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Teachers take on strategic roles in new year High schools to tackle broader, more complex educational problems by Elena Kadvany

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Social and emotional learning teacher on special assignment (TOSA) Jeanette Tucker and special education teacher Neil Chai look at a whiteboard filled with brainstorming ideas and to-do lists for the year ahead at Gunn High School on Aug. 11.

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alo Alto’s high schools are looking to newly assembled teams of teachers on special assignment, or TOSAs, this fall to lead the schools forward on several key issues, with a particular focus on social-emotional learning and educational inclusion. TOSAs typically apply or are selected for the part-time position, which gives them time to serve as a leader for a particular schoolwide effort, from education technology to school climate. This year both Palo Alto and Gunn high schools created a new social-emotional learning TOSA position as well as hired a fulltime co-teaching and inclusion specialist, funded by the district. The high schools hope that hiring people with particular skills and backgrounds will bring more intention and success to areas regarded as in need of better coordination and communication. The new TOSA positions were born out of goals and priorities identified in the high schools’ recently completed Western Association for Schools and Colleges (WASC) reports — in-depth selfstudies conducted every six years to obtain accreditation. A top goal that both schools identified is engendering a more empathetic and creative school culture accepting of multiple definitions of success — also a familiar battle cry in Palo Alto during the past school year’s heightened debate over academic stress and student wellness. Jeanette Tucker, a Gunn special education teacher with a master’s degree in counseling and bachelor’s in psychology, will spend the new school year as Gunn’s social-emotional learning TOSA. She will tackle one of the school’s WASC goals: creating a comprehensive, coordinated and tailored ninth-through 12th-grade socialemotional curriculum. Gunn has for several years had a school-climate TOSA (which continues this year), but that position is focused on bigger-picture events and programs like Not In Our Schools Week, the freshman-orientation program Titan 101, Camp Everytown and assemblies. “While we have very good pockets of services for our students, they really aren’t connected and they’re really not coordinated,” said Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann. “We don’t necessarily assess developmentally. Is 12th grade the right age for this? Is ninth grade the right age for that?”

Secondary education teachers on special assignment (TOSAs) from left, Suzanne Antink, Karen Logue and Tamara Juarez prepare for the new school year while working in the Palo Alto Unified School District office on Aug. 11. Herrmann said Gunn staff spent time talking with schools in the area known for their accomplishments in social-emotional learning, like The Nueva School in Hillsborough, which has long espoused “self-science” at all grade levels and also houses a SocialEmotional Learning Institute. Nueva and other schools’ staffs told Gunn faculty it is paramount

to have a person to coordinate the schoolwide social-emotional learning curriculum, just as any school would for math or other subjects, Herrmann said. Tucker began her work this summer, assessing Gunn’s existing services and resources, researching best practices in the area and compiling quick activities and lesson plans that can be implemented this

year. She began her career with the idea of becoming a therapist, but time spent as a special education aide led her to get a master’s degree in special education. After that, she spent four years in the classroom working with emotionally fragile teenagers. Tucker described herself as the “glue” that will meaningfully tie together the current programs, ser-

vices and even structural elements (like Gunn’s new modified block schedule) that support social-emotional well-being in some way. She’ll also train teachers on how to incorporate more social-emotional learning into their classrooms. Much of this teaching will be delivered to students during a new 50-minute period every Tuesday that is dedicated to socialemotional learning or tutorial, an addition in the new bell schedule. Gunn is also piloting this fall new mindfulness curriculum for all incoming freshmen, to be delivered during physical education classes. Tucker has also been tasked with developing new social-emotional practices, which could range from an hour-long lesson plan to a one-word check-in at the beginning of class (ask the students to take a minute to come up with one word to express how they’re feeling and share it with the class). “There are lots of ways to check in that encourages a student to take note of how they’re feeling and provide a space where they can do that — and you don’t need to be a therapist to do that,” Tucker said. She will also be working with (continued on page 8)

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You would think — ‘Isn’t it here?’ It’s just getting here. Suz Antink, Palo Alto High School teacher, on Common Core Standards, which the district started implementing in 2013. See story on page 9.

Around Town BATTER UP ... Palo Alto’s young sluggers will soon have a new place to hone their craft. The city is preparing to install two batting cages at the Baylands Athletic Center site once occupied by the city’s former trash hauler, PASCO. As part of the pilot project, the city is teaming up with Palo Alto Babe Ruth Baseball, which will pay for the construction of the cages. For the first few months, the Babe Ruth teens and the City will have exclusive access to the cages while all the operational details are being worked out, according to a new report from the Community Services Department. “This limited time period will allow staff to work out the details around access, safety, theft, vandalism, over utilization by one group, and any other unforeseen issues,” the report states. After that, the two batting cages will be overseen by the city in the same way as the rest of the athletic complex and rented out to local sports group. So far, the cages are being installed on a trial basis. After a few months, the city will review the results and consider whether the cages should be relocated, removed or kept where they are, according to the new report. If the council approves the proposal on Monday night, this will be the second time that the cages receive a green light. In 2004, the council unanimously approved installing a batting cage along the firstbase line, though the cage was never built because of a limited budget.

STRAIGHT OUTTA PALO ALTO ... The cast of the N.W.A movie, “Straight Outta Compton,” made an appearance in Palo Alto on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at CineArts at Palo Alto Square. Lucky moviegoers enjoyed an exclusive prescreening of the film, which opens today, Aug. 14, as well as a Q&A session with the cast, including O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins, and director F. Gary Gray. N.W.A member Ice Cube was also present at the event. The movie revolves around N.W.A, a hip-hop group (members include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Easy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren) from Compton, California, and how they revolutionized

music and pop culture and changed and influenced hiphop. N.W.A’s first studio album, “Straight Outta Compton,” was a depiction of life in southern Los Angeles. PAUSD.ORG 2.0 ... One year after the Palo Alto school board set a goal to revamp the district’s website, and only three days past the targeted launch date, the Palo Alto Unified School District debuted a new-and-improved website Thursday, Aug. 13, at pausd.org. It is more userfriendly and visually appealing, with detailed directories for each school; menu navigation to more easily direct people to information about services, programs, events and more; color-coded and searchable school board documents; and a mobile-friendly format. In the background of the home page is a photo of some younger students from a recent Unity Day event “as a reflection of our community values that enthusiastically support our safe and welcoming schools,” Chief Technology Officer Derek Moore wrote in a description of the new website on said website. However, click around (or search for various pieces of information on Google) and you might end up on a page that reads “Sorry, page not found.” That’s nothing unusual, but on the page is also a short video of Superintendent Max McGee. “I certainly didn’t expect to see you here today,” he jovially tells the camera while sitting in his office. “I know you didn’t expect to be here either. So never fear: Just use this handy site navigation tool, or go to search and you’ll get right to where you need to be. I hope to see you again — just not back here,” he adds with his trademark broad smile. The district gives itself barely a passing grade on the new website. “Yes, this is a C- in traditional grading scales,” Moore wrote. “Looked at differently, this can be viewed as progress on our way to exceeding standards.” More work remains to be done, including transferring a “significant” amount of PDF content into a more friendly online format, content modifications relating to new organizational structure at the district office and posting more photographs. Q

Upfront Is District 5 getting its fair share?

City seeks larger benefits from 2016 tax measure Palo Alto’s support for county transportation measure may ride on Caltrain by Gennady Sheyner

aced with busy streets, congested expressways and a rail corridor that is seen as at once essential and perilous, Palo Alto has no shortage of transportation projects on its wish list. Now, with the county speeding toward putting a transportationtax measure on the 2016 ballot, city officials are looking to ensure local needs don’t get left behind. In its first meeting after its summer vacation, the City Council will discuss a county tax measure that many see as the best hope for solving some of Silicon Valley’s most gaping transportation deficiencies. The council will also review a list of projects the city is either pursuing or wants to pursue. The list will be submitted to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which is now updating its broad vision document for the region, known as the Valley Transportation Plan 2040. The 2016 tax

measure would potentially fund some of the projects in the plan. But which projects would get funded should the tax measure pass? That’s the question Palo Alto now hopes to influence. Given the history of how county tax funds have been distributed — largely to cities south of Palo Alto — addressing that question is taking on a degree of urgency. The city’s 13-page list outlines more than 50 projects. These include locally funded projects such as the recently approved expansion of the city’s shuttle system; $20 million worth of new bike boulevards (and another $20 million for “enhanced bikeways,” which don’t quite rise to the golden bike-boulevard standard); and the $11 million to $13 million new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek. There are also county-led projects in Palo Alto, such as the proposed reconfiguration of Page Mill

Chart by Linda Atilano

TRANSPORTATION Tax measure

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* Of measure’s total expenditures, including BART Transportation projects benefiting Santa Clara County’s District 5, which includes Palo Alto, have received decreasing funding from successive tax measures, despite consistently paying about 16 percent of the total taxes. Source: County Supervisor Joe Simitian’s Office, based on data from the county Roads and Airports Department Road, and state-administered ones, such as the $55 million upgrade to the 101/Embarcadero Road/Oregon Expressway interchange. Yet one item, with no identified funding sources, dwarfs them all: separating city streets from the Caltrain tracks. Palo Alto officials have been talking about underpasses and overpasses at Caltrain crossings for years, a conversation that took on more urgency when voters approved the high-speed rail system in 2008. Since then, two separate clusters of suicides on the rail tracks have raised the priority level even higher. In recent years, the council formed a special committee to discuss rail separation

and commissioned an engineering study to consider the project’s cost. With the city’s suicide-prevention strategy now including the restriction of access to the tracks as a key component, council members are looking at the 2016 tax measure as a key opportunity to get started on a trench for the Caltrain tracks. The project could prove a tough sell, both in town and in terms of funding. The price tag could top $1 billion if the track were built at a 1 percent grade in just the southern half of the city. A steeper grade of 2 percent, which requires a shorter trench, would drop the cost to $527 million and would involve the submerging of Caltrain below Charleston Road and

Meadow Drive. The latter cost was estimated in a 2014 analysis performed by the firm Hatch Mott MacDonald. The city is also considering submerging Churchill Avenue under the Caltrain tracks. That $196 million project assumes that Alma Street would also be lowered at Churchill, according to the project list. The topic of separating tracks from streets — and obtaining funding for doing so — came up at the council in February. In response to residents’ complaints over train-horn noise, the council discussed establishing a “quiet zone” near the tracks down(continued on page 16)

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Residents disturbed by short-cutting tech buses Noisy commuter, tourist coaches disrupt neighborhood tranquility, residents say

seeming invasion of rumbling commuter buses and large shuttles on Downtown North streets has some neighborhood residents grumbling. The sleek vehicles with their black-tinted windows have been skirting traffic-light ridden Lytton Avenue lately in favor of residential streets. Measures to restrict traffic along Downtown North’s Everett and Hawthorne avenues, including roundabouts and prohibited turns during peak commute hours, are not stopping the big shuttle buses, many of which are contracted by high-tech companies, according to some residents. Last Friday, a Bauer bus traveled down Hawthorne almost every hour until 6 p.m. And for two Saturdays in a row, tourist buses have stopped in the roadway to deposit out-oftown visitors anxious to take photographs of the neighborhood’s vintage homes, residents said. Janine Bisharat was working from home last Friday when the Bauer bus trundled up and down the road. “I ran out then and stopped him and told him to stop driving down

our neighborhood streets. I see their buses on Lytton all of the time, and that is the right place to drive their buses. I told him I called the police and he’ll get a ticket,” she said. A spokesperson for San Francisco-based Bauer Intelligent Transportation did not return requests for comment. But other residents agreed that the privately contracted buses and shuttles are a nuisance. And not all belong to Bauer. Some of them are unmarked, residents said. “It is true, and it is plentiful. They zoom through here. One bus was so big the driver tried to turn onto Webster Street, but he couldn’t make it around the corner, so he had to go straight,” said another Hawthorne resident, who asked not to be identified. She witnessed the tourist buses stopping in the street. “The people got out and took pictures. Palo Alto has become a destination place,” she said. Palo Alto’s police traffic team has not received any complaints about the buses, department spokesman Lt. Zach Perron said. But under Palo Alto’s munici-

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A Bauer shuttle bus drives down Everett Avenue in Palo Alto’s Downtown North neighborhood on Aug. 12. pal code, a vehicle weighing more than 7 tons (14,000 pounds) Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) is considered a “truck” and must travel on designated truck routes, Perron said. Hawthorne is not such a route. Exactly how heavy these commuter buses are is unclear. A limousine motor coach can weigh up to 25 tons, according to Motor Coach Industries (MCI), a bus supplier. A 24-passenger 2016 Starcraft Allstar MVP shuttle bus weighs

about 7.5 tons, and a 36-passenger 2015 midsized Starcraft vehicle weighs about 13 tons, according to online bus-sales websites. Without knowing which specific vehicles the complaints are about, and without knowing their weight rating, Perron said he could not comment on whether the buses are violating the regulation. But he doubted that large buses could negotiate around some of the roundabouts on Hawthorne. The side streets nearer to Mid-

dlefield Road don’t have roundabouts, though, and residents noted buses can and do turn down those roads. Perron said that anyone who wishes to file a traffic complaint can leave a voicemail on the Traffic Complaint Hotline at 650-3292388 with the specific location, date and time of the disturbance, and the traffic team will investigate the issue. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@paweekly.com.

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Gunn’s new mental health coordinator, a position approved for both high schools in the wake of several student deaths by suicide during the previous school year. This new hire will oversee the school’s mental health providers and services, conduct parent outreach and education and support high-risk students, such as those transitioning back into school after a psychiatric hospitalization, Herrmann said. Across town at Paly, Josh Bloom, a science teacher with a passion for mindfulness, will lead the school’s wellness efforts as the new social-emotional learning TOSA. He, too, will help teachers implement small- and big-picture social-emotional learning practices in their classrooms, provide parent education on mental health and bring a more “strategic focus” to the school’s wellness efforts, said Principal Kim Diorio. Notably, he will also be working with Paly’s new mental health coordinator, Jonathan Frecerri, a mental health therapist who came to the district last year after working for several years at Palo Alto grief-counseling nonprofit Kara, to launch the suicide-prevention program Sources of Strength at Paly. Sources of Strength, which was initiated at Gunn in 2011, is a national program that uses the power of peer influence to prevent suicide, bullying and sub-

stance abuse. The program trains student-leaders on campus, who then spread what they learn to others through their respective social networks. Bloom is also co-facilitating the school’s work with Stanford University research group Challenge Success, which is also working with Gunn this year on its new bell schedule and school culture. Paly last year also created a new school-climate TOSA position, and history and social sciences teacher Eric Bloom (no relation to Josh Bloom) will continue in that role. His focus this year will include the continuation of a student-led climate committee he formed last year and an effort to broaden Not In Our Schools Week to a more regular (perhaps once a month) and inclusive event. A new authentic-research TOSA at Paly will spend time this year designing a statistical application class to be piloted with the school’s first Social Justice Pathway cohort, now in its junior year. The goal is to create a project-oriented class for students in pathway programs like Social Justice or sports careers — or any students interested in conducting more intensive research and doing project-based learning, Diorio said. This new TOSA will work with a new district administrator hired to oversee a pilot expansion of Paly’s longtime Paly’s Science Research Project (SRP) program, with the goal of eventually de-

Back to school calendar Start dates First day of school, 9-12: Monday, Aug. 17 First day of school, K-8: Tuesday, Aug. 18 Terman Middle School back-to-school check-in: Monday, Aug. 17, 8 a.m. to noon Jordan Middle School Jordan 101 for new families: Monday, Aug. 17, 3:30-4:30 p.m. JLS Middle School Parent First Day Coffee: Tuesday, Aug. 18, 8:15-9:15 a.m.

Sixth-grade orientations Jaguar Journey at Jordan: Aug. 18 and 19 Panther Camp at JLS: Aug. 20 and 21 Tiger Camp at Terman: first week of school

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Luis Alvarez of Generations School Photography directs JLS Middle School student Sam Mutz as he poses for his school photo in the multipurpose room during Jump Start Day on Aug. 12. veloping an Advanced Authentic Research program that offers research opportunities, mentors and internships in subjects beyond science.

ith 27 teachers at Gunn — and 19 at Paly — now co-teaching classes, both schools also recognized a need to bring in full-time specialists to support what can be a difficult “marriage” between general and special education teachers. Ideally, co-teaching means a regular and special education teacher share lesson planning, instruction and assessment in one class with a mixed population of students. The end goal is inclusion, a well-established model that Palo Alto Unified and many school districts have moved toward as segregated special-education classrooms fall by the wayside. Gunn has hired a new staff member, Lynn Tabuchi, and Paly identified an existing special education teacher, Heather Johanson, to facilitate and support co-teachers full time. They will provide both informal and formal coaching on problem solving, modifying assignments and talking through classroom differentiation. They will also do classroom

observations and analyze student data with teacher teams. Johanson and Paly history and social sciences teacher Ben Bolanos, who have co-taught together for several years, will set up their classroom as a space where other teachers can come to observe the practice, Diorio said. “There is a disparity between (students) in the general ed population (who are) excelling and doing well and then those that are having a difficult time,” Tabuchi said. “Following our vision of equal access, equal opportunities (for) all students, engagement for all — that’s what the push is for the entire district. There is so much research shown that co-teaching is an effective model for all students.” Educational equality issues were identified as “critical areas” by WASC accreditation teams who visited Paly and Gunn this spring. The team urged Gunn to increase achievement for all learners, including special education students, and “create a more consistent and systematic method for providing in-school support for all learners.” Paly was encouraged to “increase the opportunities for under-represented sub-groups to access the rigorous curriculum and provide academic

Palo Alto High: Thursday, Sept. 3, 6:30-9 p.m. Gunn High: Thursday, Aug. 27, 6-9 p.m.

Addison: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m. Barron Park: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6-7 p.m. Duveneck: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m. El Carmelo: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 5:30-7 p.m. Escondido: Thursday, Aug. 20, 5:30 p.m. Fairmeadow: Tuesday, Sept. 1; K-2 at 6 p.m., 3-5 at 7 p.m. Herbert Hoover: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m. Juana Briones: Monday, Aug. 24, 6-8 p.m. Lucille M. Nixon: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. Ohlone: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 5:30-9 p.m. Palo Verde: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 5:45-8 p.m. (5:45-6:45 p.m. for grades 3-5 in students’ classrooms; 6:45-7 p.m. meeting for all parents in MP room; 7-8 p.m. grades K-2) Walter Hays: Monday, Aug. 18, 8:45-11 a.m. (back-to-school coffee)

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Terman: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 5-8:30 p.m. JLS: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 7-9 p.m. Jordan: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 7-8:30 p.m.

Inclusion and co-teaching teacher on special assignment (TOSA) Lynn Tabuchi, right, talks with teachers Jackie Selfridge, left, and Anne Marie Metzler, center, at Gunn High School on Aug. 12.

support to assure success” and develop strategies and programs to “address the academic achievement gap that persists for underrepresented minorities and at-risk students in all classes.” Creating a true co-teaching partnership and collaboration to address these issues can be challenging, Tabuchi said. “A lot of people think of coteaching (as), ‘OK, we’re going to teach together. You teach one day; I’m going to teach the other day, and vice versa. “But a true co-teaching model is where you’re in there together the whole time and you work with each other and it’s difficult to tell who the regular teacher and the special education teacher is,” she said. Whether focused on socialemotional learning or co-teaching, the TOSA model, Dioro said, brings more credibility and impact to the work. “It’s really empowering teachers and teacher leadership and flattening that hierarchical structure of a traditional system, like a school, so that the teachers really have a say and they’re making a lot of the decisions and they’re really influencing their peers and their colleagues,” Diorio said. “The beauty is that they’re still teachers,” she added. “How do you influence and change or motivate an organization? It takes time and it takes the right people.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com. On the cover: Incoming JLS Middle School sixth-grader Iyanu Olukotun checks to see which size shirt will fit as mom Kim Bomar looks on. Incoming students and their parents attended JLS Jump Start Day on Aug. 12 to drop off school paperwork, take class photos, pick up P.E. shirts and get their bikes tuned up. Photo by Veronica Weber.

Upfront EDUCATION

Data reveals where school district has more, and less, space for students Enrollment committee to analyze trends, present recommendations to school board in October by Elena Kadvany

he school district’s new enrollment-management committee took a deep data dive on Monday night in order to equip its members for the charge they have been given: Come up with a series of innovative recommendations to address growing enrollment in Palo Alto Unified. The committee, made up of parents, community members and district staff, discussed several strands of data and enrollment trends, from overflow percentages and kindergarten enrollment over the past 20 years to the number of students the district will absorb when families move into a new Stanford University housing development currently under construction on upper California Avenue. The data is somewhat inconclusive, one committee member noted, both identifying clear problems to be solved but also indicating that in some areas, the enrollment picture is less urgent than has been perceived in the past. While Palo Alto Unified’s actual enrollment has grown by 20 percent since 2006, capacity has grown by 25 percent. At the same time, average class size has steadily risen: from 20.7 to 23.5 since 2006. A total of 725 seats — a number equal to the size of nearly two full elementary schools in Palo Alto — have been added during the past decade. Today, available space is greater than at any time in the last decade, with 18 open elementary classrooms and 642 available seats (also more than the size of one elementary school). “That really colored my thinking about it because as you think about — should we add more ca-

pacity there, do we need it there — we have an entire elementary school’s worth of capacity available,” committee member Todd Collins said. “We ought to look to use what we have if we can before saying ... ‘We should add more capacity just because we need it in a certain place.’” Elementary school enrollment today is also higher than it has been historically, but the

the overflow issue is seen most strongly in the city’s south cluster (which contains El Carmelo, Fairmeadow and Palo Verde): 68 percent of students are sent out of their cluster to attend school. Palo Verde alone overflowed 100 students out of its cluster, the subcommittee found. In the north and west clusters, only 28 percent of students are unable to attend a nearby school.

