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Vol. XXXVII, Number 13

January 1, 2016

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2015PPalo Alto’s year of resistance

City Council sets aside its differences to take on a greater force: the free market by Gennady Sheyner

n the morning of Sept. 16, residents of downtown Palo Alto woke up to a new world. Walking outside their homes in Downtown North and Professorville, they couldn’t help but spy a strange, rare and most welcoming sight: open parking spots.

The reason for this “miracle,” as one downtown resident called it at a public meeting days later, was a newly implemented parking-permit program, which effectively banished cars belonging to Caltrain commuters and Stanford University students from the residential streets

and forced downtown’s denizens and businesses into a coalition. The goal of the group was to solve the city’s most complex, frustrating and urgent problem: a weekday influx of cars that residents have long compared to a “tsunami.” The permit program proved a success, albeit an uneven one. The number of cars parking on downtown’s residential blocks dropped by more than 300, according to city planners, but many commuters

simply parked farther away from the heart of downtown, thus spreading the problem to other neighborhoods. That shortcoming notwithstanding, the dramatic shake-up of downtown’s parking situation wasn’t just the most impactful event of the year in Palo Alto, it was also the most emblematic. Like other issues that captivated the Palo Alto City Council’s attention in 2015 — from the painful tug-of-war over Buena Vista

Mobile Home Park’s future to a sweeping new law setting an annual limit on new office space; from bans on two-story homes in Eichler neighborhoods to new ordinances limiting chain stores on California Avenue; from a new minimum-wage ordinance to the prohibition of ground-floor retail space turning into offices — the Residential Preferential Parking (continued on page 11)

YEAR IN REVIEW

Palo Alto residents flex their muscle 2015 was a year of successful citizen activism by Sue Dremann

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Gunn High School students Chloe Sorensen, right, and Sarah Reich, left, address the school board, parents and community members on Jan. 27 about the support they’ve received at the school in the wake of several student deaths by suicide and how students face a range of challenges that aren’t always related to academic stress.

EDUCATION

Rebounding from loss, refocusing on the students Difficult start to the year gives way to soul-searching, new visions for school district by Elena Kadvany

015 in the Palo Alto Unified School District was, indelibly, a year of immense loss but also one of significant change and growth. In the wake of several teenage deaths by suicide, the community collectively mourned — and jumped into action. Many high school students started regularly attending and speaking at Board of Education meetings, pitched student-wellness reforms to their administrations — several of which were eventually implemented — and did not shy away from challenging elected officials when they felt their voices were not being heard.

Youth spoke out on social media, during community forums, in student publications as well as this newspaper. (PaloAltoOnline. com’s most-read story of 2015 was Palo Alto High School school board representative Carolyn Walworth’s guest opinion piece, “The sorrows of young Palo Altans,” with 283,831 views.) School staffs worked hard to support students and reduce stress during what Superintendent Max McGee and others called a public health crisis. They offered increased counseling services, flexibility around workloads and deadlines, a new process to deter students

from taking multiple Advanced Placement (AP) classes, mindfulness programs and efforts to decrease the perceived stigma around mental-health problems. Gunn High School shifted to a modified block schedule, which had a significant impact on the daily pace for students. There were fierce debates around academic pressures, societal definitions of success and the impact of sleep on student wellness. Local and national experts weighed in through writing and visits to Palo Alto. In February, McGee also (continued on page 12)

itizens united over Palo Alto issues affecting their quality of life in 2015, holding federal authorities, City Hall and developers accountable for problems that included airplane noise, groundwater pumping, leaf blowers, traffic, Airbnb rentals and the failure to retain a grocer at Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center. Residents turned out in force at City Council meetings, held round-table discussions with the Federal Aviation Administration and effectively organized through social media to get the city and other governmental bodies to listen to their concerns. They seemed to have the ear of the council, which this year had three new members and a renewed focus on neighborhood concerns. Council members enacted new ordinances and sought to revive other issues. Here are the top stories that made 2015 a successful year for citizen activism.

Airplane noise Residents faced down the big guns this year. The Federal Aviation Administration rolled out its new nationwide aviation-flight system, NextGen, in April, but the federal agency’s streamlining of flight paths increased the frequency of airplanes — and the level of decibels — over local neighborhoods. Palo Alto is the now the nexus of three major flight routes from San Francisco International Airport (SFO), which has created a conga line of aircraft over Palo Alto homes. Residents were not going to accept the cacophony quietly. They formed a noise-abatement group

with perhaps the coolest name of the year — Sky Posse. Members launched a noise-reporting campaign of thousands of calls and emails to SFO’s noise abatement office and lobbied city leaders. And they enlisted U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, who brought FAA officials face to face in July with leaders of multiple cities and residents’ groups. Also in July, the City Council included airplane noise as part of the agenda for its lobbyist in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. In November, Eshoo co-sponsored a pair of bills to reform federal oversight of the issue, including re-establishment of the Office of Noise Abatement and Control. By November the FAA agreed to review the existing and potentially revised flight paths, plane altitudes and route-planning procedures, including analysis and preliminary feasibility study of new routes.

Groundwater pumping The practice of removing millions of gallons of water from the ground to construct basements for Palo Alto homes triggered outrage among residents in 2015, especially given the drought’s fourth year. Residents formed Save Palo Alto’s Groundwater, which in the fall asked the City Council to place a moratorium on “dewatering” permits and to study the impact of groundwater pumping on Palo Alto’s water supply. The city’s last analyses of the construction practice took place in 2003 and 2004, and the last public hearing occurred in 2008, before the drought. (continued on page 10)

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Odds ’n’ ends

From the unusual to the downright weird, the year saw its fair share of strange news stories With 2015 concluding, the Weekly is taking a look back at some odd news stories that stood out during the past year. Here is a roundup of the top 10 — from a missing giraffe to bed bugs to a dispute over a clay pot. 1. HAVE YOU SEEN ME? ... In September, a 5-foot-tall bronze giraffe was stolen from The Wonder Years Preschool courtyard in Palo Alto. When staff and students returned after the Labor Day weekend, they noticed Gila was missing. “The kids started asking, ‘What happened to it?’” Assistant Director Julie Fernandez said. “I said, ‘I don’t know. Maybe it went to the zoo.’” Staff checked the school’s security cameras and saw two men picking up the 90-pound statue and carrying it off. 2. ‘SHARDGATE’ ... Responding to residents’ complaints about the dangers of polished glass pieces embedded in California Avenue’s new sidewalks, Palo Alto officials directed the $7 million streetscape project’s contractor to remove and re-embed the glittering yet semi-pointy glass. Resident Ronna Devincenzi notified the City Council about shards coming loose from the aggregate and creating a hazard for people wearing sandals or walking barefoot through the eclectic business district. 3. ‘POT BANDIT’ ... In Feburary, Palo Alto Architectural Review Board member Catherine Ballantyne felt compelled to resign after she walked up to the front porch of a neighbor’s house and took a clay pot filled with soil. A surveillance video of the incident was posted to YouTube and social media website Nextdoor with a note titled “Pot thief.” Ballantyne said she thought she was salvaging the pot from an abandoned home, but the homeowner accused her of theft. 4. FUZZY FEELINGS ... The city got a new icon this year in the form of a 3-foot-high stuffed donkey named Palo Alto Perry. Sporting a gray coat and promoted as the new Neighborhood Ambassador of Palo Alto (sorry, El Palo Alto), Perry flew in a plane, sang at a San Francisco Giants’ game and searched for Palo Alto’s most endearing places and things. 5. BUGGING OUT ... Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park and Rinconda libraries got new patrons in September, but the libraries weren’t happy about these reading bugs. City staff were notified that bed bugs had been discovered in chairs in the libraries,

which were then cordoned off from the public to allow a pest control company to inspect and treat the infested areas. 6. BRAZEN BURGLARS ... Thieves sought a new way to burglarize businesses in 2015: Two men rammed a van into the front of Keeble & Shuchat Photography on California Avenue in February and made off with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. Four people drove a stolen SUV through the front glass doors of Bloomingdale’s at Stanford Shopping Center in May and swiped loot from the jewelry counter, police said. 7. CITIZEN’S ARREST ... A burglar picked the wrong vehicle to rummage through in April: the truck of East Palo Alto Boxing Club owner Johnnie Gray. Gray was in his home when he heard a suspicious sound and went outside to investigate, he said. The thief took off running but Gray chased after him, eventually tackling him to the ground. Residents, alerted to the commotion, called police. 8. THE CASE OF THE POISONED WATER ... A former Stanford University graduate medical student accused of spiking her lab mates’ water with paraformaldehyde and sabotaging the research of a senior researcher pleaded no contest to all charges in December, according to court documents. Xiangyu Ouyang, 26, of Singapore faces a maximum sentence of one year in county jail. 9. THEY’RE ON A STREAK ... Two streaking incidents at Palo Alto High School in October were the first since the administration cracked down on the student tradition in the 2013-14 school year. A student ran nude across the football field during a Spirit Week rally and another bared it all at a night rally, student news outlet the Paly Voice reported. Principal Kim Diorio reminded students that anyone involved in the “illegal activity of streaking will be subject to disciplinary action,” which may include suspension. 10. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? ... In what Palo Alto police called “an unusual robbery” in downtown Palo Alto in August, a man stole a woman’s cellphone out of the hand of a teenage girl who had asked to borrow it to make a call. The girl had taken the phone, dialed a number and held the phone to her ear when the man walked up behind her, snatched the phone and fled into a city parking garage, police said. Q

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Upfront LAW ENFORCEMENT

City police describe ‘quick and violent’ confrontation before fatal shooting Police department names officers involved in shooting of William David Raff by Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner hen three Palo Alto po- dard practice in officer-involved lice department’s evidence team recovered nine bullet casings at lice officers arrived at shooting investigations. The officers responded to the the scene, police said. Officers the front lawn of a home at 652 Forest Ave. in the waning Forest Avenue group home (op- reportedly provided first aid to hours of Christmas night, they re- erated by the nonprofit organi- Raff before paramedics arrived portedly saw a man emerge from zation La Selva for people who and transported him to the hosthe shadows, brandishing a metal require psychiatric care) for a pital, where he later died. In addition to reviewing video knife and jumping around in an “false emergency” call in which Raff reported that a person at the and audio footage, police said erratic manner. Nineteen seconds later, 31-year- residence was “really violent.” He they interviewed three different old William David Raff was shot provided the name of that person, witnesses who were walking in and killed by police — the city’s but no one by that name lives at the neighborhood during the incident and saw what happened. first officer-involved shooting the residence, police said. Police believe the interviews, The call was made at about 9:16 since 2002. Exactly what happened dur- p.m. Seven minutes later, the offi- along with all of the audio and ing those 19 seconds remains the cers showed up at the nondescript video evidence captured from subject of a police investigation. Tudor house near the intersection the police vehicles, have given the department “all of the signifiBut according to new informa- of Forest and Middlefield Road. As soon as the officers arrived, cant details” about the 19-second tion issued by the Palo Alto Police Department on Tuesday, the they saw Raff “jumping around encounter. Police don’t plan to shooting occurred only after the erratically” with a knife in his release any additional informaofficers repeatedly ordered Raff hand, according to a statement tion about what the press reto drop the knife, retreated from the police department released lease calls a “quick and violent the lawn to the street and request- on Tuesday. Officers immedi- confrontation.” Raff had just moved into the ately called for backup while ed backup. According to police, officers retreating from the property and group home within a week of the Nicholas Enberg and Zachary gave Raff “multiple commands” incident. His father, Garold Raff, Wicht fired their guns at Raff af- to drop the knife, according to told the Weekly that William had ter he allegedly “sprinted directly the press release. As the officers been suffering from schizoaffecat the officers while screaming retreated toward the street, one tive disorder, a condition whose and waving the knife.” Another officer requested an emergency symptoms can include hallucinaofficer, who is not being named, response from a police unit that tions, depression and mania. Once the Palo Alto Police Dereportedly fired a Taser at Raff at is equipped with a weapon that partment completes its criminal can shoot rubber bullets. the same time. But the situation appeared to investigation, it plans to hand Raff allegedly got close enough to the two officers that Enberg have escalated before any help over all the evidence to the Santa had to move to avoid being struck could arrive. Even as the officers Clara County District Attorney’s by Raff’s body as he fell under were retreating toward their ve- Office for review, according to hicles, Raff moved to the middle the news release. The department gunfire. The new information was made of the street and continued to jump also plans to submit the evidence available to the police through re- around while waving the knife, to the city’s Independent Police views of video and audio footage which police said was 9 inches Auditor, Michael Gennaco, who from two police cruisers, report- long, had a slightly serrated edge will be asked to review both the edly capturing the incident in its and a tapered, slightly rounded tip. officers’ conduct and the police Raff allegedly ignored the of- department’s response. Gennaentirety from multiple angles. Police said they are not releasing ficers’ repeated commands to co’s review will take place after video and audio footage at this drop the knife and then charged the department concludes its own at the officers while screaming administrative investigation, actime. cording to the press release. Enberg, who has been with the and waving the knife. Assistant District Attorney One officer then fired a Taser, police department for two and a half years, and Wicht, who has police said, while Enberg and James Gibbons-Shapiro told the Weekly that the District Atbeen a Palo Alto police officer Wicht fired their pistols. Though it’s not yet clear how torney’s office will review all for a year and a half, are now on paid administrative leave, a stan- many rounds were fired, the po- reports, videos, interview re-

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Fatal shooting brings questions about police tactics to Palo Alto Police department investigation focuses on whether Dec. 25 shooting was justified by Gennady Sheyner

hen two Palo Alto police officers shot and killed William David Raff, 31, outside a Forest Avenue home on Dec. 25, they instantly triggered speculation among the victim’s family, friends and the broader community about whether the shooting was just — and justified. The question has become in-

creasingly common across the United States in recent years, with high-profile police shootings in Ferguson, Missouri; New York City; Cleveland; Baltimore; and Chicago prompting conversations about race and policing. Public concerns about police tactics have also surfaced periodically in Palo Alto, where every incident involving a fired Taser

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gets scrutinized by an independent police auditor and where the police chief was forced to resign in 2008 after making comments that many in the community perceived as a tacit endorsement of racial profiling. The last time a person was fatally shot by a Palo Alto officer was in March 2002, when 20-year-old Pedro Calderon died

Online This Week

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

East Palo Alto men arrested for home burglary after neighborhood search in Milpitas Two East Palo Alto men were arrested in connection with a home burglary after a neighborhood search Monday night in Milpitas, police said today. (Posted Dec. 30, 7:28 a.m.)

