Palo Alto Weekly August 5, 2016

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Developer gets stern rebuke for latest 429 University plan Page 5

Transitions 13 Spectrum 14 Eating Out 18 Movies 20 Home 27 Puzzles 47 Q Arts Moving ‘The Mikado’ to Italy

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Local news, information and analysis

Controversial plan sent back to drawing board, again 429 University Ave. development to get only one more architectural review

by Sue Dremann and Jocelyn Dong

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n a stinging rejection Thursday, the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board voted 3-0, with two members recused, against a controversial development proposed for 429 University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto.

The four-story commercial and residential project from develop-

ers Jaime and Elizabeth Wong has already gone through four architects since its first city hearing in 2013. But members of the board declared the modernist project “unresponsive” to the City Council’s direction last year to reduce its mass and make it more compatible with its surroundings, which

include historic buildings on University and the adjacent Kipling Street, a narrow lane with multiple Victorian-style buildings.

The board added a further caveat: The next time the troubled project comes before the Architectural Review Board will be its last.

The plan will either get a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down” recommendation, and the project will then go to the City Council for a final approval — or rejection.

The board’s vote elicited conster-

nation from Elizabeth Wong, who complained to the board that the process has been “very, very unfair.”

The project, which would feature retail on the ground floor and residential and office space on the upper three floors, began in 2011.

The Wongs have made eight revisions to the 31,157-square-foot project, she said.

“This is insane for it to go on from 2011 to 2016. A traditional building will not work because a retailer doesn’t want a traditional

building. You’re throwing us out on the freeway. You don’t realize that every little word you say costs us more money,” she said.

A prior version of the Wongs’ project secured the board’s endorsement in February 2015 only to be halted by a neighbor’s appeal and the council’s direction on a 5-4 vote in May 2015 that the project be revised.

Throughout the process, their (continued on page 11)

EDUCATION

School administrators’ pay tops $200K As district wrestles with budgeting error, automatic pay hikes give large increases to six top administrators, other managers

by Palo Alto Weekly staff he six senior district ad- paid district official, has seen ministrators in the Palo his compensation increase from Alto Unified School Dis- $198,000 in the 2014-15 school trict are each now earning more year to $219,000 in 2016-17. This than $200,000 a year due to “me includes a $450-per-month car altoo” clauses in their contracts lowance paid to all of the senior that automatically pass along the administrative team and extra pay increases granted to union em- for advanced degrees and longevployees to all non-union profes- ity with the district, but it does sionals, managers and adminis- not include retirement, health and trators, according to district data other benefits.

Chief Business Officer Cathy provided to the Weekly.

The practice makes the com- Mak’s 2016-17 compensation is pensation of all administrators, now $217,000, while Associate principals, assistant principals, Superintendent Markus Autrey, deans, directors, coordinators and hired a year ago, is at $216,000. classified managers directly tied Both figures include the $450-perto whatever increases are negoti- month car allowance.

Holly Wade, promoted in 2015 ated with the employee unions, from director of special education without regard to performance.

Mirroring the union employees, to chief student-services officer, these six highest paid administra- will make $211,000 this school tors, who report directly to Super- year, including the car allowance, intendent Max McGee (who is not almost 20 percent more than she subject to the “me too” provision), was paid in 2014-15.

Barbara Harris, promoted in and the district’s 125 other nonrepresented employees received June from the title of director of in June a retroactive increase of elementary education to chief 5 percent going back to July 2015 academic officer for elementary and a 4 percent increase that took education, will receive $209,000, including the car allowance, a 35 effect on July 1.

McGee’s compensation, in- percent increase over 2014-15. cluding a $750-per-month auto Sharon Ofek, promoted in June allowance, is set in his contract at from principal of JLS Middle $316,000 for this school year, a 2 School to chief academic officer percent increase. This does not in- for secondary education, will reclude retirement, health and statu- ceive $204,000.

For all employees, direct insurtory benefits, nor the $1.5 million interest-free loan the district gave ance, retirement and statutory benhim a year ago to purchase a efits add approximately 20 percent to the total cost to the district of home in Palo Alto.

Assistant Superintendent for employing the individual, accordHuman Resources Scott Bow- ing to district data provided to the ers, who negotiates the union Weekly. Senior administrators are contracts on behalf of the dis(continued on page 10) trict and is the second-highest

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Ready for Rio Trees on the corner of Bryant Street and Lowell Avenue in Palo Alto are decorated in celebration of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

POLITICS

Local Muslims organize in face of Trump rhetoric As hateful incidents increase against Muslims, Khan’s speech imparted ‘courage’

by Sue Dremann

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ropelled by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent belittling remarks about the parents of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died while serving in Iraq, local Muslims say they have new determination to organize politically and become better engaged in civic affairs.

The Democratic National Convention speech by Gold Star parent Khizr Khan about his son included a rebuke of Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, to which Trump responded with an impli-

cation that Khan’s wife, Ghazala, who stood by Khan’s side during the speech, had been forbidden from talking because she is an oppressed woman.

Subhan Ali, a Stanford University graduate who started the Stanford Muslim Alumni Association, said that as an individual he believes the Khans’ visibility has crystallized Muslim sentiments in America.

“The Muslim community has always been politically aware, but it has never been so clear on what side of the fence or the other we

stand now. There’s no ambiguity.

We’re not having debates about taxes or housing prices. This is something so central to our identity and to belonging to this country. It’s so clear that you can’t even talk about any other type of political discourse,” he said.

Ironically, Republicans have traditionally enjoyed the support of American Muslims, the majority of whom have been Republicans because of the party’s strong emphasis on family values, (continued on page 9)

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— Subhan Ali, who started the Stanford Muslim Alumni Association, on Muslims’ involvement in politics in the Donald Trump era. See story on page 5.

Around Town

ART INTERRUPTED ...Several of the second-floor galleries at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center will temporarily close this month as the museum undergoes a major reinstallation of works drawn from its permanent collection, according to a press release. The new exhibition, “Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories,” will open Sept.

15 and will be organized around the Stanford art-history curriculum.

“The Cantor Arts Center is focused on what it means to experience and study art at a university art museum in the 21st century ...

The new galleries will be designed for teaching and arranged to inspire critical interpretation and imaginative thinking by faculty, students, and museum visitors,” the release states. The affected galleries are: Robert Mondavi Family Gallery, Marie Stauffer Sigall Gallery, Oshman Family Gallery and Gallery for Early European Art and Ancient Greece & Rome. The rest of the museum’s galleries remain open.

DISH CLOSURE ...The beloved Stanford Dish area will be closed to the public Aug. 15-19 for maintenance, according to an announcement from Stanford University. Maintenance work, which will take place in and around the popular recreational area, includes service road and walking-path maintenance, stormpipe repair and tree watering and mulching. The area is expected to reopen on Aug. 20, and will remain open during the rest of summer and through fall. The Matadero Creek Trail, which is located at the intersection of Page Mill Road and Foothill Expressway, will remain open. For updates and more information on the closure, email CommunityRelations@stanford.edu or visit dish.stanford.edu.

FRIES, DESSERTS AND POKE, OH MY! ... Stanford Shopping Center is in the midst of a major facelift, with physical upgrades, new stores, smartphone-charging stations, roaming security robots — and trendy new food options.

Before the end of 2016, the upscale mall should be home to more than six new eateries.

Coming soon will be Go Fish Poke Bar, yet another fast-casual

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eatery drawing on the Hawaiian seafood staple. At Go Fish, diners can customize poke bowls with ingredients like rice, yam noodles, housemade sauces and a range of toppings, from avocado and wasabi to Gilroy garlic furikake and miso crab. There are also handrolls, four-hour miso-braised short ribs and mochi filled with ice cream imported straight from Hawaii. Opening next door this fall will be 3potato4, whose baked French fries proudly check off many healthy-foodie boxes: allnatural, organic, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and 99 percent fat-free.

At 3potato4, you can choose from four kinds of potatoes (wedge- or crinkle-cut russets, waffle-cut sweet potatoes or rosemary redskins), then from 20 homemade sauces (from curry ketchup and chipotle mayo to Thai aioli and wasabi-gnger mayo) that come on top. The fries are served in eco-friendly, compostable cones.

Other restaurants on their way to the shopping center this year are True Food Kitchen, which touts a menu full of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options; Tender Greens, a chain that serves dishes made of fresh produce from local farms; and Minamoto Kitchoan, an international chain that sells artisanal Japanese desserts.

BEST AND BRIGHTEST ...The best and brightest live in Palo Alto, according to a new study by NerdWallet.com. The city, home to Stanford University and companies like Hewlett-Packard, Tesla Motors and the Ford Research and Innovation Center, snagged the No. 5 spot on the top-10 list of “The Most Educated Places in America 2016.” The financial advising company studied data from the Census Bureau on education levels of people over the age of 25 in more than 17,000 places. NerdWallet found that 51 percent of Palo Altans have a master’s degree and 41 percent have a doctorate. Q

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ELECTION 2016

School board member to run for re-election Melissa Baten Caswell enters race; pool of candidates grows to four

by Elena Kadvany

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Baten Caswell’s announcement brings the number of school board candidates to four. She joins incumbent Heidi E m b e rl i ng, the board’s current president; private investor Todd Collins; and former educator Jennifer DiBrienza.

Board member Camille Melissa Baten To w n s e n d , Caswell whose term is ending this November along with Baten Caswell’s and Emberling’s, has said she will not be running.

When Townsend was re-elected in 2012, she became the first Palo Alto board member in more than 40 years to serve more than two terms. If re-elected, Baten Caswell would become the second.

Baten Caswell said that her campaign priorities center on “build(ing) on what we have,”

Weekly file photo/Veronica Weber

elissa Baten Caswell, who has served as a member of the Palo Alto Board of Education for nearly a decade, announced Monday that she will be running for a third term in this fall’s election.

Baten Caswell, first elected to the board in 2007, is a longtime school volunteer, former business manager and parent of two children, one at Palo Alto High School and the other a college student. In an interview Monday, she said the school board needs someone with “depth” of experience and history in the district, and she decided to run for re-election after waiting to see if any such person planned to make a bid.

“It really feels to me like we ... need some continuity in terms of institutional knowledge,” she said, noting that she has had children in Palo Alto schools continuously for the last 16 years, longer than anyone else on the board or running this fall.

from investing in innovative and engaging educational programs and recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers to making data-driven decisions.

She cited her role several years ago in reinvigorating the district’s guiding document, the Strategic Plan, as a linchpin that continues to help the board make good decisions. She had persuaded the management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company to help the district develop the new document and new process with stronger community input.

Before this effort, the Strategic Plan was not being used consistently, and community members weren’t aware of the goals it set for the district, she said.

Using data to hold the district accountable to the priorities laid out in the Strategic Plan is key to its success, and Baten Caswell said she plans to continue to push for that if re-elected.

“Part of having a strategic plan is knowing where you’re

ELECTION 2016

Arthur Keller enters City Council race Former planning commissioner has history of skepticism toward growth

by Gennady Sheyner

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when slow-growth “residentialist” candidates overwhelmingly won, the outgoing council voted 5-4 not to reappoint him to the planning commission. All four slow-growth council members supported Keller.

Just after the council’s vote, Keller indicated that his next move might be to seek a seat on the council.

“One positive thing about not being reappointed to the Arthur Keller PTC is if I should decide to run for one of your seats, I’ll be able to do that with a lot more free time,” Keller said at the meeting.

A month later, members unanimously passed a special resolution recognizing Keller’s contributions and thanking him for serving with “distinctive energy, passion, dedication, intelligence and good humor.”

In explaining his decision to run for council, Keller described Palo Alto as a city “at a cross-

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rthur Keller, a former Palo Alto planning commissioner with a long record of scrutinizing new developments, challenging prevailing assumptions about potential traffic problems and promoting transportation improvements, announced on July 28 that he will be seeking a seat on the Palo Alto City Council in November.

Long affiliated with the slowgrowth wing of the Planning and Transportation Commission (PTC) — a group that also includes former planning commissioner Susan Fineberg and current Councilwoman Karen Holman — the computer scientist is known as much for his wonky, detail-oriented approach to new development projects as for his staunch criticism of commercial growth.

Keller, who holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University and works as an adviser to startup companies, served on the influential commission from 2006 to 2014 and spent the final two years as its vice chair. Days after the November 2014 council election,

roads” and said the council should do more to prevent excessive commercial development that he says contributes to traffic and parking problems. Keller said he supports having an annual cap on office development and adjusting it every few years based on traffic levels, available parking spaces and other “quality of life” metrics.

“One of the things at stake in this election is the future of the city,” Keller told the Weekly. “Do we want a city in which growth is managed, or do we want a city in which we have as much growth as the landowners want to have, while externalizing all the impacts?”

Keller said he supports creating more affordable housing, particularly studios and onebedroom apartments that would minimally affect local schools.

He noted that only about 20 percent of the city’s housing stock currently consists of studios and one-bedroom homes. He also said he would support zoning changes that would encourage the construction of such units.

Keller is joining a race that

going and the other part is having accountability measures that you keep checking back to,” she said.

Baten Caswell said she would also like to invest further in teaching and programs that engage students, from small-group instruction at the elementary level to project-based learning throughout the district. Existing high school programs like Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM) at Paly and Small Learning Community at Gunn High School or the new Advanced Authentic Research (AAR) program “should be available to all students,” she said. And she hopes to figure out how to coordinate and support ideas for innovation at the high schools that bubble up in a more “organic” rather than “planned” way, she said.

If re-elected, she hopes to focus on several efforts she said have not yet come to fruition during her years on the board, including closing the district’s longstanding achievement gap between minority and low-income students and their peers; improving services and support for special-education students and families; and transparency in communications and decision-making.

In all three areas, the board has the information necessary to improve, she said, including a list of recommendations from the will feature at least two, and likely three, planning commissioners. As the Weekly first reported last week, Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka, both of whom currently sit on the commission, have pulled candidacy papers.

Fine, who chairs the commission, confirmed by Twitter on July 28 that he is running for council.

Tanaka has not made a formal announcement, though his candidacy has been widely expected for some time.

In recent years, Keller has been actively engaged in updating the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan. As a planning commissioner, he led an effort to revise every chapter of the document. Today, he serves as co-chair of the Citizen Advisory Commission, a panel that is advising the council on possible revisions to the city’s goals, policies and programs for future development.

A Brooklyn native who has lived in Palo Alto since 1987, Keller has also been active in the city’s efforts to promote electricvehicle infrastructure (he served on a task force charged with promoting electric vehicles) and to revamp the city’s website. He was also a founding member of the Adobe Meadow Neighborhood Association and a member of the Gunn High School Facilities Steering Committee.

In his candidacy announcement, Keller emphasized the need for the city to “think care-

Minority Achievement and Talent Development task force for how to reduce the achievement gap and a report from a Harvard University researcher identifying strengths and weaknesses of the special-education department.

Transparency can be increased by taking a hard look at the district’s “underlying systems,” within which it’s currently challenging for not only community members but even board members to get information in a timely manner, Baten Caswell said.

Whoever is elected to the board this fall will also inherit the long-term impacts of a $3.7 budget deficit the board is now confronted with following property-tax growth that came in 3 percent lower than the district had budgeted for. The change in revenue is largely due to $1.1 billion in exempt property from ongoing construction of the Stanford University Medical Center Project.

“We need to understand what the long-term financial picture looks like,” with the continuation of such exemptions, Baten Caswell said. “We need to know when that’s going to hit, and we need to do our projections based on that.”

In her time in the district, Baten Caswell has twice served as board president, as well as president for both school-specific and districtwide PTA Councils. She was a (continued on page 8)

fully about the type of housing we zone for and its impact on the schools, so we do not reduce the quality of our schools through overcrowding, increased class size, increased competition for playing field space, and decrease in per-student spending.”

He also said the city needs to “get rid of rules that lead to the unpopular and incompatible commercial buildings” and to “ensure clarity by replacing vague guidelines with clear requirements.”

“We need to correct code violations with the conviction and speed that befit a competent and committed public agency,” Keller said. “And we also need to enforce traffic rules, particularly those that affect safety.”

Keller joins a gradually expanding field of candidates vying for the four contested council seats.

Councilwoman Liz Kniss is the only incumbent seeking re-election. Slow-growth proponent Lydia Kou, prior council candidate Danielle Martell and Fine (who, like Keller, serves on the Citizen Advisory Committee for the Comprehensive Plan Update) have also announced that they will be seeking a seat. Tanaka; John Fredrich, a retired Gunn High civics teacher; and resident Michelle Kraus have also pulled candidacy papers, suggesting that they are considering a council bid. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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News Digest

Berman, Veenker neck-and-neck in Assembly race contributions

Missing Palo Alto man located

Family of man killed by police won’t sue The mother of a man who was fatally shot by Palo Alto police last Christmas won’t pursue a lawsuit after the City of Palo Alto rejected her claim, she said on July 28.

William David Raff, who had schizophrenia, was killed when he charged at officers with a table knife. He had been transferred four days earlier from a locked psychiatric facility to transitional housing at La Selva House, a facility on Forest Avenue for persons recovering from acute mental illness or substance abuse.

Raff’s mother, Tina Cremer, filed a wrongful-death claim with the city in March for an unspecified sum related to loss of support, both economic and non-economic, medical, funeral and burial expenses and other causes. The claim alleged that police knew the Forest address was a group home for persons with mental illnesses and that they were likely to encounter someone with a mental illness.

The officers are trained in de-escalation, use of communication techniques in crisis situations and modes for keeping themselves tactically safe in order to give the disturbed person time to calm down, but they failed to use or adequately employ that training, according to the claim.

The city rejected her claim on May 2. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office released a report in May on the death of Raff along with a video of the 19-second confrontation, which showed Raff running at the officers. Q — Sue Dremann

CinéArts theater to remain open — for now More than 2,600 signatures and letters from the Palo Alto City Council to the landlord of the CinéArts Theatre in Palo Alto and to theater headquarters appear to have at least temporarily stayed the shuttering of the much-loved movie house at 3000 El Camino Real.

