Palo Alto Weekly January 29, 2016 by Palo Alto Weekly

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 17

January 29, 2016

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Pulse 14 Transitions 15 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 22 Shop Talk 23 Movies 24 Puzzles 44 Q Title Pages Comical love story shows a changed Palo Alto Page 26 Q Home Website offers matchmaking â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for mulch

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City seeks new designs for rail intersections To forestall future problems, Palo Alto prepares to launch analysis of rail crossings by Gennady Sheyner hould Churchill Avenue be have fewer or more driving lanes closed to cars at its inter- as it dips under the train tracks? These are some of the quessection with the Caltrain corridor, allowing only bikes and tions that Palo Alto officials hope to tackle as they move ahead with pedestrians to cross? Should East Meadow Drive a detailed “circulation analysis” be submerged under the railroad of each of the city’s rail crossings — a project that promises to be tracks — or vice versa? Should the Embarcadero Road extensive, expensive and driven in

large part by the community. The City Council endorsed the idea of a circulation study in October, during a broad discussion of Caltrain electrification and other transportation issues. On Wednesday morning, the council’s Rail Committee considered the city staff’s proposal to commission the study and tentatively endorsed the hiring of a rail-program manager working exclusively on rail issues. The manager’s duties would

include, among other things, overseeing the multi-year circulation analysis and the accompanying community conversation. “This would be a step back for Palo Alto, where we look at every single grade crossing within the city and analyze how important it is to maintain motor vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian circulation at each of those,” the city’s Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello told the committee Wednes-

day. “If we did not have circulation for motor vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians (at a given rail crossing), how would that affect remaining crossings in other (locations)? “The ultimate outcome is a prioritization of our grade crossings,” Mello said. “How important are they?” The community discussion is made more complicated by unre(continued on page 12)

RECREATION

City looks for new parks to meet growing demand City’s new master plan to identify strategies to locate, fund new amenities for recreation by Gennady Sheyner

Veronica Weber

A coyote stands guard over his kill near the Matadero Creek trail at Stanford on Jan. 27.

EDUCATION

School board majority against opening new high school Community split over investing in new innovative school versus focusing on existing schools by Elena Kadvany

hree of five Palo Alto school board members stated unequivocally Tuesday night that they don’t support even the exploration of a potential new high school in the district and would rather see resources used for reforms at the existing secondary schools. Board members Melissa Baten Caswell and Ken Dauber and Vice President Terry Godfrey said they don’t believe the district needs a third high school. But President Heidi Emberling and member Camille Townsend supported Superintendent Max McGee’s recommendation to create a task force that, among other efforts, would look into the possibility

of using Cubberley Community Center on Middlefield Road and two neighboring district sites to open a campus for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, or some subset of those grades. This recommendation was one of several that came out of McGee’s Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (EMAC), which presented its own final report and recommendations at the prior school board meeting. Since the community discussion over a potential new school began several months ago, opinions have split roughly into two camps. Some people believe the district is uniquely positioned to

respond to a “drumbeat” from within the community to do something so different and innovative at the secondary-school level that it would have to be done at a new site. Others believe doing so would irreversibly take away much-needed effort and resources to change the existing high schools. “We don’t need and shouldn’t pursue a new high school — that is, a new high-school building,” Dauber said. “What I think we do need, based on listening to our student board representative, reading the Paly Voice, listening to community members, is we (continued on page 9)

rom the tranquil expanse of Foothills Park to the energized hive of Johnson Park, Palo Alto has no shortage of green spaces to soothe local nature lovers and delight youngsters. But as the city develops its new master plan for parks and recreation, the City Council is considering adding parks and modifying existing ones to meet changing demands. Strategies include buying up corner lots and turning them into small neighborhood parks; carving parks out of existing city-owned land; closing off a stretch of Arastradero Road in the foothills to cars on the weekends; and changing policies to make nature preserves more accessible to the public. City staff and consultants have been working on the new Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation Master Plan since early 2014; the city plans to adopt it at the end of this year. Once completed, the master plan will prioritize new recreation projects; make recommendations for buying new land; and consider improvements to each existing park. During its discussion Monday night, council members readily acknowledged that Palo Alto’s park system, which includes 37 parks and about 4,000 acres of open space, is already the envy of many. But just because it isn’t broken doesn’t mean it couldn’t use some fixing, members agreed. And with the city’s population on the rise, much of the emphasis at the Monday hearing was on making parks easy to access for local residents.

Vice Mayor Greg Scharff noted that the city has a goal of having about 2 acres of park space for every 1,000 residents. But while the population has grown by more than 1,400 residents in the past two years, the city hasn’t added any acres of parkland. One possible answer lies in corner lots, Scharff proposed. “There are a lot of corner lots that become available. They would look great as little mini parks,” he said. Mayor Pat Burt noted that, in some cases, the city doesn’t even have to buy land — it can simply use property it already owns. This is what happened when the city created a pocket park, next to the Pope-Chaucer Bridge in the Crescent Park neighborhood, out of a section of the long and skinny Hopkins Creekside Park. “We carved out a little area for a pocket park for a neighborhood that had none,” Burt said. “We did that in Matadero Creek in a similar way. We need to think creatively about city-owned land. In some ways it’s already dedicated parkland that’s underutilized.” Other council members focused on existing parks and ways to make them more alluring and easier to access. Councilman Greg Schmid suggested that the Baylands remain underused and also proposed opening up to the public the 7.7acre parkland next to Foothill Park that was donated to the city by the family of Russel Lee. The property lay unnoticed for decades before the council an(continued on page 12)

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OUT OF SERVICE ... The Stanford University community will have to look to somewhere else for automotive repairs and fuel. The Valero gas station on the corner of Campus Drive East and Serra Street will close in late May or early June, the university announced Tuesday. The stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-year lease ends in July and the university elected not to renew the lease. Instead, Stanford plans to reconfigure traffic in that area. There has been a gas station at the current location since the 1960s, according to Stanford News Service. Stanford, for its part, has conducted a survey of other gas, service and auto-repair businesses in the surrounding area and identified 24 such businesses between 1 and 3 miles from the university. After the station closes, work will start on a new traffic roundabout at Campus and Serra to smooth traffic flow and improve safety for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians, university officials said. The roundabout, which will replace two intersections, will be similar to three others on campus. The two sections of Campus will be realigned so that they meet up with the new roundabout. Leroy Wicks has owned the gas station for the last 20 years, and his daughter, Esther Jenkins, manages the businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day-to-day operations. Stanford is assisting the Wicks family by assuming all costs of removing the underground gasoline storage tanks and working to help the family with other aspects of the transition, university officials said.

BRINGING CHANGE ... Palo Alto High School students have launched a local chapter of Bring Change 2 Mind, a national nonprofit created to reduce the stigma around mental illness. The nonprofit has a new student-led club initiative, called LETSBC2M, to â&#x20AC;&#x153;empower young people to talk about mental illness on their own and to lead projects ... to preemptively address the stigma and help prevent it in the future,â&#x20AC;? an online description reads. LETS started as a pilot in the fall with 25 high schools across the Bay Area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started this club because we really wanted to create change on this campus,â&#x20AC;? one of the founding Paly students, Bryn Carlson, said during a meeting of youth well-being collaborative Project Safety Net on Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important to us to see a change in our community and

the way that it looks at and deals with mental health.â&#x20AC;? Right now, the club is in the midst of planning events, creating social media accounts to publicize the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission and bringing in speakers (Shashank Joshi, a Stanford child and adolescent psychologist, already came; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping to bring Paly alum Jeremy Lin in the future). The projects are funded through a $500 grant Bring Change 2 Mind provides to each club. Palyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club is supported by Joshi and a team of professionals, including Palyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental health and wellness coordinator, Jonathan Frecerri. The club effort is the product of a partnership between Bring Change 2 Mind, a University of California, Berkeley psychology professor and a University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine psychiatry professor, who will be gathering data and conducting research on the clubsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; impact. FLUSH WITH CASH ... Stanford Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffers are, as ever, flush with cash. The private institution raised a record $1.63 billion during the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2015, Stanford announced in a press release this week. The university brought in a cool $801.6 million in cash gifts, $622.3 million in gifts of art and $201.1 million for the support of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two hospitals. Nearly 83,000 alumni, parents, students and friends contributed, marking a new record for Stanford, according to the press release. The art donations include, among other gifts, the value of the Anderson Collection, an assembly of postWorld War II art donated by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Their collection of 121 paintings and sculptures opened to the public in 2014. Other funds were raised to address â&#x20AC;&#x153;key priorities across the university,â&#x20AC;? from $67.7 million for graduate student fellowships and undergraduate financial aid to $321.9 million for research and programs, according to the release. Stanford led in fundraising among colleges across the country, setting a record for an individual school, according to a survey of 273 institutions released Wednesday by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, which tracks university giving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an extraordinary year in many ways,â&#x20AC;? outgoing President John Hennessy said in a statement. Q

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New district equity coordinator has deep background in bilingual ed Most recently, Martha Castellon was head of Stanford’s Understanding Language initiative

alo Alto’s first-ever equity coordinator was raised in a small agricultural town in California’s Central Valley by an immigrant mother and firstgeneration Mexican-American father, neither of whom hold college degrees. Martha Castellon said a place like Stanford University, where she eventually went for her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees, “may have well of been halfway across the country for me.” But she credits her parents and a supportive community — teachers who took an active interest in her, a swim coach who mentored her, members of her church who checked in with her about her college applications — with helping her to get where she is today. “I realize that kids need that here,” she said in an interview with the Weekly. “There are kids in Palo Alto who have that naturally, and there are kids who grow up and they don’t have that sup-

portive, really rich environment in which they can thrive.” As the district’s new equity coordinator, she said she sees it as her responsibility to engender a culture that creates the supportive community she had growing up — one “that cares about children who may not be as privileged as most of the kids in Palo Alto.” Castellon, also a parent in the district, begin her new post earlier this month. Creating the equity coordinator position was one of several top recommendations from the superintendent’s Minority Achievement and Talent Development committee, which worked for several months last year to evaluate and then make proposals to reduce Palo Alto’s longstanding achievement gap, which shows many minority and low-income students failing to achieve at the same levels as their peers. The committee’s members often stressed that hiring a dedicated, visionary person to over-

see the implementation of their recommendations and holding the district responsible for other equity efforts would be critical to moving the district forward. Castellon said her immediate priority for this year is to roll out the group’s recommendations, some of which have already been implemented. Another priority is connecting with minority students and their families, she said, “making sure that they feel like they’re a part of the district and that their voices are being heard.” Castellon first became interested in education after studying abroad in Spain as a Stanford student. At the time, bilingual teachers were in high demand, she said, and within two weeks of graduation she was teaching second- and third-grade English-language learners in the Long Beach Unified School District. Her students were all native Spanish speakers, either immigrants themselves or children born to immigrant parents who didn’t

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Martha Castellon, the new equity coordinator for the Palo Alto Unified School District, sits at a desk at the district office. necessarily speak English. She had grown up bilingual — speaking English at school and both Spanish and English at home — and realized the importance of providing her students with a strong connection at school. “Unlike me, my students had few English-speaking adults outside of school who they could relate to and build relationships with,” Castellon said. “This was eye opening. As a teacher, I wanted to become that connection to the English-speaking world and give them greater access to English while continuing to build upon the strengths they had de-

veloped in their home language.” Castellon spent five years in Long Beach before wanting to deepen her skills as an English as a Second Language (ESL) educator. She enrolled in a master’s program in teaching ESL at the University of California, Los Angeles. That led to a position at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evaluation, then back to the Bay Area to Stanford’s Graduate School of Education for a position in English-language-learner education research. She eventually wanted to make a career out of (continued on page 10)

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** 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 February 1, 2016, 6:00 PM Study Session 1. Study Session on National, State and Local Trends on the Impact of Arts and Culture Special Orders of the Day 2. Community Partner Presentation: West Bay Opera at the Lucie Stern Community Theater Consent Calendar 3. Finance Committee Recommends Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance Closing the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget, Including Authorization of Transfers to Reserves, and Approval of the Fiscal Year 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) 4. Approval of the Fifth Amendment to Extend the Lease With Thoits Bros., Inc. at 285 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 100 for a Period of 14 Months and Approval of the Second Amendment to Extend the Sublease With Thoits Bros., Inc., 285 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 200 for a Period of 14 Months for use by the City Development Center 5. Finance Committee Recommendation for Council to Review and Accept Information on the new Government Accounting Standards Board Pension Reporting Standards Known as GASB 68 6. Approval of Police Department Purchase of Multi-Band Portable Radios for the Police and Fire Departments in an Amount not to Exceed $625,000 7. Amend the Fiscal Year 2016 Adopted Municipal Fee Schedule to add a Secondhand Dealer Licensing Fee 8. Adoption of Annual Amendments to the Employment Agreements Between the City of 7HSV (S[V HUK *V\UJPS (WWVPU[LK 6Ń?JLYZ *P[` 4HUHNLY *P[` ([[VYUL` *P[` (\KP[VY HUK City Clerk) 9. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 4.60 (Business Registration Program) to Exempt Very Small Businesses, Very :THSS 5VU 7YVĂ&#x201E;[Z HUK 9LSPNPV\Z 6YNHUPaH[PVUZ >P[O UV (UJPSSHY` )\ZPULZZ VU :P[L -YVT the Business Registration Program (FIRST READING: January 19, 2016 PASSED: 8-0 Kniss absent) 10. Agreement with Empowerment Institute on Cool Block Small Pilot Program (Continued From January 25, 2016) Action Items 11. Approval of 2016 Basement Construction Dewatering Program Changes and Other Related Issues 12. Adoption of an Ordinance to add Section 10.50.085 (Eligibility Areas) and to Amend :LJ[PVU 4VKPĂ&#x201E;JH[PVU VY ;LYTPUH[PVU VM +PZ[YPJ[Z VM [OL 7HSV (S[V 4\UPJPWHS Code Relating to Residential Parking Programs; Adoption of a Resolution Amending Resolution 9473 to Implement Phase 2 of the Downtown Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) District Pilot Program; Approval of Contract Amendment to SP Plus for $94,000 for Additional Services for Parking Permits and On-Site Customer Service, Approval of Contract Amendment to SERCO for $60,000 for Enforcement of Expanded Area of +V^U[V^U 977 +PZ[YPJ[ (WWYV]HS VM *VU[YHJ[ (TLUKTLU[ [V 4J.\PYL 7HJPĂ&#x201E;J *VUZ[Y\J[VYZ for $154,500 for Construction Services for Expanded Area of Downtown RPP District, Approval of Budget Amendments in the General Fund, Residential Parking Permit Fund, and Capital Improvement Fund, Approval of the RPP Administrative Guidelines. These Actions are Exempt From the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines 13. Approval of a Twenty Five (25) Year Lease Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and the Museum of American Heritage (MOAH) for the City Owned Property at 351 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto 14. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Emergency Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Adding Chapter 9.16 (Medical Marijuana Cultivation and Delivery) to Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Safety) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Prohibit Medical Marijuana Cultivation and Delivery in Palo Alto Pursuant to California Assembly Bills 243 and 266 and Senate Bill 643. This Action is Exempt Under Section 15061(b)(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act

COUNCIL AND STANDING COMMITTEE The Regular Finance Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 7:00 PM to discuss: 1) Recommendation to City Council to Accept the Cost of Services Study for Planning Fees and Adopt a Schedule for Implementation of Fee Increases and Adjustments.

