Palo Alto Weekly March 4, 2016

Vol. XXXVII, Number 22

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Olive Garden redevelopment plan is under the gun Page 7 PaloAltoOnline.com

Stanford women open Pac-12 basketball tournament Page 70

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Transitions 15 Spectrum 16 Worth a Look 26 Eating Out 35 Shop Talk 36 Movies 37 Q Seniors Report: Americans less prepared for long life

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Q Arts Gunn theater group inspires kids in need

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Q Home Who is living in Palo Alto’s in-law cottages?

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Drought to blame for upcoming utilities costs Palo Alto rates will rise by 11 percent in July, according to new projections

by Gennady Sheyner fter seven years of stability crease that Utilities Department pricing, Palo Alto’s electric staff projected last month, accordratepayers could soon be in ing to projections presented to the for a series of jolts as the state’s pro- City Council’s Finance Committee longed drought continues to take its on Tuesday night. Rates are also toll on both the city’s hydroelectric expected to go up by another 8 percent the following July before stabisupplies and its cash reserves.

Electric rates are set to go up lizing, according to the projections.

Much like with water rates, by 11 percent on July 1, a slight increase from the 10 percent in- which are also projected to in-

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crease in July, the drought is the main driver. Half of the city’s electric supply comes from hydroelectric sources, and with the dry spell stretching into its fifth year, Palo Alto has been forced to buy wholesale electricity at market prices, which tend to be higher.

Water rates are set to go up by 6 percent — down from the 9 percent estimate in staff’s prior assessment. This is because the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the city’s water supplier,

has revised its own projections for future rate hikes. City utilities staff also predict 9 percent increases in each of the following years.

The drought is even affecting the city’s wastewater operation.

With less water flowing through the system, there is a greater concentration of chemicals when the water arrives at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant, which increases the treatment costs, according to Utilities Department staff. Wastewater rates are

projected to go up by 9 percent in July, which would add about $2.88 per month to a residential bill, said Eric Keniston, rates manager for City of Palo Alto Utilities. Prices are also projected to go up by 10 percent in each of the next two years.

Even the gas utility isn’t insulated from the drought. Gas consumption dips and the city’s revenues fall below expenditures when people heat (continued on page 12)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Tall Tree Award winners announced Honorees have improved life for children, people with disabilities

by Sue Dremann

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Sharing a song Deborah Anthonyson, a senior librarian at the Palo Alto Children’s Library, leads youngsters through the song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” during toddler storytime on March 2. Anthonyson alternated between reading and singing in order to keep the kids’ attention.

ENVIRONMENT

Palo Alto takes block-by-block approach to climate change New pilot program aims to shift residents’ behavior one block at a time

by Gennady Sheyner

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an a city block become a building block in Palo Alto’s battle against climate change?

That’s the question city officials hope to answer as part of a new experiment that the City Council approved Monday night. Developed by the Empowerment Institute and known as Cool Block, the program will aim to shift the behavior of residents on 30 city blocks through

112 “action recipes” — everything from wearing warm clothes to cutting down on driving.

The program will be rolled out on 10 blocks initially and later expanded to 20 more. Each block will have a captain who will help facilitate the carbon-cutting efforts, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent.

Though the city will have a role in selecting the blocks and spread-

ing the program’s message, Cool Block is expected to be primarily a “bottom-up” approach, shepherded by residents themselves.

Sandra Slater, who lives downtown and is spearheading the city’s effort, called the program a “systems approach” to tackling climate change — one that integrates city policies, business solutions and resident interests. Participants will be able to access a

web portal where they can simply click on their area of interest — whether it’s water conservation or energy reduction — and get information about the city’s programs.

Residents understand, Slater said, that there is a “sense of urgency on climate change and some of the issues we’re facing not only on the planet but in California and Palo Alto.”

The pilot program will require the city’s policy leadership, involvement from the tech sector and, most importantly, residents, she said.

“It’s the choices you and I — we — make every day in how we live our lives,” Slater said.

Despite the leadership by residents in the pilot program, the council had an extensive discussion Monday about whether to partici(continued on page 12)

our individuals and organizations who have contributed to improving children’s quality of life have been named as recipients of the 2016 Tall Tree Awards, one of Palo Alto’s most prestigious honors, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and Palo Alto Weekly have announced.

This year’s recipients built a playground for children with disabilities; donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in bike equipment to schools to make biking safer; funded a new high school athletics center that is expected to be a city jewel for generations; and dedicated thousands of hours to tree planting. Their efforts, from sweat equity to large donations, will be honored on May 4.

The Chamber and the Weekly sponsor the awards.

This year’s honorees are marketing professional Olenka Villareal, real estate investor Richard Peery, small business Palo Alto Bicycles and nonprofit Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto.

Olenka Villareal, Outstanding Citizen Volunteer When Olenka Villareal discovered that Palo Alto’s parks were not accessible to her disabled (continued on page 11)

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

This is a good chance for us to be in the lead.

—Liz Kniss, Palo Alto City Councilwoman, in endorsing the Cool Block pilot program, an experiment in cutting greenhouse gases that works by neighborhood blocks. See story on page 5.

Around Town

THE CUBBERELY KUMBAYA ...

Palo Alto’s city and school officials will gather by a totem pole in front of Cubberley Community Center on March 9 for a symbolic display of their shared desire to repair and redesign the dilapidated center near the city’s southern edge. The centerpiece of the ceremony will be the signing of the Cubberley Futures Compact, a document that according to the event announcement “renews the commitment between the city and the school district to collaboratively plan for the future of the site.” The effort would build on the foundation of the Cubberley Citizens Advisory Committee, a group of stakeholders who met in 2012 and came up with recommendations about the sprawling 35-acre campus (the school district owns 27 acres and the city owns 8 acres of the property at 4000 Middlefield Road).

In a statement, City Manager James Keene said the compact “symbolizes our commitment to collaborating on a process to design a Cubberley site that reflects and serves both our community and educational needs into the future.”

His counterpart at the school district, Superintendent Max McGee, concurred and said both he and Keene are “grateful and fortunate to live in a community that is highly invested in both the education of our children and the services for all citizens.” The March 9 ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. The new compact will also be featured at the second annual Cubberley Day, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 19.

DIRECTION SENSE ... Five Palo Alto students will be heading to San Diego on April 1 to compete in the National Geographic Bee, a competition for fourth- through eighth-grade students. The winner of the statewide competition will then proceed to Washington, D.C. for the national competition, which will take place May 22-25 in the National Geographic Society headquarters. Local participants are JLS Middle School eighth-grader Sophie Alexis; Jordan Middle School eighth-grader Leo Marburg; Terman Middle School eighthgrader Andy Yang; and El Carmelo Elementary fifth-grader Lucian Zhao. Each of these students has won the geography competition in his or her school to become eligible for the competition.

CRYPTO DREAM TEAM ... Stanford University cryptography pioneers Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman have been awarded the 2015 A.M. Turing Award, the Association for Computing Machinery announced Tuesday, March 1, at the largest gathering of cryptographers working on Internet security. The award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google.

Diffie and Hellman are credited with bringing “cryptography from the shadowy realm of classified espionage into the public space,” according to Stanford News Service.

Their 1976 paper “New Directions in Cryptography” provided a blueprint for a revolutionary new technique, called public-key cryptography, that allows people to communicate over an open channel but keep their information secret from any potential eavesdroppers. They also introduced the concept of digital signatures.

The Association for Computing Machinery will present the pair with the annual award at a banquet on June 11 in San Francisco.

POSTER CONTEST ... Young aspiring artists and marketers will have a chance to show their talents through the America’s PrepareAthon! Art Poster Contest.

The poster contest is the brainchild of Palo Alto student Divakar Saini, who is part of the city’s FEMA team.

The contest is open to Palo Alto Unified School District students grades 1-8. The topic for the poster is emergency preparedness.

The one-page poster should not exceed 24 by 36 inches. Students can use a variety of mediums: colored pencils, crayons, markers or computer-generated electronic art. The poster should showcase how you can accomplish one or more of four steps of emergency preparedness: make a plan, build an emergency kit, know the facts, get involved, or how to act in a specific emergency, such as a fire. Submission deadline is April 11, with drop-off at the student’s school office, March 9-April 11. Digital entries can be sent to Dsaini775@gmail.com. Two winners will be announced for each grade on April 30. Winners will be honored by Mayor Pat Burt with gift certificates and certificates of achievement. The posters will be displayed at the Palo Alto Art Center and City Hall. For more information, visit cityofpaloalto.org. Q

Upfront from evidence presented at the hearing that “at least some of the (objections) the court has received have been completed based on the incomplete or misleading messages that have been conveyed about the FERPA notice, its purpose, and its context within this litigation.”

Mueller said that while no information has been released yet, procedures are in place in case any requests for confidential student information are approved.

The safeguards were developed by a computer forensics expert, Winston Krone, and approved of by both parties to the lawsuit.

The notice posted on the Department of Education website said that information may be released on any child who attended public schools in California after Jan. 1, 2008. An earlier order by Mueller said the information will not be released “to anyone other than the parties (to the lawsuit), their attorneys and consultants, and the Court” and will be returned or destroyed when the lawsuit is concluded.

The notice says that types of information stored on the Department of Education’s databases and network drives that could be released include “name, Social Security number, home address, demographics, course information, statewide assessment results, teacher demographics, program information, behavior and discipline information, progress reports, special education assessment plans, special education assessments/evaluations, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs),

PRIVACY

Objections pour in over possible release of student data Federal judge clarifies order regarding release of student records

by Barbara Wood

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fter California parents were recently notified that their children’s records might be released as part of a federal lawsuit over special education, the judge handling the case was so inundated with objections that she said she “cannot realistically review” them.

In a new ruling issued March 1, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller in Sacramento also clarified that no records have yet been released. She also tightened up security measures for some of the most sensitive records that may be released.

The judge said that the response to the notice that the records might be released shows how outdated the federal law is that requires the disclosures.

Many districts around the state had recently informed parents that information about their students might be released and provided information about how to object.

The student records were requested as part of a lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento in April 2012 by two organizations,

the Morgan Hill Concerned Parents Association and the California Concerned Parents Association, which represent parents of children with disabilities.

The suit, filed against the California Department of Education, claims state schools are not complying with federal laws about educating students with disabilities.

On Feb. 29, Judge Mueller held a hearing on questions involving the release of information and issued a new ruling on March 1.

“Given the number of objections received, and the objections that will continue to be received, the court has not and cannot realistically review the objections individually,” she wrote.

Mueller said the objections, which can be sent in until April 1, are to be preserved by storing them “in sealed boxes stored in a secure room until further order of the court.”

The ruling said that while a notice of the records release is legally required, as is offering the opportunity to object to the release, “consent of those persons whose information is contained in da-

tabases is not required where, as here, disclosure is court-ordered and subject to a protective order.”

The March 1 ruling gave further details about what led to the warning about the records release.

Mueller wrote that FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) requires “notice prior to disclosure of education records, including those that contain personal identifying information.”

Because lawyers in the case had asked for confidential records, the judge ordered the notice and said it could be posted online. The wording of the notice had been agreed upon by the court.

“The response to the notice thus far demonstrates,” Mueller wrote, “on the one hand, the imperfect fit between the FERPA regulation crafted in and largely unchanged since the 1970s, before the Internet as we know it was a gleam in any but an academic’s eye, and on the other, the social-media environment in which information is churned and transformed in a nanosecond or less.”

The judge wrote that she learned

records pertaining to health, mental health and medical information, student statewide identifiers (SSID), attendance statistics, information on suspensions and expulsions, and results on state tests.”

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a press release on Feb. 17 that the Department of Education has for nearly three years “fought requests by the plaintiffs to produce documents that contain the personally identifiable information of students and has produced documents with that information removed.”

But the Concerned Parents Association, on its website, said it has worked for two years with the Department of Education to provide “these materials in an anonymized form” but that the department “persistently declined.”

The March 1 ruling includes a further safeguard for the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which it calls “the most sensitive” information that is being requested “because it contains the largest quantity of personal identifying information.” If that database is approved for release, it would remain with the Department of Education, which would have to let representatives of the groups filing the lawsuit search the database for the information they had requested. Q Barbara Wood is a staff writer for The Almanac, a sister paper of the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be reached at bwoods@ almanacnews.com.

Office project at Olive Garden site races to meet city’s deadline Architectural Review Board gives mixed review to proposed development at 2515 El Camino Real

by Gennady Sheyner

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ith the clock ticking toward the deadline for new office developments in Palo Alto, two proposals by the same architecture firm are racing to complete their applications and become eligible for approval this year.

The larger of these, a proposal to demolish the Olive Garden restaurant and replace it with a three-story, mixed-use building at 2515-2585 El Camino Real, faces a particularly intense time crunch.

The development proposed by Hayes Group faces a hearing in front of a Planning and Transportation Commission on March 10 and then a review by the Architectural Review Board on March 17. It will need to clear both hurdles to make the March 31 deadline that was established by the city’s ordinance capping new office development.

The firm is also pursuing a separate project at 411-437 Lytton Ave., a 19,776-square-foot building with 13,360 square feet of commercial space and one residential unit. Because of its office space,

this project is also subject to the 50,000-square-foot annual limit on total office development that the council approved last year. The Historic Resources Board is set to review this project on March 10.

The office cap, which applies to proposals downtown, around California Avenue and on El Camino Real, sets up a process in which office projects compete against each other for approval if they total 50,000 square feet or more.

Because the Lytton Avenue project has been in the city’s approval process since early 2015, it is considered a priority project and would thus get priority over other proposals in the pipeline. (There are two other priority projects, at 2747 Park Blvd. and at 3225 El Camino Real; collectively, the three projects total 37,604 square feet of office space.)

The redevelopment of the Olive Garden site, meanwhile, does not enjoy the priority status and, as a result, still faces a few significant hurdles.

Even if it receives the needed votes of approval from the two city commissions in the weeks ahead, it may have

to vie with at least one other project: 901 High St., a 20,288-square-foot project that includes 5,000 square feet of office space.

On Thursday morning, the city’s Architectural Review Board indicated that its approval of 2515 El Camino — which includes 13 condominiums, 10,122 square feet of retail and 9,835 square feet of office — is far from certain. At a public hearing that featured no formal votes, the board gave the project a mixed review, with one board member indicating that he would oppose the design as currently proposed.

The board also lauded certain elements of the project, including a new plaza on Sherman Avenue, a proposed walkway through the site and the development’s general conformance with the city’s design guidelines for El Camino Real. The project also meets all the specifications of both the “neighborhood commercial” zone that comprises most of the project and the “community commercial” zone that makes up a small portion

Courtesy Hayes Group Architects

DEVELOPMENT

A proposed development for 2515 El Camino Real, which would replace the Olive Garden restaurant, would include condominiums, retail and offices. of one of the site’s two parcels.

Board member Peter Baltay characterized the modern design as “good architecture” and praised the project for meeting the area’s design guidelines.

Board member Wynne Furth’s biggest issues with the project had to with landscaping and how pedestrians relate to the site. Furth called the landscaping plan “too bright, too hard and insufficiently green” and suggested that the architect will have to make major changes to make the project compatible with the surrounding area.

At the same time, Furth lauded the “wonderful plaza” proposed for the area near Sherman Avenue, saying that it “seems like a place where people would like to spend time.”

She also joined her colleagues in praising the walkway proposed

by Hayes Group Architects, which would connect Sherman

and Grant avenues.

Board member Alexander Lew, meanwhile, said he opposes the project. Lew agreed with Baltay that the architectural style of the proposed 40-foot-tall building is compatible with other developments in the area. Yet he also said that he opposes the development because of the length of its facade on El Camino and a residential component that “is too overwhelming for the block and doesn’t really fit the urban pattern on El Camino.”

The building design also presented a problem for Chair Robert Gooyer, who recommended that some of the massing be shifted from the middle of the site to the corner so that the walkway would remain entirely open. Under the existing design, it stretches through the building’s lobby, which would be locked during certain hours, making the path impassible. Q

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Upfront

Community Health Education Programs

News Digest New plan seeks truce between CPI and neighbors For a complete list of classes, lectures and support groups, or to register, visit pamf.org/healtheducation

March and April 2016 All our lectures and events are free and open to the public.

Digestive Health: Tips for Liver Wellness March 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

One out of every 10 Americans is affected by liver disease. Join PAMF gastroenterologist Sanjeev Tummala, M.D. to discuss the liver’s role in digestive health, the causes of fatty liver disease and how to keep your liver healthy.

Mountain View Center 701 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View 650-934-7380

Is Your Diet Inflammatory?

March 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Join registered dietician Julita KlopockaNiemiec to discuss the health implications of an inflammatory diet and learn to choose foods that protect your body and promote healing.

Palo Alto Center 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-853-4873

Communication Strategies for Dementia Caregivers March 17, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Learn to decode verbal and behavioral communication in order to connect with people in early, middle and late stage dementia. This program will feature a speaker from the Alzheimer’s Association.

Food Allergies and Children April 12, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Pediatric allergy and immunology specialist Steven Rubinstein, M.D., will discuss common food allergies, prevention, testing and management.

Sunnyvale Center 301 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale 408-730-2810

Put Your Best Face Forward April 12, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Interested in looking better without looking like you had anything done? Plastic surgeon Cindy Russell, M.D., will discuss both newer and tried-and-true options for natural rejuvenation, including surgical and nonsurgical techniques.

Sunnyvale Public Library 665 W. Olive Ave., Sunnyvale 408-730-7300

Why Vaccinate Against HPV? April 12, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Join gynecologic oncologist Lejla Delic, M.D., and nurse practitioner Natasha Curry, to learn the best way to protect your child from HPV. Palo Alto Center 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-853-4873

Sunnyvale Center 301 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale 408-730-2810

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Seeking to resolve a feud between Barron Park neighborhood residents and the company Communication & Power Industries (CPI), Palo Alto officials on Monday threw their support behind a compromise that gives the manufacturer more time to relocate its controversial plating shop. In exchange, the company agrees to move the facility completely off site rather than simply beyond the 300-foot buffer zone established by a law the City Council also passed Monday night.

By a unanimous vote, the council approved two ordinances: The first creates a new prohibition on facilities in the city with large stockpiles of hazardous materials. The second specifically targets CPI and includes a plan to phase out its plating shop.

The citywide ordinance creates new restrictions for facilities with hazardous materials that exceed a threshold set by the State Health and Safety Code. These facilities now are prohibited from setting up shop within 300 feet of schools, day care centers, convalescent homes and other sites with sensitive populations. In addition, the ordinance prohibits all facilities with materials above the higher threshold set by the California Accidental Release Prevention Program.

The new tier includes CPI’s plating shop, which stands within 100 feet of a portion of Barron Park. Since 2006, the company, which manufactures microwave and radio-frequency equipment, has on three occasions discharged hazardous materials, most recently in May 2008. Company executives have consistently maintained that their operations are completely safe.

After a city consultant noted the low risk of a dangerous “extreme event” occurring, the city commissioned an amortization study, which indicated it would be reasonable to give CPI until 2026 to move the facility.

On Monday night, the council reaffirmed its intention to continue with the amortization. But under the ordinance, which the city hopes CPI will agree to in the coming weeks, the company would have an extra five years to move (or close) the shop, provided it moves it completely off site. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Newspaper chain announces major consolidation The parent company of the San Jose Mercury News, the Daily News, the Oakland Tribune and more than two dozen community newspapers announced Tuesday a major consolidation plan, a move that will rebrand two major daily papers and impact dozens of editorial jobs.

The Bay Area News Group’s daily papers in the East Bay, Silicon Valley and on the Peninsula will be combined into two publications.

In the south bay, the San Jose Mercury News and San Mateo County Times will consolidate into the new Mercury News, effective April 5, according to the company. The Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times will combine to become the East Bay Times.

The company said it is bolstering regional news reporting in the East Bay; adding coverage of transportation, the environment and local business; and placing new reporting and editing resources in Alameda County news bureaus.

The consolidation is not expected to directly affect the Peninsulaserving Daily News, according to Mario Dianda, the newspaper’s publisher.

In addition to adding a new video team and a technology overhaul, the announcement notes that the initiative will include a “modest reduction in staffing in certain areas, some of it through buyouts in the newsroom, and expansion in others.”

While the company did not elaborate, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that about 20 percent of the Bay Area News Group’s roughly 200 newsroom employees are expected to lose their jobs. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

Rain expected, storm forecast for Saturday The San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay areas are in for some wet weather that may last through Monday, a National Weather Service forecaster said.

The chance of rain on Saturday will be 60 to 90 percent and another storm may move through the area Sunday, forecaster Diana Henderson said. Saturday’s storm is forecast to be the strongest, with widespread moderate to heavy rainfall and strong southerly winds.

From last Wednesday to next Wednesday, between 0.1 and 0.25 inches of rain is expected in Palo Alto, 1.65 inches is forecast for San Francisco and 1.64 inches is forecast for San Jose.

The rain on Friday will lead to longer than normal commute times and strong winds could lead to downed trees and power outages, according to the weather service.

Urban and small stream flooding are also possible.

Henderson said the El Niño weather pattern is still delivering rain and a chance still exists that the region could exceed the average amount of rainfall this season. However, so far the total is below average for at least some areas. Q — Bay City News Service

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Stanford University student featured in Oscars performance Vice President Joe Biden, Lady Gaga use Oscars stage to bring awareness to campus sexual assault

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t was “surreal,� Stanford University junior Jackie Lin said, to be on stage at the 88th Academy Awards last weekend, but it was also a bitter reminder of the lack of support she feels victims of sexual violence receive on college campuses.

Lin was one of 50 survivors of sexual assault who stood next to none other than Lady Gaga at the Oscars as she performed “Til It Happens to You,� an Academy Award-nominated song she wrote for “The Hunting Ground,� a documentary about sexual assaults at colleges.

Lin and the others, female and male, had each written a message on their forearms that resonated with them and, during the Oscars, held their bare arms outstretched and defiant. Some chose “unbreakable,� “not alone� and “not your fault.�

Lin chose “I believe you.�

Hearing from people, including the very administrators at Stanford charged with investigating her allegations, that they didn’t believe her “was what I struggled the most with,� she told the

Weekly in an interview Tuesday, the phrase still scrawled in black marker on her right arm.

Other survivors at the Oscars performance included Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, college graduates who were featured in “The Hunting Ground� as they engaged in grassroots activism, founding a national group called “End Rape on Campus�; Sofie Karasek (also featured in the documentary), who with two other female students recently filed a civil lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, for its alleged mishandling of their cases; political analyst Zerlina Maxwell; and other students from schools including the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School and the University of Connecticut.

Lin and the other survivors were asked to participate by the director and producer of “The Hunting Ground,� who have collaborated with Lady Gaga, herself a survivor of sexual assault, on this and other related efforts.

In the documentary, scores of college students speak out about

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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.

Menlo Park pastor’s life celebrated by multitudes at service “We are perplexed but we are not in despair,� said Apostle Ross Garrison Jr. of Oakland at a Feb. 25 memorial service for Bishop Teman L. Bostic Sr., pastor of Mt. Olive Apostolic Original Holy Church of God in Menlo Park. The pastor died at age 54 on Feb. 12 in a stabbing at his apartment in San Leandro, and his son, Isaiah Bostic, 21, has been held and charged with murder. (Posted March 3, 8:46 a.m.)

Median barriers to stay at Ravenswood Avenue crossing in Menlo Park After a 35-year-old woman died when a bullet train struck her SUV at the Ravenswood Avenue railroad crossing in Menlo Park in February 2015, the city hosted a series of community meetings to see how to improve safety at the complicated stretch near the Alma Street intersection and crosswalks and the Caltrain tracks.

(Posted March 2, 3:15 p.m.)

Lynda Steele, former Abilities United exec, dies Lynda Steele advocated over four decades for the rights of persons with developmental disabilities, shepherding a movement that took people out of institutions and integrated them into the mainstream society. On Feb. 29, the former head of Palo Alto nonprofit Abilities United died suddenly, officials from the organization said in a statement. (Posted March 2, 9:40 a.m.)

Eshoo backs Apple’s resistance to FBI A ranking member of the U.S. Congressional Communications and Technology Subcommittee said she supports tech company Apple’s refusal to unlock an iPhone owned by a shooter in the San Bernardino killings. (Posted Feb. 26, 12:42 p.m.)

feeling failed by the institutions to whom they reported their assaults. The film screened for the first time at Stanford last April to a large crowd of nearly 600 people.

Lady Gaga and the group of survivors were introduced by Vice President Joe Biden, who called on viewers to join “It’s On Us,� a national campaign to prevent sexual violence. “Despite significant progress over the last few years, too many women and men on and off college campuses are still victims of sexual abuse,� he said, “and tonight, I’m asking you to join millions of Americans ... to take the pledge — a pledge that says that ‘I will intervene in situations when consent has not or cannot be given.’ “We must and we can change the culture so that no abused woman or man like the survivors that you see tonight will have to ask themselves, ‘What did I do?’� Biden said. “They did nothing wrong.�

Lin said she has been “semi public� about her case at Stanford. In November, she sat on a panel of student-survivors who criticized the university’s response to reports of sexual violence. She hasn’t always been comfortable speaking publicly about what happened to her, she said, but seeing other survivors tell their stories has inspired her. At Stanford, that person was Leah Francis, a former student who in June 2014 publicly challenged Stanford’s handling of her sexual assault by organizing protests that sparked a wave of student activism on campus around the issue. “I wouldn’t have known who to go to for help or how to deal with it or even have the guts to go through with a hearing if Leah hadn’t spoken out,� Lin said.

Lin said she was sexually assaulted by a male resident assistant last August. She immediately reported the alleged assault and went through the university’s adjudication process — which she described at the November summit as a “kangaroo court� — with an internal panel finding her alleged assailant not responsible, she said. She, like many other students who have gone through Stanford’s Title IX process, said it felt like the odds were stacked against her. The process ended in a miscarriage of justice, in her eyes.

What was most impactful about the Oscars experience, Lin said, was not meeting an international celebrity or appearing on an awards show watched by millions

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Jackie Lin, a Stanford University junior, shows the message she wrote on her forearm for a performance at the 88th Academy Awards. The performance, which featured Lady Gaga, raised awareness of sexual assault on college campuses. of people, but the time spent with other survivors. Over the weekend, they rehearsed, went out together and shared stories about their experiences. They even got a tattoo together — a unity symbol with several shapes intertwined. “I’ve never felt that I was in such a safe place before,� Lin said.

