Palo Alto Weekly August 12, 2016

Palo Alto

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Council race heats up in Palo Alto Planning commissioners, citizen volunteers announce candidacies, vow to address city’s ‘housing crisis’

by Gennady Sheyner

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ith just days to go until the filing deadline, the race for the City Council in Palo Alto is suddenly heating up, with four residents confirming this week that they will vie for a seat in November and each pointing to the city’s housing

shortage as a key area of concern.

In addition to the four — Adrian Fine, Greer Stone, Don McDougall and Michelle Kraus — several other residents have pulled papers, suggesting that they are considering a run. This includes planning commissioner Greg Tanaka; Stewart

Carl, a member of the group Sky Posse, which focuses on airplane noise; and retired civics teacher John Fredrich, who also ran in 2014.

If all of them run, there would be 11 candidates vying for four seats on the nine-seat council.

Councilwoman Liz Kniss is the only incumbent who is seeking a re-election. In addition, there will be three open seats: one vacated by Marc Berman, who is running for the state Assembly, and two vacated

by Mayor Pat Burt and Councilman Greg Schmid, who are terming out.

The list of newly confirmed candidates includes two native Palo Altans who currently chair local commissions: Fine and Stone. Fine, chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission, confirmed this week that he will seek a seat on the council. In an interview, Fine said he is running because he wants to work toward making Palo Alto an “inclusive, walkable, multi-genera-

tional city in the future.” He rejects characterizations of himself as either pro- or anti-development, but stressed the importance of building more housing through community collaboration.

“We have a bit of a monoculture here where we have these amazing single-family neighborhoods and it’s great, and they need to be protected and preserved,” Fine said. (continued on page 10)

TRANSPORTATION

Public weighs in on new paratransit contract Riders want expanded, streamlined service

by Sue Dremann

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New floodwalls and channel widening are among the flood-control measures that will take place along the San Francisquito Creek (which flows through East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park) as part of a flood-protection plan that got underway Aug. 5.

ENVIRONMENT

Massive flood-control project in the Palo Alto Baylands kicks off Momentous groundbreaking signals beginning of the end of flooding for local residents

by Sue Dremann

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ighty years after the enactment of the federal Flood Control Act, a decades-in-the-making flood-protection effort on San Francisquito Creek is finally underway.

On Aug. 5, officials from the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (SFJPA) and numerous public officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony on top of a levee in East Palo Alto to celebrate getting the first phase of a massive project started.

The vantage point provided a sobering backdrop to the morning’s event: from atop the levee,

one looked down at the nearby rooftops of East Palo Alto residents. In a 100-year flood, all of those roofs could be under water, and residents might have little or no chance to escape, said members of the SFJPA, which is managing the project.

But Friday’s groundbreaking signaled the beginning of the end of flood woes for residents.

The $41.35 million project’s first phase, the Bay to U.S. Highway 101 segment, will protect 5,700 homes and businesses in East Palo Alto and parts of Menlo Park and Palo Alto from a high-

water flow that includes an extreme tide with more than two feet of sea-level rise, a so-called 100-year event, SFJPA Executive Director Len Materman said.

The project includes new flood walls near private property constraining the channel, widening the creek by building a new levee through the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course, rebuilding the existing levee adjacent to East Palo Alto homes and excavating decades of sediment that has built up in the channel. Most (continued on page 9)

aratransit users are urging transportation officials to keep services available along fixed bus routes that could be potentially dropped when the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) restructures its bus and light rail system.

At a public comments meeting in Campbell on Aug. 9, some made it clear that VTA should plan for the wave of aging residents and ensure adequate funding in proportion to increasing populations of seniors and disabled persons. Many cannot use conventional public transportation. They don’t want fewer connections, but more, they said.

Tuesday’s meeting by VTA officials was to gather input from paratransit users regarding services they want from an operator. It did not cover service areas or other policy issues, which will be part of the NextNetwork restructuring plan currently being developed. But riders made it clear that protecting their existing access and expanding the network is foremost on their minds.

VTA, which has decided to cancel its paratransit services contract with Outreach & Escort, Inc., asked for public feedback at special meetings on Aug. 8 and 9 as the agency develops a request for proposals for a new paratransit operator. No meetings were scheduled for Palo Alto or north county cities, which also use the services.

Arthur Keller, a former Palo Alto planning and transportation commissioner and candidate running for Palo Alto City Council, sent an Aug. 3 email to city planning and transportation officials, asking them to petition VTA during the public comment period, which ended on Wednesday, to ex-

pand paratransit service to routes served by the Palo Alto Shuttle, Stanford Marguerite and Mountain View Community Shuttle.

Meanwhile, paratransit riders at the Campbell meeting signaled they would remain vigilant when it comes to any proposed cuts to services or raised fares. The riders wanted to know whom to contact and how to reach board members who will make those decisions, they said.

The status of VTA bus lines and light rail are of particular concern to persons who rely on paratransit services. Paratransit is linked to “fixed” bus or light rail lines. If a line is eliminated, it is likely the paratransit service could be eliminated for patrons who accessed services near those fixed lines, said Aaron Vogel, VTA regional transportation services manager.

That loss could potentially affect Palo Alto paratransit users.

At a community meeting for the NextNetwork in May, VTA officials unveiled preliminary concepts that could eliminate some or all of Palo Alto’s fixed-route, intra-city bus lines (the 88, 89 and 35). Eliminating those lines could also mean a potential loss of paratransit services along those routes.

But the VTA Board of Directors could elect to change its policy, Vogel said, and that isn’t unprecedented. Under Federal Transit Administration rules paratransit services must be offered within three quarters of a mile of a fixed route. VTA offers paratransit service one mile past that three-quarter-mile requirement as a premium service, he said.

Riders at the Campbell meeting said they want to travel further (continued on page 8)

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ENGINE OF GOODWILL ... Since Palo Alto began its sister-city relationship with Oaxaca, Mexico in 1964, the two civic siblings have collaborated on student exchanges, art installations and cultural programs. But perhaps the most consistent byproduct of this relationship has been Palo Alto’s donation of fire engines and ambulances to its sister in Mexico, a tradition that continued this month when Mayor Pat Burt ceremonially handed off a set of ambulance keys to a delegation of six students from Oaxaca. Judging by recent experience, the ambulances get plenty of use. Bob Wenzlau, who this month became the president of Neighbors Abroad, said the organization recently learned that the last ambulance that was sent to Oaxaca was used to deliver 150 babies. In addition to providing the ambulance, Burt presented the exchange students with a proclamation, lauding the longstanding relationship between the two cities, extending warm wishes to the visiting students and chaperones.

RECORD-BREAKING ... Caltrain recorded an average weekday ridership of 60,219 passengers during the 2016 fiscal year, which ended on June 30 — an all-time high for the transportation agency.

The 2016 mark represents a 3.2 percent increase from the previous year, which was itself a record at the time, according to a press release.

Caltrain, which has recorded six straight years of monthly ridership increases, served 19.2 million riders in the 2016 fiscal year, a 3.7 increase from the previous record high set during the 2015 fiscal year, according to the agency. The ever-increasing ridership numbers, however, has put a capacity strain on the rail system.

To address those issues, Caltrain has implemented several near-term solutions, including purchasing 16 train cars from Metrolink in Los Angeles to add capacity to its regular fleet in 2015 and swapping out older, gallery-style train equipment for newer bi-level models in July.

Caltrain also is preparing to replace

its existing diesel trains with electric ones. The electrification of the system between San Francisco and San Jose is set for 2020, and will allow the agency to run more frequent service, according to Caltrain.

BACK TO SCHOOL ... Students returning back to school on the Peninsula will now have an easier, more convenient way to get to and from school thanks to four new bus routes that launched Monday, the San Mateo County Transit District announced. The newly launched SamTrans Routes 18, 56, 61 and 81 will all serve schools throughout the county and are scheduled to coincide with school start and finish times, SamTrans officials said.

Bus Route 18 will shuttle students traveling between Half Moon Bay and Granada, serving students at Manuel F. Cunha Intermediate School and Half Moon Bay High School. Bus Route 56 will travel throughout the city of San Mateo and is designed to cater to students at Aragon High School and the College of San Mateo, according to SamTrans officials. Route 61 will operate primarily in San Carlos, taking students traveling to Tierra Linda Middle School and Carlmont High School. The line will depart daily in the morning from the San Carlos Caltrain Station, allowing students coming from other areas on Caltrain to make a connection. Lastly, Route 81 will serve students in Menlo Park and Palo Alto and was created to take students to and from MenloAtherton High School, SamTrans officials said. The new lines are an addition to the nearly 40 already existing bus lines that primarily serve Peninsula-area schools, according to SamTrans officials. The newly created lines will not operate when school is not in session, including weekends, SamTrans officials said.

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Upfront LAND USE

In parting shot, planning commissioner slams council over housing policies Kate Downing blames city leaders for ignoring public pleas for more housing

by Gennady Sheyner

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or the past two years, Kate Downing has been one of Palo Alto’s most passionate advocates for building more affordable housing.

As one of the founding members of the citizens group Palo Alto Forward and a member of the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission, she also has been a vehement critic of the city’s recent tilt toward slow-growth policies and its failure to address a housing shortage that many in the community and some on the City Council believe has reached a crisis level.

For Downing, the problem hits literally close to home. Two weeks ago, she announced that her family is leaving Palo Alto — driven out by the high housing prices. And on Tuesday, Aug. 9, she penned a public letter of resignation, which she posted on Medium, that further explains her decision to leave and takes the council to task for its failure to act on this problem, despite strong community support for building more housing.

“Time and again, I’ve seen doz-

ens of people come to both Commission meetings and Council meetings asking Council to make housing its top priority,” Downing wrote. “The City Council received over 1,000 signatures from Palo Alto residents asking for the same.

In the annual Our Palo Alto survey, it is the top issue cited by residents.

“This council Kate Downing has ignored the majority of residents and has chartered a course for the next 15 years of this city’s development, which substantially continues the same job-housing imbalance this community has been suffering from for some time now: more offices, a nominal amount of housing, which the Council is already laying the groundwork to tax out of existence, lip service to preserving retail that simply has no reason to keep serving the average Joe when the city is

only available to Joe Millionaires.”

In her resignation letter, Downing pointed to the city’s difficulties in filling job openings in the Police Department and renewing contracts with the local teachers because of the “astronomical” cost of housing, not just in Palo Alto but “many miles in each direction.

“It is clear, that if professionals like me cannot raise a family here, then all of our teachers, first responders and service workers are in dire straits,” she wrote.

Downing herself is facing similar challenges, despite the fact that she is a corporate attorney and her husband is a software engineer at Palantir. For several years, they have been renting a home in the Ventura neighborhood. Now, they are preparing to move to Santa Cruz.

In her resignation letter, Downing wrote, “After many years of trying to make it work in Palo Alto, my husband and I cannot see a way to stay in Palo Alto and raise a family here.”

“We rent our current home with another couple for $6,200 a

month; if we wanted to buy the same home and share it with children and not roommates, it would cost $2.7 million and our monthly payment would be $12,177 a month in mortgage, taxes and insurance,” Downing wrote. “That’s $146,127 per year — an entire professional’s income before taxes.

This is unaffordable even for an attorney and a software engineer.”

Downing also noted that over the last five years, she’d seen dozens of her friends leave Palo Alto and, in some cases, the Bay Area.

She also said that she has seen friends from other states get job offers in Palo Alto and then turn them down whey they started to look at the price of housing.

“I struggle to think what Palo Alto will become and what it will represent when young families have no hope of ever putting down roots here, and meanwhile the community is engulfed with middle-aged jet-setting executives and investors who are hardly the sort to be personally volunteering for neighborhood block parties, earthquake preparedness responsibilities or Neighborhood Watch,” Downing wrote. “If things keep going as they are, yes, Palo Alto’s streets will look just as they did decades ago, but its inhabitants, spirit and sense of community will be unrecognizable. A once thriving city will turn into a hollowed out museum. We should take care to remember that Palo Alto is famous the world over for its residents’ accomplishments,

but none of those people would be able to live in Palo Alto were they starting out today.”

Downing is hardly alone in urging the council to act with more urgency on promoting affordable housing. In March, more than 1,000 residents, including numerous former mayors and planning commissioners, signed a petition spearheaded by Palo Alto Forward that urged the council to do more to address this topic.

“The cost of living in Palo Alto has skyrocketed. As a result, we are seeing longtime neighbors move because they can no longer afford the rent,” the petition stated. “It is not unusual for Palo Alto workers to commute in from areas as far as Stockton, Gilroy and Tracy, putting severe strain on our roads and our climate. We are on the path to being a city composed only of longtime landowners and wealthy newcomers. This situation is the result of city policies that have discouraged new housing while encouraging more office space.”

Recent surveys also suggest that residents are growing increasingly anxious about getting priced out of Palo Alto. In the city’s annual survey, the number of people who gave Palo Alto good grades for “variety of housing options” dropped from 27 percent in 2014 to 20 percent in 2015, while the percentage of people who ranked the city as a good or excellent place to retire dropped from 60 percent (continued on page 8)

DEVELOPMENT

Neighbor challenges downtown Palo Alto development

by Gennady Sheyner

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incent Leung wasn’t looking for a political battle, but when the Kipling Street resident learned about a threestory building that recently won approval for his downtown block, he found several reasons to feel concerned.

Designed by Ken Hayes and proposed by Ehikian and Company, the development would replace an existing two-story building and occupy two parcels, at 411 and 437 Lytton Ave. It would include one single-family home at 411 Lytton and a three-story, 19,838-square-foot building at 437 Lytton, featuring 13,522 square feet of office space and two residential units. A new underground garage with 65 parking spaces would also be built at the site, with an entrance off Kipling Street.

This entrance is just one of many aspects of the project that are troubling Leung, who in May filed an appeal challenging the city’s approval of the project. On Monday night, in one of its first actions after a six-week summer break, the City Council will consider the appeal and decide

whether to overturn the city’s approval of the new development.

The debate is in some ways similar to the one that surrounded 429 University Ave., a project at the corner of University and Kipling that has been at the center of the city’s tense tug-of-war between developers looking to add office space to downtown Palo Alto and residents anxious about the impacts of the new projects.

In that case, neighbors also had appealed the project after it won the approval from the Architectural Review Board, alleging that the four-story building is inappropriate for Kipling Street and incompatible with the smaller structures around it. The City Council ultimately sent the proposal back to the drawing board, where it remains today.

The proposal at 411 Lytton isn’t as dense, tall or centrally located as the one on University, though many of the arguments are similar. In his appeal letter, Leung maintains that Kipling does not have the capacity for the extra traffic and that the developer’s decision to place the garage entrance on Kipling rather than Lytton

could jeopardize the safety of the many children who use Kipling to get to Johnson Park, including his own two young daughters.

“Diverting traffic from a twostory parking garage to small residential streets will increase the risk for pedestrians in the area,” Leung wrote in the appeal letter.