The theater was set to go dark after Thursday night’s showings, but this week theatergoers learned it would remain open for a longer time, Councilwoman Karen Holman said.

Cinemark, the Texas-based movie-theater chain that owns CinéArts, decided to close the theater after its lease was set to expire in August, a company spokesman previously told the Weekly. Upgrades to the theater would be costly, and rather than investing in the theater, the company decided not to renew the lease.

Holman said the city sent the petition and a letter asking that the landlord, Hudson Pacific Properties, and Cinemark work together to retain the theater.

“This is such an important resource. It’s the only large-seatingcapacity, first-run movie theater we have in Palo Alto,” Holman said.

“If we should happen to lose this — and we will certainly try not to — it would be a tremendous loss to the community,” Holman added.

Addressing the closure has been a bit of a challenge for the city, since the council is on summer break, Holman said. Q — Sue Dremann

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Candidates receive about $300,000 each from donors

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Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, who represents the 22nd district, has donated $4,200.

Mountain View City Councilman Mike Kasperzak, who ran against Berman and Veenker in the State Assembly primary, gave Berman $500.

Many political action committees and labor unions have supported Berman’s campaign, from the California State Council of Laborers PAC ($4,250) and the San Francisco Laborer’s Local 261 PAC ($4,200) to the California Medical A sso c iat ion PAC ($4,200) and California Apartment A sso c iat ion PAC ($4,200).

B e r m a n ’s largest campaign contribution so far, Marc Berman $8,500, comes from the California Real Estate PAC - California Association of Realtors.

Veenker’s top contributions come from the California Teachers Association/Association for Better Citizenship ($8,500); the California Nurses Association Political Action Committee ($8,500); Felice Swapp, chief operating officer of law firm Harney Westwood & Riegels; retired Stanford University Professor Vernon Oi ($8,400); and Elizabeth Veenker ($8,400).

Palo Alto City Council members Karen Holman ($100), Tom DuBois ($100), Eric Filseth ($250), Kniss ($500) and Mayor Pat Burt ($250) all donated. Palo Alto school board Vice President Terry Godfrey gave Veenker’s campaign $500.

Current Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith also contributed $100 and former Menlo Park Councilwoman Kelly Fergusson gave $250.

Veenker has also received support from several political ac-

Baten Caswell

Palo Alto task forces.

She has lived in Palo Alto with her husband since 1990. Both of her children attended Duveneck Elementary School, but her older daughter went on to attend private all-girls school Castilleja School for middle and high school. Her son stayed in the district and is a rising senior at Paly.

Baten Caswell spent many years working in strategy, finance and high-tech marketing in New York and then Silicon Valley. She is currently developing an education-technology company, CollegeMojo, that has yet to launch.

Baten Caswell described her-

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founding board member for Palo Alto nonprofit Youth Community Service (YCS) and also a board member for the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation and the Parent Advisory Board of the Downtown Children Center Preschool, according to her announcement.

She has also volunteered as a Family Resources Ambassador for the city, a member of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Community Advisory Board, a Girl Scout Leader, YMCA and AYSO sports teams and several City of

tion committees, including the Consumer Attorneys of California Political Action Committee ($4,200), the Political Action for Classified Employees of California School Employees ($4,000) and the Foothill-De Anza Faculty Association PAC ($1,000).

Several women-focused political organizations have also made contributions, including the National Women’s Political Caucus of California ($500), Democratic Activists for Women Now ($1,500), the Women’s Political Committee ($4,200) and EMILY’s List ($2,500), a Washington, D.C., group that supports prochoice Democratic women running for office.

Vicki Veenker Veenker has spent close to $180,000 on print advertisements, TV or cable production costs and $38,500 on San Francisco campaign-consulting firm SCN Strategies, according to her filing documents.

Berman has spent about $30,000 on campaign consulting and has no reported advertisement costs.

However, Berman has spent close to $200,000 on campaign literature and mailings. Veenker’s expenditures in that category pale in comparison: about $16,000.

Berman and Veenker, both Palo Alto residents, were the top votegetters in the June 7 primary race.

The 24th district includes Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Atherton, Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, a part of Cupertino and the San Mateo County coastside — from El Granada to the Santa Cruz County border. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com

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ith a couple of months left until election day, Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman and patent attorney Vicki Veenker have raised close to the same amounts of funding in their race to succeed Rich Gordon in the 24th Assembly District, with about $300,000 each in their election coffers, according to the latest financial filings.

Berman has $97,363 available out of $284,000 raised between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared to Veenker’s $58,462 in ending cash out of $307,000 raised in the same six months.

Berman received a total of $77,448 in contributions during the latest filing period, which covered May 22 through June 30.

He also spent close to that amount — $69,599, according to filing documents.

By comparison, Veenker received $67,003 and spent $98,015 during that same time period.

Both Berman and Veenker have loaned their respective campaigns more than $100,000 so far.

Berman has received significant donations from prominent local community members, including Laurene Powell Jobs ($4,200), founder of the Emerson Collective and widow of Steve Jobs, and Palo Alto developer Roxy Rapp ($4,200), as well as several elected officials. Councilman Greg Scharff has donated $1,250; Councilman Cory Wolbach, $150; former Mayor Nancy Shepherd, $300; and Councilwoman Liz Kniss, $1,000, according to campaign filings.

Current Palo Alto Board of Education President Heidi Emberling gave $200, and former board member Barb Mitchell donated $100.

Berman has also received $8,400 so far from the Rich Gordon for State Assembly 2014 campaign. Assemblyman Evan Low, who represents the 28th district and is running for re-election, gave Berman’s campaign $8,400.

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A Palo Alto man with a severe psychiatric disability who had been missing since July 11 has been located and is safe, his family confirmed on July 29.

Andrew Pearl, 30, was located by police at La Selva Group, a treatment facility on Forest Avenue that is run by the nonprofit Momentum for Mental Health, at 1 p.m. that day, according to Palo Alto police dispatches.

His mother, Leslie Pearl, arrived to the group home to be reunited with him, according to dispatchers.

“We are very happy and exhausted!” his father, Dr. Samuel Pearl, said in a text message on July 31.

Andrew had disappeared from Middlefield House, a group independent-living residence in Palo Alto, his father said.

The Pearl family blanketed Palo Alto with fliers in search for Andrew, who suffers from schizophrenia and had gone off of his anti-psychotic medication, his father said.

Pearl said that people his family did not know came forward to help, including individuals, members of the nonprofit Downtown Streets Team and a number of agencies.

“We would like to formally thank the Palo Alto Police Department in their sincere efforts to find our son, Andrew Pearl. Special thanks goes to Officer Robert Parham, an experienced member of the department, who was our liaison with the entire police force.

“We also would like to give special thanks to Downtown Street Team for their support. Team manager Kenneth Pierre was exceptionally helpful. The residents of Palo Alto, including the homeless, all gave us unwavering assistance in our effort to find our son. ... Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” Pearl said in a statement. Q — Sue Dremann

self as a good listener who hears all perspectives fairly before making a decision and an elected official with a “proven track record of translating hope into action,” her announcement states.

“I think I’ve made decisions all the way along, since I’ve been on the board and even in my volunteer experience before, that have been about excellent teaching and learning and having kids leave our distract as strong, engaged learners. I’ve been passionate about that from the beginning.

“I feel like I’m doing this for the community, but I’m also doing it because I’m passionate,” she added. Q

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Cities, ACLU criticize findings of Facebook expansion studies East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Atherton raises questions about the draft EIR for project

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“East Palo Alto and the region cannot afford to continue to bear the negative social, fiscal and environmental externalities of a project that assumes that other cities are going to house 95 percent of the employees of new development in Menlo Park.”

A recent report on the threat of Facebook’s expansion to the local housing market states that just 1,380 housing units are planned or under construction in Menlo Park. Of those, 1,182 are expected to be sold at market rate, and 198 will be below market rate.

Rutherford also expressed concerns that increased traffic from Facebook’s expansion could harm local air quality. According to an analysis of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the portion of East Palo Alto bounded roughly by Willow Road, Cooley Avenue, U.S. Highway 101 and Bay Road

Muslim

in the Bay Area and is planning more in September, she said.

“We want to make people aware of their rights and to be educated.

We are also holding elected-official forums on local elections so people will know who’s running for the Senate, Congress and city council,” she said.

While the Bay Area remains mostly friendly to Muslims, Ali and Farooqui said they have personally been affected by the fear aroused by terrorist incidents and hate speech. Ali, who grew up in southern California, returned from visiting family to the Bay Area by plane around the time of the San Bernardino shootings, which were allegedly carried out

by Islamic State sympathizers.

“When I flew back to the Bay Area, I was never so closely watched in my life. (The stereotyping) was very apparent in the airport. You could feel it that day,” he said.

A new report, published last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that hateful incidents against Muslims reported to CAIR increased 58 percent in California in the past year.

Some 295 out of 1,556 anti-Muslim bias incidents occurred in the Bay Area, including employment and housing discrimination, hate crimes, school bullying and federal law enforcement questioning.

Santa Clara County had the highest number of reported incidents of Bay Area counties, with 117 complaints, the fourth highest in the state, according to the report.

Farooqui’s son was recently approached by another child who made a comment about Muslim stereotypes, he said. But the com-

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said Omar Farooqui, a Palo Alto resident.

But “the Republicans of the ‘80s are very different from today.

Since the war (in Iraq) and the hate mongering, more and more are gravitating to the Democratic Party,” he said.

Samina Sundas, founder and executive director of the Palo Alto nonprofit American Muslim Voice, an organization that fosters understanding among people of all faiths, said that Muslims are “very much a law-abiding and minding-theirown-business kind of people.”

Sundas said she wasn’t so troubled by Trump’s rhetoric as by the number of people who have followed him and who voted for him in the Republican Primary, which many in the Muslim community say has taken them by surprise.

But the Khans’ speaking out has “definitely brought more courage to people that it is going to have a positive effect if they stand up,” Sundas said. When Muslims are better understood, their neighbors and the broader community will support them, she added.

“They won’t have to remain in the shadows,” she said.

Perhaps one of the biggest changes since the Trump rhetoric began last year is a concerted effort to register voters, said Nashwah Akhtar, outreach coordinator for the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. In May, the organization held more than 30 voter-registration drives

is “disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.”

In her letter, the mayor also called Facebook’s plan to limit the number of workers who drive alone to the corporate campus “unrealistically optimistic.” The company plans to allow only an additional 438 vehicle trips during the morning rush hour and 123 in the evening.

The Town of Atherton expressed concern about the impact of more traffic on its residents. In a letter signed by City Manager George Rodericks, Atherton questioned the accuracy of Menlo Park’s traffic projections and criticized the omission from the study of some Atherton intersections on Middlefield Road and El Camino Real.

The letter came with a list of demands for numerous trafficimprovement projects, which would cost about $6.04 million.

Those projects include the addi-

Advocates and a number of advocacy organizations, weighed in on the project, echoing some of the cities’ concerns.

“It is ... implausible to conclude that adding an army of new employees amounting to one-fifth of the existing workforce (in Menlo Park) would have no growth-inducing impact,” the letter stated.

The ACLU cited a displacement study by consultants that said that adding 6,550 employees translates to demand for an additional 3,638 households in the region. That number is likely an understatement, two professors of urban development stated in a separate letter, since it assumes many of the new Facebook employees will move in together, without bringing households of their own to the region.

Still, the ACLU letter states, 3,638 households is a lot: It translates to roughly 45 percent of the total number of housing units that were built across San Mateo County between 2007 and 2014.

The City of Menlo Park is expected to release its responses to the issues raised when it publishes its final environmental-impact report around Sept. 15, according to a timeline by city staff. Q Kate Bradshaw is a staff writer for The Almanac, the Weekly’s sister newspaper. She can be reached at kbradshaw@ almanacnews.com.

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hat do Menlo Park’s neighbors think about Facebook’s expansion plans? East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Atherton have all written letters to Menlo Park, raising questions about the project’s draft environmentalimpact report and asserting that the study does not sufficiently analyze how their cities will be affected.

Facebook plans to hire 6,500 more employees and build two office buildings totaling 962,400 square feet, plus a 200-room hotel in eastern Menlo Park.

East Palo Alto’s letter to Menlo Park blasted the city for adding to the regional dearth of affordable housing.

“The regional housing crisis exists because cities like Menlo Park willfully and systematically develop more jobs than housing units,” according to the letter, which was signed by East Palo Alto Mayor Donna Rutherford.

tion of bike lanes on El Camino on one side from Atherton Avenue to Encinal Avenue and on the other side from Selby Lane to Watkins Avenue, along with a sidewalk on El Camino from Encinal to Valparaiso Avenue.

Rodericks also asked for 1.6 miles of pedestrian walkways along the entirety of Middlefield’s west side within Atherton boundaries and a 10-foot-wide paved bike path on Middlefield from Marsh Road to Watkins Avenue.

“We believe that further studies and documentation are required before the draft can become a usable environmental document,” Rodericks said.

The City of Palo Alto’s fourpage letter stated that the Facebook’s estimated job growth is far above the projection for Menlo Park by the Association of Bay Area Governments.

Palo Alto asked that Facebook be required to build the recycledwater system it has proposed, recommended Facebook cover its parking lots with solar panels, requested further study on the risks of placing 75-foot-tall buildings only 2.4 miles away from the Palo Alto Airport and asked for further clarification on the methodology used to analyze traffic.

In addition to comments by neighboring cities, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU), with Public

VIDEO Weekly reporters Sue Dremann and Elena Kadvany talk with Samina Faheem Sundas, founder of American Muslim Voice, about the current U.S. political climate and the local Muslim community.

Her grassroots organization seeks to foster friendships among all Americans, especially between Muslims and others, through dialogue. Watch the webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” on PaloAltoOnline.com or the Weekly’s YouTube channel at YouTube.com/paweekly. munity work the family has done — delivering peaches that they harvested at a farm to their neighbors during Ramadan and working earlier this summer with the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints to put together toiletry packages for homeless people — opened the door for improved relationships.

Because of the work he did with the Latter Day Saints, Farooqui’s son was able to resolve the conflict during a discussion with the child, he said.

Farooqui said that Muslims have been in America since Christopher Columbus, and they came

in successive waves, emigrating in the 1920s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. As recent immigrants, they tended to be more insular as they concentrated on building careers and families in the United States.

“But now the second- and third-generation folks are making more of an effort to get out of the insular organizations and broaden their horizons. Post-9/11 saw the efforts of the second and third generations to participate across the board in mainstream organizations. In Palo Alto, they are actively working to break down stereotypes. That’s what we really

need — through joint efforts we can really solve the problems that affect everyone,” Farooqui said.

Sundas, who started her organization after Sept. 11, said there are upcoming opportunities to join together with local Muslims.

On Sept. 11, American Muslim Voice will host its annual Peace Picnic, which will be preceded by an interfaith peace walk. And in December, the organization will again host an Eid Festival celebration. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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contracted to work 224 days per year, while other non-union positions vary between 200 and 220 days.

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he practice of the automatic “me too” raises surfaced when the school board discussed the proposed union contracts during its two May meetings. The board voted 4-1, with Ken Dauber dissenting, to approve both the union contracts and the identical increases for administrators and managers, but it agreed to discuss the “me too” practice further at its August retreat to be held this Thursday, Aug. 11. (No agenda is available yet for the retreat, which has been set for 8:30 a.m. at the district office.)

Since then, an erroneous estimate of property-tax revenues has created a $3.7 million deficit in the current year’s budget and, likely, a much larger deficit for next year.

New property-tax estimates came in last month 3 percent lower than the district had budgeted for, resulting in a $5.2 million shortfall, $1.5 million of which

was made up with the automatic elimination of 1 percent offschedule bonuses for employees through a clause built into new union contracts.

The board will also discuss at the Aug. 11 retreat options for how to address the deficit. At least one board member, Dauber, has voiced support for eliminating administrator and managers’ 4 percent “me too” raises for this year, saying doing so is preferable to cuts that would more directly affect students. He has raised concerns about the potential harm the budget deficit could have on the district’s ability to mitigate growing class sizes at the high schools, which expect to see approximately 600 additional students over the next five years, according to a moderate projection in an April demographer’s report. One preliminary proposal from Mak and McGee for how to address the budget deficit is to use $375,000 in the budget that had been reserved for the potential hiring of teachers to accommodate future enrollment growth. (The budget is based on projected enrollment, which came in this year at the elementary level lower than expected, leaving the leftover funds.)

Online This Week

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

Police seek woman who robbed bank Police are looking for a woman who robbed a Palo Alto bank on Tuesday morning, according to a police department press release.

The woman entered the Star One Credit Union at 3903 El Camino Real, waited in line and passed a note to a teller, robbing the bank.

No weapon was seen, police said. (Posted Aug. 2, 4:50 p.m.)

Children’s Health Council expands teen mental-health services Palo Alto nonprofit Children’s Health Council launched this week its Teen Mental Health Initiative, with the goals of preventing teen suicide and improving youth wellness through increased services, education and community engagement. (Posted Aug. 2, 1:38 p.m.)

Supreme Court decision could toss evidence in DUI manslaughter case A U.S. Supreme Court decision on the admissibility of DUI blood-tests could affect important evidence in the vehicular manslaughter case of a former Stanford Graduate School of Business student. (Posted Aug. 2, 9:54 a.m.)

Graphite furnace fire at CPI causes evacuation About 150 people were evacuated from a Palo Alto company that manufactures microwave and radio transmission devices on Monday afternoon after a water-cooling system failed, causing an abnormally hot fire in a graphite furnace, according to fire officials. (Posted Aug. 1, 1:25 p.m.)

Tesla acquires SolarCity for $2.6 billion Tesla, Inc. has reached a deal to acquire solar-energy company, SolarCity Corp., the electric-car maker announced Monday, Aug. 1. The all-stock deal, according to a press release, values SolarCity at about $2.6 billion. (Posted Aug. 1, 9:33 a.m.)