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News Digest Coalition lays out plan for new sales tax The prospect of a new Santa Clara County sales tax measure to alleviate transportation woes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; expected to generate at least $6 billion over 30 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has bolstered a political faction among nine cities: Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell, Saratoga and Los Gatos. During meetings throughout 2015, officials from this coalition brainstormed priorities and co-authored letters to the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). At the Mountain View City Council meeting on Jan. 19, elected leaders for the first time reviewed the coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most definitive product to date: a breakdown for how the $6 billion should be spent. This â&#x20AC;&#x153;draft allocationâ&#x20AC;? capped BART spending at 20 percent and budgeted about $1 billion for bike pathways, congestion relief and efforts to get drivers into more efficient modes of transportation. Some council members nitpicked at aspects of the plan. Councilman Mike Kasperzak said he was disappointed that more money wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being proposed for alternative modes of transportation. Members also faulted the breakdown for putting $1.5 billion toward expressways and highways, which they worried would encourage solo driving. However, the council voted 6-1 to endorse the sales-tax draft allocation. The coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed budget generated a little bit of headscratching from VTA officials, who were not present at the meeting. VTA spokeswoman Stacey Hendler Ross expressed doubt that the citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; budget draft would actually influence the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mark Noack

Four arrested in connection with auto burglaries Palo Alto police arrested on Monday afternoon, Jan. 25, four people believed to be involved in auto burglaries in Palo Alto and Milpitas, according to a police department press release. At about 11 a.m., the Milpitas Police Department notified surrounding law enforcement agencies about two auto burglaries that had occurred in that city and described the vehicle driven by suspects. Palo Alto police detectives in unmarked cars began patrolling areas commonly targeted by auto burglars. At about 12:16 p.m., detectives located the suspectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vehicle in the Town & Country Village shopping center parking lot on El Camino Real. According to police, two suspects were in the car, which was driving slowly, and two others were walking nearby, looking into parked vehicles. When officers in marked vehicles arrived, they stopped the car to investigate. Soon three of the four suspects fled in different directions on foot. Officers chased the three and arrested all four without incident, police said. Investigators said the suspects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; later identified as Jon Anthony Hamilton, LeRan Hamilton, Allen Barker Jr. and DaJuan Dasheem Blackwell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were in possession of a laptop stolen in one of that morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Milpitas burglaries. The four also had other property that detectives believe may have been stolen from vehicles in other cities. During a follow-up investigation, detectives alleged that both Hamiltons were responsible for three auto burglaries that occurred on Jan. 21 near restaurants along El Camino in Palo Alto. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D; My Nguyen

DNA-privacy case could have wide implications An appeals case filed by a Palo Alto couple could have far-reaching impacts regarding whether personal medical information could be revealed and if it may be used to exclude individuals from schools, jobs and other venues, even if the person does not have symptoms of a disease. Parents James and Jennifer Chadam allege the Palo Alto Unified School District violated their sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Amendment rights to the privacy of his medical and other personal information and the Americans with Disabilities Act when a teacher allegedly divulged that their son carries a genetic marker for cystic fibrosis. The boy, Colman, does not have the disease, his parents said in court documents filed in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 14. But because Colman carries the genetic marker, and that information was made public to the family of two other students who actively have the disease, the school district forced Colman to leave Jordan Middle School in 2012 after the other family complained, according to court records. The school district claimed it made the decision to send Colman to Terman Middle School based on a doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recommendation, but that doctor never examined Colman nor spoke to his parents, the appeal states. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, there is a distinction between a person who is a carrier and has one copy of a defective cystic-fibrosis gene and a person who has cystic fibrosis. As only a carrier, Colman does not pose any cross-infection threat to those with cystic fibrosis, according to the foundation. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sue Dremann

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need new high schools.” Palo Alto High School’s student board representative, Emma Cole, told the board earlier Tuesday evening, “Class size is important, but I still think that what’s more important is improving the schools that we have right now.” Funds would better be better put to use at Paly and Gunn High School, she said. “I think we need to put millions of dollars behind helping ideas that are already being formed” at the existing high schools, Baten Caswell echoed. Baten Caswell and Godfrey suggested that instead of convening a task force charged with what Baten Caswell described as “swallowing the ocean,” the district should parse out the decisions in front of it. Any effort to reform Paly and Gunn should be led by the schools themselves, with help from the district or community, she said. Dauber supported this idea. Short-term ways to reduce crowding at the middle schools and reduce class sizes throughout the district could also be done now by staff, rather than a community task force, Baten Caswell and Godfrey said. Another team could be created to do the planning work the district is obligated to with the City of Palo Alto for the Cubberley site. Townsend, on the other hand, said if the board doesn’t respond to a “drumbeat” for a third high school, “then shame on us.” She also requested further information about capacity at the high schools — are they too big right now, and can they accommodate projected enrollment? A concrete answer to this question that everyone agrees on has remained elusive, with different answers from different camps. Some have said the schools were built under the 2008 Strong Schools Bond to accommodate 2,300 students each, while others say that their current sizes, just under 2,000 students, are too large. The answer also differs at each high school, the Paly and Gunn principals told the board earlier in the day during a separate presentation of their schools’ Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports — annual documents that outline site goals for the year. “We do not have enough classrooms at Gunn,” Principal Denise Herrmann said. She mentioned potentially converting staff office space into classrooms. The Paly campus, however, will have a total of 41 new classrooms once its facility improvement projects — a new library, performing arts center, athletic facility and science addition — are completed, Principal Kim Diorio wrote to the board in an email after the SPSA meeting. There’s also a relatively new 27-classroom building and the two-story Media Arts Center. Diorio wrote to the board: “We believe we can handle the enrollment growth.” According to the district’s de-

mographer, DecisionInsite, Paly and Gunn enrollment will grow as they absorb larger middle school classes moving through the district. DecisionInsite estimates that total high school enrollment will peak at 4,481 in 2020 and then start to go down and stabilize. The new-school recommendations have roused many in the community: 19 community members, mostly parents, spoke their piece for an hour to the board on Tuesday night. Parent Karen Ambrose Hickey, mother of a new ninth-grader, said, “I think Palo Alto should be innovative, but I also think that there are flashes of brilliance in our schools now, and we should be capitalizing on those and really investing in our current students,” she said. Todd Collins, chair of the enrollment committee’s elementary subcommittee, quoted Teddy Roosevelt to remind the board and McGee to balance the exciting “moonshot” of a new school with the “less glamorous” work of improving the existing schools: “Let’s keep our eyes on the stars, but our feet on the ground.” Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo Alto Educators Association, said, the loss of rental income from the City of Palo Alto for Cubberley will reduce general fund revenues by $5.5 million each year. “It would also cost about $3.5 million each year to operate a new school, which I actually think is a low estimate. That is a minimum of $9 million coming from the general fund each year. I’m just curious as to what programs and

staffing will be affected by the loss of income to our general fund?” Others, however, supported both the task force idea and a potential new, innovative school. “There’s been a longstanding need for project-oriented, teamwork-oriented, experiential learning at the secondary level that we have yet to achieve at our current structures,” said Sara Woodham, parent and co-chair of Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS). “It’s a departure from how we teach and how we do school in the main here in Palo Alto.” At the SPSA meetings earlier in the day, Diorio and Herrmann spoke to innovations currently being nurtured and expanded at their schools, from several Gunn teachers testing out standards-based grading to new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) “pathways” under consideration at Paly. The district’s new Advanced Authentic Research (AAR) program, which began as a pilot program this year, has also been a resounding success for students at both schools, the principals said. Classrooms at both schools are applying design thinking, using blended learning and integrating technology in new ways. McGee reiterated his desire to create one comprehensive task force to look at all of the issues on the table. He said he can “finetune” his recommendation, though, and return to the board for action at its next meeting, on Feb. 9. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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

Obama to return to Atherton for fundraising President Barack Obama is due to visit Atherton, again, on Feb. 11, to raise funds for Democrats but this time the town shouldn’t have to provide police and other services for free, thanks to a new special events ordinance that says hosts must pay for such services. (Posted Jan. 28, 8:07 a.m.)

New rules for hazardous chemicals advance A proposal championed by Barron Park residents to ban businesses with large stockpiles of toxic chemicals from setting up shop in Palo Alto advanced Wednesday when it won the endorsement of the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission. (Posted Jan. 27, 11:32 p.m.)

VIDEO: Palo Alto school board retreat The Palo Alto school board convened for an hours-long retreat on Friday, Jan. 22, at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto, to discuss governance issues, self-evaluation, district goals and other board operations. (Posted Jan. 27, 4:48 p.m.)

Teachers facing ‘very serious housing crisis’ A group of five longtime Palo Alto Unified elementary and high school teachers spoke poignantly to the school board during an open forum on Tuesday night about the personal toll that the lack of affordable housing in the Palo Alto area is taking on them. (Posted Jan. 27, 12:46 p.m.)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Historic Resources Board 8:30 A.M., Thursday, February 11, 2016, Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects. If you need assistance reviewing the plan set, please visit our Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue. For general questions about the hearing, contact Alicia Spotwood during business hours at 650-617-3168. 1250 Bryant Street [15PLN-00346]: 1250 Bryant Street [15PLN-00346]: Request by Gordana Pavlovic, on behalf of the property owner, Gua Hua-Zhu, for Historic Resources Board review of proposed new additions HUK MHJHKL HS[LYH[PVUZ H[ [OL ÄYZ[ HUK ZLJVUK Z[VYPLZ of an existing two-story single family residence, and construction of a new one-story secondary dwelling unit and two-car garage, in the Professorville Historic District. Environmental Review: The project is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act under Class 15268 (Ministerial Projects). Zoning District: R-1 (Single-Family Residential). Project Planner: Matt Weintraub Jodie Gerhardt Current Planning Manager The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.org.

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Body found at beach identified as missing Palo Alto woman A body found at a Santa Cruz County beach Monday evening has been identified as a Palo Alto woman missing since last week, a sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday. (Posted Jan. 26, 12:44 p.m.)

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared by the Palo Alto Department of Planning and Community Environment for the project listed below. In accordance with A.B. 886, this document will be available for review and comment during a minimum 30-day circulation period beginning January 29, 2016 through February 29, 2016 during the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. at the Planning and Community +L]LSVWTLU[ +LWHY[TLU[ /HTPS[VU (]LU\L [O ÅVVY Palo Alto, California and online at http://www.cityofpaloalto. org/planningprojects. 2747 Park Boulevard [14PLN-00388]: The proposed project would involve demolition of on-site structures and paving and construction of a new 33,323 square-foot, three-story research and development (R&D) building with subterranean and surface parking and landscaping. An existing oak tree in the center of the site would be preserved. The new building would be 47 feet in height with mechanical equipment screening reaching to 57 feet. The proposed project would include a total of 133 onsite parking spaces, including one level of subterranean parking beneath the proposed building, with 25 parking spaces and 108 surface parking spaces. Zoning District: General Manufacturing (GM). The City of Palo Alto welcomes agency and public input during this period. Comments may be submitted, in writing, by 5:00 p.m. on February 29, 2016, to: Clare Campbell, City of Palo Alto, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, or at Clare.Campbell@cityofpaloalto.org . *** Hillary Gitelman, Director of Planning and Community Environment In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, listening assistive devices are available in the Council Chambers and Council Conference Room. Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request with 72 hours advance notice.

the subject and obtained a doctorate in educational linguistics from Stanford in 2010. In 2011, Castellon became the executive director for Stanford’s Understanding Language initiative, which aimed to help English-language learners (ELLs) across the country meet the new Common Core State Standards in language arts and mathematics, as well as new science standards. “There was an awareness among people who worked in the field of ELL education that these standards posed significantly greater

linguistic demands on all students but that those demands would be even more challenging for Englishlanguage learners and for students who didn’t speak the standard English dialect,” Castellon said. The first few years of the initiative was dedicated to raising awareness among educators about the challenges the new standards presented for both them and students, then to developing resources — papers, materials, sample lessons, professional development — to aid in that effort. As part of Understanding Language, Castellon also conducted in-depth reviews of school districts’ policies, programs and practices for English-language learners.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a study session on trends in arts and culture; consider an ordinance relating to basementconstruction dewatering; approve the second phase of the Residential Preferential Parking program; approve a 25-year lease agreement between the city and the Museum of American Heritage; and adopt an emergency ordinance prohibiting cultivation and delivery of medical marijuana. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee will discuss the cost-of-service study for planning fees and consider a schedule for implementation of fee increases and adjustments. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission will consider the ongoing preparation of the Sustainability/Climate Action Plan; discuss the placement of items on the commission’s agendas; and consider the preliminary forecasts and rate changes for all utility funds. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board will discuss 300 Homer Ave., a proposal by the Palo Alto History Museum for a historic rehabilitation of the Roth Building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Q

The minority committee’s final report charges the equity coordinator with a host of significant efforts: create an official district equity plan that “articulates the district’s vision for equity and inclusion, with accountability measures;” establish a district team, with representatives from each school site, that is charged with implementing the plan; create a biannual process to solicit input from historically underrepresented students and parents; and train staff to “address the disparities (between students) ... in access to materials, enrichment opportunities, and ease of navigating the PAUSD system.” Other major recommendations include more days per week of full-day kindergarten; more clear and objective processes around laning, which tracks students by level, and waivers at the middle and high schools; increased and more regular professional development around unconscious bias; and work to recruit, hire and retain more diverse teachers and administrators. Another proposal to create parent liaisons at each school site is in full swing this year, with almost every school in the district covered by a person serving as a bridge between the school and parents of historically underrepresented children. Castellon said she plans to immerse herself in the community, meeting with families and administrators and visiting each school in the district. It is this on-theground element of the job that attracted her to the position in the first place, she said. “I had worked on these initiatives that were meant to influence policy and practices throughout the country, but I was really feeling like ‘OK, it’s time to start putting some of this good knowledge to work.’ What better way to put it to work than in my own community?” Q

Join Your Neighbors at Palo Alto Zero Waste Events! A fun, convenient and free way to save resources. Compost Workshops: Turn your food scraps into soil. www.cityofpaloalto.org/workshops Upcoming events: April 23, June 4, July 23, August 6, September 3, September 15, October 5 Document Shredding Events: Securely recycle your old paperwork. www.cityofpaloalto.org/shred Upcoming events: April 30, August 27, November 5

“Please join me in taking simple steps to be better stewards of our resources. These events are an easy way to practice zero waste. — Vickie Martin, Palo Alto

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Repair Café Palo Alto: Repair and reuse goods instead of throwing them away. www.repaircafe-paloalto.org Upcoming events: February 20, May 15, August 28, October 30 Transition Palo Alto Share Faires: Build community, learn skills and share goods. www.transitionpaloalto.org/sharingexpos Upcoming events: February 14, April 10, June 12, August 14, October 9, and December 13

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RUN, JUANA, RUN ... The popular fundraising event for Palo Alto schools, the Juana Run?, is running high again this year, its 20th anniversary. Once threatened with ending in 2013, the event was saved and is now organized by local Parent Teacher Associations, the West Valley Track Club and the Gunn High Sports Boosters. This year’s event takes place Feb. 27 starting at 8 a.m. and includes 8K, 5K and 1-mile runs and kids races through the streets of the Barron Park neighborhood. Race proceeds benefit the Gunn High Sports Boosters, and Juana Briones Elementary, Barron Park Elementary, and Terman Middle schools’ PTAs. Pancake breakfast and T-shirts included. Walkers, strollers and costumes are encouraged. Sorry, no pets. Discounted registration ends Feb. 13. Registration is online at juanarun.org. SCAM ALERT ... They’re back, and it’s apt to get worse as tax time nears. Residents of some neighborhoods are reporting they are receiving phony calls from people claiming to be the Internal Revenue Service and being told they owe unpaid taxes and will be put in jail if they don’t call a given phone number. Emails demanding money and threatening a lawsuit are also circulating. Federal and local authorities say the IRS never contacts people by email or phone. If in doubt, residents should call their local IRS office — not the number the scammers provide. Q

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DONKEY DUTY ... The Barron Park donkeys, Perry and Niner, need a few volunteers handlers to replace a few who are moving. Handlers feed and clean up after the animals. The donkeys eat twice a day — between 7 and 10 a.m. and between 4 and 7 p.m. — and meet the public on Sunday, 10 - 11 a.m., at Bol Park. Volunteers are responsible for one feeding time every week. Substitute volunteers fill in for regulars as necessary and can handle some Sunday mornings if they’d like. The care usually takes about 40 minutes. Volunteers must be adults, although a child can help when accompanied by an adult volunteer. Regular volunteers should be able to commit for at least six months. Currently, a new regular volunteer for the Saturday evening feeding is needed starting in February; a few substitute volunteers are also needed. Interested persons should contact Steven Parkes, smparkes@ smparkest.net.

From left, Palo Alto residents Debra Cen, Jeff Chen, Amy Yang and Jack Sun hold Chinese New Year decorations outside the El Palo Alto room at Mitchell Park Community Center on Jan. 21. The group will host a Chinese New Year celebration for all city residents on Feb. 21.

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Palo Alto Chinese New Year celebration welcomes all Event seeks to bring together the city’s Chinese community and its broader communities by Sue Dremann

alo Alto residents won’t have to travel to San Francisco’s Chinatown to celebrate this year’s Chinese Lunar New Year. The city’s growing Chinese and Chinese-American communities are hosting their own, and the party is open to all residents. The Palo Alto Chinese New Year Fair will include performances by folk dancers and people playing Chinese musical instruments, a kung fu showcase, a fashion show of traditional Chinese dress, a comedian, Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, dumplings, mahjong and tai chi. Food will be sold, but admission is free. The fair is sponsored by the Palo Alto Neighborhood WeChat Group and the Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club and will be held on Feb. 21, 2-5 p.m., at Mitchell Park Community Center. The groups’ goal, besides a New Year celebration and allaround fun, is to broaden relationships with Palo Alto’s larger communities, said Hui (Debra) Cen, a member of the 20-person planning committee and cofounder of the Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club.

