Palo Alto Weekly May 6, 2016

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 31

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Pulse 16 Transitions 17 Spectrum 19 Eating Out 32 Movies 35 Puzzles 69 Q Arts NY-based gallery sets up shop in Palo Alto

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Q Home Sleek, clean designs on Modern Home Tour

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Q Sports M-A girls’ lacrosse tops Menlo

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Audit blasts Media Center over spending of fees City Auditor says nonprofit misused $1.4 million in funds; Media Center disputes finding

by Gennady Sheyner

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idpeninsula Community Media Center, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that produces educational shows, hosts video classes and broadcasts government meetings, inappropriately used $1.4 million in cable fees between 2010 and 2014, according to a scathing au-

dit from the office of City Auditor Harriet Richardson.

The finding, which could reshape the longstanding relationship between the city and its “public, education and government” (PEG) access provider, has touched off a heated exchange between Media Center officials, who strongly dis-

pute the audit’s conclusion, and the auditor, who believes that the organization knew years ago it was using the funds unlawfully yet continued that practice anyway.

Media Center officials claim the audit ignored key pieces of information, misinterpreted the law and ran afoul of Government Auditing Standards, an accusation that Richardson has strongly objected to. Richardson’s audit, for its part, questions whether PEG-access channels are even useful in this day

and age and asserts that the “idea that PEG channels offer unique choices to viewers is outdated” — a claim that Media Center Executive Director Annie Folger has called “upsetting” and untrue.

The rancorous dispute revolves around what’s known as “PEG fees,” which Palo Alto collects from the area’s two cable franchise holders — Comcast and AT&T — and then remits to the Media Center. The fees, Richardson’s audit states, are required by federal law

to be used for capital expenditures.

The Media Center used them for operating expenses, including salaries and benefits, professional services, janitorial services, maintenance and insurance.

The Media Center doesn’t deny that it used PEG fees for operating expenses, but it maintains that it has not violated the Federal Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. To make its case, the Media (continued on page 8)

TRANSPORTATION

Time passages

Veronica Weber

Louise “Nicki” Smith, principal of Ohlone Elementary School (wearing a hat), and teacher Terri Feinberg sort through items placed in a time capsule in 1994, as students look on. The capsule, which was buried in the playground and opened on Wednesday, included hats, necklaces, T-shirts and cassette tapes.

Most materials were severely damaged, as the capsule broke when the playground’s asphalt was repaved years ago.

YOUTH WELL-BEING

New website highlights the many paths to success Two alumna collect Palo Altans’ life stories to highlight alternate possibilities in life

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ne person attended high school in Palo Alto in the 2000s, went on to study music and technology at California Lutheran University and is now working as a video editor for MTV’s “Real World.”

Another who attended high school here in the 1960s studied at De Anza College, Foothill College, Cuesta College and San Francisco State University and has worked in retail, publishing, film, health care and nonprofit organizations.

Another who was severely de-

by Elena Kadvany pressed, anxious and contemplated suicide in high school, failing most classes, went on to major in social work at Utah State University and defines being successful simply as “being happy.”

These are a few of the more than 80 life stories that Palo Alto schools’ alumni of all ages have submitted to a new online anthology, launched this week by two lifelong friends from Palo Alto who felt compelled to share with current students something valuable they’ve learned with age: There is no single path to success.

“Our goal is to shatter the myth that we believed growing up — that our career and life follow one linear path with the end goal of achieving one universal definition of success,” a description of the project, called Paths from Palo Alto, states. “We hope to replace it with the reality we’ve uncovered — that our career and life is a winding path made of different, sometimes unpredictable chapters in which our definition of success shifts.”

Michal Pasternak and Jacqueline Gowen, now in their late 30s and living in New York, have known

City eyes tax to fight traffic With survey showing moderate support, City Council prepares for more polling, outreach

each other since elementary school, going through Palo Verde Elementary, JLS Middle and Gunn High schools together. (They joked that PathsfromPaloAlto.com is the third class project they’ve worked on together, following one on the tundra in elementary school and an 1800s newspaper project in eighth grade.)

Both grew up believing in the Palo Alto mentality and followed it more or less until later in life. Both attended prestigious universities, obtained high-level degrees and found traditional success in their respective industries. Pasternak, a Stanford University-trained mechanical engineer, worked her way up at an East Coast digital agency and was named to magazine Advertising Age’s annual “40 under 40” list. Gowen attended Harvard Business School and got a job in strategy consulting at global management firm McKinsey & Company.

But certain life events — for Pas-

by Gennady Sheyner espite widespread anxiety about traffic congestion, Palo Alto residents aren’t entirely sold on a new business tax that would help pay for shuttles, bike boulevards and other transportation improvements, a new poll shows.

The City Council commissioned the survey as it explores the idea of placing a transportation-tax measure on the November ballot. The poll, which was conducted by the firm Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates, indicated that while about 67 percent of local residents support the concept of a transportation tax, only 61 percent favor it after hearing the opposing arguments — just below the two-thirds threshold needed for the measure’s passage.

By contrast, local support appears to be strong for a countywide transportation-tax measure that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) plans to put on the November ballot.

The measure would raise the sales tax rate by 1/2 cent over a 30-year period to raise about $6.5 billion for a variety of transportation improvements throughout the county.

If approved, the county measure would pay for an extension of BART to San Jose and Santa Clara, Caltrain upgrades (along with $700 million for separating roadways from the train tracks); and improvements to expressways, highway interchanges and transit services. It would also allocate funds for street

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about personal self-gratification; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about instant gratification. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Candace Wang, Palo Alto High School junior, on helping students find volunteer and internship opportunities that match their interests. See story on page 7.

Around Town

TIME TO RIDE ... Tune up those brakes and grab your helmet, the 22nd annual Bike to Work Day is just around the corner. Cyclists in Palo Alto will head to work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on Thursday, May 12, 6:30-9:30 a.m., as part of the event, which aims to encourage two-wheeled commuters. Bicyclists can stop by â&#x20AC;&#x153;energizerâ&#x20AC;? stations located around the city to grab free snacks, water and other items.

These stations will be set up at the Alma Street Bike Bridge, Wilkie Way Bike Bridge, on Bryant Street near City Hall and on California Avenue near the Caltrain station. The Silicon Valley Bicycle Association will also have energizer stations set up at KEEN Garage (278 University Ave.), the bike station at Palo Alto Caltrain Station (95 University Ave.) and White Plaza at Stanford University, among other locations. For a map showing all locations, visit bikesiliconvalley.org.

A DREAM REALIZED ... In the final days of his battle with cancer in 2014, Los Altos psychiatrist Peter Lucy requested that his inheritance help establish a center to provide low-cost mental health services to women. It was to be located in a Craftsman house on Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homer Avenue, which was built

by Lucyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great-uncle circa 1910.

Readers of the Weekly may recall, however, that city regulations halted that dream. What was not known then was that the roadblock would launch the executor of his estate, Palo Alto resident Allen Podell, on a two-year quest to fulfill his friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream. On Friday, May 6, Lucyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is coming to fruition in San Jose with the launch of the Linda Haskell Empowerment Center through the YWCA Silicon Valley. It is named after Lucyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late wife, a Los Altos psychiatric social worker killed by a drunk driver in a 1992 accident that also left Lucy with lifelong disabilities. The center will provide supportive housing, counseling and therapy to survivors of domestic violence.

GENEROSITY SHINES ... Mountain View-based Silicon Valley Community Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 24-hour give-a-thon on Tuesday raised more than $7.85 million, according to the organization. More than 1,000 nonprofits in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco and San Benito counties participated in the

online fundraising effort, also known as SVGives. Those organizations benefited from a blitz of generosity: 23,906 donations from 18,159 donors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All across the four counties involved ... people demonstrated a generous spirit and connection to their communities,â&#x20AC;? Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, said in a press release. To view results, visit http://bit.ly/26XwehX. RIDING OFF ... Ever since Palo Alto launched its Safe Routes to School program a decade ago, the number of students riding their bikes to school has steadily risen. In 2005, about 18 percent of Gunn High students and 16 percent of Palo Alto High students cycled to school; by 2015, the rates were 44 percent and 43 percent, respectively. Today, the program stands as a poster-child for a successful community initiative, a fact that the council recognized with a special proclamation this week. In discussing the changing trends, Mayor Pat Burt observed that the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire mindset about biking to school is different than it was a generation ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a positive social norm,â&#x20AC;? Burt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the more cool thing to do.â&#x20AC;?

Moments after celebrating the 10th anniversary of Safe Routes to School, the council bid adieu to one of its pioneers: Kathy Durham, a city planner who proposed that the city endorse the 2005 National Safe Routes to School Consensus Statement, thus launching the program. Durham, who has served the city for 27 years, was recognized by the council for spearheading advocacy for the bike program; working with school officials and parents to initiate the Pedestrian Safety Program for kindergarten through second grade; and becoming the first recipient of the Bicycle Agency Staff Person of the Year Award from the League of American Bicyclists, among other things. In her farewell speech, Durham stressed the need to remove barriers that are preventing families from letting kids bike to school and cited the â&#x20AC;&#x153;no-guilt approachâ&#x20AC;? that she and other program leaders have pioneered to encourage alternative modes of transportation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not everyone is able to walk and bike, especially to school, but more of us can go to more places, more often, without getting into a car,â&#x20AC;? Durham said. Q

Upfront DEVELOPMENT

Council halts Royal Manor’s bid to ban two-story homes Palo Alto officials shift focus to improving design rules in Eichler neighborhoods

by Gennady Sheyner

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divisive proposal to ban new two-story homes in Palo Alto’s Royal Manor neighborhood faltered at the finish line Monday night when the City Council decided after a long debate not to move ahead with a zone change requested by more than 60 percent of neighborhood residents.

Instead, the council directed the city’s planning staff to focus its efforts on a broader and more complex solution: special design guidelines that would apply to new homes in Joseph Eichler-developed tracts, which feature houses with glass walls facing backyards.

Through that 7 to 0 decision (with Councilmen Greg Schmid and Cory Wolbach recusing because they live in Royal Manor), the council attempted to offer some reassurance to residents in neighborhoods where opposition to twostory homes has become particularly vehement in the last year.

Proponents of a what’s known as

a “single-story overlay” zone have argued that two-story homes clash with the Eichler aesthetic and deprive neighbors of their privacy.

Opponents say such a ban would violate their property rights.

The same arguments were made by residents of Los Arboles and Greer Park North, Eichler neighborhoods that recently achieved the zone change. But things went askew in Royal Manor, where waning support for the zone change ultimately dogged the petition effort.

Though initially 70 percent of the property owners signed a petition supporting the overlay (the exact threshold for the zone change), more than a dozen subsequently reversed their position and asked that their signatures be removed.

By Monday, the level of support had ebbed to 63 percent.

Ultimately, after a lengthy debate, the council voted 4-3 not to move ahead with the change, with council members Tom DuBois,

Karen Holman and Liz Kniss recommending that the city adopt the ban for up to a year. A temporary overlay zone would serve as a moratorium while the city works on a permanent solution that would be more universally embraced within the neighborhood, the three said.

The council’s division mirrored the community’s. DuBois observed that the petition had the needed 70 percent support at the time the application was submitted. Because it technically met the requirement, DuBois said, the city should grant residents the single-story overlay.

“Even though support has dropped, we still have a large majority of 63 percent,” DuBois said.

“I think we need to provide some interim protection.”

The four council members who opposed banning two-story homes — Marc Berman, Eric Filseth, Vice Mayor Greg Scharff and Mayor Pat Burt — cited problems with Royal Manor’s petition

drive and maintained that the city’s existing appeals process is sufficient in protecting the neighborhood from what residents refer to as “two-story teardowns.”

Burt called the Royal Manor application the most difficult single-story overlay submittal that he had encountered in his nearly two decades on the council and the city’s planning commission.

Because, under the existing rules, ban supporters are the ones in control of the petition process, making the signatures binding is problematic, he said.

“I think the assertion that people should not be allowed to rescind their support between the time they’re first presented — whenever they are presented — and when it comes to the council is really to me not appropriate,” Burt said.

Berman agreed and said that approving an ordinance despite the problems with the petition drive would be “going in the wrong direction,” from the process, government and public-perception standpoints.

Much like on April 25, when the council first took up the subject, dozens of residents addressed their elected leaders to make their case for and against the ban on two-story buildings. Opponents noted that 19 of the neighborhood’s 203 homes are already two stories in height.

“It really boggles my mind how they can vote yes on the SSO (single-story overlay) and enjoy the benefits (of a second-story home) and, on the other hand, I’m robbed of the same privilege that they used and enjoyed for decades,” said Hobart Sze, who lives between two two-story homes on Loma Verde Avenue.

For overlay proponents, the council decision wasn’t a total loss. By pledging to revise the design guidelines, the council is adopting an approach used in cities like Sunnyvale and Cupertino, which already have special rules for Eichler neighborhoods. These rules aim to ensure that when a two-story home is built, its design is such that it doesn’t affect the sunlight and privacy of neighbors.

Burt and his colleagues acknowledged that the city’s existing “individual review” process for new two-story homes isn’t stringent enough to ensure architectural compatibility. He and his colleagues all supported taking a closer look at revising design guidelines to ensure better compatibility — a change that also has broad support from both sides of Royal Manor’s contentious debate.

“If I were going forward with allowing second-story homes in Eichler neighborhoods, I’d want much stronger guidelines on privacy and mass and all of those issues,” Burt said. Q

YOUTH WELL-BEING

Student-run Get Involved Palo Alto to offer summer internships Teacher: Service learning helps teens find purpose, explore careers

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grassroots service-learning program started by a Palo Alto High School teacher as a way to help teens find purpose and meaning outside of the classroom has launched a new summer internship program.

Get Involved Palo Alto will provide 75 students with one-month internships starting in June, each tailored to individual interests and aptitudes. Students will also be matched with mentors from more than 20 local partner organizations.

The summer program is an extension of Get Involved Palo Alto’s efforts over the last seven years to stoke high school students’ interests through volunteering. Paly community-service adviser Christina Owen, who started the program, sees Get Involved as part of a growing effort to provide Palo Alto teens with alternate pathways to success and personal fulfillment.

Owen started Get Involved in the wake of the cluster of youth suicides in 2009 and 2010. She felt strongly that through service learning Palo Alto teens could explore their interests with no grade, requirement or pressures attached.

Her belief in this is personal: Getting involved — from a walk-athon in sixth grade to a volunteer position at El Camino Hospital in

Mountain View — “saved” her at a time when she struggled with depression, she said.

Service learning is a “higher” learning concept than simple volunteering in that it empowers teens through problem solving and collaborating to address a community need. It also connects them with the broader community and with each other in different venues outside of school.

“It’s student self-advocating; it’s the community embracing their interests; and it’s students helping each other,” Owen said.

Owen launched Get Involved as an anthology of students’ reflections on their service-learning experiences; the group still publishes the magazine annually.

That effort morphed into a service nonprofit that has connected nearly 400 high school students with a range of volunteer opportunities in the community.

This year, there are students working with the school district to collect and analyze energyconsumption data. Others are working with the City of Palo Alto’s Zero Waste program to reduce waste within the city and at school campuses, and some are working with the City of Palo Alto Utilities Department to en-

gage students and community members in a national energysaving competition. Other students are tutors at Jordan Middle School’s afterschool homework center. In the past, students have volunteered everywhere from local schools and nonprofits to the California Youth Symphony, Foothill College’s Foreign Language Department and the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos.

Students say that the group has helped them access internship and volunteer opportunities that can be challenging to find if they’re unsure where to start or have no prior experience.

Through Get Involved, Paly junior Jerry Huang has interned with the City of Palo Alto working on engagement efforts for the Georgetown University Energy Prize.

An app he created caught Owen’s attention, and he was roped in to design one for Get Involved itself.

The app will allow students to track their service hours and make that data easily accessible to others.

Huang said he found himself waking up on weekends and skipping breakfast and lunch, without complaint, to work on the Get Involved app.

“I had this motivation to finish it. I knew once I was done with

Veronica Weber

by Elena Kadvany

Get Involved Palo Alto members Nicole Chen, center, and Candace Wang, right, talk with project director Christina Owen, left, about lining up internships for students with nonprofit organizations this summer. it, kids were going to use it, and doing graphic design and creatit was going to be something that ing pamphlets; and coordinating would really benefit our commu- an annual career event that brings nity,” Huang said. “It was some- in speakers from local companies and industries to talk to students, thing that drove me to finish it.”

Other students feel similarly among other responsibilities.

“It’s not about personal selffulfilled by focusing on helping others. It’s made them more con- gratification; it’s not about instant fident and exposed them to ca- gratification,” said one of these reers they might want to pursue students, Paly junior Candace Wang. “It’s about this long-term down the road, they said.

“I get to experience real work process of working through orgathat adults do, which is a differ- nizing things or organizing other ent kind of learning than I do at people or getting people in touch school,” said Paly junior Emily with mentors or opportunities.

“It’s (about) how it makes you Hwang, who spends several days a week as an energy-audit intern feel ... (when) you’ve done something to help someone else achieve with the school district.

Owen also runs the program as their dreams, their passions.”

It’s rewarding, too, for the para youth leadership opportunity. A cadre of Paly students are in charge ticipating organizations.

Rebecca Navarro, an energy of connecting teenagers with volunteer opportunities; managing specialist with the school district and meeting with those students and a former JLS Middle School on a regular basis; running the Get teacher, is mentoring three Paly Involved website and social-media (continued on page 10) platforms; taking photographs, www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 6, 2016 • Page 7

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Center included a letter from the law firm Best, Best & Krieger that disagrees with the audit’s conclusion and asserts that the Cable Act “does not require that PEG fees be limited to capital expenditures.”

The auditor, meanwhile, had consulted with the City Attorney’s Office and a consulting attorney and determined that the restrictions are legally binding. The consulting attorney’s assessment was not available as of Thursday morning.

Richardson told the Weekly that the initial purpose of the audit was to make sure that AT&T and Comcast paid what they owed in cable fees. In addition to paying these PEG fees, the two cable companies are also to pay franchise fees to each of the jurisdictions they serve. This includes Palo Alto and its partners in what is known as the Joint Powers Authority (JPA): Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Atherton and unincorporated portions of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

The California Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 requires a franchise holder to pay 5 percent of its gross revenues to each jurisdiction served, unless the jurisdiction approves a lower fee. The PEG fee, meanwhile, is set at 0.88 cents per cable subscriber per month.

In reviewing the payments, the audit found that the two cable-service providers underpaid about $216,000 during the four years of the auditing period. Comcast underpaid the Cable Joint Powers about $128,000 in franchise fees and $13,000 in PEG fees, while AT&T underpaid about $48,000 in franchise fees and $27,000 in PEG fees.

Yet over the course of the review, as the auditors researched PEG

fees, they decided to also see how these funds are being spent, Richardson said. They took a closer look at Media Center’s expenditures and concluded in the audit that the organization “inappropriately used an annual average of $340,000 of public, education, and government (PEG) fees, or $1.4 million during the audit period.”

The audit, which the council’s Policy and Services Committee will discuss Tuesday night, recommends that the city reconsider the need to continue collecting these fees. And if it does continue to collect them, these fees should be “based on a demonstrated need for future capital expenses related to public, education and government access,” the audit states.

Furthermore, if the council elects to continue the fee, it should halt the existing practice of passing these fees through to the Media Center and instead place them in a “restricted account” for distribution based on city-approved capital expenditures that comply with the Cable Act, the audit states. It also recommends semi-annual documentation of expenditures and procedures for ensuring that the PEG fees are lawfully spent.

But the Media Center, in a long and strongly worded response, argued that JPA officials and the Media Center’s board of directors (which ultimately approves the budget) were fully aware of and fully supported the use of PEG fees for operating expenses.

In fact, the Media Center’s partners preferred that the organization pay for capital expenditures like facilities improvements and equipment needs using its investment fund, the response states.

The Media Center also maintains that its existing voluntary agreement with the cities it serves allows it to use PEG fees for operations. The auditor countered

that the latest agreement, reached in 2011, explicitly states that the Media Center only use PEG fees “in a manner consistent with the DIVCA and Cable Act” — which is to say, restricted to capital costs.

Folger also told the Weekly in an interview that the Media Center has already taken actions to address the auditor’s concerns about the PEG fees. Earlier this year, its board adopted a policy calling for the Media Center to use its investment funds for operations and PEG fees for capital expenditures.

But from Richardson’s perspective, this change should have been adopted long ago. In addressing the Media Center’s response, Richardson included a link to a YouTube clip from a November 2013 panel discussion in which Folger talked about the use of PEG fees. Folger said that the Media Center’s local franchise agreement included language stating the fee could be used for any “PEG purpose.”

“So we have been telling ourselves that because our local franchise allowed us to spend that $0.88 per subscriber for operations, we would continue to do so until challenged otherwise, and that’s exactly what we’ve been doing,” Folger said. “It’s essentially about $327,000 annually now that we get in PEG fees as a result of this pass-through fee. ... We’d be hard-pressed to say it’s being spent on capital each year.”