Leung brought up his concerns at the March 17 meeting of the Architectural Review Board, which ultimately voted to approve the project. A traffic analysis concluded that the garage driveway would serve about 22 vehicles during the morning peak hour and 21 during the afternoon peak, an average of about three cars per minute. The project is also expected to generate 75 new vehicle trips daily, a number that the city’s planning staff called “minimal” and too insignificant to warrant a full traffic study.

According to planning staff, the 40-foot building complies with all city codes, including ones governing height, density and setbacks.

But one design feature continues to irk Leung: a terrace that the developer plans to add to the second floor of the project. Once

Rendering by Hayes Group Architects

Council to rule on three-story building on Lytton Avenue

After winning approval, a development proposed for 411 Lytton Ave. is facing an appeal from area residents. installed, the terrace would be located 10 feet away from the nearest home and 25 feet from Leung’s.

“There is no setback requirement for this area and the developer is maximizing the square footage by putting this terrace next to someone’s window,” Leung told the Weekly.

The city tried to address these concerns by creating a condition that the terrace only be used between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekends and specifying that amplified sound is prohibited at the terrace. But for Leung, such a terrace is unprecedented in a neighborhood that is dominated by single-story homes. In his letter, Leung noted that office-space tenants in Palo Alto are often tech

startups with younger employees, who sometimes work around the clock.

“A second floor terrace enables outdoor breaks and cell conversations late at night as enforcement would be difficult,” Leung wrote in the letter.

The broadest criticism of the project, however, is that it’s simply not compatible with the area.

While the designers of the project at 429 University Ave. could point to other tall structures along downtown’s main commercial street, that is not the case on Lytton and Kipling. Here, Leung noted in his appeal letter, there are “no buildings as large to be found for hundreds of feet in any (continued on page 11)

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Upfront

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The City Council did not meet this week.

Planning and Transportation Commission (Aug. 10)

Findings: The board recommended approving the revised Approval Findings for architectural review of new projects. Yes: Fine, Rosenblum, Tanaka, Waldfogel No: Alcheck Abstained: Gardias Embarcadero: The commission recommended various improvements for the Embarcadero Road corridor between El Camino Real and Emerson Street, including two one-way separate bikeways along Embarcadero and a protected Dutch-style intersection at the El Camino Real intersection. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (Aug. 11)

Retreat: The board discussed budget management, goals and operational items. Action: None Contract: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a contract with Choicelunch to provide lunch at Terman Middle School. Yes: Unanimous

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distances and have more evening service, enabling them to go out to dinner or to concerts. Others wanted seamless transitions between cities and towns in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. And they want extended service on days when buses don’t serve locations, such as on holidays. They want VTA to expand scheduling to 14 days in advance rather than three.

The new service provider should also confirm no-shows and reduce the pick-up window from 30 minutes to 15 minutes, they said.

Inconsistent service was also a recurring theme at Tuesday’s meeting. Jimmy Duarte, who uses a motorized wheelchair, said he’s had first-hand experience with paratransit not picking him up.

“Outreach failed to come and left me sitting for two hours. I called VTA and they came and bailed me out,” he said.

But riders said that modern

technology could help iron out the glitches. They want seamless integration with laptops, tablets and smartphones to receive alerts, get updates on estimated times of arrival and book rides.

The system also needs better communication between drivers and dispatchers, who sometimes don’t know a destination, they said.

If someone is going to the shopping mall, a driver should know the location of the Macy’s where the client wants to go, not drop the person somewhere across the mall. Having the ability for riders to send an electronic map to the dispatcher or the driver would save everyone time and inconvenience, they said. Others said there should be a dedicated telephone number a client can call for emergencies or critical callbacks to the location if the person was dropped off at the wrong place or has a medical issue.

Paratransit also has a subscription service, so that people who go to the same location regularly don’t have to call each time to book an appointment. But some

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riders have been turned away, and the service should be expanded, those at the meeting said.

The riders also liked many things about existing paratransit services, including door-to-door services; having a variety of vehicles from small vans to large ones; the current paratransit coverage; and especially the drivers, who are friendly and courteous, they said.

Vogel said that many of the drivers would transfer to the new operator.

Outreach held the contract with VTA for 23 years. An auditor’s report found pervasive failures in data gathering and “murky” invoicing by Outreach. The VTA board voted in June to exercise a one-year notice of contract cancellation provision while simultaneously starting a competitive bid process for paratransit services to ensure uninterrupted service.

Paratransit services are one of VTA’s largest contracts, amounting to about $20 million budgeted for fiscal year 2016, according to an auditor’s staff report.

Vogel said that VTA limited the public-outreach meetings to two because of the narrow window to find a new service provider. The request for proposals is expected to go out in September. VTA sent out more than 10,000 notices in four languages to riders in its top 50 destination locations, including automated calls to visually impaired individuals, he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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to 52 percent between 2014 and 2015 (in 2006, it was 68 percent).

Local concerns about housing were also highlighted in a poll that the city commissioned last spring, when it was considering whether to proceed with a business tax to address traffic congestion. The poll showed 76 percent of the respondents listing “cost of housing” as an “extremely serious” or “very serious” problem, a higher percentage than on any other issue (the drought and traffic congestion scored second and third, with 65 percent and 53 percent, respectively).

Downing’s letter comes at a particularly sensitive time for local politics. The city is about to hold its first City Council election since the slow-growth “residentialist” camp won the council majority in 2014, and four of the council’s nine seats will be up for grabs. Several candidates jumping into the race, including current planning commission Chair Adrian Fine, Human Relations Commission Chair Greer Stone and technology executive Michelle Kraus (all of whom are renters) have vowed to make creation of more housing options a top priority if elected. Q

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of the work will take place from June through January 2017 to protect endangered species living in the area. The work is scheduled to be completed in 2018.

The project is the first of two.

The second project, the Upstream of Highway 101 segment, would follow, with potential bridge replacements, channel widening and construction of an upstream floodwater detention basin, underground bypass or flood walls.

A draft Environmental Impact Report for this phase is scheduled for release and public comment in 2017.

Gary Kremen, director of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board, summed up the long years of waiting and the hard work with one word: “Finally.”

San Francisquito Creek’s potential to cause damaging and life-taking floods has been recognized since 1941, when Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the creek, said Paul Beck, legislative counsel for U.S. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo. But in the intervening decades, little had been done to fix the situation, which only became more dangerous after decades of altering the channel and the addition of thousands more residents.

Flood control became an imperative for local governments following the devastating 1998 flood that damaged parts of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. In 1998, officials of East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and San Mateo County Flood Control District formed the Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to work collaboratively on a solution to the flooding — one that would not improve the situation for one community while worsening it for another.

Palo Alto Mayor Pat Burt, a member of the JPA board of directors,said that the project finally came to fruition after the JPA began to recalibrate its approach eight years ago. From 1998 to 2006, the approach was primarily pursuing principal funding sources.

But a project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stalled, and when funding fell through, JPA members and state and local officials worked to secure local financial resources to take on the first phase of the flood-control project, the Bay to Highway 101 segment.

Nervous residents and public officials again received a reminder of the creek’s destructive powers in December 2012. Rushing upstream water pounded the levee

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The flood-protection project around the San Francisquito Creek includes new floodwalls and a widened channel downstream of U.S. Highway 101. in East Palo Alto, causing damage that threatened to inundate the adjacent neighborhood and flooding some Palo Alto streets when water came up through storm drains.

Then-East Palo Alto Mayor Ruben Abrica scrambled to secure state emergency funds to repair the levee and portions of Woodland Avenue beside the creek.

Now the project is the first in the country to address 100-year flood protection with sea-level rise, and it is a model for other projects, Burt said.

Abrica, who sits on the JPA board, said he has a feeling of deep satisfaction that some of the wrongs done to the creek over the decades, with its re-engineering and dirt-pile levees made by farmers who wanted to used the creek water, will be corrected.

“Most of my life in East Palo Alto I have lived near the creek. I came to appreciate the creek. We are a coastal city and we get a different perspective,” he said.

The project “is a sign of friendship to the creek.” In a way, the flood-control project is returning some of the control back to the creek, he said. It’s a way of saying, “this is your land; this is something you used to use to get to the bay,” Abrica said.

One of the major stumbling blocks involved is how to protect the endangered Ridgway’s rail and the salt marsh harvest mouse and other threatened and endangered species.

Anne Morkill of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex, said the project repre-

The Aug. 5 story “Controversial plan sent back to the drawing board, again” and the CityView roundup incorrectly stated that the Architectural Review Board vote on the 429 University Avenue project was 3-0.

Board member Kyu Kim cast a dissenting vote because the project had a new design and a new architect, and an additional hearing with more significant changes in massing and revisions to address the concerns of the city council would be more appropriate. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

sents a paradigm shift of ecosystem and flood-control restoration.

“The (bay) has lost 90 percent of its wetlands here, and the goal is to bring back 100,000 acres of marshland,” Morkill said.

“Through discussion we came up with a win-win situation” that protects the endangered species habitat and people, she added.

For Palo Alto resident Tom Rindfleisch, whose Crescent Park yard was flooded in 1998, the project is “a dream come true.”

He and resident Stephen Monasmith created a model and analyzed the creek’s problems, working two years on a plan that helped create some of the fixes that will be used today.

“There were lots of times I felt discouraged. But the JPA leadership and its new members created a sea change,” he said.

Louella Parker of East Palo Alto had to leave her home in 1998, after someone knocked on her door and told her to evacuate.

But the water was already rising, with the intersections of Wisteria Drive at O’Connor and Sage streets flooding. Parker was not sure she could get out, her husband, Dennis Parker, said.

The couple self-evacuated in 2012 after Dennis Parker, who was watching the water level rise on the online creek monitor, saw that the water was so high the monitor was no longer functioning. When they arrived at East Palo Alto City Hall at the Red Cross shelter, people were coming in with their pant legs soaked to their knees, he said.

“It was a wake-up call,” he said. But all of the years of hard work organizing and petitioning have paid off.

“I never would’ve imagined that two counties and three cities and water districts could act together and get something done,” he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

The number of people who end up in hospital emergency rooms from heroin overdoses has continued to rise as use of the potent narcotic deepens in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, according to data recently released by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.

Poisonings or overdoses have jumped by more than 100 percent in Santa Clara County and other parts of the state, fueled in large part by prescription painkiller abuse. As addiction to the painkiller increases, users often switch to cheaper and more easily obtainable heroin, medical professionals said.

The problem has escalated to the point that Foothill-DeAnza Community College District police began carrying Naloxone on Aug. 1, an over-the-counter drug used as an overdose antidote, the department announced last week.

Foothill-DeAnza is the first law-enforcement agency in Santa Clara County to carry the drug, which is commonly known as Narcan. The drug is used as a nasal spray, which makes it easy to administer, and it has long been used by paramedics to treat heroin and other prescription opioid overdoses.

Santa Clara County has seen a 126 percent increase in the number of heroin poisonings between 2011 and 2015. There were 19 cases in 2011 and 43 in 2015. The spike began in 2012 with a 115 percent jump, according to the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which tracked hospital emergency department data for heroin overdoses between 2005 and 2016. The first quarter of 2016 indicates the year is on track to match the trend, with 11 cases documented from January through March.

These numbers don’t include overdoses from other sources of opioids, such as prescription pain medications, nor do they parse out the number of deaths. Since July 2015, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner has reported 11 deaths from drug overdose related to fentanyl, including two in April 2016 with fatal levels of fentanyl combined with other opioids and illicit drugs, according to a May 11 advisory to hospitals and physicians by Dr. Sara Cody, county public health director, and Toni Tullys, director of behavioral health services.

— Sue Dremann

Woman arrested after spree of bank robberies An East Palo Alto woman who police say took part in at least nine bank robberies over the summer, including one in Palo Alto earlier this month, was arrested on Aug. 3 after investigators traced a finger print from a bank pamphlet back to her.

The Santa Clara County Office of the Sheriff announced Monday that Mary Mapa, 27, was arrested at her East Palo Alto home on Aug. 3, one day after she allegedly robbed the Star One Credit Union on El Camino Real in south Palo Alto.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, the Palo Alto robbery was just the latest incident for Mapa in a spree that began on June 3, when she reportedly robbed the HSBC Bank in Cupertino. She has been identified in bank robberies in Livermore, Morgan Hill, Walnut Creek, Napa, Manteca, Sunnyvale and San Mateo.

The breakthrough apparently came after the Sunnyvale robbery, when a crime investigator obtained a finger print from a bank pamphlet that Mapa allegedly handled during that incident. She was arrested and booked in the Santa Clara County Main Jail.

— Gennady Sheyner

Sand Hill founder behind hotel conversion Peter and Susanna Pau, the quiet power running development company Sand Hill Property, are the new long-term leaseholders behind turning Hotel California into low-income housing, an official from Palo Alto Housing Corporation has confirmed.

The longtime hotel on Ash Street in the California Avenue Business District will be converted into 20 single-room-occupancy units. Persons with incomes between $10,000 and $40,000 a year will be eligible to rent the units, which will cost $400 to $800 a month, depending on income level, said Candice Gonzalez, CEO of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, the local nonprofit that will be managing the units.

Sand Hill Property did not return a request for comment. Gonzalez said that Susanna Pau has long wanted to find real estate that would be appropriate for Palo Alto’s low-income residents, but Pau prefers to remain low key.

“It’s all being privately funded, and there is no need to rezone the site. That simplified process — it’s almost a windfall,” Gonzalez said.

The city needs thousands of units to meet low-income housing demand, she added.

Applications for the studios at Hotel California are being accepted now, and residents could start moving in as soon as Aug. 20. Interested parties can call the Housing Corporation’s main office at 650-321-9709.

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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.

Brock Turner judge criticized, again The campaign to recall Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky for his controversial June 2 sentencing of former Stanford University student-athlete Brock Turner for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman is pointing to another “lenient” decision, this time in a 2014 child-pornography case, as further evidence of Persky’s alleged bias in sex-crime cases. (Posted Aug. 9, 4:15 p.m.)

Transplant recipients off to summer camp Fifty pediatric transplant recipients will go to summer camp with the assistance of the Stanford Blood Center in partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, according to blood center officials. (Posted Aug. 9, 4:04 p.m.)

New health team helps with mental illness A new team has begun work to help San Mateo County residents living with a serious mental illness improve their quality of life, county health officials announced Friday. (Posted May Aug. 9, 7:43 a.m.)

Knightscope upgrades tot-injuring robot Mountain View’s homegrown security-bot company, Knightscope, is trying to restore its image after a dust-up last month in which one of its security robots patrolling Stanford Shopping Center knocked down a 17-month-old boy. (Posted Aug. 9, 7:41 a.m.)

Concrete falls from historic Palo Alto building A concrete cornice from an ornate historic Palo Alto building fell to the pavement on busy University Avenue over the weekend, breaking into two pieces but apparently not striking anyone. (Posted Aug. 8, 12:24 p.m.)

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“But I’d like to see the community come together to do specific area plans for places like downtown and California Avenue, which might support more housing.”

Fine also said he supports exper imenting with things like “micro-units” and housing in Residential Parking Permit zones where permit restrictions would force new Adrian Fine residents to bike, walk and take transit.

Fine is one of several past and sitting planning c om m i s sion ers expected to run for a seat in November.

