Palo Alto Weekly November 6, 2015

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 5

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November 6, 2015

Midtown bike project veers off course Page 5

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Living authentically

Transgender students navigate difficult path in quest to be who they are Page 32 Pulse 16 Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Eating Out 24 Movies 26 Puzzles 66 Q Arts Photographer documents LGBT student-athletes

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Q Home Conference examines energy-efďŹ cient homes

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Q Sports Cross country teams looking for runs of success

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Support our Kids with a gift to the Holiday Fund Last Year’s Grant Recipients 10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Acknowledge Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Art in Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Baby Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Bay Area Cancer Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Bayshore Christian Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Beechwood School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Buena Vista Mobile Park Residents . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Children’s Health Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Common Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. . . . . .$7,500 Computers for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Deborah’s Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Downtown Streets Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 East Palo Alto Charter School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 East Palo Alto Children’s Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foundation for a College Education . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . .$5,000 Girls to Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Grace Lutheran Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Grupo Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Health Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 InnVision Shelter Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Voices for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,000 Palo Alto Friends Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,000 Palo Alto High School Music Department . . . . . .$10,000 Palo Alto Housing Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Peninsula Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Project WeH.O.P.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Ravenswood Education Foundation . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Silicon Valley Urban Debate League . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000 TheatreWorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 YMCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Youth Speaks Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000

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ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo Alto area. Since the Weekly and the Silicon Valley

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Local news, information and analysis

Midtown bike project veers off course Palo Alto looks to pull the plug on proposed Matadero Creek bike trail

by Gennady Sheyner

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oth in terms of geography and significance, a proposed bike path along Matadero Creek was supposed to be the centerpiece of Palo Alto’s bike-improvement boom.

Conceived as part of the city’s bike and pedestrian master plan,

the new trail was planned for a 1.3-mile stretch along the creek’s levees between Alma Street and Bayshore Road. The goal was to address a problem that unites cyclists in north, south and central Palo Alto: the lack of quality east-west routes.

The Matadero Creek project got off to a solid start, winning a $1.5 million grant from Santa Clara County and earning widespread support from the prior City Council, which unanimously approved the plan in 2012.

In addition to creating a new pathway, officials also hoped to construct safe bike crossings at the Caltrain tracks and at U.S. Highway 101.

In promoting the project, the

city’s bike master plan notes that the 1.3-mile section of train track between the Caltrain undercrossing at California Avenue and the street-level East Meadow Drive crossing represents the longest uninterrupted stretch in Palo Alto and that it blocks east-west travel.

That problem, the plan states, is “a major issue for the Cal-Ventura area, a mixed-use neighborhood with potential for new residential and mixed-use development near the Fry’s Electronics site and along El Camino Real.” The plan recommends that the city conduct a feasibility study to determine the specific alignment for the path.

Now, however, the project is taking an unexpected turn thanks to obstacles both physical and political. Since the bike plan was adopted, dozens of Midtown residents have come out against the project, arguing that the creekside

trail would pose a safety hazard and bring down property values in the area. A group of concerned Midtown residents (that, fittingly, called itself Concerned Midtown Residents) urged the council to go back to the drawing board and consider other options. In addition, a preliminary analysis by the city indicated that the trail project would be more costly and complex than initially thought because of flood-protection measures that are being implemented by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which has jurisdiction over the creek.

These complexities have prompted the city to pursue a new direction for the project, one that shifts the east-west route away from the creek and onto one of the streets in the Midtown (continued on page 13)

HOLIDAY FUND

Annual charitable-giving drive launches Veronica Weber

The 46-year-old Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center in Palo Alto is showing signs of old age, prompting the city to plan its renovation.

RECREATION

Fixes on the way for popular Baylands attraction Palo Alto looks to repair, enhance Baylands Interpretive Center

by Gennady Sheyner

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erched on wooden pilings in Palo Alto’s serene marshland, the Lucy Evans Baylands Interpretative Center is a celebration of nature — a place where students learn about local bird species and where nesting barn swallows propagate.

But nature hasn’t always been kind to this popular, 46-year-old attraction. Weatherworn and under-maintained, the wooden building off Embarcadero Road is showing signs of decay, with the trim around the roof now badly deteriorated and the wood on its siding and decking

cracked and peeling in some sections, particularly those facing west.

“You can see ... that sun, wind, rain and birds have taken their tolls on both the siding and decking around the building,” Tiffany Redding, the city’s consultant from the firm FOG Studio, said during last week’s meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission, at which she showed slides of damaged wood.

Now, as the city is moving ahead with renovating the beloved building, the goal is to improve the facility without

modifying its Baylands-friendly character. In the coming months, city officials plan to complete the design for rehabilitating and improving the Interpretive Center and obtain the needed work permits with the goal of launching construction in 2016.

The project, which also includes an upgrade to electrical systems and a redesign of the building’s bathroom, has an estimated cost of $582,485.

The City Council approved the expenditures last year, when it passed its capital budget for fis(continued on page 14)

Holiday Fund invites community members to support services for kids, families

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ife-skills classes for at-risk youth, an art program to bring East Palo Alto and PaloAlto kids together to learn from and understand one another — these and dozens of other nonprofit programs are made possible each year through contributions to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund.

This week, the 22nd annual charitable-giving campaign is launching with a goal of raising $350,000 between now and early January.

Since its inception, the drive has distributed more than $5 million to local nonprofits such as Palo Alto Community Child Care, Ravenswood Education Foundation, St. Vincent de Paul and East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring. They were among 54 organizations that received grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 this past year.

Every dollar donated to the fund goes directly to services; no overhead costs are deducted because they are absorbed by the Palo Alto Weekly and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which manages the Holiday Fund.

Donations are tax deductible.

Charitable giving through the Holiday Fund is also supported by several local founda-

tions. Dollar-for-dollar matching grants have been pledged by the Packard, Hewlett, Arrillaga and Peery foundations, as well as by a local family that wishes to be anonymous.

“We are so inspired every year by the community-mindedness of all of the sponsoring foundations as well as the vast number of individuals who give, year after year, to make this a better place for everyone,” said Bill Johnson, publisher of the Weekly. “We know from the agencies and their clients that these generous donors are helping to sustain a safety net of services for kids and families and are making a significant impact in so many lives.”

The nonprofit organizations that receive funding must apply for the grants and are vetted by a committee that examines impact of services, management of programs and fiscal responsibility.

As part of the campaign, each week the Weekly will publish stories of the progress being made by the supported agencies.

A list of this year’s grant recipients can be found on page 4 of this edition. Donations to the Holiday Fund can be made at PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund or by using the form on page 4. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

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Do we have traffic issues?

— Greg Schmid, Palo Alto vice mayor, asking a rhetorical question during a discussion of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. See story on page 7.

Around Town

A RELAXING EXPENSE ... A funny item appeared on the Palo Alto Unified School District’s expense report in September: $376 in contracted services to Massage

by Design, a San Diego massage therapy company. San Diego’s “premiere massage destination,” as its website advertises, provided the district with on-site chair massages (head, shoulder and neck) for about 40 employees who participated in a stress-management class, according to Chief Budget Officer Cathy Mak. “The stress management class discussed the symptoms of stress, unhealthy vs. healthy ways to cope with stress and best stress management strategies to implement for a happier healthier lifestyle,” Mak wrote in an email. Massage by Design arranged for a local therapist to provide said massages for about four hours on Aug. 13. Mak said the district’s risk-management department arranged the wellness event for district employees.

IT’S A BEAM, IT’S A SYMBOL, IT’S BATMAN? ... A Palo Alto Online reader turned to Town Square, the Weekly’s online forum, to field answers about a beam of light that appeared in the sky near the Hewlett-Packard campus in Palo Alto on Sunday and Monday nights.

The mysterious light was coming from south of Page Mill Road, the reader wrote. “Yup, 5 closely spaced vertical spotlights on the roof of HP headquarters,” a commenter responded. “I assume it’s a temporary celebration of their new era. Old HPQ shares are now split into new HPQ and HPE (HP Enterprise) shares.” Someone else thought the beam looked like a “Dark Mark,” the symbol of Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter book series. Others thought it was the Bat-Signal calling for fictional superhero Batman: “I thought there was only one Gotham.” Following the Caped Crusader theory, one very Palo Alto question remains: The Dark Knight hasn’t arrived yet, but if he does, where is he going to park the Batmobile?

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR EDUCATION ... More than 400 parents and children from Palo Alto will be working alongside Stanford University neuroscientists Saturday, Nov. 14, to build spinal cords out of Lego bricks while simultaneously learning about the brain. Stanford’s Brain Development Department and Play-Well TEKnologies, a San

Anselmo company that provides Lego-inspired engineering classes for kids from kindergarten through eighth grade, are teaming up to host the free community event with an eye toward increasing awareness of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. “Families will actively learn through the colorful magic of LEGO while addressing questions about a part of the body that remains a mystery to most people: The Brain,” a press release for the event states.

Not to mention, participating families will have the chance to be a part of history as the event’s organizers aim to set a Guinness World Record for creating the most Lego spinal cords ever. Play-Well already has a good track record in this area — the organization hosted an event last fall at which they broke the world record for the longest Lego chain. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with three separate sessions, at the Stanford Brain Development Project Laboratory, 1070 Arastradero Road, Suite 220, Palo Alto. More information and registration can be found at bit.ly/1QgIJxp. SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY ... Palo Alto Mayor Karen Holman will be the host at a special event honoring veterans and those in active service next week. The ceremony, which will be held on Monday, Nov. 9, at 4 p.m. on King Plaza at City Hall, aims to bring attention to the transition military service members go through to return to civilian life, as well as recognize city employees who have served in the armed forces and honor veterans in the community. More information about the event is available by visiting cityofpaloalto.org/veterans or contacting Janice Svendsen at janice. svendsen@cityofpaloalto.org or 650-329-2105.

SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A STAR ...

The Palo Alto Library was named a “Star Library” (with a three-star rank out of five) based on visits, program attendance and computer use, among other things, according to the eighth edition of the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. This year, 7,663 public libraries in the U.S. were scored and 261 were named “Star Libraries,” including 11 in California. The Library Journal Index compares public libraries with their peers based on circulation, library visits, program attendance and public Internet computer use. Q

Upfront MILITARY

At Veterans Day, old warriors remember families left behind Channing House veterans memorialize those who sacrifice for their nation

by Sue Dremann lessons to impart still. Ever selfless, they prefer to focus on the service of others rather than their own. The types of sacrifices they and their families made continue on today among military service persons and their families. But the impacts of these more recent wars aren’t felt by most Americans, they said. The numbers of people in the armed services may be smaller — only about one percent of the population is serving in the unconscripted services today — but four percent of Americans are being touched by the wars in profound ways. They include parents, wives and husbands and children, the men said.

War is in many ways the same and in many ways different today.

It’s always been about political struggle, about one group wanting to dominate and another not wanting to be dominated; or one group wanting autonomy from another, Young said. But when these men were young, they were mostly unmarried. They didn’t have kids to leave behind or wives who had to become the heads of their families.

That’s different today. Military families are much more prevalent.

In other wars, service men and women went away for the duration of the war. Now, National Guardsmen and others are deployed again and again, forcing them and their families to continuously have to re-

adjust to military and civilian life.

The emotional toll is especially great on families. Children just get used to a parent being there and they disappear again. Adjustment, while easier for some, can be difficult for those without much of a

Council members push back against commercial development In giving guidance on Comp Plan, council urges evaluation of impacts

by Sue Dremann

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eas, mainly in the city’s retail areas.

The policy established nine zones to be monitored for growth where a cap of a total 3.2 million square feet of new development would be enforced: University Avenue/ Downtown/South of Forest Avenue, Stanford Shopping Center, Stanford Research Park, Town & Country Village, California Avenue/CalVentura, the South El Camino Real corridor, San Antonio Road/Bayshore Corridor, East Bayshore and Midtown Shopping Center.

As of last December, about 1.5 million square feet had been built.

But some members, particularly Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and Councilman Eric Filseth, advocated for reinterpreting Policy L-8 such that it would cover developments already built that slipped through the count because they were not covered under the definitions of Policy L-8. For example,

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Veterans at Channing House who will take part in a Veterans Day next week remembrance include, from left to right, Dewey Jacques (Navy, World War II; Iceland), Joe Graham (Army, World War II; Europe), Carl Otto (Navy, World War II; Continental U.S. ), Paul Carlson (Army, World War II; South Pacific), George Young (Army, Vietnam War; Vietnam), Orin Zimmerman (Army, World War II; Europe), Herbert Hamerslough (Marine Corps, World War II; Okinawa); Merrill Newman (Army, Korea).

DEVELOPMENT

ndicating what could be a major shift to limit future development in Palo Alto, some City Council members signaled Monday night that they might support sweeping changes to city policy on commercial growth.

As part of the city’s ongoing work to revise its Comprehensive Plan — the foundational document that guides planning and growth in Palo Alto — the council on Monday night directed staff and the ad-hoc Citizens Advisory Committee to consider new definitions of uses within zoning areas and what types and scale of commercial operations would be suitable for the downtown and California Avenue retail districts.

At issue was a policy in the Comprehensive Plan’s Land Use and Community Design Element, Policy L-8, crafted in 1989 to limit nonresidential development in specific ar-

they said. Before the war, they had faced the deprivations of the Great Depression.

“The Depression was awful. In our growing-up years, you could not get a job,” Otto, a 13-year U.S. Navy veteran, (said). “After the war, that was not a problem.”

That was largely due to the GI Bill, the veterans said.

“It was the greatest piece of social legislation ever made,” said Graham, a U.S. Army tank company commander in the European theater.

“The GI Bill changed American society and probably saved the country from a recession. We became a more educated society and

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he veterans sitting in the comfortable common area at Channing House cupped their hands to their ears.

“Can you speak up? Some of us had our ears shot out in the war,” one said.

Some are now frail, others are still robust, and they represented the breadth of some of the United State’s most notable wars: Paul Carlson, Joe Graham, Herbert Hamerslough, Dewey Jacques, Carl Otto and Orin Zimmerman served in World War II; Merrill Newman served in Korea; and George Young served two tours of duty in Vietnam. Together, they have experienced nearly every aspect of war, from combat and injury, such as Hamerslough experienced, to writing the families of those killed in battle about their loved one’s death, which was emotionally devastating, Graham said.

The collective scars and memories of past military service are slowly ebbing in Channing House, a downtown Palo Alto senior residence, as more veterans pass away.

Six veterans have died in the past year or so; two women, Sarah Wolfe and Maxine MacDonald, both Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) during World War II, are living in skilled nursing, the men said.

But these remaining veterans have

support network, they said.

Young, who served in Vietnam in 1963-64 and 1972-73, recalled his first return home in 1964.

“I was on leave in downtown San Jose, and I went into a magazine store. I saw Life magazine there with a cover photo of the Vietnam War. The picture was with the body of a friend on the cover. His name tag was wiped out. That was a shock, to be in civilian life and seeing the pictures (of the war). He had died a month before that,” Young said.

The young people who returned from World War II faced a peacetime world that acknowledged them as heroes, but the country had also changed significantly,

the council expressly exempted Stanford Medical Center’s expansion from the total count in 2011.

But if developments outside of the capped areas were counted, the total would exceed L-8’s remaining 1.7 million square feet.

The city would have already reached its growth cap, essentially giving the council a clean slate with no carryover from the past when considering further growth caps in the Comprehensive Plan.

Filseth and Schmid seemed the most piqued at what they viewed as a shell game that allowed large nonresidential development outside of the monitored zones designated in Policy L-8, developments that have contributed to the city’s burdensome traffic, parking and housing problems.

“We’re becoming a commuter city. We’re No. 4 in the country.

Policy L-8 is our best chance to

define our community over the next 15 years,” Schmid said. “We have added 1.5 million square feet; there’s also 1 million square feet of nonmonitored (development) that’s not mentioned anywhere in the Comp Plan. We have voted (for) 1.3 million square feet at Stanford Research Park. Added together, we’ve got 3.8 million.

“Look around us. Do we have traffic issues? L-8 is the most effective way for the council to make a clear statement,” he said.

The distinction of “monitored” versus “nonmonitored” areas was developed 20 years ago and seemingly has little relevance considering the overall intention at that time — and now — to rein in growth, Filseth said.

“If you look at the intent of the people who did this, I think we’re at that cap,” he said, which puts the council “in uncharted territory.”

Councilman Pat Burt, although supportive of finding a solution to the jobs/homes imbalance, did not support reinterpreting the existing policy to count square footage outside of the monitored areas toward the cap, which he thought an unfair change of the rules.

Councilman Greg Scharff supported keeping the L-8 policy and applying what’s left of the cap to

count across the whole city.

The council ultimately deferred directing the Citizens Advisory Committee to examine revisions to the L-8 policy, pending the outcome of a Draft Environmental Impact Report done in advance of the Comprehensive Plan’s completion that will come before the council in January.

But they directed the citizens group to look at “pacing,” or mitigation mechanisms, for office, medical office and research-anddevelopment construction and their impact on the jobs/housing ratio. That pacing could limit how many square feet of nonresidential development would be built in a year. The motion passed 6-2 with Councilman Tom DuBois and Schmid voting no and Councilwoman Liz Kniss absent.

DuBois introduced a motion, seconded by Burt, that included directing staff and the citizens committee to evaluate how the city defines its commercial zoning districts. The definitions might need to reflect changes in the tech sector and social-networking businesses, the types and scale of commercial operations and development and the number of workers (continued on page 11)

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School district eyes new budget priorities Staff presents early budget proposals; will return to board in February with finalized list

by Elena Kadvany

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special Board of Education budget study session Tuesday night offered a wide-ranging but still-preliminary look at where the Palo Alto school district would like to invest its dollars in the coming years, from the potential implementation of full-day kindergarten to the opening of a new secondary school.

The long laundry list of budget proposals, mostly from district staff and the K-12 leadership team, includes seven new programs as well as recommendations from the Minority Achievement and Talent Development advisory committee and forthcoming recommendations from the district’s enrollmentmanagement committee, which include new schools and smaller class sizes.

Following last week’s unveiling of a preliminary recommendation by the enrollment group’s subcommittee to open an innovative middle and high school, the board’s conversation Tuesday frequently returned to that topic as well as

that of improving education at existing secondary schools. While there was excitement and support for a new secondary school from both the board and the community at the Oct. 27 board meeting, Tuesday’s budget discussion was a reminder of just how much it could cost the district.

Staff estimated a price tag of between $65 million to $70 million to build the school at Cubberley Community Center in south Palo Alto. Operating costs for a middle school, based on existing schools from the 2015-16 year, would be about $2.5 million, and for a high school, $3.6 million. The district will also lose $5.5 million in lease revenue from the Cubberley site if it chooses to build there, though it could potentially retain some revenue by allowing some space to be used at night by the city or community groups.

President Melissa Baten Caswell said the district would likely have to consider outside funding sources if it decides to open a new 6-12 school, even with higher-thanprojected property tax revenue this

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year and a fresh influx of cash from a recent school parcel-tax measure.

The district has a budget surplus of $7.6 million property-tax revenue and $2.3 million from Measure A, which voters overwhelmingly approved in May. Board member Camille Townsend said that she hopes the board and staff will not limit itself based on the budget, particularly when it comes to opening a new school.

“I’ve certainly heard enough from enough people recently that the board just doesn’t dream big enough,” she said. “I want to turn this around and say, ‘I don’t want to be limited in this conversation today by what’s here.’”

Other board members stressed that they won’t be able to fund everything proposed Tuesday night but instead must spend the dollars wisely so that improvements aid students throughout the district.

“I love dreaming as much as anybody does, but I think that the budget exercise that we’re engaged in is trying to figure out what is the highest, best use of the

dollars that the community has given us,” Ken Dauber said.

Another item that generated significant discussion Tuesday was the idea of implementing full-day kindergarten, particularly to support minority and lowincome students. Full-day kindergarten was a recommendation from the minority-achievement committee, which repeatedly stressed early education, intervention and support as critical means to help close the achievement gap between groups of students in the school district.

Superintendent Max McGee said Tuesday that this proposal is unanimously supported by all principals in the district. He added that when the minorityachievement committee tracked high school students who didn’t meet the certain graduation requirements back through their entire academic career in the district, many had already been falling behind in elementary school.

“If you’re behind in second and third grade, the chances of catching up are minimal at best,” McGee said.

Research on students enrolled in full-day kindergarten demonstrates benefits such as greater progress in reading and math than those in half-day classes, increased social-emotional benefits and long-term educational benefits.

Board Vice President Heidi Emberling added that full-day

kindergarten can ease transportation challenges for working parents, provide lower-cost childcare and allow families access to highquality early education programs.

Palo Alto has already piloted full-day kindergarten programs at two sites, Palo Verde and Barron Park elementary schools. District staff recommended Tuesday that full-day kindergarten be extended to up to six sites in the 2016-17 year, which would cost an estimated $300,000.

Emberling said she’s in support of full-day kindergarten, but urged a thoughtful approach. She compared it to preparing Gunn High School teachers for a shift to a new bell schedule at the start of this school year with extra professional development and education around the instructional shifts that were required by a new schedule.

“Like with block scheduling, we can’t just implement a schedule change without providing professional development and support to our teachers as we navigate this,” she said “The whole point of the benefits (of full-day kindergarten) of reducing disparities in academic readiness and improving connection to school and improving social-emotional connection and development with peers — you need to make sure that there’s support that exists in the classroom, both for the teachers and for the students.” (continued on page 11)

Upfront MENTAL HEALTH

Offering help Woodside college student’s website is for families, friends of those with mental illness

by Barbara Wood sion and alcohol addiction to body image problems to self-doubt.

There are links to online mental health screenings and reviews of mental health professionals.

A section called “Help” has step-by-step instructions about situations, such what to do if someone is having a panic attack or a manic episode.

Other advice found on the website under “How-tos” includes ways to encourage a friend or family member to get help or to stay on their medication.

While Mackenzie put together most of the current version of the website herself, using a mashup of templates from Weebly, WordPress and Squarespace, she had a lot of professional help finding the content.

Last summer she interned at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation with pediatrician Dr. Amy Heneghan, who introduced her to a number of experts in the mental health field. They advised her on what was important to include on the TEAM site.

Friends who know how to code are now helping her to refine the website.

Mackenzie also speaks from personal experience with brain disorders.

“I have ADD (attention deficit disorder) and I’m also dyslexic.

These are things that I will live with forever,” she said.

But the problems were diagnosed when she was in second grade, and she learned to use tools for coping with them.

“Since I learned how to deal with it early on, it’s not been a barrier,” she said. The analogy she likes is this: “I have two boat anchors dragging in the sand behind me, but I learned how to put them in wheelbarrows, so it’s a little bit

easier to drag them along.”

She believes that those struggling with more serious mental health issues can also be helped to construct their own “wheelbarrows.”

Her mother, Stacy Drazan, is also supporting projects in the mental health field, including trying to make adolescent psychiatry beds available locally and looking at the possibility of starting an adolescent mental health/physical health center based on the Australian government’s centers called “headspace.”

When Shelby needed to be hospitalized, her mother said, she had to go to Mills Health Center in San Mateo because it has the closest adolescent psychiatric hospital beds. After missing a month

Palo Alto set to expand Styrofoam ban City looks to ban sale, distribution of expanded foam

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by Gennady Sheyner foam food containers.

Just as with the prior ban, the main reason for the proposed new prohibition has to do with creek pollution. A new report from Public Works staff claims that Styrofoam, foodware and packaging is “found in local creeks and throughout Palo Alto’s watershed.”

The report calls plastic foam “one of the most prevalent forms of litter” — one that contributes about 114 tons of garbage to the city’s waste stream each year. In May, during the National River Cleanup Day at Matadero and Adobe creeks, more than 415 pieces of plastic foam were reportedly

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Mackenzie Drazan stands in the Woodside barn where her family keeps their horses. She rides competitively on a national level, as did her sister.

ENVIRONMENT

acking peanuts may soon be shipping out of Palo Alto.

The same goes for cups, plates, egg cartons, ice chests and other foodware made of expanded plastic foam, best known as Styrofoam.

As part of the city’s ongoing war against the squeaky substance, the City Council is preparing to consider an expansion of the city’s existing ordinance, which was adopted in 2010 and covers Styrofoam containers at local food service establishments. If the new rule goes in effect, Palo Alto would prohibit the sale and distribution of foam peanuts and blocks, as well as

mother said.

The Drazans said they hope talking publicly about what happened to Shelby will ease some of the stigma attached to mental illness.

“A lot of people are struggling,” Stacy Drazan said, “a lot of people especially in this area. We’ve got to help get rid of the stigma so that people can seek help, and earlier.”

“Seeking help earlier will also help so many people not to get to a critical place.”

The brain, she said, “really is just another organ in the body. It doesn’t help to tell someone to be happy. It’s like if you told someone to pick up a 100-pound weight with a broken arm. They couldn’t do it.”

Teaching young people more about mental health is important, she said.

“Some of it is developmental,” she said. “Understanding that it’s not something wrong with you but a part of your development like other parts of your body — I think that gives you a stronger place to work from.”

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n the months after Mackenzie Drazan lost her younger sister, Shelby, to suicide last year, the 20-year-old Woodside resident and Duke University sophomore learned a lot of things she wished she had known while her sister was still alive.

“When I was trying to help my sister,” she said, it was “a very steep learning curve.”

Shelby Drazan was 17 when she died in October 2014. Shelby had been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety and was struggling with an eating disorder, her sister said.

“It’s hard to know even where to start,” Mackenzie said. “It’s hard to know how to be a sister, how to be a friend” to someone with a mental illness.

She decided a website would help her share what she’s learned in the past year. The website, Teaching Everyone About Mental Health, or TEAM (teachingeveryoneaboutmentalhealth.com), is designed for the families and friends of those with mental illness.

“Hopefully we can lower the learning curve for everybody else,” she said.

Mackenzie gathered information on the Internet and tried to make it easily accessible, so “everybody can get the information they need in a very concise manner that’s super user-friendly and not complicated,” she said. She wants the information-packed site to be “easy to understand, no big words, very much just as if I was having a conversation with someone.”

The TEAM website, for example, lists “what are the right questions to ask” and what treatments are available for specific illnesses.

One section has first-person stories from those who have struggled with everything from depres-

of school, Shelby returned to Sacred Heart Prep and made up her missed academic work.

“She was making a slow progress to coming back to herself,” Stacy Drazan said.

“She was still very active,” Mackenzie Drazan said. “If you saw her out in public, unless you knew her really well, you’d have no idea. But (she was) still hurting, so, so much.”

That summer Shelby attempted suicide, her mother said. Shelby then spent a month in a residential program in southern California, and once again, “We seemed to have the real Shelby back.” Shelby was on medication and seeing a therapist but was also back at school, horseback riding competitively on a national level and applying to universities.