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n addition to the legal dispute over PEG fees, the auditor and the Media Center are also at odds over the the broader issue about the usefulness of PEG-access channels. In discussing the changing media landscape, Richardson pointed to a 2008 report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy,

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which makes an argument that the “idea that PEG channels offer unique choices to viewers is out-ofdate.” (The report acknowledges, however, that “broadcasts of local government meetings increase transparency of government functions and help inform interested viewers about local issues.”)

“Cable television viewers now have many channels available to them on their cable system,” the Mackinac brief states. “Much of the programming and local information is available on the Internet through such web sites as YouTube and through email groups, rendering PEG channels increasingly redundant. Furthermore, only a small portion of cable subscribers actually watch the programming on PEG channels.”

The Mackinac report wasn’t the only source of information Richardson cites. The auditor also pointed to the most recent National Citizen Survey, which showed the percentage of Palo Alto respondents reporting that they had watched a government meeting during the prior year dropping from 31 percent in 2006 to 15 percent in 2014.

But the Media Center in its formal response took issue with the auditor’s reliance on the Mackinac report, noting that it was funded by the Koch Brothers, the Bradley and Scaife foundations and “other hard-right supporters of what some claim is an agenda to undermine public education, destroy unions, suppress minority and deny public access to communication media.”

The Media Center pointed to a separate study, from University of Texas in Austin, which concluded that PEG channels “retain their importance, and are of particular importance to minorities and to segments of a community with lower income.”

The value of PEG channels, the Media Center’s response states, “is measured not just by viewership, but by participation in the process of creating the programming, and its contribution to creation of social capital and civic engagement.”

The audit, the response argued, accepts the premise from the Mackinac Center that sources of digital content, such as YouTube, are “equivalent to, and a substitute for, PEG channels.” In fact, the Media Center claims, they are complementary.

“In the JPA area, for example, the existence of a PEG channel and PEG equipment allows producers to create programming that can be distributed via cable but then also distributed via other digital media, including public-accesscenter websites and YouTube,” the Media Center’s response states.

“The PEG funding thus provides resources that allow citizens who would otherwise be unable to produce quality programming to develop free-speech content that is then available across platforms — and allows those who rely on television as the main source of information to obtain communityspecific information.”

The City Council acknowledged the value that the Media

Center provides last September, when it passed a special proclamation honoring the Media Center and declared Sept. 13 to be “Midpen Media Center Day in Palo Alto.” The proclamation celebrated the organization as one that “envisions a community that explores and uses video and other electronic communication technologies to tell its stories, learns about the diversity of the community and engages in a dialogue and crosses political and cultural boundaries.”

Now, with the auditor recommending significant reforms, it will be up to the same council to consider whether the organization still warrants public subsidies and, if so, whether new restrictions should be added to the city’s agreement with the organization.

Folger, for her part, called the audit’s recommendations “unreasonable” and said that they would turn annual funding for the organization into a “political football.”

City Manager James Keene, in his response to the audit, wrote that staff agrees to “develop and implement criteria for the use of PEG fees to ensure compliance with the federal Cable Act, and to set fees at a level that is consistent with future capital needs.”

Keene also wrote in his response that the new audit “raises an important policy question about the ongoing value of PEG channels in our community and the desire to invest in and maintain the current model for the provision of local community media.”

Richardson told the Weekly that the report doesn’t suggest abolishing the PEG channels but merely to reconsider the best and most costeffective way to offer the services that the Media Center provides.

“We raise the question so people can think about it,” Richardson said.

She also took issue with the Media Center’s implication that her office strayed from ethical guidelines for auditors, as stated in Government Auditing Standards.

Richardson, who was recently appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States to the Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council, said that the standards require auditors to “exercise professional skepticism in the work they do, which includes being alert to, for example, audit evidence that contradicts other audit evidence obtained or information that brings into question the reliability of responses to inquiries.”

“Exercising our professional skepticism led us to provide multiple opportunities for the Media Center to provide reliable responses to our inquiries,” Richardson wrote in her response to the Media Center’s response.

“However, during the audit, they changed the reasons they provided for why they used the PEG fees for operating expenses, which led us to take extra care toward providing assurance regarding our conclusions.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Community Health Education Programs

News Digest

May Fête Parade returns to Palo Alto Saturday

For a complete list of classes, lectures and support groups, or to register, visit pamf.org/healtheducation

May and June 2016 All our lectures are free and open to the public. Classes may have a fee.

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Dementia Caregiver Education Series: Understanding Dementia-Related Behavior

Cooking Demo: Fast, Fresh & Fabulous Meals May 5, 6 to 8 p.m.

Watch PAMF internal medicine physicians Kim Carlson, M.D., and Aarti Srinivasan, M.D., prepare five healthy meals, each in 20 minutes or less.

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Strong fundraising boosts Berman, Veenker in Assembly race Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman raised $104,481 in the latest reporting period for his bid to succeed Rich Gordon in the state Assembly, more than any of his seven competitors, campaign-finance documents show.

The disclosures, which cover the period between Jan. 1 and April 23, also show a strong fundraising drive by Palo Alto attorney Vicki Veenker, who received $100,812 in contributions. Her numbers coincide with recent endorsements and contributions from California’s teachers and nurses unions.

Many of Berman’s donations, according to his finance statement, have come from labor groups, developers, Realtors, attorneys, business professionals and public officials.

Cupertino Mayor Barry Chang, who held the fundraising lead earlier this year, received only $32,638 in the latest period — much of it in large checks from outside the district. His campaign still has more than $290,000 in cash on hand, according to his latest filing.

Yet because he used some of his campaign funds to repay a loan, he actually ended the period $7,362 in the hole.

Mountain View City Councilman Mike Kasperzak, meanwhile, raised $34,219 in the last period but remains well behind the other three Democratic front-runners in total cash raised.

The other four candidates have far smaller campaign chests. Menlo Park City Councilman Peter Ohtaki, the lone Republican in the race, raised $22,495, while Mountain View City Councilman John Inks, the lone Libertarian, raised $14,670 (this includes a $10,000 loan Inks gave to his campaign).

Two other candidates — Seelam Reddy and Jay Cabrera — are running low-budget, grassroots campaigns and have not filed finance papers with the Secretary of State.

The eight candidates are competing in the June 7 primary, and the two top vote-getters will move on to the November ballot. Q — Gennady Sheyner

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Local school bands, kids on bikes, pets in costume, Palo Alto officials and parade entrants, including electric cars designed and built by students from Palo Alto middle schools, will take over University Avenue and surrounding streets during the 94th annual May Fête Children’s Parade on Saturday, May 7.

The parade begins at 10 a.m. This year’s theme is “Happy Healthy Habits” — an extension of the City Council’s “Healthy City, Healthy Community” initiative, which was adopted in October 2015.

And in keeping with this year’s theme, there will be activities, events and programs to engage the community and promote positive mental and physical habits, according to the city. This year’s grand marshal is the organization Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE).

Some downtown streets will be closed on Saturday morning in preparation for the parade. Beginning at 6 a.m. and lasting until noon, University will be closed between High Street to Webster Street; and Webster Street will be closed between University and Homer, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Roads will re-open as the parade passes, but there will also be road closures in the area of Heritage Park, at 300 Homer Ave., until about 3 p.m., for the May Fête Fair, according to police.

The fair, organized by the Palo Alto Recreation Foundation and the Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, will feature children’s activities, food and performances from local groups. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

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students this semester. She trained two in energy auditing — visiting schools and identifying areas for conservation — and a third in analyzing utility data.

“I felt like it brings some meaning to my work if I can reconnect with students,” she said. “That was more important to me than getting help with my workload or anything like that. This is mostly going to be about helping students figure out if this career path feels right to them.”

Lisa Benatar, a staff specialist with City of Palo Alto Utilities, has been working with a group of Get Involved interns on the Georgetown Energy Prize. They’ve come up with ideas for how the city can save energy and helped to get the

word out about new programs at their campuses. They’ve sat in on a pitch meeting with an advertising company, offered their own marketing ideas (why not use Snap Chat to promote the competition with teenagers?) and listened in on a business-development meeting for a new utilities program that’s launching this summer.

“It’s definitely a two-way street,” Benatar said of working with the interns. “We’re hoping that they’re benefiting, and we’re benefiting as well.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

The Get Involved summer internship program is open to incoming high school sophomores, juniors, seniors and outgoing seniors at Gunn and Paly. More information is posted at getinvolvedpa.com.

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repairs and bike improvements.

Of those polled who favor the county tax, 34 percent say they will “definitely vote yes,” 37 percent say they would “probably vote yes” and 2 percent say they are “leaning toward yes.” By contrast, 9 percent said they would “probably vote no” and 13 percent said they would “definitely vote no.”

For the local measure, the margins are far smaller. Though 67 percent said they support the “concept” of a citywide transportation-tax measure — which is exactly at the needed two-thirds threshold for a special election — just 30 percent said “definitely yes,” while 35 percent said “probably yes.” In addition, 13 percent gave “definitely no” as their answer, while another 13 percent said “probably no.”

Palo Alto’s proposed business tax would focus exclusively on transportation improvements in the city. Though the council has yet to formulate a list of those projects, prior discussions indicate it would include an expansion of the city’s shuttle system, improved traffic signals, bikeroute improvements and transportation-demand-management programs, which aim to get people out of cars and into other modes of transportation.

Given the area’s worsening traffic conditions, the council agreed Monday that it should continue to explore the local measure. By a unanimous vote, council members decided to go out for a second poll that would help them determine whether the measure should be pursued this year.

Despite their willingness to commission an additional survey, some council members, including Marc Berman, Liz Kniss and Cory Wolbach, argued that it would probably make more sense to explore a transportation-tax measure in 2018. This would give the city time to conduct outreach to businesses and residents and further refine its funding plan for the tax proceeds, they said.

Wolbach suggested that a 2018 measure could address not only traffic but also housing needs.

According to the new poll, “cost of housing” scored highest on the city’s list of most urgent problems, with 76 percent calling it either an “extremely serious problem” or a “very serious problem.” This was followed by California’s drought conditions (65 percent) and traffic and congestion (53 percent).

“These are major challenges that we’re facing for the next 25 years,” Wolbach said. “Let’s really take time to figure out what our priorities are, put together a package and come back in 2018.”

But Mayor Pat Burt and Councilwoman Karen Holman said that the city shouldn’t give up on a 2016 measure just yet. Both pointed out that the city simply doesn’t have the resources that it needs to solve the worsening traffic problems. Holman said the proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 looks to draw $4.9 million from the city’s reserves to meet rising expenses.

“This is the first sweep, and I think we haven’t tapped at the potential support that can be generated,” Holman said of the poll.

Burt said that waiting two years would only leave the city with a “worse need and a bigger hole to try to dig ourselves out of.” He also argued that funds from the business tax (which would be based on employee head count and which he estimates would generate about $6 million a year) would go a longer way in solving the traffic problem than the housing crisis.

“On housing, this much money wouldn’t move the needle; zone changes would,” he said. “It’s one thing to find something that would appeal to the voters, it’s another thing as to what would actually have an impact on the problem.”

After discussing the polling results, the council agreed to refer the matter to its Local Transportation Funding Committee, which will work with the pollster to formulate the survey.

In the meantime, the city will also start to conduct outreach to the business community. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (May 2)

Eichlers: The council directed staff to create design guidelines for new homes in Eichler neighborhoods. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff Recused: Schmid, Wolbach Royal Manor: The council voted not to move ahead with an interim “single-story overlay” zone for the Royal Manor neighborhood. Yes: DuBois, Holman, Kniss No: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Scharff Recused: Schmid, Wolbach Transportation: The council voted to commission a second poll for a potential tax measure to pay for local transportation needs. Yes: Unanimous

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.

County officials eye housing-tax measure In an ongoing effort to shore up affordable housing throughout the south bay area, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is considering a $750 million bond for the November ballot that would help pay for new homes for veterans, seniors, low-income families and the homeless. (Posted May 5, 9:44 a.m.)

Police: Woman arrested for setting fire to RV A 31-year-old East Palo Alto woman was arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire on Sunday, May 1, that caused minor damage to an unoccupied recreational vehicle, according to a press release from the Palo Alto Police Department. (Posted May 5, 9:31 a.m.)

Meetings to look at ‘Pros and Cons’ of ballot measures The League of Women Voters of Palo Alto will host a series of “Pros and Cons” public meetings to discuss three measures on the June 7 ballot during the month of May, starting Monday, May 16.

(Posted May 4, 7:40 a.m.)

Local teen counseling center finds new home After getting priced out of its former offices in eastern Palo Alto, Adolescent Counseling Services has found a new home, with a three-year lease, at 643 Bair Island Road in Redwood City, said Aarika Riddle, Adolescent Counseling Services marketing and advancement director. (Posted May 3, 12:40 p.m.)

East Palo Alto man fatally shot early Tuesday morning An East Palo Alto man died in a shooting early Tuesday morning, May 3, according to a police department press release. (Posted May 3, 8:18 a.m.)

Teens who beat 68-year-old heart patient get prison terms A San Mateo County Superior Court judge has sentenced two 18-year-olds who beat and robbed a man with a heart condition to prison, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office said.

(Posted April 30, 9:58 p.m.)

Council Finance Committee (May 3)

Budget: The committee recommended approving the proposed budgets for the offices of the City Attorney, City Auditor, City Clerk and City Manager; the Information Technology budget; and the proposed budgets for the Human Resources and Administrative Services departments. The committee also voted 3 to 1, with Wolbach dissenting, to recommend approving the budget for the Office of Sustainability. Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (May 4)

Budget: The commission recommended approval of the Utilities Department’s capital and operating budgets for Fiscal Year 2017. Yes: Ballantine, Book, Danaher, Eglash, Schwartz Absent: Foster, Hall

Architectural Review Board (May 5)

1700 Embarcadero Road: The board discussed the latest design for a proposed Mercedes dealership at 1700 Embarcadero Road. The board expressed concerns about the potential impact of lighting and requested the applicant return with more information on May 19. Yes: Unanimous

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Weekly wins online ‘General Excellence,’ total of 13 state journalism awards The Palo Alto Weekly’s staff was awarded the top prize for quality online journalism by the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest on Saturday, April 30, in San Francisco. The award was part of a suite of wins for the community media outlet and its news staff, including five first-place and eight second-place awards. (Posted April 30, 4:12 p.m.)

VIDEO: On ‘Behind the Headlines’ On the half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” Palo Alto’s Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello joins Weekly reporters Gennady Sheyner and Sue Dremann to discuss the city’s transportation challenges and potential solutions. (Posted April 29, 9:11 p.m.)

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As the Lead Agency overseeing this project's environmental review, the City of Palo Alto has completed a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for the proposed project described above. The MND is available for public review.

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places theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived and industries theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked in.

Pasternak and Gowen also asked for responses to more philosophical statements such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, being successful means ...â&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;My biggest mistake or regret so far and what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from itâ&#x20AC;?; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did your education prepare you for your career or occupation?â&#x20AC;?

Pasternak and Gowen said they long debated whether the stories should be anonymous. They decided anonymity was important in order to ensure a â&#x20AC;&#x153;real, honest, unedited story,â&#x20AC;? Gowen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really wanted the focus to be on truth, authenticity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the stories you would never hear on a LinkedIn. The stories you would never hear on a Facebook,â&#x20AC;? Pasternak said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of posturing that goes on â&#x20AC;&#x201D; throughout adulthood, too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to show their flaws, their weaknesses, their stumbles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just wanted to make a place where actual life experiences could shine through,â&#x20AC;? she said.

On the site, the MTV editor tells of getting a bad grade in his/ her intended college major (psychology) and a much better grade in another class (music), which led to a decision to â&#x20AC;&#x153;pursue a degree in something that I found a lot more fun.â&#x20AC;? The personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definition of success changed from believing that accolades â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;trophies, degrees, wealth, etc.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were the most important thing to believing in â&#x20AC;&#x153;creating a life in which happiness is achieved.â&#x20AC;?

Another post, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Circuitous Route,â&#x20AC;? describes the path of a person whose expectations changed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was in high school, I thought I had to do what was expected, in the right order, and on schedule to be successful,â&#x20AC;? the person wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, 30-ish years later, I know that the fact that I took a different path (put myself through college, graduated in my early 30s) means that I have a true understanding of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important. I value that journey.â&#x20AC;?

Another alum wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My biggest regret is thinking I was suppose to suffer for success. Pushing myself to do things that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right for me at the time, in the name of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no pain, no gain.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The titles convey other messages: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your past does not define youâ&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Never Fit the Palo Alto â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mold!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Employed Philosophy Majorâ&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Not What You Do.â&#x20AC;?

The stories are also searchable by decade and category (including particular colleges or locations), and some include a contact button so that a reader with questions can get in touch with the author.

Within 24 hours of launching the website, the number of stories the two friends had received doubled, they said.

They are encouraging alumni to submit their stories and current Palo Alto students and parents to send feedback to help improve the project. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

A HEALTHY MIND PANEL DISCUSSION El Camino Hospital has partnered with the Parents’ Club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park and Blossom Birth Services to present a panel discussion on the emotional and psychological changes childbirth can bring. Learn the differences between baby blues and postpartum depression, and get tips on handling the pressures of caring for a newborn from mothers who have been there. Q&A will follow the panel discussion, moderated by KQED’s April Dembosky.

Wednesday, May 18, 7-9 p.m.

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to consider approving the concept plan for bike and pedestrian improvements along Amarillo Avenue, Bryant Street, East Meadow Drive, Montrose Avenue, Moreno Avenue, Louis Road, Palo Alto Avenue and Ross Road; and provide direction to staff about implementation of new residential parking-permit programs. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee will discuss possible amendments to the city’s revolving-door policy for former employees and discuss the Cable Franchise and Public, Education and Government Fee Audit. The meeting will begin at noon on Tuesday, May 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the Retiree Health Benefit Fund in the Fiscal Year 2017 Operating Budget; and discuss the proposed budgets for the Planning and Community Environment and Development Services departments. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss a new multi-year teachers’ contract, take action on additional budget proposals and vote on a proposal to merge two levels of algebra at Gunn High School, among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the 2017-2021 Capital Improvement Plan; consider the proposed tentative map for a 16-home development at 567 Maybell Ave.; and consider a single-story-overlay application from the Faircourt tract.

The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 490 Kingsley Ave., a request for proposed alterations and additions to an existing single-family residence and accessory structure in Professorville.

The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider the Fiscal Year 2017 Municipal Fee Schedule; review the Public Works budget; and consider a three-year pilot contract for on-site fleet and inventory services with Genuine Parts Company. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

24th Assembly District Candidate’s Forum Tuesday, May 10th 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Mountain View Public Library, Community Room 585 Franklin Street, Mountain View Marc Berman, Democrat, Councilmember/Education Advocate Barry Chang, Democrat, Mayor of Cupertino Jay Blas Jacob Gabrera, No Party Preference, Social Innovation Entrepreneur John M. Inks, Libertarian, Mountain View Councilmember Mike Kasperzak. Democrat, Mountain View Councilmember Peter Ohtaki, Republican, Businessman/Menlo Park Councilmember Sea Reddy, Democrat, Retired Program Manager Vicki Veenker, Democrat, Technology Attorney/Mediator Sponsored by the Leagues of Women Voters of Los Altos-Mountain View, Palo Alto and South San Mateo County.

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HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The board plans to hear a presentation from Diana Miller from the Santa Clara County Department of Aging and Adult Services; discuss the commission’s summer schedule and retreat; discuss site visits to Human Services Resource Allocation Process agencies; and elect its chair and vice chair. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider the City of Palo Alto (City) adoption of the draft 2015 Urban Water Management Plan (Draft 2015 Plan) in compliance with the California Urban Water Management Planning Act; and The California Urban Water Management Planning Act requires the City to review and update its Urban Water 4HUHNLTLU[ 7SHU L]LY` Ä]L `LHYZ ;OL +YHM[ 7SHU is available for public review and comment through the end of the public hearing described above. The Draft 2015 Plan is available online for public review at www. cityofpaloalto.org/uwmp, in print at the City libraries, and in the Council Chambers of City Hall.