SamTrans fares going up in 2016 Some fares for SamTrans paratransit bus service are changing in the new year. Paratransit riders can expect to see an increase in one-way trip rates from $3.75 to $4.25 starting Friday. SamTrans will also see an increase from $2 to $2.25 for non-paratransit travelers starting Jan. 10. (Posted Dec. 30, 7:24 a.m.)

Road rage incident leads to armed robbery What started as a road rage incident in Palo Alto ended with an armed robbery of four people in Atherton, police said. (Posted Dec. 29, 4:20 p.m.)

Bay Area scientists given nation’s top science honor President Obama honored four Bay Area scientists this year with the country’s highest scientific honor, according to the National Science Foundation. (Posted Dec. 28, 7:53 a.m.)

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to elect a new mayor and vice mayor and pass a resolution of appreciation to outgoing Mayor Karen Holman. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

cordings, the autopsy report and other materials to decide if any criminal charges should be filed against the officers. But the public should not expect a speedy turnaround. “This particular case is in its very early stages, as we do not expect a completed autopsy report for some weeks and because there

are more witnesses to interview, among other things,” he said. If no charges are filed, the DA’s office will release a detailed report, including how the DA investigators reached their conclusions. The report is usually released within 60 days of completion, but sometimes additional steps must be taken before there is a decision, he said. Q

after allegedly trying to flee the police in a stolen BMW. An investigation ultimately cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Now, Palo Alto police and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office are investigating whether deadly force used by officers Nicholas Enberg and Zachary Wicht against Raff was justified. The police department’s policy allows an officer to use deadly force to protect himself/herself or someone else from what the officer “reasonably believes would be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.” The department’s policy includes 17 different factors that officers can consider in determining whether to apply force and whether the force is reasonable. These

include the immediacy and severity of the threat to officers or others; the conduct of the individual (as “reasonably perceived by the officer at the time”); the person’s “mental state or capacity”; proximity to weapons; and whether the person appears to be “resisting, attempting to evade arrest by flight or is attacking an officer.” William Raff’s father, Garold Raff, told the Weekly on Monday that he believes the shooting was “unjust” and that officers used excessive force on his son. But under the department’s policy, officers are allowed to use “reasonable force” to make an arrest, prevent escape or overcome resistance. Q A longer version of this article has been posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.

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Shooting was ‘unjust,’ say parents of man killed by police Many questions, few answers in death of Palo Alto man with severe mental illness, father says by Sue Dremann

he father of William David Raff, the man fatally shot by Palo Alto police on Christmas night, said his only child had a long history of mental illness. But on Monday night, he called his son’s death “an unjust shooting.” “Reportedly, my son had a butter knife, not a lethal weapon, and for them to just shoot him ... this is so far off any reason,” Garold Raff said, referring to news reports that quoted a resident of the house. “It’s just awful. It was challenging enough to just help him, and to have him treated this way was so excessive. ... In our opinion, it was mishandled,” he said from his home in Southern California on Monday evening. He and Raff’s mother are exploring potential litigation, he said. Garold Raff also lamented the

mental health system that should have helped protect their son, who had schizoaffective disorder. The system leaves parents out of the loop and their severely mentally ill adult children vulnerable, he said. “We are in so much grief,” Garold Raff said. His son had only resided at the La Selva Group house for about a week. When William Raff was a child, there was no indication of the illness that was to follow. He was a “perfect” son growing up, his father said. He never went through the terrible twos nor was he a troubled teenager. He learned to ski and surf, and he played tournament golf at the country club with his grandmother. But his parents became puzzled when it took eight years for their son to graduate from college. He

studied business at San Diego State University and then landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, where he earned a degree. They didn’t know until he left college — and no longer had access to his medications — that their son had a devastating mental illness. What followed were numerous hospitalizations in psychiatric wards, stabilization with medication, and then spirals downward when he stopped taking the medication. There were periods of paranoia and illusions of grandiosity. People with schizoaffective disorder, a serious mental disorder that can involve psychotic breaks from reality and wide mood swings, often must take a cocktail of medications that produce many side effects. Patients

sometimes have trouble accepting a lifetime of heavy medication. Raff would go through cycles — getting stable, seeming to stay on his medicines, then falling away and returning to illness and psychiatric facilities, his father said. Several months ago, Garold Raff purchased a home in Felton, where his son was living. About a month ago, Raff attempted suicide, was taken to a hospital emergency room and later placed in a locked psychiatric ward. It was his second attempt in a year. The first had taken place in Southern California, according to his father. After becoming stable, Raff was transferred to La Selva. He was allowed to sign out to take a walk on the street for a short period of time. But the overall restrictions on his life because of his illness were sometimes frustrating, his father said. “Every now and then he was disgusted and excitable about the circumstances he was living in,” his father said. Since his son entered La Selva, Garold Raff said he had a feeling that his son’s mental state was unraveling again. “I didn’t sense that things were going right; I wanted to talk to (the La Selva staff). I was trying to find out what they do. I was

getting nervous,” Garold Raff said. “It was the same feeling of ‘I don’t know where this is going’ sort of thing. The system just leaks away.” As an adult, Raff was protected by privacy laws that often left his parents outside of the circle of his care, his father said. Michael Hayes — a spokesman for Momentum For Mental Health, the nonprofit parent organization to La Selva Group — said in an email on Monday that the organization could not comment to the public on details related to the incident. “As you can imagine there is much sensitivity around this topic and really no ability to elaborate given this is still an open investigation,” he wrote. Momentum released a statement Monday morning that said the La Selva transitional house was fully licensed by the State of California Department of Social Services and Department of Health. Garold Raff said he holds a picture in his mind of his son before the illness robbed him of his life. “He was really a handsome kid — blue eyes, blond hair and a great smile,” he said. Q A longer version of this article has been posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.

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A gardener uses a gaspowered leaf blower to blow dead leaves and debris out of a front yard and into the street for sweeping and removal.

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Nearly 50 residents attended the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee meeting on Dec. 1 with many demanding a moratorium. Committee members tentatively endorsed short-term reforms and added their own suggestions, including requiring contractors to analyze and remedy the impacts of the groundwater pumping; adding new fees based on the value of the water extracted; and finding new uses for the groundwater. The city would develop a broader longterm study on groundwater management, and they plan to revisit the topic in early 2016. This could include developing dewatering requirements tailored to the drought situation, according to a Dec. 15 Policy and Services staff report.

Edgewood Shopping Center grocery store Crescent Park and Duveneck/St. Francis residents held a developer’s — and the city’s — feet to the fire this year after grocer The Fresh Market pulled out of Edgewood Shopping Center. The newly redeveloped center along Embarcadero Road was nearing full occupancy in March when The Fresh Market’s corporate headquarters on the East Coast decided to pull the plug on all of its California stores. Finding a replacement grocer within six months, which is required by the city under the site’s Planned Community (PC) zoning ordinance, dragged on. Neighbors, who deeply want a market to succeed in the spot, jumped in with suggestions for center owner Sand Hill Property Co. and put out feelers to speed the process along.

Sand Hill staff said this summer that the firm had reached out to 40 potential grocers with no takers. Residents fretted that the developer didn’t have much incentive to find a new anchor store: The Fresh Market still holds the 10-year lease, and Sand Hill still gets paid whether there’s a grocery store open there or not. In August, residents called for the City Council to fine Sand Hill for violating its ordinance and to prevent the developer from selling new homes it built at Edgewood until a new grocer is found. The council voted on Aug. 24 to fine Sand Hill if the grocery store space wasn’t filled by Sept. 30. The daily fine started on Sept. 30 at $500, increased to $750 on Oct. 1 and rose to $1,000 for each day after Oct. 1 until the space is in filled. Three weeks after the council’s August vote, Sand Hill announced that Andronico’s Community Markets was interested in taking over the space. But so far, an official agreement has not materialized, and Sand Hill must still pay the fines.

Leaf blowers Gas-powered blowers were banned from Palo Alto’s residential neighborhoods 10 years ago but gardeners and homeowners still flout the ordinance every week. Irritated by the barrage of sound and dust, some Palo Alto residents this summer decided to make some noise of their own. In June, when the City Council was weighing the decision about whether to budget for a new city code-enforcement officer, a few locals, including Midtown resident Bill Rosenberg, saw an opportunity. They complained to the council about the lack of enforcement of the 10-year-old ban, which also

About the cover: Top row from left: Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Max McGee speaks at a school board meeting on March 24; Brandon Burr, philanthropy engineer at Palantir, right, helps student Oscar Vargas learn how to code during the company’s 10-week coding course; residents in the Joseph Eichler-developed neighborhoods petition to ban two-story homes from being built in their tracts; The Fresh Market closes, leaving Edgewood Shopping Center without an anchor grocer. Bottom row from left: Use of gaspowered leaf blowers, which have been banned in the city for 10 years, sparks residents to complain to City Council about the lack of enforcement; New downtown parking restrictions take effect in October; Christian Lara, a busser at Palo Alto Creamery Fountain & Grill, sets tables during lunchtime on Aug. 26; Laborer José Porras pours and smooths grout onto patches of the sidewalk on California Avenue during streetscape construction in May. Photos by Veronica Weber. Page 10 • January 1, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

limits the acceptable noise levels of electric blowers and their hours of usage, and pleaded for help. Council members responded by approving a new position in the Department of Planning and Community Environment to lead the codeenforcement team and implement ordinance enforcement. As of December, the city had not announced the new hire, who planning Director Hillary Gitelman said in early October was expected to be hired within a couple of months.

