Palo Alto Weekly November 20, 2015

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Inside: Enjoy! class guide Donate to the HOLIDAY FUND page 32

Inside: Holiday Gift Guide Neighborhoods 15 Shop Talk 27 Title Pages 30 Q News FAA vows to take fresh look at flight paths, altitudes

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Q Arts Mountain View nightclub hosts regular drag shows

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Q Home Front yard space goes beyond good lookin’

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FAA vows to take fresh look at flight paths, altitudes Federal agency responds to flurry of Bay Area complaints about airplane noise

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esponding to a rising volume of complaints about airplane noise, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has agreed to take a fresh look at flight paths, plane altitudes and new procedures that would bring some peace to the afflicted skies above San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa

Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

In a letter prepared for U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr and Jackie Speier, the federal agency announced this week a new threephased initiative that will explore a variety of possible modifications to flight speeds, altitudes and waypoint locations.

After a preliminary feasibility study in the first phase, the administration would then spend the second phase further studying any amendments and procedures “determined to be initially feasible, flyable, and operationally acceptable from a safety point of view,” according to an FAA report released Monday by the three House members. In the third phase, the FAA would formally implement the revised procedures and make whatever airspace changes are deemed appropriate.

The FAA announced its initiative at a time when the number of complaints about airplane noise is skyrocketing and new citizen groups devoted to the topic are sprouting up to lobby change and, in some cases, take legal action.

For many, the problem was exacerbated by Next Generation Air Transportation System (commonly known as NextGen), an effort that the FAA began to roll out last year that standardized travel lanes for aircraft and, in doing so,

required planes to share a more narrow band of airspace.

The change was particularly acute for Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Santa Cruz, Woodside and other communities that are located within the flight paths. In Palo Alto alone, the number of complaints shot up from 60 in June 2014 to 2,733 in June 2015, according to a resolution the City Council passed in August.

And in Portola Valley and Wood(continued on page 12)

HOUSING

HOLIDAY FUND

Buena Vista owner sues Palo Alto

Educational expeditions Beechwood’s outdoor-ed program fosters independence, teamwork and love of learning

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Francisco Bay. Before their fourth-grade camping trip to Big Basin, students reviewed a list of equipment and decided what to pack.

“The idea is they figure out what to bring based on the list and try to do it without their parents’ help,” fourth-grade teacher John Laurance said. “They do a practice run with the tent. We put them in groups and bring the tents out onto the lawn, and the kids really work on their own to get through the challenge of putting together the tent.”

The students also learned about the animals they’d see at Big Basin, what the park looks like and how to respect the environment, Laurance said.

Fourth-graders Bryce Ammons, Isaiash Coria and Johno Price participated in a group hike and a solo hike, played tag, made s’mores and took part in a talent show, among other activities.

“When we first got there we unpacked and set up our tents, and we went on a hike,” Bryce said.

“We saw lots of banana slugs and lots of plants you can eat.”

They also saw plants they needed to stay away from, Isaiash added, like poison oak.

The trip introduced the students to a variety of challenges, including hiking by themselves.

The objective of the less-thana-quarter-mile hike was to “observe and listen,” Laurance said, adding that the students were separated by about 30 seconds.

“It allowed us to have time by ourselves, and maybe if we’re quiet, more animals can come and we could hear other animals

Jisser family accuses city of extortion in requirement for relocation assistance

by Gennady Sheyner n the latest skirmish in the long and emotional battle over Palo Alto’s sole mobile-home park, the owners of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the City of Palo Alto, accusing it of imposing “unconstitutional” conditions in exchange for permission to shut down the park.

The lawsuit from the Jisser family, which was filed Thursday by attorney Lawrance Salzman of Pacific Legal Foundation, seeks to remove the conditions that the City Council approved in May 2014 for the closure of Buena Vista, a mobile home park in the Barron Park neighborhood that houses about 400 mostly low-income residents. Filed in the U.S. District Court, the suit also seeks to deal a blow to the city’s Mobilehome Park Conversion Ordinance, which was adopted in 2001 as a measure to protect the park’s residents in the event of closure. The ordinance, as it’s applied to the Jisser family, violates the family’s rights to withdraw their property from the rental market and convert the site at 3980 El Camino Real to new use, the suit contends.

The Jissers have been trying to close Buena Vista since the fall of 2012, and they reached a milestone last spring when the City Council unanimously approved the fifth iteration of a “relocation impact report” — a legally

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ayaking, hiking, camping and making s’mores sound like summer-exclusive activities done with family, but for Beechwood School students in Menlo Park, getting outdoors is part of the school curriculum.

The nonprofit private school’s outdoor-education program gives its kinderprep to eighthgrade students opportunities to escape their usual surroundings and explore new places during unique trips. The school serves more than 100 low-income families from Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.

“The idea is to take kids who might not otherwise have the opportunity to do these kinds of things outdoors and expose them and their parents, who come along on the trips, to (nature),” said Melinda Christopherson, development director/ finance manager for the California Family Foundation, which funds Beechwood. The trips also demonstrate how “inexpensive and rewarding” nature trips can be, she added.

The outdoor program is funded through private donations and grants, including a $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund this year.

The educational expeditions vary: kinder-prep students go on a day hike, and second-graders camp overnight at the school.

Fifth-grade students go to Yosemite, and seventh-graders kayak to Angel Island in the San

Beechwood School’s third- and fourth-graders participated in a group hike at Big Basin last spring as part of the school’s outdoor-education program. instead of being with our friends and being loud,” Isaiash added.

Jordan Clark’s and Lala Niu’s kayaking trip to Angel Island was a rewarding — and challenging — experience for the two seventh-graders, they said.

They had never been in a kayak or camped outside before.

“It let me get away from my family and explore something on my own, especially the camping part because I didn’t know how to camp,” Lala said. “My friends had to help me roll up my sleeping bag and figure everything out, but we got through it together, so it really built a sense of community for me.”

The seventh-graders had to prep and cook breakfast, lunch and dinner and cleaned up after

every meal.

“Me and most of my friends were in the breakfast crew, so we had to wake up earlier than everybody,” Jordan said. “I was so tired. I was smelling the food and I wanted to eat it.”

The night before, the students had gone on a hike by the moonlight, Lala said. They ascended Mount Livermore, the highest point on Angel Island, where they gazed at stars and enjoyed the 360-degree view of the Bay Area.

“I liked when we got to the top because — it’s weird — my class is usually loud and it was so quiet, and you could see everything, and you could even (continued on page 16)

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Shelley Correll, Stanford University sociology professor, on addressing campus sexual assault.

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Around Town

CUE THE MUSIC ... What are some of the most important things medical students need to know when treating a patient? Students from the Stanford University School of Medicine put together a music video parody of Meghan Trainor’s “Dear Future Husband,” called “Dear Future Doctor,” to demonstrate what aspiring doctors will encounter and what to do — and most importantly what not to do — when treating patients. The music video starts with a “patient” singing, “Dear future doctor, here’s a few things you need to know if you want to be my doctor and keep me alive,” and continues with a list of things to do: “Check my pulse and rate, percuss and auscultate, and don’t forget to check my pupils, moles and prostate.” Make sure to treat the patient right, the patient continues to sing, “’cuz if you don’t I might sue you ‘til you bleed ... li-liability.”

The music video also warns future doctors about the long hours they’ll work: “You’ll have that five to night, and maybe overtime. So don’t get used to sleep or ever coming home at night.” To view the video, visit tinyurl.com/pd8d9mv.

SECOND TIME’S A CHARM ...

For the second time, Stanford University has received the Platinum Bicycle Friendly University Award from the League of American Bicyclists for its bicycling program. The league hands out bronze, gold and platinum awards every four years.

Stanford’s bicycling program launched in 2011 and was the only program that got a platinum award that year. This year, three other universities joined Stanford.

“We know that when colleges and universities invest in bicycling, great things happen: more people ride, we decrease our carbon footprint, reduce health care costs, connect to community and tip the culture toward more sustainable and safe commute options,” Ariadne Delon Scott, Stanford’s bicycle program coordinator, said in a blog post on the League of American Bicyclists website. Stanford’s efforts have included removing 100 parking spaces and adding a mile of new bike lanes; installing three new roundabouts; increasing bike parking to more than 19,000 spaces; achieving a 39 percent increase in participation in Bike to Work Day; and installing two

contra-flow bike lanes, according to an announcement.

AND THE WINNERS ARE ... By and large, it’s been a bleak and thankless year for local architects.

With residents up in arms about too much growth and the Palo Alto City Council eagerly passing laws to prevent new offices from being erected, an architect proposing a modern-looking office building can today expect to face a citizen appeal, a long sequence of public hearings and accusations of degrading the city’s “quality of life” by blighting Birge Clark’s Spanish Colonial paradise with yet another “glass box.” On Nov. 30, however, the city will take a break from the vitriol to honor the best designs of the past five years.

The 2015 Architectural Review Board Design Awards (which we will refer to here as Arbies for the sake of brevity) come out every five years. This year, six different projects were deemed by the city to be (among other things) innovative, inclusive, authentic, respectful of context and the environment, well-built and detailoriented. In addition to recognizing the architects, the city is also — in some ways — recognizing itself.

The city’s two recently reopened libraries — the newly constructed Mitchell Park Library and the renovated Rinconada Library — each snagged an Arbie in the categories of “special award for sustainable design” and “preservation, addition and site design,” respectfully. Group 4 Architects was involved in both projects, though the firm worked with two others (Garavaglia Architecture and Gates and Associates), on the Rinconada renovation. Verde Design, Barbara Butler and RHAA will be honored for designing the new, all-inclusive Magical Bridge Playground at Mitchell Park (the project received a “special award for innovativeinclusive playground,” a category that probably didn’t engender too much competition). Rounding out the list of Arbies winners are Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architect for designing the Apple Store at 340 University Ave.; Tom Eliot Fisch, Page & Turnbull and Stephen Wheeler for preservation work on Hoover Pavilion; and Jimmy Chang/R.add for the Paris Baguette building at 383 University Ave. Q

Upfront YOUTH WELL-BEING

Palo Alto reacts to The Atlantic article Students, groups plan further discussion on well-being, suicide prevention

by Elena Kadvany had more mixed feelings: There were some problematic characterizations of complex mental health issues and misrepresentations of the community but also details that resonated with them.

“It’s important to remember that we are diverse, and just because your experience doesn’t necessarily match with the article or your experience does match with the article, it doesn’t mean that that’s the same for everyone,” said Lisa Hao, a Gunn senior. The community should be mindful of this, she said, when talking about the article, and be careful not to “invalidate others’ experiences.”

Grace Park, a Gunn senior and the school’s Board of Education student representative, said she and other students expected the article would offer “something new, some new insight, something meaningful that would contribute to the discussion.”

“I don’t want to say that the entire article is wrong because it’s not. It’s a very well-researched article. I just feel that that article had the chance to maybe bring up something new. ... You have a platform on which to shed new light on it, shed perspective — especially as someone who’s an outsider and is a parent to someone in high school,” Park said. “You have that chance and that opportunity, and I feel like it was misused.”

Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann, who sent her own response to parents and students on Tuesday evening, echoed that sentiment in an interview: “We were hoping that this would be

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street where bicycles have priority over automobiles, conflicts between bicycles and automobiles are minimized, and bicycle travel time is reduced by the removal of stop signs and other impediments to bicycle travel.”

Joshuah Mello, the city’s chief transportation official, said the objective is to improve the connection between north and south Palo Alto and create a new route for bicyclists en route to Cubberley Community Center, the San Antonio Caltrain station, and the new Google development called “The Rails,” which is located in Mountain View across San Antonio.

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New project proposes host of improvements for southern end of Bryant Street traffic circles, shared-lane markings (also known as “sharrows”) and raised sidewalks. Stop signs will be removed at numerous intersections to facilitate a smoother ride for cyclists. And new signs will be installed along the route to guide southbound bikers toward Redwood Circle, Carlson Court and other neighborhood streets before the boulevard terminates at San Antonio Road.

The result will be the biggest transformation of Palo Alto’s signature bike boulevard since 1982, when Bryant Street received that designation.

Today, a bicycle boulevard is defined in the city’s Comprehensive Plan as a “low volume through-

Any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal can call 800-784-2433 to speak with a crisis counselor. People in Santa Clara County can also call 855-278-4204.

A list of community resources, compiled by the school district, is also available at tinyurl. com/pausdMHRL.

Proposed Extension of Bryant St. Bike Boulevard

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ore than three decades after Bryant Street became the nation’s first “bicycle boulevard,” Palo Alto officials are preparing to extend the popular bike route to the southernmost reaches of the city.

Under a new proposal that the Planning and Transportation Commission reviewed and unanimously endorsed Wednesday night, a host of traffic-calming measures would be installed between the boulevard’s current terminus at East Meadow Drive and the Mountain View border.

The southern segment of Bryant (as well as other area streets that will be added to the boulevard) will be equipped with bulb-outs,

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ly submitted a response to The Atlantic that had been carefully drafted over the last week by a team of mental health professionals and school district and city officials, some of whom had read an advance copy of the article. (The response was also shared with district parents in a message sent by Superintendent Max McGee on Tuesday.) Durbin is a co-founder of a local collaborative of health professionals, the HEARD Alliance, addressing youth well-being.

Durbin and others said they were concerned that the article violated established media guidelines on how to report on suicide, such as avoiding descriptions of methods of suicide, not using evocative images and avoiding “glorification” of the teens by using their names.

Some Palo Alto students and recent alumni described the article as “triggering,” “sensationalist” and an inaccurate representation of the community they know.

“All I really get from this article (besides redundant sensationalist writing) are generalizations, groundlessly directed blame and insensitivity for the subject,” Tatiana Boyle, a Gunn 2014 graduate, wrote on her Facebook page. “I see no new light shed on the topic.”

Grace Kim, who graduated from Paly in 2015, said: “To reiterate (to) everyone from home: We’re more than this. It’s hard to see your home make headlines this way.”

Others said they they thought the article was straightforward and thorough and were wary of giving it too much weight. Some

the community is.”

“Nobody in the middle of a tragedy likes to be scrutinized, particularly by an outsider,” Rosin wrote. “The only benefit to that scrutiny is airing some of the issues everyone is thinking about anyway. Our hope is that the story will spur a useful discussion, among educators, mental health experts, and teenagers.”

Below that, The Atlantic posted Durbin’s response and invited readers to submit their own reactions.

Durbin, who read an advance copy of the story, defended the community’s preparation for the article’s publication.

“My thought is we’re sensitive, but I think we’re also very thoughtful,” she said. “It’s not an inappropriate hypersensitivity.

It’s a thoughtful response to media based on our experience and media guidelines and knowing the story didn’t accurately portray what’s happening in the community or even the community feeling.”

In reaction to the article, local youth suicide-prevention collaborative Project Safety Net announced in an email on Tuesday that a “good portion” of a regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday would be given over a discussion of The Atlantic piece “as well as best practices on messaging in regards to suicide prevention and in particular communities in contagion.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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he appearance in a national publication of a nowfamiliar story — that of a community, Palo Alto, grappling with youth suicide — has elicited a strong reaction locally, particularly from students, alumni, school district leadership and local mental health professionals.

The Atlantic magazine posted online Monday evening the cover story for its December issue, titled “The Silicon Valley Suicides,” about the recent teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto. The Atlantic is not the first national media outlet to cover the topic in the past year, with publications ranging from The New York Times to VICE. com writing their own stories.

Students, alumni and parents flocked to social media to share their perspectives in the hours following the online posting. One Palo Alto High School alumna created a video chatroom and shared on a 2,700-plus member Facebook group times she would be available for anyone who wanted or needed to talk.

Gunn High School student Shawna Chen, editor in chief of student newspaper, The Oracle, posted her own response on Facebook, writing that she was “disappointed and saddened by the story because it does not comprehensively reflect who we are as a community.”

Gunn students planned a student-only forum for Thursday night called, “Titan Strong: A Conversation about Moving Forward.”

Meg Durbin, a pediatric and internal medicine doctor at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, quick-

something more relevant, and we were disappointed that it wasn’t.”

McGee said pieces of the article were “uplifting and positive” — such as former Paly student Taylor Chiu’s recollection of her own suicide attempt and recovery — but that the timing, close to the anniversaries of last year’s first deaths by suicides, was “insensitive ... to put it mildly.”

Julie Lythcott-Haims — a parent in the district, former Stanford University dean of freshman and author of the recent book “How to Raise an Adult” — posted a link to The Atlantic story on the book’s Facebook page, calling the article “piercing and poignant.” Article author Hanna Rosin quotes from “How to Raise an Adult” in the story.

“The writer, Hanna Rosin, says when she tried to get to the heart of it, it was still elusive,” Lythcott-Haims wrote. “Here’s what I think. I think we — in our homes, schools, and community — have to value our kids as humans, not because of some GPA or score.

Too many of us don’t. We keep aiming for the latter, hoping ours can handle it all.

“We need to boycott the system — the mindset — that says the very purpose of childhood is to gather as much accomplishment as possible.”

School board member Ken Dauber, who was interviewed for The Atlantic story, said focusing on the impact of any particular article becomes a “distraction” from the core issue the community has been trying to address: “whether we’re doing everything that we can be doing” to support students’ mental health and well-being.

Rosin posted her own response on Monday evening, writing that the community’s fearful preparation for the story — including an early November email from McGee to parents warning of the article’s publication — served as “a measure of just how sensitive

A proposed extension to the Bryant Street Bike Boulevard would stretch to Palo Alto’s border with Mountain View. ant Street bike program,” Mello said.

The commission voted 6-0, with Eric Rosenblum absent, to support the proposed concept for the 1.3-mile addition that includes Bryant Street and small portions

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Pressing ahead with the gender revolution Stanford professor works to achieve equality for women, in and out of academia

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an we move beyond the stalled gender revolution?”

When Stanford University sociology professor and longtime gender scholar Shelley Correll became director of the university’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, she selected this question as the institution’s new focus.

“What that phrase refers to is a now very well-established finding in the social sciences that we’ve stalled out on measures of progress towards gender equality,” Correll said in an interview with the Weekly.

Progress began after the 1950s and, following landmark civil rights laws passed, gain momentum in the 1960s: The gender wage gap started closing, more women were entering the paid labor market and, in the 1980s — when Correll was an undergraduate student — women were surpassing men in terms of getting bachelor’s degrees, she said.

campus. For several years, she has chaired the provost’s Panel on Faculty Equity and Quality of Life, a group that periodically conducts surveys to gauge how faculty feel about everything from collegial support and workplace climate to workload and child care policies.

Following a campuswide survey the panel conducted in 2008 that found underrepresented minority faculty reported lower rates of support and inclusion, Correll also spearheaded a more in-depth study to better understand the experience of minority faculty at Stanford.

Correll also became engaged in efforts to prevent sexual assault on campus last year, which in an interview she called “the gender issue on college campuses of our time.” Though a gender expert, Correll had previously been working mostly with faculty rather than students. Then the university asked her to serve on the high-profile Task Force on Sexual

‘Sexual assault ... is a problem right in our own backyard, at Stanford.’

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“I thought at the time, ‘This is just a matter of time,’” Correll said.

Gender scholars started predicting when America would reach gender equality: 2035, according to one book she read frequently.

But in the 1990s, progress slowed. Correll said scholars don’t quite understand why, but her take is that while more material changes happened — like higher rates of women in college and the workforce — deeper cultural shifts were held back by factors that are harder to probe and change, such as unconscious bias and subtle discrimination.

Despite now being within two decades of the 2035, “I think you’d be hard pressed to find a gender scholar today that would say, ‘In 20 years, I think we’ll be there,’” Correll said.

Correll has spent her career working toward that point, analyzing gender in the workplace and social psychology. She’s well-known for her research on the “motherhood penalty,” which found that mothers experience disadvantages at work — lower pay and perceptional disadvantages that affect their hiring, promotion, evaluations and salary decisions — in addition to those commonly associated with gender.

Since joining the Stanford faculty in 2008, Correll has turned her eye toward the experience of women and faculty of color on

Assault, an 18-member group of faculty, staff, students and other Stanford community members who were charged last summer with the task of recommending reforms to Stanford’s sexual-assault policies and procedures.

The task force’s work served as a crash course for Correll and propelled her to take a more active role in prevention and education efforts on campus.

“People have said this about sexual assault: Once you start thinking about it, even if you didn’t want to, you can’t quit thinking about it,” she said.

“That’s certainly been my experience. It’s in my head now. And it’s a problem right in our own backyard, at Stanford.

“This is a problem that’s affecting our students; it’s affecting our female students more than our male students; our trans(gender) students more than our cisgender students; our students of color more than white students,” she said. “(On) every axis of inequality, this is widening disparities that we otherwise are trying to narrow.

It just felt like a conversation that I had to get involved in.”

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Chemical Co. in Texas. Her first internship supervisor, a man, told her when she arrived: “This is no place for women.”

Correll, who grew up in Houston, was raised to believe in the power of education, despite the fact the neither her police officer father nor stay-at-home mother went to college. Her mother (who Correll said lost her college scholarship after the school found out she had married Correll’s father as a senior in high school) was like a “second teacher,” constantly buying her books and helping her with her writing.

The key to success was education.

To Correll, gender seemed a nonissue. The Dow internship, she said, was her first encounter with the fact that gender inequality still existed.

It piqued her interest in how gender inequality plays out in the workplace, particularly in the science and engineering fields.

The honors chemistry class she was teaching was evenly split between boys and girls, but she said there were notable differences in how students of each gender perceived their achievement. When a male student got a bad grade, he would say something like, “I’m really good at this; I just didn’t take the time to study,” Correll said. No matter how well female students did in the class, however, they did not think they were good at chemistry.

“Nothing could shatter his confidence that he was good at chemistry, and almost nothing could convince women they were,” Correll said.

Her experiences in the classroom and at Dow became the foundation for a graduate dissertation she completed at Stanford in 2001, which looked at “the way that stereotypes about fields affect the extent to which men and women come to see themselves as being skilled in that area,” Correll said.

“This became some of my earliest ideas about why this was — if women in more masculine stereotyped fields see themselves as not having as much skill as men do, they’re perhaps going to be less likely to continue on paths towards those careers,” she said.

“Under what conditions do we see these gaps between men and women?”

Several years later, Correll began her award-winning “motherhood penalty” research while teaching at Cornell University.

She and other researchers conducted a study in which paid undergraduate student-volunteers were told a company was searching for a person to head its new marketing department and were interested in feedback from a younger demographic. The participants rated a pair of equally qualified, same-gender (either

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Shelley Correll is the director of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, professor of sociology and member of the university’s task force on sexual assault. male or female), same-race (either African-American or white) fictitious job applicants, who were presented as real and who had different parental status. Whether or not they were parents was subtly indicated on resumes or cover letters, such as a parent who listed involvement with a Parent Teacher Association.

“The laboratory experiment evaluates the hypothesis that the ‘motherhood penalty’ on wages and evaluations of workplace performance and suitability occurs, at least partially, because cultural understandings of the motherhood role exist in tension with the cultural understandings of the ‘ideal worker’ role,” the study report states.

The experiment validated their hypothesis. Participants viewed mothers as significantly less competent and committed than women without children. They recommended a starting salary for mothers that was $11,000, or 7.4 percent, less than that offered to nonmothers. Mothers were also rated as “significantly less promotable and were less likely to be recommended for management,” the study reads.

While participants recommended 84 percent of female applicants without children for hire, they recommended a significantly lower percentage of mothers: 47 percent.

The motherhood penalty is alive and well in Silicon Valley, Correll said.

After she gave a talk recently at a local tech company, both men and women waited in line to talk with her about their professional experiences. Even men told her that despite their companies offering generous parental-leave policies, it’s looked down upon to actually take advantage of them.

“One guy in particular said he was planning to take the full amount of parental leave and his teammates said, ‘All of it?’” Correll said.

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fter Correll arrived at Stanford in 2008, she turned her eye toward improving the workplace climate there, particularly for women and faculty of color. Only 22 percent of full, tenured professors at Stanford are women, and in 2013, there were only 133 underrepresented minority faculty members, according to the university.

Correll led the Panel on Faculty Equity and Quality of Life in conducting a campuswide climate survey in 2008 that found that female and minority faculty felt they had less voice than their white male counterparts in the decision-making that affects the direction of their department. Only 58 percent of women compared to 72 percent of men somewhat or strongly agreed that they had a voice in their department.

Male and female faculty also diverged in their sense of collegial support — in other words, how much they feel valued, respected and included by their colleagues.

With the exception of the Law School, female faculty reported lower collegial support among the various schools and divisions, with significant gender differences in the Graduate School of Business, School of Humanities and Sciences and Medicine-Clinical Sciences, the survey found.

“Unfortunately, Stanford, especially in my School, is still an old boys club. ... I am embarrassed to be a part of this most of the time,” a white male engineering professor stated in the survey.

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Progress has been made but much more needs to be done,” a white female Humanities and Sciences associate professor said.

Differences in how female and minority faculty are treated persist at Stanford, Correll said.

But progress has been made as well. Today, three out of Stanford’s seven schools are lead by female deans: the Law School, School of Engineering (whose current dean, Persis Drell, was the first woman to head the school) and School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

The Clayman Institute is undertaking many initiatives to combat the inequality. There’s the Faculty Diversity Initiative, which provides extra funding for underrepresented faculty, and the Faculty Incentive Fund, a diversity recruitment program. Each of Stanford’s seven schools has an appointed “diversity officer.”

The office of the vice provost for graduate education makes funding available to support student organizations’ projects and events that advance graduate student diversity. The DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Doctoral Fellowship Program offers two-year fellowships to underrepresented graduate students with an eye toward diversifying the faculty pipeline, Correll said.

“It’s not a good situation when, say, a woman faculty member of color is in a place on campus where she never sees any other faculty of color,” she said. “It’s not good for our students.”

For its part, the Clayman Institute conducts wide-ranging research, brings in speakers, holds conferences and offers fellowships that all contribute to the broader goal of moving beyond a stalled gender revolution.

In 2012, the Clayman Institute also established the Voice and Influence Program to empower female faculty at Stanford. (The driving force behind the program is the low number of women in tenure-track and tenured faculty positions at Stanford. Correll said getting more women in as senior faculty is a critical step toward gender equality on campus.)

The Institute has also extended its reach into the surrounding tech world, conducting research on women in technology and launching a “Silicon Valley Thought Leadership Greenhouse” with the goal of “identifying and arming the highest potential thought leaders and thinkers in Silicon Valley with the skills, training, research, access, and close-knit support to dramatically increase the influence of women in defining the future,” the program’s website reads.

Correll and other Clayman Institute staffers are also conducting research within local technology companies (don’t ask which ones; Correll is bound by a nondisclosure agreement) — identifying areas of gender and/or racial bias or stereotypes and then helping

to implement interventions. The goal is to learn what works on the ground in these companies, document that in research and then share it more widely.