Arthur Keller, who served for Don McDougall two terms on the commission and who was well known for challenging developers and questioning prevailing planning assumptions, announced last month that he will seek a council seat. Keller lost his commission seat in November 2014, after the council voted 5-4 not to reap-

point him (this was just days after the slow-growth “residentalist” candidates won council majority and two months before the newly elected members were set to be sworn in). At the same meeting, the outgoing council voted to appoint Fine, whose educational background is in urban planning and who currently works at Nextdoor.

Keller has remained deeply involved in civic affairs since leaving the commission and currently co-chairs the Greer Stone citizens group that is working to update the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan.

Planning Commissioner Greg Tanaka, who preceded Fine as commission chair, Michelle Kraus is also expected to join the contest. Tanaka, the commission’s longest serving member and former president of the College Terrace Residents Association, has not formally announced his candidacy but he has pulled papers and told the Weekly that he is “very likely” to run.

A consummate moderate with no clear ideological leanings, Tanaka is known for his detaildriven approach toward analyzing development proposals and traffic projects. Though he joined the rest of the commission in opposing the city’s office cap earlier this year, he has also been at times critical of new developments and had voted against the Lytton Gateway development, a controversial “planned community” project at 101 Lytton Ave. that was ultimately approved by the commission and the council.

But it’s not just the planning commissioners who are joining the fray. Greer Stone, who currently chairs the Human Relations Commission, also announced this week that he will run for council.

Since joining the commission, Stone has participated in Project Safety Net, the community collaboration that focused on youth well-being. As a commissioner, he has also focused on issues that affect the homeless population, the senior population and residents with mental health issues.

“I think I’ll see the city from a completely different point of view,” Stone told the Weekly. “I talked to people who feel invisible.”

In announcing his candidacy, Stone said he recognizes the need to address the city’s “housing crisis” but said it’s important to do so in a way that will minimize traffic congestion and impacts to

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He told the Weekly that he supports raising the percentage of below-market-rate housing units that new developments must provide, from the existing level of 15 percent to 25 percent (same as in San Francisco). He also told the Weekly that he would support doing away with rules that allow developers to pay in-lieu fees instead of providing housing on site.

“Clearly, Palo Alto and the entire Bay Area region is in a housing crisis, and we have an affordable-housing crisis,” Stone told the Weekly.

“I don’t think we can just advocate responsibility and then completely put our heads in the sand. But at the same time, Palo Alto doesn’t have to look like downtown Redwood City, with all the development in the last 15 to 20 years, or Mountain View or Sunnyvale.”

Don McDougall, a member of the Library Advisory Commission, calls housing the first, second and third priority. A former CEO of software companies with a passion for data crunching, McDougall on Wednesday confirmed to the Weekly he also will be running for a council seat in November. McDougall, who grew up in Calgary and who lived in Amsterdam, Boston and Portland before moving to Palo Alto 13 years ago, became deeply immersed in local planning in recent years, first as a member of the library commission and then as part of the Citizens Advisory Committee that is updating the Comprehensive Plan.

Through his work on the citizens committee, he said, he had come to realize that the problems that the city is facing around housing, transportation and land use are “tremendously complex” and that his experience in evaluating data can be an asset in addressing these challenges. Though he said

he is not espousing any particular proposals to add housing (doing so without community buy-in, he said, would be “premature”) he supports evaluating solutions like accessorydwelling units, “cluster houses” and higher density near train stations.

McDougall also advocates strong collaboration between residential and commercial interests, which he said are currently opposed to each other. Recent efforts at Stanford Research Park and with the downtown Transportation Management Association to promote new transportation alternatives suggest that local companies can have an important role to play in solving problems like parking shortages and traffic congestion, which are important to local residents.

“I think there is room and opportunity for aggressive negotiations and coming together with good ideas,” McDougall said.

Downtown resident Michelle Kraus also comes from a technology background, though her focus to date has been on the national level.

As managing director at Technology and Politics Group, Kraus said she looks at “trends for transportation and infrastructure in this country and around the world.” Currently, she serves as head of global government affairs for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

In an interview, Krauss said she would like to see more creativity in addressing Palo Alto’s transportation and housing challenges.

Living in Palo Alto, she said, has become cost prohibitive for most people. The city needs “affordable alternatives,” she said.

“We need housing for the young professionals; we need housing for young families; we need housing for the tech workers who are here in their 50s and 60s, because nobody retires now,” Kraus said.

“It’s got to be more affordable.”

The new candidates are joining a field that already includes Kniss, Barron Park resident Lydia Kou and Keller, all of whom had previously announced their candidacy. Of the 11 candidates, Kou is the only one who was actively involved in the 2013 campaign to overturn a council-approved housing development on Maybell Avenue, which included a 60-unit complex for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes. She ran in 2014 with the endorsement of the slow-growth citizens group, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning but was narrowly edged out for the fifth seat by Cory Wolbach.

A longtime community volunteer who coordinated emergency-preparedness events and cultural festivals, Kou also serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee that is working to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Residents have until Aug. 17 to file their candidacy papers. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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direction.”

Furthermore, he wrote, the proposed project doesn’t share any linkage in general characteristics with neighboring buildings and is “vastly different in scale and massing.”

His appeal letter includes signatures from 14 other downtown residents. Many others, Leung said, have told him that they share his view about the new project.

In some cases, he said, residents weren’t aware of the new project until he informed them about it.

The council, for its part, has yet to weigh in. On June 20, however, Leung scored a limited victory when council members agreed to hold a full hearing on the project in August. Now, council members will weigh the concerns expressed by Leung and his neighbors against the recommendations of planning staff and the Architectural Review Board, which

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During its March 17 discussion, the board majority agreed that after several rounds of revisions, the architect has made enough improvements to make the project “passable or approvable,” in the words of board Chair Robert Gooyer. He particularly praised the design for making the threestory structure look like a two-story building to pedestrians walking down the street. Board member Kyu Kim concurred and lauded the project for trying to transition into the next to it residential zone.

Furth saw things differently.

“This is a very eclectic neighborhood,” Furth said at the March 17 meeting. “It’s not that we expect everything to be the same.

It’s not that we don’t know our backyard neighbors well, but I think this doesn’t meet the compatibility standards.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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The Special City School Liaison Committee Meeting will be held in the Community Meeting Room on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 8:00 AM to discuss: 1) Review of Recent City Council/PAUSD Board Meetings; 2) Update on Project Safety Net and Centers for Disease Controlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Epidemiologic Assistance (Epi-Aids) Study; and 3) Update on Safe Routes to School.

Pulse POLICE CALLS

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Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

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

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

Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

Vehicle accident/ no injury . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fire assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

August 3-9

August 3-9 Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . . . 1 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Bank account fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 1 2 1 1 1 6 2 1

Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . . 6 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . 14 Vehicle stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Drunken driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 1 1 3

Miscellaneous Concealed weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disturbing/annoying phone call . . . . . . . .

Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

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

2 1 1 4 3 1 1 7 5 1 6

4 5 4 7 1 1 2 2 4 2 7 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 6 1 1 1 3 5

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

3000 Alexis Drive, 8/7, 10:12 a.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.

180 El Camino Real, 8/9, 3:08 p.m.; armed robbery.

Menlo Park

1000 block Sonoma Avenue, 8/3, 9:54 p.m.; battery.

300 block El Camino Real, 8/5, 6:42 p.m.; battery.

500 block El Camino Real, 8/7, 11:05 p.m.; assault.

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John Taber Differding November 1, 1933 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; August 3, 2016 John Differding was a third generation California native, born in Richmond and deceased in Palo Alto. He excelled as a high school student in Polson, MT and San Jose, CA before attending Stanford University. John graduated with honors from Stanford Medical School in 1959.

After residencies at UCSF and the University of Oregon Medical School, he became a pathologist, spending his career at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic from 1966 to 1998. He served on the faculty of Stanford University Medical Center as Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and brought a high standard of ethics to his profession.

John loved playing tennis and was a long-time member of the Foothills Tennis & Swim Club. He won five Palo Alto City Tennis Championships and ranked 8th in Northern California in 1979. He also enjoyed reading about subjects from archeology to zoology and had a boundless interest in learning. John was very fond of animals and reciprocated the unconditional love of every dog who knew him. He is survived by two daughters, Joan and Amy, and three grandchildren.

Donations in Dr. Differdingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory may be directed to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine at www.pcrm.org.

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

Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Something bold, something new 2016 New Works Festival boasts an eclectic lineup

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“Not in anyone’s wildest dreams did they imagine they would be sparking a world war. The kind of domino effect it had, it’s almost absurd. It’s with that absurdity that I’m taking the play,” he said.

And though the subject matter is deadly serious, “in many ways it’s a comedy, about a bunch of very inept incompetent men who stumble upon this cataclysm.”

The plot to murder the archduke was carried out by several young, poverty-stricken men who were diagnosed with tuberculosis — a death sentence at that time.

“They’re swept up by this man who’s using them as his soldiers, installing in them this idea that, if you’re going to die soon why not make your life mean something?”

Joseph said.

He sees the conflict as the crucial tipping point that transitioned the 19th century into the 20th and noted that, in 2016, we may be reaching that point again in the new millennium.

“If it’s true, we’re in the midst of that again now,” he said. “I do

Frank Chen

“Gravity,” a musical about a modern physicist who travels back in time to meet young Isaac Newton, was created by a group of Stanford alumni: (back row left to right) Jessia Hoffman, Ken Savage, Weston Gaylord, (front row left to right) Joel Chapman and Matt Herrero.

think it’s worth examining that it doesn’t take brains to change the The Kilbanes, a theatrical rock band led by married songwriting world if you’re changing it through duo Dan Moses and Kate Kilbane, are authors of the rock opera violence. If you look at today, the “Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World.” expansion and insurgency of ISIS and al Qaeda is preying on the nities, both in the past and in the the Marvelous,’ who is always same types of individuals: young modern world. victorious, no matter the odds,” men who are impoverished, with “Though progress has been Kilbane explained. The character no hope of upward mobility.” made, there is definitely work was inspired by a conversation she “Archduke” will be directed by to be done to give female voices had with a friend over how excruGiovanna Sardelli (who’s also the empowering opportunities to ciating young adulthood can be, festival director), a big fan of Jo- share their point of view with and soon the idea to combine a seph’s work. their colleagues and influence straight-play storyline about Eddie “If Rajiv writes something on the advancement of science and with rock-opera sequences (with a napkin I want to knowledge,” Sav- music inspired by artists such as do it,” she joked. age said.

David Bowie and Queen) struck.

“W hile it’s He described the “Dan has always loved rock placed a century music of “Gravity” from the ’70s ... and my enthusiago, it also has a as ranging in style asm for ‘Ziggy Stardust’ knows contemporary feel from “acoustic- no bounds, so this seemed like a to it,” she said of guitar singer-song- great opportunity to let those artthe play. “It has writer freestyle ists inspire us,” she said. mischief ... dark to Gaga-esque Though she’s known on the humor in the tone dance pop to con- local indie-music scene as a and a beauty to temporary a cap- songwriter, guitarist and bassist, the writing that pella and musical Kilbane has a background in mureally speaks to theater” and said sical theater, training as a directhe fear and lack that while he and tor and dramaturg and earning a of purpose in the his fellow Stan- master’s degree in performance characters.” ford alums have studies from New York UniverPulitzer Prize nominee The play gives Rajiv Joseph’s new play worked together sity. In 2008, she created the onea voice to people “Archduke” explores the before, this show character rock opera “The Medea largely forgotten 1914 assassination of represents their Cycle,” based on ancient Greek by history.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand. first joint musical- mythology, and in 2009 she and “You don’t want Joseph will also give the writing effort.

Moses began work on the fourto glamorize these keynote speech at this “World-build- character musical “Weightless.” individuals but year’s New Works Festival. ing, bending rules, “Now we’ve written ‘Eddie,’ you do want to and exploding the which has a whole stage play inhumanize them,” Sardelli said. “I personalities of famous historical side a rock opera,” she said, “so I think it’s very brave to actually figures has been an absolute joy,” found my way back to the theater say, ‘I want to create characters he said. “It’s a gift to work with quite accidentally, bringing my that you have complicated rela- people you trust and whose taste masters-in-jazz-performancetionships to.’” you respect.” had-barely-set-foot-in-a-theater More fanciful but also rooted in Another close-knit team of husband with me, and we couldn’t history is “Gravity: a New(tonian) writers created the musical “Ed- be happier.” Q Musical,” a romantic sci-fi com- die the Marvelous, Who Will Save Arts & Entertainment Editor edy featuring young Isaac New- the World.” Married couple Kate Karla Kane can be emailed at ton on the brink of making his Kilbane and Dan Moses, who also kkane@paweekly.com. groundbreaking scientific dis- write and perform around the coveries and Sophie, a modern Bay Area as the rock-band The physicist who travels back to the Kilbanes, came up with the story What: TheatreWorks’ Enlightenment age and upsets the of Eddie, a young man with a host New Works Festival timeline of history and science of mental-health issues who lives Where: Lucie Stern Theater, in the process. The show, by Ken an isolated existence. While his 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Savage, Joel Chapman, Weston outer world is restricted, he has a Gaylord, Matt Herrero and Jessia rich inner life.

When: Aug. 12-21; check online for complete schedule Hoffman, got its start in a Stan“Eddie draws from small, munford University musical-writing dane moments in his life and Cost: $19-$65 (individual tickets and festival passes competition and offers a feminist recreates them as epic battles in available) perspective, exploring the chal- an intergalactic rock opera, starInfo: Go to theatreworks.org/ lenges female scientists face in ring a Ziggy-Stardust-inspired shows/nwf gaining recognition and opportu- version of himself, called ‘Eddie Rohit Chandra

heatreWorks’ New Works Festival is always a summer treat for theater lovers, giving audiences a peek at new plays in progress. This year’s lineup offers six works (including a musical adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” the graphic-novelbased “The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga” and the Pablo Neruda-inspired “I Enter the Valley”) that range from historical drama to rock opera.

Festival veteran Rajiv Joseph (who will also give the keynote speech) returns this year with “Archduke.” The play centers around the plot to assassinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose death in Bosnia at the hands of Serbian nationalists in 1914 set off the First World War. While the assassination eventually led to that massive global conflict, Joseph said none of the radicalized conspirators had any idea the ramifications their actions would have on the wider world.

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The DeLeon Difference® New Day Project participants Kathy Barth (left) and Keletioln Lolo (center), and New Day Project Manager Julia Lang (right) use a combination of pastels, watercolor paint, pencils and pens to create artwork at the Pacific Art League.

New Day Project fosters community through art Pacific Art League, Downtown Streets Team collaborate to offer free classes

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was flooded with natural light. A small group of women (one with a pet dog by her side) sat drawing, coloring and talking around rectangular tables that were clustered together. Occasionally, the teacher gently guided her students, making observations and drawing attention to the world and the people seated in the room. They were working on portraits.

Cathy Zander, a veteran teacher with a master’s degree in arts education, has taught the past two courses and plans to continue staying involved with The New Day Project. Even with all of her years of experience, she counts this group as the most interesting.

