Palo Alto Weekly September 23, 2016

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Planning commission set for a shake-up As civic debate over growth continues, city prepares to fill seats on influential panel

by Gennady Sheyner

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hile Palo Alto prepares to elect new City Council members in November, another heated race is quietly taking place behind the scenes, where 16 residents are competing for fill three seats on the city’s influential, and at times controver-

sial, Planning and Transportation Commission.

It’s an election with no endorsements, campaign contributions or lawn signs; and one in which only nine Palo Altans — the members of the City Council — have voting rights. But if recent history is

any guide, those who fill the seats will have a chance — through votes and words — to shape the city’s deliberations over growth and housing policies.

One of the seats on the sevenmember board has been vacated

by Kate Downing, who recently wrote a public resignation letter blasting the city’s growth policies and declaring that she’s moving to Santa Cruz because she cannot afford local housing. The other two

seats belong to the commission’s longest-serving member, Greg Tanaka, who is seeking a seat on the council, and current Vice Chair Przemek Gardias, who is seeking a fresh term. The council is set to interview candidates on Sept. 27 and make its appointments on Oct. 4.

The new members will join Michael Alcheck, a real-estate attorney who has been the commission’s leading advocate for

densification along El Camino Real; Eric Rosenblum, a Palantir employee who co-founded the growth-oriented citizens group Palo Alto Forward; and Asher Waldfogel, an entrepreneur who formerly served on the city’s Utilities Advisory Commission.

Commission Chair Adrian Fine, who like Tanaka is running for council but whose term is not set (continued on page 7)

ELECTION 2016

Palo Alto school board candidates face off Two incumbents, three newcomers seek to differentiate themselves at Palo Alto Weekly forum

by Elena Kadvany

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TRANSPORTATION

Embarcadero project aims to give bicyclists a smoother ride City Council approves new bikeways on thoroughfare

by Gennady Sheyner

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or Palo Alto’s bicyclists and drivers, the bustling stretch of Embarcadero Road near El Camino Real isn’t just a shared commuter artery; it’s also a shared source of frustration.

The segment between El Camino and Emerson Street has three stop lights virtually next to each other, a setup that for years has exacerbated traffic jams. Moving east from Stanford University, the two eastbound lanes of Embarcadero merge into one as the street dips under the Caltrain overpass, forcing bicyclists to either navigate through

narrow and heavily congested lanes or to take the sidewalk.

Drivers complain about the chronically long wait times while bicyclists have been urging the city to improve conditions along the corridor, which goes past Palo Alto High School and Town & Country Village.

On Monday night, the council signaled its intent to do just that when it approved a dramatic revamp of the Embarcadero and El Camino intersection and to pursue a slew of bike-friendly improvements.

Once completed, the intersec-

tion will have protected, raised bikeways going in all four directions (what’s known as a “Dutchstyle intersection”). New bikeways along both sides of Embarcadero, between El Camino and Emerson, and separated from the driving lanes will also be constructed.

The goals of the $2.4 million project, according to Joshuah Mello, the city’s chief transportation officer, are to improve traffic and boost bicyclists’ safety and comfort.

But after debating several alterna(continued on page 10)

nrollment, the budget, mental health, innovation — the five candidates vying for three seats on the Palo Alto Board of Education discussed these and other issues for the first time as a group at a forum Tuesday night sponsored by the Palo Alto Weekly.

The two incumbents and three challengers found some common ground on many issues but were divided on others, from whether the district should open a 13th elementary school to the district’s capacity to support innovation in the schools given a multi-milliondollar budget deficit.

From start to finish, the candidates sought to distinguish themselves. Unsurprisingly, the incumbents — current board President Heidi Emberling and Trustee Melissa Baten Caswell — pointed to their years of board work and community volunteering. Social entrepreneur Jay Cabrera emphasized the benefits of being a political outsider; investment manager Todd Collins, his history of “independent thinking and constructive problem solving”; and former teacher Jennifer DiBrienza, her in-the-classroom perspective.

Innovation and enrollment The candidates started the evening by assessing how nimbly and comprehensively the district has been able to innovate — or not.

The issue surfaced last year when members of a district committee proposed exploring the launch of a third, alternative high school, which they argued would be able to innovate in ways the current system can’t.

Collins, who repeatedly returned in his answers to the longterm financial implications of the current $4.2 million budget shortfall, said there is no money in the budget for future innovations. He later called the budget a “structural deficit that will only get worse” and called for a more rapid reeling in of spending to save for potentially lean years ahead.

Collins disagreed with a comment he recalled DiBrienza made at a board meeting several months ago — that “dollars alone can’t be the reason that we don’t pursue innovation.”

DiBrienza stood by her statement Tuesday, arguing, “We can’t not continue to innovate in the name of a budget.”

“Budgets are moral documents,” she said, “and budgets show what our priorities are, so if this is something that is important to us from an educative standpoint and because us continuing to innovate will pull more students in who we aren’t currently serving well, I think it is imperative that we continue to innovate.”

DiBrienza said the board hired Superintendent Max McGee two years ago precisely for a promise of more innovation, some of which has been accomplished but some that the board has “gotten in the way” of, she said, without offering specifics.

Baten Caswell and Emberling highlighted existing innovative practices and programs that have been put into place at the district’s two high schools during their tenures on the board, from flipped classrooms (students watch lecture videos at home and teachers use (continued on page 12)

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Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash’s research has been driven by innovation and curiosity about the world rather than solving a particular problem.

He’s explored everything from how shorebirds drink and how drops of food coloring can demonstrate highly complex behavior to building an inexpensive microscope for the developing world. For his work, the Indian-born biologist has been named one of the 2016 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and will receive the foundation’s “genius grant.” “I’ve done science the way I’ve wanted to do science,” Prakash told Stanford News Service. “Sometimes it’s hard to convince others that we are taking the right approach. This award gives me the flexibility to not think about those bounds.” Prakash is being recognized for his research, which is “driven by curiosity about the diversity of life forms on our planet and how they work, empathy for problems in resource-poor settings and a deep interest in democratizing the experience and joy of science globally,” according to the MacArthur Foundation. He also builds tools that are both low cost and powerful, bringing science to parts of the world where traditional tools aren’t feasible, including the Foldscope, a microscope made out of paper with a glass bead for a lens. The inexpensive tool costs less than a dollar to make and has now been distributed by Prakash’s lab to more than 50,000 people in 135 countries who use it to explore diseases in bees, map biodiversity of microscopic organisms, detect cervical cancer and teach hygiene and sanitation, among other research and education projects, according to Stanford. Prakash was caring for his 4-month-old twins when the MacArthuer Foundation called to let him know that he won the grant, he told Stanford News Service. “I was very sleep deprived when the phone rang,” he said, adding that he almost didn’t pick up the phone. “My main reaction is that it is a very humbling experience

because there are so many people in the world doing amazing work.”

Prakash will receive $625,000 to further his research and creative vision, although he said he doesn’t know exactly what research he will pursue. “I can’t say what this will mean to my science as yet, but I know for sure we have a lot of ideas brewing.” Each year, the MacArthur Foundation recognizes individuals with “a track record of achievement and the potential for significant contributions in the future,” according to its website. Other 2016 recipients include computer scientists, a synthetic chemist, a sculptor, an art historian and curator and video artist.

FOWL PLAY IN THE BAY ... For nearly 50 years, the Lucy Evans Baylands Interpretive Center has served as Palo Alto’s premier destination for taking in the flora and fauna of the surrounding salt marsh. Now, the community gem is showing some cracks.

A recent assessment showed that the Baylands building needs repairs to its deck, floor and roof, as well as a variety of upgrades that would make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This week, the City Council swiftly approved a pair of contracts for more than $600,000 to repair and upgrade the building, which hosts about 3,000 elementary school students and 80,000 visitors annually, according to Public Works. When the project is completed, the Interpretive Center will be equipped with a new genderneutral restroom, guardrails with bird-safe panels, wall-mounted birdhouses and new deck and siding. It will also have one unusual design feature: openings in the deck that will allow swallow droppings to fall directly into the marsh, according to a Public Works report. The deck openings to the marsh, the report states, “will act as an interpretive design feature while reducing the need for ongoing cleaning and maintenance.” The Parks and Recreation Commission approved the design in June, with members embracing the new plan, including the proposed “swallow toilets.” “It’s totally consistent with them being integrated with their natural life out there,” commission Chair Ed Lauing said of the swallows. “We’re already doing a little bit of interruption, so let them do their thing. It’s great.” Q

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Council to consider two paths to $15-an-hour wage Committee rejects exemption of tipped workers

by Gennady Sheyner he goal is clear and undisputed: enacting a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Deciding on the best path to that end, however, is what Palo Alto officials will be tasked with Monday night.

One path, which is supported by the council’s Policy and Services Committee, would raise the minimum wage from the current level of $11 per hour to $12 in 2017, to $13.50 in 2018 and to $15 in 2019. The increases would be consistent with the recommendation from the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, which in June released a letter calling for a “common path” by various cities toward a higher minimum wage.

The group of mayors and council members who co-signed the letter includes Palo Alto Vice Mayor Greg Scharff, who also sits on the council’s Policy and Services Committee. Last month, Scharff and his committee colleagues voted 3-1 to adopt the schedule proposed by the Cities Association.

The second path would get Palo Alto to $15 faster. Under this pro-

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posal, which is being pursued by Mountain View and Sunnyvale, the city would go to $13 starting next year and then $15 on July 1, 2018.

Aside from the timeline issue, the Policy and Services Committee on Aug. 16 was in complete accord. All four members rejected an idea proposed by local restaurants to exclude tipped workers from the minimum-wage requirement. In making the case, several local restaurateurs told the committee that requiring businesses to pay a higher wage to their wait staff (whose actual wages, because of tips, often exceed $20 an hour), will keep them from raising compensation for cooks, dishwashers and other non-tipped workers.

Because California law prohibits employers from pooling tips, the workers in the “back of the house” would be at a disadvantage when it comes to a higher wage.

Rob Fischer, whose downtown businesses include Reposada and Gravity, told the committee that restaurateurs are not looking to avoid the $15-an-hour requirement, but merely to have the ability to pay adequate wages to

“people who work harder than anybody else in our restaurants.”

“It’s really important for us to be able to pay our people in the back of the house more money,” Fischer said. “And we want them to have as good of a life as the people in front of our restaurants do. That’s what we’re asking for and nothing more.”

But the committee, following the example of other cities that have explored this topic (including Los Angeles and Sacramento), agreed that exempting tipped workers would place the city at a risk of a lawsuit. While council members said they were sympathetic to the restaurant operators’ concerns, they argued that this is an issue of state law and it would have to be addressed by Sacramento legislators.

“I really feel that we in the city here have our hands tied on this issue,” Scharff said.

Berman agreed, saying, “We wouldn’t be doing our duty as stewards of the city and its resources if we walked ourselves into a lawsuit where the odds were heavily stacked against us.” Q

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the slow-growth policies of the “residentialist” council members.

Last month, the commission took a skeptical stance toward the council’s plan to increase impact fees charged to new developments to fund future affordable housing.

Even though the council’s own Finance Committee had already approved the changes, the proposal has stalled at the commission level in recent months, with members holding two long public hearings on the subject and ultimately deciding to form a subcommittee to further vet the proposed increase.

Commission appointments have mostly been ho-hum affairs, but they have become increasingly political in recent years. Two years ago, the council appointed Downing and Fine. Fine was selected over Arthur Keller, a two-term commissioner popular with the council’s “residentialists,” by a single vote.

Fine’s and Downing’s appointments — which came just after the November council election in which three residentialist candidates won seats — were seen by many as a parting shot by the lame-duck council serving out its final weeks.

But just as commission appointments reveal political fissures, they also create political opportunities. Fine, Keller and Tanaka are all now seeking a seat on the council. Burt and Councilwoman Karen Holman had both served on the commission before ascending to the council dais.

This year, the group of candidates is as varied as it is large and

includes engineers, architects, school volunteers, attorneys, business executives, civic newcomers and veterans of other local boards.

Fourteen people applied before the Sept. 14 deadline; two other applications, including Gardias’, were received after the advertised 5:30 p.m. deadline but before the following midnight. The council agreed Monday to interview these candidates as well, raising the number to 16.

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to expire until 2018, could end up vacating his seat if elected to the council. Thus, the commission could see four new faces by year’s end. (If Fine’s seat opens up, the city would start a fresh recruiting process to fill the vacancy.)

The pool of commission applicants is unusually deep this year.

Mayor Pat Burt, who spent several terms on the planning commission, said Monday that this is the largest group of applicants he has seen in his two decades of civic involvement. Burt, whose philosophical squabble with Downing over growth and housing became a national story earlier this year, said the city is “fortunate to have such a great pool of candidates.”

Though its purview is largely limited to making recommendations, the Planning and Transportation Commission is widely considered to be the most powerful of the city’s many citizen panels.

It reviews all major development proposals, transportation projects and land-use policy changes, and its meetings offer commissioners a platform for challenging the City Council’s policies and proposing new solutions to longfestering problems. In the past two years, the commission has at times clashed with the council: Members panned the council’s annual limit on new office development and pushed back against

Neighborhood activists Some of the candidates have been involved in the very problems they would be charged with solving, if appointed: Christian Pease, an Evergreen Park resident, has been leading the neighborhood’s effort to establish a Residential Parking Permit program, while Frank Ingle became well-versed in the city’s review processes after seeing a large twostory house go up near his Eichler home in the Faircourt subdivision.

In their applications, however, candidates focused on the big issues facing the city, rather than parochial priorities. Pease, a film producer, cited as his top concern the adoption of an updated Comprehensive Plan. That’s because “the level of consensus, with respect to its outcomes, impacts the commission, as well as council governance, not to mention public confidence in how Palo Alto addresses its problems and opportunities.”

“Zoning and effective land use

News Digest Keeble & Shuchat Photography to close Facing a changing industry and declining profits, one of the Bay Area’s last major brick-and-mortar camera stores, Palo Alto’s Keeble & Shuchat, will be closing next month, owner Terry Shuchat confirmed last week.

In its 51 years at 290 California Ave., Keeble & Shuchat has become a destination for new and used cameras, professional photography equipment, photography classes and workshops, printing services, gallery exhibitions and more. The store is a photographer’s paradise: 16,000 square feet of cameras and accessories, expert sales staff who have been in the business for decades and an owner who wants nothing more than to operate a “pure” camera shop.

Yet Shuchat said the business has struggled against the rising tide of online shopping and a changing photography industry, resulting in camera sales that have been dropping by about 10 percent each year, he said.

“The business has reached that point where small retail is just really doomed,” he told the Weekly in an interview in his second-floor office at the camera store. “People want retail but they don’t really support it — not like customers used to.”

More and more people are turning to the internet to find advice about and to buy cameras, and with so few brick-and-mortar camera stores left, many consumers think of big-box retailers like Costco and Best Buy as places to purchase cameras, Shuchat said. He offered as an example a woman who recently brought in a high-end Nikon camera that she purchased at Costco that wasn’t working properly.

“They didn’t go back and talk to Costco; they came in here to find out what was wrong with the camera, and we took care of them,” he said. “There’s just so much of that going on.”

This summer, at one of the store’s biannual sales, about 700 to 800 people came in to attend photography classes, but “very few” ended up buying anything, Shuchat said.

Another “major problem” for the business has been the state sales tax, which makes Keeble & Shuchat’s products about 9 percent more expensive than camera retailers in other states, Shuchat said.

Shuchat, who was born in Palo Alto, opened the store in 1965.

He owns the two-story building at the corner of California Avenue and Birch Street, as well as a second space across the street that he opened around 1989. The 261 California Ave. store houses Keeble & Shuchat’s rental department, which Shuchat said is the business’ most profitable department, along with used cameras. He plans to lease both of the California Avenue spaces.

There’s no official closing date yet for the store, but it will likely be toward the end of October, Shuchat said. A store-closing sale is ongoing. Q —Elena Kadvany

within the ‘rules of the game’ is paramount in our city where land is so scarce and in such high demand, while we are at the same time both blessed and challenged by unprecedented private sector economic success and expansion,” Pease wrote. “The Planning and Transportation Commission must exemplify effective city government, which furthers Palo Alto both as a good place to live as well as one of on-going commercial opportunity.”

Ingle made a case in his application for reforming the Individual Review process (the method used by city planners to review single homes that are two stories or higher) by defining the rights of the new property owner versus those of nearby residents. The existing guidelines rely too much on subjective interpretation, at the expense of clarity, he wrote.

“The decisions made by the Planning Department should become precedents which are retained in a list to guide the department in making future similar decisions,” Ingle wrote. “This list should be made available to the architectural community, so they can know what design features might be disallowed. And the

permit application should be top down, so that the difficult issues such as height and privacy can be decided before the complete design is done. This will minimize friction, cost and delay.”

City Hall veterans Improved clarity is also an important objective for Doria Summa, president of the College Terrace Resident Association, veteran land-use watchdog and member of the Citizens Advisory Committee that is now working to update the Comprehensive Plan.

In her application, Summa wrote that “clear and precise language in the Municipal Code benefits all users and leads to a more efficient and fair approval process.” Recently, she worked with planning staff on a broad and still ongoing effort to “clean up” the zoning code, an endeavor that she would likely have more influence over if appoined to the commission.

Like Summa, commission candidates Ed Lauing and Claude Ezran have plenty of City Hall experience. Lauing currently serves as chair of the Parks and Recre(continued on page 8)

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ation Commission, where he has spent seven years (including three as chair). Ezran is a former member of the Human Relations Commission, which oversees issues involving social justice and helps to manage the program that allocates grants to local nonprofits. He is also the founder of Palo Alto’s annual World Music Day event.

In their respective applications, Lauing and Ezran each pointed to the recent divisions in the community over growth. Lauing wrote that the planning commission should address concerns around land use, housing and traffic more directly by “providing fuller context to council about the pros and cons of various courses of action as well as articulating rationales behind PTC recommendations.”

The commission “should provide reasonable, balanced recommendations to council after rigorous thought and debate,” wrote Lauing, who also cited the “thousands of interactions” he’s had over the years with city staff, council members and community stakeholders.

Ezran said he would try to find a compromise between the city’s slow-growth “residentialists” and its housing advocates.

“They both have valid concerns,” Ezran wrote. “I believe that sharp divisions are not healthy especially if they continue to linger for too long because they might not lead to the best decisions and the best long term outcome for Palo Alto. I will do my best to be a peacemaker.

The attorneys Gabriek Kralik, an engineerturned-attorney, also aims to bring his professional mediation skills to

bear to local land-use debates. His law practice is affiliated with the Santa Clara County’s Office of Human Relations, where he serves as a mediator, and he was also recently nominated to join the Palo Alto’s mediator program.

In his application, Kralik wrote that he is interested in the new 60-apartment development proposed for the corner of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road “because it gives hope that the Palo Alto community can attract technology workers to both live and work here.” He also wrote that he favors scorecards that would measure things like “safety, security, livability and quality of life.”

Business attorney Rebecca Eisenberg, who volunteers at local schools and serves on the board of directors at Craigslist Foundation and board of advisers at Kiva. org, wrote that she is interested in pursuing road improvements along Embarcadero Road, near El Camino Real, and in addressing the city’s dearth of affordable housing. The shortage, she wrote, “harms our community by pricing out our families, seniors and public servants, and reducing diversity.”

She supports researching the feasibility of allowing second homes on lots and reconsidering requirements for off-street parking.

To reduce traffic and parking problems, she wrote, the city should increase the accessibility of bike lanes and public transit and consider prohibiting overnight parking on streets.

Redirected candidates Two other candidates, Michelle Kraus and Srinivasan Subramanian, decided to apply for the commission after briefly flirting with seeking election in November.

Kraus, who briefly considered a run for the City Council this sum-

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mer, is a technologist who is heavily involved in the Democratic Party and serves as head of global affairs for the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. She wrote that she believes Palo Alto should “lead Silicon Valley in terms of planning and the future of transit.”

Her priorities include advanced transportation, rental units across generations and affordable housing for purchase and rental.

Subramanian, a computer scientist and former school board candidate this fall, wrote of his interest in bringing “a different perspective to the issues based on my background and experiences but still rooted in community values.”

The architects Jessica Resmini and David Hirsch, meanwhile, come from architecture backgrounds. Resmini is a project manager at FS3Hodges who wrote in her application that she is “interested in the symbiotic relationship between housing, public transportation, bicycle/pedestrian safety and vehicular traffic.” Hirsch, who had spent much of his professional life designing affordablehousing complexes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, cited in his application Brooklyn’s transformation from a place where children can play ball on the street to one in which the streets are congested and filled with double-parked cars. Comparatively, he and his wife find “Palo Alto to be a traffic nirvana, except when forced to use 101.”

“Traffic and parking issues seem reasonable and manageable here for us as residents. Admittedly the commercial users and certain neighborhoods have a problem, which appear to be recognized and solutions are being considered,” Hirsch wrote.

He also lauded University Avenue for what he called its “fantastic buzz” and credited tech workers for creating the buzz by “dreaming away at their business adventures.”

“It is exhilarating to see them in their open plan offices tucked into every available loft space,” Hirsch wrote in his application. “I’m not convinced they need the glitzy office buildings, however. They do better when they take a more ordinary loft space and play with it. I would wish Palo Alto could control this development more

able addition to the commission.

“Ultimately, I would like to see the commission continue to preserve the unique character of Palo Alto. This city is at a critical point in time, and the decisions made by this commission will determine the type of city Palo Alto becomes.”

Natasha Kachenko, an engineer who volunteers with the school district, also believes her professional background will help her deal with complex planning and transportation issues. She wrote that she is particularly interested in collaborations involving the

‘It is exhilarating to see (tech workers) in their open plan offices tucked into every available loft space.’

—David Hirsch, candidate, Planning and Transportation Commission without letting the developer outprice these precious startups.”

