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Local news, information and analysis

New carpool service revs up in Palo Alto With traffic on the rise, Scoop offers commuters a new way to get to work by Gennady Sheyner

n a crisp morning in San Francisco, Catherine Zhang stepped out of her house a few blocks away from AT&T Park and headed to the usual rendezvous point next to a coffee shop across the street. Within two minutes, a familiar red Volkswagen Bug pulled up, driven

by Jennifer Slotnick, who like Zhang works at Workday, an enterprisesoftware company in Pleasanton. The two have been matched up for a ride by Scoop, a new company that this week rolled out its services in downtown Palo Alto and in the Stanford Research Park. The arrangements — made

through a mobile app — are flexible and, in this case, mutually agreeable. Zhang, who doesn’t own a car, has had four or five drivers and, in most cases, the experience has been positive (though, she said, there was that case of a driver, a first-time Scoop user, who kept talking about how he would never be a passenger because he “wouldn’t want to place his life in someone’s hands,” a slightly awkward thing for the passenger to hear; and that other driver, who was

still getting used to the brakes of his new car, who felt compelled to apologize every time he stopped). It takes about an hour and a half to take BART to Pleasanton; a car ride before the morning rush could take half the time — provided you find someone to ride with. Zhang had flirted with carpooling before, through 511.org, but found that coordinating the ride back — the texts and calls throughout the day — could be cumbersome. “It was helpful when Scoop came

up with the option to choose what time you can leave,” said Zhang, 27. “It made things a lot more flexible.” For Slotnick, 26, the arrangement is also beneficial. Commuting alone to work was “wasteful and expensive,” she said. Since discovering Scoop late last year, when the company made Pleasanton its first partner, she’d had a chance to meet people from other area companies, including Roche (continued on page 10)

CITY HALL

Palo Alto workers to get raises in new contracts City prepares to approve new agreements with SEIU, police and firefighter unions by Gennady Sheyner Veronica Weber

A golfer swings his club as he plays on the fairway near a pond at Shoreline Golf Links in Mountain View on April 7. The water circulating in the pond is a blend of fresh water and recycled water from the Regional Water Quality Treatment Plant in Palo Alto, while the course itself is irrigated with the recycled water.

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Cities eye new agreement on recycled water As purified wastewater becomes a more valuable commodity, cities rethink their longstanding partnership by Gennady Sheyner

hirsty for new recycledwater projects, Palo Alto, Mountain View and other Peninsula cities are rethinking old partnerships, exploring new technologies and considering new collaborations that would expand the existing “purple pipe” system into new areas. Few area cities are as enthusiastic about the potential of recycled water as Mountain View, which is one of the partner agencies in Palo Alto’s Regional Water Quality Treatment Plant, from which the water comes. Mountain View already uses recycled water from Palo Alto to irrigate Shoreline Park, and it plans to extend its purple-pipe system to areas near Moffett Field and the Sunnyvale border in the coming years.

Palo Alto, which uses recycled water at its municipal golf course and Greer Park, is also eyeing its own expansion of the system, possibly to south Palo Alto and the Stanford Research Park. At the same time, the city and its partners are preparing to fund a study that would evaluate various ways to improve the quality of the recycled water by running it through an additional filtration process, such as reverse osmosis or microfiltration. Both processes are already in use at the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, a water-treatment plant that opened in San Jose in 2014. Cities in the northern part of the county — and at the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, which is also served by the Palo

Alto plant — are just beginning their march toward a purification system of this sort, an effort that will be informed by a feasibility study that the city is now embarking on (the contract is scheduled to be awarded this summer). But while they are exploring a joint investment in water-treatment improvements, each city is also pursuing its own specific goals. Mountain View, which is among the leaders in the field, expanded its recycled-water system to Shoreline Park in 2009. Today, the city distributes about 400,000 gallons per day of recycled water to the area north of U.S. Highway 101 in the North Bayshore Area, according to (continued on page 13)

fter years of relatively flat wages, Palo Alto’s police officers, firefighters and the nearly 600 workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will see salaries increases under new terms that the City Council is set to review and approve on Monday night. The contracts, which will be the subject of a closed session at the beginning of the meeting and of a vote later that night, vary by each labor group. Each, however, has two main objectives: to bring salaries up to the level of the market median and to make sure that each group takes on a greater share of the costs of benefits. For the SEIU workers, the new contract will bring a 7.5 percent salary increase spread out over the three years of the contract. All employees will receive a 1.5 percent increase after the contract is approved, a 3 percent increase on Dec. 1, 2016, and another 3 percent increase on Dec. 1, 2017. About 80 percent will receive additional salary bumps to bring them close to the market median, based on the city’s recent study of the 151 job classifications that were identified as “under market.” These adjustments will range from less than 2 percent up to 10 percent and will be spread out over the three year period of the contract. “We took a very detailed look at each of the markets for the various positions ... and we are making adjustments over the term of the agreement to get our employees to the middle of their comparable markets,” Assistant City Manager Suzanne Mason told the Weekly. For the two major police and

firefighter unions — the Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association and the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), Local 1313 — the new agreement will represent the first new contract since the existing agreement expired in June 30, 2014. And for the Palo Alto Police Management Association, which represents seven managers in the Police Department, the contract will be the group’s first agreement since the union’s inception in 2009. Both the Peace Officers’ Association, which represents 83 positions, and IAFF, which represents 99 positions, will see their members’ salaries rise by 7.5 percent over three years, in three 2.5 percent increments. Each union will also see its salaries brought up to the market standard. In the case of the firefighters union, the bump will be particularly significant, with employees below the market median receiving an initial 5 percent pay bump and an additional 8 percent increase on July 1, 2017. Police officers whose salaries are below median will get market increase of 3 percent, followed by an additional 2.2 percent on July 1, 2016. “Providing these market adjustment will allow the City to better recruit and retain employees,” a new report from Human Resources Department states. “Due to the strong economy, employees have more opportunities in both the public and private sectors. Ensuring that the City’s total compensation packages are consistent with comparable agencies in this market is a very important factor in retaining and attracting quality employees.” (continued on page 16)

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

We don’t need a sword here. We just need a shield. —Greg Scharff, Palo Alto city councilman, on ensuring a new recycled-water contract with Mountain View does not include unexpected legal constraints. See story on page 5.

Around Town

SEEING THE LIGHT ... It’s not always easy for visitors and commuters to downtown Palo Alto to figure out what to do with their cars. Street parking on University Avenue is a scarce resource; residential neighborhoods now have time restrictions; and public garages can be full or difficult to find. Now, a movement is afoot to change that. On Monday night, the City Council will review plans for a new “wayfinding” program that includes directional signs, banners and pylons all aimed at steering drivers toward garages, some of which are underutilized. More significantly, the city is considering installing technologies inside the garages that will help people find an open spot. The leading contender in this regard is a technology called the “Single Space Detection Automated Parking Guidance System,” which uses detection sensors to locate open spots and mounted LED lights to indicate whether the space is open or occupied. (This system is in place at Santana Row in San Jose.) The city’s consulting firm for the project, Walker Parking Consultants, recommended this type of technology over two other types: a sensor that displays the total vehicle count in each garage; and a sensor that provides counts by garage level. While more expensive, the singlespace-detection system has the benefits of greater accuracy (99 percent, compared to the 70 to 80 percent accuracy in the garagecount system) and an increase in “effective parking supply.” Without the LED system, the report notes, “Customers perceive a facility to be full when it approaches 9095 percent occupancy as the remaining spaces become difficult to locate.” Finding a spot will also become more efficient during peak hours, according to Walker, reducing the time it takes to park by 25 to 40 percent.

IT’S BAAACK ... The City of Palo Alto is teaming up again with the Tuolumne River Trust and other community groups for the Great Race for Saving Water. The 5K fun run and walk aims to raise awareness about water resources and conservation. There will also be food and Earth Day activities from water agencies, local nonprofits, businesses and

environmental organizations at the event. The race will take place April 30 at 9 a.m. at the Palo Alto’s Baylands Athletic Center, 1900 Geng Road. More information is posted at http://bit.ly/1Va14Q6 DOLLARS FOR ED TECH ... Two Stanford University alumni have donated a cool $10 million to support education technology-related efforts at the Graduate School of Education, the university announced Wednesday. The donation from Angela Nomellini and Ken Olivier (who is also a member of the university’s Board of Trustees) will support research, scholarship and innovation in what the university called a “burgeoning” field. “Technology can disrupt the status quo, or it can increase the efficiency of enforcing the status quo,” Graduate School of Education Dean Daniel Schwartz said in a university press release. “It’s critical that we stay ahead of the trends, find new ways to solve problems and investigate what works best for effective teaching and learning. Ken and Angela’s generous gift accelerates Stanford’s efforts in this transformational, and fairly new, area of education.” What inspired their generous donation? Watching their younger son learning to read by playing a computer game, Nomellini said. “Right now, personalized learning is grabbing attention, but what do we know about it? And iPads are being used in nearly every school but to what effect? There is also so much to know about technology use out of school, and that needs to be explored,” she stated in the press release. The donation has also made possible a new initiative focused on equity in learning that launched this spring with four goals: “to catalyze collaborative research efforts; shape discourse about technology, equity and learning; prepare K-12 education leaders and teachers to be wise consumers and implementers of technology; and facilitate the design, building, testing and scaling of technology for learning.” Dubbed “TELOS: Technology for Equity in Learning Opportunities,” the initiative has started a nine-week seminar series that’s open to the public. More information is posted at edfequity.stanford.edu. Q

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There are 10 medical-marijuana delivery services in Palo Alto, according to the website weedmaps.com. tivities are allowed (such as working as a self-employed book-keeper from your home), where there are no impacts inappropriate in a residential setting,” Stump said. It should be noted that delivering medical marijuana to Palo Alto is, in itself, not illegal. “Palo Alto does not have a specific ordinance addressing marijuana-delivery services that are located elsewhere but that deliver to addresses in Palo Alto,” Stump said. When contacted this week, workers at Palo Alto’s marijuana-delivery businesses declined to comment. One said the staff was too busy because it was “rush hour”;

another, Silicon Valley Farms, said it doesn’t comment on its activities. Patio Wellness said the company does not want to bring attention to its business. Calls and emails to the other delivery services listed on the website, including Peninsula Greens, were not returned. The state is in the process of developing licensing standards, and at some point later in the year the city will consider whether additional local regulation of delivery and/or cultivation is appropriate for Palo Alto, Stump said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Council considers granting exception for Hotel Parmani by Gennady Sheyner ocated at the doorstep of Palo the site would be “virtually undeAlto’s bustling Stanford Re- velopable” if the setback remains search Park, Hotel Parmani in place. The site, which is in the service commercial (CS) zone, is keeps a decidedly low profile. Built in 1948, before the city’s very different from the lots in the primary innovation zone was es- adjacent research park (RP) zone. tablished, Parmani is a two-story, The research zone, Popp said, 36-room hotel with a parking lot at requires lots of a minimum of 5 El Camino Real and Hansen Way. acres; the Parmani site is 0.6 acres. “The first thing we want to unNow, a plan is underway to demolish the building and construct the sort derstand is how much of a site we of development that has become in- have the ability to use,” Popp said. creasingly common in recent years: “That will determine whether we a four-story, 93-room hotel with two will be going with this project.” Rather than offer a firm answer, levels of underground parking. Yatin Patel, whose family has the council responded to the reowned the hotel for the past 30 quest with a wide range of comyears, told the City Council on ments, largely corresponding to Monday that the family embarked their philosophical leanings on on a journey early last year “to re- the subject of development. Councilman Greg Scharff was place the mid-century hotel with a product that more closely matches open to scrapping the setback rule, the demands of today’s travelers, though he strongly favored actuparticularly given our proximity ally changing the law rather than granting a variance. to the Stanford Research Park.” “From a policy perspective, There’s just one problem: an old law that was enacted after the ho- why wouldn’t we just get rid of tel was constructed that requires the 50-foot setback along Hansen buildings along Hansen Way to Way? If this came before us today, be set back 50 feet from the road. should we be imposing a 50-foot Neither the property owner nor setback or not?” Scharff said. Councilman Marc Berman said the city’s planning staff can say with any certainty exactly why the he was ambivalent, though he also made a case for why an exception rule was implemented in 1959. The current Hotel Parmani does is warranted. “Every other site on Hansen not conform to this rule, as it intrudes into the setback zone by 18 Way is hundreds of feet deep; feet. Neither do the buildings next therefore it’s a lot easier to have door, some of which extend 14 feet wider setback and not impact the into the zone. The new hotel, how- usage of the parcel,” Berman said. ever, would have to follow the rule. “This site is long and narrow, with Unless, of course, the coun- the long side on Hansen. So there cil either grants an exception or is not a lot that you can do.” Berman also argued that the agrees to scrap the 50-foot rule altogether. On Monday night, Patel site should be evaluated based on and his development team made present circumstances rather than a case for the former to a council the council’s rationale 50 years that was only mildly receptive to ago. But others were less gung-ho about the arguments. The council didn’t take any votes during the hearing, messing with the zoning. Councilwhich was intended to offer early woman Karen Holman argued that feedback and help the applicants the establishment of the setback was decide whether and how to pro- a “conscious decision to continue this as part of a thoroughfare.” ceed with the application. She also cited concerns from the Randy Popp, a local architect who is on the development team, called the rule “archaic” and said (continued on page 15)

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Buena Vista youth are resilient, optimistic, study finds Stanford research shows Palo Alto mobile-home park teens’ strong connections to school, community by Elena Kadvany

he youth and teenagers who live in Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Palo Alto’s last such enclave of housing, report high levels of resiliency and optimism and low levels of depression — this despite living for more than three years with the possibility of losing their homes and having to relocate away from their schools and community, a new Stanford University study has found. The research into the impact of the potential closure of Buena Vista on the lives of the mobile-home park’s younger residents, all of whom attend Palo Alto Unified schools, was conducted by researcher, psychologist and former Palo Alto Unified School District board member Amado Padilla and released Wednesday. The study comes at a time of continued uncertainty for the park’s 400 mostly Hispanic and low-income residents, about onethird of whom are under the age of 18. The Palo Alto City Council approved the park’s closure last May, and both the Buena Vista residents and the Jisser family, who owns the park, subsequently filed lawsuits against the city. The Buena Vista Residents Association asked the Santa Clara County Superior Court to bar the Jissers from issuing eviction notices, and the Jissers have accused the city of imposing “unconstitutional” conditions in exchange for permission to shut down the park. Despite this, the majority of the 58 youth and adolescents Padilla and a Stanford graduate student surveyed said they feel optimistic about their futures and reported high levels of self-esteem. More than 80 percent said they hoped to attend at least two years of college, with 58 percent of girls and 75 percent of boys hoping to attend four or more years of higher education. The majority of youth said they receive a high level of support from their schools and that they care about their school, underscoring the argument that closing the mobile-home park would mean cutting children and teenagers off from a high-quality education and community ties. The report notes, “While the Buena Vista students are a marginalized population in Palo Alto because of their low-income status, the adolescents nonetheless have a strong sense of belonging to their school community, which is known to correlate highly with future academic achievement.” Ninety-two percent of respondents strongly agreed or agreed that their teachers care about them and the same percentage said their teachers “push for my best.” Buena Vista’s young adults also

reported low levels of depression and sadness, particularly compared to their peers in Palo Alto. None of the younger residents (12- to 15-year-olds) reported feeling sad or depressed in the last month, the study found. Among the older respondents, 12 percent of girls and 8 percent of boys said they had experienced sadness or depression most or all of the time in the past month. In a 2010 school district survey, 30 percent of Gunn High School students of a similar age reported feeling sad or depressed most or all of the time. While almost all Buena Vista youth surveyed strongly agreed or agreed that they can “find positives, even in the worst situations,” the future of their home still weighs heavy on some, Padilla found. About one-

third said they “have been stressed because of the possible park closure.” The study found that the potential closure has spurred some Buena Vista teens to civic engagement: About half of both girls and boys surveyed said they had participated in rallies and attended meetings to protest the closure. More than half of the young adults surveyed also said they had already searched or helped their parents search for new housing, should the park close, but only 20 percent said their families know where they would move if they had to. The new study follows several others Padilla has conducted at the park in recent years, including one in 2014 that looked at Buena Vista students’ dropout rates, access to health care and other factors.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with the police and firefighter unions; the Service Employees International Union, Local 521; the Management, Professional and Confidential Employees; and the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto. The council will also consider modifications to the Architectural Review Findings in the city’s Municipal Code; and provide direction to staff about downtown’s parking wayfinding program and the parking guidance system design. The closed session will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 11, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers at City Hall. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will meet in closed session to discuss negotiations with the teachers’ union at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 12, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission will discuss electric-rate adjustments, the Gas Financial Plan and rate adjustments; the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan and the Net Energy Metering Successor Program. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission will discuss bike and pedestrian improvements along Amarillo Avenue, Bryant Street, East Meadow Drive, Montrose Avenue, Moreno Avenue, Louis Road, Palo Alto Avenue and Ross Road. The commission will also hold a public hearing to receive comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD AND HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The two boards will hold a hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The Architectural Review Board will then review a request by Congregation Kol Emeth to demolish an existing one-story synagogue and replace it with a new synagogue at 4175 Manuela Ave.; and a proposal by Palo Alto Masonic Temple Association for new facade and signage, a new second story with a rooftop patio area and interior modifications at 355 University Ave. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission will discuss “An Immigrant Experience in Palo Alto” with Police Agent Max Nielepko, an immigrant from Poland; consider topics for future commission forums; review the recent forum “Being Different Together, Experiencing Palo Alto, Perception or Reality”; and discuss visits to agencies that get funds through the Human Services Resource Allocation Process. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Q