“I would say this is one of the more exceptional classes I have taught. It’s not only rewarding for them — it’s rewarding for me,” Zander said, adding that for these students, it’s especially important to feel like they’ve accomplished something.

Zander, whom McDonnell described as calm, encouraging and nurturing, approaches the class as

she would any other adult-education class. She includes the same fundamentals of art and each week she focuses on different themes.

The students exhibit their work and some will take further classes.

“Doing art classes at PAL has inspired me to look forward to showing up. I’m now doing art at home. I bought oil paint, acrylic, and crayons. Instead of going out and getting in trouble or being depressed, I’m doing something therapeutic ... It’s bringing out something in me that was hidden for years,” participant Triza Aurora stated in a press release announcing the grants.

McDonnell said that when formerly homeless people transition into housing, they sometimes lose their sense of community. This class is meant to help foster and rebuild those crucial social connections as well.

“The secret lies in a communal experience through making art,” she said. Q Editorial Assistant Anna Medina can be emailed at amedina@paweekly.com.

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by Anna Medina ust inside the Pacific Art League’s (PAL) gallery and studio space in downtown Palo Alto, artwork brightens the walls. Some pieces tell a story, others vividly convey feelings through splashes of color and lines.

The work is the result of The New Day Project, an eight-week, tuition-free art class for previously homeless and recently housed individuals in the region. The project is a collaboration between PAL and Downtown Streets Team, a local nonprofit organization with a mission to end homelessness by restoring dignity to and helping to rebuild the lives of homeless men and women.

After two rounds of classes this year, The New Day Project will continue thanks to a recent $8,500 grant from the Palo Alto Community Fund and a matching grant of $2,500 from Oliver and Company.

The grants were awarded during a month that marked the first anniversary of Shannon McDonnell’s hiring as PAL’s executive director. The New Day Project is one of her community-engagement initiatives.

McDonnell, who before assuming her position as executive director lived in India for five years, said that growing an arts-for-social-justice program has been one of the goals since the start of her work with PAL. As part of this initiative, she envisioned moving away from an old model of outreach, which she defined as going to spaces in other communities, and instead inviting people to participate directly in the spaces Palo Alto itself has to offer.

“My feeling is, we have this beautiful home. It makes it possible to engage with people,” McDonnell said.

On a recent Thursday afternoon, an expansive art studio with floor-to-ceiling windows

Kathy Barth works on a self portrait, using a picture on her phone as reference, at a free class organized by the New Day Project at the Pacific Art League. Barth added the portrait to a collection she hopes to feature on GoFundMe.org to raise enough money to pay for a service dog.

Eating Out

Eureka!’s Fresno fig burger is served with fig marmalade, melted goat cheese and strips of crisp bacon. Sweet potato fries are pictured on the side.

ALL THAT Hearty burgers, local brews and whiskeys shine at Eureka! in Mountain View

by Dale F. Bentson Q photos by Zachary Hoffman

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ureka! is an all-American restaurant. There’s American craft beer, American small-batch whiskeys and a menu showcasing everything from burgers and wings to lollipop corn dogs. The company is headquartered in Hawthorne, Calif., home of legendary all-American band the Beach Boys.

With revenues north of $40 million, the Eureka Restaurant Group operates 20 restaurants in four western states. Its winning concept focuses on locally sourced food and libations. According to Alexia Penna, the group’s corporate PR and marketing manager, the company opens restaurants in “discovery markets” near universities and technology centers where creative and aspiring people live and work.

The company seeks architecturally interesting buildings as well.

A new outpost opened in April at downtown Mountain View’s 191 Castro St., a century-old building that most recently housed 191 Restaurant and Bar. Eureka gutted and opened up the interior, further exposed red brick walls and added

rustic tables and chairs, upholstered booths and a banquette. A plank wood divider separates the bar and dining room.

The wall behind the bar displays an impressive array of tap handles and backlit glass shelves of whiskeys. The 50 small-batch whiskey count is impressive, but the 40 craft beers on tap are the backbone of Eureka!’s beverage business. The all-California wine list offers reds and whites from the Central Coast and Napa/Sonoma.

On Thursdays between 8 and 10 p.m., there is live music featuring a local performaner (genres vary).

Eureka’s restaurants aren’t cookiecutter. Each has its own ambiance augmented with alliances with local events and artists.

The all-American menu had some solid hits but a few misses.

For starters, there’s the osso buco riblets ($10), a platter of pork cubes braised in sherry with a “firecracker” aioli. It was a generous portion of meat but I didn’t care much for the sherry braise, which fell flat. It needed something else — cumin, spicy paprika, garlic or honey — to bring it to life. The

firecracker aioli was tame.

I was much happier with the chili wings ($11.50) with your choice of sweet orange chili or house-made Carolina reaper chili sauce — reaper being the current hottest chili in the world.

I opted for the hot stuff. It was fiery but not fireextinguisher hot; it had flavor too, not just heat. It was plenty spicy but the kitchen mercifully tempered the piquancy. It was lip-smacking but not throat-burning.

The five fat lollipop corn dogs ($8) were more showy than delectable. The Polish sausage, embedded in too much sweet-corn batter, had almost no flavor, but corn dogs don’t have much flavor. The slightly spicy porter mustard was the saving grace. The dogs were more exciting on the plate than in the mouth.

The truffle cheese fries ($9.50) was a pile of fries tossed in earthy truffle salt and topped with grated parmesan and scallions, with a side of white truffle cheese dipping sauce. A little truffle goes a long way, and this was just right.

All of the burgers were delicious, especially the Fresno fig burger ($12.50). Fig marmalade was spread inside a seeded bun, with goat cheese melted over the beef patty, and strips of crisp bacon added with a slice of juicy tomato, red onion, arugula and spicy porter mustard. It was a great combination.

Almost as good was the jalapeño egg burger ($12.50) with cheddar cheese, bacon, chipotle sauce and pickled jalapeños topped with a fried egg. All burgers came with crisp fries. Sweet potato fries

Slowroasted pork ribs and lollipop corn dogs (above) are featured on Eureka!’s all-American menu. were worth the extra $4.

Despite the great burgers, and there were nine to choose from, my favorite dish was the fried chicken sliders ($12). They were served with mashed potatoes, reaper chili sauce and coleslaw, all on a soft white bun — crunchy and smooth, spicy and fresh.

I wasn’t excited about the “All Day” breakfast burrito ($12.50).

The tortilla was stuffed with steak, potatoes, peppers (red, yellow and jalapeño), a slightly spicy ranchero sauce, Monterey Jack cheese and sour cream, with a fried egg on the top and arugula on the side. Despite the cornucopia of ingredients, there wasn’t much flavor. The ingredients seemed to cancel each other out.

The butterscotch rum pudding ($7) with caramel sauce, whipped cream and sea salt was grainy but not from the salt. The flavors just didn’t come together and there was something off-tasting about it. The Americana apple crisp ($7) with warm caramelized apples, pecan-oat crisp and vanilla ice cream, though, was pleasing.

I like the concept, the ambiance

and the all-American vibe at Eureka. The burgers are first-rate, as are most other dishes, while a few items need some maintenance. The assemblage of American bourbons and craft beer is exceptional.Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com.

Eureka!

191 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-426-0582; eurekarestaurantgroup.com Hours: Sunday-Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; ThursdaySaturday, 11 a.m. to midnight.

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Parking: Street

Full bar

Happy hour: 2-6 p.m. daily

Corkage: $10

Children Takeout Delivery Outdoor dining

Noise level: High Bathroom Cleanliness: Good

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“A few wrong notes may be forgiven, but singing without feeling cannot.” Dubiously attributed to Beethoven, this epigram is offered in defense of the notoriously bad soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in the new cinematic account of her musical ventures. An irrepressible New York heiress whose money enabled her amateur singing career, Jenkins butchered opera selections and art songs while achieving a level of camp popularity, all winningly recreated by star Meryl Streep and director Stephen Frears in the comedydrama “Florence Foster Jenkins.”

The original screenplay by Nicholas Martin cleanly lays out the circumstances of Jenkins’ insular life, as it was in 1944. Her longtime partner and commonlaw husband St. Clair Bayfield (a charming and funny Hugh Grant) lovingly attends to her, lining up vocal coaches, accompanists and private recitals at The Verdi Club (which she owns). After a gentle bedtime ritual of removing Florence’s wig and lulling her to sleep with a Shakespearean sonnet, Bayfield repairs to a second apartment and a second woman, his girlfriend Kathleen Weatherley (Rebecca Ferguson).

In reference to Jenkins, Bayfield says, “Our marriage is a thing of the spirit.” It’s also a mutually beneficial arrangement, crisply established in the film’s early scenes of Bayfield hiring pianist Cosmé McMoon (Simon Helberg of “The Big Bang Theory”) and inviting back vocal coach Carlo Edwards (David Haig). With a knowing nod, Edwards says to Bayfield, “She spoils us all,

Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant star in “Florence Foster Jenkins,” the true story of New York heiress Florence Foster Jenkins who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. doesn’t she?” She does, but — at least as depicted here — Bayfield is no simple cad. He legitimately cares about Jenkins’ feelings and takes attentive responsibility for them, including payoffs to “music lovers” and “reviewers.”

That responsibility comes to a head when Jenkins becomes fixated on performing at Carnegie Hall, a dream Bayfield cannot deny her but one fraught with snares he may not be able to contain. Bayfield must lean on Edwards and McMoon for their support in maintaining the elaborate charade. McMoon, in particular, finds himself doing inordinate heavy lifting at the piano but also in his role as a new friend to the dotty coloratura. As the newest member of the family, McMoon also serves as an entry for the viewer to this strange world.

Earlier this year, the French film “Marguerite” took a looser approach to the same material, while offering a more intellectually and tonally subtle take.

Frears (“The Queen,” “Philomena”) takes a somewhat brighter,

more populist tack with “Florence Foster Jenkins” and a more historically accurate one. Jenkins makes for a legitimately fascinating central character in her need for the spotlight, her pure love of music and the self-doubts she uses all her will to banish. Not surprisingly, Streep expertly shades every eccentricity, embodying Jenkins in her musical waywardness (it takes a hard-working singer to sing this badly, note for note) and her deterioration due to syphilis, the most shameful wrinkle in her personal life.

The critic is the villain in “Florence Foster Jenkins,” which sides with Jenkins and Bayfield in repelling the “mockers and ... scoffers” and propping up the dreamers.

Yes, Jenkins serves as an example of runaway privilege, but her funny-sad story cannot help but win her sympathy. She may not have had an angelic voice, but in the end, Jenkins earns her wings.

Rated PG-13 for brief suggestive material. One hour, 50 minutes.

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assassination plot by British Special Operations and the Czechoslovak resistance took its name from the Greek word for “having the form of a human.” As such the title is about as literal and as figurative as possible: the name of the mission the film depicts, and a reminder of human dignity in opposition to an enemy determined to blot it out via genocide and physical and emotional tortures.

The no-nonsense screenplay by director-producer-cinematographer Sean Ellis (“Cashback”) and longtime Stanley Kubrick assistant Anthony Frewin (“Color Me Kubrick”) begins in 1941, with two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile parachuting back into German-occupied Czechoslovakia. These are Czech Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan of “Fifty Shades of Grey”) DQG 6ORYDN -R]HI *DEĀtN &LOOLDQ Murphy of “Inception”), and they face a daunting task: assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich — the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler, the man credited as the principal architect of the Final Solution — in a Prague crawling with Nazis.

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poses a key question: “Is Czechoslovakia still ready and willing to resist Nazi Germany?” Happily, “Anthropoid” determines not to offer any straightforward answer to that question in the process of detailing the true-to-life mission particulars, and teasing out some fictionalized personal drama, mostly in a romantic vein. The mission itself comes at the film’s halfway mark, allowing for examination not only of the operation’s outcome, but the survival efforts

that followed, the Nazi blowback, and the prismatic meaning of the mission as seen in the greater context of the war.

It’s all done in a suitably matterof-fact style that honors the story’s historicity. Because of the nature of that story, the film also includes two taut action sequences: the operation itself and a heavy-artillery urban-siege climax. In a likely fictionalized subplot, two women of the resistance aid in the effort, which also serves as a sexual/romantic accelerant as concerns the two men leading the charge. Marie (Charlotte Le Bon) and Lenka (Anna Geislerov·) pair up with Jan and Jozef, despite Lenka’s asser-

tion that, “war is not romantic.”

Ellis shoots the film in deepset shadows and filtered hues that cool from earthy to pallid as the heroes’ challenges become more dire. Ellis rarely pushes for effect, but when he does (a simple setuppayoff with one character’s violin playing, for example), the moment feels right. So while “Anthropoid” tends to the sober and dour, it also breaks into the brutal, the intense, and the emotionally devastating, all the right “moves” for a war story of moral heft compromised

by Pyrrhic victory.

Rated R for violence and some disturbing images. Two hours.

— Peter Canavese

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

For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies.

Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

Animal House (1978) (R) Century 20: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m.

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

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

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

Cafe Society (PG-13) Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2:25, 5:15, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

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

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

Finding Dory (PG) +++ Century 16: 10:55 a.m., 1:35 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:20 a.m. Century 20: 12:15 & 3:15 p.m.

Florence Foster Jenkins (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:30, 7:10 & 10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 4:15 p.m.

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

Florence Foster Jenkins Curtain Call (PG-13) Century 20: Sun. 4:15 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Sun. 4 p.m.

The Gay Divorcee (1934) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:35 & 9:20 p.m.

Ghostbusters (PG-13) Century 16: 7:15 p.m.

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 2, 4:55, 7:45 & 10:35 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: 11:30 a.m., 2 & 4:30 p.m. Fri. 9 a.m.

Century 20: 11 a.m., Fri. & Sat. 1:40 & 4:10 p.m.

Indignation (R) Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4, 7:30 & 9:15 p.m.

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

Jason Bourne (PG-13) + Century 16: 9 & 10:25 a.m., noon, 1:25, 3:05, 4:25, 6:10, 7:25, 9:10 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:25, 2:55, 4:20, 6, 7:20, 9 & 10:20 p.m.

Lights Out (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. & Sat. 6:50 & 9:25 p.m. Sun. 10:10 p.m.

Love in the Afternoon (1957) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Love Me Tonight (1932) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 5:50 & 9:50 p.m.

Nerve (PG-13) + Century 16: 7:40 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 3, 5:35, 8:05 & 10:40 p.m.

Nine Lives (PG) Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 4:05, 7 & 9:40 p.m.

Pete’s Dragon (PG) Century 16: 9:15 & 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m. In 3-D at 10:50 a.m., 1:30 & 4:15 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:15 a.m.

Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:10, 4, 6:55 & 9:35 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:20, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. In DBOX 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:20, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m.

Sausage Party (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:05, 8, 9:30, 10:35 7 11:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55 & 10:25 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: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m.

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun. 11 a.m.

Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10:10 & 11:55 a.m., 1:05, 2:50, 4:10, 5:45, 7:10, 8:45 & 10:10 p.m. Fri. 9 a.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:45 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:50 a.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Suicide Squad (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10:05, 10:45 & 11:30 a.m., 1, 1:45, 2:35, 4:05, 4:45, 5:30, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 10:05 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Sat. & Sun. 8:30 a.m. In 3-D at 9:15 a.m., 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 & 9:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:55, 2:10, 3:55, 5:10, 6:25, 7:05, 8:15 & 10:10 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 9:30 p.m. In 3-D at 11:45 a.m., 2:45, 5:45 & 8:50 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 1:35 & 10:40 p.m. In X-D at 10:40 a.m., 4:35 & 7:40 p.m. In DBOX at 12:55, 3:55, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.

Top Hat (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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Class Guide Fall

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ust like that, summer has come and gone. Soon the leaves will change color, the days will get shorter and you’ll have to carry a sweater when you step outside. But those are not excuses for becoming lazy. Head outdoors while the weather still cooperates. Take an art course, learn a new language or instrument, sign up for fitness classes or brush up on your business acumen. There’s something for everybody and it’s all conveniently located, so while the sun starts setting sooner, you can still keep living better.

The Class Guide is published quarterly by the Palo Alto Weekly, the Almanac and the Mountain View Voice.

Business, work and technology CareerGenerations 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite #200, Palo Alto 650-320-1639 info@careergenerations.com careergenerations.com

CareerGenerations offers group workshops and programs to meet the career needs of a variety of individuals, including college

students looking for internships, graduates looking for employment and those re-entering the market.

ReBoot Accelerator for Women GSVlabs, 425 Broadway St., Redwood City 650-421-2000 reboot@gsvlabs.com rebootaccel.com

ReBoot Accelerator for Women keeps local women current, connected and confident about re-entering the workforce through workshops taught by instructors from LinkedIn, Google and Apple Oneweek immersion and eight-week (meeting once weekly) courses are held throughout the year.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center 1848 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 650-321-2193 rencenter.org/locations/ mid-peninsula/

With several Bay Area locations, Renaissance Entrepeneurship Center offers regular classes, workshops and networking events for developing business skills and growth. The center also provides free coaching and advising to business owners and low-cost office space for small busineses.

For the dancer Dance Connection

Cubberley Community Center, L-5, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-322-7032 (office), 650-852-0418 (studio) info@danceconnectionpaloalto.com danceconnectionpaloalto.com

Dance Connection offers a preschool combination class for preschool-age children (beginning at age 3), graded classes for youth and adults, and other programs to meet dancers’ needs.

Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and other instruction are available for students at various levels of ability.

DanceVisions Cubberley Community Center, L-3, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-324-8751 info@dancevisions.com dancevisions.org

DanceVisions, a nonprofit community dance project, serves dancers of all ages and abilities. Types of dance taught range from modern to hip-hop, jazz, lyrical, Middle Eastern belly dancing, ballet, East Indian dance and contact improvisation.

L’Ecole de Danse, School of Ballet 740 Sierra Vista Ave., Mountain View 650-365-4596 www.lecolededanse.net

L’Ecole de Danse offers a full ballet curriculum starting at age 7.

It also offers classes for adults either wishing to resume ballet or looking to explore it. Annual performances offer onstage experience.

Silicon Valley Ballet Palo Alto Studio Cubberley Community Center, G-6, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 408-288-2820 ext. 223 school@siliconvalleyballet.org siliconvalleyballet.org/ palo-alto-studio

The Palo Alto Studio of Silicon Valley Ballet (previously known as Ballet San Jose) provides ballet instruction to children ages 2 1/2 to 10, with particular attention paid to dancer health and child development. There are also creative movement classes and a Dance With Me class (for ages 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 and caregivers) held at the studio.

Zohar School of Dance & Company Cubberley Community Center, L-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

650-494-8221 zohardance@gmail.com zohardancecompany.org

With roots going back to 1979, Zohar School of Dance holds a range of adult dance classes in jazz, contemporary, modern, ballet, musical theater and tap. Though mainly an adult studio, Zohar also welcomes younger students.

The great outdoors Advantage Aviation 1903 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650.656.2550 info@advantage-aviation.com advantage-aviation.com

With many instructors, Advantage Aviation has a selection of flying classes that train new pilots, as well as help more experienced ones acquire needed licenses.

Brad Lozares Golf Shop 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-856-0881 bradlozaresgolfshop.com

Group and private lessons — teaching golf skills, rules and etiquette — are available for juniors and adults at any level of experience.

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Fall Class Guide This fitness center offers classes centered around the “Bar Method” technique, a one-hour, non-impact total body workout.

It offers packges of five, 10 or 30 classes along with a single class option or a monthly membership.

Kim Grant Tennis Academy

Education for Global Thinking Preparing Students for the 21st Century through the International Baccalaureate Program Preschool to High School German/English IB Program

3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-752-8061 admin@kimgranttennis.com kimgranttennis.com

The Kim Grant Tennis Academy organizes an array of tennis classes and programs for adults and children, as well as those with special needs.

The fall session starts on Aug. 15.

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body workout. Riders of all fitness levels and as young as age 12 can participate in a variety of classes.

Studio Kicks 796A San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-855-9868 info@studiokickspaloalto.com studiokickspaloalto.com

Studio Kicks is a family fitness center offering cardio kickboxing classes and training in martial arts for children and adults.

Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto Cubberley Community Center, M-4, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-327-9350 mjchan@ttopa.com ttopa.com

At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, established in 1973, students learn the classical Yang Style Taijiquan Slow Form style of tai chi.

Beginning classes start monthly.

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

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

U.S. Youth Volleyball League Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto 310-212-7008 tim@usyvl.org www.usyvl.org

Run by the league and volunteers, the youth volleyball program allows boys and girls of all skill levels from ages 7 to 15 to play and learn the sport in a fun, supportive and co-ed environment. The season begins on Sept. 13 and lasts until Nov. 5.

YogaWorks Palo Alto

• Year-round, full-day program for ages 0-6 • Individualized Montessori curriculum • International curriculum (Chinese, Spanish) • Cultivation of thinking skills & personal values • Bilingual Chinese-English classroom option Palo Alto 650-424-1221

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*Registration for Open Houses and Campus Visitor Days begin on September 1st at www.prioryca.org!

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Language courses Berlitz Learning Center 159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto 650-617-0720 berlitz.us/paloalto

German-American School of Palo Alto

Priory is a Catholic Benedictine, independent, coeducational 6th-12th grade school located in Portola Valley.

Our mission is to assist all students in creating meaningful and balanced lives, developing as lifelong learners and stewards, and productively serving a world in need of their gifts.

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With locations across the nation, YogaWorks studio holds classes on yoga fundamentals; Vinyasa flow, Hatha and Iyengar styles; restorative yoga; and circuit training.

Berlitz provides adult and youth language instruction in Spanish, German, French, English and other languages. Private lessons, tutoring, testing services and cultural agility training for businesses are also available.

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GAIS Campus, 475 Pope St., Menlo Park 650-520-3646 contact@gaspa-ca.org gaspa-ca.org

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Started in 1960, the GermanAmerican School of Palo Alto (GASPA), a Saturday school, teaches immersive German language classes, which also cover culture and traditions. Sessions are available for all skill levels and students ages 3 to 18. No prior knowledge of German is required.

Fall Class Guide Mind and spirit Ananda Palo Alto Ananda Temple, 2171 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-323-3363 ext. 0 inform@anandapaloalto.org anandapaloalto.org

Ananda Palo Alto classes and events cover various topics including yoga, meditation and spirituality.

Integrated Healing Arts 4153-4161 El Camino Way, Palo Alto 650-493-7030 iha@integratedhealing.org integratedhealing.org

Integrated Healing Arts instructors teach ongoing classes on meditation, self-development, self-realization, tai chi, qigong and spiritual health.

Music, arts and crafts Art with Emily 402 El Verano Ave., Palo Alto 650-856-9571 emilyjeanyoung@gmail.com artwithemily.com

Emily Young teaches mixedmedia and multicultural art classes in small groups for children and adults at her studio in Palo Alto, as well as individual lessons.

Art Works Studio 595 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto 650-796-1614 artworkspaloalto@gmail.com artworkspaloalto.net

Art Works Studio holds regular fine-art classes for youth, who are given the chance to explore and learn basic art techniques and art history. Programs include 16-week lessons and one-day workshops for preschool- to highschool-age students.

Deborah’s Palm is a nonprofit community organization that aims to provide a warm and supportive environment for all women. Its offerings range from workshops on compassion and mental health to classes on chess, dance, memoir writing and art.

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

Homemade’s programs provide instruction in healthy cooking, wellness coaching and sup-

port from a caring community.

Teaching kitchens are located at the Oshman Family JCC, the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center in Menlo Park and the Stanford University campus.

Midpeninsula Community Media Center 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8686 info@midpenmedia.org midpenmedia.org

The center offers workshops for a range of media arts, including video production, photo enhancement, studio work and more. The center suggests starting with one of its free hourlong orientation sessions.

Each student’s path is different.

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Fusion is a revolutionary place where positive, constructive relationships unlock academic potential. We’re a private school providing an individualized education for kids from grades 6-12. But we’re so much more than that. We’re a community of learning dedicated to creating a supportive campus environment where every kid can flourish – emotionally, socially and academically.

Fusion Palo Alto 650.857.0634 FusionPaloAlto.com

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Fall Class Guide Opus1 Music Studio 1350 Grant Road, #5, Mountain View 4131 El Camino Real, #200, Palo Alto 650-625-9955 (Mountain View), 650384-6848 (Palo Alto) musicopus1.com

Opus1 Music Studio holds group music lessons for young children, including classes for first-time music learners (ages 3 to 6) and sessions on piano performance and music theory. Private lessons are also offered.

Parent education Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Council 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650.688.3625 info@chconline.org chconline.org

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Council holds a variety of parent education classes on issues like dyslexia, anxiety and depression, and that explore topics like socialemotional learning, teen stress and growing up male.

Parents Place 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto 650-688-3040 parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula

A resource center for parents, Parents Place on the Peninsula offers workshops on subjects ranging from sibling rivalry to building a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-esteem and confidence.

Parent and child activity groups are also organized.

School days Amigos de Palo Alto 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto 650-493-4300 info@amigosdepaloalto.com amigosdepaloalto.com

Amigos de Palo Alto is a Spanish-immersion preschool for children 2 1/2 years and older.

Students are mix of native and new Spanish speakers, and the

program combines reading, writing, art and play to develop a love of learning. Amigos also offers Spanish immersion after-school programs for kindergarteners with some Spanish experience.

Emerson School 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1267 emersonschool@headsup.org headsup.org/emerson-school

Emerson School provides a fullday, year-round program for grades one to eight, teaching a personalized, Montessori curriculum. Lessons draw from classical subjects and other areas, including art, music, foreign language, physical education, communication, life skills and more.

HeadsUp! Child Development Center 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1221 pacdc@headsup.org headsup.org/headsup

HeadsUp! Child Development Center serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers (to age 6) with a full-day program, year-round.

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

International School of the Peninsula Cohn Campus (grades one to eight), 151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto 650-251-8500 Cowper Campus (nursery to kindergarten), 3233 Cowper St., Palo Alto 650-852-0264 istp@istp.org istp.org

International School of the Peninsula is an independent bilingual immersion day school with two nursery-to-fifth-grade programs in French and Mandarin Chinese, as well as an international middle school program. Some of the pro-

grams offered include media and technology, music, gastronomy and athletics.

ence, arts and music. It also has a preschool program.

Keys School

Oshman Family JCC Leslie Family Preschool

2890 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto (650) 328-1711 admission@keysschool.org www.keysschool.org

3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-223-8788 earlychildhood@paloaltojcc.org paloaltojcc.org/preschool

Keys School challenges students to develop a keen intellect and a generous spirit, to advocate for themselves and others and to honor curiosity and reflection in an increasingly hurried world. Keys is a private school for kindergarten through eighth grade.

The Oshman Family JCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preschool program provides one- to five-days-per-week options for children 18 months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 4 at Congregation Beth Am), with an emphasis placed on experiential learning, family involvement and play.

Lydian Academy

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Keeping count

Schools wrestle with class-size targets

by Elena Kadvany | photos by Veronica Weber Eric Bloom leads a social justice pathway class last January at Palo Alto High School. The district continues to face class sizes that don’t meet district targets.

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n eighth-grade algebra class at JLS Middle School with 33 students. A French class at Jordan Middle School with 33 students. A multivariable calculus honors class of 35 at Palo Alto High School. An Advanced Placement U.S. history class of 32 at Gunn High.

These were among Palo Alto Unified’s largest classes at the secondary schools in the 2015-16 school year. They also are among many English, math, social studies and foreign language courses at the middle and high schools that exceed the class sizes that the district considers ideal for a learning environment.

This gap between policy and reality has drawn strong concern from parents in the community, some of whom feel that the district’s efforts to address it so far have fallen short. They point to targets for average class sizes that the district has approved and should be adhering to. The targets come from a variety of sources adopted

over time — teachers’ union contracts, tax measure promises and state law funding requirements.

Larger-than-ideal classes in the Palo Alto Unified School District, particularly at the middle and high schools, was raised as a concern by two parents who penned an opinion piece in this newspaper that showed the district was not meeting its own target averages.

Class size also became a focal point in the school board’s budget discussions last spring and, driven by one board member, a particular point of contention when weighed against the cost of significant teacher raises. This comparison is sure to return to the dais this month, when the board will have to make difficult budget decisions to address a sudden $3.7 million budget deficit due to lower-thananticipated property-tax revenue.

To Chris Kolar, the district’s director of research and assessment, the issue of class sizes is not a single, monolithic problem to solve but rather multiple challenges:

Teacher contract ratios

Current target student-teacher ratios included in teacher contracts.

22:1 Kindergarten and first grade 23:1 Second and third grade 24:1 Fourth and fifth grade 24:1 Sixth-grade core classes, seventhand eighth-grade math and English

24:1 Ninth grade (freshman year) math and English

26:1 Tenth grade (sophomore year) English 28.5:1 All other classes, sixth through 12th grade

from physical overcrowding and enrollment planning to connections between students and teachers and students’ social-emotional well-being. Thus, it also does not have a single solution, he said.

“I think that the class-size conversation needs to start by focusing on what the outcomes are that we’re trying to consider,” he said.

“If we want to focus in the secondary level on SEL (social emotional learning) — and not just the teacher relationships, but things like bullying — then one of the questions that we need to ask is how many kids are jammed into a room ... and is it conducive for development of functional relationships and meaningful connections?”

The district looks to average

student-teacher ratios in the teachers’ union contract as its targets, which is appropriate within the context of teacher workload, but not as informative for a parent concerned about a child getting lost in a large class or gauging the impact of class size on the ability of students and teachers to connect with one another, Kolar said. The district uses the contract ratios, along with variables like enrollment, average number of classes per student and classes taught per teacher, to calculate the number of full-time teachers to allocate to each school every year, district staff said.

School administrators are guided by the contract averages, but also must consider “competing demands,” like the number of

students that request a particular class, and values, like creating the middle schools’ team system where groups of students move through core classes together.

