Palo Alto Weekly April 15, 2016

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Vol. XXXVII, Number 28

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April 15, 2016

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Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Arts 23 Eating Out 26 Movies 27 Puzzles 59 Q Title Pages Sci-fi’s post-eco-disaster new world

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Proposal to ban two-story houses splits neighbors As opposition grows to planned ‘single-story overlay,’ City Council prepares to vote

by Gennady Sheyner

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hat began as an effort to promote harmony and protect the privacy of Royal Manor residents has devolved into a full-fledged neighborhood battle over property rights, aesthetic preferences and the very nature of democracy.

The south Palo Alto neighbor-

hood, which includes about 200 homes, is in the midst of applying for a “single-story overlay,” a type of zoning that expressly bans new two-story homes and second-floor add-ons in neighborhoods dominated by houses developed by Joseph Eichler. In recent months, the City Council approved such

restrictions in the Los Arboles and Greer Park North tracts. In each case, residents had submitted a petition signed by more than 70 percent of the homeowners, the minimum threshold necessary for the change. (In areas where twostory homes are restricted by deed, the threshold is 60 percent.)

Royal Manor, which includes Kenneth Drive, Thomas Drive, Janice Way and sections of Loma Verde Avenue, Louis Road, Greer Road and Stockton Place, was on

its way to a similar change. In February, the Planning and Transportation Commission recommended moving ahead with the application despite opposition from a sizable minority of residents. The council will consider the application on Monday, April 18.

Since the February commission meeting, opposition to the zoning overlay has continued to swell, with 17 residents switching their votes from “yes” to “no.” While in February, the level of support was at

70 percent — the overlay the recent defections have plunged it to about 63 percent.

Some of the residents now say that at the time they signed the petition, they weren’t familiar with the issue and unaware that a signature solicited at a block party would effectively bar them from expanding their homes upward in the future. Others say they believed that their signature (continued on page 10)

HEALTH

Aid-in-dying law begins June 9 Local medical organizations discuss policies around implementation

by Sue Dremann

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In nature’s studio Natalie Chun, center, and fellow Stanford University students, from far left, Reed Canaan, Erika Depalatis, Taryn Fitzgerald and Vivian Xiao, paint monochromatic depictions of an oak grove in their plein air painting class on April 6.

ELECTION 2016

Gina Dalma, Todd Collins announce school-board campaigns Board of Education election landscape begins to take shape

by Elena Kadvany emphasis on action backed by data but bring very different backgrounds. Dalma has worked in the education field for many years at the foundation, a Mountain View nonprofit that seeks to address social issues through research, advocacy, raising funds and other initiatives, while Collins has spent his career in technology, management consulting, business analysis and private investment.

Todd Collins Collins, who calls himself a person focused on “getting things done,” has served on the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) executive boards at both Terman Middle

School and Gunn High School — schools his two older children attended.

Since 2010, he served as a member and for four years was the chairman of the school district’s Strong Schools Bond Citizens’ Oversight CommitTodd Collins tee, which monitors the activities, progress and compliance related to the $378 million bond voters passed in 2008 to support facilities upgrades at Palo

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he first candidates to throw a hat into the ring for a seat on the Palo Alto Board of Education are Gina Dalma, a Palo Alto parent and Silicon Valley Community Foundation adviser who ran in the 2014 election; and Todd Collins, a longtime community volunteer, district parent and private investor.

Collins announced his candidacy on Monday, and Dalma confirmed to the Weekly that she will be running. Collins and Dalma will be vying against a stillunknown field of candidates in November for seats currently held

by President Heidi Emberling and board members Melissa Baten Caswell and Camille Townsend.

Both candidates are putting an

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alifornia’s new End of Life Option Act goes into effect on June 9, offering terminally ill persons who face painful or prolonged deaths the option of ending their own lives with medication.

The act, which was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on Oct. 5, allows a mentally capable adult with a life expectancy of six months or less to request “aid-indying” medication from his or her doctor for self-administration if suffering becomes unbearable. Two physicians must agree that the person is eligible, and one of the doctors must sign the prescription after the patient has made three requests — two oral ones at least 15 days apart and one written on a specific form — directly to the doctor.

But finding a physician to take part in the process could prove challenging. Each doctor is free to decide if he or she will write the prescription. And some health care systems may prohibit their employees from participating in medical aid in dying, a panel of medical professionals told about 50 people at Avenidas senior center in Palo Alto on Monday.

For retired Stanford University professor Dick Scott, the quick death of a loved one who chose to take the medication was an eye opener, he said. Scott helped his brother, who had emphysema, to obtain the medication in Oregon while dying. Watching his brother struggle to breathe, Scott emptied the capsules into a glass of water and handed it to his brother, who was able to drink it, he said.

“It was a very quiet death. It took four minutes,” said Scott, the panel moderator and chairman of

the advisory council of Avenidas Village program.

But while death came quickly, the process did not come easily, he said. It took more than six weeks to mobilize a network that included the medical team and a pharmacy, get all of the paperwork signed and get the prescription filled, he said.

In California, bringing a network together to provide the medication could be equally daunting.

“There will be some physicians who don’t want to have anything to do with it,” said Dr. Lew Wexler, professor emeritus of radiology at Stanford Clinics.

Some audience members at Avenidas said they have already run into roadblocks. A woman broached the subject with her physician at Menlo Medical Clinic but was flatly told “no.” The physician told her that Stanford Health Care, which runs the Menlo clinic, has a policy against medical aid in dying.

But Wexler said that Stanford doesn’t have any such policy. The medical organization is currently discussing its policy in light of the new law, but it hasn’t reached any conclusions. At Stanford Medical Group, the general feeling is that each physician will make his or her own decision on whether to participate, he added.

Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) is also in the midst of discussions, and its parent company, Sutter Health, is in the process of implementing a policy for its clinics, said Dr. Dick Maser, retired plastic surgeon at PAMF. Missy Gallo, a licensed clinical social worker at the PAMF Geriat(continued on page 10)

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POSITIVE POST-ITS ... The Teen Library Advisory Board and Mitchell Park Library are asking adults, including teachers, parents, school librarians and library patrons, to write positive messages for students on Post-its for finals week during the months of April and May. Those interested can stop by Mitchell Park Library, located at 3700 Middlefield Road, to write a message or submit messages to paloaltotlab@gmail. com. For more information, visit cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/lib/ teens.

MORE MAGICAL BRIDGES ...

Palo Alto’s innovative playground suited to kids of all abilities and disabilities, Magical Bridge Playground in Mitchell Park, could be replicated around the country. A new nonprofit organization, Magical Bridge Foundation, has been launched to make that happen, according to co-founders Jill Asher and Olenka Villareal. The foundation is working to raise funds for more playgrounds, which are designed for use by children with disabilities and disabled parents.

Villareal said the foundation has received hundreds of requests for assistance and information.

Cities must agree to set aside park space for the playground.

Three Bay Area locations will be chosen in the next month or two for the next Magical Bridges, Villareal said. At Palo Alto’s popular playground, about 10 to 20 percent of children at any time have a disability, she said.

But most visitors won’t know that: Many of the children have disabilities that are not physically apparent, such as ADHD. People with a disability that requires a wheelchair, for example, only

make up 10 percent of disabled persons, Villareal noted. A musical concert featuring four live acts to celebrate the oneyear anniversary of Magical Bridge will take place on Sunday, April 17, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the play stage at Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive. The event is free. For more information, visit magicalbridge.org.

TAKE THE PLEDGE (AGAIN) ... Palo Alto Mayor Pat Burt is joining mayors cross the nation for the Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation, a competition to see which community can best inspire its residents to save water through online pledges, according to an announcement from the city. The city with the most pledges at the end of April wins, and those in the winning city may be eligible to win prizes, including a new Prius and home water-efficiency makeover kits. Palo Alto ranked in the top 10 communities in the inaugural year of the challenge in 2012, according to city officials.

In 2013, the city placed in the top 20. “Saving water is in the best interest of our population, environmental habitat, fish and wildlife, recreational opportunities and overall climate protection goals. Participating in this contest demonstrates our City’s commitment to conservation and protection of such a precious natural resource,” Burt wrote in a statement. Residents who take the pledge will commit to performing simple water-saving tasks like fixing leaks, taking shorter showers and landscaping with climate-appropriate plants. To take the pledge, visit mywaterpledge.com. Q

Upfront TRANSPORTATION

Council supports new ‘wayfinding’ signs and guidance system in downtown garages

by Gennady Sheyner The new “wayfinding” system would also use pylons, banners and other types of signs to steer drivers to local garages, which historically have been underused.

A more critical decision that the council also made Monday night pertained to parking-guidance systems: technology that notifies a driver how many spaces are open at a given garage. The council concurred with the recommendation from planning staff and its consultant, and by a 6-1 vote, with Tom DuBois dissenting, threw its support behind new garage technology that relies on sensors and overhead LED lights to reveal open spaces to drivers.

It was most expensive option on the table — one that can detect every open space and mark it with a green light. Known as the single-space detection Automatic Parking Guidance System (APGS), the technology is expected to cost about $2 million.

The other two options on the table were a “facility count” guidance system, in which a sign displays the number of open spots inside a garage and a “level-andzone count” guidance system, which counts available spaces by garage level.

Most council members em-

Technology that uses a green light to indicate an available parking space has been endorsed by the Palo Alto City Council for use in downtown garages. The technology is in use in other cities, as shown here.

Though the council supported braced the single-space detection system, which is currently in use moving ahead with the parkingat the Westfield Valley Fair mall guidance system, staff acknowlin San Jose. By a 6-1 vote, they di- edged that getting the technolrected staff to create estimates for ogy in place will take some time. construction and installation of an The city has not budgeted for the automated parking-guidance sys- project in its long-term capitaltem and to solicit bids once fund- improvement plan, and staff is banking on future funds from ing becomes available.

“I can hardly think of anything parking revenues to help pay for that can pull us out of the 20th the project. This could mean incentury more than this would,” stalling parking meters or increasing parking-permit fees for garage Kniss said.

DuBois said he favored the less parking options that are expected expensive option because that to be evaluated in a parking-manwould allow the city to start the agement study that the city is now project sooner and finish it faster. pursuing.

Even though the new technolHe said he was concerned that the city is “running toward the most ogy probably won’t make its debut for several years, council memexpensive solution.”

“I’d like to know that we’re do- bers expressed hope that once in ing some value engineering and place it would greatly improve the trying to save some money,” Du- experience of parking downtown.

“It’s the kind of thing that I think Bois said. “I support the project.

I’d like to see the project. I would will make the public feel so much like to see it sooner rather than more comfortable about driving to downtown,” Kniss said. Q later.”

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Court. In addition, there would be landscaped curb extension near Stern and Allen, a design element that slows cars while keeping a level path for bicyclists and fire trucks. The plan also calls for highly visibile crosswalk markings, additional street lighting and speed humps with landscaped planters between Richardson Court and Talisman Drive.

Near its southernmost section, the Ross Road boulevard would connect with the Louis Road-Montrose Road boulevard, which includes highly visible crosswalk markings at Middlefield and Montrose; bike lanes along Louis and signage all along the boulevard, which veers onto East Meadow Circle (where there will be a new traffic circle) and ultimately to Fabian Way. In addition, the plan calls for enhancing and extending the city’s first and best-known bike boulevard along Bryant by installing new wayfinding signs; raised intersections at Homer Avenue and at Channing Avenue to in-

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Palo Alto plan calls for new traffic circles, raised crosswalks — and less parking + Design. In most cases, between 20 and 40 percent of the spaces on these blocks are used on a typical weekday, the analysis showed.

The three new bike boulevards under consideration are Amarillo Avenue-Moreno Avenue; Louis Road-Montrose Avenue; and Ross Road from Garland Drive to Louis Road.

The Amarillo bike boulevard (which runs parallel to and just south of Oregon Expressway) would include a new crosswalk at Middlefield Road, a slotted speed hump to slow cars, and signs pointing bicyclists to Moreno, where the boulevard continues. There would also be a traffic circle on Greer Road and a new raised crosswalk near Ohlone Elementary School.

On Ross Road, a new crosswalk and a bike-boulevard sign at Garland Drive would direct bicyclists toward the new boulevard. There would be a new traffic circle with landscaping at Moreno, new speed humps with planters on Clara Drive, Stern Avenue and Allen

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Proposal: three new bike routes, 266 fewer parking spots proposal to greatly expand Palo Alto’s network of bike boulevards would bring new traffic circles, “sharrow” road markings, speed bumps and raised crosswalks to stretches of Amarillo Avenue, Moreno Avenue, Louis Road, Montrose Avenue, Ross Road and Bryant Street.

It would also, however, eliminate 266 parking spots along the routes, according to an analysis that city planning staff and consultants presented to the Planning and Transportation Commission on Wednesday.

Most of the parking would be corner spots whose removal would improve sight lines for bicyclists at intersections, said Joshuah Mello, the city’s chief transportation official. In some cases, they would be replaced with extensions of the curb.

Altogether, the 266 spaces represent about 14 percent of the total 1,865 spaces on the three new corridors and Bryant Street, which is already a designated bike boulevard, according to the analysis by staff and its consulting firm, Alta Planning

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signs. The city’s Architectural Review Board reviewed those signs last fall and, following the consultant’s lead, favored the blue signs over the city’s traditional green.

Both Councilman Cory Wolbach and Mayor Pat Burt supported the proposed light-blue signs because they would be more distinct and, hence, more functional.

“I’ve always been fond of ‘Palo Alto green’ but we want to distinguish parking signs from other signs,” Burt said. “My first inclination was to stay with Palo Alto green, but I actually think it’s pretty important that people know where the parking is and that we intuitively start associating a given color with a function.”

In the most contentious debate of the evening, the council voted 5-2 (Vice Mayor Greg Scharff and Councilman Eric Filseth were absent) to make the parking signs blue, with supporters of this option arguing that the color would give parking facilities a distinct “brand.” Councilwomen Liz Kniss and Karen Holman favored green signs and argued that the color would be more consistent with the city’s history and environmental ideals.

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hough Palo Alto officials have found themselves debating all manner of complex parking and transportation options recently, the latest parking debate, which took place Monday night, came down to a simpler question: blue or green?

That was the question the City Council was trying to answer as it considered a new sign program that would make it easier for drivers to find local parking facilities.

Sue-Ellen Atkinson, the city’s parking operations lead, said current signage is far from ideal, with some banners too high up to be visible, some monuments too low to be useful and some signs too ambiguous to function properly.

“Existing parking and wayfinding downtown is, at best, inconsistent and confusing,” Atkinson said, noting one sign next to the letter “P” showed three arrows going in different directions. “When you’re driving it can be downright confusing to decide to go left, right or straight when you’re told to go in all three ways.”

As part of the re-branding effort, the city had hired a consultant, Walker Parking Consultants, which came up with a design for the new

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City looks to new signs, sensors to steer drivers to parking garages

Route extends to Middlefield Rd

Three new bicycle boulevards, and improvements to Palo Alto’s existing bike route on Bryant Street, have been proposed. crease the safety of pedestrians; a some cases, removing stop signs, traffic circle at Kingsley Avenue; the goal is to create a continuous, and new signs from Embarcadero and safer, flow of traffic.

“Stop signs encourage stopping Road to Oregon Expressway.

The plans have been subject to nu- and accelerating and stopping and merous recent community meetings, accelerating,” Mello said.

Traffic circles also greatly miniwith nearly 200 participants. After hearing from the community, staff mize potential “conflict points” at inagreed to keep the bike signs white tersections and, because everyone is and without a green background. going in the same direction, the conHugh Louch, of Alta, said most of flicts that do occur tend to be sidethe comments were positive, with swipes, rather than the more dangermany people praising the landscape ous head-on or T-bone collisions.

On Wednesday, the commission improvements and a few expressing concerns about the loss of parking limited its discussion to the three new bike boulevards (not the enspaces.

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College Terrace residents to test homes for toxics State agency affirms that Stanford’s mitigation plan is sufficient and that neighborhood is safe

by Sue Dremann

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issatisfied with a state agency’s assurances that hazardous-chemical vapors from a former Stanford Research Park industrial site on California Avenue pose no risk to nearby residences, College Terrace neighbors plan to hire a consultant to monitor the indoor airquality of their homes, they said.

The decision to move forward with their own consultant came after the state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) concluded that Stanford University’s plan to mitigate the impact of toxins discovered on its property at 1601 California Ave. is sufficient and no additional testing at the site or adjacent properties is necessary.

Elevated levels of the contaminants were detected in the soil in one area — the vicinity of a former plating solution sump and operational areas of a former manufacturing facility — but the vapors from the chemical do not pose a threat to residents in nearby College Terrace, the agency concluded.

The university, which is building 180 homes for junior faculty on the property, plans to move a number of residences from the

most contaminated “hot spots” to another location on the property as part of its mitigation plan. It also proposes to cap some of the contaminated areas with roads and add vapor barriers to new homes to prevent underground fumes from seeping in.

The site has been thoroughly evaluated; the extent of soil vapor is defined; the development plan protects human health; and an international expert on vapor intrusion concurs with Stanford’s findings and approach to address the vapor problem, according to the agency.

The agency approved the university’s Revised Supplemental Investigation and Risk Assessment Report on April 4, according to a letter supplied by Stanford.

For College Terrace residents, who live just across California Avenue, concerns remain high about the hazardous trichloroethylene (TCE) vapors found at the construction site last November.

TCE is a solvent used mainly to remove grease from metal parts but also is an ingredient in adhesives, paint removers and other products. It breaks down slowly in soil and water and is known to cause some cancers,

according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

But the university’s consultant Haley & Aldrich, Inc., found the levels are below maximum levels allowable for residential sites, a finding that is in line with EPA guidelines, which are also accepted by the state DTSC, officials noted in their report.

College Terrace resident Fred Balin, who has been following the developments, said when TCE vapor becomes trapped in an enclosed space, it can concentrate and become a health hazard. The issue for College Terrace is that residents remain vulnerable because their homes do not have vapor barriers and other safeguards planned for the new construction, he said.

In January, a College Terrace Residents’ Association subcommittee studying the site asked the state agency to review Stanford’s findings and require the university to remove the contaminated soil, conduct additional monitoring along their neighborhood’s border, and take more safety measures to prevent TCE from potentially migrating into the soil under their homes.

The subcommittee, which includes a research chemist, a

ENVIRONMENT

Plan urges major shifts in Palo Alto’s transportation, natural gas systems Sustainability and Climate Action Plan makes case for new transit options, incentives

by Gennady Sheyner

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hat would it take for Palo Alto to slash its carbon emissions by 80 percent?

According to the city’s ambitious new Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, a host of new transit services; a shift from natural gas to electric heating; a potential carbon tax and the citywide replacement of traditional gas-powered automobiles with electric vehicles, with the goal of having 90 percent of Palo Alto vehicles be emission-free by 2030.

All these measures — along with hundreds more — are included in the new plan, which lays out a path for cutting local greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent from the 1990 baseline.

Known as “80x30,” the goal aims to build on the city’s accomplishments to date, which have resulted in a 36 percent drop between 1990 and 2015. Among the city’s most notable achievements: the recent adoption of a carbon-neutral electricity portfolio — a commodity that the city hopes to leverage by

converting existing gas-powered systems into electricity.

If the city continues all existing green initiatives — which include new bike boulevards, its “zero waste” program, and the various efficiency-improving programs in the Utilities Department — it would cut an additional 16 percent of emissions from the 1990 level, for a total of 52 percent. That far exceeds California’s adopted goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030.

The new plan, which the council is set to discuss on Monday night, acknowledges that going from 36 percent to 80 percent isn’t going to be easy. It will require the city to transform its transportation system and dramatically reduce the use of natural gas to heat buildings and water.

But the aim will be worth it, according to Chief Sustainability Officer Gil Friend, who is spearheading the plan. He said the goal isn’t just to reduce carbon emission but to do it in a way that

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promotes a better quality of life, makes economic sense and improves Palo Alto’s resiliency.

The plan includes about 350 actions, many of which are codependent and would need to go through thorough vetting by the council and the community. Some will undoubtedly prove controversial, including charging for downtown parking, encouraging denser development near transit lines and possibly exploring a carbon tax. Yet Friend noted in the draft plan that the city doesn’t plan to ask people to do things that aren’t cost effective and that don’t have other benefits.

Not surprisingly, rethinking transportation is one of the major themes of the new plan. Currently, about two-thirds of Palo Alto’s emissions come from road travel. Another 27 percent is from natural gas. The remainder comes largely from industrial emissions and “life-cycle emissions” from land-fill bound waste.

The plan recommends pursuing a model, called “Mobility as

NASA environmental scientist and a toxic-vapor-control expert, outlined nine major concerns and concluded that the consultant’s report showed the TCE vapor has the ability to migrate through the soil. Subterranean water channels might transport the chemical vapors to their neighborhood, where it could enter their unprotected homes. The residents’ position was supported by the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, a Mountain View-based watchdog group.

After reviewing Stanford’s proposal, the state agency concluded that the university’s plan for the development of University Terrace is adequately protective.

The state report also concluded that Stanford had adequately remediated the site by removing the source of TCE when it removed the former plating solution sump in March 2015. Demolition of buildings at 1601 California in March and April 2015 also removed all chemical-storage areas, piping, sewage and storm drain lines. The site did not reveal concentrations of TCE in the soil that would warrant deep excavation, the agency noted.

There was also no proof that the TCE soil vapor has migrated; it remains in defined areas, the agency stated.

The College Terrace subcommittee disagrees with this finding. Data it extrapolated from Haley & Aldrich’s report shows the chemical vapor had migrated 300 feet and contaminated part of another site, at 1501 California Ave., which is also part of the development, said Ed Schmitt, a research chemist and association subcommittee member who in-

vestigated the data.

The state agency wrote that TCE was not detected in soil vapor collected at nearby sampling at 1501 California at concentrations exceeding the DTSC screening level.