Buena Vista students continue to fare better than most Hispanic students in Silicon Valley. While the current dropout rate among Hispanic students in Silicon Valley is approximately 20 percent, Padilla has found in his work that nearly all the Buena Vista students remain in school, graduate and often continue on to a community college or university. “The schools certainly have much to do with this success, but we also have to give a lot of credit to their families,” Padilla said in an interview with the Stanford Report. The City Council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have each committed $14.5

million to the purchase of Buena Vista from the Jissers and last year tapped nonprofit developer The Caritas Corporation to negotiate a purchase with the Jisser family. In September, however, shortly after the Buena Vista residents filed their lawsuit against the city, the Jissers declared that they would no longer negotiate the sale. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. The Weekly has compiled an archive of news coverage capturing the many voices of the people involved in the fight over Buena Vista. Go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly/the-fightfor-buena-vista-mobile-home-park

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and Veeva Systems. “It’s nice to drive someone in the morning,” Slotnick. “If you haven’t met them you can learn about some other company and some other person’s job.” Now, both Scoop and Palo Alto’s elected leaders hope that local commuters will have a similar experience. The Palo Alto Transportation Management Association, the nascent downtown nonprofit dedicated to dramatically shrinking the number of solo car commuters, has selected Scoop as one of its major initiatives. The first Scoop carpools in Palo Alto began this week. While ride-sharing trailblazers Uber and Lyft have transformed themselves into household names, Scoop is just getting started. Founded in 2014 by brothers Robert and Jon Sadow, the company is targeting a commuter who has been largely neglected by the existing services: one who has to drive 40 miles or more to get to work. For the Sadow brothers, the problem felt close to home. Growing up in Atlanta, they attended a high school 25 miles away, Robert Sadow said in an interview this week. At 16, he was driving 250 miles per week. By 18, he would carpool with his brother, who was 15. The long commutes don’t just cost money, they drain your energy, Sadow said. He cited a study showing a higher divorce rate among people who commuted 45 minutes or more (the 2013 study, which was published in the British journal Urban Studies, carried the evocative title, “Til Work Do Us Part: The Social Fallacy of Long-distance Commuting”). The long drives, he said, are a “quality of life” issue. “We’d hear stories about commuters who would pull into the garage and park and wait there for five minutes and just sit there and try to unwind from the experience they just had,” Sadow said. In 2013, the brothers found themselves living in the Bay Area. Solving the congestion problem became for them an “every night, every weekend project,” Sadow said. Last August, Scoop launched a month-long pilot project at Workday. When results proved encouraging, the company expanded it to other companies in Pleasanton, including Clorox, Kaiser Perman-

ente and Roche. In October, Scoop launched in northern San Jose, with Cisco, Samsung, Brocade and other area employers as the major partners. And in November, its services became available to San Francisco employers. It now has more than 10,000 users, Sadow said. The company’s entry into Palo Alto comes at a time when traffic congestion sits at the very top of the City Council’s list of annual priorities. With recent resident surveys showing growing anxieties about traffic and parking congestion, the council is implementing new parking restrictions for employees in residential neighborhoods, preparing to expand the city’s shuttle system and requiring new developments to offer transportation-demand management (TDM) programs — incentives for employees to not commute alone. The council also spurred the creation of the city’s new Transportation Management Association, which in February became an official nonprofit and is preparing to unveil its own TDM programs, including transit subsidies for low-income employees. At the same time, HP, Lockheed Martin, VMWare, SAP and other large employers at Stanford Research Park have banded together to pursue their own trafficreduction efforts, including new shuttles, vanpools and Caltrain Go Passes. Just like the downtown nonprofit, the Research Park collective is also preparing to use Scoop to encourage carpools. The company’s offerings rolled out this week in both parts of the city. The company’s pitch in Palo Alto is simple: For $1, an employee can get a ride to work from someone who, in many cases, lives just down the street and works in the same office building. There’s no need to secure a commitment for a ride back or to worry about late nights at the office — you simply use the app by 3:30 p.m. to schedule your ride later that day. The company acts as both matchmaker and mediator: an agent that both brings the commuters together and takes care of all the transaction fees so there are never awkward conversations about gas or parking costs. The Palo Alto rate is $1 thanks to subsidies from the two partnering organizations, the downtown TMA (which so far is funded largely by the City of Palo Alto) and the Research Park. In most other cities, a rider pays about $6 per trip, of (continued on page 14)

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Vi plaintiffs to continue court fight despite dismissals A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Palo Alto retirement community Vi that alleged it illegally funneled entrance fees to its Chicago parent company, but one key ruling in Vi’s favor could still cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Six residents of Vi filed a class-action lawsuit on Feb. 19, 2014, after discovering that more than $219 million in refundable entrance fees as of December 2013 were transferred to its corporate parent, CCDevelopment in Chicago. CC-Palo Alto, the entity that runs Vi, allegedly “upstreamed” the money without establishing a reserve fund, as required by state law, according to the lawsuit. The court agreed that CC-Palo Alto may well be in violation of state law by not maintaining a cash reserve, but it disagreed that the plaintiffs have standing to enforce that law. The state Department of Social Services is the appropriate entity and is tasked with enforcement, the court wrote. But in most other matters, the court ruled in favor of CC-Palo Alto. In his March 31 ruling, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila dismissed 10 out of 15 of the case’s claims, including financial abuse of elders, concealment and misrepresentation. Davila also dismissed the remaining five claims, but he gave the plaintiffs’ attorneys two weeks leave to amend them. The judge also found that CC-Palo Alto could pass on tax assessments, earthquake insurance and marketing costs to residents through their monthly fees. The plaintiffs had claimed that entity CC-Palo Alto gave their entrance fees and additional monthly fees to CC-Development, which plaintiffs alleged would jeopardize the company’s ability to pay back residents. About 75 to 90 percent of the entrance fees are

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Gregg Hosfeldt, assistant director of Public Works. Hosfeldt also noted at the March 29 meeting of the Joint Recycled Water Advisory Committee — a new group that includes representatives from Palo Alto, Mountain View, East Palo Alto and the Santa Clara Valley Water District — that Mountain View now requires companies that are located in an area where recycled water is available to use that water for irrigation. Given the existing use and plans for expansion, Mountain View has requested an extension in the city’s agreement with Palo Alto, which was signed in 2005 and currently runs to 2035. The extension, which the Palo Alto City Council considered on Monday night, would extend the expiration date until 2060. It would entitle Mountain View to 3 million gallons of recycled water per day, same as in the current agreement. While the two cities agree that recycled (and purified) water are the way of the future, current plans remain somewhat murky. During a long discussion Monday night, Palo Alto officials balked at approving the extension of the agreement with Mountain View and directed staff to take another look at the contract. Specifically, council members wanted to make sure that the contract can accommodate a situation in which the partners pursue different visions for recycled water and disagree on the types of capital investments needed at the plant. During the discussion, Vice Mayor Greg Scharff was the leading critic as he pushed Public Works staff to provide reassurances that the new contract would not constrain Palo Alto’s options for future water projects. Scharff noted that by 2060, Palo Alto will likely move from using recycled to purified water. The existing contract, however, states that Palo Alto and Mountain View shall work cooperatively to cover the incremental costs to “encourage the use of recycled water,” a clause that may not be applicable decades from now, he said. The contract also doesn’t expressly state how Mountain View would cover the operational costs for the expanded recycled-water system. Scharff suggested that the extension may be premature. “My concern is that I haven’t heard how this agreement limits options in the future,” he said. “If we’re going to have a strategic plan, shouldn’t we sign this after we have the strategic plan? Shouldn’t we understand where the strategic plan is going to go?” The council voted 8-1, with Councilwoman Liz Kniss dissenting, to refer staff to further review the terms of the proposed extension and make sure it does not

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Hotel Parmani: The council held a pre-screening hearing for a proposal to demolish Hotel Parmani at 3200 El Camino Real and replace it with a new fourstory hotel. The proposal includes a request that the council waive the special 50-foot setback requirement at the property. Action: None Water: The council discussed the city’s agreement with Mountain View on recycled water and directed staff to review the proposed new contract between the cities for consistency with Palo Alto’s long-term vision for recycled and purified water. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach No: Kniss

Council Finance Committee (April 5)

CDBG: The committee approved the fiscal year 2017 allocations for the Community Development Block Draft, cosistent with the recommendations in the 2016/2017 Action Plan. Yes: Unanimous Liabilities: The committee directed staff to begin the process of identifying a partner for establishing a Section 115 irrevocable trust with an initial contribution of $1.3 million; and to evaluate additional contributions during the budget process for fiscal year 2017. Yes: Unanimous

Architectural Review Board (April 7)

3251 Hanover St.: The board held a preliminary meeting to discuss a request by Stanford University for a new 110,000-square-foot research-anddevelopment building to replace an existing building with the same square footage. Action: None

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Scoop (continued from page 10)

which the driver gets $5. Other areas of Palo Alto that are packed with employees, including California Avenue, will also be able to use Scoop, Sadow said, though in the long-term they would be required to pay the regular rate, barring an employer’s subsidy. “If you think about taking an Uber for 20 miles one way, it costs $30 on average without surge pricing,” Sadow said. “(Ours) is a model that’s 80 to 90 percent cheaper without a subsidy.” His main competition, however, isn’t those two companies; it’s the nature of carpooling. First, there’s the trust factor. It’s harder, Sadow noted, to convince a rider to commute with a stranger than it is to convince a driver to pick up a stranger. To create a level of trust, the company instantly verifies the driving record of its drivers and allows riders to offer feedback after every ride. If the experience has been in any way unpleasant, a box is checked and the user is never matched up with the driver again. If it’s been great, the rider can mark the driver as “favorite” and gradually assemble his or her own stable of preferred carpool partners. Then there’s reliability. Though Scoop tries to find a match for every trip within the normal commute hours (for the downtown TMA, the $1 offer applies to rides between 6:30 and 9:30 a.m. and between 4 and 7:30 p.m.), it also guarantees a ride for those who use Scoop to get to work but then have to work late or experience an emergency of some sort. The company will pay for a taxi or public transit so the worker can get back home. While the Palo Alto effort is just getting started, Sadow is encouraged by the early results, noting that the first week here has been stronger than the first week in San Jose. Among the biggest challenges, Sadow said, is getting people to rethink the traditional notion of “carpooling” and to stop thinking of themselves as victims of congestion. “As a commuter, you aren’t stuck in traffic; you are traffic. You are a contributor to that problem. And if you think about it as, ‘This is the world inflicting the problem on me,’ you lose the ownership that is so important in terms of what it means to solve this problem.” Slotnick, who usually drives to work two or three times a week, fully subscribes to this mindset. Both she and Zhang said their experiences have been overwhelmingly positive more than 90 percent of the time. Yes, there was that case when a rider who was supposed to get picked up didn’t show. And at times, Slotnick said, it can be tricky to gauge whether the passenger wants to talk or sink into a calm morning. On the whole, however, both are happy with the way Scoop has changed their commute and say they would like to see the company succeed. “I like to be able to carpool, save some money and not be a jerk to the environment by driving alone every day,” Slotnick said. Q

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Water (continued from page 13)

restrict Palo Alto’s future options. Kniss was in favor of approving the extension but directed staff to make a few corrections and clarifications. While Kniss lamented the council’s delay in approving the agreement, Mayor Pat Burt argued that careful review is warranted because “the landscape is actually changing.” “The basis for the agreement back in 2005 was based upon recycled water, with really no envisioning of purified water on the horizon and the ramifications of all the things we’re going to be studying,” said Burt, who chairs the joint committee on recycled water. “What we need to make sure is that the agreements do not restrict us.” Despite their questions and caution, council members were generally in favor of continuing the long-standing partnership with Mountain View. Scharff said he would like to see City Attorney Molly Stump take a closer look at the existing agreements, which she called “more general and cooperative in tone ... and don’t necessarily address at a fine point all these various contingencies.” The council’s motion directed staff to make sure that the extension is consistent with the cities’ “base agreement” for water allocation and cost sharing. Burt said the council’s concern is that the new agreement “doesn’t restrict options in some legal way that we haven’t identified.” Scharff agreed, saying, “We don’t need a sword here. We just need a shield.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Hotel (continued from page 8)

community about new buildings being “unsympathetic” with adjacent properties. Councilmen Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois, who like Holman are affiliated with the council’s slow-growth “residentialist” wing, said that it’s tough to make a decision on the setback without considering the broader issues surrounding height and density. Mayor Pat Burt concurred and said his support for a variance or a zone change would depend on the scale and the massing of the building. Filseth was more cautious about changing zoning and said that the city should, in general, “try really hard to minimize the number of variances and spot zoning we have.” These requests, he said, require a large amount of staff time, and they change property owner’s expectations about their sites. “Each time we do one of these things, it basically opens the door for the person who owns the property next door to come to us and ask for the same thing,” Filseth said. Q