Residential permit parking and traffic After years of lobbying City Hall for parking relief, citizens succeeded in getting the Residential Preferential Parking program launched in downtown neighborhoods. The program gives residents in the parking district up to four free permits and charges downtown employees $233 (or $50 for lowincome workers) to park on residential streets. Implementation began in September, with ticketing of miscreants starting Oct. 13. The program was instantly effective, though there were drivers who simply shifted to parking on residential streets just outside the permit zone. Neighbors living on those newly congested blocks then petitioned the City Council for inclusion in the permit program, and on Dec. 14 they got their wish. The council voted to add 12 blocks to the district and limit the number of permits issued to employees to 2,000. That phase of the program is scheduled to begin April 1. Palo Alto officials also provided some seed money to form a new Transportation Management Association, a nonprofit organization that will work to convince people who drive solo to work downtown to take other forms of transportation. The group includes a city representative, downtown stakeholders and transportation experts. The city this year also coordinated and replaced traffic signals on Embarcadero Road near Palo Alto High School and Town & Country Village Shopping Center after receiving voluminous complaints about perpetual gridlock at the closely spaced intersections. The city is also planning to improve the larger stretch of Embarcadero from El Camino Real to High Street and

The Weekly’s five mostviewed videos in 2015

he subjects are diverse — chronic fatigue syndrome, the demolition of Palo Alto High School’s big gym and the grand opening of Palo Alto’s Magical Bridge Playground — but they share a commonality: They were the subjects of the mostviewed Palo Alto Online videos of 2015. The Weekly staff produces a variety of videos, including a halfhour news-analysis webcast, “Behind the Headlines”; First Person interviews with newsmakers, hosted by Lisa Van Dusen; Athletes of the Week videos with prep athletes; news and entertainment videos and more. You can find them all on the Weekly’s YouTube channel, youtube.com/paweekly. Q —Palo Alto Weekly Staff

5. Interview with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl cast (959 views) by Peter Canavese, June 16 Film critic Peter Canavese of the Palo Alto Weekly and Groucho Reviews talks to the cast of “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler and Olivia Cooke. Watch the video: youtu.be/uNgMoRegeps 4. Athlete of the Week, Jacey Pederson (1,010 views) by Palo Alto Online, Jan. 29 Weekly Sports Editor Keith Peters chats with girl Athlete of the Week, Palo Alto High School’s Jacey Pederson, who plays on the girls soccer team. Watch the video: youtu.be/xgBxrGDVv4Q 3. Paly’s big gym demolished (2,523 views) by Palo Alto Online, Sept. 2 Palo Alto High School’s beloved gym is demolished to make room for a new state-of-the-art athletic center. Watch the video: youtu.be/Jf9ekCzdiKs 2. Magical Bridge Playground Opening (9,489 views) by Veronica Weber, April 20 The grand opening of Magical Bridge Playground in Mitchell Park, which is specifically designed for children and adults with special needs and disabilities. Watch the video: youtu.be/35_OBQN4pWM 1. Invisible Illness: Stories of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (20,492 views) by Veronica Weber, July 10 A mini documentary reveals stories of people who are affected by chronic fatigue syndrome — a little-known disease that affects roughly 836,000 to 2.5 million people in the United States and receives little research funding. Watch the video: youtu.be/9_HwOUiImvw in December announced it is seeking feedback from the community.

Airbnb rentals In March, city leaders opted against regulating Airbnb rentals in neighborhoods after several City Council members broached the topic, seeking a discussion of taxing and regulating the shortterm rentals. Some residents had complained that the “sharing economy” phenomenon was out of control on their blocks because of a lack of oversight by absentee landlords and a revolving door of renters. The council ultimately decided to monitor the situation

and revisit the issue in a year. The council’s reticence could be short-lived. Residents again spoke out about the issue in October, when it became clear that singlefamily homes are being used as hostels and hacker spaces with as many as 16 people living in bunkbed accommodations. Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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program was borne out of a clash between Palo Alto’s elected officials and a sizzling economy. Past rivalries between slowgrowth “residentialists” and more established, pro-growth citizens — clashes that characterized the city’s political divide in 2013 and 2014 (with the residentialist side prevailing on Election Day in both years) — seemed in 2015 like a bygone era. Much like downtown businesses and residents, the council’s factions joined forces this year to take on a greater enemy — growth and the problems it brings. Thus, the council found itself playing a brand of aggressive, swarming defense. The tone was set from the getgo, when the newly reconstituted council unanimously elected Karen Holman — veteran planning commissioner, leading residentialist and the 2014 election’s top vote-getter — as its mayor. Holman, who had spent her prior council term on the outskirts of the council dais, often casting minority votes, now had the center chair and the gavel. Next to her sat Vice Mayor Greg Schmid, a slowgrowth proponent who, like Holman, had spent years on the council’s political and physical fringe. In her State of the City speech in February, Holman highlighted the issues the council needed to address in 2015: preserving local retail, curbing the growth of office space and solving traffic and parking conundrums. On the matter of retail leaving Palo Alto, she noted, “It’s the market forces, and markets work much faster than does government, so it’s our job to address this as soon as possible.” To be sure, the market has brought blessings as well as curses. Palo Alto continues to be a magnet for small startups and innovation giants, from Tesla and Ford (which this year established a research lab in the city) to Yelp and Palantir. The local economy is booming, with tax revenues on the rise in every category. Furthermore, the recent boom in new hotels (as well as the voters’ decision in 2014 to raise the local hotel-tax rate) offers plenty of assurance on the revenue front. When City Manager James Keene observed on Dec. 14 how well the local economy is doing relative to other places around the country, he credited it in large part to the “dynamic aspect of the market itself,” which ultimately determines the price and demand for hotel rooms. Thanks to the market, Palo Alto has been able to dramatically ramp up its street-repair program and make steady progress in 2015 on several long-discussed infrastructure projects: a public-safety building, replacement of two fire stations, a new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 and a slew of road improvements to calm traffic on crowded Charleston/Arastradero roads intersection. The revenue surge also enabled the city to celebrate the completion of a

Pedestrians wait to cross California Avenue, where a number of local and chain restaurants are located. In 2015, the City Council created new restrictions for retail chains in the neighborhood. streetscape transformation on California Avenue; the renovation of Rinconada Library (the final project from a 2008 library bond); new playing fields at El Camino Park; and refurbished meeting rooms and lobby space at City Hall. But it’s the market’s excesses, rather than its virtues, that dominated the discussions in City Hall. The Palo Alto council, now equipped with five residentialists, spent much of 2015 considering an issue key to the slow-growth philosophy: preservation of the city’s “quality of life.” In that sense, the council’s success this year can be measured just as effectively by what didn’t happen in Palo Alto as by what did. For one thing, Palo Alto saw no “planned-community” projects — controversial developments that exceed zoning regulations but that win approval after promising to deliver negotiated “public benefits.” The most recent of these to win the council’s approval, a planned housing development on Maybell Avenue that included 60 apartments for low-income seniors and 12 market-rate houses, was shot down by the voters in 2013. The council then responded by suspending planned-community zoning, deeming it “broken.” The process of fixing it stalled this year and will surely reignite in 2016. In the meantime, all developments must comply with the zoning code. Even those projects that comply could find themselves facing new hurdles, thanks to the city’s new cap on office space, which the council crafted in the spring and adopted in September. Under the ordinance, new office and research-and-development projects in Palo Alto’s three prime commercial areas will collectively be limited to 50,000 square feet per year. If new development exceeds this threshold, individual projects will be scored against one another as part of a process described by council members as a “beauty contest.” In advocating for the office cap, Councilman Tom DuBois pointed to the booming commercial market and the city’s housing shortage, arguing on March 24 that the

“status quo is not working.” “We have to strike a balance and have a diversity of land use,” DuBois said.

hile “diversity” citywide may be a council goal, in the Joseph Eichler-developed neighborhoods of Greer Park North, Los Arboles and Royal Manor, uniformity is the greater prize. All three neighborhoods petitioned this year to ban new twostory homes from being built in their tracts. In applying for the zoning, called a single-story overlay, Eichler homeowners argued that the vertical growth is both killing the Eichler aesthetic and destroying their privacy. Opponents of the zone change, including several young families in Green Park North, argued that the restriction would deal a blow to their property rights and keep them from accommodating their expanding families. For the council, however, the will of the many trumped the property-rights argument of the few. The council first agreed to waive the application fee for the zoning applications and then approved the new ban in Greer Park North and Los Arboles (it will consider Royal Manor next year). The conflict between private rights and the public good also loomed large in the struggle over Buena Vista, the city’s only mobilehome park, which houses about 400 low-income residents in Barron Park. The market suggested that the land is underdeveloped and that the property owners could realize a sizable profit by redeveloping the land as high-end apartments. The Jisser family has been trying to do just that since 2012, when it first applied to close Buena Vista. But by a broad consensus, Palo Alto’s elected leaders, school officials and hundreds of residents from Barron Park and beyond argued that closing the mobile-home site would be a disaster, not just for the park’s roughly 400 residents but for the city at large. The closure, they argued, would make the city less diverse and take away a crucial

source of affordable housing in a city where “affordable housing” has become an oxymoron. Winter Dellenbach, founder of the grassroots group Friends of Buena Vista, highlighted the inherent conflict when she addressed the council in January. “It’s not just the rights of the property owners,” Dellenbach said. “It’s the rights of all these people.” While the council grudgingly upheld in May the Jisser family’s closure application, Councilwoman Liz Kniss told the gathered crowd, “We hope the door you feel has closed tonight will open another door very soon.” To bolster these hopes, the council pledged $14 million to an effort to buy the park from the Jissers (another $14 million was allocated by Santa Clara County). Yet the episode then took a disappointing turn: By fall, both the Buena Vista residents and the Jisser family filed lawsuits against the City, and the Jissers have indicated that they no longer wish to negotiate with the city over Buena Vista’s sale. For now, the mobile home park remains occupied by the residents.

alo Alto officials had far more success on other fronts in its battle against market forces. Recognizing the city’s soaring cost of living, the council voted unanimously in August to adopt a minimum-wage ordinance. In addition to raising the minimum wage to $11 an hour starting in January, the council also agreed to pursue further wage hikes with the goal of getting to $15 by 2018. Councilman Marc Berman said the higher wage might allow some low-earning employees to “move a little closer and commute not as far.” Similarly, the council determined that the free market can’t be trusted when it comes to retail shops. In the spring, the council passed an “urgency ordinance” banning the conversion of ground-floor retail stores into offices (The law was extended in June until April 2017). The vote followed the departure of several longtime restaurants and stores —

including Avenue Florist, Bargain Box, Jungle Copy, Shady Lane and University Art — in most cases because they were priced out. In some cases, like with the departed Mediterranean restaurant Zibibbo, offices moved in. “If you just say the economy will do what the economy wants, you’ll hurt retail vitality and you’ll hurt walkability and the ability of people who live in Palo Alto to shop in Palo Alto,” council watchdog Bob Moss said during an April hearing on the ground-floor-retail ordinance. A similar dynamic was in play in September, when the council passed a law regulating chain stores on California Avenue. Now, companies with 10 or more locations will have to get a special permit from the city before they can set up shop in the California Avenue area. These permits will have to be approved by the city and are subject to appeals from residents. “We don’t want retail and personal services to have to compete with today’s office (rental) rates and get driven out,” Councilman Pat Burt said during the September discussion.

here were other shifting dynamics and small victories for the council in 2015. By the end of the year, there was a general consensus that the city’s architectural-review process needs improvement, the city’s supply of housing should expand, and there’s still plenty of work to do on the city’s infrastructure. The city’s update of its guiding land-use document, the Comprehensive Plan, remains a work in progress, as it has for the past decade, despite the council’s pledge early in the year to devote particular attention to it. A long-desired system that would deliver ultra-high-speed Internet access throughout the entire city, known as “Fiber to the Premises,” remains a dream, despite yet another year of studies, public hearings and misplaced hopes. Progress on a “landmark” new bridge over U.S. Highway 101 that the council approved in March has stalled, with the council voting this month to reset the design process. And while the council this year selected a new future home for Palo Alto’s public-safety departments (a city-owned parking lot on Sherman Avenue), in reality, it will be years before that high-priority project is built. The year may have lacked big celebrations and defining moments, but for the busy council it was 12 months of compromise, consensusbuilding and some accomplishment around quality-of-life problems, notably the downtown parking crunch. In his recap of the year, Keene cited “an intervention kind of mood” in the city and said that 2015 gave everyone a chance to “catch our breath and see where we are.” After the tumultuous referendum of 2013 and the political upheaval of 2014, that may not have been a bad thing. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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communicated to all K-12 staff that compliance with the district’s homework policy — largely seen as unevenly implemented throughout the district — was not simply encouraged or recommended but required. The 15-hours-a-week limit was later expanded for students taking honors and AP classes at the high schools. Another requirement — that all secondary teachers use the district’s online system Schoology to post all course information, homework and grades — was included in a newly negotiated contract with the teachers union. This followed the airing of the Palo Alto teachers union grievance filed against Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann in November 2014, accusing her of violating the previous union contract by asking all teachers to use Schoology. In a sign of the times, and amidst repeated reports from students, parents and school-community members about long wait lists to see both on-campus and other counselors, the school board in March committed $250,000 to hire two new full-time mental-health therapists, one for each high school. The new hires serve primarily as coordinators (though they counsel as well) — providing much-needed bridges among each school’s myri-

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ad mental-health support services, programs and efforts. The school board nonetheless continued to receive feedback throughout the year about a spike in demand for counseling from students (alarming, but also a potentially positive sign that the heavy stigma around seeking help might be decreasing, some said). Philippe Rey, executive director of Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), the nonprofit organization that provides on-site counseling at the district’s middle and high schools, told the board in October that his organization is “trying to find ways to either reduce or completely eliminate a waitlist at the sites that we serve so when a student is in need of seeing us, then they can actually access the services.” The new year promises a renewed discussion of the high schools’ counseling models, and it could be the year that Gunn finally shifts away from its more traditional system and toward Paly’s teacher-adviser system. While staff has recommended the district convene a joint Paly-Gunn committee to investigate and recommend a new counseling model for implementation by fall of 2017, several school board members have indicated strong support for taking action sooner rather than later. Because of this year’s emotionally charged finger-pointing and desire for action in the midst of the suicide cluster early in the year, district staff and supporters became concerned that a typically well-supported parcel-tax increase would not pass this May. (In the end, it did, with a wide margin of 77 “yes” votes.) Despite the difficulties of the year, many saw a silver lining: a renewed focus on the social-emotional wellbeing of students in Palo Alto. “There has been a shift toward taking more responsibility for how the organization of life at

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Then Palo Alto Unified School District President Melissa Baten-Caswell, left, looks on as Superintendent Max McGee speaks during a March school board meeting. school affects the social-emotional well-being of students and how that in turn contributes to learning,” school board member Ken Dauber told the Weekly, reflecting on his first year in office. “This is an accomplishment in the sense that there’s been a shift in focus,” he said. “We have not yet, I think, made the kind of concrete changes that we need to make in order to deliver on that focus.” He pointed to high school counseling, implementation of the homework policy, use of Schoology, a discussion about the practice of academic laning, adoption of more project-based learning and an evaluation of the district’s teaching approach to mathematics as several examples of concrete changes. “That’s a project that should occupy the board and the superinten-

dent for several years,” Dauber said.