Gardias, the sole incumbent and the commission’s current vice chair, is also an architect. In his application, he wrote that a “proper partnership with the City Council needs to be assured.”

“Focus needs to be maintained on professional discussion resulting with identifying, developing and recommending to the council the best option,” Gardias wrote.

Technology and business execs Brian Hamacheck points to his experience in business as a qualification for the position. The CEO of the social network Nearby, Hamacheck wrote in his application that his “professional experience as a technology executive,” along with his “deep affection for our city” would make him a valu-

city’s new Transportation Management Association to developing a “realistic” approach to shifting commuters from cars to other modes of transportation.

“Work commute is an indefensible practice and it is vital that Palo Alto partner with business commuters and community to engage with TMA’s to making Palo Alto mobile,” Kachenko wrote.

Reshma Singh, whose background is in architecture and technology and is a program manager at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, is more interested in the bigger picture. Her current professional work is in “smart buildings and cities, particularly around building energy system and energy efficiency,” according to her application. She also wrote that she enjoys “scenario planning” and brings experience in “working across public and private sector partners on building technologies, design, lifecycle performance, and building industry trends.”

The final applicant is retired economist Tracy Herrick, who didn’t list any specific goals that he would focus on but who vowed to act “in a fair, legal and compassionate manner” if appointed.

The vast pool of applicants leaves the council with a wealth of options for filling the commission.

It also left council members with a minor logistical dilemma: how to get through all 16 interviews in a timely manner. Normally, each interview for the planning commission takes 15 minutes (for other commissions, it’s generally 10).

But in recognizing the large stack of applications, the council voted to reduce the time to 10 minutes per applicant (Holman proposed keeping it at 15 minutes but received no support). Councilwoman Liz Kniss lauded the quality of the applications and said Palo Alto is a “very fortunate city.”

“I think we have an embarrassment of riches in many ways, to have 16 people who want to serve on our Planning and Transportation Commission,” Kniss said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

BURGLARS IN SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ... Palo Alto police are looking for three people who broke into a Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood home on Wednesday night, shuffled through the homeowner’s possessions and took off with a tablet computer.

The burglars were captured on a video-surveillance system as they crept into the home on the 1700 block of Channing Avenue at about 9:40 p.m. They crawled on all fours through the kitchen, came back in a minute later and searched the room with flashlights, even opening the refrigerator. They stole the single tablet computer, police said.

The three all wore gloves and lightcolored hooded sweatshirts, two of which were identical, with a lightcolored letter B inside a black circle on the back. The resident was not home during the burglary and only discovered it Thursday, police said.

Watch the video at https://youtu. be/XUVT0c0yo2k Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the department at 650-329-2413.

Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent by text message or voicemail to 650383-8984.

NEW MIDTOWN TREE WALK ... A walk in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood will reveal Myths and Mythbusters: Surprising Tree Facts and Urban Forest Legends on Sunday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m.-noon.

The walk will be led by Canopy volunteer Kathy Alford. More information and an RSVP form are posted at canopy.org. Q

Got a good neighborhood story, some news, an upcoming meeting or an event? Email Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@paweekly. com. Or talk about your neighborhood news on the discussion forum Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Visitors to the 2013 Quaker Harvest Festival peruse items at the rummage sale.

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Quaker Harvest Festival celebrates 50 years From jams to jewelry, the annual festival raises funds for advocacy

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n the hurly burly of Silicon Valley life, the Quaker Harvest Festival remains a place for community connection amid the wares of simpler times: homemade jams and jellies; chutneys; home-baked and handmade goods; a rummage sale; and a massive used-book sale.

The festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on Sept. 24, has remained true to its Quaker values of simplicity and community, said Mary Klein, the event’s entertainment organizer.

“It’s a place where people can find good things and where people can find connection together,” she said.

The precursor to the harvest festival began in the mid-1960s, when Josephine and Frank Duveneck held a pancake breakfast fundraiser at their nonprofit farm, Hidden Villa, in Los Altos Hills. The proceeds went, as they do today, to support the nonprofit Friends Committee on Legislation of California, a Quaker group that advocates in Sacramento for state laws that are just, compassionate and respectful of all human worth, Klein said.

The Duvenecks wrote to friends living in other countries and asked them to send packages of small gifts to be sold at the breakfast.

That morphed into the first Quaker Harvest Festival at Hidden Villa, held the next year. There were jams and jellies, buttered corn on the cob, apples brought from Santa Rosa and melons from the Central Valley. People arrived with their homegrown produce. There were necklaces made from seeds and books from an estate, pony rides on the

Duvenecks’ horses and free tours of the farm, according to member Marie Simiernko, who has documented the harvest festival’s history.

Over time, sales of jewelry, clothing, crafts and handmade pottery were added. Some years, Madrigal singers provided entertainment.

The Quaker harvest festivals in the 1960s and ‘70s were more explicitly political and included speakers, Klein said.

By the 1990s, the festival had grown so large that buses shuttled visitors from the Foothill College parking lot to Hidden Villa, Klein said. But the expense was cutting into the proceeds. After the Duvenecks died, the festival moved to the parking lot of the Palo Alto Friends Meeting House on Colorado Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood.

Other changes occurred: plants replaced garden produce, and the festival offered elegant glassware, china, jewelry and camping and sports equipment. There was even furniture.

Simiernko remembered palm readings, artists who sketched people’s portraits and even homemade root beer.

Anna Koster, a longtime participant, has been making chutneys and jam for the past 20 years to sell at the festival.

“It’s the highlight of my year,” she said.

The book sale offers 5,000 volumes in 15 categories, each priced for $1 per spine inch, and there are also sales of rare volumes and coffee table books, she said.

“The motto used to be, ‘Come

Courtesy Mary Klein

COUNCIL CANDIDATES FORUM ... Want to know what this year’s Palo Alto City Council candidates are really all about? The Palo Alto Neighborhoods Candidate Forum aims to provide answers. The forum will take place Thursday, Sept.

29, 7-9 p.m. at Palo Alto City Hall Council Chambers. The forum will be moderated by former Mayor Sid Espinosa. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The forum also will be broadcast live by the Midpeninsula Community Media Center (Comcast channel 26). In addition, PAN has posted its questionnaire for their candidates, and their responses, at paneighborhoods.org. The questions cover neighborhood issues, including granny units and basement dewatering, as well as broader concerns about parking, traffic, affordable housing and Caltrain electrification.

Courtesy Judith Bush

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A magician entertains a child at the 2015 Quaker Harvest Festival. early for the treasures; stay late for the bargains,’” she said.

The festival, which raises about $8,000-$10,000 annually, has helped pay for a lobbyist in Sacramento to advance legislation that focuses on equal justice in the criminal and prison system and environmental and economic justice, such as increased funding for greenhouse gas reduction in low-income communities.

Recent bills co-sponsored by the Friends Committee that became law include SB 1010, which equalizes penalties for possessing cocaine base and powder cocaine, prior to which African Americans were receiving longer sentences; and SB 260, which allows prisoners who committed offenses as juveniles and were sentenced to longer adult terms to demonstrate rehabilitation and earn parole.

Koster said that taking part in the festival has also given her an outlet to support societal changes that she believes are “immensely important.”

“There’s so much hatred spreading around. With everything that’s happening I would be desolate. It gives me some hope for positive change,” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

If you’re going What: The 50th Annual Quaker Harvest Festival Where: 957 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto When: Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost: Free admission Info: Friendsharvestfestival.org

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tives, the council chose the plan that gave a significant preference to the latter over the former. That’s because in accepting the alternative with the two separated bikeways, the council rejected an alternative that would have added new rightturn lanes near both the Trader Joe’s driveway and El Camino.

That proposal would have created a single two-way bikeway along the south side of Embarcadero.

A single bikeway would have had one distinct advantage: By adding lanes for cars, it promised to alleviate some of the congestion at the intersection and shrink delays for motorists. Several council members, including Vice Mayor Greg Scharff and Councilman Tom DuBois, supported this design, known as “Option Two,” citing its benefits to all parties.

“Option Two makes so much more sense in terms of keeping it balanced and really solving the

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Plans to improve bicycle safety along Embarcadero Road near El Camino Real entail new bike lanes on both sides of the road. problem the community asked us to solve when we started looking at Embarcadero,” Scharff said.

DuBois agreed and said the second option would improve the street “for everybody.”

“Compared to many other places in town, this is actually a place where we can improve the flow for all modes of transportation,” DuBois said. “We should take advantage of it.”

Yet the council ultimately voted 5-4, with Scharff, DuBois, Greg Schmid and Karen Holman dissenting, to move ahead with “Option One,” the two separate bikeways plan.

The council’s razor-thin vote followed a unanimous recommendation from the Planning and Transportation Commission in favor of the first option. As Commissioner Asher Waldfogel explained Monday, the commission thought “the advantage for cyclists in Option One outweighed the advantage to vehicular traffic in Option Two.” The design also benefited from an endorsement from the Palo

Alto Bicycle Advisory Committee, though the citizens group initially favored the second alternative.

Robert Neff, who chairs the committee, said the group’s experienced bicyclists initially felt that having a regular bike lane on one side and a two-way bikeway on the other would work just fine. But they later realized that riders who are less experienced would likely appreciate better protection from traffic.

“Having the two separate bike lanes on normal sides of the street seemed like it would appeal to a lot more bicyclists,” Neff said.

The council’s majority ultimately agreed. Mayor Pat Burt noted that nearly all letters that the council received from the public favored this option. Burt called the proposed project a “real breakthrough” and predicted that it would make biking the fastest mode for going to Paly, Town & Country and Stanford.

He also pointed out that as more people use bikes, motorists will benefit from reduced congestion and more parking. As for drivers’

concerns, Burt noted that the city is now going through a two-phased traffic-signalization project that is

expected to create a smoother traffic flow for all parties.

“On top of that, this is not just about improved efficiency and mode share; it’s about bike safety,” Burt said. “The issue of whether we’re going to have a safer alternative here really does matter. Both of these improve bike safety significantly over what we currently have, but Alternative One is the safer mode, and that should matter a lot.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Sept. 19)

Embarcadero: The council approved a host of bike improvements for the Embarcadero Road segment between El Camino Real and Emerson Street, including two new bikeways and a Dutch-style intersection at Embarcadero and El Camino. Dissenting council members favored a different design, featuring a new right-turn driving lane near Town & Country Village and a single two-way bikeway.

Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Kniss, Wolbach No: DuBois, Holman, Scharff, Schmid Transportation: The council discussed proposed changes to the Transportation Element in the Comprehensive Plan. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (Sept. 20)

Impact fees: The committee recommended adopting an ordinance updating the city’s procedure for collecting impact fees. Yes: Unanimous Fuel Standards: The committee recommended approving the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Credit Program, including the use of revenues from the sale of lowcarbon-fuel-standard credits. Yes: Unanimous

Historic Resources Board (Sept. 21)

Historic Resources Review Bulletin: The board discussed the proposal to create a Historic Resources Review Bulletin. Action: None

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classroom time for projects, discussions and more experiential learning) and blended learning (incorporating technology into instruction) to Palo Alto High School’s popular Social Justice Pathway program and McGee’s new Advanced Authentic Research program. Baten Caswell and DiBrienza both said they support giving teachers the time and autonomy to develop and pursue new ideas for learning.

The candidates also discussed enrollment management, class size and potential new schools.

Baten Caswell and Collins said they do not believe the district’s enrollment projections justify opening a 13th elementary school, while the other three expressed interest in potentially opening a combination elementary-middle school. (The board is set to hear a staff report Tuesday on the feasibility of opening such a school.)

Emberling noted that overall elementary and middle school enrollment has actually increased over the last 10 years, according to a report presented to the board on Sept. 13, though the elementary school populations have been shrinking in recent years. The report projects “stable” elementary growth over the next five years.

On class sizes — a topic over which there has been ample debate in the community and at the dais this year — most candidates

agreed that smaller classes are better to increase connections between teachers and students.

Several also said the district should be using ranges and other metrics to measure class size instead of the current official classsize targets, which are average teacher-student ratios.

DiBrienza said putting enrollment caps on middle school classes and core high school courses “would not be a bad idea.” Baten Caswell and Collins said the district needs a new, more specific policy on class size.

Academic stress The candidates were also asked to evaluate the effectiveness of two actions the district took last year to improve student well-being by addressing academic stress — a directive from the superintendent that all teachers follow the district’s homework policy and a new contractual requirement for all secondary school teachers to use online software Schoology to post homework, assignments and test dates.

Baten Caswell and Emberling Tuesday said more teachers are using Schoology; Baten Caswell said she’s seen a change in how her own high schooler manages homework because of it.

The homework policy, which caps per-week homework time for each grade level but has been implemented unevenly, is more difficult to monitor and evaluate, the candidates said.

While calling the policy

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.

Stanford student dies mountain climbing A Stanford University graduate student lost her life on Sunday, as she was mountain climbing in Inyo County in the Sierra Nevada, university officials said Wednesday. Maria Birukova, a fourth-year graduate student in a dual medical and doctorate degree program, fell Sunday evening as she and a partner were ascending Bear Creek Spire. (Posted Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m.)

Smash-and-grab burglary caught on video Mountain View police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in a smash-and-grab burglary outside of a Starbucks on Pear Avenue on Monday, Sept. 19. (Posted Sept. 21, 3:04 p.m.)

Stanford joins bioscience collaboration Three of the Bay Area’s powerhouse universities have joined forces to work on a new biomedical science research center funded by a $600 million grant from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, the universities announced Wednesday. (Posted Sept. 21, 3:01 p.m.)

Home prices up slightly compared to last year The median cost for a Bay Area home rose slightly in August compared to the same period last year partly due to low interest rates and job growth, according to research firm CoreLogic. (Posted Sept. 21, 8:53 a.m.)

Spate of burglaries hits Stanford campus Four burglaries took place over a four-day period on the Stanford University campus, including three that targeted academic or institutional buildings, the Stanford Department of Public Safety said in a statement. (Posted Sept. 21, 8:52 a.m.)

Opposition to more public access at watershed A proposal to further open to the public a large tract of Peninsula open space controlled by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission continues to meet with stiff opposition from environmental groups. (Posted Sept. 20, 8:33 a.m.)

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If you’re going Several other Board of Education candidate forums are scheduled over the next few weeks.

A League of Women Voters and the Palo Alto Council of PTAs debate was scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 22, and was to be recorded by the Midpeninsula Community Media Center for broadcast later on community television channels.

Q Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS), the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education (CAC) and the Palo Alto Council of PTAs are sponsoring a forum focused on low-income, minority and special-needs students and families on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Jordan Middle School’s gym, 750 N. California Ave. Child care and translation will be provided.

Q Barron Park, Ohlone and Fairmeadow elementary schools’ PTAs are co-hosting a K-5 forum on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Barron Park, 800 Barron Ave. To submit a question for the candidates, email k5october4forum@gmail.com

by Oct 3. Spanish and Mandarin translation will be provided.

Q Gunn High School students will host the candidates for a debate on Thursday, Oct. 6, 10:05-11:25 a.m.

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Candidates for Palo Alto Board of Education present their views on school district issues at a forum at Mitchell Park Community Center on Tuesday night. “thoughtful, nuanced and potentially productive,” Collins said the district has failed to establish a way to ensure it is being followed. Baten Caswell and Emberling asserted that a new survey that students fill out about each class at the end of every semester is providing teachers, as well as their supervisors and principals, with meaningful feedback about homework loads.

(Emberling later said she knows of one high school teacher who is now re-evaluating her homework assignments after half of her students reported long homework hours on this new survey).

But Collins argued that giving feedback to individual teachers doesn’t “go to the gist of the policy” — which is to limit the total number of hours per week students spend on homework.

Baten Caswell suggested that the district look at revising the policy, arguing that hard time caps don’t fit “an environment where kids finish things in different amounts of time.”

The district’s budget Collins, who served on a citizens committee that saved taxpayers $850 million by stopping the district from issuing a particular kind

of bond, was the most outspoken candidate Tuesday about the district’s budget woes. He said the district made a “mistake” — unintentionally, but a mistake still — when it budgeted for higher-than-usual property-tax revenue last year and agreed to an “over-generous” teachers’ contract that promised three years of significant raises.

Baten Caswell, too, called the deficit a structural problem that was the result of a mistake the district made, but she said she was confident the district would be able to address it moving forward.

Emberling likewise said the board and district are making efforts to ensure this doesn’t happen again in the future. However, she added, it’s also time to revisit an estimated $13 million in programs and services the district has added over the last several years.

“Now is a great time to take stock, do some evaluation and see how we can avoid a potential ongoing budget deficit,” Emberling said.

DiBrienza said any necessary cuts should be guided by the district’s three adopted goals for this year: high-quality teaching and learning, equity and access and wellness and safety.

Baten Caswell, Collins and DiBrienza said they also support re-

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss Foothill College’s termination of its Cubberley Community Center lease and future leasing of available space; consider the applicability of the city’s plannedcommunity ordinances to proposed rooftop-solar installations at three city-owned garages; and consider adopting an ordinance adopting a higher minimum wage. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for opening seats on the Historic Resources Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and Transportation Commission. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hold a special study session to discuss the district’s policies on gifts, board member electronic communication and research at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. At its regular meeting on Tuesday, Sept.

27, the board will vote on the 2016-17 budget and consider a schematic design for a remodel at Addison Elementary School. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the district office.

PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to review the analysis of the city’s aquatics program and discuss the Parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

vising the district’s longtime “me too” model for administrative pay, which automatically provides non-unionized administrators the same compensation increases as negotiated with the teachers’ union. Emberling did not explicitly state whether the district should change this practice but said that the district should make sure it’s offering competitive wages.

Collins called for rolling back “all or part” of the raises provided to this group of employees. During the board’s recent budget discussions, member Ken Dauber proposed rescinding senior administrators’ most recent 4 percent raise to save the district about $650,000, with no support from his colleagues.

Cabrera advocated for tapping into the district’s reserves, which McGee recently said he does not plan to do, and for revising a board policy that requires the district to maintain a reserve equal to at least 10 percent of the general fund.

The current board will be voting on the 2016-17 budget on Tuesday, Sept. 27, with more public meetings planned this fall on the 2017-18 budget.

Tuesday’s debate was moderated by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, with questions from Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong, education reporter Elena Kadvany and two student-journalists, as well as audience members watching in-person and online.

The debate can be viewed at YouTube.com/paweekly. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Sept. 14-20 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dependant adult abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Family violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Check forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted burglary from vehicle. . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 8 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 No registration/identification for vehicle . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vandalism to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . 4 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Forged signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. muni code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Menlo Park Sept. 14-20

Theft related Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

Driving with suspended license . . . . . . .

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

Tow request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

Vehicle injury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

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

Returned missing person . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

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

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

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

2 1 2 2 1 1 5 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 1 1 2 4 5

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

El Camino Real, 9/14, 7 p.m.; dependant adult abuse.

412 Emerson St., 9/14, 11:43 p.m.; battery/simple.

Kipling Street, 9/17, 10:15 a.m.; family violence/misc.

900 Quarry Road, 9/17, 7:02 p.m.; battery/simple.

El Camino Real, 9/19, 2:46 p.m.; domestic violence/v court order.

Abel Avenue, 9/19, 3:19 p.m.; child abuse/ neglect.

El Camino Real, 9/20, 9 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

144 Monroe Drive, 9/20, 9:40 a.m.; battery/simple.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Maria Birukova Maria Birukova, a fourth-year graduate student in the MD/PhD program at Stanford University, died in a climbing accident near Bear Creek Spire in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. She was 26.

The accident, which occurred on Sept. 18, was witnessed by her climbing partner Ian Isaacson. Members of the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office recovered her body on Sept. 20.

Birukova was born on May 31, 1990, in Moscow, Russia and attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in Chicago.

She later earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Yale University after which she enrolled at Stanford in 2013 where she worked in the laboratory of immunologist Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD. Her research focused on the role played by a virus called bacteriophage in the formation of biofilms — bacteria resistant to antibiotics and immune responses that can colonize chronic wounds or coat medical equipment.

Earlier this year, she was awarded the Bio-X Bowes graduate student fellowship for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary research.

Additionally, she was a consulting project manager for the Stanford Healthcare Consulting group and a 2015-16 Graduate Voice and Influence Program Fellow through Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

An avid mountaineer and climber, she was a native Russian speaker. While at Yale, she spent time transcribing taped oral interviews with Russian oil workers into written Russian documents.

In a press release, Lloyd Minor, the dean of the School of Medicine said, “The medical community has suffered a tremendous loss ... Her work was a wonderful example of Stanford’s focus on translational medicine, and she will be greatly missed, both professionally and personally.”

She is survived by her parents Konstantin Birukova, MD, PhD, and Anna Birukova, MD, of Chicago.

California as engineers designing medical devices.

In 1980, he and his wife moved to Woodside where their daughters Carrie and Ashley attended Woodside Elementary School.

In 1987, his wife became involved in helping to organize Woodside Elementary School’s production of “Mame.” When they were in need of a conductor for the orchestra, she volunteered her hus-

Bryn, Katie and Sarah.

Services will be held at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 1, at Skylawn Memorial Park, 100 Lifemark Road in San Mateo. A reception will follow at Skylawn.

Memorial donations may be made to support the Woodside Village Band and the Woodside Community Theatre through the Woodside Community Foundation at tinyurl.com/zuvfuhu.

The High Holy Days

Richard Gordon Richard Gordon — Woodside Community Theatre’s music director, the Woodside Village Band’s director, orchestra conductor for many Woodside Elementary School eighthgrade operettas and saxophone player — died on Monday, Sept. 12, after losing a four-month fight against brain cancer.

Gordon was born in San Francisco on Sept. 30, 1949 and grew up in the Bay Area, Washington, D.C. and Pasadena, where he was a Rose Parade drum major. At age 11, he began supporting himself and his family after his father died.