Palo Alto’s current target classsize averages have existed in the teacher’s contract since the 201213 school year. The last time the district and union officially opened class size as a topic during negotiations was the 2011-12 school year, according to Associate Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers, Previously, according to the 2011-12 union contract, elementary-school classes were supposed to have an average of 20 students; core middle school English, math, (continued on next page)

District devotes additional funding for smaller classes

by Elena Kadvany

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n recent months, the district has devoted additional funding to lower secondary class sizes for the new school year. In May, the school board unanimously approved $1.8 million to hire an additional 12 teachers — six for the middle schools and and six for the high schools — over the next two years. This was on top of seven new middle school teachers and three high school teachers already included in the 2016-17 budget.

At both high schools, this funding has been used to “split” unusually large classes into two smaller classes — for example, a class of 38 is split into two smaller sections, the high school principals said.

Former JLS Middle School Principle Sharon Ofek said JLS, for its part, was able to create an entire new academic “team,” as well as add electives and physicaleducation classes.

Gunn also used additional funding to expand its Small Learning Community (SLC) program. SLC students share the same English, world history and science teachers together in a cohort. The program has historically been limited to about 25 students; Gunn was able to add a second section this year to double its size, Principle Denise Herrmann said.

Paly Principal Kim Diorio said she also used the funding to lower class-size averages in science,

world language, history/social science, English and math. A former assistant principal who was responsible for the complex crafting of Paly’s master schedule for many years, she said class averages today are much better than around 2008, when money was tighter and classes were as large as 32 to 36 students.

“From my perspective, classsize averages continue to decrease year after year and next year, they will be the lowest we’ve seen in school history, which is good news considering our growing enrollment,” she told the Weekly. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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history/social studies and science classes, 24 students; freshmanyear English and math classes, 20 students (in alignment with California Education Code at the time); sophomore year English classes, 24 students; and all other middle and high school classes, 28.5 students. The staffing ratios for grades 4-5, for the core at grade 6, for English and math at grades 7 and 8 and for English at grade 10 were “contingent,” the contract stated, upon continuation of a parcel tax Palo Alto voters passed in 2005 to preserve small classes and

prevent significant teacher layoffs.

This followed the first-ever parcel tax passed in 2001 to reduce class sizes. In 2001, the ratio for ninth-grade math and English classes went to 20 to 1, and 10thgrade English went to 24 to 1, according to Bowers.

Voters approved increased parcel taxes again in 2010 and 2015 to continue the original aim of the tax — to keep class sizes down.

The secondary level’s broader 28.5 average has long existed, since 1980, Bowers told the Weekly. Before that, it was 27.5, and also came from the teachers’ contract, he said.

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A new state funding formula signed into law in 2013 that gives school districts dollars if they can maintain the average class size for kindergarten through third grade at 24 students at all of their schools also impacted Palo Alto Unified’s ratios. It had the biggest impact on the elementary schools, but also resulted in new ratios for ninth-grade English and math and 10th-grade English, Bowers said.

Currently, freshman-year English and math classes should have 24 students and sophomore-year English classes, 26 students.

A board policy on class size, adopted from a California State Board Association (CSBA) template, states that at the secondary level, district priorities for class size reduction should focus on English, math science, social studies, world language and other courses that are necessary to meet graduation requirements.

Remediation measures are also spelled out in the teachers’ contract in case classes grow beyond the approved levels. Principals and staff are to explore and “mutually discuss” methods for remediation, from providing additional aide time or classroom support to transferring students to hiring additional teachers. The principal makes the final decision, and then presents that plan to the district.

Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo Alto Educators Association, said that the teacher’s union tried to negotiate lower class sizes and/ or total caseload caps for the middle and high school several years ago, but they weren’t agreed to by the district and school board.

“We realize capping class size is more difficult and complicated at those levels because of the fact that you only have so many sections of classes and such, but we would be happy to discuss this in negotiations in the future to try to

Gabriela Garger, a teacher-coach for Gunn High School’s new student mentoring program, Titan Connect Initiative, tapes motivational index cards to a whiteboard during a two-day training workshop. get class sizes down,” she wrote in an email to the Weekly. “We want what is best for students, and we know smaller classes and therefore more individual attention, is what is better for students.”

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he use of averages in measuring class size can be misleading, both parents and school officials agree.

Averages don’t accurately capture what’s going on at a more granular level. The two middleschool parents who penned the guest opinion in May pointed out that very small classes — some with as few as eight students and which might be non-instructional or special sections — are averaged in with larger classes, producing an average that cloaks the true scope of the issue.

District officials do acknowledge that a problem exists, and Superintendent Max McGee has suggested that there should be additional metrics beyond averages, which he wrote in a May memo can be “misleading.”

McGee has committed to now providing ranges — the smallest and largest class sizes — at individual course levels to provide

more context. He provided tables with that information in his memo, and plans to also release it in the fall with an annual enrollment report.

There is also no metric documenting classes that have low teacher to student ratios but are nonetheless large classes, such as courses that are co-taught (and an increasing number are at the high schools), and smaller classes that have been combined into one. (Gunn High School Principal Denise Herrmann told the Weekly that this happened last year and will again next year at the high school; she works with teachers to combine appropriate, related classes if they have low enrollment.)

District data from the 2015-16 year shows that while the average seventh-grade English class sizes for JLS, Jordan and Terman middle schools are, respectively: 25.8, 26.1 and 27.3, there are classes as small as 20 and as large as 30 at the schools.

At JLS, all subject areas (English, math, science and social studies) have a high of 34; at Jordan, (continued on page 26)

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Who are the 100 new hires?

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ne-hundred new teachers, staff and administrators will be joining the Palo Alto school district this fall, continuing a rising trend in new hires over the last few years.

Though this year’s 100 new hires are not a historical high for the district — Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers said there were likely larger cohorts in the 1980s or 1990s — it is 21 more than were hired last year, and 13 more than the 2014-15 school year, according to Bowers.

The bulk of the new teachers, 39, are going to the district’s two high schools. The middle schools will have 26 new teachers and the elementary schools, 27.

Two staff are also joining the district office as Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSAs). There are also new administrators, psychologists and counselors throughout the district.

New school hires: Where are they?

Gunn High School teachers Daisy Renazco, left center, and Courtney Carlomagno, right center, brainstorm ways they can develop better communication skills with incoming freshmen a long ride with fellow teacher-coaches, from left, Kimberly Sabbag, Joanna Hubenthal, Michael Bautista, Terence Kitada and Shaina Holdener.

Gunn, Paly expand student mental-health efforts

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Both high schools focus on new wellness centers

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s the new school year begins in Palo Alto, students at both Palo Alto and Gunn high schools will see changes on their campuses related to mental health and wellness, from new, physical homes for these efforts to a revamp of Gunn’s freshman transition program.

Gunn’s Titan 101 becomes four-year initiative

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Miscellaneous/staff* *The miscellaneous/staff category includes specialists, PE, elective teachers and others.

Two remaining hires are district-level employees.

who would meet with them frequently in a non-academic setting during all four years of high school.

The committee’s final report said this would address many goals that persist today at Gunn: finding more opportunities to make connections between adults and students, as well as between students in non-academic settings; and making more time for counselors to have more frequent oneon-one meetings with students.

This model also “gives every student the opportunity to form a connection with a staff member, particularly those students who fall in the category of the ‘silent middle,’” the Guidance Advisory Committee report states.

Gunn, Paly open wellness centers This fall, both Gunn and Paly are consolidating most of their wellness staff and efforts into new “wellness centers” with the

goal of streamlining communication and easing access for students. At Gunn, the center will be temporarily located where the attendance office has been located (and attendance is moving to the main office). A new two-story building with a wellness center permanently on the second floor is planned.

Gunn’s temporary space will house Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), the school’s mental health coordinator (hired last year to help coordinate and oversee direct services) and a new wellness outreach worker, hired this summer. The same position has been created and filled at Paly. The school is converting its health office into a wellness center, where the school’s mental health coordinator, new wellness outreach worker and other staff will triage students who come in for any need — social-emotional, academic, physical or otherwise, Principal Kim Diorio said in an interview. The school’s ACS

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Gunn’s 5-year-old freshman transition program, Titan 101, has a new name and purpose this year: the Titan Connect Initiative. Instead of participating in an orientation program started to help ninth-graders adjust to high school life, incoming freshmen will be part of a pilot, redesigned program that strives to keep all students connected and supported throughout high school.

Gunn staff have been working this summer on the new program, which will start this fall with just the freshman class and expand in subsequent years to include sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Small cohorts of students will meet with a specific teacher, or Titan Connect “coach,” as well as with two upperclassmen-mentors, or Titan Connect “ambassadors.”

Students will stay in their cohorts throughout all four years.

Titan 101 focused on ice-breaking activities and familiarizing students with campus resources, but Titan Connect will tackle topics like grit (an educational buzzword that signifies resolve and perseverance), gratitude and resiliency, said Courtney Carlomagno, a Gunn Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) focused on wellness. Teacher-coaches will be encouraged to meet with their cohorts not only during designated times during the school

day but also in less formal ways, like attending a football game as a group.

“It’s going to be fun, and it’s going to be another home for (students),” she said.

Titan Connect will capitalize on “what we’re learning about student wellness and what students need to really build their resiliency and the important role that the adult mentors will play,” echoed Principal Denise Herrmann.

Gunn will spend the 2016-17 school year working with students and staff, as well as representatives from the Institute of Design at Stanford University, to further develop Titan Connect over the next few years, Herrmann said.

The new program will align Gunn’s counseling model more closely with Palo Alto High School’s longtime teacher-advisory program, which augments the school’s regular counseling staff with a group of teacher-advisors.

Paly students meet regularly with their teacher-advisors for academic planning and anything else with which they might need support. Freshmen meet more frequently with their advisors than students in other grades — weekly rather than monthly.

Similarly, 24 Titan Connect coaches will support Gunn students along with eight traditional guidance counselors and one college-and-career counselor. The school also will add a new “outreach” counselor this fall, who in addition to students’ regular counselors, will specifically help support at-risk and struggling students.

Expanding Titan 101 was recommended three years ago by the school’s Guidance Advisory Committee. The committee suggested that groups of students be assigned to one staff member,

counselors have also moved from the library into the same building, but on the second floor.

Diorio described the new wellness outreach workers as a friendly “first point of contact” for students in the wellness centers.

Herrmann said that Gunn’s wellness outreach worker, Myrna Zendejas, who worked at Gunn last year as a social-work intern, will be the school’s new wellness outreach worker. Her responsibilities will be to triage students who come in for any kind of services or support, work with student leadership on wellness initiatives, oversee parent education and outreach, and find creative ways to support student wellness, such as bringing in a nutrition counselor for a workshop, Herrmann said.

She can provide direct services to students but only on a short-term basis, staff said.

During last school year, staff and students from both high (continued on page 26)

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Class size (continued from page 24)

they are all at either 32 -or 33; and at Terman, 30 or 31. Yet at Jordan, there is even a math class with as few as eight students.

All subject areas at the middle schools, save math at Jordan, have averages above the stated 24-to-1 ratio, according to the district data.

Terman has the lowest averages, but is so short on physical classroom space that hiring additional teachers won’t help bring the average down significantly, McGee has said. Still, the school is looking into adding a second teacher into large classes to team teach and lower the ratio, according to McGee. At Gunn and Palo Alto high schools, English classes fall within their stated averages, but there are several at or above 30 students. Average science class size at Gunn hovers between 27.9 and 30 students, but one class (Biology Honors) had as many as 31 and another (Biology A) as few as 23. At Paly, AP Calculus AB had a high of 34 students this past school year, while a pre-calculus class had a low of 14 students.

At the June 7 board meeting, McGee said that the district would “really like to” have middle and high school classes at 30 or fewer. Core classes like math, English and science classes should be “a lot closer to 28 and 30 than 34, 35,” he said.

‘We want what is best for students, and we know smaller classes and therefore more individual attention, is what is better for students.’

—Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo Alto Educators Association The district’s priority, he said, should be at the middle schools.

The district “ran into some problems this year” related to class size, he said, particularly at Jordan, where some large seventh-grade classes (30 and more students) were being taught by first- and second-year teachers, McGee said.

Since the issue was raised this spring, the district has intermittently discussed how to best measure class size and did allocate funding to hire more middle- and high-school teachers, though some board and community members continue to express concern that more needs to be done given expected enrollment growth, particularly at the high schools.

And while some community

members have wondered if it’s time for the board to consider updating its policy on class sizes to align it with reality, McGee told the board at the retreat that it is staff work to make sure the district is meeting its own size limits. The board’s job, he said, is to monitor that work.

He committed to publicly releasing highest and lowest class sizes, averages, by class and by subject “and to keeping them, at least with the funds we have available, within our contractual” ratios.

Board Vice President Terry Godfrey said at the June retreat that the issue could potentially return as a policy question if the board decides that the district’s historical metric — measuring by average, grade level and certain subject areas — is no longer right for the district.

For Herrmann and other principals, the class-size debate has lacked a full understanding of the many moving parts that impact a school’s master schedule, some of which are within the school’s control and others, aren’t: the number of students that request a particular class, the number of sections the school can accommodate based on space and staffing, students moving in or out of a school, projected enrollment and different funding sources.

“That’s the best way to describe making a master schedule: It’s about managing competing demands,” said Sharon Ofek, former

principal of JLS Middle School.

“I think that if parents want to see data, and the board wants to see data represented a certain way, then that needs to be made clear and then they need to ask us professionals to provide it that way,” Herrmann said. “What is the information and the data that’s needed for the public to trust and for the board to make informed decisions?”

To Kolar, until the class-size debate is couched in specific problems and outcomes, it will con-

tinue to frustrate both the district and community members.

“I always like to step back and ask, what is the problem that we’re trying to solve? A lot of different people may identify the problem in a different way. As a result, working on a solution to one problem doesn’t look like you’re working on the solution to somebody else’s important problem.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Mental health

fall through the cracks. Every guidance counselor will be connected with three particular Titan Connect coaches, and every assistant principal will be connected with two guidance counselors. A wellness team already meets on a weekly basis to collaborate and confer about students, but this new structure will, ideally, create a stronger support team for students and families at every level, Herrmann said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

(continued from page 25)

schools visited Bay Area school districts with wellness centers and outreach workers and spoke highly at school board meetings of their apparent impact on student wellness and school culture.

Guidance counselors and wellness staff at both Paly and Gunn also will start a new daily logging system this fall to track and monitor what students come in for, what services they receive and the outcome (did they get referred to an external mental-health provider, for example), Diorio said.

It will help the schools quantify anecdotal data, something that’s “lacking” right now, she said.

Gunn also has put in place a new staff structure to help ensure struggling students don’t

About the cover: Teacher-coaches from Gunn High School’s new student mentoring program, Titan Connect Initiative, form a circle and summarize what their key role as a coach should be, during a two-day training workshop at the campus on Aug. 9. Photo by Veronica Weber

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Weeding out the bad Pros and gardeners give tips on getting rid of the plants you don’t want

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by Elizabeth Lorenz | photos by Veronica Weber

ike decluttering the inside of your home, weeding your yard is the same sort of chore if you let the weeds creep up and up like the piles on your countertops.

What is the best way to get rid of weeds without getting rid of plants you want? How do you get motivated to get out and do this unpleasant chore?