‘We have an entire elementary school’s worth of capacity available.’ —Todd Collins, member, PAUSD enrollment committee

district’s schools remain smaller than most of their counterparts in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Palo Alto Unified has no elementary schools with more than 600 students, and its median elementary size (470) is below the counties’ average (501). Those elementary schools with the most significant growth compared to their size are Escondido, Fairmeadow, Juana Briones and Ohlone. The committee also learned Monday that kindergarten through fifth-grade overflow levels, though higher than in the past three years, are actually on the decline. The district overflowed — that is, sent students outside of their neighborhoods for school — 2.1 percent of students in 2015, compared to 2.4 percent the previous year and 2.6 percent in 2013. The district’s highest overflow percentage (3.4 percent) was in 2008. Broken down by city clusters — north, south and west —

The committee previously discussed streamlining the overflow process. Committee members said that many parents whose children are overflowed in elementary school are unaware — and not told by the district — that their child will return to their neighborhood school in middle school. The district also gives parents only 24 hours to decide where to go when a student cannot be placed in the neighborhood school. The committee plans to survey such families to explore the issues. As the committee considers questions like whether or not to expand some of the district’s choice programs or whether there is a demand in Palo Alto for new alternative, non-traditional programs or schools, the data offer one answer. Ohlone’s English-only choice program, which emphasizes projectbased learning, personalized instruction and collaboration, is the most consistently oversubscribed choice program, with 52 appli-

BACK TO SCHOOL

District deploys specialists for Common Core transition Three teachers to help middle and high school staffs with new curriculum by Elena Kadvany

s new Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards materials, practices and assessments continue to roll out, three Palo Alto Unified teachers will spend this upcoming year away from the classroom, working in the district office to help the secondary schools make the curricular transition. This is the first time there will be district-level teachers on special assignment, or TOSAs,

dedicated to the middle and high schools. (The district has had TOSAs serving the elementary schools for several years.) Each of the three teachers will serve as a coach and facilitator in a particular subject area — mathematics, English/social studies and science — guiding middle and high school teachers as they shift their instructional practices toward the state’s new standards. Suz Antink, a Palo Alto High

School math teacher who has been in the district for more than 30 years, will oversee math-related Common Core support. Karen Logue, a Terman Middle School English teacher, will oversee English and social studies. Tamara Juarez, a Terman science teacher, will be in charge of Next Generation Science Standards. Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards are not new to Palo Alto; they

cants not getting a space through the program’s lottery system in 2015. In comparison, almost all applicants to Ohlone’s Mandarinimmersion program and Escondido’s Spanish-immersion program were accepted. Collins noted that of those 52 “lottery losers,” some were families who valued going to a local school close to their homes more than the choice program itself. “They’re people at Palo Verde and El Carmelo and Fairmeadow who are very scared about getting overflowed to Walter Hays or Barron Park or Nixon,” Collins said. “Whatever they think about the Ohlone program, they know it’s nearby.” Only offering the Ohlone-philosophy program at one campus also has “spillover effects that are unintended,” he added. The committee has felt some urgency because of impending enrollment growth anticipated from University Terrace, the new 180-unit Stanford development currently under construction. The district will have an estimated 110 children to place from those families — although that is a lower and more manageable number than the committee initially thought. This is not the district’s first attempt to address its enrollment. Several committees have been convened before (this is the third in the last two years), but they had a singular focus on the opening of a 13th elementary school and there was a lack of follow-up on their final reports or recommendations. Superintendent Max McGee has said he hopes this group will take a more creative tack on the issue. He has also repeatedly stressed the importance of addressing Palo Alto’s three grow-

ing middle schools, the enrollment for two of which this year topped 1,100 students each. Palo Alto’s two high schools are slightly larger this year than last, with 1,915 enrolled at Gunn High and 2,038 at Palo Alto High as of July 5. Last year, 1,874 students were enrolled at Gunn and 1,933 at Paly, according to 14th-day enrollment numbers compiled by the district. The enrollment committee’s meetings, which began in April, have ranged from discussions about how to take advantage of the district’s new five-year lease of the Cubberley Community Center to conversations with Stanford University’s Institute of Design, or d. school, on creating an innovative, alternative high school. The committee’s recommendations, due either in interim or final form to the board in October, made it onto the school board’s draft list of five focused goals for the 2015-16 school year. “Based on the recommendations from the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (EMAC), design, develop and begin implementing a strategic enrollmentmanagement plan, which includes expanding or enhancing choice programming, reorganizing schools and spaces within them aligned with community values (in BP 7110), and developing Cubberley and/or other district owned facilities in an innovative manner aligned with the district’s vision and strategic plan goals,” the draft goal reads. Over the next few weeks, the committee will be fine-tuning a survey for parents and organizing focus groups. Their next meeting is Monday, Aug. 31, at 7 p.m. at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A. Q

were officially adopted in 2010 with implementation beginning in 2013. And many teachers and administrators say that the standards’ bent toward critical thinking, project-based learning and real-world applications have long been in place in many Palo Alto classrooms. Yet as new materials are released and the district waits on the results of a brand new standardized test that students took this spring, the district will rely on this new team of district TOSAs to guide both middle and high school teachers forward in a more cohesive manner than in the past. “We’ve been throwing around Common Core for what, three to four years?” Antink said. “You would think — ‘Isn’t it here?’ It’s just getting here.” “We should be able to help take best practices from one school to

another to another to another,” she added. “We’ll start to get rid of some of the seams between the different levels in our district. We’re supposed to be K-12, so we’re hoping to make that a little smoother.” The three teachers said a major shift in all core subject areas will be the slimming down some classes’ coverage to allow for more indepth instruction. The Next Generation Science Standards push for science classes that don’t teach just science, but also math, engineering and more reading and writing. “The philosophy is that students will be thinking like scientists, doing inquiry, making experiments and thinking like engineers, solving problems, working with parameters, evaluating their work, collaborating with others,” Juarez said of the new science standards. Q

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News Digest Planning commission slams Palo Alto’s proposed office cap

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If Palo Alto adopts an annual limit on new office development in its main commercial corridors, it will have to do so despite intense opposition from the city’s land-use commission. In an unusual split with the City Council, which unanimously endorsed the general parameters of the office cap in March, the Planning and Transportation Commission just as unanimously panned the proposal Wednesday night. Over the course of the discussion, the four commissioners present at the meeting characterized the annual cap as a blunt tool that would be unfair to developers, distracting to the council and ineffective in reining in the city’s pace of growth. The commission was charged with reviewing the details of the proposed annual limit of 50,000 square feet for new office and researchand-development projects in the areas around downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real. While the council unanimously agreed on the overall idea in March, council members struggled in June with several key elements, including whether the limit should apply to portions of the city where the city expects to develop “coordinated-area plans” for land use. The commission’s deliberation Wednesday was in some ways the polar opposite of the council’s. The council, despite having a range of views, reached a compromise and took numerous unanimous votes. The commission, by contrast, quickly reached a consensus against the limit but concluded the meeting with a series of 2-2 votes and a lack of a resolution. The commissioners split over whether it would be best to vote against an ordinance or to endorse it and try to make it more adequate. In the end, Vice Chair Adrian Fine and Commissioner Mark Michael favored the former, while Commissioners Michael Alcheck and Kate Downing endorsed the latter. The commission will discuss the ordinance again later this month, when more members are present. Q — Gennady Sheyner

iPhones stolen in heist at downtown Palo Alto Apple store Four men walked into the downtown Palo Alto Apple store on Tuesday afternoon and snatched 22 iPhones valued at $16,000, a Palo Alto Police Department spokesman said. The men entered the store at 340 University Ave. at about 4 p.m. and yanked the iPhone 6 mobile devices from their displays, ripping out the security cables tethering the merchandise. The men fled the store and were last seen running east on University Avenue. Police swiftly arrived to the scene but were unable to locate the men, who were described as black males in their early to mid-20s, wearing white T-shirts, dark-colored sweat pants and dark baseball caps. One man wore a red hat. All were about 6 feet tall with thin builds. Two of the men had longer hair and two had short hair, said police officer Marco Estrada. Police are continuing to investigate the case. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Palo Alto Police Department dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be sent by email to paloalto@tipnow.org or by text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Q — Sue Dremann

Stanford University to begin search for new president Next month a 19-member committee will begin to search for Stanford University President John Hennessy’s successor. He announced in June that he would be stepping down after more than 15 years of leading the university. The committee is made up of members from throughout the Stanford community, including trustees, faculty, staff, students and alumni, according to a university press release. The committee will seek feedback on both presidential qualifications and possible candidates from the entire campus community. The university will also launch a website next month to allow members of the university community to provide direct input. “Town hall” style meetings, planned for the fall, will allow the campus community members to connect with the committee members. The search process is expected to be finished by spring 2016. Hennessy said he intends to leave his post at the end of the 2015-2016 academic year and plans to return to teaching and research. 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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Upfront INFRASTRUCTURE

Palo Alto looks to firm up rules for shaky buildings City prepares for new assessment of seismically vulnerable structures by Gennady Sheyner

hen the Big One hits and the earth starts to rumble, you probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to find yourself in the fitting room of Nordstromâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Stanford Shopping Center. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be watching a movie at Palo Alto Square, dining at MacArthur Park or hanging out at the Palantir cafeteria at 542 High St. These five structures are among 89 that the city deemed in 1986 to be seismically vulnerable. They are also among 23 whose owners to this day have done nothing to change that fact, according to a recent city assessment. The list of buildings that have not been upgraded also includes President Apartments at 480 University Ave., the Cardinal Hotel at 231 Hamilton Ave. and the Palo Alto Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club at 475 Homer St. The number of buildings in Palo Alto deemed vulnerable is generally assumed to be much higher than the 23 identified in the recent status report, though an exact number has been hard to peg. Ken Dueker, director of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Emergency Services, told the City Council last year that the city has 23 unreinforced masonry buildings, which by definition are not braced by reinforcing beams. There are also about 124 â&#x20AC;&#x153;soft storyâ&#x20AC;? structures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; multistory buildings such as garages or large retail stores in which one or more floors are dominated by large open spaces with no shear walls. Both designs are considered

unreinforced wall removed. The new survey will be broader in scope and will include buildings with tilt-up construction, non-ductile concrete and steelmoment-resisting frame â&#x20AC;&#x201D; typologies that were not reviewed in 1986 but that are now recognized as vulnerable. It will focus on multifamily, commercial and industrial buildings of the city. And once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in place, it will set the stage for what many expect to be a difficult community conversation as the council considers ways to ensure compliance. The topic of earthquake safety returned to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spotlight last year, when staff completed what is known as a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) report, which summarizes some of the top threats facing Palo Alto. Perhaps not surprisingly, given Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proximity to both the San Andreas and Hayward faults, earthquakes ranked at the top of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;natural disaster category.â&#x20AC;? The report notes that past landuse decisions in Palo Alto â&#x20AC;&#x153;have not always taken hazards into consideration.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moreover, older buildings and infrastructure reflect the construction and engineering standards of their era, which in most cases fall short of current standards for seismic safety,â&#x20AC;? the threat assessment states. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a result, a portion of the city, including 130 soft-story structures, would be at some risk in the event of a major earthquake.â&#x20AC;? While the greatest hazards are associated with fault rupture and

seismically shaky. In his update to the council in September, Dueker observed that soft-story buildings â&#x20AC;&#x153;tend to collapse catastrophically and it looks like there never was a garage under there to begin with.â&#x20AC;? But what should the city do about these buildings? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the question that the council is preparing to tackle in the coming months, as it moves along with its first major assessment of seismically vulnerable structures since the late 1980s. On Aug. 18, the City Council is expected to approve a $129,432 contract with the firm Rutherford + Chekene to come up with a new inventory of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potentially hazardous structures. The council will then consider ways to get the building owners to make the needed fixes. The new assessment is expected to differ drastically from the one conducted in 1986. At that time, the survey was limited to three categories of buildings: ones constructed of unreinforced masonry, ones built before 1935 and containing 100 or more occupants, and ones that were built before Aug. 1, 1976 and contain 300 or more occupants. Under a law the council adopted in 1986, owners of the buildings on the list had to provide the city with an engineering analysis. Retrofitting, however, was optional, and not every building owner took that option. Of the 89 buildings in the three categories, 39 have been strengthened, 21 have been demolished, four were proposed for demolition and one had its

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Plan for former Facebook HQ draws concerns A proposal to demolish Facebookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former headquarters at Stanford Research Park and construct four new office buildings at the Page Mill Road campus is facing criticism from residents who say the development exceeds Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning regulations and needs to be scaled down. (Posted Aug. 13, 9:47 a.m.)

Community Notebook: Palo Alto students film mental health documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unmasked,â&#x20AC;? a documentary to be released on Aug. 22, is the product of 13 Gunn and Palo Alto high school studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; desire to further open community conversations about mental health, with an emphasis on hope and communication. (Posted Aug. 13, 8:32 a.m.)

Loud noise to come during San Francisquito Creek Bridge replacement project Palo Alto residents and businesses could hear loud, pounding noise as construction crews use pile-driving equipment for the San Francisquito Creek Bridge replacement project, according to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). (Posted Aug. 12, 9:46 a.m.)

Community Notebook: Summit explores how counties are addressing bike safety Transportation leaders from government agencies, law enforcement, nonprofit organizations and the public will gather at the fifth annual Silicon Valley Bike Summit to discuss how Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are addressing safety for people who bike as well as how to achieve Vision Zero, an initiative to have zero deaths and major injuries on the roadways. (Posted Aug. 12, 7:35 a.m.)

Google restructures; new name: Alphabet Google announced a major shakeup this week as company founders announced the creation of a new overarching firm called Alphabet Inc. to oversee and manage the Mountain View tech companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s various ventures. (Posted Aug. 11, 2:34 p.m.)

Webb Ranch grass fire quickly extinguished Local firefighters responded quickly to a small grass fire off Alpine Road on the Webb Ranch just minutes after noon on Tuesday, Aug. 11, and extinguished the blaze by 12:30 p.m., according to the county Office of Emergency Services. (Posted Aug. 11, 2:10 p.m.)

Pacific Art League amends bylaws The Pacific Art League held a special vote on Friday, Aug. 7, at the prompting of dissenting members, that could have resulted in the ouster of more than one-third of the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors. Instead, members opted to impose two-year term limits and leave the current board intact. (Posted Aug. 10, 3:23 p.m.)

Robots deployed to protect and serve Standing at 5 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds, Knightscope K5 looks like it came straight out of the sci-fi film Stars Wars. But the crime-fighting robot is actually a new breed of security guards roaming Silicon Valley, including at Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stanford Shopping Center as part of a pilot program that ended in June. (Posted Aug. 9, 7:28 a.m.)

Lawsuit filed in punching death of Palo Alto man outside bar The parents of a 24-year-old Palo Alto man who died after allegedly being punched by a large bouncer at a San Jose bar have filed a more than $20-million lawsuit against the business, its owners and the bouncer. (Posted Aug. 7, 8:18 a.m.)

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Upfront TRANSPORTATION

New parking initiatives set to roll out in downtown With permit program set to debut, officials look for new ways to get commuters out of cars by Gennady Sheyner

alo Alto’s newest parkingpermit program is expected to bring a measure of relief to downtown residents who have seen their leafy neighborhood streets fill beyond capacity by cars belonging to weekday commuters. But for many of these commuters, the long-awaited program could usher in an era of disruption, confusion and higher costs. When the program debuts Sept. 15, these drivers will be forced to either buy permits, find other parking destinations, switch to other means of transportation or move their cars every two hours. In some ways, the disruption is the point. Amid commuters’ uncertainty, Palo Alto officials hope to steer drivers who currently park in the neighborhoods toward one of more than a dozen programs the city has queued up. These include valet parking at downtown garages, parkingguidance systems that inform drivers about garage occupancy levels, a new signage program to guide drivers and a new website dedicated to parking. The City Council is scheduled on Monday to discuss these and other, longer term initiatives, such as construction of a new garage on a city-owned lot at Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street and introduction of paid parking for visitors to downtown garages, which currently have time limits but no fee requirement. A new report from the Planning and Community Environment notes that the city is preparing to solicit bids for a study that will analyze parking occupancy and turnover at downtown garages and make recommendations for pricing. Currently, the report notes, “It is much cheaper for an employee to park in downtown Palo Alto than it is to take Caltrain, and pricing is a significant motivator for many when making a travel-mode choice.” The consideration is key as the city pursues its ambitious goal of reducing the number of people driving solo by 33 percent. “Making parking more expensive or limiting parking availability in one area increases the incentive for parkers to shift to other transportation modes or to find other places to park,” the report states. Among the most ambitious efforts are those aimed at encouraging drivers to ditch their cars altogether. The city’s newly formed Transportation Management Association, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the num-

ber of cars on the road, has been holding meetings this year with downtown stakeholders to discuss rideshare services, carpooling options and other ways to get people to switch modes. In recent meetings, the group’s steering committee has been considering pilot projects that can be launched in the next six months to a year. These include ridesharing options for downtown employees and individual trip-planning services in which consultants help employees figure out which transit options would best serve them. Other experiments include giving free Caltrain passes and commuter pre-tax benefits to City Hall employees who choose to eschew their cars. So far, 117 city employees are signed up for the Caltrain program, while around 50 take advantage of the commuter benefits, according to the report. Because free City Hall parking for employees is seen as a major barrier to employee participation, the city is now considering a new “feebate” program. This would give employees a “small financial incentive each day” to not drive solo. The report underscores the sheer size and complexity of the city’s effort to tackle a topic that has consumed more time and energy from the council than any other. So far, the city has commissioned more than a dozen different consultants and vendors for assistance, with the permit program alone requiring four different firms. Other consultants are building the new parking website, creating a wayfinding program and evaluating a long-term vision for the local shuttle services. But while dozens of seeds have been planted, not all are bearing fruit. A proposal to create a satellite shuttle for downtown workers at Embarcadero Road, for example, was placed on the back burner after an analysis showed that the new 125-space lot would create a significant traffic problems at Embarcadero and East Bayshore Road, according to the report. Planning staff is recommending not proceeding with the satellite-parking program at this time, though there remains an interest in long-term improvements, including redesigned roadways, landscaping and a pedestrian pathway. The city’s plan to team up with high-tech firms to add a new route to the the city’s small shuttle program has also sputtered. A proposed West Shuttle route between south Palo Alto and Stan-

ford Shopping Center now seems unlikely to materialize any time soon because the city has not received the private support it was banking on for the new service, according to the report. Instead, staff is now proposing to launch a five-year shuttle plan that would use newly collected commuter data to come up with “new and possibly dynamic routes,” according to the report. The city is also working with an app developer to create a mobile app that would track the city’s existing shuttles, a program that is expected to be available in the fall. The council will have a chance to discuss all these programs on Aug. 17, as well as hear an update on the new Residential Preferential Parking program. Online permit sales for the new program are set to launch on Saturday, Aug. 15. And on Sept. 10, covers will be removed from the roughly 100 signs that have recently been planted in the downtown neighborhoods, establishing a twohour parking limit for cars without permits. Five days later, the first six-month phase of the new program will officially launch, marking a new era in downtown parking, for better or worse. “I do think we will see an improvement,” Transportation Planning Manager Jessica Sullivan said during an Aug. 4 meeting. “It may not be like we want it, but we will find out.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

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1050 Page Mill: The commission discussed the draft Environmental Impact Report for a proposal to demolish two buildings and build four two-story buildings at 1050 Page Mill Road. Action: None Office cap: The commission discussed the proposed ordinance instituting an office cap for downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real. The commission reached a deadlock on the subject, with two voting for the cap and two opposing, and will continue the discussion later this month. Yes: Alcheck, Downing No: Fine, Michael Absent: Gardias, Rosenblum, Tanaka

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear an update on the city’s parking strategy for downtown; consider raising water rates by 4 percent; amend the rules regarding use of the commercial housing fund for preservation of existing affordable-housing units; discuss a response to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s call for projects and the VTA’s proposed 2016 transportation measure; and consider making changes to the composition of the Citizens Advisory Committee for the update of the Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the guidelines for the proposed 2015 Electric Cost of Service Analysis; consider the financial report for the third quarter of 2015; and consider a recommendation to adopt a city debt policy. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission will hold a retreat where it will hear a presentation on hate crimes in Palo Alto, discuss its accomplishments and priorities, consider the roles of subcommittees, and discuss potential topics for the Speaker Series. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in the Matadero Room at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee will review recent City Council and Board of Education meetings and hear updates on the city’s and the school district’s budgets and technology plans. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, in Conference Room A at the Palo Alto Unified School District headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a final review for the Public Art in Private Development proposal by Simon Properties for Stanford Shopping Center at 180 El Camino Real. The commission will also discuss its upcoming retreat and the ongoing update of the Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will convene for a retreat to discuss its new annual focused goals, roadblocks, future agendas and more for the upcoming school year. Open session will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 21, at the Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper St., Palo Alto. The board will go into closed session from 3 to 5 p.m. for an evaluation of the superintendent.