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The Palo Alto Police Managers Association will also see salary increases in its new contract — 2.5 percent upon adoption and 2.5 percent in July. The seven police managers will also get a 3 percent market adjustment upon the adoption of the agreement and two additional increases of 0.5 percent in July 2016 and on June 30, 2017, respectively. Collectively, the four contracts are expected to add about $22 million in costs to the city, even as they reduce the city’s risk for rising medical costs and its burden for employees’ pensions. Each of the public-safety unions has agreed to increase its share of the pension contributions by 28 to 33 percent over the term of the agreement, while the SEIU will up its contributions by 12.5 to 16 percent. Employees will also now have a greater stake in the rising costs of medical care in the new contracts, as the city’s contribution will shift from a percentage to a flat rate. The city had already made this change in 2013 with the SEIU contract. Now, it will also apply to police and firefighters. Starting in January 2017, the city’s maximum contribution toward a police officer’s or a firefighter’s health care will be capped at $773 ($1,544 for an employee plus a family member, and $2,008 for an employee plus two or more family members). The fixed amount, according to the staff report, “eliminates the city’s obligation to automatically pay the cost of premium increases.” For the city, the agreements are a culmination of months — and in the cases of the police officers and firefighters, years — of complex and at times contentious negotiations with its labor unions. Firefighters and police officers had maintained that their salaries are well below the market — an argument that was confirmed by the city’s own studies. SEIU employees made a similar argument over a period of public hearings, with many workers saying that their stagnant wages make it difficult for them to keep up with the rising cost of living in Silicon Valley. Irwin Gonzalez, a recreation coordinator in the Community Services Department, told the council on March 14 that the SEIU workers have made “substantial concessions” since the 2009 recession, including new cost-sharing arrangements for medical benefits and a greater contribution from workers toward pensions. The union, he said, wants to see its members brought up to the “median market compensation” and to have cost of living adjustments included in the new contract. Lena Perkins, a resource planner at the Utilities Department, concurred that workers have already “given up a great deal.” “To not bring the City of Palo Alto workers up to the median — it doesn’t play well and it doesn’t make people feel valued. It looks penny-wise and pound-foolish,” Perkins said. In recent years, the city has apursued market adjustments for managers and highly specialized positions in Public Works and Utilities. Q

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Paula Kirkeby, pillar of local art community, dies at 81

aula Zolloto Kirkeby, owner of Smith Andersen Editions and former member of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission, died on April 1 at her home in Palo Alto, according to her family. She was 81. Through Smith Andersen Editions, Kirkeby supported many artists and art lovers, created a thriving artistic community and advanced the practice of monotype printmaking as a medium. She also greatly enriched the local art scene through public service, volunteer work and other contributions to the city and the Palo Alto Art Center, according to Karen Kienzle, the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director. She was born on April 3, 1934, in Lynn, Massachusetts. She grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where she met many artists and art dealers who visited and stayed at her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home. She went on to study fine arts and graduated from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1955. After marrying Stuart Kaplan that year, she moved to Palo Alto so Stuart could study at the law school at Stanford University. With Stuart she had one child, James. The two later divorced, and in 1962 Paula married Phillip Kirkeby, an engineer. Together they had two children, Peter and Stefan. Sharing a passion for art, she and Phillip began collecting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly works from the European avant-garde art movement COBRA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in October 1969 they started Galerie Smith-Andersen (named in honor of Phillipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt), which was originally located at 200 Homer Ave. in Palo Alto. In 1978, Kirkeby teamed up with Mary Margaret Anderson and Joseph Goldyne to create 3EP press, a place where artists could practice printmaking. In 1984, Kirkeby became the sole owner of the press, under the new name of Smith Andersen Editions, which in 1985 moved to 440 Pepper Ave. The gallery joined the press on Pepper in the mid-1990s. The press operation included aquatint and monotype printmaking, among other processes, and Kirkeby invited artists to work in residence there. She was an early advocate for monotype printing as an art form, her family said. Smith Andersen quickly became a cultural and artistic hub for Palo Alto and beyond. It represented nationally and internationally recognized artists including Sam Francis, Bruce Conner and Ed Moses and collaborated with Stanford faculty members Nathan

Oliveira, Frank Lobdell and Keith Boyle. The gallery and press aided many artists, as part of Kirkebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief that living artists should be supported. James Kaplan noted that his mother often told her children to purchase artwork that resonated with them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She encouraged us to buy art from young artists and urged us not to focus on the investment but instead focus on the pleasure,â&#x20AC;? Kaplan stated in an email. According to her family, Kirkeby made an impact in many ways, from helping individuals purchase their first works of art to sharing her passion and inspiration with artists. She also made a mark through charitable donations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; most notably to the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, to which the Kirkeby family donated more than 150 works of art. The Kirkebys formed strong relationships with other Bay Area institutions as well, including Stanford University and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. Kirkeby also became involved with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art programs, serv-

ing for several years on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Art Commission in the 2000s. She contributed to the Palo Alto Art Center and helped lead its early capital campaign. In addition, she also gave or facilitated the gift of more than 30 works to the City of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art in Public Places Collection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paula was so deeply engaged in the art world and in the art community here,â&#x20AC;? Karen Kienzle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She will be incredibly missed.â&#x20AC;? After Phillip died in 2011, Kirkeby continued to run Smith Andersen, operating the gallery and print studio and hosting exhibitions. Even after she grew ill, she managed the gallery from her bedside. She is survived by her sons, James (Nita) Kaplan of Bangkok, Thailand; Peter (Kjersti) Kirkeby of San Francisco; and Stefan (Mette) Kirkeby of San Anselmo, California; and six grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial donations can be made in her name to the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University (scu.edu/desaisset/support/give/financial-gifts/) or to a charity of the donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.

Mary Suransky Kimball Bulf After living a full life, Mary Suransky Kimball Bulf died February 19 at the age of 92. Born in San Francisco, she moved to Palo Alto in 1932. Mary graduated from Palo Alto High School and attended San Jose State and the University of Washington before the war and later Chouinard Art Institute and UCLA, where she graduated and earned her teaching credential. At UCLA Mary met and married Bill Kimball. While Bill was doing graduate work, Mary taught elementary school in Santa Monica and Orinda and then worked at UCLA. When the couple divorced, Mary moved back to Palo Alto and continued teaching for 22 years at Las Lomitas School. Through friends, Mary met her second husband Gene Bulf. They were both nature lovers, traveling around the United States in their van. They also traveled to Mexico, Canada, Europe and Japan. In addition to folk dancing, Mary and Gene were active in Environmental Volunteers and Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Through the Stanford International Center they hosted a woman from China for many years and participated in Englishin-Action for 27 years. They visited Japan with an International Center group and later were invited back by English-in-Action partners. Mary was perpetually curious, with a vibrant mind and wideranging interests. She remained active in the American Association of University Women Writers and Meditation groups until her death. Mary was preceded in death by her husband Gene, sister Jewell Greenberg, and lifelong friend Janet Fisher. Mary is survived by Geneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children Jeffrey Bulf, Ellen Bulf, and Carolyn Quayle (Cliff); granddaughter Laura Whelan (Richard); niece Patti Roth (Greg); great nieces Shana Roth and Marcie Greenberg (Jerry Cabrera); and a great nephew Jay Roth (Lisa). A celebration of Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held on April 9th at 4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E Charleston Rd, Palo Alto. Memorial gifts may be made in support of AAUW or Environmental Volunteers. PAID OBITUARY

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Editorial Stanford’s deafening silence With Brock Turner verdict, Stanford misses opportunity to teach and show compassion, humility and resolve

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We need to change the culture, and it’s on all of us to do that.” With those words — spoken by Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen on the courthouse steps last week moments after a jury convicted 20-year-old former Stanford University student Brock Turner of three felony sexual-assault charges — the county’s chief prosecutor sought to use the conviction to send a powerful message to the community. “Today, the Santa Clara County jury gave a verdict, which I hope will reverberate throughout colleges, high schools and everywhere in our county,” Rosen said. “I want there to be no doubt of the distinction between consensual sex and sexual assault. ‘No’ means ‘no.’ Passed out or unconscious means ‘no.’ And sex without consent means criminal assault.” He then thanked the victim for her courage in working with prosecutors and enduring an emotional trial while still dealing with the trauma of her January 2015 assault. And he thanked the two Stanford graduate students — the Good Samaritans who rescued the victim and without whom the case would likely not have succeeded — for intervening the night of the assault and restraining Turner until police arrived. The prosecutor on the case, Deputy DA Alaleh Kianerci, was just as blunt: “If you make that mistake and make that decision to engage in sexual activity when somebody’s too intoxicated, you will possibly end up in court or in jail.” Rosen’s personal appearance and poignant statement achieved the intended widespread news coverage, giving added voice to the 12-person jury’s unanimous conviction and making clear that the responsibility for addressing the problem of campus sexual assault includes everyone within the school community in addition to law enforcement. And Stanford University’s official response to the verdict? With months to consider how it might best respond publicly and to its students after a verdict to demonstrate its resolve to stop campus sexual violence, Stanford instead chose not to issue a statement and had its spokesperson simply respond verbally to individual press inquiries. Lisa Lapin, associate vice president for university communications, told the Weekly in an email that her general statement to the media was along the lines of “We are proud of the students who saw something wrong, intervened and then followed through by participating in the investigation and trial. It was a stellar example of bystander intervention and action we hope all Stanford students will take, and what we teach the community.” No mention of the university’s compassion for the victim, a Gunn High School graduate and Palo Alto resident. No appreciation for the Sheriff’s investigation or the District Attorney’s successful prosecution. And no acknowledgment of its failures and responsibility to change an environment and culture that led not only to this assault but to the failure of anyone at the fraternity party preventing it. Instead, Stanford chose only to commend two of its graduate students for intervening. Stanford is hardly unskilled at public relations. But it has repeatedly found itself tone deaf and on the defensive against student, faculty and outside critics, including U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, who have charged that the university’s complaint system is confusing and difficult to navigate, with unsatisfactory outcomes that fail to punish perpetrators or provide a safe environment for victims. Stanford has taken many positive steps, including a communication to all students a month ago by President John Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy on the problem of excessive alcohol use and the possibility of banning hard liquor in undergraduate residences. Educational programs, some mandatory, are attempting to change student attitudes and behavior around sexual assault. Changes in the university’s judicial process are being implemented to provide support for victims and establish better processes for responding to complaints. But these efforts get overshadowed by its inexplicable defensiveness and public relations spin. Institutions know that when there is bad or embarrassing news harmful to its community and its brand, top leadership needs to be front and center, taking responsibility, acknowledging shortcomings and demonstrating resolve to fix it. Last week, with an opportunity to use the Turner conviction to bring home the lifechanging consequences of illegal behavior and excessive alcohol consumption, Hennessy and Etchemendy were sadly absent and the university silent. Q Page 20 • April 8, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Look to North Bayshore Editor, Thanks for your recent articles covering City Council discussions about solving the housing crisis. But the suggested solutions don’t provide new housing in sufficient numbers needed to offset current and future job gains (let alone the cumulative imbalance built up over decades of neglect). Nor are all the suggested buildout zones in your article likely to be free of some pretty serious NIMBYism (Stanford Shopping Center and downtown commercial zone), though Palo Alto Square and the Fry’s site might be less so. Might I suggest Palo Alto follow Mountain View’s lead, copying the new North Bayshore plan into the Embarcadero business district east of Bayshore Road? Think of the housing crisis as an imbalance to the jobs-housing ratio; by flipping all that current industrial real estate into housing, we clean up both the numerator and the denominator of the ratio. Nifty trick. Please think into the near future, when both San Francisco’s Treasure Island and Mountain View’s North Bayshore are worldclass livable communities along the bay, as rich in nature and respect for the environment as they are as models of smart cities. An Embarcadero Baylands twin of the Mountain View model might be a real feather in Palo Alto’s green cap, as well as bookending nicely with the superb work Stanford facilities are doing in making the university a truly smart city. Bill Murphy Betlo Avenue, Mountain View

Expected better Editor, Your recent story on the conviction of former Stanford student Brock Turner for three felony sex crimes included information on efforts to reduce California’s sex offender registration requirements. According to a source cited in your story, proposed reforms would benefit “minor offenders who are not likely to ever commit a repeat sexual offense, such as Turner.” First, Turner is not a “minor offender.” Turner was convicted of three sex crime felonies, punishable by a term of incarceration from three to 10 years in the state penitentiary. There is no universe in which any reasonable person could possibly call that a “minor” offense nor the person who commits it a “minor” offender. (Nor was Turner, age 19 at the time of the attack, a minor, though I don’t think that is the sense in which the term was being used.) Second, in the age of Google, Brock Turner’s problem is not the

sex offender registry. Brock Turner’s problem is what Brock Turner did. He will have consequences from the bad decisions that he made, and those consequences will follow him throughout his life, as they should. Those inconveniences are nothing compared to the issues that will likely follow his victim. I am far more worried about the trauma he inflicted on her when he callously sexually assaulted her and left her half naked in the dirt next to a dumpster. Yet the Weekly blithely published this unchallenged characterization of a brutal assault as “minor” and the perpetrator as a “minor offender,” who we are told — on the basis of no evidence — is unlikely to repeat his crime. I am frankly shocked at the lack of sensitivity that this sentence shows for the survivor in this case and in all cases of sexual assault. I expected better from the Weekly. Michele Dauber Paul Avenue, Palo Alto

Prison alternative Editor, I don’t want my taxpayer money to go to the cost of sending to prison a young guy who got drunk and did something stupid. Brock Turner was 19 at the time,

presumably looking forward to a normal, productive life. Prison would take away any prospects for such a future. As with all these men I read about in the local papers who are sentenced to years in jail or prison for doing something stupid or careless, I want them to pay their debt to society, not by languishing in prison, but by working — doing something difficult, tiring, productive. The current most obvious need in Palo Alto, with our worries about flooding, would be cleaning San Francisquito Creek. They could live at home, somewhat carrying on their lives, but be paying their debt to society through service to the community. If they are forced to spend prison time, having to declare that prison time on future job applications might make it difficult to find work. This could cause them to become a burden on the community, which would not help anyone. I’ve been told that it’s very costly to keep a person in jail or prison. That same amount of money needs to be allocated to supervising the groups of people whose crimes cannot and should not be ignored but who do not deserve having their lives ruined by unproductive prison time. We should not permit that. Pat Clark Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion Senior unassisted living: home maintenance and the compost bin by Evelyn Preston

y son has just th reatened to write my unflattering obit — Death by Compost Bin — because such a disaster almost came true. In our enlightened Palo Alto community, taking out the garbage/recycling/compost has become more complicated than dealing with the IRS, with a lot more moving parts. Chez-moi, the black bin is for the-lessthe-better garbage; blue holds paper, wine bottles (oops, I mean glass), and plasticstamped-with-a-numbered-triangle-butabsolutely-no-Styrofoam; and the goodearth-y, green cart packs dead leaves, dropped branches, dried plants, all to be composted and reused to ... Save Our City. However, Our City has leap-frogged over the entire country to ... Save Our Planet. Palo Altans succumb to the theory that China, India and the rest of the smoggy, smelly, wasteful world will soon follow our lead. In order to Save Our Planet, the green cart must now also hold comestible compost-ables — all those yucky, squishy, scummy food scraps that in the bad old days one either stuffed in the disposal, tossed to the dog or, “for shame,” threw in the garbage. No more! Those waxy milk cartons — no longer

taboo (green!). But what about truly tricky trash, like soiled paper plates (green?) or slightly used napkins (blue?)? And in a drought, should I wash the plastic mayonnaise jar and toss it (blue?) or since it’s sort of food, keep it green? “It’s not the work that takes time; it’s the decisions,” my husband always said. “Are you crazy, mother?” my son shouts. “Do you really think your two banana peels, a few chicken bones and some radish leaves will actually make any difference? I thought you just got rid of the ants?” “I have my own system,” I counter. “The garbage company’s purse-size container breeds enough fruit flies for major sex experiments, so never take anything from the top shelf of the freezer; it’s all garbage.” Last week, after a late book club meeting, I wrestled the giant, open compost container (green) to the curb. Brimming with rotting leaves and frozen food scraps, its wheels suddenly stuck in the bark-covered, drought-tolerant landscape and stopped dead. I, however, plunged on, a head-first dive across the bin — and driveway — in the dark. My twisted body wound up splayed atop the container like road kill, my forehead smashed against the thick plastic rim and my shins sliced by the knife-sharp edge of the hanging cover. Dazed, I peeled myself off the can and struggled to my knees, giving thanks that nothing spilled very far (melting food mush) or broke (my aging bones). Two days later I learned that a big lump on my forehead and “shiners” are a sign of healing.

