Palo Alto Weekly September 18, 2015

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Officials: Tax must fund Caltrain upgrade City makes a case for submerging rail corridor through Palo Alto

by Gennady Sheyner

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ith a transportationtax measure speeding toward the November 2016 ballot, cities throughout Santa Clara County have collectively submitted more than 600 projects to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) that they’d like to see funded with

the new tax. But while recent polls show strong support for the measure countywide, many in Palo Alto remain highly skeptical about any proposal that does not separate the train tracks that serve Caltrain from city roadways.

The City Council on Tuesday night made a fresh case for why

such an ambitious and potentially transformative project should be at least partially funded by the measure, which would raise the sales tax by 1/2 cent and collect about $6 billion for rail, expressway and road-repair projects throughout the county.

After hearing the latest update on the tax measure from Carl Guardino, CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, council members took turns making the case for a “grade separation,” which

would involve building a trench for Caltrain. The project would have an estimated price tag of about $1 billion.

Guardino, whose business group is leading the drive for the tax measure, had plenty of good news to report about the latest survey by pollster Jim Moore: 73 percent of respondents said they would support a 1/4-cent tax increase for transportation, while 68 percent they would support a 1/2-cent hike. Guardino said his

organization supports the greater increase.

“It’s the view of the Leadership Group that if we’re going to collectively do anything together in 2016, let’s go big or not do anything,” Guardino said.

The high polling numbers, driven by a thriving economy and rising traffic congestion, offered high hopes to proponents of the measure. Even more en(continued on page 9)

LAND USE

Council not sold on new El Camino development Palo Alto officials hit the brakes on project proposed for city’s most congested intersection

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Fresh crop of frosh Stanford University orientation volunteers Jamieson O’Marr, center, Teo Camacho, right, help incoming freshman put their belongings into rooms at Soto House on Sept. 15 during the university’s move-in day.

RETAIL

New grocer offers to move into Edgewood Plaza Andronico’s would fill the gap left by The Fresh Market

by Sue Dremann

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dgewood Plaza Shopping Center could soon have a new grocer in the form of Andronico’s Community Markets, according to center redeveloper Sand Hill Property Co. If Andronico’s does enter into an agreement it would occupy a space only slightly smaller than the 25,000-square-foot store it operated at Stanford Shopping Center until 2011.

The news this week pleased residents of the Duveneck/St.

Francis and Crescent Park neighborhoods, who have been waiting anxiously for a new grocery retailer.

Edgewood, which is located at 2080 Channing Ave. near Embarcadero Road and U.S. Highway 101, has been without an anchor grocery store since March 31, when East Coast-based The Fresh Market pulled out. The market’s closure came just as other smaller retail stores were opening in the renovated shopping center, rais-

ing neighbors’ hopes that Edgewood would realize its potential as a thriving community shopping district.

The Fresh Market store was said to be profitable, but the company closed its half-dozen California locations to concentrate on East Coast and Midwest expansion, officials stated at the time. Since then, The Fresh Market continued to hold its 10-year (continued on page 13)

aced with traffic problems, parking shortages and public angst over new developments, Palo Alto officials swiftly swatted down on Tuesday night a proposal to build a four-story building at the chronically congested intersection of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road.

In a pre-screening session that didn’t include any votes, the City Council sent a strong signal that it will not approve any proposal that favors offices over housing and that would worsen traffic.

The feedback means that the project envisioned for the former Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) parking lot at 2755 El Camino Real will need to undergo major revisions before it wins the green light.

The council didn’t reach any clear consensus on what exactly they would like to see at the site, which is currently zoned for “public facility” and would require a zone change before a housing or commercial development.

Two years ago, Pollock Financial Group approached the city with a proposal for a “plannedcommunity” (PC) zone change, a highly controversial process that allows developers to exceed zoning regulations in exchange for public benefits negotiated with the city. In February 2014, the council agreed to put a moratorium on the zoning, leaving the Pollock proposal in planning limbo.

To emerge from that limbo, the developer proposed a different type of zoning: community commercial (CC2). The designation would enable Pollock to build a 32,456-square-foot, four-story

building with retail and office space on the ground floor, four residential units on the top floor and offices in the rest of the space. The development would also include three levels of underground parking.

What would the city get in return? Primarily, a strip of land on Page Mill that would be turned into a right-turn lane, potentially easing congestion.

“We are prepared to give this valuable land if we can agree together on a viable project such that we can afford to give it up,” applicant Jeff Pollock told the council during his presentation Tuesday.

Pollock also offered to install neighborhood traffic-calming devices and contribute $250,000 for a study of the intersection.

But the council, which now enjoys a slow-growth “residentialist” majority, was in no mood for negotiating.

Council members took issue with the particular zone the applicant was requesting. Of the various commercial zoning designations in the city code, CC2 is at the higher end of the density scale. It would allow 39,126 square feet of commercial space.

By comparison, an alternative zoning designation, service commercial (CS), would allow 7,825 square feet.

A report from the city’s planning staff noted that CC2 zoning is intended for “larger shopping centers and districts that have a wider variety of goods and services than the neighborhood shopping areas.” It gave as examples sites like Stanford Shopping Center and Town & Country Village. (continued on page 12)

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Around Town

MISSING GILA ... A bronze giraffe that has made children smile for the past 10 years at The Wonder Years Preschool in Palo Alto was stolen over the Labor Day weekend, according to school officials.

The 5-foot-tall sitting giraffe, named Gila, was a favorite of the children at the school at 991 Commercial St., said Julie Fernandez, assistant director. When staff members returned after the holiday, they didn’t notice the sculpture was missing, but the kids — who would climb and sit on Gila — did.

“The kids started asking, ‘What happened to it?’” Fernandez said.

“I said, ‘I don’t know. Maybe it went to the zoo.’” School owner and Executive Director Helen Szteinbaum said that on the Friday before the holiday, she had told some children not to climb up unsafely on the giraffe. They thought that she had removed the sculpture because of that. But by Wednesday when it was still missing, staff checked the security cameras and found footage of two men picking it up and carrying it off. Szteinbaum said she purchased the giraffe because she wanted the children to be exposed to art. The giraffe itself represents the most elegant and distinguished creature in the animal kingdom, and it speaks to keeping one’s head high, she said. Szteinbaum paid around $2,000 for the sculpture, which weighs between 90 and 110 pounds, she said. To replace it will cost $4,800, since the artist must make it on special order. The new sculpture won’t be ready for about 1 1/2 months, she said. Fernandez said the school’s courtyard seems empty without Gila. The school’s 80 children miss the giraffe, and they don’t understand why anyone would steal her, she said. Szteinbaum doesn’t think it will be easy for the thieves to sell the sculpture. “The artist is very well-known in the community and he is letting everyone know in his circles that it was stolen,” she said. Police are asking that anyone who sees the sculpture advertised or who has information about its whereabouts call the Palo Alto Police Department at 650-329-2413.

PLAYGROUND OASIS ... The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (OFJCC) is in the process of constructing the Oasis Experience, a children’s playground that will feature rocks and other things

to climb on, a large pomegranate with removable “seeds” (they’re actually mini pillows) and a twisty footbridge. The 4,300-square-foot Oasis, which will be constructed

by Richmond-based Scientific Art Studio Design, will also add Jewish content by drawing on shapes, colors and the feel of a Middle Eastern desert, according to officials. The play structure will be based on seven sources of food — wheat, barley, pomegranates, grapes, figs, olives and honey — that are listed in the book of Deuteronomy’s description of the land of Israel.

A “nomad tent” with pillows and benches is also planned for the play area. “When I was growing up, my parents told me to go out and play and be back by dinner,” said Zack Bodner, CEO of the OFJCC. “I think many of us with kids wish we still lived in that world. Sadly, that era of free-range kids is over. But we want to recreate it at the Oshman Family JCC.” The $1 million play area, which is part of an effort to beautify the campus, is scheduled to be completed in early 2016.

OFJCC has invested $15 million in capital improvements over the next five years, officials said.

LATE REGISTRATION ... It’s been more than six months since Palo Alto unveiled its new Business Registry but hundreds of businesses have yet to obtain their certificates. As of Monday, 2,278 local businesses have registered, or roughly 73 percent of all local businesses, Economic Development Manager Thomas Fehrenbach told the City Council on Monday. Hoping to raise the rate, the council directed staff to draft an ordinance with an enforcement mechanism for going after scofflaws (beyond the current fine of $50) and agreed to exempt very small businesses, nonprofits and religious institutions without ancillary businesses from the registry. Even with these steps, council members acknowledged that there is no easy fix. “Maybe it’s just a long, slogging process,” Councilwoman Liz Kniss said.

Councilman Marc Berman also advised patience. “This is a big deal,” Berman said. “There’s a lot of shocks happening to our business community right now, and I think we need to be cognizant of that and be a little patient and understand that this program won’t be perfect after a year.” Q

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FPPC: Dauber has no financial conflict of interest with Office for Civil Rights Palo Alto school board member hopes to quell concerns about involvement with federal agency

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he California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has ruled that Palo Alto Unified School District board member Ken Dauber has no financial conflict of interest related to matters involving the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, for which he previously worked as a paid consultant.

Dauber received a letter from the FPPC Tuesday in response to a ruling he sought last month to put to rest years of questions about his relationship with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the agency’s involvement in the Palo Alto school district.

The FPPC ruled that because the OCR has not been a source of income for Dauber since 2011 and he has no other financial interests related to OCR decisions that could come before the school board, the Political Reform Act does not restrict his participation in these decisions.

Income from a local, state or federal agency also does not fall under the Political Reform Act’s definition of income, so it could not create a conflict of interest for an elected official in California, FPPC General Counsel Hyla Wagner wrote in her letter to Dauber.

From 2009 to 2011, before his election in 2014 to the Board of Education, Dauber worked as a paid data consultant for the Department of Education, earning a total of $26,426, according to Dauber. His paid consulting work for the agency ended in 2011 and, he has told the Weekly, his district-related communications with the federal office ceased before he was elected last fall.

“Your facts describe income you have received in the past, but none within the 12 months prior to the (upcoming) decision” the school board may make regarding two pending OCR investigations into the school district, Wagner wrote. “None of the other requests for information or interactions with OCR that you described constitute a financial interest under the (Political Reform) Act that may create a conflict of interest.

“As such, the Act does not prohibit your participating in the Palo Alto Unified School District Board decisions described involving OCR.” Dauber said Tuesday that he hopes the FPPC ruling will allow him to move past concerns about his involvement with the agency.

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by Elena Kadvany Over the past several years, anonymous posters on Palo Alto Online’s Town Square forum have accused Dauber of assisting district parents in preparing complaints to the Office for Civil Rights and of using his relationships with top agency officials to urge investigations into the district, allegations that Dauber has strongly denied.

Dauber wrote in a post on his website Wednesday that other members of the board have also raised this question “repeatedly.”

Dauber also addressed, one by one, what he says are “errors of fact” in several stories and an editorial that the local newspaper the Daily Post has run in the last week accusing him of unethical behavior.

In its editorial, the Post accused Dauber of helping a family who needed special-education services to file an OCR complaint against the district. However, Dauber said his involvement with the family took place after the family filed its complaint.

Dauber and his wife, Stanford University School of Law professor Michele Dauber, helped the family obtain special-education services that were promised by the district in a resolution agree-

Palo Alto school district Board of Education member Ken Dauber and member Camille Townsend deliberate at a recent board meeting. ment following their complaint “but which the family alleged were never provided.”

“The effort to obtain needed services occurred after the Resolution Agreement was entered into, and was unrelated to the filing of the complaint,” Dauber wrote.

Dauber also addressed Daily Post allegations of his “tipping off” the Office for Civil Rights to sexual harassment at Palo Alto High School, which supposedly prompted the agency’s current investigation.

The Post pointed to a May 29, 2013, email that Dauber sent to OCR — one he released last month in his FPPC request — suggesting that the agency offer “technical assistance” to the district in the wake of a series of stories about a “rape culture” at Paly published in student magazine Verde.

“I asked OCR to consider providing technical assistance to

PAUSD in order to help the district understand its own obligation under Title IX to conduct an internal investigation,” Dauber wrote on his blog Wednesday.

He wrote that this internal investigation was legally required to begin promptly and conclude within 60 days, but a month after the Verde stories came out, the district said it had still not opened an internal investigation and didn’t see a reason to.

“The Post is blurring the distinction between what I requested, which is an internal Title IX investigation conducted by (then) Title IX Coordinator Charles Young, and an OCR investigation,” Dauber wrote. “My letter is clear that I was talking about the former: ‘It appears likely that school officials may have known or should have known of these facts, if not prior to the publication of the article, then certainly after it was published and widely disseminated. I think these facts should have triggered a Title IX investigation. However none was conducted and when the superintendent was asked about this, he stated that he did not see what the ‘nexus’ was between the unfortunate events reported in the student paper and the school.’”

The Post also wrote last Thursday that school district officials said they didn’t know what prompted the OCR investigation at Paly. Dauber noted in his blog post that there was extensive local and national media attention around the “rape culture” stories and that the Office for Civil Rights directly informed the district that (continued on page 14)

TRANSPORTATION

Downtown residents find relief in parking-program launch Easing of congestion, permit frustrations characterize rollout of long-awaited parking limits

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t took years for Palo Alto to launch its downtown parkingpermit program and just hours for Palo Alto resident Ian Irwin to notice his block’s transformation.

Instead of parked cars jammed end to end along the curbs, now there are unfilled spaces between them.

“It seems like a miracle,” said Irwin, who lives at Cowper Street and Homer Avenue, an area that he describes as “chaotic” in terms of traffic and parking. “Maybe it’s Labor Day week. Maybe it’s because Stanford is out. Both in On the cover: Palo Alto Run Club members Juergen Heit, left, and Tom Tayeri run 200, 400, and 600 meter sprints as part of the group’s Tuesday evening workout at Cobb Track at Stanford University on Sept. 15. Photo

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traffic calming and in parking, the street has changed since the signs went up. It’s kind of amazing.”

The signs he is referring to are the roughly 800 that were installed in downtown’s residential areas during the past month and that were unveiled Tuesday, when the city’s Residential Preferential Parking program went into effect.

Each proclaims a two-hour parking limit for the block, unless a car has a parking permit. On Tuesday, the city’s contracted enforcement team patrolled neighborhoods and placed notices on permitless cars.

Printed-out permits lay on the dashboards of some cars, while hanger permits dangled from rearview mirrors in others.

On Wednesday, during a meeting of the Residential Parking Permit stakeholders group, Irwin was one of several downtown residents to offer feedback on the new program.

Others confirmed his observation, including Elaine Uang, a

downtown resident and member of the stakeholders group, who said she noticed a “dramatic effect.” There are many more open spaces now, she said, including near her house in the Downtown North neighborhood.

“My block — it was totally unprecedented — was completely empty,” Uang said. “And I’m adjacent to Johnson Park, which is usually fully parked.”

Further south, in Professorville, Michael Hodos noticed a similar phenomenon. At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, Hodos reported his observations from a morning walk to Peet’s coffee shop.

“There wasn’t a car on Channing. A few cars on Bryant. Not a car on Addison,” said Hodos, who is also a member of the stakeholders group. “Normally, at that time in the morning the cars would be bumper to bumper and there would be no space left.”

The debut wasn’t without its hic-

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A downtown parking permit for employees hangs from a vehicle’s rear-view mirror on the 200 block of Kipling Street on the first day of the Residential Preferential Parking program. cups. The rollout has been marred by a flurry of complaints about the city’s online permit-purchase system. Residents reported a variety of problems with the online system, many of them bugs that the city’s contractors have by now resolved, according to city officials.

Craig Allen, a resident of Channing House, said he was “appalled” by the online system, which caused confusion among many Channing House residents. One problem was that the system did not allow users to return to the permit page once

they left it, he said.

“We have a lot of people who went through and failed to print their permits,” Allen said.

Planning Director Hillary Gitelman concurred that printing has been a problem. Some residents have reportedly been placing their payment receipts on their dashboards instead of permits, Gitelman said. Others displayed monitor-screen shots.

Given all the problems, of(continued on page 12)

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Using a carnival to cross racial barriers

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hey came for the bubbles, the magicians, the music and face painting. But for many, the Palo Alto Kids’ Carnival on Sept. 12 offered a chance to come together with people of different races and dissolve social barriers.

Hundreds turned out for the carnival, which was co-sponsored by the City of Palo Alto and spearheaded by Palo Alto’s University AME Zion Church to help build racial and ethnic understanding.

Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky of Congregation Etz Chayim called the carnival a way to help reconcile differences and form community.

“Getting to know one another is a first step,” Koritzinsky said, “and then finding out what interests we have in common and what are the issues, and how we can come together and address the dreams and fears.”

Denise Patrick attended the event with her husband, Rossi, and children Sydni, 7, and Roman, 2.

“I think it is awesome for all of the churches to come together

by Sue Dremann and to mix together,” she said at the event, which was held at Cubberley Community Center and featured a magician, a juggler, a balloon artist, a live band, inflatable slides, a bounce house, games ranging from sack races to dance lessons, and a Frisbeedistance toss.

“We have to start with our kids,” she added. “I’m just enjoying the interaction.”

Rossi Patrick said children rarely notice color and just want to play.

“We’ve traveled a lot — to Sweden and Iceland and all over the place. Kids are great icebreakers,” he said. “I’ve watched them play together. Sometimes they speak a different language and it doesn’t matter.”

The carnival was especially meaningful to the Patricks because they recently moved to Palo Alto from Houston, Texas.

Palo Alto has seemed much more segregated than Houston, where diversity is the norm at many events, Denise Patrick said.

“We have East Palo Alto and central Palo Alto, and it seems

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like all of the various races are separated. Here it is like everyone sticks to their own pocket. But at the end of the day, all of us have that same beating heart,” she said.

Councilman Marc Berman said he first met AME Zion’s Rev. Kaloma Smith at a community event on race and was “impressed by how deeply folks cared about this, and clearly, there is a pentup demand for folks to have these events together.”

“We all get so involved in our own communities and groups,” Berman said. “Hopefully, this is the beginning of an annual thing. ... We got folks from all different walks of life. Hopefully, it spawns a broader relationship in our entire community.”

Smith has been leading a local movement, which other faith groups and members of the community are joining, to create a more tightly knit interracial community in response to the June 17 massacre of black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. Since then, Smith’s church has sponsored community discussions around race and a screen-

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Event draws hundreds seeking to form new friendships, closer community

Kids get ready for the Frisbee-toss contest at the Palo Alto Kids’ Carnival at Cubberley Community Center on Sept. 12. ing of the film “White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America.”

At the carnival, he looked around at the young and the old, at the children chasing bubbles and teenagers and adults dancing.

Pennants waved in the breeze, and the crowd cheered as a young juggler took to the stage.

Smith pointed to two men, one black and the other Jewish, involved in deep conversation.

Heartened, Smith said he wants to have another, similar event.

“It’s an amazing community gathering where people got to become closer neighbors and friends, and with the City of Palo Alto, it was a real community effort,” he said.

“There is no pretension; we’re just here to be together.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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James Franco begins ‘revolutionary’ film class with local high schoolers Actor returns to his alma mater, duplicating hands-on educational model he experienced

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ctor James Franco never took a film class at Palo Alto High School, but he did take a journalism class with Esther Wojcicki, whom he and other students affectionately call “Woj.” The model of the class — in which students, as editors, plan and lead classes throughout the 10 or so newspaper production cycles each year — had a profound effect on Franco.

“I didn’t realize it as much at the time as I do now, but she really empowers the students because ... it’s highly self-run,” Franco said in an interview with the Weekly on Sept. 13 in Paly’s state-of-theart Media Arts Center, where the first session of a special film class Franco is teaching took place.

“Woj certainly is a guide and a support and also can push (students) in directions and maybe get them to do better when she sees potential, but she gives them the power. That’s really the model that ... I took on when I started teaching my own classes,” he said.

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couragingly, every category of transportation improvements proposed won overwhelming support: 86 percent favored using the tax funds to finish the BART extension to downtown San Jose and Santa Clara; 88 percent supported fixing potholes and maintaining streets; 80 percent supported traffic-relief measures on county expressways (including Foothill and Oregon expressways in Palo Alto); and 84 percent favored improving bike and pedestrian safety near schools.

Caltrain also scored well, winning a 73 percent favorable rating (16 percent opposed using the funding for Caltrain while 11 percent had no opinion). But for Palo Alto, which is bisected by the tracks, no project is more important, city officials argued Tuesday.

Councilman Pat Burt said that the combination of a modernized Caltrain and the proposed highspeed rail system would bring more trains to the Peninsula, to the tune of one train every three minutes. This will happen at railroadway intersections that Burt said are “already at virtual gridlock.”

“On the horizon, we don’t have a choice or a preference for grade separation. It’s a necessity,” Burt said. “And if we don’t have it, we’re going to choke off the cities that are the crown jewels of the valley and destroy not only our

A group of 40 aspiring filmmakers were selected out of more than 500 local high school students who applied for Franco’s yearlong film-production class, which he describes as “the class I would have wanted in high school.”

The students will meet with Franco once a month for four hours and work with one another in between. (He’ll be flying in from Canada, where he’s currently working on a mini-series.)

The end product will be a feature film produced by Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions, the same company that produced the 2014 film “Palo Alto,” based on Franco’s collection of short stories.

The actor — who is currently teaching graduate-level film courses at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and the California Institute of the Arts — said that every class he teaches is project-based, “so instead of a newspaper we make a film.”

He called this particular high school class “revolutionary.”

The students started by reading through the script for the film they’ll produce: “Metamorphosis: Junior Year,” based on a young adult novel of the same name by Franco’s mother, Betsy.

The main character in “Metamorphosis” is Ovid, an “introspective, charming and sweetly neurotic artist-type” high school student, the script reads. Ovid is struggling with overbearing parents, a girl he likes, being bored in “Living Skills” class and choosing art over a traditional academically driven path. James Franco said the novel was inspired by Paly.

On Sunday, the students worked in eight groups of five — each group with a designated director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer — and chose characters from the script whose stories they will develop more in depth. The groups’ mini-episodes will later be combined to make

communities but our economies.”

Councilman Eric Filseth didn’t dispute that extending BART is an important project but painted a similarly grim picture of the Peninsula’s future without the trenching of the rail line.

With train frequency on the rise and high-speed rail planning to share the tracks with Caltrain by 2029, traffic conditions will deteriorate further, he said.

“Congestion is going to lobotomize the Peninsula into two long, thin cities,” Filseth said.

While traffic flow is one concern, safety is another. Just two days before Guardino’s presentation, a northbound train smashed into a car at a south Palo Alto rail crossing. The driver managed to escape. The tracks have also been the scene of two separate clusters of teenage deaths by suicide since 2009, prompting renewed calls for submerging the rail line as a strategy for restricting people’s access to the tracks.

When it comes to upgrading Caltrain, recent tax measures have not gone as far as needed, council members argued. According to an analysis by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, about 80 percent of the tax funds from the past two tax measures have been spent in San Jose for the upgrade of BART, a project with regional significance but little relevance for most Palo Alto residents and commuters.

This fact has made some Palo Alto residents and city officials skeptical about the new tax measure. David Coale, a member of the local groups Carbon Free Palo

Alto and Bike Palo Alto, is among them. Addressing the council, Coale summarized his position with the idiom, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

“Since Measure A passed in 2000, 15 years ago, over 80 percent of our transportation dollars have gone to BART and we have not yet moved one person with this system on the Peninsula,” Coale said. “In the meantime, Caltrain, which is the main rail system in the county, is over capacity and in serious need of upgrading.”