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Upfront CITY PLANNING

Residents challenge membership of new citizen panel Council to take fresh look at committee charged with advising on major planning update by Gennady Sheyner

citizens committee that is helping to revise Palo Alto’s land-use vision already has 20 members, including former planning commissioners, avowed “residentialists,” housing advocates and neighborhood representatives. One thing the panel doesn’t have is geographical balance, a fact that has exposed it to criticism and that may lead to new members being appointed later this month. Appointed in July, the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) is charged with providing input on the city’s Comprehensive Plan, which guides the City Council’s decision-making. The city aims to complete its update of the plan by the end of 2016. The council approved the creation of the committee in May, and the city subsequently received 59 applications. City Manager James Keene then appointed the group, which includes 17 voting members and three nonvoting members. Twelve of the 17 voting members live north of Oregon Expressway. The roster also includes three members from the steering committee of Palo Alto Forward, which advocates for more transportation and housing options. Both of these factors have irked members of Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ), a

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group that favors slow-growth policies, and neighborhood leaders from the umbrella group Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN). Last week, a group of citizens that includes PASZ President Cheryl Lilienstein and group members Tim Gray, and Joseph Hirsch submitted a letter challenging the composition of the new citizens committee. The letter also included as its signatories long-time PAN leaders Sheri Furman and Annette Glanckopf and residents Robin Bayer, Norm Beamer, Neilson Buchanan, Jeff Levinsky, Elaine Meyer, Doug Moran, Mark Nadim, Becky Sanders, David Schrom and Peter Taskovich. The group protested the inclusion on the panel of Dan Garber, a former planning commissioner who last month was elected by the committee to serve as its chair. The letter argues that Garber has a conflict of interest because he had worked for the city on 27 University Ave., a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful development proposed by developer John Arrillaga. “Having those who work for the city then participate in citizen panels intended to be independent is the much maligned ‘revolving door,’ which is illegal in many places,’” the letter states. Garber addressed his involvement in 27 University Ave. in

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the beginning of the committee’s first meeting, on July 14. He called prior allegations by residents that he had worked for Arrillaga a “remarkable untruth” and emphasized that all his work came at the city’s request. The project, which included four office towers and a theater, was ultimately scrapped after an upswell of public criticism about the secretive nature of the city’s negotiations with Arrillaga. The letter signers also protested the inclusion of Steve Levy, an economist who consults for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), is a founding member of Palo Alto Forward and blogs on Palo Alto Online. The letter cites his involvement with ABAG and claims that his blogging on planning issues poses “a direct conflict of interest and also is likely to violate the Brown Act.” Levy, who was out of the country this week and did not attend the Tuesday meeting, told the Weekly in a phone interview that he had conversations with the Office of the City Attorney and was advised not to blog on issues that the committee had either discussed or is planning to discuss. He said he has agreed to this condition and modified his blog accordingly. Levy said his work with ABAG did not come up as an issue during the application process. It also didn’t preclude him from recently serving on the Infrastructure Committee, which analyzed the city’s infrastructure needs and came up with a funding plan to meet those needs. He said he was motivated to apply for both that committee and the new advisory group because he wanted to contribute to the community and his professional experience in regional forecasting would be useful. “It was a way to pay back, so I went ahead and applied to the Citizens Advisory Committee,” Levy said. “There was nothing in the application that said if you work for a public agency, don’t apply.” The letter from residents also raises broader points about balance on the new committee. It concludes by calling for a “balance of people from north and south Palo Alto” on the committee, as well as “more representation from community groups other than Palo Alto Forward.” “City Council should have final approval of appointments. We can provide the names of (continued on next page)

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Upfront RECREATION

The romance of ballroom dance Atherton couple rekindles marriage, wins national ballroom titles

hen Winston and Lilly Chow met in college, they had a common interest in ballroom dancing, each having taken one class for their physical-education requirement. But they couldn’t predict that more than 40 years later they would be ballroom-dance champions. Jobs, home and raising a family took all of their time in the intervening years. But then the Chows became empty nesters, and ballroom dancing brought the spark back into their lives again. It wasn’t the kind of dancing they remembered from their col-

lege days; the Chows had learned to make all of their steps within a square. At Cubberley Community Center, where they went with friends for social dancing, they were floored by what they saw. “Folks were dancing all around the ballroom,” Winston said, marveling at the dancers’ fluidity and grace. More than 14 years later, the Chows have more than learned to step outside that box. They became U.S. National Amateur Senior Ballroom Champions in a USA Dance National Championship competition on June 27 — the same title they won in

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Winston and Lilly Chow dance the tango at the 2015 Gumbo Dancesport Championships competition in Baton Rouge on June 27.

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several qualified persons,” the letter states. The council will have a chance to weigh in during the Aug. 17 meeting, its first since a sixweek vacation. A report from Keene noted that while members were not selected to represent specific neighborhood groups, an effort was made to achieve geographic diversity. There is also the expectation, he wrote, “that members will not simply advocate their own particular perspectives, but work together and serve as trustees for the good of all Palo Alto.” “Nonetheless, the planning process will be most effective if the CAC is seen as balanced as possible in its representation of all geographic areas and inter-

ests,” Keene wrote. If the council decides on Aug. 17 that the balance of the group needs to be adjusted, it should make three to five additional appointments to the group and set “targeted, explicit criteria” for new members, Keene recommends in the report. On Tuesday evening, in its second meeting since formation, the committee showed no signs of neighborhood discord or ideological schisms. In a two-hour discussion of the Community Services and Facilities chapter, committee members generally found themselves on the same page as they offered their thoughts on five goals and dozens of programs and policies. Over the course of the discussion, members made arguments for more senior services,

2014 — and have competed internationally. They also claimed consecutive titles from 2007 to 2009. “We’ve fallen in love with the music, the dance and with each other all over again,” said Winston, 69, a retired researcher at Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto. Lilly, 65, is a Realtor with KellerWilliams in Menlo Park. When she and Winston took dance lessons at a school in Redwood City, they just wanted to learn how to move around the ballroom the way the other dancers did. But their teacher kept asking them if they wanted to compete. Each time, they declined. Then one day after he had retired, Winston simply blurted out, “Why not?” Lilly was surprised by the sudden, unilateral decision, but she went along with it. “He’s addicted,” she said. But now she’s hooked, too. “Our children think we’re obsessive with this,” she said. Winston glowed as he described the feeling he gets when Lilly is in his arms. “We’re together again; it feels like courting,” he said. And dancing has taken them around the world: to Mallorca, Spain; Antwerp and Liege, Belgium; and Tilburg, Netherlands, where they placed 27th out of 127 top couples in the World Senior IV Ballroom Championships in 2014. Dancing has brought many blessings, they said. Winston lost about 15 to 20 pounds after he began competing. And concentrating on the complicated steps, listening to the music, coordinating with a partner and negotiating the space among other dancers has been mentally stimulating, they said. The ability to move in sync, to apply equal energy as a couple, to appear effortless, and to move through space as if being one doesn’t come easily, however. Moving at such a fast increased attention to day care programs, and arrangements with schools and private companies for shared use of recreational facilities. The five goals for community services in the current Comprehensive Plan are effective and efficient collaboration of community services; a commitment to excellence and high-quality customer service among City of Palo Alto officials and employees; improved quality, quantity and affordability of social services, particularly for children, seniors and people with disabilities; attractive, well-maintained community facilities that serve Palo Alto residents; and equal access to educational, recreational and cultural services for all residents. Committee member Ellen Uh-

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Winston and Lilly Chow perform an English waltz during the 2015 Gumbo Dancesport Championships competition in Baton Rouge on June 27. pace, sometimes feet become entangled and the competitors fall. There have been bruises and concussions. “It’s a contact sport with the floor,” Winston said. But the joy of being on the dance floor, of feeling the music and hearing the audience’s cheers and clapping keeps the Chows inspired. “We really try to dance for the audience,” Lilly said. The couple is also inspiring younger generations. Two of their grandchildren, twin girls, are now participating in group ballroom dance lessons. “Our kids are very supportive. They know it brings us joy,” Lilly said. “We spent half of our lifetime supporting them,” Winston added. “It’s our time for some fun — and before they need to take care of us.” But even when that happens, the Chows won’t stop dancing. There are competition categories for wheelchair dancers, they said.

“While your lower body might not be active, the upper body is,” Winston said. Lilly said she saw wheelchair dancers perform once. The partner who stood was swinging the wheelchair in effortless moves. “The handicapped person exudes so much joy. I was amazed when I first saw it happen. It’s just beautiful; it brought tears to my eyes to see it,” she said. Winston agreed and said, “When we get to that stage, when we’re in wheelchairs, we’re going to promote that.” Q

brock pointed to the element on social services and said that “seniors and people with disabilities are given the short shrift.” Committee member Bonnie Packer said the element should consider services for parents and for caregivers of local seniors. Glanckopf, who spoke during the public comment period of the meeting, called the goals “off balance.” She noted that the current element has only two policies and four programs focused on seniors, while 12 programs and 21 policies are focused on children. “We all know a key priority to the community is youth, but the element doesn’t fully recognize the growing population of seniors, baby boomers or the community in general,” Glanckopf said. Garber, who narrowly beat out

former planning commissioner Arthur Keller for the chair’s seat last month, set the tone in the beginning of the meeting by proposing to make Keller (who is now vice chair) the committee’s co-chair. The move was proposed by Neilson Buchanan, Garber said. The idea of changing the structure from chair and vice chair to two co-chairs was also proposed in the letter from PAN and PASZ members. The citizens committee will formally vote on this change at its next meeting, which is in September. Garber also said that the committee’s meetings will be a “safe place to talk.” “There’s going to be lots of different opinions here, lots of different thoughts raised,” Garber said. Q

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) 8:30 A.M., Thursday, August 27, 2015, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http:// www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144. 1700 Embarcadero [15PLN-00221]: Request by Deeg Snyder on behalf of Gensler for Preliminary Architectural Review of demolition of the existing on-site building and construction of an approximate 62,527 square foot automobile dealership and ancillary vehicle wash. The project includes surface parking and vehicle display and other site improvements. Zoning District: Service Commercial CS and Site and Design Review Combining District (D). 4200 El Camino Real [14PLN-00492]: Request by America's Tire Co., on behalf of Wells Fargo N.A. Trustee, for Architectural Review of the renovation of existing facades, site improvements and signage for an automotive service use. A Conditional Use Permit has also been requested for the use. Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the provision of CEQA per Section 15301 (Existing Facilities). Zoning District: CS (Service Commercial). This item was continued from the June 18, 2015 ARB hearing to this date. Amy French Chief Planning Official The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.org. Page 16 • August 14, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

town. Council members generally agreed the quiet zone would be an interim step while the city pursues its dream of grade separation. Councilman Tom DuBois, however, argued that pursuit of the quiet zone would distract from the greater goal. The city should “urgently support grade separation,” he said. “I think we should be laser focused as a council on the transportation ballot measure in 2016 and see if we can get money from that for grade separation,” DuBois said. Others agreed that submerging tracks or roads is a top priority. Councilman Cory Wolbach said at the meeting that he would support an economically feasible way to do so. Vice Mayor Greg Schmid, speaking for the majority, said that the “priority of the city in the long run should be trenching or grade separation, and this should be the focus and attention of staff.” A new staff report, which proposes a set of principles for Palo Alto to take in guiding its positions for future transportation projects, shows city staff following the council’s lead. The first two points on the report’s list deal with Caltrain: The first stresses the need to ensure Caltrain has sufficient capacity to meet de-

mand and match the capacity of BART; the second focuses on grade separation. “To improve safety and operations and capacity (traffic and transit), a program to fully grade separate Caltrain in Santa Clara County should be included,” the proposed principle states. “If specific locations cannot be included, significant funding should be set aside for future project selection.” So far, the VTA has included “increased capacity for Caltrain” as one of the many projects it is considering for the tax measure, with others including a longawaited expansion of BART to San Jose, expressway improvements and various bike projects throughout the county. Given the recent history of transportation measures, it’s far from clear how much funding Caltrain improvements will actually get. Palo Alto officials have tried to make the case that, with Caltrain ridership on the rise and the regional economy ticking along, improvements are crucial. Yet with both the 2000 and 2008 transportation measures, most of the funds raised went to the BART expansion. According to county Supervisor Joe Simitian, whose District 5 includes Palo Alto and the north county, the lion’s share of the tax funds from the two prior measures were spent on bringing BART to San Jose. This fact has brought little

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comfort to Palo Alto, where council members have long expressed concern about not receiving equitable transportation funding from the county. Former Councilman Larry Klein echoed this sentiment last May when the council first discussed the 2016 transportation measure. The perception in Palo Alto, Klein said, is that “we haven’t gotten our share of the money.” In some cases, funds have been transferred from projects that locals expected to see supported in the north part of the county. “The perception is that BART is great, but so are a lot of other things that don’t come to Palo Alto,” Klein said. Councilman Pat Burt, a longtime proponent of Caltrain grade separation, noted at that meeting that for Silicon Valley, “Caltrain is more important than BART, and its capital needs are less.” Simitian’s recent analysis of how the funds from prior measures have been spent substantiate the council’s concerns. His figures show 79.6 percent of the revenues from the 2000 and 2008 transportation measures going to fund the BART expansion project. This includes the entirety of the $320.8 million sum collected between July 1, 2012, and March 31, 2015, from the 2008 Measure B. It also includes $3.3 billion of the $4.3 billion collected from the 2000 measure. Palo Alto and the northern part of the county didn’t fare much better in prior measures. Only 11.3 percent of the funds from the 1996 transportation measure (a half-cent sales tax increase) went to District 5 — the smallest share among the five districts. From the $4.2 billion raised through 2000 tax measure, only $226 million — or 5.3 percent — went to District 5. The largest share of the funds from the 1996 measure went to District 3, which includes a portion of Mipitas, San Jose and Sunnyvale and received 35.2 percent of the funds. District 4, which includes another portion of San Jose as well as Campbell and Santa Clara, received 21.5 percent. These two districts also made the biggest contributions to the tax base, comprising 21.8 percent and 28.46 percent of annual collections, respectively. However, Simitian’s district has consistently contributed 16.35 percent of the tax revenues and more than two-thirds of voter support for the new taxes. Funds from the 2000 measure also ended up going mostly to the southern part of the county. According to Simitian’s analysis, 84.7 percent of these funds were spent in District 2 (which is in San Jose) and District 3. “We all must keep an open mind but also certainly keep in mind the need for real congestion relief in the north county and West Valley,” Simitian wrote in a letter accompanying the new analysis. n Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Aug. 5-11

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Credit card fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Petty theft attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Bicycle found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Biking without light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 11 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage . . 11 Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Concealed weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disposal request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. muni. code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric subject. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Menlo Park Aug. 5-11

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous APS Referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS Referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Noise ordinance violation. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of lost property . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Returned missing person. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

200 University Ave., 8/8, 2:37 a.m.; battery/simple. Channing Avenue and Edgewood Drive, 8/9, 1:45 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. Ramona Street, 8/9, 7:58 a.m.; battery/ simple.

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Thomas William Howarth December 29, 1924 - July 8, 2015 passed away on July 8th, 2015 in Carmel, California. Born December 29, 1924 in Portland, Maine, he was 90 years old. Tom received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1947 and received his MBA at Stanford University in 1949. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in the US Army in both World War II and the Korean War. After the Korean War, Tom and his wife, Marilyn (Mimi), settled in Atherton and raised four boys. He was a local businessman, active in the residential and commercial real estate market on the SF peninsula. Throughout his whole life, Tom was an avid sportsman, outdoorsman and athlete. He played basketball and tennis in college. An excellent tennis player, fly fisherman, golfer and hunter, he was a long time member of Foothills Tennis and Swim Club, Menlo Country Club and the Gustine Gun Club. Ono, as he became affectionately known to his grandchildren, was greatly admired and cherished by family and friends. He will be remembered for his sense of humor, infectious smile, unfathomable energy, zest for life and authentic humility. Ono is survived by his loving wife of 65 years, Marilyn (Mimi) and their children Dave (Ann) Carmel, CA, Jeff (Brenda) Carmel, CA, Matt (Joan) Sonoma, CA and Tim (Sandi) Redwood City, CA. He will be missed by his five grandchildren, Megan (Matt Cooper), Sean (Katie), Ryan, Tyler, Dylan and his great grandson, Logan. There will be a private family celebration of his life. PAID

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Ellen Adel Morrison, 84, passed away peacefully on August 5. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 63 years, Keith Morrison, who passed away only six weeks before her. The oldest of six children, Ellen was born in Gary, Indiana on November 18, 1930. Her parents, Mary and Otto Reising, were schoolteachers during the depression. Her father, using the pen name of Paul Strahl, also wrote for Esquire magazine and wrote a novel, “The Quarrel,” which was widely reviewed and praised. Ellen’s parents instilled in her a lifelong love of all things literary. Ellen left Gary to attend Purdue University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in home economics in 1952. Two weeks after graduation, she married her beloved Keith, whom she had met at Purdue. Ellen then worked in Chicago as an editor for the famed Culinary Arts Institute where she combined her talent as a superb cook with her love of books, testing recipes and editing cookbooks. In 1954, Ellen and Keith started a family and moved to San Francisco. Over the next 14 years, as Keith advanced in his career, the family moved from California to Michigan to Ohio and then to Texas. Each of their four children was born in a different state. While dedicated to raising their children, Ellen remained involved in other pursuits. Among other things, she taught impoverished families how to eat nutritiously on a budget; she worked as a substitute teacher; and she wrote a food column for an Ohio newspaper, this time testing recipes on her family. The family returned to California in 1968 and moved to Los Altos in 1974, where they resided ever since. From 1977 until she retired in 2001, Ellen was a teacher at the First Congregational Church Nursery School in Palo Alto. She was affectionately known as “Teacher Ellen” and touched the lives of many four-year olds. For many of the children, she was their anchor. The children gravitated towards her, and their parents confided in her. Ellen was particularly admired for her acuity in choosing and presenting appropriate books for the children. Ellen traveled widely with her husband Keith, most recently to Berlin in the fall of 2014.

Among her more memorable travel experiences were a summer spent in Paris with a close friend, several trips to Ireland, and journeys to Nicaragua, Machu Picchu, and Istanbul. She and Keith also attended the annual Sun Valley Writers’ Conference for several years. Ellen was a lifelong liberal Democrat — a badge she wore with honor. She was immensely proud of her Irish roots. She was an unparalleled cook. She was a nurturer and confidante for many, especially her children and grandchildren. She was there when anyone needed her, always willing to patiently listen and ready with kind words and support. She was a woman of keen intellect, a true bibliophile and avid reader, who was actively involved in her book group for more than 30 years. Ellen was an inspiring force; she instilled in her children and grandchildren a profound sense of family and loyalty and the same love of literature passed on to her by her own parents. She is and will be deeply missed. Ellen was devoted to her husband Keith, her children, and her grandchildren. She is survived by her four children, Beth Haller of Bella Vista, Arkansas, Mary Morrison of Santa Monica, Fran Morrison of Scotts Valley, and Keith Morrison of Washington, D.C., her son-in-law Gordon Haller, her daughter-in-law, Jeanette Pablo, and her eight grandchildren — Kristen Humphrey, Jessica Kemling, Ryan Haller, Ana Lantigua, Alona Morrison, Valerie Morrison, Catherine Morrison, and Christopher Morrison. Her siblings, Tom Reising of Illinois, Greg Reising of Indiana, Fran Bartell of Washington, and Madge Reising of Alabama, also survive her. Her brother, Paul, preceded her in death in 2010. A memorial service in Ellen’s honor will be held at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Los Altos on Thursday, August 13 at 2:00 p.m. to be followed by a celebration of her life at Ellen and Keith’s home in Los Altos. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Ellen’s honor to the First Congregational Church Nursery School, 1985 Louis Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, firstcongonurseryschool.org. The family wishes to thank the doctors, nurses, and all the caregivers at Stanford Hospital ICU for their care, compassion and support. PAID

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Edna Bonsal February 19, 1943 – July 31, 2015 Edna O’Brien Bonsal, a resident of Palo Alto for many years, died peacefully in the morning on July 31, 2015. Edna was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, on Feb. 19, 1943, to Dennis and Edna O’Brien. She attended The Dwight School for Girls in Englewood, New Jersey, and DePauw University. Prior to moving to Palo Alto, Edna lived in New York City; Short Hills, New Jersey; and Cork, Ireland. Edna is survived by her sister, Denise Garbarino, and four children, Michael Pisani, David Pisani, Laura Pisani and Alice Pisani Hurdle. She is also survived by her daughtersin-law, Nicole Pisani (Michael) and Jennifer Pisani (David), and son-in-law, Joseph Junkin (Laura); and her seven grandchildren, Madelaine Pisani, Katherine Pisani, Charlotte Hurdle, Dylan Pisani, Graham Pisani, Ryan Junkin-Pisani and Sabrina Junkin-Pisani. For those who wish to make a memorial contribution, the family suggests The American Museum of Natural History, where Edna formerly served as docent. PAID

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Scott Carey, former Palo Alto mayor, dies at 82

cott T. Carey, a former Palo Alto mayor and well-known figure in Silicon Valley real estate, died on Aug. 11 at his home in Portola Valley surrounded by his family, following a brief illness. He was 82. He was born on March 11, 1933, to Paul T. and Stanleigh Carey, who were an artist and pianist, respectively. He grew up in Berkeley, graduated from Berkeley High School and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He later studied at the law school there at Boalt Hall, receiving his law degree in 1961. From 1955 to 1957, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force

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Rosemary Peterson Lodato Nichols Rosemary Peterson Lodato Nichols departed this world for a place she was greatly anticipating as she had no doubt her best friends and family were waiting for her there. Given her unique generosity of spirit and unwavering predisposition to human kindness, she is likely already busy cooking Swedish meatballs or dollar size buttermilk pancakes for all. Born August 1929, she came from hearty Danish and Scottish stock, thus, in addition to her beautiful blonde locks and bright blue eyes, she was gifted the art of being a trooper all her life. A Bay Area native, Rosemary grew up in Hillsborough and San Francisco before settling in Menlo Park. She truly loved the local iconic golden hillsides with their towering oak trees. She attended San Mateo High School and went on to Stanford University, where she lived in Branner Hall, decked out in bobbysox and saddle shoes with her lifelong best friends. It was there she met and married Frank Lodato, with whom she had four children. Given three of them were rambunctious boys who could put anyone’s patience to the test, her trooper quality paid off. She smiled through the pet rats, the hidden motorcycle incident, the botched attempts at playing drums, french horn and piano, and her daughter’s inappropriately short mini-skirts She did request that the house be kept relatively neat. She packed hundreds of lunches, wrapped even more presents until 3 a.m. each Christmas Eve and consistently hosted family dinners for 40+ on holidays. Rosemary was a consummate hostess and homemaker. Hers was the home that welcomed all. She planned activities for the kids, feasts for the adults and was adept at juxtaposing her roles as mother, partner, and friend. She went to Draeger’s nearly every day, which always made it fun to open the fridge. If her family was happy, she was happy. After she and her husband parted ways, she courageously went back to school to become a paralegal. Shortly thereafter, she met her beloved Bill Nichols, who gave her the jitters when he came to take her on dates. They met through Stanford

Singles, and to her dying day she encouraged her single offspring to follow suit, to give it a try. Rosemary and Bill shared 27 wonderful years as a married couple, more if you count the years they tested the waters by living together, which she felt wasn’t proper but went for anyway. They enjoyed their extended family most of all, hosting “Camp Nichols” for grandkids, traveling together to places near and far, attending Stanford games, and enjoying their book club, bridge club and lecture series. In Bill, Ro found a true friend, deep love and committed partner. Throughout her life, Rosemary volunteered at Allied Arts and was a devoted member of the local garden club, several bridge clubs, and her Presbyterian Church Women’s Bible Study, all of which gave her joy and fueled her spirit. She was a Brownie and briefly a Girl Scout, but confided she created her own irreverent words to the pledge and songs because it was never for her. She found her joy in savoring and appreciating all of the little things and moments in life. She went the extra mile to be there, to listen because she genuinely cared, to counsel wisely and to make someone happy. She favored Shakespeare’s words “To Thine Own Self Be True.” She managed to be simultaneously elegant and down to earth, always gracious, occasionally impish. Mostly, Rosemary was kind and loving; you felt it, you saw it in her twinkling eyes and easy smile. Her family meant everything to her. She devoted herself to them. She is survived by her husband Bill, her children Tom and Kim Lodato, Jane Lodato, Doug Lodato, Mark and Valery Lodato; her step-children Debbie and John Hudson, John and Amy Nichols, Andy and Nancy Nichols; her grandchildren: Courtney and Adam Alberti; Kim and Zach Nye; Jordan, Sofia, Tyler and Sydney Lodato; Alexander Hudson; Micah Howard; Meg and Ellie Nichols, and her 7 great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers Rosemary requested donations be made to the TESS Foundation, a 501c3 organization. www.tessfoundation.org TESS was founded by her Grandchildren. PAID

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and attained the rank of captain. After graduating from law school, he began practicing in San Francisco and continued in Palo Alto from 1962 to 1968. In 1976, he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1968, he joined the residential real estate brokerage of Cornish & Carey, which had a small commercial practice in Palo Alto. During his many years at the company — for which he served as president, CEO and later chairman — it grew into one of the area’s most prominent commercial real estate brokerages, now under the name Newmark Cornish & Carey. From 1975 to 1979, Carey served on the Palo Alto City Council, including a term as mayor. Considered an “establishment” member of the council, he was instrumental in winning council support for the $7.5 million acquisition of 500 acres in the lower foothills — which is now the core of the Arastradero Open Space Preserve. In addition, he served as an organizer and attorney for the Economic Opportunity Council of Northern Santa Clara County, a member of the Santa Clara County Land Use Commission, a member of the board of Woodside Priory School and, more recently, as an advisory board member to the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.