He met his wife, Deborah Gordon, who is mayor of Woodside, when both worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern

band. His work in the community would later garner him the nickname “Music Man.” In addition to his wife, he is survived by daughter Ashley Dombkowski (Brian) of Woodside; daughter Carolyn Littlefield (Paul) of Menlo Park; brother John Gordon of Sunnyvale; one brother and three sisters of North Carolina; mother-in-law Sally Cody of Woodside; and grandchildren Brooke,

6 Keddem Congregation Community-led Reconstructionist services Everyone is welcome, at no charge Oshman Family Jewish Community Center 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 94303 • Sunday, 2FWREHU , 7:30 PM Evening Service • Monday, 2FWREHU , 9:30 AM 1st Day Morning Service 9:45 AM Children’s Service

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Editorial An imperfect wage increase Palo Alto set to adopt quicker increase to $15, but restaurants protest inequities

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here is no suspense about whether the Palo Alto City Council will approve a more expedited increase in the local minimum wage to $15 an hour when it meets Monday night, only how fast we want to reach that level.

After adopting a more conservative approach a year ago, the rising cost of housing and actions by other cities have made a $15 target a forgone conclusion. The only question is how quickly the increases from the current $11 minimum wage will take place and whether any exceptions should be adopted for teen workers, nonprofits and restaurants.

The proposal to be considered Monday, recommended by the council’s four-person Policy and Services Committee, would raise the minimum wage to $12 in 2017, to $13.50 in 2018 and to $15 in 2019, and contains no exemptions.

That step-up schedule is the plan endorsed by the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, which adopted its recommendations in June to help achieve as much regional consistency as possible. But some cities, including Mountain View and Sunnyvale, have already opted for a quicker timeline, and there will be an effort made Monday to accelerate the increases so that the $15 level is reached earlier, in 2018.

We support the 2018 date, but to a great extent in Palo Alto this is a symbolic exercise. The competition for employees has long ago required even smaller Palo Alto employers to pay in excess of minimum wage, so the number of employers or employees that will be impacted is expected to be quite small. That accounts for how little opposition to the increase has surfaced, with the notable exception of restaurant owners.

The new wage requirements will likely have an undesirable impact in the restaurant industry, where it will primarily help the already very well-compensated wait-staff rather than the lowest-paid kitchen workers. This is because California is one of only a few states in the country that prohibits tip-sharing, meaning that tips cannot legally be pooled and distributed among wait-staff and kitchen and other workers. The entire tip a customer leaves at a California restaurant must go to the server or others who have interaction with the customer.

The typical restaurant pays its wait-staff minimum wage, because tips generally double or triple the effective hourly pay. So any increase to the minimum wage will bump up waiters’ base pay and, according to restaurant owners, will soak up dollars that could otherwise go to increase kitchen wages.

Whether that is a likely outcome is difficult to judge, but restaurateurs have made a strong case that without the ability to create tipsharing systems, the minimum-wage increase will disproportionately benefit the wrong workers.

To remedy this, the restaurants are proposing that tipped workers be specifically exempted from the minimum-wage increase as long as their total pay is in excess of the minimum wage.

While this is a reasonable approach, we agree with the council’s policy committee that this is a fix that needs to take place with state legislation, not through special exceptions granted by individual cities.

Many cities have already confronted this issue and have decided that to attempt an end-around of the current state law would invite a legal challenge that would be costly and difficult to defend. It would be irresponsible for Palo Alto to become the one city that adopts such an exemption and then winds up needing to defend the practice in a long and expensive legal battle.

The place for restaurants and their trade association to get relief from California’s odd prohibition on tip-sharing is in Sacramento, and the Palo Alto City Council should adopt a resolution supporting a repeal of that provision in the law and encourage other cities to do likewise. Restaurants should be able to establish tip-pooling practices that allow for the “back of the house” employees to benefit from tips.

And while we share the concerns about the impact of increasing the minimum wage on teens seeking summer or after-school jobs and nonprofits, we agree that the best approach is one that is simple to understand and simple to enforce. With no significant opposition having emerged from employers concerned about these sub-groups, it is best to not grant any exceptions. Like the tip-sharing issue, other possible exceptions should be established on a statewide, not local, basis.

As for the timing of the incremental increases and the date set to achieve the $15 minimum wage, we support the earlier, mid-2018 date. The local employment and housing markets have pretty much already pushed even low-paid worker wages above the minimumwage level. Palo Alto should join its neighbors in Mountain View and Sunnyvale in acknowledging that even a wage floor of $15 an hour is hardly a livable wage in our communities, and by mid-2018 this will be even more the case. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Proposed microunit requirements Editor, Microunits (Palo Alto Weekly, Sept. 16) can be an important asset to Palo Alto if the following requirements are met.

1. A microunit may be rented only to a present employee of the police or fire departments or a Palo Alto teacher, and only if that employee’s salary is the highest in that family. The microunit may not be sublet.

2. Upon termination of employment, the microunit must be vacated within one year.

3. The cost of rent shall be based upon a reasonable percentage of the salary for that employee.

4. Each microunit shall have two parking spaces within the structure.

Palo Alto has been aware of the problem that most first-responders cannot afford to live in the city. In times of disaster, these people will simply not be available to help our community. Teachers need to be part of the community they serve.

Rent cannot be subject to market forces; otherwise, only highly paid tech employees will inhabit these units. Therefore, tying the rent to the renter’s salary is a necessity.

The concept of trading parking spaces for “concessions” is a bad idea, creating problems for the entire community. Many firstresponders are or will be married, with each spouse needing a car; therefore, two parking spaces within the structure are needed.

Biking is great but only in good weather.

It may take a city subsidy for a contractor to build microunits that meet the above requirements.

Council has given lip-service to this problem for years. Now is the time to act to make affordable housing available to those that serve our community.

Rich Stiebel Talisman Drive, Palo Alto

The Maybell mistake Editor, Your editorial on the proposed 60 units of “workers” apartments was unfairly skewed towards rejecting everything in the name of a few near neighbors’ whims.

I think your paper owes it to the vast majority of Palo Alto citizens, workers and shoppers to help persuade the City Council to adopt this project.

Yes, there are always two sides of every issue, but way way too much has been made of the NIMBY (not in my backyard) arguments, to the extreme detriment of the city and community at large.

We watched with dismay as the

Maybell senior-housing project, which would have been a tremendous asset for the community, was beaten down to what, 16 singlefamily homes? How did the city benefit by that travesty? I see the same thing happening here because of a couple of possible (not probable) problems like parking that could be solved with 10 rideshare cars in the parking garage.

Fifty near-neighbors should not be given more power than 70,000 other citizens, 25,000 workers and many thousands of shoppers.

Each of the other issues can be solved if the city thinks as a city not just as a near-neighbor.

Don’t make the Maybell mistake again.

David Moss Ferne Avenue, Palo Alto

Insulting millions Editor, In a letter published Sept. 16, Tom DuBois used the following terms to describe a statement that the Palo Alto mayor and a councilwoman support Donald Trump’s candidacy: “poisonous,” “slanderous,” “highly offensive” and “ludicrous.”

Essentially, Mr. DuBois is stating that anyone said to be aligned to Mr. Trump would find that statement to be all of these adjectives. Mr. DuBois is insulting millions of voters.

Supposing someone were mistakenly said to support one of the other candidates (Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Johnson, Dr. Stein), would Mr. DuBois have written this letter?

I am no fan of Mr. Trump and will vote for Gary Johnson. Yet, I maintain that the supporters of any (or none) of the candidates should be treated with respect.

Jacky Hood Fife Avenue, Palo Alto

Election-forum ideas Editor, The Palo Alto City Council candidate forum on Thursday evening (Sept. 15) provided a cursory assessment of the speaking abilities of the candidates but did little to help voters decide where candi-

dates stood on issues of interest to Palo Alto residents.

Perhaps the next forum could include specific questions about population growth; building heights; allowing buildings to be under-parked; advisability of rezoning public lands for dense housing; priorities of market rate vs. workforce vs. below-marketrate housing and who is going to pay for it; or how to get more park, pool and playing field space for residents. These can be formatted to be “yes/no” or short-answer questions, thus cutting out the evasive, political non-answer.

For example: The current city council has reviewed a proposal to rezone land that is currently PF (public facility) to R134 (134 houses per acre). Do you agree with this rezoning effort? “Yes” or “No” answer only.

With appropriate short-answer questions, voters will be able to distinguish the growth and development priorities of the candidates and make informed ballotbox decisions.

Tina Peak Palo Alto Avenue, Palo Alto

Better biking Editor, I would be more likely to bike around town if there were more bike paths or dedicated bike routes so I did not have to contend with dangerously distracted drivers and if there were no leaf blowers blowing dust and debris in my face.

I grew up in Palo Alto and started riding my bicycle daily in first grade. Bicycling remained my main form of transportation through 12th grade, college and 16 years of working in Palo Alto. I rode the Portola loop with friends every weekend.

My doctor insisted that I stop riding because the traffic hazards created too high a risk. I tried taking up riding again recently and found no route that didn’t require me to either ride through clouds of debris kicked up by leaf blowers or contend with heavy traffic.

Carole Grace Garland Drive, Menlo Park

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Guest Opinion

Deciding Palo Alto’s future growth

by Hamilton Hitchings

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he biggest issue in this year’s City Council race is deciding how Palo Alto should grow.

This year’s council election is particularly important because the newly elected council will vote on adopting Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan Update. This document defines the city’s policies toward growth for the next 15 years and will be the basis for the city’s zoning.

I am a member of the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) for the Comprehensive Plan Update and its Land Use Subcommittee, although I am not speaking on behalf of them.

I love the fact that Palo Alto is a familyoriented town with great schools, an active community, tree-lined streets and many parks, environmental leadership, innovative startups and great city services.

Because the CAC is an advisory committee, the controversial issues will be decided by the next City Council. Specifically, two of the most controversial issues that will be voted on are whether to continue the annual office cap and whether to remove the 50-foot height limit. How will votes on these issues affect housing, parking and traffic?

One of the reasons so little new housing has been built in Palo Alto in the last decade is because office space is more

profitable to build and thus has been the vast majority of new development. New office space increases traffic and parking demand.

Palo Alto, with 66,000 residents, has a 3-to-1 jobs-to-working-resident ratio — one of the highest in the nation — with more than 95,000 workers. Most of those workers are from out of town. When we build more office, that increases the number of out-of-town workers commuting into Palo Alto.

To enable more new housing to be built we need to restrict office development through an annual office cap and convert some office zoning to residential. Ironically, the limiting factor for tech growth in the region is actually lack of housing for its employees and not office space availability.

Raising the height limit above 50 feet is not necessary anywhere in the city to meet even the most aggressive growth scenario being considered: 6,000 new housing units over the next 15 years. There is general consensus that new apartment buildings in downtown should include a large percentage of studio and one-bedroom apartments to meet the needs of elderly and young workers. However, even new studio and one-bedroom apartments can rent for $3,000 to $6,000 per month, as demonstrated by the new Carmel Village development in San Antonio Shopping Center (tinyurl.com/carm9-16), so new small units will still be relatively expensive.

Coincidentally, that’s the same monthly price you can rent a modest single-family house for in Palo Alto today. Instead, many

of us who are residentialists think that increasing the set-aside requirement for below-market-rate housing from 15 percent to 25 percent when approving multi-unit residential buildings, like San Francisco already has, will improve affordability for those who need it most. One of the arguments against requiring below-market-rate housing is that it will increase the price of housing for the nonsubsidized units. However, demand is setting the market rate of housing far above the cost, including the cost of additional units.

Many of the key traffic intersections are at maximum capacity or approaching maximum capacity during rush hour. Most of the major thoroughfares cannot be widened, so we do not have very much more capacity for more car trips during rush hour.

Given the parking shortage downtown and at California Avenue, how do we absorb this additional parking caused by new development? Parking shortages have resulted in thousands of daytime employees parking in residential neighborhoods. This is the result of new office buildings with inadequate parking and increased employment densities. Solutions such as car-light apartment buildings offer promise but, given the current neighborhood parking shortages, should be approached with extreme caution and a recognition that some occupants will find ways to skirt the rules.

This problem did not exist when I moved here and was created by lenient parking building requirements and enforcement.

Without setting and enforcing strict parking requirements, this problem will only get worse. We need City Council members

who are truly committed to ensuring that there is sufficient on-site parking for new developments and new single-occupant car trips are minimized and can be absorbed by our roads.

In the last year, a number of developments have come before the City Council on appeal because they were incompatible in size and scale with their surrounding neighborhoods. As a last line of defense the council has either voted down or improved these projects because of a slim residentialist majority now occupying the council.

The new City Council will determine the degree to which new developments will be compatible with their neighbors and within the size and scale that provides reasonable transitions.

The newly elected City Council will vote on adopting the Comprehensive Plan Update and determine which way we should proceed with the controversial land use issues. These issues include whether we continue the office cap, keep the height limit, increase the percentage of belowmarket-rate housing and how we address our parking and traffic challenges. Thus the council will play a crucial role in deciding Palo Alto’s future growth for the next 15 years. Q Hamilton Hitchings, a high-tech entrepreneur, has lived in Palo Alto for 25 years, primarily in the Duveneck neighborhood. Besides serving the CAC, he recently completed the Leadership Palo Alto program and is an active member of the city’s Emergency Services Volunteer program.

Streetwise

What do you think is the key to making the bike-share program a success in Palo Alto?

Asked on Emerson Street in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Rachel van Gelder.

Kelly Davis

Bryan Offut

Chris Parker

Mahmut Keskekci

Matthew Mori

Graphic designer Hillview Avenue, Redwood City

Products manager Page Mill Road, Palo Alto

Consultant Cowper Street, Palo Alto

Store owner Carson Street, Redwood City

Director of productions Sycamore Drive, Palo Alto

“I like that the bikes are by the Caltrain. If they had an app, that would make them easier to use.”

“They could do a better job advertising. They need to make it abundantly clear where the bikeshare bikes are.”

“They could send some information about the program in the mail to people in the area.”

“It is great to have that option, but they could advertise better.”

“Because I have a bike, I would never really think of using it.”

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 23, 2016 • Page 17

In pursuit of a

plague Can local land managers, nurseries stop the spread of a deadly plant disease?

by Sue Dremann

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n a warm, sunny September afternoon, Ted Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt stepped out of a silver SUV in the parking lot of Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve in search of a killer.

After unloading their gear — a shovel, surgical gloves, a camera, plastic bags and surveyor’s tape — the pair trudged through native bunchgrass, oak forests and shrubs, carefully tracking their coordinates on an iPad and smartphone.

Plant pathologists from Phytosphere Research in Vacaville, Swiecki and Bernhardt are detectives of the plant world, and recently, they’ve been searching for the origin of a deadly disease that has been plaguing plants high above Silicon Valley. Phytophthora (fie-TOF-thora), a fungus-like water mold whose name means “plant destroyer,” is every bit as deadly as it sounds.

Experts worry that it could wipe out whole populations of plants and change entire ecosystems. By some research estimates, there are more than 100 known species of the pathogen worldwide. Swiecki and Bernhardt have identified at least 60 forms of Phytophthora in nursery-grown native plants.

About a half-dozen or so species have been found in various wildland locations, Swiecki said.

“All evidence indciates that these are all introduced species,” he added.

The pathogens are not native to the U.S.; they hitchhiked in on plants brought from overseas, including Asia and parts of Europe. The deadly water molds attack with ferocity precisely because California’s native plants have little resistance, said Swiecki and Bernhardt, who are Phytophthora experts.

The variety that attacks plants’ roots chokes off a plant’s ability to take up nutrients and water, Swiecki said. There is another kind that spreads by leaves and causes the more-well-known sudden oak death.

A recent infestation was found in Monte

Bello Open Space Preserve, along Page Mill Road, which is why Swiecki and Bernhardt have come to Skyline Preserve, located across Skyline Boulevard from Monte Bello. Valley oaks, toyon and madrone in Monte Bello have been infected with Phytophthora cambivora, the root-rotting form. The pair suspect Phytophthora might have spread to Monte Bello from Skyline Preserve.

The site slopes down gently from Skyline’s 2,100 to 2,200 feet of elevation to 1,600 feet in Monte Bello. The water molds could be carried by Stevens Creek or by water moving through the soil, they said.

Research indicates that Phytophthoras have been found in creeks in other locations.

Swiecki and Bernhardt have zeroed in on this particular area of Skyline because Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, which owns the land, replanted part of the area with toyons, oaks and madrones nearly 10 years ago. If the infestation came from these plants, there would be signs. More difficult to prove but not less troubling, crews might have brought the disease in — or spread it — on equipment, boots or shovels. Anything that might collect bits of soil or plant material could carry the disease, they said. Swiecki pointed south to a verdant area of conifers.

Phytophthora might also have come from a nearby Christmas tree farm, where it may have resided for decades, he said.

B

ernhardt worked her way up the slope, inspecting planted trees and shrubs encircled by wire cages.

She looked for openings where wildlife might have entered or deer might have browsed, explanations for why the plants appeared stunted. But the cages were secure, the leaves unnibbled.

Swiecki began digging around the roots of a toyon, the berries of which many birds eat. To the untrained eye, the plant appeared healthy. But Swiecki and Bernhardt recognized signs of possible Phytophthora

Coast live oaks and shreve oaks that have been exposed to Phytophthora are dying at Palo Alto’s Monte Bello Preserve. Photo by Veronica Weber

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from the plantings. Swiecki again dug down for samples; Bernhardt tied surveyor’s tape to the branches to mark the tree. Swiecki searched the area for other possible sources of contamination.

“It’s next to erosion-control material. There are a lot of different possible sources here,” he said.

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own in Silicon Valley, another species of Phytophthora that likely arrived on nursery plants is stalking the urban forest.

On the campuses of Brentwood Academy and McNair Elementary School in East Palo Alto, weeping cankers ooze sap, forming dark lesions on the trunks of cork oaks.

Canopy, the Palo Alto nonprofit, has planted these and hundreds of other trees throughout East Palo Alto, along with thousands in Palo Alto, over the years to help beautify the communities.

When staff noticed the oozing trunks, they called in Igor Lacan, urban horticulture advisor for U.C. Cooperative Extension San MateoSan Francisco Counties, to sample the ooze. Lab results showed the disease to be Phytophthora cinnamomi, a pervasive species that has been found in at least 70 countries.

Plant pathologist Elizabeth Bernhardt flags a madrone plant that she suspects might be infested with Phytophthora.

Michael Hawkins, Canopy program director and a certified arborist, said the trees were planted in 2012; about a dozen at each school showed signs of bleeding cankers two summers ago. The trees were purchased from a nursery that was most likely the source of the outbreak. They looked healthy when they were planted, but after a time, when they were watered, the cankers began to form, he said.

Hawkins said Canopy moved irrigation further away from the affected tree trunks and replanted some trees. The trees were treated with chemicals recommended by the nursery: phosphite, a phosphorus compound, and Subdue Maxx, which fights fungus in the roots.

But while those measures have helped to lessen the symptoms, the name of the treatment perhaps says it all: It subdues the Phytophthora but does not eliminate it.

Swiecki said that nurseries routinely use fungicides, which suppress the disease, but once the plants are in the field and the fungicide is no longer applied, the disease comes roaring back.

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infection. The leaves were chlorotic, a paler green or even yellowish, which is not normal, and the leaves were about half the size they should have been.

The plant was also only about 3 feet tall.

“These toyons are not dead, but they are 10-year-old plantings.

They should be over my head,” Swiecki said.

He rocked the shovel back and forth, chipping away at the layers of hardened earth. He found telltale signs of planting by humans: lava rock and Perlite, which are never found in the wild, he said. When he got to the root ball, Swiecki noticed the trunk base was misshapen. The roots also were not very widespread.

“Very limited root density is an indicator of Phytophthora,” he said.

A drought, however, also causes trees and shrubs to produce fewer new roots, which means that some plants infected with Phytophthora, which makes plants look waterstarved, could be overlooked.

Swiecki used a hand trowel to dig out roots and soil, depositing a shovelful in a plastic bag. Before they left, Swiecki whipped out a spray bottle containing rubbing alcohol that he keeps attached to his belt. He sprayed every surface of the shovel and other implements to disinfect them before moving on.

Further up the slope Bernhardt located a small madrone tree no larger than a small bush. The redbark trees are an important source of food for many birds, who also nest in them. The top was dry, a russet-orange color, and drooped over. Swiecki said this kind of crown death is characteristic of Phytophthora infections. Nearby, a small planted oak in a cage had died completely. Its tan, papery leaves looked as though they had dried out all at once.

Swiecki and Bernhardt focused on another troubling sign. A madrone that had not been planted had the same russet-orange color. It was almost entirely dead, except for a very slight tinge of yellow-green on the leaf undersides. If this plant proved to be infested with Phytophthora, it could indicate that the disease had spread into the wildland

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A group of madrone trees near Filoli Estate in Woodside show decline caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi, which attacks tree roots.

A cork oak planted at McNair Elementary School in East Palo Alto has bleeding cankers due to Phytophthora cinnamomi.

plant was individually tested before going into the ground — an impossibly expensive proposition — it is probable that many thousands of infected plants are being released into the wild through restoration projects and by residents who live near the urban-wildland interface and near creeks No one would know it until the plants die. That’s what happened in the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Peninsula watershed in San Mateo County, and in parts of Santa Clara Valley Water District’s watershed.

Large restoration projects by SFPUC in its watersheds were supposed to mitigate habitat destruction caused by upgrades to the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System. But when a planted toyon showed the characteristic dead leaves, Greg Lyman of SFPUC’s natural resources land management division took the plant to Swiecki for testing, Lyman recalled during a 2014 lecture.

Swiecki used a simple test, using a green pear to cultivate the pathogen. Water percolated through the soil and the root system of a suspect plant is collected, and the pear is placed in the bath.