VIDEO: Behind the Headlines — The road to Rio On this week’s half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” Weekly Sports Editor Rick Eymer and Associate Sports Editor Glenn Reeves talk about which local athletes are making the trek to the summer Olympics in Rio, as well as how they are preparing and their impact on the summer games. (Posted July 29, 6:04 p.m.)

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WHAT ALTOSCHOOL-DISTRICT SCHOOL-DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS WHATTOP TOPPALO PALO ALTO ADMINISTRATORS AREARE PAIDPAID McGee

2014-15: $304,000 2015-16: $309,900 2016-17: $315,918

$350,000

Bowers

2014-15: $198,472 2015-16: $211,214 2016-17: $219,446

$300,000

Mak

2014-15: $196,253 2015-16: $208,884 2016-17: $217,023

Autrey

2014-15: N/A 2015-16: $207,221 2016-17: $216,235

$250,000

Wade

2014-15: $174,675 2015-16: $203,295 2016-17: $211,210

$200,000 Graphic by My Nguyen

Pay

Ofek

2014-15: $171,000 2015-16: $178,692 2016-17: $203,886

Harris

$150,000

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2014-15: $154,947 2015-16: $178,692 2016-17: $203,886

The compensation for senior Palo Alto school administrators Superintendent Max McGee, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers, Chief Budget Officer Cathy Mak, Associate Superintendent Markus Autrey, Chief Student Services Officer Holly Wade, Director of Secondary Education Sharon Ofek and Director of Elementary Education Barbara Harris are shown on this chart.

“We really need to ask for each of the expenses we have — is that expense more important than teachers in our classrooms, than preventing class-size increases?” he asked his colleagues at a special budget study session last week. “And if it’s not, we need to be willing to bite the bullet in order to protect that.”

Board President Heidi Emberling, however, in an interview with the Weekly asserted that rescinding administrator and manager raises will impact the classroom.

High-quality principals create school climate, help the district retain teachers and improve student achievement, she said. And district administrators are the “leaders of the leaders,” helping to drive and support schools toward district-wide goals, she said.

“I can’t imagine that anyone wants to take away or not compensate our leadership,” she said.

School-board candidate Todd Collins said that while revisiting administrator raises should be “high” on a list of potential expense cuts considered by the board, it’s difficult to evaluate without information on the multiyear impact of the tax shortfall, which the district has yet to provide publicly. He also pointed to data collected by Bowers showing that many Santa Clara County school districts use the same “me too” system. Out of 18 districts that responded to his inquiry, only one negotiates with represented and non-represented groups separately. Four, however, are reviewing this practice.

“There is no reason that it should be that way other than that seems to be a norm in the market, and we have to decide whether it’s valuable enough to us to break away from the norm,” Collins said.

Jennifer DiBrienza, a former teacher who is running for the school board, said there is “some merit” to the automatic raises “in that our teachers are our biggest

asset and the administrators are the instructional leaders in those schools that guide what’s happening in the school, the tone of the school.”

But in the current budget crisis, the district should be willing to consider all cost-saving options, including rolling back raises for senior administrators, she said.

“I think it would be irresponsible to not look at everything,” she told the Weekly. “It doesn’t mean that that it’s not valued or that we cut it, but we need to look at everything because we don’t want to make this a bigger problem next year.”

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he process through which the district’s managers and other professional employees receive compensation increases is based on tradition, not board policy, and has rarely, if ever, received any attention or discussion.

Each year when the proposed union contracts with teachers and classified employees are presented for approval by the school board, companion agenda items seek approval of identical increases for two different groups: “Non-Represented Management Employees” and “Non-Represented Confidential/Supervisory Employees.”

Together, these account for about 125 employees, including principals, deans, assistant principals, district office directors and coordinators and managers who oversee classified employees.

The school board routinely, and usually without any discussion, approves these increases, which are automatic and are based on achieving “satisfactory” performance. In recommending board approval of the identical raises given to the union employees, the May 10 staff recommendation stated: “In past years, the board has given consideration to settlements with other employee groups when determining com-

pensation changes for non-represented employees.”

Compensation increases for the top district administrators are never actually approved by the school board because they work under employment contracts that tie their annual compensation increases to whatever increase is given to the group of management employees.

According to Bowers, the “me too” approach to pay increases for non-union managers and supervisors has been a longtime practice in the district, but he is unsure when it was first implemented. In his 23 years as an administrator, the superintendent has always recommended and the board approved the same pay increase for administrators, as well as the confidential/supervisory staff, who also are not unionized, Bowers wrote in an email to the Weekly. Staff who have worked in the district longer than he has also could not “think of a time that this did not happen,” he said.

“Why is this done — to recognize the hard work of these two other groups of employees,” Bowers continued. “The fact that they aren’t unionized and don’t bargain doesn’t make them any less deserving of the raise that teachers and classified staff receive. I imagine we might have 4 unions to bargain with if this was not the practice.”

Minutes from a board discussion on compensation changes for non-represented management employees in March 2009, the year that management employees formed the Palo Alto Management Association (PAMA) and negotiated a management salary schedule that is adjusted each year after the board approves the union contract, state that Bowers “mentioned the longstanding understanding with the unrepresented group that they will receive the same compensation increases as the two unions.” Q

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429 University project has come to embody local political debate about overdevelopment, preservation of neighborhood character versus architectural evolution and when to follow the spirit versus the letter of the city’s zoning laws.

On the south side, it would front bustling University Avenue, where an eclectic mix of architectural styles is dominated by Spanish-style buildings, some designed by Palo Alto’s renowned architect Birge Clark.

The historic Varsity Theatre lies catty-corner to the parcel.

To the east, it would front the narrower Kipling, which is dominated by the Victorian homes and a city parking lot. Directly across Kipling from 429 University, however, is the blocky, semi-industrial wall of the former Apple Store.

Throughout the project’s many iterations, the proposed building has retained a modern aesthetic.

Some versions have nodded toward neighboring buildings by using similar materials, such as natural stone. But none has attempted to mimic or emulate the designs of adjacent structures.

Michael Harbour, who works on Kipling and appealed the project, explained his objections to the council in May 2015.

“This design is simply not compatible,” he said. “There are

Courtesy Joseph Bellomo Architects.

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Seen from Kipling Street, this latest design for 429 University Ave. in Palo Alto was proposed by property owners Elizabeth and Jaime Wong. no shared characteristics or design linkages with neighboring buildings.”

Besides the question of architectural compatibility is the issue of the four-story project’s sheer mass. Harbour has long maintained that a four-story-tall structure doesn’t belong on Kipling, especially not when replacing two one-story buildings.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider an ordinance amending Architectural Review Findings, review proposed alternatives for the Embarcadero Road corridor improvement project and discuss a consultant’s report on the city’s Individual Review program. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m on Wednesday, Aug. 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss budget management, 2016-17 goals and board operations at an all-day retreat.

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 a.m. at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council is on break until Aug. 14.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The City Council did not meet this week.

Architectural Review Board (Aug. 4)

Arastradero demolition: The commission held a study session 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. Action: None. Commissioners recommended increasing setbacks, reducing yard space and improving the architectural style to blend better with the surrounding neighborhood.

Mixed-use: The board also considered 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. Commissioners voted that design changes are not responsive to the City Council’s direction and that the project should return to the ARB for further review at an undesignated time for final recommendation of approval or denial. Yes: Lew, Kim, Gooyer Recused: Baltay, Furth

“To put four stories here on this narrow street ... just is not right,” Harbour told the architecture board in March. “If we were here dealing with maybe a two-story structure with a third-floor set back, we probably would not (be) here.”

On Thursday, he reiterated these sentiments, adding that if the project was on the corner of a wider street such as Waverley there would not be opposition.

Frustrating the Wongs, however, is the fact that the project meets objective development standards, such as parking requirements and allowed square footage. The issue of compatibility is largely subjective, they alleged — a perspective that city officials agree with, even while insisting that the project be redesigned.

The council voted 9-0 last November to send the project back, again, to the Architectural Review Board. But the board agreed on Thursday that the project, while better than it had been, only changed its facade. It did not change the square footage or the design in a way that would take it from a blocky, horizontally oriented structure to one that is harmonious with the surrounding district.

The Wong’s newest architect, Joseph Bellomo, noted that changes to the facade were more in keeping with the mix of building styles currently up and down University Avenue, including two at 102 and 116 University that he designed. The building now sports walls of glass that he said would let in more light and reduce the sense of large mass, and setbacks on upper floors would make it so people in smaller neighboring buildings on Kipling wouldn’t be able to see the building’s full height, he said.

But the board remained troubled by the mass and overall design. They acknowledged that University Avenue has a variety of architectural styles, but said the area around Kipling is different because the street is narrow

and the buildings on University and Kipling are of historic styles.

Board member Alexander Lew, in an effort to break the design logjam, presented a few examples of architectural styles in San Francisco that he said represent the kind of vision he has for the Wongs’ site. The buildings are modern in their use of concrete materials and glass, but they include elements such as a sense of verticality that visually breaks the building up into three or four segments.

architectural context of that area of University.

Kim questioned whether the project had changed so much that it should have a new application because it is a new design. But the board ultimately did not pursue that idea.

In a firm exchange, Wong complained that current board members are not accessible as past members had been under thenChairman Randy Popp. They have refused to meet with her to discuss the project and how it

‘This is insane for it to go on from 2011 to 2016. ... You’re throwing us out on the freeway. You don’t realize that every little word you say costs us more money.’

— Elizabeth Wong, developer, 429 University Ave. One corner of the San Francisco building’s ground floor was also recessed to break up the mass. It provided for a patio for restaurant seating and benches, Lew noted.

Despite Bellomo’s attempts to divide the building’s width on University into five “bays,” board member Kyu Kim suggested the architect add more elements to break up the building facade with varying setbacks and slightly different color schemes.

“As it is, it still reads as one large building. It still has the sense as one big structure,” he said. “The building to me still feels a little mysterious. It needs to feel a little welcoming.”

Chairman Robert Gooyer added that some of the square footage in the 18-by-18-foot and 20-by-17-foot bedrooms in the third-floor residential units could be reduced to help with setbacks to shrink the mass. He rejected the argument that the walls of glass would adequately reduce the feeling of massiveness and said it was not compatible in the

might be changed, which would be helpful, she said.

But Gooyer said firmly that he believes all meetings with developers should be held in public.

“In my opinion, whatever comments I’m going to give you are going to be in a public venue. The perception works both ways, and it sounds fishy meeting with developers” outside of the public arena, he said. Whatever recommendations he would make in private would be the same as the ones he makes at board meetings, he said.

There is no date scheduled at this time for the Wongs to return to the board. Q Editor Jocelyn Dong can be emailed at jdong@paweekly. com; Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: The lastest plan for 429 University Ave. was design by Joseph Bellomo Architects. Courtesy City of Palo Alto.

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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 3 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 10 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suspicious circumstance . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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July 27-Aug. 2 Violence related Assault with deadly weapon . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Assist outside agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Coroner’s case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstance . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant/arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Terman Drive, 7/27, 11:25 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Park Block, 7/29, 1:36 p.m.; battery/simple.

Alexis Drive, 7/30, 8:58 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park Willow Road and Blackburn Avenue, 7/28, 10:40 a.m.; robbery.

1600 block Marsh Road, 7/29, 2:12 p.m.; battery.

600 block Pierce Road, 8/2, 9:41 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon.

Wilbur R. Morton

August 11, 1919 – July 16, 2016 Wilbur Raymond Morton, 96, resident of Palo Alto for 58 years, died on July 16. He was born in Campbell to Gladys and Herold Morton. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1941 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and was a top marksman and member of the ROTC. Will met the love of his life, Jean Fairfax Pell, in Pittsburgh, PA. The couple married at the Edgewood Presbyterian Church on December 23, 1944. They relocated to the Bay Area in 1951. Will worked for Hewlett Packard from 1958-1982. He and Jean joined the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto where Will sang in the choir, and both served the community in many ways.

His hobbies were music, poetry, photography, gardening and tennis.

He is survived by his five children, Stephen, Dennis, Lynnette Carey, Gary, and Scott, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Memorial Service: Saturday, August 13, at 1 pm, First Congregational Church of Palo Alto.

Memorial donations may be made to the First Congregational Church Concert Series, or to the Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto.

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Transitions Ray A. Boulding Ray A. Boulding died on July 29. He was 60. He was Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 11, 1955. He grew up in East Palo Alto, attended Ravenswo o d High School and graduated from San Mateo High School after which he joined the Army.

He was an employee of San Mateo County for over 20 years, working as a cook for the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City.

He loved music, going to the gym, riding his motorcycle and volunteered at New Beginnings Community Church in Los Altos.

He is survived by his wife Maudry of East Palo Alto; daughters Andrea and Victoria of East Palo Alto; and his grandson Christopher of East Palo Alto.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 10:00 a.m. at New Sweet Home Church, 2170 Capitol Ave., East Palo Alto Memorial donations may be made to New Beginnings Community Church.

William Fred Dean William (Bill) Fred Dean died on July 28 at Stanford University Hospital. He was born on Sept. 30, 1954, in Oakland California.

He graduated from McClymonds High School in Oakland in 1972, earning a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, where he attended before joining the Air Force. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in business from California State University, Hayward.

In 1982, he began his career at San Mateo County where he was most recently a Training and Learning Specialist.

In 1983, he married Elizabeth Brown-Dean, and they later adopted their son, Christian William Lindsey Dean.

He loved learning, researching, meditating and running.

He was predeceased by his father Fred Harold Dean; mother Annie Shelly Knight; brothers Lad, John Wallace, Willie Abraham, David Lee, and Jerome Norman Ford; and sisters Sheila Dean and Joyce Ford.

He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Marie Brown-Dean of East Palo Alto; son, Christian William Lindsey Dean of Vancouver, Canada; brother, Thomas Ford (Patricia) of Orangeville, California; sisters Doris Payne of Oakland, California, Shirley Dean of Oakland, California, Annie M. Ford of San Jose, California; and cousins, nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at Alta Mesa Memorial Park on Friday, Aug. 5. starting at 11 a.m.

Donations may be made to The Benjamin Banneker Association, Inc. or to World Vision.

Jeanese Crist Rowell March 14, 1933 – July 17, 2016

Jeanese (“Dede”) Grace Crist was born on March 14, 1933 in Palo Alto to Eugenia Crist, an artist, and Frank Lee Crist, an attorney. Known as “Dede” to her 19 grandchildren, Jeanese attended Jordan Middle School, Castilleja, and Palo Alto High School (class of 1950). Jeanese went to the University of Oregon and then transferred to Stanford University, graduating with a B. A. in 1955. Upon graduation, Jeanese traveled to France and Italy with two college classmates, marking the beginning of her travels around this amazing planet.

Her childhood started the journey of a colorful woman who would enhance the Bay Area community with her 83 years of life.

Jeanese started her career in San Francisco for US Steel as a member of their Advertising Department. One day in the fall of 1955, Jeanese got into an elevator and struck up a conversation with a tall, handsome man from the Sales Department, Robert (Bob) Rowell, who had just begun his career in the city after returning from a three-year stint in the Marine Corps. The two young adults hit it off from that first conversation and soon after began dating. Highlights from this time included Stanford football games where Jeanese’s two brothers. Skip and Roger Crist, played, a trip to Yosemite, Cal basketball games, and an impressive streak of 35 consecutive days of going on dates. After Bob proposed on a rainy night in Sausalito, the two went on to marry on August 25th, 1956, the beginning of a 59-year marriage.

Jeanese and Bob first settled in South Palo Alto with a cottage on Harvard Avenue while Jeanese worked as a secretary in Town and County Village. Soon, they moved to another home on Louis Court, where Jeanese began her role as a mother, giving birth to her first three children, Denease (Dene), Gregory (Gregg), and Alyssa (Lysa). Also while in this new home on Louis Court, Dede began her career as an interior decorator that was, according to Bob, “unbeknownst to her family”. In vintage Jeanese flair, she designed every inch of the home that allowed the couple to eventually sell their second home as the highest priced Eichler house at the time—the first indication of her design potential.

The couple bought a larger home on Coleridge Avenue in February 1962, a move that allowed Jeanese to fulfill her dream of raising a large family. Eventually, Jeanese would give birth to four more children in the Coleridge home, Theresa (Tess), Roderick (Deke), William Blake (Buddy), and Robert Joshua (Josh). The ever-expanding family of seven would cherish this home as the place that all of the children grew up in, felt the love of their parents, and created lifelong memories that can be laughed about to this day. The family would all be raised in Palo Alto as healthy children in a Chapter that remarkably drew out no true drama.

As parents, Jeanese and Robert instilled deep-seated values in their children. The family took up the rigors of the local education system, partook in athletic events ranging from swim races at the Menlo Circus Club—where the family still remains members— learning to ski at Dodge Ridge, Tahoe and Sun Valley, and junior tennis tournaments through out the West.

Dede lived her life in a style that was all her own. For example, during annual trips to Pinecrest the kids would learn how to sail with Jeanese taking the children out to the middle of the lake, telling them to get back before dusk, and then leaving them with purposely capsized Snipe sailing boats. When her oldest boy, Gregg, was too afraid to dive off the block at a swim meet, he received a kick in the behind from his mother to help him get started. Dede challenged her husband Bob with the same tough love when she took him up to the mountains for his first time, brought him up to the top of the lift, and said that he was, “athletic enough to figure it out for himself.” All seven children and Bob remember Dede as a strong-willed woman who wanted to raise independent kids that would discover their own passions.

In growing up in the Palo Alto community, the Rowell clan would often be seen together as a tight-knit group of children whose bond lasts today. The lessons from Jeanese paid of with all seven children graduating from major universities: four to UC Berkeley—which prompted Dede to switch her rooting

allegiance away from Stanford—one to San Jose State University, one to the University of Arizona, and one to the University of North Carolina. Jeanese took great pride in her children and was gratified that all seven children remained in California to raise their respective families.