According to his family, he was known as a strong public speaker, who could win over audiences with his humor. His many passions included family, law, politics, Bay Area sports and cars. He belonged to the Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club and the Vintage Club in Indian Wells, California, and he played golf avidly until he lost his sight in January. “He made the best of his life, learning and coping, keeping his wit and sense of humor,” his wife, Susan, said of his last months. He is survived by wife of 38 years, Susan Carey of Portola Valley, and his children, Michael T. Carey of San Mateo; Dennis Carey of Hanoi, Vietnam; Jeff Beaty of Concord; Cynthia (Michael Phillips) Carey of Napa Valley; Kimberly Corso of Menlo Park; Christopher Corso of Portland, Oregon; Lisa (Randy) Lamb of Atherton; and Mike E. Carey of Santa Barbara. He is also survived by six grandchildren, Tyler Woods; Cole T. Carey; Zachary, William and Alexandra Lamb; Sophia Phillips; and Benjamin Carey — as well as his brother, Peter (Joanne) Carey of Palo Alto; nephew, Brendan Carey; and niece, Nadia Carey. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date. Memorial donations can be made to the UC Berkeley School of Law; Eastside College Preparatory School; and the Scott Carey Scholarship Fund at Woodside Priory School.

Gelsomina Becks

715. For her last job, she worked as a medical assistant for the San Mateo County Health System. She lived in East Palo Alto for more than 60 years. In the community, she served as secretary for the local NAACP chapter (where she was a member for over 40 years), worked with the Peninsulans for a Rainbow Coalition and volunteered during the last 15 years at the Fair Oaks Senior Center in Redwood City. She loved animals and enjoyed thinking about humanity’s future in the universe. She was predeceased by her three brothers. She is survived by her two daughters, Elena Maria Becks of East Palo Alto and Ava Sandila Becks of Spokane, Washington; nephew, Lawrence Alonso “Keno” Smith of Redwood City; cousin, Antoinette Smith, of Santa Barbara; grandson, Jawara BecksDrake of Oakland; granddaughters, Jasmine Anita Warren and Sierra Simone Warren of Spokane, Washington; and other extended family members and many friends. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Those looking for more information can email Elena at falamaloria@yahoo.com.

Gelsomina “Gelsie” Smith Becks, a longtime East Palo Alto resident and community activist, died on July 25 after a short illness. She was 86. She was born on May 2, 1929, at Stanford Hospital to Stanley Astredo Smith and Doris Louise Ginnold. Growing up in Redwood City, she attended Lincoln and McKinley schools and graduated from Sequoia High School in 1947. She went on to attend Stanford University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology, with a minor in English. Throughout her career, she held positions as a food biologist, as a legal aid assistant and with the Mothers for Equal Education in East Palo Alto, where she labored to help children have opportunities for a better education. She was also a member of the Service Employees International Union

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Editorial Rolling over for BART If it has any hope of getting north county voter support on new taxes, VTA needs to remedy funding inequities

very time transportation sales-tax measures have appeared on Santa Clara County ballots since 1961, Palo Alto voters have joined with those in other cities to approve them, creating billions of dollars for county transit projects. These measures have been essential to developing and maintaining the network of highways, expressways and a light rail system aimed at serving a growing valley. The region would have undoubtedly suffered serious economic consequences from a gridlocked transportation system without them. But with each new effort to raise taxes, usually promoted by political and business interests centered in San Jose, the issue of regional equity becomes a bigger and bigger hot potato. Most local voters don’t realize that only a small fraction of the money generated through our sales tax payments finds its way to projects directly benefitting north county residents. In fact, of the $4.6 billion in tax revenues collected through two sales tax measures since 2000, almost 80 percent has gone to solely to extending BART from Fremont to San Jose (and ultimately to Santa Clara.) The current sales tax rate in Santa Clara County is now 8.75 percent, among the highest in California. Voter-approved measures passed in 2000 (half-cent) and 2008 (one-eighth cent) mean that 0.625 percent of all taxable purchases made in Santa Clara County go to transportation projects. While revenues from the half-cent tax passed in 2000 (and in effect until 2030) are not restricted, all of the funds generated by the 2008 tax are committed to BART operations and maintenance through its expiration in 2038. A plan to put another transportation measure on the ballot was floated last year by the business-supported Silicon Valley Leadership Group but was put on hold after getting an icy reception. The Palo Alto City Council appropriately pressed for answers on the imbalance between BART funding and support for other important transit systems and projects, especially Caltrain, and Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino was surprisingly unprepared for the push-back. But with the tech-dominated Silicon Valley economy simmering along and roads again becoming clogged, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the county Valley Transportation Authority are figuring the time is right to bring a new tax measure forward in 2016. In preparation for the inevitable questioning and skepticism from north and west county cities about the past funding inequities, VTA is asking all cities in the county to submit transportation projects and priorities so they can be reflected in an updated long range plan. This is, of course, the sensible political move, but in order to ensure voter support from throughout the county, a new tax proposal will likely attempt to spread around transportation goodies rather than remedy the current funding inequities relating to the BART extension. And it is likely to suck continued large amounts for completion of the BART extension and connections with the airport and Caltrain. On Monday, the Palo Alto City Council will consider how to influence this process to benefit north county, and the staff has prepared a laundry list of more than 50 projects it considers candidates for funding. These include everything from an expanded city shuttle system to improved bikeways, bike bridges and tunnels and upgrades to the 101/Embarcadero Road/Oregon Expressway interchange. The elephant in the room, however, with a price tag of up to a billion dollars, is to eliminate some or all of the four at-grade crossings of the Caltrain tracks in Palo Alto. Submerging the tracks under just the East Meadow and Charleston crossings would cut the costs almost in half, according to an analysis completed last year. While these are staggering numbers, Santa Clara County should have a goal of eliminating all Caltrain grade crossings in order to maximize the effectiveness of both the growing and soon-to-be electrified Caltrain service and to ease cross-town traffic congestion caused by trains blocking passage. Credit to county Supervisor Joe Simitian for asking staff to prepare the analysis of where transit tax monies have been spent and how much has been contributed by north county cities, in both tax payments and votes cast in support of past measures. It paints a stark picture of how north and west county residents have seen their sales tax dollars siphoned off for BART for the last 15 years. Now is the time for some strong political pressure to ensure that any 2016 tax measure commits the county to significant funding for eliminating grade crossings and other north county projects. It may be a long time before we have more leverage than we do now, and the city should take full advantage. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Encouraging Edgewood

Editor, If the developer needs to be fined by the city in order to force them to attract a grocer, then perhaps that is the only way. It seems to me that if the rent is low enough (I understand that it now stands at about $56,000 per month), someone will be attracted to the space. The decision on rents rests with the developer. The grocery business is a low-margin business. Possible tenants should be very responsive to an attractive rent. Steve Eittreim Ivy Lane, Palo Alto

Weaning off gas

Editor, The Town Square letters featured in the Aug. 7 Spectrum discussed energy as if humanity were not facing climate-change-induced disaster. They also got the facts wrong on several issues. Every discussion of energy today should begin with the recognition that climate change is a fundamental threat to civilization and that avoiding it requires us to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. Palo Alto has taken an important step in that direction by procuring carbon-free electricity. However, natural-gas consumption is as much as 50 percent of our total emissions. Given those facts, it makes sense to consider switching from greenhouse gas-emitting natural gas to carbon-free electricity wherever practical, which is what the council asked the staff to do. One letter declares that natural gas is “low polluting,” “secure” and “affordable.” All three claims are flatly incorrect. Burning natural gas is definitely neither low polluting nor secure in terms of climate disruption. And with the leaks from the entire distribution system, natural gas has the same impact as coal — or worse. Natural gas is not less expensive. It is true that traditional electric heaters, stoves and dryers consume much electricity and are more expensive than natural gas. However, heat pump technology that the city is considering can achieve efficiencies that are more than three times that of traditional devices, which makes it cheaper than gas. It is also true that the costs of converting existing heaters from gas to electricity are substantial. However, requirements for all-electric homes would initially apply only to new construction. Conversion would be required only when a device needs replacement anyway, and even then only with a subsidy and the remaining costs spread over time. Palo Altans deserve to be proud of the city’s leadership on climate change. Reasonable fuel switching is the next step in that leadership. Walt Hays Parkside Drive, Palo Alto Bruce Hodge Janice Way, Palo Alto

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square Residents call for fines against Edgewood Plaza developer Posted Aug. 6, 2015, at 11:22 a.m. by Larry Kavinoky, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood: If a developer promises a grocery store in exchange for various, and valuable, zoning changes, then it must be incumbent on the developer to do whatever is necessary to keep a viable grocery store on site. Lower the rent, make parking easier, offer discounts to neighbors, adjust hours. The fact that a developer did not correctly estimate the cost of compliance is no reason why the neighborhood should lose. Require the developer to sell to a landlord who will be able to comply with the requirements. If the developer goes bankrupt, then maybe the next developer in Palo Alto will not promise the moon to the residents knowing full well he will never comply. Is the City Council complicit in this by knowing they will not enforce the contract? This attitude just perpetuates profits for the developers at the expense of the residents. Since this has been going on for 50 years, the City Council must know what the results will be of their approvals.

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Off Deadline

Can vehicle traffic ever be controlled, or made ‘sustainable’? by Jay Thorwaldson

oseph Kott, who resigned as Palo Alto’s chief transportation official a decade ago, is taking a broader view these days on how people move about the region and within their communities, worldwide. Kott survived seven years in his Palo Alto position, one of those lightning-rod posts in which the person can do virtually nothing right — in the eyes of someone in town. Ted Noguchi, who held that post in the 1970s, once said that Palo Alto has 56,000 traffic engineers — the city’s population at the time — after a particularly harsh lambasting he got in the Palo Alto Times. Kott resigned in 2005 following several controversies, including several “traffic calming” (which someone called “driver irritating”) projects and an aborted plan to replace most signalized intersections on Embarcadero Road with roundabouts. Since then he has been engaged in lecturing locally and internationally, consulting and doing research into a seemingly age-old dilemma of how people can best get from here to there, whether it be hometo-work-and-back, shopping trips and errands, or even delivering kids to and from school. He founded a nonprofit organization called “Transportation Choices for Sus-

tainable Communities” and is a lecturer in urban studies at Stanford University. Last April he gave a lengthy presentation in Rohnert Park in Marin County on “The Emergence of Sustainable Transportation in America’s Communities.” While “sustainable” and “sustainability” have had a vagueness about them that can be confusing, he goes by the concise but comprehensive and high-sounding definition of the federal Environmental Protection Agency: “Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.” Well, reasonably concise, perhaps. In essence, it’s where the economy, the environment and society (meaning human activity) overlap. In transportation, it means it must be affordable, offer choice, support the economy, limit emission and waste, and minimize use of land and noise. Today’s system of transportation (if it could be called a “system” and not simply “chaos”) is far from sustainable, he notes. From 1969 to 2009, statistics show that the number of private vehicles is nearly double the number of drivers. The miles of vehicle travel now exceed 3 trillion, three times higher than in 1970, and far above what roads can handle. Private vehicles dominate transportation, with 83.4 percent in the United States; only 1.9 percent use public transportation, and 14.6 percent walk or use other means of getting around.

There is a flicker of good news, Kott notes. Since a June 2005 peak of estimated miles driven on all roads there has been a 9.34 percent drop. Kott cites the widely known environmental and other impacts of the overwhelming dependence on the automobile, including smog and particulates, water pollution by fuels and lubricants, damage to plants and animals, damage to public and personal health and “health effects of sedentary lifestyles in young and old,” including increased risk of diabetes. Statewide, transportation accounts for about 36 percent of emissions, far higher than industrial sources, at 21 percent, based on 2008 figures. Electrical generation accounts for about 24 percent, local or imported, and residential uses account for 6 percent, the same as agriculture and forestry practices. Greenhouse gases, among other things, will cause “uncertain, potentially catastrophic effects — with detrimental impacts on people, economies, plants and animal life worldwide,” Kott says. But what can be done? I personally have witnessed horrendous traffic jams in Santa Clara County, the Bay Area and statewide — including and especially in southern California — and have written about the problem as a full- or part-time journalist for more than 50 years. The British humor magazine Punch once published cartoon panels showing a clogged country road, then a clogged highway, and finally a clogged freeway covering the entire panel. I literally saw the same thing happen in Santa Clara Valley from the 1940s and

1950s on. I have had traffic experts tell me, as a reporter, that it is impossible to get people out of their cars. Maybe so. But Kott’s perspective, while visionary, has some practical suggestions, including some baby steps that are already being tested in one place or another around the world. Those include “retrofitting” communities for bicycling and walking (a vision in Palo Alto that dates back to the growth years of the 1950s); integrating land use and transportation; and cleaning up motor-vehicle fleets and increasing pervehicle occupancy rates. Cars can also be downsized, which is also happening in the face of high gasoline prices. Major streets and freeways should be “re-purposed” for public transit and freeway rights-of-way configured “to carry more people, not just more vehicles.” The broader context, he says, is in “complete communities, characterized by a rich land use (housing, retail, office) in walking, bicycling and short vehicle trip distance; a generational mix; accommodation for all physical abilities; affordable housing options; and transportation choices.” That’s a huge agenda. And skeptics are numerous. But as with anything in life, belief is a motivator, and “I think I can” may be a decisive element in success or failure. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jthorwaldson@ paweekly.com and/or jaythor@well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

How is your family preparing for the start of the school year? Asked at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.

Eric Jones

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Boaz Rozenhaimer

Cindy Dodd

Nancy Drapkin

Emerson Street, Palo Alto Marketing

Laidley Street, San Francisco Lawyer

Boudoin Street, Palo Alto Account manager

Stanford West, Palo Alto Stay-at-home mother

Forest Avenue, Palo Alto Retired/grandmother

“Getting outside as much as possible with our two girls ... and (doing) the stuff that she loves, which is getting all of her school supplies.”

“Reading a lot of books and practicing math ... and we’re been doing it in an interactive way.”

“Nothing special ... acting casual. We’re just enjoying the last month of summer. ... We’re ready.”

“We’ve communicated with friends who have children at the same school as (our son) to help with scheduling.”

“We are reading lots of books, mostly fiction. We were just at Books Inc. loading up for the last week.”

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Drawing from home

In his graphite and charcoal portraits, artist Joel Daniel Phillips aims to convey the true nature of his subjects and their relationship with their homes.

Artist focuses his gaze on Buena Vista residents

by Elizabeth Schwyzer

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he residents of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park have grown accustomed to being in the spotlight, though it’s the plight of their properties rather than their personal lives that’s been scrutinized in recent months. Among those who has found herself publicly advocating for her home and those of her neighbors is Melodie Cheney, who is also among the subjects of Phillips’ drawings. Eager to share her side of the story, she invited me to visit her at Buena Vista for a guided tour. A third-generation Californian, Cheney works in the admission office at De Anza College. Fifteen years ago, after her father died, Cheney used her modest inheritance to invest in the singlewide travel trailer at Buena Vista that has been her home ever since. When she heard about Phillips’ project, she said, “I thought it was intriguing. We’ve been approached by many people who want to do documentaries, stories, articles and so on, but this was the first one in my opinion that actually presents life in the park so people can see it.” Cheney met me at the Buena Vista entrance on a July evening

wearing a black Save Our Homes! T-shirt, her long blond hair gathered in a ponytail, her fingernails painted in red, white and blue glitter. As we walked along the main road leading in to the park, she began her introduction, focusing first on the numbers: about 110 homes in the park, occupied by about 400 residents representing three generations, with more than 100 residents under the age of 18. She also talked finances — at $1,300 per month including

utilities, she said, her mortgage is more affordable than any onebedroom she’s seen in the area. “We have custodians, teachers and gas station employees who live here,” she said. “We are your everyday people.” We passed Airstreams and Prowlers, manufactured homes with elaborate gardens and even a house that seemed to be built around the trunk of a massive oak tree. But it was when we reached her trailer at the back of the park

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alo Alto is a wonderful city, but it’s also a highly curated space,” says Joel Daniel Phillips. He’s standing in his studio at the Palo Alto Art Center, where the walls are adorned with his black-and-white photographs and pencil sketches. On the desk beside him are a ruler and notepad, a mason jar of what appears to be the dregs of yesterday’s coffee, and a quiver of graphite and charcoal pencils, their tips sharpened to intimidating points. The Oakland-based artist goes on to describe his latest subject in contrast to downtown Palo Alto. “There’s a wonderful reality there in spaces created for individual enjoyment, rather than public consumption,” he says. He’s talking about Buena Vista, the only mobile home park in the city and the subject of recent controversy as the owners of the property prepare to sell, a move that would oust the park’s roughly 400 residents. But Phillips isn’t so interested in the debates raging over the intended closure. Instead, he wants to take an intimate look at the people who live there.

Phillips is the current artistin-residence at the art center, where he began working on a collection of portraits of Buena Vista residents in June. After spending a day at the park meeting its denizens and taking photographs, he began creating a series of highly detailed drawings of individuals standing in front of their homes. Phillips’ residency continues through Aug. 29. His completed drawings will be exhibited as part of a group show at the art center, “Front Yard/Backstreet,” which runs from Sept. 19 to Dec. 13. The artist is no newcomer to depicting people whose personal stories rarely make headlines. His last major exhibition featured lifesize drawings of subjects he encountered on the corner of 6th and Mission streets in San Francisco, a notoriously crime-ridden area. Many of them were homeless, and few had ever been asked to pose for a portrait. Phillips described the subjects of that series as “the community most people walk around, try to avoid.” “My work,” he added, “is about trying to take people who are social dark matter and shine a light on them.”

Artist Joel Daniel Phillips is holding weekly open studio sessions at the Palo Alto Art Center where the public can watch him work.

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that Cheney’s love for Buena Vista became most evident. “I’m proud to show off my house and our community,” she confessed, pointing out her pots of basil and marigolds, petunia and snapdragons, the hummingbirds flitting to and from a hanging feeder and her tortoiseshell cat, Cleo, slinking behind the screen door. “Nothing’s locked,” she noted, gesturing to the house. “I’ve never had anything stolen. We know how to coexist with each other. This is my first home, and it’s my second family.” On the walk back out to El Camino Real, Cheney introduced me to a few of her neighbors, among them a man named Tim, who greeted her with a big hug before turning to take in my pen and notepad. “I have a feeling we’re gonna get to stay,” he announced, holding my gaze. “I just have this feeling.” n May 26 of this year, the Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously to approve the right of Buena Vista’s own-

ers to shut down the park. Since then, residents have heard nothing about their fate. Meanwhile, Santa Clara County and the City of Palo Alto have together committed more than $29 million to a possible purchase of the park, and have selected housing nonprofit The Caritas Corporation to lead negotiations with the owners. It’s against this backdrop of an uncertain future that Phillips is working to capture the spirit of the park, one resident and mobile home at a time. As of press time, three drawings were complete; Phillips expects to have five total works to include in the September exhibit. One of his subjects, Phillips explained, is Alison, who was wandering the park on a sunny day, wearing a kimono and carrying an umbrella, her two dogs by her side. “As a portraitist, I’m looking for subjects with honesty,” Phillips said, adding that once they began talking, Alison showed unusual generosity in sharing her story. “She was a very genuine, open individual,” he said. “She let the

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Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident Melodie Cheney stands outside her travel trailer.