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n his first full school year, McGee made his mark on the district, eliciting numerous times from school board members the sentiment, “This is why we hired you.” For many, this was made clear with his Minority Achievement and Talent Development committee, which has been hailed for taking a renewed, meaningful stab at a longstanding problem. And unlike many district committees of past, this group’s ambitious recommendations, presented to the board in May, have not sat on a shelf but have been put into action throughout the district. (Key to watch in the new year will be the impact of

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a brand new equity coordinator, hired to oversee the implementation of the committee’s proposals and other related efforts.) Another critical group created by McGee, the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee, spent six months diving deep into enrollment data and trends, looking closely at schools’ capacity and preparing proposals for how to best address the student population in coming years. The enrollment committee will surely deliver the most-anticipated report of 2016 on whether the district should open a new elementary, middle and/or high school. The committee is set to present its final recommendations to the board in January. McGee also moved forward on issues near and dear to his heart: launching an independent research

Upfront and mentorship program for high school students; taking an inaugural group of those students to Singapore over spring break to conduct highlevel research in a university lab on topics like â&#x20AC;&#x153;identification of novel anti-biofilm compoundsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;twodimensional materials as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reactionâ&#x20AC;?; and starting an after-school coding program for disadvantaged students at Palo Alto software company Palantir. And the superintendent who vowed open, transparent communication would be one of his top priorities did deliver on that promise in some ways â&#x20AC;&#x201D; participating in a live call-in TV show less than two months into the job, hosting a live webcast with his staff, providing regular updates on investigations by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights at board meetings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but failed in others. His decision to ban academic classes during early-morning zero period at the two high schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; communicated in a message to students, staff and parents over spring break rather than during the full board discussion that was promised to students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; became one of the most controversial episodes of the year. (Gunnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then-school board representative, senior Rose Weinmann, called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;misguided paternalism.â&#x20AC;?) Gunn students in particular defended their right to choice and voice, expressing feelings of disenfranchisement and of being unheard by school leaders. Board

member Terry Godfrey told the Weekly that finding ways to incorporate studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opinions more broadly in district processes is a top priority for her in 2016. Some board members, primarily Camille Townsend, also criticized the lack of transparency around McGeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zero-period decision. It led to a discussion on the board about the superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authority, a theme that continued throughout the year. The topic emerged again in November, when the news leaked that McGee had helped to author a preliminary application for funding for a new secondary school without the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge. He and members of the enrollment task forceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secondary subcommittee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which in October presented a rousing early recommendation that the district look into opening an innovative, alternative 6-12 school at the Cubberley Community Center site â&#x20AC;&#x201D; teamed up with other parents and representatives from the Stanford University d.school to submit the proposal. The application was for early feedback from the XQ Super Schools Project, a national education-reform initiative launched by Palo Alto resident Laurene Powell Jobs. Looking forward to 2016, the board and superintendent have their hands full with scheduled discussions on enrollment, counseling, academic laning, a master plan for Cubberley and more. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an election year, with Ca-

mille Townsend nearing the end of her third term, Heidi Emberling (the new board president for the year) her first and Melissa Baten Caswell, her second. There are no term limits on the school board. Legal findings against district also look to be on the way in two sexual-harassment investigations at the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high schools by the Office for Civil Rights. McGee is currently in talks with the federal agency to work out draft resolution agreements, which will likely include monitoring stipulations, McGee has said. Monitoring can last two to three years, the agency told McGee, and can include obligations to send documents â&#x20AC;&#x153;in a timely manner,â&#x20AC;? updates on efforts like creating new policies or implementing extra staff training, as well as to allow site visits and interviews with staff and students. McGee told the Weekly he is not sure whether the process will result in findings or not for Palo Alto but that the Office for Civil Rights is â&#x20AC;&#x153;moving forward.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

School district: decisions made, decisions deferred Go: â&#x20AC;˘ New district policy to protect the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming students â&#x20AC;˘ Mental-health support for Asian-American students and families through partnership with nonprofit Asian Americans for Community Involvement â&#x20AC;˘ Groundbreaking for Palo Alto High School athletic center â&#x20AC;˘ Centers for Disease Control to study local suicide cluster â&#x20AC;˘ External review of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special-education department and services â&#x20AC;˘ Elementary mathematics curriculum pilot program â&#x20AC;˘ Mandarin immersion expansion to middle school â&#x20AC;˘ New communications, equity coordinators hired â&#x20AC;˘ Required use of Schoology by all teachers â&#x20AC;˘ Teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; required adherence to homework policy â&#x20AC;˘ Implementation of Minority Achievement and Talent Development committee recommendations â&#x20AC;˘ Pending recommendations for new school by Enrollment Management Advisory Committee

No go: â&#x20AC;˘ Academic classes during zero period â&#x20AC;˘ Continued employment of Paly English teacher Kevin Sharp â&#x20AC;˘ Continued employment of former Paly Principal Phil Winston

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Births, marriages and deaths Kathleen Meagher Kathleen Meagher, a former teacher and administrator in the Palo Alto school district, died on Dec. 15 in a scuba diving accident while in the Caribbean, her family said. She was 53. She was born on July 30, 1962, in Cheshire, Connecticut, where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1980. She then attended Boston College, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1984 with a major in education. Moving to California, she taught in Moreno Valley as a fourth-grade teacher and then in the Riverside Unified School District. Meanwhile she earned a master’s degree in educational counseling from California State University, San Bernardino. She first joined the Palo Alto Unified School District as a first-grade teacher at Fairmeadow Elementary School in 1995. While in the district, she studied and obtained a master’s degree in school administration from Santa Clara University in 2004. She then left Palo Alto to serve

as assistant principal at Los Altos High School but returned in 2007 to become Duveneck Elementary School’s principal. Three years later, she was promoted to director of elementary education, a position she held until 2014 when she left to become the director of secondary education for Arlington Public Schools in Arlington, Virginia. Former Palo Alto school district Superintendent Kevin Skelly told the Weekly she was a “wonderful educator, really thoughtful about what kids need, just really worked well with the other elementary principals in terms of building a sense of a learning community among the leadership.” Skelly mentioned in particular her work transforming professional development in the district. Meagher, along with professional learning coordinator Kelly Bikle and a team of teachers on special assignment (TOSAs), designed Powerful Practices, a day of learning for teachers with speakers and breakout sessions on everything from Common Core to mindfulness and technology. Her mother, Joan Meagher, told the Weekly that her daughter “went into administration because she felt that she could make more changes and be of more help to children,

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than just being in the classroom. ... But she did miss the kids.” Through her work in Palo Alto, Meagher met her partner, Ann Dunkin, the district’s former chief technology officer. They were living together in Washington, D.C., where Meagher was also working on her doctorate in education at the College of William & Mary. She is survived by her partner, Ann Dunkin of Washington, D.C.; her parents, Richard and Joan Meagher of Folsom, California; her sister, Sharon Meagher of Philadelphia; her brother, Rick (Angela) Meagher of Sacramento; two nieces, Alison and Andrea; and other extended family. A memorial service was held on Dec. 28 at the Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park, and another service will be held in Arlington in January. Memorial donations can be made to an endowment fund that Dunkin and her family are establishing at William & Mary School of Education. Checks can be sent to the College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1693, Williamsburg, VA 23187 (“In Memory of Kathleen Meagher” should be noted on the check).

BIRTH Mike and Jillian McNerney gave birth on Dec. 18 to a son, Aidan McNerney. He is the first child of the McNerneys, who reside in Palo Alto. They both are military veterans and now work locally in the technology industry.

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wisdom of horses road that’s ahead.” The women approached Stanford psychologist Dolores Gallagher Thompson, who studies the efficacy of different psychosocial efforts to reduce stress and improve the psychological status of people with dementia and those caring for them. “This project interested me a great deal because in this field there’s very little we can offer to early-stage patients and their caregivers,” said Gallagher Thompson, a research professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University School of Medicine. “We’re looking for a program that would really offer something to people in these early stages. They’re often very demoralized, and so are their care partners. They don’t think they have much to look forward to. “What we’re trying to show here is, ‘No, you can have a good quality of life.’ That’s the focus of dementia care — improving the quality of life — because we don’t have a cure.” According to 2015 data from the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5.3 million Americans have a diagnosis of dementia, and that number is projected to grow by 40 percent during the next decade. For Jacqueline Hartman, a co-founder and lead instructor at the Stanford Red Barn Leadership Program, “equine-guided education” for the dementia population

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an horses teach people with early-stage dementia useful lessons about how to cope with their disease? That’s the question behind a pilot project at Stanford University’s Red Barn, which recently hosted five early-onset dementia patients along with their caregivers for a series of workshops with horses. Foreseeing a tidal wave of dementia cases with the aging of the baby boomers, organizers hope to test whether equine therapy can counteract the feelings of isolation and hopelessness often experienced by newly diagnosed patients. If successful, the approach could be replicated in stables and barns across rural America, where there can be a shortage of organized services for families coping with dementia. The Connected Horse Project is the brainchild of Paula Hertel and Nancy Schier Anzelmo, both equestrians who have worked for decades in the senior services industry. The two have enlisted Stanford researchers to assess whether a three-week series of intensive interactions with horses could improve measures of depression, stress, quality of sleep and perceived social support among patients and caregivers alike. Results are still being analyzed but Hertel and Schier Anzelmo have tentatively planned a second round of workshops with new participants in 2016. “As equestrians, we know there’s a very real healing presence about horses,” Schier Anzelmo said. “We hope our project is a way the person with dementia and their care partner can learn coping skills, have an outlet for engagement and overcome stress, which can help them deal with the

Top: From left, project assistant Elke Tekin and project co-creators Paula Hertel and Nancy Schier Anzelmo attend a Connected Horse Project workshop on Nov. 9. Above: Paula Hertel, co-creator of the Connected Horse Project, interacts with one of the horses at Stanford University’s Red Barn. Left: A Connected Horse Project participant engages with a horse during an equine-guided support activity on Nov. 9.

being right next to the horse and touching the horse. “For me it was getting over some fear and lack of confidence dealing with horses,” Howard said. “I felt better and I could see it in other people, too. Maybe not everybody, but at least a few people, I thought I could see a change. They seemed to be more confident and seemed to have more joy in their life.” Howard’s wife and main caregiver, “Karen,” said the Stanford Barn sessions gave her a new perspective on her life situation. The couple has two sons, 11 and 13, one of whom has autism and is nonverbal. “We have two boys who are very active and require a lot of energy,” Karen said. “These sessions were an opportunity to really slow down and be present with my husband and share this experience together. My biggest message from the horses was that there’s nothing I need to do, nobody I need to take care of — they’re all fine. My job is to be with them, to love them, to love myself and to be present.” Hertel and Schier Anzelmo said the timing of the next cohort of the Connected Horse Project depends on funding. The two have begun an online fundraising campaign at GoFundMe (gofundme.com/ connectedhorse). “We’re looking for sponsorships,” Schier Anzelmo said. “We’re volunteers, doing this because we believe in it so much. If the pilot data shows what we’re hoping in the hypothesis, we’ll be able to do another study. But it’s brand new, and we’re not sure where it’s going.” Q Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