Jeanese managed to also start her business as an interior decorator during the abundance of free time she had in raising seven children. Enabled by the rigors of child bearing, Jeanese figured she could manage to start a career in the design World. Jeanese successfully landed clients through out the West Coast that ranged from hotels, apartment complexes, professional offices, and residential homes all while working from her home in Palo Alto. Dede combined her keen eye, friendly smile, and a passion for hard work to make an impact on her business community. The highlights of Jeanese’s work can be seen in sites including the Stanford Park Hotel, Lafayette Park Hotel, and The Bodega Bay Hotel. Eventually, Dede opened up her first commercial office in downtown Palo Alto in 1980 where she would go on to hire two of her daughters. This woman truly loved her profession and remains a symbol for her family about what it means to combine passion for ones’ work with a selfstarter initiative.

On top of the rich life Jeanese already lived, she found other ways to grow, especially with her identity as a tour guide for her grandkids and as a travel companion with Bob. Dede insisted on being viewed as the fun grandmother who experienced the joys of life as her grandchildren experienced the same. In this role, Dede fished, skied, river rafted—providing all the necessary water guns—repelled waterfalls, rode horses, and perfected the art of purchasing firecracker for the annual Thanksgiving dinners at Seascape. With her grandchildren, Dede traveled to Mexico, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, and Sun Valley, ID. She taught her grandchildren the fun of exploring and meeting new people, and that one is never too old to enjoy a street side popsicle. Into the later years of life, this fantastic woman continued to grow as her kids provided her with grandchildren. With Bob, the two started out with a trip to the Mana Kai and never looked back.

Before passing, Jeanese went on a cruise to Turkey & Greece, attended the poppy festivals in Holland, frequented her beloved Cabo saw the Terracotta soldiers in China, experienced the plains of Africa on a safari ride, and traveled to England, Portugal, and France. Memories from her last Chapter reveal the legacy of this woman who had a way to reap the benefits of life as she saw the wonders of the World.

On July 17th, Jeanese Rowell passed away with ease in her home on Coleridge Avenue in Palo Alto. Family surrounded her on the warm Sunday evening. Jeanese was preceded in death by her parents Frank Lee and Jean Crist, and her brother, Skip Crist.

Dede is survived by her husband Robert Rowell, brother Roger Crist, seven children, their spouses, and her 19 grandchildren— Dene Rowell and Chris Badger (Jackson, Carson, Macklan), Gregg Rowell (Jordan, Zach), Lysa and Terry Haught (Ryanne, Riley), Tess Rowell Weber (Mattie, Blake, Garrett), Deke and Kristin Rowell (Grace, Eleanor, Will), Buddy and Alicia Rowell (Robby, Lexi, Claire), Josh and Beth Rowell (Luke, Tate, and Lila).

The family would like to thank those that took such wonderful care of Dede: Tivi, Fina, Malikia, Mai Tai, Lexi, Eric, Beth, Mary, the staff at Schoenstein Physical Therapy and the staff at Village Doctors. Their comfort and care went above and beyond and their love for Dede was apparent to all. A private family burial has already been held and there will be a celebration of Dede’s life later in August.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to the Riekes Center (www.riekes.com/donate) or East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring (www.epatt.org/donate).

Additionally, Dede would want friends to look for the Rowell Family banner at the Big Game this Fall, to live out life as we are all capable of doing, and to keep in mind that learning new things is not attached age, health, nor abilities—there must simply be a desire to learn.

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Editorial End ‘me too’ raises Time to change byzantine school-district payincrease practice

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t is troublesome enough that the powerful California teachers’ union has achieved a system where performance doesn’t matter and teachers all receive exactly the same pay and pay increase within a school district based only on their longevity and number of advanced degrees.

But it is an abdication of basic management responsibility that highly paid school administrators, principals and other managers and directors also do not receive performance-based pay increases and instead get whatever amount the teachers union was able to successfully negotiate for its members.

Year after year, school boards here and elsewhere are complicit in a system that is all but invisible to the public, quietly approving identical “me too” raises for even the most highly paid administrators without regard to their performance. In Palo Alto, the top six administrators reporting to Superintendent Max McGee now each earn more than $200,000. (McGee, who is paid $316,000, is the one person who doesn’t get a “me too” increase.)

Here’s how the system works: Union contract negotiations take place behind closed doors between representatives of the teachers’ union, the classified employees’ (aides, maintenance and clerical staff) union and Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers. These negotiating sessions are open to the public under the terms of the contract unless either side elects to close them. In reality, they are always closed. Whenever the Weekly has asked to attend, both sides have agreed to close the meeting. There has never been any transparency to the process.

Bowers, who ultimately receives a pay increase himself equal to what he has negotiated with the unions, takes his direction on negotiating strategy from the school board in closed meetings. The only time there is even an opportunity for public discussion on labor negotiations is prior to when they initially begin, when both sides decide which provisions of the current contract they wish to “open” for negotiation, and then again after the school board has already agreed in closed session to a new contract but is required by law to hold a public hearing. At that time only a summary of their provisions are included in the public board packet.

These contract approval agenda items pass in a flash at board meetings and with typically no discussion. (This year was a rare exception because trustee Ken Dauber opposed the contract.)

Following the formal, public board vote approving the contracts that had already been approved in closed session, two more votes are taken with no discussion. One approves identical salary and benefit increases as negotiated in the union contracts for all management employees; the other approves the same increases for the Supervisory/Confidential employees.

Then, in the ultimate example of bootstrapping, the top district administrators automatically get the same increase, regardless of performance and without even a vote of approval by the school board.

Why? A provision in each of their contracts states that they will receive any increase that is approved for the larger management group.

No progressively run modern organization would consider operating this way, and the fact that other school districts have a similar lazy and opaque practice is no excuse for this system continuing in Palo Alto. There is no justification for manager compensation not being tied to performance. Mediocrity and exceptionalism should not be rewarded equally; managers should be accountable for their performance.

When the school board approved the latest me-too management increases in May, at the urging of Dauber and colleague Terry Godfrey it committed to looking at this practice during its August retreat, scheduled for this Thursday. We urge the board to end the practice and to form a citizens committee of HR and business executives to recommend changes in how district compensation for management employees is best structured so it is tied to performance and not the union contract.

In light of the district’s recent errors in budgeting property-tax revenue for this year and the multi-million dollar deficits that will result, we also urge the board to immediately roll-back the 4 percent management increases implemented on July 1 (which came a month after a 5 percent retroactive raise back to July 1, 2015).

Nothing can be done to undo the raises given to union employees in May that took effect July 1, but nothing prevents the board from modifying the raises given to managers. If the board knew in May what it found out in early July — that property tax increases were insufficient to support the raises given — it surely wouldn’t have approved those raises.

This isn’t about the need or value of supporting our school managers and administrators. It’s about following responsible compensation and budgeting practices. Q Page 14 • August 5, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

An effort to save CineArts Editor, Palo Alto residents and the City were blindsided last week when learning that Palo Alto Square’s CineArts Film Theater may close as soon as August.

While reasons remain tangled, what is clear is this would be a terrible loss to our community’s cultural and entertainment life.

The City must enforce its longtime requirement of theater-use only at this site. We must also urge and support the City to work with the owners and managers of Palo Alto Square and CineArts to resolve differences

to retain CineArts at Palo Alto Square to screen film without interruption. There are few quality vendors of first-run film, and we shouldn’t be cavalier about losing CineArts.

It is critical that Palo Alto residents take one minute now to sign this online petition. It will be distributed to City staff, council, Palo Alto Square and CineArts owners, management and local press.

Do it now. Go to: tinyurl.com/ SavePaloAltoSquareCineArts Beyond the day-to-day, CineArts is home to the Jewish, United Nations and other acclaimed film festivals; the New

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York MET Opera simulcasts; and the popular discounted Mondays for seniors. It has done well by Palo Alto.

We once had 12 movie theaters. We have two first-run theaters left, CineArts in the south and the Aquarius downtown. Theaters and films allow tremendous opportunity to go beyond the confines and limits of geography, biases and culture, allowing us to expand, to think and be challenged, or simply to be entertained. Theaters and film are worth defending.

Winter Dellenbach La Para Avenue, Palo Alto

Clarifying cottage zoning Editor, The Weekly article about cottages said that no standards for cottage clusters were formalized or added in the city’s landuse update. During the Zoning Ordinance Update process in 2007, I served on the Planning and Transportation Commission when Village Residential Development was codified in Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.13.050 to apply to developments with RM-15 zoning. However, there is no separate Village Residential zone, and existing cottage clusters are not prohibited from redevelopment. However, for a new Village Residential development, restrictions on future modifications would apply.

Arthur Keller Corina Way, Palo Alto

Make Palo Alto great again, again Editor, The closing of the movie theaters at Palo Alto Square is very sad but perhaps inevitable in view of the rise of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Acorn, etc. What I will miss most are the Saturday morning Metropolitan Opera direct transmissions which always drew crowds of 500 or more despite ticket prices of $24.

Rumor has it that David Packard is an opera lover. The Stanford Theater is closed on Saturday mornings. I am sure that additional equipment to access the satellite transmissions would be required but it might well be possible to do it on a break even basis.

When David Packard bought, rehabilitated and re-opened the Stanford, he made downtown Palo Alto great again. David, it is time to make Palo Alto great again, again!

David Lieberman Kingsley Ave, Palo Alto

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A Cubberley grad recalls Palo Alto a half-century ago

by Denny Freidenrich

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ifty years ago in June, many of my childhood friends and I graduated from Cubberley High School.

When we gathered in Mitchell Park for our 25th reunion, I remember several classmates wondering where all the time had gone.

As I was preparing to attend our Golden Anniversary reunion, I couldn’t help but wonder if the old phrase was true: “You can take the boy (or girl) out of Palo Alto, but you can’t take Palo Alto out of the girl (or boy).”

When my high school classmates and I graduated in June, Lyndon Johnson was president and America’s presence in Vietnam was growing by the day. A favorite TV program, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” had just aired its final episode, the Supreme Court ruled the Miranda Act was the law of the land and the U.S. Open golf tournament was being played at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

Those weren’t the only things that happened that particular month. The House of Representatives unanimously approved the Freedom of Information Act, Stokely Carmichael first invoked “Black Power” in one of his speeches, and the American Football League and the National Football League announced they were merging. If that wasn’t enough, Mike Tyson (a future boxing champ) and Julianna Margulies (of

Palo Alto cautious about encouraging seconddwelling units Posted July 28 at 11:41 a.m. by Phil Farrell, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood My wife and I grew our family here in Palo Alto but now live by ourselves in our home that was sized for five. My lot is slightly bigger than normal (7,600 square feet), but it is pie-shaped on a cul-de-sac, so there is no spot within side and back yard setbacks where a second unit could be located even if the minimum lot size requirement were reduced. I’d like to just stay in my home as I age, but there is a lot of space in the house that I don’t use. I could rent out a room, but I like my privacy. Rather than just talk about building second units on the lot, I’d like to see an ordinance that allows people like me to convert part of the existing house into a second dwelling unit with its own bathroom, kitchen and separate entrance, assuming, of course, that the existing house meets all zoning codes regarding standard lot size, maximum lot coverage, etc. I could

One of the most powerful lessons my friends and I learned was how to share. Whether it was splitting our money at the Peninsula Creamery, cutting a Kirk’s Burger in half or passing around a comic book from Kepler’s Bookstore, we knew what was expected of us.

“The Good Wife” fame) were born that month. Who knew?

Because we were teenagers at the time, music meant a lot to us. The Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Lovin’ Spoonful were among our favorite groups. Clearly, it was a heady time to say the least.

Some of my classmates wanted to become architects, doctors, lawyers, real estate investors or teachers. A few others dreamed of owning their own restaurant or sailing around the world. As near as I can tell, whether they still live in town or 3,000 miles away, most of my friends’ dreams came true.

Not surprisingly, a few Cubberley grads didn’t live long enough to see theirs materialize. One died months after graduation.

Another was killed in Vietnam. Many have passed away due to medical complications.

Every time I hear that another classmate has died, I wonder why I am still here and he or she is not?

When I think about the Palo Alto I knew as a boy, I remember swimming at the Greenmeadow Pool, taking dance lessons in 5th grade, playing football on Thanksgiving morning or riding my bike to Stanford. Most importantly, I think about the self-reliance my friends and I gained from those early “Leave it to Beaver” days. If

there were helicopter parents back then, we kids were oblivious. Today, I know too many of them.

One of the most powerful lessons my friends and I learned was how to share.

Whether it was splitting our money at the Peninsula Creamery, cutting a Kirk’s Burger in half or passing around a comic book from Kepler’s Bookstore, we knew what was expected of us. I guess you could say we grew up in a village long before the topic became a political issue 20 years ago between then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and the 1996 GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole.

Case in point: Even when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) in the late 1960s, I always managed to buy something every summer at Smith’s on the Circle. When the cashier would tell me how much I owed, my response typically was, “Put this on my mom’s account.” It didn’t matter that her account had expired, the people at Smith’s knew my family. Anyone who tries that today probably will get arrested.

Life certainly was a lot simpler half a century ago. A typical Eichler home most likely sold for $30,000 back then, compared with the more than $2 million some fetch today. Gas cost approximately 30 cents a

This week in Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square even widen my driveway to create another parking spot.

Local Gold Star mom speaks out against Trump comments Posted Aug. 3 at 5:23 a.m. by Marc Vincenti, a resident of the Gunn High School neighborhood Dear Ms. Meredith, Please accept my condolences for your loss of your son Ken. Thank you for his service, for yours, for the letter you wrote, and for the unstinting sacrifice to and devotion for our country that all of these exemplify. I’m sorry for your loss, grateful for your son’s giving so much for strangers like me. You and he are the stuff of which this nation is made.

Residents in cottages feel the big-house squeeze Posted Jul 29 at 4:47 p.m. by Professor Marni Barnes, a resident of the Crescent

Park neighborhood Amazing what animosity this article is engendering! Even to the point where people are responding without really reading it. The article states that redress is being sought through the City process.

And indeed if you check with the PA Planning Dept you will find that, since the writing of this article, the plans have been sent back to the drawing board because of a number of issues of noncompliance with the Individual Review Guidelines.

Interesting too that readers are projecting their own emotions onto the people involved. The facts are that everyone is cordial and openly reviewing the plans (yes, the new young family and the “old white people” are actually talking).

Posted July 29 at 11:31 a.m. by Peter Carpenter, a resident of Atherton When I was a graduate student at Stan-

gallon 50 years ago. During the summer of 2012, it was nearing $5 a gallon at some local stations. When my kids ask me for $20 now, I sometimes hesitate. I realize that’s not much by today’s standards, but it was a lot when I was growing up in Palo Alto. How so? When I sold shoes at Rapp’s on University Avenue, I got paid $6 for an eight-hour shift.

Several of my Cubberley classmates never left town. They either inherited their parents’ home, or bought it from them, and then raised their children in the same neighborhood they grew up in during the 1950s and 60s. For them, the question about “taking Palo Alto out of the boy or girl” is moot.

But for the majority of us who moved away, only to visit every few years, the question is real. When I ask my friends Dr. Bob in Santa Cruz, Jeff in Nevada City, Dick in Michigan, Kathy in Connecticut or Ron in Oregon, they all acknowledge the impact growing up in Palo Alto had on their lives. Ditto for yours truly. Every time I sit down to write a column, I hear the voices of my friends and family loud and clear. This includes my two older brothers, both of whom graduated from Paly High in the 1950s.

People say Palo Alto doesn’t look the way it did when we graduated from Cubberley in 1966; still, everyone I grew up with agrees it’s great to come back “home” — especially when it means reconnecting with so many childhood friends. Q Denny Freidenrich writes from Laguna Beach, where he is a contributor to The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C. He finds that ironic, considering he barely passed English at Cubberley.

ford I had the great pleasure of living in one of the Boyce cottages for two years.

It was a wonderful experience. Such cottage clusters should be protected by zoning as they provide a unique opportunity to maintain a more economically diverse community. What goes on around the cottage clusters is much less important than what occurs within the clusters. I could have cared less what was built behind my little Boyce cottage because it was a little island already different than the homes that surrounded it.

Palo Alto Square theater to remain open — for now Posted Aug. 3 at 10 p.m. by Ken Horowitz, a resident of the University South neighborhood Wish the City would have put in a better effort two years ago to work with Wheatley Properties and the Silicon Valley YMCA to save the Page Mill Y at 755 Page Mill Road. 1500 members were displaced then. Petitions were presented to the City Council, but no action was taken to save the gym. Q

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

Moving

‘The Mikado’ S Lamplighters’ new spin on a classic operetta

ince 1885, “The Mikado,” set in Japan, has been one of the most performed musical-theater masterworks. To modern audiences, though, it can carry racist connotations. Fueled by social-media critiques, the witty, melodic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta has come under fire from some in the Asian-American community. They’ve called it cultural appropriation, “yellow face in our face” and a historical relic that needs to be retired.

When Lamplighters Music Theatre announced its new season, the company heard the same rumbles that led to canceled New York performances and picketed ones in Seattle. Heeding the alarm bells, Lamplighters sought a solution rather than confrontation. That effort goes forth at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts the weekend of Aug. 14-15.

Dubbed “The New Mikado,” the work moves the action to Renaissance Italy, where Milan stands in for Japan and Il Ducato rules over his territory and holds all of the life-and-death powers his counterpart in Japan possessed. And he’s still got “a Little List” of societal offenders, which has always been updated to be topical ever since the earliest “Mikado” performances.

As stage director Ellen Brooks explained it, “the early Renaissance was a period of great artistic advance and inventiveness.

Transported 8,000 miles westward, it provides a wide colorful canvas enabling us to view this familiar work through an exotic new lens.”

The move didn’t alter a note in the score

marked by a dozen beloved songs. Character names, however, were Italianized: Nanki Poo became Niccolù and Yum Yum is renamed Amiam.

A typically complicated plot involves a penniless wandering minstrel with a fine tenor voice, Niccolù, who falls in love with the fiancée of the Lord High Executioner.