Melodie Cheney is among the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents featured in Phillips’ drawings.

veil drop.” Phillips’ drawings won’t be accompanied by descriptive text; instead, he hopes the images themselves will convey the true nature of their subjects. In one of the first drawings he completed, Melodie Cheney stands outside her home, grinning at the viewer. Everything is there in minute detail: the single flower pot balanced on the trailer hitch, the quilted steel of the front door, even the sign in the front window that declares, “A house is not a home without a cat.” Above Cheney’s head hangs her hummingbird feeder. “When I showed up at the park, I knew immediately that I had to include the homes,” Phillips explained, describing Buena Vista as a collection of “amazing, eclectic oases.” Drawing mobile homes meant the life-size works he had done in the past were impractical, so Phillips opted for a smaller scale. Each drawing invites the viewer to lean in close and admire the specificity of the vision, whether it’s the fuzzy spines of a

potted cactus, the light reflecting off a metal folding chair or the velvety coat of a black Labrador sitting at his owner’s feet. Hanging next to the photographs they’re modeled on, the drawings are strikingly realistic, yet Phillips prefers not to exhibit the photos alongside the finished works. “Changes happen,” he explained. “I end up deciding that there are points I want the viewer to focus on and others that are distracting or not part of the story I want to tell.” What’s most important, he said, isn’t slavishly copying every detail of a scene; it’s capturing the essence of the subject. To Cheney’s mind, that’s exactly what Phillips has done. After a visit to the art center to see his works in progress, she raved about their effect. “It’s astonishing how lifelike they are,” she said. “He really captured our spirit.” Knowing that these images will be on view to the public makes Cheney feel seen and recognized. “I think people read the ar-

ticles, see the news stories and hear about the hearings, but Joel and his pictures bring the story to life,” she said. “You can see the people behind the stories, and I think that’s going to have a big impact — maybe not on a legal or a financial basis, but on a personal basis.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly.com. What: Artist-in-Residence Joel Daniel Phillips Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road When: Drop-in studio hours: Through Aug. 29, Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Front Yard/Backstreet” exhibition: Sept. 19 to Dec. 13. Cost: Free Info: Go to tinyurl.com/ o5uyzdm or call 650-329-2366. For more about the artist, go to joeldanielphillips.com.

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Theater Mandarin skit competition In a twist on reality TV, Chinese theater company Hua Yi hosts a live stage competition this Sunday, Aug. 16, where audience members can vote for their favorite skit. There’s just one catch: The entire event is in Mandarin. The show starts at 2 p.m. at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Tickets are $20. Go to tinyurl.com/ nepvr5k or call 650-903-6000.

Art ‘The Mid Day Garden’ There’s a cheerful, busy quality to the abstract paintings of Teresa Stanley, where bright, circular forms overlap and merge. On view now through Aug. 31 at Palo Alto’s Bryant Street Gallery, 532 Bryant St., “The Mid Day Garden” evokes the robust cycle of life. Go to bryantstreet.com or call 650-321-8155.

Concert Kat Parra For an hour of hot Latin music and world jazz, head to Palo Alto’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, 725 Welch Road, where award-winning vocalist and composer Kat Parra will perform on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at noon. The free show is part of the weekly Carolyn Wiedemann Reller Concert Series. Go to tinyurl.com/prhy7r9 or call 650-725-2892.

Books ‘Jonas Salk: A Life’ In 1955, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio. Sixty years later, author Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, M.D., has written a lively biography of the late virologist. Jacobs will read from “Jonas Salk: A Life” at the Stanford Bookstore, 519 Lasuen Mall, on Thursday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m. The event is free. Go to events.stanford.edu.

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‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’

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Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two? That would be Roald Dahl, author of the 1964 children’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which was made famous in 1971 when it was adapted into a film starring Gene Wilder. In the more than 40 years since then, the movie has gained a cult following and become a childhood classic for millions. This Saturday, Aug. 15, at 8 p.m., “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” screens at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. The entire family is welcome to come enjoy this tale of a fantastical candy factory where bad behavior comes at a steep price. You don’t even need a golden ticket; admission is free. Go to tinyurl.com/qxgg2to or call 650-463-4930.

‘West Side Story’ It’s not exactly New York’s Upper West Side, but starting this weekend, Redwood City plays home to a classic 1950s musical theater take on “Romeo and Juliet”: “West Side Story.” Broadway by the Bay’s show runs Aug. 14-30 at Redwood City’s Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway. Tickets are $47-$69. Go to broadwaybythebay.org or call 650-369-7770. Q

Above: The 1971 film, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” will screen for free at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park on Saturday, Aug. 15, at 8 p.m.

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Seeking out the best authentic Turkish coffee on the Midpeninsula

SEEKING OUT THE BEST AUTHENTIC TURKISH COFFEE ON THE MIDPENINSULA by Sevde Kaldiroglu | photo by Michelle Le

grew up with the delectable smell of Turkish coffee. My mother made it every evening in the kitchen of my childhood home in Istanbul. I had my first romance when I fell in love with coffee after tasting the highly fragrant, strong, bitter-yet-smooth flavor of a cup of foamy Turkish coffee. It was the first thing I learned to cook at age 9, and when I came to the United States, the traditional coffee set was the first thing I put in my suitcase. Now, if I ever attempted to simplify this complex, aromatic delight into a couple of words, I would say Turkish coffee is a wealth of tradition squeezed into a tiny porcelain cup. Coffee was introduced to Europeans by Turks during the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, and the word “coffee” derives from the Turkish word, “kahve.” Turkish coffee (Turk kahvesi) is a cultural hallmark and an example of Turkey’s com-

plex and flavorful cuisine. From the way its coffee beans are ground to the elegance with which it is served, Turkish coffee requires great care in its preparation. Galip Vural, owner of Olympus Caffe & Bakery and Ephesus restaurant on Castro Street in Mountain View, said it is crucial that the coffee beans are ground to a very fine powder. Turkish coffee brand Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi is one of the essential ingredients of making traditional coffee, he said. Vural orders it from international stores in the area to make his Turkish coffee ($2.95) at Olympus. To brew the coffee, Vural uses a traditional copper pot, or “cezve,” that he brought from Turkey. He uses one teaspoon of coffee per person. He then adds one Turkish-coffee cupful of water (about 2.2 ounces) and stirs the mixture. Sugar is often added before brewing Turkish coffee, Vural

noted, and the beverage can be made plain, medium-sweet or sweet. For medium-sweet, he adds one Turkish-teaspoon (equivalent to a demitasse spoon) of granulated sugar and stirs it in before putting the pot on the stove. The key to the recipe is to make sure the water is at room temperature, said Ibrahim Ulas, the owner of Galata Bistro, a Turkish restaurant in Menlo Park. In order to make quality Turkish coffee, all that’s needed is to put sugar, water and coffee into the pot, stir it and put it on the stove at a very low temperature, Ulas said. “When the coffee starts boiling, it starts rising up. When it comes to the top, it means it’s cooked, and you just take it off the fire immediately, otherwise it just overflows and ruins the coffee,” he said. (continued on page 26)

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The foam on top of Turkish coffee is what makes it special, he said. “When someone brings you Turkish coffee, if there is no foam on top, it means it’s not good,” Ulas said. “You tell them, ‘You know what? I want to have another one.’” Galata Bistro’s Turkish coffee ($3.75) comes with a thick layer of foam on top. It’s served in a white porcelain cup that’s placed in a traditional Ottoman coffee set with metal-capped cups and plates. The drink is accompanied by a piece of Turkish delight (lokum) — a sweet confection traditionally made of syrup and nuts — that compliments the strong and bitter flavor of the coffee. Although this ornate metal equipment is not necessary (porcelain cups made for Turkish coffee should suffice), it’s popular in Turkish restaurants. Anatolian Kitchen, a Turkish and Kurdish restaurant in Palo Alto, serves Turkish coffee ($4) using the same type of elegant coffee set. Owner Dino Tekdemir, who is originally from Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, said he brought it from his hometown. Like many Turkish chefs, Tekdemir prepares Turkish coffee in two phases. After the coffee boils once, he takes it off the heat and scoops the foam into the coffee cups. Then, he returns the pot to the

stove and waits for it to boil again. The trick, Tekdemir said, is to take the pot off the stove at the moment that it boils and starts rising. Several other local establishments serve authentic Turkish coffee, including Cafe 220 in Palo Alto ($2.75) and Cafe Nur in Los Altos ($2.95). Traditional Turkish coffee rarely includes any spices. However, in some Middle Eastern countries, there are variations, such as Arabic coffee with cardamom. The resulting brew is often more bitter and stronger than traditional Turkish coffee. Among the Midpeninsula spots that serve Turkish coffee with a twist are Mediterranean Wraps on California Avenue in Palo Alto, which uses Arabic coffee brand Najjar ($2.75); Mediterranean Grill House on Castro Street in Mountain View ($3.25); and Sufi Coffee Shop, also in Mountain View, which offers Persian-style Turkish coffee ($4.95). In Turkish culture, making foamy coffee and serving it without spilling is seen as a test of one’s culinary skills. In a ritual during which the suitor asks the woman’s father for her hand in marriage, the bride-to-be must offer Turkish coffee to all of the guests. A more subtle test applies to the prospective groom, who might be served coffee made with salt instead of sugar. If he can drink it without complaining, it’s an indicator of whether he is worthy of the lady’s love.

ShopTalk

GOODWILL GETS SPRUCED-UP ... Palo Alto’s Goodwill store, 4085 El Camino Way, is in the midst of a major face-lift, while remaining open for business. The renovation, which began several months ago, includes the addition of public restrooms, upgraded fitting rooms and office space, as well as a marked pedestrian walkway in the parking lot, additional disabled parking spaces and improved signage at the drop-off section by the side of the store. Goodwill will tentatively close for two weeks in late September while the interior gets refreshed. Workers will redo the floor, paint the walls and reconfigure the floor plan for easier customer flow patterns, including moving the front counter to a side location.

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ANTHROPOLOGIE TO RELOCATE ... The tremendously popular Anthropologie, which opened in Palo Alto nearly 13 years ago at the corner of Alma Street and Addison Avenue, is moving one mile north to the Stanford Shopping Center. The high-end women’s clothing, accessories, gifts and home decor store, which is owned by Urban Outfitters, will take over approximately one-quarter of the space left vacant last year when Bloomingdale’s moved to its new spot in the mall, according to an industry source. The new Anthropologie at Stanford will become a flagship store for the company, the source said, and will come close to tripling the size of its current 12,000-square-foot location in Palo

Another Turkish coffee tradition involves fortune-telling. Inside the coffee-stained porcelain walls of the tiny cups lies a wealth of information, according to tradition. Those who want learn their fortunes put the coffee plate on top of the cup and flip it over. Once the residual coffee grounds are dry, the fortune can be told.

Alto. The larger space at Stanford is scheduled to open in May 2016, and will enable Anthropologie to offer an array of new items including furniture and a bridal line, the source said. The current store at 499 Alma St. was originally scheduled to close for good in February 2016, “but that may be extended; it kind of depends on how the progress goes on the Stanford store,” the source said. The Alma street location, which used to be an auto parts shop, has long been considered an unusual spot for the high-end retailer, since it is not in a traditional shopping area of the city. Anthropologie has nearly 200 stores throughout the U.S, Canada and the U.K.

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Vural said that every weekend, Turkish regulars come to Olympus Caffe & Bakery and hold fortunetelling sessions. One of the regular guests is known to tell fortunes that eventually come true, he said. Whether or not one believes in the power of Turkish coffee to predict the future, such fortune-telling offers a way to bond on a deeper

level — one of the many factors that make drinking Turkish coffee such a rich and unique experience. As Galata Bistro’s Ulas points out, a famous Turkish proverb states that “one cup of Turkish coffee is to be remembered for 40 years.” Q Sevde Kaldiroglu is an editorial intern at Palo Alto Weekly.

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Book Talk DOING IS EVERYTHING ... Stanford professor of engineering Bernard Roth has penned “The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life.” Published HarperCollins, the book extols the virtues of taking action and advises readers to “build resiliency by reinforcing what you do rather than what you accomplish.” The book is available on amazon.com. Info: theachievementhabit.com

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COMEDY SCI-FI ... Funny, suspenseful and a little spooky, “A Second Coming and Other Stories” is a new collection of humorous science fiction stories from Silicon Valleybased writer, E.A. Moore. Among the four tales are a revenge-of-the-machines saga, “I, Car,” and the book’s title story in which a meteor shower heralds a new era of humananimal relations. The book is available on amazon.com. Info: eamoore.com

A TRILOGY LAUNCHES ... Immortality, time travel and cross-generational friendship are among the themes of Palo Alto-based teen author Anna Caltabiano’s new book. The first in a trilogy of novels, “The Seventh Miss Hatfield” was released in the U.S. earlier this week. The book is Caltabiano’s second; her first, “All That is Red,” was released in 2013. “The Seventh Miss Hatfield” is published by HarperCollins/ Epic Reads and is available on amazon.com. Info: annacaltabiano.com ERADICATING POLIO ... His polio vaccine changed the history of world health. Now, Stanford professor emeritus of medicine Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs has written the first full account of the life of medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk. The author will give a reading from “Jonas Salk: A Life” at Stanford Bookstore on Thursday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m. The book is published by Oxford University Press and is available on amazon.com. Info: charlottejacobs.net

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GREETINGS FROM BOARDING SCHOOL ... Alan Holmes, a resident of retirement community Vi at Palo Alto, has released a new memoir. “A Serious and Proper Education” chronicles the author’s experience as a 9-year-old boy whisked from his home in Paris, France, in 1939 and shipped off to an English boarding school. The book follows Holmes’ prior memoir, “In the Moon.” The book is available on amazon.com.

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by Michael Berry AAdam Johnson’s new short story collection, “Fortune Smiles,” takes readers from East Berlin to Louisiana, North Korea to Palo Alto.

n 2007, during the seven years of researching and writing his novel, “The Orphan Master’s Son,” Adam Johnson spent five days in North Korea, taking in sights unavailable to all but a few Westerners. By imagining day-to-day life in the Democratic People’s Republic and the struggle to survive under the rule of Kim Jong-il, Johnson captured both the surreal nature of the isolated nation and the harsh realities of famine, censor-

ship and political brutality faced by its populace. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and catapulted the San Francisco author into the front ranks of American novelists. Whatever he writes, Johnson brings a willingness to journey to far-flung locales and to the outer limits of his imagination. In researching post-Katrina Louisiana, he delivered packages for UPS, he said, while a visit to Berlin led him to a prison formerly run by the Stasi, the East German secret police. When his ma wife received a cancer diagwi nosis, Johnson used the intino mate details of family life in m a short story to explore the ppossibility of losing her. Reached by phone, Johnsson explained that he has aalways been drawn toward rresearch and interview. “If I can find real human beings who have experienced what I’m writing about, it forces my writing to measure up to the things they express,” he said. “I use their experiences as a standard for what my writing should achieve.” Now, Johnson has delivered a new short story collection, “Fortune Smiles.” He will appear at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Wednes-

day, Aug. 19 in conversation with Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor for the San Francisco-based literary magazine, ZYZZYVA. The six stories included in “Fortune Smiles” feature a wide range of settings and protagonists. In “Nirvana,” set in Palo Alto, a woman paralyzed by a rare disease listens obsessively to the music of Kurt Cobain while her husband communes with the digital simulacrum he has created of the assassinated President of the United States. “Dark Meadow” follows a Los Angeles computer consultant as he erases child pornography from hard drives and looks out for a pair of neighborhood girls seemingly forgotten by their mother. Then there’s “Hurricanes Anonymous,” which focuses on a UPS driver suddenly responsible for the well-being of his toddler son, whose mother has disappeared in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. To gain firsthand knowledge of UPS procedures during a 2007 research trip to Louisiana, Johnson said he first contacted UPS world headquarters in Atlanta. “They overnighted me a uniform,” he said. “They allowed me to do ride-alongs with a couple of drivers. I ended up delivering 524 packages in August in Orleans, Beauregard, Cameron and Cal-

What: Adam Johnson in conversation with Oscar Villalon Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $10 (student admission, without book), $20 (general admission, without book), $40 (priority seating, with book) Info: Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.

casieu parishes to get the feel of what it really is like to be a UPS driver in Louisiana.” Johnson also immersed himself in his research for the short story, “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine,” in which the former warden of an East German prison receives strange packages of intensely personal items: mementos of the days he has worked diligently to repress. Johnson wrote the piece after visiting the Hohensch<0x00F6 >nhausen prison memorial, where hundreds of German Democratic Republic citizens were imprisoned and brutally interrogated during the Cold War. “When I was talking to the curator, he said, ‘Oh, yeah. The (former) warden lives just down the block and he walks his little dog around the museum every day,’” Johnson said. “I never forgot that juxtaposition of the old establishment living in proximity of total change. Later on, I was just compelled to fill that picture in. I think that, for a fiction writer, (continued on next page)

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(continued from previous page) LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND WAR ... Bay Area-based author Janis Cooke Newman has written â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Master Plan for Rescue,â&#x20AC;? a historical novel set against the backdrop of World War II that explores an unlikely friendship between a Manhattan boy and a German Jewish refugee. The book is available at local bookstores and at amazon.com. Info: janiscookenewman.com PLAYING WITH FIRE ... Urban fantasy meets pyrotechnics in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Liquid Fire,â&#x20AC;? the new book by Silicon Valley author Anthony Francis. The book is the third installment in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skindancerâ&#x20AC;? series featuring magical tattoo artist Dakota Frost. Francis will speak at Books, Inc. in Mountain View on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 7 p.m. Copies of the book will also be for sale. Info: booksinc.net or dakotafrost.com

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something half-seen really sparks the imagination.â&#x20AC;? Sometimes, inspiration comes from a more personal source. The short story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interesting Facts,â&#x20AC;? explores the impact of a cancer diagnosis upon a family much like Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Originally published in the June 2015 issue of Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Magazine, the story struck a strong chord with readers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never received as many notes and letters as from that story,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think cancer is handled in a very sentimental and maudlin way in contemporary culture, in movies, TV and books. There was a thirst out there for someone to make up a true and difficult portrait, which is what I tried to do.â&#x20AC;? The title story of the new collection returns to Korea, where two defectors from the North attempt to acclimate to life in a democracy, and one of them mourns the woman he left behind in Pyongyang. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I left readers with the illusion that all you had to do was get out of North Korea and your life would be great,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The truth is that, in interviewing many defectors, I found (it) was very challenging, troubling and confusing to go from such seclusion and isolation to the modern

world. I wanted to capture a truer portrait of what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really like, to write one more story about two North Koreans adjusting to life on the outside.â&#x20AC;? Teaching creative writing at Stanford University leaves him â&#x20AC;&#x153;revitalized for literature,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will say that writing drains me and that teaching recharges me, and I like to have both in my life. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing quite like articulating things that you know to be true to make you ponder them anew. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky to teach at a place with great students who are filled with talent and energy.â&#x20AC;? Asked how his short fiction has changed since the publication of his previous collection, 2002â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emporium,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said his writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;took a turn six or seven years ago. I started doing more non-fiction work and caring more about people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally depicted in fiction. I always tell my students, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The odds that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a good storyteller and that you have an important story to tell are probably pretty low. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our duty to give voice to others who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell their stories.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fortune Smiles,â&#x20AC;? Adam Johnson fulfills that duty, and then some. Q Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com.

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In “The End of the Tour,” Jesse Eisenberg, left, plays Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, who spends a five-day road trip shadowing novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel).

Breaking down Wallace ‘The End of the Tour’ revisits ‘Infinite Jest’ novelist 000 1/2 (Palo Alto Square, Century 20) A hulking, hunching man, dressed down and sporting a bandana, his breakfast of champions being half a Pop-Tart and an American Spirit, may not cut the most obvious figure of the Great American Novelist. Yet, for many, David Foster Wallace — the celebrated author of 1,000-plus-page tome, “Infinite Jest” — was exactly that. To those acquainted with him to various degrees, he was more. To those who knew him in-

timately, he was very much more. And of course to Wallace himself, he was infinitely more than anyone else could ever know. These mysteries of personality and the hall of mirrors of celebrity culture form the nebulous parameters of “The End of the Tour,” a film inspired by five days in the life of Wallace and journalist David Lipsky. In a revelatory change-of-pace performance redolent of Wallace’s repressed anger and nagging dis-

appointments, actor-screenwriter Jason Segel plays the 34-year-old at the tail end of his 1996 book tour for “Infinite Jest.” As Wallace contends with a “constant low-level state of anxiety” about his present and future, 30-year-old Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg), himself a novelist currently on assignment from “Rolling Stone,” shadows the literary star and plies him for anything he will reveal (intentionally or inadvertently). The maga-

zine never published Lipsky’s profile, but it became the kernel of his memoir, “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace,” ingeniously adapted here by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (“Dinner with Friends”). What emerges from the screenplay, sensitive direction by James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”) and leading performances amounts to a fascinating and moving two-hander powered by dialogues of constantly fluctuating intimacy. Significant “others” pass through (including Anna Chlumsky as Lipsky’s girlfriend, Ron Livingston as his editor, Mickey Sumner as a friend of Wallace and Joan Cusack, typically fine as Wallace’s temporary handler), but the film’s depth and breadth can be found when the two Davids are alone together (and, briefly but tellingly, alone with themselves), discussing everything from the sacred (the art of writing) to the profane (masturbation and getting laid). Unavoidably, this story comes weighted with the knowledge

that Wallace committed suicide in 2008, but the film amounts to much more than a melancholy depiction of Wallace’s torturous struggle with depression. The film hastens to deflate just such easy assumptions as Wallace and Lipsky parry and thrust over insights about fiction, fame, publicity, popular and academic cultures, legacy, success and the secret to happiness. Eisenberg’s role doesn’t require much of a stretch, but he’s excellent all the same in sympathetically projecting Lipsky’s insecurities, jealousies, false bravado and questionable but selfjustified ethics. Wallace ruefully muses to Lipsky, “You could write this up a hundred different ways.” And though this isn’t the Great American Film, its prismatic philosophical and cultural observations offer plenty to chew on regarding the true value of the subjective fictions and supposedly objective non-fictions some create and others consume. Rated R for language including some sexual references. One hour, 46 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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In “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” Henry Cavill plays American spy Napoleon Solo; Elizabeth Debicki plays femme fatale Victoria.

