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Local news, information and analysis

Plan to hike development fees meets with opposition Commissioners and housing advocates skeptical that new proposal will create affordable housing

by Gennady Sheyner

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proposal in Palo Alto to sharply raise the fees that developers would have to pay to support the creation of affordable housing faced significant scrutiny and criticism Wednesday, with several planning commissioners and housing advocates making the case that the change may actu-

ally hinder the city’s progress on the increasingly urgent issue.

The ordinance would make the city’s impact fees much higher than those of any other municipality in the region. Developers of office space would be charged triple the current fee, from $20.37 per square foot to $60.

For the first time, developers of rental housing would have to pay an affordable-housing impact fee, a notion that met with stiff opposition from the Planning and Transportation Commission. No one was more passionate than Commissioner Kate Downing, who called the proposal “outrageous.”

The proposed fee ordinance came as a recommendation from the City’s Council Finance Committee, but given the large number of questions and concerns about the pro-

posal, the commission unanimously agreed Wednesday not to endorse the ordinance just yet. Instead, the commission debated the merits and drawbacks of changing the fees, requested more analysis and agreed to continue its discussion on Aug. 31.

In addition to the hike for the fee charged to developers of office projects, the rate for hotel developers would go up from $20.37 to $30 per square foot, while for retail and restaurant developers it would remain at its current level of $20.37.

The ordinance would also change how the city collects fees from developers of housing projects. Currently, the impact fee for a new housing development is between to 7.5 percent to 10 percent of the sales price of the new homes (the city collects the fee after the sale). The new proposal would change it to $50 per square foot, which Planning Director Hillary Gitelman said (continued on page 11)

ARTS

City hopes to preserve Palo Alto Square theater Land-use zoning, popular sentiments invoked in effort to save CineArts

by Gennady Sheyner

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On the move Caltrain commuters walk up stairs at the California Avenue station after exiting a northbound train on July 27.

EDUCATION

School board seeks data on long-term impact of tax shortfall District plans to reopen contract negotiations with labor unions

by Elena Kadvany

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ll five Palo Alto school board members agreed during a special meeting Wednesday afternoon that finding the most fiscally and educationally sound path forward from a sudden $3.7 million budget shortfall, due to lower-thananticipated property-tax revenue, must include careful consideration of the ongoing impact of the revenue drop beyond just this year.

Multiyear budget projections were absent, however, at Wednesday’s study sesssion, though several board members said they had made such calculations on their own based on the district’s 2016-17 budget, which was adopted in late June.

Chief Budget Officer Cathy Mak said that a multiyear fore-

cast would not be provided until the board’s next discussion of the budget in August.

“I’m looking forward to getting closer to what we think the projections are,” said board member Camille Townsend. “What are the real numbers? What is the structural, ongoing debt? We really do have to see what the nature of the ongoing problem is.”

Echoed board member Melissa Baten Caswell, “We need to figure out if this is a structural problem or a one-time problem.”

Wednesday’s meeting was billed by district leadership as a time to more fully understand how the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office’s property-tax projection

came in this month far lower than the district had budgeted for and an opportunity for board members to suggest how to address the resulting budget deficit. The actual revenue shortfall was $5.2 million, but with the elimination of a planned $1.5 million one-time bonus to employees, the result is the $3.7 budget gap.

Wednesday’s discussion, however, centered more around process than ideas for where budget cuts can be made.

Given that a driving factor for the decrease in property-tax revenue was $1.1 billion in exempt property from ongoing construction of the Stanford University Medical (continued on page 10)

ith the closure of CineArts looming over Palo Alto Square, more than 1,600 residents have joined a petition drive that they hope will preserve an amenity they view as a community treasure.

At the same time, city officials are making a case that replacing the theater with a different type of business would constitute a zoning violation, unless the City Council formally approves the change.

The two efforts — one relying on grassroots democracy and the other rooted in the zoning code — have the same aim: ensuring that the sprawling office complex at 3000 El Camino Real retains its beloved two-screen theater. CineArts at Palo Alto Square is one of only three movie theaters left in Palo Alto (one of those three, Stanford Theatre, only shows classic films).

The petition, launched by a group that includes City Councilwoman Karen Holman, council candidate Lydia Kou, former planning commissioner Arthur Keller and longtime theater proponent Winter Dellenbach, declares the signatories’ support for continued operations of CineArts, which they say “provides a critical part of our cultural and entertainment life in Palo Alto.”

“As only one of two first-run theaters in town, the theater provides access to valuable opportunities not otherwise possible in our community, including several prestigious film festivals, such as the United Nations Association Film Festival and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and the popular New York Metropolitan Opera (The MET) simulcasts.

“We urge Hudson Pacific

Properties, the management of Palo Alto Square, to encourage and retain CineArts as its tenant.

We urge the City of Palo Alto to work with Hudson Properties and CineArts management in order to continue the tenancy and operation of CineArts Theater at Palo Alto Square without interruption.”

The decision to close the theater in early August was made by Cinemark, the theater’s Texas-based parent company, according to both Hudson Pacific (which manages the property) and the theater chain. James Meredith, spokesman for Cinemark, told the Weekly last week that the lease on the theater was set to expire in late August and making the needed upgrades to the theater was cost prohibitive.

Hudson confirmed the decision was made by Cinemark.

Proposals to close down the theater have popped up twice in the past two decades. In 1997, Palo Alto council members and city staff held frantic, eleventh-hour negotiations with the cinema’s former landlord, Equity Properties, to avert the planned closure of what was then a Landmark Theatre.

At the time, the city’s then-economic resources director Carol Jansen attributed Equity’s ultimate decision not to convert the building to a more lucrative use to the huge outpouring of community support for the theater.

Four years later, when the cinema’s fate was once again in jeopardy, the city took a different tack.

Though city officials, including former Mayor Gary Fazzino and Economic Resources Manager Susan (continued on page 8)

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What are the real numbers? — Camille Townsend, Palo Alto school board member, on how the district will adjust its budget following an unexpected tax shortfall. See story on page 5.

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CLASS OF ‘14 ‌ When Kate Downing joined the Planning and Transportation Commission in November 2014, the city’s advisory board was facing a shift that in many ways mirrored the broader political debate over growth. Residents had just handed the council majority to the slow-growth “residentialistâ€? camp, with incumbent Karen Holman (a long-time critic of new developments) winning the most votes. But days after the election, the lame-duck council took a step in the opposite direction, choosing not to reappoint commission veteran Arthur Keller to a fresh term and passing over longtime utilities commissioner Asher Waldfogel.

Instead, the council appointed Adrian Fine, a Nextdoor employee with a master’s degree in urban planning, and Downing, a passionate and eloquent proponent of growth, who helped launch the citizens group Palo Alto Forward. Now, the two appointments from 2014 appear to be heading in different directions. Fine was recently selected to serve as the chair of the commission and is now considering a run for City Council, where he may find himself facing off against Keller. Downing, meanwhile, is preparing to conclude her brief but tumultuous tenure.

On Wednesday night, she informed her colleagues that she is resigning and that the July 27 meeting is her last.

She said her family has made a decision to leave Palo Alto and move to Santa Cruz. They wanted, she said, to go to a community where children go to school with people whose parents aren’t millionaires and which is still growing and evolving. “We wanted a future where we weren’t staying up at night wondering how we’ll pay the bills,� Downing said. Sadly, she said, Palo Alto is not that community. Downing received a warm send-off from her colleagues, who thanked her for her contributions. Commissioner Greg Tanaka (who is also reportedly considering a council run in November) told her she will be missed and Commissioner Michael Alcheck called her announced departure “a bummer.� “You take this role very personally, and I think that’s a really great thing

because you approached the decision-making process as if these decisions were reflections of your own personal values,�

Alcheck told Downing.

RACK EM UP ... Ever notice the lack of bike parking racks near the places you dine, shop or work? Now you can use the PaloAlto311 app to request that the city add more parking racks in front of your favorite lunch spot or near where you work out. Download the app on your smartphone and hit “New Request,� then “Bicycles,� and finally “New bicycle rack or bicycle parking in the public ROW.� A rack can be installed in the requested spot just as long as the area is within the public right-of-way and on city property, according to the city.

An app request led to the rack that was recently installed in front of Peet’s Coffee & Tea on Homer Avenue. The PaloAlto311 app can also be used to report problems on city streets, including potholes, graffiti and signal outages.

TAKE TWO ... Those who miss “Double Take,� the whimsical willow sculpture by artist Patrick Dougherty, which stood in front of the Palo Alto Art Center since 2011 and was taken down in June, will once again have another outdoor willow sculpture to marvel at and explore. The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation has raised more than $15,000 through a crowdfunding campaign to bring Dougherty back to the art center to create another environmentally friendly sculpture. Community members donated $15,482 within 19 days (the campaign began on June 1).

Dougherty will return to the art center in late October to create the new artwork. “This fundraising success story demonstrates the power of community collaborations,� Palo Alto Art Center Director Karen Kienzle said in an announcement. Details about the new artwork will be available in the coming weeks.

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Upfront CRIME

Candidate pool grows in Palo Alto council race Danielle Martell declares candidacy; others pull papers while weighing next steps

by Gennady Sheyner

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he pool of candidates for Palo Alto’s City Council race may soon widen, with seven residents recently pulling candidacy papers.

Both City Councilwoman Liz Kniss, the sole incumbent in the race, and Lydia Kou, a proponent of slow-growth who narrowly failed to secure a council position in 2014, have announced Danielle their intenMartell tions to seek one of four available seats this November.

Danielle Martell, who last ran for council in 2005, is making another run. On Tuesday, she became the first person to file papers, making her entrance into the race official.

A familiar name to longtime political observers, Martell has been a vehement critic of the Palo Alto Police Department and has frequently clashed with

staff of other city departments.

Over the last two years, she has composed numerous public letters raising concerns about safety at the Rinconada Pool (city officials have rejected her arguments that the pool isn’t safe) and criticizing library department staff (she alleged that the city banned her from the downtown library after she complained about being assaulted by an acquaintance of a library intern).

Other Palo Alto residents are considering entering the race.

Two sitting planning commissioners have pulled papers: commission Chair Adrian Fine, a College Terrace resident who works at Nextdoor.com and who joined the commission just after the November 2014 election, and commission veteran Greg Tanaka, a tech entrepreneur who joined the commission in 2010 and who served as its chair last year.

Tanaka also lives in College Terrace and served as the president of the neighborhood association before joining the

Online This Week Caltrain gets larger cars On Tuesday, Caltrain started replacing some of its trains with larger trains capable of accommodating more passengers, in an effort to avoid overcrowding. (Posted July 26, 7:46 a.m.)

Uber driver arrested for alleged sexual assault East Palo Alto police have arrested an Uber driver for allegedly sexually assaulting his passenger after an incident that began in Palo Alto, police Commander Jeff Liu said in a statement.

(Posted July 23, 9:17 p.m.)

Police investigate pedestrian fatality Richard Warrick, 89, of Palo Alto, was struck and killed by a vehicle on Embarcadero Road Saturday morning, July 23, leading to an investigation by police, according to a department press release. (Posted July 23, 7:12 p.m.)

Parents ask for help to find son The parents of a Palo Alto man who vanished on July 11 are seeking the public’s help to find their son, 30-year-old Andrew Pearl. Andrew walked out of a group home for persons disabled by mental illness at around 5 p.m. and has not been heard from since. (Posted July 22, 8:01 p.m.)

planning commission, where he is now the longest-serving member.

John Fredrich, a retired Gunn High School civics teacher with five council races on his resume, now appears to be considering a sixth campaign. Fredrich ran for the council in 1975, 1977, 1981, 2003 and 2014. Two years ago, he finished tenth in a 12-candidate field. A Barron Park resident who said he identifies with the slow-growth “residentialists,” Fredrich has been particularly critical of recent commercial developments.

Local resident Michelle Kraus, head of a global-technology-industry advisory firm, has also pulled papers for a council candidacy, according to the City Clerk’s office.

The City Council will see four of its nine seats up for grabs this year, with Mayor Pat Burt and Councilman Greg Schmid both terming out, Councilman Marc Berman leaving to seek a seat in the state Assembly and Kniss seeking a fresh council term. Q

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

VIDEO: Behind the Headlines — Race, policing and reconciliation On this week’s half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” guests Pastor Paul Bains of the Saint Samuel Church of God in Christ and Commander Jeff Liu of the East Palo Alto Police Department join Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong and reporter Sue Dremann to talk about the local reaction to the recent shootings in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and Dallas, Texas; the role of community policing; fear and support of law enforcement within minority communities; and the steps needed to bridge underlying tension.

(Posted July 22, 7:03 p.m.)

New tenants sought for Cubberley With its long-term future still in flux, Cubberley Community Center is preparing to welcome new tenants onto its sprawling campus to fill the space left behind by the departure of its largest tenant, Foothill College. (Posted July 22, 9:52 a.m.)

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Spate of burglaries hits south Palo Alto Alleged thief in one incident captured on camera

by Sue Dremann he face of a suspected burglar was captured on video after a home surveillance system recorded a brazen theft from a south Palo Alto residence on July 22.

The burglary, which took place in Midtown, was just the latest in a string of residential break ins to strike south Palo Alto neighborhoods, according to the Palo Alto Police Department’s crime logs.

Eight burglaries took place between July 18 and July 22 — about two per day. A ninth burglary occurred on July 14, according to the police logs.

Neighborhoods that were hit included Fairmeadow, Greenmeadow, Midtown, Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto Orchards, Palo Verde and St. Claire Gardens.

The video from a home surveillance system in one of the Midtown incidents provides an anatomy of a burglary from start to finish — and also captured the face of one of the alleged burglars.

In the video, a charcoal gray four-door sedan pulled up to the curb and a woman, who appears to be in her 20s and is either white or Hispanic with long, curly brown hair, got out of the front passenger door. She walked up the driveway and glanced up at the camera, raising her left This woman is suspected hand to obscure her face. She by Midtown neighborhood then disappeared from the cam- residents of burglarizing a home era’s view. The video shows her after she was caught on video returning to the car after about by a home-surveillance system. a minute.

The car then made a U-turn saw the dark gray sedan, noting and stopped in front of a home that it had no license plate and across the street and one house appeared to have a dealer’s paper down. The woman again exited plates.

The resident said that two of the car and walked up the driveway, disappearing from view her neighbors also had similar along the front right side of the encounters with the burglars, Eichler home. After about two with the woman ringing the doorminutes, she returned to the ve- bell or knocking persistently.

Palo Alto police warn residents hicle for less than a minute and that in most home burglaries the walked back to the house.

After 11 minutes, the car thieves enter through an unbacked up a few feet toward the locked door or window. But the driveway and the woman can Midtown resident observed that be seen walking away from the the burglars who targeted her home, carrying a load. She got in home were bolder.

“She breaks down doors,” the the sedan, and it drove away.

The resident said that the thieves resident said.

The resident has supplied the took about $7,000 of belongings, including electronic equipment. police department with a copy But the burglary wasn’t the first of the video, but she also wants encounter the resident had had to set up a Neighborhood Watch with the woman, who had visited program, she said.

The video can be viewed at tiher home two weeks prior.

“She kept ringing and ringing nyurl.com/NestVideo072216.

Anyone with information the bell, and then she said, ‘Is soand-so there?’” the resident said, about these incidents is asked to noting that she recognized the call the Palo Alto Police Departwoman and the car when she saw ment’s 24-hour dispatch center at the video. The woman quickly 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips left when the resident answered can be emailed to paloalto@tipthrough the door. The resident now.org or sent by text message looked through a window and or voice mail to 650-383-8984. Q

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News Digest

Palo Alto Square

Hotel California to become affordable housing

Arpan, lobbied Equity to preserve Landmark just as officials had in the past, this time they had another card to play: zoning. Unlike in 1997, city staff took the position that a theater was required to be part of Palo Alto Square. When Equity decided not to renew Landmark’s lease, Arpan told the Weekly in August 2001: “We do know that it has to be a theater that goes there because of zoning.”

Today, city staff is taking a similar position. When asked whether a theater is required rather than simply permitted to be there, Planning Director Hillary Gitelman said staff believes that it is and that the property will need to be rezoned to allow the use of the theater space for any other purpose.

When one looks at the Square’s founding documents, however, this position, while consistent with the city’s 2001 determination, becomes a matter of debate.

Palo Alto Square was approved in 1969 under the “planned community” (PC) zoning process, and its land use is governed by a specific ordinance for the site, which the council amended in 2001.

Unlike in more recent PC applications, which require developers to provide public benefits in exchange for zoning exemptions, the 1969 ordinance has no such requirement. Back then, projects that sought the PC designation were generally viewed by the council as benefits in themselves.

Thus, in 1969 the theater was not

Hotel California will be converted next month into an apartment complex for low-income residents — a project that will bring 20 units of affordable housing into the heart of Palo Alto’s “second downtown.”

The building at the corner of Ash Street and California Avenue will be made available for individuals with incomes between $10,000 and $40,000 a year, said Candice Gonzalez, CEO of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, the local nonprofit that will be managing the single-room-occupancy units. Rents will range from $400 to $800 a month, depending on income level, Gonzalez said.

The project was made possible by the building’s recent change in tenancy. The new tenant, which Gonzalez described as “a local, faith-based Christian organization,” recently signed a lease for the building and approached the Housing Corporation to ask about ways to convert the hotel to allow longer-term residential use.

Gonzalez declined to say who the tenant is, saying that the organization has requested to remain anonymous while the project is getting established. The Weekly wasn’t able to immediately confirm the identity of the tenant.

“They really wanted to give back to the most vulnerable in the community, and we agreed to help them convert and to be the property manager,” she said.

Gonzalez said the nonprofit will start accepting applications for rooms at Hotel California on Aug. 1. Q —Gennady Sheyner

City plans to roll out adaptive traffic technologies Seeking to create a more efficient ride for local drivers and bicyclists, Palo Alto plans to reprogram traffic lights along several major streets.

The new effort will roll out on segments of Embarcadero Road, Bryant Street, University Avenue and San Antonio Road.

The most immediate change, according to the city, will take place along Embarcadero, between Bryant and Geng Road. The traffic signals along that segment will be reprogrammed from a “continuous loop” to a time-of-day system, with different timing loops operating at different hours, based on expected traffic flow.

A different type of adjustment will be made along San Antonio between East Charleston and Nita Avenue, as well as at the intersection of East Charleston and Fabian Way. Here, the city plans to install SynchroGreen software, which allows traffic signals to adapt automatically in real time based on traffic flow. The software has been used on Sand Hill Road since 2014, when the busy artery became the city’s first corridor with adaptive signal timing.

While the San Antonio traffic changes cater to all modes of transportation, the signal modifications that the city plans to make along Bryant and University would favor bicyclists. On both streets, the city plans to roll out a “green wave” system, which will allow bicyclists to go through a series of green lights without stopping. According to the city, the signals will be timed to accommodate a traveling speed of 12 mph.

In addition, city officials plan to address later this summer the chronically frustrating intersection of El Camino Real and Embarcadero, which requires commuters traveling east to cross three traffic signals in close succession. Q —Gennady Sheyner

º Hundreds of workers to move to California Ave. Credit card company Visa Inc. plans to open a new office in Palo Alto’s California Avenue Business District in November, which will accommodate about 300 employees, the corporation announced on Monday.

The new $6.4 million campus, at 385 Sherman Ave., will combine three stories of offices with research-and-development space, City of Palo Alto records show. Employees will focus on technology research, business intelligence, data security and merchant solutions, according to the corporation’s statement.

“We continue to expand our research and development capabilities globally and are investing in facilities that enable our teams to collaborate in the creation of digital commerce solutions,” Rajat Taneja, executive vice president of technology, said in the statement. “Our new Palo Alto office allows us to draw on the diversity of the Bay Area talent pool and build an even stronger connection with the Silicon Valley community of data scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.”

The Palo Alto campus, which includes 51,000 square feet of office space in a building now under construction at the corner of Sherman and Birch Street, will enlarge Visa’s footprint in the San Francisco Bay Area, adding to the company’s Foster City and San Francisco locations. Visa has had a presence in Silicon Valley since the early 1970s. The company now has more than 3,500 employees in the Bay Area, according to the statement. Q —Sue Dremann Page 8 • July 29, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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a condition or a requirement for the roughly 300,000 square feet of office space at Palo Alto Square.