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seemed like a natural extension of similar work she has done with high-level executives and stressed high school students. “A lot of these (early-onset dementia patients) are hiding — they’re embarrassed and they don’t want their friends to know,” Hartman said. “But when you come here you don’t feel like your diagnosis. All of sudden we’re all the same, all working on our own skills.” Engaging with a 1,200-pound horse, she said, helps people gain confidence and relational skills — being able to share observations, and recognizing and showing empathy. “It can help give people the confidence that they can continue to try to do some of those things they did before this diagnosis,” Hertel said. “Howard,” who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago at age 50, participated with his wife in the fall round of equine workshops. (The names have been changed to protect the privacy of the couple and the research study.) “I’m not a really big horse guy and I carry a little bit of baggage from my youth with a horse stepping on my foot ... so I was a little bit scared from that experience,” he said. “But people including me, who aren’t horse people, were able to get out there and were able to be guide to a level where we could feel comfortable

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SING IN THE NEW YEAR ... The Moldaw Singers, a senior singing group made up of residents of the Moldaw Residences at the Oshman Family JCC, invites the public to its free winter concert with an international theme. Titled “Around the World in Eight Languages,” the concert will take place Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Moldaw Residences, 899 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto. The concert will feature solos and accompaniments by the full chorus as well as instrumental performances by a pianist and clarinetist and opportunities for audience participation. For more details and to RSVP, call 650-433-3629. EFFICIENCY AND COMFORT ... Palo Alto’s “Home Efficiency Genie” Scott Mellberg will discuss how residents can reduce their energy and water consumption while making their homes more comfortable in a free presentation on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2:30-4 p.m., at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Mellberg will discuss the hows and whys of home energy efficiency, and provide useful tips on how residents can improve their homes’ performance. MANAGING CHRONIC CONDITIONS ... Representatives from Stanford Health Care’s Aging Adult Services Program will hold a free, sixsession workshop titled “Better Choices, Better Health: Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program.” The workshops will be on Thursdays, 1-3:30 p.m., from Jan. 21 to Feb. 25 at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Topics will include techniques to deal with fatigue, pain and isolation; appropriate exercises for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility and endurance; appropriate use of medications; communication techniques; and how to evaluate new treatments. Each participant will receive a copy of the companion book, “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions” and an audio relaxation CD, “Relaxation for Mind and Body.” Space is limited. Call 650-289-5400 to register. Caregivers are also invited to register and attend.

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onnecting older adults to young entrepreneurs is the impetus behind a new Generations Lab to be announced by Avenidas in the coming month. The initiative by the Palo Alto senior services agency is aimed at helping seniors explore and use technology in ways that best work for them as well as aiding entrepreneurs trying to create technologies that support independence and

quality of life for older adults. “We see it as a matchmaking opportunity,” said Avenidas CEO Amy Andonian. With the themes of “explore, engage and shape,” the Generations Lab will meet seniors at whatever level they are ready to interact with technology, she said. Ultimately, the lab will find a home near the main entrance to Avenidas’s renovated and expanded

headquarters on Bryant Street, now in the planning stages. A model for the space, Andonian said, is the storefront Senior Planet Exploration Center in Manhattan, which hosts free classes, workshops, talks and social and cultural events for New Yorkers 60 and older. Until the new space is ready, the Generations Lab will take other forms, beginning with a Jan. 16 Tech Faire that is open to all ages

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n his essay, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Albert Camus famously analyzed the ancient Greek myth — that of a king brought low by the cruel punishment of a perpetually failed task — as a philosophy of absurdism. Though existence is absurd and futile, Camus concluded, “The struggle itself ... is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Now, I make no claims to royalty, but I can relate to the notion of a Sisyphean task when it comes to boiling down a year in cinema to a digestible list. Something in the neighborhood of 987 feature films played in American theaters this year. In the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s not uncommon for six or more movies to open in a given week. From these facts, I draw two conclusions. First: The task of compiling a top 10 list is absurd. Even this hard-working Friendly Neighborhood Film Critic only managed to see 24 percent of the year’s feature films. Besides, such lists are inherently deeply subjective, with no accounting for taste. Second: Top 10 lists, like weekly movie reviews, are useful tools to help the consumer

decide which films might justify the expenditure of her or his valuable time. Having seen a few hundred movies this year, perhaps I can shine a spotlight on some off-the-radar gems. “How on earth does one single out 10 films from among well over 200?,” you may well ask. The glib but true answer is that I agonize. The process wasn’t made any easier this year by the output of dozens of excellent but few truly great films. Two of the criteria that guide me — above the usual considerations of craftsmanship and creativity — are sociological importance and sheer entertainment value. Belly-laughs and thrills are not to be discounted, though they were in dishearteningly short supply from Hollywood dream-makers this year (yes, even “Star Wars” fell short of sublimity). Easier to come by were films that spoke to our sociopolitical struggles here and abroad—films that helped us see, understand, and begin to make sense of social catastrophe, political morasses and that greatest mystery of all: our selves.

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From the top: Kristen Wiig starred in “Welcome to Me,” a darkly hilarious satire for the Age of Narcissism. Cary Joji Fukunaga’s searing film, “Beasts of No Nation,” considered the devastating effects of war through the lens of a child soldier. Adam McKay’s dramedy, “The Big Short,” was one of the smartest and angriest movies to appear in theaters this year. Fatih Akin’s visually ravishing epic, “The Cut,” told the story of an Armenian-genocide survivor traversing the globe in search of his daughters. “Timbuktu” examined life gone wrong in Mali where Sharia law impacts the lives of ordinary people.

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Octogenarian documentarian (and top 10 perennial) Frederick Wiseman returns with another of his rigorous adventures in community and societal institutions, this time allowing us to be a fly on the walls and streets of one of America’s most culturally diverse neighborhoods, where 167 languages are spoken and hopeful immigrants proliferate. Our three hours spent with Wiseman in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York City don’t seek out “if it bleeds, it leads” or “sex sells” sensation. This is journalism of a higher order, letting us draw our own conclusions from remarkably unaffected subjects as they work or play, establishing footholds or holding fast to the best of life in a community threatened by corporate-fueled gentrification and bureaucratic challenges.

No comedy went for the jugular this year like Shira Piven’s “Welcome to Me.” This satire for the Age of Narcissism made the most of a darkly hilarious script by first-time-feature-screenwriter Eliot Laurence and a fearlessly funny performance from the do-no-wrong Kristen Wiig. Though Wiig’s character suffers from borderline personality disorder (admittedly dicey territory), Alice’s looking glass is universal to modern life: the screen as a vehicle for oversharing, spying, obsessing and generally refusing to accept a mere 15 minutes of fame. Reminiscent of classics like “Network” and “Being There,” “Welcome to Me” is the comedy to answer our cacophonous modern world of reality TV, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

9. ‘45 Years’ Writer-director Andrew Haigh has a knack for burrowing under the skin of those who lead lives of ostensible creature comforts but creeping emotional discomfort. Best known for “gay-themed” projects (the lovely film “Weekend” and the nearly departed HBO series “Looking”), Haigh here adapts David Constantine’s heterosexual-themed short story “In Another Country” to examine how a man and woman, poised to celebrate the titular anniversary, are forced by one bit of news to reexamine their entire history together, including the viability of their marriage. Haigh’s typically sensitive direction abets performances of heartbreaking personal and relational frailty from Charlotte Rampling and the unjustly neglected Tom Courtenay.

7. ‘Beasts of No Nation’ Cary Joji Fukunaga’s searing adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s novel considers the devastating effects of war on a people and their homeland and, more specifically, the phenomenon of child soldiers, seen here in an unnamed West African country. Fukunaga’s own dazzling cinematography never feels flashy; rather, it feels like the essential filmic language to evoke the horror of a boy’s journey from son to orphan to conditioned instrument of genocidal civil war. Shot through with incisive and heartfelt performances by Idris Elba and 14-year-old Abraham Attah, “Beasts” serves as a nightmarish psychological take rather than a literal political one, and as such stands out as one of the most potent, most purely cinematic films of the year. (continued on next page)

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Easily one of the smartest and angriest movies to appear in cineplexes this year, Adam McKay’s take on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book, “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” wielded star power and the backing of a major studio (Paramount) to good effect. The film made comprehensible to the average moviegoer what Bernie Sanders calls the “rigged economy”: the conditions that allowed the previous decade’s housing and credit crisis and that maddeningly persist today. The film’s Master-ofthe-Universe anti-heroic outliers (Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, et al) thrive by virtue of their superior education, their intellects and a bit of luck. Yet as they and we watch corporations and big banks somehow win the game, that old sinking feeling returns with a vengeance.

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From the top: Matthew Heineman’s documentary, “Cartel Land,” laid bare the pernicious influence of Mexican drug cartels. The story of a runaway robot, scifi actioner “Chappie” fell short of being bearable. In cliché-ridden “The Boy Next Door,” teen Noah (Ryan Guzman), went psycho when rejected by suburban mom Claire (Jennifer Lopez). No film of 2015 was more blithely offensive than “Little Boy,” a faith-based movie set in WWII. Harrison Ford returned as Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

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This year, the world woke up to the “European refugee crisis”: according to the UN Refugee Agency, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reached 59.5 million by the end of 2014. But German director (of Turkish descent) Fatih Akin walked ahead of this cultural curve with his astonishing and visually ravishing epic of an Armeniangenocide survivor (Tahar Rahim of “A Prophet”) traversing the globe in search of his daughters. Beginning in 1915, the story takes us from the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) to Lebanon, Cuba and the United States as one man meets seemingly endless despair — and the cruelties of natural and man-made borders — with unquenchable hope and love.

4. ‘Timbuktu’ This poetic French-Mauritanian drama from Abderrahmane Sissako (“Bamako”) won a nomination earlier this year for Best Foreign Language Film. In its subtle treatment of life gone wrong — in Mali circa 2012 — the specific (the erstwhile jihadist takeover by Ansar Dine) speaks to the general crisis of fundamentalism and the pernicious effects of social impositions like Sharia law on ordinary people like cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino) and his loving family. Rapturous photography compliments Sissako’s wedding of the literal and the symbolic as he observes resistance under occupation and irreversible tragedies of personal and cultural destruction.

3. ‘Cartel Land’ Matthew Heineman’s documentary about the war on drugs introduced us to vigilante groups and their semi-charismatic leaders on either side of the Mexican border while laying bare the pernicious influence of the Mexican cartels and their witting and unwitting sponsorship by limbs of the U.S. government. Tim “Nailer” Foley of the Arizona Border Recon and Dr José Mireles of the Autodefensas make fascinating anti-heroes, and the film’s jaw-dropping footage and elegant construction give maximum impact to the madness of the drug war.

2. ‘Democrats’ Danish documentarian Camilla Nielsson had the smarts and chutzpah to win amazing access to the drafting of and referendum around Zimbabwe’s new constitution (from 2010-2013) under the ongoing rule of strongman Robert Mugabe. This document of historical sausage in the making vividly characterizes the men behind the pens — Mugabe’s man Paul Mangwana and opposition party representative Douglas Mwonzora — especially in how the contentious and corrupted process eventually brought out surprising mutual respect.

And the best film of 2015 goes to:

1. ‘Chi-Raq’ The right film at the right time, Spike Lee’s latest is his most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years. A grabber from its opening sequence, a lyric video for Nick Cannon’s gut-punching “Pray 4 My City” (complete with a U.S. map graphic composed of assault weapons), Lee’s film reformats Aristophanes’ classical comedy, “Lysistrata” — of women withholding sex to force a truce — as a hopeful wail for our modern urban war zones. Lee and co-scripter Kevin Willmott audaciously employ verse dialogue for their combination of boisterous take-no-prisoners satire and poignant elegy for fallen African-Americans of yesterday, today and tomorrow, twinning a chant of “No Peace! No Piece!” with Lee’s career-long motto, “Wake Up!”

Runners-up “Horse Money,” “The Assassin,” “Queen of Earth,” “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” “Son of Saul,” “Girlhood,” “Spotlight,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “The Duke of Burgundy” and “Mr. Holmes.”

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This dimwitted DJ drama starring Zac Efron pumps up bad electronic dance music and empty visual flash, and in the process accidentally evokes one of those YouTube ads you skip after five seconds. Ninty-six minutes of watching Efron and his bros dream of crossing over the Hollywood hills gives new meaning to life in “the Valley.”

This idiotic cliché parade doesn’t even rise to camp value, despite telling the tale of suburban mom Claire (Jennifer “Jenny from the Block” Lopez) flinging with teen Noah (Ryan Guzman), who goes psycho when rejected. While it’s true no one can live without J. Lo without risking insanity, this toothless thriller couldn’t muster any thrills or even dare make what’s treated like a sexual “transgression” transgressive in the least (Claire is separated from her husband, and Noah’s a legal 19).

4. ‘Chappie’ They don’t come much more annoying than this Neill Blomkamp sci-fi actioner stitched together from the parts of vastly superior movies (like “Robocop” and “Frankenstein”). This story of a runaway robot might be bearable if you take a drink every time a slaphead yells “Chappie!,” but since that would send an inordinate number of readers to the hospital, I’ll just advise you stay away completely.