Relatively sneaking Spy TV’s ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ hits the big screen 00 1/2 (Century 16, Century 20) One of the bona fide pop culture sensations of the mid-’60s, along with The Beatles and “Batman,” NBC’s spy series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” proposed an international law-enforcement agency, the U.N. of espionage. Na-

poleon Solo (a silky-suave Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (a smoldering David McCallum), the former a brash American and the latter a tightly-wound Russian, ribbed each other while teaming up weekly (Cold War be damned)

to save the world — and, usually, a dizzy damsel — from megalomaniacal guest-star villains. James Bond creator Ian Fleming famously contributed Solo’s name (and virtually nothing else), and since TV’s answer to Bond arrived in 1964, the same year as “Goldfinger,” “U.N.C.L.E.” enjoyed a perfect storm of spy mania. Now we have a version directed by Guy Ritchie (“Sherlock Holmes”) and starring Henry “Superman” Cavill and Armie “The Lone Ranger” Hammer. Brit Cavill’s American accent and Hammer’s Russian one contribute to a mannered stiltedness that drains “U.N.C.L.E.” of its easy-goesit escapism and effortless cool. Ritchie and Lionel Wigram’s script honors the original characters just fine, but the leads are lukewarm. With his cocked eyebrows, smirks and peacocking strut, Cavill overworks it; containing Illya’s anger issues, Hammer succeeds in being somewhat more subtle if lacking in McCallum’s charisma. (continued on next page)

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Movies MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday to 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. Amy (R)

Palo Alto Square: Fri & Sat 9:40 p.m.

Ant-Man (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m. & 7:55 p.m. In 3-D at 1:50, 4:55 & 10:45 p.m. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m.

Mr. Holmes (PG) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. Pixels (PG-13) +1/2 Century 16: 12:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m.

Best of Enemies (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:45, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:45, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.

Rashomon (1950) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 3:50 & 7:30 p.m.

The End of the Tour (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m.

Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7 & 9:50 p.m.

Fantastic Four (PG-13) Century 16: 9:15 a.m., noon, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 12:20, 1:50, 2:55, 4:25, 5:30, 7:05, 8:10, 9:45, 10:15 & 10:45 p.m.

Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) Century 16: 9:30 & 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:50 & 7:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1, 3:15, 5:35 & 8 p.m.

The Gift (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m.

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Minions (PG) ++ Century 16: 9:10 & 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:40, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:15 p.m.

Inside Out (PG) +++1/2 Century 16: 9:10 & 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5 & 7:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. Irrational Man (R) ++ Palo Alto Square: 1:55, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. The Man from U.N.C.L.E (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9 & 10 a.m., 1, 4:10, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:50 a.m., 1 p.m. & 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. In D-BOX at 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9, 10:05 & 11:10 a.m., 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:35, 5:40, 7, 8, 9, 10:15 & 11 p.m., Fri & Sat 4:05 & 7:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 12:15, 1:20, 2:25, 3:25, 4:25, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:35, 9:35 & 10:35 p.m. In D-BOX at 11:20 a.m., 2:25, 5:30 & 8:35 p.m.

Southpaw (R) Century 16: 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Srimanthudu (Not Rated) Century 16: 9 a.m., 3:20, 7:05 & 10:45 p.m. The Stanford Prison Experiment (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m. Straight Outta Compton (R) Century 16: 9 & 10:45 a.m., 12:30, 2:15, 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15, 10:30 & 11 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:05, 2:20, 3:25, 5:40, 6:45, 9:10 & 10:10 p.m. In X-D at 1:10, 4:30 & 8 p.m. TCM presents: Grease Sing-Along (PG-13) Century 16: Sun 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 & 7 p.m. Throne of Blood (1957) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 5:30 & 9:10 p.m. Trainwreck (R) Century 16: 9:50 a.m., 12:50, 3:50, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m. Vacation (R) Century 16: 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:15 & 8:05 p.m., Sun 11:30 a.m.

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

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)

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

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128)

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One might well call this prequel reboot “U.N.C.L.E. Begins”: Set in 1963, the film tells the tale of Solo and Kuryakin’s first meeting, on opposite sides of the Cold War divide. Whizzing around Checkpoint Charlie in a sequence that culminates in an escape over the Berlin Wall, the two compete for the prize of Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander of “Ex Machina”),

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the daughter of a sought-after German rocket scientist. The plot, if at times convoluted and notably wanting a compelling central villain, proves suitable, an excuse for exotic (primarily Italian) locales and fiscally responsible adventures. Despite the picture’s throwback spy sophistication, the mostly unmemorable action sequences suffer from editing that evokes carsickness, and the split-the-difference jokeyserious tone errs — in keeping with its director — on the side of

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fashion-conscious, cosmopolitan and smug. In a word, the movie is “stylish,” which is better than the alternative. It’s also mostly empty, though it has its moments, and mostly the amorous ones: the teasing chemistry of Vikander and Hammer and the bromantic moments when Solo first chooses and later confirms friendship with Kuryakin. Along with welcome supporting turns by Elizabeth Debicki as a formidable femme fatale, Sylvester Groth as a craven sadist and Hugh Grant as spy-boss Waverly, there’s almost enough to push the watchable “U.N.C.L.E.” into recommended territory. Instead, it’s a near-miss. Rated PG-13 for action violence, some suggestive content and partial nudity. One hour, 56 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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ecoming a skillful dancer, mastering volleyball or cycling, rediscovering yourself through yoga and meditation, learning a new language or painting your personal masterpieces — no matter your age, you can make these dreams and more come true through the guidance offered by local organizations. What’s a better time than fall to start anew? You can begin the new academic year by finding a cool hobby, focusing on thriving physically and mentally, developing a novel intellectual skill or simply pursuing an entertaining activity — all the while becoming closer to your community. The Class Guide is published quarterly by the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac and the Mountain View Voice.

For the dancer 53 Shorebreeze Court, East Palo Alto | 650-644-7343 brazivedas.com Brazivedas offers classes in Brazilian dance, music and martial arts for all ages and experience levels. Classes are held at several venues including Mitchell Park Community Center, Stanford University campus and a home studio in East Palo Alto. Cubberley Community Center, L-5, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

650-322-7032 (office), 650-852-0418 (studio) info@danceconnectionpaloalto.com danceconnectionpaloalto.com Dance Connection offers graded classes for preschoolers to adults, with a variety of programs to meet dancers’ needs. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and more are available for students at various levels of ability. Cubberley Community Center, L-3, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-858-2005 info@dancevisions.com

dancevisions.org DanceVisions offers classes for young children (beginning at age 3) up to adults. Types of dance taught range from modern to hiphop/jazz, lyrical, belly dancing, ballet, East Indian dance and contact improvisation.

Cubberley Community Center, G-6, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 408-288-2820 ext. 223 school@balletsj.org www.balletsj.org/sc_paloalto.html

The Palo Alto Studio of Silicon Valley Ballet (previously known as Ballet San Jose) provides ballet instruction to children ages 2 to 10, with particular attention paid to dancer health and child development. The classes run from September to May with full-year and semester-long program options.

Cubberley Community Center, L-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8221 zohardance@gmail.com zohardancecompany.org

Founded in 1979, Zohar School of Dance holds a range of adult dance classes in contemporary jazz, modern, ballet, musical theater and tap. Though mainly an adult studio, Zohar also welcomes younger students.

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available for juniors and adults at any level of experience.

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Child Development Centers

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3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-752-8061 kim@kimgranttennis.com kimgranttennis.com The Kim Grant Tennis Academy organizes an array of tennis classes and programs for adults and children, as well as those with special needs. Fall quarter runs from Aug. 17 to Nov. 15.

www.headsup.org Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto 310-212-7008 questions@usyvl.org www.usyvl.org Run by the USVYL and volunteers, the youth volleyball program allows boys and girls of all skill levels from ages 7 to 15 to play and learn the sport in a fun, supportive and co-ed environment. The fall season begins on Sept. 8 and lasts until Oct. 31.

Health and fitness 3485 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-858-1440 blueirisstudiopaloalto.com Blue Iris studio offers classes in yoga, Pilates and meditation, as well as wellness services, for all ages and experience levels. 796A San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-855-9868 info@studiokickspaloalto.com studiokickspaloalto.com Studio Kicks is a family fitness center offering cardio kickboxing classes and training in martial arts for children and adults.

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Cubberley Community Center, M-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto | 650-327-9350 mjchan@ttopa.com ttopa.com At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, established in 1973, students learn the classical Yang Chengfu style of Taijiquan (T’ai chi ch’uan, or tai chi). Beginning classes start monthly. 819 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-329-8794 uforiastudios.com Uforia Studios offers exercise classes incorporating dance (Fuego and Hip Hop Club), spin (Revolutions and Ucycle) and conditioning (Grit). All fitness levels and abilities are welcome. 440 Kipling St., Palo Alto 650-468-2929 yogaworks.com/en/locations/california-north/palo-alto This New York and Californiabased yoga studio holds classes on yoga fundamentals as well as courses covering vinyasa, Hatha and Iyengar styles.

Just for seniors 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto 650-289-5400 avenidas.org Avenidas offers a plethora of classes, as well as lectures and workshops, for seniors focusing on topics such as general health, physical fitness, languages, humanities, computing, music and writing. Membership costs, fees and class descriptions are listed on the website.

Language courses 159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto 650-617-0720 berlitz.us/paloalto/ Berlitz provides adult and youth language instruction in Spanish, Italian, French, English and other languages. Private lessons, tutoring, testing services and cultural agility training for businesses are also available.

GAIS Campus, 475 Pope St., Menlo Park | 650-520-3646 contact@gaspa-ca.org gaspa-ca.org Since 1960, the German-American School of Palo Alto (GASPA), a Saturday school, has offered fullimmersion German language classes that cover culture and traditions. Classes are available for all skill levels and students ages 3 to 18. No prior knowledge of German is required. JLS Middle School, Room 400, 480 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto admission@paloaltochineseschool.org paloaltochineseschool.org The Palo Alto Chinese School, founded in 1963, serves students from prekindergarten to 12th

grade with classes in Mandarin for various abilities, as well as with a Chinese as a second language track (kindergarten to 8th grade). The fall semester starts on Aug. 21. Calligraphy classes are also offered for children ages 7 or older and adults.

Mind and spirit Ananda Temple, 2171 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-323-3363 ext. 0 inform@anandapaloalto.org anandapaloalto.org Ananda Palo Alto classes and events cover various topics including yoga, meditation and spirituality.

Music, arts and crafts Walter Hays Elementary School, 1525 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Webster Street Studio, Webster Street, Palo Alto 650-269-0423, 650-316-9208 artandsoul.paloalto@gmail.com artandsoulpa.com Art & Soul runs an after-school program on Tuesdays at Walter Hays Elementary School, beginning Sept. 1, which allows children to explore drawing, painting and sculpting techniques. Another art club held on Wednesdays at the Webster Street Studio starts on Sept. 2. Art & Soul also offers Art & Wine events for private groups. 402 El Verano Ave., Palo Alto 650-856-9571 emilyjeanyoung@gmail.com artwithemily.com Emily Young teaches mixed-media and multicultural art classes for children and adults at her studio in Palo Alto. 595 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto 650-796-1614 artworkspaloalto@gmail.com artworkspaloalto.net Art Works Studio holds a suite of fine-art classes for kids. Fall season runs from Sept. 8 to Dec. 3. Early registration is recommended. 555 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto 650-473-0664 info@deborahspalm.com deborahspalm.com Deborah’s Palm is a nonprofit community organization that aims to provide a warm and supportive environment for all women. Its arts classes cover jewelry making, art journaling, needlework, drawing and more. The organization also offers professional counseling, access to resources, activities, mentoring and community-service projects. StartX, 2627 Hanover St., Palo Alto 888-292-4624 Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, 600 Alma St., Menlo Park 650-330-2220 homemade-cooking.com Founded on the principle of leading

CLASS GUIDE a healthy life, Homemade offers cooking classes where participants learn about the core fundamentals and techniques of preparing flavorful and nutritious food with natural ingredients. Five-week and 10week programs are available.

900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8686 info@midpenmedia.org midpenmedia.org The center offers workshops and private tutoring for a range of media arts, including video production, TV studio work and more. The center suggests starting with one of its free hour-long orientation classes. 1350 Grant Road, #5, Mountain View 4131 El Camino Real, #200, Palo Alto 650-625-9955 (Mountain View), 650-384-6848 (Palo Alto) musicopus1.com Opus1 Music Studio holds group music lessons for young children, focusing on music theory, enrichment, piano performance and more. A variety of private lessons is also offered. 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-321-3891 frontdesk@pacificartleague.org pacificartleague.org The classes and workshops at the Pacific Art League are taught by qualified, experienced instructors for children and adults with varying experience. Instructors teach many mediums, including drawing, painting, watercolor, printmaking and more. The fall semester begins on Sept. 14. 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto 650-329-2366 artcenter@cityofpaloalto.org cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/ artcenter Palo Alto Art Center classes and workshops — teaching children, teens and adults — cover such areas as ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, Adobe PhotoShop and more.

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School days 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto 650-493-4300 amigosdepaloalto.com info@amigosdepaloalto.com Amigos de Palo Alto is a Spanishimmersion preschool for children 2 and a half years and older. Instructors are all bilingual, and children learn Spanish naturally through play, song, art and academics. Amigos also offers Spanish-immersion after-school programs for kindergarteners with some Spanish experience.

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2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1267 emersonschool@headsup.org headsup.org/emerson-school/ Emerson School provides a full-day, year-round program for grades one to eight using a personalized, Montessori curriculum. Lessons draw from classical subjects and other areas, including art, music, foreign language, physical education, communication, life skills and more.

Parent education 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-326-5530 info@chconline.org chconline.org Children’s Health Council holds a variety of classes on issues like dyslexia, anxiety and depression, social-emotional learning, first-time parenting and choosing schools. Available from September to May, all classes are taught by the organization’s experts.

ten through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School provides strong academics, instruction in Jewish studies and the Hebrew language, enrichment opportunities and after-school programs.

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Quality daytime care for older adults Two levels of daytime care! Our adult day care is a licensed, non-medical program for adults who can no longer structure their own daily activities, be left alone, or are socially isolated. Our adult day health care is a licensed, medical program for adults with physical or mental impairments who need additional care.

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CLASS GUIDE school program. Some of the programs offered include media and technology, foreign languages, gastronomy, music and athletics.

650-494-7389 info@mustardseedlearningcenter.org mustardseedlearningcenter.org The Mustard Seed Learning Center offers an after-school tutoring and care program that teaches local youth to speak Mandarin Chinese, in addition to emphasizing social development and excellence in mathematics, science, arts and music. The center also runs a preschool program.

3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-213-9600 kehillah.org This college-preparatory high school (grades nine through 12) offers modern science and computer labs, art and music studios, a drama program, a full range of academic courses with small class sizes, sports teams and more.

650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-688-3605 info@sandhillschool.org sandhillschool.org Located at the Children’s Health Council, Sand Hill School works with young children from kindergarten through sixth grade (expanding to eighth) with languagebased learning, attention and social difficulties. The student/teacher ratio is six to one.

Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-223-8788 earlychildhood@paloaltojcc.org paloaltojcc.org/preschool The Oshman Family JCC’s preschool program provides one- to five-days-per-week options for children 18 months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 5 at Congregation Beth Am), with an emphasis placed on experiential learning, family involvement, Jewish values and fun.

701 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto 650-493-7672 info@sorapreschool.com sorapreschool.com Sora International Preschool is an English-Japanese bilingual preschool for children 3 to 6 years old. The school combines an earlychildhood play experience, instruction in Japanese and English, and exposure to both cultures through traditional events.

815 El Camino Real, Menlo Park 650-321-0550 lydianacademy.com Lydian Academy is a middle and high school offering instruction that adjusts to each child’s learning style, interests and strengths. The school strives to help each student achieve academic excellence and authentic success. Lydian admits new students on a year-round basis and also offers summer school and tutoring.

Mountain View Campus, 180 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View 650-417-7600, mvoffice@waldorfpeninsula.org Los Altos Campus, 11311 Mora Drive, Los Altos 650-209-9400, laoffice@waldorfpeninsula.org waldorfpeninsula.org Waldorf School of the Peninsula serves children from nursery through the end of high school. Areas of focus include fostering self-discipline, critical thinking, independence and cooperation, creative expression and a love of learning.

3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-618-3325 preschool@abilitiesunited.org milestonespreschool.org Milestones Preschool offers a yearround, project-based program that fosters the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of children ages 2 to 5.

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Something for everyone Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org paadultschool.org Computer, language, cooking, writing, art, birding and finance classes, and many more, are available through the Palo Alto Adult School. Registration for the fall session is underway, and classes start on Sept. 14. Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Stanford 650-725-2650 continuingstudies@stanford.edu continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies offers courses in liberal arts and sciences, creative writing, and professional and personal development. Registration for fall classes starts on Aug. 17. The Class Guide is published quarterly in the Palo Alto Weekly, Mountain View Voice and The Almanac. Descriptions of classes offered in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Atherton, Stanford, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley and Woodside are provided. Listings are free and subject to editing. Due to space constraints, classes held in the above cities are given priority. To inquire about submitting a listing for the next Class Guide, email Editorial Assistant Sam Sciolla at ssciolla@ paweekly.com or call 650-223-6515. To place a paid advertisement in the Class Guide, call the display advertising department at 650-326-8210.

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COMPOST BASICS ... Learn how to enhance your garden’s soil and overall health during a compost course from the City of Palo Alto on Saturday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Cubberley Community Center, Room H-1, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Participants will see how compost helps plants gain nutrients, develop root structures and hold water. This free course, and two others later in the fall (Sept. 5 and Oct. 24), provides locals the knowledge they need to start composting. Anyone interested can register online or call 408-918-4640. Info: cityofpaloalto.org/workshops WEED BATTLE ... Restore the Byrne Preserve ecosystem by removing invasive plants and weeds on Monday, Aug. 17 or Monday, Aug. 31. Acterra staff and volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. at the parking lot along Altamont Road next to the Westwind Community Barn and work until 11:30 a.m. (The nearest address is 27210 Altamont Road in Los Altos Hills.) Minors under the age of 18 must bring a waiver signed by a guardian. Volunteers should wear long pants and sturdy shoes, and bring sunscreen and water. Info: acterra.org or kristen.williams@acterra.org ROSE ANNIVERSARY ... Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Peninsula Rose Society (PRS) on Friday, Aug. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave., Redwood City. Attendees will learn about the organization’s founding on Aug. 28, 1955, and other happenings in its 60-year history. During the evening, Barry Johnson, PRS historian, will show 35mm slides that date back to 1978, and other members will give talks. The free event is open to members and nonmembers. Info: peninsularosesociety.org/event DOCUMENT SHREDDING ... Gather up old paperwork and head to the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 8 a.m. to noon. Located at 301 Carl Road in Sunnyvale, the SMaRT Station will be shredding and recycling documents from residents of its partner cities: Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. Residents must bring proof of residency. During the event, people may dispose of up to five banker-sized boxes of paper. Materials will be shredded on-site by Cintas. Info: bit.ly/ DocumentShredding Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email bmalmberg@paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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reasons to save energy City participates in nationwide energy-saving competition by Jamauri Bowles

Palo Alto competes against 49 other cities around the country during the semifinal round of the Georgetown University Energy Prize. Based on their energy-saving performances, cities advance to the final round of the competition in 2017. The first-place city wins $5 million to put toward energy initiatives.

alo Alto is not only known to be a tech-savvy city, but also a green city. Now, the city has 5 million reasons to grow its green reputation. The city is participating in an energysaving competition called the Georgetown University Energy Prize, in which the winner receives $5 million. Started by Georgetown University, this is a friendly competition between communities across the country to come up with sustainable, energy-saving innovations. Last year from April to June, the competition began with communities submitting applications in hopes of being invited to compete and move on to the quarterfinals. Then from August to November 2014, cities competed in the quarterfinal stage, submitting detailed plans for their energy-saving programs. Palo Alto is one of the 50 communities, with a required population between 5,000 and 250,000, that has reached the semifinals of the competition. Berkeley, Davis, Fremont, San Mateo and Sunnyvale are also representing the Bay Area in the competition. From January 2015 to December 2016, semifinalists compete to reduce energy consumption in a manner that will promote energy-use improvements. Then finalists are selected to compete from January 2017 to June 2017 and submit final reports on their plans, performance

and future prospects. Winners will be selected based on a combination of final report scores and semifinal energy-saving performances. The highest-ranked community will receive the $5 million prize. These 50 communities have developed long-term energy efficiency plans, and they are demonstrating the effectiveness and sustainability of those plans over the two-year period. Christofer Nelson, program director for Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University, is also the project director of the energy prize competition. He assisted the competition’s executive director Francis Slakey and technical director John Shore with creating the competition, which took about two years to design and organize. Nelson became involved in the competition because he wanted to look at issues concerning energy use in the United States and increase emphasis on efficiency. The energy efficiency methods of large communities that he looked at were not working because of resource and infrastructure issues. “Those approaches were not impacting smaller and medium-sized communities,” Nelson said. Because of this, he decided to help (continued on page 36)

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Home & Real Estate

Real Estate Matters

Structuring listing agreements by Michael Repka

sk any real estate attorney about disputes between sellers and listing agents and you are likely to hear a lament about the lack of specificity in residential real property listing agreements. The forms widely used in Silicon Valley are generally written in a way that provides a lot of protection to real estate agents and may contain terms inconsistent with what many sellers desire. However, through detailed discussion with a reputable real estate agent and a relatively simple addendum to the agreement, most of these issues can be resolved in a way that is fair to both the seller and the agent. There are many different approaches to marketing and selling homes in Silicon Valley, yet the two most common listing agreements used by local real estate agents do not place many specific requirements on the agents’ services. Often, sellers and agents have divergent points of view when it comes to the quality and quantity of marketing that the agents will provide in exchange for their hefty commission. Similarly, some listing agreements are signed without a clear understanding of who will pay for the staging costs, property inspection, pest inspection, home preparation and escrow fees. Although sellers and agents may not see eye to eye on the scope of the agents’ services — most notably with regard to the level of marketing — these issues often remain hidden until after the contract is signed and the parties are bound. The two most popular listing agreements in Silicon Valley, which are published by the California Association of Realtors® (CAR) and the Peninsula Regional Data Services (PRDS), are quite vague with regard to the marketing that agents will provide. In fact, they both include language whereby the sellers authorize the broker to advertise and market the property in any medium selected by the broker, but neither agreement outlines any particular requirements imposed upon the broker. In addition to the lack of detail with regard to the scope of services, there are two other significant issues that should

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launch the Georgetown University Energy Prize for more scalable approaches in energy efficiency. He wants to “spur innovation (in) the energy revolution.” “(Energy efficiency) is the quickest, most available way to impact energy uses,” Nelson said. The nationwide competition has a mix of communities from urban to rural. Nelson is excited to see communities from some of the wealthiest and most tech-savvy areas in the country participate. “We’ve got the whole range,” Nelson said. Nelson acknowledged that there were doubters of the competition during its designing phase, saying that it would not work or be successful. But according to him, that has not been the case. “I’m really proud to say ... over 100 utilities have stepped up,” Nelson said. He said Palo Alto signed on to this competition, and has been a known leader in sustained energy use.

be considered before signing a “standard” listing agreement. First, the forms are drafted in a way that provides a great deal of protection to the agents, which may be more one-sided than appropriate. Second, sellers may be liable for commission even if they don’t sell the property. Inadvertently triggering a commission obligation can come up in a few circumstances, such as when the seller makes the property “unsaleable” (e.g., canceling the listing or renting the property), or when the seller turns down a noncontingent offer at or above the asking price. The latter situation is particularly problematic in this market because many properties are priced at a level lower than the sellers hope to obtain. While agents are quick to point out that the “sellers never have to sell,” which is generally an accurate recitation of current case law, that is not the

same as saying that the clients will not owe commission unless a certain price target is hit. If the agents mean the latter, then that should be specifically agreed upon and included in the addendum. Many of these problems can be eliminated if addressed before the parties sign the listing contract, and if the agreed-upon terms are reduced to writing in the form of an addendum. Q Michael Repka, CEO and general counsel for DeLeon Realty, Palo Alto, formerly practiced real estate and tax law in Palo Alto. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Realtors. He can be reached at MichaelR@DeLeonRealty.com.