And then, just a day after seeing a therapist who noted she was doing well, and after a morning chat with her visiting grandparents about celebrating Christmas, “We lost her,” Stacy Drazan said.

“We only realized she was struggling a year before that,” her

found at the two creeks. Another 945 pieces were recovered from the two creeks in September, during the Coastal Cleanup day.

“These pieces are notoriously problematic to collect as they continuously break into smaller pieces with age and can float or blow away,” the Public Works report states. “These plastic pieces can be mistaken for food by wildlife, impair water quality of chemicals that leach from plastic, and contribute to broader concerns of plastic pollution loading in San Francisco Bay and beyond.”

Today, Styrofoam coolers and food containers are available

at six pharmacies, two grocery stores, two mail stores and one hardware store, according to city staff. If the new ordinance is adopted, enforcement would be based on complaints and periodic compliance checks.

So far, the new restriction has been sailing through the city approval process with no opposition.

The city’s two community meetings on the topic — targeting local businesses and the plasticindustry representatives, respectively — netted no participation from either segment, according to Public Works. Managers from Hassett Ace Hardware, Kinkos FedEx office, Mollie Stones, Safeway, The UPS Store and Walgreens have responded to the city to indicate that the expanded ordinance would “not result in any undue hardship on their business,” according to the Public Works report. Other stores, including

Country Sun, Peninsula Hardware, Sigona’s Farmer’s Market and Whole Foods, already comply with the proposed restrictions and the few public letters that the city received on the subject were in support of the new restriction.

William Rosenberg, a resident of Bruce Drive, called the restrictions “an important step in eliminating these items from our waste stream.”

“Since there are already viable, commercially available, alternatives which are much friendlier to our environment, this should be enacted (and enforced) immediately.”

If the council concurs, Palo Alto will join other cities and counties with similar prohibitions on the books. The list includes Los Altos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and the City and County of Santa Cruz, according to Public Works staff. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Community Health Education Programs

News Digest Bicyclist killed was a Silicon Valley executive For a complete list of classes, lectures and support groups, or to register, visit pamf.org/healtheducation.

All our lectures and events are free and open to the public.

November and December 2015 Healthy Aging Strategies for the Middle Aged Nov. 10, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

How can you prepare for a successful and healthy aging journey?

Join us to learn how to use the current best medical evidence to make the right health care decisions for you.

Palo Alto Center ∙ 650-853-4873 795 El Camino Real, Jamplis Building, 3rd Floor, Palo Alto

Sleep and Your Child Nov. 17, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

PAMF pediatrician Manisha Panchal, M.D., will discuss how to prevent and resolve sleep issues by establishing a consistent bedtime routine and helping your baby to learn to self-soothe.

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Feeding Your Young Child Nov. 21, 9 to 11 a.m.

Learn how to provide the structure and support your child (ages 1-5) needs to become a happy, healthy eater for life. Based on the work of Ellyn Satter, an internationally-known therapist, dietitian and author.

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Aging and the Reproductive Cycle Dec. 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

PAMF reproductive endocrinologists Alexis Kim, M.D., and Mary Abusief, M.D., will explain fertility check-ups and discuss treatment options that can help facilitate conception and a successful pregnancy.

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Learn how to provide the structure and support your child (ages 1-5) needs to become a happy, healthy eater for life. Based on the work of Ellyn Satter, an internationally-known therapist, dietitian and author.

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Jeffrey Donnelly, the bicyclist who was fatally struck by a car on Page Mill Road Tuesday morning, was the chief operating officer of Silicon Valley company Zeta Instruments in San Jose, company CEO Rusmin Kudinar has confirmed.

Kudinar said he had been a colleague and friend of Donnelly for 20 years at various companies.

“He was a good man, a good friend. Everybody at work loved him.

It was a shock to all of us. He was a very well-rounded, very bright person,” Kudinar said.

Donnelly had a wife and three children, he said.

Donnelly, 52, of Palo Alto, was riding his bicycle west on Page Mill near the intersection with Christopher Lane in Los Altos Hills at around 6:50 a.m. when he was hit by a black 2014 Volkswagen Golf.

The driver, a 19-year-old Palo Alto man, was also traveling west.

Donnelly had come from Old Page Mill Road, California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Art Montiel said.

The driver remained at the scene. His name has been released by the CHP, but given that he is not a public figure, the Palo Alto Weekly will not publish his name unless criminal charges or a civil suit are filed.

Tuesday’s incident is still under investigation, Montiel said. Q — Sue Dremann

Fire forces Palo Alto family from home A fire at a one-story home in Palo Alto Wednesday night displaced a family, but no one was injured in the incident, according to firefighters.

Crews from the Palo Alto and Mountain View fire departments responded to a single-family home burning in the 500 block of Maybell Avenue at 9:52 p.m.

Firefighters arrived on scene at 9:56 p.m. and had the fire under control by 10:24 p.m. The American Red Cross assisted the displaced family.

The fire remains under investigation, and information about the cause of the incident was not immediately available. Q — Bay City News Service

Case against Joe Lonsdale dropped A civil case filed earlier this year against Joe Lonsdale, founder of Palo Alto software company Palantir, by a former girlfriend and Stanford University student who accused him of sexual assault and abuse has been dismissed, as has a counterclaim Lonsdale filed in response, according to court documents filed Monday.

A joint stipulation to voluntarily dismiss both Elise Clougherty’s lawsuit and Lonsdale’s counterclaim was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Nov. 2.

Clougherty’s lawsuit, filed Jan. 27, alleged that, during a year-long romantic relationship with Lonsdale that began in February 2012 when Clougherty was an undergraduate, Lonsdale “continuously and systemically subjected Ms. Clougherty to repeated and incessant sexual assaults and abuse,” the lawsuit states.

The two had met through Stanford’s High Technology Entrepreneurship program, for which Lonsdale was serving as a mentor. Lonsdale is also a Stanford alumnus.

Lonsdale quickly denied all claims. The day after Clougherty filed her lawsuit, a website emerged in which Lonsdale described Clougherty as “disturbed” and “vengeful” and indicated his intent to file a defamation lawsuit, which came the next month.

Stanford has also reversed the outcome of a February 2013 investigation that found Lonsdale had violated the university’s Title IX policy. An outside investigator concluded at the time that Lonsdale had “engaged in conduct meeting the definitions of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct under Stanford’s Title IX policy, and that it was ‘more likely than not that (Ms. Clougherty) expressed to (Mr. Lonsdale) that she did not want to engage in the sexual conduct in question but that (Mr. Lonsdale) did not comply with (her) request,’” according to the lawsuit.

“As a result of new evidence that came to light during litigation between Mr. Lonsdale and Ms. Clougherty,” university spokeswoman Lisa Lapin wrote in an email on Monday, “the investigator in a Stanford University Title IX matter involving both parties has determined that Mr. Lonsdale did not violate Stanford’s Title IX policy.”

Stanford has lifted a 10-year minimum campus ban imposed on Lonsdale as a result of the 2013 Title IX investigation, Lapin said.

However, because Lonsdale and Clougherty did not disclose their relationship to Stanford per the university’s Consensual Relationships policy, Lonsdale has agreed that he will not challenge a temporary mentoring and teaching suspension that the university imposed on him, Lapin said. Q — Elena Kadvany

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More research is needed. One organization the Drazans have supported is Carmel-based AIM for Mental Health, which raises money for the International Mental Health Research Organization.

Mackenzie said all of the work she has done on the website and in learning about mental health issues has inspired her to change her major from political science to an openended major through which she can chart her own course of study. She plans to focus on subjects such as psychology, communication, technology and social media. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I want to do,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is be the bridgeâ&#x20AC;? between research on mental health and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the real worldâ&#x20AC;? by figuring out how to

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per square foot in a building.

The changes could be necessary to keep Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown from becoming a one-company town dominated by one or two very large businesses that might then pull out when they grow too large for the spaces, DuBois said.

The council as a whole Monday expressed deep concern about the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to provide adequate housing for anyone but the wealthy, a sentiment repeated over and over by the more than two dozen residents who spoke before the council. Councilman Cory Wolbach urged the council to focus on â&#x20AC;&#x153;slowing down office development while we get our housing up to speed.â&#x20AC;?

Residents, ranging from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teachers and psychologists to seniors, parents of developmentally disabled adult children and a prominent attorney, implored the council to do something about the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to create diversified and affordable housing, turning Palo Alto from â&#x20AC;&#x153;paradiseâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;paradise lost,â&#x20AC;? as residents said.

The city has been an enabler of many jobs, but it has pushed af-

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Jill Dinneen, a longtime kindergarten teacher from Juana Briones Elementary School, told the board that as a member of a committee that recommended the extendedday program, the value of that model was to break down classes into smaller groups which then alternate staying for the extra hours. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small groups are the way to get to students who need it the most,â&#x20AC;? Dinneen said.

She also said she knew of two kindergarten teachers who left the district after full-day kindergarten was implemented at their site â&#x20AC;&#x153;because that program was too daunting to handle once they were on their own.â&#x20AC;? Extra aides provided as support were pulled

Help is available

Any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal can call 800784-2433 to speak with a crisis counselor. People in Santa Clara County can also call 855-278-4204 at any time.

Q American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is at afsp.org.

Q The California Youth Crisis Line is at 800-843-5200 and youthcrisisline.org Q EMQ Families First Services has a mobile crisis team who can assess youth at their home or school site throughout Santa Clara County: 877-41-CRISIS (877-412-7474).

Q HEARD Alliance, a local consortium to address teen behavioral health issues, has many useful resources at HEARDAlliance.org Q Palo Alto school district Mental Health Resources List is at pausd.org/ sites/default/files/pdf-faqs/attachments/MentalHealthResourceList.pdf Q Trevor Project Lifeline specializes in crisis help for LGBTQQ youth: 866-488-7386 Q

get that information to the public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With one in four people struggling with a mental health condition, almost everyone knows someone dealing with the issue,â&#x20AC;?

Mackenzie said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody wants to talk about it; everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

just a little scared to talk about it.â&#x20AC;?

She hopes TEAM will make those conversations easier. Q Staff Writer Barbara Wood of the Almanac, the Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister paper, can be emailed at bwood@almanacnews.com.

fordable housing onto other communities for too long, resident Edie Keating said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to live in an ethical and moral city. Please favor housing over offices,â&#x20AC;? she added.

A number of Citizens Advisory Committee members, who spoke outside of their advisory roles, also urged the council to direct them to consider limiting office space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Land use is not just about housing,â&#x20AC;? Co-chair Arthur Keller said, calling for attention to be paid to the impact of expected population growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can build two-story schools but not two-story playing fields,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In the end, the council approved unanimously to: A. Direct staff to update the Land Use and Community Design Elementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing vision statement with minor staff-initiated revisions for council review.

B. Use the existing goals and organization with minor updates to include incorporation of climate protection, climate adaptation and sea level rise, two Concept Area plans (California Avenue and East Meadow), the Palo Alto Municipal Airport, the Baylands Master Plan, and mixed-use development guidelines.

C. Evaluate modern use defini-

tions for commercial zoning districts. Suggest approaches that the council can use to specify what types and scale commercial operations, development, manufacturing, etc., are suitable for downtown or California Avenue.

D. Direct staff and CAC to evaluate policies and programs that control the occupant density of existing commercial uses.

E. Request staff to provide the CAC comparative impacts of restaurants versus other retail on traffic and parking.

F. Direct the CAC to develop language providing for coordinated area plans to become a more frequently used city planning tool.

G. Direct staff and the CAC to explore policies and programs to support more housing for seniors, particularly units in walkable communities that allow easy access to services.

H. Develop policies and programs that provide greater incentives for mixed-use retail and small residential units with particular emphasis on University and California avenues.

I. Direct staff and CAC to maintain and strengthen existing language supporting housing supplies for diverse populations and families. Q

out of their classrooms after the first year, she said.

Emberling added that any conversation around full-day kindergarten must involve teachers. Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo Alto Educatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association and a kindergarten teacher, asked the board why teachers were not asked for any input on the list of budget proposals they discussed Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would think you would want all of the stakeholdersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; information before you push recommendations,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teachers are the ones in the classrooms. They really know what programs are needed.â&#x20AC;?

Dauber requested that when staff returns to the board with more final budget proposals, they provide information about the trade-offs of implementing fullday kindergarten versus other alternatives, such as increasing the

districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preschool services.

Caswell also requested data from the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing fullday kindergarten programs.

Other proposals discussed Tuesday included more staffing to expand the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Advanced Authentic Research program, which is in its pilot year; classsize reductions, particularly at the high schools; world-language instruction at elementary schools; new computer science curriculum to start at the middle-school level; and anticipated costs from a special-education program review currently underway in the district.

McGee said staff will return to the board in February with a prioritized, shorter list of budget proposals. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Nov. 2)

Compost: The council referred to the Finance Committee for further refinements for a proposal to expand compost and recycling requirements. Yes: Unanimous Comprehensive Plan: The council directed the Citizens Advisory Committee to consider “pacing mechanisms” for commercial development, including a possible annual limit on new non-residential development. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Scharff, Wolbach No: DuBois, Schmid Absent: Kniss

Board of Education (Nov. 3)

Budget: The board held a special budget study session to discuss preliminary program proposals and other funding commitments for the 2015-16 year and beyond. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (Nov. 3)

Pensions: The committee received a report from actuary John Bartel about the city’s pension obligations and considered options for addressing the city’s unfunded liability. Action: None

Utilities Advisory Commission (Nov. 5)

Metering: The commission recommended design guidelines for the city’s Net Energy Metering Successor Program.

Yes: Ballantine, Cook, Danaher, Eglash, Foster, Schwartz Absent: Hall

Architectural Review Board (Nov. 6)

Stanford Shopping Center: The board approved a series of sign change for Stanford Shopping Center. Yes: Furth, Gooyer, Kin, Lew No: Baltay

Online This Week

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

Council: Plan for mandatory composting by businesses needs refinement Palo Alto’s goal to prevent nearly all waste from going to landfills by 2021 cannot be achieved unless commercial customers are compelled to take part in the city’s recycling and composting services, city staff told the Palo Alto City Council on Monday.

(Posted Nov. 5, 9:55 a.m.)

First flu-associated death in state reported California Department of Public Health officials reported yesterday that the first influenza-associated death this year in an individual less than 65 years old was a Santa Clara County resident.

(Posted Nov. 5, 9:44 a.m.)

Palo Alto set to restrict two-story homes at Los Arboles For residents of the Los Arboles, the squat and glass-doored Eichler isn’t just the architectural norm — it’s a symbol of the neighborhood’s identity. On Nov. 9, they will appeal to the Palo Alto City Council to help them preserve the distinct Eichler character of the neighborhood by two-story homes. (Posted Nov. 4, 12:38 p.m.)

Gunn High School to host wellness event Dr. Shashank Joshi of Stanford University will be the guest speaker at an event at Gunn High School regarding the school’s student wellness program, Sources of Strength. (Posted Nov. 4, 9:29 a.m.)

VIDEO: On this week’s Behind the Headlines New school proposed: Palo Alto parent Joe Lee, chair of a district subcommittee, talks about a new preliminary recommendation to open a new, innovative middle and high school at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto on this week’s half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines.” (Posted Oct. 30, 6:15 p.m.)

Man arrested for three home burglaries Police on Oct. 27 arrested a man suspected of burglarizing three homes in Palo Alto, according to police department press release.

(Posted Oct. 30, 8:24 a.m.)

Twelve sent to hospitals due to suspicious odor Twelve people exposed to a suspicious chemical odor at a hotel in Palo Alto were hospitalized Thursday night. (Posted Oct. 30, 8:10 a.m.)

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area. Reflecting the change in thinking, the project that was formerly known as the Matadero Creek Trail is now referred to as the Midtown Connector.

Over the past two months, staff has discussed the change with the specially appointed Citizen Advisory Committee that was tasked with evaluating this project and with the city’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee (PABAC), a panel that reviews all bike-related endeavors.

Sarah Syed, the city’s senior transportation planner, highlighted the new challenges in her September report to the Citizen Advisory Committee. The effort by the water district to improve flood control, she said, includes construction of seasonal fixtures to block access to the maintenance road — for use during rainy periods from October to April — at Middlefield, Louis and Greer Roads.

The creek trail, she noted, “was not a priority for either agency during the planning process for the flood-control project, when trail infrastructure might have been designed in harmony with the project.”

Another point of concern are access ramps that would need to be installed along the creek

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The proposed Matadero Creek Trail in Palo Alto has run into opposition, and city staff is recommending it be significantly revised. for maintenance vehicles. The locations along the creek, with preliminary concepts for these the ramps splitting off at the low ramps indicate that the trail points and leading to the channel.

The 5 percent grades at these would rise and fall steeply at four

locations, she wrote, “are not comfortable for many people who walk and bicycle.”

“Due to existing block lengths, trail users would experience few flat segments of trail,” Syed wrote. “Other area trails that ramp up and down typically do so to provide benefits to users, such as grade-separated crossings of intersections. Coupled with at-grade crossings of intersections, the ramp configuration required for maintenance access would likely discourage many potential trail users.”

These constraints were enough to convince both advisory committees, each of whom went along with staff’s recommendation to halt the feasibility study and pursue other options. Robert Neff, who serves on both PABAC and the citizen committee, said the Midtown project faced significant opposition from the getgo from some members of the citizen group. Opponents cited privacy and security concerns, as well as inadequate safety at street crossings. There was an air, he said, that “these are really bad problems and we just shouldn’t do this.”

Yet it was the flood-control work and its impacts on the trail that posed the greater problem from the city’s perspective, he said. It quickly became apparent that the project would be far more expensive than the projected $2

million price tag. Furthermore, it became clear that even if the trail were built, concerns about flooding would keep it from being a year-round route. According to Syed’s report, the water district stipulated that if Palo Alto were to pursue the trail on the levees, the city would have to take “full responsibility to close trail to public and install access closure structures in advance of significant rain event and to remove them following a significant rain event.”

“There were all these changes that were made to the channel where the places you thought were accessible were not easily accessible year-round without leaving the city liable for flooding in the neighborhoods if they did it wrong,” Neff said.

Now, new alternatives to the Matadero Creek Trail include bike amenities along Loma Verde Avenue, Colorado Avenue or East Meadow Drive.

One consequence of abandoning the Matadero Creek project is that the city may have to return the $1.5 million to Santa Clara County for reallocation to other projects. According to a new report from planning staff, the city would coordinate with the county to advance other local bikeway projects to compete for funding. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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At the same time, the city is looking ahead to repairing the damaged boardwalk that rolls out from the building and overlooks the salt marsh. A recent analysis by the firm Biggs Cardosa determined that the boardwalk is in “serious condition,” with several portions in need of urgent replacement or repair. While the sections of the boardwalk closest to and furthest from the center are in fairly decent shape, the firm found,

the central portion was deemed to be badly damaged. Several elements in this portion have “failed,” the firm determined, with several posts having broken off.

Staff has already done some basic repairs to the first overlook point, which has been closed off to the public since spring 2014.

Last week, the 200 feet of the boardwalk nearest to the building was reopened to the public, said Darren Anderson, manager in the Community Services Department.

In the months ahead, staff, the Parks and Recreation Commission and, ultimately, the City Council will determine whether

the boardwalk should be repaired, rehabilitated or replaced. Staff from the Community Services Department expects to see a council decision early next year.

Work on the building, meanwhile, should begin sooner than that. During the Oct. 27 presentation, Parks and Recreation commissioners and consultants from FOG Studio agreed to keep any changes subtle.

“The building right now fits well in with the Baylands, and I think that was the direction — to keep a building that has that character,” said Brandon Marshall, also of FOG Studio.

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Even so, staff and FOG Studio are proposing some changes to the building. One is to reconfigure the bathroom, a project that will include a new “communal sink” to accommodate large groups of kids from a visiting class (according to the Community Services Department, the Interpretive Center and the adjacent Baylands serve about 129 classes and camps, 2,000 elementary students and 80,000 visitors annually). Another proposal is to add a transparent panel in the decking so that children and visitors of short stature will be able to see through the railing.

And the city is paying particularly close attention to the nesting swallows, whose droppings have been causing damage to the building’s wooden interior. City staff have been mapping out popular nesting areas. The plan is to seal off these areas with soffit boards to both accommodate the swallows’ preference and to limit the number of cavities in the building where swallows can establish their nests.

John Aiken, who oversees the interpretive exhibits at the Baylands center, said that in addition to increasing the city’s control over where the nest colonies are, staff is also considering opening up areas of the deckings so that droppings can drop through.

“That has the double benefit of allowing kids to see down in the marsh and look under the build-

ing and notice that you’re on the piers,” Aiken told the commission.

“It might be an interesting aspect.”

The commission had mostly praise for all the work done to date on fixing up the aged building. Commissioner Ed Lauing praised staff and consultants for a “terrific effort on all the stuff relative to swallows.”

“It’s a lot of meticulous work on everyone’s part to allow birds and people to live happily ever after,” Lauing said.

Commissioners Deirdre Crommie and Abby Knopper agreed, with Crommie calling it a “really important project.” At the same time, Crommie said she was concerned about the proposal to install a glass or plastic “vision panel,” noting that such features often get dirty pretty quickly and suggesting that the city instead consider viewing slots in the deck.

Shani Kleinhaus, environmental advocate for the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, also praised the project and thanked the city for its efforts to keep the nesting swallows in the building. She recommended that any glass or plexiglass in the building be bird-friendly.

This, she said, means adding subtle ceramic lines in the glass to help birds see the structure.

“I don’t think it’s a huge investment, but it’s important to have that,” Kleinhaus said. Q

Veterans

during World War II; in fact, they are barely noticed. During World War II, “the country went to war and everybody was expected to go to war,” Young said. “But 96 percent of American society is untouched and doesn’t pay attention to what’s going on (today).”

“Most people don’t know any-

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we had different expectations,” added Newman, who trained U.N. Partisan Forces for the Army in Korea.

The veterans said the country should learn from that successful policy. Veterans today are not returning heroes as they did

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November 2015 The next regular meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for former Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field will be held on:

Thursday, November 12, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at: Mountain View Senior Center Social Hall 266 Escuela Avenue Mountain View, CA 94040-1813 The RAB reviews and comments on plans and activities about the ongoing environmental studies and restoration activities underway at Moffett Field. Regular RAB meetings are open to the public and the Navy encourages your involvement. To review documents on Moffett Field environmental restoration projects, please visit the information repository located at the Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View, CA 94041, (650) 903-6337.

For more information, contact Mr. Scott Anderson, Navy Base Realignment and Closure Environmental Coordinator at (610) 524-5808 or scott.d.anderson@navy.mil.

Visit the Navy’s website: http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/former_nas_moffett_field.html

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one in the service,” Newman said.

But the effects of war still mount for veterans of the Balkans wars and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for their families.

Although there are a number of GI Bills today, they aren’t commensurate with World War II benefits, which is unfair, the men said.

“They get shot the same as we did,” Graham said.

Young hopes the unsung heroes of wars will be remembered on Veterans Day — the Cold Warriors and the doctors, many of whom live at Channing House, who continued to serve away from the battlefield and after the wars in Nuremberg and Japan and at military hospitals throughout the world.

“It takes more than soldiers; it takes families and the industry that supports the soldiers,” he said.

On Veterans Day — Wednesday, Nov. 11 — at 10:15 a.m., Channing House will hold its annual ceremony for its veterans, with speakers reflecting on the Great War (World War I) and the history of Veterans Day. Graham will speak on “A touch of combat,” and there will be readings honoring the two WAVES, Wolfe and MacDonald.

Hamerslough will open and close the ceremony. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to consider a single-story overlay district for Los Arboles; discuss new direction for the Midtown Connector project; and consider expansion of Palo Alto’s plastic foam ordinance. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session for a conference with its labor negotiators to discuss negotiations with the SEIU; the police and fire unions; the Management, Professional and Confidential Employees group; and the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss the 2014-15 parcel tax fiscal report, a report on the Strong Schools Bond, proposals from the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee, the district’s first interim budget, a proposed gender-identity and access policy and change in procedures for the board’s policy review committee. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to provide direction to staff about expanding the city’s smoking ordinance; and to consider audits for the Solid Waste Management Program and for the city’s Cash Handling and Travels. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear a presentation on the program “Pay for Success,” review the Community Services and Facilities Element of the Comprehensive Plan; and recap the Homeless Veterans Summit and the Domestic Violence Forum. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Oct. 28-Nov. 3 Violence related Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse/financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

A weekly compendium of vital statistics Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 15 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 5 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunken driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal request . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Oct. 28-Nov. 3 Violence related Assault & battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

PALO ALTO PLANNING & TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** The Agenda with STAFF REPORT AND ATTACHMENTS can be viewed at the below webpage: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/boards/ptc/default.asp SPECIAL MEETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COUNCIL CHAMBERS November 18, 2015 6:00 PM 1. Selection of Chair and Vice-chair (to begin 1st meeting of January 2016) 2. Final review of Commissions Report to Council: Annual report to City Council of the Planning & Transportation Commissions accomplishments for 2015. Continued from October 28, 2015 Public Hearing 3. 1050 Page Mill Road (14PLN-00074): Request for Planning and Transportation Commission (PTC) Review of a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) Regarding a Request by 1050 Page Mill Road Property LLC for Architectural Review to Allow Demolition of Two ,_PZ[PUN :[Y\J[\YLZ ;V[HSPUN ZM HUK MVY *VUZ[Y\J[PVU VM -V\Y ;^V Z[VY` 6É&#x2030;JL Buildings Totaling 265,895 Square Feet of Floor Area with Below and At-grade Parking and Other Site Improvements. A Separate Hearing on Project Design was Held by the Architectural Review Board on July 30, 2015. Zoning District: Research Park (RP). Environmental Assessment: The Initial Study and Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) was published on July 24, 2015 for a 45 day public comment period that ended on September 8, 2015. For more information, contact Jodie Gerhardt at Jodie.gerhardt@cityofpaloalto.org.

Continued from October 28, 2015 4. Resolution to Adopt Palo Alto Complete Streets Policy: The Complete Streets Resolution and accompanying policy reiterate Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to multimodal transporta[PVU VW[PVUZ MVY P[Z YLZPKLU[Z HUK VÉ&#x2C6;LY Z[YH[LNPLZ [V HJOPL]L OLPNO[LULK WYPVYP[PaH[PVU VM PU[LNYH[LK Z[YLL[ KLZPNU ;OL WVSPJPLZ ILULĂ&#x201E;[ IV[O W\ISPJ OLHS[O HUK [OL X\HSP[` VM SPML MVY Palo Alto residents as well as the commuters moving throughout the City on a daily basis.