City officials in the north county and West Valley have also expressed concern about VTA’s process of soliciting and selecting projects that would be funded by the measure.

Last month, mayors of nine cities co-signed a letter to the VTA calling for a comprehensive study to inform a “system-wide plan that integrates future mass investments in Santa Clara County, with connections to other counties, via such systems as Caltrain, as well as community-level systems and ‘first/last mile’ strategies.”

The coalition, which also includes Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Saratoga and Sunnyvale, argued that the study should begin as soon as possible so that it can “inform near-term project funding decisions.”

In response, VTA officials agreed to initiate such a study but made it clear that the study would not be used to consider projects for the current tax measure.

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Actor and Palo Alto native James Franco, left, talks on Sept. 13 about the inspiration for his new high school film course with writers from Palo Alto High School’s student newspaper The Campanile: center, junior Alice Zha, and right, senior Aiva Petriceks. Franco himself wrote for The Campanile in the mid-1990s. the entire film.

During the next few weeks, before Franco returns, the student writers have been tasked with outlining and writing their scenes.

Future work for the whole team will include shooting and editing their scripts, drafting “visual plans” (which include elements

like detailed shot lists and character biographies, according to the course syllabus), and determining schedules and budgets.

The students are almost exclusively from Paly and Gunn high schools, with a student each from

“As you know, it takes time to accomplish the objectives of these types of studies,” VTA board chair Perry Woodward wrote in a letter. “Major investment studies can in some cases take two or more years to complete. ... Our regional needs are immediate and continuous. We don’t have the luxury of a pause while we consider future options.”

Mayor Karen Holman on Tuesday called the VTA’s response letter “disappointing,” while Councilman Tom DuBois echoed some of the public’s concerns about the unequal distribution of transportation funding.

“We haven’t seen a lot of benefit from previous two tax measures,” DuBois said. “There’s serious questions on whether there is support for another sales tax.”

Even so, the council stopped short of issuing any ultimatums or conditioning the city’s support of the tax on the Caltrain’s grade separation. Councilman Marc Berman pointed out that no one is denying the importance of finishing the BART project, but noted that Palo Alto and other cities on the Peninsula suffer from “pretty massive congestion.”

“Those are challenges that cost more to fix than the funding currently identified,” Berman said.

“We are very realistic about the fact that this tax measure will not fully fund the problems that currently exist, but I think we do hope and even anticipate that it will be a very important piece to that bigger puzzle.”

Guardino stressed that his

group supports Caltrain improvements as part of the package, though it’s not clear whether this includes grade separation. The polling question didn’t ask respondents about grade separation but about “improving Caltrain commuter rail service from Gilroy to Palo Alto.”

The Leadership Group also supports equitable funding of projects across the county’s 15 cities and towns, Guardino told the council. He added that his group would support putting a cap on how much of the funding would be spent on the BART project, possibly at 25 percent. He had made a similar commitment two weeks ago at a meeting of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, upon request by Simitian, Guardino said.

“We need traffic relief throughout the county, not one portion of the county,” Guardino said.

Guardino noted that the list of projects submitted by the cities totals about $50 billion, far more than the $6 billion that the tax measure would raise.

With a price tag of about $900 million, Palo Alto’s list of 23 projects is relatively modest by comparison with other jurisdictions, Guardino said. Gilroy, for instance, submitted a list that totals $1.9 million, Guardino said.

“They have twice the need or twice the appetite or twice the imagination that you do,” Guardino quipped. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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News Digest Palo Alto to consider pension reform Palo Alto’s financial climate remains sunny, but one giant cloud continues to hover on the horizon: a $296 million bill for pension expenses.

The City Council last week held a special meeting to discuss the city’s unfunded pension liabilities and made plans to consider its options for reducing the balance. During the meeting, the council heard a presentation about the scope of the problem and potential solutions from actuary John Bartel, president of Bartel Associates. In his report, Bartel recalled recent trends and events that have increased the city’s pension obligations.

Among them is the 2008 financial downturn, which sent investment returns plummeting for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the fund that administers the pensions of Palo Alto and other cities statewide. The majority of the unfunded liability, Bartel said, was due to low investment returns.

Demographic changes have also contributed, Bartel said. People are living longer, which means more people are collecting benefits than before. Almost 60 percent of the city’s contributions to employee pensions for non-public safety workers is now for retirees. In 1997, the percentage was 35 percent, Bartel said.

The city has already taken steps since the financial crisis to change the pension formula for the city’s labor groups so employees now contribute more toward their pensions. Statewide, reform came in 2013, when the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act instituted new tiers for public employees, providing lower benefits for newer workers. CalPERS is also now pursuing its own reforms, Bartel said, to account for a lower return rate and the changing demographics, an effort that he lauded.

To address the problem and shrink the gap, the city has several options — each with its own trade-offs. The city can pay more ahead of the required schedule, thus saving on future interest costs. This can be done by exceeding the required contribution amount either every year or during surplus years. It can also contribute money into what’s known as a Section 115 Trust, an irrevocable trust that is offered by two different agencies. Another option is allocating an extra $1 million per year to close the gap sooner. If the city were to start doing that, miscellaneous contribution rates will have decreased by 1.2 percent and the unfunded liability by 2.9 percent over 10 years.

Staff is recommending exploring what the staff report calls a “dual approach” that uses both annual contributions to the Section 115 Trust and annual contributions to CalPERS to reduce the city’s amortized payments. The council will consider these actions in the months ahead. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Laurene Powell Jobs announces campaign Palo Alto resident Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of technology pioneer Steve Jobs, is investing $50 million in an open-source campaign to innovate a place that has a reputation for struggling to evolve with the changing times: America’s public high schools.

The XQ Institute, a new organization housed under Powell Jobs’ Palo Alto-based philanthropic organization Emerson Collective, announced last week the launch of the “Super School Project,” described as a “national movement to reimagine high school.”

The XQ Institute will accept proposals over the next few months from any and all sectors, from educators and parents to business leaders. The institute will then partner with a select number of teams to provide “expert support” and funding with a plan “to support at least five schools over the next five years to turn their ideas into real Super Schools.” Q — Elena Kadvany

Larry Ellison buys Epiphany Hotel Larry Ellison, one of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most extravagant high-tech titans, has added to his collection of riches one of downtown Palo Alto’s most visible properties: the Epiphany on Hamilton Avenue.

Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle who in 2012 made headlines when he bought the Hawaiian island of Lanai, is the new owner of the Epiphany, an 86-room hotel that opened last year in a remodeled building that once housed Casa Olga, a convalescent home. The hotel is also home to the restaurant Lure + Till.

The new owner of the hotel is PA Hotel Holdings LLC, a limitedliability corporation owned by Ellison, according to Joie de Vivre, the hotel conglomerate that manages Epiphany. The seller was the private equity firm Angelo, Gordon & Co. While Joie de Vivre didn’t disclose the amount, Ellison reportedly paid $71.6 million for the hotel, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, which first reported the sale. Q — Gennady Sheyner

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“The issue of more housing is not only a Palo Alto concern but a Bay Area-wide concern that has no easy and short-term solution,” Diaz said.

After hearing from both sides, the council made it clear that it will not be supporting the proposed zone change. Councilman Eric Filseth characterized it as a PC by a different name.

Much like with PC projects, he observed, a developer here is requesting exemptions from the city and is offering things in return.

“Whatever the reason, the fact is that these PC deals had a lot of skepticism in Palo Alto, and we told residents we don’t want to do them,” Filseth said.

Filseth also characterized the proposal as a conflict between the interests of a developer and the interests of the community.

“Our role in zoning itself ought to be the focus on the best interests of community,” he said.

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It didn’t take long for the council to conclude that this zoning designation would not be appropriate for the location.

Several residents also urged the council not to approve the project. Becky Sanders, a resident of the nearby Ventura neighborhood, was among them.

“With all the development under construction and in the pipeline for the California Avenue area and abutting neighborhoods, the collective impacts haven’t fully been measured,” Sanders said. “Please don’t allow business interests to override our residential quality of life.”

Also in attendance were about 30 members from the Carpenters Local Union 405. Wearing CIA (short for Carpenters In Action) T-shirts, the group stood up while field representative Genaro Diaz urged the council to support the project. He called the project’s mix of commercial and residen-

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The Palo Alto City Council indicated a lack of support Tuesday for a mixed-use development proposed

by Pollock Financial Group for the corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real.

Scharff and Cory Wolbach all made a case for building housing at the site to address what Berman called an “acute housing crisis.”

“I think this is an area where it makes a lot of sense to address that (shortage),” Berman said.

Holman and Scharff both said they’d like to see a housing project with ground-floor retail, while Wol-

bach suggested a scheme in which the building’s residential tenants would be prohibited from owning cars. Scharff also made it clear that the office-heavy project currently on the table won’t be advancing.

“I wouldn’t spend another dime on moving toward a CC2 zoning,” Scharff said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen.” Q

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of the permit program, said she and her neighbors saw a very different kind of change once the signs were unveiled.

“I heard it’s working wonderful for some parts, but we’re in a funny little un-permitted pocket, and we are under deluge,” Mueller said at the Wednesday meeting.

She then made another observation: “Lincoln Avenue is now completely free,” Mueller said of a street that has traditionally been populated with cars. “I was riding my bike there and thinking, ‘Something is wrong.’”

For the stakeholders group, the launch represented a significant milestone after months of delays and years of complaints about a deteriorating parking situation in downtown’s residential neighborhoods.

A prior proposal, aimed for a small portion of Professorville, fizzled in 2012 after the council rejected it and called for a more comprehensive solution. The new program took about a year of work by city staff and members of the stakeholders committee.

The council approved it in December 2014 but the launch was pushed back, partly because of a dispute with the city’s labor union over the enforcement contract.

To ensure the program’s success, the city has expanded its outreach to downtown businesses and residents. In-person assistance for buying permits is now offered in the City Hall lobby, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Friday. Meanwhile, permitless drivers who park their cars in the residential neighborhoods now find themselves greeted by a letter on their windshields.

“Hello!” the letter says. “You

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ficials late last week decided to extend the program’s warning period (initially slated to last two weeks) to four weeks, before the $53 citations are actually issued. The program will now have a two-week noticing period, followed by a two-week warning period. But on Wednesday, Gitelman said officials have not yet decided when to begin enforcement.

The city, she said, still has plenty of work to do in helping residents and employees get their permits. As of Wednesday, the city has issued 3,743 permits: 2,847 to residents and 896 to businesses.

Gitelman noted that there are about 4,000 housing units in the downtown permit area. Most have more than one car, she added.

“We still have a lot of residential permits that we need to get out there,” Gitelman said.

Permit sales aren’t the only issue with the new program. There is also the more predictable problem of drivers who had previously enjoyed free all-day parking inside the permit area now simply moving their cars a little farther, just outside the area.

Others now likely park in downtown’s commercial core, where a two-hour limit requires them to re-park their cars throughout the day (incidentally, City Parking Manager Jessica Sullivan said the number of parking citations in downtown’s commercial core has risen since the permit program began).

Maryanne Mueller, who lives on Kingsley Avenue in a section of Professorville that is not park

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have parked in a residential area which is part of the new Downtown Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) District. In the future, if you plan on parking for more than two hours in this area you will need to display a valid PERMIT on your dashboard between the hours of 8:00-5:00, Monday through Friday.”

The letter also describes the program, informs the driver of the $53 citation, offers instructions on how to buy a permit and instructs the driver to “Have a great day!”

Sullivan said about 150 notices were left on cars on the program’s first day. Richard Brand, a member of the stakeholders group and a Professorville resident, concurred that he had seen an enforcer posting notices earlier in the day. They’re doing a good job, he said.

“He was zipping on a bike, checking for things, putting papers on cars,” Brand said.

The permit program is now in its first phase, which is expected to stretch for about six months and focus on gathering data. In this phase, each household in the permit area is eligible for four permits, with an option of buying two more. Employees must pay either $50 or $233 for their permit, depending on income level.

In the second phase, the city will consider limiting the number of permits sold and designating permits for particular blocks to make sure employees’ cars are spread out throughout the neighborhoods.

More information about the new parking program is available at cityofpaloalto.org/parking. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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lease of the property and was reportedly seeking a new grocer who potentially could lease the building out at a higher rate than The Fresh Market was paying to Sand Hill.

Sand Hill’s John Tze announced the news about Bay Area-based Andronico’s in an email to resident Diana Nemet, who has actively sought another grocer.

“I’m pleased to let you and the neighborhood know that yesterday Andronico’s issued a term sheet that seems workable to me.

I’ve spoken with them and The Fresh Market, and all parties are trying to bring Andronico’s to Edgewood as quickly as we can,” Tze wrote.

Tze’s email followed Palo Alto officials’ decision three weeks ago that Sand Hill would have to pay $500 per day if the vacant grocery space wasn’t filled

by Sept. 30. City Manager James Keene said that Palo Alto could impose that penalty under its zoning ordinance because Sand Hill would be in violation of its 2012 planned-community ordinance.

That ordinance specified the property owner “shall ensure the continued use of the 20,000-square-foot building as a grocery store for the life of the project” and restore two commercial buildings and the grocery store as part of a publicbenefit exchange for permission to build 10 homes.

Residents lobbied the city heavily last month to impose the fine, even asking the City Council to impose stiffer penalties.

But on Tuesday, neighborhood leaders applauded the news regarding Andronico’s.

The swiftness with which the developer found a new grocer since the fine was announced did not escape some residents, who indicated in emails they would keep up the same kind of pressure on city leaders so the store might open more quickly.

That strategy has so far paid off.

“Thank you to every one of you that wrote a letter, went door to door and/or showed up at the council meeting (and) put your support behind a solution,” neighborhood leaders Deborah Baldwin, Carla Cavalho, Lenore Cymes and Jeff Levinsky wrote in an email to residents. “Your collective voice told Sand Hill and the city that we wanted this resolved. We stood as a community to impress upon both the city and Sand Hill that there needs to be consequences to not fulfilling the permit requirements.

“With the same collective energy, we will welcome Andronico’s to Edgewood Plaza once they open their doors. And, they will hear from us, just in case they don’t carry our favorite ice cream or cheese or (dare we say it) candy,” the residents wrote, referring to the prior grocer’s offering of an abundance of candy.

Tze and an Andronico’s

spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment.

But the announcement is a turnaround from the store’s previous position: Andronico’s was among nearly 40 grocers who initially declined leasing the Edgewood property, according to a list compiled earlier this year by Tze. Andronico’s, considered a highend market, operates five stores in the Bay Area. The City of Los Altos listed Andronico’s as its second highest sales-tax producer in the fourth quarter of 2014.

The grocer has two stores in Berkeley and one each in Los Altos, San Anselmo and San Francisco.

The company’s reconsideration of the Edgewood property comes on the heels of major changes for the company’s executive team.

The grocer announced in June that Suzy Monford, head of innovation at Woolworths Limited and a strategic and innovation consultant through her company Food Sport International, would

be taking over as CEO. Monford plans to bring together technology and traditional brick and mortar operations, as well as to add health-oriented retail to the Andronico’s brand, she told the trade publication Supermarket News in June.

The company announced Cheryl Hughes as chief financial officer on Sept. 10. Hughes was an executive in the oil-trading industry and former 15-year veteran director of U.S. finance for Circle K Stores Inc. Andronico’s closed its Stanford store in July 2011 after 14 years. At that time, the familyowned business was working through a recapitalization with an unnamed equity partner, the Weekly reported. The company reorganized under CEO Gary Barrett, a professional in turning companies around, whom Monford has replaced. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Los Altos High School and Menlo School. Many have previous film experience and have or are taking related coursework: theater, video production, and film composition and literature.

Paly senior Andrew Baer, who described himself as a self-taught filmmaker, said he was most interested to see how the student collaboration would play out.

Just the night before, he screened “Unmasked,” a documentary about teen mental health and suicide that he created with 13 Paly and Gunn students last summer.

Other students, from freshmen to seniors, have spent years putting together short YouTube films. Two have already taken several acting classes with Betsy Franco at the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

“I’ve just been making videos with my friends for a couple years,” Paly freshman Sam Cook said.

“And then when I heard about this class — it’s like (a) dream come true, almost. It’s a big deal to me.”

Wojcicki said she was so impressed by not just these 40 students but almost all of the 550 or so who applied that she decided to offer them an alternative.

The Paly Media Arts program partnered with Cinequest — a San Jose nonprofit that “fuses the world of the filmed arts with that of Silicon Valley’s innovation to empower youth, artists and innovators to create and connect,” its website reads — to offer a selfpaced online film course to the rest of students for free.

Students will be required to complete several assignments, including creating a short film — which will be their ticket to participate in Cinequest’s annual film festival. “Metamorphosis” will also be submitted to the film festival. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Upfront

Online This Week

Dauber (continued from page 7)

These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.

Palo Alto district named in lawsuit over P.E. The Palo Alto Unified School District was named as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging reduced physical education hours in school districts, according to San Francisco County Superior Court documents. (Posted Sept. 17, 9:55 a.m.)

Panel discusses teen mental health, suicide More than 350 people gathered Monday night to hear a panel talk about topics that make many uncomfortable: the mental health of our children, the stress they are under, and what can be done to improve the former, relieve the latter, and ultimately, combat teen suicides. (Posted Sept. 16, 2:05 p.m.)

HP announces 25K-30K layoffs as part of split In anticipation of its split into two separate companies, Hewlett Packard Co., today, outlined plans for the future Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (Posted Sept. 15, 4:43 p.m.)

Stanford business school dean to step down Garth Saloner, dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic year in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a former faculty member whose wife Saloner had a romantic relationship with, according to the university. (Posted Sept. 15, 8:40 a.m.)

Train hits unoccupied car at East Meadow Drive crossing in Palo Alto A northbound Caltrain train struck an unoccupied vehicle at the East Meadow Drive crossing in Palo Alto on Sunday night, crushing the car’s front end, forcing the closure of the northbound track and stranding passengers inside the train for more than an hour.

No one was reportedly injured. (Posted Sept. 13, 10:26 p.m.)

Palo Alto students named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists More than 80 Palo Alto high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists on Sept. 10. They are in the running with approximately 16,000 seniors nationwide for about $33 million in scholarship dollars. (Posted Sept. 11, 5:50 p.m.)

it opened the investigation as a result of the media coverage.

Dauber also pointed to an April 2014 Paly Campanile article in which then-Superintendent Kevin Skelly said the district itself had asked OCR for advice on how to proceed.

Dauber’s wife also attended a school board meeting in mid-May and “directly informed the board and superintendent of the need to open a Title IX investigation,” Dauber wrote. She also requested technical assistance at the same time as her husband, according to Dauber.

“However, regardless of how OCR found out or was ‘tipped off’ to the Verde story, the fact remains that whether to open an investigation was in the discretion of OCR as a law enforcement agency,” Dauber wrote in his blog post. “Regardless of how the situ-

ation came to OCR’s attention, if OCR determined that the situation merited an investigation then that is a decision made by the agency in carrying out its congressionally mandated duty to enforce the law.”

Dauber’s Aug. 13 letter to the FPPC requesting for formal written advice was prompted in part because OCR-related issues are likely to come before the board this fall. Specifically, Superintendent Max McGee asked during the last school year for board direction on potentially reaching resolutions with the Office for Civil Rights on its two open investigations in the district.

Dauber included with the letter several email exchanges he had in 2013 with OCR officials in Washington and San Francisco, written after Palo Alto Unified entered into a resolution agreement with the federal agency following the district’s violation of the civil rights of a disabled middle school student through its mishandling of bully-

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a joint meeting with Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian; consider a proposal to extend the California Avenue retail district and establish procedures for regulating formula (“chain”) retail; and consider adopting an annual cap on office space for downtown, the California Avenue area and the El Camino Corridor. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 21, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider fiscal year 2016 re-appropriation requests; a proposal for an election to authorize new storm drain fees after the existing fees sunset in 2015; and changes in the municipal code regarding the city budget. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss evaluations of the city attorney and city auditor. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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ing complaints. He also detailed the history of his advocacy in the district, which has involved much outspoken criticism about the district’s relationship with the Office for Civil Rights and handling of the agency’s investigations.

Dauber also disclosed to the FPPC that several people who had made complaints about the district to OCR also gave money to his school board campaign in 2014 and helped with the distribution of campaign literature and fundraising.

Wagner wrote that campaign contributions “generally do not give rise to a conflict of interest” under the Political Reform Act, “except in narrow situations where an official is a member of an appointed board or commission and is also running for office and receiving campaign contributions.”

Dauber also posted his letter to the FPPC and all communications with OCR on his website.

“What I think is really valuable about this,” he said Tuesday, “is that I was completely transparent with the FPPC and really fully described my relationship with OCR and they addressed each and every one of those issues that was relevant and found that there were no conflicts.”

“I’m happy that I can now move past this issue and be able to participate fully in these discussions on the school board because in order to be able to help the district move in the direction I think we need to move on cooperation and being proactive on civil rights, I need to be able to fully participate,” Dauber said.

Dauber said he will continue to push for “positive change” around civil rights issues, including pursuing a district policy “of cooperation with OCR rather than resistance to federal civil rights law.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Upfront

Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

BIKE PALO ALTO ... Oct. 4 will be the day to discover Palo Alto’s great bike routes and explore neighborhoods through the sixth annual Bike Palo Alto! event. A bike and helmet are all that are needed for this family-friendly day.

The ride starts at El Carmelo Elementary School at Bryant Street and Loma Verde Avenue, with a smoothie station at Edgewood Plaza. Riders will be eligible for free bike safety checks, ice cream and other treats, plus local bikeroute maps. The event starts at 1 p.m. and runs until 4 p.m. Volunteers can contact Joan Marx, joan_marks@arczip.com.

AUTO BURGLARY ALERT ... Palo Alto has again become a hotspot for thefts and burglaries from vehicles, with 18 incidents reported on Sept. 14 and 15 alone. The thefts have occurred all over town, with thieves mainly targeting unlocked vehicles. In some incidents, the car window was smashed to gain entry. According to Palo Alto police, the thefts most often occur in commercial parking lots, such as along El Camino Real, and in public parking garages, but many of the crimes also happened in neighborhoods. On Sept. 14, several autos were hit in Barron Park, according to residents, but most of those thefts were from unlocked vehicles. Auto burglaries often occur cyclically, according to police. As crimes of opportunity, the thieves go for the easiest targets, police said, so car owners are advised to “lock it or lose it.”

HARVEST FESTIVAL ... Midtown Palo Alto’s annual Harvest Festival takes place this year on Sept.

26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Palo Alto Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. The event includes a rummage sale, books-by-the-inch sale, music and storytelling, plants, children’s toys, collectibles and bake sale. The festival sales benefit the Friends Committee on Legislation of California. Entrance is free. Q

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Around the block

A Canada goose flaps its wings as its flock eats and sits in the Mitchell Park fields on Sept. 16, while students from JLS Middle School exercise during PE.

MIDTOWN

Residents complain about goose invasion at Mitchell Park City, residents seek ways to shoo pesky Canada geese

by Sue Dremann

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onking and flapping, flocks of Canada geese fly each morning over Ken Allen’s house in Adobe Meadow.

But rather than go south for the winter or head for the Baylands, these geese are headed for greener pastures — the playing fields at Mitchell Park.

In the verdant, well-irrigated fields, the flocks of geese feast on grass and small insects, leaving behind deposits of excrement.

To Allen, they are a problem.