Six tips to crafting an addendum to the listing agreement 1.

The seller should address the expectations throughout the entire listing period, not just the first week.

Vague or general statements, such as the agent will “advertise the property aggressively” or “act diligently,” should be replaced by more specific commitments, such as the agent will “run a full-page ad in [a particular publication] every week until the property is sold,” or “produce and distribute 300 20-page fliers specific to the particular property.”

The agent should provide a minimum commitment in marketing expenditure (e.g., the agent will invest at least $20,000 in home preparation and marketing and provide the seller with receipts if requested).

If the sellers want to retain the right to turn down any offers below a certain price point, then that price should be agreed upon and included in the addendum.

If applicable, the seller should make sure to specifically address who is responsible for the cost of: inspections, staging, videos (reference a sample provided by the agent), brochures (reference a sample), virtual tours, photography (name particular photographer), cable TV ads (length and number), radio ads (length and number), newspaper and magazine ads (size, frequency and publications), and online marketing.

The seller should consider including clauses that reduce the commission if a particular price is not achieved or that increases the commission if the price exceeds a certain target.

‘(Energy efficiency) is the quickest,

most available way to impact energy uses.’ Christofer Nelson, project director of the Georgetown University Energy Prize

“They recognize that there’s still work to be done,” Nelson said. He hopes that the competition brings about different ways to conserve energy for other communities. They can “develop a few different models that can be replicated and scaled, (which can) improve the way we use energy in this country.” Catherine Elvert, communica-

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tions manager for the City of Palo Alto Utilities, said she enjoys how the city is participating in the competition. “We feel like this is a pretty unique opportunity. It’s great being one of 50 communities,” Elvert said. As for the city’s competition overseer, Elvert points to Bruce Lesch, the city’s key account representative. Lesch said they were introduced to the competition when former Councilman Larry Klein returned from a meeting in Washington, D.C., with details about it. From a utilities perspective, Lesch said, it was something that they thought would be fun. The city gives Georgetown University its energy-saving progress on a quarterly basis. Lesch said providing that information has not been as easy for other communities. “A lot of the cities had a lot of problems. ... It was easy for us,” he said. He also said that the city hopes the competition will reinvigorate its programs. Palo Alto has been actively pursuing energy-saving for more than

‘It’s a good, positive step for us. It benefits not just the city in achieving energy efficiency goals, but it also benefits

the community as well.’ Catherine Elvert, communications manager for the City of Palo Alto Utilities

30 years, which is one of the criteria that the city will be rated on. It will also be rated on program innovations, replication potential, future performance, equitable access, energy education and overall program quality. The winning community is required to spend its $5 million on programs outlined in its quarterfinal submissions. If Palo Alto wins, it will continue its energy efficiency programs. Elvert said that they are trying to encourage and engage residents to participate and help the city win. “It’s a good, positive step for us. It benefits not just the city in achieving energy efficiency goals, but it also benefits the community as well,” Elvert said. “It’s an environmental good.” Q Editorial Intern Jamauri Bowles can be emailed at jbowles@paweekly.com.

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Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

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

Atherton

88 Stern Lane Adelman Trust to Stern Lane Limited for $8,725,000 on 06/30/15

East Palo Alto

431 Daisy Lane R. Fletcher to P. Cochran for $630,000 on 07/01/15; previous sale 12/29/2006, $562,500 2748 Hunter St. Baldwin Trust to J. Chan for $490,000 on 07/01/15

Los Altos

705 Casita Way M. Dulleck to Yen-Ko Trust for $2,609,000 on 07/15/15 693 Hollingsworth Drive W. Lynch to W. Zhang for $1,938,000 on 07/13/15; previous sale 09/13/2006, $1,350,000 56 Loucks Ave. Risky Business to H. Peng for $1,880,000 on 07/16/15 779 Santa Rita Ave. D. & E. Snow to J. & L. Martin for $3,215,000 on 07/16/15; previous sale 04/09/2003, $1,300,000 738 S. Springer Road J. & N. Derrick to Douglas Trust for $3,350,000 on 07/15/15; previous sale 01/17/2008, $2,299,000

Los Altos Hills

27625 Red Rock Road AlvarezGordon Trust to Scott Trust for $3,300,000 on 07/15/15; previous sale 01/26/1996, $1,150,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $8,725,000 Highest sales price: $8,725,000

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,300,000 Highest sales price: $3,300,000

East Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $1,900,000 Highest sales price: $6,950,000

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $490,000 Highest sales price: $630,000

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,456,000 Highest sales price: $2,025,000

Los Altos

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,295,000 Highest sales price: $2,400,000

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,880,000 Highest sales price: $3,350,000

Woodside

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $840,000 Highest sales price: $4,710,000

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,495,000 Highest sales price: $14,500,000 Source: California REsource

Menlo Park

2513 Alpine Road Weil Trust to Gillis Trust for $1,700,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 08/21/1991, $380,000 120 Blackburn Ave. Sunshine Trust to E. & S. Henn for $2,025,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 07/02/2009, $855,000 243 O’Connor St. R. & L. Ponce to View of Beauty Trust for $1,456,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 09/25/1979, $169,500 267 Oakhurst Place A. Darnell to I. & S. Schworer for $1,500,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 10/29/1984, $167,000 1043 Ringwood Ave. J. & B. Wakefield to V. & C. Stoyanov for $1,600,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 10/30/1996, $310,000

Mountain View

529 Anza St. T. Jackson to A. Chean for $4,710,000 on 07/16/15; previous sale 10/22/2013, $424,000 1837 Drew Ave. A. Rosales

to Y. & H. Guy for $840,000 on 07/15/15; previous sale 08/29/2006, $340,000 525 Fairmont Ave. B. Gomez to D. Nelson for $1,475,000 on 07/15/15; previous sale 07/15/2013, $1,168,000 2350 Hilo Court Tzeng Trust to J. Shan for $2,250,000 on 07/14/15; previous sale 12/05/2007, $1,430,000 1669 Latham St. C. Rivera to Lim Trust for $1,325,000 on 07/16/15; previous sale 06/28/2011, $675,000 1823 Van Buren Circle Rose Trust to H. Aradhye for $3,000,000 on 07/15/15; previous sale 03/09/2004, $1,460,000 1862 Wagner Ave. Urbach Trust to B. Ghaziani for $1,050,000 on 07/13/15

Palo Alto

1542 Channing Ave. Zwierlein Trust to Y. Wu for $2,495,000 on 07/14/15 1499 Edgewood Drive Vought Trust to Y. Shen for $6,950,000

on 07/14/15; previous sale 03/30/1994, $857,500 703 Josina Ave. Hans Trust to J. Quan for $2,330,000 on 07/16/15 1730 Webster St. Mitic Trust to P. Lo for $5,650,000 on 07/16/15 2121 Webster St. Allen Trust to Q. Gao for $5,500,000 on 07/16/15 4161 Wilkie Way Poe Trust to J. Pama for $1,900,000 on 07/16/15; previous sale 05/13/1977, $88,500

Portola Valley

4 Portola Green Circle J. & T. Hessel to R. & J. Nordgren for $2,400,000 on 07/01/15; previous sale 04/30/1991, $585,000 2 Sandstone St. Anderson Trust to R. Kirshner for $2,295,000 on 07/01/15; previous sale 04/28/1983, $180,000

Woodside

1350 Bear Gulch Road E. Pena to Standfast Limited for $2,495,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 09/23/2013, $1,810,000

275 Josselyn Lane 9496 Trust to Josselyn Acquisition for $14,500,000 on 06/30/15; previous sale 08/08/2008, $9,500,000

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

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living room and rewire lighting in bathroom, add two circuits and outlets for laundry room, $n/a 450 Lambert Ave. re-roof, $71,000 570 Kingsley Ave. residential gas line replacement from meter in public row to house, $n/a 251 Lincoln Ave. change to the engineer of record, minor changes to the structural details, $n/a 3151 Cowper St. residential electrical breaker replacement, $n/a 875 Blake Wilbur Drive electrical for two illuminated signs, $n/a 3474 Kenneth Drive re-roof, $14,500 3797 Louis Road re-roof, $13,772 736 Garland Drive temporary power, $n/a 443 Fulton St. re-roof, $13,000 260 California Ave. revision to extend stairway, $n/a 103 Melville Ave. new residence with attached, covered porch and carport, second house includes two tankless water heaters, address request to 105 Melville, $342,680 2500 El Camino Real interior layout changes, $n/a 427 Lincoln Ave. temporary power, $n/a 1822 Edgewood Drive remove, replace water heater, $n/a 3378 Vernon Trail remove, replace water heater, $n/a 1042 Cowper St. remove, replace water heater, $n/a 777 San Antonio Ave., Unit #80 kitchen and bathroom remodel at a townhouse, $35,000 837 Altaire Walk add four recessed lights in townhouse, $n/a 103 Melville Ave. new residence with garage, includes two tankless water heaters, $280,940

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structural changes, includes removing and replacing a new hot water heater to attic, $33,352 1017 Forest Court re-roof, $13,960 501 Forest Ave. install two dual EVSE Level 2 at parking lot for tenant sharing, $n/a 418 Fernando Ave. remove/ replace water heater, $n/a 335 Kingsley Ave. residential furnace replacement and new AC unit in side yard, $n/a 904 Elsinore Drive residential copper repipe, $n/a 3000 El Camino Real revising auxiliary restroom from male and women restroom to unisex restrooms, $n/a 911 Hansen Way original scope to decommission and remove PCW, $n/a 1501 Page Mill Road deferred submittal for structural anchorage, $n/a 3730 Carlson Circle roof cleaning and coating, $10,318 415 California Ave. La Boheme: stand alone use and occupancy only, $n/a 92 Churchill Ave. first-story addition to an existing two-story, single-family residence, $74,705 3338 Waverley St. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 2960 Bryant St. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 1183 Amarillo Ave., Apt. #7 replace tank water heater, $n/a 180 El Camino Real deferred skylight/roof glazing, $n/a 2650 Birch St. add two stairs at the exterior and add an accessible walkway at the side of the building, $n/a 1918 Emerson St. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 512 Thain Way residential kitchen remodel, $35,000 855 California Ave. revision to add disabled access upgrade compliance checklist to plan, $n/a 60 Roosevelt Circle remodel the kitchen and two bathrooms, new foam roof, rewire the entire house and re-Sheetrock the interior of the house, replace all windows within existing openings, sewer replacement trenched and replace water line from meter to house, no work in the public right of way, and electric service upgrade, $75,000 1730 Embarcadero Road revise location of temporary office trailer location, $n/a 560 Cambridge Ave. multifamily re-roof, $50,000 945 Forest Ave. re-roof, $18,000 636 Waverley St. re-roof, structural changes to building, $n/a 201 Maclane St. replace the water line from the meter to the house, no work in the public right of way, $n/a 201 Maclane St. install NEMA outlet in garage, $n/a 430 Tennyson Ave. detached garage re-roof, $1,406 2879 Louis Road temporary power, $n/a 945 Forest Ave. garage re-roof, $5,349 2840 Emerson St. foundation repair: add 21 push piers, $23,000 390 Charleston Road roof cleaning and coating, $8,390 539 Rhodes Drive temporary power, $n/a 345 California Ave. reflected ceiling, light fixtures, eliminated office and wall covering finishes, $n/a 261 Hamilton Ave. revise plans to include garage design at basement and first-floor office layout and restrooms to match previously approved bulletin, $n/a 811 Hansen Way re-roof, $124,802 3091 Ross Road re-roof, $15,000 992 Elsinore Drive roof-mounted PV system and wall mounted inverter, $n/a 389 Matadero Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a

850 San Antonio Ave. install illuminated sign for “Beam Suitable Technologies,” $n/a 3645 Ramona St. roof-mounted PV system and wall mounted inverters, $n/a 790 Gailen Ave. re-roof, $17,882 1501 Page Mill Road deferred submittal for equipment anchorage, $n/a 2100 Geng Road changes to parking required by accessibility inspection, revise parking slopes and restripe accessible parking spaces, no changes to number of parking spaces, $n/a 1486 Dana Ave. demolish existing house, $n/a 1196 Hamilton Ave. re-roof, $33,365 2190 W. Bayshore Road, Suite #190 GreenStreets: use and occupancy only, change of ownership and tenant name for existing business, $n/a 665 Wellsbury Way re-roof, $14,500 3506 Emerson St. kitchen remodel, includes replacing seven windows, $20,000 2745 Byron St. replace three exterior stairs due to dry rot, $24,800 1950 Newell Road field clarification, bay windows and data, $n/a 1486 Dana Ave. demolish existing detached garage, $n/a 1761 Edgewood Drive revision to the bathroom layout, $n/a 544 Rhodes Drive residential addition, new one-car garage, and remodel includes relocating the electric meter, relocating the gas meter, includes converting garage to living space, addition of a new driveway approach across the planter strip was removed from scope, now using existing driveway approach, $137,378 1527 Castilleja Ave. new twostory house with basement, and garage attached to the house by the foundation and a beam, $660,093 2180 W. Bayshore Road, Suite #120 install two illuminated sign for “Chef Zhao,” $n/a 1501 Page Mill Road revised interior work, $n/a 1944 Bryant St. reconstruct detached two-car garage, $15,000 1527 Castilleja Ave. temporary power, $n/a 3373 Hillview Ave. field clarification kick brace detail, $n/a 3160 Porter Drive remove existing domestic water heater, tank and pump in mechanical yard and install new skip-mounted package DHW system on concrete pad, $45,000 661 Bryant St. revised conference room design to accommodate load bearing wall, $n/a 601 Alester Ave. residential bathroom remodel, $21,000 2190 W. Bayshore Road, Suite #190 install illuminated sign for “GreenStreets”, $n/a 3481 South Court roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 659 Glenbrook Drive upgrade electrical service, $n/a 2133 Webster St. add new Btu gas insert, $n/a 3661 Ramona St. revised location of addition due to field conditions, $n/a 2076 Edgewood Drive residential addition at rear, $43,200 640 Emerson St. Historic Category 3: commercial replacement of two existing roof-top units in same location, replacement of existing roof-top exhaust fan with new HVAC unit in new location, $21,725 1426 Pitman Ave. revised bathroom and laundry layout on first and second floor, $n/a 844 Ross Court re-roof, $13,000 445 California Ave. Brioche: electrical for new illuminated sign, $n/a 4085 El Camino Way deferred submittal for awning design, $n/a 3750 Corina Way roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 993 Embarcadero Road demolish existing detached garage,

$n/a 543 Hilbar Lane replace wood beam with a steel beam, no change to exterior, $n/a 993 Embarcadero Road singlestory addition and rebuild, kitchen and bath remodel, covered porch and attached garage, includes new tankless water heater, new AC unit at side yard and relocation and upgrade of existing panel, $n/a 1681 Castilleja Ave. kitchen and master bath remodel, $65,000 425 Margarita Ave. demolish existing detached garage, $n/a 4327 Miranda Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 911 Cowper St. install heat pump with three indoor wallmounted air handlers, $n/a 855 California Ave. tenant improvement for existing tenant, “Merck,” includes minor wall modifications and relocation of equipment in lab and AHU replacement, $275,000 4015 Miranda Ave. tenant improvement and use and occupancy, including new partitions, ceilings, finishes, mechanical, plumbing and electrical, re-roof, $5,600,000 4247 Pomona Ave. replace furnace and add AC unit, $n/a 180 El Camino Real, Suite #721 interior non-structural demolish in preparation for tenant improvement under separate permit, $n/a 180 El Camino Real, Suite #99 interior non-structural demolish in preparation for tenant improvement under separate permit, $n/a 1105 Channing Ave. re-roof, $14,791 2291 South Court add electrical to detached accessory structure: six outlets, one light, one switch, and two circuits, $n/a 944 Forest Ave. re-roof, $11,153 1440 Dana Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 2300 Harvard St. roof-mounted PV system expansion, original system installed in 2006, $n/a 2426 Park Blvd. use and occupancy only for “Parker Salon, Inc.,” $n/a 3067 Emerson St. 3067-3077 Emerson St.: window retrofit, $15,368 249 Matadero Ave. repipe water lines throughout house, $n/a 660 Arastradero Road re-roof, $25,900 537 Hamilton Ave. two commercial illuminated blade signs, $n/a 660 Arastradero Road detached garage re-roof, $6,400 596 N. California Ave. re-roof includes, $29,000 1125 Channing Ave. replace sewer line, $n/a 230 Maclane St. install AC unit on side yard and associated electric and mechanical, $n/a 1301 Bryant St. re-roof, $17,000 621 Arastradero Road roofmounted PV system, $n/a 3382 Kenneth Drive re-roof, $16,400 3505 Middlefield Road re-roof, $58,000 1301 Bryant St. re-roof, $18,000 2111 Yale St. sewer line replacement prow, $n/a 645 Channing Ave. replace water line from meter to house, street work permit under, $n/a 311 Everett Ave., Unit #A multifamily kitchen and bath remodel, $24,741 958 Addison Ave. engineering for sliding patio door in living room, $n/a 1651 Page Mill Road deferred submittal for anchorage of site railing, $n/a 1651 Page Mill Road deferred submittal for parapet anchorage, $n/a 840 Melville Ave. install two AC units associated electrical and mechanical, $n/a 390 Margarita Ave. revise downspout locations, $n/a

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* Statistics from BrokerMetrics, an independent third-party that compiles MLS data for the top 10 listing brokerages in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties from January 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015 (Market Share Totals, List $ Volume (By Broker), Sold: List-Side, Residential Property). ** Statistics from MLS data (Basic Market Stats) for DeLeon Realty from January 2014 to June 2015. *** Statistics from MLS data for Price/Sq. Ft. Ratio in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties from January 2014 to June 2015 compared to DeLeon Realty’s average for the same period.

Per REAL Trends Inc. rankings released June 2015, published in the Wall Street Journal

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46 Fair Oaks Lane, Atherton Offered at $3,488,000 Gated Craftsman Home, Beautifully Restored Flaunting period details, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom Craftsman-style home of 2,680 sq. ft. (per county) covers a lot of 0.62 acres (per county). Two gates open to a semi-circular driveway, leading to this home adorned with 10-foot coved ceilings, white oak floors, antique fixtures, and picture molding. Pocket doors open to a formal living room with a fireplace and a formal dining room with a bronze stove. The elegantly remodeled kitchen adjoins a butler’s pantry, a walk-in pantry, and a light-filled breakfast room. Three beautiful bedrooms include the master suite, which features two closets, a sunroom, and a newly remodeled bathroom. These gorgeous grounds enjoy large outdoor entertainment areas, plus new landscaping, a fountain, rosebushes, vegetable planters, and a detached garage. Other highlights include an updated hall bathroom and a lower-level bonus room. Walking distance from Caltrain, the home is also steps from Holbrook-Palmer Park and the Atherton Library. Excellent nearby schools like Encinal Elementary (API 930), Hillview Middle (API 950), and Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.46FairOaks.com

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

M h lR k Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880

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54 West Summit Drive, Emerald Hills Offered at $2,198,000 Rich Amenities Inside Posh Home Terrific craftsmanship, high-end amenities, and luxurious spaces await within this 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 2,760 sq. ft. (per county) that sits on a lot of 10,230 sq. ft. (per county). Fine features like elaborate millwork and oak floors enhance the open living areas, which include a living room with window seating, a dining room with a coffered ceiling, and a family room that adjoins the kitchen and the breakfast area. Granite countertops and Viking appliances refine the gourmet island kitchen, and a bedroom on the main level may serve as a home office. Three more large bedrooms are upstairs, including the dreamy master suite with its opulent, stone-trimmed bathroom. The property also features an attached two-car garage, and a rear deck overlooking the large backyard. Other highlights include a central vacuum system, two fireplaces, and a finished shed. Here, you will be near Interstate 280, local shopping, and numerous parks and natural preserves. Great nearby schools include Clifford School and Woodside High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Ken D K DeLeon L CalBRE #01342140

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Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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5 Betty Lane, Atherton

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$23,995,000

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Ano Nuevo Scenic Ranch, Davenport

26140 Rancho Manuella Ln., Los Altos Hils

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

$19,800,000

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245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside

669 Hayne Road, Hillsborough

$8,250,000

$7,950,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

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568 Mountain Home Road, Woodside

11030 Magdalena Road, Los Altos Hills

138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley

$7,200,000

$6,500,000 (Off Market)

$6,488,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

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1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

38 Hacienda Drive, Woodside

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$5,850,000

$5,450,000

$3,200,000

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JUST LISTED / OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

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Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson St, Palo Alto 650.644.3474

Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

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List your home with

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DeLeon Realty will cover all of the following at no additional charge: • Staging* • Property Inspection • Pest Inspection *Includes: Design, Installation, 1 Month of Furniture Rental and Removal

Our clients love the personal attention they receive from Michael Repka, from beginning to end. Additionally you will receive a suite of free services from the DeLeon Team, including interior design, construction consulting, handyman work, and dedicated marketing to local and foreign buyers. ®

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SALE PENDING

Joseph Bentley

PORTOLA VALLEY

650.867.0199 jbentley@apr.com

$3,995,000

Beautiful forest setting, fabulous 4bd/4.5ba split-level contemporary craftsman home freshly painted, freshly reﬁnished hardwood ﬂoors, separate DR, LR, huge kitchen, office, all on 1.52+/- acres.