Correll is on sabbatical for the spring quarter doing just that, writing a book tentatively titled, “Delivering on Diversity: Eliminating Bias and Spurring Innovation,” which traces the history of corporate diversity efforts, explores how stereotypes affect workplace evaluations for men and women and “develops a model of cultural change to move beyond the effects of stereotypes,” Correll said. To evaluate this model, she offers case studies of reform efforts at two companies, including a Silicon Valley tech company.

Correll and the Clayman Institute also do consulting with local companies, including VMware in Palo Alto, where they provided training and even brought in a version of the Institute’s Voice and Influence program.

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his year, Correll has brought an additional focus to the Clayman Institute: campus sexual assault.

The Clayman Institute is launching an 18-month speaker symposium this winter called “Breaking the Culture of Sexual Assault.” Targeting both students and faculty, the series will bring in a range of people working in and around sexual assault and gender: Jackson Katz, author of “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help;” Michael Messner, a University of Southern California professor of sociology and gender studies whose work includes a decadeslong “life history” study of male activists working to prevent gender-based violence; and Paula England, a New York University sociology professor who conducted an in-depth Social Life Survey at 21 colleges and universities, including Stanford. There will also be a panel event focused on affirmative consent.

“The idea, for me, is we need to understand the specifics of what’s happening at Stanford and we need to respond to that by not simply training students how to not sexually assault each other (or) what to do if they’re sexually assaulted but to understand the culture that permits sexual assault to happen and (which has) for so long gone uncriticized,” Correll said.

“You’ve got to identify problems if you’re going to solve problems. We need to be open to the fact that we’re not doing things as well as we could at Stanford,” she said.

Correll recently participated in an Oct. 21 teach-in on a new university climate survey that found only 1.9 percent of all students and 4.7 percent of undergraduate women at Stanford experience sexual assault.

The university “dangerously” fell short, Correll told a crowd of

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lose to two months after the release of a Stanford University climate survey on sexual assault, Provost John Etchemendy Wednesday responded directly to concerns and criticisms raised by students and faculty.

Etchemendy’s statement, a series of questions and answers published by the Stanford Report, defends the survey’s methodology but reiterates that “Stanford students experience sexual assault and sexual misconduct far too frequently on our campus, and this is simply unacceptable.”

Stanford administrators came under fire after the survey results were released for citing in a press release what students and faculty said was an impossibly low rate of sexual assault at Stanford of 1.9 percent. The university was also criticized for using a very narrow definition of sexual assault that student-activists and faculty said could have led to the low sexual-assault rates and artificially inflated the number of students who were categorized as experiencing the less-severe sexual misconduct.

At a town hall meeting last Friday, students called on Etchemendy to issue a new press release to not only address their concerns about the survey’s methodology but offer a sign of good faith to students that the administration is committed to working on sexual-assault issues with transparency and fidelity.

In his statement, Etchemendy denied the claim that Stanford has “intentionally downplayed” the prevalence of campus sexual assault and said, “It is unfortunate that critics of the survey have focused on a single number that we reported — the rate of sexual assault in the entire population surveyed — as if we did not also report the rate in the relevant subgroups.”

He said the overall rate is also important to illustrate that sexual assault can impact all students, particularly “students with alternative gender identities,” though the responses of the approximately 150 students students, in its communication about the survey. A press release announcing the much-anticipated results began with the 1.9 percent figure, though did offer breakdowns by gender and other subgroups.

“The press release should be written to let people know what the dimensions of a problem are so that we can get people moti-

who identified as transgender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming or preferred another term were averaged with the 9,067 survey respondents.

“If readers are concerned that Stanford is trying to downplay the situation on campus, I strongly recommend they read the entire 35-page report on the findings in the Stanford Campus Climate Survey,” Etchemendy wrote. “It paints a sobering picture, not a rosy one.”

Etchemendy also addressed criticisms that Stanford’s recently narrowing of its definition of sexual assault impacted the survey results. Stanford now defines sexual assault as, specifically, vaginal or anal intercourse, digital penetration, oral copulation or penetration with a foreign object “accomplished by use of (i) force, violence, duress or menace; or (ii) inducement of incapacitation or knowingly taking advantage of an incapacitated person,” university policy reads.

Until October 2014, Stanford used a broader definition: an “actual, attempted or threatened unwanted sexual act” accomplished through force, violence, duress, fear or fraud or when a person is incapacitated.

Sexual misconduct, on the other hand, includes acts such as unwanted touching or kissing of an intimate body part (whether directly or through clothing); and recording, photographing, transmitting, viewing or distributing intimate or sexual images without the knowledge and consent of all parties involved, according to university policy. Some of these acts would be considered sexual battery under California law.

“It is unfortunate that terminology for this conduct is not standard throughout the country, and I am deeply sorry if our reported categories misled anyone. It was certainly not the intent, and the suggestion that our definitions were chosen to minimize the problem is simply absurd,” Etchemendy stated.

Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a sexual-assault reform advocate who helped vated to work on it,” Correll told the Weekly. “People are not going to get motivated by 1.9 percent.”

In addition to the October teach-in, Correll co-organized a faculty panel event last week called “Stanford’s Sexual Assault Climate Survey: What Have We Learned? What Do We Need to Know? What Can Faculty Do?”; and co-sponsored a Student Con-

develop the university’s original adjudication procedure for sexual-assault cases, criticized the provost’s failure to explain the change in definition that went into effect last October.

“I think this encapsulates the problem, which is there’s an effort underway here to shade what has happened,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “Even though what Stanford Report says is that he’s addressing (these issues) ‘head on,’ this answer is very far from head on.”

Stanford has long aligned its sexual-assault definition with California law, Etchemendy noted, but Dauber said that while Stanford shifted its definition last year to exclude sexual battery and “consent procured by fraud,” California rape law has not changed in any relevant way.

Senior University Counsel Lauren Schoenthaler said Friday that the definition ties to the university’s newly expected sanction of expulsion. She also acknowledged that acts that would be considered criminal under state law are considered sexual misconduct at Stanford.

Students also jumped on Etchemendy’s misstatement of the definition of sexual assault, in which he said, “The important point is that 5 percent of undergraduate women have experienced sexual assault — a sexual act involving force, violence or incapacitation — and another 33 percent have experienced other forms of sexual misconduct.”

Tessa Ormenyi, a recent Stanford graduate and co-founder of student group Stand With Leah, said Etchemendy “continued to misrepresent Stanford’s own very narrow definition of sexual assault” by using Stanford’s old, pre-October 2014 definition.

“It appears our own provost is unaware at how narrowly Stanford has defined sexual assault,” Ormenyi said. “Students are very angry about the narrowing of the definition without public input or announcement.”

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gressional Summit on Sexual Assault that featured Rep. Jackie Speier and four young women, three current students and one recent graduate, who said they were sexually assaulted during their time at Stanford.

She has also requested that more survey analysis be conducted, par(continued on page 14)

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News Digest Palo Alto council deals a blow to CPI Barron Park residents who have long complained about the perils of living next to a plating shop filled with toxic chemicals earned a longawaited victory Monday night, when the City Council agreed to phase out the industrial operation and to impose new restrictions on hazardous materials.

By a unanimous vote, the council supported an ordinance calling for the amortization of Communications & Power Industries (CPI), a company based on Hansen Way that manufactures radio-frequency and microwave equipment. Despite arguments from CPI’s executives, attorneys, environmental consultants and employees about the company’s strong safety record and aggressive measures to prevent chemical spills and other accidents, the council sided with the residents who claimed the action is necessary and long overdue. Once the ordinance is approved, CPI would have until 2026 to either close its plating shop or move it to another part of the Stanford Research Park campus.

The ordinance requiring the amortization of CPI’s plating shop was first requested by the council in October 2014. On Monday night, staff responded with a pair of ordinances: one pertaining specifically to CPI and another one that creates a new tier (known in the ordinance as “Tier 2”) for heavy users of toxic chemicals. Companies in this tier would not be allowed to set up operations within 300 feet of homes, schools, day care centers and other areas where inhabitants could be particularly vulnerable when it comes to impacts.

The council also decided to take this effort a step further when it directed staff to draft another ordinance that would downright ban facilities eligible for the highest category called “Tier 3,” whose levels of toxic chemicals exceed the threshold in the California Accidental Release Prevention Program (also known as Title 19).

While the city’s broad effort to regulate hazardous materials faced no real opposition, its decision to amortize CPI was met with protests from the company, which has been in Palo Alto since 1953 and is an offshoot of Varian Associates, an early tenant of Stanford Research Park.

Bob Fickett, president of CPI, was one of several company employees and consultants who argued that the amortization effort is unfair, illegal and ill-advised. He pointed to numerous studies performed by various consultants showing that a dangerous chemical event would be all but impossible (the only scenario that could potentially impact residents within 616 feet is one that was deemed “highly unrealistic” by the city’s consultants; it involved a large earthquake causing the containment barriers to rupture, which in turn would cause hazardous materials to mix and create hydrogen cyanide).

He also submitted a letter arguing that the proposed ordinance “solely attacks CPI and would have a significant and harmful impact on our business.” Q — Gennady Sheyner

Palo Alto utilities director to retire Utilities Director Valerie Fong, who has spent the past nine years overseeing the municipal electricity, gas, water and fiber operations, is preparing to hit the off switch on her Palo Alto term on Dec. 30, creating an opening in one of the city’s most complex and critical positions.

Under her watch, the city dramatically expanded its solar-energy portfolio, took on a host of new sustainability initiatives and, in 2013, became one of the nation’s first “carbon-neutral” cities in terms of its electricity portfolio.

Fong said she decided to retire earlier this year because of a simple reason: the commute to work has become unbearable. Fong, who commutes from the East Bay, said it typically takes her well over an hour to get to and from work. Her schedule (“start early with the crews; end late with night meetings”) and a lack of good transit options to Palo Alto translated to spending too much time on the road. She does not have another job lined up at this time, she said. The only thing she plans to do once 2016 kicks off is “not commute.”

Now, the city is preparing to begin the search for a new replacement.

The recruiting period is expected to stretch until the end of January, Keene said. After that, there will be an interview process involving various peer groups of utility professionals and city employees. If things go as planned, the interview process will take place during February and March.

In the meantime, Assistant City Manager Ed Shikada has been tapped

by Keene to lead the utilities department on an interim basis. Keene noted that Shikada is a licensed engineer with strong managerial experience. Taking charge of the department, Keene said, will give him a chance to assess the department’s operations. Q — Gennady Sheyner LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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Palo Alto officials host first neighborhood ‘town hall’ Council members and staff address floods, parking, aircraft noise and other residential concerns

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alo Alto officials held the first in a series of town hallstyle meetings last week at Duveneck Elementary School to listen to residents’ concerns and foster a better understanding of how the city aims to solve issues plaguing their neighborhoods.

Nearly 100 people from Crescent Park, Duveneck/St. Francis and Triple El/Leland Manor neighborhoods attended the Nov. 12 meeting.

“Our goal is to strengthen the relationship between the community and the council,” Mayor Karen Holman said, referring to the new initiative in which City Council members will come to the neighborhoods to hear residents’ concerns. “Your feedback is really important to us.”

Some residents applauded the city’s efforts while others said the meeting did not shed any light on issues or how the city would resolve them.

“Overall, city leaders talked too much and listened too little,”

said John Guislin in an email after the meeting. But others called the town hall a good first step.

Councilmen Pat Burt and Eric Filseth, City Manager James Keene, Planning and Transportation Director Hillary Gitelman, and Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello took turns addressing residents’ concerns, including how much the city can legally fine Sand Hill Property Co. for not having a grocery store at Edgewood Shopping Center (up to $1,000 a day in accordance with city ordinances, officials said); parking problems that have shifted as a result of the city’s new parking-permit program in downtown neighborhoods (the council will look at wider boundaries on Dec. 7, officials said); and aircraft noise (Federal Aviation Administration regulations limit the city to controlling the number of tie downs at Palo Alto Airport, which indirectly controls the number of flights, but not who

can fly in or out, officials said).

Several residents expressed frustration with the pace of flood-control efforts along San Francisquito Creek. About 20 people — nearly one-quarter of those in attendance — stood and said they were victims of the 1998 flood that inundated many parts of the city. After 17 years, there is still no fix, they said.

Burt said he’s been working to fast-track flood protection for seven years as the city’s liaison to the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (JPA). When he joined the City Council, the floodcontrol project was expected to take more than 20 years, he said.

“I asked to be on that thankless job because I felt strongly that we needed to get it done sooner,” he said.

The JPA cobbled together more than $60 million outside of federal money. But progress has been hampered by the need to obtain approvals from six state and federal regulatory agencies and by a

stubborn refusal by the Regional Water Quality Control Board to sign off on the permit, he said.

“We were ready to start two years ago,” Burt said of construction.

That hurdle has recently been cleared, although other agencies still must give their approval. Work began in July on the San Francisquito Creek bridge, the first step in relieving the backup of flood water. But for this winter, an anticipated El Nino season, the city has been limited to clearing the creek of impediments such as trash and vegetation and shoring up weak spots where the creek overflowed the banks in December 2013.

“We don’t have much more at our disposal. I’ve worked every month for seven years based on my frustration. But frustration isn’t a solution,” Burt said.

One resident at the forefront of his neighborhood’s issues expressed his disappointment that the meeting did not meet his expectation that city officials would dialogue with residents and try to jointly solve problems.

“I am appreciative that they took the time to meet, but they just recited the history of the city’s attempt at finding solution and moaned about how difficult these issues are,” Guislin wrote in an email.

“I did not hear much real dialogue, i.e., exploring of how we might look at different approaches for problem solving,” he continued. “When I got to ask my one question about the traf-

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The possibilities of traffic snarls and speeding police cars drew some comment from meeting attendees, along with concerns about additional noise from sirens, but police Capt. Patty Lum said there are only a few instances when officers who are responding to a call are at the station. In most cases, they are already out in the field.

In regards to traffic, new online systems will also soon make it possible for officers to file their reports while in their patrol cars, reducing their need to return to headquarters, she said.

Terry Holzemer of the Palo Alto Central condominium complex urged the city to study the traffic on Park Boulevard in detail.

“Sometimes the city forgets that people live in this area,” he said.

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The recent terrorist acts in Paris seemed to be on many people’s minds. Several residents said that, in the current climate, they want the city to have a protected facility that would withstand a terrorist act; others feared that a central structure would become a terrorism target.

Some residents voiced impatience with city leaders, noting that a major earthquake could strike and the city would be vulnerable due to the current, inadequate police and emergency operations center. Assistant Public Works Director Brad Eggleston said the headquarters at City Hall, built in 1970, does not meet standards for remaining functional in a large quake.

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fter 17 years of fits and starts in Palo Alto’s quest to build a new police headquarters, residents at a community meeting Wednesday night told the city they want to see it materialize sooner rather than later.

About 20 people gathered at Escondido Elementary School to hear plans for moving the police and emergency operations headquarters and fire administration from downtown to the California Avenue district near the North County Courthouse on Sherman Avenue.

The new 44,500-square-foot building would allow emergency and police services to operate continuously during and after a major earthquake, according to the city. It would be heavily reinforced to prevent an incursion by terrorists, whether by bombs or someone ramming the building with a vehicle, said Michael Ross of consultant RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture Inc. The building and an adjacent parking structure would take over two existing parking lots at at 250 Sherman.

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fic and accidents on Middlefield and why the city was spending almost $1 million to repave the same configuration, Jim Keene’s answer was a short and dismissive, ‘Well, we have to maintain the city’s roads.’ That is not what I think of as a dialogue.”

“I can only guess that the city was hoping that allowing residents to vent might relieve some of the pressure in the system. I’m betting that is not a winning strategy. Residents are informed and smart enough to understand when they are being placated,” he said.

But others applauded the city’s efforts, including Jeff Levinsky, who has spearheaded efforts related to Edgewood Plaza’s grocer.

“You would never get this many people to come to a council meeting” at City Hall, Levinsky said.

Crescent Park resident Karen Harwell said she “appreciated immensely” city officials’ and staff’s efforts to address concerns, offer clarifications and engage with people’s questions.

“I think we are realizing we have challenging times ahead and (are) coming to terms with the reality that it is not possible to return to some ‘normal’ of yesterday,” Harwell said. “The more we can create conditions whereby we have common understanding and realize we are all in this together and cooperate as much as possible, (the better we will be at) valuing that we all have gifts to contribute toward creating something greater than ourselves.” Q

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The City of Palo Alto is proposing a new public-safety building in the California Avenue Business District. ats, and those mainly related to parking.

“Businesses will be highly affected by the building,” especially those adjacent to it, said Jessica Roth of The Cobblery. She recommended that a strip of ground level parking and access to the back of the commercial buildings be ensured for customers and for store loading areas.

Consultant Ross said that for security reasons, public parking is not typically put next to a public-safety building, but the loading areas would be preserved.

Many business owners and resi-

dents said the city should plan for more parking in the area — in excess of the 150 additional spaces in the current plans — to accommodate future growth in commercial activity.

Cost estimates, as adopted by the City Council in June 2014, are $47 million for a 44,500-squarefoot building and $9.6 million to build a parking garage.

The council identified three potential locations for the new building and parking structure in May, and the lots at 250 Sherman (continued on page 16)

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side, hundreds of residents signed a petition last year complaining about the rising decibel levels.

In August, there were 2,440 complaints from Portola Valley, 8,770 from Palo Alto, 12,967 from Santa Cruz and 15,562 from Los Gatos, according to a report from the SFO Aircraft Noise Abatement Office.

A group, led by Woodside resident Jim Lyons and Portola Valley resident Dr. Tina Nguyen, has filed a petition challenging the FAA’s analysis of the new flight plan and its impacts. Both Palo Alto and Portola Valley have also hired consultants to further analyze the airplane noise levels and consider mitigations.

Other communities, including Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, have also reported growing noise levels. The resolution adopted by the Palo Alto City Council in August notes that the number of complaints from Los Gatos and the Summit/Skyline area increased

from zero in January and February to 3,553 in June.

The FAA’s new initiative doesn’t guarantee any changes, though it does commit the agency to further studying its flight procedures and to coordinating its findings with local stakeholders. During the second phase of the initiative, the FAA will “conduct the formal environmental and safety reviews, coordinate and seek feedback from existing and/ or new community roundtables, members of affected industry, and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) before moving forward with the formal amendment process.”

According to the FAA’s timetable, some of these analyses were launched in early October. This includes the analysis of raising the allowed altitude at several Bay Area flight paths, including the waypoint in the Menlo Park and Palo Alto area. The analysis will look at raising the altitude at this waypoint to 5,000 feet, the altitude to which the FAA had previously committed in 2000. Since the launch of NextGen,

residents have complained that the altitudes in the area have fallen to between 3,500 and 4,000 feet.

As part of this initiative, the FAA will also consider moving speed adjustments to over water, rather than land; consider changes to air-traffic operations and the potential for using more “fly-friendly” runways to reduce concerns in certain locations; and hold community forums to engage the community about the ongoing effort to curb the noise level.

“Addressing noise concerns in a densely populated and operationally complex area like Northern California is best done in a forum (such as existing and/ or new roundtables) that includes community leaders and is supported by the FAA and Bay Area Airports,” the FAA report states.

Though the outcome is yet to be determined, the three California representatives lauded the FAA’s action to address the complaints. In a joint press release, Eshoo called the FAA plan an “important first step.”

“The FAA leadership will follow

with community meetings, coordinated through our offices, to explain in detail the FAA’s plan to address the noise problem being experienced in our regions,” Eshoo said.

Farr also characterized the FAA initiative as a good first step and cited as evidence that the FAA “is willing to consider the changes proposed by the community.”

“For months, the commercial aircraft noise in Santa Cruz and the surrounding area has been terrible,” Farr said. “From the beginning, I have told the FAA that they created this mess, so it is up to them to fix it.”

The initiative, he said in the statement, shows that “everyone is committed to developing some real solutions.”

“I hope the FAA will continue to listen to the communities it serves and work with them to solve any problems that arise from the switch to the NextGen flight plan,” he said.

Speier, whose district encompasses portions of San Francisco and San Mateo County, called the FAA initiative a “compilation of ideas

that were offered by the public regarding SFO and the FAA’s recent meetings in our three congressional districts, as well as requests made by the SFO Airport Community Roundtable.” Some of these ideas, she said, may be “deemed workable by the FAA and some may not.”

“However, having previously been resistant to taking community suggestions, the FAA, for the first time in many years, has committed to studying ideas submitted by the affected communities,” Speier said in a statement. “I am gratified that the FAA is rolling up its sleeves to come up with solutions. The health of those who live under constant bombardment of airplane noise is being seriously compromised, and the FAA has a responsibility to take action to address it.” Q

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the op-ed included fabricated statements from Etchemendy and other administrators addressing students’ concerns about the climate survey and definition of sexual assault.

In his statement, Etchemendy said he “welcome(s) all of the activity that has been initiated by our students and the focus on this problem by the ASSU leadership over the past several years.

Productive, open, respectful and truthful conversation around sexual violence will provide the greatest benefit to the campus community in tackling these critically important issues.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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issue a new climate survey in the spring that would be based on a widely circulated American Association of Universities (AAU) survey that 27 colleges and universities across the nation participated in. (Stanford decided not to participate and instead created its own survey in partnership with the University of Chicago and Rice University based on one developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)

Etchemendy wrote that some of the most “significant” findings out of the survey were those that indicated many undergraduate students, particularly students of color, transgender and gender non-conforming students, feel the university’s support services fall short in addressing their needs.

At Friday’s town hall, a transgender student told Etchemendy her experience with regards to sexual assault is that it is affirming of binary (male and female) gender identities, known as “cisnormative,” rather than taking a more expansive view.

“I want to know what the university is doing to tackle that,” the student told Etchemendy. “How are you making all these efforts non cis-normative?”

Etchemendy said further survey analysis is underway to examine who at Stanford might be at most risk of sexual violence on campus (for example, freshman women), whether more misconduct happens in “particular living environments” and whether there are locations on campus where students feel particularly unsafe.

A “top priority for further analysis” is also to dive deeper into the experiences of specific student groups, “to look at more granular results by school and segments of students, such as the experience of student athletes or professional school students,” Etchemendy wrote.

The survey also indicated that Stanford needs to “better understand” how to support and encourage students who have been sexually assaulted to come forward and formally report their assaults, he said. The university is currently seeking feedback on a new pilot adjudication process that will, ideally, streamline the process and make it less onerous for victims of sexual assault.

Ongoing scrutiny of Stanford’s handling of sexual assault continues as the central body that deals with such cases, the Title IX office, is currently in transition, without a permanent coordinator.

Catherine Criswell, Stanford’s first dedicated Title IX coordinator, stepped down in September after only a year on the job.

Cathy Glaze, associate dean for students affairs at the law school, is leading the Title IX office on an interim basis after the initially selected interim coordinator stepped down.

Etchemendy said that recruit-

ing permanent employees to staff the Title IX office is “increasingly difficult.

“Universities nationwide are finding these jobs to be very hard to fill,” he wrote. “The work is inherently demanding and difficult, and no matter how well you perform your job, you are inevitably criticized, sometimes viciously and personally, by one side or the other. To top it off, thanks to student privacy laws, you can never defend your actions in any public forum. It is hard to imagine a more difficult role to take on.”

Etchemendy’s statement also followed a satirical op-ed published in student newspaper the Stanford Daily on Sunday. Titled “The press release we deserved,”

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As part of the city’s approval of Buena Vista’s closure, the Jisser family is required to offer residents funding to relocate, which includes the cost of each mobile home, start-up costs for new housing, moving costs, rent subsidies for a year (totaling the difference between rents at Buena Vista and the reasonable expenses for overnight stays at motels or hotels during the relocation process.)

Recent appraisals, according to the suit, indicate that the family would have to pay about $8 million to the tenants — payments that the family calls “oppressive and unreasonable” in the lawsuit.

“The city’s ordinance forces the Jisser family to either bear the unconstitutional conditions imposed on them ... or to suffer the permanent physical occupation of their property by tenants that they now want to exclude from the land,” the suit states.

“In effect, the Jisser Family has been told that they must choose

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required document that lays out the Jissers’ compensation to residents who would be evicted. The report was also the subject of a three-day public hearing in front of an administrative judge, who in October 2013 signed off on the document despite emotional testimony from Buena Vista residents and their supporters. They argued that shutting down Buena Vista would not only displace hundreds of residents but also deal a heavy blow to the city’s stock of affordable housing. The council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have each committed $14.5 million to the purchase of Buena Vista from the Jissers and earlier this year tapped nonprofit developer Caritas Corp. to negotiate the purchase with the Jisser family. In September, shortly after the Buena Vista residents filed their own lawsuit against the city, the Jissers declared that

between an unconstitutional taking of their money and an unconstitutional taking of their land,” the brief states.

In the suit, as well as in a video that that Pacific Legal Foundation posted to accompany the complaint, the family makes the case that the city is effectively extorting them by requiring them to pay a huge sum of money to help solve a problem that the city itself created: the lack of affordable housing. The monetary demand, the suit states, “has nothing to do with any public costs caused by the Jisser family’s desired closure of the park but is an attempt to make the Jisser family alone pay to mitigate the city’s lack of affordable housing costs that, in fairness, should be borne by the whole public of Palo Alto.”

The video, which includes commentary from Salzman and Joe Jisser, makes a similar case.

It recaps his family’s history with Buena Vista, a site that served as a tourist camp in the mid-1920s and became a mobile home park

in the 1950s. Toufic and Eva Jisser, who moved to the United States from Israel in 1973, bought the property in 1986, according to the suit, and have operated the park ever since. Their son, Joe, manages the park today.

In the video, Joe Jisser said that while the business “does OK,” the family decided that it “made the most sense to retain the property and look at a development that would work within the city’s guidelines.” He said in the video that the council’s decision was “really shocking and frustrating to say the least,” as it became apparent that “it would cost in the upper millions of dollars just to get out of the rental business.”

“I know there are a lot of other families in this business who will be treated the same way if someone doesn’t stand up to the city,” Jisser said.

City Attorney Molly Stump said the city is “confident that the city followed both state law and the process that is set out in our own municipal ordinance related

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to the closing of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.”

“There is no merit to these claims,” Stump wrote in an email to the Weekly.

The decision by the Jisser family to sue the city means that the city is now facing lawsuits from both sides in the bitter debate. In late August, attorneys representing the Buena Vista Residents Association filed their lawsuit against the city, arguing that the city denied the residents a fair hearing and that by approving the closure application, the council failed in its duty to promote fair housing. The lawsuit from the residents asks the Santa Clara County Superior Court to prohibit the Jissers from closing the park.

Stump said the city is preparing a response and expects the matter to “move forward in the first part of the year.”

While the Jissers, in their lawsuit, describe the relocation assistance as onerous and illegal, the residents argue in their complaint that the package is in fact “grossly inadequate” and that it will eliminate “any opportunity for Buena Vista residents to relocate to comparable homes in a community comparable to Palo Alto.”