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AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;REGULAR MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS May 9, 2016, 6:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. Appointment of two Candidates to the Human Relations Commission, two Candidates to the Library Advisory Commission, and Three Candidates to the Utilities Advisory Commission for Terms Ending May 31, 2019 and one Candidate to the Utilities Advisory Commission for one Unexpired Term Ending May 31, 2017 Consent Calendar 4. Approval of a Contract With the United States Geological Survey for Five Years in the Amount of $60,023 per Year for a Total of $310,315 for San Francisco Bay Monitoring Near the Regional Water Quality Control Plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Discharge 5. Approval of the Donation of a Surplus Ambulance to Oaxaca, Mexico (WWYV]HS VM HU (SSVJH[PVU VM 4PSSPVU [V [OL 7HSV (S[V <UPĂ&#x201E;LK :JOVVS +PZ[YPJ[ PU [OL Event the City of Palo Alto Wins the $5 Million Georgetown University Energy Prize 7. Recommendation to Council to Adopt two Resolutions: (a) Endorsing the Community Plan to end Homelessness in Santa Clara County 2015-2020; and (b) Supporting City 7YVNYHTZ [V ,UJV\YHNL HUK -\UK (Ń&#x153;VYKHISL /V\ZPUN HZ <YNLK I` [OL :HU[H *SHYH County Housing Task Force 8. Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and Team Sheeper LLC, for the Learn to Swim Program for Summer 2016 at an Amount Not-to-Exceed $236,500, and Approve a Budget Amendment in the General Fund Action Items 9. 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 (Continued from April 18, 2016); Approval of Professional Services Contract Number C16163533 With Alta Planning + Design, Inc. PU [OL (TV\U[ VM MVY 7YLWHYH[PVU VM 7SHUZ :WLJPĂ&#x201E;JH[PVUZ HUK ,Z[PTH[LZ MVY the Amarillo Avenue-Moreno Avenue, Bryant Street Update, Louis Road-Montrose Avenue, and Ross Road Bicycle Boulevard Projects; and Approval of Professional Services Contract Number C16161534 With Fehr & Peers in the Amount of $544,509 MVY 7YLWHYH[PVU VM 7SHUZ :WLJPĂ&#x201E;JH[PVUZ HUK ,Z[PTH[LZ MVY [OL )Y`HU[ :[YLL[ ,_[LUZPVU Maybell Avenue, and Park Boulevard-Wilkie Way Bicycle Boulevard Projects.

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Pulse POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

April 27-May 3 Violence related Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeit currency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 10 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Plane crash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Traffic/evade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . . 4 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Tree fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menlo Park

April 27-May 3 Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . . .

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Theft undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . .

Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Traffic collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . .

Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . .

Sale of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Illegal soliciting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .

Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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700 block El Camino Real, 5/1, 12:07 p.m.; arson/auto.

Menlo Park

600 block Willow Road, 4/28, 9:44 a.m.; battery.

Willow Road and Hamilton Avenue, 4/29, 2:04 p.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.

Location undisclosed, 5/1, 11:32 p.m.; assault.

1300 block Willow Road, 5/2, 7:50 a.m.; assault.

1200 block Carlton Ave., 5/2, 5:31 p.m.; spousal abuse.

300 block Waverley St., 5/2, 10:47 p.m.; domestic disturbance.

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Larry Henninger

Hershel Smith

Larry Henninger, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on April 11 at the skilled nursing facility at the Vi at Palo Alto. He was 83.

He was born on Jan. 12, 1933, in Roseburg, Oregon.

He went on to study economics at Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1954. While there, he served as president of the Theta Xi fraternity and a sponsor in the freshman dorm Encina. He also met Amber, a sponsor of the women’s dorm Roble, and they married in Menlo Park in 1954.

Having participated in the U.S. Air Force ROTC program, he reported to Texas and, after training, was sent to the Lakenheath and Mildenhall bases in England.

After her 1955 graduation, Amber joined him, and they traveled together throughout Europe.

Returning to the U.S. in 1956, they later settled down in south Palo Alto in the early ’60s. Henninger worked in personnel at Litton Industries, in finance at Philco when it was becoming Philco-Ford, and then in business at Acurex. He did similar work at Barron Data Systems in San Leandro until the 1980s, when he started doing consulting for small businesses. Consulting also gave him the opportunity to serve as a liaison between Silicon Valley and Rouen, France, and in the 1990s to teach entrepreneurship in Russia through the United States Agency for International Development.

Henninger took classes in the part-time night program at Santa Clara University to earn his Master of Business Administration; he later served on the advisory board for the business school there.

In the community, Henninger was active in the Palo Alto Rotary and the Stanford Area Council Boy Scouts, serving on the latter’s Executive Committee. He held leadership roles in his sons’ troops, received the Silver Beaver Award and took council troops to National Jamborees on the East Coast.

In the ’80s and ’90s, he and Amber lived in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe, enjoying the mountains. Henninger also closely followed Stanford football and men’s basketball.

He is survived by his wife, Amber Henninger of Palo Alto; his sons, Dwight Henninger of Vail, Colorado, and Derek (Beth) Henninger of Menlo Park; and two grandchildren, Webb and Grant.

A private service for family will be held in May. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to the Hoover Institution, Stanford Athletics or the Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America.

Hershel Dwight Smith, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on April 21 of heart failure in Seattle.

He was 92.

He was born on March 6, 1924, to Aldon and Jessie Smith in Depew, Oklahoma. He and his younger sister, Vivian, grew up on and helped run the family’s farm. When their crops failed during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the Smiths headed west to join family and eventually settled in Buckeye, Arizona.

Smith graduated from high school and in 1942 joined the U.S. Army Air Forces (now the U.S. Air Force). He served as an armorer and gunner on B-29s, but World War II ended days before he was scheduled for deployment to Okinawa in Japan.

With the help of the G.I. Bill, Smith went to college at the University of California, Los Angeles. There he rented a room from Helen Rising, who had two sons and was working toward a teaching credential. Smith later married Helen in 1951, and they moved first to Menlo Park and then Palo Alto in 1954.

While Helen worked in the Ravenswood School District, Hershel went to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his internship and residency at Kaiser Permanente. He soon settled on obstetrics and gynecology as

his specialties, opening a private practice in 1959 in Los Altos before moving to Sunnyvale.

Throughout his career, he delivered more than 4,000 babies at El Camino Hospital.

In 1964, Hershel and Helen purchased a Hamilton Avenue home where they lived together for 50 years. They both volunteered for many years with the Friends of the Palo Alto Library, for which Hershel sold donated rare books on Amazon.

Though he and Helen were unable to have children, Hershel raised Helen’s two sons as if they were his own — teaching them to play chess, poker and pinochle and taking them to visit the Arizona farm where his sister’s family lived.

His passions included medicine, science, technology, food and wine, and he traveled widely with Helen. After his retirement in 1988, he took up woodworking and gardening, growing many varieties of fuchsias in his backyard. Last November, he moved to a Seattle retirement community to be closer to family.

He was predeceased by his wife, Helen Virginia Smith, in 2014. He is survived by his sister, Vivian Estes of Snowflake, Arizona, and her five children; his stepsons, Philip de Barros of San Diego and Paul de Barros of Seattle; four grandchildren, Jason, Jillian, Jessica and Heleya; and one great-granddaughter, Payton.

A private family memorial service is being planned for the summer.

Alfreda Gladys Stavn July 20, 1937 – April 22, 2016 Alfreda Gladys Stavn, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, California, born in Lashburn, Saskatchewan in Canada, has died. She passed peacefully on Friday, April 22, 2016 with her daughter and son by her side. She was born on July 20, 1937, the second youngest of four children.

She was 78 and is survived by her two children and their families, Sherise N. Stark and her husband Curt, and Kent Stavn and wife Mary. She is also survived by her five lovely grandchildren, Zack and Serenity Stark and Zoe, Gemma and Alexander Stavn; and her three sisters, Lily Willoughby, Alice MacEachern and Frances Flesaker, and their families.

A visitation will be held Friday, April 29 from 9 to 10 a.m., followed immediately by a Memorial Service at Wesley United Methodist Church at 470 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA. A graveside service will follow where she will be laid to rest at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. Family and friends are invited to attend a Celebration of Gladys’ Life reception at Skylawn at approximately at 1 p.m., following the burial.

Flowers or memorial donation suggestions include either Save the Redwoods or the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.

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Mary Elizabeth Stone May 19, 1927 – April 29, 2016 Mary Elizabeth Stone, 88, of Palo Alto, CA died after a courageous battle with cancer on April 29, 2016. She was born in Longmeadow, MA, and was the daughter of E. Wadsworth and Dorothy Stone. She graduated from Connecticut College in 1949. Mary Liz worked at Yale, Harvard, U. of Puerto Rico, U. of Goteberg and Children’s Hospital, Boston. Mary Liz lived in Palo Alto since 1961, working at Stanford University Hospital until her retirement. She was the Supervisor of the Blood Gas Laboratories and did high altitude cardiac studies in Peru and CA. At 65, she started rowing and racing at the Open Water Rowing Center (OWRC) in Sausalito. For seven summers she traveled to the Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont.

Mary Liz won a gold medal and a hammer prize at the C.R.A.S.H.-B World Indoor Rowing Competition. She also earned 3 gold medals at the Nike World Masters and 4 Gold medals at the FISA World Masters in addition to many other medals and awards.

She was a two-time winner of the Head of the Charles Race (HOCR) in 1997 and 1998 where she won the Gold Medal Veteran, Witte Trophy. She also received the Gold Medal, Grand Veteran Special Medal in 2005. In 2013 and 2014, she was the oldest rower competing in the HOCR. Her love of rowing extended as well to her job as equipment manager at OWRC where she worked for eleven years retiring in 2016. In her honor the OWRC named the boathouse the Mary Elizabeth Stone Boat House.

Mary Liz was actively involved in the Connecticut College Alumni Association. She was inducted into the Connecticut College Athletic Hall of Fame and was awarded the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award for outstanding service to the alumni association.

She loved opera, photography, travel and her walking group. She was a direct descendent of Simon Stone, an early settler of Cambridge, MA. Mary Liz is survived by her brother, Wadsworth Stone (Sara How, deceased) of Bedford, MA, her sister, Lucinda Bell (Robert), Kingwood, TX, her nieces, Susanna Stone Farmer (C. Davis), East Kingston, NH, Cynthia Stone Phelan, Salem, MA, her nephews, Robert Stone (Mary Ann), Wilton, CT, David Bell (Brier), Pleasanton, CA, Edward Bell, Austin, TX, Douglas Bell, Lafayette, LA, her great-nieces and nephews and her many friends and fellow rowers.

A burial service will be held at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA on May 14th and a memorial service at the OWRC in Sausalito, CA on June 4th. Donations in her memory may be made to the Connecticut. College Rowing Program or OWRC. For additional information or online guestbook please visit www.MurphyFuneralHome.com or call 978-744-0497.

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Editorial A transparency gap School district violates its own policy in depriving public of timely meeting minutes

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alo Alto school trustees use the word “transparency” so often a casual observer might be persuaded they mean it.

The district’s strategic plan lists it as one of five top goals: “Create a focused, transparent governance process that is a model of informed communication, evidence-based decision-making, and clarity of responsibility between Board, District and Sites.”

And the top initiative the board has approved to achieve the goal?

“Engender trust with the community through frequent, clear, transparent and varied communication.”

Sadly, the board majority and Superintendent Max McGee have repeatedly demonstrated through their action and inaction that “transparency” is merely a talking point.

As reported last week by the Weekly, the Palo Alto school district is last among 10 Bay Area school districts surveyed in fulfilling its most simple and basic transparency responsibility — completing timely official minutes of its meetings.

Board-adopted district policy, based on the California School Boards Association model policy, is to approve minutes of the prior meeting at the next regular meeting of the board. For the last two years Palo Alto has consistently violated this policy, taking as long as 10 months to prepare and approve minutes documenting its decisions.

By contrast, all other school districts checked by the Weekly — Menlo Park, Mountain View-Los Altos, Mountain View, Los Altos, Sequoia, Redwood City, Los Gatos-Saratoga, Pleasanton and Piedmont — complete minutes either in time for the next meeting or, at most, within a few weeks.

In Palo Alto, the board two weeks ago approved the minutes from its Oct. 13, 2015, meeting. Even worse, on Aug. 25, 2015, the board reviewed minutes from October and November of 2014, along with minutes from all 13 of its meetings held between January and June 2015.

Why are meeting minutes important?

According to the board policy, because “they provide a record of board actions for use by district staff and the public” — a means to “help foster public trust that Board actions are occurring in public in accordance with the law.”

Not only are board members unable to remember a meeting six months earlier, but the public’s only way currently of knowing the actions taken is to review the tapes of the meeting (assuming no technical problems with the recording).

When the Weekly initially inquired last August about the longdelayed minutes, McGee attributed the problem to his executive assistant being overworked but said that with the hiring of an additional assistant “we are catching up and this fall will get caught up and back on schedule.” As a result, the Weekly deferred a story and kept an eye on the catch-up progress.

Last week, when the Weekly followed up and asked why nothing had improved, new district communications coordinator Jorge Quintana had a different explanation.

He said the delays where due to the practice of preparing “verbatim notes” rather than the “high-level summary of actions” and “brief summary of the Board’s discussion” as stipulated in board policy.

In spite of Quintana’s statement, the district has never prepared verbatim minutes. And prior to McGee’s arrival in August 2014, minutes were rarely more than a meeting or two behind. In fact, former executive assistant Kathleen Ruegsegger, whose job it was then to prepare minutes, told the Weekly it was “relatively easy” to turn minutes over from one meeting to the next and remembers “being in a panic” if she was more than two meetings behind.

The district’s failure to comply with its own policies on minutes is the tip of the iceberg of its opaque approach to public information.

No system exists for giving the public copies of correspondence it receives prior to board meetings or the information exchanged between administrators and board members on agenda items. The district’s new website, promising to be a vast improvement enabling increased transparency, is just the opposite.

The Weekly’s requests for public records are rarely handled in conformance with the law, often with delays in responding of many months.

While board members Ken Dauber and Terry Godfrey have tried to impress upon McGee and their colleagues the need for compliance, trustees Heidi Emberling, Camille Townsend and Melissa Baten Caswell have consistently paid lip service to transparency and the need to abide by district policies and state laws pertaining to public information.

This not what the public expects of a school district that has more financial resources than almost all others in the state and the luxury of a full-time staff person devoted to “communications.” When officials can’t even get accurate minutes of their meetings finished on time, and offer repeated unfulfilled promises of “catching up,” one has to wonder what else is being neglected or ignored. Q

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Guest Opinion

Why class sizes aren’t meeting district targets

by Sally Kadifa and Rita Tetzlaff hirty-four students in sixth-grade language arts, 33 in seventhgrade math, 34 in first-year French, 34 in U.S. history, 32 in chemistry, 32 in geometry.

Class sizes of a large, underfunded urban district? No, these examples are current classes at middle and high schools in Palo Alto.

It isn’t supposed to be this way. District policy is that all secondary school classes are staffed based on a 28.5 average class size. Sixth-grade core classes, and seventh- and eighth-grade math and English classes are supposed to average 24 students, and ninth- and tenthgrade English and math classes are supposed to be even smaller, with 22 students.

These target ratios were set by the school board for carefully considered pedagogical reasons and to ensure every student in every class receives the high quality of instruction offered in this district. They have also been promoted as one of the benefits of the parcel taxes Palo Alto voters have approved.

Those of us who have students at the middle schools and high schools know how rare it is for our students to be in classes as small as these staffing ratios promise.

How is it possible that the experience of our teachers and students in the classroom is so different than the published average class sizes and staffing ratios? Our analysis of enrollment data for all middle and high school classes show that the staffing ratios are being calculated in a misleading way or are simply being ignored.

According to the most recent enrollment data obtained from Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), the two high schools together have a total of 1,953 classes listed in the database. But 776 of these classes (40 percent) have eight or fewer students, or are non-instructional classes such as advisory and tutorial.

These types of classes are found in every department across both schools. Some of these sections are opportunities for special need or advanced students to receive credit for individualized instruction or independent study or for students receiving class credit for being teaching assistants. And yet, these small sections are averaged in with all the other instructional classes in the department and school to determine staffing ratios.

These very small classes bring down the overall average class sizes to below or near the range of the official target ratios, thus misrepresenting to the community and the school board how large most classes at our high schools really are. The U.S. News & World Report 2016 Academic Indicators report (see tinyurl.com/hsb4lgs) that the student-teacher ratio at both Gunn and Paly is 18:1, but this number is completely erroneous, as the very small or non-instructional classes are included in these published ratios. When the small classes are eliminated, the class size averages increase to 27 at both high schools.

An example of a high school class where staffing ratios are not being met is Gunn’s “Communications A,” a required core English class for ninth- and tenth-graders.

Ninety percent of the students taking Communications A are in classes over the target size of 22 students. In

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“Geometry A” at Gunn and Paly, every class has more than the targeted size of 22 students. In “Economics 11” at Gunn, 61 percent of students are in classes of more than 28 students, and 41 percent are in classes with over 31 students.

The same problem exists at the three middle schools.

In the English and math departments the average class size at each school is larger than the stated target of 24 students.

Last May, our community overwhelmingly approved Measure A, a parcel-tax increase that promised to “preserve excellence in academic programs” and “reduce class size.” If our community values reasonably sized classes and these funds were specifically raised to reduce class sizes, why is there a fundamental disconnect between how the district has told our community they are staffing classes and how they are actually being staffed?

It seems that the school board directives for class sizes are being ignored by the district or viewed as merely a suggested class size but not as a requirement for staffing. It shouldn’t take a parent to ferret out class-size data and deliver a report directly to the board, to call attention to something as basic and important as core academic class sizes in our middle and high schools.

These staffing ratios should be calculated appropriately each spring so that a sufficient number of teachers can be hired. And after school starts, the school board should hold the district accountable by reviewing the actual staffing ratios with the August enrollment report.

The board has an opportunity to act now to improve our student experience. The board can use the available budget surplus to hire additional teachers — an estimated six teachers across the middle schools and 15-18 teachers across the high schools. These new hires should be in addition to the staffing growth already in the budget based on enrollment growth.

It will require a significant investment to bring the largest classes into a reasonable range and meet the district-stated target ratios. But the investment needs to be in teachers, not in new buildings. Hiring more teachers now is the only way to bring down class size to the promised levels.

We want all our students in PAUSD to thrive. Meeting district-stated class size ratios is the first essential step in ensuring the best possible learning environment for all students. Q Sally Kadifa is the parent of three PAUSD graduates and currently has children who attend Paly and Jordan. Rita Tetzlaff is the parent of twin girls who attend Jordan Middle School. Both are stay-at-home moms and community volunteers.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on issues of local interest.

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LIFE- GIVING LIVES Seven honored for outstanding contributions to the community

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chievement is often measured in dollars and cents, in CVs that go on for pages, in titles bestowed and power attained.

But the seven people honored with this year’s Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement awards measure their greatest accomplishments by the lives they’ve transformed, the community ties that they’ve helped strengthened and the hopes that have been re-born.

By the world’s standards, they are accomplished professionals in architecture, business, education, technology and government. But as the following profiles reveal, their own standards center on rich relationships and the satisfaction of

seeing hard work on behalf of others pay off.

Congratulations to this year’s Lifetimes honorees: Bill Busse, Martin Deggeller, Judy Koch, Dick and Jerry Smallwood, and James and Emy Thurber. To celebrate them and their lives well-lived, the nonprofit Avenidas and the Palo Alto Weekly will host a garden party at a local home on Sunday, May 15, 3-5 p.m.

Tickets for this public event are $75, with proceeds benefiting Avenidas’ programs for older adults throughout the area.Tickets can be purchased by contacting Avenidas at 650-289-5445, emailing mdavis@avenidas.org or visiting avenidas. org, where additional information about the awards can also be found. Q

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Bill Busse Hard work and optimism have been hallmarks of architect’s life

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t first glance it seems that Bill Busse has led a charmed life. In fact, Busse himself will tell you that the most auspicious events in his life — attending Stanford University, meeting his wife of 66 years, becoming an architect — were all mere matters of happenstance.

Ever the modest man, he frequently expresses wonder and delight at how his life has turned out.

But upon closer inspection, you realize the truth: His charm, hard work and optimism have led to a wonderful life.

His long and happy marriage, his successful career as a pioneering architect, his numerous local and global philanthropic contributions, as well as his devotion to friends and family, are testaments to a life well-lived.

Born in Prescott, Arizona, in 1927, Busse graduated high school in 1945, near the end of World War II, and immediately joined the service.

“That’s what everyone did then,” he said.

The U.S. Navy sent him to the University of Southern California (USC) for two years to train as a pilot. It was in the USC library that his roommate introduced him to Barbara, his future wife.

Although it was love at first sight, they had to wait two years, until he got his wings, before they could get married. Busse served as a jet fighter pilot until 1950; he is a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. After Busse’s service ended,

he and Barbara headed back to USC, where he planned to finish his college degree. However, a stop in Palo Alto to visit Barbara’s sister changed his plans, as well as the course of his life.

Although he said that he “didn’t know Stanford from anywhere,” he decided to attend the university to be closer to family.

The next concern was what he should study. As luck would have it, while stationed in Guam with the Navy, Busse designed a very popular bar, and this contributed to his decision to become an architect.

“I thought the design had something to do with its success,” Busse joked.

After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford, Busse began his career, eventually making partner in the Palo Alto architectural firm Spencer & Associates. While there, he designed many of the buildings on the Stanford campus, including Tressider Memorial Union. Not only was this a design challenge that greatly elevated his reputation and career, but it remains his favorite project.

Busse’s interests, even during his busy career, extended far beyond Palo Alto. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Busse worked with a group of Soviet and American scientists to prevent the possibility of nuclear war. They jointly published a highly acclaimed book of scientific articles, “Breakthrough,”

with an endorsement by thenUSSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Busses traveled often to the Soviet Union during the 1980s.