“If they are in the duck ponds, that’s one thing, but they are becoming a nuisance in the park,” he said. It’s not just a few majestic ganders and their gals, either.

“The largest flight of Canada geese I have seen to date fled Mitchell Park this morning about 7:20 a.m.,” he said on Thursday.

“Several noisy formations — in total approaching 100 — woke the neighbors as they flew low over the library and the neighborhood.”

Given the reputation of geese as mean creatures prone to attacking intruders in their territory, Allen said he is concerned for children who might get too close to the emboldened animals, which may feel they have more clout in numbers.

“If they are growing in population by 50 percent per year (as they seem to be), it’s going to be-

come a very big problem — more than a nuisance,” he said.

Geese have been a persistent issue throughout Palo Alto, especially at the Palo Alto Golf Course, said Daren Anderson, City of Palo Alto division manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf. The city hires a company with trained herding dogs to help encourage the birds to move off of the course, he said.

And the battle of the geese has caused local cities and government agencies to join forces.

“Palo Alto, Mountain View, Moffett, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all work cooperatively to help control Canada geese population growth by addling the eggs (the eggs are coated with oil to prevent them from developing and hatching). We’ve been doing this for about eight years,” Anderson said.

But that hasn’t deterred the growing population.

“The non-migratory population of Canada geese in our region have been an issue for quite some time. I’m not sure if this year is any worse than last year; though it seems that the numbers aren’t decreasing at all,” he added.

Cody Mccartney, Palo Alto animal-control supervisor, said his department doesn’t have any plans to control the geese population. In an

email to Allen, Mccartney said it is illegal to trap or relocate any wild animal without the proper permits from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, even for the city.

“Unfortunately there is not a lot we can/are able to do about the growing Canada goose population in Palo Alto. They have found a place with adequate food and mild weather. ... Why go anywhere else?” he wrote.

Cody told the Weekly in an email this week that “Animal Services is pretty much ‘hands off’ wildlife unless the wildlife is sick, injured, dead, or aggressive. We ask the public to live with wildlife, and do what they can to deter wildlife from becoming a nuisance, and refer them to private pest control services to handle nuisance wildlife.”

Canada geese are state and federally protected under laws and regulations within the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and California Fish and Game Code. Craig Stowers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Region 3 manager of the environmental program, said there is no current permit process to allow for the removal or killing of Canada geese, but there is a process that allows for removing nests and eggs, which would help limit the population.

Eighteen counties can take nests and eggs without the need for a permit; Santa Clara is one of them, he said in an email.

There could also be environmental reasons for the increase in Canada geese. While their numbers might appear to indicate a healthier ecosystem, Stowers said the opposite seems to be true.

“The numbers of geese most likely are an indicator of the poor health and lack of water in their normal wetland habitats; the drought is concentrating populations and they are going where (water) is,” he said.

Despite all the hype about avian influenza, the geese don’t typically carry diseases that are harmful to people, Stowers said.

Resident Allen, though, worries that goose poop could pose a health hazard, especially since kids tumble and slide in local playing fields.

Allen isn’t the only one concerned about the birds. Other residents, posting on a neighborhood email list, have suggested using dogs and even hiring people to chase the geese away.

For anyone who is annoyed by the fowl, it is legal to “haze” or shoo them from private property, so long as the geese are not injured.

People interested in taking a more extreme action — hunting — would have to have a license and hunt in designated hunting locations, according to state Fish and Wildlife. Hunting the geese in city parks and on school fields is illegal, though, as is discharging a firearm within city limits, according to the agency. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Sept. 9-15

Violence related Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Found license plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Public urination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbal dispute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gang info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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VIOLENT CRIMES

Sept. 9-15

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 11 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Stolen plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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Anna Elizabeth (Frankhouser) Africa Anna Elizabeth (Frankhouser) Africa passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of September 13, 2015 at the age of 94. She had been in failing health for the last two months.

Betty, as she was known to family and friends was born on August 12, 1921 in Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvania to Nora Elizabeth (McVey) and Ralph Elias Frankhouser. She was united in marriage to Oliver Merle Africa on June 17, 1944 at the First United Methodist Church in Mt Union. Her husband preceded her in death in 2000. She is also predeceased by her parents, two sisters, Martha Frankhouser and Evelyn Shatzer and one brother Ralph Eugene. She and her husband Merle lived in Miami and New York before settling in Palo Alto in 1969.

She was primarily a homemaker, who raised two daughters, Sharon (Frank) Krhoun and Cathy Blair-Olson and one granddaughter Christine (Miles Keep) Blair who survive her. She is additionally survived by two grandsons Robert and Scott Krhoun and their respective families and five great-grandchildren, Emma and Owen Keep, Parley, Parker and Davis Krhoun. Along with her immediate family she had a large extended family who will also miss her quiet, strong presence among us.

She was an active member of the Palo Alto Chapter #213, Order of the Eastern Star, who conferred on her the Robert Morris award in 1993 for exceptional service to the chapter. She was also a long standing member of the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto.

Services will be held on Sept. 19th at 2pm at the chapel at Alta Mesa, 695 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto, CA In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, or to a charity of your choice.

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OBITUARY

Transitions WEDDINGS

Mark Lieberwitz and Andrea Rubenstein Mark Lieberwitz and Andrea Rubenstein were married on June 23 in Viens, France. They later celebrated their union with family and friends at the Mitchell Park Community Center on Aug. 23.

The groom is the son of Dr. B. Lynn Ware and Eben Kermit of Palo Alto. He grew up in the Palo Verde neighborhood and graduated from Gunn High School. The bride is the daughter of Larry Rubenstein and Mayra Obando of Grecia, Costa Rica.

Mark and Andrea met on a Birthright trip to Israel and both studied at Tulane University in New Orleans. They currently reside in San Francisco.

Reva Frauman Reva Frauman passed away in her sleep early Wednesday morning, August 19, 2015, after a brief illness.

Reva was born and raised in Chicago where she graduated from high school. A few years after her family moved to Los Angles, Reva moved to San Francisco. There she worked for a local radio station and met Burt Frauman at a synagogue singles function. They were married in 1952.

She had a son, Bruce, in 1953 and a daughter, Judith in 1958 and spent her time taking care of them. The family moved from San Rafael to Redwood City and then settled in Menlo Park and later Los Altos Hills. They were active members of Temple Beth Jacob in Redwood City and Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills.

After Bruce went off to college, Reva became a real estate agent They enjoyed many weeks at their condominium on Kauai, Hawaii for more than 20 years as well as some international travel. She also returned to her art and painted many portraits in oil.

Four years after Burt passed away in 2005, Reva moved into the Vi at Palo Alto where she spent her final 6 years.

She became friends with many residents and was well liked by staff. She joined a book club, loved to review movies, and grew a small vegetable garden.

Her kindness, sense of humor and love of life will be missed by all who knew her.

She is survived by Bruce Frauman and his son, John, both of Londonderry, Vermont and Judith Frauman of Oakland, California and many cousins. Reva outlived all eight of her siblings as well as Burt and all of his siblings.

A memorial service was held August 21 at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, CA . After the memorial a reception was held at the Vi of Palo Alto.

In lieu of gifts and flowers, we recommend a donation to the Sinai Memorial Chapel, Redwood City, CA or the San Francisco Symphony.

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Gary Schonher John Gary Schonher, an entrepreneur and local resident for 57 years, died in Mountain View on Sept. 11 of complications from a stroke. He was 79.

Known by many as Gary, he was born on Oct. 3, 1935, in Red Bluff, California. He was raised in San Francisco and Sacramento and graduated from Sacramento High School in 1953. For his collegiate studies, he attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1958, he returned to California, where he became a pioneering real estate syndicator. He also embarked upon a side business in restaurant ownership and management in the late 1960s, beginning with the Roundhouse in Santa Clara, the Crow’s Nest in Santa Cruz and Shadowbrook in Capitola. He later helped to create a chain of steakhouses called The Winery, which initially had a location in Palo Alto and expanded to Foster City and Oakland and to the East Coast in Boston and Framingham, Massachusetts. In the early 1990s, he teamed up with his son Tom to create a boutique commercial real estate brokerage called LMT Investment Company, specializing in the sale of single-tenant triple-net-lease properties. He remained involved in the business until 2015.

After living in Los Altos and Mountain View in the ’50s and ’60s, he and his wife, Nancy, resided in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto for 31 years, before returning to Los Altos.

Gary was also an active member of the Palo Alto Elks Lodge for many years.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Nancy Schonher of Los Altos; his children, Tom (Jennifer) Schonher of Los Altos, Mary (Greg) Forsyth of Truckee, California, and Leslie Stemen of Austin, Texas; his sister, Janet Santiestevan of La Cañada Flintridge, California; and five grandchildren, Erika, Jack and Matt Schonher and Haley and Liam Forsyth.

A small memorial service for the family will be held at a later date.

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Editorial A parking ‘miracle’ After years of frustration and false starts, parking restrictions in downtown neighborhoods finally begin

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he much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of a broad strategy for alleviating parking problems that have plagued neighborhoods adjacent to downtown Palo Alto for many years had a bit of an inauspicious “soft launch” this week.

While some 800 parking signs throughout downtown neighborhoods were unveiled, notifying drivers they could not park for more than two hours without a permit, problems with the online system for purchasing permits led city officials to extend a planned two-week grace period for enforcement through at least mid-October.

Lower-than-expected permit sales, which totaled only 379 issued to employees as of the end of last week, suggested to program managers that there had either been inadequate outreach to local businesses or glitches in the permitting system, or both. By Wednesday, employee permits issued had risen to 900, but that’s still far below the estimated number of cars that have been parking on residential streets. More than 2,800 permits were issued to residents within an area of approximately 4,000 housing units, according to City Planning Director Hillary Gitelman.

Though the glitchy start-up was disappointing and embarrassing, pushing out the enforcement date was a wise decision with little downside, especially given how long downtown residents have already had to wait.

The success of the program, which received final City Council approval last December, depends on finding the appropriate balance between permits issued to downtown workers and to the residents of the adjacent neighborhoods as well as determining the appropriate ultimate geographic boundaries and permit price points for the program.

During the first phase, which is focused on gathering data and is set to run for six months, residents will be able to get up to four permits for free, with an option of purchasing additional visitor permits for $25 each. For employees of downtown companies, the permit costs will be either $233 or $50, depending on their income level. Cars that don’t have permits will be subject to twohour time limits; violators will be fined $53.

In the second phase, the city will set limits on the number of permits sold to employees and will begin charging residents $50 per year for each permit. Employees in the second phase will also have their permits restricted to particular areas within the downtown district with the aim of dispersing vehicles evenly within neighborhoods.

In the first few days after the parking restriction signs were uncovered this week there was a noticeable decrease in cars parked within the restricted neighborhoods but also indications that some employees were simply parking farther out in unrestricted areas.

One resident described the change and open parking spots as a “miracle,” while another just outside the permit area said her block on Kingsley Avenue was “deluged” with cars.

The problem of pushing the current parking problem out into other neighborhoods has been a concern since the downtown permit-parking system was first proposed and one that will need to be addressed as data is gathered during the initial phase.

Residents outside the restricted area, which stretches from Alma to Guinda streets and from Palo Alto to Lincoln avenues (except for a small section between Alma and Bryant that extends all the way to Embarcadero Road), have the option of signing a petition to establish a similar parking program in their area, but we trust city officials will also take action if significant problems develop.

A key part of the program, and perhaps why the program during the first few days seems to have had the desired effect of opening up more spaces, is that permits are only available to residents who can show proof of residency within the restricted area and to employees with proof of employment downtown.

Other drivers who are suspected of having a significant impact on parking downtown, including Stanford employees and students and Caltrain riders, will not be eligible to buy permits and will be forced to use pay lots or find other parking solutions outside of downtown. How this works will be a major test for the new program.

It will be easy for residents, business owners, employees and Caltrain commuters to find things to complain about in the early weeks of this program and there will surely be a need to recalibrate some of the program’s features. But for now, we can celebrate the launch of a system that should bring not only an improvement in the parking situation but also increased incentives for using alternatives for commuting. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Missing something Editor, As a retired psychotherapist who spent most of my career trying to help survivors of familial sexual abuse to recover from the profound, long lasting trauma resulting from it, I was surprised to read several positive, upbeat reviews of the movie “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” referring to a 15-year-old girl’s “sexual awakening” while having sex with her mother’s 35-year-old boyfriend.

Nowhere in the film was there any indication that she was being abused by a man 20 years her senior or that she was being damaged by his treatment, despite the fact that she began to put herself in dangerous sexual situations while abusing drugs and alcohol. Instead we were to believe at the end of the film that she has emerged not only undamaged by the experience but actually strengthened by it.

Clearly the reviewers have no awareness of the effects of sexual abuse on its victims or that the consent of the child does not in any way ameliorate the potential harm nor make the offender less to blame.

Pat Sherman Emerson Street, Palo Alto

Reward good behavior Editor, Here’s a proposal. To qualify for an off-leash privilege of using Windy Hill Open Space trails, the following would be required of dog and owner: 1) Vaccines and licenses to be current; 2) presentation of an American Kennel Club certificate documenting the dog has passed the Canine Good Citizen Advanced test; 3) presentation of a statement from the County SPCA that the dog has passed a Temperament Evaluation; 4) payment of an annual fee payable to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District; 5) off-leash time allowed only during low-use trail times (e.g. mid-weekdays); 6) owner to carry current permit for off-leash use of trails; and 7) permission for off-leash trail use subject to approval after an evaluation by Trail Ranger(s) and subject to revocation and forfeiture of any fees paid should there be any abuse of this privilege.

Here are the advantages to the open-space district: 1) annual fees would contribute to trail maintenance costs; 2) publicizing this program would be an incentive for dog owners to train their dogs to pass the above behavior tests; and 3) a conspicuous sign at the trail heads would be displayed to explain the trial nature of this program and to solicit feedback from other trail users. Should problems arise, the program would be im-

mediately terminated.

All dogs are not equivalent, yet current trail restrictions apply to all dogs uniformly. Certain dogs, trained and screened as outlined above, often go onto become certified as Therapy Assist Dogs, which are used to comfort the ill and frail, our veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, and survivors of calamities around the country. If these dogs are qualified to fill these important roles, surely they should be allowed to enjoy some off-leash time on our local trails.

Michael Jacobs Los Trancos Road, Portola Valley

Consider more housing Editor, I was happy to read that the City Council is considering a proposal to develop 2755 El Camino Real (“Council to mull proposed development,” Sept. 11, 2015). The majority of the people who live and/or work in Palo Alto agree that the two biggest challenges we face are the high cost of housing and the growing automobile traffic. These two are related, since if more people who work in Palo Alto could find housing here, then they would not need to commute into and out of the city every day.

This parcel at the corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino could contribute to the solution.

This location is perfect for housing; it’s in a neighborhood with other residential properties, and it is walking distance to shopping, jobs and the Caltrain station.

Currently Palo Alto has the worst jobs/housing imbalance in the Bay Area. Building more office space will only contribute to the problems our city faces, whereas building housing will make the city more livable and sustainable.

The City Council has a choice here, will they contribute to our city’s problems, or will they start us on our way to a sustainable solution?

Elaine Haight Cowper Street, Palo Alto

Some snorting Editor, Thanks to the school board’s kind invitation to us, and the Weekly’s top-notch coverage of their meeting, Save the 2,008 is basking in attention like a hippo in mud.

But (obeying a law of nature that constrains all creatures) even this blissful hippo with its nose almost submerged can’t be perfectly (continued on page 22)

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Palo Alto: How immigrant-friendly are we?

by Elizabeth Weal

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epublican presidential candidates’ vitriol against immigrants — and the apparent support it has elicited — reminds me yet again of why, after more than 30 years, I’m still grateful to be living here.

No doubt some locals agree with these candidates’ comments. But for the most part, the people I know appreciate immigrants’ hard work and sympathize with the challenges they face.

That said, I wonder how immigrants — and I’m focusing here on immigrants working in low-paying jobs — perceive the rest of us. I thought about this as a result of a conversation I had with a young woman, a house cleaner from Mexico, who was surprised by how nicely her employer treated her because, she said, “I didn’t think the American people liked the Mexican people.” That got me thinking, “How immigrant-friendly are we?”

When I taught English as a Second Language to adults — mostly minimumwage service workers from Mexico and other parts of Latin America — I’d ask my students to make a list of what they liked and didn’t like about the U.S. There were lots of likes: the opportunities, jobs, education, safety. In the negative column the most frequent entry was “racism.” Further

conversation revealed that what students meant was a feeling, similar to the sentiment expressed by the house cleaner, that many Americans simply don’t like them.

I would argue that, in this area, this perception has a lot to do with our culture: We tend to be so focused on our quest to achieve that we rarely find time to connect with the people who enable us to lead the productive — and pleasure-filled — lifestyles we’ve crafted. To the people who make that lifestyle possible, our aloofness could easily be interpreted as dislike or even disdain.

Think of how many immigrants you encounter in a week — the person who cares for your garden or empties the trash in your office — and how many of those people you take the time to talk with. If you’re like most of us, such conversations are few and far between.

I remember suggesting to a friend that he take a few minutes out of his day to acknowledge the employees at the company cafe where he eats lunch every day, and he looked at me as if I was suggesting he befriend the ticket-taker at the movies. It wasn’t that he harbored negative feelings towards the people who refill the salad bar.

He just couldn’t fathom why he should interact with them.

I get that not everyone feels comfortable chatting with strangers with whom they have little in common. But the flip side is that just introducing yourself to someone you see almost every day — and then asking their name, or where they’re from — can go a long way toward making an outsider feel acknowledged, and maybe even respected.

But what about the bigger issues, the ones that go well beyond the niceties of making immigrants feel welcome? Where the Bay Area, in particular, falls short is providing service workers — overwhelming immigrants — a livable wage. A recent report from Joint Venture Silicon Valley found that the income gap between the highestearning 20 percent of households in the Bay Area and the lowest-paid 20 percent has reached $263,000 — a new record and 50 percent higher than the gap nationwide.

To its credit, the Palo Alto City Council approved an ordinance, effective Jan. 1, 2016, to increase the city’s minimum wage to $11 and is investigating steps necessary to reach a $15 minimum wage by 2018.

(Just so you know, an employee earning $15 an hour working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks has an annual salary of about $31,000 — not much if you’re trying to raise a family here.)

In recent months, we’ve also made some progress towards giving service workers a slightly bigger sliver of the high-tech pie.

Google, for example, recently gave pay raises to its shuttle drivers. In May, Facebook said its contractors with more than 25 employees must pay those employees at least $15 an hour and provide sick leave and vacation. These changes have been spearheaded by Silicon Valley Rising, a coalition of labor unions, faith leaders and community-based organizations working for livable wages, affordable housing and corporate responsibility.

Most high-tech companies don’t hire service workers. Rather, they hire contractors who hire the service workers. If you

work for a company that employs service workers, you can have an impact just by asking questions about the wages and benefits your company’s contractors provide.

“To have high-tech workers standing with service workers is incredibly powerful,” says Maria Noel Fernandez, Silicon Valley Rising campaign director.

When my students tell me about the challenges they face — working two jobs while taking ESL classes, paying $700 a month for a room in a house (without kitchen privileges), relying on buses because they can’t afford a car — I invariably ask the obvious: Wouldn’t things be easier back home? Their predominant response is that, as difficult as their lives are — and as much as they miss their families — living here is far better than returning to where they came from.

So, as the host community, we have an out: We can pat ourselves on the back for giving immigrants the opportunity to work here. Or we can take the high road: We can make immigrants feel welcome.

Equally important, we can support local initiatives — free and low-cost medical care, tutoring programs for at-risk kids, scholarships for adult immigrants wanting to continue their education — that demonstrate our commitment to the health and education of immigrants and their children who now call the Bay Area home. Q Palo Alto resident Elizabeth Weal is executive director of Sequoia Adult School Scholars, a nonprofit that helps adult immigrants continue their education. You can reach her at El i z a b e t hWe a l@ t e n a y a . c o m .

Streetwise

What do you think is Palo Alto’s best-kept secret?

Asked at Mitchell Park. Interviews and photos by Muna Sadek.

Pam Lowney

Judy Saunders

Nadia Priestley

Judy Lochead

Inna Hiller

Evelyn Avenue, Sunnyvale Digital content manager

Ramona Street, Palo Alto Student

Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto Writer

East Charleston Road, Palo Alto Startup founder, retired tech consultant

California Street, Mountain View Specialist at senior independent-living facility

“The carrot cake at The Prolific Oven and the Community Gardens — they are well-tended; it’s lovely.”

“A Jamaican restaurant in downtown (Coconuts Caribbean Restaurant & Bar).”

“The schools and Hiruko Wellness.”

“Tea Time on University Ave. with my women’s social group and the Mitchell Park Library free meeting rooms.”

“The schools and the atmosphere.

You can always find a space for friends or a space to be alone.”

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) 8:30 A.M., Thursday, October 1, 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.

ARB Findings: Discussion regarding a proposed YLK\J[PVU PU [OL U\TILY VM (9) ÄUKPUNZ MVY HWWYV]HS ARB 2015 Design: ARB members will discuss projects eligible for the 2015 ARB Awards to arrive at a short list 3200 El Camino Real [15PLN-00305]: A request by Joanne Park, of Architectural Dimensions, on behalf of the Prabhu Corporation for a Preliminary Architectural Review for the demolition of an existing hotel and the construction of a new four-story, 50’-0” tall hotel with 93 guestrooms and two-level underground garage.

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Environmental Assessment: Categorically Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA guideline Section 15301 and Section 15304.

180 El Camino Real [15PLN-00085]: Request by Eric Allen of SPG Center, LLC, on behalf of the Board of Trustees to the Leland Stanford Junior University, for Major Architectural Review of site improvements, tenant facade improvements, and new freestanding and directional signage visible from the public right of way for the Stanford Shopping Center. Zoning District: Community Commercial (CC). Environmental Assessment: Categorically Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA guideline Section 15301 and Section 15304.

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Letters (continued from page 20)

happy — but must snort away at the bugs and butterflies.

1) Our proposal for timely, wiser counseling around multiple APs does not add any further limits, or regulations, or infringements of liberty. In this it’s no more restrictive than the Second Amendment.

2) Research relating class-size to student achievement is, happily, irrelevant here. We already have high-achieving students!

“Shrinking classes to a friendlier size” — as Save the 2,008 proposes — isn’t for higher scores

— will dangerously intensify student stress.

Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

or better grades. It’s for healthier, more hopeful kids with better ties to their teachers.

3) Regarding class sizes, Save the 2,008 proposes no “cap.” We would never say “No” to the 29th person trying to come aboard a boat designated, best-case, for 28.

All that Save the 2,008 proposes is some increase in the number of boats, many a little smaller.

4) To “crack down,” in any way, on cheating, without at the same time relieving the pressures that cause it — homework and AP loads insufficiently modulated, grades overemphasized, parental participation, a culture entrenched

Unsupported, distracting Editor, Under new and committed leadership, Palo Alto Unified School District is moving forward toward making our schools safer and less tolerant of bullying and harassment. So as the nation grapples with issues of sexual harassment, rape culture and bullying on high school and college campuses, the Daily Post’s attacks are distracting from the real issues, in addition to being plainly wrong.

Nothing in the emails released suggest that an investigation into PAUSD’s Title IX issues were for any other reason than the issues raised by students themselves in Verde, issues that received nationwide attention. Asking for technical assistance on how to conduct an intra-district investigation — technical assistance that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) routinely gives — is not at all the same as requesting that the OCR conduct an investigation. Nevertheless, working to keep our kids safe from harassment is not something for which anyone should be attacked. The Daily Post’s unwarranted attacks are ridiculous.