According to Lenny Siegel from the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, TCE was found in soil vapor at a depth of 25 feet at 1501 California, about 300 feet downgradient from the former sump. The state agency had previously attributed the presence of TCE vapor at 1501 California to the 1601 California sump release, he noted.

Siegel said he supports installing venting technologies for the homes rather than barriers.

“Since TCE has moved 300 feet, either in aqueous or gaseous form, to the next property, I don’t see how Stanford and DTSC can conclude that vapors cannot move 50 feet into homes,” he wrote in response to the agency’s findings.

Siegel maintains there isn’t enough data to justify assumptions about soil composition or the direction and magnitude of TCE migration.

“Based on prevailing groundwater flows, I agree that vapor exposures in College Terrace are not likely, but I don’t believe that enough groundwater or vapor sampling has been done to rule it out,” he wrote. Q

a Service,” in which cars are replaced by a system of services that people can use seamlessly, including improved transit, shared bikes, on-demand shuttles, walking and biking amenties, and smart apps.

This means, among other things, creating new bike boulevards and offering transit passes to residents and employees to encourage Caltrain and VTA bus use. It also means rethinking the longstanding policy of providing free parking throughout downtown.

Friend told the Weekly that the city has had a policy of discouraging automobile use since 1998, but “We have a policy that says one thing and a practice that says another thing.”

The plan is also bullish when it comes to electric vehicles, as its 90 percent target indicates. The plan also sets a goal of having 50 percent of inbound vehicles (those based outside of Palo Alto) to be zero-emission vehicles. To help facilitate the shift, the plan calls for expanding car-charging infrastructure; electrifying the city’s own fleet; developing pricing policies to encourage electricvehicle charging at local homes, businesses and public facilities; and exploring opportunities with companies like Tesla and Google “to identify policy roadblocks and collaboration opportunities.”

Electric heaters for water and space offer another opportunity, according to the plan. With natural

gas making up about a quarter of the city’s carbon footprint, the plan calls on Palo Alto to “first seek to reduce natural gas usage through energy efficiency and conservation, followed by electrification of water heating, space hearing and cooking where cost effective.”

This means exploring new building codes to encourage energy-efficient buildings and to encourage, or even require, existing buildings to switch from gas to electric hot-water systems. The sustainability plan also calls for hosting a pilot all-electric hot-water program at a major city building, such as City Hall.

The plan has a target of having 50 percent of all commercial water and space heating be electric by 2030. In the residential sector, the goal is to have 70 percent of the water heaters and 60 percent of space heaters be electric — a target that the city would pursue through education, outreach and financial incentives.

In addition to these proposals, the sustainability plan includes strategies for protecting the city from sea-level rise, preserving the natural environment, and pursuing what the plan calls the “utility of the future” — an agile system that includes energy generation, storage and services.

Once adopted, the sustainability plan would be updated every five years. In addition, staff plans to create more granular five-year work plans as the process rolls forward. Q

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would make it possible for the neighborhood to place the issue on the ballot — not that it would be interpreted as the ballot itself.

Some opponents have reported threats and insults from neighbors who support the zone change. They have also hired a lawyer and are looking into taking legal action against the city if the council approves the change despite the fading support and the “misinformation� that they believe they’ve been subjected to by overlay supporters.

For the majority’s side, the case is simple: Eichler neighborhoods were designed as communities, with each home equipped with yard space and featuring glass walls that blend indoor and outdoor living. They point to instances in which an Eichler was torn down and replaced with a two-story home with win-

dows that allowed intrusion into the privacy of the neighboring Eichlers, effectively nullifying the very thing that makes the homes special.

In presenting the overlay application to the planning commission, resident Richard Willits said that a “teardown, when it occurs, is a cataclysmic event in an Eichler neighborhood.� Usually, he said, the house that ends up on the street is not in the same Midcentury Modern style. Willits said the Eichler neighborhood has a “sense of togetherness,� with seniors, young families and multi-generational households.

He feared that if two-story teardowns occur, current residents will move out. “We don’t want this for our neighborhood,� Willits said.

Other supporters similarly frame the issue as a way to foster neighborhood harmony and cohesiveness. Diane Reklis, a Janice Way resident, wrote in a letter to the city that the houses

in the neighborhood “were designed with lots of glass to allow the owners to enjoy the outdoors while privacy fences prevent invasive stares.� “If my neighbor’s house was two stories high, the glass walls would be a nuisance rather than a blessing as others would suddenly have full view into my living spaces,� Reklis wrote. “If I built a second story on my house, I might be able to sell it for more money, but at least six neighbors would be negatively impacted by the loss of privacy and daylight AND the value of their houses would likely be diminished, at least until they too built up. The single story overlay is essential to maintain our neighborhood.�

But what some see as an instrument to promote harmony, others see as divisive, heavy-handed and unnecessary.

Narayanan Murugesan and Sridevi Narayanan, who also live on Janice Way, are among the residents who are seeking to remove

their signatures from the petition circulated last year at the block party. In a Feb. 28 letter to the city, they noted that they signed to “show our support for community sentiment to go to ballot ... (and certainly didn’t think our signature would be wrongfully used in lieu of a legal ballot).� “As recent residents with two young children and aging parents who moved here with a longterm mindset, we want to make sure that we have the flexibility to expand our home sufficiently in the coming years. Therefore, we would like to fully understand the ramifications of SSO (singlestory overlay) for our particular lot and house before we make a decision,� the letter stated.

Others offered similar sentiments. Beth Marer-Garcia wrote that she was led to believe from an informational letter that any signature on the petition would “simply serve as a basic show of support, and if at least 70 percent of the neighbors signed the peti-

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tion only then could the secondstory application process begin.�

The door-to-door collection of signatures, she wrote, is “subject to misrepresentation and misinformation by each party.� “For the council to actually rule on this critical matter without formal consideration seems irresponsible and could very well put the City of Palo Alto and our tax dollars at risk of litigation,�

Marer-Garcia said.

Zoe Danielson, who also lives in Royal Manor and opposes the overlay, called the process “a betrayal of democracy� and said the city is “lurching toward litigation.� Danielson wrote in a letter to City Attorney Molly Stump that many residents were “victims of coercion� who were told, after the vote, that their signature was “irrevocable.�

Amid this climate of acrimony, it will be up to the council to determine whether to proceed with the overlay proposal, as recommended by the planning commission; to halt the process; or to

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ric and Palliative Care center, said it is likely that each entity under Sutter would make its own decision to opt in or out of the program. “It does look like we (PAMF) will offer it,� she said. But the individual physician would still ultimately choose whether to write the prescription or consult with a patient about the end-of-life option.

Wexler said that patients would likely find the most resistance from physicians who have had little experience with people who are in the terminal phase of life. But doctors and caregivers, pain clinics and palliative care centers that deal with cancer patients and patients with severe pain issues would be more likely to understand a patient’s request for aid to end their suffering.

Medical aid in dying is unlikely to occur in the hospital, where patients are given medications and are not allowed to take medicine on their own, Wexler said. Most deaths will likely occur in athome hospice or palliative care.

According to the law, patients cannot designate another person to administer the drug nor write the wishes into their Advanced Healthcare Directive. And persons with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease are not eligible for the act.

Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Washington also have medicalaid-in-dying laws. In Oregon, it has legally been practiced for 18 years, and 1,500 people have opted to obtain the medication. Of those, about one-third to one-half have not taken it, however, according to Stephanie Elkins of the nonprofit group Compassion & Choices.

The best way for patients who want to exercise the option is to have a conversation — and many conversations — with their physicians, Gallo said. “You have to be the best advocate and ask the right questions,� she said. Q

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Gina Dalma Since the 2014 election, Dalma said she has “refined” but not changed her main priorities.

She remains committed to helping the district and board Gina Dalma make better use of data, to improving professional development and to providing “excellence in education” for all students.

In her 2014 campaign, she stressed the importance of putting the right metrics and systems in place to better evaluate district programs and efforts, and encouraging a culture that uses data to make good decisions.

“It’s not only having the data; it’s really using the data to drive action boldly,” she told the Weekly on Monday.

Her work at the foundation has informed these priorities. She is currently serving as special adviser to the CEO for public policy and overseeing the organization’s lobbying efforts in Sacramento and emerging efforts in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for policy work related to the organization’s top priorities, which is primarily education but also includes affordable housing, immigration and family economic security.

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Collins said his “biggest accomplishment” working in the schools was serving on a separate citizens committee whose foresight to stop issuing a particular kind of bond ultimately saved the district $850 million.

In 2012, members of the Strong Schools Bond committee realized that Palo Alto Unified, like many other school districts in the state, planned to issue again capital-appreciation bonds, which defer payment of all principal and interest for up to 40 years. When payment is eventually due on these bonds, it includes the original amount, all accrued interest and interest on the interest, Collins said.

Many California school districts pitched capital-appreciation bonds to taxpayers as a means to keep their tax rate the same while still getting the funds necessary to build new schools, Collins said. It was a “buy now, pay later” mentality, he said.

At the then-tax rate of $44.50, the cost of debt repayment would come out at more than $1.9 billion, according to an open letter from Collins and 12 others on the committee. The group urged the school board to raise the tax rate immediately to avoid “pass(ing) the burden of bond repayment to our children and grandchildren, who will be paying for buildings being built today until the year 2055.”

The school board approved the recommendation, just before other California school districts’ use of capital-appreciation bonds became a subject of public controversy and the state legislature eventually cracked down on the practice, passing strict controls on issuing the bonds in the future.

Collins said this effort is an example of the way he likes to operate: getting things done in a way that avoids unnecessary distractions.

“We have gone through 10 years of probably more controversy and dissension and getting stuck on more issues than anybody should have in a lifetime,” he said of the school district, citing division over investigations

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“Our experience with the challenges and opportunities of a special needs child gives me empathy and insight into this critical area of our district’s work,” Collins writes on his campaign website.

Collins said he sees a great district that could be better, one still stumbling through a period of many “distractions.”

“I kept saying, ‘This is something I’ve seen before; this is something I know how to do.’ I felt like I had a contribution that I could make,” he told the Weekly.

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“I know how to be an effective board member: set goals, follow up, enforce accountability; develop an informed point of view and don’t be afraid to speak out; ask important, even ‘dumb,’ questions, and insist on good answers,” he said in his announcement.

Recently, Collins spoke out to challenge the research and dataanalysis methods behind a rousing proposal to open a new, innovative high school in Palo Alto — analysis conducted by other members of the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee, on which he, too, served.

He did not support the proposal, he said, partly because he thought the process was flawed and also because he doesn’t believe the data supports the need for a new school.

But helping to foster current innovations already in place at the schools, as well as new approaches, is a priority, he said.

“Some innovation does benefit from ‘a space of its own,’” he said, offering a proposal to convert space at the district office into a “satellite campus” to house existing programs like Palo Alto High School’s Social Justice Pathway, as well as new efforts.

“This could be a great compromise, since it would allow those programs to establish their own physical identity and bell schedule, while keeping in touch with the many, many benefits of a larger school,” he wrote in an email to the Weekly.

Collins, an East Coast native, holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He moved to Palo Alto in 2004 with his wife, Elisabeth Einaudi, an administrator at Stanford Medicine, and three children.

What brought the family to the Palo Alto school district was Collins’ youngest child, a 16-year-old boy who is severely autistic. His son attended Barron Park Elementary School for several years before moving to the Morgan Au-

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At least one planning commissioner sympathized with this view at the February meeting.

Kate Downing took issue with a process in which residents can sign away their property rights by a neighborhood petition.

“I would not expect to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars by signing a petition that a random neighbor brings over to my house while I’m trying to cook dinner and feed my child,” Downing said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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in a letter from Andrew Pierce, an attorney from the firm Pierce & Shearer, which is representing the residents.

“The city could end up freezing the properties with square footages that are far below those that families have been seeking in Palo Alto,” Pierce wrote.

Pierce also pointed to an FAQ document that proponents of the overlay sent out during the signature-gathering process, which suggested that the signature would only be an initial step in the decision-making process. The FAQ noted that the City will “send postcards to all affected homeowners, asking if they support or oppose the single-story overlay.”

“If someone doesn’t return their card it counts as a No vote,” the FAQ document stated.

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revise the boundaries of the proposed district to omit the peripheral sections where opposition runs deepest. In February, the planning commission included in its motion language strongly recommending that the council consider removing from the proposed overlay the segments of Stockton and Loma Verde that make up the edge of the tract, where support for the zone change is lower.

At the Feb. 10 meeting, residents on these streets talked about constraints that they already face on their properties. Some properties have small yards and special setback requirements that make additions on the first floor next to impossible. And are located in the flood zone, which means they cannot build basements.

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Dalma played an instrumental role in the recent passage of a state bill, sponsored by the foundation, that seeks to address math misplacement, the practice of placing students of color in lower math classes despite objective measures like grades and test scores. This can derail students’ paths to higher education and can sustain the achievement gap, she said.

The new bill requires California school districts to adopt by the 2016-17 school year a placement policy that is “objective and transparent,” Dalma said.

Dalma is also an involved parent volunteer and advocate. A native of Mexico, Dalma started a group for Spanish-speaking parents at Paly two years ago. She said when her son, now a junior, arrived at Paly, many school communications were only provided in English. A growing group of parents meets once a month to informally discuss issues the community faces in Palo Alto.

During the 2015-16 school year, Dalma also served on the superintendent’s Minority Achievement and Talent Development Advisory Committee, a group that made a comprehensive series of recommendations to the board that are in the process of being rolled out, from new support systems for students to the hiring of the first-ever district-level equity coordinator.

Dalma said Monday that the district is still in need of a strategic implementation plan for the group’s recommendations.

“We don’t hire somebody and then say, ‘go forth and conquer’ without an implementation plan,” Dalma said.

Dalma holds bachelor’s and master’s economics degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City and the University of London, as well as a master’s in international policy from Stanford University. In Mexico, she held several positions in the federal and state public sectors related to urban economic development and regulatory economics.

She and her husband, Gabriel, moved to Palo Alto more than 20

years ago. They have two children currently attending Palo Alto High School.

In the 2014 election, Dalma received 14 percent — or 5,077 — of the votes.

She told the Weekly during her 2014 campaign that while she has not spent “hours and hours volunteering in classrooms,” her work has brought her to school districts around the country.

“What I bring is hours and hours looking at programming, evaluating programming and evaluating systems where programs actually work in terms of increasing student achievement,” she said.

Other potential candidates Of the school board incumbents whose terms are ending this year, Townsend has said publicly that she does not plan to run again, while Emberling and Baten Caswell have not confirmed their candidacies. Baten Caswell, who was first elected in 2007, wrote in an email to the Weekly that she has “not made a final decision, but I am seriously considering a run for another term.” If she is re-elected, it would be for her third term.

Emberling, who edged out current board member Ken Dauber for a seat in the 2012 election, is finishing up her first term.

While rumors have been circulating about other potential school-board candidates, none had launched their campaigns as of Thursday.

Several people who were rumored to be running confirmed to the Weekly that they are not, including Susan Usman, Palo Alto Council of PTAs president; Barbara Best, former JLS Middle School PTA chair; Cara Silver, senior assistant city attorney for the City of Palo Alto; and Jon Foster, a Silicon Valley chief financial officer and chair of the city’s Utilities Advisory Commission.

Foster’s wife, Catherine Crystal Foster, who made a bid in 2014, has said she does not plan to run again this November. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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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!”

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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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News Digest Housing plan for Maybell site wins neighborhood support Three years after residents rose up to oppose and defeat a planned housing development on Maybell Avenue, some of the project’s fiercest opponents are once again uniting to offer their views about the latest redevelopment proposal for the former orchard.

This time their message to the City Council is radically different: The new plan is reasonable and responsible and merits approval.

The message is encapsulated in an online petition that as of Thursday morning had 189 signatures, including members of the slowgrowth group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, land-use watchdogs and leaders of the “Measure D” campaign that overturned the council-approved housing development in November 2013.

In the petition, the signers state their support for the proposal from Golden Gate Homes, which they said “eases traffic and safety concerns for our school-and-family populated neighborhood.”

The latest application, which the developer submitted to the city in December after a series of revisions, shows 16 detached singlefamily homes. As such, it offers a stark contrast from the overturned 2013 proposal, which called for 60 apartments for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes.

Though the proposal has already scored a sizable victory by winning over the neighborhood, another hurdle stands in its way. The developer will have to obtain two zoning exemptions to accommodate lots with sizes and dimensions that don’t conform to the code. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Palo Alto eyes new rules to promote architectural harmony Examples abound of new developments that provoke ire in Palo Alto’s citizen critics, and now a movement is afoot to review the city’s development-approval process and add new criteria that must be met before a building is deemed “compatible” with the area.

Under existing rules, the city’s Architectural Review Board is charged with scrutinizing the design of every major new development and deciding whether the proposal meets 16 different “findings.”

A new proposal, which the City Council debated Monday night, would reduce the number of findings to six by eliminating redundancies. It would also revise the language in some of the findings to emphasize the design linkages between the new building and existing structures; ensure that the new building is consistent with the city’s land-use plans; and promote landscaping compatible with the project.

The new findings also place a greater emphasis on sustainability and add more specificity about the features that make a project compatible with its surrounding area.

The council had some hesitation with the proposed language and proceeded to add new sentences, clauses and entire sections to the findings. After all the additions, the list remained at six, though it now includes language specifying that new buildings must maintain “visual unity of the street” through numerous features.

The council voted 7-0, with two members absent, to revise the findings and to send them to the Architectural Review Board for another review. The council is then expected to adopt them. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Teen psychiatric facility could open at El Camino Hospital Palo Alto’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Mountain View’s El Camino Hospital and Kaiser Permanente could partner to provide inpatient psychiatric services to teens within Santa Clara County’s borders.

The health care organizations submitted a joint response to a Request for Information (RFI) that Santa Clara County issued in February to solicit ideas for a child and adolescent inpatient hospital unit.

The joint Lucile Packard-El Camino-Kaiser response proposes opening an 18-bed facility that would serve 12- to 17-year-olds with a range of psychiatric conditions at El Camino’s Mountain View campus.

Three other Bay Area organizations also submitted responses to the county request: Fremont Hospital, which currently operates a youth inpatient facility; EMQ Families First, a statewide nonprofit that offers mobile crisis services in the county; and Bay Area Children’s Association, a San Jose nonprofit that responded jointly with the Minnesota-based PrairieCare Medical Group.

Santa Clara County has not had an acute-care, inpatient psychiatric unit for youth for more than 20 years, so an average of 20 adolescents each day are receiving inpatient psychiatric care outside of the county, according to Supervisor Joe Simitian, who first brought the issue to the county Board of Supervisors last May. After conducting research and gathering community input, the board in December directed staff to issue the RFI. The next step in the process will be to issue a Request for Proposal; county staff said it will be released this month. Q — Elena Kadvany

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS April 18, 2016, 6:00 PM Closed Session 1. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS Authority: Government Code Section 54956.8 Property: ITT Transmitter Site, Assessor Parcel Numbers: 008-05-001 and 008-05-005, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Under Negotiation: Acquisition of Easement: Price and Terms of Payment Consent Calendar 3. Approval of the Concept Plan for Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements Along Amarillo Avenue, Bryant Street, East Meadow Drive, Montrose Avenue, Moreno Avenue, Louis Road, Palo Alto Avenue, and Ross Road 4. Approval of a Contract With O’Grady Paving, Inc. in the Amount of $1,557,662 for the Palo Alto Various Streets Resurfacing Project STPL 5100(022), Capital Improvement Program Project PE-86070 5. Approval of Amendment No. One to Contract Number S15159331 With DocuSign to Increase the Total Amount Not-to-Exceed $279,000 (from $225,000) Over Three Years by Adding $36,000 to Year One and $18,000 to Year Two for Additional Training and Support Services 6. Approval of Contract Amendment No. Two to Contract Number C15154454 With Integrated Design 360 for Residential Landscape Plan Review and Landscape Permitting Consultancy Services and Term Extension of One Year Adding $365,535 for a Not-to-Exceed Amount of $878,261 7. Approval of a Four Year Contract Number C16162436 With TJKM in the Amount of $800,000 and a Four Year Contract Number C16163381 With Fehr and Peers in the Amount of $800,000 for Transportation Engineering Project Support Services, Transportation Engineering Resources, and Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan Support 8. Adoption of a Resolution Scheduling the City Council Winter Closure for 2016 and Setting the Annual Council Reorganization Meeting on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 9. Approval of a Wastewater Enterprise Fund Contract WC-14001 With Ranger Pipelines, Inc. in the Amount of $3,386,018 for Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project 27 in the Downtown North, Crescent Park, Community Center and Leland Manor Neighborhoods, and Approval of a Budget Amendment Increasing the Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project 27 Budget (WC-14001) in the Amount of $700,000 Action Items 9L]PL^ (UU\HS ,HY[O +H` 9LWVY[ HUK 7YV]PKL +PYLJ[PVU [V :[Hќ 9LNHYKPUN :\Z[HPUHIPSity and Climate Action Plan (S/CAP), Including Feedback Regarding 80 Percent by 2030 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target, Guiding Principles and Decision Criteria, Implementation Priorities, and Next Steps 11. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Ordinance Establishing a Single Story Overlay District for 202 Homes Within the Royal Manor Tract Number 1556 by Amending the Zoning Map to Re-Zone the Area From R-1 Single Family Residential and R-1 (7,000) to R-1(S) and R-1(7000)(S) Single Family Residential With Single Story Overlay. The Proposed Royal Manor Single Story Overlay Rezoning Boundary Includes 202 Properties Addressed as Follows: Even Numbered Addresses on Loma Verde Avenue, Addresses 984-1058; Even and Odd-Numbered Greer Road Addresses, 3341-3499; Even and Odd-Numbered Kenneth Drive Addresses, 3301-3493; Even and Odd-Numbered Janice Way Addresses, 3407 to 3498; Even and Odd-Numbered Thomas Drive Addresses, 3303-3491; Odd-Numbered Addresses on Stockton Place, 3315-3395; and Odd-Numbered Louis Road Addresses, 3385 to 3465. Environmental Assessment: Exempt From the California Environmental Quality Act Per Section 15305. The Planning and Transportation Commission Recommends Approval of a Single Story Overlay for Royal Manor STANDING COMMITTEE’S The Regular Finance Committee Meeting of April 19, 2016 will be begin at 7:00 PM to discuss: 1) Adoption of a Resolution Amending Utility Rate Schedule D-1 (Storm and Surface Water DrainHNL 9LÅLJ[PUN H 7LYJLU[ *VUZ\TLY 7YPJL 0UKL_ 9H[L 0UJYLHZL [V 7LY 4VU[O 7LY Equivalent Residential Unit for Fiscal Year 2017; 2) Utilities Advisory Committee Recommendation That the City Council Adopt: (1) a Resolution Approving the Fiscal Year 2017 Wastewater Collection Utility Financial Plan; and (2) a Resolution Increasing Wastewater Collection Rates by Amending Rate Schedules S-1 (Residential Wastewater Collection and Disposal), S-2 (Commercial Wastewater Collection and Disposal), S-6 (Restaurant Wastewater Collection and Disposal) and S-7 (Commercial Wastewater Collection and Disposal – Industrial Discharger); 3) Utilities Advisory Committee Recommendation That the City Council Adopt: (1) a Resolution Approving the Fiscal Year 2017 Water Utility Financial Plan; and (2) a Resolution Increasing Water Rates by Amending Rate Schedules W-1 (General Residential Water Service), W-2 (Water Service from Fire Hydrants), W-3 (Fire Service Connections), W-4 (Residential Master-Metered and General Non-Residential Water Service), and W-7 (Non-Residential Irrigation Water Service); and 4) Finance Committee Discussion and Recommendation That Council Adopt (as Part of the Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Budget) a Resolution Amending the Refuse Rates for Fiscal Year 2017 to Cover Program Costs for Both the Residential and Commercial Sectors and to Provide a Reduced Cost for Commercial Compost Collection www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 15, 2016 • Page 13