So this new mantra of “Let’s keep seniors in their own homes!” may just turn out to be a disguised end run around the assisted suicide movement — or, Death with Indignity. Staying put may prove so dangerous to our health that trimming Medicare costs will be achieved via the pitfalls and pratfalls of the “at home” elderly. We’ll be thinned out in droves. Let me count the ways. You know those dandy little mandatedby-code smoke detectors to keep us old fuds from going up in flames? One woke me up chirping like a hidden cache of crickets, the incessant low-battery warning especially elusive at 3 a.m. There’d be no relief without an 8-foot ladder that lived in the garage behind the rusting lawnmower and spider webbed-tools. Steering the ladder lengthwise between my car and a wall of gorilla shelves, I “keyed” a 10-foot scrape on my Toyota’s driver’s side that resembled a racing stripe if you squinted, and rounding the door, I knocked off a corner tile from my newly remodeled kitchen. Slithering up each rickety rung, I frenetically waved my hand toward the plastic ceiling case that remained a fingernail’s length out of reach. I froze. Better that I inched down, blasted my son’s old Stones’ CDs and poured a stiff drink. The next day I cornered some handy friend to help in exchange for babysitting his 2-year-old twins. Fortunately, a returning wasps’ nest tucked under the eaves required only a step stool for me to eyeball their papery home. I waited for dusk when (I hoped) the insects had retired after a day of ter-

rifying my grandchildren. I gulped a deep breath and sprayed a lethal cloud to wipe out an entire colony of God’s creatures while decimating the food chain and destroying the environment for the next generation. I never told my kids how close they came to receiving an early inheritance as I survived another week of home maintenance and escaped Last Rites from Raid. Of course, there’s always a chance of tripping over the tree roots recently unearthed in my lawn-gone landscape, slipping on the unpadded Oriental rugs to better let the radiant heat through, or colliding with the double-paned sliding glass door rushing for a robo-call. There’s certainly the omnipresent fear of further battering by one of the lurking bins. Talk about living — or dying — on the edge, I’ve got it all: hard plastic, decorative wood, sheer glass and shiny stainless steel. I try to look on the bright side. None of that same old banal slipping in the bathtub for this aging homeowner. I hope my demise will exhibit some dramatic flair, perhaps snagged by a garden hose snaked around my ankle as I crash unconscious on the pool coping and, Ophelia-like, gracefully drown. I’ve always enjoyed the out-of-doors, and my children will thank me for a quick exit. Then, as my son suggested, they can just scoop my body right into the compost bin (green or blue), all ready to recycle. Q Evelyn Preston is a former Palo Alto teacher and a 25-year investment adviser who now writes.

Streetwise

What is a fun or creative day trip you’ve taken in the Bay Area? Asked outside Whole Foods Market on Emerson Street. Interviews by Anna Medina and Avi Salem. Photos by Anna Medina.

Lisa Napoli

Robert Johnson

Piril Akay

Mark Louie

Debra Weinstein

Stay-at-home mom Linden Avenue, Atherton

Editor Emerson Street, Palo Alto

Industrial designer Delancey Street, San Francisco

Adviser San Mateo Drive, Menlo Park

Nonprofit fundraiser Emerson Street, Palo Alto

“Half Moon Bay. Cocktails at the Ritz out by the fire pits while watching the sunset, and sushi at Sushi Main Street.”

“Carrizo Plain National Monument east of San Luis Obispo. Oh man! The wildflowers there were beautiful — orange, yellow, purple. Came back up Big Sur.”

“Hiking is definitely one of my favorites; doesn’t matter where. Devil’s Slide is in Pacifica, and there’s a really nice view overlooking the ocean there.”

“Kayaking in Foster City.”

“Sonoma. I horseback ride. It’s beautiful and green, and the wildflowers are out. You can also hike. Star West Ranch & Retreat has little casitas you can rent.”

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Campaigning for the Capitol Eight candidates vie for chance to represent District 24 by K ate Br adshaw, Mark Noack and Gennady Sheyner

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he eight candidates for California Assembly District 24 come from different cities, professions and philosophical positions, but they share the same ambition: a chance to represent one of the most prosperous parts in the state. Much like the district’s constituency, the field is predominantly Democratic, though it does include a Republican (Menlo Park City Councilman Peter Ohtaki) and a Libertarian (Mountain View City Councilman John Inks). And they come from all

over the district, from Ohtaki’s hometown of Menlo Park to Cupertino, where Mayor Barry Chang is hoping to make the leap to Sacramento to replace termedout incumbent Rich Gordon. And like the district’s voters, some candidates are homegrown, while others came from afar to pursue their Silicon Valley dreams. The 2016 race is the most competitive since at least 2010, when Gordon beat out former Palo Alto Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and technologist Josh Becker to claim his seat (he has been re-

elected twice since). In addition to Ohtaki, Inks and Chang, the field includes Palo Alto patent attorney Vicki Veenker, Palo Alto retired engineer Seelam Reddy, Mountain View City Councilman Mike Kasperzak, Stanford community activist Jay Cabrera and Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman. The eight candidates have different ideas about how to improve California’s education system, fix up crumbling infrastructure and improve traffic and transportation. While

Kasperzak points to his extensive experience in local policymaking, Reddy is an enthusiastic newcomer. Veenker believes her wide-ranging background gives her a unique perspective, while Ohtaki, a veteran banker, touts himself as the “numbers guy” in the race. On June 7, the field of eight will be winnowed to two in a primary election. The two winners will then move on to the November contest to fight it out for the ultimate prize: a seat in the Legislature in Sacramento.

Mike K asperzak Mountain View city councilman

spearhead Mountain View’s policy to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018, one of the first of its kind in the Bay Area. “The thing I’ve been passionate about is affordable housing and how we can maintain the socioeconomic diversity of the community,” he said. Some might argue that Kasperzak doesn’t go far enough toward that goal. In recent months, crowds have packed Mountain View’s council chambers demanding regulations — namely rent control — to rein in the area’s unfettered housing market. Kasperzak declined to support such a measure, saying rent control would ultimately be a flawed policy. Instead, he crafted his own legislation focused on voluntary restrictions for landlords. While the idea didn’t win him any friends among tenants’ advocates, pieces of Kasperzak’s proposal were ultimately adopted as part of the city’s final policy. If elected to state office, he would like to join the legislative

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hy should Mike Kasperzak be picked to serve in the Assembly? His pitch boils down to the argument that he’s by far the most experienced — and by at least one measure, this is no exaggeration. He can point to four terms on the Mountain View City Council and, prior to that, many more years on various city commissions. He sums it all up as 21 years in public service. “I really do think that experience matters in this world,” Kasperzak asserted. “It’s easy to talk about what you want to do, but I have a proven track record of accomplishments.” In his mind, the most noteworthy of those accomplishments is helping to craft Mountain View’s rental housing impact fee — the city’s surcharge of around 8 percent on new development that helps fund affordable housing. The policy took about two years to fine-tune, he said, and is an example of how various stakeholders came together to achieve a solution. Last year, he helped

committees on housing, transportation or water. He hopes to boost opportunities for construction of more affordable housing by streamlining regulations and creating incentives for cities that balance their jobs and housing supply. More state funding for subsidized housing would also help, he added. As to water projects, he would like to boost funding for recycled water and desalination plants. When it comes to transporta-

tion, he wants to improve road maintenance and alternative transit systems. Now 62 years old, Kasperzak describes himself as someone who was inspired by his parents to be actively involved in local civics. Growing up in northern Michigan, he served in student government in high school and got the chance to attend a national convention for youth interested in politics. Professionally, at the age of 16,

Cities in Assembly District 24 Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, a part of Cupertino and the San Mateo County coastside — from El Granada to the Santa Cruz County border Published last week: Profiles of candidates Marc Berman, Jay Cabrera, Barry Chang and John Inks. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com to read their profiles.

he gained his pilot’s license and worked at the local airport as a lineman and gofer. After graduating with a law degree years later, he spent about a decade as a trial attorney specializing in aviation cases. He later left his law firm and opened his own practice specializing in arbitration and mediation, which he continues to run to this day. Around this time, he began to get immersed in local politics. “It’s a way to give back to the community and to participate in solving problems,” he said. “It’s an experience that I really enjoy because it’s intellectually stimulating.” Fun fact about Kasperzak: His newest hobby is beekeeping. He recently started his own backyard hive despite having a close call with the bugs in his younger days. When he was 5 years old, he stepped on a hive and the swarm attacked, stinging him to the point that he fell unconscious for hours. “They pulled 25 stingers out of my foot!” he said. “But now I’ve become fascinated by bees; they’re really interesting.” As of the lastest campaignfinance filing, Kasperzak had raised $169,000 in contributions. —MN

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Peter Ohtaki Menlo Park city councilman

he has served on the board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and is in his second term on the Menlo Park City Council, after being elected in 2010 and 2014. He was mayor of Menlo Park in 2013. Through his different roles, he said, “I’ve developed a reputation as being a numbers guy.” That reputation, he said, comes from his background in finance and from balancing the annual budgets of the City of Menlo Park. He said he balanced a structural deficit one year by paying down unfunded pension liability, thereby reducing interest the city would pay to CalPERS. Last year, he used a surplus in the budget to pay for forthcoming sidewalks on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, he said. He would like the state to build more partnerships with businesses, rather than automatically seek new taxes or fees. For example, Ohtaki said, the state should partner with businesses to support underfunded state parks. It should also work with cloud-based technology companies to make it easier for businesses to register, pay taxes and comply with state regulations. Over the past decade, he said he has developed public-private partnerships in his work to promote emergency preparedness across the Bay Area. Those efforts required him to coordinate with city, state and county agencies, and about 70 businesses to develop plans and

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eter Ohtaki, the only Republican candidate running for the District 24 state assembly seat, says that if elected, his approach would emphasize “more limited government focused on solving key issues such as infrastructure” and increase the use of public-private partnerships. Ohtaki grew up in Menlo Park, attending La Entrada Middle School and Woodside High School, where he participated in student government. Four cold winters at Harvard University in Boston as an undergraduate and another four in New York prompted him to return to the milder climes of the Peninsula to attend Stanford University for an MBA. Since then, he said, he’s lived, worked or spent time in all of the cities within the district. Ohtaki now works for Wells Fargo as vice president and regional emergency manager in Northern California. He was previously executive director of the California Resiliency Alliance, a nonprofit that develops public-private partnerships to help with community disaster response, recovery and adaptation to climate change. Before that, from 1994 to 2005, he worked as the chief financial officer of a consumer electronics startup in Marin called NetTV. Further back, he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and C.E. Unterberg Towbin. In terms of civic involvement,

guidelines in case of disasters such as earthquakes or fires. In the process, he developed protocols for agencies to use to request resources from the private sector. He said he also has worked with Assembly members to pass legislation, citing the experiences as examples of his being a bipartisan problem-solver. In 2008, he worked with Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) to pass a law that extends “Good Samaritan” protections to business and nonprofits that register willingness to provide services or goods in states of emergency without fear of a lawsuit. In 2014, he worked with current District 24 Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to bring forth AB 1690, a bill to give cities greater flexibility in housing zoning to allow mixed-use construction.

The big problems he said he expects the state will need to address in coming years are transportation and water infrastructure, unfunded pension liability, and the state debt. He said the current budget surplus in California contains onetime funds from capital gains and should be used to fund one-time capital improvements like transportation infrastructure and to pay down unfunded pension liabilities. His enthusiasm for investment in transportation infrastructure, though, doesn’t extend to the state’s planned high-speed rail system. The $64 billion could be better used to address transportation infrastructure needs for Bay Area commuters, such as grade separations of roadways and railroad tracks, the electrification of the Caltrain commuter rail line, increasing Caltrain’s capacity, and

Seelam Reddy Retired engineer

In addressing the council or answering questions about his positions, Reddy focuses on big “ideas,” with the understanding that details are yet to be worked out. He wants to “create more jobs, jobs, jobs,” as his business card proclaims, while also raising the hourly wage to $15 to $20. He wants to “uplift” East Palo Alto. He also would like Palo Alto residents with large houses with empty bedrooms to share their space with those who cannot otherwise afford to live in the city. His request to Berman (which Berman swiftly rejected) came despite the fact that the council, as a democratically elected body, cannot unilaterally add members that weren’t elected. These are details, and Reddy, as he will reiterate, is interested in “ideas.” Reddy, who goes by “Sea,” was born in India, immigrated to the United States to attend Texas Tech University and has spent the past three decades in California. A retired engineer, he worked at high-tech and aerospace firms such as McDonnell Douglas, Boeing Company and, more recently,

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ver since he splashed onto Palo Alto’s political scene two years ago, retired engineer Seelam Reddy has offered the public his opinions on a wide and eclectic range of issues, big and small, local and regional. His interests have ranged from the closure of the YMCA on Page Mill Road to a new grocery store for College Terrace to the state’s high-speed rail project and minimum wage. His comments are often unscripted and, at times, unpredictable, as when he called on Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman (his opponent in the Assembly race) last month to resign his council seat and hand it over to Lydia Kou, who finished sixth out of 12 candidates in a race for five seats in 2014. Reddy also took part in the 2014 council race, finishing eleventh. He picked up 1.7 percent of the votes, or 1,270 in total. But he does not view the result as a failure so much as a learning experience. As he told the Weekly in a recent interview, he is a “glass half full” kind of guy.