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5. Review and Recommendation for Proposed Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard Extension: The Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard Extension project is a recommended priority project in the Palo Alto Bicycle & Pedestrian Transportation Plan 2012. This project aims to extend the Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard from East Meadow Drive to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southern SPTP[Z ULHY :HU (U[VUPV 9VHK HUK 5P[H (]LU\L ;OPZ WYVQLJ[ PUJS\KLZ [YHÉ&#x2030;J JHSTPUN TLHsures, such as bulb outs, chicanes, and raised intersection treatments as well as roadway marking and signage improvements. For more information, contact Sarah Syed at sarah. syed@cityofpaloalto.org.

Questions. For any questions regarding the above items, please contact the Planning Department H[ ;OL Ă&#x201E;SLZ YLSH[PUN [V [OLZL P[LTZ HYL H]HPSHISL MVY PUZWLJ[PVU ^LLRKH`Z IL[^LLU the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This public meeting is televised live on Government Access Channel 26.

ADA. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.org. *** Hillary Gitelman, Director of Planning and Community Environment

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Residential burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drunken driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Graffiti abatement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of switchblade . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1

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VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

San Antonio Road and Highway 101, 10/29, 10:39 a.m.; domestic violence/ battery.

Bryant Street, 11/1, 9:28 p.m.; suicide adult attempt/misc.

Menlo Park

1100 block Elder Ave., 10/28, 12:37 p.m.; battery.

600 block San Mateo Drive, 10/30, 6:17 p.m.; arson.

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AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS November 9, 2015 6:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. United States Military Veterans Proclamation 2. Presentation of Award of Accreditation by the American Public Works Association (APWA) Consent Calendar 4. Approval of the Renewal of a Public-Private Partnership Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto Players and West Bay Opera for the Use of the Lucie Stern Community Theatre 5. Finance Committee Recommendation to Approve the Release of a Request for Proposal to Explore Options for the Delivery of the Aquatics Programs and Services for the City of Palo Alto Action Items 6. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Ordinance Establishing a Single Story Overlay District for 83 Homes Within the Los Arboles Tract by Amending the Zoning Map to Rezone the Area From R-1 Single Family Residential and R-1 (7,000) to R-1(S) and R-1(7,000)(S) Single Family Residential With Single Story Overlay. Environmental Assessment: Exempt From the California Environmental Quality Act per Section 15305 7. Discussion and Direction Regarding the Midtown Connector Project (Formerly Known as the Matadero Creek Trail Project) 8. Proposed Expansion of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plastic Foam Ordinance (Ordinance 5039) AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM November 10, 2015 5:00 PM

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Stanley Robert Smith

Laura King Moon

Stanley Robert Smith, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died on Oct. 17, surrounded by family. He was 85.

He was born on Feb. 22, 1930, in Bakersfield, California, to Albert and Thelma Smith. He was raised in Delano, California, and attended Delano High School, graduating in 1947. He then studied at University of California, Berkeley, where he completed both a Bachelor of Science in engineering (class of ’51) and a master’s degree in electrical engineering (class of ’55).

Before his graduate work, he served from 1952 to 1954 in the U.S. Army and later eight years in the Army Reserve. He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.

While studying for his master’s degree, he met his future wife, Lois, whom he married on Sept. 18, 1955. Together they moved to Palo Alto, where they raised their three sons. Stanley earned an MBA from Stanford University (class of ’57) before beginning a 30-year career at the Hewlett-Packard Co. Both he and Lois were fellows of the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, and Stanley served as a founding and active board member of the Palo Alto Cable Co-op. He also enjoyed camping and going to Stanford football games with his family.

In his retirement, he read widely and grew his extensive book collection; remodeled and built things for his house and garden; and traveled extensively with Lois throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America, as well as around the globe by cruise ship. In 2005, Stanley moved to the Vi at Palo Alto, where he participated in the Sand Hill Coffee Club and made many new friends.

He is survived by his wife, Lois Smith of Palo Alto; his three sons, Ronald (Janet) Smith of Saratoga; Richard (Sissela) Smith of Palo Alto, and Robert (Catherine) Smith of Saratoga; and two granddaughters, Kyra and Annika.

A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. at the Vi at Palo Alto, University Auditorium, 620 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the American Lung Association (lung.org) or the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (alzfdn.org).

Laura King Moon, a former Palo Alto resident, died on Oct. 27 surrounded by family, following a battle with cancer. She was 62.

She wa s born on Aug. 27, 1953, in Wiesbaden, Germany, to Mary Brownson Haight and David Burnett King. Her stepfather, Boyd J. Haight, also helped to raise her. She grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from Gunn High School in 1971. She then studied at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1975 and a master’s degree in energy and resources in 1977.

Following college, she served as a senior staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council from 1977 to 1994 and after held positions with the East Bay Municipal Water District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. During this period, she married her first husband, Alan Waltner, with whom she had a daughter, Margaret Rose Waltner, in 1986. She and Alan later divorced.

In 1998, Laura remarried Greg Moon, settling in Woodland, California. In the following years she worked in water management roles at the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority, State Water Contractors and the California Department

of Water Resources, culminating in her 2013 appointment as the department’s chief deputy director by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Laura’s pastimes included walking her dogs, rooting for the San Francisco Giants, hiking, sending cards and presents, and spending time with immediate and extended family. She was also an enthusiastic gardener, a talented chef, a bookworm and an animal lover.

She is survived by her husband, Greg Moon of Woodland; daughter, Meg Waltner of San Francisco; stepson, Brian Moon of Irvine, California; stepdaughter, Erica Moon of Fairfield, California; father, David King, and stepmother, Nita King, of Corvallis, Oregon; and her siblings, Bonnie King of Palo Alto, Thomas King of Oakland, Hannah King of Corvallis, Steve King of Portland, Charlotte Haight of San Francisco, Anne Piascik of Morristown, New Jersey, Ebony Haight of San Francisco, Michael Haight of Mountain View and Beckett Haight of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is also survived by her grandsons, John and Anthony Silva; several nieces and nephews; and her golden retrievers, Daisy and Maggie.

A memorial service will be held on Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, with a reception to follow.

Memorial donations can be made to the American Cancer Society (cancer.org).

COMMUNITY MEETING SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL FOR MONROE PARK Review and comment on Draft Walk and Roll Map and Route Improvements

Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Courtyard Marriott Ballroom 4320 El Camino Real, Los Altos The Palo Alto Safe Routes to School program is documenting suggested routes to school and identifying opportunities for engineering improvements and enforcement which, when combined with safety education and promotion activities, will encourage more families to choose alternatives to driving to school solo.

More info: Contact Sylvia Star-Lack at saferoutes@cityofpaloalto.org or (650) 329-2156

Mary Sheehan Walker Corrado October 21, 1927 – September 25, 2015 Mary Sheehan Walker Corrado a resident of Oakhurst, CA passed away on September 25, 2015 at the age of 87.

Mary was born in Boone, Iowa on October 21, 1927. She lived there growing up and in her adult years lived in the Bay Area, specifically Millbrae, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale.

She lived in Oakhurst, CA from 2005 until 2015.

Mary taught Home Economics in Palo Alto, CA schools from the mid 60s to the mid 80s, she was also a volunteer for a Crisis Pregnancy Center, Peer Counseling Leader, Bible Study Fellowship in the Bay Area.

A volunteer at the Bargain Box thrift store in Palo Alto, volunteer at the Sugar Pine thrift shop in Oakhurst, volunteer at Sierra Pines church, Ladies Bible study at Sierra Pines Church.

She was publicly honored and given the Dale Carnegie Human Relations Award, Teacher of the Year for Terman Jr. High School in Palo Alto.

Mary survived by; Daughter Linda Kelly (Leonard), Daughter Robin Duggan (Kevin) Daughter Marcy McCleary (Jim), a Son Dan Walker (Sally), Step Daughters Laura Tedder (Rob), Candy Landers (Rob), 9 Grand Children and 15 Great Grand Children, also Brother J. Robert Sheehan, Brother Joe Sheehan, and Sister Joanne Sandholm.

Celebration of Life will be held, Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. Sierra Pines Church 40855 Covey Ct. Oakhurst, Ca 93644 Interment will be at Golden Gate National Cemetery (Private) Remembrances to Sierra Pines Church P.O.Box 2383 Oakhurst, CA 93644 or Focus on the Family, 8605 Explorer Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.

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OBITUARY

Ruth Mason Lizak February 28, 1931 – Octotober 31, 2015 After a long period of declining health Ruth M. Lizak passed peacefully into the arms of the Lord the night of Saturday, Oct. 31. She was 84. Ruth was born in Norristown, PA, attended Lansdowne High, Drexel U. and Temple U., then moved to Palo Alto, CA in the mid-1950s to work at the Stanford Research Institute. In 1956 she married her Palo Alto neighbor, Edward John Lizak, a native of Buffalo, NY. After the births of their two children the young couple returned East and for a short time ran a small bakery in Clementon, NJ, but soon returned to the Bay Area for good.

Ruth was a resident of Palo Alto for over 50 years, a member of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church for over 50 years, and an employee of SRI for nearly 30 years. Her Christian faith was very important to her. She was active in the MP Pres. Missions program and member of the Chancel Choir for many years. At SRI she rose to the Director level. NASA Technology Application was her specialty, leading to memberships in the American Public Works Association and the Technology Transfer Association, and a close relationship with the Golden Gate Transit District, on which NASA-formulated anti-corrosive paint was tested on their famous bridge. The welfare of Native Americans on reservations was a major concern of hers, and she sponsored a boy in Arizona for many years.

Ruth is survived by her daughter, Pamela Lizak Littrell of Everett, WA, son Peter Edward Mason Lizak of San Jose, granddaughters Nicole Littrell Webster of Bothell, WA and Cambria Littrell Morgan of Snohomish, WA, grandson Joshua Paul Ramos Lizak, and great-granddaughters Reagan Webster and Kennedy Webster. Friends and family are cordially invited to attend the burial at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA on Monday, Nov. 9 at 11:30am. A reception will follow afterward.

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Editorial Holiday Fund kicks off

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on’t let the booming Silicon Valley technology-driven economy lull you into thinking that there isn’t a continuing divide, even in the affluent Palo Alto area, between those riding high and the many families living on the edge or in need of social services.

The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, now in its 22nd year, provides everyone in our community the opportunity to make a donation with the knowledge that it will combined with hundreds of others and disbursed to approximately 50 carefully vetted local agencies, mostly in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.

There are two important reasons why giving to the Holiday Fund uniquely leverages your donation: First, every dollar raised is given away (in the form of grants to nonprofits that apply for funding), and the Weekly and Silicon Valley Community Foundation underwrite all the expenses. So none of your money is spent on overhead or other administrative costs.

And second, thanks to the support of the Packard, Hewlett, Arrillaga, and Peery foundations and a Palo Alto family that wishes to remain anonymous, any donation you make is doubled in size. So if you give $100, the Holiday Fund is able to grant $200 to a worthwhile program serving children and families in our area.

Over the next eight weeks, we’ll be asking for your donations and publishing the names of those who contribute to help inspire others to give and be publicly thanked.

The list of organizations the Holiday Fund supported this last year are listed on page 4; they include groups in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto that are providing counseling, tutoring, mentoring, reading programs, environmental education, health services, child care, food, shelter, music, art and science curriculum, and much more.

Whether you give $25 or $25,000, it is a powerful statement when hundreds of local people unite around a common philanthropic objective, and combine their giving to raise $350,000 or more in one year to give back to the community.

Many donors make a Holiday Fund gift in memory of a loved one or to honor a friend. To donate, either go online to PaloAltoOnline. com/holiday_fund or use the coupon below. Along with the thousands of kids and families who ultimately benefit from your gift, we are grateful for your help. Q

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Tale of two cities Editor, What the dickens is going on?

Some folks keep pushing for higher density development saying housing is way too expensive.

While housing in this area is ridiculously expensive, increasing density alone is not the answer.

Just go online and compare rents in Manhattan, Kansas, to the rents in Manhattan, New York.

You will discover the rents in Kansas are way lower than those in New York. This is in spite of the fact that Manhattan, New York, may be the most densely populated area in the country.

Therefore instead of passing density-bonus laws to help billionaire developers build dinky apartments in arguably the hottest real estate market in the country, perhaps we should require developers to incorporate apartments into their office buildings that will house perhaps 30 percent of their workers.

Paul Machado Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto

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Editor, For many years, our school district struggled to deal with a problem, which we all recognized — the lack of a common online homework system to help students manage their workload in these very stressful times. I have personally lobbied the school board and district staff on this issue for more than 12 years and gotten nowhere. For over a decade, the administration ran scared of making this a priority in the teachers’ union contract. Just like with civil rights a century ago, the district offered a litany of ridiculous excuses for why a change was inappropriate, impractical, unimportant, too late or impossible.

Just like with civil rights, it took someone with courage to take a stand on this issue. That person is Dr. Denise Herrmann, principal of Gunn High School. Like Rosa Parks, Dr. Herrmann took an assertive stance, risked the security of her own position, dealt with the fallout and stood up for what was right. She simply asked teachers to use Schoology, even though it wasn’t in their contract and courteously but firmly withstood the discomfort of the union filing a grievance.

Today, thanks to Dr. Herrmann — and the equally courageous support of Superintendent McGee, Mr. Dauber and eventually the entire school board — the teachers’ union contract has been changed.

Today, every teacher is obligated to list homework, assessments and test and quiz dates online —

which is enormously simplifying for students. For her leadership in moving the first pebble in this landslide, and thus benefiting thousands of students every day, now and in the future, please join me in thanking Dr. Denise Herrmann.

Rajiv Bhateja La Cresta Drive, Los Altos Hills

Justice served?

Editor, The U.S. Department of Education seems to be making some progress towards persuading the Palo Alto school district to sign a resolution agreement — essentially a plea bargain — which would allow the agency’s Office of Civil Rights to close the books on its sexual harassment investigations.

Plea bargains are almost always good deals for prosecutors and other government agencies, since they allow the agency to notch a “win” while avoiding the expense of a thorough investigation (and, in criminal matters, the additional expense and risk of a trial). They are also usually good for the person or organization being investigated (and, in criminal cases, prosecuted) since legal expenses can now be capped and potentially crippling penalties avoided.

Whether justice and the public interest are also well-served by plea bargains is, however, a much more complicated question.

On the one hand, the savings to taxpayers can be considerable.

However, some of the country’s most respected judges and legal scholars have argued persuasively that with justice, as with so many other things, you tend to get what you pay for.

Seth Knoepler Redwood Road, Felton

A step, but not a solution Editor, I read in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of the Palo Alto Weekly that Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and City Councilmen Greg Scharff and Cory Wolbach are “recommending that the city’s planning staff and Planning and Transportation Commission launch a revision of the city’s laws on granny units” to provide more affordable housing for its ever increasing population (“Palo Alto to consider encouraging more granny units” by Gennady Sheyner).

The article brought out that “local rents have soared to new heights.” Why is that? Because more and more people come to Palo Alto to live — the law of supply and demand. As demand goes down, so will the cost of housing.

Granny units may help for the time being, but will it solve the problem long term? Their rent will go up, too. Maybe it is time to view this issue from another standpoint. The culprit is not too little affordable housing, but too many people — worldwide. It seems to me, life would be a lot less stressful and more joyous, for all, if more people thought seriously how the contribution of another child into the world affects the health and well-being of our planet. There is a need for people, everywhere, to expand their concept of “conservation” and include how many children couples choose to have.

Jackie Leonard-Dimmick Walnut Avenue, Atherton

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Guest Opinion

A scofflaw? Not I — just a good neighbor

by Megan McCaslin

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have always admired the way Palo Altans care about their community and engage with the political process when they have concerns.

Lately, however, I am seeing the dark side of citizen involvement. If I had to give it a name, I would call it the Tyranny of the Neighborhood Email List.

I have had my hand slapped several times by the moderator of our neighborhood group, ostensibly for posting items that are “commercial” in nature. I understand this is against the rules of the email list, but I guess I don’t understand the point of rules at all. Why do I need a gatekeeper protecting me from what he believes is objectionable content? I’m too old for this. Let me decide what has merit.

I am not a scofflaw; I am someone with good intentions who enjoys sharing ideas and resources with others. I am a good neighbor: I am friendly with all my neighbors and know them by name; I offer help to the elderly ones and pull in the trashcans and newspapers of those who are away. I let neighbors know when I am having a party; I share the fruit, veggies and roses from my bountiful garden; I’ve invited their children to swim in my pool or watch TV until a

parent comes home. I loan my car, a cup of flour, eggs, tools, garage space. I invite them for drinks and help track down their wandering dogs.

I am not a troublemaker.

But, boy do I feel like one. I feel about 10 years old, constantly reprimanded and told what I can and cannot do. The first time he scolded me for supporting the efforts of a neighbor’s son to provide recycled water to homeowners’ gardens.

Too commercial, the moderator barked.

I was flummoxed. We have a drought; an entrepreneurial guy has come up with a business to save our landscaping. Yes, he would be charging for it. But isn’t this something we’d want to know about?

If not, there is always the delete button. Boom. Offensive missive gone.

Adults exercising free choice.

How is this post different from a teenager looking for work mowing lawns or dog sitting? No one in his right mind would discourage that kind of enterprising effort. The rules of my particular group email list seem so arbitrary. I would like to advocate for no rules at all.

Recently, I posted a notice inviting neighbors to an informational meeting for anyone who has considered becoming an Airbnb host. I have gotten so many questions over my five years as a host that I thought it was time to simply do the neighborly thing — bring everyone together for a Q & A. The timing coincided with an effort by Airbnb to challenge local hosts to find new hosts in the area.

I thought I’d put it all together in a

single meeting. Kind of a Silicon Valley version of a Tupperware party, with wine and appetizers replacing Yuban and Sara Lee. About 25 people came, mostly from Stanford. More would have attended if my notice hadn’t been stripped from my neighborhood list. According to the moderator, I am “tone deaf” to the rules and therefore he is now obligated to screen anything I write. Ouch.

For the many homeowners here who find themselves with big houses or unused bedrooms, children gone, and bills to pay, renting a room is a fun, exciting and lucrative option. All of the handwringing and horror stories thrown out as deterrents are news to me. My neighbors aren’t bothered (yes, I have told them what I’m doing); I haven’t had any serial killers; my guests aren’t shooting up on the street or hoarding valuable parking spaces. In fact, given where we live, my guests have been a predictably erudite, inspiring group of people.

Most of whom, by the way, walk or take public transportation to Stanford, SRI, Google, Facebook and various start-ups as well as established local companies and law firms. I’ve had post docs, PhD candidates, doctors, VCs, and Stanford students, alums and parents. They’ve come from every country in Western Europe, as well as China, Sri Lanka, India and Japan. For me, it’s been an inspiring glimpse into the myriad professions and passions of our global community.

Doesn’t this seem like something worth publicizing? Instead of immediately deleting the post and not respecting our abil-

ity to make up our own minds?

My Airbnb posting is only one of any number of forbidden emails that could go out from neighbors. An artist selling her jewelry at home; a Christmas market; notice about a political fundraiser. These would be no-no’s, and yet, I would venture, of interest to many. What about all those couches and end tables people are constantly selling? As one of my friends said, “I’d much rather hear about recycled water than another darn couch.”

I personally don’t care about the best place for Chinese takeout, or who is the most reliable termite company (not commercial? Hmm). However, I respect the senders’ right to post and don’t resent them for filling my inbox with what to me is irrelevant. Others find it useful and that’s the point. My point is, why isn’t there room for all comers?

Perhaps there should be two lists: one for people who want to know everything and one for those who don’t.

I realize that having strangers in your home is not for everyone. I get that people may not want to pay for recycled water.

But I don’t understand the officious, kneejerk reaction to quash anything that has a commercial element or is potentially income-generating. We have a right to be exposed to everything, and the wherewithal to ignore what doesn’t resonate for us.

As I say, the delete button is a powerful tool at everyone’s disposal. Q Megan McCaslin is a former reporter and video producer and currently works at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Streetwise

How do you give back during the holiday season?

Asked outside the Mitchell Park Library & Community Center. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.

Irene McNee

Frank Ingle

Melissa Kelley

Katie Naylor

Tom Crystal

Portola Avenue, Palo Alto Instructional aide

Richardson Court, Palo Alto Engineer

Camellia Court, East Palo Alto School counselor

Nilda Avenue, Mountain View Retired

Mumford Place, Palo Alto Retired

“I would say the primary thing we give back is clothing, toys ... some food donations.”

“Taking care of aging friends. ... We have a number in their 80s and 90s. ...

We make a point of having them for dinner ... cheering them up during the holidays.”

“We’re part of Congregation Beth Am. Through that, we often do holiday food boxes with Ecumenical Hunger (Program). ... It’s a family tradition.”

“I really enjoy donating to organizations. We like to go to the food bank. ... I think we’re volunteering for Thanksgiving to work at a soup kitchen.”

“I donate blood. ... For me it’s the closest I get to religion. You donate four pints a year (and) you get a free T-shirt.”

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by Elena Kadvany | photos by Jeff Sheng rowing up in a conservative, religious Southern California suburb in the 1990s, Jeff Sheng didn’t feel he could be openly gay.

In particular, he grappled with his identity as an athlete. Sheng played tennis from an early age.

In high school, the tennis court became both a site for release and a source of conflict.

“I believed that being openly gay and being a competitive athlete were incompatible with each other,” he writes in “Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes,” his combination memoir-photography series of openly gay high school and college athletes.

Now a well-known photographer working toward his doctorate in sociology at Stanford University, Sheng has shot over the last 13 years what he describes as a “visual ethnography.” “Fearless” features more than 200 portraits of student-athletes from around the country who did what Sheng was not able to do as a high school tennis player: go public about their sexual orientation. The photographer will give a talk about his project at Stanford’s Arrillaga Family Sports Center on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Stanford Athletic Department; Stanford OpenXChange; the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Stanford Men’s Project.

Despite being nearly 300 pages long and representing athletes from a wide range of schools, sports and regions of the country, “Fearless” is a deeply personal book. It begins with the story of Sheng’s own past — being raised by immigrant parents from Taiwan, being closeted in high school, struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts and eventually coming to grips with his own identity.

“When I was growing up in high school in the 1990s, it was definitely super taboo to be openly gay or lesbian,” Sheng told the Weekly during a recent interview.

“There were two people in my

whole high school of 2,400 who were out. ... There was a lot of homophobia, especially in sports.”

One of those two people was a senior on the tennis team when Sheng was a freshman. Before the season started that year, the senior was nominated to be the team’s co-captain. But for some reason, he decided not to play that year.

Sheng writes that he remembers some of the younger team members “saying that they were glad, since they didn’t want a gay guy on the team with them.

“One of them even joked how ‘he probably had AIDS anyway,’ and it was a relief he wasn’t with us.”

Sheng was also voted co-captain before his senior year, but quit the team as he started to confront his sexual orientation for the first time.

“One of the hardest parts about discovering a gay sexual orientation as a young person is realizing that you can’t say anything about it,” he writes in the book. “It creates this incredible disconnect with reality and emotion, and you quickly learn to hide any discern-

ible give-away to whom you find attractive. Unfortunately, this coping strategy makes you less human, and the toll that this takes is sometimes irreversible.”

After quitting tennis, Sheng picked up photography, immersing himself in his new passion.

“Fearless” includes prints of his early photographs — pedestrians waiting in front of palm trees and cars at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, pages of black-and-white negatives, early self-portraits he took as an undergraduate at Harvard University.

Sheng thought that college, 3,000 miles away from home, would be the place where he would finally feel comfortable coming out and being himself. Yet it took him until the end of his freshman year to do so. First, he had to work through deeply “internalized homophobia,” he said. Photography helped him through it, giving him the “voice and the courage to deal with my sexuality,” he writes. “It also probably saved my life as it helped me deal with all the emotions of finally coming out.”

Sheng went on to major in film-

As part of his “Fearless” project, Sheng shot this portrait of Josh, a Stanford University gymnast, in 2014.

In this self-portrait, shot in 2015, Sheng wears his high school tennis team uniform from 1996 and poses on the tennis court that he played on growing up. making and photography, and he had his first relationship with a man: Mike Crosby, at the time a closeted member of the Harvard water polo team.

“Fearless” documents their relationship the summer between freshman and sophomore years in 1999, with Sheng’s words accompanied by his photos of Crosby — at a beach in Malibu, on a

In 2013, Sheng shot this portrait of Elyse, a soccer player at Swarthmore College.

road trip to Las Vegas, kissing on a hike in San Francisco, sitting in a hotel room with two beds because the young men were nervous about what the receptionist would think if they asked for one.

Years later, after the two broke up, Crosby came out as gay on the cover of “Genre,” a magazine for (continued on next page)

During his undergraduate years at Harvard, Sheng dated Mike Crosby, the water polo team captain. Crosby, who was closeted at the time, came out nationally in 2002 on the cover of Genre, a magazine for gay men.

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gay men. The captain of the varsity water polo team at the time, Crosby was photographed at the pool in his Speedo, leaning on a water polo ball, gazing straight into the lens.

Something about this image and what it stood for struck Sheng.

He had always had an inclination toward social activism, he said, but this shot solidified his desire to use photography to document openly gay athletes as a means of effecting social change.

In 2003, Sheng set out to photograph any “out” student-athletes he could find. He found subjects through mutual friends and by sending out email blasts. If he had to travel, he would take a Greyhound bus and stay the weekend wherever the student lived, sleeping on their couch or floor.

Then as now, Sheng asked his subjects to wear comfortable clothing that represented their sport, and he always shot them at their school or in their community. Soon after beginning the project, unsatisfied with how the portraits were turning out, he began asking his subjects to work out — run a lap or take a few shots on the basketball court — or to meet them after a game so he could capture them in a more natural environment.

Among the photographs taken shortly after Sheng made this shift is one of Aaron, a Brown University squash player. Wearing a white polo shirt with beads of sweat dripping down his face, nose and chin, Aaron takes up a two-page spread in “Fearless.”

The book’s pages are filled with portraits of soccer players, basketball players, swimmers, tennis players, cross-country runners, cyclists, gymnasts, divers, lacrosse players and water polo players (including Crosby).

Some are standing or sitting; others, Sheng captured in movement.

Many are holding something representative of their sport — a basketball, a tennis racket, a football helmet. All look directly into the camera, giving a sense of profound intimacy.

“I try to take a photograph where you look into them in some way, where there’s an authentic part about them showing through the image,” Sheng said.

Sheng worked to make “Fearless” inclusive in terms of the broader LGBT community by including transgender athletes, and also racially, by including students of color. In the early years of the project, almost no athletes of color volunteered to participate.