Upfront

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans hold a closed session to consider property negotiations with Globe Wireless regarding the ITT Transmitter Site. The council also plans to review the annual Earth Day Report; provide direction to staff about the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan; and consider an application for a single-story overlay from the Royal Manor neighborhood. The closed session will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 18, 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 discuss a proposal to combine algebra 1 and 1A at Gunn High School; 2016-17 enrollment planning, including the potential need for a new elementary and/or middle school; and several revised board policies. It will also vote on a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of the next series of Strong Schools Bonds. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider amendment to the city’s storm- and surface-water drainage fees; discuss the 2017 Wastewater Collection Utility Financial Plan and the 2017 Water Utility Financial Plan; and consider a proposal to amend refuse rates for fiscal year 2017. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, at the Community Meeting Room 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 21, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission will review and consider approving the Public Art Master Plan; discuss a “Creative Seating” pilot project on University Avenue; consider approving funds for a comprehensive condition report and protection of the Arnautoff Frescoes; and consider public art opportunities associated with Fire Station 3. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Online This Week

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

Stanford Health care names new CEO David Entwistle has been name the new president and CEO of Stanford Health Care, the organization announced Wednesday.

(Posted April 14, 8:18 a.m.)

Santa Clara County supervisors approve study of South Bay’s shoreline A joint study approved Tuesday will examine current issues facing the South Bay shoreline and possible future uses, including creating an emergency port or tourist destination. (Posted April 13, 4:01 p.m.)

Eight East Palo Alto officers sworn in The East Palo Alto Police Department will beef up its patrols, traffic enforcement and criminal investigations with eight new officers who were sworn in during an Oath of Office Ceremony on Wednesday night at Costano School. (Posted April 13, 3:54 p.m.)

Meeting to focus on bike safety on Page Mill A community meeting will be held in Los Altos Hills on Wednesday, April 20, to discuss proposed interim bicycle improvements for Page Mill Road and Interstate 280 interchange.

(Posted April 13, 9:15 a.m.)

Former social worker sentenced to nine years A former San Mateo County social worker who oversaw the cases of East Palo Alto children was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday, April 12, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office said. (Posted April 12, 6:12 p.m.)

Police: Man exposes himself to girl Palo Alto police are looking for a man they said exposed himself to a 7-year-old girl playing at an elementary school during lunchtime on Monday, April 11, according to a police department press release. (Posted April 12, 8:57 a.m.)

VTA considers complete bus route overhaul In an effort to increase bus ridership and prepare for an onslaught of commuters from new BART stations in Milpitas and San Jose next year, VTA officials announced this week that they are considering major changes to bus routes that could cut service to large swaths of the county, including Mountain View. (Posted April 11, 1:10 p.m.)

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (April 11)

Findings: The council recommended various revisions to “architectural findings” that have to be made for approval of new buildings and directed staff and the Architectural Review Board to review the revisions. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Holman, Kniss, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Filseth, Scharff Garages: The council directed staff to prepare plans and estimates for construction and installation of automated parking-guidance systems with single-space monitoring at downtown parking garages. Yes: Berman, Burt, Holman, Kniss, Schmid, Wolbach No: DuBois Absent: Filseth, Scharff Wayfinding: The council directed staff to pursue a wayfinding program with blue signs for downtown parking facilities. Holman and Kniss favored green signs. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Schmid, Wolbach No: Holman, Kniss Absent: Filseth, Scharff

Utilities Advisory Commission (April 12)

Electricity: The commission approved the Electric Financial Plan and the proposed rate increase, effective July 1, 2016. Yes: Ballantine, Cook, Danaher, Foster, Schwartz Absent: Eglash, Hall Gas plan: The commission approved the Gas Financial Plan and the proposed rate increase, effective July 1, 2016. Yes: Ballantine, Cook, Danaher, Foster, Schwartz Absent: Eglash, Hall Metering: The commission discussed and approved the Net Energy Metering successor rate and approved a Net Energy Metering grandfathering policy. Yes: Ballantine, Cook, Danaher, Foster, Schwartz Absent: Eglash, Hall

Planning and Transportation Commission (April 13) Bike Boulevards: The commission discussed proposed bike boulevards at Ross Road, along Amarillo and Moreno avenues; and along Louis Road and Montrose Avenue. Action: None

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hancements on Bryant) because two commissioners — Asher Waldfogel and Eric Rosenblum — live near Bryant and have potential conflicts of interest. Because two other commissioners — Chair Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka — were absent, this left the commission without a quorum for discussion of the Bryant improvements.

Waldfogel ultimately declined to participate in the discussion for the other three boulevards, arguing that the four should be considered as a single network. The City Attorney’s Office had earlier this week requested an opinion from the Fair Political Practice Commission (FPPC) about whether living near a bike boulevard constitutes a conflict of interest. Waldfogel said the city should delay its discussion until after it receives the FPPC opinion.

His colleagues, however, were eager to offer their comments on the bike boulevards, noting that the City Council is scheduled to approve the concepts at its Monday, April 18, meeting. The commission was largely supportive of the plan, though Vice Chair Przemek Gardias questioned the need for so many traffic circles and Rosenblum stressed the need for staff and consultants to be as transparent as possible when discussing the loss of parking.

A report from planning staff emphasizes that, overall, there are enough spaces remaining to meet the parking needs, and that “the vast majority of residents and visitors will not recognize a parking impact.” A few blocks, however, may get parked up.

According to the analysis, the loss of parking spaces would be acutely felt along three sections of Bryant: near Everett Avenue, between Poe Street and Hawthorne Avenue, and between Channing and Addison avenues.

Other parking pinch-points might result on the west side of Ross between Stern and Allen; the north side of East Meadow, from Fabian Way to Paloma Street; on the south side of Amarillo, from Louis to the Ohlone Elementary driveway; and north side of Amarillo from West Bayshore Road to North Tanland Drive.

The commission generally agreed that the trade-off is worth it. Commissioner Michael Alcheck rejected an argument that he received in a recent email that compared bike signs to “blight” and said he hopes the council will reject that characterization as well.

“A more perfect Palo Alto would have a bike boulevard on every street,” Alcheck said.

The plan also won the endorsement of the Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission and of Penny Ellson, a long-time advocate for bike improvements and a leading proponent of the city’s Safe Routes to School program.

“We’ve been waiting for a long time for these bike boulevards to get moving,” Ellson said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

G U I D E TO 2016 S U M M E R C A M P S FO R K I D S

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Athletics

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Harker Summer Programs

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Atherton

Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4–12 to learn from Knights coaches and staff. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports — baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, soccer and water polo.

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Stanford University

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Palo Alto

Discover nature this summer at Explore! & Girls In Science summer day camps with the Environmental Volunteers in Palo Alto! Field trips, live animals, and hands-on science activities will bring nature alive to kids in grades 1-6. Register and learn more.

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Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)

Palo Alto

PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to introduce two new camps to our lineup this year: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.) and PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.). Returning favorites include F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.

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STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research

Stanford

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Twelve innovative majors to explore. 5th – 8th graders dive into a subject that inspires you. Design video games, engineer catapults, build go-karts, paint with electricity, create a delectable dish. Every week is a new opportunity to realize your personal vision.

Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)

Galileo Summer Quest

Adventure awaits at J-Camp! With options for grades K-12 that fit every schedule and interest, you can mix and match camps to meet your family’s needs. Are you looking for well-rounded camp sessions that focus on variety and building friendships?

We’ve got you covered. Does your child have specific talents you’d like them to explore in depth? Send them our way. We’re looking forward to our best summer ever and want your family to be part of the experience!

1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)

Stanford Baseball Camps

Stanford Campus

Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs.

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Stanford Water Polo

650.723.4528

Stanford

Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games.

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650.725.9016

University Club of Palo Alto Tennis Program We offer a comprehensive year round junior tennis program for all levels from novice to ranked players. This includes summer camps and clinics for ages 5 and up. After care options are also available from 8am to 5pm in the summer. First trial clinic is free until May 31st, 2016.

EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high schoolers the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineProgramering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.

mbentley@ucpaloalto.com ucpaloalto.com

explore.stanford.edu

Alexa Café

650.494.8279

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1.800.854.3684

San Jose

Harker summer programs for preschool – grade 12 children include opportunities for academics, arts, athletics and activities. Taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff, our programs offer something for everyone in a safe and supportive environment.

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408.553.5737

iD Tech Camps

Stanford

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iD Tech Mini

Palo Alto

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Mid-Peninsula High School Summer Session

Menlo Park

Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals.

Girls ages 10-15 discover technology in a unique environment that celebrates creativity, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship.

Girls learn engineering principles, code games, design websites, model and print 3D objects, and much more.

Mid-Pen’s Summer Session provides innovative, one-week courses that go beyond traditional high school curriculum. Our program offers students courses for summer enrichment and make up high school credits. We have designed creative courses in math, science, English, and Spanish, with options including Physics of Flight and Rocketry, History of the Reagan Years, College Essay Workshop, Creative Writing, Introduction to the Digital Arts, and Drama. Basketball and volleyball clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school students are welcome to attend. Dates are June 20th to July 21st. Classes are held from 9:30am–2:30pm. Visit our website for full class listings.

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Bay Area Pathways Academy (BAPA)

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Stanford University

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In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance — and present their own original pieces at the end of each session.

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Academics Palo Alto High School

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College of San Mateo

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Write Now! Summer Writing Camps

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Palo Alto / Pleasanton

Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton.

Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information.

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Palo Alto April 6-12

Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 11 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Theft from auto attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 7 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 F&W/misc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of switchblade . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Menlo Park April 6-12

Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto burglary report/other agency . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7 False registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Lytton Avenue, 4/7, 9:51 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

El Camino Real, 4/10, 10:40 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Clark Way, 4/12, 10:22 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

1300 block Willow Road, 4/8, 8:16 p.m.; domestic battery.

Location undisclosed, 4/8, 10:24 p.m.; rape.

1300 block Willow Road, 4/11, 7:10 p.m.; domestic dispute.

Transitions

Joseph Beckford

Joseph Gorham Beckford, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on April 5, surrounded by his family in Folsom, California. He was 78.

He was born on May 17, 1937, in Dedham, Massachusetts.

He graduated from St. Mark’s School and received a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a doctorate in law from Yale Law School. While studying at Yale, he worked during the summers at the Mowglis School of the Open camp in New Hampshire, later becoming its assistant director.

For four years, he served as an attorney for the U.S. Navy at Treasure Island in San Francisco. During that time, he met Maryanne Convey of New York City, and they married in 1966. He worked for a time at the McCutchen Law firm in San Francisco, before attending Harvard University to earn a master’s degree in business administration. After working for six years as corporate secretary at Southeast Banking Corporation in Miami, he settled with his family in Palo Alto and practiced law there for 30 years.

He was also a longstanding member of All Saints Episcopal Church.

He wrote the LexisNexis “Bank Holding Company Compliance Manual,” a 2,000-page text that he updated twice each year for 30 years. In 2015, the Supreme Court of California and the State Bar of California recognized him for his 50 years of service as a member of the state bar.

In 2003, he moved with his wife to Folsom. Not one to retire, he practiced law and volunteered with the Folsom Democrats, Powerhouse Ministries and Rotary Club of Historic Folsom. He also greatly enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, Maryanne Beckford of Folsom; son, Mark (Ashley) Beckford of Folsom; daughter, Carolyn (Doug) Morlin of Bellevue, Washington; son, Paul (Tiffany) Beckford of Golden, Colorado; daughter, Sarah (Eric) Hoefer of Mountain View; and 12 grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother, James (Bonnie) Beckford of Raleigh, North Carolina, and his three nephews, Peter, Randy and Caleb Beckford.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 16, at 11 a.m. at the Miller Funeral Home, 507 Scott St. in Folsom. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Camp Mowglis, Summer Camp for Boys, P.O. Box 9, Hebron, NH 03241 (www.mowglis.org).

Gerald Friedland Dr. Gerald Wilfred Friedland, a professor emeritus of radiology at Stanford University, died on April 2 at The Terraces of Los Gatos. He was 82.

He was born on April 9, 1933, in Pretoria, South Africa. He grew up there and went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Pretoria. After completing medical training in Scotland, he worked at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.

In 1967, he came to Stanford to work as an instructor and was elevated to assistant professor in 1968 and associate professor in 1972. He left the university for a few years to work as professor of radiology and director of diagnostic radiology at Wake Forest University’s medical school, before returning in 1978 to work as professor of radiology at the Palo Alto Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Later he became chief of radiology and remained in that position until his retirement in 1992, when he received the title of professor emeritus of radiology at Stanford.

He lived with his wife, Miriam, a child psychiatrist, for more than 30 years in Palo Alto, before they moved to Los Gatos in 2004.

Over the course of his academic career, he published over 100 medi-

cal articles, numerous chapters and a few books. He edited “Uroradiology: An Integrated Approach” and co-authored “Medicine’s 10 Greatest Discoveries” and “Heart Attack!

Advice for Patients by Patients.”

The focus of his work was on uroradiology, but he also conducted research studying fetal development, the lower esophagus and the use of ultrasound to safely examine the urethras of spinal cord injury patients. He also coordinated a conference at Stanford recognizing pioneering women in medicine.

The Gerald W. Friedland Learning Center at the Palo Alto VA’s Diagnostic Radiology Section was named in his honor, and the Stanford University School of Medicine also awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Miriam Friedland of Los Gatos; daughters, Lucille Friedland of New Mexico and Jenny (Lenny) Tender of Bethesda, Maryland; granddaughters, Alyssa, Gabrielle and Lily; brother, Lionel Friedland; and sister, Myrtle Todes.

A memorial service was held on April 5 at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos. Memorial donations can be made to an Alzheimer’s disease research organization of the donor’s choice.

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January 3, 1945 - April 8, 2016 Phyllis R. Perreault — loving wife to Paul (who passed away in 2007), mother to Paul and Craig, mother-in-law to Ellyn and Heidi, and grandmother to Sebastian, Ren, Camelia and Jack — died peacefully at the age of 71 on April 8, 2016, after enduring a heartbreaking fight with cancer.

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Phyllis graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut College in 1967. She married Paul D. Perreault and promptly moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, where they raised two children while Paul completed his Ph.D. in astrophysics. Phyllis remained close to friends living in Alaska until her passing.

The Perreault family moved to Palo Alto, California, in 1974, where Phyllis worked for the Ravenswood School District and later as office manager for the President & Provost of Stanford University. Phyllis’s passion for soccer and other sports led to many deep friendships with strong, like-minded, active women. Phyllis’ love for sports extended beyond her own participation; she enjoyed watching her sister Carol win several gold medals in the Special Olympics and was a fan of Stanford Football, the NFL and Olympic Soccer.

Phyllis was also a private pilot, a hobby she shared with her husband Paul. Phyllis and Paul accomplished numerous flights across the country in their plane and later visited many countries around the world. Phyllis and Paul retired to Boulder, Colorado, in 2000.

After Paul’s death, Phyllis enjoyed the companionship of her dog Brody and a special group of women who she held dear. Phyllis was also an active member of her community and the Seven Hills neighborhood. She was involved with the Boulder Rural Fire department with wildfire mitigation and pine beetle eradication efforts.

Phyllis was an enthusiastic and energetic grandparent. The family enjoyed trips to the big island of Hawaii where Phyllis snorkeled, golfed and enjoyed sunsets on the beach.

Phyllis led a healthy life. She fought her disease with uncommon strength, grace and courage — characteristics known well by those who knew her. She was loved and will be dearly missed.

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Editorial Hopes rise for teen psych unit County initiative attracts multiple concepts for inpatient adolescent facility

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os Altos resident Sarah Gentile was shocked in 2014 when she discovered that there were no hospital beds in Santa Clara County, including at Stanford’s two hospitals, for teens experiencing a mental health crisis.

Facing such a crisis with her own son, her family waited for six hours in the emergency room at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View while the staff searched for a bed in one of the few adolescent psychiatric units elsewhere in the Bay Area. Other local families have had the same experience at the Stanford Hospital emergency room and at other county hospitals.

In Gentile’s case, a bed was finally located at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo, but some families end up referred to hospitals more than an hour away, adding more trauma and logistical challenges to what is already a difficult and emotional family situation.

With great courage and determination, Gentile went public with her family’s story, studied the problem and became the leading advocate for establishing at least one in-patient adolescent psychiatric unit in Santa Clara County, California’s sixth largest county. (A May 22, 2015, Palo Alto Weekly cover story, “Beyond the 5150,” explored the topic.)

Gentile enlisted the support of Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, other parents and concerned mental health professionals physicians, and in December the county invited medical groups to propose concepts for how a new in-patient program could be established in the county.

This week, the county released the four submissions it received, including a joint response from El Camino Hospital, Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Kaiser Permanente that proposed opening an 18-bed facility at El Camino’s Mountain View campus that would initially serve 12- to 17-year-olds, including those without insurance coverage and unable to pay.

The three other responses, all credible, came from Fremont Hospital, which operates one of the few existing area adolescent psychiatric units and that proposed operating a facility to be located at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose; EMQ Families First, a nonprofit that would expand a small facility it currently operates in Campbell for teens in crisis; and Bay Area Children’s Association (BACA), a San Jose nonprofit that provides adolescent psychiatric services.

The interest demonstrated by these responses is conceptual and non-binding, but they are more than adequate to propel the idea to the next phase — the issuance of a formal request for proposals by the county — later this month.

The El Camino-Packard-Kaiser submission emphasizes the importance and stability of a partnership of three leading regional health care providers. While no formal agreement yet exists among the entities, the response suggests that El Camino is prepared to temporarily incorporate the new adolescent facility into an already-planned mental health building scheduled to open in January 2018. By 2020, a separate 18-bed facility is envisioned that would be jointly operated by the three groups, presumably to spread the financial risk and encourage collaboration among physicians serving this relatively small, targeted patient group.

The submission states that the facility would serve youth diagnosed with a broad range of disorders, including anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse. It notes the expense and complexity of operating a secure psychiatric facility for teens and suggests the size and financial resources of the three health care organizations is an important advantage.

The collaboration would likely benefit from the fact that Stanford and El Camino already jointly operate a 15-bed adolescent inpatient eating-disorders clinic at El Camino Hospital.

Given the pace usually associated with such initiatives, it is nothing short of miraculous that in little more than a year since Gentile raised a public alarm about the inadequacies of services for teens needing in-patient care there is a real prospect of such a facility opening within two years.

Last year, noting that Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital produce medical miracles almost every day for patients from all over the world and are in the midst of major expansions, we urged the two institutions and the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to develop a plan for addressing this major gap in adolescent in-patient care.

Stanford, Kaiser and El Camino are to be commended for stepping up and collaborating on a possible solution, as should the other three groups who responded.

With Gentile’s perseverance in bringing this problem out into the open and educating the public, Simitian’s county initiative and the submission of four possible solutions, the momentum to solve this problem is hopefully irreversible. There is no defensible reason our county should not be serving this vulnerable teen population. Q Page 18 • April 15, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Loss of diversity Editor, Palo Alto has a trend of reducing the quantity of affordable housing in our area. The closing of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is one example. The most vibrant cities in the world are those that are rich both economically and culturally, and as Palo Alto unjustly pushes lower income families out of the area, it loses some of its uniqueness that makes this a special place to live and go to school. This makes me sad.

Kevin Zhang University Avenue, Palo Alto

Tackling traffic, going green Editor, I am currently a junior at Palo Alto High School. In response to your recent article titled “New carpool service revs up in Palo Alto,” I would like to express my support for the new carpool service, Scoop. In addition to addressing the issue of stress in the common commute, Scoop also helps the environment.

I believe that alternatives to driving individual cars, such as the service that Scoop provides, offer a green and efficient way to tackle the rising problem of rush-hour traffic. Scoop and carpooling in general provide environmental benefits that help keep Palo Alto green.