“Instead, virtually all Buena Vista families will be forced to leave Palo Alto,” Kyra Kazantzis, attorney with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, wrote on behalf of the residents. “Many will be forced to leave the Bay Area altogether, meaning that they will be leaving their jobs, schools, health care providers, friends and community.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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ticularly around female senior students and more racial and ethnic subgroups (the climate survey report only includes subgroup rates for African-American and Native Hawaiian students, and does not break their numbers down by gender) and the university’s definitions of sexual assault and misconduct.

At the October teach-in, Correll gave advice to students upset about the climate survey and the administration’s handling of sexual assault: Think about the questions that we want to be answered, and then ask for the data to help the university get there; request town hall meetings to discuss sexual assault openly and transparently.

She made similar pleas to faculty at the Nov. 9 panel, urging more faculty involvement.

“The thing I think we really need to do at this juncture is enlist more people and a broader range of people in working on these issues,” she told an audience of more than 30 professors and administrators. “To do that, I think we’ve got to convince people that there is a problem.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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GETTING PUMPED UP ... The subject of groundwater pumping will be percolating up again in December when the City of Palo Alto Policy and Services Committee again addresses the topic. The date for the meeting has been moved up from Dec. 8 to Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. in the conference room on the first floor. A staff report will be available before the meeting.

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Residents at the Wednesday, Nov. 19, public-safety building evaluation meeting voiced the usual concerns about traffic and parking but also fears that the proposed facility at Sherman Avenue and Birch Street would house prisoners. But Palo Alto police Capt. Patty Lum said the new facility would not have a jail. There would be holding cells while arrestees are interviewed and processed, but they would still be transported to San Jose for booking, she said. A jail at the North County Courthouse in Palo Alto, which is adjacent to the proposed location for the police building, has not been used for years due to Santa Clara County budget cuts, she said. Q

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BUENA VISTA GOES INTERNATIONAL ... Residents of Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park attracted international attention this week after the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian published a story about them. The Nov. 13 story by Rupert Neate features a video and photographs of the residents. The story notes that one girl who lives in Buena Vista met Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a recent fundraising event and told the politician of her dismay at her potential eviction by park owner Joe Jisser. The story is online at tinyurl.com/oda25jg.

Eric Struck sits in his backyard surrounded by his model train collection, which he operates for the public on weekends.

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Last train to Palo Alto Eric Struck’s Barron Park Garden Railroad to close for winter Nov. 28

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he train whistle hooted in Eric Struck’s backyard as 15 railroad cars made their way out of the station, wheels chugging around the curves. On a brisk fall evening, Struck sniffed the air as the smell of wood smoke drifted from a neighbor’s barbecue.

“I’d rather smell a steam engine,” the Barron Park tile setter said, surveying more than a hundred model train cars and engines in his garden railroad yard.

Each April Struck opens his backyard railroad to the public, the history of Western railroads spelled out on the sides of box cars and engines: the Southern Pacific; Niles Canyon Railroad; Feather River Canyon. He has a collection of replica Pepsi Cola train cars with designs dating to 1900; coal cars and log carriers; and the Garlic City rail car used to ship Gilroy garlic.

“My goal is to show the fallen flags of railroads,” he said.

Each year dozens of visitors and school kids come to visit the railroad, which is open through Nov. 28. Struck sticks a railroadcrossing pole at the edge of his property to let people know when the garden is open.

The railroad tracks wend their

way over bridges and along trestles over makeshift gorges, and eventually enter a replica Sierra town. The garden paths are lined with railroad spikes, including some from the local Southern Pacific line that once ran through Barron Park.

“We had a spur here that went through the Mayfield Cutoff from California Avenue to Santa Cruz,” he said, noting the time when the area near California Avenue was the town of Mayfield.

The rail line ran from 1907 to 1962, with two passenger trains, one in the morning and one at night, and some locals. Those trains stopped two years prior to when Struck was born in 1964, but his love of trains has been lifelong.

“I’ve loved riding Caltrain since I was 2 years old,” he said.

Struck recalled that his father always took the Peninsula Commuter Rail — the precursor to Caltrain — to and from San Francisco. His dad worked for the railroad as a train master during World War II. People would wake up to the first train at Matadero and Laguna avenues as it pulled into the little station called Neal where there is now a little hump on Laguna on the northwest side of the street, he said.

Growing up with stories about

the railroad, he started leveling the backyard in 1981, adding sand and gravel and laying track for his G-scale trains, which are 1/32 scale (also called three-eighths scale, as three-eighths of an inch on the model represents 1 foot on a real train). They are larger than standard train models.

Struck salvaged spikes and tie plates that hold track together from the old Laguna/Matadero site, and he’s picked up other railroad memorabilia as rail lines have abandoned right of ways.

A line of dated railroad nails in a fence mark the years his family members were born, from his father in 1913 to himself in 1964. There are old gas-signal lights, early signs and a collection of trains he has purchased from specialty shops that make limited editions, such as the All Aboard Junction in Gilroy.

One thing there aren’t many of anymore in real railroads: the little red caboose.

“They’re pretty much gone in California,” he said, although there are still some in Oregon and Washington states that are used to shuffle crews in cold weather.

When he’s not entertaining visitors at his home railroad, Struck

travels to garden railroad shows, where he meets up with other enthusiasts. There are many clubs around the country. He is a member of the Diablo Pacific Short Line organization, whose members host exhibitions and attend conventions to display their trains.

What attracts Struck to the little trains most is the thrill of collecting, he said. He has more than a hundred cars on display, and many more stored. His favorites are the Pepsi Cola cars, each with a different design and artwork on the sides. These are replicas of trains that were once in service, he said.

Train collecting is also a way to capture some of the romanticism and history of the West. Railroads defined its expansion and made it possible to ship goods long distances.

“Where Frys (Electronics) was was a cannery,” he said, referring to Bayside Cannery (later Sutter Packing), which was once one of the largest fruit and vegetable packers in the world. Perishables were transported in cars that were refrigerated with blocks of ice dropped in through a chute. And of course, Struck has a couple of those replica cars, too. Q What: Barron Park Garden Railway Where: 748 Kendall Ave., Palo Alto When: Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Nov. 28; reopens April 16, 2016 Cost: Free, donations accepted Info: cyberstars.com/modeltrains

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Shasta Drive and Mackay Drive.

Improvements include a flashing beacon light at the East Meadow Drive intersection that would be activated by bicyclists; curb extensions that would shrink the wide intersection at Redwood Circle; a traffic circle at Redwood and Carlson Court; and an extended green light at the intersection of Carlson and Charleston Road.

Curb extensions would be added to Duncan Place and Creekside Drive leading to the Adobe Creek Bridge, which connects the two streets, to make the bridge path more visible.

Though the commission was generally supportive of the plan, some members voiced concerns about particular elements.

Commissioner Asher Waldfogel wondered if the planners are trying to do too much in a part of the city not known for being particularly busy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This seems like a lot of engineering to separate cars and bicycles at this utilization rate,â&#x20AC;?

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hear the crickets,â&#x20AC;? Lala said.

For seventh-grade teacher Megan Tang, the trip was also a way to bond with her students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do our Angel Island trip in either September or October, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually the first outdoored trip that occurs in the school year. ... So for me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to get to know my students,â&#x20AC;?

Tang said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re together for 24 hours straight, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sleeping in the same big room and cooking meals together, you learn a little about each other and

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May, and the lots at 250 Sherman were the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preferred sites.

The buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site would be bounded by Sherman Avenue, Birch Street and Park Boulevard;

Waldfogel said.

Commissioner Przemek Gardias questioned the need to remove the stop signs, noting the movement in other parts of the country to allow the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Idaho stop,â&#x20AC;? in which bicyclists treat stop signs as yield signs. The rule, which is currently legal only in Idaho, has recently spurred debate among San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation efforts, with biking aficionados calling for the city to make the switch.

Gardias noted that by removing stop signs, the city isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just providing a smooth ride for bicyclists but also allowing cars to go faster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it really worth the effort to remove the stop signs and then have the potential risk of cars not stopping where they should be stopping?â&#x20AC;? Gardias asked.

Mello assured him that the other road amenities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including traffic circles and roadway fixtures that look like partial medians (called â&#x20AC;&#x153;impellersâ&#x20AC;?) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be installed to ensure cars slow down, even without stop signs.

For example, at the intersection of Carlson Court and Ely Place, the all-way stop would be removed

and an impeller, yield signs, wayfinding signs and sharrows markings would be installed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At every point (that) weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re recommending removing stop signs, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re recommending traffic calming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; traffic circles, impeller devices or curb extensions,â&#x20AC;?

Mello said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to increase the motor-vehicle speeds, but we also donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want bicyclists stopping every couple of blocks.â&#x20AC;?

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate goal, Mello said, is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get away from the stopand-go movement to a more moderated flow of 15 to 20 mph.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how we will design the corridor moving forward,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Bryant Street boulevard is one of about 20 bike projects included in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 bike master plan. The City Council budgeted $20 million for bike improvements in its 2014 infrastructure plan. It also has $11.6 million in a reserve for bicycle and pedestrian improvements, according to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

they learn about me.â&#x20AC;?

For their eighth-grade adventure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a four-day excursionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lala, Jordan and their fellow classmates get to decide where to go. Laurance said that past destinations have included San Diego, Seattle and Lake Tahoe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to go to Denver,â&#x20AC;?

Lala said, smiling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the limit when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning,â&#x20AC;? Christopherson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go to Denver, Colorado, but letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figure out how to get 22 people to Denver, how much does it cost and how much can we raise.â&#x20AC;?

The students will need to research the activities and whittle

the list down to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;more reasonable and feasible tripâ&#x20AC;? before they make a budget and raise funds, Christopherson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone on a couple of trips with them,â&#x20AC;? Christopherson said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and to watch them get out there and to see them realize they can do tough things is rewarding for both them and us.â&#x20AC;? Q For more information about the Palo Alto Holiday Fund, including the agencies and programs supported as well as how you can make a donation, see page 32.

Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

the parking structure would be located between Birch and Ash streets on Sherman, according to the draft plans.

Two design options for the building, one that would be three stories and the other that would be two, are under consideration.

Three designs for the parking

garage have been proposed. The options can be viewed at cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/ documents/49759.

The City Council will review the proposals on Dec. 14. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Nov. 16)

Toxic: The council supported ordinances that would require amortization of CPIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plating shop and create new regulations for facilities with hazardous materials. Yes: Unanimous Airport: The council agreed to adopt interim â&#x20AC;&#x153;minimum standardsâ&#x20AC;? for the Palo Alto Airport and to direct staff to engage community stakeholders for formation of permanent standards. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (Nov. 17)

Middle schools: The board held a special meeting to discuss the three middle schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; annual Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (Nov. 17)

Audit: The committee accepted an audit of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial statements performed by Macias Gini & Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell. Yes: Unanimous Budget: The committee recommended approving a budget amendment ordinance closing the fiscal year 2015 budget. Yes: Unanimous

Planning and Transportation Commission (Nov. 18)

Bike Boulevard: The commission approved the concept for an extension of the Bryant Street Bike Boulevard to San Antonio Avenue. Yes: Alcheck, Downing, Fine, Gardias, Tanaka, Waldfogel Absent: Rosenblum 1050 Page Mill Road: The commission continued the public hearing on a proposed commercial development at 1050 Page Mill Road to its Dec. 9 meeting.

Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Nov. 19)

1700 Embarcadero Road: The board discussed a proposal to build a Mercedes Benz dealership at 1700 Embarcadero Road and requested design changes that would make the development less massive. The hearing on the project will continue at a later date. Action: None Park Boulevard: The board conducted a study session on the commercial developments proposed by Jay Paul Co. for 2747 Park Blvd. and 3045 Park Blvd.

Action: None

Online This Week

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

New rules launched for Palo Alto Airport When Palo Alto formally took over the operations of its eponymous airport last year, the goal was to turn the bustling but longneglected facility into a community treasure. As one step, the city on Monday established rules for airport users and policies for leasing, maintaining and constructing facilities at the busy Baylands hub. (Posted Nov. 17, 4:31 p.m.)

Stanford students holding sit-in, calling for fossil fuel divestment by university More than 100 students are holding a sit-in at Stanford University that started Nov. 16 to call on school leaders and administrators to divest from the fossil fuel industry. (Posted Nov. 17, 8:13 a.m.)

VIDEO: On Behind the Headlines

Holiday

Waste Service Schedule

On the Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s half-hour webcast, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behind the Headlines,â&#x20AC;?

Palo Alto Fire Chief Eric Nickel joins Weekly Editor in Chief Jocelyn Dong, Digital Editor My Nguyen and reporter Sue Dremann to discuss the state of the Palo Alto Fire Department as well as regional preparations for Super Bowl 50 at Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stadium. (Posted Nov. 13, 7:29 p.m.)

East Palo Alto homicide fugitive is arrested

GreenWaste of Palo Alto will be closed on Thanksgiving (November 26). If your regular collection day falls on Thanksgiving, your collection day will be moved to Friday (November 27), and customers with a collection day on Friday will be serviced on Saturday (November 28).

A Stockton man wanted for the Oct. 25 homicide of an East Palo Alto resident was arrested without incident on Nov. 13, East Palo Alto police have announced. (Posted Nov. 13, 4:25 p.m.)

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A pendulum that creates elaborate designs; a radar gun that shows kids the speed of their kicked soccer ball compared to that of a cheetah; and a hands-on fossil excavation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those were among the nearly 20 exhibits that parents and children experienced for the first time at the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo on Nov. 11. (Posted Nov. 13, 7:59 a.m.)

Pulse Palo Alto Nov. 11-17

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 3 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 7 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Illegal dumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8 Found bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Miscellaneous APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Illegal dumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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California Avenue, 11/14, 9:38 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

300 Pasteur Drive, 11/14, 10:39 a.m.; battery/simple.

Clark Way, 11/15, 10:43 a.m.; domestic violence/misc.

180 El Camino Real, 11/15, 6:02 p.m.; robbery/strong arm.

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Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Where you put your food scraps makes a world of difference.

You can now put all of your food scraps and food soiled paper directly into your green cart along with your yard trimmings.

By doing this, you help Palo Alto turn your food scraps into rich soil and renewable energy, and help protect the climate.

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Ralph P. Cebulla, a former Palo Alto resident and a professor, died on Nov. 2 in Hiram, Ohio, surrounded by his family. He was 82.

He was born on May 14, 1933, in the Bronx, New York, to Arthur and Maria Cebulla, two German immigrants. He spent much of his childhood in California, playing in the hills of San Francisco and tent-camping with family in Yosemite. He also helped out with his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plumbing business.

Ralph attended Palo Alto High School, where he learned typing and was inspired by teachers including Lois Walsh; he graduated in 1951.

Throughout the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army as company clerk at the Honor Guardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters and Service Company in Arlington, Virginia. He took advantage of the GI Bill to study at San Jose State University, where he later graduated and picked up his interests in psychology and philosophy. He continued his education at The Ohio State University and received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

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He helped to found an American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Kent, Ohio, assisted the victims of the Kent State shooting, participat-

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ed in the Civil Rights Movement and directed the Upward Bound program at Hiram College.

Outside of teaching, he loved spending time with family, gardening and the outdoors.

He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Cebulla of Hiram; daughter, Colleen (Ted) Cebulla of Columbus, Ohio; son, Theo (Heather) Cebulla of Hiram; his grandchildren, Mason and Hallie; his sister, Mady (Tom) Trask; brother-in-law, Mike (Colleen) Michael; and several nephews and nieces.

A celebration of life was held on Nov. 14 at the Kennedy Center at Hiram College. Memorial donations can be made to Hiram College, Office of Development, P.O. Box 67, Hiram, OH 44234 (hiram.edu/giving).

Laura Huber Laura Pool Huber, a Menlo Park resident and local volunteer, died on Nov. 10 from complications of advanced cancer. She was 47.

She was born Laura Spruance Pool on Dec. 24, 1967, in Pittsburgh. During her youth she studied at Shady Side Academy, where she was named salutatorian of her class. She was also debuted to society at the Cinderella Ball, a Pittsburgh charity event that dates back to 1924.

She went on to study at Colgate University in New York, and she graduated cum laude in 1990 with a degree in English literature.

While there, she also developed her talents in the fine arts. After graduation, she moved to San Francisco to become a graphic designer. She worked at Miller Freeman and was a designer and art director for several magazines, winning awards for her work. In 2000, she married Jeff Huber, a Google executive, and they moved to Menlo Park.

Laura later became greatly involved as a volunteer in her childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schools: Oak Knoll Elementary, Hillview Middle School and The Girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Middle School in Palo Alto. Her activities at Oak Knoll included organizing the after-school sports program and serving as chair for many volunteer committees.

She also assisted with the University Club of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarship program and was a volunteer coordinator for the Circle of Friends Ambassadors at the Lucile Packard Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

She was passionate about her family, and she made opportunities for her children to connect with friends, cooked treasured meals and maintained a comforting home. She also continued to practice art, carrying around a sketchbook, and played tennis, competing for the USTA womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s league team at the University Club.

She is survived by her husband of 15 years, Jeff Huber of Menlo

Park; her son, Max; her daughter, Grace; her parents, Linda B. Pool and Henry S. Pool of Pittsburgh; her sister, Heather Pool; and her brother, Russell Pool.

A memorial service was held on Nov. 15 at Menlo Church in Menlo Park. Memorial donations can be made in her name to StandUp2Cancer (standup2cancer.org/donate).

Edward Lillibridge Edward â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edâ&#x20AC;? William Lillibridge, a former Palo Alto resident and Stanford University graduate, died on Oct. 17, following a three-year struggle with neuroendocrine cancer. He was 68.

He was born in May 26, 1947, in Loma Linda, California. Up until the age of 5 he had problems with hearing loss, but his doctor discovered he could hear following heat treatment. He and his family moved to Palm Springs, California, where he permanently recovered his hearing and spent the rest of his youth.

With aspirations to become a pilot, he joined the U.S. Air Force during the conflict in Vietnam, but his eyesight made him unable to fly. Instead he helped to train pilots on radar counter-measures using flight simulators.

Soon he met his future wife, Carol, and they married in 1975 in Menlo Park. After he began studies to earn a college degree, beginning at Foothill College where he was student body president. He later transferred to Stanford and received a degree in economics as part of the class of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82. He then worked at a few companies offering customer relationship management (CRM) software.

He lived with Carol in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto from 1974 until 1982, before moving to Los Altos and later Cupertino. Together they started a family in 1985, and he supported his sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities by coaching soccer and baseball and as a scout leader for many years, proudly earning his Wood Badge beads. He enjoyed the arts and travel, as well as staying current on politics, policies, science, finance and world events.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Lillibridge of Cupertino; sons, Jeffrey (Jennifer) Lillibridge of Cupertino, Timothy (Angela) Lillibridge of Hayward and Thomas Lillibridge of Santa Clara; mother, Thelma Ogan; sister, Jayne Ward; brother, Jim Lillibridge; and four grandchildren, Hannah, Haley, Maxwell and Lucas.

A memorial service was held on Nov. 18 at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, which was followed on Nov. 19 by a military interment at the San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery in Santa Nella, California.

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Editorial An encouraging first step by the FAA Time will tell whether it’s a serious initiative or just lip service

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rodded for months by three members of Congress and an increasingly organized group of Peninsula and Santa Cruz County residents, the Federal Aviation Administration finally announced this week it was reviewing and reconsidering new flight policies and procedures that are generating unprecedented noise complaints from local residents.

The FAA’s initiative, announced Monday not by the agency but

by Reps. Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr and Jackie Speier, is the most encouraging news yet that protests over the last few months by citizens, local and county officials and the three congresspersons may be getting heard by Washington aviation regulators.

And with lawsuits filed in Phoenix and by a group of Portola Valley residents, with more sure to come elsewhere, the FAA may finally be realizing it has created a mess out of a new system designed to streamline and modernize commercial aircraft arrival and departure flight paths and procedures at major U.S. airports.

As we commented last week, applying direct political pressure on the FAA is much more likely to result in quicker positive changes than any long-shot legislative solution in a dysfunctional Congress.

While we are happy to finally see some concrete movement from the FAA, we are concerned that the agency’s initiative comes in the form of an unsigned, unattributed summary that does not even identify it as being a statement of the agency.

It fails to identify a single FAA official who is accountable for the initiative nor even a contact person for more information.

And after each item to be studied or evaluated, the summary states that work began seven weeks ago, on Oct. 2, and shows a completion date of “TBD.” According the press release issued by Eshoo, Farr and Speier, the FAA “authored” the initiative and Speier is quoted as stating that “for the first time in many years, (the FAA) has committed to studying ideas submitted by the affected communities.” She called the initiative a “compilation of the ideas that were offered by the public” at recent meetings and said, “Some of these ideas may be deemed workable by the FAA and some may not.”

Indeed, the document, which states it was “compiled” at the request of Eshoo, Farr and Speier, reads more like a laundry list of possible actions rather than a focused strategy. It is full of technical and bureaucratic jargon (“The FAA will conduct a detailed analysis to include preliminary feasibility from a procedures/criteria perspective and fly-ability from an aircraft perspective. Procedures will be analyzed, modeled and flown in flight simulators”).

According to the document, the FAA has agreed to take a fresh look at the new “NextGen” procedures and assess whether they can be modified to increase inbound aircraft altitudes, move flight paths to over water where possible, shift noisy aircraft speed changes to over the bay, change or add new “waypoints” to distribute air traffic over a larger area, change late-night flight patterns and review cargo operations. It also acknowledges the value of obtaining more community input, something severely lacking in the lead up to the implementation of the new system.

The “initiative” is progress toward achieving needed improvements to the current situation, and we hope it reflects a genuine changed attitude on the part of the FAA. However, without any timeline for completion nor any FAA official identified as the person responsible for its execution, we are concerned that it may be designed more to quiet the public and congressional outcry than an acknowledgement that mistakes have been made and changes are needed.

The FAA’s document goes out of its way to make it appear that addressing the noise problems with aircraft arrivals involves a complex review and analysis of the entire new system, when those who are familiar with the new technologies suggest the fixes are not nearly so complicated and primarily involve some common sense adjustments to increase altitudes of planes when they cross the Peninsula (to levels they were previously using) and the implementation of more varied traffic lanes so the same area (currently Palo Alto) is not getting a disproportionate number of flights crossing over it.

A plan with no timetable or deadlines can’t be trusted or relied upon, as Eshoo, Farr and Speier surely know. We hope and assume they will continue to keep behind-the-scenes pressure on the FAA and urge concerned citizens to not be lulled into quieting their protests or suspending the filing of noise complaints. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Eshoo responds Editor, I read with interest your Nov. 13 editorial titled “False hopes of FAA noise legislation.” I was disappointed to read your narrow assessment of wide-ranging efforts to address the unacceptable levels of aircraft noise over communities in the 18th Congressional District and our region. The editorial discounts the substance of legislation offered in Congress as being ineffectual and outright ignores the ongoing multi-member, multi-pronged strategy to bring relief to the region.

Were the language of the bills already national policy, aircraft noise would have to be treated as the public health and environmental issue that it is, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have to consider and limit noise impacts when establishing or altering flight paths.

Get ahead of the game Editor, Palo Alto should be ahead of problems instead of trailing behind acting surprised.

Cases in point: 1) When you permit buildings like Casa Olga to convert to posh hotels that require many, many parking spaces that weren’t needed previously and they have none, what do you think the impact will be downtown? Chronic parking problems in that area.

2) When you create eight-hour permits for workers to use downtown/residential streets, what do you think will happen in these neighborhoods? They are solidly parked for the full eight hours and there is less parking available for the neighborhood than there was before.

3) When you have never thought about the impact of Airbnb or multiple non-family occupancy, do you really think this is going to go over in our residential neighborhoods? You actually have a chance to get a handle on this if you act with immediacy. A sublet for a year is one thing. Frequent turnover to strangers at houses is quite another. Also note that some Peninsula cities insisted on legislation that did not permit numerous unrelated tenants in singlefamily residences. If you do not act quickly on this, you will soon find these cell-like conversions going on in your neighborhood.

How about a bit of proactive oversight?

Carol Gilbert Byron Street, Palo Alto

My constituents are being subjected to unbearable aircraft noise precisely because the FAA could launch the NextGen program without having to consider noise in their plan. I agree it’s tough to get legislation through Congress, but, as a legislator, I wouldn’t be serving my constituents well if I didn’t seek to change the laws that govern the FAA. Moreover, public participation and awareness of airspace redesign are essential to fairly apportioning noise impacts, which is precisely what this legislation proposes.

An essential element of the work to resolve the issue with the FAA was not mentioned, and that is the hundreds of hours of work through my office, as well as meetings with the regional director of the FAA, with constituents, advocacy organizations and locally elected officials in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties. My col-

leagues Reps. Jackie Speier and Sam Farr have also held these meetings in their congressional districts.

This is all part of a broad strategy to engage the FAA directly with those impacted, and, without countless letters and phone calls with the FAA, public meetings, legislative efforts and complaints filed by my constituents, I doubt the FAA would have agreed to produce an action plan to respond to the complaints and suggestions of constituents covering three congressional districts.

Let’s not let a cynical view of Congress get in the way of actual policymaking. And let’s not mislead affected communities that their hope for a remedy relies solely on two bills when it’s evident that far more is being done.

Anna G. Eshoo Member of Congress California’s 18th Congressional District

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Guest Opinion Will it help?

Editor, The school district’s new preliminary plan for a school at Cubberley reports candidly and vividly on our high schoolers’ sense of disconnection and of lack of belonging.

The plan’s solution to alleviate these feelings is to shrink the numbers at Gunn and Paly — but the report offers no data or proof that our schools’ current size is the actual problem and fails to note the obvious: that huge crowds of human beings have always been able to live contentedly in even the largest cities when they feel a texture of close and secure human ties within their apartment buildings, on their blocks, and to their city’s institutions and values.

Palo Alto’s schools can be downsized to nutshells — but they will have the same atmosphere of estrangement as long as the district resists re-stitching their social fabrics. Gunn and Paly have 407 classes with 30 or more students — cutting kids off in a thousand ways from the teachers who could otherwise cherish and champion them. Our district, while recommending no more than two APs, has failed to stop 680 students, this term, from taking three or more such collegelevel courses — putting these kids in an all-year, exhausted hurry.

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Community embraces responsibility to help our youth

by Meg Durbin

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he December article in the Atlantic magazine addressing the two teen suicide clusters we’ve experienced in Palo Alto — in 2009 and again in 2014 — highlights some critical issues in our community.

Some of our challenges are mirrored elsewhere, and others may hope to learn from our experience and our responses.

As we grieve the loss of any youth, we are gratified by the enormous dedication and collaboration of local community leaders, teens, and families to address the myriad challenges the suicides have brought to light.