“Class and privilege also intersect with sports and visibility in different ways,” Sheng writes in the book.

So he sought out more and more athletes. University LGBT centers started asking him to exhibit the photos and invited him to visit their campuses. The project snowballed. In the first three years of working on “Fearless,” Sheng shot

only 17 athletes. Between 2006 and 2007, he photographed almost twice as many, he writes.

Sheng’s photos have now been been seen at more than 70 different venues, including the headquarters of Nike and ESPN, as well as select locations at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. The visibility also led to his next project, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” for which he photographed closeted military service members. For his Stanford dissertation, he’s following up with some of these subjects, interviewing and re-photographing them in order to document the inclusion of LGBT identities in the military.

In “Fearless,” several athletes’ portraits are paired with their own personal essays about struggling with their sexual orientation and how they came out to their team members and families. The book’s epilogue is written by Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player.

Interwoven throughout “Fearless” is a timeline of significant moments in history for the LGBT sports community. The timeline offers readers context and perspective on how far things have come in the past century, but also serves as a reminder that most changes have occurred only in recent history.

The first date is in the 1920s, when Bill Tilden gained fame as a U.S. tennis champion only to be shunned years later when it was revealed that he was gay. The 1990s, when Sheng was growing up, include NBA star “Magic” Johnson’s public announcement that he had HIV; the death by suicide of openly gay former professional soccer player Justin Fashanu; the coming out of former MLB player Billy Bean and the creation of Outsports.com: a website dedicated to sports news and information for gay sports fans and athletes.

As Sheng began his “Fearless” project in 2003, the NCAA began “sexual orientation issues in sports” training, available to member schools at no cost. Four years later, in 2007, the nation saw the first ex-NBA player come out as gay.

The timeline runs through 2015, with the penultimate event being Caitlyn Jenner, formerly gold medal Olympian decathlete Bruce Jenner, coming out publicly as a transgender woman. The last event on the timeline? The publishing of “Fearless.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

What: Jeff Sheng discusses his new book, “Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes” Where: Kissick Auditorium, Arrillaga Family Sports Center, 641 Campus Drive, Stanford When: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

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The McMurtry Art and Art History Building will be the site of “Space Launch!,” a dance performance installation that takes place this Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8, at 3 p.m. Presented by the Chocolate Heads Movement Band under the direction of Aleta Hayes, a faculty member of Stanford’s Department of Theater & Performance Studies and its Dance Division, “Space Launch!” combines live choreography with vocal music and futuristic costumes in an immersive work that honors the architecture and spirit of the new building. No reservations are necessary to attend these free performances, which will begin at the McMurtry Courtyard, 355 Roth Way, Stanford. To learn more about the Chocolate Heads Movement Band, go to chocolate-heads.squarespace.com or email ahayes@stanford.edu.

Books ‘Rad American Women’ A is for Angela Davis, B is for Billie Jean King and C is for Carol Burnett in the 2015 New York Times best-seller for children and middle-grade readers, “Rad American Women A-Z.” The book’s author and illustrator will hold a discussion at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, this Saturday, Nov. 7, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $5-$10. Go to goo.gl/ HLQH9B or call 650-223-8649.

Art ‘Exposed’ For the month of November, Palo Alto’s Pacific Art League at 668 Ramona St. highlights the work of photographers in the main gallery show, “Exposed.”

And this Friday, Nov. 6, 5:30-8 p.m., the exhibition kicks off with a free First Friday reception featuring food and drinks, a performance installation by Lessa Bouchard and new works by Redwood City students.

Go to pacificartleague.org or call 650-321-3891.

Dance ‘(R)evolution’ What goes around comes around, so they say, and with “(R)evolution,” San Francisco’s celebrated Theatre Flamenco returns to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. This time, they bring with them flamenco legend Carmen Ledesma from Sevilla, Spain, among other artists. “(R)evolution” goes live on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25-$45.

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Theater ‘The Odyssey’ It ain’t your average high school play. Tonight, Friday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m., Palo Alto High School opens an evocative, minimalist new production of a Homerian classic. “The Odyssey” plays at Paly’s new Haymarket Theatre, 50 Embarcadero Road, through Nov. 13. Tickets are $7-$10. Go to palytheatre.com or email palyboxoffice@gmail.com.

Comedy ‘Return of the Deadeye’ May the farce be with you: That’s the subtitle of “Return of the Deadeye,” Lamplighters’ spoof on the 1983 George Lucas film, “The Return of the Jedi.”

The comedy stage show comes to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., this Sunday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $64-$83. Go to goo.gl/dn2fnB or call 650-903-6000.

— Elizabeth Schwyzer Above: The Chocolate Heads Movement Band will perform “Space Launch,” a dance performance installation, at Stanford’s new McMurtry Building on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8.

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Among the highlights at Voya are the ceviches. Pictured here from left to right are the Ahuachile (prawns in lime juice with pico de gallo, avocado and cucumber), the Cabo (mahi mahi, lime juice, mango puree and habanero) and the Peruvian (red snapper cured in lime juice, pico de gallo and cucumber).

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he interior of 3-month-old Voya restaurant in Mountain View appears to meld the artistic whimsy of a Google Doodler, the attention of the most discerning interior designer and the sophistication of an elegant tea parlor.

Plates take Dali-esque abstract shapes. Water glasses are royal blue goblets. There are mirrors everywhere, handsome modernist paintings, chandeliers and

white tablecloths. The exceedingly comfortable, plush leather banquette and its kaleidoscope of colored pillows are nothing short of chic (not to mention

tempting for a post-meal siesta).

All of this cosmopolitan glitz is for a restaurant on Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Bayshore office-park land. Its neighbors are 7-Eleven and Starbucks; the Century 16 movie theater is across the street and the Googleplex just a few blocks away.

Voya took over a former Quiznoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fast-food chain in the same mini-mall as its older sibling, Cucina Venti. While the latter is Italian-centric and spacious, Voya covers much of Latin America with an emphasis on seafood. The restaurant is a tiny jewel box holding 30 seats inside, with tables and counter seats overlooking the equally small kitchen. A small front patio and larger rear patio facing Shoreline Boulevard almost double Voyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity.

When it comes to appetizers, Chef Armando Ramirezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu leans toward Mexico for excellent, smooth guacamole and brings together Japan, Holland and the southwestern states via kobe beef sliders with Gouda cheese and chipotle mayonnaise ($18.75 for three). The sliders burst with the expected meaty juice, but the beef itself had a strange, off-putting taste.

Among the highlights of the seafood offerings are the ceviches, which can be spread on plantain chips. The sweet â&#x20AC;&#x153;Caboâ&#x20AC;? ($16.75) with mahi mahi and mango is the leader of the category, closely followed by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ahuachile,â&#x20AC;? in which lime juice-soaked prawns and avocado get a nice zip from pico de gallo salsa. The octopus and calamari skillet â&#x20AC;&#x153;stewâ&#x20AC;? ($16.50) boasts a broth with enough saffron to fuel an entire paella restaurant in Valencia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll smell like saffron a day later, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing. Sadly, half the octopus tentacles and calamari rings were rubbery, showing inconsistent execution. The house-made garlic bread promised on the menu was a no-show.

Tacos range from superb grilled chicken with more of that delicious guacamole and pico de gallo to blackened mahi mahi overwhelmed by tartar sauce. In the middle of the taco spectrum is the cochinita pibil, a traditional Mexican slow-roasted pork dish from the YucatĂĄn Peninsula.

Voyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version lacked the smoky profile and fall-apart consistency (the result of ample steaming in a banana leaf) that the traditional YucatĂĄn recipe calls for. Still, it was perfectly fine braised pork with a habanero kick, orange segments and pickled onions.

For all the tacos, the corn tortillas could have been warmer.

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Voya brings Latin American cuisine and cosmopolitan flair to Mountain View’s North Bayshore officepark land. tacos can be ordered as “trios,” which provide an array of flavors.

For entrees, spring first for the boneless Peruvian-style chicken ($18.95). I was told it was roasted, but clearly it was grilled

and just a shade too dry. The accompanying thick habanero sauce and salsa verde were the perfect remedy. A whole grilled branzino over saffron rice is the primary fish option.

The steakhouse set gets a nod

to Argentina with a chimichurri sauce for grilled hangar steak.

For vegetarians, the chile relleno ($16.75) is a solid choice. Rather than the requisite poblano chile being encased in a fried batter, it is coated in a tomato-oregano

sauce and stuffed with rice, corn, arugula and not quite enough mozzarella, invoking a decent risotto filling.

It’s easy to pass on desserts: ricotta beignets or a tiny, indifferent chocolate cake with a molten center that tasted of brownie mix. Voya also offers breakfast and weekend brunch with more traditional American morning dishes, homemade pastries and Illy espresso drinks.

Service is efficient and helpful, though not too attentive. More than once I sat several minutes with an empty water goblet. The wine list is simply unacceptable for a restaurant as good and ambitious as Voya. There is one red wine bottle under $50. There are five red blends listed, with none under $50 by the glass or $200 per bottle. Not everyone wants Opus One with dinner. And the big-name, generic California and Italy labels the restaurant has could use a strategy lift from K&L Wine Merchants or Calave Wine Bar in Palo Alto.

White and red sangria are the wise drink choices.

During my only lunchtime visit, the restaurant was entirely empty. Dinner brings more energy, but the crowds will be tough to lure with little-to-no foot traffic on Shoreline Boulevard. With all the companies in the surrounding area, catering and restaurant buy-outs — when

a client rents an entire restaurant for an event — are a big part of Cucina Venti’s business. That’s part of why Voya was created: so that regular customers always had an open option. Yet Voya itself advertises private dining services prominently on its website, resulting in mixed signals.

Voya is promising, and I can imagine how much fun this gorgeous space could be when everything clicks. Yet for each star like the ceviches and saffron broth, there are still too many miscues and head-scratchers, both online and on the plate. Q Freelance writer Trevor Felch can be emailed at trevorfelch@ yahoo.com.

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Casting the vote Mulligan, Carter, Streep play ‘Suffragette’ 000 (Guild) iconic Pankhurst — deliberately cast in the personage of iconic actress Meryl Streep — briefly appears as the story’s endangered patron-saint-in-hiding, most of the characters here are historicalfictional composites.

True believers Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter), Violet Miller (Anne-Marie Duff), and Emily Davison (Natalie Press) role model for slow-burning Maud, whose sympathies gradually turn into convictions. It’s an overly familiar approach to the narrative of urban political action: Take a naive neophyte and make him or her aware and active. Though one might wish for a less programmatic, more rigorously factual treatment, this is a narrative film after all, not a documentary.

Morgan resists either demonizing or letting off the hook the men in the picture, most notably Maud’s husband, Sonny (Ben Whishaw) and the Javert-esque Inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson), but they’re clearly the supporting characters to the front-line females. Standing in for the typical working-class woman, Maud suffers sweatshop conditions,

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Leading U.K. suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst once rallied her “foot soldiers” with the line, “I would rather be a rebel than a slave,” forever distinguishing the aggressive suffragette from the passive-resistant suffragist.

The suffragette’s activism to earn women the vote tired of politesse: Pankhurst launched a campaign of civil disobedience that ranged from breaking windows and chaining oneself to railings to destroying mailboxes and committing arson. Sarah Gavron’s film, “Suffragette,” at last gives this historical moment a major cinematic treatment, and so earns automatic points for existing.

And the film’s not half-bad, either. The script hails from Abi Morgan, arguably the most indemand screenwriter in England (she penned “The Iron Lady,” “Shame” and “The Invisible Woman”). When “Suffragette” opens in 1912, London has begun to weather the activists’ angry resistance. We see it all through the eyes of fictional Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a Glass House Laundry worker who learns she should throw stones. Though the

In “Suffragette,” Carey Mulligan plays London laundry worker Maud Watts who finds herself inspired by the cause of the suffragettes. workplace harassment (which rises to sexual assault), surveillance, arrest and torture, learning along the way to harden against tears as she shows great personal courage at great personal cost.

Gavron’s period recreations

— rendered in drab low contrast — impress, and Mulligan proves again (after this year’s “Far from the Madding Crowd”) that she’s grown out of ingénue roles and into a subtler phase of her career.

“Suffragette” revives a chapter of

history we could all stand to know better.

Rated PG-13 for some intense violence, thematic elements, brief strong language and partial nudity. One hour, 46 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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During the “Big Game” of 1982, Cal announcer Joe Starkey of KGO radio made history with his manic commentating of the final seconds of play, including the phrase, “The band is out on the field!”

Play by ‘Play’ New doc revisits 1982’s Stanford-Cal ‘Big Game’ 000 (Aquarius, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.)

Ever since “The Big Game” of 1982, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley football players, coaches, alums and fans — not to mention sports fans worldwide — have regarded the last four seconds of play with awe and a certain degree of puzzlement and/or self-righteous certitude. The final play of the game has gone down in sports lore as both a dazzling demonstration of strategy and skill on the part of the Cal Golden

Bears and a jaw-dropping, chaotic experience that, perhaps poorly resolved by officials, remains open to sports bar arguments. Peter Vogt’s documentary, “The Play,” revisits those four seconds and the history around them.

Vogt teases “the play,” then backs up to contextualize the longstanding rivalry between the Bears and the Stanford Cardinal football team that enshrined the annual “Big Game” as an annual

moment of, at best, semi-friendly rivalry. In parsing the 1982 event, Vogt makes good use of all of the available game-play footage and conducts plenty of new interviews with, among others, Cal coach Joe Kapp and Stanford coach Paul Wiggin, Stanford quarterback John Elway (later yet more famous as the Denver Broncos’ QB), Cal announcer Joe Starkey of KGO radio and Stanford band trombone player Gary Tyrell, who has lost track of how many interviews he’s given about being knocked flat in the end zone during the play.

Starkey’s manic calling of the play remains synonymous with the fame of the play itself. In particular, the phrase, “The band is out on the field!,” obvious though it may be, has entered the pantheon of great sportscasting moments. Tyrell was one of those errant musicians to take the field before the game had ended, complicating a play already destined to be controversial for its handling by officials (one of whom also goes on record for Vogt). Given the prominence of the band in the story, Vogt also gives a history of the raucous and at-times polarizing group.

As the interviews here make clear (especially the pained ones from the 1982 Stanford team), “the play” remains living history in contention, with the teams regularly changing the score listed on the ceremonial trophy passed back and forth between the two schools. One

case argues, pointing to video evidence, that play should have ended before a series of laterals and the end-run got the ball into the end zone, while others can confidently stand behind the official ruling that the play was good. In any case, “the play” — since commemorated in merch aplenty, a Super Bowl ad, countless sports-TV retrospectives, and its own Wikipedia page — still makes great drama.

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JCC opens its doors for Community Tuesdays Michelle Rosengaus, adult program manager of the Oshman Family JCC, and coordinator of “Community Tuesdays” introduces author Alan Fleishman (off camera) on Nov. 3.

Members, nonmembers will find authors, doctors, historians and more on the agenda

by Chris Kenrick photo by Veronica Weber

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The JCC throws open its doors to the broader community with its Community Tuesdays series that features exercise classes, a weekly lecture and even a once-a-month

musical performance combined with lunch. Participants can pay at the door and do not have to be a JCC member.

“It’s open to anyone with time during the day,” said Michelle Rosengaus, the JCC’s adult program manager. “It can be newly retired people, caregivers, people in transition between jobs, parents whose kids are in school — and we do get a lot of seniors.”

Lecturers in the coming month

include Stanford University geriatrician Mehrdad Ayati on graceful aging, theater educator Bonnie Weiss on Gene Kelly and businessman-turned-author Alan Fleishman on Jewish forgiveness in post-Nazi Germany.

Tangonero, a San Franciscobased ensemble dedicated to preserving the tradition of Argentine tango, will perform arrangements covering a broad scope of tango history on Nov. 17.

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Rosengaus, a transportation consultant and 30-year resident of Palo Alto, switched careers to join the JCC’s staff eight years ago, when the agency was still located at Cubberley Community Center.

Working at that time in an office trailer, she was asked to create older-adult programming for the soon-to-be-opened new campus.

“We started using our imaginations to see what we could create in this space while it was being built,” she recalled.

“We held focus groups with different groups of seniors — older seniors, baby boomers, males, couples, women. Men were very open in saying they didn’t have enough social activities, ways of interacting with each other.

They’re not like women who form committees and are very involved.

“So they came up with the idea of forming a men’s breakfast club, and they’ve been a huge success. It’s open to everyone and it’s free and they meet in our cafe every Tuesday morning from 8-9:30,” she said.

Rosengaus developed the Community Tuesday program as a way to encourage older adults to stay and socialize on the JCC campus after a class. Drop-in prices at the door are $15 for lectures and $20 for concerts, for both members and nonmembers. Punch cards, which are good for 10 activities, cost $115 for nonmembers and $95 for JCC members.

“The idea of Community Tuesdays is to have people stay around,” said JCC volunteer Hilda Korner, who runs a free weekly Mah Jongg group on Tuesday afternoons. “They don’t just walk in (continued on page 30)

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Nov. 19 Book Club: “The Martian”

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Nov. 13 Presentation: “Oral Health Concerns of Older Adults” plus oral health screenings 10 am to 12:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-2895400 for more info. Free.

Nov. 23 16mm Film Screening: “Two Tickets to Broadway” 2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.

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for an hour and then leave the site.

It’s a way of keeping community for more than just one event.”

In addition to the weekly lectures and monthly concerts, Rosengaus runs regular bus outings for adults 65-plus to art or nature venues of interest, including the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the elephant seals at Ano Nuevo. In September, a bus group visited “Disney and Dali: Architects of the Imagination” at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. In November, seniors can invite family members along for the bus trip to the traditional Irish music and dance show Riverdance in San Jose.

Rosengaus is constantly scouting for program ideas, typically securing tickets far in advance. She already has summer 2016 tickets for the San Francisco Opera performance of Leos Janacek’s “Jenufa.”

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Items for Senior Focus may be emailed to Palo Alto Weekly Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick at ckenrick@paweekly.com. certs, she makes an effort to feature Bay Area groups, sometimes including her own daughter, mezzo soprano Deborah Rosengaus.

The Tuesday lecturers in the past have featured speakers such as Computer History Museum board chair Len Shustek, art historian Brigid Barton and Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen.

“People come and enjoy the lectures, but also people from the community ask me if they can lecture and share their expertise,” Rosengaus said.

“We have a lot of retired people who are on their second career.

Maybe they’ve started writing books, and when their novels are printed they come and talk. A retired lawyer will give a series on famous trials.

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or years, J. kept a folder of items to

Photographs by Veronica Weber

remind himself that he existed.

Inside it was a place card from a forfor mal dinner he attended, name tags,

“Anne,” a 9-year-old transgender girl who transitioned at her Palo Alto school last year, holds her self-portrait.

handwritten letters from a friend, a pink envelope with his name on it, a note from a teacher, a birthday card from his parents. The name on these items is not the one he was given at birth, but one he chose as a teenager to align with his gender identity.

J., who requested that the Weekly only use his first initial to protect his privacy, is a transgender man who transitioned from female to male as a student at Gunn High School. He told the Weekly that he often felt marginalized in a world so defined by binary notions of gender — that people are born either male or female without a recognition of any fluidity between the two. The contents of this folder affirmed to him that existing beyond the binary is valid.

“You’re living in a society where it’s formatted for you to not exist in it — the language is structured, the bathrooms are structured, the way people interact are structured, the clothing is structured, the kids’ toys are structured, the shampoo is structured,” he said.

J., now a college student, is one of many transgender youth in Palo Alto grappling with both their internal identities and their place in a world that is still playing catch up to changing societal norms around gender.

The Palo Alto school district is likewise scrambling to prepare for the growing number of students of all ages coming out as transgender or gender non-conforming.

For years, district parents of transgender students have been advocating for better support for their children, more comprehensive policies, more teacher training and more community education around LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning) issues.

Their efforts appear to be resulting in a slow-but-visible evolution throughout the district this year.

After more than two years of fits and starts, a new, comprehensive gender-identity policy will come before the school board for discussion next Tuesday. The policy takes a more intentional, inclusive approach to ensuring that transgender

and gender non-conforming students’ rights are protected.

Just two weeks ago, new “all-gender” signs were installed outside newly designated single-stall, gender-neutral restrooms at Palo Alto High School and Terman and Jane Lathrop Stanford middle schools. (The signs are also on their way to Gunn High and Jordan Middle School, and a conversation about the elementary school bathroom signage is forthcoming, district staff has said.) This is a change that J. and other Palo Alto students and parents of transgender youth have pushed for for years, as bathrooms are a nexus of discomfort and often peer harassment for transgender students.

The school district’s primary online student-records system, Infinite Campus, as of this fall has new options for preferred name and preferred gender. Before these additions, the district relied on an ad-hoc approach to accommodate students who wanted to change their names or genders on school records, meaning a student’s given name might appear in another system, be used by a substitute teacher who is unaware of the preferred name, or a new name could be written on letters sent home to parents who might either not know about their child’s identity or not accept it. For transgender people, being called the name given to them at birth — sometimes referred to as their “dead” name — can be a source of enormous anxiety, transgender students in Palo Alto and mental health professionals say.

Students at both high schools’ Gay Straight Alliance groups recently decided to change their groups’ names to be more inclusive of all gender identities and issues — Gunn to the Gender and Sexuality Alliance and Paly to the Queer Straight Alliance. Gunn’s student government also voted this fall to make homecoming court more inclusive, breaking with decades of tradition by removing the typical awards of “king” and “queen.” Even Gunn yearbook polls like “best smile” that are typically awarded to one female and one male student will this year instead simply go to the top vote-getters.

Two school district librarians, one who has a transgender family member, are working to raise awareness and facilitate communication around transgender issues. Terman Middle School librarian Kristen Lee and Juana Briones Elementary School librarian Julie Griffin together created what they say is the nation’s first open-source library guide dedicated to

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LGBTQQ-specific books, videos and other resources for elementary and middle school students, parents and teachers.

Many of the books are also available in libraries as “honor” books, meaning students can take them home anonymously, without officially checking them out and leaving a record of their name. The district is also working with Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks to create an educational play that all elementary students will soon see, in which a theater director struggles with traditional gender norms when assigning roles in a play.

Yet, Palo Alto families and transgender students say there is still a long way to go. Transgender and gender non-conforming students in Palo Alto experience peer harassment at school, are frequently misidentified by teachers and other parents, face being accidentally “outed” by teachers to other students who might not know that they are transgender, are forced to participate in many gender-based activities in schools (which can be as simple as a teacher separating a class by boys and girls, or lines entering a school dance that are broken down by gender) and, until the recent creation of gender-neutral bathrooms, had to forego something as basic as using the school bathroom to avoid potentially outing themselves or fielding questions from peers or even staff.

Brenda Carrillo, the school district’s director of student services and chair of a standing LGBTQQ committee made up of school staff, parents and community representatives, said the district is making progress in many areas — moving closer toward adopting a more comprehensive policy, opening true gender-neutral bathrooms, increasing staff training — but acknowledged the work is far from complete.

“There’s a lot of work to be done,” Carrillo said, “but we are fully committed and aware of what needs to happen and are making every effort that we can to be forward-thinking about this while knowing that there is uniqueness in each of these situations.”

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or many children, identification with a gender begins around age 2, according to the American Psychiatric Association (APA). They might begin to experience gender dysphoria, which the APA defines as “discomfort related to their bodies not matching their internal sense of gender.”

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On privacy, early intervention and medical advances Stanford Children’s Health to open a multidisciplinary clinic for transgender patients

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“S “Scott,” a transgender Palo Alto High School student whose name has been changed to protect his privacy, holds a self-portrait he drew. The Weekly asked several transgender students in this story to create self-portraits in whatever medium they liked.

That term, gender dysphoria, replaced “gender identity disorder” only recently, in 2013, in the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States.

In making the shift, the APA recognized that terms can “impact how people see themselves and how we see each other.”

When J. was young, a pink “It’s a girl” poster announcing his birth hung on a wall in his room. He remembers “despising” the poster, but not knowing why. When he was about 4 years old, he said he took a blue marker and drew all over the pink poster.

As he grew up, he continued to consistently express, in various ways, that he identified with the opposite gender. When he was 8, he remembers really wanting to wear swim trunks. He kept his hair short and liked being viewed as a boy.

He quit ballet because the instructor said he would have to grow his hair out and put it in a bun.

It wasn’t until middle school that J. first heard of a transgender person — a student who had graduated from the school years before, he said.

“My initial reaction was just jealousy because, in my head, all girls want to be boys,” J. said. “It didn’t dawn on me that most girls’ reactions to hearing about a trans guy is not ‘Sign me up.’”

Parallel to that, he started to realize that most girls actually liked being girls — that being female wasn’t an “inherently negative” part of their identity, as it was for him. In seventh grade, he said, he “put two and two together” that he was transgender, but — being in denial — he didn’t talk to anyone about it.

“I just didn’t feel like I could,” he said, “and I think I was still hoping it would go away. I think that saying it out loud made it real.”

A breaking point came in eighth grade during a unit in his English class on gender identity. He said he

brought up the existence of transgender people and the teacher told him that wasn’t an appropriate discussion to have in that class.

“I was angry about that and I started ranting to a friend of mine about it after class and I don’t remember what I said, but somehow in the process of that rant it just kind of came out,” he remembered.

He came out to another friend, and later his parents. By the end of eighth grade, he was presenting outwardly in a masculine way — wearing more masculine clothes and keeping his hair short, for example.

J. decided to socially transition his freshman year at Gunn, meaning he started to go by his first initial, “J.” He asked teachers and friends to use his preferred masculine pronouns.

J. described his own gender dysphoria as a “brain-body disconnect” so intense that “all of the societal judgment, the medical appointments ... all of that is better than being trans secretly.

“That is why people transition.

It’s not because they want to; it’s not because it’s a guy that likes to wear dresses. It’s because being who you are is worth it, because suppressing who you are is worse than all of that.”

He said the dysphoria was even worse than the social pressure to not present in his true gender.

“As hard as the social aspect was, potentially starting to panic every time I heard the echo of my voice or saw my reflection in a window was worse,” J. said.

The parents of a transgender high school student, “Scott,” whose name has been changed to protect his privacy and who transitioned from female to male at school this year, wanted him to wait to transition until he graduated from high school. But, he said, the dysphoria became unbearable. Before he transitioned, he would hide a pair of boys’ shorts in his backpack and change once he got to school. He slowly started asking friends to use male pronouns.

Years before, in middle school, Scott had told his parents, “I think I’m a boy.”