There is non-stop chaos, comic mayhem and desperation with lots of memorable tunes. A series of impromptu marriages, near-miss beheadings, and forged death certificates end with the discovery that Niccolù is really a nobleman and son of the duke.

The singers, many of whom are longtime veterans with the company, are double-cast because of many dates with matinee and evening shows. Tenors Mason Gates and Patrick Hagen, for example, share tenor duties as Niccolù while the Amiam soprano role is shared by Erin O’Meally and Patricia Westley. There is a 30-voice chorus and full orchestra conducted by Baker Peeples.

“The Mikado” is actually a satire on British Victorian society and its foibles.

Early in its life, the Japanese ambassador complained that a divine emperor was being ridiculed. The Queen shrugged off the objection. It remains by far the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan works.

The relocation of operatic works has become a frequent event as stage directors want to emphasize new aspects of familiar works. Peter Sellers took “Rigoletto” to the Little Italy neighborhood in Prohibition-era Manhattan. Verdi switched his

Dragon Theatre explores autism on personal and historical levels

by Karla Kane

REVIEW THEATER have a particular affinity for stories that flip back and forth through time, skipping between eras and drawing parallels between them, the past informing the present and the present shining light on the past. It’s an affinity that Dragon Theatre shares, exemplified by its current production, “Wild Boy.” The play shifts between modern day, where Portland, Oregon, couple Paul and Jennifer are reeling after their toddler son

is diagnosed with autism, and 18th-century Europe, where King George I of England has brought a seemingly feral, mute boy found in the woods to court as a pet project.

“Wild Boy,” by Oliver Goldstick, was adapted from writer/historian Paul Collins’ book “Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into Autism.” Collins is also the lead character, and it’s through his voice that the audience witnesses both his own family life and the story of “Peter the

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Mason Gates as Niccolu (double cast with Patrick Hagean) woos Erin O’Meally as Amiam (double cast with Patricia Westley).

“Masked Ball” from Stockholm, where a king had been assassinated, to colonial Boston and the zapping of the governor.

It’s a familiar way to foil censors as well as pickets and protesters.

Brooks, who directed the traditional Mikado in 2012, sees this version as a “major milestone” for Lamplighters. In the new approach, she’s capturing some of the early Commedia dell’Arte and other touches of the setting and period where many Shakespeare works were based.

Costume designer Miriam Lewis uses the richness of colorful textiles of that era as well. This will not be the Mikado of obis, kimonos and fans. Instead there will be richly embroidered robes, tights and codpieces.

Lamplighters board member F. Lawrence Ewing, who sings Co-Co, said he’s proud of Lamplighters for taking on this challenge.

“This version preserves the integrity

of this masterpiece of musical theater. It also provides stimulus and opportunity to adapt new gestures and postures in keeping with the different time and place,” he said. As to the potential of following New York’s G&S Players lead in canceling in the face of pressure, “we never considered that an option,” he said. “This is a work of unequaled wit and magical melodies. It must be performed.”Q Freelance writer Mort Levine can be emailed at mortlevine123@gmail.com.

Wild Boy,” whom Collins is researching for a book. As Collins grapples with his son Morgan’s (Jonathan Tierney) diagnosis and ponders Peter’s fairly tragic life, he makes connections between the two and begins to explore ideas of what it means to be “normal,” or even human, as well as how to balance helping Morgan thrive in a world designed for the neurotypical with encouraging him to be himself.

Morgan, his parents proudly boast, learned the alphabet as a baby and can put together a complex puzzle in record time. He could, they venture, be a genius. Ah, but their earlyinterventionist clinician replies, he prefers to do the puzzle backward, not interested in making a picture. He refuses eye contact and rarely speaks, other than in fragments of song lyrics. He’s someone with significant issues, the doctors say, for whom difficult things come easily and easy things with difficulty.

Paul and Jennifer are first in denial, then vacillate between anger, fear and acceptance. Morgan’s quirks, which they once celebrated as adorable and charming, must now be scrutinized as possible autism signs. They’re overwhelmed by the hours of behavioral therapy recommended and worried about stamping out what’s special about Morgan in favor of trying to make him conform to societal norms.

Paul (played with wonderful warmth and naturalism by Ryan O’Donnell) also comes to recognize in himself and his relatives some neurodiverse characteristics — as a child his senses were overloaded by school, and he was placed in special ed. He loses himself in his research topics obsessively, becoming deaf to the world. His father, uncles and in-laws, he recalls, were introverted, socially awkward engineers, mathematicians and musicians. Have he and

What: “The New Mikado,” sung in English with English supertitles Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: Saturday, Aug. 13, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m.

Cost: $25-$54 Info: Go to mvcpa.com or lamplighters.org, or call 650-903-5000.

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Jennifer (Olivia Haas) burdened their son with what he refers to as a “genetic kick-me sign?” Are the family’s artistic and cerebral gifts a blessing, a curse or both? And while Jennifer is keen to have a second child, Paul worries about saddling a younger sibling with a possibly highly disabled older brother for life, as well as the family having enough resources to give their children the opportunities and energy they deserve.

Meanwhile, back in the 1700s, King George I (John Stephen King, yep, King plays a king) is a monarch unhappily dragged out of his beloved Bavaria to rule in misery over damp, foreign Britain. When he finds “wild boy” Peter (Tierney, again) living alone in the woods, he senses a kinship between himself, an outsider in his begrudgingly adopted country and culture, and this boy, doomed to forever be outside society due to his inability to assimilate into civilization. Kindhearted Princess of Wales Caroline (Isabel Siragusa) takes pity on Peter and shows him tenderness but with little avail. Though he becomes a celebrity of sorts, even turning up in a Kensington Palace portrait, he’s at best treated as a circus freak and at worst a despised, savage beast. Peter, it seems, was abandoned by his parents when they couldn’t cope with his lack of language skills and “wild” behavior. We’ll likely never know his true origins, nor the cause of his disabilities, but his story does prove an intriguing and heartbreaking case study.

Sensitively and skillfully directed by Ken Sonkin, Dragon’s production is sweet and funny in addition to thought-provoking.

Sonkin also deserves credits for the production’s nicely executed sound design, which allows styles of piano music to distinguish switches in timelines and, in one transition, the rain of Portland to meld into the downpour of England. The set, by Joshua McDermott, is the most elaborate I’ve seen yet at the Dragon, with clever jungle-gym features such as swings and bars. Tables and stools shaped like jigsawpuzzle pieces are a nod to the puzzle-piece symbol used by autism-awareness organizations.

In addition to the good chemistry between O’Donnell and the understated, deadpan Haas, Tierney does well with his challenging, largely nonspeaking roles, and the supporting cast plays such a large number of different parts that I was shocked at curtain call to realize how few actors are actually involved (with King especially good at switching between blustery monarch and laid-back Portland dude).

Members of the royal family (Isabel Siragusa and John Stephen King, right) take an interest in “Peter the Wild Boy” (Johnathan Tierney, left).

“Wild Boy” is recommended for anyone who’s a parent, interested in history, concerned with what it means to be human or has ever felt like an outsider — and

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Eating Out

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It’s hit h or miss at Opa! in downtown Palo Alto

by Alissa Ali Merksamer | photos by Zachary Hoffman

“H

ow’s your food?” someone at your table asks.

“It’s pretty good,” you reply. “How’s yours?”

“It’s pretty good.”

That’s how the conversation goes for nearly every dish at Opa! Authentic Greek Cuisine in downtown Palo Alto. Everything is pretty good, but not much is extraordinary.

This mini-chain of six Bay Area restaurants (and two more on the way) comes from co-owners Angelo Heropoulos and Molly Adams. Heropoulos grew up in a large Greek family for whom meals were a focal point. He wanted to bring the conviviality of those dinners to his restaurant.

“My vision was to give neighborhood communities a comfortable place that hit that sweet spot between casual and fine dining and offer people 100-percenthomemade foods,” Heropoulos said.

He said he also wanted to keep it affordable. Most entrees hover in the mid-teens, and portions are generous. Opa! has raised prices just once since opening in 2008.

Wood and rock dominate the interior of the University Avenue space. Materials were inspired by villages in the central part of the Peloponnese. Look up to the ceiling, where splashes of pale blue, pink, and green paint resemble clouds. Then glance toward the bar where two big-screen TVs play the Giants game.

Server Sabine Espinoza holds a pork souvlaki served on a bed of fries

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Within moments of sitting down, your server will arrive, smiling like a cheerleader on game day, to introduce herself and see if you’d like anything to drink.

Visit a few times, and it becomes apparent that this friendliness was trained, and certain servers execute it better than others.

Some of the staff could use a lesson on the menu. When asked to explain retsina ($14), a Greek white wine mixed with pine resin, the waitress described it as a blend of various red grapes. When someone at the table pointed out that it was listed as a white wine, she acted surprised. “Oh, that’s the one you meant?” Pause. “It’s a sweeter wine.” Nope, not even close. It’s crisp and dry with a peculiar herbaceousness that’s popular in Greece but relatively unknown outside it.

Later this year, Heropoulos said he will launch an intensive training program to school current and new employees on the menu and proper service. In addition to offering several red and white wines, including Greek varietals,

Left, Opa! on University Avenue in Palo Alto serves both lunch and dinner.

Heropoulos sells his own wine called Christeni, named after his children.

As with any Greek meal, you’ll want to begin with meze, a selection of hot and cold appetizers. Try the rustic zucchini cakes ($9.99). These fried patties don’t taste much like zucchini but with their creamy interiors and crispy exteriors, it doesn’t matter, especially after you give them a swipe through the accompanying srirachaspiked yogurt. The yogurt, made in-house, is thick and luscious, without the sourness of storebought versions. You’ll see it in various iterations throughout the menu, and you should order it as often as possible.

Sit at the restaurant long enough, and you’re bound to see the saganaki or “flaming cheese” ($9.99). You’ll actually smell it before you see it — a skillet sizzling with kasseri cheese that your server finishes tableside. She adds a splash of ouzo (Greek anise-flavored liquor) to the pan, lights a match, and shouts “Opa!” as the flames shoot up. The show ends with a squeeze of lemon. Scoop up the bubbling cheese and its toasty orange crust with plenty of pita.

This fluffy, white pita bread is the restaurant’s own recipe baked fresh daily by a local bakery. You’ll need it for the dips.

Go with the skordalia ($6.99), a silky whipped potato puree with garlic. The melitzanosalata ($7.99) is more relish than dip with nearly just as many pieces of diced raw onion as there are roasted eggplant.

One trademark of a great Greek restaurant is how well they do the horiatiki, aka “Greek Village Salad” ($10.99).

This one stays pretty classic, composed of feta, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, kalamata olives, red peppers and fresh

oregano. Heropoulos insists it’s lightly tossed with a Greek red wine vinegar dressing, but the vegetables tasted naked. The feta cheese on top is terrifically mild.

Heropoulos sampled multiple varieties before choosing it. He uses a different, saltier version to crumble over French fries. Those Opa! Fries ($6.99) are cut from Kennebec potatoes, a favorite of chefs for frying. Crunchy and golden on the outside, they unfortunately suffer from a mealy interior at Opa!.

This same textural problem plagued the roasted potatoes that come with the psari psito sti skara, or Mediterranean seabass ($24.99). The fish is grilled and served whole, a challenge for those of us who struggle at deboning, but a safeguard for retaining moisture. According to the menu, it should have been dressed in the “Opa! vinaigrette,” a combination of olive oil, lemon, fresh oregano from Greece, crushed garlic and parsley, but in reality, it didn’t taste like anything until vigorously splashed with an accompanying lemon wedge.

Missteps detract from other entrees. A massive lamb shank, called kokinisto me manestra, ($23.99) served over orzo pasta, required a knife when it should be fork-tender. The moussaka ($18.99), a staple casserole of eggplant, ground lamb and beef, and potatoes, showed up lukewarm and tasted mainly of nutmeg.

The lemon chicken orzo ($14.99) fared better. It’s one of several dishes at Opa! that unites classic Greek recipes with California flair. Heropoulos created it with his mother after she returned from Greece with the idea to add a lighter pasta dish to the menu. Pieces of grilled chicken breast surround creamy orzo with a honey-lemon yogurt sauce and more yogurt in the middle. It’s more sweet than tangy but delivers a refreshing contrast between the cool dairy and the charred chicken.

For the traditional Greek taverna experience, there are gyros and souvlaki. The gyro meat is a combination of lamb and beef, ground until super-fine and cooked on a rotating vertical spit. The meat is shaved into thin slices, which you can order in a pita sandwich ($10.99) or on a platter ($11.99) with tomatoes, onions, mint and tzatziki. The meat was moist but didn’t have much taste. Instead, go with the beautifully charred pork souvlaki ($14.99) skewers. They were emboldened with oregano and that Opa! vinaigrette.

Phyllo dough rules many Greek pastries, including the ones here.

The bougatsa ($7.9 a9) is par-

Eating Out cel of crispy phyllo filled with what tastes like cinnamon cream cheese made tangy by a bit of sauteed green apple. If only there weren’t those streaks of raspberry goo and caramel decorating the plate. The lo ukoumades ($9.99), yeast doughnuts that look like roughly shaped doughnut holes, are warm but bready. You can order them one of several ways including with fruit and that addicting Greek yogurt. The only problem is you might end up eating the yogurt and ditching the doughnuts. Q Freelancer writer Alissa Merksamer can be reached at amerksamer@gmail.com.

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

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Bad Moms (R) Century 16: 9:10 & 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 6:15, 7:35 & 10:15 p.m.

Batman (1989) (PG-13)

Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

Cafe Society (PG-13) Century 20: 9:55 a.m., 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:20 p.m.

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

Captain Fantastic (R) ++ Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:50 p.m.

Don’t Think Twice (R) +++ Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:30 p.m. Sun. 9:45 p.m.

Duck Soup (1933) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 6:10 & 9:55 p.m.

Finding Dory (PG) +++ Century 16: 9:15 & 11:50 a.m., 2:30 & 5:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:45 & 4:30 p.m.

Sat. & Sun. 7:20 & 10:05 p.m.

Ghostbusters (PG-13) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:15 & 8:10 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:15 a.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 2, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m.

Gigi (1958) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:35 & 7:30 p.m.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 2:25, 4:45, 7 & 10 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: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 6:55 & 9:25 p.m.

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Lights Out (PG-13) Century 16: 7:55 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:05, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10 & 10:25 p.m.

Nerve (PG-13) + Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m.

Nine Lives (PG) Century 20: 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25 & 10 p.m.

The Reluctant Debutante (1958) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 5:40 & 9:35 p.m.

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

The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Century 16: 9:35 a.m., 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35 & 10 p.m.

Century 20: 10 and 11:15 a.m., 12:35, 3:15, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m.

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tion of whether the hardscrabble world of improv should be her end all and be all. The degree to which the characters want, feel they need, or find themselves indifferent to a “Weekend Live” offer largely defines them, and forces the pointedly named Commune to what may be its breaking point.

Like his previous feature “Sleepwalk with Me,” Birbiglia’s latest is produced by Ira Glass (“This American Life”), who obviously responds to Birbiglia’s articulate insights about relationship and career neuroses. “Don’t Think Twice” particularly pinpoints a creative community that’s never been explored in a narrative film. There’s joy in the art, arguably the day-seizing-est art there is (“It’s about now,” says one improviser), but there’s also sadness: career desperation, professional jealousy, and creative hesitation, the voices in the head that plague so many artists.

Even when one of the team The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly:

Jason Bourne01/2 Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass reunite for “Jason Bourne,” the fifth sequel in the franchise. This time, Bourne (Damon) has been underground fighting in Greece for 10 years when he realizes his dad’s fiery death wasn’t a terrorist attack but a government-sanctioned rubout that had something to do with Treadstone, the CIA black-ops supersoldier program that made Bourne the killing machine he is today. The new story handles this new motivation for revenge in every old way, except this time craggy CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) insists Bourne “has to be put down,” while his female protégé (Alicia Vikander) 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. There are some impressive stunts, but otherwise, the film is terrified to do anything different. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief strong language. Two hours, 3 minutes. P.C. (Reviewed July 26, 2016) Nerve0 Adapted by Jessica Sharzer (“American Horror Story”) from Jeanne Ryan’s 2012 YA novel, “Nerve” is a teen pandering thriller about a viral online game with the potential to get players in trouble. The film concerns high school senior Venus “Vee” Delmonico (Emma Roberts) whose overprotective mother (Juliette Lewis) helps make her an archetypal tightly wound stick-in-the-mud.

Personal frustration prompts Vee to play Nerve, an online game that bills a mass of teen “Watchers” to subsidize paying out prizes to “Players” who perform crowd-sourced dares. At first, the most sinister thing about Nerve is that the game has read her Facebook page and knows her favorite book. The initial dares force a kiss with stranger Ian (Dave Franco).

It’s all fun until someone gets hurt.

Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (“Catfish,” “Paranormal Activity 3” and “4”) do their bit of basic competence, but when this thriller has to turn the screws of its climax, its fundamental stupidity surfaces. Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence. One hour, 36 minutes.

— P.C. (Reviewed July 25, 2016)

lands a gig on “Weekend Live,” the supposed pinnacle turns out to be shaky ground, as anyone who knows anything about “Saturday Night Live” can attest. Part of what makes “Don’t Think Twice” resonate is how the principles of improv, laid out at the outset of the film, mirror zen philosophies of life that can be deceptively difficult to follow: “1. Say yes. 2.

It’s all about the group. 3. Don’t think.” There’s also the standard line the group asks its audiences as an improvisatory springboard: “Has anybody had a particularly hard day?” Generally, the players themselves could reliably “say yes” to that.

As a film about improv, “Don’t Think Twice” misses an opportunity to show more actual improv, and, well, to be more funny, but its wistful, naturalistic presentation of a thirtysomething turning point — a forced maturation of sorts — rings true. Q Rated R for language and some drug use. One hour, 32 minutes.