The community — including health care professionals, school officials, city officials, parents, students, various public and private agencies — are facing these issues candidly, publicly, and with heartfelt compassion. We are guided by the scientific evidence about what works, by advice from national and local experts, and by the voices of our own youth. We have asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help assess local suicide risk factors, to advise what we should supplement from the “best practices” already implemented.

We are addressing the risk factors that can lead youth from stress to distress, to overt depression and anxiety, to suicidal thoughts and actions. Over the past six years, we have implemented and continually refine many

The community is facing these issues candidly, publicly, and with heartfelt compassion. specific steps and programs to improve youth well-being: decreasing stigma about addressing mental health concerns, reducing academic and performance pressure, improving mental health care, reducing access to means of self-harm, and improving public and media communication about these issues.

Our city convened “Project Safety Net,” coordinating the work of the many public and private organizations focused on teen well-being (psnpaloalto.com).

We have worked with media about how to write responsibly about suicide and to reduce the risk of contagion fostered by sensationalistic reporting. Many resources for teens and families with concerns can be found at AFSP.org, HEARDAlliance. org, and 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Comprehensive school resources can be found in the Suicide Prevention Toolkit written by the Palo Alto Unifies School District and now disseminated statewide: pausd.org/ comprehensivesuicidepreventiontoolkit.

Our schools bolstered living skills courses to reduce stigma and address well-being holistically, eliminated early morning academic classes, implemented block scheduling, reduced homework, started peer and teachermentor support programs, educated parents about teen mental health (including meet-

ing with multiethnic groups), added mental health specialists, and adopted nationally known programs (Sources of Strength, Break Free from Depression, etc).

Our major local health care organizations formed a collaborative (heardalliance.org), with initial focus on training primary care physicians to screen and treat teens routinely for mental health issues, and know when to refer. New “navigators” surmount notorious difficulties in accessing mental health care specialists, linking teens directly to therapists and psychiatrists. A new youth wellbeing center at Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry will consolidate clinical care and research.

Our city has addressed “means restriction,” limiting access and improving visibility along the rail line, adding motion detectors, and staffing guards at rail crossings 24/7.

Finally (and really firstly), many studentled efforts to manage stress and pressures to succeed have been put in place. Students’ projects include a high school peer support program (“ROCK:” Reach Out, Care, Know), a documentary (“Unmasked”), and a newspaper series (“Change the Narrative”), where students share stories of strength, hope, and healing.

We embrace our responsibility to help our youth grow into happy, healthy, well-rounded adults. We are grateful to have the commitment and talents of a diverse, passionate, fully engaged community. Q Dr. Meg Durbin is a pediatric and internal medicine doctor at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. She is also co-founder of a collaborative of health professionals, the HEARD Alliance, addressing youth well-being.

Streetwise

Do you plan to support local businesses during the holidays, and if so, where?

Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Interviews and photos by Chrissi Angeles and Muna Sadek.

Renee Choi

Gary McDonald

Jane Poole

Carol Pladsen-Bloom

Edith Jacobi

Washington Avenue, Palo Alto Homemaker

Harliss Avenue, San Jose Retired editor

Alma Street, Palo Alto Human resources executive

Seale Avenue, Palo Alto Retired

Holly Oak Drive, Palo Alto Nurse

“Town & Country, because there (are) so many stores there. Books Inc. and Howie’s (Artisan) Pizza.”

“Bookstores down on Castro Street (such as) BookBuyers ... the used bookstore. We like to buy our Christmas tree off of Skyline Boulevard at the ... farms up there.”

“Yes, the European Cobblery. I’m on my way now to the Village Stationers store to buy a card.”

“Yes, because I won’t be out of town. ... I go to Mollie’s, La Bodeguita del Medio, and then there’s another place down on El Camino, Happy Feet Foot Spa.”

“I just saw something in the paper store Village Stationers. I just had an idea for a present in there.”

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In response, I would like to paraphrase a poem by my friend Drew Dellinger and adapt it to our own ongoing dilemma in our hometown of Palo Alto today. It might go something like this:

what did you do once you knew?

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nonstop, marking our kids as commodities rather than human beings and giving depressed students no time to bounce back from the hurts of adolescence.

Homework remains un-modulated by the latest, state-of-the-art means. Eighty-seven percent of kids at Gunn cheat; Paly has had a three-year conspiracy of some 20 cheaters. Studies show that 65 percent of high schoolers get on their phones during class.

The proposed new school will not solve the problems that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to and will cost us a pretty penny. Before the eyecatching â&#x20AC;&#x153;PAUSD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Building for the Future!â&#x20AC;? construction signs are planted, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have a long, thoughtful debate.

Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

surely you did something when good friends and families started leaving?

A Pre-Proposal Conferences is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, in the City Council Chambers at the Civic Center, First Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. ALL Proposers intending to submit a proposal are required to attend the Pre-Proposal Conference.

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itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3:23 in the morning and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m awake because my great, great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while our hometown of Palo Alto was sold off to the highest bidders? what did you do when the children who grew up here were no longer able to live here?

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Emcee Kai Kai, center, dances with fellow performers at the end of a recent Game of Hearts drag variety show at King of Clubs in Mountain View.

One big campy family Mountain View nightclub hosts semimonthly drag shows

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n a short, multicolored dress cinched tight at the waist to emphasize her curvaceous hips and bust, dramatic orange eye makeup and a voluptuous blond wig that cascades past her shoulder blades, Rock M. Sakura looks ready for a starring role in a J-pop video. Alone on stage, she teeters comically on her high heels as she lip-syncs to the soundtrack of an instructional dance video, encouraging her audience to follow along. Instead, they stay seated, chortling and clapping appreciatively.

Undeterred, she continues, demonstrating a series of moves from an unladylike squat to an even more unladylike repetitive gesture that leaves the audience shrieking with laughter. A man in baggy jeans and an oversized flannel shirt pulls a $1 bill from his breast pocket and tosses it onstage where it lands, crumpled, at her splayed feet.

It’s past 10 p.m., and with every swing of the bar door, a gust of cold air sweeps in, carrying with it a draft of cigarette smoke.

Sakura doesn’t seem to notice.

She’s in full command of the room, a campy Japanese queen holding court at a dive bar just off

by Elizabeth Schwyzer | photos by Michelle Le 101 in Mountain View.

For Bryan Bradford, aka Sakura, the art of drag is all about performing for the audience.

“I look for an excited, confused look in their eyes,” he explained shortly before the start of the Game of Hearts drag variety show earlier this month. Sitting in a dingy, windowless back office at King of Clubs nightclub in his khaki shorts, bare-chested, his

face already prepped with cake makeup, Bradford described the feeling he gets onstage.

“Putting on a wig and makeup makes me feel fearless,” he said.

Getting to be a woman for one evening a few times each month has given him a confidence that colors the rest of his life, he explained.

“I identify as a gay male, but I never really had a connection to

Bryan Bradford prepares backstage for his role as drag queen Rock M. Sakura in the Game of Hearts show.

the gay community before. Drag has pushed me to be more involved in the LGBT community.”

It sounds great — and it looks fabulous — but Bradford made it clear life as a drag queen isn’t all glamour.

“I do not feel sexy when I’m in drag,” he explained. “I feel like a sweaty old couch you find at the Goodwill that smells like Cheetos. I feel like a glammed up dishrag.”

The “sweaty old couch” sensation may well be due to the foam padding, pantyhose, waist cincher, makeup, hairpieces, clothing and accessories he uses to transform himself from a muscular man into a hyper-feminine woman with an hourglass figure and a porcelain doll face.

Bradford is not alone in going to such lengths to create a feminine persona for the stage. He’s one of eight regular performers at Game of Hearts, a semimonthly show that launched at the Leong Drive nightclub more than 12 months ago and has attracted a loyal following.

He’s also part of a much older and larger tradition.

According to Peter Goldblum, Ph. D., director of the Center for

LGBTQ Evidence-based Applied Research (CLEAR) at Palo Alto University and a specialist in gender expression and gender identity, Bradford is participating in a social and political practice that dates back at least to the 17th century and gained prevalence in Germany in the 1930s, as depicted in the Broadway musical, “Cabaret.”

“In the 1940s and ’50s, drag became one of the central forces within the underground gay community,” Goldblum explained in a recent phone interview. “Partly it was just fun and something that people enjoyed doing, but it was also very connected up with early gay liberation.” Referencing the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in which the LGBT community in New York staged violent protests against legal discrimination and social marginalization, spurring the tradition of Gay Pride marches, Goldblum said. “Stonewall has often been attributed to drag queens finally coming to the point of being tired of being harassed.

So there is this long history of political involvement.”

Yet for most drag queens, Gold(continued on next page)

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blum acknowledged, drag is primarily a social practice, one that embraces camp humor, satire and a simultaneous celebration and mockery of extreme femininity.

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t’s little secret that San Francisco is an international epicenter of drag royalty. Just 40 miles to the south, Mountain View is better known for its hightech workers than its drag queens.

Yet the Silicon Valley city has both — and some of them are one and the same person.

Alexia Fuentes is among the regular performers at Game of Hearts. A petite woman with big brown eyes and a quick smile, she joined the cast six months ago.

It’s here, surrounded by her chosen family, that she feels like her true self.

For Fuentes, performing as a drag queen coincided with the discovery that she was a transgender woman: Although she was designated a male at birth, her gender identity is female.

By day, Fuentes is a senior software engineer known to almost all of her colleagues as a man. But being on stage as a woman has helped clarify her desire to transition; she’s now in the process of hormone replacement therapy, and has begun sharing her gender identity with trusted friends and loved ones.

It was drag, she explained, that helped ease this transition.

“I felt like a way to express my femininity in a very safe space,” she said. “Support groups were not the same. I am fully free on stage to be as sassy, campy or offensive as I want to be. Here, I have friends who I consider family.”

Fuentes also performs in San Francisco, but said it’s here in the unlikely setting of a bare bones Mountain View dive bar, among a cast of characters who range from amateur to experienced, glitzy to gritty, where she feels most at home.

“The performers there are more competitive, there’s a lot of talent,

and the drag community is big,” she said. “But that almost works in our favor down here. The best kinds of creativity happen when there are constraints applied.”

Though she’s not yet out at work, Fuentes said, she plans to tell her superiors in the next month or so, and hopes they will put in place appropriate sensitivity training for her colleagues.

While performing in drag has been instrumental in helping Fuentes transition her gender identity, she made it clear that drag can be many things, and that it’s impossible to generalize about those who participate in the art.

“It’s not all Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj,” she said. “Drag can be political, messy. It can make a statement. It’s not confined to the LGBT community; it’s a medium.

People bring their own palette to it and do what they want with it.”

Goldblum agreed.

“I don’t know that you can generalize anything from the practice of drag,” he said. “You can say, to some extent, that it is a way of coping with misogynist views or hyper-masculine expectations.

Drag queens have a long history of being truth tellers to the rest of the community. Through camp humor, they put a mirror to the hyper-masculine world in which we live. They are saying, ‘I don’t fit that view, I don’t want to fit that view, and to some extent there’s something really squirrelly about society’s vision of how women and men are supposed to be.’ So if you can make any generalization about people who participate in drag, it would be that they are people who have the courage to step outside of social expectations about gender and to be themselves, even though society may condemn them.”

The image of gender as “squirrelly” is clearly one that makes sense to Joel Newlyn, stage name Glitter E. Vortex. A stocky 24-year-old man with a day job at a leather fetish store in San Jose, Newlyn not only rejects traditional gender roles; he doesn’t even identify as a drag queen when he puts on a dress and goes on stage.

“I identify with ‘drag monster’ because I’m a little trashy,” he

Alexia Fuentes brings satire to the stage at a recent Game of Hearts show.

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Joseph Pequero was skeptical of drag until he tried it himself; he now performs regularly as drag queen Niya La Rey. explained shortly before going on stage for his first number of the evening, for which he wore combat boots, a nondescript gray cotton dress and a hood shaped like a squirrel head. As he darted around manically onstage, the hood slipped down to cover much of his face, but didn’t entirely obscure his thick beard, which was coated in silver glitter. It sparkled in the light of the disco ball as he finished his number lying supine center stage, snoring: a narcoleptic squirrel with breasts and dazzling facial hair.

For Newlyn, drag is not necessarily about beauty at all, nor is it limited to people of any particular sexual orientation. “Drag is not necessarily just for gay people,” Newlyn insisted. “It really is for everyone, and we exemplify that.”

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rag may be for everyone, but even some drag queens admit to approaching the art form with skepticism or even fear at first.

Among those in this camp are Joseph Pequero and Jonathan Ruiz, a gay couple who both perform at Game of Hearts as well as at various clubs in San Jose.

“It was just too weird for me,” remembered Pequero, stage name Niya La Rey, of his first encounter with the art form. A high school actor who came out as gay at age 19, Pequero discovered drag through Ruiz, who performed as a woman, but only once a year: on Halloween. Pequero did not approve.

It was Ruiz who convinced Pequero to take part in a “closet ball” — a fundraiser for the LGBT community that features first-time performers. Pequero proved to be an instant natural.

Soon, he was hooked.

“I got to know the artistry of it,” he said. “It’s an amazing outlet for people who have a passion to express themselves with music and performance.”

For Ruiz, stage name Sativa Bankz, seeing his boyfriend

flourish as a drag queen inspired him to get more involved. He refers to himself as a “pretty” drag queen, but says it’s Pequero who has the real talent.

“He’s a lot more passionate than I am,” Ruiz noted. “He’s more into performing and showing people how good he is.”

On stage, both Niya and Sativa are beautiful and feminine, but Sativa’s style is more sultry (her nickname is J. Lo), while Niya is more sexually explosive — think Miley Cyrus meets Christina Aguilera for a pole dance contest. Sativa tends to select songs she feels will connect with “older people: Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, Celia Cruz,” while Niya likes to surprise her audiences with everything from “Hairspray” numbers to Disney tunes. “I like to make people say ‘Wow!’ instead of saying, ‘I saw another queen do this piece the other night,’” Pequero said.

As a self-identified “older” performer — he’s 30 — Ruiz offered advice to those who are considering performing in drag for the first time.

“For anybody that’s thinking about doing it: Do it,” he said.

“There’s no harm in trying.”

Those intrigued might start by attending a Game of Hearts show and meeting the organizers: host and talented performer Kai Kai (officially a “faux” drag queen — she was born female, though she identifies as gender queer), DJ Scroto T. Baggins and bartender/ drag king/general support person Emily Rogers. Don’t forget to bring a stack of $1 bills for tips, and most importantly, bring your sense of humor.

At King of Clubs, the fun extends from the performers to the audience, which earlier this month consisted of smattering of men and women, some older, some younger. As the night wore on, the crowd grew slightly. At one point, audience members were invited to come on stage to celebrate DJ Scroto’s birthday with an impromptu lap dance contest; at

the end of the show, there was an open invitation to come onstage to spank the birthday boy. Both activities garnered enthusiastic audience participation.

As Dr. Goldblum put it, “We miss the boat if we don’t understand that drag is just fun. Of course, some people take their drag very seriously and others take it with a big dose of irony, but if you only look at it from an anthropological or sociological perspective, you miss the most important point, which is that it’s people who are having fun together and enjoying their lives.”

From campy to politically charged to sexy to downright strange, there’s no doubt Game of Hearts is offering fun for everyone involved, and also that it’s a tight-knit, caring community. Emcee Kai Kai laid to rest one last common misconception about drag.

“Drag queens are not all bitchy,” she noted. “Most are really sweet people. All in all, I love the people I perform with.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

What: Game of Hearts Drag Variety Show Where: King of Clubs, 893 Leong Drive, Mountain View When: Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month, 9 p.m. to midnight. Next show: Wednesday, Nov. 25.

Cost: No cover charge.

Open to those 21 and over only.

Info: Go to koclubs.com or facebook.com/KOCGOH, or call 650-968-6366.

SEE MORE ONLINE www.PaloAltoOnline.com Watch videos of the Game of Hearts drag variety show in the online version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.

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Books Society of Young Inklings Move over Stephen King, Yann Martel and Philip Pullman: The next generation has arrived. On Friday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., Menlo Park’s Kepler’s Books at 1010 El Camino Real hosts teen authors Jessie Karan, Sean Nesamoney and Megan White for a discussion of their new novels. The event is free. Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.

Music ‘Carmina Burana’ Raganellas, glockenspiels, castanets and cymbals: Choral music meets percussion in the Bay Choral Guild’s performance of Carl Orff’s dramatic “Carmina Burana” at Palo Alto’s First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Ave., on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5-$25. Go to baychoralguild.org or email info@baychoralguild.org.

Event ‘Engaging Climate Change’

Theresa Robinson

Art ‘Artful Holiday Show’ Sure, you could give him another sweater or get her another gift certificate, but what about an original work of art created locally? Now through Christmas Eve, Palo Alto’s Gallery House at 320 California Ave. is displaying works by regional painters, sculptors, ceramicists, jewelers, photographers and more. The Artful Holiday Show features works by 43 Bay Area-based members of the Gallery House cooperative, and their art represents a wide range of artistic styles, from the figurative to the abstract, the formal to the whimsically playful.

The show kicks off with a 20 percent discount on Friday, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. That same evening, the gallery hosts a free reception, 6-8 p.m, where members of the public can meet the artists and chat about their work. For more information, go to galleryhouse2.com or call 650-326-1668.

Above: Among the works included in the Artful Holiday Show at Gallery House is Theresa Robinson’s mixed media work, “Meeting.”

Environmental issues and music serve as the inspirations for Michael Killen’s paintings. The artist and former CEO will share his large-scale canvases and discuss his creative process on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 4 p.m. at Menlo Park’s Lehman Hall, St. Bede’s Church, 2650 Sand Hill Road. The suggested donation is $10-$25. Go to killen.com or email stbedes@harringtondesign.com.

Theater ‘Sunlight’ The sun may be setting early these days, but that’s not the case at Redwood City’s Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, where Sharr White’s political drama, “Sunlight” hits the stage Nov. 20 through Dec. 13.

The play shines a light on tensions in post-9/11 America. Tickets are $10-$35. Go to dragonproductions.net or call 650-493-2006.

Concert Doctors Without Borders benefit Mozart and Beethoven do their part to support the refugee crisis when musicians from the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet and New Century Chamber Orchestra hold a benefit concert on Monday, Nov. 23, at 7 p.m., at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. Tickets are free with a donation of any amount; all funds raised will go to Doctors Without Borders. Go to goo.gl/ALChyC. Q

— Elizabeth Schwyzer

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, Dec. 6,1-4 pm

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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, December 7, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Planning Codes Update - Review and Adoption of an Ordinance to Amend Land Use Related portions of Titles 16 and 18 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code. The purposes of the code amendments and additions are to: (1) improve the use and readability of the code, (2) clarify certain code provisions, and (3) align UHJXODWLRQV WR UHĂąHFW FXUUHQW SUDFWLFH DQG &RXQFLO SROLF\ GLUHFWLRQ 7KH DĎ&#x192;HFWHG FKDSWHUV RI 7LWOH LQFOXGH EXW DUH not limited to Title 16 (Building Regulations), Chapters 16.20 (Signs), 16.24 (Fences), and 16.57 (In-Lieu Parking Fees for New Non-Residential Development in the Commercial Downtown (CD) Zoning District)), and Title 18 (Zoning), Chapters 18.01 (Adoption, Purposes and Enforcement), 'HĂ°QLWLRQV 'HVLJQDWLRQ DQG (VWDEOLVKPHQW RI Districts), 18.10 (Low Density Residential RE, R-2 and RMD Districts), (18.12 (R-1, Single Family Residence District), 18.13 (Multiple Family Residential (RM-15, RM-30, RM-40) Districts)), 18.14 (Below Market Rate Housing Program), 18.15 (Residential Density Bonus), 18.16 (Neighborhood, Community, and Service Commercial (CN,CC and CS) Districts)), 18.18 (Downtown Commercial (CD) Districts)), 2Ď&#x201E;FH 5HVHDUFK DQG 0DQXIDFWXULQJ 025 52/0 RP and GM) Districts)), 18.23 Performance Criteria for Multiple Family, Commercial, Manufacturing and Planned Community Districts), 18.31 (CEQA Review - a new chapter), 18.34 (PTOD Combining District Regulations), 18.40 (General Standards and Exceptions), 18.52 (Parking and Loading Requirements), 18.70 (Nonconforming Uses and Noncomplying Facilities), 18.76 (Permits and Approvals), and 18.77 (Processing of Permits and Approvals).

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) 8:30 A.M., Thursday, December 3, 2015, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional information during business hours at 650.329.2144.

261 Hamilton Avenue [15PLN- 00401]: Request by Roxy Rapp on behalf of Hamilton Ramona Partners for Architectural Review of a Master Sign Program that includes three (3) new illuminated wall signs and four (4) new projecting blade signs at the ground Ă&#x2026;VVY VM Z[YLL[ MHJPUN LSL]H[PVUZ PU [OL *+ * .- 7 District. The blade signs require a Sign Exception for proposed placement, size and number of signs.

Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Section 15311.

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Top: The pizza crusts at Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are pliant â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the dough is stretched, not rolled â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and baked to just the right amount of char and tanginess. Above: Although the focus is pizza, Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also offers appetizers, salads and sandwiches, including the chicken chipotle melt.

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HOWIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ARTISAN PIZZA RISES ABOVE THANKS TO TOP-NOTCH CRUST AND INGREDIENTS

recently visited my small hometown in northern Illinois. Decades ago, in the era when I rode home on my Schwinn with friends after Little League games, we would stop at Alfanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza, the only pizza parlor in town, and gorge ourselves as teenage boys do.

Alfanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is still in business, but now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competing with a dozen other pizza spots. Pizza is as American as apple pie and hating the Dodgers. Pizza is comfort food; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, friends and good times. There are people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat pizza for a variety of reasons, but I doubt there are many who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like pizza.

Howard Bulka, former co-owner and chef of Marche restaurant in Menlo Park, knows that. He has studied pizza, analyzed our local eating habits and thought about what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll spend money on, and what we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

An accomplished chef, Bulka was born in Chicago and raised in West Los Angeles. He came north to study creative writing at San Francisco State University

but ended up with a degree in economics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day, a light bulb went off,â&#x20AC;? he said. He decided to become a chef, igniting a career that took him to Europe and Asia.

He did a turn in Los Angeles, studied under Michelin star-winning chefs Paul Bocuse and the late chef Alain Chapel in France, worked a wok line in Hong Kong and was executive chef at the Mandarin Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed Silks in San Francisco. Bulka spent the next decade as a restaurant consultant. In late 2001, he and a business partner opened the upscale Marche. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marche was a critical but not a financial success,â&#x20AC;? Bulka said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a special-occasion restaurant, not an every-night family option.â&#x20AC;? After re-thinking his career strategy, he decided to focus on pizza. It was inexpensive, nutritious and perfect for families any night of the week. Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artisan Pizza opened six years ago in Town & Country Village in Palo Alto. The restaurant has an open

Eating Out kitchen where pizza-makers can be seen massaging the dough.

The interior is industrial with exposed beams, sturdy wood tables and chairs and a bar area with metal stools.

A second location opened six months ago in up-and-coming downtown Redwood City. The new location offers nearly the same menu, plus weekend brunch and a large outdoor patio.

Since pizza parlors are ubiquitous, Bulka drew upon his expertise to perfect the sourdough starter that is the hallmark of Howie’s. A pizza’s crust defines and differentiates it in the same way that a good hamburger bun separates the special from the ordinary.

Top-notch toppings are crucial, of course, but anyone can source quality ingredients. It’s Bulka’s dough and resultant crust that elevates his pizzas. Howie’s crusts are pliant — the dough is stretched, not rolled — and baked to just the right amount of char and tanginess.

Bulka uses two Marsal gasfired pizza ovens lined with 3-inch ceramic bricks. Bulka said he considered a wood-fired oven but figured with air pollution issues, gas was a smarter way to go.

Howie’s offers 10 pizza options, including composing your own pie.

Prices range from $16 to $23 for a large pizza. Midday, a smaller “petit’za” is offered for $12, which is plenty for a single diner.

The mouthwatering sausage and roasted red onion pizza ($20) comes topped with house-made Berkshire pork fennel sausage, mozzarella, roasted red onion and tomato.

The baked potato pizza ($19) was one of the more unusual offerings but delicious nevertheless.

It was topped with scalloped potatoes, Swiss cheese, bacon, rosemary and black pepper. And it really did taste of potatoes.

Other items on the menu include appetizers, salads and sandwiches. The tasty, garlicky prawns ($11) were oven-roasted with garlic butter, tomato sauce and Fresno chilies, then sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.

The spicy meatballs ($11) were similar in presentation, served with tomato sauce, Parmesan and garlic bread chunks. It was a huge portion, with plenty for sharing.

The Thai chicken wings ($9) offered just enough spice to get your attention, but came with a soothing peanut dipping sauce, just in case.

My only issue with any of the food was with the chicken chipotle sandwich ($9). The chicken was tough — not gristly, but chewy. I couldn’t cut it with a knife without obliterating the sandwich.

With high-quality ingredients — herb-roasted chicken, smoked jalapeño mayonnaise, mozzarella, lettuce, red onion, peppers and cilantro on a crunchy Acme Bakery baguette — my guess is that

particular chicken breast was an aberration.

At lunch, I was concerned about getting overwhelmed by hungry Palo Alto High School students, but Howie’s had a dedicated line for those just wanting a slice and a salad or soda. Students congregated on the outside patio, leaving the inside of the restaurant for families.

I grew up on Alfano’s Pizza, but I didn’t venture inside on my recent visit. After having sampled Howie’s Artisan pizzas, I might have been disappointed — and why tarnish nostalgia? Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@gmail.com.

Howie’s Artisan Pizza 855 El Camino Real #60; Town & Country Village, Palo Alto; 650-327-4992; howiesartisanpizza.com Hours: Daily, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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by Daryl Savage

MIDTOWN BILL’S CAFE OPENS ... A walk through Midtown Palo Alto’s newest restaurant shows a remarkable transformation. Bill’s Cafe, 3163 Middlefield Road, had its unannounced opening on Nov. 18 in the former site of Pommard Deli/Fandango Pizza. More than $500,000 was spent to modernize the 3,000-square-foot space. “We’re thrilled to be open,” said owner Nick Taptelis. “This is our seventh Bill’s Cafe, and there are no more in the works.” The family-owned restaurant started in the 1970s in San Jose.

There are now five Bill’s Cafes in San Jose and a sixth in Pleasanton. The Palo Alto restaurant is the last — at least for now. “We want to focus on what we have,” Taptelis said. Originally scheduled to open in June, the restaurant experienced several delays, but it was worth the wait, according to Taptelis: “Every single restaurant we build gets better and better.” Bill’s Cafe has a homey, old-fashioned feel, including a counter with swiveling chairs. “What we have concentrated on here is serving good, fresh food in a comfortable setting. And everything is cooked fresh daily,” Taptelis said. Open seven days a week for breakfast and lunch, Bill’s will have its grand opening this weekend.