LaToya Baldwin Clark Clark Way, Palo Alto

CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, October 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Adoption of an Ordinance Making Permanent the Interim Measures to Eliminate Certain Parking Exemptions within Downtown by Amending Chapters 18.18, Downtown Commercial (CD) District and 18.52, Parking and Loading Requirements.

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

‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ grapples with the ongoing conflict

by Janet Silver Ghent

Ken Friedman

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on’t expect to hear the voices of screaming Israeli settlers or Palestinian would-be suicide bombers in “Wrestling Jerusalem.” Aaron Davidman’s one-man drama, in which he plays 17 characters with myriad views of the Mideast conflict, is more nuanced. ing the perspective of an American Jewish outsider, born after Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.

His ultimate goal, he said, is for theatergoers to discard their talking points and listen.

Ken Friedman

“It’s not a piece out of the headlines,” said Davidman during a recent phone interview from Berkeley. “None of these characters can be pigeon-holed. Everyone is complex.”

While arguments continue to rage over who has the right to the land of Israel and the territories and who is victimizing whom, “this play is offering to go past those arguments,” Davidman said. “This play is saying there’s more to it than just that. There are human beings here. There are more than two sides.”

When audiences attend “Wrestling Jerusalem” on Sunday evening, Sept. 20, at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC, Davidman hopes they will experience “this range of perspectives.”

Over the course of nearly a decade, the playwright and actor interviewed dozens of Israeli Jews, Americans, Palestinians and human rights workers, listening to their stories and trying to understand. In “Wrestling Jerusalem,” he plays a religious Jewish settler, a Palestinian human rights activist, a Holocaust survivor, a Palestinian who was wounded by an Israeli soldier, a mother whose son was killed in a bus bombing and a somatic psychologist who specializes in trauma. In addition, Davidman, 48, speaks in his own voice, offer-

In “Wrestling Jerusalem,” Aaron Davidman plays a religious Jewish settler, a Palestinian human rights activist, a Holocaust survivor, a Palestinian wounded by an Israeli soldier and a grieving mother.

“The whole project has changed me,” he explained. “I feel pretty strongly that the way the play is working on people is opening them up to witnessing the humanity of the other.”

The 85-minute theater piece, directed

by Michael John Garcés, began a work-inprogress run in March 2014 and has since toured the country. After his Palo Alto appearance, Davidman will take the show to San Francisco, followed by runs in Minneapolis, New York, Cleveland, Washington, D.C. and Houston.

“Wrestling Jerusalem” is also being made into a film, incorporating scenes filmed in a desert, in Davidman’s dressing room and on stage. With funding from a Kickstarter campaign, Davidman hopes to reach wider audiences.

He describes the current theatergoers as “a mixed audience, largely people who are pretty open ... not the hardliners.” From the outset, he has encountered “suspicion from the right and suspicion from the left. But as we know, the extremes are not the majority.

“I just refuse to participate in a polemic,” he continued. “This is not a table debate.

It’s not a lecture on the circuit.” Instead, the play is meant to represent the “multidimensionality of the conflict. From that point, we can move forward.”

In addition to performing the work, Davidman writes about the play and its subject on his blog.

“We need to talk to each other, we need to try to understand each other, even if we can’t agree with each other on solutions,”

On Sunday, Sept. 20, the Oshman Family JCC will present Aaron Davidman’s “Wrestling Jerusalem,” a solo show that explores the IsraeliPalestinian conflict from multiple perspectives. he has written. “It’s a vital step in the process that will lead to the end of bloodshed.”

While Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs have been moved by his presentation, Davidson admitted, “it’s hard to get them to come, understandably. ... We are slowly making progress.” He has been more successful with interfaith post-performance panel discussions with Christians and Jews.

“Christians are very moved by the piece,” he said.

For 10 years, Davidman served as artistic director of San Francisco’s now-defunct Traveling Jewish Theatre. He has long grappled with what Jews euphemistically call “the situation” (“matsav,” in Hebrew): the ongoing conflict over the land of Israel. When Israelis celebrate the 1948 War of Independence each May, Palestinians mourn “the catastrophe” (“Al Nakba,” in Arabic), when they fled their homes and villages.

Though the first run of “Wrestling Jerusalem” began just 18 months ago, the seeds for the show began to germinate during Davidman’s first trip to Israel back (continued on page 24)

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Arts & Entertainment

The Palo Alto Art Center, Bay Area Glass Institute, and Palo Alto Art Center Foundation present:

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in 1992, when he was 25.

Years later at Traveling Jewish Theatre, while co-writing and directing the 2005 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blood Relative,â&#x20AC;? which features a half-Jewish half-Arab protagonist, he collaborated with Israeli, Palestinian and American artists and began exploring the conflict from multiple points of view.

Recognizing that there were bigger stories than what appeared in the newspapers, Davidman returned to Israel and began developing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wrestling Jerusalem,â&#x20AC;? which was initially funded through a 2007 commission from Theater J in Washington, D.C. Now he sees the play as his full-time job.

As he sees it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wrestling Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;? is really â&#x20AC;&#x153;an American play for American audiencesâ&#x20AC;? of all faiths.

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There have been ongoing wars for a thousand years.

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alo Alto Players has always had a flair for musicals, but lately it has been upping its own game with blockbuster-style, eye-popping extravaganzas, and this season’s opener is no exception. Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse wrote the book; John Kander wrote the music and Ebb the lyrics for the 1975 musical, “Chicago,” winner of six Tony Awards for its 1996 Broadway revival. The show continues to enthrall audiences with its slightly raunchy and very comic tale of merry murderesses in the swinging ’20s. Players’ version knocks it out of the park with dynamite dancing, strong vocals and some fine, fresh staging.

Set in Chicago in the height of the Jazz Age, the show features two star wannabes who just happen to have committed murder: Velma Kelly (Janelle LaSalle) and Roxie Hart (Elizabeth Santana). The two find themselves competing for headlines as they finagle their way off of death row. Aiding their escape from punishment — but for a price — are the jail matron, Mama Morton (Jennifer Taylor Daniels), and the unscrupulous but brilliant lawyer, Billy Flynn (Michael Monagle).

As Velma and Roxie vie for attention from the press, they one-up each other with song and dance to prove why they should be Chicago’s next big star, providing lots of opportunities for showcasing the actresses’ skills and those of the lively ensemble. As their trials approach, they also learn some sobering realities about the fickle Fourth Estate and society’s short attention span.

Don’t come to “Chicago” looking for a morality tale — just about everyone is corrupt, including the law — but it’s good, clean fun all the same. Er, make that good, sexy fun.

Bob Fosse’s signature moves, refreshed and enhanced in this production by director and choreographer Janie Scott, put sex upfront and in your face, but it’s witty and clever rather than crude. The terrifically talented ensemble, clad in period underwear and lingerie, fill some fantastic Fosse shoes with fabulous lifts and combinations.

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In Palo Alto Players’ production of “Chicago,” Elizabeth Santana plays Roxie Hart, left; Janelle LaSalle plays Velma Kelly. light with “When You’re Good to Mama.” N. Sanchez, as sweet little Mary Sunshine, has fun and shows skills with “A Little Bit of Good.”

The band sits on upstage risers, in costume, adding to the nightclub ambiance and vaudeville style. Music director Katie Coleman gets a wonderful, Kurt Weill-ian cabaret sound from them.

Costumes by Jeffrey Hamby play up the sexiness with style, and Nick Kumamoto’s lighting partners with Klein’s set beautifully. Pat Tyler has a field day with props — gotta love those feather fans! — and Jessica Ellithorpe meets style and period challenges with wigs. Director Scott superbly handles choreography for the ensemble numbers, but strangely leaves the solos fairly static. The final duo for Roxie and Velma is also somewhat underwhelming.

Still, the overall effect is delightfully energetic and fun to watch, with enough brilliant moments to deliver a satisfying new take on a much-loved American icon. Q

They even dance while climbing all over Patrick Klein’s inventive, multi-level set, shinnying down fireman’s poles or clinging to prison bars. They’re all great, but standouts include Mohamed Ismail and Tara Harte-Rodriguez.

The principals rate raves as well. LaSalle’s opening with “All That Jazz” is a bit on the mild side, but she heats it up in “Cell Block Tango” and “I Can’t Do It Alone.”

Santana’s Roxie runs the gamut of emotions with flair and flaunts her long, straight stems with glee, while charming us in numbers like “Roxie” and “Me and My Baby” (with some oh-so-hilarious baby “boys” assisting). Monagle manages the vocals all right, but excels as the slimy, ever-smiling Flynn. Joey McDaniel brings the house down as Amos Hart in “Mr. Cellophane,” and Daniels gets her moment in the spot-

Freelance writer Jeanie Smith can be emailed at jksmith614@ me.com.

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Palo Alto Players’ production of “Chicago” offers a fresh take on a beloved American musical icon.

What: “Chicago,” presented by Palo Alto Players Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Through Sept. 27.

Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; FridaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.

Cost: $35-$49.

Info: Go to paplayers.org or call 650-329-0891.

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She’s known as the “queen of mean” and hailed as a top practitioner of insult comedy (her URL’s actually insultcomic. com). This Saturday, Sept. 19, comedian Lisa Lampanelli comes to Redwood City’s Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, with shows at 7 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. On her national “Leaner Meaner” tour, the fearless social commentator pulls no punches in her blend of poignant confession and hilariously offensive humor. Though she’s enjoyed recent media buzz for her 100-pound weight loss, funky haircut and divorce, what makes Lampanelli truly unique is her style of lambasting public figures from Pamela Anderson to Donald Trump. Don’t miss this unleashing of riotous off-color jokes.

Tickets are $31-$69. Go to foxrwc.com or call 650-369-7770.

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Friday Night at the Art Center Signature cocktails, food truck fare, live music and performance art converge on Friday night, Sept.

18, 7-10 p.m., at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road. Check out an interactive “art and ideas incubator,” get your own copy of the Palo Alto happiness map and schmooze with other artsy folks. The event is free. Go to goo.gl/zs8enn or call 650-329-2366.

Event Kepler’s 60th anniversary Kepler’s Books is turning 60, and you’re invited to the party. The beloved Menlo Park bookstore at 1010 El Camino Real celebrates six decades on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2:30-5 p.m., with activities for all ages, including live music, games, face painting, bookmaking and more. The event is free. Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.

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Needham-Wood and Amy Seiwert. Tickets are $23$71. Go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-6000.

Festival Oktoberfest Prost! For a little bit of Bavaria in the Bay Area, head to Redwood City this weekend for Oktoberfest.

There, you’ll find music, dancing and cold beers on tap as well as traditional German delights including bratwurst (sausages) and brez’n (pretzels).

The festival takes place Friday through Sunday, Sept. 18-20, at Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway.

Entry is $18 for adults and $10 for kids and designated drivers. Go to redwoodcity.org/events or call 650-780-7000.

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Smuin Ballet Athletic contemporary dance meets classical ballet technique in the work of Smuin Ballet. The dynamic San Francisco troupe comes to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Sept. 24-27. “Dance Series One” features works by choreographer Ma Cong and company founder Michael Smuin alongside world premieres by Ben

Take a master of improvisational jazz piano, pair him with a world-class banjo virtuoso, and listen to musical sparks fly. On Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m., Chick Corea and Béla Fleck perform together at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St. Tickets are $32-$95. Go to live.stanford.edu or call 650724-2464. Q

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The “queen of mean,” comedian Lisa Lampanelli, will perform at Redwood City’s Fox Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 19.

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Among the options on the build-your-own sandwich menu at J Love Burger are a fried fish fillet and a ramen bun.

omance is a funny thing.

Customers are showing a lot of love for J Love Burger on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View. I didn’t fall for her — not at first. I noted her flaws before I appreciated her qualities.

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Outwardly, she was plastered with cocktail posters, one advertising a $5 shot of Irish whiskey available every Friday from 9 to 11 p.m. Yet adjacent the lurid libation ads were posters of delicious Japanese-style menchi-katsu (ground beef and pork) and yakiniku (grilled beef with onion) burgers.

I was getting mixed signals.

She isn’t exactly homely, but she’ll never be called chic. Inside, she has plain Jane sports bar decor with nondescript furnishings in grays and beiges.

Down a corridor that leads past the bar is a door that connects to Mervyn’s Lounge, which opens

at 3 p.m. While it was not quite 3 p.m., I stuck my head in. It had all the qualities of a dive bar: appropriately dark, a tad rundown, secretive. The front door is in an alley. J Love Burger had a shady side.

In reality, Mervyn’s is a storied lounge, the remnant of a once locally famous restaurant whose history has been well documented. I couldn’t quite reconcile a Japanese burger place and an old-fashioned watering hole. Could it be a case of multiple personality disorder?

Adding to the confusion was the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of the es(continued on page 28)

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tablishment. One day, the restroom wasn’t clean — never a good sign.

Yet walking past the open kitchen gave me some relief. Chef Kanako “Katy” Shimazu’s cooking space was spic and span, as was the dining area.

The midday menu is a buildyour-own burger concept with options on meat, buns, salad, fries and non-alcoholic beverages. The basic charge is $9.95 with certain up-charges depending on the combinations. At dinner, there are a few more snacks and sides available, but burgers remain the anchor.

The laminated menu comes in both English and Japanese with miniature photographs of the finished products. That was a good idea for those of us not steeped in Japanese techniques, mixtures, condiments and expected results.

Except for the brioche buns, everything is made in house from Shimazu’s recipes, according to

The J Love salad includes romaine lettuce, tomatoes, croutons, avocado and Parmesan cheese, and comes drizzled with a wasabi mayo dressing. supervisor Una Lee. My first date with J Love didn’t go well. I chose the marinated ginger pork burger with Japanese barbecue sauce and grilled onion on rice buns — two slider-sized burgers, although I wouldn’t call them burgers. It was sliced pork with grilled onions atop. The rice

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buns were hockey-puck sized discs of rice with threads of seaweed.

The pork was just OK, although I couldn’t detect a smidgen of ginger. The “burgers” were half wrapped in paper for easy handling and to keep the rice pucks from disintegrating. It was messy: more a collision than a harmonic fusion of east meets west.

There was a second date. This time, I was enchanted by the menchi-katsu burger. Menchi-katsu roughly means chopped or minced cutlet. In this case, it translates to a house-made blend of ground beef and pork, topped with deep-fried cabbage and drizzled with chef Shimazu’s special tonkatsu sauce: a mix of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, oyster sauces and sugar.

I chose the brioche bun to go with my menchi-katsu burger, and got an over-sized and lightly toasted roll with the letter “J” stamped on the top. The burger was delicious and tangy with many levels of flavor, no additional condiments necessary. The French fries were good and the sweet potato fries

worth the 50 cent extra charge. My heart was warming.

On our last date, I opted for an unusual combination — the fried fish fillet with tartar sauce on a ramen bun. The waiter raised an eyebrow but gave me a knowing nod.

The ramen bun — wrapped in paper and sandwiched around the fish — instantly disintegrated. It turned out to be a great combination, though. The crunch of ramen noodles juxtaposed over the hot crisp fish was a revelation. There was sufficient tartar sauce to keep the sandwich somewhat together.

For lettuce lovers, the J Love salad — composed of romaine, avocado and tomato — was given life by a wasabi mayonnaise dressing.

The more interesting tofu salad of cherry tomatoes, cold tofu and lettuce with ribbons of seaweed in a spicy sauce revved up the appetite. There was loads of flavor packed in this small salad.

J Love Burger offers two dozen beers, the standards by the bottle ($4-$5). The tap beer ($7-$8) is where the interest lies, with op-

tions like Heretic Brewing Company’s Evil Cousin, Eye of the Hawk from Mendocino Brewing Company, Irish Red Ale and others.

Though I still believe she’s suffering from an identity crisis, J Love Burger won me over. I’m looking forward to our next rendezvous. Q

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SIX-MONTH CLOSURE FOR GORDON BIERSCH ... New name, new menu, new beers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these are just a few of the changes diners will notice at Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, 640 Emerson St., when it reopens in February of next year. The restaurant closed its doors this week in order to reinvent itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a total renovation inside and out.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be pretty drastic,â&#x20AC;? said restaurant founder Dan Gordon, who along with Dean Biersch opened Gordon Biersch in 1988. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had hoped to do this in stealth mode and keep it under wraps, but the project keeps getting bigger and bigger.â&#x20AC;? An email went out to customers earlier this month advising them of the closure. In its new incarnation, the restaurant will be called DGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an acronym for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dan Gordonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gordon Biersch.â&#x20AC;? Gordon is working on the revamped restaurant with Steve Sinchek, who owns the popular downtown sports bar, The Old Pro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steve is actively involved and has been part of this company since day one,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been to Texas doing research on different ways of smoking meats.â&#x20AC;? There are more than 30 Gordon Biersch restaurants nationwide.

The Palo Alto restaurant is the only one being renamed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palo Alto is our flagship store. I know every inch of this place,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said of the 5,200-square-foot-space. When DGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GB has been completely renovated, it will have elevated

and communal dining tables, outdoor seating and a menu that nods toward the farm-to-table movement. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a promise of lower prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most expensive item will be under $19,â&#x20AC;?

Gordon said. He is particularly excited to announce a new Bavarian-style pretzel that will be baked outside in a special oven. The restaurant will still operate as a brewery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only that, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also going to make it a testing ground for trying out new beers,â&#x20AC;? Gordon explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re calling it Tank 21, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Tanks 1 through 20 in our brewery in San Jose. This will be the 21st, and several experimental brews will be made available in Palo Alto.â&#x20AC;?

COFFEE FOR A QUARTER ... Although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe in this land of four-dollar lattes, the coffee bar at Whole Foods Market is offering a 12-ounce cup of brewed coffee for 25 cents until the end of September. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love Festâ&#x20AC;? national campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking forward to deepening our connections with customers and saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;thank youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;we love you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153; said Whole Foods Market Executive VP of Operations David Lannon. Thanks for the cuppa, Whole Foods.

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Author Anne Beattie discusses her new short story collection

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Author Ann Beattie will appear at Kepler’s Books on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to discuss her latest short story collection, “The State We’re In.”

by Michael Berry

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t’s been 10 years since Ann Beattie, author of “Chilly Scenes of Winter” and “Mrs. Nixon,” last delivered a collection of new stories. The arrival of “The State We’re In: Maine Stories” finds her ruminating on loss, longing and loneliness in Vacationland and beyond.

The author will appear in conversation with novelist Nick Taylor at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Beattie made a literary name for herself at

an early age, publishing her first story in The New Yorker in 1974 at the age of 26. Sometimes described as “minimalist,” a classification to which she objects, her stories were often about disaffected, upper-middle-class young people dealing with the fallout of the ’60s and ’70s while navigating the treacherous social landscape of the ’80s. During one 10-year period, she published 35 stories in the magazine.

Her scope has widened considerably since those early days. What has remained constant, though, is the precision of her language, her willingness to experiment, her keen grasp of characterization and, perhaps most of all, her sly and engaging sense of humor, one that’s rarely cruel and yet almost always well targeted.

The title of the new collection is open to a variety of interpretations: from geographical to psychological, cultural to existential. The majority of the selections are set in coastal Maine, and most of the protagonists of the 15 stories are women — widows, wives, daughters and mothers.

Via email, Beattie said she wrote the stories in “The State We’re In” in a concentrated period of time but without a specific plan in mind.

“I wrote them about a year after I quit my teaching job, and I can’t help but think that after all those years of reading extremely long stories (at the University of Virginia), I needed an antidote — even if I had to write them,” she explained. “Of course, eventually I got into my own set of difficulties, writing several long stories. But to the extent I planned anything at all, it was that simpler,

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more direct stories (which doesn’t mean to me that they aren’t complicated) were the way to go.”

Three stories — “What Magical Realism Would Be,” “Endless Rain into a Paper Cup” and “The Repurposed Barn” — focus on a teen named Jocelyn, exiled to Maine to attend summer classes and live with her Uncle Raleigh and Aunt Bettina Louise Tompkins (unkindly known as “BLT”) while her mother recuperates from a hysterectomy — or perhaps Lyme disease. Jocelyn is by turns sympathetic, irritating and confounding, a young woman confused by life, family, school and her own murky intentions.

“I wrote a big chunk in rough draft and quickly realized it was too heavy for the book’s balance,” Beattie said of the sequence of tales about Jocelyn. “My husband had the bright idea of breaking it up, somehow. In revising, I more or less threw out the middle, wrote a new section (“Rain”), but kept the initial ending — which I moved to the end of the book.

I hope people won’t just see her story as interrupted, but as something that’s going on while other stories orbit her planet.”

Asked whether it was a challenge to write from the perspective of a teen protagonist, Beattie said, “I don’t have trouble remembering being a teenager, but teenagers are also all around me. The world is full of them. No problem (I don’t think) to channel them.”

The older, more experienced characters in “The State We’re In” also struggle with loneliness, stagnation and uncertainty.

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EAST MEETS WEST ... Palo Alto resident Carina Sue Burns is about to release her first novel with Morgan James Publishing. Inspired by her own life story, “The Syrian Jewelry Box: A Daughter’s Journey for Truth” invites young adult readers on an international journey across the Middle East and Europe to unravel a tangled family mystery. Burns will hold a book signing at Books, Inc. in Palo Alto on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. As of Nov. 3, the book will be available at Books, Inc. and on amazon.com.

Info: carinasueburns.com.

IN DEFENSE OF THE MIDDLEMAN ... Here in Silicon Valley, we’re all familiar with the Steve Jobs model of genius. But what about the unsung heroes of the tech and business worlds? According to journalist and author Marina Krakovsky, the middlemen are crucial cogs in making the economic world go ‘round. Krakovsky’s book is “The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit.” The book is available locally at Kepler’s Books as well as on amazon.com. Info: themiddlemaneconomy.com.

SILICON VALLEY VENTURES ...

She lives in New Jersey, but Kristen Luciani’s newest contemporary romance novel, “Nothing Ventured,” is based here in Silicon Valley.

Released on Kindle earlier this week, the book is the second in the “Venture” series, following 2014’s “Unlikely Venture,” which also took the culture of CEOs and venture capitalists as its basis. The heroine of “Nothing Ventured” is a single mom with a Stanford MBA and a power job at a prestigious venture capital firm who finds herself struggling to balance her personal and professional lives. The book is available at amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Info: kristenluciani.com.

ANIMATION GONE AWRY ... Crime, corruption and ... cartoons? Those are the subjects of Bay Area author Brandon Neff’s forthcoming novel, “The Monster Of Hidden City.” At the famed digital animation studio Fog City, a nefarious producer plots with a Silicon Valley business tycoon. Will our hero uncover the secret society before it’s too late? The book will become available on amazon.com and on smashwords.com on October 20. Info: facebook.com/TheMonsterOfHiddenCity.

SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ... Los Altos Hills resident Susan Altstatt has published her debut novel, “Belshangles,” a story set in the rock ‘n’ roll scene of the early 1980s. The frontman of an English rock band, bisexual 20-something Tommi Rhymer finds himself tiring of the rock-star lifestyle — just as a fan shows up to change his life. The book is available on amazon.com.

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Items for Book Talk may be sent to Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 93202 or emailed to eschwyzer@paweekly.com.

Title Pages by a woman whose refusal to open her home as a venue for a neighbor’s wedding has disastrous consequences. In “Yancey,” a poet forms an unexpected bond with an IRS agent when he arrives to check whether her writing room qualifies for a tax deduction.