“They were thought of as our enemy, but meeting the people over there, we were absolutely amazed at what good people they were,” he said. “It changes your outlook on the world, and you realize that there are good people everywhere.”

Over the course of both his career and retirement, Busse has generously contributed to his local community in many ways. He has served on the Palo Alto Housing Commission, as vice president of environmental affairs for the Chamber of Commerce, as president of the Palo Alto YMCA Board of Directors and as president of the Rotary Club, where he has been a longtime member.

Four years ago, Busse put his architectural talents to work for the club when they took on the project to build sun shades for a new picnic area in Greer Park.

“I designed them, and we got a crew of around 30 people to build them in our basement,” Busse said.

But the Busses may be bestknown for a more light-hearted endeavor: the tradition of icecream socials in their backyard when they lived on Ramona Street in Professorville.

“Every year when the peaches ripened, we would start making ice-cream with the crank-type ice-cream maker,” he said. “We invited neighbors and relatives,

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and it grew to include most of the block and beyond.”

Although he has a lifetime of achievements, Busse values his relationships with friends and family most.

“I’m proudest of my family, of course,” he said. “We have great kids, great grandkids and great great-grandkids. We have met so many fine people in Palo Alto and wound up with some lifelong

friends. That’s really what life in Palo Alto has been about.”

His advice to young people hoping to live a similar life of meaning and achievement?

“Follow your dreams and always think the best of other people, and then they’ll be the best.” Q Freelance writer Kathy Cordova can be emailed at khcordova@gmail.com.

There were 150 community volunteers, and the community organized a big barbecue. There’s something about trees that brings people together and builds relationships, said Deggeller, who has served 14 years on the board of urban tree nonprofit Canopy, four of them as chairman.

On May 15, Deggeller will be honored with an Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement award for overseeing and bringing about

thousands of local improvements that will last a lifetime. In addition to tree planting, he’s built fences, assembled sheds, painted schools and accomplished other projects with the Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto. Kiwanis, he said, invests money in projects and leverages it through service projects, doing three each month in the community.

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Martin Deggeller Creating environments for future generations

by Sue Dremann

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s a boy, Marty Dellegger loved to tramp through the woods of Washington state, surrounded by mature, soaring trees and forest creatures.

But fresh out of college, Deg-

geller went into the same industry as his father and worked for International Paper Company, which cut down trees.

Now, decades later, the retired aerospace engineer has come full

circle: He is planting thousands of trees to enhance Palo Alto’s and East Palo Alto’s urban forests.

“I was in East Palo Alto last weekend, and we planted more than 40 trees,” Deggeller said recently.

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Deggeller (continued from page 21)

Deggeller graduated from Stanford University with a degree in industrial engineering, and his love for Palo Alto and the Bay Area has continued throughout his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never wanted to leave. I discovered there was someplace where it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rain all the time,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He settled in working for Ford, Loral and Lockheed as an aerospace engineer. After he retired, Deggeller started volunteering with Canopy in 1997 and with Kiwanis in 2002.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big believer in rolling up oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleeves and getting down to work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With our own sweat equity, we can make a bigger impact than with the money alone,â&#x20AC;? Deggeller observed.

The projects also build a sense of community and empowerment, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s those relationships that he finds fulfilling. For example, Canopy has employed East Palo Alto high school students parttime through its tree-planting projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has absolutely transformed a lot of these kids. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with dozens of high school kids, and to see the growth of them as individuals is rewarding. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an enormous personal satisfac-

tion,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Kiwanis recently built fences and safe enclosures at East Palo Alto schools so that young children could play outside and be protected. The teachers and students were thrilled, he recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best kind of philanthropy is on a person-to-person basis. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about interacting with people and seeing their reaction,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Deggeller said he encourages others to volunteer their time.

Many people are reluctant to volunteer, believing they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have necessary skills. But organizations like Canopy provide the tools, training and leadership, so volunteers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need prior experience, he said.

He is also passing on the love of volunteering to the next generation. Deggeller, who is married with two grown sons, has four grandchildren. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a great picture of two of my grandkids standing next to the olive tree they planted, and when they come, they still want to see that olive tree,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Volunteerism wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something Deggeller grew up with, but it is now practiced by the younger generations, something that he said inspires him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It goes beyond just getting it on their resume. They are getting a lot of satisfaction from it,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Volunteering has taught him many things, but the greatest les-

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son is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the need for persistence and to stick with something and get it accomplished,â&#x20AC;? he said.

There are often many hurdles to getting city permits and approvals from all parties for any project, but with patience and time, the results are rewarding, he said.

Looking to the future, Deggeller said he would like to see

service clubs in town collaborate on more projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The clubs could take on one major project themselves and leverage the money together as well as the physical resources,â&#x20AC;? he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement 2016 honorees (back row, from left) Bill Busse, Marty Deggeller, Judy Koch, Dick Smallwood, (front row from left) Jim Thurber, Emy Thurber and Jerry Smallwood attend a reception in February at which their selections were announced.

Photo by Veronica Weber.

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or a woman who continues to insist that she “never wanted a career,” Judy Koch has taken some surprising turns in her life.

After spending a decade helping her husband run their family-owned sheet metal company, the couple decided to divorce in 1989.

At the time, Koch thought to herself, “’I never really wanted a career anyway — now I can stay home and be a full-time mother to two teenage boys.’” But, inexplicably, she ended up buying her husband out of the business, which she “never had any intention of doing,” she insists.

The decision to buy him out came after much soul-searching, and “once the decision was made, I never looked back and have never regretted it,” she said.

For the next eight years, Koch presided over a booming precision metal contract manufacturing company, growing sales from $6 million to $95 million to an array of electronics, military, semiconductor, medical and technology customers including Apple, Avex, Cisco Systems, HP, Silicon Graphics, Solectron and Sun Microsystems.

All the while, the former English teacher somehow made time to nur-

ture her love of children’s literature, even establishing a library of children’s books inside the company to encourage her employees — many of them immigrants from Mexico — to take home books to read to their kids.

Since selling the business in 1997, Koch has more fully devoted herself to her true passion: instilling a love of reading in children — especially low-income children — by ensuring that they have access to high-quality picture books.

The lending library she started inside her business became the not-for-profit Bring Me A Book Foundation, which has given books to more than 1 million California children and families at 3,000 sites, including low-income preschools, child-care centers, homeless shelters, parks and libraries. In Santa Clara and San Mateo counties alone, the group has placed small libraries in more than 1,500 classrooms.

“In San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, over 40 percent of children are not reading at grade level by third grade — we should be ashamed,” Koch said in an interview.

“We want to make sure that chil-

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dren learn to read by third grade by bringing books to them at home and in school. All children should have a few good books at home and in their classroom — and there should never be a dearth of quality books for children in Silicon Valley.”

Koch’s home in Palo Alto is a testament to her passion. The living room is rimmed with wooden bookcases displaying — face out —

many of the best children’s classics.

The walls are lined with original art by some of the greatest American children’s book illustrators: Ludwig Bemelmans of “Madeline”; Ernest Shepard of “Winnie-the-Pooh”; and Jessie Wilcox Smith, who illustrated, among other things, “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” “Little Women” and Mother Goose.

“We know children learn to read

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from rhyming words,” said Koch, adding she’s disappointed when she hears from teachers that Mother Goose rhymes are not as popular as they once were. “One of the ways we can tell reading readiness is by seeing whether children can rhyme words.”

In her years as a middle school teacher before she went into business, Koch had taught both gifted and struggling students and noticed that the failing kids tended to be those who hadn’t learned to read well.

“They were reading as low as second- and third-grade level in seventh and eighth grade and failing in school — it was so depressing,” she recalled.

“My ‘aha’ was that junior high is too late; we’ve got to help children learn to read early on — the sooner the better.”

Back in the 1990s, the lending library inside her manufacturing business proved popular with her employees.

One worker told her his daughter put a note on his alarm clock to remind him to bring her home a book.

Another employee, whose children were already in community college, took home children’s books to teach English to himself.

And several years after she’d sold the company, another employee tracked her down to invite her to a dinner at which his son was being (continued on page 25)

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Jerry and Dick Smallwood Couple sets up scholarship fund, the gift that keeps on giving

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While the Smallwoods provided the first year’s grant, they quickly realized that there were far more needy students than they could personally subsidize. And they weren’t just giving out one-year grants but committing to annual support until the student graduated.

“We originally thought it would be for four years, then we realized this group of kids would take longer because they would be working while they were in school,” Dick said.

So they recruited their friends, many of whom became donors, mentors and application readers.

Last year Pursuit of Excellence granted more than $400,000 to students, including about 30 graduating high school seniors. The students came from East Palo Alto Academy, Eastside College Preparatory School and East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, as well as from the Palo Alto, Mountain View-Los Altos and Sequoia school districts.

The key criterion for getting a scholarship is financial need, they said, with a cap of about $60,000 on family income. There are no ethnic or career aspiration requirements, nor need for proof of documented citizenship status.

About 120 students applied this past year; from that pool about 40 were interviewed and 30 received grants, which ranged from $500 to $5,000 for their first school year. “(The grant) depends on need.

The first year we don’t give the top amount. We see how they do,” Jerry said.

“The first year is not the year they need it most,” Dick added, pointing out that there are a lot of one-year scholarships available, but few that stay with the student throughout his or her school career.

Continuing support is “contingent on maintaining a successful presence at the school,” Dick said, with no grade requirements.

Almost all of the scholarship

ick and Jerry Smallwood are turning their lifetime of achievement into a lifetime of opportunity for local financially needy students.

An electrical engineer with three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dick was the first person in his family to graduate from college.

Scholarships and fellowships made that possible, he said.

“I was lucky,” he added.

Dick, now 80, and Jerry (her full name is Marjorie), 81, were drawn to Palo Alto in 1964 when he was offered a job as an assistant professor at Stanford. Seven years later he accepted a job at Xerox PARC just before getting tenure, then spent the bulk of his career at Applied Decision Analysis in Menlo Park.

Ultimately, he served as president and owned 25 percent of the company when it was sold to PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1984. He went on to co-found a web-based company, Market Insight Corporation, in 2003 and retired in 2010.

Besides raising three children, Jerry, who had graduated from Smith College and taught third grade in the Boston area, worked as a teacher’s aide at Walter Hays Elementary School and as a volunteer in an East Palo Alto elementary school. In her spare time she volunteered for Environmental Volunteers and Wildlife Rescue.

But in 1984, when their three children ranged in age from 16 to 22, Dick’s early gratitude for help getting through college, Jerry’s experience working with low-income students and the couple’s recent financial windfall motivated them to create a nonprofit organization, Pursuit of Excellence (POE), with the idea to offer a scholarship that would enable a low-income student to pursue a higher education.

That first year there were 17 applicants for the first $2,000 scholarship.

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honored as a valedictorian.

“When I look back to working and running the company, my takeaway in my rocking chair will be remembering their stories,” she said.

Preparing for the Lifetime of Achievement event on May 15, Koch said, has prompted her to “reflect on the past and on what matters most.”

For her, that includes spending time with friends and family, particularly her five grandchildren, ages 3 to 11, who all live in the area. She is grateful, she said, when she can spend time on “reading to grandchildren, adventure travel, dinner

at my dining room table or simply giving a book to my Uber driver to take home to read to his children.”

She’s also grateful to the hundreds of individual, foundation and corporate donors to the Bring Me A Book Foundation, which has spawned like-minded affiliates in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Florida and even Hong Kong.

“I wish I had a better opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to people,” she said.

“I feel good about what we’ve accomplished, but we’re not done. Our goal is to blanket Santa Clara and San Mateo counties as a model that can be replicated by others.” Q Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

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money comes from individual donations, Dick said. In the late 1980s, the Smallwoods created an endowment, which can be used for special projects or to supplement the donations in a year when donations don’t meet obligations.

As part of the scholarship, each student is assigned a mentor who meets with the student at least twice a year and stays in contact via email. Dick pointed out that the retention rate for mentors, at 80 percent, was close to the 73 percent graduation rate for their scholarship students, wildly surpassing the more typical 27 percent graduation rate for low-income students.

Other volunteers spend many hours reading the applications (four or five read each one), deciding whom to interview and to whom to offer the scholarships.

To date, more than 450 students

have attended college with help from Pursuit of Excellence, which has given $3.5 million in grants, according to its website, POEscholarships.org.

Pursuit of Excellence has become a total family affair: The Smallwoods’ son Scott and his wife, Carol Ann, are running Pursuit of Excellence-East from their Arlington, Virginia, home; daughter Carol Mullin became president of the board when Jerry stepped down five years ago; and son Bradley is a significant donor.

It is no longer just for the Palo Alto area, either. Recently, two women approached the Smallwoods to get advice on how to set up Pursuit of Excellence South Bay, a separate nonprofit organization now serving the San Jose area.

“They’re doing all the work.

We hope that can be a template for

expanding the application,” Dick said.

Looking back on the past 30plus years, Jerry said, “I feel this has been the most fruitful and enjoyable volunteer thing I’ve done.

We’re really making a difference in kids’ lives. They wouldn’t be going or would have to be working a lot more. It’s done just what we wanted it to.”

“It surpassed our earliest dreams by a considerable amount,” Dick added, noting, “We’re surrounded by communities where there’s genuine need for this kind of thing.

We were lucky in that we just discovered a situation where affluent people had an attitude of helping kids to get an education. It’s a very happy situation.” Q Contributing Writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

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Emy and Jim Thurber Chance, adventure, politics and partnership define the shared life of Los Altos couple

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t was the late 1950s, and Emy and Jim Thurber were at a parents’ meeting for a new school opening in Los Altos. When the meeting organizers said they were looking for someone to serve as president of the PTA, Emy raised Jim’s hand.

That moment was the beginning of Jim’s career in public service, which took him all the way to the Los Altos mayorship.

“That’s — as my cousin would say — dumb luck, happenstance,” said Emy Thurber, reflecting on the chain of events. “Be careful what you volunteer for.”

Emy, 85, and Jim, 87, haven’t quite followed that advice themselves. In their retirement, they have been involved with a daunting list of nonprofits and organizations supporting the Los Altos community, conservation efforts and Democratic political campaigns. That body of work, the vast majority of it voluntary, speaks to the Thurbers’ mission to do good and make an impact — a common refrain throughout their life together.

Jim grew up outside Boston and Emy near Chicago, but their paths crossed as undergraduates at Stanford University when they were set up on a blind date at a campus movie night. Jim graduated early in 1950 with a degree in journalism.

The younger Emy put her history studies on hold because she “didn’t want him to escape,” she joked, but she later returned to finish her bachelor’s degree.

After serving in the U.S. Army for a few years, Jim entered the newspaper business, working for the Wall Street Journal. The growing Thurber family hopped around the country for a few years, ending up in Houston, where Jim was bureau manager. When it came time to move again, Jim decided that the occupation wasn’t for him; as Emy put it, he wanted to “do something rather than write about it.”

Returning to the Peninsula, the Thurbers built a home in Los Altos. Jim found a job as a writer in the then-small development office at Stanford. He worked in the university administration for 11 years,

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serving as an assistant to two provosts and with the overseas studies program. It was also in these years that Jim became active in the Los Altos community and politics. He served on the Los Altos City Council and as mayor from 1962 to 1966.

Incorporated in 1952, the city was young, but the Thurbers said the issues then were much the same as today: housing and transportation. Jim took part in efforts to prevent Interstate 280 from running

through Los Altos (where Foothill Expressway now is), in the sewering of the city (before residents had used septic tanks) and keeping the city’s entrance on San Antonio Road suburban (limiting apartment construction).

Beyond Los Altos, Jim did work on recreation for the Association of Bay Area Governments and was an original member of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, an entity

dedicated to preserving the bay.

The next big change for the Thurbers also came about serendipitously, as Jim’s chance meeting with a United States Foreign Service officer led to a new position with the United States Information Agency (USIA).

As Jim did press and cultural work overseas during the Cold War for the USIA, the Thurbers moved to Tanzania, Malawi, Nigeria and Pakistan (with some years back in

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Activities from that time stand out as memorable to Jim. In 1969 in Tanzania, he organized a celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing at an American library with radio broadcasts and a large space shuttle model. Another time, Jim and a local employee drove out to a rural Tanzanian village to project movies. He recalled how the people wouldn’t stop watching the films.

“So they ran it, and they ran it, and they ran it till after midnight,” he said. “They wouldn’t let us go home.”

Not all of their experiences abroad were tranquil though: Jim, Emy and their youngest daughter were stationed in Pakistan, when the Islamabad embassy and other buildings throughout the country were burned in 1979, resulting in the deaths of American and Pakistani employees. Emy and their daughter evacuated to the U.S., but Jim remained, working. Nine months later his family rejoined him in Islamabad.

During the five years when the Thurbers were in the nation’s capital, Emy landed her first full-time job working for U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. a Democrat and fellow Peninsulan. Working her way up, she eventually became a legislative aide working on foreign and military affairs. Even at the beginning, when typing mailing lists, she was enthralled to be in the thick of things on Capitol Hill.

“I said to Jim after about four days, ‘Why didn’t you tell me working was so much fun?’” she recalled.

After living around the globe, the Thurbers were drawn back to the Midpeninsula, they said, by the area’s physical beauty, climate, fascinating people, culture and diversity.

In 1990, they retired in Los Altos.

It was then that Emy and Jim ramped up their involvement in Democratic politics. They have been on the Peninsula Democratic Coalition board since 1991 and each has served as president.

When campaigning for Bill Clinton in 1992, Emy said they raised $100,000 simply by selling buttons and stickers. They were also campaign managers for Byron Sher — a former Palo Alto mayor — in his

candidacy for the California State Senate in 1996 and 2000.

The Thurbers’ community work includes Jim’s service on the boards of the Los Altos History Museum, Foothill-De Anza Foundation and the League of Conservation Voters, among other organizations.

Emy has served on the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women and the Mid-Peninsula YWCA board and was board president for the Sempervirens Fund.

They were also longtime board members of the Los Altos Community Foundation.

When asked to choose the most meaningful from their litany of accomplishments, Emy repeated the question to Jim — who then pointed back at her. She concurred.

“A happy marriage, a happy family, raising four kids. We haven’t screwed up too much,” Emy said.

“We’ve had just such an adventuresome, fascinating life together, and we’ve been real partners.” Q Editorial Assistant Sam Sciolla can be emailed at ssciolla@ paweekly.com

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A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane

Pace makes it permanent New York-based gallery sets up shop in Palo Alto

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he venerable Cardinal Hotel in Palo Alto, a historic art deco landmark dating from 1924, has been refurbished, with its ground floor housing Osteria Ristorante and Bistro Maxine. It now also boasts a blue-chip New York gallery that’s bringing museum-quality art shows to the downtown area, including its inaugural exhibition by James Turrell.

Pace Gallery, founded in 1960, represents an impressive roster of notable artists, including such luminaries as Chuck Close, Agnes Martin and David Hockney.

The gallery tested the waters of the Peninsula with three exhibitions in a pop-up space in Menlo Park. The latest show, consisting of digital installations by the Japanese artist cooperative TeamLab, has been a roaring success.

“Attendance at the TeamLab show is around 45,000 visitors

to date and we don’t close until July 1,” Pace Palo Alto’s director Elizabeth Sullivan said.

She went on to explain that, after the success of the pop-up exhibitions, the idea for a permanent exhibition space “just happened organically.”

“The community has embraced us,” she said. “There is so much going on here now with the reopening of SFMOMA and the Minnesota Street Project. We are just happy to be a part of it.”

For its inaugural Palo Alto exhibition, Pace is presenting work by one of its most highly regarded artists, James Turrell.

Turrell, 73, is best known for his “Roden Crater,” an extinct volcano in northern Arizona that he has been transforming into a celestial observatory for the past 30 years.

Turrell’s medium is light — how we perceive it and how it affects our sense of reality.

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James Turrell’s “Pelée” is a site-specific wall made up of of LED light tiles, controlled by a computer, which hypnotically change color.

In a recent interview he explained his unique approach.

“My work has no object, no image and no focus,” he said. “With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. What is important to me is to create an experience of wordless thought.”

Installed in the first room of the Pace Palo Alto gallery is “Pelée,” a site-specific piece that is part of his “Wide Glass” installation

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Artist James Turrell’s work explores the medium of light.

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series. A wall of LED light tiles, controlled by a computer program, change slowly and hypnotically as colors morph, blend and create new hues. Sullivan called it a “meditative piece that alters perception.” Like many of Turrell’s installations, light appears to have a physical presence, to possess mass and take up space in the form of a large rectangle.

Unlike the passive experience of looking at a painting hung on a wall, the viewer becomes a part of the installation, as the eye, body and mind are impacted — almost like a spiritual awakening. Turrell, who was raised in a strict Quaker home, said that he is trying to “bring the cosmos closer to the place (people) occupy.”

The second room contains nine of the artist’s “Reflective Holograms.” Holograms are a recording of light waves on a thin layer of transparent gelatin emulsion.

They appear to have depth from every vantage point and, in Turrell’s hands, they become abstractions of light and color.