“There will be lots of balloons, lots of fun, lots of families and lots of orange juice and mimosas,” he said. The mimosas, which cost $7, are served in giant 17.5-ounce bowls. If the popularity of the other six Bill’s Cafes is any indication, an estimated 9 gallons of orange juice will be served daily at the Palo Alto restaurant during the week, and 30 gallons of juice will be served over the weekend. “We’ll be going through five cases of oranges every weekend day,” Taptelis said. The menu fare is fairly typical of a daytime restaurant, although the number of choices is surprising. For example, the restaurant offers 10 types of eggs Benedict, 17 different omelets, 13 pancake varieties and seven different kinds of French toast. Seating capacity has been expanded to hold more than 100 diners, including patio seating. Pets are welcome in the outdoor area, where the restaurant plans to have a bucket of dog biscuits available on the patio. Woof.

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In the final installment of “The Hunger Games” series, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, right) must ask herself what she will and will not countenance to put an end to war.

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Quoth the Bard: “Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!” Welcome back to the space where, a year ago, referring to “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2,” I wrote, “No doubt the gamesmanship will step up ... after a long year’s wait.” That prediction has come to pass, marginally, as the $2 billion franchise adapted from Suzanne Collins’ YA novels comes in for a landing.

Director Francis Lawrence and his sturdy ensemble (minus Stanley Tucci) return for the final go-round, in which rebel teen idol Katniss “The Mockingjay” Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) furiously resists the establishment (the Capitol) and its exploitative president, Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland, whose meaningful gazes were never better). The main thrust of the plot finds Katniss driven to assassinate Snow, while

Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri 11/20 Spotlight – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Brooklyn – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 11/21 Spotlight – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Brooklyn – 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sun thru Tues 11/22 – 11/24 Spotlight– 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Brooklyn – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Weds 11/25 Spotlight – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Brooklyn – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Thurs 11/26 Spotlight – 1:00, 4:00 Brooklyn – 1:15, 4:15

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delaying her romantic choice between brainwashing sufferer Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and doggedly loyal commando Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), whose moping indicates he feels he’s already lost.

Indeed, moping is the mode of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2,” which seems determined to take all the fun out of the blockbuster movie (you thought Batman and James Bond were dour?). If the franchise continues to feel a bit dull — heavy on the drama and light on the excitement, with pageantry long in the rear-view — there’s a respectable purity in the films’ political cynicism and populist fervor. The most memorable action sequence finds crashing waves of oil (there’s a metaphor for this dying empire) threatening Katniss and company, a ragtag band of damaged minds and damaged souls that harbors little hope of prevailing but refuses to sit back and watch the world burn. In this familiar, if exaggerated, world of warcraft and economic injustice, the hero muses, “I guess there are no rules anymore

about what a person can do to another person.” Again and again, this final chapter prods Katniss to tally the public and private costs of war, and to ask herself what she will and will not countenance to put an end to it all.

Lawrence maintains a consistent production value, and it helps having great actors like Julianne Moore, Elizabeth Banks and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman — in his final screen role. Still, for anyone not hanging breathlessly on Collins’ every word and plot turn (adapted by Peter Craig and Danny Strong), this protracted two-part adaptation remains problematically enervated, building to a twist even non-readers should see coming all the way up the Appian Way. The falling action makes like the ghosts of franchises past, giving the fans something to squeal about and offer a last, wet-eyed three-finger salute.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for some thematic material.

Two hours, 17 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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Saoirse Ronan, left, plays 1950s Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey; Eileen O’Higgins plays her friend, Nancy, in “Brooklyn.”

When Irish eyes are crying ‘Brooklyn’ combines immigrant story, romance 000 1/2 (Palo Alto Square) “Involving” is the word for “Brooklyn,” a romance of people and places adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel. Even if you don’t like the film — though it’s a fair bet you will — it will prime you for a spirited discussion about the

choices of its hero, a resilient Irish lass who strives to sort out her best judgment from her impulses, her hope from her naiveté.

At the film’s outset, in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) makes her final

preparations to leave the Emerald Isle, her elder sister, Rose (Fiona Glascott), and their mother (Jane Brennan) on a stomach-churning steamer journey to a new life in America. Eilis: Meet Ellis (Island, that is), the forbidding but

MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted.

For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

The 33 (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 1:20, 4:25, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 3:05, 6:55 & 9:55 p.m.

MET Opera: Lulu (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 9:30 a.m. Century 20: Sat 9:30 a.m.

Bridge of Spies (PG-13) Century 16: 9:25 a.m., 12:40, 4, 7:15 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 3:45, 7 & 10:15 p.m.

The Night Before (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 & 10:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 & 11:50 a.m., 1:15, 2:30, 3:50, 5:10, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10 & 10:30 p.m.

Brooklyn (PG-13) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: Fri & Sun 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri 9:55 p.m., Sat 2:30, 5:15, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m.

Oklahoma! (1955) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

By the Sea (R) Aquarius Theatre: 1:15, 4, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.

Change of Heart (1934) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri & Sat 6 & 9:10 p.m.

Cotto vs. Canelo (Not Rated)

Century 20: Sat 6 p.m.

Goosebumps (PG) Century 20: 10:05 a.m., Fri & Sat 12:40 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9, 10, 11 & 11:40 a.m., 12:35, 1:40, 2:40, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7, 7:50, 9, 10 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:20 p.m. & 12:10 a.m. Century 20: 10:25, 10:50 & 11:35 a.m., 12:20, 1:35, 2, 2:45, 3:30, 4:45, 5:20, 6, 6:45, 8, 8:35, 9:15 & 10 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:05 p.m. In X-D at 10 a.m., 1:05, 4:15 & 7:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:45 p.m., Sun 10:40 p.m. In D-BOX at 10:25 & 11:35 a.m., 1:35, 2:45, 4:45, 6, 8 & 9:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:05 p.m.

The Intern (PG-13) ++ Century 20: Fri & Sun 10:05 a.m. & 12:55 p.m.

The Iron Horse (1924) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sun 3:20 p.m.

Love the Coopers (PG-13) Century 16: 9:20 a.m., noon, 2:35, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m.

Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m.

The Martian (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9:05 a.m., 12:20, 3:40, 7:10 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10 a.m., 1:10 & 7:30 p.m. In 3-D at 4:20 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:40 p.m., Sun 10:35 p.m.

magical portal to a strange land of promise called New York City.

Under the watchful care of Father Flood (Jim Broadbent), Eilis is installed at a boarding house for Irish immigrant girls, run by the no-nonsense “Ma” Kehoe (Julie Walters).

As she ponders her future, Eilis takes tentative first steps in the workplace and on the social scene. Teary homesickness threatens her employment at a department store (where her boss is Jessica Paré of “Mad Men”), while the local Irish dance hall finds Eilis initially taken aback by the aggressive informality of young American men’s advances.

That all changes when she meets Italian-American boy Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen), who immediately hits the sweet spot between unceremonious charm and respectful manners. Their whirlwind courtship dovetails with the headiness of feeling her oats as an independent woman with increasingly plausible dreams for her future.

Cue the complication. In short order, a crisis forces Eilis to put her relationship on hold to return home to Ireland, allowing her heartsick family and friends — and, worryingly for an audience invested in Tony, another attractive suitor (Domhnall Gleeson’s Jim) — to make a last bid to keep

Eilis in the home country. In summary, “Brooklyn” sounds like an old-school paperback romance, and in some respects, it is.

But under the sensitive direction of stage-trained director John Crowley (“Intermission,” “Is Anybody There?”), and the emotional influence of Ronan’s resonant leading performance, “Brooklyn” delicately turns the basic into the elemental, prompting us to examine our strong attachments, how we form them and why we might consider breaking them. It’s a story about calibrating one’s personal compass, and since the adaptation by novelistscreenwriter Nick Hornby (the similarly themed “An Education” and “Wild”) resolutely resists telling, Ronan gets to unshowily show every thought and feeling in her organic micro-expressions.

“Brooklyn” isn’t the kind of movie that insists on a single authorial perspective, and it makes no guarantee that its ending spells happiness. Instead, audiences are invited to make up their own minds, like Eilis, about the trueness of this love story’s love and the rectitude of Eilis’ life-changing decisions.

Rated PG-13 for a scene of sexuality and brief strong language.

One hour, 51 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

+++++ Joshua Rothkopf,

“SHEER JOY IN CINEMATIC FORM, Full Of Fine Actors Giving Rich Performances With Endlessly Layered Characters.”

Scott Mendelson,

The Peanuts Movie (G) Century 16: 9:10, 10:25 & 11:45 a.m., 12:55, 2:15, 3:25, 4:40, 5:50, 7:10, 8:25 & 9:40 p.m.

Century 20: 10:20 & 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 3:25, 4:50, 7:15, 8:20 & 9:40 p.m. In 3-D at 12:55, 5:50 & 10:45 p.m.

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Not Rated) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 2:45 & 6:25 p.m.

The Secret in Their Eyes (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m.

Servant’s Entrance (1934) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri & Sat 7:30 p.m., Sat 4:20 p.m.

Spectre (PG-13) Century 16: 9:45 a.m., 12:05, 1:15, 3:35, 4:45, 5:55, 7:05, 8:15, 9:25 & 10:25 p.m., Fri 10:55 a.m., & 2:15 p.m., Sat 2:35 p.m., Sun 10:30 a.m. Century 20: 10:10 & 11:10 a.m., 1:30, 2:35, 5:55, 7, 9:30 & 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 3:35 p.m., Fri & Sun 4:55 & 8:15 p.m.

Spotlight (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 10:10 a.m., 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Suffragette (PG-13) +++ Guild Theatre: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m.

Trumbo (R) Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

Upstream (1927) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sun 2 p.m.

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

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

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Book Talk YA NOVEL TACKLES SUICIDE ...

“They don’t know my secrets ...”

So says the protagonist of “Paint My Body Red,” the new novel by young adult author Heidi R. Kling. The book centers on a teenage girl who attends a school where a rash of suicides shake up students and parents. “Paint My Body Red” is available at Kepler’s Books or on amazon.com. Info: goo.gl/WFoV6t or heidirkling.com

A monthly section on local bookss and authorss

STANFORD VERSUS STARTUP ... A SLAC physicist launches a new business venture only to find himself embroiled in an investment scandal. That’s the premise of Patrick Krejcik’s new novel, “Sand Hill Road.” The Wall Streetstyle thriller with a Silicon Valley twist is available on amazon.com.

Info: goo.gl/k3U0Np WRITING ABOUT WRITING ...

Thirteen years ago, Stanford University professor Hilton Obenzinger founded the “How I Write” conversation series, a popular project that later spun off a podcast. Now, he’s published a book based on his findings about the diversity and idiosyncrasy of the writing process. “How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience” is available on amazon.com.

YOUNG LIT TALENTS ... Move over Stephen King, Yann Martel and Philip Pullman: The next generation has arrived. On Friday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., Menlo Park’s Kepler’s Books at 1010 El Camino Real hosts teen authors Jessie Karan, Sean Nesamoney and Megan White for a discussion of their new novels. The event is free. Their books are available at Kepler’s and on amazon.com.

Info: keplers.com GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ...

Palo Alto resident Eric R. Faust has published a nonfiction book that tells the story of overlooked Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor nominee James W. King.

“Conspicuous Gallantry: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry” is available on amazon.com. Info: goo.gl/8XE5hb

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

Dr. Deepak Chopra suggests our thoughts can influence our health

by Kevin Kirby

H

e’s known today as one of the leading figures in the field of alternative medicine, but Deepak Chopra’s career began on a much more traditional path. Born in New Delhi and trained in Western medicine at an Indian university, he later emigrated to the United States, where he became a part of the Boston medical establishment. An endocrinologist in private practice, he was also Chief of Staff at New England Memorial Hospital and an instructor at Tufts, Harvard and Boston University.

It was only after 10 years in New England that Dr. Chopra began to study yoga, transcendental meditation and Ayurveda (traditional Hindu medicine). And it was then, standing at the intersection of Western medicine and Eastern mysticism, that Chopra found the question that would animate the next three decades of his career.

This Friday, Nov. 20, the wildly popular — and often controversial — physician and author will speak at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.

“For 40 years, we’ve known that if you are experiencing anxiety or fear — but also when you’re feeling depression or hostility or anger — that this results in the so-called ‘stress response,’” Chopra said in a recent

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interview with the Weekly. “We know from thousands of studies that stress increases your risk of cardiac incidents and that it increases inflammation in the body, thus raising risk factors for Alzheimer’s, auto-immune disorders, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and also many cancers.”

But, he went on, “We did not know what the opposite does.

Do deep mediation, sleep, exercise and yoga, do the opposite?

Do equanimity and peace of mind have the opposite effect?”

Chopra’s desire to find and communicate these answers has spawned dozens of books. The latest of them, “Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being,” will be the focus of discussion this Friday evening, Nov. 20, when Chopra visits Foothill College for a public presentation organized by Mountain View’s East West Bookshop.

“Super Genes” is co-authored

by Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a prominent researcher into the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s. According to Chopra, the pair met “in the men’s room” at a TEDMED conference and “began conversing about the brain and genes.” Their chance encounter turned into a collaboration that

“Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being” by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.; Penguin Random House, New York, 2015; 336 pages; $26 produced 2012’s “Super Brain,” a book exploring the idea that we can improve our physical and spiritual health by tapping into the unrealized potential of our brains.

Now, in “Super Genes,” Chopra and Tanzi go a step further, purporting to show a mechanism by which our thoughts, emotions and attitudes can actually switch on or switch off the genes that control our biological well-being.

It’s a radical idea, to say the least. For decades, genes were regarded as destiny.

Our behavior (diet, exercise, etc.) could affect our general fitness, of course, and environmental factors (such as pollutants) might have adverse effects on our health. But beneath it all, we were prisoners of our genetic inheritance,, cursed or blessed with specific traits coded into our DNA. Chopra’s latest book, coauthored by Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, suggests that our thoughts, emotions and attitudes can switch on and off the genes that control ourr biological well-being.

In recent years, as researchers — Tanzi among them — began to decode the human genome, identifying individual genes responsible for specific traits, it became clear that the reality of genetic inheritance was more complex than previously believed. It is now generally understood that the mere presence of a so-called “cancer gene,” for instance, does

Title Pages not automatically mean that an individual will develop cancer.

Instead, a new field known as epigenetics seeks to understand why a given trait â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a predisposition for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, say â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might manifest in one individual while remaining dormant or â&#x20AC;&#x153;unexpressedâ&#x20AC;? in someone else with the same cluster of genes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Epigenetics is here to stay,â&#x20AC;?

Chopra said, and indeed the basic tenets of the discipline are widely accepted. The instructions embedded in our DNA, he explained, are interpreted by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sheath of complex proteinsâ&#x20AC;? that surround and â&#x20AC;&#x153;influence the genes. They can turn up or turn down the volume of a gene â&#x20AC;Ś even silence a gene altogether.â&#x20AC;?

Chopra and Tanzi venture beyond the established outlines of contemporary epigenetic science, though, when they suggest that the operation of these i n f luentia l proteins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a nd therefore the operation of our genes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; can be affected not just by environmental factors and infectious agents but also by our thoughts and feelings.

In Chopraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your genes are constantly responding to every experience you have â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even emotional experiences.â&#x20AC;?

While this notion may prove controversial with many in the scientific community, Chopraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans are more likely to see it as Chopra himself does: as a natural extension of the ideas that he has pursued for nearly three decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first book I wrote that went deep into how your mind can inf luence your biology was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Quantum Healingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in 1988,â&#x20AC;? the author explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At that time, my premise was based on observations of my

patients in clinical practice. I was able, coming from medical science and also yoga, to intuit that we can influence the body with the activity of the unconscious mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, 27 years have gone by, and we have validation not just from our own research but from researchers all over the world.

It has taken this time to build up the evidence that your mind and body are intrinsically one.â&#x20AC;?

His attempts to collapse the mind/body dichotomy have made Chopra a popular writer and lecturer within the holistic health movement, but his

characteristically ambitious claims have, in the past, ruffled the feathers of some scientists and medical practitioners who regard his evidence as insufficiently rigorous and his conclusions as speculative.

Asked how his ideas have been received on previous visits to the Bay Area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially within the tech-centric culture of Silicon Valley â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chopra replied, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a fan of technology.

Everything I do, I try to integrate technology and metrics.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spoken at Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. I get overwhelmingly positive responses.â&#x20AC;?

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Hosted by the alternativeleaning East West Bookshop, Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event at Foothill College is likely to draw an enthusiastic crowd as well. Chopraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk will cover issues of epigenetics, consciousness and the human microbiome, and the cost of admission includes a complementary copy of the just-released â&#x20AC;&#x153;Super Genes.â&#x20AC;? It is an opportunity to hear a leading figure in the alternative medicine movement as he discusses the latest chapter in his quest to bridge the mind/body divide, making the case for a radical new idea

in genetics that just may prove revolutionary. Q Arts & Entertainment writer Kevin Kirby can be emailed at penlyon@peak.org.

What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Super Genes: the Future of Well-Being,â&#x20AC;? a talk by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Where: Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills When: Friday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $60 Info: Go to eastwest.com or call 650-988-9800.

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libations Give thanks this year for cocktails, mocktails as well as the food

by Elena Kadvany hanksgiving planning is typically all about the food — what to make, how to make it (deep-fried turkey, anyone?), whether to stick with the classics or try something new.

What you’re drinking, consequently, can end up as an afterthought. This year, don’t neglect the libations. Thanksgiving food and fall flavors yield excellent cocktail (and mocktail) combinations. Get your wheels turning below with ideas and recipes from local bar managers and beverage directors.

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The Poinsettia Adam Chick, lead mixologist at Quattro at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, likes to make what he calls the “Poinsettia,” a cocktail made with pomegranate tea as its base. Brew up some tea, add some fresh pomegranate juice and fall ingredients like apple slices, cinnamon and clove. Then, “hit it with some brandy to spike it up.”

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while you’re entertaining guests or starting turkey in the morning,” Chick said.

How to make a Poinsettia

• 1 1/2 ounces of Applejack brandy • 5 ounces of pomegranate tea (1 tablespoon of tea, three red apple slices, one cinnamon stick and two cloves) • 1 ounce of pomegranate juice Steep the tea with aromatics for two minutes. Pour the brandy into a tall glass, and add the steeped tea and pomegranate juice. Then garnish with a red apple slice.

Winter Manhattan Another suggestion from Chick: a winter spin on the Manhattan, a cocktail typically made with whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters. Chick combines simple syrup (sugar and water) with nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and allspice and mixes that with whiskey and bitters for a winter version of the classic cocktail.

Chick recommends rye whiskey, “because rye is dry and spicy and an it really complements the m sweetness of the syrup.”

Add ice and garnish with garni ora nge an twist and star anise, he recommends.

(Added benefit: The Manhattan M can be enjoyed “after ddinner as it well because be has the strength you to bring bri back up to (an) enjoyable level enjoyab to toler tolerate your family and inlaws,” Chick joked.)

The Abella Ab Palo Alto’s Pizzeria Delfina’s fall cocktail what they menu features w call the ““Abella,” homage to the in homa ancient Roman ancien town of Avel-

la in Campania, Italy, which was famous for its “luxurious apples,” said beverage director Sally Kim. The drink is made with rye whiskey, apple brandy, lemon juice, ginger honey, apple butter and bitters.

How to make the Abella • 1 ounce of Rittenhouse Rye • 1/2 ounce of apple brandy • 3/4 ounce of lemon juice • 1/2 ounce of ginger honey • a teaspoon of apple butter • a dash of angostura bitters Put all ingredients into a shaker with three ice cubes and shake for 30 seconds. Strain and pour into a Nick and Nora glass, and garnish with a dehydrated lemon chip and clove. The garnishes should just float on top.

Holiday Sangria Bored with red wine at Thanksgiving dinner? How about red wine sangria instead, made with ingredients like pomegranate grenadine, orange juice, fernet and Cocchi Americano, an Italian aperitif wine.

“Once the drink is poured and the orange wheel soaks up the sangria, it turns into a pretty purple color and tastes delicious once the sangria is gone,” Kim said.

How to make a red wine sangria • 1 bottle of Vallevo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (red wine) • 5 ounces of R. Jelinek Fernet • 6 1/4 ounces of Cocchi Torino • 1 ounce of pomegranate grenadine • 5 ounces of orange juice • 1/4 ounce of St. Elizabeth AllSpice Dram Put all liquids into a pitcher and stir. Refrigerate to chill. Pour the mixture into a rocks glass with one large ice cube. Stud the center of an orange wheel with one or two cloves and set on top of ice cube.

Colleen Bawn Brandon Clements, barman at Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto, likes to serve a spin on the classic holiday eggnog, dubbed the “Colleen Bawn.” The drink dates back to the early 1900s when the drink appeared in a now vin-

tage cocktail recipe book,, “The Flowing Bowl: What and When To Drink.”

How to make a Colleen Bawn • 1 teaspoon of sugar • 1 whole egg • 3/4 ounce of Bulleit rye whiskey • 3/4 ounce of chartreuse • 3/4 ounce of Benedictine In a mixing glass, combine the sugar and whole egg; shake for about 10 seconds until frothy.

Add the Bulleit rye whiskey, chartreuse and Benedictine; fill with ice and shake vigorously for 20 seconds. Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass. Using a microplane, grate cinnamon and nutmeg over the drink to garnish.

Pomegranate Gingerade If you’re a non-drinker, try a pomegranate gingerade (Pro tip: Drink after dinner, as ginger aids with digestion).

How to make a pomegranate gingerade • 1 ounce of pomegranate syrup (for house-made grenadine: use equal parts of POM juice and super-fine sugar) • 1 ounce of simple syrup • 2 ounces of freshly squeezed lemon juice • ginger beer (or ginger ale) • pomegranate seeds Combine the pomegranate syrup, simple syrup and lemon juice in a tall glass and add the ginger beer. Fill with ice and sprinkle with a few pomegranate seeds. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Apple Orchard Can making cocktails be as much of a family affair as Thanksgiving dinner? Seems impossible, but Shawn Rezazadeh, bartender at Madera at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park, said it can be. For the restaurant’s “Apple Orchard” cocktail, which reeally sounds more like dessert than a drink, start by taking the core out of an apple.

Save the core to use to muddle the cocktail ingredients.

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f friendly ingredients like brown sugar, raisins, pecans and cinnamon, and stuff them inside the apple and bake it for a mid-day treat or dessert that guests of all ages can enjoy.

“It almost tastes like an apple pie,” Rezazadeh said. “It’s something to do with the family, with the kids.”

How to make the Apple Orchard cocktail • 1/4 teaspoon of brown sugar • 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon • two apple wedges • 1 1/2 ounces of apple brandy (Calvados is recommended) • 1/4 ounce of lemon juice • 1/4 ounce of simple syrup Combine all ingredients into a metal shaker. Muddle until thoroughly mixed. Add ice and shake vigorously. Pour mixture through a mesh strainer into a rocks glass with one large ice cube. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and an apple slice.

How to make spiced and baked apples • 4 medium apples • 1/4 cup of brown sugar • 1 teaspoon of cinnamon • 1/4 cup of chopped pecans • 1/4 cup of raisins • 3 tablespoons of butter • 3/4 cup of boiling water Mix together brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans and raisins.

Core four apples and stuff them with the spice mixture. Place the apples on a baking pan at least an inch apart and pour boiling water into the bottom of the pan, surrounding the apples. Bake the apples at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Let cool for at least one hour. Cut ffed each apple along the stuffed core into quarters.

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Adam Karon was inspired to try his hand at cooking a turkey after he attended a Thanksgiving dinner where the star of the meal — the bird — “just wasn’t good,” he said. After hearing the hype around deep-fried turkey from many of his Southern-raised clients, Karon, a sports agent living in Menlo Park, took to the Internet last year to find the necessary cooking equipment: 7 gallons of peanut oil, a large colander, r, an oil thermometer, a propane tank and a stand with a burner.

The initial plan for Thanksgiving, Karon said, was to deepfry one turkey and oven roast the second, but after a successful dry run, Karon ended up deep-frying both birds.

“It’s not a crazy amount of prep (work), and it just cooks so fast,” he said. “It cooks from the outside in, and the hot oil seals all the moisture inside.”

Karon recommends brining the turkey — which not only hydrates the meat, but uniformly seasons it — for a few hours or overnight to

lock in moisture, and then basting it with a large syringe. The turkey should be patted dry with a paper towel to avoid dangerous splattering and then lowered into the heated oil, which should be at 365 degrees for optimal frying. The oil itself, Karon said, takes longer to heat than the turkey takes to cook — approximately an hour and a half.

The turkey takes about 45 minutes to cook through, Karon said, which is about three and a half minutes per pound, he added.

“You pull it out and it looks like you totally ruined Thanksgiving,” he said.

But don’t be deceived by the dark outer layer, he said. After pulling out the internal frying basket holding the turkey, let it rest for about 30 minutes before carving and then serving.

The best part, according to Karon, is the turkey’s fried skin, K which he likens to “eating the best potato chip you’ve ever hhad.”

Karon’s brother Eli, often celebrates Thanksgiving with his inlaws in Texas, where he smokes the bird in The Big Green Egg, a ceramic charcoal barbecue cooker, using pecan smoking wood.

“Everything that comes out of The Big Green Egg just tastes better,” Eli said.

After dinner, Karon was left with a large vat of oil, which he used to deep-fry more food. The oil can be reused for up to two months, he said.

“We just started frying things.

I cut up some onions and threw them in there,” Karon said. “This year, we’re actually going to do fried Snickers.”

Frying should be done outside, Karon added, away from any buildings. He said it is important to set up a circular barrier of chairs or cones around the frying apparatus so dinner guests don’t trip over the burner’s hose which extends to the propane tank.

“You read every year about people burning their houses down,” he said. “I didn’t want to be that guy.”

Back to basics Marc Drucker’s interest in cooking began when he married his wife, Robin, 18 years ago.

“She doesn’t cook at all,” Drucker said, so he started learning how to cook, specifically experimenting with baked dessert and turkey recipes.

Years — and various turkey dishes — later, Drucker of Menlo Park said he always goes back to the classic brined and roasted bird.

Drucker prefers a salt-andsugar-based brine — with an aromatic of rosemary, juniper berries, garlic, thyme and pepper — to ensure the turkey is moist and flavorful.

He puts the turkey in a plastic garbage bag and pours the brine into the bag until the turkey is completely submerged. Then the bag is stored in the refrigerator (Drucker uses a cooler in the garage) for 24 to 48 hours, he said.

Then he rinses the turkey, pats it dry with paper towels and roasts it in the oven.

Lately, Drucker has been getting into more “interesting” ways to cook turkey, he said. Druck Drucker has experimented with a PolySciencee immersion circuculator, which uses sess hot water to cook k the turkey.

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At his in-laws’ home in Atherton, Adam Karon injects a turkey with marinade before it is deep-fried.

Also, “I’ve got a smoker or I deconstruct the turkey,” he said.

For a deconstructed bird, Drucker cuts off the breasts, wings and drumsticks — parts of the turkey that often go to waste, he said — and marinates them in the brine before tossing them in the oven or smoker.

Smoking a turkey results in a very flavorful dish, Drucker said.

“It’s really incredible. It comes out really good with flavor from the smoke that is imparted to it,” he said.

I can’t believe it’s not turkey Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be disappointing for vegans and vegetarians.

Gary Alinder, a professional chef with 30 years of experience under his belt and a knack for vegan and vegetarian cooking, whips up gourmet meatless meals for himself and guests at Monday night dinners for the Peninsula Macrobiotic Community in Palo Alto.

Alinder, who isn’t a vegan or vegetarian, previously worked for a natural foods restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he drew inspiration for his wild rice croquettes, which can be transformed into a “turkey” dish.

The croquettes are made with two cups of short-grain brown rice, a half cup of wild rice, minced vegetables (including mushrooms, onions, carrots and celery), 1 teaspoon of dried herbs (sage, thyme or rosemary are recommended), salt, black pepper, umeboshi vinegar and soy sauce to taste, and a cup of diced tempeh for added richness and protein. Tempeh, which has a nutty or earthy taste, is made from slightly fermented soybeans.

Alinder washes the rices and combines them in a pot with five cups of water or vegetable stock and a pinch of salt before cover-

ing and bringing the pot to a boil.

He reduces it to a simmer then cooks it for about an hour or until the rice is tender.

In a heated pan, he sautes the minced vegetables and adds in the dried herbs. After the rice is cooked, he adds the sauteed vegetables and tempeh to the pot and seasons to taste. He will also add three-quarterss of a cup of toasted pecans, stir the mixture until it’s completely combined and then let it cool before forming burger-sized croquettes.

To cook the croquettes, he heats olive oil in a pan over medium heat and will fry the croquettes for about five to 10 minutes a side, or until golden and crisp.

Top the croquettes with roasted mushroom gravy, Alinder said, for a suitable turkey replacement for vegetarian dinner guests. “(It) leaves you feeling satisfied, (and) you can have all the things you normally have on the side like mashed potatoes and green beans,” he said.

Alinder explained that the recipe can also be transformed into a loaf or stuffing by opting not to mold them into individual pattties and placing the loose mixture into a turkey or baking it in a loaf pan.

Add cranberries, a common feature of Thanksgiving cooking, to either dish, he recommended.

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Barbara Gordon will present about rose hips, which are the fruit of a rose plant, during the Peninsula Rose Society meeting. The free event is open to members and nonmembers, and a potted rose bush and gift cards will be raffled off. Info: 650-465-3967 or peninsularosesociety.org HIKING WORKDAY ... Hike and help restore the habitat in Foothills Park on Sunday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 3300 Page Mill Road, Los Altos Hills. For the Acterra Stewardship Program workday, volunteers will meet at the Orchard Glen Picnic Area and then hike 2 miles to the worksite.

Once there, volunteers will remove invasive plants, install native plants and perform trail maintenance.

Minors under the age of 18 must bring a waiver signed by a guardian, and children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult unless prior approval is obtained. Volunteers should bring water and dress for outdoor work. Info: acterra.org/programs/ stewardship/foothills_park.html WALK WITH THE ANIMALS ... Meet reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds on Sunday, Nov. 22, 12:30-2:30 p.m., at the EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. During this program, kids will meet different animals from the Sulphur Creek Nature Center in Hayward.

This is the fourth of a four-part series called Kid Powered! from Environmental Volunteers. The sessions are open to first- through fifth-grade students, and the suggested fee is $20 per child per session. Info: evols.org/kidpowered

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lush green front lawn lined with tidy floral beds just didn’t seem right to Marsha and Art Grantz in this fourth drought year. So they called in Marsha’s daughter, Christie Green, a landscape designer in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Green was a natural choice, given her predilection for designs that combine beauty with using native plants that would thrive in Palo Alto’s climate.

What she found at her folks’ Eichler home, where they’d lived for 25 years, were “mostly water-consumptive species” — lots of lawn and agapanthus, plus a few trees.

But, besides aiming to create something more water-efficient, Marsha Grantz wanted to use the front space better — to create a functional “room,” a space the couple could enjoy, especially in the winter.

Working with a budget of about $25,000, Green designed that room beginning with concrete pavers, using colorful river cobblestones in the seams. A custom-built redwood screen, with a middle section on gliders that slides open to the street or closes for privacy, sits about onethird of the way back from the sidewalk.

“Knowing my mom and Art, I knew they didn’t want anything they’d have to

maintain,” Green said. So she put a lot of energy into choosing plants that brought shape and texture without the need for intensive maintenance. She also saw this as “an opportunity to do something more contemporary, with clean lines, geometric shapes” and simplicity.

Not everything was tossed out.

A redbud tree, which had meaning for Green’s mom, also provided sculptural interest, Green said. She then offered porcupine-shaped blue fescue and colorful hummingbird trumpet, which had the added bonus of attracting pollinators. Several plants, including Ceanothus, Penstemon with its purple flowers and Manzanita, were chosen for their ability to enrich the soil. These will ultimately spread and cover the ground.

Others that were shade-tolerant, including the broadleaf evergreen “Creeping Mahonia,” were placed under side trees.

On the sidewalk side of the screen, the diagonally planted hummingbird trumpet echoes the slant of the roof, and Sedums are just beginning to fill in. (Grantz is considering commissioning a willow sculpture for the large blank space right in front.)

Instead of using a weed barrier, which, (continued on page 38)

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Home & Real Estate

Real Estate Matters Behind the hype: An objective look at the Silicon Valley market

by David Barca ecent television shows and online documentaries paint quite a sensational portrait of Bay Area real estate, with over-the-top personalities, $2 million teardowns, frenzied bidding wars and prices that seemingly have no ceiling.

These trends are the result of population growth that is far outstripping housing demand — a rush that’s been on as the Bay Area’s economy has exploded. And while there is no argument that many middle-class buyers in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and other Bay Area job centers are being pushed into farflung locales, it is always important to take a step back and factor market data into the equation.

The simple laws of supply and demand have driven the median single-family home sales price in Silicon Valley’s most desirable communities — Atherton, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Woodside — to a staggering $3.23 million in the third quarter, according to MLS data, a year-over-year gain of 15 percent. Statistics from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) also put annual appreciation in the double-digit-percent range in both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties as of August.

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Native plants (continued from page 36)

Green said, really only puts off rather than prevents weeds from sprouting, she covered the ground with crusher fines, a fine-gravel aggregate. “It allows better circulation of nutrients and water,” she said, adding that the soil will be less compacted, it’ll be easier to move plants and the irrigation system will be more accessible.

The side fence was painted a grayish blue, which sets off the plants next to the driveway, Green added. Those plants include blooming Eriogonum, a native buckwheat.

One of the sweeteners for the project was participation in the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s rebate program, where the Grantzes were paid close to $2,200 for removing 700 square feet of lawn. “It was really generous,” Green said.

Green, who grew up in Alaska, originally studied cultural history at University of California, Berkeley. But she was always interested in the interaction of history and ecology. After studying under Doug

While some pundits have speculated that such growth can continue forever, most forecasts expect gains in Silicon Valley to slow to 4 to 5 percent in 2016 and prices to normalize during the next few years.

We’re already seeing the number of multiple-offer situations begin to diminish on both state and local levels.

C.A.R. said that multiple offers across the state have declined from a high of about 70 percent in 2013 to 53 percent in 2014 and 2015. And while the typical Golden State home used to see a half-dozen offers on average, that number has declined to four.

Although the average Silicon Valley home in the aforementioned seven communities commanded 104 percent of original price in the third quarter, nearly one-third of home sales in the region sold for less than asking price. One tactic that some local real estate agents employ involves pricing a property substantially below market value to create a heated, auction-style environment. This approach has actually backfired on several occasions, as market conditions shift and educated buyers don’t take the bait.

Then there are the techies to consider, and they are no doubt a major factor in driving up home prices in the area.

The landscape here is somewhat murkier. On one hand, some high-tech initial public offerings are stumbling out of the gate, and other companies are delaying going public entirely. From another perspective, Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Apple, Facebook and Google are planning enormous offices in the area that could

Cheeseman at De Anza College, she wanted to create edible landscapes. Her goal was to make them “more popular than the two-car garage. ... I thought a better way to connect people to place was through food at home, in backyards.”

‘Natives are much more diverse and interesting.

California in particular has a wide range.’

—Christie Green, a landscape designer in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

But she found most of her clients in New Mexico, which has an arid climate, were far more interested in ornamental gardens than edible ones.

Ultimately she earned a masters’ degree in landscape architecture at University of New Mexico, and today she owns a landscape design-build business called Radicle (beradicle.com); her business card calls it

A custom-built, redwood screen opens to the sidewalk and also closes for privacy.

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potentially bring thousands of additional high-paid workers to a region already struggling with inventory issues.

Even if the local economy continues its impressive run and home prices keep heading north, there are some tactics that middle-class buyers feeling the pinch can do to compete in what can be a frustrating market. Several Pacific Union real estate professionals that I spoke with said that almost all of their middle-class clients secure a home, with the key being to get conditional underwriting approval before the house hunt begins.

Other middle-class buyers who want to stay in the general area may need to consider alternative local communities — even if they were born and raised in one that they love but can no longer currently afford. Some local homebuyers are having success by looking in more upand-coming areas of nearby places like Redwood City, Pacifica and Half Moon Bay. Real estate markets that get as much media attention as Silicon Valley and San Francisco are virtually guaranteed to spark heated debate and speculation, both on a local and national level. In an age where public perception of our industry can be influenced by scripted — and often provocative — statements and behavior, it’s always illuminating to take a step back and examine the landscape with a slightly more objective lens. Q David Barca is vice president of Pacific Union’s Silicon Valley Region. He can be reached at dbarca@ pacunion.com.

“artful activism.”

Glancing at the Eichler-enclave circle, Grantz noted that when people sell in the neighborhood, the first thing they do is pull out the dead grass and replace it with more grass.

“To me, native plants are much more beautiful than a ‘lipstick’ plant, so not interesting to me. Natives are much more diverse and interesting. California in particular has a wide range,” Green added.

She’s quite open to working more in California, given that it’s just a two-hour flight from Santa Fe and she could always visit her mom.

After four years of drought, Marsha Grantz said, “We slowly decided if we could afford to do it, we should do it. We have solar. My husband drives a Prius; I drive a Tesla. You just need to do what you can do. ...

“And we can use it. It doesn’t just look pretty. With the screen it’s more private.

Neighbors have stopped and said, ‘I stop and look at this all the time.’” Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

Succulents grow next to the driveway.

California fuchsia blooms in a drought tolerant yard designed by Christie Green.

Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

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

Atherton

425 Walsh Road Dubovoy Trust to P. Keifenheim for $11,336,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 12/04/2000, $6,080,000

East Palo Alto

1136 Gaillardia Way Social Good Fund to J. Cisneros for $500,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 11/19/2012, $251,000

Los Altos

996 Crooked Creek Drive D. & J. Han to M. Sharangpani for $2,630,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 01/29/2015, $1,975,000 1047 Mountain View Ave. Lim Trust to M. & K. Kim for $2,805,000 on 10/28/15; previous sale 04/25/2008, $2,000,000 610 Parma Way Winguth Trust to R. & L. Kota for $2,650,000 on 10/30/15 50 Parsons Way Morrison Trust to A. Krishnappa for $2,290,000 on 10/28/15; previous sale 02/02/1988, $435,000 1545 Redwood Drive Liang Trust to A. & T. Resnick for $2,185,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 06/09/2006, $1,445,000 740 Vera Cruz Ave. Wheatley Trust to Shirttail Limited for $2,650,000 on 10/28/15

Los Altos Hills

10495 Albertsworth Lane Busch Trust to T. Boros for $2,528,000 on 10/30/15

Menlo Park

545 6th Ave. F. & B. Delatorre

Woodside

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $11,336,000 Highest sales price: $11,336,000

East Palo Alto

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,528,000 Highest sales price: $2,528,000

Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $1,935,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000

Menlo Park

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

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $925,000 Highest sales price: $1,975,000

Los Altos

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $1,520,000 Highest sales price: $2,800,000

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $2,185,000 Highest sales price: $2,805,000

Woodside

Total sales reported: 12 Lowest sales price: $600,000 Highest sales price: $3,600,000

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $1,515,500 Highest sales price: $7,250,000 Source: California REsource

to Evergreen Property Group for $925,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 12/14/2000, $500,000 910 Cloud Ave. E. Espinosa to K. Kroner for $1,800,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 09/23/1983, $182,500 152 Dunsmuir Way Hernandez Trust to M. & S. Fahey for $1,675,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 08/06/1975, $51,000 1323 Sevier Ave. Larkin Trust to K. & L. Fox for $1,000,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 12/20/2011, $400,000 1741 Stone Pine Lane S. Rayan to Jomax Trust for $1,975,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 02/22/2013, $1,100,000

Mountain View

1721 California St., #21 D. Wu to G. Zhu for $600,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 06/30/2008, $380,000 1141 Carver Place Kilkenny Trust to H. & C. Chong for $2,050,000 on 10/28/15 196 Darya Court P. & D. Mahajan to H. Song for $1,000,000

on 10/28/15; previous sale 08/29/2008, $691,000 2549 Dell Ave. K. Chu to M. Yueh for $1,535,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 09/11/2013, $1,038,000 255 Easy St., #8 S. & Y. Miyagi to Y. Low for $735,000 on 10/29/15; previous sale 02/03/2004, $341,000 1190 Fordham Way Nakano Trust to Jack Myers Construction for $1,900,000 on 10/30/15 745 Independence Ave. M. Liddicoat to Independence Avenue Limited for $788,000 on 10/28/15; previous sale 05/19/1993, $235,000 2241 Latham St. Bash Trust to LMC Mountain View Holdings for $3,600,000 on 10/27/15; previous sale 06/25/2004, $2,800,000 2243 Latham St. Bash Trust to LMC Mountain View Holdings for $2,300,000 on 10/27/15; previous sale 06/25/2004, $2,800,000 900 Madison Drive S. Boyce to Day Harbor for $2,300,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 06/11/1986, $250,000

147 Margo Drive, #4 L. Takehara to N. Singh for $810,500 on 10/28/15; previous sale 07/12/2007, $548,000 905 W. Middlefield Road, #908 M. Carter to P. O’Brien for $800,000 on 10/29/15; previous sale 05/01/1978, $77,500

Palo Alto

820 Arroyo Court A. & J. Schmidt to J. Ibrahim for $3,000,000 on 10/29/15; previous sale 03/11/2011, $1,925,000 437 Ferne Ave. H. Yuan to H. Dou for $2,610,000 on 10/29/15; previous sale 02/15/2001, $3,694,500 627 Fulton St. Moberg Trust to Foster Trust for $3,700,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 04/16/2012, $1,930,000 3040 Greer Road Bjorkman Trust to S. Muppidi for $2,195,000 on 10/30/15 803 Guinda St. S. Albano to YuWilliams Trust for $3,510,000 on 10/28/15 3363 Louis Road D. Biggin to V. Saxena for $2,075,000 on

10/30/15 390 Margarita Ave., #N Margarita Avenue Limited to R. Agarwal for $2,775,000 on 10/29/15; previous sale 11/26/2014, $1,300,000 1120 Middlefield Road C. Liu to A. Gannerkote for $2,981,000 on 10/30/15; previous sale 08/13/2010, $775,000 3595 Murdoch Drive Martin Trust to T. & S. Martin for $2,256,000 on 10/30/15 679 Waverley St. Shoup Trust to S. Battilana for $1,935,000 on 10/28/15; previous sale 08/09/2007, $929,000

Portola Valley

45 Granada Court M. Postich to M. Klemchuk for $2,800,000 on 10/14/15; previous sale 05/26/1972, $24,000 921 La Mesa Drive Alfonsi Trust to H. Goker for $2,575,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 07/16/2009, $1,720,000 365 Portola Road Nash Trust to A. Hunter for $1,520,000 on 10/15/15; previous sale 12/02/1976, $32,000

538 Eleanor Drive R. Choplin to Chaikovsky Trust for $7,250,000 on 10/16/15; previous sale 11/07/2000, $4,175,000 10 Palm Circle Road P. Monaghan to J. & H. Hess for $1,515,500 on 10/16/15; previous sale 01/15/1988, $295,000

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Real Estate Matters

Palo Alto home prices cross the $3 million line in September

by Hadar Guibara he price paid for single-family homes in Palo Alto took a huge leap in September, when the median price reached $3,337,500.

This is 28 percent over the August median of $2,600,000.

Additionally, September 2015 was just the second month ever in which the median home price exceeded $3 million. The other time was in January, when the median was $3,095,000.

This jump doesn’t necessarily signal a trend, although it could. The figure for January was bracketed by two more moderate monthly median prices: $2,250,000 in December, and back down in February to $2,460,500. After the drop in February, the price stayed in the mid- to high-$2 millions in all months leading up to September.

It’s normal to see month-to-month price fluctuations in any real estate market. Many factors can drive prices up in a given month, but a single month isn’t enough to point to a trackable trend. In the Palo Alto market, it’s too early to tell if the $3,337,500 September median will be a continuing trend of home prices well into the $3 million range.

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Relationship of price, inventory We’re moving into what we consider the “slow” season, primarily December and January, when the market tends to take a hiatus of sorts.

In Palo Alto, that “hiatus” happens every year, but the effect is seen much more in the number of homes being listed than in the prices those homes sell for.

As an example, last December and January, 33 and 35 homes, respectively, were listed with the Multiple Listing Service. But look at the

number of months leading up to December: • November: 49 • October: 83 • September: 89 • August: 80 And then look at the months after: • February: 53 • March: 75 • April: 92 • May: 84 There’s a definite V-shaped trajectory where inventory levels in the “slow months” are concerned. But not where prices are concerned. Here are some select median monthly prices along with the number of homes that were available in that month: • January 2015: $3,095,000/35 • February 2015: $2,460,500/53 • November 2014: $2,500,000/49 • May 2014: $2,218,000/94 • December 2013: $2,175,000/43 • September 2013: $1,888,000/87 Taking a look at the big picture over the past two years, we see one very clear trend: regardless of any monthly fluctuation, prices continue to rise. This trend is demonstrated by the median monthly price increase between September 2013 and September 2015: from $1,888,000 to $3,337,500, a jump of $1,449,500, or 77 percent in just two years.

Will home prices in Palo Alto remain above $3 million? No one can say for sure, but if the September 2015 median is the beginning of a trend, we’ll probably see that trend moving predictably along, even during the “slow months.”

Hadar Guibara is a Realtor with Sereno Group of Palo Alto. She can be reached at hadar@serenogroup.com.

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Rent Watch Does a college student have the right to invite guests?

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I moved to California to attend college. I found an apartment and signed a one-year lease. Last month I invited some of my friends over for a study session while my landlord happened to be doing some landscaping out front. He saw my friends, knocked on the door and told me that guests were not allowed. I informed him that we were simply studying, being quiet and disturbing no other neighbors. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;no guestsâ&#x20AC;? and left. I thought the matter was finished but a couple of days later I received a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Day Notice to Cure or Quit.â&#x20AC;? The notice said that guests were not allowed, that I was the sole person authorized to be in the apartment, and that noncompliance would be greeted with an eviction process. Is it possible for my landlord to enforce a wholesale prohibition against guests? This seems a very severe.

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Your first step should be to find your lease and look at the language in the lease regulating â&#x20AC;&#x153;guests.â&#x20AC;? The landlord cannot enforce a limit on guests unless it is part of your lease. We would agree that your landlord may be overreaching based on the facts that you present. There is a big difference between reasonable restrictions on guests and a total prohibition of guests.

A total prohibition of guests, even if spelled out in the lease, would probably be deemed unenforceable. A landlord does have an interest in preventing a temporary guest from becoming a lawful subtenant. It is primarily for this reason that many rental agreements have provisions limiting the number of nights that an overnight guest may stay. A valid restriction may limit overnight

stays to a couple nights per month or 10 days per six months. This type of restriction allows for overnight stays by visiting family or friends, while preventing others from establishing rights as a subtenant. That said, tenants do pay rent for the right to use and occupy a rental unit, which includes a right to privacy. Landlord ownership does not trump privacy rights and landlords cannot determine who can visit your rental or for what purpose, so long as tenants are not causing a disturbance and not committing any criminal acts. Your guests are college students, you are studying quietly and you are not causing any disturbances. However, you do not want this dispute to proceed to an unlawful detainer dispute in the Superior Court, which would be the next step following the three-day notice you received. Contact your local mediation service to explore whether mediation can bring you and your landlord together to set some mutually acceptable ground rules for guests in your apartment and avoid a costly legal dispute for both sides.

Resources: nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/renters-rights Q Project Sentinel provides landlord-tenant dispute resolution and fair-housing services in Northern California, including rental-housing mediation programs in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. Call 650856-4062 for dispute resolution or 650-321-6291 for fair housing, email info@housing.org or visit housing.org.

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445 Sherman Ave. replace 36 front windows on two floors, replacement does not require Architectural Review Board 135 Hamilton Ave. interior revisions to the shell, includes showing the antenna closet, added details for bathroom ceiling soffit 4180 Donald Drive deferred location of tankless and associated gas line, removed gas fireplace from scope 455 Margarita Ave. revise half bath to full bath, updated energy report 2828 South Court re-roof 892 Barron Ave. replace gas line throughout residence 2090 Yale St. multifamily re-roof 445 Sherman Ave. landlord improvement: Suite R/S on the second floor, future tenant to apply for a separate use and occupancy 939 University Ave. temporary power pole 3500 Deer Creek Road Tesla Motors Co. equipment install 4001 Miranda Ave. revision to interior wall layout, revised mechanical, electrical and plumbing 4001 Miranda Ave. structural attachment detail for bookshelf, revisions to mechanical, electrical, and plumbing 240 Hamilton Ave. deferred submittal for stone and anchorage calculations 700 Welch Road add two sewer laterals in preparation for separate permit for tenant improvement 729 De Soto Drive revision to expand the scope of work to add addition 50 square feet, all fees paid under the original permit 2209 El Camino Real deferred

submittal for switchboard 1730 Embarcadero Road deferred submittal for lighting and revised title 24 1698 Hamilton Ave. revision to add a metal louvered system on top of the previously approved trellis 1645 Escobita Ave. revision, includes remodel of two restrooms and vault ceiling at one of the restrooms, revised valuation added 20,000 259 Coleridge Ave. change to modules, change to the microinverters, change to the electrical point of connection 213 Quarry Road significant revisions to pharmacy room, cafe in front of room 1511, medical gas storage of room 1514, arrival stations in all lobbies 684 Wellsbury Way revised basement walls to shotcrete method 2301 Bowdoin St. install 18 retrofit windows 3049 Stelling Drive replace main panel 771 Encina Grande Drive re-roof 455 Charleston Road temporary power pole 3121 Bandera Drive new accessory structure 926 Amarillo Ave. re-roof 436 Lincoln Ave. install Level 2 EVSE on side of house along driveway 1335 Alma St. red-tagged gas leak repair 958 Ilima Way furnace replacement 4218 Ynigo Way replace furnace and three duct outlets, add an airconditioning unit 4197 Cherry Oaks Place replace attic furnace and six duct outlets 3151 Ramona St. new tankless water heater 390 Palo Alto Ave. install rooftop PV system 622 Maybell Ave. residential new HVAC split system and service upgrade to 200 amps

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28 Arastradero Road, Portola Valley Elite Country Estate and Vineyards Bursting with European grandeur, this richly updated 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home of approx. 5,800 sq. ft. (per county) boasts a gated 1?@-@1 ;2 -<<>;D Y \ -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ 1-@A>1? 8571 @4>11 ŋ >1<8-/1? 3;80 <8-@10 ŋ D@A>1? ;:ED /;A:@1>@;<? -:0 Ō ;;>? ;2 8591?@;:1 -:0 A@/4 C45@1 ;-7 19.1885?4 @41 9A8@5 81B18 5:@1>5;> C4581 @41 <>;<1>@E 5:/8A01? @4>11 B5:1E->0? - @4>11 /-> 3->-31 - ?@-.81 - C5:1 9-75:3 /188-> -:0 - /A?@;9 <;;8 C5@4 - ?<- &41 1?@-@1p? 185@1 ?1@@5:3 5? 95:A@1? 2>;9 <>1?@535;A? );;0?501 ">5;>E -:0 1D/1<@5;:-8 "-8; 8@; ?/4;;8? I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Menlo Park. Palo Alto. Burlingame 650.314.7200 | pacificunion.com

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1 Faxon Road, Atherton

85 Greenoaks, Atherton

280 Ridgeway Road, Woodside

180 Greenoaks, Atherton

$20,700,000

$12,950,000

$5,888,000

$5,300,000

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O F F M A R K E T E XC LU S I V E I N C R E SC E NT PA R K , PA LO A LTO Extensively renovated in 2010, a classic exterior artfully blends into a contemporary interior showcasing modern materials and an ideal setting for outdoor living and entertaining.

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Exquisite 1-acre Palo Alto Estate! Truly a rare opportunity. Sweeping SF bay views yet downtown amenities, Stanford University and Top Rated Palo Alto Schools close at hand.

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ATHERTON

$12,880,000

Custom built in 2007, this European Villa is located in the heart of West Atherton and has everything imaginable for the California lifestyle.

SOLD

Monica Corman Mandy Montoya 650.465.5971 650.823.8212 mcorman@apr.com mmontoya@apr.com

PALO ALTO

$4,900,000

Gracious, remodeled 4bd/3ba home on the best street in Crescent Park. Sold in five days.

Cindy Liebsch 650.591.7473 cliebsch@apr.com

BURLINGAME

$2,250,000

Chic remodel, fantastic location, charming, light & bright, meticulously maintained, excellent schools, walk to town, near SF & Silicon Valley.

SOLD

Liz Rhodes 650.722.3000 Lrhodes@apr.com

SAN CARLOS

$1,850,000

Spacious 3Br/2.5Ba home w/ vaulted ceilings, bonus loft area & elegant master suite overlooks grounds with pool.

Liz Rhodes 650.722.3000 Lrhodes@apr.com

SOLD

Maggie Heilman 650.888.9315 mheilman@apr.com

MENLO PARK

$1,675,000

Updated 3Br/2Ba home in Suburban Park w/ remodeled kitchen & family room. Close to FB, Marsh Manor & Hwy 101.

SOLD

CUPERTINO $1,500,000 Three bedrooms, one bathroom home on a 6,500 square foot lot. Excellent Schools: Monta Vista HS, Kennedy Middle and Lincoln Elementary. Sold with 13 Offers!