VMWare. He began attending council meetings in 2014, just after he announced his campaign for that body, and has remained a regular presence at City Hall ever since. In his run for the Assembly seat, he plans to follow a similar blueprint from 2014. He once again touts the fact that, unlike other candidates, he has no connections among Silicon Valley’s elite classes and talks about his opposition to “shady deals.” Once again, he emphasizes the fact that

he isn’t seeking any donations. But in some ways, his thinking has changed: He’s given a lot of thought to broader issues. He calls Palo Alto a “heavenly place to live” and wants to keep it that way — and to do the same for Woodside, Los Altos Hills and other communities in the 24th District. When asked about his top issue of concern, Reddy said airplane noise — a subject that has been generating a loud citizen outcry locally over the past year. When it comes to affordable

maintaining the area’s highways, he said. He also supports building infrastructure to allow recycled water to be used for irrigation, especially in new construction projects. He’d also like to see investments in capital improvements in poorer school districts. In general, he wants Silicon Valley technology to be applied to state services so that they operate more efficiently. There’s a saying in Silicon Valley that innovation comes from doing things “smaller, faster and better,” he said. “That’s something that Sacramento and the state government could learn from.” To start with, he said the state’s Employment Development Department should teach and encourage job searchers to use LinkedIn. com, which it currently does not. Ohtaki lives in Menlo Park and is married with three children ages 10, 8 and 7. “One of things I most love about this area,” he said, is that it “continues to be a great place to raise a family.” Overall, Ohtaki said he’s trying to attract voters “who would like to see Sacramento be more innovative and more supportive of Silicon Valley” and “people who like to see that their tax dollars are used for the right purposes.” Ohtaki has so far gathered $10,900 in campaign funding from three contributors: $4,200 from William Regan, retiree; $4,200 from Charles T. Munger, physicist; and $2,500 from Steven Eggert, real estate developer, according to Cal-Access, a state database that reports campaign fundraising. —KB housing, another hot-button topic, Reddy said he would oppose building large dense developments in single-family neighborhoods. Instead, he would prefer to see people who live alone in large houses to “open up rooms to allow other people to live in their houses.” He also would like to see Silicon Valley’s big corporations step up and build housing developments for their employees. Yet when it comes to development in general, Reddy describes his philosophy as “no-growth/ slow-growth.” “We don’t really need to grow any more than we’ve already grown,” Reddy said. “We just need to sustain the things we already have and just make things better.” On the subject of education, Reddy said he would like to see more innovation, an approach Reddy favors and readily mentions in discussions. He supports increasing funding for education, encouraging the establishment of more charter schools and calls for greater parental participation. And while he opposes California’s high-speed rail system, he believes the state needs to invest more in transportation. “Traffic is killing us. We need (continued on page 25)

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Vicki Veenker Patent attorney

environment or education — are so much bigger and more complex than what City Council members typically deal with, she said. Veenker considered running a decade ago but forewent the opportunity to pursue two others: helping to establish Women’s Professional Soccer (for which she served as general counsel) and serving on the board at the Law Foundation, which offers free legal services to low-income clients. Both were places where Veenker said she felt she could make a major impact. Now, she believes the time is ripe to bring her ideals and experiences to Sacramento. She raised $200,000 for the campaign in 2015 (trailing Barry Chang and Marc Berman) and has picked up a host of endorsements in recent months, including from the California Nurses Association, the California Teachers Association, the Sunnyvale Democratic Club, state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson and Palo Alto Mayor Pat Burt. Veekner has been eschewing the “standard path” ever since she was an undergraduate at Indiana University, when she pursued degrees in both political science and biochemistry at a time when interdisciplinary studies was a

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icki Veenker isn’t a typical Assembly candidate. She’s not a City Council member looking for a grander stage. Nor is she a grassroots activist trying to make a statement on a shoe-string budget. But she has helped launch a professional soccer league, served as president of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, represented a Nobel Prize winner, mediated cases for federal court and worked on what became Stanford University’s top revenue-generating patent. “I’m not following a traditional path,” Veenker said during a recent interview. “But for me, my experiences and skills that I’ve developed translate directly to this.” For all of its unorthodoxy, her leap from the private sector to the state Assembly race isn’t any bigger, in her view, than that of any of her opponents in the crowded race. That’s because from her youthful days organizing community forums for the Kettering Foundation at her alma mater, Indiana University, to her more recent legislative-advocacy duties for the Law Foundation, public policy has long been a topic of personal and professional interest. And the issues she’s dealt with — whether inequality, the

rare concept. She went on to law school at Georgetown University and enjoyed stints at law firms Fish & Neave (which ultimately merged with Ropes & Gray) and Sherman & Sterling before starting her own firm. In discussing the joys of patent law, she said it “hit my love of science and society.” Veenker in 2002 was named by California Law Business as one of the state’s top 20 lawyers under 40. Her list of clients included corporations, universities and Brian Kobilka, a Stanford physiologist who in 2012 won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Among her most memorable ap-

plications is one she began working on in 1985 and that was finally completed when the patent was issued in 1998. That application, jointly pursued by Stanford and Columbia universities, pertained to recombinant antibodies. Today, it is Stanford’s top royalty-generated patent, Veenker noted. What makes her particularly proud is the fact that those royalty dollars go back to the two universities to support more research, she said. Directing more money to schools is also something she hopes to do if elected to the Assembly. Specifically, she wants to see school districts that currently have fewer resources funded so

that they can “level up” to those that are better off. She also would like to bring STEM education to all students in the Bay Area so that, no matter where they live, they would be viable candidates for Silicon Valley jobs. “Education needs to be a more even opportunity so that what public education you have access to doesn’t depend on where you live,” Veenker said. She also believes the state can do better when it comes to transportation planning and believes decisions about major investments should be done on a regional basis. The only way to get highways and roads to be less congested is to “promote mass transit in better ways,” she said. To that effect, she supports current efforts to modernize the Caltrain commuter rail line and to extend BART. But when it comes to high-speed rail, she likes that idea but finds many problems with the way the project is being rolled out. “I don’t support the version of high-speed rail that’s under way today,” Veenker said. “I think most people support the vision of high-speed rail that was originally put forward, but I don’t think the funding has been procured at a sufficient level yet.” At a February forum of the Assembly candidates, Veenker said she is running to fight for “progressive values”: excellent educa(continued on next page)

The candidates on the issues K ASPERZAK

OHTAKI

REDDY

VEENKER

High-Speed Rail

Supports the project, which he believes will “one day be a critical and integral part of California’s transportation system.”

Opposes the project. Would prefer to see these funds redirected to help “local commuters”

Opposes the project

Does not support current plan because of uncertainty over funding. Opposes use of cap-and-trade funds. The Peninsula segment should be a “seamless transition to Caltrain” or a “blended” system with grade separation at crossings

Delta Tunnels

No formal position but leaning against the project because of concerns about costs, the transfer of water and “irreparable environmental damage.”

Prefers other solutions, including small water-recycling plants that could be used for irrigation; encouraging new developments to install “purple pipes”; rely more on recycled water and desalination, when it becomes cost-effective

Supports Brown’s plan

Does not support Brown’s plan. Supports fixing aging water infrastucture, improving efficiency of agricultural use, disincentivizing landscape water use, and reusing greywater for irrigation

Supports legalization, provided it does not endanger children and is compatible with federal laws. Would prefer that the legalization be approved by voters, not Legislature

Not ready to support legalized marijuana for recreational use but is fine with medicinal use

Supports medical marijuana: “If people want do it on their own, at home, I’m fine with it.”

Believes legalization of recreational marijuana in state is “inevitable” and says priority should be to “regulate it properly”

Road maintenance; rapid mass transit; transportation solutions for “last mile” problem; and more ground-water-storage capacity

Supports Caltrain electrification and grade separation; creation of Transportation Management Associations; and a mass transit connection, such as shuttle, between Menlo Park’s M2 area train stations

Top priorities include Caltrain improvements, a stronger power infrastructure and road improvements to relieve congestion

Upgrading neglected school facilities; improve aging water infrastructure; and pursue improved transportation systems, including public transit and improved highways

How to Spur Affordable Housing

Provide financing for local governments for affordable housing; reform building codes; further construction-defect-litigation reform to spur condominium development

Supports building housing around transportation corridors, targeting young couples, workers and “empty nesters”; below-market-rate programs that leverage other funding sources

Wants to encourage homeowners with spare rooms to allow others live in their homes; encourage major employers to build housing developments for their workers

Would like to see incentives, such as a state housing bond and tax breaks; encourage building housing along transit lines; and involve the public in the early stages of development to address concerns so that new projects can enjoy community support rather than opposition

Improving Education

Expand childhood education, treat teaching as a “noble and valuable profession” and be unafraid to “make adjustments to our educational programs and learn from the best practices throughout the state and nation.”

Reform Proposition 30 to allow school districts to build capital reserves to fund new classrooms and school renovations

Supports more education funding; more charter schools; and greater parental involvement in education

Believes in more investment in education from early childhood to higher education. Supports extending Proposition 30 and ensuring “highquality STEM education” in state colleges and universities

Continue to decrease greenhousegas production and vehicle emissions; dramatically increase amount of available renewable energy; work with local communities to help them implement clean and renewable-energy programs

Encourage mass transit use; green-building standards; and renewable-energy sources. Address sea-level rise by restoring wetlands and rebuilding levees

Supports reducing greenhouse gases through more carpooling, working from home

Supports legislation that requires reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse-gas emissions (including SB350); and extending California’s cap-and-trade system

Recreational Marijuana

Top Infrastructure Priorities

Climate Change

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tion, affordable housing, improved transportation, gun control, reforms to address campus sexual assault and economic issues like equal pay. She is proud of her efforts to promote equality, both in founding the soccer league (which folded in 2012, several years after she left, and was succeeded by the National Women’s Soccer League) and in providing legal services for the underprivileged. “I believe we can work together to close the opportunity gap and solve the income inequality,” Veenker said at the forum. “Because if we want to have a brighter future for any, we have to have a brighter future for all.” —GS

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to relieve congestion,” Reddy said. Given the crowded field of candidates and his low-budget methods, Reddy knows he has his work cut out for him. His campaign budget is around $2,000, and he said he will not be depending on banners or other forms of advertising. And if he doesn’t prevail in this election, the odds are you’ll see him again in the near future, basking in the civic limelight and offering solutions to problems-ofthe-day during the public-comments segment of City Council meetings. “Running is part of my life. I’m not going to stop running,” Reddy said. —GS

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Get Your Style On! 50 Independent Fashion Designers 2 Awesome Days 1 Extraordinary Cause STYLE ’16 presents gorgeous apparel, jewelry, and accessories by 50 independent designers in an exclusive two-day show, sale and beneﬁt. See, try-on and purchase one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces. And because this is a beneﬁt for PAMF’s Cancer Survivorship Program, with every purchase, you’ll look great and do good. Meet the designers, shop for Mother’s Day and bring home something wonderful for yourself.

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Arts & Entertainment

WorthaLook

Tamer Shabani

Musical M usiicall

‘Rent’ at Stanford Viva la vie boheme! Jonathan Larson’s seminal 1990s musical, “Rent,” a hip and wildly popular update on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” will be staged by Stanford University’s Ram’s Head Theatrical Society on April 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 at Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall. The show follows a year in the lives of young Manhattan bohemians struggling with AIDS, poverty and drugs while celebrating art, friendship and love. Performances are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $9.99-$19.99. Go to /musical.stanford.edu.

Concert The Choral Project’s 20th anniversary

PAU L W E I T H M A N

Religion

AND THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 5:30 P M Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall Free general admission. First come, first served. Is the prominent role that religion plays in American electoral politics something to be celebrated, tolerated or lamented? This is a question that takes us from politics to political philosophy. Paul Weithman, Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will explore some answers. Patrick Suppes Center for History & Philosophy of Science

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The Choral Project, a Silicon Valley-based choir, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a performance of “The Art of Sound: Inspiration,” including the premieres of specially commissioned works by Eric William Barnum and Joshua Shank. The performance takes place Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto. Favorite selections from throughout the choir’s 20-year history will also be included. Tickets are $10-23. Go to choralproject.org/tickets.

Presentation ‘Wild Cat Adventure’ Five species of wild cats (possibilities include cheetahs, cougars, black leopards, ocelots, fishing cats and Geoffroy’s cats) will make a live appearance on Sunday, April 10, 2-3 p.m., at Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. The big cats will be be presented by the Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund, which aims to educate the public about the plight of wild cats around the world, to raise funds for conservation projects and to offer refuge for wild cats in captivity. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids under 12. Go to wildcatfund.org.

Fashion ‘Style ‘16’ Fashion, jewelry and accessory designers will present their wares at “Style ‘16” on Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 10, from

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Mountain View Center, 701 E. El Camino Real. Special events include chocolate tasting and wardrobe consultations. Tickets are $10 (two for the price of one on Sunday), and proceeds support the PAMF Cancer Survivorship Program. Go to lucentestudio.com/pages/style-2016.

Event ‘Science Night’ Get up close and personal with live sea creatures and insects, program a robot and check out a mini solar-powered house with working appliances. All these activities and more will be happening at the Menlo Park Library’s “Science Night” on Thursday, April 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Regional organizations including Aquarium of the Bay, Computer History Museum, Science Made Fun, TechyKids and Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County will be on-site for this free, all-ages event. Go to menlopark.org/library.

Theater ‘Cyrano’ at TheatreWorks “Cyrano,” that classic tale (based on Rostand’s 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”) of the love triangle between the titular big-nosed swashbuckling romantic, the dashing Christian and the heiress Roxanne, returns in a new TheatreWorks adaptation running April 9-May 6 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Tickets are $19-$80; showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays; and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays. Go to theatreworks.org.

Above: The hit 1990s musical “Rent,” an update on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” will be staged by Stanford University’s Ram’s Head Theatrical Society April 8-16.

Recent water conditions remind us that water conservation is always a smart idea, regardless of drought or rain. The City of Palo Alto is teaming up again with the Tuolumne River Trust and other partners for a 5K fun run and walk to raise awareness about water resources and conservation.

THIS FAMILY-FRIENDLY 5K RACE and community Earth Day festival is a fun, healthy way to celebrate the environment and our precious natural resources. Join fellow community members at the scenic Baylands for some outdoor recreation, prizes, goodies, and a chance to catch the “running toilet!”

DATE: WHERE: REGISTER:

APRIL 30, 2016 9:00 A.M. PALO ALTO BAYLANDS ATHLETIC CENTER, 1900 GENG ROAD, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 WWW.CITYOFPALOALTO.ORG/GREATRACE

Don’t miss our other free events and workshops offered throughout the year on water and energy efficiency, waste reduction, healthy gardening, watershed protection and healthy community initiatives! Visit cityofpaloalto.org for the City’s event calendar.

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Capitalism DEMOCRACY

Budding palate Local â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;koodieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shares food adventures from a younger point of view by My Nguyen

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Daniel Frishberg, shown at age 4 at a pizzeria in Ukraine, is now a 12-year-old Palo Alto resident with his own restaurant-review website.

Reserve tickets at ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu. Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few will be available for purchase. Author will be signing books. sponsored by

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aniel Frishberg may be just 12 years old, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opinionated kid foodie, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;koodie,â&#x20AC;? with a budding palate and an active food blog to prove it. The seventh-grader lives in Palo Alto with his mother and father and chronicles his adventures in gastronomy on a website called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant Reviewâ&#x20AC;? (dannysreview.com). A friend of his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped him put the website together, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;the reviews are all mine,â&#x20AC;? Daniel explained proudly in a recent interview. His reviews are short, accompanied by photographs of the author at each eatery, where he often meets the chef or manager to learn more about the behind-the-scenes secrets of running a restaurant. The desire to pursue food criticism was sparked in fifth grade, Daniel said, when Marco Fossati, head chef of Quattro restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto, came to his elementary school to give a talk. Daniel ended up talking to Fossati and visiting Quattro shortly after to review the contemporary Italian restaurant, where he said he had a five-star pizza with the perfect amount of tomato sauce, light and crispy crust and fresh sautĂŠed mushrooms. But Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for food started long before he met Fossati. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been interested in food. Ever since I can remember, I was in restaurants making pizza,â&#x20AC;? he said, pointing to a photograph of his 4-year-old self making a pizza at Pizzeria Napule in Kiev, Ukraine, where he lived from age 3 to 6. The photos, included in a 2008 online post, show a small boy, his head dwarfed by an adult-sized chef hat. In one shot, he kneads the dough. In another, he supervises the cooking of his personal pizza.