In “Missed Calls,” a widowed writer is visited by a younger man interested in her one brief encounter with Truman Capote.

He’s researching “a book about people who have adversely affected other people.” He’s also trying to comfort his goddaughter, who was supposed to graduate from Bowdoin College but seems to have gone off the rails somehow.

Beattie clearly understands the setting she’s chosen for most these stories. The details feel right, whether she’s writing about an octogenarian who finally dares to change his nickname after his 103-year-old father dies, or about the meaning

of overturned Adirondack chairs on a front lawn.

Of writing about Maine, Beattie said, “It’s slightly unusual for me to write a story based where I’m currently living. I’m not trying to look out the window and take a snapshot. When I write, I discover what my characters think. Sometimes they think what I think; more often they don’t.”

Beattie’s best stories are unpredictable in their plotting, with epiphanies large and small arriving from unexpected directions. A sentence from the end of “The Repurposed Barn” — “The night started one way and ended another” — might be seen as emblematic of the collection as a whole.

Beattie spoke of some of the lessons she has tried to impart to her creative writing students.

“One thing I found myself often remarking upon was that I thought ideally, reading was a participatory process,” she said.

“You can’t exclude the reader

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and just write a hermetically sealed story, with no way for the reader to infer, or to project, or perhaps dream. You have to work hard to deliver your story, but it also should become in some way the reader’s.

“Readers are smart — or, ideally they are,” she added. “Let them in.”

Those who enter the world of Beattie’s “The State We’re In” will find themselves amply rewarded. Q

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OPEN HOUSES

What: Ann Beattie in conversation with Nick Taylor Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Oct. 17, 1–4 pm Sunday, Dec. 6, 1–4 pm

COMMUNITY INFORMATIONAL MEETING ON THE LUCY EVANS BAYLANDS INTERPRETIVE CENTER AND BOARDWALK IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT

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AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING– COUNCIL CHAMBERS SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 6:00 PM Public Hearing 1. Los Arboles Single Story Overlay: Request by Rebecca Thompson on Behalf of the Property Owners of the Los Arboles Tract #2396 for a Zone Change from R-1 and R-1(7000) Single Family Residential to R-1(S) and R-1(7000S) Single Family Residential with Single Story Overlay. Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act per section 15305. For more information, contact Amy French at amy.french@cityofpaloalto.org. Continued from September 9, 2015 2. First Annual Planning Codes Update: Discussion and Possible Recommendation of an Ordinance to amend land use-related portions of the Palo Alto Municipal Code. The purposes of the code amendments are to: (1) improve the use and readability of the code, (2) clarify certain code provisions, and (3) HSPNU YLN\SH[PVUZ [V YLÅLJ[ J\YYLU[ WYHJ[PJL HUK *V\UJPS policy direction. For more information, contact Amy French at Amy.french@cityofpaloalto.org Questions. For any questions regarding the above items, please contact the Planning Department at (650) 329-2441. ;OL ÄSLZ YLSH[PUN [V [OLZL P[LTZ HYL H]HPSHISL MVY PUZWLJ[PVU weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This public meeting is televised live on Government Access Channel 26.

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The City of Palo Alto invites you to review the proposed Baylands Interpretive Center and Boardwalk Improvements.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Lucy Evans Baylands Interpretive Center 2775 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA For additional information visit website www.cityofpaloalto.org/baylandscenter, email pwecips@cityofpaloalto.org or call (650) 329-2295.

Meeting hosted by the City of Palo Alto’s Public Works and Community Services Departments.

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OPENINGS

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“Black Mass” dramatizes the true story of notorious South Boston crime boss “Whitey” Bulger without improving on preceding documentaries.

A little Depp’ll do ya ‘Black Mass’ ritualizes true-crime tale 00 1/2 (Century 16, Century 20) In an era when documentaries have become increasingly polished and dramatic, their Hollywood-ized docudrama counter-

parts often seem unnecessary.

Compare Joe Berlinger’s gripping 2014 documentary, “Whitey: United States of America v.

James J. Bulger” to Scott Cooper’s new “Whitey” Bulger crime drama, “Black Mass,” and the former will seem more compelling, despite the fact that it lacks Johnny Depp playing the notorious South Boston crime boss.

And so it is that “Black Mass,” which finds Depp generating awards talk, makes a complicated story coherent without dumbing it down (much), lets a bunch of strong actors do their things, and yet inspires little more than adjectives like “efficient” and “workmanlike.” It doesn’t help that director Scott Cooper must follow in the footsteps of more dynamic pictures like Brian De Palma’s “Carlito’s Way”; Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” and “The Departed” (in which Jack Nicholson played a character inspired by Bulger); and Mike Newell’s “Donnie Brasco,” which starred Depp as an undercover FBI agent.

Now, Depp is on the other side of the law as a man described by the film’s G-men as a “kingpin,” a “crime lord” and, more to the point, “a psychopath.” Cooper and Depp double down on that last one, nodding to Bulger’s be-

nign public persona with an early scene of him helping a little old lady with her groceries, but thereafter depicting him as a monster.

Depp becomes this Bulger-plus by sporting lupine eyes (thanks to eerily pale contact lenses), bald pate with slicked-back hair on the sides, nasty teeth, aviator sunglasses and leather jacket. More than usual, Depp disappears into the role, but less through his visual transformation than by restraining his vocal tics and layering on a Southie accent.

Where “Black Mass” excels is in its true-crime telling (Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth adapt Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill’s book “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob”), which at least starts out taut before going slack.

“Just like on the playground,” muses one FBI witness, “it wasn’t always easy to tell who’s who.”

“Black Mass” struggles to flesh out the large cast of characters and stoke identification with them. This proves especially true in the case of John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), the FBI agent who falsely books Bulger as a

“top echelon informant” in order to create a mutually beneficial alliance between the two men.

The film covers two decades (1975-1995) in the activities of Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang and the Boston FBI office, giving work to such gifted actors as Benedict Cumberbatch as Bulger’s State Senator brother; Kevin Bacon, Corey Stoll, David Harbour, and Adam Scott as G-men; and Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, and W. Earl Brown as murderous crooks (the sidelined women include Dakota Johnson and Julianne Nicholson, who literally suffers at Depp’s hands in his least convincing scene). The modern gangster milieu means wall-to-wall profanity, bursts of bloody violence and a this-ishow-it-went-down montage. The film succeeds in its narrative function but works a little too hard to make sure we’re scared of Bulger, whose actions spoke for themselves.

Rated R for brutal violence, language throughout, some sexual references and brief drug use.

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Movies The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine 00 1/2 Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney has turned his skeptical, withering gaze on Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder (and erstwhile chairman and CEO). The film devotes most of its running time to exploring Jobs’ ruthlessness in his professional and personal lives, his demons and his sins. Gibney uses his own narration, expertly culled vintage footage and incisive interviews with various of Jobs’ intimates to create a kind of a cinematic essay, investigating why strangers so felt the 2011 loss of Jobs, what his machines mean to us, and how to reconcile the man’s contradictions. Not MPAA

rated. Two hours, 8 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Sept. 15, 2015) Grandma 000 Paul Weitz’s “Grandma” is a tailor-made vehicle for Lily Tomlin, who plays feminist poet and professor Elle Reid. Haunted by memories of her longtime companion, Elle ruefully dumps her decadesyounger girlfriend (Judy Greer) at the film’s outset. When Elle’s granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), arrives to beg a loan to pay for an abortion, die-hard feminist grandma quickly agrees to help.

Strapped financially herself, Elle has to revisit her past to find the money. The ensuing road trip lines up an impressive series of guest stars, including a mystery man (Sam Elliott) and Sage’s mother, Judy (Marcia Gay Harden). The early

scenes work to establish Elle’s cranky bona fides, but once she’s going toeto-toe with Elliott and the always-on-fire Harden, we get the deeply felt, nuanced performances promised by the nascent Oscar buzz. Rated R for language and some sexual references. One hour, 44 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Sept. 4, 2015) A Walk in the Woods 00 In Ken Kwapis’ adaptation of the book, “A Walk in the Woods,” travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) decides to satisfy his latest wanderlust with a five-month hike of the entire 2,118-mile Appalachian Trail. His wife Catherine (Emma Thompson), insists that it’s not safe to go alone, so Bryson calls his friends. To his chagrin, only a non-invitee

MOVIE TIMES

responds. The pseudonymous Stephen Katz exhibits the ill health of a sedentary alcoholic, conveyed effortlessly by a grizzled Nick Nolte. These grumpy old men are agreeable company, much as the film is agreeably scenic. But the few funny bits and sharp lines only amount to fool’s gold scattered around a claim that never satisfactorily pays off. Rated R for language and some sexual references. One hour, 44 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Sept. 4, 2015) Diary of a Teenage Girl000 1/2 Many Americans prefer to pretend adolescent female desire doesn’t exist.

Respect, then, to writer-director Marielle Heller for her adaptation of the novel, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” A smart, naive and red-blooded 15-year-old,

Lily

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protagonist Minnie Goetze finds herself doing an end-run around her oblivious mother, Charlotte (Kristen Wiig), in initiating an affair with mom’s 35-year-old boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). In Heller’s honest and nuanced presentation, Minnie doesn’t fall into the archetype of a sick nymphet or victim, and Monroe isn’t simply branded as a creep. Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and drinking — all involving teens. One hour, 42 minutes.

— P.C. (Reviewed Aug. 28, 2015)

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MOVIE REVIEWERS P.C. – Peter Canavese, T.H. – Tyler Hanley, S.T. – Susan Tavernetti

Marcia Gay

Ant-Man (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:25 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45 & 7:55 p.m.

Black Mass (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:30 & 11:05 a.m., 12:45, 2:20, 4, 5:30, 7:15, 8, 8:55 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 12:35, 2, 3:30, 4:55, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30 & 10:45 p.m.

Captive (PG-13) Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m.

The End of the Tour (R) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 4:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m.

The Gift (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m.

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 5 & 10:20 p.m.

Grandma (R) +++ Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45 & 10 p.m.

Guild Theatre: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m.

Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) Century 16: 4:55 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:20 a.m., noon & 2:30 p.m., Sun 9 & 11:40 a.m.

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (R) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:15, 4:10, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m.

Inside Out (PG) +++1/2

Straight Outta Compton (R) Century 16: 9 a.m., 12:25, 3:55, 7:20 & 10:40 p.m.

Century 20: 12:20, 3:40, 7 & 10:15 p.m.

Jimmy’s Hall (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: 1:30 & 7 p.m.

Trainwreck (R) Century 20: 10:50 a.m. & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:40, 4:35 & 7:45 p.m., Sun 4:05 p.m.

Katti Batti (Not Rated) Century 16: 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:45 & 10:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:45 p.m.

The Transporter Refueled (PG-13) Century 16: 9:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 p.m.

Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

Learning to Drive (R) Century 16: 9:25 & 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:10 p.m.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:55 a.m., 1, 4:10, 7:05 & 10 p.m.

Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (PG-13) Century 16: 9, 10 & 11 a.m., 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:40, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 9 & 10:20 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:10 p.m. & 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., noon, 2, 3:05, 5:10, 6:15, 8:20 & 9:25 p.m. In X-D at 1, 4:10, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. In D-BOX at 10:55 a.m., noon, 2, 3:05, 5:10, 6:15, 8:20 & 9:25 p.m.

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The Perfect Guy (PG-13) Century 16: 9:15 & 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:05 p.m.

Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: Sun 2 & 7 p.m.

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-A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Century 20: 2:25 & 7:35 p.m.

Psycho (1960) (R) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m.

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“PAUL WEITZ’S WRY AND INSIGHTFUL MOVIE. THE WONDER THAT IS ‘GRANDMA’ CAN BE SUMMED UP IN TWO WORDS: LILY TOMLIN.”

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9 a.m., 12:15, 2:10, 3:30, 5:15, 7, 8:40 & 10:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:01 a.m.

Century 20: 12:55, 4, 7:15 & 10:25 p.m.

No Escape (R)

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Meru (R) Palo Alto Square: 1, 3:15, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

A Walk in the Woods (R) ++ Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.

Century 20: 12:05, 3:35, 6:40 & 9:55 p.m.

Judy

-David Lewis, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

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Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos (Not Rated) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m.

Century 20: 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m.

The Visit (PG-13) Century 16: 9:35 a.m., 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:50, 4:25, 7 & 9:35 p.m., Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m.

War Room (PG) Century 20: 12:30, 3:50, 6:50 & 9:50 p.m.

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

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood Cityy ((800-326-3264)

CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri and Sat 9/18 – 9/19 The End of the Tour – 4:15, 9:45 Meru – 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Jimmy’s Hall – 1:30, 7:00 Sun through Thurs 9/20 – 9/24 The End of the Tour – 4:15 Meru – 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 Jimmy’s Hall – 1:30, 7:00

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Runners wait at the start line of the 5K race during the Moonlight Run & Walk in September 2014.

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31st annual Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk The Palo Alto Weekly and City of Palo Alto sponsor a benefit event for local noprofits supporting kids and families When: Friday, Sept. 25, 7-10 p.m. under the near-full Harvest Moon.

Race-night registration tables open at 6 p.m. 5K walk starts at 7 p.m.; 10K run starts at 8:15 p.m.; and 5K run starts at 8:45 p.m.

Where: Baylands Athletic Center, 1900 Geng Road (at Embarcadero Road), Palo Alto Early registration: Register at PaloAltoOnline.com/moonlight_ run. Preregistration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Race-night registration: Tables open at 6 p.m. Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted.

Race night registration fee is $45 for adults, $35 for youth.

Participants under 18 years of age who have not preregistered must be accompanied to the registration table by a parent or guardian who can sign the waiver. Refunds are not available before or after the event.

T-shirts: T-shirts available with registration only while supplies last. T-shirts for participants who register early will not be held for no-shows.

Start times: 5K walk at 7 p.m.; 10K run at 8:15 p.m.; 5K run at 8:45 p.m.

Course maps: 5K route: mapmyrun.com/ routes/view/290826835 10K route: mapmyrun.com/ routes/view/283559443

Running with the pack Veronica Weber

Palo Alto Run Club, BayTrailrunners help members build momentum, community

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unning with a group is the way to keep it going,” said Ron Wolf, board member and runner in Palo Alto Run Club (PARC), which has been organizing group runs and community events since 1986.

Motivation is one of the benefits that running groups, teams and clubs offer their members. Other benefits include the encouragement of a healthy and active lifestyle, a way to spend time in nature and a community with shared interests.

Wolf decided to join PARC 12 years ago mainly because of his interest in trail running, but he soon found he also enjoyed the

Riya Suising, front center, takes the lead as members of the Palo Alto Run Club work on sprints during a workout at Cobb Track and Angell Field at Stanford University in September. “easygoing” nature of the running community.

“It’s great (and) really nice to see the same people, and it’s really health-oriented. I wouldn’t do it all with, like, a strict coaching system,” he said.

One of the many running groups in the greater Palo Alto area, PARC currently offers three runs during the week and weekend trips to the Bay Area’s plentiful trails, according to Wolf. On Monday evenings, runners meet at Stanford University and run the Dish, a hilly 4-mile loop. Tuesday

evenings include a track workout at Angell Field on the Stanford campus, which Wolf described as “more demanding” than other club runs.

The biggest group of runners gathers on Wednesday evenings at Lucie Stern Community Center on Middlefield Road around 6 p.m. From there, they follow different routes on Palo Alto streets every week, Wolf said.

“Sometimes there (are) 50 people, so everybody can find (continued on page 43)

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Race night guide

Results

WHAT’S HAPPENING — AND WHEN 6-8 p.m. Registration opens for those pre-registered and race-night.

Activities, sponsors’ booths and more on the field (see below).

6:45 p.m. Pre-walk warm-ups.

7 p.m. 5K walk begins.

8 p.m. Pre-race warm-ups.

8:15 p.m.10K run begins.

8:30 p.m. Pre-race warm-ups.

8:45 p.m. 5K run begins.

9:30-10 p.m. Awards ceremony for the top three finishers in each

Field activities and booths Q Live music from School of Rock Palo Alto Q City of Palo Alto Mobile Arts Platform station Q Sponsor booths: AXIS, Connoisseur Coffee, Continental Caterers, Fleet Feet Sports, Keen, Larry’s AutoWorks, LYFE Kitchen, Microsoft, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Trader Joe’s, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Federal Credit Union, Whole Foods Market Q

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8:45 p.m. Food tables open for 5K and 10K runners. Post-race snacks provided by Country Sun Natural Foods, House of Bagels and Hobee’s.

category. Race results will be posted as available.

Runners warm up with high-energy music during last year’s event.

2014 Top Finishers

OTHER THINGS TO KNOW Parking: Police and volunteers will direct you to parking in nearby business lots off Embarcadero and East Bayshore roads. Plan on arriving early and carpooling if possible, as lots will fill up. We recommend arriving at least an hour before your event.

heads out south on Geng, turns east on Embarcadero and then heads out onto trails and levees south toward Mountain View. (See the course map for more details.)

Check in: Race check-in, sponsor and race headquarters booths, first aid and food/water is on the infield of the Baylands Athletic Center, located at the end of Geng Road.

Pets: Dogs are permitted on the 5K walk but not on either run, where the terrain and darkness make it too dangerous to have them. No retractable leashes. Bring your own clean-up bag.

Storage: Limited checking of small personal bags and backpacks is available.

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Starting line: The start and finish of all three events is in the (closed) parking lot at the Baylands Athletic Center. The 5K walk and run start out of the parking lot north and then head east on levees. The 10K run

Strollers: Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run.

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Race results will be available on computer monitors at the Baylands Athletic Center beginning at around 9:30 p.m.

Results will also be posted online at PaloAltoOnline.com/ moonlight_run. QR codes with the results web page will be on display at the event.

Medals for first-, second- and third-place finishers in each division will be handed out once final results are in, between 9:30 and 10 p.m., or may be picked up during regular business hours after the race at the Palo Alto Weekly, 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto.

5K — Men 1. Casper Vroemen, Palo Alto, 17:39 2. Carl Dambkowski, Palo Alto, 17:49 3. Kyle Brocklehurst, Mountain View, 17:52 4. Samuel Desre, Palo Alto, 18:03 5. Zachary Weber, San Mateo, 18:04 6. Naveen Pai, Palo Alto, 18:05 7. Benjamin Beaudry, Palo Alto, 18:13 8. Nikita Orlov, Palo Alto, 18:32 9. Joe Kelso, 18:52 10. Jonathan Rivera, San Carlos, 19:19 5K — Women 1. Courtney Heiner, Rancho Cordova, 18:31 2. Illi Gardner, Palo Alto, 20:20 3. Natalia Rodionova, Mountain View, 21:21 4. Meera Santhanam, Palo Alto, 22:12 5. Maggie Widlund, Redwood City, 22:41 6. Clara Schulz, Palo Alto, 23:03 7. Emily Cardarelli, Palo Alto, 23:11 8. Catherine E Depuy, Portola Valley, 23:13 9. Ella Fadil, Palo Alto, 23:28 10. Mirna Sanyal, Palo Alto, 23:36 10K — Men 1. Ahmet Gokcek, Palo Alto, 36:28 2. Adam Daoud, Mountain View, 37:02 3. Tyler Jung, Santa Cruz, 37:10 4. Josh Beisel, Palo Alto, 37:45 5. Nicolas Plume, Portola Valley, 38:15 6. Stanford Schor, Stanford, 38:18 7. Kevin Conrad, Menlo Park, 38:42 8. Alexander Gouyet, Palo Alto, 38:48 9. Daniel Aminzade, Menlo Park, 38:50 10. Wouter Korver, Mountain View, 39:02 10K — Women 1. Lauren Pischel, Palo Alto, 40:40 2. Jennifer Perry, San Jose, 41:31 3. Michelle Volz, Palo Alto, 41:53 4. Emma Dohner, Portola Valley, 43:37 5. Cecilia Lavelle, San Jose, 43:38 6. Jacinta Leyden, 44:23 7. Grace Laidlaw, Los Altos Hills, 44:49 8. Annie Grella, San Jose, 45:02 9. Erika Kikuchi, Woodside, 45:08 10. Audra Sorman, Mountain View, 45:10

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Art in the moonlight Youth musicians and Bay Area artists will entertain, engage at Moonlight Run

by Sam Sciolla

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here’s something electric about running, working up a sweat and bonding with friends and family in the moonlight — and it’s a buzz only likely to grow with the reverberations of guitar riffs and the glow of LED lights and flashing cameras.

New to this year’s goings-on at the Moonlight Run & Walk are two activities that will exhibit and tap into the creativity of the Palo Alto community. Eleven youth, ages 12-17, from the local School of Rock franchise will take the stage to give the evening’s runners a soundtrack of pulsing rock ‘n’ roll. Meanwhile two Bay Area artists — enlisted by the City of Palo Alto’s Public Art Program — will engage community members from a lighted pop-up installation in brainstorming ideas on how art might be better integrated into Palo Alto life.

The local musicians are currently preparing to perform a set of 15 songs of rock music, both classic and modern varieties, three times throughout the evening. Their set list will include Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog,” “Ig-

norance” by Paramore, “Forty Six & 2” by Tool and Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker” — sung by one of the group’s four female members.

General Manager Felix Archuleta noted that the possibility of performing in the house band, which students must audition for, serves as a goal for many of the school’s young musicians.

“It’s a good thing for kids to really want to be in the house band because that’s another motivating factor to learn,” said Archuleta, who has been running the school in Midtown Shopping Center for nearly two years.

The Palo Alto franchise teaches 150 aspiring rock musicians of all ages, from 5 years old to adults.

In line with its emphasis on group practice, the school provides opportunities for live performance, of which the youth house band’s upcoming appearance at Moonlight Run is just the latest. The musicians will rotate in and out as they sing and jam on two guitars, a bass guitar, drums and a keyboard.

If the School of Rock house band hopes to energize runners

and walkers for their races, City of Palo Alto-enlisted artists Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari aim to draft off the high spirits in discovering ways to further embed art in Palo Alto.

The artist duo’s stop at the Moonlight Run is one of many they are making throughout the months of September and October as part of a project commissioned by the city’s Public Art Program called “What’s the Big Idea?” During this period, Foucault and Treggiari will be bicycling all around the city with two custom-made trailers that open up to create a space from which they can engage all Palo Altans in what Foucault called “an exchange of art for ideas.”

The main activity of the project is having residents fill out a poster resembling a patent, complete with a schematic drawing of an Edison lightbulb. Residents are prompted to fill in the blank of “I would improve my community by ... ” on the upper part of the poster, as well as to answer the questions “Where would you like to see art in Palo Alto?” and

“How can artists make Palo Alto a more liveable city?” on the bottom.

When completed, the poster receives a stamp of approval, the answers to the latter two questions are torn off, and the respondent takes home the upper part — the art portion of the exchange. The answers are then collected by Foucault and Treggiari and delivered to the Public Art Program, which will use them for inspiration for future programming.

Foucault and Treggiari, who identify as social practice artists, have done projects similar to this before in other California cities, operating under the name “Mobile Arts Platform.” One such venture took place in Oakland, where they drove around in a retrofitted van to collect the thoughts of residents on surveillance and technology.

Another made a stop at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where they brought a teardrop-shaped trailer that turned into a mobile screen-printing unit.

However, the Palo Alto project is the pair’s first done by bicycle, which Foucault said they’ve been trying to do for a while. The flat terrain, the city’s bike-friendliness and the opportunity to more completely experience the neighborhoods made it an ideal place to try out the more environmentally conscious transportation mode, Foucault said. In keeping with

that, he noted that the installation’s electrical components are powered by a small solar-powered generator.