3. ‘Aloft’ This very serious, very dull adult drama from Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa wastes the time of actors Cillian Murphy and Jennifer Connolly, along with any indie-film fans unfortunate enough to give it a whirl. Two hours feel like two years, and given

And the worst film of 2015 goes to:

1. ‘Little Boy’ Though its official synopsis calls the film “an instant cinematic classic,” I disrespectfully disagree. No film this year was more blithely offensive than this faith-based one in its implication that Fat Man and Little Boy, the bombs that decimated Nagasaki and Hiroshima, are (perhaps literally) the answers to a seven-year-old boy’s prayers to bring his father home from WWII. Watching this film wrestle with its racial politics and confused theology is like watching a cat try to escape from a pile of yarn.

f course, there’s plenty more to remember beyond 2015’s highest highs and lowest lows. Read on for our take on the best good guys, the worst baddies, the top documentaries and the most magical animated movies.

The best heroes 5. Amy Poehler as Joy and Jennifer Lawrence as Joy Mangano in “Inside Out” and “Joy,” respectively (TIE) 4. Shaun the Sheep in “Shaun the Sheep Movie” 3. Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes in “Mr. Holmes” 2. Harrison Ford as Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 1. Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road”

The animated winners 5. “Shaun the Sheep Movie” 4. “When Marnie Was There” 3. “Anomalisa” 2. “Inside Out” 1. “Boy & the World”

The worst villains 5. The Bear in “The Revenant” 4. “It” in “It Follows” 3. The Hateful Eight in “The Hateful Eight” 2. Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

1. Michael Shannon as Rick Carver in “99 Homes”

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From the top: Michael Shannon played sinister real estate agent Rick Carver in “99 Homes.” One of the best documentaries of 2015, “The Look of Silence” told the story of an optician confronting the men who killed his brother during the 1960s Indonesian genocide. In the Brazilian animated film, “Boy & the World,” a young boy’s rural life was shattered when his father left for the city.

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tarting today, the first day of the new year, 32 percent of us will endeavor to eat a healthier diet, according to global survey website Nielson. Another 37 percent will vow to exercise more. Whether it takes a few weeks or a few months, however, resolve often falters. What happens to the promises we make to ourselves — the promises to lose weight, run a marathon or to cut back on the pinot noir? They’re easily lost to a busy life, lack of commitment and the lure of temptation. We’ve all been there. Is there any way to get resolutions to stick? “Successful change starts with making sure you are choosing the right goals, connecting to and feeding your deepest motivations to achieve them, and not sabotaging yourself, either before you begin or along the way,” said Linda Furness, a Palo Alto-based executive coach at Next Step Partners who works with corporate leaders at companies from Google to Bain Capital. Furness said she instructs clients to respect the complexity of the human psyche and to remember that behavioral change is not linear.

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She offered tips for supporting personal transformation: tips that are applicable to any New Year’s Resolution, from eating healthy to exercising more: 1. Connect to what is driving your goal. Why do you want this? Why is it important? 2. Envision success. What does it look and feel like?

3. Choose attainable goals. For example, rather than setting the goal of eating a strictly plant-based diet, choose to begin meals with a large salad. Instead of deciding to run a marathon, set the intention to walk more. 4. Change “I should” to “I want to.” When the resolutions we set are thought of as something we aught to do rather than something we choose to do, we push back. We don’t like being told what to do. All of this sounds wise. But how do we get started? Anna Rakoczy the co-founder and CEO of Homemade, believes changing our relationship with food can help us make healthier food choices. “Dieting is not the solution and never was,” said Rakoczy, whose Menlo Park-based company offers cooking classes that use nutritious, seasonal produce. “The answer is to love and reconnect with your food.” That process, Rakoczy believes, begins with home cooking using simple, fresh and healthy local ingredients. “Food needs to be full of nutrients,” Rakoczy explained during a recent interview. “What could be simpler than telling someone, ‘Just use whole ingredients, and listen to your hunger?’ We are inspired by thinking about how we can help a busy person who

Eating Out wants to cook and eat healthy food within 15-20 minutes. If it’s complicated, it’s just not practical for real life.” Rakoczy backs her beliefs up with science. According to Homemade’s website, “research from Harvard and Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health confirm what we already know in our hearts: Cooking and eating fresh meals at home is the key to sustainable weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. Home cooking is the only way to really control what goes into your body, from the quality of ingredients to portion sizes.” Home-cooked meals don’t have to be complicated, and they don’t have to take too much time, especially with the help of a slow-cooker or Crock Pot. Look for recipes featuring beans, grains, legumes and plenty of vegetables, with a bit of lean protein for the omnivores. If a slow-cooker isn’t your speed, try planning ahead and keeping meals to five fresh ingredients. One suggestion from Homemade is to sautée bell pepper, onion, rosemary, sausage and sweet potatoes. “People think ‘eating healthy’ is lettuce and broccoli,” Rakoczy said. “I love to show people you can have nuts, pasta and meat.” Right alongside our healthy eating goals are resolutions to be more active in the new year. Steven Rice, an independent

personal trainer who works with clients in Palo Alto’s parks, offers simple advice for improving fitness. “Move,” he said. “Move in every way. Walk, dance, swim. Stand instead of sit. Take up a sport.” Developing strength is important, too, he said. “It not only helps with weight loss — strength training helps you keep muscle while you lose fat. The result is not only much more healthful; your appearance will be better, too.” Like Rakoczy, Rice emphasizes the importance of choosing a new routine you actually like: “Do what you enjoy so you’ll stick with it.” If Dr. Rebecca Green from Peninsula Integrative Medicine in Palo Alto has anything to do with it, we’ll do our exercise outside. Green’s mission is to blend conventional medicine with evidence-based natural remedies and lifestyle strategies to return the body to balance. “Getting into nature, even if it’s a city park or your backyard, can have a great impact on stress reduction,” she said. “Natural light is much stronger, even in the shade, than the light we’re exposed to in offices.” And happiness counts. According to the U.S. News & World Report, when we’re happy, we’re more likely to make wise food choices. Stress

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Thank you donors As of December 23, 426 donors have donated $168,930; with match $337,860 has been raised for the Holiday Fund 32 Anonymous ...................... $9,990 New Donors David Labaree ............................. 200 Russell Evarts .............................. 300 Jocelyn Dong .................................. * Jonathan MacQuitty & Laurie Hunter .................... 1,000 Peter Beller ................................. 100 Daniel Chapiro ........................... 200 Timothy Wright ....................... 2,500 Anthony Cadena ......................... 50 Richard Ellson ............................. 100 Anne Houghteling ...................... 100 Ronold Morita ............................ 100 Barbara & Skip Shapiro ................... * Morton Maser ............................ 125 Jean Doble...................................... * Ellen Krasnow............................. 250 Charles Katz ............................... 500 Weil Family ................................. 250 Lynnie & Joe Melena....................... * Barbara Allen.............................. 100 Charles & Barbara Stevens .............. * Judy Ousterhout ............................. * Matt Glickman & Susie Hwang ... 500 Sally Hewlett............................ 2,000 Guy & Janet DiJulio......................... * Paul & Maureen Roskoph ........... 100 Harriet & Gerald Berner .............. 300 Diane & Harry Greenberg ........... 500 Dan & Lynne Russell ....................... * Marc & Margaret Cohen ............ 100 John Tang ....................................... * Joanne Koltnow ......................... 300 Kathleen & Tony Hughes ............ 500 George & Ruth Chippendale .......... * Marilyn Slater ................................. * Claire & Ed Lauing ...................... 250 Cathy & John Fisher ...................... 75 Glenn & Lorna Afﬂeck ................ 100 In Memory Of Maria Serpa .................................. 25 Don & Marie Snow ..................... 100 Ted Linden .................................. 200 Leonard Ely ................................. 250 In Honor Of Susan & Carl Thomsen ............... 100 Barnea-Smith Family ...................... * Terry Shuchat’s birthday .................. * Syrian refugees ............................... * As a Gift For Roy Blitzer ...................................... * Organizations Carl King/Mayﬁeld Mortgage ......... * deLemos Properties .................... 200 Previously Published Donors Annette Isaacson ........................ 100 Arden King ..................................... * Hoda Epstein .................................. * Dennis Kreiss ................................ 50 Diane & Brandy Sikic................... 250 Colleen Anderson ....................... 250 Debra Satz .................................. 150 John DeVries............................ 2,000 Dorsey & Katherine Bass ............. 500 John & Nancy Cassidy.............. 1,000 Steve & Gayle Brugler .............. 1,000 Richard Johnsson ..................... 7,000 Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak .. 500 Susan & Harry Dennis ................... 50

Jim Lewis ........................................ * Shirley Ely ................................... 500 Scott & Sandra Pearson .............. 500 Margot Goodman .......................... * Eugene & Mabel Dong ............... 200 Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier ........... * Robert & Constance Loarie ............. * Bobbie & Jerry Wagger ................... * David & Virginia Pollard .............. 300 Fred & Deborah Kurland ............. 300 Harry & Susan Hartzell ................ 250 Lawrence Naiman ....................... 100 Jacqueline Rush .......................... 200 Carolyn Williams & Mike Keeler...... * Jody Maxmin .................................. * Mary Jackman ................................ * Amy Harris & Joss Geiduschek .... 100 Susan Elgee & Steve Eglash ........ 500 Robert & Betsy Gamburd ................ * Gil & Gail Wooley ....................... 200 Nick & Betsy Clinch..................... 250 Ted & Frances Jenkins ................... 75 Barbara Sawyer .............................. * Tom & Patricia Sanders ................... * Mary Ann Webb ......................... 100 Bjorn & Michele Liencres ......... 1,000 Lee Sendelbeck............................... * Andrea Smith ............................. 100 Ann Reisenauer .......................... 100 Dena Goldberg ........................... 500 Michell Rosen ............................... 50 Ed & Linda Selden....................... 200 Janice Bohman & Eric Keller........ 250 Mary Lemmon ....................... 10,000 Bob & Edie Kirkwood ................. 500 Larry Breed ................................. 100 Judy & Lee Shulman ....................... * Lani Freeman and Stephen Monismith ..................... * Constance Crawford .................. 750 Eleanor Settle ................................. * Nancy Moss .................................... * Mike & Ellen Turbow .................. 250 David & Lynn Mitchell ................. 300 Marcia & Michael Katz.................... * Mike & Lennie Roberts ............... 150 John & Florine Galen ...................... * Micki & Bob Cardelli ....................... * Felecia Levy................................. 150 Veronica Tincher ......................... 100 Elizabeth Kok ................................. * Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan ..1,000 Sue Kemp................................... 250 Charles & Jean Thompson .............. * Luca & Mary Caﬁero ....................... * Fran Codispoti & Ken Schroeder .. 500 David & Diane Feldman ........... 1,000 Ellmann Family ............................. 50 Mr. & Mrs. John McLaughlin....... 100 Bill Reller......................................... * Lodato Family ............................. 500 Anne & Don Vermeil....................... * Beth & Peter Rosenthal ............... 300 Carolyn Brennan ............................. * Linda & Ed DeMeo ..................... 150 Diane & Stephen Ciesinski .......... 500 Judith Appleby ........................... 200 Virginia Fehrenbacher ................. 100 Margaret & Les Fisher ................. 200 Judith & Hans Steiner ..................... * Ted & Ginny Chu ............................ * Don & Dee Price ........................... 40 Ron Wolf .................................... 100 Rathmann Family ............................ * Ken & Michele Dauber ............... 500 Amanda Steckler ........................ 500 Steve Eglash ............................... 500 Teresa Godfrey............................ 250 Sonya Bradski ............................. 100 Cora Schmid............................... 100 Duane Bay .................................. 100 Sarah Longstreth ........................ 100 Anna Sedello .............................. 100 Sarah Holt .................................... 50 Loren Gordon ............................... 50 Zack Steinkamp ............................ 50 Jennifer Carrico ............................ 50