When Daniel reviews a restaurant, he explained, he scrutinizes four elements, including service to kids. Does the restaurant offer something other than crayons to color with? How does the wait staff treat younger patrons? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids should always be treated like adults,â&#x20AC;? Daniel said. He said he also considers lighting, food quality and quantity, and cleanliness. In a 2012 review of Le Petit Bistro on El Camino Real in Mountain View, Daniel declared the French restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food â&#x20AC;&#x153;excellent.â&#x20AC;? He recommends the escargot and French onion soup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be careful,â&#x20AC;? he warns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the escargot is hot and the French onion soup is hot, too. Order for dessert the crĂ¨me brĂťlĂŠe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is the best!â&#x20AC;? Photos accompanying the review show Daniel in the kitchen with the chef-owner, talking about imported snail shells and looking at cow tongue (which Daniel ate until he was 4, at which point he found out exactly what he was eating and stopped, he writes in a photo caption). A few miles north in Palo Alto, Daniel slurped down some Fanny Bay oysters at The Fish Market, remarking in his review that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the oysters taste weird, but good.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oysters are so delicious â&#x20AC;Ś They are soft and slippery, but sometimes they have shells in them. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe their taste. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. Photos show the Fish Market manager giving Daniel a tour of the restaurant, from the area where dishes are cleaned and dried to a food storage room to the dumpster outside â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most important parts of the restaurant cycle,â&#x20AC;? Daniel noted in his review. The young critic has featured several non-local restaurants on his website: Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Auberge Del Mar in San Diego (five stars);

Sardinia Ristorante in Miami, Florida (four stars); Limoncello in Aventura, Florida (four and a half stars), among others. His assessments are quite serious, which is very funny to watch, said his father, Alex Frishberg, adding that Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x153;is usually right on all points and never disguises the truth with diplomacy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy taking Danny to restaurants not just because we explore new cuisines, but mostly because we spend quality time together and talk about everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important, including the food, the waiters (where they come from) and life in general,â&#x20AC;? he said. Like most 12-year-olds, Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite food is pizza. But he also has an appetite for dishes not usually considered kid-friendly fare: He dined on escargot prepared with spinach and basil at Le Petit Bistro, sea urchin at Ebisu in San Francisco and foie gras (goose liver) at Loulay Kitchen & Bar in Seattle. The weirdest foods heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tasted include alligator, which he said â&#x20AC;&#x153;tastes like a mixture between pork and beef and a bit of chicken,â&#x20AC;? wild boar and roasted pigeon at a popular Shanghai eatery that was reviewed by The New York Times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a traditional Chinese restaurant. It was almost literally a hole in the wall. It was that small. It was the first time I got to sit at a table with three different families,â&#x20AC;? he said of the experience. Photos of Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food adventures are posted on his website as well as in a published book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World-Famous Recipes,â&#x20AC;? available on Amazon. The book features Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite recipes, including pistachio-stuffed leg of lamb, Salis(continued on next page)

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bury steak, chocolate lava cake and apple streusel. The culinary journey, Frishberg said, has changed his son in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very predictable way.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wants to eat delicious food only, no matter whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepared at home or at a restaurant,â&#x20AC;? Frishberg said. And of course, the young critic also writes about his gastronomic experiences with vivid descriptions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and humor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a way that only a kid can. Daniel has only reviewed a handful of restaurants, and there are plenty to explore throughout the Midpeninsula. The next establishment he wants to write about? Vesta, a contemporary Italian restaurant in Redwood City known for its wood-fired pizzas and small plates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have very good burrata â&#x20AC;&#x201D; grilled pears with fresh burrata cheese. They also have delicious pizza. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of my favorite restaurants,â&#x20AC;? Daniel said. As for the food scene in Palo Alto, Daniel praises its diversity: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just one type of food. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza, hamburgers and foie gras. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of different types of cultures and cuisines.â&#x20AC;? When Daniel eats, he does so with gusto, curiosity and an open mind. Kids have a point of view, he said, that allows them to look at food, like a piece of steak, as not just a piece of meat but with the ability to see and taste the discovery and joy of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food is really special,â&#x20AC;? this koodie concluded. Q Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

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OPULENCE ON EL CAMINO â&#x20AC;Ś Last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest, smallest and most expensive hotel represents a new wave of opulence on El Camino Real. The Clement, 711 El Camino Real, is unlike other hotels in this city. It does not have a lobby; it has a living room. It does not have a restaurant; it has a dining room. And the front doors of the hotel are always locked. The dissimilarities are intentional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want our guests to feel as if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re staying in the mansion of a friend, and we are the staff of the estate,â&#x20AC;? hotel general manager Sebastian Stacey said. Additionally, guests are free to roam around the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, which looks pretty much like a typical kitchen in a Palo Alto home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; albeit slightly larger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a fully-stocked, communal kitchen,â&#x20AC;? Stacey said. A considerable amount of work has gone into making the 23-suite hotel situated next to Palo Alto Medical Foundation both exclusive and luxurious. Fresh orchids, bonsai trees, personalized stationery and a tiny Zen garden are found in every room. The high-class touches even extend into the guest bathroom, or more specifically, the toilet, which comes with its own remote control and boasts options including a heated seat, customizable bidet, built-in dryer and air freshener. The bathroom comes with a second remote: one to control the television which is embedded in the mirror over the vanity. Introductory rates for a one-night stay start at $800, which is all-inclusive, but will be raised to $1,000 or more soon, according to Stacey. So who was the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first paying guest? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not likely that information will ever be revealed. According to Stacey, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We put a high value on our guestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s privacy.â&#x20AC;?

DOWNTOWN BAKERY BOOMS ... Silicon Valleyites love their baked goods â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so much so that they have helped make Paris Baguette in Palo Alto one of the bakery chainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top producing stores in California. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Palo Alto store is a showstopper,â&#x20AC;? said Larry Sidoti, Paris Baguetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chief Development Officer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we tell our story, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the stores we point to.â&#x20AC;? As Paris Baguette enters its sixth year at 383 University Ave., on the corner of Waverley Street, Sidoti says that particular location a big advantage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the real estate world, you want a corner just like that,â&#x20AC;? he said.â&#x20AC;? Sidoti considers the success of the Palo Alto store â&#x20AC;&#x153;pivotal in proving that we can reach customers of all ethnicities and ethnic origins. Previous to opening in Palo Alto, our customers had been Korean-dominated, but Palo Alto changed all that.â&#x20AC;? Paris Baguette is an international bakery brand featuring French-inspired recipes. It started in 1988 in Korea and now has 3,700 locations worldwide, 45 of which are in the U.S. Northern California has 11 of the bakeries, and more are on the way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on deals right now adjacent to Palo Alto,â&#x20AC;? Sidoti said, but because the company is in the midst of negotiations, he declined to comment further. However, a second location in Palo Alto is not out of the question. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We may decide at some point to open another store in Palo Alto; there are a few parts of the city that would be conducive, possibly even the Stanford campus,â&#x20AC;? Sidoti said.

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board (ARB) and Historic Resources Board (HRB) 8:30 A.M., Thursday, April 21, 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. The following item will be heard by the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Board. Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Comprehensive Plan Update: Request for Architectural Review Board, Historic Resources Board, and Public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) prepared for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The Draft Environmental Impact Report was published on February 5, 2016 for a 90 day public comment period that will end on May 5, 2016. For more information, contact elena.lee@cityofpaloalto.org. The following items will be heard by the Architectural Review Board only. 4175 Manuela Avenue [15PLN-00129]: Request by Kevin Davies, on behalf of Congregation Kol Emeth, for Architectural Review to demolish an existing one story synagogue facility totaling approximately 11,691 square feet (sf) and construction of a new synagogue facility with approximately 23,555 sf. In addition, but not ZWLJPĂ&#x201E;JHSS` Z\IQLJ[ [V [OL (YJOP[LJ[\YHS 9L]PL^ )VHYKÂťZ review, are requests for a Variance to exceed the TH_PT\T HSSV^HISL Ă&#x2026;VVY HYLH I` HWWYV_PTH[LS` sf for a portion of the building with a vaulted ceiling over MLL[ PU OLPNO[ ;OPZ YLX\LZ[ PZ UV[ MVY HJ[\HS Ă&#x2026;VVY HYLH but vaulted space only. A Variance is also requested to allow the access ramp to the subterranean garage, as well as the below grade garage itself, to encroach into the special setback. Religious facilities in the residential districts are also subject to a Conditional Use Permit. Environmental Assessment: This project is exempt from environmental review pursuant to a CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061, 15302 and 15303. Zoning District: Single Family Residential District (R-1(20,000)). For more information, contact RAggarwal@m-group.us. 355 University Avenue [15PLN-00237]: Request by Hayes Group Architects, on behalf of Palo Alto Masonic Temple Association, for Architectural Review and Seismic Rehabilitation Floor Area Bonus for a new faĂ§ade and signage, new second story with outdoor rooftop WH[PV HYLH HUK PU[LYPVY TVKPĂ&#x201E;JH[PVUZ H[ <UP]LYZP[` Avenue, and a new faĂ§ade and site improvements to the NYV\UK Ă&#x2026;VVY HUK HKQHJLU[ W\ISPJ HSSL` H[ -SVYLUJL Street for the future home of Design Within Reach. The WYVQLJ[ YLX\LZ[Z HWWYV]HS VM H ZLPZTPJ YLOHIPSP[H[PVU Ă&#x2026;VVY area bonus for the addition of the new second story. Environmental Assessment: Categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per Guideline Section 15301 (Existing Facilities), :LJ[PVU 4PUVY (S[LYH[PVUZ [V 3HUK HUK :LJ[PVU 15311 (Accessory Structures). Zoning District: Downtown Commercial (CD-C(GF)(P)). For more information, contact rebecca.atksinson@cityofpaloalto.org. Jodie Gerhardt, AICP Current Planning Manager The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related WYPU[LK TH[LYPHSZ WSLHZL JVU[HJ[ [OL *P[`ÂťZ (+( Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@ cityofpaloalto.org. www.PaloAltoOnline.com â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ April 8, 2016 â&#x20AC;˘ Page 33

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Linklater’s latest a spiritual sequel to ‘Dazed and Confused’ 000 (Century 16) Richard Linklater’s new film, “Everybody Wants Some!!” is an odd duck: an arthouse “Animal House.” But that’s why the writer-director’s fans love him: for his shaggy, intellectual idiosyncracy. In what other college party movie would you find a character deconstructing the myth of Sisyphus as part of a seduction? The film takes place at the fictional South East Texas University in August of 1980, as Linklater follows incoming college freshman Jake (Blake Jenner) in the three days before classes begin. Since Jake is on the baseball team, his first duty as a student is to check into one of two neighboring off-campus houses where the team lodges. Jake’s 15 teammates make up an eclectic bunch of personalities, as befitting any college dorm. There’s a brief team meeting and a long practice scene, but the film mostly concerns dedicated hanging out. The characters play pinball, Nerf basketball, “Space Invaders,” foosball, pool, darts, pingpong, poker and bloody knuckles.

Set in 1980, Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” features college coeds hanging out, goofing off and practicing the fine art of conversation. And, of course, they sit around their house drinking beer, smoking pot, spinning platters, reading Kerouac and Sagan, getting lucky, throwing a party and practicing the fine art of conversation. That last one is Linklater’s signature: clever, discursive conversation, like the kind that powered 1995’s “Before Sunrise” and its sequels. Linklater’s latest loosely follows up on two of his other celebrated films. In period terms, “Everbody Wants Some!!” echoes 1993’s “Dazed and Confused,” which was set in 1976. And thematically, “Everybody Wants Some!!” begins at the same moment when 2014’s “Boyhood” ends: with its protagonist arriving at college. Like “Dazed and Confused,”

the engagingly loose “Everybody Wants Some!!” serves as a nostalgic and unabashed glorification of young idiocy. Linklater depicts these pre-P.C. men as testosteronefueled and insecure, with their ball-busting banter and drunken blathering and preening cock-ofthe-walk machismo. But the director reserves smarts and sweetness for his heroic surrogate, Jake, especially in the endearingly awkward flirtation with theater-and-dance major, Beverly (Zoey Deutch) “Everybody Wants Some!!” may be a slender story, but it’s got milieu and character to spare. Rated R for language throughout, sexual content, drug use and some nudity. One hour, 57 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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1/2 (Aquarius, Century 20) The hero of the new dramedy, “Demolition,” at one point muses, “For some reason, everything’s becoming a metaphor.” Boy, you can say that again. The clodhopping symbolism of Bryan Sipe’s laughably by-the-textbook script spells the kind of film that casual moviegoers may love but will make literary-minded cineastes want to claw their eyes out. “Demolition” asks us to expend endless pity on a Rich Straight White Guy, an incredible a-hole who apparently didn’t love his recently deceased wife — didn’t even like her — in fact hates her — and then realizes he loved her at least a little. The End. The Rich Straight White Guy in question is investment banker Davis C. Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), who works for his fatherin-law, Phil (Chris Cooper), and thus is primed for supreme awk-

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Bryan Sipe’s clodhopping and cringeworthy new dramedy, “Demolition.” wardness in the wake of his wife Julia’s death. Sipe stocks up his self-consciously script-y narrative with cheap pop psychology and absurd only-in-the-movies behavior. This is the kind of movie in which the protagonist has a vending-machine fail minutes after his wife dies and so begins a therapeutic customer-service correspondence which in turn leads to romance with the customerservice rep (Naomi Watts’ Karen)

and a surrogate fatherhood to this single mom’s son (Judah Lewis’ Chris). This is the kind of movie in which the newly widowed protagonist explains his loss thusly: “Massive head trauma. Car accident. Pass the salt.” This is the kind of movie that could be fairly described as both terminally cute and insufferable grief porn. (continued on next page)

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MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m. 10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) + Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 4:35 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 5:05 p.m. Sat. 2:20 p.m. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: 11:10 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 3:50, 6:10, 7:30, 9:55 & 10:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:45 p.m. In 3-D at 10 a.m., 1:30, 5:10 & 8:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 1:20, 3:35, 4:45, 7, 8:15 & 10:20 p.m. In 3-D at 11 a.m., 2:25, 5:50 & 9:15 p.m. In DBOX at 11 a.m., 2:25, 5:50 & 9:15 p.m. Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote (PG)

Century 20: Sun. 12:55 p.m.

The Boss (R) Century 16: 10 & 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 12:10, 1:35, 2:45, 5:20, 7:15, 8, 9:50 & 10:40 p.m. In XD at 10:55 a.m., 7 p.m. Deadpool (R) +++ Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Demolition (R) 1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 5:15, 7:35 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:25 & 10 p.m. The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) Century 16: 1:25 & 7:30 p.m. Century 20: 6:55 & 10:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:50 & 4 p.m. Everybody Wants Some (R) +++ Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:40 p.m. Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

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Hardcore Henry (R) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8 & 10:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:30, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. In XD at 1:30, 4:05 & 9:30 p.m. In DBOX at 11:35 a.m., 2:30, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 9:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:25, 4:50 & 7:20 p.m. Sun. 2:20 & 7:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:40 p.m. Guild Theatre: 4:15 & 9:30 p.m.

I Saw the Light (R) +1/2 Ki and Ka (Not Rated)

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

Guild Theatre: 1:45 & 7 p.m.

The Lady Vanishes (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:50 p.m. London Has Fallen (R)

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 4:15 p.m.

Marguerite (R) +++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

Meet the Blacks (R) Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 5:15, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:40 p.m. Midnight Special (PG-13) Century 16: 10:05 & 11:25 a.m., 12:50, 2:15, 3:35, 5:05, 6:20, 7:50, 9:05 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:50 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Miracles from Heaven (PG)

Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) +1/2 Century 16: 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 2, 4:30, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m. Strangers on a Train (1951) (Not Rated)

Stanford Theatre: 5:35 & 9:15 p.m.

Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:10 & 11:05 a.m., 1, 2:05, 3:55, 5, 7, 7:50, 9:50 & 10:40 p.m. Sun. 10:40 a.m., 5:55 & 8:55 p.m. In 3-D Fri. & Sat. noon, 2:55, 5:55 & 8:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:25, 1:50, 3:10, 4:35, 6, 7:15, 8:40 & 10 p.m.