Garden Coach Jack McKinnon, who writes columns for this newspaper, gives the following advice.

First of all, he calls the task “the Art of weeding,” capitals his. He says it’s important to be in a proper state of mind for weeding. In other words, like decluttering, you have to be in the right mood. If you are easily discouraged, you should probably do something else.

McKinnon says it’s good to know a weed when you see one. The University of California Cooperative Extension has a great online weed identifier, noting that there are basically only three types of weeds: broadleaves, grasses and sedges.

From there, “good sharp tools and and ergonomic discipline” are the best tools for weeding, McKinnon said. “I like a big sharp hoe with a long handle,” he said. “A lot of pros just sharpen a good round-nosed shovel, he said.

“I’ve seen crews of machetewielding men clear whole hillsides of ivy in a day, (with one guy just sharpening all day).

And I’ve seen beautiful gardens, cared for by silver haired grandmothers that did 10 minutes of weed pulling every day,” he said.

Like McKinnon, Palo Alto Master Gardener Candace Simpson has her

favorite weeding tools. Her champion is something called a hori hori knife, a Japanese tool with a sharp stainless steel blade (about six inches long) that is useful to cut weeds, roots and vegetables. Some call this the “Swiss Army Knife” of gardening.

Simpson also likes hoes, including one called a scuffle hoe, which she said is useful for scraping annual weeds coming up in patches. She also uses a small, triangular hand hoe to get weeds tucked in between desirable plants.

“I think the hardest thing about weeding is getting yourself to do it when the plants are small,” she said. “It is both easier and more effective to do it as soon as they start sprouting.”

Knowing which weeds are annuals is important, because all you have to do is prevent them from flowering or producing seed, she said. The Cooperative Extension and master gardener websites have photographic weed identifiers.

Pulling weeds out by the roots isn’t necessary, Simpson said. At the same time, cutting or breaking a perennial weed off at soil level is not going to help for long either, she warned.

If you aren’t that interested in getting too physical with weeds, Palo Alto resident Janet Penick said she found a tip on the Internet advising to use newspapers.

“I cover the weeds or plain dirt or grass with 6 to 8 sheets of newspaper overlapping liberally (6-8”).

I cover the newspaper with wood chips or compost to keep it in place.

Do not try this on a windy or even breezy day,” she said. “I used this

Broadleaf weeds like this take advantage of every nook and cranny in a garden and are easier to remove when they first sprout. method to “borrow” about a fourfoot strip from the width of the back lawn in order to create a planting strip. I used this method to plant some tomato plants this year. After I put the tomato plants in, I covered weeds and all as close to the stems as possible.

If you want to plant seedlings after you’ve put down the newspaper, just peel the newspaper back, dig a hole, plant and cover with the paper or additional paper as close as possible to the stem of the seedling. Water goes through the paper, which will eventually decompose.

Julie Harris of Menlo Park says that she often has a lot of weeds to get rid of by spring. She usually pulls them up when the ground is

wet, but some come back.

“I was visiting my daughter and we were doing some weeding and I noticed that when she pulled a weed she put the trowel along side of the weed and essentially dug the root out at the same time she pulled the top part. I have been trying this method and I think perhaps that by just pulling the weed that I might not have been getting the whole root system out.”Q Useful Weed identifiers ipm.ucanr.edu/TOOLS/TURF/ PESTS and click on Weed Gallery This site also has a handy video on removing dandelions: ipm. ucanr.edu/QT/weedcontrolcard mastergardeners.org/scc

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Palo Alto homes staying on market longer

by Xin Jiang

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here have been two noticeable trends in the Palo Alto property market this year so far.

First, properties have stayed on the market longer.

Second, price reductions have been more common, especially at the very high end.

Inventory is up. There have been 344 new listings in the first half of 2016, up by 19 percent, compared to the same period last year. The median price of sold homes is $2.4 million so far this year, a marginal two percent decline from $2.45 million for the same period last year. However, it is the first decline in price since the recovery of the last financial crisis in 2009.

Average days on market in the first half of 2016 has been 21.6, a whole week longer than 14.7 days in the first half of 2015, and even slightly longer than 19.2 days back in 2012. Average days on market for active or unsold listings at the end of June was 43.5 days. After getting used to homes sold within a week in the past few years, the new reality of no solid offers after the first weekend of open houses did bring uneasiness to both sellers and listing agents. After 2-4 weeks, some chose to withdraw from the market, and some reduced price aggressively.

Excluding those homes later relisted at a lower price, there have been 58 new listings in the first half of 2016 later with reduced prices, more than double the 25 for the same period last year. Price reductions happened at all price ranges.

Among the 58, there were 12 with initial listing prices above $5 million, 24 with initial listing prices above $3 million, and the last 24 below $3 million. Many of these properties are still not sold.

Listing prices are normally set based on discussions between the listing agent

BUILDING PERMITS

This listing is drawn from the City of Palo Alto online database of recent permits that have been issued.

2559 Park Blvd., remove and replace existing kitchen (100 sf), add under-cabinet lighting, upgrade recessed lighting to LEDs, new cabinets, counters, tile, appliances and tile floor, $12,128.

420 Fernando St., demolish single-family residence, 864 sf.

Detached garage burned down completely.

4225 Ynigo Way, remodel existing master bathroom. Scope of work includes removal or an interior wall (71 sf). Replace subpanel in the garage, $15,000.

2370 Watson Court, Suite #110, convert an existing open office area into an unoccupied area, $7,500.

and the seller. While a good listing agent should know the target market very well, in reality it’s not always the case, especially with the subtle changes in the Palo Alto property market. This year so far, cities on the Midpeninsula have shown different trends ñ while Palo Alto has started to decline, North Los Altos and good neighborhoods in the South Bay have remained the subject of buyers’ bidding wars.

When the market changes, sellers tend to sense it later than buyers, because most sellers get to only sell once, while buyers go through multiple attempts. In other words, lower market participation for sellers leads to less insight about the market. In this case, even if a listing agent provides accurate and updated market information, with sellers having different and higher expectations, initial listing prices still might get set higher than the current pricing curve.

When the market is declining like today, correct pricing becomes even more critical to sellers’ interests. If a property is priced too high, the selling side not only eliminates a large pool of potential buyers at the beginning but also takes the risks of having to lower the price.

On the other hand, if listed too low, the seller may get trapped within a price range that is much lower than what’s acceptable, as writing huge premiums over listing prices is no longer the norm.

For the rest of summer, when many locals headed out for summer vacations, international buyers, especially those from China, with their kids in the local summer camps, come to shop for homes for either investment or future relocation. It’s worth watching how much inventory, especially those at the high end, that international demands can help us digest. For the rest of the year, while there are still mixed signs that could lead us to different projections, the probability of an instant rebound, however, seems very low. Q Xin Jiang is a Realtor with Alain Pinel Realtors in Palo Alto. She can be reached at xjiang@apr.com.

1310 Bryant St., tent permit to erect and remove two 40-by-90foot tents, $5,000.

626 Loma Verde Ave., service upgrade to 200 amps in the same location.

3309 Kenneth Drive, revision to move air-conditioning location to north side of the building to allow 6-foot setback from the property line. Revision marked on the approved plans.

261 Hamilton Ave., use and occupancy and office tenant improvement for Palantir, suites 200, 300 and 400, for total of 15,000 sf., $450,000.

3888 Grove Ave., partial copper repipe.

311 Everett Ave., unit F, residential multifamily 200 sf kitchen and bath remodel. Replace receptacles throughout and replace subpanel in apartment, $24,000.

104 Melville Ave., install property line clean out.

260 Sheridan Ave., Verizon

Wireless cell site modification.

Replace eight existing panel antennas, replace four remote radio units, addition of new equipment, remote radio units, relocation of three remote radio units from the equipment room to the existing tower structure and the installation of two new surge protectors, $30,000.

783 Garland Drive, bathroom remodel: change the tub for stand-up shower and add fan, 60 sf, $6,000.

299 California Ave., re-roof, install fluid-applied cool roof over existing single-layer buildup roof, class A, $30,000.

1496 Dana Ave., demolish detached garage, 400 sf.

4124 Wilkie Way, replace water heater.

2412 South Court, install new air-conditioning unit in side yard.

2015 Edgewood Drive, residential roof-mounted photovoltaic system, 10.26kw .

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1421 Marigold Court, Mountain View Offered at $2,850,000 Elegant, Well-Designed Residence Tucked within sought-after Satake Estates by SummerHill Homes, this gracious 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom residence of 2,298 sq. ft. (per county) offers flexible spaces, high-quality workmanship, and luxurious finishes on a cul-de-sac property of 6,254 sq. ft. (per county). The residence was built in 2010 and includes travertine and oak floors, high ceilings, and a sun-lit interior flowing out to a columned rear porch, perfect for outdoor living. Stroll to fine parks, quickly drive to downtown Mountain View, and bike to ®

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1102 Covington Road, Los Altos Offered at $1,988,000 Suburban Setting, Urban Amenities Nestled within a desirable neighborhood, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,880 sq. ft. (per county) offers a property of approx. 0.26 acres (per county) with fine proximity to urban amenities. Graceful redwoods surround the well-maintained residence, which includes hardwood floors, two fireplaces, and an attached two-car garage.

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Stanford grad Kerri Walsh Jennings is seeking her fourth Olympic medal, this time with April Ross, a 2012 silver medalist.

Beach party continues for Walsh Jennings April Ross may be a new partner but the results remain the same

by Rick Eymer tanford grad and Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings had to find a teammate who could help maintain her hopes to repeat as champion at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Misty May Treanor retired four years ago after pairing with Walsh to win three gold gold medals and form the greatest team in beach volleyball history.

Enter April Ross, an Olympic medalist in her own right. She knows what it takes to reach the gold medal match. She was on the opposite side of the net when Walsh Jennings and May Treanor won at the 2012 London Olympics.

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Ross made the transition seem flawless as they built their partnership and worked through health issues.

The American duo, not quite the odds-on favorites, finished 3-0 in pool play and will keep their third seed entering the 16-team elimination bracket that will start Friday and conclude on Saturday.

Walsh Jennings and Ross secured the Pool C title by defeating Isabelle Forrer and Anouk VergeDepre of Switzerland, 21-13, 2224, 15-12, on Wednesday night before 8,577 fans.

The win, which took 65 minutes, was the Americans fourth international victory over For-

rer and Verge-Depre in as many matches.

“It was a hard-fought match, so we deserved a victory lap,” WalshJennings said. “Those girls are so good and at this competition for a reason. We expect to dominate them but are prepared to battle and today we battled.”

Ross and Walsh Jennings controlled the first set throughout by jumping out to 4-0 and 8-1 leads.

The second set featured 13 ties and three lead changes with two hitting errors by the Americans on the final two serves by the Swiss giving Forrer and VergeDepre the match tie.

“Our goal is to win seven

matches in a row in Rio,” WalshJennings said. “If we have to go to three to do that I don’t care, I just want to win.”

The third and deciding set had eight more ties and five lead changes with a medical time out for Forrer with the Americans leading 10-9. After the break, the Swiss tied the set at 10-10 and Ross then scored two-straight points on an attack and service winner to give the Americans the lead for good at 12-10. The Swiss trailed 13-12 when Ross had another successful attack and the Americans won the match on a (continued on next page)

SWIMMING

Plenty of Olympic medals to go around Four Stanford swimmers have earned nine total medals

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atie Ledecky has four medals, three of them gold, thus far in the Rio Olympics. Maya DiRado has three medals, one of each, and Simone Manuel and Lia Neal each own a silver medal as Stanford swimmers, and the United States men’s and women’s swimming teams continue to enjoy a fruitful 2016 Rio Olympics.

DiRado is the only one not returning to campus in the fall.

She’ll be enjoying the rest of her life, with her husband. The couple is moving to Atlanta.

Stanford women’s swimming coach Greg Meehan, also an assistant for the Olympic team, will have three Olympic medalists on hand when the Cardinal open their season.

Ledecky is a world record holder, while DiRado and Ledecky share an American record in the relay.

Ledecky set an Olympic record in the preliminaries of the 800 free on Thursday with an 8:12.86. She’ll need to shave a few more seconds off to lower her (continued on next page)

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UPWARD MOBILITY . . . After national championships in each of his two years as head of the Stanford lightweight rowing program, Derek Byrnes was named Stanford’s head women’s rowing coach. A two-time Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) National Coach of the Year and two-time Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Women’s Lightweight Coach of the Year, Byrnes came to Stanford in the fall of 2014, following an equally impressive tenure as the Director of Competitive Rowing and head coach of the women’s varsity crew for the Oakland Strokes. Over the course of his coaching career, he led his teams to 12 USRowing Youth National Championships.

Byrnes guided the varsity eight to a top-two finish seven times and the lightweight eight to a toptwo finish 11 times at the Youth National Championships. Byrnes is one of only three coaches to coach his boats to a Youth National Championship in both varsity eight events in the same season, achieving the feat on three separate occasions . . . Stanford senior Maverick McNealy is one of three Cardinal golfers who will participate in the U.S. Amateur, which opens Monday at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield, Mich. Juniors Bradley Knox and Franklin Huyang are also entered . . . Former Palo Alto High standout EJ Floreal announced he will join the University of Kentucky track and field team. Floreal was the big reason the Vikings won the first Central Coast Section boys track and field championship in school history as a junior in 2012 when he won the 100 and 200 and anchored the 4x100 relay team to victory at the CCS finals.

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Kerri Walsh Jennings celebrates winning a point during a three-set victory over Switzerland on the final day of pool play.

Olympic Games end with a 19thplace finish. The winner will finish in third place in the pool and, depending on the tie-breaker, will either advance to the elimination stage or play in a “lucky loser” match to advance. Q

Walsh-Jennings said. “It is under the lights at Copa and it is a great atmosphere.”

They beat Chinaís Fan Wang and Yuan Yue, 21-16, 21-9, in the second match of pool play, also a midnight match.

Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat of the United States will battle Russia’s Ekaterina Birlova and Evgeniya Ukolova in pool A on day six with both teams looking for their first win.

The losing team will have their

on Sunday.

She will try to become just the second female in Olympic history to win the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle in the same Games (Debbie Meyer, 1968).

“The fact that Ledecky can swim a 200 (and a 100) and an 800 free in such commanding fashion is incredible,” Olympic commentator Ariana Kukors said.

“They are so different and she handles each one as they come. I am continually impressed in the races that she puts together. You just never know what she’s going to do next.”

Ledecky is only the third woman, and sixth swimmer, to win gold in both the 200 and 400 freestyle at the same Olympic Games.

DiRado, who took home the silver in the 400-meter individual medley on Saturday, was third to touch the wall in the 200 individual medley at 2:08.79.

She is just the second Cardinal to medal in the event, joining Summer Sanders’ silver-medal performance in Barcelona in 1992.

It’s also the third consecutive bronze medal for the United States in this event, preceded by Caitlin Leverenz in 2012 and Natalie Coughlin in 2008.

Michael Phelps still owns the 200 fly, even if it was by the closest margin in the event in an Olympics.

He became the oldest swimmer to win gold in an individual event, recording a time of 1:53.36.