Rot on the pear is an indication of

the disease, which is then cultured and examined at the Rizzo Lab at the University of California Davis, which is run by David Rizzo.

Swiecki came back with sobering news.

“This plant is hot,” he told Lyman.

“That pear was brown,” Lyman said.

The plant tested positive for Phytophthora tentaculata, which is one of two species on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarantine list, with a potential to decimate many cultivated crops as well as native species. Phytophthora tentaculata was not previously known in the U.S. until it made its appearance in 2014 at a nursery in Monterey County.

SFPUC also discovered it had planted infected material from multiple nurseries with 10 species of Phytophthora. Phytophthora cinnamomi, the one found on Canopy’s cork oaks, was also found spread into the SFPUC Peninsula watershed on madrone and bay laurel trees.

The costs could be enormous.

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A plant killer with huge economic impact Phytophthora species responsible for Irish potato famine

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hytophthora, the organism that causes sudden oak death, has a deadly past, affecting not just plant life but human life as well.

Phytophthora infestans, just one of about 100 identified Phytophthora species, was the culprit in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine that left an estimated 2 million Irish people dead, according to USAblight.org, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) project that studies the disease in the United States. Commonly called “late blight,” Phytophthora infestans was so devastating that the 1840s outbreaks launched the science of plant pathology, according to the USDA. But Phytophthora infestans is not a disease of the past. As recently as 2009 an epidemic broke out in the northeastern U.S., according to the USDA, which calls the disease “a

major threat to food security worldwide.”

Globally, crop losses caused by late blight and the cost to control it are estimated at more than $6.7 million annually, the USDA states.

This year, more than 33 counties in the U.S. reported late blight in food crops. In California’s Kern County, samples of the disease were found to be resistant to a fungicide used to control Phytophthora.

In 2010, the USDA’s plant inspection branch listed 33 species of Phytophthora for quarantine. Among those with the greatest potential for economic harm are Phytophthora porri, which kills leeks, onions, many ornamental plant species, and possibly carrots, and Phytophthora pinifolia, which could devastate the U.S.’s $67 billion pine products industry if it gets a toehold in the

country, according to the USDA. The effects of Phytophthora could be systemic as well. Phytophthora tentaculata, the USDA noted, “could have a significant environmental impact such as lowering biodiversity, disrupting natural communities, or changing ecosystem processes.” It could impact threatened or endangered species by disrupting critical habitats and could significantly impact cultural practices, home and urban gardening or ornamental plantings.

In 2012, Phytophthora tentaculata appeared in a native plant nursery in Monterey County.

It was the first time it appeared in the U.S. Since then, it has shown up in native plants from nurseries used for restoration projects in multiple counties, including San Mateo and Santa Clara. Q — Sue Dremann

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How many of those plants might be infested is still a question that only time will reveal. Many native plants, because they are drought resistant, might not show outward signs of the diseases for some time, while the micro-organisms continue to proliferate and spread.

“Our concern is that we’ve introduced a pathogen into the watershed that could decimate a whole ecosystem,” Lyman said.

Trying to stem the spread of these pathogens is a costly proposition: If the SFPUC restoration fails because of Phytophthora, the restoration will have to start from scratch, Lyman said. The cost could be as high as $45 million for obtaining new stock and planting alone. Testing and treatment has cost $700,000 and is growing.

Santa Clara Valley Water District was also faced with a similar problem in 2014 when all of the plants of its rare Coyote ceanothus restoration project died. The entire pilot project at Coyote Ridge in the Mt. Hamilton Range was infected with Phytophthora cactorum. A riparian revegetation project at Guadalupe Creek in downtown San Jose was initially found to have Phytophthora tentaculata, then 14 additional species of the micro-

organisms were found, including another high-risk species, Phytophthora quercina, which along with tentaculata is in the top five Phytophthora species of concern by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Ngoc Nguyen, interim deputy operating officer for district watersheds, said that all 240 plants from a local native plant nursery did not survive shortly after planting. Staff removed them all and determined that the infestation had not spread, and they are now heat-treating the soil at each spot.

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hytophthora can live in the soil undetected for many years, waiting for opportune conditions to maximize its spread.

Multiple species have been found at Filoli Estate in Woodside, which has its own nursery. There is evidence that the pathogens spread to areas outside of the nursery along Cañada Road, most likely from the nursery, Swiecki said. In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the site of a nursery that had been abandoned for 50 years also tested positive for Phytophthora.

On water district land near Anderson Dam in southern Santa Clara County, staff made a startling discovery. A 20-year-old restoration planting revealed active Phytophthora cactorum on rare Coyote

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Native plant seedlings that will be used to restore habitat in the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District grow in one of the “clean houses” at the Grassroots Ecology native-plant nursery. All plants are grown in pasteurized soil and sanitized bins to ensure better protection against soil borne pathogens.

Nikki Hanson, nursery manager at the Grassroots Ecology native plant nursery, sprays the bottom of her boots with a solution of 70 percent isopropyl alcohol before entering one of the nursery’s two “clean houses.” Employees must follow strict protocols to ensure no pathogens enter the greenhouse.

ceanothus. The entire planting was uniformly infected, said Cindy Roessler, senior resource management specialist at Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, who worked for the water district at the time. Roessler thinks the infection came in on the nursery plants.

The experience has been “humbling,” she said.

But there have also been mysterious contaminations of nurseries from plant material collected in the wild. At Mt. Umunhum, another Midpeninsula Regional Open Space acquisition, members of Grassroots Ecology, a nonprofit nursery in Palo Alto’s Foothills Park, collected stock of spike moss, a ground cover, to grow at the nursery for the open space district.

But when the plants looked suspect, the nursery collected water draining from the pots and set a green pear in it. The pear developed brown spots, which tested positive for Phytophthora cambivora. The nursery pulled all of the plants and put them in quarantine, and ultimately had to destroy them, said Nikki Hanson, the nursery manager.

The source of the contamination has not yet been identified, but Roessler said heavy moving equipment at the site might have played a role.

The district is now taking a cautious approach. Roessler suspended using any nursery stock in the district’s preserves and instead is directly sowing seeds. The district is spacing plants farther apart, and at Umunhum the district is planting 50 micro-sites to see how new plants respond before expanding the project.

Roessler is co-chair of the restoration committee of the Phytophthoras in Native Habitats Work Group (CalPhytos.org), an organization that includes researchers, state and federal agencies and land managers. The group is working on protocols for best management practices and inspection of nurseries. Grassroots Ecology’s nursery is following “best management practices” being developed by a Phytophthora task force, and it now has two new greenhouses — one dedicated for Midpen projects and the other for water district grow outs.

A pilot program to develop Phytophthora-free certification for nurseries is also underway. Susan Frankel, a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station plant pathologist and a co-leader of the habitats work group, said the project will set up an accreditation checklist of phytosanitary (plant cleanliness) measures, and it will take samples from nurseries to track pathogens

Vigilance can prevent spread of Phytophthora Gardeners should follow best practices, experts say

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esidents can help prevent the spread of plant disease such as Phytophthora, according to Igor Lacan, an urban horticulture adviser for U.C. Cooperative Extension San Mateo-San Francisco Counties.

“Basically, look in the nursery. Go to a reputable nursery and ask if they follow bestmanagement-practices protocol. If you ask and the nursery person looks at you blankly, maybe you want to go somewhere else,” he said.

Customers can also ask nurseries if the potting soil is pasteurized, which kills the harmful organisms. And look to see if the plant is in good shape, not wilting and not next to a plant that is wilting or drooping, he said.

Unfortunately, a Phytophthora infection

won’t cause symptoms in the early stages.

When people bring home new plants, Lacan recommended putting them in quarantine from other plants for four to six weeks. Runoff from watering be contained so as not to contaminate other soil or plants, he said.

If plants show signs of wilting, develop oozing cankers or have rotten roots, the plants should be pulled and destroyed. They should not be composted, he said. If you think you have a Phytophthora-infected plant, the entire plant can be double bagged and taken to a local Cooperative Extension office for examination, he said.

Soil and pots should not be used again and can be bagged and disposed of in the trash.

Phytophthora expert Ted Swiecki said that

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chemical treatment may help to suppress the activity of the microorganisms, but it will not make the pathogen go away.

“Infestations in urban sites pose a risk for spread if shoes or equipment get contaminated with inoculum in soil, especially when soils are wet, and subsequently transported elsewhere,” he said. Unless transported along creeks, in urban areas the risk of transport downstream is not that high, he added.

Best practices for gardeners also include scrupulous cleaning of garden tools and equipment and even shoes. Spraying surfaces with 70 percent isopropyl alcohol can help disinfect tools and other surfaces, Lacan added. Q — Sue Dremann

and whether the practices are effective. A plant pathologist will work with nurseries to tailor the practices to the nursery and make sure they are practical but effective. Then an inspector will check periodically to monitor that the practices are being followed.

So far, seven Bay Area nurseries have agreed to take part in the pilot project, which will include a range of nursery sizes and types of operations, such as those using volunteer labor or professional staff. Which agency would do the certification hasn’t yet been decided, she said.

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wiecki said that it’s important for nurseries — and the public — to become aware of the problem and its potential to harm the environment.

His work with the Ione manzanita, a threatened species, has shown how devastating Phytophthora can be. Wide swaths of the shrub have been wiped out.

But that isn’t all. Phytophthoras are attacking forests in Oakland and Sonoma and other parts of the Bay Area, and they aren’t limited to trees. Water-loving Phytophthora species also attack aquatic plants. A cross of Phytophthora inundata was discovered in the marshes in lower San Francisco Bay, and it is attacking the pickleweed in a site that was being mitigated for the Salt Marsh harvest mouse. And sages, sticky monkey flower, coffeeberry, Artemisia, coyote mint and many other plants are susceptible to Phytophthora species. The Rizzo Lab in 2016 identified the microbes on about 30 native plant species planted from nursery stock.

While the root-rotting forms are currently in small areas, one need look no further than what another infamous Phytophtora species has already accomplished.

Sudden oak death from Phytophthora ramorum, which attacks the leaves of trees, has killed more than 3 million oaks in California, according to the task force. It has caused twig and leaf diseases in many other plant species, including California bay laurel, Douglas fir, and coast redwood, according

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Cindy Roessler, right, biologist and Amanda Mills, left, natural resources specialist for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, work on cleaning wildflower seeds by placing the seeds in large bowls and carefully blowing the husk and debris away on Sept. 9. Large containers of wild plant seeds, seen at left, are kept for future restoration projects.

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to the California Oak Mortality Task Force.

Identified 30 years ago, it was not a widely damaging pathogen until 2004, when a few large West Coast nurseries inadvertently shipped more than 1 million potentially infected ornamental rhododendrons and camellia plants throughout the U.S. Now it has spread to 21 states.

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Native plant seeds are stored in a room at the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. Biologists are working to extract the seeds and grow the plants rather than rely on nurseries, so that they can watch the plants closely and avoid pathogen contamination.

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An exhibition of works by Nick Cave at the Anderson Collection features a number of his Soundsuits,full-body-sized sculptures that are sometimes worn as costumes and performed in. They conceal the wearers’ identity to leave no indication of race, gender or age.

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Nick Cave’s Soundsuits are part sculpture and ornament, armor and instrument and are often worn as costumes and performed in. This one and seven others are on display at the Anderson Collection at Stanford.

thing familiar about the experience of seeing them even for the first time. In a gallery filled with people, this experience becomes a joyful and subversive wake of silent, but collective, sharing.

Art enthusiasts will have the opportunity to experience this wearable art in person. A collection of Cave’s evocative Soundsuits will be on exhibit at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University through Aug. 14, 2017, on loan from the Anderson family, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and private collectors.

Cave, who now the director of the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, may not have had the words to describe the latent potency of abandoned objects as a child in Missouri. It is possible, however, the idea that things hold an imprint of all their former lives seeped into his personal identity early on as he accepted hand-medowns passed to him from his six older siblings.

Cave created his first soundsuit in 1992 as a response to the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the subsequent riots. This suit was made from fallen twigs gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park.

He drilled holes in each twig and then sewed them together. His intention was not to create wear-

able art, but it was only after he slipped the suit of twigs over his head and heard the sound of dry, rattling sticks did Cave experience its power.

His later suits have since evolved “from a dark place to being more about the materials,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection. “On the surface, they’re fun — but imagine yourself in them.”

The thought-provoking and challenging suits are constructed in ways that refuse to reveal gender, age or race. They offer complete anonymity. To imagine yourself in them is to turn the collective sharing of memories into a personal epiphany.

The Anderson exhibit includes eight Soundsuits, three video works and a recently completed documentary about Nick Cave titled “Here.” There also is an interactive felt wall where visitors to the gallery can help create a trio of two-dimensional soundsuits.

Public programs supporting the exhibition will continue throughout the year. This fall, there will be pop-up family activities in Studio 2 and a mobile art studio parked on the Anderson Collection grounds.Q Freelance writer Mimm Patterson can be emailed at mimmp@mac.com.

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he stuff we hold on to, those things we collect — dried flowers from our senior prom, the cassette mix-tape from a friend — what do they say about our past, and what stories can they tell to others?

Nick Cave might have the answer. He is a collector, a performance artist, a dancer and the creator of Soundsuits — full bodysized sculptures made from a collection of other people’s castoffs.

Cave gathers castoffs from flea markets, antique shops and yard sales: buttons, beads and brass fittings, sequins, toys and old, fraying afghans. Each item he finds holds a story — the energetic imprint from every previous owner, which he assembles into his Soundsuits. In that way, it can be said that Soundsuits are formed from memories.

The Chicago artist’s creations are part sculpture and ornament, armor and instrument and are often worn as costumes and performed in.

The energetic vibration of each single, insignificant article is magnified by how Cave chooses to bind them together. Each found object is transformed through the combination of color, history, function and sound. They force a reaction based on the viewer’s personal history. There is some-

This 2011 Soundsuit from the collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson is made of beaded baskets, pipe cleaners, bugle beads, upholstery and metal.

What: Nick Cave “Soundsuits” Where: The Anderson Collection at Stanford, 314 Lomita Drive, Stanford When: Sept. 14, 2016 - Aug. 14, 2017, Wednesday through Monday: 11a.m. to 5p.m. ; Thursday: 11a.m. to 8 p.m.; Closed Tuesday; Public docent-led tours are offered Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. and on the weekends at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Cost: Free Info: Info: https://anderson. stanford.edu

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Cheyenne Wells plays, Ariel, the spunky mermaid who rescues Prince Eric, played by Corey Miller, and of course thus begins a timeless romance in the musical version of “The Little Mermaid.”

Under the Sea ‘Little Mermaid’ makes extravagant splash on stage

by Jeanie K. Smith

THEATER REVIEW tian Andersen morphed quite a bit for Disney’s film version and has morphed even more in the musical by Wright. It’s still the story of spunky teenager Ariel (Cheyenne Wells), the mermaid who feels out of place in her watery home and longs to join the world of men on land. She’s known for her voice like an angel, but also her fierce independence and unwillingness

ute movie, something patrons with small children need to know.

But the enchanting performances and spectacle will definitely give them sugarplum dreams.

Wells is a true find for Ariel, sweet and feisty, with killer vocals and expert dancing — a real triple threat. She’s matched by the considerable talents of Daniel Lloyd Pias, who plays Sebastian the crab, and Miller and Mandracchia, all of whom deliver the goods in their solos and also join her for a beautiful quartet in Act Two. Kristen Hermosillo does a great turn as the sea-witch villain Ursula, and even Drew Hope (Flounder), Kevin Redrico (seagull Scuttle), and evil eels Jepoy Ramos (Flotsam) and Joshua C. Lau (Jetsam) get their chances to shine. Joey McDaniel, a Players’ favorite, returns as the delightful Chef Louis, giving a fun rendering of “Les Poissons.”

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alo Alto Players has pulled out all the stops for its season opener with a colorful, extravagant and fun production of “The Little Mermaid” as adapted for stage by Alan Menken and Doug Wright. It’s big, it’s bold, and it pays wonderful homage to one of the most beloved animated films of all time.

The original tale by Hans Chris-

to bow to her father King Triton’s (Nick Mandracchia) wishes.

When fate throws sailor Prince Eric (Corey Miller) into the sea, Ariel rescues him and sings to revive him, and of course thus begins a timeless romance.

In this production, the action switches between underwater and above water scenes, sometimes on board Eric’s ship, sometimes at his palace on land. There’s some nifty sleight-of-hand scene shifting to make those transitions work, including flying and projections and more. Scenic designer Patrick Klein (also Players’ artistic director) teamed with lighting designer Edward Hunter and projections technician Nick Kumamoto to make spectacular magic on the Stern stage. Little ones (and big people, too) will be suitably impressed and entertained by the enchantment.

In transforming the 1989 film to a musical in 2007, Menken and Wright revised the script, and Menken added at least 10 new songs, bringing in lyricist Glenn Slater after his original lyricist partner, Howard Ashman, died in the intervening years. Mixed critical reception on Broadway led to yet another reinvention by Glenn Casale in 2012, which became the authorized version for all current productions. Die-hard fans of the film may find some of the new numbers a bit mystifying or even distracting; the show is also considerably longer than the 90-min-

Joey McDaniel returns to the stage as the delightful Chef Louis, giving a fun rendering of “Les Poissons.”

The entire ensemble lives it up as numerous characters — sailors, mermaid sisters, sea creatures, courtiers, and more, obviously enjoying their different incarnations.

Costume designer Ashley Grambow has a mammoth undertaking, and succeeds admirably in bringing dozens of characters to life with creative costuming.

Triton’s ruffled skirt is puzzling, but Ursula the giant sea witch is nicely creepy and awesome at the same time. Hair and makeup by Christine Ormseth mostly pairs well with costumes, although the sailors’ wigs are a bit woeful. Director Janie Scott and her team, including music director Lauren F. Bevilacqua, have created an amusing and charming show for all the family, and fill the Stern with a magical undersea fable. Q What: “The Little Mermaid,” Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics

by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, Book by Doug Wright, presented by Palo Alto Players Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Through Oct. 2, with 7:30 p.m. shows Thursday, 8 p.m.

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Dance Contemporary celebration ZiRu Dance is celebrating the diversity of artistic viewpoints in the West Coast’s contemporary dance scene at its inaugural Silicon Valley Dance Festival: Across the Current Now at Menlo Atherton Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24-25.

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Don’t like salsa? Nosh on delicious fare from local restaurants. The festival is free. Courthouse Square is located at 2200 Broadway St. Go to redwoodcity.org.

Exhibit Many communities, many voices “We were the token gay couple.” “We moved to Los Altos to be part of a community.” These are some of the phrases featured in a new exhibit curated by Kristin Morris at the Los Altos History Museum. The exhibit, which draws on the museum’s Oral History

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Artists and activists will come together on Sunday, Sept. 25, for the 2016 Concert Across America to End Gun Violence with a nationwide series of live concerts, including a free show at Backyard Coffee Co. in Redwood City, featuring Redwood City-based band The Corner Laughers, Peninsula jamband Greensmyth and San Francisco singer/songwriter Pete Kronowitt.

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Above: Russian cellist Ian Maksin will bring his one-of-a-kind eclectic rock, R&B and pop arrangements to Mountain View on Sept. 23.

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Silicon Valley winemaker

by Anna Medina // photos by Michelle Le

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riving up Page Mill Road, past HP, Theranos and Stanford University, the road toward Portola Vineyards begins to curve, slowly snaking through the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. An unassuming gravel road leads into the property where, amid the redwoods and grape vines it’s easy to forget you’re in Silicon Valley. Portola Vineyards, situated within Palo Alto’s city limits, is the only remaining winery in Palo Alto.

Indeed, Len Lehmann, owner and winemaker of Portola Vineyards, takes pleasure in recounting how, once upon a time, Palo Alto and the surrounding area was known for its vineyards and its wine. He says it like it’s a bit of unknown history — so few people associate Palo Alto with winemaking.

“There’s a heavy tradition of winemaking in this area which has been forgotten, but this was the epicenter of winemaking in the Americas,” Lehmann said. “The French and Italians came to the Bay Area with the Gold Rush and noted that the climate was perfect

Len Lehmann, who first planted his winery’s grapes in 2003, walks through Portola Vineyards.

Portola Vineyards, Palo Alto’s only winery, eschews high tech for old-world techniques

for winemaking, and so they imported European vines.”

Lehmann noted that a tour bus full of visitors wanting to see Silicon Valley occasionally makes its first stop just outside the vineyard. The tour guide makes the point that this is the “antithesis of Silicon Valley,” Lehmann said.

Or, maybe just a relic of what it used to be.

On a warm afternoon, Lehmann sat in a grove of trees on a shaded, wooden picnic table overlooking rows of his grapevines and recalled that winemaking was never something he had deliberately planned to do. In fact, like many in the Bay Area, Lehmann has a background in tech. Before he began to dabble in winemaking, he either founded or co-founded three companies.

In the interview, he spoke of the differences between the “ag economy and the tech economy,” describing agriculture as humbling, especially in light of the challenges nature throws at you. Lehmann noted that the timeline in tech is very compressed, call-

ing it a “game of survival.” Planting a plained, allows for a safe and controlled vineyard has a high capital cost, one that way to gather them. slowly yields fruit over time — a busiOn a recent afternoon, Lehmann said ness model that generally goes against he was coming up on one of the most the tech world’s tendencies. difficult decisions a winemaker makes: “The original plan was to grow fruit when to harvest the grapes. and use the land productively, but then “Unlike oranges or apples that can be my wife bought me a small press and de- on the tree for a long time, wine grapes stemmer,” he recalled with amusement, are at their prime for only about three or referring to a device used to separate four days,” he said. grapes from their stems.