Sullivan looked at a number of possible locations for the new gallery but decided that the combination of the Cardinal Hotel’s historic exterior and the ability to renovate the 3,200-square-foot interior space was too good to pass up.

“This location gets a lot of foot traffic and we are so close to Stanford University,” she said. The gallery is hoping to work closely with the university in the future.

In order to blend the old with the new, the decision was made to retain the original facade and to keep, as much as possible, design

features like stained glass and lighting fixtures. Visitors enter the reception-area lobby, which is open and airy, thanks to a wall of windows and a high ceiling.

This area will remain unchanged, while the rest of the space will be configured to suit each exhibition.

In the rear of the space, the plan is to have a library that will contain around 1,000 art books, Sullivan said.

In terms of the installation schedule, Sullivan plans to mount around four or five shows per year. There is no fixed schedule as oif yet, but all of the artists will be from the Pace Gallery stable.

“Unlike the Menlo Park venue, this will be a proper gallery space with all artwork for sale,” Sullivan said.

Only time will tell if local collectors respond by opening their wallets. Based on the investment made in the physical space and moving staff members to the West Coast, Pace is planning on staying for the long haul.

Sullivan is optimistic. “There is an audience here; people are already interested in art and I am sure they will be happy with what we are doing,” she said. Q Freelance Writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com.

What: Pace Palo Alto Where: 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto When: The James Turrell exhibition will be on view from April 28 to July 30, TuesdaySaturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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THEATER REVIEW pivotal figure in Mexican history.

MalinXe was an indigenous Nahua woman born to a royal family around the turn of the 16th century who, after her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, was allegedly sold into slavery to another tribe by her mother. She came into contact with Spanish conquistador HernĂĄn CortĂŠs and, because of her education and ability to speak multiple languages, became his interpreter, adviser and lover as he led the conquest of Mexico.

Opinions on MalinXeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in Mexican history have shifted over time. Though she was portrayed in a very positive light by the Spaniards, and sometimes considered the mother of the modern

Mexican people, her name around the time of the Mexican Revolution became synonymous with â&#x20AC;&#x153;traitor.â&#x20AC;? MalinXe is also sometimes identified with the mythological La Llorona, a ghost who haunts the Earth crying for her lost children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;La MalinXe is used as a term to describe folks who have betrayed their culture. It becomes a reflection of the culture at that time, when people wanted to distance themselves from their colonial past and the Spanish empire,â&#x20AC;? said Karina Gutierrez, a Stanford graduate student whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serving as the productionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dramaturg as well as playing the role of Peachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; estranged daughter.

In playwright Moragaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands,

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the anachronistic presence of MalinXe leads Peaches (whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s married to an Anglo American) to reconnect with her past and reconsider her identity. MalinXeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complicated relationships with her family and culture in some ways parallel Peachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about her needing to confront the ghost of her past ... to forgive herself for having desire as a woman and allow herself to pass on, pass out of this world,â&#x20AC;? director Misha Chowdhury said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The play is an effort to help her come to reconciliation so she can die well,â&#x20AC;? Moraga added.

The playwright grew up in southern California with a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo-American father and took some inspiration from her own experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mother had Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and it really helped me realize there is a kind of lucidity, a clarity that comes with forgetting, (with) viscerally remembering in our body things that we have censored,â&#x20AC;? she said, of the way in which Peachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fractured consciousness allows her to access deeper insights.

Moraga has taught at Stanford for nearly two decades, in both TAPS and the department of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a longtime mentor to Chowdhury, who as a Stanford undergrad acted in one of her plays.

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a more sympathetic and nuanced view of MalinXe emerges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The figure of MalinXe is somewhat of an archetype in Mexican-American thought and politics because she is someone for whom the conquest of Mexico is blamed, the loss of indigenous culture is blamed,â&#x20AC;? Moraga said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the female figure of our past, kind of like a Mexican Eve, considered from a masculine point of view.â&#x20AC;?

Moraga and other Chicana artists have offered a feminist

perspective on MalinXe and her legacy, Gutierrez said, one that challenges the notion of her as a traitor and explores â&#x20AC;&#x153;who MalinXe might have really been, maybe even criticizes why she is used so negatively in popular culture.â&#x20AC;?

The playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters, she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;hash out their past in a way thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily reflected in our history books. It talks about how we connect to family, how we accept or negate aspects of family, and hopefully (audiences) will re-contextualize how they view themselves in a historical continuum.â&#x20AC;?

In â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Mathematics of Love,â&#x20AC;?

Erika Yanin PĂŠrez-Hernandez plays the alternately maligned and celebrated historical character of MalinXe, alongside Thao P. Nguyen as Nana. opened up a world for me in understanding what it means to be living on this continent, in this day and age, as someone who is a descendent of colonized people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is still colonized land; the indigenous inhabitants of this land are still here whether or not the dominant narrative chooses to acknowledge their existence.

That was a powerful idea for me to come to understand. I have carried that with me throughout my development as an artist.â&#x20AC;?

Chowdhury is based on the East Coast but returned to Stanford to direct Moragaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new play, as well as co-teach a theater class with her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been amazing,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something still quite

radical and courageous about the insistence upon feminism that is present in this play in particular; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still dangerous,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CherrĂ­e and I are learning more and more about each other as collaborators, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to seeing how this project is a jumping-off point for a continued future.â&#x20AC;?

That future includes a production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Mathematics of Loveâ&#x20AC;? at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brava Theater Center, which presents the work of often-underrepresented voices, next year.

The Stanford premiere features talent both local, such as Gutierrez, as well as from farther afield.

Los Angeles actor Rose Portillo, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a long career in both theater and film, is playing the leading role of Peaches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How often do we have works for women of color in the American stage?â&#x20AC;? Gutierrez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m humbled to be part of the production. As a Chicana myself, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heaven.â&#x20AC;?

The play is â&#x20AC;&#x153;in many ways a kind of family story as much as it is a hugely historic one. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexican history, ironically in a very intimate setting,â&#x20AC;? Moraga said.

Aside from the cultural relevance, she said she also hoped the story would touch her Stanford students, many of whom have lost grandparents to Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great loss, but I think this play kind of shows what a great opportunity it is at the same time, to really be able to listen to those last words they have to say as memory leaves them,â&#x20AC;? she said. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Mathematics of Love,â&#x20AC;? presented

by Stanford TAPS Where: Nitery Theater, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford.

When: May 5-7 at 8 p.m.; May 8 at 4 p.m.

Cost: Tickets are $5-$15.

For sold-out shows, a wait list is formed at the will-call table in the theater lobby one hour before performances begin.

Info: Go to web.stanford. edu/dept/taps/AY16/ mathematicsoflove.html

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s it settles into its cozy, 28-seat downtown Palo Alto home at Hamilton Avenue and Cowper Street, Thyme doesn’t necessarily need more talent in the kitchen. It needs more time.

On the heels of recent seasonal California cuisine openings like BirdDog and Lure + Till, Thyme is the next local entrant for the genre.

A taste of the cast iron skilletfried Scottish salmon ($24.50) and you’ll know this restaurant is a keeper that hopefully will continue Palo Alto’s culinary growth.

The preparation of the salmon with just a lemon wedge, wilted spinach (cucumber was on the menu but not available), and a mixed-greens salad was overly simple, especially for the price, but the salmon itself was cooked to that perfect state, leaving it both flaky and juicy.

Chef-owner Winston Haddaway is the key to the restaurant, as he’s the only chef. He’s a native of Trinidad but met his wife Carol in England, and stayed there to run his own gastropub in London’s hip Camden

Thyme’s wild mushroom and red onion tart served with a salad. neighborhood for years. His wife moved to Silicon Valley for work and Haddaway followed a few years later. For the past decade, he has worked the private-chef and events circuit, all the while dreaming of his own gastropub.

Mulling over the Palo Alto dining scene, however, Haddaway opted instead to pursue the casual-California direction with a British influence. The

British element only showed up recently in grilled sausages with mashed potatoes, cabbage and bacon ($24.50) and an excellent apple and cinnamon custard tart ($8.50, the only sweet dessert available). Meanwhile, California arrives with an evening endive and avocado salad ($12.50) topped with not-enough crab, brightened with pink grapefruit segments and a beautiful grapefruit dressing to tie everything

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together. For starters, it’s this salad or soup. Get the salad.

I was skeptical how the rack of lamb ($27.50) would emerge after a hesitant waiter didn’t understand what “medium rare” meant and said he would tell the chef to cook between rare and medium. But Haddaway nailed it. The lamb, with a rosy hue in the center, just the right amount of gaminess, was tender with a slick char to the exterior and topped with a redwine reduction sauce.

At both lunch and dinner, there is a bowl of linguine with parsley pesto ($16.50) clinging to the strands, tossed with asparagus spears and covered in a flurry of shaved Parmesan cheese. It is resolutely seasonal, hearty and fresh, but won’t quite take diners to a pasta epiphany.

An addition of an herb, spice or produce would be more than welcome. It’s simple California cooking that tasted like sunshine but didn’t taste like fun.

Lunch brought a messy and oversized marinated rib-eye sandwich with mushrooms on focaccia bread ($14.50). Some

Thyme restaurant owner Winston Haddaway in his establishment on May 2, 2016. of the beef was succulent and juicy, but other bites yielded more flabby gristle than a diner would desire. Like the pasta, the sandwich badly needed a sauce or aioli and some supporting ingredients to create a full package.

Garlic toast ($12.50) came topped with a poached egg,

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Eating Out surrounded by confetti-like chopped onions and bell peppers to scoop up the yolk when the egg gets punctured. Again, a fine dish, but there were a lot of peppers and onions.

Day and night, the mainstay Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gladly order again is a warm goat cheese with dried apricots, pine nuts, honey and English biscuits to scoop it all up ($8.50).

Things are changing at Thyme. Just before the deadline for this review, the restaurant announced lunch is ending in order to focus on dinner. This curiously came after starting as

a lunch-only restaurant for its first two months. Being a dinner destination, wine will be pivotal.

Right now, the list has six wines, and five of them are far from exciting. Haddaway cares deeply about wine and said he plans for growth in this department.

Of all the work-in-progress components at Thyme, service is clearly the most under-construction. The owners are still trying to find the right ratio of servers-to-diners but the fact is, how many restaurants of any size have only one server on the floor? The servers were well-intentioned, but I eventu-

ally just stopped counting the slip-ups: not pouring wine from bottles, no serving utensils, long waits to order â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the hits kept coming.

The interior is serene and simple. In typical 2016 fashion, reclaimed wood dominates everywhere, from the bare tables to the chairs to the floor. Windows wrap half of the space, allowing for people-watching by day. Another wall includes a plush burgundy banquette and a screen made of twigs that could be in a tatami room. Give some bonus points to Thyme for one of the most well-kept restrooms in

town, with real towels for hand drying. The soundtrack pretty much sums up where Thyme is right now: Sometimes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear French classics, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear nothing for five minutes because the music player and the credit card machine happen to run from the same phone.

It will be intriguing how things play out at Thyme. Haddaway is a gifted chef and the restaurant should shake off the roller-coaster of its early days.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m willing to give it time. Q Freelance writer Trevor Felch can be emailed at trevorfelch@yahoo.com.

Thyme, 496 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; (650) 704-6828 Hours: Dinner, Tuesday to Saturday, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m.

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The blue and the grey and the red and the yellow ‘Captain America’ faces Iron Man in ‘Civil War’ 0001/2 (Century 16 and 20) When it comes to superhero culture, can there be too much of a good thing?

That’s the conundrum facing the purveyors of the shareduniverse paradigm: early adopter Marvel and Johnny-come-lately DC. Marvel Studios’ unprecedented plan, in cahoots with Disney — and a generally enthusiastic reception from fans and critics alike — reaches a new zenith with “Captain America: Civil War,” which proves more satisfying than the heavily hyped “Avengers” films that preceded it. Here we have a superhero movie that gathers no fewer than 15 heroes and villains in roles that amount to considerably more than cameos.

They populate a sprawling story with marching orders to serve as a direct sequel to “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” And it resolves the can of worms that film opened concerning Cap’s sidekick-turned-”Manchurian Candidate” super-soldier “Bucky” Barnes, played by Sebastian Stan.

This crazy-cool superhero team-up/smack-down movie makes “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” look like a tea party, and it’s a franchise-launching introduction to the new Spider-Man (teenage Tom Holland).

Seemingly, it’s everything a comic-book junkie would expect from a single Marvel movie, and more. For the price of a single ticket, you get a James Bondian film-opening action sequence, times four (heroes); a centerpiece

six-on-six clash of the superheroic titans; and a twisty, thistime-its-personal fight climax, along with enough quips to get you double-checking the credits for a Joss Whedon assist. (Nope.

All screenwriting credit goes to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely).

This is what one calls “an in-

credibly high degree of difficulty,” and the writers join directors Anthony and Joe Russo in sticking the landing. Non-comic-bookgeeks may struggle to keep up with the storyline, and the frantic action (especially in 3D) may prompt some to get headaches,

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I haven’t forgotten to tell you what the film is about, although does it matter? As in “Batman v Superman,” questions of collateral damage (as Avengers “routinely ignore sovereign borders”) plague our heroes, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Hurt) to announce that the U.N. has drafted a superhero-control act dubbed the Sokovia Accords, set to be ratified by 117 countries. Ross would like the Avengers to sign it, thank you very much. And there’s the sticking point of this “Civil War”: Steve “Captain America” Rogers (Chris Evans) doesn’t trust nations to set agendas when the stakes remain so high, while Tony “Iron Man” Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) feels it’s time to earn back some trust.

Heroes old and new line up with Team Cap or Team Iron Man. It’s

just the discord the mysterious baddie Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl) wants: “to see an empire fall.” And it’s just what a modern movie audience craves: prime action-adventure fare.

Markus and McFeely serve the extraordinary number of characters with their impressive construct, and this Captain America movie builds to the Tom Joadesque promise of “If you need me, I’ll be there,” while pausing to allow Iron Man to groom Spidey and put him to the test. It matters not to my not-so-inner child that “Civil War” has new players but few genuinely new themes or tricks. Says he: yes, please.

Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of violence, action and mayhem. Two hours, 27 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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.

Canelo Alvarez v Amir “King” Khan (PG-13) Century 20: Sat. 6 p.m.

A Hologram for the King (R) Century 20: Fri. & Sun. 11:40 a.m., 2:20 p.m.

Sat. 5:10 & 7:40 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 10:15 p.m. Sun. 5:05 & 7:35 p.m.

Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:30 p.m.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:45 p.m.

Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) 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: 7:20 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:05 a.m., 3:55 p.m. Sat. 12:30 p.m. Sun. 10:05 a.m.

Century 20: Fri. & Sun. 6:55 p.m. Sat. 10:30 a.m., 1:50 p.m. Sun. 10:20 p.m.

Captain America: Civil War (PG-13) Century 16: 9 & 11:40 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 4:05, 7, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:05 p.m. Sun. 11 p.m. In 3-D at 9:40, 10:15, 10:50 & 11:25 a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 2:20, 2:55, 4:40, 5:15, 5:50, 6:25, 8:20, 8:45, 9:20 & 9:55 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:50 p.m., 12:15 a.m. Century 20: 10 a.m., 1:25, 4:50, 5:50, 7:50, 8:15 & 9:35 p.m.

Fri. 11:10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 11:20 a.m., 2:40 & 6:10 p.m. In 3-D at 10:40 & 11:55 a.m., 1, 2, 3:20, 4:25, 5:30, 6:45, 8:55 & 10:10 p.m. In XD 3-D at 12:35 & 7:25 p.m. In XD at 4 & 10:45 p.m. In DBOX at 10 a.m., 1:25, 4:50 & 8:15 p.m. In DBOX 3-D at 11:55 a.m., 3:20, 6:45 & 10:10 p.m.

Compadres (Not Rated) Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50 & 7:25 p.m. Fri. 10:40 p.m.

Criminal (R) Century 20: Fri. 10:15 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 10:05 p.m.

Dough (Not Rated) +1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 4:45, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m.

Enter the Dragon (1973) (R) Century 16: Sun. 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 9:55 p.m. Fri. 6:45 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 10:35 a.m., 1:10, 4 & 7:10 p.m.

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

Green Room (R) Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:05 & 10:40 p.m.

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (PG-13) Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

The Jungle Book (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:05 & 11:05 a.m., 1:05, 2:10, 4, 5:05, 7:05, 7:50, 10 & 10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 9 a.m., 12:05, 3:05, 6:10 & 9 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:45, 5:40, 7:35, 8:30 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. 11:50 a.m. Sat. & Sun. noon. In 3-D at 10:10 a.m., 1, 3:50, 6:40 & 9:30 p.m.

Keanu (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 & 10:30 p.m.

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

The Meddler (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 3:05, 5:25, 7:45 & 9:20 p.m.

Mother’s Day (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m.

Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Ratchet & Clank (PG) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 & 10:05 p.m.

Century 20: 10 a.m., 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R) Guild Theatre: Sat. 11:55 p.m.

Sing Street (PG-13) Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.

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

The Strawberry Blonde (1941) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:40 & 9:25 p.m.

Zootopia (PG) +++ Century 16: 9 & 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:45 7 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

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

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

Home Front TOMATO TRANSPLANTING . . .

The Santa Clara County Master Gardeners say May is the time to transplant tomatoes into the garden when the weather stays warm long enough for the soil to warm up. The plants grow well when the roots have a reasonably warm environment, 60 degrees or higher. Soil in pots and raised beds warms up before the ground.

Troubleshooting problems: Tomatoes can develop a condition called blossom end rot, where the bottom of the tomato looks brown. This is due to a low level of calcium in the fruit and is usually related to inconsistent watering for carrying the calcium through the plant. So make sure to water your plants regularly right from the start; don’t allow the root zone to dry out or remain saturated.

WHO KNEW? . . . Planning a party as the weather warms up?

No need to stock up on paper goods or head to a party supply store or rental, at least if you live in Palo Alto! Whatever type of gathering you are planning, a barbecue, a birthday celebration, pool party, use a free “Zero Waste Party Pack.” Party packs come with complete table settings for 24 people, including plates, bowls, tumblers, utensils and cloth napkins. Learn more at www.cityofpaloalto.org/ zwparty. You can borrow a party pack from a Zero Waste Block Leader near you. Most block leaders have party packs available for you to borrow. If not, they’ll get you in touch with a block leader who does. Connect with your block leader at www. cityofpaloalto.org/zwbl REPAIR YOUR STUFF . . . The Museum of American Heritage will hold a “repair cafe” on May 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring your broken stuff and team up with repair volunteers to get it working again. Learn valuable “fix-it” skills: how to diagnose problems, tricks on taking things apart so you can put them back together again, where to find repair solutions. Bring clothes, bikes, computers, small appliances, lamps, mechanical items, small furniture, jewelry or whatever you can carry.

For more information go to repaircafe-paloalto.org. Future repair cafes will be held Aug. 28 and Oct. 30. Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

Architect Leonard Ng designed the brand-new spec house in the Green Acres neighborhood of Palo Alto to have a footprint that echoes its predecessor, sitting comfortably in the streetscape. Much care was given to protect neighbors’ privacy, with the second story of the new home lining up with the second-story home next door, and no windows looking directly into a neighbor’s space.

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Sleek, clean lines for today’s living

orget crown moldings, formal entries, family rooms separated from kitchens.

Modern architecture is less about style and more about lifestyle, according to architect Leonard Ng, a principal with lnAI Architecture, San Francisco.

“A modern home is in tune with the modern way of living,” he said. In other words, it features an open floor plan, clean lines and no “decorations for the decorations’ sake,” he added.

The 2016 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour, slated for Saturday, May 14, is an opportunity to see just what modern looks like.

The self-guided tour features five homes, three in Palo Alto, one in Mountain View and one in Saratoga.

Ng designed the brand-new spec house in the Green Acres neighborhood of Palo Alto. Although surrounded by mostly one-story homes built in the 1970s, the modern structure’s footprint echoes its predecessor, sitting comfortably in the streetscape. Much care was given to protect neighbors’ privacy, with the second story of the new home lining up with the secondstory home next door, and no windows looking directly into a neighbor’s space.

Although many associate modern with cold, harsh materials, Ng said, “We wanted to create a warm modern home,” by using cedar and oak, hand-troweled, tinted Venetian plaster and plenty

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Five homes featured on 2016 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour

by Carol Blitzer / photos by Veronica Weber of large windows for non-artificial lighting.

Narrow horizontal Western red cedar siding extends from the outside indoors to encase a cube to the right of the entry. The “cube” contains a guest room/office, bathroom and laundry area and connects via a mudroom to the garage.

Entering the house, one is struck by the lines of sight: Straight ahead is a 40-foot-long glass wall with multi-sliding doors leading outdoors to what Ng calls “a horizon garden” de-

signed by Emily Ang of EAD Landscape, where one can see layers of greens leading up to a backdrop of redwoods on the adjacent property. To the right is a “surprise” garden lined in rounded pebbles; those rocks are echoed to the left, where they sit under a floating stairway.

“We wanted to bring the garden/landscape into the house,” Ng said.