Phelps also helped the 800 free relay earn gold, giving him

Katie Ledecky has set an Olympic record, American record and world record in the first few days of swimming.

Michelle Bishop

400 meter free titles, and the silver medal in the 4x100m free re(continued from previous page) lay. Ledecky is also favored in the 800 meter free.

For DiRado, who has already own world record (8:06.68) in the announced this is her final meet, finals.

DiRado also qualified for the earning her first gold medal in semifinals of the 200 back with a team event had to feel special. the third best time (2:08.60) of the She also has a silver medal and a bronze medal. prelims.

Ledecky joined four other StanIf the United States was looking to share the wealth, they need ford affiliates who have won at least four medals in look no further than a single Olympics: the women’s 4x200 Jenny Thompson free relay team, (2000), Summer which did exactly Sanders (1992), Shathat on Wednesday ron Stouder Clark night in winning the (1964) and Chris gold medal at the von Saltza Olmstead Olympic Aquatics (1960).

Stadium in Rio. Manuel qualified Allison Schmitt for the finals of the was the lone Ameri100 meter free, fincan to participate ishing second overin the morning reall in the prelims lay and in the final, with a time of 53.32. meaning that six She was first in the women will receive Simone Manuel semifinals at 53.11. a gold medal. It was Cardinal grad Andi Murez, a nice touch to include veteran Missy Franklin, Cierra Runge and competing for Israel, placed 30th Melanie Margalis as part of the overall in the prelims of the 100 free. qualifying race.

Stanford grad Geoffrey Cheah, Leah Smith, DiRado and Ledecky joined Schmitt for the swimming for Hong Kong, placed 32nd in the prelims in the men’s finals. ìI am grateful for where I am 50 free with a 22.46.

Ledecky earned a gold medal in right now,” Schmitt said. ìMy emotions are so high. We had a the 200-meter freestyle, and Digreat group of girls in this relay.” Rado captured the bronze in the Ledecky overcame a small 200-meter individual medley.

Ledecky’s time of 1:53.73 bestdeficit on the anchor leg to help the U.S. win in 7:43.03. She went ed Swedish rival Sarah Sjostrom 1:53.74 over the final 200 meters. (1:54.08). It marked her second It was the fourth medal for gold medal of the Rio Games as Ledecky, after the 200 meter and she won the 400-meter freestyle

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fault by Verge-Depre.

“Tonight, the crowd was awesome,” Walsh Jennings said. “I kinda tune them out, but you feel the energy. When the momentum kept shifting, I heard those ‘USA’ chants. I also heard my dad say ‘Be aggressive!’”

Forrer hit her head toward the end of the third set with the U.S. hanging onto a 10-9 advantage.

The Swiss took a medical timeout and then returned to finish the match. She was clearly hurting, and in tears, when she walked off the court.

“You don’t want to see anyone hurt,” Walsh-Jennings said. “But I had no doubt she would come back out. It is a hazard of the job and we both feel for her.”

Forrer apparently struck the sand hard trying to dig a shot.

“She fell down to take a line shot and I think she felt a little dizzy and saw some stars,” VergeDepre said. “She went to see the medical staff and I hope she gets well soon.”

Earlier Wednesday, the teams of Spain’s Elsa Baquerizo and Liliana Fernandez and Australia’s Louise Bawden and Taliqua

Clancy of Australia defeated the top-ranked pairs in the groups from Brazil and The Netherlands, respectively, to replace their defeated rivals in the seeding order.

Ross and Walsh-Jennings opened the first day of competition with the first-ever ‘midnight match,’ beating Australia’s Mariafe Artacho and Nicole Laird, 2114, 21-13, in 35 minutes.

It was the second international meeting between the two teams as Ross and Walsh Jennings eked out a three-set win over the Australians in pool play last June at the FIVB World Championships in The Netherlands.

While the American earned a spot in Rio by being the thirdranked team on the FIVB World Tour qualifying list for the Olympics, Artacho and Laird secured their Copacabana berth by winning the Asian confederation Continental Cup competition.

Ross and Walsh Jennings, who return to Rio after winning a FIVB Grand Slam on Copacabana this past March, only trailed twice in the match with the Australians, at 0-1 and 1-2 in the first set.

“We knew it was going to be really electric out there and was going to be a really long day,”

21 Olympic gold medals, and 25 overall.

Ledecky, a teenage sensation since bursting onto the scene four years ago in London, set a world record in winning the 400 free Sunday.

She set an Olympic record in setting the pace during the morning’s preliminaries and knew right where she might have gone wrong in coming close to the world mark then.

“I got lackadaisical with my last stroke,” she said. “I’ll be fine.”

And she was, giving the U.S. it’s first swimming gold and its second overall.

Ledecky, the only woman to ever break the 3:59 barrier in the event, went 3:56:46, about five sec-

onds quicker than second place.

“It feels really good. I’m pumped. I was so close to breaking it (this morning),” Ledecky said. “The swim was almost identical to this morning, but with a bit more pop on the last lap.”

She’s become nearly predicable in stepping it up on the big stage, though she set a world record in the 800 free at an invitational in Woodlands, Texas last summer.

The crowd at the Aquatic Center knew they were watching something special and cheered the 19-year-old on with each passing millisecond.

Great Britain’s Jazz Carlin earned the silver in a time of 4:01:23. American Leah Smith won the bronze at 4:01:92. Q

Sports

Rio Olympics VOLLEYBALL

Akinradewo comfortable even under pressure Stanford grad leads Team USA to 3-0 mark in pool play

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opponent errors and a ace by Adams. The set concluded by a sixpoint difference.

“I would say yes, this is the best we’ve played in the tournament,” U.S. coach Karch Kiraly said.

“Probably every team in our pool has some things in what they need to get better. The victory over Serbia and the move to the quarterfinals give us more confidence, but as I have said before this is strong group and I think no team will go undefeated. Players are enjoying the moment and now we have to think about Italy. In this tournament, we face a strong team every two days.”

The U.S. defeated Puerto Rico, 25-17, 25-22, 25-17, on day one of the women’s volleyball tournament of Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday.

Kelly Murphy and Hill scored 13 and 12 points as the leading scorers for the Americans, while Akinradewo contributed nine points.

“We always try to learn from every match and to work on improving our game,” American captain Christa Harmotto-Dietzen said. “Now we have to prepare for our next match.

Against the Dutch, Murphy led the way with 18 points. Akinradewo and Larson each ended with 15 points, while Hill contributed 14.

Dutch Lonneke Sloetjes had a match-high 21 points, 20 in attacks, while Robin DeKruijf had 15, including five blocks, and Anne Buijs and Yvon Belien finished with 11 and 10, respectively.

The Dutch team played fundamental volleyball in the first set with terrific net defense and Sloetjes and Buijs leading the attack with 6 points apiece for the 25-18 result.

The European side jumped to a 6-3 lead in the second set, but USA climbed back to tie at 12-all with Larson’s spike and continued on the same path taking the set 25-18.

In the third set the Netherlands led by as many as 6 points at 2115 with overall good defense and effective attack. De Kruijf closed the actions with spike against Larson.

In the fourth, Murphy broke the tie at 18-18 with a big spike and USA team took the driver seat winning seven of the last nine points.

USA outblocked the Netherlands in the fifth and closed it 15-8 with a spike by Murphy.

“I think the key in this pool will be how to manage adversity,” Kirasly said. “We were tested.”

Foluke Akinradewo walks off the court smiling following Team USA’s four-set victory over Serbia.

Men’s volleyball Italy outdueled USA in a well fought match, 28-26, 20-25, 2523, 25-23, in Pool A of the men’s volleyball tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on Tuesday.

It was the second victory for Italy in as many outings while USA was pushed against the ropes in the difficult group with their second defeat.

USA’s Aaron Russell had a match-high 22 points to lead four American players in double figures. Matt Anderson scored 14, while Taylor Sander and Maxwell Holt had 12 each in the loss.

Canada provided the first upset of the men’s volleyball tournament at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games when they stunned USA in straight sets as the competition kicked off on Sunday. Q

Foluke Akinradewo delivered key points in the five-set win over the Netherlands.

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by FIVB oluke Akinradewo is no stranger to high-pressure, stressful situations. When the Stanford grad found herself in a similar situation against the Netherlands earlier in the week, she responded in her usual manner. She rose to the occasion.

The United States became the first team to seal a spot in the quarterfinals of the women’s volleyball tournament at Rio 2016 Olympic Games by defeating Serbia, 25-17, 21-25, 25-18, 25-19, in a match between the only undefeated sides in Pool B on Wednesday.

The Americans overcame a resilient Netherlands squad to claim their second victory in Pool A with a five-set, 18-25, 25-18, 21-25, 25-20, 15-8, decision on Monday.

Akinradewo scored three points in the tie-breaker, one spike, one block and one ace, to lead the charge at the most crucial moment of the match.

“The way we played in the fifth set give us some kind of relief,” Akinradewo said. “Our pool is so strong. We really gave a great effort in defense in the tiebreaker and I feel proud of my teammates.”

USA improved to a 3-0 winloss mark with two other teams in the same pool, Italy and Puerto Rico, already with 0-3 marks.

The Americans meet Italy on Friday.

Against Serbia, Rachael Adams had 18 points, including four aces, as the best offensive American player, followed by Akinradewo, who scored four blocks among her 16 points. Kimberly Hill and Jordan Larson contributed 12 and 11 points in the victory.

“I am really proud of my team,” Akinradeo said. “We played with better rhythm than in the other two matches. We are the first team to qualify to the next round and that is good for our confidence but now we have to focus on Italy, our next opponent.”

Akinradewo scored with three spikes and three blocks to lead the United States to claim first set 25-17.

Serbia recovered to win the second set with the good defense at the net led by Boskovic and Mihajlovic carrying the load of the attack.

Hill broke a tie at 8-8 with a spike and United States took a lead they did not relinquish. Akinradewo finished on fire scoring four of the last five points for the 25-18 score in the third set.

In the fourth USA opened a four-point gap for 16-10 with two

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Rio Olympics OLYMPICS

Zhang feels good about experience Palo Alto grad reached the third round of table tennis

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alo Alto grad Lily Zhang went 33 grueling minutes with Korea’s Hyoowon Suh, in her third match of table tennis competition at the Olympics, before ending the journey of her second Olympic experience.

Zhang, who entered the game ranked No. 101 in the world, proved competitive at the highest level, showing herself worthy by rallying from a large deficit in the first game and taking the third game.

In the end, the eighth-seeded and 18th-ranked Suh moves onto the Round of 16 with her 11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6 victory over Zhang.

After losing in the first round in London four years ago, she returned ready to reach for the stars.

“I feel alright,” Zhang told USA Table Tennis. “I’m obviously disappointed in the results but I’m happy that I gave it my all and left everything out there. I tried my best.”

Suh opened the match winning eight of the first 10 points, though Zhang rallied with five unanswered points and cut the deficit to 9-10, before Suh finished it.

Neither player was able to sustain a rally, though Zhang never took the lead.

Zhang controlled play in the third game, opening a 10-6 advantage before putting the finishing touches on an 11-7 win.

Next for Team USA are the men and women team events. The team tournament begins on Friday.

Women’s water polo Stanford senior Maggie Steffens scored four times and incoming Cardinal freshman Mackenzie Fischer added a goal and the U.S. Olympic team downed China, 124, Thursday to improve to 2-0 in pool play.

Stanford senior Maggie Steffens and Cardinal Kiley Neushul each scored twice and Menlo Park resident KK Clark added a goal as the U.S. Olympic women’s water polo team downed Spain, 11-4, in its Rio opener Tuesday.

Men’s water polo The U.S. Olympic team turned to its defense to earn its first win at the 2016 Olympic Games, beating France, 6-3, on Wednesday.

Josh Samuels scored three goals

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Palo Alto’s Lily Zhang reached the third round of the Olympic table tennis women’s singles competition, an improvement over a firstround loss at the 2012 London Olympics. to lead the offense but it was the defense, anchored by McQuin Baron’s 11 saves that set the tone.

Team USA held France scoreless for the entire second and third quarter on the way to the win.

The United States returns to play on Friday when they meet Montenegro in the second to last group play match.

Women’s soccer Hope Solo let a free kick get through her legs early and then gave up a goal in the 90th minute, allowing Colombia to tie Team USA, 2-2, Tuesday in Olympic action.

The draw was enough for the Americans (1-0-1, 16-0-2) to win their group and advance into the next round.

Mallory Pugh and Crystal Dunn scored for Team USA. Carli Lloyd had an assist on Dunn’s goal.

Stanford grads Christen Press and Kelley O’Hara each played the full 90 minutes. Press had four shots, one on goal.

In another game, New Zealand, which features Cardinal grad Ali Riley, dropped a 3-0 decision to France.

Women’s rugby Team USA ended its run with a 19-5 victory over France to finish fifth as rugby competition made its first Olympic appearance in 92 years.

Stanford grad Victoria Folayan contributed her usual stellar defense to the cause in the first half and was replaced by Jessica Javelet, who scored five points for the Americans.

France held a 5-0 lead at the half. Alev Kelter gave the U.S. a 7-5 edge with a try and conversation 20 seconds into the second half.

Rowing Stanford grad Chierika Ukogo ended her Olympic medal run in the quarterfinals of the single sculls on Tuesday at Lagoa Stadium.

Ukogu, who became the first rower to represent Nigeria in the

Olympics, finished 18th overall at 7:54.44.

Felice Mueller and Stanford grad Grace Luczak helped set the tone for the U.S. rowers on Monday, as the duo won their heat of the women’s pair Monday at the Olympic Rowing Course on Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro.

The women’s eight, featuring Luczak’s former Stanford teammate Eleanor Logan, advanced directly to the final.

The U.S. eight is the two-time defending Olympic champion and comes into competition with 10 consecutive Olympic and world titles, a streak that started in 2006.

The men’s pair, with MenloAtherton grad Seth Weil, qualified for the semifinal round.

The men’s eight, with Cardinal grad Austin Hack, raced in the repechage on Tuesday.

Men’s rugby East Alto Palo resident Folau Niua and the U.S. Olympic team split a pair of games Wednesday, losing to Fiji, 24-19, and coming back to beat Brazil, 24-12.

The Americans played for ninth place on Thursday.

Men’s gymnastics Incoming Stanford freshman David Jessen, competing for Czech Republic, placed 47th in the individual all-around category with a score of 79.681.

Jessen’s best finish was 35th with a 14.316 on the horizontal bars.

Women’s fencing Palo Alto’s Eileen Grench, competing for Panama, won her opening round bout, 15-5, over Japan’s Chika Aoki before losing to American Mariel Zagunis, 15-4.

Sailing Castilleja and Stanford grad Marion Lepert finished 13th in the RS:X women’s race.

Lepert opened in 18th and was up to 10th after the third race.

She finished with a total time of 26:33. Q

Olympic snapshots Mackenzie and Aria Fischer (top) share a moment at the Olympics opening ceremony; Tony Azevedo finds an enlarged photo of his opening ceremony walk; Fischer sent out a picture of the Rio sky after a practice; and Kassidy Cook shares a selfie at the Olympic Village. All photos taken from social media. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 12, 2016 • Page 51

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