“It was the ‘I think’ that kind of left some open room for me to go back on it later when I was like, ‘I’m not quite sure,’” Scott said. “I wish I had said, ‘I am a boy.’ But I wasn’t quite ready to say that yet.”

It wasn’t until his sophomore year when he saw a YouTube video created by a transgender boy that he more fully identified as transgender.

Scott’s mother, “Susan” — who asked for a pseudonym so as to protect her son’s privacy — said she and her husband worried about him openly transitioning in high school.

They wanted him to instead wait until after graduation. He said he couldn’t wait.

“It was frustrating for me because at that point — the dysphoria was so bad that I just couldn’t anymore,” Scott said. “I couldn’t handle it.”

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ransitioning, a yearslong process that looks different for each transgender person, includes coming out to one’s family and friends, name and pronoun changes, dressing differently, hormone treatments and possibly surgeries.

Professionals say that for transgender and gender non-conforming students, a daily barrage of small encounters that emphasize a disconnect between society and their identities — an inappropriate question from another student in the bathroom, a substitute teacher who says a student’s given name without knowing that they go by another — can accumulate and have deep emotional and psychological impact.

“It is the difference between a child feeling relaxed, happy, confident and able to learn and the child who feels inhibited, self-conscious, socially anxious and unable to learn,” said Diane Ehrensaft, the director of mental health and

tealth” is a common term used to describe transgender people who have transitioned but choose to not publicly reveal their identity as a transgender person.

The term is going out of fashion due to the negative connotations of the word “stealth,” which implies deception, said Joel Baum, Gender Spectrum’s senior director of professional development and family services. He prefers the term “maintaining privacy,” which “on the other hand places the child’s experience on a very different plane. Most people understand that there are aspects of our lives that are public, and aspects that are private. There is dignity and a level of respect for the young person’s experience that is implied by the phrase ‘maintaining one’s privacy.’”

‘You can’t take back that information once it’s out.’

— Emily, parent of an elementary-age transgender daughter

“Scott,” a Palo Alto high school student who transitioned from female to male this year, said he wishes he had more fully identified as transgender at a younger age so he could have transitioned earlier, perhaps in middle school, and then gone “stealth” in high school. Scott plans to maintain his privacy in college, one of the reasons that his parents and others did not want their names used in this story.

“Once you’re out, you can’t go back,” said Emily, whose daughter, the first elementaryage student to openly transition in the district, is now at a new school, where she’s able to keep her identity private.

“I think it’s a testament to how even in a community like Palo Alto, which is very progressive and where you assume everyone would be supportive, there are still people who are not comfortable with transgender people,” Emily said. “You cannot know how they will treat your child. You can’t take back that information once it’s out.”

Rayden Marcum, a former Paly student who transitioned from female to male after transferring out of the high school,

has since spoken openly about being transgender on panels and at other events. He said he feels “compelled to be a voice in order to allow those who don’t want to or can’t to not have to.”

These parents and students have become familiar with this line between privacy and secrecy — what is private information, and what is kept a “secret” or not.

“The thing is, it’s not a secret that I’m trans,” Scott said, “but what’s private is when people at school ... will ask me, like, ‘What type of genitalia do you have? What surgeries have you had? Are you on testosterone?’

— questions that you wouldn’t ask a cis(gender) person (a nontransgender person), but apparently it’s OK to ask a trans person.

Today, medical interventions are making it more possible for transgender children to transition earlier, and then maintain their privacy if and when they choose to.

A younger child who has yet to enter puberty might be a candidate for puberty blockers, a set of medications that are prescribed by an endocrinologist to suppress or inhibit the production of sex hormones. Though still controversial, opting for puberty blockers can change the course of a child’s transition drastically. The treatment is fully reversible but can give “young people time to achieve greater self-awareness of their gender identification,” according to the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California, San Francisco, which for close to a decade has provided comprehensive medical and psychological care, as well as advocacy and legal support, to transgender and gender non-conforming youth and adolescents.

A transgender teenager, on the other hand, who has already gone through puberty might opt for cross-sex hormone treatment, which can induce the physical and psychological characteristics of the sex that matches the patient’s gender identity.

Patients must be evaluated by a mental health professional before receiving these treatments.

Doctors and mental health professionals look for clear signs that the child believes his or her gender does not match his or her gender at birth.

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New signs labeling single-stall bathrooms as “all gender” have been posted at Palo Alto High School.

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persistent and insistent sense of being the other gender and some degree of gender dysphoria are unique characteristics of transgender children,” reads an American Psychological Association report on transgender children.

Recognizing — and accepting — these markers earlier can also mean improved mental health outcomes for transgender youth, who are at high risk for depression, anxiety and suicide.

“People are noticing, also, that if these children get the treatment they need even from an earlier age and not wait so long, the depression and suicide and other comorbidities ... are improved,” said Tandy Aye, a Stanford School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist who began treating local transgender children and adolescents about six months ago. “Kids are happier.”

Studies show that LGBTQQ youth experience high rates of bullying, harassment and discrimination. “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, found that those who expressed a transgender identity or gender non-conformity while in grades K-12 reported “alarming” rates of harassment (78 percent), physical assault (35 percent) and sexual violence (12 percent). Fifteen percent of respondents, who were K-12 and higher education students, said the harassment was so severe that it almost caused them to leave a school.

An oft-referenced statistic within those working around transgender issues is that 41 percent of transgender people have attempted suicide, compared to 1.6 percent of the general population, according to the National

Center for Transgender Equality.

The center’s discrimination survey found that the highest rates of suicide attempts were reported among those in the 18-24 age group (45 percent) and 25-44 age group (also 45 percent).

Transitioning during puberty can also mean “less corrective surgery down the road,” Aye said.

Hormone treatments are expensive, and not always covered by insurance. Health professionals say the cost varies greatly depending on the treatment itself, method of delivery (puberty blockers can be given as monthly injections or more expensive surgical implants, for example) and even the institution providing the treatment. One local family pays $260 per month for puberty blockers; another, $3,500 a year. Both families’ insurance providers don’t cover the treatments. Other families said they pay close to $3,000 per month for a particular puberty blocker.

Emily paid out of pocket for her daughter’s puberty-blocker implant, which cost about $20,000 and lasted almost two years. Their insurance provider originally considered the treatment “experimental” and “unnecessary” and would not pay for it but now covers this care, Emily said.

“In 10 years’ time, my hope is that for a kid coming up in the next generation, being transgender will be accepted and supported: that not just specialists, but general doctors, will be educated, that insurance will cover trans care, that workplace protections will be in place,” Emily said. “But right now we’re still on the leading edge. It’s better than it was 10 years ago; it’s not as good as it will be in 10 years.”

At Stanford, in addition to providing medical services, Aye is also working with mental health providers and social workers to guide and advise families throughout their child’s

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transition. She said she saw an “increasing need” for such services and felt compelled to support local families.

Aye is currently seeing nine patients and receives several referrals per month. One family drove from as far away as six and a half hours because they couldn’t access the services they needed where they live; another lives as close as Palo Alto, Aye said. Her patients are as young as 4 1/2 years old and as old as 15 years.

“We’re assessing the need, but it seems like the need is there and growing,” Aye said.

Last month, Stanford also made a momentous announcement for local transgender families: Within the next year, Stanford Children’s Health will open a multidisciplinary clinic that would bring all of the subspecialties used by transgender children and adolescents — pediatric endocrinology, adolescent medicine, psychiatry, psychology, social work, OBGYN and urology — under one roof.

This increases access for both patients and their providers, who can then more easily collaborate with each other, Aye said.

This is similar to the model at UCSF, where until this year Stanford would typically refer families seeking such care. The new clinic will fill a void on the Peninsula for families seeking care for transgender children and adolescents.

Stanford Children’s Health plans to open the clinic somewhere in Santa Clara County in the next eight to 12 months.

Aye and Stanford child and adolescent psychiatrist David Hong are also in the midst of a pilot study that will follow both children with and without gender dysphoria for two to three years as they go through puberty.

The study aims to examine the physiological effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, an area Aye said has not been studied before in the United States. Q

founding member of UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center and a clinical psychologist who sees many patients from the Palo Alto area. “It’s really a dramatic difference depending on whether there are positive policies and practices in place.”

J. transitioned before not only major changes were made within the Palo Alto school district this year, but also the passage of AB1266, a landmark California law that ensures transgender students have access to facilities and activities, especially sports, based on their gender identity. The new law passed in 2013 and went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014, in the middle of J.’s senior year.

Before this year, Palo Alto schools took a mostly ad-hoc approach to complying with AB1266.

Gunn unlocked select single-stall staff restrooms for student use J.’s senior year. Before that, he was allowed to use the boy’s bathrooms but said he avoided them altogether or used them during class when he thought they would be minimally occupied. Other transgender students said they shared the strategy of using bathrooms that were less trafficked.

At Paly, staff typically gave transgender and gender non-conforming students keys to single-stall staff bathrooms. Some elementary-age students were given access to the nurse’s office bathroom. Both groups of students said they were reluctant to use those facilities because doing so would call attention to their status.

J. also struggled to get his name changed on school records before Infinite Campus allowed staff to enter “preferred name” and “preferred gender.” The mother of another transgender student said she decided to change her daughter’s name on her birth certificate because she knew the Infinite Campus change wouldn’t come soon enough for her child.

Many of J.’s teachers also struggled to consistently use the correct pronouns, he said. School teachers and staff are now required by law to use a student’s preferred name and pronouns.

One teacher just didn’t use pronouns in reference to him, J. said.

Another suggested in front of another student that J. should apply to Smith College, an all-girls school, he said. Other teachers tripped over pronoun usage and apologized in ways that made him feel even worse — with an “undertone of, ‘you are too complicated for me to understand your existence,’” he said.

He came up with an analogy: “It’s as if you stepped on someone’s foot. Rather than going, ‘Sorry,’ you went, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, you just stand at such a weird position; I didn’t think that your foot would be there. I just have trouble grasping the concept of feet.’”

J. said the best way to apologize for using the wrong pronouns is to simply correct one’s self, apologize

and move on.

J. and other students say they feel isolated and alienated by sex-separated activities as commonplace as pairing students off for an activity.

Transgender students and their parents in Palo Alto are also pushing their schools to move away from heteronormative activities, like separating a class by gender.

“When we told the administration, ‘We really don’t want you to break down by gender,’ their response was well, ‘you can pick whichever one you want.’ That wasn’t the point,” said “Mary,” the mother of a transgender elementary student in Palo Alto. “The point was it depends on the day; it depends on the hour. Sometimes she doesn’t feel like either one of them. Why are we forcing kids to do that?”

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t one Palo Alto elementary school, an outside organization needed to step in to ease a transgender student’s transition. “Anne,” whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, transitioned from male to female at her elementary school last year. This came after she grew her hair out, started wearing dresses to school and asked her parents to use the female pronouns at home.

Anne’s mother, “Julia,” whose name has also been changed, said their family lived a “double life” for several months: Anne, then 8 years old, was using the female pronouns at home and at outside-of-school activities, but was still known as a boy at school.

Once she felt ready to socially transition at school, Anne requested one condition: that Gender Spectrum, an Oakland organization that provides education and training around gender to schools and other institutions, come in to speak to her class and others at the school. She had grown tired of routinely fielding questions on the playground about her gender. Students she didn’t know would ask, “Are you a boy or a girl?” More questions and harassment came when she went to the bathroom, to the point where she didn’t use the restroom at school for four months.

Students also peppered her older brother with questions like, “Why is your brother wearing a dress?”

Julia said.

“It’s not so fun to explain (it) all the time to people,” Anne told the Weekly. “If someone asks you something over and over and over again nonstop and it’s different people but the same question, it really bugs me.”

But that fall, Gender Spectrum couldn’t come to the school right away, so Anne was still going by male pronouns at the start of the school year, while being recognized as female at home. Doing so caused a “crisis,” Julia said. Normally a happy child, Anne was angry, “like a different person,” and would break down every day after school.

Julia almost pulled Anne out of school to homeschool her. They instead decided on a stopgap: She would transition just in her classroom, going by female pronouns,

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Julie Griffin, librarian at Juana Briones Elementary School, holds up “Stella Brings the Family,” a book about a little girl and her two dads, as she stands by a LGBTQQ book display she created. until Gender Spectrum could come.

The next month, Joel Baum, Gender Spectrum’s senior director of professional development and family services, visited Anne’s school, leading a parent-education night and speaking to students. He read to classes “Be Who You Are,” a children’s picture book about a biological boy who identifies as a girl. He explained gender expression and identity in an age-appropriate way.

Anne remembers that in her class, he drew a line on the board with “boys” and “girls” at each end. Pointing to the line, he told the class, “all of these things are possible.”

Baum said in an interview with the Weekly that Gender Spectrum’s goal — whether by speaking to a class of elementary-age students, training teachers or leading a parent-education night — is to not only support transgender and gender non-conforming students but also expand people’s notions of gender and gender roles.

He often tells parents: “(If) you think we’re here to talk about some ‘other’ child, we’re talking about your child because your child is getting messages about what it means to be a boy or girl that are really damaging, too.”

“This isn’t about ‘other.’ This is about all of us,” he said.

Anne, now 9 years old, said she felt her transition at school went well.

“It felt like I was controlling who I wanted to be, like I wasn’t letting anyone force me to be who I didn’t want to be,” she said.

Julia said that harassment by other students completely stopped after Gender Spectrum came in.

She couldn’t have imagined how her daughter’s transition would have gone without the additional education and support.

“You can’t have a welcoming and supportive environment if the teachers haven’t been trained,” she said.

As a member of the district’s LGBTQQ committee Julia and other parents have been pushing for the district to implement training around gender issues in a more

systemic, intentional way.

For the past eight years, Adolescent Counseling Services’ LGBTQQ+ program, Outlet, has trained new teachers in the district in two-hour sessions offered once a year. Last year, Gender Spectrum came in for the first time to lead a second training, also about two hours long, district staff said. Outlet also provides workshops for Paly’s and Gunn’s Living Skills classes, and, as recently as two weeks ago, did a training with all school psychologists. Schools typically contact the organization throughout the year to provide other training and education for staff, or students, or on a consultation basis as needs or questions arise, according to Outlet Program Director Anthony Ross.

The district has said it also plans to train classified staff, like secretaries. Gender Spectrum will also be leading a training at Paly in January, at the district’s request.

Baum said there are more and more schools and organizations requesting trainings — so many so that Gender Spectrum is restructuring its services to meet the high demand.

J. himself led a staff training at Gunn his senior year. He explained different terminology, what it means to be transgender, what would make him feel more welcomed at school (from using the right pronouns and genderinclusive language to mentioning transgender figures in history or the news). One bullet point on his presentation read, “What you do as a teacher can make a world of difference in the life of a trans student.”

Since Anne’s transition, Julia said she has had to be intentional about choosing which teachers her daughter will have each year.

“I might be told that some teachers, because of religious or cultural background, aren’t as accepting of gender non-conforming children as other teachers, so the pool of available teachers to entrust my child to can be cut down considerably,” Julia said. “This is frustrating and not OK. But at the same time, I’m very grateful that the school is making

The younger sister of “Scott” created this portrait of her transgender brother, with the words “amazing,” “radiant,” “LGBT,” “funny,” “love” and “happy” written across it.

sure my kid isn’t going to be put with a teacher who can’t accept an 8 year old for who she is.”

Daisy Renazco, a Gunn teacher and the school’s longtime Gender and Sexuality Alliance adviser, said it often takes hearing a student’s personal experience to cause a shift in teachers’ understanding and practices.

“I think a lot of it has to do with awareness and understanding,” she

‘That is why people transition. It’s because being who you are is worth it.’

—J., transgender man and Gunn High School graduate said. “To an adult that isn’t connected to a trans student or (doesn’t) understand what that perspective is, it seems really new. ‘Why do I need to do this?’ It doesn’t make sense until you start to really hear the stories.”

“To shift hearts and minds takes time, in order to shift a culture,” she added.

Baum said beyond being required by California law to support transgender and gender nonconforming students, teachers have a “moral responsibility” to their students.

“What we’re talking about here, at the end of the day, is all kids deserve to be treated with kindness and respect,” he said. “As an educator, you do not get to decide which child is safe and which one isn’t.”

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apid and recent shifts in the biological, environmental and societal understanding of what shapes gender identity, particularly at a young age, mean that parents whose transgender children came out even just four years ago struggled to find adequate resources and informed psychological support in the area.

The first child psychologist that Julia and her husband saw, who they were referred to by their pediatrician, told them during their

first session that transgender children were so rare, she’d never come across one, Julia said.

They brought a photo of Anne, who was then presenting as a boy, and the psychologist told them that she could tell by Anne’s bone structure that she was, in fact, a boy.

The psychologist instructed Julia, a stay-at-home mother, to distance herself from Anne and become less feminine — to not wear dresses or jewelry or paint her nails — to “break the emotional bond” between them. The psychologist also said that Anne should only be allowed to play with boys.

“I was supposed to kind of retreat into the background and not pay much attention to her,” Julia said, while her husband was supposed to become “this amazingly interesting person doing all the fun things with my kids.”

“But I was supposed to ... give the impression that I found my daughter ‘not very interesting,’” she continued. “This psychologist in that one visit concluded that, since I was a stay-at-home mom, I’d ‘overbonded’ with my daughter and so she wanted to be female like me.”

Anne’s parents reluctantly followed the psychologist’s advice. It didn’t feel right, but she was the expert, Julia said.

At the time, Julia had no idea that a child so young could be aware of gender identity. Other information, resources or other parents going through the same thing were scarce.

Following the psychologist’s advice for several weeks turned out to be a disaster, Julia said.

The next psychologist was not much more helpful, despite having several transgender patients. After a year of sessions, when Anne still saw herself as a girl but had learned not to express it directly, the psychologist told Julia and her husband that “being transgender is a very lonely thing, (and) you want to try to avoid your child becoming transgender if possible.”

At that point, they had bought Anne a dress, which she wanted to wear all the time, Julia said. The psychologist told them to pretend the dress was in the wash, limit

how much she wore it and to not buy any more dresses.

“Emily,” whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, is the mother of a Palo Alto transgender student. She had a similar experience with a child psychologist who told her, “this happens to a lot of kids” and instructed her not to allow her daughter to wear dresses.

This now outdated approach didn’t work for either family, but they said they didn’t know where else to turn at the time.

“As health providers, we don’t have a good track record,” said Maria Porch, a Los Altos psychotherapist who treats transgender and gender non-conforming adolescents and adults. “We don’t have a positive history. It definitely has impacted how trans people seek care — or how they don’t seek care.”

Porch is a member of a growing — though still small — pool of local mental health professionals with experience and expertise in gender-identity issues. The pool is even smaller for parents seeking support for younger children rather than adolescents.

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arental attitudes play a critical role in the lives of transgender youth. Still at the forefront of new laws, school policies and societal acceptance, many parents become staunch advocates for their children, pushing schools to put in place the required accommodations and support. But not all parents are able or willing to do so, leaving some students to navigate the changing tides on their own. (For students in this position, having comprehensive policies in place like the one coming before the Palo Alto school board are of critical importance, parents say.)

Transgender youth under 18 who do not have their parents’ acceptance also cannot do things like legally change their name.

Parents also work through their own process of understanding their child’s identity.

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after transferring out of Paly, said his son’s transition eventually catalyzed a change in his own understanding of gender norms.

“I used to see gender as highly binary and not completely but very strongly correlated with sex,” he said. “It’s much clearer to me now that though many of us identify at one end of the spectrum only, or another only, there are those who identify in other parts of the spectrum ... and still others who are highly fluid, not just around the center but around a much broader area of that.”

But, this was a process for Alan, whose son, Rayden, came out to his parents in a concise note left on a whiteboard on the refrigerator before going out of town for the weekend. It read: “I’m transgender; please use male pronouns.”

Alan said he was not upset — nor totally surprised — about Rayden’s identity but about the way that he communicated it to his parents.

“If I had a magic wand, I would have Rayden sit down with us and explain it and let us ask a lot of questions — potentially even talk with us with someone else there who could help answer questions.

Because my questions were not meant to attack or disagree; they were meant to understand. That’s all I wanted to do, to understand.”

Mary, the parent of an elementary-age transgender girl, said her advice to other parents to is “trust their gut.”

“Although you hear different messages from people or people telling you, ‘She’s too young to make this decision’... it’s just letting her be who she is,” Mary said. “Parents who have a kid like this know that it’s who they are, and if you just let all the noise fall away and follow your gut, I feel like it leads you in the right way.”

Parents said they sought understanding of their children’s identities by reading anything they could

get their hands on — information that in the past wasn’t always reliable or readily accessible — and by calling health care and mental health professionals, legal experts, LGBTQQ advocacy organizations.

“When I first came to realize that I had a transgender kid, I didn’t know anyone who was transgender, much less any parents of transgender kids,” Emily said. “It was really isolating. Even having the support of wonderful staff and teachers, it can feel daunting. How do I know I’m doing the right thing? Will people love my kid? Will she find acceptance? Will she be safe? All those things that every parent worries about for their kid.”

There is now a strong parent support network in Palo Alto.

Earlier this year, Julia started a monthly play and support group for parents of young transgender children. (This was also a new development in the area; Julia said previously, the closest groups were in Oakland and Santa Cruz.

There is an existing support group for parents of transgender teens and young adults that used to meet in Palo Alto but now is in Sunnyvale. More information about local support groups is available at santaclaratransfamilysupport.net.)

There are now more than 40 families from throughout the Peninsula who attend the group Julia organizes. Many of the Palo Alto parents are now active members of the district’s LGBTQQ committee and have been deeply involved with the new policy coming before the school board next week.

Transgender students and their parents are hopeful that the signs of sea change throughout the Palo Alto district will continue. The most important might be the new gender-identity policy, which, if approved, they hope would help codify a new culture in Palo Alto.

Parents say there are pockets of empathetic, supportive, genderaffirmative teachers and administrators that they view as true allies for their children. And small shifts

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do continue to happen, like Emily’s daughter’s teacher switching from starting her class by saying, “alright, boys and girls,” to using terms like “scientists,” “artists,” or “authors,” depending on the subject they’re learning. Some Gunn teachers this year added a preferred pronouns sections on their beginning-of-the-year “get to know me” sheets.

As for J., he no longer relies on his folder full of items to remind himself that he exists. He recently almost saved a Starbucks cup with his name on it to put into the folder.

“I realized that it had hit a point in my life where I was me more often than pretending to be someone else, (and) that I didn’t need to do that anymore,” he said. He left the folder at home when he went to college this fall.

But until across-the-board, institutional culture change is accomplished, parents and students continue to advocate, so that they can live fully authentic lives, wherever they are.

“Everyone’s journey is different, and you can’t know, especially in the beginning, where the journey will lead,” Emily said. “My daughter has to be the one who figures out where her path leads. I see my role as helping clear the boulders and sharp sticks out of the way so she can navigate that journey more easily, and then putting a helmet on her, so she has the resiliency to overcome the obstacles we can’t foresee or change.

“Fortunately there are people along the way to help her, and she doesn’t ever have to walk alone. ... The most important thing is knowing you are not alone.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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he Palo Alto school board will discuss next week a new policy aimed at ensuring the protection of the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming students.

The proposed policy, titled “Gender Identity and Access,” seeks to “promote the healthy development and safety of all students including transgender students by maximizing inclusion and social integration while minimizing exclusion and stigmatization,” the policy reads.

The policy is the product of more than two years of work by the district’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQQ) committee, which is made up of administrators, staff, teachers, parents, students and representatives from local community organizations such as Outlet, a LGBTQQ+ program at Adolescent Counseling Services.

The committee crafted the policy based on state and federal law as well as other school districts’ policies, drawing primarily from the Berkeley Unified School District.

The Berkeley school board passed its policy in late 2013.

The San Francisco Unified School District adopted a transgender policy more than a decade ago.

The Los Angeles Unified School District adopted a policy in 2005.

In June 2014, the Palo Alto Unified did adopt a new administrative regulation following the passage of AB1266, a California law that ensures transgender students have access to facilities and activities based on their gender identity.

The administrative regulation on nondiscrimination/harassment outlines several rights for transgender and gender non-conforming students — the right to privacy as well as support during a social transition at school, to determine their own gender identity, to access facilities and activities based on their gender, to change their name and pronouns in student records and to have district staff address them by their preferred name and pronouns.

The LGBTQQ committee has been working since before the passage of AB1266 to develop a policy that is more comprehensive and inclusive than this administrative regulation, particularly to protect students who identify as non-binary, defined in the proposed policy as “an individual whose gender identity or gender expression falls outside or in between the category of male or female.”

The school board’s policy-review committee, chaired by Vice President Heidi Emberling, considered the new policy in September and heard from parents of transgender children. One parent, who serves on the LGBTQQ committee, cited

the results of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network’s 2013 National School Climate Survey in advocating for the new policy.

The survey found that LGBTQQ students in schools with a policy that “specifically enumerates both sexual orientation and gender identity and expression” were less likely to hear negative remarks about gender expression — 41.7 percent compared to 57.6 percent of students who attend schools with a generic policy. Students at schools with a comprehensive policy were also more likely to report that staff intervenes when hearing homophobic remarks, the parent noted.

Although a majority of students surveyed had an anti-bullying policy at their school, only 10 percent reported that their school had a comprehensive policy in place.

The proposed policy requires schools to accept a student’s “asserted gender identity” and call them by their preferred name and pronouns.

The National Climate Survey found that 42 percent of transgender students had been prevented from using their preferred name.

The proposed policy requires schools to accept students’ ‘asserted gender identity’ and call them by their preferred names and pronouns.

Under the new policy, schools would not be allowed to request any medical or mental health diagnosis or require a treatment plan to have a student’s gender identity recognized. Students are also not required to give their schools a courtordered name or gender change in order to have their requested name and gender identity recognized.

The school district in September implemented a change within its online student information system, Infinite Campus, to include new fields to differentiate between legal name and gender and preferred name and gender.

Yet even when names and pronouns are changed in school records, there are other areas where legal names and genders might appear and potentially “out” students, the policy notes: “pre-printed labels, standardized tests, student IDs or library cards, lunch tickets, school photos, notices from the main office, attendance slips, grade books, posted lists of student names, lesson plans, seating charts and roll sheets (continued on page 37)

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Gender terms and definitions Understanding the vocabulary around transgender issues Transgender: People whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from their sex at birth.

Gender dysphoria: In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) which replaced “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria,” and changed the criteria for diagnosis.

APA states that in order for a person to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, there must be a “marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign him or her, and it must continue for at least six months. In children, the desire to be of the other gender must be present and verbalized. This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

Gender expression: External manifestations of gender, expressed through one’s name, pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice or body characteristics.

