 8 hours per night, even when controlling for confounding factors,” the letter reads. “The policy statement concludes that ‘both the urgency and the magnitude of the problem of sleep loss in adolescents and the availabil-

ity of an intervention that has the potential to have broad and immediate effects are highly compelling.’” The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) pediatrics department also took an unprecedented public step into the community debate on teen well-being with a March 20 guest opinion piece that suggests several factors that should be addressed to improve students’ mental health, the first one being sleep. PAMF Pediatrician Amy Heneghan, also a founding member of mental health professional coalition the HEARD Alliance, told the Weekly that Palo Alto was ahead of a national shift toward later school-start times when both schools moved their days to start at these times — Paly in 2010 and Gunn the following year — and should continue to uphold the American Academy of Pediatrics’ policy. Gunn is also in the midst of developing a new bell schedule, with a committee set to present recommendations to the board in May. McGee wrote that the committee is eyeing four models that, while not yet finalized, will not include a zero period for any academic class, if zero period exists at all. “The Committee still has a lot of work to do on the models and feedback to gather, but I think we can all be assured that start times will be consistent with and take into account adolescents’ sleep needs and patterns,” McGee wrote. Gunn’s bell scheduling committee is hosting a town hall on April 20. Zero period will also be on the board’s agenda on April 21. Q

last summer, when the council agreed to convert a previously administrative position (“assistant to the city manager”) into an executive one by adding a second “assistant city manager” position to the city manager’s budget. Keene last week lauded Shikada’s background as a certified engineer and a transportation expert and said he did not see the nature of Shikada’s exit from San Jose as a deterrent to the appointment. “City managers come and go and for lots of different reasons,” Keene told the Weekly. “My sense of Ed’s professionalism is that he’s an excellent professional and he’s done great work. He’s a very smart guy, and I think he can contribute to and help our organization.” Keene said Shikada’s appointment would begin this week and that he will earn an annual salary of $200,000, pro-rated to account for the time served. If his term ends in early August, his compensation will be about $67,000. Unlike Mason, he will not receive a rent stipend in addition to his salary. Furthermore, because Shikada’s appointment is temporary, it does not need to go to the council for approval. The council would have to sign off on his hiring if he becomes a permanent assistant city manager, Keene said. Keene said Mason will focus largely on City Hall’s internal infrastructure, including functions such as human resources and information technology. Shikada, meanwhile, will be working most closely with

departments such as Public Works, Utilities and Community Services. In an interview Friday, Shikada said he sees his new role in Palo Alto as that of a “utility player,” someone who can quickly jump in and take over whatever role needs attention. He acknowledged the big difference between San Jose (which has a population of about 1 million) and Palo Alto (which has about 65,000 residents). In his former job, the size of the organization often required him to focus on process more than on the actual outcome of the city’s actions. In the smaller Palo Alto organization, by contrast, staff’s interactions and impacts can be more direct. “We’re all at the front door, at the front curb, really working directly with citizens and businesses,” Shikada said. “I’m really looking forward to that. It’s a different scale.” Much of his work will be in areas of intense community concern and council attention. He said he expects development issues to be “front and center” in his new job, including community engagement over planning issues. The biggest challenge, he said, will be bringing himself up to speed on local issues. “It’s a very busy community, a very busy organization,” Shikada said. “Palo Alto is at the center of the economic resurgence happening throughout the Silicon Valley. It’s a really exciting time to be a part of the organization.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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News Digest City moves ahead to protect retail

With several local retail establishments recently shutting down to make way for offices, city leaders agreed on Monday night that the problem of retail loss demands an urgent response. To that end, the Palo Alto City Council voted 7-0 to pursue an “urgency ordinance” that would immediately prohibit the conversion of ground-floor retail to offices in all commercial districts. In addition, council members agreed to pursue a more longlasting solution in the coming months, including new groundfloor requirements for retail on peripheral downtown blocks, a revised definition of “retail” and a limit on chain stores around California Avenue. According to data from the city’s planning department, the city lost about 70,514 square feet of retail between 2008 and 2014, even as it added 537,144 square feet of office and research-anddevelopment space. Currently, the city has zoning laws that require University Avenue establishments to have retail on the ground floor. That rule, however, only applies to downtown’s core. Areas around Hamilton and Forest avenues don’t have such ground-floor-retail protections. City staff will now draft the ordinance and bring it back to the council for adoption on May 11. The law would apply to all establishments that operated as retail as of March 2. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Council to weigh appeal of development

Sign up for the Palo Alto Citywide Yard Sale Saturday, June 6 from 8am – 2pm Helping the environment and making money has never been so easy. Reusing – whether you donate, buy, or sell – is one of the best ways to reduce waste and keep usable stuff out of the landfill. Sign up to hold a yard sale and join the fun. Sign Up to Sell • Register online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com/yardsale or call (650) 496-5910. The registration deadline is May 8, 2015. • We’ll send you a fact sheet with tips for a successful sale and a list of reuse organizations. • Your address and sale merchandise will be included in a full-page map listing all participating sales. The map will be printed in the June 5, 2015 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly, and online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com/yardsale For more information about the Yard Sale PaloAltoOnline.com/yardsale zerowaste@cityofpaloalto.org (650) 496-5910 Page 8 • April 10, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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The intense dispute over a proposed downtown Palo Alto building that is to go up at the former location of the Shady Lane boutique on University Avenue will soon be heading to the City Council for resolution. Despite urgings from the project’s developer, the council agreed on Monday night to schedule a public hearing to consider a citizen appeal of 429 University Ave., a project that recently won the approval of the Architectural Review Board and the endorsement of the city’s planning department. In agreeing to consider the appeal on May 4, the council went against a staff recommendation and intense lobbying by the developer to let the approval stand. The council made its decision after being flooded with letters from both sides of the dispute. Supporters of the project argued that the applicants have already spent more than a year going through the planning process, revising the project’s design and making sure it meets all code requirements. Opponents have maintained that the modernist building designed by architect Ken Hayes is incompatible with the Victorian-dominated block of Kipling Street, between University and Lytton avenues. Elizabeth and Jaime Wong, who are trying to develop the property, insisted that they have followed all the city’s rules and that it’s not fair for the city to add an unexpected hurdle at the end of the arduous process. The neighbor who is appealing the project, Michael Harbour, thanked the council for considering his arguments and for “listening to the citizens who expressed lots of concerns.” Both sides will have another chance to make their arguments on May 4, when the formal appeal hearing takes place. Q — Gennady Sheyner

East Palo Alto City Council to fill vacant seat

The East Palo Alto City Council on Tuesday, April 7, approved an appointment process to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Councilwoman Laura Martinez, who has left to serve on the board of the Sequoia Union High School District. “This vacancy is to fill an unexpired term ending after certification of the November 2016 General Municipal Election, which is anticipated to be Dec. 6, 2016,” according to a press release. Applicants must be a registered voter and a resident of East Palo Alto. Applications, which can be picked up at City Hall, at 2415 University Ave. or on the city’s website, must be submitted by April 30 at 5 p.m. at the Office of the City Clerk, located on the second floor of City Hall. Postmarked, faxed or emailed copies will not be accepted. The council will conduct interviews on May 5 and plans to make the appointment at its May 5 meeting, or at a subsequent meeting, if necessary. For more information, call Interim Deputy City Clerk Terrie Gillen at 650-853-3127 or email tgillen@cityofepa.org. Q — Elena Kadvany LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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Council to hear appeal over Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents’ fates rest in hands of Palo Alto councilmembers

dents by the property owner for relocation is sufficient, those residents are expected to be evicted and the park closed. Last fall, a hearing officer concluded that the relocation assistance is enough; Buena Vista residents are appealing that decision. The hearing will begin on April 13 at 6 p.m. with public comment. Under rules outlined in a recent letter from City Attorney Molly Stump, speakers will be allotted 3 minutes each, unless Mayor Karen Holman further limits the time allocation due to the number of people wishing to address the council. A group of five or more people at the meeting may select a spokesperson to represent them, in which case the spokesperson would be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes, according to

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allowed to return home. The family sought to leave Germany, but a quota meant they would not be accepted into the United States for three years — a certain death sentence if they waited in Germany. They learned of a Swiss farmer in South America who was offering German Jews the chance to work for him. “My parents, who had never seen a cow in their lives except on the dinner table, applied,” Alfred said. They were the last four Jews to leave their town alive, town records later showed. In April 1940, the family boarded a train for Genoa, Italy. The family then lived in Bolivia for 10 years. Liliane’s German Jewish parents had fled to Paris, France, in 1933 as the Nazis came to power. They lived in safety until the Nazis invaded Paris. Liliane’s mother took her toddler out of the city as the Nazis entered, and moved to Lyon, a town nearly 300 miles away. They settled in a walk-up apartment in a Christian neighborhood there while Liliane’s father fought with the French Foreign Legion in South Africa. But a Gentile neighbor knew the mother and daughter were not safe. She found a cousin with a farm in the Savoie region to take Liliane in. Raised by the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Maurier, Liliane became part of the family, along with the couple’s older son and daughter. Liliane’s parents, eventually reunited, hid in Lyon using forged documents. But Lyon was a center of atrocity. “Klaus Barbie was there — the Butcher of Lyon,” Alfred said. “He killed, murdered and tortured hundreds of people.” The neighbor who had helped get Liliane to the farm also helped

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“It happened in our little town on Nov. 9 and 10. There was a knock on the door. The police said, ‘You have to come to the station.’ We were put on trucks and driven to the county center and put in the basement of the local courthouse. The women and children were on one side and the men were on the other. Then the processing began. The results were simple: The women and children were sent home; all of the men were arrested and sent to concentration camps,” Alfred said. The Nazis planned to burn the synagogue next to the Kuhns’ home, but fortunately, the town’s main inn was attached to it and the non-Jewish innkeeper protested the planned burning, Alfred said. The Nazis ransacked the synagogue instead, removing the Torahs, prayer books and even the seat cushions. They made a bonfire and threw everything in, Alfred recalled. “As the fire burned, the feathers — the stuffing of the pillows — rose in the sky. For two days the wind carried them. Every time I see a white feather it reminds me of that day,” he said. A single piece of paper saved Alfred’s father after four or five months in the concentration camp. He kept a commendation in his pocket for his military service in World War I. As a veteran for the Reich, Alfred’s father was

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Stump. Following public comment, the Buena Vista Residents Association will be invited to make a 30-minute presentation, followed by a 10-minute testimony by a witness. The witness for the residents will be Elizabeth Seifel, president of Seifel Consulting. According to a letter from the attorneys for the residents’ association, Seifel has “extensive experience advising public and private sector clients regarding real estate and development matters.” Her presentation will outline the “unique features of Buena Vista” that must be taken into account when identifying comparable housing; the current housing market in which the Buena Vista families will have to find comparable housing; and the location

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comments first, followed by the rebuttals. The council’s deliberation and decision on the appeal will follow. If the meeting extends too late on Monday night, the council will reconvene the next day, also at 6 p.m., to conclude the hearing. Members of the public will only be allowed to speak at the April 13 meeting. In advance of the hearings, the Weekly has compiled an archive of documents, videos, photos and news articles that illustrate the history of the closure process and more recent efforts to coordinate funding and plans for preserving the park, should the council next week rule in favor of the residents. The archive is posted at Storify. com/paloaltoweekly. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

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n what could be the decisive battle in the two-and-a-halfyear war over closing the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, the City Council is set to hear an appeal by residents of the El Camino park next Monday and Tuesday. The hearing could cap the long and emotional process that since the fall of 2012 has galvanized the community and thrust the park’s residents into the spotlight. A working-class enclave in a city known for sky-high real estate prices, the 4.6-acre mobile-home park has for decades provided affordable housing to about 400 residents, many of them Hispanic and on the lower end of the local income scale. If the council rules that the compensation offered to the resi-

and features of alternative housing that would be available to the residents based on the relocation assistance approved by the hearing officer. The park owners will then be given the same opportunity. This week, the attorney for the Jisser family indicated that the expert witness for her side will be David Beccaria, whose firm appraised the Buena Vista properties as part of the Jissers’ Relocation Impact Report. According to attorney Margaret Nanda, the decision to call Beccaria as an expert witness was prompted by a recent review commissioned by the residents’ association that challenges Beccaria’s methodology. Beccaria this week offered a point-by-point response to the critique. Though Beccaria noted that property values have increased since early 2013, when he wrote his report, he maintained that the firm’s reports “are valid relative to the effective date of the report.” After the presentation and the expert testimony from each side, the council may either proceed directly to hearing each side’s 15-minute rebuttal, or it might opt to ask questions and make

Holocaust survivors Alfred and Liliane Kuhn, pictured here in their living room in Palo Alto, will be honored during Santa Clara County’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, April 13. her parents. She and a plainclothes police officer, who knew when Nazi raids would take place, hid the couple. The officer’s wife was able to send the couple to a small summer cottage until it was safe to return, Liliane said. Liliane’s parents occasionally visited the Mauriers’ farm. “Once in a while these two people came to visit. They always brought a bag of cookies. They gave a hug and toys and presents, and then they left. I had no realization that those were my parents,” she said. When the war ended, they took Liliane home. The Kuhns said it was years before they thought about the loss the Mauriers felt in abruptly giving up Liliane.

The Mauriers kept her photograph on their mantle for decades. The only comment they ever made when their granddaughter asked about the little blonde girl was that she “was a kid we protected during the war,” the granddaughter told Liliane. The Kuhns kept in touch with the Maurier family over the years, visiting about every other year when Liliane would return to France. They still correspond with the granddaughter, they said. Now 74 years later, the Kuhns have applied for the Mauriers to receive a posthumous medal of the Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel. The medal is granted to non-Jews — so-called Righteous Gentiles — who risked their lives during

the Holocaust to save Jews from death. The Kuhns see many parallels between the Holocaust and the violence of extremist groups such as ISIS. This time, Christians are being slaughtered. “I hate to use the term, but deja vu,” Alfred said. Kristallnacht and the horrific chapter of history it began is “slowly drifting into ancient history,” Alfred said. But succeeding generations must never forget. “When the Nazis came to power, less than 10 percent believed in them. The silent majority kept silent. By the time somebody spoke up, it was too late,” Alfred said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Stanford to boost psychological services

With a new injection of recently approved funding, Stanford University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) plans to increase its staff by five in the next academic year. The expansion comes amid increased student complaints this year about long wait times and sometimes insufficient mental health support.

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Outage leaves residents without power

A power outage in the northern part of Palo Alto left nearly 500 residents without power Thursday morning. (Posted April 9, 8:49 a.m.)

Palo Alto set to OK new signs at City Hall

Seeking to make it easier for the public to find, and get around, the freshly renovated City Hall, Palo Alto plans to spend nearly $330,000 on signs, directories and a large monument in the coming weeks. (Posted April 8, 9:55 a.m.)

Scientists: State drought likely to worsen

The likelihood of California experiencing more warm, dry years leading to severe drought is increasing, according to research by Stanford University scientists. (Posted April 8, 9:54 a.m.)

City weighs ideas to speed up council meetings

Palo Alto’s elected officials disagree on many issues, but they are united in their belief that they need to talk less and make City Council meetings more efficient. (Posted April 8, 9:21 a.m.)

Ballots for school parcel tax mailed

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters mailed ballots this week to the 42,084 registered voters in the Palo Alto Unified School District who are being asked to vote on a $758 parcel tax to support the district’s schools. (Posted April 7, 9:21 a.m.)

Second Harvest, tech execs launch campaign

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a group of high-level tech executives launched this month a “Stand Up for Kids” campaign with the goal of helping to feed the one in three children in Silicon Valley who struggles with hunger. (Posted April 7, 8:49 a.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.

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Hidden Gems of Upper Lomita Walking Tour and Treasure Hunt Sunday, April 26, 2015, 1 to 4 p.m.