We should be aware of the environmental impacts of our daily commutes, and I am glad to see a startup that addresses this issue in an innovative way.

Jennifer Zhuge Sharon Court, Palo Alto

Beyond stupid Editor, In a recent letter (in the April 8 issue), the sexual assault of an intoxicated young woman by a young Stanford University athlete was labeled as simply a “stupid” act. The act was way beyond stupid; it was an assault, an assault that will leave more than just a few bruises that will heal in a short time.

“The college culture made me do it” is too easily invoked as a primary cause. Yes, local culture is one source of influence on a person’s decisions, but ultimately the individual person makes the decision to act in a certain way.

A person can support or act in accord with a local culture or resist the cultural influence. The individual is ultimately responsible.

By the time a person reaches the age of 18, the person will have already experienced the choice between protecting or exploiting a weaker person.

Stanford students are not stupid. If any college-age person is capable of analyzing a situation, thinking through the consequences, and then acting in accord with one’s core values, surely Stanford students are. The ethical course of action would have been to protect rather than exploit an intoxicated person. Where have “the better angels of our nature” gone?

Lou Moffett McKendry Drive, Menlo Park

An opportunity to help Editor, Thank you for featuring the Sequoia Adult School Scholars (SASS) tutoring program in the Weekly’s April 1 edition. I have been tutoring a student through SASS for the past two years. The student is a single mom with two children who is studying at Cañada College to earn a certificate in early childhood education. We meet once a week at the Menlo

Park Library, but we also communicate via text; she sends a photo of her work and I reply with comments.

Besides supporting her on her homework assignments, I find that the studying and test-taking strategies I developed helping my own children through the Palo Alto Unified School District have been equally important to share.

I know there are many parents in Palo Alto whose children are now through the school district and who would have so much to share by being a tutor to the English as a second language (ESL) students though SASS that I hope they would consider signing up.

Lastly, it would be great to see a story on the tremendous effort and trade offs that the ESL students make in order to achieve their goals at Cañada College.

Carolyn Williams El Cerrito Road, Palo Alto

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Peak traffic? Re-framing action in terms of Bay Area ‘ecosystem’

by Yoriko Kishimoto raffic in Palo Alto seems overwhelming in its complexity, but in order to think about systemic solutions to actually reduce traffic congestion, it is helpful to zoom out and think about the big picture. Since I work with open space, I think of the analogy of watersheds and air basins.

Successful ecosystems are rich in information and diversity, have multiple small loops and are adaptive by design. What can we learn from them to tackle our frustrating traffic problems?

The highway system is analogous to the concretized flood-control channels that replace natural creeks. They accommodate fast water flows for the 5 percent of time they are needed, but they also destroy life in communities they pass. They are effective in meeting certain engineering parameters but ignore other goals, such as supporting rich soils and life in the surrounding ecosystem.

Most of the time they become “dead zones” versus living streams that adapt to conditions of low or high flow.

What lessons can we learn?

Silicon Valley is a place of extremes. We are fortunate to be experiencing good economic times today. Many jobs are added — but housing and transportation cannot be added that quickly. Also, we don’t want

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to build the infrastructure to accommodate just the peak demands — it is overbuilding for the remaining 95 percent of the time. We need a system that is more adaptive and flexible and that serves our overarching priorities of a sustainable economy, environment and community.

“Slow it, sink it, spread it” is the mantra of Brock Dolman, watershed guru. We want the water to be absorbed where it falls and not rush into the concrete channel where it may cause flooding (read “congestion”). For traffic, it means staying local when feasible: local jobs, shopping, schools where we can get around by foot or bike.

Q Flexible channels: Highways and roads can’t widen on demand, but we can use them much more efficiently. Carpooling services like Scoop fill the empty seats in cars — long acknowledged as the untapped resource in our car system. As for buses, when they each replace 20 to 60 single-occupancy vehicles, their value is obvious. Pedestrian and bikeways are very flexible in their capacity.

Q Diversity: We have seen an explosion of innovation in software, services and products in the transportation sector recently — wonderful! Private operators have stepped forward offering to supplement our commute choices with additional services, fulfilling unmet needs.

Q Rich in information and relationships: Smart phones revolutionized our access to maps and real-time conditions. Better data connecting us all will make for better micro- and macro-decisions on when, where, and how we travel. It is truly revolutionary to have so many options and real-time data on one’s phone.

The reality of living in an air basin became apparent to me when I was serving on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board of directors about eight years ago. Wood smoke from fireplaces was recognized as a health hazard. When regulating wood-burning fireplaces in our area was first proposed, there was visceral opposition.

How dare we even think about banning cozy hearth fires on Christmas Eve? It was the essence of family traditions on cold winter evenings.

But what might have been acceptable with fewer than 3 million people before 1970 is no longer acceptable when there are more than 7 million people today in the Bay Area air basin. Woodsmoke caused almost a third of the health-impairing particulate matter in the winter, and the air district took regulatory action to ban wood burning on winter “Spare the Air” days.

The same perception shift has not yet happened with cars. Cars and diesel trucks are an even greater source of particulate matter, the No. 1 health hazard in the air we breathe.

And air quality is just one of the negative side effects of cars! Congestion, horrible inefficiency and high costs are among the prices we pay.

Can we reduce traffic rather than live with the prospect of ever-worsening commutes?

Yes, it’s very feasible. Our City Council is launching a comprehensive set of measures to help us transition to this more diverse and sustainable network: Transportation management associations (TMA), residential permit parking (RPP), mandatory transportation demand management (TDM) programs, and a possible funding measure to pay for alter-

natives. Charging for parking in the neighborhoods protects quality of life and raises funds for alternatives.

Next Monday, the City Council will review an aggressive climate action plan to slash our greenhouse gases by 80 percent below 1990 by 2030, and transportation reform is at its core.

The government’s role is to help take collective action to achieve our highest common goals and manage our common rights of way, coordinate land use and transportation through the Comprehensive Plan and zoning, and protect the environment and quality of life. Private solutions and new technologies also have a large role to play. But a comprehensive, “ecosystem” view must be taken to optimize overall costs to the economy, environment and our social fabric.

Finally, it comes down to us, as citizens, commuters, residents. I hope we all make this “perception shift” and realize we live in a common and limited air basin and commute shed. We can choose to limit growth, or we can change our behavior and infrastructure to accommodate somewhat more growth — that is a political decision.

I hope each person will commit to trying a new mode of travel — carpool, bus, train or bike at least once a week. It’s addicting! And good for us all. Q Yoriko Kishimoto served as mayor of Palo Alto in 2007 and chaired the transportation committee of the citizens advisory committee that drafted the current Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan. She is currently president of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Board of Directors.

Streetwise

How would you describe Palo Alto to someone who has never visited?

Asked at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Anna Medina.

Diane Walker

Daniel Silverstein

Caleb Yang

Michaela Courand

Sachin Katti

Restaurant host El Camino Real and Arastradero Road, Palo Alto

Food technologist Park Boulevard, Oakland

High school student Parkinson Avenue, Palo Alto

College student El Camino Real, Menlo Park

Professor Stanford Avenue, Stanford

“Technology meets suburbia meets quintessential California.”

“Lots of trees, kind of like paradise.

Very mellow, good weather. Stanford.

Nice cars, good schools, lots of bikes.”

“Busy. There’s always something new being created: new people, new products, new inventions, different cultures. It’s kind of like an attraction — you can feel the energy.”

“It’s a college town, but it feels like a big hub. It’s a mix of having Stanford here but also a lot of young professionals.”

“The biking and everything — it’s so easy to stay fit, and we have this beautiful weather. There are so many things to do, and the libraries are great.”

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Cover Story

The kinder conundrum School district aims to close the achievement gap, but is full-day kindergarten for all a good idea?

Story by Elena Kadvany | Photos by Veronica Weber

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hile many 5-year-olds in Palo Alto spend most of their week-day afternoons in day-care programs, after-school activities or at home, kindergartners at Barron Park Elementary School are still in school.

On a recent afternoon in Athena Foley’s kindergarten class, small groups of four students rotated through different activities: While some read a picture book with Foley, others independently played an interactive word game that teaches sight words (frequently appearing words, like “the” or “and”), colored or listened to a recording of “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog!” Multiple days a week, there is plenty of time in the afternoon for art, play, music and other activities.

This flexible time in the afternoon is made possible by a fullday kindergarten model in which students stay until 2:25 p.m. every day except Wednesdays, which is an early dismissal day at all Palo Alto elementary schools.

Palo Verde is the only other Palo Alto elementary school to operate a very similar program, in which kindergartners stay until 2 p.m. four days a week (though it is technically considered an “extended” rather than “full” day under the teachers’ contract, to accommodate a different teacher prep time than the Barron Park teachers have).

Kindergartners at the other 10 elementary schools attend for fewer hours each week. In what is called an extended half-day model, one half of the class leaves

around noon while the other half stays for about two hours twice a week. This model provides students with targeted and often one-on-one time with teachers.

At Escondido, El Carmelo, Juana Briones, Duveneck, and Walter Hays elementary schools, students who need extra support are also tutored by an instructional aide two days a week.

All schools transition to their respective schedule, whether fullor extended-day, in October to allow kindergartners and parents time to adjust.

Now, the school district is considering the expansion of full-day kindergarten to all 12 elementary schools. In February, Superintendent Max McGee convened a kindergarten “think tank” group, made up of 13 kindergarten teachers and administrators, to collect feedback from the school communities and develop potential models.

Full-day kindergarten offers a multitude of benefits to all students, both academically and in social development, say proponents of the model. It has been shown to particularly help minority and low-income students, a fact that has some supporters hoping it can be used to stem the achievement gap that occurs in later school years between these students and others.

The kindergarten think tank, led by McGee, has proposed three models for the district: One, maintain the extended-day model with two days of additional instructional aide time, but also bring in a certified reading specialist

Arman Hashemi, left, Jude Tello, center, and Yeshua Hernandez Asteo, right, draw various shapes in their journals in full-day kindergarten at Barron Park Elementary School.

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Kindergarten teacher Sara McNinch looks over the work of students (clockwise from left) Jivan Nangia, Mia Schwindt Flores, Andreas Prokhorov, Emma Liang and Sasha Carbone as they write a personal story on April 13 at Fairmeadow Elementary School. for one-and-a-half hours a day, two days a week to provide extra support in literacy and language development.

A second option would be to expand the Palo Verde or Barron Park model throughout the district, but cap class sizes at 19 students or fewer. Currently, kindergarten classes range from 17 to 23 students, according to the district.

A third proposal is to expand the Barron Park model, but add additional trained instructional aide time so there are two adults in the class during key instructional time blocks. Music and physical education, taught by specialists, would also be added to the weekly schedule in the last model.

Reaction to the new kindergarten proposals has been mixed.

Teachers of full-day kindergarten say the extra time makes for a more balanced and enriching school day for both students and teachers. Magdalena Fittoria, former principal of Barron Park, said the school’s shift to the full day in 2011 brought a “sense of relief” for teachers worried that the half day meant sacrificing play time and less-formal learning activities in order to fit in all required academic learning. Likewise, teachers at Palo Verde felt so time-crunched that they lobbied the teacher’s union for a waiver that allowed them to move to a 2 p.m. dismissal time in the 2013-14 school year.

Yet extended-day kindergarten teachers oppose the shift, saying that the afternoon time they spend with groups of about 12 students is the “gold standard” of Palo Alto’s early-education model. To move away from that would be a “serious loss” and would “weaken our already strong program,” several teachers told the school board at its March 22 meeting.

Palo Alto parents are similarly divided. Some say they’re happy with the current extended-day model and believe any financial investment in closing the achieve-

ment gap would be better made in interventions and programs specifically designed for students who need extra support.

Other parents worry that their 5-year-olds are not ready to attend a full day of school, and that more hours in the day opens the door to an increasing academic creep in kindergarten that sacrifices play and downtime for academic rigor.

One Duveneck Elementary School parent started a Change. org petition that asks the board to keep the extended-day model, which “most directly addresses helping those of our learners who would benefit from additional, targeted support get what they need, without depriving them and all other kindergartners of the priceless, progressive smallgroups experience currently enjoyed by children at all but two of our elementary schools.”

Others support the full-day model: They say it gives their children needed structure, more hours in the day with a certificated teacher (preferable to being in daycare for the afternoon) and better prepares them for later years of elementary school.

Similar arguments were made for both sides in 1998 in Palo

Alto, when then-Superintendent Don Phillips proposed full-day kindergarten as a means to reduce class sizes. After the proposal spark some controversy among parents, the plan was reworked, and the extended half-day model — small groups staying after lunch two days a week — was put in place.

What the research says

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esearch has found that the full-day model offers kindergartners strong short-term academic and developmental benefits, and particularly so to disadvantaged children, but research is less conclusive on the long-term impacts.

According to a policy brief on full-day kindergarten prepared

by WestEd, a San Francisco non-partisan education-research nonprofit, a full day better prepares kindergartners for primary-grade learning, eases their transition to first grade, leads to higher academic achievement and better attendance rates, reduces transitions or potential disruptions throughout the day, supports literacy and language development

Jude Tello laughs as he reads the name of a cat’s food dish, “fat cat,” with Barron Park Elementary School teacher Athena Foley.

Cover Story and benefits children’s social and emotional development.

A 2004 analysis conducted of a national study of first-time public school kindergartners, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that children in full-day classes made greater gains in reading and mathematics during the kindergarten year compared to those attending halfday classrooms, after accounting for other child and classroom characteristics.

A later study of that same data found, however, that these academic gains did not last through third grade.

Studies of Palo Alto’s full-day kindergarten students seem to counter the later study: Both Barron Park and Palo Verde kindergartners maintained higher endof-year reading scores through second grade than their peers at other schools, according to data provided by the district.

Full-day kindergarten has also steadily been becoming the norm rather than the exception across the nation. Since 1977, the percentage of kindergartners enrolled in full-day (in contrast to half-day) programs has nearly tripled, increasing from 28 to 77 percent between 1977 and 2013, according to Child Trends, a national research nonprofit. More than 10 states now require school districts to offer full-day kindergarten programs.

Locally, several nearby districts offer full-day kindergarten.

Ravenswood City School District provides full-day kindergarten and transitional kindergarten.

Kindergartners at Menlo Park City School District’s three elementary schools are in school until about 3 p.m. (except for a school-wide early dismissal one day a week). The Woodside Elementary School District has long offered the full day; kindergartners get out at 2:30 p.m.

What matters most in any kindergarten classroom, regardless of its length, is the teacher’s ability to manage the class time, said Deborah Stipek, dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and early childhood education researcher.

“There are full-day kindergarten teachers who really fritter away the potential benefits of the additional time,” Stipek said in an interview. “Really good teachers not only take good advantage of it, but they also know how to organize the pace of the day so that kids ... have time to play, they have time for rest — they know how to organize the day so that it works for 5- or 6-year-olds.”

“If you care about your kid’s experience, then you need to care about the training and support that teachers receive because that’s going to matter more than anything else,” Stipek said.

Leveling the playing field

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he primary driver for moving to a full-day model in Palo Alto is the school district’s longstanding

achievement gap. The district’s afternoon with high-quality Minority Achievement and Tal- after-school care, activities and ent Development committee — a enrichment opportunities, at group of teachers, administrators, home or elsewhere. Minority and parents, students and community low-income students lack those members who convened last year opportunities. to probe the underlying reasons Kim Bomar, a parent-member that many students of color in the of achievement committee and district have fallen behind their co-chair of Parent Advocates for peers — came Student Success, to see full-day which supports kindergarten as families of color a means to level in the district, the playing field raised the isat the earliest sue of full-day point possible. kindergarten The group with the comwas alarmed to mittee. She had find that many discovered that of the district’s kindergartners high school stuat her son’s eledents of color mentary school, who did not Nixon, were not meet the state’s meeting state so-called “Abenchmarks for G” graduation reading by first r e q u i r e m e n t s Anne Brown, principal of grade. Parents had also not met Barron Park Elementary on the Nixon site benchmark read- School council became ing requirements concerned that by third grade. They saw a link the shorter school day was conbetween low numbers of students tributing to low reading achieveof color in advanced high school ment. Her own son, who had classes and the students’ achieve- started reading at age 3, started to ment in elementary school. regress when he got to kindergarLooking at a “significant” ten, she said. body of research that indicated Bomar, for her part, made up students with access to full-day the reading slack at home. A staykindergarten ended up better at-home mom who worked from prepared academically, socially home, she was also able to take and emotionally, the committee care of her children in the after“strongly” recommended the dis- noons, often taking them on edutrict implement full- or extended- cational excursions to places like day kindergarten for all students the Palo Alto Junior Museum & who need the extra support, Su- Zoo, or to other children’s houses perintendent Max McGee said in for playdates. an interview.

Even at the start of kinder- For some, garten, Palo Alto students from a ‘sense of relief’ poorer and minority families can already be at a disadvantage: ittoria was principal of Though most students enter kinBarron Park when the dergarten with some kind of preschool moved to a full-day school experience, many in full- model with the goal of closing the day programs, those who have not opportunity gap. Given Barron tend to come from historically un- Park’s population, with high perderrepresented and socioeconom- centages of socioeconomically ically disadvantaged families. (It disadvantaged students, students is a myth, though, that students of color and English-language who come to Palo Alto through learners, teachers and school the district’s Voluntary Transfer leadership saw a full day as one Program have had no preschool way to better support these stuexperience; about 66 percent of dents. those students have, according to The longer day ultimately benJudy Argumedo, who oversees the efited all students, Fittoria said — VTP, or Tinsley, program.) and teachers.

The district does offer one “I would describe it as a sense semester of transitional kinder- of relief,” she said of teachers’ regarten to children who have not actions. “You just kind of breathe attended preschool through its because now you can get in the Springboard to Kindergarten academics, but you can do so program, but not all families much more that’s enrichment and take advantage of it, accord- social skills.” ing to the minority-achievement With the full day, the school committee. was able to add physical education Other factors that create a dis- and music, taught by specialists, parity in school readiness: Some into the kindergarten curriculum Palo Alto students have been for the first time. There was more reading at home from an early age time for creative play, art, dance, and attending preschool at places student choice time and extra leslike Stanford University’s Bing sons brought in through collaboNursery School, where a year of ration with outside organizations care can cost as much as $15,750. like the Junior Museum & Zoo Adding to students’ disadvan- and Living Classroom, which tage throughout the school year, provides hands-on experience in is the fact that with a half-day school gardens, Fittoria said. model, affluent families are The school even added Spanmore likely to be able to fill the ish instruction for several years,

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though it was too costly to sustain.

Barron Park kindergarten teachers Tina Franceschi, a member of the district’s kindergarten think tank group, and Athena Foley said they haven’t had to sacrifice small-group work in the full-day model; in fact, it allows for more of it. They have plenty of time to teach two 35-minute reading and writing lesson plans that require whole-class instruction, small group work and one-onone conferences, as well as rotate students through math-focused stations for an hour and then art, science and choice activities later in the day. While the class is doing different activities, they can also seamlessly bring in specialists to work with those students who might need extra help.

Last year, all but one Barron Park kindergartner went to firstgrade reading at grade level, according to Principal Anne Brown.

Another merit of the full day, its supporters say, is that struggling students don’t feel singled-out by being asked to stay extra time after school.

When Palo Verde moved to a longer kindergarten day, Brown, who was then the principal there, said she saw an immediate impact. Students’ stamina for reading and writing improved.

Palo Verde parent Nanda Garber said she chose the school specifically for her first-grade son because of the longer day. He had already attended a full-day preschool and does well with structure, she said. Being among other children for more hours in the day under the supervision of a certificated teacher helped him “thrive.”

“It really helps him — and I don’t mean just educationally speaking,” she told the Weekly.

“Socially, it just helps him. At school he is much better able to self-regulate.”

She said she also saw a healthy balance between academics and play in her son’s kindergarten classroom.

Another mother who wrote in during a webinar on kindergarten that McGee held earlier this year said she saw the full day make an academic difference between her daughter, who went to the partday model, and a friend who attended full day.

“Her current year in first grade seems to be a catch-up year where the teacher has to work extra hard and intensive to get incoming kindergartners up to speed,” she wrote of her daughter’s experience. “Our daughter attended after-school care for the second half of her day. That time would be much better spent in a classroom environment with a credentialed teacher.”

She does not want that for her son, who will enter kindergarten in 2017, she wrote.

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t the March 22 school board meeting, a small group of kindergarten teachers who said they were representing the voice of many of their peers decried moving to the full-day model.

The primary “loss,” they said, would be the low teacher-to-student ratio they can achieve when half their classes stay twice a week in the extended half-day model. According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the ideal ratio for kindergarten classes is one to 11 for a group of 22 students and 1 to 12 for a group of 24 students.

“We are concerned about the fuzzy logic that proposes we eliminate the gold standard, the 1 to 12 small group instructional block, and replace it with 22 students all day,” one teacher told the board. “In our professional opinion, this is a serious loss.”

Hoover kindergarten teacher Corey Potter, also a member of the district’s kindergarten think tank, said: “For a teacher, being able to work with a small group of students requires the rest of the class to be able to sustain on task independently, to be able to problem solve when the teacher is otherwise engaged and to selfregulate. These are just a few of the essential skills my students learn in those afternoons with fewer distractions, with fewer peers competing for their teacher’s attention.”

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day, with one teacher calling it a “misguided belief” to think that a longer day will close the achievement gap.

“In fact, children that need special and individualized attention would be less likely to get it given that all the children will be present all day,” said Duveneck kindergarten teacher Barbara Susco, also a think-tank member.

The teachers who spoke at the board meeting did support one of the district’s three proposals: to maintain the extended day with two days of additional instructional aide time, but adding additional time with a certified reading specialist two days a week to provide extra support in literacy and language development.