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Home Front DO ONE THING IN APRIL ... April is a great month to replenish your emergency food supply, according to the Midtown Residents Association. This doesn’t have to be food that sits on a shelf and is never eaten; it can be part of the food you use every day. The key to a good food storage plan is to buy ahead of time. Replace items before they run out. Buy items when they are on sale. A large duffel bag or plastic tub with a lid makes a great storage place for an emergency food supply. Make sure your family, including pets, will have what they need when disaster strikes. Buy a three-day emergency food supply for your household.

MOMS DAY AT FILOLI ... Filoli’s Centennial and Mother’s Day at the 2016 Filoli Flower Show will take place from Thursday, May 5, through Sunday, May 8, featuring floral interpretations of California Then and Now 1916-2016 created by dozens of professional and amateur designers. Visit many of California’s most iconic sites and events of the past 100 years in the beautifully furnished and preserved historic house and renowned formal garden. The traditional Mother’s Day weekend event will also feature flower-accented vintage cars in the house courtyard, dozens of floral arrangements, elegant table settings, and children’s bouquets. This year, you can expect to see fairy gardens, hanging gardens, wreaths and baskets on the tennis court, where you can also dine and listen to music on Saturday and Sunday. Flowerarranging demonstrations will take place Friday and Saturday. Info and tickets: filoli.org. Q

Before and after: In Jed Scolnik’s home, a room that served as a mini office, toy room and guest room needed organizational help. Professional organizer Lauren Mang used the principle of putting “like with like” to tidy up the children’s toys and also added a unit with “cubbies” for storage.

Five easy steps to decluttering kids’ spaces

by Anna Medina

Courtesy Lauren Mang

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GROW THOSE RHOS ... Rhododendrons can be perfect for the small garden or patio, according to Mike McCullough, a member of the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. To teach people how to grow them, group members will be leading a program titled “Rhododendrons 101,” explaining how to care for rhododendrons, on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m., in room 12 of the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Many of the members of the De Anza Chapter have been growing rhododendrons for years and will be bringing flowers of their plants so that people can see the variety. McCullough has more than 30 Maddenii Series rhododendrons growing in containers and will tell how this series of rhododendrons can be grown in 15-gallon containers for more than 20 years.

t can be thrilling for children to receive toys on birthdays or special occasions, but what happens when the toys start to pile up? What happens when the playroom becomes a sea of strewn Legos and Barbie dolls and art supplies — when it’s so cluttered that the floor is no longer visible? When faced with a messy playroom or child’s bedroom, or even a living room or office, professional organizer Lisa Mark recommends starting with the acronym “SPACE.” Owner of The Time Butler, Mark says to focus on Sort, Purge, Assign, Containerize and Equalize. The process starts by sorting “like with like,” or putting similar things with similar things, followed by purging unneeded items, assigning a home, containing items and equalizing or maintaining the overall system. The next step, said Lauren Mang, owner of Let Me Organize It, is teaching kids how to be and stay organized. “Kids are perceptive,” Mang said, bring(continued on page 39)

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BEAUTIFUL EICHLER WITH HUGE BACKYARD • Warm and welcoming Eichler with four bedrooms and two bathrooms • Comfortable 1,400* square feet of living space (*approximately) • Huge 12,898* square foot lot is great for entertaining, playing, relaxing (*approximately) • Move in ready; or add square feet to the existing house; or build a large new house • Attractive landscaping • Double pane windows on most windows • Hardwood floors and new carpeting • Hunter Douglas duette top/bottom opening, and room darkening shades

• Updated kitchen with island and new quartz counter tops • Kitchen and family room open to expansive backyard • Neighborhood block party held each year • Sturdy, large wooden shed • Newer foam roof and water heater • Walking distance to schools, shopping, coffee shops, Mitchell Park Community Center and parks • Bike to Stanford and Google • Prestigious Palo Alto schools, including Fairmeadow Elementary*, JLS Middle School* and Gunn High School*. Hoover Alternative Elementary School* is a few blocks away (*Buyer to verify school)

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Toy storage (continued from page 37)

ing up the fact that even her 4-year-old niece was able to sort toys into different categories. “Organizing is a muscle that kids and adults have to build. The earlier you can build those muscles, the better.” For many, though, the difficulty lies with the second step: purging. Mang explained that when working with clients who have kids, she meets with them oneon-one and helps them identify the toys they no longer want. “Most of the time, (kids) are nervous and worried that I’ll make them get rid of their stuff,” Mang said. This fear is somewhat understandable, she noted, since, “Kids don’t have control over anything but their stuff.” After years of helping people to purge, The Time Butler’s Mark has observed that certain people feel kinships with items or have hoarding tendencies. For them, purging can be difficult. When going through items with kids, she suggested having an opaque container or bag that a child can’t see into and putting items in a designated “donate pile.” “Most of the time, the child has forgotten what (is in the bag), and this frees them from having to decide whether or not to get rid of it,” Mark said. The next two steps — assigning items a home and containing items — are when logistics become a factor. Perhaps a space is small or has multiple uses. Such was the case with Jed Scolnik, one of Mang’s clients. Scolnik needed help with a room that functioned as a mini office, toy room and guest room. “(We purchased) a simple shelving system from Ikea that had 16 different cubbies. Some of them had bins — dress-up clothing (in one) and cars in the other,” he said. Both Mang and Mark noted that many times people forget about the vertical space in their homes. “People don’t usually build up a wall, they build out,” Mang said. But height can be used thoughtfully to achieve certain goals. “You can strategically keep certain more complex/messy toys out

HOME SALES

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

Los Altos

687 Coral Court Er Trust to B. Wong for $2,460,000 on 03/17/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,398 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/24/2005, $1,000,000 1095 Russell Ave. N. Sachdev to M. Mengerink for $3,100,000 on 03/17/16; built 1953, 5bd, 2,857 sq. ft. ; previous sale 02/18/2014, $2,500,000 735 Sunshine Court H. & M. Aly to S. Yang for $3,250,000 on 03/15/16; built 1949, 3bd, 2,943 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/24/1992, $375,000 1537 Tiptoe Lane Ogrady Trust to M. Outten for $2,650,000 on 03/18/16; built 1956, 4bd, 2,044 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills

12911 Atherton Court Scherer Trust to G. & M. Shoham for $3,660,000 on 03/16/16; built 1979, 4bd, 4,147 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/15/1999, $1,571,000 25136 La Loma Drive Battle Trust

of reach so that they use them when an adult is around,” she said. Mang suggested to think about the containers themselves, noting that they didn’t necessarily have to be from The Container Store. “Kids are tactile and visual. Get boxes that are easy, colorful and labeled with a picture so they know what goes in it,” she said. Among her solutions for containing, Mang included canvas totes, containers with handles and lightweight, easily liftable bins. Mark advised to buy bins in a couple of colors and assign the colors to kids so they know what bins they are responsible for. The last step — equalize — involves the day-to-day maintenance of the organizational system in place. After all the hard work of sorting, purging, assigning and containing, how is a space kept orderly? Mang suggested constantly reassessing the amount of toys you have, and Mark talked of “weeding” bins on a yearly basis and setting concrete guidelines when doing so. One set of guidelines might be getting rid of broken toys, stained clothes, small clothes and toys rated for someone younger. “The size of the bin can be a way to keep you accountable for how much stuff you want. You can have one bin designated for something like Barbies, and that can limit your amount in a year,” Mang said. Living by the one-in-one-out rule (getting rid of an item when you get a new one) is another tip Mang suggested for avoiding accumulating more of anything, including toys, but Mang also had advice for avoiding becoming inundated with toys in the first place. “Stop showing love through gifts — shift to experience and time ... We’re always going to consume, but we can do away with compulsive consuming,” she said. She also believes in the importance of reducing guilt and shame over the messes in people’s everyday lives. “It’s important to remember that we don’t live in a magazine!” Mang said. Q Editorial Intern Anna Medina can be emailed at amedina@paweekly.com.

to Chan Trust for $4,212,000 on 03/16/16; built 1956, 4bd, 3,204 sq. ft. 26007 Rancho Manuella Lane H. Chen to P. & A. Feldman for $3,900,000 on 03/18/16; built 1979, 4bd, 3,563 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/30/1997, $1,270,000

Mountain View

650 Alamo Court #11 J. Koulouris to C. Sue for $560,000 on 03/18/16; built 1972, 1bd, 578 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/17/1989, $88,000 112 Alley Way E. & B. Beller to C. Cai for $1,250,000 on 03/18/16; built 1996, 3bd, 1,424 sq. ft. ; previous sale 06/09/2009, $660,000 1128 Boranda Ave. Rich Country to E. Parker for $1,570,000 on 03/18/16; built 2007, 4bd, 2,112 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/01/2013, $12,980,000 769 Glenborough Drive G. Collins to K. & J. Webb for $1,832,000 on 03/21/16; built 1985, 3bd, 2,150 sq. ft. 407 Loreto St. Yuen Trust to R. Hill for $1,535,000 on 03/16/16; built 1927, 2bd, 1,195 sq. ft. 512 Mansfield Drive Jean Trust to G. & Y. Perl for $2,300,000 on 03/15/16; built 1971, 4bd, 2,126 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/15/1976, $88,500 142 Pacchetti Way J. Balasub-

ramani to X. Zhang for $1,190,000 on 03/21/16; built 1997, 3bd, 1,292 sq. ft. ; previous sale 01/20/1999, $365,000 49 Showers Drive #C457 M. Lee to C. Tut for $1,280,000 on 03/21/16; built 1976, 3bd, 1,487 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/20/2005, $666,000 550 Sleeper Ave. Tingleff Trust to Louie Trust for $2,584,000 on 03/16/16; built 1980, 4bd, 2,961 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/30/1993, $515,000 255 South Rengstorff Ave. #42 Shemwell Trust to K. Oelze for $679,000 on 03/18/16; built 1965, 2bd, 935 sq.ft. ; previous sale 06/16/1980, $79,400 859 Sycamore Loop William Lyon Homes to Z. Zhang for $1,423,000 on 03/18/16 2224 West Middlefield Road S. Hall to S. Chen for $1,560,000 on 03/16/16; built 2011, 4bd, 1,979 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/17/2014, $1,263,000

Palo Alto

2140 Bryant St. Fielder Trust to Bryant St. Estates for $5,600,000 on 03/16/16; built 1937, 4bd, 2,477 sq. ft. 2257 Bryant St. Benest & Grady Trust to Qimera Trust for $2,700,000 on 03/18/16; built 1947, 3bd, 2,488 sq. ft.

Garden Tips

The need for design by Jack McKinnon

ow do we come up with design ideas? All gardens but those tied by history or notable designers face re-design at some point. Often simple plant replacement can alter a good design, causing imbalance and distortions. Another common problem is caused by maintenance that is not suited for a design. Sometimes it is just age that causes a landscape to lose its appeal. Plants get old, sculptural elements lean, ground and pathways shift, and borders disintegrate. I was going to write about synthetic grass versus real turf and how that affects the overall look of gardens in a city. I decided that design included that subject and many more, so this month I will give tips on design. These tips apply to residential gardens and landscape plans but can be used in cityscape, parks and diverse suburban applications. Hopefully design precedence will improve ornamental and functional use. Here are the tips: 1. Assess your garden for repair or replacement in order to restore the original design. This is a first step to see if the design can be saved. 2. Use this sequence of checks to help determine the needs. Check pathways, irrigation, major plantings as well as damage and overgrowth. 3. Decide if you will do a complete redesign or a major renovation.

4. Do a cost and time analysis for either project. Include water-use improvements, economy and efficiency of maintenance and aesthetics. Will it look much better afterward? 5. Ask “Will I need a designer an architect, a landscape contractor, or can I do it myself?” 6. If doing a repair/replant job on the property, ask yourself if you have an eye for and/or the experience with plants and their growth to make a DIY makeover work. 7. Decide, if doing a redesign, if you will start the design process with or without a professional designer. Again, if you have design experience and plant knowledge, you might want to go for it and see how it goes. 8. If the project is big (check the local construction laws and regulations), you may need a permit and inspections. I don’t recommend trying to get around these; it can be quite costly. 9. Make a plant list after extensive research and advice. I cannot emphasize this step enough. Know their growth needs and patterns as well as their care and possible problems. One example of a bad decision is to plant a eucalyptus tree where you would have done better with a Japanese maple. 10. Put it all together and set a date to get started. Consider season, time required, permits, who will do the work and when the job is expected to be done. Good gardening! Q Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at jack@jackthegardencoach. com or 650-455-0687, or visit his website, jackthegardencoach.com.

SALES AT A GLANCE Los Altos

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $2,460,000 Highest sales price: $3,250,000 Average sales price: $2,865,000

Total sales reported: 12 Lowest sales price: $560,000 Highest sales price: $2,584,000 Average sales price: $1,480,250

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $3,660,000 Highest sales price: $4,212,000 Average sales price: $3,924,000

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,500,000 Highest sales price: $5,600,000 Average sales price: $2,843,750 Source: California REsource

2808 Bryant St. Bergrun Trust to L. Zhang for $2,300,000 on 03/17/16; built 1950, 2bd, 1,529 sq. ft. 111 Emerson St. Scanlon Trust to T. Madon for $1,500,000 on 03/17/16; built 1980, 2bd, 1,445 sq. ft. 466 Ruthven Ave. Larocque Trust to H. Cai for $3,050,000 on 03/17/16; built 1912, 2bd, 1,106 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/08/1993, $420,000 406 Spruce Lane Zeng Trust to F. Ma for $2,550,000 on 03/18/16; built 2007, 4bd, 2,893 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/21/2007, $1,689,000 2380 Tasso St. Africa Trust to Tasso Limited for $2,550,000 on 03/18/16; built 1932, 3bd, 1,500 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/1970, $34,000 760 Webster St. T. & J. Parsey to F. Chen for $2,500,000 on 03/18/16; built 2011, 3bd, 1,472 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/21/2011, $1,575,000

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

795 El Camino Real surgery center: relocate eight outlets and eight data ports 201 Hamilton Ave. plan revisions to egress path from basement 180 El Camino Real, #1090 install electrical for five illuminated signs 972 Clara Drive temporary power 895 Clara Drive residential bathroom remodel: replace window, $4,244 2065 Alma St. install solar system and new sub panel 1875 Middlefield Road replace seven residential windows, $21,820 993 Embarcadero Road install gas line for fire pit and stub out line for portable bbq 863 Moreno Ave. plan revision to master bath layout

256 Ferne Ave. replace residential electrical service riser and service entrance conductor 3241 Park Blvd. use and occupancy for new tenant, Akins Body Shop, Inc., to occupy 6,120 sf on first and second floors 3467 Ramona St. temporary power 483 Forest Ave., unit B 120 sf kitchen remodel: revise opening in office wall, $14,500 3133 Alma St. emergency repair: window and wall, $2,000 339 Seale Ave. re-roof of detached garage, $7,200 1486 Dana Ave. new 3,889 sf two-story single-family home with 223 sf attached garage and 1,489 sf covered porch, includes tankless water heater and A/C unit, $681,232 2300 Hanover St. re-tile roof tile, $20,000 3687 Bryant St. demolish house and attached garage

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Designed by nationally renowned Feldman Architecture and constructed by coveted NorthWall Builders, this 5 bedroom/5 bath home is located in sought-after Leland Manor and is a masterpiece of contemporary aesthetics. The landscaping, by award-winning Huettl Landscape Architecture, is no less enchanting, with a roof garden mirroring the native plantings and river stones of the ground-level surrounds. Built for its current owner as his primary home, this modern marvel is brand-new and truly spectacular. Lot Size: 9180 sq. ft. Living Area: 4003 sq. ft. Garage: 475 sq. ft. Covered Patio: 360 sq. ft. Excellent Palo Alto schools: Walter Hays Elementary, David Starr Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High. This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not veriďŹ ed this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school availability.