Twelve historic houses and gardens on tour, including the Knoll and Kingscote Gardens. Limited access to interiors. This active family walk features a special treasure hunt for kids aged 6 to 12. Ticket $10 before April 11. Ticket $15 after April 11 and on the day of the tour. Children 12 and under free with adult admission! For more information: historicalsociety.stanford.edu 650-324-1653; 650-725-3332 This space donated as community service by Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online Page 10 • April 10, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Emergency Services. At a meeting of the city/school liaison committee last week, Councilman Pat Burt expressed a sense of urgency in moving forward on safety improvements with Caltrain. “We frankly are trying to convince Caltrain to move on these measures more aggressively and more comprehensively,” Burt said, adding that Caltrain’s budget for such measures is “inadequate in our minds.” He said the city has expressed to Caltrain a “willingness to devote capital resources to supplement their budget.” Keene also wrote in his March 16 letter that the city is interested in jointly pursuing federal funds to support suicide prevention along rail corridors. Keene’s letter to Simon requested a cost estimate for making sure all fences on both sides of the Palo Alto corridor are 8 feet high. It also planned a meeting between the city and Caltrain to discuss piloting an “experimental camera system” along the rail line that offers “smart” analytics that can detect people and their behavior, such as someone lingering near the tracks, and send that information immediately to the city’s Emergency Operations Center. “When it comes to improving safety on our railroad tracks, we’re listening and trying to be open to the community,” Tasha Bartholomew, acting public information officer for Caltrain, told the Weekly on April 3. She said that Caltrain hopes to provide the cost estimates before June 30, the end of this

fiscal year. Caltrain is also researching the impacts that fencing and tree-removal might have on rail operations and neighbors who live adjacent to the tracks, Bartholomew said. “We really just want to provide support and be there to help with this community issue,” Bartholomew said. “We’re trying to become part of the solution.” Key to moving forward on Palo Alto’s proposals, Burt and Keene said at the city/school meeting, is a shift in Caltrain’s focus, which is on their entire system rather than Palo Alto specifically. “We’ve seen nothing to date publicly that Caltrain is recognizing this as a real existential risk to their transportation system,” he said. “Part of the discussion is that we need to approach the Caltrain board, in parallel with efforts to address this with their executive leadership, for them to recognize that the status quo and the traditional means of doing this and prioritization that they placed on this historically is inadequate today.” “This is a triage situation,” Keene said Thursday. “We’re looking at the most critical location, which is undisputedly here in Palo Alto. We’re offering potentials to be able to assist to ensure that triage.” Caltrain, for its part, has asked if the Palo Alto Police Department can assume oversight of the track guards who monitor several Palo Alto crossings. The guards, who are employed by Vallejo-based Val Security, are currently overseen by the Community Services Department, but management of their contract will soon be shifted to the police department, according to a city staff report.

The City Council also approved Monday contract and budget amendments to cover an additional $123,000 that was spent at Keene’s discretion this year to increase the track guards’ coverage and enough funds to cover the current level of services through June 30. Funding for track security is drawn from the $2 million in funds earmarked for Project Safety Net from the Stanford Medical Center Development Agreement Fund. Shortly after the city/school liaison meeting, the Caltrain board met in San Carlos to approve a resolution expressing concern about continuing deaths by suicide, reaffirming its commitment to “being an active partner in mental health and suicide prevention efforts.” The resolution also advocates for “responsible” media coverage of suicides and commits Caltrain to participating in “activities that educate the news media about the benefits of restraint in reporting on these incidents.” A presentation made at the board meeting also mentions a long-term goal regarding fencing: “ensure continuous fencing is in place on at least one side of the corridor with combination of railroad and private property fencing.” Since 2005, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which governs Caltrain, has spent almost $9 million on fence installations under four capital projects, according to Caltrain, mostly funded through external grants. “They want to be part of the prevention collaborative,” de Geus said, “but we’ll have to see. We want to see action.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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the affected party does not know what is going on around them.” “One does not accidentally do this,” Magill said. Though expulsion is the expected penalty, it might not be the mandatory sanction in all cases. “We also believe any policy should have some flexibility to anticipate unexpected circumstances that may arise,” Magill added, “and that is why it is the ‘expected’ sanction.” The task force recommends that after the review panel determines that a student is responsible for violating university policy — which must be a unanimous decision — the panel should begin its consideration of possible consequences with the most serious sanction of expulsion and only then consider lesser sanctions. The panel could also be tasked with creating sanctioning guidelines for certain kinds of violations to provide more consistency and better “guidance on how to determine proportionate and effective sanctions.” Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a staunch advocate for sexual-assault reform who has been deeply involved in drafting the university’s current adjudication process, called the expectation of expulsion the “most important recommendation in the report.” Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) executive and senior Benjy Mercer-Golden, who also served on the task force, said he was glad to see the report align with a policy that student government has been pushing for over the last year. “Sexual assault seems to me to be the ultimate expression of conduct that would be sufficient cause for removal from the University — it is one of the most serious forms of interpersonal violence one can commit and a deep violation of the mutual respect community members must uphold,” he wrote in an email to the Weekly. The task force’s report — the result of more than 80 meetings and town halls, research on best practices and consultation with local and national experts on sexual assault — describes the positive steps Stanford has taken in recent years to improve its handling of sexual assault. However, it notes that “more needs to be done.” “The past quarter of a century of work on sexual violence at Stanford has produced notable changes, such as the adoption of a university policy on prohibited sexual conduct and the creation of and implementation of a sexual-assault specific adjudication process,” the report states. “The Task Force has been concerned to learn, however, that the experience of some students following their encounter with sex-

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ual violence has remained constant. Students today, just as they have in the past, express concern about a confusing, sometimes-inconsistent system of response and support — a system that, despite good intentions, at times simply fails to provide some students the help they seek.” A “key” recommendation from the report is that the university streamline its response to and support of student sexual-assault victims, many of whom told the task force that the university process is difficult to understand, with many moving parts and different steps that involve different offices or individuals. The “decentralized, confusing system undermined their recovery and ... likely decreases reporting by others who experience sexual violence,” the report states. To combat this, the task force proposes the creation of a Confidential Support and Response Team composed of confidential counselors with professional backgrounds in psychology and/or social work who will, among other things provide immediate crisis support to a student following an incident of sexual violence; inform them about university, civil and criminal-justice resources to help them sort through options and possible next steps; follow up with ongoing psychological care or refer the student to another professional trained in trauma response; and with the consent of the involved student, be responsible for case management and tracking, and serve as a liaison between the student and all relevant university responders, according to the report. “In this model, the number of people involved in any given case will not necessarily decrease, but

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Steve Castelloti, right, guides the Puzzlebox Orbit, a mini-helicopter enclosed in a sphere, as it is controlled by Sevastain Oti, 9, at the Robot Block Party on April 8. The Orbit is actually flown using a person’s brainwaves, which are detected by a headset. The Orbit only flies when the person is concentrating on a task. review panel of trained faculty, staff and students, the task force suggests the panels be made up of three reviewers who are extensively trained, regularly sit on cases and are not undergraduate students. The exclusion of undergraduates from the review panel is a significant change for the university. The task force said it came to a consensus on this point, acknowledging it is likely that undergraduate students’ lives will overlap in some way with the people involved in the case. More

‘Sexual assault ... is one of the most serious forms of interpersonal violence one can commit and a deep violation of the mutual respect community members must uphold.’ — Benjy Mercer-Golden, ASSU executive and senior, Stanford University each case will have a professional, fully dedicated point of contact to take responsibility for connections between the student and all other parties. We are optimistic that a shift from numerous people working in different offices to a unified team of fully dedicated, issue-area experts is essential for meeting our goal of providing a safe, encouraging and respectful environment for survivors of sexual violence,” the report states. The task force is also recommending the university replace its current disciplinary process, known as the Alternate Review Process or ARP, with a new three-year pilot program that creates a single rather than bifurcated process for the investigation and adjudication of violations of university policy. (Currently, two entities participate in this process: the Title IX office and the Office of Community Standards.) Also, instead of a five-member

critical, though, is that having undergraduates serve as reviewers “sits uneasily” with the objective to have a panel that “is trained, experienced, and whose members are regularly hearing cases.” “As an undergraduate myself, I questioned this at first, because it’s my identity and because I acknowledged the argument of having a ‘jury of your peers,’” ASSU executive and task force co-chair Elizabeth Woodson said in the university’s Q&A. “But we thought about this for months, and it’s from student feedback that we made this decision. Students expect an excellent process. For reviewers, this means consistency, ongoing and in-depth training, and regular panel participation over a multi-year term. It’s challenging for an undergraduate student to make this the focus of their time here, which we will be asking of the faculty and staff

members during their terms.” The task force acknowledges similar challenges with having graduate students serve as reviewers but notes some benefits: Graduate students would bring diversity, especially in age, experience, race, gender and sexual orientation; they are closer to the undergraduate experience than administrators or faculty; and they are a more “diffuse” community with less likelihood of being connected to the involved students. Ultimately, the task force is leaving it up to the provost to decide whether or not graduates should serve on the panels. Under a new policy proposed by the task force, cases might not reach a review panel if they instead first achieve a resolution through the university’s Title IX office, with the agreement of the students involved. Dauber said the addition of such a resolution gives her some pause. “This requires more thought because there is a risk when you create what is essentially a ‘plea bargain’ option that there will be unintended consequences,” she said. This plea bargain could be a student-victim agreeing to resolution in order to avoid a lengthy and potentially painful hearing and the accused student agreeing to withdraw from the university instead of facing expulsion if he or she is found responsible for sexual assault, Dauber said. “The non-hearing resolution is creating an informal mechanism, that, if it’s not done thoughtfully, could create incentives that distort the entire process,” she added. The only similar policy that Stanford currently has in place is the “Early Resolution Option” for Honor Code violations, under which students who accept responsibility can avoid a hearing and receive the standard consequence for such violations, which is a one-quarter suspension. The policy includes specific rules for who is and is not

eligible for this resolution option. “The only benefit is the avoidance of a hearing,” Dauber said. “If that is going to be the case here, then that could be fine. I am concerned that what is envisioned here is more on the nature of side deals made by lawyers to negotiate a quiet and confidential end to the proceeding with no student oversight or transparency. That could have the effect of turning the recommendation for mandatory expulsion into a tool of negotiating pressure rather than actual expulsions.” University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin, however, said that the concept of non-hearing resolution is “not new at Stanford.” “Non-hearing resolution is an umbrella term meant to encompass a range of solutions where a matter can be resolved without the need for a hearing, for example when the facts, and response to them, are not contested and the parties and the Title IX office agree on a disposition,” Lapin wrote in an email to the Weekly. The report also urges the university to explore the possibility of providing legal assistance to students who request it, citing concerns that the outcome of cases can depend on if one student has the means to obtain a high-quality attorney but the other does not. The task force is also recommending increased communication about sexual assault, university processes and resources as well as enhanced training for faculty, staff and any potential first responders. The report also urges “extensive and ongoing” education on sexual violence to achieve an ambitious goal of shifting campus culture and making Stanford a place “that does not tolerate sexual violence of any kind.” The university plans to follow (continued on page 14)

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A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to begin its hearing on theBuena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appeal of a hearing officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision relating to mitigation measures proposed by the mobile-home-park owner in connection with the closure application for Buena Vista. The regular meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 13, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to continue its hearing on the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appeal of a hearing officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision relating to mitigation measures proposed by the mobile-home-park owner in connection with the closure application for Buena Vista. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Human Relations Commission, the Public Art Commission and the Utilities Advisory Commission. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider a proposal from Tony Carrasco to demolish a single-story residence at 252 Ramona St. and replace it with a two-story building with two residential units. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss a survey of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permanent collection; consider an acquisition of two artworks by Joseph Zirker; and consider approving artwork as part of VMWareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus development at 3421-3431 Hillview Ave. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Program eyes East Bay and San Francisco as destinations for growth by Gennady Sheyner

s the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fledgling bike-share program prepares for a colossal regional expansion, its presence in Palo Alto may soon come to an end because of underwhelming ridership. Bay Area Bike Share, which allows customers to rent out bikes and return them at any other station in the city, rolled out in August 2013 as a partnership between the Bay Area Quality Management Air District, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and various Bay Area transportation agencies. So far, about $8.7 million has been spent on the program out of the $11.4 million budget, with the lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share coming from the MTC. The results so far have been promising but very uneven. As of March 1, people had used the light-blue bikes for 485,000 trips in the five pilot cities (Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, San Francisco and Redwood City), with San Francisco far ahead of

the pack in terms of usage. According to the MTC data, riders in San Francisco took 436,000 trips, or 90 percent of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total. The city has deployed 328 bikes, almost half of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire fleet. Yet on the Peninsula, the program didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really catch on. Palo Alto, where city officials are eagerly pushing ahead with more than a dozen bike-improvement projects for local streets, the Bike Share numbers have been comparatively woeful. The MTC data show a Palo Alto usage rate of 0.21 trips per bike per day, fewer than both Mountain View (0.48) and San Jose (0.39). In San Francisco, which has 380 bikes, the rate is 2.6 daily trips per bike. Since the program launched in 2013, Palo Alto bikes have been taken on fewer than than 5,000 trips. The data is becoming increasingly relevant these days as the MTC and its partner agencies are planning a tenfold expansion in the Bike Share system. The new

proposal, which the MTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Administrative Committee discussed and generally supported Wednesday, would deploy 7,000 bikes and expand the program to Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville. Under the proposal laid out in a new report from MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger, San Francisco would have about 4,500 bikes, while San Jose and Oakland would have 1,000 and 850, respectively. The plan calls for rolling out about 25 percent of the new system by June 2016 and to complete the expansion by Nov. 1, 2017. In Palo Alto, the Bike Share program currently employs 37 bikes at five stations: three in downtown, one near the California Avenue Caltrain station and one on Park Boulevard. The city is now eagerly pursuing more than a dozen bike projects, including a new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101, and its share of students pedaling to school has been rapidly increasing in recent years. Yet for all the excitement,

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Upfront the Bike Share program has been a flop and, as a result, Palo Alto is not included in the list of cities that would get new bikes under the expanded program. In addition to adding the East Bay cities, the new expansion plan calls for having 150 bikes with locations to be determined after the final planning. Of these, 50 would be in the East Bay, according to Heminger’s report. Robert Neff, who chairs the Palo Alto Bicycle Advisory Committee, a group that advises policy makers on bike issues, told the Weekly that the Bike Share bikes currently comprise just a tiny fraction of the bikes seen around Palo Alto. Neff said he has only seen about five Bike Share bikes being used since the program rolled out. He speculated that this is because Palo Alto just doesn’t have the type of size and density that makes bike share such a viable option in cities like San Francisco, New York City and Washington, D.C. In those cities, people can use the bike-share programs in conjunction with public transit to plot out elaborate systems for getting around town. Neff, whose committee helped determine the stations where the bikes would be placed, said he’s not too disappointed about Bike Share possibly leaving Palo Alto. “I think it makes more sense to really get it going in places like San Francisco, Oakland and San

Jose, where there is more density and where it would be more widely used,” Neff said. “In Palo Alto, a lot of people are riding from home and have their own bikes.” The low Bike Share ridership numbers in many ways validate the concerns of the city’s Architectural Review Board, which expressed significant reservations about the program in August 2012, a year before it rolled out. At that time, several board members raised concerns about having so many stations downtown, within blocks of each other. Judith Wasserman and Clare Malone Prichard, the board’s former chair and vice chair, both suggested that people won’t use the new service. “Why would someone pick up a bike (at the train station) to go to Lytton Plaza when they can walk one mile? If it’s only a mile, I’ll walk. I’m not going to pick up a bike and pay for it,” Malone Prichard said at the time. Wasserman agreed. “If I look at this map, and I get off the train, there’s absolutely no reason for me to take a bike. If nobody uses them because there is nowhere to go, your project is going to tank,” she said. The determination of where to place the bikes in the expanded network was made by Motivate, the private company that would run the expanded bike fleet. Among the proposals that the full

MTC board will consider at its May meeting is a shift from having the program be paid for with public funds to having it be completely privatized and overseen by Motivate, which currently runs New York City’s bike-share program. While the proposal has yet to be discussed by the MTC board, it is already stirring excitement among city leaders in the expanded areas. Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and Emeryville Mayor Ruth Atkin released a joint statement touting the program’s potential for

making it easier for people to get around the Bay Area. Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, who chairs the MTC board, said he was “encouraged by the efforts of Motivate and the cities to put equity concerns front and center.” On Wednesday, several members of the MTC’s Administrative Committee said they were “excited” about the proposal, with Schaaf saying she was “apoplectically delighted.” Yet several members voiced skepticism about having a sole-source contract with a private company and concern about cities, such as Palo Alto,

that are being excluded from expansion. The committee directed staff to return next month with more information about possible ways to include other cities in the program, particularly those that participated in the pilot and also the City of San Mateo. David Campos, representing San Francisco, said he was “wary” about the privatization of the program, noting that a government entity loses a lot of control in such an arrangement. “When profit becomes a main consideration for a private player, equity becomes the second part of the analysis,” Campos said. Q

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through on a commitment to create and send out this year a campus-wide climate survey “to initiate an important drive for data,” according to the report.