Instead, the ordinance merely lists “theatres” as one of uses permitted at the site, along with a 300-room hotel and service establishments such as a barber shop, beauty salon, smoke shop-newsstand and gift shop. Nothing in the ordinance suggests that these uses are required, which helps explain why none except the theater ever materialized.

Nor is there any indication that Palo Alto officials considered the theater as either a key benefit or an important condition to the approval of the Palo Alto Square development. Minutes from 1969 indicate that neither the Planning Commission nor the council discussed the theater at any length during public hearings on Stanford University’s proposal to rezone the site to a planned community. When Stanford first proposed the zone change in 1965, to enable the financial center, the theater wasn’t even mentioned.

Instead, the focus was on promoting commercial development and expanding the city’s tax base.

Alf Brandin, Stanford’s vice president for business affairs, wrote in 1965 that, when developed, the land “should yield substantially greater property tax dollars to all taxing agencies involved, including both the Palo Alto Unified School District and the City of Palo Alto, as well as unusually high sales-tax revenues.”

“Since the site is unique for this commercial purpose due to size and location, we do not believe the same financial benefits will accrue to the

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council is on break until Aug. 14.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 639 Arastradero Road, a request by Michael Ma on behalf of Catherine Shen to demolish two existing one-story buildings and to build three new single-family homes. The board will also consider an appeal of the Director of Planning and Community Environment’s approval of a 31,407-square-foot, four-story, mixed-use building at 429 University Ave. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The City Council did not meet this week.

Board of Education (July 27)

Budget: The board held a special study session to discuss the impact of an unanticipated property tax shortfall on the school district’s budget. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (July 27)

Second-dwelling units: The commission held a study session to consider possible ways to encourage more second-dwelling units. Action: None Impact fees: The commission considered a proposal to increase impact fees for new developments and voted to continue the discussion to Aug. 31. Yes: Unanimous

Historic Resources Board (July 28)

Professorville: The board recommended approval of design guidelines for proposed developments in the Professorville Historic District, with some modifications. These include addition of wording to better define historic categories and to discourage demolition and raising of buildings in the district.

Yes: Bernstein, Bunnenberg, Di Cicco, Kohler, Wimmer Absent: Bower, Makinen

same agencies if another site is chosen for the facility,” Brandin said.

In approving the project, city officials generally agreed the new development “would tend more to uplift than depress nearby areas,” as the city’s assistant zoning administrator argued at the time.

Merchants in the nearby California Avenue also supported the creation of what Palo Alto Square architect Albert Hoover described as a “financial shopping center.” Barry Roth, then-president of the California Avenue Area Development Association, told the planning commission in June 1969 that members of his group felt that California Avenue “will probably eventually become a central business area” and that Palo Alto Square “would be a natural complement to the area,” according to meeting minutes.

Documents from 1969 indicate that it was Stanford itself, rather than the city, that requested having a theater as part of the complex. Initially, the plan called for two high-rise buildings with a total of 100,000 square feet of space and several one- and two-story buildings with another 100,000 square feet.

In September 1969, however, Hoover proposed a revision. Instead of having 100,000 square feet of office space in the one- and two-story buildings, he suggested 85,000 square feet. This would include 55,000 square feet of “financial space” on the first floor, another 20,000 on the second floor and a 10,000-square-foot theater.

The theater building was subsequently included in one of the diagrams that comprise the Palo Alto Square’s development plan.

Because that plan was implicitly approved when the council adopted the 1969 ordinance, staff now believes that a zone change is required.

“We view the development plan — showing the theater — as the project that was approved under this PC zone,” Gitelman told the Weekly. “The PC ordinance does not identify the theater as a ‘public benefit’ or requirement, but the ordinance would need to be changed (i.e., a rezoning) if the owner wanted to convert that space to other use.”

Holman said that while zoning appears to protect the theater, she and others in the community felt it would be important to circulate the petition to demonstrate to Hudson, Cinemark and city staff the community’s desire to keep CineArts in place. Given that the council is in the midst of its summer recess, the public has no real venue for gathering and voicing its concerns. The fact that more than 1,000 people signed the petition in the first 100 hours suggests that keeping CineArts “really matters to the community.”

“It’s long known in the community that there is a huge outcry when a cultural resource goes away,” Holman said. “This seems to be a way in which we can easily share the information about the theater, make a point that it’s critical to the community and ask whoever is making the decision to please reconsider. The issue isn’t going to go away.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Around the Block

STOLEN PROPERTY ARRESTS ...

Palo Alto police have been busy. They arrested three people for possessing stolen property on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dierdre Sanders, 56, of Oakland was arrested on the 700 block of El Camino Real. She had two outstanding warrants.

Police found two daggers, a stolen handicapped placard, a stolen cellphone and possible stolen jewelry and drug paraphernalia, Officer Sean Downey said. She faces four misdemeanors and two felonies. On July 27, police responded to a call of suspicious persons on Ashton Avenue walking up and down private driveways and breaking into vehicles.

Alexander Garstke, 24, of Sunnyvale, was arrested for possession of stolen property, a parole violation, possession of drug paraphernalia and a controlled substance and prowling — two felonies and three misdemeanors. Minett Bratton, 19, of Palo Alto, was arrested on a nobail warrant for possession of stolen property.

KEEP AN EYE OUT ... There have been a number of suspicious incidents in Barron Park around the Bol Park area, Palo Alto police Officer Sean Downey said. Police sought a man who was reportedly casing a residence on the 700 block of Matadero Avenue on July 25, but they could not locate him. He is described as a black male in his 20s, 5-feet-10-inches tall and 185 pounds, with a short black Afro. He wore a light-colored T-shirt, gray sagging jeans and red-colored shoes. He has a medium build and was unkempt.

One suspicious case turned out to be benign if not embarrassing: A construction worker on July 26 had the wrong address and walked into a Laguna Avenue home where the resident had left the door open.

Police were called after the resident thought the man was a burglar, but after about an hour the situation was straightened out, police said. Q

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BURGLARIES, THEFTS ON THE RISE ... As reported in today’s Weekly, burglars have been striking south Palo Alto neighborhoods, but that’s not all going on in the thieving department. Break ins have occurred in Crescent Park and Barron Park as well, according to police logs. Another cyclical trend also appears to be returning: bike thefts. At least six have occurred in six days, with four thefts on July 25. The Palo Alto Police Department, as always, warns residents to “lock it or lose It” and to report any suspicious activity.

Marni Barnes, left, and Elisabeth Doxsee, right, walk up the driveway connecting four one-story cottages on July 26. Both women are concerned about a new neighbor’s plan to add on a second story and new fence, which they say will alter the “community feel” of the property.

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or more than 30 years, Crescent Park resident Marni Barnes has lived in a 1940s bungalow that is part of a cluster of four cottages at 844-850 Boyce Ave. The little grouping of homes is one of approximately 15 dotting Palo Alto’s neighborhoods, where more affordable homes on small lots have helped the city maintain some housing diversity.

But Barnes worries that her way of life is about to undergo a dramatic change. A neighbor, who purchased a cottage two years ago, wants to expand it into with a two-story, 2,043-squarefoot house, which would tower over the remaining cottages.

Barnes and her neighbors are fighting the plans. A landscape architect by trade, Barnes has written to city planners, reasoning that the proposed house violates the city’s “individual review” guidelines on several fronts. The home is “an imposing rectangular building” that is inconsistent with the single-story cottages, and it proposes a six-foothigh fence that would intrude into the cottages’ shared space, she said.

On a recent day, Barnes looked to the west, where a mansion on an adjacent street looms over the neighborhood.

“I get upset when I see a Taco Bell on steroids anywhere, but in this setting, it breaks up the community,” she said, referring to the planned new home. “And this is the part that breaks my heart: The Architectural

Review Board was studying cottage clusters ... but the city never did anything with that research.”

“I understand there are personal property rights and the cost of real estate, but there needs to be a countervailing force that talks about quality of life and (its) value,” she said.

Cottage clusters are found throughout many parts of north Palo Alto, mainly throughout Crescent Park, Professorville and Old Palo Alto. Built between 1930 to 1951, the homes are arranged in groups of four to 13. Typically two structures front the street with a driveway in between. Other cottages are arranged behind around a shared courtyard, which gives a sense of openness for owners living at the rear. The arrangement creates the feeling of a small enclave that provides security, enabling people to keep an eye out for each other. It also provides a quiet space off the main street, Barnes said.

They are also generally less expensive than larger homes. The average cottage has two bedrooms and is about 930 square feet, with lot sizes ranging from about 2,500 to 5,000 square feet, according to a city survey and real estate websites. They are typically valued at $2.5 million; larger homes in the neighborhood can cost between $3.3 million and $5.8 million, according to real-estate websites Zillow and Trulia.

The existing cottages were built mainly as income properties and

rented to professors and students, according to Palo Alto Historical Association Historian Steve Staiger. Barnes said that one of the Boyce cottages was constructed to make a home for a disabled veteran after World War II. He was the husband of the property owners’ daughter; the other cottages generated income for the owners, she said.

But they aren’t worthless relics of a time past. City staff considered them of enough value to suggest that creating a cottage-cluster zoning designation when it looked to update its policies for so-called Village Residential districts in 2005, with the idea that more cottage clusters might be built.

“Cottage cluster” was identified as one of three distinct Village Residential development types — the others being “rowhouse” and “garden court.”

Although the study of cottages was done in the context of multi-family zones, city staff also presented preliminary development standards for cottage clusters in single-family zones (R-1) to the Planning and Transportation Commission and the Architectural Review Board.

A key goal of proposing the standards was to establish “a mechanism to encourage owners to retain and improve existing cottage clusters,” a December 2004 staff report to the Architectural Review Board noted.

“The existing Palo Alto cottage

clusters are functional, desirable and accepted within the neighborhood community,” a May 19, 2005, Architectural Review Board staff report noted.

The standards included some of the issues that Barnes now raises: limitations on house size, lot size, frontage, open space and encroachments into setbacks and parking.

A March 17, 2005, Architectural Review Board staff report, for example, suggested a 24-foot height limit and a 1,200 to 1,500-squarefoot maximum house size for cottages in the R-1 zone.

In the end, however, no standards for cottage clusters were formalized or added in the city’s land-use update, Barnes said.

She said there is evidence that cottage clusters are disappearing from the city. Four cottages at 821-877 Hamilton Ave. were replaced by two large, two-story homes at the front that dwarf a single-story home at the back; a cluster of five cottages at 920-928 Addison Ave. has been replaced by two large residences, she said.

Elisabeth Doxsee, a 20-year owner of one of the Boyce cottages, said it doesn’t have to be that way.

She was able to remodel her home to more than 2,000 square feet by expanding it into her backyard. She still retained a green space and kept the cottage at one story. From the street — and the view of the other cottages — the house retains its bungalow appearance.

Eight years ago, Staiger purchased a home in the 10-cottage cluster on the 300 block of Kingsley Ave. “It’s a terrific community. ...

(And) The joy is that I could afford to buy a house that my daughter, son-in-law and their children live in,” he said.

The Kingsley cottages are now marketed as condominiums, a (continued on page 10)

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modern convention that may actually protect their integrity.

“Because it is a condo I can’t tear my house down and build a twostory house. I have to go through the homeowners’ association to make changes,” Staiger said. The Kingsley cottages, designed by famed local architect Birge Clark, are also protected because they are located in the Professorville Historic District, which is on the National Historic Register.

But how many others might have historical significance, either on a state or national level or even locally, remains unknown. The city does not have a complete list of the cottage clusters, and some have not been formally evaluated and are not included in a survey of historic residences, said city historic-resources planner Matt Weintraub in an email. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

Center Project, several board members suggested closer collaboration and better communication with Stanford. The project represents the second largest exemption in the state, according to Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone.

Trustees also suggested closer collaboration with the City of Palo Alto, which Baten Caswell noted was able to anticipate the billion-dollar exemption.

Board members directed Mak to produce different scenarios for future years of property-tax growth, weighed against salary increases promised in the district’s new multiyear teachers contract.

Leslie Braun, a former longtime college adviser at Palo Alto High School, called for more “tempered” revenue projections given the inevitable size of Stanford exemptions and the timing of when the district receives concrete information about property taxes —

on July 1, after the district’s June deadline for adopting the budget.

“I believe that a more conservative approach to any business analysis by both our staff and our superintendent is imperative,” she told the board. “I would rather read about the need to re-budget because of an unexpected windfall rather than an unexpected shortfall.”

Mak said the district had historically been “very conservative” in its property-tax projections, but the board’s adoption of the threeyear teachers contract this spring required higher-than-usual assumptions about the rate of increase in secured-property tax revenues, which provide about 75 percent of the district’s revenue, in order to achieve balanced budget projections.

The district first projected an increase of 11.5 percent for the current year, followed by 9.4 percent and in 2017-18 an increase of 8.4 percent.

The adopted budget relied on an adjusted estimate of 8.67 percent growth for the 2016-17 year and 7.83 percent for the 2017-18 year.

The district intended to use the City

of Palo Alto’s estimates “in the 5 percent range per year” for 2018-19 through 2021-22 on secured property only, a staff report states.

“Bear in mind, 2016-17 is the first year that we have a multiyear contract,” Mak said. “In past years, we have used very conservative numbers in our adopted budget because we know we don’t have the raises in the budget.”

In response to a question from board member Ken Dauber, Mak said the 2017-18 estimate would need to be revised to the 5 percent to 5.5 percent range.

Superintendent Max McGee, who participated in the meeting remotely via Skype, said that the district will reopen negotiations with its teachers and classified unions to discuss a 3 percent raise promised in the third year of their contracts (2017-18). The change in property-tax revenue also automatically triggered a safety-net condition in the contract that eliminates a 1 percent bonus for teachers when propertytax revenue is less than the district

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budgeted by 1.5 percent or more.

While some board members defended the multiyear contracts, others repeated concerns they had previously voiced about the budget implications. Dauber, the only member to vote against the contracts, again lamented that using most of a $8 million surplus in the 2015-16 budget to give teachers a 5 percent retroactive salary increase left the district “without the flexibility we might need to handle whatever surprises we might have.”

Townsend reiterated that although she voted for the contracts, she had felt “uncomfortable” agreeing to three years of raises.

It was an unwise decision for a tax-reliant Basic Aid district that receives property-tax estimates and other financial information late in the school year, she said.

Mak and McGee have preliminarily suggested that the district not transfer $919,000 to the district’s Basic Aid Reserve Fund as one means to make up for the lost revenue. Several board members questioned that proposal, given a board policy that requires the district to maintain a reserve equal to at least 10 percent of its general fund.

“It’s important for us to know if this (deficit) is recurring or not recurring,” Vice President Terry Godfrey said.

Baten Caswell, too, asked for Mak to return with multiyear projections that show the impact of the tax shortfall without the district dipping into reserves.

Dauber criticized the idea outright.

“Reserves are for a rainy day,” Dauber said. “It’s not raining. It’s sunny.”

Given this year’s 5.5 percent property-tax increase, he said, “We should not be in position where we are going to be using reserves because at some point we’re going to need those reserves for an actual downturn.”

He urged the district to look at cost savings, such as rescinding a recently approved 4 percent raise for managers and administrators, which kicked in on July 1.

Board members did not discuss in detail Mak’s and McGee’s other proposals for how to backfill the deficit, which include pulling $1.2 million from unrestricted, undesignated funds in the budget; $1.2 million from bond funds designated for computer updates; $375,000 unused dollars in the budget that had been allocated for the hiring of teachers to accommodate enrollment growth; dipping into the reserves; and putting a temporary freeze on hiring non-teaching personnel (with the exception of special-education personnel whom the district needs to replace, according to a staff report).

The district does not intend to cut funding that has already been approved to lower class sizes or support full-day kindergarten, according to a staff report.

Wednesday was the first of several meetings the district plans to hold regarding the budget. The next will be at a previously scheduled board retreat on Aug. 11. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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would make the collection process easier.

Perhaps the most significant proposal concerns rental housing.

While the city requires for-sale housing developments to ensure 15 percent of their units are below market rate, no such requirement exists for rental projects (a 2009 court case determined that requiring rental housing to provide below-market-rate units would violate the state’s Costa Hawkins Act). With the change, rental housing would be subject to an impact fee of $50 per square foot to pay for affordable housing.

In approving the proposal by a 3-1 vote on June 21 (with council members Eric Filseth, Karen Holman Cory Wolbach supporting it and Greg Schmid dissenting), the Finance Committee took the position that the higher fees would help the city address one of its most intractable problems: a housing shortage that, when combined with soaring rents, is making it difficult for many longtime residents to remain.

But on Wednesday night, planning commissioners took a different view, arguing that the higher fees would be counterproductive.

“Honestly, looking at the fee increases and how massive and aggressive they are, I can’t help but feel like everything (here) is about: How do we not build any more housing ever

again in Palo Alto?” Downing said.

She noted that the council is not considering more significant proposals that would increase affordable housing, such as allowing more height or density for projects that offer such housing. She also noted that since she joined the commission in November 2014, she has not seen a single multifamily housing project come before the commission. She also questioned whether the impact fees, once collected, would even be used for affordable housing.

“We have a City Council that trembles at the thought of a fourstory apartment building,” Downing said. “Even with all the money in the world, I do find it incredible that we’ll spend it on affordable housing.”

Even some of the city’s biggest proponents of affordable housing had trepidation about the proposed changes. Staff from the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, the nonprofit that manages affordable-housing developments and oversees the city’s below-market-rate program, suggested that the high fees would simply halt development. In most nearby cities, impact fees for office development hover around $20 per square foot. In Menlo Park, the fee is $15, with an exemption for buildings of 10,000 square feet or smaller; in Cupertino it’s $20; and in Mountain View it’s $25.

“It is our belief that this ordinance will discourage developers from building in Palo Alto when the fees are significantly lower in

other jurisdictions,” said Lauren Bigelow, the Housing Corporations’ below-market-rate program administrator. “At that point, we lose housing on site, and we lose the affordable-housing fund.”

Bonnie Packer, a board member for the Housing Corporation and president of the League of Woman Voters of Palo Alto, submitted a letter on behalf of the League, making a similar case. The letter posed several questions, including: Will the proposal to impose fees on rental housing cause the high rents in Palo Alto to become even higher, making it even more expensive to live here? If a developer wants to claim that building affordable units would be too great a financial burden, and thus pay the fee instead, are the requirements of proof so onerous as to discourage all types of development and thus reduce the sources for these funds and units?

The commission ultimately agreed that it can’t answer these questions without more information and asked that staff further analyze how the fees would impact the housing fund and production of housing.

Commissioner Michael Alcheck also proposed a “sunset” clause on the fees and a guarantee from the city that public funds would be used to subsidize affordable housing if the fund becomes depleted.

“I do feel as a city we could participate in a great way, regardless of the impact fees collected, in subsidization of affordable housing,” Alcheck said. Q

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Evalyn T. Hutzel Former Palo Alto resident Evalyn T. Hutzel of Medford, Oregon, died on July 11, with her family by her side. She was 100. Born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, she grew up in Detroit, Michigan and received both a bachelor’s degree and a nursing degree from the University of Michigan. Later, in her 60s, she earned a master’s degree in health science from San Jose State University.

In 1941, she married John M. Hutzel of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and subsequently taught nursing

at Ohio State University. During World War II, she lived in Santa Monica, California, while her husband, a Navy reservist attached to the 4th Marines, served in the Pacific. Following the war, the Hutzels relocated to Alexandria, Virgina. From 1954 to 1956, the Hutzels lived in Karachi, Pakistan, where she volunteered as a nurse working in refugee camps and was also involved in establishing the first American Girl Scout Troop in Pakistan.

The Hutzels moved to Palo Alto, California, in 1965, where

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she worked as a nurse at the Stanford University Medical Center and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic from 1969 to 1977. She also volunteered with the Children’s Health Council. Her husband was with the Stanford Research Institute and worked as a professor of international business. He later served as chairman of the San Jose State University Department

of Management and was the director of the university’s research foundation.

She and her husband later retired to Pebble Beach, California, before moving to the Rogue Valley Manor in Medford, Oregon.

She is survived by two daughters, Joy Nathan (Richard) of Arlington, Virginia, Cynthia Bryant

(Lawrence) of Palo Alto, California, as well as her nephew Anson Tripp of Okinawa, Japan.

Graveside services were held on Monday, July 18, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made to the Rogue Valley Manor Foundation Health Center Fund, Rogue Valley Manor, Medford, Oregon. retirement.org/rvm

Nan Limbaugh Blackledge Nan Blackledge, 91, passed away peacefully on July 14, 2016 at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, CA with family by her side.

Katharine Anne “Nan� Bolender was born November 16, 1924 in Los Angeles, California to Louise (Kelly) Bolender and Joseph Bolender. Nan’s grandfather William Kelly was owner and editor of the Palo Alto Times newspaper. Nan graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford University with a B.A. in biology. Nan was a member of the Chi Omega sorority at Stanford.

She earned a Master’s Degree in Physical Education at San Diego State University.

Nan was married to Francis Haxo from 1946 to 1954.

They had 2 children, John and Barbara. From 1954 to 1960, Nan was married to Conrad Limbaugh, having 2 daughters, Peggy and Nancy. Nan was married to Edgar Blackledge from 1974 to 1991. Nan was a teacher in the Palo Alto Public Schools for many years. As “Mrs. Limbaugh�, she coached a winning swim team, taught P.E. at junior and senior high schools, and formed a popular after-school Folkdance Club. Before teaching in Palo Alto, Nan had various jobs. In the 1950’s in San Diego, CA, Nan assisted her husband Conrad Limbaugh in his marine biology research. She also worked for Dr. Carl Hubbs at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s biology laboratory. A small undersea animal called a nudibranch was named after Nan and her husband Conrad: Cadlina limbaughorum, The Limbaugh’s cadlina. Nan began teaching P.E. in the La Jolla Public Schools in the early 1960’s. She also performed folk dances with the Cygany Dancers of La Jolla. She moved the family back to her home town of Palo Alto in 1965 and taught in Palo Alto for the remainder of her career.

As our beautiful mother, Nan was always singing around the house, doing handstands on the front lawn, dancing, swimming, riding her bike and making us laugh. She was interested in people of every culture.

Nan enjoyed knitting, horseback riding, quilting, picking wild huckleberries, scuba diving, skiing, bodysurfing, camping, hiking, traveling and tap dancing. Nan had many adventures traveling the world, often

bringing the children with her. She spent time in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Spain.

Nan traveled to Thailand, Japan, Ecuador, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, France and Holland. She took in a Guatemalan student and a student from Spain to live in her Palo Alto home.

When her children were grown and Nan retired, she didn’t slow down one bit!

She competed in the Master’s Swim Program. In 1994, Nan won a medal at the La Jolla Rough Water Swim. In 2001, Nan won 9 medals at the United States Swimming National Short Course Championship in Santa Clara, CA, in the 75–79 year age class. When Nan was in her 80’s she won 2 gold medals in the International Swim Competition held at Stanford. Nan regularly folkdanced in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. She also loved spending time with her grandchildren.

Nan moved to the Sequoias retirement community in Portola Valley, CA, 21 years ago. She was excited about the friends she made there, and the many activities available.

Nan joined the Lawn Bowling team, square danced, and loved swimming in the pool. She volunteered to help tutor staff members in English skills. She took a Spanish class and worked out in the weight room. Nan enjoyed being an “elf �, hostessing the staff Christmas party, and even tried salsa dancing! She had many dear friends among both the residents and staff members at The Sequoias.

Nan is survived by her children John Haxo (Karen) of Roswell, GA, Barbara Phillips (Herb), of Oakland, Peggy Sharp (Bill) of Yakima, WA and Nancy Limbaugh of Thetford Center, VT, her grandchildren Heather Phillips (Bashir Anastas), Claire Phillips (Chad Hanson), Michelle Haxo (Victoria Ogrizek), Rachael Haxo, Sophie Wood, Eli Wood and Hazel Wood, as well as a few other beloved relatives.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Peninsula Open Space Trust at https:// openspacetrust.org/.

A celebration of the life of Nan Blackledge will be held on September 10, 2016 from 2–4 pm at the Sequoias in Portola Valley.

Submitted by Peggy Limbaugh Sharp, daughter.

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Dead & Company is comprised of (left to right) Oteil Burbridge, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, John Mayer, Mickey Hart and Jeff Chimenti. The super-group performs in Mountain View on July 30.

Dead & Company, live Grateful Dead spinoff ends up back where it all began

by Yoshi Kato he story of Dead & Company — which performs Saturday, July 30, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View — is in some ways a local one.

Dead & Company is comprised of two co-founders of a little band you may have heard of called The Grateful Dead (guitarist/ vocalist Bob Weir and drummer Bill Kreutzmann); one longtime member (drummer Mickey Hart); superstar singer/songwriter/guitarist John Mayer; bass guitarist Oteil Burbridge; and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.

The Grateful Dead got its start in Palo Alto back in 1965 and did two 50th-anniversary shows late last June at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (featuring Weir, Kreutzmann, Hart and Chimenti plus fellow co-founder/bassist/vocalist Phil Lesh, guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio and keyboardist/ vocalist Bruce Hornsby).

“It was interesting for us last summer, doing the Fare Thee Well shows in Santa Clara.

That’s basically our old stomping grounds ... where we played our first gigs as the Warlocks,” said Weir, in a teleconference with journalists from around the country. “We were playing in a stadium there ... when we were

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first getting together, it was all orange groves. And there was a new complexion to the culture, but it was still very much like playing at home, playing in our living room.”

After a trio of shows over the July 4 weekend in 2015 at Soldier Field in Chicago (site of The Grateful Dead’s last-ever show in 1995 with late co-founder/vocalist/guitarist Jerry Garcia), Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart decided that they’d continue to tour as Dead & Company with Mayer in the Garcia/Anastasio role, Burbridge in place of Lesh and Chimenti back aboard.

“A year ago last winter, I did a TV show (“The Late Late Show”) with John,” Weir recalled. “We were going to do two songs, and we did a soundcheck that lasted about an hour and a half and touched on those two songs briefly and then just went and kept going. And they finally had to unplug us. The idea came up to put together a band,” he continued. “Phil is getting older and has less than limited interest in hitting the road anymore, so we knew we were looking in a different direction there,” he said.

“Bob carries so much of that DNA of the music that he sort of is one of those true bandleaders in the sense where it always feels like

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him, no matter who else is playing,” said Mayer. “And then when we got in the room together with Billy and Mickey, for me, the idea just took hold of me when I heard it.”

“Certainly, I wasn’t sure how it was going to be received at all,” he went on to admit. “But I knew that in the nucleus of it, that there was really ... some validity, I think, to putting a band together and making music for people to want to listen to live.”

Dead & Company started performing late last October and concluded its 2015 U.S. tour with a pair of concerts in both northern and southern California, including one extending The Grateful Dead’s tradition of a blowout New Year’s Eve show. Prior to its 2016 summer domestic tour, the sextet performed a surprise free concert at the Fillmore, The Grateful Dead’s one-time home court in San Francisco. Fans — as well as Mayer, Burbridge and Chimenti — looked thrilled to be there, while Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart seemed right back at home.

Singles or pairs of tickets were given away on-line at a designated time, and the concept behind the May 23 concert was for fans to “pay it forward” by doing good deeds for others. A few hundred fans milled around a park a block from the famed ballroom before-

hand, either in hopes of being the recipient of an old-fashioned “miracle” ticket or just out of communal fellowship.

This summer’s tour, which started on June 10, concludes Saturday, July 30, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.

If the Fillmore was The Grateful Dead’s resident venue early in its career, Shoreline later became renowned for hosting the band and its fans.

Bailey Park Plaza Shopping Center on Shoreline was transformed into a de facto Deadhead Village, annoying regular Safeway customers but probably delighting the owners of the streetside Jack in the Box. Mayer remembered being on tour in the summer, hitting California and it being “blazing hot” in Irvine. “And then you get to Shoreline, and it’s 60 degrees out.

And I just always remember that and loved it,” he said. “And we always played great shows there.

“There’s a coziness to that place,” he added. “There really is.” (Mayer’s July 16, 2004 concert at the Shoreline was released commercially as part of his “As/ Is” live series.)

“I think we were hoping that we could wrap it up at Shoreline, and as it turns out, the availabilities were there, and so it seemed like the nat-

ural thing to do,” Weir confirmed.

“I don’t remember ever being at Shoreline and being in a bad mood or wishing that I could get more sleep,” Mayer reminisced. “You sort of leave the rigors of the road behind when you get to Shoreline.”

This summer’s Dead & Company tour is bookended by homecoming shows. The Fillmore show was a prelude, while Saturday night at Shoreline is the conclusion.

“I expect that there will be a little tinge of bittersweet there, because it will be the end of the tour,” Weir reflected. “But at the same time, that will be counterbalanced by the fact that everybody’s going to be anxious to maximize the event, to take advantage of this last little hoedown. And so I think it will be pretty hoppin’.”Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@ earthlink.net.

What: Dead & Company Where: 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View When: Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $40-$150 Info: Go to livenation.com/ events/549099-jul-30-2016dead-company or call 650-967-4040.

Arts & Entertainment THEATER REVIEW

There is power in a union SRT’s ‘Slaughter City’ dramatizes the labor movement

by Karla Kane

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rules. Sausage Man, decked out in dapper, old-timey wear and a necklace made of sausage links, and sporting an old-fashioned meat grinder, is the devilish spirit of capitalism personified. He is the facilitator of the whole grim system, and Cod, it’s revealed, is his “spark.” Cod was rescued as a fetus from the womb of a woman (Tess McCarthy) who died in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, in which 146 textile workers, mostly young women, perished when they could not escape from the locked doors of their sweatshop. In “Slaughter City,” Sausage Man forces Cod to travel with him throughout time to ignite more labor conflicts, creating more fodder for his great cosmic meat grinder.

‘Slaughter City” is not exactly a musical, but characters do occasionally break into song, with stirring results. Among the performers, Lockett and Mbele-Mbong stand out, especially in a memorable scene in which they join together singing. Recent Stanford grad Caldwell has a gleeful time chewing up the scenery as Sausage Man and imbues the character with sinister charm.

Director Alex Johnson has organized the show well. Rather than creating a set, the characters pantomime their actions on the kill floor as the off-scene actors effectively create the grisly sound effects with simple tools. And their white uniforms, covered in red blood, pro-

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ome works of drama are underlings/basic moral decency. meant to entertain, delight After all, as Roach reminds him, and whisk audiences away there but for the grace of God goes to another world. Naomi Wal- he. One of the play’s narrative lace’s “Slaughter City,” presented threads is, in some ways, Tuck’s

by Stanford Repertory Theater fight for his soul.

But there are two other major (SRT), is not one of those. Instead, it’s powerful, dark and characters in “Slaughter City,” and here’s where — despite its pivthings get surprisotal forays into the ingly surreal. Represupernatural and senting the systemic surreal — rooted battle between capiin real-world issues, tal and labor since distasteful though time immemorial they may be. (or at least the InThe play is part dustrial Revolution) of SRT’s sumare Sausage Man mer 2016 festival, (Austin Caldwell) “Theater Takes a and Cod (Fiona MaStand,” celebrating guire), an androgythe American labor nous worker. When movement (other we first meet the elements include a Austin Caldwell plays characters, Cod is a Monday night film Sausage Man. recently hired scab series, a community symposium on theater and labor, and the object of hatred from the and the upcoming play “Waiting union employees, but sparks soon fly (literally) between Cod and for Lefty”).

“Slaughter City” takes place in Maggot. Spouting inflammatory a Kentucky meat-packing plant, words of support for the union, based on the real one where, in as well as shuffling through facts 1993, the workers’ union held a from famous labor disputes and bitter strike against the company, tragedies of the past, it seems Cod prompted by the unsafe condi- does not play by regular temporal tions that led to an employee’s death from ammonia inhalation.

The audience meets “kill-floor” workers Brandon (Louis McWilliams), Maggot (Nora Tjossem) and Roach (Leontyne MbeleMbong). They’re devoted union members, fighting for seniority privileges, fair wages and other rights, but with little gain. Brandon’s a young man with a quick temper and a poetic, Shakespearean way with words. He’s skilled with a knife but volatile, someone the bosses want to keep an eye on. He’s also consumed with desire for his co-worker, Roach, an African-American woman who’s a decade his senior and worldweary, tired of being passed over and mistreated in work and life due to both her race and gender.

Management, on the other side of the equation, is represented Civic Center/King Plaza-In front of Palo Alto City

by Baquin (yes, pronounced, “bacon”). Portrayed by Thomas T h u r s d a y e v e nHall ings. 6pm-8pm.

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vide all the costuming they need.

Watching “Slaughter City” isn’t a pleasant experience — a slaughterhouse is a truly disgusting place, for both man and beast. The message can come across heavyhandedly, and the uneven style of the script takes some getting used to (and parents should note there is strong language, violence and nudity). But it’s also undeniably moving and compelling. The capitalist system, the play makes clear, is one in which the workers are always treated like meat, whether they’re literally employed by a slaughterhouse or not, their blood greasing the wheels of industry.

“Slaughter City” may serve to ig-

nite the flames of activism, or at least awareness, in audience members who’ve turned a blind eye to the injustice surrounding them. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “Slaughter City” Where: Nitery Theater, 514 Lasuen Mall, Stanford When: Through Aug. 7, Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Cost: $15-$25 Info: Go to stanfordreptheater.com

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Eating Out

Af byte to eat

by Eric He

photos by Michelle Le

rom Facebook to Google, to work for a tech company in Silicon Valley is to have easy access to a host of dining options that are often exclusive to employees.

Mountain View cybersecurity company Symantec offers the same amenities as many of its peers, but sets itself apart by making its new eatery, Union 82, open to the public.

Quite a few non-employees patronize the café, and Becky Laden, a development manager at Symantec, said a tech company opening its own eatery to the public is “not common practice.” Local tech giants such as Facebook, Google,

Left, two people dine next to a Scrabble board at Union 82.

LinkedIn and Apple have private cafés and restaurants that are open to employees and their guests, but don’t take walk-ins.

“Symantec is a collaborative space,” said Eric Drake, a district manager.

“We want people from other companies to feel comfortable coming into the inner world and experiencing it. The decision to make (Union 82) open to the public environment is to attract other tech companies and people who have interest in Symantec’s product and services they provide and to be able to feel invited into the space.”

Union 82, named for the company’s origins in 1982, has the feel of a modernday coffee shop, but with more amenities than a typical Starbucks. There are tables for poker, checkers and pool. A giant Scrabble board adorns one of the walls, and on the opposite wall are two large screens that look like mirrors but are actually televisions. The ceiling is full of computer codes, each one translating to either an image or an error (customers who figure out the error win a prize). Upbeat, contemporary music plays in the background.

When Symantec Food Service Director Marisha

INSIDE UNION 82, TECH-COMPANY SYMANTEC’S PUBLIC EATERY

Union 82’s chipotle-chicken flatbread comes with chipotle aioli, diced grilled chicken and pepper jack cheese, all garnished with pico de gallo.

Van Der Linden moved from Connecticut to the Bay Area to open the café, she said there were many curveballs — like the fact that “everyone eats quinoa” in California, she said, and the amount of detail that went into creating the space.

Located in the heart of Mountain View’s tech hub — Google is nearby, as well as software companies Veritas, MobileIron and Synopsys — the 11-monthold Union 82 was created in an effort to help employees temporarily escape from the office. The café is just one of the many perks that Symantec, like many other tech companies, offers its employees, from a 12,000-square-foot gym to tennis, basketball and volleyball court.

“It’s definitely a way to getting employees to come in and hang out,” Van Der Linden said. “We actually see people camp out here all day. It’s like their own coffee shop.”

Patrons make good use of the space, which opens for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and switches to lunch at 11:30 a.m. On a typical morning, some customers drop in briefly to grab a cup of coffee on the way to work, while others hold meetings and discuss busi-

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PIZZA STUDIO RESURRECTED! ... It was there, then it was gone; now it’s back. The Pizza Studio in Mountain View’s San Antonio Center has been resurrected. After a sudden closure last January, when the restaurant went dark with no warning, it is now wide open for business. “We were very fortunate to have been able to repurchase the location,” said Pizza Studio CEO Ron Biskin, explaining that the fast-casual restaurant was owned by a franchisee who opted not to continue in the business.”We remodeled it, we put in a different menu that has a strong emphasis on new salads and new pizzas, and we’re back,” Biskin said. Some of the menu changes were described as “cheffy touches,” by Don Cravalho, who is the general manager of the Mountain View restaurant. “We have some elevated flavors, such as a chipotle-roasted pineapple instead of just plain pineapple,” he said. The restaurant, which reopened June 6, is the second Bay Area location to be company-owned and operated by the Calabasasbased Pizza Studio. “We just opened one in Concord,” Biskin said. Two other Pizza Studios also closed without any notice back in January, one in Palo Alto on California Avenue and one in Los Gatos. “We are currently evaluating several locations for new Pizza Studios in the Bay Area,” according to Biskin, but no word yet if those plans will include any other Peninsula sites. The company currently has 35 locations across the country.

CAFÉ OPENS AT JCC ... A restaurant that serves a variety of Jewish cuisine officially opened in midJuly, and if the opening crowds were any indication, it appears to have filled a real need for Jewish food. Nourish, A Newish Jewish Café, is located in the Palm Court section of the Oshman Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.

The crowd on July 17 was estimated at about 2,000

ness. Symantec executives often bring prospective employees there for interviews; Van Der Linden says it’s become “the most interviewed spot on campus.” The café also offers a weekly happy hour, trivia events and “paint nite,” during which patrons can enjoy wine, beer or cocktails while painting.

Megan Cleary, who has worked at Symantec for almost a year, stops by Union 82 once a week. She called it “modern” and “hip,” and she enjoys the “reasonably priced” smoothies (the “Field of Greens,” with bananas, mango, peaches, apples, berries, kale and spinach, is a favorite) and lattes. Union 82’s coffee beans, from Verve Coffee Roasters in Santa Cruz, are roasted one week before they arrive. To maximize freshness, they are used within 30 days. The beans are hand-ground for each drink.

The menu is modeled

during the JCC’s three-hour open house. “It was a real surprise that so many people showed up, and we were thrilled,” said JCC CEO Zack Bodner. Also officially opening at the same time was the Oasis Play Space, a new playground constructed directly next to the restaurant. The layout of the kid-friendly space is based on a Jewish theme of a desert oasis that provides refuge to wanderers. It features faux grassy hills, an interactive water feature, an open-sided tent, and giant papyrus and pomegranates. The design firm that created the playground is the same company that created the giant baseball mitt at San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Bodner, remarking on the unanticipated throng of people that showed up for the grand opening, said, “That tells us that we have created a real neighborhood here. We’re hoping Palo Altans will consider us a home away from home.”

KUDOS TO RESTAURANTS ... A few congratulatory shout-outs to three Palo Alto restaurants that made the list of the “10 Most Exciting New Restaurants” in the current issue of Modern Luxury Silicon Valley.

Included are Bird Dog, the minimalist-decorated restaurant that features an eclectic assortment of California cuisine with Japanese influences, 420 Ramona St.; La Boheme, a decidedly French restaurant that offers some classic French dishes, while being committed to organic and sustainable farming practices, 415 California Ave.; and Thyme, a cozy, charming restaurant with a small and seasonal menu, based on locally sourced and fresh ingredients, 496 Hamilton Ave.

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after a “gastrolounge,” according to Laden, offering pub food but with a healthy twist. Van Der Linden also cites “American tapas” as inspiration for the menu, which features everything from salads and sandwiches to flatbread pizza and ahi tuna tartar. Ingredients are locally sourced, from tomatoes, avocados and olive oil to wines and beers.

The “quinoa crunch” salad, a quinoa tabbouleh with seasonal vegetables, avocado, edamame, marinated olives and smoked pepita dressed in a chipotle-orange vinaigrette, and the classic croque monsieur sandwich are among the café’s most popular offerings.

Tributes to Symantec abound: Cocktails are named after Symantec locations or computer terminology, such as the “cleanwipe” — in the computer world, it’s a tool to attack viruses; at Union 82, it’s Broker’s Gin with cucum-

ber, lime, simple syrup and tonic. And on the menu, “bites” is spelled “bytes.”

Nestled in between Relish, Symantec’s more traditional cafeteria, and an IT support center, Union 82 bills itself as taking a unique spin on company dining that goes beyond just opening its doors to the public.

“The style of this place is so warm and welcoming, but at the same time it’s innovative and pushing the envelope a little bit, so I think that’s important as a crossroads for Symantec,” Van Der Linden said. Q Editorial Intern Eric He can be emailed at ehe@ paweekly.com.

Union 82 350 Ellis St., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Union82MV Hours: Monday-Friday, breakfast 7:30-11 a.m.; lunch 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; dinner and bar 3-8 p.m. “TGIF” happy hour on Fridays noon to 4 p.m.

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‘Bourne’ (yet) again Damon and Greengrass return with a pointless retread 01/2 (Century 16 and 20) There’s a moment in the new ‘Bourne’ franchise movie when Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne looks soulfully into a bad guy’s eyes and says, “I’m trying to find another way.” Not very hard, unfortunately, as the plainly titled “Jason Bourne” offers only a plodding, sometimes downright laughable rehash of “Bourne”s summer-movie past.

“Jason Bourne” marks the fifth film in the franchise, the fourth for Damon, and the third for director Paul Greengrass.

The screenplay by Greengrass

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Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne, who has been out of the CIA black-ops super-soldier program for 10 years. and his Oscar-winning editor Christopher Rouse teaches an object lesson in how franchise films become tiringly repetitive and devolve into sad self-parody. Audiences who check their brains at the auditorium door can take the ride and leave feeling only vaguely dissatisfied, but it only takes a moment of awareness to step outside

the movie and see how poorly written, insultingly recycled, and anti-creative “Jason Bourne” is.

The film begins with a line from “The Bourne Ultimatum”: “I remember. I remember everything.”

Except this time, Bourne — who’s been underground fighting in (continued on next page)

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

For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

Central Intelligence (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:05 p.m.

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (R) Aquarius Theatre: 2:55, 4:25, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 12:20, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45 & 10:10 p.m.

Bad Moms (R) Century 16: 9:10, 10:45 & 11:50 a.m., 1:15, 2:25, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:15 a.m. Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4, 5:20, 6:35, 8, 9:20 & 10:40 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 12:10 & 2:45 p.m.

Sat. 12:25 & 2:50 p.m.

Barbie: Star Light Adventure (NA) Century 20: Sat. 10 a.m.

Beat the Devil (1953) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 5:50 & 9:35 p.m.

Born Yesterday (1950) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30 p.m.

Cafe Society (PG-13) Century 20: 10 a.m., 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55 & 10:20 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 2, 4:45 & 7:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m.

Captain Fantastic (R) ++ Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7 & 9:55 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:50 p.m.

Finding Dory (PG) +++ Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:20 a.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30 & 7:20 p.m.

Ghostbusters (PG-13) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:15, 8:10 & 11 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:15 a.m. Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (PG-13) Century 20: 4:50, 7:35 & 10:15 p.m.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13) +++ Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:30 p.m.

Ice Age: Collision Course (PG) + Century 16: 9 & 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:20 p.m.

The Infiltrator (R) Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:25 & 7:30 p.m.

It Should Happen to You (1954) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:50 & 9:25 p.m.

Jason Bourne (PG-13) +1/2 Century 16: 9 & 10 a.m., noon, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6:05, 7, 8, 9:05, 10 & 11 p.m. Fri. 10:55 a.m.

Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:10 & 11:05 a.m., 2 p.m.

Century 20: 9:55 & 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 3:45, 6:45 & 9:45 p.m.

Fri. & Sun. 2:45, 5:40 & 8:40 p.m. Sat. 2:55, 5:50 & 8:50 p.m.

In X-D at 10:50 a.m., 1:45, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. In DBOX at 9:55 a.m., 12:50, 3:45, 6:45 & 9:45 p.m.

The Legend of Tarzan (PG-13) Century 20: 10:35 p.m. Fri. 9:55 a.m.

Lights Out (PG-13) Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:40 & 9:50 p.m.

Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:20 a.m.

Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05 & 10:30 p.m.

The Lobster (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 5:05, 7 & 9:50 p.m.

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (R) 1/2 Century 16: 9 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 3:45 & 11:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:45 p.m.

National Theatre: The Audience (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun. 11 a.m.

Nerve (PG-13) + Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:10 a.m.

Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m.

Sabrina (1954) (Not Rated) ++ Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:45 & 7:30 p.m.

The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 2:40, 3:50, 5:10, 6:20, 7:35, 8:45 & 10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 1:20 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:25 & 9:35 a.m., 12:10 p.m. Century 20: 10 & 11:20 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 7:05, 8:10 & 9:40 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 1:55 & 4:30 p.m.

Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 9:15 a.m., 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m. Fri. 9:55 a.m., 12:55, 3:55, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:10 a.m.

Sat. & Sun. 10:40 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:50 p.m. In 3-D at 11:25 a.m., 2:30, 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. Fri. 10:35 a.m., 4:45, 7:45 & 10:50 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:25 p.m. Sat. 12:55 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:30 & 9:55 a.m., 3:55, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15 & 10:15 p.m. In 3-D at 11:15 a.m., 12:15, 2:15, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m.

In 3-D DBOX at 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m.

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

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Greece since then — gets reminded of his daddy issue, which gets worse when he realizes his dad’s fiery death wasn’t a terrorist attack but a government-sanctioned rubout. But why? Well, you’ll never guess: It has something to do with Treadstone, the CIA black-ops super-soldier program that made Bourne the killing machine he is today. Bourne discovers he volunteered because of a lie, and he ain’t happy about it.

The new story handles this new motivation for revenge in every old way. Julia Stiles’ Nicky Parsons returns for an early action sequence, only to be insultingly replaced by a younger model: Alicia Vikander’s Agent Heather Lee. As always, a craggy CIA Director (this time, Tommy Lee Jones’s Robert Dewey) insists Bourne “has to be put down,” while his female protégé sees potential to bring Bourne in from the cold. As always, Bourne gets tracked from busy CIA control rooms, which deploy strike teams and assassins for long sequences of looking through long-range rifle scopes, tailing and chasing. As always, there’s a new secret program on the list, in this case “Iron Hand.

It’s even worse than before.”

Yeah, it is even worse than before. The ostensible innovations of this entry include spackling on privacy-violating Silicon Valley (Riz Ahmed plays a CEO who

lies, “When you use our service, no one will be watching”), a Julian Assange surrogate (Vinzenz Kiefer’s Christian Dussault) who can unaccountably hold his own with Bourne in a fistfight, helpful lines like “It could be worse than Snowden,” and a Greek anti-austerity riot. None of these specifics matter to the basic plot, which is about Bourne eluding capture (again) while worming his way close enough to CIA agents to threaten or kill them (again), to the anti-tune of John Powell and David Buckley’s anxious score (don’t catch yourself actually listening to the music: You’ll start laughing and disturb the other moviegoers).

Yeah, there are some impressive stunts — especially in the demolition-derby finale — and that’s supposed to be enough to justify two more hours of Bourne. Otherwise, “Jason Bourne” is Exhibit Z in the case against keeping franchises on life-support: It’s a film terrified to do anything different and gamble with its $120 million budget and billion-dollar brand.

Albert Finney’s psychologist only appears in flashback and on paper, but his on-record comment says it all for the exhausted “Bourne” series: “When Bourne broke from the program... he left behind his reason to exist.”

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief strong language. Two hours, 3 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

‘Nerve’ damage?

Silly YA-derived thriller sends mixed message 0 (Century 16 and 20) This week, Lionsgate releases its teen-pandering thriller “Nerve,” about a viral online game with the potential to get players in trouble.

In the midst of “Pokémon Go” mania, “Nerve” gets a zeitgeist shot in the arm.

Adapted by Jessica Sharzer (“American Horror Story”) from Jeanne Ryan’s 2012 YA novel, “Nerve” concerns high-school senior Venus “Vee” Delmonico (cold, blank-stare Emma Roberts). Her overprotective mother (Juliette Lewis — and now don’t we all feel old?) conspires to keep Vee from her dream school CalArts and helps to make her an archetypal tightly wound stick-inthe-mud. Vee’s best friend Sydney (Emily Meade) is just the opposite.

This archetypal suck-the-marrowout-of-life prom queen proves her daring by playing Nerve, an online game that bills a great mass of teen “Watchers” to subsidize paying out prizes to “Players” who perform crowd-sourced dares (while the game’s overlords never become more concrete than the pronoun “they”).

Naturally, we meet Vee at just

Courtesy of Lionsgate.

Emma Roberts and Dave Franco become entangled in a sinister online truth-or-dare game in “Nerve.” about the moment of peak personal frustration that prompts her to sign herself up as a Nerve player.

At first, the most sinister thing about Nerve is that the game has read her Facebook page and thereby knows her favorite book is “To the Lighthouse.” The initial dares poke Vee out of her romantic shell by forcing a kiss with stranger Ian (Dave Franco) and sending the duo — yep, he’s a player too — into Manhattan for a departmentstore dress-up date (which turns into an undress date, ooh la la). Of course, it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt, as Vee’s archetypal pining bestie Tommy (Miles Heizer) consistently warns.

That he’s obviously motivated as much by jealousy of Ian as by common sense doesn’t help Tommy’s case, and it’s clear that

Tommy will be relegated to second-best status until he’s required to use his extensive knowledge of the dark web (um, red flag?) and underground hacker connections (err...) to save the day. Obviously, “Nerve” won’t be winning any awards for gritty realism, but it’s not unreasonable to expect a somewhat more airtight plot than this one or, at minimum, better compensatory distractions than those “Nerve” musters. The escalating, supposedly unnerving dares (including urban high-wire acts and a blindfolded motorcycle ride) lack in tension with their outcomes never in doubt.

Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (“Catfish,” “Paranormal Activity 3” and “4”) do their bit of basic competence with a dash of style (bathing NYC in garish neon), but when this thriller has to turn the screws of its climax, its fundamental stupidity surfaces.

Everything about the third act proves preposterous, including a ludicrous arena showdown obviously meant to evoke the breadand-circuses theme of “The Hunger Games.” At least “Nerve” has the good sense to suggest to its young audience that peer pressure and social-media mob mentalities are dangers worth monitoring, but given Vee’s liberation and various rewards, it’s a mixed message.

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence. One hour, 36 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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Book Talk JAZZ ON MY MIND … The memoirs of internationally acclaimed jazz enthusiast Herb Wong will come to life at Kepler’s Books on Sunday, Aug. 7, when Paul Simeon Fingerote presents photographs, recordings and Wong’s behindthe-scenes stories of legendary jazz greats from Wong’s and Fingerote’s new book, “Jazz on My Mind: Liner Notes, Anecdotes and Conversations from the 1940s to the 2000s.” Wong — a longtime Menlo Park resident who hosted a show on San Francisco’s KJAZ for more than 35 years and wrote more than 400 liner notes for many of the great jazz musicians — died two years ago before finishing the book. Fingerote, a friend and colleague, completed the book, which was released by McFarland & Company in April. “Jazz on my Mind” provides readers with a curated vision of America’s music genre and includes much of Wong’s “encyclopedic knowledge” of jazz history, which was often called upon by CNN, PBS and the Smithsonian Institution. The collection is organized as if it were an extended play CD, with “tracks” for each instrument, from trumpet to vibraphone, to vocals.

Wong also taught jazz at Palo Alto High School at night and started the Stanford Jazz festival.

Student musicians dedicated to upholding Wong’s legacy will perform compositions taken from the book at the release party.

“A Jazzy Afternoon at Kepler’s: Celebrating the Life of Herb Wong” will take place at 2 p.m. at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.

The event is free.

MIDNIGHT WITH POTTER …

Harry Potter fans can celebrate the release of the eighth book in J.K Rowling’s series at special midnight release parties at Kepler’s Books and Books Inc. in Palo Alto and Mountain View. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II (Special Rehearsal Edition)” is the official script book of the London production debuting on Saturday, July 30 — the same day as the book’s official release. Written by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, the script is based on an original story by J.K. Rowling. Kepler’s will host an evening of wizardry with themed crafts, games, trivia and costumes starting at 10 p.m. on July 30. Book’s Inc. will hold an

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Title Pages A monthly section on local books and authors

Nick Taylor with his latest novel, “Double Switch,” the second in a series about a professional baseball player who moonlights as a detective. Taylor is also a professor, a blogger, a computer programmer, the head of San Jose State’s Center for Steinbeck Studies, and the author of historical novels.

The multitasker Local author has a lot to juggle

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by Barbara Wood

ick Taylor is a champion multitasker, the type who in the past would have been called a Renaissance man.

He is a San Jose State University professor who both teaches creative writing and heads the university’s Center for Steinbeck Studies. He’s written two well-received literary historical novels, one about the American Civil War and one about California mission founder Father Junipero Serra.

And, under the pseudonym T.T. Monday, he’s also just come out with the second of two briskly selling, quick-read detective novels. The main character is a bit of a multitasker himself — a left-handed relief pitcher for the mythical San Jose Bay Dogs Major League Baseball team, a hardliving private investigator and a devoted, divorced dad.

In addition, he writes a blog

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for PaloAltoOnline.com, “On the Page,” about books and writing.

The 40-year-old Menlo Park resident also has a skill not common to literary types — computer programming. He learned it in high school and supported himself working as a programmer from his undergraduate college years until after receiving a master’s degree in fine arts.

Programming, he said, is actually a lot like fiction writing.

“It is a way of thinking,” he said. “It’s solitary work and it’s project-based.”

In both areas, he said, “I like the feeling I’m creating something.”

The Nick Taylor and T.T. Monday novels could not be more different. Taylor’s historical fiction leaves readers feeling both entertained and educated about life in another era. It’s easy to see the author as a professor and history buff.

The Monday books lean to-

ward what some call “lad lit,” the male equivalent of chick lit — fun reads, full of insider baseball lore with some sex and violence thrown in to keep things lively.

It’s easy to imagine wanting to take in a ballgame and a few beers with Monday, a little harder to imagine him as a professor.

Writing novels may serve a similar purpose for Taylor as being a detective does for his character Adcock — a way to escape from his everyday serious life, to have a little fun while exercising his intellectual gifts.

Taylor said he loves research and writing.

“You’re getting words to transport somebody to this place” that is being written about, he said.

“I don’t feel like my own life is that interesting to me,” he said, especially not as interesting as what he’s writing about. “Ultimately I’m my own audience.”

In writing historical fiction, “the real difficult part is to know when to stop researching. I kind of don’t want to know too much because then it would limit my ability to create a story that accomplishes what I want it to,” he said. “I’m not obligated to get it right; I’m just obligated to make it fun and interesting.”

He does, however, write in genres whose audience doesn’t hesitate to let the author know if he’s gotten a detail wrong.

Like the fact that his first Monday novel, “The Setup Man,” had a right-handed pitcher on the cover, although the main character Johnny Adcock is left-handed. Or that he made a mistake in describing a cannon in “The Disagreement.”

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“I wasn’t good enough,” he said. He went Loyola High School, a Catholic all-boys school, even though his parents are Episcopalian.

Taylor said he hopes to write a third T.T. Monday book and has a first draft of a Silicon Valley novel.

“I wrote it as a gift for my wife,” he said, but alas, she didn’t like it, so it needs more work.

He said he doesn’t want to limit himself to writing exclusively either historical novels or detective novels. “I want to do both,” he said. “They’re so drastically different.”

He does admit, however, that as T.T. Monday, he writes faster than he does when writing his historical fiction books.

“It comes a lot easier,” he said. Plus, “My mother told me I could write off baseball items as a work expense.”

The easy part, he said, is to imagine being a pro baseball player.

“The hardest part for me is coming up with the crimes,” he said. Q Barbara Wood is a staff writer for The Almanac, the Weekly’s sister newspaper. She can be reached at bwood@ almanacnews.com.

Nick Taylor’s work: crime, history, Steinbeck Civil war novel His first book, “The Disagreement,” is about a young man who finds himself transformed from being a first-year medical student into a doctor in the field hospital set up on the University of Virginia campus during the Civil War. The book delves deeply into how medicine was practiced during the Civil War and what life was like in that part of the South during the war.

Taylor began the book when he received a summer grant to write some historical fiction about the University of Virginia.

Junipero Serra novel His second book, “Father Junipero’s Confessor,” is about some of the Franciscan brothers who worked with Father Junipero Serra building missions and converting (and sometimes killing) the natives in early California and Mexico.

T.T. Monday baseball thriller His newest book under pseudonym T.T. Monday, “Double Switch,” is a 240-page detective

thriller in which Major League Baseball player Johnny Adcock is a part-time detective as he faces off against a ring of ruthless South American smugglers.

Steinbeck studies Taylor, who heads up San Jose State University’s Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, said he’s particularly proud of three programs in the center. Steinbeck in the Schools offers free, downloadable teaching aids and information on the historical and geographical context of John Steinbeck’s works.

The Fellowships for Writers program awards two or three annual $10,000 fellowships in Steinbeck studies and creative writing.

The Steinbeck Award: “In the Souls of the People” program, named after a line in “The Grapes of Wrath,” recognizes writers, artists and activists whose work captures the spirit of Steinbeck’s, commitment to democratic values. Winners have included Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Miller, Joan Baez and Michael Moore. Q — Barbara Wood

Book Talk (continued from page 20) all-day countdown to the book’s midnight release with Not Your Mother’s Book Club! and will have themed games, treats and crafts at its Palo Alto location starting at 10 p.m. Auntie Dori will host an hour of themed activities at the Mountain View store starting at 11 p.m.. Book’s Inc. is giving 20 percent of proceeds from preorders to Addison Elementary School and the SF Education Fund. Kepler’s Books is at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. To reserve a space at the release party or pre-order a book, go to keplers.com/event/potter.

Book’s Inc.’s Palo Alto store is at 855 El Camino Real, #74, and its Mountain View location is at 301 Castro St. To pre-order a book (which provides two guests admission to the release parties), go to booksinc.net/event/harrypotter-midnight-release-parties.

FORGOTTEN PIONEER … During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg rose from journalist to formidable social justice pioneer while serving as director of the Federal Writers’ Project, part of the Works Progress Administration’s New Deal program.

Susan Rubenstein DeMasi’s newly released biography, “Henry Alsberg: The Driving

Force of the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project,” brings to light this pivotal but forgotten figure of the 20th century. As Project director, Alsberg helped thousands of unemployed writers find work and produced more than 1,000 publications and an unprecedented collection of more than 10,000 oral histories from ex-slaves and immigrants, despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Alsberg also was a leader in the struggle to aid Jewish pogrom survivors in Eastern Europe and initiated the first major effort to assist international political prisoners. In his final years, Alsberg lived Palo Alto with his sister, Elsa, a longtime director of the Palo Alto Fair Play council.

“Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project” (McFarland & Company) is available at amazon.com.

PALY GRAD ‘CROSSING THE LINES” … Palo Alto High School graduate Tony Acarasiddhi Press has released a collection of short stories about life and love in his new book, “Crossing the Lines.” Press’ works, which include poems, essays and short stories, have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and a Million Writers Award. “Crossing the Lines” (Big Table Publishing Co.) is now available at the East Palo Alto Library and at amazon.com. Q

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

Home Front PALO ALTO WASTE DROPOFF ... If you live in Palo Alto and can prove it, you can bring your household hazardous waste (used motor oil, chemicals, etc.) to the city’s Household Hazardous Waste Drop Off Day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday July 30 and Saturday Aug. 5. The Household Hazardous Waste Management program provides Palo Alto residents with an environmentally safe, convenient way to dispose of unwanted hazardous household products such as used or expired medication, paints, solvents, fuels, cleaners, pesticides, etc., which contain hazardous substances.

Please bring proof of residency.

This event happens, rain or shine.

For more information about the Household Hazardous Waste Program and what is accepted, go to www.cityofpaloalto.org/ gov/depts/pwd/zerowaste/ whatgoeswhere/hazwaste.asp. The dropoffs are held at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant, 2501 Embarcadero Way, Palo Alto.

LATE SUMMER FLOWERS ...

There’s still time to plant flowers to keep the dog days from getting too beige. Garden Design Magazine recommends a few bright flowers to add to your yard. The first, a bright orange and yellow “sneezeweed,” also known as Helenium ‘Mardi Gras,’ produces a profusion of flowers from August to October. Firetail Fleece, Persecaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail,’ is a tall, hot pink flower that looks sort of like a thin Delphinium is another option. For more choices go to gardendesign.com/perennials/ midsummer.

Digging in

City-sponsored community gardens provide a respite for residents

by Anna Medina photos by Veronica Weber

Mido Lee is a Palo Alto resident who got a community garden plot where she waters cucumber and pepper plants.

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n an age when faster is better and attention spans are shortening, when people are hustling and smartphones demand quicker responses, the slow process of gardening can seem countercultural.

To some, it may even seem unnecessary and inefficient.

And yet, the City of Palo Alto harbors three thriving community gardens scattered throughout the city, just for its residents.

In the last five to 10 years, there has been a national resurgence in gardening, which some community garden managers attribute to first lady Michelle Obama planting a garden at the White House.

But another reason, according to a local university researcher, may be simpler: local gardeners seek a way

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Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

Yellow squash (above) and amaranth are among other plants that grow in the community garden plots.

to engage in an enjoyable relaxing hobby that reduces stress.

At the Rinconada Community Garden on a weekday in the middle of the day, the sun is blazing and the garden is quiet. There are one or two people working in the garden, which is adjacent to the Palo Alto Art Center and the Rinconada Library. But on weekends, the activity picks up.

Masood Hassemi, a volunteer liaison at the Rinconada Community Garden, has had a plot there for 15 years. He said very few people are aware of the existence of community gardens in Palo Alto and he wants to make sure people know about them, and that they are there for the residents’ use and enjoyment.

“People get a lot of joy out of it when they use their hands on Sat-

Rinconada Garden veteran Pete Newfield harvests an array of vegetables and fruits she grows in the garden plot she’s had for seven years. Here she harvests potatoes, but she also grows tomatoes, spinach, carrots, onions, Swiss chard, kale, basil, peppers, beets and blackberries.

urdays. (Gardening is) kind of a diversion from day-to-day work,” Hassemi said.

As Catherine Bourquin, Garden Program Coordinator for the City of Palo Alto, and Hassemi lead the way through the garden, they point out various fruits and vegetables, the primary plants grown in the garden.

This corroborates findings by researcher Lucy Diekmann, a postdoctoral student in Santa Clara University’s Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, in a survey she conducted to learn why people in Santa Clara County grow their own food, how they garden and the impact food gardens have.

Diekmann’s research shows that the main reasons people garden are to have fresh fruits and vegetables and to engage in an enjoyable hobby.

Other reported motivations include spending time outdoors and physical exercise.

For many, a benefit to community gardens is quite simply community.

“When we’re working here, we just get to know (our) neighbor.

This one in here,” Hassemi said, pointing to a nearby plot, “He’s a surgeon, and on the other side, he’s a dermatologist.”

Diekmann said that one gardener she spoke with had compared having a garden to having a new puppy because it helped to start a conversation with anyone.

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Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

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

Atherton

40 Ashfield Road Blackburn Trust to Stanski Trust for $4,000,000 on 06/17/16; built 2006, 4bd, 3,250 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/07/2006, $2,585,000) 95 Atherton Ave. White Trust to Joss Trust for $14,800,000 on 06/21/16; built 1994, 4bd, 8,290 sq. ft.

185 Fair Oaks Lane Nolet Trust to N. & J. Richardson for $7,475,000 on 06/21/16; built 2013, 4bd, 5,494 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/01/1993, $1,100,000)

East Palo Alto

1168 Beech St. A. Pride to C. Zhang for $1,105,000 on 06/16/16; previous sale 03/26/2004, $700,000 38 Buchanan Court T. & V. Tongi to W. & K. Hammerson for $638,000 on 06/14/16; built 1988, 4bd, 2,040 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/30/2003, $440,000 2217 Capitol Ave. Kinch Trust to R. & H. Dalton for $525,000 on 06/20/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,090 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/22/1977, $12,000 1008 Laurel Ave. K. Smith to C. Lin for $602,000 on 06/17/16; built 1946, 2bd, 810 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/18/2009, $215,000

Los Altos

601 Almond Ave. A. & A. Liang to F. & H. Vallaeys for $3,325,000 on 07/12/16; built 1969, 5bd, 3,193 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/26/2009, $1,900,000 1718 Bendigo Drive B. & P. Lewis to L. Chhatwani for $2,738,000 on 07/12/16; built 1989, 4bd, 3,125 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/21/1997, $970,000 1995 Deodara Drive Borel Trust to Jindal Trust for $2,270,000 on 07/06/16; built 1972, 5bd, 2,520 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/1976, $120,500 4388 El Camino Real #239 R. Jang to S. & V. Dedatta for $1,490,000 on 07/06/16; built 2009, 3bd, 1,671 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/30/2015, $1,540,000 758 Filip Road Marchetti Trust to Sarin Trust for $2,550,000 on 07/11/16; built 1957, 3bd, 2,207 sq. ft.

146 Giffin Road J. Cady to J. Pavlidis for $1,725,000 on 07/08/16; built 1987, 3bd, 2,426 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/22/07, $1,225,000 2072 Louise Lane Cording Trust to J. Mehta for $2,000,000 on 07/07/16; built 1960, 3bd, 2,217 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/21/2006, $1,410,000 56 Marvin Ave. Willcox Trust to Cleary-Saito Trust for $2,600,000 on 07/07/16; built 1975, 3bd, 2,270 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/05/1976, $104,700 1531 Medford Drive Kesner Trust to A. & C. Selle for $3,040,000 on 07/12/16; built 1954, 5bd, 3,568 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/12/1999, $786,000 857 Santa Rita Ave. KellyGordon Development to B. Fan for $4,950,000 on 07/11/16; built 1957, 3bd, 1,913 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/02/2015, $3,300,000 1031 Suffolk Way Fernstermacher Trust to J. & J. Aikin for $2,780,000 on 07/12/16; built 1968, 4bd, 2,265 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/16/2006, $1,600,000 54 Sunkist Lane Moll Trust to C. Zhang for $2,800,000 on 07/12/16; built 1958, 3bd, 2,229 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/20/1988, $535,000 612 Tomi Lea St. Nishi Trust to S. & E. Ongchin for $2,456,000 on 07/07/16; built 1952, 3bd, 2,156 sq. ft.

140 West Edith Ave. Moore Trust to G. Levin for $1,790,000

on 07/07/16; built 1991, 3bd, 2,346 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/18/1992, $530,000

Los Altos Hills

14221 Miranda Road Hearn Trust to Z. & M. Irani for $4,437,000 on 07/08/16; built 1954, 3bd, 2,265 sq. ft.

Menlo Park

760 Cambridge Ave. Anderson Trust to Baniasadi Trust for $3,205,000 on 06/17/16; built 1946, 3bd, 2,110 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/30/1993, $308,000 1060 Cascade Court S. Harrington to E. & E. Ingelsson for $2,788,000 on 06/17/16; built 1962, 5bd, 2,710 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/24/1992, $655,000 408 Chester St. J. Grimes to G. & H. Ponte for $1,450,000 on 06/15/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,220 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/12/2005, $870,000 1250 Chilco St. J. & M. Correa to C. Gutsch for $1,290,000 on 06/14/16; built 1954, 4bd, 1,790 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/08/1990, $175,000 950 Cloud Ave. S. Harrington to D. & D. Ambler for $2,275,000 on 06/15/16; built 1946, 4bd, 1,730 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/30/2004, $1,289,000 275 Gloria Circle Y. Hu to D. & H. Freeland for $3,300,000 on 06/14/16; built 1997, 4bd, 2,640 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/21/2006, $2,220,000 775 Ivy Drive L. Archundia-Berra to M. Monteflore for $965,000 on 06/21/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,210 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/01/2009, $305,000 407 Laurel Ave. F. Kalish to S. Sandadi for $2,000,000 on 06/14/16; built 1939, 2bd, 1,400 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/02/1977, $71,000 1155 Merrill St. #107 Fleisher Trust to M. George for $203,000 on 06/16/16; built 2002, 1bd, 760 sq. ft. ; previous sale 07/16/2010, $191,000 1019 Middle Ave. Schulte Trust to H. Rus for $2,600,000 on 06/16/16; built 1964, 3bd, 1,510 sq. ft.

715 Monte Rosa Drive J. & T. Brumm to Ferris Trust for $2,787,500 on 06/21/16; built 1958, 3bd, 2,313 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/18/2013, $2,325,000 712 Partridge Ave. B. Chudoba to W. Diab for $2,400,000 on 06/14/16 1038 Ringwood Ave. Rodabaugh Trust to A. Midha for $1,500,000 on 06/20/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,230 sq. ft.

662 San Benito Ave. E. Polando to R. & R. Helaihel for $1,250,000 on 06/17/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,700 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/23/2011, $699,000 2140 Santa Cruz Ave. #101 J. & M. Meeks to J. Frakes for $750,000 on 06/17/16; built 1978, 2bd, 945 sq. ft.

2007 Sharon Road Dragon Tiger Trust to A. & G. Behncke for $2,795,000 on 06/15/16; built 2009, 4bd, 2,400 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/15/2010, $1,696,000 1190 Trinity Drive Saluja Trust to Lin Trust for $3,295,000 on 06/17/16; built 1977, 3bd, 2,935 sq. ft.

1820 White Oak Drive J. Farhoomand to R. Torres for $3,550,000 on 06/16/16; built 1949, 3bd, 2,380 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/15/2000, $2,250,000

Mountain View

1903 Aberdeen Lane C. Pegueros to K. & H. Min for $1,240,000 on 07/08/16; built 2009, 3bd, 1,644 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/29/2009, $580,000 1922 Adams Court S. Lim to G. Thirumalai for $2,594,000 on 07/08/16; built 1963, 4bd, 2,100 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/03/1991, $450,000 650 Alamo Court #7 I. Cheng to K. Schmidt for $470,000 on 07/08/16; built 1972, 1bd, 578 sq. ft.

436 Church St. Vellequette Trust to Virk Trust for $2,575,000 on 07/06/16; built 2014, 4bd, 2,109 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/18/2013, $925,000 232 College St. Frade Trust to R. Kapany for $1,200,000 on 07/08/16; built 1990, 3bd, 1,481 sq. ft.

1915 Mt. Vernon Court #7 V. Downing to R. Terral for $555,000 on 07/08/16; built 1964, 1bd, 896 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/06/2002, $274,500 275 Preston Drive C. & R. Wright to S. Muroor for $2,250,000 on 07/12/16; built 1972, 4bd, 2,183 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/17/2003, $935,000 2255 Showers Drive #223 B. Davis to Wood Trust for $750,000 on 07/12/16; built 1999, 1bd, 814 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/05/2005, $455,000 366 Sierra Vista Ave. #1 S. Wang to X. Wu for $1,122,000 on 07/12/16; built 1987, 2bd, 1,560 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/10/2012, $585,000 444 Whisman Park Drive R. Bansal to Q. Peng for $1,460,000 on 07/08/16; built 1998, 3bd, 1,375 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/20/2006, $817,000

Palo Alto

3135 Avalon Court Tu Trust to J. Zhang for $4,088,000 on 07/07/16; previous sale 07/19/2013, $2,100,000 267 Bryant St. Anderson Trust to R. Kahn for $1,410,000 on 07/08/16; built 1968, 2bd, 1,320 sq. ft.

1413 Dana Ave. Bruce-Long Trust to A. & M. Azout for $3,795,000 on 07/11/16; built 1932, 3bd, 2,433 sq. ft.

3279 Maddux Drive Chan Trust to G. Larosa for $1,725,000 on 07/11/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,202 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/31/1994, $297,500 1230 South California Ave. Dinelli Trust to R. Chen for $1,525,000 on 07/12/16; built 1949, 2bd, 882 sq. ft.

879 Talisman Drive Blitz Trust to A. Panda for $2,680,000 on 07/08/16; built 1957, 5bd, 1,775 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/02/1994, $439,000 2572 Webster St. Scher Holdings to J. & C. Singh for $2,525,000 on 07/07/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,632 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/01/2016, $2,000,000 525 West Crescent Drive Atkinson Trust to T. Liu for $3,850,000 on 07/12/16; built 1924, 3bd, 1,923 sq. ft.

Community gardens (continued from page 23)

forward to socializing and interacting,” Diekmann said.

In her research, 91 percent of gardeners said they met new people, 86 percent reported having met people from different backgrounds and 63 percent reported feeling a stronger sense of belonging in the community.

Of the three city-sponsored gardens in Palo Alto, Rinconada is the largest with 193 plots.

And, unlike Eleanor Pardee Community Garden, which is a more private and secluded garden, Rinconada is completely open to the public.

In addition to fostering a sense of community, gardening cultivates an awareness and appreciation for fruits and vegetables. There’s no comparison between the kale he grows in his garden and the kale he finds in the grocery store, Hassemi said. The same goes for tomatoes.

“When you get tomatoes fresh from the ground and go home and eat (them), and then you get one from the store -- what a difference!” he said.

Diekmann reported that in interviews, a number of gardeners described wanting to start gardening because they wanted to make a positive change for their health, often by having more food that was organically grown and more vegetables in their diet.

The findings also show that the summer is a particularly fruitful time to be gardening, both from a health perspective and because gardeners usually grow more than they can eat so they often opt to share the bounty with friends, family, neighbors, charity and coworkers. Q Editorial Assistant Anna Medina can be emailed at amedina@paweekly.com.

A sign says it all at Edith Johnson Community Garden.

PALO ALTO’S COMMUNITY GARDENS Rinconada Community Garden, 1213 Newell Road (behind the Rinconada Library) Eleanor Pardee Garden, 1201 Channing Avenue (located in Eleanor Pardee Park) Edith Johnson Garden 200 Waverley St., (located in Johnson Park) To sign up for your own plot, contact Catherine Bourquin at catherine.bourquin@cityofpaloalto. org. Plots are 75 cents per square foot and there is a $100 refundable deposit. Members are required to attend two, two-hour work days a year between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on given weekends.

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Portola Valley

3 Sunhill St. Ellenberger Trust to A. Grzymala-Busse for $2,815,000 on 06/14/16; built 1993, 3bd, 3,270 sq. ft.

Woodside

444 Kings Mountain Road P. Dertorossian to Dertorossian-Waters Trust for $2,896,000 on 06/22/16; built 1948, 3bd, 2,660 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/10/2002, $2,350,000 375 La Questa Way Schoenbaum Trust to K. Rivera for $5,180,000 on 06/15/16; built 1961, 3bd, 2,590 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/31/2011, $3,423,000 255 Mountain Wood Lane Lasky-Baraja Trust to L. Naify for $13,750,000 on 06/20/16; built 1955, 4bd, 5,860 sq. ft.

6 Quail Meadow Drive Lang Trust to Zappettini Trust for $8,775,000 on 06/16/16; built 1989, 5bd, 8,660 sq. ft.

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3454 Greer Road, Palo Alto Offered at $1,998,000 Residence Boasts Modern Updates Energy-efficient features abound inside this updated 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,437 sq. ft. (per county) that occupies a lot of 6,000 sq. ft. (per city). This sky-lit, solar-equipped design features radiant floor heating, a fireplace, and spaces filled with natural light, including a chef ’s kitchen. Private outdoor retreats include a walled garden, a hedge-lined backyard, and low-maintenance landscaping. The residence also provides a broad paver driveway and an attached two-car garage. Stroll to fine parks and Palo ®

Verde Elementary (API 961) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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R. BRENDAN

945 HUTCHINSON AVE

LEARY

PALO ALTO

(650) 207-2100 CalBRE# 00640599

JULIA LAQUER

Associate to Brendan Lear y (650) 434-2755 CalBRE# 01928656

LIST PRICE $3,395,000

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OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM Charming and traditional 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, two story home nestled in the heart of Community Center Palo Alto. This light-filled 2,393 sq ft interior boasts recently refinished hardwood floors, formal living room with soaring ceilings and stone tile work fireplace, and a separate spacious formal dining room which leads into the large gourmet kitchen. On the first floor there is a bedroom which can also double as a family room as well as a full bath, and laundry room. The french doors from the eat-in kitchen lead to a spectacular deck and private backyard perfect for entertaining family and friends. The second floor features two additional bedrooms with a jack and jill bathroom, and master suite with soaking tub and huge walk in closet. A tremendous opportunity to be walking distance to Eleanor Pardee Park, Community Center, and top-rated Palo Alto schools.

View the Virtual Tour at www.tourfactory.com/1591018

For more information call your real estate agent or Brendan Leary RBL@BrendanLeary.com | www.brendanleary.com | Julia@serenogroup.com Buyer to verify all information including but not limited to the square footage, lot size, and schools.

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

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147 Stockbridge Avenue, Atherton $21,950,000 6 BD / 6+ BA

16 Farm Lane, Hillsborough $6,188,000 4 BD / 5.5 BA

197 Glenwood Avenue, Atherton $5,495,000 5 BD / 3 BA

3 Bassett Lane, Atherton Price Upon Request 3 BD / 3.5 BA

Hamptons estate home completed in May 2016. Approx 1.1 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and privacy.

Situated up a curving, gated driveway, this Tuscan masterpiece has bucolic views of the enclave of Farm Lane.

Magnificent Tudor estate is one of Atherton’s early treasures. More than one acre with majestic palms and heritage oaks,.

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

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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24890 Tiare Lane, Los Altos Hills $4,480,000 3 BD / 3.5 BA

5584 Maacama Ridge Road, Healdsburg $3,950,000 3 BD / 3.5 BA / 45 Acres

2317 Saint Francis Drive, Palo Alto $3,250,000 4 BD / 3.5 BA

377 Bridle Path, Healdsburg $1,850,000 5 BD / 4 BA

Dramatic contemporary with resort living, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, guest house, pool, sport court & more!

Panoramic views overlooking the Alexander Valley. Spacious floorplan in the 3,800+ sqft home. Pool, cabana, vineyard & more!

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

Spacious 3,630 sqft home. Wonderful outdoor environment - bocce court, outdoor pizza oven, olive orchard & more!

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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326 Clarence Avenue, Sunnyvale $1,398,000 3 BD / 2 BA

1330 University Dr. #53, Menlo Park $1,395,000 2 BD / 2 BA

1503 Snell Valley Road, Pope Valley $1,295,000 2 BD / 2 BA

5089 Yucatan Way, San Jose $1,225,000 4 BD / 2 BA

Located on a quiet tree-lined street, the convenient location provides all the best the Silicon Valley has to offer.

Prime Menlo Towers building with views, multiple amenities including elevators, fitness room, clubhouse, pool and more!

140 acre parcel with renovated home, new bocce court, hiking trails, natural springs and ponds.

Beautifully updated spacious home in Cambrian Neighborhood. Freshly landscaping. Quiet Neighborhood.

Sharon Witte, 650.269.6700

Pollock Tarr Team, 415.999.1232

Nancy Meacham, 707.965.0901 nancy.meacham@pacunion.com

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

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DOW N TOW N PA LO A LTO CO N DO 235 High Street, Palo Alto | 235high.com Offered at $1,598,000 | Beds 3 | Baths 2 | Home ±1,342 sf

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Price Reduced to $7,500,000 Beds 4 | Baths 3 | Home ±2,740 sf | Lot ±3.47 acres

Offered at $2,415,000 Beds 3 | Baths 2 | Home ±1,340 sf | Lot ±6,300 sf

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Price Reduced to $8,500,000 Beds 5 | Baths 9 | Home ±7,649 sf | Lot ±1 acre

Offered at $2,350,000 Beds 3 | Baths 2 | Home ±1,200 sf | Lot ±5,280 sf

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Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141

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xquisitely remodeled 3-bedroom plus office/3.5 bath condominium, no detail has been overlooked from the choice of materials to the excellent craftsmanship! Grand spaces, high ceilings and an open floor plan create a comfortable living environment. Vast expanses of glass provide a sunny interior and frame views of the extensive greenbelt garden, treetops and the bay beyond.

Four large tiled patios on three sides capture the sun and invite outdoor enjoyment.

Features include detailed crown molding and wainscoting, hardwood floors, solid core 8’ doors, rich natural stone surfaces, beautiful lighting and custom cabinets.

Living Area 2,898 Sq. Ft. (Per County records, unverified) | Monthly Homeowner’s Association Fee: $1,076

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Woodside French Country Flair with Spectacular Views 135 Summit Road | Woodside | Offered at $2,795,000

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his Woodside French Country 4 BR/3.5 BA home on 3.3+ acres offers an awe-inspiring blend of natural beauty and elegant living. In the Portola Valley School district, featuring a spectacular redwood-framed view of the Silicon Valley, this home is set up for entertaining with a high-ceilinged great room with a bank of floor-to-ceiling picture windows and French Doors which lead to a large outside deck & patio overlooking a luxurious custom pool & hot tub complex with an adjacent “secret garden”. Chefs will enjoy the newly remodeled kitchen with its high end appliances, hand-painted antiqued cabinetry and a large Michelangelo marble island. Bon Appetite! www.135Summit.com Page 42 • July 29, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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3396 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Craftsman Luxury, Modern Leisure Exuding Craftsman charm, this luxury 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom residence of 2,053 sq. ft. (per county) is lined with inviting, leafy outdoor spaces on a lot of 5,012 sq. ft. (per city). Layered crown molding and rich hardwood floors embellish the interior, which offers a fireplace, granite and marble finishes, and fine spaces like formal living and dining rooms and a delightful master suite.

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90 Macbain Ave 3 levels, office, wine cellar, beautiful yard, close to downtown MP, Circus Club location. 5 BR/3 BA + 1 half BA Hugh Cornish/Karin Riley CalBRE #00912143/01725481 650.324.4456

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184 Tennyson Avenue Custom built in 2003, 3level English tudor, nearly 3400 sf house. Bedroom(s) on each level 6 BR/4 BA Julie Lau CalBRE #01052924 650.325.6161

12424 Skyline Blvd Stunning ocean view home. 5 acres w/tennis ct, 7 car garage & sep office. Flat usable yard 4 BR/3 BA + 1 half BA Valerie Trenter CalBRE #01367578 650.324.4456

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Walking distance to Robert’s Market. 4 BR/3 BA + 1 half BA Hugh Cornish CalBRE #00912143 650.324.4456

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6 Russell Ave Completely remodeled charming country style home in the Woodside Highlands community. 3 BR/2 BA Steven Gray CalBRE #1498634 650.851.2666

564 Sand Hill Circle Townhouse on golf course. Dramatic townhouse, aircon., custom kit., 2-car gar. pools 3 BR/2 BA + 1 half BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

685 High St 5B Stylish Penthouse Condo w/ views of Western Mountains.

20 ft ceilings, open living area. 2 BR/2 BA + 1 half BA Paul Skrabo CalBRE #00665727 650.324.4456

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 3 Bedrooms

ATHERTON 3 Bassett Ln $4,895,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

564 Sand Hill Cir $1,750,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 1064 Laurel St $1,698,000 Sat 12-2 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

4 Bedrooms

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$5,175,000 462-1111

90 Macbain Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

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1 Pepperwood Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 746 Partridge Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 2165 Prospect St Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,795,000 462-1111 $2,595,000 324-4456 $2,800,000 324-4456

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120 Selby Ln $9,998,500 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

1220 Middle Ave $4,888,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 550 San Mateo Dr $3,695,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

EAST PALO ALTO

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3 Bedrooms 2544 Emmett Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$689,990 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 2735 Fordham St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$749,000 324-4456

259 Dixon Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms $2,895,000 323-1900

1216 Golden Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$2,295,000 (408) 741-8200

1330 Fairway Dr Sun Kerwin & Associates

$4,150,000 473-1500

23281 Partridge Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

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1033 Crestview Dr #105 Sat/Sun 11-5 Coldwell Banker

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$1,575,000 323-1900

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$2,295,000 324-4456

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26991 Taaffe Rd Sat Deleon Realty

$7,998,000 543-8500

436 High St #403 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$1,275,000 321-1596

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751 Loma Verde Ave A Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

3 Bedrooms 19327 Beardsley Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$785,000 324-4456

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$7,488,000 543-8500

MENLO PARK 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1280 Sharon Park Drive #27 Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,485,000 375-1111

610 Gilbert Ave #24 Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$825,000 462-1111

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$1,200,000 462-1111

18 Patterson Ave Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$2,300,000 325-6161

$1,598,000 323-1111

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$995,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms 1404 Harker Ave $2,350,000 Sun 1-3 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 1855 Bret Harte St $2,698,000 Sun Sereno Group 323-1900 3454 Greer Rd $1,998,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 3396 Park Blvd $1,988,000 Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500 3759 Redwood Cir $2,398,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 125 Hawthorne Ave $2,495,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 3060 Cowper St $2,498,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 520-3407

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$7,850,000 323-1111 $7,498,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms

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861 Hierra Ct Sat/Sun Sereno Group

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184 Tennyson Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

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4 Bedrooms 30 Cheyenne Pt Sun Kerwin & Associates 896 La Mesa Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$949,999 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 21 Cranfield Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$3,595,000 (408) 295-3111

SAN JOSE 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 4681 Albany Cir 107 Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$729,000 (831) 460-1100

4 Bedrooms 5089 Yucatan Way $1,215,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

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$988,888 851-2666

3 Bedrooms 1733 York Ave Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$985,000 324-4456

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3 Bedrooms 6 Russell Ave Sun Coldwell Banker 131 Brookside Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

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$3,198,000 473-1500 $2,699,000 323-1111

1001 E Evelyn Ter #132 Sat/Sun 1-5 Sereno Group

$595,000 947-2900

3 Bedrooms 929 Kennard Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$1,398,888 947-2900

326 Clarence Ave $1,398,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 525 E Olive Ave $1,249,000 Sat 2-4/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

WOODSIDE

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2 Bedrooms 8 Alverno Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,600,000 462-1111

150 Otis Ave $1,495,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

3 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 12 Woodstock Pl $1,695,000 Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 1330 Katherine Ave $1,450,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 2361 Vera Ave $1,538,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group (408) 741-8200 313 E Oakwood Blvd $1,485,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

4 Bedrooms 2787 Ohio Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 3623 Glenwood Ave Sun Deleon Realty 1039 Twin Oaks Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,400,000 462-1111 $1,298,000 543-8500 $2,290,000 851-2666

45 Mission Trail Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,798,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms 2190 Ward Way $4,495,000 Sat 3-5/Sun 2-5 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 135 Summit Rd Sat/Sun 2-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$2,795,000 851-2666

12424 Skyline Blvd Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,999,999 324-4456

280 Family Farm Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$8,995,000 851-2666

5 Bedrooms 10 Buck Ct Sun Kerwin & Associates

$3,950,000 473-1500

6 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms 21 Woodhill Dr Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,598,000 462-1111

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Booksellers and Managers Do you have a background in bookselling, education, library science,and/ or children’s books? HIRING BOOKSELLERS and STORE MANAGERS. Please contact Dianne Edmonds Dianne@lindentreebooks.com LINDEN TREE BOOKS, Los Altos, CA Design TripActions, Inc. has a Head of Design opening in Menlo Park, CA. Overall responsibility for all production work completed by Design team and for providing strategic direction for the department in advancing the organization to its potential. Mail resume to TripActions, Inc., Staffing Dept., 1134 Crane St, Ste 200, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Must reference Ref. HD-JAA Eldercare Position Sage Eldercare is seeking a mature adult with at least 2 years of experience providing care to older adults with memory impairment. The successful candidate is articulate, warm and uses good judgment and discretion.

We have an immediate opening to work with a woman in Atherton as a live-in. Compensation is $315 per day.

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Lifeguards For Menlo Country Club: Palo Alto.

Pool Management Inc. is seeking DRIVEN individuals. It is beneficial for the applicant to be current in a nationally recognized Lifeguard/ CPR/ AED/First Aid certification. If not currently certified, the applicant must have a completed certification prior to their first day. Make up to $20/hr. To apply please visit www. poolmanagementinc.com or call (855) 794-6764.

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

Additional bonus following successful 13 week introductory period. Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to jon3silver@ yahoo.com with Newspaper Delivery Routes in the subject line. Or (best) call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310

Sr. Software Engineer Resp. for eng. life cycle, backend algorithms and delivery. Use PHP, SQL, XML, JavaScript, NoSQL, Java, and databases. Must possess demonstrated skills in NoSQL, XML, JavaScript, Java, PHP, MySQL, and database (Hibernate or SQL Server).

Job in Mountain View, CA. Mail cover ltr. and resume to Saavn @ 460 Park Ave. South, 4th Fl., New York, NY, 10016.

Tech Support Engr (Job Code: TSE-SS) Provide world class tech sprt to entrprs utilizing the co. prod ste. MS+1 yr rltd exp. Mail resume to MobileIron, Attn: Kelsey Browning, 415 E. Middlefield Rd, Mt. View, CA 94043. Must ref title and code.

TECHNOLOGY Highfive Technologies, Inc. has openings in Redwood City, CA:

Backend Software Engineer (Ref. BSE-LG): Responsible for producing software for real-time audio/video conferencing products that combine online cloud services and connected devices.

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer (Ref. SQAE-RG): Perform software quality assurance engineering tasks such as understanding and analyzing features related to audio and video systems and realtime service in the cloud.

Sr. Project Designer (Ref. SPD-HY): Design next generation image and video search experience by developing graphics and layouts for products to meet the company’s specific commercial and promotional needs.

List reference # and mail resume to Staffing Dept., 500 Arguello St, Ste 200, Redwood City, CA

Technology HP Enterprise Services, LLC is accepting resumes for the position of Technology Consultant in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #ESPALTC1). Provide technology consulting to customers and internal project teams. Provide technical support and/or leadership in creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and, consequently, for understanding customers’ businesses. Mail resume to HP Enterprise Services, LLC, 5400 Legacy Drive, Mailstop H1-2F-25, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address and mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. The Cheesecake Factory - Interviewing on the spot 7/26!

540 Domestic Help Wanted care and help Make $500 weekly, Care and Help needed urgently, Send resumes to b_balisi@aol.com for more details.

Cook Caregiver Elderly gentleman in Palo Alto needs cook / caregiver, mornings 5 day’s a week Live in or out 650-856-3202

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20 Texas facility that opened on May 15, 1993 22 Show with Digital Shorts, for short 23 Llama relatives 25 Word after cargo or fish 26 Bovary and Tussaud, for two 28 Like some fails 30 Ear inflammation 31 Ice Bucket Challenge cause 32 Mobile ___ 36 “Smallville” family 37 “Don’t Stop ___ You Get Enough” 38 Madrigal refrain 39 Boundary-pushing 40 Seaver or Selleck 41 Dakota’s language family 42 Torme’s forte 44 Filler phrase from Rodney Dangerfield, perhaps 45 Caps or cone preceder 48 Her feast day is Jan. 21 50 Internet routing digits (hidden in WASN’T) 51 Cold dish made with diced tomatoes, mint, and lemon juice 53 Crooked course segment 54 Part of a squirrel’s 45-Down 55 Enclosure for a major wrestling match 59 Frank Zappa’s “___ Yerbouti” 60 TV relative from Bel-Air 61 Garden plant that thrives in shade 62 Game where players catch ... ah, whatever, I’m not interested

Down 1 Cheech and Chong’s first movie 2 Put on a ticket 3 Captain ___ (Groucho Marx’s “Animal Crackers” role) 4 Puddle gunk 5 Prefix with “nym” 6 “Breaking Bad” network 7 Draws from again, like a maple tree 8 ___ Gay (WWII B-29) 9 CopperTop maker 10 Classic “Dracula” star Bela 11 Crocus or freesia, botanically 12 City known for its mustard 13 “___ All Ye Faithful” 14 Bed-in-a-bag item 21 Weather Channel displays 23 English novelist Kingsley 24 Primus leader Claypool 27 Bar assoc. members 29 Song often sung outdoors 31 Go for a target 33 CNN anchor of the 2000s 34 Is an active jazz musician, perhaps 35 Seat of Tom Green County 37 Sums 38 50-50 situations?

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement SPRINGBOARD SOLUTIONS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 618832 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Springboard Solutions, located at 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DONNA WEBER 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrantr began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/20/16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 27, 2016.

(PAW July 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016) GW Woodworking FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619275 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: GW Woodworking, located at 716-C San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GARY WEISENBURGER 4250 El Camino Real C122 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07-04-2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 08, 2016.

(PAW July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 2016) HOAU America FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619368 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: HOAU America, located at 530 Lytton Ave., 2nd. Fl., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): VISIBLE ENERGY INC. 530 Lytton Ave. 2nd. Fl. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/1/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 13, 2016.

(PAW July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 2016) START LIVING IN HARMONY QIGONG 4 BALANCE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619342 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1)Start Living in Harmony, 2)Qigong 4 Balance, located at 2251 High St, 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): ARDA OZDEMIR 1163 Morningside Dr Napa, CA 94558 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/29/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 12, 2016.

(PAW July 29; Aug. 5, 12, 19, 2016) FRUITFUL STUDY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619657 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Fruitful Study, located at 960 N San Antonio, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): RITA HITCHING 960 N San Antonio Los Altos, CA 94022 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 20, 2016.

(PAW July 29; Aug. 5, 12, 19, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Loan No.: 2015-0009/ PALO ALTO CA 14 RESS Order No.: 75905 A.P. NUMBER 148-06-001 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/27/2015, 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. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on 08/05/2016, at 10:00AM of said day, At the gated North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA., La Costa, Inc., a California Corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the power of sale conferred in that certain Deed of Trust executed by PALO ALTO CA 14 LLC A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY recorded on 05/26/2015, in Book N/A of Official Records of SANTA CLARA County, at page N/A, Recorder’s Instrument No. 22964218, by reason of a breach or default in payment or performance of the obligations secured thereby, including that breach or default, Notice of which was recorded 04/07/2016 as Recorder’s Instrument No. 23269676, in Book n/a, at page n/a, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, lawful money of the United States, evidenced by a Cashier’s Check drawn on a state or national bank, or the equivalent thereof drawn on any other financial institution specified in section 5102 of the California Financial Code, authorized to do business in the State of California, ALL PAYABLE AT THE TIME OF SALE, all right, title and interest held by it as Trustee, in that real property situated in said County and State, described as follows: Portion Lot 50, Tract 483 Monroe Subdivision, filed March 15, 1948, Book 15 of Maps, at pages 50 and 51 The street address or other common designation of the real property hereinabove described is purported to be: 144 MONROE DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CA 94306.

The undersigned disclaims all liability for any incorrectness in said street address or other common designation. Said sale will be made without warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, or other encumbrances, to satisfy the unpaid obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest and other sums as provided therein; plus advances, if any, thereunder and interest thereon; and plus fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust.

The total amount of said obligations at the time of initial publication of this Notice is $1,119,892.81. In the event that the deed of trust described in this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is secured by real property containing from one to four single-family residences, the following notices are provided pursuant to the provisions of Civil Code section 2924f: 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’s 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 916-939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 75905.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not be immediately reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Dated: 07/07/2016 La Costa Loans, Inc., a California Corporation, as Trustee By: RESS Financial Corporation, a California corporation, Its Agent By: BRUCE R. BEASLEY, PRESIDENT 1780 Town and Country Drive, Suite 105, Norco, CA 92860-3618 (SEAL)

Tel.: (951) 270-0164 or (800)343-7377 FAX: (951)270-2673 Trustee’s Sale Information: (916) 939-0772 or www.nationwideposting. com NPP0286717 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 07/15/2016, 07/22/2016, 07/29/2016 AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: AMANDO G. QUILALA Case No.: 1-16-PR-178965 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of AMANDO G. QUILALA, AMANDO GARCIA QUILALA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: TERESA RAHEEM I. KHAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: TERESA RAHEEM I. KHAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 22, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

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

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

Petitioner: Teresa Raheem I. Khan, In Pro Per 1246 Burgoyne Street Mountain View, CA 94043 (650)224-2056 (PAW July 15, 22, 29, 2016) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MELVIN WALDFOGEL Case No.: 116PR 179133 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MELVIN WALDFOGEL. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ASHER WALDFOGEL in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ASHER WALDFOGEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on September 1, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections

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with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

Petitioner: Mary P. White White Law, 2200 Sand Hill Road, Suite 220 Menlo Park, California 94025 (650)854-7950 (PAW July 15, 22, 29, 2016) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JON DAVID HOPPER Case No.: 16PR179189 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JON DAVID HOPPER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: AMBER HARRISON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: AMBER HARRISON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on September 14, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

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

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: James Efting & Katherine Efting 438 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086-6114 (408)732-3114 (PAW July 22, 29; Aug. 5, 2016)

1999 c/o ANDREA DiTULLIO at DELAGNES, LINDER, & DUEY, LLP 300 Montgomery Street, Suite 1050, San Francisco, CA 94104 within the later of four (4) months after the date of first publication of this notice or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date of delivery to you. If you do not file your claim within the time required by law, you must file a petition with the court for permission to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code section 9103. Not all claims are eligible for additional time to file. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk.

For your protection, you are encouraged to send your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.

(PAW July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 2016) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ELEANOR WATERMAN SAMPSON Case No.: 116PR179294 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ELEANOR WATERMAN SAMPSON, also known as ELEANOR SAMPSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PETER ROBERT SAMPSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The petition for probate requests that PETER ROBERT SAMPSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give

notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 19, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: /s/ John Wm. Bryant, Esq. 118B Main Street Tiburon, CA 94920 (415) 435-4444 (PAW July 29; Aug. 5, 12, 2016)

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Sports Shorts COURTING A TITLE . . . United States Tennis Association Girls’ 16 & 18s National Championships, scheduled to be played August 6-14 at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, officially announced the field. Sacred Heart Prep junior Sara Choy, a Palo Alto resident and CCS champion will be among the nearly 400 girls aged 16 and 18 and under from across the United States and Puerto Rico who will compete for the national championship. Menlo Park resident Elena Van Linge, a high school junior, and Gunn sophomore Emily Zhou are also in the field. Choy will play in the 18 singles division and partner with Telecula’s Jessica Anzo in 18 doubles. Van Linge is entered in 16 singles and will play 16 doubles with Fair Oaks’ Jillian Taggert. Zhou is entered in 18 singles.

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Menlo Park resident KK Clark and Stanford’s Maggie Steffens, Melissa Seidemann, Kiley Neushul (pictured above) and Mackenzie Fischer join nine others on the Olympic roster.

Local contingent prepared for gold rush Menlo Park, Stanford players are represented on Team USA

by Rick Eymer tanford senior Maggie Steffens remembers her older teammates guiding her through the ordeal of preparing for the Olympics. Now an elder stateswoman of the team, she’s helping guide the new faces as the United States women’s Olympic water polo team prepares to defend its gold medal in Rio. Mackenzie Fischer is one of

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those newcomers. Like Steffens, she delayed her freshman year at Stanford to train with the national team. One of her favorite memories is joining a group of fellow water polo enthusiasts at a restaurant in Laguna Beach to watch the 2012 London Olympics gold medal match against Spain.

Fischer had a personal connection in that Stanford grad Annika Dries was also a Laguna Beach resident and had given her private

lessons.

Menlo Park resident KK Clark and Stanford grad Kiley Neushul are also new to this year’s Olympic team, though both were on the U.S. national program’s radar four years ago. They each helped their respective colleges -- Clark attended UCLA -- win national titles.

Clark played for U.S. Olympic coach Adam Krikorian, who coached the Bruins to five consec-

utive NCAA titles through 2009, and seven overall, before joining the national program.

Krikorian, a native of Mountain View and still a Bay Area sports fan, remains the only college coach to win at least three consecutive national championships.

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BANK OF THE WEST

Konta grabs the spotlight from Venus World No. 14 player wins her first career WTA Tour title

by Glenn Reeves he crowd of 2,268 at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Center was deprived of seeing favorite daughter Venus Williams win her 50th WTA Tour title. They did, however, witness Great Britain’s Johanna Konta win her first career WTA Tour title.

While Williams was clearly the crowd favorite, fans did slowly warm up to Konta and appreciated her grit in fighting off Venus, one of the best who ever played the game.

Konta, who earned $128,100 in

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prize money, saw her ranking rise to a career-high No. 14 after beating Williams, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, in the Bank of the West Classic championship Sunday.

Williams didn’t go away empty-handed, pocketing $68,280 in prize money and moving up a notch to No. 6 in the rankings.

Both players moved on to Montreal for the Rogers Cup this week, each hoping to continue building toward the US Open.

Menlo Park’s CiCi Bellis, after reaching the quarterfinals at Stanford, drew the top seed of this week’s Lexington Challenger

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Menlo School senior Griff McGarry was named to the Area Code Games team from Northern California, the Athletics, which will play in the Area Code Games in Long Beach beginning Aug. 6 . . . Stanford grad Nneka Ogwumike, now with the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks, was named Western Conference Player of the Week . . . Stanford women’s gymnast Jenna Frowein was one of 23 student-athletes, along with men’s swimmer Gray Umbach, to earn a Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship.

Frowein maintained a 3.94 GPA and graduated with an undergraduate degree in architecture this past spring. She began graduate studies in sustainable design and construction during her senior year.

Frowein excelled in the classroom throughout her collegiate career, earning three Pac-12 All-Academic first team honors . . . Stanford incoming freshman Andrea Lee fell, 4 and 2, to Korean Eun Jeong Seong in the championship match of the U.S. Girls junior nationals at Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey last weekend. Lee, seeded 13th following stroke play, won five matches to reach the finals, including a win over top-seeded Hye-Jin Choi in the semifinals.

The third-seeded Seong repeated as champion of the event. Lee represented the U.S. in the Curtis Cup match in June at the Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in Dublin, with Great Britain and Ireland beating the United States, 11.5 to 8.5. Lee won her singles match, but lost twice in the foursomes. At the junior nationals, Lee led 5-up after the 13th hole of the 36-hole match.

It was all square after 28 holes and Jeong Seong birdied four of the next six holes, winning all four holes.

Johanna Konta won her first career WTA Tour event by beating Venus Williams, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, in the Bank of West Classic final. in the first round. Stanford grad Kristie Ahn is also entered.

Konta was going for her first title; Venus was going for her 50th.

The newcomer won thanks in no small part to a heaping helping of resiliency.

Konta, the No. 3 seed, appeared

to be on her way to win in straight sets when she opened a 4-1 lead in the second set. But Williams, the No. 1 seed and home court favorite, rallied back to take the set and even the match. (continued on next page)

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Melissa Seidemann She says: “There are a lot of changes from four years ago.

We want to keep our preparation consistent for the Olympics, which require the highest intensity, the highest focus, the highest everything.

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“4-1 doesn’t mean the match is over,” Williams said. “I came close to winning five games in a row. The crowd was really into it.”

It appeared as though all the momentum was on the side of Williams, who made her pro debut at Bank of the West in 1994.

But the 25-year-old Konta found the inner strength to seize control in the third set and never let go.

“Keeping things in perspective,’’ Konta said by way of explanation. “There are going to be ebbs and flows in a match. Putting things behind you. Knowing that every point was going to be a battle and to try to win as many as possible.’’

Konta, who was born in Australia and became a British citizen in 2012, has made a whirlwind ascent this year. She is now ranked 14th, the first British woman in nearly 30 years to be ranked in the top 20. When she played at Wimbledon earlier this year she was ranked No. 16.

The previous year at Wimbledon she was ranked 126th.

“Daily effort, daily work, daily desire to get better,’’ Konta said.

“Finding the enjoyment within my sport and separating my happiness and well-being from any results.’’

She was the first British woman to reach the Bank of the West final since Virginia Wade in 1981.

She also had a win over Williams at the Australian Open and is 5-4 against top 20 players this year.

“She plays real well against me,” Williams said. “I played definitely a lot better than in Australia.”

It was the eighth Bank of the West finals appearance for Williams, who won the singles title in 2000 and 2002.

Americans Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears won the doubles title with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Croatia’s Darija Jurak and Australia’s Anastasia Rodionova.

Williams willed herself into the finals, beating fellow American Alison Riske, 6-1, 7-6 (2), on Saturday even as she seemed to be

struggling.

Williams faltered near the end of the second set, serving three consecutive double faults to let Riske get back into the game.

Williams saved a break point to force the tie-breaker, in which she dominated.

“In the tiebreaker I just wanted to be more aggressive,” Williams said. “It was a great second set and I’m happy to come out on top.”

Konta earned her spot in the finals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over the second-seeded Dominika Cibulkova, a former Bank of the West Classic champion.

The third-seeded Konta reached her first career final on the strength of her serving game.

She won 27 of her 29 first serves (93 percent) and 11 of 15 second serves (73 percent).

“I went all right,” Konta said. “I felt like I needed to take care of things on my end the best possible way. I was able to stay focused.”

The 12th-ranked Cibulkova conceded Konta’s serve was difficult, though she was happy overall with reaching the semifinal of her first tournament in the United States.

“She made it strong and her placing was good,” Cibulkova said. “I could have done more with her second serve and that’s what made the difference. It was hard for me to do something with it. My first week in America, I made the semifinal. I’ll take it.”

Reaching the semifinal was worth $37,330 and 185 ranking points. Cibulkova missed last year’s event and lost in the first round two years ago. She won the tournament in 2013 and also reached the semis in 2011.

Riske felt she had nowhere to go but up after a lop-sided loss in the first set.

“I had trouble keeping the ball on the court,” she said. “I knew going into the second set it could only get better.”

Riske played at Stanford for the third time and said she was already looking forward to next year.

“It was a great experience and a great week for me,” Riske said.

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Cardinal grad Melissa Seidemann, who returns for her second Olympics, came to water polo rather late, at age 12. She was more a swimmer, and was guided into water polo by a former Cal player.

Krikorian was tasked with replacing nine Olympians from 2012 and he’s been able to blend youth with experience. The oldest is 29-year-old Courtney Mathewson. Kami Craig just turned 29 and Seidemann is 26. All three, along with Steffens, are returnees from London.

Aria Fischer, at age 17, is the youngest. Mackenzie is 19 and Maddie Musselman is 18.

Clark is two days younger than Seidemann, and Sami Hill and Kaleigh Gilchrist are both 24.

Steffens, at age 23, is the seventholdest and sixth-youngest.

That’s a pretty good mix if one of your veterans is at the mediam age. The team is old enough to have plenty of international experience and young enough to infuse renewed energy.

Two others, Stanford grad Ashley Grossman and Cardinal senior Gabby Stone, are also full-time members of the 17-player U.S. senior national team. Olympic rosters are limited to 13.

The five players with local connections sat down with local media before Wednesday night’s “Rumble to Rio,” at Stanford, the final match on American soil before the team departs for Rio, to talk over all things Olympics.

changed. I’m in a position of lead- thor of “World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfership more than I have been. ing.” Yes, she “Youth is a surfs. She’s blessing. The planning a girls have trip with Gilenergy. christ for after “I think the Olympics. we all feel a loyalty to our Macken zie schools, but Fischer we’re famShe says: “I ily with each didn’t give it other. much thought.

“Spain has It’s not gogrown to be ing to change one of our anything greatest rihere. Stanford vals, consiswill always tently over Stanford hosted its fifth send-off for the past four the women’s Olympic water polo team. be here for me. This is years.”

Her water polo genealogy: Sis- the chance of a lifetime.” -- On ters Lauren (UC Davis) and Nata- deferring her freshman year at Stanford. lie (USA Cadet training team).

“At first we got thrown into Extra: Played professionally in Spain after the 2012 London it. Then they took us under their Olympics. “I got to know mem- wings. You have to earn respect, bers of the national team and they but it’s said the game doesn’t know your age. There’s no reason brought me into their homes.” an 18-year-old can’t play as well as the older players.”

Kiley Neushul “It’s crazy. It’s getting closer She says: “It’s been a great road for me. The time at Stanford and feels more real. I’m a little was just spectacular for me. We nervous.”

Her water polo genealogy: Fahad some of the best and smartest players and coaches. It was a ther Erich was a 1992 Olympian; treat to come to Avery every day younger sister Aria is an Olympic teammate. to train hard.

Extra: Won the Junior Olym“The Olympics feel like a completely new quadrennial; a brand pic national title with the Laguna Beach 12U team. The title game new slate.

“Every day when you wake up, was played at Stanford. you have to remember how you KK Clark got to that point.

She says: “Everyone on this Her water polo genealogy: Mother Cathy played for UC team has the ability to take over Santa Barbara and is a long-time a game. I think of the Warriors coach at the college, high school and they have the four: Stephen, and club level. Father Peter was Klay, Draymond and now Durant. a two-time All-American at When I look at myself, I take inUC Santa Barbara. Sister Jamie spiration from them. I’m not goplayed at Stanford. “I’ve been ing to take shots away from our around older water polo players scorers but each role is just as imsince I was little,” Neushul said. portant. I’m going to create open “I’ve been exposed to great play- water, move a lot. ers and coaches.”

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Aria Fischer is the youngest member of the team at age 17, though she plays as hard and as tough as anyone.

Maggie Steffens looks to defend against a Russian shooter while Ashleigh Johnson defends the cage.

“I’m excited to be going back to Stanford and to have ‘Fish’ come with me is even better.

“The best part is the team work.

When this team is focused and really in it, it’s the best water polo I have ever played. It’s fun to watch.

It’s the unselfishness we have.”

Her water polo genealogy: Older sister Jessica was both a Stanford and Olympic teammate.

Large family of relatives who have achieved success in sports, most of them in water polo; Maureen O’Toole, founder of Diablo Water Polo Club and, at age 39, a 2000 Olympian. “My dad had a connection with her and we joined with her right away. She’s a huge part of this. She’s one of the best

Fans of all ages came to cheer on their heroes and support Team USA.

water polo players in the world, man or woman. It just wasn’t the skills but also mental toughness and learning respect.”

Extra: Met her idol, Mia Hamm, and was immediately star-struck.

“I have a ‘9’ jersey and I did a book report on her. I asked her about expectations and she said ‘You have to love that pressure.

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Maggie Steffens She says: “It’s definitely different; different role, different team, same goal.

“It’s fun to have done this before and know how special it is. I had great role models, great leaders in Brenda Villa, Heather Petri, Betsy Armstrong ... all women who accomplished so much and who helped me grow. I want to do what I had done for me. I want to facilitate greatness. There’s no place I’d rather be than expecting to be great.

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“We all respect each other and we all push each other. I try to be the glue in a relationship. I hate confrontation.”

Her water polo genealogy: Aunt Marybeth Dorst was a 1980 swimming Olympian; Uncle Chris Dorst was 1980, 1984 Olympian; Sisters Zizi and Christie played water polo at UC Santa Barbara; Cousins Lindsay (Cal), Rebecca (UCLA) and Emily (Stanford) all played in college. “I thought if my aunt and uncle were Olympians, it would be in my blood. So, yeah, (at Sacred Heart Prep) I played JV for two years.”

Extra: USC grad Kami Craig, now one of her closest friends, scared her at first. “I felt she was untouchable for a year. I was really nervous. We’ve come a long way to get to know each other.”

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Olympic coach with local ties continues to learn Krikorian got his water polo start at Stanford club team

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and helped them take the extra step.

He wasn’t guaranteed anything more than a year when he first signed on. Krikorian had to prove himself all over again.

Maggie Steffens was the lone teenager on the 2012 Olympic team. She’s still on the young side, with six players older and six players younger, but this time around she’s only one of four returning players. There are three teenagers on Team USA this tour of duty.

“There were nine players with a ton of experience,” Krikorian said of his first team. “Two of them played in four Olympics (Brenda Villa and Heather Petri) and a few more played in three. This is just the opposite. It’s been a long journey and a long process.”

Krikorian had to overhaul the team, and was brave enough to take on a lot of youngsters.

Steffens, Courtney Mathewson, Kami Craig and Melissa Seidemann, who were guided by the older group four years ago, are the leaders now and have been guiding the newcomers.

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efore U.S. Olympic women’s water polo coach Adam Krikorian won any national titles at UCLA, and before he coached the Americans to a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, he was just a kid from Mountain View playing club water polo at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center.

Every time Krikorian returns to the area, it’s like visiting the neighborhood playground. It feels like home.

Krikorian’s parents, and one of his brother’s family, were on hand to share in what really was a celebration of women’s water polo.

In the middle of a successful coaching career at UCLA, in which he won seven national titles, still the most by one coach, he joined the USA coaching staff, taking over for his old college coach Guy Baker, who led the women to three Olympic medals.

Krikorian took over a veteran team that included nine players from the 2008 Beijing Olympics

U.S. Olympic coach Adam Krikorian grew up in Mountain View and played water polo for the Stanford club team.

“The last group was a savvy bunch, veterans, hard-nosed and tough,” Krikorian said. “This group is super talented. It’s fun for me because I learned a lot.”

Krikorian was the one asking the older players what the Olym-

pics were like. Now he’s been through it and can help the rookies adjust.

Since winning the gold medal in 2012, Krikorian owns a 12416-1 record. None of that matters, though. All eight teams have a

clean slate.

“The way we look at it,” Seidemann said, “is we have seven of our biggest rivals to play.”

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Stanford’s Massialas takes world’s top ranking to Rio NCAA champion making his second Olympic appearance

by Eric He ual and team events, the goal in he Olympics flow in Al- Rio will be to tune out the extraexander Massialas’ blood curricular noise and focus on the ever since he can remem- competition.

“This time around, I’m just gober. His father coach, Greg, was a three-time Olympic fencer for ing to be a little bit more smarter about it,” he said. “Really just the United States.

It’s a little ironic, then, that he hunker down and train until comhad to wait seven years before petition time, don’t spend too even being allowed to begin the much time outside village and training facility. Being more fosport. cused, watching more “My dad actually video on opponents, wouldn’t let me start honing in the small right away,” Massialas things and fine tuning said. “He had this rule actions.” where you had to be sevThose are the skills en years old to start. It’s that Massialas credits funny -- the person you for his climb to the top; thought would be pusha slow but steady aping me to start, didn’t proach. He has never want me to.” made one big jump in But being held back didn’t stop Massialas’ Alexander Massialas the world rankings; rather, it has been a ascent to the world’s number one ranking in men’s slight jump each year, which he foil, one of three Olympic fenc- attributes to improving on the baing events along with the Épée sics instead of trying to redefine and the sabre. The 22-year-old his approach.

“Once people figure out (your played other sports as a kid, from basketball to soccer, but despite new move), they counter it,” his father’s hands-off approach, he said. “You don’t want those Massialas could not shake fencing swings where you go up and down. You want to work slowly, loose from the family tree.

“I was able to develop a love for tweak things. Make sure your the sport on my own,” he said. “I footwork and handwork are tight didn’t have anyone forcing me to and your fundamentals are sound. do anything. It came organically.” Those are the ways you can really The result: two appearances develop slowly over the course of representing the United States in time.”

It doesn’t hurt to be the son of the Olympics -- Massialas made the team in 2012 as an 18-year- a Olympian. Greg, who competed old (the youngest male member of for the U.S. in the 1976, 1984 the U.S. team from any sport) and and 1988 Olympics, is one of will head to Rio as the top-ranked Massialas’ coaches at the Massialas Foundation in San Francisco. foil fencer in the world.

Cardinal Vivian Kong will also Alex cites his father’s ability to be competing at the Olympics, adapt to the modern game and synthesize different techniques representing Hong Kong.

Massialas’ road to the world and strategies.

“A lot of coaches teach in a way stage began in 2009 at the Senior World Championships in Paris, that is more directed toward old where, as a 15-year-old, he made it times when they were fencing,” into the second round and onto the Massialas said. “He’s always on senior U.S. team for the first time. the forefront of trying to develop a Gold medals at the Cadet World style that’s relevant to this day and Championships in 2010 and 2011 age, not just one style. He takes helped him land on the Olympic the best parts of each style and team just months after reaching puts it together into one fencer.”

For the novice fan, Massialas adulthood.

He placed 13th in London, an noted that being athletic is not experience he described as “over- an automatic ticket to success in whelming” as he ate and slept fencing, which he described as in the Olympic village, meeting “physical chess.”

“It’s a mix of being cerebral and celebrities from NBA athletes to athletic,” he said. “You need to be Michael Phelps.

“This was the one thing I’ve able to be one step ahead of your always dreamed about doing,” opponent, like in chess. Plan out Massialas said. “I always wanted what you’re going to do in accorto follow in my father’s footsteps dance to what (your opponent is) and make an Olympic team. It going to do and physically carry was nothing like I experienced it out as well. You need hand-eye coordination, mental focus and before.

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Stanford grads Brenda Villa and Ellen Estes and the 2000 U.S. women’s Olympics water polo team were honored at Stanford Wednesday night.

WATER POLO

First American women’s team chronicled Local historian conveys pioneering spirit

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efore one word was written, Kyle Utsumi made a pledge to have the book for sale by the time the ball dropped for Wednesday’s “Rumble to Rio.” He made it with days to spare.

Utsumi, who has been involved with women’s water polo since it became an Olympic sport, has a tendency to deliver what he promises. It’s what made him a success coach and successful in life.

Utsumi, who will begin a new chapter in his life this fall as an eighth-grade teacher at Woodside Priory, completed another chapter recently by detailing the rise of the sport and what it took to gain national prominence.

Water polo had been part of the Olympics for 100 years before the women made their debut in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

In the years leading up to that first Olympics, girls had to play on boys’ teams in high school, or practice alone.

A group of pioneers gathered together, among them Stanford grads Ellen Estes and Brenda Villa. They were venturing into unknown territory.

Utsumi, who lived it first-hand, tells their stories in “Sydney’s Silver Lining,” a book about the first Olympics to involve women’s water polo and why that team is so important to the development of the game.

The book’s release coincided with the opening of the Junior Olympics, which continues this weekend at venues all over Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Over 100 teams of various age groups are participating. Sixteen years later and the American women of 2000 remain an important stepping stone to how far the sport has grown.

Those pioneers were honored

Wednesday night before Team USA took on Russia.

“I grew up playing in age group leagues in Orange County from 10-under,” Utsumi said. “Colleges started varsity programs between 1996-2002 in response to the Olympics. Instead of the bottom up, women’s water polo expanded from the top down. Colleges prompted high schools, which introduced the need for 14U club programs.”

Utsumi played water polo for a season at Stanford under coach Dante Dettamanti and then started coaching while finishing his degree. He first coaching job was with the Gunn junior varsity in the fall of 1995. He took over at Menlo School the following year, establishing a successful program before joining the Stanford coaching staff.

Utsumi maintains an involvement with the Stanford club program and has served in various roles for USA Water Polo.

It’s important to note that while men’s water polo has been an NCAA-sponsored sport since 1969, the first women’s NCAA championship was held in 2001, nearly a year after the Olympics.

Estes took time off from college and Villa delayed her entry into Stanford to train, with former UCLA coach Guy Baker, for the Olympics.

There were no guarantees that the U.S. would qualify for the Olympics.

It took a determined group of players, which included a then 39-year-old Maureen O’Toole, one of the original members of the USA water polo program, established in 1978.

Current team member Kiley Neushul also has a direct connection, as her mother Cathy was one of the original U.S. athletes in the 70s.

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O’Toole, who came out of a three-year retirement to train with the national team in 1997, was named MVP of the women’s national team 15 times and was honored as World Female Athlete of the Year six times.

Olympians Maggie Steffens, a two-time World Female Athlete of the Year, and Jessica Steffens, who coaches with the Stanford club team, are products of her influence through the Diablo club team she founded.

“Our kids have to know about their heroes,” Utsumi said. “It all starts at the club level, where you have a chance to watch the best.

You have to look to learn where you come from.”

It’s a book that likely germinated in the lead-up to the 2000 Olympics but needed time to develop. From the perspective of watching this young program develop into a world power, Utsumi adds to the mystic of the 13 players who broke new ground and became heroes to thousands of young girls over the years.

Utsumi, who spent 11 months putting it all together, went back to interview all 13 players and added meticulous details.

“Each player added a layer to the story,” Utsumi said. “It was fascinating how details came back to them. I hope this book is going to help put that team into a position they deserve. We are a dominant program that came from the lowest ranking we ever had to winning a gold medal in 2012 .

This is what happens when you get the funds you need. It changed the way they trained.”

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Zhang leads medal-hungry U.S. table tennis into Rio Palo Alto’s two-time Olympian hopes to bring back some hardware

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Palo Alto’s Lily Zhang prepares for her second trip to the Olympics. person and once she gets on the table, she totally changes. She’s got her game face and she’s ready to win.”

Constantini hopes that mentality carries over to Rio, where he wants his players to go beyond simply participating in the Olympics.

“There are a lot of players, once they get (to) the Olympics, they feel, ‘I’m done. I made my result.

I made my history,’” he said. “Obviously, it’s not like that. I want all the players, not only Lily, to do something really special over there. Not just to be happy to be there, but leave an important mark in Brazil.”

The U.S. has never won a medal in the Olympics in table tennis; Zhang’s bronze at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China in 2014 was the first time the U.S.

earned a medal in the sport.

Table tennis has not quite caught on as a mainstream sport in the United States, but Zhang says there are misconceptions that casual fans believe.

“They think it’s a basement sport where you just stand and swing your arms wildly around, but there’s so much more to that,” she said. “This sport requires so much mental and physical capabilities. You’re using every single part of your body to play every point. Your legs move, your waist turns, your wrists add power. A lot of people don’t realize that and I feel like if we got a lot more media exposure and open up people’s eyes to the real sport of table tennis, it would captivate a lot of minds.”

The sport continues to grow.

This year, both the U.S. men’s

and women’s teams qualified for the Olympics for the first time in history.

“When I first started off, there were only a couple of clubs in the Bay Area,” Zhang said. “Now there’s dozens of clubs. Especially in the Bay Area, it’s the powerhouse of table tennis in America right now. It’s producing a lot of amazing juniors. That’s what’s really going to grow our sport is the juniors and the youth.”

Bringing back a medal from Rio would be a gigantic leap forward, one that Zhang bubbles with excitement just thinking about.

“Oh my god, that would be a dream come true,” she said. “To be able to bring back that first ever medal for the U.S., it would be such an incredible honor -- an absolute dream come true.”Q

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noise, despite being a part of the world’s biggest sporting event.

“I’m going to try to block out all the distractions,” Zhang said.

“It’s going to be really cool -- the Olympic village, Opening Ceremony -- but at the same time, I have to take a step back and think about myself, my mental game and my strategy.”

Zhang trains at the India Community Center in Milpitas, where she has learned from coach Massimo Constantini for the past six years. Constantini, who is also a coach on the Olympic team, has seen Zhang blossom from a promising talent to the face of USA table tennis.

“I think she has displayed very good talent, dedication and table tennis,” he said. “She is extremely focused during the practice sessions and willing to make something big. For the last five to six years, I believe she has achieved all the goals she set in advance.”

Zhang, who took the year off from school at Berkeley to focus on training for the Olympics, said she practices four to six hours a day, six days a week.

“It’s a lot of work, a lot of sacrifice, obviously,” she said. “That’s what it takes to compete at the highest level.”

She’s been used to demanding schedules for quite some time, attending Paly -- notorious for its rigorous academics -- while climbing the world table tennis rankings. But she said the school supported her athletic endeavors.

“Paly was absolutely great for me,” Zhang said. “The teachers and staff were so understanding.

I know a lot of schools in the Bay Area; they only focus on your education. But Paly, they let me go to every single tournament. They helped me with my homework and making up everything, so I’m so grateful that I got that kind of support.”

Still, Zhang said it was difficult balancing academics with athletics, especially during her junior and senior years.

“I had to make a lot of sacrifices, whether it was hanging out friends or just doing normal teenage stuff,” she said. “In the end, it was worth it. I love table tennis.

It’s my biggest passion in life, so I don’t regret anything.”

Teammates describe her as an amicable person off the table, but in competition, she flips the switch.

“Her personality on and off the table is completely different,” said Timothy Wang, who is headed to Rio as part of the team event. “Off the table, she’s a nice, friendly

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by Eric He f it wasn’t for a certain laundry room at Stanford University, Lily Zhang, the highestranked women’s table tennis player in the United States, might not be where she is today.

“My dad was a math professor at Stanford,” said Zhang, ranked 94th in the world by ITTF and speaking at a fundraiser at SPiN, a ping-pong social club in San Francisco. “Every time we went to go do laundry, they had a table tennis table in the laundry room, and I’d just hit with my parents for fun; nothing serious at all. I didn’t think anything would come from it.”

A few things have come from it -- very big things. The 20-yearold Zhang, who went to Palo Alto High and is currently attending Cal, will compete in her second Olympics next month in Rio in both singles and the team event.

How she got onto the world stage was another unexpected development. When she was 10, Zhang played in the U.S. national championships in Las Vegas “just for fun,” while her family planned a vacation around it.

“I somehow ended up making the U.S. national cadet team, which is 15 years or younger and I was the youngest person on the team at that time, so it was, ‘Wow, I can actually do this,’” she said.

“I can play this sport. From that moment on, it really became my dream to make the Olympics.”

That dream didn’t take long to reach. A slew of top finishes at competitions followed -- from a bronze in the Pan Am Games to being a finalist at the U.S. National Championships in 2011 -- and Zhang soon found herself headed to London on the Olympic team at age 16.

“It was an incredible experience,” she said. “Going in and seeing all these incredible athletes, being able to compete on the biggest world sports event was just such an incredible honor.”

But without being prompted, Zhang admitted the experience was a little overwhelming as the youngest table tennis player. After falling in the first round at the London games, Zhang is determined to come back stronger in Rio. “Four years later, I’m a lot more experienced,” she said. “I’m a lot more mature, mentally and physically. I’ve experienced a lot more tough matches. I’m able to handle different situations a lot better.

I’m a lot more prepared and ready to get further this time.”

That includes tuning out the

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Sports JUNIOR OLYMPICS

National title for Stanford 16Us worth the wait Menlo-Atherton junior Nikolas Caryotakis named tournament MVP

by Rick Eymer and Glenn Reeves The 14Us fell out of title contenenlo junior Jayden Kunwar, Menlo sophomore tion after dropping a 6-5 decision Sam Untrecht and Santa to SouCal Black in the morning’s Cruz’s Gabe Discipulo knew what semifinal round. Stanford was it was going to take for the Stan- down, 6-2, and made a spirited ford 16U A boys water polo team comeback try only to fall short.

“I thought we played well,” to win a national championship.

They’d been there and done that. said Aliaga, who will be freshThe other players had only the man at Bellarmine in the fall. “It memory of an agonizing third- was a lot of nice experience and place finish at the 14U level two will help us in the future to stay competitive.” years ago.

Kunwar was named the tournaStanford 16U coach Jamie Frank had finished fifth and 11th ment MVP last year, sharing the in previous years. His team was honor with goalie Noah Smith, able to celebrate a USA Junior who this year competed on the Olympic championship two years Stanford 16U B team, which finished 17th at the championship in the making.

“Nobody likes losing in the level.

“They were helpful,” Menlosemifinals,” Untrecht said. “It’s early morning and you have to be Atherton junior Nikolas Caryotaready to play. This morning, we kis said. “They’ve been through came out and and said ‘Let’s do all this and they knew what had it!’ We were so pumped. We were to be done. I cannot imagine playing in front of a crowd like this. all ready to play.”

Stanford’s shootout victory I was talking with Jayden and he over SoCal Black, 7(4)-7(2), at just said, ‘it’s going to be great.’ “ A total of 13 players were on the 7 a.m. Tuesday set up a national title match with Sleepy Hollow 14U team that finished third. This Aquatics (SHAQ), a program championship more than allevibased in Marin County, Tuesday ated the memory of that setback.

“They worked hard and everyafternoon at Stanford’s Avery body contributed in there own Aquatic Center.

A third-period offensive out- way,” Frank said. “This is all burst turned a thriller into a lop- them. I couldn’t be prouder of sided, 13-7, victory for Stanford these guys.”

Frank, in his fourth year at and the celebration began as the the 16U level and third as head time expired.

“We trained all year long to get coach, also credited coaches Coto this moment,” Untrecht said. lin Mulcahy and Brandon Johnson “Our high school season, our club for their contributions. Caryotaseason, water polo has been our kis was named the tournament MVP. summer. It all paid off.”

“He doesn’t stand out but he Stanford’s 14U A team remained competitive this year, does all the little things that help despite losing a majority of its everybody else,” Frank said. “He’s one of the best defenders I’ve players.

Hayden Aliaga and Hudson ever coached. He’s a rock in the Pak each scored two goals but the middle.”

Caryotakis became a defensive Stanford 14U A boys water polo team fell to Vanguard, 10-6, in specialist almost of necessity. He the third-place game of the USA started playing at age nine and Junior Olympics Tuesday at Stan- was always up against bigger guys. He joined Stanford’s club ford’s Avery Aquatic Club.

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team in the sixth grade, without knowing many people. In soccer he was the center back or goalie and in basketball was known as a shot blocker.

“It all comes down to playing as a team,” he said. “The team goal has always been about defense. If I can be a rock, it helps others.”

With dozens of college coaches on hand, Stanford players showed their mettle.

“This is a big moment for the entire team,” Untrecht said. “We all know what we are capable of accomplishing.”

Frank said he would not be surprised to see all his players at the college level. “You can see it in their attitude and their willingness to work hard,” he said.

Sacred Heart Prep junior Andrew Churukian and Alex Tsotadze each scored four goals to lead the offensive output. Kunwar, Untrecht, Caryotakis, Sacred Heart Prep’s Corey Tanis and Gabe Discipulo also scored.

Goalie Anthony Rethans recorded 11 saves and continued his wizardry in the net by seemingly blocking shots out of thin air. Alexander Nemeth spent most of the second half of Monday’s qualifying win over CC United in the net, helping Rethans stay fresh for the finale.

Hunter Barnett, Nike Bhatia, Miller Geschke, Nathan Puentes, Luke Rohlen and Michael Sonsini each had their moments.

Stanford took a 6-5 lead into halftime and then scored the first five goals of the second half to take control of the contest.

Stanford coach Clarke Weatherspoon, who guided the 14Us to the national championship last year, said he enjoyed this level because it’s a big step from the 12U program.

“There’s a huge difference in terms of commitment, intensity and performance,” he said. “It’s

going from recreational play to high level competition. It’s always challenging. The skills are always there and it’s great to see them come together.”

James Kujawa, a returnee from last year, and Jason Kaprelian also scored for the 14U’s, who are all about to enter high schools throughout the Central Coast Section.

“The majority are going to Menlo, but there’s a wide dispersal among schools in the CCS which keeps the competition intense,” Weatherspoon said. “It’s good for the the section, which produces a lot of athletes much like PASA does for swimming.

It’s an area that produces a lot of aquatic athletes and both clubs are like a magnet. It helps to have a world class facility like Stanford.”

Playing at the club level, Weatherspoon says, teaches guys how to train at a high level, how to communicate and how to set long term goals. “Those are life skills too,” he said.

In addition to the scorers and goalie Joshua Poulus, the team also got contributions from Berk

Aksoy, Dexter Gormley, Ian Healy, Greg Hilderbrand, Noah Housenbold, Jack King, Alika Naone, Tony Nardelli, Joseph Gallagher and Mason Rossi.

The Stanford B 14U team finished sixth in the tournament.

The Stanford 16U B team beat Vanguard Blue A, 11-7, and Stanford C beat HB Orange, 6-3, to finish seventh at the Classic level. The Stanford D team finished sixth in the invitational division.

The Stanford 18U A team finished 17th after beating Lamorinda, 11-8, on Tuesday and the Stanford B team won the title of the Classic division, edging the Redlands Renegades, 7-6, in the final the 18U B’s lost their first match and then won seven in a row to claim the title.

At the 12U level, Stanford A was fifth and Stanford B 15th at the championship level. The A team beat Newport Beach, 8-4, and the B team topped Royal 559 Black, 16-5. The 12U C team beat Santa Barbara Premier, 9-2, to finish seventh at the Classic level. Q

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The Stanford boys 14U A team lost in the third-place game, though it made an appearance in the final four for the third straight year.

The Stanford boys 16U A team poses for the cameras after winning the Junior Olympic national championship on Tuesday.

Sacred Heart Prep junior Alex Tsotadze gets a congratulatory hug after helping his team win the 16U national title.

Sports

Road to Rio 2016

SOCCER

Liverpool FC settles into Palo Alto Top international soccer team plays at Levi’s this weekend

by Gideon Rubin hey’re among the world’s most popular sports franchises, boasting a fan base upwards of a half a billion by some accounts, including many in the Bay Area who for years have flocked to local sports bars see them.

But some of the Liverpool Football Club experience gets lost in translation on a flatscreen TV. The emotional connection between the players and fans doesn’t quite come across the same way. And when the team’s anthem, “You’ll never walk alone,” rains down on Anfield Stadium, some 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area, it’s not quite the same.

“There are so many Liverpool supporters in America and I think it’s important that we come over there,” former Liverpool star Gary McAllister said.

Liverpool FC has arrived.

The Reds have set up shop in Palo Alto ahead of an International Champions Cup game against AC Milan. Two of soccer’s most storied teams will play at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The July 22-Aug. 13 exhibition tournament features 17 teams playing on three continents; 10 in the United States, three in China, and four in Australia.

Liverpool has scheduled clinics and public appearances throughout the Bay Area in the week leading up to the game aiming to showcase international soccer and provide access to some of the sport’s most exciting players. LFC will visit the Sand Hill Rd. Ronald McDonald House at Stanford on Saturday.

“The club’s been on the East Coast, but this hasn’t been done (on the West Coast) for a while,” McAllister said. “It’s a chance for fans in that part of the world to see the players up close.”

McAllister and Ian Rush, also a former Liverpool soccer legend, have joined the team for the Bay Area visit. Both are serving ambassadorship roles.

“We see ourselves as a family club,” Rush said. “Even from the (1960s) we’ve tried to play entertaining football. When you’re entertaining people they will come and watch. It’s an Incredible atmosphere and a great tradition. “’You’ll never walk alone,’ makes the atmosphere very special.”

The European style of play is special too, McAllister said, not-

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Brickelle Bro, a two-time Paralympian, competes on Stanford’s nationally-ranked women’s swimming and diving team.

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More than medals at stake for Bro Stanford paralympian shows anything is possible

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only grown closer. I have a family here and that’s exciting.”

In fact, Bro has become even more of a celebrity when she’s attending Paralympic events.

“Usually I’m the only one from Stanford at those events and people come up to me and ask about the team,” Bro said. “They recognize me as a part of that.”

Bro’s teammates in the fall will include world record holder Katie Ledecky and Olympians Simone Manuel and Lia Neal, along with several other veterans and newcomers who competed in the Olympic trials.

“It’s really exciting to be part of something so amazing,” she said. “It’s more than I could of dreamed.”

She’s helped to break barriers for young women in nearly every facet of life. Bro was smart enough to get into Stanford, active enough to realize she can do whatever she wants and swims well enough to qualify for the Paralympics twice.

All those achievements, and what waits ahead, is the subject of a second scrapbook. It’s filled

with her own accomplishments, perhaps there to motivate someone else.

She comes into contact with the best and the brightest and will continue to make her mark in whatever endeavor she chooses.

Swimming will always be there.

“I definitely love swimming and that’s something I will continue to share,” she said. “I want others to love swimming too. I don’t know what I’ll be doing but swimming will always be a part of it, whether it’s teaching, researching or just swimming.”

Being a part of a team, competing at the Pac-12 championships, and hearing people cheer for her is exciting. She’s touched people’s hearts and shown the naysayers that commitment, dedication and overcoming adversity is just par for the course.

“Swimming can be an individual sport, when it’s just you against the clock,” she said. “Without a team supporting you, it would be awful.”

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by Rick Eymer rickelle Bro’s journey began with a scrapbook. It continues with her second trip to the Paralympics.

Her mother, Heather, filled a scrapbook with the successes of other girls and women who were similar to Bro, a congenital bilateral amputee.

“There were pictures of girls doing amazing things,” Bro said.

“Girls with disabilities are often told ‘you can’t do that.’ Nothing is expected of you. It’s important to show what we can do. I saw that and said I can do that.”

Bro, who swam for the Stanford women’s team this past season, has a list of accomplishments that stagger the imagination. Four years after joining a swim club she was named to her first Paralympic team and finished fifth overall in the 400 free in London.

She began her sophomore year in high school that fall.

By age 16, Bro began working with a video production team, started her own foundation (myfeetdontstink.com) and became a role model for all girls everywhere.

Bro, who set a pair of American records in the 1,650 free, practices at least four hours a day and, instead of sitting around, decided to take a summer class at Stanford in social psychology.

When it came time to leave Colorado for Stanford, Bro was faced with some anxious moments.

“At home I had my team and my closest friends,” she said. “When I came here it was a little scary. I really didn’t know what to expect.

Immediately, though, everybody was so welcoming and I felt part of the team right away and have

Stanford’s Brickelle Bro has swam to a pair of American records the past two years.

ing players’ “streetwise quality,” speed, technical precision, fan intensity to be among the attributes setting the English Premiere League apart.

“The first touch is automatic,” McAllister said. “Game awareness, feel for the game, that’s what separates the good from the very good.”

Both teams are very good.

Liverpool has won five European Champion Clubs Cups, three Union of European Football Association Cups, and eight English Football League Cups, among others. Milan is among the world’s winningest clubs. Both trace their roots to the 19th century.

The ICC is also a chance for the teams to prepare for their league seasons. The EPL opens in mid-August.

“When you come to the U.S. the facilities are top notch, ‘cracking’ stadiums,” McAllister said. “It’s an ideal preparation, and it also gives us a chance to see some new players as well.”

The West Coast visit will also give youths a chance to see some new players too. The team’s ambassadorship tour included a visit to Tenderloin Children’s Playground in a hardscrabble San Francisco neighborhood.

“It’s massively important for the youngsters to see the stars of Liverpool and AC Milan,” McAllister said. “That was the best way for me as young player, the way I tried to learn was to copy and watch my heroes.”

Rush recently launched the Liverpool International Academy Soccer Schools in an effort to bring the sport to youths throughout the world, including the underserved.

Rush said he hopes to introduce boys and girls to what he calls the “Liverpool way.”

“It’s not just about football, it’s about life skills and what we pride ourselves in is people coming in to camp not knowing anybody and they go out having a new friend,” Rush said. “Hopefully the kids learn something from the academy.

McAllister and Rush’s ambassadorship roles in the Bay Area reflect similar objectives.

“The goal is exactly the same,” Rush said. “Not everybody is going to be a professional footballer but i think what we learn is to polish skills in whatever they do later on in life.” Q

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Margot Lockwood 650.400.2528

1039 Twin Oaks Ct $2,290,000 Panoramic bay views on .4 ac. Large 4BD/2.5BA, 2 office areas & 2 FR’s or bonus areas. Updated kitchen & baths, hdwd flrs & located on pvt cul-de-sac.

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Carrie Davis 650.269.4768 carrie.davis@cbnorcal.com carriedavisrealestate.com CalBRE #01983911

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149 S. California Ave A300 $995,000 Open & bright top floor condo. Granite counters, hwd flrs, in-unit washer/dryer, new appliances, & patio w/ rooftop views. Excellent Palo Alto schools

255 Corte Madera Rd $3,495,000 Located on a quiet tree-lined street. Remodeled 4 BD/ 3.5 BA home w/ floor-to-ceiling windows, custom cabinetry, & French doors. PV schools.

Hugh Cornish 650.324.4456 hughcornish.com hcornish@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #00912143

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Hugh Cornish/Karin Riley 650.619.6461/650.465.6210 hughcornish.com hcornish@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #00912143/01725481

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90 Macbain Ave $4,950,000 5 BD/3.5 BA, three levels, office, wine cellar, beautiful yard, close to downtown Menlo Park, Circus Club location. Acclaimed Menlo Park Schools.

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Hugh Cornish/Erica Demma 650.324.4456/650.740.2970 hughcornish.com hcornish@cbnorcal.com/edemma@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #00912143/01230766

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65 Roan Pl $3,695,000 Ideally located on a quiet cul-de-sac in Central Woodside. Gorgeous views & modern flair! 4 BR/3 BA

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