Genderqueer: A term used by some people who experience their gender identity and/or gender expression as falling outside the categories of man and woman. They may define their gender as somewhere in between man and woman, or they may define it as wholly different from these terms. The term is not a synonym for transgender or transsexual and should only be used if someone self-identifies as genderqueer.

Gender identity: One’s internal, deeply held sense of one’s gender.

Gender-fluid: An individual whose gender identity shifts between male, female and mixed gender.

Gender non-conforming: Individuals whose gender expression is different from conventional notions of masculinity and femininity. Not all gender non-conforming people identify as transgender; nor are all transgender people gender non-conforming. The term is not a synonym for transgender or transsexual and should only be used if someone self-identifies as gender nonconforming.

Sexual orientation: An individual’s physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction to another person. Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same. Transgender people may identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual.

Transsexual: An older term for persons who change, or seek to change, their bodies through medical interventions. Transsexual is not an umbrella term; many transgender people do not identify as transsexual and prefer the word transgender. If preferred, use as an adjective.

Cisgender: An individual whose gender identity aligns with their sex at birth.

Source: GLAAD media reference guide; PAUSD LGBTQQ committee; Associated Press

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used by substitute teachers, and any other places where students’ names are commonly written.”

Under the new policy, the district would maintain an official, permanent student record with the student’s legal name and gender that appears on the student’s birth certificate. The policy urges schools to keep this record in a secure location to protect student privacy. If a student or parent presents the school with documentation of a courtordered legal name and/or gender change, the school must then change the official student record in a timely manner, according to the policy.

Schools would also be required to honor transgender students who transition after graduation and to change their diploma or transcript to their current name and gender.

The policy also instructs school personnel to not accidentally “out” students who might not be out in other settings or with their parents.

“Care must be taken to protect student privacy,” the proposed policy reads. “School personnel should not assume that a student who is ‘out’ in some contexts (e.g. within a classroom) is ‘out’ everywhere (e.g., on a sports team). School personnel should also not assume that a student who is ‘out’ now (e.g. in middle school) would still want to be ‘out’ in the future (e.g. high school).”

The policy also urges schools to avoid separating students by gender in the classroom and other activities, like the formation of teams in physical education class or selecting dance partners.

The parents in attendance at the board policy meeting in September urged board members to think about the policy as a way to systemically require more proactive provision of accommodations for transgender and gender non-conforming students — and as a first step toward further education and training around LGBTQQ issues.

“This policy is important, but it’s only a piece of what’s needed to create a safe environment for our LGBTQQ students,” the parent of the transgender elementary-aged student said.

Members of the LGBTQQ com-

mittee have said one of their priorities this year will be to advocate for enhanced teacher and staff training and the introduction of more LGBTQQ-specific curriculum in Palo Alto Unified.

The LGBTQQ committee is also developing a resource guide for the community with additional information and guidance for parents on how to answer students’ questions around these issues.

Emberling and Ken Dauber, who also serves on the board policy committee, responded positively to the draft policy in September.

What the policy makes clear, Dauber said, is a “fundamental commitment to nondiscrimination and non-harassment.

“One of the concerns that I’ve heard expressed is that, absent this kind of guidance, we get into a discussion about balancing where balancing isn’t appropriate because we’re talking about the rights of children to an education free of discrimination.”

Wendy He, the board policy review committee’s new parent liaison, asked how the district would plan to disseminate such a policy — along with the proper education that other parents in the community might need to fully understand it.

“If I were not in this meeting I would probably very much not understand and be against it immediately,” she said. “It takes education.”

Superintendent Max McGee suggested asking the PTA Council to distribute the policy, if approved, to parents. McGee said he planned to discuss the topic with both high school faculties at a professional development day in October.

“We’re also talking about a culture change that needs to happen across the community and that’s not easy,” said Brenda Carrillo, the district’s director of student services and chair of the LGBTQQ committee. “The education piece will be very important not only within our staff and for our students but for all parents to have those really important conversations, I think, is something we’re going to have to put some thought into.” Q About the cover: An elementary school transgender girl, the daughter of “Mary” in the story, created her self-portrait with colored pencils.

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Passive House hosts conference, bicycle tour about energy-efficient homes

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Above: Construction begins on the Passive House for Magic, a residential service learning community in Palo Alto. Right: The kitchen at Magic allows a lot of space for the 15 residents who live in the community.

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s part of a series and to serve as its annual conference, Passive House California hosts Building Carbon Zero California next Friday, Nov. 13. The event will feature more than 15 presenters throughout the day that will cover topics ranging from policy discussion to building materials — each with the goal of reducing the carbon footprint.

The City of Palo Alto has worked closely with Passive House California to make the event possible, said Bronwyn Barry, Passive House California co-president and event chairperson. Palo Alto Mayor Karen Holman will even be kicking off the conference and welcoming guests. And then on Saturday, Nov. 13, conference attendees and people who want to see five local buildings that exemplify the conference’s topics can go on the PedalHaus Bicycle Tour.

Barry said that Palo Alto seemed like a natural fit for the conference because it’s progressive in its energy solutions.

PLANT PROBLEMS ... Solve plant problems with the help of a Master Gardener on Friday, Nov. 13, 1-2:30 p.m., at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Master Gardener Roberta Barnes will help locals figure out what’s wrong with their plants by answering questions and providing diagnoses. Info: mastergardeners.org/ upcoming-events JUMBO SALE ... Browse and purchase designer fabric on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at FabMo, 970 Terra Bella, Mountain View. These Jumbo Sale events feature the same high-quality materials that FabMo offers during its monthly selection events, just bigger pieces. Info: fabmo.org

The event features a number of information tracks, so attendees can find topics that interest them and fit their level of expertise. Barry said anyone with an interest in building should come: architects, designers, contractors, developers, politicians, policy makers and local homeowners.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, who is the vice chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) and coordinating lead author of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPPC report. After the keynote speaker, three Palo Alto residents — Stuart Bernstein, Hilary Hug and Sven Thesen — will be a part of panel discussion about building, working and living in Passive Houses.

In the case of Bernstein, his home is not only Passive Housecertified (a home standard that results in low energy buildings that require little to heat and cool), but it is also LEED Platinum and Net Zero. He built his home in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood

starting in October 2012, and it was finished 10 months later in August 2013. In the past year, the home was a net positive, meaning it produced more energy than it consumed, while also charging an electric vehicle.

“Our goal was to demonstrate to ourselves and others that you could build a home that was both energy efficient and beautiful, healthy for the environment as well as the inhabitants and the workers (who manufacture the components for homes in factories and the workers on-site) … at little or no premium cost,” he said via email. “We accomplished all three objectives and more.”

Having lived in the home for a while now, the list of features Bernstein appreciates continues to grow: a beautiful home that required no aesthetic or functional compromises to achieve the sustainability objective; peace and quiet from the three-paned glass windows and thick walls; lots of natural light; excellent indoor air quality; a passive greywater and

moisture-based irrigation system that minimizes water needs; energy savings from appliances and control mechanisms; and more.

At the conference, he hopes people learn that they can design a attractive house that is also sustainable, and at the same time build it quickly and not pay a premium.

Hilary Hug, another panelist, lives in a Passive House that is one of three adjacent homes occupied by the residential service learning community called Magic, which started in 1972. The properties’ residents wanted to build a sustainable home, and looked at other building standards before choosing a Passive House. The key point that stuck out to them was the importance of a high-quality building envelope because it’s more permanent.

“It’s the thing you’re not likely to change,” Hug said.

Another energy-saving component of this home is communal living. They built the home with (continued on page 40)

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COMMUNITY CERAMICS ...

Buy and see ceramics made by locals on Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Art in Clay event at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The exhibit and sale is presented by the Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild and features works from more than 70 local artists. During the free event, guests can mingle with the artists, buy handmade ceramics and enjoy light refreshments.

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Gather up old paperwork and head to the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 8 a.m. to noon. Located at 301 Carl Road in Sunnyvale, the SMaRT Station will be shredding and recycling documents from residents of its partner cities: Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. Residents must bring proof of residency. Info: bit.ly/ DocumentShredding WHAT IS RAIN? ... Learn all about rain on Sunday, Nov. 8, 12:30-2:30 p.m., at the EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. During this program, kids can learn all about the properties of water, and how it becomes rain, clouds and ice.

This is the second of a fourpart series called Kid Powered! from Environmental Volunteers.

The sessions are open to firstthrough fifth-grade students, and the suggested fee is $20 per child per session. The next two program days will be “Under the Ground!” on Nov. 15 and “Walk with the Animals” on Nov. 22.

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Above: Beauty, function and sustainability come together in Stuart Bernstein’s home. He will be sharing his building and living experiences at the Building Carbon Zero event on Nov. 13. Right: The furniture in the living room is made with natural fabrics, and the paint has no volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

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a large kitchen and dining areas, which now allows 15 people residing in three neighboring houses to comfortably share meals together.

And all of this was made by possible by a community as well. Inside the home hang two large frames that list all of the sponsors and supporters who helped the group get to this point.

The home has now been livable for about a year, and Hug said her

favorite parts are the air quality and evenness of temperature, both of which are goals of a Passive House.

After taking a deep breath, she remarked that she knew they would be benefits, but she didn’t realize they would be such big benefits.

Not more than a bike ride away, the third panelist Sven Thesen also hopes to show people that an energy-saving home can be functional and aesthetically pleasing.

“When we started to think about building our home, the first thing my wife said — with

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her hands on her hips — was that she wanted it to be beautiful,” he said. “On the other side, I was a chemical engineer that wanted energy efficiency.”

After researching LEED and Net Zero, he came across Passive House, which could accommodate both parties. Today, their research and building methods have allowed them to use 80 percent less energy than the typical California home, Thesen said.

“Passive House takes a holistic approach to energy use and design,” he said.

In the end, the couple wanted their home to be a working model for the concept, and they have welcome more than 2,000 people into their home for a tour. This has also led Thesen to speak at events, such as the Building Carbon Zero California next week, and open his home to the PedalHaus Bicycle Tour participants the next day.

“People comes and say, ‘Wow, it’s so beautiful,’” he said. “It’s great to know we’ve executed our What: Building Carbon Zero California When: Nov. 13, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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vision. It really is a beautiful house that’s great for the environment.” Q Associate Editor Brenna Malmberg can be emailed at bmalmberg@paweekly.com.

What: PedalHaus Bicycle Tour When: Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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

Atherton

20 Lane Place C. & V. Koo to Avina Trust for $4,730,000 on 10/07/15; previous sale 11/10/2010, $2,095,000

East Palo Alto

1508 Bay Road Haratani Trust to J. & S. To for $725,000 on 10/02/15 467 Bell St. McKean Trust to M. Nguyen for $732,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 09/18/1997, $195,000 1245 Jervis Ave. S. Hollimon to C. Chien for $510,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 12/02/1988, $110,000

Los Altos

110 2nd St. Crosby Trust to Second St. Limited for $3,100,000 on 10/08/15 1380 Country Club Drive Murphy Trust to G. & K. Allen for $3,100,000 on 10/13/15; previous sale 04/16/2002, $1,200,000 728 Covington Road Innovative Homes to Hongsaranagon Trust for $4,050,000 on 10/16/15 4388 El Camino Real, #167 Desilva Trust to N. Zaidi for $998,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 11/24/2009, $590,000 5100 El Camino Real, #310 S. Tang to M. Proffit for $1,400,000 on 10/13/15; previous sale 10/31/2007, $810,000 166 Garland Way Carges Trust to Kramer Trust for $4,900,000 on 10/06/15; previous sale 03/04/2005, $2,950,000 1560 Kensington Circle Stillian-Strong Trust to G. Lee for $3,203,000 on 10/06/15; previous sale 11/10/2011, $1,655,000 285 Los Altos Court R. Walker to Y. Xie for $3,000,000 on 10/13/15 960 Regent Drive Gioanni Trust to J. Foong for $2,112,000 on 10/07/15; previous sale 04/12/1977, $138,500 1276 Richardson Ave. Tarkon Trust to Bowman Trust for $2,700,000 on 10/09/15 841 Santa Rita Ave. Sampson Trust to Khurana Trust for $3,000,000 on 10/13/15 271 Silvia Drive G. & M. Scott to K. & L. Sreekanti for $2,950,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 06/01/2007, $2,100,000

Los Altos Hills

870 Robb Road Director Trust to J. Wu for $4,500,000 on 10/09/15

Menlo Park

816 Arnold Way G. Morimoto to B. & B. Cioffi for $1,662,000 on 10/05/15; previous sale 01/30/2001, $655,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $4,730,000 Highest sales price: $4,730,000

Total sales reported: 21 Lowest sales price: $505,000 Highest sales price: $4,275,000

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $510,000 Highest sales price: $732,000

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 13 Lowest sales price: $1,445,000 Highest sales price: $3,820,000

Los Altos

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 12 Lowest sales price: $998,000 Highest sales price: $4,900,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,600,000 Highest sales price: $3,600,000

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $4,500,000 Highest sales price: $4,500,000

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

Menlo Park

Woodside

Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $650,000 Highest sales price: $3,750,000

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,400,000 Highest sales price: $3,400,000 Source: California REsource

2363 Branner Drive R. Lowsky to Stanford University for $2,230,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 08/29/2002, $1,229,000 1051 Coleman Ave. K. Lutton to Shaw Trust for $3,410,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 07/15/2010, $2,250,000 1845 Oakdell Drive D. & D. Lambka to Cole Trust for $3,750,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 08/01/2013, $2,350,100 207 Pearl Lane Ko Trust to MP Pearl 207 for $2,004,500 on 10/05/15; previous sale 09/12/2008, $1,400,000 134 Sand Hill Circle S. & N. Allen to R. Bacchetta for $1,520,000 on 10/06/15; previous sale 04/14/2010, $810,000 2140 Santa Cruz Ave. P. Li to M. Cobb for $650,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 11/15/2013, $617,500 1045 Whitney Drive Snyder Trust to Pound Trust for $3,200,000 on 10/07/15; previous sale 05/19/2006, $1,925,000 804 Woodland Ave. Bournival Trust to Woodland Limited for $1,850,000 on 10/01/15

Mountain View

1126 Boranda Ave. Rich Country to W. & C. Momand for $1,600,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 08/01/2013, $12,980,000 590 Bryant Ave. Kamel Trust to K. Pfiederer for $2,050,000 on 10/09/15 1733 Crane Ave. Herrero Trust to A. & M. Huang for $1,600,000 on 10/09/15 505 Cypress Point Drive, #155 B. Smith to V. Nikolov for $570,000 on 10/07/15; previous sale 12/08/2009, $309,000 1793 Elsie Ave. J. & B. Burke to J. Lu for $1,315,000 on 10/08/15;

previous sale 10/25/1994, $187,500 123 Flynn Ave., #A E. Evans to K. Huang for $880,000 on 10/07/15; previous sale 10/25/1994, $176,000 99 E. Middlefield Road, #5 Koebler Trust to W. Sun for $840,000 on 10/08/15 1945 Mount Vernon Court, #2 L. Lodestro to A. Lanman for $505,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 06/04/2004, $290,000 1930 Mount Vernon Court, #8 M. Morrow to M. Jorgovanovic for $775,000 on 10/13/15; previous sale 10/14/2010, $352,500 911 Ormonde Drive Hwang Trust to J. & E. Lane for $1,321,000 on 10/09/15; previous sale 07/15/1976, $58,700 550 Ortega Ave., #B419 P. & D. Moore to X. & C. Ni for $1,035,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 07/23/1999, $300,000 731 Reflection Way MV Reflection 2013 to H. Robertson for $1,470,000 on 10/09/15 1963 Rock St., #12 Richerson Trust to S. Cai for $900,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 08/20/2010, $480,000 955 San Marcos Circle Scholz Trust to A. & J. Huang for $4,275,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 09/30/1975, $55,000 49 Showers Drive, #E150 H. Michelson to Nair-Patel Trust for $705,000 on 10/09/15 723 Sierra Vista Ave., #2 T. Hasegawa to M. Xu for $740,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 11/04/2009, $447,500 255 Sierra Vista Ave. Nigen Trust to T. & O. Cho for $1,246,000 on 10/13/15; previous sale 07/30/1999, $394,500 287 Tyrella Ave. Beaudoin Trust to Palmer Trust for $1,164,000 on 10/15/15

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135 Waverly Place J. Dickman to M. Bakar for $3,450,000 on 10/09/15; previous sale 04/17/1991, $452,500 3445 Woodstock Lane A. Palay to J. & A. Shubert for $2,800,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 04/22/1991, $430,000 928 Wright Ave., #1104 L. & M. Feit to N. Preston for $1,015,000 on 10/06/15; previous sale 07/15/2005, $600,000

Palo Alto

3190 Berryessa St. Sterling Park to D. Silverbarg for $1,679,000 on 10/08/15 1035 N. California Ave. Quraishi Trust to T. Raisoni for $2,975,000 on 10/08/15

907 Clara Drive P. Landolfi to F. Muzaffar for $3,250,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 07/02/2008, $1,875,000 738 De Soto Drive Lally Trust to I. Friedrichowitz for $2,755,000 on 10/13/15 371 Duluth Circle Firoozye Trust to C. Shi for $2,325,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 12/17/2010, $1,090,000 754 Homer Ave. Harmin Investments to A. & Y. Federici for $1,650,000 on 10/06/15; previous sale 06/20/2014, $1,340,000 588 Jackson Drive Sedlacek Trust to X. & C. Zhang for $3,820,000 on 10/07/15 1044 Maddux Drive M. Anthony to J. & W. Lee for $1,815,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 10/14/1988, $292,000 2260 Middlefield Road Murthy Trust to H. Lin for $2,350,000 on 10/07/15 4099 Middlefield Road L. Lashinco to G. Lim for $1,560,000 on 10/15/15 3665 Ramona Circle C. Porter to Bagchi Trust for $2,475,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 02/02/2012, $1,489,000 820 Richardson Court Himmel Trust to A. Kuo for $2,150,000 on 10/13/15; previous sale 01/19/1995, $15,000 444 San Antonio Road, #1B Rudd Trust to J. Wang for $1,445,000 on 10/16/15

Portola Valley

155 Canyon Drive J. GillespieBrown to GFL Group for $3,600,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 05/03/2012, $2,400,000

Stanford

692 Mirada Ave. Bark Trust to Stanford University for $3,300,000 on 10/08/15

Woodside

3210 Woodside Road M. &

J. Sieber to Wasson Trust for $3,400,000 on 10/08/15; previous sale 04/17/2002, $1,395,000

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

1505 Dana Ave. remodel includes restroom, $24,000 1535 Castilleja Ave. re-roof, $9,000 455 Charleston Road PASHPI Financials/Stevenson House: Building A and B construction underpinning, $35,000 1029 Ramona St. residential PV system, $n/a 770 Mayview Ave. demolish house, $n/a 1796 Hamilton Ave. remodel, includes kitchen and bathroom remodel, new french door entry, window replacement throughout, add new half bath on ground floor, $80,000 951 Lincoln Ave. re-roof, $7,800 2300 Geng Road Suite 150 tenant improvement and use and occupancy for new tenant Actian Corp., includes new nonload bearing walls and ADA complaint sink, $198,000 2497 Ross Road residential roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 770 Mayview Ave. new singlefamily residence, new attached garage, includes new tankless water heater, $608,943 4001 Miranda Ave. Nest: tenant improvement for new cafeteria, includes new partitions, ceilings, finishes, plumbing and electrical fixtures, no exterior work, $4,000,000 455 Charleston Road PASHPI Financials/ Stevenson House: Building B: voluntary seismic upgrade, remodel 32 living units (see 14000-02073 for workflow), $3,000,000

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Your Realtor and You SILVAR REALTORSÂŽ Earns Third NAR Platinum Award for Global Program For the third year in a row, the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORSÂŽ (SILVAR) has earned the National Association of REALTORSÂŽ (NAR) Platinum Award for Global Achievement. The platinum award is the highest distinction presented by NAR to an association for having demonstrated through its Global Business Council exceptional commitment to building membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; awareness of the global and multicultural business opportunities in their local markets.

SILVAR is only one of three REALTORÂŽ associations that has been awarded the top award for three years in a row. The other REALTORÂŽ associations, Miami Association of REALTORSÂŽ and the Houston Association of REALTORSÂŽ, have 40,000 and 35,000 members, respectively, compared to SILVARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under 5,000 membership.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Business Council is chaired by Mark Wong, a REALTORÂŽ with Alain Pinel Realtors Saratoga. The Council presented programs on China, Mexico and India this year as part of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doing Business Withâ&#x20AC;? quarterly series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doing Business in the Philippines,â&#x20AC;? the Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last program of the year, will be held November 20, 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 p.m. at SILVAR and will feature International REALTORÂŽ Members from the Philippines.

Last month, SILVAR conducted its fourth Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) Institute, attended by 31 REALTORSÂŽ from around the Bay Area, Southern California and Arizona. The CIPS Institute culminated with a CIPS Reception attended

by SILVAR CIPS designees who shared their global real estate experiences with this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CIPS Institute graduates.

The CIPS Institute provides training in international business issues, including currency conversion, cultural awareness, legal and tax requirements, ownership and transaction principles of international real estate, and specifics about the real estate markets in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Upon completing the CIPS Institute and other requirements, the REALTORSÂŽ receive their CIPS designation. According to the NAR CIPS Designee list, of 353 CIPS Designees in California, 43 are SILVAR members, majority of whom attended a CIPS Institute at SILVAR.

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Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORSÂŽ. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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117 Lyell Street, Los Altos Offered at $1,988,000 Quiet Charm in Desirable Location Local attractions are within easy access of this peaceful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,647 sq. ft. (per county), which occupies a lot of 7,721 sq. ft. (per county) in a sought-after neighborhood. Updated with new paint and new flooring, the residence includes a fireplace, an attached twocar garage, fruit trees, and a large, gated backyard. Near Shoup Park and steps from downtown Los Altos, you will be an easy stroll from Covington Elementary (API 975) and near other top Los Altos schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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$20,700,000

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salon, all remodeled baths & kitchen, huge

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walk-in master closet, resort grounds &

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Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459

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Geoffrey Nelson, 650.455.3735

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SOLD

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Beautiful estate home w/ guest cottage.

Vaulted ceiling, with new paint throughout

4bd/3ba, plus 1bd/1ba guest house. Walk

Western Hill views.

Wrapped in 40 acres of trees + gardens,

the home. Recent update includes new

pool & tennis court

appliances, electric car charging station.

Elliott Faxstein , 707.337.1125

Cashin Group, 650.465.7459

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to downtown.

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950 Elsinore Drive, Palo Alto

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$1,998,000

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7 BD / 3 BA

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plan with high ceilings, skylights, designer

approximately .27 acre (12,100 square feet)

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Alto.

upgrades. Easy 101/92 access.

Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459

Amy Sung, 650.468.4834

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Darcy Gamble, 650.380.9415

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Home & Real Estate

A Fresh Look Creating more space in a small home

by Kit Davey ow do you create a spacious look if you live in a small apartment or cottage? Any space can feel roomier if you try these ideas.

A small flat will appear larger and have an increased sense of flow if you cover all the walls in a single lightreflecting color. If your possessions are in the warmer tones, select ivory, light beige or off-white; if your furnishings are in the cool tones, select light gray or white with a suggestion of blue or green in it. Painting each room a different color, or one wall in green and another in white creates a choppy feeling. Avoid dark paint colors and wallpapers as they tend to make the space look smaller.

arm lamps or wall sconces above the bed to open space on your nightstand. Move a dresser into your closet.

In a den or office, invest in modular pieces so that the work surface shares a continuous countertop, rather than a choppy lineup of mismatching cast-offs.

For a simpler look in the dining room, don’t place your extra dining chairs to either side of the hutch or sideboard. Save money and space by buying only four chairs for the table (or six, if it’s a large table), and bring in folding chairs (stored under a bed) on those occasions when additional seating is required.

Go monochromatic

Use double-duty furnishings

Imagine a living room with a soft blue couch, matching love seat and a pastoral painting in blue tones poised over one of the couches. Now see the same room with a bolder, multihued color scheme: a red couch, a green love seat and a bright pink print of a race car over the couch.

Which room appears more spacious? A room with one color will appear more peaceful and be perceived as a whole, giving the illusion of increased space.

Use a three-drawer dresser as an end table or night stand. Use a chest as a coffee table. Put your TV and stereo in an armoire. Or, use any leftover space for storage of linens or out of season clothing.

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Paint the walls a light color

Limit furnishings Open up the space by using a few choice pieces, rather than cluttering it up with odds and ends of furniture. In the living room, skip the coffee table if a single end table will suffice. Or, if a coffee table is a must, use a glass topped one.

In the bedroom, use only one night stand. Mount swing

Get clever with storage Put roll-out boxes under your bed. Store posters and framed art behind bookshelves or couches. Skirt your sink and use the hidden space for hygiene items. Install hooks on the backs of all doors. And, add a shelf just below ceiling level to display a prized collection.

Don’t use area rugs Try this experiment: go into your bathroom and pick up the bath mat; stand back and notice how the room

instantly appears simpler and larger. Area rugs do add coziness and warmth, but if you want to create more flow and expanded space, avoid them.

Skip window treatment If privacy or sun-blocking is not an issue, save money and extend your visual space by skipping window coverings. Even the smallest of rooms is enhanced by a view to a garden or out over the valley.

In a bedroom or bath where window coverings are a must, select a fabric (or blinds) which blend with the wall color.

Use mirrors An ornate gilt mirror in the entry reflects light and space. A mirror over a couch can reflect an outside view, adding another “window.” Double the space in your dining room or powder room by mirroring an entire wall.

Replace your old closet doors with mirrored ones.

Avoid clutter Frank Lloyd Wright’s concept “Less is more,” really fits here. Too much visual distraction makes a space feel crowded. Cut down on the number of objects in view and the space will expand. Display only your choicest accessories and keep one or more surfaces object-free. Get rid of broken, seldom-used possessions that occupy valuable space. Get organized in your kitchen, bathroom and closet. Keep hygiene and cleaning items off the countertops by using plastic caddies stored under the sink.

Kit Davey, Allied Member A.S.I.D., is a Redwood City-based interior designer who uses what you already own to redecorate. Email her at kitdavey@aol.com or call her at 650-367-7370.