“We wanted to have a project that had little to no (carbon) footprint,” he said.

At the Moonlight Run, they will augment their regular setup with an LED lighting system to draw people in and illuminate the workspace. The installation will also feature a stock marketstyle ticker that displays answers given previously by residents, and the artists will take photos of participants holding up their completed posters. The pictures will then be printed on site and put into an archive that visitors can browse to find out what others are thinking.

Foucault said that residents thus far have been “very generous with their time” in participating in the project, and he has high hopes that the excited atmosphere of the Moonlight Run will be even more conducive to getting Palo Altans thinking about art and community.

“We’re hoping people are going to have some good energy to bring to (this),” he said. Q Editorial Assistant Sam Sciolla can be emailed at ssciolla@ paweekly.com. For more information on these programs, visit mobileartsplatform.wordpress. com and locations.schoolofrock. com/paloalto.

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Running

Running clubs in the Midpeninsula

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Here is a list of local running groups, clubs and teams that offer workouts and activities in the greater Palo Alto area.

Bay Trailrunners baytrailrunners.com Trail runs are open to all levels of runners, with Tenderfoot Trail Running Series for beginners and slower runners. Also, organized races and Trails in Motion film screenings.

Fleet Feet Menlo Park Veronica Weber

somebody to run with,” he said. The Wednesday runs are occasionally followed by dinner at local restaurants, often with group discounts, he added.

The club also organizes Saturday morning runs, typically taking place on Sawyer Camp Trail in San Mateo County. Wolf and other members also plan trips to specific trails on the weekends, which sometimes require a longer drive. A self-identified “outdoorsy guy,” Wolf said he enjoys the picturesque scenery of trail runs.

“I love being on the trails, and for me, it’s the right combination of being able to be healthy and safe enough without doing anything too extreme but being out in nature a lot,” he said. “I would just run on trails ... 24/7 if I could somehow manage it.”

PARC is only one of the several local groups that make use of Bay Area trails. Another one, BayTrailrunners, organizes group trail circuits on a weekly basis.

According to BayTrailrunners founder Robert Rhodes, running along a trail “is one of the greatest joys (he’s) had in life.”

Back in 2001, Rhodes ran long distances on his own, but without modern technological blessings such as GPS to help him find his way, it wasn’t that easy, he said. That’s how BayTrailrunners started.

Using his expertise in technology, Rhodes created a series of runs ranging from 3 to 30 miles and used software to map out the different routes with directions to get to each trail, photos and videos, posting all the information on a website. This database, which grew over the years, is still avail-

Peter Blank, center, the Tuesday night run leader of the Palo Alto Run Club, briefs fellow runners on the evening’s interval workout. able on BayTrailrunners.com, Rhodes noted.

“There is not really a ‘joining’ involved in BayTrailrunners.

I have a calendar on my website that I update and I’ll put on where I’m running. If someone wants to join in, they can see it and just show up,” he said, adding that he also sends out a newsletter for those who are interested in the runs.

Rhodes has organized weekly trail runs with groups ranging from a few runners to 20 or more. These circuits take place on various trails in the greater Bay Area, including Monte Bello and Skyline Ridge open spaces near Palo Alto.

In 2012, Rhodes decided to turn BayTrailrunners into a business and started hosting trail races and Trails in Motion Film

Festival screenings in northern California.

“While there are a lot of different run clubs in the area, mine is not just about getting out and hosting group runs. ... I take it beyond,” he said. “I’ve successfully hosted so far probably about six or seven races, all distances 10K and half-marathons, all of them on (a) trail.”

Rhodes is planning to expand BayTrailrunners with more trail runs and races in the future. He believes that part of the idea of trail running includes a greater goal of maintaining the environment.

“The whole running community is all about preserving the land,” Rhodes said. “I mean, that’s where we run. We want to keep it free from development. We want these trails to stay open.”

For those who are interested

in participating in PARC or BayTrailrunners, the first and easiest thing they can do is to just show up at a group run, both Wolf and Rhodes said.

Wolf also recommended starting with “walk-running,” which he described as one-minute jogs alternating with one-minute walks. Rhodes, on the other hand, advised having the right shoes and always carrying a water bottle throughout the runs.

“The runner’s high ... the euphoric feeling that you get after running a certain distance ... I feel that,” Rhodes said, “and the accomplishment, especially in a really hard run that you’ve gotten through.

“It’s just really a great lifestyle.” Q Editorial Intern Sevde Kaldiroglu can be emailed at skaldiroglu@paweekly.com.

Thank you to our sponsors Corporate sponsors Palo Alto Medical Foundation Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation Palantir Natalia Nazarova

Moonlight Run & Walk participants can either preregister online or register on race night at the Baylands Athletic Center.

Thank you to our volunteers Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto Youth Community Service Gunn, Paly and Los Altos Key Clubs Gunn, Paly and Pinewood Interact Clubs

Palo Alto Fire Department Explorer Program Stanford Blood Center Stanford Federal Credit Union

Pacific Union Real Estate Stanford Federal Credit Union Whole Foods Market

Event sponsors Country Sun Hobee’s House of Bagels Lakin Spears

Omega Printing School of Rock Palo Alto Spot Pizza Stanford Blood Center

Community sponsors AXIS Connoisseur Coffee Continental Caterers Fleet Feet Sports Keen Larry’s AutoWorks

LYFE Kitchen Microsoft Oshman Family Jewish Community Center Trader Joe’s

fleetfeetmenlopark.com Fleet Feet Sports offers weekly group runs with social events as well as half marathon and trail training groups with paid coaches. All inclusive of different levels and ages.

Girls on the Run Silicon Valley gotrsv.org A nonprofit offering noncompetitive running after-school programs lasting 10 weeks for girls in third to eighth grades.

The programs aim to build selfesteem, healthy living habits and personal values. Open to all levels, mainly targeting beginners.

Midpeninsula Running Club runmprc.com A noncompetitive running club for all levels and ages, though members are primarily 40 and older. Twice a week runs open to anyone who shows up.

Mountain View Area Run Club meetup.com/mountain-viewarea-runclub Currently offering four weekly runs primarily for beginner to intermediate runners.

Palo Alto Run Club parunclub.com A social and all-inclusive running club with three weekly runs and weekend trips.

Silicon Valley Hash House Harriers svh3.com Weekly workouts combined with social drinking events, known as “hashes,” are open to all levels, from walkers to professional runners.

Strava Track Club stravatrackclub.com Post-collegiate elite development club competing in the Bay Area and beyond. Most members are regionally or nationally competitive.

West Valley Track Club westvalleytc.com A track team competing in various distances, from crosscountry to half-marathon races.

The team has two bases, one in the South Bay and one in San Francisco.

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Home&Real Estate Home Front

STANFORD TREES ... Learn about Stanford’s trees during the “Trees of Stanford: A Walk Through Time” event on Saturday, Oct. 10, at Jordan Hall, Room 40, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. The free event begins with a panel discussion at 9 a.m. with three tree experts: Herb Fong, certified arborist and retired Stanford grounds supervisor; Dave Muffly, senior arborist at Apple and former Canopy program director; and Matt Ritter, professor of botany at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Afterward, guests can explore Stanford’s living history and landscape during a guided tree walk that begins at 11 a.m. The event is sponsored by Canopy and the Stanford Historical Society. Participants must register online for both the panel discussion and tree walk.

Info: bit.ly/TreesOfStanford

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.

Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

CLEAN COASTS ... Help keep Palo Alto’s creeks clean and participate in Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will join site supervisor Kirsten Struve at the Baylands at the trailhead of East Bayshore Road and Matadero Creek. Trash grabbers, buckets, bug repellent and gloves will be provided.

Volunteers can sign up online and expedite check-in by filling out a waiver in advance.

Info: 650-329-2421, kirsten.struve@cityofpaloalto.org or bit.ly/PaloAltoCoastalCleanup FALL FUN ... Celebrate the fall harvest on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside.

The Autumn at Filoli Festival offers fun for all ages. Children can pick pumpkins, compete in old-fashioned games or watch a puppet show. Adults can sip cider, learn about the heirloom fruit tree collection or dance to live music. Event tickets must be purchased by noon on Friday, Sept. 25, and cost $20 for adult members, $25 for adult nonmembers and $8 for children ages 5 to 17. Children under 5 are free. Barbecue lunch tickets must to be purchased by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, and cost $20 for adults and $12 for children.

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 70

Above: A home at 1141 Cedar Street, a house in the Community Center neighborhood. Left: Bruce and Jane Gee enjoy the sunny, Sept. 15 day at their home located in the Community Center neighborhood. They have lived in the neighborhood for 22 years.

Community Center Neighborhood boasts vibrant history, close-knit neighbors

by Muna Sadek / photos by Veronica Weber

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s a teenager in New York, the only time Karen Ewart heard the name “Palo Alto” it was in reference to a Boondock’s bathing suit line.

Palo Alto’s Community Center neighborhood quickly became home for her in 1974 when she moved into a new Eichler with her family.

She spent time at the local community center, listened to live music at Frost Amphitheater, enjoyed Eleanor Pardee Park (which she fondly calls Eleanor Party Park), and frequented the local coffee house for its 70s rock music. She said growing up in Community Center was “freaking awesome.”

Ewart, who has now returned to live with her mother, Terri, in their original home on Hawker Avenue, said that many of her neighbors have returned to or had remained in their original homes with their families for years.

“Most families were here long term, and people had a chance to bond,” she said. “Most of the kids I met had gone through 12 years of schooling together but

still welcomed the new kids from New York.”

Terri fell in love with the modern feel of the Eichler on a brief visit to Palo Alto. In keeping with Joseph Eichler’s trademark of bringing the outside in, the house features a terrace off the living room and 11 sliding doors.

“They couldn’t keep us in,” Ewart said of her parents.

Today, however, she feels the neighborhood has lost its convivial atmosphere.

“It’s a beautiful place to live; it’s just getting harder to be here,” she said, citing increased real estate costs, a dearth of casual arts and culture events, and a recent string of car thefts on her street.

Robert McIntyre moved to Palo Alto in 1946 and still recalls the unloading of circus elephants on the site of the current Town & Country Village. Since then, he has owned six houses in town, three of which were located in Community Center.

He has been at his current Community Center home on Fulton Street for nearly two decades.

Built in 1921, he describes the

A home at 1350 Harker Avenue in the Community Center neighborhood.

house as “French-country style with a nice picket fence.”

“It just feels like home,” McIntyre said. “Most of the neighbors here have been here since I moved in.”

His neighbor Irene Kane, who has been living in Community Center with her husband since 2001, helped organize this year’s Labor Day block party on Fulton Street.

“I like the fact that it’s quiet, and there are not a lot of through streets, so kids can play on the streets,” she said.

Kane and her husband live along the peaceful streets in their 1920s craftsman house.

“There are very few of the original houses left,” she said. “I loved being able to walk around when all the houses were different. It’s sad for me to see all the craftsman bungalows go.”

To Jane Gee, a Community Center resident of 22 years, the neighborhood still lives up to its name.

“We’re a real caring community and if someone has a hardship ... we make sure they’re helped along,” she said.

Gee lists empty nesters, the elderly, singles and renters among the Community Center residents, in addition to families from a multitude of cultures.

“I love the wonderful traditions and friendships they all contribute to make this neighborhood friendly,” Gee added.

Her children attended three of Community Center’s five public schools: Duveneck Elementary, Jordan Middle and Palo Alto High.

Now an empty nester herself, Gee, along with her husband, Bruce, still enjoys seeing families walk to school on weekday mornings.

“I love watching toddlers turn into teens throughout the years in the neighborhood,” she said.

Small alleyways that run between houses make Community Center ideal for dog-walking, and in October and November, residents enjoy the yellowing of the large gingko trees that line the streets, according to Gee. “They are the most beautiful yellow leaves, and then they drop and we call our street ‘Yellow wood,’” said Gee, who lives on Greenwood Avenue.

She and her husband have taken up hydroponic gardening (growing plants in water without soil) in their backyard, and hand out lettuce to neighbors on occasion.

“In addition to being a gorgeous street, we are friendly and supporting of each other and respectful of each other,” Gee said. “It’s things like this that make a neighborhood a home.” Q Editorial Intern Muna Sadek can be emailed at msadek@ paweekly.com.

FACTS

CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Walter Hays Kids’ Club, 1525 Middlefield Road FIRE STATION: No. 3, 799 Embarcadero Road LIBRARY: Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road; Children’s Library, 1276 Harriet St. LOCATION: bounded by Middlefield Road, Channing Avenue, Newell Road and Embarcadero Road NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Peter Allen, pma94301@comcast.net PARK: Rinconada Park, 777 Embarcadero Road POST OFFICE: Main, 2085 E. Bayshore Road; Hamilton, 380 Hamilton Ave. PRIVATE SCHOOL: St. Elizabeth Seton School, 1095 Channing Ave. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Addison, Duveneck and Walter Hays elementary schools, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto High School SHOPPING: Midtown, Downtown Palo Alto

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Home & Real Estate

Wine Country Real Estate

SALES AT A GLANCE East Palo Alto

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $636,000 Highest sales price: $750,000

Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $970,000 Highest sales price: $2,425,000

Los Altos

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $805,000 Highest sales price: $5,250,000

Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $227,000 Highest sales price: $4,400,000

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,400,000 Highest sales price: $2,966,000

Portola Valley Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $4,275,000 Highest sales price: $4,950,000

Menlo Park

$6,250,000 Geyserville (Healdsburg 9 miles) 11.60 Acre vineyard estate with positive income.

All new construction, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom high quality home; 1 bedroom cottage; cabana with kitchen, pool, tennis court, solar and much more.

$7,750,000 Healdsburg (Chalk Hill Road) 20 acre vineyard estate. Outstanding Provencal estate, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, main house; 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms guest house; pool and outdoor kitchen; barn and much more.

$2,900,000 Geyserville (Healdsburg 12 miles) 360 acre ranch comprising two parcels (160 and 200 acres). Improved roads, well and springs. Killer home sites and unbelievable views. Privacy and natural beauty in abundance. Lower property taxes.

$1,950,000 Geyserville (Healdsburg 10 miles) 115 acre ranch, 2 bedroom remodeled turn of century farmhouse. Ponds and springs. Spectacular views and home sites. Lower property taxes.

$1,060,000 Healdsburg 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom single level home located a brief walk to the Plaza. Coming soon.

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Woodside

Total sales reported: 15 Lowest sales price: $875,000 Highest sales price: $3,001,500

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,700,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000 Source: California REsource

HOME SALES

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East Palo Alto

967 Garden St. D. Clohan to A. McLaughlin for $678,000 on 08/17/15; previous sale 01/10/2001, $395,000 1112 Newbridge St. X. Zhang to J. & M. Cirimele for $687,000 on 08/13/15; previous sale 12/03/2009, $165,000 2341 Ralmar Ave. RTB Equity Partners to M. & C. Jacobs for $750,000 on 08/11/15; previous sale 08/09/2013, $315,000 885 Schembri Lane S. & R. Curtis to S. Bennett for $636,000 on 08/13/15; previous sale 10/27/2004, $500,000

Los Altos

308 Blue Oak Lane W. Beck to Bugg Trust for $3,375,000 on 08/19/15; previous sale 01/04/2006, $1,945,000 4388 El Camino Real, #288 C. Collins to S. Kwak for $805,000 on 08/24/15; previous sale 07/31/2009, $437,500 182 Garland Way Buckley Trust to W. Shi for $5,250,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 12/06/2006, $3,410,000 1575 Grant Road Levy Trust to M. Hyder for $2,500,000 on 08/21/15 28 Los Altos Square Hassett Trust to P. & C. Ceballos for $1,245,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 06/08/2004, $776,000 1892 Middleton Ave. Garcia Trust to Woo Trust for $2,058,000 on 08/24/15; previous sale 05/25/2006, $1,497,000 848 Nash Road Mercer Trust to P. Challa for $3,495,000 on 08/25/15; previous sale 01/05/2001, $1,800,000 916 Russell Ave. Oleary Trust to T. Foldesi for $2,600,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 07/23/2004, $1,400,000 422 Traverso Court Buck Trust to Shivaram Trust for $2,800,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 04/29/2004, $1,625,000 11634 Winding Way Urban West to M. Dennedy for $3,150,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 03/27/2012, $1,650,000

Los Altos Hills

12723 Canario Way Lewis Trust to Junaid Trust for $2,966,000 on 08/18/15 25396 La Loma Drive Deex Trust to I. Singh for $2,400,000 on 08/18/15

Menlo Park

561 7th Ave. S. Lindgren to D. Porterfield for $875,000 on 08/13/15; previous sale 04/29/2003, $540,000 1895 Altschul Ave. Carminio Trust to C. Brown for $1,855,000 on 08/12/15; previous sale

08/12/2005, $2,310,000 20 Bishop Lane C. & J. Kinzelberg to K. & B. Post for $2,595,000 on 08/10/15; previous sale 03/30/2004, $1,350,000 2231 Camino A Los Cerros Patch Trust to J. Zhou for $2,300,000 on 08/12/15 350 Claremont Way Chandler Trust to S. & S. Salmon for $2,675,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 08/30/2013, $1,960,000 212 Haight St. J. Lacy-Bowers to M. & E. Monico for $1,355,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 02/17/1972, $30,000 659 Marsh Road A. Barizon to F. Ziaei for $1,365,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 11/07/2007, $780,000 1043 Menlo Oaks Drive C. & S. Mogensen to L. & G. Dyer for $1,550,000 on 08/11/15; previous sale 08/14/2003, $679,000 970 Monte Rosa Drive Free Trust to Langenfeld Trust for $2,612,000 on 08/12/15 805 Paulson Circle D. & A. Fong to D. Wolter for $2,525,000 on 08/13/15; previous sale 07/10/2009, $1,640,000 230 Santa Margarita Ave. T. Schwartz to D. & C. Nelson for $2,200,000 on 08/11/15; previous sale 07/23/2014, $1,775,000 1100 Sharon Park Drive, #24 L. Nabizadeh to M. & N. Purkey for $900,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 03/26/2007, $637,000 1031 Sierra Drive Hausmann Trust to P. Maggio for $3,001,500 on 08/12/15 1064 Tehama Ave. Shelsta Trust to T. & L. Kent for $1,275,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 04/27/1973, $35,000 645 Woodland Ave. Tuthill Trust to K. Serafimova for $1,995,000 on 08/13/15

Mountain View

364 Bryant St. S. Holbrook to C. Tsai for $1,450,000 on 08/19/15 137 Centre St. P. Wu to Calcagno Trust for $1,041,000 on 08/19/15; previous sale 07/11/2012, $580,000 700 Chiquita Ave., #15 M. Henderson to A. Boehm for $1,203,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 03/20/1996, $220,000 427 Chiquita Ave. Siress Trust to Modern Day Homebuyers for $1,500,000 on 08/17/15; previous sale 06/26/1998, $315,500 41 Church St. R. Steck to J. Drewitt for $1,850,000 on 08/19/15; previous sale 06/29/2000, $821,000 2731 Doverton Square Hatasaki Trust to W. & K. Rieb for $2,401,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 12/16/1999, $900,000 1604 Hollingsworth Drive W. Lolla to Weiser-Repscher Trust for $1,808,000 on 08/19/15 1580 Latham St. S. & L. Stagnitto to A. & R. Lamielle for $1,125,000 on 08/21/15 500 Mansfield Drive Lee Trust to R. Kimball for $2,100,000 on 08/18/15 2452 Porterfield Court Gladman Trust to T. & V. Davis for

$2,425,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 08/14/2014, $2,165,000 723 Reflection Way MV Reflection 2013 to J. & N. Chang for $1,225,000 on 08/19/15 1983 San Luis Ave., #17 K. Coppock to J. Feng for $970,000 on 08/24/15; previous sale 03/13/2009, $500,000 371 Snyder Lane T. Jin to N. & G. Badjatia for $1,402,000 on 08/24/15; previous sale 04/03/2012, $790,000 686 Sonia Way J. Cheng to J. Sanderson for $2,100,000 on 08/20/15 701 Stamm Ave. D. Devogel to J. Loo for $1,600,000 on 08/20/15 1642 Tulane Drive Mccord Trust to Rao Trust for $1,868,000 on 08/20/15; previous sale 01/31/1997, $424,000 30 Wellington Court G. Agrawal to E. Chan for $1,175,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 02/24/2010, $645,000 928 Wright Ave., #1101 R. & S. Robinson to P. & L. Jonasson for $1,050,000 on 08/17/15; previous sale 07/01/2011, $470,000

Palo Alto

345 Bryant Court C. Keck to A. Bozorghadad for $2,850,000 on 08/21/15 2430 Chabot Terrace Angelini Trust to X. Wang for $1,760,000 on 08/17/15 440 Churchill Ave. Dodge Trust to Global Base Enterprise for $4,200,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 03/17/1978, $200,000 1489 Dana Ave. Newell Trust to R. Anaparti for $3,047,000 on 08/26/15; previous sale 06/04/1993, $500,000 1966 Edgewood Drive Viking Retirement Plan to Q. Wang for $2,250,000 on 08/25/15; previous sale 04/19/2013, $1,200,000 1620 Escobita Ave. Engelcke Trust to A. Hahn for $2,710,000 on 08/25/15 360 Everett Ave., #6A J. Muller to P. Destefano for $3,150,000 on 08/18/15; previous sale 08/17/2012, $2,500,000 744 Holly Oak Drive Rudin Trust to L. & S. Segal for $2,500,000 on 08/19/15 3334 Kenneth Drive E. Meskauskas to P. & S. Mehta for $2,000,000 on 08/25/15; previous sale 10/1971, $38,000 231 Lambert Ave. Hart Trust to S. Tiwari for $1,550,000 on 08/26/15 344 Leland Ave. Lawrence Trust to E. Rosenthal for $4,400,000 on 08/24/15; previous sale 03/04/2008, $3,860,000 1519 Mariposa Ave. Dang Trust to Q. Liu for $1,680,000 on 08/17/15; previous sale 03/06/2009, $931,000 2593 Marshall Drive Marshall 2593 Investment to J. Li for $4,350,000 on 08/21/15; previous sale 11/15/2013, $1,900,000 2483 Ramona St. Schembri Trust to E. & L. Chang for $2,100,000 on 08/20/15

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Open House Saturday & Sunday 1:30-4:30pm Dramatic, light filled 2 Bedroom/2.5 Bath single family home in the Park Forest development. Boasting 2,220 sq ft, this home features an abundance of natural light from expansive walls of glass and multiple skylights. Soaring spaces, hardwood floors, and designer lighting highlight the public spaces. Kitchen/Family Room combination opens to a large deck, perfect for al fresco dining. Two en-suite bedrooms, including large master suite with spacious deck overlooking the green belt. Convenient to downtown and commute routes, and featuring award winning Menlo Schools, this home has it all.