“People need to communicate more and understand each other and build friendships,” Cen said. “We don’t want to see people separated. Some residents are not so comfortable with immigrants.” Palo Alto’s Asian population stands at 25.9 percent and is growing, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Many of those residents are Chinese or of Chinese parentage. As both immigrants and longtime Palo Alto residents, Cen and co-organizer Amy Yang said they have seen a need for stronger links within and without the Chinese immigrant community. When they became neighbors on the same block of Lowell Avenue, they noticed more and more Chinese immigrants on their block, and with that they saw cultural misunderstandings, a feeling of isolation and a lack of understanding the school system, they said. “We understand the difficulty coming through,” Yang said, noting they both came to the U.S. more than 20 years ago. Yang has lived in Palo Alto for seven years; Cen for 10 years. In 2013, they formed the Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club to provide a community through

which Chinese immigrants could help each other. Since then, the Chinese Parents’ Club has offered four to five activities annually that include parenting education, the sharing of student experiences, education regarding American culture, parent socials, mental health and suicideprevention education, and an emergency-preparation fair. They formed a Palo Alto Parents WeChat Group, which allows for social networking and texting, in March 2014; it grew to 500 members within two months, Cen said. The group’s popularity led to a series of new WeChat groups, including Palo Alto Neighborhood WeChat, which was formed by resident Jack Sun, who is leading the Chinese New Year celebration, Cen said. Cen and Yang began talking about creating a Chinese fair after attending the 2014 French Fair at Lucie Stern Community Center, an annual event. The theme of this year’s New Year fair, “Share festivity, build community,” will include a dumpling-making station where people can learn how to make Chinese dumplings, and a fortune teller — a fung shui master

— who will advise visitors on what is good for them to do in the coming year, Cen said. At least five culinary stations will sell finger food. “With the Chinese population so big in Palo Alto, it really is necessary to bring everybody together,” Yang said. Yang and Cen said members of their community are eager to develop friendships with others. Their greatest barriers are language and culture. “I was lucky to have developed a deep personal friendship with one American mom who is thirdgeneration Japanese American and the mother of my son’s best friend 15 years ago. She brought me into her social circle. “Through her, I developed a deep personal friendship with a group of American women and understand American culture better and (have) become comfortable to social(ize) and make friends with Americans,” Cen said. “Therefore, one person’s openness and kindness can make a huge difference in an immigrant’s life.” Cen and Yang said they hope the joyous Chinese New Year fair will be the first step in bridging that gap, and they know that building strong relationships goes both ways. “Our Chinese community will continue to encourage our immigrant parents and children to go out of our own comfort zone to participate in community activities and give back to the community,” Cen said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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solved questions about the city’s vision for the Caltrain corridor. With Caltrain preparing to electrify its tracks and to send more trains up and down the Peninsula, and with the California High Speed Rail Authority planning to use the Caltrain tracks for its own bullet trains by 2029, Palo Alto officials have been adamant about the need to “grade separate” the rail tracks from the intersecting streets — Charleston Road, East Meadow, Churchill and possibly Alma Street at the city’s northern border — and by submerging the former beneath the latter in a trench. As part of a separate but related discussion Wednesday, the Rail Committee endorsed an “advocacy position” from a coalition of Santa Clara County’s northern and west valley cities that would dedicate $400 million in funding for grade separation should the

upcoming county transportation sales-tax measure pass. While both the circulation analysis and Palo Alto’s exploration of grade separation are expected to take several years, committee members suggested on Wednesday that removing some alternatives from the getgo would shorten the process and prevent unnecessary community angst. Vice Mayor Greg Scharff and committee Chair Marc Berman both voiced opposition to the two grade-separation proposals that analysis has shown would require the taking of property at significant levels. “If you take off the table the most extreme version of things, you often get a better process because you don’t have people really freaking out,” Scharff said. Berman agreed and referred to his comment from last year, when he called the possibility of taking 50 parcels “devastating” and an “absolute non-starter.”

“That hasn’t changed,” Berman said Wednesday. “We should make it clear that it’s not one we’re considering.” One question that the council will have to figure out is the extent to which it should involve other jurisdictions. Councilman Tom DuBois suggested that the city would have a much better chance at implementing significant rail projects if it works with neighboring cities like Mountain View, Atherton and Redwood City on a regional approach. By focusing on solving Silicon Valley’s problems, rather than just Palo Alto’s, the city may be able to tap into more resources. But Scharff said he was concerned that if Palo Alto creates a long process that involves other cities, the city might end up accomplishing nothing. The goal, Scharff said, should be to improve circulation around local rail intersections, and the city should be “laser focused” on Palo Alto, he said.

“I don’t see how you open it up to the community to talk about other people’s grade separations,” Scharff said. “I’d advocate for keeping it centered in Palo Alto and focusing on that.” The scope of the circulation study will ultimately be shaped by the full council, with the help of the new rail-program manager. The manager, who would be hired on a contract basis, would be charged with overseeing the study, shepherding the city’s outreach to community stakeholders so that proposed solutions are “context sensitive,” and representing the city on dealings with high-speed rail. The Rail Committee generally supported the creation of the new position but stopped short of approving the issuance of a request for proposals for it. The committee will discuss the position further next month. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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nexed it last year, at which time members also agreed to launch a planning process for the site before opening it up to the public. Schmid recommended letting residents visit the parcel now. “I know we have an important public decision,” Schmid said. “In the meantime, shouldn’t people be able to walk and see what’s there? Have their own dreams of how the space can be used?” Foothills Park itself is another potential scene for policy changes. Though it’s officially open only to Palo Alto residents, several council members suggested relaxing the policy for the sprawling and scenic preserve. Scharff said the Stanford University community should be allowed to use the park, given that the Stanford Dish remains a popular recreational draw for Palo Alto residents. Burt agreed, noting that the preserve is fully occupied only on the weekends between late spring and early fall. The rest of the time, it is “wellunderutilized,” he said. “I don’t know in what way it harms us to allow others to use the park when there’s no competition for it,” Burt said. “It just doesn’t hurt us.” As part of the overall parkplanning effort, consultants from MIG surveyed close to 500 residents near local parks, organized workshops and issued an online survey that attracted more than 1,000 responses. According to MIG’s report, residents widely supported policies that prioritize making facilities available to Palo Alto residents. They also said they would like to see more types of play experiences and environments, as well as more bathrooms. “In addition, there is clear preference for features and amenities that support comfort, convenience and longer stays at parks, including water fountains and places to sit,” according to the report. There is also “widespread interest,” according to MIG, in bringing community gardens, dog parks and aquatic facilities to new areas of the city. Another idea that emerged from Monday’s discussion was closing off to traffic (at least on the weekends) the portion of Arastradero Road at the Arastradero Preserve. Jeff Paulson, a member of the Lee family (which sold Foothills Park to the city), said that restricting traffic on Arastradero “would create absolutely magnificent and absolutely safe recreational opportunities.” Councilwoman Karen Holman said she was intrigued by this proposal. Holman also said that, when it comes to inviting more use of Foothills Park, which is more a nature preserve than a park, the city should be very mindful of the impact of more people and activity. Councilwoman Liz Kniss sug-

Upfront gested having more signs around town informing people of the distance between various parks and preserves. People get motivated to move around when they know how far they have to go to get to the next destination, she said. “This is a city where people like to walk,” Kniss added. The master plan will undergo more vetting in the months to come from the council and the Parks and Recreation Commission, which has already held several meetings about it. Keith Reckdahl, chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, said that the commission’s goal for the document is to provide crucial data without overwhelming the user with information. “This is not some theoretical document,” Reckdahl said. “This is something we will use to design parks.” The plan will, among other things, consider sections of the city where the demand for new recreational facilities is particularly high. Councilman Tom DuBois said his priorities in the new plan include acquiring additional space, distributing services across the city and enhancing the city’s community centers. Cubberley Community Center, which is now undergoing its own masterplanning process as part of a partnership between the city and the school district, will have an important role to play in the process, he said. Q

Correction

CityView A round-up

The Jan. 22 article “Failed justice?” incorrectly stated the maximum number of hours of free legal assistance given to students involved in Stanford University’s new pilot Title IX process, which starts Feb. 1. The number is nine. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-2236514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Jan. 25)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A LEASE TO PALO ALTO LAWN BOWL CLUB

Sustainability: The council heard a presentation from Stefan Heck about innovation, energy and transportation and then discussed the city’s new Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. Action: None Parks: The council discussed the city’s new Parks, Trails, Natural Open Spaces and Recreation Facilities master plan and considered ways to add parkspace. Action: None

FOR CITY OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 474 EMBARCADERO ROAD, PALO ALTO. CALIFORNIA

Board of Education (Jan. 26)

Enrollment: The board approved a recommendation to assign students expected to enter the district as soon as this fall from new Stanford University housing to Nixon Elementary School and a plan to place up to three portables at the school. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend No: Dauber Policy updates: The board approved several policy updates on class size, animals at school for non-instructional purposes, non-discrimination/ harassment, staff evaluating teachers and staff development Yes: Unanimous

Notice is hereby given that the Palo Alto City Council will consider entering into a new lease for a City owned building at 474 Embarcadero Road with Palo Alto Lawn )V^SZ *S\I 0UJ H UVU WYVÄ[ JVYWVYH[PVU HUK H WYV]PKLY of recreational events, instruction and services to residents of the City of Palo Alto and the greater Silicon Valley community. Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club has been operating at this location since 1964. This public notice is required according to the City’s Policy and Procedure Section 1-11/ASD – Leased Use of City Land/Facilities. A copy of this notice will be mailed to property owners and tenants within 300 feet of the subject property in accordance with Section 18.77.080(d) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC). The City Council will review and HWWYV]L [OL ÄUHS SLHZL H[ H YLN\SHY *V\UJPS TLL[PUN VU Monday, March 7, 2016.

Parks and Recreation Commission (Jan. 27)

Dog parks: The commission discussed potential options for creating new dog parks. Action: None Master Plan: The commission heard an update on the Parks, Trails, Natural Open Spaces and Recreation Facilities master plan. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (Jan. 27)

Hazardous materials: The commission recommended approving an ordinance setting forth new restrictions for operations with hazardous materials. The commission recommended approving an ordinance requiring Communications & Power Industries to relocate its plating shop by 2026. Yes: Unanimous Secondary-dwelling units: The commission discussed ways to encourage construction of more secondary-dwelling units. Action: None 2501 Embarcadero Road: The commission approved the environmental analysis for a proposed two-story building at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to handle sludge de-watering and truck load-outs. Yes: Alcheck, Downing, Fine, Gardias, Rosenblum, Tanaka No: Waldfogel

The term of the lease will be similar to the current one and will include a four (4) year term with two options to renew for two (2) additional three (3) year periods. Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club will be responsible for rent, maintenance, and operation of the property as well as their allocated utility costs.

Historic Resources Board (Jan. 28)

300 Homer Ave.: The board reviewed a proposal from Palo Alto History Museum to rehabilitate the building at 300 Homer Ave. and found the project to be consistent with the Secretary of Interior standards for rehabilitation. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Kohler, Makinen, Wimmer Absent: Bunnenberg, Di Cicco

For additional information, please contact Hamid Ghaemmaghami, Manager of Real Property, City of Palo Alto at (650) 329-2264, or email: hamid. ghaemmghami@cityofpaloalto.com

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Oleg Dimitri Sherby

February 9, 1925 - November 9, 2015 Oleg Dimitri Sherby, a professor emeritus at Stanford in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, died November 9 at his home in Menlo Park. He was 90 years old. Oleg is survived by his four children: Lawrence (Diana) of Palo Alto; Pamela of Palo Alto; Stephen (Ann) of Roseville; and Mark (Maria) of San Jose; and by nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Juanita Slater, who passed away in 1989. He was followed in death by his second partner, Marilyn Kazemi, and she is survived by her daughter, Leila Carlton (Ernie), of Roseville and her two children. Oleg was born in 1925 in Shanghai, China, to parents who had fled Vladivostok, Russia, a year earlier due to the Russian Revolution. He was 13 when his family emigrated once again, this time to escape the Japanese bombing of Shanghai. The family settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Oleg attended the University of California, Berkeley, and after brief service in the U.S. Army earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and doctorate in metallurgy. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at Sheffield University (1956-57) and then scientific liaison officer in metallurgy with the U.S. Office of Naval Research, London (1957-58). In 1958, Oleg and his family moved to Palo Alto. He joined the Stanford faculty in the Department of Materials Science, where he taught for 30 years until he was named professor emeritus in 1988. Faculty colleagues remember him as an inspiring teacher who enjoyed hosting the occasional poker party. As a researcher, Oleg made important contributions to understanding the mechanical properties of materials. He was a pioneer in discovering the atomic mechanisms controlling “creep,” the slow deformation of metals and ceramics at high temperature. He was the co-holder of eight U.S. patents, the author or co-author of 340 publications, the technical editor of two books and the coauthor of a text on superplasticity in metals and ceramics. It was in the field of superplasticity that Oleg left his most enduring mark. Even after he became an emeritus professor in 1988, Oleg remained a prolific researcher and over the next 25 years co-authored with colleagues Chol Syn and Don Lesuer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about 50 papers. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, Oleg was the recipient of numerous awards and honors from all the major materials science communities. Oleg had a lifelong passion for athletics. While an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, he played soccer and ran track, and at Stanford he was known for organizing noon volleyball games for faculty and students alike. Oleg loved Stanford football games and had

season tickets for many years. He also was very enthusiastic about attending the Stanford women’s basketball games held on campus. Drafted into the U.S. Army during his senior year at Berkeley, Oleg was honorably discharged in 1946. He met his future wife, Juanita Slater, at a dance in Berkeley in 1948, and they married in September 1949. Their union was a happy one, lasting 40 years until Juanita’s death in 1989. Oleg visited Yosemite Valley for the first time as a youth. He was immediately taken by its grandeur. He visited Yosemite countless times during his lifetime. Oleg’s children fondly remember yearly camping trips to Yosemite Valley in the summer with their mom and dad, camping by the Merced River in tents. Their dad loved being by the river. His children remember frequent visits to Oleg’s parents’ home in Berkeley for Russian meals. It was also fun and interesting for the children to hear their dad speak fluent Russian with his parents. The family remembers their stay in Paris 1967-68, the year their dad took sabbatical leave from Stanford. The entire family traveled throughout Europe that year. Oleg always considered himself a very lucky man. When he was widowed in 1989, he continued to charge ahead with his academic endeavors and travels related to his research. When he met Marilyn Kazemi in 1993 he found a supportive partner who was as enthusiastic about traveling the world as he was. Together they experienced, among many other things, the wonders of Machu Picchu, the Panama Canal, Egypt, Greece, and India. They tremendously enjoyed visiting Vladivostok, Russia, and Oleg spoke fondly of being on a boat on Lake Baikal in Siberia with a cigar in hand enjoying a little vodka. Oleg’s children and grandchildren remember their winter trips to Lake Tahoe and a private tour of Costa Rica. Oleg’s children remember their father as a man with much personal inner strength, who always saw the big picture. His children were always comforted by their dad’s wisdom when helping them explore a solution to a given problem, always encouraging them to “hang in there.” When Oleg’s youngest son Mark faced big challenges, Oleg wisely reminded him that “inch by inch is a cinch, yard by yard is hard.” Oleg was a very generous man and father. He always displayed tremendous enthusiasm and a keen interest in people, never one to brag about himself. Above all, Oleg was an honorable man. The family is grateful to Alice Mafi, who provided loving care for their father during the last two and a half years of his life. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to the Yosemite Conservancy or their favorite charity. PAID

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OBITUARY

Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Jan. 20-26

Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 6 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . 14 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Possession of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Elder abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soliciting without permit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Menlo Park Jan. 20-26

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Failure to yield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . . 1 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Located missing person. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Sand Hill Road, 1/20, 8:19 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. 708 Colorado Ave., 1/20, 11:39 p.m.; robbery/armed. Los Robles Avenue, 1/23, 8:18 a.m.; domestic violence/misc. Monroe Drive, 1/23, 9:06 a.m.; family violence/battery. 321 California Ave., 1/25, 12:02 a.m.; battery/simple. El Camino Real and North San Antonio Road, 1/26, 2:10 a.m.; battery/simple.

Menlo Park

500 block El Camino Real, 1/24, 6:59 a.m.; battery. 500 block Hamilton Ave., 1/25, 10:39 p.m.; battery.