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12444 Robleda Road, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,988,000 Stylishly Updated Home with Poolhouse Be enchanted by this terrific gated property of approx. 0.81 acres (per county), which features an extensively updated 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath home and a 1 bedroom, 1 bath poolhouse with a combined living area of approx. 5,000 sq. ft. (per county). Exciting features like randomplank oak floors, LED lighting, cathedral ceilings, two wet bars, and three fireplaces add exuberant luxury to this home. The property also provides a paver motor court, a three-car garage, and a pool, and is just moments from downtown Los Altos and excellent Los Altos schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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27390 Deer Springs Way, Los Altos Hills Offered at $2,988,000 Exquisite Home with Panoramic Views Awaits Customization Breathtaking views can be admired from almost every room in this exquisitely crafted 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of 2,511 sq. ft. (per plans) that sits on a lot of approx. 1 acre (per survey). In the final stage of a luxurious remodel, this carefully detailed home awaits your customized finishes while offering a terrific gourmet kitchen, an attached twocar garage, and an enchanting outdoor retreat with a heated pool.

Nearby trails loop through the scenic foothills, while top Los Altos schools are easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).

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26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

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7 VASILAKOS COURT, MENLO PARK

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agnetic curb appeal hints at the interior warmth and beauty of this spacious 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home ideally located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the acclaimed Las Lomitas School District.

The floor plan features huge rooms trimmed with crown molding & enhanced by custom lighting. The kitchen is updated with lustrous granite counters, sleek white cabinets and stainless appliances. Large windows frame views of the beautiful garden setting and sliding doors open the private back yard featuring an inviting pool, patio and shaded terrace – the perfect environment for entertaining or relaxation!

Four upstairs bedrooms are large and sunny & provide generous closets.

One bedroom, used as an office, has built-in office furniture. The huge master bedroom suite offers two dressing areas and walk-in closets.

Living Area: 3,960 sq. ft. (Per County Records, unverified by Alain Pinel Realtors)

Great value at $3,495,000

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620 Willowgate Street #2, Mountain View Offered at $988,000 Spacious Townhome Enjoys Prime Location Enjoying a private setting in a well-located neighborhood, this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome of 1,690 sq. ft. (per county) provides vaulted ceilings and large, comfortable spaces that include a spacious eat-in kitchen and a living/dining room with a fireplace. In addition to a detached garage and a backyard retreat with mature fruit trees, this fine home offers excellent walkability to Caltrain, Castro Street, and Stevens Creek Trail, while terrific Mountain View schools are easily accessible.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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You will have no shortage of entertainment options within this immaculate 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 3,309 sq. ft. (per /;A:@EJ @4-@ ?5@? ;: - 8;@ ;2 ] VVY ?= 2@ I<1> /5@EJ 5348E /A?@;95F10 -:0 .1-A@52A88E -<<;5:@10 @41 2>1?4 2>11 Ō ;C5:3 5:@1>5;> showcases open living areas that connect to the fantastic rear terrace by a wall of folding glass to enable seamless indoor/outdoor living. The expertly planned layout includes a main level designed to be handicap-accessible while featuring a professional-grade 01?53:1> 75@/41: @C; ;ő /1? -:0 - ?;<45?@5/-@10 9-?@1> ?A5@1 D@>-;>05:->E @;A/41? 8571 >-F585-: 4->0C;;0 Ō ;;>? - /A@@5:3 1031 LED lighting system, whole-house wiring, and striking custom cabinetry accent the remarkable interior, which is perfectly sized for large-scale gatherings. With easy access to Stanford University and Palo Alto Golf Course, this home’s ultra-modern blend of style and convenience is simply unmatched. Duveneck Elementary (API 956) is within walking distance, while other excellent schools nearby include Jordan Middle (API 934) and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1523Hamilton.com Offered at $4,988,000

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14303 Saddle Mountain Drive, Los Altos Hills Offered at $4,498,000 Handsome Home with Breathtaking Views Delivering breathtaking bay views, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 4,895 sq. ft. (per county) sits on a hilltop lot of 1.14 acres (per county) and offers an elegant interior featuring crown molding, recessed lighting, and spacious living areas. Fronted by a private courtyard, the main gallery opens to a sunken living room, a formal dining room with a butler’s pantry, and a family room that adjoins an island kitchen with a large breakfast area. Upstairs, one bedroom may easily convert to an office, while the immense master suite connects to a large patio overlooking the gorgeous grounds, which include a heated pool and spa, a stone terrace, and an outdoor barbecue. Additional features include two staircases, three fireplaces, an attached three-car garage, and an extensive paver driveway. Within moments of Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club, this home is also near Stanford University and Ladera Shopping Center. Excellent nearby schools include Nixon Elementary (API 955), Terman Middle (API 968), JLS Middle (API 943), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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655 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $4,798,000 Tuscan-Inspired Luxury in Professorville Charmingly remodeled and boasting an array of luxuries, this centrally located 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath villa of 3,627 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a corner lot of 6,313 sq. ft. (per county). Hand-blown glass lighting fixtures, copper sinks, and white oak floors adorn the gorgeous interior, which includes a highly customized gourmet kitchen, a sensational master suite, and a lower level with a family room. Offering a backyard retreat with a fireplace, this exciting home is blocks from University Avenue and moments from parks, local shops and cafes, and excellent Palo Alto schools.

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1204 EUREKA COURT LOS ALTOS Features: • Quiet, secluded culdesac off dead end street.

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Offered at $2,395,000

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360 BELLEVUE COURT, LOS ALTOS Listed at $4,450,000

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Atherton Sun1:30 - 4:30 $12,880,000 247 Atherton Ave 3-level European villa built in 2007. Approx 1 acre of beautifully landscaped grounds. 5 BR/6 full BA + 2 half Hugh Cornish CalBRE #00912143 650.324.4456

Palo Alto $6,999,888 728 Addison Ave Experience European Luxury Modern Mediterranean estate custom-built in 2014, perfect floor plan for entertaining. 5 BR/3.5 BA Alex Comsa CalBRE #01875782 650.325.6161

Los Altos Hills Open Sun By Appt Only $6,200,000 26856 Almaden Ct Mediterranean estate w/high ceilings & an expansive backyard. Enjoy the amazing city view. 5 BR/5½ BA Maryam Tabatabaei CalBRE#: 01376198 408.996.1100

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,275,000 865 Middle Ave Beautifully built, this sun drenched home features quality craftsmanship inside and out. 4 BR/4.5 BA Hossein Jalali CalBRE #01215831 650.323.7751

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,800,000 1453 Kings Ln 1453 Kings Ln, Palo Alto Great opportunity to remodel/ develop. Cul-de-sac. One of the most desirable neighborhoods. 3 BR/2 BA Lea Nilsson CalBRE #00699379 650.325.6161

Redwood City Sun 1 - 4 $2,498,000 318 W. Oakwood Blvd New Construction at New South RC Subdivision! 1 of 6 new homes! High Quality! 4 BR/4.5 BA J.D. Anagnostou CalBRE #00900237 650.851.2666

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,149,000 15 Woodleaf Ave This wonderful single story home is 3,184 square feet w/three-car garage on a large lot. 3 BR/2.5 BA Doug Gonzalez CalBRE #00895924 650.324.4456

Portola Valley Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,850,000 111 Carmel Way 1/3 ac plus approx. 600 sf 1BD/1BA guest cottage. Open LR/DR with high ceilings. 3 BR/2 BA Jean & Chris Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalBRE #00542342/01754233

Woodside Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,395,000 610 Woodside Wy This wonderful home has an open floorpln w/ decks & spa w/vws of western hills. WDS Schls. 1 BR/1 BA Margot Lockwood CalBRE #01017519 650.851.2666

Menlo Park Sun 1 - 4 $1,099,998 1050 Almanor Ave Quaint cottage style home. Hardwood floors, newly painted inside. Award winning MP schools 2 BR/1 BA Glenn Bartkowiak CalBRE #01934275 650.324.4456

Redwood City $968,000 1031 Harrison Ave Corner lot in Mt Carmel Ranch style home in soughtafter neighborhood. Opportunity to update, remodel, build new. 3 BR/1.5 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161

Santa Clara Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $958,000 1952 Fraser Pl Desirable newer home set in a quiet cul-de-sac.

Convenient to shopping, Hwy 101 & 880. 4 BR/2.5 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161

East Palo Alto $850,000 2115 Myrtle Pl Stunning newer home Corner lot in East Palo Alto Gardens. Lots of features. Easy access to commute, shopping. 4 BR/3 BA Jane Jones CalBRE #01847801 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sun 1 - 4 $650,000 2140 Santa Cruz Ave #A207 Popular 1BD/1BTH unit at Menlo Commons. This unit overlooks pool & inner courtyard. 1 BR/1 BA Beth Leathers CalBRE #01131116 650.324.4456

Mountain View Sun 1 - 4 $579,000 2255 Showers Dr 192 Charming Condo Beautiful, move-in ready home in a prime, walk-able location in Los Altos School District. 1 BR/1 BA Maha Najjar CalBRE #01305947 650.325.6161

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ATHERTON 3 Bedrooms 180 Greenoaks Dr $5,300,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

12101 Oak Park Ct Sun Deleon Realty

$3,988,000 543-8500

14303 Saddle Mountain Dr Sun Deleon Realty

$4,498,000 543-8500

1650 Oak Av Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,750,000 462-1111

REDWOOD CITY 1 Bedroom - Condominium 600 Baltic Cir 638 Sun 2-4

$699,000

Alain Pinel Realtors

323-1111

5 Bedrooms

6 Bedrooms 85 Greenoaks Dr Call for price Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

6 Bedrooms 12444 Robleda Rd Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

BURLINGAME

7 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

14123 Tracy Ct Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

103 Fey Dr $1,980,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

HILLSBOROUGH

$3.988.000 543-8500

20 Tevis Pl $3,595,000 Sat 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

LOS ALTOS

$8,888,000 324-4456

Deleon Realty

$1,988,000 543-8500

4 Bedrooms 930 Carmel Ct Sun Deleon Realty

$2,788,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS

14545 Deer Park Ct Sun Deleon Realty

$3,988,000 543-8500

MENLO PARK 2140 Santa Cruz Ave A 207 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

25520 Deerfield Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,950,000 323-1111

27390 Deer Springs Wy Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,988,000 543-8500

642 Park Rd Sun

$979,000 Coldwell Banker

$1,495,000 650-712-2460

Sat/Sun

MOUNTAIN VIEW

1437 Alameda De Las Pulgas

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

Sun

701 N. Rengstorff Ave. 18 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$689,000 325-6161

Sat/Sun

$650,000 324-4456

620 Willowgate St 2 Sun Deleon Realty

$988,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms

$1,099,998 324-4456

1114 Blue Lake Sq Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,898,000 323-1111

1675 Alameda De Las Pulgas

$1,488,000 543-8500

PALO ALTO

$3,275,000 323-7751

$2,349,000 462-1111

3 Bedrooms 580 Washington Av $3,300,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

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2088 Channing Ave $2,888,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 1523 Hamilton Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$4,988,000 543-8500

2340 Carmel Dr $3,298,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500 3648 Evergreen Dr Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,098,000 851-1961

700 Chimalus Dr $3,198,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 536 Lincoln Av Sat/Sun 12-5Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,988,000 323-1111

405 Marlowe St Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$9,495,000 462-1111

851-2666 $1,649,000

Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty

542 Live Oak Ln Sun

847-1141

$2,498,000

Alain Pinel Realtors

462-1111

SAN JOSE 3 Bedrooms $1,098,000

Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty

644-3474

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$898,888

Sun 1-4

324-4456

Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms 72 Oak Valley Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 686 Port Dr

$2,300,000 543.7740 $2,188,000

Sat/Sun 1-4

Bay One Realty

650-274-5123

WOODSIDE 1 Bedroom 610 Woodside Way

PORTOLA VALLEY

Sat/Sun 1-4

Coldwell Banker

$1,395,000 851-2666

3 Bedrooms 177 Favonio Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,995,000 851-1961

3 Bedrooms

111 Carmel Way Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,850,000 851-2666

Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

2 Sierra Ln Sun

$5,500,000 851-1961

Sun

Coldwell Banker

3665 Woodside Rd

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177 Los Trancos Cir $2,795,000 Sun 1-4 Cowperthwaite & Company 851-8030

740 Whiskey Hill Rd

45 Joaquin Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,075,000 851-1961

418 Albion Ave

130 Fawn Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,998,000 851-1961

785 W California Way

Sun

Sun

Sun

5 Bedrooms 280 Nathhorst Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$4,400,000

$6,495,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

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$1,495,000

15 Woodleaf Ave

$2,400,000 324-4456

Miles McCormick

323-1111

Alain Pinel Realtors

35 Hallmark Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

865 Middle Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,298,000

Alain Pinel Realtors

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

2 Bedrooms

672 Sand Hill Cir Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

851-2666

137 Hudson St

5 Bedrooms 76 Precita Av Sun 1-4 Marian Bennett

2 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms

$2,295,000 462-1111

LOS GATOS

1 Bedroom - Condominium

3 Bedrooms

2030 Santa Cruz Ave Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

MOSS BEACH

5 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms

117 Lyell St Sat/Sun 1-5

1715 Altschul Ave $2,800,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

$5,988,000 543-8500

Alain Pinel Realtors

Alain Pinel Realtors

Coldwell Banker

155 Sunrise Dr Sun

Deleon Realty

$4,480,000 462-1111 $7,236,000 462-1111 $3,495,000 851-2666 $3,498,000 543-8500

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Listing Team DeLeon Realty specializes in making your home our priority. With your satisfaction as our motivation, our listing team will negotiate until we secure the highest possible price for your home. In addition, we will take time to familiarize you with the escrow process and guide you along every step.

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115 Announcements

Does dementia stress your family

Pregnant?

Considering adoption? Call us first.

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PANEL ON RELIGION AND SPIRITUALI PANEL ON RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Date: Sunday, Nov 15 Unitarian Universalist Church 505 E. Charleston Palo Alto CA Time: 12:30-2:00 Location: Rooms 4 and 5 Contact: Pam Vorce (pamvorce@gmail.com) Presenter: Amy Zucker Morgenstern, Brooke Bishara, Jan Dillinger, Melissa Thomson Facilitator: Pam Vorce Registration: Not required Have you heard the phrase not religious but spiritual? There will be a panel of Unitarian Universalist ministers and members who will discuss the difference between being spiritual and being religious. Why are we willing to embrace being spiritual? What would it mean to say we were religious? Has too much damage been done to the word religion to ever reclaim its use for Unitarian Universalists and others? There will be discussion.

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130 Classes & Instruction AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician.

Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 Aviation Technician AIRLINE CAREERS Start Here - Get trained as FAA certified Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-231-7177. (Cal-SCAN)

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home.

Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950 Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.

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150 Volunteers Does dementia stress your family Fosterers Needed for Cats FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM

152 Research Study Volunteers

HUGE USED BOOK SALE/FREE BOOKS

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145 Non-Profits Needs

Balance Study Research Volunteers. Up to $225 Stanford University and the Palo Alto VA are seeking participants, ages 55-85, with balance problems for a research study investigating the use of special lights to improve balance while walking at night during two separate overnight stays at the VA Sleep Lab. Participants must be healthy, nonsmokers, without sleep problems, between 55-85.

Compensation up to $225.

For more information contact: yvonne.quevedo@va.gov 1-650-849-1971

For Sale 202 Vehicles Wanted A-1 DONATE YOUR CAR FOR BREAST CANCER! Help United Breast Foundation education, prevention, & support programs.

FAST FREE PICKUP - 24 HR RESPONSE TAX DEDUCTION 855-403-0215 CASH FOR CARS Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to Hertiage for the Blind. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of.

Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN) I Buy Old Porsches 911, 356. 1948-1973 only.

Any condition. Top $$ paid. Finders Fee. Call 707-965-9546 or email porscheclassics@yahoo.com (Cal-SCAN) Older Car, Boat, RV? Do the humane thing.

Donate it to the Humane Society.

Call 1-800-743-1482 (Cal-SCAN)

210 Garage/Estate Sales Mountain View, 1331 San Domar Dr, Nov 7-8 Moving Sale - Treadmill, Weight Machine, Furniture, Garden Tools, Sewing Machine, and misc items...

Mountain View, 192 Murlagan Ave., Nov 7, 9 - 3 Mountain View, Flea Market 433 Sylvan Ave. Sat 7th 8-2, Nov. 7th 8am-2pm

Piano Lessons Quality Piano Lessons in Menlo Park.

Call (650)838-9772 Alita Lake

MP: 876 15th Ave.; 11/7, 9-3.

(North Fair Oaks) Glassware, dishes, flower pots, furniture, linens, clothes, toys, games, electronics, jewelry, books, cds, misc treasures.

Palo Alto, 2580 Waverly Street, Nov. 7th 10:30-1:00 S’Clara: 958 Homestead; 11/7, 10-3 Veterans Craft Faire Fundraiser Buy American from Local Crafters and Support Veterans. 650-219-1041 EventsALA419@yahoo.com

240 Furnishings/ Household items Video/Cabinet Shelf - $25.00

245 Miscellaneous DirecTV Starting at $19.99/mo. FREE Installation.

FREE 3 months of HBO SHOWTIME CINEMAX, STARZ. FREE HD/DVR Upgrade! 2015 NFL Sunday Ticket Included (Select Packages) New Customers Only. CALL 1-800-385-9017 (CalSCAN) Dish Network Get MORE for LESS! Starting $19.99/ month (for 12 months.) PLUS Bundle & SAVE (Fast Internet for $15 more/ month.) CALL Now 1-800-357-0810 (Cal-SCAN)

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Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch StepIn. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN)

Jobs 500 Help Wanted PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000/wk Mailing Brochures From Home!

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DISH TV Starting at $19.99/mo (for 12 mos.) SAVE! Regular Price $34.99 Ask About FREE SAME DAY Installation!

CALL Now! 888-992-1957 KILL BED BUGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/ KIT. Available: Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com

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Kid’s Stuff Full Time Nanny/Housekeeper.

Mitchie’s Home Daycare

Routes available to deliver the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto on Fridays. From approx. 430 to 1,390 papers, 8.25 cents per paper (plus bonus for extra-large editions).

Additional bonus following successful 13 week introductory period. Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to jon3silver@ yahoo.com with Newspaper Delivery Routes in the subject line. Or (best) call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310

Housekeeper/Cook for eldery gentleman w/nice PA home.

Live in, exchange for room. No personal care reqd. Must drive, own car.

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560 Employment Information

345 Tutoring/ Lessons Math Tutoring One to One

355 Items for Sale Did You Know 144 million U.S. Adults read a Newspaper print copy each week?

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Mind & Body 425 Health Services Got Knee Pain? Back Pain?

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Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Cleaning by Maria Specializing in homes. 20 years exp., excel. refs. 650/207-4609 Eco1 Dry Cleaners 4546 El Camino Real (Los Altos) www.eco1drycleaners.com

540 Domestic Help Wanted

330 Child Care Offered

Health and Dental Insurance Lowest Prices. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (CalSCAN)

640 Legal Services

Computers Sr. Sys. Engs in Palo Alto, CA. Dvlp, build, and deliver computer sys.

Prepare distributed sys. configuration & help guide traffic delivery with load balancing algorithms.

Reqs: Bachelor’s + 5 yrs exp. Apply: Disney Online, Attn: E. Wintner, Job ID#SSE1212, P.O. Box 6992, Burbank, CA 91510-6992.

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636 Insurance

Mary’s Housecleaning 7 days/week. 10+ years exp. Good refs.

Serving MV area. 650/630-9348 Orkopina Housecleaning Celebrating 30 years cleaning homes in your area. 650/962-1536

748 Gardening/ Landscaping J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781 LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil *Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash *Irrigation timer programming.

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751 General Contracting

Drivers: Average $1000+ p/wk! BCBS + 401k + Pet & Rider.

Home For Christmas! $500 Holiday Bonus! CDL-A Req. (877)258-8782. www.drive4melton.com (Cal-SCAN)

Business Services 624 Financial In BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317

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754 Gutter Cleaning

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759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., mattresses, green waste, more.

Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 (see my Yelp reviews)

771 Painting/ Wallpaper Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount.

45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured.

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775 Asphalt/ Concrete Answers on page 67

Across 1 B as in baklava 5 Belief system 10 “Family Feud” option 14 On the summit of 15 Pipe cleaner brand?

16 “Like ___ out of Hell” 17 Amazed 19 Diggs of “Private Practice” 20 Blase (or just blah) feeling 21 Night, in Italy 23 “___ Walks in Beauty” (Byron poem) 24 Short short time?

26 Topping in a tub 28 Part of TBS, for short 31 Author Fleming 33 Tit-tat filler 34 “That’s so sweet” 38 Emphatic turndown 42 Glassful at a cantina, perhaps 43 Win all the games 45 Oregon Ducks uniform designer since 1999 46 “Lunch is for ___” (“Wall Street” quote) 48 Like Goofy but not Pluto 50 Long meal in Japan?

52 LPs, to DJs 53 Possesses 54 Showtime series of the 2000s 59 Little dog’s bark 61 “___ the Walrus” 62 Marina craft 64 Washer/dryer units?

68 Downright rotten 70 “You’ve really outdone yourself at sucking,” or this puzzle’s theme?

72 TV component?

73 Microscopic 74 Active Sicilian volcano 75 Dark form of quartz 76 Desirable quality 77 “Round and Round” band

Down 1 Film with the segment “Pork Is a Nice Sweet Meat” 2 English prep school 3 Dot on a state map 4 High score 5 Hall of Leno’s “The Tonight Show” 6 1982 Disney film with a 2010 sequel 7 Anarchy 8 “And that’s ___ grow on” 9 Not quite 10 Vanna’s cohost 11 Make embarrassed 12 Give a quick welcome 13 Hard to climb 18 Kids’ song refrain that’s all vowels 22 PayPal cofounder Musk 25 Cleveland NBAers 27 Erroneous 28 “Begin the Beguine” clarinetist Artie 29 Late baseballer Berra 30 Like one leg of a triathlon 32 Former House speaker Gingrich 35 Boutonniere setting 36 Kareem’s original name 37 “Man, that hurts!”

39 “Well, we just lost” sound 40 Retailer with a snaky floor plan 41 Wine cellar options 44 Eugene Ionesco production 47 Stitches up 49 Outcast 51 Controversial Nabokov novel 54 Connect with 55 New ___ (Yale locale) 56 Zooey’s big sister in acting 57 Basic learning techniques 58 Dropperfuls, say 60 “___ to the people!”

63 Sheet of postage stamps 65 ___Vista (onetime search engine) 66 “Stop that!”

67 Go after, as a fly 69 “Superman” villain Luthor 71 “All the news that’s fit to print” initials

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Real Estate 801 Apartments/ Condos/Studios Mountain View - $3100/month

805 Homes for Rent Los Altos - $4500 Menlo Park, 1950s Eichler House, Beautiful Quarter Acre Lot, 3 Br/2 Ba - $5400

Menlo Park, 4 BR/2 BA 1.5miles from Facebook. Move in now to updated, fenced 1650 sqft SF home.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement TOUCHPOINT RESTAURANT INNOVATIONS INC. TOUCHPOINT PLUS TOUCHPOINT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 609988 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) TouchPoint Restaurant Innovations Inc., 2.) Touchpoint Plus, 3.) Touchpoint, located at 200 Sheridan Ave., #207, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TOUCHPOINT RESTAURANT INNOVATIONS INC. 200 Sheridan Ave., #207 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/15/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 8, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 2015) FLIGHT VC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610030 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Flight VC, located at 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): UPRISING CAPITAL, LLC 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/01/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 9, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) AB COACHING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610097 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: AB Coaching, located at 918 Cowper St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ANTONIA BENQUE 918 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 14, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) INTERSECTIONS IN EDUCATION CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 609967 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Intersections in Education Consulting, located at 3347 Greer Road, Palo, Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): CALLIE TURK 3347 Greer Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/22/15.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 7, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) AMAR REALTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610178 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amar Realtor, located at 505 Hamilton Ave. #100, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): STANFORD REAL ESTATE NETWORKS, LLC

1208 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 9405 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/7/2010.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 15, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) KM LUXE TRAVELS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610116 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: KM Luxe Travels, located at 251 High Street, 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): KATHRYN TSENG MOHAMMED 251 High Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 14, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) ELEVATE HOMES REALTY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610285 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Elevate Homes Realty, located at 855 El Camino Real, Suite 13A #148, 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 CAFIERO 74 Morton Way Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/20/15.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 20, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) LA BOHEME RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610293 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: La Boheme Restaurant, located at 415 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HEXAGONE LLC 415 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 20, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) HOTEL KEEN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 609852 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Hotel Keen, located at 425 High Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): PALO ALTO HOTEL LLC 953 Industrial Ave., Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on Aug. 9, 2010.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 05, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) GREGORY SIMPSON REAL ESTATE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610276 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Gregory Simpson Real Estate, located at 109 Vista Del Prado, Los Gatos, CA 95030, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): GREGORY LAURENCE SIMPSON 109 Vista Del Prado Los Gatos, CA 95030 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6/01/15.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 20, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) YUMMO MUMMO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No.: 610100 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Yummo Mummo, located at 780 Maplewood Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MELISSA MENZIES 780 Maplewood Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 14, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) RADHIKA BEAUTY SALON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610486 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Radhika Beauty Salon, located at 2033 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: Married Couple.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SAVTANTAR KUMAR 330 Curtner Ave. #7 Palo Alto, CA 94306 VANDANA KUMAR 330 Curtner Ave. #7 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 26, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) MY WAY LIMO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610452 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: My Way Limo, located at 465 Polk Ct., Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): YEHIA HELWA 465 Polk Ct. Gilroy, CA 95020 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/23/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 23, 2015.

(PAW Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) GENESIS RENTAL PROPERTY TEN FORTY FULTON GREENWOOD PLACE TOWN HOMES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610627 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Genesis Rental Property, 2.) Ten Forty Fulton, 3.) Greenwood Place Town Homes, located at 779 Holly Oak Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Trust.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Samson Family Trust MARK SAMSON, Trustee 779 Holly Oak Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Samson Family Trust SHARON SAMSON, Trustee 779 Holly Oak Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6-19-2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 30, 2015.

(PAW Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015)

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HOOP INJURY . . . Sophomore guard Robert Cartwright sustained a compound fracture in his forearm during a routine drill on Monday and will be lost indefinitely, Stanford men’s basketball coach Johnny Dawkins said Tuesday.

Cartwright, expected to be the Cardinal’s starting point guard, is the latest causality for Stanford, which will likely start the season without Marcus Allen, Malcolm Allen and Grant Verhoeven, as well.

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The Gunn girls, led by individual champion Gillian Meeks (171), defended their team title at the SCVAL El Camino Division cross country championships on Tuesday while the Palo Alto girls (left) finished third.

It’s time for some runs of success League meets in cross country under way with Gunn girls, Paly boys first to claim championships

by Keith Peters his is a busy time of year for cross-country teams, as all the miles and hard training are leading up to league championships, the Central Coast Section finals and the CIF State Meet.