“How a space feels has a lot to do with light. It’s important to come from multiple sides,” Ng added.

Light flows into the great room through the sliding glass doors. The linear fireplace has no mantel, but the hearth extends across that end of the room.

Light flows into the great room through the sliding glass doors, as well as through the clerestory windows above. On a second wall, next to the fireplace, is a large window with a cedar trellis (“that plays with shadow and light in a subtle way,” Ng said), and on a third wall another window overlooks the surprise garden.

There are windows to the left and right of the floating stairwell, but none that face the neighbor’s home. Ng explained that there is a lot of “borrowing light and overlapping light,” which he demonstrated by showing how cutting out a dark corner of the kitchen allowed light to flow in across the stairwell.

Even in the master bedroom upstairs light flows in from all sides, including a skylight that straddles the bedroom and walkin closet. Windows are located at appropriate heights to keep the space private.

Modern is also all about simple solutions, Ng said. For example, in the great room, cedar floorto-ceiling paneling conceals a structural wall and the back of a large closet, which opens from a hallway leading to the surprise garden. The linear fireplace has no mantel, but the hearth extends across that end of the room. Flooring is wide, center-cut, white-oak planks with hand-scraped edges to give more texture, he added.

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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

97 Cebalo Lane Merrill Trust to B. & C. Walsh for $2,600,000 on 03/30/16; built 1958, 4bd, 2,330 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/15/1987, $425,000 302 Stevick Drive Robertson Trust to City Force Development Group for $4,600,000 on 03/28/16; built 1955, 3bd, 2,320 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/24/1978, $255,000

Los Altos

73 3rd St. #11 Hau Trust to Mendez Trust for $1,407,500 on 04/14/16; built 1974, 2bd, 1,344 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/06/2014, $1,190,000 10625 Eloise Circle M. & J. Jones to Crackchau Limited for $2,800,000 on 04/13/16; built 1954, 3bd, 5,481 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/24/2006, $3,400,000 1432 Fallen Leaf Lane M. Outten to J. Hsiao for $2,588,000 on 04/18/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,691 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/09/2015, $2,275,000 783 Fremont Ave. H. & R. Bachman to G. Santhanam for $2,900,000 on 04/15/16; built 1952, 5bd, 3,119 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/11/2015, $2,150,000 1818 Juarez Ave. L. Sedighpour to R. Liu for $2,650,000 on 04/18/16; built 1957, 5bd, 2,272 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/15/2015, $2,401,000 125 Lockhart Lane Parrish Trust to W. Jiang for $3,220,000 on 04/15/16; built 1963, 4bd, 2,013 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/30/1991, $615,000 709 Orange Ave. E. & D. Hofing to Fogarty Trust for $3,025,000 on 04/19/16; built 1946, 3bd, 1,917 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/25/2004, $977,000 65 Pasa Robles Ave. Klein Trust to J. Wang for $2,200,000 on 04/15/16; built 1959, 3bd, 1,602 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/06/2010, $1,120,000 540 Valencia Drive Kells Trust to J. & H. Lee for $3,275,000 on 04/13/16; built 1954, 4bd, 3,041 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/29/1986, $367,000

Los Altos Hills

13 Arastradero Road Graham Trust

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,600,000 Highest sales price:$4,600,000 Average sales price: $3,600,000

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,170,000 Highest sales price: $5,998,000 Average sales price:: $2,900,430

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $750,000

Los Altos Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $1,407,500 Highest sales price: $3,275,000 Average sales price: $ 2,673,940

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $3,240,000 Highest sales price: $8,350,000 Average sales price: $4,258,250

Mountain View Total sales price: 14 Lowest sales price:$538,000 Highest sales price: $2,032,000 Average sales price: $1,401,070

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 14 Lowest sales price: $217,500 Highest sales price: $2,750,000 Average sales price: $1,848,960

Portola Valley Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $2,305,000

Woodside Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,192,500 Source: California REsource

to Wilson Trust for $8,350,000 on 04/15/16; built 1992, 4bd, 4,420 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/30/1988, $750,000 28001 Arastradero Road Kam Trust to Jenq Trust for $4,188,000 on 04/15/16; built 1991, 5bd, 6,025 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/03/1986, $279,000 12101 Oak Park Court I. & I. Miller to L. Gao for $4,138,000 on 04/19/16; built 1996, 4bd, 4,081 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/01/2005, $3,200,000 26860 Robleda Court Oneill Trust to Kruep Trust for $3,600,000 on 04/19/16; built 1963, 4bd, 3,593 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/02/1990, $1,000,000 26653 Snell Lane K. Mosher to Chen Trust for $3,925,000 on 04/13/16; built 1963, 5bd, 2,831 sq. ft.

26880 St. Francis Road Young Trust to Srinivasan Trust for $3,275,000 on 04/18/16; built 1960, 5bd, 3,438 sq. ft.

11499 Summit Wood Road P. & G. Soheili to E. Lin for $3,240,000 on 04/13/16; built 1965, 5bd, 3,671 sq. ft.

27633 Via Cerro Gordo J. & J. Plum-

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simple with its warm white and speckled gray CaesarStone countertops and walnutstained rift-cut white oak cabinetry. All the appliances, which are faced with oak, recede into the background. “If you don’t want to look at it, you don’t have to,” Ng said.

“The challenge (to choosing a dining-area light fixture) was to find a pendant that

mer to Karra Trust for $3,350,000 on 04/15/16; built 1968, 4bd, 3,568 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/24/1979, $388,700

Menlo Park

736 11th Ave. Haughney Trust to J. McClean for $1,170,000 on 03/29/16; built 1955, 2bd, 1,201 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/29/2008, $775,000 153 Bay Road Burks Trust to J. Wilkiewicz for $1,850,000 on 03/25/16; built 1950, 3bd, 1,529 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/15/1998, $449,000 1175 Hermosa Way Baggs Trust to Saul Trust for $3,525,000 on 03/29/16; built 1948, 3bd, 2,410 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/17/1991, $645,000 228 Oakhurst Place S. Ebaugh to Dolkas Trust for $1,460,000 on 03/29/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,210 sq. ft.

520 Olive St. Olive Limited to Alataris Trust for $5,998,000 on 03/28/16; built 1941, 5bd, 2,450 sq. ft.

920 Olive St. Vaccaro Trust to Hagey Trust for $3,550,000 on 03/25/16; built

was kind of translucent and didn’t interrupt the field of sight,” Ng said, pointing to the dramatic Flos chandelier.

Simple yet elegant designs extend into the bathrooms, with the master bathroom sporting a Neolith counter in dark gray; large, square, white Wetstyle double sinks; wall-mounted faucets; and a medicine cabinet hidden behind the mirror. The universally designed shower has a minimal threshold with a floor that slopes down to a linear drain at the back. Light flows from the high window through the glass

In the great room, cedar floor-to-ceiling paneling conceals a structural wall and the back of a large closet, which opens from a hallway leading to the surprise garden.

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1956, 3bd, 1,740 sq. ft.

835 Paulson Circle Yueh Trust to N. Vachharajani for $2,750,000 on 03/30/16; built 2008, 3bd, 2,300 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/26/2008, $1,860,000

Mountain View

1116 Boranda Ave. Rich Country to D. Hicks for $1,603,000 on 04/13/16; built 2007, 4bd, 2,112 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/01/2013, $12,980,000 836 Burgoyne St. J. & N. Eva to L. Xie for $1,325,000 on 04/15/16; built 1950, 2bd, 832 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/15/2007, $605,000 183 Del Medio Ave. #111 W. & C. Goodman to S. Goodman for $538,000 on 04/18/16; built 1962, 1bd, 756 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/17/2006, $359,000 150 Flynn Ave. Keezer Trust to H. Yu for $1,235,000 on 04/19/16; built 1980, 2bd, 1,627 sq. ft.

391 Foxborough Drive Mills Trust to Y. Xia for $2,000,000 on 04/18/16; built 1976, 3bd, 1,970 sq. ft.

620 Hope St. #4 Malek Legacy to Hau Trust for $1,899,000 on 04/15/16 278 Monroe Drive #7 L. Ringor to J. Lee for $700,000 on 04/13/16; built 1962, 2bd, 899 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/23/2005, $440,000 1586 Nilda Ave. Chan Trust to L. Shao for $1,728,000 on 04/15/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,248 sq. ft.

550 Ortega Ave. #A214 R. Gaster to N. Traynor for $750,000 on 04/19/16; built 1992, 1bd, 811 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/20/2010, $440,000 171 Owens Court Lee G. Lee to P. Wong for $1,265,000 on 04/14/16; built 2000, 3bd, 1,288 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/03/2001, $560,000 773 San Carrizo Way Sorokin Trust to K. & S. Noorani for $1,350,000 on 04/19/16; built 1962, 4bd, 1,389 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/07/2000, $550,000 1063 Sladky Ave. Coe Trust to C. Gering for $2,032,000 on 04/15/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,260 sq. ft.

723 Sonia Way J. Martina to Tavana Trust for $1,730,000 on 04/15/16; built 1947, 2bd, 1,964 sq. ft.

250 Thompson Ave. Christiansen Trust to T. Turner for $1,460,000 on 04/19/16; built 1955, 6bd, 1,820 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/22/1998, $425,000

Palo Alto

3472 Alma Village Circle Sommers Trust to H. Huang for $2,036,000 on

door. The toilet is housed in a frosted glass cubicle.

Since the house was built “on spec” with no particular family in mind, no window coverings are in place. But the design does include hidden automated shades in the bedrooms, Ng said.

Unseen, but important, features earned the home a Build-It-Green GreenPoint rating, including an albedo (cool) roof

There are windows to the left and right of the floating stairwell, and a lot of “borrowing light and overlapping light.”

04/15/16; built 2013, 4bd, 2,259 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/24/2013, $1,559,500 2420 Bryant St. L. Wetzel-Fujimoto to B. & F. Hutchinson for $2,750,000 on 04/19/16; built 1935, 4bd, 2,355 sq. ft.

523 Channing Ave. M. Mak-Fung to S. Levine for $1,700,000 on 04/13/16; built 1974, 3bd, 1,183 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/15/2010, $915,000 846 Cowper St. Jlm Trust to V. Yellu for $2,500,000 on 04/19/16; built 1917, 2bd, 980 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/18/1987, $275,000 1564 Emerson St. Mather-Pugsley Trust to Y. Guo for $2,700,000 on 04/18/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,188 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/31/2007, $1,250,000 119 Greenmeadow Way J. Clark to M. Chun for $822,000 on 04/18/16; built 1959, 1bd, 768 sq. ft.

666 Hawthorne Ave. Fang Trust to P. Schneider for $1,800,000 on 04/18/16; built 1927, 2bd, 773 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/05/2013, $1,300,000 833 La Para Ave. Menlo La Para to Trust Trust for $2,490,000 on 04/18/16; built 1979, 4bd, 1,940 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/14/2015, $3,525,000 3437 Park Boulevard R. & D. Madsen to Honjo Trust for $1,570,000 on 04/19/16; built 1949, 3bd, 1,006 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/25/2008, $895,000 4295 Ponce Drive Kraemer Trust to B. Koritzinsky for $1,900,000 on 04/14/16; built 1975, 3bd, 1,717 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/25/1995, $325,000 2929 Ramona St. D. MacWilliam to J. Zheng for $2,320,000 on 04/18/16; built 1950, 3bd, 1,062 sq. ft.

777 San Antonio Road #36 Griner Trust to J. Roth for $217,500 on 04/15/16; built 1974, 3bd, 1,212 sq. ft.

3716 Starr King Circle Teichner Trust to D. & D. Sacerdote for $2,130,000 on 04/19/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,224 sq. ft.

2452 West Bayshore Road #7 B. & S. Aiyar to D. Evenson for $950,000 on 04/14/16; built 1972, 3bd, 1,134 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/31/2008, $540,000

Portola Valley

630 La Mesa Drive S. Moore to J. & V. Starr for $2,305,000 on 03/28/16; built 1955, 4bd, 1,860 sq. ft.

Woodside

785 West California Way Triantos Trust to P. & K. Cairns for $3,192,500 on 03/29/16; built 1985, 3bd, 3,420 sq. ft.

and water-efficient plumbing fixtures and landscaping.

Two more Palo Alto homes are included on the tour: a downtown condominium by Joseph Bellomo Architects and an Eichler updated by KC Cullen, Design for Living, featuring Henrybuilt white oak and laminate cabinets and a porcelain tile floor.

In Mountain View, the tour includes an Anshen & Allen-designed Eichler, built in 1954, touted as in “original condition” but with “tasteful updates” to bathrooms and kitchen.

Features not to miss in the LEED Goldcertified Saratoga home, designed by Srusti Architects, include the passive solar elements, green roof and water-efficient fixtures.

If visiting these five homes hasn’t satisfied your craving for glass or modern lines, a 2010 modern home in Menlo Park designed by Carmel architect John Thodos recently came on the market. Its features include a glass-blocked front facade, glassceilinged gallery and frameless glass walls overlooking gardens. The 5,037-squarefoot, five-bedroom home is offered for $8.5 million. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

What: 2016 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour When: Saturday, May 14, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Five homes in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Saratoga Cost: $35 in advance online; $40 day of tour Info: http://modernhometours.com/ event/2016-silicon-valley-modern-home-tour/

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Upon meeting new and stricter standards for conserving resources, preventing pollution and minimizing waste, the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) has earned recertification as a Bay Area Green Business from the California Bay Area Green Business Program. SILVAR was the first REALTOR® association in the state to obtain the green certification in 2007. With stricter requirements in place, SILVAR in April completed the recertification process administered by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Santa Clara County.

Certification as a Green Business is in line with SILVAR’s goal of community involvement by being proactive in conservation and concern for the environment. SILVAR educates its members and collaborates on projects that create a more sustainable environment. Many real estate offices in the communities SILVAR serves have followed suit and achieved green certification.

“We are very pleased that we have been recognized as a Green Business. Undergoing recertification under more stringent requirements was a task worth achieving. We want to continue to be an example for our region and members,” said SILVAR Executive Officer Paul Cardus.

The Green Business Certification Program is a successful partnership of environmental agencies and utilities that assists, recognizes and promotes businesses and government agencies that operate voluntarily in a more environmentally responsible way. To be certified “green,” participants must comply with all regulations and meet program

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standards for conserving resources, preventing pollution and minimizing waste. This certification focuses on helping businesses improve and implement green best practices for office operation.

Since it was first certified nine years ago, SILVAR has been following most of the best practices required by the county as part of its policy to recycle and conserve energy, resources and money. Some of these practices include recycling, double-sided printing, use of email to communicate with members and providing member and customer services via the phone and Internet, including REALTOR® tour sheets and PRDS residential purchase forms, to decrease the need for member travel and use of paper.

To be recertified under the new guidelines, SILVAR, which is based in Cupertino, expanded its conservation practices by using recycled paper and envelopes, recycling printer ink and batteries, transitioning all cleaning supplies, including paper towels, to items that are environmentally-friendly, and installing low-flow faucets in its restrooms and breakroom. SILVAR has joined the Spare the Air Day Program and encourages members and staff to participate in efforts to cut down on pollution by combining or eliminating trips and carpooling to meetings and association functions. ***** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

The Hamilton 555 Byron Street, #107 Palo Alto

Open Sunday by Appointment, 1:00–4:00 PM

The Hamilton—55+ age requirement condo; lifestyle with many comforts of private home; walking distance to downtown Palo Alto.

Amenities include: Y 24-hour security

Y 1354 sq. ft.

Y Underground parking

Y High ceilings

Y Heated indoor pool

Y Fireplace

Y Utilities (gas, water, trash collection)

Y Private outdoor patio

Y 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms

Berdine Jernigan 650.465.2427 bjernigan@cbnorcal.com www.berdinejernigan.com License # 0067045

Listed at $1,425,000

All information based on public records and other information deemed to be reliable but not guaranteed.

This is not intended as a solicitation of prospective buyers who already have an exclusive agency agreement with another agent. www.CommunicationsSquared.com 510.785.3998

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Knoll-top Views from this Sunnyhill Farm Original Home 14120 Miranda Road | Los Altos Hills | Offered at $ 4,849,000

Just Listed – Open Sunday 1:30-4:30pm eaturing spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay and parts of the Western Hills from its location on the apex of what was once the Sunnyhill Farm orchards, this classic Norman French farmhouse has been updated in style by the current owners. Its location is within walking distance to downtown Los Altos and local schools and is not far from commuter-friendly I-280 freeway access. Sporting five bedrooms and six baths, the home’s one-level floorplan has an efficient flow between the contiguous kitchen, family room and high-ceilinged two-set living room situated between two bedroom living wings. Three sets of French doors open out to a sun-filled rear entertaining patio overlooking the rear lawn, gardens and pool complex. Timeless elegance meets total relaxation.

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HELEN & BRAD MILLER

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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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OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30 - 4:30 pm

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

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$24,800,000

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

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245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

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2991 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto

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$6,888,000

$5,950,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

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26861 Purissima Road, Los Altos Hills

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$5,850,000

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

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Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

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.

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• Palo Alto Weekly • May 6, 2016 • Page 45

COMPLETELY REMODELED HOME BACKS TO PARK

3105 LOUIS ROAD, PALO ALTO

Join Us For Open House This Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00pm

SCHOOL OVERVIEW

Palo Verde Elementary (K-5) Jane Lathrop Middle (6-8) Palo Alto High (9-12) (Buyer To Verify Enrollment Eligibility)

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

495 Cuesta Drive, Los Altos Offered at $2,298,000 Remodeled Home with Backyard Sanctuary Luxurious updates define this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 2,420 sq. ft. (per county) which sits on a lot of approx. 0.27 acres (per county).

Spacious living areas, a sky-lit kitchen, and a sizable master suite are found inside, while the stunning backyard retreat includes fruit trees and a large koi pond. The property also provides a two-car garage and a bonus room, and is moments to downtown Los Altos and within a stroll of Covington Elementary (API 975) (buyer to verify eligibility).

For more information, please contact: Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com ®

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.495Cuesta.com

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

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OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00pm

2326 Webster Street, Palo Alto Q Premier Q 4

Old Palo Alto location

bedrooms and 2.5 baths

Q Approximately Q Beautifully Q Private

2,616 square feet

updated kitchen and family room combination

rear yard with no utility lines in view just blocks to Caltrain, shopping and dining on California Avenue

Q Located

Q Excellent

Palo Alto schools – Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High*

Offered at $3,398,000 | 2326Webster.com *buyer

to confirm enrollment

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650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com www.LoriRealEstate.com License #01859485

TWILIGHT TOUR OPEN HOUSE

Friday, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Saturday & Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

2661 Waverley Street, Palo Alto Q Entirely Q 3

renovated in 2006

bedrooms and 2.5 baths

Q Approximately Q Exquisitely Q Beautiful Q Best

1,795 square feet

renovated with respect to its original architecture

gardens featured in Sunset magazine

Midtown location

Q Excellent

Palo Alto schools – El Carmelo Elementary, JLS Middle, Palo Alto High*

Offered at $2,498,000 | 2661Waverley.com *buyer

to confirm enrollment

Exceeding client expectations

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com www.LoriRealEstate.com License #01859485

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OPEN SATURDAY 1:00-4:00PM AND SUNDAY 1:00-3:00PM

S PEC TACU L A R N E W H O M E O N W I LLOW G LE N ’ S M OST DE S I R A B LE STR E E T

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

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11801 Sierra Spring Court, Cupertino Offered at $1,488,000 Excellent Community and Fine Amenities The peaceful, private Seven Springs Community surrounds this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom detached home of 1,745 sq. ft. (per county) that occupies a lot of 4,000 sq. ft. (per county). Soaring ceilings and transom windows contribute to the openness of the design, which includes a fireplace, extensive storage, updated lighting, and engineered hardwood floors. The home also offers an attached two-car garage, a fabulous backyard with fruit trees, and access to community amenities like tennis courts and a pool. Enjoy living within moments of parks, shopping, and fantastic schools.

For more information, please contact: ®

Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.11801SierraSpring.com

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

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

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

72 Magnolia, Atherton $6,850,000 5 BD / 5.5 BA

3 Bassett Lane, Menlo Park $4,895,000 3 BD / 3.5 BA

24890 Tiare Lane, Los Altos Hills $4,680,000 3 BD / 3.5 BA

Exquisitely remodeled Lindenwood estate offers 5 bedrooms plus an office.

Stylish Santa Barbara home offers a wonderful floor plan ideal for entertainment plus lush gardens.

Dramatic contemporary with resort living, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, guest house, pool, sport court, putting green.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

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

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

2317 Saint Francis Drive, Palo Alto $3,488,000 4 BD / 3.5 BA

Located in Sharon Heights neighborhood.

Two-story home was built in 2012 with timeless elegance. Las Lomitas schools.

Designed by Mark Cutler. Spectacular custom built Woodside home, nestled in the coveted Skywood Acres.