Specialists shared among the schools are currently spread too thin, and the full-time assignment of a reading specialist to a single school would directly benefit the students, Susco said.

How many teachers are opposed to full-day kindergarten is a matter of debate, with one teacher, Escondido’s Debbie Scalero, saying at the March board meeting there is “unanimous” opposition among kindergarten teachers from nine elementary schools (all except Barron Park, Palo Verde and Nixon) while others saying that teachers with a minority opinion at their schools may fear speaking out.

At Barron Park, the first year of full day was a “challenging” transition, Fittoria said. There was an unanticipated spike in kindergarten enrollment that fall, which meant the school had to scramble to bring in a part-time teacher; the school was in the midst of rolling out new inclusion practices, which was hard with a larger group in a new schedule; and there was a “mindset” shift teachers themselves had to make, she said.

Doubling the school’s hours of instructional aide time made a huge difference and still does today, teachers said. Franceschi said aides are critical to a successful full-day program, but Potter questioned whether enough aides could be hired to make the proposed program work effectively.

Teachers also noted at the board meeting that the model they prefer is also the least expensive, with an estimated cost of $300,000 for additional reading-specialist time.

To expand the Palo Verde model to the other elementary schools could cost between $275,000 and $325,000, according to the district, and even more to expand the Barron Park model ($525,000 to $600,000).

The most costly option would be to expand the Barron Park model with additional instructional aide time (about $650,000).

McGee has said that all of these costs are “not just doable this year but also sustainable.” The

funds needed to make any change would come out of the district’s own budget.

The ‘new first grade’?

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arents who oppose fullday kindergarten, for their part, worry about its contribution to an early-education trend being studied, observed and reported on across the country: kindergarten becoming the “new first grade.”

Researchers say that accountability pressures from the federal government’s No Child Left Behind, despite the fact assessments started in the third grade, trickled down into the lower primary grades. A 2016 University of Virginia study that compared public school classrooms from 1998 and 2010 saw an increase in time spent on math, literacy, reading and other academic skills at the expense of music, art and play.

In Palo Alto, parents worry that a culture of high achievement and academic stress could even be reaching the district’s youngest students.

An anonymous mother wrote in to the kindergarten webinar last month that her “compliant” son, a current kindergartner at Palo Verde, comes home after the longer day “angry, stressed out, upset, and it takes him a couple hours to settle down.

“The idea may be presented as more free time for children in class, but I see mostly more seat work for children who at 5 years old aren’t developmentally ready to sit for so many hours doing so much fine-motor work.”

Another parent, Renee, wrote that she is “alarmed that the warning bells are not ringing.”

“We need to allow our kindergartners a shorter school day. I do not want my incoming kindergarten to attend school full time.

This is a backwards approach,” she wrote.

Full-day kindergarten is a “huge mistake,” and “is not in the best interests of these young children,” Liz Price wrote in a letter to the editor to the Palo Alto Weekly.

“To increase the pressure on children in kindergarten, and dramatically decrease the amount of time they have after school for recuperation, will only lead to even more stress and burnout — in kindergartners!” she wrote.

McGee and other school officials have stressed that more hours in the day will not translate into more academic work, but rather more time for teachers to strike a better balance between academics and play.

“We do not want kindergarten to become the new first grade, or the new second grade,” McGee told webinar viewers on March 16. “We want more time for play; we want more time for interaction; we want more time for singing; we want more time for music, for being outdoors, more time for student choice of their activities.”

But some parents say it should be up to them how their children spend

their unstructured time. Jenny Dixon, the parent of an incoming kindergartner, first- and third-grader at Duveneck, said her older children benefited from having downtime at home in the afternoon.

School officials have reminded parents that kindergarten itself in California is optional, and they can also opt out of the longer day if it was implemented. (Their children would only attend in the morning.) No parents opted out at Palo Verde, Brown said. Only one family did at Barron Park, according to Fittoria, and the child ended up coming back.

Other parents in the district, happy with the current extendedday arrangement, think support should be need-based, tailored to the children who need it the most.

“Not all children need to stay,” Hoover parent Indira Priyadarsani said in an interview.

A fall start

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alo Alto families with young children could be facing a new kindergarten model as soon as this fall. McGee has said the district hopes to roll out a new, unified schedule for the 2016-17 school year.

The school board will fully discuss the proposals on Tuesday, May 10, as part of a larger budget discussion. They will vote at a later date.

School board President Heidi Emberling, who works in earlychildhood education, said in a district with a history of paying “lip service” to closing the achievement gap, the kindergarten proposal is a concrete investment worth making.

“I think in our district we’ve often done pandering around our achievement gap and opportunity gap and because it’s so challenging, have done less actual piloting of innovative techniques for minimizing the achievement gap,” she told the Weekly. “Everyone does a lot of lip service to ‘you have to get in early; you have to start early; 0 to 5 is the best time where you can really influence a child’s development,’ and yet we haven’t put the resources behind the lip service.”

Full-day kindergarten is no panacea for a problem as deep-seated as the achievement gap, but McGee offered this refrain to those who oppose changing the current model: “If you do things the way you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” he said during the webinar. “(That’s the) definition of insanity. It’s also the definition of restricting opportunities and access for a large percentage of our population,” he said. “Something has to change.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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hroughout the 20th century, folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax tirelessly combed the country — and later the world — seeking to discover and preserve the music of the people. He collected, recorded and archived thousands of old folk songs and interviews for the U.S. Library of Congress, earning his place as one of the fathers of the mid-century folk revival and a major figure in American and international music history.

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Singer/accordionist Moira Smiley and singer/banjoist Jayme Stone are two core members of “Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project,” coming to Mountain View April 16.

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old-fashioned way ‘Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project’ celebrates timeworn tunes

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“Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project,” a collection of new renditions of classic folk tunes, was released in 2015.

In 2015, composer/banjoist Jayme Stone and a crew of musical collaborators released “Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project,” an album of songs originally collected by Lomax, presented in fresh new arrangements.

Stone and Co. are bringing their act to Mountain View, sponsored by Redwood Bluegrass Associates, on April 16, giving locals a chance to experience the vintage repertoire live.

Though the material covered is in some cases hundreds of years old, Stone said the songs, which were passed on via oral tradition throughout generations, still resonate strongly today.

“Often the lyrics have stood the test of time. It just speaks to the fact that even though we live in this modern world where so much is ever-changing, a lot of the core human experiences we can all relate to haven’t changed that much,” he said. “Love and romance, strife, community, all those things are pretty steady through the ages, and so I think there’s something really powerful seeing how relevant those lyrics still are.”

Stone refers to the project as a “collaboratory” and said the group of musicians who’ve taken part in it are more like a family than a formal band, so the lineup, sound and setlists at live performances vary from location to location.

“Usually for a season or tour we come together in a particular configuration and make music that’s unique to that recipe of people,” Stone said. For the Mountain View show, Stone will be joined by Moira Smiley, a Los Angeles-based singer, accordionist and percussionist; Sumaia Jackson, a Santa Cruz native, on fiddle; and Canadian bassist Joe Phillips. All members also sing.

“We do a bunch of old-timey-style a cappella numbers, swarmed around a single microphone,” he said. The group will perform songs that are on the record, as well as 14 additional tunes recently added to their repertoire.

“With the vastness of Lomax’s field recordings, there are endless numbers to explore. It’s very diverse at this point,” he said.

Stone has released four previous albums that explore the banjo’s role in world music and also works as a producer, music teacher and career coach. He said he’s long been interested in field recordings and listened to Lomax’s collections for much of his life, using old songs as a touchstone in all his modern work. But it was reading John Szwed’s “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” that really “connected the dots,” as he put it, between his interest in folk music and some of the “unsung, understudied heroes of traditional music all over the country and the world,” and inspired him to finally undertake his Lomax Project.

The goal was not to simply recreate the songs collected by Lomax but rather to refresh them with original arrangements, creating vital and interesting new versions — not to replace the older incarnations but to stand alongside them, proving that the centuries-old songs have life in them yet.

“There are places where I need them to kind of be dusted off, or my musical sensibilities orientate me to coax new textures and layers out of them. But for the most part the songs really stand on their own two feet,” he said.

Stone named the project’s version of the well-known “Shenandoah” as a favorite example. The song, a school music-class staple, dates from at least the early 1800s and was first sung by French Canadian fur traders and then spread as a sea shanty, sung the world over. Some versions of the lyrics tell the tale of a white man who falls in love with the daughter of an Native American chief and courts her for seven years.

“Knowing that people had that song in their head already, I made an extra effort to create a very grand arrangement of it,” Stone said. His six-minute version starts out with singer Margaret Glaspy’s haunting, almost whispery vocals over lush, orchestral strings, then eventually doubles in speed, offering a dramatic banjo showpiece for Stone.

A new piece they’ve been working on, “Mwen Pas Danse” (“a dance song about not dancing”), comes from the small Caribbean island of Dominica and features lyrics in Creole, French and English. Smiley, bearing her accordion, takes the vocal lead in the group’s exhilarating, spirited rendition.

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Shakespearian silliness Pear’s ‘Beard of Avon’ is a witty winner

by Karla Kane What: “The Beard of Avon” When: Through April 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m.

Where: Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View.

Cost: Tickets are $30/$25 for seniors and students.

Info: Go to thepear.org.

nership that may provide the English-speaking world with its greatest works of literature? You know that they say: When there’s a Will, there’s a way.

“The Beard of Avon” was written by a local — Amy Freed, artist in residence in Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies Department. She’s based the play on the real-life debate over attribution of Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Was the Bard, in fact, someone’s “beard?” To this day, many believe an uneducated country bumpkin like Shakespeare could never have come up with the rich, sophisticated, immortal works of literature that bear his name. Proponents of the so-called Oxfordian theory of authorship argue that de Vere had the right qualifications, connections and skills, but there have also been many other candidates put forward, including the Virgin Queen herself.

Freed manages to cleverly interweave and lend credence to many of these theories while also appreciating Shakespeare’s own innate genius, and does so with a brilliant, madcap script that mixes in Shakespearean references and

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he Beard of Avon,” Pear Theatre’s latest offering, is a splendid, hilarious take on William Shakespeare and the ongoing questions regarding the authorship of his canon. Brainy and bawdy in equal measure, it’s one of the must-see productions of the season.

Will Shakspere (Dante Belletti) of rural Stratford-upon-Avon has a natural genius for poetry, incredible emotional sensitivity and big dreams of life on the stage. However, he’s also prematurely bald, barely literate, impoverished and stuck in the boonies with a fraught marriage to his weary, promiscuous wife Anne (Caitlin Papp).

Meanwhile, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (Michael Champlin), has led a glamorous life of luxury and debauchery and is a favorite of Queen Elizabeth (Doll Piccotto), but what he really loves is writing. His secret, unpublished work is full of interesting storylines but lacking in warmth and human touch. His high-ranking court position also precludes him from being able to openly hobnob in the lowbrow theater world other than as a patron.

So we have diamond-in-therough Will and rough-in-thediamond Oxford both wishing they could work their ways onto the stage. Oxford has the literary know-how and plot points; Will has the wordplay and warmth that can make language sing. Can the two join forces (with a quick name change to the grander-sounding “Shakespeare”) and form a part-

Queen Elizabeth (Doll Piccotto) scolds her favorite nobleman, the Earl of Oxford (Michael Champlin), in “The Beard of Avon” at the Pear Theatre. tropes (disguising one’s identity, for instance), pseudo-Elizabethan language style and modern theater terms.

Ye olde work inbox, for example, is called an “incoming bucket,” while spotlight-stealing Will is told not to “pull focus.” A character known for his homosexual leanings is told, after seducing a woman, “But you liketh not even girls!” Will’s first on-stage role is as a “spear shaker.” Yep, he literally shakes a spear. It’s silly stuff, and gloriously so, with the right blend of phallic humor and witty wordplay. Sticklers for historical accuracy will no doubt find much to quibble with, but Freed’s play is all in good fun rather than purporting to be any kind of scholarly commentary. Suspend disbelief and just enjoy the buffoonery; one

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must assume the Bard himself would have. Comparisons to the Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love,” by playwright Tom Stoppard, are inevitable — and apt.

The Pear Theatre’s version of “Beard,” skillfully directed by Karen Altree Piemme, more than does justice to Freed — and the Bard — with this production. The cast is across-the-board excellent, with many members tackling multiple roles, including wonderfully talented Palo Alto High School junior Jason Pollack, who takes on three parts.

Champlin makes the murderous, gleefully depraved Oxford, who cannot express emotion, a nevertheless entirely appealing and loveable rogue. Belletti’s Will is naive and earnest — so heartfelt in his pure enthusiasm for language and stagecraft — and his facial expressions and reactions are priceless. Papp’s put-upon Anne Hathaway, aka Mrs. Shakspere, is a relatable and warmhearted spin on the real-life figure about whom little is known. Here, she’s a protofeminist and not afraid to speak up for herself while also loving her difficult hubby.

And though Piccotto’s Queen Elizabeth isn’t in many scenes, she stands out in the fun and juicy role of a purportedly virgin sovereign who’s above earthly concerns but is really a mortal woman in search of pleasure, romance and connection, just like anyone. (She, in fact, may have written a little something we know as “The Taming of the Shrew.”)

The play’s structure and Paulino Deleal’s set design make for a lot of scenery and prop changes. There were unusually long pauses between scenes, adding length to a show that’s already pretty long. However, while this may be smoothed out in future performances, it’s not necessarily entirely negative. Since it is a show about show business (“all the world’s a stage,” after all), it’s fitting to see some of the behind-thescenes action. Plus, the incidental

music, orchestral-string renditions of pop hits (think Huey Lewis, Nirvana, Lorde), makes for amusing listening.

Though Shakespeare died 400 years ago this month, his work (or rather, the work published under his name) continues to inspire, intrigue and delight. Pear’s “The Beard of Avon” is a worthy addition to the greater Shakespearean galaxy. Play on! Q Interim Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com

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the timeless, titular question.

“This beautiful deep sentiment, the question at the core of the song, remains true as it ever has,” Stone said of the track.

“These well-worn melodies have lasted for a reason. There’s something so elemental about them; they still speak. The original recordings are very compelling. I just hope ours are as well.” Q Interim Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com What: Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project When: Saturday, April 16, at 7 p.m.

Where: Mountain View Masonic Lodge, 890 Church St., Mountain View Cost: Tickets in advance are $22/adults, $20/seniors, $12.50/ students. Tickets at the door are $25/adults, $25/seniors, $15/ students. Admission is free for kids under 13 and music students.

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Gryphons Wild Gryphons Wild, an early music ensemble headed by music educators Sally Terris and Anita Baldwin, presents “Stories in Song: Monsters, Maidens and Madrigals ,” an original blend of stories, music, costumes and props suitable for children and families.

Tales told include “The Griffin and the Minor Canon,” about an unlikely friendship between a young priest and a mythical beast. The show takes place Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. at Community School of Music & Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Admission is free.

Go to gryphonswild.com/.

Concert Hiram Kaailau Bell, ukulele Say “aloha” to Oahu-raised ukulele master Hiram Kaailau Bell, who will bring his Polynesian vibe and fourstring-strumming skills to the Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., for a free performance of Hawaiian classics and more on Wednesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. Bell, who now lives in the Bay Area and teaches uke classes and workshops, has also released two albums. Go to menlopark.org/library.

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hen Donato Scotti opened La Strada in Palo Alto in 2004, he breathed new life into the dining scene on University Avenue. His appetizers were dazzling, pasta dishes luscious, fish perfectly cooked and desserts worth the calories.

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Donato Enoteca in Redwood City was the next logical step for Scotti. Opened in 2009, there was more space for him to flex his culinary muscles — more homemade pastas, pizzas from a wood-burning oven, an open kitchen, three private dining rooms besides the mainstay enoteca (wine bar), patio dining and an expanded wine cellar.

Scotti, a native of Bergamo in northern Italy, was raised in a food-conscious family. He followed his natural instincts to culinary school in Italy, then cooked his way to New York, Los Angeles and finally the Bay Area, where he served as head chef at Il Fornaio in Walnut Creek, then Palo Alto.

In 2004, he and a business partner opened La Strada.

Donato Enoteca has a European flavor, both food-wise and decor-wise. The enoteca and patio offer casual gathering spaces for relaxed conversation in a no-hurry atmosphere, while the private dining rooms range from unfussy to elegant (and can accommodate groups as large as 70).

The menu has a rustic feel to it, and the portions are large and artfully plated. Service is discreet but attentive. Donato Enoteca is an enjoyable place to meet, eat, drink and relax. Despite the pleasure, I had a couple of issues, mostly with the way some dishes were seasoned.

To whet the appetite, five crispy whole baby artichokes ($11) were served on an elongated plate. It was a diverting presentation and the artichokes provided the perfect crunch with a sauce of mint, garlic and parsley.

The duck egg with fresh local asparagus ($8) made a delightful small appetizer or side dish. The egg was over easy rather than poached, with just enough delicious, runny yolk.

The warm Mediterranean octopus ($11) salad was an enticing composition of potatoes, Taggiasca (Liguria) olives, organic celery hearts, capers and arugula drizzled with a light lemon citronette dressing. Sadly, the salad was way too salty. I deconstructed it to see if the olives or capers were the culprits, but they were tame compared to the other over-salted elements. It took half a lemon squeezed over to make it palatable.

Of the five pizzas offered, I ordered the organic artichokes, tomato and fresh mozzarella with homemade “spicy sausage” pizza ($16). It looked divine: The crust was pliant with a slight char and plenty of ingredients. It had very little flavor, though. I segregated some of the sausage, which didn’t have an inkling of spice. The kitchen, I was told, used the wrong sausage.

The pastas, however, were firstrate. The agnolotti del plin ($18) featured small homemade ravioli.

Agnolotti is a typical Piemonte

filled pasta; “del plin” refers to the pinch used to close the folded pasta. The pasta was stuffed with rabbit, veal and pork and the sauce made from tomato, onions, sausage and veal. It was mouthwatering with a savory depth of flavor.

Bigoli ($19) — a long, thick, extruded pasta — was sauced with aromatic braised oxtails and Nebbiolo wine over spears of asparagus, then sprinkled with fresh grated cheese. Huge flavors — Italian, the way it should be.

The white fleshed baked branzino filet ($26) was delicately flavored with a hint of sweetness.

Served with locally grown fava bean puree and black rice, flavors permeated every taste bud from lips to throat.

The perfectly grilled veal loin chop ($28) was topped with a mixture of herbs and white wine over organic dandelion greens and grilled polenta. While it looked fantastic and the meat was tender, it lacked seasoning, as if it had been grilled without so much as salt and pepper. While it was good, it could have been great.

Seasoning was an ongoing problem, either missing or overstated in each of my three visits, not on every dish but on enough dishes.

Perhaps the line cooks need a refresher because the restaurant has everything else going for it.

For dessert, the warm, velvety chocolate hazelnut cake ($9), served with vanilla bean gelato, was sinfully gooey.

The organic lemon panna cotta ($8) with homemade zesty orange sauce was fine, though too much orange sauce overpowered the thickened cream.

The wine selection is a tour of Italy. Many of the finest labels are represented, including the pricey Angelo Gaja, Giacomo Conterno and Tenuda San Guido. There were many down-to-earth selections as well, delicious and affordable.

Other than the seasoning missteps, there is much to recommend Donato Enoteca — the food is straightforward but refined, service attentive, the wine list excellent and it’s a fun place to be. Q Donato Enoteca, 1041 Middlefield Road, Redwood City; 650-701-1000; donatoenoteca.com Hours: Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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000 (Century 16 and 20) Perhaps like you, dear reader, I approached Disney’s new version of “The Jungle Book” with a chip on my shoulder and the question “Why? Just, why?” The answer, I assumed, was because “they” can, and there’s gold in them thar trees.

But Jon Favreau’s live-action/CGI spectacle turns out to be a mighty impressive adventure film for kids that accumulates substantial reasons to justify its existence.

Disney took its first crack at Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 anthology “The Jungle Book” in 1967, with a now-iconic animated film. A live-action take followed in 1994, a direct-to-video title in 1998, an animated sequel in 2003, and now

the Favreau film, which derives directly from both the 1967 film and the books by Kipling. Favreau retains jungle-boy Mowgli’s redswaddling outfit, the ‘67 film’s characterizations and basic plot outline, and three songs (“The Bare Necessities,” “I Wan’na Be Like You,” and, on the end credits, “Trust in Me”), but screenwriter Justin Marks also puts a bit more “Book” (read Kipling) in this “Jungle Book.”

Raised-by-wolves Mowgli (liveaction actor Neel Sethi) loves his adoptive parents Akela (Giancarlo Esposito) and Raksha (Lupita Nyong’o), but pressure from murder-on-his-mind tiger Shere Khan

(Idris Elba) sends the “man-cub” toward civilization, a self-sacrifice for the common good of peace in the jungle ‘hood (similarly, one of this film’s nice flourishes is a “water truce” amongst predators and prey at a watering hole dubbed “Peace Rock”). Mowgli’s journey includes guidance from black panther and longtime mentor Bagheera (Ben Kingsley) and new acquaintance Baloo (Bill Murray), a honey-hungry bear all too happy to exploit Mowgli’s daring and skill at scaling jungle topography.

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quent depiction of Mowgli scrambling across creeper-covered tree limbs or tumbling down hills and right back onto his footing.

These scenes have an exhilarating energy familiar from the now-dominant superhero genre, and, similarly, it’s not surprising to see the film explore the shared backstory of Mowgli and Shere Khan, which serves to explain the latter’s rage. In keeping with episodic children’s stories like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and the original “Jungle Book,” Mowgli also has encounters with hypnotic snake Kaa (effectively gender-swapped The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly:

Everybody Wants Some!! 000 Richard Linklater’s new film “Everybody Wants Some!!” might be described as an arthouse “Animal House.” Set at a fictional Texas university in 1980, the film follows incoming college freshman and baseball player Jake (Blake Jenner) in the days before classes begin. The film mostly concerns dedicated hanging out: He and his teammates play “Space Invaders” and poker, go out dancing and eat pizza by the slice. They sit around their house drinking beer, smoking pot, reading Kerouac and Sagan, getting lucky and practicing the art of conversation. Like Linklater’s 1993 “Dazed and Confused,” the

for Scarlett Johansson) and the Gigantopithecus ape King Louie (Christopher Walken).