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(continued from page 46) 4206 Rickeys Way, #N R. Tung to Y. & J. Wang for $1,901,000 on 08/20/15; previous sale 06/27/2013, $1,521,000 877 Thornwood Drive Morton Trust to A. Cooper for $2,600,000 on 08/21/15 554 Vista Ave. H. Davis to J. & A. Davis for $227,000 on 08/19/15; previous sale 08/06/2012, $600,000 1026 Webster St. S. Caldwell to Schrage Trust for $2,650,000 on 08/20/15; previous sale 09/24/2010, $1,385,000

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6 Blue Oaks Court Mcnealy Trust to R. Jasen for $4,275,000 on 08/13/15; previous sale 08/06/2004, $3,000,000

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260 Ridgeway Road Nienkerk Trust to G. Repple for $3,700,000 on 08/14/15; previous sale 04/24/1987, $695,000

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2015 Bear Gulch Road, San Gregorio Create Your Masterpiece Nestled within the serene hills of San Gregorio, 127 flat to rolling acres awaits your vision. With abundant water rights and a sunny micro climate, this property is ideal for the most ambitious farming endeavors, vineyard cultivation, and is an equestrian enthusiast’s dream. Your inspiration has room here to flourish. With so many private acres, this land offers unparalleled serenity, yet is only 45 minutes to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Currently, there is a vintage 2,500 square foot farmhouse, a soaring 2,500 square foot barn, charming guest quarters and a number of additional outbuildings.

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1 Carriage Court, Menlo Park Offered at $1,498,000 Exquisite Townhome Remodel A stylish remodel with a breezy floorplan accents this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom townhome of 2,740 sq. ft. (per county) that sits on a peaceful culde-sac. Engineered hardwood floors, LED lighting, Nest technology, and plantation shutters define the interior, which features an open dining area overlooking a sunken living room with a fireplace, a wet bar, and ceilings of nearly 12 feet. The gorgeous kitchen offers a breakfast nook, marble countertops, and designer appliances, and both upstairs bathrooms display marble surfaces and designer thermostatic shower controls. One bedroom supplies extensive cabinetry, while the master suite provides a private deck, soaring ceilings, a walk-in closet, and a cast-iron tub.

The home also features an attached two-car garage and a sizable rear deck, and the quiet, well-manicured neighborhood lies close to Stanford, Sand Hill Road, and Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club. Las Lomitas Elementary (API 943) and La Entrada Middle (API 963) are moments away, and Menlo-Atherton High is easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).

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950 Continental Drive, Menlo Park Offered at $2,298,000 Pristine Home, Prime Location Enjoying a calm, lovely setting in the prime Sharon Heights neighborhood, this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home of 1,920 sq. ft. (per county) stands on a lot of 13,750 sq. ft. (per county). Warm, light-filled spaces include a living/dining room with a stone fireplace, a sun-washed kitchen with a breakfast area, and a large family room. The kitchen and the family room share handsome oak floors, and all bedrooms provide ample closet storage, including the master, which provides two closets, plus an updated bathroom. In the sizable backyard, the extensive paver patio is excellent for outdoor entertaining. Additional features include a walk-in pantry, an indoor barbecue, and a two-car rear-entry garage.

Residents here enjoy easy access to Sharon Park, Sand Hill Road, and Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club. Excellent schools within walking distance include Las Lomitas Elementary (API 943) and La Entrada Middle (API 963), and you will also have easy access to Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify eligibility).

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1560 Kensington Circle, Los Altos OPEN HOUSE: SAT/SUN. 9/19, 9/20 1 PM TO 5 PM • Beautifully remodeled home • 3 Bedroom, 3 full bathrooms • Private cul-de-sac location • Vaulted ceiling in living room • Fabulous “great room” • Gourmet cook’s kitchen w/extra large island • Courtyard patio w/fountain

• Entertain, relax and enjoy • Professionally designed landscaping • Mid century modern ranch home • Windows everywhere let the outside in • A visual treat.

List Price: $2,798,000

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thoughtfulness, structural integrity, and environmental sensitivity. Its unique organic architecture continues the legacy of its creators - Staprans Design. Newly constructed, every feature and finish has been carefully considered for its aesthetics, function, sustainability, and the health and harmony of the family that will live here. Even the landscaping is designed to work in harmony with the environment,home, and its tranquil Portola Valley setting. In the Los Trancos Woods, this sanctuary is beautifully nestled on boundary between Silicon Valley CONTACT

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Offered at $1,750,000

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Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

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

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333 Raymundo Drive, Woodside

$19,800,000

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25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside

245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

669 Hayne Road, Hillsborough

$8,250,000

$8,250,000

$7,950,000

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40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

$6,888,000

$6,488,000

$5,850,000

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38 Hacienda Drive, Woodside

484 Orange Ave., Los Altos

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$5,450,000

$3,495,000

$3,200,000

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Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

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OPEN SAT & SUN 1-5 3105 LOUIS ROAD PALO ALTO | $2,995,000 5 BEDS, 3 BATHS 1,987 SQFT | LOT 6,969 3105LOUISROAD.COM

Gordon Smythe 650-322-2800

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1035 East Rose Circle, Los Altos Offered at $2,298,000 Inviting Home with Updated Interior Unwind inside this comfortable 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 2,352 sq. ft. (per county) that sits on a lot of 9,583 sq. ft. (per county) within a quiet, tree-lined neighborhood. Brazilian cherry wood floors, crown molding, and dimmable lighting enhance the formal living and dining rooms and the open family room. Tastefully upgraded, the island kitchen displays granite countertops, pull-out cabinetry, and stainless-steel Bosch appliances. The private master suite offers a walk-in closet, vaulted ceilings, and a jetted tub, while three bedrooms grouped on the other side of the home include a guest suite with outdoor access. In addition to an attached two-car garage, the property also features new carpets, updated bathrooms, and two fireplaces. This fine home is within walking distance of Cooper Park, and is also near Grant Park Plaza and Mountain View Shopping Center. Blach Intermediate (API 958) is also within walking distance, and Oak Avenue Elementary (API 987) and Mountain View High are both roughly a mile away (buyer to verify eligibility).

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66 Sylvian Way, Los Altos Offered at $2,998,000 Large Residence Boasts Oriental Elegance Surrounded by dense greenery, this elegant 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom residence of 2,944 sq. ft. (per appraisal) offers a lot of 11,360 sq. ft. (per appraisal). The carefully designed interior boasts fine details like dimmable lighting, hardwood floors, and a central vacuum system. Large, light-filled rooms include a spacious dining room, a sunken formal living room, and a sky-lit island kitchen that opens to a family room with a fireplace. The home office may serve as a bedroom, and two more bedrooms on the main level include a master suite with his and her closets. Upstairs, a second master suite features clerestory windows, a large walk-in closet, and a striking bathroom with an inset Jacuzzi. The property also provides an extensive back porch, a charming koi pond, and a detached 2-car garage with a bonus room. Downtown Los Altos and Hillview Community Center are moments away. Nearby schools include Santa Rita Elementary (API 941) and Egan Junior (API 976), and Los Altos High (API 895) is within walking distance (buyer to verify eligibility).

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5 5 5 C h a u c e r S t , PA L O A LT O Enormous lot with absolutely stunning landscaping Remodeled Home, Loads of Old World Charm

O F F E R E D AT $3,995,000

• Three bedrooms, two bathrooms – grand master with sweeping views of gardens • Library with French doors leading to patio • Remodeled, light-filled “Great Room” • Large living room & separate formal dining room • Captivating Mary Gordon designed gardens. A private and serene oasis in the heart of Crescent Park and just a short stroll to Downtown Palo Alto – garden pond with babbling brook – meandering brick walkways – private landscaping well with sufficient water to meet all landscape needs – spacious brick patio right off the great room and library • Central air conditioning & gleaming hardwood floors • Outstanding Palo Alto Schools • 2,187 sq. feet living space approx.

• 11,539 sq. foot lot approx.

L I S T E D B Y Tim Foy calBRE# 00849721Cell: 650.387.5078 tim@midtownpaloalto.com Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

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7 8 8 C E R E Z A D R I V E , PA L O A LT O

Large lot in quiet, neighbor-friendly neighborhood Stroll Through the Garden Paths and Enjoy Many Varieties of Fruit Trees, Flowers and Plants • Three bedrooms two and one half bathrooms • Free flowing and spacious kitchen, dining and living room, perfect for entertaining • Nice size kitchen with center island and eating area • Bonus Room • Large backyard gardens with automatic sprinklers and landscape lighting • Outstanding Palo Alto Schools • 1,836 sq. ft. of living space (approx.)

• Large 7,659 sq. ft. lot (approx. per city records)

O F F E R E D AT $2,300,000 L I S T E D B Y Jane Volpe calBRE# 01330133 Cell: 650.380.4507 jane@midtownpaloalto.com Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

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This visually stunning nearly 7,600 sq ft modern home is situated in a fully landscaped 3.01-acre quiet private sanctuary on one of Woodside’s most prestigious corridors within easy access to Sand Hill Road and I-280 and with some of the West’s best cycling and hiking right out your front door. The home was extensively upgraded by the current owners to create a must-see showcase of indoor / outdoor design features which include a peaceful museum-inspired courtyard entry, a dramatic highceilinged interior atrium and large living room with panoramic views of the Western Hills, an extensively upgraded kitchen, an elegant dual bathroom master suite and a fully redesigned pool and entertaining area.

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1015 MOUNTAIN HOME, WOODSIDE Offered at $13,950,000 ENT M T N PPOI Y A R FO DA CALL PEN SU N O

Get the best of both worlds…leave the city behind and within a short drive come enjoy all of the benefits of country living in this charming 4 BR / 4.5 BA home with surrounding views of the Western Hills and the 1,189-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Positioned on a private knoll close to town, the home combines the touches from its origins as a mid-century hunting lodge with the functionality brought through recent upgrades. In addition to the two-story main home, the property has two guesthouses, a pool & cabana, a two-car carport and a threecar garage. On its 6.02 acres, the property plays host to a wide range of heritage trees and some of the area’s best wildlife. www.280FamilyFarmRoad.net

280 FAMILY FARM, WOODSIDE Offered at $9,695,000

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

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1035 North California Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $2,488,000 Spacious and Centrally Located Fresh, bright, and newly remodeled, this 7 bedroom, 4 bath home of 3,285 sq. ft. (per appraisal) occupies a lot of 11,785 sq. ft. (per city). The flexible interior boasts hardwood floors and updated lighting, hardware, and paint, while inviting outdoor areas include new landscaping, new fencing, and a new deck. Spacious rooms include a formal living room, a formal dining room with a fireplace, and an island kitchen with a breakfast area and a walk-in pantry. A home office and a master suite with a private entrance are on the main level, while a family room and a second master suite are upstairs. A considerable upstairs patio overlooks the large, tree-shaded lawn, and a tiled terrace adjoins the gated pool. With easy access to Route 101, this home will also place you near Greer Park and within walking distance of Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center.

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Palo Alto $4,298,000 Brand new hm offers the best in convenience & class. Lg bkyrd bordered by beautiful trees. 5 BR/4.5 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,998,000 2160 Monterey Ave. Beautifully built, this sun drenched home features quality craftsmanship inside and out. 4 BR/3 BA Hossein Jalali CalBRE #01215831 650.323.7751

Palo Alto Sun 1 - 4 $2,995,000 2320 Tasso St Updated Old PA home w/ 4BD/3BA, formal LR & DR, FR + sep guest apt w/ gourmet kitchen. 4 BR/3 BA Elaine White CalBRE #01182467 650.324.4456

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,789,000 335 Everett Downtown Palo Alto w/a garage and yard! Dramatic, updated 18 year young home. 4 BR/2.5 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

San Carlos Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $2,695,000 1149 Greenbrier Rd. 4,000 sq. ft. Spectacular, modern, contemporary home with view plus 3 car garage. 4 BR/4 BA Sam Anagnostou CalBRE #00798217 650.323.7751

Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,195,000 45 Joaquin Rd Light-filled and scenic 4 br, 3 bath home on one acre showcases views of the western hills 4 BR/3 BA Ginny Kavanaugh CalBRE #00884747 650.851.1961

Menlo Park $1,828,000 Desirable Waverly Park neighborhood, Top rate Huff Elementary School, Large Private lot 3 BR/2 BA Jeff Beltramo CalBRE #01274256 650.325.6161

East Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,777,860 2206 Lincoln St This spacious home has great potential to become a a Tech team Think Tank home share. 7 BR/5 BA Jane Jones CalBRE #01847801 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,698,000 2131 Avy Ave www.231Avy.com Elegantly remodeled Prime Menlo Park Townhouse. 3 BR/2.5 BA Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,650,000 204 Ravenswood Ave. Very private. Large rooms, high ceilings, excellent floor plans & community pool. 3 BR/2.5 BA Lyn Jason Cobb CalBRE #01332535 650.324.4456

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Redwood City Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $879,000 347 Nimitz Ave Redwood City, charming 2 bedroom 1 bath home on great tree lined street, close to Atherton 2 BR/1 BA Janet Cross CalBRE #00951101 650.324.4456

Sunnyvale Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $819,000 827 Shooting Star Terrace This two story town home with garage is tucked down a lane in a small 14 unit complex. 2 BR/2.5 BA Sue Crawford CalBRE #00587710 650.324.4456

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681 Loma Verde Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Central Location, Country Charm Boasting a terrific location, peaceful surroundings, and a wide variety of fruit trees, this beautiful lot of 13,533 sq. ft. (per city) comes with a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom home of 1,192 sq. ft. (per county) and offers a slice of countryside living in the very heart of the city. Large yards filled with fruit trees flank the home and present a prime opportunity for expansion or even new construction. Inside, the home includes fresh updates and sizable spaces like a living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room, and a light-filled kitchen, along with an enclosed sun porch and a large garage. Though this lot’s leafy surroundings resemble a rustic Santa Clara Valley farmstead, cosmopolitan conveniences like bus services, Philz Coffee, Hoover Park, Winter Lodge, and Midtown Shopping Center are all within an easy stroll.

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1 Portola Green Circle, Portola Valley Offered at $3,488,000 Enchanting European Storybook Home Surrender to the fairytale charm of this 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home of 4,654 sq. ft. (per appraisal) on a lot of 18,295 sq. ft. (per appraisal). An additional 19,200 sq. ft. of exclusive-use land surrounds the grounds.

A three-car garage, an expansive motor court, and verdant natural landscaping accent the distinguished Tudor-style residence. Over 40 custom stained-glass windows line the interior, which features a turret dining room with a 23-foot ceiling, a state-of-the-art home theater, and a two-story game room. Topped with an A-frame ceiling, the rustic island kitchen includes a wood-burning fireplace, stainlesssteel appliances, and a breakfast nook. A rear gallery opens to the paved terrace hosting a hot tub with slate surround and an outdoor speaker system, while the master suite provides a dazzling bathroom with a steam shower and a jetted tub. Granting easy access to Interstate 280 and just moments from Roberts Market, the home is within walking distance of Woodside Priory and also nearby Ormondale Elementary (API 923) and Corte Madera School (API 937) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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ATHERTON 4 Bedrooms 91 James Ave $6,985,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 75 Reservoir Rd $11,800,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

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WHERE GOOD FOOD AND COMMUNITY MEET

Ada’s Cafe is a 501(c)(3), social enterprise dedicated to hiring, training and employing adults with developmental disabilities in its food service businesses. Through its cafe at the Mitchell Park Community Center and a catering business that operates out of a commercial kitchen in Mountain View, Ada’s goal is to empower its Associates and employ them in a manner that accommodates their disability yet challenges them every day to expand their skill set. Ada’s also integrates high school interns and at-risk young adults into its daily cafe and catering operations.

Ada’s organizes its activities around three C’s: Compassionate Employment, Community Engagement and Commercial Success. Ada’s founders believe that satisfying each of these is critical if Ada’s is to achieve its goal of fulfilling its mission as a self-sustaining social enterprise.

Sereno Group is proud to support the commitment and services Ada’s Cafe provides to our community.

For more information about their work or how you can get involved, please visit www.adascafe.org

DURING THE MONTHS OF JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2015, SERENO GROUP REAL ESTATE AND ITS PALO ALTO AGENTS WILL BE CONTRIBUTING 1% OF THEIR GROSS COMMISSIONS TO ADA’S CAFE.

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240 Furnishings/ Household items

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REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, and an educational and/ or experience background to include (1) natural language processing; (2) distributed programming; (3) machine learning; (4) information retrieval.

RATE OF PAY: not less than $102,357/year JOB SITE: Menlo Park, CA CONTACT: Monica Walls Head of People and Talent Quantifind, Inc. 8 Homewood Place, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 274-9604 Spotter/Presser Drycleaners in Palo Alto need experienced spotter/presser. Will train an experience presser. Call (650) 329-0998 Technical Informatica LLC is accepting resumes for the following position in Redwood City, CA: Professional Services Senior Consultant (RCJPA):Ensure customers are successful in deploying Informatica data integration and analytic platforms.

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Attic Clean-Up & Rodent Removal Are there rodents living in your attic.

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R.G. Landscape Drought tolerant native landscapes and succulent gardens. Demos, installations, maint. Free est. 650/468-8859

751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/ Repairs

STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

810 Cottages for Rent

775 Asphalt/ Concrete

MP: 2BR/1BA Comp. remodel. Full kit., lg. patio, 1 parking spot. 5 min to Facebook. $2,800 mo., utils incl. Rafael, 650/274-5483

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 End the Clutter & Get Organized Residential Organizing

by Debra Robinson (650)390-0125

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AAA HANDYMAN & MORE Since 1985 Repairs • Maintenance • Painting Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical

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759 Hauling

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Across 1 Booker T.’s backers 4 “More or less” suffix 7 Place to unwind 10 2011 Rose Bowl winner, for short 13 “___ pro nobis” 14 4 letters?

15 Spider’s digs 16 Move like a kangaroo 17 Beatles song about a smorgasbord?

19 Path across the sky 20 Dr. who treats sinus issues 21 B flat’s equivalent 22 “Funkytown” group Lipps, ___ 23 “It’s a yes-___ answer ...”

24 Know-it-all 25 Beatles song about making noodles?

28 Kaelin of the O.J. trial 29 Rescue squad member 30 Classical crossover quartet formed by Simon Cowell 31 “Switched-On Bach” synthesizer 33 BYU location 35 Just-released 36 Beatles song identifying leafy veggies?

39 Certain upperclassmen, briefly 42 Ashley Madison-enabled event, perhaps 43 ___ Domani (wine brand) 46 Rubber mouse, e.g.

48 Maui tourist attraction ___ Valley (hidden in CIA OPERATIVE) 50 Act like a couch potato 52 With 61-Across, Beatles song about a sandwich bread’s wish?

54 German car company 55 Drop some details, perhaps 56 Fallen Angel ingredient 57 “It’s a possibility” 59 Marge and Homer’s neighbor 60 “Charter” tree 61 See 52-Across 62 Ripken of the Orioles 63 Distort data 64 Uncloseted

65 Burma’s first prime minister 66 “Tarzan” star Ron 67 Final stages 68 AZ’s setting 69 They have their own precincts, for short Down 1 Hairdo that may be restyled into liberty spikes 2 Oregon’s fourth-largest city 3 Greet informally 4 Doctor Frankenstein’s helper 5 Quaint store 6 Kept under wraps 7 Football Hall-of-Famer Lynn 8 Sense 9 “Fresh Off the Boat” airer 10 Something to “blame it on,” per Milli Vanilli 11 Cooperate secretly 12 So far 18 Pasta ___ (dish mentioned in “That’s Amore”) 22 Breach of privacy, perhaps 23 Airport code for O’Hare 26 Tank marking 27 Revolutionary place-finder?

32 “Hop aboard!”

34 Of base eight 37 “Nope, pick another one ...”

38 Chocolate-frosted item 39 Word stated in a Thomas Dolby song 40 Unfair treatment 41 In a calm manner 44 Pay, slangily 45 Seasoned vet 47 Demolition site letters 49 Contemptible 51 Chemical indicator 53 Hit the trail 58 Mixed breed 60 “Go, goalie!”

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement LEE’S ENTERPRISE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608220 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lee’s Enterprise, located at 725 Layne Ct., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A General Partnership.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MA JOJO LEE 725 Layne Ct. Palo Alto, CA 94306 GEMMA CARPIZ 202 Calvert Dr., #254 Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 19, 2015.

(PAW Aug. 28, Sept. 4, 11, 18, 2015) RAM CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608065 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ram Concrete Construction, located at 1700-B, E. San Martin Ave., San Martin, CA 95046, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): BRENDANT PALOMO 1700 E. San Martin Ave. San Martin, CA 95046 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/14/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 14, 2015.

(PAW Aug. 28, Sept. 4, 11, 18, 2015) CAREREMOTE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608355 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: CareRemote, located at 2050 McKee Road #54, San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): VICTOR G. PHILLIPS 2050 McKee Rd. #54 San Jose, California 95116 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/21/15.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 24, 2015.

(PAW Aug. 28, Sept. 4, 11, 18, 2015) MISS VIETNAM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOA HAU AO DAI BAC CALI MISS VIETNAM NORTHERN CA HOA HAU AO DAI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608521 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Miss Vietnam of Northern California Hoa Hau Ao Dai Bac Cali, 2.) Miss Vietnam Northern CA Hoa Hau Ao Dai, located at 2200 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HUYEN T. TRAN 449 La Herran Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95051 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 27, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015) ALC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608723 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: ALC, located at 1291 Tucson Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: Joint Venture.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AMY LEE CHANG 3165 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 SUSAN LEE CHANG 3165 Louis Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on Sept./2/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 2, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2015) ACL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608724 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: ACL, located at 847 Shirley Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AMY LEE CHANG 3165 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on Sept./2/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 2, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2015) DUTCH POET PRESS ROBERT PERRY DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608709 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Dutch Poet Press, 2.) Robert Perry Design, located at 4296C 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 PERRY 4296C Wilkie Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/21/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 1, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2015) AYT PRESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608702 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: AYT Press, 767 located at Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): PREEVA ADLER TRAMIEL 767 Addison Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/18/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 1, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct, 2, 2015) MISS VIETNAM CALIFORNIA HOA HAU VIETNAM CALIFORNIA MISS VIETNAM CALIFORNIA HOA HAU CALIFORNIA MISS VIETNAM CALIFORNIA HOA HAU AO DAI CALIFORNIA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 609016 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Miss Vietnam California Hoa Hau Vietnam California, 2.) Miss Vietnam California Hoa Hau California, 3.) Miss Vietnam California Hoa Hau Ao Dai California, located at 2200 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HUYEN T. TRAN 449 La Herran Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 9, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2015) FOUNDER STORIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 608677 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Founder Stories, located at 147 Santa Rita Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): REBECCA BOWRING 147 Santa Rita Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05-26-2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 1, 2015.

(PAW Sept. 18, 25, October 2, 9, 2015)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-15-658913-JP Order No.: 0296951 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/23/1998. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): GEORGE H. MARSHALL, JR. AND EMILY A. MARSHALL Recorded: 12/8/1998 as Instrument No. 14537825 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 10/14/2015 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street Entrance of the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $162,880.36 The purported property address is: 2330 PRINCETON ST, PALO ALTO, CA 94306 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 137-04-045 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction.

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-15-658913-JP. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the prop-

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM erty may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-15-658913-JP IDSPub #0089067 9/4/2015 9/11/2015 9/18/2015 PAW NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA SEPE Case No.: 115PR 177093 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BARBARA SEPE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LISA BERKOWITZ-LANDERS in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: LISA BERKOWITZ-LANDERS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 9, 2015 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: Albert K. Martin, Esq. 4 West Fourth Ave. #508 San Mateo, CA 94402 (650)342-6315 (PAW Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2015)

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . With freshman Michelle Xie from Palo Alto High leading the way, the Harvard women’s golf team opened its season by placing fourth at the Diane Thomason Invitational last weekend in Iowa City, Iowa. Xie stood out in her collegiate debut, tying for second place with a total score of 222 (+6). Xie’s weekend included consecutive rounds at 1-over-par (73) to begin her career, and a final-round 76 on Sunday. Teammate and Gunn High grad Anna Zhou also made her debut over the weekend (+18, 234) and registered a pair of 77’s (+5) to open and close the tournament . . . Palo Alto High grad Kimmy Whitson earned all-tournament honors after helping Pacific go 3-0 and captured the Bluejay Invitational title at Creighton University on Saturday in Omaha, The Tigers captured the volleyball tourney title with a 16-25, 25-21, 25-15, 26-24 triumph over Creighton. Whitson ended the night with 47 assists, two kills, one ace, one block.