Privately located on cul-de-sac, traditional and modern, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, wired for every communication need.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

David Weil, 650.823.3855

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

AVAILABLE

AMAZING LIVE / WORK

APPOINTMENT ONLY

NEW LISTING

191 Meadowood Drive, Portola Valley $3,400,000 2.2 Acres

1600 Reliez Valley Road, Lafayette $2,089,000 4 BD / 3 BA

1113 Lafayette Drive, Sunnyvale $1,298,000 3 BD / 2 BA

Oak studded flat pad with Windy Hill views.

Near trail head. Redo or build new!

Contemporary 4BR/3BA + Studio, 4,513± sq. ft. home on a .68± acre lot.

Delightful 1950’s rancher in Cherry Chase.

Spacious, open floor plan, nice yard - all in a great location & school district.

Pollock Tarr Team, 650.868.0609

Dana Green, 925.339.1918

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Sara B. Khan, 415.271.2581 sbkhan25@yahoo.com

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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

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Price Reduced to $8,998,000 Beds 5 | Baths 9 Home Âą7,649 sf | Lot Âą1 acre

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Offered at $2,495,000 Beds 2 | Baths 1 Home Âą1,008 sf | Lot Âą5,250 sf

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1052 ECHO DRIVE, LOS ALTOS PRICE UPON REQUEST OPEN HOUSE SAT/SUN 1- 4PM

Inspired by original English Tudor Architecture, this stunning residence is located on one of Los Altos’ most sought-after streets. Built by Komo Construction, the home’s large great rooms’ vaulted wood ceilings gives a feeling of free-flowing energy throughout and a seamless connection to the rear yard.

Exceptional finishes include plank oak floors, a large honed black granite island in the kitchen and custom cabinetry throughout. There are 3 bedrooms, and 3 bathrooms with an additional large loft / family room area that could be converted into the 4th bedroom. All the living areas are tremendous spaces for entertaining as well as everyday living.

Thoroughly impressive, this energy-efficient home with beautiful gardens is located in the Los Altos exclusive Rancho neighborhood known for its smalltown feel with vibrant Rancho Shopping Center, walking distance to Award Winning Schools and close to major commute routes for the best of Silicon Valley living.

DETAILS OF THE HOME • Built by Komo Construction, Los Altos preeminent home builder • Excellent Los Altos location close to downtown shopping and dining • 3 BDs and 3 BAs arranged over one level • Approx. 3,480 sqft on a 13,600 sqft lot • Formal living and dining room with vaulted tongue and groove ceiling detail, gas-log fireplace outlined in honed granite

• Oak hardwood flooring in main living areas • Fabulous kitchen and family room combination at the rear of the home has high ceilings with a gas-log fireplace and large furniture quality built in cabinetry integrates the television • Sleek custom kitchen cabinetry topped with white tile counters, custom tile backsplash, and island with honed black granite counter

• Appliances of home include: 48” Wolf gas range with 6 burners with grill, and 2 ovens; Thermador dishwasher, Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer • Master bedroom suite has a customized closet room, glamorous en suite bath with tile dual-sink vanity and built-in sunken tub • Upstairs loft area for play and/or study center with alcove

ED GRAZIANI

JEN PAULSON

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This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not verified this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school enrollment

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135 Preston Drive, Mountain View Offered at $2,288,000 Home Offers Celebrated Remodel Showcasing a dynamic remodel publicized by HGTV and the New York Times, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 3,111 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a lot of 11,792 sq. ft. (per county). Jaw-dropping spaces include a kitchen/family ensemble with cathedral ceilings.

The home also offers an attached two-car garage, a flexible, walkout lower level with radiant floor heating, and a backyard paradise with an outdoor kitchen. Moments from desirable schools, this home is also near local shopping and Stevens Creek Trail.

For more information, please contact: Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com ®

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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3 Bassett Lane

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Mid-Century Santa Barbara Chic » 3 bedrooms, office, family room, and 3.5 baths » Approximately 4,030 square feet of living space » Numerous skylights and clerestory windows provide natural light » Temperature-controlled wine cellar » Private garden courtyard with pool » Enchanting English gardens, oak trees, vegetable beds, citrus trees, and greenhouse » Over two-thirds of an acre (approximately 29,500 square feet) » Just one-half mile to downtown Menlo Park » Excellent Menlo Park schools (buyer to confirm enrollment)

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3060 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Open Floorplan and Prime Neighborhood Fronted by stately magnolia trees, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,618 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a corner lot of 6,930 sq. ft. (per county) in the fantastic Midtown neighborhood. This tastefully updated home offers a fireplace, hardwood floors, an open, functional floorplan, and a private, alluring backyard retreat with citrus trees. Enjoy living within an easy stroll of bus services, Philz Coffee, Hoover Park, Midtown Shopping Center, and El Carmelo Elementary (API 944) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com

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334 Poe Street, Palo Alto Executive Residence in Downtown Palo Alto Enjoying easy walkability to University Avenue, this luxurious 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom home of 4,858 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a peaceful property of 9,000 sq. ft. (per county) and is designed for both indoor and outdoor entertaining. The exquisitely crafted 5:@1>5;> ;Ŋ 1>? 1813-:@ C;;0C;>7 2;A> ŋ >1<8-/1? -:0 ?;<45?@5/-@10 85B5:3 ?<-/1? <8A? - Ō 1D5.81 8;C1> 81B18 C5@4 - 75@/41:1@@1 C4581 @41 A:2;>31@@-.81 .-/7E->0 >1@>1-@ .;-?@? -: ;.?1>B-@;>E "->7? >1?@-A>-:@? ?4;<? -:0 ŋ :1 1:@1>@-5:91:@ ->1 -88 C5@45: C-875:3 distance, and incredible schools are easily accessible.

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3412 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Offered at $2,488,000 Open, Luxurious, and Convenient Suburban luxury defines this 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,870 sq. ft. (per architect) that occupies a lot of 6,400 sq. ft. (per county).

Lavishly appointed with stone finishes, designer features, and a fireplace, the home also provides an attached two-car garage and a sky-lit, open floorplan, perfect for everyday living. Near Charleston Shopping Center and within steps of Mitchell Park and Library, you will also be strolling distance to Fairmeadow Elementary (API 953) and JLS Middle (API 943) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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2510 Waverley Street, Palo Alto Historic Home with Spanish Flair Built in 1937, this historic 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 3,595 sq. ft. (per county) includes approx. 0.3 acres (per FRXQW\ 7KH XSJUDGHG LQWHULRU UHWDLQV LWV GLVWLQFWLYH 6SDQLVK Ă DLU DQG ERDVWV IRXU Ă&#x20AC; UHSODFHV DQ RIĂ&#x20AC; FH DQG D GUDPDWLF PDVWHU VXLWH ZLWK D Ă H[LEOH XSSHU OHYHO ,GHDO IRU XQIRUJHWWDEOH HQWHUWDLQLQJ WKH FHQWUDO FRXUW\DUG Ă RZV LQWR SLFWXUHVTXH wraparound gardens with fruit trees. This sensational home is central to Stanford University and top Palo Alto schools, and the bike tunnel nearby lends easy access to California Avenue attractions.

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1020 Windermere Avenue, Menlo Park Offered at $1,298,000 Updated Home in Convenient Neighborhood Teeming with fine updates, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,540 sq. ft. (per county) displays picturesque charm and occupies a lot of 5,750 sq. ft. (per county). Tasteful features add elegance to the beautifully remodeled interior, and other highlights include abundant storage, a fireplace, and a stylish kitchen. The home also includes a private backyard with spacious entertaining areas, and a garage with overhead storage. Stroll to bus services, local shopping, and Flood Park, and enjoy easy access to exceptional schools.

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For Sale 201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts

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A hilarious spoof of the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It is full of incredible comedy, mystery, danger and enormous amounts of fog. Appropriate for all ages.

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133 Music Lessons

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135 Group Activities

215 Collectibles & Antiques

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145 Non-Profits Needs Caregiver Support Group

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230 Freebies Furniture blankets and boxes - FREE

235 Wanted to Buy Old Coins, Paper Money, Gold and Silver Jewelry. Littleton Coin Company trusted since 1945.

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Engineering Medallia, Inc. is seeking the following positions for their Palo Alto office: Events Manager: Coordinate activities and personnel, make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.

Senior Software Engineer: Architect, design, and develop the Medallia’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.

Engagement Manager: Develop solutions and alternative business practices for the company.

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Disney Pooh Bed+pillow Cover $10

Charming 5 Room 1960’s Tin Doll House - $49.00

140 Lost & Found

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Collectors NFL FavreGBP 5-6YRS $20

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Sweet! Teddy Bear Cookie Jar - $12.00

BOY clothes 6-7-8 Years $40- 2Bags

210 Garage/Estate Sales

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Software Engineer, Site Reliability: Design and develop software to achieve high performance, high usability, and high stability within the context of company infrastructure, business practices, market pressures, and planning cycles.

Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Opening. Routes available to deliver the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto on Fridays. From approx. 650 to 950 papers, 10.25 cents per paper.

Additional bonus following successful 13 week introductory period. Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to jon3silver@ yahoo.com with Newspaper Delivery Routes in the subject line. Or (best) call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310 Sr. iOS Software Engineer EVA Automation, Inc. has job opp. in Redwood City, CA: Sr. iOS Software Engineer. Collab w/prdct dvlpmt and dsgn team to dsgn and implmt core iOS app archtctr. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. #SSW16 to: Attn: T. Gilfoil, 401 Warren St, 3rd Flr, Redwood City, CA 94063.

Technical Informatica LLC is accepting resumes for the following position in Redwood City, CA: Principal Software Engineer (RCSKH): Take end-to-end responsibility of projects and follow through with other teams working on the project to ensure high quality and predictable delivery of features. Please mail resumes with job title and reference Job Code #RCSKH to Informatica LLC, ATTN: Global Mobility, 2100 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

Technical Informatica LLC is accepting resumes for the following position in Redwood City, CA: Senior Technical Support Engineer (SI-CA). Ensure customers’ success and satisfaction with our products and contribute to their long-term loyalty, work closely with the rest of the PIM support team, QA, Engineering, Solutions Delivery, Sales, and Product Management to ensure that PIM is delivering overall superior service and support to customers. Please mail resumes (reference job title and job code) to Informatica LLC, ATTN: Global Mobility, 2100 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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Product Marketing Manager: Research market conditions, gather information to determine potential sales of company products and services.

To apply, mail resumes and ref. job title to A. Zwerling, Medallia, Inc. 395 Page Mill Road, Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Multiple positions available. Background checks required.

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604 Adult Care Offered A PLACE FOR MOM The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE/no obligation. CALL 1-800-550-4822. (Cal-SCAN)

624 Financial BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage and bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, and resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317 (AAN CAN) Owe Over $10K to IRS? Do you owe over $10,000 to the IRS or State in back taxes? Our firm works to reduce the tax bill or zero it out completely FAST. Call now 855-993-5796 (Cal-SCAN) SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Benefits. Unable to work?

Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-966-1904 to start your application today! (Cal-SCAN) Structured Settlement?

Sell your structured settlement or annuity payments for CASH NOW. You don’t have to wait for your future payments any longer!

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636 Insurance Health and Dental Insurance Lowest Prices. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (CalSCAN)

640 Legal Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s hostile business climate? Gain the edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the FREE One-Month Trial Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN) Xarelto users have you had complications due to internal bleeding (after January 2012)? If so, you MAY be due financial compensation. If you don’t have an attorney, CALL Injuryfone today! 1-800-425-4701. (Cal-SCAN)

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Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Magic Team Cleaning Services House, condo, apt., office. Move in/out.

Good refs. “Serving Entire Bay Area.”

650/380-4114 Orkopina Housecleaning Celebrating 31 years cleaning homes in your area. 650/962-1536 Silvia’s Cleaning We don’t cut corners, we clean them!

Bonded, insured, 22 yrs. exp., service guaranteed, excel. refs., free est.

415/860-6988

743 Tiling Residential Tile Specialist Kitchen, baths, floors. Free est.

650/207-7703

748 Gardening/ Landscaping A. Barrios Garden Maintenance *Weekly or every other week *Irrigation systems *Clean up and hauling *Tree removal *Refs. 650/771-0213 J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 25 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781 LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Clean Ups *Irrigation timer programming. 20 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 landaramon@yahoo.com R.G. Landscape Drought tolerant native landscapes and succulent gardens. Demos, installations, maint. Free est. 650/468-8859

751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/ Repairs

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(650) 453-3002 Handyman Services Lic. 249558. Plumb, electrical, masonry, carpentry, landscape.

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759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., green waste, more. Lic./ins. Free est.

650/743-8852

771 Painting/ Wallpaper STYLE PAINTING Full service interior/ext.

Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

775 Asphalt/ Concrete Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572

801 Apartments/ Condos/Studios Downtown Palo Alto, Johnson Park, 2 BR/1 BA - $3595/mo

805 Homes for Rent Menlo Park, 3 BR/2 BA - $6,000.00 Redwood City (emerald Hills), 4 BR/3.5 BA - $5295

809 Shared Housing/ Rooms ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com!

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825 Homes/Condos for Sale Redwood City, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $1,299,950

840 Vacation Rentals/Time Shares

781 Pest Control

Attic Clean-Up & Rodent Removal Are you in the Bay Area? Do you have squeaky little terrors living in your attic or crawlspace? What you are looking for is right here! Call Attic Star now to learn about our rodent removal services and cleaning options. You can also get us to take out your old, defunct insulation and install newer, better products.

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787 Pressure Washing Professional Pressure Washing *Patios and bricks *Homes and driveways *650/468-8859

“Slammed”--prepare to be taken down. Matt Jones

Santa Cruz Time Share PLEASURE POINT Ocean Front furnished studio. 1/4 yr timeshare. 1 yr lease req’d. $1,100/mo for 13 wks/yr (generally 1 wk/mo) VIEWS GALORE! 650-328-9399

855 Real Estate Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s highly competitive market? Gain an edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www. capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN)

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Across 1 Jacket style named for an Indian prime minister 6 Impala, to a lion 10 Scoring advantage 14 “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” e.g.

15 “Game of Thrones” actress Chaplin 16 Safe contents?

17 “All that over your fireplace--are you trying to put Hummel out of business?”

19 Fails to be 20 Courtroom fig.

21 Beethoven wrote just one 22 Detective’s lead 23 Life sentences?

24 Yiddish interjections 26 Sweet suffix 27 Crumpled into a ball 32 “Hello, I’m ___” (recurring ad line from Justin Long) 34 Sans-serif Windows font 35 Unteach, in a way 39 It immobilizes 40 Rock venue 41 A couple of gossip columns 42 Aim 44 When infomercials start running, sometimes 45 Wavy lines, in a comic strip 46 “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” songwriter 48 Visit Vail, perhaps 50 Talk and talk 52 Machine to watch “RoboCop” on, way back when 53 Didi of “Grease” and “Grease 2” 55 Astronomical flareups 57 Automaker headquartered in Bavaria 61 Make a clickbait list, e.g.

62 “Your hair looks like it was styled by kittens” 64 Brews that may be Scotch or pale 65 Early Nebraskan 66 Lisa, to Patty and Selma 67 Stamp inkers 68 “Cleanup in aisle four” tools 69 To-do list items

Down 1 Zippo 2 Theater sign 3 Much of soc. studies 4 Michele’s “High School Reunion” friend 5 “Pulp Fiction” actress Thurman 6 Mishmash of a “Jeopardy!” category 7 Play thing?

8 First month on a Mexican calendar 9 “And so on” 10 Majestic 11 “You couldn’t even find your own butt on a Waze app” 12 Trivial Pursuit edition 13 Cosmetics mogul Lauder 18 Pizza destroyer of old Domino’s ads 23 “The Fresh Prince of ___-Air” 25 Home of the Mustangs, for short 27 1993 Texas standoff city 28 Speedy breed of steed 29 “Buying your weed wearing a pot leaf T-shirt? Like that’s original” 30 Went out with 31 “Pet” irritation 33 ___ di pepe (tiny pasta variety) 36 Sucks the strength out of 37 Blue-green hue 38 Model with a palindromic name 40 How lottery numbers are chosen 43 Gear tooth 44 Text-interpreting technology, briefly 47 Champagne bucket, e.g.

48 Piece of paper 49 Australian leaf-eater 51 “Otello” librettist 54 Loch ___ Monster 56 Abbr. on a bottle of Courvoisier 57 Where the Himalayas are 58 Partakes of 59 Pack of playing cards 60 Bad time for Caesar 63 “Lord of the Rings” tree creature ©2016 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement LEISURE TRAVEL AGENCY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615963 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Leisure Travel Agency, located at 800 High Street, #412, 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): PAUL HSIA 800 High Street, #412 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on April 7, 2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 6, 2016.

(PAW Apr. 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2016) PAPAMEALS INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615971 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Papameals Inc., located at 2281 Byron St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LONCK METAL INC. 2281 Byron St. 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 April 6, 2016.

(PAW Apr. 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2016) CALIFORNIO CATTLE CO. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 615764 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Californio Cattle Co., located at 7515 Tierra Sombra Ct., San Jose, CA 95120, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PIERRE OLIVIER PAQUELIER 7515 Tierra Sombra Ct. San Jose, CA 95120 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3-30-16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 30, 2016.

(PAW Apr. 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2016) KM INTERNATIONAL, INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 616188 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: KM International, Inc., located at 2675 Louis Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KM INTERNATIONAL, INC. 2675 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 12, 2016.

(PAW Apr. 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2016) KALI KALI GREEK GRILL KALI GRILL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 616253 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Kali, 2.) Kali Greek Grill, 3.) Kali Grill, located at 451 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): CAGLAR VURAL 681 Walnut St. #2 San Carlos, CA 94070 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 13, 2016.

(PAW Apr. 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANDREW GRISCOM Case No.: 1-16-PR 178532 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ANDREW GRISCOM AKA ANDREW GRISCOM SR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ANDREW GRISCOM JR. and SHANNON GRISCOM in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ANDREW GRISCOM JR. and SHANNON GRISCOM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 2, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Paul J. Barulich Barulich Dugoni Law Group, Inc. 400 So. El Camino Real, Suite 1000 San Mateo, CA 94402 (650)292-2900 (PAW Apr. 22, 29, May 6, 2016) T. S. No: A547876 CA Unit Code: A Loan No: 37559/RAHMAT NAH/ MOISE NAH AP #1: 189-60-017 969 EICHLER DRIVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T D SERVICE COMPANY, as duly appointed Trustee under the following described Deed of Trust WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (in the forms which are lawful tender in the United States) and/or the cashier’s, certified or other checks specified in Civil Code Section 2924h (payable in full at the time of sale to T.D. Service Company) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property hereinafter described: Trustor: RAHMAT NAHOURAI AND ESTER NAHOURAI, TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST OF RAHMAD AND ESTER NAHOURAI, DATED OCTOBER 8, 1992 Recorded April 1, 2010 as Instr. No. 20663628 in Book —- Page —- of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County; CALIFORNIA , pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded January 25, 2016 as Instr. No. 23204362 in Book —- Page —- of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County CALIFORNIA. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED MARCH 26, 2010. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. 969 EICHLER DRIVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 “(If a street address or common designation of property is shown above, no warranty is given as to its completeness or correctness).” Said Sale of property will be made in “as is” condition without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest as in said note provided,

advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust.

Said sale will be held on: JUNE 3, 2016, AT 10:00 A.M. *AT THE NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE OF THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, 190 N. MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95113 At the time of the initial publication of this notice, the total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the above described Deed of Trust and estimated costs, expenses, and advances is $639,215.54. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (888) 988-6736 or visit this Internet Web site: salestrack.tdsf.com, using the file number assigned to this case A547876 A. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: April 20, 2016 T D SERVICE COMPANY as said Trustee MARLENE CLEGHORN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY T.D. SERVICE COMPANY 4000 W. Metropolitan Drive, Suite 400 Orange, CA 92868-0000 The Beneficiary may be attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained may be used for that purpose.

If available, the expected opening bid and/or postponement information may be obtained by calling the following telephone number(s) on the day before the sale: (888) 988-6736 or you may access sales information at salestrack. tdsf.com, TAC# 992822 PUB: 04/29/16, 05/06/16, 05/13/16 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-14-652026-HL Order No.: 100726105 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/30/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees,

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): MANAR ZARROUG, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY Recorded: 12/6/2007 as Instrument No. 19674605 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 6/1/2016 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street Entrance of the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $6,536,001.59 The purported property address is: 996 LAUREL GLEN DR, PALO ALTO, CA 94304 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 182-43-037-00 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction.

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-652026-HL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-652026-HL IDSPub #0106400 4/29/2016 5/6/2016 5/13/2016 PAW

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A season for the ages

MAKING A SPLASH . . . It has been quite a month for Palo Alto High senior divers Mimi Lin and Reed Merritt, who have brought home titles in their past three meets.

Both won individual honors at the Palo Alto Invitational on April 23.