Listen, if you don’t think having Walken sing “I Wan’na Be Like You” amounts to genius well worth the price of admission, I can’t help you. Bill Murray predictably kills it as Baloo, especially with his well-earned apparent ad libs (verbal head-spin like “Let me interrupt myself”).

Kingsley and the rest hit all the right vocal notes, Sethi carries the ball admirably in the lead, and the CGI proves astonishing in selling the animal characters and their jungle home. (Plus, the recently, dearly departed Garry Shandling is a porcupine.)

The climax feels needlessly prolonged, but Favreau and Marks engagingly loose film serves as a nostalgic glorification of young idiocy.

But the director reserves smarts and sweetness for Jake, especially in his flirtation with theater-anddance 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. — P.C. (Reviewed April 8, 2016) Marguerite 000 1/2 “Marguerite” recasts the infamous American true story of Florence Foster Jenkins as a fictionalized French one, centering on an epically bad opera singer named Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot). The middleaged Dumont comes across as a

have obviously put some thought into the film’s visual approach and the messages the film will send: the animal kingdom’s unexpected threats and opportunities for loving harmony with humankind; the work Mowgli puts in to come-ofage and to terms with his true nature; his casual kindheartedness, pegged as “special” by his elders; and his refusal to submit to fear.

For a bonus, “Wonderful World of Disney” fans and uninitiated kids will equally appreciate the nostalgic and newfangled audiovisual punch of the closing credits, a satisfying CGI-animated postscript to the partly live-action feature.

Rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril. One hour, 45 minutes.

— Peter Canavese comic figure: a woman so insulated by her wealth and privilege that she has lost touch with reality and how others perceive her. Even her husband (Andre Marcon) admits, “She’s sort of a freak,” and carries on an affair behind her back; but he cannot bear to hurt her, preferring to lie in every waking moment. It remains unclear just how clueless Dumont is, but her regal opacity regarding her lack of singing ability proves good for many a laugh. Why is Marguerite so funny to us, and why is her public humiliation allowed to continue for so long? The answers plumb both the best and worst of human nature and give Xavier Giannoli’s film a strong heartbeat.

Rated R for brief graphic nudity and sexual content, and a scene of drug use. Two hours, 9 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed April 1, 2016)

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.

10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) +

Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

April and the Extraordinary World (PG)

Guild Theatre: 2 & 4:30 p.m.

April and the Extraordinary World (Subtitled) (PG)

Guild Theatre: 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m.

Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: 3:55, 5:40, 7:25 & 10:50 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10:40 a.m. Fri. & Sun. 12:25 p.m. Sun. 10:35 a.m. In 3-D at 9:10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 12:10, 2, 3:35, 5:25, 7, 8:45 & 10:20 p.m.

The Boss (R) Century 16: 10 & 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:15 & 10:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 12:35, 2, 3:25, 4:35, 6, 7:15, 8:40 & 10 p.m.

Criminal (R) Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m.

Dazed and Confused (1993) (R) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

Deadpool (R) +++

Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m.

Demolition (R) 1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 4:40 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m.

Aquarius Theatre: 4:40 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m. Century 20: 7:40 p.m. Fri. 1:40 p.m. Century 20: 7:40 p.m. Fri. 1:40 p.m.

The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 3:50 & 9:20 p.m.

Everybody Wants Some (R) +++ Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:15, 4, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m.

Fan (Not Rated) Century 16: 11:50 a.m., 3:20, 7:10 & 10:40 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:30 p.m.

Hardcore Henry (R) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m.

Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) ++1/2 Century 20: 1:30 & 6:50 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:40 p.m. Sat. 10:30 a.m. Fri. & Sun. 1:45 p.m.

The Jungle Book (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1, 1:45, 4:45, 7, 7:45, 9:15 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:15 p.m. In 3-D at 10 & 11:30 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 5:30, 6:15, 8:30 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 8:30 & 9:50 p.m. In 3-D at 12:45, 2:50, 3:35, 5:40, 6:25 & 9:10 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 11:20 a.m., 5 & 7:50 p.m. In X-D at 2:10 & 10:40 p.m. In DBOX at 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7 & 9:50 p.m. In DBOX 3-D at 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 & 9:10 p.m.

The Lady in the Van (PG-13) +++ Marguerite (R) +++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: 1:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Aquarius Theatre: 1:50, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Roberto Devereux (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat. 9:55 a.m.

Midnight Special (PG-13) Century 16: 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 4:30 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 10:45 a.m.

Miracles from Heaven (PG)

Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) +1/2 Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 5, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m.

North by Northwest (1959) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3 p.m.

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 10 p.m.

Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:10 & 11:20 a.m., 12:50, 2:05, 3:30, 4:50, 6:10, 7:30, 8:50 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 12:05, 1:25, 2:50, 4:15, 5:35, 7:05, 8:20 & 9:55 p.m.

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

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

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CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL ...

Authors and illustrators of top children’s books will discuss their works — and their creation processes — at the Children’s Book Festival on Saturday, April 16. The event will feature Michael Slack, author and illustrator of “Monkey Truck”; Aline Chau, illustrator of “Double Happiness”; Emily Jiang, author of “Summoning the Phoenix”; and Christian Robinson, illustrator of “Last Stop on Market Street,” (winner of this year’s John Newbery Medal and Caldecott Honor). The free event will be held between 1 and 4 p.m. in the El Palo Alto Room at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Books Inc., and all the presenters will be on hand for signings.

AN AMERICAN IN CATALONIA ...

Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Adam Hochschild will be in Palo Alto on Tuesday, April 19, to discuss his new work, “Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939.” The book tells the story of the turbulent period through the nine American and British characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. at Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village.

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The new world Sci-fi stars Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi portray an Earth transformed by environmental calamities challenges facing the southernmost continent in “Antarctica” and addressed global warming and its catastrophic effects on Washington, D.C., in the “Science in the Capital” trilogy, recently shortened and collected in one volume as “Green Earth.”

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heir latest novels take place in settings literally worlds away from each other — beyond the farthest reaches of our solar system and in a nearfuture American Southwest ravaged by drought and greed. Nevertheless, award-winning science fiction writers Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi share a deep commitment to the hereand-now and the environmental concerns facing humanity this Earth Day and for the foreseeable future.

On April 20, Robinson and Bacigalupi will appear in conversation at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. They will discuss and sign the paperback editions of their latest novels, “Aurora” and “The Water Knife.”

Reached in a telephone conference call, Robinson and Bacigalupi already shared an easy rapport, picking up each other’s verbal cues without much prompting from the interviewer.

“For whatever reason, we seem to be science fiction writers who are engaged with the natural world,” Bacigalupi said.

“And that’s something of a rarity, oddly. Science fiction is really, really excited about the toys, and not so excited about the people or the biosphere.”

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ANIMAL ECONOMICS ... Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society, will be at Kepler’s in Menlo Park later this month to discuss his new book, “The Humane Economy, How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals.” A longtime advocate for animal rights, Pacelle delves into the origins

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TALES FROM THE HOMEFRONT ... When the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it didn’t take long for the conflict to impact the Peninsula. As the war effort launched, Stanford leased threefourths of its land in Palo Alto for creation of Camp Fremont, which was headquartered in present-day Menlo Park. Author Barbara Wilcox chronicles the history of the Army encampment in her new book, “World War I Army Training by the San Francisco Bay: The Story of Camp Fremont.” The book, which is available at http://amzn.to/1qRou0n, explores how the Peninsula adapted to the 28,000 soldiers who trained here. According to Wilcox, the current site of SLAC in Menlo Park once served as training ground for trench warfare. And thanks to Camp Fremont’s artillery range, today’s residents still dig up the occasional ordnance from nearly a century ago. Wilcox will discuss her book on Saturday, April 16, at the Stanford Humanities Center in Stanford University. The free event will take place between 1 and 5 p.m.

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Kim Stanley Robinson Robinson, 64, resides in Davis, California and is the author of 17 novels, including the acclaimed “Mars Trilogy” set on a terraformed Red Planet. He’s written about the environmental

Bacigalupi, 43, made his mark on science fiction with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning “The Wind-up Girl,” set in a post-petroleum, bioengineered Thailand.

A resident of western Coloado, he has written eco-thrillers for teens — including “The Drowned Cities” and “Zombie Baseball Beatdown” — and his latest novel for adults, “The Water Knife,” uses the conventions of detective fiction to chronicle the machinations of fixers, journalists and refugees when they’re caught in Nevada and Arizona’s fight over dwindling water supplies.

Science fiction and literary fiction have both taken a strong turn toward the apocalyptic lately. Some authors destroy civilization with zombies, vampires and deadly viruses, while others choose more realistic depictions of the consequences of drought, sea-level elevation and extreme weather.

“I think dystopia and utopia are two sides of the same literary impulse, and they should always be paired together,” Robinson said.

“Utopias express our hopes, and

dystopias express our fears.”

Although siding with the utopians, Robinson said he understands why dystopian fiction is popular now.

“It’s kind of a fearful time, which is a rational response to the certainty of climate change coming down on us,” he said. “Global average temperature figures for February were just astonishing.

That was the only word scientists could use for it, because (the figures) had jumped so fast so far.”

In the face of that kind of sudden, alarming change, Robinson said his “whole angle has been to ask, ‘What will the utopian response be?’ I more and more feel like I’m providing fantasy solutions. But since it is fiction, you get to do that. So I write down these positive scenarios and say, ‘Gosh, I don’t know whether this is likely or not, but let’s make it look as likely as possible.’ That’s the literary trick of it.”

Bacigalupi said, “I think the biggest difference between my writing and Stan’s is that he’s looking at us as human beings and saying, ‘We have the capacity to make smart, effective choices.

Certainly, we don’t have to be just dysfunctional.’ And he’s right.”

Bacigalupi said to Robinson, “I’m not so sure that I think you write fantasy as you do focus on the slice of humanity that is actually decent or has some drive toward decency.

Whereas I keep focusing on the worst aspects of it.”

Even those worst aspects can still be instructive. Bacigalupi said that one of the most satisfying things about “The Water Knife” isn’t that “it’s necessarily going to cause somebody to go out and stop Aquafina from privatizing aquifiers. But people will have context for understanding their natural world a little better.”

In discussing encounters with readers on Twitter, Bacigalupi said, “When somebody sees a

photo of Lake Mead, and it’s drawn down to the extent it is now, then they suddenly connect that to the broken world that is ‘The Water Knife.’ They’re like, “Oh my god! Look at this low reservoir!”

And I’m like ‘Yes! Now you’re just as frightened of this as I am!’”

Does that kind of revelation promote an immediate change in people’s behavior?

“No, I don’t think it does,” Bacigalupi said. “But it does provide a counterpoint to the idea of ‘I just got my new iPhone and all is good in the world.’”

Robinson also hears from worried readers. (He said that, thanks to the “Science in the Capital” trilogy, “Every time there’s a big storm in Washington, D.C. I get a ton of emails. ‘Oh god, it’s all happening!’”) Set aboard a spaceship that will take generations to reach its destination, his new novel, “Aurora,” has received a wide variety of responses “including some really, really angry ones.” The book makes the case that humanity won’t be saved by a mass exodus from Earth, that we had better save the one planet we’ve got, rather than try to settle in another solar system.

For science fiction readers heavily invested in the notion of interstellar travel, the idea that it might not be easy or even possible can be the equivalent of “taking their most favorite plastic toy and smashing it with a baseball bat repeatedly,” Robinson said.

“I’ve seen reactions all over the map. But that’s why I wrote the book in the first place. None of (the objections) are very convincing. I think the universe is on my side in this particular argument.”

Neither Robinson nor Bacigalupi believes in science fiction’s ability to predict the future accurately. But both see the value in thinking about the implications of possible new scenarios before they arrive. (continued on next page)

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and implications of the bonds between humans and animals, and explains how essential decisions about animal welfare can make economic sense for humans. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, at Keper’s, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets to the event are $10 for students, $20 for general admission and $40 for premier seating, which includes a copy of the book. They can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/1RL8s2j

“I do that stuff in my own personal life as a writer,” Bacigalupi said, “where I’m looking at massive changes in the publishing industry. It’s like, ‘OK, where do you need to be in 10 years if you still think you want to be a writer creating these kinds of stories about these issues?’” Although he believes one can’t accurately predict outcomes, “you can prepare for all these kinds of scenarios and have bets on the table.” Q

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 57 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz

Home Front

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Don’t squash those insects — some may be good for your garden

by Crystal Tai

W

hile “benefits” and “bugs” seem like antonyms, certain insects actually help organic gardens be healthier.

“Beneficial insect is a term applied to insects that have a positive role in the garden,” said Candace Simpson, a University of California Extension master gardener. “Some (bugs) are pollinators of plants; others are predators or parasites of pest insects. “ The key is not to be too liberal with bug sprays, she said. “It is important to avoid broad-spectrum pesticides, even so-called ‘organic’ or plant-based insecticides, as they will kill beneficial insects as well as pests,” she said.

Instead, Simpson, who teaches a class on bug benefits to gardens, suggests that home gardeners should manage pests through things like physical barriers and traps, hand removal, and encouraging natural enemies to prey upon plant parasites.

When pests do multiply too quickly to be brought under control by natural enemies, Simpson suggests choosing pesticides that have the least negative effect on the environment or any organism other than the one to be controlled. Good options include dormant oils, which might be used to smother insect eggs on dormant fruit trees, and insecticidal soaps, which might be used on a very bad aphid infestation.

Also, a bacterial pesticide called Bacillus thuringiensis, or “Bt” for short, can be used to destroy cabbage worms, according to Simpson.

She said Bt wouldn’t affect bees or other beneficial insects, though it can kill caterpillars.

“Fortunately, many butterflies lay their eggs

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Clockwise, from lower left, above: A soldier beetle is a common garden insect; grey cabbage aphids live alongside the mummies of aphids; this spectacular caterpillar turns into an anise swallowtail butterfly; a praying mantis rests; this checkerspot butterfly is held by biologist Stuart Weiss.

The benefits of bugs

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PRUNE A TREE . . .If you’ve been wanting to learn how to prune a young tree, you have your chance tomorrow — Saturday, April 16 — with the nonprofit Canopy’s instructors. The two-part workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the East Palo Alto Charter School, 1286 Runnymede St., East Palo Alto. Part 2 will be next Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to noon at the same location. Info and to sign up: canopy.org. Q

Courtesy Candace Simpson

TALK ABOUT ROSES . . . The Peninsula Rose Society will get together for its monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redwood City Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave. in Redwood City. Past President Jolene Adams will talk about classic shrub roses, which are generally more disease-resistant than newer ones. Info: peninsularosesociety.org or 650-465-3967.

Courtesy Candace Simpson

INSPECT THIS APP . . . There’s an app for looking at houses, finding restaurants, rating appliances, seeing wait times for appointments, so why not requesting an inspection? The City of Palo Alto has launched its “Palo Alto Inspection Request” app, available of course at the Apple App Store or Google Play. The idea, the city says, is to “improve and expedite how contractors and permit holders request inspections,” according to a city planning department press release. The Inspection Request app allows users to view permits by address and schedule one or more different types of inspections depending on the permit.

Contractors can log in using their license number and view all their permits for multiple projects at once.

The app also allows users to keep track of their scheduled inspections, set alerts on their mobile devices for the inspection time, and share the information with others such as site supervisor. Info: Development Services Department at 650-3292496.

Courtesy Candace Simpson

GAMBOL ON THE GARDEN TOUR . . . Palo Alto’s Gamble Garden will have its annual Spring Garden Tour on Saturday, April 29, and Sunday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour will be of five gardens selected for their designs that foster outdoor living — entertaining, dining and lounging. Tickets are $30 for garden members and $35 for non-members and include lunch.

Info: gamblegarden.org or 650-3291356.

Candace Simpson shows how a Western tussock moth caterpillar damages fruit trees, as it munches away the leaves of a quince tree. on plants that are not for food,” said Simpson. “So if you just apply Bt carefully to food plants that are being eaten by caterpillars, only those caterpillars will be affected. Or a good alternative is to handpick caterpillars that are eating your veggies and skip the Bt. That is what I do.”

Caterpillars are not the only insects that blur the line between beneficial bugs and pests, Simpson said.

“All insects have a role to play in the ecosystem. Flies and mosquitoes can pollinate flowers, and ants eat insect eggs and also aerate the soil. Pest insects and snails, which are not insects but mollusks, and their eggs are food for other organisms,” she said.

Although mosquitoes may contribute to pollination, Simpson recognizes the annoyance and danger of their bites and the reasons for eliminating them. She only advises against using a pesticide that will kill other insects as well.

“Mosquitoes can be prevented from breeding by making sure there are no containers of standing water where they can lay eggs,” said Simpson. “Or by using ‘mosquito dunks,’ small solid cakes of a bacterial pesticide that you float in water. They only kill mosquito and fly larvae. Or we can smash them. Or wear protective clothing or use insect repellent.”

Palo Alto resident Sue Luttner also likes the “smashing” approach in some cases. She said she keeps an eye on all the leaves in her garden, and as as soon as she sees holes, she checks out the backs for eggs and larvae of pest insects, and then she smashes them.

“I like to spend time in the garden, and that gives me a chance to intervene early,” said Luttner. “Most of the native plants don’t seem especially susceptible to insect damage, but the vegetables and the fruit trees are, so I try to stay alert to bad bugs and kill them whenever I see them.”

Gardeners can also discourage exploding insect populations by intermixing different (continued on page 33)

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crops — placing tomato plants in ones or twos around the garden, for example, with beans or onions or something in between, so that if one patch gets infected, the bugs won’t necessarily march unimpeded right through the entire crop, Luttner said.

“I’ve learned not to crowd the crops, because that invites aphids.

When I do see signs of aphids, I either cut off the affected shoots or pull out the plant immediately,” she said.

When it comes to aphids, Palo Alto Master Gardener Callie Elliston said she would wait for ladybugs to eat them. “Ladybugs can eat 30 to 50 aphids in an hour,” said Elliston. “Some of my rose buds are covered with black and green aphids. I used to hose them off with water, but now I know that if I’m patient, the ladybugs will soon come to the garden and eat all of the invaders.”

Ladybugs and their larvae help control aphids as well as other pests such as beetle larvae, white flies and mealybugs, said Ellis-

ton. She said ladybugs often lay eggs on the underside of leaves and gravitate to certain plants, such as cilantro, oregano, dill and yarrow. Some local hardware stores carry live ladybugs for purchase, something that can delight child gardeners.

Another idea is to get a good look at bugs with a magnifying glass. “An inexpensive 10X hand lens is a good investment for a gardener, to get a better look at insects and their activities,” Simpson said.

Even with magnification, some beneficial bugs may be hard to distinguish from pests, Simpson said, adding that she can help people learn what to look for in terms of insects during her upcoming seminar on beneficial insects on April 21, 7-8:30 p.m. at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road in Palo Alto. Q Freelance writer Crystal Tai can be emailed at crystal2@ stanfordalumni.org.

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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.

Atherton

117 Middlefield Road Dao Trust to A. & A. Mortensen for $1,925,000 on 03/04/16; built 1922, 2bd, 1,590 sq. ft. previous sale 08/01/1984, $129,000

East Palo Alto

438 Bell St. M. Abraham to E. Ganitsky for $770,000 on 02/25/16; built 1939, 2bd, 1010 sq. ft. previous sale 06/30/1999, $259,000 2248 Cooley Ave. Willie Salgado Inc. to I. Akbar for $717,000 on 03/09/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,230 sq. ft. previous sale 09/25/2015, $422,000 480 East O’Keefe St. #203 G. Kennedy to Young Trust for $535,000 on 03/09/16; built 1981, 1bd, 663 sq. ft. previous sale 05/11/2009, $214,000 2442 Gloria Way L. Collins to Habitat For Humanity for $163,500 on 02/26/16; built 1997, 3bd, 1,095 sq. ft.

2472 Gloria Way S. & J. Saul to Habitat For Humanity for $201,500 on 02/26/16; built 1997, 1bd, 931 sq. ft. previous sale 05/22/2008, $175,000 1403 Kavanaugh Drive D. Funches to W. Feng for $675,000 on 02/26/16; built 1956, 3bd, 1,150 sq. ft. previous sale 11/22/1995, $10,000

Los Altos

1346 Arbor Ave. Arbor Ave. Limited to Khodi Trust for $2,225,000 on 03/23/16; built 1947, 2bd, 1,090 sq. ft. previous sale 02/22/2016, $1,550,000 7 Bay Tree Lane Carpenter Trust to Wang Trust for $2,650,000 on 03/25/16; built 1972, 2bd, 1,840 sq. ft. previous sale 03/30/2005, $1,260,000 1872 Colleen Drive K. & P. Hoff to S. Hu for $2,625,000 on 03/25/16; built 1959, 4bd, 2,175 sq. ft. previous sale 09/06/1985, $284,000 523 Deodara Drive Schlachter Trust to Gardner Trust for $3,011,000 on 03/29/16; built 1951, 5bd, 2,979 sq. ft. previous sale 05/12/2014, $2,615,000 4388 El Camino Real #198 Li Trust to D. Ahn for $791,500 on 03/29/16; built 2009, 1bd, 787 sq. ft. previous sale 05/29/2009, $441,000 674 Jay St. Neff Trust to S. & F. Lazarov for $2,725,000 on 03/25/16; built 1956, 3bd, 2,022 sq. ft.

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Master Gardener Candace Simpson inspects coriander as it blooms at the organization’s demonstration garden. Coriander is a plant that attracts beneficial insects.