Provost Etchemendy wrote in a letter to the university that he plans to form two implementation teams — one focused on education and support systems and one focused on investigation and adjudication — to move forward on as many as possible of the task force’s recommendations in the coming academic year.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (April 6)

Retail: The council directed staff to draft an urgency ordinance that would ban the conversion of ground-floor retail to office use in the city’s commercial zones. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid Absent: DuBois, Kniss

Council Finance Committee (April 7)

Water: The council recommended approval of the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Water Utility Financial Plan and rate changes. Yes: Kniss, Scharff, Schmid Absent: Filseth Wastewater: The council recommended approval of the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Wastewater Collection Financial Plan and rate changes. Yes: Kniss, Scharff, Schmid Absent: Filseth Refuse: The council recommended approving a staff recommendation to raise refuse rate. Yes: Kniss, Scharff, Schmid Absent: Filseth

Council Policy and Services Committee (April 8)

Polcies: The committee recommended several changes to the council’s Policies and Procedures Handbook including a clarification of the roles of the city manager, mayor and vice mayor in setting the agenda, and a revision to the council’s policy on telecommunication. Yes: Unanimous

Historic Resources Board (April 9)

Joint meeting: The board discussed items that would be discussed in the board’s upcoming meeting with the City Council. The board also discussed the Mills Act Property Tax Abatement Program. Action: None

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The report also suggests that the university form a transition advisory committee, composed in part of task force members and one person in charge of gathering input directly from students, to oversee the rollout of the new pilot adjudication process, collect and share data and assess the university’s efforts in “a challenging period of transition.” In the university’s Q&A with Magill and Woodson, Woodson acknowledged the sensitive climate around sexual assault that erupted over the last year at Stanford. “Students were upset over the last year, and there were a lot of feelings of mistrust,” she said. “We acknowledge that and hope this is the beginning of rebuilding that trust. What we’re setting out to achieve is a safe campus, built on respect, that puts student well-being as a priority. We feel the recommendations, if followed through, will do that.” Mercer-Golden said he’s not sure if the report will restore student trust in the administration, but he has been “pleasantly surprised” by the progress Stanford has made over the last several months. “I definitely praise them for committing a lot of time, money and energy to this issue. But this isn’t the end of the road and I hope administrators and students alike realize we’ve got a great deal more to do to make Stanford a respectful, healthy campus, free of sexual violence.” he said. Q

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A weekly compendium of vital statistics POLICE CALLS Palo Alto April 1-7

Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Drunken driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prescription fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Protective custody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Check fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving with open container . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Brandishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Juvenile case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of switchblade . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prescription fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Park Boulevard, 4/3, 11:56 a.m.; domestic violence/misc. El Camino Real, 4/7, 7:45 p.m.; domestic violence/misc.

Menlo Park

200 block Terminal Ave., 4/2, 8:48 p.m.; battery. 1100 block Willow Road, 4/3, 10:07 p.m.; spousal battery. 1300 block Crane St., 4/5, 6:06 p.m.; spousal abuse.

Roberta Rosenberg

Roberta Ellen Rosenberg, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on Dec. 16, 2014. She was 89. She was born on Dec. 12, 1925, in Worthington, Ohio, to Porter James and Wi l la m et t e Darby. After growing up in Worthington, she went on to graduate from Ohio State University with a degree in labor economics. She moved to San Francisco, where she made many lifelong friends and was reunited with Leon T. Rosenberg, a friend from Ohio State who she married in December 1950. Throughout her life she lived and worked in New York City; El Paso, Texas; Stockholm, Sweden; New Zealand; and Palo Alto, where she moved in the late 1950s and lived almost continuously for the rest of her life. An introspective person, she held deep interests in art and architecture and a passion for progressive causes. Throughout her life she contributed her efforts to the peace and justice movement, early on through the Palo Alto Peace Center. For her last few years, she lived at the Palo Alto Commons. She struggled with memory loss but retained her caring personality and appreciation for nature, according to her family. She was predeceased by her husband, Leon Rosenberg, in 2010 and her eldest son, Bevan, who died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. She is survived by her children, Galen (Denise) Rosenberg of Menlo Park and Carla (Crisanne) Rosenberg of Palo Alto; her sister, Shirley Ann Darby of Athens, Georgia; and her granddaughters, Carson, Darby, Jane and Sydney. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 12; those interested in attending can contact Galen at galenprosenberg@gmail. com. Memorial donations can be made in her honor to the League of Women Voters (lwv.org) or the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (peaceandjustice.org).

Richard Rosenbloom

Richard Max Rosenbloom, a Palo Alto resident and a television and movie producer, died on March 28 at the Vi at Palo Alto. He was 91. He was born on June 30, 1923, in Far Rockaway, New York. During World War II, he served as a pilot and aerial naviga-

tor for lighter-than-air blimps for the U.S. Navy. He later graduated from the University of Michigan and continued his studies at The New School for Social Research in New York and the Ecole Technique du Cinema in Paris. For a time he worked at CBS Television in New York, but he eventually moved to Southern California in 1960. There he served as an executive with MGM, Four Star Television, Filmways

and Orion Pictures, in addition to roles as an independent producer and executive producer. His work was recognized over the years with a Golden Globe, shared Emmys, three Christopher Awards and a George Peabody Award. He had many production credits, including the TV series “Cagney & Lacey,” the TV movie “Pioneer Woman” and the mini series “Sinatra.” He retired as president of Orion Television in 1994.

About six years ago, he moved to Palo Alto to live at the Vi, where he often participated in current-events sessions. He also enjoyed attending opera performances in the area and boating from Bear Island in Redwood City. He was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Jean Simon Rosenbloom, in 2008. He is survived by his sons, Robert (Fina) Rosenbloom of Santa Cruz and Steven

(Natasha) Rosenbloom of Krasnoyarsk, Russia; and his grandchildren, Ryan and Uliana. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on May 1 at 2 p.m. at the Vi at Palo Alto, 620 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto. Memorial donations can be made to the Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue & Sanctuary, 7495 Natomas Road, Elverta, CA 95626, or an organization of the donor’s choice.

Juanita “Nita” Jones Girand

Edward Allen Bolton

December 8, 1937-April 1, 2015

January 6, 1945 – March 1, 2015

Juanita Jones Girand was born in 1937 in the then Panama Canal Zone. She was the desperately-sought-after only child from an extended family, the granddaughter of American pioneers who had emigrated to Panama in search of better lives. At the time of steamships, her young life was punctuated by travel to and from the United States, visiting various extended family. She became valedictorian of her high school class and matriculated at Duke University where she was named one of the Seven Most Beautiful Freshmen to Watch, which put her on the radar of James Girand. She was the President of Zeta Tau Alpha and later became engaged. In 1959, she became the first woman in her family to graduate from college, and she moved to Cambridge where she worked in a laboratory until they married at the end of the following year. Together, they effectively served a stint at Wright Patterson Air Force base before moving to Palo Alto in 1964. They lived in Greenmeadow until 1980 and then moved to Crescent Park, where they have resided for the last 35 years. During the time that Nita was raising three daughters, she volunteered extensively for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Colorado Ave, in the Episcopal Church Women and on the Vestry and Diocesan Council, and she was an active member of a prayer group. She also supported her aging parents, who relocated to the area in 1968. Once her daughters left for college, she took courses for three years in Education for the Ministry, and she worked part-time as an administrative assistant in the Aero-Astro Department at Stanford University. Her interests were wide and varied, from zoology to art to cooking; she was an avid reader. As her grandchildren began to arrive, her time became split between traveling with her husband and children, supporting children and grandchildren, and developing a reputation as a card shark at bridge. At the time of her death, she had accumulated 746+ Master’s Points. Nita was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer during July of 2009. She underwent both radiation and chemo before it was discovered that she was a candidate for a targeted chemo therapy administered by pill, which kept the cancer in check for more than four years. It then metastasized to the fluid in her brain, and she was given about three months to live. Despite faltering balance and memory--side effects of the medication--she gave cancer a complete run for its money, dying outside the limits of every prediction of how long she would live. She was blessed in this last year to have had the comfort and attention of some of the finest human beings on Earth: friends she had held close for decades. She was known for her deep and abiding empathy, support and love. She had a particular gift with children. When anyone needed a “mom,” she was always there. Her wish was to live long enough to see her grandchildren grow up to embody the values and love that she gave. Now, her work of nurturing children and grandchildren is done. She is survived by her husband, James F. Girand of Palo Alto, CA; daughters Lisa Lawson of Piedmont, CA; Juanita Goggins of Hillsborough, CA; and Laurie Girand of San Juan Capistrano, CA; and grandchildren Bryn and Campbell Lawson, Connor and Ryan Goggins, and Anna, Liam and Aili McGregor. We were so blessed to have her. A service celebrating her life will be held on Sunday, April 19 at 1:00 pm at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations might be made to: Stanford University – Heather Wakelee Research Fund, and mailed to: Sarah Larson Stanford Cancer Center 875 Blake Wilbur Dr. Stanford, CA 94305 PAID OBITUARY

Edward Allen Bolton passed away on March 1, 2015, in San Jose, CA, from lung cancer diagnosed shortly before his death. Ed was born in Missouri and grew up in West Plains. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1967 with a double major in mathematics and philosophy, and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and other academic honors. In the fall of 1967, Ed came to Stanford University to study mathematical logic in a program jointly run by the Philosophy and Mathematics departments. Ed was recognized by the faculty and his fellow students for his tremendous intellect. He made bold assertions, supported them with novel arguments, and backed them up with his impressive erudition across a broad range of disciplines. He was particularly interested in the ideas of Wittgenstein and Descartes, and made detailed studies of their work and associated scholarship. During his second year at Stanford, Ed started to experience health problems, which resulted in his returning to Missouri where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. In 1971, Ed re-entered Stanford, determined to overcome his illness and continue his studies. In 1974 Ed began to TA for the computer-based courses in logic and set theory developed by Patrick Suppes as a part of his efforts to develop on-line instructional programs. Ed received a Masters Degree from Stanford in Philosophy and continued as a TA through the 1980’s. During this time, he lived in Palo Alto. In the 1990’s, Ed moved to San Jose and lived in a number of facilities including Casa Feliz and Pensione Esperanza. He continued his own studies and took courses at San Jose State University. As a result of experiencing the challenges and difficulties of the mentally ill, Ed also developed and taught a curriculum in survival skills and elementary accounting to his friends in the mental health community. He strongly believed that mentally ill people could live happy and productive lives, and supported the dignity and value of all people. In his personal style, Ed combined a Spock-like logical approach to life with the charm and humor of an Ozark Mountain boy. He touched many people with his compassion and humor as well as his brilliance. Ed was a member of the First Unitarian Church of San Jose. He benefited greatly from his association with the church, and eventually developed his own arguments for the existence of God, in part through his associations with Unitarianism as well as his study of Descartes. Ed is survived by his sister, Judi Wheat, of Florida, and his longtime friends in Palo Alto, San Jose, and as far away as Massachusetts and Philadelphia. A celebration of life for Ed will be held at the First Unitarian Church of San Jose on April 26, 2015 at 3pm. Friends and family are invited to share their recollections. Donations in Ed’s memory can be made to the Breakthrough Outreach Shelter Network (http://growbosn.org/vision/). PAID

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Guest Opinion Tax renewal would protect Palo Alto school programs by Glenn “Max” McGee ocal voters have long supported the Palo Alto Unified School District to ensure we can provide a worldclass education for all students. In fact, in 2010 more than 79 percent of voters supported the district’s parcel tax proposal — Measure A — a proposal that was very similar in terms of timing, content and process to the measure our board of education approved last month for voters to consider this spring. I pledge to make myself and my staff available to answer any questions that the community has related to our budget or the parcel-tax proposal. By law, Measure A will expire next year and, if not renewed, our schools will lose close to $13 million, or about 7 percent of the school district’s 2015-16 budget that is used to: • Attract and retain qualified teachers. • Keep core class sizes as small as possible. • Support advanced programs in science, mathematics, and technology. • Provide staffing for electives for high school students, including art, music and social sciences, that are important for a wellrounded education. Given the impending expiration of our local school parcel-tax funding, we developed

Listen to us

Editor, As a junior at Gunn High School, I wholeheartedly agree with Carolyn Walworth’s March 25 article, “Paly school board rep: ‘The sorrows of young Palo Altans.’” As someone who lived half his life in China, where the academic competition is intense, I thought that I was ready for the challenge of American education. Oh how I was wrong. Not only do the rigorous courses resemble those in China, but the immense competition between students regarding not only academic courses but also extracurriculars sickens me. Dragging myself to school every day feels like a broken pencil, completely pointless. At school, we hear about changes all the time but rarely are we part of the change. Instead of telling students to do more, the school district should instead be giving out surveys or otherwise providing ways for everyone to voice their opinions. After all, our chant is that we are all in this together, but how can we say that if we don’t hear out everyone’s thoughts?

a detailed plan for continuing this important funding while also addressing current challenges and opportunities in our school district. First and foremost, this plan aims to preserve important programs that the parcel tax has supported for the past 13 years. For example, the current parcel tax funds about 80 teachers and 12 support staff. Parcel-tax revenue also is used to help offset losses in state funding, increasing costs and additional expenses related to current and future student enrollment growth. While our local economy is thriving, home values are rising and revenue from property tax is increasing, additional revenue has been offset by a few factors beyond our control. First, over the past six years, enrollment in PAUSD schools has grown by more than 1,100 students and is projected to grow by another 700 students over the next five years. However, our schools receive no additional per-pupil funding to teach these additional students. Moreover, state-mandated increased contributions to the pension systems and loss of lease revenue to support operations have also had an impact on our budget. In fact, when adjusted for inflation, PAUSD funding per student has not grown since 2008-09 and is below levels spent in many high-performing school districts in our region. Also, the boardmandated 10 percent reserve fund level is similar to statewide averages for school districts, and below that of some neighboring

Having more in-class discussions about the current situation and difficulties of Gunn can also help. With more brainpower at work, I am without doubt that a solution will come sooner. I hope that the school can take the time to listen to what the students have to say. Daniel Liu Ponce Drive, Palo Alto

Stop digging

Editor, As someone on city council recently said, “The first rule of holes is to stop digging.” Meaning, stop doing something if it gets you a bad outcome. Zero period, and its 7:20 a.m. start time, is a hole with a bad outcome. Stanford’s sleep experts and other doctors advise the district that teens need at least eight hours sleep for health and wellbeing, an amount that can also partially ease depression. Hence the change to an 8:30 a.m. start time at our high schools. Now we hear there is a get-around to the 8:30 a.m. policy change, used mainly at Gunn and mainly for a host of stressful AP classes. We all feel a sense of urgency

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districts as well as reserves maintained by the city of Palo Alto. Some members of the community have voiced concerns about the district’s being too conservative in property-tax-revenue projections. I agree; moving forward, we will provide two projections, both a conservative and a moderate projection for property-tax growth. Even using aggressive projections of future property-tax-revenue growth, we would run a deficit if we provided only cost-of-living compensation adjustment for employees in order to retain quality staff. In other words, because of the impact of growing enrollment, the reduction of lease revenue and the addition of new state-mandated costs, our parcel-tax funding is critical for continuing to protect our current programs. In addition to simply maintaining our renowned academic excellence and long history of sound fiscal management, we must provide more supports for students — students struggling with health and wellness issues as well as with academics. At the same time, our students and community have asked us to invest further in innovative and meaningful programs to further engage our students in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) and to prepare them for college and 21st-century careers. Specific examples of programs and services in these areas are listed on our website. It is with this vision in mind that the board

about our kids hurting themselves, right? Yet we have a school policy that mixes the message of the need for a later start time and is contra-indicated by all we are told and all that we know. And what of the siblings in zero-period households? I bet, no matter their age, they are awakened by household activity around 6:30 a.m., so the effects of current policy are multiplied. Are we going to stop digging now and act on what we are learning about the well-being of our children? Or ignore it and pick up the shovel again? What liability, emotional and legal, will ensue if we do? Winter Dellenbach La Para Avenue, Palo Alto

Stable funding

Editor, I am the parent of a Gunn graduate and two PAUSD seventh graders. I support Measure A, which will provide locally controlled and stable funding and is more important now than ever as our enrollment continues to grow. The annual $13 million from the current parcel tax funds areas that are important to me: excellent

of education voted unanimously to place a parcel-tax renewal measure on the ballot this spring. If approved by local voters, this measure will extend the current parcel tax for six years and increase the rate by $120 — $10 per month. Because none of the money from this measure can be taken away by the state or by other school districts, all the money raised by this measure will stay here in our local community to be used by our local schools. It is important to note: • These funds cannot be used for administrators’ salaries, benefits or pensions. • An independent oversight committee and mandatory annual audits will make sure the money is spent properly. • Senior citizens will continue to be eligible for an exemption, and PAUSD will offer exemptions to all persons eligible under the law. Extending the parcel tax is a critical decision our community must make this spring. All registered voters in Palo Alto Unified School District will receive a ballot in early April to vote on this measure. Ballots must be returned to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters by May 5. I look forward to sharing the details of my vision and our plan with our community. If you have any questions or comments about this measure, please contact me at mmcgee@ pausd.org or by calling 650-329-3737. Q Glenn “Max” McGee is superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District.

teachers, strong core classes, enhanced electives and libraries, to name a few. Passage of Measure A will enable us to maintain these components and also implement additional essential health and wellness programs (including expanded counseling, mental health support and physical wellness programs) and crucial increased academic support, including staff for struggling and at-risk students, PreK-2 literacy support and increased tutoring opportunities. Sigrid Pinsky Scripps Avenue, Palo Alto

More than teachers

Editor, In “a crisis situation” — as our Superintendent has now termed it — our interventions should be the most effective ones possible. Bringing mental health therapists to the schools, though, will be of scant use. With its determined focus on mental illness (implying that the way the schools are run makes little difference), the district front office stigmatizes its own sufferers, by suggesting they’re a different kind of human being, oblivious to their surroundings. But even a

child in despair knows the difference between foul and fresh air, labor and rest, a slap and a caress. All of our mental-health “cavalry to the rescue”— including on the heels of each death — suggest to kids that the flaw is not in the administering of their school day but somehow in them, in their personalities. And Project Safety Net’s original report to the district says it all: Their 2010 forums elicited “the strong expression by youth that, in times of need or concern, they will only reach out to adults with whom they are familiar.” This doesn’t include add-on therapists, even those in a school office somewhere all day, just as it doesn’t include administrators or our (vastly outnumbered) guidance counselors. With whom are our kids familiar? Their teachers. But now Gunn’s teachers— long tried by sorrow, overworked, under siege — are talking about leaving. If we let this happen, we’ll further rend the school’s social-emotional fabric, placing our own kids at even greater risk. Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

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Little foxes One Palo Alto man’s quest to protect the baylands’ gray fox by Sue Dremann photos by Veronica Weber

Naturalist Bill Leikam greets two gray foxes he has befriended at the Palo Alto Baylands on March 10.

n the early evening sunset of the Palo Alto Baylands, a pair of small, furry creatures peered from the brush, watching intently. With keen eyes and long, pointed snouts, the gray foxes remained well-hidden and silent. As the humans made their way along a trail, the foxes, curious, followed. They leapt swiftly among the broken trees and grass with an agility and grace that would make a cat look cloddish.