Tyler Scott ..................................... 50 Tracy Rawlings .............................. 50 Simon Blake-Wilson...................... 50 Natasha Parrett ............................. 25 Prarthna Advani............................ 25 Salim Fedel ................................... 25 Nadeshda Vargas .......................... 25 Shari Fanit .................................... 25 Christine Blasey ............................ 25 Peter Engar ................................... 25 Cecilia Ward ................................. 25 Wendy Eilers ................................. 25 Robyn Duby.................................. 25 Raminder Bajwa ........................... 25 Christine Klenow .......................... 25 Allen Lucas ................................... 25 Joshua Wortzel ............................. 25 Ashley Tsien .................................. 25 Courtney Behm ............................ 25 Sophia Trinh Ngo .......................... 25 Kori Shaw ..................................... 25 Adam Cain ................................... 25 Susan Kim .................................... 25 Minka Vanderzwaag..................... 25 Andrew Dimock ........................... 25 Nadja Breitenstein ........................ 25 John Miaulllis ................................ 25 Gaspard Van Koningsveld ............. 25 Corey Doermann .......................... 25 Peter Wang .................................. 25 Jan Bridgham ............................... 25 Judi Lachenmyer ........................... 25 Laurie Winslow ............................. 25 Sally Maynard ............................... 25 Melissa Morwood ......................... 25 John Myers ................................... 25 Don Kenyon ................................. 25 Yumi Ando ................................... 25 Elizabeth Cowie............................ 25 Joseph Schertler ........................... 25 Kathy McKennan .......................... 25 Sabine Kabel-Eckes ....................... 25 Karen Zak ..................................... 25 Elizabeth Petit ............................... 25 Christine Gandel........................... 25 Thompson Gawley ....................... 25 Nancy & Richard Alexander ..... 1,000 Betty Gerard ............................... 100 John & Mary Schaefer ................ 100 Amy Renalds .................................. * Steve & Mary Chapel ...................... * Ron Wolf .................................... 100 Eileen Brennan ........................... 300 Stephanie Martinson ...................... * Richard Mazze ............................ 150 Keith & Linda Clarke ................... 200 Helen Feinberg ........................ 5,000 Bonnie Berg................................ 150 Denise Savoie & Darrell Dufﬁe ........ * Thomas Rindﬂeisch ......................... * Cynthia Costell ........................... 100 Kieschnick Family............................ * Stauffer Family............................ 500 Nancy Steege ............................. 100 Shiela Johansson ........................ 100 Diane Doolittle ............................... * Caroline Hicks & Bert Fingerhut ... 250 Karen & Steve Ross ......................... * Helene Pier ..................................... * Robyn Crumly................................. * Vic & Norma Hesterman ................. * Don & Bonnie Miller ................... 100 Don & Adele Langendorf ............ 200 Jerry & Linda Elkind ........................ * Ann & Don Rothblatt...................... * Al & Joanne Russell..................... 300 Patricia Levin............................... 100 Sallie & Jay Whaley ......................... * Cathy & Howard Kroymann........ 250 Dennis Clark ............................... 100 Solon Finkelstein......................... 150 Barbara Millin ............................. 300 Gwen Luce & Family ....................... * Ellen & Tom Ehrlich ..................... 300 Scott Wong ................................ 200 Marc Berman.............................. 100 Susan Pines................................. 100

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Movies stays true to the franchiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s universe while establishing new characters capable of winning young hearts. The big innovation is to focus the story on a young woman, Rey (Daisy Ridley), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfortable behind a blaster and the controls of the Millennium Falcon. If Rey is the new Luke, pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and new recruit Finn (John Boyega) are the new Han, super-cute BB-8 is the new droid and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is the new Darth Vader â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a twist. We also get ample screen time from Solo (Harrison Ford) who still has chemistry with Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), plus General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), C-3PO and R2-D2. Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best thing about â&#x20AC;&#x153;TFAâ&#x20AC;? and nails all the best lines, while the new cast performs admirably. The story can be obvious, and visual effects and production design remain the franchiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most convincing claims to artistry. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence. Two hours, 15 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P.C. (Reviewed Dec. 18, 2015)

The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: Star Wars: The Force Awakens 000 If you like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Warsâ&#x20AC;? at all, you need to see J.J. Abramsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 30-years-later sequel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Wars: The Force Awakens,â&#x20AC;? which

Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Friday & Saturday 1/1 & 1/2 Carol â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:00, 7:00 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00, 9:45 Sun thru Thurs 1/3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1/7 Carol â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:00, 7:00 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00 Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com

MOVIE TIMES In the Heart of the Sea 000 Former cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) recalls the horrors of the whaling vessel Essex to Herman Melville in the fact-based drama, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Heart of the Sea.â&#x20AC;? Ron Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film mostly unfolds aboard the Essex, circa 1820. First Mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) smolders after his promised captainship goes to inexperienced corporate scion George Pollard Jr. (Benjamin Walker). Desperate for a successful oil haul, the crew chases a pod of whales in the South Pacific, despite warnings of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;demonâ&#x20AC;? among them. There, they encounter the rumored great whale, and business concerns turn to a struggle for survival. The action is more visceral than comprehensible, but the well-suited cast performs admirably. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and peril, brief startling violence and thematic material. Two hours, 1 minute. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P.C. (Reviewed Dec. 11, 2015)

All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (PG) Century 16: 9:15 & 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 9:50 a.m., 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30 & 10 p.m. The Big Short (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 1:20, 2:45, 4:25, 7:30, 9:15 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 9:50 & 11:35 a.m., 1:05, 2:45, 4:05, 5:50, 7:15, 8:50 & 10:25 p.m. Brooklyn (PG-13) +++1/2 Carol (R)

Palo Alto Square: 4 & 7 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Concussion (PG-13) Century 16: 11:10 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 8 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m. Creed (PG-13) +++

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

Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home (PG-13) Century 16: 9 & 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 9:55 a.m., 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8 & 10:35 p.m. The Danish Girl (R) Aquarius Theatre: 1:15, 4, 4:45, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m. The Good Dinosaur (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:05 & 11:35 a.m., 2:05 & 4:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. The Hateful Eight (R) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 3:10, 7 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 2:50, 6:45 & 10:25 p.m. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:40, 3:50, 7:10 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 3:30, 6:50 & 10:05 p.m. Joy (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:55 & 11:25 a.m., 12:55, 4, 6:05, 7:20 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 12:45, 1:35, 4:35, 6:25, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (Not Rated)

Aquarius Theatre: Sun 11 a.m.

Point Break (PG-13) Century 16: 1:15 & 7:35 p.m. In 3-D at 10:10 a.m., 4:15 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 1:30 & 7:20 p.m. In 3-D at 10:30 a.m., 4:30 & 10:20 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R)

Guild Theatre: Sat 11:59 p.m.

Sisters (R) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:05, 3:55, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 10 & 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 3:40, 5, 7:50, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m. Spectre (PG-13)

Century 16: 7:15 & 10:40 p.m.

Spotlight (R) +++1/2

Palo Alto Square: 1 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9 & 10:20 a.m., 12:20, 3:40, 7 & 10:20 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:40, 8:20 & 11:40 p.m., Sun 8:40 p.m. In 3-D at 9:40, 11 & 11:40 a.m., 1, 2:20, 3, 4:20, 5:40, 6:20, 7:40, 9, 9:40 & 11 p.m., Fri & Sat 5 p.m. & 12:20 a.m., Sun 2 & 5:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 12:20, 1:25, 2, 3:40, 4:45, 5:20, 6:30, 7, 8:10, 8:40 & 10:20 p.m. In 3-D at 10:05, 11:15 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 3:10, 5:55, 9:15 & 9:50 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 9:45 a.m., 12:50, 4:15, 7:35 & 10:50 p.m. In D-BOX at 12:20, 3:40, 7 & 10:20 p.m. In 3-D D-BOX at 11:15 a.m., 2:35, 5:55 & 9:15 p.m.

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Trumbo (R) +++

Aquarius Theatre: 7:30 & 10:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:45 p.m.

Youth (R) +1/2

Guild Theatre: 1, 4, 7 & 9:40 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) CinĂŠArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) ON THE WEB: Additional movie reviews and trailers at PaloAltoOnline.com/movies

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL AND STANDING COMMITTEE CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS JANUARY 4, 2016, 2015 6:00 PM

Special Orders of the Day 1. Election of the 2016 Mayor 2. Election of the 2016 Vice Mayor 3. Adoption of a Resolution Expressing Appreciation for Outstanding Public Service to Mayor Karen Holman

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Home&Real Estate Home Front

VEGGIE DINNER ... Enjoy velvety carrot-ginger soup, polenta cakes, Italian lentil stew, oatmeal snickerdoodles and more at next week’s Monday Night Vegetarian Dinner on Monday, Jan. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Ave., Palo Alto. This week features a New Year Comfort Foods menu prepared by chefs Michael Bauce and Marta Serda. Anyone is welcome to come and dine for $19.98. Guests must register by Monday at 9:30 a.m. Info: 650-599-3320 or yourhealthandjoy.com/dinners NEIGHBORHOOD STROLL ... Walk through Barron Park and learn about the trees on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 10 a.m. to noon. The tree walk begins at Cornelis Bol Park, near the intersection of Laguna Avenue and Laguna Court. Canopy staff and an expert arborist will lead the free, two-hour walk. Participants will learn about local tree specimens, including how to identify them and their historical context. In addition, experts will answer questions and share tree selection and care advice. Canopy asks that participants RSVP online before the tree walk. For those interested but unable to attend this tree walk, Canopy offers self-guided tour information for Barron Park and more than 10 other neighborhoods and local sites. Info: canopy.org/ about-trees/canopy-tree-walks ALL ABOUT THE BEES ... Learn about beekeeping on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2-4 p.m., at Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. The Homesteading 101 course offers information for new and avid beekeepers, or apiarists. Gwyn Murray, who will be teaching the course, has been gardening and beekeeping for many years and looks forward to sharing her knowledge. She will cover basic bee biology, hive anatomy, hive behavior and more. Tickets can be purchased online and range from $30 to $50. Info: eventbrite.com/e/ homesteading-101-beekeepingtickets-18062221591

A Fresh Look

Creating a beautiful bookcase

‘B

ooks do furnish a room,” according to 20th-century novelist Anthony Powell. There’s nothing like a collection of well-loved books to give your home a cozy and comforting feeling. But when your bookcases become a chaotic array of binders, loose papers and outdated textbooks it’s time to take action. Why not transform your bookshelf from an overstuffed eyesore into an integral part of your decor?

The three-step process When you have a lot of books, and you can’t bear to let any of them go, you’re in a bind (so to speak). But you can keep your books and present them attractively, if you’re willing to compromise. Creating a designer-like display of your books is a three-

by Kit Davey

step process: weeding out, varying stacking techniques and adding accessories. Weed out. For true book lovers, the first step may Kit Davey hurt. If your bookcases are stuffed, you’ll need to liberate a quarter to one third of them to give your shelves an orderly and pleasing look. If you can’t bear to let a single tome go, you’ll need to buy or scrounge up another bookcase to handle the overflow from this process. (Hang on! In my next column, I’ll share alternative places to store and display your books.) You’ll be removing every book

SANDBAG ASSISTANCE ... Participate in the City of Palo Alto’s sandbag installation adviser pilot program, which aims to educate residents on sandbag placement around homes. Residents can contact the Public Works/Public Services Division at 650-496-6974 to schedule an appointment or learn more about the program. Adviser appointments will be available until Sunday, Jan. 10. Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email bmalmberg@paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

Interior designer Kit Davey’s three-step process can transform a bookcase into an integral part of a room’s decor.

from the shelves and deciding whether or not to keep it. Set up a few boxes for sorting and label them “give to library,” “return to owner,” “garage sale,” etc. Be ruthless in sorting! As you pull each volume off the shelf, ask yourself if you’ve touched it in the past two years, whether the information is current and if you’ll honestly ever read it again. Set aside binders, spiral-bound books and loose papers for storage on a closet shelf, or in an office bookcase. If you must keep this printed material handy, buy attractive storage boxes that you can place back on the shelf. Vary your stacking. Once you’ve narrowed your collection down to books you want to keep, it’s time to restack them on the shelves. As you are re-positioning the volumes, leave openings between groups of books. The openings make the bookcase less overpowering and may also be used to display accessories. Select three or four arrangements and repeat them, standing back occasionally to judge the overall balance of the groupings. Try alternating several of these stacking techniques: • Fill a shelf two-thirds full and leave “airholes” on either side. • Place a graduated stack of books in the center with books lined up on either side. • Fill the shelf two-thirds full and use a flat stack of books as a book end. • Fill a complete row with books, or leave an entire shelf open to display a collection. Once you have a balanced placement of books and open-

ings, line up the spines of the books. You might have to pull a few smaller books away from the back of the shelf, but your books will look more orderly and tidy. Accessorize. The openings between groupings of books are ideal for displaying your treasures. Go on a treasure hunt throughout your home looking for objects that reflect the feel, theme and color scheme of the room. These could include teapots, vases, sculpture pieces, musical instruments, boxes, baskets, pottery, framed art or photographs. When selecting and placing your accessories, keep a few guidelines in mine: • Don’t clutter up the space with too many or meaningless chatchkas. A few truly beautiful objects that have meaning for you will have more impact. • Keep collections together. • Use the back of the bookcase; hang a mask, plate, fan, or framed piece of art. • Group things in odd configurations and keep the tallest item towards the rear. Q Kit Davey, Allied Member A.S.I.D., is a Redwood Citybased interior designer who redecorates using what you already own. Email her at kitdavey@aol.com, call her at 650-367-7370 or visit her website, afreshlook.net.