Mary Gilles 650.814.0858 mgilles@apr.com

MENLO PARK

$1,450,000

Bright and open contemporary home designed by Sam Sinnott, this 3bd/2.5ba home features high ceilings and windows and heated bamboo floors.

COMING SOON

Darlene Pylkkanen 650.868.2291 dpylkkanen@apr.com

REDWOOD CITY

$795,000

Gorgeous home with stylish new updates! Fresh paint in/out, modern kitchen with SS appliances, remodeled bath, new windows & landscaping.

Marybeth Dorst 650.245.8890 mdorst@apr.com

ATHERTON Call for Price Updated and stylish ranch home on sprawling, one-acre property. Excellent Atherton location with top Menlo Park schools.

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115 Announcements Pregnant?

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202 Vehicles Wanted

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Cash For Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

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Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to Heritage for the Blind. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of.

Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN) I Buy Old Porches 911, 356. 1948-1973 only.

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

210 Garage/Estate Sales Menlo Park, 877 Santa Cruz Ave, Nov. 5-19 Mountain View, 263 Palo Alto Avenue, Nov. 21, 9-3 PA: 843 Ross Ct. 11/21 9-3; 11/22, 10-2 Furn., Christmas decorations, men’s clothes, toys. Some free items. x-Loma Verde.

Want Love & Marriage?

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home.

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Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice.

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235 Wanted to Buy Piano Lessons Quality Piano Lessons in Menlo Park.

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135 Group Activities Does dementia stress your family

145 Non-Profits Needs

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150 Volunteers Does dementia stress your family FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY

240 Furnishings/ Household items Video/Cabinet Shelf

DONATE BOOKS TO SUPPORT LIBRARY Parent Education Workshop

Cash for Diabetic Test Strips Up to $35/Box! Sealed & Unexpired.

Payment Made SAME DAY. Highest Prices Paid!! Call Juley Today!

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Christmas Dish Sets

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245 Miscellaneous AT& AT&T U-Verse Internet starting at $15/ month or TV & Internet starting at $49/ month for 12 months with 1-year agreement. Call 1- 800-453-0516 to learn more. (Cal-SCAN)

06 Kubota BX23 w/ Loader&Backhoe Clean 06 Kubota BX23 tractor, 4WD, hydrostatic. It has a loader, backhoe and belly mower. I will deliver it!

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Kid’s Stuff 330 Child Care Offered

Safe Step Walk-in Tub! Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation.

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) Struggling with Drugs?

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Account & Office Assistant DISHWASHER Restaurant and Catering company looking for an enthusiastic and RELIABLE person to help in our kitchen ... hours will vary, but mostly Monday-Friday late morning thru afternoon; some weekends needed. English a plus but not required... please respond with any previous experience and the best way to contact you.

Engineering SurveyMonkey Inc. has a Software Engineer (Job Code: SEHSV-CA) position available in Palo Alto, CA. Developing/ maintaining our website with our framework. Submit resume by mail to: SurveyMonkey Inc., ATTN: Human Resources, 101 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301. Must reference job title and job code SEHSV-CA.

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345 Tutoring/ Lessons

Engineering Pure Storage, Inc. has the following job opps. in Mountain View, CA:

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355 Items for Sale 6-12 Months cooler weather outfit Snow bibb size 7 Black $14 Sweet Lion Costume12-24 month $20

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425 Health Services CPAP/BIPAP supplies at little or no cost from Allied Medical Supply Network! Fresh supplies delivered right to your door. Insurance may cover all costs. 800-421-4309.

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Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Opening: 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

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Email resumes: jobs@slingshotconnections.com Or call us at 408-247-8233

560 Employment Information Drivers: Average $1,000+ Week Fleet Avg 1.5 yrs, 100% APU. $500 Holiday Bonus. Home For Christmas!

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Across 1 Comedian dubbed “The Entertainer” 7 Label in a folder 15 Singer Grande 16 Better than usual 17 Meter reader of sorts 18 Makeover, perhaps 19 Houdini, notably 21 Hall & Oates, e.g.

22 Dodeca-, quartered 23 “In ___ of flowers ...”

27 “Ugly Betty” actor Michael 29 They go through a slicer 34 Bike turners 37 Lucy Lawless TV role 38 Apprehend, as a criminal 39 Jupiter and Mars, among others 42 Great respect 45 “___ Your Enthusiasm” 46 Required 50 Show sadness 53 Work with a meter 54 “Twin Peaks” actor MacLachlan 55 Easter candy shape 58 Body scan, for short 59 Pie feature, or feature of this puzzle’s other four longest answers 65 Estate 68 More conceited 69 Tableware 70 Make public 71 Artists’ boards 72 Riata loops

Down 1 Confined 2 “A Little Respect” band 3 Round and flat in shape 4 “Rendezvous With ___” (Arthur C. Clarke book) 5 Hardly fitting 6 Certain chairmaker 7 “M*A*S*H” actor Jamie 8 “Like that’ll ever happen” 9 California city in a Creedence song 10 Two important ones are a week apart in December 11 Big name in chocolate 12 Bee-related prefix 13 Off-the-rack purchase, for short?

14 Suffix for north or south 20 Give help to 24 McKellen of the “Hobbit” films 25 Frat house H 26 Connector for a smart device 28 It may be pulled in charades 30 Adjective for Lamar Odom in recent headlines 31 Travel division 32 Privy to 33 Created 35 “Livin’ La Vida ___” (1999 hit) 36 Adult material 40 “We ___ Queen Victoria” 41 Aug. follower 42 Beseech 43 Word often seen near 42-Down 44 “Slippery” fish 47 Pizza Hut competitor 48 Mountain dog breed 49 Asylum seekers 51 Practice lexicography 52 Boxing arbiter 56 Like first names 57 ___SmithKline 60 Lie down for a while 61 “SVU” part 62 Running in neutral 63 Cold War news agency 64 Cosmetic surgery, briefly 65 Drill sergeant’s “one” 66 ___ moment’s notice 67 “Dumbo” frame

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Xarelto Complications?

If you or a loved one took the blood thinner Xarelto and had complications due to internal bleeding after January 2012 you MAY be due financial compensation. Call Injuryfone 1-800-425-4701. (Cal-SCAN)

655 Photography Did You Know 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6019 or email elizabeth@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN)

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 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

Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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)

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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

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LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil *Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash *Irrigation timer programming.

19 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 landaramon@yahoo.com R.G. Landscape Drought tolerant native landscapes and succulent gardens. Demos, installations, maint. Free est. 650/468-8859

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

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771 Painting/ Wallpaper Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount.

45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured.

Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

775 Asphalt/ Concrete Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572

Real Estate 805 Homes for Rent Los Altos - $4500 Menlo Park, Allied Arts, 2 BR/1 BA $4695 Mountain View - $ 4350/mon

754 Gutter Cleaning

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA - $4350/mo

Roofs, Gutters, Downspouts cleaning. Work guar. 30 years exp.

Insured. Veteran Owned. Jim Thomas Maintenance, 408/595-2759.

Palo Alto, 4 BR/3 BA - $7500

757 Handyman/ Repairs

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $9000 Redwood City (emerald Hills) - $5500

Since 1985 Repairs • Maintenance • Painting Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical Lic. #468963

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

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)

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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)

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845 Out of Area SHASTA COUNTY 2 acres on paved road w/cute, tiny cabin. Pine trees. All usable land.

2 minutes from sandy beach on Sacramento River. $6,900 down. $440.44/mo. ($46,900 cash price.)

ALSO 5 acres. OWNER, 530/605-8857.

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San Carlos, 3 BR/1.5 BA Beautiful Home on a quiet Cul-de-Sac Nested on a 0.24 acre lot, this beautiful home is ready for rent.

3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, 2 car garage.

Upgraded, recently painted, beaming hardwood floors, bright an airy.

Living room-dining combination, fireplace in living room, spacious terrace, private garden, spa, wine cellar, workshop and many more features. Great location in SC, great schools, close to restaurants, shops, easy access to 280 & 101 for commuting.

Contact Dave or Patty at (650)3030462 for more information and private showing of this beautiful home.

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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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) TAKE POINT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610522 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Take Point, located at 30 Gladys Court Apt. 2, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

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(PAW Nov. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 2015) LEGACY GROUP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610582 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Legacy Group, located at 1575 Tenaka Place #D7, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SAMANTHA E. SANTANA 1575 Tenaka Place #D7 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/15/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 29, 2015.

(PAW Nov. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 2015) Golden Acorn Music FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610583 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Golden Acorn Music, located at 109 McFarland Ct., Apt. 319, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MATTHEW D. FERNALD 109 McFarland Ct., Apt. 319 Stanford, CA 94305 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 29, 2015.

(PAW Oct. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 2015) MAKER WHARF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610993 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Maker Wharf Palo Alto, located at 409 Sherman Ave. Ste. 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SPCA1, Inc. 409 Sherman Ave. Ste. 200 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 November 10, 2015.

(PAW Nov. 20, 27, Dec. 4, 11, 2015) SILICON VALLEY WINDOW CLEANING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611157 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Window Cleaning, located at 3210 Tristian Av., San Jose, CA 95127,

Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JOSUE ALVARENGA 3210 Tristian Av. San Jose, CA 95127 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 November 16, 2015.

(PAW Nov. 20. 27. Dec. 4, 11, 2015) AdvanTel Networks FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611168 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: AdvanTel Networks, located at 2222 Trade Zone Blvd., San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AdvanTel, Inc. 2222 Trade Zone Blvd.

San Jose, CA 95131 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12-4-2008.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 16, 2015.

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997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV287081 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ARVIND PURUSHOTHAM and ROHINI S. CHAKRAVARTHY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: A.) PARTHA SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM to PARTHA SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM RAO B.) NITIN SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM to NITIN SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM RAO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: January 5, 2016, 8:45 a.m., Room: 107 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: October 21, 2015 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015)

Title Order No.: 150016996 Trustee Sale No.: 15-00617A Reference No.: 14-07063 APN No.: 154-40-051 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT DATED 10/30/2014.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 12/10/2015 at 10:00 AM , A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Notice of Delinquent Assessment, recorded on 11/3/2014 as Document No. 22758930 Book n/a Page n/a of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, property owned by: Hoa T. Nguyen and Nai H. Nguyen WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a State or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state.) At: At the gated North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA Said sale shall be subject to a 90 day right of redemption period per the requirements of the California Civil Code section 5715(b). All rights, title and interest under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment in the property situated in said County, describing the land therein, under Assessors’ Parcel Number: 154-40051 The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 255 S Rengstorff Ave Apt 51 Mountain View, CA 94040-1734 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum due under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment, with interest thereon, as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $46,050.64 Estimated Accrued Interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale The claimant, Parkview West Homeowners Association under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being

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auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916) 939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site at www.nationwideposting. com using the file number assigned to this case 15-00617A. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR Date: 10/30/2015 For Sales Information Please Call (916) 939-0772 or go to www.nationwideposting.com A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as Trustee by: Platinum Resolution Services, Inc., as Agent Stephanie Strickland, President NPP0262973 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 11/20/2015, 11/27/2015, 12/04/2015 Title Order No.: 8500714 T.S.#: 201401435 HOA File #: PVPM-PTC-Schroeder APN No.: 193-52-008 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT DATED 11/20/2014.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 12/17/2015 at 10:00 AM, United Trustee Services As the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Notice of Delinquent Assessment, recorded on 12/2/2014 as Document No. 22787556 Book Page of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, property owned by: Ruth A. Schroeder WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a State or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state.) At: At the gated North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse at 190 N. Market

Street, San Jose, CA All right, title and interest under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment in the property situated in said County, describing the land therein: 193-52-008 The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 274 Pamela Drive, Unit 8 Mountain View, CA 94040 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum due under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment, with interest thereon, as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $25,100.33 Estimated. Accrued Interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale The claimant, Pamela Terrace Condominium Association under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell.

The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior

lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916) 939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2014-01435.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR Date: 11/6/2015 United Trustee Services For Sales Information Please Call (916) 9390772 Lisa Chapman, Trustee Sale Officer NPP0263635 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 11/20/2015, 11/27/2015, 12/04/2015

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ON THE AIR Friday Women’s volleyball: Utah at Stanford, 6 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area Prep football: San Benito at MenloAtherton, 7 p.m.; KCEA (89.1 FM)

Saturday Women’s basketball: George Washington at Stanford, noon; KZSU (90.1 FM) College football: Cal at Stanford, 7:30 p.m.; ESPN; KNBR (1050 AM); KZSU (90.1 FM)

Sunday College wrestling: Penn St. at Stanford, 1 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area Men’s basketball: Stanford at St. Mary’s, 8 p.m.; ESPNU; KNBR (1050 AM)

Monday Women’s basketball: Santa Clara at Stanford, 7 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM)

Stanford football players reclaimed the Axe for a fifth straight year after being Cal, 38-17, last year in Berkeley.

A Big Game in more ways than one Stanford’s Scarlett makes his debut as Cardinal plays for Pac-12 North Division title

by Rick Eymer rennan Scarlett retains ties with the University of California, where he earned a degree and played football for three years, missing his junior year to injury.

Stanford’s first-ever graduate transfer, Scarlett will be playing in his first Big Game on Saturday (7:30 p.m. kickoff) as a member

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“Can’t write it any better than that,” Scarlett said. “It’s a blessing to have made it this far into the season. I haven’t made it this far in a long time.”

Knee and hand injuries have prevented the defensive end from playing any more than nine games in previous seasons. He’s made

through all 10 this year and may be looking at four more.

Scarlett became the first in 50 years to play football for both California and Stanford. This week has been typical in some ways and atypical in other ways. He keeps his California wardrobe in his closet and followed the Bears as they became bowl eligible for the first time since Scarlett’s fresh-

man season.

“I’m definitely excited to get out there,” Scarlett said. “Looking forward to playing against my alma mater. It’s going to be a great experience.”

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CCS TENNIS

SHP teams put streaks on the line

Menlo girls seek another team title

by Keith Peters

by Keith Peters hey have combined for 16 Central Coast Section water polo titles and will be making a combined 23rd appearance in the championship match.

It’s easy to see why the Sacred Heart Prep boys and girls will be favored once again this weekend.

Yet, both SHP girls coach Jon Burke and boys coach Brian Kreutzkamp know it gets tougher to defend as streaks grow.

“The odds are stacking up,” said Burke. “But, I say that every year.”

Added Kreutzkamp: “It weighs heavily. We tell the kids it’s a new year. They’re not responsible for

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . The Palo Alto Knights will have only one team playing for a national championship next month after the Jr. Pee Wee’s lost to Vallejo, 26-19, on Sunday. The Palo Alto Knights Jr. Midgets (11-12 year olds) will play the Sacramento Ducks for the NorCal Championship at Oak Grove High this Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The Jr. Midgets, however, already have clinched the Division I AYF Northwest Regional spot for the National Championships set for Dec. 6-11 in Orlando, Fla. . . . A handful of local college volleyball players have received honors at various levels, including All-American recognition following the conclusion of their regular seasons.

Palo Alto High grad Maddie Kuppe, a senior at Tufts University, led the way by being named to the AVCA NCAA Division III All-American second team. Menlo-Atherton grad Katie Doherty, a junior at Bowdoin, and Palo Alto grad Becca Raffel, a sophomore at Middlebury, received All-American honorable mention.

Kuppe is the first second team selection from Tufts since 2009 and only the second player in program history to make one of the three AVCA All-America teams. She had 17 games this season with double-digit kill numbers, and nine of those she also finished with double-digit digs for the double-double. Kuppe played 86 of the Jumbo’s 89 sets this year, proving she was a true leader on the court. The Jumbos finished the season with a 17-8 record overall.

Kuppe also was named to the AllNew England Women’s Volleyball Association first team with Doherty and Raffel earning recognition on the second team. The NESCAC teams also were released, with Kuppe and Raffel being named to the first team, Doherty being named Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season and Menlo-Atherton grad Ally Ostrow, a freshman at Williams, being named Rookie of the Year.

Menlo’s Taylor Gould (left) got a hug from Schuyler Tilney-Volk after clinching the CCS title.

he Menlo School girls head to Folsom this weekend to defend their CIF/USTA Northern California Regional tennis crown at the Broadstone Racquet Club.

It’s a long way to travel — some three hours — just to play a potential three matches over two days. What makes the trip worth it are two things: the chance to defend a title and to do it with the best lineup possible.

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CCS CROSS COUNTRY

NCAA CROSS COUNTRY

One run leads to another

Stanford running for titles Cardinal squads looking to add to their combined nine titles

Local trio heads to CIF State Meet after winning titles

by Keith Peters hree local runners crossed the finish line first and two area teams earned trips to the CIF State Meet in cross country. All in all not a bad day at the 2015 Central Coast Section Championships.

Gunn senior Gillian Meeks, Palo Alto junior Kent Slaney and Priory senior Hana Marsheck all ran to individual titles on Saturday at Crystal Springs in Belmont. Next stop will be the state finals on Nov. 28 at Fresno’s Woodward Park.

Slaney led the Paly boys to one team berth, in Division, I while Marsheck led the Priory girls to the other in Division V. Both squads also qualified last year.

Palo Alto was third at two miles while Slaney was leading by 25 seconds. His margin of victory was 13 seconds as he clocked 15:22.0 (No. 2 overall time in all division). Fellow junior Naveen Pai was 13th in 16:02.1 and freshman Henry Saul took 14th in 16:06.5. Sam Craig finished 20th in 16:20.8 and Spencer Morgenfeld was 21st in 16:21.0.

“The boys were fantastic at CCS, and the win from Kent was not too surprising,” said Paly coach Kelsey Feeley. “We came into the race ranked third, and I was so impressed that the boys were able to keep to their race plans, even when one of our opponents went out faster than expected and the other went out much slower than we expected.

“That is something that very much could have thrown off the mental aspect of the race, but my boys ran consistent as usual and didn’t try to do anything crazy that could have led to a poor outcome. To hold restraint and run such smart races was great to see.

We are all looking forward to the state meet later this month.”

Marsheck, who was fifth last year, improved by 1:19 while capturing her first title with a 19:00.2 clocking. She helped the Panthers score 62 points for second place behind Crystal Springs. Each team finished with 62 points, but Priory lost out by having a slower sixth-place finisher.

Elise Rust of Priory was 11th in 20:51.7, teammate Sarah Halabe was 15th in 21:16.1, Stephanie Sanchez was 20th in 21:52.4 and Maria Naclerio rounded out the Priory scoring in 23rd with a 22:06.2 time.

It was a bittersweet day for Meeks, who ran a personal best of 17:17.6 — second-fastest by any girls on the day — on the Crystal Springs course and won her sec-

by Dave Kiefer tanford sends its men’s and women’s teams to the NCAA Cross Country Championships for the 22nd consecutive season — the longest ongoing streak in the country — on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. Stanford teams have won a combined nine NCAA titles — the women five and the men four.

The Cardinal has intriguing possibilities as the men were second last year and enter ranked No. 3.

The No. 13-ranked women are led by Pac-12 champion Aisling Cuffe, who was fourth at the 2013 NCAA Championships.

The women go off first at 9 a.m.

(PT) and will race over 6 kilometers (3.73 miles). The men follow an hour later over a 10K course (6.2 miles) at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer Park.

The Stanford men scored 98 points last year and return five members of its 2014 lineup — Sean McGorty (20th), Joe Rosa (33rd), Sam Wharton(39th), Garrett Sweatt (68th), and Jack Keelan (100th).

The Cardinal lost Maksim Korolev (fourth) and Michael Atchoo (29th), who were in their fifth seasons, but return Jim Rosa, who placed fifth at the 2013 NCAA’s before missing 2014 with an injury. The Cardinal also benefits from having freshman Grant Fisher, a two-time Foot Locker national high school champion, who will be racing for Stanford for the second time this season.

This will be his first race at the 10K distance.

Stanford has eight NCAA top-two team finishes in its history, but this year’s squad remains something of an enigma. Because of injuries and, in the case of Fisher, who has been brought along slowly, this is the first time Stanford is running with its full ‘A’ team (Keelan did not race at Pac-12’s or regionals).

Stanford has four cross-country All-Americans among its top seven (McGorty, the Rosas, and Wharton), five have run the 5,000 in sub-14 (Keelan, McGorty, Sweatt, and the Rosas), and two are sub-4 milers (Fisher, McGorty).

The Cardinal was second at both the Pac-12’s (to Colorado, 46-57) and NCAA West Regional (to Washington, 63-83).

As for the Stanford women?

In Cuffe’s two serious races, the Cardinal was third at both the Washington Invitational and Pac-12 Championships. Stanford has history on its side, the Cardinal has won five NCAA titles and has 10 top-two team finishes in

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ond straight section title. But, she couldn’t help her team advance to the state finals as the Titans finished fourth.

Gunn was sitting third at the two-mile mark while Meeks led by 10 seconds. She lost only one second of that lead, but the Titans lost a great deal more as St. Ignatius moved up from fourth to take the final qualifying berth.

Gunn’s Illi Gardner was 10th in 18:40.4 and also qualified for the State Meet as an individual, but the rest of the scoring Titans came in 24th, 36th and 47th.

“I am thrilled for Gillian,” said Gunn coach PattiSue Plumer.

“She felt a lot of pressure being the presumed favorite and running her last race at Crystal, but managed it extremely well and made it two in a row and a PR on a day when they were hard to come by. The warm, dry weather and the deep inversion layer caused trouble for a lot of runners.

Division II boys Gunn finished seventh with 186 points with Jonas Enders leading the Titans with a time of 16:10.8 for 18th. Justin Robison of Lynbrook won in 15:11.5 with St. Francis, Willow Glen and St. Ignatius taking the state berths.

Division IV boys Menlo School sophomore Robert Miranda earned an individual berth to the State Meet by

Paly junior Kent Slaney pulled away to win his first Division I title.

finishing third in 15:47.2. Brett Anstrom finished 11th in 16:18.8 to help Sacred Heart Prep finish sixth in the team race that saw San Lorenzo Valley, Half Moon Bay and King City take the berths for the state finals.

Division V boys Robert Screven of Priory clocked 16:16.9 while finishing fourth for the second straight year, again qualifying for the State Meet. The Panthers just missed a team berth by finishing fourth behind Crystal Springs, St. FrancisCCC and The York School.

Division I girls Menlo-Atherton improved by two positions from 2014, but it still wasn’t enough as the Bears missed out on the two automatic berths for the state meet. Homestead won with 62, Monta Vista was second with 89 and M-A was right behind with 95, despite running its second-fastest team time (97:01) ever at Crystal Springs.

A silver lining for the Bears was the performance of senior Annalisa Crowe, who clocked a personal best of 18:11.7 to finish second behind Lauren Jacob of Los Altos (18:05.6). Crowe finished 38th in last year’s race.

Crowe earned an individual berth to the state finals.

Palo Alto finished seventh with 248 as sophomore Julia Doubson took 12th in 19:08.2.

Division IV girls Castilleja finished seventh as a team, Sacred Heart Prep’s Natalie Novitsky finished 10th in 19:12.8 (qualifying for the State Meet), her SHP teammates took 12th and Eliza Crowder of Menlo School

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Division I boys Menlo-Atherton finished 11th out of 17 teams in a highly competitive division. Senior Robert Lane led the Bears across the finish line with a personal-best time of 16:38.9 for 31st place.

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Gunn senior Gillian Meeks led all the way while winning Division II honors.

M-A senior Annalisa Crowe earned a state meet berth. clocked 19:33.6 for 12th individually (also missing a state berth by one spot) in a race that saw Cate Ratliff of Santa Cruz run 17:04.4 – fastest by any girl on the day.

Division V girls Eastside Prep freshman Zion Gabriel finished second in 19:28.3 to earn an individual berth to the state finals. The Panthers finished fifth in the team race.

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ry over the Bears, while California (6-4, 3-4) can advance its bowl opportunities and kick the Cardinal out of the title game with a victory.

It’s a Big Game with major consequences.

The Bears snapped a four-game losing streak with a 54-24 pasting of visiting Oregon State last weekend. Stanford had its eight-game winning streak come to a screeching halt, as the Cardinal suffered a 38-36 home loss to Oregon.

Scarlett will be part of a plan to pressure California quarterback Jared Goff, a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, who has thrown for 3,324 yards and 30 touchdowns.

There are more people in Scarlett’s family rooting for Stanford than Cal. The lineage dates to his great grandfather, who attended Stanford, as did his grandfather, uncle and several cousins.

Scarlett’s father ran track at BYU and his brother Cam is currently a student at Stanford. In fact, Scarlett got the idea to look at Stanford for graduate school because of his brother. He also looked at USC and Notre Dame.

“Stanford is the perfect fit,” he said. “I wanted a program I could finish in one year so I could retain my NFL aspirations. The first time I visited I walked into the weight room. I’m sure they were all wondering who I was.”

Stanford linebacker Blake Martinez said he was a little leery of Scarlett at first but was put at ease over dinner.

“I spent a couple of hours with him and it was cool to see his personality,” Martinez said. “He’s a hard worker and he does the extra things. When Harrison (Phillips) went down, his role jumped up.

We needed him and he’s shown how important he is.”

Scarlett was still rehabbing when he got to Stanford and had to learn a new position.

“It’s been tough,” said Stanford head coach Davis Shaw. “He had a lot to learn from the playbook and had a lot to learn technique-wise once he could play. He’s willing to learn. He wants to do it right.”

Scarlett, who has 26 tackles, including 3 1/2 sacks, 5 1/2 tackles for loss, six quarterback hurries and a fumble recovery, said the adjustment was not hard.

“I wouldn’t say it was overly difficult because these guys over here are great guys,” he said. “But the culture is definitely different around here. You earn your respect around here. I was the new guy, I was the older guy. But it was cool. It was an easy transition.”

Meanwhile the game also features two of the top quarterbacks in the Pac-12. Shaw goes even further.

“This game has the two best quarterbacks in a conference with a lot of good quarterbacks,” Shaw said. “If I had one guy to start in a game we needed to win, I’d pick one of these guys. That’s saying something. They have different styles but they’re both very good at what they do.”

Goff matched his own school record with six touchdown passes in the win over the Beavers.

Shaw called him “awesome.

Tall, long, great arm, paints the sidelines from the far hash marks, throws tight spirals right where you want them. He’s a good kid, a humble kid and a heck of a football player. It’s easy to root for a guy like him.”

Cardinal quarterback Kevin Hogan may not throw for as many yards, he has run for over 250 more yards and has a better passing efficiency rating than Goff.

“Kevin Hogan has been one of the most consistent players in this league since I’ve been in this league,” Cal coach Sonny Dykes said. “He gives them a chance to win every Saturday and that’s about the best thing you say about a quarterback.” Q

Stanford’s Brennan Scarlett forced a fumble from Oregon QB Vernon Adams Jr. (3), which was picked off in mid-air by Palo Alto High grad Kevin Anderson (right), whose return set up a field goal. presented with the award a day later at College Football Awards Show.