A gray fox looks out from a woody area of the Palo Alto Baylands.

A fox walks out onto a concrete path at the Baylands.

About the cover: A gray fox trots along a concrete path in the Palo Alto Baylands in March. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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Bill Leikam, aka The Fox Guy, rounded a bend. A gray fox, the size of a large house cat with an enormously long, bushy tail, stood stock still in the middle of the trail. About 12 inches tall at the shoulders with a grizzled-gray coat and red and white legs and undersides, the little fox raised her head slightly and sniffed the air. Leikam, a Palo Alto naturalist and director of the Independent Urban Gray Fox Research Project, waited. The fox walked slowly at first, then trotted toward the graybearded Leikam, stopping several feet away, sniffing again. Still keeping his distance, Leikam — a bush-hat-wearing, soft-spoken man — extended his hand to the fox, which he has named Tense, so it could identify him. Another little fox every bit as beautiful emerged hesitantly from the brush. Leikam immediately identified her as Tippy, so named for her habit of tilting her head from side to side while studying her environment, he said. Leikam has studied the baylands’ gray foxes for six years. One of the oldest examples of

canid, or dog family, the gray fox (Urocyon cinerareoargenteus) and the related subspecies Channel Island foxes (Urocyon littoralis) are the only living members of this genus, which dates back about 3.6 million years, contemporary with early small horses, the giant sloth and large-headed llama, according to scientific literature. They range from southern Canada to the northern edge of Columbia. In the Bay Area, the foxes are a subspecies, Urocyon cinerareoargenteus californicus. They are known to inhabit the Diablo and Santa Cruz Mountain ranges. The area between San Francisquito and Adobe creeks is home to 26 of the creatures, Leikam said. They have been located south of San Jose between Los Gatos and Almaden to west of Interstate Highway 280 in the foothills above Stanford University, north near Bair Island in Redwood City, and up to the south side of the Oakland International Airport, according to mapping done by Leikam and wildlife conservation photographer Greg Kerekez. Leikam, a retired Cupertino

English teacher, and Kerekez formed the Urban Wildlife Research Project to study and help protect some of the Bay Area’s most elusive wildlife: burrowing owls in the South Bay and beavers in downtown San Jose. They are mapping the baylands gray fox habitat with funding from the National Wildlife Federation. Ultimately, Leikam and Kerekez want to link all of the corridors to create a San Francisco Bay Area Wildlife Corridor stretching from Bair Island in Redwood City to Alameda Creek in the East Bay, Leikam said. Urban Wildlife Research is engaging in its first GPS collaring project to track 8-monthold baylands’ foxes just before their first dispersal and discover their paths around the perimeter of San Francisco Bay.

eikam’s journey with the foxes began more than 50 years ago. At 14, he saw his first fox. Growing up without much money, he and his brother set about trapping the foxes near Corralitos Creek in Watsonville to sell to a furrier. But the brothers soon soured on the idea of holding the wild creatures captive, he said. One look at the foxes’ beguiling faces is enough to explain why Leikam has found these omnivorous creatures so attractive to study. They seem endlessly curious, are beautiful and exhibit an outstanding characteristic: They are the only canines that can climb a tree — straight up. “They are as agile as a squirrel — and they are wickedly fast when they want to be,” he said.

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A gray fox peers out from among the Baylands foliage, where it lives.

Researcher Bill Leikam installs motion-detecting cameras, which he uses to capture photos and video of the gray foxes who live in the Palo Alto Baylands. Fifty years after he gave up trapping, Leikam had a life-changing encounter with the gray fox while on a walk in the Palo Alto Baylands. “I came to a turn in the road and a gray fox was just sitting there. I went, ‘whoa!’ and I started taking pictures. I got closer and closer and closer, and that silly fox did not move. I got within 15 to 20 feet. Then it walked back into the bush. I went back each day, and I didn’t see any foxes. On the third day three foxes came out of the brush. I started jotting notes,” he said. Leikam shares a trait with the foxes. “All of my life curiosity has governed my life,” he said. He sought advice from Ben Sacks, director of the Canid Diversity and Conservation Unit at the University of California Davis Center for Veterinary Genetics. A pioneer of the native High Sierra and Sacramento Valley red foxes, Sacks encouraged Leikam to study the baylands gray fox, of which little is known, Leikam recalled. In the past six years, he has made some interesting discoveries, he said. Gray fox “helper” females may help raise a den of pups belonging to another female and male. Leikam documented two helper females who stayed behind to raise the little ones rather than going off to mate and bear their own offspring. And the idea of having a territory is not absolute by any means, he said. “It only really exists when the

pups need protection and they need adults to bring food,” he said. From April to July the foxes set territories while their young are most dependent. But from November through January, gray foxes maintain no territorial boundaries, he said. “It gives the young ones the ability to travel long distances in what would otherwise be closed territory to find mates and to find their own territory,” Leikam said. Gray foxes also have another endearing quality. They engage in the “fox kiss.” As a greeting, they will rub their muzzle under the chin and then touch noses, he said. As April approaches, the gray foxes get ready to give birth after a 53-day gestation. They will birth in a natal den above ground in a dense thicket, to which they return year after year. One den in Palo Alto has been used for more than 20 years, Leikam said. The average litter contains three to four pups. Occasionally they have as few as one and as many as seven, he said. When born, the pups are 8-inch gray or black balls of fur. The parents will move to a different den every 15 days to protect against predators, he said. While a mother and father care for the young, “family” is a misleading term in the biological sense, Leikam said. “We think of a traditional family as mom, dad and the kids. But a female might be impregnated by two or three males. In North Carolina, research found that 9 percent of all ‘families’ are genetically different from the male who takes care of them,” he said. One suspi-

A map by the Urban Wildlife Research Project shows with red markers where gray foxes reside and with brown markers where beavers live. The red highlighted area is the corridor that the Urban Wildlife Research Project is studying.

Fox facts

Scientific name: Urocyon cinerareoargenteus; 15 accepted subspecies, seven of which are in North America. Bay Area gray fox subspecies is californicus. Common names: Common gray fox; gray fox; tree fox; maned fox Local nickname: Bush dog Year first described: 1775 Length: 35-41 inches; tail is one third of total length Height: 1 foot at the shoulder Weight: 9-14 pounds Longevity: 6-8 years in the wild; up to 12 years, sometimes 14 in captivity Top running speed: 20-28 mph Unusual characteristics: Only member of the canine family that climbs trees; has the largest musk gland of any North American canids, extending along one half of the upper tail surface Fossil record: Genus Urocyon dates to the mid-Pliocene, 3.6 million years old. Gray fox dates to Pleisto-

cion is that the mating diversity allows the female to find a male that is a good hunter. When she gives birth, he is the one who brings the food to the den. Baylands’ gray foxes have few predators to fear, he said, unlike their mountain and forest brothers and sisters, which could be prey for coyotes and bobcats. The baylands’ foxes are at the top of the food chain. They might be pursued by an occasional red fox, which is a non-native species introduced by man to the area. The marshes provide a wide and rich variety of foods, including rodents, birds, insects and berries. The bulk of the gray foxes’ hunting, nearly 80 percent, is done at night, he said. Gray foxes come out at dusk or night, but they are sometimes seen in the daytime if the night hunt has been dismal,

cene, 2.5 million years old Habits: Plays with food to practice for the next hunt; nocturnal or crepuscular (active at twilight), sometimes during daylight; eats small mammals, rodents, birds, snakes, insects, berries Offspring: Average 3-4 pups per litter, occasionally 1-7 pup, each weighing 3 ounces, blind at birth Communication: “Fox kiss” greeting of rubbing muzzles under chins and touching noses; sharp “barks” and “yips” during breeding season; chuckles, growls, squeals Q

Sources: Urban Wildlife Research Project; USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System; Fossilworks Paleobiology Database; American Society of Mammologists; State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse

he said. During the early part of the year, 90 percent of their diet is protein-based, and they will clean a carcass completely, just as would a turkey vulture, he said. “They will take care of a rodent population and can keep it under control. They eat ducks and snakes. Only jackrabbits can outrun a fox. It has to be wily enough to ambush a jackrabbit,” he said. Leikam was surprised when a male he captured on video brought in a full-sized Canada goose. “He had to drag that thing in, and he was panting,” Leikam said.

eikam trudged through the underbrush on a recent evening to set up his motion-sensitive night cameras. Ever-curious Tippy and Tense followed him at a discreet distance, wending over downed trees and

underneath shrubs. “I call them the ‘bush dogs,’” he said, for their habit of hugging the edges of forests and the brush line. At a small clearing criss-crossed by foot-wide paths, the foxes intensely sniffed logs and broken branches, which were apparently marked with the scents of passing creatures. This spot is a wildlife corridor used by a number of fourfooted animals, including raccoons, skunks and the gray foxes, he said. A third, cautious fox that Leikam calls Dark Eyes appeared at the edge of the clearing, leaping silently and gracefully over felled trees and watching the proceedings from a distance. Leikam recounted some of the revelations caught by his trail cameras. (continued on next page)

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten some of the most spectacular video: mom and dad teaching fighting techniques; they toss things they find back and forth to each other; learning to climb trees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they learn how to fall out of a tree. And I caught the young ones playing with a toy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a slender branch hanging off a bush. They grabbed ahold of it and pulled it back. When there was enough tension, they would let go and it popped up,â&#x20AC;? he said. With the impending births of new litters in the coming weeks, he will have fresh opportunities to delve into the wonders of foxes.

A gray fox needs 1 to 1.5 square miles of territory to feed its young. A male will travel 10 to 12 miles in search of a mate, and a female will travel 6 to 8 miles, he said. The Palo Alto Baylandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; foxes are crowded into a 1.5-mile area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given the nature of the area, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of foxes,â&#x20AC;? Leikam said. The foxesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; corridor is fragmented around the bay. On the Peninsula, the habitat is fragmented through the Facebook campus in Menlo Park and Google in Mountain View, he said. Where they can, the foxes make due with navigating impediments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see where they jump up over concrete barriers with

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THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS April 13, 2015 6:00 PM Consent Calendar 1. Approval of Contract Amendment No. Two to Contract No. C12142825 in the Amount of $668,000 with NV5, Inc. for Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Newell Road/ San Francisquito Creek Bridge Replacement Project, Capital Improvement Program Project PE-12011, Approval of Amendment No. Two to a Cost Share Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Water District Providing Local Matching Funds in the Amount of $235,074 for Design and EIR Preparation for the Newell Road/San Francisquito Creek Bridge Replacement Project, and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance in the Amount of $668,000 to CIP Project PE-12011, Newell Road/San Francisquito Creek Bridge Replacement Project 2. Approval of Contract No. C15156501 with SP Plus to Provide Online Permit Sales Hosting for the Downtown Residential Preferential Parking District in the Amount of $284,068 and a New Parking Website; Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance Transferring $43,813 to the Residential Parking Permit Program Fund and Appropriate $28,230 to the Planning and Community Environment +LWHY[TLU[ 6WLYH[PUN )\KNL[ 6Ń&#x153;ZL[ ^P[O H 9LK\J[PVU VM from the General Fund Budget Stabilization Reserve 3. Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Contract C14151310 with Ghirardelli Associates, to Add $68,000 for a Total Not to Exceed $706,600 for Construction Management of the California Avenue Streetscape Improvements Project (CIP- PL-11002) 4. Approval of and Authorization for the City Manager or His Designee to Execute a Consent to Change of Control Agreement with Frontier Solar, LLC. and Amendment No. 1 to the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Power Purchase Agreement with Frontier Solar, LLC. : [HŃ&#x153; 9LJVTTLUKH[PVU [V 0UP[PH[L H :WLJPHS 9LJY\P[TLU[ [V -PSS 6UL Unscheduled Vacancy on the Architectural Review Board 6. SECOND READING: Proposed Changes in Development Impact Fees: Adoption of Ordinance Amending Chapter 16.58 Implementing New Public Safety Facility and General Government Facility Impact Fees and Direction to Draft Resolution Setting Initial 0TWHJ[ -LL 9H[LZ H[ 7LYJLU[ VM 3L]LSZ 0KLU[PĂ&#x201E;LK PU 5L_\Z :[\K` (First Reading: December 15, 2014 PASSED: 9-0) 7. Approval of a Construction Contract with Express Sign & Neon, 0UJ 5V[ [V ,_JLLK MVY [OL >H`Ă&#x201E;UKPUN 7VY[PVU VM [OL *P[` Hall Remodel Project PE-12017 Action Items 8. Hearing on Buena Vista Mobilehome Park Residents Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (WWLHS VM /LHYPUN 6Ń?JLYÂťZ +LJPZPVU 9LSH[PUN [V 4P[PNH[PVU 4LHsures Proposed by Buena Vista Mobilehome Park Owner in Connection with Mobilehome Park Closure Application AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS April 14, 2015 6:00 PM Action Items Hearing on Buena Vista Mobilehome Park Residents Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (WWLHS VM /LHYPUN 6Ń?JLYÂťZ +LJPZPVU 9LSH[PUN [V 4P[PNH[PVU 4LHZ\YLZ Proposed by Buena Vista Mobilehome Park Owner in Connection with Mobilehome Park Closure Application (continued from April 13, 2015) AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS April 15, 2015 6:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. Interview of Applicants for the Human Relations Commission, the Public Art Commission and the Utilities Advisory Commission

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muddy footprints,â&#x20AC;? he said. The fractured habitat could affect the urban gray foxesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I suspect there are pockets of foxes that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out and are inbreeding. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen floppy ears. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear like a normal fox, and that puts them at risk,â&#x20AC;? he said. Urban Wildlife Research hopes to get permission from companies and landowners to make changes in the environment so the foxes can freely roam throughout the Bay Area corridor, he said. But getting that buy-in requires educating the public. Leikam often gives a multimedia presentation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Year with the Urban Gray Fox,â&#x20AC;? to schools, small groups and corporations. Recently, workers at a technology center along East Bayshore Road encountered the creatures and called Leikam in for advice. The foxes were sleeping on car hoods in the parking lot, attracted by the engine heat, he said. The foxes do not pose a threat to humans, although there are many misconceptions about them, he said. It is rare for gray foxes to carry rabies, according to the Humane Society of the United States and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. And they may be beneficial in reducing Lyme disease because they consume host mammals, according to a July 3, 2012, study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most gray foxes are elusive; Tippy and Tense are unusual. They havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dispersed in search of mates and they seem to prefer hanging out near each other, Leikam said. From under the brush, they have observed Leikam observing the foxes and dutifully setting up his cameras each evening for the whole of their lives. As Leikam finished setting up for the night, Tense and Tippy

A gray fox curls up to take a nap in the Palo Alto Baylands on March 10. ducked under the brush. Having satisfied their curiosity, they departed, ostensibly in search of their evening meal. So far, the drought does not appear to have affected the baylandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gray foxes, but a heavy winter storm did, Leikam said. When floodwater wiped out their dens and their trails to return, one group of foxes was missing for a week. Tippy was not among them. Leikam figured she was washed out into the marsh. But a month later, she returned, battered. She has since healed. Loss is something Leikam has had to get used to in his pursuit of wildlife, he said. Come November, the foxes will have dispersed. The little creatures will head for new territory

in search of food and mates, and only their parents will come back, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One thing you have to get used to is that you can become so attached to them. You have to learn to let go,â&#x20AC;? he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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

Ann Benson and Iris Harrell were married at Ladera Community Church in 2008, just before California Proposition 8 passed, banning further gay marriages.