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21 Royal Oak Court, Mountain View Offered at $998,000 Private Townhome in Central Community Fall in love with the exciting location of this multi-level 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom townhome of 1,599 sq. ft. (per county). From this setting, beautiful parks, commuter services, and the fitness, dining, and shopping attractions at San Antonio Center are all easily walkable. Elegantly designed with a free-flowing floorplan, the home also provides a two-sided fireplace, two en-suite bedrooms, and an attached two-car garage. The Ryland Towne Court community is private and well-maintained, and fine schools are easily accessible.

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576 Casita Way, Los Altos Offered at $2,488,000 Authentic Charm, Peaceful Setting Nestled along a tranquil street, this custom-designed 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 2,086 sq. ft. (per county) stands on a lot of approx. 0.26 acres (per county) surrounded by stately oaks. Offering two wood-burning fireplaces, vaulted ceilings, and hardwood floors, the residence provides a quiet, inviting backyard and flexible spaces that include a convertible two-car garage. You will be central to local shopping and dining, and Gemello Park and Los Altos High (API 895) are just a stroll away (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Beds 5 | Baths 4.5 Home ±4,600 sf | Lot ±7,500 sf

159 Coleridge Avenue, Palo Alto | 159coleridge.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

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Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

Ashley Banks, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com License No. 01913361 dreyfussir.com )EGL 3J½GI MW -RHITIRHIRXP] 3[RIH ERH 3TIVEXIH

801 S. Knickerbocker Drive, Sunnyvale Offered at $1,288,000 Excellently Located, Tastefully Updated Enjoy easy walkability to everyday conveniences from this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,120 sq. ft. (per county) that stands on a lot of 5,000 sq. ft. (per county). You will love living within a stroll of Safeway, Mango Park, bus services, and both Cherry Chase Elementary (API 952) and Sunnyvale Middle (buyer to verify eligibility). In addition, the home offers oak floors, a two-car garage, and a fireplace, plus upgrades that include central cooling and luxurious kitchen and bathroom remodels.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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OPEN HOUSE Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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11860 Francemont Drive, Los Altos Hills Luxurious Old World Villa Meticulous craftsmanship and beautiful details infuse high style into this 6 bedroom, 6 bath home of 5,565 sq. ft. (per appraisal) that ;//A<51? - <>5B-@1 8;@ ;2 U -/>1 I<1> /;A:@EJ -9.;; Ō ;;>? -:0 ?;->5:3 /1585:3? 3>-/1 @41 ?1:?-@5;:-8 5:@1>5;> C45/4 <>1?1:@? @4>11 ŋ >1<8-/1? - Ō 1D5.81 4;91 ;ő /1 -:0 - 8;C1> 81B18 C5@4 - >1/>1-@5;: >;;9 58810 C5@4 3>-/5;A? 1:@1>@-5:5:3 ->1-? @45? ŋ :1 4;91 -8?; 5:/8A01? -: -@@-/410 @4>11 /-> 3->-31 -:0 ;Ŋ 1>? 1-?E -//1?? @; 4575:3 @>-58? -:0 @;< ;? 8@;? ?/4;;8? For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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280 Family Farm Rd Hear the birds! 6 ac w/surrounding views of the Western Hills & Jasper Ridge Preserve. 4 BR 4.5 BA Helen & Brad Miller CalBRE #01142061 650.851.2666

1 Garland Pl New Construction in prime West MP. Beaut tree lined street. 3 lvl, 5752sqft on 1/4acre lot 6 BR 6 full + 2 half BA Shawnna Sullivan CalBRE #00856563 650.325.6161

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2020 Webster St Character and charm. French style home with oak floors, curved staircase, wisteria arbor 4 BR 3 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

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4228 Wilkie Way 9 yrs new, 2,168sf living area on ~6,225sf lot, 2-car garage, 3 spacious suites. Gunn High 3 BR 3 BA Judy Shen CalBRE #01272874 650.325.6161

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606 Chimalus Dr Elegant top condition family home, light and bright, Palo Alto Schools. 4 BR 3 BA Alexandra von der Groeben CalBRE #00857515 650.325.6161

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4152 Baker Ave Build your dream home 7749 sf lot maximum floor area of 3,075 sf plus possible basement 3 BR 1.5 BA Dorothy Gurwith CalBRE #01248679 650.325.6161

3022 Whisperwave Circle Serene newer Shores water-view home! Many many upgrades! 4 BR(4th is loft)/2.5BA. Sarah Elder CalBRE #00647474 650.324.4456

717 Alice Ave Lovely Mt. View home on approx. 8900 sq.ft. lot. Close to shops and parks! 4 BR 2 BA DiPali Shah CalBRE #01249165 650.851.2666

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737 Loma Verde Avenue, #12, Palo Alto Offered at $1,288,000 Luxury Townhome in Excellent Location Providing terrific walkability to local attractions, this 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom townhome of 1,460 sq. ft. (per county) sits within fabulous Midtown. The interior offers hardwood floors, central cooling, and a fireplace, plus a two-story dining room and a stylishly upgraded kitchen. Both master suites provide vaulted ceilings and luxurious bathrooms. Enjoy a private backyard, an attached garage, and additional carport parking. You will also have walkability to Philz Coffee, Hoover Park, and local shopping and dining, plus prime access to top schools.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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OPEN HOUSE Saturday & Sunday, 1-5 pm Complimentary Lunch & Lattes

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1015 Stanford Av $2,488,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500 3707 Starr King Cir Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

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14303 Saddle Mountain Drive, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,988,000 Handsome Home with Breathtaking Views Delivering breathtaking bay views, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 4,895 sq. ft. (per county) sits on a hilltop lot of 1.14 acres (per county) and offers an elegant interior featuring crown molding, recessed lighting, and spacious living areas. Fronted by a private courtyard, the main gallery opens to a sunken living room, a formal dining room with a butler’s pantry, and a family room that adjoins an island kitchen with a large breakfast area. Upstairs, one bedroom may easily convert to an office, while the immense master suite connects to a large patio overlooking the gorgeous grounds, which include a heated pool and spa, a stone terrace, and an outdoor barbecue. Additional features include two staircases, three fireplaces, an attached three-car garage, and an extensive paver driveway. Within moments of Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club, this home is also near Stanford University and Ladera Shopping Center. Excellent nearby schools include Nixon Elementary (API 955), Terman Middle (API 968), JLS Middle (API 943), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility). ®

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Kid’s Stuff 350 Preschools/ Schools/Camps Peng Piano Academy- Summer Camp

355 Items for Sale BOY clothes 6-7-8 Years $40-2Bags Boys bike BMX style$30 Collectors NFL FavreGBP 5-6YRS $20

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425 Health Services

235 Wanted to Buy

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Across 1 Postgraduate study, perhaps 4 1,550-mile continental range 9 Little demons 13 Hip-hop’s ___ Fiasco 14 “Come Away With Me” singer Jones 15 “Protein,” in some restaurant options 16 Go through 18 Sweat source 19 Big shiny building, once you get past the fence? 21 Fractions of a mi. 22 Bus route divisions 23 “Happy Days” diner 26 “___ a small world” 28 Broadway legend Merman 32 Droid 33 Swimming or floating 37 “Game of Thrones” actress Chaplin 38 Chuck, at a fancy NYC party? 41 Yellen’s forte, for short 42 “Rare and radiant maiden” of “The Raven” 43 First responder, briefly 44 “Big Three” meeting site of 1945 46 Mama’s boy? 47 Part of DOS: Abbr. 48 Hipbone-related 52 Anderson who directed “Rushmore” 54 Last dance theater at the end of the block? 61 “Ricochet” actor/rapper 62 Resentment of the successful, in Irish slang 63 2014’s “The ___ Movie” 64 Short-lived NBC drama named for the outermost section of the Pentagon 65 Full of malicious intent 66 Border 67 OKCupid meetups 68 B.O. purchases

Down 1 “___ Jr.” (Pixar’s first film, featuring the lamps now used in their logo) 2 Kitchen item: Abbr. 3 Like a neglected garden 4 Remove, in a way 5 “The Man Who Fell to Earth” director Nicolas 6 “I Love Lucy” costar Desi 7 ___-ovo vegetarian 8 “Two and a Half Men” actor 9 Stand-in 10 “Gimme some cat treats” 11 Remove, as a potato peel 12 Hip add-on? 13 “Sweep the ___” (“Karate Kid” quote) 17 Sign of owing 20 Prop for the course 23 Downton, for one 24 Poet Federico Garcia ___ 25 Bar support 27 Affliction of the eyelid 29 Plot flaws 30 Jet, to a Shark, e.g. 31 Hangs in there 34 Raggedy ___ 35 Lts.’ subordinates 36 Small floor coverings 39 How some sneak in 40 Virgil epic 45 “Blue Rondo ___ Turk” (Brubeck song) 49 Cheeky words after reading a fortune cookie fortune 50 Luxury Hyundai sedan 51 Lawful, informally 53 “Fuller House” actor Bob 54 Word game piece 55 Blasted through 56 Simon of “Hot Fuzz” 57 Aquatic bird 58 Strauss the jeans-maker 59 “Silly Rabbit” cereal 60 “Popeye” surname

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 614748 The following person(s)/registrant(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): EAGLE DEEP 2225 E. Bayshore Rd., #200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 05/26/2015 UNDER FILE NO. 605242 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): DEEP EAGLE LLC 2225 E. Bayshore Rd., #200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 2, 2016. (PAW Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) SILICON VALLEY LAUNCH FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614166 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Launch, located at 530 Lytton Ave., 2nd. Fl., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BILL HANLEY 530 Lytton Ave. 2nd. Fl. Palo Alto, CA 94301 HEJIAO TANG 4298 Wilkie Way Unit P Palo Alto, CA 94306 SHAN JIANG 3833 Park Blvd. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/08/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February, 19, 2016. (PAW Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) NETWORKWISE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615013 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Networkwise, located at 3075 Louis Rd., 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): PAUL SEAH 3075 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 10, 2016. (PAW Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016) WINARSKY VENTURES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615161 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Winarsky Ventures, located at 107 Primrose Way, 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): NORMAN WINARSKY 107 Primrose Way Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 15, 2016. (PAW Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016) FORETOKEN PRESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615204 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Foretoken Press, located at 4290 Wilkie Way Suite E, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SEVERIN PEREZ 4290 Wilkie Way Suite E 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 March 16, 2016. (PAW Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016) KickOff Career FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614369 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: KickOff Career, located at 412 Everett 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): PATRICIA WARD-DOLKAS 412 Everett 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 25, 2016. (PAW Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016) NextFlex Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute FHE-MII FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 614809 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) NextFlex, 2.) Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute, 3.) FHE-MII, located at 3081 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): Flextech Alliance, Inc. 3081 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/1/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 4, 2016. (PAW Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016) JOURNEYS ACROSS TIME, LLC CAMP MARCO POLO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615274 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Journeys Across Time, LLC, 2.) Camp Marco Polo, located at 2850 Middlefield Road, B215, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JOURNEYS ACROSS TIME, LLC 2850 Middlefield Road, B215 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s)

listed above on 3/01/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 17, 2016. (PAW Apr. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2016) LIFE AFTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615804 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Life After, located at 1644 Cornell Drive, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DANIELLA MIRES 1644 Cornell Dr. Mountain View, CA 94040 HEATHER FLETCHER 1131 Kedith St. Belmont, CA 94002 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 April 1, 2016. (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) STEELKILT PRESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615202 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Steelkilt Press, located at 350 Campesino Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SUSAN J. WOLFE 350 Campesino 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 March 16, 2016. (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV293315 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MELISSA URIBE and ARMANDO URIBE JR. filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ALYSIA KALIYAH DE LOS SANTOS to ALYSIA KALIYAH URIBE. 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: May 17, 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: March 29, 2016 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) NOTICE TO CREDITORS Alexander Jardetzky 44 Mariposa Avenue Los Gatos , CA 95030

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM (408) 392-1251 ALEXANDER JARDETZKY is the personal representative of the Estate of OLEG JARDETZKY, who is deceased. The personal representative HAS BEGUN ADMINISTRATION of the decedent’s estate in the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Santa Clara located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, California 95113. Case Number: 1-16-PR 178058 You must FILE YOUR CLAIM with the court clerk and mail or deliver a copy to the personal representative before the last to occur of the following dates: four months after March 14, 2016, the date letters (authority to act for the estate) were first issued to a general personal representative, as defined in subdivision ( b) of section 58 of the California Probate Code. If you do not file your claim with in the time required by law, you must file a petition with the court for permission to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code section 9103. Not all claims are eligible for additional time to file. See Section 9103 (a). 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. If a Creditor’s Claim (form DE-172) did not accompany this notice, you may obtain a copy of the form from any superior court clerk or from the person who sent you this notice. You may also access a fillable version of the form on the Internet at www.courts.ca.gov/ forms under the form group ProbateDecedents’ Estates. A letter to the court stating your claim is not sufficient. Failure to file a claim with the court and serve a copy of the claim on the personal representative will in most instances invalidate your claim. If you use the mail to file your claim with the court, for your protection you should send your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. If you use the mail to serve a copy of your claim on the personal representative, you should also use certified mail. To assist the creditor and the court, please send a blank copy of the Creditor’s Claim form with this notice. (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV293395 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: FARAMARZ BAHMANI; AZADEH MALEK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MUHAMMAD MILAN BAHMANI to MILAN MUHAMMAD BAHMANI. 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: May 17, 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: April 1, 2016 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) ADLAI E. STEVENSON HOUSE STEVENSON HOUSE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615273

The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Adlai E. Stevenson House, 2.) Stevenson House, located at 455 East Charleston Road, 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): PALO ALTO SENIOR HOUSING PROJECT, INC. 455 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/23/1967. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on March 17, 2016. (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) CA ENERGY RATING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615946 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: CA Energy Rating, located at 616 Ramona St. #21, 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): ERIC KENG 3522 Bryant St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/6/2016. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on April 6, 2016. (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016)

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 16CV293382 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MICHAEL CARL GUNNAR OMANDER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MICHAEL CARL GUNNAR OMANDER to GUNNAR CARLMICHAEL OMANDER. 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: May 17, 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: March 30, 2016 /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Apr. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016)

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Gunn’s tandem ranks among nation’s best

STANFORD HONORS . . . Stanford senior setter James Shaw was selected the Sports Imports/ American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Week. Shaw led Stanford to four-set wins over No. 10 CSU Northridge and No. 5 Long Beach State last week, keeping the Cardinal in a tie for first-place in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. He guided the Cardinal offense to a .372 team hitting percentage for the weekend, averaging 12.75 assists (almost three more than his season average). The Woodside native was also efficient as an attacker last week, posting 11 errorless kills on just 16 attempts (.688). Against CSUN, he matched his season-high with 54 assists while notching five kills and five blocks. Versus Long Beach State on Senior Night, he collected 48 assists as the team hit .391 to go with six kills, seven digs, four blocks and three aces . . . .Stanford junior Akash Modi was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Year for the third consecutive season. Modi is the first to be named MPSF Gymnast of the Year threestraight times since Oklahoma’s Jon Horton (2006-08). He finished the regular season ranked first in the nation in the all-around (89.788) and floor (15.638).

ON THE AIR Friday Women’s lacrosse: Oregon at Stanford, 1 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks College baseball: Stanford at UCLA, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM)

Saturday Women’s water polo: Cal at Stanford, 3 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area College baseball: Stanford at UCLA, 4:30 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM) College softball: Stanford at UCLA, 7:30 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks

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Monday Women’s lacrosse: Cal at Stanford, 5 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks College softball: Stanford at UCLA, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks