Palo Alto Weekly May 13, 2016

Vol. XXXVII,

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New Palo Alto High performance center debuts Page 5

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Class Guide Page 46

Q Cover Story Volunteer Medical Corps preps for disasters Page 21 Q Arts ‘Pear Slices’ celebrates short plays by local writers

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Q Sports Stanford tennis teams chase NCAA titles

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Majority of school board favors big pay hikes One member questions trade-off between teacher salaries and smaller classes

by Elena Kadvany

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ll but one Palo Alto school board member voiced support Tuesday night for new multi-year contracts that will provide teachers and classified staff with up to 16 percent in pay increases over three years — while debating how competitive Palo

Alto Unified School District is when it comes to teacher salaries, retainment and recruitment.

The board discussed tentative contracts with the teachers and classified employee unions, which each labor group ratified prior to Tuesday night, that would commit

the district to its first-ever multiyear salary increases, starting with a 5 percent pay increase to apply retroactively to July 2015.

This would cost the district $7.3 million, almost the entirety of a $8 million surplus available in this year’s budget.

In the 2016-17 school year, salaries would increase 4 percent, plus a 1 percent bonus called an “offschedule” increase. Off-schedule bonuses don’t bump up the salary

base from which the next year’s increases are calculated. In 201718, teacher salaries would increase by 3 percent, plus another 1 percent off-schedule bonus.

The off-schedule bonuses will be bumped up to 2 percent both years if property tax revenues exceed the district’s projections by at least 1.5 percent, and they will be eliminated if revenues are below budget by 1.5 percent or more. If the 2016-17 property tax

as determined by the County Assessor is either more or less than 1.5 percent of the adopted school district budget, then either party —the union or the district—can reopen negotiations on the 3 percent increase in the 2017-2018 school year, according to the new contract.

The contract also proposes that all non-union managers and (continued on page 13)

DEVELOPMENT

Plan for office-and-condo complex triggers concerns 550 Hamilton Ave. proposal calls for added office space, dozens of new condominiums

by Gennady Sheyner

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Veronica Weber

Todd Billingsley, a piano accompanist for Palo Alto High School, plays a few songs on the new stage before students from the concert choir class enter on May 4.

EDUCATION

Ready for the show time Performances begin in new Palo Alto High performing-arts center

by Elena Kadvany

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he four female Palo Alto High School students who make up the a capella pop ensemble the Heartbeats took the stage recently with just their voices and their microphones, and suddenly, the sound quality of a professional concert engulfed listeners.

They sang to a tiered sea of 550 seats and box seats below elegant arches, a covered orchestra pit hidden below their feet. To their left, a black spiral staircase led to not one but three catwalks masked by a coffered ceiling.

They and choir teacher Michael

Najar might have been thinking to themselves: “Dorothy, we’re not in Haymarket anymore.”

The Heartbeats were not singing in Paly’s near-century-old Haymarket Theatre — which is beloved for its history but bemoaned for its poor sound quality, small size and frequent visits from rats — but rather in the school’s brand new 25,000-square-foot performing-arts center.

Some finishing touches still remain to be added on the building that’s risen along Embarcadero Road, but Paly’s choir, band, orchestra and the-

ater students and teachers have been excitedly entering the theater over the last week or so to test out the sound system and to explore. They have oohed and ahhed over the high-tech space, where the acoustics are adjusted to the performers with the touch of a button on a laptop.

Though the theater’s official opening will be held in October, it “soft opened” Thursday night with an instrumental performance. The first-ever choir and theater shows will follow next (continued on page 10)

proposal to demolish an office building in downtown Palo Alto and replace it with an office-and-condominiums development that would have more than twice the square footage is raising alarms among residents who believe it will worsen the area’s traffic conditions and clash with the adjacent residential neighborhood.

The proposal for 550 Hamilton Ave. is still in its preliminary stage. So far, there haven’t been any formal applications or public hearings. Furthermore, for the plan to become a reality, developer C.M. Capital Corp. has to convince the City Council to rezone the site to allow the greater density — a tough sell at a time when the city is trying to limit office space in the city’s major commercial areas.

The proposal, which the council will consider on May 16, calls for demolishing the 43,272-squarefoot office building, located between Webster and Cowper streets, and constructing two new buildings: one with 57,475 square feet of office space and the other with 57,292 square feet for between 35 and 50 condominiums. The developer is also proposing an underground garage with 297 parking spaces. Because part of the project would be built on what is now a parking lot of 115 spaces (and redwood trees), the net increase in parking space would be 182 spaces.

There is nothing unusual about commercial developers proposing to exceed existing density requirements, but the proposal from C.M. Capital stands out in one respect.

Historically, developers looking

to exceed zoning regulations have sought “planned community” (PC) zoning, which requires an offer of “public benefits” (such as a grocery store, funds for parking facilities or a piece of art) in exchange for greater leniency in height and density standards.

In this case, however, the site in question is already a planned-community site, and C.M. Capital is requesting that the zoning be changed to “downtown commercial.” (The city currently has a moratorium on new PC projects.) Other parcels around the site are zoned for downtown commercial, and multi-family residential use, along with one planned-community zone for The Marc, a 12-story residential complex.

The proposed development would be 50 feet tall — 6 feet shorter than the existing office building, according to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. But while the current office building only occupies 25 percent of the 57,500-square foot site, the mixed-use development would fill up the bulk of the property, with the exception of a 9,500-square-foot courtyard in the middle. As such, it could have a significant impact on an eclectic neighborhood that includes professional offices, twostory residential buildings, singlefamily homes and the First United Methodist Church.

The report notes that redevelopment “would result in a much different visual environment from the current development pattern, with properties along Webster Street being more impacted by the loss of mature redwood trees and proposed (continued on page 9)

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

PUBLISHER William S. Johnson (223-6505)

It just reminds me of the kinds of arguments Donald Trump would make, and I find that really inappropriate.

—Pat Burt, Palo Alto mayor, to an Evergreen Park resident who said crime has increased because California Avenue workers are parking on neighborhood streets. See story on page 7.

Around Town

‘CRISPY’ POLICY ... When architect Randy Popp, former chair of the city’s Architectural Review Board, made a presentation to his own board last year about a proposed hotel project on San Antonio Road, many skeptical eyebrows were raised among government watchdogs. Though the practice of being both an applicant and a board member is not unprecedented for a body where most members are also working professionals, it is invariably awkward. And while the practice isn’t technically illegal, an applicant is prohibited by state law from having conversations with planning staff that involve questioning staff’s interpretation or persuading staff to make a particular determination — a tough balance to strike. Popp dealt with this limitation directly when he resigned from the board last June. Future applicants may be spared such decisions. That’s because the City Council is preparing to adopt a new policy that expressly prohibits sitting board members from presenting projects to their own board. The council’s Policy and Services Committee voted 3-0 on Tuesday, with Marc Berman absent, to adopt this policy. “Whether there’s a conflict or not, it doesn’t look great,” said Commission Chair Tom DuBois, referring to past instances of a board member getting off the dais to give a presentation to the board.

His colleagues Greg Scharff and Liz Kniss agreed, with Kniss calling the new rule “crispy and clean.”

HISTORY BUFFS ... Palo Alto and Gunn high schools are known for their whiz kids who excel at math and technology.

But last month, the schools’ top history students attended the 6th annual Varsity and Junior Varsity National Championships of the National History Bee and the National History Bowl and brought back respectable victories. Gunn’s Team Kronos lead by Captain Kevin Ji and Paly’s Team Tamerlane lead by Captain Trevor Filseth placed 10th and 17th at the National

History Bowl, respectively. The two teams competed against 161 teams from across the country.

Gunn’s Michael Nisenzon and Paly’s Filseth placed 12th and 13th for the world history event at the National History Bee championship, as well as 8th (Filseth) and 33th (Nisenzon) for the U.S. history event.

REPORTING FOR DUTY ... Sitting on a local commission in Palo Alto is a tough, occasionally tedious and usually thankless job that pays well below minimum wage (it pays nothing, to be exact).

But from the City Council’s perspective, the volunteer advisers play a vital role in the messy, contentious and critically important task of policy making.

This week, the council made a change to one of its most critical citizen commissions when it appointed three new members to its Utilities Advisory Commission, which advises the council on everything having to do with electricity, gas, water, wastewater and fiber. A.C. Johnston, who was a candidate for the City Council in 2014, earned a unanimous vote for a seat on the commission. Also joining him will be Terry Trumbull, an environmental, energy and landuse attorney; and Lisa Forssell, a consultant for the data-analysis firm Citrine Informatics. The council also voted to re-appoint incumbent commissioner Judith Schwartz to a fresh term. The Human Relations Commission will retain its current composition after the council re-appointed incumbents Jill O’Nan and Greer Stone for new three-year terms (there were no other candidates).

The Library Advisory Commission will also stay the same, with Bob Moss and Sheena Chin both holding on to their seats. Q

Upfront EDUCATION

Full-day kindergarten decision postponed School board members ask for more time to discuss proposal

by Elena Kadvany mentary schools, however, adopt a full-day model akin to the one in place at Palo Verde Elementary, where all kindergartners stay until 2 p.m. four days a week. He said that the principal and teachers at Fairmeadow and El Carmelo asked for the shift.

Barron Park Elementary would remain the only school in the district where students stay for a true full-day, until 2:25 p.m., every day except Wednesday.

Nixon staff are considering this model, however, McGee said.

McGee proposed that all schools keep their new model for four or five years to give the district time to study the effects of the different schedules on students. This model would cost an estimated $338,000 in salaries for additional instructional aides and music and physical-education teachers, according to the district.

Only one board member, Camille Townsend, said she was ready to support McGee’s recommendation as is. Board President Heidi Emberling and member Ken Dauber said they would rather put a full-day model in place at all of the district’s elementary schools.

Vice President Terry Godfrey said she was not yet prepared to decide which model is the right one for the school district.

Board member Melissa Baten Caswell expressed concern about the variation McGee’s proposal creates among the 12 elementary schools.

“I’ve had some parents come up to me who feel like they’re in the losing school group,” she said, “and it reminds me of the conversation we’ve had in the past where (parents say), ‘If I don’t get to choose what school I go to, then why are the schools so different?’

“These are really big differences,” she said.

Dauber added that he was “pre-

Council endorses parking restrictions for Evergreen Park, Southgate New permit programs planned for two neighborhoods struggling with parking congestion

by Gennady Sheyner

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its Planning and Transportation Commission, the council voted 8 to 0, with Councilwoman Liz Kniss recusing, not to prioritize either neighborhood over the other but to pursue programs for both concurrently.

Once the programs are in place, parking limits will be imposed on cars without permits. In the coming months, it will be up to neighborhood stakeholders, city planning staff and, ultimately, the council to decide what proportion of the permits (if any) should be allocated to drivers who don’t live in the two neighborhoods.

The council’s decision was an easy one politically. Dozens of

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Caleb Nash, center, Winston Lin, left, and Arman Hashemi, far right, play with the train set during free time in their kindergarten class at Barron Park Elementary on April 12.

TRANSPORTATION

vergreen Park and Southgate will soon join the growing ranks of Palo Alto neighborhoods where residents and visitors will need parking permits to leave their cars on the street for longer than two hours.

The two adjacent neighborhoods — one near the California Avenue Business District and the other next to Palo Alto High School — were selected by the City Council on Monday night to be the next two areas where the city will develop a Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) program akin to the one that premiered downtown last fall.

Following in the footsteps of

fund a true full-day model at all schools.

One kindergarten teacher and several parents spoke out against the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting. Duveneck kindergarten teacher Barbara Suzco, a member of a kindergarten “think tank” that McGee convened to research the topic, said his recommendation did not honor the group’s majority opinion. At the same meeting teachers and administrators were presented with his recommendation and two other alternatives, they were asked to say which model they preferred for their school, she said.

Parents who spoke said they were worried that a longer day

Veronica Weber

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he Palo Alto school board decided Tuesday night to put off for two weeks a vote on the proposal to move the majority of the district’s kindergartners to a longer school day.

After several months of discussion with the elementary school communities about implementing a full-day kindergarten model, Superintendent Max McGee recommended this week that kindergartners at eight schools stay slightly longer hours two days a week, starting this fall, while the other four schools would run a full-day model.

The primary driver for the longer day is to support struggling students and reduce Palo Alto’s achievement gap, but proponents argue that a full-day model benefits all students.

Under McGee’s recommendation, kindergartners at Addison, Duveneck, Escondido, Hoover, Juana Briones, Ohlone, Nixon and Walter Hays elementary schools would stay in school longer: Half the class would stay for the longer day two days a week, and the other half for another two days.

This is very similar to the current “extended-day” model in place at 10 elementary schools, but with students staying slightly longer. (At Addison, for example, kindergartners stay two days a week until noon; under McGee’s recommendation, they would stay until 1:15 p.m. instead.)

McGee is recommending that Fairmeadow and El Carmelo ele-

pared to support a proposal for full-day kindergarten across the district because it reflects a coherent philosophy in addressing the achievement gap.”

The current proposal, he said, “doesn’t reflect a coherent philosophy.”

“I think until it’s clear why we would have this variation and that it has some principled basis, this is not a proposal that I think makes sense,” Dauber said.

Emberling referred to full-day kindergarten as a “golden opportunity for the district” and urged staff to pursue a full-day model that starts at the beginning of the next school year at all elementary schools. She asked staff to consider what other budget items could be reduced in order to

residents from each neighborhood packed into the Council Chambers to voice their support for restricted parking.

Evergreen Park residents — who say their streets are filled daily with the cars of Stanford University students and faculty, Caltrain commuters and California Avenue Business District employees — were particularly adamant. David Schrom claimed that the neighborhood has seen increased crime, lower property values and more strangers walking around.

Residents, he said, “have a reasonable expectation as homeowners that we’ll be able to park

in front of our homes, and our guests will be able to park in front of our homes.

“That’s being taken away from us, and it will be taken away from us more,” Schrom said.

Mayor Pat Burt, however, took issue with the Schrom’s notion that employees who park on public streets are committing “theft,” though he agreed that it’s reasonable for residents to expect parking somewhere close to their homes.

He also said that the notion that California Avenue workers are “criminals” is a “disservice.”

“It just reminds me of the kinds of arguments Donald Trump would make, and I find that really inappropriate,” he said.

In the end, the council agreed that residents of each neighborhood made a compelling case and directed its Finance Committee to consider a funding allocation that would make both parking programs possible. The council also agreed that California Avenue employees — particularly those in the retail and personal-service industries — should be considered in design-

ing the program.

“I want this to be expedited and happen quickly,” said Vice Mayor Greg Scharff, who made the motion to proceed with both parking programs. “But at the same time I do think we need it to go through the stakeholder process, and we need to include the merchants in the stakeholder process.”

Councilman Marc Berman concurred. The council can’t say “We want a parking plan that allows no workers,” Berman said, and then talk about how it wants to protect area merchants. Many retail workers live so far away, he noted, that public transit isn’t an option for them.

“I’m not saying you should have free parking in the neighborhood,” Berman said. “I think we have to implement RPP, but we have to be realistic about the fact that (employees) exist.”

The council directed city staff to move ahead with a process that will include stakeholders who would be affected by the new programs. The Evergreen Park (continued on page 15)

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Upfront ELECTION 2016 ELECTION 2016

Videos: State Assembly District 24 candidate interviews

Voting begins in June 7 primary age-paid return envelope with every mail ballot.

Mail ballots that are returned in person must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by Friday, June 10 — three days after the election.

The drop-off sites in Palo Alto, open during normal business hours, are the City Clerk’s Office, Palo Alto City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. and Mitchell Park Library (inside), 3700 Middlefield Road.

On May 14, 21, 28 and 29 and June 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., mail ballots can also be cast at a drive-through dropoff site at the Mayfield Soccer Complex at the corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

More information on voting can be found at sccvote.org. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

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 to assess health of Asian residents The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday, May 10, a new health assessment of the county’s Asian residents to guide future health programs. (Posted May 12, 8:44 a.m.)

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oting in the June 7 primary began this week for people opting to vote by mail in Santa Clara County, and to help the public become familiar with the candidates vying to replace State Assemblyman Rich Gordon in Sacramento, the Palo Alto Weekly is posting video interviews with the candidates.

The half-hour endorsement interviews for Assembly District 24 were conducted by Palo Alto Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson, Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong, Mountain View Voice Editor Andrea Gemmet and Almanac News Editor Richard Hine.

In each video, the candidates — Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman, community activist Jay Cabrera, Cupertino Mayor Barry Chang, Mountain View City Councilman Mike Kasperzak, Mountain View City Councilman John Inks, Menlo Park City Councilman Peter Ohtaki and patent attorney Vicki Veenker — talk about their stances on top state issues, including housing, transportation, education, arbitration, and privacy rights versus public safety.

Seven of the eight candidates participated; Seelam Reddy did not attend his scheduled interview.

The seven videos are posted at YouTube.com/paweekly.

District 24 includes Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos,

East Palo Alto woman charged with neglecting 87-year-old mother

Police: Man gropes 15-year-old girl

Less than a month after announcing her candidacy for the Palo Alto Board of Education, parent Gina Dalma is ending her campaign, citing a family situation in an email to supporters on Monday. (Posted May 9, 4:51 p.m.)

Beltramo’s Wines & Spirits is closing Beltramo’s Wines & Spirits, a local institution which has been owned and operated by the Beltramo family in Menlo Park since 1882, announced this morning that the business is closing and the property will be sold. (Posted May 9, 12:12 p.m.)

VIDEO: On this week’s Behind the Headlines On this week’s half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” Palo Alto parents Sally Kadifa and Rita Tetzlaff join Weekly Editorin-Chief Jocelyn Dong and education reporter Elena Kadvany to talk about why they think class sizes aren’t meeting school district targets. (Posted May 6, 6 p.m.)

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Berman, go to http://tinyurl.com/ AD24candidatesPT1 Q To read about Mike Kasperzak, Peter Ohtaki, Seelam Reddy and Vicki Veenker, go to http://tinyurl.com/AD24candidatesPT2.

Q For an interactive online presentation on the candidates, go to arcg.is/1RCk2fL. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

Parent seeks to raise awareness of mental health, start conversations

by Elena Kadvany

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he father of a Gunn High School student who died by suicide in 2015 will be giving a public talk on Sunday, May 15, to raise awareness about mental health.

TC Lee said in an interview Tuesday that he felt compelled to publicly share his story as a man who has faced loss and issues with both his son’s and his own mental TC Lee health.

“My motivation is really just to share my personal experience,” he said. “I’m Courtesy Lee family

Gina Dalma withdraws from school board race

Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, a part of Cupertino and the San Mateo County coastside from El Granada to the Santa Cruz County border.

Profiles of the candidates and a chart comparing their views have also been posted.

Q To read about Barry Chang, John Inks, Jay Cabrera and Marc

Father of teen who died by suicide to give talk

(Posted May 10, 2:37 p.m.)

(Posted May 9, 9:21 p.m.)

Eight candidates are vying to represent District 24 in the California state Assembly, from top left, Marc Berman, Vicki Veenker, Barry Chang, Peter Ohtaki, and from bottom left, Seelam Reddy, Mike Kasperzak, John Inks and Jay Cabrera.

COMMUNITY

An East Palo Alto woman has been accused of elder abuse for leaving her dependent mother lying on the couch for over a month covered in her own urine and feces, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Police are looking for a man who allegedly groped a 15-year-old girl as she was walking in the Homer Avenue pedestrian tunnel near Alma Street in Palo Alto Monday afternoon, police said.

Veronica Weber

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early 550,000 ballots have been mailed to Santa Clara County residents who requested to vote by mail in the June 7 primary election, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ Office has announced.

Mail voters account for approximately 72 percent of the 765,731 voters in this election, according to the registrar.

Mail ballots can be returned

by U.S. mail or dropped off at a neighborhood drop-off site, a polling place on Election Day or even a drive-through weekend ballot drop-off site.

Mail voters who prefer to cast their ballots in person can vote early at the Registrar’s Office now or at an early voting center the two weekends prior to the election. The Registrar is located at 1555 Berger Drive, Building 2, San Jose.

For the first time, the Registrar’s Office included a post-

Candidates discuss their views on housing, transportation and more

not an expert. I don’t claim to be an expert. But at least what I see, I want to let people know so they can be aware.”

Lee plans to talk about the role that families and the home play in supporting young people as well as his own path of recovery from loss and grief. He hopes that speaking about these issues will help bring the fight against mental illness to the same level of engagement and awareness as physical diseases, like cancer.

People are “fighting it (cancer), facing it, finding a cure,” he said.

“Now, cancer is gradually under control. Mental disease is the same thing. How can we control it? How can we fight it?

“First is that we don’t have a solution, but we have to face it,”

he said.

His talk, titled “Out of Darkness,” will take place 7-9 p.m. at the First Christian Church, 2890 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Those interested in getting more information can email First Christian Church Pastor Dan McClure at dmcclure@pafcc.org or call 650-327-4188. McClure is urging people interested in attending to arrive early to ensure they get parking and seating.

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PaloAltoOnline.com

Weekly Staff Writer Elena Kadvany will be at TC Lee’s presentation on Sunday evening. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com on Monday to read her coverage.

Upfront HEALTH

Demystifying concussions

by Anna Medina Scott Anderson, director of athletic training at Stanford, works with Dr. Ghajar and points out that there’s a perception that a concussion results in identifiable damage of the brain — a visible, focal dent, as if the brain has been bounced on the ground like a basketball. The reality is quite different.

“What we’re talking about is brain performance. We’re talking about how your engine runs, not what your engine looks like,” Anderson said.

Ghajar has focused on identifying the symptoms of a concussion.

“If you look at all the literature, what seems to pop up is the main things that people have problems with, and it turns out to be attention and balance. ... Your sensory motor function is intact, but you can’t somehow integrate it with the outside world,” he said.

Ghajar pointed out that attention involves keeping up with the outside world and predicting information so that one can process it just in time. He used the example of driving a car, wanting to make a left turn and having to predict both where another car is going to be and where you’re going to be in relation to it. This ability to predict information is impaired when people have a concussion.

According to Ghajar, the reason for this impairment is because 99.9 percent of head injuries are in the front of the brain.

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on-site electric-vehicle-charging stations and a host of green features, with the goal of achieving “green building” certification.

The new two-level underground garage would be accessed from Hamilton. The two existing driveways along Webster would be closed off and replaced with a new curb and landscaping.

But while the design narrative stresses that the building will be compatible with the surrounding context, area residents are far from convinced. Last week, 15 residents co-signed a letter calling the proposal “massive,” “out-ofscale” and “an intrusion into our residential neighborhood.”

“The new construction will increase traffic and population density significantly,” states the letter, which is signed by longtime landuse watchdog Elaine Meyer, Roberta Ahlquist, Adolfo Otero Lopez, Marie Louise Starling Bell, Bill Cane, Bonnie Berg, Chan Kam Chu, David Foster, Jeanette Revelas. Lin Jiang, Linda Otero Lopez, Paul Bundy, Peter Revelas, Stephanie Munoz and Walter Bliss.

“Children from north of University (Avenue) walk and bicycle to Addison School along Webster Street.

This project will turn our residential neighborhood into a noisy, congest-

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residential building.” While normally, buildings that are within 150 feet of residential uses are restricted to 40 feet in height, the city’s zoning code allows an additional 10 feet of height for properties that abut a residential “planned community” district, as this parcel does.

The developer’s design narrative states that the zone change would enable the project to be a “vibrant, mixed-use” development. Each building would have a base element of stone and terra cotta and upper stories that “step back” to minimize the visual impact of the height.

The residential building, which would be primarily located along Webster (with a small portion on Hamilton), would be four stories tall with an entrance from the courtyard. As the building turns from Hamilton to Webster, its massing “breaks up into smaller volumes clad in cement plaster and wood” to be compatible with the street’s single-family houses.

The design narrative states that planters, seating areas and bike racks will be added to make the buildings attractive to pedestrians.

The developer also plans to have

“You become cranky, you become irritable, your emotions become very labile. You cry easily, you laugh easily, you can’t sleep.

All sorts of problems occur from that whipping around in the front part of the brain,” Ghajar said, adding that if the force from a head injury affects the inner ear, people can experience a loss of balance.

These observations led Ghajar to think of a way to efficiently test prediction. He turned to eye tracking because the eye, he explained, visibly communicates one’s attention.

“Your eye looks where you want to pay attention to, so if you really want to figure out how well somebody predicts you (show) them a dog going around in a circle at a known speed and (their) brain goes ‘Oh, it’s going around at this speed. I know where and when it’s going to be,’ and (their) eye is going to land on it,” Ghajar said.

Eight years ago, the Brain Trauma Foundation’s eye-tracking test caught the attention of the United States Department of Defense, which was interested in putting the eye-tracking test into goggles.

Since then, the military has invested $30 million into eye-tracking technology and clinical trials, a portion of which are conducted in Palo Alto schools through a program called EYE-TRAC Advance.

The 30-second test is simple and requires a person to track a

Dr. Jamshid Ghajar dot as it moves in a circle. The graph of data for a person with no concussion shows a cluster of points around a central point. The graphs for people with concussions show data points that are scattered, a testament of their difficulty tracking the dot. “(Eye tracking) shows you what the brain is doing in real time,” Ghajar said.

One reason people aren’t able to track that dot is sleep deprivation, a condition that is pronounced in people with concussions. Ghajar explained that, for unknown reasons, people who have a concussion immediately experience sleep problems.

“They wake up frequently during the night; they wake up in the morning, (and) they feel fatigue.

Then, they start taking naps during the day, and then they really don’t sleep well at night, and then the whole thing gets messed up,” he said.

His simple prescription for curing concussions by increasing sleep and exercise goes against the common practice of prescrib-

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nside Stanford University’s Arrillaga Athletic Center, Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, director of the Concussion and Brain Performance Center at Stanford, strode past athletes who were receiving individual guidance and basketball players who were perfecting free throws. Ghajar has spent decades researching concussions and the implications for student athletes, but even as he sat down for an interview in an adjacent office, the traumatic brain-injury expert said candidly, “The real fact is that we don’t know what a concussion is.”

Every year, around 3.8 million concussions are reported, according to the Brain Trauma Foundation, which was founded by Ghajar in 1986. And yet mystery and misconception shroud concussions, leading many doctors to prescribe inadequate treatment that in some cases goes against what Ghajar prescribes: sleep and exercise.

Ghajar, who has pioneered both a way to diagnose and treat concussions, explained that it used to be that when a person passed out due to a hit to the head, it was called a concussion. This term, however, does not indicate the severity of the injury. Today, the diagnosis of a concussion is made based on the patient’s history, an examination and occasionally imaging — even though, Ghajar notes, 90 percent of CT scans and MRIs are normal in people with concussions.

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ing inactivity to people with concussions. He explained that, while it’s important that a person with a concussion not be hit in the head again, the injury should not prevent the person from exercising.

“There’s something about cardio exercise that retrains the brain,” Ghajar said. “Everybody knows it prevents dementia; it enhances focus. They do know there’s more neurogenesis. It enhances brain cells when you exercise.

“We should be emphasizing it as a therapy but also prophylactically, along with good sleep,” he said.

The good news is that people with concussions can and do improve with increased exercise and sleep. Ghajar noted that even patients with symptoms of concussion for multiple years can make a full recovery with exercise and sleep.

Ghajar and Anderson will be speaking at Stanford Medicine’s Health Matters, a free community event that explores the latest advancements in medicine and health, on Saturday, May 14, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at Clark Auditorium. There will be a booth where people can try on the eye-tracker goggles and take the 30-second test that gauges levels of focus, sleep deprivation and concussion.

Health Matters features talks by Stanford physicians, an interactive health pavilion, and an opportunity for high school students to get a taste of medical school. The event will take place at Stanford’s School of Medicine campus from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. More information is posted at http://healthmatters. stanford.edu/. Q Editorial Intern Anna Medina can be reached at amedina@ paweekly.com.

A proposal to build a mixed-use development at 550 Hamilton Ave. will be heard by the Palo Alto City Council on May 16. The project includes 57,475 square feet of office space and between 35 and 50 condominiums. ed, dusty, long-term construction site. It will also encourage more development,” the letter states.

The council has also grown exceedingly cautious about new office development, recently adopting an annual 50,000-square-foot cap on new office space in three

commercial areas: downtown, El Camino Real and the California Avenue Business District. The project at 550 Hamilton, however, stands just outside the boundary of the downtown office-cap zone.

The council will consider the project on May 16 in a prescreening hear-

ing, which typically involves comments from members but no formal votes. The discussion is intended to inform the developer as to whether to submit a formal application. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Media Center supporters challenge audit Dozens of filmmakers, show producers and community activists rallied at City Hall on Tuesday in a show of support for the Midpeninsula Media Center after an audit accused the Palo Alto-based nonprofit of misusing $1.4 million in cable fees between 2010 and 2013.

As the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee prepared to discuss the audit, 30 of the supporters stepped up to the mic to laud the Media Center for its role in promoting democracy and diversity of views and to urge council members not to do anything that would jeopardize the nonprofit’s operation.

The committee, for its part, fully shared the public sentiments, with Vice Mayor Greg Scharff calling the Media Center a “community gem.” Even so, the committee voted 3-0 (with Marc Berman absent), to take a fresh look at how the nonprofit is funded. Staff will return with various funding alternatives at a future date.

The discussion was prompted by City Auditor Harriet Richardson’s finding that the Media Center inappropriately used PEG fees, which are collected from cable subscribers, for operating expenditures.

These funds, according to the auditor and the city’s legal consultants, are restricted by federal law for capital expenditures.

Council members stopped short Tuesday of embracing the audit’s recommendation that the city place the PEG fees in a “restricted account” and distribute them only for city-approved capital expenditures. They agreed, however, that given the audit’s findings, it’s time to consider other funding options and their implication for the Media Center’s operations. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Palo Alto school district names secondaryeducation head Sharon Ofek, principal at Jane Lathrop Stanford (JLS) Middle School since 2009, will be moving to the school district office to serve as chief academic officer of secondary education, the district announced Monday.

Ofek is replacing Katherine Baker, who is retiring at the end of this school year.

In Ofek’s new role, she will “lead the processes of development and evaluation of the school district’s curriculum, instruction, and assessment areas” for Palo Alto Unified’s three middle schools and two high schools, according to a district announcement.

Ofek first joined the district 17 years ago as a seventh- and eighthgrade mathematics teacher at Jordan Middle School. She then served as an instructional supervisor for three years. From 2002 to 2003, she was the school’s dean of students and oversaw Jordan’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program.

Ofek became Jordan’s assistant principal in 2003 and stayed until moving to the same position at JLS in 2008. She was named principal the following year.

Ofek is also herself a graduate of the Palo Alto school district.

Ofek’s appointment is effective July 1. Q —Elena Kadvany Page 10 • May 13, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Palo Alto High School’s concert choir rehearses a few songs while sound engineers configure acoustic settings in the new theater on May 4.

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Junior Edward Park, who is involved in band, choir and theater, said he almost cried walking onto the stage for the first time. Nadia Leinhos, also a junior in theater and choir, loves the space so much that after only one time inside, she made a photograph of it the background on her cell phone.

After hearing the Paly Madrigals vocal group practice for the first time on stage last Wednesday, Najar told his class: “That sounded so legitimately beautiful I can’t think straight.”

For these students and teachers, the new center, the product of a years-long $29 million effort, finally provides a physical space befitting of the school’s robust performing-arts program.

“I think that environment is important,” said Paly theater director Kathleen Woods. “Having the opportunity to perform in such a professional level space, in such a beautiful space, will encourage students to really work hard and do their best.

“I think it’s already increased the positive visibility of perform-

ajar, Woods and and Paly’s instrumental music teacher, Jeff Willner, had pushed for upgrades to the Haymarket Theatre several times before 2008, when voters passed a $378 million Strong Schools Bond that provided the funding necessary to build a new theater.

After 2008, the three teachers — along with parents Holly Ward and Stuart Berman, architect Erwin Lee and other community members — formed a theater steering committee and began in earnest on plans for a new facility. They visited other local performing-arts centers, worked with an architect and held community meetings to gather input.

In 2012, the school board unanimously approved the project.

Construction began in 2014.

The Haymarket, which was built in 1917 and seats about 520, including the balcony, will remain, though it will be refurbished, according to Woods.

Students describe it as “run down” and, simply, “old.” Its small stage has been limiting, particularly for large groups like the choir.

Poor acoustics swallow rather than

amplify sounds. (Najar stopped letting the choir perform in there.)

The green room is also the theater’s sole changing room, for both girls and boys, and a storage space. There is no orchestra pit, so when the orchestra performs, some members sit in the audience.

Despite the challenges (including the rats, bats, squirrels and owls who make unannounced visits), students speak endearingly about the Haymarket.

“Working in the Haymarket is life-changing because it’s not a good facility, but that’s what makes it so nice to work in — the fact that it gives you so many problems that you need to work out and figure out,” Park said.

He and other students said they have had to jury-rig technical solutions many times given the space’s constraints but appreciate the adaptability they’ve gained as a result.

The “eccentricities” of the Haymarket have also brought students closer together and created a close-knit community, said senior Lana Graves, who is in both choir and theater and is studying musical theater at college next year.

Leinhos, too, said the Haymarket feels like a home — albeit one with a stage. She often spends

Veronica Weber

Palo Alto’s ambitious plan to make biking easier and safer on local streets received a burst of momentum this week when the City Council enthusiastically endorsed the creation of three new bike corridors, along with an enhancement of the city’s pioneering bike boulevard on Bryant Street.

By an 8-0 vote, with Tom DuBois recusing, the council approved on Monday night a slew of traffic-calming measures — including new signs, roundabouts, speed humps and curb extensions — at three corridors in Midtown and south Palo Alto. One would be a north-south bike route along Ross Road, from just south of Oregon Expressway to Louis Road. It would connect with two other eastwest corridors, one along Amarillo Avenue and Moreno Avenue and another along Louis Road and Montrose Avenue.

In addition, the Bryant Street boulevard would see new improvements, including wayfinding signs, raised intersections and a traffic circle.

All of these projects were included in the city’s 2012 master plan for biking and pedestrian improvements, a plan that the city is now aggressively trying to turn into reality. Before the Monday action, the city had 7.9 miles of bike-boulevard corridors in the planning phase, said Joshuah Mello, the city’s chief transportation official.

This week’s vote brought the number to 11.1 miles.

The new projects have won overwhelming support in the city’s bicycling community.

The projects will require the city to remove 266 parking spaces from the areas where the new corridors would be constructed, or about 1/7 of the total number of spaces. In making the recommendation, Mello said, staff was “very conscious of parking impacts to residents and adjacent property owners as we consider infrastructure recommendations.”

He said most of the “large-scale parking modifications” are along south Palo Alto corridors. Q —Gennady Sheyner

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The exterior of Palo Alto High School’s new performing arts center is in the same style as other buildings on campus.

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“It’s a theater that everyone pretty much feels like they belong in,” echoed Park, who plans to return to Paly after graduating to work as one of the theater’s technical directors. “It makes it that much more personal to work in.”

This isn’t to say they’re not ready for a new, multi-million dollar state-of-the-art performance facility. But their time in the Haymarket will be more limited. Most performances will be held in the new center, but the Haymarket will be used for events, meetings and rehearsals, if necessary, Woods said.

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rom the outside, the new theater looks like a more modern, much larger version of the Haymarket. It has architectural elements similar to those that are repeated throughout the campus: Spanish styling with arches and red clay tiles on the roof.

“It feels like Paly,” student Graves remarked.

The center was designed by Emeryville-based architecture firm Gunkel Architecture. The building itself is tall enough in the rear to house the nearly 70-foottall stage area, but it is gabled at lower heights toward the front of

the building so as to not block the view of Haymarket and the school’s iconic Tower Building. It is also tucked back — a change from an early plan that placed the building in front of Haymarket.

With completion of the theater, a redesigned parking lot opened last week, returning many parking spaces the school lost during the construction.

Inside, the bells and whistles are endless: a mechanical orchestra pit that can be raised or lowered to accommodate different kinds of performances or to provide additional seating; the high-tech, customizable Meyer sound system that ensures high-quality audio for all kinds of performances, from jazz band to a cappella groups to a theater show; a full fly system that allows stage crews to drop and lift curtains, lights, scenery, and people or do other stage effects; a carpeted lobby with flat-screen TVs on the walls and floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto the Embarcadero side of the campus.

“I think having a performingarts facility that matches the talent and capabilities of the students and allows them to work in a facility that has industry standard technology — those were some things that were important to me,” Woods said.

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The center also features classroom space, changing rooms, green rooms, a staging area and ample storage. The classroom space is important, Woods said, so that the theater program has a permanent, dedicated space.

Some seats are also modular, to accommodate more intimate performances — an element that a theater planning committee pushed for in the design process.

“I think it’s going to feel less uncomfortable if we don’t have a full house,” Graves said. “It’s really going to change the audienceactor interaction.”

Still other elements, from furniture and a grand piano to music stands for the band and risers for the choir, will be purchased by the Paly Performing Arts Boosters, a nonprofit fundraising group started by former Paly parent and Theatre Boosters president Ward last fall to buy items the bond would not cover. They have raised $75,000 so far, none of which has been spent yet, and aim to reach a three-year goal of $400,000. The group plans to install name plates on the theater’s seats for donors who give a certain amount, which can be done through palypab.com.

The theater will officially open this fall, the weekend of Oct. 1.

The space will also be used by the entire school for events, assemblies, large meetings and the like.

After the first school year, the administration will assess how much time the space could be made available to the wider community.

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tudents and teachers alike say they have high hopes that the center will bring new levels of prestige and popularity to Paly’s already acclaimed performing-arts program.

More than 400 students participate each year in the program which includes classes in theater, stage technology and design, choir, concert band, symphonic band, string orchestra, jazz ensemble, vocal music and Advanced Placement music theory.

Though the building hasn’t even officially opened, students say they already sense that their peers seem more interested in getting involved in arts productions — such as choir students who plan to try out for next year’s musical.

Following the millions of dollars spent on a new athletic center, Media Arts Center, a classroom building and improvements elsewhere on campus, students are also thrilled to see arts education get equal support.

Leinhos, who traveled last month to Sacramento to testify in front of

the state Senate in favor of an artseducation bill, said it’s meaningful to see her school support the arts.

She recalled her transition to Paly from eighth grade, when she had just moved into the district from a small private school and felt daunted by the size of her new high school. What reassured her, she said, was the fact there was a new theater on the way in the next few years.

“It kind of helped me ease into high school as well, knowing there was going to be a place for me and there was a place that I could grow,” she said. “It’s still helping. I guess bottom line is: I cannot wait to perform in that theater.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: The Spectrum Singers ensemble at Palo Alto High School rehearse onstage the new performing-arts center as audio engineers work to adjust the acoustic settings of the theater on May 4. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (May 9)

Bikes:The council approved concept plans for new bike corridors along Bryant Street, Ross Road, Amarillo Avenue-Moreno Avenue and Louis Road-Montrose Road. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Recused: DuBois Parking:The council directed staff to launch stakeholder processes for the formation of Residential Preferential Parking programs in Evergreen Park and Southgate neighborhoods. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Recused: Kniss

Board of Education (May 10)

Gunn algebra: The board approved a pilot class at Gunn High School that will combine two levels of algebra (algebra 1 and 1A) with the caveat that staff will provide a mid- and end-of-year report on the class.

Yes: Unanimous Resource allocations: The board approved funding for additional math intervention specialists at the high schools and 12 new teachers (six at the middle schools and six at the high schools) to be hired over two years to help reduce class sizes.

Yes: Unanimous Fees: The board approved an increase to facilities fees and adoption of a notice of exemption to increase the impact fee on residential, commercial and industrial development.

Yes: Unanimous Gunn painting: The board approved a proposed paint scheme for Gunn High School and authorized staff to solicit bids for the project.

Yes: Unanimous Yes: Unanimous

Council Policy and Services Committee (May 10)

Audit: The committee discussed the Cable Franchise and Public, Education, and Government Fee Audit and requested that staff return at a later date with alternatives for funding the Midpeninsula Media Center. Yes: DuBois, Kniss, Scharff Absent: Berman

Council Finance Committee (May 10)

Retiree Fund: The committee approved the budget for the Retiree Health Benefit Fund. Yes: Unanimous Planning: The committee recommended approving the budget for the Department of Planning and Community Environment. Yes: Unanimous

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supervisors, including senior administrators, receive the same increases as union members, a practice followed in previous years.

A majority of the board hailed the new contracts as a justified and needed compensation package for teachers dealing with an increasingly high cost of living in the area, long commutes and workload in a demanding district.

Several board members pointed to a decline in number of applications to district positions over the last few years as evidence of the fact that Palo Alto has not kept up as the “destination district” it likes to think it is. In 2013-14, for example, the district received 322 applications for kindergarten through fifth-grade teaching positions; 101 applications in 2015-16 and 148 this year, according to the district.

Special-education applications have dropped from 196 in 201314 to 81 last year and 44 this year.

Applications in several teaching positions are up, though, from last year: for kindergarten through fifth grade; mathematics; social studies; and science, according to data provided by the district.

Some board members also commented that staff have said that the quality of applications is down, and many who apply are from out of state or brand new teachers.

As the other board members came to agreement, Trustee Ken Dauber took multiple turns speaking at the dais to oppose a contract that he believes forces the district to make an unnecessary “hard choice” between healthy raises for teachers and class-size reductions.

Smaller classes, he argued, make Palo Alto a better place not only for students to go to school, but for teachers to work, especially in light of two local parents’ recent data analysis that indicates a large percentage of Palo Alto’s middle and high school classes are not meeting the district’s official class-size averages.

Dauber suggested that the district offer teachers instead 3 percent raises each year over the next three years, plus one-time bonuses, leaving an estimated $2.9 million this year and $4.4 million in the next two years - the equivalent of 35 teachers - to support smaller class sizes. Thirty-five teachers could reduce class sizes at the high schools by six students and by three at the elementary schools, he said.

“This is a historic opportunity,” Dauber said. “The very strong property tax increases that we have this year, over 11 percent, allow us to do two things: to give very strong raises to our teachers (and) to enable us to retain and recruit excellent teachers, which are the bedrock of the work that we do here, and also to devote significant funds to reducing class sizes.

“The choice is not between healthy raises and class size reduction,” he added. “We can do both. It’s an extraordinary year in which we can do both.”

According to Dauber, the dis-

trict has remained competitive in terms of compensation and a 9 percent raise over the next three years would continue that tradition. Palo Alto Unified has highest average teacher salary of any unified district in the state with more than 4,800 students, he said, and its salary schedule consistently ranks at the top compared to local competitor districts, he said.

Dauber also provided district data that shows over the last five years, only 23 teachers have left Palo Alto for other positions an average of four teachers per year.

(Other board members, however, noted that employees might not always be upfront about their reasons for leaving the district or where they might be working next.)

“There’s no necessity to over-invest in compensation and under-invest in class size reduction,” he said.

Board member Camille Townsend called that a “false choice.”

“Is class size more important than paying the rent or how much it costs to commute or where to send their kids to school or what their college tuition is?”

Townsend asked. “I think that’s kind of a false choice. I think we have to pay our teachers well.”

Parent Todd Collins, who is running for a seat on the school board

this fall, also emphasized the contract’s impact on the district’s ability to reduce class sizes to its own stated targets. He asked whether the district’s teacher attrition and compensation data “justifies these increases, especially with the class-size issue we know we have” and urged the board to “take the time to share and discuss with the community, and get this critical decision right.”

Parent Steven Schmidt pointed to other trade-offs—cuts made to previous requests to fund other programs in the district, from small-learning community programs at the two high schools to reading specialists at the elementary schools and asked the board to “be trustees; be prudent.”

Palo Alto High School’s student board representative Emma Cole said that while she doesn’t “want to undermine the impact that a small class can make,” what’s made the most difference to her is the quality of the teacher in the classroom.

Later in the evening, the board did approve $1.8 million in the budget to hire 12 new teachers over two years—six for the middle schools and six for the high schools—to help mitigate large class sizes. The additional staffing is on top of seven middle school teachers and three high school

teachers already included in the 2016-17 budget.

Board Vice President Terry Godfrey said that she believes teachers understand the “tradeoffs” the district made to provide the high pay increases, but asked them to share any feedback about class-size reduction with the board before it votes on the new contracts.

She also noted that the district’s class-size reduction goals are “constrained” by the realities of hiring new, quality teachers and that it “might be a multi-year process to get where we need to be.”

An official vote will come at

the board’s next meeting in two weeks rather than last night as Superintendent Max McGee initially requested. In his executive summary for Tuesday’s board packet, he asked board members to waive a rule that requires them to discuss items publicly in two meetings before taking action and approve the contracts Tuesday to get teachers their paychecks sooner.

However, he said at the beginning of the meeting on Tuesday that he has decided to revoke this request, saying “I understand this is a historic document and it may take more than one night of deliberation.” Q

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ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to perform a major architectural review of 1700 Embarcadero Road, a proposed Mercedes dealership; review 1925 Embarcadero Road, a request by the Public Works Airport Division for replacement of perimeter fencing at the Palo Alto Airport; and review 355 University Ave., a proposal that includes a new facade and signage, a new second story with an outdoor rooftop patio and interior modifications. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss a partnership with Patrick Dougherty for temporary public art; consider approval of the Public Art Master Plan; discuss future King Plaza art installations; and hear an update on the NEA Art Works grant application and plans to move forward with Code:ART. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The school board’s policy review committee will discuss the following policies: child abuse prevention and monitoring; employee notifications; before/after-school programs; intellectual property and institutional research; policy related to professional conduct (grooming); math placement; and citizen advisory committees. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 20, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Palo Alto.

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will inevitably mean more academics rather than free or play time, regardless of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stated commitment to balancing both. One mother said her firstgrader comes home â&#x20AC;&#x153;exhaustedâ&#x20AC;? after school and another whose kindergartner â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreadsâ&#x20AC;? going to school every day and needs an hour to unwind after he gets home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned that what sounds great in a presentation plays out very differently in reallife application,â&#x20AC;? said Julie Tomasz, the mother of two students at Duveneck. Last month, Tomasz started an online petition opposing full-day kindergarten that has gathered 107 signatures.

Fifteen families at Nixon, however, have signed a letter in support of moving to the full-day model, parent Josh Knowles told the board.

The district also received letters of support from parents who could not attend the meeting; at least 13 were included in the board packet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you for understanding that a longer day does not mean additional/more academic work as well as considering the benefits for self-regulation, connectedness, choice, agency, empathy, free play, self-exploration, etc.,â&#x20AC;? wrote Peggy Yao, the parent of an incoming kindergartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without full day kindergarten, first grade is a time of rapid and stressful â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;catch upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; where significant parent involvement and a great deal of investment by first-grade teachers has to be devoted to learning what could/ should have been learned during kindergarten,â&#x20AC;? wrote Nixon parent Diana Farid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a shame that such a well-resourced district has deprived these learners of time to more fully develop capacity for future learning.â&#x20AC;?

The school board decided to pull full-day kindergarten from a series of budget requests it was set to vote on Tuesday night and reconsider it at its next meeting, on May 24.

The board also postponed action to its next meeting on the following budget requests: $164,000 over two years for two high school â&#x20AC;&#x153;wellness outreach workers;â&#x20AC;? $100,000 for breakfast for low-income elementary school students; $300,000 to provide a full-time reading specialist at every elementary school; $111,059 in additional staffing at the district office; and $100,000 for high school athletic programs.

The board pulled out and unanimously approved three budget requests that staff said were more time sensitive: $150,000 to provide more math intervention specialists at the high schools; $1,075,000 to hire six teachers over two years at the high schools and $750,000 to hire six teachers over two years at the middle schools. Q

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process would determine how many permits would be sold to California Avenue employees.

Southgateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stakeholders, in addition to evaluating permit sales, would also evaluate traffic-calming alternatives (including red curbs to improve sight lines for bicyclists) and transportationdemand-management strategies aimed at getting Paly students and faculty out of their cars and into other modes of transportation.

In addition to directing staff to initiate the two parking programs, the council also took a step toward addressing parking along a three-block section of Crescent Park, which is next to the existing downtown parking-permit district. Residents of the three blocks (1000 and 1100 blocks of Hamilton Avenue and 500 block of Chaucer Street) now find their streets filled with cars belonging to commuters seeking to avoid time restrictions and parking costs in the downtown district.

Following the advice of Chief Transportation Officer Joshuah Mello, the council agreed to make the three blocks eligible to join the downtown parking district.

Eligible blocks can petition to become part of the district through an administrative process, without the need for additional council re-

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A fourth residential area, a small section of Duveneck near Edgewood Plaza and bounded by Greer Road, Channing Avenue and St. Francis Drive, also has petitioned for relief from parking

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West Charleston Road, 5/7, 7:53 p.m.; domestic violence.

Alma Street, 5/9, 3:56 p.m.; battery/ sexual.

300 Block University Avenue, 5/9, 8:22 a.m.; battery/simple.

Kenneth Drive, 5/9, 10:30 a.m.; domestic violence/misc.

Palo Alto Avenue, 5/10, 1:48 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

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600 Block Willow Road, 5/4, 11:02 a.m.; assault.

1700 Block El Camino Real, 5/8, 2:52 a.m.; spousal abuse.

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Sharon Lynne Bishop Sharon Lynne (Casey) Bishop, 73, of Mountain View, died peacefully at El Camino Hospital on March 7 with her family by her side. She battled multiple myeloma for several years.

She was born Feb. 17, 1943, in San Francisco to Howard Francis Casey and Ardella Dorothy (Merritt) Casey and grew up in Palo Alto. She attended Van Auken Elementary, Jordan and Wilbur junior high schools and Cubberley High School.

Sharon met David Bishop on a blind date while they were still in high school. After dating for 5 1/2 years, they were married in a private ceremony on July 5, 1963, in Carson City, Nevada. This past year, they had celebrated their 52nd anniversary.

She began an office career during her senior year of high school at Prudential Insurance and worked as a medical secretary at the Palo Alto Veterans’ Administration in the early 1960s.

She then took time off to start a family.

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alo Alto restaurateur Freddie Maddalena, who brought a classy cabaret ambiance to downtown Palo Alto, died May 7 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 87.

Maddalena was born in Toronto, Canada, to Rosario and Georgina Maddalena. He started in the restaurant and entertainment business at the age of 16 to support his parents. He worked as a bus boy at the King Edward Hotel, he told the Palo Alto Weekly in 2001. In 1950 he opened Mood Indigo, a sophisticated jazz nightclub at Toronto’s Barclay Hotel, where he hosted many celebrities, including Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett, Sophie Tucker, Dorothy Dandridge, Mel Torme and Harry Belafonte.

He came to the U.S., working in 1965 as a maitre d’ of the Grill Room at The Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, when Frank Sinatra and Count Basie and his orchestra were star performers.

Maddalena moved to the Bay Area in the 1960s and worked at the Cabana Resort in Palo Alto when Doris Day owned it. Afterward, he worked at clubs in San Francisco, including the Blue Fox and Ernie’s, where he met longtime friend and bartender Maurice Amzallag.

In 1976 he took over the space at 544 Emerson St. in Palo Alto,

Freddy Maddalena waits to greet incoming dinner guests at Maddalena’s Cabaret Club at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel and Resort in Palo Alto. Maddalena died on May 7. formerly the Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant, which had been at the site for 62 years. His first restaurant, Maddalena’s, became known for its classy, white-tablecloth service and Old World elegance. It also became a legendary hangout for the famous and powerful. Actor Warren Beatty and his crew dined there during the

filming of “Heaven Can Wait,” which was shot at the Filoli estate in Woodside; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were also said to have met in the upstairs front room where they conceived of Apple Computer, Inc. Maddalena always threw a 1920s costume party every five years for friends and regulars.

Eventually, he opened a smaller nightclub next door, Cafe Fino, which offered the same food as Maddalena’s with a generous side of live jazz. There were even tango lessons.

He closed Maddalena’s in 2007.

Cafe Fino closed shortly thereafter due in part to the costs of seismic retrofitting, he said at the time. But

In the early 1970s, Sharon reentered the work force as a league coordinator at Camino Bowl in Mountain View. Later, she worked as an administrative secretary in the budding computer industry and as a consultant for Mary Kay Cosmetics. In the 1990s she became an executive assistant for venture capital firms.

Through the years, Sharon made many close friends through work and was known for her contagious smile, hard work, incredible memory, attention to detail and dedication to always being a team player, her family said.

She enjoyed bowling and served on the Foothill Women’s Bowling Association board of directors, attending conventions across the country. She loved vacationing in Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Hawaii and Mexico, according to her family. She was most proud of her children and her grandchildren and thoroughly enjoyed spending time with family — even taking a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon last summer.

She is survived by her husband, David Bishop; daughter, Juliana Bishop of Mountain View; daughter and son-in-law, Laurie and Mark Holderman of San Jose; grandchildren, David and Elizabeth Holderman; sister and broth-

er-in-law, Linda and Bart Phelps of Sunnyvale; nephews, James, Daniel and Matthew Phelps and their families. Sharon was preceded in death by her parents.

A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, May 21, 1-4 p.m. at the Historic Adobe Building in Mountain View. The entrance is located at 100 Santa Rosa Ave. The family wishes donations to be made in honor of Sharon to The Cancer Center, through the El Camino Hospital Foundation.

loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a talented artist and avid gardener, and she loved traveling the world and learning about new places and people. She had an overwhelming compassion to help others throughout her entire life, her family said. She devoted many hours to serving the community of East Palo Alto through the Ecumenical Hunger Program and RISE — Reaching and Inspiring Success through Education.

She is survived by Kent of Los Altos Hills; daughters, Karen Hoopes of Los Altos Hills and Dana Gross of Davis; sons-in-law, Doug Gross and Mark Hoopes; daughter-in-law, Ruth Gardner of Colorado Springs; grandchildren, Jeff, Ryan and Michael Bourquin of Fort Collins, Colorado, Caitlin Boulware, Ryan, Stephanie, Michael and Ethan Gross of Davis, Erika and Shannon Hoopes of Los Altos Hills, and Katie Odens of Colorado Springs; great granddaughter, Andilyn Boulware of Davis; brother, Ralph Bard of Hawi, Hawaii; and sister, Katy Dickson of Denver, Colorado. She was preceded in death by her son Scott.

According to her family, Mary lived her life to the fullest, enjoying every moment and encouraging others to do the same. She was deeply

Mary Bourquin Mary Bourquin, a resident of Los Altos Hills, died on March 30. She was 79.

She was born on Nov. 3, 1936, and grew up in Ba r r ington, Illinois, the daughter of Ralph Bard Jr. and Nonabel Bard. She was educated at Ethel Walker School in Connecticut and studied at Stanford University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in art.

She married Kent Bourquin in 1956 after they met at Stanford.

They were married for 58 years.

Her family said that Mary was a

he could not stay out of the business. He returned to his Palo Alto roots by opening Maddalena’s Cabaret Club at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel and Resort. By then, he was 80 years old.

His son, Vince Maddalena, opened 888 Ristorante Italiano in San Carlos several years ago, and Vince’s longtime companion, Carolyn Oliver, worked for Freddie Maddalena for 6 1/2 years as a banquet manager. He was a good dancer and had a very good singing voice, she recalled. He was attentive to his customers and remembered details about them even months after they had visited. She said he remembered the blouse she had worn two months prior when she returned to visit.

“He was a very good host. He loved the ladies, and he loved to dance,” Oliver said.

Maddalena was married twice and had six children: four with his first wife, Lilly, and two with his second wife, Eileen. Lilly died in February. He is survived

by Eileen of Los Altos; children Ross of New York, Teresa and Gina of Las Vegas, Vince of Menlo Park and Mia and Paul of San Mateo; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Plans for a memorial service are pending. Donations in Freddie Maddalena’s memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association. loved by her family, which was the most important part of her life.

A celebration of her life has been held. Donations in her memory may be made to the Mary Bourquin RISE College Scholarship Fund, rise-nonprofit.org.

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Editorial Veenker for Assembly

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s one would expect for an open legislative seat, the race to replace termed-out State Assemblyman Rich Gordon has attracted a large field of candidates.

In California’s new open primary system for state legislative offices, the names of all eight will appear on all ballots, and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, will face off in the general election in November.

While the candidates would each bring unique qualities and experience to the job, we believe three attorneys — Mike Kasperzak, Marc Berman and Vicki Veenker — are the clear standouts.

Measured only by the depth and breadth of political and governmental experience, 14-year Mountain View City Council veteran Mike Kasperzak, 62, would be the hands down choice. He has been a dedicated and hard-working council member and is respected at both the regional and state level. An attorney who specialized in mediation, his orientation is toward problem-solving and building consensus and he has devoted most of his adult life to public service.

While we haven’t always agreed with him on local issues, such as his position favoring the VTA’s express lane proposal for El Camino, his values and priorities have been sound.

Marc Berman, 36, finishing up his first four-year term on the Palo Alto City Council, has been active in politics since college and has built strong connections with the local Democratic party. Uninspired by corporate law practice, he shifted gears two years ago and was development director for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, a resource and advocacy group seeking innovation in public education.

Berman has much less governmental experience than Kasperzak, but he has been similarly drawn to politics as a way to solve problems and bring about social change.

Vicki Veenker, 53, is a respected Silicon Valley intellectual property attorney, mediator and Palo Alto resident who has never held public office. She has chosen to focus her public service on advocating for the legal rights of low-income and other vulnerable local residents through the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, where she has served on the board of directors for 13 years and as board president for one term.

All three have similar traditional Democratic political views, although the nuances of their positions on policy issues will likely come into greater focus when only two are vying in the fall. The role and influence of unions and interest groups, which have mostly split their endorsements in the primary among these three, will be something to watch and assess in the fall. We will especially probe the finalists’ views on education and the role of the California Teachers Association, which has endorsed Veenker and which, in our judgment, holds too much sway over the Legislature. Recent independent mailers costing almost $100,000 in support of Berman by the Realtors Association and California Dental Association raise concerns as well.

With the exception of high speed rail, which Kasperzak still supports but Berman and Veenker do not, all three identify increases in education funding at all levels, universal preschool, transportation infrastructure spending, climate change, affordable housing and transportation as priorities. They each support the legalization of recreational marijuana use (with appropriate state regulations) and increased state funding of affordable housing through tax incentives and bond measures.

Kasperzak and Berman are classic local elected officials seeking higher office. There are many Bermans and Kasperzaks in Sacramento, appropriately so.

But we believe Veenker is the rare candidate whose lack of experience as an elected official is outweighed by a strong legal background in a highly technical field, well-honed advocacy and negotiating skills and a passion for public policy and social justice.

She has represented Silicon Valley companies and served as a mediator in complex patent litigation with huge financial stakes, giving her an important window on what makes the Valley tick and how disputes are successfully resolved.

Without the visibility or limelight of elected office she has devoted much time and energy to the Law Foundation, a group that provides pro bono legal services to individuals facing housing and other forms of discrimination, obstacles to obtaining access to health care and mental health services, and advocates for legislative reform. (The Law Foundation has been representing the residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto through the park closure process, still underway.)

We also strongly believe in the importance of electing more women to state and federal offices. Women currently make up just one-fourth of the state Legislature in California, barely above the national average and much lower than in Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. That’s shameful in a state like California.

We look forward to the campaign narrowing to two candidates and a sharpened debate on the issues in the fall, and we recommend Vicki Veenker in the primary as a uniquely qualified candidate who would bring a fresh and important perspective to Sacramento. Q Page 18 • May 13, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Bad timing Editor, Understandably things change when you are gone for a while.

Palo Alto has changed.

From the times where it was okay to walk in the creek or be around any kind of construction without hazmat suits, most all of us learned to cross the street without eight forms of protection: Just make sure it was safe and cross.

It all seemed so simple: Take responsibility for yourself; don’t hold everyone else accountable for your safety.

Now it seems to take days to get across town. Every light has six directions and a light for every possible action, at every corner. I think that we are dumbing down the driver with so many rules, lights and laws except when to stop at red lights.

More than that is my complaint that the light at Bryant Street and Oregon Expressway is a safety concern. When leaving the Page Mill Road area last week, driving a normal speed in the underpass, as we took the slight right turn, there were cars stopped. I slammed on the brakes as did the cars behind me, barely avoiding a multiple-car crash, just to see that the “new” Bryant light holds everyone too long and creates a very dangerous condition.

The bushes (please trim back immediately) block the view and the length (we have been stuck many times) of the Bryant light is absurd. I am not certain, but I believe I have witnessed herds of migrating Elk make it through that light safely. (By the way I do enjoy watching Elk, so please, no PETA issues here.)

B.W. Kerhes Cowper Street, Palo Alto

Misleading letter Editor, Many local residents we know have received one or more letters recently from “Bay Area Refinery Workers” expressing concern for a proposal being considered by the BAAQMD (Bay Area Air Quality Management District).

This paragraph in the letter was highlighted: “But we’re worried our clean air progress could be slowed by a proposal that will soon be decided by your Palo Alto City Councilmember Liz Kniss and other members of our local Bay Area Air Quality Management District.”

But according to an April 20 letter in the Los Altos Town Crier

by Jan Pepper (a Los Altos City Council member and also a member of the BAAQMD board), the proposal in question would make our air cleaner: tinyurl.com/ gl6n5df

Considering that the “refinery workers” who have signed this letter all seem to have management and supervisorial positions, we suspect that they are not speaking for the majority of workers at these plants whose health has been jeopardized by the chemicals they must breathe every day.

And certainly they don’t speak for the hundreds of residents living near the refineries in Contra Costa County who went to the hospital following the most recent refinery fire.

We think it’s time to send Councilmember Liz Kniss a note of thanks for her efforts to protect the environment and encourage her to strengthen Bay Area Air quality rules to protect the lives of workers and community residents.

Debbie Mytels Louis Road, Palo Alto Gerald Gras Campesino Avenue, Palo Alto

Can’t build a way out Editor, Palo Alto’s policy to increase density and traffic and ignore the parking and traffic debacle because of a misguided attempt to solve a jobs-and-housing imbalance, is capitulating to state mandates pushed by developers and big money. Those policies do not address the elephant in the room: a population explosion, shortage of water, insufficient road and rail

and polluted air.

The proposal for 550 Hamilton Ave. provides the opportunity for a reality check to support a strategic re-appraisal of our General Plan.

A livable environment is not achieved by increasing density, noise, pollution, traffic congestion with unsafe intersections and crosswalks or by having seniors shop for groceries by bicycles, reducing roads to one lane, parking permits for neighborhoods or building more housing.

You cannot build your way out of a housing shortage. Building more apartments and increasing density and traffic is not going to lower the cost of housing.

Manhattan is proof. And building more offices profits developers at the expense of the public by making a bad situation worse.

For years Palo Alto has pursued a mixed urban downtown, i.e.

Jane Jacobs’ view of New York’s Greenwich Village, as the epitome of urban living. The result is a downtown with over-development and a terrible parking mess, all of which was foreseeable by urban planners who either ignored it or willed it as their personal view, as opposed to doing what the residents and voters expect.

With 550 Hamilton this situation can only get worse.

Richard Alexander Santa Rita Avenue, Palo Alto

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In art as in politics, one person can make things happen

by Jay Thorwaldson irst off, a confession: As a kid, I was determined to become a sketch artist and spent many hours with pencil and pen attempting to put together reasonable-looking horses, cats, trees, cars, landscapes.

I never made it to people or faces.

By high school, I found that sketching with words provided a broader palette, so to speak, and found my way onto the student paper — and occasionally Principal Fred Canrinus’ office.

But if there had been an Art Center in Los Gatos, who knows?

On a recent Sunday, I attended the 45th anniversary celebratory “tea” for the Palo Alto Art Center, at Newell and Embarcadero roads. The building once was Palo Alto City Hall from the fast-growth 1950s through the 1960s, when most city offices moved to the high-rise Civic Center in downtown Palo Alto.

As a reporter for the erstwhile Palo Alto Times, I spent several late-1960s years attending City Council and other meetings in what is now the large multi-use community room, once almost witnessing a fistfight between two council members. I reported on what was initially a civic dilemma as to what to do with the sprawling facility, across a narrow parking lot from what was formerly the Main Library.

Later, I moderated council candidates’

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forums there and circa 1980-81 convened Council for the Arts, Palo Alto (CAPA) board meetings in a side room. The Art Center provided places to hold events and meetings in a busy community starved for such spaces.

But Sunday’s event became not only a visit to past recollections but also a reminder of what it takes to make good things happen in a community, to “build community” as the old phrase puts it.

In this case, what it took was a woman with vision and motivation and the ability to assemble allies, form a group and push forward.

That woman in the late 1960s was Lorraine “Queene” (pronounced “queenie”) Amirian, whose remarkable life led her from ravaged post-World War I Armenia to Palo Alto by way of Boston and Washington, D.C. Queene wasn’t a nickname. It was a misunderstanding by immigration officials of her given first name from Armenia: Takoohy, according to her daughter, Lorraine Amirian Parker, speaking to a rapt audience of nearly 150 persons.

She said her parents came to the United States in the early 1920s, “survivors of the 1915 genocide of the Armenians carried out by the Turks.”

Queene and her later husband, Lemyel Thomas Amirian, embarked on the American dream: “Both of my parents worked hard, holding jobs all through public school and college, and doing well in their studies,” Lorraine recounted.

“My father enrolled in the architecture program at MIT, and my mother studied history at Boston University, after which she moved to Washington, D.C., where she earned her master’s degree in international law at American University.”

Returning to Boston, Queene became as-

sistant editor for the English-language Armenian newspaper, The Hairenik Weekly.

Her parents met as undergraduates, when they performed in an Armenian-student play, with Lemyel playing the part of Queene’s father. He would escort her home on the bus after rehearsals. They were married in 1939 after she returned to Boston.

During World War II, Lemyel served with the U.S. Navy Department and was transferred to San Francisco.

“My father said they were determined to live in a university town, so the choice was between Palo Alto and Berkeley,” Lorraine explained. “He said that one day, while driving around Palo Alto, he came to an intersection without a stop sign. To his left, another car arrived at the intersection at the same moment, and the other driver motioned for him to go ahead.

“He said that wave made his decision: If people were so polite in Palo Alto, that’s where he wanted to live, and my mother agreed,” she said.

They bought a still-under-construction house. Once settled in, “my mother became the consummate volunteer. Her many activities, almost always in a leadership role, included working with the PTA, the Girl Scouts, the AAUW (American Association of University Women), city politics, the establishment of the Senior Center (now Avenidas), the United States Bicentennial commemoration, finding a permanent home in the Bay Area for the American Conservatory Theatre ... and what we are celebrating today, the establishment of what is now called the Palo Alto Art Center,” Lorraine said.

Queene and another remarkable Palo Altan, the late Carol Bernhardt, were pivotal in the creation of the senior center when in the

late 1960s they were commissioned to do a “senior needs” survey. The survey showed that most seniors had been local residents for more than a quarter-century. The survey allayed fears of some City Council members that creating a center would be a magnet for needy seniors from all over the bay region and beyond.

Queene was honored for her volunteer work “in making Palo Alto what it is today” and is named on a plaque mounted on what used to be the University Art building in downtown Palo Alto.

When the city offices vacated the building, “my mother and a few others formed a committee to discuss the possibility of converting the building into a center for the appreciation and practice of the arts.” The committee’s weekly meetings were “a combination of working meeting, fellowship and laughter, over food and a glass of wine,” Lorraine recalled.

“The goal was achieved, and this center became a gathering place for the community, with galleries and art activities for adults and children. Members of the original committee became lifelong friends, and, over the years, many of them became regulars at my parents’ table,” she said.

“So here is an example of the best of what this country promises. Coming here as refugees, people can become part of what to much of the world is The American Dream.

My parents loved Palo Alto. In fact, when my mother died in 1988, my father had the following carved on their headstone: ‘Our rainbow ended in Palo Alto.’” Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well. com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

What are your words of wisdom to new graduates?

Asked at Mollie Stone’s on California Avenue, interviews and photographs by Anna Medina.

Melissa D’ignoti

Norm Henry

Carolina Roller

Gary Ruppel

Saurabh Singh

Optician Sheridan Avenue, Palo Alto

Law enforcement Yellowstone Avenue, Milpitas

Operations manager Latham Street, Mountain View

Retired Bryant Street, Palo Alto

Hardware engineer Worley Avenue, Sunnyvale

“Plan ahead, and be prepared for the unexpected.”

“I’d say don’t let people talk you out of pursuing your dream.”

“Don’t worry too much.”

“Keep focused, and remember that your first job will probably not be your last. Do good things, and have a good life.”

“Take some time off and travel. It gives you a good perspective of the world.”

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Cover Story

Marty Douglas, left, and Bonnie Berg, right, sort through backpacks full of medical supplies in a trailer for use by the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps.

To the rescue

Palo Alto’s Medical Reserve Corps volunteers to help during a disaster er Story by Sue Dremann | Photos by Veronica Weber

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alo Alto is a far cry from the Third World, but in a disaster it will face many of the same challenges that often plague impoverished countries: communication failures; impassable roads; masses of sick and injured victims; and psychic shock, city disaster officials said.

Notwithstanding the city’s robust emergency-services program and Stanford Health Care’s firstclass trauma center, Palo Alto is still missing a critical component that could affect the aftermath of a catastrophe: readily available, trained medical staff, local disaster officials say.

But the five-year-old Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) could put a dent in the problem.

Local doctors, nurses and other health professionals have set up a volunteer medical unit that will set up at Cubberley Community Center in a disaster to provide first aid and triage. Their role could be significant, taking on the

less sick and injured and freeing up hospitals and clinics for more serious cases, according to Nathan Rainey, emergency services coordinator for Palo Alto’s Office of Emergency Services.

“There needs to be a relief valve to relieve the pressure on the hospitals. ... We think the MRC is one of those relief valves,” he said.

The Medical Reserve Corps is one branch of the City of Palo Alto’s Emergency Services Volunteers program. Its members would offer a higher level of assessment and care, bridging the gap between the Band Aids-andsplints first aid that the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) members could provide and the high-level skills of a hospital team.

The Corps was started in 2011 as the Palo Alto Emergency Medical Unit, co-chaired by residents Geri Spieler, a former emergency room interventional radiographer, and Bonnie Berg, a registered

nurse. They recognized there was a critical gap in disaster services, they said.

Rainey characterized the founding of the Corps as an attempt to answer a fundamental question: “When we’re in a large, regional event and everybody is holding onto their own resources and they get tapped out, what do we do?”

Spieler and Berg created protocols for the medical unit from scratch. With the help of retired emergency room nurse Marty Douglas, they established a supplies trailer full of stethoscopes, bandages, splints, antiseptic, tape and equipment — enough to last two days. The unit holds trainings and drills for different disaster scenarios (including a mockearthquake, called “Quakeville,” at Cubberley), and they attended a regional training session that involved people posing as victims, complete with fake blood, lacerations and burns. They also keep skills sharp by manning first-aid

tents during community events such as the Palo Alto May Fête Parade, the Moonlight Run and the July 4 Chili Cook-off.

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year ago, the unit joined the national Medical Reserve Corps — a network of 200,000 volunteers who are organized in 987 local units to improve the health and safety of their communities. They prepare for and respond to wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods and earthquakes and public health emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, according to the organization’s website. They also provide first aid at large public events, health screenings and other health-related activities.

Membership allows Palo Alto’s unit to access webinars, regional disaster drills, grant funding and 2,000 courses leading to advanced certifications.

Palo Alto’s Corps took an additional significant step in March

when Dr. Stephen Fisk, an adult critical care physician at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Santa Clara, became a co-chair with Spieler. Berg and Douglas now are in charge of the medical supplies .

Fisk has experience in wilderness medicine and is certified in the fundamentals of disaster management with the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He will help organize and stage drills.

“Dr. Fisk brings a high level of medical experience in disaster preparedness,” Spieler said.

Fisk said he joined the Corps because he wanted to give something back to the community.

“I realized in many ways it’s woefully unprepared for a major disaster. There is no hospital in Santa Clara County that has sufficient surge capability to accept everybody in a major disaster,” he said. “Even though Stanford (continued on next page)

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Fisk estimated that hospitals could double their capacity in an extreme disaster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond that, there would be a significant degradation in care.

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Emergency Management officials said they will be prepared for any disaster and will accept anyone who comes. (See side bar.)

Stanford officials do foresee an important role for the Medical Reserve Corps. In addition to taking on cases that are less acute, members could also assess and triage patients who show up at Cubberley and may need to be transported to the hospital, according to Brandon Bond, administrative director of the Office of Emergency Management at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health. Bond has attended some of the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corpsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drills.

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Dr. Stephen Fisk, co-chair of the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps, stands outside the ambulance dock of the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center hospital, where he treats critical care patients. because of Santa Clara County policy and liability issues.

The Santa Clara County Medical Director must sanction and activate the Corps, but currently, the director only recognizes the county-level Medical Volunteer for Disaster Response program. Without recognition from the county, the Palo Alto Corps members can only give people first aid — not the level of care the volunteers are capable of giving, Spieler said.

In early April, Spieler and Douglas attended a meeting in Saratoga with county officials and that city’s Medical Reserve Corps, including county Medical Volunteer for Disaster Response managers. The group agreed that all medical corps in the county’s cities would be required to meet the county’s criteria if participants want to be able to treat patients beyond the first-aid level,

Spieler said.

When the county boots up its training program, Spieler will invite all Palo Alto Corps volunteers to take part and receive county credentialing, she said.

Rainey raised another issue that is yet to be resolved. While Palo Alto is outfitted with supplies and medical-treatment gear, the county has a vote on how the Corps will use those resources.

If called upon, Palo Alto’s Corps might be deployed in other parts of the county.

“It’s a county-run system. The trick is for the Medical Reserve Corps to figure out how we really fit into that medical system,” Rainey said.

The challenges will be for the city Corps to coordinate with the county system while still ensuring local needs are met, he said.

Fisk said that he has additional

broad concerns, including ones of a more physical nature: In the immediate aftermath of a major disaster, collapsed buildings and impassible roads “will limit in many ways how suppliers and people can actually get to the hospital,” he said.

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pieler and Douglas don’t sugar coat the challenges that a disaster will bring for the Corps.

Patients arriving at Cubberley would likely have a range of injuries: lacerations, burns, bruises, broken bones, crushed internal organs and head trauma. Some might have medical conditions such as a diabetic emergency, stroke or heart attack. Others will exhibit hysteria or anger.

Spieler outlined the basic setup (continued on page 25)

Marty Douglas, left, and Bonnie Berg, right, of the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps push a cart full of medical supplies back into a supply trailer at Cubberley Community Center.

Administrators say they are ready, but some patients may have to wait

n a major catastrophe such as an earthquake, pandemic or chemical contamination, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals will be ready, hospital administrators say.

“We are prepared to take care of anyone who shows up,” said Dr. S.V. Mahadevan, interim chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Health Care.

But the hospital will triage patients according to the severity of their injuries, as staff do in the emergency room every day. That way, patients who are the most in need are prioritized, he said.

In a disaster, that could mean some people will wait in a tent in the parking lot if the emergency room is overflowing. But no one would be turned away.

Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health, which include both hospitals, have a flexible system that allows the hospitals to mobilize teams of doctors, nurses, social workers, translators and other personnel, plus the necessary resources, said Brandon Bond, administrative director of the Office of Emergency Management at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health. In a disaster, hospitals will coordinate their staff through technology devices and with city and county offices of emergency services and local emergency responders.

Boots-on-the ground training, which goes on continuously in the hospitals, is preparing staff, Bond said. There are unit disaster drills, trainings with the executive team and unannounced tests of the command center. All emergency-room nurses take a two-hour masscasualty course, for example, including triage training and simulations, he said.

As a regional trauma center, Stanford is called upon to handle the most serious emergencies. After the 2013 Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport, Stanford Health Care received more patients than any other hospital, Bond said.

The hospital saw 55 patients and admitted 18.

To handle the influx, when the first reports of the crash came in, the hospitals’ emergency department paged nearly 900 employees, putting the hospitals on preliminary alert

for a full disaster response.

As the first patients were being loaded into ambulances, officials activated the full mass-casualty plan. Through the Hospital Command Center, different department leaders monitored aspects of the response and tracked available beds. Nurses from throughout the hospital were sent to the emergency department, and medical teams waited outdoors in the ambulance bay to take in patients, quickly freeing up ambulances to return to the crash site.

Emergency-room patients not associated with the crash continued to be seen, Bond said, and some were placed in hospital beds or sent home.

Nathan Rainey, emergency services coordinator for Palo Alto’s Office of Emergency Services, lauded the hospitals’ response in the Asiana disaster. But he and others fear that a much bigger disaster will strain not only Stanford and Lucile Packard, but other regional hospitals as well.

He and Stanford administrators say the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps could help reduce the strain on hospitals in a disaster by administering first aid and taking on some of the less serious medical cases, Rainey said.

Bond has attended some of the corps’ drills at Cubberley Community Center. As Palo Alto’s and Santa Clara County’s emergency-response plans continue to be refined, there will be increasing opportunities for joint exercises.

Stanford University along with Stanford Health Care’s Office of Emergency is planning a large-scale exercise involving the campus and the hospitals in November, and Bond said the hope is that the next iteration of the exercise would be city-wide, with both Stanford and Palo Alto’s Office of Emergency Services participating.

Although Medical Reserve Corps volunteers are currently only allowed to do first aid unless they have credentialing from Santa Clara County, Stanford also has policies and procedures in place that could allow the specialized services of corps doctors and nurses to be used in a disaster.

“If the need is great enough, we can do emergency credentialing,” Bond said.

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for the Cubberley Community Center: People will be coded with the “colors of injury”: green for stable; yellow needs attention; red for critical; and black for dead.

There will be three treatment stations, a recovery station and a room for those whose injuries are too serious to treat or who must be transported to a hospital.

But there will be no CPR, no setting of broken bones, no X-rays nor surgeries nor no life-saving measures at Cubberley, Spieler said.

It’s a hard fact that in the first hours and days of a disaster, the Corps will need to work to help the most people they can while using the least amount of time and resources. And some people will die, she said.

Spieler recited a question put to the volunteers at a drill last year that sums up the reality of the disaster response: “You have three minutes per person. What could you do with three minutes? You have to do something to stabilize the person and move on. You train for the worst possible scenario. You have to go for the greater good,” she said.

Currently, the Corps has about 40 members, but more are needed so that they will be able to work in shifts when a disaster strikes.

Without shift changes, volunteers would burn out in about 24 hours, Rainey said. The goal is to get enough people to get through at least the first critical 72 hours.

Spieler said she would need at least 50 people. But many others who do not have medical training are also needed. They would free up the Corps’ medical staff by doing intake, registration, communications and running for supplies.

People who want to volunteer shouldn’t wait until a disaster

strikes, however. In an emergency sion and administer first aid.

Rainey said these local response they won’t be able to serve unless they have had a security clear- groups, including the Medical Reserve Corps, are especially imance, she said.

“Bottom line: If you have not portant to Palo Alto, which faces a situation not cleared a backfound in many ground check, other cities — a they don’t want ‘You have three population that you around ... minutes per person. balloons during even if you are a the day due to registered nurse What could you do workers. of physician,” with three minutes?

“The things Spieler said. that worry us Annette You have to go for are the ‘Palo Glanckopf, a the greater good.’

Alto problem’: non-medical the public-safevolunteer, said – Geri Spieler, co-chair, Palo ty resources are that the Medical Alto Medical Reserve Corps sized to the resiReserve Corps dential populaplays an important role in Palo Alto’s Emergency tion and not to the doubling of the daytime population,” he said.

Services Volunteers program.

That is compounded by the vast “I’ve always thought that you’ve got to have a local team. ... We al- number of city employees, includways talk about ‘backup, backup, ing first responders, who do not backup.’ It reduces the points of live in Palo Alto, he said.

If a disaster happens when critifailure,” she said.

Many Palo Alto neighborhoods, cal city staff aren’t on hand, Palo including hers in Midtown, now Alto residents will have to rely on have medical-supply caches for each other — and they had best immediate first aid, which can be prepared.

“As they say in the army, ‘You be administered without leaving the neighborhood. As chairper- go into battle with what you’ve son of the Palo Alto Neighbor- got,’” he said. Q hoods Emergency Preparedness Information about the Palo Committee, Glanckopf has spear- Alto Medical Reserve Corps and headed efforts to ready residents the other programs in the city’s by preparing their homes for Emergency Volunteers Services disaster and recruiting them for is posted at cityofpaloalto.org/ the block-preparedness program emergencyvolunteers. and the other arms of the City of Staff Writer Sue Dremann Palo Alto’s Emergency Services can be emailed at sdremann@ Volunteers group. The program paweekly.com. includes the Palo Alto Neighborhoods Block Preparedness Coordinator and Neighborhood PreWATCH THE VIDEO paredness Coordinator programs, www.PaloAltoOnline.com CERT, and amateur radio comGeri Spieler, co-chair of the Palo Alto munications (ARES/RACES).

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In “Alternative Text -- Send” by Douglas Rees, Shakespeare characters team up to convince The Bard to give them happier endings (starring Nicole Martin, April Culver and Kristin Walter).

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‘Pear Slices’ festival celebrates short plays by local writers

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Stephanie Crowley and Ray Renati perform in the romantic comedy “Birders,” by Barbara Anderson.

hirteen is a lucky number for the Pear Theatre. This month, the Mountain View company presents its 13th annual Pear Slices festival, featuring a fresh crop of 14 one-act plays written by members of its Pear Playwright Guild. “Pear Slices 2016” will be performed in two slates of seven plays each, happening on alternating evenings (patrons can buy tickets for one slate or both). The expanded production will be the first Slices festival for the company in its new, bigger space on La Avenida Street, around the corner from its original Pear Avenue home.

Woodside resident Elyce Melmon has been with the Pear since 2003, when the company produced one of her full-length plays.

She said she’s been involved with the Pear Slices festival most years since then. This year, she’s contributed a two-character drama, “It Begins with Goodbye,” about a widower whose daughter convinces him to go to grief counseling.

“At first he insists he doesn’t need it; his wife was a nag, now he can sleep better and drink his martinis,” Melmon said. “But as he speaks of her, we learn he really loved her very much. It’s basically a glimpse into the loss of an unconventional marriage and some of the faces that grief wears.”

Melmon said she enjoys exploring social issues.

“I wrote one about a man who was just getting out of prison having been mistakenly punished for a crime he did not commit. The one I did last year was about surrogate motherhood. There’s one about genetic engineering and the survivor of suicide,” she said.

A retired English teacher, Melmon has been writing plays for a long time, including writing her master’s thesis in the form of a play.

“When I retired, that was part of the intent, to spend more time writing,” she said. “I like to write plays because of the wonderful collaboration, to have something you’ve had in your head come to life right in front of you. The actors and directors really make a difference. They bring their experiences to your emotional output,” she said. “... There’s something about an empty, dark theater that’s really romantic to me,” she added. “I’ve always loved it.”

Melmon said one of her favorite plays in this year’s festival is “Birders,” a birdwatching-based romantic comedy by Barbara Anderson.

As a longtime member of the Pear’s Playwright Guild, Melmon said she continues to find value in the group of around 20 members, which meets once or twice a month to share work and get feedback.

“It’s a very supportive group.

Their critiques are very honest, sometimes tough, and extremely helpful,” she said. “I feel honored (to be involved). I’m kind of at the top of the heap as one of the older members,” she said. “We have some wonderful young people.”

E. Kokkila Schumacher is one of Melmon’s younger fellow guild members. His supernatural-tinged play, “Not All That Glimmers is Gold,” made it into this year’s Slices festival. This is his second year contributing to the Slices program.

Schumacher said that while he often tends toward comedy, this year he decided to challenge himself and try his hand at a drama.

Understandably reluctant to spoil a major plot twist in “All That Glimmers,” he described the play as being about “a guy who has the ability to see things that others cannot” and has a run in with a woman that will prove fateful. The play explores assumptions and how the power of knowledge can change things.

“I get a lot of weird ideas,” he said. “Sometimes I don’t think there is enough sci-fi in theater or horror. I’m always looking for what I haven’t seen before, what can be done on stage,” he said.

Schumacher, who moved to (continued on page 29)

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Here comes the rain again Life is a vicious cycle in Dragon’s ‘When the Rain Stops Falling’

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hose who don’t study history, as the adage goes, are doomed to repeat it. This is the case for the characters in Andrew Bovell’s play, “When the Rain Stops Falling,” who enact and re-enact their scenes of domestic drama across four generations and several continents. Sons inherit the emotional burdens of their fathers and grandfathers; mothers and daughters are permanently scarred by their pasts; and everyone’s trapped in the tangled branches of their family trees. Life, it seems, is a loop; a broken record; or at least a song with repeating motifs.

Dragon Productions Theatre Company offers a strong, compelling production of this dreamy, lyrical saga.

Bovell’s play, sensitively directed at the Dragon by Kimberly Mohne Hill, is structured like a live-action puzzle, with the audience slowly putting together the pieces over the course of its two acts. Rather than a plot that unfolds linearly, or even in flashbacks (which implies sudden changes from present to past), “When the Rain Stops Falling” is a constant flowing between time periods and settings, with characters from different eras even sharing the stage at times, like ghosts or faded memories.

The 1960s London melds into the 1980s London, which becomes the Australia of 2013, then 1971, and sometimes all the way up to 2039, and so on. The time

REVIEW THEATER changes happen often, but subtle projections onto the stage (set design by Daniel Stahlnecker) always keep the audience informed of the place and date.

To describe too many details of the story would spoil the way it intricately unfolds on stage, so I’ll be vague. Some actors portray several characters across different time periods, while some characters are instead portrayed by multiple actors. Those encountered include a melancholy, yet hopeful, young vegetarian Englishman (Felix Abidor) searching for his long-lost father, who may or may not have vanished into the Australian outback years earlier; a kindly man (John Baldwin) driven to his wit’s end after 25 years with his beloved but emotionally unavailable and increasingly unhinged-from-reality wife, whose life he long ago saved; a brilliant British woman feeling trapped by unplanned motherhood and an unraveling marriage (Lauren Hayes); and an Aussie girl desperate to escape the tragedies of her past (Maria Giere Marquis).

Throughout the play, bits of dialogue and movements are repeated, sometimes verbatim and sometimes with a twist, creating a rhythmic sense of déjà vu. One character laments the cruelty of parents, while her future self says

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the same of children. Over and over, we hear the characters discuss the relentless rain and the hypothetical people who have it much worse off, see them offering each other fish soup (it’s supposedly very good for the brain) and watch them pick up hats, open and close umbrellas, and repeat the mistakes of their forefathers or former selves. A seemingly insignificant reference to a bit of old French philosophy in the first act is beautifully exemplified in the second. In this show, it seems, no moment, no matter how small, is insignificant.

There’s also an environmental aspect to Bovell’s work, as evidenced by the title. Climate change is alluded to, especially in the world of 2039, where species have become extinct and massive flooding is leading to unprecedented global destruction. It may be, one character states, the end of the world, fulfilling a prophecy from years before about fish falling from the sky. As younger generations inherit the burdens of their ancestors, so too does the planet’s future suffer from humanity’s impact.

But weather patterns, too, are cyclical, Bovell reminds us, as another character constantly fixates over great environmental disasters of the past, such as a devastating Caribbean storm and the “year without a summer.” (continued on page 29)

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by Karla Kane

Felix Abidor plays Gabriel Law, an Englishman searching for his long-lost father, in “When the Rain Stops Falling.”

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Important for a play such as this, where things could get confusing in the wrong hands, the seven-member cast is able to make each character stand out — these poor souls who often seem under a curse of fate, as if they’ve stepped out of a Shakespeare or classical Greek drama. Baldwin is heartbreaking as a good man who deserved better than he’s received, as is Marquis as Gabrielle, who’s gone through unspeakable tragedy at least thrice by the tender age of 24. And Judith Miller excels as a woman who’s too haunted by a dark secret to allow herself to connect.

The accents prove tricky for some, but Baldwin, Ellam and Marquis sound fairly believable as Aussies, while Hayes and Miller do well with their cut-glass, posh British tones.

The Dragon cast and crew does a great job spinning this complicated, riveting web, which explores the patterns that make up life on Earth on both macro and micro levels. Though dark and gloomy as the oft-discussed weather, it’s a play audiences won’t soon forget. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com.

the Bay Area four years ago, has acted in Pear productions, too. He recently performed in “The Beard of Avon.”

At this year’s festival, Schumacher is especially glad to see David Schreiber’s “Transcontinental” come to life. The one-act play is billed as a sweet encounter in an 1870s San Francisco chocolate shop.

“I was so touched and heartbroken by it. It’s a very wonderful play. I heard that one (at a guild meeting) almost six months ago, and it stuck with me. There are some stories that just need to be told,” he said.

The creative process is never too far from Schumacher’s mind, even at his day job working for Google’s help center.

“I’m always working on something, always thinking of different stories. I’m writing lots ... even if it is help articles,” he said with a grin.

Diane Gribschaw works full time at NASA’s Earth Science Division but said she’s always been interested in writing. She has been playwriting for the past seven years since becoming inspired by a course at Foothill College, which taught her not only the basics of how to structure a play and fine tune the story, but also the value of physically talking and walking through new pieces.

“I don’t think I can overstate the importance of that class. It was such a catalyst for me as a person and as a writer,” the Redwood City resident said. She’s found similar inspiration working with the Pear.

“As far as I know, I think the Pear is unusual on the Peninsula in having a dedicated playwrights guild,” she said. And because she particularly enjoys writing

What: “When the Rain Stops Falling” Where: Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City When: Through May 29, Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.

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

Info: Go to dragonproductions.net

“core emotional issues” and said she strives to use gender-neutral pronouns and names to open up the acting possibilities and focus more on the universality of the experiences being explored.

“I feel like if my plays have

short plays (generally around 20 minutes in length), she treasures the annual Pear Slices event even more. This year, her third with Slices, she’s contributing “Double or Nothing,” about the relationship between a gambling addict and a love addict.

“I decided that I wanted to do a piece about addiction because it’s such a prevalent struggle in our society and so many people are touched by it, but I felt like drug addiction was a little bit overused.

Gambling addiction can go on for a very long time but people aren’t always aware of it,” she said. She described her plays as exploring

What: “Pear Slices 2016” Where: Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View.

When: Slates A and B alternate evenings, with both slates running on May 21. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. (special Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. on May 21) through May 29.

Cost: Tickets are $30/$25 for students and seniors. Discount available for patrons who wish to reserve tickets for both “Pear Slices” slates.

Info: For more information, including a guide to which plays are in which slates, go to thepear.org.

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The annual “Fine Art in the Park” festival, sponsored by Pa the Los Altos Rotary Club, will be held Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15, at Lincoln Su Park, 199 University Ave., Los Pa Altos, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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“Flight of Eagles,” a large bronze-and-stone sculpture, will be officially unveiled on Saturday, May 14.

New public art in Palo Alto Eco-friendly benches and ‘Flight of Eagles’ sculpture installed

by Karla Kane

Theater ‘The Republican Party in Pieces: A Comedy (In Fragments)’ Stanford Classics in Theater presents a humorous mashup of modern political sound bites and classic Greek drama with its production of “The Republican Party in Pieces: A Comedy (In Fragments)” on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at 8 p.m. at Elliott Program Center, 589 Governor’s Ave., Stanford.

The action takes place at the 2016 Republican National Convention, with GOP honchos seeking advice from the audience. Admission is $5 general; free with Stanford ID. Go to events.stanford.edu/ events/602/60257/.

Live music Frost Music and Arts Festival Multi-platinum indie hip-hop artist Fetty Wap headlines this year’s Frost Music and Arts Festival, taking place Saturday, May 14, at Frost Amphitheater, Lasuen Street and Roth Way, Stanford, at 2:30 p.m. He’ll be supported by Bay Area rapper Sage the Gemini and Stanford’s own Gin & the Jitters, a co-ed combo with jazz, country and funk influences. Admission is $24 for Stanford students; $35 for faculty/staff; and $44 general. Go to frostmusicfestival.com/.

Choral concert The music of Randall Thompson

Author talk Stephon Alexander Jazz musician and physics professor Stephon Alexander will discuss “The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe” at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, on Thursday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. Alexander is a professor of physics at Brown University and recently recorded a new electronicjazz album. His book covers his own passions for both science and music and offers insights into how the two disciplines are intertwined. Go to keplers. com/event/stephon-alexander.

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wo new public-art installations can now be spotted around town: sustainable seating and a large bronze sculpture depicting birds in flight.

Colorful benches made from recycled propane tanks, on loan from East Bay artist Colin Selig, were installed at the corners of Emerson, Bryant, and Waverley Streets at University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto last week. The ecofriendly seats will be in town for a year, according a press release from The City of Palo Alto Public Art Program.

“The Public Art Program is thrilled to bring Selig’s whimsical and environmentally sensitive seating elements to downtown Palo Alto for a trial run. The public has voiced a desire for something unexpected and different, and we hope that the businesses and the public will enjoy Selig’s work,” Public Art Program Manager Elise DeMarzo said in the release.

The Public Art Program is working in tandem with the Department of Public Works and the Downtown Business and Professional Improvement Association for the “creativeseating pilot” program, the release states.

Fair Oaks, California, artist Don Leek’s 20-foot bronze-and-stone sculpture, “Flight of Eagles,” featuring three soaring eagles with 5-foot wingspans, will be unveiled on Saturday, May 14, at the Birch Plaza Building on the corner of Sheridan and Birch Streets. The public is invited to meet the artist from 1-4 p.m.

The sculpture is a collaboration between Leek and fellow artist Howard Wheatley Allen, whose renowned bronze-bird collection was Leek’s inspiration. According to a press release, the sculpture symbolizes “mankind’s reborn dreams of becoming one loving and forgiving world family, flying out of the darkness into the light.” Q

‘Birds of a Feather’ Can’t tell your passerines from your peregrines?

Environmental Volunteers is hosting a free introduction to birdwatching on Saturday, May 14, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at The EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Children and adults are invited to learn observation techniques (focusing on feathers and beaks), then going on a Baylands hike. Advanced registration, along with a water bottle and comfortable walking shoes, is suggested. Go to evols.org.

Above: Local painter Ruth-Anne Siegel is one of the many artists showing work in this year’s “Fine Art in the Park” event, held in Lincoln Park in Los Altos this weekend.

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Choral group Schola Cantorum will perform a concert dedicated to the work of composer Randall Thompson, including “Peaceable Kingdom,” “Frostiana,” and “Testament of Freedom,” plus the

inspirational “Alleluia,” which was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1940 and not completed by Thompson until 45 minutes prior to its debut performance. Performances are Saturday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road; and Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m. at Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave. Tickets are $26 general; free for students under 25. Go to ScholaCantorum.org.

Colorful benches made from recycled propane tanks are currently installed in downtown Palo Alto.

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

n n o e C c t p i on m a C FFor more information i f ti about b t these th camps, see our online li directory of camps at www.paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/ To advertise in this weekly directory, call: 650.326.8210

Arts, Culture, Other Camps Art and Soul Summer Camps

Palo Alto

Summer Unplugged! Art, Cooking, Yoga and Mindfulness. Weekly full, morning or afternoon options. Walter Hays Elementary School. Kinder-Grade Seven. June 6 –July 22. Register online.

www.artandsoulpa.com

650.269.0423

Camp Galileo: 40+ Bay Area Locations Innovation Camps for Kids Inspire a spirit of bold exploration in your pre-k – 5th grader.

Art, science and outdoor fun while building lasting innovation skills like how to embrace challenges and create without fear.

Four fresh themes for 2016.

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1.800.854.3684

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)

Mountain View

50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more!

One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment.

Extended care available. Financial aid offered.

www.arts4all.org

650.917.6800 ext. 0

Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp

Palo Alto

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

www.EVols.org/Explore

650.493.8000

GetEdu Teen Innovation Camp

Stanford

Designed for teen innovators and young entrepreneurs ages 11 to 18. At this two-week, overnight camp located on the Stanford campus, students from global countries form teams, learn handson product design, meet startup cofounders, and pitch business plans to top executives and angel investors. Limited openings.

Early bird discount until 5/31/2016 or subject to availability.

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650.260.8999

Pacific Art League

Palo Alto

Dive into creativity this summer with 20 fun art camps! Animation, Digital Art, Photography, Book Arts, Ceramics, Painting and more!

Half- or full-day. Ages 9-17. Have fun, meet friends and make art!

www.pacificartleague.org

(650) 321-3891

Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)

Palo Alto

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

www.paccc.org

650.493.2361

STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research

Stanford

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

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explore-series@stanford.edu

Stanford Jazz Workshop

Stanford University

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

stanfordjazz.org

Athletics Hi-Five Sports Summer Camp

Academics

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA

Children enjoy up to 8 different team sports a week of outdoor fun and fundamentals. With over 25 years of experience and we are the best provider of youth recreational sports in the nation!

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J-Camp at the Oshman Family JCC

Palo Alto

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

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

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Menlo School Sports Camps

Atherton

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

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Nike Tennis Camps

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Stanford University

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

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Stanford Baseball Camps

Stanford Campus

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

www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com

Stanford Water Polo

650.723.4528

Stanford

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

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650.725.9016

Academics Alexa Café

Palo Alto High School

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

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

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Bay Area Pathways Academy (BAPA)

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College of San Mateo

The Bay Area Pathways Academy(tm) (BAPA) is an enhanced new summer for students entering grades 6 to 9 which offers an exciting array of grade-appropriate academic classes, engaging enrichment classes and fun fitness and aquatics classes, including the opportunity to register for up to 3 two-week sessions.

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8+ South Bay Area Locations

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

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Harker Summer Programs

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

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iD Tech Camps

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Students ages 7–17 can learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, engineer robots, model 3D characters, build websites, print 3D models, and more. Campers meet new friends, learn awesome STEM skills, and gain self-confidence.

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iD Tech Mini

Palo Alto

At Palo Alto High School. Kids ages 6-9 can discover programming, game design, robotics, or graphic design. And with an emphasis on creativity, friendship, and exploration, every camper becomes a maker of fun. We’ve packed every halfday camp session with tons of tech awesomeness.

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iD Programming Academy

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At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in programming, app development, electrical engineering, and robotics. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.

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iD Game Design and Development Academy

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At this two-week, overnight academy, students ages 13-18 explore advanced topics in 3D modeling and printing, video game design, programming, and level design. Create an awesome portfolio, get industry insights, and gain a competitive advantage for college and future careers.

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Mid-Peninsula High School Summer Session

Menlo Park

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

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Write Now! Summer Writing Camps

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Palo Alto / Pleasanton

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

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

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Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750

Palo Alto

YMCA Summer Camps Throughout Silicon Valley

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

Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips.

At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps at 30+ locations plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.

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TheatreWorks Summer Camps

Palo Alto

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls

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Galileo Summer Quest

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408.351.5473

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Eating Out Farm fresh Local chefs offer tips for making the most of farmers markets’ seasonal bounty Story by Elena Kadvany | Photos by Michelle Le

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pring in California means asparagus, artichokes, fava beans, squash, berries, peaches, plums and more.

It’s also opening season for several local farmers markets that don’t run year-round, including in downtown Palo Alto and Los Altos. We talked to local chefs to get recipes for dishes that draw upon this season’s local bounty.

Haochen Liu, Kumino, Mountain View Miso ricotta frittata with asparagus Miso and soy sauce in a spring fritatta? Haochen Liu, chef-owner at Asian-fusion restaurant Kumino in Mountain View, uses asparagus and Japanese ingredients to transform an Italian-style fritatta.

Servings: 4 Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients: 8 large organic eggs 1.5 tbsp brown miso 1 tbsp soy sauce 4 oz ricotta cheese 8 asparagus stalks Salt

Instructions: 1. Whisk the eggs with miso and soy sauce until well mixed.

2. Crumble the ricotta cheese into small pieces, around 1/4 inch.

3. Cook asparagus in boiling salted water for 20 seconds, then plunge into ice water to cool down.

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Lightly oil a non-stick pan or skillet. Heat the pan or skillet until lightly smoking, pour the egg mixture into the pan, and put the pan into oven for around eight minutes until it’s half done.

5. Top with ricotta cheese and asparagus, then put the pan back into oven until the eggs are fully cooked and lightly browned.

6. Take the pan out of oven, cut the frittata into four pieces and serve warm.

Roast chicken breast, garlic noodles and charred spring vegetables Garlic noodles is Liu’s “signature dish” at Kumino. “I like to share my recipe with my neighbors,” he said. “Charred Brussels sprouts and cauliflower is my favorite way to cook these vegetables.”

Servings: 4 Cooking time: 40-50 minutes Garlic noodles: 1/3 pack Barilla linguine pasta

A weekly customer, Nicole Healy, center, looks for peppers at Borba Farms booth during the Palo Alto Farmers’ Market.

8 garlic cloves 2 oz onion 3 tbsp soy sauce 1 tsp sugar 4 oz butter 1 tbsp parsley Salt as needed

Instructions: 1. Put garlic, onion, soy sauce and sugar into a blender to blend into paste.

2. Cook pasta in a salted boiling water for 8 minutes; keep stirring to make sure it is not sticking together.

3. Heat the butter in a non-stick pan until melted. Add pasta and garlic paste. Stir until the noodles are tender.

4. Add parsley and salt to taste.

Crispy roast chicken: 4 chicken breasts skin on Salt black pepper cake flour

Instructions: 1. Salt and pepper the chicken breast on both sides. Coat the skin side with cake flour.

2. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cover the bottom of the pan with oil and heat until it is lightly smoking. Sear the skin side of chicken until crispy brown, and then turn the skin side up. Put the pan into oven until fully cooked, around 14 to 15 minutes.

Charred spring vegetables: 1 cup carrots, large dice 1 cup Brussels sprouts (trimmed and cut to same size as carrots) 1 cup cauliflower, cut to same size as carrots

Instructions: 1. Cook the vegetables in boiling water for two minutes.

2. Drain the water, oil the pan and stir-fry the vegetables until fully cooked. Turn the oven to broil and put the pan into oven until the vegetables are caramelized.

3. Mix the vegetables with butter, soy sauce and vinegar; add salt to taste.

To serve, put garlic noodles on the bottom of plate and add chicken on top of the noodles, skin side up. Add the vegetables alongside the chicken.

Jarad Gallagher, Chez TJ, Mountain View Monterey Bay halibut with vadouvan and early summer squash At Chez TJ in downtown Mountain

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Chez TJ Executive Chef Jarad Gallagher picks out mini squash from the Borba Farms booth during the Los Altos Farmers’ Market on May 5, 2016.

View, the season drives the menu.

Executive Chef Jarad Gallagher is a frequent visitor to farmers markets, including Menlo Park and Los Altos (where last week he picked up some choice zucchini blossoms and squash).

Servings: 4

Ingredients: Marinated halibut (see recipe below) Squash gratin (see recipe below) Kabocha squash puree (see recipe below) 2 fresh lemons 1 oz fresh basil leaves 4 fresh zucchini blossoms 2 oz California extra virgin olive oil 2 oz + 1 oz grass-fed butter Sea salt, black pepper Marinated halibut: 1 1/2 lbs halibut (one large piece with the skin and bones removed) 1 tbsp vadouvan powder 1/2 tsp fine ground black pepper 1 tsp fine ground sea salt 1 oz extra virgin olive oil

Instructions: Mix all ingredients together, except the halibut. Spread the mixture on the fish. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for two hours.

Squash gratin (best if made the day before): 2 lbs mixed summer baby squashes 2 oz butter 6 oz heavy cream 1 tsp black pepper 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper 1 tsp fennel pollen 4 oz fresh grated Parmesan cheese

Houweling Nurseries’ tomatoes are sold at the Palo Alto Farmers’ Market.

Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Butter a baking dish that is 8 inches long and 3-4 inches wide.

2. Slice all the squashes 1/4-inch thick, discarding any large seed pockets (they will make the gratin too runny). Layer the squashes in the dish.

3. Bring remaining ingredients, except for the cheese, to a boil using a sauté pan. Pour the sauce pan contents oven the squash and place uncovered into the preheated oven for 12 minutes. Top with the cheese and return to the oven for 15 more minutes.

4. Remove from the oven and allow to rest at room temperature for one hour. Press plastic wrap over the top of the gratin and place a weight on top to compress it. Place in the refrigerator until completely chilled.

Kabocha squash puree: 1 kabocha squash, peeled, seeds removed and diced into 2-inch pieces 6 oz butter 2 oz extra virgin olive oil 1 sheet nori, chopped into small pieces 1 tbsp toasted white sesame seeds 1 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp black pepper

Instructions: Boil the squash in water and salt until it’s fall-apart tender. Pour into a strainer and let it sit in the strainer for three minutes until all the water has run off and the squash looks very dry. Mix all remaining ingredients with the squash in a bowl using a large fork.

Final instructions: 1. Allow the halibut piece to rest at room temperature for 30

minutes before cooking. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Place both the gratin and the puree in oven safe dishes and cover with foil. Heat them in the oven until warmed through.

Using a frying pan large enough to fit the halibut, slowly heat the pan over medium heat.

Add olive oil and butter; when melted, add the halibut. For each 1 inch of thickness, sear the halibut for two minutes on each side while basting the side that is facing up.

3. After searing each side, squeeze the lemon juice over the fish and place in the oven with the gratin and puree. Heat the fish until its internal temperature reaches 120 degrees, remove from the oven and allow to rest on a cooling rack. (If you don’t have a cooling rack, use paper towels and a plate.)

4. Remove the gratin and puree from the oven, making sure that both are heated all the way through.

5. Place a large spoonful of the puree on each plate, break the halibut into four pieces and place each piece on top of the puree. Carefully remove the gratin and place a piece next to the the fish. Tear the basil leaves and the zucchini blossom, throwing out any stems, as a garnish. Sprinkle with sea salt and coarsely ground pepper to taste. Melt the remaining butter and drizzle over the entire dish.

Bradley Ogden, Bradley’s Fine Diner, Menlo Park Asparagus and spring garlic souffle corn spoonbread Chef-owner Bradley Ogden of Bradley’s Fine Diner goes to the Menlo Park farmers market al-

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by Daryl Savage

NORTH FACE BOLDLY OPENS AT STANFORD ... A walk through the front door of The North Face presents a surprising scene.

Store employees call it a “visual explosion.” Indeed, Stanford Shopping Center’s new outdoor apparel and equipment store has created an usual effect. “It’s hard to know if you’re standing inside or outside,” said one shopper, who was referring to the massive, 18-foot-tall tree seemingly growing out of the middle of the store. Add to that a couple of large sky windows simulating the outside weather on a digital screen, and long door handles made from Juniper trees.

The store, which occupies a 6,500-square-foot-space, is in the newly renovated part of the mall, and takes up a portion of the space that housed the old Bloomingdale’s.

The North Face officially opened on April 29, just one day after Palo Alto’s other North Face closed its doors at 217 Alma St., following a 24-year run at that location. So the adage, “When one door closes, another one opens,” is absolutely true in this case.

The new North Face is considered a pilot store for the brand, according to store manager Tina Yap. “It’s the only one of its kind of the approximately 100 stores we have in the U.S., and the merchandise is a more elevated assortment of clothing than our

most every weekend. This dish takes advantage of the market’s fresh asparagus and pairs it with spring garlic, also known as green garlic. Spring garlic resembles a small leek and has a milder flavor than mature garlic.

Servings: 6-8

Ingredients: 3 large eggs 1 cup water 1 cup milk 1/4 cup butter, unsalted 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper 2 teaspoons fresh red or green jalapeño chiles, minced 3/4 cup yellow cornmeal (preferably from Anson Mills) 1 cup buttermilk 1/4 cup spring garlic, finely sliced 2 cups asparagus, blanched and peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Butter a 3-inch deep, 2-quart casserole dish.

2. Separate the eggs, dividing them into three yolks and two whites. Save the remaining egg white for another use.

3. In a 2-quart saucepan, combine the water, milk, butter, salt,

Alma Street store had,” Yap said.

Another nugget: “We are also the first North Face store ever to feature mannequins in marble, stone and bronze,” Yap said, referring to the skin color of the more than 60 life-size mannequins scattered throughout the store. The marble mannequin is light gray in color, the stone is a darker gray and the bronze, well, is bronze. Many of the colorful mannequins, which are placed in nearly every possible space, are portrayed in active or athletic poses, further supporting the outdoorsy feel of the store.

Yap pointed out the two, large interior sky windows, placed up near the ceiling of the store, that feature artistic, atmospheric content mimicking the outside conditions. “The digital scene from the windows relates to our current weather,” she said. “So if its raining outside, we showcase rain. If it’s sunny, we showcase the sunshine. And then there are clouds and stars at night.”

And what about that huge tree in the middle of the space? “It’s a Redwood that measures about two feet in diameter, and it was salvaged from Southern Oregon.

We consider it the centerpiece of the store,” said Eli Petricka, the company’s creative director.

He said the store itself, which highlights localized, community elements, is based on the

pepper and minced jalapeño and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Slowly add the cornmeal, stirring vigorously to make sure no lumps form.

4. Cook about two minutes or until the mixture is very thick.

Slowly add the buttermilk, stirring until blended, and remove from heat. Let the mixture cool slightly. Mix in the egg yolks, one at a time, then fold in the spring garlic and asparagus.

5. In a clean, dry mixing bowl, beat the two egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold the egg whites into the cornmeal mixture. Pour into the buttered casserole dish, place into a larger a pan of hot water and bake for 20 minutes.

6. When done, the spoon bread should still be soft, not completely set, and light golden brown in color.

Laura Stec, Innovative Cuisine Asparagus with wine-soaked sun-dried tomatoes Local chef, educator and author Laura Stec recommends going to the farmers market not with recipes in hand (except, maybe, this one), but to be inspired by what “looks good and fresh.” Her default is to sauté produce with olive

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A TRIO OF BOUTIQUES OPEN AT STANFORD ... Two clothing stores and a jewelry store opened this month at Stanford Shopping Center. The Italianbased Luisa Spagnoli has made Stanford its first U.S. location. The store’s upscale merchandise includes clothing, handbags and accessories. And AllSaints, yes it’s one word, a retailer headquartered in London, celebrates innovation, design and individuality, according to a company spokesperson. The 3,000-square-foot Stanford location has 162 authentic Singer sewing machines in the middle of the store. The British import, which also has a second store in northern California in San Francisco’s Geary Street, sells men’s and women’s clothing and accessories, and is said to be known for its iconic leather biker jackets. The last of the trio of new openings is a unique, hand-crafted jewelry store. Uno de 50 is a stunning addition to the shopping center. Each collection of jewelry has a limited edition of 50 pieces.

Hard to miss: the oversized, iconic padlock on the front door, artistically created to symbolize the protection of the exclusivity of the brand’s jewelry designs.

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oil, salt and seasonings in a pan.

“I keep a list called ‘Easy Seasonings’ on my refrigerator,” she said. “I think of them as ‘salt and pepper with a college education.’”

Servings: 4

Ingredients: 6 oil-cured sun-dried tomatoes 1/4 cup red wine (optional) 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 pound asparagus 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped

Instructions: 1. Chop the tomatoes into a small dice. In a small bowl, combine tomatoes with the red wine and let marinate at least 1/2 hour (they can marinate in the refrigerator for up to a couple weeks.)

2. Slice the asparagus spears horizontally into 1/4 to 1/2-inch “coins,” leaving the asparagus tips at about an inch in length.

3. Preheat a large saute pan to medium-high heat. Add oil and asparagus and sauté untilbright green, but a little brown (caramelized) around the edges about four to five minutes.

4. Remove the tomatoes from the wine and add to the skillet. Add basil, stir and serve.

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Public Hearing 1. Comprehensive Plan Update: Public Hearing to Accept Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report Prepared for the Comprehensive Plan Update (Continued from April 13, 2016) For more information, contact Elena Lee at elena.lee@cityofpaloalto.org 2. Faircourt #3 and #4 Single Story Overlay Rezoning: Request by Jackie Angelo Geist and Roland Finston on Behalf of the Property Owners of the Faircourt #3 and #4 Tracts #1921 and #1816 for a Zone Change from R-1 Single Family Residential (8000) to R-1(8000)(S) Single Family Residential with Single Story Overlay. Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act per section 15305. Public Hearing Continued from April 27, 2016.

For more information, contact Amy French at amy.french@ cityofpaloalto.org 3. 567 Maybell Avenue [15PLN-00270]: Request by Yurong Han of Golden Gates Homes LLC for a Tentative Map to Subdivide Four Parcels Totaling 2.46 Acres Into 16 SingleFamily Lots, ranging from 5,000sf to 6,186sf, and one parcel for a private street. The applicant requests approval for an exception for some lots to be less than the required lot area or lot width. Environmental Assessment: Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration. Zoning Districts: R-2 and RM-15. For more information, contact Sheldon Ah Sing at sheldon@mplanninggroup.com.

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Feel my math A remarkable true story drags for ‘Infinity’ 00(Guild) a bride, Janaki (Devika Bhise), then wriggles away from both her and his doubting Brahmin family when he earns admittance to Cambridge’s Trinity College and meets his mentor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons). Ramanujan’s raw talent for mathematical theory befuddles and frustrates the Cambridge dons, most of whom dismiss his work out of sheer racism or the more practical matter of Ramanujan’s habit of not showing his work in proofs.

It’s up to Hardy to drive forward Ramanujan’s work, assimilating him without blotting his genius and proving to the mathematical world that Ramanujan is one for the ages. In the process, Ramanujan, Hardy and the professor’s confidant, John Edensor Littlewood (Toby Jones), become friends and conspirators with common interests and goals.

But wouldn’t you know it? Their drive to “publish or perish” begins to look a lot more like “publish and perish” as the Great War borrows Littlewood, and Ramanujan, who is barely past 30, develops a telltale cough.

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” sturdily synopsizes the key points of Ramanujan’s life while focusing on a classic, unlikely friendship. Ramanujan’s faith proffers an obvious mystical contrast to Hardy’s avowed athe-

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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 Bruhl) wants: “to see an empire fall.” And it’s just what a modern movie audience craves: prime action-adventure fare. Rated PG-13. Two hours, 27 minutes. — PC

Captain America: Civil War 000 1/2 When it comes to superhero culture, can there be too much of a good thing?

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. 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.

It’s also a franchise-launching introduction to the new Spider-Man (teenage Tom Holland). Seemingly, it’s everything a comicbook 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 super-heroic titans; and a twisty fight climax. 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. And there’s

Mother’s Day 1/2 Garry Marshall’s formulaic ensemble comedy “Mother’s Day” feels like it takes place in an alternate universe where adults behave like children and children behave

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The story is in the telling, so they say. Writer-director Matthew Brown sets out with the arresting true story of extraordinary mathematician Srinavasa Ramanujan but tells it in a milquetoast manner: “The Man Who Knew Infinity” can repeat its formula by rote, but develops no breakthrough theory of its own.

Oddly, writer-director Brown hasn’t made a film since his obscure debut 15 years ago with “Ropewalk,” an ensemble romantic comedy set in Nantucket. And yet here he is, with Ramanujan’s story — based on Robert Kanigel’s bio “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan” — a bona fide cast, and production values to rival the likes of this picture’s most obvious precursor, “The Theory of Everything.” The pinch-me situation doesn’t quite rise to that of Ramanujan himself, an autodidact whose persistence won him a passage from East Indian obscurity to the University of Cambridge in 1913.

Dev Patel plays Ramanujan with the same gaping earnestness and amusing eagerness that long ago became his stock in trade, and the actor thus deserves some credit for “Infinity’s” lack of imagination in conceiving Ramanujan as a character.

In his hometown of Madras, India, Ramanujan woos and wins

Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel star in “The Man Who Knew Infinity.” ism. The spirit and — oh, let’s just say it — “beautiful mind” of the former wear down the stodgy defenses of the latter.

It’s here that Brown invests all his drama. By reducing the two men to familiar archetypes, however, Brown must rely on Irons’ nuance and Patel’s lack thereof to fill in what’s not on the page and struggle to make what is on the page (lines like “There are no proofs that can determine the outcome of matters of the heart”) sound like human speech.

The truths of this true story were undoubtedly more complicated.

The meeting of these minds and souls and a deeper dive into the mathematics themselves, might

have been considerably more interesting than the dully inspirational “The Man Who Knew Infinity.” It’s a pity Brown can neither literally nor figuratively

“show the work.”

Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and smoking. One hour, 48 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

like adults. What world is this, where middle-aged women would gather around a widowed single father (Jason Sudeikis) and eagerly press him, “What are your plans for Mother’s Day?” The story built around this holiday feels even more like accelerated shuffle play, with scenes sometimes lasting less than 30 seconds.

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the meddling as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;premiseâ&#x20AC;? but as an important part of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psychological reality. While never really infringing on the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential comedic lightness, writerdirector Lorene Scafaria keeps the tone anxious. It also helps that Scafariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting point wasnâ&#x20AC;?t a â&#x20AC;&#x153;high conceptâ&#x20AC;? but her own life, with Marnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-rounded personality based on the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own mother. Susan Sarandon has of late been relegated mostly to supporting roles, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a distinct pleasure to see her â&#x20AC;&#x153;takingâ&#x20AC;? the screen again in a big way. With no hint of condescension but evident love, Sarandon nails Marnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level of sophistication, her joie de vivre (at, say, stumbling into movie extra work), and her reticence when it comes to emotional risk (closure on her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Meddlerâ&#x20AC;? is the Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day comedy to put a smile on your face and keep it there, even if your eyes get a little watery. Rated PG-13.

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A Hologram for the King (R) Century 20: 2:20, 5:05, 7:35 & 10:15 p.m.

Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) Century 20: 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:10 & 7:55 p.m.

Captain America: Civil War (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: 9 & 10:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:40, 4, 5:10, 7:30, 8:40, 10:05 & 11 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 6:45 p.m. In 3-D at 9:35, 10:45, 11:20 & 11:55 a.m., 1:05, 2:15, 2:50, 3:25, 4:35, 5:45, 6:20, 7, 8:05, 9:15, 9:50 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 1:50, 4:05, 5:10, 7:25, 8 & 8:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10:45 p.m.

In 3-D at 11:05 & 11:40 a.m., 1:20, 2:25, 3, 4:40, 5:45, 6:20, 9:10 & 9:45 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 12:15 & 7 p.m. In XD at 3:35 & 10:20 p.m. In DBOX at 12:45, 4:05 & 7:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10:45 p.m. In DBOX 3-D at 11:40 a.m., 3, 6:20 & 9:45 p.m.

Captain Blood (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 3:40 p.m.

The Darkness (PG-13) Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m.

Dough (Not Rated) +1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:15, 7:35 & 9:45 p.m.

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Eye in the Sky (R) Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:10, 4, 7:15 & 9:55 p.m.

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

Ferris Buellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Off (PG-13) Century 16: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m.

Green Room (R)

Century 16: 8:05 & 10:40 p.m.

The Huntsman: Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s War (PG-13) Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:30, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

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

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Love Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m After (1937) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:50 & 9:40 p.m.

The Jungle Book (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:05 & 11:05 a.m., 1, 2:10, 4:10, 5:05, 7:05, 7:50, 9:55 & 10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 9 a.m., 12:05 & 3:05 p.m.

Century 20: 10:30 & 11:25 a.m., 1:15, 2:10, 4, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. In 3-D at 12:20, 3:05, 5:50 & 8:40 p.m.

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

Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 2:45, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:40 p.m.

The Man Who Knew Infinity (PG-13) ++ Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

The Meddler (PG-13) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 2:30, 4:45, 7 & 9:15 p.m.

Money Monster (R) Century 16: 9:45 & 11 a.m., 12:15, 1:30, 2:55, 4:15, 5:25, 7:10, 7:55, 9:45 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:35, 1:55, 3:15, 4:35, 5:55, 7:15, 8:45 & 10 p.m.

Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

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

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) +1/2 Century 20: 7:10 & 9:50 p.m.

Ratchet & Clank (PG) Century 16: 9:05 a.m. Sat. 1:55 & 4:20 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 11:30 a.m. Century 20: Fri. & Sun. 11 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264)

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Supriya Gavande 650.550.0206 sgavande@apr.com

Derk Brill 650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

PALO ALTO

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Breathtaking estate property featuring a totally restored 7,100sf Spanish Revival residence on an expansive 24k sf lot in the heart of Crescent Park.

PALO ALTO

$12,888,000

Exquisite custom estate property on magnificent 1 Acre lot with sweeping SF bay views. Private, quiet and close-in location.

Excellent Palo Alto Schools. Call us to schedule an appointment.

Carol & Nicole carolandnicole @apr.com 650.543.1195 650.740.7954

ATHERTON

$11,850,000

Gorgeous new construction features customized elegance and impeccable details throughout. Ideally situated in prime Lindenwood location.

PALO ALTO

$10,300,000

Rare Professorville Beauty! 5bd/5 full ba & 2 half/2 offices and library. Classic masterpiece of sophisticated design.

Ideally located.

carolandnicole @apr.com 650.543.1195 650.740.7954

Derk Brill PALO ALTO

$10,800,000

Crescent Park 5BR, 4.5BA, LR, DR, foyer, FR, media room, den, library, 2 offices, wine storage, guest house, pool. Lot~18,900sf, Living Area~6200sf. Site of 1985 Designer Showcase.

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Once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase two contiguous lots totaling 24,800sf in the most desirable neighborhood in the City.

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Three newly constructed 3 & 4 bedroom contemporary homes with green amenities, open floor plans, and private outdoor spaces.

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

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650.550.0206 JulieTsaiLaw@apr.com

Carol & Nicole

Connie Linton Clinton@apr.com 650.400.4873

Julie Tsai Law

PALO ALTO/CRESCENT PARK

$8,495,000

6 bd/6.5 ba, +/- 6,075 sf, +/- 10,450 sf lot, new construction, modern Mediterranean, masterpiece in prime Crescent Park location.

Zach Trailer ztrailer@ztrailer.com 650.906.8008

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Stephanie Hewitt 650.619.7885 shewitt@apr.com

PALO ALTO

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Premium Old Palo Alto location! Custom home, uniquely designed, great flow, elegant appointments for both formal and casual year round hospitality. The ultimate in Peninsula living.

PALO ALTO

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Beautiful contemporary new construction in the heart of Professorville. 5 bedrooms, 5+ bathrooms 4305 sq. ft. Call for more information.

Derk Brill 650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

PORTOLA VALLEY

Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

$5,495,000

Incredible views from just under 5 acres in Westridge.

Spacious and private Santa Barbara style 5BR/3.5BA home with pool. www.AlamosViews.com

PALO ALTO

$4,295,000

Premier Crescent Park. Charm abounds in this 1920s light filled Mediterranean offering 3 bd/2 ba. Large picturesque 11,725± lot.

LOS ALTOS

$4,888,000

Jennifer Buenrostro 650.224.9539 jbuenrtostro @apr.com

Lynn Wilson Roberts

650.255.6987 Exceptional home designed by local architect Roger Kohler. Quiet, peaceful retreat with verdant views from every window. Park-like lwr@wilsonroberts.com backyard complete with patio, pool, spa and raised garden beds.

PALO ALTO

$4,250,000

Michael Johnston

650.533.5102 Recently updated 4-plex on a 10,000 square foot lot in mjohnston@apr.com Midtown. Investment Property Expert.

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Derk Brill ATHERTON

$4,000,000

650.833.9336 Newly constructed custom home. Superb craftsmanship. 4 jllaminette@apr.com bed, 5.5 ba, 3,690 sft. Superb 9,500 sft lot and trees. Pool.

PALO ALTO

$5,495,000

7,500sf interior lot located in one of the most sought after areas of Old Palo Alto. 6,000sf of development potential according to City.

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Grace C. Wu ATHERTON

$3,900,000

Upgraded 4bd, 2.5ba home across from Holbrook Palmer Park. Floor to ceiling windows outlook treet, updated kitchen, refinished hardwood floors.

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Upgraded home in a quiet tree-lined neighborhood in the heart of Crescent Park. 4bd, 3 new bathrooms, remodeled kitchen and hardwood floors.

650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

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Anna Park PALO ALTO

$3,800,000

650.255.6987 Professorville remodel, blending historical integrity with the lwr@wilsonroberts.com stylishly modern–maintaining the best of both worlds. Fabulous location close to top ranked schools and downtown shopping.

LOS ALTOS HILLS

$3,750,000

5 Bd + game room, 4.5 Ba with 3,517 sqft. + 500 sqft extra living space on 1.06 acre lot. Fabulous Ranch home nestled in one of most valued locations of Los Altos Hills. Palo Alto school district.

650.387.6159 apark@apr.com

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MENLO PARK

$3,600,000

Fantastic new construction in Allied Arts! 4bed/3.5bath with spacious floor plan and elegant details throughout.

SAN FRANCISCO

$3,488,000

This pristine 4 unit building located on a coveted block in Cow Hollow has a walk score of 98. Take advantage of this excellent investment opportunity with solid rental income!

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

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Lori Buecheler 650.387.2719 lorib@apr.com

PALO ALTO

$3,398,000

Elegantly appointed 4 bed/2.5 bath Old Palo Alto home is move-in ready with a desirable floor plan. Updated kitchen and family room combination.

LOS ALTOS

$3,295,000

This gracious 4 bed/3 bath home has a stunning updated kitchen and separate family room with lush gardens and pool. Represented buyer.

Lori Buecheler 650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Shelly Roberson

PORTOLA VALLEY

$3,295,000

650.464.3797 Stunning home in PV Ranch with spectacular ridge views. The well sroberson@apr.com designed floor-plan features 4bd/3ba, living/dining area w/high ceilings, kitchen w/island, spacious family rm, 3770 SF living space.

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Desirable Menlo Oaks neighborhood. This property offers the opportunity to remodel, rebuild or build a new custom home on a large tree lined lot. Menlo Park Schools.

650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com

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Desiree Docktor

PALO ALTO

$3,025,000

Prime Palo Alto location for this charming 3 bed/2bath home. Gorgeous garden setting invites indoor/outdoor living.

LOS ALTOS

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Sharp and captivating entertainers dream home! One block from Village for all the best amenities. Two suites plus two more bedrooms. 2800 sq ft plus 9000+/- lot.

Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017 kwilson@apr.com

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Carol & Nicole carolandnicole @apr.com 650.543.1195 650.740.7954

Dante Drummond 650.400.9390 ddrummond @apr.com

MENLO PARK

$2,995,000

Exquisitely remodeled 3bd/3.5ba condominium. Grand spaces, open floor plan, lovely details. HOA dues of $1,076.

Great Location.

PALO ALTO

$2,918,000

Three bedroom 2 bath with 1730 sq. ft. Eichler with 2-car garage on large lot close to schools and parks.

Represented buyer.

Desiree Docktor 650.291.8487 ddoctor@aor.com

Derk Brill PALO ALTO

$2,898,000

Elegant updated home with expansive frontage, captivating curb appeal and mature landscaping on one of Palo Alto’s most prestigious streets. Gracious spaces for entertaining and an open floor plan.

PALO ALTO

$2,598,000

Secure and secluded, this 4BR/2BA home on an 8,600sf Barron Park lot makes you feel as if you’re in your own private world. Totally updated and move in ready.

650.814.0478 dbrill@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Lori Buecheler 650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

PALO ALTO

2,498,000

Distinguished 3 bed/2.5 bath home beautifully remodeled with high ceilings, custom windows, architectural detail and beautiful gardens. Call for price.

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$2,650,000

Charming 3 bedroom, 2 bath home located on a desirable street in prime Midtown with updated kitchen and baths, large master suite, separate den/study, hardwood floors and crown molding.

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PALO ALTO

PALO ALTO

$2,550,000

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

Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com

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650.464.3797 SOLD over asking price! Charming 3 bd/2ba home, warm wood floor, sunny interior, 1188 SF living space. Close to sroberson@apr.com CAlTrain, Stanford, top schools, shopping.

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650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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Shelly Roberson

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Rare found 10,000 flat lot in west Palo Alto near all three schools. Possible build a 2800sf main house with a 700sf guest house. Blue print ready. Artist rendering.

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Emely Weissman 650.814.0374 eweissma@apr.com

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Nancy Mott 650.255.2325 nmott@apr.com

Greg Celotti 650.740.1580 greg@apr.com

PALO ALTO

$2,498,000

Gorgeous home in Crescent Park sold with multiple offers.

1160Fulton.com

MENLO PARK

$2,495,000

Rarely available stunning English cottage style townhome.

A “10” with close to Downtown amenities. Lush plantings, 2 patios, 3 bedroom plus office, 3 full baths.

Jennifer Buenrostro 650.224.9539 jbuenrostro@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Desiree Docktor 650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com

PALO ALTO

Carol Lin 650.704.5346 clin@apr.com

$2,387,000

Gorgeous remodeled 4 bedroom 2 bath Eichler. Close to parks and schools.

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$2,295,000

Stunning 3 bd, 3.5 ba home in the desirable Country Club area.

Fairway views, vaulted ceilings, skylights, dual pane windows, family/mediac room, hardwood floors, and central A/C.

650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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Denise Simons

Liz Rhodes PALO ALTO

$2,375,000

Completely remodeled in 2008, this stunning energyefficient 3 bedroom, 2 bath Eichler with modern finishes, and hardwood floors is move-in ready.

SAN CARLOS

$1,998,000

Built in 2009, this stunning home offers a main level master suite, cherry hardwood floors, chef’s kitchen/dining bar opening to family room and lush garden setting.

650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

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Dana van Hulsen

PALO ALTO

$1,849,000

650.248.3950 Charming 1920 Old Palo Alto Bungalow. 2bd/1ba, 976sf+dvanhulsen@apr.com home on +-5000sf lot. Great Palo Alto Schools.

PALO ALTO

$1,799,000

Come enjoy this private pocket of Midtown offering this expanded Coastwise four bed and two bath home. 1700sq ft plus 7700 lot and Two car garage!

Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017 kwilson@apr.com

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PALO ALTO

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

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,788,000

Charming updated 3Br/2Ba Cuesta Park home on large lot with mature gardens and fruit trees. Vaulted ceiling, chef’s kitchen, skylights, hardwood floors, office area in MBr.

Dante Drummond 650.400.9390 ddrummond @apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Ling Lau 650.269.6809 llau@apr.com

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,790,000

Beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom newly constructed home. 1,888+/- sq. ft. on 6,732+/- sq ft lot, walking distance to Downtown Mountain View. Represented buyer.

John Forsyth James

MENLO PARK

$1,688,000

Enjoy a tranquil tree lined setting at this elegant 2 br/2ba single level unit in Sharon Oaks. Stunning upgrades and comfortable spaces make this a great place to call home!

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

Carol & Nicole PALO ALTO

$1,598,000

650.218.4338 Second floor 2-bed, 2-bath, 1,529 sq. ft., newer 2000 built john.james@apr.com condo, center of complex in a freestanding building.

PALO ALTO

$1,595,000

Great opportunity in old Palo Alto! 2bd/1ba w/den. Freshly updated. Close to acclaimed schools and great shopping

carolandnicole @apr.com 650.543.1195 650.740.7954

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Pat Kalish 650.823.4624 pkalish@apr.com

Liz Rhodes SUNNYVALE

$1,595,000

Bright, cheerful home in sought after West Valley elementary school area. Spacious living areas; huge yard.

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North Fair Oaks 4 bd/2.5 ba home with resort-like backyard, hardwood flooring, high ceilings and exquisite master suite with marble bathroom.

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Beautifully remodeled 3 bed, 2bath west side home on a tree lined street. Call for price and details.

MENLO PARK

$1,339,000

Remodeled Lorelei Manor 3bd/2ba home offers a chef’s kitchen, refinished hardwood flooring, vaulted ceilings and bathed in natural light.

650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Liz Rhodes MILLBRAE

$1,590,000

Gorgeous 3bd/1.5 bath 1530 sq ft home on 8280 sq ft lot.

Ideal for indoor/outdoor entertaining.

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650.722.3000 lrhodes@apr.com

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REDWOOD CITY

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$1,397,000

Cherry Chase delight. 3bd/1.5ba mid- century home on 6000 sq ft lot. Close to award-winning schools, parks, shopping, dining and Apple campus.

REDWOOD CITY

$781,000

Beautiful top floor 3bd/2ba 1555 sq foot condo. Large foyer entrance, separate dining area and expansive master bedroom. Private and serene.

Michele Israel Harkov 650.773.1332 Mharkov@apr.com

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Lynne Mercer 650.906.0162 Lmercer@apr.com

Anna Park MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,112,000

3BR/2BA contemporary home with remodeled kitchen, dining area that opens into a beautiful and spacious backyard with covered patio.

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HALF MOON BAY

$1,050,000

Fantastic Sunnyvale home! 4 bd, 2ba with 1,308 sqft of living on 6,350 sqft lot. Spacious back yard perfect for entertaining. Represented Buyer.

650.387.6159 apark@apr.com

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So close and yet so far away! Only 800 ft to the beach!

Only 1.5 miles to 92! 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms. Lovely sunny home with private yard.

SAN JOSE

$811,000

Sold in 1 week with 14 offers, 13% over list price! Want similar results? Let my 25 years of experience work for you!

Betsy Dwyer 650.279.8116 bdwyer@apr.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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Class Guide Summer

Andy Harader Tennis Camp @ Palo Alto High School

JUNE 6 - AUG. 12

Ages 7-16 • 9AM - Noon • M-F a small, fun, very educational camp

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The following local businesses and organizations provide a range of opportunities for people of all ages to play and learn.

(650) 364-6233

www.andystenniscamp.com 2007 NorCal USPTA High School Coach of the Year

For the dancer Brazivedas 53 Shorebreeze Court, East Palo Alto 650-644-7343 brazivedas.com Brazivedas offers classes in Brazilian dance, music and martial arts for all ages and experience levels. Classes are held at several venues, including Mitchell Park Community Center, Stanford University campus and a home studio in East Palo Alto.

Dance Connection Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-322-7032 (office), 650-852-0418 (studio) danceconnectionpaloalto.com Dance Connection offers a combination class for preschoolage children (beginning at age 3), graded classes for youth and adults, and other programs to meet dancers’ needs. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and other instruction are available for students at various levels of ability.

Emerson School

CULTIVATING ASTONISHING POTENTIAL!

SUMMER WRITING CAMPS July 11 - July 29, 2016

WRITE NOW!

• Expository Writing • Creative Writing • Presentation Techniques

DanceVisions Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-324-8751 info@dancevisions.com dancevisions.org DanceVisions, a nonprofit community dance project, serves dancers of all ages and abilities.

Dance styles taught range from modern to hip-hop, jazz, lyrical,

for Grades 1-8

For applications and information: writenowcg@headsup.org www.headsup.org

Middle Eastern belly dancing, ballet, East Indian dance and contact improvisation.

Silicon Valley Ballet Palo Alto Studio Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 408-288-2820 ext. 223 siliconvalleyballet.org/ palo-alto-studio The Palo Alto Studio of Silicon Valley Ballet (previously known as Ballet San Jose) provides ballet instruction to children ages 2 1/2 to 10, with particular attention paid to dancer health and child development. There are also creative movement classes and a Dance With Me class (for ages 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 and caregivers) held at the studio.

Zohar School of Dance & Company Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8221 zohardancecompany.org With roots going back to 1979, Zohar School of Dance holds a range of adult dance classes in jazz, contemporary, modern, ballet, musical theater and tap. Though mainly an adult studio, Zohar also welcomes younger students.

Health and fitness Blue Iris Studio 3485 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-858-1440 blueirisstudiopaloalto.com Blue Iris Studio offers classes in yoga, Pilates and meditation, as well as wellness services that are tailored to various experience levels.

Equinox 440 Portage Ave., Palo Alto 650-319-1700 equinox.com/clubs/ northern-california/paloalto Equinox’s Palo Alto location offers a variety of fitness and wellness activities including cycling, Pilates, yoga, barre, conditioning, Zumba and more. It also hosts dance-based fitness classes by Danceation, which

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Studio Kicks 796A San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-855-9868 studiokickspaloalto.com Studio Kicks is a fitness center offering cardio kickboxing classes and training in martial arts for children and adults.

Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-327-9350 ttopa.com At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, students learn the classical Yang Style Taijiquan Slow Form style of tai chi. Beginning classes start monthly.

Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA Unity Church, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto Mitchell Park, The Bowl, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto 650-396-9244 taoist.org/usa The Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA, a charitable organization with nationally accredited volunteers, holds classes designed to improve balance, strength, flexibility, relaxation and health. Beginner classes are held a few days each week.

Uforia Studios 819 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-329-8794 uforiastudios.com

SPACE AVAILABLE! Session 2B: Wilderness People

June 13 - 24, 2016 Performance: Friday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m.

The German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV) offers high-quality bilingual programs that foster critical and imaginative thinking, academic excellence and an appreciation of cultural diversity.

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www.graceCMT.org for registration information

Summer Class Guide Uforia Studios offers exercise classes incorporating dance (Fuego and Hip Hop Club), spin (Revolutions and Ucycle) and conditioning (Grit).

University Club of Palo Alto 3277 Miranda Ave., Palo Alto 650-493-3972 ucpaloalto.com University Club of Palo Alto offers a year-round junior tennis program for all skill levels, including camps and clinics for those ages 5 and up. Costs, class descriptions and schedules are listed on the website.

YogaWorks Palo Alto 440 Kipling St., Palo Alto 650-468-2929 yogaworks.com/en/locations/ california-north/palo-alto YogaWorks holds classes on yoga fundamentals; Vinyasa flow, Hatha and Iyengar styles; restorative yoga; and circuit training.

Music, arts and crafts Art with Emily 402 El Verano Ave., Palo Alto 650-856-9571 artwithemily.com Emily Young teaches mixedmedia and multicultural art classes in small groups for children and adults at her studio in Palo Alto.

Art Works Studio 595 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto 650-796-1614 artworkspaloalto.net Art Works Studio holds regular fine-art classes for youth, who explore and learn basic art techniques and art history. Programs include 16-week lessons, one-day workshops and summer camps for preschool- to highschool-age students.

Summer Chamber Music First Lutheran Church, 600 Homer St., Palo Alto bloom.claudia@gmail.com Palo Alto resident and professional violinist Claudia Bloom will offer a chamber music program for violists, cellists and violinists ages 10 and up in June.

The one-week session (Monday to Friday) runs from 10 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m. starting on June 6, 13 and 20. Cost is $250 per week.

Homemade 2170 Avy Ave., Menlo Park (mailing) 650-399-0505, 888-292-4624 homemade-cooking.com

Homemade’s programs provide instruction in healthy cooking at the Oshman Family JCC, the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center in Menlo Park and on the Stanford University campus.

Midpeninsula Community Media Center 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8686 midpenmedia.org The center offers workshops for a range of media arts, including video production, photo enhancement, studio work and more. The center suggests starting with one of its free hourlong orientation sessions.

Pacific Art League 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-321-3891 pacificartleague.org The classes and workshops at the Pacific Art League are taught by qualified, experienced instructors for children and adults with different experience levels. Mediums include drawing, painting, watercolor, printmaking, digital art and more.

Palo Alto Art Center 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto 650-329-2366 cityofpaloalto.org/artcenter Palo Alto Art Center classes and workshops — for children, teens and adults — cover such areas as ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, Adobe Photoshop and more.

The great outdoors Brad Lozares Golf Shop 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-856-0881 bradlozaresgolfshop.com Group and private lessons — teaching golf skills, rules and etiquette — are available for juniors and adults at any level of experience.

Common Ground Garden 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto commongroundgarden.org A teaching space for sustainable farming, Common Ground Garden organizes adult education classes focusing on plant types, pest prevention, garden design and other topics. Youth education programs are also offered.

Kim Grant Tennis Academy 3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-752-8061 kimgranttennis.com The Kim Grant Tennis Academy organizes an array of tennis classes and programs for adults and children, as well as those with special needs. Camps are also held over summer break.

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Parents Place 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto 650-688-3040 parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula Parents Place on the Peninsula offers workshops on subjects ranging from sibling rivalry to building a child’s self-esteem and confidence.

School days Emerson School 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1267 headsup.org/emerson-school Emerson School provides a full-day, year-round program for grades one to eight using a Montessori curriculum. Lessons draw from classical subjects as well as art, music, foreign language, physical education, communication, life skills and more.

German International School of Silicon Valley 310 Easy St., Mountain View 650-254-0748 gissv.org/gissv-home-english

The German International School of Silicon Valley is a private school providing preschool to high school students with a bilingual education. The school also offers German language courses for all ages on Saturdays, as well as adult and corporate courses on weekdays.

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School 450 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8200 hausner.com Instructing children in kindergarten through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School provides strong academics, instruction in Jewish studies and the Hebrew language, enrichment opportunities and afterschool programs.

HeadsUp! Child Development Center 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1221 headsup.org/headsup HeadsUp! Child Development Center serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers (to age 6) with

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A half-day kindergarten program and a bilingual Chinese-English preschool classroom are also available. The Montessori curriculum focuses on building thinking skills and personal values.

Oshman Family JCC Leslie Family Preschool 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-223-8788 paloaltojcc.org/preschool The Oshman Family JCC’s preschool program provides one- to five-days-per-week options for children 18 months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 4 at Congregation Beth Am), with an emphasis placed on experiential learning, family involvement and play.

Sand Hill School 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-688-3605 sandhillschool.org Located at the Children’s Health Council, Sand Hill School teaches children from kindergarten through seventh grade (expanding to eighth) with language-based learning differences and assists with the attention and social difficulties that go along with them.

For seniors Avenidas 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto 650-289-5400 avenidas.org Avenidas offers a plethora of classes, as well as lectures and workshops, for seniors focusing on topics such as general health, physical fitness, languages, humanities, computing, music and writing. Membership costs, fees and class descriptions are listed on the website.

Something for everyone Palo Alto Adult School Palo Alto High School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-329-3752 paadultschool.org Computer, language, cooking, writing, art, outdoor and finance classes — and many other offerings — are available through the Palo Alto Adult School. Registration for the summer session begins May 23, and classes start on June 6.

Stanford Continuing Studies Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Stanford 650-725-2650 continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies organizes classes in liberal arts and sciences, creative writing and professional and personal development. Courses are usually held in the evenings Monday through Friday. Summer registration is open May 16, with most classes beginning the week of June 20.

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Habitat restoration projects may include removing invasive plants, installing and maintaining native plants, sheet mulching and trash cleanup. Cooley Landing Park is located near Infinity Auto Salvage, 2091 Bay Road, East Palo Alto at the very end of Bay Road. Please bring a reusable water bottle, hat and wear clothes for light outdoor work (sturdy shoes and long pants recommended). We provide gloves, tools, snacks and water.

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Midpeninsulans can grow blueberries successfully

by Crystal Tai

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lueberries top the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s list of fruits high in antioxidants, and grow rampantly on the East Coast, but many Western gardeners struggle to grow even a handful.

That can change with some careful tending, say some local expert gardeners. Although blueberries are generally believed to require more rain and colder winters than seen in the Bay Area, they come in varieties that actually can thrive here with some special attention.

If you start now, you could have blueberries by July or August, just in time for a summer pie or tart.

The trickiest part, according to the experts, is keeping the soil moist and making sure the berry plants get enough sun.

One success story is Palo Alto gardener Dexter Girton, who has eight blueberry plants in his yard, in six varieties, some with berries so heavy that some branches are pulled to the ground.

“One of them is the pink lemonade variety, which means the berries are pink in color when ripe,” said Girton. “The other varieties are: Bluecrop, Jewel, Misty, Harpblue, and Southmoon.”

To block birds and squirrels from eating his berries, Girton said he will cover all of them with wide tulle fabric, and then bird netting on top of the tulle.

“In addition to eating fresh blueberries and freezing the ones we can’t eat, we make jam with some of the blue ones. We make enough jars to give some away as gifts,” Girton said.

For this kind of success, blueberries need the soil to be well aerated, moist, and very acidic, so native clay soils in the Bay Area must be wellamended to achieve this, said Master Gardener Candace Simpson, who will actually be teaching an upcoming class on this topic.

“To start out, the best way is to buy young blueberry bushes in gallon pots from a nursery, and spring is the time that most nurseries are well

Courtesy of Dexter Girton

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Blueberries for all

At top: Most local growers should get enough for a several handfuls two to three times per week. Above: Blueberries are not shade plants. To be fully productive, blueberries need full sun.

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stocked with them,” she said.

Blueberries have a fibrous, shallow root system that should never dry out, Simpson cautioned.

“The species best suited for the Bay Area are southern highbush,” she said.

“But northern highbush also grow very well here, even though they require more cold weather in the winter for maximum production.”

“Water should be applied over the whole root zone,” said Simpson. “A good way to do this is with drip tubing or small diameter soaker hose laid in a spiral around the bush. “ “In the summer in Palo Alto, we water blueberries growing in full sun and set up this way with drip irrigation three times a week for 45 minutes each time. Blueberry plants should always be well mulched to help prevent the evaporation of irrigation water from the soil surface,” Simpson said.

Blueberry plants should be fertilized twice a year, in early spring and after harvest is complete, she said, and added that blueberry plants require regular annual pruning.

A common misunderstanding about blueberries is the kind of sun exposure they should get, Simpson said. “Blueberries are not shade plants. To be fully productive, blueberries need full sun. A little sun protection in the late afternoon is okay, but basically, the bushes need to be in full sun,” she said.

The same rules apply to potted blueberry plants, she said.

One variety of blueberry is actually pink when it’s ripe. It’s called “pink lemonade.”

Lise Varner grows her blueberries in containers. The Palo Alto resident and expert gardener has six blueberry plants with three southern highbush varieties, namely Sharpblue, Sunshine Blue, and Ozark Blue.

These three varieties of blueberries bring Varner a longer harvest season. Sharpblue can start in May and last through June, sunshine blue is usually in June, and Ozark Blue is later, Varner said.

“The production isn’t enough to replace buying blueberries, but enough for a several handfuls two to three times per week,” said Varner. “For me the main motivation is the superior taste of what I can grow at home.”

These potted blueberry plants receive two to five tablespoons of a commercial fertilizer for acid-loving plants every spring, Varner said. She recommends the

fertilizer usually used for azalea, camellia, and rhododendron.

Varner has containers with water reservoirs, which are called “self-watering containers,” so she has a drip system that waters her blueberry plants once a week to fill the reservoirs during the summers, she said.

“If I were using regular containers, I would set the drip system to water every day or every other day to keep the soil from drying out,” she added.

For inexperienced gardeners, Varner said containers could be a good way to get started with blueberries, especially if the garden has heavy clay soil that hasn’t been amended yet.

“I use a commercial potting mix for acid-loving plants,” said Varner. “A possible downside of containers is that they

do need to be kept moist, either by regular hand watering or setting up a drip system and regularly checking that the drip system is working. “ Simpson also said it’s a challenge to keep blueberries watered sufficiently in containers.

“Blueberries can do well in containers, provided their needs are met,” said Simpson. “A half-barrel size container is recommended for full size varieties, but there are a few varieties that are naturally smaller.”

Simpson will talk more about how to maximize a gardener’s success with blueberries at Rinconada Library on May 19 at 7 p.m. The seminar belongs to a series resulting from a partnership between the library and the Master Gardeners program.Q For more information on the class go to mastergardeners.org

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Local homebuyers headed downtown No fear of noise or busy streets

by Katharine Carroll s more people move to the Bay Area to take advantage of the region’s high-octane job market, traffic has gotten predictably worse.

According to a November 2015 article in the San Francisco Business Times, traffic on the San Mateo Bridge grew by 81 percent since 2010 while increasing by 61 percent on the Dumbarton Bridge.

Traffic congestion, along with the growing popularity of walkable neighborhoods, is prompting some buyers-especially younger ones--to seek out lifestyles that will keep them out of their cars as much as possible. A look at a few recent home sales in our local communities underscores buyer desire for centrally located homes, along with their willingness to pay substantial premiums for them.

Q A single-family home on Palo Alto’s Loma Verde Avenue sold for nearly 139 percent of original price in January, the largest first-quarter premium in the city.

The Midtown home -- described in online listings as a fixer-upper -- benefits from a large corner lot but also a location that is less than a mile and a half away from the California Avenue Caltrain Station.

Q Pacific Union real estate professional Michael Hall relayed the sentiments of potential buyers who recently viewed a condominium in downtown Palo Alto. Mostly under the age of 40, these home shoppers were keen on the unit due to its central location: within strolling distance of dozens of restaurants, the Palo Alto Caltrain station, and a Whole Foods Market. Interestingly, downtown Palo Alto is particularly attractive for transplants from New York City and San Francisco, who are accustomed to urban walkable neighborhoods with publictransportation options.

Q In Menlo Park, a single-family, bungalow-style home on Evelyn Avenue fetched 125 percent of original price in early April, thanks in part to its location less than two blocks from the bustling, vibrant business district on Santa Cruz Avenue.

Q In late March, a new home on Cornell Road in Menlo Park’s Allied Arts neighborhood just north of Stanford Shopping Center sold for 103 percent of original price despite its relatively small lot.

“Local buyers are willing to accept a smaller lot in exchange for walkability,” Pacific Union real estate agent Nathalie de Saint Andrieu said.

Proximity to work is likely also driving location-based buyer trends in Silicon Valley. In Mountain View, a single-family home on Hamwood Terrace built in 2007 sold

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HOME SALES

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

Atherton

1 Tallwood Court Pacific Peninsula Group to Zafran Trust for $14,700,000 on 03/31/16; built 1958, 3 bd, 2,610 sq. ft.

East Palo Alto

2552 Emmett Way J. Baker to E. & A. Perez for $700,000 on 03/31/16; built 1956, 2 bd, 1,250 sq. ft.

Los Altos

947 Aura Court S. & N. Tagare to A. Seth for $2,997,500 on 04/20/16; built 1980, 4 bd, 3,361 sq. ft.

1481 Brookmill Road R. & P. Bennion to S. Chen for $2,888,000 on 04/22/16; built 1956, 4 bd, 2,196 sq. ft.

35 Deep Well Lane Bypass Trust to A. Rado for $2,500,000 on 04/26/16; built 1972, 2 bd, 1,840 sq. ft.

738 Edge Lane Davidson Trust to T. Fahey for $2,500,000 on 04/26/16; built 1954, 3 bd, 1,511 sq. ft.

1230 Larnel Place Larnel Place Limited to Canfield Trust for $4,395,000 on 04/22/16; built 1955, 3 bd, 2,000 sq. ft.

1400 Pritchett Court Mollard Trust to K. Kim for $2,868,000 on 04/22/16; built 1969, 4 bd, 2,524 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills

26636 Altamont Road Mckenzie & Loftus Trust to V. Borel for $3,475,000 on 04/19/16; built 1972, 4 bd, 2,933 sq. ft.

23344 Camino Hermoso Drive Credit Trust to R. & P. Bennion for $3,450,000 on 04/25/16; built 1951, 4 bd, 3,164 sq. ft.

12007 Kate Drive Black Trust to S. Dadral for $5,700,000 on 04/25/16; built 2000, 5 bd, 5,144 sq. ft.

14945 Page Mill Road F. & C. Yoshida to J. Qi for $4,650,000 on 04/20/16; built 1981, 4 bd, 4,160 sq. ft.

Palo Alto

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $14,700,000

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $700,000 Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $2,500,000 Highest sales price: $4,395,000 Average sales price : $3,024,750

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $3,450,000 Highest sales price: $5,700,000 Average sales price: $4,318,750

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $ 850,000 Highest sales price: $3,752,000 Average sales price: $2,366,700

Menlo Park

1304 Carlton Ave. D. Reyes to K. Eudaly for $850,000 on 03/31/16; built 1948, 3 bd, 1,140 sq. ft.

12 Patterson Ave. V. Borel to M. Faria for $2,345,000 on 04/01/16; built 1953, 2 bd, 1,290 sq. ft.

1056 Pine St. RB Partners to T. Chiao for $1,270,000 on 04/01/16; built 1962, 2 bd, 1,355 sq. ft.

60 Politzer Drive R. Whelan to J. & W. Grad for $3,600,000 on 03/31/16; built 1958, 9 bd, 4,320 sq. ft.

455 Santa Margarita Ave. E. Robbins to Noucha PB Limited for $2,900,000 on 04/04/16; built 1950, 2 bd, 3,050 sq. ft.

535 St. Francis Place Schulz Trust to E. & K. Hansen for $3,752,000 on 04/04/16; built 1957, 6 bd, 2,120 sq. ft.

722 University Drive S. Roy to J. & L. Maynard for $1,850,000 on 04/01/16; built 1981, 2 bd, 1,530 sq. ft.

Total sales reported: 16 Lowest sales price: $610,000 Highest sales price: $2,450,000 Average sales price: $1,390,562.50

Palo Alto

Los Altos

Total sales reported: 13 Lowest sales price: $1,700,000 Highest sales price: $8,300,000 Average sales price: $3,093,700

Portola Valley Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,325,000

Woodside Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $1,170,000 Highest sales price: $14,500,000 Average sales price: $7,835,000 Source: California REsource

Mountain View

650 Alamo Court #20 M. Laube to J. Marino for $632,000 on 04/25/16; built 1972, 2 bd, 796 sq. ft.

328 Bryant St. Stevens Creek Limited to P. Stanton for $1,840,000 on 04/22/16; built 2014, 2 bd, 1,780 sq. ft.

334 Bryant St. E. Firouzjaei to B. Lin for $1,535,000 on 04/25/16; built 2002, 3 bd, 1,660 sq. ft.

280 Easy St. #311 D. Yu to H. Li for $610,000 on 04/20/16; built 1964, 1 bd, 711 sq. ft.

116 Flynn Ave. #B D. Zook to E. Bretelle for $830,000 on 04/20/16; built 1972, 2 bd, 917 sq. ft.

785 Glenborough Drive Seto Trust to S. Deasy for $2,450,000 on 04/25/16; built 1985, 5 bd, 2,897 sq. ft.

2433 Laura Lane Brannigan Trust to J. Lederman for $1,400,000 on 04/22/16; built 1955, 3 bd, 1,104 sq. ft.

192 Murlagan Ave. B. Clark to H. & K. Yang for $1,450,000 on 04/25/16; built 1954, 3 bd, 1,169 sq. ft.

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for 135 percent of list price in late March, also the largest premium paid in that city in the first quarter. This home sits adjacent to Highway 101, traditionally not a particularly desirable location. But it is also within walking distance of Google’s Quad Campus and a short drive from the search giant’s Googleplex Campus. And while Pacific Union wasn’t involved in that particular sale, its not a huge stretch to speculate that the buyer has a connection to Mountain View’s most famous tech company.

Regardless of neighborhood preference, prospective Palo Alto and Menlo Park buyers who are planning to hit the open-house circuit this spring will likely find no shortage of competitors if last spring was any indication.

In the second quarter of 2015, single-family homes in Palo Alto sold for 109 percent of original price, while their Menlo Park counterparts got 108 percent of list price.

Given those numbers, local home shoppers should be serious about putting their best offer on the table right away and finding the means to counter-offer in the event of a bidding war. As always, a real estate professional with expert knowledge of individual neighborhoods and current market conditions is instrumental in advising buyers as to the most effective offer strategy. Q Katharine Carroll is a vice president at Pacific Union in Palo Alto.

207 Post St. Appanna Trust to S. Kolay for $1,800,000 on 04/22/16; built 1978, 3 bd, 2,030 sq. ft.

950 San Clemente Way K. Pajarillo to R. Rhode for $1,827,000 on 04/25/16; built 1964, 5 bd, 2,190 sq. ft.

1956 San Luis Ave. Ckassuc 1946 to K. Hsieh for $1,617,000 on 04/19/16 49 Showers Drive #F433 Felt Trust to H. Wang for $1,310,000 on 04/25/16; built 1976, 3 bd, 1,526 sq. ft.

49 Showers Drive #T411 K. Wu to Y. Leung for $1,260,000 on 04/22/16; built 1974, 3 bd, 1,526 sq. ft.

2703 St. Giles Lane K. & H. Min to A. Firoozshahian for $2,100,000 on 04/26/16; built 1964, 4 bd, 1,966 sq. ft.

905 West Middlefield Road #903 C. Rhode to M. & J. Thakore for $738,000 on 04/26/16; built 1978, 2 bd, 998 sq. ft.

2530 West Middlefield Road H. Mellows to T. Stefanov-Wagner for $850,000 on 04/20/16; built 1976, 2 bd, 968 sq. ft.

4039 2nd St. S. Yong to R. & N. Valame for $2,690,000 on 04/26/16; built 1952, 3 bd, 1,274 sq. ft.

3877 Corina Way D. Loffler to S. & K. Pendyala for $2,250,000 on 04/25/16; built 1955, 3 bd, 1,647 sq. ft.

811 Hamilton Ave. Z. Guan to Tran Trust for $8,300,000 on 04/22/16; built 1923, 4,400 sq. ft.

342 Hawthorne Ave. J. & J. Elward to K. & M. Dike for $3,500,000 on 04/21/16; built 1926, 3 bd, 2,130 sq. ft.

430 Jacobs Court M. Bernstein to F. & B. Gomez-Schumacher for $1,700,000 on 04/22/16; built 1993, 3 bd, 1,439 sq. ft.

625 Kingsley Ave. Litzenberger Trust to Green City Limited for $3,000,000 on 04/21/16; built 1960, 3 bd, 1,637 sq. ft.

536 Lincoln Ave. G. Smythe to C. Katz for $3,800,000 on 04/21/16; built 1900, 4 bd, 2,356 sq. ft.

2637 Marshall Drive 27th & Telegraph Limited to Dutta Trust for $2,400,000 on 04/26/16; built 1946, 4 bd, 1,758 sq. ft.

3441 Murdoch Drive J. Ahn to X. Zhang for $2,500,000 on 04/26/16; built 1952, 3 bd, 1,420 sq. ft.

145 Primrose Way Well Trust to D. Rajagopal for $2,400,000 on 04/21/16; built 1938, 2 bd, 1,382 sq. ft.

3479 Ross Road Fyten Trust to Elevation Homes Investors Projects for $2,400,000 on 04/26/16; built 1957, 4 bd, 1,771 sq. ft.

3080 South Court Buzi Trust to S. Seth for $2,580,000 on 04/21/16; built 1952, 3 bd, 1,064 sq. ft.

265 Wilton Ave. H. Ying to H. Hou for $2,698,000 on 04/20/16; built 2011, 4 bd, 2,252 sq. ft.

Portola Valley

45 Stonegate Road Banks Trust to Dragoo Trust for $3,325,000 on 04/01/16; built 1958, 4 bd, 2,420 sq. ft.

Woodside 330 Mountain Home Road R. Bridger to Mountain Home Limited for $14,500,000 on 04/01/16; built 2011, 3 bd, 4,871 sq. ft.

610 Woodside Way D. Shaw to X. Zhao for $1,170,000 on 03/31/16; built 2004, 1 bd, 1,670 sq. ft.

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

3308 Kipling St. Replace water heater 1431 Waverley St. Tenant improvement for existing Gamble Garden tea house area, remodel 288 sf. Scope of work includes replacing windows and exterior doors. Replace water heater for kitchenette, remodel kitchenette, relocate three light fixtures and add two outlets. $50,000 185 Lois Lane Install 14-50 outlet in garage 1628 Mariposa Ave. Residential re-route electrical sub-feed 2740 Middlefield Road Tenant improvement and use and occupancy for new tenant Edible Arrangement, 1488 sf, scope of work includes build-out of sales floor and prep area/kitchen. $50,000 3660 Ross Road Add four recessed light and switch LED will be installed 1730 Embarcadero Road Revision to add cane, canopy between buildings 1299 Forest Ave. Bathroom remodel (55 sf): install new bathroom fan, scope of work includes voluntary reinforcement of existing outriggers. $10,000 2332 South Court Re-work the firewall, re-roof, the door was moved. $40,000 335 Ferne Ave. Addition 183sf to the existing garage. Remodel garage (360 sf) $60,000 3921 Fabian Way JCC cafe: remodel of existing cafe (2637 sf).

New rooftop equipment. Expand cafe by 396 sf into adjacent retail space. Use and occupancy required. $186,000 2255 Oberlin St. Red tag gas line repair leak at furnace 2715 Ramona St. Change window to a door in the family room and infill a window in the master bedroom.

445 Maple St. Replace two windows and add two awnings $25,000

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

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

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday

1:30 - 4:30

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DELEON REALTY SUMMER SPLASH JULY 11 - JULY 24

FOR MORE INFO CALL 650.488.7325 650.488.7325 | www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty CalBRE #01903224

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841 Campbell Avenue, Los Altos

Open Saturday and Sunday 1:30-4:30

Fabulous ranch style home on a spacious landscaped lot. Conveniently located within about a mile from the Los Altos village with easy access to Route 280 and nearby parks.

First Floor

Second Floor

• Five bedrooms includes main level master suite and two upstairs bedrooms • Three full baths • Office/Den (could be 6th bedroom) • Stunning Pool House/In-Law Suite with beamed vaulted ceilings, kitchen and full bath • House approx. 3,350 sq ft (including In-Law Suite) • Lot Size is approx. 13,600 sq ft

Offered at: $3,195,000 Visit virtual tour:

841Campbell.com Exclusive Listing Agent

Maggie Heilman M aggie H eilman Over 19 Years of Local Experience

650.888.9315 mheilman@apr.com DRE#: 01206292

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PROUDLY PRESENTING SOME OF PALO ALTO’S FINEST:

Exquisite Spanish Mediterranean in Crescent Park 1413 Dana Avenue • Offered at $3,995,000

Contemporary Masterpiece in Leland Manor 2111 Barbara Drive • Offered at $9,000,000

Classic Charm in Old Palo Alto 152 Melville Avenue • Offered at $5,500,000 BRIAN CHANCELLOR (650) 303-5511 brianc@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01174998 Page 56 • May 13, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Enjoy the tour at brianchancellor.com

1205 Hillview Drive, Menlo Park

Offered at $3,349,000

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM Fantastic 5-bedroom home nestled on a beautiful wide tree-lined street in wonderful West Menlo Park. Sumptuous landscaping surround the home and brighten every room with views of lush green colors from generous windows, while a central atrium ablaze the home in natural light from the inside out. Home boasts a formal entry with extra high ceilings, master bedroom suite with sliding glass doors to private deck, living room/dining URRP FRPER ZLWK Ă&#x20AC;UHSODFH ODUJH JODVV VOLGHUV JRUJHRXV IDPLO\ URRP ZLWK YDXOWHG FHLOLQJV DQG H[SRVHG EHDPV RYHUORRNLQJ WKH HQFKDQWHG UHDU \DUG ZLWK SRQG OLJKW DQG EULJKW NLWFKHQ ZLWK LVODQG %D\ ZLQGRZV KDUGZRRG Ă RRUV QHZ FDUSHW H[WHQVLYH KLJK HQG EXLOW LQV DQG FDU DWWDFKHG JDUDJH /LYLQJ VSDFH VT IW ORW VL]H VT IW ([FHOOHQW 6FKRROV 2DN .QROO (OHPHQWDU\ +LOOYLHZ 0LGGOH 0HQOR $WKHUWRQ +LJK This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not veriďŹ ed this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school availability.

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

FA M I LY CO M P O U N D O P P O RT U N IT Y 75 Reservoir Road, Atherton | 75reservoir.com

SALE PENDING ATHERTON ESTATE 393 Atherton Avenue, Atherton | 393atherton.com

OLD PALO ALTO 159 Coleridge Avenue, Palo Alto | 159coleridge.com

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

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

SALE PENDING

SOLD

PROFESSORVILLE 1115 Ramona Street, Palo Alto | 1115ramona.com

PROFESSORVILLE CRAFTSMAN 1012 High Street, Palo Alto | 1012high.com

Price Reduced to $5,995,000 Beds 6 | Baths 3.5 | Home Âą3,500 sf | Lot Âą9,188 sf

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

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

Noelle Queen, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S 01917593 Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson St, Palo Alto 650.644.3474

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Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

Ashley Banks, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S dreyfussir.com )EGL 3J½GI MW -RHITIRHIRXP] 3[RIH ERH 3TIVEXIH

1 Homs Court, Hillsborough Old World Charm, Modern Luxuries Be enchanted by the Old World elegance of this sprawling 7 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom mansion of 11,425 sq. ft. (per appraiser) that occupies majestic gated grounds of 1.42 acres (per county) in one of the most desirable pockets of Hillsborough. Designed by 1;>31 ;C->0 -:0 .A58@ /5>/- U]TX @45? 45?@;>5/ 1?@-@1 .;-?@? 2;>9-8 /;99;: >;;9? 4->0C;;0 Ō ;;>? 81-010 38-?? C5:0;C? - C5:1 /188-> -:0 ?1B1: ŋ >1<8-/1? -8;:3?501 8ADA>5;A? A<0-@1? 8571 9A8@5 F;:1 41-@5:3 -:0 /;;85:3 -:0 - ;:1 ;2 - 75:0 5?8-:0 75@/41: -8/;:51? <1>5;0 9-:@18<51/1? -:0 - ?@-331>5:3 ->>-E ;2 -A@41:@5/ 21-@A>1? 1:4-:/1 @41 Ō 1D5.81 Ō ;;><8-: C4581 @41 599-/A8-@1 3>;A:0? <>;B501 - @1::5? /;A>@ - ?;8-> 41-@10 <;;8 -:0 ?<- 1D<-:?5B1 8-C:? - >1-> 3-@1 -:0 - 01@-/410 V /-> 3->-31 with 1 additional bathroom. While you will enjoy the convenience of downtown San Mateo and Burlingame, you will also be moments from distinguished Crystal Springs Uplands School. Also, you will be an easy stroll from South Hillsborough Elementary (API 959), and near Crocker Middle (API 962) and San Mateo High (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1Homs.com Offered at $8,988,000

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30 - 4:30 pm

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100% new construction just completed in May, 2016. The moment you step into this exquisite home, you’ll be amazed by its classic beauty, contemporary sophistication, and top-of-the-line amenities that satisfy your every need. Bright, welcoming, and elegant, it’s comfortably tucked away in a lovely North Palo Alto neighborhood.

• 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. (4 en-suite).

• Approx. 2,777 sq.ft., including 1-car garage and a separate accessory building in rear yard.

• Approx. 6,358 sq.ft. lot. (according to City of Palo Alto).

• Over 400 sq.ft. covered patio and porch.

• Stunning, sunbathed open floor plan with coffered high ceilings, vaulted ceilings, and crown moldings.

• Beautiful Travertine stone in the front porch and patio.

• Stylish iron front entry door; automatic side yard iron gate.

• Elegant staircase with wrought-iron banister.

• Beautiful wide-plank engineering oak hardwood floors throughout.

• Exquisitely designed interior lighting.

• Four security cameras with recorder and Security alarm system.

• Top-quality Thermador stainless steel appliances including: 42” wide refrigerator with icemaker & water dispenser Oven, microwave, dishwasher and wine cooler.

• Dual-zone central forced-air heating & air conditioning.

• Nest thermostat.

• Excellent Palo Alto Schools: ** Duveneck Elemantary, 0.52 mi ** Jordan Middle, 0.6 mi ** Palo Alto High, 1.78 mi

Offered at $4,098,000 For more photos, please visit www.2346SantaAna.com

JUDY SHEN

Coldwell Banker

650-380-8888 650-380-2000 CalBRE # 01272874

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Jshen@cbnorcal.com | www.JudyShen.com

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137 Beverly Street, Mountain View 4 bedrooms | 2.5 bathrooms | 1,839 sq. ft. | $1,450,000

Located at Keller Williams Realty 505 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 100, Palo Alto

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www.1400CowperStreet.com Offered at $4,488,000

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30 - 4:30 pm

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OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday, May 14 & 15, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

195 N. California Avenue, Palo Alto Q 4

bedrooms and 2 baths

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2,005 square feet

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Spanish Colonial charm, beautifully remodeled

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yard with banks of white roses and wisteria-covered arbor

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in sought-after Old Palo Alto just moments to shopping, dining, and Caltrain

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Palo Alto schools: Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High* *buyer

to confirm enrollment

Offered at $2,998,000 | 195NCalifornia.com

Exceeding client expectations

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

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147 Stockbridge Avenue ATHERTON

By Appointment Only

Hamptons Estate in Central Atherton » Just completed in May 2016 » Approximately 13,064 total square feet » Three levels with 6 bedrooms, 6 full baths and 2 half-baths » Library, home theatre, 2 recreation rooms, fitness center, sauna, and wine cellar » Pool house, pool and spa » Attached 3-car garage with electric car charger » Approximately 1.1 acres

$21,950,000 For more information, visit www.147Stockbridge.com

Tom LeMieux

Jennifer Bitter Liske

650.465.7459 tom@lemieuxRE.com License #01066910

650.308.4401 jennifer@lemieuxRE.com License #01847627

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

9 Inner Circle, Redwood City Offered at $1,298,000 Stylish with Dreamy Backyard Extensively remodeled in 2016, this superb 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of approx. 1,740 sq. ft. (per plans) on a spacious property of 7,014 sq. ft. (per county) is ideally located along a peaceful cul-de-sac.

Offering an open, light-filled floorplan, LED lighting, engineered hardwood floors, and many more fine amenities, this residence affords modern living with a luxurious twist. The home includes an attached two-car garage and a magical backyard shaded by mature trees. Live within moments of parks, Caltrain, and downtown Redwood City, and stroll to fine schools.

For more information, please contact: ®

Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.9InnerCircle.com

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

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

700 King’s Mountain Road, Woodside

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$23,988,000

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081

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

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

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

$18,950,000

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

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

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

13480 Wildcress Drive, Los Altos Hills

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

$13,895,000

$12,888,888

$11,488,000

Listing Provided by: David Troyer, Lic.#01234450

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

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

245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

2991 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto

$7,250,000

$6,888,000

$5,950,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided by: Tom Rollett, Lic.#01383194

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

26861 Purissima Road, Los Altos Hills

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$5,850,000

$5,298,000

$2,800,000

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

Listing Provided by: Shawn Ansari Lic.#01088988

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.

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

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Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

Menlo Park 807 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.543.7740

Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700

www.InteroRealEstate.com www.InteroOpenHomes.com 2016 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.

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Hear Only the Birds…at this Woodside 6-Acre Estate 280 Family Farm Road | Woodside | Offered at $8,995,000

Price Reduced on this Spectacular Property! — Open Sunday 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

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njoy the best of both worlds with your own private retreat just minutes away from the action. You will love the peace and tranquility of this 4 BR / 4.5 BA home with spectacular surrounding views of the Western Hills and the 1,189-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Positioned on a private knoll close to town, the home combines the touches from its origins as a midcentury hunting lodge with the functionality brought through recent upgrades. In addition to the two-story main home, the property has two guesthouses, a pool & cabana, a two-car carport and a three-car garage. On its 6.02 acres, the property plays host to a wide range of heritage trees and some of the area’s best wildlife. www.280FamilyFarmRoad.net Page 68 • May 13, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

#1 Agent Team 2013, 2014, 2015 in Woodside/PV office

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317

helenhuntermiller@gmail.com brad.miller@cbnorcal.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

13090 Heath Street, Saratoga Offered at $1,298,000 Two Homes Share Outdoor Paradise Centered by a divine outdoor retreat, this property of approx. 0.31 acres (per county) is appointed with many fruit trees, a gated driveway, and gorgeous landscaping. This incredible opportunity includes a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,276 sq. ft. (per county) and a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home of approx. 1,000 sq. ft. (per seller), which have both been thoughtfully updated. Stroll to bus services, El Quito Park, and shopping at Quito Village, and live nearby excellent Campbell Union schools (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.13090Heath.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

EXTRAORDINARY ESTATE

NEW LISTING

APPOINTMENT ONLY

52 Atherton Ave, Atherton Price Upon Request 3 BD / 6 BA

147 Stockbridge Avenue, Atherton $21,950,000 6 BD / 6+ BA

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

2.8 acres with every amenity to accommodate a Silicon Valley life style!

Hamptons estate home completed in May 2016. Approx 1.1 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and privacy.

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

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

Carol MacCorkle, 650.868.5478

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

PRICE REDUCED

NEW PRICE

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

1208 Bellair Way, Menlo Park $4,595,000 5 BD / 4.5 BA

65 Skywood Way, Woodside $3,850,000 5 BD / 5+ BA

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

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.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

David Weil, 650.823.3855

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

APPOINTMENT ONLY

NEW LISTING

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

25010 La Loma Drive, Los Altos Hills $3,288,000 3 BD / 3 BA

655 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto $1,999,000 4 BD / 2 BA

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

3 Beds & 3 Baths, 2587sf Living, with Bonus Bedroom. Large 1.37acre Lot. Amazing Canyon Views and Pool.

Endless possibilities to build new or remodel to your taste. Old charming home in need of some TLC. Superb Palo Alto Schools.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

Greg Stange, 650. 208.5196

Cashin Group, 650.625.7201

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3DOR $OWR $YHQXH 0RXQWDLQ 9LHZ 2IIHUHG DW 7HUULĂ&#x20AC; F 5HVLGHQFH 1HDU 'RZQWRZQ Stroll to popular Castro Street from this beautiful 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home of 1,511 sq. ft. (per county) that occupies a property of 7,000 sq. ft. (per county). Engineered hardwood floors, soaring ceilings, and a fireplace are just some of the many enticing amenities inside this sky-lit home. The property also boasts a flexible studio and a spacious backyard shaded by a stately oak. Caltrain, Mariposa Park, and the Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market are within strolling distance, and Bubb Elementary (API 920) is nearby (buyer to verify eligibility).

For more information, please contact: ÂŽ

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.234PaloAlto.com

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Open Sunday, 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Prime Central Atherton

234 Polhemus Avenue, Atherton Rural lanes shaded by centuries old heritage oaks lead you to a beautiful estate, which sits on a private cul-de-sac in central Atherton. This lovely 1.28 acre expansive property features a main house, guest house and pool. Completely rebuilt in 2009-2010 the traditional architecture showcases stunning modern finishes throughout.

• 5 bedrooms, 6 baths, plus 2 half baths • Main level master suite, private office and exercise room • Upstairs includes 3 ensuite bedrooms upstairs plus a play room • Open concept floor plan with dramatic ceilings • 3-car attached garage • 2 bedroom/2 bath guest house completed in 2013 • Expansive and lush yard with pool, BBQ and fire pit • Well for landscape irrigation • Los Lomitas School District • Close to Sand Hill Road, Stanford and easy access to Silicon Valley, SFO and SJC. OFFERED at $13,750,000 Photography by Bernard Andre

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Walking distance to the Dutch Goose and Starbucks.

• Built in 2011 • Open concept floor plan • 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths • 2,850 sq. ft. home • 6,000 sq. ft. lot • Close to Stanford, Sand Hill Road, and Highway 280 • Acclaimed Las Lomitas Schools OFFERED at $3,100,000

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3135 Avalon Court, Palo Alto Offered at $3,998,000 Brand-New Luxury Home in Midtown Enjoy the central location of this brand-new home of 3,176.8 sq. ft. (per plans), including an attached two-car garage, that features 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, an office, and a lot of 8,080 sq. ft. (per city). This beautiful design offers numerous fine amenities and a bright, open layout, plus highlights like an Internet-ready security system and all en-suite bedrooms. Inviting outdoor areas further enhance the property, which allows you to stroll to Hoover Park, Philz Coffee, and top PAUSD schools.

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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) PENINSULA FIRE PROTECTION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 617142 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Peninsula Fire Protection, located at 633 Middlefield Rd., 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): JAMES M. BROWN 633 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/21/1987.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 5, 2016.

(PAW May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2016) EVERGREEN BIOPROCURE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 617226 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Evergreen Bioprocure, located at 131 Corkwood Ct., San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TRUNG NGUYEN 131 Corkwood Court San Jose, CA 95136 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/9/16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 9, 2016.

(PAW May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2016)

997 All Other Legals 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

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM 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, 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

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CCS SWIMMING

A shot at the streak

ALL-STATE HOOPS . . . The West Bay Athletic League was wellrepresented on the annual Cal Hi Sports basketball All-State teams that were announced last weekend.

Pinewood junior Mikaela Topper was named to the Small Schools division all-state first team, her senior teammate Chloe Eackles and sophomore Kayla Tahaafe of Eastside Prep were Small Schools second team, and Eastside Prep freshman Zion Gabriel, Castilleja senior Ellie Chen, and Priory sophomore Tatiana Reese were third-team honorees. Hannah Jump of Pinewood was named to the AllFreshman team.

JUST PERFECT . . . It hasn’t been the most successful of seasons for the Gunn High baseball program, as the varsity and JV squads have battled their way to losing records. The Gunn JV team, however, provided a nice highlight in an otherwise gloomy season on Saturday during a 4-0 nonleague victory over host Mills in Millbrae.

Gunn freshman Nathan Nakamitsu pitched a perfect game, setting down 21 straight hitters with no errors or walks. Nakamitsu threw only 89 pitches and registered seven strikeouts, including the final batter.

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Stanford senior Krista Hardebeck is enjoying her best season yet. She’s 23-6 overall, including a 17-1 mark in dual matches, and is known for her success in must-win matches.

Chasing NCAA tennis titles Stanford women open play at home, Cardinal men on road Rick Eymer orgive senior Krista Hardebeck should she look unconcerned regarding the slim chances of a deep run into the NCAA tournament for the 15th-seeded Stanford women’s tennis team. She knows better, having experienced an unlikely run to the national title in her freshman year.

The pursuit of NCAA championship No. 18, and the first since 2013, begins this weekend for the Cardinal women with first- and second-round matches on Stanford’s home courts at Taube Family Tennis Center.

The Cardinal (14-5) opens at 2 p.m. Friday against Texas A&M Corpus Christi (24-0), the nation’s last remaining undefeated team. Texas A&M (16-10) and Denver (21-2) play at 11 a.m.

Friday’s winners meet Saturday for a berth in the Round of 16 in Tulsa and a possible date with second-seeded Florida.

Hardebeck, the 2013 Regional Rookie of the Year and All-American, was a member of the then-12thseeded Cardinal that became the lowest-seeded team to win the NCAA title. Stanford knocked off four of the top five seeded teams to become the champion.

The route could be even tougher this year, with possible matches against the top three seeds along the way.

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by Keith Peters he last time the Bellarmine Prep swim team did not win a Central Coast Section title was in 1984. The Bells weren’t even in the top two, ending a brief two-year streak of championships. Apparently, that one-year hiatus from the top spot was a fluke.

For the next 31 years, all the top teams in the section have tried, and failed, to defeat Bellarmine. Only two teams have come within 36 points of the Bells, the Palo Alto boys being the closest in 2014 when Bellarmine held on for a 12-point victory.

“Some day,” said Gunn coach Mark Hernandez, “some team is going to break that streak. We think this year we have a chance to be that team.”

And that historic streak-breaking day could be Saturday at the 2016 CCS Championships at the George F. Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara. The meet begins at 9 a.m. with girls’ diving, followed by swimming at 2:30 p.m., with history perhaps being made following the 400yard free relay finals around 6 p.m.

This may be a one-shot deal and, appropriately enough, Gunn may be pulling the trigger on the sport’s longest such streak.

“I think Gunn is the favorite,” said Paly coach Danny Dye, who knows better than to put his squad into that role. “Gunn has the benefit of depth, we have the benefit of higher-level swimmers and relays and diving. My boys have a chance, but have to swim perfect.

I have confidence, but we will see.”

For comparison sake, Bellarmine returns 86.5 of its 292 points from a year ago. Gunn has 203 of its 214 points returning and Paly has 147.5 of its 210 points back.

It’s easy to see why the Titans carry the favorite’s role.

Even Gunn senior Daichi Matsuda believes a title is possible.

“That has been our goal since last year,” he said. “Just knowing that we have the depth. We just need to do as well as we did at leagues, put people in finals and swim well at finals. Right now it’s more Paly; Bellarmine’s team is kind of young. It’s just Gunn versus Paly at this point.”

Hernandez, however, isn’t making room in Gunn’s trophy case just yet.

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TENNIS HONOR . . . Gettysburg junior Laura Gradiska from Menlo School landed her first postseason award as an honorable-mention selection on the All-Centennial Conference Womenís Tennis Team it was announced this week.

Gradiska became the first Bullet to earn all-conference accolades in four seasons after a strong showing on the court this spring. She led the team with 19 total wins, going 11-5 in singles play and 8-8 in doubles. Gradiska was the teamís top performer in singles action and competed at each of the top two flights. She went 2-2 at No. 1 and 9-3 at No. 2. In conference competition, the junior logged a record of 6-4.

Gradiska is the first Gettysburg player to record at least 11 victories in three consecutive seasons in 19 years. A team captain this season, Gradiska played all of her doubles matches at the top flight. In three seasons at Gettysburg, Gradiska has racked up 57 victories. She has logged a 33-19 singles record and sits just two wins shy of cracking the programís top 10.

Gunn boys hoping to end Bellarmine’s 31 straight titles

Stanford junior Caroline Doyle is 20-10 overall this season.

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Cardinal seeking third straight polo title Two-time defending NCAA champs begin defense in nationals on Friday against UC Santa Barbara Rick Eymer he two-time defending national champion Stanford women’s water polo team finds itself in familiar territory this weekend for the NCAA championships at UCLA’s Spieker Aquatics Center.

The second-seeded and thirdranked Cardinal (21-5) opens defense of its crown Friday, with a match against No. 7 UC Santa Barbara (18-12) at 1:45 p.m. The winner advances into Saturday’s semifinal match against either third-seeded and second-ranked UCLA or No. 10 UC San Diego.

Stanford has won four of the last five titles and five overall. The Cardinal will be seeking its first three-peat.

Undefeated and top-ranked USC, which meets 15th-ranked San Diego State in the first round, is seeking its fourth overall title and its first since 2013, when the Trojans edged Stanford, 10-9.

The host Bruins have won seven titles, but none since winning five in a row between 2005-09. No other school has won a title in the 16-year history of the event.

In fact, only two other schools — California and Loyola Marymount, once each — has reached the championship match.

Stanford downed the Gauchos, 16-5, on March 22 and split two games with UCLA. The Cardinal has fallen three times to the Trojans, the latest an 8-5 decision in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament championship match two weeks ago.

Fourth-seeded Arizona State and No. 5 Michigan meet in another first-round match, with that winner going against USC or San Diego State. Sunday’s title game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

Seniors Rachel Johnson, Gurpreet Sohi and Anna Yelizarova will be competing for the final times in Stanford uniforms. The trio has helped compile a 100-11 record.

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reason is her experience as a freshman. There’s also another big reason.

“We have wins over the firstand second-ranked teams in the country,” she said. “We’re going into the tournament with a lot of confidence.”

Hardebeck, one of two seniors on the team with Lindsay Kostas, is enjoying her best season yet.

She’s 23-6 overall, including a 17-1 mark in dual meets, and is known for her success in mustwin matches.

To hear her tell it, it’s easier to be playing in a match-deciding set than being one of the cheerleaders.

“It’s way worse to watch,” Hardebeck said. “You want your teammate to win so much, for her and her for the team, and you get so nervous. It’s difficult having to watch.”

Hardebeck clinched Stanford’s 4-3 win over Florida earlier in the season, a repeat of her effort against the Gators in the national semifinal three years ago.

“You try and keep the same mindset when your playing in those matches,” she said. “You’re actually more focused and not caught up in the moment.”

Hardebeck and Kostas are a combined 127-84 in their time at Stanford, and would love nothing more than to go out the same way they came in: as national champs.

“It’s very special because this could be the last time I compete in tennis, and its certainly my last time in college,” Hardebeck said.

“You appreciate every moment.”

It’s no surprise that winning the national title as a freshman is Hardebeck’s top memory. That could change this year.

“I think everybody knows we’re seeded below our capabilities,” Hardebeck said. “But it really doesn’t matter now. We need to focus on the next match up. If we want to win the title, we’re going to have to beat great teams every step of the way.”

The Cardinal’s season is on an upswing. At one time during the regular season, Stanford was fifth in the Pac-12 Conference.

Then came the win over then topranked and undefeated California, followed by a victory over USC to clinch the conference title.

The recent success has coincided with the return of Carol Zhao, the Cardinal’s top player last year and NCAA singles runner-up. She took the fall and winter seasons to play on the pro circuit and test herself against some of the nation’s top professionals.

Zhao, a three-time All-American, is 8-1 since returning to the lineup. Stanford is 8-1 with her and 6-4 without.

“Carol really helps strengthen the lineup,” Hardebeck said. “Any time you can add an extremely talented player, it’s going to help.

We’re all a little more comfortable. At the end of the day, every point counts and we can’t get caught up in what position we’re

Stanford junior Taylor Davidson is 20-12 overall, having played at No. 1 singles while Carol Zhao was out. playing. We have to take care of our own court.”

Taylor Davidson (20-12 overall, 10-7 duals) played at the top of the ladder when Zhao was out, with Caroline Doyle (20-10, 12-6) also playing up. Hardebeck has experience playing in the top four spots while freshmen Caroline Lampl (25-5, 16-2) and Melissa Lord (1912, 10-7) gaining the most experience in playing up a spot. The two freshmen have combined to record nine match-clinching points.

The Cardinal is 10-2 in the last 12 matches its played as the lower seed in the NCAA tournament, another reason to think Stanford retains a good chance to compete for the title. The school is 136-18 all-time in the NCAA tournament and current coach Lele Forood (382-37) has presided over seven na- Tom Fawcett tional championship teams.

“Lele is absolutely incredible.

We all love her so much,” Hardebeck said. “She really cares about us, she’s knowledgeable and she’s guided us through all this.”

Hardebeck teams with Lampl in doubles and the duo is 17-8 overall, 10-3 in duals. Zhao joined Lord as a doubles team and the pair reached the Pac-12 championship match despite having played together just nine times.

Davidson and Doyle play at No. 1 doubles. They became a duo for the first time in September and earned a trip to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships in New York. They are 22-7, 9-5 in duals.

Men’s tennis Stanford (14-10) is set for its 37th all-time appearance in the NCAA tournament this weekend and will take on Notre Dame (15-

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13) Saturday morning at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The winner advances to Sunday’s second round and will play Valparaiso (20-5) or the host Wildcats (25-4).

Stanford opens postseason play on the road for the fourth consecutive season. The Cardinal had dropped its first-round match in back-to-back seasons until last season when it topped Tennessee, 4-2, before losing to Duke, 4-1.

Stanford, ranked as high as No. 17 this year, has seen mixed results in a competitive season that included both a five-match winning streak and a fivematch losing streak.

Four of its losses were by 4-3 scores.

Tom Fawcett has compiled a stellar sophomore campaign thus far to lead the Cardinal.

He owns a 20-7 overall record and 14-5 dual record. Fawcett has been ranked as high as No. 3 this season with 13 wins over ranked opponents.

Fawcett will represent Stanford in the NCAA singles and doubles tournament entering as the No. 9 singles seed. Maciek Romanowicz is his doubles partner.

The duo are currently ranked No. 23 with a record of 15-5 overall and 9-3 at the No. 1 spot in duals. They have won four straight entering the tournament.

Stanford owns a 104-21 alltime record in the postseason.

The Cardinal has won 17 NCAA championships, including 15 since the NCAA tournament went to its present format in 1977. The most recent crown was in 2000.

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Baseball Stanford can make a significant move in the Pac-12 standings when it travels to Salt Lake City to open a three-game series against conference co-leaders Utah on Friday at 11 a.m. (PT).

The Cardinal (10-11 in the Pac12, 24-19 overall) are one of five teams tied for fifth, three games behind the Utes (13-8, 18-24) and Washington (13-8, 27-16).

Stanford enters the weekend ranked first in the nation in fielding percentage (.986). The Cardinal has the fewest errors in the country, with 22 in the first 43 games. Top-ranked Florida is second with 27 errors in 49 games.

Stanford is on pace to set a record for fewest errors in a season, which is currently 49 in 2009, and to set a NCAA record for fielding percentage, which is currently held by USF at .985.

Stanford pitching enters the weekend series atop the Pac-12 in ERA (3.03), opposing batting average (.232), and fewest runs (153), earned runs (129), hits (323), and home runs (15) allowed.

Women’s golf Mariah Stackhouse helped make sure her last event as a collegian on the Stanford Golf Course was successful.

The senior All-American finished sixth overall and the Stanford earned the chance to defend its national title by tying for first at the NCAA Stanford Regional Championships on Saturday.

In a seesaw battle, the Cardinal and No. 2 USC deadlocked at 4-over 856 to secure trips to the NCAA Championships, which get underway May 20 at Eugene Country Club in Oregon.

Playing in light rain for the second straight day, Stanford took a two-stroke advantage into the final round. The Trojans played a strong front nine to catch and pass the Card, but were caught on the final green when Stackhouse picked up a stroke with a bogey.

Stanford posted rounds of 289-280-287, while USC shot 287-284-285.

The Cardinal was led by junior Casey Danielson, who placed fourth at 2-under 211 after closing with an even-par 71. Stackhouse tied for sixth at 1-under 212 following a 73, while senior Lauren Kim recorded her best round of the week, a 2-under 69, to claim a share of sixth. Kim has not finished outside the top 20 all season.

Women’s lacrosse Ninth-ranked Stanford received an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament, its sixth appearance in seven years, after finishing second to USC in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament.

The Cardinal (14-4) meets James Madison (10-9) on Friday at 3 p.m. at the venerable Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the site of two Olympics.

The winner advances to Sunday’s noon contest against the host Trojans (19-0), which earned a first-round bye.

Stanford seeks its first trip to the Final Four, hosted by Saint Joseph’s and played at Talen Energy Stadium in Philadelphia.

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Menlo boys take shot at eighth straight CCS tennis title

by Ari Kaye he Menlo School boys’ tennis program has accomplished many remarkable feats over the past decades, but perhaps none as impressive as its seven consecutive Central Coast Section team championships.

So, as they attempt to capture their unprecedented eighth consecutive title, it was only fitting the Knights put on another outstanding performance, this time in a semifinal matchup against Bellarmine that head coach Bill Shine labeled their “best match of the season.”

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“This team rises to the occasion,” Shine said. “I didn’t expect anything less to be honest.”

The victory propels Menlo to yet another CCS finals, where the Knights will match up against No. 2 seed St. Ignatius (24-0), which on Friday at Courtside at 1:30 p.m.

“I don’t think we’ve seen two teams that are this equal going up for the CCS finals in many, many years,” Shine said of the finals

matchup. “Who knows, it might be the match of the decade.”

Menlo defeated St. Ignatius 7-0 in last year’s CCS semifinals, and the two teams were scheduled to play again this season on March 22, but the match was cancelled due to rain.

“Obviously, they’ve got great players, otherwise they wouldn’t be where they are at,” senior captain Nathan Safran said of St. Ignatius. “I know many of their players from USTA tennis and they’re great guys. I think we’ll have a blast playing them.”

No matter what happens Friday, both Menlo and SI will ad-

vance to the CIF NorCal Regional Championships at the Broadstone Racquet Club in Folsom on May 20-21.

Although there was never any doubt to the Knights’ semifinal victory on Wednesday, the No. 1 singles matchup between Menlo sophomore Siddharth Chari and junior Andrew Ton provided plenty of excitement.

The first set started with Chari jumping out to an early 5-2 lead, before Tom, the West Catholic Athletic League Player of the Year, won four straight games to gain a 6-5 advantage. But, Chari responded, winning the next game

and the tiebreaker to take the first set.

In the second set, Tom jumped out to a 3-2 advantage, before Chari won four straight games to win the match.

“I knew everyone else on the team was winning, so I stayed loose,” Chari said of his comeback. “I had no pressure because (Tom’s) supposed to be better than me.”

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M-A girls will chase PAL championship title Gunn girls already have league title secured heading into SCVAL Qualifier with Palo Alto

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SCVAL De Anza and El Camino finals in the SCVAL Qualifier at Los Gatos High at 5 p.m.

While running fast times and recording good marks will be important, the goal is to safely qualify for the Central Coast Section semifinals on May 21 at San Jose City College.

Scores will be kept on Friday and the Gunn girls likely will move up from their third-place finish of a year ago while the Paly boys could inch up from fourth place in ‘15.

Both teams will be familiar with the track, as they competed there last week at the De Anza Division Championships. The Gunn girls won the team title with 117.50 points to hold off second-place Los Gatos (104), but the celebration was muted by a near-tragedy.

“It was a tough day,” said Gunn coach PattiSue Plumer. “A young man from Milpitas was hit with a shot put during the competition and severely injured. It was very sad and delayed the meet 30 minutes. Many of our athletes were very close to the ring, doing warmups, and were really shaken up. Our kids did really well, particularly under the circumstances.

And, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the young man.”

The Gunn girls grabbed the spotlight on the somewhat gloomy day with seniors Maya Miklos and Gillian Meeks each winning two individual events and running a leg on winning relays.

Miklos got the day under way by anchoring the 400 relay to first place in 49.31. She returned to win the 400 in 57.50, won the 300 hurdles in 43.62 and ran a leg on the winning 1600-meter relay team that clocked 4:08.16 and put the finishing touches on the league title.

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by Keith Peters he events will be the same, but the goals will be a little different for local track and field teams with league championships and qualifying meets on tap this weekend.

For the Menlo School girls and Sacred Heart Prep boys, they’ll be trying to duplicate their respective efforts from last year at the West Bay Athletic League Championiships on Friday at Palo Alto High at 5 p.m.

Menlo won the 2015 title by two points and SHP finished second in the boys’ meet. Both teams, however, lost a lot of senior talent and will be hard-pressed to repeat those efforts.

The Menlo-Atherton boys and girls, meanwhile, will be out to improve upon last year’s finished when they host the Peninsula Athletic League Championships on Saturday at 10 a.m.

The M-A girls finished second to Mills, 110-109, in ‘15. The Bears, however, have the talent and depth — especially in the middle- and distance events — to take the crown this time. Kalina Zanelli gave M-A its first points with a third place in the high jump at 4-8 last Saturday when three varsity field event finals were held..

The M-A boys will be out to improve upon last season’s fifthplace finish that saw the Bears win just two events. They already have 28 points after last Saturday’s three finals that saw Marquise Reed leap 21-10 1/2 to win the long jump. Jack Gray was fourth at 20-8. M-A’s Bryce Rodgers was third in the shot put at 46-4 1/2 and Gunnar Jongebloed was second in the pole vault at 12-0.

The Gunn and Palo Alto boys and girls don’t need to seek team titles on Friday when they take on the top qualifiers from the

M-A’s Marquise Reid won the PAL long jump title.

Gunn’s Miya Miklos won the 400 and 300 hurdles titles.

Paly’s Eli Givens won the 100 and 200 at leagues.

times of 4:59.71 and 10:55.74. She won metric mile by nearly 10 seconds and the two-miler by 25 seconds while not having to approach her season bests. Meeks also ran a 62-second leg on the 1600 relay.

“We were very proud of all of our athletes,” said Plumer. “Our girls’ teams this year were simply amazing and unselfish. We have an extremely competitive league and to go undefeated in both divisions varsity and JV) and win leagues does not happen without hard word, commitment and sacrifice (As well as a lot of luck and athletic tape).

“We got a lot of help in our field events. Conditions were cool and windy (head wind), so especially tough for our sprinters, Maya’s 43.62 300 hurdle race was really fast, but even more impressive under the conditions.”

Gunn got a solid 2-3 finish in the 100 from seniors Robin Peter and Janae Pennywell, a key victory in the shot put and a secondplace finish in the discus from senior Lindsay Maggioncalda, a second place in the high jump from junior Margaret Redfield and a runner-up finish in the long jump from senior Amy Watt to help key the victory.

Gunn not only won titles for the varsity and JV girls but won the overall title factoring in the finishes of the frosh-soph boys.

“I’m not sure we had any set goals prior to the beginning of the season, but when we got a lot of scorers back (Jenae, Robin, Lindsey) we knew we would have a strong team,” said Plumer. “Our FSB was probably our biggest surprise . . . did not expect them to go undefeated and three of the six races were really close. And our JVG have not lost since before I started, so I can tell you that I didn’t want to have them lose on my watch!

The Palo Alto girls finished seventh with 38 points with Laoula Amanoni taking second in the 400 (59.79), Catherine Yu finishing third in the 100 hurdles (15.62), Titi Bolarinwa finishing third in the 200 (26.64) and Emma Sternfield taking third in the high jump at 5 feet.

In the boys’ meet, Palo Alto finished third with 96 points while trailing Los Altos (121) and Los Gatos (99). Gunn was sixth with 29 points.

The Vikings came through with their usual big points in the sprints as they started off by winning the 400 relay in 42.87. Eli Givens and

Austin Cox, who ran the first two legs of the relay, came back in the 100 with Givens winning in 11.07 into a headwind and Cox taking fourth. Givens came back to win the 200 in 22.39, again into a stiff headwind.

Junior Kent Slaney, who woke up earlier in the week with a knee problem and had an MRI on Wednesday that discovered no meniscus tear, was supposed to run to just qualify for next week’s SCVAL Qualifier. Instead, Slaney finished second in the 1,600 in 4:25.20 and won the 3,200 in 9:42.82. Both times were well off his season bests.

The Vikings scored plenty of points in the distances with Reed Foster (4:28.52) and Sam Craig (4:28.92) taking fourth and fifth in the 1,600 and Naveen Pai (9:49.25) and Henry Saul (9:56.10) finishing in the same spots in the 3,200.

Palo Alto also won the closing 1,600 relay in 3:27.90 and picked up extra points in the shot put from Ryan Jamison (fourth) and Sam Desre in the 800 (fourth).

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Paly boys reach the finals

Paly boys, girls have a shot at defending Vikings will be facing last season’s playoff foes again in Saturday’s SCVAL title matches at Gunn

Menlo and individual qualifiers also advance to the championships

by Keith Peters he Palo Alto boys and girls lacrosse teams are back in their respective Santa Clara Valley Athletic League playoff title matches and will be facing familiar foes on Saturday when the championships are decided at Gunn High.

Both teams are the defending playoff champs and will face the same teams they defeated last year for those titles the girls facing Gunn (11 a.m.) and the boys taking on Los Gatos (1 p.m.).

The Paly girls held off visiting Mountain View, 10-8, in the semifinals on Wednesday. In a back-and-forth game, Paly (16-4) led by just 5-4 at the half before pulling away ever so slightly.

Paly’s goals were scored by Abby Ramsey (four), Maya Benatar (two), Kaitlin Chiu, Emma Staiger, Ellen Goncher and Emily Wood.

The Gunn girls (13-8) earned a rematch with Palo Alto after holding off visiting Leland, 10-8, in the other semifinal on Wednesday.

Gunn was led by Annie Vesey’s three goals while Andrea GarciaMilla and Jenny Chen each scored twice.

As for the Paly boys, they suffered only one loss during the SCVAL regular season and the Vikings will have a chance to avenge that defeat after rolling past visiting Saratoga, 16-3, in the playoff semifinals. Paly (14-4) fell to Los Gatos on April 21 after the

Vikings had won the first meeting.

Paly senior Matthew Seligson led the Vikings against outmanned Saratoga with six goals and two assists. Freshman Patrick McIntosh added four goals plus an assist.

In the Peninsula Athletic League Tournament, rivals Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo School will meet for the playoff title on Friday at Burlingame High at 7 p.m.

Sacred Heart Prep (18-4) rolled into the championship match following a 17-2 romp over visiting Burlingame in the semifinals on Wednesday.

Sophomore Jack Crockett led the way against Burlingame with five goals and two assists with senior Will Kremer adding two goals and two assists.

Just down the street on Wednesday, Menlo School (11-9) advanced to the playoff finale with a 12-9 victory over visiting MenloAtherton. Menlo senior Mason Brady and junior Zeke Coxe each had a hat trick.

The West Bay Athletic League playoffs move into the quarterfinals on Friday, with Menlo-Atherton hosting Sequoia at 5 p.m., and Castilleja taking on Burlingame at El Camino Park at 7 p.m.

The Bears are favored to advance to the semifinals on Saturday at Menlo School (football field) at 11 a.m., while Castilleja looks like a good opponent for host Sacred Heart Prep at noon. Q

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quick victories.

Although a victory in Friday’s CCS finals would give Menlo an eighth consecutive CCS championship and move the Knights past the streak they share with Gunn (197278) in the record books, Shine insisted he hasn’t given the accomplishment that much thought.

“It’d be nice but it’s not at the top of our list,” Shine said of the streak. “I just like the consistency we’ve had over the years getting into the finals. I think that’s more important.”

Added Chari: “It means a lot returning to the CCS championship, not only because we have a record on the line, but also I have a really close relationship with the seniors on the team and I am really determined on letting them leave on a good note.”

Shine did say a couple of the seniors on the team, including Safran, have recently brought up the streak, and the Menlo coach said he would be happy for his team to have any extra motivation in the finals.

“The legacy at Menlo is just astonishing,” Safran said. “To leave it the program the way I found it would be such a gift. I’d be so happy to win it (CCS) again.” Q

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or those who were wondering if a 14-0 regular-season record and a fourth straight SCVAL Tournament title by the Palo Alto boys golf team was a fluke, that was answered by the Vikings on Tuesday.

“Coaches were talking,” said Paly coach Doyle Knight. “They knew we were good, just didn’t know how good.”

The Vikings showed why they went undefeated this season by registering a team-best 367 strokes to capture the Central Coast Section Regional I title at Rancho Canada (West) Golf Course in Carmel Valley.

Mitty (374), St. Francis (376) and Menlo School (379) rounded out the top four team spots and will join Palo Alto in the CCS Championships next Tuesday on the same course.

“The guys played great,” said Knight.

“I was very proud and happy for them. It was good to see them play up to their potential as a team.”

Henry Hughes Palo Alto came into this tournament last year off a similar undefeated league season and league tourney crown.

But, the Vikings failed to advance as a team, shooting 384 and finishing fifth, and left some big goals on the table for this season.

“It was a great feeling when the guys started coming in and, at first, we realized we had made it into the top four for next week,” said Knight. “And, then realize we had the low score for the day. It really solidified the guys; it was good to see.”

Henry Hughes was the only Paly player to advance to the CCS finals last year. On Tuesday, he helped take the rest of the team to the next level. Hughes and fellow senior Henry Gordon led the way with even-par 71s. Ahmed Ali shot a 2-over 73 and fellow sophomores Sergi Mata and Joonsung Ha carded 76s. Senior Matt Lewis shot 82, but his score wasn’t needed.

“They still left some easy putts on the course,” said Knight, “but they handled the pressure and now we move on.”

Menlo School advanced after finishing second during the West Bay Athletic League regular sea-

PREP LACROSSE

Izzi Henig MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH The sophomore swimmer won two individual races, setting two meet records and two school records, and swam on two winning relays as the Bears successfully defended their PAL Bay Division league meet and overall championship.

Jack Crockett, Will Kremer SACRED HEART PREP Crockett, a sophomore, had 10 goals and six assists while Kremer, a senior, had 12 goals plus three assists as the Gators beat defending champ Menlo and rival M-A to win the PAL Bay Division lacrosse title.

Honorable mention Kayla Holman Sacred Heart Prep swimming

Cameron Gordon Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Gillian Meeks* Gunn track & field

Maya Miklos* Gunn track & field

Matte Snow Sacred Heart Prep swimming

Grace Tully Menlo-Atherton lacrosse

Eli Givens Palo Alto track & field

Joonsung Ha Palo Alto golf

Alec Olmstead Palo Alto baseball

Owen Plambeck Palo Alto baseball

Matthew Seligson* Palo Alto lacrosse

Max Ting Menlo golf * previous winner

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

son. The Knights, however, won the league tournament to qualify for CCS and showed that result was no fluke.

Max Ting, who won individual honors at the WBAL tourney, fired a 2-over 73 to lead the Knights again. Seth Pope followed with a 74 while Charlie Hsieh and Jeff Herr each shot 77. William Hsieh rounded out the scoring with a 78. Menlo shot 400 in last year’s regional and finished eighth out of Max Ting 11 teams.

Sacred Heart Prep, which earned an at-large berth into the regional finished 10th with 417 strokes.

Griffin Gelbach, however, shot 75 and won a playoff for the final individual berth for the CCS finals.

At the CCS Regional II on Wednesday, Gunn’s Andy Zhou fired an even-par 71 and tied for fourth, earning an individual berth into the CCS finals. Zhou will be joined by John Foley of Pinewood,

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who shot a 2-over 73 and also advanced as an individual.

The top four teams — Bellarmine (366), Harker (374), Palma (376) and Pioneer (383) — advanced to the CCS finals, as well, along with nine individuals not on those teams. Menlo-Atherton shot 396 and finished seventh out of 11 teams. Jonathan Dicks shot 76 to lead the Bears, missing out on advancing by one stroke. Bryce Sevey shot 77 for M-A with Bill Kirkpatrick, Leo Tuchman and Maxwell Heller adding matching 81s. * * * Palo Alto’s Henry Hughes had a nice tuneup for Tuesday’s CCS regional as he shared medalist honors on Monday at the California State Amateur Championship Qualifying at Sam Jose Country Club. Hughes shot an even-par 70 to match two other golfers.

Among those missing the cut were brothers Colt and Dakota McNealy of Harker, which will face Palo Alto in the CCS Championships next week.

Hughes next will compete in local qualifying for the U.S. Open Championships on Sunday at the Timbercove Golf Course in Caldwell, Idaho. Q

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kid can be.”

In the other singles matches, senior Nathan Safran (6-0, 6-1) and sophomore Clark Safran (62, 6-0) swept on the No. 2 and No. 3 courts respectively, while freshman Andrei Volgin (6-1, 4-6, 105) needed an extra set to win on the No. 4 court.

The Knights were equally as dominant on the double courts, with all three pairs winning in straight sets.

On court No. 1, Menlo’s Lane Leschly — he just recently returned from a knee injury — teamed up with fellow senior Gabriel Morgan to secure a 6-1, 7-5 victory.

“Having our best player back on the team makes a huge difference,” Shine said of Leschly. “For our guys the excitement just build when they knew he was coming back.”

On courts No. 2 and No. 3, seniors Alex Neumann and Dylan Pace (6-1, 6-1), and senior Michael Quezada and junior Mark Ball (6-1, 6-2) both cruised to

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Gunn High junior Michael Lincoln is the No. 4 seed in the 500 free and a key relay member for the Titans.

100 (53.06) freestyles.

Holman won the 200 IM (2:08.12) and 100 fly (58.40) with Snow taking the 50 free (24.47) and 100 free (53.06). Holman swam on the first-place 200 medley relay team (1:52.42) and 400 free relay squad that set a meet record of 3:34.88. Snow swam on the record-setting relay squad in addition to anchoring the 200 free relay to victory in 1:40.30.

Junior Kathryn Bower added points for SHP with a 5:06.88 win in the 500 free while Castilleja

junior Natalie Tuck took the 100 breast title in 1:04.44.

Like the girl, the SHP boys used their depth to successfully defend.

The Gators had only two winning events, Jackson Enright taking the 500 free in 4:46.08 with the Gators winning the 400 free relay in a season best of 3:18.53 with Enright adding a leg.

In other races, Menlo’s Little won the 100 free (49.03) and 50 free (22.06) with Priory sophomore Duncan Croll taking the 200 free in 1:54.61. Q

Paly’s Grace Zhao will defend two titles on Saturday.

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Menlo-Atherton sophomore Izzi Henig (left) set two meet and school records at the PAL finals.

ond to the Scots, 568.5 to 406.

Henig first anchored the 200 medley relay team of Haley Arrington, Faith Dunn and Maddie Worden to victory in 1:48.53, swimming a sizzling 22.54 for her 50 free. She came back to win the 200 free in 1:49.57, breaking a meet record set in 2004 and M-A’s record of 1:52.50 by Maddie Pont in 2014.

Henig added a second individual win in the 100 fly (56.28) and then led off the 400 free relay team with a meet record of 49.38 for her 100 free, breaking the previous mark of 51.34 by M-A’s Brooke Stenstrom in 2013.

Henig’s time also lowered Stenstrom’s school mark of 51.32.

M-A won the final relay in 3:32.40 with the team of Sophie Murff, Nicole Dundas and Kate Denend wrapping things up.

Murff added a victory in the 50 free (23.87) with Denend second in 24.91. Denend was also second in the 100 free (54.70) and swam a leg on the winning 200 free relay (1:40.20) with Worden, Arrington and Murff.

Dundas contributed a third in the 200 IM (2:12.58) with Arrington, a freshman, adding a third in the 100 back (59.80).

“The girls were terrific at PALs,” said M-A coach Jane Worden. “Izzi definitely adds a new dimension to our team and not just with her speed; she is a great teammate and the girls adore her. With her and our other CCS qualifiers (Halyey Arrington, Nicole Dundas, Faith Dunn, Kate Denend, Sophie Murff, Claire Haldeman, Sofia Bergman, Maddie Worden and Mary Lane and divers Mia Paulsen and Anna Leake), we should do well at CCS. We’re very excited.”

In the boys’ meet, everything ran pretty close to expected as Carlmont used its considerable depth to unseat Menlo-Atherton as league champ.

The Bears were led by senior Vincent Busque, who won the 200 free (1:42.92) and 500 free (4:40.81). He also led off the second-place 200 free relay (1:30.38) in 22.24 and led off the thirdplace 400 free relay (3:21.29) with a 47.85 leg, faster than the winning time (48.26) in the open 100 free.

At Sacred Heart Prep, the SHP boys and girls won their seventh straight league meet titles at the West Bay Athletic League Championships. The boys piled up 513 points to hold off Menlo School (374) once again while the SHP girls (474) made Castilleja (347) runner-up for a second straight year.

“We haven’t lost since joining the WBAL,” said SHP coach Kevin Morris. “There are some very good swimmers on the other schools, but our depth makes us tough to beat for the rest of the league.”

SHP senior Kayla Holman and sophomore Matte Snow were both double-winners for the Gators and swam on two winning relays to lead the way. Snow defended her league titles in the 50 (24.47) and

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Title aspirations could be determined Friday, which begins (continued from page 87) with the boys’ diving competition at 9 a.m. Paly senior Reed Merenough when you look at their ritt is primed to move up from depth, talent and excellent coach- last year’s second-place finish ing,” Hernandez said. “But, they and earn his first section crown, are also nearly impossible to giving the Vikings an early lead scout accurately, in part because before swimming begins. Prelims of their willingness to sacrifice will get under way at 2:30 p.m., performance at dual meets and determining the qualifiers for the big championship their conference meet points. in pursuit of one goal Heading into the — another CCS chamweekend, the Palo Alto pionship. What makes boys have the No. 1 them especially tough to qualifiers in the 200 beat, though, is the pride free (Alex Liang’s with which they com1:38.61) and diving pete, (and) the degree (Merritt). Bellarmine to which each swimhas one (200 free relay) mer honors the legacy while Gunn has none. of those teams that have The Titans, however, won before them and Joao Ama have 10 top-nine times preserved the streak. while Paly has seven and BellarThose are tough obstacles.

“What we have going for us, mine six. A key event for Gunn though, is that we don’t have to could be the 100 breast, where beat every team they’ve ever had. it has four swimmers among the We just have to focus on beating top 14 while Paly and Bellarmine this year’s team. We also have the have one each.

Elsewhere, Menlo School junior most unified, devoted crew we’ve ever had. And, this team has spent Scott Little is the No. 1 qualifier the past two years looking for- in the 100 back at 48.95.

For the girls, Palo Alto has the ward to this weekend.”

The window of opportunity is top qualifiers in the 200 medley there for Gunn and Hernandez relay, 200 free relay, 100 breast (Grace Zhao’s 1:01.96) and divknows it.

“If we swim to the best of our ing, where senior Mimi Lin is faabilities, and make our own luck, vored to defend her section title.

Zhao will face her stiffest comwe have a real shot to be not necpetition in the 50 free, essarily the best team in where Menlo-Atherton the history of the secsophomore Izzy Henig tion, but arguably the ranks No. 1 at 23.62 most important — the with Zhao second at one who took down the 23.63. Henig also tops greatest dynasty in any the 100 free at 49.38. sport in CCS,” said HerHenig is coming off nandez. “It’s an exciting her debut at the Penintime.” sula Athletic League If the Gunn boys Championships last come up short, Palo Saturday, where she Alto has an outside shot Vincent Busque set two meet and two of being the first school to sweep the boys’ and girls’ titles school records and swam on two since Leland pulled it off in 1984. winning relays while helping the The Paly girls won titles in 1995 Bears defend their team title. Last and 2005 while the boys are still year, Henig was swimming at Castilleja. looking for their first.

At Woodside High on an on“If our girls do what they are capable of doing, they win,” said and-off rainy day, the MenloDye. “The competition is Gunn, Atherton girls followed up their Cupertino, Mitty, St. Francis, undefeated dual-meet season by M-A and Mountain View. The claiming the team title with 559 girls are so evenly spread out with points to San Mateo’s 302. The talent, among like eight schools, M-A boys followed up their secthat it actually benefits us. For the ond place to Carlmont during the dual-meet season by taking secboys, kind of the same thing.”

Swimming

Paly’s Alex Liang is the No. 1 seed in the 200 freestyle.

CCS GIRLS’ SWIM RECORDS Event 200 medley relay 200 free 200 IM 50 free Diving 100 fly 100 free

Time 1:43.25 1:43.26 1:57.75 22.24 515.60 51.92p 48.61

500 free 200 free relay 100 back 100 breast 400 free relay

4:43.96p 1:34.16 51.54 1:01.50

Name Jasmine Tosky Ally Howe Maddy Schaefer Alexa Cacao Jasmine Tosky Maddy Schaefer Jasmine Tosky Jasmine Tosky St. Francis Ally Howe Sarah Liang 3:23.06

Team Year Sacred Heart Prep 2014 Palo Alto 2012 SH Prep 2014 St. Francis 2010 Milpitas 2013 Palo Alto 2011 St. Francis 2010 Palo Alto 2012 Palo Alto 2009 2010 SH Prep 2014 Palo Alto 2009 Gunn 2012 (p = time set in prelims)

CCS BOYS’ SWIM RECORDS Event 200 medley relay 200 free 200 IM 50 free Diving 100 fly 100 free 500 free 200 free relay 100 back 100 breast 400 free relay

Time 1:31.28 1:35.86 1:44.90 19.89 662.15 47.09 43.71 4:18.26 1:23.57 47.91 53.81 3:00.68

Name Sam Shimomura Curtis Ogren Shayne Fleming Zhipeng Zeng Andrew Liang Shayne Fleming Michael Nunan Tom Kremer Curtis Ogren

Team Palo Alto Bellarmine St. Francis V. Christian King’s Academy Palo Alto V. Christian Valley Christian Bellarmine SH Prep St. Francis Saratoga

Year 2014 2012 2014 2009 2011 2014 2009 2012 2012 2012 2014 2009

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