Youth Speaks out IS BACK!!! YSO second semester art classes have begun on Paly & Gunn campuses. SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDE:

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Medical leader R. Hewlett Lee dies at 89

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leader for decades in medical affairs in Palo Alto, Stanford University and statewide, R. Hewlett â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heweyâ&#x20AC;? Lee, M.D., died on Jan. 20 after several years of declining health. He was 89. Dr. Lee was known for his skill as a surgeon, his warmth with patients and others, and his sense of humor. He was recognized by numerous professional awards during his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a surgeonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surgeon,â&#x20AC;? said retired surgeon Tony Marzoni â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dr. Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner in general surgery for many years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who remembers him as his â&#x20AC;&#x153;surgical mentor and teacher.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was universally kind to everyone: physicians, orderlies, medical students, nurses, interns and all his colleagues,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Marzoni said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His patients just adored him.â&#x20AC;? Dr. Lee was the youngest son of the late Dr. Russel Van Arsdale Lee, who founded the Palo Alto Clinic (later the Palo Alto Medical Clinic) in 1930. In 1981, the clinic combined with the nonprofit Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation to become the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF).

Dr. Lee was a Palo Alto native and attended Palo Alto High School, Stanford and its medical school (then still in San Francisco), from which he graduated with honors. He completed his surgical residency at the Stanford service at the old Lane Hospital in San Francisco, followed by a year in Cambridge, England, in a vascular fellowship. He then served in the U.S. Navy for two years in Korea and was present at the Inchon landing. At Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical school, he developed a love of teaching, which would have become his career had he not been voted in as a partner

at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in 1956. He continued teaching at Stanford even as his career as a general surgeon blossomed. He was considered a pioneer in how to diagnose and treat breast-cancer patients, developing in the early 1960s a clinicwide policy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fully informed involvementâ&#x20AC;? by the woman in treatment decisions. Seeking alternatives to full mastectomies, Dr. Lee and other clinic physicians began exploring other options, including radiation therapy when appropriate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an approach which later became the norm. Even after retiring from active surgery in 1989, he remained involved as a board member of both PAMF and Stanford Hospital. At the time of his retirement from PAMF, Dr. Lee served as executive director of the physician partnership and as vice president for health care, heading up the Health Care Division. But his leadership extended far beyond Palo Alto and Stanford. He took an interest in health plans in the early 1960s, when he was elected vice director of the clinic in 1963 and named chairman of

its Pre-Paid Plans Committee. In addition to helping create various health plans, he also served for a decade on the board of Blue Shield, Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first â&#x20AC;&#x153;preferred provider organization.â&#x20AC;? During Ronald Reaganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governorship, Dr. Lee sat on the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Care Commission and was chairman of the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pre-Paid Plans Committee. He led a reform effort to establish regulations for health coverage and helped draft legisla-

tion that became the core of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MediCal program, funding health care for the poor. Dr. Lee was predeceased by two siblings, Richard Lee and Margo Paulsen. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Lee; his brothers, Pete and Phil Lee; four children, Virginia, Phyllis, Eric and Stan; and six grandchildren. There are no plans at present for a memorial service. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jay Thorwaldson

COMMUNITY MEETING Park and Recreation Master Plan Community Prioritization Meeting

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Editorial A ‘moon shot’ denied School board majority wisely rejects the allure of a new ‘innovative’ high school

hree of Palo Alto’s five school board members courageously and emphatically said ‘no’ Tuesday night to initiating a monthslong intensive study into the possible creation of an expensive new third high school at the old Cubberley High School site in south Palo Alto. It would have been far easier to acquiesce and give Superintendent Max McGee the green light he wanted for at least a study of a project he has been promoting in various ways for months, one described by supporters as a bold educational ‘moon shot’ for Palo Alto. But instead of placating the community members with whom McGee has aligned himself over the last nine months, trustees Melissa Baten Caswell, Ken Dauber and Terry Godfrey made clear McGee’s dream of creating a unique small high school that would showcase and incubate “project-based learning” was dead for now. While McGee and proponents of the new high school certainly didn’t help their cause by their submission last November of an application for funding to the national XQ Super School competition, done without informing the school board or the public, their biggest misstep was in thinking something of this magnitude could be quickly pushed forward purely through political pressure and without regard for the many inequities that it would create in our public school system. They and McGee seemed to think that if they could just get the ball rolling among a few influential parents it would gain irreversible momentum. Fortunately, a majority on the school board recognized the many ways in which McGee’s recommendation were flawed and were willing to assert their proper role as elected policymakers. It was a bitter setback for McGee, who had invested enormous time and effort into advancing the new school concept. He even boldly refused at the Jan. 12 school board meeting to rule out using private fundraising to boost per-student spending at the new school if it was established, even though doing so would violate district policy. Then, just a week later at a “town hall” meeting McGee reversed himself and told the audience he would “guarantee” that no private funds would be used for operating his hoped-for new high school, funding that supporters considered a necessity in order to create the desired “radically innovative” high school program that would feature smaller classes and more individualized instruction. But McGee’s quick turnaround appeared more a concession made to garner support and an attempt to keep his plan alive than a commitment grounded in the principle of equity for all students. The premise of the effort to start a new high school was a belief among some community members that it was virtually impossible to successfully reform and innovate within our current high schools and that a new high school was the only path to achieving a new paradigm for the education of teens. Only a new school, supporters reasoned, could attract a faculty and students that shared a common interest in bringing about more fundamental change focused around new learning models and an environment and culture that embraced innovation and experimentation rather than test scores and AP classes. Among the many problems with the proposal, however, is that by the time a new school could be built and opened in several years the expected enrollment bubble at our high schools being used to justify a third high school will have passed. McGee’s proposal also chose to ignore survey results that showed parents and students alike prefer that improvements be made to the current high schools, not at a new school available to a limited number of students. We absolutely do need a moon shot in this district. We agree with those advocating for the new high school about the need for a radical reinvention of secondary education. But we cannot morally, ethically or financially reinvent education for a lucky few. All our students deserve an exciting and innovative education that fuels a love of learning and discovery of personal passions. To achieve this, we must let go of our delusion that grades, excessive homework, AP classes, rankings and college-application-padding with excessive extra-curriculars are what our kids need to succeed and be happy. And we must have faith that most of our teachers are just as frustrated with today’s education system. Public high schools all over the country with far fewer resources than Palo Alto are undertaking profound changes to their teaching and curricula in many of the ways sought by the parents advocating a brand new high school. Pockets of such innovation already exist at Paly and Gunn, and with the district’s financial surpluses and resources, almost anything is possible. With the board rejecting McGee’s new high school proposal, let’s now challenge him to marshal his abundant energy and enthusiasm and lead a broad-based planning process for the same “radical” reinvention of our existing secondary schools that he promised for his desired new school. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

A creative solution Editor, When looking for space for affordable housing, sometimes a solution is closer than you think. Why not pre-zone all of Stanford Shopping Center to add a single floor of affordable housing on top, with residency restricted (the way on-campus faculty housing is). It would be limited to families with at least one member who works on campus — e.g., support staff at Stanford University, Stanford University Medical Center and Stanford Shopping Center. This would help to meet the housing need that was created by the increase in on-campus workers for the new Stanford University Medical Center but that was not required as part of those approvals. I believe this could be accomplished within the 50-foot height limit. It would probably require creation of a new zoning category: retail with affordable housing overlay. Stanford would not be required to build the housing, but it would help to satisfy ABAG requirements. Margaret Fruth El Camino Way, Palo Alto

The good in grass Editor, As president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, I feel that the City of Palo Alto is poised to make a shortsighted mistake if it bans the installation of turf grass in landscapes (“Palo Alto prepares to tighten landscaping rules,” published on Jan. 19, 2016). There are many drought-tolerant grass species that can survive drought well and provide the ground cover families need for entertaining, children’s play and pets. We recognize that there is a drought and it is serious, but getting rid of all turf grass is not a responsible solution. A grass lawn provides many environmental benefits. Grassy areas mitigate storm water runoff, while also cleansing it of impurities and dust. Turf grass slows down and absorbs that runoff, allowing other plants and trees — decades in the making — to drink and ensure they are not lost. Grass also helps dissipate the urban heat island effect and cools the air around it. Turf grass can be 31 degrees cooler than asphalt and 20 degrees cooler than bare soil. California already has some of the worst air quality in the nation. Research has shown that turf grasses remove atmospheric pollutants such as carbon dioxide, ozone and hydrogen fluoride from the air. Grass also plays a vital role in capturing dust, smoke particles and other pollutants that

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Teachers facing ‘very serious housing crisis’ The right thing for the Palo Alto community to do would be to raise private funds, build a brand-new teacher housing development and offer subsidized housing to teachers. If there are anonymous donors throwing $1-20M at new gyms and other less-deserving projects, surely those of you who have struck it rich in Silicon Valley will see to it that the best teachers can work and live here? As for where the land will come from, since Zuckerberg is buying all the homes around him, if he would just live full-time in his SF pad, that Palo Alto compound could house hundreds of teachers. If not that, how about tearing down the Cubberley campus and building teacher housing on it? Posted by Chris Zaharias a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis Jan. 28 harm people. Responsible elected officials and city agencies should make decisions based on science and commonsense, not hysteria and more government mandates. Kris Kiser South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia

Rally around Mary Editor, I’m delighted to see Mary Gloner appointed to lead Palo Alto’s Project Safety Net (“Local health educator tapped to lead Palo Alto’s Project Safety Net,” published

on Jan. 20, 2016). Developing and implementing a community-based mental health plan that fosters youth well-being is a matter of life and death in Palo Alto. With her lived experience as a student in Palo Alto Unified and her skill set developed in community-based health organizations, Mary has the qualities we need for this important role. I hope the entire Palo Alto community rallies to ensure Mary and Project Safety Net succeed. Michele Lew Dana Avenue, Palo Alto

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Following the footsteps of a remarkable physician: Hewey Lee by Jay Thorwaldson

he passing last week of Dr. R. Hewlett Lee — almost universally known by his nickname, Hewey — signifies more than the loss of a major voice in the broad field of medicine, both in medical practice and in economic policy. He was not just “a physician’s physician,” as one colleague called him; he was a “kind person’s kind person,” as well as being a phenomenally skilled surgeon and pioneer in how to treat women with breast cancer. He led the way in involving women fully in decision-making about their treatment alternatives, and along with radiation oncologists and chemotherapists tested and pushed alternatives to then-standard full mastectomies that commonly included removal of muscle. When Lee received a “Lifetimes of Achievement” award in 2000, Bill Miller of Stanford University — from which Lee graduated with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key in spite of carrying an immense 30-unit academic load — described him as larger than life. “Encapsulating physician R. Hewlett Lee in a paragraph or two is a bit like trying to reduce Handel’s ‘Messiah’ to a few bars,” Miller wrote. (See: tinyurl.com/DrLee2000). During his career he fought tenaciously to assure quality care and, as important, for broader access to care for moderate and

lower-income people, of all ages. Miller described how Lee fit with his remarkable family, as the youngest of four sons of Palo Alto Clinic founder Dr. Russel V.A. Lee, with a younger sister — all of whom received medical degrees. (Details of his life are at tinyurl. com/Lee012016.) But the broader themes can often be lost in details, or their power sapped by too many words. “I really hate controversy, but I always seem to get into the middle of it,” he once told me in a conversation/interview, encapsulating a lifelong dilemma. He helped lead the charge statewide to curtail abuses in the over-selling of health plans and the under-treatment of enrolled patients in the free-for-all days of inadequate regulations governing the plans. And he cofounded plans designed to extend access to health coverage and treatment to more people, especially those who couldn’t afford to pay for ballooning costs of care, medications and equipment. As president of the Santa Clara County Medical Society he led the society to become the first medical society in the nation to oppose the Vietnam War when he saw how health-related resources were being siphoned away to fund the war. In short, he cared — strongly. He once told me that one of the things that irritated him the most was when he saw people driving past an accident without stopping to help. Thinking of him being irritated is a trick. His kindness, humor, zest for life and respect for others is recalled by patients and colleagues of all levels.

Personally, he loved color photography of the natural environment. And he loved limericks, including the mischievous and racy ones. His knowledge of health policy and issues was matched only by that of his elder brother, Philip R. Lee, who also practiced for a time at the clinic before being named head of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco — now bearing his name. During my 18-year tenure at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, between full-time journalism jobs, one of my tasks as director of public affairs was to deal with media coverage of biennial national conferences on health policy and economics. At one conference, I received an urgent call from a young woman radio journalist who asked if I could brief her on issues in health care and medicine, as she was on a tight deadline for a three-minute news spot. It was during the peak of the failed healthreform effort of the early years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, with many complex issues being debated. The effort was spearheaded by a task force headed up by Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner, an aide to President Clinton who became known for his blunt domineering rather than consensus-building approach. “How many hours do you have?” I asked. I invited her over, gave her a quick nutshell of major issues, then looked around for someone for her to interview for the broadcast. In the hallway, I saw Hewey and Phil walking back from lunch together. Hewey was supportive of the Clinton reform initiative but Phil was opposed, as I recall, because he felt too much had been given

away to pro-reform liberals for it to be an even-handed reform. I approached them and steered them into the press room, introduced them to the young woman and said they needed to do a threeminute on-the-record debate on health reform for her. Witnessing the give and take by two knowledgeable and brilliant men in the next three minutes, in which they covered all the major and many minor issues, was an astonishing experience. The radio station editors were so impressed they had her stay for about five hours, doing several more radio spots with speakers and panelists. Once I was engaged with one of the leading nurses in putting together a booklet about breast cancer, including its emotional side effects — seldom addressed in medical literature at the time. Hewey was our principal physician adviser on the booklet. One day we asked him whether we should include a chapter on sex after mastectomy or breastcancer treatment. He laughed, waved his hands and said that soon after an operation or treatment he asked his women patients to come in with their spouse or significant other. He then advised the partner to be sure to give the woman a shoulder massage every evening. “Soon they’re fooling around and there’s no problem,” he said. We didn’t include the chapter, but we learned what “role model” truly meant. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jthorwaldson@paweekly. com and/or jaythor@well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline. com.

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Are you more worried or excited for the Super Bowl to come to the Bay Area? Why? Asked outside Whole Foods Market on the corner of Emerson Street and Homer Avenue. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.

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“More worried, because of the damage people might do. ... They’re only here for a week for celebration.”

“More excited. It’s a fun event, a lot of energy attached to it. Everybody loves a party.”

“Probably more worried. I could watch it on television. ... Seems to be disruptive to parking and transportation. I’m sure Airbnb folks are having a good time.”

“Oh, I could care less. I do think it’s good for the economy.”

“Certainly more excited. ... It connects (us) to the country in some way. ... As for traffic ... it’s already here.”

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rom handmade acoustic instruments to powerful distorted electronics, from teenage phenoms to music-world veterans, KZSU’s “Day of Noise” represents an eclectic range of sounds and styles. What its diverse artists have in common is a commitment to experiment live on air for the Stanford University radio station’s annual 24-hour event. “’Day of Noise’ is a celebration of all strange and beautiful music,” event organizer and KZSU DJ Abra Jeffers said. “Noise,” in this case, broadly refers to genres including but not limited to free jazz, drone, ambient and minimalism. The station will host live performances in half-hour and hourlong sets, all broadcast from the campus studio, located in the basement of Memorial Auditorium. This year’s “Day of Noise” runs from midnight on Friday, Jan. 29, to midnight on Saturday, Jan. 30, and can be heard on 90.1 FM and at kzsu.stanford.edu. The event first took place in 1995 and was put together by former KZSU DJ Joseph Brenner (who goes by the DJ name Voice of Doom) but eventually went

on hiatus, happening sporadically in the early 2000s. Jeffers, who hosts an experimental/ambient music show on the station, learned about “Day of Noise” and, with a team of volunteers, resurrected it as a regular event in 2012. Founder Brenner posted a mission statement of sorts for the event on KZSU’s website. “The ‘Day of Noise’ event has always been about the freedom of non-commercial radio to deviate from the standardized conceptions of what the audience wants or needs. ... The listener has the feeling that at any moment, anything might happen, because anything can,” he wrote. This year’s lineup will feature 36 Bay Area artists and groups — some who have played before, such as high school freshman pianist/composer Henry Plotnick and “transcendental mini-orchestra” The Lickets. Others, such as Gretchen Jude, are participating for the first time. Jude will be a guest with the duo Oa, which has played in the past. “I love local and communitybased music events,” Jude said. “I love the unusual format and venue — if you can call radio a venue?

The Lickets use classical instruments, such as flute and cello, in experimental ways (Mitch Greer seen here at “Day of Noise” 2012). year in, year out, here’s what’s going on — and we’re happy to be in that particular picture.” Behm-Steinberg is primarily a poet and formed Oa with Davignon after the two collaborated on a poetry/experimental music performance that utilized prerecorded vocal snippets, tape ma-

chines, effects pedals and other equipment. For him, being an experimental/improv artist “is about exploring what you can do with gear ... while listening closely to what the people you’re playing with are doing with their gear, re(continued on next page)

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Black Thread experiments with looped cassette tapes (seen here at “Day of Noise” 2013).

— and also I love noise.” Her songs range stylistically from folk and singer-songwriter to ambient soundscapes of nature sounds and background conversation to synthesized droning. To Jude, improvisation means that she tries to “respond to what I hear and feel without resorting to habit or traditional forms and without being distracted by harsh self-judgment.” She uses a variety of instruments: hand-built noise-making devices, a laptop, and a traditional Japanese instrument called a koto, for example. She’s studied and performed classical Western music, jazz and Japanese music, and recently earned an MFA for her studies in electronic music and improvisation. “What I end up doing at any given moment depends a lot on the context and collaborators. In this case, since the performance situation is new to me, I haven’t even decided what instrument/setup I’m going to use. Something with electronics and voice, probably,” she said. “As long as I’ve lived here,” Oa member Matt Davignon said, “KZSU has been a champion of supporting local weird music.” Oa’s sets are improvised and feature only samples of people’s voices, using bits of vocals as “musical building blocks.” He described making experimental or “weird” music as “very freeing.” “As I gradually transitioned from playing more rock-oriented genres of music, I started seeing the scope of rules associated with those genres,” he said, such as the expectation of predictable rhythms patterns, chord structures and song construction. Rather than having no rules, he said, experimental artists create their own. “Listening to the music that other people make, it feels like the systems that they use are peeks into their unique personalities, which is something I really love about the genre,” he said. “I think the event itself is important,” Oa bandmate Hugh Behm-Steinberg said, “because it provides an annual snapshot of new music in the Bay Area —

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sponding in turn, but in a really fun, lively way.” Berkeley-based “electroacoustic ambient music” group The Lickets (Mitch Greer and Rachel Smith) play a variety of instruments — some synthesized, some classical — and have been playing together since the late 1990s. Their main instruments are flute and cello, combined with electronics. The Lickets first played “Day of Noise” in 2012. Greer described a “mystical state of endurance” that goes along with the continuous broadcast, comparing it to traditional gamelan performances that last throughout the night, only with more variety. “It’s great to hear improv for breakfast, and then maybe something really strange and psychedelic at noon,” he said. For any potential listeners who may be intrigued but unfamiliar with the experimental music world, Jeffers said, “Tune in and try it! The range of sounds covered by the artists is huge and there is a new performance every half hour, so if you don’t like what you hear at any point, just try tuning back in later.” Greer concurred. “Even if you don’t listen all day, there’s something really cool about just knowing it’s happening,” he said, “and you can dip in and out of it for a full cycle around the sun and just know it’s going on.” Q Interim Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly. com. What: KZSU’s “Day of Noise” Where: Tune in at 90.1 FM and or kzsu.stanford.edu. When: Jan. 29-30 (midnight to midnight) Info: Go to kzsu.stanford.edu/ dayofnoise/

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he song is ended,” as one of Irving Berlin’s lyrics goes, “but the melody lingers on.” Though he first rose to fame more than a century ago, Berlin’s melodies have been lingering on in popular culture ever since, including in the one-man show “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,” presented by Theatreworks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Berlin is responsible for so many beloved songs — “Steppin’ Out With My Baby,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody,” “Always,” “Blue Skies,” and the entire stellar soundtrack to “Annie Get Your Gun,” to name just a few. And in some ways, Berlin is the perfect embodiment of the 20th-century American success story: the lowly immigrant who, through talent and hard work, bootstrapped himself into fame, fortune and legend (and offered up a little something called “God Bless America” as a love letter to his adopted homeland). Born Israel Baline to a poor Jewish family in Czarist Russia, the young Berlin watched his village burn to the ground in an anti-Semitic pogrom, then fled with his parents and siblings to the tenements of New York City’s Lower East Side. After his father’s death, Berlin left home, not wanting to be a burden on his family, and eventually found work as a singing waiter in a Chinatown restaurant. He taught himself to play piano (black keys only) in his spare time and began writing songs, finding he had a keen ear for the modern vernacular and a way with words and melodies. He had his first major hit in 1911 with “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and kept right on having hits for decades (including on Broadway

THEATER REVIEW and in Hollywood), landing himself firmly among the all-time greats in American songwriting. In fact, a remake of his song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” by musician Taco in 1983 made Berlin, then aged 95, the oldest living songwriter to have a current top-10 hit. He was a supporter of civil rights, mixed with the echelons of society but stayed true to his everyman roots, and was fiercely patriotic. Not only did he compose “God Bless America,” among many other patriotic tunes, and donate all proceeds in perpetuity to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America, but he served in the U.S. Army and wrote and performed in productions at military bases around the world to benefit the Army Emergency Relief Fund. His life story, and more importantly his incredible collection of songs, provides more than enough worthy material to fill an hour and 45 minutes of showtime. I’m always amazed by the sheer endurance and chutzpah it must take to do a one-man show, and “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” is no exception. The Canadianborn Felder has made staging oneman musical biographies his forte. Previous shows include “George Gershwin Alone,” “Maestro Bernstein,” “Beethoven, As I Knew Him,” “Monsieur Chopin” and “Franz Liszt in Musik.” While he doesn’t particularly look or sound like the real Berlin, he’s very talented (equally at acting, singing and playing) and is able to inhabit the character fully, taking on a Yiddish-inflected New York accent as he brings the audience with him on a look back at Berlin’s life. Songs are sprinkled throughout, very ably accompa-

nied by Felder himself on grand piano. With a beautiful design by Felder and director Trevor Hay, the show is set in the elderly Berlin’s apartment on a Christmas Eve, as carolers outside serenade him with some of his holiday hits, including “White Christmas.” Berlin invites the carolers (the audience) inside to learn about the stories — and the man — behind the classic songs. Felder’s mesmerizing performance is further enhanced by clever use of projections showing photos and bits of films. Felder often encourages the audience to join him on vocals, in the spirit of Berlin, who, he says, wrote for the people. I found myself singing along almost without even realizing it at first. And I don’t care how many seventh-inning stretches you’ve endured or how overplayed holiday songs can be — if you can sit through the singalong portions without joining in and feeling at least some degree of goosebumps, you may want to get your heart checked. Though it would have made sense, given the Yuletide setting, to have scheduled this show to run over the holidays, “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” is nonetheless a wonderful way to warm up a winter’s night. The melodies linger on, and deservedly so. Q Interim Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly. com. What: “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: Through Feb. 14 Cost: $35-$100 Info: Go to theatreworks.org

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mellow playlist of Erykah Badu, Tony! Toni! Toné! and Jill Scott played softly in the background as a cheery server in a crisp white uniform brought out the daily special: a New York steak chili topped with finely chopped green onions. Patrons in business attire dined around rustic wooden tables decorated with potted succulents. The atmosphere at Rendezvous Cafe, which opened in the fall at the Sobrato Center for Nonprofits in Redwood Shores, may look and feel like a hip, power-lunch hotspot, but it all started with a mission to give back to the community. Rendezvous Cafe provides jobs for lowincome people seeking a way to rebuild their lives. The cafe is the first restaurant created by Wise SV, a joint social enterprise (defined in a press release as “a sustainable, for-profit business that also addresses social, societal and environmental challenges”) established by the nonprofit JobTrain in Menlo Park, which offers free or low-cost vocational training programs, and CALSO, a San Francisco nonprofit that reduces unemployment by providing job opportunities to people facing employment barriers. Wise SV aims to help unemployed and under-served people through on-the-job training in culinary roles. Rendezvous Cafe was funded with a $600,000 start-up grant from Google.org to help pay for renovations, equipment and start-up costs, and the Sobrato Family Foundation donated the space for the cafe at the Sobrato Center for Nonprofits, according to JobTrain. (The cafe’s name was inspired by John Massimo Sobrato’s popular prohibition era restaurant John’s Rendezvous, which was in operation in San Francisco until 1952, according to the Sobrato Family’s website.) Other funding sources include the eBay Foundation and Goodwill San Francisco. Cafe employees might get their start by enrolling in JobTrain’s culinary program, during which they learn fundamentals such as knife skills, food preparation and food safety through hands-on classes. The program also

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trains students to work in commercial kitchens by focusing on how to prepare for job interviews and how to effectively communicate within a restaurant environment. An on-site organic garden encourages students to incorporate fresh produce into the recipes used within the program. After completing JobTrain’s culinary arts program, the school’s career counselor offers select graduates the option to interview for a position at the cafe as a way extend their culinary training before transitioning into outside work. The cafe offers employees competitive wages and benefits, both of which can be rare in culinary industry jobs, said Jennifer Overholt, JobTrain’s new initiatives manager. Overholt said that JobTrain students and alumni are also supported by the program’s free resources: tax preparation, legal advice, a clothes closet for career outfits, transportation assistance and wellness counseling. “They’re not just learning cooking skills; they’re learning soft skills, too,” Overholt said. “Communication, how to be successful in a workplace; (the program) doesn’t teach people how to cook. It teaches them how to work in a commercial kitchen and all that it entails.” Following a successful grand opening in September, Wise SV is currently in the planning stages to expand the cafe’s kitchen space to accommodate catering requests for corporate and private events. The expansion will also create more jobs. The fast-casual style cafe features breakfast and lunch menus with pastries, yogurt parfaits, organic cereal, egg dishes, salads, hand-tossed personal pizzas, soups and sandwiches served with house-made potato chips or fries. While daily specials have been planned a week in advance in the past, Chef Charles Crossley has led the cafe in a more sustainable direction since joining the staff in December. The specials are now influenced by a “mystery basket approach” of using what is already on hand in the kitchen. That means fresh produce and proteins

from the walk-in refrigerator combined with pantry staples — the same general approach used on the popular Food Network reality game show “Chopped,” Crossley said. San Mateo resident Crossley came from a family of math minds and engineers, but he was not one to follow his family’s path. While pondering his next moves after high school, cooking became his de-stressing mechanism — and eventually his career. “I wanted to be a baseball player, but I stunk,” Crossley said, laughing. “I’ve always cooked, ever since I was a kid, working with my grandmother in her kitchen. ... One day I thought, ‘You know, someone should pay me for this. Why can’t I do this for a living?’” Crossley entered an apprenticeship program with the Starwood Hotel chain, which owns Sheraton, W and Westin, and steadily worked his way up through the culinary hierarchy. After 15 years of managing commercial kitchens as an executive chef and a total of 30 years working in professional kitchens, he said he felt that he needed to do something more meaningful with his career. “I didn’t have anything left to prove to myself, cooking-wise,” he said. “I noticed that I was the happiest when I was cooking in the kitchen with the staff, teaching them new things and helping them with their careers.” With the help of a recruiter, Crossley was introduced to the JobTrain program and became the cafe’s chef and mentor to the cafe’s three current employees, who are all JobTrain culinary graduates. One of them is prep cook Imani Smothers, who enjoyed selling hot plates of food to friends around her East Palo Alto neighborhood before she joined the culinary program at JobTrain. She said she came to the cafe to continue to build on what she learned at JobTrain. Under Crossley’s direction, Smothers said she has been developing a taste for global cuisine by testing new recipes. Stir-fries, jambalaya and crab boils are among her goto foods, but arroz caldo, a Filipino rice porridge, has become Smothers’ favorite daily special. Her goal, she said, is to become a chef or caterer, with a primary focus on preparing American soul food. After completing JobTrain’s culinary program, San Jose resident Say Miranda landed a job with LSG Sky Chefs in Burlingame, where she helped prepare food served by airlines. When she felt that she needed more one-on-one training, she decided to join the cooking crew at Rendezvous Cafe as a prep cook. Miranda said that Crossley has been helping her perfect her execution of classic sauces, or “mother sauces,” in classic French cuisine: béchamel, espagnole, hollandaise, tomato and velouté. Each sauce, she said, serves as a flavor base with endless possibilities. In her spare time, she likes to combine multiple ethnic recipes to achieve a unique taste. Her most recent revelation was the pairing of burritos and quesadillas with the spicy gusto of kimchi, a fermented cabbage condiment traditionally served with Korean cuisine. “Right now, my future goal would be to open my own restaurant.” Miranda said. “I would probably stay within the (genre) of Korean-American fusion. I’ve already learned new things, so it can only get better from here.”Q Chrissi Angeles is an editorial intern at the Palo Alto Weekly.

Rendezvous Cafe 350 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City; 650-503-3445; rendezvous.restaurant Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Lauren store, called Rugby; that store closed nearly five years ago. (It was on the site where the Apple Store now stands.) No word yet on what will take over the Polo store space.

by Daryl Savage

GOODBYE, PIZZA STUDIO ... Both local Pizza Studios, in Palo Alto and Mountain View, suddenly closed for good last weekend. The design-your-own pizza eatery lasted about 15 months at 365 California Ave. in Palo Alto and was in business for about 18 months in Mountain View’s San Antonio Center. Known for its quick conveyor-belt cooking method, which took only two minutes to bake a pizza, both closures surprised neighboring businesses. “They were open on Friday and closed on Saturday,” said a California Avenue Starbucks employee who works next door to Pizza Studio. Identical notes were taped to the front doors of both the Palo Alto and the Mountain View locations, thanking customers for their patronage. POLO RALPH LAUREN DEPARTS FROM STANFORD ... The Polo Ralph Lauren shop at the Stanford Shopping Center is gone. The doors behind the ornate, wrought-iron gate permanently closed on Jan. 16. The 13,000-square-foot iconic

clothing store had been at the mall location for more than 25 years. “It was a natural lease expiration,” said Stanford Shopping Center spokesperson Julie Kelly of the closing. “It’s a perfect space for the right tenant and it will give us an opportunity to bring in a new and fresh option.” Few shoppers could miss its dramatic entrance into the stately building: six large pillars framed the front door, which faced El Camino Real. Huge potted plants and furniture were placed throughout the building and its courtyard. Little time was wasted after the mid-January closing before trucks and moving vans cleared out the contents of the store. The Stanford shop is one of several Polo Ralph Lauren stores that were closed in the past few years. The only Polo Ralph Lauren remaining in the Bay Area is located on San Francisco’s Fillmore Street. The closure follows an announcement last year that the Ralph Lauren company was undergoing a cost-saving reorganization effort. Stanford Shopping Center was also at one time home to another Ralph

COMMUNAL DINNERS ON THE RISE ... A touch of Italy is coming to East Palo Alto’s Four Seasons Hotel at 2050 University Ave. Italian-born Marco Fossati, the hotel’s executive chef, is planning the Four Seasons’ first-ever communal dinner. “Guests will have an opportunity to mingle with the chef and his staff and enjoy a luxurious four-course dinner with amazing wine pairings,” said hotel spokesperson Allison Tan. It will be an intimate evening with the chef himself interacting table-side, Tan said. The dinner, scheduled for Saturday, March 19, is limited to only 20 people. “We expect to fill up completely,” Tan said. Depending on the response, the communal dinners could become regularly scheduled events. “We’ll see how popular it gets,” said Tan, who plans to block off an area of the hotel’s Quattro restaurant to have one or two long tables for the family-style dinner. The carefully chosen menu for the communal “Milano Wine Dinner” reflects Fossati’s Italian heritage. The first course, for example, includes hand-cut beef tartar. Tan said that this honors a personal tradition:

When Fossati was a child in Italy, he accompanied his grandfather to the local butcher shop in Milan, where he chose only the finest beef to be sliced and minced. Other menu items include saffron risotto with 24-karat-leaf gold and breaded veal chop, served “old Milano style.” The cost of the four-course dinner, which begins with a cocktail reception, is $250, excluding tax and tip. The Chef’s Dinner at the Four Seasons is not the only communal-dining game in town. A little more than a mile away is another venue that has been serving communal-style chef events for nearly two years. The

Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper St., offers a themed dinner every month. Officially called “520 Chef’s Table,” the evening accommodates approximately 24 diners seated at a long wooden table in a private space in the hotel. Executive Chef Clive Berkman interacts with the guests, who pay $69 (tax and tip extra) for the multi-course dinner with paired wines.

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The imperfect storm True-life Coast Guard tale takes ‘The Finest Hours’ 001/2 (Century Cinemas 16 and 20) The latest true-life adventure from Disney isn’t an animal documentary or a sports drama, but rather a tale of Coast Guard exploits. Shorn of the sea-salty language that probably attended the actual events, the 1950s-set disaster-rescue story “The Finest Hours” fits the Disney métier just fine, but its dim wall-of-grey visuals and tedious narrative make much of the two hours a challenge to the attention span for viewers of any age. While necessarily simplifying — and, at times, unnecessarily Hollywood-izing — Michael J. Tougias’ and Casey Sherman’s nonfiction book “The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue”, the film adheres to the basic facts: in 1952, with a nor’easter battering the seas off Cape Cod, two oil tankers break in two, dividing the Coast Guard’s resources in mounting rescue efforts. And so it is that Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), the coxswain of motor lifeboat CG-36500, leads a crew of three (played by Ben Foster, Kyle Gallner, and John

Chris Pine and Holliday Grainger star in “The Finest Hours.” Magaro) to find the SS Pendleton and bring home alive its 33 mates. In an effort at gender inclusion (and shore-bound tension), “The Finest Hours” begins by establishing the courtship of Webber and his eventual fiancée Miriam (Holliday Grainger), who frets and struts her finest hours in the Coast Guard station, berating the commanding officer (Eric Bana), and along the coast, waiting for Bernie’s boat to come in. Most of the picture toggles between the Coast Guard effort and the struggles of the crew aboard the shockingly shorn stern section of the Pendleton — most notably chief engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck), who assumes leadership and proffers a plan to hold out in hopes of rescue; his toughas-nails ally “Pops” (Graham McTavish), and a Doubting Thomas named Brown (Michael Raymond James). The ragtag crews facing galeforce winds in the waters off

Massachusetts inevitably brings to mind “The Perfect Storm,” but “The Finest Hours,” while probably a tad more authentic, lacks that film’s vitality. Director Craig Gillespie whips up some eyecatching camera moves; the visual effects generally convince, and one can easily understand why this story swiftly became Coast Guard legend. But there’s too little drama to compensate for our knowledge that a Disney-branded film about a rescue effort will end with triumphant uplift. The rescue itself, once it finally arrives, gives the film a second wind, but too much screen time follows that true climax. Although the film’s long midsection sags, “The Finest Hours” in the end does a respectable job of telling, as tribute, its story of real-life American heroism. Rated Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of peril. One hour, 57 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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My way or the driveway Maggie Smith’s on the street in ‘Lady in the Van’ 000 (Century Cinema 16) In the script for his memory play “The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams wrote, “Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Williams wasn’t wrong, but Alan Bennett’s memory play “The Lady in the Van” — now a feature film starring Maggie Page 24 • January 29, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings star in “The Lady in the Van.” Smith — shares its poetic real estate in equal measure between the heart and the head, rescuing the story from pure sentimentality. A British institution, Alan Bennett has authored 22 plays, 20 teleplays, six screenplays, and upwards of 20 books, including

a couple of memoirs. In 1989, at age 55, he wrote “The Lady in the Van” for print, followed swiftly by a radio-play version. Nine years later, it took the stage; 10 years later, the radio; and now, the big (continued on next page)

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screen in a version adapted by the author for director Nicholas Hytner, who previously directed films of Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The History Boysâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Madness of King George.â&#x20AC;? That is to say, the material has been road-tested. A fanciful memoir introduced as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a mostly trueâ&#x20AC;? story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lady in the Vanâ&#x20AC;? is as much about Bennett as the title character, the homeless woman â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary Shep-

herd.â&#x20AC;? Alex Jennings winningly reprises his stage and radio role of Bennett, depicted as a dedicated author and weak-willed person, both given to theatrical flourishes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The writer is double. There is the one who does the writing. And there is the one who does the living,â&#x20AC;? the screen Bennett muses. And there is the woman who squats in his Camden Town, London, driveway; the short, smelly figure, made square by her overcoat, head scarf and hat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nearly

MOVIE TIMES 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. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 1:15, 4:30, 7:45 & 11 p.m. Century 20: 3:25, 7:10 & 10:35 p.m. Sat. 12:15 p.m. Fri. & Sun. noon 45 Years (R)

Aquarius Theatre: 2:20, 4:35, 7:35 & 9:20 p.m.

The 5th Wave (PG-13) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 1, 4:05, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:35, 7:20 & 10:05 p.m. Anomalisa (R) +++1/2

as square as her boxy, yellow van. With Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hesitant consent (â&#x20AC;&#x153;just till you sort yourself outâ&#x20AC;?), Shepherd holds her ground between 1970 and 1984. As go the years, so go the layers built up over her past. Bennett gradually learns who she was in her youth and the secret that has driven her into a life of paranoid victimhood. And with those years comes unexpected caring to rival that for his own sickly mother. Though at times precious, Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sly script masks that deeply sentimental core with comic edge and a writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willful, mercenary remove. The pleasure isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the meandering story but in Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endlessly inventive prose and the percolating performances, especially the latest astringently lovable turn by international treasure Smith. Bennett deals frankly with the cruel, physical and social indignities of age and the ageless struggle

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The Big Short (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:35, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m. Blazing Saddles (1974) (R) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

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The Boy (PG-13) Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 8 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 4:15 & 10:15 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:55 p.m. Brooklyn (PG-13) +++1/2

Casablanca (1942) (PG) Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home (PG-13) The Danish Girl (R)

Stanford Theatre: 5:35 & 9:25 p.m. Century 20: 1:35, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

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Dirty Grandpa (R) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7:15 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 3, 5:40, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m.

Fifty Shades of Black (R)

The Finest Hours (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 1:05 & 7:05 p.m. In 3-D at 10:15 a.m., 4 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 7:20 p.m. Fri. 1:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 4:30 p.m. In 3-D at 10:20 a.m. Fri. 4:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 1:30 p.m. In XD 3-D at 5:50 & 8:50 p.m. The Good Dinosaur (PG) ++1/2 Jane Got A Gun (R)

Century 16: 10 a.m.

Century 16: 9 p.m.

The Hateful Eight (R) ++1/2

Century 20: 11 a.m.

Century 20: 9:20 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Kung Fu Panda 3 (PG) Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 2:35, 4:20, 5:20, 7:10, 8:05 & 9:55 p.m. In 3-D at 10 & 11:50 a.m., 12:45, 3:30, 6:15 & 10:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 & 11:50 a.m. 1:05, 2:25, 3:40, 6:15, 7:35 & 8:45 p.m. In 3-D at 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 5, 6:50, 9:30 & 10:10 p.m. In X-D at 12:30 & 3:05 p.m. In 3-D D-BOX at 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:50 & 9:30 p.m. In D-BOX at 10:30 a.m., 1:05, 3:40, 6:15 & 8:45 p.m. The Lady in the Van (PG-13) +++

Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7 & 9:35 p.m.

Met Opera: Turandot (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Norm of the North (PG)

Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:30 & 6:55 p.m.

Notorious (1946) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:40 p.m. The Revenant (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 12:25, 2:15, 3:55, 5:45, 7:25, 9:15 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 1:50, 3:30, 7, 8:40 & 10:25 p.m. Ride Along 2 (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: noon, 2:40, 5:25, 8:05 & 10:40 p.m. Room (R)

Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:50, 3:50 & 7 p.m.

Saala Khadoos (Not Rated) Sisters (R)

Century 16: 9:50 p.m.

Century 20: 4:55 & 10:40 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 11:10 a.m.

Son of Saul (R) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: 2:15, 4:45 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m. Spotlight (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 1:20 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 1 p.m. Sat. 10:15 a.m. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10 a.m., 2:50, 4:30, 7:50, 9:45 & 11 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 1:10 p.m. In 3-D at 6:10 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 11:35 a.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 12:50, 4, 5:30, 7:15 & 10:35 p.m.

Friday 1/29 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Saturday 1/30 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Met Opera: Turandot Live â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:55 AM Sun, Mon, & Tue 1/31, 2/1, & 2/2 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Wednesday 2/3 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00 Met Opera: Turandot Encore â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:30 PM Thursday 2/4 Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:15, 4:15 Spotlight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1:00, 4:00

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OF MIND AND BODY ... Long before he became a neurosurgeon and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, Jim Doty was a 12-year-old boy looking for a plastic thumb at a magic shop. Instead he had an inspirational encounter that shaped his thinking about the relationship between the brain and the heart. The insights he received are the subject of his new memoir, “Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.” Doty will discuss the book in his conversation with Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbrado at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4 at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. To register for the free event, go to keplers.com

TALKING BOOKS ... Two writing instructors, acclaimed novelists will come together for a literary reunion in Menlo Park on Feb. 24, when Anthony Marra interviews his former teacher, Ethan Canin, at Kepler’s. Marra, a creating writing instructor at Stanford University and author of the award-winning novel, “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” will talk to Canin about Canin’s new novel, “A Doubter’s Almanac.” Canain, a Stanford University graduate, a doctor and a current member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (where Marra earned his MFA), is the founder of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 24 at Kepler’s, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. To register for the free event, go to keplers.com.

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by Michael Berry

hat do a mismatched pair of soon-to-be-married lovers, an anti-materialistic Stanford economist, and a charismatic squirrel have in common? The answer lies in Elizabeth McKenzie’s new comic novel, “The Portable Veblen.”

ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT ... Palo Alto author Eric Faust tells the story of a Civil War regiment through the eyes of volunteers in a hard-fighting regiment in his new book, “The 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster.” Published by McFarland and Company, Faust chronicles the volunteer regiment as it transforms from a group of tradesmen and farmers into an elite fighting unit. The book is available on Amazon at http://goo.gl/yiOGOH

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FROM TEHRAN TO MOUNTAIN VIEW ... Azadeh Tabazadeh fled Iran in 1982, when the nation was in the midst of political upheaval. The Mountain View resident offers her account of the nation before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution and chronicles her life in the United States in a new memoir, “The Sky Detective: A memoir of how I fled Iran and Became a NASA scientist.” Tabazadeh will discuss the book during her appearance at Books Inc. in Palo Alto’s Town and Country Village at 7 p.m. on Feb. 16.

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Set in present-day Palo Alto and environs, “The Portable Veblen” focuses on a thirty-ish South Bay couple grappling with the implications of their seemingly hasty engagement. Named for the iconoclastic social critic Thorstein Veblen, Veblen Amundsen-Hovda is described as “an independent behaviorist, experienced cheerer-upper and freelance self.” She works as a temp at Stanford University School of Medicine, doesn’t mind sharing the attic of her Tasso Street bungalow with a noisy squirrel and adores her fiance, Paul Vreeland. Paul is a brilliant neuroscientist conducting a clinical trial at a veterans hospital. He has developed the Pneumatic Turbo Skull Punch, a medical device designed to save lives on the battlefield -- and possibly make him rich and famous. “The Portable Veblen” begins where most romances end, with a proposal and a big diamond. Reached by phone, McKenzie, who resides in Santa Cruz, explained the impetus for the book’s set-up. “I wanted to explore what happens when you’ve made a commitment to somebody and you start to realize that you don’t see eye-to-eye exactly on everything and you start to wonder whether

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it’s a good idea,” she said. “I think most people experience a lot of negativity toward the person they may have decided to marry.” Complicating matters for Veblen and Paul are their respective families. Veblen’s mother is a narcissistic hypochondriac, a self-pitying dispenser of back-handed advice, while her father is institutionalized with mental illness. Paul’s parents embarrass him with their hippie lifestyle and infuriate him with their perceived favoritism toward Paul’s mentally handicapped, often out of control, older brother. As for her own upbringing, McKenzie grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UC Santa Cruz, but her father’s family has roots in Palo Alto. During the Depression, her grandfather attempted to sell parcels of land in Felton Gables, without success. He later worked at Stanford University for 20 years, as the assistant to the third president of the college, Ray Lyman Wilbur. Trips to Palo Alto to visit relatives were part of McKenzie’s childhood, and in her book she portrays the South Bay’s metamorphosis into an affluent, traffic-congested, tech-obsessed metropolis with hidden pockets of natural wonder. “(Palo Alto) still is a beautiful place, but there was less conspicuous consumption (when I was young), for sure.” McKenzie’s use of “conspicuous consumption” is no accident. The term was coined by her heroine’s idol and namesake, Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), the NorwegianAmerican, erstwhile Stanford professor, and author of “The Theory of the Leisure Class.” (If ordering McKenzie’s novel online, don’t confuse it with the similarly titled

non-fiction collection of T. Veblen’s writings.) “I don’t know how many people in Palo Alto realize that Thorstein Veblen lived there,” McKenzie said. “He actually died on Sand Hill Road, and he had a cabin up on the Old La Honda Road.” She continued, “There’s such a contrast between the affluence in Palo Alto now and the very humble, plain life he was living. It’s just so ironic that the Stanford Mall is only a few blocks from where his house was.” After graduation from UC Santa Cruz, McKenzie was an assistant fiction editor at the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, “a dream job.” Three years later, she returned to the West Coast to earn a Master’s in Creative Writing from Stanford. She is the author of the story collection “Stop That Girl” and the novel “MacGregor Tells the World.” An editor for the Chicago Quarterly Review and Catamaran Literary Review, she has taught creative writing at Stanford’s school of continuing studies. While writing “The Portable Veblen,” McKenzie received a 2010 NEA/Japan US-Friendship Commission fellowship to research and experience both the traditional and contemporary artistic milieu of Japan for three months. “Because I was editing the Chicago Quarterly Review at that time, I proposed this idea that I would do an anthology of contemporary Japanese literature. It ended up being published as a book (“My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa”) instead.” Another result of her time in Asia, McKenzie said, is that she is now writing a novel based on her grand-

mother’s work as a doctor with Nagasaki radiation victims. McKenzie’s interest in science and medicine fueled the subplot in “The Portable Veblen” about Paul’s medical invention. Her research led her to the weird world of medical marketing. “There’s this whole world of sales going on, and for sales you need to get people excited about the products,” she said. “There’s sort of a mismatch between these products — which might be for boring holes in people’s heads or suppressing the smell of corpses — and the language that you need to use for marketing. I found that disjuncture ghoulishly fascinating.” “The Portable Veblen” tackles disturbing topics such as mental illness, corporate malfeasance, wounded veterans and family dysfunction. McKenzie prevents these topics from becoming overwhelmingly bleak through the liberal application of humor. Perhaps emblematic of the novel’s skewed sense of reality is the squirrel that serves as the mascot of the book and seems to comment on the action. McKenzie explained, “The squirrel is a grace note in the book, kind of an alternate consciousness, maybe a super-ego for Veblen, representing the values of the natural world that she aspires to.” Whatever else you may think about “The Portable Veblen,” McKenzie wants to make one thing clear. “There are some reviews that say that the squirrel talks. And I have to say, ‘No, it doesn’t. The squirrel does not talk!’” Q Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com

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MORE ON MUSHROOMS ... Local residents can make friends with fungi on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2-3:30 p.m., at Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. During the event, Debbie Viess, who has studied fungi for more than 25 years, will talk about the habits of these organisms, giving examples from her garden and beyond. Participants will get to see edible, deadly, strange and beautiful mushrooms. The talk costs $20. Info: bit.ly/MushroomsFeb6 OPENING DAY ... Filoli will be open for the first day in 2016 on Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The country estate is located at 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. Info: filoli.org

BOTANICAL ART ... Botanical art classes at Filoli will start on Wednesday, Feb. 10 with the course “Watercolor Essentials: Washes and Glazes.” The six-hour class — which costs $80 for members and $95 for nonmembers — will help students create washes to use as a base for their botanical art works. Other February classes include “History of Botanical Art,” “Drawing Plants in Perspective I” and “Pen and Ink: Magnolias.” Filoli also offers a Botanical Art Certificate Program, in which students complete an in-depth study of botanical art through a curriculum covering artistic skills and concepts, basic botany and botanical art history. More details about the range of classes, costs, supplies needed, prerequisites and credit hours can be found on Filoli’s website. Info: filoli.org/education/adultprograms/botanical-art.html Q 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.

Trees and plants that have been ground up make excellent mulch, arborists say. Above, volunteers with the Palo Alto tree-planting nonprofit Canopy display many types of mulch, and, at right, volunteers water a newly planted tree, which is surrounded by mulch to protect its roots, at Bol Park in Palo Alto on Oct. 24.

Matchmaking for mulch Chip Drop makes mulching a breeze for Palo Altans

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CONTAINER GARDEN DEMO ... Container gardens will be the topic of a class on Wednesday, Feb. 10,, 9-11:30 a.m., at Gamble Garden’s Carriage House, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Participants will learn about the design elements of container gardens and then use containers and plants to make their own. The workshop will be led by Sarah Easley, who has held apprenticeships at botanic gardens around the country and launched her container design business in 2008. The garden workshop costs $45 for members and $55 for nonmembers and includes materials. Info: gamblegarden. org/event/create-a-containergarden-with-sarah-easley-2 and 650-329-1356.

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Home Front

by Avi Salem

mateur gardeners and landscaping pros alike know that mulching is an essential part of a thriving and sustainable garden. A fact less widely known is that wood chips, the finely shredded woody material produced when arborists grind up trees, are sometimes given away for free to homeowners and businesses in need of the organic matter. A new service called Chip Drop is bringing wood chips directly to homeowners’ driveways. Using the Chip Drop website, tree service companies can locate interested homeowners, landscapers and others in their area and make local drops, with no fee for either party. Chip Drop allows patrons to source their mulch sustainably by reducing transportation costs for chip disposal and recycling chips within the community. The service is the brainchild of Bryan Kappa, a Portland, Oregon-based engineer and part-time arborist who sought to simplify a somewhat complicated relationship in the tree care world: While working for a tree trimming company, he realized that managing a list of people who needed wood chips and locating them week by week was cumbersome. “That’s what prompted me to start (Chip Drop) and make it available to others,” he explained. “It centralizes this list and makes it easy (for homeowners) to access

all tree companies in the area.” Once a company chooses a drop site, homeowners are notified and their request is removed so a second delivery isn’t made. Homeowners are only responsible for moving the chips from their driveways to their garden beds. Paul Sousa, owner of San Jose-based California Tree Solutions, started using Chip Drop a year ago while servicing areas in the Peninsula and South Bay. The website helped him unload truckloads of wood chips to local homeowners when completing jobs in a streamlined and effective manner, he said. Sousa pointed to a Chip Drop feature that allows both tree care companies and homeowners to give feedback based on their experience with a drop, similar to how ride-booking apps like Uber or Lyft allow users and drivers to rate one another. “Chip Drop hosts a community of (arborists) ... and we use their feedback from past drops to help us decide if a delivery is worth making,” Sousa said. Homeowners are also allowed to specify types of wood they don’t want in a drop and whether or not they want tree stumps and logs, which are too large for arborists to shred, included in their delivery. Normally Sousa manages a list of people in need of chips, but manually contacting and coordi-

nating drop off times with homeowners can be time consuming, he said. “When you commit to a drop on Chip Drop, we know for sure to make that delivery. ... It saves money and time, and it’s convenient if the drop is close to a job site,” Sousa said. In addition to its convenience and economical benefits, Chip Drop gives environmentally minded people a more sustainable and locally sourced alternative for maintaining their gardens. Both Sousa and Kappa agree that wood chip disposal is normally an inefficient process for arborists, as they often need to stop in the middle of a job to dispose of the woody material. Most companies have to drive long distances to recycling facilities to dispose of the chips, where they are often converted to finely processed pulp or burned for fuel. Michael Hawkins is program director at Palo Alto nonprofit Canopy, an environmental organization that promotes tree planting, tree stewardship and education programs in the community. He said that mulching locally is a win-win situation for the planet and plants alike. Hawkins explained that many homeowners aren’t aware of the varied uses and benefits of wood chips, especially during extreme weather. With winter storms well on their way, mulching is an es-

sential way to provide warmth and insulation for plant roots. “(Wood chips) improve general soil health by promoting the growth of beneficial microorganisms and retaining moisture,” he said, adding, “If you mulch your garden right, it helps retain water locally and prevents erosion.” Chip Drop is currently making around 30 drops a month in the Bay Area and growing as more people learn about the service. Founder Kappa said that Chip Drop brings a mutually beneficial link out into the open — one that existed before, just informally. “It’s a bit of an unspoken thing that you can ask arborists for wood chips,” Kappa said. “But it’s a bit of a hassle. ... (Chip Drop) centralizes things.” Chip Drop is not being run as a for-profit and doesn’t have a consistent source of revenue, Kappa said. But he recently enabled a feature on the website that allows people to give a donation of between $20-$80 for a drop. This donation is split between the tree care company and Kappa, which provides some incentive for a company to make a drop to the donor. Kappa said he puts his share back into the company to make promotional stickers, decals and hats. Q Editorial Intern Avi Salem can be emailed at asalem@ paweekly.com.

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Rent Watch

HOME SALES

Can a disabled tenant ask for an exemption from a rent increase?

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

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Atherton

: I am a local property manager. Recently, after a rent increase notice was issued, a disabled tenant submitted a reasonable-accommodation request. Specifically, she asked me not to raise her rent because she is on a fixed income. While I do know times are hard for tenants, my owner is anxious to pass through his increased costs and take advantage of the increase in market rental rates. He wants me to raise everyone’s rent, including this tenant’s. Under Fair Housing law, do I have to grant this reasonable-accommodation request?

: The short answer is “no.” A disabled tenant can sometimes request a reasonable accommodation to change how, or even when, the rent is paid. However, he or she is not entitled to ask for a lower rental rate or exemption from a rent increase simply because he or she is disabled — even though being disabled can sometimes mean the tenant is unable to work and must live on a fixed income. The granting of a resident’s request for any reasonable accommodation depends on whether the request is reasonable. While a housing provider is expected to absorb some expense and administrative inconvenience to accommodate a disabled tenant’s needs, the housing

provider may decline to grant a reasonable-accommodation request if granting the request would result in an unreasonable administrative or financial burden. While the notion of what is reasonable is a flexible one that depends on all circumstances, in general, housing providers are entitled to charge whatever rent they deem appropriate for a rental unit, taking into account any local rent-control ordinances. The fair housing laws do not require housing providers to bear the financial burden that would result if they forgo a rent increase. Resources: nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/renters-rights Q Project Sentinel provides landlordtenant dispute resolution and fair-housing services in northern California, including rental-housing mediation programs in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. Call 650856-4062 for dispute resolution or 650321-6291 for fair housing, email info@ housing.org or visit housing.org.

48 Manzanita Road Hitchcock Trust to A. Hanif for $4,800,000.00 on 12/21/15; previous sale 11/14/1988, $875,000 96 Normandy Lane Chao Trust to H. & N. Farzaneh for $2,810,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 05/05/2015, $2,680,000 181 Austin Avenue Sousa Trust to Wagner Trust for $16,000,000 on 12/07/15

East Palo Alto

423 Larkspur Drive M. & T. Sternberg to K. Mahmodieh for $685,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 11/07/2013, $435,000 1143 Sage Street M. Prasad to C. Le for $650,000 on 12/24/15; previous sale 05/27/1994, $130,000 2140 Oakwood Drive W. Geisler to M. & K. Lipovsky for $727,000 on 12/15/15; previous sale 12/11/2013, $495,000 2849 Fordham Street E. & C. Rendon to R. Spillane for $625,000 on 12/02/15; previous sale 04/29/1997, $155,000 131 Mission Drive J. Shomar to Ingraham Trust for $616,000 on 12/01/15; previous sale 12/31/1987, $125,000 1982 West Bayshore Road #336 A. & E. Vitus to M. & M. Chan for $725,000 on 12/07/15; previous sale 11/22/2006, $574,000 188 Wisteria Drive D. Duffy to MUSE Inc. for $405,000 on 12/07/15; previous sale 04/13/1972, $19,500

Los Altos

1340 Montclaire Way Meridian Financial Services to A. Dalal for $2,850,000 on 01/08/16 1010 Rilma Lane Charlton Trust to F. Jamzadeh for $2,500,000 on 01/12/16; previous sale 10/26/1993, $515,000 422 Tyndall Street Nylen Trust to M. Wu for $1,600,000 on 01/05/16; previous sale 10/30/2009, $835,000 150 West Edith Avenue #19 Walles Trust to Y. Chen for $1,010,000 on 01/07/16 10490 West Loyola Drive Johnson Trust to West Loyola Drive Limited for $2,500,000 on 12/31/15 10701 Baxter Avenue K. Wang to R. Pilani for $2,100,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 06/23/2000, $899,000 930 Carmel Court R. Tan to I. & I. Agam for $2,725,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 04/19/2010, $1,500,000 73 Chester Circle J. Kai to B. Rey-Herme for $1,888,000 on 12/16/15; previous sale 10/27/1994, $370,000 880 Dover Court Jochelson Trust to C. Au for $3,500,000 on 12/16/15; previous sale 11/04/2011, $2,711,000 205 East Edith Avenue Lee Family Properties to A. & D. Linker for $4,650,000 on 12/21/15; previous sale 12/18/2014, $2,750,000 744 Edge Lane M. Adams to Malkhi Trust for $2,625,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 03/27/2012, $1,675,000 22 Los Altos Square C. Crose to A. Zhang for $1,475,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 08/14/2013, $1,075,000 216 Marich Way P. MacOmber to J. & C. Zeng for $2,080,000 on 12/17/15

Sucharczuk to Altamont Limited for $4,200,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 06/19/2008, $2,500,000 24289 Hillview Road Y. Wang to Puri Trust for $6,720,000 on 12/21/15; previous sale 12/05/2011, $5,650,000

Menlo Park

754 16th Avenue J. Sedlacek to Lukito Trust for $1,121,000 on 12/21/15; previous sale 02/14/2002, $545,000 529 6th Avenue M. Stevenson to E. Jenner for $1,300,000 on 12/18/15; previous sale 06/03/2015, $1,050,000 2021 Ashton Avenue King Trust to Mcrae Trust for $3,100,000 on 12/24/15; previous sale 06/27/2007, $1,225,000 2000 Barney Avenue B. Strang to Barney Limited for $1,200,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 06/11/1979, $117,500 121 Bay Road S. Samuels to M. & E. Griffith for $1,437,500 on 12/21/15 420 Durham Street Drakos Trust to K. & P. Jiang for $1,390,000 on 12/17/15 381 Felton Drive M. Donaghy to Jay Dee Enterprises for $1,700,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 09/25/2003, $877,000 819 Marsh Road S. Silverstein to J. Cizeron for $750,000 on 12/28/15; 865 Middle Avenue S. Satvatmanesh to D. & A. White for $3,310,000 on 12/21/15; previous sale 07/23/2013, $1,550,000 2125 Prospect Street Breslow Enterprises to N. & A. Collins for $3,125,000 on 12/28/15; previous sale 01/29/2015, $2,400,000 672 Sand Hill Circle Fern Trust to N. Redjaian for $1,575,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 10/04/1985, $350,000 1812 Santa Cruz Avenue T. &

Los Altos Hills

27411 Altamont Road G. & M.

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A Fresh Look

Selecting your home’s exterior paint color by Kit Davey

hoosing a paint color for your home’s exterior can be daunting. But following these easy steps you can give your home more curb appeal, protect it from the elements and increase its resale value.

Getting started Before visiting your paint store, consider the following: Q Do you really need to paint, or could you just pressure wash? If you’ve painted your home within the last 5 years, you may still have a few years left on your existing paint job. If the paint flakes off during washing, it’s time to repaint! Q If you don’t like your existing color scheme, consider repainting the trim, rather than repainting the entire house. Brown trim on a beige house was popular 15 years ago, but if you repaint the trim in white you’ll have a more updated look. Q If your home looks boring, leave the body of the house the same and just repaint the front door, add shutters and paint them in the same color as the door. Q Will you do it yourself or hire a professional? You can save money by painting yourself, but most do-ityourselfers don’t realize what a big job it is. Power washing, spackling, sanding and taping, priming and applying several coats of paint can gobble up many weekends. If you are an experienced painter, go for it. If not, protect your investment and lengthen the time

between paint jobs by hiring a professional. Interview at least three licensed contractors referred by trusted friends. Q Are you planning to sell your home in the next three years? If so, paint to attract future buyers. Realtors agree that neutral colors sell homes. Paint the body of your home light beige, taupe or light gray and paint the trim in white. Add a little zip by painting the front door in black or red.

Purchase a quart of each color (yes, really) and return home to begin experimenting. Apply at a least a two by three foot area of paint to one of your walls, next to a strip of trim. Make sure that the area is not chipping or chalky, and that it is clean and dry, before doing this. Then apply the trim color. Give both areas two coats and let it dry. Repeat in a different area with each possible scheme.

Before making your final decision

Selecting a color Once you’ve decided to paint, narrow your color choices. Q Tour your neighborhood, looking for homes with color combinations which appeal to you. Take your camera and a notepad, noting the addresses of homes with attractive combinations. Take photos so you can mull over the possibilities later. Q Cut out pages from home design magazines, or dog-ear pages from design books. Q Rely on color combinations displayed in paint company samplers. Paint manufacturers know what works — you can’t make a mistake by following one of their recommended combinations.

The final selection Select two or three acceptable color schemes, based on your research. Armed with your photos, visit your local paint store. Do your best to match your photos to the chips on display.

Q Look at the painted areas in morning, full sun and evening light. Q If your home has brick or stone trim, apply test paint near those areas. Q If your driveway or walkway has strong color, stand across the street and assess the overall effect. Q Notice whether the roof color blends with your choices. Q Consider the color scheme of your landscaping. If your blooming plants are in cool colors, your home will look better painted in a cool scheme. Q Remember to keep your neighbors in mind. Pink with green trim may be appealing to you but may cause a gag reflex in your neighbors. Q Don’t make a color choice under pressure. You will be living with your paint job for a long time, so take the time to feel confident with your decision. Q Kit Davey is a Redwood City-based interior designer who redecorates using what you already have. She can be reached at 650-367-7370, KitDavey@aol.com and www.AFreshLook.net.

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Home sales

SALES AT A GLANCE

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Atherton C. Ramleth to Littlefield Trust for $4,300,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 06/15/2005, $1,700,000 1280 Sharon Park Drive #40 Kuo Trust to L. & W. Franklin for $1,388,000 on 12/29/15; previous sale 03/02/2012, $895,000 600 Willow Road #19 G. & P. Asmus to A. Pinyavat for $1,490,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 03/08/2005, $750,000 20 Willow Road #43 Roman Catholic Bishop to Church of Pioneers Foundation for $1,275,000 on 12/28/15; previous sale 07/01/1999, $441,000 804 17th Avenue A. & L. Ertola to J. Queisser for $2,045,000 on 12/11/15; previous sale 03/21/2014, $700,000 1050 Almanor Avenue Uland Trust to S. Casey for $1,150,000 on 12/10/15 44 Henderson Place M. & A. Miller to C. Miller for $330,000 on 12/15/15; previous sale 12/31/1992, $163,000 310 Market Place #B V. Wills to CREI Limited for $995,000 on 12/11/15; previous sale , $64,000 204 Ravenswood Avenue Higgins Trust to M. & S. Westling for $1,585,000 on 12/09/15 2140 Santa Cruz Avenue #B202 MOAB Investment Group to Soehrens Trust for $500,000 on 12/10/15; previous sale 08/16/2002, $299,000 2140 Santa Cruz Avenue #B301 P. Galvez to Reimer Trust for $885,000 on 12/09/15; previous sale 04/27/2012, $521,000 2140 Santa Cruz Avenue #E108 Marsh Trust to Keer Trust for $895,000 on 12/16/15; previous sale 04/20/2009, $500,000 1335 Trinity Drive Fernandez

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $2,810,000 Highest sales price: $16,000,000 Average sales price: $7,870,000

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $4,200,000 Highest sales price: $6,720,000 Average sales price: $5,460,000

East Palo Alto

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 15 Lowest sales price: $1,010,000 Highest sales price: $3,180,000 Average sales price: $1,913,400

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $405,000 Highest sales price: $727,000 Average sales price: $633,286

Total sales reported: 32 Lowest sales price: $330,000 Highest sales price: $6,600,000 Average sales price: $1,699,578

Los Altos

Portola Valley Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,250,000 Highest sales price: $2,800,000 Average sales price: $2,228,571

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 13 Lowest sales price: $1,010,000 Highest sales price: $4,650,000 Average sales price: $2,423,308

Total sales reported: 28 Lowest sales price: $600,000 Highest sales price: $13,080,000 Average sales price: $1,978,000

Woodside Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $1,100,000 Highest sales price: $17,000,000 Average sales price: $5,089,000 Source: California REsource

Trust to Y. Jin for $1,975,000 on 12/09/15; previous sale 09/01/1998, $830,000 1135 Bieber Avenue J. Guess to X. Wang for $880,000 on 12/01/15; previous sale 04/23/1979, $40,000 795 Ivy Drive Ivy Valley Investment to C. Chen for $865,000 on 12/08/15; previous sale 03/24/2014, $442,000 230 Lennox Avenue G & J G Trust to D. Kratzer for $2,200,000 on 12/01/15 699 Menlo Oaks Drive Pacific Excel 2 to O’Brien Trust for $6,600,000 on 12/04/15 335 Pierce Road Martinez Trust to Mid-Peninsula Half Moon Bay for $1,460,000 on 12/04/15; previous sale 11/01/1985, $165,000 727 San Benito Avenue G. Chen to J. Sun for $1,600,000 on 12/04/15; previous sale 08/08/2013, $1,160,000 2140 Santa Cruz Avenue #A207

A. & O. Djordjevic to A. Reeds for $600,000 on 12/08/15; previous sale 06/20/2008, $450,000 2407 Sharon Road C. Coelho to J. Zhang for $1,360,000 on 12/08/15; previous sale 03/19/2015, $1,265,000

Mountain View

911 Camille Lane B. Chuang to M. Boucher for $1,515,000.00 on 01/08/16; previous sale 10/07/2003, $1,968,000 1941 Colony Street William Lyon Homes to K. & S. Liu for $1,093,500.00 on 01/12/16; previous sale 01/06/2016, $1,273,000 280 Easy Street #303 L. Kim to A. Ross for $685,000.00 on 01/13/16; previous sale 01/08/2010, $280,000 1642 Fordham Way Cleary Trust to W. Wang for $1,974,500.00 on 01/12/16 2337 Jane Lane L. Trejo to

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K. Hung for $1,580,000.00 on 01/05/16; previous sale 10/30/2000, $605,000 84 Mercy Street Montebello Trust to S. Hari for $2,175,000.00 on 01/07/16; previous sale 10/20/2006, $860,000 758 San Lucas Avenue Owens Trust to B. & E. Lin for $1,300,000.00 on 01/05/16 821 San Lucas Court Dickey Trust to Salkola Trust for $1,175,000.00 on 01/05/16 1109 Sussex Square Ramos Trust to D. & M. Yang for $1,700,000.00 on 01/11/16; previous sale 10/18/1979, $150,700 516 Thompson Avenue Woodhull/Fuget Trust to S. & C. Williams for $1,550,000.00 on 01/08/16 620 Willowgate Street #2 X. Geng to K. Raghuram for $1,225,000.00 on 01/12/16; previous sale 11/17/1999, $350,000 928 Wright Avenue #803

S. Jacobs to A. & I. Tal for $925,000.00 on 01/11/16 219 Carmelita Drive Williamson Trust to Canyongate Bay for $1,820,000 on 12/31/15 2341 Hilo Court West Valley Ventures to L. Moore for $2,700,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 03/27/2015, $1,565,000 496 Mariposa Avenue Rosner Trust to Davis Trust for $2,900,000 on 12/29/15; previous sale 01/04/2006, $1,525,000 693 McCarty Avenue Pruitt Trust to Modern Day Homebuyers for $1,260,000 on 12/30/15 2002 West Middlefield Road #4 M. Berman to Y. He for $860,000 on 12/30/15; previous sale 07/20/2007, $575,000 905 West Middlefield Road #966 Marshall Trust to D. Grbovic for $820,000 on 12/29/15; previous sale 01/23/1998, $245,000 108 Bryant Street #18 Pigna-

loni Trust to N. & V. Gupta for $1,150,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 09/17/2004, $575,000 1420 Ernestine Lane Schaefer Trust to S. & S. Pai for $1,875,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 02/1970, $30,000 100 Ferguson Drive Redus Ferguson Limited to Pulte Home for $13,080,000 on 12/17/15 363 North Rengstorff Avenue #4 G. Brichko to A. Peyton for $1,145,000 on 12/21/15; previous sale 10/18/1995, $225,000 131 Pacchetti Way D. Hsia to J. & M. Weinstock for $1,250,000 on 12/24/15; previous sale 10/29/2013, $920,000 722 Reflection Way MV Reflection to S. Perng for $1,530,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 09/30/2015, $1,485,000 793 San Carlos Avenue O. Zavala to W. Liu for $1,275,000 on 12/22/15; previous sale 05/18/2000, $500,000 97 Sherland Avenue #D Gibbs Trust to James Trust for $600,000 on 12/23/15 380 Sherland Circle J. & M. Solomon to D. Galpin for $4,341,000 on 12/23/15; previous sale 05/28/1992, $345,000 2116 Sun Mor Avenue Melendez Trust to A. Shadhapuri for $1,880,000 on 12/16/15

Palo Alto

3153 Alma Street A. Ruiz to Tsai Trust for $1,500,000.00 on 01/11/16; previous sale 07/08/2003, $580,000 360 Everett Avenue #3A Flores Trust to E. Meijer for $2,200,000.00 on 01/05/16 2719 Greer Road T. Ma to Y. Xiong for $2,190,000.00 on 01/12/16 432 High Street #102 Yu-Williams Trust to W. & E. Campbell for $1,098,000.00 on 01/05/16 864 La Para Avenue Rotha Trust to A. Lawer for $2,225,000.00 on 01/08/16

Home & Real Estate 490 Loma Verde Avenue H. & Y. Imanaka to Silicon Valley Builders for $2,500,000.00 on 01/12/16; previous sale 07/25/2000, $930,000 3206 Louis Road Sheldon Trust to F. Yeung for $1,890,000.00 on 01/06/16; previous sale 02/18/1975, $52,500 2494 Tasso Street C. Beaudoin to H. Liu for $2,560,000.00 on 01/11/16 2139 Wellesley Street Heley Trust to Suarez Trust for $1,850,000.00 on 01/08/16; previous sale 06/01/2007, $753,000 1153 Donner Lane Sterling Park to Y. He for $1,375,000 on 12/29/15; 344 Grant Avenue J. Kane to W. Jiang for $1,010,000 on 12/30/15; previous sale 08/05/1988, $155,000 3702 Heron Way X. Tang to B. & O. Shaibe for $1,260,000 on 12/31/15; previous sale

05/23/2008, $896,500 3848 Louis Road Overton Trust to O. Momtahan for $2,008,000 on 12/31/15 1221 Dana Avenue Barry Trust to M. Du for $3,180,000 on 12/23/15 631 Kendall Avenue S. & H. Liu to Z. Song for $1,855,000 on 12/17/15; previous sale 11/07/1985, $170,000

Portola Valley

111 Carmel Way Duncan Trust to G. Scott for $1,750,000.00 on 12/30/15; previous sale 09/12/1974, $46,000 55 El Rey Road Read Trust to S. Diller for $1,250,000.00 on 12/17/15; previous sale 09/28/2000, $1,000,000 177 Favonia Road Newman Trust to S. & G. Tripathi for $2,750,000.00 on 12/30/15 4 Franciscan Ridge D. Rock to Bonanno Trust for $2,700,000.00

on 12/29/15; previous sale 02/24/2000, $3,210,000 45 Joaquin Road Pony Tracks Ranch to G. Verma for $1,800,000.00 on 12/29/15; previous sale 09/13/2012, $1,600,000 45 Vista Verde Way Caron Trust to K. & L. MacWilliams for $2,550,000.00 on 12/18/15; previous sale 12/11/1991, $1,450,000 177 Los Trancos Circle A. & L. Staprans to Vu Trust for $2,800,000 on 12/09/15

Woodside

38 Hacienda Drive Quinta Properties to V. & A. Singh for $4,350,000.00 on 12/23/15; previous sale 01/06/2015, $4,100,000 115 Eleanor Drive M. & S. Dumas to Bildner Trust for $6,500,000 on 12/16/15; previous sale 07/25/2008, $1,950,000

2150 Greenways Drive M. Fulton to P. James-Green for $2,500,000 on 12/14/15 555 Manzanita Way Fairview Trust to Dyckerhoff Trust for $8,120,000 on 12/15/15 4214 Jefferson Avenue Brooks Trust to B. Hofer for $1,100,000 on 12/04/15 260 Mountain Wood Lane Mohr Trust to Mountain Wood Lane Limited for $17,000,000 on 12/01/15; previous sale 11/08/2000, $24,500,000 125 Sheridan Way L. & R. Sherry to S. & H. Wang for $3,520,000 on 12/04/15; previous sale 05/13/2008, $3,250,000 155 Sunrise Drive P. & S. Muller to Sunrise Trust for $3,400,000 on 12/01/15; previous sale 05/31/2002, $1,350,000 100 Todo El Mundo Blow Trust to S. Ayagh for $3,050,000 on 12/02/15 17 Upper Lake Road L. Schultz

to J. McLaughlin for $1,350,000 on 12/04/15; previous sale 12/30/1993, $579,000

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2016 FORECAST

PENINSULA RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET INTRODUCTION

HOUSING MARKET FORECAST

The last twenty plus years have seen dramatic economic upheaval and equally dramatic recovery. Over this period, the housing market has likewise experienced volatility and, more recently, rapid increases to record high prices. Both confusion and uncertainty have accompanied this roller coaster ride. The following analysis is intended to look forward within the context of the recent past.

The continued recovery of the national economy and the strong, although somewhat abated, growth of the local economy indicates that the fundamentals are in place for another year of high demand for housing. Further, mortgage interest rates remain at historic lows and are expected to move upward only modestly in 2016. Although the Peninsula housing market is a non-homogenous aggregation of unique micro-markets, in general expect 2016 to look much like 2014 and 2015: high demand and low inventory.

CONTEXT The appreciation in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties was negative to slightly positive during the Great Recession recovery years of 2009 to 2011. In 2012, home price appreciation was strong, and in 2013 many areas saw appreciation in the 20% range due to pent-up demand and bullish buyers. Appreciation slackened in most cities in 2014 and 2015, but was above historic norms reflecting continued strong demand. (Refer to figure.) These price increases reflect strong demand and insufficient supply. The number of home sales has been trending down since 2007. This has not been for a lack of buyers, but rather a lack of supply.

SUPPLY: The supply of homes available to purchase will continue its downward trend in most cities. APPRECIATION: In 2016 prices will increase at a rate that exceeds the 20-year average. However, in most cities the rate will continue to decline as it seeks its long-term norm. SPILLOVER: The price levels in the more expensive areas will continue to cause buyers to seek less expensive alternatives. This will further dampen appreciation in the more costly areas and will put more pressure on prices in the areas that are relatively less expensive.

THOUGHTS FOR BUYERS AND SELLERS BUYERS: Home prices are at a point where even at historic appreciation they are increasing by tens of thousands of dollars each month. Consequently, delays caused by a buyer’s lack of resolve or non-competitive offers will prove costly. A successful home purchase will be built on preparation and flexibility. You need to have done your homework and have everything in place to act quickly in a market where well priced homes are on the market for only a few days. With the lack of inventory, you should also be willing to make trade-offs.

MARKET INDICATORS I have found that the best predictor of the local housing market is local job creation. Which in turn is effected by the global economy, venture capital funding, the stock market, and other factors. Nationally the recovery from the 2008 meltdown has been sluggish. In contrast, the economy of the South Bay (Santa Clara and San Benito counties) and the San Francisco metro area (San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin counties) has been one of the brightest spots in the U.S. In 2015 job growth was 4.7% in both the San Francisco metro and the South Bay. Many forecasters, like the California Department of Finance, believe that the rate will decline in 2016 and thereafter. Likewise, Beacon Economics expects job growth in the South Bay to slow to an annual rate of 1.5% by the end of 2016 and to be between 1% and 2% through 2020 (The Regional Outlook, South Bay 2016). Despite the generally upbeat projections for the Bay Area economy, there are concerns posed by the Chinese economy, which is expected to slow further in 2016. As observed by Micah Weinberg, president of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, “The prospects for the Bay Area economy are very strong, but they do not inoculate us from what is going on elsewhere”.

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SELLERS: Sellers, you are currently in the control position. At the correct price, many people will offer to purchase your property, and if properly prepared and marketed, you will garner the best possible price. Buyers are plentiful, often “hungry,” but rarely stupid. Overpriced homes will be passed over, and the prices of poorly presented homes will be discounted. If you are seeking to time the market to maximize return, a sale in 2016 may be to your favor. However, current international events and the uncommonly long period of economic growth suggest that time poses down cycle risk. For the full text and figures of this forecast, go to www.zanemac.com.

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Offered at $2,198,000 Beds 2 | Baths 2 Home ±1,883 sf | Lot ±1,425 sf

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement CAMRAN NEZHAT INSTITUTE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612226 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Camran Nezhat Institute, located at 900 Welch Rd., Ste. 403, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ENDOSCOPY AND FERTILITY CENTER, A MEDICAL CORPORATION 900 Welch Rd., Ste. 403 Palo Alto, CA 94303 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 17, 2015. (PAW Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) Amity CrossFit FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612439 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amity CrossFit, located at 3516 El Camino Real, 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): HEIGHT PERFORMANCE, LLC 686 Emily Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on December 1, 2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 29, 2015. (PAW Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) ZEST LIMOUSINE SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612356 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Zest Limousine Service, located at 2464 El Camino Real #250, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FODHIL ZERROUKI 1360 Jefferson St., Apt. #A Santa Clara, CA 95050 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/23/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 23, 2015. (PAW Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) SHARETEA PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 612788 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Sharetea Palo Alto, located at 540 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KJY Brothers, LLC 507 15th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118 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 January 8, 2016. (PAW Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RICHARD BEYER WITSCHONKE Case No.: 115 PR 177735 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RICHARD BEYER WITSCHONKE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: HEIDI L. BECKER in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: HEIDI L. BECKER 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 February 1, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Robert J. Lanzone 1001 Laurel Street, Suite A San Carlos, CA 94070 (650)453-3117 (PAW Jan. 15, 22, 29, 2016) NOTICE OF DEATH OF HORACE CULMER BANKS, II To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of HORACE CULMER BANKS, II, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on November 26, 2015, in the City of Palo Alto, County of Santa Clara, State of California. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 15720 Winchester Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Gatos, California 95030 (408) 395-5111. Joseph D. Dermer, Esq. DERMER LAW FIRM 15720 Winchester Boulevard, Suite 200 Los Gatos, CA 95030 Tel (408) 395-5111 Fax (408) 354-2797 (PAW Jan. 15, 22, 29, 2016) Trustee Sale No. : 00000005411640 Title Order No.: 8571114 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 01/04/2006. 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 01/09/2006 as Instrument No. 18761066 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: NANCY E. HILL, 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: 02/19/2016 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:

1654 MIRAMONTE AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA 94040 APN#: 189-05021 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 $357,032.47. 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 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 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 00000005411640. 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: 01/13/2016 NPP0269802 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 01/22/2016, 01/29/2016, 02/05/2016 File No. 14-10845 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER 1939 ROCK STREET HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION (ASSOCIATION) COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS AND A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT (LIEN) DATED 07-11-2014 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 02-18-2016 at 10:00 AM, AT THE NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE TO THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, 190 N. MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95113 ALLIED TRUSTEE SERVICES, (Trustee) 990 Reserve Drive #208, Roseville, CA 95678, (877) 282-4991 under and pursuant to Lien, recorded 07-18-2014 as Instrument 22649436 Book - Page - of Official

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Records in the Office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, CA, WILL CAUSE TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check/ cash equivalent or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale) the property owned by ELLY GRIMALDI, AS TRUSTEE OF THE ELLY GRIMALDI REVOCABLE TRUST INITIALLY CREATED ON MAY 2, 2012 situated in said County, describing the land therein: A.P.N.: 153-42-007 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1939 ROCK STREET #7, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043 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 satisfy the sums due under the Lien. The estimated total unpaid balance at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is $9,438.16 THE PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO THE 90-DAY POST-SALE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION AS SET FORTH IN CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 5915(B). Association heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default. The undersigned caused a 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 Association, 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 888-988-6736, or visit this Internet Web site www.salestrack.tdsf.com for information, using the file number assigned to this case: 14-10845 . 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. DATE: January 18, 2016 ALLIED TRUSTEE SERVICES, Trustee KATHLEEN YOUNG, Authorized Signature TAC#987156 PUB: 1/29/16, 2/5/16, 2/12/16 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: OLEG JARDETZKY Case No.: 1-16-PR 178058 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of OLEG JARDETZKY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ALEXANDER JARDETZKY in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ALEXANDER JARDETZKY 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 March 14, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: 44 Mariposa Ave. Los Gatos, CA 95030 (408)395-1251 (PAW Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2016)

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ROAD TO RIO . . . Three days removed from a 5-0 victory against the Republic of Ireland after the completion of January Camp, U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Jill Ellis selected 20 players for the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship to be held from Feb. 10-21 in Frisco and Houston, Texas. The roster includes former Stanford All-Americans Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press. The team includes 13 members of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship team and seven Olympic qualifying veterans, three of whom (Hope Solo, Tobin Heath and Carli Lloyd) took part in qualifying for the 2008 Olympics. With a top-two finish in the tournament, the U.S. WNT would join Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, South Africa, Zimbabwe and New Zealand, who already have qualified, in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August . . . The draw for the upcoming Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournament in water polo was determined this past weekend at the European Championship in Belgrade, Serbia. The USA Women’s National Team, reigning Olympic champion, will have to finish in the top four to earn a berth to the 2016 Olympic Games. Team USA was drawn into Group A alongside defending Olympic silver medalist Spain. Qualification competition will take place this March 21-28 in Gouda, Netherlands.

ON THE AIR Friday Women’s swimming: Stanford at UCLA, 2 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks Women’s basketball: Washington at Stanford, 8 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM)

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