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $1,925,000

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $163,500 Highest sales price: $770,000 Average sales price: $510,333

Los Altos Total sales reported: 11 Lowest sales price: $ 791,500 Highest sales price: $3,350,000 Average sales price: $2,375,318 460 Lassen St. #5 M. Stewart to A. Lam for $1,106,000 on 03/25/16; built 1964, 2bd, 1,349 sq. ft. previous sale 08/08/2006, $600,000 218 Mt. Hamilton Ave. Chen-Lin Trust to Lynce Limited for $3,000,000 on 03/22/16; built 1994, 4bd, 3,594 sq. ft. previous sale 02/05/2014, $4,310,000 1614 Parkhills Ave. Pacific Rainbow to G. Sonn for $2,650,000 on 03/24/16; built 1954, 5bd, 2,639 sq.ft. previous sale 01/06/2015, $1,925,000 23991 Spalding Ave. M. & R. Zuckerman to Sahai Trust for $1,995,000 on 03/24/16; built 1924, 3bd, 2,057 sq. ft. previous sale 04/29/2011, $1,329,000 550 Torwood Lane Fink Trust to Dupuis Trust for $3,350,000 on 03/23/16; built 1967, 4bd, 2,496 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills

13109 Byrd Lane Slater Trust to M. & D. Schroeder for $3,325,000 on 03/22/16; built 1960, 4bd, 2,334 sq. ft.

Menlo Park

514 8th Ave. I. Adineh to N. Novruzova for $1,188,000 on 03/02/16; built 1965, 2bd, 1,210 sq. ft. previous sale 08/20/2004, $650,000 339 Barton Place Freeman Trust to M. Pressfield for $1,500,000 on 02/26/16; built 1947, 4bd, 2,120 sq. ft. previous sale 08/23/1989, $540,000 940 Continental Drive Groscup Trust to L. Meng for $3,050,000 on 02/25/16; built 1961, 4bd, 2,400 sq. ft.

1115 Hermosa Way KuhlmannHolderness Trust to M. & J. Coward for $3,150,000 on 03/04/16; built 1948, 5bd, 2,800 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,325,000

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,188,000 Highest sales price: $3,995,000 Average sales price: $2,560,062

Mountain View Total sales reported: 11 Lowest sales price: $ 795,000 Highest sales price: $2,338,000 Average sales price: $1,297,818 1350 Johnson St. Durban Trust to J. & N. Clare for $2,500,000 on 03/07/16; built 1939, 2bd, 1,560 sq. ft. previous sale 11/21/2014, $2,300,000 253 Princeton Road Hodgman Trust to Hebert Trust for $3,995,000 on 03/08/16; built 1914, 4bd, 3,070 sq. ft. previous sale 04/25/2014, $3,800,000 2050 Santa Cruz Ave. Q. Ma to SVRV Land Limited for $3,050,000 on 02/26/16; built 1947, 2bd, 1,640 sq. ft. previous sale 07/28/2005, $2,000,000 2060 Sterling Ave. to A. Montoya for $2,047,500 on 02/26/16; built 1950, 2bd, 1,340 sq. ft. previous sale 07/30/2004, $800,000

Mountain View

301 Cypress Point Drive A. Gonski to L. Dunckley for $1,300,000 on 03/22/16; built 1977, 3bd, 1,526 sq. ft.

171 Hamwood Terrace Y. & C. Tang to D. Almazan for $1,350,000 on 03/23/16; built 2007, 3bd, 1,612 sq. ft. previous sale 01/09/2014, $963,000 139 Laurel Way K. Leong to X. Wang for $1,500,000 on 03/24/16; built 1996, 3bd, 1,339 sq. ft. previous sale 03/30/2000, $545,000 375 Oak St. K. McEnroe to M. Batz for $1,475,000 on 03/23/16; built 1922, 2bd, 1,230 sq. ft. previous sale 03/05/1993, $232,500 772 San Carlos Ave. Karkas Trust to C. Chang for $1,400,000 on 03/25/16; built 1962, 4bd, 1,576 sq. ft.

1983 San Luis Ave. #23 T. Turner to L. Fu for $1,060,000 on 03/23/16; built 1984, 2bd, 1,171 sq. ft. previous sale 03/09/2012, $449,000 1963 San Ramon Ave. D. Ben-Yehuda to

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $1,028,000 Highest sales price: $3,900,000 Average sales price: $2,535,800

Woodside Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $5,650,000 Highest sales price: $6,350,000 Average sales price: $6,000,000 Source: California REsource

S. Boisvert for $1,400,000 on 03/24/16; built 1988, 3bd, 1,624 sq. ft.

932 Tulane Drive H. Chang to V. & R. Joshi for $2,338,000 on 03/29/16; built 1952, 4bd, 1,988 sq. ft. previous sale 03/12/2010, $1,320,000 532 Tyrella Ave. #57 G. Holt to T. & E. Thompson for $800,000 on 03/23/16; built 1971, 3bd, 1,128 sq. ft.

500 West Middlefield Road #36 S. Surrette to T. Manville for $795,000 on 03/25/16; built 1971, 2bd, 978 sq. ft. previous sale 05/21/2013, $565,000 905 West Middlefield Road #909 Y. Hung to N. Vaidya for $858,000 on 03/25/16; built 1978, 2bd, 998 sq. ft. previous sale 11/30/2012, $500,000

Palo Alto

2848 Cowper St. C. Yin to H. Ao for $2,180,000 on 03/23/16; built 1951, 3bd, 936 sq. ft. previous sale 04/27/2004, $897,500 121 Emerson St. R. Sherby to Parikh Investments for $3,250,000 on 03/25/16; built 1912, 4bd, 1,492 sq. ft.

165 Forest Ave. #4B G. Herman to DRPA Limited for $1,510,000 on 03/25/16; built 1981, 2bd, 1,334 sq. ft.

717 Garland Drive Rosenbaum Trust to Y. Zhu for $2,598,000 on 03/24/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,959 sq. ft.

685 High St. #5E Y. Zhao to M. Xin for $1,480,000 on 03/24/16; built 1981, 2bd, 1,476 sq. ft. previous sale 12/05/2012, $928,000 161 Lundy Lane G. Krueger to J. Song for $2,160,000 on 03/25/16; built 1961, 4bd, 1,884 sq. ft.

4180 Manuela Ave. Lee Trust to C. & A. Schell for $3,900,000 on 03/25/16; built

1976, 5bd, 3,664 sq. ft.

1612 South California Ave. P. & A. Pang to K. Cheung for $1,028,000 on 03/22/16; built 1924, 1bd, 1,008 sq. ft.

115 Waverley St. Syncopation Trust to M. & L. Williams for $3,502,000 on 03/24/16; built 1905, 4bd, 2,196 sq. ft. previous sale 04/24/1989, $582,000 2526 Webster St. Runge Trust to Dumesnil Trust for $3,750,000 on 03/23/16; built 1947, 3bd, 2,479 sq. ft. previous sale 08/25/2009, $1,485,000

Woodside

235 Brookwood Road Isca Assets 29 to Brookwood Holdings for $6,350,000 on 03/03/16; built 1959, 5bd, 5,420 sq. ft. previous sale 12/31/2012, $1,801,000 140 Crest Road Isca Assets 27 to Weiss Trust for $5,650,000 on 03/09/16; built 1951, 3bd, 2,800 sq. ft.

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1525 Edgewood Drive, Palo Alto Exciting Property in Crescent Park Addition Showcasing an impressive lot of 20,140 sq. ft. (per county), this property includes a tastefully updated 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of W WTY ?= 2@ I<1> /;A:@EJ ;A@?501 @41 Ō ;;0 F;:1 -:0 <;@1:@5-8 ;2 -<<>;D Y YTT ?= 2@ <1>21/@ 2;> 1D<-:?5;: &41 ?<-/5;A? B1>?-@581 01?53: 1:/;A>-31? 5:0;;>N;A@0;;> 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -:0 <>;B501? - ?@E85?48E >19;01810 75@/41: @C; ŋ >1<8-/1? -:0 -88 1: ?A5@1 .10>;;9?

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www.1525Edgewood.com Offered at $5,998,000

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 5:00

Lunch, Lattes, & Jazz

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

700 King’s Mountain Road, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

Ano Nuevo Scenic Ranch, Davenport

$24,800,000

$23,988,000

$19,800,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208

Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi & Natasha Green Lic.#01321299 & #01409216

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

$18,950,000

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

13480 Wildcress Drive, Los Altos Hills

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

$13,895,000

$12,888,888

$11,488,000

Listing Provided by: David Troyer, Lic.#01234450

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479

245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

1175 Barroilhet Drive, Hillsborough

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

$7,250,000

$6,888,000

$6,888,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

Listing Provided by: Sophie Tsang, Lic.#01354442.

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

2991 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

26861 Purissima Road, Los Altos Hills

$5,950,000

$5,850,000

$5,800,000

Listing Provided by: Tom Rollett, Lic.#01383194

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

Listing Provided by: Shawn Ansari Lic.#01088988

See our entire luxury collection at www.InteroPrestigio.com ©2016 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.

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2063 Gordon Avenue, Menlo Park Offered at $2,998,000 Chic Location, Designer Luxury Teeming with impeccable details, this 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 2,550 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a fabulously convenient lot of 5,000 sq. ft. (per county). Thoroughly refinished by a respected local designer, this like-new home flaunts two fireplaces, stunningly remodeled spaces, an enticing outdoor retreat, and a jaw-dropping array of features like new hardwood floors, marble surfaces, LED lighting, and high-end technology. Enjoy strolling to local dining, Sharon Hills Park, and terrific Las Lomitas schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.2063Gordon.com

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GINNY KAVANAUGH 4 OAK FOREST COURT

Portola Valley 6 bed | 7 bath | Approx 1.3 ac $3,595,000 4OakForest.com

OPEN SUNDAY 30 QUAIL COURT

Portola Valley Ranch 4 bed | 3 bath | Cul-de-sac $2,550,000 30Quail.com

OPEN SUNDAY PH: 650.400.8076 | GKAVANAUGH@CAMOVES.COM | GINNYKAVANAUGH.COM | CALBRE# 00884747 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 15, 2016 • Page 43

3 6 6 S I E R R A V I S TA A V E N U E # 1 2 M O U N TA I N V I E W Contemporary Townhouse with Private Backyard HIGHLIGHTS • 2 master suites, both with private balconies • 2.5 bathrooms • Wonderful living room with wall of windows overlooking private backyard • Large, open dining room • Spacious "eat-in” kitchen • Inviting backyard with beautiful landscaping • Two one car garages: one attached, one detached • Centrally located near parks, shopping, Google, and other hi-tech companies • 1,478 Sq. ft. of living space (approx.)

O P E N H O U S E S U N D AY F R O M 1:30-4:30 PM

Listing Agent: Tim Foy calBRE# 00849721 Midtown Realty, Inc.

O F F E R E D A T $998,000

Cell: 650.387.5078

• 2775 Middlefield Road

• Phone: 650.321.1596

tim@midtownpaloalto.com • www.midtownpaloalto.com

3 7 0 7 S TA R R K I N G C I R C L E , P A L O A LT O Warm and Welcoming Eichler with Huge Backyard HIGHLIGHTS • 4 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • Move in ready; or add square feet to the existing house; or build a large new house • Huge 12,898 sq. ft. lot (approx.)

• 1,400 sq. ft. of Living Space (approx.)

• Updated kitchen with island and new quartz counter tops • Attractive landscaping • Walking distance to schools, shopping, coffee shops, Community Center, and parks • Bike to Stanford and Google • Prestigious Palo Alto schools

O P E N H O U S E S U N D AY F R O M 1:30-4:30 PM

O F F E R E D A T $2,199,000

Listing Agent: Jane Volpe calBRE# 01330133 Midtown Realty, Inc.

Cell: 650.380.4507

• 2775 Middlefield Road

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• Phone: 650.321.1596

jane@midtownpaloalto.com • www.midtownpaloalto.com

2 6 2 C R E E K S I D E D R I V E , PA L O A LT O

BACKS UP TO A PRIVATE PARK! â&#x20AC;˘ 4 bedrooms â&#x20AC;˘ 3 bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘ Serene master suite â&#x20AC;˘ Updated eat-in kitchen â&#x20AC;˘ Cozy family room adjoining kitchen â&#x20AC;˘ Garage converted to bonus room

O F F E R EcalBRE# D A T 01330133 $2,350,000

â&#x20AC;˘ Beautiful backyard with mature landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Centrally located in the heart of the Greenmeadow Community â&#x20AC;˘ Backyard access to community park and pool â&#x20AC;˘ 1,791 sq. ft. of living space, approx. â&#x20AC;˘ 6,798 sq. ft. lot size, approx. â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent Palo Alto schools

Cell: 650.380.4507

Jane@midtownpaloalto.com

Listing Agent: Tim Foy Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;˘ 2775 Middlefield Road â&#x20AC;˘ Phone: 650.321.1596

â&#x20AC;˘ www.midtownpaloalto.com

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Bay Area Collection Menlo Park. Palo Alto. Burlingame 650.314.7200 | pacificunion.com

NEW LISTING

APPOINTMENT ONLY

50 Lilac Drive, Atherton $4,895,000 5 BD / 4 BA

1208 Bellair Way, Menlo Park $4,795,000 5 BD / 4.5 BA

Spacious & Private Mid-Century Lindenwood Home.

Located in the peaceful, tree-lined neighborhood of Sharon Heights, this elegant two-story home was built in 2012 with designer style and timeless elegance.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

OPEN SAT & SUN 1-4

COMING SOON

65 Skywood Way, Woodside $4,299,000 5 BD / 5+ BA

191 Meadowood Drive, Portola Valley $3,400,000 2+ acres

Designed by Mark Cutler. Spectacular Woodside home, nestled in the coveted Skywood Acres, with a 20’ floor-to-ceiling wall of windows makes this luxury property a must see!

Oak studded flat pad with Windy Hill views. Near trail head. Redo or build new!

David Weil, 650.823.3855

Jennifer Pollock, 650.867.0609

OPEN SUN 1:30-4

NEW LISTING

1350 Trinity Drive, Menlo Park $2,145,000 3 BD / 2.5 BA

30 Judson Place, Pacifica $869,000 3 BD / 3 BA

Desirable Sharon Hills Community is this peaceful and unusually private low maintenance light-filled townhome overlooking natural surroundings with western hill vistas.

Serene park like setting for this fab 3BR/3BA/2KG home w/ family room.

Maya Sewald & Jason Sewald, 650.346.1228 Page 46 • April 15, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Mimi Bruce, 415.279.6962

3201 Greer Road, Palo Alto Offered at $1,888,000 Light-Filled, Updated Residence in Midtown Boasting luxuriously updated spaces, this 4 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,314 sq. ft. (per appraisal) sits on a lot of 6,000 sq. ft. (per county).

The sky-lit interior holds open living, dining, and kitchen areas, a play-loft, and a chic, flexible addition, while fine amenities include a fireplace, hardwood floors, and built-in speakers. Private, gardenlike outdoor spaces provide patios and a barbecue. Parks, bus services, and Palo Verde Elementary (API 961) are within strolling distance (buyer to verify eligibility).

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.3201Greer.com

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

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 15, 2016 • Page 47

A SIMPLE GIF T OF CONFIDENCE My New Red Shoes helps homeless and low-income children look and feel confident as they start the school year by providing them with new clothing and shoes and by rallying youth and adults around this effort through volunteer and educational opportunities for individuals, families, schools, corporations, and community groups.

Since 2006, My New Red Shoes has improved the self-confidence, educational experience and the quality of life of more than 35,000 impoverished children. In 2016, My New Red Shoes plans to serve 10,000 children in need.

For more information about their work or how you can get involved, please visit www.mynewredshoes.org

During the months of April through June 2016, Sereno Group Real Estate and its Palo Alto agents will be contributing 1% of their gross commissions to My New Red Shoes.

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SERENOGROUP.COM/ONEPERCENT

1254 Sharon Park Drive, Menlo Park Offered at $1,288,000 Peaceful Townhome by Golf Course A peaceful, gated community with lush golf course views surrounds this pristine 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom townhome of 1,820 sq. ft. (per county), which includes upgrades like central cooling, granite countertops, and oak hardwood floors. Filled with storage options, the design offers open living and dining areas, a remodeled eatin kitchen, an attached two-car garage, and a master suite with a private balcony. Highlights include a fireplace and a wellmanicured backyard. Stanford University, local shopping, and fabulous Las Lomitas schools are all nearby.

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1254SharonPark.com

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

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FREESTANDING BUILDING IN CENTER OF COMPLEX

435 SHERIDAN AVENUE #209, PALO ALTO

Join Us For Open House with Live Music - Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00pm

SCHOOL OVERVIEW Escondido Elementary (K-5) Jordan Middle (6-8) Palo Alto High (9-12) (Buyer To Verify Enrollment Eligibility)

Offered at $1,598,000

PROPERTY OVERVIEW 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Silverwood condominiums built in 2000 Approximately 1,529 sq. ft.

New Euro white oak engineered hardwood Fabulously appointed kitchen Dining room with French doors to private patio Master suite with walk-in closet & private deck

To View the Video Tour, Additional Photos and/or Information on This Property, Please Visit:

www.435Sheridan.com

650.218.4337 www.JOHNFORSYTHJAMES.com john.james@apr.com | CalBRE# 01138400

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Menlo Oaks Tranquil Retreat Live in an icon. The epitome of Eichler architecture – expansive windows and glass doors bring the outdoors in on three sides.

Situated on a half-acre lot with an oversized 2-car garage, pool and mature trees, this mid-century modern gem is ready for a modern-day owner.

List price $3,550,000

www.951Peninsula.com

Nancy Goldcamp www.nancygoldcamp.com Direct: (650) 400-5800 Floor plan is an artistic representation. Interested parties should verify scale, details, and dimensions.

nancy @ nancygoldcamp.com CalBRE# 00787851

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Offered at $6,498,000 Beds 5 | Baths 4.5 Home Âą4,600 sf | Lot Âą7,500 sf

O LD PA LO A LTO 159 Coleridge Avenue, Palo Alto | 159coleridge.com

OPEN SUNDAY 1:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30PM WEST ATHERTON 75 Reservoir Road, Atherton 75reservoir.com

ATHERTON ESTATE 393 Atherton Avenue, Atherton 393atherton.com

PROFESSORVILLE 1115 Ramona Street, Palo Alto 1115ramona.com

Offered at $9,950,000 Beds 4 | Baths 3 Home Âą2,740 sf | Lot Âą3.2 acres

PRICE REDUCED TO $8,998,000 Beds 5 | Baths 9 Home Âą7,649 sf | Lot Âą1 acre

PRICE REDUCED TO $5,995,000 Beds 6 | Baths 3.5 Home Âą3,500 sf | Lot Âą9,188 sf

Noelle Queen, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S 01917593

Ashley Banks, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

Michael Dreyfus, Broker 650.485.3476 michael.dreyfus@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson St, Palo Alto 650.644.3474 Page 52 â&#x20AC;˘ April 15, 2016 â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

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24890 Tiare Lane

Open House Saturday & Sunday April 16 & 17, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

LOS ALTOS HILLS

Dramatic Contemporary with Resort Living » Main home features 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms with approximately 4,210 square feet of living space » Spacious guest house offers approximately 1,584 square feet with an additional 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, recreation area, and full kitchen » Signature 50-foot, barrel-vaulted skylight with remotecontrolled shades » Pool, hot tub, sport court, putting green, and golf practice area » Private gated lane on approximately 1.3 acres » Just over one mile to the Village » Top-rated Los Altos schools

$4,680,000 For more information, visit lemieuxRE.com

Tom LeMieux

Jennifer Bitter Liske

650.465.7459 tom@lemieuxRE.com License #01066910

650.308.4401 jennifer@lemieuxRE.com License #01847627

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

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The Best Real Estate Website In Silicon Valley !

www.DeLeonRealty.com

Visit DeLeon Realty’s website for exclusive listings before they hit the MLS, alongside the most custom content in the industry. ®

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1292 PHYLLIS AVE MOUNTAIN VIEW THE NUMBERS •

3 BEDROOMS

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2 B AT H R O O M S

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2 C A R AT TAC H E D G A R AG E

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HOUSE APPROX. 1,196 SQFT

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LOT APPROX. 5,980 SQFT

OVERVIEW •

L O C AT E D I N T H E H I G H LY D E S I R A B L E C U E S TA PA R K NEIGHBORHOOD

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GOURMET CHEF’S KITCHEN WITH A B R E A K FA S T BA R A N D GRANITE COUNTERS

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B E A U T I F U L LY M A N I C U R E D YA R D W I T H A L A R G E PAT I O

THE SCHOOLS •

BENJAMIN BUBB ES

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GRAHAM MS

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M O U N TA I N V I E W H S

W W W.1292PHYLLIS .CO M

O F F E R E D AT $ 1 , 3 9 8 , 0 0 0

O P E N S AT & S U N 1 : 3 0 P M t o 4 : 3 0 P M

RECENT SALES

9 5 0 E L S I N O R E D R , PA LO A LTO

1 0 3 5 N . C A L I F O R N I A AV E , PA LO A LTO

6 7 2 W. R E M I N G TO N D R , S U N N Y VA L E

REPRESENTED BUYER

REPRESENTED BUYER

REPRESENTED SELLER

Adam Touni License# 01880106

650.336.8530 atouni@pacunion.com

Wendy Kandasamy ࠗ̂ಽ License# 01425837

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RESORT-STYLE ESTATE PERFECT FOR ENTERTAINING & RECREATION

552 MAGDALENA AVENUE, LOS ALTOS PRICE UPON REQUEST

AWESOME CUL-DE-SAC LOCATION W/ PA SCHOOLS 4 BD & 2.5 BA - 1,836 +/- SQFT. - 10,400 +/- SQFT. LOT

361 CHRISTOPHER COURT, PALO ALTO OFFERED AT: $2,500,000 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30 - 4:30PM

ED GRAZIANI

JEN PAULSON

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

(650) 996-7147 jen@serenogroup.com CalBRE # 01221390

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM

ALAMEDA 4 Bedrooms 11 Somerset Pl Sun 2-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,188,000 323-1111

2 Bedrooms -m Condominium

HOME OF THE WEEK

366 Sierra Vista Ave 12 Sun Midtown Realty

$1,095,000 321-1596

3 Bedrooms

ATHERTON

284 N. Rengstorff Av $1,112,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 715 Sleeper Av $1,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1292 Phyllis Av $1,398,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

2 Bedrooms 372 El Camino Real Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,955,000 383-1430

4 Bedrooms 40 Ashfield Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$4,295,000 851-2666

5 Bedrooms 95 Atherton Ave $15,200,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 51 Monte Vista Av $10,900,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

BELMONT 3 Bedrooms 3812 Naughton Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,495,000 383-1430

EAST PALO ALTO 4 Bedrooms 401 Runnymede Ave Sat Coldwell Banker

$999,000 324-4456

5 Bedrooms - Duplex 740 & 740A Schembri Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,550,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms

752 LA PARA AVE PALO ALTO OPEN SAT/SUN 1:00-4:00 Prime location to best schools, near Stanford University.

Gunn High school area.