Retired couple launches concert series by Elizabeth Schwyzer Harrell said she and Benson performed together intensively for the first five years of their relationship, but when Harrell decided to pursue a career as a contractor, “it kind of took over my life. It was my art, my business and my career.” Life was good in Dallas, but Benson, who had lived in San Francisco in the early 1970s, thought the Bay Area might be a better long-term home. “She knew that in San Francisco, we wouldn’t be anything to gawk at as a couple,” Harrell explained. “When we’d walk into a restaurant in Texas for a steak, everybody would drop their forks, like, ‘Oh my God, two dykes just walked in!’ It’s not that we had cigarettes rolled in our sleeves and had just stepped off our motorcycles; it’s just that we clearly weren’t part of the mainstream.” When Benson landed a job with SRI in Menlo Park in 1985, the couple decided to take the leap. Harrell sold her construction business and their house in Dallas and moved west to join Benson on the Peninsula. All was well in California — but music had taken a back seat to careers. When Harrell talks about her working life, it’s clear she’s proud and satisfied. “I started my construction business out of our Iris Harrell recently retired from her position home,” she said. as CEO of Harrell Remodeling and has “Now we have rediscovered her love of music. 42 employees at las, and we got the guitar I’m still playing now.” Like Benson, Harrell had little formal musical training, but her talent was such that she spent five years touring full-time with a top-40 and country band, Shiraz, before moving to Dallas in 1979. Texas in the late 1970s wasn’t exactly a hotbed of progressive culture, but Harrell described a small but determined group of female musicians who supported one another. “Ann described the lesbian community at that time as wagons getting together in a circle to protect each other,” Harrell said, remembering singing “a lot of women’s rights songs and singing at abortion rallies and women’s concerts.”

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Scott Lasky

ore Joy. That’s the name Ann Benson chose for her musical duo back in 1979 in Dallas, Texas. This weekend, More Joy will be resurrected when Benson and her wife, Iris Harrell, take the stage to perform together. In the late 1970s, the phrase “More Joy” had certain connotations. It was the era of secondwave feminism, a time when female-fronted rock band Joy of Cooking thumbed its nose at the ideal of domestic femininity represented by Julia Child, and women across America challenged the social and political constraints placed on their working lives, their legal rights and their sexuality. Today, the name More Joy has different connotations. For Benson and Harrell, it speaks to the post-retirement phase of their lives, when they’re making the time to return to the shared passion that first drew them together. Over the phone last week, Harrell spoke about the first time she saw Benson, when they were both on the line-up for a concert in Dallas. “She was playing at the first all-lesbian coffeehouse in Dallas, which was hosted at the National Organization for Women’s offices,” Harrell remembered. “We were both singing and playing guitar. She did a Hank Williams tune where she yodeled, and it was like a mating call. I was like, ‘That is the woman for me.’ We’ve been together ever since.” Harrell had grown up singing country and gospel music and playing bass; Benson was a self-taught guitarist who enjoyed arranging and singing in a wide range of musical genres. “I started playing ukelele when I was about 6, and one of my uncles gave me a guitar when I was 10,” Benson explained during a recent interview. “It was a really crummy guitar. Five or six years later, my father heard me playing and decided to take me to the pawn shops in downtown Dal-

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Ann Benson, left, and Iris Harrell performed together frequently in Texas before their move to California in 1985.

The joy of music

a beautiful design company in Mountain View.” Harrell Remodeling has grown to become a successful and respected firm, and Harrell is particularly proud of the way she planned for her retirement from the company, setting up an employee stock-ownership plan and teaching her colleagues “to operate like entrepreneurs and business owners.” As gratifying as her career has been, Harrell admitted a close friend once referred to the construction company as “a wonderfully successful diversion” from music. Benson, who retired a few years ago, credits Harrell with getting them both to pick up their guitars again and plan a concert after 30 years. “She’s just always the producer of something,” Benson noted, “and she’s good at it. So this is what she’s producing these days.” The show will take place at the Ladera Community Church in Portola Valley. It’s the same spot where Harrell and Benson married in 2008, shortly before California Proposition 8 passed, making same-sex marriage illegal in the state. Prop. 8 was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2013. It’s a testament to the continuing importance of Harrell’s company to her life after retirement that a number of the other musicians on the roster for this Saturday are former clients. Even the company’s new CEO, Ciro Giammona, will play a few tunes, including a humorous country song he wrote about the perils of online dating: “Why Can’t I Do an Undo on You?” Also in the line-up are fiddler Paula Filseth (who plays “like smoke was coming out of the violin,” according to Harrell), singer Janelle Roza and pianist Ginger Walmsley, who also played piano at the couple’s

wedding ceremony. “They’re just amazing people and talented in so many ways,” Walmsley said of Benson and Harrell. “Ann is just so talented on the guitar, and Iris has a beautiful voice. They’ll be doing a range of different kinds of numbers — including one that has some yodeling.” Among the covers Benson and Harrell will play are songs by Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, the Everly Brothers and Emmy Lou Harris. The show is aimed at audience members of all ages — free childcare will be provided — and Benson and Harrell hope to evoke the same spirit as the old More Joy coffeehouse concerts back in Dallas, where people came together to listen to music, chat during refreshment breaks and share the pleasure of live performance. Their aim is to continue to hold the concerts quarterly, welcoming different musicians to take part in the coming months. “I want it to be an uplifting event,” Harrell said. “Music should bring you joy.” Asked how it feels to be playing music together again after all these years, Benson said: “It’s a lot of fun. When you’re playing with really good musicians, everybody plays better.” She thought for a moment, then added, “I’ve got calluses for the first time in decades.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com. What: More Joy coffeehouse concert Where: Ladera Community Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley When: Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $10 suggested donation. Childcare provided. Info: Go to ladera.org or call 650-854-5481.

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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

Atherton

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Menlo School Sports Camps

Atherton

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

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

Foothills Summer Camps

Nike Tennis Camps

Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp

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® and Technology Summer Camp

Palo Alto 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

Athletics Camp Campbell

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

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 9am-4pm camp includes lunch and optional after camp care. www.sportshouseonline.com 650.362.4100

Wheel Kids Bicycle Club

Palo Alto

Wheel Kids is Palo Alto’s premier adventure and exploration summer day camp for boys and girls 5-15 yrs old. Camps run weekly from June 8th – July 31st, offering a range of cultural, recreational and environmental learning opportunities, all based on our daily bicycling adventures. Join us this summer as we teach your kids safe bicycle riding skill & habits, help build their self confidence and esteem, and begin a life-long journey of health and fitness while helping improve our environment. www.wheelkids.com 650.520.6524

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

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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Arts & Entertainment

Inspirations

a guide id tto th the spiritual i it l community

Mary K. Stahl

Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 or email byoc@paweekly.com

Mary K. Stahl’s acrylic painting, “A Wee Bit o’ Ireland,” is among the works on display at Portola Art Gallery through April 30.

ish Community Center (3921 Fabian Way) for the Judaism & Science Symposium. Subtitled, “An Exploration of the Convergence of Jewish & Scientific Thought,” the event promises to be a provocative and stimulating hour of discussion about how Jewish thinking has influenced scientific inquiry and achievement. Sacks is perhaps best known for serving as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom for 22 years. Among the other panelists are Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of “A God that Could be Real,” and John M. Efron, professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Krasny, host of KQED’s Forum, will moderate the discussion. The symposium will take place at the JCC’s Schultz Cultural Arts Hall from 5-6 p.m., with a book signing following the main event. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. For more information, go to paloaltojcc.org or call 650-223-8664.

Art

‘LandEscapes’

Courtesy JCC

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks will speak as part of the Judaism & Science Symposium at the Palo Alto JCC on Sunday, April 12.

Talk

‘Judaism & Science Symposium’ Are science and religion in conflict? How does science shape our understanding of God? And why do so many Jews become scientists? These questions and many more will be tackled on Sunday, April 12, when Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and other esteemed speakers gather at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JewPage 26 • April 10, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Kevin Berne

A barn tucked beneath tall trees, a river snaking its way across an alpine landscape, a road hugging a verdant coastline. In Mary Stahl’s pastels and paintings, the natural world appears soft and peaceful, touched here and there by traces of human presence. Now on view at the Portola Art Gallery (75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park), Stahl’s “LandEscapes” welcome viewers to sink into these dreamlike vistas and to imagine themselves transported. A former tech worker and graphic designer, Stahl understands well the contrast between the fast-paced life of the Silicon Valley and the halcyon scenes she paints. Some of her canvases are done en plein air; others are completed in the studio. Having recently returned to the fine-art world, she won a 2011 Emerging Artist award at the prestigious Carmel Art Festival. The opening reception for “LandEscapes” will take place on Saturday, April 11, from 1-3:30 p.m., and the show will be up through April 30. For more information, go to portolaartgallery.com or marystahl.com or call 650-321-0220.

David M. Lutken (front) stars in “Fire on the Mountain” at TheatreWorks through April 26.

Theater

‘Fire on the Mountain’ From the coal-mining towns of Appalachia comes bluegrass, a distinctly American musical style that has its roots both in the folk tunes of England, Ireland and Scotland and in the blues music of the American south. Now playing at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (500 Castro St.), “Fire on the Mountain” presents bluegrass music in a theatrical context, depicting the way coal mining transformed Appalachia and its people. Featuring traditional bluegrass songs like “Dark as a Dungeon” and “The Hard-Working Miner,” “Fire on the Mountain” moves from West Virginia to Kentucky as it tells the emotional story of miners toiling to earn a living underground, often in appalling conditions. The show’s creators, Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman (who previously collaborated on “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues”), conducted interviews with coal-mining families across Appalachia as part of their research for the show. With live dancing and musical performances from accomplished bluegrass fiddlers, banjo and accordion players, “Fire on the Mountain” has been praised for its authenticity. The show runs through Sunday, April 26. Performances are Friday-Saturday 8 p.m., with additional 2 p.m. shows April 11, 12, 18, 19, 22 and 26; 7 p.m. shows April 12 and 19; and a 7:30 p.m. show on April 22. Tickets range from $25-$74. Go to theatreworks.org or call 650-463-1960. Q — Elizabeth Schwyzer

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Among Moksha Coffee’s pre-designed roasts is the popular Dancing Shiva blend.

n Moksha’s Mountain View office on Old Middlefield Way, canvas bags packed with coffee beans from around the world are piled against the walls. A towering industrial roaster rests in one corner and small silver bags sit nearby, waiting to be filled. Started in 2004 by coffee lovers Rekha Shivapa and Vikram Shrivastava, Moksha is a customized roasting company that helps customers find the right bean and blend, and works to bring business to small-scale sustainable coffee growers.

The two founders met in 1994 when working at LSI Logic, a semiconductor company in Milpitas. Shrivastava, who describes himself as a “coffee fanatic,” oversees the roasting and sourcing. Shivapa, who grew up on her family’s coffee plantation in the Mysore District in Southern India, manages business development and customer relations. The name Moksha is a Sanskrit word, they said, and refers to a state of bliss or nirvana. Since its inception, Moksha has supplied beans to companies like Google and chain stores including

Whole Foods Market, but more recently, the focus has been on collaborating with local businesses. Today, establishments that buy from Moksha include Palo Alto’s ZombieRunner, La Bodeguita del Medio, Ada’s Cafe, Bistro Maxine, Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels and Esther’s German Bakery in Los Altos. Izzy’s owner Israel Rind said he recently chose Moksha as a supplier because of its competitive pricing, custom blending and capacity to guide him through the nuances of different roasting profiles.

In Moksha’s industrial roaster, coffee is roasted to order, Shrivastava explained. The beans are roasted in small batches of around 15 pounds and delivered within 48 hours, emphasizing quality over quantity, he said. Buyers can either select a predesigned roast, like Moksha’s popular “Dancing Shiva Blend,” or create a custom one. Shrivastava works closely with his customers to help them identify the profiles they want, whether it’s bold and smooth with low acidity or a dark roast with high acidity. “Everyone says Breakfast Blend. What is Breakfast Blend? It’s different for everyone,” Shivapa said. The coffee beans are roasted in a drum using varying amounts of heat, which is what creates the different flavor profiles. A critical aspect of the process, Shrivastava explained, is stopping the roasting at the right moment during the caramelization of the sugars. To maintain consistency and detailed profiling of the batches, the founders designed their own computer control system, which is hooked up to the roaster. Outside of the roasting process, Moksha’s attention to detail extends to its energy use and sourcing ethics. Over the last two years, the founders developed a roaster that minimizes the use of gas through the recirculation of hot air. This will reduce emissions by 90 percent, according to Shrivastava. The company also delivers 75 percent of its beans via electric or clean diesel cars. Moksha collaborates directly

with small coffee operations in Brazil, Columbia, Indonesia, Yemen, India, Ethiopia and Kenya to source its beans, saving growers money by providing a more direct connection with buyers. It also primarily sources from shadegrown coffee plantations in order to do its part to discourage deforestation, the owners said. Shade is also a more relaxed growing environment and produces well-hydrated beans that are higher in sugar, Shrivastava said. Moksha aims to buy from “micro lots,” where the beans are grown separately from the main crops and cultivated more carefully, resulting in higher quality beans that fetch higher prices. Moksha also runs a “Vision Program” through which it identifies growers in need of financial support and offers premiums above the fair-trade guidance pricing. “I always wanted to help and promote shade-grown coffee and the social cause of the coffee, (like) how the people are treated,” Shivapa said. Attentive from the beginning to the impact of Moksha’s business, Shivapa continues to keep an eye out for ways that can make the company sustainable environmentally and socially, both locally and around the world. Q Editorial Intern Maev Lowe can be emailed at mlowe@ paweekly.com. Moksha Coffee Roasting, 408393-4294; mokshacoffee.com

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Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a childless, 40-something New York couple in â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Young.â&#x20AC;?

Hipsters versus midlifers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; captures a culture clash 000 (Guild, Century 20) Noah Baumbach wants your kids off his lawn. Metaphorically speaking, of course. The lifelong New Yorker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and auteur of

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Squid and the Whaleâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frances Haâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; probably never had a lawn, but he does have a career in independent film, his latest being â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Young.â&#x20AC;?

Baumbachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meditation on the tension between the slowing, sinking middle-aged and the speeding, ascending young finds the two meeting on the battleground of ambition as laureled old age looks on, fruitlessly suggesting thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of sustenance to go around. Ben Stiller plays documentary filmmaker Josh Srebnick, whose marriage to Cornelia (Naomi Watts) is due for a little excitement. Enter 20-something couple Jamie (Adam Driver of HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Girlsâ&#x20AC;?) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), whose extension of seemingly unconditional friendship injects energy and more than a little self-consciousness into the older coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship. Alas, Jamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appealingly hip freak flag starts to turn into a red one when the aspiring filmmaker starts moving in on Joshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territory. Joshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest project, eight years in the making, flounders as Jamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s takes off like a rocket. As if that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, the older man has always been deeply overshadowed by his father-inlaw, a legendary documentarian played by the great Charles Grodin. Is Manhattan big enough for the three of them? And can Josh and Corneliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marriage survive the roller-coaster thrill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and strain â&#x20AC;&#x201D; brought on by Jamie and Darby? â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Youngâ&#x20AC;? plays like the Woody Allen comedy he never came up with, clashing

his type of New Yorker against those of Lena Dunham. At first, Baumbach keeps the culture-clash social satire light. As their bodies begin betraying them, Josh and Cornelia comically try to keep up with their younger counterparts, funsters who never pick up the check. The older folks are digital while the young folks are analog, an irony that eventually becomes a sticking point as Josh realizes his references, his nostalgia and perhaps his very life are being appropriated by an upstart generation. For good measure, Baumbach casts Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. AdRock of the Beastie Boys) as a domesticated dad, but the obvious shots at hipster scenes (nouveau chapeaus and an ayahuasca ceremony featuring a shaman who plays Vangelis on an iPhone) eventually sour into a complex critique of modern ambition in a changing cultural landscape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Documentaries are over,â&#x20AC;? Josh concludes, decrying lost ground in the search for truth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is that old man talk? Maybe it is.â&#x20AC;? Though â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Youngâ&#x20AC;? can be reductive, lionizing the old as calm, centered and generous to a fault while raking 20-somethings over the coals, Baumbach makes comic hay from the realization that the future belongs to the young. Rated R for language. One hour, 37 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese

Taken for a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sparks donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fly in pageto-screen romancer 0 (Century 16, Century 20) A Nicholas Sparks movie is like cinematic Jello. It sells well, the number one ingredient is sugar, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always room for it. Yes, the corn is as high as an elephantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye in the latest adaptation of the bestselling romance novelist. No, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not in Oklahoma; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in North Carolina, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Longest Rideâ&#x20AC;? wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let you forget it (somewhere, a tourism office manager is writing a fat check). Still, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better believe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bright golden haze on the meadow as college senior Sophia Danko (Britt Robertson of TVs â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the Domeâ&#x20AC;?) crosses the Wake Forest quad to check out a rodeo with her friends. The art major will go, she grudgingly obliges, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not wearing those cowboy boots.â&#x20AC;? Cut to her feet in those cowboy boots, made for walking right into loooooove with bull-riding champion Luke Collins (Scott Eastwood, looking more than ever his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son). Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of fresh material you can expect from this twohour-plus rehash of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Note(continued on next page)

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book” and its ilk. As ever, there’s pretty young things from two different worlds, one challenged by physical ailment. For good measure, “The Longest Ride” adds a contrapuntal old-school couple to enable gauzy Rockwellian nostalgia and a bit of WWII derring-do. You see, after meeting and going on a picnic date with take-out barbecue (“No one has ever done

anything like this for me before,” Sophia swoons), the modern young’uns spot a car wreck and save an old coot (Alan Alda, suddenly cute-as-a-button harmless). Sophia takes an interest in the now-hospitalized old Ira, visiting regularly to read his love letters back to him. Such is the way to parcel out flashbacks, with Alda’s younger self (Jack Huston of “Boardwalk Empire”) romancing Austrian émigré Ruth (an overwrought Oona Chaplin). Mean-

while, the modern-day lovers ponder whether or not they have a chance at love despite a cultural divide and divergent careers: Luke is bound to risk his life on buckin’ broncos after repeated concussive damage, and contemporary-art appreciator Sophia is about to hit the fast track of the Manhattan art-gallery world. The latest style-deficient director to go through Camp Sparks, George Tillman Jr. (“Men of Honor”) makes Hollywood mulch

MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Cinderella (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:20, 6:55 & 9:40 p.m.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 12:55, 4:15, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m.

Danny Collins (R) Century 16: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m.

The Longest Ride (PG-13) + Century 16: 7:30 & 10:30 p.m., Fri 10:25 a.m., 1:25 & 4:25, Sat & Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:30 & 4:30 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4:05, 7:10, 7:50, 10:15 & 10:45 p.m.

Freetown (PG-13) Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 10 p.m.

McFarland, USA (PG) ++ Century 20: 12:15, 3:15, 6:50 & 10 p.m.

Furious 7 (PG-13) Century 16: 10:40 & 11:30 a.m., 12:20, 1:10, 2, 2:50, 3:40, 4:30, 5:20, 6:10, 7, 7:50, 8:40, 9:30, 10:20 & 11:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 & 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 4:45, 5:15, 5:55, 6:35, 8, 8:30, 9:10 & 9:50 p.m. In X-D at 12:45, 4, 7:15 & 10:30 p.m. In D-BOX at 11:30 a.m., 1:30, 2:40, 4:45, 5:55, 8 & 9:10 p.m. Get Hard (R) Century 16: 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:35 & 10:40 p.m. Home (PG) ++ Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7:05 & 9:35 Century 20: 10:45 & 11:45 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:25, 7:25, 9 & 9:55 p.m. In 3-D at 12:25, 2:55 & 5:25 p.m.

of it all, despite the irony of being an African-American artist constrained by the formulae of Sparks’ lily-white world. Plastic dramatics from Eastwood and Robertson contribute to the textureless Hallmark sheen. Truthful, if cliché, themes (time is precious, “Love requires sacrifice”) might have redeemed the picture if the rodeo climax didn’t so hypocritically undercut them. Instead, we’re left to check off the contrivances and Sparksian trappings: frolics by bodies of water, line dancing and ballroom dancing, hospital beds and feather beds and the beaming highs and weepy lows of romance. Rated PG-13 for some sexuality, partial nudity, and some war and sports action. Two hours, 19 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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National Theatre: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Not Rated) Guild Theatre: Sun 11 a.m. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:55 p.m. Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:45 & 9:40 p.m. The Talk of the Town (1942) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:35 p.m. While We’re Young (R) +++ Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:15 p.m. Guild Theatre: 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:15 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.

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Wild Tales (R) +++1/2

Insurgent (PG-13) Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m. & 7:55 p.m. In 3-D at 2, 4:40 & 10:45 p.m.

Woman in Gold (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 11:45 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 8 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m.

It Follows (R) Century 20: Noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m.

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Home Front TREE WALK ... Arborist Ray Morneau will lead a free tree walk through Old Palo Alto on Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m. to noon, meeting at the Churchill Avenue parking entrance to Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Expect to see Canary Island Pine, Flowering Pear, Giant Sequoia, Mayten, Western Redbud and other varieties. Info: Canopy at 650-964-6110 or canopy.org EASY TO GROW NATIVES ... Radhika Thekkath from the California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, will talk about “Easy to Grow Native Plants - a viable Alternative to Lawns in Home Gardens” from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, 2890 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The free talk is supported by the Midtown Residents Association and will showcase plant arrangements using native plants by Karen Froniewski of Nature’s Alley. A plant and seed sale will follow the event. Info: midtownresidents.org A PERFECT PAIRING ... Once again flower arrangements will be paired with art from the de Young Museum’s permanent collection for the annual Bouquets to Art exhibition from Tuesday, April 14, to Sunday, April 19. Among the participants are Woodside/Atherton Garden Club; Miss Scarlett’s Flowers and Flair, Portola Valley; DeVoy Designs, Atherton; Fleur de Vie and The Empire of Flora, Los Altos; and Eclosion, Menlo Park. The event includes floral demonstrations, children’s activities, catered luncheons and a raffle (with proceeds supporting both the de Young and the Legion of Honor). Tickets are $22 in advance for adults, with discounts for students and youths; members and children ages 5 and under are free. Info: 415-750-3504 or deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/ bouquets-art-2015 CLUCK, CLUCK ... Patricia Moore will offer a class on “Raising Backyard Chickens” from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, 700 Alma St., Menlo Park. Moore will talk about how to start a flock. Cost is $38 for nonresidents, $29 for Menlo Park residents. Info: 650-3302200, menlopark.org or csd@ menlopark.org Q

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Wild Columbines bloom in Holstrom’s native-plant garden.

California fuschias provide a lot of ground cover in the nativeplant garden.

A bumblebee pollinates the flowers on a Ceanothus plant in Cindy Holstrom’s native-plant garden.

Reclaiming California’s natural aesthetic Going Native garden tour shows neighbors how to create beautiful gardens using less water story by Maev Lowe | photos by Veronica Weber

alifornia’s native plants are giving the classic lawn a run for its money. Native plants save water, are lowmaintenance, pesticide-free and support local ecology and wildlife. One way to learn about native plants is through the Going Native garden tour, a free tour of more than 20 native-plant gardens in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The self-guided tour, which was started in 2003, takes place on Sunday, April 19. Another 30 gardens mostly in south Santa Clara County can be toured on April 18. Cindy Holstrom, a Los Altos resident, was already interested in native plants when she went on her first Going Native tour eight years ago. This year, for the first time, Holstrom is showing her garden. “I like things in their natural places, and I liked the challenge of doing native plants,” she said. Gardeners of all levels of experience and expertise attend, she said. When she was ready to volunteer her garden for inclusion in the tour, representatives from the California Native Plant Society (Santa Clara Valley Chapter) came to make sure she had enough native plants to qualify. Holstrom has done her own native-plant-garden renovations in segments. Her front yard, originally full

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of ivy and evergreen shrubs, was replanted five years ago. She did her backyard this last year, which once had a classic lawn. The garden now is full of native plants and trees like Big Leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum), Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea), Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum), Deer Grass (Muhlenbergia rigens) and Needle Grass (Nassella). She bought most of her plants from Yerba Buena Nursery in Half Moon Bay, Las Pilitas Native Plant Nurseries in Southern California, Summer Winds Nursery in Palo Alto and an online store called Annie’s Annuals and Perennials (also in Richmond, California). In the front yard, a path winds around a center mound of native plants, which can be seen from a red Adirondack-style bench. The center of the backyard, which is surrounded by a patio, a sandbox and a treehouse, consists of a mounded area for native plants that will eventually resemble a Californian meadow. Holstrom said she expects her garden to hit full bloom in spring, in contrast to what she calls “East Coast gardens” that hit blooming peak in the summer. At this point almost all of her garden is native plants, except for three 20- to 30-year-old redwoods, an ap-

Monkey flowers thrive in the native-plant garden.

ple tree and one of the original rose bushes. Though she is excited about native plants, she said it doesn’t make sense to destroy beautiful plants or trees that are surviving. Holstrom explained that nativeplant transformation begins with placing cardboard or newspaper on top of a lawn or other existing plants, then piling soil, compost and mulch on top. This has multiple purposes: The suppressed lawn will die and enrich the soil. And the mulch will both keep the water in the soil and prevent seeds from neighboring gardens blowing in and growing. Holstrom got her soil, mulch and compost from Lyngso, a garden store in Redwood City. She said that the main expense was the delivery of the materials. Santa Clara County offers a rebate for converting highwater-using landscape to low-waterusing landscape. If the rebate is taken advantage of the native plant renovation pays for itself, she said. She decided not to use it, because of how long the process takes. Eventually, the cardboard or newspaper will disintegrate contributing to the soil enrichment. A big part of appeal of native plants is that since they are in their element, they do not require much maintenance. Holstrom, at this point, does not water the mature plants in her front yard. The only exception is if a mature native plant is potted because the pot can heat up and dry the soil out faster. The newer plants, in the back, require water in their first couple

of years. Mostly, she waters when she thinks they look like they need it, recalling the last time they were watered and what the temperature has been lately. She might use a water meter, which resembles a large thermometer and is stuck into the ground to measure whether the soil is dry or wet, or just poke her finger in the soil. Holstrom usually waters her newer plants just before the meter indicates the soil is dry. “I have a little bit of that principle of live or die on your own a little bit. If this is a good place for you to live as a plant ... whatever survives is in its right place,” Holstrom said. Q Editorial Intern Maev Lowe can be emailed at mlowe@paweekly. com. What: Going Native Garden Tour When: Sunday, April 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Gardens in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Redwood City and Woodside Sponsor: California Native Plant Society (Santa Clara Valley Chapter) and UC Master Gardeners Cost: Free Info: Pre-registration is required; register online (and get map) at gngt.org.

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Atherton

73 Amador Ave. Tacotacotaco Limited to J. & L. Kim for $10,675,000 on 2/24/15

East Palo Alto

152 Abelia Way J. King to Y. Zhou for $620,000 on 2/18/15 2544 Emmett Way V. Dixon to R. Rendon for $550,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 10/10, $312,500 453 E. O’keefe St. #202 S. Yun to X. Yun for $400,000 on 2/20/15; previous sale 8/14, $522,000

Los Altos

1 W. Edith Ave. #A205 Moore Trust to E. Lewis for $2,527,000 on 3/17/15 100 1st St. #308 Los Altos8 Limited to First Street Limited for $1,791,000 on 3/5/15 417 Dracena Lane RodeBerry Trust to J. & F. Wang for $3,775,000 on 3/3/15; previous sale 1/02, $900,000 4388 El Camino Real #118 J. & S. McIntosh to Hsu Trust for $1,150,000 on 3/13/15; previous sale 11/09, $625,000 28 Farm Road S. Winkel to Grant Trust for $1,275,000 on 3/5/15; previous sale 9/09, $720,000 1080 Los Altos Ave. Chiang Trust to A. Wong for $2,610,000 on 3/5/15; previous sale 10/08, $1,385,000 320 Solana Drive G. & S. Kasriel to C. Chock for $3,420,000 on 3/3/15; previous sale 6/09, $2,250,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $10,675,000 Highest sales price: $10,675,000

East Palo Alto

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $400,000 Highest sales price: $620,000

Total sales reported: 15 Lowest sales price: $710,000 Highest sales price: $6,650,000

Los Altos

Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,150,000 Highest sales price: $3,775,000 675 Tomi Lea St. McphersonMerryman Trust to Z. Wan for $2,758,000 on 3/4/15; previous sale 5/86, $337,000

Los Altos Hills

26307 Esperanza Drive W. & P. Sagan to R. & L. Ward for $8,500,000 on 3/16/15; previous sale 4/09, $5,300,000 26270 Purissima Road Sans Trust to J. Beliveau for $2,600,000 on 3/9/15; previous sale 6/96, $675,000

Menlo Park

848 14th Ave. Working Dirt to W. Yan for $710,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 10/12, $485,000 511 Central Ave. Hassan Trust to H. Saueressig for $1,350,000 on 2/20/15 940 Cotton St. CazaresGomez Trust to Alfonsi Trust for $6,650,000 on 2/20/15; previous sale 10/02, $1,705,000 32 Henderson Place S. Kannan to P. Schmidt for $850,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 8/14, $442,000 32 Homer Lane X. Dong to Zappert Trust for $2,700,000

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,600,000 Highest sales price: $8,500,000

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $840,000 Highest sales price: $5,700,000

Woodside

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $4,100,000 Highest sales price: $7,500,000 Source: California REsource

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 15 Lowest sales price: $432,000 Highest sales price: $2,400,000

on 2/18/15; previous sale 1/11, $670,000 819 Laurel Ave. P. & A. Debenedictis to K. Saurabh for $1,685,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 9/88, $275,000 48 Mansion Court #834 Hsieh Trust to W. & S. Friedman for $2,150,000 on 2/19/15; previous sale 8/90, $1,065,000 719 Middle Ave. P. Soyugenc to G. Juan for $1,628,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 10/03, $806,000 830 Monte Rosa Drive L. Lilyquist to C. & S. Bjorkman for $2,700,000 on 2/25/15; previous sale 7/06, $1,915,000 1045 Pine St. Flickinger Trust to Y. Xu for $1,150,000 on 2/19/15; previous sale 7/08, $775,000 212 Ravenswood Ave. Butler Trust to Church of Pioneers Foundation for $1,425,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 12/03, $692,500 132 Stone Pine Lane F. Schlegel to V. & S. Pandey for $1,395,000 on 2/24/15 204 University Drive DGB Investment to Gelos Group for $3,410,000 on 2/18/15; previous

sale 10/12, $1,169,000 630 Vine St. Vine Street Limited to P. Soyugenc for $4,600,000 on 2/17/15; previous sale 12/13, $2,150,000 1134 Werth Ave. Digrande Trust to D. Digrande for $2,750,000 on 2/26/15

Mountain View

1902 Adams Court Jack Myers Construction to J. Zhu for $2,400,000 on 3/17/15; previous sale 12/14, $1,750,000 505 Cypress Point Drive #148 M. Perrodin to Y. Huang for $528,000 on 3/9/15; previous sale 10/02, $240,000 505 Cypress Point Drive #273 Parnmukh Trust to V. Tulnikov for $775,000 on 3/6/15; previous sale 2/07, $450,000 922 Farley St. C. Isenhower to D. & T. Avrahami for $1,250,000 on 3/5/15; previous sale 11/99, $362,500 214 Lauella Court Dimercurio Trust to K. & L. Alton for $1,400,000 on 3/11/15 485 Magritte Way P. Kapadia to M. Suddjian for $1,284,000 on 3/18/15 500 W. Middlefield Road #125 Carico Trust to S. Fung for $432,000 on 3/5/15; previous sale 11/13, $320,000 905 W. Middlefield Road #901 W. Kozel to X. Cai for $651,000

on 3/6/15; previous sale 11/80, $133,200 220 Oak St. G. & A. Pal to L. & D. Zaba for $2,282,000 on 3/11/15; previous sale 12/10, $887,000 255 S. Rengstorff Ave. #119 M. Concra to H. Chan for $555,000 on 3/18/15; previous sale 6/05, $455,000 509 Sierra Vista Ave. #9 L. & D. Okeeffe to D. Symons for $810,000 on 3/17/15 1942 Silverwood Ave. Keck Trust to J. & N. Wager for $730,000 on 3/18/15; previous sale 10/12, $372,000 2461 Thaddeus Drive Scheidegger Trust to J. Matthews for $1,525,000 on 3/18/15; previous sale 11/02, $610,000 776 Winston Place A. & L. Bravo to X. Peng for $815,000 on 3/6/15 910 Wright Ave. C. Tumuluri to A. Riha for $1,775,000 on 3/6/15

Palo Alto

471 Alger Drive Daniels Trust to J. Xu for $2,500,000 on 3/11/15 2330 Byron St. Korbholz-Lerer Trust to ZNC Inc. for $5,700,000 on 3/18/15 555 Byron St. #411 T. Lewis to Bjork Trust for $3,000,000 on 3/13/15; previous sale 10/97, $1,138,500 520 Channing Ave. Eckert Trust

to J. Wang for $2,150,000 on 3/6/15; previous sale 10/93, $335,000 325 Channing Ave. #313 A. Zingale to Channing Avenue Limited for $3,198,000 on 3/9/15; previous sale 9/12, $2,700,000 4173 El Camino Real #9 Cortese Trust to C. Xu for $1,280,000 on 3/11/15; previous sale 5/97, $355,000 4068 El Camino Way Eton Capital to H. Chang for $1,720,000 on 3/12/15 3745 Grove Ave. Ellis Trust to Y. Bai for $2,720,000 on 3/9/15 103 Melville Ave. Triada Construction to Apollo Group Investment for $2,500,000 on 3/6/15 672 Melville Ave. M. Bodine to X. Zhu for $2,670,000 on 3/6/15 2091 Middlefield Road Johnson-Gray Trust to X. Du for $2,500,000 on 3/3/15 3887 Middlefield Road Smith Trust to P. Leong for $2,750,000 on 3/17/15 2585 Park Blvd. #Z206 J. Zheng to L. Liu for $1,000,000 on 3/13/15; previous sale 6/12, $815,000 755 Ramona St. M. McGehee to C. Case for $1,700,000 on 3/3/15; previous sale 5/03, $649,000 93 Roosevelt Circle Omalley Trust to S. Cia for $2,250,000 on 3/13/15 765 San Antonio Road #55 S. & S. Aram to S. Lin for $840,000 on 3/18/15; previous sale 1/03, $340,000 4186 Willmar Drive Allyn Trust to H. Hsu for $2,667,000 on 3/4/15 451 Wilton Ave. Morgan Trust to N. Kasinadhuni for $1,648,000 on 3/4/15; previous sale 4/08, $675,000

Woodside

245 Brookwood Road Tumminaro Trust to VTV Limited for $4,100,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 5/88, $692,000 215 Mountain Wood Lane Watkins Trust to L. Naify for $7,500,000 on 2/20/15; previous sale 10/74, $300,000

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101 Alma Street, Unit 907, Palo Alto Offered at $1,498,000 Sky-High Living in Downtown North With terrific amenities and downtown Palo Alto at your fingertips, you will love this ninth-floor, 3 bedroom, 2 bath condominium of 1,536 sq. ft. (per seller – including a converted lanai). The living and dining room ensemble opens onto a light-filled family room. Boasting city views, new carpet, and new paint throughout, this home features extensive closet storage, spacious rooms, and excellent proximity to lively University Avenue. Lounge in a cabana by the complex’s heated pool, or challenge neighbors on the shuffleboard court. Johnson Park and Stanford Shopping Center are moments away, and you will be within blocks of the shopping, dining, and entertainment venues of University Avenue. Close to El Camino Real and Sand Hill Road, this home borders Menlo Park and is also nearby Caltrain. Excellent nearby schools are Addison Elementary (API 947), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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896 Newell Road, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Convenient Reprieve in Crescent Park Spacious rooms, considerable storage, and a superb location are a few of the many desirable features offered by this adorable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,489 sq. ft. (per county) with a lot of 6,233 sq. ft. (per city). The entry hall connects central living areas with bedrooms tucked on either side of the home. A marble-tiled fireplace forms the heart of the living and dining room ensemble, while additional features include updated granite countertops throughout, a two-car garage, a large partly covered terrace, and a sunny eat-in kitchen. Set in prestigious Crescent Park, you will be steps from Eleanor Pardee Park and within a half-mile of Rinconada Park. Enjoy living within one mile of both Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center and the shops and restaurants of University Avenue. Within walking distance of Duveneck Elementary (API 956), you will also be near excellent schools like Jordan Middle (API 934) and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Coldwell Banker

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Palo Alto Sat/Sun 12 - 4:30 $4,988,000 945 N. California Ave Charming and mystique home located in Leland Manor neighborhood 5 BR/4 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161

Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $4,800,000 380 Portola Rd Price Reduced! Country charm merges with luxurious English style equestrian estate. Historic windmill! 4 BR/4 BA Judy Byrnes CalBRE #01178998 650.851.2666

Emerald Hills Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $4,498,000 1005 Lakeview Way A most incredible Lakefront property! New Construction! Single level 4200+ sq.ft. home. 5 BR/5.5 BA J.D. Anagnostou CalBRE #00900237 650.851.2666

Atherton Sat/Sun 12:30 - 4:30 $3,898,000 102 Encinal Ave Atherton home- majestic oaks, sunny, private pool & lawn, spacious rms, Menlo Pk schools! 4 BR/2 BA Penny Goldcamp CalBRE #01746139 650.325.6161

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

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1 - 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 PENDING $3,198,000 Over an acre of tree-studded land with views out to Windy Hill. Attached 2-story 1BD apt. 4 BR/3.5 BA Dean Asborno CalBRE #01274816 650.851.1961

Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,198,000 512 Military Way 2 master suites (1 on ea level), 2-story high ceilings, skylights, and tranquil setting. 4 BR/3.5 BA Julie Lau CalBRE #01052924 650.325.6161

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,945,000 450 La Mesa Court Charming and classic Ladera home with mountain vistas in prime cul-de-sac location. 3 BR/2 BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson 650.323.7751

Portola Valley Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,649,000 158 Wayside Rd Updated home w/treetop views just steps from PV’s Town Center & easy access to Hwy. 280. 4 BR/2 BA Billy McNair CalBRE #01343603 650.324.4456

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 Price Upon Request 227 Chester St. Wow in the Willows. Remodeled charming home with a fabulous kitchen w/family dining area. 3 BR/2 BA Sue Crawford CalBRE #00587710 650.324.4456

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Foster City Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,275,000 833 Marlin Ave Super clean. Remodeled kit & baths, well maintained home w/sparkling pool. 2 car garage. 3 BR/2 BA Tom Huff CalBRE #00922877 650.325.6161

East Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $425,000 427 Wisteria Dr Charming ranch style home with hardwood floors, nice backyard and 2 car garage 3 BR/1 BA Paul Skrabo CalBRE #00665727 650.323.7751

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Alain Pinel Realtors

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578 Lowell Avenue | Lot Sherry Bucolo | 650.323.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-4:00

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LOS ALTOS $4,495,000

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102 Encinal Avenue, Atherton Open Sat & Sun 12:30-4:30

• Atherton 4 bedroom 3 bathroom home with easy access to schools, trains, civic center & downtown Menlo Park • Spacious, formal living & dining rooms • Separate wing has 4th bedroom/family room, bathroom, kitchenette

• Courtyard patio opens to lawn • Oversized 4 car garage, guest parking • Driveway access to both Encinal Ave. & Laurel St. • Home 3,020 sq. ft./Lot 35,700 sq.ft (per Realist) • Schools: Encinal Elementary & Hillview Middle, Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify) Offered at $3,898,000

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

ATHERTON 96 Normandy Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union

2 Bedrooms

628 Cambridge Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,495,000 314-7200

227 Chester St. Call for price Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 780 San Benito Ave. $940,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 323-1900

102 Encinal Ave $3,898,000 Sat/Sun 12:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

5 Bedrooms

10 Sargent Ln Sun Pacific Union

$8,450,000 314-7200

4 Bedrooms - Townhouse

168 Sand Hill Cir Sun Pacific Union

6 Bedrooms

333 Atherton Ave $16,800,000 Sun Green Banker Realty 373-0007

1 Cananea Pl Sun 1-4 Pacific Union

$1,695,000 314-7200

4 Bedrooms

901 Siskiyou Drive $2,595,000 Sat/Sun Cowperthwaite & Company 851-8030 1325 Hobart St $3,550,000 Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

BURLINGAME 3 Bedrooms

$988,000 543-8500

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

$1,598,000 314-7200

5 Bedrooms

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

CUPERTINO 4 Bedrooms

7740 Obsidian Ct Sat/Sun Sereno Group

2 Bedrooms - Townhouse

1946 Silverwood Ave. Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

EAST PALO ALTO 3 Bedrooms

427 Wisteria Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 1905 Aberdeen Ln Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$425,000 323-7751

3 Bedrooms

LOS ALTOS 4 Bedrooms

491 Guadalupe Dr $2,695,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 644-3474

1857 Villa St Sat/Sun Sereno Group 284 Monroe Dr. Sat/Sun 1-4 Keller Williams

LOS ALTOS HILLS

PALO ALTO

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14700 Manuella $5,500,000 Sun Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 644-3474

101 Alma St 907 Sun Deleon Realty

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$1,498,000 543-8500

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75 Belle Roche Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 1005 Lakeview Way Sun Coldwell Banker

3727 Cass Way $2,498,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500 1145 Lincoln Ave $1,895,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 896 Newell Rd $1,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 2724 Cowper St $1,799,999 Sun 1-4 Archer Real Estate Investors 430-4333

4 Bedrooms

512 Military Way Sun Coldwell Banker 2088 Channing Ave. Sun 1-4 Pacific Union 1523 Hamilton Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 372 Parkside Dr. Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 1084 Fife Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

2 Spinnaker Pl. Sun Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms

147 Wildwood Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,350,000 596-5400

SUNNYVALE 4 Bedrooms

917 Redwood Ave Sat/Sun 2-5 Sereno Group

$999,000 (408) 335-1400

WOODSIDE 4 Bedrooms

555 Manzanita Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 740 Whiskey Hill Road Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 3 Vineyard Hill Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,945,000 323-7751

5 Bedrooms

25 Oakhill Dr Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 245 Mountain Wood Ln Sun 1-4:30 Intero Real Estate 115 Eleanor Dr Sun Deleon Realty

4 Bedrooms

6 Blue Oaks Ct $4,998,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 644-3474 380 Portola Rd $4,800,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 1 Portola Green Cir $3,988,000 Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500 158 Wayside Rd $1,649,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

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)

$1,298,000 324-4456

SAN CARLOS

$2,198,000 325-6161 $2,995,000 314-7200 $5,798,000 325-6161 $2,200,000 321-1596 $2,898,000 323-1111

PORTOLA VALLEY 450 La Mesa Ct Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,498,000 851-2666

REDWOOD SHORES

945 N California Ave $4,988,000 Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161 552 Jennyson Ave. $5,998,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

3 Bedrooms

$3,295,000 323-7751

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

6 Bedrooms

245 Lindenbrook Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$9,950,000 462-1111 $5,250,000 462-1111 $8,495,000 462-1111 $8,500,000 206-6200 $8,750,000 206-6200 $5,988,000 543-8500 $8,950,000 851-2666

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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

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REDWOOD CITY

5 Bedrooms

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,999,000 947-2900

$1,488,000 325-6161

420 Cambridge Ave, Unit 4 $2,088,000 Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Intero Real Estate 543-7740

MENLO PARK

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Bulletin Board 115 Announcements Did You Know Information is power and content is King? Your doorway to statewide Public Notices, California Newspaper Publishers Association Smart Search Feature. Sign-up, Enter keywords and sit back and let public notices come to you on your mobile, desktop, and tablet. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN) Pregnant? Considering adoption? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 1-877-879-4709 (CalSCAN) Pregnant? Thinking of adoption? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/ New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN) Author Event: “She Also Served” Foothill College Plant Sale FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY HUGE USED BOOK SALE Learn Bridge in a Day! Overcoming Depression Group Room 4 rent in Sunnyvale Stanford music tutoring Seasoned, Architect

130 Classes & Instruction Airline Careers begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) German Language Classes Music Together Classes

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home. Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950 Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www. HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

Having Sleep Problems? If you are 60 years or older, you may be eligible to participate in a study of Non-Drug Treatments for Insomnia sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and conducted at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Medical Center. Participants will receive extensive sleep evaluation, individual treatment, and reimbursement for participation. For more information, please call Stephanie or Ryan at (650) 849-0584. (For general information about participant rights, contact 866-680-2906.)

155 Pets Dog walking Offered

For Sale 201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts BMW 2009 328i - $18,000 ob Tesla 2015 Model X

202 Vehicles Wanted Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN) Cash for Vintage Cars Mercedes convertibles, Porsche, Jaguar, Alfa, Lancia, Ferrari, Corvettes, Mustangs. Early Japanese Cars 213-465-3227 rstevensjr@gmail.com Other collector cars of significant value desired. (Cal-SCAN) Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN) I Buy Old Porsches 911, 356. 1948-1973 only. Any condition. Top $$ paid. Finders Fee. Call 707-965-9546 or email porscheclassics@yahoo.com (Cal-SCAN) Old Mercedes 190sl Jaguar XKE or pre-1972 foreign SPORTSCAR/convertible. ANY CONDITION! I come with trailer & funds. FAIR OFFERS! Finders fee! Mike 520-977-1110. (Cal-SCAN) Older Car, Boat or RV? Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the humane thing. Donate it to the Humane Society. Call 1- 800-743-1482 (Cal-SCAN)

210 Garage/Estate Sales Menlo Park, 1765 Oak Ave, March 14 & 15 10-2 Mountain View, Villa Nueva Way, April 11, 8-3; April 12 if necessary

Piano lessons in Menlo Park For children and adults. Convenient location. Easy Parking. Contact Alita (650)838-9772

135 Group Activities

MV: Garage Sale, 5/2 and Yard Sale 5/9 At homes: May 2. Rengstorff Park: May 9 Register for either event by April 17, 2015! www.MVrecycle.org.

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145 Non-Profits Needs DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARIES Stanford Museums Volunteer

150 Volunteers Become an EcoCenter Docent! Fosterers Needed for Moffet Cats FRIENDS BOOKSTORE MITCHELL PARK FRIENDS OF THE MTN VIEW LIBRARY FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM

152 Research Study Volunteers Hot Flashes? Women 40-65 with frequent hot flashes, may qualify for the REPLENISH Trial - a free medical research study for postmenopausal women. Call 855-781-1851. (Cal-SCAN)

PA: City Wide Garage Sale Saturday, June 6, 8-2 Helping the environment and making money has never been so easy. Reusing - whether you donate, buy, or sell - is one of the best ways to reduce waste and keep usable stuff out of the landfill. Join us for the Palo Alto Citywide Yard Sale on Saturday, June 6. Last day to sign up is May 8. Details will be posted on http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/ yardsale/ The map and listings will be uploaded to this page and be printed in the June 5 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly. Palo Alto, 15 Phillips Road X Street Madison, Sat, Apr 11, 9-2 Multi fam. yard sale. Canon Camcorder, tv, vcrs, movie projectors 8 ad Super 8, futon,clothes 4-6, cds, books, treasures from Europe, household items and much more.

San Carlos, 1001 Chestnut Street, May 3, 9:30-11:30

230 Freebies Free Workbench - FREE

235 Wanted to Buy Wanted: Comic Books Pre-1975: Original art & movie memorabilia, sports, non-sports cards, ESPECIALLY 1960’s Collector/Investor, paying cash! Call WILL: 800-242-6130 buying@getcashforcomics.com

240 Furnishings/ Household items Did You Know 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) King Sized Duvet Set - $30

Make $1,000 Weekly! Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately. www.theworkingcorner.com (AAN CAN)

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Legals (continued from page 50) 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)

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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 ClerkRecorder’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 Center-CNC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602647 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MayView Community Health Center-CNC, 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.

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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)

located at 1621 Mariposa Ave., 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): LAVINIA LEAMUN YAU-CHAN 1621 Mariposa Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 25, 2015. (PAW Apr. 10, 17, 24, Apr. 1, 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)

GROCERY OUTLET OF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602530 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Grocery Outlet of Palo Alto, located at 3445 Alma St., 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): GO TRISTAN 440 Dixon Landing Milpitas, CA 95035 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 Apr. 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2015)

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HAPPY ENDINK TATTOO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602920 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Happy Endink Tattoo, located at 128 Clayton Ave., San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): GIANCARLO BULAN 128 Clayton Ave. San Jose, CA 95110 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/20/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 20, 2015. (PAW Apr. 10, 17, 24, May 1, 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)

LAVINIA’S JEWELRY LEA AND ANDRE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 603079 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Lavinia’s Jewelry, 2.) Lea and Andre,

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (U.C.C. 6104, 6105) ESCROW #: 0126007232-PO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to creditors of the within named seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below. The names and business address of the

STARLIGHT SOLAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602930 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Starlight Solar, located at 364 Poe St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MARIO BARAJAS 364 Poe St. 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 April 23, 2015. (PAW Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015) CALL TO GEEKS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 603183 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Call To Geeks, located at 839 Miller Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TECWORLD INC. 839 Miller Ave. Cupertino, CA 95014 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 27, 2015. (PAW Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)

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Seller(s) is/are: Frank K. Szeto 2105 Old Middlefield Way, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94040 The location in California of the Chief Executive Office of the seller is: same as above As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: None The names and business address of the Buyer(s) is/are: Andre Liao and Ricky Ty Chau 2105 Old Middlefield Way, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94040 The assets to be sold are described in general as: All stock in trade, furniture, fixtures, equipment and other property And are located at: 2105 Old Middlefield Way, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94040 The business name used by the Seller(s) at those locations is: â€œNew Orient Restaurant The anticipated date of the bulk sale is : April 28, 2015 At the office of Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520. The bulk sale IS subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. If so subject, the name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is as follows: Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520 or E-Fax to 925-265-9040 or Fax 925-363-2276. The last day for filing claims shall be : April 27, 2015 which is the business day before the sale date specified herein. Dated: 3/27/2015 /s/ Andre Liao /s/ Ricky Ty Chau 4/10/15 CNS-2735440# PALO ALTO WEEKLY NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANDRE A. LEBEAU, aka ANDRE ALPHE LEBEAU Case No.: 1-15PR 176271 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ANDRE A. LEBEAU, aka ANDRE ALPHE LEBEAU. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DOMINICK R. PELOSO in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: DOMINICK R. PELOSO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on MAY 28, 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: /s/Charles M. Riffle (State Bar #54410) Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Riffle, APC 900 Veterans Blvd. Suite 600 Redwood City, CA 94063 (650)368-4662 (PAW April 3, 10, 17, 2015)

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Stanford senior Kiley Neushul, a former national player of the year, leads the Cardinal in scoring with 44 goals.

A showdown with national implications Top-ranked UCLA visits No. 2 Stanford in a rematch of 2014 NCAA women’s water polo title match By Rick Eymer f all the events taking place on the Stanford campus Saturday, the most meaningful contest, in terms of immediate impact on the national scene, will take place at high noon at Avery Aquatic Center. That’s where No. 2 Stanford hosts top-ranked UCLA in a

Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match with more than national rankings at stake. The Cardinal (3-0 MPSF, 18-1 overall) beat the Bruins (4-0, 201) for the national title last year and they have split their two meetings this season. Saturday’s winner will not only remain undefeated in conference

play, but will grab the inside track in earning the top seed for the MPSF tournament. Moreover, the showdown could be a preview of next month’s national championship match. Stanford hosts Cal State Bakersfield on Sunday, also at noon, before traveling to Berkeley for the regular-season finale on

Thursday at 5 p.m. against No. 4 California, which hosts Arizona State this weekend. UCLA finishes its regular season a week from Saturday, hosting No. 3 USC, which has lost twice all year -— to Stanford and the Bruins — by a total of three (continued on page 55)

STANFORD TENNIS

Cardinal teams still have plenty to play for Men host UCLA and USC; women eye higher national rank by Brian Risso iding a season-high seven-match win streak, the nationally No. 36-ranked Stanford men’s tennis team finds itself in position to make an even bigger splash this weekend. The Cardinal (13-4, 4-0 Pac-12) has an opportunity to land two signature victories, hosting No. 15 UCLA on Friday (4 p.m.) and No. 5 USC on Saturday (2 p.m.) at Taube Family Tennis Stadium. Meanwhile, the No. 13-ranked Stanford women close out their home schedule this weekend, hoping to continue a late-season push while improving its national ranking. Winners of four in a row, the Cardinal (13-4, 6-2 Pac-12) hosts Washington State on Saturday (10 a.m.) and No. 16 Pepperdine on

Sunday (noon). Admission to all four matches is free. For the Stanford men, their biggest win of the season is a 4-3 road upset of No. 14 California. The Cardinal, however, is winless in four attempts against top-30 opponents. Stanford has dropped seven in a row to UCLA and nine straight to USC. But with its next victory, Stanford will match its win total from a 14-6 overall finish last season. The Cardinal, which is unbeaten in eight home matches, is coming off a sweep in the Pacific Northwest last weekend, defeating No. 51 Oregon and No. 59 Washington. The Cardinal also beat visiting Fresno State on Tuesday, 4-1. The Cardinal boasts two nationally ranked players in singles, led

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NIT CHAMPS . . . With the dust settling on the longest season in Stanford basketball history, coach Johnny Dawkins better be ready to hit the recruiting trail. With his offensive juggernaut having played the last game of his college career, Dawkins will be hard-pressed to replenish the firepower that is graduating from his program. Chasson Randle, the Cardinal’s all-time leading scorer, was never better throughout his illustrious career than he was on April 2 at Madison Square Garden. Playing in his last game in a Stanford uniform, the senior guard collected 25 points as he rallied the Cardinal from a three-point deficit with less than a minute remaining in overtime. Randle benefited from a questionable call to sink a pair of free throws with 3.4 seconds left, as Stanford outlasted Miami, 66-64, in the championship of the Postseason National Invitation Tournament. With the win, Stanford (24-13) captured its second NIT crown in the past four years and third in the past 25 years. “How many teams are going to win championships this year?” said Dawkins. “Not very many. To cut down the nets and have a championship moment, it goes with you for the rest of your life.” With his team trailing 6463 in the waning seconds, Randle pump-faked from the left wing to get his defender in the air, leaned in, and drew a foul. He hit both foul shots and, after the Hurricanes (25-13) threw the ball away, Anthony Brown knocked down one of two from the stripe. “There were no nerves,” said Randle, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NIT. With the score tied twice in the last 90 seconds of regulation, Randle connected on two driving layups, but Miami’s Sheldon McClellan answered with four free throws on the other end to force the extra session. A season that officially began on Oct. 3 and ended 182 days later. “In the last four years, we’ve won two NIT championships and have gone to the Sweet 16,” said Dawkins. “I don’t think that’s horrible. I think we’ve shown that we can be competitive in either tournament, because we’ve had success in both.”

Stanford sophomores Taylor Davidson (left) and Carol Zhao are the nation’s No. 1-ranked doubles team. by freshman Tom Fawcett (41) and senior John Morrissey (100). A strong rookie season continues for Fawcett, who leads the club with a 23-7 overall record while playing all of his matches at the No. 1 spot. Morrissey has settled in at the No. 2 position, chalking

up a 13-7 overall record while going 11-4 in duals. Freshman David Wilczynski is the third Cardinal player with at least 20 overall wins while totaling an 11-4 record in duals. Stan(continued on next page)

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Stanford freshman Tom Fawcett is ranked No. 41 nationally and leads the team with a 23-7 record in singles. Cardinal opened the season at No. 8 and has checked in as high as No. 7. The national individual rankings are a different story, with sophomores Taylor Davidson and Carol Zhao currently occupying the No. 1 spot in doubles. At 24-5 overall and 12-3 in duals, Davidson and Zhao are the first Cardinal tandem to be ranked No. 1 since Mallory Burdette and Nicole Gibbs enjoyed a two-month

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stay at the top position in 2012. Davidson and Zhao claimed their first doubles title of the season at the NCTC Classic in January. The pairing also reached the semifinals of the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships in October and earned a runner-up finish at the Riviera ITA All-American Championships in September. Their success hasn’t been limited to doubles, with Davidson

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ford’s hottest player at the moment might be senior Robert Stineman, who has won a team-best eight matches in a row. Everyone on the roster has contributed at some point, with 10 different players competing in at least one dual match. Morrissey and Stineman comprise the only ranked doubles team, checking in at No. 36 — thanks to a 9-3 record at the No. 1 spot with five straight wins. In the win over Fresno State, Stanford took the doubles point for a 1-0 lead, and clinched the match thanks to Fawcett’s 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 victory at the top spot of the lineup. Morrissey cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win at the No. 2 spot against Sai Kartik Nakireddi, extending Stanford’s lead to 2-0. Yale Goldberg contributed a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Youssef Hassan at the No. 6 spot, increasing Stanford’s lead to 3-1. Fawcett then secured the match before Fresno State had forced the remaining two matches to a third set. Stanford will host USF on Tuesday and then Cal on April 18 to close out its home schedule. The Stanford women, meanwhile dropped three spots to No. 13 nationally despite sweeping Pac-12 matches last week. The

Ellen Tsay, Stanford’s only senior, was honored during the Cardinal’s win over Washington last weekend. and fellow sophomore Caroline Doyle sharing the team lead in overall victories (25). Zhao, who is ranked No. 4 in the country, is right behind with 24 wins. Davidson enters the week ranked No. 16 while Doyle is No. 24. The sophomore trio has combined for a 74-16 record overall and 44-6 mark in duals. Stanford’s depth has proven to be a factor throughout the season. Senior Ellen Tsay (100) and junior

Krista Hardebeck (116) also appear in this week’s national singles rankings. After this weekend, Stanford will travel to Berkeley for the April 18 regular-season finale against California. The Golden Bears prevailed 4-3 in the non-counting Pac-12 match on March 1 at Taube Family Tennis Stadium.Q (Brian Risso is Stanford’s Director of Sports Information)

Sports Alys Williams are UCLA repre- Stanford men. Any competition between Cal sentatives on the national team. (continued from page 53) A total of 11 of the Americans’ and Stanford creates interest, but 18-player roster have Stanford a rare dual meet adds extra exgoals. The Trojans beat the Bears (Annika Dries, Melissa Seide- citement. Action begins at 2 p.m., mann) or UCLA (SH Prep grad with the women’s hammer, while by one. “USC, UCLA and Cal have KK Clark, Courtney Mathewson) running events start at 3 p.m. In sand volleyball, No. 8 UCLA all been close games,” Stanford ties. The Bruins have nine players is one of seven teams playing in coach John Tanner said. “That’s who have scored at the Stanford Invitational. The great competition for least 10 goals, led by Bruins and Cardinal meet at 9 all the teams.” Fattal’s 37. Williams a.m. at the newly created Stanford It’s the kind of and Emily Donohue Sand Volleyball Stadium. Califorcompetition all four nia, Cal Poly, Oregon, St. Mary’s each have 29 goals. teams need, especialKiley Neushul and Washington are also playing. ly at this time of the In tennis, the 13th-ranked Stanleads Stanford with year, to remain sharp. 44 goals, and is one ford women’s tennis team hosts All four likely will of 10 Cardinal players Washington State at 10 a.m. and see each other one or with at least 10 goals. the men’s team hosts No. 5 USC two more times durGrossman has 43, at 2 p.m. ing the postseason. In softball, the Cardinal hosts Steffens has 35, while The nation’s top Dani Jackovich (25), No. 8 UCLA in the day’s final four teams also have Anna Yelizarova Gurpeet Sohi (24) event at 7 p.m. Stanford (1-8 deep benches, which and 16-22) has been plagued by already have played a role and and Jamie Neushul (24) follow. Katie Dudley leads the fresh- injuries once again with startwill be key to the conference tournament, scheduled for Tempe men group with 18 goals, tied ing pitchers Mady Schreyer and with junior Anna Yelizarova. Jor- Haley Snyder both sidelined and beginning April 25. “You don’t get a lot of hard dan Raney, the reigning MPSF listed day to day. Nine other Stanford teams pressure very time out and that’s Newcomer of the Week, has 16 a reminder to us to bring that en- goals. Rachel Johnson completes are on the road this weekend, including the No. ergy very day in practice,” Tanner the double-digit list 15 men’s volleyball said. “We have to rely on our en- with 11. team, which plays Five different playtire roster to create that high level at No. 1 Hawaii, the ers recorded a hat in practice.” third-ranked men’s The Cardinal has been held un- trick in Stanford’s gymnastics team at der 10 goals just twice this sea- 23-6 win over No. 9 the NCAA chamson, to Cal and UCLA (a 7-6 loss), San Jose State last pionships, the 15thwhile holding every opponent un- weekend. ranked lacrosse team Since ending a fiveder 10 goals. at St. Mary’s and the Saturday’s showdown also is game losing streak to fifth-ranked women’s an Olympic fan’s dream. Seven the Bruins in 2009, crew team. players currently on the roster of Stanford has won 17 The 12th-ranked the U.S. National Team, coached of their past 23 meetGabby Stone men’s golf team and by former Bruins coach Adam ings. the sixth-ranked The rest of CardiKrikorian, will be participating nalpalooza, centered around the women’s golf team are entered in the contest. Olympic gold medalist and two- spring football game at 1 p.m., in tournaments while the thirdtime FINA Female Athlete of the also features at least one ranked ranked sailing team and the 14thranked men’s crew team are hostYear Maggie Steffens leads the team in every competition. The Big Meet, one of the few ing events in Redwood Shores. Stanford contingent and is joined The Stanford baseball team is by Kiley Neushul, Ashley Gross- track and field dual meets still held, features the 11th-ranked at Cal for a three-game series this man and goalie Gabby Stone. Sami Hill, Rachel Fattal and Cardinal women and 17th-ranked weekend. Q

Stanford roundup

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Gillian Meeks

Maya Miklos

The junior won three events in a dual-meet win before running a personal best of 9:54.83 in the 3,000 meters (No. 4 in the state) and a PR of 4:58.54 (No. 6 in state) at the Stanford Invitational.

The junior won three events and ran on the winning 400 relay in a dual-meet win, then won the 400 hurdles and finished third in the 400 in a PR of 56.16 (No. 7 in the state) at the Stanford Invitational.

GUNN HIGH

Honorable mention Kathryn Bower Sacred Heart Prep swimming

Mackenzie Glassford* Palo Alto softball

Zoe Lusk Palo Alto swimming

Maddie Martinson Palo Alto softball

Annie Payne Menlo-Atherton lacrosse

Amanda Wiseman Menlo-Atherton lacrosse

Ahmed Ali Palo Alto golf

Frank Bell Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Jack Crocket Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Alex Liang Palo Alto swimming

Cole March Sacred Heart Prep baseball

Andy Zhou Gunn tennis * previous winner

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

Gunn’s Meeks and Miklos run themselves among the state’s best this track season by Keith Peters f Gunn track and field coach PattiSue Plumer could clone juniors Gillian Meeks and Maya Miklos, she’d do it in a heart beat. That would make her already strong girls team a possible CCS contender. Miklos is the most versatile of the two. She ranks No. 1 in the Central Coast Section in the 300 hurdles in 44.28, which puts her No. 8 in the state. She also ranks No. 5 in the CCS 100 hurdles in 15.59. Miklos runs on the Titans’ 400 relay that ranks No. 6 in the CCS in 50.09. She also ranks No. 4 in the 200 (25.33) and No. 2 in the 400 with a 56.16 clocking that ranks No. 7 in the state. Miklos also is No. 6 in the CCS in the 800 (2:17.58). Just don’t ask her to throw the shot put or discus. Meeks has tripled in a handful of dual meets this season, but her 1,600/mile and 3,200 events are

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Gunn juniors Gillian Meeks (left) and Maya Miklos are state ranked in a combined five events.

stronger than her 800. Meeks ranks No. 4 in the state in the 3,000 (9:54.83), No. 5 in the state in the 1,600 (4:56.81 converted) and No. 6 in the state in the mile (4:58.54). Both will seek to improve upon their state-ranked marks this weekend at the annual Arcadia Invitational. Meeks will run the seeded 3,200 race on Friday night with Miklos competing in the seeded 300 hurdles on Saturday night. The schedule, and traveling, was much better last weekend as both competed in the Stanford Invitational at Cobb Track and Angell Field. On Friday, Miklos won the overall title in the 400 hurdles as she clocked 1:00.69, just off the meet record. Meeks ran a personal best of 9:54.83 while taking fourth in the fast heat of the 3,000. The top five finishers clocked the nation’s top five times this outdoor season.

Also that afternoon, the MenloAtherton girls’ distance medley relay team of Cat DePuy, Annie Harrier, Olivia Shane and Annalisa Crowe set a school record of 12:38.57 while taking 11th overall in the fast field. On Saturday, Miklos ran a personal best of 56.16 while finishing third overall in the 400. In the mile, Meeks was fifth in a personal-best 4:58.54, ranking her No. 16 in the nation. Her time converts to a 4:56.81, keeping her No. 4 all-time in Gunn history. Kathryn Mohr of Menlo-Atherton cleared 10-11 3/4 for seventh in the girls’ pole vault and Crowe was ninth in the 800 in 2:16.21. The M-A 1,600 relay team of Harrier, Miranda Simes, DePuy and Crowe was eighth overall in 4:06.31. In the boys’ events, M-A’s Adam Scandlyn was 11th in the mile in 4:21.71 and Priory’s Ross Corey was 20th in the 800 in 1:58.50. Q

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