She and several others burst into tears the first time they heard Lady Gaga sing the song, whose refrain is “’Til it happens to you, you don’t know how it feels.� “You don’t even have to explain why (you’re crying),� Lin said. “Everyone just understands.

Everyone is really supportive and accepting of each other.�

She said she has not found the same safe space at Stanford for survivors of sexual violence.

While she knows other survivors, not all are willing — understandably so — to speak publicly or become vocal activists in the way others have. She and other students fear repercussion, she said.

Others, like Lin, might have told

only close friends but not all of their family members about their assaults, for example.

Her experiences with the university’s psychological and support services have been mostly discouraging and insufficient, she said. “The kind of network of support we had there was amazing,�

Lin said of the Oscars. “I would like to try to replicate it here, at Stanford.�

The tattoo the group got was Lin’s first. She got a small version on her right wrist, just above where she has been rewriting “I believe you� with a Sharpie ever since Sunday night. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

The Palo Alto Weekly has created an archive of past news articles, social media reaction and other content related to the ongoing sexual assault issues at Stanford University. To view it, go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly.

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AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; COUNCIL CHAMBERS March 9, 2016 6:00 PM Study Session 1. Update on the Downtown Palo Alto Transportation Management Association Public Hearing 2. 2515-2585 El Camino Real [14PLN- 00321]: Request by the Hayes Group Architects on Behalf of ECRPA, LLC for Site and Design Review to Allow a New 39,858 Square Foot, 3-Story Mixed Use Building Including Retail, 6É&#x2030;JL 9LZPKLU[PHS *VUKVTPUP\T <UP[Z HUK 6UL 3L]LS of Underground Parking on a 39,908 Square Foot Lot to Replace a 9,694 Square Foot Existing Restaurant (Olive Garden). The Project Includes a Request for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to Exceed the 5,000 Square Foot 6É&#x2030;JL MVY [OL :P[L I` (WWYV_PTH[LS` :X\HYL -LL[ Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study was drafted and a Mitigated Negative Declaration was circulated on January 19, 2016. Zoning Districts: CC (2) and CN. For more information, contact Margaret Netto at Margaret. netto@cityofpaloalto.org.

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he Palo Alto Board of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy-review committee proposed Thursday morning that the superintendent seek the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction for any gift to the district in excess of $1 million.

The policy proposal comes at a time when a much larger donation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; potentially $17 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is currently on the table from an anonymous donor to improve the facilities at Addison Elementary School. The district has been in talks with the donor for almost a year, though the project just came to the board for a full discussion on Feb. 22. The donor has already contributed $25,000 for planning and an additional $1.3 million to cover pre-construction costs but intends to fully fund the project, which staff estimates could cost $16.96 million.

Planned improvements include a new two-story building that would house the administration on the first floor and a redesigned library on the second; move the current administration building to the front of campus; a new multi-purpose room that

by Elena Kadvany will be able to fit the entire school population; more flexible rooms on campus; and replacing eight portables with permanent classrooms to open up more outdoor play and learning space for students.

Superintendent Max McGee and staff recently proposed a new administrative regulation with a provision that gifts in excess of $50,000 require board approval. Under this proposal, school principals could approve and accept gifts up to $25,000 and the superintendent or a district designee could approve and accept gifts of up to $50,000.

Board member Ken Dauber, the committee chair, said Thursday that gifts as large as the Addison donation require timely board involvement and feedback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The issue here is how to create a policy that makes it clear that the superintendent should seek guidance from the board before negotiating a large gift,â&#x20AC;? Dauber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the goal here is to enable the board to express its opinion about the shape of the gift before itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set in stone.â&#x20AC;?

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Feb. 29)

Hazardous materials: The council approved an ordinance that adds regulations to facilities using hazardous materials. The council also backed an ordinance to amortize the Communication & Power Industries. Yes: Unanimous Cool Block:The council approved the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participation in the Cool Block program sponsored by Empowerment Institute. Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (March 1)

Library: The committee received a quarterly report from the Library Bonds Oversight Committee and discussed the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s options for using funds left over from the $76 million library bond. Yes: Unanimous Utilities: The committee heard a presentation about proposed utility-rate changes for fiscal year 2017. Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (March 2)

Financial plans: The commission recommended resolutions approving the fiscal year 2017 financial plans for the water and wastewater utilities. Yes: Ballantine, Danaher, Eglash, Foster, Schwartz Absent: Cook, Hall

Board Policy Review Committee (March 3)

Policies: The committee discussed the following policies: gifts, grants and bequests; admission; exclusions from attendance; and immunizations. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (March 3)

Marriott: The board held a scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Report for the two proposed hotels at 744-750 San Antonio Road. Action: None 2515-2585 El Camino Real: The board held a hearing for 2515-2585 El Camino Real, a proposed 39,858-square-foot, three-story building that would replace the Olive Garden. The board continued the discussion to March 17.

Yes: Baltay, Furth, Gooyer, Lew Absent: Kim. Bike racks: Bill Courington requested artistic bike racks in Palo Alto. Action: The commission formed subcommittees for each request and discussed the possibility of the memorial art piece serving as a bike rack.

Parks & Recreation Commission

Dog park: The commission voted 3-2 to create a dog park at Rinconada Park, with those in favor pointing to the lack of space for dogs in the city and those dissenting arguing that the park has insufficient space. Yes Hager, Stone, Williams No: Losch, Markevitch.

Historic Resources Board (Sept. 24)

Roth Building: The board voted 3-1 to reclassify the Roth Building from historic category 3 to category 2. The dissenting member argued that the building did not merit the upgrade. Yes: Brown, Reynolds, Smith No: Bunnenberg Absent: Kohler.

McGee said the district has in place a similar process for large budget requests: Those in excess of $1 million are brought before the board as full agenda items that the board must vote on, rather than as â&#x20AC;&#x153;consentâ&#x20AC;? items that are approved routinely and without discussion.

Dauber proposed adding new language to the proposed gifts, grants and bequests policy to make clear that the superintendent â&#x20AC;&#x153;shall seek direction from the board prior to negotiating gifts anticipating to amount more than $1 million.â&#x20AC;?

Board member Terry Godfrey and McGee supported this addition.

Godfrey also said that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to consider how a policy could potentially help with a relationship with a donor: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to ruin the relationship with a donor by having these early conversations (without the board) and then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve started something you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finish when you come to the board and we say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

She urged a policy that strikes a balance between involving the board and adhering to policies and practices but one that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;alienateâ&#x20AC;? donors.

Under the proposed policy, the district must also evaluate the purpose for which the gift is given, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;must be consistent with the stated purpose, goals, objectives, and educational philosophy of the districtâ&#x20AC;?; the nature of the gift, the identity of the donor and the kind of program that the gift is intended to support.

Under current board policy on gifts, the board, superintendent or designee must consider whether a particular donation has a purpose consistent with the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision and philosophy; begins a program that the board would be unable to continue when the donated funds are exhausted; entails undesirable or excessive costs; or implies endorsement of any business or product.

Annual donations from Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) for the general operation of the schools are excluded from the proposed approval-and-acceptance process.

Gifts in excess of $25,000 that are one-time expenditures for a onetime project must be approved by the superintendent or designee, under the proposed policy. Gifts in excess of $50,000 that are onetime expenditures for a one-time project must be approved by the board. The same stipulations would apply to annual donations from established booster clubs that were formed to raise funds for the general operation of a specific program, such as athletics or music.

The proposed gifts policy will come before the full board at its next meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The board is also set to vote on the Addison donation and project at that meeting. Q

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daughter, Ava, she set out to create a playground where any child or adult would feel welcome. None of the city’s 34 parks had equipment that Ava, who needs support in a swing, could use.

So Villareal doggedly pursued her Magical Bridge playground, so named because it would bridge both the ablebodied and disabled commuOlenka nities, she said.

Villareal She joined the board of Friends of the Palo Alto Parks in 2008 and galvanized the city, the community, businesses and nonprofits to raise $4 million.

Villareal’s organizational and marketing skills, as well as her cause, attracted many benefactors and volunteers, including the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund, which granted $25,000 to Magical Bridge. The playground opened to fanfare last April.

“At the heart of the mission has always been Olenka, who never once gave up the dream of building a breakthrough playground designed for children of all ages and all abilities,” one nomination letter stated.

Magical Bridge provides wheelchair access on merry-gorounds and slides, ramps to a two-story playhouse and wheelchair accessibility on other play equipment. And parents with disabilities are now able to push their children on the swings and assist them on the other equipment.

But only 10 percent of people with disabilities use wheelchairs, according to Villareal.

Ninety percent have other types of disabilities. So the playground also has features that help children with autism and visual disabilities.

Richard Peery, Outstanding Professional/Business Person

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If Olenka Villareal was the driver of the seven-year Magical Bridge campaign, Richard Peery provided the fuel for getting the engine going and keeping it running, donating $1 million through the Peery Foundation.

Arguably one of the largest real estate investors in northern California, Peery was raised in Palo Alto and attended Palo A lto H ig h School. He has Richard Peery spent much of his life preserving and enhancing beloved nuggets of Palo Alto life. Stanford Theatre and 180

University Ave., both historic properties that would have faced the wrecking ball, were two of his many investments that have contributed to Palo Alto’s quality of life.

Often described as a private man who eschews the limelight, he has a reputation as not only as a vastly successful businessman but one who is generous with his time and wise counsel, said a longtime acquaintance who nominated Peery. He recalled that Peery started with nothing in 1962.

“He has always had a unique talent for business starting when he was in junior high when he installed gumball machines in Stanford fraternity houses,” the nomination letter stated.

Peery’s quiet financial contributions are everywhere in Palo Alto. His major donations have included the Palo Alto High School athletic complex now under construction, rehabilitation of the Ross Road Family YMCA and the construction of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

“The core mission of the Peery Foundation is to support youth and families in poverty,” son Dave Peery told the Weekly in 2013 when the foundation offered to donate $24 million for the new athletic center at Paly.

“Recognizing that Palo Alto is not exactly an impoverished community, my dad is at a point in his life where he’s motivated

to give back to his hometown in a meaningful way.”

Palo Alto Bicycles, Outstanding Business The power of initiative to effect change in the community is also exemplified by Jeff Selzer, general manager of Palo Alto Bicycles.

The store has contributed more than $300,000 to schools, nonprofit groups and special events in the past 15 years.

Barbara Gross, a founder of the Palo Alto Downtown Business & Professional Association, attributed much of the store’s contributions to Selzer’s dedication and energy.

“I am continually impressed by Jeff’s integrity and standards for himself, his business and employees, his service and generosity to the community. His thoughtfulness is elegantly balanced with his great sense of humor and optimism. He is a great asset to our community,” she told the Weekly.

Selzer assisted the city in choosing and installing bicycle parking around Palo Alto. The store was a major advocate in having the Bay Area Bike Share bike-rental program installed, and since 1998 it has operated the Bikestation at the Palo Alto Caltrain station.

The store’s advocacy for bicycling is one of the key reasons for the success of the Palo Alto Safe Routes to School program,

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council has no meetings scheduled this week.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will meet in closed session for the superintendent’s mid-year evaluation The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, March 7, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hold a special meeting to discuss academic laning, the process by which students are tracked into different levels of classes. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... At its regular meeting, the board will discuss a proposal to repaint Gunn High School; a proposed policy on gifts, grants and bequests; and a proposed social-emotional learning curriculum committee. It will also take action on an anonymous donation to fund improvements at Addison Elementary School. The board will also vote on accepting the district’s second interim financial report.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the city’s new Transportation Management Association and hold a site-and-design review for 2515-2585 El Camino Real, a proposal for a new 39,858-square-foot, three-story building that would replace the Olive Garden. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 411-437 Lytton Ave., a request by Hayes Group Architects for historic review of a new three-story 19,776 square-foot building; and 355 University Ave., a request by Hayes Group Architects for historic review for new facades and signage on University Avenue and Florence Streets, new ground-floor parking, a new second story with an outdoor rooftop display area, and interior modifications. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear updates on the speaker series, “An Immigrant Experience in Palo Alto”; consider recommendations for Community Development Block Grant funding; discuss plans for the community forum, “Being Different Together, Experiencing Palo Alto, Perception or Reality”; and hear an update on the recent Palo Alto Shuttle community meeting. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Q

another nominating letter stated.

Palo Alto Bicycles contributes locks, bells and helmets to students, and Selzer has contributed his personal time to maintenance check-ups on student bicycles.

Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, Outstanding Nonprofit When it comes to schools, the Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto has had a hand in helping for 91 years.

The organization’s first project in 1925 provided milk to Palo Alto school children.

Today, the nonprofit Kiwanis sponsors Key Clubs at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools to help foster the next generation of service-oriented citizens. Kiwanis provides advisers and financial support to help students learn leadership skills, and it sponsors scholarships for students.

Members have worked with schools on diversity issues, contributing funding to Camp Everytown, a four-day overnight trip for students and staff through which they learn about racism, genderism and other stereotypes.

“The Kiwanis is not just a group that contributes money to these causes but actually educates and encourages its members to participate in activities that it sponsors,” a nomination letter from school staff stated.

Kiwanis of Palo Alto has also helped beautify the city. For more

than 15 years, it has contributed financial support to Canopy, the Palo Alto nonprofit that advocates for the urban forest. But Kiwanis members have also gone through training programs to plant trees and, as tree-care leaders, watered, fertilized and maintained the city’s leafy canopy.

When Palo Alto’s largest tree debacle took place, Kiwanis stepped in.

“Over 20 Kiwanians helped lead community members in replanting trees on California Avenue after the untimely removal of existing trees,” a nominating letter stated.

The club also began planting trees with Canopy to leaf out East Palo Alto.

In keeping with its work related to children, the Kiwanis built the Heritage Park playground in Palo Alto. The organization “adopted” Palo Alto Community Child Care to enhance the agency’s facilities and built playgrounds at four of its centers.

“They have painted classrooms, built fences, erected sheds and shoveled hundreds, if not thousands, of wheelbarrows filled with wood chips. They have built garden beds, sandboxes and seating around treasured trees,” another letter stated.

“All of this work done with great enthusiasm, energy and compassion of each member.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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pate, citing concerns about staffing and whether the program, which encompasses more than climate change activities, is compatible with existing neighborhood programs.

Resident Sheri Furman, who chairs the umbrella group Palo Alto Neighborhoods, wrote in a letter to the council that she is concerned that Cool Block’s foray into disaster resiliency (another of the program’s focuses, along with “sustainable lifestyle” and “livable neighborhoods”) is unnecessary because the city’s Emergency Service Volunteers program already addresses this need.

She also questioned the whole premise of the block-by-block approach.

“One thing I’ve learned over the years is that people identify more with ‘affinity groups’ than with those on their blocks — be it sports, schools, creative interests

and so on,” Furman wrote.

Annette Glanckopf, a longtime leader in the Emergency Service Volunteers, raised concerns about insufficient coordination between Cool Block and existing efforts.

She urged the council in a letter to “personalize” the program to Palo Alto and to add a chapter on volunteerism, including information about how residents can join Emergency Service Volunteers.

The council debated these concerns on Monday and received assurances from city staff that the program would not consume more than 40 hours of staff time and that it would complement, rather than duplicate, existing programs.

City Manager James Keene made a case for retaining the program’s disaster-resiliency element, noting that it could serve as a model for other cities across the nation.

“The whole idea here potentially is that if this works and the seed money is there and continues to flow, this could affect cities potentially across the country,”

Keene said. “I think we have a bit of a responsibility as a kind of a city we are to help pilot that.”

Keene also lauded the program’s focus on bringing neighbors together and said it would be worth seeing whether the city can do a better job in “building more on social connectiveness on a block level,” particularly if doing so would help the city reduce carbon emissions.

“I have a bias to thinking that we want to get individuals and households involved as actively as possible on the climate change issue,” Keene said.

The council ultimately agreed to endorse the program, which will feature nine neighborhood meetings in the 10 selected blocks between now and August. The second phase, with 20 additional blocks, would launch in the fall under the tentative schedule.

Though some council members were initially hesitant, they were encouraged by Keene’s insistence that the program would

not require too much staff effort and by an endorsement from Ken Dueker, director of the city’s Office of Emergency Services.

Vice Mayor Greg Scharff, who initially voiced concerns, ended up making the motion to move ahead with the pilot program. Councilwoman Liz Kniss said she was satisfied that all the community concerns have been addressed and likewise endorsed the program.

“This is a good chance for us to be in the lead,” Kniss said.

The Cool Block program may also prove to be a stepping stone to a broader citywide program known as Cool Cities. If Palo Alto opts to participate in the latter program and is selected to do so, it would be able to access close to $3 million over three years for its efforts to fight climate change.

Under the current schedule, the Cool Cities program is slated to kick off in January 2018. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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their homes less because of a warm winter and people use less water in an effort to conserve. That’s part of the reason why gas rates are projected to go up by 7 percent in July and by 5 percent in each of the following three years.

“The drought is a huge driver for all the funds,” Assistant Utilities Director Jane Ratchye told the committee Tuesday. “We know this is unusual for us to have a rate increase in every single fund.”

Altogether, the bundle of rate bumps (which also includes a 9 percent increase in the refuse rate and a 2 to 3 percent increase in storm drain rates) are expected to add about $23.25 to a resident’s monthly bill, which as of last July averaged $245.23.

Councilman Greg Schmid observed that the city is coming out of a period of time when market conditions were going in the city’s favor. Now, he said, “We seem to have a number of special circumstances on the other side.”

“We have the drought which affects both the electricity and water in a unique way, and given that we’ve had no rain during February, it’s hard to write that off quickly,” Schmid said.

Schmid and his three committee colleagues — Chair Eric Filseth and council members Karen Holman and Cory Wolbach — generally accepted the staff’s recommendations, though the council won’t be asked to formally approve any rate changes until June.

In some ways, everyone recognized, the increases are inevitable. The electric utility’s stabilization reserves, which had been used to cushion ratepayers from sharp increases in recent years, has been largely used up. In the years ahead, the city will be trying to rebuild these reserves, which will also contribute to rising rates.

Schmid, however, pointed to the significant rate increases local residents will experience in July and wondered whether the city should really be focusing on rebuilding its reserves.

“We have all these things going on and we have a series of rate increases for three years that are quite striking,” Schmid said.

Council members took solace, however, in the fact that the city’s rates would remain well below PG&E’s, even with the proposed rate hikes.

Keniston said the city’s rates are now 46 percent below those of PG&E, which recently raised its rates.

Other projections, however, are far less certain. The cost of natural gas, for instance, is nearly impossible to predict because the commodity’s price changes month to month, Keniston said.

There’s also the biggest wildcard of all.

“The big uncertainty is: How long will the drought last?”

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Edward McCluskey

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Edward J. McCluskey, a trailblazing Stanford University computer researcher and educator, died on Feb. 13 in Belmont. He was 86.

Born in October 1929, he began his academic studies at Bowdoin College in Maine — graduating in 1953 with honors in mathematics and physics — before attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering. He received his doctorate there in 1956.

The period from 1955 to 1959 served to jump-start his professional career, as he worked as an MIT intern and as a staff researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

McCluskey helped to formulate a way to efficiently and accurately design logic chips. The Quine-McCluskey algorithm made possible the automated design of complex chips and spurred the development of the semiconductor industry.

While at Bell, he met and married Roberta Jean Marie Erikson, with whom he had six children. In 1959, McCluskey became an associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, where he established the Princeton University Computer Center. In 1966, he took a post at Stanford, purchasing a green bus to transport his family to their new Palo Alto home. The bus was later used for family camping trips.

Only three years into his work as

a Stanford professor of electrical engineering, McCluskey founded the Stanford Digital Systems Laboratory (now the Computer Systems Laboratory), which went on to influence the high-tech industry. In 1970, he participated in the establishment of the Stanford Computer Engineering Program and served as the first president of the IEEE Computer Society.

Another achievement was the founding of Stanford’s Center for Reliable Computing, which advanced the testing of computer chips and design of fault-tolerant systems. Throughout his career, he provided guidance to 75 doctorate students and recruited noteworthy researchers to Stanford, including outgoing Stanford president John Hennessy. Among colleagues and students, he was known for being open-minded, idiosyncratic, and wearing unusual hats and headgear.

He and Roberta McCluskey later divorced; she died in 1996.

In 1981, he married Lois Thornhill, who remained his companion up until his death. In 2012, he received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, a high honor in the world of computing.

He was predeceased by his daughter, Rosemary Mathy, in 2011. He is survived by his wife, Lois Thornhill McCluskey of Palo Alto; his children, Ted McCluskey of Palo Alto, Therese McCluskey of Alameda, Joe McCluskey of Palo Alto, David McCluskey of San Francisco and Kevin McCluskey of Kansas; 11 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Feb. 24-March 1 Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 11 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1

Prohibited smoking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Child abuse/neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobeying court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Solicitation without permit . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Menlo Park

Feb. 24-March 1

Violence related. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Memorial donations can be made in his name to the Sempervirens Fund, Peninsula Open Space Trust or Save the Redwoods League.

Kent Diamond Kent Christopher Diamond, a former Microsoft Corporation manager and Gunn High School graduate, died suddenly on Feb. 19 from heart failure, during a vacation in Hawaii. He was 54.

He was born on Feb. 13, 1962, in Mountain View and grew up in Sunnyvale and Chicago before moving to Palo Alto, where he studied at Gunn.

Attending the University of California, Berkeley, he graduated in 1983 with a double major in economics and computer science.

He then worked at Microsoft in both the U.S. and Japan, serving as a software engineer for the company’s operation system software before becoming a manager. He lived with his family in Redmond, Washington.

After an early retirement, he toured Africa for over a year, at the end volunteering in southern Sudan through the United Nations. In addition, he went back to school and received a law degree from the University of Washington’s School of Law. His other activities included providing legal advice, serving as a volunteer tutor, coaching his children’s sports teams and playing golf.

Driving with suspended license . . . . . 10 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Probation arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

El Camino Real, 2/26, 8:06 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

200 block Olive Ave., 2/26, 8:34 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon.

Encina Avenue, 2/27, 12:06 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Park Boulevard, 2/29, 4:27 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

He was predeceased by his father, Horace Williams “Bill” Diamond. He is survived by his wife, Susan Diamond of Redmond; his teenage children, Karin and Colin of Redmond; his mother, Diana Diamond of Palo Alto; and his brothers, Bruce (Marcy) Diamond of San Jose, Scott Diamond of Portland, Oregon, and Mark (Pat) Diamond of Los Altos.

A memorial service will be held in Redmond on Saturday, March 5.

Correction

The obituary for Lois Salo in the Feb. 26 issue incorrectly stated the number of grandchildren who survive her. There are six. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

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William Donald Hightower March 7, 1928 – February 22, 2016 William Hightower, age 87, passed peacefully at home on Feb. 22 after most of his family visited with him one last time. He appreciated the many caregivers who cared for him in his home over the last two years as well as the additional hospice team during the last six months of his life.

He was born in Missouri and moved to California with his family during the Dust Bowl era. He moved with his family from Hollister to San Jose where he finished his last year of high school. After high school he attended a bible college for one year, after which he served in the U.S. Navy for four years. He married Darlene during his last year in the Navy, and after the Navy he attended San Jose State School of Engineering while starting a family. Subsequently he attended Stanford where he earned a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. He eventually settled in Palo Alto with his family around 1960. Initially he worked in research and the aerospace industry, but in 1963 he joined the civil servant staff at NASA Ames Research Center where he worked for 25 years.

Bill will always be remembered for his love of f lying. He built model airplanes as a child and at the age of 19 he got his pilot’s license out of Reid-Hillview airport in San Jose. In the mid 1960s he became a f light instructor and continued to give f light instruction into his 80s, logging many thousands of hours of f light time. He taught both of his sons to f ly as well as his grandson. He also enjoyed with his family f lying, traveling in his truck/camper and motorcycling.

His wife Darlene passed away a little over two years ago.

He is survived by his sister, Sue of Eugene, Oregon; his son, William of Palo Alto; his son, Mark of San Jose; and three grandchildren, Megan, Ben, and Beth.

Respecting his wishes, no memorial service is planned.

Both his and his wife’s ashes will be interred at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, California.

Memorial donations may be given to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program which gives youth ages 8 to 17 free introductory f lights in small aircraft to encourage them to pursue f lying.

Link: www.eaa.org/eaa/apps/donations/donationform PAID

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Editorial The Addison gift horse Unprecedented $17 million anonymous gift to Addison shows need for clearer policies

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ast March, Addison Elementary School Principal Amanda Boyce, in her position for less than a year and new to the school district, received a call that principals only dream of.

A person representing an anonymous donor wished to discuss giving millions of dollars to improve Addison’s facilities.

The smallest, oldest and most densely populated campus of all Palo Alto elementary schools, Addison could certainly use it. Like many other elementary schools, it got largely bypassed by the $400 million Strong Schools bond measure approved by voters in 2008 that funded substantial upgrades at the high schools, middle schools and at Duveneck, Fairmeadow and Ohlone elementary schools.

Worried about the likely need to re-open an elementary school, in 2011 the school board set aside $60 million of elementary school funding from the bond proceeds and reserved it for a new school, pending a board decision — action that always seemed just around the corner, as it does now.

The bond measure was criticized at the time for its lack of detail about how the funds would be spent and the sense of false promise that could therefore arise. There was no allocation of funds by individual elementary school, only a laundry list of possible projects that might be funded. Ultimately, the Ohlone, Fairmeadow and Duveneck expansions, all two-story classroom additions to accommodate enrollment growth and reduce the use of portables, sucked up most of the money targeted for elementary schools.

So with a prospective donor at hand, Addison principal Boyce, with support from district administrators, her site council and staff, immediately went to work on developing a plan for how Addison could be improved. By May, the donor had provided $25,000 to fund an architect to work with the Addison community. Students, parents and staff were surveyed and a plan emerged that was estimated to cost $17 million. It would reconfigure the campus, replace portables with new two-story classrooms, move the office, build a new library and multi-purpose room and expand the playground.