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1160 Channing Ave. install Level 2 Tesla charger and upgrade main panel from 100 amps to 200 amps in the same location, $n/a 800 High St., Unit #118 expand scope of work to include kitchen remodel, replace counters and cabinet tops, $n/a 3500 Deer Creek Road relocate two sets equipment at 26 lower, $24,000 1008 Amarillo Ave. residential service upgrade from 100 amps to 125 amps in the same location because of unsafe conditions, $n/a 1117 California Ave. commercial sewer line replacement, trenchless, no work in the public row, $n/a 274 Tennessee Lane remove two windows from scope and add three skylights, adding shower to bathroom, change beam design in living room area, change to strong wall, $n/a 809 Cowper St. remodel of second floor unit: work includes kitchen and bathroom remodel, revise lighting, replace windows, $20,000 150 University Ave. Amber Dhara: red-tagged gas leak repair, $n/a 437 Webster St. Lytton Gardens: electrical service upgrade, relocate existing electric meter and new vault, $200,000 1810 Embarcadero Road landlord improvement of common area bathroom core on the first floor, $105,000 842 Guinda St. furnace replacement in the same location, $n/a 180 Walter Hays Drive remodel three bathrooms within the existing footprint, $18,117 941 Webster St., Unit 680 front half of Building 4, Unit 680: re-roof, $6,467 3672 Evergreen Drive copper re-pipe of first floor and in crawl space, $n/a 477 Everett Ave. garage re-roof, $4,270

152 Ferne Court remodel two bathrooms, $8,000 2590 Ross Road furnace replacement same location, $n/a 2500 El Camino Real install 36 solar water collectors on roof and install solar storage tank in mechanical room, $n/a 3204 Greer Road swap plumbing in new restroom, $n/a 2083 and 2087 El Camino Real service upgrade to 100 amps for each unit, $n/a 423 Chaucer St. remove/replace water heater, $n/a 2108 Bellview Drive remodel, includes kitchen relocation, new bedroom, dining and family room, $74,000 941 Webster St., Unit 688 front half of Building 4, Unit 688: re-roof, $6,467 2600 E. Bayshore Road re-roof, $43,000 75 Tulip Lane re-roof, $13,545 116 Monroe Drive re-roof and replace gutters, $14,248 120 Park Ave. replace furnace in basement and all new ductwork, $n/a 2718 Gaspar Court replace furnace, $n/a 580 Newell Road installation of a gas insert and add an outlet, $n/a 4059 Wilkie Way new furnace in the attic and eight duct outlets, $n/a 939 Celia Drive re-roof, $7,434 1063 Embarcadero Road singlestory addition to single-family home and complete remodel, $229,898 347 Ramona St. omit center of building footing and omit pad footing from scope of work, change footings from T-footing to L-footing and new helical piers, $n/a 1063 Embarcadero Road temporary power, $n/a 920 Hamilton Ave. garage re-roof, remove existing canopy and replace with open pergola attached to garage, $30,000 1856 Ash St. condo kitchen remodel, $9,000 1850 Fulton St. install Level 2 EVSE on side garage, $n/a

264 Scripps Court installation of a gas insert and add an outlet, $n/a 463 Lytton Ave., Apt. C re-roof, $4,527 500 University Ave. revised structural beam design for less deflection, $n/a 382 Curtner Ave. inspect lighting transformers and wiring before they are covered with a clear plastic, straightening and reattaching roof vents, repair roof corners, $1,250 619 Tennyson Ave. spot repair sewer, $n/a 1447 Byron St. framing change to one wall and truss calculations deferred submittal, $n/a 755 Page Mill Road, A Morrison & Foerster: electrical for illuminated sign, $n/a 2246 Saint Francis Drive remodel, includes conversion of bedroom to entry and associated work, $25,000 261 Hamilton Ave., Suite #130 electrical for two illuminated signs, $n/a 875 La Para Ave. re-roof, $12,000 3059 Louis Road revise foundation to shift piers away from the property line and raise the height of the building by 18 inches, $n/a 456 Ferne Ave. dedicated gas line for firepit, $n/a 229 Hamilton Ave. use and occupancy and tenant improvement for Pace Gallery, $190,000 535 Ramona St. temporary service, includes work changed so the following will be under a separate permit: commercial electric service upgrade, 10 new subpanels and the removal of one existing exterior planter, $11,500 1270 Lincoln Ave. install tankless water heater in closet, $n/a 900 Varian Way add AC split system dedicated circuit, $n/a 1050 Page Mill Road tenant improvement for existing tenant, Machine Zone, on the first floor, consists of new partitions for conference rooms and storage rooms, $180,445 954 Roble Ridge residential EVSE: NEMA 14-50, $n/a

Your Realtor and You Local REALTOR® District Recognizes Members In December, the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) Palo Alto District celebrated the holidays and this year’s accomplishments with a special breakfast and holiday music provided by San Francisco Bay Area handbell musicians Larry and Carla Sue. The REALTOR® annual holiday breakfast is a great opportunity for members to celebrate the end of a successful year and enjoy the holiday season among friends and colleagues, with good music and food. 2015 Palo Alto District Chair Robert Reid and District Chair-elect Amy Sung thanked the 60 members gathered at Avenidas Senior Center for their support all year. They especially thanked the district’s affiliates for sponsoring the monthly tour meetings and events during the year. Each year the local REALTOR® district recognizes outstanding members for their service and support. This year’s awards went to Sara Spang (Keller Williams Realty), Service of the Year; Joan Chintz, Spirit of the Year; Nancy Goldcamp, Service to Community; Larry Tringali (Property Inspection Service), Affiliate of the Year. District Chair Robert Reid (Keller Williams Realty) was named Palo Alto District’s REALTOR® of the Year. The 2015 REALTOR® district council members were recognized. The council included Reid, District Chair; Jeff Beltramo, Past Chair and RSVP; Amy Sung, Chair-elect and LGR (Local Government Relations); Sara Spang, Education; Jane Volpe, Membership; Larry Tringali, Affiliate; and Joan Chintz, Social Events.

Members of the 2016 District Council and the committees they will chair this year are Amy Sung, District Chair and LGR; Robert Reid, Past Chair; Bob Gerlach, Broker/Manager; Nicole Aissa, Education; Sara Spang, Membership; Jimmy Kang, Affiliate; Kyle Else, Tour Policy and Sign Ordinance; and Jeff Beltramo, Anita Gat, Ling Lau, Elizabeth Elliott Maulick, Lisa Wittkopf, and Caroline Wong, Members At-large. Reid also conveyed the district’s gratitude and appreciation to this year’s Fall Fling event sponsors: DeLeon Realty, Pacific Union, Sereno Group, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Alain Pinel Realtors, Keller Williams Realty, Caroline Wolf – Princeton Capital; Robert and Myrna Reid, Keller Williams Realty; Leanne Burnfield, Fidelity Home Warranty and Disclosure Source. Donations in kind were provided by Darrell Monda, TourFactory; Chris Grammar, Allied Brokers; Robert and Myrna Reid, Keller Williams Realty; and Marcie Wilson, graphic designer. Palo Alto District is one of five REALTOR® districts belonging to the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. The district has a membership of 532 REALTORS® and affiliated professionals. *** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 611256 The following person(s)/registrant(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): LUMO LLC Hanahaus, 456 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 08/03/2015 UNDER FILE NO. 607698 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): BRIAN MURRIHY 2440 Massachusetts Ave., Unit 25 Cambridge, MA 02140 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 18, 2015. (PAW Dec. 11, 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) GENIUS KIDS PA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611612 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Genius Kids PA, located at 569 San Antonio, Ave., 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): KARER CDC, LLC 13 Canepa Ct. Redwood City, CA 94062 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/11/12. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 1, 2015. (PAW Dec. 11, 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) ROS BUILDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611641 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ros Builder, located at 867 Birch Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): RENE ORELLANA SALAZAR 867 Birch Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 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 December 2, 2015. (PAW Dec. 11, 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) MARINUS CONSULTING, LLC GOURMET SPECIALITIES, LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611093 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Marinus Consulting, LLC, 2.) Gourmet Specialities, LLC, 830 Stewart Drive, Suite 121, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, 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): WAVEFORM ENTERPRISES, LLC 830 Stewart Drive, Ste. 121 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/28/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 12, 2015. (PAW Dec. 11, 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) MEDICAL MASTER CLASSES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611784 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Medical Master Classes, located at 200 Sheridan Ave. #404, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MARY LIS URUENA 200 Sheridan Ave. #404 Palo Alto, CA 94306

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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 December 7, 2015. (PAW Dec. 11, 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) SILICON VALLEY PENINSULA ROTARACT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611774 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Peninsula Rotaract, located at 250 Stratford Place, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Unincorporated association other than a partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JUSTIN TAIT 250 Stratford Place Los Altos, CA 94022 MICHAEL CONDON 1051 Cascade Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant 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 December 7, 2015. (PAW Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 2016) LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611690 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: La Bodeguita Del Medio, located at 463 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CHINCOTEAGUE INVESTMENT GROUP, LLC 463 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on July 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 4, 2015. (PAW Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 2016) AMAR REALTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612005 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amar Realtor, located at 505 Hamilton Ave. #100, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MURAHARI AMARNATH 505 Hamilton Ave. #100 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/7/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 14, 2015. (PAW Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 2016) 1025 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611832 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1025 Terra Bella Associates, located at 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HAURY PROPERTIES, LLC 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/1/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 8, 2015. (PAW Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 2016) NextFlex Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute FHE-IMI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611936 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) NextFlex, 2.) Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute, 3.) FHE-IMI, located at 3081 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FlexTech Alliance, Inc. 3081 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134 Registrant began transacting business

under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/1/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 10, 2015. (PAW Dec. 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2016) GIG CRICKET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612044 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: GIG Cricket, located at 1111 Story Road, Unit 1077, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GIG TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLC 1225 Judah St. San Francisco, CA 94122 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/16/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 15, 2015. (PAW Dec. 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2016) 1 ACCEPTANCE TESTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612019 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1 Acceptance Testing, located at 4410 Casa Madeira Ln., San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAUL SMITH 4410 Casa Madeira Ln. San Jose, CA 95127 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/09/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 14, 2015. (PAW Dec. 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2016) Flight VC Flight Ventures FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 611985 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Flight VC, 2.) Flight Ventures, located at 2625 Middlefield Rd. #880880, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): UPRISING CAPITAL, LLC 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880 Palo Alto, CA 94306 GIL PENCHINA 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/01/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 11, 2015. (PAW Dec. 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JUDITH ANN DeMARCO aka JUDITH A. DeMARCO Case No.: 1-15-PR-177677 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JUDITH ANN DeMARCO aka JUDITH A. DeMARCO. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MICHAEL J. DeMARCO in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: MICHAEL J. DeMARCO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 8, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N.

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First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Pauline R. Reimer Earle & Reimer a Professional Corporation 16190 Los Gatos Blvd., Ste. 100 Los Gatos, CA 95032 (408)358-5051 (PAW Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016) 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 1/7/2016 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: $26,793.66 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: 12/11/2015 United Trustee Services For Sales Information Please Call (916) 939-0772 Edna Kogut, Small Claims Specialist / Trustee Officer NPP0266863 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 12/18/2015, 12/25/2015, 01/01/2016 Trustee Sale No. : 00000005113113 Title Order No.: 150063979 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/04/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.

BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 10/03/2007 as Instrument No. 19604348 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: HIROSHI IMANAKA AND YOKO IMANAKA, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 01/14/2016 TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: AT THE GATED NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE TO THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE AT 190 N. MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE, CA.. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 490 LOMA VERDE AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94306 APN#: 132-15-095 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 of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $632,821.39. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust 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. 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

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM 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 916939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000005113113. 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. FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: NATIONWIDE POSTING & PUBLICATION A DIVISION OF FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY 1180 IRON POINT ROAD, SUITE 100 FOLSOM, CA 95630 916-939-0772 www.nationwideposting. com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP as Trustee Dated: 12/08/2015 NPP0266266 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 12/25/2015, 01/01/2016, 01/08/2016 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-14-652026-HL Order No.: 100726105 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/30/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): MANAR ZARROUG, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY Recorded: 12/6/2007 as Instrument No. 19674605 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 1/27/2016 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street Entrance of the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $6,436,431.55 The purported property address is: 996 LAUREL GLEN DR, PALO ALTO, CA 94304 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 182-43-037-00 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the

property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-652026-HL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned

Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-652026-HL IDSPub #0098135 1/1/2016 1/8/2016 1/15/2016

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