Marybeth Dorst

MENLO PARK

650.245.8890 mdorst@apr.com

$3,195,000

Exceptional remodeled home in West Menlo - Sold with multiple offers.

Kathleen Wilson

MENLO PARK

650.207.2017 kwilson@apr.com

$1,995,000

Expanded home with dramatic living room and separate dining area featuring French doors and hardwood through out! 4bd including a master suite, office, 2ba and family room. Near downtown Palo Alto and Menlo Park!

Joe & Mary Merkert 650. 387. 5464 650. 303. 2221 jmerkert@apr.com mmerkert@apr.com

Jeff Stricker Steve TenBroeck 650.823.8057 650.450.0160 JeffAndSteve.com

Lynn North

650.209.1562 lnorth@apr.com

MENLO PARK

$3,550,000

Spectacular private residence on the Sharon Heights Golf Course. Quiet-cul- de sac with 5 bd/5ba, this home has it all! Las Lomitas schools, access to 280 and Stanford.

LOS ALTOS

$2,500,000

Remodeled to perfection, this 4bd/3ba includes a guest bedroom and full bath - perfect for guests or au pair!

LOS ALTOS

$1,899,000

Stunning, remodeled 3bd/2.5ba executive home with office, near top Cupertino schools. Gorgeous quarter-acre lot.

SOLD

Carol Carnevale & Nicole Aron

650-543-1195 CarolandNicole@apr.com

Sharon Walz Carolyn Botts 650.279.4652 650.207.0246 swalz@apr.com cbotts@apr.com

MENLO PARK $1,695,000 Iconic 3bd/2ba ranch-style home ideally located in the Las Lomitas School District! www.101Hillside.com

LOS ALTOS HILLS

Price Upon Request

Desirable Los Altos Hills. 4bd/3ba home on nearly one +/acre with pool and spa. Detached barn + 2-car garage.

Valerie Soltau 650.464.3896 vsoltau@apr.com

Heather Green 650.810.3219 hgreen@apr.com

BELMONT

$1,530,000

3 bedroom, 2 bath. Perfect Picture Views from this Perfect Picture Home. Represented the Buyer.

MENLO PARK

Coming Soon

Charming cottage on a private street in the Willows with many original details. Menlo Park schools and proximity to downtown Palo Alto.

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of diﬀerent sources. Such information has not been veriﬁed by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

See it all at

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@alainpinel

Palo Alto 650.323.1111 | Menlo Park 650.462.1111

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Bay Area Collection Menlo Park. Burlingame 650.314.7200 | paciﬁcunion.com

APPOINTMENT ONLY

1 Faxon Road, Atherton $20,700,000 5+ BD / 5+ BA Custom gated estate in premier Menlo Circus Club location on 1.7+ acres with solar-heated pool, golf practice hole. 1faxon.com Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com

APPOINTMENT ONLY

650 Berkeley Ave, Menlo Park $6,495,000 5 BD / 5.5 BA Stunning newly constructed modern farmhouse with thoughtfully designed, 2-level ﬂoor plan including 5 ensuite bedrooms and an elegant mix of modern and rustic details throughout. Open Sunday 8/16. David Weil, 650.823.3855 david@davidweilhomes.com

GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN CENTRAL ATHERTON

57 N. Gate, Atherton $1,749,000 2 BD / 1 BA Charming cottage in Central Atherton, updated interiors, inviting venue for outdoor living. Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 14, 2015 • Page 47

PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 2012 Farndon Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel

ATHERTON 2 Bedrooms

$2,500,000 941-1111

650 Berkeley Ave $6,495,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

PORTOLA VALLEY 180 Escobar Rd Sun Deleon Realty

57 N Gate $1,749,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

LOS ALTOS HILLS

MOUNTAIN VIEW

3 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Townhouse

5 Bedrooms

14700 Manuella Rd. $4,750,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

366 Sierra Vista Ave #5 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

4 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

490 Walsh Rd $7,180,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

6 Bedrooms 37 Ringwood Ave Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,480,000 462-1111

BELMONT

26181 Moody Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$4,988,000 543-8500

485 S Rengstorff Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

12165 Hilltop Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,598,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

NEWARK

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 1708 Terrace Dr. $1,238,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

13824 Moon Ln Sun Deleon Realty

$6,788,000 543-8500

EAST PALO ALTO

27633 Via Cerro Gordo Sat/Sun 1 - 4 Jim Plummer

$4,250,000 650-464-1314

1 Bedroom - Condominum 1982 W Bayshore Rd. #214 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$495,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms 2847 Temple Ct Fri 4-7/Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$999,888 325-6161

7 Bedrooms 2206 Lincoln St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,777,860 325-6161

LOS ALTOS $2,498,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms 5887 Arboretum Dr Sun Deleon Realty

$4,988,000 543-8500

$880,000 947-2900 $1,149,000 323-1111

3 Bedrooms Sharon Oaks Dr $1,475,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 1975 Avy $2,350,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

4 Bedrooms 668 & 672 Partridge Ave. $3,190,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Ferrari Investment Co. 464-4984 1015 Atkinson Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

$5,695,000 323-7751

1795 Holly Ave Sun Kerwin & Associates

$4,750,000 473-1500

1355 Hillview Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,398,000 462-1111

$2,988,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 40 Firethorn Ave $6,888,000 Sat 1:30-4/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 206.6200

REDWOOD CITY 2 Bedrooms - Condominum 1240 Woodside Rd 21 Sun Coldwell Banker

$599,000 325-6161

SAN CARLOS 4 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms 6317 Potrero Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$619,000 323-7751

PALO ALTO

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 775 Anderson Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

MENLO PARK

364 N Rengstorff Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,095,000 321-1596

4 Bedrooms

$1,899,900 325-6161

4 Bedrooms 2088 Channing Ave $2,995,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 3246 Waverley St Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,998,000 325-6161

WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 1235 Alma St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

120 Wingate Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,549,900 323-1111

440 Churchill Ave $4,395,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

240 Lindenbrook Rd $998,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

4 Bedrooms 3 Vineyard Hill Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 579 Old La Honda Rd Sun 11-3 Coldwell Banker 785 W California Wy Sun Coldwell Banker

$8,495,000 462-1111 $3,195,000 851-2666 $3,695,000 851-1961

5 Bedrooms

1094 Forest Ave. $4,998,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

25 Oakhill Dr $8,250,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

5 Bedrooms

6 Bedrooms

2593 Marshall St Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker

$4,298,000 325-6161

38 Hacienda Dr $5,450,000 Sun Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

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ne of a kind unobstructed bay view! Private and beautifully situated on a court lot with panoramic view of the bay and city lights. This is a custom built contemporary home, first time ever on the market with 5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 4,030 sq.ft. of living space, 24,390 sq.ft. lot. Just minutes to Downtown Redwood City, Whole Foods, Sequoia Station, Caltrain, highway 280 and 101.

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201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts mercedes 1979 300sd - $2000 obo Mercedes 2002 E320 Mercedes E320 Station Wagon. 2002. 92,555 miles. Excellent condition. Gold exterior/tan leather interior. Third row seating. $5000. Contact 2002E320@gmail.com

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) 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)

HUGE USED BOOK SALE/FREE BOOKS Push and Pull of Digital Health Summer Showcase! THE BURGOS ENSEMBLE

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) Airline Careers Start Here - Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-231-7177. (Cal-SCAN)

133 Music Lessons

I buy old Porsche’s 911, 356. 1948-1973 only. Any condition. Top $$ paid. Finders Fee. Call 707-965-9546 or email porscheclassics@yahoo.com (Cal-SCAN) Older Car, Boat, 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 Palo Alto, 1545 Edgewood Dr, August 15 & 16, 9-1 Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston, Aug. 14 & 15 Large church yard sale: clothes, books, household, electronics Palo Alto, 757 Oregon Ave., Aug. 15 9am /4pm.

Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home. Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950

240 Furnishings/ Household items

Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

Tot Turf Open House 8/7 Saturday 8/7/15 from 10 am to 2 pm Come tour our facility. We have openings children age 2 and above for both full and part time! Enjoy snacks while you learn about our program and let the kids explore.

Piano Lessons Quality Piano Lessons in Menlo Park. Call (650)838-9772 Alita Lake

Dish Network Get MORE for LESS! Starting $19.99/ month (for 12 months.) PLUS Bundle and SAVE (Fast Internet for $15 more/ month.) CALL Now 1-800-357-0810 (Cal-SCAN)

145 Non-Profits Needs Stanford Museums Volunteer

150 Volunteers CASHIER BOOKSTORE MITCHELL PARK Fosterers Needed for Moffet Cats

152 Research Study Volunteers

DISH TV Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) SAVE! Regular Price $34.99 Ask About FREE SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 844-597-4481 (AAN CAN) SAT, PSAT, AP books - $50

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Women’s clothing and accessories $ 5.00 -50

Kid’s Stuff 330 Child Care Offered Afternoon child care on Thursday Full Time Nanny.

Structured Settlement? Sell your structured settlement or annuity payments for CASH NOW. You don’t have to wait for your future payments any longer! Call 1-800-673-5926 (Cal-SCAN)

Senior Web Developer Poshmark of Menlo Park, CA seeks full time Sr Web Developer to create web applications with simple user interface and solid code. See www.poshmark. com. for details.

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Mind & Body 425 Health Services Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? Shoulder Pain? Get a pain- relieving brace -little or NO cost to you. Medicare Patients Call Health Hotline Now! 1- 800-796-5091 (Cal-SCAN) Safe Step Walk-In Tub! Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide Door. Anti- Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN) Struggling with Drugs or alcohol? Addicted to pills? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope and Help Line for a free assessment. 800-978-6674

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560 Employment Information Drivers: Great Miles plus Top 1% Pay. Loyalty Bonus. Quality Equipment w APUs. Pet/ Rider Program. Matching 401K CDL-A Req - (877) 258-8782 www.drive4melton.com (Cal-SCAN)

Jobs 500 Help Wanted Drivers: No Experience? Some or LOTS of experience? Let’s Talk! No matter what stage in your career, it’s time. Call Central Refrigerated Home. 888-891-2195 www. CentralTruckDrivingJobs.com (Cal-SCAN) Assistant Project Manager Provide construction project management services; monitor cost/ quality; coordinate project activities. Cambridge CM, Inc., 420 Olive Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Mail resume. Ref job #ME016. Branch 2 Pest Control Technician Fax 408-294-2067 or email service@littledavidpestcontrol.com

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Clerk CLERICAL OFFICE SUPPORT Responsibilities include providing clerical support to management. Skills required - excellent customer service, efficient in documentation procedures such as excel, microsoft word, scanning, retrieval of documents and multitasking capabilities. Salary $12.00 hourly.

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245 Miscellaneous DirecTV Starting at $19.99/mo. FREE Installation. FREE 3 months of HBO SHOWTIME CINEMAX, STARZ. FREE HD/DVR Upgrade! 2015 NFL Sunday Ticket Included (Select Packages) New Customers Only. CALL 1-800-385-9017 (CalSCAN)

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Cashier and Cook For Oaxacan Kitchen Markets. P/T, weekends only @ PA Farmers’ Markets. Will train for cook position. Apply 650/799-7292 or oaxacankitchenmarkets@gmail.com

Business Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is accepting resumes for the position of Business Analyst in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #HPECPALHSAS1). Research and elicit, analyze, validate and document business requirements, and ensure that those requirements clearly reflect true business needs, correctly representing all stakeholders. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-2F-25, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address and mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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636 Insurance Auto Insurance starting at $25/month! Call 855-977-9537 Health & Dental Insurance Lowest Prices. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (CalSCAN)

640 Legal Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s hostile business climate? Gain the edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the FREE One-Month Trial Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www. capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN)

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Home Services 715 Cleaning Services

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748 Gardening/ Landscaping A. Barrios Garden Maintenance *Weekly or every other week *Irrigation systems *Clean up and hauling *Tree removal *Refs. 650/771-0213; 392-9760

J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781

624 Financial Reduce Your Past Tax Bill by as much as 75 Percent. Stop Levies, Liens and Wage Garnishments. Call The Tax DR Now to see if you Qualify 1-800-498-1067. (Cal-SCAN)

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Down 1 Kimono closers 2 Match (up) 3 Petri dish goo 4 “Just ad-lib if you have to” 5 Plant malady 6 Full-screen intrusions, e.g. 7 Cole Porter’s “___ Do It” 8 “The Ego and the Id” author 9 Bud 10 “This way” 11 “Famous” cookie guy 12 Modernists, slangily 13 TV component? 19 Aquafina competitor 21 Snoop (around) 25 “___ a biscuit!” 27 Newman’s Own competitor 28 Burn, as milk 29 Assistants 30 Drug store? 32 “Wildest Dreams” singer Taylor 34 Curie or Antoinette 35 Big name in the kitchen 36 Comes clean 38 Aardvark’s antithesis? 39 Feature with “Dismiss” or “Snooze” 44 “I give up [grumble grumble]” 47 Instruction to a violinist 48 Interpol’s French headquarters 50 Get there 54 Take-out order? 56 Wranglers, e.g. 57 “Don’t be a spoilsport!” 58 Light headwear? 59 Dwarf planet discovered in 2005 61 Guitarist Clapton 63 Dance party in an abandoned warehouse 64 “Length times width” measurement 65 Hose snag? 67 “___ the land of the free ...” 68 General in Chinese restaurants ©2015 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

Menlo Park Newly remodeled downtown condo! We pay our buyer’s closing costscall 650-326-2900 for info

757 Handyman/ Repairs AAA HANDYMAN & MORE Since 1985 Repairs • Maintenance • Painting Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical All Work Guaranteed

(650) 453-3002 Handyman Services Lic. 249558. Plumb, elect., masonry, carpentry, landscape. 40+ years exp. Pete Rumore, 650/823-0736; 650/851-3078

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J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., mattresses, green waste, more. Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 (see my Yelp reviews)

Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

775 Asphalt/ Concrete Mtn. View Asphalt Sealing Driveway, parking lot seal coating. Asphalt repair, striping, 30+ years. Family owned. Free est. Lic. 507814. 650/967-1129 Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572

779 Organizing Services

Village Auto For Sale or Lease First Time on the Market in 20+ Years Fantastic Downtown Location ± 3,200 SF Building ± 4,200 SF Lot Owners are Open to Converting the Building to Office or Retail for Long Term Lease

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805 Homes for Rent Los Altos - $4950 Menlo Park, 5+ BR/3 BA - $7900 Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $6,500 Woodside, 4 BR/3.5 BA - $10,500

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Menlo Park, 3 BR/2.5 BA Unique Allied Arts Prop 3bd,2.5 bth built.Price incl.2nd home 1+ bd/1bth bungalow great for rental or in-laws. Both homes move-in ready, must see! Main home-668 Partridge Ave, bungalow-672 Partridge Ave

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Across 1 “August: ___ County” (Best Picture nominee of 2014) 6 Furry TV alien 9 Secret audience member 14 “So help me” 15 “___ Kommissar’s in town ...” 16 “Voices Carry” singer Mann 17 Struck with amazement 18 Silver metallic cigarette brand? 20 Cut corners 22 4x4, frequently 23 “To be,” to Brutus 24 Art colony location 26 Hummus and tzatziki, broadly 28 Bathrobe closer 31 Daily ___ (political blog) 33 Airborne stimuli 37 Non-military person good at getting smaller? 40 “___ dreaming?” 41 “Win ___ With Tad Hamilton!” (2004 romantic comedy) 42 “Black gold” 43 Visnjic of “ER” 45 “___ Troyens” (Berlioz opera) 46 Head of all the bison? 49 E flat’s equivalent 51 Effort 52 Votes in Congress 53 Broccoli ___ (bitter veggie) 55 Austin Powers’s “power” 57 “Believe” singer 60 Feldspar, e.g. 62 ___ pathways 66 Video game plumber’s reason for salicylic acid? 69 On the ball 70 Greek salad ingredient 71 Bro’s sibling, maybe 72 Beauty brand that happens to anagram to another brand in this puzzle 73 Brown-___ 74 Non-polluter’s prefix 75 Move stealthily

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 607376 The following person(s)/entity(ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): M2M ANGEL 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324 Palo Alto, CA 94306 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 12/19/2013 UNDER FILE NO. 586139 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): HAIHONG GAO 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324 Palo Alto, CA 94306 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 27, 2015. (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015)

LIVINGWATERINME MINISTRIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 607148 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Livingwaterinme Ministries, located at 4270 Terman Dr. #104, 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): JOCELYN HUANG 4270 Terman Dr., #104 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 July 21, 2015. (PAW July 24, 31, Aug. 7, 14, 2015)

LUMO LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 607698 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lumo LLC, located at HanaMaus, 456 University Ave., 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): LUMO LLC HanaMaus, 456 University Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on July 1st., 2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 3, 2015. (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015)

SHIRAZ ENTERPRISE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 607133 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Shiraz Enterprise, located at 95 Polaris Ct., Milpitas, CA 95035, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ALIREZA BEHBOOD 95 Polaris Ct. Milpitas, CA 95035 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/21/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 21, 2015. (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015)

SCG FOODSPACE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 606821 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: SCG FoodSpace, located at 6328 Sponson Ct., San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JOSEPH SCHUMAKER 6328 Sponson Ct. San Jose, CA 95123 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 July 8, 2015. (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015)

CARDINAL HOTEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 606628 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Cardinal Hotel, located at 235 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Trust. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): STEPHAN B. DAHL 235 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/18/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 2, 2015. (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015)

CARDINAL WRESTLING CLUB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 607845 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Cardinal Wrestling Club, located at 641 E. Campus Dr., Stanford CA 94305, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ADVANCED TRAINING WRESTLING CLUB, INC. 641 E. Campus Dr. Stanford, CA 94305 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/16/2007. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 7, 2015. (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015)

BO CRANE BOOKS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 606745 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bo Crane Books, located at 4283 Wilkie Way, 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): ROBERT L. CRANE JR. 4283 Wilkie Way 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 July 7, 2015. (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015)

CONNECT PEOPLE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 607253 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Connect People, located at 780 Maplewood Avenue, 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): CHRISTOPHER PERALTA 780 Maplewood Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/21/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 22, 2015. (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015)

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM 997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV283104 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: WILLIAM THOMAS CAPOGEANNIS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: WILLIAM THOMAS CAPOGEANNIS to WILLIAM THOMAS DAMRON. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 13, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: July 15, 2015 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW July 24, 31, Aug. 7, 14, 2015) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV283440 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ELLE MIZUKI TOYAMA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

ELLE MIZUKI TOYAMA to ELLE MIZUKI FUKUI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 20, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: July 22, 2015 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV283601 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ALEKSANDAR TOTIC, INGRID TOTIC filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: A.) OLIVER KONSTANTIN TOTICH to OLIVER KONSTANTIN TOTIC B.) ANDERS NAIM TOTICH to ANDERS NAIM TOTIC C.) NINA VIVIAN TOTICH to NINA MISITA TOTIC. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 27, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: July 28, 2015 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN EDWIN NORTHRUP also known as JOHN E. NORTHRUP Case No.: 1-15-PR-176921 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOHN EDWIN NORHRUP, also known as JOHN E. NORTHRUP, also known as JOHN NORTHRUP. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SCOTT NORTHRUP in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SCOTT NORTHRUP 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,

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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 September 3 at 9:00 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: Elijah M. Keyes, Gilfix & La Poll Associates, LLP 2300 Geng Road, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650)493-8070 (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015)

CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CASE NUMBER: 83847 CASE NAME: Jules Daniel Cole SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF San Mateo 1. To: Jack and anyone claiming to be a parent of: Jules Daniel Cole born on: July 7th, 2014 at: a sidewalk in Palo Alto, CA 2. A hearing will be held on: September 21st, 2015 at: 9:00am in Dept.: 5 located at 222 Paul Scannell Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402 3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. 4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. 5. You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. 6. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final. 7. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Date: 7-31-15 Clerk, by Dolores Bonal, Deputy Request for Accommodations Assistive listening systems, computerassisted real-time captioning, or sign language interpreter services are available if you ask at least five days before the proceeding. Contact the clerk’s office or go to www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ forms for Request for Accommodations by Persons With Disabilities and Response (form MC-410). (Civil Code, 54.8.)

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV283794 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: CARLY ROSE HAGEN NEUGASS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CARLY ROSE HAGEN NEUGASS to CARLY ROSE HAGEN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 27, 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: 107 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: July 31, 2015 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015)

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