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GRANTS AWARDED ... Two programs of the Menlo Park-based senior services agency Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. were recently awarded a total of $175,000 by the Sequoia Healthcare District, a taxpayer-funded agency that provides community-based health care services to southern and central San Mateo County. The Meals on Wheels program received $100,000 to assist in the delivery of more than 1,700 hot meals per week to county residents. Rosener House Adult Day Services, a day program for adults affected by conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and Parkinson’s disease, received $75,000 to assist families with program costs. In addition to Meals on Wheels and Rosener House, Peninsula Volunteers operates Little House, Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center and more than 120 units of affordable apartments on Crane Place and Partridge Avenue near downtown Menlo Park.

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Narinder Kapany stands in his Palo Alto office where a large painting of the Sri Harmandir Sahib, known as the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, India, hangs above his desk as a reminder of his homeland.

Kapany, who now lives in Woodside, survived the 1947 Partition of India.

Documenting the holocaust of 1947 Local Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs recall the life-altering Partition of India

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ow in his late 80s, Palo Alto businessman Narinder Singh Kapany holds searing memories of the days surrounding the 1947 Partition of India, a violent cataclysm that created more than 14 million refugees and left an estimated one million dead.

From his family’s home in Dehradun, India, he could hear the shrieking and see the fires one night as local Muslims were attacked for being on the wrong side of the border.

“It was bedlam,” Kapany recalled in a recent interview in his Palo Alto office. “The next morning I went down there and one of the most horrible things I saw was about 15 Muslim girls, killed and being lifted onto a truck to take them away. I saw this with my own eyes. It was utterly disgusting, seeing those lovely girls killed and being dragged onto a truck.”

Kapany is one of thousands of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs who have shared their firsthand accounts with the nonprofit 1947 Partition Archive, a Bay Areabased organization that aims to capture and preserve the multitude of stories from survivors in the Bay Area, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh under the guidance of founder Guneeta Singh Bhalla and key advisers Stanford professors Priya Satia and Shaili Jain.

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Bhalla said the organization started locally, collecting oral histories from residents in Palo Alto, Stanford and the greater Bay Area and has since expanded to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The group has conducted close to 3,000 interviews, she said.

Bhalla — who grew up in India hearing her grandparents talk about how their lives had been irrevocably changed by the Partition, which left about 1 percent of the world’s population homeless — felt the events were neither well-understood nor officially recognized. A physicist now living in San Francisco, she said that when

her amateur efforts to record people’s memories of Partition began to snowball, she put her scientific career on hold to work full-time documenting the stories of survivors, most of whom are now in their 70s or older.

“It’s just something that needed to be done — the stories of my grandmother and others needed to be told, to give them legitimacy and give inspiration to the modern generation,” Bhalla said. “When I was growing up in India, usually the independence of India and Pakistan was celebrated but the Partition and all its traumas were not really even mentioned in the

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PLANNING AHEAD ... Residents of the downtown Palo Alto senior community Channing House will open their doors to the public this fall to host Elipsis 2016, a five-part series on retirement and end-of-life planning. The series will be held Saturday mornings from Sept. 10 through Oct. 8, said Channing House resident Peter Stangl, one of the organizers.

Stangl and his committee have lined up local experts to cover various topics including retirement options, finances and medical ethics.

Participants may purchase a $75 pass for the whole series, which consists of five half-day sessions, or gain admission to individual sessions at $25 each. Elipsis 2016 is relevant for anyone approaching retirement or for the adult children of seniors, Stangl said. While last year’s program was restricted to Channing House residents and their families, this one is open to the larger community, he said, adding that online registration should be available at channinghouse.org by mid-August. For more information, contact elipsis@channinghouse.org or 650-470-5610.

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Narinder Kapany, center, sits with friends in India around the time of the 1947 Partition that left about 1 percent of the world’s population homeless.

books, not discussed formally.”

Despite the commonly held narrative that Partition caused Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs suddenly to begin hating and killing one another, a different picture emerges from the firsthand accounts, she said.

“People didn’t usually attack people they knew,” Bhalla said.

“People protected their neighbors who were in the opposite group.

Religion did get politicized here, but what seems to have happened is that the British left so hastily that the police and military became chaotic. Civil society broke down and the have-nots went after the haves.”

The day after the fighting broke out in Dehradun, Kapany recalled, a mob came to his home demanding that he hand over a Muslim servant who had lived with his family for decades.

“They were shouting and said, ‘You have a Muslim living here, give him to us,’” he recalled.

Kapany said he told them he was prepared to use his doublebarrel gun to protect the servant.

“I think there were some wise people there who found that I meant it,” he said. “I wasn’t going to let anybody hurt him.”

The following day, Kapany said, he witnessed a British soldier shoot dead a young boy who was holding a toy he had taken from a nearby shop.

Kapany, a physicist who went on to pioneer the field of fiber optics, settled in Palo Alto in 1960, where he has founded a series of technology companies, taught at the University of California and become active in philanthropy.

“I think what (the Partition Archive) is trying to do is interesting not only from the Indian scene but for the populations that today are moving in huge quantities,” he said. “There’s a lot to learn. Right now, look at the number of people leaving Syria and coming to Europe. Imagine what’s going to happen to those people and the effect of that on the European situation.”

As a 6-year-old boy, Ali Shan witnessed the killing of his mother, older brother and two aunts during a raid on their Muslim village at the time of Partition.

Now a 76-year-old resident of Fremont, Shan haltingly recounts details of the painful memory with a purpose — so that his story of survival and forgiveness might help other people might help others struggling with tragedy find peace.

“Although my story is full of tragedy and some adventures as well ... I have made peace with losing my family as well as my childhood,” said Shan, who eventually moved to California and still rises before dawn each morning to open his San Jose gas station by 5 a.m.

“I’ve learned to forgive ... and I do not have any hate or grudge against anyone. I respect all religions of everybody. That’s what I am today, and that’s why I survived as well,” he said.

Hayward resident Fauzia Parviz does not have a conscious memory of the Partition. But she (continued on page 24)

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lumber business and furniture factory in Amritsar was looted and burned to the ground.

The extended family took refuge in the house of her grandfather in a Muslim area near Amritsar considered safer. Even when Amritsar was named part of India

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Living Well Parviz’s father was able to rebuild his business in Rawalpindi and within a decade the family had cars, servants and a house in the hills, she said. But her grandfather and some others in her family, including an uncle who died by suicide, never recovered from the losses they suffered.

She grew up hearing her grandparents’ lament that the grass had been greener and the well-water sweeter back home in Amritsar.

The sectarian violence that had surrounded them during Partition, Parviz said, “was just the way humans behave in a time of crisis.

There was no enemy. Anywhere in the world humans are like that.” Q For more information on the 1947 Partition Archive, go to 1947partitionarchive.org.

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(continued from page 22) speakers included Avenidas social work manager Paula Wolfson, who discussed ageism, and architect Elaine Uang of the community group Palo Alto Forward. Uang showed attractive images of older Palo Alto apartment buildings, which, she said, could not be built today because of restrictive zoning laws. She urged revised zoning restrictions to allow more housing.

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“The response was surprisingly positive across all ethnic groups, said VJ Periyakoil, a Stanford clinical associate professor of medicine who was senior author of the study. California’s End of Life Option Act took effect June 9. To conduct the study, researchers developed an online survey that asked participants to respond, true or false, to whether they believed it is acceptable to allow a physician to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally ill patient, in order to end that person’s life. Among the 1,095 responses from California and 819 from Hawaii, the majority — 72.5 percent in California and 76.5 percent in Hawaii — supported physician-assisted death. Q

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This modern farmhouse designed by Ana Williamson in the Menlo Oaks neighborhood is surrounded by oak trees.

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pen, honest, transparent.” That’s how Menlo Park architect Ana Williamson describes her client’s mantra about what her new home in Menlo Oaks needed to be.

What she came up with is a modern take on a farmhouse, set on an L-shaped lot sprinkled with elderly oak trees. Up a long driveway, first impressions are of a more traditional home. A second look reveals the steel-and-glass front door, large windows (but broken up into traditional panes) and clerestory rather than dormer windows on the second story.

That “modern farmhouse” is one of four homes that will be on a selfguided tour this weekend, with the local architects on hand to show and tell. Each house was built within the last five years, and most are modern.

“It’s an opportunity to have conversations with the architects, but it’s about more than showing the finished product,” Williamson said.

The 3,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house she designed took two and a half years from design to move-in date.

The client first purchased a customized 640-square-foot prefab unit from Connect Homes, Los Angeles, where she and her then 4-year-old daughter lived during construction.

It came in handy for daily meetings on site and now serves as a rental unit on the property. (It will also be included in the tour.)

The client was very clear that she didn’t want a pretentious house that had rooms that nobody sat in.

Instead, she wanted open spaces, to capture as much light as possible and to constantly connect to the outdoors, Williamson said, pointing to the large Loewen glass doors leading out from the living room to the backyard.

Meet and greet the architects

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by Carol Blitzer | photos by Veronica Weber

While the farmhouse was under construction, the homeowner lived in a pre-fabricated home on the property, which is now currently rented out. The farmhouse was designed to have an open feel; the dining room and kitchen can be seen from the living room.

She also wanted “modern living in a country setting, to stay away from anything too trendy, a timeless design that she wouldn’t be regretting in five years,” she added.

Modern homes “speak more to a frame of mind, of how we live, unencumbered, without preconceived notions about open space,” Williamson said. “This has a very modern concept but also realizes more traditional elements of separating spaces, finding space for more intimacy.”

Although the lot is close to an acre, the building space is narrow, and “The setbacks were very restrictive. That forced us to come up with a long and linear scheme,” Williamson said. On the first floor, rooms march along in a row, from the garage to the mudroom, entryway and office, kitchen, dining area and living room.

The color palette is neutral throughout, with light white oak flooring and white walls. In the kitchen, pale gray cabinets are accented by dark gray Pietra Grigio basalt countertops and lighter Heath Ceramics tiles in the backsplash. A large marble-topped island houses both the microwave and a wine cabinet.

Wolf appliances and hood are stainless steel and modern, contrasting with the Shaws Classic farmer’s sink. A barbecue is easily accessible, in a side yard just outside the kitchen.

The living room sports a cathedral ceiling with decorative, not structural, reclaimed French oak beams. “It’s a nod to French farmhouse,” Williamson said, as is the distressed dining-room table, “a mix of old and new.”

Throughout the house, that mix of old and new is evident, with (continued on page 28)

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The daughter’s bedroom features corner windows and plenty of space for playing and painting.

HOME SALES

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windows sporting simple casings, vertical tongue-and-groove wall paneling and small, intimate spaces carved out in the wide, open rooms. These include several comfortable and cozy window seats, strewn with pillows.

The front door was originally planned as a more traditional, wooden door, but Williamson soon convinced her client that the glass and steel embraced the indoor/outdoor sensibility. The banister on the central staircase then needed to echo that style.

Right off the entryway is the client’s home office, a large, sunny room, closed by a sliding barn door for phone privacy.

Another barn door was used to separate the master bedroom from the en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet/dressing room.

Light was a key factor in designing and decorating the rooms. No window coverings were used downstairs, but were reserved for the upstairs bedrooms.

“All the light fixtures were carefully curated for the space,” Williamson said, pointing out the over-sized, upside-down, bell-shaped hanging lights in the kitchen and the whimsical, yet dramatic, chandelier above the stairs.

on 06/24/16; built 1953, 5 bed, 3690 sq. ft.

East Palo Alto

1121 Alberni St. M. Wang to X. Lu for $350,000 on 06/28/16; built 1990, 4 bed, 1540 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/29/2011, $270,000

Los Altos

7 Greenoaks Drive Kennedy Trust to Y. & S. Hu for $5,350,000

843 Echo Drive Hartenbaum Trust to M. & L. Dale for

$4,700,000 on 07/15/16; built 2002, 4 bed, 3798 sq. ft.

191 Hillview Ave. Pospisil Trust to Sterling Trust for $1,925,000 on 07/18/16; built 1920, 2 bed, 1030 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/11/1995, $375,000 1030 Rosemont Ave. Leach Trust to A. Parwaney for $2,360,000 on 07/15/16; built 1942, 2 bed, 1035 sq. ft.

209 Yerba Santa Ave. Dobbins Trust to A. Chennapragada for

Your Realtor and You REALTORS® Complete SILVAR’s 5th Global Real Estate Institute The Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) 5th Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) Institute concluded in June with students from the San Francisco Bay Area and Canada. The courses were taught by National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) 2012 and 2009 International Instructor of the Year David Wyant.

According to NAR, foreign buyers purchased $102.6 billion of residential property in U.S. real estate between April 2015 and March 2016. Most foreign buyers were from China (14%), followed by Canada (12%), Mexico (8%), India (7%) and the UK (4%).

Also sharing information to help the REALTORS® in their global real estate business were sponsors for each day.

Janet Case, CEO of Proxio, said the international networking platform connects REALTORS®, their listings, and real estate developments they wish to market with over 700,000 agents from more than 120 countries. Proxio’s marketing tools give REALTORS® global reach, translating listings in 19 languages, 55 currencies and metric measurements.

Amy Ku, Northern California mortgage sales manager with HSBC Bank, shared information about work permit classifications and the visa waiver program.

She said HSBC can pull credit in 80 countries and as a portfolio lending banker, can offer flexible terms to foreign buyers.

TourFactory’s Darrell Monda said his company has a waiver from the FAA to use drone photography. In addition to virtual tours, TourFactory provides videography, analytics and syndication to 32 real estate engines to help REALTORS® market properties to foreign buyers who cannot physically be at a property they are interested in purchasing.

Anita Rodal, international liaison with AFEX (Associated Foreign Exchange) and president of SBPI Services, Inc., explained how market volatility affects inter-bank currency exchange rates, online rate websites and mitigating risks of rate changes.

From Property Inspection Service owner Larry Tringali, REALTORS® learned that they have to educate foreign buyers because property inspections are not as developed or regulated in other countries as they are in the U.S. Upon completing the required courses and fulfilling other necessary requirements, graduates of this year’s CIPS Institute can receive their CIPS designation and have the opportunity to be recognized at the 2016 NAR REALTORS® Conference and Expo in Orlando, Fl. on Nov. 4-7. Over 40 members of SILVAR are CIPS designees. ***

Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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Energy efficiency and eco-friendliness were important elements, Williamson said, and included use of non-toxic products, attic insulation using spray foam, radiant heating on the ground floor, forced-air on the second floor and use of a Nest thermostat system.

More than anything, Williamson posed, a home is a reflection of the homeowner, not the architect. “If we do a good job, the house was designed only for (the client) in this location. We cannot replicate this house.

“It’s not for the faint of heart to build a house from scratch. It’s a journey, an adventure,” she said.

Other homes on the tour include: Case Study Home, Menlo Park — designed by square three design studios, Palo Alto, inspired by the Southern California Case Study of 1950s contemporary homes.

Key features are large glass expanses, open floor plans, indoor/outdoor integration and horizontal low-profile roof planes.

Old La Honda residence, Woodside — designed by Fergus, Garber, Young, Palo Alto; sited between a steep forest and an old orchard and meadow, with cross-bay and valley views, the home uses materials and colors taken from surrounding area.

The home is designed for low water use and natural cooling. $2,700,000 on 07/14/16; built 1962, 3 bed, 1859 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/1972, $61,100

Los Altos Hills

11470 Page Mill Road Balkenhol Trust to A. Zhao for $1,801,000 on 07/13/16; built 1940, 3 bed, 1983 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/10/1974, $55,000

Menlo Park

426 8th Ave. A. & T. Wright to V. & C. Tong for $1,529,000 on 06/28/16; built 2002, 4 bed, 2690 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/04/2002, $851,000 565 9th Ave. L. Reynolds to Gilles Trust for $1,325,000 on 06/28/16; built 1945, 3 bed, 1520 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/16/2002, $755,000 927 Arnold Way B. & L. Hamilton to H. Chung for $1,703,000 on 06/29/16; built 1950, 4 bed, 1740 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/05/2007, $1,065,000 1208 Bellair Way R. & K. Baez to R. & S. Smith for $4,200,000 on 06/29/16; built 2012, 4 bed, 3430 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/13/2012, $3,400,000 882 College Ave. Woodside Trust to E. Zhao for $2,300,000 on 06/24/16; built 1943, 2 bed, 1810 sq. ft.

1101 Del Norte Ave. P. Mendoza to J. Lew for $950,000 on 06/28/16; built 1958, 4 bed, 2114 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/15/2003, $600,000 1332 Hoover St. Sclavos Trust to J. Menard for $2,650,000 on 06/23/16; built 2014, 4 bed, 2000 sq. ft.

331 Lexington Drive Sullivan Trust to Q. Lin for $1,875,000 on 06/24/16; built 1948, 3 bed, 1570 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/23/2007, $920,000 900 Menlo Oaks Drive Amsbaugh Trust to R. Mahadevan for $3,300,000 on 06/24/16; built 1948, 3 bed, 2220 sq. ft.

1060 San Mateo Drive Ebaugh Trust to Stinson Trust for $2,900,000 on 06/23/16; built 1950, 3 bed, 1980 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/1975, $90,500 2361 Sharon Oaks Drive Grinstead Trust to Baumgartner Trust for $1,675,000 on 06/29/16; built 1975, 2 bed, 1700 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/19/2012, $995,000 1064 Tehama Ave. T. & L. Kent to R. Haile for $2,150,000 on 06/29/16; built 1947, 3 bed, 1450 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/14/2015, $1,275,000 1219 Whitaker Way R. Pahlavan to T. Wandless for $2,935,000 on 06/29/16; built 1955, 3 bed, 1790 sq. ft.

Westridge Residence, Portola Valley — designed by Tobin Dougherty Architects, Palo Alto; emphasis on interior and exterior spaces flowing together through interlocking spaces, blurring the distinction between inside and outside.