Runners are battling through injuries and illnesses for the simple reason that so much is at stake.

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This is the payoff for the time invested.

The SCVAL, West Bay Athletic League and Peninsula Athletic League championships are all being held this week over the rolling 2.95-mile layout at Crystal Springs in Belmont. The course also will host the CCS Championships on Nov. 14, the qualifying meet for the state finals the fol-

lowing week in Fresno.

The league meets are the first step, and runners from Gunn and Palo Alto took positive steps forward on Tuesday.

After winning the three previous league meets, the Gunn girls and Palo Alto boys were pretty much shoe-ins to claim team titles at the SCVAL El Camino Division finals on Tuesday. To abso-

lutely no one’s surprise, the Titans and Vikings did just that as both teams scored 36 points and won easily.

In the girls’ race, Los Altos was second with 61 and Palo Alto third with 86. For the boys, Gunn ran a strong second with 60 points and Los Altos took third with 71. (continued on page 71)

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WBAL title keeps SHP’s Choy perfect

Freshman DB Meeks a game-changer

by Keith Peters t has been quite a sophomore tennis season for Sacred Heart Prep sophomore Sara Choy, who navigated the dualmatch campaign without a loss.

That perfection continued in the West Bay Athletic League Individual Tournament, where Choy went 3-0 over two days at Menlo School and won her second straight singles title.

The talented 15-year-old, who is ranked No. 13 in the nation for 16-under players, cruised to the championship with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Menlo School freshman Ashley Vielma on Tuesday. Choy reached the finals with a 6-0, 6-1

by Rick Eymer e’s just a freshman and people are already telling Quenton Meeks he should think about getting into coaching once his playing days are over.

Once he starts talking football, though, it becomes clear. The man was made for the sport.

It helps that his father, Ron Meeks is the secondary coach for the San Diego Chargers and has been an NFL assistant for 25 years. Obviously, talking football is a normal family function.

Quenton Meeks doesn’t consider himself as athletic as his Stanford teammates, though anyone watching the Cardinal’s 30-28

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SHE’S THE BEST . . . Stanford senior Aisling Cuffe was named Pac12 Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year this week, earning the award for the second time. Cuffe now has swept all three of Pac-12 cross-country’s top honors — winning the individual championship race and earning the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, in addition to Athlete of the Year honors. Cuffe also was among five Stanford runners men and women named to the All-Pac-12 teams. Cuffe and Sean McGorty, the Pac-12 men’s runnerup, were first-team selections. Grant Fisher and Joe Rosa are on the men’s second team and Vanessa Fraser is on the women’s second team. Cuffe is among six Cardinal runners to earn the honor, and it’s the ninth time the honor has gone to Stanford overall. However, Cuffe captured the award in 2013 when she won the Pac-12 title. While the all-conference teams are based on place at the Pac-12 Championships, there is some subjectivity in choosing the Athlete of the Year. Cuffe won the Pac-12 championship on Oct. 30, in Colfax, Wash. McGorty was runner-up to Pac-12 Men’s Athlete of the Year Edward Cheserek of Oregon in the conference meet. Rosa was eighth and Fisher 11th. In the women’s race, Fraser was 12th. Only the top 14 are honored, with the top seven earning first-team honors. In other running news, Stanford placed six runners on the Pac-12 All-Century teams for cross country, the conference announced this week. The Cardinal women, who have won five NCAA titles and 15 Pac-10/Pac-12 championships, had five selections to the 12-runner list: Sara Bei (‘050, Alicia Craig (‘05), Lauren Fleshman (‘03), Regina Jacobs (‘86), and Arianna Lambie (‘07).

Sacred Heart Prep sophomore Sara Choy defended her WBAL singles title with a 6-1, 6-0 victory on Tuesday.

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Next stop will be NorCals

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Girls volleyball Menlo-Atherton girls wrapped up the PAL Bay Division volleyball title last week, but Carlmont made sure the Bears would not finish the season undefeated as the host Scots handed the division champs a 26-24, 25-16, 28-26 defeat on Tuesday night in Belmont.

The Bears fell to 12-1 in league (20-7 overall) while Carlmont improved to 10-3 (23-8 overall) with one match remaining.

Carlmont had not beaten M-A since Oct. 14, 2008 and thus ended a streak of 14 straight wins by the Bears. Carlmont also locked up an automatic CCS berth, which the Bears already had clinched.

loss to Sacred Heart Prep.

Jordan Mims led the Bears with three touchdowns, including two scoring receptions plus a 50-yard run. He finished with 12 carries for 78 yards Fullback Stavro Papadakis had a 60-yard touchdown run to give the Bears a 28-7 lead in the third period. He led the Bears with 93 rushing yards on 13 carries.

Justin Friedsam added an 8-yard TD reception from Miles Conrad, Jack Gray had a 75-yard interception return and Marquise Reid had a 75-yard kick return for a score. The Bears rushed for 187 yards and passed for 134.

Should Menlo-Atherton lose to Burlingame and Sacred Heart Prep (3-1, 5-3) knock off host Aragon on Friday, there will be a three-way championship.

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will play you once, then come out and figure out how to play better,” said Mafileo. “She dictated the match (against Vielma). She didn’t let Ashley any room to breathe.”

Choy’s victory in the finals qualified her for a return trip to the CCS Individual Tournament, where she’ll defend her singles title.

In the WBAL doubles final, Menlo seniors Mia McConnell and Melissa Tran fell, 6-1, 6-2, to Harker’s tandem of the Eagles’ No. 1 and 3 singles players. It was only the third loss of the season for McConnell and Tran and only their first setback to a CCS opponent.

At the Peninsula Athletic League Individual Tournament, Menlo-Atherton had two doubles teams and one singles player advance to the finals following action Wednesday at Burlingame High.

M-A sophomore Lanie Van Linge won her quarterfinal (60, 6-0) and semifinal (6-1, 6-3) matches to reach the singles finale against Burlingame sophomore Halle Martinucci yesterday.

M-A sophomore Julia Marks and freshman Yvette Leung played teammates Sally Carlson, a senior, and junior Julia Chang in the finale after both teams posted a pair of victories Wednesday.

Van Linge, Marks and Leung all were named to the All-PAL Bay Division first team this week.

Chang and Carlson were named to the second team along with M-A freshman Ellise Kratzer, senior Amanda Scandalios and sophomore Beata Brenner.

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Menlo golfer Siminoff is lone local player advancing from CCS

by Keith Peters t was a good day for the Menlo School girls golf team at the Central Coast Section Championships on Tuesday at Rancho Canada (East Course) in Carmel Valley. The Knights had their best team finish ever — fourth — while sophomore Sophie Siminoff earned a berth into next week’s NorCal tournament.

For the remaining four local teams, it wasn’t a good day at all as no teams or individuals advanced. Gunn finished sixth (425), Castilleja seventh (429), Palo Alto ninth (444) and MenloAtherton 13th (487).

All four squads had to be disappointed with their results as St. Francis successfully defended its title with a 377 total, Lynbrook grabbed second with a 395 and St. Ignatius finished third at 408 to also advance to NorCals.

The Knights shot 412, just four strokes out of a NorCal berth.

Siminoff, meanwhile, carded a solid even-par 72 on the 6,125yard East Course, wrapping things up with a birdie on her final hole to finish seventh overall.

That proved to be the difference between moving on and having her season end.

Siminoff next will play in the NCGA/CIF High School Girls Championships on Monday at The Club at Crazy Horse in Salinas.

Siminoff actually had to leave the course with her teammates before play concluded as she teed off at 8:24 a.m., and the final threesome went off at 10 a.m. She didn’t learn that she had qualified for NorCals until receiving a text on her way home.

Gunn’s Lydia Tsai shot 74 and missed advancing to NorCals by two shots. Menlo-Atherton’s Naomi Lee carded a 76 with Menlo senior Jessie Rong a stroke back at 77 and Castilleja’s Alyssa Sales carding a 78.

by Ari Kaye s the adage goes, it’s not how you start but how you finish — sort of like races between turtles and hares.

Thus, when the Menlo-Atherton football team started the season 0-3 and was outscored 129-19, all was not lost. There were still seven regular-season games to be play.

Since those first three losses, the Bears have played very well.

They will take a five-game winning streak into Friday night’s showdown with host Burlingame (7 p.m.), with a chance to claim the PAL Bay Division’s outright championship.

Worst to first? Who would have thought, especially after coming off a dismal 3-8 season in 2014.

The Bears took over sole possession of first place in the PAL Bay Division with q 49-28 thumping of a good Terra Nova team last week in Pacifica. Menlo-Atherton improved to 4-0 in league (5-3 overall) while Burlingame brings a 3-1 second-place mark (7-1 overall) after suffering a 42-33

Menlo School sophomore Sophie Siminoff shot an even-par 72 at the CCS Championships.

In Atherton, Menlo School remained in a tie for first place in the WBAL Foothill Division race after a convincing 25-16, 25-22, 25-16 win over visiting Notre Dame-San Jose. The Knights (81, 19-6) are locked in a tie with Harker with one match remaining.

Against NDSJ, Menlo junior Jessica Houghton and freshman sister Sianna Houghton each picked up 21 digs. Senior outside hitter Maddie Stewart posted a team-high 14 kills.

Also in the WBAL Foothill Division, Cate Desler produced 15 kills, 13 digs and served six aces to lead Sacred Heart Prep to a 258, 25-5, 25-13 volleyball victory over visiting Mercy-Burlingame.

Lilika Teu added 32 assist and 11 digs for the Gators (4-5, 17-10) with Jorden Schreeder contributing 14 digs.

In the WBAL Skyline Division, Ashley Hu had eight kills, eight digs and three aces to help Castilleja register a 25-17, 25-7, 25-19 victory over visiting Eastside Prep.

In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Palo Alto (7-4, 23-11) dropped a 25-16, 25-21, 20-25, 19-25, 16-14 decision to visiting Los Gatos and Gunn (1-10, 10-15) fell to host Los Altos, 25-22, 2515, 25-15.

Boys water polo Menlo School and MenloAtherton easily advanced to the semifinals of the Peninsula Athletic League Tournament with lopsided victories on Tuesday.

League champ Menlo (14-11) rolled to a 20-5 dunking of Burlingame and M-A (14-9) cruised past Carlmont, 26-4, both in the

Bears’ pool.

Seniors James Thygesen, Chris Xi and Wells Costello all tallied three goals for the Knights as 11 different players scored.

Jorge Pont tossed in five goals and Alex Hakanson added four as the Bears made quick work of Carlmont by scoring 11 goals in the opening period.

Menlo and M-A are favored to reach Saturday’s championship match at M-A at 4:45 p.m.

At the SCVAL De Anza Division playoffs, Palo Alto dropped its opener to host Mountain View, 6-5. The league finals at Saturday at Gunn at 6:40 p.m.

The West Catholic Athletic League finals will be Saturday at Sacred Heart Prep at 7:30 p.m., with third place set for 5 p.m.

Girls water polo League champion Castilleja and rival Menlo-Atherton both advanced in the PAL Tournament, but Menlo School saw its run end Tuesday in the quarterfinals.

Castilleja (13-6) romped to a 14-1 victory over Aragon at Menlo School as Celia Aldrete, Claire Pisani and Serena Rivera-Korver all tallied four goals.

Menlo-Atherton (8-9) grabbed a 3-1 halftime lead and held on for a 5-4 win over Carlmont as Olivia Jackson tallied two goals for the Bears.

Castilleja and M-A needed to win on Thursday to reach Saturday’s title match in the Bears’ pool at 3:30 p.m.

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semifinal win over Lisa Egorova of Harker.

SHP coach Losaline Mafileo was impressed with how much Choy has improved since last season, when she went 33-0 and captured the Central Coast Section singles crown.

“She was always a great player,” Mafileo said. “But, she found how to raise her game. She is more confident and has matured a lot.

She plays smart tennis.”

Choy came into the tourney with the same plan as she had last season, which was to win the title and qualify for CCS. Mission accomplished.

And for staying undefeated?

“I am conscious of it, but it’s not like it’s going to be the end of the world if I don’t (stay unbeaten),” Choy said. “If I do lose, I just have to stand up and start again.”

Choy acknowledged that she is proud of her winning streak, which hasn’t been all that easy to achieve.

“High school matches aren’t as easy as you think,” she said. “If you’re not focused on things, they can go the other way.”

Case in point. During the Gators’ recent 6-1 loss to league champ Menlo School, Choy found herself trailing Vielma in the second set.

“She was up a game, eventually I was able to win 7-5,” said Choy.

“So I think I did a good job of focusing.”

Choy took that first match against Vielma and learned from it.

“I changed things up,” she explained of Tuesday’s approach.

“She’s the type of player who

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Stanford keeper Jane Campbell (right) earned her 27th and 28th career shutouts last weekend. mark at No. 25 Washington State — a span of 342:23 minutes.

Campbell earned the 27th and 28th shutouts of her career last weekend. She passed Emily Oliver (2010-13) for fifth-place alltime with 28.

Men’s golf Stanford junior All-American Maverick McNealy capped a sensational fall season by earning medalist honors for the third time in four events on Wednesday at the Gifford Collegiate Championship at windy La Costa Resort.

The Portola Valley resident, consensus player of the year in 2015, fired a final-round 4-underpar 67, the low score on the day, to share first place with Chris Babcock and Corey Pereira of Washington at 4-under 209.

“Neat for Mav,” said Cardinal head coach Conrad Ray, “He played great.”

Atherton resident Jonathan Garrick, golfing for UCLA, finished fourth, a stroke behind the co-leaders.

The fifth-ranked Cardinal recorded a 54-hole score of 3-over 855 (285-277-293) to finish second behind Washington (285-275286--846).

After capturing an NCAA-best six medalist titles last season, McNealy now has nine career wins, trailing only Tiger Woods (11) and Patrick Rodgers (11) on Stanford’s all-time list.

Women’s golf No. 3-ranked Stanford concluded the fall season on a strong note Tuesday by beating Baylor, 4-01, in the consolation finals of the inaugural East Lake Cup at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga. There wasn’t as much drama in a rematch of last season’s NCAA Championship title match, as the Cardinal won four of five matches and halved the other.

Prior to facing Baylor, the team completed Monday’s rain-delayed

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semifinal match against No. 2 Duke, losing 4-1.

Men’s soccer Sam Werner emphatically scored his first career goal, but host Washington held the Cardinal in check the rest of the way, rallying to beat No. 4 Stanford, 2-1, in a Pac-12 Conference match Monday night.

The defeat snapped Stanford’s 15-match unbeaten streak, the second-longest run in program history. The Cardinal hadn’t lost since a season-opening setback at UC Santa Barbara on Aug. 28, a span of 66 days.

It also kept alive Washington’s hopes to share the Pac-12 title with Stanford, which clinched at least a co-championship on Friday.

The Huskies must win their final three matches at San Diego State, UCLA and Oregon State and hope for a Cardinal loss to California in its season finale.

Stanford is off until it celebrates Senior Day and hosts the Golden Bears on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. in a game televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

Men’s water polo Winner of four straight, No. 5 Stanford will conclude its regular season at home with three games at the Avery Aquatic Center. The Cardinal hosts No. 9 Pepperdine on Friday at 7 p.m.

The Cardinal is coming off a pair of wins last weekend over No. 8 Long Beach State (12-8) and No. 7 UC Irvine (7-0), which saw senior Bret Bonanni become the new Stanford and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation career scoring leader.

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he nationally No. 3-ranked Stanford women’s soccer team will be looking to complete a perfect conference season when it plays host to No. 20 California on Friday in its regular-season finale at 6 p.m.

The annual rivalry match will be Senior Night and the Cardinal will recognize its four seniors — Kate Bettinger, Sarah Cox, Laura Liedle and Haley Rosen — before the game.

Tickets to the game are sold out, but the contest will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. Cal is 6-4 in the conference and 13-5-2 overall.

Stanford (10-0 Pac-12, 16-2 overall) clinched its 10th Pac-12 title and fifth in the past seven years last weekend with shutout victories against No. 16 USC and UCLA. Jordan DiBiasi scored the game-winner in a 1-0 decision against the Trojans with a highlight-worthy back-heel flick off a pass from Haley Rosen.

On Sunday, Kyra Carusa broke a scoreless tie against UCLA in the 62nd minute and Megan Turner added insurance in the 84th minute to secure the conference championship outright. The win was Stanford’s 10th in a row.

“I’m really proud of winning the 10th Pac-12 championship,” Stanford coach Paul Ratcliffe said. “It takes a lot of hard work, dedication and really talented student-athletes.”

Those title-clinching victories helped the Cardinal sweep Pac12 honors this week with DiBiasi (Offensive Player of the Week) and fellow freshman Alana Cook (Defensive Player of the Week) earning the first conference awards of their collegiate careers.

Jane Campbell earned Goalkeeper of the Week honors for the second consecutive week.

Stanford moved up to No. 3 in the NSCAA/Continental Tire coaches’ poll after being ranked fourth the past three weeks. The Cardinal is No. 2 in the Soccer America rankings and No. 3 in the TopDrawerSoccer rankings.

The NCAA Division I selection show will air Monday on NCAA. com at 1:30 p.m. PT. The 64-team field and the seeding will be announced, as well. Stanford has advanced to the past 17 NCAA tournaments and has a 25-match home NCAA unbeaten streak dating back to 2008. Stanford has appeared in 24 tournaments overall.

The Cardinal has shut out its past three opponents and has not allowed a goal since the 36:07

comeback victory over Washington State last weekend would beg to differ. His first two career interceptions came at crucial times as Stanford was rallying from a 12-point second-half deficit.

He may argue that it came from watching tape, picking out every little tendency of the opposition.

You just don’t walk onto a football field, in a Pac-12 Conference contest, using brains alone. Meeks has talent. He’s just not wasting it.

Meeks, used as a nickel back, has appeared in all eight games, starting the past three. He’ll likely be in the starting lineup when the ninth-ranked Cardinal (7-1 overall, 6-0 Pac-12) takes a sevengame winning streak to Boulder to take on Colorado (4-5, 1-4) Saturday at 10 a.m. (PT), to be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

The Buffaloes opened the season with a 3-1 mark before losing three straight to open conference play. Their last two losses have been by a combined 11 points.

They have one of the best wide receivers in the conference in Nelson Spruce and an offense that ran 114 plays in last week’s 35-31 loss at UCLA. “They play hard, the way you want your team to play,” Stanford coach David Shaw said. “The mistakes you make, they’re going to capitalize. They have an aggressive offense. If you are not ready, they will snap the ball. Their quarterback (Sefo Liufau) is a good decision maker.”

Liufau will have to account for Meeks, who may just know enough about the Colorado offense to make another gamechanging play.

Meeks is a member of a young secondary that ranks No. 2 in the Pac-12 in passing efficiency at 114.8. The Cardinal is sixth in pass defense, allowing 223.5 yards per game.

“I’m a decent athlete, but the reason I can make plays is my meticulous attention to detail,” Meeks said. “It’s not perfect, it needs to get better. But to me, this game is so mental that to be suc-

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cessful, you have to have an edge mentally. A lot of players play on pure athleticism, but I’m not one of those guys.”

He studies film like, well, a coach. Once he gets a handle on his school work early in the week, every spare moment is spent viewing film with the rest of the defensive backfield, or by himself.

“I’ve got my IPad on repeat all the time,” Meeks said. “I love the X’s and O’s of games. “People say I should be a coach after I’m done. I just love that aspect of the game.”

While he was being recruited, he paid particular attention to the secondary coach. He was looking for a particular type of coach and he found it in Stanford’s Duane Akina.

“He’s the best secondary coach in the country,” Meeks said, not including his father. “He teaches you concepts. That’s one thing when I was being recruited that I was looking for. I wanted somebody in college who I thought was going to be the best and Coach Akina was definitely that guy. I wasn’t wrong in my thinking. He coaches you really hard, but you know it’s out of love. He’s going to put you in the right positions and you just have to trust the things he’s coached you to do.”

He points to his interceptions against the Cougars as evidence.

“We noticed that formation and all week we were preaching for me to get underneath that route,” Meeks said. “I actually tried to do it earlier in the game, but I kind of hesitated and Kodi Whitfield came to me on the sideline and said, ‘You just got to go. Just go.

Trust it. Once I saw the formation, and saw my receiver release the way he did, I just trusted my instincts and went, and the ball just fell into my hands.”

He never hesitated on the second pick.

“We noticed in that particular formation they like to run the screen play,” Meeks said. “(Cornerback) Ronnie Harris noticed it before I did. I had a sense that it was coming, but Ronnie just knew and called it out. In that particular coverage, it gave me the opportunity to take a chance, and I just jumped it. That’s something we practiced.”

The first interception set up a six-yard touchdown run by quarterback Kevin Hogan that gave Stanford a 27-22 lead in the fourth quarter. The second pick set up the game-winning field goal by Conrad Ukropina with 1:54 left in the game.

Another defensive standout was Palo Alto grad Kevin Anderson, who returned to action after missing a month with an unspecified injury.

“I thought he looked great,” Shaw said. “He gives us fresh legs. He hasn’t played in a month.

He felt stronger but he said he felt a little rusty. Having him back last week was huge.”

Shaw also said he anticipates linebacker Kevin Palma and wide receiver Devon Cajuste to play against the Buffaloes. Q

Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Malcolm Slaney

Palo Alto’s (L-R) Ben Beaudry, Reed Foster, Henry Saul, Sam Craig, Kent Slaney and Naveen Pai led the Vikings to the SCVAL El Camino Division team title.

X-country (continued from page 68)

On Saturday, the Peninsula Athletic League Championships take over the Crystal Springs course with the Menlo-Atherton girls a heavy favorite to repeat as team champ when the finals start at 3 p.m. The M-A boys are hoping to improve on their third-place finish of a year ago when their race gets under way at 3:30 p.m.

M-A senior Annalisa Crowe looks to be favored to win her first individual title at this meet after taking seventh last year. She has made great strides this season and now ranks No. 2 in school history with her 18:25 at Crystal last month. Fellow seniors Cat DePuy and Madeleine Baier make up a tough trio, which should help offset the loss of senior Katie Beebe — lost earlier for the season following a concussion from a horseriding accident. Q

SACRED HEART PREP The junior water polo player had five goals as the Gators clinched the WCAL regular-season title before adding 12 goals during a 3-1 finish (best since 2007) that earned them second place at the NorCal Championships.

Andrew Daschbach, Mason Randall SACRED HEART PREP Daschbach, a senior two-way player caught a career-high 12 passes for a schoolrecord 251 yards plus three touchdowns from Randall, a senior QB who completed 17 of 23 passes in a 42-33 win over unbeaten Burlingame.

Honorable mention Leanna Collins* Menlo-Atherton volleyball

Jessica Lee Palo Alto volleyball

Naomi Lee Menlo-Atherton golf

Sophie Siminoff Menlo golf

Lydia Tsai Gunn golf

Finn Banks* Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Tiago Bonchristiano Menlo water polo

Eli Givens Palo Alto football

Jordan Mims* Menlo-Atherton football

Kyle Murphy Pinewood football

Stephanie Yu

Hayden Pegley

Palo Alto golf

Menlo football * previous winner

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

Gunn’s Gillian Meeks defended her league title.

Malcolm Slaney

Malcolm Slaney

Also as expected, Gunn senior Gillian Meeks won the girls’ race as she clocked 17:27.2 over the rolling 2.95-mile layout at Crystal Springs in Belmont. She also had won three previous league races.

Despite battling a cold, Meeks beat Lauren Jacob of Los Altos by more than 41 seconds.

Perhaps the only surprise of the day was Palo Alto junior Kent Slaney not winning the boys’ title, as he had done in the previous three league meets.

Slaney, also battling a cold, finished second in 15:14.5 as senior Ben Zaeske of Los Altos ran off with individual honors while clocking 15:06.7.

Aside from that little bump, it was a great day for the Gunn and Paly teams as they qualified for the C.C.S. finals.

“It was a really great day for our team, both boys and girls,” said Gunn coach PattiSue Plumer.

“Twenty girls and 33 boys had seasonal or career PR’s . . . some of them massive. I was told that the girls’ team time was the second-fastest in school history. And, our top three boys had a combined PR of almost four minutes. Crazy.

“The boys really wanted to get second place and went after it.

The girls wanted to win but, with Gillian and another girl pretty sick, I told them to run conservatively the first mile and push the last mile, Gillian especially. So, she went out and ran 15 seconds slower the first mile and didn’t push the home stretch and missed her PR by one second . . . can’t really explain any of that.”

With Meeks leading the way, the Titans finished 1-3-5-12-15.

Illi Gardner was the fastest junior while taking third in 18:22.6 with sophomore Joyce Shea fifth in 19:27.5. Claire Hu (12th in 20:10.0) and Emma Chiao (15th in 20:27.5) rounded out the scoring.

For the Gunn boys, senior Reid

Kovacs was fourth in 16:02.0 and junior Jonas Enders took fifth in 16:02.8. Simon Rufer (15th in 16:42.4), Josh Radin (16th in 16:49.6) and Ryan Araghi (20th in 17:01.1) rounded out the scoring.

“At least two of our top seven in every race were sick,” said Plumer, “which speaks to their tenacity (and the lingering effects of homecoming) more than our depth.”

Even with that said, the Gunn girls had five scorers among the top 15 and the boys had five among the top 20.

Palo Alto was just as good as the boys had five among the first 12 while the girls had five in the top 26.

“I could not be more proud of my boys,” said Paly coach Kelsey Feeley. “Across the board there was so much improvement over the season and it was so great to see them get rewarded for their hard work.

“It was also amazing to see how close the boys have become from the beginning of the season until now . . . everyone cheered for everyone and they enjoyed not only their personal success but the success of their teammates.”

Following Slaney in the varsity race was Henry Saul, the day’s fastest freshman while clocking 16:03.3 for sixth. Junior Naveen Pai was seventh in 16:09.7 and Reed Foster, the fastest sophomore, finished ninth in 16:18.6.

Junior Ben Beaudry (12th in 16:36.4) rounded out the scoring.

For the Paly girls, Julia Doubson was sixth in 19:32.8, Maya Rebitzer was 17th (20:32.0), Andrea Chandler took 18th (20:34.8), Katia Martha 19th (20:35.2) and Sarah Wang 26th (20:59.0).

The West Bay Athletic League Championships will be held Friday at Crystal Springs, with the boys starting at 2 p.m., followed by the girls at 2:15 p.m. Sacred Heart Prep is the defending champ boys champ while Menlo’s Robert Miranda is the favorite for individual honors.

Maddy Johnston

Gunn’s Reid Kovacs (219) leads Paly’s Henry Saul and Gunn’s Jonas Enders to the finish line. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • November 6, 2015 • Page 71

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