In the locker room after last Saturday’s 38-36 loss to Oregon, Stanford senior offensive left guard Joshua Garnett addressed the team. His message: Pick your head up. We’ve got a lot to play for.

“Here’s a senior who wants to beat Cal, and wants to keep the Axe and wants to go to the Pac-12 Championship Game,” said Stanford head coach David Shaw. “It wasn’t panicked.

It wasn’t anger. It was exhorting his team to say, ‘It’s time to look ahead guys, let’s go.’ His words were very well received.”

Though the message already was understood, senior receiver Michael Rector said it was vital for it to be reinforced.

“It was important for someone to come out and say that, so we weren’t all sulking in the moment,” Rector said. “It was definitely a disappointing loss for us, but it’s important to move on because the past is out of our control. What we can control now is beating Cal and getting to that Pac-12 Championship and hopefully bringing a third one back for all the seniors.

“We all knew before that game what the season could have been, and still can be. Who knows? People were bummed about that, but they also know that at the beginning of every year our goal is to win the Pac12 championship, and that’s still in our grasp. It was important to flush that game and focus on the here and now and that’s beating Cal, and keeping the Axe.”

McCaffrey a semifinalist Sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey has been named a Doak Walker Award semifinalist.

The Doak Walker Award was created in 1989 to recognize the nation’s premier running back for his accomplishments on the field, achievement in the classroom and citizenship in the community. It is the only major collegiate football award that requires all candidates to be in good academic standing and on schedule to graduate within one year of his class.

McCaffrey is among 10 semifinalists. The three finalists will be announced Nov. 24, and will be flown to Atlanta by ESPN for the Home Depot College Football Awards, which airs live Dec. 10.

McCaffrey broke two school records against Oregon, for his 2,418 season all-purpose yards and for his eighth consecutive 100-yard rushing performance.

His 241.8 all-purpose yards per game leads the nation. His 1,354 rushing yards are the fourthhighest season total in school history. Stepfan Taylor’s 1,530 from 2012 is No. 3.

Hooper up for award Stanford junior Austin Hooper has been named among eight semifinalists for the Mackey Award, given to the nation’s most outstanding tight end.

The finalists will be announced Nov. 24 and the winner will be selected Dec. 9, and

Senior Bowl invites Two Stanford players, Garnett and linebacker Blake Martinez, are among the first 19 players to accept invitations to play in the 67th Reese’s Senior Bowl in Mobile on Jan. 30.

Importance of the Big Game “People talk about Oregon and USC for us being big games, but with Cal, no matter what the records are, it’s going to be a dogfight from beginning to the end,” Martinez said. “You have to know that if you get an opportunity to step on that field in a Big Game. And for the alumni, we’re going in there letting them know that it’s just as important to us as it is to them. Our class is undefeated against Cal and we want to keep that Axe at Stanford.”

Seeing and listening Saturday’s game will be televised nationally on ESPN and broadcast on KNBR 1050 AM and Stanford student radio KZSU 90.1 FM. Facts and stuff Stanford has faced Cal more than any other opponent, while also enjoying long-standing rivalries with USC (93), UCLA (87), Washington (86), Oregon State (82), Oregon (79), San Jose State (67) and Washington State (66) . . . Stanford’s 60 wins over Cal are the most against any opponent . . . Stanford has won eight of its past nine games and 11 of 13 dating to 2014 . . . Under Shaw,Stanford is 4-0 vs. Cal, 35-9 in Pac-12 regular-season games, 28-4 at home, 14-5 in November. Q – Stanford Athletics

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Water polo (continued from page 58)

Keith Peters

The Menlo School girls won their second straight CCS Team Tournament title with a 5-2 win over Saratoga last Saturday, giving the Knights an unprecedented nine section championships.

CCS tennis (continued from page 58)

Keith Peters

available players and that’s why the Knights have won five NorCal championships.

A similar situation arose last weekend as Menlo made a bid for its second straight Central Coast Section team title. A NorCal Junior Doubles Excellance tournament was being held at the Fremont Tennis Center. Two top members of Gunn’s squad left their team to compete, missing a semifinal match with Menlo.

The Knights also had two players entered — freshmen Ashley Vielma and Taylor Gould. Vielma actually squeezed in one match between Saturday’s semifinals and finals, but Gould pulled out.

“It was a no-brainer,” said Gould.

Both took to the courts at Monta Vista High in Cupertino and represented the Knights very well.

First, they helped Menlo defeat Gunn, 6-1 in a semifinal match.

Vielma and Gould returned later in the day to face No. 3 Saratoga for the CCS title. Vielma gave top-seeded Menlo an early lead by winning at No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-1, and Gould wrapped up the championship with a 6-4, 6-4 triumph at No. 3 singles that gave Menlo a 5-2 triumph.

The victory gave Menlo (23-1) its second straight CCS title and ninth overall since 1997 under coach Bill Shine.

“Unbelievable,” said Shine, marveling at his team’s season that saw only a loss to Hawaii state champion Punahou in the Golden State Classic at Stanford.

“I really didn’t think the freshmen would make such an impact this year.”

Vielma and Gould were very instrumental in Menlo’s success this season, especially on Saturday. Had both left to play in the doubles event, the Knights most likely would not have defended their title.

“It was definitely worth it to come here and win,” Gould said.

Menlo seniors Mia McConnell (left) and Melissa Tran celebrated their victory at No. 1 doubles.

“I’d rather win or lose with this team than play in a junior tournament. I can do that any time. “This is a lot more special because it’s the only time with this group.”

Vielma also acknowledged that had there been a conflict with her match in Fremont, she would have canceled. As it turned out, the one doubles match provided a good warmup for the CCS final.

Menlo actually fell behind after losing at No. 3 doubles, but Vielma’s win evened the match.

The No. 2 doubles team of senior Schuyler Tilney-Volk and sophomore Kathryn Wilson posted a 6-4, 6-2 win for a 2-1 lead, Saratoga battled back to tie with a win at No. 2 singles but Menlo’s senior tandem of Mia McConnell and Melissa Tran rolled to a 6-4, 6-2 at No. 1 doubles for a 3-2 lead.

Junior Georgia Anderson and Gould were left on the court with one of them needing to win to clinch. As Anderson’s match turned into a three-set super tiebreaker, all eyes turned to Gould.

Gould held a 5-2 lead in the second set before being pushed by Neeka Nikfar, who had clinched Saratoga’s 4-3 semifinal win over Los Gatos after dropping down to No. 4 singles. She returned to No.

3 to face Gould, but couldn’t pull off a second triumph.

“It’s pretty cool,” Gould said of clinching her first CCS title.

“I was feeling a little pressure.

Everyone wanted to beat us this season. I think we handled it really well. The team is really close; the chemistry helped. It’s really different when you play for a team.”

Shine thought two factors helped the Knights defend. One was the senior leadership of Tran and McConnell, who had different doubles partners last season.

“Their leadership and poise in all the hard matches trickled down to the rest of the team,” Shine said.

The other factor was the team’s schedule, which included the Golden State Classic (second place) and Battle of the Bay (4-0 record).

“Playing these tournaments really made us tough,” said Shine.

“They weren’t intimidated. They believed in themselves and playing the best really made them tougher.”

Menlo and Saratoga both will compete at the NorCal Championships. The Knights are seeded No. 1. Q

the past.”

The top-seeded Sacred Heart Prep girls (23-5) will take their streak of eight straight CCS Division II titles into Saturday’s championship match against No. 2 St. Francis (21-7) at Independence High in San Jose at 10 a.m.

The top-seeded Sacred Heart Prep boys (21-7) will take their streak of four straight CCS Division II titles into their Division II finale against No. 2 Menlo School (18-11) starting at 11:30 a.m.

“A lot can go wrong,” said Burke, whose team will be facing the Lancers for a fourth time this season. In their last meeting, the Gators pulled out a 4-3 victory in the WCAL playoff finals after being held scoreless in the first half.

“Even if you’re favored to win, it can go against you.”

SHP rolled into another title match following a 16-6 romp over WCAL foe Mitty on Tuesday night at Gunn High. The Gators will wind up playing three WCAL teams in the playoffs after beating each one during the regular league season.

Junior Maddy Johnston tallied five goals with Malaika Koshy (the team’s only senior) plus juniors Maddie Pendolino and Layla Waters all scoring three times.

Johnston wasn’t even with the team to begin the regular season.

She was helping the USA Cadet Women’s National Team win a gold medal at the UANA Youth Pan Am Championships in Kingston, Jamaica.

SHP started the year with junior goalie Jane Rakow having no experience at the varsity level and just one senior. Since then, Rakow has improved to the point where Burke is comfortable and the team has jelled once again at the right time.

“It’s a combination of the younger players gaining experience, but it’s also about our most seasoned players showing leadership and coming through in pressure situations,” Burke said of his team’s improvement. “The four returning starters from last year’s championship team have all improved since last year and gained valuable experience playing at a high level during the off-season.

All of that is definitely showing right now, and we hope it will show on Saturday.

While SHP and St. Francis will be meeting for a fourth time this season, it’s only the first meeting in the CCS finals since 2007. The Gators won that matchup, 6-1, to start their string of eight straight titles.

The Lancers head into the finals after defeating No. 6 Castilleja (16-6) on Tuesday, 8-2.

The SHP boys, meanwhile, will face rival and No. 2 seed Menlo School (18-11) once again in the finals after both squads posted semifinal victories on Wednesday at Bellarmine Prep. The Gators topped No. 4 Valley Christian,

16-7, and the Knights eliminated No. 3 St. Ignatius, 9-5.

SHP is taking aim at a fifth straight Division II title.

“At some point, it (the streak) will end,” Kreutzkamp said. “We just hope it’s not this year.”

The Gators opened the season with just two seniors — Finn Banks and Jack Hocker — and two returning juniors.

“It’s the fewest amount of seniors that I’ve had,” said Kreutzkamp, “and the most freshmen and sophomores (eight). “ Kreutzkamp said if this has been a rebuilding year, it ends with this season.

That means Menlo needs to be at its very best on Saturday to have any chance of dethroning SHP. The Knights last beat the Gators in a CCS finale in 2010.

The rivals have met eight previous times in the title match with SHP winning five.

The Gators, however, have not faced Menlo junior goalie Tiago Bonchristiano this season. The Brazilian junior national team goalie had 19 saves and four assists against SI on Wednesday. Senior Chris Xi and freshman Sam Untrecht each had three goals for the Knights.

Xi was named the PAL Bay Division Most Valuable Player this week while Bonchristiano was named the Most Valuable Goalie.

SHP, meanwhile, got three goals from Banks, sophomore Alex Tsotadze and freshman Andrew Churukian. Banks also had four assists.

In other semifinals, top-seeded Bellarmine (23-5) ended the season of No. 4 Menlo-Atherton (1611) with a 10-9 Division I triumph on Tuesday night in the Bells’ pool. Third-seeded St. Francis (16-11) made it an all-WCAL finale with an 8-3 victory over No. 2 Gunn (18-10).

Menlo-Atherton and Gunn had hoped to meet in the finals for the first time ever, but those hopes were dashed.

Christian Huhn led the Bears with five goals with fellow senior Alex Hakanson adding two. Seniors Jorge Pont and Mostyn Fero each tallied once in their final game. The Bears will graduate nine seniors.

St. Francis joined Bellarmine in the final by jumping out to a 4-0 lead after one period and holding on while avenging a 12-11 nonleague loss to Gunn on Oct. 16. In that match, Gunn seniors Calder Hilde-Jones and Christian Znidarsic combined for nine goals.

On Tuesday, that same duo was limited to three by the Lancers’ suffocating defense.

In Division I girls, fifth-seeded Palo Alto (16-13) saw its season end in a 12-5 loss to top-seeded Leland (19-9) in a semifinal Wednesday at Gunn High.

Sophomore Sophie Frick tallied three goals for the Vikings with seniors Alina Drebin and Gigi Rojahn adding one each. The teams were tied at 1 following the first period, but the Chargers pulled away with eight goals total over the next two periods. Q

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Stanford men’s soccer is set for NCAAs

by Rick Eymer

N

o one is paying attention to the results of last year’s inexplicably short run in the NCAA tournament and that’s just as well. Stanford has a clean slate entering play this weekend and the plan is to play as long as possible.

The Cardinal men’s soccer team successfully defended its Pac-12 title and once again will open the tournament in the second round at home. Stanford plays Sunday at 5 p.m. against either Cal State Fullerton or Santa Clara, who played Thursday night.

“We’re excited to move into the tournament,” Stanford coach Jeremy Gunn said. “We’ve had a tremendous season so far and now it’s knockout soccer. You’re not really concerned with who the teams are in front of you because you have to do your best to prepare and make sure you’re ready to play regardless. Every team in the tournament is there on merit and so every team is going to be posing different types of challenges. It’s up to us to be ready come Sunday.”

Stanford (14-2-2) dropped its season opener and then went undefeated over the next 15 contests to help earn its spot in the postseason.

The Cardinal lost, 1-0, in overtime to UC Irvine last year in the

NCAA tourney, ending one of the best seasons in Stanford history.

The Cardinal simply picked up the pieces and went back to work again this year.

As it turns out, Stanford had another regular season to remember, going 1-0-1 against UCLA, the only other Pac-12 team in the postseason.

Junior forward Jordan Morris was named Pac-12 Player of the Year, senior defender Brandon Vincent was selected as the Pac12 Defensive Player of the Year and Jeremy Gunn earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors. The three highlighted a group of eight Stanford players who received allconference accolades.

Morris has a career-high eight goals in 13 appearances for Stanford in 2015. In his last nine games with the Cardinal, the junior has seven goals, two assists and 16 points. He started the week with the U.S. Men’s National Team for its first two matches of the 2018 World Cup Qualifying campaign.

Morris, Stanford’s third-ever Pac12 Player of the Year and first since 2001, appeared as a substitute in the Americans’ 6-1 victory over St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He did not play in Tuesday night’s scoreless draw with Trinidad and Tobago and should be available for Sunday’s match.

Morris, Vincent and fellow senior captain Ty Thompson were

Stanford’s representatives on the All-Pac-12 first team. It’s Morris’ third straight selection to the league’s first team, Vincent’s second and Thompson’s first.

Stanford had five named to the second team: Corey Baird, Andrew Epstein, Tomas HilliardArce, Foster Langsdorf and Eric Verso.

Baird, also an All-Pac-12 second teamer as a freshman, second on the team with eight assists, is fourth in points (12) and has also added a pair of goals. He is 24th in the country in assists and 26th in assists per game (0.44).

Women’s basketball No. 15 Stanford (2-0) hosts No. 22 George Washington on Saturday at noon.

The Cardinal opened its season with a pair of road victories, beating UC Davis, 74-45, on Friday night and downing Gonzaga, 6548, on Sunday.

Briana Roberson scored 15 points to lead a contingent of four Cardinal players in double figures. Erica McCall added 10 points and 11 rebounds against UC Davis. McCall added a second double-double against the Bulldogs, scoring 23 points and grabbing 13 rebounds. Lili Thompson added 21 points.

George Washington (2-0) had three players in double figures in its win over American. Caira

Washington has 44 points and 19 rebounds through the two games.

Women’s soccer Third-ranked Stanford played BYU on Thursday night. A win would put them in a noon match at home against either Santa Clara or Arizona on Saturday.

Men’s water polo Fifth-ranked Stanford meets No. 4 and host USC in the opening round of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament on Friday at 11:30 a.m.

The Cardinal (20-7) likely will need to win the conference tournament to advance to the NCAA tournament. Stanford lost two of the three meetings with the Trojans this year, including once in overtime. The Cardinal is 0-2 against both UCLA and California.

Women’s volleyball Seventh-ranked Stanford (186 overall, 12-4 Pac-12) played Thursday night against Colorado tied with UCLA for third place in the conference. The Cardinal is two games back of Washington and three games behind USC with four matches remaining.

Stanford hosts Utah on Friday night at 6 p.m., and will host California next Wednesday night (8 p.m.) in its final home match of the year. Q

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its history. This is Stanford’s 23rd consecutive NCAA appearance — the longest women’s streak in the country by far. Michigan State is next at 16.

Cuffe, the fourth-place NCAA finisher in 2013, is the only crosscountry All-America among Stanford’s lineup.Vanessa Fraser, who has run 15:54.12 in the 5,000, has often been the Cardinal No. 1 in Cuffe’s absence.

Last year, Stanford placed 14th with five freshmen in eligibility and returned all seven from that team. This year’s lineup will include three of those: Fraser and Sophie Chase, plus Molly McNamara as an alternate.

However, Stanford has been boosted by the emergence of a sophomore who was not part of that group. Julia Maxwell was the team’s No. 2 at regionals and No. 3 at conference — her best individual team finishes. Also, freshman Hannah Long has been a solid part of the top five all season.

The Stanford women have been more consistent at nationals than the men — finishing 10th, third, 11th, and 14th the past four seasons — and the program will count on that consistency once again. Stanford has finished 16th or better every year since 1993, a streak of 22 years. Q (Dave Kiefer is a member of the Stanford Sports Information Department)

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CCS FOOTBALL

Tough road ahead for quartet M-A, SHP, Menlo and Paly face uphill battles in the playoffs

by Keith Peters

T Ashley Vielma

Kent Slaney

MENLO SCHOOL

PALO ALTO HIGH The junior runner captured Division I individual honors for the first time with a 15:22.0 time while helping the Vikings finish second in the CCS Cross Country Championships and qualify for the CIF State Meet.

Honorable mention Annalisa Crowe

Miles Conrad

Menlo-Atherton cross country

Taylor Gould* Menlo tennis

Gunn water polo

Georgia Lewis*

JC Marco*

Castilleja water polo

Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Hana Marsheck

Robert Miranda*

Priory cross country

Menlo cross country

Gillian Meeks*

Nick O’Donnell

Gunn cross country

Sacred Heart Prep football

Melissa Tran-Mia McConnell* Menlo tennis

Menlo-Atherton football

Calder Hilde-Jones

Mason Randall* Sacred Heart Prep football * previous winner

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CCS VOLLEYBALL

Menlo-Atherton, Menlo return to title matches Bears hope to repeat; Knights in first finals since ‘13

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The defending champion he girls from MenloAtherton and Menlo Bears, seeking their third title in School have returned to four years, rolled into the finals Central Coast Section volley- off an impressive 25-20, 25-21, 25-7 victory over No. ball championship 2 San Benito (30-7) on matches on Saturday Wednesday night at at Independence High Piedmont Hills High in San Jose. The Bears in San Jose. would like a repeat of Senior Leanna Collast year while the lins had 11 kills (.400 Knights hope for a hitting), junior setter different outcome.

Kirby Knapp dished Third-seeded Men46 assists and 14 digs, lo-Atherton (23-7) junior Alexa Roumeliwill face No. 5 Carlmont (27-8) in the Di- Jacqueline DiSanto otis added 26 digs and junior Jacqueline DiSvision I finals at 4:30 p.m. The teams faced each other anto finished with 11 kills and twice during the PAL Bay Di- 23 digs. Senior Courtney Foliaki vision season with each squad had nine kills and sophomore winning once. The Scots won Lauren Heller contributed eight the last meeting, denying M-A as the Bears hit .273 as a team.

Menlo-Atherton, under firstan undefeated league season.

year coach Fletcher Anderson, will be playing in the finals for the sixth time in the past seven years, failing to advance only in 2013.

In Belmont, Menlo School returned to the Division IV finals for the first time since winning the crown in 2013 after defeating West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) co-champ Harker, 23-25, 25-22, 25-18, 2518, at Notre Dame-Belmont.

Menlo (22-6), the No. 2 seed, faces top seed Notre-Dame Belmont (27-10) in the title match Saturday at Independence High at 12:30 p.m. The Tigers eliminated No. 5 Sacred Heart Prep (20-11) in the other semifinal, 25-13, 25-13, 25-7.

Menlo, which lost last year’s CCS semifinals to ND-Belmont when Maddie Stewart was sidelined by an injury, has Stewart back. She had a match-high 12 kills against Harker. Kristin Sellers added 28 assists and Payton Mack had 4 1/2 blocks.

Both Menlo-Atherton and Menlo School will advance to the NorCal playoffs beginning Tuesday. Q

Karen Ambrose Hickey

The freshman went 4-0 at No. 1 singles, including a near-perfect effort (losing only one game) in the semifinals and finals while helping the Knights capture their second straight CCS Team Tennis Championship title.

he second season of high school football gets under way this weekend with four local teams competing in one of the five new Central Coast Section playoff brackets, none of which appear favorable for the local squads.

Menlo-Atherton (6-4), which finished in a three-way tie for first place in the PAL Bay Division this season, actually was seeded higher than the other two co-champions — Sacred Heart Prep and Burlingame.

The Bears also have the only home game in the opening round of the Open Division I playoffs as the Bears host No. 5 San Benito (6-4) on Friday at Ben Parks Field at 7 p.m. The visiting Haybalers posted a 49-34 win over Palo Alto earlier in the nonleague season.

Palo Alto (4-6), which is facing a possible second straight losing season, also is in top-tier Division I playoffs and will travel on Friday to face No. 3 Salinas (6-4) at 7 p.m. The Vikings are allowing 37.2 points a game this season.

The Palo Alto-Salinas winner will face the winner of No. 7 Alvarez (4-6) and No. 2 Milpitas (8-2) in the semifinals. Palo Alto fell to Milpitas, 40-13, during the SCVAL De Anza Division sea-

Palo Alto’s Eli Givens (81) had five catches for 120 yards and two TDs in a 49-34 loss to Wilcox last week. son. The Menlo-Atherton/San Benito winner likely will face No. 1 Bellarmine (9-1) in the other semifinal.

Defending CCS Open Division champion Sacred Heart Prep (7-3) is competing in the Open Division III playoffs and will open Friday at No. 3 Live Oak (9-1) at 7 p.m.

That winner will get either No. 7 Terra Nova (5-5) or No. 2 Monte Vista Christian (9-1) in the semifinals. Palma (9-1), the No. 1 seed, defeated SHP earlier this season, 31-28.

In the Division V playoffs, Menlo School (6-4) will head into the Santa Cruz Mountains on Saturday to face No. 4 Scotts Valley (7-3) at 1 p.m. That winner will face either No. 1 Pacific Grove (82) or No. 8 Capuchino (6-4) in the semifinals.

The champions of the three Open Division brackets, along with two of the three runner-up teams, will advance to one of 13 regional bowl games.

In regular-season finals last week: Sacred Heart Prep and MenloAtherton made successful tuneups for the CCS playoffs, but Palo Alto and Menlo School did not.

The Gators rallied for a 27-15 nonleague victory over Menlo School in the 13th annual Valparaiso Bowl while the Bears topped host Woodside, 59-34.

Menlo School grabbed a 1514 lead when Charlie Ferguson scored on a three-yard run in the third quarter before Sacred Heart Prep rallied in the final period.

Following an interception by Thomas Wine, the Gators took the lead at 20-15 when Isoa Moimoi had his second 10-yard scoring run.

SHP came up with another big defensive play when Andrew Dashbach intercepted a ball and

the Gators were back in business.

Quarterback Mason Randall connected with Nick O’Donnell on a 21-yard touchdown pass to put the finishing touches on the Gators’ third straight triumph.

Randall completed 12 of 20 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns. O’Donnell caught seven passes for 148 yards. The SHP running game, however, generated just 108 yards.

Zane Elsafy had 11 tackles for the Gators, including 1.5 sacks, with David Peterson and Charlie Ackley each adding seven tackles.

At Woodside, the Bears romped past the host Wildcats by rolling up 439 total yards as sophomore quarterback Miles Conrad completed nine of 14 passes for 164 yards and two touchdowns. Junior Aajon Johnson connected on both his attempts for 67 yards and one TD as the Bears had their best passing game of the season with 231 yards.

The M-A rushing game wasn’t as spectacular individually, but the work was spread out among nine backs who combined for 208 yards overall. Junior Marquise Reid led the way with 57 yards on three carries with juniors Stavro Papadakis and Josh Lepulu each adding 50.

Papadakis also had 77 receiving yards on two receptions, both going for touchdowns. Junior Jordan Mims caught two passes for 65 yards, including one score.

In Santa Clara, Palo Alto allowed its highest point total of the season, despite a big offensive game of its own while falling to the host Chargers to close the SCVAL De Anza Division season.

Paly senior wideout Eli Givens had five catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns from quarterback Justin Hull. Q

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358 RUTHERFORD AVE $1,795,000 8YVR OI] LSQI MR ,SVKER 6ERGL ` 6IQSHIPIH OMXGLIR [MXL 'EVVEVE GSYRXIVW ` ,EVH[SSH žSSVMRK RI[ [SSP GEVTIXMRK ` )RSVQSYW EXXMG WXSVEKI EVIE

REDWOOD CITY | COMING SOON

GIL ORAHA 650.889.0889 CalBRE #01355157

REDWOOD CITY | OPEN SUN1-4

JOHN ALEXANDER 650.302.2250

222 PORTOLA STATE PARK RD $3,777,000 7ER 1EXIS 'SYRX] 0ERH *PEX %GVIW GPSWI XS 7MPGSR :EPPI] ERH 7ER *VERGMWGS 6YWXMG &( &% WXEPP LSVWI FEVR &YMPH ]SYV S[R GSVTSVEXI VIXVIEX

REDWOOD CITY | PENDING

MENLO PARK | OPEN SAT/SUN 1-4

WOODSIDE | OPEN SUN 1-3

VALERIE TRENTER 650.888.6930

JAN STROHECKER 650.906.6516

PALO ALTO

MENLO PARK | OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

JAN STROHECKER 650.906.6516

14123 TRACY CT $8,888,000 7XYRRMRK &( &% WXEXI SJ XLI EVX GSRXIQTSVEV] LSQI SR EG XST GYWXSQ HIXEMPW TSSP FEGOW XS KVIIRFIPX EY TEMV YRMX 4% 7GLPW 8VEG]'X GSQ

SAN MATEO COUNTY | WITH PRIVATE APPOINTMENT

1846 BARTON ST $1,298,000 8YGOIH E[E] MR E WSYKLX EJXIV GYP HI WEG XLMW FV FE WMRKPI PIZIP VERGL LSQI SR ER oversized lot is ideal to live in as-is, update or FYMPH ERI[

SAN MATEO | OPEN SAT/SUN 1:30-4:30

TOM HUFF 650.325.6161

TomHuffHomes@Yahoo.com CalBRE #922877

1240 WOODSIDE RD 26 $499,000 1EOI XLMW ]SYV LSQI JSV XLI LSPMHE]W ;IPP QEMRXEMRIH GSRHS 6IEH] XS QSZI MR 8ST žSSV RS SRI FIPS[ ;SRHIVJYP GSQTPI\ IEW] EGGIWW XS

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