If picked too early, the flavor isn’t fully He began planting in 2003. Today, expressed and tannins can be harsh, but Lehmann’s certified organic vineyard if picked too late, the taste can become and micro-winery is a small-scale op- jammy, he said. eration, producing around 1,000 cases a He and Anthony Triolo, Portola Vineyear. The winery’s distribution is hyper- yards’ assistant winemaker, were keeplocal, selling at select stores in the Palo ing a close eye on the weather, which Alto, Menlo Park and Portola Valley plays a central role in the process. area.

They were also anticipating calling It turns out the French and Italian im- their 200 members, many of whom pitch migrants knew what they were doing in on the major harvest day every year. when they began to cultivate grapevines Lehmann described the harvest as a “celin the Santa Cruz Mountains. According ebration” during which there’s a potluck to Lehmann, the cool band of tempera- lunch, people bring their children and ture in the area is ideal for the burgun- members hand-harvest the grapes allotdian grape, which produces chardonnay ted for that day. After this, grapes are and pinot noir, two of the varietals Por- transferred to a crush pad where memtola Vineyards is known for, although it bers can participate in foot-crushing. makes others. “(Foot-crushing) is considered a highSales Manager Danusia Szumowski, end technique. The proponents say that who worked as assistant winemaker the foot is the perfect instrument for last year, described this grape as a “fin- crushing grapes. It’s soft enough that it icky, thin-skinned grape, susceptible to doesn’t damage the seeds, and damaged mildew.” seeds release an objectionable tannin,” “We really baby it,” Szumowski said. Lehmann said.

“Each vine gets touched at least 10 to 15 The bins of crushed grapes are then times at various points over the course moved into the sun for about a week to of the season.” begin native fermentation, during which This kind of attention is not something the native yeasts on the skins of the every vineyard can afford to do, she grapes begin the fermentation process. said. Many vineyards are mechanized. Lehmann then presses the grapes by In contrast, Portola Vineyards harvests the grapes by hand, which, Lehmann •ex(continued on next page) www.PaloAltoOnline.com Palo Alto Weekly • September 23, 2016 • Page 27

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employing a hand-actuated basket press, an ancient technology, after which he allows malolactic or bacterial fermentation to take place over the winter months.

At the conclusion of this carefully monitored process, the barrels of wine will be cooled, stabilized and held for another one or two years before bottling. Once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bottled, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s held for another one to two years before release.

For white wine, the process is slightly different. In order to achieve a fruitier wine, the fermentation is kept cool by circulating propylene glycol. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then kept in oak barrels for about four months before it finishes aging in stainless steel.

Throughout the year, Lehmann and Trioloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time is spent monitoring and maintaining the vineyard and the wines, from pruning to shoot-thinning to canopy management to placing bird nets over the vines, and finally to bottling in February. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our members â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to the extent theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have the opportunity to help tend the vines, participate in the harvest and crush and make the wine ... many of our members choose to get pretty involved,â&#x20AC;? Lehmann said.

Triolo, a member-turned-employee, recently moved to Portola Valley from France. He had an interest in wine and asked Lehmann if he could take a look at the winery.

The amount of involvement Lehmann encourages in his vineyard harkens to an age-old tradition in Europe of community involvement in winemaking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually have memories â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not only with grape harvest, but also with olives ... Kids from school would take class trips to go harvest, you know, work the fields.

And, I was kind of looking for a setting like this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a nice, relaxing way to learn about winemaking,â&#x20AC;?

Triolo said.

This is part of the culture of the winery, which Lehmann describes as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;community-supported winery,â&#x20AC;? modeled after Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs. CSAs provide subscribers regular shipments of produce and oftentimes, opportunities for members to work at the farm and follow whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the fields. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an educational experience as well as a way to closely connect the farm to its consumers.

Since planting those first vines more than a decade ago, Lehmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life has taken on a different tenor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life has a peace now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measured. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to do each season,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something spiritual and grounding about making wine.

After all, he noted, even in the heart of Silicon Valley, the winemaking technology hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. Q Editorial Assistant and Intern Coordinator Anna Medina can be e-mailed at amedina@ paweekly.com.

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Special delivery ‘Storks’ drops gifts for kids and adults 000 (Century 16 and 20) writing and directing “Get Him to the Greek,” “The Five-Year Engagement,” and “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.” Perhaps more crucially, as the sole credited screenwriter of “Storks,” Stoller takes responsibility for the raw comedic materials and plot of this animated comedy.

That plot concerns the mythical role of storks in human society: once responsible for the home “delivery” of babies, storks have gotten with the corporate times and turned their talents to drone-like delivery for an Amazon.com-esque company ironically called cornerstone. com given its headquarters precariously perched on a mountain peak above the clouds. Lording over the HQ is executive CEO Hunter (Kelsey Grammer), whose power hunger is about to leave a vacancy in the role of day-to-day “boss.” Hunter offers the job of boss to junior executive Junior (Andy Samberg), but first Junior must fire the company’s

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There’s money — lots of it — to be made in the field of CGI-animated features, so it’s no wonder that talent nurtured in the field of live-action features should be finding its way to a genre that’s generally thought to be for kids, and that major distributors would welcome such audience-broadening talent with open arms. While “kids of all ages” — especially those with kids of kid ages — have long gravitated to Disney and Pixar films, there’s a bit of extra cachet on an animated film from Wes Anderson (“The Fantastic Mr. Fox”) or Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (“The Lego Movie,” their follow-up to “21 Jump Street”). Which brings us to “Storks.”

Animator/director Doug Sweetland shares directing credit with director Nicholas Stoller. Stoller gets top billing because his liveaction resume includes directing “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Neighbors,” co-writing both of the recent Muppets films, and

Kelsey Grammar stars as Hunter, the power-hungry CEO of delivery company cornerstone.com in the animated movie “Storks.” sole human employee, orphan gal Tulip (Katie Crown).

Instead, a farcical series of choices and accidents leads to the reactivation of the storks’ mothballed baby-making machine. To cover up the mistake, Junior and Tulip must eliminate the evidence by delivering the baby. Their adventure takes them through the proverbial “snow ... rain ... heat ... (and) gloom of night” of postal legend. Worse, the baby at one point runs the risk of being raised by wolves — specifically, a pack of wolves with Transformers-esque skills to create vehicular shapes

(and with the voices of KeeganMichael Key and Jordan Peele).

Meanwhile, a boy (Anton Starkman) dreaming on a baby brother prepares his home and his parents (Ty Burrell and Jennifer Aniston) for the special delivery (“I’m not a jerky teen yet,” he cajoles them. “Fleeting moments.

Precious memories”).

As that description suggests, “Storks” has the familiar manic action considered requisite of the genre (unless you’re Wes Anderson), but its slick dynamism meets with considerable humor and, specifically, proves its consistent adeptness with

comic timing. Samberg’s jitterynerdy energy comes through, and Stoller applies a level of taste and restraint to the film’s use of source music and amusingly awkward pauses. The plot and messages (of conscious priorities, No. 1 being family) are refined enough that, were this released under the Pixar banner, it’s probable that no one would bat an eye, which is high praise for this Warner Animation Group project.

Rated PG for mild action and some thematic elements. One hour, 29 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

She’s not who she seams Hometown reaps what ‘The Dressmaker’ sews 000 (The Guild) home of her half-crazed, shutin mother Molly (Judy Davis).

Tilly tosses clutter, cleans the house and opens for business as a dressmaker, but not before a bit of creative advertising distractingly wearing her wares at a rugby match. There, she drums up business and catches the eye of local hunk Teddy McSwiney (Liam Hemsworth). What follows is part slow-burn mother-daughter drama, part slow-burn suspense, and part slow-burn romance, with a few twists for good measure as the town begins to come apart at the seams.

That the incongruous parts function as well as they do is down mostly to the skill of Moorhouse and her actors. Winslet and Davis expertly portray Tilly and Molly’s renegotiation for each other’s familial affection, the ensemble of eccentrics (including Hugo Weaving as a deeply sensual transvestite police sergeant, Sarah Snook of “Predestination” as a mousy shop clerk, and Barry Otto as a hunchbacked funda-

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“The Dressmaker” begins with a homecoming. Kate Winslet’s titular couturier returns by dead of night, in 1951, to her small country town of Dungatar, Australia. Dolled up like 1940s movie star Veronica Lake, she sets down her weapon of choice, a Singer sewing machine. “I’m back, you bastards,” she intones, for her own satisfaction. And with that, we’re primed for a revenge tale.

But this isn’t “Kill Bill, Part 3,” and we can be thankful for that.

In adapting Rosalie Ham’s debut novel, screenwriters P.J. Hogan (“Muriel’s Wedding”) and Jocelyn Moorhouse (“Proof”) aren’t after the usual bloody release but rather what Moorhouse has described as a more “feminine” form of revenge. “The Dressmaker” is about as tender as the revenge genre gets, though the fundamental thing applies: vengeance is a compulsion, not a recipe for happiness.

Winslet plays Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, who reinstalls herself in the remote town’s remotest

Kate Winslet plays a glamorous dressmaker out for sweet revenge in 1950s Australia in the slow-burn suspense “The Dressmaker.” mentalist pharmacist) power the film’s uniquely Australian comic tone, and Hemsworth ups his game in the company of Winslet and Davis.

“The Dressmaker” also prods us to consider the value of the “look good, feel good” ethic.

Results are results, and there’s no harm in a bit of romantic idealism (represented by repeated spins of the “South Pacific” soundtrack album). But there’s also a willful delusion in how the

townspeople think Tilly’s fashionable adjustments are making them “less like themselves and more like they want to be” (as if to prove the point, Snook’s Gertrude happily reports, “Everyone calls me Trudy now”). Cosmetic makeovers to the dusty town and Molly’s house can serve as an allegory for our existential struggle against entropic rot, and a thirdact dramatic costume competition underlines the role-playing aspect of dress-up (“Plays are

such fun — they bring out the best and worst in people”).

A thirst for vengeance keeps Tilly trapped within Dungatar’s past-and-present maelstrom of gossip, lies and hate — and vice versa. Something’s gotta give, and waiting to find out what and how makes “The Dressmaker” compelling viewing.

Rated R for brief language and a scene of violence. One hour, 58 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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Of course, Warner Brothers, Eastwood and Hanks are really hoping youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll forget that investigations are obligatory, and that public relations exist and generally preclude publicly dressing down heroes.

Maybe there was a worthy way to tell Sullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story outside of his 208-second trial by air and water, but making Sully a crusader in a hearing room isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it.

Rated PG-13 for some peril and brief strong language. One hour, 35 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;P.C.(Reviewed Sept.6, 2016)

The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: Sully 00 Billed as the untold story of the miracle on the Hudson, Clint Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sullyâ&#x20AC;? recounts airline pilot Chesley â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sullyâ&#x20AC;? Sullenbergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expert 2009 water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after dual engine failure.

The movie does a fine job of recreating the short flight and its immediate aftermath as 155 souls evacuate, but the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;untold storyâ&#x20AC;? is essentially nonsense, suggesting that burgeoning air-safety entrepreneur Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) had to fear the judgment of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), especially before a climactic public hearing. The struggle is real for screenwriter Todd Komarnicki (the Halle Berry-Bruce Willis thriller â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perfect Strangerâ&#x20AC;?) in telling this â&#x20AC;&#x153;untold story,â&#x20AC;? purportedly based on Sullenbergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own book (with Jeffrey Zaslow) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Highest

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.

Bad Moms (R)

Century 20: 5:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:20 p.m. Sun. 11:10 a.m.

Blair Witch (R) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 12:40, 2:40, 3:15, 5:40, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:30 p.m. Sun. 11 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 9:50 & 10:30 p.m.

Bridget Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baby (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 9 & 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 5:05, 7:15, 8 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:50 & 11:55 a.m., 1:40, 3, 4:35, 6:10, 7:35, 9:10 & 10:35 p.m.

The Devil is a Woman (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:55 & 9:55 p.m.

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Century 20: 8:05 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 2:50 p.m.

The Dressmaker (R) +++ Equity (R)

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Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 4:20, 7:25 & 10:15 p.m.

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Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30 p.m.

Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dragon (PG) Century 16: 9 & 11:40 a.m., 2:25 p.m.

Century 20: 3:40 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:40 p.m. Sun. 12:50 p.m.

Queen Kelly (1929) (Not Rated) The Secret Life of Pets (PG)

Stanford Theatre: Sat. 7:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m.

Snowden (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 12:25, 3:55, 7:10 & 10:20 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m.

Century 20: Sun. 2 p.m.

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

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 12:35, 1:25, 4:05, 5:45, 7, 8:40 & 9:30 p.m. In 3-D at 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 3:05, 4:55, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m.

Suicide Squad (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 7:20 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m.

Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Not Rated)

Stanford Theatre: Sat. 5:25 & 9:25 p.m.

Century 16: 9 & 11:55 a.m. Century 20: 1:50 p.m.

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinĂŠArts 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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A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz

Home Front GLASS FOR SALE ... Paly students as well as professional artists handcrafted blown glass objects will be on sale at the Palo Alto Fiery Arts Fall Glass Sale and Glass Blowing Demonstrations benefiting the Palo Alto High School Sculpture classes.

The sale will be today Sept.

23, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Palo Alto High School, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto between the two theaters. For more information go to www.facebook. com/PalyFieryArts and www.tinyurl. com/PaloAltoGlass.

LANDSCAPE PLANNING FOR BEGINNERS ... The City of Palo Alto in conjunction with the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA) will offer a landscape design class for residents planning to replace their lawns with more water-efficient landscapes.

The class will be held Saturday, Sept 24 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Lucie Stern Community Center Community Room. The class is a step-by-step overview of basic landscape design principles. Learn about optimal plant arrangements, design concepts, and have your questions answered by a professional landscape contractor.

By the end of the class you can expect to leave with ideas for your landscape conversion. Bring a rough sketch of your landscape with approximate measurements, a pencil and eraser to brainstorm ideas for what your new water efficient landscape will look like.

To register go to http://bawsca. org/conserve/programs/classes/.

More City of Palo Alto workshops are listed at cityofpaloalto.org/ workshops.

FIVE-DOLLAR CLASS ... Learn how to make your garden honeybeefriendly with Common Ground Garden’s class this Saturday, Sept.

24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The class is only $5 because the city of Palo Alto’s Public Works-Watershed Protection and the Our Water, Our World program underwrites it.

Learn tips and techniques that will help you transform your garden into a safe oasis for honeybees, native bees, birds and other pollinators. Come find out ways to bring the pollinators in and keep them healthy once they are there.

The class will be held at Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto. To register go to http://commongroundgarden. org/?p=1335.

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

Light generously streams in throughout the house, through clerestory windows, a transom over the master-bedroom door, massive floor-toceiling sliding glass doors in the great room and narrow floor-to-ceiling windows elsewhere.

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The bedrooms are minimalistic, with only a bed, nightstands and floating desks.

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o drawer pulls, window moldings or massive appliances mar the minimalist aesthetic of the Moody Road home, the smallest of the five homes on tour this weekend as part of the self-guided Dwell Silicon Valley Home Tour.

Owners Mauri Okamoto-Kearney and Terry Kearney had already done a practice run on modernizing their previous home in Palo Alto.

This time, the couple started from scratch.

“We wanted it to be site-appropriate, and my husband is very particular about revealing the bones, the structure, of everything, not covering things up,” Okamoto-Kearney said.

At the Los Altos Hills home, “the whole

view

surrounding felt like it was as if you were in the ocean, in a trough between two waves.

You had all this greenery, so the challenge was to have the outdoors inside, but not to be overwhelmed with all the sun during the day and the cold at night,” she said.

Working with the couple, Palo Alto architect Stephen Atkinson came up with a simple L-shaped design, with a kitchen/great room along one axis and a wing for the two bedrooms and master bathroom, all in just over 2,200 square feet.

The kitchen has a large Caesarstone-topped island, which encases a deep stainless steel sink. All the cabinetry is made of birch veneer, and the refrigerator and dishwasher are faced with the same veneer. Electrical outlets are hidden, and drawers are opened via push latches.

Even Okamoto-Kearney’s favorite kitchen feature, the pantry with its pull-out wire shelving

by Rev-a-Shelf, is entirely hidden behind doors.

“Terry and Mauri are minimalists, a rare find for an architect. Usually it’s the architect dragging the clients toward minimalism,” Atkinson said.

Okamoto-Kearney credits her husband with the choice of off-white walls and light birch flooring. “Terry likes monotone,” she said.

“It has a kind of Zen peace about the interior; they developed the palette in their earlier remodel,” Atkinson added.

Beyond the kitchen is the audio-visual room where the couple watches television. The room also serves as a guest room. It’s closed off from

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the kitchen with glass “barn” doors on sliders.

“It’s an exterior door used inside. Because it’s exterior, the acoustics are fantastic,” Atkinson said, adding that when the doors are open it makes the house seem huge.

Many of the ideas incorporated in the home —floor-level toe-kick recesses rather than moldings, “reveals” instead of crown molding, where the walls don’t quite meet the ceiling — were inspired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Others came from Atkinson, once the budget was loosened a tad. Large glass sliding doors now extend floor to ceiling with no post at the corner marring the view.

“As time went by, once we had a simple footprint, Terry and Mauri started to relax and make it more luxurious. They changed the ground rules in the best ways, opened the budget yet still managed to save a lot of money because the bones were so simple,” Atkinson said.

“They allowed me to put two pieces of steel to get a dramatic open corner. Adding to the simplicity of the L, I added this diagonal axis from the courtyard to the outdoor view.”

Other key features that challenged the contractor and raised the costs included pulling the windows indoors by six inches, rather than aligning them with the exterior, creating toe kicks instead of baseboard molding and making the wraparound balcony level with the great-room floor. (continued on page 33)

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Contact information for emergency repairs edited by Anky van Deursen

Q

I live in a large apartment community.

For the most part, the management staff has been responsive to repair requests, but there have been times when they are unavailable for extended periods of time.

I’m concerned that an emergency may occur during one of these periods of absence.

I asked for the property owner’s name and contact number, but the managers refused.

How do I get this information?

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Finding the contact information for the actual owner may be possible, but it may not be the best solution to your problem. If a rental complex has 16 or more rental units, state regulations (Title 25, Section 42) require the presence of a residential manager on the property. If the local managers are absent from the property for extended periods of time, that absence would violate this regulation.

In most situations, local management has the expertise and physical proximity to deal with issues, such as repairs, rather than an owner who may be more remote. However, if you need to escalate to the owner, most property-owner information is available, by street

address, from county tax assessor records. Also California Civil Code 1962 requires that a tenant be provided the name, telephone number and usual street address of an owner or agent where personal service may be completed and to whom rent payments can be made. The code states this information must be listed in each rental agreement or posted in at least two easy-to-see places, including elevators. If you don’t have a copy of the rental agreement, you can request one and the property owner or their agent must provide one within 15 days of your request. You may want to document the local staff unavailability in a written communication to the contact person as mentioned in Civil Code 1962. If an emergency involves a situation that falls within the landlord’s duty to provide a habitable premises, such as adequate heating, the failure of management to be present and to take reasonably prompt repair action may entitle you to a remedy for damages. Q Project Sentinel provides landlord-tenant dispute resolution and fair-housing services in Northern California, including rental-housing mediation programs in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. Call 650-856-4062 for dispute resolution or 650-321-6291 for fair housing, email info@housing.org or visit housing.org.

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

Atherton

5 Carolina Lane Carolina Lane Limited to 119 Limited for $16,400,000 on 08/15/16; built 1950, 3bd, 3130 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 05/13/2013, $4,003,000)

East Palo Alto

420 Larkspur Drive Witt Trust to E. & S. Marquez for $650,000 on 08/12/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1020 sq.ft. ;previous sale 04/07/1976, $21,500) 120 Wisteria Drive I. McFarland to M. Elhams for $625,000 on 08/11/16; built 1952, 2bd, 810 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/19/1973, $17,500)

Los Altos

2139 Aitken Avenue Saund Trust to P. & S. Shukla for $1,695,000.00 on 09/01/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1433 sq.ft. ; previous sale 07/31/2012, $1,085,000) 485 Deodara Drive Medina Trust to G. & A. Vavoso for $3,875,000.00 on 08/31/16; built 2005, 4bd, 3698 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/19/2006, $3,200,000) 511 Orange Avenue Marken Trust to C. Tar for $2,215,000.00 on

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Dwell Silicon Valley Tour (continued from page 31)

The kitchen has a large Caesarstone-topped island, which encases a deep stainless stell sink. All the cabinets are made of birch veneer, and the refrigerator and dishwasher are faced with the same veneer. Okamoto-Kearney’s favorite feature is the Rev-a-Shelf, pullout wire shelving hidden by doors.

With no air conditioning and minimal need for heat, the home was designed to capture passive solar features.

Outside, using ipe wood with spacers for exterior horizontal siding that fronts a rain screen made of a Gortex-like vapor barrier, also pushed up the costs.

But the rain screen, inspired by Scandinavian wood construction, creates a breathable building, Kearney said. “We wanted a tight building, but one problem is mold, if it doesn’t breathe. This system breathes,” he said.

Minimalism is seen in the two bathrooms, each with the same limestone tiles (alternating 12-by-24-inch and 6-by-24-inch) on both the walls and floors. The floor extends into the shower, which has no curb, a trough drain and a glass half-wall separating it from the toilet. The guest bath sports one small round sink, with the single faucet extending from the mirror. The master bathroom features two round sinks and similar hardware.

The bedrooms are again minimalistic, with only a bed, nightstands and floating desks. (The master bedroom does have a huge walk-in closet with a built-in bureau and walls that don’t quite reach the ceiling.)

Light generously streams in throughout the house, through clerestory windows, a transom over the master-bedroom door, massive floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in the great room and narrow floor-to-ceiling windows elsewhere.

With temperature fluctuations easily 40 degrees in a single day, the home was designed to capture passive solar features.

There’s no air conditioning, and the heat is seldom turned on, Okamoto-Kearney said.