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NFL OPENERS . . . Stanford’s alltime leader in kickoff return yards, Ty Montgomery, put those skills on display as he helped open the 2015 NFL season in a big way as his Green Bay Packers posted a 31-23 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Montgomery finished with three returns for 106 yards. Palo Alto High graduate Davante Adams also helped the Packers in Week 1 as he caught four passes for a team-high 59 yards. He averaged 14.8 yards per catch, also a team high. Elsewhere on Week 1 of the NFL season: The Indianapolis Colts lost their opener against Buffalo, 27-14, with Andrew Luck finishing 26 of 49 passing for 243 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Colts. Former Stanford standout Henry Anderson was one of Colts’ few bright spots. In his NFL debut, he led the defense with nine tackles and three tackles for a loss, while playing on 85 percent of defensive snaps. David Parry also made his NFL against Buffalo and started on defense. Former Cardinal wideout Chris Owusu was the New York Jets’ second-most targeted receiver with six in a win over Cleveland. He finished the day with four catches for 55 yards, including a 43-yard reception.

Bryce Love (with ball) awaits congratulations from his teammates after scoring on a 93-yard pass play last weekend.

A little Love goes a long way

Stanford freshman provides some offensive spark heading into crucial Pac-12 opener at USC

by Rick Eymer

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ryce Love made his mark on the Stanford football season by making a mistake, and then made something out of it.

Love, a highly regarded freshman running back out of North Carolina, made a dramatic impression in last Saturday’s 31-7 victory over Central Florida, ac-

cumulating 143 all-purpose yards a week after losing two yards on his only carry of the season-opening loss at Northwestern.

His teammates can only hope Love can continue the success when the Cardinal (1-1) travels to the Los Angeles Coliseum for its Pac-12 opener against sixthranked USC (2-0) on Saturday at 5 p.m. (ABC)

snap. Love got in the way and had to handle the ball when it hit off his helmet. Everybody else in the stadium saw it as a successful, if somewhat risky, play.

“Love stole the ball,” Stanford coach David Shaw said. “The ball hit him in the helmet and he took it and made a positive. It was un(continued on next page)

PREP CROSS COUNTRY

M-A girls, Paly boys run away with titles

ON THE AIR

by Keith Peters he high school cross-county season is under way and a handful of local teams already have moved among the top 15 in the weekly Central Coast Section rankings.

For the boys, Palo Alto is ranked No. 6 and is No. 2 among Division I teams. For the girls, Gunn is No. 4 overall and No. 1 for Division I while Menlo-Atherton is No. 12 overall and Palo Alto is No. 15.

All three schools got their seasons officially under way last weekend at two different meets, with Menlo-Atherton opening its Peninsula Athletic League season on Tuesday.

The M-A girls opened their

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Love actually carried the ball only once against the Knights, and it was unscripted. His timing was off and he was late in going into motion on the ‘Wildcat,’ a play designed for a direct snap to a running back. Quarterback Kevin Hogan was lined up wide as a receiver.

Sophomore Christian McCaffrey was supposed to take the

Madeleine Baier (324) was third and Cat DePuy (344) fourth to help the M-A girls win the first PAL meet of the season.

PAL campaign by running away with the team title at the first league-wide meet of the year at Westmoor High in Daly City. The Bears finished with 39 points while Half Moon Bay was well back in second with 82.

Madeleine Baier led the Bears over the 2.4-mile course with a third-place finish of 15:17. Teammate Cat DePuy was fourth in 15:31 with the Bears’ Annalisa Crowe racing home sixth in 15:47.

Olivia Shane was 12th (16:25) and Katie Beebe took 14th (16:30) to round out M-A’s scoring.

In the boys’ meet, Menlo-Atherton totaled 72 points and finished (continued on page 79)

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Sports

Menlo boys seek to defend Roche water polo crown

by Keith Peters

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he 2014 water polo season for the Menlo School boys didn’t end the way coach Jack Bowen wanted. His 11 seniors wrapped up their careers by losing the PAL Bay Division title to rival Menlo-Atherton and the Central Coast Section Division II crown to rival Sacred Heart Prep.

All, however, was not lost during the season. The Knights did finish a fine 23-7, their second 23win season since 2006, and won their own Scott Roche Invitational for the first time since 2011.

Menlo won the 2014 Roche tourney with an 11-10 win over San Ramon Valley. Nine of the

goals came from players who since have graduated. The only scoring holdover is senior Chris Xi. Xi and his new teammates will seek a fresh start and a second straight Roche title this weekend when the 18th annual affair gets under way Friday with 16 top teams from around the state.

The lineup includes NorCal teams Christian Brothers, Drake, Menlo-Atherton, Palo Alto, St. Francis, St. Mary’s (Stockton), San Ramon Valley, Valley Christian, St. Ignatius, Leland, Rio Americano, Oak Ridge and Menlo. From the south, La Jolla, San Luis Obispo and Vista (San

Diego) will be making the trip.

The tournament is named in the memory of Scott Roche, a Menlo School (‘90) and Princeton (‘94) graduate and water polo standout who died in a car accident in Seattle in 1998. At Menlo, he helped the Knights go 21-1 his senior year and win a PAL title. At Princeton, he captained the Tigers to a 26-1 record, Ivy League title and a No. 7 national ranking.

Action will be split between Menlo School and Gunn High, with third place (3:40 p.m.) and first place (4:45 p.m.) decided at Menlo on Saturday.

Menlo (2-0) tuned up for the tournament by swamping host

STANFORD ROUNDUP

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Tennis Stanford junior Carol Zhao will start the 201516 women’s season ranked No. 1 in the nation, according to the 2015 Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Women’s Division I Preseason Rankings that were released this week.

Zhao begins the year as top-ranked singles player after being the NCAA singles runner-up last season, Zhao has also displayed excellent prowess in doubles, as she and partner Taylor Davidson were the No. 2 ranked team and finished the year with a 33-8 mark.

Davidson and current doubles partner Caroline Lampl, a freshman, will begin this season ranked

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Field hockey Nationally No. 6 Stanford looks to extend its sixgame winning streak Friday when it opens conference play against visiting California at 1:30 p.m.

Since its opening-day loss to No. 4 Syracuse in overtime, Stanford (6-1) has reeled off six-straight wins, including victories against No. 5 Duke and No. 15 Iowa.

other former standout with the Stanford WPC, led the Gators with three goals while Finn Banks added two.

SHP twice trailed by two goals, the second time at 4-2 in the second period. Tsotadze, however, scored twice to tie the match at 4 by halftime. Campolindo surged ahead at 5-4 before Banks tied it again with 1:58 left in the third quarter.

On Tuesday, Palo Alto opened its SCVAL De Anza Division season with a 14-10 triumph over Wilcox.

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what he can do on both sides of the ball,” Shaw said. “There’s a rare quality to him and he’s only going to get better. He’s an exciting football player.”

The Trojans are also deep at running back, with senior Tre Madden the starter, followed by six others. USC has three rushers averaging at least 71 yards a game. Madden has three touchdowns, Ronald Jones II, who averages 84.5 yards a game, and Justin Davis have each scored twice.

In addition to a running game that averages 234.5 yards a game and has eight touchdowns, Cody Kessler leads an aerial attack that is producing 388.5 yards a game and seven touchdowns.

In contrast, the Cardinal averages 107.5 rushing yards and 258 passing yards and has scored four times.

“They are bigger up front on both lines,” Shaw said. “Kessler is a better athlete than people give him credit for. He throws great on the run and he throws accurately.”

An inexperienced secondary will be challenged.

“Every Saturday is a challenge and this week will be an extraordinary challenge,” Harris said.

“Kessler has a big arm, a great release and reads well with his eyes. The level of urgency we feel is now we’re in the Pac-12.”

Harris, Kodi Whitfield and Dallas Lloyd are seniors, but first-year starters. Sophomore Alijah Holder is seeing his first action and sophomore Terrence Alexander averaged a tackle a game last year.

Backups include senior Ra’Chard Pippens, sophomores Alameen Murphy ad Brandon Simmons and freshmen Justin Reid, Ben Edwards and Quinton Meeks.

“We have young guys back there and we need to help them grow as fast as possible and get them to play as a unit,” Shaw said.

“We need to know where the help is, and the help has to be there.

This is a big team defense game.”

Saturday’s game marks the 93rd meeting between Stanford and USC. In a series that dates to 1905, the Trojans lead the all-time series, 60-29-3. Stanford’s fourgame win streak from 2009-12 was its longest in the series. Q

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Women golfers win, get invitation he defending national champion Stanford women’s golf team has been invited to compete in the inaugural East Lake Cup Collegiate Match Play Championship (Nov. 2-3) at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga., the Golf Channel announced Wednesday.

The tournament will feature the 2015 NCAA men’s and women’s semifinalists and will be televised live on the Golf Channel.

Baylor, the runner-up to Stanford last season, will join the Cardinal, Duke and USC in the women’s division. The men’s division will include 2015 NCAA champion LSU, USC, Georgia and Illinois.

“We are very excited to partake in the first ever East Lake Cup,” said Stanford coach Anne Walker.

Historic East Lake Golf Club is host of the TOUR Championship, the final event of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs.

Stanford, ranked second in last week’s Golfweek preseason poll, opened the 2015-16 season earlier this week by scoring a 10-stroke victory in the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. Sparked by All-Americans Mariah Stackhouse and Lauren Kim, the Cardinal finished with a 54hole score of 20-under-par 856 to beat runner-up Northwestern (866) and third-place UNLV (870).

Stackhouse, a senior, closed with a 1-under 72 and finished second individually at 7-under 212, one stroke behind medalist Sarah Cho of Northwestern.

Kim, a junior from Los Altos, shot 73 and tied for seventh at 5-under 214.

Carlmont, 20-1, to open the PAL Bay Division season on Wednesday. Xi led the way with six goals and James Thygesen added 4.

Nico Bhatia and Sam Untrecht tossed in three with Ben Wagner and Jayden Kunwar tallying two apiece.

Kunwar was the co-MVP on the Stanford Water Polo Club’s gold medal-winning 14U team at the Junior Olympics this summer.

Untrecht also was on the team, but missed JOs with a broken hand.

In Moraga, Sacred Heart Prep (1-1) gave up a goal with 3:36 left in the fourth period and dropped a 6-5 nonleague decision to host Campolindo. Alex Tsotadze, an-

Stanford’s Mariah Stackhouse finished second in a season-opening tourney.

No. 19 in the country. Doyle and Cardinal freshman Melissa Lord are ranked No. 25. Lord also is No. 10 in the national Newcomer/Freshman rankings.

In the men’s rankings, Stanford sophomore Tom Fawcett is No. 20 in singles and teammate David Hsu is tied for No. 96. In doubles, Fawcett and Maciek Romanowicz are No. 33.

Stanford also has two players on the national Newcomer/Freshman rankings, Sameer Kumar at No. 3 and Michael Genender at No. 7.

In other tennis news, the USTA announced that Kumar and fellow Stanford freshman Kimberly Yee have been named the winners of the 2015 USTA National Junior Scholar Athlete Award.

Women’s volleyball The No. 8 Cardinal (4-2) closes out the nonconference portion of its schedule at home this week, hosting No. 24 Pacific on Friday and St. Mary’s on Saturday in Maples Pavilion at 7 p.m.

Pacific has started the 2015 season with an 8-1 record with its only blemish a five-set loss to Iowa.

The Tigers are hitting .290 as a team, while holding its opponents to a .192 clip. Senior setter Kimmy Whitson from Palo Alto High controls the offense with 10.75 assists per set.

Men’s water polo Stanford is seeded third as it hosts the KAP7 NorCal Invitational this weekend. The Cardinal (5-0) meets Santa Clara on Saturday at 10:40 a.m. Other title contenders include UCLA and USC. The championship match is Sunday in Avery Stadium at 6:15 p.m. Q

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intentional.”

That play occurred midway through the first quarter. As a result, Shaw and the Cardinal coaching staff added a play to the game plan at halftime. It worked better than anticipated.

Hogan threw a screen pass from deep in Stanford territory that Love turned into a 93-yard touchdown.

“It’s a roll of the dice,” Shaw said. “If he gets a lane to run, it’s great.”

Senior receiver Devon Cajuste (6-4, 227) and left tackle Kyle Murphy (6-7, 301) executed blocks that gave Love his lane.

Love made the Knights’ safety miss and it was a race to the goal line.

“We’ve always had speed but Bryce Love is something special,” Cardinal cornerback Ronnie Harris said. “Sweet Feet, that’s my nickname for him, has something different to him. He can change gears rapidly and can get into defense’s heads because of his quick feet.”

McCaffrey, who put together another nice outing with 166 allpurpose yards, including 58 rushing and 59 receiving, also has the ability to make people miss. The combination should only make Stanford’s offense that much more effective.

Love’s emergence — he caught two passes for 135 yards — comes at the right time. He helped Hogan throw for a career-high 341 yards. That more than doubled his output from the Wildcats loss, in which the Cardinal failed to score a touchdown.

Hogan threw for three touchdowns, did not throw an interception and was not sacked — all the things that were troublesome in the loss.

The Trojans, meanwhile, are loaded with speed, none more exciting than Adoree Jackson, listed as USC’s starting cornerback and top return man, but also the No. 2 receiver at a position that goes eight deep on the Trojans’ depth chart.

“That guy is pretty rare to do

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second to Half Moon Bay’s 49.

Robert Lane led the Bears with a 13:23 clocking for fifth place.

Kevin Conrad was 10th (13:35), Rohan DePuy was 14th (13:45), Andrew Tan ran 20th (14:04) and Scott MacDonald was 23rd (14:10) to round out M-A’s scorers.

On Saturday, the Palo Alto boys opened their season in a big way by winning team and individual titles in the Varsity l race at the Lowell Invitational on a cool day at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park.

The Vikings scored 75 points to hold off Granite Bay (119) and San Ramon Valley (148) while Menlo-Atherton was 12th (317), Menlo School was 13th (335) and Sacred Heart Prep 15th (349) in the 30-team field.

Palo Alto junior Kent Slaney covered the 2.91-mile course in 15:13.6 to hold off Granite Bay teammates Tre Lockwood (15:13.9) and Jake Ritter (15:23.9). Menlo sophomore Robert Miranda was fifth overall in 15:24.2 with Palo Alto’s Naveen Pai eighth in 15:40.9 and Sacred Heart Prep’s Sasha Novitsky 10th in 15:46.2.

In addition to Slaney and Pai, the Paly boys had Samuel Desre take 18th in 15:55.9 and Sam Craig finish 19th in 15:57.2.

Spencer Morgenfeld wrapped up the scoring with a 16:08.9 time for 30th overall.

In the girls’ Varsity I race, Menlo-Atherton scored 81 points and finished second behind San Ramon Valley (63) in the 18-team field. Palo Alto was fifth with 142 and Castilleja was 10th (263).

Natalie Novitsky of Sacred Heart Prep was the top local finisher as she clocked 18:55.7 for eighth place. DePuy led M-A with a 12th-place finish of 19:23.4 while Baier was 14th in 19:42.5, Beebe was 17th in 19:51.2, Crowe was 19th in 19:51.9 and Shane wrapped up the Bears’ scoring by running 20:05.9 for 24th.

Palo Alto was led by Julia Doubson’s 19:42.7 clocking that got her 15th. Emma Raney was next for the Vikings in 20:08.5 for 25th.

In the Sophomore boys’ race, Palo Alto’s Reed Foster was second and Andrew Salinas of Menlo-Atherton was third.

At the Early Bird Invitational at Toro Park in Salinas, Gunn senior Gillian Meeks finished second overall to Cate Ratliff of Santa Cruz. Ratliff ran 17:00 on the 3.0-mile course with Meeks taking second in 17:53.

Gunn finished fourth overall while also taking first in the Junior race and second in the Senior race. Illi Gardner led Gunn in the Junior race with a secondplace finish of 19:16 as the Titans scored 34 points to defeat St. Ignatius (75). That also placed her 14th in all the races combined.

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PREP FOOTBALL

SHP loss leaves Menlo as only perfect team Local squads look to bounce back after being outscored 304-137 last week

by Ari Kaye fter two weeks of the high school football season, there is just one local team still undefeated, and it’s not (surprise) Sacred Heart Prep.

The lone survivor is Menlo School, which improved to 2-0 with a 28-14 nonleague win over Mission (San Francisco) last Saturday at Sequoia High in Redwood City.

Sacred Heart Prep, meanwhile, saw its 14-game win streak (dating to 2013) come to an end in a stunning 48-21 setback to visiting Riordan.

Big scores were the rule of thumb last week. Palo Alto was thumped by San Benito, 49-34; Gunn was drubbed by Mills, 347, Priory was routed by Crystal Springs, 54-6; Menlo-Atherton was crushed by Oakdale, 61-7, and Pinewood was outscored by Stuart Hall, 44-34.

For those keeping score, those seven local teams were outscored 304-137 last week.

Heading into Week 3, here are the matchups: Palo Alto (1-1) takes on Mitty on Friday night at Foothill College, Gunn (0-2) hosts Branham (0-2) and Menlo-Atherton (0-2) hosts Riordan, all at 7 p.m. Earlier, Anzar is at Pinewood (0-1) at 4 p.m. and Priory (0-1) hosts East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy at 3 p.m.

On Saturday, Sacred Heart Prep (1-1) looks to rebound against a tough Palma team in Atherton at 2 p.m. Menlo School, meanwhile, visits Soquel at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz at 7:30 p.m.

Although the loss to Riordan was certainly disappointing, Sacred Heart did not have much downtime before hosting Palma.

“We won’t (panic),” said SHP coach Pete Lavorato said. “We’ll go back and try to keep the kids’ spirits up. We got a tough one this week. We just got to keep believing in what we do.”

It would have been perfectly understandable if the SHP players did not know how to properly react after last week’s disappointing result. After all, it had been nearly two years since the Gators had experienced defeat on the gridiron, which made the final score of the Gators’ home opener all the more surprising.

The Crusaders ran for 351 yards in their first game of the season, as the Gators’ defense struggled to wrap up running backs Raymone Sanders and Jason Greene. The speedy Sanders and the powerfully built Greene combined for over 250 yards and four touchdowns on the ground.

The Gators received a stand-

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MENLO SCHOOL The freshman won all four of her singles matches at the Golden State Tennis Classic while helping the Knights win three of four matches and finish in third place in the prestigious 16-team statewide event.

PALO ALTO The junior runner won the individual title in the Varsity I race at the Lowell Invitational, clocking 15:13.6 over the 2.91-mile course while helping the Vikings open their season by winning the team title.

Honorable mention Cate Desler Sacred Heart Prep volleyball

Maddy Johnston Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Jessica Lee Palo Alto volleyball

Vivian Liu/ Schulyer Tilney-Volk Menlo tennis

Maddie Stewart* Menlo volleyball

Lanie Van Linge Menlo-Atherton tennis

Calder Hilde-Jones Gunn water polo

Charlie Ferguson Menlo football

Eli Givens Palo Alto football

Mackenzie Morehead Menlo football

Charlie Roth* Menlo football

RJ Rabiera Menlo football * previous winner

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

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coach Aaron Johnson his first league triumph. Johnson took over for his older brother, Brandon, just before the start of the school year when Brandon took a teaching job in San Francisco.

The Vikings pulled away to a 3-1 lead after one period and made it 6-2 at the half. Winston Rosati poured in nine goals to pace Paly with Kevin Bowers adding two.

The Vikings (1-1, 2-1) got single goals from Justyn Cheung, Jared Stanley and Tommy Smale.

In Mountain View, Gunn opened defense of its regularseason title with a 17-3 dunking of the Spartans.

Christian Znidarsic paced the Titans (1-0, 4-4) with six goals with Calder Hilde-Jones adding five and Jack Mallery three. Aaron Babian contributed two goals and JP Napaa tallied once. Gunn pulled away early with an 8-0 lead after one period and made it 10-0 by halftime.

Girls water polo Castilleja (1-0, 3-2) opened

defense of its PAL Bay Division title with a 10-2 dunking of host Carlmont on Wednesday.

Jenna Kotcher scored twice for Castilleja with Celia Aldrete and Maddie Macdonald tallying twice. Georgia Lewis had eight saves in goal.

On Tuesday, Mills jumped to an early 2-1 lead, but Menlo’s Jane Zafran scored at the end of the first period to give the Knights a 3-2 lead on the way to a 9-5 victory in a PAL Ocean Division match.

The Knights’ defense, led by goalie Gillian Bressie (11 saves) went on to shut out the Vikings in the second period while Menlo grabbed a 6-2 lead. Mills cut its deficit to 6-4 in the third, but Menlo seniors Anna Miller and Michelle Meyer plus freshman Celia Fritsch closed the match with goals. Zafran led host Menlo with three goals.

Palo Alto, meanwhile, opened its home season at Gunn High and came away with a 9-3 win over Lynbrook to open the SCVAL De Anza Division season. The Vikings (1-0, 3-2) were led by senior Gigi Rojahn’s five goals with Katie Francis adding two. Q

out effort from senior tight end Andrew Daschbach, who caught seven balls for 114 yards, but overall Sacred Heart did not move the ball as efficiently on offense as it had in a 47-point performance against Leland last week.

After beating Mission by 60 points last season, Menlo was prepared for a closer contest.

Tied at halftime, 14-14, Menlo took the lead in the fourth quarter when senior running back Charlie Roth scored his second touchdown on a 15-yard pass from senior Mackenzie Morehead.

Morehead, in his second varsity start, completed 18 of 37 passes for 350 yards and a pair of touchdowns. He also found sophomore Aidan Israelski for a 10-yard TD to tie the score. Senior RJ Babiera had seven receptions for a team-high 182 yards, including a 46-yard catch in the first quarter and a 35-yard catch and run to help set up Roth’s fourth-quarter score. Roth caught six passes for 88 yards and picked up another 82 yards in 14 carries. Ferguson posted 100 rushing yards on six carries.

Menlo-Atherton trailed by 40-7 at halftime in its second straight road contest. Junior Jordan Mims was the lone offensive bright spot as he rushed eight times for 107 yards and scored the lone touchdown. The Bears finished with 114 rushing yards and just 42 yards passing. Justin Friedsam paced the defense with nine tackles.

At Crystal Springs, Priory’s youth showed.

Priory was led by sophomore Keyshawn Ashford, who rushed 20 times for 137 yards. Adrian Lavalle scored on a QB sneak on the last play of the game to provide Priory’s points.

Meanwhile, Palo Alto scored enough points to normally win.

This, however, was not a normal game for the Vikings as the Haybalers (2-0) rolled in a wild game that featured a combined 34 points in just the fourth quarter.

Paly senior quarterback Justin Hull and senior wideout Eli Givens came up with career-best efforts, but both went for naught.

Hull threw for 309 yards and four touchdowns while Givens caught seven passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns.

Gunn couldn’t get a victory in its home opener and now has been outscored, 74-7, in its first two games.

Gunn either punted or fumbled the ball in 10 out of 11 total possessions. The Titans scored their first touchdown of the season on a run down the sideline from quarterback Ed Wu to make it a 34-7 game. Q

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