Visitors to the tour, as well as members of AIA (American Institute of Architects) Santa Clara Valley and San Mateo chapters, are invited to an Architect Mixer & Design Showcase on Friday, Aug. 5, from 5:30 7:30 p.m. at the Rejuvenation showroom, 323 University Ave., Palo Alto. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

What: AIA Silicon Valley Home Tour When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Where: Four homes in Menlo Park, Portola Valley and Woodside (addresses will be provided with tickets/program) Cost: $75 general admission, $59 for AIA members, children under 10 free; pick up tickets at House #1 Info: No cameras or camera phones allowed; remove shoes or wear provided shoe covers; no opening cabinets, closets, drawers, etc.

Tickets: https://aiascvym.site-ym.com/store/ ViewProduct.aspx?id=4876671

21 Willow Road #9 M. EggeZiring to S. Pillai for $981,000 on 06/27/16; built 1976, 2 bed, 1167 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/24/1992, $162,000

Mountain View

217 Ada Ave. #11 Knudson Trust to L. Xu for $907,000 on 07/13/16; built 1983, 2 bed, 1103 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/26/2005, $535,000 645 Barbara Ave. Doherty Trust to D. Rivas for $2,000,000 on 07/15/16; built 1956, 4 bed, 1609 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/04/2009, $1,226,000 1282 Cuernavaca Circulo Finucane Trust to V. & B. Malhotra for $1,725,000 on 07/15/16; built 1986, 3 bed, 2261 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/19/2006, $1,045,000 112 Evandale Ave. MV Viewpoint 2013 to K. Lee for $1,120,000 on 07/15/16 109 Fairchild Drive MV Viewpoint 2013 to E. Pasternak for $1,265,000 on 07/13/16 1852 Limetree Lane S. Norris to V. Ramachandran for $2,200,000 on 07/18/16; built 1961, 3 bed, 1620 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/07/2005, $1,322,000 419 Rialto Court Z. Sun to B. Purba for $1,350,000 on 07/14/16; built 1990, 3 bed, 1659 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/06/2013, $958,000 2217 Rock St. S. McGiveran to J. & A. Lin for $1,358,000 on 07/14/16; built 2012, 3 bed, 1941 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/10/2012, $765,000 1983 San Luis Ave. #30 K. Oh to E. Rothmayer for $1,030,000 on 07/18/16; built 1984, 2 bed, 1171 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/28/2013, $710,000 212 Sherland Ave. D. & H. Bliss to M. Manzarpour for $1,595,000 on 07/15/16; built 1948, 3 bed, 1538 sq. ft.

255 South Rengstorff Ave. #146 K. Schulz to C. Yu for $880,000 on 07/14/16; built 1965, 3 bed, 1292 sq. ft.

500 West Middlefield Road #3 A. Doerschuk to N. Johri for $765,000 on 07/14/16; built 1971, 2 bed, 1136 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/10/1996, $143,500 928 Wright Ave. #1006 Sleight Trust to D. Hsiao for $1,110,000 on 07/13/16; built 1980, 2 bed, 1183 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/19/2013, $788,000

Palo Alto

3687 Bryant St. W. Martin to Six Pid for $1,680,000 on 07/18/16; built 1952, 3 bed, 1248 sq. ft.

2088 Channing Ave. Edgewood Plaza Homes to Z. Yuan for

$2,850,000 on 07/18/16; previous sale 07/30/2014, $10,640,000 340 Cowper St. M. & D. O’Sullivan to B. Li for $1,710,000 on 07/14/16; built 1981, 2 bed, 1542 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/23/2008, $1,120,000 859 Garland Drive Garland Drive Limited to Wang & Miao Trust for $2,963,000 on 07/14/16; built 1956, 3 bed, 1697 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/27/2012, $1,400,000 3916 Louis Road Kyin Trust to T. Tran for $1,900,000 on 07/15/16; built 1957, 3 bed, 2012 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/03/1999, $676,000 749 Maplewood Place H. Hipp to Heng-Kwon Trust for $2,295,000 on 07/15/16; built 1954, 3 bed, 1334 sq. ft.

670 San Antonio Road #26 Lambert Trust to N. Chen for $1,140,000 on 07/18/16; built 1979, 3 bed, 1380 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/27/2007, $725,000 777 San Antonio Road #3 Supan Trust to Y. Shen for $870,000 on 07/18/16; built 1974, 2 bed, 946 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/14/1980, $63,500 756 University Ave. Sampson Trust to K. McLean for $1,550,000 on 07/13/16; built 1958, 2 bed, 1313 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/08/2010, $735,000 2510 Waverley St. X. Wang to P. Mishkin for $4,150,000 on 07/18/16; built 1937, 4 bed, 3595 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/26/2013, $3,250,000

Portola Valley

420 La Mesa Drive D. Shepard to A. Narasimha for $2,580,000 on 06/27/16; built 1955, 4 bed, 2104 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/01/2011, $1,710,000

Stanford

319 Olmsted Road F. Dhabhar to Stanford University for $961,000 on 07/14/16; built 2010, 3 bed, 1936 sq. ft.

Woodside

1600 La Honda Road D. & J. Sinicropi to J. Idoyaga for $1,572,000 on 06/28/16; built 1953, 3 bed, 2310 sq. ft.

460 Las Pulgas Drive Molakides Trust to Robertson Trust for $5,300,000 on 06/27/16; built 1990, 5 bed, 5480 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/05/1991, $2,500,000 214 Swett Road K. Schaefer to M. Nowak for $2,150,000 on 06/29/16; built 1996, 3 bed, 2185 sq. ft.

70 Tripp Court MortimerPellegrin Trust to Murphy Trust for $2,200,000 on 06/24/16; built 1961, 3 bed, 1940 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/22/2006, $1,849,000

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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

Gina Haggarty, 650.207.5192

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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

Ken Spadoni & Arwen Spadoni, 707.433.8463 spadoni@spadoni.com

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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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What are buyers really looking for?

How do buyers interpret online data and pricing?

How can we accurately price our home to sell for the highest price?

How do buyers use the internet for finding a home?

How do we prepare our home for the highest possible price?

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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.

Boulware Park is steps away, and you can also stroll to vibrant California Avenue while easily accessing terrific Palo Alto schools.

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Saturday 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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3479 ROSS ROAD, PALO ALTO 4 bedrooms / 2 baths / 1,771 sq. ft. home on a 9,076 sq. ft. lot A completely updated Eichler home with the very best modern sensibilities--clean lines, natural materials and a harmonious relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces. This luxury retreat offers an enclosed open-sky private courtyard, floor-to-ceiling windows throughout and open floor plan with chef’s kitchen that flows into a living and dining area and a separate family room. Come see and appreciate how the team at Elevation has enhanced and modernized a classic 20th century design.

LIST PRICE $2,768,000

ARDELLI MONIQUE LOMBARDELLI Real Estate Broker BRE# 01879145 145 (650) 380-5512 monique@modernhomesrealty.com esrealty.com Modern Homes Realty e, Suite 240 125 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 4301 www.modernhomesrealty.com realty.com Specially designed by Curt Cline of Modern odern House Architects www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 5, 2016 • Page 41

737 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Stylish Remodel in South Palo Alto This thoroughly remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,485 sq. ft. (per county) couples large, sunny spaces with an extremely convenient property of 6,500 sq. ft. (per county). Modern updates include new heating and cooling, chic bathrooms, an impressive skylit kitchen, and many, many more amenities. Welcoming outdoor spaces offer fruit trees and lounge areas. This fabulous location allows you to stroll to Charleston Shopping Center, sought-after Palo Alto schools, and Mitchell Park, Library, and Community Center.

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DOW N TOW N B U I LD O P P O RT U N IT Y 847 Webster Street, Palo Alto Offered at $3,500,000 | ±7,500 sf lot

FAMILY COMPOUND OPPORTUNITY 75 Reservoir Road, Atherton | 75reservoir.com

CRESCENT PARK 1145 Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto | 1145lincoln.com

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

ATHERTON ESTATE 393 Atherton Avenue, Atherton | 393atherton.com

COMMUNITY CENTER 1404 Harker Avenue, Palo Alto | 1404harker.com

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

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

Noelle Queen, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S 01917593 Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson St, Palo Alto 650.644.3474

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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 2145 Avy Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

ATHERTON 2 Bedrooms 372 El Camino Real $1,828,000 Sun 12-5 Intero Real Estate Services 384-1430

4 Bedrooms 6 Tuscaloosa Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,650,000 462-1111

84 Edge Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,395,000 462-1111

40 De Bell Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,675,000 324-4456

7 Bedrooms

$1,200,000 462-1111

3 Bedrooms

$2,300,000 325-6161

1404 Harker Ave $2,350,000 Sat 1:30-3 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

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

3 Bedrooms 564 Sand Hill Cir Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,750,000 325-6161

311 Camino Al Lago Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,895,000 996-2911

459 University Dr Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,998,000 323-1900

120 Selby Ln $9,998,500 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 380-0085

4 Bedrooms 1 Pepperwood Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,598,000 462-1111

CAMPBELL

960 Altschul Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$2,675,000 492-1764

746 Partridge Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,595,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms 1350 Westmont Ave Sat 12-3 Coldwell Banker

$1,088,000 325-6161

5 Bedrooms

LOS ALTOS

1220 Middle Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

3 Bedrooms 1721 Joel Way Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$2,348,000 947-2900

4 Bedrooms 1430 Ranchita Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,398,000 941-1111

23281 Partridge Ln Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$3,599,000 947-2900

$4,685,000 462-1111

550 San Mateo Dr $3,695,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

MILPITAS 3 Bedrooms 259 Dixon Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$650,000 325-6161

MOUNTAIN VIEW

LOS ALTOS HILLS

1 Bedroom - Condominium

2 Bedrooms 25071 Tepa Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,485,000 529-1111

505 Cypress Point Dr #207 Sun Sereno Group

$599,000 (408) 335-1400

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

5 Bedrooms 12380 Gigli Ct Sat Deleon Realty

$5,988,000 543-8500

27811 Saddle Ct Sat Deleon Realty

$6,988,000 543-8500

25617 W Fremont Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$7,488,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms 26991 Taaffe Rd Sat Deleon Realty

$7,998,000 543-8500

26875 Elena Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$6,988,000 543-8500

1033 Crestview Dr #105 Sat/Sun 12-5 Coldwell Banker 905 W Middlefield Rd #964 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,850,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms 1773 Peacock Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group

PALO ALTO

3 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Townhouse $785,000 324-4456

$938,000 323-1111

4 Bedrooms 1421 Marigold Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

751 Loma Verde Ave #A Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,395,000 947-2900

$1,598,000 323-1111

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

MENLO PARK 2 Bedrooms - Condominium

3 Bedrooms $2,188,000 323-1111

1048 Colorado Pl Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,448,000 323-1900

1330 Katherine Ave Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,450,000 324-4456

2 Sequoia Way Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,995,000 462-1111

1855 Bret Harte St Sun Sereno Group

$2,698,000 323-1900

3396 Park Blvd Sat Deleon Realty

$1,988,000 543-8500

1039 Twin Oaks Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,290,000 851-2666

737 E Charleston Rd Sat/Sun Deleon Realty

$1,988,000 543-8500

130 Kerri Ct Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,595,000 324-4456

3060 Cowper St $2,498,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 520-3407 1145 Lincoln Ave $2,415,000 Sat 3-4:30 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 125 Hawthorne Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,495,000 462-1111

4 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

SAN CARLOS 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 416 Portofino Dr #302 Sun Coldwell Banker

$949,999 324-4456

4 Bedrooms

1284 Forest Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,649,000 323-1111

575 Everett Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,188,000 323-1111

1430 Greenwood Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,788,000 325-6161

2346 Santa Ana St Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker

$3,980,000 325-6161

1224 S Norfolk St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$799,000 325-6161

945 Hutchinson Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$3,395,000 323-1900

1733 York Ave Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$985,000 324-4456

783 Sutter Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,498,000 323-1111

473 E Meadow Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,798,000 323-1111

SANTA CLARA

719 Florales Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,595,000 324-4456

3479 Ross Rd $2,788,000 Sat/Sun Modern Homes Realty 380-5512 1760 Cowper St Sat/Sun Pacific Union

$3,198,000 314-7200

6 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms - Condominium

LOS GATOS 19327 Beardsley Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$749,000 325-6161

936 Dennis Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

184 Tennyson Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,250,000 325-6161

PORTOLA VALLEY 3 Bedrooms 6 Russell Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,795,000 851-2666

100 Coquito Way Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,350,000 324-4456

131 Brookside Dr Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker

$3,395,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

21 Cranfield Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

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

SAN MATEO 3 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 1481 Bergin Pl Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$850,000 324-4456

SUNNYVALE 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1001 E Evelyn Ter #132 Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$595,000 947-2900

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

$1,299,000 947-2900

525 E Olive Ave $1,249,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 274-9744

4 Bedrooms 1354 Sydney Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$1,198,000 (408) 335-1400

692 Vanderbilt Dr Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,836,000 (408) 741-8200

120 Coquito Way Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,795,000 324-4456

WOODSIDE

896 La Mesa Dr Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,699,000 323-1111

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

$3,798,000 325-6161

1280 Sharon Park Dr #33 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,479,000 206-6200

436 High St #403 Sat Midtown Realty

$1,275,000 321-1596

REDWOOD CITY

461 Burgess Dr #4 Sat/Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,075,000 462-1111

685 High St #5B Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,695,000 324-4456

8 Alverno Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,600,000 462-1111

135 Summit Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,795,000 851-2666

1710 Virginia Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$978,000 462-1111

280 Family Farm Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$8,995,000 851-2666

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How to Prepare & Market Your Home to Achieve the Maximum Sales Price Thursday, August 18, 2016 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Please join DeLeon Realty at our August Seminar. Gain insight from Michael Repka, the Managing Broker and General Counsel of DeLeon Realty, into how you can best prepare and market your home to achieve the maximum sales price. Also, hear the latest market updates from Ken DeLeon, the most successful real estate broker in Silicon Valley.

Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Ballroom 3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto

To RSVP, please contact 650.543.8500 or by email at RSVP@deleonrealty.com Seminar is for prospective clients only, no outside real estate professionals permitted.

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203 Bicycles DID YOU KNOW 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Sporty 20” Folding Bike - $175.00

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210 Garage/Estate Sales

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Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home.

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KILL SCORPIONS! Buy Harris Scorpion Spray. Effective results begin after spray dries. Odorless, Long Lasting, Non-Staining. Available: Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (AAN CAN) LA: 12186 El Monte Rd. 8/5-8/6, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

St. Nicholas Catholic School Annual Rummage Sale. Toys, clothes, books, jewelry, hsewares, linens, electronics, treasures, furn., more. East off Highway 280.

Menlo Park, 807 Menlo Oaks Drive, August 6th 8am-1pm kids toys, bikes, household items

Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice.

All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com Paul Price Music Lessons In your home. Piano, violin, viola, theory, history. Customized. BA music, choral accompanist, arranger, early pop and jazz. 800/647-0305

145 Non-Profits Needs

Palo Alto, 2135 Williams Street, Aug. 6 & 7, 9:00 - dark VOTED BEST YARD SALE! Super huge multi family sale with TONS of treasures!

No early birds please.

Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston, 8/6 & 8/7 Large church yard sale - household, electronics, clothing, books.

Stanford, 850 Sonoma Terrace, August 7, 2016 9:00am-1:00pm

DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARY

215 Collectibles & Antiques

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150 Volunteers

RARE! 1981 AFX HO SLOT CAR SET $110.00

ASSIST IN FRIENDS’ BOOKSTORE ASST SECTION MGRS FOR FOPAL

220 Computers/ Electronics

FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM Stanford Museum Volunteer

LIKE NEW PIONEER AV RECEIVER $135.00

152 Research Study Volunteers

235 Wanted to Buy

Balance Study for Healthy, Older Adults Stanford University and the Palo Alto VA are seeking participants for a research study investigating the use of special lights to improve balance while walking at night during two separate overnight stays at the VA Sleep Lab. Participants must be healthy, non-smokers, without sleep or balance problems, between 55 - 85 years old. Compensation up to $225.

For more information call Yvonne at (650)-849-1971. For general information about participant rights, contact (866)-680-2906

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270 Tickets Old Porsche 356/911/912 For restoration by hobbyist 1948-1973 Only. Any condition, top $ paid 707 965-9546 (Cal-SCAN)

Kid’s Stuff 340 Child Care Wanted Afterschool Nanny, 20 hrs/wk

345 Tutoring/ Lessons Redwood City Piano School Private Piano Lessons for all levels & all ages. Please Contact us at 650-279-4447 SAT/PSAT 1on1 prep/tutoring Tutoring with Dr.Pam: 404.310.8146 Youth Debate/Oratory Program

Mind & Body 410 Chiropractor DID YOU KNOW 144 million U.S. Adults read a Newspaper print copy each week?

Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN)

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Computer POSITIONS Op. Lead, R&D Software Engineer Lead evolutionary projects (scalability, upgrades, etc.) and SI Migration.

REQS: M.S. and 3 yrs exp. Software Research Engineer. Work w/crossfunc. teams on seamless design and implementation of scalable dynamic ad display campaigns. REQS: M.S. and 1 yr exp. Job Loc: Palo Alto, CA for Criteo Corp. Only applicants sending cvr ltr, CV and salary reqs to S. Langert, HR, 387 Park Ave. S., NY, NY 10016 will be considered.

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.

Technology Medallia, Inc. is seeking the following positions for their Palo Alto office: Customer Solutions Manager: Lead projects teams to design and build Customer Experience Management solutions for global fortune 500 companies. Travel 15% to client site during project implementation.

Director, CRM Solutions: Responsible for strategic oversight and hands-on administration of Customer Relationship Management system.

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

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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) PRIVATE PRACTICE OF MARIA GENEY VILLAVICENCIO-LMFT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619564 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Private Practice of Maria Geney Villavicencio-LMFT, located at 555 Middlefield Road, Suite 107, Palo Alto, CA 940301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MARIA EUGENIA VILLAVICENCIO 3516 Farm Hill Boulevard, Apt. 18 Redwood City, CA 94061 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6/17/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 18, 2016.

(PAW Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016) LEVELS FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 619839 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Levels Furniture and Accessories, located at 435 University Avenue, 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): LEVELS, INC. 2423 Magnolia Street Oakland, CA 94607 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/15/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 26, 2016.