They followed that up by each winning their four consecutive titles at the SCVAL De Anza Division Championships on April 26. A few days later, both Lin and Merritt were on a plane to Utah for the USA Diving Junior Region 10 Championships that wrapped up this past weekend in Provo. Lin swept the 1- and 3-meter events in the Girls 16-18 division. She scored 426.65 points on the 1-meter and 454.25 points on the 3-meter. MenloAtherton junior Mia Paulsen was second on the 1-meter (415.35) and fourth on the 3-meter (421.00). Gunn junior Marisa Agarwal was third on the 3-meter board (429.95) and 12th on the 1-meter (369.80) while senior teammate Vivian Zhou was eighth on the 1-meter board (376.00).

Merritt won the Boys 16-18 title on the 3-meter board with 554.10 points and took second in the 1-meter with 484.40.

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ob Budelli is all about teaching and learning. He and his coaches teach while their Palo Alto froshsoph baseball players learn. It’s all about preparation on a daily basis to be able to run the bases at the next level.

“You just want the kids at this level to learn the game,” said Budelli, who has been coaching baseball at various levels for some 35 years. “It’s not so much about winning, but preparing them . . . it’s a stepping stone.”

It’s Budelli’s job, and that of his assistants Dick Held, John Suter and Scott Kirsech, to get their froshsoph players ready for head coach Pete Fukuhara and his Palo Alto High varsity. Anything else — like winning, for instance — is a solo home run in a blowout game.

Speaking of blowouts, it has been that kind of season for Budelli and his Palo Alto frosh-soph team. In what has been a remarkable season at any level, the Vikings are undefeated. They went 14-0 in the SCVAL De Anza Division and finished the regular season 22-0.

On Tuesday, the Paly frosh-soph team made it 23 (continued on page 73)

Nathan Willis and his Palo Alto frosh-soph baseball teammates took a 23-0 record into their season finale on Thursday.

GIRLS LACROSSE

PREP ROUNDUP

M-A makes statement, tops Menlo

Paly golfers seek a better finish at CCS

by Keith Peters

by Keith Peters

S

ince beginning league play in 2004, the Menlo School girls have compiled a 12611 record in lacrosse action. Four of those setbacks have come to rival Menlo-Atherton.

Two of those victories for M-A came in 2007, when the Bears swept the Knights in the Peninsula Athletic League. After that, M-A lost 17 straight regular-season matches to Menlo.

Every streak, however, eventually ends and the Bears snapped their years of futility on Wednesday with a huge 11-9 triumph over the visiting Knights in West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) play.

For M-A’s three seniors, it was their first win over Menlo.

“I know for a lot of people it feels like a big upset, especially since we haven’t beaten them since 2007,” said M-A coach Juliet Mittlemann. “But, when I was hired to run this program in 2013, I knew this is where we would end up in short time.”

The Bears, who lost their first match (12-4) with Menlo this season, improved to 6-3 in league and 10-8 overall while the Knights fell

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sible. This means from the bottom up we strive for greatness in our fitness, preparation, skill, strategy and — most importantly — in our mindset.”

M-A was playing its third match in three days while Menlo was playing its second in as many days. Both teams were ready for the showdown, with the Bears

oyle Knight does not want to experience deja vu all over again with his Palo Alto boys golf team. It’s time to take perfection and make it better.

It was only a year ago that the Vikings finished off a third straight undefeated season in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League with a 12-0 dual-match record and went on to win a third straight league tournament crown.

Palo Alto advanced to a Central Coast Section regional, but failed to qualify as a team for the section finals.

The Vikings have followed a similar path in 2016, up to now.

They went 12-0 in league — finishing off four straight undefeated seasons — and captured a fourth straight league tourney title on Tuesday.

Next week, Paly will head into CCS regional play and Knight, along with his players, are well aware of their situation.

“The guys know how poorly we seem to do when we get to CCS,” Knight said. “As we were

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Tina Jones

Friday College baseball: Cal at Stanford , 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area; KZSU (90.1 FM)

by Keith Peters

Sunghyun Hwang

CARDINAL HONORS . . . Stanford swept the Pac-12 Women’s Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors after Olivia Baker and Valarie Allman were recognized for their performances at the Payton Jordan Invitational on Sunday. Baker, a sophomore halfmiler, earned Track Athlete of the Week and Allman, a junior discus thrower, earned Field Athlete of the Week honors for the fourth time this season. Baker took the collegiate lead in the 800 with a time of 2:01.02 while also dipping under the Olympic standard of 2:01.50. The time is the sixth-fastest outdoors in the world this year and fourth among Americans. Baker was fourth and the top collegian against a collection of top open runners while improving upon her lifetime best by nearly three seconds.

Allman, a first-team All-America last year, set a lifetime best in the discus for the third time this season and the second consecutive meet —— a 2 1/2-foot improvement to 193-5. It is the 10th-farthest among Americans this year and No. 7 on the yearly collegiate list.

Palo Alto’s frosh-soph baseball team is hoping to finish 24-0

M-A’s Annie Payne (13) scored four goals in an 11-9 win over Menlo, which got five goals from Kaitlin Frangione (8). to 7-2 (11-7) and two games behind first-place Sacred Heart Prep (8-0, 14-4), which defeated Castilleja on Wednesday, 16-8.

“A significant and deserved win for M-A today,” said Menlo coach Jen Lee. Said Mittlemann: “From Dec. 1 through mid-May every season, my kids work so incredibly hard.

We all work towards the common goal of being the best team pos-

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Stanford women in the hunt for NCAA golf berth

by Keith Peters he defending NCAA champion Stanford women’s golf team is in the thick of the title hunt following Thursday’s opening day of the NCAA Stanford Regional at the par-71 Stanford Golf Course.

The No. 12-ranked Cardinal found itself alone in third with a 5-over 289, just two strokes No. 2-ranked USC 287) and one stroke back of No. 15 Virginia (288).

Tied for fifth are No. 26 Texas Tech and No. 42 Michigan State at 7-over par.

Colorado and Wake Forest were at 11 over on the first day, leaving five teams clear of the field heading into Friday’s second round.

The 54-hole event featuring 18

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teams will conclude Saturday.

Among players in the team competition, Stanford junior Mariah Stackhouse shot a sizzling 2-under 69 on her home course, sharing medalist honors on the opening day with Jakeishya Le of UC Riverside. The low round was a 68 by Colorado State’s Katrina Prendergast, who is competing as an individual.Stanford’s Casey Danielson shot a 1-over 72, teammate Shannon Aubert carded a 73, Lauren Kim shot 75 and Sierra Kersten finished with a 76.

Men’s golf Stanford earned the top seed in the NCAA Tucson Regional Championships. The Cardinal earned an automatic bid into the event after winning the Pac-12

Conference title last week in Salt Lake City.

The NCAA Tucson Regional, set for May 16-18, will be contested at the Gallery Golf Club, where Stanford won the 2014 Pac12 Championships.

Meanwhile, Stanford junior Maverick McNealy was named the Pac-12 Conference Men’s Golfer of the Year and Cardinal Director of Men’s Golf Conrad Ray was tabbed Pac-12 Coach of the Year in a voting by the conference’s men’s golf coaches.

In addition, the All-Pac-12 Men’s Golf Team selected by the coaches was announced. McNealy and David Boote were named to the first team and Franklin Huang earned honorable-mention status.

Brandon Wu found a spot on the

All-Freshman Team.

A finalist this week for the Ben Hogan Award given annually to the nation’s top collegiate golfer, McNealy currently leads the nation in stroke average (69.19).

Ray earned his second Pac-12 Coach of the Year honor in three seasons. He joins Wally Goodwin as the only other Stanford coach to win the award twice. In his 12th year as head coach, he has guided the Cardinal to its third consecutive Pac-12 title.

Women’s tennis Stanford was honored with four selections among this year’s All-Pac-12 Team, as announced Wednesday by the conference office.

Carol Zhao was named to the

first team for the second straight season and honored for the third season overall. Fellow juniors Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle were appointed to the second team while senior Krista Hardebeck received honorablemention accolades.

Men’s volleyball Stanford had four players recognized when the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced its All-America selections this week.

The Cardinal led the nation with three players selected to the first team — seniors Conrad Kaminski and James Shaw, and sophomore Evan Enriques. Senior Madison Hayden received honorable-mention accolades. Q

Baseball (continued from page 71)

Lois Kim

straight wins following a victory over Los Altos in the first of two season-ending playoff games. The same teams met again Thursday to close the season. Smart money says the Vikings finish 24-0.

“The varsity will be set for the next 2-3 years,” said Budelli, who lost his best pitcher, Jonathan Gottlieb, to the varsity last weekend for a nonleague game against perennial power St. Francis. Gottlieb will remain with the varsity through the league and Central Coast Section playoffs. “This is an exceptional year.”

Budelli figures more of his players will be called up, as well , like first baseman Ole Erickson and catcher Nathan Willis. They’re expected to join the varsity for next week’s playoffs, which likely will pit regular-season champ Los Gatos against the secondplace Vikings. After that will be the CCS playoffs, more valuable experience for all involved.

Fukuhara has six of Budelli’s graduates from last year on his current team, which opened the SCVAL De Anza Division playoffs with a 9-0 victory over Los Altos on Tuesday. The Vikings took a 20-4-1 record into Thursday’s rematch. A third game, if needed, will be Friday at Paly at 4 p.m. No matter what happens, the Palo Alto varsity will be playing next week and then in the CCS playoffs.

The Vikings already have won more games this season than in the previous three. The last team to win more was in 2012, when Paly went 27-7 and lost in the CCS Division I semifinals. The year before that, the Vikings finished 28-9 and captured the first-ever CCS crown in program history.

No matter what happens in this season’s remaining games, the Vikings will have one of their best records ever. They will lose six seniors, but Budelli has players to fill those positions — players that will be coming off one of the best won-loss records, in any sport, in

The Palo Alto frosh-soph baseball team went 14-0 in the SCVAL De Anza Division and took a shot at finishing the season 24-0 on Thursday. school history.

Budelli had no idea his team would be so successful this season.

“We come out here and identify roles,” he said. “They might be making mistakes, but we’re correcting them. It’s our job to build up their confidence.”

Budelli actually has enjoyed success similar to this. Many decades ago, he was coaching Morey’s in the Alpine Little League.

One of his players was Eric Byrnes, who later played the outfield with the Oakland A’s. Another was John Gall, who starred at Stanford before finding a brief home in Major League Baseball.

“We were 21-0 or 22-0 that year,” Budelli recalled. But, he quickly pointed out, this Paly team is another story.

“They’ve learned a lot,” Budelli said. “They have a better understanding of a fast-paced game and what it means to be team-oriented. Winning helps!”

Among some of the other key players for Budelli have been James Roake, George Welch,

Jackson Hall, Bryan Hwang, Hyunwoo Roh and Nick Melvin, the nephew of Oakland A’s manager Bob Melvin.

“It’s been very rewarding. It’s proof-positive that hard work pays off . . . You can’t teach chemistry,” said Budelli. “The relationships the kids have built up are very important.”

While a few freshmen start their careers on the varsity — sophomores Max Jung-Goldberg and Niko Lillios are current examples — the rest usually start at the frosh-level before taking the next step. Current varsity players Ethan Stern, Riley Schoeben, Ryan Chang and Alec Olmstead all played a season with Budelli.

Seeing the success the former frosh-soph players are having on varsity makes it all the more special for Budelli and his staff.

“It makes us feel good,” Budelli said. “That we’re doing something right.”

The Palo Alto varsity, meanwhile, avenged one of its two regular-season losses with its blanking of Los Altos on Tuesday.

The Vikings grabbed a 4-0 lead before blowing the game open with five runs in the third.

Owen Plambeck led off with a single, Justin Hull walked and Jung-Goldberg singled home Plambeck. Olmstead followed with a two-run single and JungGoldberg scored on a wild pitch.

Ben Cleasby singled home Olmstead and Albert Han scored on a single by Stern.

Olmstead and Cleasby each finished with two RBI with Schoeben and Plambeck each contributing three hits. Olmstead, Hull and Cleasby each had two hits as Paly finished with 14.

Hull got the win while striking out six and allowing just three hits over six innings.

The winner of the Palo AltoLos Altos series will face the survivor of the Los Gatos-Wilcox series next week. Los Gatos won its opener, 1-0.

In the PAL Ocean Division, Menlo School kept its title hopes alive with a 7-6 win over visiting South San Francisco. The Knights improved to 9-4 in league and

17-6 overall.

The Knights took an early 3-0 lead and held off the Warriors.

Menlo junior starter Chandler Yu improved to 8-1 for the season, and freshman Justin Nam got the save in his first varsity outing.

Nam also helped himself at the plate with a two-run double, driving in Ben Somorjai and Jared Lucian, who also had hits in the third. On a full count in the first, Rylan Pade tripled in the first, then scored on Griff McGarry’s double.

In the PAL Bay Division, Sacred Heart Prep’s playoff hopes might have taken a hit following a 3-2 loss to visiting Hillsdale on Wednesday. The Gators fell to 7-6 in league (10-15 overall) and dropped into a tie for third with the Knights.

Fortunately for SHP, Sequoia dropped a 2-1 decision to secondplace Carlmont (9-4) and fell to 6-7 in league. That means SHP may need to beat Hillsdale on Friday to secure an automatic berth into the CCS playoffs, should Sequoia beat Carlmont on Friday. Q

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Prep roundup (continued from page 71)

driving home in the van (from the league tourney), they were talking about how they had to do better. They talked how they should approach certain holes that give them problems.

“I know they do that stuff when they play in their own tournaments: visualize the course, map it out, create a game plan. But, to hear them talk about it as a team was great; sharing opinions. Matt Lewis started the conversation. It was nice having one of my seniors take control and be a leader.”

Paly will play in CCS Regional II on Wednesday at Rancho Canada (West) in Carmel Valley. The course is short and narrow with trees and water. There is plenty of trouble lurking, as the Vikings discovered last year.

Menlo and Menlo-Atherton will compete in the first regional on Tuesday. The top four teams and top nine individuals not on qualifying teams, will advance from each regional to the CCS finals on May 10 at the same course.

Paly tuned up for next week like it has the previous three seasons, by winning the SCVAL Tournament. That was accomplished Tuesday at the par-71 Santa Teresa Golf Course in San Jose. Paly finished with 365 strokes to hold off second-place Los Gatos, which had 387.

“I’m very happy with their play,” said Knight.

Playing from the black tees (6,418 yards), the Vikings were led

by Joonsung Ha’s fine 2-under 69.

He carded five birdies — on holes 1 (402 yards, par-4), 2 (492-yards, par-5), 8 (400 yards, par-4), 11 (479 yards, par-5) and 17 (529 yards, par-5) — and missed an eagle on the second hole.

“That was his low round of the season,” Knight said.

Sergi Mata shot a 2-over 73, Ahmed Ali and Henry Gordon shot 74 and Henry Hughes rounded out the scoring with a 75. Matt Lewis also was solid with a 76.

Boys lacrosse Sacred Heart Prep reclaimed the PAL Bay Division title from last year’s regular-season champ Menlo School by romping past the host Knights, 19-9, on Tuesday.

“Our team played great,” said SHP coach Chris Rotelli. “It’s an experienced and veteran team, with great young players to compliment the senior leaders. We have had great leadership from the seniors all year, and the team is a really good ‘team’ where everyone plays an important role.

“We have tried to get better each day, and I think we played our best game yesterday. We will continue to try to get better each day. Our goal now is to win the PAL tournament championship next week, but we are taking it one day at a time.”

Will Kremer had six goals and one assist as the Gators improved to 9-0 in league (15-4 overall).

Jack Crockett added five goals plus three assists and Frank Bell finished with two goals and three assists for SHP, which also got two goals apiece from Harrison Toig and Trevor Peay. Menlo (72, 9-9) got four goals from Mason Brady and two from Charlie Ferguson.

In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Palo Alto rolled to a 17-0 victory over host Leland. The Vikings (7-1, 12-4) grabbed a 12-0 halftime lead before the reserves took over. Matthew Seligson led Paly with five goals and five assists. Freshman Patrick Intosh added four goals plus an assist and Owen Dulik scored three times.

Softball Castilleja remained a game back of first place in the WBAL Foothill Division following a 9-3 victory over host Pinewood. The Gators (7-1, 13-7) got two RBI from Megan Johnson and Jordan Yau to support Tara Thakurta’s six-hit complete game. Thakurta has accounted for every Castilleja decision this season while compiling a 13-7 record.

Castilleja still trails first-place King’s Academy. Those teams will meet May 13 at Castilleja at 4 p.m., likely to decide the division title and automatic CCS playoff berth.

In the SCVAL El Camino Division, Palo Alto’s Senior Day was spoiled by a 4-2 loss in eight innings to visiting Santa Clara as the Vikings fell to 5-5 in league (6-14 overall). Maggie Renteria had two of Paly’s four hits while the Bruins banged out 12. The teams were tied at 2 before Santa Clara scored twice in the top of the eighth.

Boys tennis Menlo-Atherton opened its quest for a section title by rolling over host Westmont, 7-0, in the CCS Team Tournament on Wednesday in Campbell.

The Bears (18-4), who were surprisingly snubbed when the top eight seeds were handed out, likely will be playing with a chip on their shoulder throughout the tourney after compiling a 14-0 record in the PAL Bay Division.

In another opener, Sacred Heart Prep put up a fight before dropping a 4-3 decision to Mitty. The Gators (16-7) managed just one singles victory, from Max Cluss at No. 4.

In other second-round matches on Friday, No. 8 Gunn (11-7) will host Harker (14-6) and No. 1 Menlo School (16-3) will host Monterey (11-4), both at 3 p.m. Q

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M-A’s Grace Tully (left) and Annie Payne combined for seven goals in an 11-9 upset win over Menlo School.

perhaps better prepared than in their first meeting.

“We won because we were supposed to win,” said Mittlemann.

“We have done everything possible to set ourselves up for success and our hard work and perseverance won us that game. We were prepared and our preparedness helped the girls cope with their nervousness.”

Menlo grabbed a 5-4 halftime lead, but the Bears battled back and scored three times in the opening five minutes to lead by 7-5 as Annie Payne, Sally Carlson (twice) finding the net. When MA’s Grace Tully converted from a free position for an 8-meter foul

by Menlo, it was 8-5 with 19:14 left to play.

Carlson then scored her third goal of the match to make it 9-5 with 15:14 left. Menlo answered with key draw possessions and caused-turnovers and Kaitlin Frangione scored with six minutes remaining. Tully tallied her third goal on an assist from Payne and it was 10-7 with 5:46 to go.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Grace Zhao

Daichi Matsuda

PALO ALTO HIGH

GUNN HIGH

The junior swimmer won two individual races (setting a meet record in the 100 breast) and swam on two winning relays (setting one meet mark) as the Vikings defended their SCVAL De Anza Division league meet title.

The senior swimmer won two individual events (setting one school record), swam on a winning relay and one that finished third as the Titans defended their SCVAL De Anza Division league meet title.

Honorable mention Maya Benatar Palo Alto lacrosse

Izzi Henig Menlo-Atherton swimming

Mimi Lin Palo Alto diving

Libby Muir Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Aisley Njissang Pinewood softball

Nikky Price Menlo lacrosse

Ahmed Ali* Palo Alto golf

David Clarke Gunn baseball

Tim Berthier-Jack Jensen Menlo-Atherton tennis

Lane and Bo Leschly Menlo tennis

Reed Merritt Palo Alto diving

Matthew Seligson* Palo Alto lacrosse * previous winner

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

When Nikky Price scored for Menlo with 5:18 left, Menlo’s deficit was down to two. Just 17 seconds later, Menlo’s Indira Varma fed Frangione for her fifth goal of the match and it was 10-9 with plenty of time left at 4:43.

Despite several possession changes and opportunities, Menlo was unable to tie it up again.

Payne made sure of that by scoring her fourth goal (to go along with two assists) with a minute remaining.

Payne scored twice in each half on her way to a six-point day.

Carlson converted three of just four shots, as did Tully.

“Our marquee players (Carlson, Tully, Payne) all stepped up their games and we all followed in pursuit of that tone,” said Mittlemann. “So, while it still and may continue to remain as a shock to most, this is the team I see daily in practice. This is our potential playing out before everyone’s eyes to see. There is nothing more that I have wanted for this team than for them to be able to fight and drive towards fulfilling their potential on a game stage.”

Frangione was perfect on her

shots as she converted all five as Menlo out-shot M-A, 16-15 and won the contested ground-ball battle, 16-9. The Bears, however, had the most important stat of the day -- the victory.

Sacred Heart Prep opened a seemingly insurmountable lead over Menlo following its win over visiting Castilleja and M-A’s big triumph.

Junior Cameron Gordon led SHP with four goals and four assists with Libby Muir and Emma Johnson each adding four goals and two assists.

Castilleja (3-5, 8-7) got three goals plus six assists from freshman Taylor DeGroff with senior Ellie Chan contributing three goals.

In the SCVAL, Palo Alto spoiled Senior Night at Saratoga and wrapped up the regular-season title with an 11-9 victory on Tuesday night.

The Vikings (12-1, 14-4) got four goals from Maya Benatar plus two each from Abby Ramsey, Emily Wood and Ellen Goncher.

Emma Staiger also scored while goalie Meredith Kinnaman had another terrific night while recording 10 saves. Q

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