Likewise, landscaping was planned to use both regionally native and drought-resistant plants, but the long-lasting drought is testing the “survival of the fittest,” she added.

But the main environmental gift, Atkinson said, was keeping the size modest.

“They could have doubled the square footage. We were thrilled to buck the system and not max out on the square footage for resale.

That’s a huge gift for an architect, (saying) I only want it as big for our needs. We’re building this for ourselves, not for resale.

“The most important driver of the whole project was simply to get the living room high enough to enjoy the view. The view is dramatically better three feet higher,” Atkinson said.

“We couldn’t bear missing out on the view of the hills,” Okamoto-Kearney said.

Other homes on tour include: Q Low-rise house (Menlo Park): a re-imagined suburban ranch (4,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms. 3.5 bathrooms) with a three-story tower and roof deck. Architect: Dan Spiegel, Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) Q Dyson residence (Portola Valley): renovated midcentury home that opened up the views by creating two A-frames connected by a glass-walled family room (5,300 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms). Architect: Carl Hesse, square three design studios Q Erica residence (Portola Valley): a modern courtyard house with an open floor plan in public areas, private wing clustered toward rear (3,150 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms). Architect: Ana Williamson Q Rolling Hills estate (Saratoga): On the crest of a hill, this contemporary home features passive ventilation and green roofs (12,000 square feet, 9 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms). Architect: Louis Leu. Included in the tour ticket price is admission to a “Meet the Architects” night on Friday, Sept. 23, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The event will offer an opportunity to chat with the architects and designers, preview the tour homes and partake of cocktails and light bites. Location will be provided after ticket purchase. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

What: Dwell Silicon Valley Home Tour When: Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Five homes in Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills and Saratoga Cost: $100 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite. com/e/dwell-silicon-valley-home-tourstickets-21228291391 Info: http://www.archive.dwell.com/ hometours/siliconvalley

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361 Claire Place Arami Trust to Madeleine River Limited for $4,000,000 on 08/15/16; built 2014, 4bd, 2,287 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/04/2009, $1,707,000 1801 Doris Drive B. & D. Smith to J. & K. Cherry for $6,700,000 on 08/11/16; built 2004, 4bd, 4,123 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/27/2012, $4,472,000 345 Elm Street E. Williams to T. Kleist for $1,600,000 on 08/15/16; built 1928, 3bd, 1,530 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/29/1987, $215,000 1254 Sharon Park Drive Kaphan Trust to Frederick Trust for $1,620,000 on 08/15/16; built

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1976, 2bd, 1,820 sq.ft.

Mountain View

56 Church Street F. & S. Fihn to J. & A. Hensley for $1,651,000 on 08/31/16; built 1939, 2bd, 1323 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/29/1994, $285,500 22395 Diericx Court K. & J. Poscic to S. Verghese for $2,290,000 on 08/31/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,879 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/19/2011, $1,237,500

Palo Alto

846 Altaire Walk X. Zhang to E. Wang for $1,600,000 on 08/31/16; previous sale 04/21/2010, $768,000 1048 Colorado Place S. Kelly to S. Qiu for $1,600,000 on 08/31/16; built 1981, 2bd, 1572 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/23/1996, $259,500 445 Monroe Drive G. Loffin to Hake Trust for $1,852,500 on 08/31/16; built 1926, 3bd, 1,791 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/26/2011,

$1,022,500 3188 Ross Road Potash Trust to Q. Zhao for $2,325,000 on 08/31/16; built 1956, 4bd, 1,651 sq.ft.

765 San Antonio Road #51 Bundy Trust to D. Lai for $967,000 on 08/31/16; built 1976, 2bd, 1,030 sq.ft.

481 Washington Avenue R. & R. Sethi to Z. Yan for $7,200,000 on 09/01/16; built 2011, 4bd, 4,837 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/13/2009, $2,050,000

Portola Valley

255 Cervantes Road Larson Trust to Lu Jia Zhai Limited for $6,000,000 on 08/11/16; built 1961, 4bd, 2,940 sq.ft.

Woodside

210 Woodside Drive L. Langensan to P. Parthasarathy for $2,725,000 on 08/15/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,650 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/04/2010, $1,500,000

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

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131 Concord Circle, Mountain View Offered at $1,298,000 Upgraded Home Enjoys Prime Location Complemented by a serene neighborhood setting, this updated 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom detached home of approx. 1,300 sq. ft. (per county) stands within easy proximity of local amenities. The breezy interior offers high ceilings, a gas fireplace, and upgrades including energy-efficient features and Milgard windows. Stainless-steel appliances and granite countertops are showcased in the kitchen, while the master suite enjoys vaulted ceilings. Other highlights include central cooling and a newly landscaped outdoor retreat.

The Crossings community boasts parks and a swimming pool, and you will be within strolling distance of the Village at San Antonio Center and Caltrain, and near excellent Los Altos schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

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MENLO PARK $6,988,000

WO O DS IDE $ 6 , 4 9 5 , 0 0 0

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1020 Hermosa Way | 5bd/5.5ba M.Corman/N.Moritz/M.Montoya | 650.462.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

340 Jane Drive | 6bd/5.5ba Helen & Brad Miller | 650.529.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

833 Hamilton Avenue | 4bd/3.5ba Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

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110 Royal Oaks Court | 5bd/4.5ba Mara McCain | 650.462.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-4:00

25840 Vindeo Lane | 5bd/4.5ba Kathy Bridgman | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4PM

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5 Phillips Road, Palo Alto | 5phillipsrd.com

Offered at $4,500,000 | Beds 3 | Baths 2.5 Home ±2,402 sf | Lot ±11,628 sf

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

1320 Webster Street, Palo Alto | 1320Webster.com

Price reduced to $2,195,000

Offered at $5,995,000

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

DOWNTOWN BUILD OPPORTUNITY 847 Webster Street, Palo Alto | Lot ±7,500 sf

Offered at $8,500,000

Offered at $3,500,000

MICHAEL DREYFUS Broker 650.485.3476 michael.dreyfus@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

NOELLE QUEEN, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 | noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S 01917593

ASHLEY BANKS, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 | ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

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345 West Costello Drive, Los Altos Offered at $3,288,000 Upgraded Home in Garden Setting Nestled amidst extravagant gardens, this elegantly updated 5 bedroom, 4 bath residence of approx. 3,700 sq. ft. (per county) offers a sizable property of approx. 0.48 acres (per county) alongside a sought-after cul-de-sac. Versatile, well-appointed rooms abound, and spacious living areas flow outdoors to terraces overlooking luxuriant spaces brimming with paths, planters, and fruit trees. The upper-level addition boasts a den, an office, and a posh master suite. This fine home also provides three fireplaces, an attached two-car garage, and plentiful upgrades. Savor the woodland views while living within moments of downtown Los Altos, Pinewood ®

School campuses, and exceptional public schools.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.345WestCostello.com

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Woodside Large Stylish Traditional Home Open Sunday This Woodside Traditional 6 BR/ 5.5 BA approx. 6,465 sq ft home on 3.14+ acres offers an enviable blend of privacy, proximity to open space and elegant living. Situated at the end of a private cul-de-sac in one of Woodside’s only gated communities, this property is minutes from Town Center shopping, restaurants and the acclaimed Woodside School (preK-8th). The home has unusually large common areas which include separate living, dining and dual family rooms each connected to a light-filled kitchen & breakfast room. Set up for entertaining, a large outside deck & patio with built-in BBQ overlook a luxurious custom pool & sp

340 JANE DRIVE WOODSIDE

www.340JaneDrive.com

Offered at $6,495,000 Build Your Dream Home Across The Bridge Open Sunday

3343 ALPINE ROAD, PORTOLA VALLEY Offered at $2,695,000

This spectacular approx. 4.2-acre undeveloped country property offers a nice combination of advantageous location, pastoral setting and a variety of development options. Located just up the road from the Ladera Shopping Center and near I-280 access, this lot sits on the border of Portola Valley (to be confirmed with Postal Service on address) in unincorporated Santa Clara County. It appears to have a number of enviable characteristics including access to Palo Alto Unified Schools, development standards determined by the Santa Clara County Planning Department and a recently installed fully-engineered bridge in place over the picturesque Los Trancos Creek. Come see it for yourself. www.3343Alpine.com

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317

helenhuntermiller@gmail.com bradm@apr.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com Page 40 • September 23, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

Scenic. Secluded. Private. Central 280 Family Farm Road | Woodside | Offered at $ 8,599,900

Price Reduced on this Spectacular Property! - Open Sunday 1:30-4:30pm

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ou’ll enjoy all this and more when you come home to the quiet and serenity of your own private sanctuary in Central Woodside. Adjacent to the 1,189-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, this stunning 6-acre estate sits on top of a knoll and offers breathtaking views of the Western Hills, northern vistas and Jasper Ridge. This ideal location is very close to Interstate 280, VC Hill, Stanford and surrounding towns. The 4 BR / 4.5 BA home combines the craftsmanship from its roots as a hunting lodge/retreat with the functionality and style brought through recent upgrades. Whether sitting on the deck sipping sundowners gazing at the sunset or entertaining dinner guests on the spacious front porch, “coming home” will be the best part of your day! In addition to the two-story main home, the property has two guesthouses, a pool & cabana, a three-car garage, a two-car carport and plays host to a wide range of heritage trees, native plants and the area’s best wildlife.

www.280FamilyFarmRoad.com

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317

helenhuntermiller@gmail.com bradm@apr.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 23, 2016 • Page 41

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881 University Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $2,488,000 Ideally Located and Inviting Alongside a calm cul-de-sac, this appealing 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home of approx. 2,200 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a centrally located lot of approx. 0.29 acres (per county). The fine interior accented with crown molding, hardwood floors, and oversized picture windows offers a versatile home office and comfortable gathering areas, and the bedrooms are sized for flexibility. Outdoors await fruit trees, an inviting front porch, and a spacious backyard with patios. Within moments of downtown Los Altos, you can stroll to Covington Elementary (API 975), and quickly access Pinewood School campuses, Blach Intermediate (API 958), ®

and Los Altos High (API 895) (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.881University.com

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$15,995,000

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081

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

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

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

$10,988,888

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

$11,488,000

$6,888,000

$5,850,000

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

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

26861 Purissima Road, Los Altos Hills

161 Willow Road, Menlo Park

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$4,800,000

$2,998,000

$2,800,000

Listing Provided by: Shawn Ansari Lic.#01088988

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Derek Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 & #01983178

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

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Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

Menlo Park 807 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.543.7740

Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700

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

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

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

52 Atherton Avenue, Atherton $19,000,000 6 BD / 7+ BA

53 Magnolia Drive, Atherton $7,100,000 4 BD / 3.5 BA

16 Farm Lane, Hillsborough $5,800,000 4 BD / 5.5 BA

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

Rare 2.87 acre private estate in the heart of Atherton! Magnificent seasonal gardens surround an elegant, meticulously maintained home.

Constructed in 2001 with additional recent renovations, this custom home is a masterpiece of East Coast-influenced architecture.

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

Carol MacCorkle, 650.868.5478

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

APPOINTMENT ONLY

Gina Haggarty, 650.207.5192

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

APPOINTMENT ONLY

OPEN SAT & SUN 1-5

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

980 Berkeley Avenue, Menlo Park $5,395,000 5 BD / 5.5 BA

3 Bassett Lane, Atherton $4,595,000 3 BD / 3.5 BA

714 Arroyo Road, Los Altos $3,988,000 5 BD / 3.5 BA

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

Classic, traditional appeal unfolds at this spacious two-story home in the desirable Menlo Oaks neighborhood.

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

Beautifully maintained custom home completely renovated and expanded in 2001. Large family room/kitchen opens to a private 17,500 sf lot with a big pool.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459 Michael Hall & Tricia Soliz, 650.465.1651

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

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28 Sneckner Court, Menlo Park $3,690,000 4 BD / 4 BA

4192 Manuela Avenue, Palo Alto $2,698,000 4 BD / 3 BA

42039 Via San Luis Rey, Fremont $1,798,000 4 BD / 3 BA

1833 Brittan Avenue, San Carols $998,000 2 BD / 1 BA

This classic, elegant home offering ~3,970 square feet is located on a desirable Menlo Park cul-de-sac street surrounded by the beauty of Stanford Open Space land.

Beautiful, single-story home with an open floor plan ideal for entertaining and everyday living.

Chic Newly Rebuilt and Expanded 4 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Home, Full Bedroom & Bath Downstairs With Private Entrance.

Beautiful Spacious 2 Bed & 1 Bath Home with Bonus Courtyard Located in Sought After Downtown San Carlos Neighborhood.

The AW Team, 650.336.8530

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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Price upon request | 4192manuela.com

4192 Manuela Ave., Palo Alto

OVERVIEW · A beautiful, single-story home with an open floor plan ideal for entertaining and everyday living · Spacious living + dining rooms that open onto a newly landscaped rear yard · An inviting courtyard epitomizes the indoor/outdoor Northern California lifestyle

THE NUMBERS · 4 Bedrooms + Office · 3 Bathrooms · House: 2,734 SF +/· Lot: 16,974 SF +/· 3 Car Attached Garage

SCHOOLS · Lucille M. Nixon ES · Terman MS · Gunn HS

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E N VISION E XTR AOR D I NARY

OPEN SAT & SUN 1-5

714 ARROYO ROAD | LOS ALTOS OFFERED AT $3,988,000 | 5 BEDROOM | 3.5 BATH | 3,683 ± SQFT | 17,500 ± SQFT LOT Living Room with gas fireplace. Formal Dining Room. Spacious Open Family Room and Kitchen.

Master Bath with two sinks, two toilets, spa tub and separate shower.

Hardwood Floors. Dual zone air conditioning and heating.

Pool. Patio. Perimeter Redwood Trees. Privacy.

Ideally located close to Google, SAP, Apple, Downtown Mountain View, Downtown Los Altos.

Schools: Springer Elementary, Blach Middle and Los Altos High (buyer to verify).

650.465.1651

michael.hall@pacunion.com License #01133676

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650.833.9442

tricia.soliz@pacunion.com License #01836700

437 College Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Luxurious Townhome by California Avenue Within strolling distance of exceptional local amenities, this upgraded 4 bedroom, 4 bath townhome of approx. 2,300 sq. ft. (per appraisal) integrates luxury and versatility within a peaceful, convenient community. The flexible layout can easily accommodate any lifestyle, and includes two fireplaces, soaring ceilings, and an interior bathed in natural light. Highlights like private decks, newly remodeled bathrooms, and two posh master suites make this lofty retreat highly desirable. This community is mere steps to Stanford University, Caltrain, and exciting California Avenue, including Michelin-rated dining, and will also allow you to easily reach top-ranking schools like Escondido Elementary (API 927), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) ®

(buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.437College.com

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

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645 Loma Verde, Palo Alto Large lot in desirable Midtown neighborhood

Flexible floor plan with abundant possibilities • 4 Bedrooms • could easily be configured as a five bedroom • 2 Bathrooms • Spacious, light filled living room • Hardwood floors • Very large lot with spacious backyard • Oversized two car garage

•

Conveniently located near schools, parks, shops and transportation • Excellent Palo Alto schools, including Gunn High School • 1,706 sq. ft. of living space, approx.

• 9,267 sq. ft. lot, approx.

OFFERED AT $2,495,000

Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • www.midtownpaloalto.com

Listing Agent: Tim Foy CalBRE# 00849721 Cell: 650.387.5078 tim@midtownpaloalto.com

Co-Listing Agent: Joann Weber CalBRE# 01896750 Cell: 650.815.5410 joann@midtownpaloalto.com

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY FROM 1:30-4:30

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â&#x20AC;˘ H I G H L I G H T S â&#x20AC;˘ 3 spacious bedrooms â&#x20AC;˘ 2 bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘ Sizable, private backyard with mature landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Large, open living room with dining area, vaulted ceilings and wood burning fireplace â&#x20AC;˘ Beautifully updated eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances

â&#x20AC;˘ Large master suite â&#x20AC;˘ Interior atrium yielding natural light â&#x20AC;˘ New flooring and freshly painted throughout â&#x20AC;˘ Attached, oversized two car garage â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent Palo Alto schools â&#x20AC;˘ 1,570 sq. ft. of living space, approx. +.&122&--- â&#x20AC;˘ 3,800 sq. ft. of lot, approx.

) .'/-(0'/- Listing Agent: Tim Foy CalBRE# 00849721

Cell: 650.387.5078

Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;˘ 2775 Middlefield Road

Tim@MidtownPaloAlto.com

â&#x20AC;˘ Phone: 650.321.1596

â&#x20AC;˘ www.MidtownPaloAlto.com

1550 Dana Avenue Palo Alto Open Saturday & Sunday 1:30-4:30 â&#x20AC;˘ 4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘ 2410 sq ft living space, 9360 sq ft lot â&#x20AC;˘ New kitchen with dramatic skylight â&#x20AC;˘ Newly remodeled bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘ Formal living room with wood burning ďŹ replace â&#x20AC;˘ Hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;ooring throughout â&#x20AC;˘ Freshly painted â&#x20AC;˘ Great Palo Alto Schools â&#x20AC;˘ Easy access to downtown Palo Alto and Midtown Buyer to verify square footage and schools

Offered at $3,795,000 Siobhan O`Sullivan 650.776.5445 Sos@Osullivanteam.com www.osullivanteam.com Calbre# 01298824

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720 Glenborough Drive, Mountain View Offered at $1,888,000 Parkside Home in Immaculate Neighborhood Bordering beautiful Sylvan Park, this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of over 2,100 sq. ft. (per county) blends easy, practical living with warmth and luxury on a property of over 7,300 sq. ft. (per county). Open gathering areas branch into sizable outdoor spaces that include a heated pool and spa, excellent for lounging or entertaining.

Handsomely appointed rooms like the island kitchen and dreamy master suite are designed for optimal enjoyment. Additional highlights include immense storage, brand-new heating and cooling, and a posh, sky-lit master bathroom. Within steps of tennis courts, also enjoy close proximity to commuter routes ®

and easy biking to fine schools and Stevens Creek Trail.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.720Glenborough.com

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

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10718 Mora Drive, Los Altos Hills (Unincorporated Santa Clara County) A World-Class Masterpiece Designed by acclaimed Swatt/Miers Architects, this gated, state-of-the-art residence holds 6 bedrooms and 8 full and 3 half baths, 5:/8A05:3 - 2-.A8;A? 3A1?@4;A?1 A58@ 5: VTUZ :; 1D<1:?1 C-? ?<->10 ;: @45? 1?@-@1 @4-@ ;Ĺ&#x160;1>? 6A?@ ;B1> UT \TT ?= 2@ I<1> <8-:?J 5:/8A05:3 - 2;A> /-> 3->-31 ;: -<<>;D U VZ -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ !A@Ĺ&#x2039;@@10 2;> 8ADA>5;A? 1:@1>@-5:5:3 ?1-981?? 5:0;;> -:0 ;A@0;;> 85B5:3 ->1-? ;B1>8;;7 -: 5:Ĺ&#x2039;:5@E <;;8 -:0 <>1?1:@ ?@-331>5:3 .-E B51C? :/>105.81 21-@A>1? 5:/8A01 5:B5?5.81 ?<1-71>? - <;?4 theater, and an elevator, and the estate is within an easy stroll of gorgeous Rancho San Antonio Preserve. An additional parcel is available for expansion.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.10718Mora.com Price Upon Request

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 5:00

Jazz

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1550 Waverley Street, Palo Alto

OUTSTANDING PRIME OLD PALO ALTO CRAFTSMAN STYLE BROWN SHINGLE GEM

SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Unique two story spacious home built in the early 1900’s featuring the charm of yesteryear with the amenities for today’s lifestyle.

Located on one of Old Palo Alto’s most desirable streets this home has been owned by one family since the early 1960’s and has been beautifully maintained over the years. Ideal for entertaining it has a lush rear yard and fully landscaped patios with colorful garden beds in addition to the sparkling pool. Ideal Location near Gamble Garden Center and convenient to Downtown and all schools.

SUMMARY FEATURES INCLUDE: • • • •

5 Bedrooms 2.5 Bathrooms 3rd bath in the pool house Wood paneled family room with wood burning fireplace • Cook’s kitchen with center butcher block covered island and laundry room

• Spacious formal dining room and adjacent sunroom- outstanding space for entertaining • Beam truss ceiling in large living room with French doors to rear patio and gardens • Gardens designed by Jack Stafford and Katsy Swan • Detached garage and storage room (bonus space)

OFFERED AT $8,599,000 WWW.1550WAVERLEY.COM

(650) 475-2030

lhunt@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01009791

(650) 475-2035

laurel@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01747147

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• Swimmers pool and pool house with bath at rear of property • Living area: 3,540 sq ft per county records • Lot Size: 13,125 sq ft per county records • Excellent Palo Alto Schools (Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High- buyer to verify enrollment)

LEANNAH HUNT & LAUREL ROBINSON ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT...

1492 Webster Street, Palo Alto OPEN SUNDAY 9/25 1:30-4:30PM Dating back to 1917 and owned by just three families, this Craftsman home is located on a rare subdividable lot of more than one-half acre. Beyond gated entrances, the corner setting is sheltered from the street by screens of foliage with tall hedges, a majestic oak tree, and a grove of graceful birch trees. Standing three stories tall with a basement, the home presents original details like fine hardwood floors, glass door knobs, and 5 fireplaces combined with numerous updates over the years. Outside, wraparound gardens, a custom playground, and vast entertainment deck await play and entertaining. Located in the greater Professorville neighborhood, this home benefits from access to acclaimed Palo Alto schools, and is just 2 blocks to Elizabeth Gamble Garden and Rinconada Park plus less than one mile to Stanford University.

SUMMARY FEATURES INCLUDE: • • • • • • •

Circa 1917 Craftsman home in greater Professorville neighborhood Over one-half acre (approx. 23,033 sq. ft.) with potential for subdivision 6 bedrooms and 4.5 baths arranged over 3 levels Approximately 4,223 sq. ft. of living space (buyer to confirm) Landscaped corner lot with birch tree grove, heritage oak, and tall hedges Detached garage for up to 6 cars (approx. 870 sq. ft.) plus attached workshop building (approx. 470 sq. ft.)

Acclaimed Palo Alto schools (Walter Hays K-5, Jordan Middle 6-8, Palo Alto High 9-12 - Buyer to verify enrollment)

$9,890,000 WWW.1492WEBSTER.COM

(650) 475-2030

lhunt@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01009791

(650) 475-2035

laurel@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01747147

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Classically styled home designed for California living 1330 Fairway Drive, Los Altos

O P E N S ATU R DAY & SUN DAY , 1 : 3 0 to 4 : 3 0

Completely remodeled and substantially expanded beautiful home in the heart of the Country Club neighborhood. Enjoy the open concept floor plan with a gorgeous great room kitchen with folding La Cantina doors that create an expansive indoor outdoor living experience. Private, sunny, backyard anchored by an amazing heritage valley oak provide park like setting for relaxing and entertaining. Top-rated Los Altos Schools. Close proximity to local shops such as Starbucks, HWY 280 and minutes from Silicon Valley companies.

Highlights include: • 4 bedrooms all ensuite, 4 full baths, 1 half bath, plus office

walk-in pantry and top-of-the-line Thermador appliances

• 19,363 sq. ft. lot, 3,781 total sq. ft. including 500 sq. ft. garage

• Versatile bonus room with separate guest bedroom and bath

• European wide plank oak floors

• Spacious landscaped yard ideal for entertaining or just relaxing

• Chef’s kitchen with quartzite leathered kitchen island,

• For more information, visit 1330FairwayDrive.com

terri@kerwinassociates.com

O F F E R E D AT $3,695,000

62 S Clark Avenue , Los Altos

$3,998,000

WWW.62SCLARK.COM

OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM

(650) 475-2030

lhunt@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01009791

(650) 475-2035

laurel@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01747147

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OPEN HOUSE 6$7 681 1:30-4:30

733 De Soto Drive, Palo Alto

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BRIAN CHANCELLOR (650) 303-5511 brianc@serenogroup.com

Enjoy the tour at brianchancellor.com

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&DVWLOOHMD $YHQXH 3DOR $OWR 2IIHUHG DW 6SDQLVK *HP ZLWK ,VODQG ,QĂ XHQFH Tucked within the highly desirable Southgate neighborhood, this thoroughly remodeled 4 bedroom, 4 bath residence of approx. 2,500 sq. ft. (per county) displays a luxe, light-filled Spanish Colonial design coupled with warm, tropical influences. Occupying a serene property of approx. 5,800 sq. ft. (per county), the elegant home offers travertine floors that seamlessly connect the interior to the lush, magical rear garden, while custom elements like hand-crafted tiles and Guatemalan doors add distinct luxury. Additional highlights include radiant floor heating, a designer island kitchen, and a spa-like master bath. Quickly bike to sought-after Palo Alto schools and stroll to popular attractions like Stanford University, Caltrain, California Avenue, and Town & Country

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850 SHARON COURT, PALO ALTO 4 Bedroom | 2.5 Bath | Office | ±2,600 SQFT | ±8,556 SQFT Lot

SPACIOUS FAMILY HOME IN CRESCENT PARK • • • • • • •

•

Classic ranch at the end of exquisite Sharon Court in prime Crescent Park Spacious, light filled, single-level; ±2,600 sf of living area on a large ±8,556 sf lot Nicely sized bedrooms, including master suite Large and open living and dining area Separate family room with fireplace Spacious breakfast nook Adjacent to Eleanor Park and just a few blocks to schools, the Main Library, Rinconada Park & Pool, and Downtown Palo Alto Excellent Palo Alto Schools: Duveneck Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High (buyer to verify school availability)

OPEN SATURDAY 9/24 & SUNDAY 9/25, 1-5PM Xin Jiang, MBA 650.283.8379 xjiang@apr.com License #01961451

Price Upon Request

Nadr Essabhoy, MBA 650.248.5898 nessabhoy@apr.com License #01085354

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

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY

JUST LISTED

by Connie & Shari

September 24 & 25, 1:30-4:30pm

805 SAN FRANCISCO COURT STANFORD â&#x20AC;¢ Located on a quiet cul-de-sac convenient to the Stanford campus â&#x20AC;¢ 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, including 2 en suites â&#x20AC;¢ One level with approximately 2,627 square feet of living space â&#x20AC;¢ Park-like surroundings on just over one-third acre (approximately 13,362 square feet) Â&#x2021; 6SDFLRXV OLYLQJ URRP ZLWK Ã&#x20AC;UHSODFH IRUPDO GLQLQJ URRP XSGDWHG JUDQLWH Ã&#x20AC;QLVKHG kitchen, plus inviting family room â&#x20AC;¢ Residences on Stanford property may be SXUFKDVHG RQO\ E\ TXDOLÃ&#x20AC;HG 8QLYHUVLW\ IDFXOW\ Offered at $2,500,000

Connie Miller

Broker Associate License# 01275848

650.279.7074 cmiller@apr.com www.ConnieMiller.com

Shari Ornstein Realtor

License# 01028693

650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com www.sornstein.apr.com

JUST SOLD 734-740 COWPER STREET

by Connie

PALO ALTO

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by Connie

MENLO PARK

â&#x20AC;¢ 6-unit, Mid-Century Modern apartment building Â&#x2021; &RYHWHG /LQÃ&#x20AC;HOG 2DNV ORFDWLRQ â&#x20AC;¢ Large patios and lawn area attract quality tenants Sold for $3,800,000

Connie Miller Broker Associate License# 01275848

650.279.7074 cmiller@apr.com www.ConnieMiller.com

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www.26991&--Ŋ1$;-0 /;9 Offered at $7,998,000

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30-4:30

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110 ROYAL OAKS COURT, MENLO PARK nday u S n Ope

Designed by renowned architect Farro Essalat, this very special property is situated at the end of a private cul-de-sac. The grand living room, with a vaulted and beamed cathedral ceiling, sets a tone of elegance and graciousness that is reverberated throughout all three levels of the house.

$4,600,000

www.110royaloaks.com

Home Features: • Five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms • Gourmet chef’s kitchen with stainless steel appliances, an island with seating, and a built-in desk center for complete office functionality • Master bath with Calcutta marble, spa shower with body sprays, and a Whirlpool tub

• Meticulously manicured yard with an expansive rear terrace and level lawn • 11,860 Square foot lot, 4837 square foot house plus a two car garage • Close to Stanford University and Shopping Center, 280, and the famed Sand Hill Road

Mara McCain Realtor® Associate Alain Pinel Realtors

650.307.8477 mobile mara@apr.com BRE# 01077121

• Excellent Las Lomitas Schools

• Main floor with double crown molding, hardwood floors, and high ceilings throughout

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692 Vanderbilt Drive, Sunnyvale Offered at $1,698,000 Desirable Home in Attractive Location Soaring ceilings and cascades of natural light define this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of 1,990 sq. ft. (per county) that occupies a centrally located property of 3,917 sq. ft. (per county). Trimmed with fine upgrades, the residence includes a pristine kitchen with granite countertops and a master suite with his-and-her closets. Spacious and attractive, this livable design features high ceilings and transom windows to allow optimal sunlight. The private backyard is lushly landscaped, and you will be moments to everyday amenities and beautiful parks. Also easily access Cumberland Elementary (API 947) and Sunnyvale Middle, and stroll to Fremont High ®

(buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

OPEN HOUSE Saturday 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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27811 Saddle Court, Los Altos Hills Hilltop Residence with Panoramic Views Well-appointed indoor and outdoor spaces take full advantage of the astonishing vistas displayed throughout this 5 bedroom, 6.5 bathroom home of 6,598 sq. ft. (per county), which includes grounds of 1.94 acres (per county). The multi-level design is equipped 2;> 3>-:0 ?/-81 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -:0 .;-?@? ŋB1 ŋ>1<8-/1? @C; 75@/41:? -: 5:0;;> <;;8 -:0 - 3->-31 @4-@ /-: 4;80 ŋB1 /->? )5@45: moments of Highway 280, this captivating home balances privacy and natural beauty with prime convenience to urban amenities, including excellent Palo Alto schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.27811Saddle.com Offered at $5,988,000

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday

1:30-4:30

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ColdwellBankerHomes.com

Woodside

$12,900,000

Atherton

$6,399,000

Central Portola Valley

$4,695,000

Los Altos

Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$3,800,000 Sat/Sun 12 - 5

19-acre extraordinary home completely renovated! Infinity pool w/sweeping SF Bay views. 5 BR/4 BA + 1 half BA Erika Demma/Hugh Cornish CalBRE #01230766/00912143 650.851.2666

399 Atherton Ave Carriage House from the 1900’s restored & updated. Original charm.

Private serene acre. 5 BR/4 BA + 1 half BA Sue Crawford CalBRE #00587710 650.324.4456

20 Cordova Ct Stunning 1+ acre offers breathtaking views and amazing deck & pool area. 20CORDOVA.COM 5 BR/3 BA Ginny Kavanaugh CalBRE #00884747 650.851.1961

1083 Valley View Ct “Hilltop Sanctuary” Chef’s Kit / FR / LR / DR / Office / Pool. Beautiful remodel.

4 BR/3 BA Deniece Smith CalBRE #01295757 650.325.6161

Portola Valley

Menlo Park

Portola Valley

Mountain View Sat/Sun 1 - 5

$2,699,000 Sun 1 - 4

$2,300,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4

$2,195,000 Sun 1 - 4

120 Coquito Way Spacious and updated home with breathtaking views and an abundance of natural light. 4 BR/4 BA + 1 half BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #01326725 650.324.4456

18 Patterson Avenue Cute 1938 bungalow, fixer.

Lovely yard, detached garage. 2 BR/2 BA

Redwood City $1,898,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30

Menlo Park

355 Santa Clara Ave Amazing 2-story home in pristine condition! Open floor plan, high ceilings, & skylights. 4 BR/3 BA + 1 half BA Doug Gonzalez CalBRE #00895924 650.324.4456

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28500 Matadero Creek Lane, Los Altos Hills Dreamy Tuscan Estate Custom-built on a stunning gated property of 4.4 acres (per county), this 6 bedroom estate of approx. 6,400 sq. ft. (per county) provides 6 full and 3 half bathrooms and a charming cabana. Blending Italianate beauty with modern luxuries, this welcoming B588- ;Ŋ1>? ;A@?@-:05:3 85B5:3 ?<-/1? &41 1:/4-:@5:3 3>;A:0? <>;B501 - 01?53:1> <8-E 2;>@ -: 5:ŋ:5@E <;;8 -:0 - 4588@;< <->/18 with scenic bay views, awaiting further development. Palo Alto Hills Country Club and top Palo Alto schools are easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).

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897 University Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $2,188,000 Leafy Privacy and Generous Lot Providing suburban convenience while exuding privacy, this charming 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,720 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a generously sized property of 0.52 acres (per county), perfect for expansion. The welcoming home enjoys an attached two-car garage, updated bamboo floors, spacious gathering areas, and a large, tree-lined backyard with a putting green. Easily bike to downtown Los Altos, Rancho Shopping Center, and Pinewood School, while living near sought-after Los Altos schools.

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175 Cuesta Drive, Mountain View Offered at $1,700,000 Fabulously Located Home with Atrium Enjoy living within a stroll of popular amenities in this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,336 sq. ft. (per county) that occupies a spacious property of 9,030 sq. ft. (per county).

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 6 Bedrooms

ATHERTON 4 Bedrooms 6 Tuscaloosa Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 375 Walsh Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$3,480,000 462-1111 $4,988,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 90 Macbain Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,695,000 324-4456

BURLINGAME

26991 Taaffe Rd Sun Deleon Realty 28500 Matadero Creek Ln Sun Deleon Realty 10716 Mora Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

3 Bedrooms $7,998,000 543-8500 $9,988,000 543-8500 Call for price 543-8500

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$7,788,000 543-8500

MENLO PARK

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1209 Oak Grove Ave #304 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$824,888 325-6161

CONCORD 810 Oak Grove Rd #103 Sun 1-3 Sereno Group

$730,000 947-2900

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1280 Sharon Park Dr #33 $1,418,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

EAST PALO ALTO 1 Bedroom - Condominium 1982 W. Bayshore #312 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$569,999 384-1430

FREMONT

18 Patterson Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 1180 Cloud Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 1043 Almnor Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,300,000 325-6161 $1,788,000 323-1111 $1,299,000 323-7751

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 2140 Santa Cruz Av #209 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$858,000 323-7751

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 42039 Via San Luis Rey Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union

$1,798,000 208-5190

LA HONDA 4 Bedrooms 15 Heritage Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,650,000 851-2666

LOS ALTOS 4 Bedrooms 23281 Partridge Ln $3,386,000 Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 22805 Aspen Dr $2,689,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200 881 Univeristy Ave $2,488,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1083 Valley View Ct $3,800,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161 1425 Fallen Leaf Ln $2,499,000 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 947-2900

5 Bedrooms 62 S. Clark Av $3,998,000 Sun Sereno Group 323-1900 714 Arroyo Rd $3,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Pacific Union International 314-7200 345 West Costello Dr $3,288,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 12380 Gigli Ct Sat Deleon Realty 27811 Saddle Ct Sat Deleon Realty

$5,988,000 543-8500 $5,988,000 543-8500

1930 Cambridge Av Sat/Sun Sereno Group

Call for price 323-1900

4 Bedrooms 1595 Morgan St $1,350,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 2522 Katrina Way $2,198,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 207-1986

PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 360 Everett Ave #5B $1,898,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 149 S California Ave #A300 $995,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

638 18th Ave $1,588,888 Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 381 McKendry Dr $1,549,000 Sat 1-4/Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666 1071 Tehama Av $1,749,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

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1888 Camino A Los Cerros $3,888,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 228 Princeton Rd $4,498,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 1225 Whitaker Way $3,895,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 28 Sneckner Ct $3,690,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 11 Hesketh Dr $4,150,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

1404 Harker Ave $2,195,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 3396 Park Blvd $1,988,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 5 Phillips Rd $4,500,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 4271 Ponce Dr $1,699,000 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 321-1596 3060 Cowper St $2,498,000 Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 520-3407

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980 Berkeley Ave $5,395,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 161 Willow Rd $2,998,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate (415) 264-5464 1020 Hermosa Way $6,988,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 110 Royal Oaks Ct $4,600,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

833 Hamilton Ave $4,698,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 645 Loma Verde Av $2,495,000 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty 321-1596 746 Josina Av $2,298,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 850 Sharon Ct Call for price Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 1550 Dana Av $3,795,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 437 College Av $1,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1638 Castilleja Av $2,998,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 733 De Soto Dr $2,450,000 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 323-1900

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175 Cuesta Dr Sun Deleon Realty 741 San Pablo Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 1700 Fordham Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 131 Concord Cir Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 720 Glenborough Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$6,250,000 462-1111

MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Townhouse 202 Montebello Av #17 Sat 1-4/Sun 11-4Sereno Group

$848,000 947-2900

440 Cesano Ct #307 Sat/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group

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3441 Thomas Dr Sat/Sun Sereno Group

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4 Bedrooms 255 Corte Madera Rd Sun 2-5 Coldwell Banker 120 Coquito Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

268 Alexander Ave Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

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$1,299,000 324-4456 $1,849,000 462-1111

4 Bedrooms 345 King St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 1969 Kentucky St Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

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3 Bedrooms 1125 Dayton Av Sun Coldwell Banker

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SAN JOSE 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 88 Bush St #4161 $790,000 Sat 2-4/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group (408) 741-8200

4 Bedrooms 5597 Carew Way Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker

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3 Bedrooms 2309 Clipper St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,299,000 325-6161

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$1,698,000 543-8500 $1,988,000 947-2900 $1,998,000 (408) 741-8200 $1,798,000 (408) 335-1400

5 Bedrooms 859 Pagoda Tree Ct Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,475,000 (408) 335-1400

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375 Walsh Road, Atherton Woodland Retreat in Exclusive Atherton Tucked within leafy grounds of over an acre (per county) that establish natural privacy, this treehouse-like 4 bedroom residence of 3,120 sq. ft. (per county) with an additional lower level provides 3 full and 2 half baths, and an adjacent parcel of almost an acre I<1> /;A:@EJ 5? -8?; -B-58-.81 2;> 01B18;<91:@ &41 .>11FE Ō;;><8-: 501-8 2;> 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -//1??1? -: 181B-@;> -:0 - 3->-31 C5@4 - ?@A05; 88A>5:3 ;A@0;;> ->1-? 5:/8A01 - <;;8 -:0 9A8@5<81 01/7? ':A?A-8 2;> 185@1 @41>@;: @41 <>;<1>@E ;Ŋ1>? 4588?501 85B5:3 yet retains excellent proximity to prestigious clubs and private schools.

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement THE CHOCLO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 620072 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Choclo, located at 444 Grant Ave., No. D, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: Married Couple.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MARTHA P. RENGIFO 444 Grant Ave. No. D Palo Alto, CA 94306 RODRIGO RENGIFO 444 Grant Ave. No. D Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8-3-16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 3, 2016.

(PAW Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016) SOLUTIONS 2050 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 620578 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Solutions 2050, located at 409 East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

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registrant(s) is(are): DOUGLAS KOLOZSVARI 409 East Meadow Drive Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 17, 2016.

(PAW Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016) HeartFit For Life HeartFit FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 620796 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) HeartFit For Life, 2.) HeartFit, located at 4000 Middlefield Rd., Suite G-8, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CARDIAC THERAPY FOUNDATION OF THE MIDPENINSULA 4000 Middlefield Rd., Suite G-8 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 23, 2016.

(PAW Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 2016) ENVIOUS LASER CLINIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621170 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Envious Laser Clinic, located at 500 E. Remington Dr. #29, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JAEHYUN KIM 500 E. Remington Dr. #29

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(PAW Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 2016) MARICELAS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621368 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Maricelas, located at 2076 Lucretia Av. Ap. 305, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): YESENIA CONTRERAS 2076 Lucretia Av. Ap. 305 San Jose, CA 95122 MARICELA ALVARADO 2076 Lucretia Av. Ap. 305 San Jose, CA 95122 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8-1-2016.

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(PAW Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 2016) AMERICAN ENERGY SOCIETY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621358 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: American Energy Society, located at 654 Gilman St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TERRANCE JON GALE CASE NO. 16PR179481 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Terrance Jon Gale A Petition for Probate has been filed

by Gregory James Gale in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

The Petition for Probate requests that Gregory James Gale be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on October 7, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

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

person or by your attorney.

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

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: E.J. Hong, 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Telephone: (650) 320-7680 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/16 CNS-2924583# PALO ALTO WEEKLY NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CHANNELL M. WASSON Case No.: 16PR179486 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CHANNEL M. WASSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JANET B. WASSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that:

JANET B. WASSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on October 26, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Gerrie Miller 220 State Street, 9 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650)941-8450 (PAW Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 2016)

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Sports Shorts WNBA HONORS . . . Stanford grad Nneka Ogwumike was named Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year and her sister Chiney Ogwumike, also a Cardinal grad, earned comeback player of the year honors when the organization announced its postseason awards on Tuesday. The Ogwumike’s, who were All-Americans together at Stanford in 2012 and both No. 1 picks in the WNBA draft, have excelled at the pro level.

PAC-12 HONORS . . . Stanford opposite Kathryn Plummer was named Pac-12 Volleyball Freshman of the Week, the conference announced Monday. The rookie averaged a team-best 2.83 kills on .500 hitting, 1.50 blocks and 3.67 points per set in Cardinal sweeps at Saint Mary’s and Pacific last week.

Against the Gaels, Plummer led all players with 10 kills on a seasonhigh .556 attack percentage. She also had five blocks and three digs in Stanford’s first true road match of the season. At Pacific, the Aliso Viejo native recorded seven kills on .438 hitting and four blocks. She was errorless on the weekend, notching 17 kills on 34 swings.

THINK PINK . . . Palo Alto High School’s varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams, in conjunction with the Side-Out Foundation, is sponsoring the fifth annual ìDig Pinkî match on Thursday, Oct. 13 in a SCVAL match at Los Altos.

The Side-Out Foundation was established in 2004 to raise money and awareness about cancer through volleyball. Palo Alto joins thousands of schools in hosting ìPinkî events during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The junior varsity take the court at 5:30 p.m., followed by the varsity at 6:45 p.m. Fans are encouraged to wear pink. Donations will be accepted at the game, or can be made through the website at https://giving.side-out.org/ campaigns/11820.

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Bryan Rodriguez (19) and Sione Latu (42) are hoping Palo Alto can get back on track this week.

Gunn is better and so is El Camino Division Palo Alto hopes to get back on track in its De Anza Division opener

by Glenn Reeves he Gunn football team goes into league play Friday much improved, much stronger than last year. But the same could be said for its league.

In a number of recent years the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division has been pretty weak. But this year most of the teams in the division look to be on the upswing.

Gunn was 0-4 going into El Camino play a year ago and finished the season 0-10. This year the Titans are 2-2. But look at the rest of the division: Los Altos is 4-0 and coming

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off a win over SCVAL De Anza Division member Mountain View.

Lynbrook and Cupertino are both 3-1. Fremont, Gunn’s opponent Friday, is 2-1. Homestead is 2-2, like Gunn, but might have the most talented team in the division. The Mustangs defeated Leland and Terra Nova, a pair of traditionally upper-echelon teams, the past two weeks. The only El Camino team with a non-league record under .500 is Monta Vista (1-3).

“In past years this league was full of doormats,’’ Gunn coach Tony Kelly said. “That’s definitely not the case this year. I think

Cupertino and Homestead are the favorites.’’

Fremont, under first-year head coach Nelson Gifford, formerly the team’s offensive coordinator, has scored 124 points and averaged 400 yards of total offense over its first three games. The Firebirds are coming off a 35-33 loss to Santa Clara, an SCVAL De Anza Division squad this season.

“If we can protect the ball, limit turnovers, protect the quarterback and do the things we’ve done in practice we should be in the game,’’ Kelly said.

In Gunn’s 34-6 win over Andrew Hill, Etienne Daadi rushed

for 104 yards, DJ Barnes had two interceptions, one returned for a touchdown, a receiving TD and a fumble recovery, all in one half of action. McKinley Kalar had three tackles for loss and Marc Paletua had 10 tackles.

Palo Alto (1-3) hopes to get back on the winning track when it opens SCVAL De Anza Division play Friday against Santa Clara.

The Vikings, after a season-opening win over Patterson, are coming off consecutive losses to San Benito, Mitty and Oak Grove.

Palo Alto coach Danny Sullivan (continued on page 79)

STANFORD ROUNDUP

Stanford still has plenty of talent to compete Four seniors and top freshman using their redshirt season

by Rick Eymer ohn Vargas, the coaching staff and several Stanford men’s water polo players had to make difficult decisions before the Cardinal ever entered the pool for competition this season.

Ben Hallock, the youngest player on the U.S. Olympics team, may have had the easiest decision.

The freshman starts classes Monday and arrived late after playing in the Rio Olympic Games.

Hallock decided to redshirt his first year at Stanford, just as his Olympic teammate and four-time College Player of the Year Tony Azevedo did in 2000 after com-

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peting in the Sydney Olympics as the youngest player on the team.

Four other seniors join him on the sidelines this year, including three-year All-American goalie Drew Holland, All-American Jackson Kimball, Reid Chase and Connor Stapleton.

Stanford does have a pair of seniors (Kyle Weikert and Adam Warmoth) on the roster to help provide leadership heading into this weekend’s Mountain Pacific Invitational at California and Northgate High. The fifth-ranked Cardinal (5-1) opens with San (continued on next page)

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GSAC HONORS . . . Sophomore transfer Alexis Von Schottenstein had a huge week for the Menlo College women’s soccer team, helping the Oaks beat UC Santa Cruz and Soka University of America over the weekend. She was named the Golden State Athletic League Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday for her effort. Von Schottenstein scored Menlo’s lone goal in Thursday’s 1-0 win over the Banana Slugs, getting an assist from Brittany Squarcia. She followed with her most productive game of the season, scoring a pair of goals Saturday in a 5-2 win over Soka.

Adam Warmoth is one of two active seniors playing for Stanford.

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Stanford looks to continue dominance of the state Phillips is on track to return to action this week against the Bruins

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“Bryce is a huge complement to me and to the offense,” McCaffrey said. “We’ll always want to be kings of Cali, especially since we have a lot of guys from different parts of California. They have an incredible defense and are talented all over the place. It’s a tough challenge.”

McCaffrey said he never has lost motivation to improve. Asked, ‘In what specific areas?’

“Everything,” McCaffrey said.

“Coach Shaw always harps on being the most complete back you can be. That’s something I work on every single day, always trying to improve my craft. There are a lot of things I need to fix based on the last two games. I’m definitely going to try to work on those.”

Cornerback Alijah Holder is having an outstanding season.

Shaw said that Holder was the team’s co-defensive player of the game against Kansas State and the overall player of the game against USC. He leads the Pac-12 with five pass breakups and had seven tackles and forced a fumble against the Trojans.

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here was hope that defensive tackle Harrison Phillips would be available for the USC game after being injured in the opener against Kansas State.

It didn’t happen, and Shaw is thankful.

The Cardinal defense did just fine and the extra time has enabled a fuller recovery.

“Harrison is making great progress,” Shaw said. “It looks like he’s on course to play this week.”

Stanford’s depth was tested without Phillips available. Playing a man down may have caused some fatigue but it never slowed the defense.

Stanford (1-0, 2-0) travels to the Rose Bowl to meet UCLA (0-0, 2-1) at 5 p.m. Saturday. The game is scheduled to televised by ABC. Stanford has dominated the Bruins in recent years, winning the past eight meetings. The onesided series has not been easy.

Don’t forget the 2012 Pac-12 title game, won by Stanford 27-24 in a rainy Stanford Stadium.

Previous success has no bearing, Shaw said.

“Nothing that happened before this year and nothing that happened before this game, matters,” Shaw said. “Everything is about what’s in front of us Saturday.

We don’t live life in a rear view mirror.”

The return of Bryce Love to the backfield against USC immediately paid off. A play fake to Love helped free Christian McCaffrey for his 56-yard touchdown reception, for example. However, the partnership still has room to grow.

Love missed much practice time and his time on the field will be limited at first to specific plays and situations, and will grow as Love increases his reps.

Alijah Holder was named Stanford’s Defensive Player of the Game.

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Harrison Phillips is expected to return to the lineup against UCLA.

“Most important for me, he’s playing very disciplined,” Shaw said. “He’s got long arms, he’s athletic, he’s learned to be physical at the line of scrimmage. He does a good job reading routes, not taking the cheese -- not jumping on things he doesn’t need to jump on -- and coming up and being physical in the running game.”

The secondary shut down USC receiving star JuJu SmithSchuster, allowing him only three catches for short gains. This week, the opponent to watch is the Bruins’ quarterback, sophomore Josh Rosen. He passed for 343 yards against Texas A&M and 307 more against BYU. “The biggest thing is being disciplined,” Shaw said. “You can’t be a guy who trusts the quarterback’s eyes. Josh is a guy who could be looking to the left and flip around and go to his right and throw a strike. You need to make sure you are conscious of your zone, who’s in your zone, and stay disciplined no matter where the quarterback’s looking.

“In man-to-man, regardless of how far down the field you are, you can’t relax because the quarterback’s got a big arm. You just can’t ever relax when you’re playing defensive back against a quarterback like this.”

Second-half leads have dictated a conservative approach down the stretch in Stanford’s first two games, the better to use the clock and shorten the game and reduce the amount of possessions by the opponent.

Ryan Burns, a senior quarterback who earned his first starting assignment this season, is 22 of 32 for 258 yards passing this season, with two touchdowns and one interception. Fans still haven’t seen what he can do when Stanford is forced to go the air, or when trying to rally the team.

However, Shaw said he is content with Burns’ progress.

“Ryan’s continued to make strides,” Shaw said. “He’s been very efficient, he’s been very decisive. He’s scrambled a couple of times for first downs, which has been huge. A big part of our success over the years are big athletic quarterbacks who can move the chains with their feet.”

The game plan? “We’ve got to make sure we’re high percentage and also explosive, and that we’re taking care of the football and scrambling when we need to.” Q

Stanford freshman Kathryn Plummer is the reigning Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week.

Stanford roundup (continued from previous page)

Jose State at 5:15 p.m. at Northgate. The winner meets either Air Force or Pacific at Cal on Saturday morning.

Stanford had its five-game winning streak snapped by No. 2 USC, 8-4, on Saturday. Azevedo, on campus as part of Hall of Fame weekend, received a prolonged standing ovation from the sellout crowd when he was honored at halftime.

“Credit USC for playing disciplined defense and not giving us a lot of open lanes,” Stanford assistant coach Jon Barnea said. “We had some good opportunities that we couldn’t close.”

Holland and Kimball are part of the U.S. senior national team program and worked out with Team USA through the summer, missing team practice.

Chase would have been the top returning scorer and Stapleton was one of the Cardinal’s leading scorers last year.

“With the freshman coming in, the idea was to give him time,” Barnea said. “He missed a portion of the preseason. Drew and Jackson also took time off from the team to practice with the national team. They were all individual decisions.”

Stanford isn’t giving up on the year just because five of its top players are using their redshirt season. In addition to the seniors, junior Cody Smith and redshirt sophomore Mitchell Mendoza are legitimate All-American candidates.

“No one sees it that way,” Barnea said. “We still have the personnel to play with anybody on a given day. It was our first big test, five games in, and it was it was good for us. We’re starting to figure out how to use the personnel and set rotations.”

Defending NCAA champion UCLA is the overwhelming favorite to defend its crown this year and USC and California are both loaded. The Cardinal is likely to run into one or two of them this weekend.

“We see the adjustments we need to make and we’ll be ready for the weekend,” Barnea said.

“We’ll do all we can to do well.”

The long term goal for Stanford is to position itself for a shot at the postseason. The quality of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federa-

tion is unmatched. It’s more like a super conference. Winning the regular season title or the tournament title, which means an automatic bid into the NCAA, are major accomplishments.

Women’s volleyball No. 11 Stanford (1-0, 7-2) opened Pac-12 Conference play Tuesday with a four-set victory over host California, highlighted by the play of freshman opposite hitter Kathryn Plummer. She’s already the reigning conference Freshman of the Week.

Against the Bears she recorded 16 kills on a hitting percentage of .538. Plummer also had five blocks.

The Cardinal play at Oregon State on Friday night (7 p.m. on Pac-12 Bay Area) and remain on the road next with a Wednesday night game at Washington.

Plummer is one of five freshmen who have made significant contributions already this year.

Audriana Fitzmorris, in her first three weeks, has a pair of Freshman of the Week honors and was named AVCA National Player of the Week.

Freshman Michaela Keefe stepped in to fill the shoes of AllAmerican and reigning national Freshman of the Year Hayley Hodson, currently nursing an injury.

Keefe had 13 kills and hit .435 against California. She’s also been in double-digits in digs in each of the past three matches.

Morgan Hentz has assumed the libero role and Jenna Gray shares setting duties with senior Kelsey Humphreys.

Field hockey No. 18 Stanford (2-4) returns to the road this weekend, taking on Massachusetts at 1 p.m. Friday and traveling to Yale for a Sunday morning affair.

The Cardinal has scored 11 goals and allowed 11 goals in playing one of the most difficult schedules in the nation. All four of Stanford’s losses have been to teams ranked in the top 10, including top-ranked Syracuse and No. 3 Connecticut. The Cardinal has also dropped matches to No. 8 Michigan and No. 9 Boston College.

Stanford is coming off a 1-0 victory over Cornell, in which Sarah Helgeson netted the lone goal and the Cardinal recorded a season-high 19 shots. Q

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Sports

Heneghan a hero in his college debut Menlo grad rallies Dartmouth Courtesy of Mark Washburn/Dartmouth Athletics

by Rick Eymer

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enlo School grad Jack Heneghan couldn’t ask for a better debut as a starting quarterback. He’ll look to carry the momentum of a dramatic victory when he makes his first career road start for Dartmouth.

Heneghan, making his first career start for Dartmouth, drove the Big Green 80 yards in less than two minutes, capping the drive off with a one-yard touchdown pass to junior Charles Mack with 1:40 to play in the game, giving Dartmouth a 22-21 victory over visiting New Hampshire last Saturday.

“We felt like we had been doing well the whole game, on offense, just missing by a couple of inches a few times,” Heneghen said. “We felt calm and really excited about the chance to go down and make a play.”

The New England Football Writers’ Association office awarded its weekly Gold Helmet Award to Heneghan at a luncheon Wednesday. The award covers Division I (both FBS and FCS) regional teams.

The Big Green travels to Holy Cross for a 10 a.m. (PT) start on Saturday.

The victory ended a 40-year drought against then 22nd-ranked Wildcats. Dartmouth, which graduated 17 of its 22 starters from last year’s Ivy championship team, turned the ball over four times, two leading to UNH touchdowns.

It was all Heneghan in the

Menlo grad Jack Heneghan led Dartmouth to a last-second victory last weekend. fourth quarter as he completed Burr-Kirven recorded four tack10-of-15 throws for 114 yards and les in Washington’s 41-3 win over a pair of scores. He finished with Portland State. The Huskies (3-0) 229 passing yards, completing play at Arizona on Saturday.

22-of-46 passes with three touchdowns and two interceptions.

Cross country “I was pleased with the way Gunn grad Gillian Meeks the line played,” Heneghen said. placed 15th in her first collegiate “I had it pretty easy stepping meet for Harvard on Saturday, into lanes to make plays. They racing a 20:02.4 and the Crimson all stepped up and played well was second behind Yale, 20-53, in against a big, physical team.” a three-way meet at Princeton.

He also ran for 80 yards on 14 Gunn grad Reid Kovacs, who is carries as Dartmouth overcame studying electrical engineering, is its largest fourth-quarter deficit a member of Rochester Institute since trailing Princeton, 18-0, in of Technology’s men’s cross counthe 1999 season finale. try team, which competes at the Heneghan entered the game Division III level. He’s competed with five career completions to in two events for the Tigers. his credit.

Palo Alto grad Jack Anderson Men’s soccer saw action in the game for the Big Menlo grad Philip Hausen reGreen. corded his first career point SunMenlo-Atherton grad Evan Per- day in Harvard’s 6-2 loss at Calikins caught a pass for 13 yards in fornia. He assisted on Matthew Princeton’s 35-31 victory over La- Glass’ goal midway through the fayette last Saturday. second half.

The Tigers play at Leigh this Hausen has taken two shots, Saturday. one against Stanford on Friday Sacred Heart Prep grad Ben night. Q

Juratovac maintains winning attitude Gunn grad has a mission to help student-athletes handle social media to their advantage

by Rick Eymer social media tools and channels. unn grad Adam Jurato- Now student-athletes really do vac, a former all-section have the means to create their left tackle who played in own media image and to create college and professionally, under- content to support it. That’s why stands the post-athletic it is so important to me career better than most. that student-athletes He lived it and he have the skills to do this wants to help pave the correctly.” way for others.

The book is an imThe Palo Alto resiportant step toward esdent has written a book, tablishing a student-ath“ Student-Athletes and lete’s image instead of Social Media,” an exallowing the media, or ploration of how to leother entities, to shape verage the power of soyour image. cial media to establish a Adam Juratovic “I’ve observed highpersonal brand. profile athletes behaving “I was in the first generation of badly on social media; I think we college athletes who grew with all have,” Juratovac said. “It only social media,” Juratovac wrote in validates my mission to help stuan e-mail response. “When I was dent-athletes think about how they at Gunn High School, Myspace are using social media and underwas big and everyone was on it, stand the impact of what they share friends, relatives, celebrities, cre- to avoid getting into trouble. ating all kinds of cool and intrest“Social media is an amazing ing content. marketing asset if used correctly.

“But I also knew, growing up Iíve had great experiences bein Silicon Valley, how quickly cause of networking Iíve done and technology changes. Since that articles Iíve written and shared on time,we’ve seen an explosion of social media.”

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Social media has also led Juratovac to meeting people in his field, find potential jobs, and share community events.

“I understand the power of social media, especially how it can be used to establish an studentathlete’s personal brand while in school and how that brand can extend beyond college into their post-athletic careers,” he said.

As Juratovac pointed out, most student-athletes will not play professional sports, but can still use their platform and experience to help them achieve post-collegiate success.

“My mission is to help studentathletes with their post-athletic careers,” he said. “Through my work as a social media consultant and speaker, I have helped over 100 professional athletes use social media to establish and leverage their personal brands leading to successful brand partnerships.”

To make a connection with Juratovac, visit his website (www. adamjuratovac.com) or follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @JvacAttack. Q

Sports PREP ROUNDUP

SH Prep stronger because of difficult schedule Menlo takes charge of PAL boys water polo race after beating M-A

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Following a tied first quarter, Menlo School made some offensive changes and came out to a 4-0 second quarter. Menlo shut down Menlo Athertonís power play, of which they had 8, and was able to assert their team defense and counter attack, with both Niko Bhatia and Ben Wagner passing for 3 assists each.

The pair also combined to score five goals and Sam Untrecht added three.

Gunn improved to 5-0 in the SCVAL with a 21-5 victory over host Monta Vista on Tuesday. Jack Mallery led the Titans (6-4 overall) with six goals, followed by Quinn Hamilton with five scores and Patrick Zhao added four goals. Palo Alto (4-1, 6-3) kept pace with an 11-6 win over host Wilcox as Jack Andersen netted four goals, Jared Stanley added three and Alex Beaudry had two.

Girls water polo Sacred Heart Prep goalie Jane Rakow is a relative newcomer to the varsity goalie position. Her task last year was to block shots.

Everything else was a bonus.

This time around she’s become much more involved with the defense and where to outlet to start the offense.

“Last year, her best game of the year was probably in the CCS finals,” Gators’ coach Jon Burke said. “This year her focus is even better and she positions herself better.”

Rakow made nine saves Wednesday night to help SH Prep beat visiting St. Francis, 9-4, in a nonleague match that showed Burke his team is back on track.

“The game plan worked,” Burke said. “St. Francis is a really good team and for us to get this victory is very important.”

The Gators (8-4) are the threetime defending CCS champion, but early struggles (and three one-goal losses) may have had an effect.

The team returned 10 players from last year’s run and seem to coming together for another run at the title.

“Every year is different,” Burke said. “We’re gaining a lot of confidence and playing better all the way around.”

Rakow has been Sacred Heart Prep’s most consistent performer to date.

“We were just happy when she stopped shots last year,” Burke said. “Now she’s adding layers, making subtle reads. She’s quiet but is taking more of a leadership role and she’s making really good saves.”

Maddy Johnston and Maddie Pendolino each scored three times to lead the Gators past St. Francis.

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said fundamentals were the focus at practice early this week.

“We understand how important that is,’’ Sullivan said. “They were frustrated with their performance the last couple of games. Take away some minor mistakes and we’ll go into league right there.’’

Santa Clara won the El Camino title last year and moved up to the De Anza. Junior QB Chris Brown is in his second year as a starter.

RB Erik Ketton has rushed for 429 yards through the first four games.

Milpitas (4-0), with all its size and athleticism, is the clear favorite for the De Anza title this year.

Los Gatos is off to an uncharacteristic 1-3 start, but has historically given Milpitas trouble. Wilcox is nearly always a factor with its dynamic veer-option ground attack.

“A lot of teams can cause trouble for each other,’’ Sullivan said.

“There are a lot of questions up in the air, how teams respond to adversity. There are a lot of questions to be answered over the next six to seven weeks.’’

Peninsula Athletic League teams Menlo-Atherton, Menlo School, Sacred Heart Prep and Woodside all have byes this week.

SHP coach Pete Lavorato is hoping the week off helps running back Isoa Moimoi and LB/TE David Peterson, perhaps his two best players, get healthy. Moimoi, a 1,000-yard rusher as a junior, has yet to play this season.

The Gators, who played for state championships in two of the last three years, are off to a 0-4 start.

“We’ve never had a schedule like this,’’ Lavorato said of playing San Benito, Riordan, Palma and McClymonds the first four weeks of the season.

“We definitely have some talent

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Isa Cassio

Jordan Mims

PALO ALTO

MENLO-ATHERTON

The sophomore tennis player won nine sets, including the clinching point, to help the Vikings win their own Paly Invitational over the weekend.

The senior running back ran for 204 yards in the Bears 35-28 victory over Los Gatos last Friday night. He’s averaging 171.8 rushing yards thus far.

Honorable mention Caroline Caruso Sacred Heart Prep volleyball

Eliza Grover Menlo-Atherton volleyball

Claire Pisani Castilleja water polo

Jane Rakow Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Katherine Sung Palo Alto golf

Lydia Tsai Gunn golf

Tiago Bonchristiano* Menlo water polo

Etienne Daadi Gunn football

Charlie Ferguson* Menlo football

Quinn Hamilton Gunn water polo

JC Marco Sacred Heart water polo

Savro Papadakis Menlo-Atherton football * Previous winners

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

on this team,’’ Lavorato said. “I think we can compete, and that’s all I can ask for. We’ll see what

happens down the road. I just want to get into the playoffs so we can keep playing football.’’ Q

Courtesy of Paul Sakuma

by Rick Eymer rian Kreutzkamp handed the Sacred Heart boys water polo a tough assignment: an unrelenting schedule against some of the top teams in the nation.

The Gators coach felt good about finishing fourth in the Elite Eight tournament at HarvardWestdale last weekend and even better after host Sacred Heart Prep beat St. Francis, 17-2, in a West Catholic Athletic League match Wednesday night.

Menlo School took charge of the PAL Bay Division with its 9-5 win over Menlo-Atherton on Wednesday and both Gunn and Palo Alto won SCVAL matches on Tuesday.

“We had a difficult couple of games against the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 team in the team all within 24 hours,” Kreutzkamp said. “We came back beaten up but we saw what water polo at its highest level was like. The important thing is how we do in league and CCS.” The Gators (3-0, 6-3) are tied for the league lead with Bellarmine, a perennial power, though its Sacred Heart Prep which is the five-time defending WCAL champions.

The Gators played like it against the Lancers, scoring 13 unanswered goals at one point in the first half. The offense was spectacularly efficient, netting 12 goals on 14 shots in the first two periods.

“St. Francis was missing their best player,” Kreutzkamp said.

“But I like the way we responded after the weekend.”

Sacred Heart Prep is not finished with those types of weekend. The Gators return to Southern California to take on virtually the same group at Irvine High in a couple of weeks. There’s also the North-South Invitational, hosted

by Sacred Heart Prep and the Bellarmine Memorial tournament.

“We want to play the best, Kreutzkamp said. “If you don’t stay sharp the entire game you can look up and be down by five goals.”

The Lancers got a taste of that Wednesday night as the Gators needed all of seven minutes to take a five-goal lead and were up by 13 early in the second half.

Alex Tsotadze led the charge with four goals, while Jackson Enright and J Clevenger each added three. Andrew Churukian and CJ Box each scored twice.

The Gators play at St. Ignatius at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Knights (3-0, 13-0) and Bears (2-1, 7-7) have won every PAL championship beginning in 1993, with Menlo-Atherton winning two of the last four.

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