5 BR/2.5 BA Offered at $3,498,000 Advanced Diana Y. Shieh Professionals (510)362-8309 Realty 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 2140 Santa Cruz Av #D303 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$878,000 324-4456

HILLSBOROUGH

3 Bedrooms

7 Bedrooms

2131 Avy Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,598,000 325-6161

2156 Harkins Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,795,000 324-4456

1 Homs Ct Sat

2 Bedrooms

MOUNTAIN VIEW

FEATURED

Deleon Realty

$9,888,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

3 Bedrooms 438 Los Ninos Way Sat/Sun Alain Pinel 547 Van Buren St Sat Coldwell Banker

$2,495,000 941-1111 $3,798,000 325-6161

5 Bedrooms 177 South Gordon Way Sun Deleon Realty

$5,488,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS 5 Bedrooms 24890 Tiare Ln $4,680,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Pacific Union International 314-7200

6 Bedrooms 11860 Francemont Dr Sat/Sun Deleon Realty

$4,888,000 543-8500

MENLO PARK 2 Bedrooms 2359 Sharon Oaks Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 1254 Sharon Park Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$1,695,000 324-4456 $1,288,000 543-8500

1350 Trinity Dr $2,145,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

4 Bedrooms 2063 Gordon Av Sun Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 543-8500

951 Peninsula Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,550,000 325-6161

746 Partridge Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,595,000 324-4456

5 Bedrooms 1060 Cascade Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,988,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms 1 Garland Pl Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$6,550,000 325-6161

MILBRAE 4 Bedrooms 1376 Millbrae Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,858,000 325-6161

717 Alice Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,599,998 851-2666

140 Ramona Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 16 Tynan Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,200,000 851-1961 $1,500,000 851-2666

3 Bedrooms 2 Sierra Ln $5,500,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961 4 Coalmine View $2,698,000 Sun Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 400-6364

4 Bedrooms 5 Oak Forest Ct Sun Deleon Realty 30 Quail Ct Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,488,000 543-8500 $2,550,000 851-1961

6 Bedrooms

PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 435 Sheridan Av #209 Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,598,000 323-1111

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 360 Everett Ave 6a Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,995,000 325-6161

3 Bedrooms 4228 Wilkie Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 4152 Baker Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 446 Ruthven Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel

$2,798,000 325-6161 $2,098,000 325-6161 $3,295,000 941-1111

4 Bedrooms 700 Chimalus Dr $3,198,000 Sun Dreyfus Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty 208-8824 2020 Webster St $4,500,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 606 Chimalus Dr $2,750,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 3707 Starr King Cir $2,199,000 Sun Midtown Realty 321-1596 3188 Ross Rd $2,340,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Yarkin Realty 322-1800 262 Creekside Dr. $2,350,000 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 321-1596 3201 Greer Rd $1,888,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1525 Edgewood Dr $5,998,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

4 Oak Forest Ct Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,595,000 851-1961

REDWOOD CITY 3 Bedrooms 369 Greendale Way Sat/Sun Deleon Realty 615 Lakeview Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$1,988,000 543-8500 $1,398,000 543-8500

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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) 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 Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 17, 2016.

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997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 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 (408) 392-1251 ALEXANDER JARDETZKY is the personal representative of the Estate of OLEG JARDETZKY, who is deceased.

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(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.: 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) 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.

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WOMEN’S WATER POLO

The champs will take on nation’s No. 1

HEADING TO RIO . . . Stanford will be represented in sailing by Helena Scutt and Marion Lepert at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as announced Wednesday by the United States Olympic Committee. Scutt, a 2014 graduate, and partner Paris Henken were the first boat named to the United States Olympic team. Joining Scutt in Rio will be Lepert, who took a leave of absence from Stanford after her freshman season (2013-14) to pursue her first Olympic Games.

Lepert sealed her trip to Brazil at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia, chasing down 2012 Olympian Farrah Hall in the medal races. Lepert, a native of Belmont, will race in the RS:X division, a discipline of windsurfing that has been an event at the Olympics since 2008.

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STANFORD WEEKEND . . . There is no better time for No. 17 Stanford women’s tennis team to make a statement about its postseason chances than Saturday, when the Cardinal hosts No. 1 California at Taube Family Tennis Stadium at noon. Stanford (12-5, 7-1 Pac-12) hasn’t been ranked among the top 10 since early February, and the Cardinal is unlikely to climb that high even with an upset of California (19-0, 7-0 Pac-12), the country’s only remaining undefeated team.

But a win on Saturday would vault Stanford into contention for the Pac-12 title, and possibly force the addition of a make-up match next week prior to the start of the Pac-12 Championships in Ojai. . . . The No. 5-ranked Stanford men’s volleyball team (19-5, 17-5 MPSF) opens the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament at home on Saturday against No. 6 UC Santa Barbara (19-9, 14-8 MPSF) in Maples Pavilion at 7 p.m.

Plenty at stake as defending NCAA champ Stanford plays host to unbeaten USC

Stanford senior Gurpreet Sohi and her No. 3-ranked Cardinal teammates will host No. 1 USC on Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Menlo Oaks are No. 1 in nation in dingers Menlo College is hitting the ball out of the park at a historic rate with 68 heading to weekend

ON THE AIR Friday

by Aaron Gillespie eed a few extra baseballs?

Take a walk down Atherton’s Alejandra Avenue after the Menlo College baseball team has completed batting practice. You’re likely to find the street that separates the Atherton campus and Cartan Field littered with them.

The Oaks, who are in the midst of one of the most successful seasons in program history, are hitting balls out of the park at a historic rate. In fact, the Oaks have hit more home runs as a team (68) than any other four-year institution in the country across every division. Sterling College in Kansas has hit 66 entering play this weekend.

Menlo (28-16 overall, 11-10 in the Golden State Athletic Conference) opens a three-game series at Biola (24-19, 12-9) on Friday at 2 p.m. The Oaks, who won a school-record 33 games last year, are currently fifth in the competitive conference.

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urpreet Sohi quickly caught on to the sports rivalry among Stanford, USC, UCLA and California. After all, a football game is one of the first events a freshman attends.

Sohi first had to become a football fan. A native of British Columbia, Canada, football was not at the top of her priority list. Sohi plunged into water polo (and dabbled in soccer) and was part of the Canadian national team system before arriving at Stanford.

“I’ve become a Stanford athletics fan,” Sohi said.

“Every sport has its rivalries. Playing against great teams and big schools, those are the fun games.”

The third-ranked Cardinal (19-2, 4-0 in the Mountain Sports Pacific Federation) has one of those fun games Saturday, when it hosts top-ranked and undefeated USC (19-0, 4-0) at 1 p.m. at Avery Aquatic Center.

There’s a lot at stake, especially for two-time defending national champion Stanford, on an eightgame winning streak since losing to the Trojans in the semifinals of the UC Irvine Invitational at the end of February.

“We’re fighting for the No. 1 seed at the tournament and we can do that if we win the MPSF,” Sohi correctly points out. “In the bigger picture, we’re focused on our game and what we need to do.”

Stanford, which can finish no worse than third in the conference, brings a 43-game MPSF regularseason winning streak into the contest. Stanford and USC have won the past six NCAA titles. The Trojans beat the Cardinal in 2010 and 2013 for the championship.

“It starts in September, on Day 1,” Sohi said. “You

Lucas Erceg, a highly touted transfer from Cal currently ranks third in the NAIA with 15 home runs.

The success with the long ball is led by the Oaks No. 3 and No. 4 hitters, Lucas Erceg and Garrett Gemgnani. Erceg, a highly touted transfer from Cal currently ranks third in the NAIA with 15 home runs. Gemgnani, a senior who redefined his swing over the offseason after hitting just two home runs a season ago, is second the NAIA with 17 bombs.

Those 17 home runs are also good for the single-season home run crown at Menlo College.

Gemgnani got the school mark for dingers last weekend during a doubleheader split with The Master’s College. The Oaks lost the opener, 13-10, but won the nightcap, 5-3. His homer came in the bottom of the sixth in the second game with the Oaks holding a one-run lead.

Add in Max Dutto, who recently smashed his 10th home run of the season to become the third Oak in double figures and the eight other (continued on next page)

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prepare for the moment you play these teams. They are always competitive and always fast.â&#x20AC;?

Sohi grew up in Delta, B.C., a town about 15 minutes north of the United States border, just above Washington. She spent plenty of time in California playing in water polo tournaments and attended the Stanford camp during her high school days, likely where she first attracted the attention of the Cardinal coaching staff.

She helped Canada to the silver medal at the Junior Pan Am Games in 2012 and was the leading scorer in the 2010 U16 and 2011 U18 Canadian Club national championships.

After scoring a combined 49 goals in her first three years at Stanford, Sohi ranks third with 31 goals this year. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recorded three hat tricks, including in Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14-5 victory over San Diego State on Sunday.

Junior Jamie Neushul leads Stanford with 39 goals, followed by freshman Kat Klass with 36. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been scoring more,â&#x20AC;? said Sohi, who has scored in a team-high 18 matches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We play with each other every day and we know where people are good at certain spots and how they like to receive a pass. If someone is in a strong spot weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll

feed her the ball.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a system that does not rely on any one person but utilizes a varied attack. Seven different players have at least 20 goals and three others are also in double digits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We trust each other to know when to drive and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to cover for each other,â&#x20AC;? Sohi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spend the preseason getting to know each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moves and then spend the rest of the season fine-tuning those connections.â&#x20AC;?

Sohi, a human biology major with a concentration in global health and human rights, likely will be making the right connections long after sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done playing water polo.

In high school she was part of a human rights group that took a trip to Cambodia and studied the history of the country, a history that includes genocide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a random path,â&#x20AC;? Sohi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted an opportunity to travel before college and one of the teachers was running a trip to Rwanda to study turtles. Somehow the trip got shortened and shifted to Cambodia.â&#x20AC;?

She stayed in a home for five days with no running water and no electricity. The shower was nothing more than a bucket. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a completely different life from mine,â&#x20AC;? Sohi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their values were so different. Little kids loved helping us move dirt around. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much and they were still happy and sup-

Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anna Yelizarova (11) will be one of three seniors honored before Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match with USC. portive, proud to be Cambodians.

They had a wealth of happiness.â&#x20AC;?

Visiting the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Killing Fields,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; where upwards of two million people perished, made the genocide (1975-79) real for Sohi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You see the skulls and the clothing of young children and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undeniable,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were shocked how anyone could let this happen. We studied the genocide and talked to the lead prosecutor and defense about the importance of the trials (which began

in 2009). We talked to people who shared their experiences. Some of the stories are unfathomable.â&#x20AC;?

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest against the Trojans will serve as Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Day, in which the Cardinalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three-person senior class of Rachel Johnson, Anna Yelizarova and Sohi will be honored in a pregame ceremony. In their four years on The Farm, the trio has led Stanford to a 98-8 record and a pair of national championships. Q

team member who have hit one or more home run this season and you have the recipe for a powerful lineup.

Gemgnani, who is hitting .331, leads the GSAC in several offensive categories. In addition to his prolific home run numbers, the senior transfer leads the conference in slugging percentage (.765), onbase average (.500), runs scored (44), RBI (49) and walks (42). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Garrett is a dynamic player who strengthens our team on both sides of the ball,â&#x20AC;? Menlo coach Jack McKinley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has the ability to hit for power, and has natural leadership qualities.â&#x20AC;?

Erceg, hitting .309, is second in the GSAC with 55 hits and first with 111 total bases. Duttoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s .450 slugging average is fifth in the conference and his 32 walks are exceeded only by Gemgnani.

The long ball has helped Menlo overcome a team average of .269, eighth in the nine-team conference. The Oaks lead the GSAC in runs scored (286) and walks (207), are fourth in hits (377) and second in fielding percentage (.969).

It also helps that pitching ace Ashkon Kuhalua leads the conference with a 1.65 ERA and an .188 opponent batting average. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Menlo College Sports Information

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Perfect seasons are intact

Paly baseball moves into first-place tie Vikings’ golf team moves closer to perfect season; Castilleja’s Thakurta throws a softball no-hitter

Gunn boys, Paly girls move closer to clinching De Anza Division titles

by Keith Peters he Gunn boys and Palo Alto girls each took a big step toward defending their respective dual-meet titles in the SCVAL De Anza Division with solid victories over their rivals on Tuesday at Gunn.

The Gunn boys made some history with their 104-82 triumph, registering a second straight victory over Palo Alto for the first time in more than 20 years. The Vikings still hold a 12-3 edge in the series over the past 15 years, but the Titans are enjoying a wave of success with perhaps their best team ever this season.

“It’s the first time (in more than 20 years) that our boys have won that dual meet two years in a row,” said Gunn coach Mark Hernandez. “So, yeah, we are indeed very pleased.”

Gunn improved to 5-0 while dropping Paly to 4-1. The Titans are now in the driver’s seat to defend their dual-meet and league meet titles.

In the girls’ meet, Palo Alto improved to 5-0 and beat Gunn (3-2) for the second straight season after the Titans won three straight times from 2012-14. The Vikings, however, haven’t swept this meet since 2011.

The Gunn boys saw to that with a strong finish on Senior Day for both schools. Palo Alto held a 6660 advantage after Alex Liang won the 500-yard free in 4:38.56.

After that, the tide turned in the Titans’ favor.

Gunn won the ensuing 200 free relay with the team of senior Trent Tosky, sophomore David Shau, senior Joao Ama and junior Mi-

by Keith Peters he SCVAL De Anza Division baseball race is all tied up again, thanks to Palo Alto’s 4-0 triumph over host Los Gatos on Wednesday.

The Wildcats had been alone in first place, but are now 7-1 in league (11-8 overall) heading into Friday’s rematch at Palo Alto (8-1, 13-2-1) at 4 p.m.

Palo Alto got all the runs it needed in the first inning by putting up three. Ethan Stern singled and, with two outs, Alec Olmstead singled. Justin Hull singled home Stern before Lawrence Han drove home Olmstead and Hull with a single.

Paly added another run in the second on an RBI single by Max Jung-Goldberg (scoring Angus Stayte), which proved more than enough for Hull as he tossed a complete-game five-hitter with seven strikeouts and just one walk.

In the PAL Bay Division, host Sacred Heart Prep upset firstplace Carlmont, 7-3, as senior Andrew Daschbach homered and doubled and drove in four runs.

The Scots came in 6-0 (15-2 overall) and riding a 12-game win streak. The Gators, however, got to Carlmont starter Tim Reilly, a 6-foot-5 junior who had a 4-0 mark and 1.38 ERA. SHP scored five runs on six hits (including Daschbach’s homer) off Reilly in the first two innings and chased him from the game.

Cole Spina gained the important victory for SHP (2-1, 6-12) while limiting Carlmont to four hits over four innings.

On Tuesday, Gunn snapped a recent losing streak with a 10-3 nonleague win over visiting Wilcox.

The Titans (4-9) got three hits from Josh Radin, including a double. He also scored twice. Collin Grant doubled home two runs and Charlie Racz finished with a double and two RBI and David Schwardt also drove in a pair of runs.

Junior David Clarke was the recipient of the offensive fireworks as he picked up the win while allowing only one earned and three hits over six innings.

He threw 127 pitches and had 20 first-pitch strikes against the 29 batters he faced.

In the PAL Ocean Division, Menlo School suffered another league loss while dropping an 8-2 decision to host Woodside.

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Gunn senior Joao Ama won the 50 free and swam on two winning relays to help the Titans top Palo Alto.

chael Lincoln clocking 1:30.50. a backstroker,” said Paly coach Gunn senior Daichi Matsuda Danny Dye. “So, I was pleased. then led a one-two finish in the They (the Titans) are good; should 100 back with a 54.08 clocking. make for a fun league meet.”

Should Gunn win its final Tosky came back to lead a 1-23 Gunn sweep in the 100 breast league dual meet and successwith a 59.75 time before leading fully defend its league-meet title, off the 400 free relay that won in the Titans will claim the overall a season best of 3:11.99. Lincoln, league title for a second straight Matsuda and Ama finished off the season.

In the girls’ meet, Palo Alto relay. Paly was a close second in dominated as expected 3:12.52. while winning 11 of 12 Over the final four events. events, the Gunn boys Sophomore Zoe Lusk outscored Paly, 44-16, won the 200 free in to remain undefeated.

1:56.60 and took the 100 “We are indeed very fly in 59.80. She also deep,” said Hernandez. swam a leg on the win“One of our challenges ning 200 medley relay — and it’s a good prob(1:49.58) and 400 free lem to have — is balrelay(3:46.43). Junior ancing our lineups over Grace Zhao matched a meet and over the sea- Grace Zhao her teammate as she son so that our swimmers get opportunities not only took the 50 free (24.06) and 100 to specialize but to diversify. And breast (1:05.29) and swam a leg on all credit goes to (assistant coach) the winning 200 medley relay and 200 free relay (1:40.80).

Kyle Accornero on that one.”

The 50 free was especially Earlier in the meet, Matsuda won the 100 fly in 51.06, Paly se- competitive with Zhao leading nior Andrew Cho posted a 1:43.34 teammate Claire Lin (24.63) and winning time in the 200 free to Gunn freshman Milan Hildeupend Lincoln’s 1:44.10, and Cho Jones (24.87) in the fastest dual(46.61) held off Ama (47.37) in meet 50 in the CCS this season.

Palo Alto’s Mimi Lin and Reed probably the fastest one-two 100 Merritt took the diving events on finish in a dual meet this season.

“Our guys messed up on the Monday.

In other swimming news, 200 free relay and I was missing the Menlo-Atherton girls have strengthened themselves for the remainder of the season with the addition of Castilleja transfer Izzi Henig.

Henig had to sit out six weeks before becoming eligible, which she did this week.

“Fortunately, six weeks have passed and she’ll be swimming for us (yesterday) against Hillsdale,” said M-A coach Jane Worden. “We are very excited!”

Worden and the Bears should be. Henig established herself as one of the top sprinters in the state last season during her freshman year.

Henig was second in the 100 free at the CCS Championships, her 50.11 time earning her automatic All-American status. She lowered that time further by finPalo Alto sophomore Zoe Lusk won two individual events and swam ishing third in the inaugural state championships in 49.55. Q on two winning relays.

Boys golf Palo Alto remained unbeaten and clinched the SCVAL De Anza Division regular-season title with a 189-221 dual-match victory over rival Gunn at Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club.

The Vikings improved to 8-0 in league (10-0 overall) as Ahmed Ali earned medalist honors with a 2-under 34 on the hilly layout.

On Tuesday, Palo Alto held off host Harker, 178-179, at the par-33 San Jose Country Club in a battle between two of the top teams in the CCS. The Vikings were led by Ali’s 1-under 32 with Matt Lewis carding a solid 34 and Henry Gordon right behind with a 36.

In the PAL Bay Division, Menlo-Atherton remained unbeaten following a 195-243 dual-match victory over Aragon at Sharon Heights Country Club. The Bears (10-0) were led by a 1-over 37 from freshman Jonathan Dicks while Bruce Sevy and Bill Kirkpatrick each shot 39 along with Andrew Dignum.

Girls lacrosse Palo Alto remained unbeaten and atop the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League race following a 16-6 triumph over visiting Saratoga. Maya Benatar led the Vikings (7-0, 9-3) with four goals with Charlotte Cheng and Emily Wood adding three and Ellen Goncher two. Goalie Meredith Kinnaman made 11 saves for Paly, which will host rival Gunn on Friday at 7 p.m.

In the WBAL Foothill Division, Sacred Heart Prep held on to first place following a 16-6 romp over host Sequoia. The Gators improved to 3-0 in league (9-2 overall) as Libby Muir poured in five goals and Emma Johnson added four.

In Atherton, host Menlo School remained a game back of SHP with a 19-7 victory over Castilleja. Nikky Price had six goals and two assists as the Knights moved to 2-1 in league and 5-5 overall. Abby Wolfenden and Indira Varma each added three goals with Allison Liddle and Abby Doll adding two each. Taylor DeGroff had four goals and one assist for Castilleja (1-2, 6-3).

In Burlingame, Menlo-Atherton remained tied for second place in the WBAL Foothill Division following a hard-fought 14-12 victory over the host Panthers.

Grace Tully scored seven goals and Emma Easton added four as the Bears (2-1, 6-5) pulled away from a 6-6 halftime deficit.

Softball Tara Thakurta tossed a nohitter as Castilleja remained undefeated in the WBAL (Foothill Division) race following an 8-1 triumph over visiting Pinewood.

Thakurta walked six but struck out 11 during her complete-game gem over the Panthers (0-3, 4-5). Q

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