Incredibly, these efforts all took place without the knowledge of the school board or the public because Superintendent Max McGee chose not to inform the board or put the matter on a school board agenda for public comment. Only when word leaked out did McGee disclose the potential project in a weekly memo to the board in early December, and he didn’t provide details until the board meeting on Feb. 23, when he asked for approval of the conceptual plan, a $17 million scope of work, approval of an initial $1.3 million donation to fund the development of detailed plans and approval of no-bid contracts with architectural and project management firms.

The eleventh hour sun-shining of the proposal amounted to a fait accompli and gave little opportunity for the board or community to reflect on and consider the policy implications of two unprecedented problems: the anonymity of the donor and the inequitable investment a donation of this size obviously creates within a public school system.

The district lacks any policy on anonymous gifts or on major donations offered to an individual school, and these sensitive issues should have been immediately brought to the school board for discussion the moment the Addison donor emerged, not after countless hours of work had already been invested in developing a plan for how the money would be spent.

In our opinion, anonymous gifts to a public agency over a certain amount should be prohibited by law. Otherwise, the public has no way of knowing what promises or special treatment may accrue to the donor or his children. When John Arrillaga funded the Burgess Gym in Menlo Park he wanted to be anonymous and the City of Menlo Park told him that wasn’t possible. And to their credit, when the Peery family decided to donate $24 million toward the construction of the new gyms at Paly, it recognized the donation could and should not be anonymous even though they preferred it to be so.

But more troublesome than the anonymity is the inequity of one public elementary school hitting the jackpot while others have no resources to improve their campuses. This was the problem that led to the initial adoption of district policies on fundraising, which prohibit individual schools from raising money to pay for additional staffing resources.

The time to adopt ethical and equitable policies on donations is before, not after, gift horses present themselves.

At this point the Addison project should move forward. But as the school board and McGee now scurry to justify approving the Addison plan by spending $163,000 from the bond fund to study facilities needs at the other elementary schools when there is no assurance that money will exist to pay for them, let’s make it a priority to develop gift policies so we act in the future like a democratic public school system that provides equal opportunities for all our students regardless of their neighborhood or the wealth of their parents. Q Page 16 • March 4, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

CDC to the rescue?

Editor, Suddenly, even naturally, we think Palo Alto is about to be rescued by the Centers for Disease Control. We picture Dustin Hoffman patrolling Alma Street in a hazmat visor, fighting the “Outbreak,” and Kate Winslet in glamorous medical whites, battling the “Contagion.”

But let’s be grown-ups.

Last month’s CDC visit consisted mainly of five people here for two weeks to sit in street clothes at computers and download data.

In looking at our teen epidemic, the CDC focus, says our county office of public health, is on “the use and analysis of existing quantitative datasets” — vital statistics, emergency department and hospital data, school survey data, numbers on substance use.

The CDC hasn’t been here to listen to our teenagers (not even after their heartfelt pleas last year), to learn about our 10 dead, or to interview counselors, coaches, nurses — not even the new therapists hired by our board at substantial cost. They won’t be listening to our classroom professionals — those hundreds who’ve been present with our kids in some of the

hours of their deepest shock and grief.

Even regarding data, the CDC excludes a lot. Assessments of hospitals, for example, would surely include the numbers on nurse-patient ratios, rates of infection, etc.

But the CDC uses no objective criteria for judging school climate, not class size, or rates of cheating, or nightly minutes of homework — all the toxicities addressed by Save the 2,008.

Our eagerness reflects, I think, our longing for the darkness to be dispersed — so I’m sorry to bring bad news. But we’ve got a new school district communications specialist, charged by the superintendent with improving “transparency,” so the district should be frank about the facts.

We don’t need a glorious bugle call for the U.S. cavalry riding in — when it’s just foot soldiers, urging plow horses.

Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

All backwards Editor, How heartwarming that the effort, recently initiated by the residents from the Moldaw Residences having attended a local mosque

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to soften their prejudices about Mohammedanism, is being reinforced in San Jose with yet another outreach by Imams. It is hoped that such efforts will on one hand reduce the beheadings of Muslims

by Christians but beyond that stop the prodding by Christians in perpetuating the Sunni-Shia Schism that began on the day of Muhammad’s death.

Recognition that Islamophobia is the major inciting cause of the countless conflicts around the world will finally put an end to this never-ending cycle of Christian and Jewish misreading of the kind and peaceful heart of Mohammedanism. Mohammedanism did not spread from Gibraltar to China in just over 100 years by handing out Girl Scout cookies.

Myron Gananian Johnson Street, Menlo Park

Why stop there?

Editor, Jordan Middle School is being considered to be renamed because of David Jordan’s championing of eugenics, an offensive position given what we now know. I have no investment in whether or not Jordan Middle School is re-named.

However, why stop with only renaming Jordan Middle School?

Why not search out any institution named after anyone who is associated with an objectionable idea or behavior? The founding fathers believed in limited voting rights (e.g., no women), a position both prejudicial and undemocratic. Because of those views, should those patriots be banned from any naming rights? Let’s rename Stanford University so that we do not celebrate its robber-baron founder.

Once we ferret out all the honorees who have offended someone in some way, we may only be left with institutions named after the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad or the Dalai Lama.

Lou Moffett McKendry Drive, Menlo Park

Human fallibility Editor, As a former student of Jordan Middle School (so long ago it was called Jordan Junior High at the time and included ninth-graders like me), I must agree with the letter from Ms. Muñoz regarding changing the school’s name.

I’m sure the supporters are wellintentioned, but political correctness has its limitations, regardless of its current popularity.

As the relative of persons who perished in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust because of racial theories, I am no fan of eugenics, but if we judge past historical figures by current political attitudes, precious little will be named for

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Time to act collaboratively for county’s at-risk kids

by Joe Simitian remember the c o nve r s a t i o n well. I was talking to a constituent, a neighbor, at a community gathering. Out of the blue, she asked me a direct and unexpected question: Why don’t we have any hospital beds here in Santa Clara County for teens who are at risk of hurting themselves or others?

Frankly, my first thought was, “That can’t be right.” But as too many families in our county already knew, and as I would quickly learn, it was entirely right. And it’s entirely wrong.

On any given day there are probably two dozen Santa Clara County teens receiving what’s known as “acute psychiatric care,” requiring a stay in a secured and supervised hospital bed. In our county of 1.9 million residents blessed with world-class health care providers, the number of suitable hospital beds we have for these teenagers in trouble is exactly zero.

Over the course of a year, an estimated 1,462 kids are forced to go elsewhere for the emergency psychiatric help they need.

Where do they go? Wherever there’s a bed available, which could be San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Sonoma or even Sacramento County. In other words: a long way from home.

While the typical hospital stay is “only” six or seven days, these remote locations make a traumatic situation that much harder for both the kids and their families. Sending a child to a hospital that could be hours away makes maintaining a supportive connection daunting at best.

Even those who are lucky enough to find a bed at Mills-Peninsula in Burlingame discover that a trip to this “nearby” facility can be an hour or more each way in rush-hour traffic. But more often than not, given the greater distances involved, such visits are simply impossible. A youngster in need is cut off from the friends, family and mental health providers who know them best.

This is true regardless of economic means.

Whether you’re uninsured, rely on Medi-Cal, are commercially insured, or paying out of pocket, you could be looking at a round trip of up to 250 miles. For many families, this precludes the kind of access that’s critical to mental health recovery.

And on top of the stigma often attached — wrongly — to seeking mental health treatment, parents faced with a difficult decision about hospitalization of their child are even more likely to be deterred from seeking help if it requires sending that child several counties away.

By now you’re probably asking yourself the obvious question: Why don’t we have space closer to home for kids in need of acute psychiatric care? Regrettably, it’s not for lack of demand. Readers of the Weekly know all too well the mental health needs of young people in our community. Nor is it for lack of expertise or commitment. In fact, our area

anyone. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King were known adulterers, not to mention Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Should we change the names of any public spaces named in their honor?

I think not. Rather, I would suggest that this be a teaching moment. The young man who instigated this movement should be commended and encouraged for being interested in history, and opening a debate is wonderful. As someone on the other end of life’s highway, though, let me suggest that youthful idealism tends to fade in time, but with that comes a deeper understanding of the very fallible humanness of ourselves and others.

Mal Schoen Roble Avenue, Menlo Park

summate artist, who turned the minor role of Madame Larina into a tour de force.

This company is the cultural gem of Silicon Valley. Sadly, even many longtime Peninsula residents are unaware of its existence.

Coverage by the local press is practically nonexistent.

David Lieberman Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto

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Unrecognized brilliance Editor, Saturday night I saw “Yevgeny Onegin,” the opera by Tchaikovsky, presented by West Bay Opera in Palo Alto. I have seen this opera at the Met, in San Francisco and in Florence at the Maggio Musicale. But never have I been as engaged and moved by this bittersweet story set in 19th century Russia as I was by this performance in the 400-seat Lucie Stern Theatre.

Even the smallest roles were cast with wonderful singing actors. One example among many was Anna Yelizarova, a con-

Threat of restaurant row Editor, The Palo Alto City Council has expressed concern for the financial viability of California Avenue businesses. Even after a bundle of money has been spent on upgrading the avenue, many of the commercial establishments are stressed. The latest stores to announce they are closing are the art supply store and the office supply store.

I submit that the parking problem is a main contributor to their decision to close down. As it now exists, the parking restrictions favor the restaurants and offices over the retail stores. As co-owner of Country Sun Natural Food Store, I believe the stores will be helped if more of the parking on California Avenue is restricted to short-term parking to allow prospective customers to park and run in and do their shopping and move on. I trust some action on this will be taken before California Avenue becomes restaurant row exclusively.

Phil Smaller Wilkie Way, Palo Alto

is fortunate to have an extraordinary number of talented and committed mental health professionals.

So what’s the problem? It comes down to medical economics.

None of our local hospitals is in a position to fund the cost of youth inpatient psychiatric facilities and staff without some assurance that the beds will be filled and the costs will be covered. We’re faced with the perverse incentives of health care finance; we have to hope we have enough troubled kids to cover the costs of the hospital beds that would serve them.

We do have reason to be optimistic, however. There is a solution.

Prompted by that troubling question from a constituent a year ago, I set out to get some answers. I worked with county staff to assess the nature and extent of the problem.

To their credit, the leadership of the county’s Behavioral Health Department immediately acknowledged the problem and quickly became convinced that it affected far more families than was commonly understood.

County staff began talking with community members and mental health professionals to consider options. I did the same, beginning conversations with folks I thought could be part of the solution. What I discovered was encouraging.

Leadership at Packard Children’s and El Camino hospitals here in the North County acknowledged the problem and expressed a desire to help, though they understandably said they couldn’t do it all.

At the county’s Health and Hospital System (HHS) and at Kaiser Permanente, the

story was the same: We know there’s a need, we want to help, but we can’t do it all. And the same from Acadia Healthcare, a Santa Clara County newcomer. Time after time my exhortations were met with the same questions: Will others help as well? And will the county do its part?

I’m convinced the county will do its part.

My colleagues on the Board of Supervisors understand the problem, and they’re prepared to step up. But it will take the combined time, talent and resources of all of the county’s mental health professionals and hospitals to serve these kids here at home where they belong.

The county has recently issued a request for health care providers to weigh in with potential solutions. I urge them to step forward.

If everybody who says they care is really willing to do their part — to cooperate, to collaborate, to work in partnership — we can create a new model that’s both medically sound and economically sustainable.

It won’t take a lot of hospital beds to have a big impact. Even a relative handful of beds has the potential to help hundreds of families every year.

I believe the professions of concern I’ve heard are real. And I believe it’s time we act to give these kids and their families what they need and deserve: a place to turn, at the toughest time in their lives, right here at home in Santa Clara County. Q Joe Simitian is a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and represents the Fifth District. He can be reached at 408-299-5050 and supervisor. simitian@bos.sccgov.org.

This week on Town Square Town Square is a discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square Is public transit just for low income people?

Posted March 1 at 11:01 p.m. by Robert Neff, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood “I use bike + VTA bus + bike to get to work every day at the edge of Santa Clara (near the Apple donut). I used to just bike to work in Palo Alto, but then my job moved. I’m fortunate that in this century I can put my bike on the front of the bus to make first- and last-mile connections. This morning it was about 45 minutes door to door (before 7:30 a.m.).

“I am thrilled not to have to spend solo time inside an automobile to get to and from work. I find time spent on a bike or bus is far superior to time lost in a car. Train would work, too, but there is only one trip/hour from San Antonio or Cal Ave. to Lawrence. With the bus (522 or 22, on ECR), nine buses/hour, so I don’t have to be on a tight schedule.

I usually just ride the bike home.

“Plenty of people will take the bus or train if it is a decent option. SJSU, De Anza, Santa Clara, and Foothill

students get low cost (or free?) bus passes, plus the bus network is ‘hub and spoke,’ and there are hubs at De Anza and Santa Clara. Lots of good connections there.

“Meanwhile, if you work in Moffett Park, North Bayshore, the terminus of the VTA bus system is probably a long way from where you work, service is infrequent, and you may need to transfer to a local bus. Meanwhile Google creates their own network, even from close by in Sunnyvale or Palo Alto.”

Fight leaves one man injured, another jailed Posted Feb. 29 at 3:49 p.m. by Jonathan Brown, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood “When is Palo Alto going to step up and realize that allowing people to live in vehicles is not a humane solution to anyone’s problems?

“City leaders, before more blood is shed, now is your chance to prove Ventura neighborhood cynics wrong by stepping up with a real solution. We citizens stand by ready to assist.”

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Americans less prepared for longer lives Stanford project reveals people’s readiness in health, finances, social connections

People eat lunch together in a Los Altos restaurant in October. The Sightlines Project evaluated the strength of social connections of people in different age groups. File photo/ Michelle Le

by Chris Kenrick

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mericans of all age groups are exercising more and smoking less than they were five or 10 years ago.

But baby boomers are less connected socially than earlier generations of 55-to-64-year-olds, and millennials are significantly worse-off financially than 25-to34-year-olds were a decade ago.

These are among the findings in a new Stanford University analysis of how well-prepared Americans are to take advantage of longer life spans in the 21st century.

Americans have gained nearly two decades of life expectancy since 1940 — 20 years for women and 17 years for men.

The “Sightlines Project” report from the Stanford Center on Longevity, published in February, analyzed mountains of data to determine whether various age groups — from 25 years to 75-plus — are on target to be healthy enough and financially secure enough to live well in those additional years.

Researchers delved into three major indicators for thriving in old age: financial security, healthy living and social engagement.

Drawing on data from eight na-

Data from eight national studies were analyzed, and in all but two categories — working and volunteering — the Sightlines Project analysis found declines in social connectedness between 1995 and 2012. tionally representative, decadeslong studies involving more than 1.2 million Americans, they measured how different age groups are doing.

For example, the “healthy living” section examined factors like sufficient sleep, regular exercise, healthy diet and body-mass index and regular exercise as well as avoidance of behaviors including smoking, illegal drugs and excessive alcohol.

Researchers found a mix of

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positive and negative trends.

Smoking, the No. 1 cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., is declining in all age groups. Just under 30 percent of millennials aged 25 to 34 smoked in 2011, a decline of nearly 20 percent compared to 25-to-34year-olds in 1999.

But when it comes to weight, even as more people are exercising, obesity continued to inch upward from 1999 to 2011. More than one in three Americans un-

der age 75 are now obese.

The Stanford researchers looked at measures of social engagement, including people’s interactions and support from family and friends, contact with neighbors, volunteering, working for pay and participating in religious and community organizations. Having meaningful relationships and group involvement correlate with significant benefits in physical and mental health as well as longevity, the report said.

“We were really surprised by the current cohort of 55-to-64year-olds, part of the baby boom generation,” said Amy Yotopoulos, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity’s Mind Division.

“Compared to their cohorts from 20 years ago, they’re much less socially engaged — less likely to be connected to a spouse or partner, family, friends, communities. That was kind of shocking to us that that particular group would be seemingly socially isolated.”

Yotopoulos said other findings that surprised her were that exercise is up among all age groups — but so is sedentary behavior, a risk factor for poor health.

“So a lot of us do our 30 minutes on the treadmill and then sit for the next eight to 10 hours,” she said.

Martha Deevy, who directs the Financial Security Division of the Center on Longevity, said one of the most surprising findings to her was “the overall state of the millennials compared to the same age group 15 years ago.

“It is troubling,” Deevy said.

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Senior Focus OPEN HOUSE ... The nonprofit senior-services center Avenidas will be holding an open house on March 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring seven class demonstrations; information about the downtown Palo Alto program’s wellness, art, fitness and selfimprovement offerings; raffle prizes and snacks. The free event will be held at 450 Bryant St., and RSVPs are requested. Information: 650-289-5400 and avenidas.org.

TEST DRIVING ... A team of Stanford graduate students in engineering are working on a project to make assisted-driving technology accessible to older adults. Each week, they’ll show up at the downtown Palo Alto nonprofit Avenidas with a new concept or prototype, and they’ll be seeking feedback. Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the lobby of Avenidas, 450 Bryant St. Free.

REFLECTIONS ON VIETNAM ...

Palo Alto resident Pete Henry will discuss his memories of Vietnam as well as his 2014 historical novel “Hard Chargers from the Sky” on Tuesday, March 8, 1-2:30 p.m. in Room E104 of the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. “All of us tried to forget what we had been through,” Henry wrote. “I tried for 30 years. The need to relate the emotional effect of war, the things I had seen and participated in, became a driving force.” Admission is $15, or one punch on the JCC’s Community Tuesdays Punch Card.

Contact Michelle Rosengaus at 650-223-8616 or mrosengaus@ paloaltojcc.org.

IT HAPPENED HERE ... Get a sneak preview of the Palo Alto History Museum’s anticipated grand opening this summer.

Museum Executive Director Myron Freedman and Palo Alto History Museum President Rich Green will relate Palo Alto’s history of innovation in a slide show presentation. Friday, March 11, 2:30-4 p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St. Free.

MUSIC AT NOON ... San Francisco Symphony Principal Bassoonist Stephen Paulson and piano soloist Ian Scarfe will perform works by Mozart, Brahms and Weber on Tuesday, March 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Schultz Cultural Arts Hall of the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. The event includes lunch. The cost is $20 or two punches on the JCC’s Community Tuesdays Punch Card.

Early admittance is at 11:40 a.m. for people who RSVP by March 13 to Michelle Rosengaus, 650-223-8616 or mrosengaus@paloaltojcc.org.

SING FOR ST. PATRICK’S ... Music instructor Paul Engel will lead a

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Tuina every Tuesday, 10-11am @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

Parkinson’s Support Group 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call Robin Riddle @ 650724-6090 for more info. Free.

Friday Afternoon Dance 3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in. Free

Open Chess Day every Wednesday, 1-5pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

Mindfulness Meditation every Wednesday, 2-3pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

Saturday, April 2 8:30am - 3:00pm Mitchell Park Community Center $40 before 3/22

Mar. 3 Social security video appts every Thursday, 1 to 4pm. Appt. required. Call 650-289-5400. Free Musical Jam Session (bring your acoustic instrument or voice), 2-4pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, $3.

Mar. 4 Non-scary Duplicate Bridge every Friday, 1-4pm @ Avenidas, $2/$3.

Bridge Game every Friday, 2-4pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

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• Keynote by life transitions expert Bart Astor: “Those Were The Days, My Friend!”

“Be a star!” at the Avenidas Open House Premier 10am to 2pm. Call 650-289-5400 for info. Free.

• Your choice of 9 workshops on Reimagining Your Possibilities Loving Where You Live Financing Your Dreams

Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support Group every Monday, 11:30am-1pm @ Avenidas. Dropin, free.

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Mar. 7

UNA Film Festival: “Soldiers in the Army of God” 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.

Mar. 8 Rosen Movement every Tuesday, 11:30am-12:30pm @ Avenidas.

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Mar. 10 Skin Cancer Screening 1 to 2pm @ Avenidas. Appt required. Call 650289-5400. Free.

Mar. 11 Presentation: “The Bible as Literature” 10:30am to 12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-2895400 to pre-register. Free.

Garden Club: “Beginning Vegetable Gardening” 1:30-3pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 to pre-register. Free.

Palo Alto History Museum Presentation: “Palo Alto…it happened here” 2:30 to 4pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 to pre-register. Free.

Mar. 14 16mm film screening: “A Pocketful of Miracles” 2 to 4pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

Mar. 15 Sing the St. Pat’s Day 2:30-4pm @ Avenidas. $8/$10

Mar. 16 CHP Age Well, Drive Smart course 9am to 1pm @ Avenidas. Pre-registration required.

Call 650-289-5400. Free.

Mar. 21 Senior Legal Aid appts available for Santa Clara County residents age 60+.

Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free.

Mar. 22 Massage appts available 9:30am to 12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. $35/$45.

Mar. 23 Blood Pressure Screening 9:30-10:30am @ Senior Friendship Day, 4000 Middlefield Road. Drop-in, free.

Mar. 24 Book Club: “My Brilliant Friend”

by Elena Ferrante, 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.

Mar. 25 Club Aveneedles Needlework Club 2:30 to 4:30pm @ Avenidas. Bring your own project, light instruction only. Drop-in, free.

Mar. 28 16mm film screening: “Dancing Lady” 2 to 4pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

Mar. 29 Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 2pm @ Avenidas. RSVP required. Call 650-2895405.

Mar. 30

Better Breathers Club 10:30-11:30am @ Avenidas. Free.

Reiki appts. available 9am – 12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. $30/$35

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Mar. 31

St. Patrick’s Day lunch 11:15am to 12:15pm in La Comida @ Avenidas. $3 suggested donation for age 60+.

Avenidas Walkers 10am – every Thursday. Call 650-575-6291 for trailhead info or to schedule. Free.

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) And Historic Resources Board 8:30 A.M., Thursday, March 17, 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.

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Realtor Chris Iverson, who often works with older residents to help them transition to smaller residences, stands outside a home in Woodside in this file photograph. Young adults are increasingly delaying home buying, the Sightlines Project found.

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2747 Park Boulevard [14PLN-00388]: Request by DES Architects, on behalf of Jay Paul Company, for Architectural Review of a new three-story 33,323 sq. ft. research and development project, replacing the existing 4,800 sq. ft. commercial building. The project provides 133 parking spaces and includes landscape and pedestrian amenities. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration were circulated on January 29, 2016. Zoning District: General Manufacturing (GM).For more information, contact Clare Campbell at clare.campbell@ctiyofpaloalto.org Courtesy Stanford University Center on Longevity

overhang of debt across other financial decisions was troubling.

For example, college-educated kids are coming out of school with far more student debt, and they delay buying a home.

“We don’t know for certain it’s due to student debt — it could be other factors — but we do know that delaying important financial decisions has a long-term impact.”

The Sightlines Project found that financial security is down for all age groups except for people older than 65.

“More than one out of three 25-to-34-year-olds were living in or near poverty levels in 2014,” the report said. The report defined poverty as 200 percent of the federal poverty level, which is currently $11,880 for individuals and $16,020 for a family of two.

Deevy said the Center on Longevity hopes to spark a discussion of the issues raised and plans to update the statistics in the Sightlines Project every five years.

Researchers intentionally chose metrics for the project that people or policymakers can change, either through altering individual behavior or through reforming government policy, she said.

The project, Stanford President John Hennessy said in a statement, “provides a data-driven

901 High Street [14PLN- 00116]: Request by Peter Ko, Ko Architects, Inc., on behalf of Bettencourt & Santana for Architectural Review by both the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board for a 18,335 ZX\HYL MVV[ TP_LK \ZL I\PSKPUN ^P[O YL[HPS VѝJL HUK residential units on a vacant 20,288 square foot lot in the South of First Area. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study was prepared and Negative Declaration has been circulated for public comment from February 26, 2016 to March 18, 2016. Zoning District: RT-35 (Residential Transition District). For more information, contact Margaret Netto at margaret.netto@cityofpaloalto.org

Financial security has dropped among all age groups except those 65 and older between 2000 and 2014, the Sightlines Project found. analysis for researchers, industries and the public sector to use as the nation begins to capitalize on one of the greatest opportunities of our times” — longer life spans. Q Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

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Palo Alto Historical Association presents a free public program

Palo Alto’s El Camino Park: History, Traditions and Renovations Presenter:

Steve Staiger, Palo Alto Historian Sunday, March 6, 2016, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Lucie Stern Community Center 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Refreshments • No admission charge

St. Patrick’s Day Sing Along on Tuesday, March 15, 2:30-4 p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Special holiday treats will be included. $8 for Avenidas members; $10 for non-members.

Residences. Ben-Israel was previously general manager and executive director at Aegis Senior Living. He was hired in January to replace Al Zapata. Moldaw Residences, which opened in 2009, consists of 193 apartments, as well as social and cultural amenities, and is open to seniors of all faiths and backgrounds.

Community Center. The day will include workshops on housing, finances, Social Security and Medicare as well as motivational speakers on happiness and life transitions. The full-day conference, including lunch, will cost $40 before March 22 and $45 after. To register, visit Avenidas. org or call 650-289-5435. Q

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The San Francisco-based Jewish Senior Living Group has named Alexander Ben-Israel executive director of the south Palo Alto senior living community Moldaw

BOOMER UNIVERSITY ... Seniorservices nonprofit Avenidas will present a day for baby boomers to map out their futures on Saturday, April 2, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Mitchell Park

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g n i y a l P u g a l h s r o f Helen Foley (left) and Logan Jelks (right) practice a scene for an upcoming skit at a Laughing Matters club rehearsal.

Gunn theater group engages, inspires youth in need

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n any given Wednesday evening, children living at the Haven Family House in Menlo Park mill into the classroom that many of them frequent after school to finish up homework or create art. Some take a seat on the multicolored beanbags haphazardly arranged in front of an impromptu stage; others take the moment of unstructured time as an opportunity to peer curiously into the bubbling fish tank or claim a favorite toy as their own.

Within minutes, however, everyone in the room is on their feet, shaking out their arms, wriggling their toes and making “crazy faces.” This is all part of the warm-up routine organized by Laughing Matters, an improv theater club from Gunn High School that performs for and facilitates interactive skits and theater games with children living in family shelters and kids undergoing hospital treatment throughout the Palo Alto area.

By encouraging youth to express themselves through performance, Laughing Matters seeks to empower kids to break out of their shells and express their creativity freely and without restrictions.

Before last summer, Gunn High School senior and Laughing Matters’ president Julia Axelrod had no plans to create an improv theater club, let alone one whose main goal was to serve at-risk youth in the community.

But while at a summer camp for performing arts, she met a peer who found solace in the performing arts during her battle with cancer. This story of survival made Axelrod determined to create something similar in her own community, something “that was fun but could still help kids who are struggling to overcome challenging times,” she said.

After recruiting friends from her theater class at Gunn, Axelrod set up shows at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford and through LifeMoves, formerly the InnVision Shelter Network, both of which were a success.

“The shelter loved having us, the kids

loved the performances and there’s a need for (performances) for the children. So that’s what I’ve been doing ever since,” she said.

Henry Alper, a sophomore at Gunn and an officer for Laughing Matters, learned about the club through his involvement in Gunn’s theater program, where he also met Axelrod.

Membership has expanded to about 55 students since its founding last summer.

Engaging children from 5 to 15 years old could seem like a difficult challenge but Alper said that’s simply not true.

“On one hand, they’re kids, but on the other hand, people don’t really give them enough credit. They’re able to connect. It’s easier for them to resonate (with the plays) than people think,” he said.

Laughing Matters’ performances are mostly fantasy and science-fiction related, making them adaptable and relevant to audiences that range from elementary to middle schoolers. Axelrod explained that she finds ideas for plays online or in theater books, recruits students for parts and casts the show depending on students’ availability or desire for a part. Performance casts average about five actors and currently take place once a month, though Axelrod thinks this number will increase as the club becomes more established.

“Every show is dependent on student volunteers,” Axelrod said. “We have a lot of students who are interested to perform at every show, come to club meetings and practice improv. It’s all a student-run organization.”

At a recent Haven House performance, Laughing Matters took its audience of eight kids on a mission to Mars to collect “smart rocks” (Hershey’s Kisses) to transport back to planet Earth. Along the way, the audience assisted the brave-but-blundering captains of the ship navigate to and from Mars, evade the treacherous Professor Meanfel(continued on page 25)

Olivia Ellson (middle) and fellow student actors Henry Alper (far left) and Kyle Peterson (right) practice improv games during their lunch break at Gunn High School.

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Ennui onstage Pear premieres new translation of ‘Uncle Vanya’

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THEATER REVIEW

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low and make friends with aliens.

By shouting out to the actors when danger was near or warning them about actions that took place in another scene, the audience played along with Laughing Matters for the duration of the play, further engaging with the material. After each person collected (and devoured) a few smart rocks of their own, the audience and actors set the course for home with a resounding “three, two, one ... blast off!” that could be heard from outside the classroom.

For Alper and many of the other students involved in Laughing Matters, performing on stage for a big audience is nothing new.

also hopelessly in love with her, an affection she does not share.

Virtuous Sonya pines for Astrov, whom she sees as nobler and more interesting than anyone else in her world. He’s a (depressed, of course) vegetarian and environmentalist, delivering passionate speeches about the degradation of Russia’s forests and the disappearance of birds. He says he’s overworked and is prone to drinking away his woes. And, alas for poor Sonya, who constantly describes herself as “plain,” the doctor, too, only has eyes for Yelena.

Those feelings are actually mutual, but Yelena is largely unable or unwilling to act on them except through furtive glances and subtle flirtation.

The professor, who largely exists in his own world of books and papers, is miserable too because of gout, rheumatism and general old age. And that about wraps up the plot, as it were.

No character really develops or learns much (apart, perhaps, from Sonya’s loss of hope).

They’re unhappy folk expressing their unhappiness, extensively.

Over the course of the play’s 2.5 hours, the characters brood, insult and shout at one another, complain long-windedly about the unfairness of their situations and find occasional moments of tenderness and humor.

It’s tempting to dismiss the characters as whiny. Pathetic Vanya, for instance, frequently bemoans the fact that he hasn’t made anything of his life, that with his intellect and passion he could have really been someone, but where’s the evidence?

However, though it was published in 1897 — during the last gasps of the Russian Czar-

ist empire, with revolution just a few decades away — Chekhov’s characters are relatable and sympathetic to anyone who’s ever felt crushing disappointment or stuck in life. (And hasn’t everyone, to some degree?) And Muterspaugh’s buffoonish Vanya is loveable even when on a midlife-crisis-induced murderous rampage.

Who can blame Sonya and Yelena for being attracted to Astrov — whom Bracco plays with easygoing, gentle charm — with his outrage at the state of the countryside and the destructiveness of the human impact on the landscape? Culver’s Sonya is sweet and innocent; when she describes Astrov’s philosophy, her whole being seems to light up. On the other hand, Culver sometimes exaggerates her lines, getting unnecessarily shouty for the intimate Pear setting.

Hafen is appealing as Yelena, whose elegant, silky gowns set her apart as a cultured urban woman of leisure, out of place among the country dwellers.

She and Bracco have a nice bit of chemistry in a scene in which, as he explains a set of drawings, her feelings for him are made silently clear by her facial expression and her fingers, which creep tentatively close to his hand, then shy away.

The new Pear Theatre allows for a variety of staging and seating layouts, and this one is set up almost like a basketball court, with audience members seated on either side of the wooden floor and the action taking place in between. Scenic and prop design by Janny Coté and Ting Na Wang, respectively, are eye-catching: a tree and swing; ghostly hanging windows at the

He said that these performances, although mostly improvised and without the help of carefully created stage props and elaborate costumes, are gratifying because the impact can be seen and felt at the end of each workshop.

“Performing for (the kids) and then tangibly seeing and feeling their enjoyment and energy ... has been rewarding.” Alper said. “Just being able to have fun with the kids, it feels like you’re actually doing something.”

For founder Axelrod, Laughing Matters’ progress thus far is only the start. Though she graduates this spring, she said there are plans to keep the club running and expand to as many venues as possible after her departure.

“I think if Laughing Matters continues to be a success, it

could expand to other schools and become more of a community thing,” she said.

The impression Laughing Matters has made on the community is not only evident in the enthusiasm of high schoolers to become involved but also on a personal level for the kids for whom the group performs.

“There was an older student who said to me, ‘Thanks for making me feel like a kid again.’ It’s really special to see them open up like that and leave their shells,” she said. “A lot of times, the kids feel like they have to act cool, like, ‘Who are these kids performing?’

And by the end, they’re all eager to participate.”Q Editorial Intern Avi Salem can be reached at asalem@paweekly. com

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here’s a whole lot of ennui and disappointment for the characters in Anton Chekhov’s dramedy “Uncle Vanya,” which Mountain View’s Pear Theatre is currently presenting in a brand-new English translation by Dave Sikula.

Ivan “Vanya” Voinitsky (Stephen Muterspaugh), the titular uncle, is a depressed 47-yearold stuck managing his brotherin-law’s rural Russian estate.

He’s joined there by his dutiful niece, Sonya (April Culver), his elderly mother, Maria (Judith Miller), nurse/housekeeper Marina (Carolyn Ford Compton), and “Waffles” (Wes Gabrillo), an impoverished family friend. Mikhail Astrov (Jeffrey Bracco), the country doctor and longtime pal, is also a frequent visitor.

At play’s start, everyone’s hot and bothered over the overbearing presence of the aforementioned brother-in-law, retired professor Serebryakov (Steve Lambert), and his much-younger second wife, Yelena (Monique Hafen).

Vanya’s spent 25 years slaving away on the country estate to support the professor’s academic career in the city. He once worshiped the man and sacrificed his own dreams for the sake of his idol (and the professor’s late wife, Vanya’s beloved sister).

Now middle-aged and feeling like he’s missed out on the prime of his life, he’s bitterly resentful, accusing the professor of achieving nothing after many years of study, massively disillusioned about his former mentor.

Sultry Yelena is bored, unhappy and beautiful, moping around the house. Vanya complains about her laziness but is

Jeffrey Bracco (standing), Monique Hafen and Stephen Muterspaugh form an angst-ridden love triangle in “Uncle Vanya” at the Pear Theatre. other end; a well-used piano.

Sikula’s version of Chekhov’s script, though, often comes across as clunky and unnatural, with characters often repeating themselves and droning on without much happening. It makes for somewhat a somewhat tedious audience experience. When a character again mentions being bored, I was inclined to agree.

I know “Uncle Vanya” is considered an important piece of drama but, despite the likeable cast, this production didn’t quite make me understand why. Perhaps I simply didn’t get it. Or, to paraphrase Astrov, there’s noth-

ing to understand — I’m just not that interested. Q Interim Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly. com What: “Uncle Vanya,” presented by Pear Theatre When: Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. through March 13.

Where: 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View Cost: $10-$35 Info: Visit thepear.org/ unclevanya

Logan Jelks and Grace Kuffner hone their improv skills as Jelks uses an invisible typewriter and Kuffner pantomimes the action beside him. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 4, 2016 • Page 25

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Actor Duffy Hudson brings beloved theoretical physicist Albert Einstein to Menlo Park in a “tribute performance” to the brilliant scientist, in which he will attempt to “convey the essence of Special and General Relativity in under an hour.” The library has previously hosted Hudson in a one-man version of “A Christmas Carol,” a selection of Dr. Seuss works, and in the guise of comedian George Burns. The performance will take place Saturday, March 5, at 11 a.m. at the Menlo Park City Council Chambers, 701 Laurel St. The free event is presented by Friends of the Menlo Park Library. Go to menlopark.org/library.

Everyone’s favorite British nanny takes the stage in Peninsula Youth Theatre’s “Mary Poppins,” a musical based on the Disney film and P.L. Travers novel of the same name. Local actors ages 8 to 18 tell the story of the magical Mary, who chimney-sweeps into the lives of a dysfunctional London family, with classic songs including “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

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Reggae in Redwood City

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Reggae-pop group Big Mountain, known for its hit cover version of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way,” will be performing at Redwood City’s Club Fox on Saturday, March 5, at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.). Also playing is the San Francisco band Pacific Vibration, which plays reggae with hints of folk, island, soul and funk. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, adults (21+) only.

The show will be held at 2209 Broadway St., Redwood City. Go to www.clubfoxrwc.com/event/1071545-bigmountain-plus-pacific-redwood-city/.

Where does morality come from? Biologist and primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal will discuss “Evolution of Goodness: Empathy in Animals and Humans” on Wednesday, March 9, 6 to 8 p.m. at Stanford University’s Cemex Auditorium. Renowned for his work on the behavior and social order of primates, de Waal examines whether there may be an evolutionary basis for expressions of empathy and fairness. His new book, “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?,” will be available for purchase. The auditorium is located at 655 Knight Way, Stanford. Go to goo.gl/dR3Kvf.

Benefit ‘Palo Alto Swing Dance’ Dust off your dancing shoes and prepare to whip out your Lindy Hop: The inaugural “Palo Alto Swing Dance,” a benefit for the Gunn High School music program, will be held Saturday, March 5, 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road. Live music will be provided by the Gunn jazz bands and the event includes group swing dance lessons with Nick Enge and Melissa Carvell, light food and non-alcoholic drinks.

Tickets are $40, adults (21+) only. Go to goo.gl/IHW2md.

Above: Amy Rattner’s watercolor portrait of a retriever, “Beach Dog,” is part of the Pacific Art League’s animal-themed exhibition, which kicks off March 4 with a dog fashion show featuring adoptable pooches from a local nonprofit, Pets in Need.

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Grace C. Wu Palo Alto

$3,720,000

Charming 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with spacious detached studio located on an extra-large lot in the heart of Midtown. Sold with multiple offers.

Palo Alto

Call for Price

Updated home located on a quiet tree-lined neighborhood in the heart of Crescent Park. 4 bedrooms, 3 new bathrooms, remodeled kitchen.

650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

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Jenny Teng 650.245.4490 jteng@apr.com

Dana Van Hulsen Palo Alto

$3,298,000

Elegant manor with top rated PA schools. Thoughtfully remodeled with hillside views and close to Golf Country club & 280. 6bd, 6.5ba, 3.37 acre lot.

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$3,100,000

Beautiful Allied Arts contemporary home. 4 bed/4.5 bath, stunning gourmet cooks kitchen. Perfect location near Stanford and Downtown MP.

650.248.3950 dvanhulsen@apr.com

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Emely Weissman 650.543.1057 eweissma@apr.com

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Los Altos Hills

Call for Price

Handsome, light-filled home on a half-acre lot within walking distance to Downtown Los Altos. Emely Represented the Buyers.

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Michael Johnston 650.533.5102

Modern, sophisticated home in downtown Palo Alto mjohnston@apr.com designed by renowned architect David Solnick and completed in 2011. Call or email Michael for details.

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Nancy Mott 650.255.2325 nmott@apr.com

Catherine Shen Menlo Park

Jennifer Buenrostro 650.224.9539 jbuenrostro@apr.com

Call for Price

Stunning home in the heart of Downtown Menlo. An English Cottage jewel with 3 bedr. 2 ba. FR/office, lush patio.

Palo Alto

Call for Price

10,000 sf Large lot in Palo Alto. Ready for a 3500sf new home. Blue print is ready. Close to all three top Palo Alto schools. Call Catherine for details.

650.862.5268 cshen@apr.com

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Ling Lau Palo Alto

$2,840,000

Great opportunity to remodel or rebuild on a quiet, tree lined street in desirable Midtown. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2231 sf on a 7405 sf lot. Sold with multiple offers.

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Call for Price

Enjoy beautiful Mediterranean living in this stunning custom home! Custom built in 2011. Excellent PA schools.

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Desiree Doctor 650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com

650.269.6809 llau@apr.com

Shari Ornstein Palo Alto

$2,607,000

Charming 2bd, 2ba close to downtown. Located in sought after Professorville. Close to Stanford and Town & Country. Top Palo Alto Schools. Represented Buyers.

Stanford

$2,500,000

Ideally located on generous level lot, this 5bd/4ba traditional style home offered flexibility plus 1 bd/ 1ba au pair unit.

650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com

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Sherry Bucolo Palo Alto

Call for Price

Stylish & contemporary, 5 year-old 3BR/2.5BA attached single family home, blocks from University Avenue.

Private/Secure, walking distance to Downtown.

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Old Palo Alto 3 bd/2 ba charming Spanish style home with vaulted ceilings, expansive picture windows & hardwood floors.

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Palo Alto

650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

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Completely remodeled in 2008, this 3 bed, 2 bath stunning Eichler with modern finishes, dual-paned windows & hardwood floors is move-in ready.

Aptos

$2,375,000

Panoramic ocean views from this expansive home on a seaside bluff above the pristine white sand of Beer Can Beach in Aptos. California dreaming.

Lynn Wilson Roberts 650.255.6987 lwr@ wilsonroberts.com

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Delia Fei 650.543.1025 dfei@apr.com

Denise Simons Palo Alto

$2,350,000

Entirely remodeled & expanded in 2009, this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home is filled with natural light. Located in Desirable Old Palo Alto. Represented Buyer.

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Palo Alto

$2,295,000

Move right into this charming, updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath home located on a desirable street in prime Midtown.

650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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Ted Paulin 650.766.6325 tpaulin@apr.com

Liz Rhodes San Carlos

Paul Yang 408.203.0569 pyang@apr.com

$2,170,000

Newly rebuilt home with state-of-the-art features, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths plus a separate structure perfect for a home office.

Palo Alto

$2,160,000

Perfect location to build new or remodel. 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom, only 3 blocks to Downtown University Avenue.

650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

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Lori Buecheler

Michele Harkov

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

Palo Alto

$2,020,000

Light filled 4bd, 2 ba offers charm in the perfect location near Robles Park. Family room opens to patio and deck with park views. Represented Buyer.

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Beautifully remodeled 4bd/3ba home in desirable Aragon neighborhood. 2010 sq ft on 7,150 sq ft lot.

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Pam Page

Nancy Mott

650.400.5061 ppage@apr.com

650.255.2325 nmott@apr.com

Palo Alto

Nadr Essabhoy 650.248.5898 nessabhoy@apr.com

650.773.1332 mharkov@apr.com

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Call for Price

Updated light 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom single story on almost 7000 lot. Beautiful in and out in a quiet location.

Palo Alto

$1,898,000

Charming 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom plus rental cottage in Barron Park. Sold in 5 days with multiple offers.

Jennifer Buenrostro 650.224.9539 jbuenrtostro@apr.com

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John Forsyth James

Greg Celotti Cupertino

$1,885,000

650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com With mid-century beginnings, this classic 3-bed, 3-bath home offers a surprisingly open floor plan and is desirably located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood.

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$1,765,000

Premier remodeled Townhouse in Downtown with 2bd, 2.5ba, 1,646 sq ft. Offering a Zen-like retreat blocks away from restaurants and shops.

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Newly remodeled light and airy 3 Bedroom/3.5 Bath attached single family home located close to parks & shopping.

650.400.9390 ddrummond @apr.com

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Lynne Mercer Palo Alto

$1,695,000

Downtown living just 3 blocks to University Ave in this 2 bd/2a storybook home with high end designer features. Great condo alternative.

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$1,640,000

Bright and spacious 4BR/2.5BA home with cathedral ceilings, remodeled kitchen and bathrooms, large family room, and pool. Represented Buyer.

650.906.0162 lmercer@apr.com

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Dante Drummond

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650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

650.740.1580 greg@apr.com

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Wonderful single level home on a quiet street in the coveted Menlo Oaks neighborhood with excellent schools!

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Umang Sanchorawala 650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com

Menlo Park

Alan Dunckel Palo Alto

$1,595,000

Chic and stylish renovated townhouse, perfect for today’s active lifestyle. Close to Caltrain, Stanford, dining, cafes & boutiques. Excellent Palo Alto schools.

Sunnyvale

Call for Price

Charming 3 bed, 2 bath in prime Sunnyvale location near best schools. Approx 1435 square feet on a large 8307 square foot lot with 2 car garage.

650.400.0327 adunckel@apr.com

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Michael Johnston

Menlo Park

$1,498,888

650.533.5102 mjohnston@apr.com 4 bedroom home on almost 10,000 sqft lot in The

Willows. Close to everything and great Menlo Park Schools. This house is a blank slate for your imagination.

Los Gatos

$1,499,000

Gorgeous 3Bd, 2Ba home. Desirable Belgatos Neighborhood. Beautifully updated and remodeled thruout. Large lot, culdesac location. Great schools.

Andrea Meinhardt Schultz 650.575.3632 aschultz@apr.com

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Jean-Luc Laminette

Pat Kalish Redwood City

Call for Price

650.833.9336 jllaminette@apr.com Superb home in desirable Woodside Plaza. Remodeled 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, approx 1,310 sq ft on a charming 6,200 sq ft lot.

Los Altos

$1,298,000

Gorgeous single-story condominium in small Downtown complex. Remodeled and pristine. 2/2 Plus generous office.

650.823.4624 pkalish@apr.com

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Greg Celotti 650.740.1580 greg@apr.com

Shelly Roberson San Carlos

$1,288,000

Beautiful single level home on a quiet street just blocks from downtown plus excellent schools!

1316Rosewood.com

Redwood City

Call for Price

Located in Emerald Hills, this property is ideally situated on a level 14,300 sf lot. Build your dream home or remodel existing Bungalow.

650.464.3797 sroberson@apr.com

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Betsy Dwyer San Mateo

$1,099,000

This gorgeous 2BR/2BA designer condo in a boutiquebuilding near downtown San Mateo is a rare opportunity.

San Jose

Call for Price

Beautifully remodeled 2bd 2ba home in the charming & centrally located Cambrian Park neighborhood.

Many wonderful upgrades! Call for details

650.279.8116 bdwyer@apr.com

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Eating Out A selection of tacos from La Viga, from left: carne asada with nopales salsa and red sauce; pollo with tomatillo sauce and guacamole; and cochinita with pickled onion, habañero sauce and orange slices.

From ceviche to branzino, it’s hard to go wrong at La Viga in Redwood City Review by Trevor Felch | Photos by Veronica Weber

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ince La Viga opened in downtown Redwood City in 2012, the city has seen a tremendous surge in construction, with tech companies staking their claim and new bars, restaurants and coffee shops filling downtown’s streets. However, the construction boom hasn’t seemed to move past the famous “Climate Best By Government Test” sign to the more industrial surrounding streets, just a three minute stroll from the downtown core, where you’ll find La Viga.

La Viga ties together Redwood City’s Mexican and Latin American culinary scene, with a focus on seasonal and local ingredients.

The restaurant’s namesake is the main seafood market in Mexico City — chef-owner Manuel Martinez’s hometown — which explains why his menu heavily favors fish.

At La Viga, the main courses are as compelling as the small plates, if not more so. Talk about a rarity these days.

One standout entree is the Yucatán region’s signature dish, cochinita pibil ($20). It’s a dense stew of fork-tender pork, lots of achiote spicing and orange juice, all steamed in a banana leaf and tossed with thick, acidic slivers of pickled onions. Try a few bites of meat with the cilantro rice and plantains in a do-it-yourself taco, and maybe add a touch of habañero salsa.

Angel hair pasta comes to mind in the fideo pasta bowl, tallarines con mariscos ($21). The thin,

sticky strands of fideo are spun together with a pitch-perfect spicy tomato sauce, mushrooms, salsa verde and shellfish. Chile relleno ($21) is the runaway winner for the Instagram crowd with the poblano pepper covered in an artistic drizzle of crema and sitting in a pool of green olive sauce. It has a heat that grows from mild to noticeable. Unfortunately, the salmon and shrimp filling is muddled from the various other components.

A crowd-pleaser is the whole grilled fish (usually branzino, market price) featuring a rustic chipotle sauce that is the antithesis of the typical accompaniment of a squeeze of lemon juice.

Martinez’s culinary background comes from French restaurants he’s worked at, including Left Bank in Menlo Park. A year after opening La Viga, Martinez unveiled his sequel, LV Mar, in the heart of Redwood City’s downtown. LV Mar also has a seafood focus, but is more playful and daring with its dishes.

Starting a meal at either restaurant with one of the ceviches is practically obligatory. The mahi mahi ($16) with mango and sweet potato is a bit too sweet but the fish is superb. The pescado ($15) is made up of red snapper and tomato broth with diced cucumber.

The shrimp ceviche ($15) — made with pico de gallo salsa, avocado and whole tiny shrimp — surpasses any steakhouse shrimp cocktail.

Not chewy at all, the octopus and calamari ($14) in the bold saffron and garlic sauce comes with about a half-pound of fragrant fennel slices. The dish is a success and large enough to be a light main course. The empanadas (two per order, $11) are impressive, with the flaky pastry contrasting nicely with the fillings — moist salmon in one and shrimp in the other. The textbook guacamole comes with lumps of queso fresco ($8).

For tacos ($12 for a trio), the snapper is an exemplary rendition of the Baja style, with a greasefree tempura batter. Also consider the carne asada with cactus or a fun salmon taco with a chili lime sauce as thick as mole. The eyebrow-raiser is the aguacate with crispy breaded avocado and black bean salsa. It’s fried avocado, in a tortilla. Yes, it’s great.

Service is some of the most genuine around, with a rare combination of enthusiasm and professionalism. If you ask for a suggestion, you’ll get honesty. During one meal, I was curious about a mysterious fruit salad component for the salmon taco. The waiter said it was jicama and even brought one from the kitchen for me to see. Have a question about the sweetness of the tropical iced tea? You’ll get a taste.

La Viga has a fine-tuned ambiance that blends casual restaurant decor with a backyard seafood cook-out. Tables are picnic-style

Starting a meal at La Viga with one of the ceviches is practically obligatory. From left, the ceviche de camaron with shrimp, pico de gallo, avocado and cucumber; the ceviche de dorado with mahi mahi, mango, sweet potato and habañero sauce; and the ceviche de pescado with red snapper, tomatoes, cucumbers and lime. with bare wood and most have bench seating. For decor, there’s the slightly exposed open kitchen, a medium-sized wine rack that would be comparable to what you’d find in a San Francisco studio apartment and photos of seafood dishes on the wall. Soccer plays on the TV, sometimes enhanced with pop music. People of all ages and backgrounds seem to be having a good time.

There is no hard liquor license (for craft cocktails, go to LV Mar) but the restaurant has decent, sweet sangria ($7) and an agave wine margarita ($9). Wines are good values from South America or Spain, so don’t expect an award-winning Sancerre.

Dessert options include sorbet

La Viga 1772 Broadway St., Redwood City; 650-679-8141; Chefmanuelmartinez.com/la-viga Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; closed Mondays

Reservations

Parking: street, generally easy

Beer and wine only

Takeout

Credit cards

Banquet

Catering

Outdoor seating

Wheelchair access

Noise level: quiet to medium Bathroom cleanliness: good

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by Daryl Savage

ONE-OF-A-KIND SHOP AT STANFORD ... It’s hard to imagine that an idea for a store at Stanford Shopping Center had its beginnings when Seattle resident Lee Rhodes was diagnosed with cancer for the third time. During Rhodes’ cancer treatment, she recalls meeting in a hospital waiting room patients that could not afford even the basic necessities, such as bus fare, child care or groceries.

“It was a real revelation. Although I had the support and care from friends and family, a lot of these patients didn’t have anyone,” she said.

One day while entertaining friends, Rhodes dropped a tealight into a glass cup. It provided a soothing and comforting atmosphere and it was then that the glassybaby, a hand-blown, one-of-a-kind votive, was born. Her first glassybaby store started in Seattle in 1998. Rhodes, still affected by the suffering she saw, decided to donate 10 percent of all retail sales from her glassybaby business to charity.

“That policy was in place from day one,” she said. And the business has seen explosive growth in the 18 years since the first glassybaby store

opened. Today, eight stores later, nearly $4.5 million has been donated to needy organizations from the store’s retail sales. “We are painfully aware that we are giving away 10 percent of our revenue,” Rhodes said, admitting that the 10 percent policy may not be considered the ideal business model. “But giving away ten percent is the mission and motivation of this company.”

Several Bay Area organizations that have already benefited from Rhodes’ generosity from her glassybaby sales include Stanford Women’s Cancer Center (at Lucile Packard), Part the Cloud (Alzheimer’s), and the Ronald McDonald House.

Other local partnerships include Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, College Track, and the Stanford Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program.

Of the eight glassybaby stores, four are in the Seattle area, and another four in the Bay Area, the newest of which is the Stanford Shopping Center store. “We had tried for years to get into the Stanford mall and we were finally able to get a space last year,” Rhodes said. But the current space, at 2,200-square-

feet, is not ideal for her shop.

“We do much better in smaller places,” Rhodes said. So next month, glassybaby will move into a smaller space at Stanford, into the newly developed area on the east side of the shopping center, near Bloomingdale’s.

Glassybaby focuses on mainly one product — its one-of-a-kind glass votives. “All of our glassybabys for the Bay Area stores are hand-blown by local artisans in Berkeley,” she said. It takes four artists to create one glassybaby, which sells for $44. The approximately four-inch colored glass votive comes with its own tealight and its own story card, which contains a short, inspirational message written by Rhodes’ 24-year-old son, Mericos.

Each glassybaby is given a name, such as Cherish, Compassion, or Triumph. Of the approximately 250 glassybabys in the store, there are also names like Wingman, Blue Thunder and Master of the Universe.

“A lot of people suggest names to me, but I find it’s easier if I just name them all myself,” Rhodes said. The store’s bestseller is a glassybaby named Skinny Dip. “I don’t know if it’s popular because of the name or because of the color. It’s a beautiful deep teal that becomes a lighter shade, almost two-toned, when lit,” she said. There is another set of glassybabys on display that is called The Exotics. Selling for $75 a piece, these votives require a special process by the glassblower to create. Some of The Exotics have a double overlay of brilliant color; others have a gold metallic finish on the outside of the glass. “They’re exquisite,” Rhodes said.

The store also has a newer product that evolved from the original glassybabys, called The Drinker.

Like the votive, it comes in a variety of colors, with a variety of names, and as the name suggests, it holds beverages. The Drinker has a $55 price tag. Although some may scoff at what they consider a high price, Rhodes emphasizes that it takes a team of artisans to make a single glassybaby.

“And it is a beautiful gift to give someone because of the inspirational message that each glassybaby comes with,” she said.

“The message can often say things that that the gift giver cannot.”

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or ice cream (seasonal flavors, $5), churros ($6), flan ($6), chocolate cake ($7) or creamy arroz con leche (rice pudding, $6).

From tacos to ceviche to empanadas, passing over any savory dish is a challenge at La Viga. The restaurant is one of the key dining experiences in a city that’s rapidly becoming an important culinary destination on the Peninsula. Q Freelance writer Trevor Felch can be emailed at trevorfelch@ yahoo.com.

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“Zootopia” concerns a plucky rabbit named Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), born and raised in rural Bunny Burrow, who dreams of being a cop in the big city of Zootopia, “Where Anyone Can Be Anything,” and where pop star Gazelle — voiced by Shakira — musically encourages everyone to “Try Everything.” Though Judy’s father cheerily discourages her with advice such as “If you don’t try anything new, you’ll never fail,” Judy is as determined as they come, fighting to become the Z.P.D.’s very first rabbit officer, and then to be taken seriously among its ranks.

This early conflict would be

enough for most animated movies: the story of how Judy escapes from the low-ranking role of parking duty and becomes the cop of her dreams. But “Zootopia” has been laying some groundwork for an even more on-point moral. On her first day on the job, Judy profiles a fox named Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), and though she’s been taught by her parents to fear foxes, her good nature overcomes, and she defends Nick from a bigoted shop owner who refuses to serve him.

Well, as it turns out, Nick is a hustler, with almost-legal scams keeping him fed. He also turns out to be a fox of interest in the case of 14 missing mammals. Judy coerces Nick to help her get to the truth, discovering along the way that the “sly fox” can be trusted.

In this city of 90 percent prey, 10 percent predators, the predators seem to be reverting from civilized to primitive and savage, striking fear into the hearts of the prey and sowing the seeds of distrust and xenophobia.

As directed by Byron How-

www.gryphonstrings.com ard (“Tangled”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”), “Zootopia” offers expertly rendered, eye-catching environments (although the most nondescript is sure to be the most popular: the sloth-run DMV), and dynamic movement, including a one-of-a-kind Lilliputian police chase through the borough of Tiny Rodentia. The top-notch voice cast includes Idris Elba as Chief Bogo (a Cape buffalo), J.K. Simmons as the mayoral lion, and Jenny Slate as a sheepish deputy mayor.

“Zootopia” is a clear reference to “The Godfather,” but it also suggests “Chinatown” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” in its plot points about corruption and discrimination. If “Zootopia” only reluctantly comes around to its crime-solving story, that’s understandable. The good stuff resides in the characterizations and the morality play around them, decrying fear of the other.

Rated PG for some thematic elements, rude humor and action.

One hour, 48 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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as well encapsulate the foreboding associated with the Amazon River across cinema history. From “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo” to “The Emerald Forest” and “The Mission,” the river has taken white men into confrontations with their own hearts of darkness as the indigenous people look on in bemusement. Now “Embrace of the Serpent,” the first Colombian film to be honored with a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the Oscars, offers different angles on the Amazon, its people, and white interlopers.

Director Ciro Guerra co-wrote with Jacques Toulemonde Vidal a screenplay that uses chronological breadth to show the effects of colonialism (primarily the rubber trade) on the environment and the people. The story — loosely inspired by the journals of real-life explorers Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes — unfolds in two timelines, both centered on Amazonian shaman Karamakate. Around 1909, Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) accompanies the German ethnologist “Theo” (Jan Bijvoet) on a search.

The malarial German wants to find the rare, healing yakruna plant, while Karamakate, who believes himself to be the last of his Cohiuano tribe, hopes Theo’s rumor of other survivors will bear out. In a mirrored plot line that unfolds decades later, Karamakate (played here by Antonio Bolivar) guides American botanist “Evan” (Brionne Davis) on another search for the yakruna, across familiar ground.

Almost nothing about “Embrace of the Serpent” is literal: the Cohiuano and the yakruna are both fictional, and even David Gallego’s gorgeous black-andwhite photography of the Colombian Amazon creates a dialogue between a real space and how it was seen in the vintage photographs of ethnographers. Exercising a moderate level of restraint (Guerra holds psychedelia in re-

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serve for his big finish), the director lines up the mirrored images of both timelines and proffers conspicuous symbolism (much of it around the horrors of a Catholic orphanage, in its institutional and adulterated forms). A knife makes a rubber tree bleed white, and it doesn’t take a grad student to understand what we’re meant to think.

But the stark poetry functions much as intended. For its not-sostealth didacticism, “Embrace of the Serpent” does have a hypnotic,

mildly intoxicating quality about it, and its meditations on cultural interference and rapacious outsider abuse of native peoples and natural resources prove sadly relevant to our moment. Perhaps most importantly, the subtle shift of focus from the white explorers to the native guide allows both a welcome political correctness and a depth of sadness that, for once, isn’t once removed.

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— Peter Canavese

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

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Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

45 Years (R) +++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: 2:20, 4:45, 7 & 9:15 p.m.

The Big Short (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 1:50 & 7:30 p.m.

The Boy and the Beast (PG-13) Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:50 p.m.

Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (PG-13)

Century 20: 10:35 p.m.

Deadpool (R) +++ Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:40, 3:30, 4:55, 6:20, 9:10 & 10:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 11:20 a.m., 7:40 p.m. Sat. 7:30 p.m.

Century 20: 10:35 a.m., noon, 1:15, 2:40, 3:55, 5:20, 7, 8:05, 9:45 & 10:45 p.m.

Eddie the Eagle (PG-13) Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 1:30, 4:35, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:20 & 10 p.m.

Embrace of the Serpent (Not Rated) +++ Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

Gods of Egypt (PG-13) Century 16: 1:25 & 7:25 p.m. In 3-D at 10:20 a.m., 4:25 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 1:50 & 10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 10:50 a.m., 4:50 & 7:50 p.m.

Hail, Caesar! (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: 4:15 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:55 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 1:15 p.m.

How to Be Single (R) Century 20: 9:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 4:35 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 11:05 a.m. Sun. 4:40 p.m.

Kung Fu Panda 3 (PG) Century 16: 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45 & 7:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:45 & 9:20 p.m.

The Lady in the Van (PG-13) +++

Century 20: 10:40 a.m.

London Has Fallen (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40 & 4:30 p.m. In X-D at 7:45 & 10:20 p.m.

Met Opera: Manon Lescaut (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat. 9:55 a.m.

Century 20: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat. 9:55 a.m.

Only Yesterday (PG)

Aquarius Theatre: 1:25, 4 & 7:25 p.m.

Only Yesterday (Subtitled) (PG)

Aquarius Theatre: 10 p.m.

The Other Side of the Door (R) Century 20: 11:05 a.m, 1:30, 4:05, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m.

Psycho (1960) (R)

Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:30 p.m.

Race (PG-13) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:30, 7:40 & 10:50 p.m.

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 3:40, 6:55 & 10:10 p.m.

The Revenant (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 12:05, 3:35, 7:05 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 3:10, 6:50 & 10:15 p.m.

Risen (PG-13) ++

Century 20: 7:15 p.m. Fri. 1:45 p.m.

Spotlight (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10 & 7:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:35, 4:35 & 7:35 p.m.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 1:15, 4:25, 7:35 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 10:30 p.m.

Sunset Blvd. (1950) (Not Rated)

Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:30 p.m.

To Kill to Mockingbird (1962) (Not Rated) Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m.

Triple 9 (R) +++ Century 16: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:55, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.

Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.

The Witch (R) Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 5:05 & 10:35 p.m.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (R) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:15 & 4:05 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 7 & 9:50 p.m. Sat. 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:40, 7:25 & 10:15 p.m.

Zoolander 2 (PG-13) ++

Century 20: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m.

Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 10 a.m., 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10 p.m. In 3-D at 11 a.m., noon, 3, 5:55, 9 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:20, 2:45, 5:40, 7 & 7:50 p.m. In X-D at 11:15 a.m., 2 & 4:55 p.m.

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

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) ON THE WEB: Additional movie reviews and trailers at PaloAltoOnline.com/movies

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GROW, THEN EAT YOUR VEGGIES ... Master Gardener Vera Kark will give step-by-step directions on starting a vegetable garden on March 11, 1:30-3 p.m. She will walk students though the process, from seed starting to harvest. The free event will be held at the nonprofit senior center Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Information: Go to https://online.activenetwork.com/ Avenidas and type in barcode “7845.”

FAMILY FRIENDLY ... How does Palo Alto stack up as a place for young families to live? The city recently was ranked No. 22 out of 474 cities nationally that were studied by the folks at apartmentlist.com. They used data on safety (violent and property crimes), housing costs (percentage of income needed to rent a two-bedroom apartment), school quality (high school graduation rates) and child friendliness (percentage of population under 18 years of age).

The total score weighted the four factors: 35 percent for safety, 30 percent for housing, 25 percent for schools and 10 percent for children. Palo Alto, surprising to some, got an excellent score of 99.6 percent on housing cost but a 38.7 percent on child friendliness. The analysis is posted at apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/ HELP AT HOME ... Local seniors and people who are homebound can get free help with household tasks the week of May 2-6.

Volunteers from the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors and neighboring Realtor associations will be performing cleaning and maintenance tasks, such as replacing light bulbs, changing furnace filters, cleaning windows, turning over mattresses, installing smoke detector batteries, and other light housekeeping. Seniors must apply for the free assistance

by April 8, according to an announcement from the Realtor associations. The volunteer effort “is our way of thanking our seniors for all they have done for our communities,” Eileen Giorgi of Silicon Valley Association of Realtors stated in the press release. The annual communityservice program was started locally in 2001. Last year 130 volunteers helped 97 local senior households. Seniors residing in Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Woodside and other South Bay cities can apply. Info: 408200-0100. 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.

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he average size of a Palo Alto home has gotten bigger over the years, with large new houses replacing modest old ones and taking up greater portions of residential lots.

But another movement — in the form of cottages, converted garages and in-law units — could be waiting in the wings, some residents say.

The need for these diminutive living spaces, from 450 to 900 square feet, is great, according to proponents who recently have been attending City Council meetings to lobby for action on the matter. Teachers, librarians, students, emergency personnel, empty nesters and the shrinking middle class all need affordable housing close to where they work or have families, they said.

And the demand will only become even more acute in the next decade.

For Palo Alto’s longtime smallspace dwellers, the sacrifice of square feet in exchange for reasonable rent and close proximity to amenities has been a godsend.

And for their landlords, who have these so-called “secondary dwelling” or “granny” units in their yards, the added residences have brought with them greater safety, financial security and a sense of community, they said.

Old Palo Alto resident Bonnie Berg has lived in a 700-squarefoot cottage for 30 years.

“When I think about our house, it’s a cozy nest,” she said, sitting amid her neat gardens of droughtresistant succulents accented by

Bonnie Berg and David Foster sit outside their 700-square-foot Palo Alto cottage on March 2.

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Residents of in-law cottages talk about the upsides of less space

by Sue Dremann | photos by Veronica Weber

colorful flowers. “I like a really simple life. My needs are simple.

I don’t like a lot of stuff.”

Living in a small home provides an improved quality of life, according to Berg.

“It feels so good to be in a house and not an apartment, and to have windows all around,” she said.

Berg’s home is immaculate

and well-appointed. Each piece of furniture and each decoration and photograph has been carefully selected.

“I have beautiful things that mean something to me. I don’t go to a decorator store and just get things to fill a space. Everywhere I look feeds me and nourishes me,” she said.

The living room is well-lit through the window.

One of the best parts of smallresidence living is that it is low maintenance, Berg said. Clutter is kept to a minimum. There is just enough space for a combination bookcase and pantry in the kitchen, a small living room, a home office and a guest bedroom.

Berg’s husband, David Foster, maintains a personal space — his man cave — in a shed at the rear of the house.

Two years ago, they moved their bedroom onto the screened porch so they could accommodate the occasional guest. They liked the arrangement so much that they have continued to sleep there, she said.

“It’s so awesome. In the summer the crickets sing us to sleep at night, and the birds wake us up in the morning. It’s so nice to wake up and see what’s going on outside,” she said.

Though a study of Palo Alto’s diminutive-house denizens hasn’t been conducted, Berg and Foster believe they are typical of the kinds of people who seek out secondary dwelling units. Both are working professionals. She is a registered nurse who co-started the city’s volunteer emergency Medical Reserve Corps.

The landlord of one Crescent Park secondary dwelling unit began renting out her backyard cottage when she and her husband purchased the property and set about remodeling the main house.

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on the site in the cottage offered security, she said.

Unexpectedly, that 800-or-so-foot cottage also created a greater sense of community and safety. When her daughter had leukemia, having someone living so close by became a blessing, especially when someone needed to call the hospital, she said.

Her cottage renters, who have ranged from a head librarian of the Palo Alto Children’s Library to teachers and Stanford University researchers, have become extended family.

The homeowner said she sees a great need for affordable housing in Palo Alto.

“People from the cancer department at Stanford; teachers and nurses — all of these people need affordable housing. My daughter had leukemia, and these are the people who saved her life. There are real reasons why we need these resources,” she said.

Rachel Ginis, an anthropologist who studies housing patterns and operates the Marin-based nonprofit Lilypad Homes, which advocates for secondary-dwelling solutions, said that affordable housing can be created within existing homes as well as in backyards.

Garages and attics have been converted to include living, sleeping, bath and kitchen areas completely separate from those of the

main residence. So-called junior second units can be created out of a spare bedroom, with the bathroom either private or shared.

But Palo Alto’s ordinances will have to change to make building these kinds of units easier, she said. For example, currently in Palo Alto every home in an R-1 zone with a secondary unit must include two parking spaces — one covered and one uncovered.

Ginis said she has been working toward passage of state Assembly Bill 2406, which was introduced on Feb. 19 by East Bay Assembly Member Tony Thurmond.

The bill would allow a local agency to create ordinances for junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones, including building standards, deed restrictions and occupancy requirements. The bill would prohibit an ordinance from requiring — as a condition of granting a permit — water and sewer-connection fees, additional parking, or fire sprinklers or fire attenuation requirements.

Ginis was scheduled to speak before the grassroots advocacy group Palo Alto Forward about secondary dwelling options on March 3.

Elaine Uang, a founding member of Palo Alto Forward, said this type of housing will continue to support a trend happening across the country: multigenerational living. In her Downtown North neighborhood, there are people who have disabled adult children for whom a separate residence on the property would mean a measure of independence. Second units also

Above: The sunroom doubles as the bedroom. Above right, the cottage is surrounded by a garden Berg landscaped herself, full of succulents and places to sit.

The guest room is located next to Berg’s office. allow older, ailing parents to age in place.

Many such units already exist in Palo Alto, illegally, she added.

Individual units are not just for singles and couples, either. In a hidden enclave of 12 cottages in Crescent Park, Yoanna Gerwel Federici, her husband and two sons, ages 9 and 11, share their recently purchased home

with two guinea pigs. The home, at about 950 square feet, is technically larger than the 900-square-foot limit of Palo Alto’s secondary dwelling unit, but not by much.

At first, trying to move from a larger dwelling onto a smaller one was daunting, Gerwel Federici said, but they pared down and haven’t missed things.

Gerwel Federici, who was raised in Europe, said living in tiny areas is normal there. Used wisely, a small space comes with many intrinsic bonuses.

“I like feeling close to family. It’s much easier to keep track of the boys without being intrusive,” she said.

Living near downtown, her children bike or walk to school, and she bikes to her job at Stanford University. She estimated that they use their car perhaps once a week, thus the family also has a lesser carbon footprint.

Gerwel Federici believes people who live in cottages also tend to be interesting.

“There are a lot of intellectuals,” she said. “It’s not about the space; it’s about the soul.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be reached at sdremann@paweekly.com.

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Rent Watch Pre-departure inspection edited by Anky van Deursen

Q

Due to a change of jobs, I am about to move out of my current apartment. When I moved out of my prior apartment, the landlord refused to do a “walk-through” inspection with me. He then kept part of my security deposit for repairs, which I felt was not fair. How can I make sure this does not happen again?

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Under California Civil Code Section 1950.5, a landlord may only use the security deposit to recover uncollected rent, to remedy damages to the unit caused by the tenant or their guests, or to recover cleaning costs.

The landlord may not deduct from the security deposit for “normal wear and tear” to the rental unit or for damages that existed prior to the current tenancy.

This same California law also requires a landlord to offer a pre-departure inspection in order to give a tenant the chance to remedy any known or visible defects that may cause deductions from their security deposit.

A landlord must give the tenant written notice of the right to this inspection at the time the landlord becomes aware the tenancy is ending. The notice must inform the tenant of the right to request an inspection for the purpose of identifying defects that the tenant may fix in order to reduce or avoid deductions from their deposit.

If the tenant subsequently does request an inspection, it must be initiated and performed by the landlord two weeks before the tenancy ends. A landlord must give the tenant at least 48 hours advance written notice of the inspection for a time that is mutually convenient for all parties. If mutually agreed upon, the landlord and tenant can waive the

48-hour requirement. The tenant can request to be present during the inspection.

Following the inspection, the landlord must give the tenant a written list of apparent tenantcaused defects that need to be repaired.

The only time a landlord is not required to offer a pre-departure inspection is when a tenant does not request it or withdraws the original request for the inspection, or if the tenancy is terminated as part of an eviction proceeding.

A landlord can perform a final inspection after the tenant has moved out and is entitled to use the deposit to correct any itemized defects the tenant did not fix, defects that occurred after the predeparture inspection, or defects that were not identified during the initial inspection because of the presence of the tenant’s possessions. The landlord has to account for the security deposit within three weeks of the tenant vacating the rental unit by refunding any unused portion of the deposit and providing written documentation for any deductions made. 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 650-321-6291 for fair housing, email info@housing.org or visit housing.org.

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

SALES AT A GLANCE East Palo Alto

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $601,000 Highest sales price: $870,000 Average sales price: $718,125

East Palo Alto

807 Green St. #A G. Dimassimo to V. Wills for $870,000 on 01/25/16; built 1935, 3 bed, 1,570 sq. ft.

2398 Pulgas Ave. Working Dirt to J. Faustine for $771,000 on 01/27/16; built 1918, 3 bed, 1,370 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/20/1999, $165,000 2330 University Ave. #190 M. Johnson to M. & A. Alvarez for $601,000 on 01/25/16; built 2006, 3 bed, 1,223 sq. ft.

347 Wisteria Drive US Bank to M. Bruguera for $630,500 on 01/28/16; built 1951, 4 bed, 2,150 sq. ft.

Los Altos

1321 Harwalt Drive Wienberg Trust to Acharya Trust for $2,300,000 on 02/12/16; built 1961, 4 bed, 2,072 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/05/1975, $78,000 44 View St. Lillard Trust to Yazdani Trust for $3,000,000 on 02/16/16; built 1930, 2 bed, 1,274 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills

12101 Edgecliff Place Oshana Trust to Sikka Trust for $3,100,000 on 02/16/16; built 1953, 3 bed, 2,778 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/05/2003, $1,650,000

Menlo Park

859 14th Ave. Carroll Trust to W. Wang for $1,080,000 on 01/29/16; built 1950, 2 bed, 1,470 sq. ft.

1145 Altschul Ave. R. Robinson to Jindal Trust for $2,350,000 on

Los Altos Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,300,000 Highest sales price: $3,000,000 Average sales price: $2,650,000

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,100,000

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $840,000 Highest sales price: $3,660,000 Average sales price: $1,749,000

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $980,000 Highest sales price: $2,700,000 Average sales price: $1,846,000

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,059,000 Highest sales price: $2,960,000 Average sales price: $2,028,428

Woodside Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $4,000,000 Source: California REsource

01/29/16; built 1956, 4 bed, 1,910 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/05/2007, $1,550,000 4 Chateau Drive E. & J. Desmond to L. & S. Watson for $2,120,000 on 01/29/16; built 1980, 2 bed, 2,020 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/22/2012, $1,405,000 209 Terminal Ave. Barker Trust to W. Goetz for $980,000 on 01/29/16; built 1951, 2 bed, 1,170 sq. ft.

1990 Valparaiso Ave. B. Stankovic to K. Powers for $2,700,000 on 01/29/16; built 1950, 4 bed, 2,070 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/15/2000, $1,575,000

Mountain View

198 Ada Ave. Martire Trust to P. Lee for $840,000 on 02/17/16; built 1970, 2 bed, 992 sq. ft.

1164 Elena Privada Itow Trust to Y. Zhang for $1,715,000 on 02/17/16; built 1986, 3 bed, 2,249 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/26/1987, $311,000 173 Escuela Ave. L. & C. Ryan to Escuela Limited for $1,520,000

on 02/11/16; built 1951, 1,518 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/28/2014, $805,000 612 Sierra Vista Ave. #J A. Jennings to K. Lyons for $1,010,000 on 02/17/16; built 1979, 2 bed, 1,276 sq. ft.

293 Sleeper Ave. J. Casey to Konigsberg Trust for $3,660,000 on 02/12/16; built 2002, 6 bed, 4,749 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/25/2011, $2,260,000

Palo Alto

1433 Alma St. M. Lin to K. Bordeau for $1,400,000 on 02/16/16; built 1926, 2 bed, 960 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/04/2012, $725,000 3182 Berryessa St. #1106 Sterling Park to Y. Ma for $1,450,000 on 02/11/16; built 2010, 2 bed, 1,519 sq. ft.

3289 Berryessa St. #5 Sterling Park to H. Huang for $1,059,000 on 02/12/16; built 2011, 1 bed, 1,047 sq. ft.

325 Channing Ave. #116 Frankenfield Trust to Additto Limited for $2,380,000 on 02/10/16; built

2004, 2 bed, 1,883 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/17/2004, $1,316,500 2341 Hanover St. Marie Storm Limited to Hanover Limited for $2,700,000 on 02/11/16; built 1938, 4 bed, 1,938 sq. ft.

800 High St. #304 S. & A. Deshpande to Fu/Chen Trust for $2,250,000 on 02/10/16; built 2006, 3 bed, 1,638 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/03/2012, $1,400,000 3042 Waverley St. R. & S. Patel to Z. Huang for $2,960,000 on 02/16/16; built 1953, 4 bed, 2,393 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/14/2011, $1,725,000

Woodside

3665 Woodside Road Hoffacker Trust to D. & E. Simon for $4,000,000 on 01/26/16; built 1956, 3 bed, 2,120 sq. ft.

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

700 Welch Road tenant improvement for Vina Restaurant

to occupy 7,140 sq. ft. on ground floor, $1,549,372 660 Kendall Ave. new 900 sq. ft. sunken area at rear yard with two new accessory structures — 116 sq. ft. and 343 sq. ft. — associated mechanical, electricl and plumbing, $85,000 3298 Stockton Place re-roof garage, $3,445 676 Everett Ave. add new 140 sq. ft. attached pergola and deck, $71,000 3793 La Donna Ave. residential sewer line and water line replacement 101 Alma St., #202 72 sq. ft kitchen remodel, $20,000 3133 Louis Road temporary pole 900 Arastradero Road VMWare: remove aluminum facia detail 735 Emerson St. interior nonstructural demolition of 4,483 sq. ft.

640 Emerson St. historic category 3: modification to entry vestibule and electrical for one illuminated sign, $18,500

180 El Camino Real, #1090 deferred racks and anchorage 801 Welch Road accessibility improvements to bathrooms, elevator and stairs on first floor and exterior accessible upgrades to path of travel, $97,768 229 Hamilton Ave. revision to kitchenette layout and removal of one restroom, reconfigure mechanical duct work 676 Everett Ave. add door and outdoor kitchen to detached garage, $4,000 868 Fielding Court remove/ replace water heater 464 Colorado Ave. residential demolition of existing non-conforming dance studio 2741 Middlefield Road interior non-structural demolition of 296 sq. ft.

180 El Camino Real, #1155 tenant improvement for Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics retailer to occupy ~1,310 sq. ft, $100,000 1118 Stanley Way sewer line replacement 1350 Harker Ave. residential install Level 2 electric car charger 261 Colorado Ave. residential install level 2 electric car charger 180 El Camino Real, #1130 deferred rack install details 2227 Greer Road new residential gas line for fireplace in bedroom, new gas insert at existing living room fireplace 2161 Byron St. replacing 17 windows, $35,455 323 Ferne Ave. replacing one window, $3,526 180 El Camino Real, #1070 tenant improvement for Uno de 50 retailer to occupy 765 sq. ft., $200,000 724 Cowper St. kitchen remodels at units 724, 726, 728, 730 and 732 Cowper, $24,000

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Home & Real Estate

Garden Tips

The art of control

by Jack McKinnon

W

hat is the essence of gardening?

Some think it is the connection with the earth; others think it is a complement to building architecture.

Others still see it as a means of food and flower, herb and fruit production.

I think it is a form of control, a way to manage something alive in a way that gives pleasure and on occasion provides for the table in forms we recognize as sustaining. The success or failure is due to my skill, or lack thereof, and it is a test of my ability and knowledge.

Don’t get me wrong: I make my share of mistakes. For example, during an especially dry time I put a saucer under one of my potted azaleas to catch and wick back into the root ball any excess water. The only problem is that I didn’t remove the saucer when the rains started and virtually drowned my poor azalea. Being diligent would have saved a significant part of the root system from rotting.

There are hundreds of these little tricks that make gardening what it is. Of course, a healthy knowledge of the plants one has as well as their needs plays a significant role in finding techniques for meeting those needs. A creative and adaptable mind helps enormously.

Lastly, a spirit of forgiveness for mistakes made, while learning from each and every one, makes for a happy demeanor.

I’ve known grouchy gardeners and, beside their being unbecoming, found them insulting to an otherwise splendid craft. Let’s all keep learning and growing as spring comes and inspires celebration.

Here are the tips.

1. Grow new plants. Not just young plants but plants that are new to you. Try Tillandsia (sometimes called air plants) by hanging them around the garden or on a tree. All they need is something to either sit on or hang from, preferably in

(continued from previous page) 180 El Camino Real, #1130 electrical for two illuminated signs for Vineyard Vines 154 Coleridge Ave. remodel restroom 40 sq. ft., $4,000 525 University Ave., #A70 tenant improvement for Medable to occupy 355 sq. ft in basement: includes add non-load bearing non-rated walls, modify existing electrical and lighting system, modify existing HVAC control and distribution systems, supply and returns, $51,000 2320 Tasso St. replace sewer 12 Tulip Lane demolish detached garage 440 Cesano Court, #212 kitchen remodel: remove and replace countertops and cabinets; add faucet, $18,000 4208 Rickey’s Way, H residential 84 sq. ft. bathroom remodel, $10,000 560 Loma Verde Ave. replace furnace 3776 Nathan Way minor electrical revisions 1501 California Ave. deferred submittal for truss calculations 180 El Camino Real, Suite #1060 install one illuminated sign for BCBG Maxazria 733 Loma Verde Ave., B new electrical and lighting on first and second floor and replace existing subpanel

shade. They live on moisture in the air and occasional rain or mist.

2. Think of the environment. I had a friend named Dan Rossett who was a cactus person. Dan loved all kinds of cacti and had many different kinds. There was always a cactus of some variety in bloom in Dan’s collection. As a matter of fact, Dan would bring a blooming cactus to Peet’s Coffee and Tea in Menlo Park and put it on display, receiving a complimentary cup or cups of coffee for his flower service. Dan couldn’t grow cactus outdoors, though; it is too cold and wet here in northern California. He had to create a new environment for his cactus in order for them to thrive; he used green houses. With green houses he could control the temperature and the water needs in order to have the ideal environment for each type of cactus. This is a lesson for all of us. By controlling the plant’s environment, any plant can be grown, even desert cactus.

3. Make micro-climates. Want to grow a rainforest during a drought? The same principle as above applies. Build a greenhouse and your water stays where it’s the most useful for the plants you have. Evaporation creates humidity, which waters the plants through their leaves. Runoff is collected and re-used to water the soil. It is called a micro-climate, and this particular micro-climate can grow orchids, ferns, house plants extraordinaire, bird of paradise and even start seedlings for your vegetable garden.

4. Control in gardening requires work sometimes. Not just digging, pruning, weed-

1542 Hamilton Ave. install graywater system 3063 Alma St. wall furnace replacement 741 Chimalus Drive upgrade existing solar system 931 Cowper St. 60 sq. ft. kitchen remodel, $3,500 2500 El Camino Real connection detail for parapet wall for HVAC equipment. 0 786 Cereza Drive re-roof, $14,000 855 California Ave., Unit A tenant improvement for RR Donnelley: includes voluntary accessibility upgrade to existing toilet core, $83,000 4078 Laguna Way electrical service upgrade 2257 Bryant St. demolish 2400 sq. ft. single family residence 625 Kingsley Ave. sewer line replacement 2015 Edgewood Drive new swimming pool refresh and associated new equipment, $55,000 1050 Greenwood Ave. remove, replace 75 gallon water heater 218 N. California Ave. revised plans include bathroom remodel on second floor and clarification of plumbing 719 Montrose Ave. new furnace in attic and new A/C in side yard 3500 Deer Creek Road revised anchorage design for laser generator 3170 Porter Drive demolish 165,265 sq. ft. structure

4260 Manuela Ave. re-roof, $38,648 2390 Amherst St. garage re-roof, $3,500 551 Tennyson Ave. re-roof, $10,500 385 Wilton Ave. residential rebuild, only one wall and a portion of the foundation to remain; addition of 655 sq. ft. and remodel 1641 sq. ft. house, $350,000 940 Middlefield Road interior improvements to common area, voluntary handicapped-accessibility parking stalls, $75,000 624 Channing Ave. Apt. 624: replace beam and facia at stair landing and replace pickets. Apt 628: balcony beam repair, $6,500 10 Somerset Place re-roof garage only, $4,162 1469 Dana Ave. residential reroof, $4,500 2040 Cowper St. demolish 256 sq. ft. shed in rear yard 385 Wilton Ave. temporary power 870 Quarry Road existing tenant Stanford School of Medicine relocate electrical floor outlets for cubicles 4028 Arbol Drive wood deck has been changed to tile on concrete slab 3440 Ramona St. multi-family reroof, $23,500 102 Loma Verde Ave., #105 new gas line from meter to existing furnace and water heater

ing and harvesting (all of which are important) but the work of learning and study. Most important is plant identification. By knowing the plants you have (Latin name, genus and species) you can and will learn about their cultural needs, like how much sun or shade they need, how much water, what kind of food (plants need to eat, too) and how to care for them. You will also learn what to expect from your plants and how to diagnose a problem if it shows up. Learn about your plants, and you will meet their families of plants.

This way you will grow your knowledge and be a better gardener.

5. Also learn about your weeds. This is very helpful when these unwanted invaders enter your garden. By identifying the weeds you learn how to control them. Of course just knowing their names won’t teach you their origins or characteristics, but it will give you a big head start in an Internet search engine.

Once you have the Latin name of your weed the fun begins. Some are from different countries; some are trying to take over this whole country. Some weeds are quite vulnerable and easily managed.

A landscape architect I know had a garden almost completely devoid of weeds. He knew what they were when they showed up and knew how to direct his workers to get them out so they wouldn’t return. Take Oxalis for example. Oxalis creates nutlets in its roots. If you pull the plant out and you miss one of those nutlets, the Oxalis will come back. It is necessary to dig out the whole root system — nutlets and all — to stop this common weed in Palo Alto. Note: Oxalis looks like clover with three lobes on each leaf and has a yellow flower.

6. Know what to transplant. One of the best ways to fail at gardening is to transplant plants that are too old. Many have tried it only to find the old plant died a few weeks later. On the other hand, I know people who do “plant rescue” and have wonderful gardens. What is the trick?

Again, knowing which plants will re-root and which plants won’t make it. Some of the easiest plants to “rescue” are succulents. Aeonium, Sedum, Crassula and Aloe

1517 Edgewood Drive 140 sq. ft. kitchen and bath remodel, includes replacing skylight, $17,000 612 Maybell Ave. residential install split type heat-pump air conditioner, condenser unit on roof 100 Webster St. re-roof carport, $7,500 727 Waverley St., Apt. A replace wall furnace 283 Curtner Ave. re-roof, $31,000 1944 Bryant St. residential basement expansion to 1,240

are all plants that can be divided or broken off and stuck in a new location with a good chance of survival. Bamboo divides easily, and willow branches can be stuck in the ground (especially if it is moist) and take off like crazy.

7. Be creative. Doing an unconventional design can get you famous and might get you in trouble. If your garden is chosen for a garden tour, you might get your name in the papers or on TV. If on the other hand the neighbors cannot stand it, there could be problems. I recommend trying something new. We only live once, and if you have a creative spirit, it’s important to put it to use. One tip might be to let your neighbors know ahead of time before you put the 10 foot ivy-covered elephant topiary in your front yard.

8. Make your plans. There are roses, fruit trees and plenty of new spring plants in nurseries now. Plan for their placement and care before you buy. I typically recommend making two trips to the nursery, the first with a note pad and the second with your check book.

9. Give plants a new home. One form of control that some gardeners have is thinning out the plants they no longer want or need. It is much more easily done than one thinks. I try to give away plants that are still viable (and able to survive a transplant). The simplest way to do that is to put them out by the curb with a “Free” sign.

Most good plants will be gone in a day or two. If not, then they can go in the green waste bin and will be made into compost.

10. Tidying up is not just for you. Keeping a garden tidy is a reflection of those who own or manage it. I encourage estate owners, development and residential gardeners to be on purpose and attentive to the health and appearance of their landscape.

Not only does it make you look good but it makes the city a better place to live.

Good gardening. Q Jack McKinnon is a garden coach who can be reached at 650-455-0687, jack@jackthegardencoach.com or jackthegardencoach.com.

1501 Page Mill Road revision to the accessibility exiting pathway 567 Lincoln Ave. re-roof, $4,909 944 Industrial Ave. tenant improvement for Harrell Remodeling to occupy 3,422 sq. ft.: includes remodeling 35 sq. ft. break room, $10,515 135 Hamilton Ave. revision includes fireplace structural support and over flow plumbing at residential patio 795 El Camino Real replace 14 exit signs to be LED lights

sq. ft. and remodel 1,000 sq. ft., $375,000 1050 Page Mill Road building 1: demolish existing 145,734 sq. ft. two-story office building 1050 Page Mill Road building 2/3/4: demolist existing 119,608 sq. ft. two- story office building 872 Ames Court residential replace gas line from meter to utility room 101 Alma St., #1201 residential remodel, $120,000

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Features: • 4 bed 4 bath • Approximately 3600 sq ft • 3 car garage • Approximately 50000 sq ft lot Wonderful culdesac of newer and remodeled homes.

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Top 1% Coldwell Banker

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3080 South Court, Palo Alto Exceptional Prime Midtown Location

Inviting home on a beautiful tree-lined street This special property is ideally situated on one of Midtowns finest streets - central yet quiet, within minutes of Stanford University and renowned tech companies, as well as nearby schools, parks, and shopping.

OFFERED AT $2,388,000 LISTED BY

This charming and well maintained home is ready to live in and enjoy and also offers abundant possibilities to expand or rebuild.

• Three spacious bedrooms • One bathroom • Large backyard • Excellent Palo Alto schools • 1,064 sq. feet of living space, approx.

• Lot Size 6,456 sq. feet (per City of Palo Alto)

Timothy Foy

calBRE# 00849721 Cell: 650.387.5078 Midtown Realty, Inc.

• 2775 Middlefield Rd.

Tim@midtownpaloalto.com

• Phone: 650.321.1596

• WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

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4295 Ponce Drive, Palo Alto Spacious and Beautifully Updated Throughout

Large yard with wonderful outdoor living spaces • Three spacious bedrooms - Master suite with updated bathroom and large walk-in closet • Two lofts - One ideally configured for use as a fourth bedroom or family room - Second smaller loft would make an ideal home office • Two updated bathrooms • Beautifully remodeled kitchen with all new stainless steel appliances LISTED BY

• Numerous upgrades including the central air conditioning and dual pane windows • Soaring ceilings throughout with natural wood • Sizable Private backyard • 1,766 sq. feet of living space, approx.

• Lot size 6,696 (per City of Palo Alto)

OFFERED AT $1,795,000

Timothy Foy

calBRE# 00849721 Cell: 650.387.5078 Midtown Realty, Inc.

• 2775 Middlefield Rd.

Tim@midtownpaloalto.com

• Phone: 650.321.1596

• WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

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College Terrace Charmer Open Sat/Sun 1:30 – 4:30

Charming One Bedroom, One Bath College Terrace home Living room with Fireplace, built-in book cases and coved ceilings Separate Dining room Remodeled kitchen with stainless steel appliances, limestone counters, handmade tile and farm sink

2102 Bowdoin Street, Palo Alto

Offered at $1,495,000

Close to Stanford, California Ave. shops, restaurants, farmers market, trails and “The Dish”

Your Realtor and You REALTORS® Will Assist Seniors with Household Tasks May 2–6 Deadline for Senior applications for the free service is April 8.

Seniors and the homebound residing on the Peninsula and in the South Bay may request free assistance with household tasks through the REALTOR® Service Volunteer Program (RSVP) during the week of May 2–6. RSVP is offered for one week each year in May by REALTOR® and affiliate members from the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) and neighboring REALTOR® associations to qualified seniors who cannot perform certain household tasks due to physical or financial constraints.

The deadline for seniors to apply for this free assistance is April 8.

“RSVP is our way of thanking our seniors for all they have done for our communities,” said Eileen Giorgi, SILVAR’s RSVP Committee chair. “Through the RSVP program, REALTORS® and affiliates can make the difference between a senior remaining independent as a homeowner or renter, or having to give up that independence to some form of caregiving and dependence on strangers.”

During RSVP Week, teams of REALTORS® and affiliates (professionals who provide industry-related services) will visit senior households and perform various cleaning and maintenance tasks free of charge.

Seniors can request to have light bulbs replaced, furnace filters changed, windows

Linda Fahn Realtor

650.776.8317 LFahn@kwrpa.com CalBRE#01322627

cleaned, mattresses turned, new smoke detector batteries installed, and other light housekeeping tasks.

The annual community service program was started by members of SILVAR in 2001, and adopted as an official association community outreach project the following year. The program has since expanded to neighboring REALTOR® associations. Last year 130 volunteers from SILVAR assisted 97 senior households in the Menlo Park/ Atherton, Palo Alto, Los Altos/Mountain View, Cupertino/Sunnyvale and Los Gatos/ Saratoga communities.

Seniors residing in the communities of Atherton, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Campbell, Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Los Gatos may apply for this free service by contacting the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® at (408) 200-0100 for information and to request an application.

Complete the application and submit to SILVAR before the April 8 deadline. *** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

2020 Webster Street, Palo Alto On one of Old Palo Alto’s most coveted streets,

this lovely French Norman style home with a formal entry, elegant curved staircase, crown molding, and beautiful oak floors offers the warmth of a bygone era. A cheerful kitchen with breakfast bar and eating area overlooks the veggie beds, lemon, fig and orange trees. The well-appointed living room — featuring a wood-burning fireplace — and formal dining room, open onto a patio in the landscaped yard with wisteria covered arbor and mature trees. A beautiful spiral staircase leads to the bedrooms. An attached 2-car garage and lighted lanai complete the property.

List Price $4,500,000 SHOWN BY

www.2020Webster.com

Nancy Goldcamp

APPOINTMENT ONLY

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Direct: (650) 400-5800 nancy@nancygoldcamp.com www.nancygoldcamp.com CAL BRE# 00787851

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NEW CRAFTSMAN – OLD PALO ALTO 151 SEALE AVENUE, PALO ALTO

151SEALE.COM NUMBERS Offered at $6,998,000 Home: 4,468 sq ft Lot: 7,500 sq ft 6 Bedrooms 4.5 Baths OVERVIEW Built in 2016 Custom Finishes Throughout Wolf Appliances and Sub Zero Refrigerator Wide Plank Oak Floors High Ceilings Natural Light Throughout NanaWall Family Room with Wet Bar Cox Brothers Construction AMENITIES Walk to Downtown or California Ave Walk to Town and Country Walk to Caltrain SCHOOLS Walter Hays Elementary

STEVE NIETHAMMER 650 520 6290 hammer@zanemac.com CalBRE # 01311853

Jordan Middle Palo Alto High

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COMPLETELY REMODELED AND EXPANDED OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

Sophisticated Barron Park Contemporary 700 Chimalus Drive, Palo Alto | 700Chimalus.com

Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto 650.644.3474

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Offered at $3,198,000 Bedrooms 4 | Bathrooms 3.5 Home ±2,676 sf | Lot ±7,413 sf

Lucy Berman, Sales Associate 650.208.8824 lucy@lucyberman.com lucyberman.com License No. 01413627

Local Knowledge • National Exposure • Global Reach

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27860 Via Corita Way, Los Altos Hills Stylishly Updated Home with Chic Poolhouse Sleek, modern spaces accent this dazzling 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home, which includes a study, a poolhouse, and a combined living ->1- ;2 X ]][ ?= 2@ I<1> <8-:?J -88 ;: - 8;@ ;2 U TW -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ ;-?@5:3 -: 1D@1:?5B1 >19;018 ŋ :5?410 5: VTUX @45? ?;8->

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.27860ViaCorita.com Offered at $4,888,000

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday

1:30 - 4:30 pm

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20297 LJEPAVA DRIVE, SARATOGA

Offered at: $2,995,000

OPEN SAT & SUN 1-4PM

CLASSIC SARATOGA HOME 4 BD & 2.5 BA - 2,581 +/- SQFT. - 15,400 +/- SQFT. LOT Exuding California style with timeless appeal, this beautifully updated home has it all - a desirable one-level floor plan with 4 bedrooms and 2,581 square feet of luxury living, an exceptionally remodeled kitchen with brand new appliances and elegant quar tz counter tops. This ideal home is situated on a large 15,400 square foot lot, has manicured grounds, large lawn area for play-time, and an expansive backyard including a swimming pool with a built-in swim machine. Just a shor t stroll to Argonaut Elementary and Argonaut Shopping Center, this home has all the benefits of being in the hear t of Saratoga. The perfect home in the perfect location for the best of Silicon Valley living!

ED GRAZIANI (408) 828-1579 ed@serenogroup.com www.EdGraziani.com CalBRE # 01081556

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JEN PAULSON (650) 996-7147

jen@serenogroup.com CalBRE # 01221390

225 Lincoln Avenue

Stunning Professorville Craftsman Home

PALO ALTO

FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY IN PALO ALTO » Modern Craftsman home built in 2013 in desirable Professorville neighborhood » 5 bedrooms, home theater, 4 full baths, and 2 half-baths on two levels » Approximately 4,735 square feet of living space » White oak hardwood floors throughout » Wonderful sunlit family room with adjoining kitchen » Lower level offers 2 en suite bedrooms plus an office, home theater, and game room » Beautifully landscaped lot of ~6,825 sq. ft. » Top-rated Palo Alto schools (buyer to confirm enrollment) $6,275,000 For more information, visit lemieuxRE.com

Tom LeMieux

Jennifer Bitter Liske

650.465.7459 tom@lemieuxRE.com License #01066910

650.308.4401 jennifer@lemieuxRE.com License #01847627

Ranked #50 Nationally, The Wall Street Journal, 2015 Over $2 billion in sales since 1998 l lemieuxRE.com

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Hear Only the Birds...at this Woodside 6-Acre Estate 280 Family Farm Road | Woodside | Offered at $9,495,000

Just Listed – Open Sunday March 6th 1:30-4:30pm

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njoy the best of both worlds with your own private retreat just minutes away from the action. You will love the peace and tranquility of this 4 BR / 4.5 BA home with spectacular surrounding views of the Western Hills and the 1,189-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Positioned on a private knoll close to town, the home combines the touches from its origins as a midcentury hunting lodge with the functionality brought through recent upgrades. In addition to the two-story main home, the property has two guesthouses, a pool & cabana, a two-car carport and a three-car garage. On its 6.02 acres, the property plays host to a wide range of heritage trees and some of the area’s best wildlife. www.280FamilyFarmRoad.net Page 60 • March 4, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

#1 Agent Team 2014, 2015 in Woodside/PV office

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317 helenhuntermiller@gmail.com brad.miller@cbnorcal.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

5 Oak Forest Court, Portola Valley Offered at $3,488,000 Private Woodland Paradise Lofty ceilings and oversized picture windows emphasize the airy, welcoming floorplan of this 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home of 4,210 sq. ft. (per county) on a wooded lot of approx. 1.52 acres (per county).

Surrounded by acres of undevelopable common area to ensure privacy, this beautifully maintained home presents two fireplaces, spacious living areas designed for entertaining, an office, a mustsee master bathroom, and an attached three-car garage. This nature-lover’s haven is a quick stroll from numerous trails and easily accesses local attractions.

®

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.5OakForest.com

OPEN HOUSE Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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Bay Area Collection Menlo Park. Palo Alto. Burlingame 650.314.7200 | pacificunion.com

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

1 Faxon Road, Atherton

85 Greenoaks, Atherton

172 Stockbridge Avenue, Atherton

$20,700,000

$12,950,000

$6,950,000

5+ BD / 5+ BA

6 BD / 5+ BA

5 BD / 5.5 BA

Custom gated estate in premier Menlo Circus Club

Superb new construction by Laurel Homes and Adcon

The lush grounds span 0.63 acres with beautiful gardens

location on 1.7+ acres with solar-heated pool, golf

Builders. Premier location in Lindenwood. Pool spa,

and meditative redwood groves. Enjoy outdoor dining

practice hole.

1BD/1BA guest house.

and entertaining around the pool with an outdoor

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com

OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com

kitchen, fire pit, sport court and Bocce court.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com

APPOINTMENT ONLY

OPEN SUN 1-4

1208 Bellair Way, Menlo Park

16 Oak Tree Place, Hillsborough

535 Saint Francis Place, Menlo Park

$4,795,000

$4,688,000

$3,488,000

5 BD / 4.5 BA

5 BD / 4.5 BA

6 BD / 3 BA

Located in the peaceful, tree-lined neighborhood of

This modern sky house home was custom built from

Located on a quiet cul-de-sac in one of Menlo Park’s

Sharon Heights, this elegant two-story home was built

the ground up less than 5 years ago. Private cul-de-

most coveted locations. Two car garage and delightful

in 2012 with designer style and timeless elegance.

sac and long gated driveway, scenic bay views,

artist studio with high ceiling and skylights.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

Geoffrey Nelson, 650.455.3735

tom@tomlemieux.com

geoffrey@geoffreynelson.com

Elyse Barca, 650.743.0734

OPEN SUN 1:30-4

OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4

Darcy Gamble, 650.380.9415

OPEN SUN 1-4

1020 Siskiyou Drive, Menlo Park

42 Biltmore Lane, Menlo Park

20 Dunne Court, Menlo Park

$3,200,000

$2,049,000

$2,038,000

3 BD / 2.5 BA

3 BD / 2.5 BA

4 BD / 3.5 BA

Two majestic Palm trees is this spectacular home on an

Vaulted ceiling living room with fireplace. Remodeled

The inviting floor plan includes open kitchen, great room

over 16,000 sqft lot. Overlooking Sharon Heights Golf

kitchen with serving bar opens to the dining area with

with fireplace, dining room and living room with fireplace

Course. Gorgeous views from almost every room.

deck beyond, spacious master suite.

which all enjoy a garden view.

Elyse Barca, 650.743.0734

Maya Sewald & Jason Sewald, 650.346.1228 Maya Sewald & Jason Sewald, 650.346.1228

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Darcy Gamble, 650.380.9415

JUST LISTED / OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM Offered at $6,650,000 Beds 6 | Baths 3.5 Home ±3,500 sf | Lot ±9,188 sf

PROFESSORVILLE 1115 Ramona Street, Palo Alto | 1115ramona.com

Michael Dreyfus, Broker 650.485.3476 michael.dreyfus@dreyfussir.com License No. 01121795

Noelle Queen, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com License No. 01917593 Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson St, Palo Alto 650.644.3474

Ashley Banks, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com License No. 01913361

Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

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ATHERTON 2 Bedrooms 372 El Camino Real Sat 12-5 Intero Real Estate

$1,955,000 (408) 844-8440

BELMONT 2 Bedrooms 3812 Naughton Av $1,495,000 Sat 12-5/Sun 1-6 Intero Real Estate (408) 844-8440

25 Hallmark Cir Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

3 Bedrooms $3,195,000 323-1900

3 Bedrooms 2 Chateau Dr $1,995,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 946 Evelyn St $1,595,000 Sat Coldwell Banker 324-4456 1020 Siskiyou Dr $3,200,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

LOS ALTOS

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

4 Bedrooms

42 Biltmore Ln $2,049,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

1567 Siesta Dr $3,250,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Intero Real Estate 543-7740

LOS ALTOS HILLS 4 Bedrooms 12101 Oak Park Ct Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 27860 Via Corita Way Sat/Sun Deleon Realty 14303 Saddle Mountain Dr Sun Deleon Realty 27071 Dezahara Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 25136 La Loma Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel

$4,398,000 323-1111 $4,888,000 543-8500 $4,498,000 543-8500 $3,488,000 543-8500 $3,495,000 941-1111

5 Bedrooms 28001 Arastradero Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$4,998,000 543-8500

MENLO PARK 2 Bedrooms 1054 Pine St Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 1056 Pine St Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,295,000 324-4456 $1,295,000 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 1994 Valparaiso Ave $3,550,000 Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 255 Robin Way $2,195,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 5 Arbol Grande Ct $3,749,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

5 Bedrooms 1208 Bellair Way $4,795,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

4295 Ponce Dr Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 3080 South Ct Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 2380 Tasso St Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

4 Bedrooms 2088 Channing Ave $2,995,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 536 Lincoln $3,888,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 700 Chimalus Dr $3,198,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

369 Greendale Way Sun Deleon Realty

1 Bedroom - Condominium

4 Bedrooms

2102 Bowdoin St $1,495,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 454-8500

5 Oak Forest Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

5 Bedrooms 420 Cervantes Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$8,995,000 462-1111 $4,998,000 323-1111 $6,998,000 324-9900

$3,488,000 543-8500 $4,700,000 851-2666

$575,000 324-4456 $1,988,000 543-8500

4 Bedrooms

328 W Oakwood Blvd $2,668,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666 973 Chesterton Ave $1,795,000 Sat/Sun 2-5 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms

5 Colton Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms

PORTOLA VALLEY

$1,420,000 325-6161

3024 Hoover St Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker

6 Bedrooms

PALO ALTO

111 Emerson Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

2 Bedrooms

SAN MATEO

1900 Polk Ct $2,295,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

3 Bedrooms

REDWOOD CITY

3644 Ramona Cir $3,498,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 703 N California Ave $3,900,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 2350 Tasso St $4,895,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500 405 Marlowe St Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 2140 Bryant St Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 151 Seale Av Sat/Sun Zane Macgregor

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,795,000 321-1596 $2,488,000 321-1596 $2,995,000 323-1111

$3,795,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms - Townhouse

402 Longden Av $1,688,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

SARATOGA 18955 McFarland Av Sun Deleon Realty

$1,798,000 543-8500

WOODSIDE 3 Bedrooms

662 West Glen Way Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 381 Family Farm Rd Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

4 Bedrooms

280 Family Farm Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

6 Bedrooms

155 Kings Mountain Road Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,495,000 529-1111 $5,995,000 529-1111 $9,495,000 851-2666 $16,995,000 851-2666

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Elementay School Teacher Teach elementary class in French. Bach + 2 yrs teaching exp. Resume to Head of School, International School of the Peninsula, 151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto, CA 94303.

Law Wilson Sonsini Good and Rosati seeks an Associate for its Palo Alto, CA office. Work with corporations and other business entities w/ matters of corporate law. J.D. and CA Bar license.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT NEEDED As an established landscape design, construction and maintenance company on the Peninsula, Garden Sense, Inc. is seeking to enlarge its staff to provide superior service to their clients. Currently we are working with many clients to maximize their water usage, offering options as to how to maintain an attractive landscape during this drought period. We are an under 20~person company looking for an energetic and motivated person to work with us.

Job Description • General front office tasks • Manage multiple crew calendars • Communicate with clients and crews • Keep records/files up to date • Order & track materials • Maintain construction yard inventory • PT and/or FT position (to be defined) Skills Required • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook), Google Productivity Apps, etc.

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• A valid California driver’s license and clean driving record • Clean background check and drug testing Compensation/Benefits • Compensation Range: $15-$20/hourly (based on experience) • Paid vacation time (VT) and holidays.

• Health Insurance & Retirement Plans Please email your resume for consideration to admin@gardensenseinc.com.

EXPERIENCED FINE GARDENER NEEDED As an established landscape design and build company on the Peninsula, Garden Sense Inc. is seeking to enlarge its staff to provide superior service to their clients. We provide custom landscape design, construction and maintenance services throughout the SF Peninsula, working on all sizes of properties.

Currently we are working with many clients to maximize their water usage, offering options as to how to maintain an attractive landscape during this drought period. We are looking for energetic, motivated people who are seeking to work with us.

Our growing company has an opening in our Landscape Maintenance Department! Your responsibilities would be: -MINIMUM of 2 years’ experience in fine residential gardening/landscaping.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement MACHINE ZONE MARKETPLACE MZ MARKETPLACE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613453 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Machine Zone Marketplace, 2.)

MZ Marketplace, located at 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 200, 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): MACHINE ZONE, INC. 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 200 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

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Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Magic Team Cleaning Services House, condo, apt., office. Move in/out.

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

County on January 29, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016) acreative FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613760 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: acreative, located at 1010 Yarwood Ct., San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALEX LAUGHNAN 1010 Yarwood Ct. San Jose, CA 95128 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/20/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 5, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) AMAR REALTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613890 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amar Realtor, located at 505 Hamilton Ave. #100, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MURAHARI AMARNATH

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Real Estate 805 Homes for Rent Menlo Park - $5,200.00 Menlo Park - $5,000.00 Menlo Park, 3 BR/2 BA - $5,000.00 Menlo Park, Allied Arts, 2 BR/1 BA $4500 Palo Alto - $4800

505 Hamilton Ave., #100 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/07/2010.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 9, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 613888 The following person(s)/ entity(ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s).

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): AMAR REALTOR 1208 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 10/15/2015 UNDER FILE NO.: 610178 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): STANFOR REAL ESTATE NETWORKS, LLC 1208 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Limited Liability Company.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 9, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016)

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890 Real Estate Wanted Family looking for a house We are looking to buy a house as-is.

We both work in Palo Alto as a teacher and an engineer. If you plan to sell your house without agents, staging or fixing things, call 908-376-6246.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 613889 The following person(s)/ entity(ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s).

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): AMAR REALTOR 505 Hamilton Ave. #100 Palo Alto, CA 94301 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 12/14/2015 UNDER FILE NO.: 612005 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): MURAHARI AMARNATH 505 Hamilton Ave. #100 Palo Alto, CA 94031 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 9, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016 CUPERTINO MARKET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613166 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Cupertino Market, located at 19725 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County.

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Across 1 Move slowly 5 “Smokey ___ Cafe” 9 “American ___ Warrior” 14 First state to weigh in on presidential candidates 15 Inauguration Day recitation 16 How anchovies are preserved 17 Ink for a fan of ‘60s chess champion Mikhail?

19 Bossa nova relative 20 Photographer Adams 21 Facebook display 23 “I call it!”

26 Crew team need 27 Do a grocery store task 30 Introduction from an Italian guy who doesn’t speak much English?

36 Box score stat 37 Having no experience in 38 “Beat it!”

39 English aristocrat 41 Resulted in 43 Feels under the weather 44 Roman ___ (novel genre) 46 Trees that yield hard wood 48 Dir. from Reno to L.A. 49 Insult your private instructor’s headwear?

51 Monopoly token choice 52 Restroom door word 53 Actress Sedgwick of “The Closer” 55 It’s often served sweetened 60 Buddy who bugs Bert 64 Friar’s Club event 65 Barbecue offering, or what the other three theme answers do?

68 First name in fragrances 69 Musician who feuded with Eminem 70 1960s bluesman Redding 71 Consenting responses 72 Blunt-edged sword 73 Get one’s feet wet

Down 1 Falafel accompanier 2 Home buyer’s need, usually 3 Mail deliverers at Hogwarts 4 Behind the times 5 Write hastily, with “down” 6 Grain in granola 7 Prince William’s alma mater 8 Yeezy Boost 350, for one 9 Leaf and Pathfinder, for two 10 Where Chad is 11 Coastal Alaskan city 12 Agree (with) 13 “Only ___” (Oingo Boingo song) 18 Even out 22 Got the most votes 24 Jessica of “7th Heaven” 25 Site of a 1976 anti-Apartheid uprising 27 Sandwich need 28 Calculators with sliding beads 29 Lena Dunham show 31 Dark Lord of the Sith 32 Onslaught 33 From Limerick 34 Mango side, maybe 35 “Good to go!”

40 “Hmm ...”

42 Word of affirmation 45 Former MTV personality Daisy 47 Buying binge 50 Blast creator 54 Katniss Everdeen’s projectile 55 “Dirty Dancing” actress Jennifer 56 Actress Byrne 57 “... ‘cause I ___ me spinach, I’m Popeye ...”

58 Mr. Hoggett’s wife, in “Babe” 59 Each, informally 61 1920s leading lady ___ Naldi 62 Abbr. in the footnotes 63 “___ quam videri” (North Carolina motto) 66 Late actor Vigoda (for real) 67 Grain in some whiskey

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This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CUPERTINO MARKET, INC. 19725 Stevens Creek Blvd.

Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 21, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) FELIPE’S MARKET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613183 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Felipe’s Market, located at 1101 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FELIPE’S MARKET, INC. 1101 W. El Camino Real Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/21/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 21, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) FOOTHILL PRODUCE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613185 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Foothill Produce, located at 2310 Homestead Road, Suite D, Los Altos, CA 94024, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FOOTHILL PRODUCE, INC. 2310 Homestead Road Suite D Los Altos, CA 94024 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 21, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) PAWS AND PLAY PET ACCESSORIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613681 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Paws and Play Pet Accessories, located at 785 La Para Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MARGARET E. PLATT 785 La Para Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 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 February 4, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 613486 The following person(s)/ registrant(s) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s).

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County ClerkRecorder’s Office.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): STANFORD TERRACE INN 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 1/29/2015 UNDER FILE NO.: 600794 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): STANFORD GROUPS LLC 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Limited Liability Company.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 29, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016) STANFORD TERRACE INN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 613487 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Terrace Inn, located at 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WILD RANGE INC. 531 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/19/2010.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 29, 2016.

(PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016) ELISHA MARIE SKIN & BODY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614173 The following person (persons) is (are)

doing business as: Elisha Marie Skin & Body, located at 544 Forest Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ELISHA MARIE CAUNDAY 544 Forest Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 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 February 22, 2016.

(PAW Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) MARISAN GROUP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614206 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Marisan Group, located at 941 E. Charleston Rd. Suite 102, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MARIA PATERNO 1 Spencer Ct. Sausalito, CA 94965 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/31/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 22, 2016.

(PAW Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) GEARCLOUD LABS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614367 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Gearcloud Labs, located at 474 San Luis Ave., Los Altos, CA 94024, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ILIOTECH SOFTWARE SERVICES, LLC 474 San Luis Ave. Los Altos, CA 94024 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 19 Jan. 2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 24, 2016.

(PAW Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016) KEVIN YU CELLO STUDIO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614594 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Kevin Yu Cello Studio, located at 1370 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KEVIN YU 1370 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 1, 2016.

(PAW Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: AMIT G. BAGCHI Case No.: 1-16-PR-178209 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of AMIT G. BAGCHI, also known as AMIT GOUTAM BAGCHI. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOY SU in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JOY SU 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 April 7, 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.

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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: Sideman & Bancroft LLP Hilary C. Pierce One Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 (415)392-1960 (PAW Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 2016)

T.S. No. 15-33440 APN: 132-24-080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/20/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: DENISE E COLEY, AND ROBERT B COLEY, WIFE AND HUSBAND AS JOINT TENANTS Duly Appointed Trustee: LAW OFFICES OF LES ZIEVE Deed of Trust recorded 2/2/2005 as Instrument No. 18214779 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, Date of Sale:3/21/2016 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the entrance to the Superior Courthouse 190 N Market Street San Jose, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $640,964.02 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 3597 SOUTH COURT PALO ALTO, CA 94306 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.

A.P.N #.: 132-24-080 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

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

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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 (714) 8489272 or visit this Internet Web site www. elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 15-33440.

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.

Dated: 2/12/2016 Law Offices of Les Zieve, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.com _____________________________ Melanie Schultz, Trustee Sale Officer (PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV291598 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: THOMAS MORGAN SEAY and YIRAN MAO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) ARIANNA MENGXI MAO to ARIANNA SEAY b.) APOLLO SEAY MAO to APOLLO SEAY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: April 5, 2016, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: February 17, 2016 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016)

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and cost on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la information a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil, Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): John W. Peterson 1906 West End Ave., Nashville, TN, Phone: (615) 320-3700 DATE: February 3, 2015 (Fecha): SHERRI R. CARTER Clerk, by Judi Lara, Deputy (Secretario) (Adjunto) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant.

(PAW Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 2016) Notice of Availability of Annual Report The Marie D. Millard Trust Notice is herby given that the annual report of the MARIE D. MILLARD TRUST for the year ended December 31, 2015 is available for inspection by any citizen during business hours at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Ames Building, 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California.

Jane Risser, Administrator (PAW Mar. 4, 2016)

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 67.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DIEGO BELTRAMI YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDATE): MB TRADING FUTURES, INC. CASE NUMBER: BC571338 (Numero del Caso): NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the Information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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WOMEN’ BASKETBALL

McCall leads the way

HOOP SUSPENSION . . . Stanford senior guard Christian Sanders has been suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules, Cardinal men’s basketball coach Johnny Dawkins announced Thursday. The 6-foot-5 point guard has started 24 of Stanford’s 27 games this season.

He has averaged 4.3 points and a team-best 2.6 assists per game this season. A Houston native, Sanders posted a career-best 10 assists in the win over No. 11 Oregon and scored a career-high 23 in the victory over Green Bay on Nov. 13 in the 2015-16 season opener. “As a member of the Stanford men’s basketball program, our student-athletes are held to a certain standard,” Dawkins said. “It is a privilege to represent Stanford University. We must hold Christian accountable for not meeting his obligation to our program.”

ON THE AIR Friday College baseball: Vanderbilt at Stanford, 6 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Women’s basketball: Stanford in Pac-12 Tournament, 8:30 p.m.; Pac12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM)

Saturday College baseball: Vanderbilt at Stanford, 1 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area; KZSU (90.1 FM) Men’s basketball: Stanford at Arizona, 1 p.m.; CBS; KNBR (680) Women’s basketball: Stanford at Pac-12 Tournament, 8:30 p.m.; Pac12 Networks

Sunday Women’s gymnastics: Stanford at UCLA, noon; Pac-12 Networks College baseball: Vanderbilt at Stanford, 1 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area; KZSU (90.1 FM) Women’s basketball: Pac-12 Tournament finals, 6 p.m.; ESPN

Stanford junior Erica McCall (24) is coming off a 25-point, 18-rebound effort against Oregon on Sunday and leads the Cardinal women into the Pac-12 Tournament on Friday night in Seattle, Wash.

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CCS BOYS’ BASKETBALL

CCS GIRLS’ BASKETBLL

It’ll be a battle of the Panthers

Pinewood takes shot at Open title

Priory, Eastside Prep in D-V final

Four other local teams in finals

by Ari Kaye or a young Eastside Prep boys basketball team to pull off an improbable upset over an experienced Pinewood squad in the CCS Division V semifinals, the underdog Panthers needed to play with a maturity beyond their years.

Therefore, it was only fitting at the most crucial junction of Wednesday night’s game the ball was in the hands of the team’s lone senior starter — Daryl Carr.

With 20 seconds remaining and his team down one, Carr drove into the paint and sank a go-ahead layup, propelling No. 4-seeded Eastside Prep to a 60-59 upset over No. 1-seeded Pinewood at Santa Clara High.

The Panthers (15-11) earned a berth in Friday’s title game against No. 3 Priory (13-8), a 74-55 winner over No. 2 St. Francis-Central Coast Catholic in the other semifinal. The West Bay Athletic League foes will meet at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont at 8 p.m.

“It was so great for him,” Eastside Prep coach Chris Bischof said of Carr. “He’d been out with injuries so I’m just so happy for him

by Ari Kaye ith the Golden State Warriors’ recent domination of the NBA, basketball in the Bay Area has become synonymous with impeccable ball movement and three-point shooting marksmanship.

Watching the Pinewood girls basketball team pass and shoot the ball on Tuesday night, it seems as if those traits have translated to other levels of basketball in the Bay Area.

The No. 2-seeded Panthers knocked down 14 three-pointers on 50 percent shooting from beyond the arc to defeat No. 3-seeded Sacred Heart Cathedral, 68-51, in the CCS Open Division semifinals at Milpitas High.

Pinewood (22-4) advances to the CCS Open Division finals for the second consecutive season, where it will face No. 1 seed Mitty (22-3), which defeated No. 4 Valley Christian, 65-37, in the other semifinal game.

The Fightin’ Irish defeated the Panthers in last year’s CCS Open finals (48-46), but Pinewood exacted its revenge, leading Sacred Heart Cathedral wire-to-wire.

“We were on a game of drive and kicks,”

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ON THE COVER: Erica McCall (24) leads the Stanford women’s basketball team into the Pac-12 Tournament. Photo by Mike Rasay/isiphotos.com

Rick Eymer rica McCall spent part of her summer learning how to be a leader. She spent the rest of it working on a midrange jumper. The combination has made the Stanford junior one of the best women’s basketball players in the Pac-12 Conference, and, perhaps, the country.

McCall and the 11th-ranked Cardinal (24-6) open play at the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle on Friday, meeting either host Washington (20-9) or Colorado (7-22) at 8:30 p.m.

McCall learned leadership skills as a co-captain of Team USA’s World University Games Team, which won a gold medal in Gwangju, South Korea last July.

Her U.S. teammates included Oregon State’s Sydney Weise, Cal’s Courtney Range, UCLA’s Jordin Canada and Arizona State’s Katie Jempen. The Americans beat Canada, which featured Oregon State’s Ruth Hamblin, in the championship game.

McCall averaged 15.2 points and 8.5 rebounds in the six games, and led the U.S. with 11 blocked shots.

She missed her only 3-point try.

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NEW PALY COACH . . . Sports plays a big part in Danny Sullivan’s life and coaching likely can be found in his DNA. That’s why Sullivan and Palo Alto High appear to be a good match. Sullivan, a quarterback at Los Gatos High and then at Arizona State, was named the head football coach at Paly recently. Palo Alto Athletic Director Kathi Bowers confirmed the hiring on Wednesday night. Sullivan’s lineage is something special. In addition to serving as a team captain both as a sophomore and senior with the Sun Devils, his family tree is stocked full of athletic prowess. Grandfather Dan Sullivan played basketball at the University of Nevada. His well-known uncle, Carroll Williams, was a long-time basketball coach and athletic director at Santa Clara University.

During his senior year at Los Gatos, Sullivan completed 134-of-220 passes for 2,435 yards and 24 touchdowns against six interceptions in leading the Wildcats to the 2005 Central Coast Section Medium School title.

Stanford junior peaking at the right time for Pac-12 tourney

Pinewood’s Akayla Hackson had 26 points in the semifinals.

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STANFORD ROUNDUP

TRACK & FIELD

Cardinal women roll into Pac-12s

New face among best in the mile

Conference tennis season gets under way after Stanford topples Florida

McGorty ‘s record run shatters Stanford’s record, among best all-time

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Dave Kiefer tanford’s Sean McGorty ran the fastest mile in Stanford track and field history — indoors or outdoors — at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation indoor championships last weekend in Seattle, Wash.

In a ferocious duel with Washington’s Izaic Yorks, McGorty was narrowly beaten. However, York’s 3:53.89 and McGorty’s 3:53.95 were the two fastest ever

by American collegians indoors and rank No. 3 and No. 4 all-time indoors on any-sized track.

“I’m pretty shocked,” McGorty said.

The times won’t count for record purposes because Dempsey Indoor’s 307-meter flat track is oversized, meaning it’s bigger than the standard 200-meter tracks considered for record purposes.

The collegiate indoor record is 3:52.88 by Arizona’s Lawi Lalang, a native of Kenya, in 2014, and the American collegiate record remains the 3:54.54 by BYU’s Mike Batty in 2012.

McGorty obliterated the school indoor record of 3:57.14 by Michael Atchoo run on the same track (Stanford includes all track sizes for indoor records) in 2013, and Olympian Jeff Atkinson’s outdoor mile mark of 3:55.16 from 1986.

On the final lap, McGorty twice tried to take the lead on the final lap, first on the backstretch and then in a finishing kick, but fell just short of York’s 3:53.89. Both were under Atchoo’s meet record, as well as the facility standard of 3:54.52 by Chris Solinsky in 2011.

It was the only mile of the season for McGorty, who will bypass the event at the NCAA Indoors on March 11-12 in Birmingham, Ala., in favor of the 3,000.

The meet schedule allows McGorty, who is a junior academically but a sophomore in eligibility, to anchor Stanford’s distance medley relay on Friday and then run the 3,000 on Saturday. The mile requires a qualifying heat Friday.

“I really wanted to get a good mile in, but I had talked with Coach (Chris Miltenberg) and the focus was definitely on racing and focusing on competing.”

McGorty’s previous mile best was 3:59.34, run on the same track a year ago.

Stanford’s women finished second to Oregon — its best finish since 2012 with 73.75 points, and the Cardinal men were sixth, with 51.5.

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Stanford senior Krista Hardebeck (right) is hugged by Taylor Davidson following Hardebeck’s clinching singles victory in the Cardinal’s thrilling 4-3 triumph over No. 7 Florida on Sunday. tributed a momentum-changing 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 victory at the No. 1 spot of the lineup against the Gators. Zhao is not expected to compete this weekend.

Even with Zhao’s absence, Stanford has plenty of firepower. Junior Taylor Davidson (14-5 overall, 5-1 duals) has been rock solid at the No. 1 spot of the lineup and is one of three ranked singles players. Junior Caroline Doyle (12-5 overall, 5-2 duals) and Hardebeck (10-5 overall, 6-1 duals) are right behind.

Stanford lost the doubles point for the first time this season on Sunday. The Cardinal boasts three ranked duos, led by Davidson and Doyle (18-2 overall, 6-1 duals). The tandem has won five in a row, and picked up its biggest win to date on Sunday against Florida’s seventhranked Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan.

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Stanford junior Caroline Doyle had plenty to celebrate as she provided the tying point against Florida.

Hardebeck won the deciding match against the Gators three times in her four years at Stanford.

Doyle gave her the chance after winning a third-set tie-breaker.

“Krista wants to be in that position,” Forood said. “The scoreboard wasn’t working on the back courts and she kept asking ‘Is it still alive?’ It was important for her to know.”

Davidson helped offset a Cardinal loss in doubles with a quick victory at No. 2 singles. From there, it was another typical match between two of the top women’s tennis programs in the country.

Having Zhao back, of course, was huge for the Cardinal.

“Everybody who has played with her, it was an ‘oh yeah’ moment,” Forood said. “It just worked out with her schedule. It was a good chance to see how we might be later on.”

Zhao, the Cardinal’s No. 1 singles player the past two years, was down, 5-4, in the third set before rallying for the win just ahead of Doyle’s victory. Five of the six singles matches went three sets, another indication of what makes this a unique rivalry.

“They are way better than 7 in the nation,” Forood said. “The rankings are meaningless right now. They’re one of the top three and it was a good measuring stick for us.”

Hardebeck has been enjoying a solid season after taking a few bumps.

“She’s amazingly resilient and brings a lot to this team,” Forood said.

Cardinal freshman Caroline Lampl also lost her first dual match, in three sets, and had a seven-match winning streak end.

Baseball Sophomore Andrew Summer-

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oming off its biggest win of the season, the nationally No. 20-ranked Stanford women’s tennis team shifts its attention to Pac-12 play this weekend with road matches at No. 64 Arizona and No. 36 Arizona State.

Stanford (5-2, 0-0 Pac-12), which has won four in a row, completed a perfect February with Sunday’s thrilling 4-3 victory over No. 7 Florida. Led by senior Krista Hardebeck’s third career clincher against the Gators, the Cardinal came out on top in a series that has produced four of the past six NCAA champions.

Considered by many as the sport’s best rivalry, the powerhouses have hooked up nine times over the past six years, with the Cardinal collecting six victories.

Despite the victory, Stanford actually dropped four spots in the latest ITA/Oracle Division I Top 25 rankings, but head coach Lele Forood is less concerned about the poll and more excited about showcasing a lineup that will be used once postseason play rolls around.

That’s because junior Carol Zhao, who on Saturday night was playing in a professional tournament in Rancho Santa Fe (San Diego area), returned to the lineup on Sunday against Florida for the first time this season. Last year’s NCAA Singles runner-up and three-time All-American, Zhao missed the entire fall and was originally not expected back until the start of winter quarter as she had been training with the Canadian National Team and competing in pro tournaments.

Zhao, who attended classes in the fall and has been enrolled in full-time units this quarter, con-

Stanford’s Carol Zhao returned to provide a key victory. ville had a career night on the mound and Stanford’s offense came up with another big night in a 9-1 nonconference win over St. Mary’s at Sunken Diamond on Tuesday.

Summerville was brilliant in the longest outing of his collegiate career. He struck out nine — the most in a game by a Stanford pitcher this season — and allowed just two hits and one walk en route to his first win of the year.

Meanwhile, Stanford (6-3) carried its offensive momentum all the way from the Lone Star state.

The Cardinal, which won 11-1 at No. 3 Texas on Sunday, has now scored 20 runs and has 25 hits in the past two games.

While the Gaels (5-4) got on the board early with a solo home run in the first inning, Summerville did not allow another hit until the seventh. That allowed the Cardinal to build a comfortable lead.

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Over the past two weeks, McCall has assumed a bigger role in the offense. Against the two Oregon schools, he unveiled a deadly 3-point shot that helped her earn both the National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week honors.

McCall also earned all-conference honors, both on the allPac-12 team and the all-defense team. She was joined by junior Lili Thompson, named to her second straight all-Pac-12 team, and voted Pac-12 All-Defensive honorable mention.

Karlie Samuelson received an All-Pac-12 honorable mention nod. Kaylee Johnson was a Pac12 All-Defensive honorable mention pick and Marta Sniezek was a Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention.

McCall spent time with her father, Cal State Bakersfield women’s coach Greg McCall, working on her shot and then developed it by practicing with and against the Roadrunners over the summer.

“I shot a lot both inside and outside,” McCall said. “I also worked a lot on the pick and roll stuff and popping out. I’m happy to see the results late in the season.”

Continually adding to her repertoire has given McCall a lot of confidence and made her a potent weapon in the Cardinal offense.

“If she’s hitting perimeter shots like that, she’s the best player in the league,” Oregon coach Kelly Graves said. “You didn’t need to guard her outside before.

We’ve created a monster. She’s incredible.”

McCall matched her careerhigh with 25 points and had a career-best 18 rebounds in Stanford’s 69-42 win over the Ducks on Sunday.

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer has seen a tremendous growth with McCall, who averages 14.1 points and 9.4 rebounds a game.

She has recorded 15 of her 17 career double-doubles this season and ranks 14th nationally.

McCall has blocked 60 shots this season. Jayne Appel, Chiney Ogwumike and Joslyn Tinkle are the only other Stanford players to have as many in a single year.

“Erica has turned a big corner in her game,” VanDerveer said.

Stanford’s Karlie Samuelson (right) ranks fifth in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage.

“The 3-point shot adds a new dimension. She’s playing great and has been a consistent scorer and rebounder.”

Even opposing coaches notice how valuable a confident McCall can be for her teammates.

“She gave them confidence from the beginning and it rubbed off on them,” Oregon State Scott Rueck said after watching McCall score 25 points in Stanford’s 7654 win over the Beavers last week.

“She definitely hit another level but she’s been playing well lately,” Hamblin said.