(PAW Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016)

KINETIC PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 620063 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Kinetic Performance Systems, located at 3260 Rustic Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KEVIN BERNSTEIN 3260 Rustic Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95051 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/1/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 2, 2016.

(PAW Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016) 970 TERRA BELLA ASSOCIATES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 620052 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 970 Terra Bella Associates, located at 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HAURY PROPERTIES, LLC 2600 El Camino Real, #100 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/28/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 2, 2016.

(PAW Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016)

997 All Other Legals 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 per-

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM sonal 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)

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 author-

ity 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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Azevedo taking the fifth in Rio

NATIONAL SUCCESS . . . Four local track and field club teams sent athletes to the USATF Junior Olympics at Sacramento State last weekend, Several placed among the top 10 in the country in their respective events. East Palo Alto Greyhounds Leilani McGee placed second nationally in the 8U girls shot put with a throw of 23-3 at Sacramento State. Layla McGee placed third in the nation in the girls 9-10 shot put with a best of 33-5. Greyhounds teammate Sofia Bower, who placed third in the javelin earlier in the week, was eighth in the shot put with a best of 19-1. Samora Stephens was 18th overall with a 16-1.

Stanford grad remains determined to help U.S. win gold

will also compete Saturday in the women’s 400 free relay. Katie Ledecky swims the 400 free on Sunday.

Stanford grad Andi Murez, competing for Israel, swims in the 100 free, with Manuel, on Wednesday.

Cardinal grad Geoffrey Cheah, swimming in the 100 free, starts competition Tuesday.

Stanford fencer Vivian Kong, also with Team Hong Kong, opens competition Saturday in the individual epee.

Stanford incoming freshman David Jessen begins competition in men’s gymnastics on Saturday with the Czech Republic, which

by Rick Eymer tanford grad Tony Azevedo set the standard for modern America men’s water polo, and he’s remained loyal to his one athletic goal: to help the United States win a gold medal in the sport.

It wasn’t enough to earn silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and finishing second in the FINA World League Super Final was just as galling.

Azevedo led the Cardinal to four consecutive NCAA championship games, winning twice.

Stanford lost, to UCLA, in double overtime in his final collegiate game, played at Stanford on Dec. 5, 2004.

Slumped back in his chair on the podium during the post-game press conference, held in the AB-C rooms in the Arrillaga Family Sports Center, he was asked, what’s next?

He sat forward and simply said, “The gold medal. That’s still the goal.”

That was 12 years ago and he’s sticking to it.

“My biggest regret is not leaving the team with another NCAA title,” said Azevedo, who was part of the most successful senior class in Cardinal water polo history.

Stanford also lost in overtime to USC the previous year.

Current Olympic teammate and fellow Cardinal grad Bret Bonanni eclipsed Azevedo’s career school and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation scoring mark and while current Stanford coach John Vargas has great affinity for both players, he still considers Azevedo, whom he coached three years, the true record holder based on average goals per game.

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USA’s Kelley O’Hara, named the top college player while at Stanford, has turned her forward skills into a defensive asset for the U.S. women’s soccer team.

Solid start for defending champs Stanford grad O’Hara receives high marks for defensive play

by Rick Eymer ormer Stanford All-American Kelley O’Hara received high marks for her efforts in the backfield and fellow former Cardinal All-American Christen Press created a scoring opportunity in the 10 minutes she played.

All in all, everybody was satisfied with Team USA’s 2-0 victory over New Zealand on Wednesday that kicked off the 2016 Rio Olympics two days before the opening ceremony.

The Americans play France on Saturday at 1 p.m. PT, also in Belo Horizonte, about 270 miles north of Rio de Janiero. The U.S. completes group play against Colombia on Tuesday in Manaus, more than 1,700 miles from Rio.

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Cardinal grad Ali Riley, who received a yellow card following a run-in with O’Hara, and her New Zealand teammates play Colombia Saturday.

Several other disciplines open Saturday, including Stanford grad Tony Azevedo and the U.S. men’s water polo team in a 6:20 a.m. start against Croatia. Cardinal grads Bret Bonanni and Alex Bowen and incoming freshman Ben Hallack will also be in the water.

Stanford grad Maya DiRado makes her Olympic debut as swimming gets underway with the preliminaries of the 400 individual medley sometime after 9 a.m.

Simone Manuel and Lia Neal

EPA’s Folau Niua has sights on an Olympic medal Getting off the streets and onto a rugby field was a blessing

by Eric He rom selling drugs on the streets of East Palo Alto to representing the United States at the Olympics on the rugby Sevens team, Folau Niua’s journey is one of change, perseverance and resolve.

The 31-year-old fly-half will play in Rio as part of the sport’s return to the Olympics after a 92-year hiatus. It is another accolade to add to the list of remarkable achievements for Niau, who has turned his life around after growing up in what was then the murder capital of the country.

Dave Topou coached Niua with the East Palo Alto Razorbacks, a local rugby team that Topou started in 2002. Topou watched Niua grow from a “pretty wild

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Olympics: Men’s archery, Women’s shooting, Beach Volleyball, 6 a.m., NBCSN Olympics: Tennis, 6:30 a.m., Bravo Olympics: Rowing, Men’s cycling, Men’s water polo, U.S. vs. Croatia, 8 a.m., KNTV Olympics: Juegos Olimpicos de Rio, 9 a.m., KSTS Olympics: Beach volleyball, Handball, 9 a.m., MSNBC Olympics: Women’s Rugby: U.S. vs.

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Azevedo became the first, and still only, player to earn four consecutive College Player of the Year awards. He was an easy pick for the Pac-12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Player of the Century, though most of the conference teams have competed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation since 1992.

Cardinal fans among the more than 3,000 in attendance likely have the image of Azevedo pumping his fist in the air after scoring the game-tying goal with 21 seconds remaining in regulation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easily the best player Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the privilege to play against,â&#x20AC;?

UCLA goalie Joe Axelrad said later.

Azevedo was named team captain in 2012, and at age 34, remains confident the U.S. can reach the quarterfinals, and compete for gold.

He has a little added incentive, returning to his birthplace to play in his most important Olympics to date. Team USA has won 15 of its 18 matches to date. The Americans host Montenegro at 4:30 p.m.

Saturday in their final exhibition, to be played in Houston.

Azevedoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family moved to Southern California when he was

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no place like home.â&#x20AC;?

about a month old, but his roots remain strong in Brazil. His father Richard played for the Brazilian national team and Azevedo has played professionally in the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so exciting going into a place that I call home, a place I can teach all my teammates about, talk to them about, the food that I love more than anything, the people, the places,â&#x20AC;? Azevedo told Paste Magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing this this long and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be in my fifth Olympics and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be in the city where I was born.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to his Olympic appearances, Azevedo has also helped win five Pan American gold medals. He scored 332 career goals before Bonanni established the standard at 360. Azevedo also held the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s single-season scoring record (95 goals), before it was broken by Bonanni with 97 in 2013.

Stanford grad Alex Bowen and ncoming Cardinal freshman Ben Hallack are also Olympians.

Bowen was a 2015 Peter J. Cutino Award finalist and a threetime ACWPC First Team AllAmerican during his Cardinal career. A four-time All-MPSF selection, he was the 2011 MPSF Newcomer of the Year. Bowen finished his career fourth alltime at Stanford and ninth in MPSF history in goals (253). He was Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first four-time ACWPC First Team All-American since Azevedo.

Regarded as the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top collegiate menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water polo prospect in the 2016 class, Hallock is

the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team. He scored four goals and added two assists to help lead Team USA to a third-place finish in the 2015 FINA Intercontinental Tournament last April. Q

The Azevedo File Olympic Experience Four-time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012); Olympic medalist (silver) Rio 2016 Olympic Games, qualified 2012 Olympic Games, 8th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, silver Athens 2004 Olympic Games, 7th Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 6th His appearance at the London 2012 Olympic Games set a USA water polo record (along with teammate Ryan Bailey) as the first American men to compete at four Olympics

World Championship Experience Most recent: 2015 -- 7th Years of participation: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 Top finish: 4th -- 2009

Other Career Highlights 2016 FINA World League Super Final, silver 2015 Pan American Games, gold 2015 FINA World League Super Final, 4th 2012 FINA World League Super Final, 4th 2011 Pan American Games, gold 2011 FINA World League Super Final, 4th 2010 FINA World League Super Final, 5th 2010 FINA World Cup, 4th 2009 FINA World League Super Final, 4th 2008 FINA World League Super Final, silver 2007 Pan American Games, gold 2007 FINA World League Super Final, 5th 2006 FINA World League Super Final, 5th 2003 Pan American Games, gold 2003 FINA World League Super Final, bronze 2002 FINA World Cup, 7th 1999 Pan American Games, gold

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by Gideon Rubin eth Weil never imagined it going this far.

The Menlo-Atherton High grad was just looking for a way to blow off steam when he signed up for the rowing club as a UC Davis freshman.

“I was just drawn in by the culture of it,” Weil said, “just the push of people waking up early in the morning and working hard, that was exciting to me. I thought it was a good way to Seth Weil kick-start the day; you feel like you’re doing something right.”

Weil continues to feel it. The 29-year-old will compete in the men’s fours at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“I definitely made a conscious effort to try to improve,” he said.

“You try to be a little bit better the next year and the next year and the next year and I just kept stacking it up, pouring it on. And now I’m here.”

To say Weil was among the most unlikely future Olympians in M-A’s 2005 graduating class would be an understatement.

Weil played the trumpet in a jazz band and was on the robotics team. He didn’t compete in any sport at any level.

But he considers his M-A experience to be a crucial part of his future athletic development.

“I was just fortunate to be around incredibly driven people,” he said. “In every aspect of my life growing up I was around a group

of people that were better than me at what I was trying to do, so I just learned from them. When I was learning to play trumpet there were people better than me. If I was trying to learn programming I had friends who were just incredible programmers.”

Weil believes the intensely competitive environment drove him to pursue excellence.

“I could latch on to what made them good, and when it came time for me to put things together for myself I had a lot more tools to draw from than I realized,” he said. “All I’m doing with rowing is just pulling in the lessons and the skills that I learned growing up when I was surrounded by so many incredible people.”

Music remains a passion for Weil, with an eclectic mix of hiphop, jazz, classic rock and many other genres central to a grueling training program that affords him a guilt-free 8,000 calorie daily diet.

“I think music is incredibly performance-enhancing,” Weil said.

“Anything that brings out emotions in you I think is good for training. Emotion is fuel, it’s what allows you to get up in the morning. I firmly believe that without listening music I wouldn’t have succeeded in rowing. It’s been an integral part of my training since I started.”

Weil completed his undergraduate degree at UC Davis in aerospace engineering with a minor

in psychology with a biological emphasis. He gave up on plans to study theoretical physics after his freshman year.

A curiosity that he believes is essential to the human spirit drives Weil’s academic and athletic pursuits.

“The common thread they have is just being curious,” Weil said.

“The biggest thing that’s helped me as an athlete is just being curious at all times. I like problems and I really like solving problems.”

Just weeks out from the Rio competition, he continues to juggle the anticipation of elite athletic competition with questions that dog modern science.

“One of the biggest unknowns I think in modern science is how the brain functions and how it works,” he said. “If you ask my coaches they’ll probably say they struggle to get me out of my head a little bit because I’m always thinking.”

It is in the water where the theoretical ideas of how the immovable force and unstoppable object interact, and the reality of creating forces that move objects, intersect.

Weil enters the Olympics at the top of his game. He’s just a year removed from being named the US Rowing Male Athlete of the Year.

Going from the robotics team at M-A to the Olympics culminates more than a decade of training.

His workouts include up to 20 kilometers in the water followed by strength and interval training.

He is usually up at 6 a.m. and in

the water by 6:45.

“You’re trying to build big lungs to have a big aerobic capacity and also have a lot of muscle to push, to really move weight,” he said.

“It’s a sustained sprint. (Rowing is) a power endurance sport, the goal would be to produce the most power you can for about six minutes.”

Managing his energy level is one of the most formidable challenges.

“You try to figure out the maximum sustained effort you can do for this amount of time and you try to get right to it and hold it,” he said. “If you try to go too hard you’ll blow up and if you don’t go hard enough you’ll fall behind.”

The hardest part, however, is honestly measuring progress.

“It’s a scary thing to open yourself up to the reality of where you stand,” he said, noting the “instinct everybody has to avoid checking their bank account because they don’t want to know how much money they have in it. If you can start being OK with honest feedback, that’s when you can start to improve.”

Weil acknowledged that training for the Olympics is hard, “but not the same kind of hard as waking up every day and grinding out a job to support a family.”

He said the training Olympic athletes do isn’t all that different from what recreational athletes experience.

“The boats get faster and the times get faster and you get faster, but whatever the weekend warrior is doing to struggle through the last three miles is the same exact thing that we struggle through to finish our last three miles,” Weil said. “That’s a human quality and it’s just something you get better at doing it because you build more mental tools to push through.” Q

Folau Niua

But his immaturity was a problem. Topou recalls one instance before a major tournament when Niua was nowhere to be found.

Finally, Niua’s brother brought him in.

“You could smell alcohol all over his breath,” Topou said. “He went partying the night before.

There were times when I thought he was not serious or committed to playing rugby. He would miss practices, always say he didn’t have a ride.”

Moses Herrera, a former teammate and coach, said Niua had few other paths.

“It was tough,” he said. “At that time his parents, they just came to America. Everybody was still struggling with how to make it.

After high school, (Niua) didn’t do anything. All the kids, they sold drugs.”

Topou thought of a solution: start a men’s rugby club so that players on the high school team, a few of whom went on to college, would have an avenue to turn to rather than get into trouble with

the law. He convinced Holder, then the Director of Rugby at Stanford, to help coach.

“We decided to help out and start the men’s club to keep guys off the street,” Holder said. “Guys stepped up to the challenge and did things on their own. It was little stuff like making sacrifices for your teammates, staying out of trouble rather than going to jail.”

It was a decision that benefited many underprivileged youth in the local community, perhaps none more than Niua, whose focus shifted after joining the men’s team. Despite being hurt his first year, he was still an active participant in practice, often arriving an hour beforehand to get more work in.

He went from drugs into the landscaping business with his father in the morning before heading to practice from 4 pm until sundown.

And his raw talent burst to the surface. Under the guidance of Feleti Verebula, the Sevens coach on the Razorbacks, Niua blos-

somed into a standout fly-half, a position in rugby akin to a quarterback in football.

“We put him into a really key role on the team and let him go be himself,” Holder said. “Once he got passionate about it, he got committed to the sport.”

He added: “(Niua) was just a natural for rugby, an athlete who could just pick stuff up immediately and do it. Some people have to have rep after rep to master a skill. He would just be able to see someone do it once or twice and suddenly he’d be able to do it.”

That Niua was ambidextrous, able to use both hands, and willing to learn didn’t hurt.

“To coach him is very fun,” Topou said. “One thing about Folau is his personality; he was very humble, real coachable. He doesn’t stop working. He always busts his butt.”

And from then on, there were no more run-ins with the law.

“He told me, ‘Coach, this is what’s keeping me out of jail,’” Holder said. “It really was. (Rug-

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kid” to an Olympian.

“Am I surprised where he’s at now?” Topou said. “No. He’s one of those kids. He’s a special talent. You always knew he would be one of those kids that was going to make it out.”

Niua, who went to Wooside High, grew up in the impoverished neighborhoods of East Palo Alto and those who knew him say he fell in with the wrong crowd.

He resorted to selling drugs as a means for money and was in and out of jail.

There was no question, though, he had potential. Rob Holder coached Niua on the Razorbacks and later wrote a book called “Crossing the 101,” which centered on Niua’s journey.

“When he came out to practice for the first time, he immediately stood out as a talented, natural rugby player,” Holder said. “Great hands, great feet, physical.”

Soccer

by) was his thing to keep him out of trouble. It was his motivation to stop doing the things that put him in that place.”

In 2009, Niua won the Division II National Championship with the Razorbacks. Two years later, he won a Rugby Super League national championship with San Francisco Golden Gate, and then the national team came calling.

He started as fly-half in his national team debut, and helped the United States win a bronze at the 2011 Pan-American Games, leading the team in scoring. Since then, he has been a staple on the national team, currently fifth alltime in points. Last season, he led the United States in Series appearances.

Today, Niua lives and trains in San Diego. And he’s an Olympian, far from his troubled past.

“I’m proud of how far he’s come,” Topou said. “It’s going to be a great example for every kid in East Palo Alto. It tells them, ‘You can make it. You can be anything you want to be.’”Q

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is assigned to the Subdivision 3.

Stanford and Pinewood grad Sebnem Kimyacoglu helps tip off the women’s basketball competition, with Turkey and France meeting early morning.

Other Stanford athletes opening Saturday are Palo Alto’s Lily Zhang in table tennis singles, Stanford’s Chierika Ukogu in rowing’s single sculls, three-time gold medalist Kerri Walsh-Jennings in beach volleyball, Stanford’s Lucy Davis in equestrian and Stanford’s Victoria Folayan in women’s rugby.

Meanwhile, USA women’s soccer player Carli Lloyd started the party with a goal in the ninth minute as the United States opened defense of its gold medal.

Alex Morgan also scored for the Americans, who remain unbeaten on the year with a 15-0-1 overall record, which includes 14 shutouts Lloyd opened the scoring with a beautiful header over the onrushing Ferns goalkeeper. The play was nicely set up by Tobin Heath’s perfectly aligned crossing pass from the left.

Morgan scored on an assists from Morgan Brian. Morgan recorded her fifth Olympic goal, her 12th of the year and 68th overall international goal.

O’Hara, playing in the back, helped the Americans keep the Ferns out of the goal. She also created a scoring opportunity.

Press took over for Morgan in the 81st minute.

U.S. goalie Hope Solo easily handled the one shot on goal taken by the Ferns, who attempted four shots overall.

The U.S., which held possession for 63 percent of the game, took 12 shots, six on goal. Q

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