Thompson, who missed both games to attend memorial services for her grandfather in Michigan, leads the team with a 14.4 scoring average.

Thompson has scored 20-plus seven times this season, including in wins against Washington and Washington State when she averaged 28.5 points per game and shot 63 percent from the field (22-of-35) and 71 percent from the 3-point line (10-of-14). Thompson

scored 41 percent of Stanford’s points (57) and was named both espnW National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week for her efforts.

Samuelson is 62-of-137 from behind the arc this season and is fifth in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.453). A career 40.7 percent 3-point shooter, Samuelson has made 135 from deep in her career.

The Cardinal is 37-3 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament. It has won 11 of the 14 titles, including last year, and is 13-0 all-time in the quarterfinals, 13-1 in the semifinals and 11-2 in the finals.

The fourth-seeded Stanford enters the tournament with its lowest seed ever. Prior to last season, the Cardinal had been the top seed of the event and last year won the championship as the No. 3 seed.

The No. 4 seed is 11-14 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament. The breakdown: 8-5 against the No. 5 seed and 1-0 against the No. 12 seed. Q

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ara VanDerveer was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Century and eight former Stanford players were named to the roster on the Pac12 All-Century Women’s Basketball team, as announced on ‘Pac-12 Sports Report’ earlier this week.

Stanford’s all-century representatives are: Jennifer Azzi (1987-90), Molly Goodenbour (1990-93), Sonja Henning (198891), Chiney Ogwumike (201114), Nnemkadi Ogwumike (2009-12), Nicole Powell (2001-

and Sam Perry (1:25.10) took fourth place in the 200 medley relay, while (continued from previous page) Gray Umbach, Maxwell Williamson, Sean Duggan and Liam Egan run in the third. The junior center- (6:18.16) finished third in the 800 fielder drew a walk and then stole free relay in the second and final second base — his first of the sea- event of the night.

“Our 800 free relay team was son and fourth of his career. With two outs, Tommy Edman singled void of any return swimmers from the opposite way to bring home last year. It was really fun to see Gray and Sean as seniors Klein and tie the game. lead Max and Liam in a Then the Cardinal great team effort, and our exploded with its bigyoung 200 medley relay gest inning of the year. team of two freshman Sophomore catcher and two sophomores Bryce Carter doubled was faster than last down the right field line year’s team,” said Stanto bring home the first ford’s Director of Men’s of five runs in the fifth Swimming Ted Knapp. inning. Edman then sin“I’m also really proud of gled home another run and sophomore Mikey Mikey Diekroeger Jimmy Yoder and Gray Umbach for swimming Diekroeger from Menlo School doubled in both Carter times that will get them invited to and Edman. Diekroeger scored the NCAA championships.”

Umbach (1:33.94) led off the on Quinn Brodey’s sacrifice fly 800 free relay with an NCAA Afor a 6-1 edge.

Brodey later homered to deep cut, while Yoder (1:42.41) swam right in the eighth. Later in the an A-cut in a 200-yard butterfly inning, sophomore first base- time trial.

The Cardinal (62 points) was man Matt Winaker doubled home freshman Nico Hoerner, and then sitting in fourth place behind eventually scored on a wild pitch California (72), Arizona (70) and USC (68). for an eight-run lead.

In other swim news, Umbach Up next, a showdown looms with No. 2 Vanderbilt. Stanford was named Pac-12 Swimming and hosts the Commodores for a Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year. three-game series beginning on Umbach boasts a 3.99 grade-point Friday at 6 p.m., followed by Sat- average in chemical engineering urday at 1 p.m., and Sunday at 1 and is a 10-time top-10 finisher at p.m. Both weekend games can be the Pac-12 Championships. seen on the Pac-12 Network.

In other baseball news, Stan- Women’s swimming Despite winning 13 events, inford sophomore reliever Colton Hock earned Pac-12 Pitcher of the cluding American records in the Week accolades as announced by 200- and 400-yard medley relays, the conference office on Tuesday. top-ranked Stanford had to settle Hock was a standout in the pro- for second place behind USC at gram’s longest shutout on record the Pac-12 Championships in Fed(since 1959) -- a 1-0 win in 12 in- eral Way, Wash.

The Trojans scored 1,481 points nings at No. 23 Texas on Thursday. The extra-inning pitchers’ followed by the Cardinal (1,344) duel was highlighted by Hock, and defending national champion who pitched 5 2/3 scoreless in- Cal (1,306).

Stanford swam U.S. records in nings in relief and struck out a career-high eight batters. In the the 200 medley relay (1:34.95) longest outing of his career, the and 400 medley relay (3:26.25) Bloomsburg, Pa., native allowed with Sacred Heart Prep grad Ally Howe swimming legs on both. She just three hits. also won the 100 backstroke with a school record of 50.71.

Women’s lacrosse Freshman Ella Eastin won three Sophomore Allie DaCar has been named the Mountain Pa- individual events — the 200 fly cific Sports Federation Women’s (1:52.01), 200 IM (1:52.77) and Lacrosse Defensive Player of 400 IM (3:59.30). The 200 IM the Week, as announced by the was No. 7 in U.S. history. She also swam a leg on the winning conference.

DaCar, a native of Dublin, tied 400 free relay team that clocked a career high with 14 saves in a 3:11.44 to close the meet.

Sophomore diver Gracia Ley13-4 win over Harvard last Saturday. On the day, DaCar recorded don-Mahoney became Stanford’s an incredible .778 save percentage second straight Pac-12 champion while stopping a 2016 conference- in 3-meter diving (379.55 points) before taking the platform crown high 14 shots of the 18 she faced.

No. 13 Stanford continues its (341.40).

Senior Sarah Haas won the 100 home stand this week as it sets to host Vanderbilt on Sunday at at breast with a school record of 58.02 and took the 200 breast in Cagan Stadium at 1 p.m.

2:07.69. She also swam on both record-setting relays. Lia Neal swept Men’s swimming Stanford’s 200-yard medley re- the 100 free (46.97) and 200 free lay and 800-yard freestyle relay (1:42.50) in addition to anchoring teams swam NCAA A-cut times both record-setting relays.

This week, Eastin was named on Wednesday night at the Pac12 Conference Championships in the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month while Leydon-Mahoney won the Federal Way, Wash.

Ryan Dudzinski, Matt Anderson, same honor for diving. Q Palo Alto High grad Andrew Liang – Stanford Athletics

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04), Kate Starbird (1994-97) and Candice Wiggins (2005-08).

The eight Cardinal players is the most of any school on the 20-member squad.

Sixty-one panelists, consisting of media members, Pac-12 staff, coaches and players, were responsible for the selection of the team. Each panelist ranked their top 12 in each category, with their top selection receiving 12 points, their second selection receiving 11 points, etc. The points were then tallied across the entire panel, and

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the top vote-getters formed the All-Century Team. Only players who were active at their university while the university was a member of the Pac-12 were eligible.

Stanford leads the way with eight players. The only other schools with multiple All-Century starters are USC (five) and UCLA (three). The members of the team span five decades, a period when four NCAA championships have been won by current Pac-12 schools, two by the Cardinal. Q

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Sarah McLeod

Will Chisholm

MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH

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The senior scored a goal in a 3-0 win over Gunn to open the CCS Division I soccer playoffs before tallying both goals in a 2-1 come-frombehind victory over Piedmont Hills to advance to the section semis.

The senior scored two goals in a 3-1 soccer upset of No. 1-seeded Pajaro Valley before helping the No. 16-seeded Knights post a victory over South SF in penalty kicks to reach the semifinals.

Honorable mention Ellie Chen Castilleja basketball

Eliza Crowder Menlo soccer

Lindsey Johnson Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Mia Shenk* Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Alexa Thomases Menlo soccer

Chelsea Wilson* Menlo-Atherton wrestling

RJ Babiera Menlo baseball

Daniel Hausen Menlo soccer

Philip Hausen Menlo soccer

Jared Lucian Menlo basketball

Nolan Peterson Menlo soccer

Mason Randall* Sacred Heart Prep basketball * previous winner

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wards, allowing Pinewood a chance at a CCS Open championship at Santa Clara University on Friday night. The time is yet undetermined.

To capture the title, the Panthers will need a strong game plan for the Monarchs’ sizeable height advantage. The Mitty roster includes eight girls six feet and taller, while the Panthers tallest player tops out at 5-10.

“You just have to match their toughness, match how they play,” explained Hackson for how Pinewood attacks taller teams. “Just be physical down there, take advantage of our speed, definitely.”

In the Open Division consolation semifinals, the No. 5-seeded Menlo-Atherton girls (25-4) suffered their second straight loss following 22 straight victories, a tough 47-47 setback to No. 8 Los Gatos (19-6) in the Bears’ gym.

It was a battle between two league champions, Los Gatos of the SCVAL De Anza Division and M-A of the PAL South Division. The Wildcats held the Bears scoreless for six minutes to take a 32-22 halftime lead.

In the second half, Ilana Baer and Greer Hoyem led an M-A

comeback. Hoyem tied the game with 48 seconds remaining to finish with 13 points. The Wildcats’ Sarah Nelson, however, converted one of two free throws with 17 seconds to play. With four seconds left, the Bears inbounded and fired off a 3-pointer that went through just after the buzzer.

Baer also tallied 13 points and Carly McLanahan finished with 11 for M-A, which will play in Division I next week when the CIF NorCal playoffs begin.

Also in the Open Division consolation semifinals, No. 6 Menlo School (19-7) dropped its second straight — a 60-49 setback to No. 7 St. Francis (18-8) in Atherton.

The Knights had a good run in their inaugural Open Division appearance, playing close games against Sacred Heart Cathedral and St. Francis. Menlo is headed to the NorCal Division IV playoffs, which begin next Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Against the Lancers, Menlo started well, four players scored in the first, led by Sam Erisman’s eight of her game-high 21, and the Knights took a 14-12 lead into the (continued on next page)

On the final Pinewood possession of the game, Roshan Bal and (continued from page 70) Peery both had open looks at the rim, but their jumpers rimmed out, to have that big moment at the allowing Eastside Prep to advance.

“Our guys competed really hard end. He’s worked so hard to this the whole game and gave thempoint.”

“This is my last year, and I selves a chance to win,” Bischof missed out on three years of bas- said. “It’s a great win for the guys, ketball because of two injuries to really proud of them.”

As for what a trip to the chammy ACL,” Carr added. “So, this pionship game signifies for the fugame was all or nothing.”

Carr, who led the team with 19 ture of the Eastside Prep program?

“It means we’re back on the points, was not the only Eastside Prep player to make major contri- map,” Carr said with a smile. butions in the waning moments of “The last couple of years we’ve struggled (in the the contest.

CCS) and now Joshua Walkerwe made it to the Ford drained a championship.”

3-pointer from the This will be Eastcorner to cut the defside Prep’s first icit to one with just title-game appearover a minute left, ance since 2009. and Isiah East, who The Panthers won scored 16 points, the section title that passed to Carr out year, coincidently, of a double-team for topping Priory. the game-winning Eastside Prep and layup. reigning champion For Pinewood, Priory will meet its season ended again after Priory abruptly after a reg- Scotty Harris put on its own imular-season WBAL championship, which included a pressive display on Wednesday stellar 12-2 record in league play. night.

A stellar defensive effort, comPrior to Wednesday night’s game, Eastside Prep had not beat- bined with a 30- points night from en Pinewood since 2013, includ- senior Scotty Harris, lifted Priory ing two defeats earlier this season. to its big semifinal victory over Pinewood was led offensively St. Francis-CCC (20-7) in the first by senior Nathan Beak’s 25 points semifinal matchup of the night.

Priory employed a 2-3 zone and junior Matthew Peery’s 14 defense that highlighted the Panpoints.

“Pinewood’s so much fun to thers’ length and quickness. With play because they are such a good 6-foot-9 Emmanuel Ajanaku and team,” Bischof said. “They play 6-foot-6 Ayo Aderoboye manning so well together that you have to the backline of the zone, Priory come back with a real team effort forced 16 turnovers and held the Sharks to 33 percent shooting as well.”

In the early moments of the from the field.

“We like to play up-tempo and contest, it appeared Pinewood might run away with a victory, as our zone allows that,” Priory Eastside Prep committed six turn- head coach David Moseley said. overs on the first six possessions “When you make it a fast-tempo of the game, as Pinewood opened game kids get tired.”

Harris’ six 3-pointers led a stela 17-7 lead midway through the lar Priory outside shooting attack first quarter.

Eastside Prep was able to regain that drained 13 triples overall.

Saint Francis-CCC found most its composure after the inauspicious start, as they went on a 8-0 of its offense at the charity stripe, attempting 28 free-throws in the run to close out the quarter.

“It was hard because after ev- game. Chase Watkins led the ery turnover a player would put Sharks with 17 points and six their head down,” Carr said of the made free throws.

Priory controlled the game early struggles. “As a team we just came closer and encouraged each from the tip, as 10 early points other to keep our heads up and from Harris had the Panthers leading by 12 after one quarter. stay in it.”

Junior Zach Weiss took over A driving layup from Carr gave Eastside Prep its first lead of the the game in the second quarter, game late in the second quarter, knocking down four three-pointbut a short jumper from Ryan ers, including a corner jumper Knotts gave Pinewood a one-point right before the buzzer to give Priory a 39-19 lead at halftime. advantage at the break.

Although Priory committed 17 Neither Panthers squad could gain any separation after half- turnovers in the second half, its time, as the teams combined for lead was never threatened, thanks four ties and three lead changes to a 16-point performance from their bench. in the third quarter.

“It’s a cliche, but I’ve been tellIn the fourth quarter, Pinewood opened up a four point lead with ing our guys whether you play two under two minutes remaining, and minutes or 15 minutes be ready, had ample opportunities to extend Moseley said. “We had guys come their lead at the free-throw line. off the bench and hit shots that But, Pinewood missed three con- didn’t allow them to get back in secutive front-ends of one-and- the game.” ones, paving the way for Carr’s late-game heroics. (continued on next page)

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junior guard Akayla Hackson said of the Panthers’ effective offensive attack. “Always finding the open person, cutting when possible. Pretty much just drawing defenders to give (teammates) open shots.

Hackson led Pinewood’s threepoint barrage with six triples and career-high 26 points -- 20 of which came in the first half.

Hannah Jump also scored double-digit points for the Panthers, as the freshman knocked down three 3-pointers and poured in 13 of her 15 points after intermission.

The Panthers previously had drained 14 or more 3-pointers three other times this season, but were not as efficient shooting the ball in any of those contests.

“We got our looks and we hit them,” Pinewood head coach Doc Scheppler said of the remarkable shooting performance. “Early in the year we were very low in terms of our 3-point percentage, but the shots were good. But, as time has gone on, we’ve been consistently about 40 percent the last 15 games from three.”

The Fightin’ Irish were led by 6-foot-1 junior Ilmari’l Thomas, who poured in 25 points down low.

Although Sacred Heart Cathedral overpowered Pinewood in the paint at times, it struggled hitting its outside jump shots, making only two 3-pointers on 10 attempts.

“That’s a physical team we played, strong player inside,”Scheppler said. “Overall, I thought we did a good job slowing them down.”

The Panthers opened the game on an 11-2 run and controlled the entire first quarter, led by 11 points from Hackson. The junior ended the first period of play with an impressive highlight, a Stephen Curry-esque step back 3-pointer of the dribble that received a big cheer from the crowd. “(Hackson) picked a good time to have her best game as a Pinewood Panther, that’s for sure,” Scheppler said. “She rises to the occasion. She loves the spotlight, she plays better in bigger games.

She’s very streaky, so when she gets a nice little run going the basket looks like a big ocean.”

Sacred Heart Cathedral slowly crawled back into the game, and cut the deficit to one early in the second quarter, but the Panthers immediately responded with a 10-0 spurt and led by 13 at the end of the half.

The Panthers opened the second half on another 10-0 run, this time led by eight points from Jump, to open up a 23-point advantage midway through the third quarter.

“We always had an answer when they made their runs,” Scheppler said. “I though the start of the third quarter was really crucial.”

Sacred Heart Cathedral never got closer than 15 points after-

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second. Hannah Paye had five of her 14 points in the second quarter and Menlo led 27-24 by halftime.

St. Francis’ Jenisis Merriman found her shooting touch and scored 18 second-half points as the Lancers pulled away in the fourth.

Rivals meet in the Division II finals; M-A girls in Division I finale

by Keith Peters he Menlo School, Sacred Heart Prep and MenloAtherton girls will all play for Central Coast Section soccer titles on Saturday at Valley Christian High in San Jose. Only two teams, however, can win.

Top-seeded Menlo (13-2-6) and No. 7 Sacred Heart Prep (155-2) will meet for the Division II title at 3 p.m. Top-seeded MenloAtherton (14-4-3) will follow at 5:30 p.m., taking on No. 10 Branham (13-7-3) in the Division I finale.

Given the history between Menlo and SHP, however, maybe three teams will walk away with section trophies — or perhaps a share of one.

The Knights and Gators were co-champs in 2014. Prior to that, SHP won its first outright crown in 2009 and Menlo did the same in 2012. The Gators won last year’s section crown.

Also setting the stage for a possible co-title is the fact the two neighborhood rivals played to a pair of ties during the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) season.

Menlo advanced with a 2-1 overtime victory over No. 5 Saratoga (11-5-5) at Westmont High while SHP did the same with a 4-2 triumph over No. 3 Burlingame (15-5-3) on the Panthers’ home field.

In a Division I semifinal at Burlingame, Menlo-Atherton advanced with a 3-2 penalty-kick decision over No. 12 St. Ignatius (11-6-6) after the teams had played to a 2-2 tie in regulation.

At Westmont High, the Menlo girls played to a 1-1 tie after regulation and a first overtime period.

The Knights broke through when sophomore Hunter MacDonald scored on a pass from sophomore Julia Wang and a through ball from freshman Alexa Thomases.

It was a fitting birthday gift for MacDonald.

The Falcons’ Kimberly Chen scored the first goal midway through the first period and the Knights went into halftime, trailing 1-0.

With 16:00 left, Menlo junior Cleo King scored unassisted as the Saratoga goalie came out of the box, and Menlo had itself a 1-1 deadlock.

The teams finished regulation tied, and the game went to a pair of 10-minute overtime periods.

“The mood was positive going into overtime as we felt the momentum had changed,” Menlo

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Menlo School sophomore Hunter MacDonald (15) scored the gamewinning goal on her birthday.

Division I girls Menlo-Atherton will have the opportunity to win its first CCS title in program history following its victory over St. Ignatius.

SI grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first half, but M-A got the equalizer when senior Sarah McLeod converted a penalty kick. The Bears fell behind again at 2-1, but strong defense by sophomore keeper Breanna Sandoval and defenders senior Kasey Love, juniors Allison Gallbraith and Ali Sivilotti and freshman Grace Brieger, with help from the M-A midfield, prevented any further goals.

With seconds left in the game, M-A sophomore Mara Cavallaro fed a ball to Katie Guenin near the right side of the PK box, and Guenin drilled it into the upper corner of the net to tie the score.

The double-overtime was hard fought, with neither team producing any goals, though an M-A attempt by junior Nicole Salz was called back by the referee in the late second overtime period.

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coach Ross Ireland said.

Senior keeper Schuyler TilneyVolk had several standout saves for the Knights, who will be attempting to win (or tie) for a third section title in five years — all coming in even years.

Sacred Heart Prep, meanwhile, will be attempting to win back-toback titles for the first time.

SHP got on the board in the 12th minute when Cameron Gordon scored off an assist from Lindsey Johnson. Mia Shenk scored five minutes later off an assist from senior Tierna Davidson, who was making her first appearance in six weeks after suffering an ankle injury against Menlo on January 19.

Davidson received medical clearance earlier in the day.

Davidson provided the eventual winning goal in the 29th minute, unassisted, and Carey Bradley scored off an assist from Johnson to wrap things up in the 67th minute.

Sarah McLeod scored the Bears’ first goal on a PK.

The penalty-kick round saw Sandoval stop two SI attempts, and another sailed over the net.

M-A junior Margaret Child scored the first PK, followed by McLeod and junior Alissa McNerney, who sealed the M-A win.

Division II boys Menlo School saw its Cinderella season end in a 1-0 loss to Prospect (18-4-1) in a semifinal match Wednesday at Westmont High in Campbell.

The No. 16-seeded Knights (13-5-3) had knocked off No. 1 Pajaro Valley and No. 9 South San Francisco to get to the semifinals against No. 13 Prospect. Menlo was hoping to return to the title match and win its first outright championship.

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Scott Peters, whose teams allowed just 10 points in the first half as the Vikings built a 39-10 lead.

“Made it hard for Piedmont Hills to get uncontested shots, and we held their high scorer to zero firsthalf points.”

Skylar Burris, Julie Chandler and Lahti rotated shifts covering the Pirates’ leading scorer full court while the 6-foot-2 Harris was a force in the low-post area both on offense and defense.

Division IV In the semifinals at Menlo Division V Top-seeded Eastside Prep and School, No. 2 Sacred Heart Prep (19-6) posted a 45-42 victory No. 2 seed Priory will meet for the section crown on over No. 3 Monte Vista Friday at Notre Dame Christian (22-4). The de Namur University in Gators will play No. Belmont at 6 p.m.

1 Scotts Valley (23-4) Eastside Prep (15-11) for the section title on advanced with a 71-38 Saturday at Kaiser-Perromp over No. 4 R.L. manente Arena in Santa Stevenson (21-4) and Cruz at 6 p.m. Scotts Priory reached its fistValley advanced with ever section title game a 66-43 win over No. 5 following a 67-44 vicOceana. tory over No. 3 St. FranSHP senior Riley Tatiana Reese cis-Central Coast CathoHemm tossed in 16 points to lead the Gators while lic at Del Mar High in San Jose.

Freshman Zion Gabriel, who Tatum Angotti added eight. SHP held a 24-20 halftime lead and had an outstanding season in cross country during the fall, arguably held on after intermission. had her best hoop outing with a game-high 27 points. Alayah Bell Division I Palo Alto is back in its first title added 14 points, nine coming in game since 2012 and will be seek- the first quarter when the Paning its first crown since 2011 fol- thers raced to a 25-8 lead while lowing a 62-28 romp over No. 5 setting the tone for the game.

Sophomore Kayla Tahaafe proPiedmont Hills (16-11) at Wilcox duced seven points with 13 reHigh.

The top-seeded Vikings (18-7) bounds for Eastside Prep, which will play No. 3 North Salinas (23- played in the Division V state fi3) in the section finale on Satur- nals last season -- losing by just day (2 p.m.) at Kaiser-Permanente two points to La Jolla Country Arena in Santa Cruz. North Sali- Day. In the other semifinal, sophonas eliminated No. 2 Silver Creek, more Tatiana Reese poured in 52-36, in the other semifinal.

Senior Alexis Harris led the Vi- 30 points, had 12 steals and kings with 18 points with junior grabbed seven rebounds to pace Priory. Freshman Ila Lane added Maya Lahti and sophomore Carly Leong adding 12 points 16 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks and freshman Gabby Ruiz each.

“The team executed the defen- finished with 13 points and seven sive game plan,” said Paly coach rebounds. Q

Priory will look to capture its second consecutive CCS Division V crown, and Harris said the team’s experience winning last season should benefit the Panthers.

“It helps that we’ve been to the finals before,” Harris said. “We know that feeling going into the game. We still got to work hard and get the win.”

Against Santa Cruz, Blake Henry and fellow senior Christian Fioretti each had 14 points, with Fioretti adding seven assists.

Reed Fratt and Eric Norton each finished with 10 points. Fioretti scored all of his points in the first half to take the Bears to a 38-26 lead.

M-A kept up the pace, despite 29 points from Kaijae YeeStephens’ 29 points, and moved ahead by 59-42 before closing it out.

Open Division Menlo-Atherton and Half Moon Bay met for a third time this season last night, this time for the CCS Open Division consolation title after the PAL South Division rivals each won semifinal games Tuesday night.

The No. 4-seeded Bears (26-3) rolled to a 65-50 victory over No. 8 Santa Cruz (21-7) in Atherton while the No. 6-seeded Cougars (26-3) defeated No. 7 Palma (224), 61-45. The Bears will advance to next week’s NorCal Division I playoffs.

Division IV In a CCS Division IV semifinal, No. 1 seed Sacred Heart Prep (15-11) saw its season end in a 58-47 loss to No. 5 Carmel (234) at Kaiser-Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz.

The Gators trailed at halftime, 31-18, and couldn’t cut into their deficit on a cold shooting night.

Seniors Connor Moses and Mason Randall closed their prep hoop careers with 17 and 12 points, respectively. They were among eight seniors playing their final game. Q

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3022 Whisperwave Circle Sparkling water-view beauty! New paint, carpet; multiple upgrades! Open floor plan. 4 BR/2.5 BA Sarah Elder CalBRE #00647474 650.324.4456

Menlo Park

Palo Alto

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$1,595,000

946 Evelyn St Excellent downtown Menlo Park location. 3BD/2BA single family home with a nice yard.

Tim Kerns CalBRE #01800770 650.324.4456

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$1,420,000

111 Emerson Street Serene creekside single-level custom remodeled condo in gated bldg with appliances. 2 BR/2 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

$1,600,000

16 Santa Maria Ave Opportunity to build on sunny, tree-framed 1+ acre lot, vacant & cleared. 16SantaMaria.com Ginny Kavanaugh CalBRE #00884747 650.851.1961

Menlo Park

Sun 1 - 4

$1,295,000

1054 Pine St Sophisticated living 3 blocks from downtown Menlo Park, shopping, dining and Caltrain. 2 BR/1.5 BA Rebecca Johnson/Karen Fryling CalBRE #70000667 650.324.4456

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Menlo Park

Sun 1 - 4

$1,295,000

1056 Pine St Sophisticated living 3 blocks from downtown Menlo Park, shopping, dining and Caltrain. 2 BR/1.5 BA Rebecca Johnson/Karen Fryling CalBRE #70000667 650.324.4456

Sunnyvale

Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$549,000

785 N Fair Oaks Avenue 5 Beautiful Sunnyvale condo. Great for commuters and first time home buyers. 2 BR/1 BA Kathy Nicosia & Colleen Cooley CalBRE #70000645 650.325.6161

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